you really should watch the directors commentary of TTT. They explain why they made all the changes they did.
They changed Faramir's character because they spent the entire first movie building up the power of the ring and how desirable it is. Even Gandalf doesn't watch to touch it because he fears being corrupted. To then have the Faramir character from the books appear and say "I would not pick up the ring if it lay by the side of the road" would destroy all power the ring is supposed to have.
you obviously don't understand the hard core lotr fans. They take these books and stories Far more seriously than any historical event. If jackson had screwed with the timeline of the books then they would of had his head. They whined enough as it is about the small changes he made.
There are entire books written about frodo's journey and the events that are happening in other parts of the world. People will have read them, and they will be pissed if jackson changed it. Cry's of "Tolkien spinning in his grave".
Also the events do connect. Obviously the battle outside mordor happens just as Frodo chucks the ring into mount doom. Also the signal of the attack on minas tirith (sp?) both parties saw.
The book is completely different to the movie in the way it presents the story. The book seperated the two stories. First you read book 3 which covered merry pippin etc etc. Then once finished with their story you read book 4 which covered Frodo and Sam. The timelines don't intermix.
But in the movie you can't present the stories that way, it would be confusing. They interwove all the events together, as such all the timelines had to match each other or they would not be accurate. That means in the movie it is not possible to put Shelob at the end of TTT because those event correspond do not correspond with the rest of the events.
It is not possible to put Shelob into the end of The Two Towers movie. The time lines between the two stories do not match up. So in the books the end of the Merry, Pippin, Aragorn etc story happens much earlier in time than the Shelob incident.
But doesn't the fact that they specifically state they do not have spyware give people the ability to sue them for false advertising if they do have spyware?
"it is naive of us to believe that anything so transcribed, translated, and retranslated by fallible men is the infallible word of God."
One of my favorite mistranslations has to be "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
I always hated that quote. Who the hell tries to pass a camel through the eye of a needle. It sounds like the kind of thing a stoned man would say. Was Jesus high at the time?
Well it turns out that it may of been a mistranslation from the greek version of the bible. The word kamilos ('camel') should really be kamêlos, meaning 'cable, rope'. Now rope makes much more sense. If we can't even get simple things like that correct, how much of the bible is correctly translated, and how can people take it literally?
"What developed the West, what set it apart from the rest, was *science*, not religion."
Actually I would say it was the other way round. Religon has always been the "power" in western society. The Church has always dictated the direction of thinking and belief. If something doesn't agree with their rules they persecute it. Galileo for example.
Eastern culture has always been based more on spiritual guidelines than hard doctrine and made many technilogical advances long before western society.
Actually your ping times will not improve. After a certain bandwidth your ping time will be determined by the quality of the network, and how far you are from the server. A standard ADSL connection will provide you with the best ping times already as long as you are not throttling your bandwidth anywhere downloading more porn...
P2/P3, typo, whatever. The point was, because of what AMD released they had to scramble to compete so they just took an existing processor and ripped out the cache. The result was a CPU that was complete rubbish. It may be a similar situation here again. A rushed product that won't perform until the next generation.
This will probably be a similar situation to the original Celerons. Where AMD released a cheap CPU, and Intel had to scramble to release a similar product, and what came out was just a neutered P3 rebranded as Celeron, and was really quite crap.
People who make blanket statements like "Security through obscurity is bad" really annoy me. What a load of crap.
Secuirty through obscurity is bad when it's the only form of security. However, what is bad about using it to enhance existing security? What is bad about making things that little bit more difficult for a hacker?
No where in this has the author said you should replace your existing security models with this. All it's done is add another layer to help disguise your existing security making it that much harder to crack. No one has "shifted" the security anywhere.
And then in a fantastic display of superiour Artificial Intelligence, and good sportsmanship, the machines decided to give the humans a chance by staying tightly bunched together allowing them to be easily shot.
Not only that but their superiour tactics dictated that instead of actually attacking every threat in the room they should just fly round in circles looking cool.
Yeah they are great. But their timing sucks. They should of waited a couple weeks. With so many releases all at once there aren't enough insightful comments/. readers can make and post across 3 different articles without repeating themselves!
Adrian Cronauer: Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause of the leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.
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you really should watch the directors commentary of TTT. They explain why they made all the changes they did.
They changed Faramir's character because they spent the entire first movie building up the power of the ring and how desirable it is. Even Gandalf doesn't watch to touch it because he fears being corrupted. To then have the Faramir character from the books appear and say "I would not pick up the ring if it lay by the side of the road" would destroy all power the ring is supposed to have.
you obviously don't understand the hard core lotr fans. They take these books and stories Far more seriously than any historical event. If jackson had screwed with the timeline of the books then they would of had his head. They whined enough as it is about the small changes he made.
