Actually.. In Norway and Sweden, criminal suspects are rarely ever mentioned by name in the papers prior to conviction. And most often not even after a guilty sentence either. (infamous criminals with many previous convictions being the most notable exception.)
Instead, they are usually referred to by age.
For instance, in the murder case of Anna Lindh (swedish foreigh minister) last year, the first suspect arrested was the '35 year-old'. The current suspect (due to go on trial this month) is the '24 year old'.
However in the latter case, the public interest has been so large that one of the major newspapers in Sweded decided to publish the name of the latter suspect. A rare breach of this rather stringent media ettiquette.
Can anybody who speaks Swedish translate the article for us? Ok.. Although it's written in Norwegian. But it's close enough.;)
DVD-Jon very happy Okokrim has chosen not to persue its case against John Lech Johansen. Thus the aquittal of DVD-Jon stands.
"My client is on vacation in France, and I haven't yet spoken to him. But we did discuss this posibility before he left. So I know he will be very happy not to have to think about this any more", said DVD-Jons defense attorney Halvor Manhaus to TV2 Nettavisen.
Time for consideration The 22 of December last year, the Borgarting [higher court] decided to dismiss the charges by Okokrim against Jon Lech Johansen. Okokrim has since taken time for consideration, but has now chosen not to persue an appeal.
"Its been four yeras since this all started and Jon was then 15 years old. He has carried this heavy burden through important years of his life and it has weighed heavily on him. But I feel he's handled it very well." says attorney Halvor Manshaus.
It was the 6th of January last year the Oslo tingsrett [lower court] first aquitted DVD-Jon who thus won his first victory against Okokrim.
For years of waiting Okokrim took action against Johansen four years ago, after he had distributed a program on the internet which enabled the breaking of the built-in copy protection CSS in DVDs.
As a 15 year-old, Johansen managed to break the security code. He was arrested in January 2000.
The now 20 year-old Johansen has claimed that the program DeCSS was developed to play DVD-films on other operating systems than Microsoft Windows. He has consistently claimed that his only motive was a desire to watch DVD-movies on PCs using the operating system Linux.
The case has caused a lot of attention in IT circles both in- and outside of Norway, and most have expressed support for DVD-Jon.
Allowed a copy From the verdict in Lagmannsretten [higher court] last year, it was considered evident that DVD-Jon had legally purchased his DVDs, and thus had the right to make copies of them.
"The Lagmannsrett finds that a DVD is so vunerable to damage that the purchaser must be entitled to make a copy, for example of a movie he is particularily interested in preserving", part of the verdict read.
Copyright law makes the actions of copying and redistributing copyrighted works without authorization illegal. NOT the purchase of said copies, no matter what the RIAA/MPAA would like to have you think.
This doesn't depend on which country you live in, it's how copyright works.
It's up to them (as the distributors) to have their stuff in order. But even if they don't, there is no way you are liable.
By analogy, if the NY Times were to publish a plagiarized article (as they have, on occasion), they can be held liable for copyright infringment and damages. But by no extension of the law are the NYT subscribers liable.
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Not really. A treaty can't take precedence over the constitution.
That was not the issue. The issue is whenether the treaty does supplant the constitution or is complementary to it. I find it difficult to believe that a treaty ratified without constitutional problems in every other western democracy, is somehow incompatible with the US constition. I find it even harder to believe that this is such a certainty that it shouldn't even be tried by the Supreme Court.
I don't have much faith in the members of an international tribunal, picked not by people by by governments, which do not share my ideals.
Said governments have all ratified the UN declaration of human rights. Whenether they truly share your ideals or not, they have voluntarily signed a treaty to that extent. Unless you mean that states aren't bound to the treaties they sign (in which case there can be no law whatsoever), it's not much of an argument.
Besides that, out of the 18 Judges in the ICC, not a single one of them originates from a non-democratic country.
