The movie was better for the visuals - it fleshed the world out much better than my puny imagination had been able to do.
Agreed, my favorite scene was Argonath, which looked way better on screen then it ever could in my head.
I think most of the appropriate criticism lies in the character depictions. I'm not sure that humanized and angry Elves or a bumbling dwarf is what Tolkien had in mind. Its hard for me to watch as Elrond gets worked up and emotional about things, or when Gimli plays a part in dick and fart jokes.
However, the films remain in my library and get watched as they are still pretty amazing. Its hard to believe that Hollywood could do any better then this.
I dont mean to sound unsympathetic, but from the article:
These problems have been going on since at least the 1970s.
And:
Their deaths were among hundreds of deaths or serious injuries that researchers have traced to tube mix-ups.
Hundreds of deaths in the past 40 years doesnt sound like a really big problem.
My son has spent a lot of time in hospitals, he had a broviac catheter (venous) and during his frequent and long stays this has never been a problem. As a layman it was painfully obvious which tube went where.
A much larger issue, in my mind, was actually receiving the proper meds in the proper dose.
Sun changed the patch access policy early 2006, years before Oracle bought Sun.
http://www.mofeel.net/1208-comp-unix-solaris/8197.aspx
Ever since then you needed to have a support contract to legally download Solaris patches.
No, you just had to have a sunsolve account. It did not have to have an account tied to it (see the second comment on the link you provided).
It also is not true that IBM provides patches for free - you cannot download AIX itself for free, duh. AIX also doesn't run on non-IBM hardware. So you have to pay IBM at least twice before you can even use AIX.
IBM indeed provides patches to their AIX operating system without even logging in. Check out this fix central link for AIX patches:
You are correct about not being able to download AIX for free, however when you purchase hardware you get a free license to run AIX on it. And with free patches you are not required to maintain vendor support in order to maintain it.
Yes, you could download patches for free from sunsolve for many years before Oracle.
This is not bashing, its the truth. Competitors such as IBM and HP currently provide patch information, downloads, and knowledge base articles for free, Oracle does not. And now they bled that mentality into Solaris.
It's unfortunate to see an open community die like this, but if it can't survive without Oracle, then there probably weren't many people there to begin with.
There were plenty of ppl involved and interested, but its based on a proprietary platform, of course it can't survive without the parent company's support. The larger point is that they are, seemingly, purposefully killing it.
What buttons do I have to click to get my free patches? Oh that's right, they don't supply patches for free anymore.
If you think downloading a base image constitutes as using for free, then I'm afraid you are mistaken. It takes security patches and bug fixes to keep an OS in production quality working order.
Maybe you just re-install every 6 months when the new media set is released? right!
As a former caffeine addict, I would *love* to see some serious studies come out describing the long term consequences to long term caffeine use. Of course, we'll never see that because there's more money behind caffeine than alcohol and tobacco, combined.
Summary: In a study of more than 125,000 people, one cup of coffee per day cut the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 20 percent. Four cups per day reduced the risk by 80 percent.
You tell them to come in, explaining that you have a secret rocket that will take some of us off of this planet. When they arrive, you have social services take the kids away and the police can take her to the nearest asylum for the criminally insane.
I think it would cost less taxpayer money to just convince them they are wrong.
Well, I saw this as an invitation to attempt your Slashdot account with one of these passwords, since now i have both your account AND your password (somewhere).
My favorite theory is that ATSC stations have so much bandwidth and so little content, that its only time before small channel networks start coming to NBC, ABC, CBS and the likes to bring content over the air nationally.
Add to that a mass exodus from cable, and perhaps we will see more of this sooner
The "nm" command is obscure but its saved me a few times compiling. If you are getting symbol errors and you dont know what library to link in, find it by running "nm" on all your *.so files.
How about exit codes? I run alot of scripts with || and && on the end to exit on failure
[ -f "/etc/config.conf" ] || exit
Bring the last two togethern with the quintessential "for" loop:
for i in `find/lib/usr/lib -name '*.so'`;do
nm $i 2>&1 | grep $LIB >/dev/null && echo $i
done
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The movie was better for the visuals - it fleshed the world out much better than my puny imagination had been able to do.
Agreed, my favorite scene was Argonath, which looked way better on screen then it ever could in my head.
I think most of the appropriate criticism lies in the character depictions. I'm not sure that humanized and angry Elves or a bumbling dwarf is what Tolkien had in mind. Its hard for me to watch as Elrond gets worked up and emotional about things, or when Gimli plays a part in dick and fart jokes.
However, the films remain in my library and get watched as they are still pretty amazing. Its hard to believe that Hollywood could do any better then this.
These problems have been going on since at least the 1970s.
And:
Their deaths were among hundreds of deaths or serious injuries that researchers have traced to tube mix-ups.
Hundreds of deaths in the past 40 years doesnt sound like a really big problem.
My son has spent a lot of time in hospitals, he had a broviac catheter (venous) and during his frequent and long stays this has never been a problem. As a layman it was painfully obvious which tube went where.
