My biggest problem with Tolkien's writing is the utter lack of any inner life or motivation for any of the characters. You have good guys and you have bad guys. The good guys do good things (all the time), the bad guys do bad things (all the time). Rather than being ahead of its time, as some of the posters here have suggested, I think LOTR is more accurately a throwback to a pre-Shakespearean style of writing.
... and deliberately so. After all, Professor Tolkien was an expert in mediaeval European mythology, who also released an acclaimed translation of Beowulf. His fiction was a re-interpretation of the myths that he studied throughout his life, of course it's going to follow similar parameters to those stories.
Oh, that's OK, we exported all of ours a while back (Clive James, Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes)... who wants those tossers standing around talking a load of old garbage when there's beer to be drunk?
But does the curve look like Internet Explorer is headed toward sub-80 percent share among the general WWW user population?
It's a pretty sudden drop, but I doubt that it will keep up unless Microsoft are completely asleep at the wheel.
Newspaper articles that tell you to stop using IE or "hackers will steal the money from your bank account" do tend to scare people, though, and if there's much more of that sort of press (and alternative browsers don't have similar problems) then who knows?
The fact that 14.0 percent of W3Schools visitors run the Gecko engine doesn't mean that 14.0 percent of W3Schools visitors run the Gecko engine.
Huh? I would have thought that's exactly what it would mean.
I saw a press article menitioning an overall IE drop from 94.5% to 93.5% in the last 6 weeks or so, due to the security "issues", but I can't remember where it was or where they got their stats from. Might have been at guardian.co.uk .
I think this is one of those technologies that no-one will really notice until it's cheap enough to be (semi-)ubiquitous. Like nanomachines or e-paper, but closer to that point than those two are.:)
Overall, if you actually read the AHIG, you'll find the guidlines make sense and serve a specific purpose; they aren't just some willy-nilly part of the system that changes at the whim of Steve Jobs or some apparently AD/HD influenced designers.
Originally brushed metal windows were only for the second of those stated uses. So, it seems to me like they are "some willy-nilly part of the system that changes at the whim of Steve Jobs or some apparently AD/HD influenced designers". It's been that way ever since they were introduced in an attempt to make QuickTime Player (4?) look like a weird TV...
'Provides a source list to navigate information' is pretty damn generic, and it didn't used to be the case that all those windows had the brushed metal look.
I think it's a Firefox / Firebird / whatever thing -- it looks up Google first, and sends an empty "I'm Feeling Lucky" search... interesting that Google is redirecting that to microsoft.com. (Doing an empty search from the main Google page doesn't do this.) Verified with the LiveHTTPHeaders extension.
No more Glorious MEEPT! any more, though, and very little evidence of Natalie Portman naked and petrified. Even the AYBABTU jokes have mostly died down.
Having read the last page, the entire article was nothing but a shill for his employer anyway -- it didn't tell us anything we don't already know. I want that 5 minutes back.:(
I imagine he'll go into the CEO's office at MS for a meeting with Bill Gates... and as they shake hands a massive matter/anti-matter explosion takes place, wiping out most of the state and triggering the collapse of the San Andreas Fault further south.
Clearly, we must do anything we can to prevent this.
Gamers are used to (virtually) blowing crap up, not grabbing their ankles and taking it from behind.
Romero's going to make you his bitch? Suck it down? All sounds pretty homoerotic to me.
Daikatana is pretty symptomatic of the fact that games companies can spend millions of dollars producing crap, and that they expect the gaming public to just lap it up.
. Spare me the "Oh they made a monopoly out of nothing and then put a gun to millions of people's heads" theories
don't turn this into a "ding dong MS is dead" pitchfork party
I didn't see either of these statements in the post you were replying to. Nice collection of strawmen you have there -- are they made from official astroturf?
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My biggest problem with Tolkien's writing is the utter lack of any inner life or motivation for any of the characters. You have good guys and you have bad guys. The good guys do good things (all the time), the bad guys do bad things (all the time). Rather than being ahead of its time, as some of the posters here have suggested, I think LOTR is more accurately a throwback to a pre-Shakespearean style of writing.
... and deliberately so. After all, Professor Tolkien was an expert in mediaeval European mythology, who also released an acclaimed translation of Beowulf. His fiction was a re-interpretation of the myths that he studied throughout his life, of course it's going to follow similar parameters to those stories.
Oh, that's OK, we exported all of ours a while back (Clive James, Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes)... who wants those tossers standing around talking a load of old garbage when there's beer to be drunk?
