Faramir was changed because his character was not believable in the book. Think about it. EVERYONE was tempted by the Ring. Galadriel, Aragorn, Gandalf, Saruman etc. etc. But Faramir was not. I find that hard to believe. Had they followed the book 1:1, viewers would have wondered "why didn't he want the ring to himself? IT doesn't make any sense!". Also, had they done Faramir like in the book, it would have too much action off-screen. This way the viewers were allowed to actually SEE the fighting going on in Osgiliath, instead of just having someone refer to it afterwards. Having the action "off-screen" works for the book, but it does NOT work in the movie, since movies are a VISUAL media, whereas books are not.
Theoden was not that different from the book. Sure, Sarumans influence over him was more tangible in the movie than in the book, but again, that's due to the difference in the media. Book relies on your imagination, whereas movies are visual.
A lot of us felt quite outraged about Tom Bombadil being cut off from FOTR
I wasn't. When I read that they are making a movie about LOTR, I cheered. 10 seconds after that I though "They movie is going to rule! Except the part with Tom Bombadil". Having Bombadil in the movie would have been worse than Jar Jar Binks x 10.
Saruman is cut from the THEATRICAL release of RoTK. He's right there in the Extended Edition.
I for one enjoyed TTT ALOT. Sure, there were deviations from the book, but they were necessary to keep the story going. You cannot make the movie 1:1 identical with the book.
Name me any other nation in the history of this world that shed its own blood and spilled the blood of its own people to end slavery.
Well, maybe not to end slavery, but finns spilled ALOT of blood to prevent that slavery from ever taking place. Or, as Winston Churchill said in his "House of many mansions"-speech:
Only Finland-superb, nay, sublime-in the jaws of peril-Finland shows what free men can do. The service rendered by Finland to mankind is magnificent. They have exposed, for all the world to see, the military incapacity of the Red Army and of the Red Air Force. Many illusions about Soviet Russia have been dispelled in these few fierce weeks of fighting in the Arctic Circle. Everyone can see how Communism rots the soul of a nation; how it makes it abject and hungry in peace, and proves it base and abominable in war. We cannot tell what the fate of Finland may be, but no more mournful spectacle could be presented to what is left to civilised mankind than that this splendid Northern race should be at last worn down and reduced to servitude worse than death by the dull brutish force of overwhelming numbers. If the light of freedom which still burns so brightly in the frozen North should be finally quenched, it might well herald a return to the Dark Ages, when every vestige of human progress during two thousand years would be engulfed.
Had USA lost as many men is WW2 as Finland did in the Winter War alone, it would have meant losses of over 2 million men in a war that lasted for 105 days. I think we have spilled more than enough blood.
The operating system is not called "Stoned Beaver". It's an internal codename for this particular version of the Kernel. The OS is called Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, GNU/Linux or Linux. Depending which style you prefer.
My OS is Linux. More presicely, Gentoo Linux. I don't call it 2.6.0-test9-mm1. If I ran test10 on it, it would still be just "Linux" or "Gentoo Linux" and not "Stoned Beaver"
AMD chips are packaged in Malaysia as well (that's what the "made in Malaysia" refers to). But the actual chips are made in Dresden. Intel's chips are also made elsewhere (for example, Israel).
So, what would I do if the road-owner said "I cliam no responsibility on what the car-owners do on my road"? Or if he said "It's not the cars, it's that factory few kilometers away that's harming your forest"?
And what if there was no clear source of the pollution? What if there was no one thing I could point my finger at and say "that is the source of the pollution"? Who would I sue then? My property is being damaged by pollution, and I have no idea who's doing it.
To my knowledge, that's incorrect. Let's say you want to build a router from PC-parts. Via Eden with fanless cooling, no CD/DVD, no HD, vid-card is integrated, system runs from a floppy. It would require under 100W. If you installed a 400W power-supply, the system would not eat 400W of power. It would eat only as much as the system requires (under 100W)
Pollution is exactly that -- a tort. A violation of private property, analagous to tresspassing, and should be treated as such. If a company pollutes the air, and this causes damage to my trees or reduces the purity of water that I own, then the company should have to pay to either compensate me, retroactively fix [purify] the problem, or eliminate the problem.
