Licensing fees, all the memory it will need, the display, etc.
Hmmm...I've been doing a lot of reading lately about the speed of change in our culture, and the dangers of technology.
I just realized something, Microsoft, and the crap it produces, is exactly like the Technological Institutions that Neil Postman talks about in Technopoly. It is a Technological way to stop technology from spreading too fast and taking us over. Bureaucracy was something else he talked about on the same vein. He said they were good because they acted as buffers, but bad because they didn't solve the real problems and tended to add their own.
Who else can explain the utter crap that Microsoft puts out? Bill Gates, in his poor misguided mind, is really trying to save Western Civilization by producing a barrier against real technology so that we aren't overwhelmed by it.
Greg Lindahl, who is obviously someone on the scene for this project has posted at least twice to this article that I can see with some very informative, insider, information. His scores have been modified up, but he isn't getting any comments.
Slashdot readers, here you have a resource who is willing to share relevant information about the topic at hand, ie, he knows sh*t. Yet, you are not taking advantage of that. Instead, you are doing your silly little arguments, speculations, teasings, trollings, whatever, that have nothing to do with the facts presented by Greg.
Just goes to show, many Slashdot posters are not interested in relevant intelligent discussions.
Actually, what you are is too lazy to change your password to something you can remember.
Also, you would find, that if you enter your password and username just once, your browser will remember it, and you don't have to worry about it again.
Access is not just a file format (it uses the JET database by default though Access 2000 can use SQL Server). It is a database development environment.
It uses Visual Basic for Applications and it's own unique style of SQL (mostly compatible).
If you have an application running in Access it is not as simple as finding a program that can import the database tables (that's the easiest part). The hard part is getting your queries, forms, macros, and VBA code imported and working. And that is probably not going to happen when most suites can't even translate complex Excel formulas properly.
Anyway, to switch to another database on Linux will require rewriting of code and time and debugging, and time, and lots of effort.
It was also supposed to be taken as funny, as implausible, etc.
Star Trek, and other fantasy/sci-fi stories deal with the idea of a willing suspension of disbelief. They want you to accept them as plausible alternate realities. Not just as a show. A soap opera is the same way, they want you to believe.
What that (willing suspension of disbelief) means is, I am going to show you something fantastic, that is different from the world as you know it. I cannot necessarily explain this fantastic thing and why it can exist, just know that it does. Just accept it. Once you do, everything else will make sense in relationship to that acceptance. Oh yeah, and that fantastic thing will actually make the world different in realistic ways.
Examples: 1. There are two moons and nighttime is aslit up as a cloudy day. So, there is a thriving nightlife on this world because it is never really night. Construction, shopping, farming, whatever go on at all hours of the day. Society is changed in fundamental ways because of this. It is not ignored. 2. Gravity on this planet is 1/4 of Earth's gravity. Changes you might see as a result of that in a place that is the equivalent of our 20th century might be hovercrafts instead of rolling cars, architecture that builds up more than out. More orbital traffic as the cost to launch is less. Extreme sports more extreme than we know of. 3. A planet with two dominant, yet distinctly different species. Imagine a world in which there are humans, and city building lobsters in the oceans. Imagine the conflicts that arise from this about polluting, the hurricanes the lobsters make to turn over their underwater farmlands, a human society that couldn't explore the oceans because they would be killed by lobsters. No coastal cities unless they were heavily armed for defense against the lobsters. Or, if the races get along, imagine the underwater exploration that would be possible for humans, or the special niches on land the lobsters might be able to work. Imagine what the Olympics would be like between the two species?
The Matrix is a great example of the willing suspension of disbelief. All you really have to accept is that, "You've been living in a dream world Neo." Everything else makes sense in relation to that one fantastic revelation. Everything except that damn kiss from Trinity.
Space: Above and Beyond is great with the examples of the AI war and the Invitros. The fact that humans fought a war against their own artificial creations will make them leary of automation of too many processes and stay away from technologies that will lead to that. The fact that they made cloned humans led to eventual social, political, and spiritual situations that had to be, or were still being resolved, at the time of the story. Similar to Picard trying to get Data declared a human (or the Bicentennial Man), except you have thousands of clones who need some sort of acceptance and civil rights. Much like the blacks in America. Whether they were slaves at one time, or free people who had law given rights but not the ability to execute those rights, to a society that has nearly removed those barriers but because of the long history of blacks being second class now find it difficult to get the education or motives to move beyond the life that 100+ years of persecution have left them with. Did that sentence make sense?
