In order to minimize the spoilage, I simply said "Gandalf on an Eagle." However, the full text would have been "Gandalf, riding to the rescue of Sam and Frodo on the back of an Eagle after they succeeded in dropping the Ring into the Cracks of Doom".
I fully realize that Gandalf enlisted the Eagles in order to escape Orthanc. However, the Eagles spied and saved Sam and Frodo on their own.
It just seemed completely unneccessary to me. Perhaps Sir Ian wanted more screentime...
I think the lesson of that is that Spielberg should start working exclusively for Miramax. They're the only reason Shakespeare in Bed won versus Saving Pvt. Ryan.
However, the scenes in Mordor where Sam and Frodo complained about the darkness looked no "darker" than any scenes that had previously passed.
I guess I always took Tolkein's descriptions of the shadow that fell over the land to be far harsher, more intense than the Jacksonian interpretation.
In the end, I guess that's what this all amounts to: the vision of the books as interpreted by a certain subset of Tolkein's fans (and Phillipa Boyens, who, from her commentary on the EE DVDs of FotR and TTT, seemed to never truly get the LotR).
That was Tolkein's intent. He explicitly wanted Hobbiton to be acutely affected by the events that occured to the east of it. The book itself included it; where does Phillipa Boyens get off screwing it up?
That actually bothered me quite a bit, but I was shouted down by my compatriots when I objected to the dead swarming through MT.
Although, it always bothered me in the books that Aragorn released them so early on. They could have come in quite handy in the battles that followed.
I'll have to go back and re-read the sections with Gollum, because the physical violence done to Smeagol was one point I didn't feel was true to Sam's character, but that's probably me incorrectly remembering/interpreting the book.
****DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT ASPECTS SPOILED*****
Things added in that sucked: Gandalf on an Eagle. Merry at the Black Gate. The King of the Dead speaking. Arwen "dying" unless Aragorn finishes Sauron. A Smeagol/Deagol murder scene that lasted far too long (not so much a "sucks 'cause it was added" but a "sucks 'cause it took too bloody long").
Things removed that sucked: No Houses of Healing, no confrontation of Saruman (tho it's in the EE DVD plans, if I heard right...), Sam not using the One Ring, no Scouring. No interplay between Faramir and Eowyn.
Things changed that sucked: Denethor ('Nuff said). Faramir (I complained equally about his treatment in TTT). Sam's comfort level with physical violence done to Smeagol. The light levels overall (There were so many comments along the lines of "It sure is dark out here" when you can clearly see that IT'S NOT DARK. The scenes at the Brandywine Crossing and in Bree were "darker" than any scene on the fields of Pellenor). Galadriel's light equating to a mere Mag Lite. Shelob being FAR smaller than I had ever seen her described in the books. Unending slow-mo scenes. There were several such scenes where a quick Pythonesque cut to an assemblage of Pukel people shouting "Get on with it!" would not have seemed out of place.
Gripes aside, scenes that rocked: Rohirrim charging into the Orc lines. The trebuchets of Minas Tirith. The slaying of the Witch king. Gandalf pulling "a Yoda" and going spin crazy on the walls of MT.
Willy: I'm telling ye, I could nay have shot Burns. [uncrosses, then recrosses, his legs; everyone groans] Eddie:[cocking pistol] This is your last warning about that. Willy: It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! [holds them up] I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977. Wiggum: Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game. Willy:[surprised] Video game?
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As any good EE will tell you, sqrt(-1) is actually "j", not "i", since "i" has a general meaning in terms of representing current.
True story: in my Intro to Electrical Engineering class, we had been doing A/C circuits for several weeks. Our professor was in the midst of writing a circuit equation up on the board when one of the potential EEs raised his hand and said "Excuse me, professor, what does 'j' stand for?"
We never let him live that down, I can tell you that much, even after he fled to Club Med.... ermm, the Business school.
In reply to your first point, the idea (apparently) is that lessons we learn from establishing a base on the moon will better allow us to do the same on Mars.
