*sigh*
in Dune, Paul and Chani have a son, whom they name Leto II. This child is killed in the book Dune.
Paul and Chani have twins in Dune Messiah.
The Male twin is named Leto II.
Yes, this is the same name as his other (dead) son.
Yes, this raises *many* eyebrows at them.
IIRC the "weirding way" is simply the Fremen phrase for/describing/ what is really Prana-Bindu (absolute control over one's musculature and nerveous (and autonomic) systems.).
I *very much* liked how it was depicted, but would have expected a) limited use by Fremen (only 2-ish years of training) and b) *heavy* use by Paul and Jessica (practice makes habit).
You don't consider 200kg (about 440lbs) fat?
Count Fenring is there in the book to remind the Baron just how uncouth and unintelligent he is. Take away class and intelligence from your description and what do you have? A floating fat man with lots of ambition and cunning, but little brains. Lynch's depection of him was gratuitous, I'll agree... all the skin disorders and heart plugs were unnecessary... however, I think that the miniseries captures him well.
-Mith --
Ahh, but plays have actors, and they generally give the impression that they are in character. The vapid shells which littered Part 1 were a far cry from Master Thespian.
I'm a Clerks fan for chrissakes! Give me *something* and I'll forgive much, but Part 1 (Part 2 was *much* better) verged on unbearable.
Again, much more would be overlooked had the director himself not promised so much and delivered so little.
Because I find fault with the movie I'm anal retentive? Come on. Surely you can come up with better. Or are you included in your own flame about the Slashdot readership? --
Your point would be much more salient if the director himself hadn't made such a point of reassuring all us nuts that he *would* be following the book(s) *much* more closely than Lynch did. His Irulan fiasco is lamentable, and sadly the best scene in the series so far (as far as character development is concerned). And I've seen more comments on the crap acting and cheap sets than on the fact that Paul can't remember the Litany Against Fear word-for-word.
what is all this junk with the fremen calling paul "maud dib" before he even goes to the desert?
They weren't. They were calling him "Mahdi" which means (according to my back-o-the-book glossary) "The voice from the Outer World" He chooses Muad'dib (mouse shadow in the moon - related to the prophecy as well) as his public name when he becomes a member of Stilgar's sietch. (and Usul (base of the pillar) is givin to him as his private name).
My greatest fear is that this production will not take advantage of what sets it apart from Lynch's film most: time. Dune is an *amazingly* complex novel (well, 6 of them, actually), with more layers than can be seen until the fourth reading. Ecology, Intrigue, Holy Wars, Religions just to name a few.
My greatest hope is that Sci Fi took advantage of the 6 hour (with commercials) runtime to create the massive, complex, and multi-layered essence of Herbert's novel.
Being a fan of some of their original series, I'm confident they'll deliver to the fans of the genre, and not bow down (too much) to the industry pressures.
-Mith
P.S. Though others spotted the reference as well, I suspect I may be alone in noting that you did it on purpose.:)
Of course, the bouyancy provided by water for a swamp-based long-necked creature would help folks to understand how the amazingly massive neck and tail were supported, not to mention a 160,000lb body (which would have crushed its leg bones had it walked on land).
By the way, some numbers for you: To get blood to a 25-foot high head (assuming a heart at approx. 7ft.) is in the neighborhood of 500mm Hg. Average human: 80mm Hg. Giraffe: 280mm Hg (in fact, mechanical devices (non-cellular) operating similarly to the heart have difficulty achieving that insane pressure.) --
The truly intelligent have no problem with any of this stuff, and can even usually correctly spell words they've never previously heard of.
And the truly pedantic poster would never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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Well, he gives us the answer in his article. In the 802.11b (the b is important) standard, he's using DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) radios as opposed to frequency hopping. This means he's able to get up to 11Mbps per device, but, it also means only 3 non-overlapping channels. While there are many channels (11 or 12, IIRC) in the 2.4GHz range, the DSSS 11Mbps radios lump multiple channels together (802.11 radios were 2Mbps because they only used one channel instead of groups of channels). Now, toss the Seimens Gigaset (which is also Spread Spectrum, I believe) and other wireless devices into the mix and... well, one can understand why there's just not enough of the bandwidth left. Just like with the 900MHz range, 2.4GHz is in the ISM band (Industry, Science, and Medical), the two options at this point are: change the 802.11b devices to 5.7GHz devices, or stick with 900MHz for the appliances to free up the 2.4 for the NICs.
