Yeah, how dare they use the best tool for the job!
How is McVoy "screwing people over"? He lets them freely use Bitkeeper. Some people then assume that that gives them the right to bitch and moan all the time about it and try to copy it's functionality. It seems to be that McVoy has done everything he could do to accomodate the needs of the Kernel-hackers (BK==>CVS-gateway etc.), yet some people keep on whining.
If BK is so bad, why don't you get up on your fat ass and write a better replacement?
Why would Linux and precisely Linux be the thing that "Copies MS's IP"? I mean, why couldn't some OS or software-project do it? How come it's Linux and nothing but Linux?
Yes I know it's because Linux is the main rival of MS right now. But I would still love to be able to ask Billy-boy that question.
Let's see... Arts, CDBakeOven, Noatun, Aethera, Psi etc. There are plenty of KDE-apps that don't start with K. Yes, it's propably more common in KDE to start with KD than it is in Gnome to start with G. But what are you going to do? Tell the people who write the apps that "you must name your app the way I want!"? If they want to name it Ksomething, don't they have that right?
Whining about the name is completely pointless. It's the software that matters, not the name
Why aren't you flaming Gnome for having programs that all start with G? Seriously, why? Why is ot OK for Gnome to call their apps Gaim, Gnumeric, Gimp, Galeon etc. etc.
Isn't Intel releasing Prescott (P4 with improved HyperThreading, 1MB of L2, double the L1, new instructions, architechtual tweaks, faster MHz etc. etc.) around the same time G5 becomes widely available? So while G5 might be good when compared to current P4's, will it continue to be when compared to Prescott?
- Sure there is games, but call me when Battlefield 1942, High Heat Baseball, etc. are available instead of just FreeCiv. Get games like those and just about every young male in the world will switch.
I'll grant you GF1942, but I have never even heard of High Heat Baseball, so I'll just assume it's not important. As to Linux-games... Doom3, Medal of Honor, Neverwinter Nights, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, Quake 2, Unreal Tournament 2003, Tribes etc. etc... Many of those are THE hot games people play these days. So what are you complaining about? And you can get more games through emulation. If those games can't make "every young male in the world" to switch, I would guess High Heat Baseball wont either.
You don't know what would have happened. But we do know what happened in the war, and we fought that war with zero help from USA. You have that typical attitude that says "All good things is Europe are due to USA". USA didn't care that much for Finland. There are historical documents that say that in case of war, USA was willing to let SU to invade & occupy Finland.
Stalin took over Easter Europe during the war, they tried the same thing twice with Finland. Both time they failed. If Stalin took over Finland same way he took over Eastern Europe, it would have meant invasion & occupation during WW2. He tried and failed. End of story.
Well, I'm from Finland, and USA didn't help us defend our independence against Soviet aggression. We fought against them twice, and twice we stopped their attack and preserved our freedom. There were no US troops helping us. Only thing we got from USA was dozen or so obsolete Brewster fighters during the Winter War, and we paid for those fair 'n square.
If you are about to mention the Marshall Aid... Sorry, we didn't get one dime of that.
So it seems that we preserved our freedom completely without US aid. We resettled huge amount of refugees, paid huge amounts of war-reparations to Soviet Union, buried huge amount of dead (alot more that americans had to, when comparing the population of the respective countries) and rebuilt the nation (northern parts of Finland were completely destroyed during the Lapland war. We had to drive the German troops stationed there out, and they employed scorched earth tactic as they withdrew). We did all that with no US help, yet we did not end up "licking our wounds" or "just getting back on track", quite the contrary in fact.
It's no more silly than separately mentioning that "people have the right to carry guns". Maybe it just shows where the values of these nations are. One makes fuzz about free access of information and freedom of speech, while the other makes a fuzz about right to carry guns.
Then why does US Constitution make several separate mentions of individual rights (like freedom of speech, right to carry guns etc.) if all those are already part of "being free"? If they mention those, they might as well mention the internet (if the constitution was written today)
Not really. Obviously Estonian government is not going to give citizens net-access, what they will propably do is to make sure that they have the chance to get a net-access, no matter where they are. Yes it is same thing as with guns. US Government wont buy citizens guns, they just give them the possibility to buy guns.
And my question stands: why is right to internet not valid right whereas right to carry guns is?
How about this - the right to carry a gun is pretty much an extension to a general right for everyone to defend himself and his family.
