I think you're not making an important connection about Facebook apps/quizzes. Yes, you do have to confirm that it will pull info from your profile and from your friends. Your account DOESN'T have to be the one allowing the information ripping. Because applications can see everything on your friends' profiles. So if you and I are friends on FB, and I ok an app, that app can see YOUR profile with whatever level of permission that you've given me.
I remember one episode of SG1 where Hammond was passing through the gate for the first time, and the leader of the SG team he was going with told him that his first instinct would be to strongly inhale. So maybe the gate actually does push the air out of people's lungs. You get reassembled air free, and your body's first priority is getting air in.
I'm thinking this happened a couple of times now. I remember a 1/2 of book 1 freebie being offered when book five was released in hardback, as well. And I think I remember something about the series needing nine books at that point.
Usury originally didn't refer to excessive interest, but to all interest. Well into the middle ages, charging interest was seriously looked down upon. The idea was roughly along the lines of 'interest is money paid for time, not for work. And only God can charge for time'. Charging interest on loans is a fairly recent phenomenon.
I saw it in a movie once. I can't remember which. He used a cup of black coffee in a white mug. He pointed at it and said "fervens". What does "fervens" mean? cup? coffee? liquid? water? fluid? black (for the color of the coffee)? white (for the color of the cup)? Does the speaker intend the listener to drink it? Share it? Give it? Don't touch it. Extra brownie points to whoever translates it. It's a real word in another language.:)
I don't remember it in any movie, but there was an episode of Star Trek:TNG. "The Big Goodbye" I think was the title. The (first) one where the holodeck runs amok, and traps Picard and company in an old noir-style detective story. Picard and Troy had the coffee cup conversation about it being a miracle that any two alien species can communicate at all.
One thing that comes to mind is from MacBeth. One of the witches' prophecies state that Banquo will found a line of kings. It's the only prophecy of the play that doesn't come true, and it always made me wonder what the point of including it was. While Banquo is likely a fictional character, it was popularly believed that King James I was one of his descendents.
I don't think that the plays themselves are incomprehensible without the then-current context, but there are some subtleties in them that enrich the story if they're known.
That's the character I was referring to. In the first chapter, Dizzy Flores is a member of the Roughnecks who gets taken down by a group of Skinnies in the initial raid.
Actually (And my memory is kinda spotty, I haven't read the book since shortly after the movie came out), the character that they made up was actually a guy in the novel, who died in the opening chapter, and never put in much of an appearance in the backstory, if any.
Vermillion hells, and plasteel. EVERYTHING was plasteel. God, that bothered me. Everything in Frank's books were metal and plastic.
Paul saw some contruction made from plasteel, and it was enough that his suprise in seeing some was mentioned, though not spoken. (Where was this? The Botanical Testing station where Idaho died, I seem to recall...)
Fucking plasteel. Everywhere. Stuff like that's enough to make an Atreides naDuke drink Harkonnen beer.
The Jihad began in 201 BG, and ended in 108 BG, according to the glossary in the back of Dune.
The Guild couldn't predate the Jihad (Well, it -could- but it would have been unnecessary beforehand) simply because they weren't necessary until then. AI plotted a starship's course through the depths of space. It wasn't until those AI were deemed heretical that the Guild's method of prescient navigation became necessary.
Unnecessary. The Atreides, at least Paul, Alia, Leto II, and Ghanima all have sequential genetic memories. The entire memory of each parent up until the time of conception. And each of that parent's parents.
Leto II and Ghanima even let Paul and Chani's personalities float to the surface and control their bodies for a little while.
Alia did something similar with Vladimir Harkonnen, though it ended a little more nastily.
Silmarillion: Umm, okay, well... Dad died before finalizing any of this, so I'm going to organize the notes as best I can, and publish it.
Dune prequels: Umm, okay, well... Dad died before writing any of the history, and only some notes about the seventh book, so I'm going to get another guy to help me write a potentially infinite number of new books set in the same universe.
