When I hear so much praise heaped on these movies, I get the feeling that most people didn't enjoy Tolkien's books for the reasons that I enjoyed them.
I liked reading Tolkien because of the atmosphere and mythos he was able to create. I enjoyed how he was able to tie together familiar myths and legends into a new and beautiful work.
Jackson's movies simply don't share Tolkien's atmosphere. All they seem to share are hobbits, dwarves, elves, orcs, and what not. In fact the movies ultimately fail, in my opinion, because Jackson doesn't recognize that he can't replicate the books on screen and fails to supply the necessary artistic imagination of his own to flesh out the work. What he does add or change is filler. If you are going to adapt a written work for the screen, do it like Kubrick did so often. Ditch the plot and show them what you can make of the work yourself.
But most people really enjoyed the movies. So do they like Tolkien just because he uses words like 'Ent' and 'Balrog'? It makes me feel a little bit alone.
Your analysis of Apple's motivation is wrong. Apple really is worried about losing customers over buggy apps. And it's silly to be worried about it, like you say. Hence my original derision of Apple's stupidity.
You are wrong about Apple's motivation because you don't understand Apple. Apple is not in the business of protecting customers from themselves. Its focus is making money. If a customer wants something that's bad for him, and you know that you aren't going to lose him as a customer if he gets it, you give it to him. (Cf. the Tobacco industry).
Like I said, Apple a company, not some do-gooder institution making a desperate last stand against the evil behemoth Microsoft, like so many people seem to think. (They think that because of a successful advertisement campaign that I admire, of course.)
I see that I need to explain how the world works. It's all about customers. Apple is a company. It therefore has to make this thing called money.
The entire reason for developing Safari is to get more customers for Apple. Safari is 'free' but it also convinces people that they need a Mac.
As I said in the original post, they've cancelled this program because they're worried about people seeing betas and then losing them as customers. I also pointed out why that reasoning is flawed.
1) They should have known that it would be available for download on the net as soon as they handed it out. If they didn't take that into account before starting the program they're idiots.
2) A lot of people justify Apple here by posting the standard shit about it being terrible for the public to see an unfinished product. This is wrong and silly. Most people who come across this type of thing and are willing to install a beta are a) warez people who aren't gonna buy it anyway, or b) early adopters who are itching to try it out and are going to buy it no matter what.
3) And finally some people are going to whine about the humanity of programmers having to see their beautiful program that they love like a child being stolen by the masses. Tell them to stop whining. The programmers are wage slaves. If the company earns more money because of massive warezing (that should be 'When the company inevitably earn more...') the programmers should shut up about the hurt to their souls and get back to fulfilling their contracts.
Software companies act like this because they are run by idiots. You have no clue of the true magnitude of the crass stupidity they are capable of.
And Apple just likes to throw temper tantrums. They probably lost more customers by canceling this program and making a stink than they would have lost by having betas escape into the wild.
Heh. As you can tell, offending people doesn't bother me. But, if you'd like, I'll make it a point to be offended if you use 'she' as a pronoun in a technical paper I read. That way you can just write what you feel like writing, cause it's definitely gonna offend somebody.
They give the developer parametric polymorphism at design time, so she can deal with one "customizable" class instead of 20 slight modifications.
I gotta ask, when you think of a programmer, do you actually think of a girl programming? I mean good god, that 'she' thing as the neutral pronoun is more than a little phony isn't it? More women are graduating from colleges than men. They simply aren't choosing programming as a career in large numbers. Sorry, but it's a male-orientated profession. And I happen to know that you, as a human being, when you think of some generic programmer, think of a male. Probably a fat, coca-cola guzzling male.
Despite that mental image, your instinct for double-think kicks in. You choose the female pronoun for a host of social reasons.
And sorry, I don't like double-think, so I'm attacking you for it. Nobody talks like that in normal conversation. It's a middle-school English teacher grammar meme. A virus.
Good God, what dumbasses. Overpopulation isn't a problem in any western developed country. They're the ones who would use this.
Besides, if it ever got to that point, child limitation would be a better option than life limitation.
Lots of things are natural. Doesn't mean they're any good. Anybody who wants to live natural can ditch agriculture and go back to hunting and scavenging.
Currently, the least expensive method is a process known as steam reforming, in which natural gas reacts chemically with steam to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Far preferable would be to use carbon-free resources like solar, wind, and hydropower to produce electricity for electrolysis, which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen would make renewable energy practical, acting as a storage medium for the modest amounts of energy such resources produce. Wind power, especially, lends itself to this sort of use.