Then by that logic, right to internet gives the citizens the right to free speech and free access information.
Again, I fail to see why internet-access is not a valid right, whereas right to carry guns is. And besides, here (Finland) I don't have the right to carry guns (as in public, I can own them just fine), but I have the right to defend myself or my loved ones, even using lethal force if necessary.
Many here seem to say "Internet-access can't be a human right!". Why is internet-access not a valid human-right, while according to many americans, the right to carry guns is?
Your figures are all wrong. EU does not have 14% unemployment-rate. According to latest figures, the unemployment-rate is 8.8% (a remaining stable), which isn't that far from US rate of 6.4% (and rising)
But hey, don't let facts get in to way of your moronic opinions!
Changing Saruman made it easier to adapt the character to the movie. Doing it like they did it in the book would have meant more time explaining what the deal between Saruman and Sauron is (and the movie was already long). And besides, Saruman was under Sauron in the book as well, just not as explisitly (spelling?) as in the movie. Saruman was supposed to become the overseer of the West, under Sauron. Sauron corrupted Saruman through the Palantir, that was both in the book and in the movie (although they handled it a bit differently)
Compared to books, movies must be simplified. You can't spend long time explaining everything, movie must move forward. That is one of the limitations of the format, a limitation that doesn't affect books as much.
The reason for this is that movies have a climax, and they end soon after that. I Lord of the Rings, the climax is the destruction of the ring. Having the movie linger of after that would seriously reduce the impact of the climax. Scouring of the Shire works on the book, it would NOT work on the movie.
Take Star Wars (IV) for example. It's climax was the destruction of the Death Star. Now, what if the movie had lingered on for 20(?) minutes or so, showing Luke and Han talk BS and/or do some minor things (compared to the Death Star-thingy). It would have sucked. Same thing with Lord of the Rings.
But, why on Earth would you concentrate on all that little stuff, when you make HUUUGE plot deviations for little or no reason?
They had good reasons for their changes. Those changes have been discussed over and over again in the net and elsewhere, and if you don't know about their motives for the changes, you are either illiterate or living in a cave (or both).
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Yeah, how dare they use the best tool for the job!
How is McVoy "screwing people over"? He lets them freely use Bitkeeper. Some people then assume that that gives them the right to bitch and moan all the time about it and try to copy it's functionality. It seems to be that McVoy has done everything he could do to accomodate the needs of the Kernel-hackers (BK==>CVS-gateway etc.), yet some people keep on whining.
If BK is so bad, why don't you get up on your fat ass and write a better replacement?
Why would Linux and precisely Linux be the thing that "Copies MS's IP"? I mean, why couldn't some OS or software-project do it? How come it's Linux and nothing but Linux?
Yes I know it's because Linux is the main rival of MS right now. But I would still love to be able to ask Billy-boy that question.
Let's see... Arts, CDBakeOven, Noatun, Aethera, Psi etc. There are plenty of KDE-apps that don't start with K. Yes, it's propably more common in KDE to start with KD than it is in Gnome to start with G. But what are you going to do? Tell the people who write the apps that "you must name your app the way I want!"? If they want to name it Ksomething, don't they have that right?
Whining about the name is completely pointless. It's the software that matters, not the name
Why aren't you flaming Gnome for having programs that all start with G? Seriously, why? Why is ot OK for Gnome to call their apps Gaim, Gnumeric, Gimp, Galeon etc. etc.
Yeah, they should name all their apps Gsomething, like Gnome does!
Isn't that the logo of X Window System?
Yep. Try reading "Evian" backwards.
Isn't Intel releasing Prescott (P4 with improved HyperThreading, 1MB of L2, double the L1, new instructions, architechtual tweaks, faster MHz etc. etc.) around the same time G5 becomes widely available? So while G5 might be good when compared to current P4's, will it continue to be when compared to Prescott?
Honestly, I don't know. But what makes you think that ext3 is the most popular?
When it ships, yes.
I'll grant you GF1942, but I have never even heard of High Heat Baseball, so I'll just assume it's not important. As to Linux-games... Doom3, Medal of Honor, Neverwinter Nights, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, Quake 2, Unreal Tournament 2003, Tribes etc. etc... Many of those are THE hot games people play these days. So what are you complaining about? And you can get more games through emulation. If those games can't make "every young male in the world" to switch, I would guess High Heat Baseball wont either.
