you will find that both Lewis and Tolkien wanted to create stories to teach Christian principles to readers through fun stories.
I'm rather dubious about that. Especially Tolkien, where all I've read indicates he was about amusing himself, and sometimes his children, by creating languages (which was his academic spaciality), then a history and world of beings to use them. He's also said he wanted to create a version of the Norse sagas with roots in British culture. Most of these influences were not Christian, and some were pagan. Gandalf has been often said to be a Christ figure, but I think it's a stretch. There certainly is morality, but not noticeably Christian.
As far as the traliing / is concerned, I took the example on the Post Comment page as they way it should be entered:D
They wrote "URL:http://example.com/", which will load the default page at that domain, usually index.html. When you specify an actual page (such as one ending in htm or html, and other suffixes) DON'T add a final/. In fact, a final / will be assumed in most cases when needed, so if in doubt, omit it; and use the preview and click on the link ther to see if it works (either in a new window or go back to your submission after checking).
And similarly, it costs more to get unrefined sugar than pure white; plain peanut butter without salt and sugar added; distilled water is often more expensive than soft drink. Mass production drives down costs to the point that shipping, warehousing, marketing cost more, sometimes much more, than the production cost.
ou are assuming civilian applications only. If they are making equipment for the military, or hope to, then this makes sense.
How so? The encryption is, as far as I can make out from the brief article, in the testing equipment, not the actual engine. What is it protecting, and from who?
Actually it makes me wonder why the taliban and fox news haven't thrown fits about this story.
It'll never run in Kansas. The newspapers would have crosses burning on their lawns. After they've settled Darwin's hash, next, pi = 3, and as for the Copernican so-called "theory"...
Cow, chicken, duck, fish, pig..... all herbivores. Off the top of my head I cant think of any carnivores that humans eat.
Fish, birds (some birds eat bugs, worms, rats), snakes, lizards. Cats and dogs, not to mentionjust about every kind if wildlife up to tigers, are eaten in Korea and China at least.
the jet, in order to be airborne, had to be traveling at least 100 MPH. The forward speed would kill anyone jumping out of it.)
I'm not so sceptical. You'd lose your forward speed pretty quickly from air resistance, and if you fell into a nice soft swamp, after braking on some tree branches, you might be okay. What seems to kill is the cold and low air pressure, a lot of dead stowaways have been found in wheelwells, but some survive even that.
Fantastic picture zooming predates computers. Columbo solved many a murder...
Predates TV too. I can't recall the title, but in an old thriller, probably made in the 1940s, reporters used the cutting edge photo-facsimile to send a photo, which had a man holding a folded newspaper. This was zoomed up until they could read the date on the masthead, (in small type), thus breaking an alibi. Considering the resolution of wire photos, even now, this was just ludicrous if you thought about it for a moment.
The newer consensus that I think is forming is that the political process is so deeply flawed that only a truly cataclysmic disaster is going to bring about change in the global arena. So basically, we know pretty much what's wrong and we're largely powerless to do anything about it.
For a fictional treatment of exactly this, See Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. In this the catastrophe is a massive storm and flooding of Washington DC. This is not like the rather silly Day After Tomorrow, but seems well-grounded, in the same style as his Mars trilogy, and he seems to be rather better at writing believable characters and politics now. I suspect this is the first in a trilogy too.
I have a relative who works in post-production, and on a movie he worked on, a specific brand of bubble gum was mentioned in the script (in a very non-offensive way)but still, at the last minute, they realized they didn't have clearance, and the actors had to be brought in to re-loop all the dialogue, at a cost of about $50,000. So if you don't have a deal in place, that's why TV shows and movies don't show specific brands -- they aren't afraid of the free advertising, but it can turn into an expensive nightmare, so it's just better to avoid it.
I don't doubt that happened, nevertheless there is no LEGAL reason preventing you using trademarked goods in a movie or drama. It's just a policy promoted by over-cautious legal departments covering their asses. Consider a few examples: on TV, The Sopranos often uses trademarked goods in ways that the manufacturers wish they wouldn't -- for instance in this episode, Tony sprays Raid in a guy's face to blind him before strangling him. In movies: the whole Supersize Me. It strikes me that the small risk of dealing with a suit that would inevitably be dismissed was much less than $50,000.
Good grief what kind of retard came up with 'obsticals'?