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The US could not join any ICC treaty, as the terms of the treaty are not acceptable under the US constitution.
That is quite debatable. A good number of politicians feel differently. In any case, it's a question best decided by the Supreme Court. So why not let them?
More pragmatically, it seems quite likely that the tranzis would use the ICC to bring frivilous charges against various officials in the US.
That is simply the paranoid mode of thought which leads to unilateralism. It's ridiculous. The same argument could be used by any nation. Are we supposed to belive the USA is somehow unique?
Using the ICC for frivolous politically motivated indictments is in nobodys best interest. Any and all systems of justice require faith in the legitimacy of the legal process, you can't have justice otherwise.
War-crimes tribunals suffer from this lack of faith. A trial of the vanquished by the victors can never be considered impartial.
Faith in justice is one of the American ideals I mentioned. There is no reason besides xenophobia to think that America should not extend this faith to the international scene.
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Considering the crimes Saddam Hussein has committed against people of several countries, would it not be logical for his ultimate trial to be held in the form of an international war crimes tribunal, a la Nuremberg?
Yes it would. There already is such a court, the International Criminal Court.. The problem is, the USA opposes it.
This was not always the case; Funny you mention Nuremburg, where the american procecuter Robert Jackson expressed a desire to create such a permanent tribunal.
I feel that is the America the world admired and respected. Todays unilateral foreign policy is a shame on America, and the ideals America is supposed to represent. And it is the reason why the USA no long commands the same international respect.
Actually, the idea of spoilers was created by Alfred Hitchcock for the movie _Psycho_. As part of the promotion of the movie, people who watched the movie were told to (1) not tell anyone the movies secrets and (2) show up on time. People who arrived late would not be allowed in.
Actually, it was done a few years before that, in the Billy Wilder film Witness for the procecution, from 1957. Psycho premiered in 1960. But you are correct about Hitchcock creating secrecy to promote 'Psycho'.
I disagree.. to some extent. No, a good movie won't be 'ruined' totally by spoilers. But it does detract from the experience. Often, the director builds up a state of confusion by presenting the audience with seemingly conflicting information. The characters' confusion is felt by the audience. And then -bang-, they get it.. and you get it. It works great.
You can't say that losing that emotion doesn't detract from a film. Yes, you -can- build up a good film with a single plot twist. IF it's a good twist, and it's utilized properly by the director.
To name a few: 'Psycho', 'The crying game', 'Witness for the procecution' (the original -ending twist movie-).
Yes.. well this is all good, but what the guy was pointing out was that forking was bad for users of open source. I agree.
You're assuming here that when a fork occurs, that the developers and users will head in the same direction. This is not necessarily true, though.
Users and developers have often very different considerations.
On the other hand, the risk of forks in open-source software is best off compared to the very real risk of corporate bankruptcy or depreciation which comes with commercial software.
At least with OSS, you have the choice of continuing development yourself, or perhaps in cooperation with other 'old-version' users.
De-oxygenated hemoglobin isn't magnetic, but oxygenated hemoglobic is paramagnetic.
Let's clarify this for all the non chemist/physicist-readers here.. Simplified, there are three forms of magnetism, ferromagnetism, paramagnetism and diamagnetism.
Ferromagnetism is what we ususally mean when we speak of something being 'magnetic'. The other two are mainly molecular phenomena, and are very weak.
Molecular oxygen is paramagnetic. This doesn't mean there is more air near your refrigerator. At least not under normal circumstances.
It could be a scale thing taht means this first generation of magnetic detox devices are too large to pick up virus particles.
No, not really.. even if the nanoparticle is rather large, the binding-site is much smaller, on the molecular scale (1 nm or so). So that's not the problem.
The problem is how to 'latch on' to the bactera/viruses, and how to do so with specificity . (don't want to remove stuff that we need!)
That's the difficult part, and what most of conventional drug design is all about. Drugs usually work by "latching-on" to a virus, or a part of a bacteria, and stop it working. The immune systems antibodies do the same.
