Whether this company is BSing or not, were still getting to the point where technology is getting smaller and smaller, Look how far computers have come along, even compared to 10 years ago, most of the stuff we have was just someones pipe dream, and compared to 30years ago, most of it was science fiction at best.
The only things holding us back realisticly is major coprerations censoring the information that is available to the masses, technological advances that would revolutionalise industries and hence make them loose profits.
Where would we be today if during the industrial revolution the protestors had won? We would still be in the dark ages, no electricity, no machines, no technology.
There are of course many benefits to actually updating, and unlike windows, once its updated you then dont usually need to get 6 or 7 patches to fix the subsequent release of 'fixes' that get released, until they accidentaly manage to release one that is stable enough for them to ignore the relatively small number of user complaints... But I don't want to start an anti MS thread here.
Anyway, benefits... Although it can take a little while to get used to the new kernal and to impliment the changes, and either recompile or get other patches for the software your running, in the long run it adds greater running efficiency and security. which todays world is never something to be sniffed at.
.... Indeed, although it was not then called
The Silmarillion, it was already in being half a century ago; and in battered notebooks extending back to 1917 can still be read the earliest versions, often hastily pencilled, of the central stories of the mythology. But it was never published (although some indication of its content could be gleaned from The Lord of the Rings, and throughout my father's long life he never abandoned it, nor ceased even in his last years to work on it. In all that time The Silmarillion, considered simply as a large narrative structure, under-went relatively little radical change; it became long ago a fixed tradition, and background to later writings. But it was far indeed from being a fixed text, and did not remain unchanged even in certain fundemental ideas concerning the nature of the world it protrays;.......
On my father's death it fell to me to try to bring the work into publishable form. It became clear to me that to attempt to present, within the covers of a single book, the diversity of the materials-to show
the Silmarillion as in truth a continuing and evolving creation extending over more than half a century-would in fact lead only to more confusion and the submerging of what is essential. I set myself therefore to work out a single text, selecting and arranging in such a way as seemed to me to produce the most coherent and internally self-consistent narrative....
J.R.R. Tolkien The Silmarillion published 1998, Foreward pages 10-11 by Christopher Tolkien.
Not that I don't believe you in any way, I was taking my comments from what I recalled, so I got my book off the shelf and re-read it. I don't have a copy of the letter you mentioned, but I shall have a look in some book shops come monday:) I really should get a new copy of this book anyway, its been fingered so many times the pages are unfortunatly not looking as pristine as they once did
From what I understand of script kiddies they mostly do stuff from sheer boredom (what ever happened to the good ole outdoors?) and for the extra pseudo attention they get from it.
Surely by attempting to interview and do articles on this 'culture' they are just pandering to the desires of these script kiddies. And rather than helping them to realise that they need to grow up etc, the extra attention is only going to make them have a greater desire to wreak havock with their 'leet skills'
Thats got to be the worst dragon I have ever seen. and for 18k? I would hardly say that people don't know what a dragon 'looks' like. There are many pictures/representations of what people perceive dragons to look like, and I would hazard a guess that a class of 5year olds could come up with a more 'realistic' design.
The Mark Tilden guy that had the $100 dollar robots, now they were good. and they could run and wouldnt fall over etc. Now get a few of them hooked up with sensors and you would have a decent house guard, and I bet it would come under $200
You have to take into account that this book, and all others that were released by his son were mostly just the notes that Tolkien used in the creation of his world, and for the most part were never intended for publication. If your writing something for yourself you write it completly different then if you are going to write for others to read.
The Silmarillion is all back-ground to the main story of LOTR, and although hard to get though it certainly gives many insights into the world as a whole. Not one to put into film, but definatly a book for anybody who wants to really get to grips with the works of J.R.R Tolkien
IMHO The Hobbit was more than just a 'childrens' book. You could say that Harry Potter is a 'childrens' book, but look at the vast audience it has gained.
Tolkien is one of the greates writers for his genre, theres a reason that people attempt to emulate him, and it is because he is renowned for his work.
I would love to see this made into a film, with the amount of effort that jackson put into the trilogy you know that he will make an amazing adaptation of The Hobbit. Yes large portions of the book were missed out, but overall given how long it lasted with these bits missing, could you see anyone but die hard Tokien fans going to watch it if each one was 5 hours long?
Ian as a hobbit would be different though, I don't quite see how jackson could quite get that as a prequel,
I've found that giving a fairly simple explanation to the user why they can't have product on their computer usually solves a lot of the user vs. admin problems.
We get on well with most of our users, and they respect the policies that we have made, not that they are draconian by any means. This I would attribute to the level of comunication, which comunication is 2 way. When people ask for certain items on their computers we dont just say 'no, bugger off' but we give them a valid reason, as to why, and in most cases also give them a suggested alternative as well.
Now you notice I said most of our users, of course you get the ones that just keep bitchin and moaning, but they just get blacklisted, so to speak, and just about any request they make is rejected:)
I know it seems like it's not worth the effort sometimes when they just can't get the point, but overall the more we educate our users the less time we have to spend responding to silly requests.
At the end of the day, we can only continue to hope that as more and more of these cases are highlighted, that the people that are supposed to represent us in government decide to pull their fingers out and put in some proper laws with proper penalties.
If all companies that used spammers to advertise their company were fined and repeat offenders given jail sentences, how long before these unscrupulous companies stopped using spammers.
