Can I just start by saying that I hate purists of almost any form:)
Film and print are extremely different mediums. It doesn't matter if you waffle on for a few dozen pages describing a week long hike across a vast track of middle earth. It does matter if you waste 15 minutes of a film covering the same journey. How many people can read FOTR in 3 hours? Probably not very many. How many people would sit in the cinema for a few days to see FOTR? Probably not very many.
To suggest that the film is "an insult to the source" I think degrades it needlessly. It is an excellent adaptation and one that I doubt many people could have bettered.
I read LOTR many years ago and re-read it before FOTR opened. I noticed the differences, but they didn't drive me to the brink of madness.
Interestingly though, when you see a film first and then read the book, your mind already has a frame of reference for imagining what's going on - I saw Jurassic Park and then read the book. I now can't remember which scenes were in which (and they are way more different than FOTR was) because my mind can show me the scenes from the book, but in the style of the film. I do not in any way consider this to be a bad thing.
I wonder how many people complain about audio versions of the books because the empheses aren't in the same places they would put them, or the rhythmn isn't the same.
I would love to thank Peter Jackson for making an excellent movie and what I hope will be a stunning trilogy. I would also like to thank Tolkein for writing three pretty damn good books (except the songs/poems, I hated them;)
I dunno, maybe they're a) dumb, b) dickheads, c) confused;) If you look at all the crap on p2p networks that hundreds of people often have, 70 people with a fake TTT release seems to be a small drop in a very big ocean:) However, maybe it is really TTT. I just don't know...does anyone else?
They filmed all three at once, but given that very very large proportions of each film are CGI, they can only do the post-production on one film at a time. It's basically taking a year or more to do the post for each movie, so TTT is very likely in the final stages of rendering/editing. This really has been an extremely long term project, Peter Jackson and his missus (who's name escapes me right now, sorry) worked on the screenplay for ages, there was like 14 months of filming, then a year for post on each movie. These things don't happen overnight!
However, what won't help their case is the obvious fact that TTT is going to take a shit load of money at the box office and an even bigger shit load of money from rentals and DVD/VHS sales. FOTR already more than covered the entire budget for all three films just from box office sales in USA/Europe. Bit hard to cry about all the lost money from pirates when world+dog is seeing, renting and buying the movie until they bleed;) I will fully admit to having downloaded and watched FOTR when it slipped onto the net before the theatrical release. I then saw it 3 times at the cinema and will be buying the 4 disc version in a couple of months. I guess that makes me an evil media industry destroying "pirate" (funny, I don't remember having boarded any ships or shouted "Land Ahoy" from any crows nests;), but I'd say they got their fair slice of pie from me. If TTT does slip onto the net early I will download it and watch it too. I will then go and see it several times at the cinema and buy the DVD on release day. MPAA can bite me.
Bastards, they never mentioned about the internal ignition systems when I took the Kennedy tour!;)
Interesting about the SRB lighting from the top down - I was trying to work out how it could light from the bottom and provide a constant flow rate. I guess NASA thought about it a lot more than I have;)
I just looked on KaZaA, and tbh I don't see squat that could be TTT. Sure there are lots of dickheads pretending to have it, but you only have to hover the mouse over the file and it'll pop up with some meta information about the film, which in most cases says "Eight Legged Freaks" or "Spiderman". I kinda get the feeling that Matt Drudge has been taken on a leeeeetle wild goose chase. That is, unless anyone can reliably confirm that they have downloaded it and it is the real thing (something I seriously doubt, I would expect it to still be in post production at 4 months from release).
"Even the Space Shuttle needs a match to get it going."
I would love to see some Professor Frink/Bill Nye type guy standing there sheepishly holding a few long matches;)
(Really they have several huge jets of sparks that get shoved under the three engines on the shuttle, to light the hydrogen/oxygen mix, but I expect you know that already:)
Out of interest, what do they use to light the solid boosters? Anyone know?
if it's any kind of x86, it means that you get x86 binary compatibility. OS X could theoretically run Linux and Windows binaries with the right tricks (you can do it already if you run bochs on PPC/OSX). I have to admit that it would be really quite tempting.
Connection to the outside world comes in the form of a single optic fibre that runs into the basement, where it is split into POTS (or VoIP depending on how advanced the daydream is), TV (higher-res than current of course) and Internet (nice and fast natch) and distributed around the house. The connection comes from local telcos, cable companies, whoever, then the content comes direct from the source. You pay MTV a few bucks a month to get their fine array of bullshit advertising channels (that's how you get ad revenue in a post-commercial world, make the entire channel indistinguishable from an advert;) or you pay Fox a couple of bucks to record X-Files. The idea of "channels" needs to die, I want to buy transport capability from my telco/cable provider, then buy bundles of shows from my favorite channels. That way I could avoid the fact that NTL suck the big one and get a feed for Comedy Central here in the UK because it would jsut come over the net anyway. I will now proceed to dream on.
