LoTR is also one of twentieth century English' most influential literary works. There aren't many writers/works that are singlehandedly responsible for entire aisles in bookstores. becvause of the work's influence I am happy to note that the cast seems to be somewhat representitive of the English-speaking world.
As for the debut being held in England, well, considering we all speak English in spite of the best efforts of Hollywood I think we can allow this. In addition, although much of the money for the film came from Hollywood this project is more international than, say, Terminator 3. I feel that LoTR deserves an international debut.:)
Think for yourself, go and see the first one. If you abhor it, chalk the films up as another example of Hollywood failing fans, and stick with the books.
On the other hand if you like the movies, regardless of what others might think, enjoy them. Continue enjoying the books.
I'm not quite a megafan -- I only have twelve reads of the trilogy under my belt and the Silmarillon bores me to tears -- this is how I am approaching Jackson's movies.
One other note, one of my favorite movies is Jackson's "Braindead" released in the U.S. as "Dead Alive". This guy definitely knows how to have fun with dark subject matter.:)
As I recall Andromeda is supposed to collide with us in 200 million years, give or take a couple million. Because the outer regions of galaxies are rather sparse I suspect other than the light show in the sky we (or whatever might be looking up at the sky 200 million years from now) will probably be relatively unaffected.
Re: super-telescopes, I cannot wait for the NASA Origins programs' second and third generation telescopes, the planet finders. The goal by 2020 is to put high-power optical interferometers in space, so we can not only infer the presence of planets, but image them.
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Very good comment -- I wonder if the gyroscopes are simply small units that are monitored by the computers, which then adjust wheel position, or whether they are large enough to lend some stability to the machine through [whatever the effect is called that gives a spinning gyroscope its resistance to having its axis of rotation changed]?
From Kamen's interview this morning, a six hour charge equals twelve to seventeen miles on level ground. The machine doesn't produce energy from thin air.:)
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Granted, when we walk we're falling forward in a controlled fashion, as Kamen states in the Time article, but we then lift ourselves back up and fall again to sustain the walk.
The batteries are for balancing -- five cents of electricity per day. Where does this beast get the energy to move a few hundred pounds at speeds up to 12 MPH and sustain it "all day"?
Can the technology scale? Why not build a roofed two-wheel rickshaw for two riders? Imagine commuting at 30 MPH through a city on a few small rechargable batteries. Make it bigger, give it a fluid reservoir for load balancing, and have a two-wheeled four seated family sedan that cruises the highways safely for pennies per lengthy trip.
I dunno, I will wait until the real world product is in the hands of some real world reviewers before I believe it to be the best thing since sliced bread. Right now I come down on the skeptical side of opinion.
I think a twelve year old weight lifter, tennis pro, or speed skater might raise enough eyebrows to merit genetic testing. Abusing gene therapy might enhance an existing individual's performance, but test-tube to track superathletes will take longer than twelve years to produce.
My point would be more clearly stated that RedHat is one of the few companies born of the dotcom era that has a model that looks to actually succeed in making it profitable?
I never said they are making a profit... Are they making money? They must be -- they are nearing breakeven, and expect to reach profitability (I believe) in 2002. Compared to most of the companies born of the dotcom era, especially during a time of shrinking global economies, the fact that Redhat are able to follow their plan and meet their projected growth is impressive.
I never said that VA Whatever-they-are-at-the-moment and most of the other companies that rely on Open Source are making profits.
To me their CTO's statement was surprising because RedHat has always seemed to be viewed as being the Microsoft of the Linux world. That they would turn and embrace the community in spite of some of the community's resentments towards them (to me) demonstrates a remarkable (and sensible) dedication to principle. I am very happy these people are making money off of Linux.
In retrospect you and other posters are correct, RedHat have no need to change their model to a more commercially-oriented approach because they have always been commercially-oriented. I hadn't throught about it that way, and had I done so I would have chosen different wording.
As for the dupe, that's not Timothy's fault but mine for not being around on/. as much as I used to be.
Heh, I'm a Yankee, hadn't ever been exposed to fire ants before. I went down to visit relatives in Georgia and decided to see what a fire ant sting felt like.
Well, they sting, but it's not terrible. I find wasp and hornet stings much more painful than fire ant stings. As you point out, thousands of stings will kill a person, but thousands of ordinary honeybee stings will do the same.