To wit:
If the president goes ahead with the plan to announce an ambitious new program to carry Americans beyond Earth's immediate gravitational pull, he will argue that the new lunar explorations are justified not only for what they themselves might produce but also as a means of developing the technology and skills necessary for a mission to Mars, which is expected to be mentioned, though in less-specific terms, in the address.
Taken from this article on National Review Online.
He said the companies will also welcome an alternative to Red Hat and other commercial versions of Linux, which come with "odious" terms, limiting the number of seats and requiring expensive service contracts that are voided if users attempt to modify the software.
"Paging Mr. Perens. Paging Mr. Perens. You have the Fedora Community waiting for you in the lobby."
Seriously, I find his comments very out-of-touch in light of Red Hat's recent moves in re: the Fedora Project.
There are no plans for easier upgrades either (like apt-get dist upgrade), so you have to have downtime while you reboot from the CD
Incorrect. apt-get dist upgrade works just fine on RedHat systems running apt.
Or, you could just upgrade your fedora-release file and then "yum check-update". Or, if you have your up2date set up correctly, just update the fedora-release and then run up2date and let it handle the rest.
Don't spread the "must have a CD every 6 months" FUD, if you please.
*Bzzzzt* Incorrect. up2date now can be set up to use yum and apt repositories. This allows you to point it to any repo that is tracking Fedora bugfixes and still use the nifty GUI tool.
Unless you meant access to the official RedHat repo. Oh, wait, it's a yum repo that you can point to for free.
Please, go poke around fedora.redhat.com before you spread any more FUD.
KRUGMAN: That's a guy, that's a guy who actually stalks me on the web, and once stalked me personally.
"Actually" and "stalked me personally" seem to be pretty strongly worded to just mean "figuratively stalking". I'd say that Luskin is overreacting, but that Krugman was in the wrong to accuse him of literal "stalking".
We use Cerberus and it's great. You can get site licenses for as little as $99 and you get access to a CVS repo for both the parser and the web front end. It's slick and easy to use; you can correspond via email or via the cerberus website.
All the other TTV casemods pale in comparison to the ammo box mod (the eventual winner of the contest). The guy rewired all the peripherals so that they could use the military-grade connections and the oscilloscope on the front is just wicked cool.
t was originally killing Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix.
*BZZZZZT* Wrong answer. Smith didn't gain the replicative ability until after Neo "shattered" him. It was Neo's misuse of his newly-found powers that enabled Smith to gain his virus-like abilities. Smith's newfound powers are actually Neo's fault.
Here's what I don't get: why aren't the tele-bothering companies taking a look at that do-not-call list and saying to themselves: "Not only do we have a list of people who are moderately bothered by us imposing ourselves on them, but they are actively, aggressively annoyed enough to sign up for such a list. Let's not call them, lest we incur their wrath!"
I mean, that's certainly what I would do. Then again, I'm not a Mouth-Breathing Scum-Sucking Spawn of Satan Pre-emptive Consumer Desire Fulfiller.
You think you've got it rough? I had Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Diablo come out in the span of my frosh year. Just try to get some classwork done when someone is running down your hall yelling "Who's up for Quake DM on KandyCity?" every 10 minutes.
Although, I did just pick up F-Zero this weekend (and plunked down $5 for a preorder on Super Mariop Kart: Double Dash) and I must agree that it's an excellent game.
I think I still have that one on one of the bookshelves back in my parents' house.
I always preferred the Three Investigators to the Hardy Boys or Encyclopedia Brown. I was always incredibly envious of their junkyard headquarters. I begged my father to install a trap door in our playhouse out back, just so I could escape "bad guys", should the need arise. *grin*
Sense of humo[u]r was fully intact and working [ab]normally at the time of my previous posting. If I pegged your Flame Meter 5000, I'm sorry. I'll recalibrate my Humo[u]r Ray and set it to "Stun".
(Sheesh, all I did was adapt a Tommy Boy quote, and look at the mess I'm in now! *grin*)
Yes, because we all know that the L.A.P.D. has a history of profiling French-looking prettyboys driving expensive cars through a ritzy section of town.
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Shazbot! Y'all are correct. For some strange reason, that fact never stuck in my head...
Hmmm....
