Philip How do you see your character developing in the Return of the King?
Andy Serkis: I don't want to give too much away actually but obviously Gollum's fate is very much bound up with that of Frodo and Sam and the Ring of course. And so you get to see them continue on their journey and it reaches an enormous climax in Mordor.
Psst, kid! I know where you can get top-secret information about what happens in Return of the King--it's called a library!
As a novel, Ringworld Engineers is vastly superior to Ringworld. The themes of Engineers are addiction, loss, free will, and what it means to be human. The themes of Ringworld are neat gadgets and neat engineering tricks.
I enjoyed Ringworld a lot when I first read it at age 14; I struggled to keep reading when I re-read it last year. It's more tour guide than novel, with cursory plot and characterization. I was surprised to see Niven advance it as one of his best books in the interview.
As a World customer, I found last year that I was getting removed from several mailing lists I was subscribed to beause so much of their traffic was being bounced by World spam filters.
When I contacted customer support, they said that the messages must have contained strings that triggered the filters, and that the solution was for the lists to avoid using those strings in the future.
What strings would these be? Customer Support couldn't say.
So, if I wanted to use my World account to recieve my list mail, I would have to persuade all other list members to not use the filter-triggering words. And I would have to do this without telling them what those words were.
It seems to me that strong filtering of customer inboxes is one thing, but doing so with no provision for opt-out or whitelists interferes with the individual's right to get the internet servide he's paying for. Do you disagree?
If memory serves me correctly, the BeOS team was originally trying to do a pure database filesystem (no hierarchy), but found (in the early '90s) that the performance hit was too heavy on the hardware of the time.
When complete, sometime next fall, the fonts will be shared freely with publishers, software manufacturers and scholars, under the condition that they not be altered.
I've downloaded a lot of MP3s of music that I already have on cassette. Since making personal-use copy of works you own is legal, I believe that activity is covered.
I'm sharing out a lot of MP3s I got from mp3.com and Amazon free downloads.
There are also a lot of movie trailers and video samples from pornsites out there
Actually, they seem to encourage people like me. I took an interest in Zipcar a couple years ago, before I had my license, and corresponded with the CEO, Robin Chase, about it. She urged me to join, and I explained that I didn't drive.
"Well," she wrote, "then you'll have a clean record when you apply!"
I said to a friend of mine recently: I could buy a car, and practice with one that I own, I could borrow a car from someone I have a personal relationship with, or I can do Zipcar,and be using one I have a business relationship with. That really seems like the best idea of the three.
The wave-your-card thing isn't very sensitive--I've generally had to actually touch the windshield to get it to register. I think the tech is the same that a lot of companies are using for ID cards these days--a radio pulse, if memory serves, that the cards reflect in a particular way.
Flexcar is a direct competitor in DC now.
The web signup form is pretty slick, They're trying to setup a phone signup as well, but it's not available yet.
I'm a new driver--just got my license this summer. My girlfriend's car is a stickshift, which kind of scares me. I'm in the habit of getting around by bus & bike. Apart from direct utility, Zipcar is giving me a chance to get practice driving every couple weeks.
My second session with with Prius Pam at Alewife, which was fun! People who enjoy riding different kinds of cars might want to get a trial membership just to muck around, particularly once they get the Mini Cooper in.
Wait a week and visit Supersnail.com, which Julian has temporarily taken down due to the Slashdot Effect.. You'll be pleased to observe that a) lots of people are nekkid, and b) I'm not one of them.
I got a 7x and a folding keyboard for $150 a month or so ago. I haven't bothered to activiate the (apparently pretty lackluster) wireless. Mostly I use it with WordSmith to do writing in parks and restaurants, which is pretty nice now that spring is here in New England (a couple months late).
I've actually found the ugly little monochrome screen to be an asset for this application, since it cuts down on my habit of revising each line obsessively rather than writing something and then revising it.
It's pretty cool--7xes are dirt cheap 'cause their wireless feature has been outmoded by more recent versions. So you buy one and you just don't use the wireless. Works for me, anyway.
In the world that gave us the Bhopal disaster, the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension act, and the conditions of migrant farm workers, I have trouble rating browser redirection more than a 4.
I have Bejewelled open in another Mozilla window right now, and I don't have a passport account. It would seem that the change is a bit less extensive than CNet (and Slashdot) seems to be saying.
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What's the source of the quote?
Philip
How do you see your character developing in the Return of the King?
Andy Serkis: I don't want to give too much away actually but obviously Gollum's fate is very much bound up with that of Frodo and Sam and the Ring of course. And so you get to see them continue on their journey and it reaches an enormous climax in Mordor.
Psst, kid! I know where you can get top-secret information about what happens in Return of the King--it's called a library!
