Really? I read the first one in electronic form, and honestly didn't care for it. I appreciate the Unix wizard analogy, but making an entire book (or series) out of it seems to be a stretch.
Maybe if I read the rest of them I'd change my mind.
I would have to disagree with you where you say she doesn't show foresight. While a slashdot comment isn't ideal for listing every instance of her picking up a long dead thread from previous books, I can list a couple:
- Harry talking to the snake in the zoo in the beginning of book 1, before we learned about parseltongues in book 2 -In the introduction to book 1, Serious Black is mentioned in passing, then ignored until Book 3. -In book 1, Quirrel was traveling in Algeria, which is also where Wormtail found Voldemort, and where he hid the Ravenclaw headdress. -Book 2 showing Riddle's diary being a horcrux, 4 books before we knew the word horcrux -Horseless carriages showing up in book 2 (maybe book 1, too, but they took the boats across the water) 3 or 4 books before we learned about thestrals
There are a lot more, but you see where I'm going. Lots of details plotted long before they're "used".
I will admit that it seems like she sometimes (ab)uses Deux ex machina to get the people out of trouble, but hey, I still like James Bond, and he exists due to Deus ex machine.
I, too, was convinced that I had been mislead halfway through, and considered Snape on Voldemort's side.
Also, by the way, I thought it was interesting that a word could be considered "taboo", and that this was used to actually make Voldemort's name a keyword by which to find OOTP members
You just described my introduction to the internet, circa 1996 on Windows 3.1.
2 days of sitting in front of Trumpet Winsock twiddling options, 15 years old, never having heard of so much as an IP address. I will never forget the moment it worked. It was like magic. It was ethereal. It took me 20 minutes to find my first porn site;-)
Sure, MS is being...well, MS for it's refusal to include open office formats, but the strange thing is, I have never once received a proposal or quote from a vendor in open office format. Ever.
I always get MS Office, either word docs or excel.
I once got an xls that Open Office opened and it was like 10 pages wide. MSOffice on the mac opened it fine. Because it was made in office.
As long as people continue to send me files in MS Office formats that can't be opened using OO, I'll continue using MS Office. It's as simple as that. I sometimes get 20 quotes a week. I can't refuse MS Office formatted docs, because I'd get fired for not doing my job.
I like Openoffice, and I appreciate everything they're doing.
On the other hand, if I could buy MS Office for Linux, I would. It really is just better.
For all that OO tries, it just isn't as compatible with MS Office formats as it needs to be for me to use it. I always have formatting errors with word documents, sometimes I have entire excel spreadsheets that are useless, and I just can't have that.
I have MS office on my powerbook, and I use that for the documents that OO can't handle. I produce the vast majority of documents on there too. If I had Office on Linux, I would use it instead, but I don't.
Using a faraday cage, which routes electricity around the object, rather than through it.
The same reason it's safe in a car in a lightning storm. The electricity travels on the metal skin of the car rather than through the air gap in the passenger compartment.
To shield a solid (or mostly solid) metal object, simply wrap the conductive metal in an insulator and cover the insulator with a conductor. Voila, safe from lightning bolts and high-tech anarchists/terrorists/freedom fighters
If even half of users work like I do, then Google isn't going to suffer...in fact, they might even gain a score higher. Here's why:
I would estimate that for 80% of my day, I have Google open.
Sure, I might not be looking at the page, in fact I'm probably not. I'm probably on one of the 15 tabs that I've opened from the search results. It might take me 5 minutes, or it might take me an hour to work through the results, but eventually I get back to the Google tab, and either search again, or close it.
If I close it, I'm willing to bet not 20 more minutes go by until I'm back there. I also have Google's personal homepage as my homepage, so it already has a head start.
No, I don't think this is going to hurt Google at all.
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If that were the case, then the wandmaker still had the Elder Wand, because Dumbledore would have stolen the non-Elder wand.
No, it has to be possible to defeat the holder of the Elder Wand, otherwise it wouldn't be passed down from person to person through the years.
A person was said to have mastery over death only if he held all three items.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Just such a bizarre movie, despite being well made, it made me feel "dirty" or something.
Really? I read the first one in electronic form, and honestly didn't care for it. I appreciate the Unix wizard analogy, but making an entire book (or series) out of it seems to be a stretch.
Maybe if I read the rest of them I'd change my mind.
I would have to disagree with you where you say she doesn't show foresight.
While a slashdot comment isn't ideal for listing every instance of her picking up a long dead thread from previous books, I can list a couple:
- Harry talking to the snake in the zoo in the beginning of book 1, before we learned about parseltongues in book 2
-In the introduction to book 1, Serious Black is mentioned in passing, then ignored until Book 3.
-In book 1, Quirrel was traveling in Algeria, which is also where Wormtail found Voldemort, and where he hid the Ravenclaw headdress.
