I'm not, though it is also a favourite of mine, as are some of the followups, though it was getting a bit silly by the time it reached Ringworld Engineers.
But no, Pratchett has a few sci-fi books out there as well, including Disc World, starring a Ms Kim Ara. It primarilly discusses the ability of very high technology to disguise itself as majic to the less technologically minded, right up to the scale of building a flat "planet", orbitted by an unshielded fusion reactor.
Heh, an animation style based off the older cover art? I'd go for it, though the one adjective that springs to mind is baroque (I must look that one up some day).
I suspect it would have been lost on many of the sophisticated adult readers as it was, if he hadn't had Andre explain it to Agnes a bit before halfway through...
it'll be interesting to see how much the pictsies resemble the small, evil, Ashs from Army of Darkness.
Heh, now that I'd certainly like to see. I fear the (unofficial) censors though. The chance of sneaking through many of the words/actions that made them what they were in the book seem to me at best 50/50.
they're all books that Pratchett aimed at younger readers. So it's not too surprising that you don't enjoy them as much as his others - he didn't write them for you.
I'll bow to this point, certainly. Though I'll still maintain they also don't hold up qualitywise to many of his other works, even when compared only to those already published on the release of each of the younger-aimed books.
Don't get me wrong, seriously, I hold that Pratchetts lesser works tend to dwarf the output of most of his contenders, and I'll re-read Mauriuce over Order of the Phoenix any day. I just don't think it was as great as the award givers claim, and don't feel it was one of his better works.
That is to say, yes it is good. Yes, it may even border on very good, but TP has set his bar so high with his other works that "bordering on very good" just doesn't cut it any more.
I assumed the great-grandparent was referring to the sci-fi work named "Disc World", rather than to the comic fantasy series set on the body of the smae name...
Either would be well worth seeing, but the former is more plausible as a movie release.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them all, and possess hardback copies of all the above (save only Wings) and I don't consider Hat Full of Sky to be one of the lesser items.
Suffice to say, however, that they are the only books of Terry's that I've not re-read at least 4 times apiece. Yes, they are aimed younger, but, well, even allowing for that I do not think they are representative of the genius of both his writing and general humour skills evident elsewhere.
In America both users pay for the time they're on the call...
In countries where laws are written for people rather than for companies and for justice and fairness rather than for profit (including every European country and most Asian countries) the person making the call pays, and the recipient incurs no cost beyond electrical costs for recharging sooner than would otherwise be needed.
Out of curiosity, given that you like dredging through the vaults of history, how does this list compare:- 1. Monetarily against casula vandalism by all-american teens on a year for year basis? 2. On a count of lives against roadkills on a year for year basis? 3. On law officers hours against petty theft on a year for year basis? 4. On a general basis against the collected costs of all of the above and the dozens of other domestic issues that could use the same funding, and possibly even be dealth with without re-writing the constitution and derived laws every 2 days?
Not saying you don't have a point, just askin'....
Right here, right now in China, Shenyang to be exact (city of 7 million, in the northwest), there's been a bit of a clampdown in DVD sales.
This means new releases are no longer available to folks who want to buy them, as there is not one single seller in this city who sells originals.
Or at least, it meant the new releases were off the market for almost one full week. Then the SMS's went around alerting the regular customers of the new location.
They don't do custom work here, but they generally have such a good mix of old movies, new movies and high quality box sets of TV shows that custom items are unnecessary.
So, yeah, some efforts being made, but the general response here has been minor complaining and then mocking of the efforts.
It's also worth noting that the average price of a TV box set (Extremely high quality, with a shop guarantee) comes to 5 yuan a disk (6 if you're not a regular), which translates as approximately 60 cents (Eurocents that is) per DVD.
The *AA have a long, unwinnable battle ahead of it. I would wish them a slow death, but for the benefit of everyone I'll hope they give it up soon and move with the times.
Godwins law : "As a thread continues the probability that a contributor will make a comnparisson involving Hitler or German Nazii actions approaches 1."