Anyway, Star Trek sucks because it rarely moves beyond the scope of the single show. If the crew of the Enterprise discover or invent a new technology, where is the ripple effect as that techonolgy moves throughout all of the Federation? If Geordie's warp engines are more efficient than any other, why don't people come study underneath him? If the Dyson's sphere is discovered, where the heck in the scheme of things will a metal sphere 1AU in diameter fit into the scheme of things?
Anyway, I enjoy Star Trek. It is fun and entertaining. But if I was writing a novel or a screenplay, it is not the universe I would want to base it in.
I loved the original series. Sure, they looked cheesy, but the stories were typically quite interesting.
Worf, to put it mildly, sucked. He almost always gets beat up, over powered, someone draws on him first, etc. He hardly ever does any damage unless he is beating up on fellow Klingons. There was one episode of DS9 in which the station was bordered by Klingons and he did a good job at defense. Plus, Worf is always confused about his loyalty to the Federation or the Empire. I say, once he has that kind of conflict, I chuck him off my crew. I don't need someone I can't depend upon. He is also stupid and narrow minded and almost all things in his mind say fight, fight, fight. He did make a good straight man on occasion and I enjoyed him for that.
The joystick was totally laughable, and totally something star trek has needed for years. C'mon, if you are in a fighting situation and need to maneuver you craft precisely, what is better than an aircraft yoke? The computer will interpret your inputs into something that will make the ship respond. But what is that ensign doing all the other times? Inputing numbers to get the ship to turn left or right? Damn,.9 not.5, damn, I hit the asteroid. Geesh, how difficult, slow, and cumbersome must that be?
If Star Trek is science fiction, I can only say that it is bad science fiction. Entertaining yes, but still bad science fiction.
It has no consitency what so ever. In fact, there are books and websites about the blunders in Star Trek and how it contradicts itself.
Why don't ground troops have personal shields on them to stop them from being killed?
Why aren't transporters used in a million imaginative ways instead of merely moving people from place to place? At the very least I can think of a few episodes in which bad guys should have been beamed into the nearest boulder to get rid of them.
Why are all the star ships a single vessel and that's it? What happened to carrier groups, convoys, and escorts? Sure would make them a lot more powerful force to deal with.
Going into battle I better have about 30 Defiant style vessels around my Galaxy class star ship for offensive bang. At the very least, 30 shuttle craft with phasers. Think of the Argo from Starblazers.
Why do the vessels take so few hits to be destroyed? Hit one, shields to 60%, hit 2 down to 20%, hit three phasers out torpedo bays jammed, my multizillion dollar ship is now useless. Where is my convoy/escort/defiant ship to save me?
Why does every single freakin circuit have triple redundancy? Do you know how expensive that is? Not just in materials, but time, design, labor, maintenance, space, etc.
How can Geordi know everything about engineering? I mean, we have specialists now who are brilliant but only have the time to specialize. They can't know things about other fields. The world is only going to get more technologically complex. Geordi will know even less outside his area, and his area will be even more narror. Like warp coils for only a Galaxy class ship. That's it.
Yes, just a general rant about Star Trek and how implausible it is. I still enjoyed the heck out of it. Reason, because I enjoy seeing the human underdogs finding a way to win.
Best science fiction I've seen in years was Space: Above and Beyond. So much better because it had real military, real politics, real characters with real relationships and problems, and an actual background that made sense. The AI wars, the Invitros, etc. Very interesting stuff.
Babylon 5, from my understanding, was similar. I could never catch enough episodes of it to get it make sense to me.
The Matrix was great. There is a lot of depth there if you care to see it.
Please, oh please, oh please let there be no transporters.
That is the death of all things good in science fiction. This is the ultimate technology and they have to keep coming up with reasons why it won't work to solve a particular problem in order to have a plausible stories.
Hostages on the planet? No problem, beam them out.
Hostiles on the ship, no problem beam them into bulk heads.
Nano technology in the captain, beam out the circuits.
Pimples, beam them off.
Get rid of transporters, make it all like Space: Above and Beyond was and you will have a show I want to watch.
There were also trolls at the battle outside of Mordor.
Pippin slew one after it had crushed down Beregond. The troll fell on top of him and he passed out. Gimli later found him as his foot was sticking out.
