This is one of the best fantasy series I've ever read.
Actually, it's more what I'd call "realistic" fantasy. Now, before you start telling me that fantasy is by definition not realistic, let me explain.
Martin's characters are some of the most relentlessly human I've seen in a fantasy series. None of the characters, save a few who live on the edges (so far) have been pure good or pure evil. Everybody is a shade of gray.
Add to that the fact that Martin isn't afraid to kill off major characters, and it's a delight to read.
I can remember in Junior (or was it Senior?) English, being shown a BBC adaptation of LeGuin's Lathe of Heaven. I'd long before discovered Science Fiction and Fantasy. At the time I was more into SciFi, as I hadn't run into any good fantasy since I'd read Tolkien. I'd never read any of LeGuin's works, and I can remember being blown away. Even then I knew the books were usually better than the movie/series, and I immediately went out and got all of her books I could find.
I'm still trying to find a copy of that movie on DVD.
Actually, you are saving more than 50% because you still pay for only 13 Watts
Since the idea of these bulbs (at least in most articles, not to mention the legislation proposed to outlaw incandescents) is to "save the environment", isn't the fact that it's actually resulting in more power being generated than they say an issue?
Of course, that completely ignores the fact that the technological skillsets to put an automated probe in space versus humans in space are pretty much divergent, with the exception of the tech to launch them there.
It's much harder to keep a person who is ill-adapted for near-vacuum environments alive than to modify processing equipment for that environment. As a nation the US already had a lot of experience launching automated systems into space, and yet Apollo 1 still happened.
That actually wasn't what killed that movie for me. Neither was it the vastly off-target characterization of the Baron.
What killed Lynch's Dune for me was the complete lack of understanding of "My name has become a killing word." What was a despairing cry at being the focal point of the jihad (which Paul wanted to avoid) was transferred into a completely literal statement. Feh.
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I've been saying this all along, primarily with regards to debate. If you have to resort to ad-hominem or vulgarities, you've just shown you are out of ideas.
Um...this is wrong. Perhaps you missed the part that said the client isn't the infection path?
Oh, guess you didn't read TFA.
The infection path is simply a self-extracting file that contains the content you wanted, along with a spyware tag-along. It can be downloaded with any client, they just happen to be seeding them as torrents.
is that Bittorrent is really not the problem here. The adware isn't coming from a Bittorrent client, or being 'snuck in' over the protocol instead of or alongside a file you're downloading, it's coming in the file you're downloading!
It's the same way adware gets into a host of other files we've been told to be careful of, like email attachments.
Bittorrent is simply used to add a bit more hype and FUD to the same old same-o.
Sirius Cybernetics saw robots as you "Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With". The movie Marvin looks a lot like an Aibo, which would fit that definition, I think...
Because it won't pass Congress. You know, that body that has to ratify any treaty? Clinton didn't sign it either, for the same reason. Why sign something you know won't be ratified?
A century before that, in the 1790s, John Adams wrote that illiterate men were scarce. He was speaking of Protestant New England, of course, where everyone was expected to learn to read, so that he could read the King James Bible. Many people who are considered ``literate'' today find the KJV impenetrable, so perhaps the standards of literacy were higher back then, rather than lower?
Of course! And the fact that you couldn't read a copy of Beowulf as it was written means you must be illiterate too!
Language changes. The people inhabiting this world 200 years from now will likely find our language just as incomprehensible in structure and usage as we find the 'stilted' language of the early 1800s.
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This is one of the best fantasy series I've ever read.
Actually, it's more what I'd call "realistic" fantasy. Now, before you start telling me that fantasy is by definition not realistic, let me explain.
Martin's characters are some of the most relentlessly human I've seen in a fantasy series. None of the characters, save a few who live on the edges (so far) have been pure good or pure evil. Everybody is a shade of gray.
Add to that the fact that Martin isn't afraid to kill off major characters, and it's a delight to read.
Oops, I just remembered, it was PBS, not the BBC.
