>> I've never been much of a fan of large computer books and, to be honest, this one hasn't done much to change my opinion.
Large books should be used as a reference tool and not a novel. I rarely read an *entire* 1000 page book... Skip the newbie chapters. Read the important ones and reference the odds and ends when necessary.
A YELLOWING manuscript by J.R.R.Tolkien discovered in an Oxford library could become one of the publishing sensations of 2003.
The 2000 handwritten pages include Tolkien's translation and appraisal of Beowulf, the epic 8th century Anglo-Saxon poem of bravery, friendship and monster-slaying that is thought to have inspired The Lord of the Rings.
He borrowed from early English verse to concoct the imaginary language spoken by Arwen, played by Liv Tyler, and other elves in the second film made from the Rings books, The Two Towers.
A US academic, Michael Drout, found the Tolkien material by accident in a box of papers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
An assistant professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, Dr Drout was researching Anglo- Saxon scholarship at the Bodleian, and asked to see a copy of a lecture on Beowulf given by Tolkien in 1936.
It was brought to him in a reading room in a large box. Professor Drout, who reads Anglo-Saxon prose to his two-year-old daughter at bedtime, said: "I was sitting there going through the transcripts when I saw these four bound volumes at the bottom of the box.
"I started looking through, and realised I had found an entire book of material that had never seen the light of day. As I turned the page, there was Tolkien's fingerprint in a smudge of ink."
After obtaining permission from the Tolkien estate, Professor Drout published Beowulf and the Critics, a version of Tolkien's 1936 lecture, in the US earlier this month.
Even more exciting will be Tolkien's translation of the poem and his line-by-line interpretation of its meaning, which will be published next summer.
Tolkien's name on the cover is likely to make the translation a bestseller.
Professor Drout says Tolkien found inspiration for many of his storylines and characters in Beowulf. The Anglo-Saxon hero's friendship with Wiglaf is mirrored in the relationship between Frodo and Sam in The Lord of the Rings.
Elves, orcs and ents, the latter a type of giant that becomes a walking and talking tree in Tolkien's work, are all mentioned in Beowulf.
Merlin Unwin, son of Tolkien's original publisher, said: "Beowulf is a wonderful story, and if you put Tolkien's name to it, it would probably be a great commercial success."
But lately, they have gotten desprate (with the fall out of the Internet advertising market). Annoying Flash ads and Popus are all over Yahoo. They even added banners to Yahoo IM (and some of them are HUGE).
"If the open-source folks just want to copy what's already out there, why not look around more? Surely they can find something more interesting than a copy of a copy of a copy."
This is what I have been saying all along. I wish we could get a window manager more like Mac OS X and less like Windows 95.
Are there any projects out there that are really working on innovations in the GUI area? I know that RedHat 8.0 's BlueCurve is a nice start.
RedHat posted its first profit ever last week. I don't recall them ever asking for donations. Maybe they should buy Mandrake and dislove it/convert their user base to RH 8.0.
#86 - The Beowulf cluster. #87 - The first post robot. #88 - The last post robot. #89 - Underpants gnomes (Phase 1, 2, 3, etc). #90 - Microsoft Tablet PC. #91 - Microsoft.Net
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I live in Wichita, KS. There are a lot of small to medium sized business here. But, there aren't any sources of consultants for that market. Small businesses here are starving for IT help. I make quite a bit of $ catering to to them (on the side).
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>> I've never been much of a fan of large computer books and, to be honest, this one hasn't done much to change my opinion.
Large books should be used as a reference tool and not a novel. I rarely read an *entire* 1000 page book... Skip the newbie chapters. Read the important ones and reference the odds and ends when necessary.
Incase it gets /.ed.
New Tolkien book discovered
December 30, 2002
A YELLOWING manuscript by J.R.R.Tolkien discovered in an Oxford library could become one of the publishing sensations of 2003.
The 2000 handwritten pages include Tolkien's translation and appraisal of Beowulf, the epic 8th century Anglo-Saxon poem of bravery, friendship and monster-slaying that is thought to have inspired The Lord of the Rings.
He borrowed from early English verse to concoct the imaginary language spoken by Arwen, played by Liv Tyler, and other elves in the second film made from the Rings books, The Two Towers.
A US academic, Michael Drout, found the Tolkien material by accident in a box of papers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
An assistant professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, Dr Drout was researching Anglo- Saxon scholarship at the Bodleian, and asked to see a copy of a lecture on Beowulf given by Tolkien in 1936.
It was brought to him in a reading room in a large box. Professor Drout, who reads Anglo-Saxon prose to his two-year-old daughter at bedtime, said: "I was sitting there going through the transcripts when I saw these four bound volumes at the bottom of the box.
