The original scheme was that there was only a presidential race, not a vice-presidential one. Whoever lost the presidential election became vice-president. The two candidates were expected to set aside their personal differences and work together for the good of the (then-newborn) Union, and this scheme provides some balance of influence as well.
It only worked for the first few presidents, then they threw that approach out and replaced it with the "we can't not hold a grudge; I will never speak to my opponent face-to-face" approach of today.
Remember during the 2000 election dispute, when The Onion treated it just like a 3rd world country collapsing into civil battles, regional warlord declaring martial law, etc? One of the articles was "Serbia Deploys Peacekeeping Forces to U.S."
Cool, didn't know that file was there. I have it, but it doesn't contain anything about Bilbo. Must go look for updates...
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why not a link to a more professional and better-designed debugging library instead? The author has made insane efforts to handle all kinds of error conditions which it looks like these kids haven't even thought of.
A truly hopelessly geeky Tolkien nerd would point out that the Shire calendar was offset from the British calendar by several days. Tolkien described it all in the Appendices.
One of the teaser-trailer-for-TV clips, I think, showed Aragorn holding a palantir wrapped in a towel and saying something sound-bite-ish. Since all of that segment of story was moved from TTT to ROTK, it would make sense for this scene to be in their third film as well.
Counter-argument: in the movie, Aragorn and Co are surprised by Sauron's attack on Minas Tirith. In the book, Aragorn uses the palantir to let Sauron know that he is alive and kicking, in order to jolt Sauron into attacking before his armies are fully prepared. So if the movie shows Aragorn flipping Sauron the bird via one of the Stones, then Aragorn shouldn't be so surprised later on.
(Related to the "Aragorn Battles Sauron" concept: did you notice than just before Aragorn leads the final charge, Sauron speaks to him? Calls him once by his name, and then a second time by his title. That was a nice nod.)
that have even more footage than all the previous extended versions combined.
Oh, give it a fucking rest. Jackson is done with the project. Unlike Lucas, he knows how to move on with his professional life. Besides, the scenes on the on the extended editions involve a fair amount more work than just dropping in some digital footage a la Lucas. That limits the number of times it can be done to "once".
Of course they're going to release a complete boxed set. The DVD content will be what you can get now. I imagine they'll throw in some extras in the packaging (posters or whatnot), but they're hardly going to be able to slip in extra dialogue or scenes.
...if I could plug it in to random computers and transfer 40GB of files without having to install iTunes or a similar "you get drivers as a side-effect" program.
As it is, iPods only show up as mounted disks on systems with iTunes or some commercial software installed. Other computers report "unknown USB device," which effectively kills its usefulness for file transfer.
Do you think the Atlantic crossing had a 100% success rate before Europeans
started colonizing North America? Why are people intolerable pussies these
days? I'd like to return to the days when America was a nation full of
people who had already done a lot of dangerous risky shit, and were sitting
around thinking of how they could risk their hides one more time. I'd like
to visit the age of space exploration when people thought astronauts were
cool not because they grew earthworms in zero-gravity, but because they
had the balls to climb up on top of a fucking rocket and light it.
I'm fairly certain that Herbert died before finishing the last book. The plot was outlined in relative depth, and much of the prose was written, but not all of it.
His nephew finished it. If you're really careful, I hear you can spot the point where the writing changes. I've not tried finding it myself.
This is the same nephew that went on to write the prequels. They suck, of course, but that's not so much the nephew's fault as it is Kevin Anderson's, who has the God-given ability to come into any running series and kill it off.
I agree. It's even going to be an educational review for me, because I don't know what "Aurum" means. I've heard a lot of Deus Ex phrases, but this is a first.
...does not apply to GCC. Never has. And it will not in the future, unless we radically change the way we do development and releases.
3.4 follows 3.3 follows 3.2, and none of them were singled out as "developmental" or "experimentalal" or "extra stable". The experimental-vs-stable changes all take place before any release branch is made. There's more info on the website if you want.
