If a director could get the main character right, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever by Donaldson would be good.
I'm with you, despite all the naysayers; I think this would be great, partly because it would be so difficult. Also, it might be a little weird to say this, but I think the "main character" in the book is The Land. The different kinds of creatures have a lot of personality, too (e.g., the Waynhim (sp?)). I agree that getting Covenant right would be difficult, but more so the giant. I fear that he and some of the other characters would come of as annoyingly smug in their dedication to the land. But the Bloodguard would just rock.
OK, I'll stop now. I just think this is a highly underrated book; people fixate on the main character and find him wanting, while Donaldson's real achievement is the creation of a rich, multi-textured world which has its own life. I think that's exactly what the book is trying to show us: a character who is so shut up within himself that he has become literally insensitive (or "leprous") with regard to the world of beauty and courage outside him. The contrast is what makes the story compelling, which you won't see if you're expecting a hero.
Bill Cosby: "I don't understand why people would choose to do cocaine in the first place. So I asked someone, and he said, 'because it enhances your personality.' And I said, 'OK, but what if you're an asshole?'"
Sonny: No, Pop can't do nothin' till he's better. I'm going to decide what's going to be done.
Tom: All right, but your war is costing us a lot of money, nothing's coming in...We can't do business...
Sonny: Well, neither can they! Don't worry about it.
Tom: They don't have our overhead...We can't afford a stalemate.
Sonny: Well, then, there ain't no more stalemate - I'm gonna end it by killin' that ol' bastard! I'm gonna...kill...
Tom: Yeah, well, you're getting a great reputation. I hope you're enjoying it.
Sonny: Well, you just do what I tell you to do. Goddamn it. If I had a wartime consigliere, a Sicilian, I wouldn't be in this shape! Pop had Genco, look what I got!
The difference is that they're presenting evidence, instead of, say, deciding U.S. energy policy behind closed doors and purposefully excluding any non-industry sources.
Preferred? It's beta, slow as hell, and still butt-ugly (as you acknowledge). Did I mention that it silently sets itself up as the default application for.doc,.xls, etc.? What a PITA! I hope that it's features will better integrate with OS X as you've mentioned, though I wonder whether it has to be Java-based in order to do that. It's got a looong way to go before it will be the "preferred" implementation. I'd rather see wxWindows made better (and a better fit with OS X).
Try this. For a machine of that speed, I'd recommend YDL 2.3 rather than 3.0. BootX runs under Mac OS, so you'll need OS 8 or 9 (I don't know about 7), but you can squeeze 9.1 into about a 200MB partition, leaving the rest for Linux.
Last year, I bought an 8500 for $60 on ebay, loaded it up with cheap ram (check here) and thus began my adventure of endless tweaking of X mode lines, etc.:-) But seriously, it was fun.
Also, the yellowdog-general and yellowdog-newbie mailing lists are pretty newbie-friendly.
... for making this go through my head after it had just got unstuck:
I know, I know, a world of real emotion is sur- rounding me, I won't give in to it now, I know that forward is the only way my heart can go, I hear your voice calling out.
To work well, this requires 1) everyone to think hard and attach to their pages the appropriate semantics,
Exactly. Given that people seem largely unable even to mark up documents with HTML properly, my hopes for the proper implementation of a significantly more "robust" ontology are somewhat dim.
The 'vanity clause' is one such further restriction, and would be the thin end of the wedge if it were accepted - where do you draw the line between what is a reasonable further restriction, and what is not?
Include the word "reasonable" in the license? Courts use a "reasonable person" standard to adjudicate all sorts of situations not explicitly enumerated in law. IANAL, but couldn't something like this be part of the GPL?
Indisputably true for the kinds of instruments whose range of expression can be covered by a keyboard. Wind instruments, however, don't fare as well. The problem is not the quality of the samples, but the possibilities of the MIDI format. I know there's aftertouch and the like, but there are so many varieties of attack, sustain, vibrato, release, etc., that I think it can't (presently) be done.
I don't have Garage Band, or a Powerbook for that matter, but you aren't by chance recording all your tracks in 32-bit/192KHz or something crazy like that, are you? Audiophile hype aside, real recording engineers will likely tell you that that super-fast sampling rates are unnecessary. And CD audio is only 16/44. Anyway, my $.02.
