Yes, it includes all the changes that have occurred in Tolkien's imaginary world in the past few years.:-)
Seriously, I have no idea what changes, if any, have been made in the content, but I expect the price will have been increased by the "movie tie-in bandwagon jumping" factor as well as regular old inflation.
Back about 1972 a friend of mine at UNC-CH was taking some course that included Lord of the Rings, a work not really his cup of tea, so he just read Bored of the Rings instead and sucessfully faked it.
I'd read The Hobbit and LOTR 3 or 4 years earlier and was able to enjoy BOTR even more than he did.
I was so pleased at your catch of the mistaking of "pain-staking" for "pains-taking" (which I don't think requires hyphenation anyway, but maybe it should in order to preseve the proper meaning) that it pains me to point out that you then said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".
It's an all-male cast, but there are no sexual overtones, no hint that such a thing exists. At least not in The Hobbit or the trilogy, which I read and enjoyed way back when the raging hormones were at their peak, so I'd have noticed the slightest suggestion. This may not have been true for The Silmarillion, but trying to read that was like trying to paddle a canoe on a lake of molasses.
"You wouldn't be able to drive across the Atlantic. You'd run out of gas."
Well then just make it a pedestrian bridge. Only the hardiest of immigrants will make it to the other side and the rest can be used to lure sharks away from our shores.
Or, if you have to make it a car and truck bridge, build an inclined ramp that starts at its highest point on the west coast or in the Rockies and goes all the way to the east coast and the beginning of the bridge, so that you can coast all the way.:-)
What, that's not practical and a bridge across the Atlantic is?
If you can get that particular news elsewhere, then what's the problem? This isn't like Microsoft's strangelhold on the PC. If you don't like the NYT's terms of use, don't use them.
Gotta go now, I want to be sure not to miss the NYT Internet Police *not* showing up at my door again to arrest me for ignoring the 2 or 3 pieces of spam I've gotten from them over the past 2 years.
"can tell the kid from the Gateway commercial from the characters of your favorite show"
My favorite show would be the one where the kid from the Gateway commercial suffers horribly for the entire episode, every episode, all season long.:-)
However, many of us feel that Slashdot would be just fine without certain categories of comments, that the interesting on-topic comments would continue to be posted, that the people the advertisers want to reach would still come here just as often, and that it would actually be a better site.
It would be interesting to see if a separate site dedicated just to those categories could survive on its own. I suspect not. Even if someone donated all the money necessary for its existance, the potential posters, once they found themselves deprived of an audience to offend, would probably lose interest rather quickly.
In other words, despite all this talk of democracy and censorship, and empowering the users, what's really going on is that a bunch of immature jerks like to post stuff just to annoy others and draw attention to themselves, and whenever anyone doesn't want to bother wasting their time playing along with their silly game, they whine about it.
"Cheap and easy" should set off alarm bells if it accurately describes the person you intend to marry, but may be precisely what you should look for in a computing environment.
Or in a closing time companion.:-)
But seriously folks, the catch in using older hardware is that the motherboard probably doesn't support large enough IDE hard drives for what you have in mind.
"Did you remember that you have to re-pull your Coax every 5 years or so?"
Are you saying that RG-58 goes bad and has to be replaced every 5 years? If so, how and why, and why is Cat 5 immune from whatever this co-ax eating monster is?
"...but in the PC world you don't even get perfectly matching shades of beige."
Anybody can buy a NeXT, an SGI, or one of the non-beige Apples, but the challenge in the PC world is picking and arranging just the right different shades of beige so that they co-exist in subtle and graceful harmony.:-)
On a different note, I'd like to thank everybody destroying these irreplaceable early boxes, thus moving the negative worth of my boat anchor stock PC-XT and Apple IIe from not worth throwing away back up closer to zero and maybe even one day into the exalted realm of actual shiny copper-colored hundredths of dollars.
In an article about Gator.com from a couple of weeks ago, Gator's Scott Eagle said "The promise of the Internet was always one-to-one marketing...", but I'll bet he doesn't have a notorized piece of paper anywhere that starts out "I hereby promise..." and winds up saying "...signed, The Internet", and neither does anybody else.
People keep saying "The Internet is supposed to be..." and then they fill in the blank with whatever they think most benefits them, and then whine when it turns out to be nothing more or less than a de-centralized network of networks instead of whatever miracle machine to which they personally feel somehow divinely entitled.
There was a story on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago that didn't show up on the main page about an MIT scientist getting screwed over by the DoD 'cause he published something about one of their reports which they then proceeded to retroactively declare classified.
The story is under the "censorship" topic, for which there doesn't seem to be a Slashbox. In other words Slashdot published it but came as close to hiding it as possible. Ironic, huh?