So basically, this can't really do much that can't be done with conventional drugs. Probably less, since it's restricted to the bloodstream.
By opting for a small specialized market Sweden has suffered a massive collapse of their general steel industry.
That is simply not true. It's the same businesses (SSAB, Fundia, Sandvik, Uddeholm, Fundia) producing the steel, at the same mills as before. They are still generating wealth. They still employ people.
The entire point here is that they did not switch industries, rather the industry switched products.
There will always be market for high-quality programmers. Higher quality means higher prices, which means higher wages are acceptable. It's basically a refinement of the market, not a disappearance.
I live in Sweden, which has some of the highest labor costs in Europe. Yet, Sweden has a strong steel industry, despite steel manufacturing being quite a 'low-tech' industry, with cutthroat international competition. (Coming from Japan, and increasingly China)
How do they compete? Simple: They don't. Sweden switched its industry to high-quality and specialty steel production requireing more skill.
The USA really needs to move their steel industry in this direction, but instead they leveled tariffs on imported steel. (now dropped after trade-war threats) (Also, note that swedish steel was exempt from these tariffs, for the reason that they don't compete with american steel manufacturers, who aren't in the specialty market)
So, for the software market, I think we'll see something similar. And a choice will have to be made whenether to face reality, at a cost of the lesser-skilled jobs, or give the industry artificial resuscitation through tariffs.
I don't think anyone here is saying that they'd "just drop" the case.. Rather they mean some kind of settlement where SCO would agree not to attempt any further litigation against IBM, and drop it's suit, against similar guarantees from IBM.
That being said. There are plenty of other reasons for IBM to keep pushing. They have a pretty good countersuit going, which means there's money to be made off SCO. Also, they might want 'closure' on the entire UNIX-IP issue;
This isn't the first case about UNIX IP, why not make it the last?
It seems statments from the man himsel are rare, but here are several interesting comments from Hellwig himself on the case.. (there are several others in the same thread.)
I feel sorry for the guy.. like so many other linux contributors caught up in this BS..
"Most of that stuff is also bullshit. The folks in IBM LTC that work onm the kernel are mostly ex Sequent, not ex AIX folks. Now Sequent also had a SVR4 source license for Dynix/PTX, but in fact most of the scalability changes in SVR4.2 SM / ES actually come from Sequent! (Just take a look at the Authors of the VFS and VM design documents for SVR4.2 ES / MP).
AIX OTOH was only developed with a SVR3 source license up to AIX4, and neverless the actual kernel does not resemble SVR3 or SVR4 at all, and although I'm not sure I think they even only used it for userland not the kernel.
AIX5L (that project Monterey) had additional components licenses from SCO UnixWare like procfs or bfs - but IBM has very strict policies that the AIX5 and Linux groups basically don't communicate. For example I was involved in the JFS/Linux project which is very similar to the JFS2 in AIX5L because they're both based on JFS in OS/2 - when there were bugs found in the old OS/2 codebase they weren't able to inform the AIX folks about it or send patches. Similarly I wasn't able to get information about the layout used for Posix ACL on AIX when I started to implement those for Linux."
Yes, 2.5 megabytes is what it'd take to store it in binary form.
If we want it in human-readable form, convert to base-10: 2^20996011 = 10^(20996011*log(2)) 20996011*log(2) is about 6,320,000, decimals. 1 decimal = 1 char = one byte = 6 Mb.
That's generally the situation with any movie adapted from a book.
Or so reads the old cliche.. Personally I've never noticed. Even in the cases where I'd seen a movie or theatre version before I read the book, I never felt that it made me enjoy the book differently (excluding the plot of course).
A good film can inspire the imagination as much as a good book. For instance, I feel that 2001: A space odyssy" was a far more thought-provocative and imaginative movie than the much more literal and explaining book.