A pretty good writeup of the "Ohio wasn't a state, therefore the President wasn't a valid President, therefore income tax isn't legal" baloney is here. Summary: those people are screwballs.
This isn't news. The slowing-down effect has been seen before, on some other probe. I even remember/. having an article about it. I even remember posting some lame "it's the Brennan-monster's funky telescope" joke at the time.
But expecting/. editors to recall that would be like expecting them to get effect and affect correct.
About your comment regarding Martin and top notch writers...
Couple years back somebody did the usual readers' survey, Who's The Best (Living and Still Writing) Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author, standard kind of thing. Niven and Martin and the usual suspects were mentioned. Yawn.
Then the interviewer/journalist went a step further. They took the top five or so authors, contacted them, and asked them the same question.
All of them answered: Gene Wolfe.
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So does Louis Wu, on and off for two and a half volumes. Niven doesn't exoect anyone to take it at face value.
The ideas were absolutely top-notch (it's in the same story universe as Legacy of Heorot, Beowulf's Children, and the really early A World Out of Time), and the characters were pretty good, but the writing was sloppy. Names of people and places get changed, for example, like he decided to change the name but didn't quite finish the search-and-replace.
Google for fithp@aol.com postings, if you'd like to see what he's written. (That was the address he used, years ago. Eventually it went the way of all unfiltered AOL addresses, and today probably receives more spam in a 24-hour period than I can store in my house. Dunno what his address is these days.)
I expect that _Ringworld's Children_ is [uninformed wanking deleted]
Fortunately for all of us, you're wrong. Children is nothing like Throne. Niven lurks on some mailing lists; he's well aware that the 3rd one was a disaster compared to the first two. He knows exactly what people did and did not like about it. He took it into account when writing this one.
In fact, in the prologue to Children, he gives credit to one particular mailing list for giving feedback.
But actually reading the book would be too hard for you, I guess, so you just move straight to the flaming.
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The original scheme was that there was only a presidential race, not a vice-presidential one. Whoever lost the presidential election became vice-president. The two candidates were expected to set aside their personal differences and work together for the good of the (then-newborn) Union, and this scheme provides some balance of influence as well.
It only worked for the first few presidents, then they threw that approach out and replaced it with the "we can't not hold a grudge; I will never speak to my opponent face-to-face" approach of today.
Remember during the 2000 election dispute, when The Onion treated it just like a 3rd world country collapsing into civil battles, regional warlord declaring martial law, etc? One of the articles was "Serbia Deploys Peacekeeping Forces to U.S."
Cool, didn't know that file was there. I have it, but it doesn't contain anything about Bilbo. Must go look for updates...
why not a link to a more professional and better-designed debugging library instead? The author has made insane efforts to handle all kinds of error conditions which it looks like these kids haven't even thought of.
A truly hopelessly geeky Tolkien nerd would point out that the Shire calendar was offset from the British calendar by several days. Tolkien described it all in the Appendices.
Damn, now I've outed myself.
One of the teaser-trailer-for-TV clips, I think, showed Aragorn holding a palantir wrapped in a towel and saying something sound-bite-ish. Since all of that segment of story was moved from TTT to ROTK, it would make sense for this scene to be in their third film as well.
Counter-argument: in the movie, Aragorn and Co are surprised by Sauron's attack on Minas Tirith. In the book, Aragorn uses the palantir to let Sauron know that he is alive and kicking, in order to jolt Sauron into attacking before his armies are fully prepared. So if the movie shows Aragorn flipping Sauron the bird via one of the Stones, then Aragorn shouldn't be so surprised later on.
(Related to the "Aragorn Battles Sauron" concept: did you notice than just before Aragorn leads the final charge, Sauron speaks to him? Calls him once by his name, and then a second time by his title. That was a nice nod.)
Oh, give it a fucking rest. Jackson is done with the project. Unlike Lucas, he knows how to move on with his professional life. Besides, the scenes on the on the extended editions involve a fair amount more work than just dropping in some digital footage a la Lucas. That limits the number of times it can be done to "once".
