Well that's your opinion but in Jackson's opinion, and in my opinion he made a very good set of movies out of the novel which definitely is in keeping with the "spirit" of the novel.
And this still happens with the digital photographs the article is really discussing does it ?
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We all know the nastiness SCO has sunk to and we don't like it but the most satisfiying solution will be to watch them crash and burn in court.
Defacing SCO's site doesn't do any damage to SCO, in fact the opposite because they can now cast "The Linux" community in a negative light. Amusing as the new logo is, someone has still most likely broken the law in placing it there and so SCO can say with some justification that some of their opponents are willing to even break the law to get at them.
So yes, it is amusing and it is just a bit of minor vandalism but on balance I would rather whoever did this hadn't done it because it is just more grist for SCO's FUD mill.
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Are you saying that Osama doesn't get any presents at Christmas ?
I am disgusted that Santa obviously knows the location of all these enemies of peace but refuses to share that information with our intelligence services, on that basis he is definitely a supporter of terrorism and steps should be taken accordingly...
Shit yeah, the dumb f*ck - how the hell does he think the Reindeer can breathe in space, just because they can fly doesn't mean they have some sort of magic powers or specially tailored spacesuits.
Damn, satellites being taken out, earthquakes in Japan and dolphins committing mass suicide in Australia.
The facts all point to this being either the second coming or an alien invasion. I cannot believe no one is doing anything about this, the psychic viewing community have been warning about exactly this kind of disaster for weeks now and the Church has known about it for even longer. Why are they covering this up ?
Wait, I am picking up their carrier waves on the plate in my head, they say they will ban TV, Gays and Fornication but offer us all the opportunity of at least 4 fully accredited abductions per family and provide live reconstructions of the of the Raputure. They have big eyes, funny shaped heads but big hands and huge crosses and we should welcome them.
I think that's bang on, if there is ever an economic or strategic benfit in having installations on Mars then anyone who can get there to take control of whatever income stream has been discovered will go, anyone who can't afford to go will have no say whatsoever in what then happens.
Once countries, corporations, extremely wealthy private adventurers or whoever are up there they will be do what the hell they want and there's not going to be anything anyone can do to stop them. If they are reliant on some kind of supplies from Earth then perhaps control of those can be used to dictate what they can and can't do but anyone with a fully independant supply line is pretty much going to be able to make up there own rules.
That is a very boring strategy. It would be a lot easier to study Mars with people in place on the planet doing the studying than relying on remote probes etc.
Definitely scientfic study should be the first thing which happens and then if these studies turn up anything useful or valuable then colonisation of some sort will not be far away if it proves viable.
We shouldn't ignore the science and we should take long term factors into account in our decisions on Mars but we shouldn't let that stand in the way of exploration and possible colonisation, you can stand and stare at something for years and never know what it is or how it works until you get stuck in and up close and personal with it.
In any case it is all fairly academic, if anything is discovered on Mars which would justify the cost of going there to get it you can bet that any country who could afford to go there and get it would be straight out of the blocks and there'd be very little control you could excercise over what happened on a planet millions of miles away if you cannot get there yourself to impose your ideas.
"Evolutionists" ( or Scientists as they are otherwise known ) do not look as stupid or behave as moronically irrationally as "Creationists "or over zealous religious nutcases as they are otherwise known ).
I can't see why Religion in general or fundamental religious zealots like Creationists in particular have such a problem with Evolution, eventually you all accepted that the Earth does orbit the Sun and computers do work thanks to Electricty and not the divine spirit of the lord.
The only reason I can see why you cannot accept evolution or add anything sensible to the scientific process is some kind of desire to prove that everything written in the Bible is true, this is not so much celebrating your faith in god as a selfish desire to prove that you are right and people should do as you say.
So unless you have anything sensible to say please shut up.
Where on earth are you buying your beers ? £1.60 is the standard price for a pint and if I go into town I will accept paying £2.50 but that is the absolute limit.
Radia is a bloomin' pain in the neck, the last place I worked used Radia and it was horrible ( Radia it's self is possibly very nice and useful, it's the way it was implemented that was annoying ).
Company polict stated that everyone should always turn off there PC's when they left for the day and you'd get moaned at if you didn't. The Radia team told everyone they must keep their PC's on at all times but this was never company policy.
Every morning it would take 20mins or so for Radia to install all the nights patches and reboot the PC's a couple of times. At random times during the day it would also reboot your PC automatically for you if you didn't notice what was happening quickly enough to stop it.