Apocalypse now which was based on Conrad's Heart of darkness is the most even-matched film and book pair I can think of. Although there is very little literal resemblence, both manage to provoke the same thoughts and express the same ideas and emotions in their respective media.
Now I'll concede that most movies aren't works of art like 2001 and Apocalypse, but neither are most books either.
As for LOTR, I think it's a quite good film.. Neither LOTR or the Hobbit are very multi-layered stories. In fact, Tolkien himself seemed wary of anything but the literal readings of his works. As such, they don't need to be masterpieces either.
(Disclaimer: I'm not knocking LOTR here, they're good books. But I don't find that many layers of meaning in them, and as such it makes them easier to film.)
and how to actually load the ntfs.sys file from an NTFS filesystem. It is not entirely a chicken and egg situation, as Linux already have NTFS read support
Um... I'm wondering here: How does Windows load ntfs.sys from an NTFS partition???
When it's conventionally taped, don't you skip the commercials as well?
People are too lazy to tape everything they want to watch. In fact, most people are too lazy to even take the time to figure out how to set the clock on their VCR..
Like the one on computer safety. I mean, how many people actually take a break every 30 minutes to avoid damaging their eyes?
Not as many as then, I suspect. You have to remember that there is quite a difference between staring at an old-green on black, updating at 50 Hz and a modern monitor with a 72+ Hz refresh rate, and much lower levels of non-visible radiation emissions.
I certainly remember my first 70 Hz monitor.. it felt so soothing to the eyes in comparison!
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Actually.. In Norway and Sweden, criminal suspects are rarely ever mentioned by name in the papers prior to conviction. And most often not even after a guilty sentence either.
(infamous criminals with many previous convictions being the most notable exception.)
Instead, they are usually referred to by age.
For instance, in the murder case of Anna Lindh (swedish foreigh minister) last year, the first suspect arrested was the '35 year-old'. The current suspect (due to go on trial this month) is the '24 year old'.
However in the latter case, the public interest has been so large that one of the major newspapers in Sweded decided to publish the name of the latter suspect.
A rare breach of this rather stringent media ettiquette.
"Allowed a copy" should really have been translated as "Allowed to copy".
Can anybody who speaks Swedish translate the article for us? ;)
Ok.. Although it's written in Norwegian. But it's close enough.
DVD-Jon very happy
Okokrim has chosen not to persue its case against John Lech Johansen. Thus the aquittal of DVD-Jon stands.
"My client is on vacation in France, and I haven't yet spoken to him. But we did discuss this posibility before he left. So I know he will be very happy not to have to think about this any more", said DVD-Jons defense attorney Halvor Manhaus to TV2 Nettavisen.
Time for consideration
The 22 of December last year, the Borgarting [higher court] decided to dismiss the charges by Okokrim against Jon Lech Johansen. Okokrim has since taken time for consideration, but has now chosen not to persue an appeal.
"Its been four yeras since this all started and Jon was then 15 years old. He has carried this heavy burden through important years of his life and it has weighed heavily on him. But I feel he's handled it very well." says attorney Halvor Manshaus.
It was the 6th of January last year the Oslo tingsrett [lower court] first aquitted DVD-Jon who thus won his first victory against Okokrim.
For years of waiting
Okokrim took action against Johansen four years ago, after he had distributed a program on the internet which enabled the breaking of the built-in copy protection CSS in DVDs.
As a 15 year-old, Johansen managed to break the security code. He was arrested in January 2000.
The now 20 year-old Johansen has claimed that the program DeCSS was developed to play DVD-films on other operating systems than Microsoft Windows. He has consistently claimed that his only motive was a desire to watch DVD-movies on PCs using the operating system Linux.
The case has caused a lot of attention in IT circles both in- and outside of Norway, and most have expressed support for DVD-Jon.
Allowed a copy
From the verdict in Lagmannsretten [higher court] last year, it was considered evident that DVD-Jon had legally purchased his DVDs, and thus had the right to make copies of them.