Interesting note about the name Grond. It was also the name of the mace of Morgoth in the Silmarillion. It's what he beat up Fingolfin with. Fingolfin rules. I still get choked up when I read about his battle.
The Lord of the Rings is about the only fantasy novel you can get that is perfect for the story it tells.
The Shannara series by Brooks are too long, the Eddings sagas are complete humor fluff that are too long, and Robert Jordon, oh please, can you drag this out any longer to make more novels to make more money kinda crap?
What is there to edit out of the LotR? Death of Boromir? Council of Elrond? I know, the Battle of the Pelennor fields. Anything that is not immediately essential to the story is always essential to make Middle-earth the rich fantastic world we all wish we had lived in or could experience and that all fantasy novelists aspire to.
Get it straight, she chose to stay. Nobody forced anything on her.
All of the Eldar were invited back to Aman at the end of the War. The only elves who had anything special upon them were the two surviving sons of Feanor, Maglor and Maedhros. Eonwe told them they would have to go and receive judgement from Manwe and Varda.
Hell, all Galadriel did during the first age was hang around with Melian and learn to make lembas. What a spectacular waste if you ask me. At least Finrod (her brother) discovered and befriended men, established a kingdom, helped on the quest for the Silmarils, fought with Sauron, saved Beren's life, etc. Sure, he got killed, but that's living baby.
Even Mablung (second fiddle to Beleg) did more than she did.
Men did not play a minor role in the War of the Jewels.
They were numerous and strong. They were hardy and would often go into the extreme north to watch Angband during the long seige.
Individuals of note performed amazing deeds, Hurin, Turin, Haleth, and Beren. Tuor married an elven queen and had a child who saved them all with his quest for the aid of the Valar.
Treachorous men were even a deciding factor in the 5th battle. "Yet neither by wolf, nor by Balrog, nor by Dragon would Morgoth have achieved his end, but for the treachery of Men." If Ulfang and his accursed brood had been faithful, the good guys would have won!
Finally, none of the elves of Beleriand fought in the final battle, the War of Wrath, however, men of the houses of the Edain did fight.
"At BASF (Beleriandic Alliance of Sindarin Fletchers), we don't make the elf-hair; we give the elf-hair greater tensile strength. We don't make the great bows of black yew wood, we enchant them to shoot faster. We don't make the Silmarils, we make the Silmarils shinier. At BASF, we don't make a lot of the products you use to fight the War of Wrath; we make them better..."
Actually, Legolas's father, Thranduil, was a Sindarin elf. The Sindarins were found in small numbers among the Silvan elves and were often the leaders.
Basically there are Elves who never even started the journey, and elves who started the journey but stopped around the misty mountains. They are collectively known as the Elves of Darkness.
Then there is an overlap of the elves who stopped around the misty mountains (known as Silvan) and those who went all the way to Beleriand but didn't go over the sea and who were under the lord ship of Elwe (Thingol) and they are known as Sindar. Collectively they are known as the Umanyar, or the Eldar who are not of Aman. Eldar being a term applied to all elves of all 3 houses who at least started on the journey.
Finally, there are the leves who went all the way. These are the Calaquendi and include all of the Vanyar and Noldor, and that portion of the Teleri who went with Olwe, brother of Elwe.
Anyway, Sindar and Noldo rule, everyone else drools. Long live the Longbeards. Moria Rocks.
That's the shits man. I read that quote and I see Eomer standing in the fields getting ready to go out and get himself killed in his grief and percieved end of everything.
These staves he spoke, yet he laughed as he said them. For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was stil unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people.
Gives me the chills each and every time I read them. That is why Tolkien is the best, he characters, writing, plots, stories, whatever it is move you in ways that nothing else can.
Saruman's Uruk-hai were defeated in 2 places. Both times by the Rohirrim.
Once were the small group that kidnapped the hobbits Pippin and Merry and killed Boromir. They were killed outside Fangorn forest.
The second group fought a battle outside of Helm's Deep, also in Rohan. These were killed by Riders and by the Huorn (sp) old ents who got more tree like.
At the Battle of the Pellinor fields you have Sauron's forces of orcs and men against the forces of Gondor, later reinforced by the Rohirrim.
Outside of Morder;s front gates you are more or less right, but the Rohirrim where there too.
The elves in Rivendell, Lorien, and Mirkwood were all under attack themselves by branches of Sauron's forces. They were not going to be any help. The dwarves were also under attack in the iron hills and the lonely mountain.
