Well, the first movie made more money than it cost to film all three movies, so it would appear that it's making quite a bit of profit in there. Though I'm not sure if the Silmarillion would bring people to the theators like LotR, just because there's not as much engrossing action for the average watcher to experience.
It's possible that when the trailer was made the digital rendering of Treebeard wasn't completely finished. Trailers have to be made weeks in advance in order to be released in time, and it's quite likely that they're working up to the end to get the final rendering done, thus not having it all available at the time of the trailer.
There was some rumor of Roxio planning on developing a for-pay download system using the Napster name; I wouldn't doubt it, Roxio could make a lot of money hawking a subscription service using the Napster name, especially to those who are more clueless than us.
No, he'll just hype everything up and then sell-out. Don't forget, his job before Lindows was the founder and CEO of MP3.com. Back in the day, MP3.com was the best place to go for independent music, and they truly cared about their artists. Now look at it. Once MP3.com got really big, Michael sold out to Vivendi and they've totally ruined it, hiding independent artists in pages overshadowed by the latest mindless drivel from Nelly and Eminem. I don't trust Michael's intent for Lindows at all.
Yup, it's journalized. However, I seem to remember some issues about the fact that ReiserFS's filesystem can be easily corrupted by certain bugs in the implementation of the journalling feature. Ext3 has the advantage of being merely ext2 + a journalling layer in the form of a file. You can convert ext2 ext3 as many times as you want, and still have a valid partition. ReiserFS's only benefit to its name is that it is considered stable in the kernel, whereas ext3 is still labeled unstable (at least when I last compiled the kernel, I don't do it very often).
There's no de jure restriction on limiting children to.kids.us, but there could very well be de facto restrictions sometime in the near future. Think about it: virtually all schools use some sort of filter. If some right-winger comes along and tells them that they don't have to pay for filters if all they do is restrict students to.kids.us, hey, they'll go along with it. This isn't likely to happen in the near future, without large numbers of reference sites, but somewhere along the line it will probably happen.
Erosion of our freedoms starts with two things: "it's for the children" and "it won't be a problem for the rest of us." These attitudes are inconsistent with past experience, and lead to a slippery slope of restrictions for this and that, each thing being "for the children."
If you wish, I will supply urls for companies that use silver in various products approved by the FDA for sterilization, burn wounds, etc.
I know of what you speak, it's called silver sulfadiazine, and it's an antibiotic ointment used on burn victims. But that silver is much different than colloidal silver, and it's been proven to work effectively without many side effects. I guess I'll just never be convinced about colloidal silver:)
I don't even want to think of the toxicity that would be involved in a regimen like that. You'll never be able to kill all bacteria. Resistant strains will survive. What's the point of mixing three antibiotics, each with specific rare toxicities, and then put them together without knowing how they react? The answer isn't more antibiotics. It's educating people that viruses are immune to antibiotics, and simple infections don't need a course of antibiotics to heal. The human immune system is an amazing machine, and it will preserve life. There's no need to muck around with it for a day or two of quicker relief.
No offense, but I tend to seriously doubt anything that's labeled with the typical "medical conspiracy theory." And, I highly doubt that a doctor would diagnose a sprained muscle if what actually happened was shingles. They're two totally different things, with totally different symptoms. In other words, either you've got a really, really bad doctor, or there's some embellishment in your story. I won't speculate on to which it is.
There is NO cure-all for bacterial and viral infections. NONE. If there was, you would hear about it in prominent medical journals. But so far there's been a lack of any evidence that colloidal silver works in anything other than sales literature. Why, you may ask? I can tell you: because it DOESN'T work.
Oh, and by the way, the FDA has no approval to ban web sites that sell dietary supplements. That's the FTC's job, because it's a case of false advertising. And let me tell you what, the FTC isn't going to shut down a web site just because some vaguely-defined "pharmaceutical company" wanted it shut down. Please, give us readers a little bit more credit than that.
Furthermore, you web site has a link to an "FDA Safety Report." All that link leads to is a page on a sales site (NOT an FDA site) that purports to be a letter from the FDA saying that no adverse reports have been reported to HHS. Here's a few links to FDA sites, which I trust more, and some quotes from each:
Nothing against you personally, I only feel that a report like this should be countered with views from the other side. Let each reader be their own judge.