And there's the rub. Even neglecting the astronomical capital costs, no one has concieved a renewable energy program that will fulfill our energy needs. Most hydrogen will have to be produced from natural gas. The rest will have to be produced using electricty generated by nuclear, fossil fuel, and hydroelectric plants. No renewable technology has yet been proposed that could possibly generate enough power to do this a bearable cost. Hence, our dependance on foreign oil remains.
Sorry, I assumed that you did when you called it 'the Constitution' rather than 'your Constitution.' Heh.
I fail to understand why the 13th ammendment...doesn't apply?
That's been brought before the Supreme Court before. More or less, it's hard to believe that the creators of the 13th ammendment, just after a civil war featuring large scale use of consription, felt that military service was a form of 'involuntary servitude.' Now, there was a closer case in the 1980's challenging the 'males only' part of selective service that actually got a few justices in disent. Proof of lunacy if you ask me, but most people don't ask me.
Conscription and taxes are probably the two most burdensome forms of government intervention into the lives of its citizens. There are all sorts of freedoms that they conflict with. However, the fact that the social order would collapse without taxes, and would be put in jeopardy with conscription, gives them a pretty good third rail status from even the most utopian of the activist judiciary.
Nope. You know that selective service thing you have to fill out if you're male and have just turned 18? The draft was ended in 1973 by Nixon, but there's no reason they can't bring it back.
it rather looks as if you are in favour of this war
I don't see where I've expressed that opinion. What I have suggested is that Iraq isn't cooperating with inspectors fully. They have begun cooperating more since I wrote those logs--but Iraq still has not been forthcoming. That doesn't automatically mean that I support war to take care of the problem, though.
On the other hand, I'm not a peace-nik either. If, god forbid, there were a draft and I was selected, I would serve. And--not being Captain Perfect--I have to say that getting drafted would still bother me a bit.
My country is going to war in the next couple weeks. Could you refrain from stories including the words 'public draft' for a bit. It's a little unnerving to come across first thing in the morning before I've had a cup of coffee. Thank you.
You kidding? All that's just wealth redistribution--someone somewhere winds up with the cash. All of it goes back into the big economic bucket to be taxed and taxed again.
Here's the real problem: The vast majority of the offender's assets are simply destroyed. Ever wonder what happens to those tons of pot that get confisticated? Well, it's all burned. Millions of dollars of pot that could be used to pay for more drug enforcement officers confisticating more pot just goes to waste right there.
Whats worse, the destruction of these real assets then leads to inflation and trade imbalances.
Now, some people whine about tax cuts for the rich. Don't make me laugh! Who do you think is harmed most when the price of drugs goes up 250% after a raid? That's right, it's the people who have real jobs as CEO's and Congressmen, who then have to go out and blow their hard-earned income on artificially price-inflated cocaine. The dealers don't shoulder that cost, let me tell you--it's the customer that gets it in the ass.
I call on all true patriots to write their representatives requesting that taxes on the rich be eliminated, and the lost revenue be made up by selling confisticated narcotics in schools from low-income districts.
God bless America, George Bush, and John Ashcroft!
Correct. If I had said something along the lines of "everyone here thinks..." I would have been out of line. But I didn't say that so I think my comment had a slight amount of worth at least. I made a comment about discussion trends on slashdot. And if a person doesn't notice that slashdot discussions don't gravitate in a certain direction from time to time, he's blind.
Not many posts yet. Will the crowd spew a diatribe against intellectual property in general, or will they fawn over one of their favorite companies? (After all, it's gotta be all right if Red Hat or Google do it...)
But it's still there. The entire time you're using the system, you know the pointer is there, just beyond your awareness, lurking. You can almost hear the phantom 'click-click' in your head as you work. Your mind creates false images, convincing you that you've glimpsed it from the corner of your eye. Finally, you take the monitor in your two hands and crash it into the wall, screaming: "I know you're in there!" You shake in rage as you rustle through the broken components looking for the little white group of pixels.
Ah...let's just say that your suggestion didn't work for me.
And they are redoing it rather than letting it die the sad lonely death it rightfully deserved. That should give you an idea of the magnitude of creative talent that will be directed at this project.
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When I hear so much praise heaped on these movies, I get the feeling that most people didn't enjoy Tolkien's books for the reasons that I enjoyed them.
I liked reading Tolkien because of the atmosphere and mythos he was able to create. I enjoyed how he was able to tie together familiar myths and legends into a new and beautiful work.