"The Lagmannsrett finds that a DVD is so vunerable to damage that the purchaser must be entitled to make a copy, for example of a movie he is particularily interested in preserving", part of the verdict read.
Yes you can tell.
If it's legal for them, it's not illegal for you.
Copyright law makes the actions of copying and redistributing copyrighted works without authorization illegal.
NOT the purchase of said copies, no matter what the RIAA/MPAA would like to have you think.
This doesn't depend on which country you live in, it's how copyright works.
It's up to them (as the distributors) to have their stuff in order.
But even if they don't, there is no way you are liable.
By analogy, if the NY Times were to publish a plagiarized article (as they have, on occasion), they can be held liable for copyright infringment and damages. But by no extension of the law are the NYT subscribers liable.
Not really. A treaty can't take precedence over the constitution.
That was not the issue. The issue is whenether the treaty does supplant the constitution or is complementary to it.
I find it difficult to believe that a treaty ratified without constitutional problems in every other western democracy, is somehow incompatible with the US constition.
I find it even harder to believe that this is such a certainty that it shouldn't even be tried by the Supreme Court.
I don't have much faith in the members of an international tribunal, picked not by people by by governments, which do not share my ideals.
Said governments have all ratified the UN declaration of human rights. Whenether they truly share your ideals or not, they have voluntarily signed a treaty to that extent.
Unless you mean that states aren't bound to the treaties they sign (in which case there can be no law whatsoever), it's not much of an argument.
Besides that, out of the 18 Judges in the ICC, not a single one of them originates from a non-democratic country.
The US could not join any ICC treaty, as the terms of the treaty are not acceptable under the US constitution.
That is quite debatable. A good number of politicians feel differently.
In any case, it's a question best decided by the Supreme Court. So why not let them?
More pragmatically, it seems quite likely that the tranzis would use the ICC to bring frivilous charges against various officials in the US.
That is simply the paranoid mode of thought which leads to unilateralism. It's ridiculous.
The same argument could be used by any nation. Are we supposed to belive the USA is somehow unique?
Using the ICC for frivolous politically motivated indictments is in nobodys best interest. Any and all systems of justice require faith in the legitimacy of the legal process, you can't have justice otherwise.
War-crimes tribunals suffer from this lack of faith. A trial of the vanquished by the victors can never be considered impartial.
Faith in justice is one of the American ideals I mentioned. There is no reason besides xenophobia to think that America should not extend this faith to the international scene.
Considering the crimes Saddam Hussein has committed against people of several countries, would it not be logical for his ultimate trial to be held in the form of an international war crimes tribunal, a la Nuremberg?
Yes it would. There already is such a court, the International Criminal Court..
The problem is, the USA opposes it.
This was not always the case; Funny you mention Nuremburg, where the american procecuter Robert Jackson expressed a desire to create such a permanent tribunal.
I feel that is the America the world admired and respected.
Todays unilateral foreign policy is a shame on America, and the ideals America is supposed to represent. And it is the reason why the USA no long commands the same international respect.
Actually, the idea of spoilers was created by Alfred Hitchcock for the movie _Psycho_. As part of the promotion of the movie, people who watched the movie were told to (1) not tell anyone the movies secrets and (2) show up on time. People who arrived late would not be allowed in.
Actually, it was done a few years before that, in the Billy Wilder film Witness for the procecution, from 1957. Psycho premiered in 1960.
But you are correct about Hitchcock creating secrecy to promote 'Psycho'.
I disagree.. to some extent. No, a good movie won't be 'ruined' totally by spoilers.
But it does detract from the experience.
Often, the director builds up a state of confusion by presenting the audience with seemingly conflicting information. The characters' confusion is felt by the audience.
And then -bang-, they get it.. and you get it. It works great.