A much larger issue, in my mind, was actually receiving the proper meds in the proper dose.
Where I come, farmers have money. Agriculture in these parts builds cities. Not the other way around.
Here in Ohio we have a joke: The newsman says to the farmer who won the lottery, "so what are you going to do with all that money you won?"
The farmer says "Keep farming until its all gone.".
If that were the case /. would be full of retards and the NBA would be full of geniuses.
I dont get what these two fictionally opposed statements have in common.
That's an appropriate sentiment for a guy who choses his programming language the same way he chooses his girlfriend.
Are you saying Java is the only one that would let him program in it?
Sun changed the patch access policy early 2006, years before Oracle bought Sun. http://www.mofeel.net/1208-comp-unix-solaris/8197.aspx Ever since then you needed to have a support contract to legally download Solaris patches.
No, you just had to have a sunsolve account. It did not have to have an account tied to it (see the second comment on the link you provided).
It also is not true that IBM provides patches for free - you cannot download AIX itself for free, duh. AIX also doesn't run on non-IBM hardware. So you have to pay IBM at least twice before you can even use AIX.
IBM indeed provides patches to their AIX operating system without even logging in. Check out this fix central link for AIX patches:
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/supportresources?brandind=5000025&osind=5329283&taskind=2
You are correct about not being able to download AIX for free, however when you purchase hardware you get a free license to run AIX on it. And with free patches you are not required to maintain vendor support in order to maintain it.
This is not bashing, its the truth. Competitors such as IBM and HP currently provide patch information, downloads, and knowledge base articles for free, Oracle does not. And now they bled that mentality into Solaris.
It's unfortunate to see an open community die like this, but if it can't survive without Oracle, then there probably weren't many people there to begin with.
There were plenty of ppl involved and interested, but its based on a proprietary platform, of course it can't survive without the parent company's support. The larger point is that they are, seemingly, purposefully killing it.
What buttons do I have to click to get my free patches? Oh that's right, they don't supply patches for free anymore.
If you think downloading a base image constitutes as using for free, then I'm afraid you are mistaken. It takes security patches and bug fixes to keep an OS in production quality working order.
Maybe you just re-install every 6 months when the new media set is released? right!
As a former caffeine addict, I would *love* to see some serious studies come out describing the long term consequences to long term caffeine use. Of course, we'll never see that because there's more money behind caffeine than alcohol and tobacco, combined.
My favorite study, and one I quote often is this
Summary: In a study of more than 125,000 people, one cup of coffee per day cut the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 20 percent. Four cups per day reduced the risk by 80 percent.
Thats what drug companies love the most, treating the symptoms only and not doing anything to resolve the actual problem.
Good thing for cancer patients is that the symptom is they are dying from cancer.
but crispy bacon in moderation
Now there's two things I never thought I'd see in the same sentence!
You can't simply decide to not be alive.
Well, technically you can.
Well, technically its illegal.
You tell them to come in, explaining that you have a secret rocket that will take some of us off of this planet. When they arrive, you have social services take the kids away and the police can take her to the nearest asylum for the criminally insane.
I think it would cost less taxpayer money to just convince them they are wrong.
NASA Attempts To Reason With Idiots, Lunatics
Right there is the problem, you cant reason with lunatics!
Well, I saw this as an invitation to attempt your Slashdot account with one of these passwords, since now i have both your account AND your password (somewhere).
Unfortunately i locked your account.
cheers!
My favorite theory is that ATSC stations have so much bandwidth and so little content, that its only time before small channel networks start coming to NBC, ABC, CBS and the likes to bring content over the air nationally.
Add to that a mass exodus from cable, and perhaps we will see more of this sooner
Now they need to do a study on those of us who run on caffeine...
Dude, they already did: "Drinking coffee cuts alcohol's harmful effects"
Now all three of my bad habits have a purpose! W00T!!!
Because I have. They hire plenty of them at my company and they are invariably about as smart as a bag of hammers.
Have you ever used a hammer? If your as nimble as I am then you know how "smart" they can be.
Reuters
Linked to from the references section of this wikipedia article:
Infrared photography
It's just as well. They can configure the OS scheduler to divide time equally between all processes.
Except for the colonel of course, he always seems to get more than the normal process.
you might need to look at Wikipedia for the actual definition of a pedophile
Uh, that actually didnt help me much =/
The learning to act cd was scratched, so they never got to that one.
Real, of course. Why would I want to hide?
Because now everyone knows you as a T-bagger
My favorite redhat "vim" trick: unalias vi
The "nm" command is obscure but its saved me a few times compiling. If you are getting symbol errors and you dont know what library to link in, find it by running "nm" on all your *.so files.
/lib /usr/lib -name '*.so'`;do
/stand/vmunix ~/.plan
How about exit codes? I run alot of scripts with || and && on the end to exit on failure
[ -f "/etc/config.conf" ] || exit
Bring the last two togethern with the quintessential "for" loop:
for i in `find
nm $i 2>&1 | grep $LIB >/dev/null && echo $i
done
Sed One Liners
And my favorite "trick" in college:
ln -s