You're misinterpreting the entire issue. It's currently illegal in the United States for someone to outright advocate the killing of a person for some aspect of their life (religion, gender, etc.) That's not at issue here. What IS at issue is whether people can be censored for saying "I think that all should be dead." In this instance, you're not saying "go out and kill all ," and that's typically legal.
I'm of the same mindset with you in terms of racists, homophobes, et al. being scum. They do have beliefs that are seriously inconsistent with the majority and with common sense. But does that in and of itself require a limitation of their rights? The best way to fight hateful speech is not through laws, but through speech that is nonhateful and nonjudgemental. That's the way to lessen or prevent hate speech, not with simple shells of laws.
The first ten amendments to the United States constitution list inalienable, human rights bestowed upon us by our creator.
You're confusing the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution nowhere states anything about basic rights endowed upon us by a creator. As dear to us as the Second Amendment is (and I support it fully), I'm not too sure if that would be considered a basic, inalienable right; I think it's more a freedom derived from certain inalienable rights.
And, remember, if we try to impress all of our systems and beliefs on other countries, we're doing the exact same thing England did prior to the Revolutionary War. How is it any different?
Don't forget Opera's handy little mouse gestures. If you're lucky enough to have a wheel mouse, you can have various windows open in MDI mode, and to switch between them quickly, hold down the right mouse button and use the wheel to switch between windows. Be sure to have something like 10 windows open so titles don't show very much in the status bar;-)
Distributed.net doesn't add new projects for free. Plus, this is just a fun little experiment, not some full-blown, large-scale project that will have some big impact on the world. It's just a neat hack that proves that distributed computing can work without Distributed.net, Stanford, or SETI. That's pretty neat, in my opinion.
From what I'm getting from the forum, it was 6 letters before. However, it's unlikely it's any amount of random passwords. The backdoors exist for testing as well, so it's no use if you have to enter some meaningless string everytime. Somehow it has to mean something to someone, and be easily remembered by a large group of testers.
It's the end of the month/beginning of a new month. Bill Gates has bills to pay too. Why not take out a bunch of money at the end of the month for the upcoming month? Sounds perfectly logical, just because Bill Gates is a generally egomaniacal monopolist doesn't mean everything he does has no logic to it.
There's only one difference: Kollar-Kotelly gets jurisdiction over the enforcement of the order. Before, it was mostly up to the DOJ to do this. This, of course, means that OEMs can go directly to the court if they feel the decree has been violated. That's the only change, it's a positive one but I really wish she would have marked the settlement up even more...
There's quite a bit that they'd have to rewrite. Here's just a few of the programs that any Linux user can recognize that are GPLd:
bash, gcc, glibc, both KDE and GNOME, plus quite a few other window managers, virtually all drivers in existence, etc.
It's highly doubtful in the short year or so that UnitedLinux has been around for that all of those programs could either be replaced or rewritten. It's therefore logical to conclude that the UnitedLinux group is violating the GPL. There's virtually no way around it.
Indeed, but Google also requires a huge cluster of servers to do its job. For the Times, that's just not feasible; there's really no need to buy hundreds of servers just to serve up web pages. Google, on the other hand, has the advantage that the multiple servers also allow them to "section off" searches to one server, thus creating a distributed load.
Admittedly, Solaris does work better for extremely-high-volume sites such as the NYTimes. I'm a big advocate of Linux for web servers (after all, mine runs it:), but when you're getting hundreds of thousands of hits per day, Solaris hardware and software will just perform better and stay more stable.
We do patch our boxes regularly. It's just those Linux admins who go through 3 weeks of training and think they know everything about Apache that get their servers burned whenever one of these new exploits come out. When we say "us Linux admins" we mean the Slashdot community, not the whole group of Linux admins.
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It's not necessarily...it's just an alternative instant messenging program.
For open source to really succeed, we need to have more than one application in the same area. This is so the average Joe who, say, doesn't like Jabber, has an alternative and is more likely to choose and stay with open source. Before now, if you didn't like Jabber for AIM, the only alternative was to use AOL's closed-source client. Now, if you don't like Jabber, you still have an open-source alternative. That's what it's all about.
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Well, the first movie made more money than it cost to film all three movies, so it would appear that it's making quite a bit of profit in there. Though I'm not sure if the Silmarillion would bring people to the theators like LotR, just because there's not as much engrossing action for the average watcher to experience.