You can't say that losing that emotion doesn't detract from a film. Yes, you -can- build up a good film with a single plot twist.
IF it's a good twist, and it's utilized properly by the director.
To name a few: 'Psycho', 'The crying game',
'Witness for the procecution' (the original -ending twist movie-).
Yes.. well this is all good, but what the guy was pointing out was that forking was bad for users of open source.
I agree.
You're assuming here that when a fork occurs, that the developers and users will head in the same direction. This is not necessarily true, though.
Users and developers have often very different considerations.
On the other hand, the risk of forks in open-source software is best off compared to the very real risk of corporate bankruptcy or depreciation which comes with commercial software.
At least with OSS, you have the choice of continuing development yourself, or perhaps in cooperation with other 'old-version' users.
De-oxygenated hemoglobin isn't magnetic, but oxygenated hemoglobic is paramagnetic.
Let's clarify this for all the non chemist/physicist-readers here..
Simplified, there are three forms of magnetism, ferromagnetism, paramagnetism and diamagnetism.
Ferromagnetism is what we ususally mean when we speak of something being 'magnetic'.
The other two are mainly molecular phenomena, and are very weak.
Molecular oxygen is paramagnetic. This doesn't mean there is more air near your refrigerator. At least not under normal circumstances.
It could be a scale thing taht means this first generation of magnetic detox devices are too large to pick up virus particles.
No, not really.. even if the nanoparticle is rather large, the binding-site is much smaller, on the molecular scale (1 nm or so). So that's not the problem.
The problem is how to 'latch on' to the bactera/viruses, and how to do so with specificity . (don't want to remove stuff that we need!)
That's the difficult part, and what most of conventional drug design is all about. Drugs usually work by "latching-on" to a virus, or a part of a bacteria, and stop it working. The immune systems antibodies do the same.
So basically, this can't really do much that can't be done with conventional drugs. Probably less, since it's restricted to the bloodstream.
But maybe they'll find uses for it in medicine.
>You don't have to test every number between 1 and sqrt, just the primes.
Oh yeah.. know any formula which will tell me if a number is prime or not? (joke..)
Seriously though, the most popular method is the Elliptic Curve method.. which is significantly better than simply testing all possible primes.
The thing is, it's not sufficiently better to make decryption practical for large keys.
The increase is sqrt(2), since one of the factors must be within 1 and sqrt(2^keylength).
So 10^67 then.. but it's still a friggin' big number.
This is the same guy who gave movie advice
here??
Right?
By opting for a small specialized market Sweden has suffered a massive collapse of their general steel industry.
That is simply not true. It's the same businesses (SSAB, Fundia, Sandvik, Uddeholm, Fundia) producing the steel, at the same mills as before.
They are still generating wealth. They still employ people.
The entire point here is that they did not switch industries, rather the industry switched products.
There will always be market for high-quality programmers.
Higher quality means higher prices, which means higher wages are acceptable.
It's basically a refinement of the market, not a disappearance.
I live in Sweden, which has some of the highest labor costs in Europe. Yet, Sweden has a strong steel industry, despite steel manufacturing being quite a 'low-tech' industry, with cutthroat international competition.
(Coming from Japan, and increasingly China)
How do they compete? Simple: They don't. Sweden switched its industry to high-quality and specialty steel production requireing more skill.
The USA really needs to move their steel industry in this direction, but instead they leveled tariffs on imported steel. (now dropped after trade-war threats)
(Also, note that swedish steel was exempt from these tariffs, for the reason that they don't compete with american steel manufacturers, who aren't in the specialty market)
So, for the software market, I think we'll see something similar. And a choice will have to be made whenether to face reality, at a cost of the lesser-skilled jobs, or give the industry artificial resuscitation through tariffs.
I don't think anyone here is saying that they'd "just drop" the case..
Rather they mean some kind of settlement where SCO would agree not to attempt any further litigation against IBM, and drop it's suit, against similar guarantees from IBM.