So, if I own a piece of forest, and I notice that the pollution from the cars that drive on the nearby road are harming the trees, what should I do? Sue each and every person who drives on that road and demand compensation? How would I do that in reality? Or should I sue the owner of that road (even if he doesn't drive on the road himself)? How would I prove that it's the pollution from the cars that causes harm to my property, and not some far-off industrial-plant?
Seriously, what you are suggeting is a country that is ruled by lawyers. And it just would not work.
The early episodes of Simpsons were awesome. I remember how I watched and taped every episede, and then wathced the tapes. Then it started to suck. I stopped wathing the new episodes on tape, then I stopped taping them. Then I stopped watching the show altogether. The later episodes of the Simpsons are pure, 100% crap. They should have stopped the series while it was still good.
I would say that Family Guy is right up there with the early episodes of Simpsons. Both are funny, but in different ways. King of The Hill? It's crap. Pure and simple.
Re. your point B. Refresh rate is more or less meaningless when it comes to LCD's. Most seem to have refresh-rate of 60Hz. That would give you FPS of 60FPS (more, if you disable VSYNC). 60FPS is more than enough, even for fast-paces games. Now, what matter more is the latency of the screen. Untill recently, the standard latency of LCD was around 25ms. In fast-paced games that wasn't good enough. But new panels have squeezed the latency down to 16ms, which is enough.
How do you know that they are all terrorists? After all, they have not been accused of any crime. Or do you just assume that they are all terrorists? With no trial, no legal representation, no charges against them. They are guilty by defaul, and no trial is needed?`There has been reports telling how innocent bystanders ended up in Guantanamo Bay, and how elderly people were locked up as well.
Locking innocents up is not a good way to win over the hearst and minds of those people. The ones that are not terrorists when they were shipped to Guantano Bay, will become terrorists once (if ever) they get released.
They would fine Microsoft but that is probably the least of Microsoft's worries
MS does worry about that. EU could fine MS up to 10% of their global sales every year until they comply. In case of MS, that would mean fines of over 3 billion dollars every year. It would make a quite a dent on their profits.
Fake transparency is certainly a hack, but the GNOME folks are as guilty as the KDE folks for using it.
You just don't understand how this works. When KDE resorts to "hacks", it's ugly, bloated, wrong, inefficient etc. etc. When GNOME does the exact same thing, it's smart, elegant, correct etc. etc.
Just keep this in mind: Anything KDE does = Bad Anything GNOME does = Good
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But they will happily use GTK+ without support? Right....
Faramir was changed because his character was not believable in the book. Think about it. EVERYONE was tempted by the Ring. Galadriel, Aragorn, Gandalf, Saruman etc. etc. But Faramir was not. I find that hard to believe. Had they followed the book 1:1, viewers would have wondered "why didn't he want the ring to himself? IT doesn't make any sense!". Also, had they done Faramir like in the book, it would have too much action off-screen. This way the viewers were allowed to actually SEE the fighting going on in Osgiliath, instead of just having someone refer to it afterwards. Having the action "off-screen" works for the book, but it does NOT work in the movie, since movies are a VISUAL media, whereas books are not.
Theoden was not that different from the book. Sure, Sarumans influence over him was more tangible in the movie than in the book, but again, that's due to the difference in the media. Book relies on your imagination, whereas movies are visual.
I wasn't. When I read that they are making a movie about LOTR, I cheered. 10 seconds after that I though "They movie is going to rule! Except the part with Tom Bombadil". Having Bombadil in the movie would have been worse than Jar Jar Binks x 10.
Saruman is cut from the THEATRICAL release of RoTK. He's right there in the Extended Edition.
I for one enjoyed TTT ALOT. Sure, there were deviations from the book, but they were necessary to keep the story going. You cannot make the movie 1:1 identical with the book.
The saddest thing is that we will need that much power just to run Windows2009 and Doom5
Well, maybe not to end slavery, but finns spilled ALOT of blood to prevent that slavery from ever taking place. Or, as Winston Churchill said in his "House of many mansions"-speech:
Had USA lost as many men is WW2 as Finland did in the Winter War alone, it would have meant losses of over 2 million men in a war that lasted for 105 days. I think we have spilled more than enough blood.
The operating system is not called "Stoned Beaver". It's an internal codename for this particular version of the Kernel. The OS is called Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, GNU/Linux or Linux. Depending which style you prefer.