It's possible that when the trailer was made the digital rendering of Treebeard wasn't completely finished. Trailers have to be made weeks in advance in order to be released in time, and it's quite likely that they're working up to the end to get the final rendering done, thus not having it all available at the time of the trailer.
There was some rumor of Roxio planning on developing a for-pay download system using the Napster name; I wouldn't doubt it, Roxio could make a lot of money hawking a subscription service using the Napster name, especially to those who are more clueless than us.
Hey, cool, more shirts and hats to add to my collection of clothing from defunct companies! There seems to be a lot of defunct companies nowadays...
No, he'll just hype everything up and then sell-out. Don't forget, his job before Lindows was the founder and CEO of MP3.com. Back in the day, MP3.com was the best place to go for independent music, and they truly cared about their artists. Now look at it. Once MP3.com got really big, Michael sold out to Vivendi and they've totally ruined it, hiding independent artists in pages overshadowed by the latest mindless drivel from Nelly and Eminem. I don't trust Michael's intent for Lindows at all.
Erm...one of the last lines should read "You can convert from ext2 <-> ext3 as many times as you want."
Yup, it's journalized. However, I seem to remember some issues about the fact that ReiserFS's filesystem can be easily corrupted by certain bugs in the implementation of the journalling feature. Ext3 has the advantage of being merely ext2 + a journalling layer in the form of a file. You can convert ext2 ext3 as many times as you want, and still have a valid partition. ReiserFS's only benefit to its name is that it is considered stable in the kernel, whereas ext3 is still labeled unstable (at least when I last compiled the kernel, I don't do it very often).
There's no de jure restriction on limiting children to .kids.us, but there could very well be de facto restrictions sometime in the near future. Think about it: virtually all schools use some sort of filter. If some right-winger comes along and tells them that they don't have to pay for filters if all they do is restrict students to .kids.us, hey, they'll go along with it. This isn't likely to happen in the near future, without large numbers of reference sites, but somewhere along the line it will probably happen.
Erosion of our freedoms starts with two things: "it's for the children" and "it won't be a problem for the rest of us." These attitudes are inconsistent with past experience, and lead to a slippery slope of restrictions for this and that, each thing being "for the children."
If you wish, I will supply urls for companies that use silver in various products approved by the FDA for sterilization, burn wounds, etc.
:)
I know of what you speak, it's called silver sulfadiazine, and it's an antibiotic ointment used on burn victims. But that silver is much different than colloidal silver, and it's been proven to work effectively without many side effects. I guess I'll just never be convinced about colloidal silver
I don't even want to think of the toxicity that would be involved in a regimen like that. You'll never be able to kill all bacteria. Resistant strains will survive. What's the point of mixing three antibiotics, each with specific rare toxicities, and then put them together without knowing how they react? The answer isn't more antibiotics. It's educating people that viruses are immune to antibiotics, and simple infections don't need a course of antibiotics to heal. The human immune system is an amazing machine, and it will preserve life. There's no need to muck around with it for a day or two of quicker relief.
No offense, but I tend to seriously doubt anything that's labeled with the typical "medical conspiracy theory." And, I highly doubt that a doctor would diagnose a sprained muscle if what actually happened was shingles. They're two totally different things, with totally different symptoms. In other words, either you've got a really, really bad doctor, or there's some embellishment in your story. I won't speculate on to which it is.
There is NO cure-all for bacterial and viral infections. NONE. If there was, you would hear about it in prominent medical journals. But so far there's been a lack of any evidence that colloidal silver works in anything other than sales literature. Why, you may ask? I can tell you: because it DOESN'T work.
Oh, and by the way, the FDA has no approval to ban web sites that sell dietary supplements. That's the FTC's job, because it's a case of false advertising. And let me tell you what, the FTC isn't going to shut down a web site just because some vaguely-defined "pharmaceutical company" wanted it shut down. Please, give us readers a little bit more credit than that.
Furthermore, you web site has a link to an "FDA Safety Report." All that link leads to is a page on a sales site (NOT an FDA site) that purports to be a letter from the FDA saying that no adverse reports have been reported to HHS. Here's a few links to FDA sites, which I trust more, and some quotes from each:
"colloidal silver or silver salts are not recognized as safe and effective and are misbranded."
"Furthermore, FDA has no information that your product is generally recognized as safe and effective for the above referenced conditions" [referring to a site selling colloidal silver for killing bacteria]
Nothing against you personally, I only feel that a report like this should be countered with views from the other side. Let each reader be their own judge.