Jackson's movies simply don't share Tolkien's atmosphere. All they seem to share are hobbits, dwarves, elves, orcs, and what not. In fact the movies ultimately fail, in my opinion, because Jackson doesn't recognize that he can't replicate the books on screen and fails to supply the necessary artistic imagination of his own to flesh out the work. What he does add or change is filler. If you are going to adapt a written work for the screen, do it like Kubrick did so often. Ditch the plot and show them what you can make of the work yourself.
But most people really enjoyed the movies. So do they like Tolkien just because he uses words like 'Ent' and 'Balrog'? It makes me feel a little bit alone.
Your analysis of Apple's motivation is wrong. Apple really is worried about losing customers over buggy apps. And it's silly to be worried about it, like you say. Hence my original derision of Apple's stupidity.
You are wrong about Apple's motivation because you don't understand Apple. Apple is not in the business of protecting customers from themselves. Its focus is making money. If a customer wants something that's bad for him, and you know that you aren't going to lose him as a customer if he gets it, you give it to him. (Cf. the Tobacco industry).
Like I said, Apple a company, not some do-gooder institution making a desperate last stand against the evil behemoth Microsoft, like so many people seem to think. (They think that because of a successful advertisement campaign that I admire, of course.)
What you're getting at is accurate, but I'm afraid that I don't get your point.
I see that I need to explain how the world works. It's all about customers. Apple is a company. It therefore has to make this thing called money.
The entire reason for developing Safari is to get more customers for Apple. Safari is 'free' but it also convinces people that they need a Mac.
As I said in the original post, they've cancelled this program because they're worried about people seeing betas and then losing them as customers. I also pointed out why that reasoning is flawed.
1) They should have known that it would be available for download on the net as soon as they handed it out. If they didn't take that into account before starting the program they're idiots.
2) A lot of people justify Apple here by posting the standard shit about it being terrible for the public to see an unfinished product. This is wrong and silly. Most people who come across this type of thing and are willing to install a beta are a) warez people who aren't gonna buy it anyway, or b) early adopters who are itching to try it out and are going to buy it no matter what.
3) And finally some people are going to whine about the humanity of programmers having to see their beautiful program that they love like a child being stolen by the masses. Tell them to stop whining. The programmers are wage slaves. If the company earns more money because of massive warezing (that should be 'When the company inevitably earn more...') the programmers should shut up about the hurt to their souls and get back to fulfilling their contracts.
Software companies act like this because they are run by idiots. You have no clue of the true magnitude of the crass stupidity they are capable of.
And Apple just likes to throw temper tantrums. They probably lost more customers by canceling this program and making a stink than they would have lost by having betas escape into the wild.
Heh. As you can tell, offending people doesn't bother me. But, if you'd like, I'll make it a point to be offended if you use 'she' as a pronoun in a technical paper I read. That way you can just write what you feel like writing, cause it's definitely gonna offend somebody.
They give the developer parametric polymorphism at design time, so she can deal with one "customizable" class instead of 20 slight modifications.
I gotta ask, when you think of a programmer, do you actually think of a girl programming? I mean good god, that 'she' thing as the neutral pronoun is more than a little phony isn't it? More women are graduating from colleges than men. They simply aren't choosing programming as a career in large numbers. Sorry, but it's a male-orientated profession. And I happen to know that you, as a human being, when you think of some generic programmer, think of a male. Probably a fat, coca-cola guzzling male.
Despite that mental image, your instinct for double-think kicks in. You choose the female pronoun for a host of social reasons.
And sorry, I don't like double-think, so I'm attacking you for it. Nobody talks like that in normal conversation. It's a middle-school English teacher grammar meme. A virus.
Good God, what dumbasses. Overpopulation isn't a problem in any western developed country. They're the ones who would use this.
Besides, if it ever got to that point, child limitation would be a better option than life limitation.
Lots of things are natural. Doesn't mean they're any good. Anybody who wants to live natural can ditch agriculture and go back to hunting and scavenging.
Currently, the least expensive method is a process known as steam reforming, in which natural gas reacts chemically with steam to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Far preferable would be to use carbon-free resources like solar, wind, and hydropower to produce electricity for electrolysis, which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen would make renewable energy practical, acting as a storage medium for the modest amounts of energy such resources produce. Wind power, especially, lends itself to this sort of use.
And there's the rub. Even neglecting the astronomical capital costs, no one has concieved a renewable energy program that will fulfill our energy needs. Most hydrogen will have to be produced from natural gas. The rest will have to be produced using electricty generated by nuclear, fossil fuel, and hydroelectric plants. No renewable technology has yet been proposed that could possibly generate enough power to do this a bearable cost. Hence, our dependance on foreign oil remains.