You mean there's yet another one? I thought he meant that guy on the Sci-Fi channel that supposedly talks to people's dead relatives as well as dead people's relatives.
That should be "John Edward's", as the man's name is John Edward, not Edwards. As far as I know John Edwards, the junior senator from North Carolina, isn't particularly supportive of Microsoft or in communication with the dead.
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Yes, it includes all the changes that have occurred in Tolkien's imaginary world in the past few years. :-)
Seriously, I have no idea what changes, if any, have been made in the content, but I expect the price will have been increased by the "movie tie-in bandwagon jumping" factor as well as regular old inflation.
I'd read The Hobbit and LOTR 3 or 4 years earlier and was able to enjoy BOTR even more than he did.
I was so pleased at your catch of the mistaking of "pain-staking" for "pains-taking" (which I don't think requires hyphenation anyway, but maybe it should in order to preseve the proper meaning) that it pains me to point out that you then said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".
It's an all-male cast, but there are no sexual overtones, no hint that such a thing exists. At least not in The Hobbit or the trilogy, which I read and enjoyed way back when the raging hormones were at their peak, so I'd have noticed the slightest suggestion. This may not have been true for The Silmarillion, but trying to read that was like trying to paddle a canoe on a lake of molasses.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Go to hell".
It should have been "complicit in", not "complicit with".
At least the old Seaboard Airlines overpasses are much more picturesque than a bunch of defunct web sites.
Well then just make it a pedestrian bridge. Only the hardiest of immigrants will make it to the other side and the rest can be used to lure sharks away from our shores.
Or, if you have to make it a car and truck bridge, build an inclined ramp that starts at its highest point on the west coast or in the Rockies and goes all the way to the east coast and the beginning of the bridge, so that you can coast all the way. :-)
What, that's not practical and a bridge across the Atlantic is?
Gotta go now, I want to be sure not to miss the NYT Internet Police *not* showing up at my door again to arrest me for ignoring the 2 or 3 pieces of spam I've gotten from them over the past 2 years.
My favorite show would be the one where the kid from the Gateway commercial suffers horribly for the entire episode, every episode, all season long. :-)
Okay, not really, but you know what I mean.
It would be interesting to see if a separate site dedicated just to those categories could survive on its own. I suspect not. Even if someone donated all the money necessary for its existance, the potential posters, once they found themselves deprived of an audience to offend, would probably lose interest rather quickly.
In other words, despite all this talk of democracy and censorship, and empowering the users, what's really going on is that a bunch of immature jerks like to post stuff just to annoy others and draw attention to themselves, and whenever anyone doesn't want to bother wasting their time playing along with their silly game, they whine about it.
Some of you may not have been around long enough to know that the first solid-state devices *were* germanium based, unless you count selenium diodes.
Or in a closing time companion. :-)
But seriously folks, the catch in using older hardware is that the motherboard probably doesn't support large enough IDE hard drives for what you have in mind.
Are you saying that RG-58 goes bad and has to be replaced every 5 years? If so, how and why, and why is Cat 5 immune from whatever this co-ax eating monster is?
Anybody can buy a NeXT, an SGI, or one of the non-beige Apples, but the challenge in the PC world is picking and arranging just the right different shades of beige so that they co-exist in subtle and graceful harmony. :-)
On a different note, I'd like to thank everybody destroying these irreplaceable early boxes, thus moving the negative worth of my boat anchor stock PC-XT and Apple IIe from not worth throwing away back up closer to zero and maybe even one day into the exalted realm of actual shiny copper-colored hundredths of dollars.
People keep saying "The Internet is supposed to be..." and then they fill in the blank with whatever they think most benefits them, and then whine when it turns out to be nothing more or less than a de-centralized network of networks instead of whatever miracle machine to which they personally feel somehow divinely entitled.
The story is under the "censorship" topic, for which there doesn't seem to be a Slashbox. In other words Slashdot published it but came as close to hiding it as possible. Ironic, huh?
At least it let you log in, which is more than it would do for me.
You mean there's yet another one? I thought he meant that guy on the Sci-Fi channel that supposedly talks to people's dead relatives as well as dead people's relatives.
When did sales drop? I thought that their revenues were increasing.
Failing that, I'd settle for a constitutional ammendment requiring legislators to dress that way.
Whereas the accusation against him in no way inhibited his ability to get screwed.
Sounds as though you were the one doing the plugging and playing.
That should be "John Edward's", as the man's name is John Edward, not Edwards. As far as I know John Edwards, the junior senator from North Carolina, isn't particularly supportive of Microsoft or in communication with the dead.
And the moral of your analogy is that those who deal with Microsoft and Qwest wind up getting it in the rear.