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I know from editing on other Slashcode sites that "ispell" is built into the system. Why the fuck the editors, who are paid a salary to do this, can't be bothered to use it is beyond me.
It's not just Nazis, there's a whole list of things that will eventually appear in any sci-fi or fantasy series.
After a while, the original creators and writers, who may have some affinity and knowledge of SF, are replaced by generic TV writers who only know what other sci-fi shows have done, and start recycling them. Or when that runs dry, almost any other genre.
I was particularly disappointed in the Dinotopia series, which despite breathtaking scenery and effects, and some good actors, quickly ran out of plots that did the back story justice. They too had a lame time loop story (of the Groundhog Day variety), and towards the end were abandoning Dinotopia to return to the "real world". That's a "jump the shark" time; like future SF series contriving ways to interact with 20/21st C earth, or mundane drama series when you get cameos by actors appearing as themselves; they sense they can't make their fictional world convincing so try to bring elements of the familiar; ignoring that most of their fans are only interested in it for the fictional world, and end up with something that satisfies no one.
This "same sockets are used worldwide" argument is such crap. Get a $2 adapter, and a $10 voltage converter if necessary. And laying electric power cable is no harder, probably easier (because the cables aren't so fragile as ethernet). This is at most a solution for special cases, where you for some inexplicable reason have an ethernet drop but not a power one. I can't ever remember seeing this in the real world. In workplaces you have power everywhere, you can easily run some extension cables if you need to. And as many have mentioned, you are severely limited in what hardware you can run on 15 W. It's definitely not a general desktop solution -- when don't you have power at your desk?
could you please explain to me why you think that they have no case? They have a trademark on the name Tiger to sell software.
Tiger Direct sells hardware, and the software it sells is not under is MS, McAfee, etc. -- so there is no "Tiger Direct" brand software for there to be confusion over. "Tiger" is a dictionary word, and many products are sold under that name or variations. And since OSX only runs on Apple PCs, and Tiger Direct only sells x86 harware and software, there isn't any conflict there either. As for trademarks, there is "TigerDirect" and "Mac OS X Tiger" with no simalrity in graphics.
Naw, it will just be renamed, Lawyers are still dumb.
Dumb? They know they have no case, so they wait till the right moment to make a nuisance of themselves hoping for a quick settlement. That's not dumb. They're cunts, but not dumb.
That is the geek equivalent of crushing a beer can on your head!
Crushing steel beer cans on your head was impressive back in the sixties (when Bluto [John Belushi] did it in Animal House), but it's not a big deal with aluminium ones. (Hint -- just make a tiny dent in the side with your finger, then it will collapse when presed.)
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I'm rather dubious about that. Especially Tolkien, where all I've read indicates he was about amusing himself, and sometimes his children, by creating languages (which was his academic spaciality), then a history and world of beings to use them. He's also said he wanted to create a version of the Norse sagas with roots in British culture. Most of these influences were not Christian, and some were pagan. Gandalf has been often said to be a Christ figure, but I think it's a stretch. There certainly is morality, but not noticeably Christian.
I was comparing distilled water with soft drink; I assume the actual ingredients of soft drink are more expensive than water, even distilled.
They wrote "URL:http://example.com/", which will load the default page at that domain, usually index.html. When you specify an actual page (such as one ending in htm or html, and other suffixes) DON'T add a final /. In fact, a final / will be assumed in most cases when needed, so if in doubt, omit it; and use the preview and click on the link ther to see if it works (either in a new window or go back to your submission after checking).
Initially. Then a year or so later, change a parameter.
Since it bothered you, you could have spent a few seconds to work it out. Whom if the object, who if the subject. So I should have used "whom".
And similarly, it costs more to get unrefined sugar than pure white; plain peanut butter without salt and sugar added; distilled water is often more expensive than soft drink. Mass production drives down costs to the point that shipping, warehousing, marketing cost more, sometimes much more, than the production cost.
How so? The encryption is, as far as I can make out from the brief article, in the testing equipment, not the actual engine. What is it protecting, and from who?
It'll never run in Kansas. The newspapers would have crosses burning on their lawns. After they've settled Darwin's hash, next, pi = 3, and as for the Copernican so-called "theory"...
Fish, birds (some birds eat bugs, worms, rats), snakes, lizards. Cats and dogs, not to mentionjust about every kind if wildlife up to tigers, are eaten in Korea and China at least.
Trolls used to put long strings in which would stretch the page way over.
Learn how to use HTML links; like ImmortalFumbles that, which you code like
<a href="http://users.pandora.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physi cs/ImmortalFumbles.html">ImmortalFumbles</a>
(Slashdot will iinsert spaces in this of course.)
Also, your original URL had a trailing / which made it bad.
I'm not so sceptical. You'd lose your forward speed pretty quickly from air resistance, and if you fell into a nice soft swamp, after braking on some tree branches, you might be okay. What seems to kill is the cold and low air pressure, a lot of dead stowaways have been found in wheelwells, but some survive even that.
Predates TV too. I can't recall the title, but in an old thriller, probably made in the 1940s, reporters used the cutting edge photo-facsimile to send a photo, which had a man holding a folded newspaper. This was zoomed up until they could read the date on the masthead, (in small type), thus breaking an alibi. Considering the resolution of wire photos, even now, this was just ludicrous if you thought about it for a moment.
For a fictional treatment of exactly this, See Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain . In this the catastrophe is a massive storm and flooding of Washington DC. This is not like the rather silly Day After Tomorrow, but seems well-grounded, in the same style as his Mars trilogy, and he seems to be rather better at writing believable characters and politics now. I suspect this is the first in a trilogy too.
I don't doubt that happened, nevertheless there is no LEGAL reason preventing you using trademarked goods in a movie or drama. It's just a policy promoted by over-cautious legal departments covering their asses. Consider a few examples: on TV, The Sopranos often uses trademarked goods in ways that the manufacturers wish they wouldn't -- for instance in this episode, Tony sprays Raid in a guy's face to blind him before strangling him. In movies: the whole Supersize Me. It strikes me that the small risk of dealing with a suit that would inevitably be dismissed was much less than $50,000.
PDF is an open format. Ther are several non_Adobe PDF readers, eg GSview.
The definition of a document format is "hardware"?
After a while, the original creators and writers, who may have some affinity and knowledge of SF, are replaced by generic TV writers who only know what other sci-fi shows have done, and start recycling them. Or when that runs dry, almost any other genre.
I was particularly disappointed in the Dinotopia series, which despite breathtaking scenery and effects, and some good actors, quickly ran out of plots that did the back story justice. They too had a lame time loop story (of the Groundhog Day variety), and towards the end were abandoning Dinotopia to return to the "real world". That's a "jump the shark" time; like future SF series contriving ways to interact with 20/21st C earth, or mundane drama series when you get cameos by actors appearing as themselves; they sense they can't make their fictional world convincing so try to bring elements of the familiar; ignoring that most of their fans are only interested in it for the fictional world, and end up with something that satisfies no one.
Excellent! No Word, Excel or Powerpoint files to worry about.
This "same sockets are used worldwide" argument is such crap. Get a $2 adapter, and a $10 voltage converter if necessary. And laying electric power cable is no harder, probably easier (because the cables aren't so fragile as ethernet). This is at most a solution for special cases, where you for some inexplicable reason have an ethernet drop but not a power one. I can't ever remember seeing this in the real world. In workplaces you have power everywhere, you can easily run some extension cables if you need to. And as many have mentioned, you are severely limited in what hardware you can run on 15 W. It's definitely not a general desktop solution -- when don't you have power at your desk?
Tiger Direct sells hardware, and the software it sells is not under is MS, McAfee, etc. -- so there is no "Tiger Direct" brand software for there to be confusion over. "Tiger" is a dictionary word, and many products are sold under that name or variations. And since OSX only runs on Apple PCs, and Tiger Direct only sells x86 harware and software, there isn't any conflict there either. As for trademarks, there is "TigerDirect" and "Mac OS X Tiger" with no simalrity in graphics.
Tigers are Asian, not African. (There are some, for the same reason there are tigers in Las Vegas.)
Dumb? They know they have no case, so they wait till the right moment to make a nuisance of themselves hoping for a quick settlement. That's not dumb. They're cunts, but not dumb.
Crushing steel beer cans on your head was impressive back in the sixties (when Bluto [John Belushi] did it in Animal House), but it's not a big deal with aluminium ones. (Hint -- just make a tiny dent in the side with your finger, then it will collapse when presed.)
That was a joke, right? They don't notice if the links are invalid, let alone if they have popups.