I didn't see anyone mention that this isn't new at all. The british army developed this years ago (although it was secret for a number of years, all we knew was that it involved charging the outer plating). It's certainly not "in development", it has been in real live use for several years by the brits. I imagine the technology has been sold/stolen so it's probably in recent generations of other tanks. It's funny though, despite knowing that our special tank armour involved charging the outer plate, it never occurred to me for a moment that grounding an inner plate (or the other way around, charging the inner plate and grounding the outer. whatever:) would let you destroy shaped Cu charges. Simple, yet effective - the hallmark of British military thinking:) Someone from the Gulf War commented earlier that he didn't think this was too big an issue because his tanks had withstood RPG hits. I guess anything could if it had enough armor, but I would imaging it would be better to carry less armor, but have it be charged and be as effective as several more inches. Makes your tank lighter, faster, etc. As for stopping the uranium/alloy charges, well, I guess we'll have to wait and see what the lab boys can do next;)
The government/military are quite important to national stability, so it's a fair bet that pretty much everyone is going to say they want their government/military to have computers that work properly, I mean, they invented fiendishly anal languages like Ada precisely to make software less likely to go wrong when someone's butt is on the line. I hope that the NSA hires the best of the best of the best (sir!;) because they will know much better than I do what is secure. I don't even care what they are using, I just want to know that they got some smart people to rubber stamp it as safe. What I don't like to see, is anyone telling any important infrastructure that they should run anything other than the technically best solution available to them. I would rather have important data be secure than a monopoly get confirmation from on high what everyone has known for years - rebooting an air craft carrier in the middle of a battle is liable to get you killed;) If Microsoft or anybody else wants to fight their corner, the battle should not be about market forces, it should be about the best solution!
Well our world is almost as shitty as the world in Snow Crash, so you can't really blame the population for wanting to escape to a different world where people aren't killing each other all the time;)
You might be right about the united bit, but if it ever happens, I see it'd be more likely to be an offshoot of one of the many MMORPGs in the works (afterall, they have the infrastructure, can usually support commerce/transactions and they tend to have fairly large userbases). Maybe if SW:Galaxies is hugely popular we could persuade them to include a world like The Metaverse:)
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Of course they end up paying someone's bills, but if I donate to a software project, chances are I'm paying the bills of someone who is doing something tangibly useful, not (badly) running a simple IRC network. OPN has been a very useful resource, lots of important channels have/do live there, but that doesn't mean it's a vital or indisposable resource, as is demonstrated by the exodus. I hope lilo (is looking for and) can find a decent job so this entire problem goes away.
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Perl and Blender are unique resources that are (at least in the case of Perl), pretty important. OPN is just an IRC network. It's nothing special. If people are going to donate money to Open Source/Free Software, it would be good to see the money actually go to support that, not pay lilo's gas bills. BTW, Debian are completely content with not having your money, they're doing a pretty good job without it in fact;)
Let's remember here that irc.debian.org points to OPN, or freenode, or freeload, or whatever it's called today, so newbie debian users are getting spammed asking for money to support a service that is widely available elsewhere - most IRC networks run just fine and have run just fine without solicited financial donations for years. Running an IRC network isn't *that* hard, it's definitely not a fulltime job, so just what is the thousands of dollars (assuming people donate that much) going to buy? It wouldn't be so bad if the money was going to be shared out between the people providing servers to offset their costs, but instead it's going to be supporting lilo so he doesn't have to get a job like all the other people who run IRC networks. I really don't understand it.
Is this the start of a Goa'uld like species? Are we all going to be enslaved by snakeheads thanks to the US government tipping thousands of tons of exotic chemicals on the world?!;)
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Obviously you don't know English very well ;)
"X has the withdrawn Y" means that entity Y, which was withdrawn, is available from X.
You are thinking that he wrote "X has withdrawn the Y" - moving 'the' makes it completely different.
Err, actually, it's Fellowship Of The Ring, not Rings, since it's about The One Ring :)
hehe, silly zathruss. back to your time loop! ;)
Can I just start by saying that I hate purists of almost any form :)
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:)
Film and print are extremely different mediums. It doesn't matter if you waffle on for a few dozen pages describing a week long hike across a vast track of middle earth. It does matter if you waste 15 minutes of a film covering the same journey.