It's a pseudo-mathematical (probabilities) law, not an enforced ruling law as passed by some government or other body. It does not say what should be done on or about such occurances, just that the item will occur given sufficient time.
You know, even I, a mere six digit bearer remember when Slashdot used to consist mostly of people with a clue in regard to the subject material, rather than the non-technical form of script kiddie we get these years...
If he suceeds, I'll be following suit against the makers of every FPS multiplayer for discriminating against those of us with lesser visual recognition skills and/or non-perfect trainable twitch reflexes...
What self-respecting space-faring (and at an interstellar level of space-faring to boot) species would give a damn about a lump of rock at the bottom of a gravity well at a mediocre energy level area of the system?
After the asteroid fields been tapped out, and Jupiters moons sold for scrap and Mercury and Venus fully plundered (maybe melted and stretched out to form concave mirrors for solar energy utilisation), then maybe (and only maybe, depending on if they have needs and means for utilising the gas giants) will earth fall into the firing line, and even then only in at level of "leftovers".
Unless of course the asteroid field is whats left of another iron cored planet that some long lived alien species decided to "iron out" the gravity well of.
Actually, the majority _are_ idiots. Not because they're online. Not because they don't know how to use a computer, but rather because the vast majority of people, both online and offline, are idiots.
"Even" here on Slashdot the majority of posts and posters need strong and repeated application of the "-1 : Twit" moderation.
This holds true in all activities, all continents and all walks of life. Most people do not think, will not think and would believe they weren't missing out on anything by not thinking if they ever thought about it.
The people who can and do think are mostly malicious predators.
I have to disagree there. There's world of laughing to be had doing "Johnson's Run" style survival time challenges across the Los Venturas deserts. Plus with just a moderate level of luck it's perfectly possible to hijack a jet from LV airport and spend some time barrel rolling around the heat seeking missiles. Personal best for surviving illegal entry to the 3rd Island is a mere 7 minutes 28 seconds, but I'm not particularly good at the GTA games.
Pilots handle take-offs and landings for the same "if something unexpected happens" reasons.
If something unexpected happens at 50 feet above ground (regardless of whether its ascent or descent) there's not a lot of time to establish control of the aircraft and "make it right" again.
Personally I'd rather take a microlight under my own control than an auto-landed flight. Trusting corporate commercial pilots is bad enough. Not that I think they're safer or anything. I'd just prefer to be kicking the rudder bar all the way down than sitting back trying to ignore the screaming and wailing, regretting a last meal of airline gloop and wishing I could have died in a more comfortable seat...
Proof that the bearer was unable to actually learn about computers in any real or meaningful way, and may just about be safe to allow choose between "Obtain an IP address automatically" and "Use the following IP address" as long as there's and actual computer literate person around to correct it later.
Wow, the pathetic cowards are out in force today... This one sounded off with "Very nice--bragging about threatening to injure people, screaming at children, and stealing others' property in the same post. I'm sure you're a great person to hang out with."
Well, my apologies. Bragging was not intended, but I make no apologies for the actions taken either.
Generally the net result is a quieter, more pleasant, less stressfull journey for everyone except the instigating jerk.
If some jerks will not have to common sense and basic manners required to behave reasonably, and will not take the polite hints/suggestions then the worthwhile people have to decide either to take the shit being handed out, or do something about the problem.
As for the "stealing" charge, well, my plans to continue the policy aside, the actual occurances have technically been "the making safe of a device which was being used illegally to endanger lives".
And yes, I do pinch out other peoples cigarettes if they light up in a no-smoking area.
But here's a key item that I assumed was obvious from the start.
I politely ask the "jerk" to stop first.
Usually I will also follow up with a specific statement of my intent if they decline to stop.
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I'm not, though it is also a favourite of mine, as are some of the followups, though it was getting a bit silly by the time it reached Ringworld Engineers.
But no, Pratchett has a few sci-fi books out there as well, including Disc World, starring a Ms Kim Ara. It primarilly discusses the ability of very high technology to disguise itself as majic to the less technologically minded, right up to the scale of building a flat "planet", orbitted by an unshielded fusion reactor.