"I started looking through, and realised I had found an entire book of material that had never seen the light of day. As I turned the page, there was Tolkien's fingerprint in a smudge of ink."
After obtaining permission from the Tolkien estate, Professor Drout published Beowulf and the Critics, a version of Tolkien's 1936 lecture, in the US earlier this month.
Even more exciting will be Tolkien's translation of the poem and his line-by-line interpretation of its meaning, which will be published next summer.
Tolkien's name on the cover is likely to make the translation a bestseller.
Professor Drout says Tolkien found inspiration for many of his storylines and characters in Beowulf. The Anglo-Saxon hero's friendship with Wiglaf is mirrored in the relationship between Frodo and Sam in The Lord of the Rings.
Elves, orcs and ents, the latter a type of giant that becomes a walking and talking tree in Tolkien's work, are all mentioned in Beowulf.
Merlin Unwin, son of Tolkien's original publisher, said: "Beowulf is a wonderful story, and if you put Tolkien's name to it, it would probably be a great commercial success."
This wouldn't happen. Russians can't afford the bandwidth.
u had to use your +1 bonus for that? what a shame.
Wait until Microsoft starts with this Palladium thing. Market conditions will be just right for an x86 release for Mac OS X.
The ultimate aggressive move would be to release Marklar, the x86 version of Mac OS X.
Thanks, someone also mentioned Natalie Portman. I must of missed that one. Can you explain who Natalie Portman is?
I was downloading at 300k till all the mirrors were slashdotted. Oh well, might as well Karma Whore.
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Soviet Russia
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/b
http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta
Canada
ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redh
USA East
ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta
ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/mirrors/redhat/lin
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/re
http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/lin
ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redha
ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/li
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/li
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirror
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat
ftp://chuck.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/lin
ftp://mirror.pa.msu.edu/lin
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/redhat
ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.ed
USA Central
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/linux/redhat/l
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/re
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu
rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.e
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mir
ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/redhat
http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/redhat/lin
http://redhat.netnitco.net/redhat/linux/beta/p
USA West
ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/beta/pho
Pacific
Australia
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/redh
http://redhat.pacific.net.au/re
Hawaii
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/redh
>>When Yahoo infused its front page
Lately the only thing infused into yahoos front page is dancing shockwave ads!
But lately, they have gotten desprate (with the fall out of the Internet advertising market). Annoying Flash ads and Popus are all over Yahoo. They even added banners to Yahoo IM (and some of them are HUGE).
Long live banner free Google!
It's great that they keep adding all these cool features to cell phones... But when are they going to start working as phones?
Here is a typical cell phone conversation:
(Ring, Ring)
Hello. Hello? Can you hear me now? I said can you here me now? Hang on.
Or maybe the service is just crapy where I live.
You convert it from Jap to Russian.
This is what I have been saying all along. I wish we could get a window manager more like Mac OS X and less like Windows 95.
Are there any projects out there that are really working on innovations in the GUI area? I know that RedHat 8.0 's BlueCurve is a nice start.
Dont forget...
All your base...
RedHat posted its first profit ever last week. I don't recall them ever asking for donations. Maybe they should buy Mandrake and dislove it/convert their user base to RH 8.0.
They weren't maintaining so many websites...
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http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
http://www.mandra
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/
http:/
http://www.mandrakebizca
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/
http://ww
http://www.mandrakesecure.net
http://www.mandrakeonline.net/
Disclaimer 2.0: All your cellphone are belong to us. See stores for details. Offer void in MD, TX, CA, FL.
#86 - The Beowulf cluster. .Net
#87 - The first post robot.
#88 - The last post robot.
#89 - Underpants gnomes (Phase 1, 2, 3, etc).
#90 - Microsoft Tablet PC.
#91 - Microsoft
Sony is working on one, but it hasn't hit the market (that I know of) yet. Personally, I use DVD-R (it came with my Mac).
Here is a list of what other vendors are using:
Apple: DVD-R
Dell: DVD+R
Gateway: DVD-R
HP: DVD+R
I like the -R format, it seems to work well. Haven't tried the +R yet but I'll bet it's just as good.
DVD-RAM is not worth worrying about.
lol. Thats good but you forgot the obligatory Soviet Russia comment...
In USA: Don't imagine a beowolf cluster of these things!
In Soviet Russia: Do imagine a beowolf cluster of these things!
I live in Wichita, KS. There are a lot of small to medium sized business here. But, there aren't any sources of consultants for that market. Small businesses here are starving for IT help. I make quite a bit of $ catering to to them (on the side).
Interesting how many times MILF (or varations) shows up on that list.
I actually scored with a few MILFs. It was geat!
Who in the heck uses Google to find porn?
Newsgroups and P2P are the geeks porn engines >:)
To anymore who can make the moon would land on Soviet Russia.