How many people can read FOTR in 3 hours? Probably not very many. How many people would sit in the cinema for a few days to see FOTR? Probably not very many.
To suggest that the film is "an insult to the source" I think degrades it needlessly. It is an excellent adaptation and one that I doubt many people could have bettered.
I read LOTR many years ago and re-read it before FOTR opened. I noticed the differences, but they didn't drive me to the brink of madness.
Interestingly though, when you see a film first and then read the book, your mind already has a frame of reference for imagining what's going on - I saw Jurassic Park and then read the book. I now can't remember which scenes were in which (and they are way more different than FOTR was) because my mind can show me the scenes from the book, but in the style of the film. I do not in any way consider this to be a bad thing.
I wonder how many people complain about audio versions of the books because the empheses aren't in the same places they would put them, or the rhythmn isn't the same.
I would love to thank Peter Jackson for making an excellent movie and what I hope will be a stunning trilogy. I would also like to thank Tolkein for writing three pretty damn good books (except the songs/poems, I hated them
Basically, it's all good
because GPL is about spreading IP as widely as possible, movie studios are about snorting tons of crack ;)
I dunno, maybe they're a) dumb, b) dickheads, c) confused ;) :)
If you look at all the crap on p2p networks that hundreds of people often have, 70 people with a fake TTT release seems to be a small drop in a very big ocean
However, maybe it is really TTT. I just don't know...does anyone else?
Oh please! You seriously think whoever build Barradur and Orthanc (apologies if I spelt either of those incorrectly) needed lame steel girders? ;)
They filmed all three at once, but given that very very large proportions of each film are CGI, they can only do the post-production on one film at a time. It's basically taking a year or more to do the post for each movie, so TTT is very likely in the final stages of rendering/editing.
This really has been an extremely long term project, Peter Jackson and his missus (who's name escapes me right now, sorry) worked on the screenplay for ages, there was like 14 months of filming, then a year for post on each movie. These things don't happen overnight!
However, what won't help their case is the obvious fact that TTT is going to take a shit load of money at the box office and an even bigger shit load of money from rentals and DVD/VHS sales. ;) ;), but I'd say they got their fair slice of pie from me. If TTT does slip onto the net early I will download it and watch it too. I will then go and see it several times at the cinema and buy the DVD on release day. MPAA can bite me.
FOTR already more than covered the entire budget for all three films just from box office sales in USA/Europe. Bit hard to cry about all the lost money from pirates when world+dog is seeing, renting and buying the movie until they bleed
I will fully admit to having downloaded and watched FOTR when it slipped onto the net before the theatrical release. I then saw it 3 times at the cinema and will be buying the 4 disc version in a couple of months. I guess that makes me an evil media industry destroying "pirate" (funny, I don't remember having boarded any ships or shouted "Land Ahoy" from any crows nests
Bastards, they never mentioned about the internal ignition systems when I took the Kennedy tour! ;)
;)
Interesting about the SRB lighting from the top down - I was trying to work out how it could light from the bottom and provide a constant flow rate. I guess NASA thought about it a lot more than I have
I just looked on KaZaA, and tbh I don't see squat that could be TTT. Sure there are lots of dickheads pretending to have it, but you only have to hover the mouse over the file and it'll pop up with some meta information about the film, which in most cases says "Eight Legged Freaks" or "Spiderman".
I kinda get the feeling that Matt Drudge has been taken on a leeeeetle wild goose chase.
That is, unless anyone can reliably confirm that they have downloaded it and it is the real thing (something I seriously doubt, I would expect it to still be in post production at 4 months from release).
"Even the Space Shuttle needs a match to get it going."
;)
:)
I would love to see some Professor Frink/Bill Nye type guy standing there sheepishly holding a few long matches
(Really they have several huge jets of sparks that get shoved under the three engines on the shuttle, to light the hydrogen/oxygen mix, but I expect you know that already
Out of interest, what do they use to light the solid boosters? Anyone know?
if it's any kind of x86, it means that you get x86 binary compatibility. OS X could theoretically run Linux and Windows binaries with the right tricks (you can do it already if you run bochs on PPC/OSX).
I have to admit that it would be really quite tempting.
that is an insane suggestion. go away and come back when you have some news that matters ;)
I'm talking to you now from my Utopian daydream ;)
;) or you pay Fox a couple of bucks to record X-Files.