My OS is Linux. More presicely, Gentoo Linux. I don't call it 2.6.0-test9-mm1. If I ran test10 on it, it would still be just "Linux" or "Gentoo Linux" and not "Stoned Beaver"
Seriously, at least TRY to use your brains, OK?
In KDE 3.2 you can control the entire desktop with mouse-gestures, not just browser.
I'm well aware of that. I just didn't feel like listing them all, so I just used their fab in Israel as an example.
AMD chips are packaged in Malaysia as well (that's what the "made in Malaysia" refers to). But the actual chips are made in Dresden. Intel's chips are also made elsewhere (for example, Israel).
So, what would I do if the road-owner said "I cliam no responsibility on what the car-owners do on my road"? Or if he said "It's not the cars, it's that factory few kilometers away that's harming your forest"?
And what if there was no clear source of the pollution? What if there was no one thing I could point my finger at and say "that is the source of the pollution"? Who would I sue then? My property is being damaged by pollution, and I have no idea who's doing it.
Which is why I said "under 100 watts" ;)
To my knowledge, that's incorrect. Let's say you want to build a router from PC-parts. Via Eden with fanless cooling, no CD/DVD, no HD, vid-card is integrated, system runs from a floppy. It would require under 100W. If you installed a 400W power-supply, the system would not eat 400W of power. It would eat only as much as the system requires (under 100W)
So, if I own a piece of forest, and I notice that the pollution from the cars that drive on the nearby road are harming the trees, what should I do? Sue each and every person who drives on that road and demand compensation? How would I do that in reality? Or should I sue the owner of that road (even if he doesn't drive on the road himself)? How would I prove that it's the pollution from the cars that causes harm to my property, and not some far-off industrial-plant?
Seriously, what you are suggeting is a country that is ruled by lawyers. And it just would not work.
Yeah, the first few seasons. None of the later crap they have been airing recently.
The early episodes of Simpsons were awesome. I remember how I watched and taped every episede, and then wathced the tapes. Then it started to suck. I stopped wathing the new episodes on tape, then I stopped taping them. Then I stopped watching the show altogether. The later episodes of the Simpsons are pure, 100% crap. They should have stopped the series while it was still good.
I would say that Family Guy is right up there with the early episodes of Simpsons. Both are funny, but in different ways. King of The Hill? It's crap. Pure and simple.
Re. your point B. Refresh rate is more or less meaningless when it comes to LCD's. Most seem to have refresh-rate of 60Hz. That would give you FPS of 60FPS (more, if you disable VSYNC). 60FPS is more than enough, even for fast-paces games. Now, what matter more is the latency of the screen. Untill recently, the standard latency of LCD was around 25ms. In fast-paced games that wasn't good enough. But new panels have squeezed the latency down to 16ms, which is enough.
Did you know that comparable Intel-CPU's generate even more heat?. And with Athlon64 that difference is getting even bigger. Prescott is reported to generate over 100W of heat, while
The name on my PC's chipset says "Via", yet the CPU is 850Mhz AMD Duron. How can this be?
How do you know that they are all terrorists? After all, they have not been accused of any crime. Or do you just assume that they are all terrorists? With no trial, no legal representation, no charges against them. They are guilty by defaul, and no trial is needed?`There has been reports telling how innocent bystanders ended up in Guantanamo Bay, and how elderly people were locked up as well.
Locking innocents up is not a good way to win over the hearst and minds of those people. The ones that are not terrorists when they were shipped to Guantano Bay, will become terrorists once (if ever) they get released.
MS does worry about that. EU could fine MS up to 10% of their global sales every year until they comply. In case of MS, that would mean fines of over 3 billion dollars every year. It would make a quite a dent on their profits.
Like when EU blocked the merger of Honeywell and GE? GE is a humungous corporation, yet their plans were thwarted by EU.
So why couldn't GNOME-folks use DCOP?
What "hacks" are you talking about exactly? Please mention few examples.
You just don't understand how this works. When KDE resorts to "hacks", it's ugly, bloated, wrong, inefficient etc. etc. When GNOME does the exact same thing, it's smart, elegant, correct etc. etc.
Just keep this in mind:
Anything KDE does = Bad
Anything GNOME does = Good
In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic.