I remember when your ship was getting ready to leave, and you were in Jupiter or Saturn orbit at the space station, picking what cargo to carry.
You could chose, I believe, 100, 150, or 200 people. I always wondered about the 50 or 100 people you weren't taking. Why did they just complacently not get on the ship so that I could have room for another or something? What did they do when I left, just sit on the space station until the food ran out? And, most importantly, besides the weight/space requirements of whatever you wanted to load, it also cost MONEY! Here we are with the world ending, and they want to CHARGE me for the commsat!
Oh yes, the parallels are present in Lord of The Rings (Tinuviel = Morning Star / Undomiel = Evening Star). It's just that in the book, the whole part about her sacrificing immortality seemed to me much less present. Having her actually fight (or even do anything) is also much more Luthien than Arwen.
Also, by the end of the Two Towers movie it still seems up in the air whether or not Arwen would, under pressure from Elrond, sail off to the West. If she does, then we'll know Peter Jackson is pulling from the Silmarillion. I expect instead though that she'll show up with the Rangers when they meet Aragorn.
As for Gimli, in TTT he's going a bit too far making the dwarf also be the comic relief. The reference to dwarf women was good, especially as a setup to Eowyn's attraction to Aragorn, and the "toss me" part was alright, but everything else "funny" that wasn't from the books, like the oversized armor and Gimli hopping to see the orcs wasn't cool. The first movie did Gimli much better, especially when they were in Moria.
Just something that hit my mind... I remember towards the end Frodo and Sam talking, and one of them says something like "Day shall come again," which is of course right out of one of the best scenes in the Silmarillion, but there could have been mention of "day coming again" in LOTR too... My memory is going.
A translation can make a huge difference. For example, I was reading Aristophanes' "The Clouds", and I was reading a good translation. It was hilarious - like an Ancient Greek episode of the Simpsons (a good episode). My friend, who had a crappy translation, hated it and found it humorless. For example, when the lizard shits in Socrates' face, my book says "a lizard shitted on his face!", which is funny, whereas my friend's book says something like "a lizard befouled upon him.", which isn't.
The Silmarillion is hard because it was never finished. Tolkien had various stories written out to various degrees of completion and then his son combined them all into the Silmarillion. It probably would have been better as a collection of short stories.
You can't deny that some of the stories are excellent - Fingolfin vs. Morgoth or Beren and Luthien for example. In the movies Peter Jackson seems to be using the parallels between Beren/Luthien and Aragorn/Arwen to flesh out the whole romance storyline that was barely present in the books.
Even discounting the value of the Silmarillion itself, after reading the Silmarillion you will get much more from the Lord of The Rings.
It was alright. Not the best game ever, but decent. The biggest flaw of the game for me was that after your colony got big and stable turns took forever to process.
Dude, it's not a donation. It's an investment. Yes, a risky one, but if they are the first to build a Space Elevator you will bring in such a metric shitload of money....
Seriously, your girlfriend got shafted. Lunar property will basically belong to whoever inhabits it first, puts up a fence around what they consider theirs, and takes action to keep other people off.
Who says we have to bring the first man on Mars back? Send him there with a shelter and some supplies, then send an unmanned rocket with more supplies, then maybe another man or two, then more rockets with supplies, until they are self-sufficient.
We are crashing the probe into Jupiter to avoid contaminating or destroying life on Europa. What if we end up destroying life on Jupiter, and Europa never had any life anyway?
I had a false memory like that too. When I was about one or two years old I took a plane trip. Until I was fifteen or sixteen that was the only time I was on a plane.
When I was still young (single-digits) my parents told me about the trip. Then I was convinced that I could remember the plane trip. But then, after a few years, I saw a picture or TV shot of the inside of a plane and realized my memories were nothing like the reality, and I had constructed them after hearing that I was on a plane at that age.
My parents tell me that after a while on the plane I started saying "I want to get off this bus!"
If it is like the majority of batteries I've seen it will have stamped into it the relevant specifications. Just find a battery that is the same or close and do a bit of hacking to make it fit.
The thing is that most people don't care about having their software "libre", especially when it's already "free" like beer and the license isn't full of Nazi restrictions.
I think it is going to become much harder to find motherboards with non-integrated parts. The reasons are integrated cost vs. seperate cost and cost vs. value perceived by the customer.
The cheap AC97 sound chip that a lot of integrated audio uses costs something like $0.10 a unit. Let's imagine that the three stereo jacks in the back also cost $0.10, so there's a hardware cost per motherboard of $0.20. This can represent, to a Dell or Compaq type OEM, a huge savings vs. a PCI card that might cost them a few bucks per computer.
To the customer directly buying a motherboard, it can seem (and usually is) an even better value to get a motherboard with integrated sound and maybe pay a buck or two (the marked up $0.20) than to pay at least $20 for a sound card at CompUSA...
Was there really a belief that Sputnik was full of nuclear bombs? (As opposed to the reality... full of a little radio transmitter that went beeeep... beeep... beeeeep... FROM OUTER SPACE!)
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Tons of poor people have cell phones. (This is a symptom of the cause of their poverty.)
Tim
I remember when your ship was getting ready to leave, and you were in Jupiter or Saturn orbit at the space station, picking what cargo to carry.
You could chose, I believe, 100, 150, or 200 people. I always wondered about the 50 or 100 people you weren't taking. Why did they just complacently not get on the ship so that I could have room for another or something? What did they do when I left, just sit on the space station until the food ran out? And, most importantly, besides the weight/space requirements of whatever you wanted to load, it also cost MONEY! Here we are with the world ending, and they want to CHARGE me for the commsat!
Tim
Oh yes, the parallels are present in Lord of The Rings (Tinuviel = Morning Star / Undomiel = Evening Star). It's just that in the book, the whole part about her sacrificing immortality seemed to me much less present. Having her actually fight (or even do anything) is also much more Luthien than Arwen.