I don't think that the machines are what Leto wanted the Scattering to prevent. Yes, Siona saw humans being exterminated by machines, to the last living body, but in that same passage, he told her that were it not for his transformation into the Tyrant, and Leto's Peace, there would -already- be no humans left in the universe.
I've got to place my bets with the Daniel and Marty Face Dancers. I mean, come on. They were manipulating the Bene Gesserit, and were looking in at Duncan through a No-Ship. Not prescience, they were watching him from across an unknown amount of space, through a barrier that even Leto couldn't penetrate.
I seriously doubt that there were any thinking machines left after the Butlerian Jihad, at any rate, especially not an incredibly powerful force waiting in the wings for fifteen millennia. One of the underlying themes in the Dune chronicles was the fact that religion, mixed with humans, is a bad thing. Paul's Jihad spiraled out of control (And it's been postulated that his mantle of messiah was the catalyst that created the nasty machines that Leto's Golden Path needed to avert). When the Jihad ended, and the foundations for the Orange Catholic bible included the precepts against machines in likeness of a man's mind, I don't think that -any- machines would have been spared.
But in this case, ``the entire network'' doesn't mean the entire Gnutella network, it means the entire physical network that Gnutella user is connected to.
Someone in their dorm room swapping files? This could take down the entire building's network. Someone in their office? Hope the company doesn't rely too heavily on their email.
It won't have an effect on the rest of the Gnutella network, though. There wouldn't be any spillover, except to inconvenience people who are trying to swap files -from- the dDoS'd location.
Ya know, at first, this was my thought, too, but it started to occur to me, thinking back to all the people I've gamed with over time, that there are a whole lot of fools in the hobby, like there is in any, and they tend to have overinflated egos about the quality and originality of their material.
I'd say that clause in the submission process is more a CYA against people throwing around the ``You used this idea, which you clearly got from the two sentences I used to touch on something related'' lawsuits than any real desire for free development work.
Not, of course, that I think the free development aspect was lost on people. I just don't think it's the primary drive.
Actually (I don't remember if this was from the interview discs at the end of the H2G2 radio collection or from Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic), Adams said that he put a lot of thought into the number. Making sure there -wasn't- anything that could be read into it. Not a prime number, or something like that.
And John Cleese was doing a series of those wretched videos that employers use to teach employees the value of things like paying attention to customers. And Cleese was playing the Bad Teller, working on figures and ignoring a customer, who then goes off and get taken care of by the Good Teller. As the customer walks off, Cleese reaches his final total, exclaiming ``42''.
Frighteningly trivial, but rather amusing, I always thought.
Han and Leia never had kids in the original continuity, at least of what I remember reading. A friend of mine had a copy (Or what he said was a copy, but then, the guy had a ton of connections) of the Journal of the Whills, and the Jedi twins were nowhere to be seen.
One of the reasons that Lucas said the third trilogy would never be made was the fact that Zhan's books took the setting in a direction that was never intended, and it had created such a following in the SW community that he didn't want to damage that, and wasn't willing to change what he had originally planned to mesh with that storyline.
I don't think you've got to be a Spider Man fan to enjoy the movie, but you've got to be a fan of superhero comics in general.
It's not supposed to be fully consistant, nor well planned out, or anything of the kind. It's not called ``Four Color Physics'' for nothing. Superhero comics have a feel all of their own, that doesn't really mesh well with any other form of print/video/audio media. If you enjoy any of it, you can get into Spidey.
With Star Wars, it's a bit different. Yeah, if you like space opera, you can settle in and be vaguely entertained, but the current trilogy really builds on people liking the original. They're okay, but really can't stand entirely on their own. They need the first trilogy to feel like they're going somewhere.
I can't say for sure in Oregon, but in Jersey it was an economic measure. There was (so they said) a shortage of jobs. So it was made a requirement to help create more.
The new Optimus Prime (who's now a firetruck) has this big-ass shoulder cannon with little plastic missles that fire.