I recently upgraded from a K6-3/400 w/128M to a K7 700 w/256M (FIC SD11 mainboard) and with 2 exceptions, have had absolutely no problems. Exception a) Red Hat 6.2 didn't autodetect the RAM size, although append="mem=256M" cleared that problem. Oddly though, while SETI had been running quite smoothly on the K6-3, it caused kernel panic in the K7. *shrug* too bad, it would have been fun to see how much time-per-unit changed.
a) 93% of $1 is $0.93, open a math book or three. 2) the "$1 per CD" cost *includes* marketing, packaging, printing, studion fees, *everything* (that is, last I saw on some news TeleZine or other... 3 years ago) While 1500% isn't correct (it's closer to 1400%) it's a helluva lot closer. where exactly did *you* learn economics? -Mith
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*sigh*
in Dune, Paul and Chani have a son, whom they name Leto II. This child is killed in the book Dune.
Paul and Chani have twins in Dune Messiah.
The Male twin is named Leto II.
Yes, this is the same name as his other (dead) son.
Yes, this raises *many* eyebrows at them.
-Mith
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IIRC the "weirding way" is simply the Fremen phrase for /describing/ what is really Prana-Bindu (absolute control over one's musculature and nerveous (and autonomic) systems.).
I *very much* liked how it was depicted, but would have expected a) limited use by Fremen (only 2-ish years of training) and b) *heavy* use by Paul and Jessica (practice makes habit).
-Mith
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They speak Galach.
-Mith
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You don't consider 200kg (about 440lbs) fat? ... all the skin disorders and heart plugs were unnecessary ... however, I think that the miniseries captures him well.
Count Fenring is there in the book to remind the Baron just how uncouth and unintelligent he is. Take away class and intelligence from your description and what do you have? A floating fat man with lots of ambition and cunning, but little brains. Lynch's depection of him was gratuitous, I'll agree
-Mith
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Ahh, but plays have actors, and they generally give the impression that they are in character. The vapid shells which littered Part 1 were a far cry from Master Thespian.
I'm a Clerks fan for chrissakes! Give me *something* and I'll forgive much, but Part 1 (Part 2 was *much* better) verged on unbearable.
Again, much more would be overlooked had the director himself not promised so much and delivered so little.
Because I find fault with the movie I'm anal retentive? Come on. Surely you can come up with better. Or are you included in your own flame about the Slashdot readership?
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Because Madhi means messiah. The only time in Part 1 where we actually hear the word "Muad'Dib" is in Paul's vision(s) of Chani.
-Mith
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Oops, that's Lisan al Gaib.
Madhi is "The One Who Will Lead Us To Paradise"
-Mith
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Oops, that's Lisan al Gaib.
Madhi is "The One Who Will Lead Us To Paradise"
-Mith
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*sigh* they're not chanting "Muad'dib" they're chanting "Mahdi". Read your book to learn why that's appropriate.
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Your point would be much more salient if the director himself hadn't made such a point of reassuring all us nuts that he *would* be following the book(s) *much* more closely than Lynch did. His Irulan fiasco is lamentable, and sadly the best scene in the series so far (as far as character development is concerned). And I've seen more comments on the crap acting and cheap sets than on the fact that Paul can't remember the Litany Against Fear word-for-word.
In conclusion: hrumph yourself.
-Mith
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My book[1] translates "Madhi" as "The Voice from the outer world."
[1] Frank Herber's _Dune_, 25th Aniversary paperback edition.
-Mith
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what is all this junk with the fremen calling paul "maud dib" before he even goes to the desert?
