What the parent desired would have failed anyway in the context of the story.
If the eagles had flown Frodo, and only Frodo, to the Cracks of Doom, there is no reason to believe that he would have not still "pulled an Isildur" and taken full control of the Ring while on the brink.
The eagles would have had to have flown Gollum there (and maybe even Sam) along with Frodo for the destruction events to occur. And just imagine them at Rivendell saying "OK, Frodo, Gandalf's pet taxibirds are going to take you to Mordor. Guess what, Gollum's going too!"
Let's say they flew Frodo to the Mountain. They would have faced attack by those fell-beast things, not to mention the full unpleasant stare of the Eye. There's too high of a chance they would have failed, leaving the Ring to Sauron.
Also, the eagles, as servants of one of the old Middle Earth gods, were not given to major intervention in matters. This would have been a major intervention.
Rescuing Frodo and Sam AFTER the mission was over, as they did, had no impact on the affairs of Middle-Earth.
10. Biggest scifi/fantasy genre movie WITHOUT a character that looks like the Oscar statue (Bye, C-3PO!) 9. Best performance by mountain beacons 8. Biggest elephants 7. Best Evil Lighthouse in any movie in all of 2003. 6. The National Cherry Tomato Board would like to make sure that John Noble is nominated for best actor for his work as Denethor. 5. "Most Costumed Geeks in Theatre since Star Trek 6" 4. Best use of recycled pointed ears left over from collapsed "Star Trek" franchise. 3 rings for the elven kings 2. Best title ripped off from that of 3rd "Star Wars" film. 1. Those cheesy green ghosts didn't get nominated for "Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion". Let's nominate them for their ROTK cameo instead.
More and more often, I start programs with start-run. Then I type the name of the program to run it (or drop to DOS, change directory, and fire the program from within DOS).
The installs of programs tend to splatter the desktop with icons. The start menu is even worse, with most programs giving themselves a mess of icons, so when you try to run it, there is too much chance of clicking the Uninstall icon by mistake. Bypassing the GUI sometimes is a lot more efficient.
This especially becomes apparent if you are doing similar/identical tasks on different machines. This is where the GUI fails as a way just to run apps. The desktops and start menus between two machines are typically very different from each other.
There is always Windows Explorer, but it is slow to load and unintuitive: I can have a Windows app fired from within DOS by the time I am halfway through the tedious navigation process "squint and click and wait and find stuff that has moved since the last time I looked" in Windows Explorer.
1 - The average height of a Japanese male is about 5'4" in contrast to the average western male at 5'10". This is largely due to the still conspicuous absence of dairy in the Japanese diet.
I thought it was because Godzilla tend to eat the taller ones.
Merry and Pippin get into the fireworks. Instead of a premature dragon-launch, all of Hobbiton goes up in a 15-minute long orgy of pyrotechnic destruction.
When Gandalf defeats the Balrog, it blows up real good.
The orcs must be filled with gas at Helms Deep, because each time one of them is hit, it explodes like a Pinto.
The kill competition between Gimli and Legolas is made more exciting because each of them has a rocket-launcher instead of a bow or axe. Boom! Boom! Boom!
Those heads lobbed over the Minas Tirith walls? Those are EXPLODING heads now.
Just to make things more exciting, each time an Oliphaunt is killed and falls, it blows up in a fireball the size of Brooklyn.
"Not only are we going to Rivendell. We're going to Caradhras, and Moria and Rohan and the Paths of the Dead, and we're going to Fangorn and West Emnet and Ithilien and Morannon. And then we're going to Minas Tirith, to take back the White Tree! YEEAAARGGHHHHHH!!!!"
10. Millenium Ford Falcon 9. Chewberetta 8. Car Car Binks 7. Chrysler Coruscant 6. An SUV called the "Natalie Sportman" 5. Tucker Photon Torpedo (oops, forgot, this is not Star Trek. Sorry) 4. Obi-Wan Cherokee 3. Darth Dodge Maulrauder 2. Tattoiyota 1. Cadillac EwoQ
Now, I'm strongly in favor of the program. However, about your statement " NASA's budget is around 17 billion. It's roughly 1 percent of the national budget."
The entire budget, and debt and defecit mess is made up of nothing but "oh, it's only a few billion. It won't matter." That's what everyone says about their favorite pet spending program.
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...grow gold like growing potatoes...
If this works out, McDonald's will have a new prize giveaway. No more Monopoly: now it is "Golden Fries"
(Hot coffee trolls refrain from replying to item)
Click here to see an example of mini-Apache.
I was thinking more in terms of the friggin' sunflowers with friggin' lasers on their petalled heads.
Sorry, I thought this was about flowers detecting mimes. I was so looking forward to using this during my next trip to New York City. My mistake.
Now, crossbreed them with those heatbeam-shooting Ringworld sunflowers, and you've got something that detects mines, and then blows them up.
Now, how do you get rid of the fields of killer sunflowers covering the landscape? Errmm. sorry, didn't hear that. Gotta go...
What the parent desired would have failed anyway in the context of the story.
If the eagles had flown Frodo, and only Frodo, to the Cracks of Doom, there is no reason to believe that he would have not still "pulled an Isildur" and taken full control of the Ring while on the brink.
The eagles would have had to have flown Gollum there (and maybe even Sam) along with Frodo for the destruction events to occur. And just imagine them at Rivendell saying "OK, Frodo, Gandalf's pet taxibirds are going to take you to Mordor. Guess what, Gollum's going too!"