Damnit, a -lot- of the old TFs had cannons that actually shot stuff. It just took a little work to get the projectiles to go anywhere. Pick up the toy, load in the missile, point the launcher directly towards the ground, fire.
Of course, if you wanted it to go horizontally, they weren't that effective. Most of them didn't have enough power to make the missile actually leave the weapon itself..
Optimus and the original Ark crew woke up and, essentially, saved the Autobot cause. Remember, when they reestablish contact with Cyberton, the Decepticons are pretty much quickly mopping the floor with the remaining 'bots.
The new Megs wipes out Prime in the past, he stops them from winning, thus stopping the Decepticons from being imprisoned, thus stopping the creation of the Maximals, thus wiping out Primal.
The first episode of Beast Wars describes the creation of the Maximals/Predicons. Not only are they not future versions of the originals, they're a completely different type of being. The original Cybertronians were pure robots, the Beast Wars Cybertronians are part-organic.
The difference is that it's completely legal. MS's licenses allow them to do complete audits on companies and hit them with a bill for unlicensed software. It's the same legal muscle that you can use if you want to take the time to shut down Warez sites.
The GPL won't let them do that. Once it's posted, it can be posted anywhere, and there's really nothing that the owning company can do about it.
Wow. Thanks for the heads up. Last I'd heard, ASCAP charged royalties on the specific recording that is put in their charge, rather than the song itself. Thus, if you have a bootleg, it was legal to broadcast royalty free, because ASCAP didn't control that performance, even if there was another version of the song, on a studio album, etc, that was under ASCAP's umbrella. Same concept applied to cover songs.
Makes me glad I'm not in the management/booking business anymore.
It's not illegal for a band to play covers. At least, not to play them live. Anyone wants to put out their own Garage, Inc, they'll have to ante up, but to just go out and play, there aren't any royalties involved.
At least, that's the legal advice we got here in PA wrt playing out.
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I think you're not making an important connection about Facebook apps/quizzes. Yes, you do have to confirm that it will pull info from your profile and from your friends. Your account DOESN'T have to be the one allowing the information ripping. Because applications can see everything on your friends' profiles. So if you and I are friends on FB, and I ok an app, that app can see YOUR profile with whatever level of permission that you've given me.
I remember one episode of SG1 where Hammond was passing through the gate for the first time, and the leader of the SG team he was going with told him that his first instinct would be to strongly inhale. So maybe the gate actually does push the air out of people's lungs. You get reassembled air free, and your body's first priority is getting air in.
I'm thinking this happened a couple of times now. I remember a 1/2 of book 1 freebie being offered when book five was released in hardback, as well. And I think I remember something about the series needing nine books at that point.
Usury originally didn't refer to excessive interest, but to all interest. Well into the middle ages, charging interest was seriously looked down upon. The idea was roughly along the lines of 'interest is money paid for time, not for work. And only God can charge for time'. Charging interest on loans is a fairly recent phenomenon.
I saw it in a movie once. I can't remember which. He used a cup of black coffee in a white mug. He pointed at it and said "fervens". What does "fervens" mean? cup? coffee? liquid? water? fluid? black (for the color of the coffee)? white (for the color of the cup)? Does the speaker intend the listener to drink it? Share it? Give it? Don't touch it. Extra brownie points to whoever translates it. It's a real word in another language. :)
I don't remember it in any movie, but there was an episode of Star Trek:TNG. "The Big Goodbye" I think was the title. The (first) one where the holodeck runs amok, and traps Picard and company in an old noir-style detective story. Picard and Troy had the coffee cup conversation about it being a miracle that any two alien species can communicate at all.
One thing that comes to mind is from MacBeth. One of the witches' prophecies state that Banquo will found a line of kings. It's the only prophecy of the play that doesn't come true, and it always made me wonder what the point of including it was. While Banquo is likely a fictional character, it was popularly believed that King James I was one of his descendents.
I don't think that the plays themselves are incomprehensible without the then-current context, but there are some subtleties in them that enrich the story if they're known.