Awful motto for a great product. Microsoft is the equivalent of Sirius Cybernetics Corp not SAMBA.
Hmmm, does that make Jeremy a Ford or Arthur? Seems more like a Ford kind of guy, which, of course, means that he is an alien. Which, if you think about it, he really is.
I wonder if Linus is getting fitted for a third arm so he can wave at the crowds while playing Quake at the launch of the 2.4 kernel? Hmmm.
I would hazard to say this comment is made by somebody who is not going to be held responsible for a business that wont' operate come Saturday because some piece of code, or hardware that they overlooked caused some errors in the data that started to mess things up like billing, shipping, order processing, collections, machine automation, etc.
Of course the world will go on. It's survived wars it can survive this. However, I personally want my own little computer world to just keep on humming and not even hiccup. I've got enough stress in my life without having my boss, CEO, and major share holders breathing down my neck because I didn't properly window the dates in an EDI application.
Anyway, I would almost regard this whole thing about GMT time as a kinda fun discussion not to be taken seriously. The reason why I say that because it's too late to stop what is going to happen from happening, so it's fun to speculate exactly when it will happen.
The answer is so obvious is isn't a wonder that we are missing it: Linux is more popular than BSD because Oreilly has published more books that pertain to Linux.
I mean, we all know that the only way we ever learn anything is by reading an Oreilly book.
It's a Pavlonian response. TV viewers (US most likely by possibly worldwide) have shortened attention spans because of the typical show, commercial, show, commercial sequence.
We are used to taking a break and diverting our attentions to something else (food, advertised product, the restroom) every few minutes, I think it was 7. So, when we watched a taped show we find it comfortable to go ahead and watch the commercials because it gives us our needed break.
Movies actually have changes in pacing every few minutes as well. That is what keeps us interested to sit through 2 hours. A movie that doesn't provide these pacing changes is perceived as long and sometimes boring.
Personally, I find I am more productive when I step away from any long task for a minute or so every 10 minutes. Otherwise, I become bored and find it difficult to continue with full concentration or interest. I'm in the process of trying to break this habit.
Nice example about McDonald's. Network Solutions is asking him, essentially, to pay more money for a less suitable name because they screwed up and didn't reserve his orignal one-of-a-kind order for him.
Makes me also think of Apple recently offering a less capable computer for the same price because they couldn't fulfill the orders people had placed in advance for the more capable computer.
The solution is painfully obvious, Network Solutions must agree to buy the domain back from the name squatter and pass it on to the college student. Of course, hell will freeze over before that happens. I don't know the specifics of this contract, or of contract law, but it seems to me that an agreement was entered into by Network Solutions and the college student and NS failed to uphold their end of the bargain.
What we essentially have here is a one-of-a-kind item being sold by multiple salesmen. The rules are, once a sale is agreed upon by customer and salesmen, other salesmen cannot sell it. What happened was, an agreement was made, and while one salesman (an old guy who doesn't type very fast) took forever to get the paperwork done, another salesman sold the item in question.
NS clearly admits that it screwed up. It deleted a registration attempt through it's own network when a second party tried to lay claim to the name. Then they contacted the other registrar when they realized they had snuck in an claimed it. They asked for it back. They admit that a bug in the system allowed this all to happen and that it has been fixed. They are wrong, they admit it, they must pay to buy the domain and pass it on.
Please qualify your statement that Dell does not use standard components.
I support 75+ Dell systems and can easily swap drives, NICs, video cards, sound cards, etc. I have found nothing "non" standard in the systems worth mentioning.
The Dimensions, as far as I can tell, are completely off the shelf components, or OEM versions of them. The Optiplex units, I believe use a special form mother board, but everything that plugs into is not special.
One thing of complaint has been on the servers. The servers have all required processors sold by Dell. I cannot buy a processor from anyone else or the servers complain that the stepping is wrong. Pissed me off severely as the cost for a second processor from Dell was more than twice the cost of that processor from anyone else.
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A lot more than $89 dollars.
Licensing fees, all the memory it will need, the display, etc.
Hmmm...I've been doing a lot of reading lately about the speed of change in our culture, and the dangers of technology.
I just realized something, Microsoft, and the crap it produces, is exactly like the Technological Institutions that Neil Postman talks about in Technopoly. It is a Technological way to stop technology from spreading too fast and taking us over. Bureaucracy was something else he talked about on the same vein. He said they were good because they acted as buffers, but bad because they didn't solve the real problems and tended to add their own.