As a novel, Ringworld Engineers is vastly superior to Ringworld. The themes of Engineers are addiction, loss, free will, and what it means to be human. The themes of Ringworld are neat gadgets and neat engineering tricks.
I enjoyed Ringworld a lot when I first read it at age 14; I struggled to keep reading when I re-read it last year. It's more tour guide than novel, with cursory plot and characterization. I was surprised to see Niven advance it as one of his best books in the interview.
Hello, Barry--
As a World customer, I found last year that I was getting removed from several mailing lists I was subscribed to beause so much of their traffic was being bounced by World spam filters.
When I contacted customer support, they said that the messages must have contained strings that triggered the filters, and that the solution was for the lists to avoid using those strings in the future.
What strings would these be? Customer Support couldn't say.
So, if I wanted to use my World account to recieve my list mail, I would have to persuade all other list members to not use the filter-triggering words. And I would have to do this without telling them what those words were.
It seems to me that strong filtering of customer inboxes is one thing, but doing so with no provision for opt-out or whitelists interferes with the individual's right to get the internet servide he's paying for. Do you disagree?
Hey, that's a really smar idea!
Sounds a lot like BFS.
If memory serves me correctly, the BeOS team was originally trying to do a pure database filesystem (no hierarchy), but found (in the early '90s) that the performance hit was too heavy on the hardware of the time.
I've downloaded a lot of MP3s of music that I already have on cassette. Since making personal-use copy of works you own is legal, I believe that activity is covered.
I'm sharing out a lot of MP3s I got from mp3.com and Amazon free downloads.
There are also a lot of movie trailers and video samples from pornsites out there
Now you're speaking my language.
If you really want to turn heads, get a Merlin.
Correction accepted.
I still think you're being fussy, though.
I believe it's the smallest conventionally-fuelled car being sold in the US today. Sorry that's not good enough for you.
Actually, they seem to encourage people like me. I took an interest in Zipcar a couple years ago, before I had my license, and corresponded with the CEO, Robin Chase, about it. She urged me to join, and I explained that I didn't drive.
"Well," she wrote, "then you'll have a clean record when you apply!"
I said to a friend of mine recently: I could buy a car, and practice with one that I own, I could borrow a car from someone I have a personal relationship with, or I can do Zipcar,and be using one I have a business relationship with. That really seems like the best idea of the three.
Lessee...
The wave-your-card thing isn't very sensitive--I've generally had to actually touch the windshield to get it to register. I think the tech is the same that a lot of companies are using for ID cards these days--a radio pulse, if memory serves, that the cards reflect in a particular way.
Flexcar is a direct competitor in DC now.
The web signup form is pretty slick, They're trying to setup a phone signup as well, but it's not available yet.
I'm a new driver--just got my license this summer. My girlfriend's car is a stickshift, which kind of scares me. I'm in the habit of getting around by bus & bike. Apart from direct utility, Zipcar is giving me a chance to get practice driving every couple weeks.
My second session with with Prius Pam at Alewife, which was fun! People who enjoy riding different kinds of cars might want to get a trial membership just to muck around, particularly once they get the Mini Cooper in.
Your report was thoughtful, informative, and entertaining. Thanks for putting it up for us.
From the genetic keyboard word frequency table:
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17483
11985
Is this just 'cause of all the C code he fed in? In that case, that suggests that the resulting keyboard is rather specialized.
Oh wait--they did. Dang.
Wait a week and visit Supersnail.com, which Julian has temporarily taken down due to the Slashdot Effect.. You'll be pleased to observe that a) lots of people are nekkid, and b) I'm not one of them.
I got a 7x and a folding keyboard for $150 a month or so ago. I haven't bothered to activiate the (apparently pretty lackluster) wireless. Mostly I use it with WordSmith to do writing in parks and restaurants, which is pretty nice now that spring is here in New England (a couple months late).
I've actually found the ugly little monochrome screen to be an asset for this application, since it cuts down on my habit of revising each line obsessively rather than writing something and then revising it.
It's pretty cool--7xes are dirt cheap 'cause their wireless feature has been outmoded by more recent versions. So you buy one and you just don't use the wireless. Works for me, anyway.
Hey, I manage to be bored, sullen, and directionless without drugs, I'll have you know!
In the world that gave us the Bhopal disaster, the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension act, and the conditions of migrant farm workers, I have trouble rating browser redirection more than a 4.
The icon for this story seems eerily appropriate.
Hmm. No Malda, Robert; no Bates, Jeffrey; no Lord, Timothy.
SOFA (Students On Financial Aid)
VENOM (Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem)
GROSS (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS)
Gosh. A comment on the article from someone who hasn't read it yet. How terribly surprising.
I have Bejewelled open in another Mozilla window right now, and I don't have a passport account. It would seem that the change is a bit less extensive than CNet (and Slashdot) seems to be saying.