Burn the songs to CD (A music CD, not a CD of the iTMS files), and reimport it in whatever format you like. Never have to loose anything.
That's the character I was referring to. In the first chapter, Dizzy Flores is a member of the Roughnecks who gets taken down by a group of Skinnies in the initial raid.
Actually (And my memory is kinda spotty, I haven't read the book since shortly after the movie came out), the character that they made up was actually a guy in the novel, who died in the opening chapter, and never put in much of an appearance in the backstory, if any.
I'm kinda torn as to which would be worse.
Vermillion hells, and plasteel. EVERYTHING was plasteel. God, that bothered me. Everything in Frank's books were metal and plastic.
Paul saw some contruction made from plasteel, and it was enough that his suprise in seeing some was mentioned, though not spoken. (Where was this? The Botanical Testing station where Idaho died, I seem to recall...)
Fucking plasteel. Everywhere. Stuff like that's enough to make an Atreides naDuke drink Harkonnen beer.
The Jihad began in 201 BG, and ended in 108 BG, according to the glossary in the back of Dune.
The Guild couldn't predate the Jihad (Well, it -could- but it would have been unnecessary beforehand) simply because they weren't necessary until then. AI plotted a starship's course through the depths of space. It wasn't until those AI were deemed heretical that the Guild's method of prescient navigation became necessary.
Unnecessary. The Atreides, at least Paul, Alia, Leto II, and Ghanima all have sequential genetic memories. The entire memory of each parent up until the time of conception. And each of that parent's parents.
Leto II and Ghanima even let Paul and Chani's personalities float to the surface and control their bodies for a little while.
Alia did something similar with Vladimir Harkonnen, though it ended a little more nastily.
Silmarillion: Umm, okay, well... Dad died before finalizing any of this, so I'm going to organize the notes as best I can, and publish it.
Dune prequels: Umm, okay, well... Dad died before writing any of the history, and only some notes about the seventh book, so I'm going to get another guy to help me write a potentially infinite number of new books set in the same universe.
Subtle difference between the two.
I don't think that the machines are what Leto wanted the Scattering to prevent. Yes, Siona saw humans being exterminated by machines, to the last living body, but in that same passage, he told her that were it not for his transformation into the Tyrant, and Leto's Peace, there would -already- be no humans left in the universe.
I've got to place my bets with the Daniel and Marty Face Dancers. I mean, come on. They were manipulating the Bene Gesserit, and were looking in at Duncan through a No-Ship. Not prescience, they were watching him from across an unknown amount of space, through a barrier that even Leto couldn't penetrate.
I seriously doubt that there were any thinking machines left after the Butlerian Jihad, at any rate, especially not an incredibly powerful force waiting in the wings for fifteen millennia. One of the underlying themes in the Dune chronicles was the fact that religion, mixed with humans, is a bad thing. Paul's Jihad spiraled out of control (And it's been postulated that his mantle of messiah was the catalyst that created the nasty machines that Leto's Golden Path needed to avert). When the Jihad ended, and the foundations for the Orange Catholic bible included the precepts against machines in likeness of a man's mind, I don't think that -any- machines would have been spared.
But in this case, ``the entire network'' doesn't mean the entire Gnutella network, it means the entire physical network that Gnutella user is connected to.
Someone in their dorm room swapping files? This could take down the entire building's network. Someone in their office? Hope the company doesn't rely too heavily on their email.
It won't have an effect on the rest of the Gnutella network, though. There wouldn't be any spillover, except to inconvenience people who are trying to swap files -from- the dDoS'd location.
Ya know, at first, this was my thought, too, but it started to occur to me, thinking back to all the people I've gamed with over time, that there are a whole lot of fools in the hobby, like there is in any, and they tend to have overinflated egos about the quality and originality of their material.
I'd say that clause in the submission process is more a CYA against people throwing around the ``You used this idea, which you clearly got from the two sentences I used to touch on something related'' lawsuits than any real desire for free development work.
