Having read the book, it was amazing how the physicists of the 19th and early 20th century came to such breakthroughs without computers. No computer modelling, no online databases, major number crunching. Some of the scientific work still amazes 100 years later.
Just goes to show, the organic brain is still good for some stuff-just not crunching pi to a lot of distant numbers.
In the book, there are hints he's from Over the Sea, as we find out Gandalf is. Think of Gandalf, and Bombadil, as " lesser gods/angels bound in human form ". Gandalf notes in the The Return of the King Bombadil is a moss gatherer,whereas Gandalf is a " stone doomed to roll" as the final book comes near an end. Sauron is also one of the earlier lesser gods, as is the Balrog of Moria-hence the Council realised they couldnt stand toe to toe with Sauron, the Ringwraiths, and the power of Orthanc to deny them the power of the ring. As an earlier comment said, simply Bombadil may represent an earlier, idyllic time, that should evil not have arisen, Middle Earth would have appeared as.
Similiar to the States, recently in Oz we've had a deregulated and somewhat privatised telephony, internet, and broadband market.
Optus, which is a major competitor of Telstra, installed an Acceptable Useage Plan, which measured the amount of bandwith used by all users. Its a rolling 14 day check on the average of all users, removing the top and bottom 5 percent. Any use over the value 8 generated an alarm, 10 means disconnection.
As an Optus broadband user, I figured their plan restrictive at first. Having now seen the Telstra " unlimited " use plan now held down to/3/ gig a month..it looks a lot more pleasant * grin *.
However, what Telstra get away with, you'd think the other Telco's will look closely at. Three gig is simply not enough for an unlimited contract plan. Whatever will happen next...no Counterstrike?!? * grin *
Cheers,
Dardaspam
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Having read the book, it was amazing how the physicists of the 19th and early 20th century came to such breakthroughs without computers. No computer modelling, no online databases, major number crunching. Some of the scientific work
still amazes 100 years later.
Just goes to show, the organic brain is still good for some stuff-just not crunching pi to a lot of distant numbers.
In the book, there are hints he's from Over the Sea, as we find out Gandalf is. Think of Gandalf, and Bombadil, as " lesser gods/angels bound in human form ". Gandalf notes in the The Return of the King Bombadil is a moss gatherer,whereas Gandalf is a " stone doomed to roll" as the final book comes near an end.
Sauron is also one of the earlier lesser gods, as is the Balrog of Moria-hence the Council realised they couldnt stand toe to toe with Sauron, the Ringwraiths, and the power of Orthanc to deny them the power of the ring.
As an earlier comment said, simply Bombadil may represent an earlier, idyllic time, that should evil not have arisen, Middle Earth would have appeared as.
Similiar to the States, recently in Oz we've had a deregulated and somewhat privatised telephony, internet, and broadband market. Optus, which is a major competitor of Telstra, installed an Acceptable Useage Plan, which measured the amount of bandwith used by all users. Its a rolling 14 day check on the average of all users, removing the top and bottom 5 percent. Any use over the value 8 generated an alarm, 10 means disconnection. As an Optus broadband user, I figured their plan restrictive at first. Having now seen the Telstra " unlimited " use plan now held down to /3/ gig a month..it looks a lot more pleasant * grin *.
However, what Telstra get away with, you'd think the other Telco's will look closely at. Three gig is simply not enough for an unlimited contract plan. Whatever will happen next...no Counterstrike?!? * grin *
Cheers,
Dardaspam