maybee I will buy them instead of somthing from the US/UK.
By doing so you are increasing the demand for Euros, as you will require them to pay your bills. By increasing demand, you will increase the 'price' of a Euro, ie. the exchange rate. And by increasing the exchange rate, you remove a little more of the incentive to buy from the Euro-zone, or indeed any other "insert-currency-name-here" zone which currently seems cheap.
Cheers,
Ian
Re:One simple reason why it won't work:
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...I can move to and work in any other European country, with no thought to immigration or tax paperwork.
How about a thought for language?
Cheers,
Chous,
A bien tot,
Ian
(with apologies to native speakers for any spelling I may have just mangled)
I spent New Year's Eve at a friend's flat in 1997. Shared flat, and they were big into their multiplayer games.
Worms 2 was the favourite at the time, but was causing hassle on one machine. I mentioned that I'd heard of this, and a DirectX patch was supposed to be the answer.
At 11:5x pm GMT (forget the exact minute, but I remember it was less than ten to go before New Year), my friend goes on-line to start downloading this patch. He comments that he's getting good transfer rates on his modem.
"Yes", I reply. "That's because there's only you in the entire world logging on to Microsoft's site just before midnight at New Year!".
John Le Meserier played Bilbo in the radio version, and he too had been in a Middle-Earth production before. He played Gandalf in the BBC radio Hobbit production.
I personally hoped they'd bring back the person who played Gollum. There's simply no point in anyone else trying - it was done to perfection in this version.
Radio 4, on the other hand, is a generally dull talk station run by the British elite to brainwash the British public to their socialist trains of thought.
Naah. How about their comedy stuff? Hitchhiker's Guide fan are we? Where did that come from? How about Goodness Gracious Me? Current one making the leap to TV is Dead Ringers, but also look out for the News Quiz, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute.
Well, is he and his wife (the daughter of the River-woman of Withywindle) are worth being at least mentioned?
No.
I'm being unusually definite here, as normally I would preface it with things like 'in my opinion', 'maybe' or 'perhaps'. However, this time I can draw upon Tolkien's own opinion.
In an interview (shown recently on BBC Knowledge, I believe) he stated that put Tom Bombadil in purely because he liked the character, and that he had difficulty working him in to the plot.
Given that, I would imagine that poor old Tom is an entirely valid target for the chop. Even my favourite (non-book) version, the BBC Radio series, cuts him out.
For a dramatised LotR, try the BBC radio version. Much better than the film, although admittedly much longer as well.
I have to reluctantly join the 'disappointed with the film' ranks, since although there is much to like there, I think so many detail-related cuts were made that the plot becomes hard to follow. Certainly this was the case with the people I went with who hadn't read the book. Without the detail, I felt it degenerated a bit into glorified chase film.
Loved the first hour though - all of the Shire scenes were done briliantly.
...his thing about Saruman "joining forces" and not designing his own ring were kind of questionable.
Saruman did join forces with Sauron in the book. Quote:
"A great power is arising. Against it the old policies and allies will not avail us at all...We may join with that power. It would be wise, Gandalf".
which gets the reply
"Saruman, I have heard such policies before, but only from the mouths of emmiseries sent by Mordor. I cannot think you have brought me so far to weary my ears."
Saruman did look into forging his own ring, yes, but the book clearly states he joins forces with Saruman.
Cheers,
Ian
Re:Multi-function devices not so good
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generally it is better to keep devices with seperate functions seperate.
I mostly agree, right up until the moment I have to start carrying all these devices. Personally, I don't want a pager, cellphone, PDA, MP3 and FM radio, digital still camera and digital video camera all competing for pocket space. I would far rather have a palm (small 'p') computer that can take care of all that for me.
It's the portability of such devices that make them usable. Personally, I welcome the trend towards multi-functional devices. However, it should never be at the expense of remembering how the device is used (your 9110 being a perfect example).
The problem is that when China looked around them to see what was successful they saw the Authoritarian capitalist states like Singapore, Korea and Taiwan.
Errr....Taiwan was created by China as an experiment, and China still claims sovereignty over it. They certainly didn't look to Taiwan as an example.
Would you prefer to call for help over a high quality digital uplink through a million dollar sattelite connection...
Assumes you have access to a satellite. Suppose it was a war, and the satellite had gone or been jammed. Suppose you're on the side that doesn't own the satellite.
No. It's exactly thoughts like this that allow privacy to be eroded.
Example, do you have anything to hide? No? Well then, you won't mind me setting up a camera trained on your garden, monitoring whatever you do for 24 hours a day and sending that information to me. Same principle - what you are doing would be visible from a public location, so it's in the public domain forever, right?
What would actually happen if I did that is that you'd become less comfortable using your garden, and what was once a nice place would become a worrying place where you had to be on your guard. OK, so describing Usenet as a 'nice' place might be pushing it, but it does mean that a once useful, informal discussion area would become the a worrying location where you self-censored everything written in case of future use.
I find it ironic that the many of the people currently saying "yippee! 20 years of Usenet with no ability to delete" would be outraged if the post was about their employer logging everything they typed and storing it forever...
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By doing so you are increasing the demand for Euros, as you will require them to pay your bills. By increasing demand, you will increase the 'price' of a Euro, ie. the exchange rate. And by increasing the exchange rate, you remove a little more of the incentive to buy from the Euro-zone, or indeed any other "insert-currency-name-here" zone which currently seems cheap.