Screened, not modified.
You mean minus A LOT of heat. A far better way to get hydrogen is from natural gas or other hydrocarbons.
Don't worry, by 2020 the main problems with C02 emission will be from third world countries with exploding populations anyway.
Well, no. I dont live in the U.S.
Sorry, I assumed that you did when you called it 'the Constitution' rather than 'your Constitution.' Heh.
I fail to understand why the 13th ammendment...doesn't apply?
That's been brought before the Supreme Court before. More or less, it's hard to believe that the creators of the 13th ammendment, just after a civil war featuring large scale use of consription, felt that military service was a form of 'involuntary servitude.' Now, there was a closer case in the 1980's challenging the 'males only' part of selective service that actually got a few justices in disent. Proof of lunacy if you ask me, but most people don't ask me.
Conscription and taxes are probably the two most burdensome forms of government intervention into the lives of its citizens. There are all sorts of freedoms that they conflict with. However, the fact that the social order would collapse without taxes, and would be put in jeopardy with conscription, gives them a pretty good third rail status from even the most utopian of the activist judiciary.
Nope. You know that selective service thing you have to fill out if you're male and have just turned 18? The draft was ended in 1973 by Nixon, but there's no reason they can't bring it back.
it rather looks as if you are in favour of this war
I don't see where I've expressed that opinion. What I have suggested is that Iraq isn't cooperating with inspectors fully. They have begun cooperating more since I wrote those logs--but Iraq still has not been forthcoming. That doesn't automatically mean that I support war to take care of the problem, though.
On the other hand, I'm not a peace-nik either. If, god forbid, there were a draft and I was selected, I would serve. And--not being Captain Perfect--I have to say that getting drafted would still bother me a bit.
My country is going to war in the next couple weeks. Could you refrain from stories including the words 'public draft' for a bit. It's a little unnerving to come across first thing in the morning before I've had a cup of coffee. Thank you.
You kidding? All that's just wealth redistribution--someone somewhere winds up with the cash. All of it goes back into the big economic bucket to be taxed and taxed again.
Here's the real problem: The vast majority of the offender's assets are simply destroyed. Ever wonder what happens to those tons of pot that get confisticated? Well, it's all burned. Millions of dollars of pot that could be used to pay for more drug enforcement officers confisticating more pot just goes to waste right there.
Whats worse, the destruction of these real assets then leads to inflation and trade imbalances.
Now, some people whine about tax cuts for the rich. Don't make me laugh! Who do you think is harmed most when the price of drugs goes up 250% after a raid? That's right, it's the people who have real jobs as CEO's and Congressmen, who then have to go out and blow their hard-earned income on artificially price-inflated cocaine. The dealers don't shoulder that cost, let me tell you--it's the customer that gets it in the ass.
I call on all true patriots to write their representatives requesting that taxes on the rich be eliminated, and the lost revenue be made up by selling confisticated narcotics in schools from low-income districts.
God bless America, George Bush, and John Ashcroft!
Correct. If I had said something along the lines of "everyone here thinks..." I would have been out of line. But I didn't say that so I think my comment had a slight amount of worth at least. I made a comment about discussion trends on slashdot. And if a person doesn't notice that slashdot discussions don't gravitate in a certain direction from time to time, he's blind.
What Apple did has nothing to do with and is not related in any way with what Google and/or Red Hat did at any time, ever.
Software patents, dumbass.
Not many posts yet. Will the crowd spew a diatribe against intellectual property in general, or will they fawn over one of their favorite companies? (After all, it's gotta be all right if Red Hat or Google do it...)
But it's still there. The entire time you're using the system, you know the pointer is there, just beyond your awareness, lurking. You can almost hear the phantom 'click-click' in your head as you work. Your mind creates false images, convincing you that you've glimpsed it from the corner of your eye. Finally, you take the monitor in your two hands and crash it into the wall, screaming: "I know you're in there!" You shake in rage as you rustle through the broken components looking for the little white group of pixels.
Ah...let's just say that your suggestion didn't work for me.
And they are redoing it rather than letting it die the sad lonely death it rightfully deserved. That should give you an idea of the magnitude of creative talent that will be directed at this project.
The Chinese will almost certainly compile this code and compare binaries to the versions that are sold.
You sick pedophile bastard.
Best beowulf post ever. Just thought you might like to know.