As for me, I am allergic to hornets so one sting from a hornet = death. Aussies know how to deal with deadly insects, the fire ant will be no big deal.
They have "invaded" the US southern states. As another poster noted they are not miniature Borg.
People in the US have been dealing with fire ants for years. You learn to watch where you step (I think Aussies already do this: funnel web spiders, venomous snakes, etc.) You learn to not throw your sunbathing towel over an ant hill. You learn to not leave sweet things laying about in the house.
Fire ants sting. The stings hurt. They can kill sensitive people, much as can wasps and bees. They are neither invincible (there's a little wasp that thinks fire ants are tasty, and chemical warfare can create a state of stalemate) nor are they so prevalent that one cannot learn to live with them.
This article is hysterical to the tune of the US' fear of so-called "killer bees", which are indeed nasty and tempermental, but you'll note that in South America, where Africanized honeybees originated, although a few more people die of bee attacks every year life pretty much goes on as normal for the continent's millions of inhabitants.
I still must ask, why aren't all the other females, and the men for that matter in clingy tight-fitting clothing?
I guess the answer would be that T'Pol only completely logical being on board. Humans still have to learn about the finer points of space travel. (On an aside I would note that none of the other actors seem built to satisfy the target audience of males, ages 18-35.;) Linda Park's ta-tas must not be quite as bodacious as Jolene Blalock's.)
Did anyone else notice how incredibly cold it must have been in the decontamination chamber? I haven't seen anything that perky on TV since Kathie Lee left Regis for her solo career.:)
I liked the theme song too. I think this series has a LOT of potential, and other than Tucker's character I think the there's some good story potential.
Actually if you look at the equipment, although it has more blinkies than the resin props used in the original series it DID seem to me like quite a lot of Enterprise's props seemed to be halfway between our current time and the original series in appearance.
I liked T'Pol's telescoping viewer, although the skintight costume showing T'Pol's bodacious Vulcan ta-tas was a bit more sensual than one might expect from creatures who focus on logic. Notice please the ambassador's flowing robes. Where is the logic in making sexually dimorphic clothing? It seems terribly inefficient.
The communicators were halfway between a cell phone and Kirk's "device."
There were a lot of slider bars and knobs on NX-01, they were just more clearly labeled than those of Kirk's time (probably because by Kirk's time everyone has their positions and functions memorized...:) )
I LIKE the submarine look of Enterprise. I love engineering. I noticed the hexagonal grillwork of the original series used quite a bit in engineering. I also really like sick bay, although in an odd way I almost expected Lieutenant Riply to walk through the door straight off the Nostromo.
The "these new phase pistols" line was a bit hokey for me, and if anyone had said "warp 4.5, WOW" one more time, well, they DID say that an awful lot didn't they? I realize that Berman and Company were playing to the least common denominator ("hey folks, this is Trek prehistory you're watching now" wink wink.) I would beg and plead from the writers, please, don't have someone outrun Enterprise at warp 7 and add the commentary "he must be moving at warp 7. How is he doing it? Our physicists thought warp 7 was impossible. We'll never get to warp 7, not in two hundred years."
If we didn't get the prehistory point in the first five minutes of the show then maybe we should be held back a few seasons and forced to watch Survivor reruns.
As I recall reading from the first online review, (linked to from bureau42?) this was filmed in HD. According to the reviewer the "gala premier" was projected on a theater screen -- attendees raved about its "cinematic quality."
I must be wierd, I thought a theme song with lyrics was a nice deviation from the Williams-esque Trek themes of the post-cinema series.
Location: palm trees, sunshine, peaceful country, and who in the hell has heard enough about ICANN to raise much of a stink?
Location: most of the people who are concerned enough about ICANN cannot afford to get to an out-of-the-way place like Montevideo, Uruguay. Many of them don't even know how to say the name of the city, much less the name of the country.
Location: ICANN hopes to win points (and silence critics) among developing nations by holding a meeting in one of their own.
I think the supposed goal of the committee is to move the quarterly meeting from region to region with the lofty idea of bringing ICANN at its highest level within easy traveling distance of each participating locale. On the other hand there's a big difference between a meeting in Montevideo and a meeting in Rio. People in Rio might have actually noticed...