And of course as mentioned above, very heavy penalties for hiding the actual identities of spammers
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...Then thou shalt count to 3, no more, no less
3 shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3.
4 shalt thou not count, neither count thou 2, excepting that thou then proceed to 3.
5 is right out...
dont kill monty python by quoting it wrong:S
Isn't it always the case though, crap companies have to do a lot to 'protect' their image, they shove out so much crap and then when someone takes the time and effort to stand up and tell other people about it, they use their ill gotten gains to attempt to shut said person down.
What they don't seem to understand is that the publicity this causes through media attention then lets everyone know just how crap that company really is.
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Whether this company is BSing or not, were still getting to the point where technology is getting smaller and smaller, Look how far computers have come along, even compared to 10 years ago, most of the stuff we have was just someones pipe dream, and compared to 30years ago, most of it was science fiction at best. The only things holding us back realisticly is major coprerations censoring the information that is available to the masses, technological advances that would revolutionalise industries and hence make them loose profits. Where would we be today if during the industrial revolution the protestors had won? We would still be in the dark ages, no electricity, no machines, no technology.
There are of course many benefits to actually updating, and unlike windows, once its updated you then dont usually need to get 6 or 7 patches to fix the subsequent release of 'fixes' that get released, until they accidentaly manage to release one that is stable enough for them to ignore the relatively small number of user complaints... But I don't want to start an anti MS thread here.
Anyway, benefits... Although it can take a little while to get used to the new kernal and to impliment the changes, and either recompile or get other patches for the software your running, in the long run it adds greater running efficiency and security. which todays world is never something to be sniffed at.
This was published 4 years after J.R.R. Tolkien died
From what I understand of script kiddies they mostly do stuff from sheer boredom (what ever happened to the good ole outdoors?) and for the extra pseudo attention they get from it. Surely by attempting to interview and do articles on this 'culture' they are just pandering to the desires of these script kiddies. And rather than helping them to realise that they need to grow up etc, the extra attention is only going to make them have a greater desire to wreak havock with their 'leet skills'
Thats got to be the worst dragon I have ever seen. and for 18k? I would hardly say that people don't know what a dragon 'looks' like. There are many pictures/representations of what people perceive dragons to look like, and I would hazard a guess that a class of 5year olds could come up with a more 'realistic' design. The Mark Tilden guy that had the $100 dollar robots, now they were good. and they could run and wouldnt fall over etc. Now get a few of them hooked up with sensors and you would have a decent house guard, and I bet it would come under $200
Point taken, I retract my lame hobbit to grey wizard joke :)
Damn... Thanks for pointing it out though.
You have to take into account that this book, and all others that were released by his son were mostly just the notes that Tolkien used in the creation of his world, and for the most part were never intended for publication. If your writing something for yourself you write it completly different then if you are going to write for others to read.
The Silmarillion is all back-ground to the main story of LOTR, and although hard to get though it certainly gives many insights into the world as a whole. Not one to put into film, but definatly a book for anybody who wants to really get to grips with the works of J.R.R Tolkien
IMHO The Hobbit was more than just a 'childrens' book. You could say that Harry Potter is a 'childrens' book, but look at the vast audience it has gained. Tolkien is one of the greates writers for his genre, theres a reason that people attempt to emulate him, and it is because he is renowned for his work.
I would love to see this made into a film, with the amount of effort that jackson put into the trilogy you know that he will make an amazing adaptation of The Hobbit. Yes large portions of the book were missed out, but overall given how long it lasted with these bits missing, could you see anyone but die hard Tokien fans going to watch it if each one was 5 hours long?
Ian as a hobbit would be different though, I don't quite see how jackson could quite get that as a prequel,
**The Hobbit that becomes a Grey Wizard**
nah, it just doesn't work for me
I've found that giving a fairly simple explanation to the user why they can't have product on their computer usually solves a lot of the user vs. admin problems. We get on well with most of our users, and they respect the policies that we have made, not that they are draconian by any means. This I would attribute to the level of comunication, which comunication is 2 way. When people ask for certain items on their computers we dont just say 'no, bugger off' but we give them a valid reason, as to why, and in most cases also give them a suggested alternative as well. Now you notice I said most of our users, of course you get the ones that just keep bitchin and moaning, but they just get blacklisted, so to speak, and just about any request they make is rejected :)
I know it seems like it's not worth the effort sometimes when they just can't get the point, but overall the more we educate our users the less time we have to spend responding to silly requests.
At the end of the day, we can only continue to hope that as more and more of these cases are highlighted, that the people that are supposed to represent us in government decide to pull their fingers out and put in some proper laws with proper penalties. If all companies that used spammers to advertise their company were fined and repeat offenders given jail sentences, how long before these unscrupulous companies stopped using spammers. And of course as mentioned above, very heavy penalties for hiding the actual identities of spammers
...Then thou shalt count to 3, no more, no less 3 shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3. 4 shalt thou not count, neither count thou 2, excepting that thou then proceed to 3. 5 is right out... dont kill monty python by quoting it wrong :S
Isn't it always the case though, crap companies have to do a lot to 'protect' their image, they shove out so much crap and then when someone takes the time and effort to stand up and tell other people about it, they use their ill gotten gains to attempt to shut said person down. What they don't seem to understand is that the publicity this causes through media attention then lets everyone know just how crap that company really is.