Who else can explain the utter crap that Microsoft puts out? Bill Gates, in his poor misguided mind, is really trying to save Western Civilization by producing a barrier against real technology so that we aren't overwhelmed by it.
That's why he hates Linux so.
Interesting.
Greg Lindahl, who is obviously someone on the scene for this project has posted at least twice to this article that I can see with some very informative, insider, information. His scores have been modified up, but he isn't getting any comments.
Slashdot readers, here you have a resource who is willing to share relevant information about the topic at hand, ie, he knows sh*t. Yet, you are not taking advantage of that. Instead, you are doing your silly little arguments, speculations, teasings, trollings, whatever, that have nothing to do with the facts presented by Greg.
Just goes to show, many Slashdot posters are not interested in relevant intelligent discussions.
Actually, what you are is too lazy to change your password to something you can remember.
Also, you would find, that if you enter your password and username just once, your browser will remember it, and you don't have to worry about it again.
Access is not just a file format (it uses the JET database by default though Access 2000 can use SQL Server). It is a database development environment.
It uses Visual Basic for Applications and it's own unique style of SQL (mostly compatible).
If you have an application running in Access it is not as simple as finding a program that can import the database tables (that's the easiest part). The hard part is getting your queries, forms, macros, and VBA code imported and working. And that is probably not going to happen when most suites can't even translate complex Excel formulas properly.
Anyway, to switch to another database on Linux will require rewriting of code and time and debugging, and time, and lots of effort.
MSTK3000 was very funny.
It was also supposed to be taken as funny, as implausible, etc.
Star Trek, and other fantasy/sci-fi stories deal with the idea of a willing suspension of disbelief. They want you to accept them as plausible alternate realities. Not just as a show. A soap opera is the same way, they want you to believe.
What that (willing suspension of disbelief) means is, I am going to show you something fantastic, that is different from the world as you know it. I cannot necessarily explain this fantastic thing and why it can exist, just know that it does. Just accept it. Once you do, everything else will make sense in relationship to that acceptance. Oh yeah, and that fantastic thing will actually make the world different in realistic ways.
Examples: 1. There are two moons and nighttime is aslit up as a cloudy day. So, there is a thriving nightlife on this world because it is never really night. Construction, shopping, farming, whatever go on at all hours of the day. Society is changed in fundamental ways because of this. It is not ignored.
2. Gravity on this planet is 1/4 of Earth's gravity. Changes you might see as a result of that in a place that is the equivalent of our 20th century might be hovercrafts instead of rolling cars, architecture that builds up more than out. More orbital traffic as the cost to launch is less. Extreme sports more extreme than we know of.
3. A planet with two dominant, yet distinctly different species. Imagine a world in which there are humans, and city building lobsters in the oceans. Imagine the conflicts that arise from this about polluting, the hurricanes the lobsters make to turn over their underwater farmlands, a human society that couldn't explore the oceans because they would be killed by lobsters. No coastal cities unless they were heavily armed for defense against the lobsters. Or, if the races get along, imagine the underwater exploration that would be possible for humans, or the special niches on land the lobsters might be able to work. Imagine what the Olympics would be like between the two species?
The Matrix is a great example of the willing suspension of disbelief. All you really have to accept is that, "You've been living in a dream world Neo." Everything else makes sense in relation to that one fantastic revelation. Everything except that damn kiss from Trinity.
Space: Above and Beyond is great with the examples of the AI war and the Invitros. The fact that humans fought a war against their own artificial creations will make them leary of automation of too many processes and stay away from technologies that will lead to that. The fact that they made cloned humans led to eventual social, political, and spiritual situations that had to be, or were still being resolved, at the time of the story. Similar to Picard trying to get Data declared a human (or the Bicentennial Man), except you have thousands of clones who need some sort of acceptance and civil rights. Much like the blacks in America. Whether they were slaves at one time, or free people who had law given rights but not the ability to execute those rights, to a society that has nearly removed those barriers but because of the long history of blacks being second class now find it difficult to get the education or motives to move beyond the life that 100+ years of persecution have left them with. Did that sentence make sense?
Anyway, Star Trek sucks because it rarely moves beyond the scope of the single show. If the crew of the Enterprise discover or invent a new technology, where is the ripple effect as that techonolgy moves throughout all of the Federation? If Geordie's warp engines are more efficient than any other, why don't people come study underneath him? If the Dyson's sphere is discovered, where the heck in the scheme of things will a metal sphere 1AU in diameter fit into the scheme of things?