But does the curve look like Internet Explorer is headed toward sub-80 percent share among the general WWW user population?
It's a pretty sudden drop, but I doubt that it will keep up unless Microsoft are completely asleep at the wheel.
Newspaper articles that tell you to stop using IE or "hackers will steal the money from your bank account" do tend to scare people, though, and if there's much more of that sort of press (and alternative browsers don't have similar problems) then who knows?
The fact that 14.0 percent of W3Schools visitors run the Gecko engine doesn't mean that 14.0 percent of W3Schools visitors run the Gecko engine.
Huh? I would have thought that's exactly what it would mean.
I saw a press article menitioning an overall IE drop from 94.5% to 93.5% in the last 6 weeks or so, due to the security "issues", but I can't remember where it was or where they got their stats from. Might have been at guardian.co.uk .
I think this is one of those technologies that no-one will really notice until it's cheap enough to be (semi-)ubiquitous. Like nanomachines or e-paper, but closer to that point than those two are. :)
Given the number of Hollywood films that seem to have been made in Sydney recently, I'm not so sure...
Overall, if you actually read the AHIG, you'll find the guidlines make sense and serve a specific purpose; they aren't just some willy-nilly part of the system that changes at the whim of Steve Jobs or some apparently AD/HD influenced designers.
Originally brushed metal windows were only for the second of those stated uses. So, it seems to me like they are "some willy-nilly part of the system that changes at the whim of Steve Jobs or some apparently AD/HD influenced designers". It's been that way ever since they were introduced in an attempt to make QuickTime Player (4?) look like a weird TV...
'Provides a source list to navigate information' is pretty damn generic, and it didn't used to be the case that all those windows had the brushed metal look.
No, but Win95 was originally slated to be Win94 (and was known by that name in the trade press for, ooh, about a year).
I think it's a Firefox / Firebird / whatever thing -- it looks up Google first, and sends an empty "I'm Feeling Lucky" search... interesting that Google is redirecting that to microsoft.com. (Doing an empty search from the main Google page doesn't do this.) Verified with the LiveHTTPHeaders extension.
Yeah, it was a great game. Played it for hours and hours on the C64 way back when.
"Word for Windows" went from v2 to v6, but that was because the previous version of "Word for DOS" was v5.
No more Glorious MEEPT! any more, though, and very little evidence of Natalie Portman naked and petrified. Even the AYBABTU jokes have mostly died down.
gDesklets and SuperKaramba are both Konfabulator rip-offs, though.
Yeah, that was the song for Cannon Fodder 1 on the Amiga. Can't remember what CF2 had, though...
Having read the last page, the entire article was nothing but a shill for his employer anyway -- it didn't tell us anything we don't already know. I want that 5 minutes back. :(
The utility company lost more than $1 million in revenue that would normally have been generated from the pay systems during the time they were down.
Huh? No-one's going to get by without paying their utility bills, as illustrated in the sob story. That revenue was likely deferred, not lost.
ObYouMustBeNewHere.
No, there's actually a radio interview with the two of them floating around the web somewhere. (It's Orson *Welles*, not Wells, by the way).
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946)
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985)
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Oh, that should be OK... I have a new keylogger installed at Valve. Should push it out to 2006 at the earliest.
Uh, yeah, I'm several years behind the times there. :) Maybe I should have used "Glorious Leader"...
I imagine he'll go into the CEO's office at MS for a meeting with Bill Gates... and as they shake hands a massive matter/anti-matter explosion takes place, wiping out most of the state and triggering the collapse of the San Andreas Fault further south.
Clearly, we must do anything we can to prevent this.
Gamers are used to (virtually) blowing crap up, not grabbing their ankles and taking it from behind.
Romero's going to make you his bitch? Suck it down? All sounds pretty homoerotic to me.
Daikatana is pretty symptomatic of the fact that games companies can spend millions of dollars producing crap, and that they expect the gaming public to just lap it up.
. Spare me the "Oh they made a monopoly out of nothing and then put a gun to millions of people's heads" theories
don't turn this into a "ding dong MS is dead" pitchfork party
I didn't see either of these statements in the post you were replying to. Nice collection of strawmen you have there -- are they made from official astroturf?
no Deus Ex 2
No great loss.
My god, porn is going to look horribly dithered on this thing. Maybe by the time it is market viable they'll have that fixed.
:)
I don't know, it could give it a sort of retro appeal... maybe people's tastes will change.