Connection to the outside world comes in the form of a single optic fibre that runs into the basement, where it is split into POTS (or VoIP depending on how advanced the daydream is), TV (higher-res than current of course) and Internet (nice and fast natch) and distributed around the house. The connection comes from local telcos, cable companies, whoever, then the content comes direct from the source. You pay MTV a few bucks a month to get their fine array of bullshit advertising channels (that's how you get ad revenue in a post-commercial world, make the entire channel indistinguishable from an advert
The idea of "channels" needs to die, I want to buy transport capability from my telco/cable provider, then buy bundles of shows from my favorite channels. That way I could avoid the fact that NTL suck the big one and get a feed for Comedy Central here in the UK because it would jsut come over the net anyway.
I will now proceed to dream on.
I didn't see anyone mention that this isn't new at all. The british army developed this years ago (although it was secret for a number of years, all we knew was that it involved charging the outer plating). :) would let you destroy shaped Cu charges. Simple, yet effective - the hallmark of British military thinking :) ;)
It's certainly not "in development", it has been in real live use for several years by the brits. I imagine the technology has been sold/stolen so it's probably in recent generations of other tanks.
It's funny though, despite knowing that our special tank armour involved charging the outer plate, it never occurred to me for a moment that grounding an inner plate (or the other way around, charging the inner plate and grounding the outer. whatever
Someone from the Gulf War commented earlier that he didn't think this was too big an issue because his tanks had withstood RPG hits. I guess anything could if it had enough armor, but I would imaging it would be better to carry less armor, but have it be charged and be as effective as several more inches. Makes your tank lighter, faster, etc. As for stopping the uranium/alloy charges, well, I guess we'll have to wait and see what the lab boys can do next
The government/military are quite important to national stability, so it's a fair bet that pretty much everyone is going to say they want their government/military to have computers that work properly, I mean, they invented fiendishly anal languages like Ada precisely to make software less likely to go wrong when someone's butt is on the line. ;) because they will know much better than I do what is secure. I don't even care what they are using, I just want to know that they got some smart people to rubber stamp it as safe. ;)
I hope that the NSA hires the best of the best of the best (sir!
What I don't like to see, is anyone telling any important infrastructure that they should run anything other than the technically best solution available to them. I would rather have important data be secure than a monopoly get confirmation from on high what everyone has known for years - rebooting an air craft carrier in the middle of a battle is liable to get you killed
If Microsoft or anybody else wants to fight their corner, the battle should not be about market forces, it should be about the best solution!
Quake 1, jackass. That's how old Half-Life is.
;)
(OK OK, it's not entirely Q1, but it's still older than Grandpa Jo who fought in both world wars
Well our world is almost as shitty as the world in Snow Crash, so you can't really blame the population for wanting to escape to a different world where people aren't killing each other all the time ;)
You might be right about the united bit, but if it ever happens, I see it'd be more likely to be an offshoot of one of the many MMORPGs in the works (afterall, they have the infrastructure, can usually support commerce/transactions and they tend to have fairly large userbases). Maybe if SW:Galaxies is hugely popular we could persuade them to include a world like The Metaverse :)
Of course they end up paying someone's bills, but if I donate to a software project, chances are I'm paying the bills of someone who is doing something tangibly useful, not (badly) running a simple IRC network.
OPN has been a very useful resource, lots of important channels have/do live there, but that doesn't mean it's a vital or indisposable resource, as is demonstrated by the exodus.
I hope lilo (is looking for and) can find a decent job so this entire problem goes away.
Perl and Blender are unique resources that are (at least in the case of Perl), pretty important. ;)
OPN is just an IRC network. It's nothing special. If people are going to donate money to Open Source/Free Software, it would be good to see the money actually go to support that, not pay lilo's gas bills.
BTW, Debian are completely content with not having your money, they're doing a pretty good job without it in fact
No, it's not hard. At all.
Let's remember here that irc.debian.org points to OPN, or freenode, or freeload, or whatever it's called today, so newbie debian users are getting spammed asking for money to support a service that is widely available elsewhere - most IRC networks run just fine and have run just fine without solicited financial donations for years.
Running an IRC network isn't *that* hard, it's definitely not a fulltime job, so just what is the thousands of dollars (assuming people donate that much) going to buy?
It wouldn't be so bad if the money was going to be shared out between the people providing servers to offset their costs, but instead it's going to be supporting lilo so he doesn't have to get a job like all the other people who run IRC networks. I really don't understand it.
Is this the start of a Goa'uld like species? Are we all going to be enslaved by snakeheads thanks to the US government tipping thousands of tons of exotic chemicals on the world?! ;)