That being said. There are plenty of other reasons for IBM to keep pushing.
They have a pretty good countersuit going, which means there's money to be made off SCO. Also, they might want 'closure' on the entire UNIX-IP issue;
This isn't the first case about UNIX IP, why not make it the last?
It seems statments from the man himsel are rare, but here are several interesting comments from Hellwig himself on the case.. (there are several others in the same thread.)
I feel sorry for the guy.. like so many other linux contributors caught up in this BS..
"Most of that stuff is also bullshit. The folks in IBM LTC that work
onm the kernel are mostly ex Sequent, not ex AIX folks. Now
Sequent also had a SVR4 source license for Dynix/PTX, but in fact
most of the scalability changes in SVR4.2 SM / ES actually come from
Sequent! (Just take a look at the Authors of the VFS and VM design
documents for SVR4.2 ES / MP).
AIX OTOH was only developed with a SVR3 source license up to AIX4,
and neverless the actual kernel does not resemble SVR3 or SVR4 at
all, and although I'm not sure I think they even only used it for userland
not the kernel.
AIX5L (that project Monterey) had additional components licenses from
SCO UnixWare like procfs or bfs - but IBM has very strict policies
that the AIX5 and Linux groups basically don't communicate. For example
I was involved in the JFS/Linux project which is very similar to the JFS2
in AIX5L because they're both based on JFS in OS/2 - when there were
bugs found in the old OS/2 codebase they weren't able to inform the
AIX folks about it or send patches. Similarly I wasn't able to get
information about the layout used for Posix ACL on AIX when I started to
implement those for Linux."
Yes, 2.5 megabytes is what it'd take to store it in binary form.
If we want it in human-readable form, convert to base-10:
2^20996011 = 10^(20996011*log(2))
20996011*log(2) is about 6,320,000, decimals.
1 decimal = 1 char = one byte = 6 Mb.
Quick? Has anyone checked yet to see if it factorizes the X-box public key?
(joke)
That's generally the situation with any movie adapted from a book.
Or so reads the old cliche.. Personally I've never noticed. Even in the cases where I'd seen a movie or theatre version before I read the book, I never felt that it made me enjoy the book differently (excluding the plot of course).
A good film can inspire the imagination as much as a good book.
For instance, I feel that 2001: A space odyssy" was a far more thought-provocative and imaginative movie than the much more literal and explaining book.
Apocalypse now which was based on Conrad's Heart of darkness is the most even-matched film and book pair I can think of. Although there is very little literal resemblence, both manage to provoke the same thoughts and express the same ideas and emotions in their respective media.
Now I'll concede that most movies aren't works of art like 2001 and Apocalypse, but neither are most books either.
As for LOTR, I think it's a quite good film..
Neither LOTR or the Hobbit are very multi-layered stories. In fact, Tolkien himself seemed wary of anything but the literal readings of his works.
As such, they don't need to be masterpieces either.
(Disclaimer: I'm not knocking LOTR here, they're good books. But I don't find that many layers of meaning in them, and as such it makes them easier to film.)
and how to actually load the ntfs.sys file from an NTFS filesystem. It is not entirely a chicken and egg situation, as Linux already have NTFS read support
Um... I'm wondering here: How does Windows load ntfs.sys from an NTFS partition???
When it's conventionally taped, don't you skip the commercials as well?
People are too lazy to tape everything they want to watch.
In fact, most people are too lazy to even take the time to figure out how to set the clock on their VCR..
Like the one on computer safety. I mean, how many people actually take a break every 30 minutes to avoid damaging their eyes?
Not as many as then, I suspect.
You have to remember that there is quite a difference between staring at an old-green on black, updating at 50 Hz and a modern monitor with a 72+ Hz refresh rate, and much lower levels of non-visible radiation emissions.
I certainly remember my first 70 Hz monitor.. it felt so soothing to the eyes in comparison!