Not, of course, that I think the free development aspect was lost on people. I just don't think it's the primary drive.
Actually (I don't remember if this was from the interview discs at the end of the H2G2 radio collection or from Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic), Adams said that he put a lot of thought into the number. Making sure there -wasn't- anything that could be read into it. Not a prime number, or something like that.
And John Cleese was doing a series of those wretched videos that employers use to teach employees the value of things like paying attention to customers. And Cleese was playing the Bad Teller, working on figures and ignoring a customer, who then goes off and get taken care of by the Good Teller. As the customer walks off, Cleese reaches his final total, exclaiming ``42''.
Frighteningly trivial, but rather amusing, I always thought.
Han and Leia never had kids in the original continuity, at least of what I remember reading. A friend of mine had a copy (Or what he said was a copy, but then, the guy had a ton of connections) of the Journal of the Whills, and the Jedi twins were nowhere to be seen.
One of the reasons that Lucas said the third trilogy would never be made was the fact that Zhan's books took the setting in a direction that was never intended, and it had created such a following in the SW community that he didn't want to damage that, and wasn't willing to change what he had originally planned to mesh with that storyline.
I don't think you've got to be a Spider Man fan to enjoy the movie, but you've got to be a fan of superhero comics in general.
It's not supposed to be fully consistant, nor well planned out, or anything of the kind. It's not called ``Four Color Physics'' for nothing. Superhero comics have a feel all of their own, that doesn't really mesh well with any other form of print/video/audio media. If you enjoy any of it, you can get into Spidey.
With Star Wars, it's a bit different. Yeah, if you like space opera, you can settle in and be vaguely entertained, but the current trilogy really builds on people liking the original. They're okay, but really can't stand entirely on their own. They need the first trilogy to feel like they're going somewhere.
I can't say for sure in Oregon, but in Jersey it was an economic measure. There was (so they said) a shortage of jobs. So it was made a requirement to help create more.
The new Optimus Prime (who's now a firetruck) has this big-ass shoulder cannon with little plastic missles that fire.
Damnit, a -lot- of the old TFs had cannons that actually shot stuff. It just took a little work to get the projectiles to go anywhere. Pick up the toy, load in the missile, point the launcher directly towards the ground, fire.
Of course, if you wanted it to go horizontally, they weren't that effective. Most of them didn't have enough power to make the missile actually leave the weapon itself..
Optimus and the original Ark crew woke up and, essentially, saved the Autobot cause. Remember, when they reestablish contact with Cyberton, the Decepticons are pretty much quickly mopping the floor with the remaining 'bots.
The new Megs wipes out Prime in the past, he stops them from winning, thus stopping the Decepticons from being imprisoned, thus stopping the creation of the Maximals, thus wiping out Primal.
The first episode of Beast Wars describes the creation of the Maximals/Predicons. Not only are they not future versions of the originals, they're a completely different type of being. The original Cybertronians were pure robots, the Beast Wars Cybertronians are part-organic.
The difference is that it's completely legal. MS's licenses allow them to do complete audits on companies and hit them with a bill for unlicensed software. It's the same legal muscle that you can use if you want to take the time to shut down Warez sites.
The GPL won't let them do that. Once it's posted, it can be posted anywhere, and there's really nothing that the owning company can do about it.
Wow. Thanks for the heads up. Last I'd heard, ASCAP charged royalties on the specific recording that is put in their charge, rather than the song itself. Thus, if you have a bootleg, it was legal to broadcast royalty free, because ASCAP didn't control that performance, even if there was another version of the song, on a studio album, etc, that was under ASCAP's umbrella. Same concept applied to cover songs.
Makes me glad I'm not in the management/booking business anymore.
It's not illegal for a band to play covers. At least, not to play them live. Anyone wants to put out their own Garage, Inc, they'll have to ante up, but to just go out and play, there aren't any royalties involved.
At least, that's the legal advice we got here in PA wrt playing out.