I don't like it either. His books are light and entertaining, but his stories get a bit weak in places and babble a bit -- you don't really need to pay attention.
"In the Beginning was the Command Line" was some of his most clear prose on the most unclear subject matter. I recommend reading it, just to restore/gain some respect for him.
loved us so much that they gave us the Statue of Liberty, and we loved them so much all of our fashions and opinions came from France
Important note:
The replacement for the WTC, the "Freedom Tower" borrows the form of the Statue of Liberty.
The tower's height of 1,776 feet, symbolic for the year of American independence, includes a 276-foot spire.
The torqued tower -- its east and west sides twist as they rise -- and the spire are meant to echo the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
I find it particularly bizzare that France is shunned, and "French" attributions in society are replaced with the word "Freedom", only to have the "Freedom" tower borrow from the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France.
Someone who didn't know any better might think "Freedom Tower" is a rewording of "French Tower":-)
I go to WalMart from time to time, but honestly, I don't like their products.
I think their flyers and their hours of business bring me in. They're open about an hour later than most of the other retailers.
A pet theory: Walmart may suffer in a future economic upswing... there will be no room for store expansion (new cities etc), the suppiers will be able to ignore Walmart to cater to the mid-range market, and Walmart won't be able to shake its budget image without alienating its main customer base.
I mean... if Walmart sucks all the profit out of the budget sector of wholesale, why would anyone want to bother with budget wholesale? in an up market, go upscale and ditch Walmart.
Hopefully, this will cause them to lose their edge over the manufacturers/wholesalers, loose their big-budgets for advertising and become less aggressive. I doubt they'll collapse though, just shrink and be less annoying.
I think somebody on this list said 10 years. Sounds reasonable to me.
IMHO what really sucked was Peter Jackson tossing out the realm as a character. Moria was a crumbling deathtrap, the Balrog, winter storm etc were all somehow tied to the evil Saruman plotting against the characters. That just sucked. In the books, there was something in the world more ancient and powerful than any of the races, yet in the movie, it's all the world of the living.
The musical score was loud droning repetative shit. The acting was o.k., bad in places, good in some spots. The special effects were well done, fantastic in places, but I still think we'll look back on most of it it in 10 years as cheezy low-tech CGI. I still wince at the Wargs, Cave-troll, Bilbo's ring clutching, and the queen of darkness diversion. The prosthetics, force perspective etc, were the only refined technologies which will endure.
Jurassic park of all movies did cooler stuff earlier with CGI.
The alterations on the story made the movie easier to create but they did indeed remove from the story. They're forgivable, but they're not to be praised.
Other than that, Peter Jackson took an excellent book and adapted it into a kinda neat 10-hour movie. Great for anyone who hasn't read the books, kids included, and it really panders to the masses of LoTR fans, but it doesn't deserve all that much credit beyond that.
I'm no movie critic. I went to enjoy the movies. I'd have liked to have been wow'ed, but I wasn't.
Intentionally harming your competition by ispiring those feelings about a product/program through public announcements is FUD.
A good example would be what Microsoft has been saying about viral licenses and the GPL. All they need to do is get a good buzz going about "viral licenses", and wheher it is true or not, the competition has to waste time addressing their customer's fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Yep, many bars won't let you have glass beer bottles because of the danger of using it as a weapon, and they don't even have metal detectors on the door, but on an aircraft, glass bottles are no problem.
But can't you get around that e.g. in a paper system by having a ballot randomizer (pick a card style if you wish) and a tear-off number on each ballot? Then only the ballot caster has their number (admittedly to give to the criminal at the door who's buying votes/blackmailing you)
Stuffing noise ballots in the books and finding a way to quietly stuff a noise-ballot stub in the hand of the voter might help... I mean, you vote with your real ballot, throw away your confirmation (you're in distress) and vote again with a noise ballot. Whether or not you do it, it doesn't matter, the presence of the noise ballots deters people from forcing your vote.
Of course this has to work for people who can't figure out how to operate a voting machine:-(
It's been done. The Vipul's Razor portion of Spamasassin generates signatures from known spam. People feed spam sources into it.
The only problem is that dan@example.com would receive kretiv1y R/\N|)0/\/\][Zed di||erent tipes of spam. Twinkies limes in spain. \/|AGRA \/|AGRA \/|AGRA.
I thought that maybe applying pattern equivalencies, dictionary and grammar checkers to create signatures based upon "real sentences" would improve things, but before I could do it, randomized jibberish like this came out:
danc@example.com would receive kretiv1y R/\N|)0/\/\][Zed di||erent tipes of spam. Spanish onions defeat goliath squirrels. \/|AGRA \/|AGRA \/|AGRA.
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Admit it! You were going to dismantle the fusalage from within the bathroom! You scumbag!
1. Lock-in all those customers who converted their audio collections into *.ogg
2. Have anyone who sees an *.ogg, think about the only player which can play them
I don't like it either. His books are light and entertaining, but his stories get a bit weak in places and babble a bit -- you don't really need to pay attention.
"In the Beginning was the Command Line" was some of his most clear prose on the most unclear subject matter. I recommend reading it, just to restore/gain some respect for him.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/12/19/wtc.pla n/
Important note:
The replacement for the WTC, the "Freedom Tower" borrows the form of the Statue of Liberty.
I find it particularly bizzare that France is shunned, and "French" attributions in society are replaced with the word "Freedom", only to have the "Freedom" tower borrow from the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France.
Someone who didn't know any better might think "Freedom Tower" is a rewording of "French Tower" :-)
If it worked, it would already be illegal :-)
http://kde.openoffice.org/ooo-qt/index.html
But from TT:
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/free.html, it gets a lot more complex.