-Book 2 showing Riddle's diary being a horcrux, 4 books before we knew the word horcrux
-Horseless carriages showing up in book 2 (maybe book 1, too, but they took the boats across the water) 3 or 4 books before we learned about thestrals
There are a lot more, but you see where I'm going. Lots of details plotted long before they're "used".
I will admit that it seems like she sometimes (ab)uses Deux ex machina to get the people out of trouble, but hey, I still like James Bond, and he exists due to Deus ex machine.
I do believe she frequently
That would make sense chronologically too. nice call.
Neither "won" the duel in the ministry between Dumbledore and Voldemort. Voldemort ran away with Bellatrix.
That's actually a really good idea.
Each book would do great as a miniseries on TV. Maybe in another 10 years or so, someone will do that.
Unless it's a Tolkein book, in which case your art director can look at it as a finely detailed set of instructions on building a scene.
I would assume that Draco was with Pansy, since Harry ended up with Ginny.
I had the same issue with the sword in Gringotts.
Also, anyone know who the person who managed to do magic later in life was? I couldn't pin that on anyone.
Or, applying Occam's Razor, maybe she had the theories running all along?
I, too, was convinced that I had been mislead halfway through, and considered Snape on Voldemort's side.
Also, by the way, I thought it was interesting that a word could be considered "taboo", and that this was used to actually make Voldemort's name a keyword by which to find OOTP members
Glad you liked it, I did too.
What kind of hints were you talking about?
This is where the "due process" part comes in.
There are specific conditions under which the IRS can freeze your assets.
The conditions on this is that the Secretary of Treasury (!?!?) can determine who's assets to freeze. Hello?
Congress needs to grow a pair and lay down the legislative hammer.
back then it wasn't bad. The pictures were smaller. Heck, my resolution on that machine was never better than 800x600, even when I got Win95!
You just described my introduction to the internet, circa 1996 on Windows 3.1.
;-)
2 days of sitting in front of Trumpet Winsock twiddling options, 15 years old, never having heard of so much as an IP address. I will never forget the moment it worked. It was like magic. It was ethereal. It took me 20 minutes to find my first porn site
MSO (any version) is utterly incompatible with MSO (same version) on any computer other than the one it was created on.
I'll admit that MS is guilty of planned obsolescence in Office formats, but I think you're overgeneralizing a good bit here.
Sure, MS is being...well, MS for it's refusal to include open office formats, but the strange thing is, I have never once received a proposal or quote from a vendor in open office format. Ever.
I always get MS Office, either word docs or excel.
I once got an xls that Open Office opened and it was like 10 pages wide. MSOffice on the mac opened it fine. Because it was made in office.
As long as people continue to send me files in MS Office formats that can't be opened using OO, I'll continue using MS Office. It's as simple as that. I sometimes get 20 quotes a week. I can't refuse MS Office formatted docs, because I'd get fired for not doing my job.
Lets see if I can channel DJB and come up with an appropriate response
Anyone who runs postfix on a multiuser machine machine is doing it wrong.
Was I close? If you don't like the results, claim the conditions under which they exist to be incorrect. Right?
Not if qmail-popup, qmail-pop3d, and qmail-smtpd are run with VM limits set low enough (say, 1GB or less), and the OS enforces those limits,
My software isn't remotely exploitable either, so long as it's only running on 127.0.0.1. Doesn't mean the hole doesn't exist.
DJB is the kind of guy who would say that anyone using a kernel which numbers PIDs sequentially is doing it wrong.
Well, duh?
I like Openoffice, and I appreciate everything they're doing.
On the other hand, if I could buy MS Office for Linux, I would. It really is just better.
For all that OO tries, it just isn't as compatible with MS Office formats as it needs to be for me to use it. I always have formatting errors with word documents, sometimes I have entire excel spreadsheets that are useless, and I just can't have that.
I have MS office on my powerbook, and I use that for the documents that OO can't handle. I produce the vast majority of documents on there too. If I had Office on Linux, I would use it instead, but I don't.
Using a faraday cage, which routes electricity around the object, rather than through it.
The same reason it's safe in a car in a lightning storm. The electricity travels on the metal skin of the car rather than through the air gap in the passenger compartment.
To shield a solid (or mostly solid) metal object, simply wrap the conductive metal in an insulator and cover the insulator with a conductor. Voila, safe from lightning bolts and high-tech anarchists/terrorists/freedom fighters
I would be so so so so surprised if they weren't EMP shielded
I'm with you.
great movie
If even half of users work like I do, then Google isn't going to suffer...in fact, they might even gain a score higher. Here's why:
I would estimate that for 80% of my day, I have Google open.
Sure, I might not be looking at the page, in fact I'm probably not. I'm probably on one of the 15 tabs that I've opened from the search results. It might take me 5 minutes, or it might take me an hour to work through the results, but eventually I get back to the Google tab, and either search again, or close it.
If I close it, I'm willing to bet not 20 more minutes go by until I'm back there. I also have Google's personal homepage as my homepage, so it already has a head start.
No, I don't think this is going to hurt Google at all.