You're misinterpreting the entire issue. It's currently illegal in the United States for someone to outright advocate the killing of a person for some aspect of their life (religion, gender, etc.) That's not at issue here. What IS at issue is whether people can be censored for saying "I think that all should be dead." In this instance, you're not saying "go out and kill all ," and that's typically legal.
I'm of the same mindset with you in terms of racists, homophobes, et al. being scum. They do have beliefs that are seriously inconsistent with the majority and with common sense. But does that in and of itself require a limitation of their rights? The best way to fight hateful speech is not through laws, but through speech that is nonhateful and nonjudgemental. That's the way to lessen or prevent hate speech, not with simple shells of laws.
The first ten amendments to the United States constitution list inalienable, human rights bestowed upon us by our creator.
You're confusing the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution nowhere states anything about basic rights endowed upon us by a creator. As dear to us as the Second Amendment is (and I support it fully), I'm not too sure if that would be considered a basic, inalienable right; I think it's more a freedom derived from certain inalienable rights.
And, remember, if we try to impress all of our systems and beliefs on other countries, we're doing the exact same thing England did prior to the Revolutionary War. How is it any different?
Don't forget Opera's handy little mouse gestures. If you're lucky enough to have a wheel mouse, you can have various windows open in MDI mode, and to switch between them quickly, hold down the right mouse button and use the wheel to switch between windows. Be sure to have something like 10 windows open so titles don't show very much in the status bar ;-)
According to ARIN, no one does...
Distributed.net doesn't add new projects for free. Plus, this is just a fun little experiment, not some full-blown, large-scale project that will have some big impact on the world. It's just a neat hack that proves that distributed computing can work without Distributed.net, Stanford, or SETI. That's pretty neat, in my opinion.
Nope, they're already on nine-character passwords. Good idea there though ;-)
From what I'm getting from the forum, it was 6 letters before. However, it's unlikely it's any amount of random passwords. The backdoors exist for testing as well, so it's no use if you have to enter some meaningless string everytime. Somehow it has to mean something to someone, and be easily remembered by a large group of testers.
It's the end of the month/beginning of a new month. Bill Gates has bills to pay too. Why not take out a bunch of money at the end of the month for the upcoming month? Sounds perfectly logical, just because Bill Gates is a generally egomaniacal monopolist doesn't mean everything he does has no logic to it.
There's only one difference: Kollar-Kotelly gets jurisdiction over the enforcement of the order. Before, it was mostly up to the DOJ to do this. This, of course, means that OEMs can go directly to the court if they feel the decree has been violated. That's the only change, it's a positive one but I really wish she would have marked the settlement up even more...
There's quite a bit that they'd have to rewrite. Here's just a few of the programs that any Linux user can recognize that are GPLd:
bash, gcc, glibc, both KDE and GNOME, plus quite a few other window managers, virtually all drivers in existence, etc.
It's highly doubtful in the short year or so that UnitedLinux has been around for that all of those programs could either be replaced or rewritten. It's therefore logical to conclude that the UnitedLinux group is violating the GPL. There's virtually no way around it.
Indeed, but Google also requires a huge cluster of servers to do its job. For the Times, that's just not feasible; there's really no need to buy hundreds of servers just to serve up web pages. Google, on the other hand, has the advantage that the multiple servers also allow them to "section off" searches to one server, thus creating a distributed load.
Admittedly, Solaris does work better for extremely-high-volume sites such as the NYTimes. I'm a big advocate of Linux for web servers (after all, mine runs it :), but when you're getting hundreds of thousands of hits per day, Solaris hardware and software will just perform better and stay more stable.
We do patch our boxes regularly. It's just those Linux admins who go through 3 weeks of training and think they know everything about Apache that get their servers burned whenever one of these new exploits come out. When we say "us Linux admins" we mean the Slashdot community, not the whole group of Linux admins.
It's not necessarily...it's just an alternative instant messenging program.
For open source to really succeed, we need to have more than one application in the same area. This is so the average Joe who, say, doesn't like Jabber, has an alternative and is more likely to choose and stay with open source. Before now, if you didn't like Jabber for AIM, the only alternative was to use AOL's closed-source client. Now, if you don't like Jabber, you still have an open-source alternative. That's what it's all about.