OK, I guess I can see that. Seems like an over-abstraction to me, and I never would have seen it by myself, but I understand where you are coming from now.
When a character came back from the dead? It is a good thing you didn't keep going, there are.... at least 4 characters back from the dead, another one on the way and one arguable. Maybe more than four definites , I might be forgetting some.
I fail to see any similarities between Dune and WoT, other than both of them being in the sci-fi/fantasy super-genre and both being good. Please explain.
A very good summation, although I think you are too kind to books 7 and 8. I actually really liked book one, although I agree that it is in a totally different style - it feels more Tolkienish and at the same time more juvenile (aimed at younger readers, not immature).
I have heard people disparage book 10 before, and I can never understand why. I feel that 8 is the worst closely followed by 7. I though 9 was a definite improvement and that 10 and 11 where both on par with 1-4
What are you talking about? There are two beings that could be called deities in the books - The Creator and The Dark One. Rand definitely did not kill either one of them in any of the books.
I don't think Rand even killed any of the Forsaken in The Shadow Rising (although he captured Asmodean), and I don't think there where any blademasters in that book either. The closest thing I can think of is in book 2, The Great Hunt, when Rand defeats a blademaster in Falme and then defeats Ishamael, who is going by the name Ba'alzamon (and at that time he was thought to be The Dark One). But even Ishy hardly deserves to be called a "minor deity".
Anyway, why would you be surprised by Rand defeating major enemies? By the end of The Great Hunt (and even before) it is clear that he is a "foretold hero", and The Dragon Reborn. Heck, at the end of the first book, he kills a (minor) Forsaken and singlehandedly changes the outcome of a battle, so it is clear he is an extremely powerful character.
Javascript is in no way comparable to XUL. XUL is an XML layout dialect, JS is a programming language.
Also "Tacking on updates to existing standards only creates ugly security loopholes, and all sort of weird hacks."? Yeah, that explains why Python 2.x is so much worse than Python 1.x and Perl 5 is so much worse than 4 and why the new versions of C, C++, C# and Java never caught on... Oh, wait.
That was someones Google Summer of Code project. It went fairly well, but one summer of work by one person isn't enough to get it to the point where it can be mainstreamed, and I think work on it may have stalled for now. Hopefully the student or someone will pick it up at some point and finish it.
Sunbird/Lightning takes care of the Calendar part. There are plenty of Exchange replacements, unless you mean they must support mapi, which is less common (but not non-existent).
Base may still be a bad idea but HSQLDB is better than Jet (I don't know how it compares to Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine). And just as Access can connect to MS SQL server, Base can connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle.
Just because you personally don't like the layout, doesn't mean it is no good. It means that it is no good *for you*. Like all software Thunderbird has some issues; however, it has no fundamental, fatal problems.
Yes, it has a Calendar, it is called Lightning (TB integrated Sunbird). If Caldav/iCalendar supports group scheduling, public folders and notes, then Lightning does or will.
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OK, I guess I can see that. Seems like an over-abstraction to me, and I never would have seen it by myself, but I understand where you are coming from now.
Excellent!
When a character came back from the dead? It is a good thing you didn't keep going, there are.... at least 4 characters back from the dead, another one on the way and one arguable. Maybe more than four definites , I might be forgetting some.
I have some issues with Jordan's style, but I will agree that Tolkien moves too fast and needs more description.
I fail to see any similarities between Dune and WoT, other than both of them being in the sci-fi/fantasy super-genre and both being good. Please explain.
You forgot to put in the sniffing, snorting, and braid pulling
Other than that, great job!
Sincerely,
A fan of the series
A very good summation, although I think you are too kind to books 7 and 8. I actually really liked book one, although I agree that it is in a totally different style - it feels more Tolkienish and at the same time more juvenile (aimed at younger readers, not immature).
Three is a great book and so is four. Seven and Eight are the only really bad ones. Now in those two, that is where NOTHING HAPPENS.
I have heard people disparage book 10 before, and I can never understand why. I feel that 8 is the worst closely followed by 7. I though 9 was a definite improvement and that 10 and 11 where both on par with 1-4
What are you talking about? There are two beings that could be called deities in the books - The Creator and The Dark One. Rand definitely did not kill either one of them in any of the books.
I don't think Rand even killed any of the Forsaken in The Shadow Rising (although he captured Asmodean), and I don't think there where any blademasters in that book either. The closest thing I can think of is in book 2, The Great Hunt, when Rand defeats a blademaster in Falme and then defeats Ishamael, who is going by the name Ba'alzamon (and at that time he was thought to be The Dark One). But even Ishy hardly deserves to be called a "minor deity".
Anyway, why would you be surprised by Rand defeating major enemies? By the end of The Great Hunt (and even before) it is clear that he is a "foretold hero", and The Dragon Reborn. Heck, at the end of the first book, he kills a (minor) Forsaken and singlehandedly changes the outcome of a battle, so it is clear he is an extremely powerful character.
It's a joke, I say it's a joke, son!
Get the full nightly tester tools here:
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(if you trust an extension from a non-mozilla site linked to by some random guy (me) who claims to use it and says it is ok
Golden Rule - Treat others as you want to be treated
Platinum Rule - Treat others as *they* want to be treated
JS in the browser is limited by the Browsers DOM and security model. JS itself can write to a file just fine.
Just pointing that out, I am not supporting or opposing new client-side web languages.
Javascript is in no way comparable to XUL. XUL is an XML layout dialect, JS is a programming language.
Also "Tacking on updates to existing standards only creates ugly security loopholes, and all sort of weird hacks."?
Yeah, that explains why Python 2.x is so much worse than Python 1.x and Perl 5 is so much worse than 4 and why the new versions of C, C++, C# and Java never caught on... Oh, wait.
Thanks for clearing that up.
U3 is crap. PortableApps came first and is better.
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sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
I am sure it would be an option, for this and other reasons.
That was someones Google Summer of Code project. It went fairly well, but one summer of work by one person isn't enough to get it to the point where it can be mainstreamed, and I think work on it may have stalled for now. Hopefully the student or someone will pick it up at some point and finish it.
Sunbird/Lightning takes care of the Calendar part. There are plenty of Exchange replacements, unless you mean they must support mapi, which is less common (but not non-existent).
Base may still be a bad idea but HSQLDB is better than Jet (I don't know how it compares to Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine). And just as Access can connect to MS SQL server, Base can connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle.
Just because you personally don't like the layout, doesn't mean it is no good. It means that it is no good *for you*. Like all software Thunderbird has some issues; however, it has no fundamental, fatal problems.
Yes, it has a Calendar, it is called Lightning (TB integrated Sunbird). If Caldav/iCalendar supports group scheduling, public folders and notes, then Lightning does or will.