Various PC's were being used as servers but not offically classed as such ( due to the excessive hurt and pain involved in that process ) and they also would reboot themselves randomly cause outages on whatever they were doing.
Some PC's were still Windows 95 and Radia would never manage to install anything on them, just keep crashing, rebooting indefinitely.
In the end I managed to delete enough of it that it stopped working and gave me some peace of mind.
I think the lesson here is not to just deploy cool new tools willy nilly without assessing their place in your working practices.
That buffet thing is bang on, every time management had a meeting on our floor it would take the starving call centre staff 30mins + to finish off all the food they had left and wanted to throw away.
I am out of work at the moment but luckily still have enough redundancy money left not to have to put myself through the signing on hell.
Last time I was out of work looking for IT work the jobcentre couldn't suggest a single suitable job in something like 3 months of trying. If I had wanted a job in a burger van, hotel, hairdressing or as a receptionist or secretary I'd have been laughing. Anything other than that and you have no hope of them ever offering you a suitable job so it just turns into a farce you have to go through to get your cash.
"What have you been doing to look for work this week then ?" "I have looked on Jobserve quite a lot" "Jobserve, what's that ? I've never heard of it, have you tried looking in the local free papers ?" "Grrrrr, look just gimme my money !"
I think you'll find that a large proportion of the worlds electical trash ends up in China anyway where it is recycled or burnt by people suffering from various pollution related illnesses. I don't think mailing them any amount of CD's is going to make a blind bit of difference.
Yes, I have just watched one of their short informational films and they are the internet which won't cut you off after 10mins so you can always finish downloading those pictures of your wacky mates at parties.
I can only assume that all the other UK based internet providers all have policies where they only allow you 2megabyte download limits per week.
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Well that's your opinion but in Jackson's opinion, and in my opinion he made a very good set of movies out of the novel which definitely is in keeping with the "spirit" of the novel.
If your artistic vision happens to be one big cliche in the first place then you'll probably be quite content with it's conversion to film.
Yes, it doesn't work with the PNG but if you can get a copy of the actual paper it's like one of those magic eye posters.
And this still happens with the digital photographs the article is really discussing does it ?
We all know the nastiness SCO has sunk to and we don't like it but the most satisfiying solution will be to watch them crash and burn in court.
Defacing SCO's site doesn't do any damage to SCO, in fact the opposite because they can now cast "The Linux" community in a negative light. Amusing as the new logo is, someone has still most likely broken the law in placing it there and so SCO can say with some justification that some of their opponents are willing to even break the law to get at them.
So yes, it is amusing and it is just a bit of minor vandalism but on balance I would rather whoever did this hadn't done it because it is just more grist for SCO's FUD mill.
Very relevant for a change
Are you saying that Osama doesn't get any presents at Christmas ?
I am disgusted that Santa obviously knows the location of all these enemies of peace but refuses to share that information with our intelligence services, on that basis he is definitely a supporter of terrorism and steps should be taken accordingly...
Shit yeah, the dumb f*ck - how the hell does he think the Reindeer can breathe in space, just because they can fly doesn't mean they have some sort of magic powers or specially tailored spacesuits.
Damn, satellites being taken out, earthquakes in Japan and dolphins committing mass suicide in Australia.
The facts all point to this being either the second coming or an alien invasion. I cannot believe no one is doing anything about this, the psychic viewing community have been warning about exactly this kind of disaster for weeks now and the Church has known about it for even longer. Why are they covering this up ?
Wait, I am picking up their carrier waves on the plate in my head, they say they will ban TV, Gays and Fornication but offer us all the opportunity of at least 4 fully accredited abductions per family and provide live reconstructions of the of the Raputure. They have big eyes, funny shaped heads but big hands and huge crosses and we should welcome them.
I think that's bang on, if there is ever an economic or strategic benfit in having installations on Mars then anyone who can get there to take control of whatever income stream has been discovered will go, anyone who can't afford to go will have no say whatsoever in what then happens.
Once countries, corporations, extremely wealthy private adventurers or whoever are up there they will be do what the hell they want and there's not going to be anything anyone can do to stop them. If they are reliant on some kind of supplies from Earth then perhaps control of those can be used to dictate what they can and can't do but anyone with a fully independant supply line is pretty much going to be able to make up there own rules.