Anyway, I enjoy Star Trek. It is fun and entertaining. But if I was writing a novel or a screenplay, it is not the universe I would want to base it in.
I loved the original series. Sure, they looked cheesy, but the stories were typically quite interesting.
.9 not .5, damn, I hit the asteroid. Geesh, how difficult, slow, and cumbersome must that be?
Worf, to put it mildly, sucked. He almost always gets beat up, over powered, someone draws on him first, etc. He hardly ever does any damage unless he is beating up on fellow Klingons. There was one episode of DS9 in which the station was bordered by Klingons and he did a good job at defense. Plus, Worf is always confused about his loyalty to the Federation or the Empire. I say, once he has that kind of conflict, I chuck him off my crew. I don't need someone I can't depend upon. He is also stupid and narrow minded and almost all things in his mind say fight, fight, fight. He did make a good straight man on occasion and I enjoyed him for that.
The joystick was totally laughable, and totally something star trek has needed for years. C'mon, if you are in a fighting situation and need to maneuver you craft precisely, what is better than an aircraft yoke? The computer will interpret your inputs into something that will make the ship respond. But what is that ensign doing all the other times? Inputing numbers to get the ship to turn left or right? Damn,
If Star Trek is science fiction, I can only say that it is bad science fiction. Entertaining yes, but still bad science fiction.
It has no consitency what so ever. In fact, there are books and websites about the blunders in Star Trek and how it contradicts itself.
Why don't ground troops have personal shields on them to stop them from being killed?
Why aren't transporters used in a million imaginative ways instead of merely moving people from place to place? At the very least I can think of a few episodes in which bad guys should have been beamed into the nearest boulder to get rid of them.
Why are all the star ships a single vessel and that's it? What happened to carrier groups, convoys, and escorts? Sure would make them a lot more powerful force to deal with.
Going into battle I better have about 30 Defiant style vessels around my Galaxy class star ship for offensive bang. At the very least, 30 shuttle craft with phasers. Think of the Argo from Starblazers.
Why do the vessels take so few hits to be destroyed? Hit one, shields to 60%, hit 2 down to 20%, hit three phasers out torpedo bays jammed, my multizillion dollar ship is now useless. Where is my convoy/escort/defiant ship to save me?
Why does every single freakin circuit have triple redundancy? Do you know how expensive that is? Not just in materials, but time, design, labor, maintenance, space, etc.
How can Geordi know everything about engineering? I mean, we have specialists now who are brilliant but only have the time to specialize. They can't know things about other fields. The world is only going to get more technologically complex. Geordi will know even less outside his area, and his area will be even more narror. Like warp coils for only a Galaxy class ship. That's it.
Yes, just a general rant about Star Trek and how implausible it is. I still enjoyed the heck out of it. Reason, because I enjoy seeing the human underdogs finding a way to win.
Best science fiction I've seen in years was Space: Above and Beyond. So much better because it had real military, real politics, real characters with real relationships and problems, and an actual background that made sense. The AI wars, the Invitros, etc. Very interesting stuff.
Babylon 5, from my understanding, was similar. I could never catch enough episodes of it to get it make sense to me.
The Matrix was great. There is a lot of depth there if you care to see it.
Please, oh please, oh please let there be no transporters.
That is the death of all things good in science fiction. This is the ultimate technology and they have to keep coming up with reasons why it won't work to solve a particular problem in order to have a plausible stories.
Hostages on the planet? No problem, beam them out.
Hostiles on the ship, no problem beam them into bulk heads.
Nano technology in the captain, beam out the circuits.
Pimples, beam them off.
Get rid of transporters, make it all like Space: Above and Beyond was and you will have a show I want to watch.
There were also trolls at the battle outside of Mordor.
Pippin slew one after it had crushed down Beregond. The troll fell on top of him and he passed out. Gimli later found him as his foot was sticking out.
Interesting note about the name Grond. It was also the name of the mace of Morgoth in the Silmarillion. It's what he beat up Fingolfin with. Fingolfin rules. I still get choked up when I read about his battle.
What planet are you from?
The Lord of the Rings is about the only fantasy novel you can get that is perfect for the story it tells.
The Shannara series by Brooks are too long, the Eddings sagas are complete humor fluff that are too long, and Robert Jordon, oh please, can you drag this out any longer to make more novels to make more money kinda crap?
