Obviously, the book is too large to be made into even a three-hour movie, but I found that one large part is missing that I hoped would be covered: the Battle of Bywater. In the book, when Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin arrive back at the Shire, they discover that Saruman and his thugs have enslaved the Hobbits. I have hope that this may be added into an Extended-Edition.
I believe that's exactly the Saruman footage people were complaining had dispaeared from the movie.
That's his point, basically. That there are no shortcuts or easy ways to get a stable, secure system. You have to spend money on either buying or making software. True, to a point, but he fails miserably to apply that logic to OSS:
Less expensive, ergo (worse OR higher maintenance)
He shows an utter lack of grasp on all the ideas behind Free/OSS, and for that I'll have his head
No, sorry... This goes beyond parody. I personaly find it insulting of him to dismiss the work of many, many OSS contributors as a scam.
If he said it was useless, ok.
If he said it was worse than proprietary softtware, ok.
If he just said he did't like because he didn't understand it, ok.
But to make such an assumption on the charachter of lots and lots of people AND companies he clearly has no idea are involved with OSS is just plain, well, stupid.
Yes, instead of having highly paid programmers at Microsoft, IBM, Sun, or even Blackboard build your critical university systems, you can have scores of software gurus scattered around the globe working completely independently build them for you FOR FREE.
He doesn't even get that IBM and sun back OSS projects to some extent.
Yep, Newton and Liebniz discovered calculus around the same time (late 17th century). Liebniz published his works first, but Newton had already used some of the ideas in his 1687 Principia.
On the other hand, it is strriking that so much of out technology was initially developed for military use.
I mean, what does that say about us as a culture? In my view, that either we spend so money in military spending that it winds up leaking to beneficial areas or we are most creative when thinking up ways to destroy one another.
I once took part in a project that intended to digitize millions of newspaper clips, some of them copies of more than 125 years old originals.
That was in 1999.
Digitizing was the easy part, actually, since the pages were convenintly in A4 paper, but the OCR, oh mighty Cthulhu! I was a young and inexperienced one in those days, and OCR software really wasn't up to the task (we didn't have the money to proofread all that text).
I don't have to tell you how disappoiting it was trying to index 1.2Gb of garbled text.
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I believe that's exactly the Saruman footage people were complaining had dispaeared from the movie.
Kriox
Yeah, right.
I heard there's a book that tells the whole sotry of the three movies... And more!!!
And it's written by a good author, too...
Kriox
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He shows an utter lack of grasp on all the ideas behind Free/OSS, and for that I'll have his head
If he said it was useless, ok.
If he said it was worse than proprietary softtware, ok.
If he just said he did't like because he didn't understand it, ok.
But to make such an assumption on the charachter of lots and lots of people AND companies he clearly has no idea are involved with OSS is just plain, well, stupid.
He doesn't even get that IBM and sun back OSS projects to some extent.
What a dimwit!
Actually, they're many used as anti-virus for windows, cf. the rececent worms and e-mail worms.
Is there any digital database that large nowadays?
Posted by michael on Sunday September 28, @21:45
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by fjordboy (169716) on Sunday September 28, @21:48
Man, what's your ISP???
Links:
Newton
Liebniz
I mean, what does that say about us as a culture? In my view, that either we spend so money in military spending that it winds up leaking to beneficial areas or we are most creative when thinking up ways to destroy one another.
Just my two cents.
I once took part in a project that intended to digitize millions of newspaper clips, some of them copies of more than 125 years old originals.
That was in 1999.
Digitizing was the easy part, actually, since the pages were convenintly in A4 paper, but the OCR, oh mighty Cthulhu! I was a young and inexperienced one in those days, and OCR software really wasn't up to the task (we didn't have the money to proofread all that text).
I don't have to tell you how disappoiting it was trying to index 1.2Gb of garbled text.
I miss being naive. =)