Of course they're going to release a complete boxed set. The DVD content will be what you can get now. I imagine they'll throw in some extras in the packaging (posters or whatnot), but they're hardly going to be able to slip in extra dialogue or scenes.
...if I could plug it in to random computers and transfer 40GB of files without having to install iTunes or a similar "you get drivers as a side-effect" program.
As it is, iPods only show up as mounted disks on systems with iTunes or some commercial software installed. Other computers report "unknown USB device," which effectively kills its usefulness for file transfer.
Damn spiffy device other than that, though. :-)
I can't wait until the NSA releases a freeware version of the Librarian.
I could well be confusing them, since I've never read the other series. Have to go look at them now.
I'm fairly certain that Herbert died before finishing the last book. The plot was outlined in relative depth, and much of the prose was written, but not all of it.
His nephew finished it. If you're really careful, I hear you can spot the point where the writing changes. I've not tried finding it myself.
This is the same nephew that went on to write the prequels. They suck, of course, but that's not so much the nephew's fault as it is Kevin Anderson's, who has the God-given ability to come into any running series and kill it off.
I agree. It's even going to be an educational review for me, because I don't know what "Aurum" means. I've heard a lot of Deus Ex phrases, but this is a first.
So, "deus ex aurum" is...? Anyone?
...does not apply to GCC. Never has. And it will not in the future, unless we radically change the way we do development and releases.
3.4 follows 3.3 follows 3.2, and none of them were singled out as "developmental" or "experimentalal" or "extra stable". The experimental-vs-stable changes all take place before any release branch is made. There's more info on the website if you want.
A pretty good writeup of the "Ohio wasn't a state, therefore the President wasn't a valid President, therefore income tax isn't legal" baloney is here. Summary: those people are screwballs.
This isn't news. The slowing-down effect has been seen before, on some other probe. I even remember
But expecting /. editors to recall that would be like expecting them to get effect and affect correct.
which was the first item on the list. Any such course will cover safe and appropriate methods of storage, if they're even halfway decent.You apparently missed
About your comment regarding Martin and top notch writers...
Couple years back somebody did the usual readers' survey, Who's The Best (Living and Still Writing) Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author, standard kind of thing. Niven and Martin and the usual suspects were mentioned. Yawn.
Then the interviewer/journalist went a step further. They took the top five or so authors, contacted them, and asked them the same question.
All of them answered: Gene Wolfe.
So does Louis Wu, on and off for two and a half volumes. Niven doesn't exoect anyone to take it at face value.
Silent.
All through Engineers, various characters pronounce his name with every syllable equally emphasized, and its written like "Loo-ee Woo".
Well, remember which planet they're headed for.
Remember what happened to that planet in Protector.
Remember that Pak like to leave stuff behind for contengencies. (cf the advice about searching the prank Stonehenge at the end of Protector)
There are still possibilities...
The ideas were absolutely top-notch (it's in the same story universe as Legacy of Heorot, Beowulf's Children, and the really early A World Out of Time), and the characters were pretty good, but the writing was sloppy. Names of people and places get changed, for example, like he decided to change the name but didn't quite finish the search-and-replace.
Google for fithp@aol.com postings, if you'd like to see what he's written. (That was the address he used, years ago. Eventually it went the way of all unfiltered AOL addresses, and today probably receives more spam in a 24-hour period than I can store in my house. Dunno what his address is these days.)
Fortunately for all of us, you're wrong. Children is nothing like Throne. Niven lurks on some mailing lists; he's well aware that the 3rd one was a disaster compared to the first two. He knows exactly what people did and did not like about it. He took it into account when writing this one.
In fact, in the prologue to Children, he gives credit to one particular mailing list for giving feedback.
But actually reading the book would be too hard for you, I guess, so you just move straight to the flaming.
Do you happen to have a link to the thread with Niven's answers? I've been searching, but Slashdot's search engine is utterly fucking useless.