It's not so cut and dried with the Eagles.
Let's say they flew Frodo to the Mountain. They would have faced attack by those fell-beast things, not to mention the full unpleasant stare of the Eye. There's too high of a chance they would have failed, leaving the Ring to Sauron.
Also, the eagles, as servants of one of the old Middle Earth gods, were not given to major intervention in matters. This would have been a major intervention.
Rescuing Frodo and Sam AFTER the mission was over, as they did, had no impact on the affairs of Middle-Earth.
....of British rights' case - Winnie the Poo. I wonder if the British ever....
I must have missed this episode of South Park. Is he supposed to be the sister of Mr. Hankey?
10. Biggest scifi/fantasy genre movie WITHOUT a character that looks like the Oscar statue (Bye, C-3PO!)
9. Best performance by mountain beacons
8. Biggest elephants
7. Best Evil Lighthouse in any movie in all of 2003.
6. The National Cherry Tomato Board would like to make sure that John Noble is nominated for best actor for his work as Denethor.
5. "Most Costumed Geeks in Theatre since Star Trek 6"
4. Best use of recycled pointed ears left over from collapsed "Star Trek" franchise.
3 rings for the elven kings
2. Best title ripped off from that of 3rd "Star Wars" film.
1. Those cheesy green ghosts didn't get nominated for "Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion". Let's nominate them for their ROTK cameo instead.
This item's been sitting here a while, without even a FP troll. Is the Apple OS so secure that a security patch is not an immediate "get it now"?
More and more often, I start programs with start-run. Then I type the name of the program to run it (or drop to DOS, change directory, and fire the program from within DOS).
The installs of programs tend to splatter the desktop with icons. The start menu is even worse, with most programs giving themselves a mess of icons, so when you try to run it, there is too much chance of clicking the Uninstall icon by mistake. Bypassing the GUI sometimes is a lot more efficient.
This especially becomes apparent if you are doing similar/identical tasks on different machines. This is where the GUI fails as a way just to run apps. The desktops and start menus between two machines are typically very different from each other.
There is always Windows Explorer, but it is slow to load and unintuitive: I can have a Windows app fired from within DOS by the time I am halfway through the tedious navigation process "squint and click and wait and find stuff that has moved since the last time I looked" in Windows Explorer.
1 - The average height of a Japanese male is about 5'4" in contrast to the average western male at 5'10". This is largely due to the still conspicuous absence of dairy in the Japanese diet.
I thought it was because Godzilla tend to eat the taller ones.
people in the UK seem to more aware of subtle humour and irony than many people in the US.
Two words: Benny Hill.
You just can't get more subtle than that!
Merry and Pippin get into the fireworks. Instead of a premature dragon-launch, all of Hobbiton goes up in a 15-minute long orgy of pyrotechnic destruction.
When Gandalf defeats the Balrog, it blows up real good.
The orcs must be filled with gas at Helms Deep, because each time one of them is hit, it explodes like a Pinto.
The kill competition between Gimli and Legolas is made more exciting because each of them has a rocket-launcher instead of a bow or axe. Boom! Boom! Boom!
Those heads lobbed over the Minas Tirith walls? Those are EXPLODING heads now.
Just to make things more exciting, each time an Oliphaunt is killed and falls, it blows up in a fireball the size of Brooklyn.
Ring explodes when it hits the lava.
Ents into hasty creatures, whose minds could be changed at the sight of a few tree stumps, that was most out of keeping to me.
"Run Forest, Run!!!!"
"Not only are we going to Rivendell. We're going to Caradhras, and Moria and Rohan and the Paths of the Dead, and we're going to Fangorn and West Emnet and Ithilien and Morannon. And then we're going to Minas Tirith, to take back the White Tree! YEEAAARGGHHHHHH!!!!"
I knight thee!
Arise, Sir Plenty of Bugs, Sir Mega of Lomaniac, sir Screen of Blue, Sir Embrace of Extend, Sir 640 of K....
10. Millenium Ford Falcon
9. Chewberetta
8. Car Car Binks
7. Chrysler Coruscant
6. An SUV called the "Natalie Sportman"
5. Tucker Photon Torpedo (oops, forgot, this is not Star Trek. Sorry)
4. Obi-Wan Cherokee
3. Darth Dodge Maulrauder
2. Tattoiyota
1. Cadillac EwoQ
Babe magnet, NOT this car is!
HD DVD? You must be referring to the chat-room shorthand for the pending endoreement of the Howard Dean campaign by Dick Van Dyke.
"Chim chiminee chim chiminee, chim chim charee..."
Now, I'm strongly in favor of the program. However, about your statement " NASA's budget is around 17 billion. It's roughly 1 percent of the national budget."
The entire budget, and debt and defecit mess is made up of nothing but "oh, it's only a few billion. It won't matter." That's what everyone says about their favorite pet spending program.
It does make a difference.
You know it's not a beta any more when you stop finding "SYNTAX ERROR: LINE 6778 INVALID CHARACTER AFTER ;" in treasure caves.
One year later after Moonbase X-Ray starts to fill with prisoners:
Tom Ridge: "You know, we forgot to supply oxygen to that prison camp on the moon."
Bush: "Oxygen? Why would they want to watch Oprah Winfrey?"
I sure hope so. It had better be one way, and skimp on the oxygen. Might as well send that Sprint guy in the trenchcoat with him.
We'll see if they are so smug once that meet Val Kilmer's robot dog.
You probably missed the Simpsons episode where the sturgeon incident took place. Flame away!