I have been getting.biz'd and.info'd from several mock "registrars" the past week. "ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT UNTIL PREREGISTRATION ENDS" etc.
On the bright side I notice that I no longer seem to be getting the "as the owner of f00.com we feel you should know that someone else has expressed an interest in f00.org and f00.net. Click on this link to purchase these domains before they are acquired by your competitors."
I suspect a best tipoff that any pro-registration email was a scam would be that the legitimate holder of whatever.tld 's rights would probably not send out mass mailings. In addition if they were to do so chances are the emails would not have a return address of jim6969@hotmail.com .:)
My understanding of the party line is that it was for committee members who couldn't show up in person. That none of these people bothered to call in seems to me to signify perhaps even the ordained members of ICANN's heirarchy realize their futility.
Maybe I misread the story and the party line was for at-large members? Imagine, they never bothered to tell us. Are they afraid of what we would have to say to them, or perhaps the underutilization of such an expensive service gave all the attendees upgrades to first class air seating on their favorite airline?
Aren't all flight-certified passenger aircraft above a certain seating limit now required to have duplicate black boxes/flight recorders in separate areas of the plane? Not that it really matters -- if this puppy plows into a mountainside at Mach.98 for some reason I suspect the biggest pieces they'll find will be the size of a small coin.
From what I gather the Boeing offering is not longer than Concorde. It DOES have a longer range. It flies at Mach.98, at roughly 40,000 feet in altitude, and can be configured to fly non-stop from London to Sydney.
The images at this point in time are still concept but I like the look. The dual inswept tail fins, and the dual canards at the front along with the delta wing make this beastie look really sleek.:)
What kind of a developer leaves their site open to modification by any visitor? Is that wise? Is that the kind of foresight I want going into a product I am going to trust on my system?
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Kazaa's file sharing client, also used by MusicCity, combines multiple data sources to maximize the requesting client's use of bandwidth.
LoTR is also one of twentieth century English' most influential literary works. There aren't many writers/works that are singlehandedly responsible for entire aisles in bookstores. becvause of the work's influence I am happy to note that the cast seems to be somewhat representitive of the English-speaking world.
:)
As for the debut being held in England, well, considering we all speak English in spite of the best efforts of Hollywood I think we can allow this. In addition, although much of the money for the film came from Hollywood this project is more international than, say, Terminator 3. I feel that LoTR deserves an international debut.
Think for yourself, go and see the first one. If you abhor it, chalk the films up as another example of Hollywood failing fans, and stick with the books.
:)
On the other hand if you like the movies, regardless of what others might think, enjoy them. Continue enjoying the books.
I'm not quite a megafan -- I only have twelve reads of the trilogy under my belt and the Silmarillon bores me to tears -- this is how I am approaching Jackson's movies.
One other note, one of my favorite movies is Jackson's "Braindead" released in the U.S. as "Dead Alive". This guy definitely knows how to have fun with dark subject matter.
Actually we are both wrong -- it's three billion to five billion years in the future. :)
Peace,
-Joe G.
As I recall Andromeda is supposed to collide with us in 200 million years, give or take a couple million. Because the outer regions of galaxies are rather sparse I suspect other than the light show in the sky we (or whatever might be looking up at the sky 200 million years from now) will probably be relatively unaffected.
Re: super-telescopes, I cannot wait for the NASA Origins programs' second and third generation telescopes, the planet finders. The goal by 2020 is to put high-power optical interferometers in space, so we can not only infer the presence of planets, but image them.
Very good comment -- I wonder if the gyroscopes are simply small units that are monitored by the computers, which then adjust wheel position, or whether they are large enough to lend some stability to the machine through [whatever the effect is called that gives a spinning gyroscope its resistance to having its axis of rotation changed]?
From Kamen's interview this morning, a six hour charge equals twelve to seventeen miles on level ground. The machine doesn't produce energy from thin air. :)
Granted, when we walk we're falling forward in a controlled fashion, as Kamen states in the Time article, but we then lift ourselves back up and fall again to sustain the walk.
The batteries are for balancing -- five cents of electricity per day. Where does this beast get the energy to move a few hundred pounds at speeds up to 12 MPH and sustain it "all day"?