I think they sort of handled it when he confronted the Eye at the Black Gate.
I took that to be an homage to Aragorn's wrestling with Sauron.
In order to minimize the spoilage, I simply said "Gandalf on an Eagle." However, the full text would have been "Gandalf, riding to the rescue of Sam and Frodo on the back of an Eagle after they succeeded in dropping the Ring into the Cracks of Doom".
I fully realize that Gandalf enlisted the Eagles in order to escape Orthanc. However, the Eagles spied and saved Sam and Frodo on their own.
It just seemed completely unneccessary to me. Perhaps Sir Ian wanted more screentime...
I always chalked it up to Sam's purity of heart, which somehow kept Sauron from seeing that he was using it.
The Ring seemed much more like the one of The Hobbit when Sam used it.
I think the lesson of that is that Spielberg should start working exclusively for Miramax. They're the only reason Shakespeare in Bed won versus Saving Pvt. Ryan.
I understand that they took place during the day.
However, the scenes in Mordor where Sam and Frodo complained about the darkness looked no "darker" than any scenes that had previously passed.
I guess I always took Tolkein's descriptions of the shadow that fell over the land to be far harsher, more intense than the Jacksonian interpretation.
In the end, I guess that's what this all amounts to: the vision of the books as interpreted by a certain subset of Tolkein's fans (and Phillipa Boyens, who, from her commentary on the EE DVDs of FotR and TTT, seemed to never truly get the LotR).
That was Tolkein's intent. He explicitly wanted Hobbiton to be acutely affected by the events that occured to the east of it. The book itself included it; where does Phillipa Boyens get off screwing it up?
That actually bothered me quite a bit, but I was shouted down by my compatriots when I objected to the dead swarming through MT.
Although, it always bothered me in the books that Aragorn released them so early on. They could have come in quite handy in the battles that followed.
I'll have to go back and re-read the sections with Gollum, because the physical violence done to Smeagol was one point I didn't feel was true to Sam's character, but that's probably me incorrectly remembering/interpreting the book.
RotK differed more, not less, IMNSHO.
****SPOILERS******
****SERIOUSLY, SPOILERS******
****DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT ASPECTS SPOILED*****
Things added in that sucked:
Gandalf on an Eagle. Merry at the Black Gate. The King of the Dead speaking. Arwen "dying" unless Aragorn finishes Sauron. A Smeagol/Deagol murder scene that lasted far too long (not so much a "sucks 'cause it was added" but a "sucks 'cause it took too bloody long").
Things removed that sucked:
No Houses of Healing, no confrontation of Saruman (tho it's in the EE DVD plans, if I heard right...), Sam not using the One Ring, no Scouring. No interplay between Faramir and Eowyn.
Things changed that sucked:
Denethor ('Nuff said). Faramir (I complained equally about his treatment in TTT). Sam's comfort level with physical violence done to Smeagol. The light levels overall (There were so many comments along the lines of "It sure is dark out here" when you can clearly see that IT'S NOT DARK. The scenes at the Brandywine Crossing and in Bree were "darker" than any scene on the fields of Pellenor). Galadriel's light equating to a mere Mag Lite. Shelob being FAR smaller than I had ever seen her described in the books. Unending slow-mo scenes. There were several such scenes where a quick Pythonesque cut to an assemblage of Pukel people shouting "Get on with it!" would not have seemed out of place.
Gripes aside, scenes that rocked:
Rohirrim charging into the Orc lines. The trebuchets of Minas Tirith. The slaying of the Witch king. Gandalf pulling "a Yoda" and going spin crazy on the walls of MT.
From Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part Two:
Willy: I'm telling ye, I could nay have shot Burns.
[uncrosses, then recrosses, his legs; everyone groans]
Eddie: [cocking pistol] This is your last warning about that.
Willy: It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! [holds them up] I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977.
Wiggum: Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game.
Willy: [surprised] Video game?
As any good EE will tell you, sqrt(-1) is actually "j", not "i", since "i" has a general meaning in terms of representing current.
True story: in my Intro to Electrical Engineering class, we had been doing A/C circuits for several weeks. Our professor was in the midst of writing a circuit equation up on the board when one of the potential EEs raised his hand and said "Excuse me, professor, what does 'j' stand for?"