That is a very boring strategy. It would be a lot easier to study Mars with people in place on the planet doing the studying than relying on remote probes etc.
Definitely scientfic study should be the first thing which happens and then if these studies turn up anything useful or valuable then colonisation of some sort will not be far away if it proves viable.
We shouldn't ignore the science and we should take long term factors into account in our decisions on Mars but we shouldn't let that stand in the way of exploration and possible colonisation, you can stand and stare at something for years and never know what it is or how it works until you get stuck in and up close and personal with it.
In any case it is all fairly academic, if anything is discovered on Mars which would justify the cost of going there to get it you can bet that any country who could afford to go there and get it would be straight out of the blocks and there'd be very little control you could excercise over what happened on a planet millions of miles away if you cannot get there yourself to impose your ideas.
Yes, if we don't know about any problems being created then how can we worry about them ?
Is this the US media build up to an invasion of China or the beginnings of a campaign against China overtaking the US in manufacturing power ?
"Evolutionists" ( or Scientists as they are otherwise known ) do not look as stupid or behave as moronically irrationally as "Creationists "or over zealous religious nutcases as they are otherwise known ).
I can't see why Religion in general or fundamental religious zealots like Creationists in particular have such a problem with Evolution, eventually you all accepted that the Earth does orbit the Sun and computers do work thanks to Electricty and not the divine spirit of the lord.
The only reason I can see why you cannot accept evolution or add anything sensible to the scientific process is some kind of desire to prove that everything written in the Bible is true, this is not so much celebrating your faith in god as a selfish desire to prove that you are right and people should do as you say.
So unless you have anything sensible to say please shut up.
If he is Welsh then I believe those activities are encouraged.
Where on earth are you buying your beers ? £1.60 is the standard price for a pint and if I go into town I will accept paying £2.50 but that is the absolute limit.
It's certainly not a Feather In The Cap.
Doesn't Radia work on Linux boxes too? There is a tool very much like it which does I'm sure.
Radia is a bloomin' pain in the neck, the last place I worked used Radia and it was horrible ( Radia it's self is possibly very nice and useful, it's the way it was implemented that was annoying ).
Company polict stated that everyone should always turn off there PC's when they left for the day and you'd get moaned at if you didn't. The Radia team told everyone they must keep their PC's on at all times but this was never company policy.
Every morning it would take 20mins or so for Radia to install all the nights patches and reboot the PC's a couple of times. At random times during the day it would also reboot your PC automatically for you if you didn't notice what was happening quickly enough to stop it.
Various PC's were being used as servers but not offically classed as such ( due to the excessive hurt and pain involved in that process ) and they also would reboot themselves randomly cause outages on whatever they were doing.
Some PC's were still Windows 95 and Radia would never manage to install anything on them, just keep crashing, rebooting indefinitely.
In the end I managed to delete enough of it that it stopped working and gave me some peace of mind.
I think the lesson here is not to just deploy cool new tools willy nilly without assessing their place in your working practices.
Hey, you must work at the same place I did !
That buffet thing is bang on, every time management had a meeting on our floor it would take the starving call centre staff 30mins + to finish off all the food they had left and wanted to throw away.
I am out of work at the moment but luckily still have enough redundancy money left not to have to put myself through the signing on hell.
Last time I was out of work looking for IT work the jobcentre couldn't suggest a single suitable job in something like 3 months of trying. If I had wanted a job in a burger van, hotel, hairdressing or as a receptionist or secretary I'd have been laughing. Anything other than that and you have no hope of them ever offering you a suitable job so it just turns into a farce you have to go through to get your cash.
"What have you been doing to look for work this week then ?"
"I have looked on Jobserve quite a lot"
"Jobserve, what's that ? I've never heard of it, have you tried looking in the local free papers ?"
"Grrrrr, look just gimme my money !"
Just as well my phone can transfer stuff to the PC with bluetooth then isn't it !
Just checking the referrer details and watching for a cluster of ones saying slashdot might be a more efficient method.
I think you'll find that a large proportion of the worlds electical trash ends up in China anyway where it is recycled or burnt by people suffering from various pollution related illnesses. I don't think mailing them any amount of CD's is going to make a blind bit of difference.
Yes, I have just watched one of their short informational films and they are the internet which won't cut you off after 10mins so you can always finish downloading those pictures of your wacky mates at parties.
I can only assume that all the other UK based internet providers all have policies where they only allow you 2megabyte download limits per week.