Can the technology scale? Why not build a roofed two-wheel rickshaw for two riders? Imagine commuting at 30 MPH through a city on a few small rechargable batteries. Make it bigger, give it a fluid reservoir for load balancing, and have a two-wheeled four seated family sedan that cruises the highways safely for pennies per lengthy trip.
I dunno, I will wait until the real world product is in the hands of some real world reviewers before I believe it to be the best thing since sliced bread. Right now I come down on the skeptical side of opinion.
Only -- possibly -- in women's gymnastics.
I think a twelve year old weight lifter, tennis pro, or speed skater might raise enough eyebrows to merit genetic testing. Abusing gene therapy might enhance an existing individual's performance, but test-tube to track superathletes will take longer than twelve years to produce.
My point would be more clearly stated that RedHat is one of the few companies born of the dotcom era that has a model that looks to actually succeed in making it profitable?
I never said they are making a profit ... Are they making money? They must be -- they are nearing breakeven, and expect to reach profitability (I believe) in 2002. Compared to most of the companies born of the dotcom era, especially during a time of shrinking global economies, the fact that Redhat are able to follow their plan and meet their projected growth is impressive.
I never said that VA Whatever-they-are-at-the-moment and most of the other companies that rely on Open Source are making profits.
Good points made in regards to this comment.
/. as much as I used to be.
To me their CTO's statement was surprising because RedHat has always seemed to be viewed as being the Microsoft of the Linux world. That they would turn and embrace the community in spite of some of the community's resentments towards them (to me) demonstrates a remarkable (and sensible) dedication to principle. I am very happy these people are making money off of Linux.
In retrospect you and other posters are correct, RedHat have no need to change their model to a more commercially-oriented approach because they have always been commercially-oriented. I hadn't throught about it that way, and had I done so I would have chosen different wording.
As for the dupe, that's not Timothy's fault but mine for not being around on
Yup yup yup. :)
Heh, I'm a Yankee, hadn't ever been exposed to fire ants before. I went down to visit relatives in Georgia and decided to see what a fire ant sting felt like.
Well, they sting, but it's not terrible. I find wasp and hornet stings much more painful than fire ant stings. As you point out, thousands of stings will kill a person, but thousands of ordinary honeybee stings will do the same.
As for me, I am allergic to hornets so one sting from a hornet = death. Aussies know how to deal with deadly insects, the fire ant will be no big deal.
They have "invaded" the US southern states. As another poster noted they are not miniature Borg.
People in the US have been dealing with fire ants for years. You learn to watch where you step (I think Aussies already do this: funnel web spiders, venomous snakes, etc.) You learn to not throw your sunbathing towel over an ant hill. You learn to not leave sweet things laying about in the house.
Fire ants sting. The stings hurt. They can kill sensitive people, much as can wasps and bees. They are neither invincible (there's a little wasp that thinks fire ants are tasty, and chemical warfare can create a state of stalemate) nor are they so prevalent that one cannot learn to live with them.
This article is hysterical to the tune of the US' fear of so-called "killer bees", which are indeed nasty and tempermental, but you'll note that in South America, where Africanized honeybees originated, although a few more people die of bee attacks every year life pretty much goes on as normal for the continent's millions of inhabitants.
I still must ask, why aren't all the other females, and the men for that matter in clingy tight-fitting clothing?
;) Linda Park's ta-tas must not be quite as bodacious as Jolene Blalock's.)
:)
I guess the answer would be that T'Pol only completely logical being on board. Humans still have to learn about the finer points of space travel. (On an aside I would note that none of the other actors seem built to satisfy the target audience of males, ages 18-35.
Did anyone else notice how incredibly cold it must have been in the decontamination chamber? I haven't seen anything that perky on TV since Kathie Lee left Regis for her solo career.
I liked the theme song too. I think this series has a LOT of potential, and other than Tucker's character I think the there's some good story potential.
... :) )
Actually if you look at the equipment, although it has more blinkies than the resin props used in the original series it DID seem to me like quite a lot of Enterprise's props seemed to be halfway between our current time and the original series in appearance.
I liked T'Pol's telescoping viewer, although the skintight costume showing T'Pol's bodacious Vulcan ta-tas was a bit more sensual than one might expect from creatures who focus on logic. Notice please the ambassador's flowing robes. Where is the logic in making sexually dimorphic clothing? It seems terribly inefficient.