Cheers,
Ian
How about a thought for language?
Cheers,Chous,
A bien tot,
Ian
(with apologies to native speakers for any spelling I may have just mangled)
Worms 2 was the favourite at the time, but was causing hassle on one machine. I mentioned that I'd heard of this, and a DirectX patch was supposed to be the answer.
At 11:5x pm GMT (forget the exact minute, but I remember it was less than ten to go before New Year), my friend goes on-line to start downloading this patch. He comments that he's getting good transfer rates on his modem.
"Yes", I reply. "That's because there's only you in the entire world logging on to Microsoft's site just before midnight at New Year!".Hmm....
Cheers,Ian
My god! I viewed the article when there were no posts, refrained from first post mayhem and what happens? My exact choice makes it to the first post.
It's right, you see. The Village are watching...
Be Seeing You,
Ian
Perhaps it records 'and' searches too? As in, "cnn impartial wonder source" and "cnn utterly biased coverage" both contribute to the tally for CNN?
Cheers,
Ian
>not only can you _have_ your opinion, but
>you can voice it too.
Slashdot.org. Not slashdot.org.us. It's an international site, and there are many countries where the above is true.
Mind you, I agree entirely with your basic point.
Cheers,
Ian
I assume we're not talking about the next stage of evolution in brightly coloured birds...
Cheers, Ian
Still going strong - grab your telnet client and have a look, or go here to connect via a Java client.
Cheers,
Ian
I personally hoped they'd bring back the person who played Gollum. There's simply no point in anyone else trying - it was done to perfection in this version.
Cheers,
Ian
Naah. How about their comedy stuff? Hitchhiker's Guide fan are we? Where did that come from? How about Goodness Gracious Me? Current one making the leap to TV is Dead Ringers, but also look out for the News Quiz, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute.
All broadcast at 18:30 GMT on weekdays.
Cheers,
Ian
I suspect they're also using it because it's cheap. Very cheap. Free, in fact. This is a GOOD THING(tm) for a public service organisation.
Cheers,
Ian
No.
I'm being unusually definite here, as normally I would preface it with things like 'in my opinion', 'maybe' or 'perhaps'. However, this time I can draw upon Tolkien's own opinion.
In an interview (shown recently on BBC Knowledge, I believe) he stated that put Tom Bombadil in purely because he liked the character, and that he had difficulty working him in to the plot.
Given that, I would imagine that poor old Tom is an entirely valid target for the chop. Even my favourite (non-book) version, the BBC Radio series, cuts him out.
Cheers,
Ian
Or even Sauron... :-)
Cheers, Ian
The evil wizard who made the Orc warriors (Uruk-Hai). The one played by Christopher Lee.
Cheers,
Ian
I have to reluctantly join the 'disappointed with the film' ranks, since although there is much to like there, I think so many detail-related cuts were made that the plot becomes hard to follow. Certainly this was the case with the people I went with who hadn't read the book. Without the detail, I felt it degenerated a bit into glorified chase film.
Loved the first hour though - all of the Shire scenes were done briliantly.
Cheers,
Ian
Saruman did join forces with Sauron in the book. Quote:
"A great power is arising. Against it the old policies and allies will not avail us at all...We may join with that power. It would be wise, Gandalf".
which gets the reply
"Saruman, I have heard such policies before, but only from the mouths of emmiseries sent by Mordor. I cannot think you have brought me so far to weary my ears."
Saruman did look into forging his own ring, yes, but the book clearly states he joins forces with Saruman.
Cheers,
Ian
I mostly agree, right up until the moment I have to start carrying all these devices. Personally, I don't want a pager, cellphone, PDA, MP3 and FM radio, digital still camera and digital video camera all competing for pocket space. I would far rather have a palm (small 'p') computer that can take care of all that for me.
It's the portability of such devices that make them usable. Personally, I welcome the trend towards multi-functional devices. However, it should never be at the expense of remembering how the device is used (your 9110 being a perfect example).
Cheers,
Ian
Errr....Taiwan was created by China as an experiment, and China still claims sovereignty over it. They certainly didn't look to Taiwan as an example.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
The first Tolkien game I played would be The Hobbit. The next? Shadowfax, on the Spectrum. Great animation for its day.
Cheers,
Ian
Then how will you ever discover anything new?
Cheers,
Ian
Assumes you have access to a satellite. Suppose it was a war, and the satellite had gone or been jammed. Suppose you're on the side that doesn't own the satellite.
Radio for me, please.
Cheers,
Ian
No. It's exactly thoughts like this that allow privacy to be eroded.
Example, do you have anything to hide? No? Well then, you won't mind me setting up a camera trained on your garden, monitoring whatever you do for 24 hours a day and sending that information to me. Same principle - what you are doing would be visible from a public location, so it's in the public domain forever, right?
What would actually happen if I did that is that you'd become less comfortable using your garden, and what was once a nice place would become a worrying place where you had to be on your guard. OK, so describing Usenet as a 'nice' place might be pushing it, but it does mean that a once useful, informal discussion area would become the a worrying location where you self-censored everything written in case of future use.
I find it ironic that the many of the people currently saying "yippee! 20 years of Usenet with no ability to delete" would be outraged if the post was about their employer logging everything they typed and storing it forever...
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Interested - which industry is that?
Cheers,
Ian