Sun seems to say "DO WHAT YOU WILL IT MUST BE OURS!!!", and Troll Tech is saying "PAY US OR IT IS OPEN!!!"
Which to a shrewd person, maybe the answer simply is OO is dual licensed, so it is both Troll Tech's "open" and Sun's posession.
I need more coffee... or more sleep.
So does using QT mean that free QT developers cannot have their contributions adopted into StarOffice by Sun?
I go to WalMart from time to time, but honestly, I don't like their products.
I think their flyers and their hours of business bring me in. They're open about an hour later than most of the other retailers.
A pet theory: Walmart may suffer in a future economic upswing... there will be no room for store expansion (new cities etc), the suppiers will be able to ignore Walmart to cater to the mid-range market, and Walmart won't be able to shake its budget image without alienating its main customer base.
I mean... if Walmart sucks all the profit out of the budget sector of wholesale, why would anyone want to bother with budget wholesale? in an up market, go upscale and ditch Walmart.
Hopefully, this will cause them to lose their edge over the manufacturers/wholesalers, loose their big-budgets for advertising and become less aggressive. I doubt they'll collapse though, just shrink and be less annoying.
I think somebody on this list said 10 years. Sounds reasonable to me.
Both.
But, while it should not be faulted for for not being a great recreation of the books, it cannot be credited for it either.
It also deserves no credit for a horrible musical score, mostly bad CGI where it is used (excellent effects otherwise), uninspiring acting, etc...
Steve Jackson takes great actors, a great special effects team, a great budget, a great story, a huge library of artwork, and produced...
IMHO what really sucked was Peter Jackson tossing out the realm as a character. Moria was a crumbling deathtrap, the Balrog, winter storm etc were all somehow tied to the evil Saruman plotting against the characters. That just sucked. In the books, there was something in the world more ancient and powerful than any of the races, yet in the movie, it's all the world of the living.
The musical score was loud droning repetative shit. The acting was o.k., bad in places, good in some spots. The special effects were well done, fantastic in places, but I still think we'll look back on most of it it in 10 years as cheezy low-tech CGI. I still wince at the Wargs, Cave-troll, Bilbo's ring clutching, and the queen of darkness diversion. The prosthetics, force perspective etc, were the only refined technologies which will endure.
Jurassic park of all movies did cooler stuff earlier with CGI.
The alterations on the story made the movie easier to create but they did indeed remove from the story. They're forgivable, but they're not to be praised.
Other than that, Peter Jackson took an excellent book and adapted it into a kinda neat 10-hour movie. Great for anyone who hasn't read the books, kids included, and it really panders to the masses of LoTR fans, but it doesn't deserve all that much credit beyond that.
I'm no movie critic. I went to enjoy the movies. I'd have liked to have been wow'ed, but I wasn't.
Coincidence.
They were really fathered by that belching wretch in Bree.
Terrorist attacks on the U.S. were not completely unexpected or unprecidented. I think the fertilizer bomb attack on the WTC was 1993.
I think we're up to over 20 years old:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/3D_ho pper/3D_hopper.html
Although I don't think the hydraulics/pneumatics are on-board, but that would just be a matter of scale :-)
What's the big advantage to two legs anyways?
Ummm... no.
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Intentionally harming your competition by ispiring those feelings about a product/program through public announcements is FUD.
A good example would be what Microsoft has been saying about viral licenses and the GPL. All they need to do is get a good buzz going about "viral licenses", and wheher it is true or not, the competition has to waste time addressing their customer's fear, uncertainty and doubt.
This will become higher profile and more common as the average person uses residential high speed access to work from their home office.
I suck back a bit working from home, but 8 hours of shoving documents around and moving files can add up fast.
Haha. You fail your proficiency check for taunt. I bet you wished you put more into your Wisdom stats now buddy!
Yep, many bars won't let you have glass beer bottles because of the danger of using it as a weapon, and they don't even have metal detectors on the door, but on an aircraft, glass bottles are no problem.
Don't these guys watch movies?
Send us your George Bush voting stub for your $50 gasoline rebate cheque!
But can't you get around that e.g. in a paper system by having a ballot randomizer (pick a card style if you wish) and a tear-off number on each ballot? Then only the ballot caster has their number (admittedly to give to the criminal at the door who's buying votes/blackmailing you)
Stuffing noise ballots in the books and finding a way to quietly stuff a noise-ballot stub in the hand of the voter might help... I mean, you vote with your real ballot, throw away your confirmation (you're in distress) and vote again with a noise ballot. Whether or not you do it, it doesn't matter, the presence of the noise ballots deters people from forcing your vote.
Of course this has to work for people who can't figure out how to operate a voting machine :-(
Yeah, that's true... after the book is released.
He confirms your number before the book is released.
There's only one horrible horrible problem with that system:
The guy buying your vote, threatening your family, or blackmailing you can also verify your vote.
It's been done. The Vipul's Razor portion of Spamasassin generates signatures from known spam. People feed spam sources into it.
The only problem is that dan@example.com would receive kretiv1y R/\N|)0/\/\][Zed di||erent tipes of spam. Twinkies limes in spain. \/|AGRA \/|AGRA \/|AGRA.
I thought that maybe applying pattern equivalencies, dictionary and grammar checkers to create signatures based upon "real sentences" would improve things, but before I could do it, randomized jibberish like this came out:
danc@example.com would receive kretiv1y R/\N|)0/\/\][Zed di||erent tipes of spam. Spanish onions defeat goliath squirrels. \/|AGRA \/|AGRA \/|AGRA.
According to the article, 100 microphones do, and they agree within 1 decibel.
It's an interesting analogy to voting. Why wouldn't the house cheat?
Because they're making money while playing by the rules.
Now why wouldn't the government cheat?