Heh, an animation style based off the older cover art? I'd go for it, though the one adjective that springs to mind is baroque (I must look that one up some day).
I suspect it would have been lost on many of the sophisticated adult readers as it was, if he hadn't had Andre explain it to Agnes a bit before halfway through...
it'll be interesting to see how much the pictsies resemble the small, evil, Ashs from Army of Darkness.
Heh, now that I'd certainly like to see. I fear the (unofficial) censors though. The chance of sneaking through many of the words/actions that made them what they were in the book seem to me at best 50/50.
they're all books that Pratchett aimed at younger readers. So it's not too surprising that you don't enjoy them as much as his others - he didn't write them for you.
I'll bow to this point, certainly. Though I'll still maintain they also don't hold up qualitywise to many of his other works, even when compared only to those already published on the release of each of the younger-aimed books.
Don't get me wrong, seriously, I hold that Pratchetts lesser works tend to dwarf the output of most of his contenders, and I'll re-read Mauriuce over Order of the Phoenix any day. I just don't think it was as great as the award givers claim, and don't feel it was one of his better works.
That is to say, yes it is good. Yes, it may even border on very good, but TP has set his bar so high with his other works that "bordering on very good" just doesn't cut it any more.
I assumed the great-grandparent was referring to the sci-fi work named "Disc World", rather than to the comic fantasy series set on the body of the smae name...
Either would be well worth seeing, but the former is more plausible as a movie release.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them all, and possess hardback copies of all the above (save only Wings) and I don't consider Hat Full of Sky to be one of the lesser items.
Suffice to say, however, that they are the only books of Terry's that I've not re-read at least 4 times apiece. Yes, they are aimed younger, but, well, even allowing for that I do not think they are representative of the genius of both his writing and general humour skills evident elsewhere.
...believe it when I see it on DVD.
Why would (one of) the weakest of his works be the one selected? The only way to get worse would be to go to the rats book, or the gnomes books...
It really just doesn't ring true to me.
In America both users pay for the time they're on the call...
In countries where laws are written for people rather than for companies and for justice and fairness rather than for profit (including every European country and most Asian countries) the person making the call pays, and the recipient incurs no cost beyond electrical costs for recharging sooner than would otherwise be needed.
Out of curiosity, given that you like dredging through the vaults of history, how does this list compare :-
1. Monetarily against casula vandalism by all-american teens on a year for year basis?
2. On a count of lives against roadkills on a year for year basis?
3. On law officers hours against petty theft on a year for year basis?
4. On a general basis against the collected costs of all of the above and the dozens of other domestic issues that could use the same funding, and possibly even be dealth with without re-writing the constitution and derived laws every 2 days?
Not saying you don't have a point, just askin'....
Right here, right now in China, Shenyang to be exact (city of 7 million, in the northwest), there's been a bit of a clampdown in DVD sales.
This means new releases are no longer available to folks who want to buy them, as there is not one single seller in this city who sells originals.
Or at least, it meant the new releases were off the market for almost one full week. Then the SMS's went around alerting the regular customers of the new location.
They don't do custom work here, but they generally have such a good mix of old movies, new movies and high quality box sets of TV shows that custom items are unnecessary.
So, yeah, some efforts being made, but the general response here has been minor complaining and then mocking of the efforts.
It's also worth noting that the average price of a TV box set (Extremely high quality, with a shop guarantee) comes to 5 yuan a disk (6 if you're not a regular), which translates as approximately 60 cents (Eurocents that is) per DVD.
The *AA have a long, unwinnable battle ahead of it. I would wish them a slow death, but for the benefit of everyone I'll hope they give it up soon and move with the times.
Godwins law : "As a thread continues the probability that a contributor will make a comnparisson involving Hitler or German Nazii actions approaches 1."
It's a pseudo-mathematical (probabilities) law, not an enforced ruling law as passed by some government or other body. It does not say what should be done on or about such occurances, just that the item will occur given sufficient time.