Oh yeah? Well, before the Lord God sorted the primordial muck into water and earth and established the firmament of the heavens to separate the waters above from the waters below, I used to have to...
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Is anybody else in this subthread plagued by associations with the sound of a duck squawking "AFLAC!"?
PSU student? or prof?
I'm with you, despite all the naysayers; I think this would be great, partly because it would be so difficult. Also, it might be a little weird to say this, but I think the "main character" in the book is The Land. The different kinds of creatures have a lot of personality, too (e.g., the Waynhim (sp?)). I agree that getting Covenant right would be difficult, but more so the giant. I fear that he and some of the other characters would come of as annoyingly smug in their dedication to the land. But the Bloodguard would just rock.
OK, I'll stop now. I just think this is a highly underrated book; people fixate on the main character and find him wanting, while Donaldson's real achievement is the creation of a rich, multi-textured world which has its own life. I think that's exactly what the book is trying to show us: a character who is so shut up within himself that he has become literally insensitive (or "leprous") with regard to the world of beauty and courage outside him. The contrast is what makes the story compelling, which you won't see if you're expecting a hero.
What was I saying about stopping now?
So, in sum, reports of Bluetooth's all-but-death have been greatly exaggerated?
So, you're saying that Perl 6 is either the work of a genius or it's a madman? Scary thought.
Bill Cosby: "I don't understand why people would choose to do cocaine in the first place. So I asked someone, and he said, 'because it enhances your personality.' And I said, 'OK, but what if you're an asshole?'"
This is the guy he wants to compare himself to?
So, on your theory, a "horse" and a "donkey" can mate to produce a sexually viable offspring? No?
I guess there is something to this whole species thing, then.
The difference is that they're presenting evidence, instead of, say, deciding U.S. energy policy behind closed doors and purposefully excluding any non-industry sources.
Mark Fiore is every bit as funny as Bill Hicks. I mean that sincerely.
So, the car factories in Michigan were closed because workers were lazy, incompetent, or corrupt? Right.
Preferred? It's beta, slow as hell, and still butt-ugly (as you acknowledge). Did I mention that it silently sets itself up as the default application for .doc, .xls, etc.? What a PITA! I hope that it's features will better integrate with OS X as you've mentioned, though I wonder whether it has to be Java-based in order to do that. It's got a looong way to go before it will be the "preferred" implementation. I'd rather see wxWindows made better (and a better fit with OS X).
Last year, I bought an 8500 for $60 on ebay, loaded it up with cheap ram (check here) and thus began my adventure of endless tweaking of X mode lines, etc. :-) But seriously, it was fun.
Also, the yellowdog-general and yellowdog-newbie mailing lists are pretty newbie-friendly.
HTH
Try this, for example.
Example:
- 'free,' in this context, means as it does in 'free speech.'
... you have such trouble with English ....
--"Spank the pinks who try to drive you nuts." --Devo
This is now in constant loop. Thanks a lot!!!
Exactly. Given that people seem largely unable even to mark up documents with HTML properly, my hopes for the proper implementation of a significantly more "robust" ontology are somewhat dim.
So "$500 billion deficit" contains only one word?
Include the word "reasonable" in the license? Courts use a "reasonable person" standard to adjudicate all sorts of situations not explicitly enumerated in law. IANAL, but couldn't something like this be part of the GPL?
What's the anti-music industry?
Yes, but it only appears on a monitor that no one is looking at. Eerie, isnt it?
Indisputably true for the kinds of instruments whose range of expression can be covered by a keyboard. Wind instruments, however, don't fare as well. The problem is not the quality of the samples, but the possibilities of the MIDI format. I know there's aftertouch and the like, but there are so many varieties of attack, sustain, vibrato, release, etc., that I think it can't (presently) be done.
Vangelis? John Tesh? ... (shudder) ... Yanni?
I don't have Garage Band, or a Powerbook for that matter, but you aren't by chance recording all your tracks in 32-bit/192KHz or something crazy like that, are you? Audiophile hype aside, real recording engineers will likely tell you that that super-fast sampling rates are unnecessary. And CD audio is only 16/44. Anyway, my $.02.
Oh, never mind.