What is there to edit out of the LotR? Death of Boromir? Council of Elrond? I know, the Battle of the Pelennor fields. Anything that is not immediately essential to the story is always essential to make Middle-earth the rich fantastic world we all wish we had lived in or could experience and that all fantasy novelists aspire to.
End of discussion and post.
BullSh*t.
Get it straight, she chose to stay. Nobody forced anything on her.
All of the Eldar were invited back to Aman at the end of the War. The only elves who had anything special upon them were the two surviving sons of Feanor, Maglor and Maedhros. Eonwe told them they would have to go and receive judgement from Manwe and Varda.
Hell, all Galadriel did during the first age was hang around with Melian and learn to make lembas. What a spectacular waste if you ask me. At least Finrod (her brother) discovered and befriended men, established a kingdom, helped on the quest for the Silmarils, fought with Sauron, saved Beren's life, etc. Sure, he got killed, but that's living baby.
Even Mablung (second fiddle to Beleg) did more than she did.
Men did not play a minor role in the War of the Jewels.
They were numerous and strong. They were hardy and would often go into the extreme north to watch Angband during the long seige.
Individuals of note performed amazing deeds, Hurin, Turin, Haleth, and Beren. Tuor married an elven queen and had a child who saved them all with his quest for the aid of the Valar.
Treachorous men were even a deciding factor in the 5th battle. "Yet neither by wolf, nor by Balrog, nor by Dragon would Morgoth have achieved his end, but for the treachery of Men." If Ulfang and his accursed brood had been faithful, the good guys would have won!
Finally, none of the elves of Beleriand fought in the final battle, the War of Wrath, however, men of the houses of the Edain did fight.
"At BASF (Beleriandic Alliance of Sindarin Fletchers), we don't make the
elf-hair; we give the elf-hair greater tensile strength. We don't make the
great bows of black yew wood, we enchant them to shoot faster. We don't make
the Silmarils, we make the Silmarils shinier. At BASF, we don't make a lot
of the products you use to fight the War of Wrath; we make them better..."
Actually, Legolas's father, Thranduil, was a Sindarin elf. The Sindarins were found in small numbers among the Silvan elves and were often the leaders.
Basically there are Elves who never even started the journey, and elves who started the journey but stopped around the misty mountains. They are collectively known as the Elves of Darkness.
Then there is an overlap of the elves who stopped around the misty mountains (known as Silvan) and those who went all the way to Beleriand but didn't go over the sea and who were under the lord ship of Elwe (Thingol) and they are known as Sindar. Collectively they are known as the Umanyar, or the Eldar who are not of Aman. Eldar being a term applied to all elves of all 3 houses who at least started on the journey.
Finally, there are the leves who went all the way. These are the Calaquendi and include all of the Vanyar and Noldor, and that portion of the Teleri who went with Olwe, brother of Elwe.
Anyway, Sindar and Noldo rule, everyone else drools. Long live the Longbeards. Moria Rocks.
That's the shits man. I read that quote and I see Eomer standing in the fields getting ready to go out and get himself killed in his grief and percieved end of everything.
These staves he spoke, yet he laughed as he said them. For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was stil unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people.
Gives me the chills each and every time I read them. That is why Tolkien is the best, he characters, writing, plots, stories, whatever it is move you in ways that nothing else can.
I can't leave it alone.
Saruman's Uruk-hai were defeated in 2 places. Both times by the Rohirrim.
Once were the small group that kidnapped the hobbits Pippin and Merry and killed Boromir. They were killed outside Fangorn forest.
The second group fought a battle outside of Helm's Deep, also in Rohan. These were killed by Riders and by the Huorn (sp) old ents who got more tree like.
At the Battle of the Pellinor fields you have Sauron's forces of orcs and men against the forces of Gondor, later reinforced by the Rohirrim.
Outside of Morder;s front gates you are more or less right, but the Rohirrim where there too.
The elves in Rivendell, Lorien, and Mirkwood were all under attack themselves by branches of Sauron's forces. They were not going to be any help. The dwarves were also under attack in the iron hills and the lonely mountain.
Share and Enjoy?
Awful motto for a great product. Microsoft is the equivalent of Sirius Cybernetics Corp not SAMBA.
Hmmm, does that make Jeremy a Ford or Arthur? Seems more like a Ford kind of guy, which, of course, means that he is an alien. Which, if you think about it, he really is.