The communicators were halfway between a cell phone and Kirk's "device."
There were a lot of slider bars and knobs on NX-01, they were just more clearly labeled than those of Kirk's time (probably because by Kirk's time everyone has their positions and functions memorized
I LIKE the submarine look of Enterprise. I love engineering. I noticed the hexagonal grillwork of the original series used quite a bit in engineering. I also really like sick bay, although in an odd way I almost expected Lieutenant Riply to walk through the door straight off the Nostromo.
The "these new phase pistols" line was a bit hokey for me, and if anyone had said "warp 4.5, WOW" one more time, well, they DID say that an awful lot didn't they? I realize that Berman and Company were playing to the least common denominator ("hey folks, this is Trek prehistory you're watching now" wink wink.) I would beg and plead from the writers, please, don't have someone outrun Enterprise at warp 7 and add the commentary "he must be moving at warp 7. How is he doing it? Our physicists thought warp 7 was impossible. We'll never get to warp 7, not in two hundred years."
If we didn't get the prehistory point in the first five minutes of the show then maybe we should be held back a few seasons and forced to watch Survivor reruns.
As I recall reading from the first online review, (linked to from bureau42?) this was filmed in HD. According to the reviewer the "gala premier" was projected on a theater screen -- attendees raved about its "cinematic quality."
I must be wierd, I thought a theme song with lyrics was a nice deviation from the Williams-esque Trek themes of the post-cinema series.
Location: palm trees, sunshine, peaceful country, and who in the hell has heard enough about ICANN to raise much of a stink?
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Location: most of the people who are concerned enough about ICANN cannot afford to get to an out-of-the-way place like Montevideo, Uruguay. Many of them don't even know how to say the name of the city, much less the name of the country.
Location: ICANN hopes to win points (and silence critics) among developing nations by holding a meeting in one of their own.
I think the supposed goal of the committee is to move the quarterly meeting from region to region with the lofty idea of bringing ICANN at its highest level within easy traveling distance of each participating locale. On the other hand there's a big difference between a meeting in Montevideo and a meeting in Rio. People in Rio might have actually noticed
I have been getting .biz'd and .info'd from several mock "registrars" the past week. "ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT UNTIL PREREGISTRATION ENDS" etc.
:)
On the bright side I notice that I no longer seem to be getting the "as the owner of f00.com we feel you should know that someone else has expressed an interest in f00.org and f00.net. Click on this link to purchase these domains before they are acquired by your competitors."
I suspect a best tipoff that any pro-registration email was a scam would be that the legitimate holder of whatever.tld 's rights would probably not send out mass mailings. In addition if they were to do so chances are the emails would not have a return address of jim6969@hotmail.com .
My understanding of the party line is that it was for committee members who couldn't show up in person. That none of these people bothered to call in seems to me to signify perhaps even the ordained members of ICANN's heirarchy realize their futility.
...
Maybe I misread the story and the party line was for at-large members? Imagine, they never bothered to tell us. Are they afraid of what we would have to say to them, or perhaps the underutilization of such an expensive service gave all the attendees upgrades to first class air seating on their favorite airline?
As far as I am concerned, ICANN can't
The difference of course would be that Firefox was from a movie, so that's "Russians" in quotation marks.
Before I checked your link I was thinking you meant something like the Soviet Tupelev-144 or "Concordski" as a few in the press called it.
Aren't all flight-certified passenger aircraft above a certain seating limit now required to have duplicate black boxes/flight recorders in separate areas of the plane? Not that it really matters -- if this puppy plows into a mountainside at Mach .98 for some reason I suspect the biggest pieces they'll find will be the size of a small coin.
on Boeing's site. The Boeing Sonic Cruiser was unveiled a few months ago.
.98, at roughly 40,000 feet in altitude, and can be configured to fly non-stop from London to Sydney.
:)
From what I gather the Boeing offering is not longer than Concorde. It DOES have a longer range. It flies at Mach
The images at this point in time are still concept but I like the look. The dual inswept tail fins, and the dual canards at the front along with the delta wing make this beastie look really sleek.
What kind of a developer leaves their site open to modification by any visitor? Is that wise? Is that the kind of foresight I want going into a product I am going to trust on my system?
As long as everyone knows where they stand. :)