There are entire books written about frodo's journey and the events that are happening in other parts of the world. People will have read them, and they will be pissed if jackson changed it. Cry's of "Tolkien spinning in his grave".
Also the events do connect. Obviously the battle outside mordor happens just as Frodo chucks the ring into mount doom. Also the signal of the attack on minas tirith (sp?) both parties saw.
That argument is stupid.
The book is completely different to the movie in the way it presents the story. The book seperated the two stories. First you read book 3 which covered merry pippin etc etc. Then once finished with their story you read book 4 which covered Frodo and Sam. The timelines don't intermix.
But in the movie you can't present the stories that way, it would be confusing. They interwove all the events together, as such all the timelines had to match each other or they would not be accurate. That means in the movie it is not possible to put Shelob at the end of TTT because those event correspond do not correspond with the rest of the events.
It is not possible to put Shelob into the end of The Two Towers movie. The time lines between the two stories do not match up. So in the books the end of the Merry, Pippin, Aragorn etc story happens much earlier in time than the Shelob incident.
The movies shows this timeline correctly.
Those figures you gave are for 0-60. The figures in the article are 0-100. That can make a lot of difference.
A Porche will outdrag a Jet fighter on take off over a short distance as well. It's just that given a longer distance the jet does much better.
But doesn't the fact that they specifically state they do not have spyware give people the ability to sue them for false advertising if they do have spyware?
From the FAQ
http://www.skype.com/help/faq/index.html
Does Skype contain any advertising or spyware?
No.
"it is naive of us to believe that anything so transcribed, translated, and retranslated by fallible men is the infallible word of God."
One of my favorite mistranslations has to be
"it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
I always hated that quote. Who the hell tries to pass a camel through the eye of a needle. It sounds like the kind of thing a stoned man would say. Was Jesus high at the time?
Well it turns out that it may of been a mistranslation from the greek version of the bible. The word kamilos ('camel') should really be kamêlos, meaning 'cable, rope'. Now rope makes much more sense. If we can't even get simple things like that correct, how much of the bible is correctly translated, and how can people take it literally?
"What developed the West, what set it apart from the rest, was *science*, not religion."
Actually I would say it was the other way round. Religon has always been the "power" in western society. The Church has always dictated the direction of thinking and belief. If something doesn't agree with their rules they persecute it. Galileo for example.
Eastern culture has always been based more on spiritual guidelines than hard doctrine and made many technilogical advances long before western society.
That sounds like the documentary Disney did on lemmings.
The found out that lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs. So they chased them off and filmed it.
It's probably for this very reason that in the future they build Madison Cube Gardens
Wow! This is a great way to preempt a dying web server. Post the entire article in the summary instead of relying on karma whores.
Oh wait... I understand now.
I am serious when I say this, but I actually did see a swimming coach who put a crocodile into the pool to encourage his students to swim faster.
/ au stralia.crocs/
Apparently it worked too.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9810/09/fringe
Only on /. would this get modded as +4 Insightful.
I just got a mental image of 100's of nerds rushing out of their house to try and find a copy of the movie
P2/P3, typo, whatever. The point was, because of what AMD released they had to scramble to compete so they just took an existing processor and ripped out the cache. The result was a CPU that was complete rubbish. It may be a similar situation here again. A rushed product that won't perform until the next generation.
This will probably be a similar situation to the original Celerons. Where AMD released a cheap CPU, and Intel had to scramble to release a similar product, and what came out was just a neutered P3 rebranded as Celeron, and was really quite crap.
People who make blanket statements like "Security through obscurity is bad" really annoy me. What a load of crap.
Secuirty through obscurity is bad when it's the only form of security. However, what is bad about using it to enhance existing security? What is bad about making things that little bit more difficult for a hacker?
No where in this has the author said you should replace your existing security models with this. All it's done is add another layer to help disguise your existing security making it that much harder to crack. No one has "shifted" the security anywhere.
This has been modded to +4 Informative?
What the hell are you all thinking? The more people who know about her the more unlikely it is you are going to date her!
And then in a fantastic display of superiour Artificial Intelligence, and good sportsmanship, the machines decided to give the humans a chance by staying tightly bunched together allowing them to be easily shot.
Not only that but their superiour tactics dictated that instead of actually attacking every threat in the room they should just fly round in circles looking cool.
Sometimes the simplest of changes *is* a monumental accomplishment.
Yeah they are great. But their timing sucks. They should of waited a couple weeks. With so many releases all at once there aren't enough insightful comments /. readers can make and post across 3 different articles without repeating themselves!
Adrian Cronauer: Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause of the leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.
My mistake. I got this competition mixed up with the official PHP5 competition
Yes it's for a contest. But the very first criteria is "Your PHP 5 application should be something that is potentially useful to the PHP community."
This is not useful in any way as far as I can tell.
It's like trying to enter your volkswagon beetle in Formula 1 race. Totally pointless.