They weren't. They were calling him "Mahdi" which means (according to my back-o-the-book glossary) "The voice from the Outer World" He chooses Muad'dib (mouse shadow in the moon - related to the prophecy as well) as his public name when he becomes a member of Stilgar's sietch. (and Usul (base of the pillar) is givin to him as his private name).
-Mith
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Maybe Sun Microsystems has relocated to Bene Tlilax or IX by then.
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My greatest fear is that this production will not take advantage of what sets it apart from Lynch's film most: time. Dune is an *amazingly* complex novel (well, 6 of them, actually), with more layers than can be seen until the fourth reading. Ecology, Intrigue, Holy Wars, Religions just to name a few.
:)
My greatest hope is that Sci Fi took advantage of the 6 hour (with commercials) runtime to create the massive, complex, and multi-layered essence of Herbert's novel.
Being a fan of some of their original series, I'm confident they'll deliver to the fans of the genre, and not bow down (too much) to the industry pressures.
-Mith
P.S. Though others spotted the reference as well, I suspect I may be alone in noting that you did it on purpose.
--
Of course, the bouyancy provided by water for a swamp-based long-necked creature would help folks to understand how the amazingly massive neck and tail were supported, not to mention a 160,000lb body (which would have crushed its leg bones had it walked on land).
By the way, some numbers for you: To get blood to a 25-foot high head (assuming a heart at approx. 7ft.) is in the neighborhood of 500mm Hg. Average human: 80mm Hg. Giraffe: 280mm Hg (in fact, mechanical devices (non-cellular) operating similarly to the heart have difficulty achieving that insane pressure.)
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The truly intelligent have no problem with any of this stuff, and can even usually correctly spell words they've never previously heard of.
And the truly pedantic poster would never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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What's the saying about the only difference between a religion and a cult is that the religion has been around longer?
Number of members.
At $BIGNUM[1] members, it's "graduated" to a Religion.
[1] Less than Christianity, more than Vodoun
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No, you'd be moderated Offtopic for posting the cure for cancer ;)
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man netstat
Well, he gives us the answer in his article. ... well, one can understand why there's just not enough of the bandwidth left. Just like with the 900MHz range, 2.4GHz is in the ISM band (Industry, Science, and Medical), the two options at this point are: change the 802.11b devices to 5.7GHz devices, or stick with 900MHz for the appliances to free up the 2.4 for the NICs.
In the 802.11b (the b is important) standard, he's using DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) radios as opposed to frequency hopping. This means he's able to get up to 11Mbps per device, but, it also means only 3 non-overlapping channels. While there are many channels (11 or 12, IIRC) in the 2.4GHz range, the DSSS 11Mbps radios lump multiple channels together (802.11 radios were 2Mbps because they only used one channel instead of groups of channels). Now, toss the Seimens Gigaset (which is also Spread Spectrum, I believe) and other wireless devices into the mix and
Just my thoughts.
hda: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
hdb: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
hdc: WDC WD307AA, 29333MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=59598/16/63
hdd: WDC AC418000D, 17206MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=34960/16/63
also, it's fun to note that hdc and hdd are a linear RAID array
;)
Just thougt it might be nice to know, since after I posted I read some IDE and ATA66 posts (read *before* posting? nah
-Mith
I recently upgraded from a K6-3/400 w/128M to a K7 700 w/256M (FIC SD11 mainboard) and with 2 exceptions, have had absolutely no problems.
Exception a) Red Hat 6.2 didn't autodetect the RAM size, although append="mem=256M" cleared that problem. Oddly though, while SETI had been running quite smoothly on the K6-3, it caused kernel panic in the K7. *shrug* too bad, it would have been fun to see how much time-per-unit changed.
-Mith
a) 93% of $1 is $0.93, open a math book or three. ... 3 years ago)
2) the "$1 per CD" cost *includes* marketing, packaging, printing, studion fees, *everything* (that is, last I saw on some news TeleZine or other
While 1500% isn't correct (it's closer to 1400%) it's a helluva lot closer.
where exactly did *you* learn economics?
-Mith
man tcpdump ;)
AFAIK, Microsoft Exchange Server is not Open Source.
-Mith