We never let him live that down, I can tell you that much, even after he fled to Club Med.... ermm, the Business school.
To wit:
Taken from this article on National Review Online.
He said the companies will also welcome an alternative to Red Hat and other commercial versions of Linux, which come with "odious" terms, limiting the number of seats and requiring expensive service contracts that are voided if users attempt to modify the software.
"Paging Mr. Perens. Paging Mr. Perens. You have the Fedora Community waiting for you in the lobby."
Seriously, I find his comments very out-of-touch in light of Red Hat's recent moves in re: the Fedora Project.
There are no plans for easier upgrades either (like apt-get dist upgrade), so you have to have downtime while you reboot from the CD
Incorrect. apt-get dist upgrade works just fine on RedHat systems running apt.
Or, you could just upgrade your fedora-release file and then "yum check-update". Or, if you have your up2date set up correctly, just update the fedora-release and then run up2date and let it handle the rest.
Don't spread the "must have a CD every 6 months" FUD, if you please.
*Bzzzzt* Incorrect. up2date now can be set up to use yum and apt repositories. This allows you to point it to any repo that is tracking Fedora bugfixes and still use the nifty GUI tool.
Unless you meant access to the official RedHat repo. Oh, wait, it's a yum repo that you can point to for free.
Please, go poke around fedora.redhat.com before you spread any more FUD.
"Actually" and "stalked me personally" seem to be pretty strongly worded to just mean "figuratively stalking". I'd say that Luskin is overreacting, but that Krugman was in the wrong to accuse him of literal "stalking".
We use Cerberus and it's great. You can get site licenses for as little as $99 and you get access to a CVS repo for both the parser and the web front end. It's slick and easy to use; you can correspond via email or via the cerberus website.
All the other TTV casemods pale in comparison to the ammo box mod (the eventual winner of the contest). The guy rewired all the peripherals so that they could use the military-grade connections and the oscilloscope on the front is just wicked cool.
t was originally killing
Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning
ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers
completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix.
*BZZZZZT* Wrong answer. Smith didn't gain the replicative ability until after Neo "shattered" him. It was Neo's misuse of his newly-found powers that enabled Smith to gain his virus-like abilities. Smith's newfound powers are actually Neo's fault.
Here's what I don't get: why aren't the tele-bothering companies taking a look at that do-not-call list and saying to themselves: "Not only do we have a list of people who are moderately bothered by us imposing ourselves on them, but they are actively, aggressively annoyed enough to sign up for such a list. Let's not call them, lest we incur their wrath!"
I mean, that's certainly what I would do. Then again, I'm not a Mouth-Breathing Scum-Sucking Spawn of Satan Pre-emptive Consumer Desire Fulfiller.
Methinkshhh he meant orthodontic headgear, you inconshhiderate shhnob.
You think you've got it rough? I had Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Diablo come out in the span of my frosh year. Just try to get some classwork done when someone is running down your hall yelling "Who's up for Quake DM on KandyCity?" every 10 minutes.
Although, I did just pick up F-Zero this weekend (and plunked down $5 for a preorder on Super Mariop Kart: Double Dash) and I must agree that it's an excellent game.
I think I still have that one on one of the bookshelves back in my parents' house.
I always preferred the Three Investigators to the Hardy Boys or Encyclopedia Brown. I was always incredibly envious of their junkyard headquarters. I begged my father to install a trap door in our playhouse out back, just so I could escape "bad guys", should the need arise. *grin*
Sense of humo[u]r was fully intact and working [ab]normally at the time of my previous posting. If I pegged your Flame Meter 5000, I'm sorry. I'll recalibrate my Humo[u]r Ray and set it to "Stun".
(Sheesh, all I did was adapt a Tommy Boy quote, and look at the mess I'm in now! *grin*)
Yes, because we all know that the L.A.P.D. has a history of profiling French-looking prettyboys driving expensive cars through a ritzy section of town.
Hi, I'm Earth, have we met?
(Now you say, "I don't think so...". Ready, go!)