You know, even I, a mere six digit bearer remember when Slashdot used to consist mostly of people with a clue in regard to the subject material, rather than the non-technical form of script kiddie we get these years...
Nice subject truncation... I do hope it was /. being amusing...
I never mentioned suing, or at least not in this context.
If he suceeds, I'll be following suit against the makers of every FPS multiplayer for discriminating against those of us with lesser visual recognition skills and/or non-perfect trainable twitch reflexes...
What self-respecting space-faring (and at an interstellar level of space-faring to boot) species would give a damn about a lump of rock at the bottom of a gravity well at a mediocre energy level area of the system?
After the asteroid fields been tapped out, and Jupiters moons sold for scrap and Mercury and Venus fully plundered (maybe melted and stretched out to form concave mirrors for solar energy utilisation), then maybe (and only maybe, depending on if they have needs and means for utilising the gas giants) will earth fall into the firing line, and even then only in at level of "leftovers".
Unless of course the asteroid field is whats left of another iron cored planet that some long lived alien species decided to "iron out" the gravity well of.
Actually, the majority _are_ idiots. Not because they're online. Not because they don't know how to use a computer, but rather because the vast majority of people, both online and offline, are idiots.
"Even" here on Slashdot the majority of posts and posters need strong and repeated application of the "-1 : Twit" moderation.
This holds true in all activities, all continents and all walks of life. Most people do not think, will not think and would believe they weren't missing out on anything by not thinking if they ever thought about it.
The people who can and do think are mostly malicious predators.
I have to disagree there. There's world of laughing to be had doing "Johnson's Run" style survival time challenges across the Los Venturas deserts. Plus with just a moderate level of luck it's perfectly possible to hijack a jet from LV airport and spend some time barrel rolling around the heat seeking missiles. Personal best for surviving illegal entry to the 3rd Island is a mere 7 minutes 28 seconds, but I'm not particularly good at the GTA games.
Good for group playing of GTA:SA.
Pilots handle take-offs and landings for the same "if something unexpected happens" reasons.
If something unexpected happens at 50 feet above ground (regardless of whether its ascent or descent) there's not a lot of time to establish control of the aircraft and "make it right" again.
Personally I'd rather take a microlight under my own control than an auto-landed flight. Trusting corporate commercial pilots is bad enough. Not that I think they're safer or anything. I'd just prefer to be kicking the rudder bar all the way down than sitting back trying to ignore the screaming and wailing, regretting a last meal of airline gloop and wishing I could have died in a more comfortable seat...
Then WTF is a MSCE?
Proof that the bearer was unable to actually learn about computers in any real or meaningful way, and may just about be safe to allow choose between "Obtain an IP address automatically" and "Use the following IP address" as long as there's and actual computer literate person around to correct it later.
or possibly 25, if I don't typo the damn number.
24 if you lose the unnecessary and incorrect final comma.
Heh, feel free. Do post a photo if it comes out well...
I wish I could contradict this somehow, but, well, bye and large its accurate.
:-P
Well, we can still point out that at least we're not american.
Wow, the pathetic cowards are out in force today... This one sounded off with "Very nice--bragging about threatening to injure people, screaming at children, and stealing others' property in the same post. I'm sure you're a great person to hang out with."
Well, my apologies. Bragging was not intended, but I make no apologies for the actions taken either.
Generally the net result is a quieter, more pleasant, less stressfull journey for everyone except the instigating jerk.
If some jerks will not have to common sense and basic manners required to behave reasonably, and will not take the polite hints/suggestions then the worthwhile people have to decide either to take the shit being handed out, or do something about the problem.
As for the "stealing" charge, well, my plans to continue the policy aside, the actual occurances have technically been "the making safe of a device which was being used illegally to endanger lives".
And yes, I do pinch out other peoples cigarettes if they light up in a no-smoking area.
But here's a key item that I assumed was obvious from the start.
I politely ask the "jerk" to stop first.
Usually I will also follow up with a specific statement of my intent if they decline to stop.