Yeah they should do it like they do it in Gnome, where everything is called Gapp, Gbrowser, Gcoolgame...
You don't know what would have happened. But we do know what happened in the war, and we fought that war with zero help from USA. You have that typical attitude that says "All good things is Europe are due to USA". USA didn't care that much for Finland. There are historical documents that say that in case of war, USA was willing to let SU to invade & occupy Finland.
Stalin took over Easter Europe during the war, they tried the same thing twice with Finland. Both time they failed. If Stalin took over Finland same way he took over Eastern Europe, it would have meant invasion & occupation during WW2. He tried and failed. End of story.
Well, I'm from Finland, and USA didn't help us defend our independence against Soviet aggression. We fought against them twice, and twice we stopped their attack and preserved our freedom. There were no US troops helping us. Only thing we got from USA was dozen or so obsolete Brewster fighters during the Winter War, and we paid for those fair 'n square.
If you are about to mention the Marshall Aid... Sorry, we didn't get one dime of that.
So it seems that we preserved our freedom completely without US aid. We resettled huge amount of refugees, paid huge amounts of war-reparations to Soviet Union, buried huge amount of dead (alot more that americans had to, when comparing the population of the respective countries) and rebuilt the nation (northern parts of Finland were completely destroyed during the Lapland war. We had to drive the German troops stationed there out, and they employed scorched earth tactic as they withdrew). We did all that with no US help, yet we did not end up "licking our wounds" or "just getting back on track", quite the contrary in fact.
It's no more silly than separately mentioning that "people have the right to carry guns". Maybe it just shows where the values of these nations are. One makes fuzz about free access of information and freedom of speech, while the other makes a fuzz about right to carry guns.
Then why does US Constitution make several separate mentions of individual rights (like freedom of speech, right to carry guns etc.) if all those are already part of "being free"? If they mention those, they might as well mention the internet (if the constitution was written today)
Not really. Obviously Estonian government is not going to give citizens net-access, what they will propably do is to make sure that they have the chance to get a net-access, no matter where they are. Yes it is same thing as with guns. US Government wont buy citizens guns, they just give them the possibility to buy guns.
And my question stands: why is right to internet not valid right whereas right to carry guns is?
Then by that logic, right to internet gives the citizens the right to free speech and free access information.
Again, I fail to see why internet-access is not a valid right, whereas right to carry guns is. And besides, here (Finland) I don't have the right to carry guns (as in public, I can own them just fine), but I have the right to defend myself or my loved ones, even using lethal force if necessary.
Many here seem to say "Internet-access can't be a human right!". Why is internet-access not a valid human-right, while according to many americans, the right to carry guns is?
Your figures are all wrong. EU does not have 14% unemployment-rate. According to latest figures, the unemployment-rate is 8.8% (a remaining stable), which isn't that far from US rate of 6.4% (and rising)
But hey, don't let facts get in to way of your moronic opinions!
Bah, humbug! Decaffeinated coffee is for pussies and americans!
Seriously, what's the point? I guess next big thing will be non-alcoholic alcohol.
Changing Saruman made it easier to adapt the character to the movie. Doing it like they did it in the book would have meant more time explaining what the deal between Saruman and Sauron is (and the movie was already long). And besides, Saruman was under Sauron in the book as well, just not as explisitly (spelling?) as in the movie. Saruman was supposed to become the overseer of the West, under Sauron. Sauron corrupted Saruman through the Palantir, that was both in the book and in the movie (although they handled it a bit differently)
Compared to books, movies must be simplified. You can't spend long time explaining everything, movie must move forward. That is one of the limitations of the format, a limitation that doesn't affect books as much.
The reason for this is that movies have a climax, and they end soon after that. I Lord of the Rings, the climax is the destruction of the ring. Having the movie linger of after that would seriously reduce the impact of the climax. Scouring of the Shire works on the book, it would NOT work on the movie.
Take Star Wars (IV) for example. It's climax was the destruction of the Death Star. Now, what if the movie had lingered on for 20(?) minutes or so, showing Luke and Han talk BS and/or do some minor things (compared to the Death Star-thingy). It would have sucked. Same thing with Lord of the Rings.
They had good reasons for their changes. Those changes have been discussed over and over again in the net and elsewhere, and if you don't know about their motives for the changes, you are either illiterate or living in a cave (or both).
Ever tried gaming, compiling, rendering, mp3-compression or DivX-compression?