I wonder if Linus is getting fitted for a third arm so he can wave at the crowds while playing Quake at the launch of the 2.4 kernel? Hmmm.
For some reason I fear government use of the word Ministry.
I don't know. It might have something to do with a book I read back in '84.
And I'm certain that huge amounts of the critical work that you do requires a web browser.
I would hazard to say this comment is made by somebody who is not going to be held responsible for a business that wont' operate come Saturday because some piece of code, or hardware that they overlooked caused some errors in the data that started to mess things up like billing, shipping, order processing, collections, machine automation, etc.
Of course the world will go on. It's survived wars it can survive this. However, I personally want my own little computer world to just keep on humming and not even hiccup. I've got enough stress in my life without having my boss, CEO, and major share holders breathing down my neck because I didn't properly window the dates in an EDI application.
Anyway, I would almost regard this whole thing about GMT time as a kinda fun discussion not to be taken seriously. The reason why I say that because it's too late to stop what is going to happen from happening, so it's fun to speculate exactly when it will happen.
The answer is so obvious is isn't a wonder that we are missing it: Linux is more popular than BSD because Oreilly has published more books that pertain to Linux.
I mean, we all know that the only way we ever learn anything is by reading an Oreilly book.
It's a Pavlonian response. TV viewers (US most likely by possibly worldwide) have shortened attention spans because of the typical show, commercial, show, commercial sequence.
We are used to taking a break and diverting our attentions to something else (food, advertised product, the restroom) every few minutes, I think it was 7. So, when we watched a taped show we find it comfortable to go ahead and watch the commercials because it gives us our needed break.
Movies actually have changes in pacing every few minutes as well. That is what keeps us interested to sit through 2 hours. A movie that doesn't provide these pacing changes is perceived as long and sometimes boring.
Personally, I find I am more productive when I step away from any long task for a minute or so every 10 minutes. Otherwise, I become bored and find it difficult to continue with full concentration or interest. I'm in the process of trying to break this habit.
Nice example about McDonald's. Network Solutions is asking him, essentially, to pay more money for a less suitable name because they screwed up and didn't reserve his orignal one-of-a-kind order for him.
Makes me also think of Apple recently offering a less capable computer for the same price because they couldn't fulfill the orders people had placed in advance for the more capable computer.
The solution is painfully obvious, Network Solutions must agree to buy the domain back from the name squatter and pass it on to the college student. Of course, hell will freeze over before that happens. I don't know the specifics of this contract, or of contract law, but it seems to me that an agreement was entered into by Network Solutions and the college student and NS failed to uphold their end of the bargain.
What we essentially have here is a one-of-a-kind item being sold by multiple salesmen. The rules are, once a sale is agreed upon by customer and salesmen, other salesmen cannot sell it. What happened was, an agreement was made, and while one salesman (an old guy who doesn't type very fast) took forever to get the paperwork done, another salesman sold the item in question.
NS clearly admits that it screwed up. It deleted a registration attempt through it's own network when a second party tried to lay claim to the name. Then they contacted the other registrar when they realized they had snuck in an claimed it. They asked for it back. They admit that a bug in the system allowed this all to happen and that it has been fixed. They are wrong, they admit it, they must pay to buy the domain and pass it on.
Did anyone happen to glance at the on site installation charges?
I couldn't believe it. These things are a breeze to setup and anyone who needs help with it should not be allowed to reproduce.
Says it is for the microserver and x workstations. The workstation service features this:
Features
A Workgroup Installation Service includes the following:
Remove purchased systems from their packaging
Oh, they slay me. Only $288 for the server and 2 workstations. I hope they dispose of the boxes properly.
Please qualify your statement that Dell does not use standard components.
I support 75+ Dell systems and can easily swap drives, NICs, video cards, sound cards, etc. I have found nothing "non" standard in the systems worth mentioning.
The Dimensions, as far as I can tell, are completely off the shelf components, or OEM versions of them. The Optiplex units, I believe use a special form mother board, but everything that plugs into is not special.
One thing of complaint has been on the servers. The servers have all required processors sold by Dell. I cannot buy a processor from anyone else or the servers complain that the stepping is wrong. Pissed me off severely as the cost for a second processor from Dell was more than twice the cost of that processor from anyone else.
We have sent all the second rate phone sanitizers into space. Your phones will still be clean.
I was just telling this story to someone yesterday. He was't amused. I guess you have to read it. Or maybe my delivery sucked.