I can remember in Junior (or was it Senior?) English, being shown a BBC adaptation of LeGuin's Lathe of Heaven. I'd long before discovered Science Fiction and Fantasy. At the time I was more into SciFi, as I hadn't run into any good fantasy since I'd read Tolkien. I'd never read any of LeGuin's works, and I can remember being blown away. Even then I knew the books were usually better than the movie/series, and I immediately went out and got all of her books I could find. I'm still trying to find a copy of that movie on DVD.
Since the idea of these bulbs (at least in most articles, not to mention the legislation proposed to outlaw incandescents) is to "save the environment", isn't the fact that it's actually resulting in more power being generated than they say an issue?
Actually, testimony from the prosecution's witness during the trial stated that Drew did *not* open the account.
Of course, that completely ignores the fact that the technological skillsets to put an automated probe in space versus humans in space are pretty much divergent, with the exception of the tech to launch them there. It's much harder to keep a person who is ill-adapted for near-vacuum environments alive than to modify processing equipment for that environment. As a nation the US already had a lot of experience launching automated systems into space, and yet Apollo 1 still happened.
That would be why they're planning to return and make core samples....
That actually wasn't what killed that movie for me. Neither was it the vastly off-target characterization of the Baron.
What killed Lynch's Dune for me was the complete lack of understanding of "My name has become a killing word." What was a despairing cry at being the focal point of the jihad (which Paul wanted to avoid) was transferred into a completely literal statement. Feh.
Really? Defense is *always* cheaper?
Does SDI mean anything to you? How about the English longbow? I would submit to you that, if anything, defense is always *more expensive*.
Middle ages: Castles (expensive) / Trebuchets (relatively cheap)
Agincourt: Knights (expensive) / English longbow (relatively cheap)
pre-WWII: Battleships (expensive) / Land-based bombers (comparatively cheap)
I wish I had mod points.
I've been saying this all along, primarily with regards to debate. If you have to resort to ad-hominem or vulgarities, you've just shown you are out of ideas.
Well said, sir.
I guess DIVX doesn't mean anything to you, then.
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Actually, the maximum HDTV resolution is 1080(i), which is 1920 x 1080.
Slashdot takes another step to becoming a mirror of cnet.
I *did* read that, and the article writer makes a leap that because the bittorrent gui is running, the file must have been downloaded by bittorrent.
If you'll read closer, the file he's talking about is a *rar* file, and not the client itself.
The example is of a self-extracting rar file, of a 'Family Guy' episode. When you launch the rar file, the spyware installs before you see the video.
So yes, the spyware guys are uploading someone else's property with their stuff in the same archive.
Look up the definition of irony sometime. I think you'll find it illuminating. Then read TFA.
Um...this is wrong. Perhaps you missed the part that said the client isn't the infection path?
Oh, guess you didn't read TFA.
The infection path is simply a self-extracting file that contains the content you wanted, along with a spyware tag-along. It can be downloaded with any client, they just happen to be seeding them as torrents.
is that Bittorrent is really not the problem here. The adware isn't coming from a Bittorrent client, or being 'snuck in' over the protocol instead of or alongside a file you're downloading, it's coming in the file you're downloading! It's the same way adware gets into a host of other files we've been told to be careful of, like email attachments.
Bittorrent is simply used to add a bit more hype and FUD to the same old same-o.
Actually, you can find really good HD-capable sets now for around $1200 to $2500, depending on the sale or how big you want it.
Sirius Cybernetics saw robots as you "Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With". The movie Marvin looks a lot like an Aibo, which would fit that definition, I think...
When I thought about the way they pictured Marvin for the movie, it actually makes sense.
Marvin was made by Sirius Cybernetics, as a:
So I'm not complaining about that little nit any longer...
That solution is the solution to a different 'challenge' APOD, not to the dark streak in the current picture.
Because it won't pass Congress. You know, that body that has to ratify any treaty? Clinton didn't sign it either, for the same reason. Why sign something you know won't be ratified?
Of course! And the fact that you couldn't read a copy of Beowulf as it was written means you must be illiterate too!
Language changes. The people inhabiting this world 200 years from now will likely find our language just as incomprehensible in structure and usage as we find the 'stilted' language of the early 1800s.
Yes, they could do that.... IF they wanted to give up any hope of licensing the engine for other games!
Stupid git.