Also, by the end of the Two Towers movie it still seems up in the air whether or not Arwen would, under pressure from Elrond, sail off to the West. If she does, then we'll know Peter Jackson is pulling from the Silmarillion. I expect instead though that she'll show up with the Rangers when they meet Aragorn.
As for Gimli, in TTT he's going a bit too far making the dwarf also be the comic relief. The reference to dwarf women was good, especially as a setup to Eowyn's attraction to Aragorn, and the "toss me" part was alright, but everything else "funny" that wasn't from the books, like the oversized armor and Gimli hopping to see the orcs wasn't cool. The first movie did Gimli much better, especially when they were in Moria.
Just something that hit my mind... I remember towards the end Frodo and Sam talking, and one of them says something like "Day shall come again," which is of course right out of one of the best scenes in the Silmarillion, but there could have been mention of "day coming again" in LOTR too... My memory is going.
Tim
Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein and published under the Penguin Classics imprint.
The book contains Lysistrata, The Acharnians, and The Clouds.
Tim
A translation can make a huge difference. For example, I was reading Aristophanes' "The Clouds", and I was reading a good translation. It was hilarious - like an Ancient Greek episode of the Simpsons (a good episode). My friend, who had a crappy translation, hated it and found it humorless. For example, when the lizard shits in Socrates' face, my book says "a lizard shitted on his face!", which is funny, whereas my friend's book says something like "a lizard befouled upon him.", which isn't.
Tim
The Silmarillion is hard because it was never finished. Tolkien had various stories written out to various degrees of completion and then his son combined them all into the Silmarillion. It probably would have been better as a collection of short stories.
You can't deny that some of the stories are excellent - Fingolfin vs. Morgoth or Beren and Luthien for example. In the movies Peter Jackson seems to be using the parallels between Beren/Luthien and Aragorn/Arwen to flesh out the whole romance storyline that was barely present in the books.
Even discounting the value of the Silmarillion itself, after reading the Silmarillion you will get much more from the Lord of The Rings.
Tim
It was alright. Not the best game ever, but decent. The biggest flaw of the game for me was that after your colony got big and stable turns took forever to process.
Tim
Games produced in Europe have about the same violence as American games. One example: Serious Sam - it has *MORE* violence than the average shooter.
Tim
I'm pretty sure that Reactor 3 is shut down now, but that only happened recently.
Tim
In Soviet Russia, the fact that Chernobyl isn't in Russia realizes you!
Tim
Dude, it's not a donation. It's an investment. Yes, a risky one, but if they are the first to build a Space Elevator you will bring in such a metric shitload of money....
Tim
Seriously, your girlfriend got shafted. Lunar property will basically belong to whoever inhabits it first, puts up a fence around what they consider theirs, and takes action to keep other people off.
Tim
Who says we have to bring the first man on Mars back? Send him there with a shelter and some supplies, then send an unmanned rocket with more supplies, then maybe another man or two, then more rockets with supplies, until they are self-sufficient.
Tim
We are crashing the probe into Jupiter to avoid contaminating or destroying life on Europa. What if we end up destroying life on Jupiter, and Europa never had any life anyway?
Bit of a cosmic "D'OH!"
Tim
Basically. That's why all the larger moons are named after chicks he got it on with.
Tim
I had a false memory like that too. When I was about one or two years old I took a plane trip. Until I was fifteen or sixteen that was the only time I was on a plane.
When I was still young (single-digits) my parents told me about the trip. Then I was convinced that I could remember the plane trip. But then, after a few years, I saw a picture or TV shot of the inside of a plane and realized my memories were nothing like the reality, and I had constructed them after hearing that I was on a plane at that age.
My parents tell me that after a while on the plane I started saying "I want to get off this bus!"
Tim
If it is like the majority of batteries I've seen it will have stamped into it the relevant specifications. Just find a battery that is the same or close and do a bit of hacking to make it fit.
Tim
The thing is that most people don't care about having their software "libre", especially when it's already "free" like beer and the license isn't full of Nazi restrictions.
Tim
"temporarily dismisal from one's work or responsibilities to engage in vast feasting, sexual orgies, and general immorality."
Sounds a lot more fun than "seeking communion with fellow people to honor Jesus through prayer, praise, and joyful feasting"
Tim
I think it is going to become much harder to find motherboards with non-integrated parts. The reasons are integrated cost vs. seperate cost and cost vs. value perceived by the customer.
The cheap AC97 sound chip that a lot of integrated audio uses costs something like $0.10 a unit. Let's imagine that the three stereo jacks in the back also cost $0.10, so there's a hardware cost per motherboard of $0.20. This can represent, to a Dell or Compaq type OEM, a huge savings vs. a PCI card that might cost them a few bucks per computer.
To the customer directly buying a motherboard, it can seem (and usually is) an even better value to get a motherboard with integrated sound and maybe pay a buck or two (the marked up $0.20) than to pay at least $20 for a sound card at CompUSA...
Tim
The lights are powered by the wind turbines! Oh man, your self-righteous enviromentalist rant just got SHUT DOWN!
Tim
Was there really a belief that Sputnik was full of nuclear bombs? (As opposed to the reality... full of a little radio transmitter that went beeeep... beeep... beeeeep... FROM OUTER SPACE!)
Tim
We just slashdotted CHRISTMAS. What next, do the editors engineer a DDoS on GOD HIMSELF?
Tim
I really hope to see this. It would prevent a lot of leeching and it would raise such an uproar or change of service from OOL's customers.
Tim
Would lead fuel actually damage your engine these days, or is the sticker just a propaganda device against the evil harmful lead?
I've heard both...
Tim