yes, quite a lot happens, and my guess (and has been for a loonnng time) is that the split will occur right after they escape from the wood elves and see the lonely mountain for the first time.
It's a thinner book than you'd expect because there's less time spent describing every rock, twig and leaf in every scene and its family history
re: Faramir, they'd built up this mystery about the ring and how it has great manipulative power over people, specifically humans, and he was supposed to just say "meh"?
You're partially correct, but you're missing the key point that it's only the puritanical nutjob ones that scream and shout about it that are like that, there are a whole bunch of practical and pragmatic environmentalists out there, they just aren't as loud.
On a related note I recently had a discussion with a group of vegans and when you get a bunch of vegans together a sort of bizarre pack mentality emerges where the least pure is picked on and ultimately leaves because they can't stand it (in this case me because I was "only" a vegetarian in that I eat dairy products and am therefore a MURDERER!!!!!!!). I presume what would happen next is that the least pure of the remainder is picked on (because, perhaps, they keep chickens for proper free range eggs), and so on (the next one along may have some second hand leather shoes that they decided to keep and use rather than just throwing them out) until there's only one of them left, who presumably never eats anything, doesn't wear any clothes, levitates everywhere to save from stepping on ants and doesn't breathe to save on CO2 pollution...
Eactly, it's like when people's naked pictures leak onto the internet and there's an outcry about somone's career being ruined. I truly don't get that because last time I checked everyone had nipples and buttocks, were we supposed to believe that "famous people" didn't?
It's about time. I wrote my final year physics paper on this, using quantum dots tuned to the wavelengths of RGB for flat panel displays. In 1998.
Most fun part was that I did most of the work from my bedroom, running simulations on the unix system at uni via a C app and my trusty 33.6k modem. Good times.
exactly, when working from home (via windows) I have my OSX laptop on the desk next to me. Heck when I'm at work (where "social" sites are blocked) i have my android phone with unlimited data package with me:)
Me too, at the moment the only real-time tv I watch is the news, and even that's not very often. Sometimes I'll manage to catch an F1 or IndyCar race, if I manage to remember, and be in my house, and not busy. TV Shows I get via bittorrent and watch when I get around to it, I'm about a year behind most series now but have plenty of HD space to keep grabbing new episodes as they come out:). My HTPC is built to look just like a standard DVD player (I repurposed the case), has a remote and boots straight into XBMC, so even the kids can operate it (my porn is not in XBMC, it's deeply buried in a nested folder structure elsewhere!)
Though this model isn't entirely new, a previous work colleague of mine only watched TV shows when they were released on DVD.
Have been working on something similar very very slowly: a single ASP.Net web page (which could easily be ported to PHP no doubt) that acted as a proxy web browser that encrypted its traffic using a GPG key randomly generated (or provided by the user). It'd be text only ( = no accusations of being used for child pr0n or for teh pirates) but the idea would be that anyone could drop it into their own website without having to configure it and instantly people living under opressive censoring regimes (China,Iran,US,etc.) would be able to open that web page and use it as a web browser to get to news sites and the like.
I actually did, switched from OpenSUSS 11.4 to a Hackintosh, don't ever want to go back (unless the ghost of steve jobs comes to haunt me, then I may consider it)
Yep, whenever I see a photo for a burger-meal or a breakfast the entire thing is shades of yellow (assuming brown counts as dark yellow): cheese (bright yellow), bread (off white tan), bacon (brown), burger (dark brown), fries/wedges/chips (yellow), chicken nuggets (tan), sausage (brown).
And then the omnivores continue to persist the myth that non-meat eaters don't get enough protein, any of you guys ever eaten a vitamin?
I've been vegetarian for 18 years and thought free range eggs were all fine and dandy until about a month or two ago when someone finally explained this to me. Now adjusting slowly over to vegan.
That's the 5/6 items you've used most recently. For most computer users who are NOT power users this is probably web browser, email, word processor, photo viewer and.... er.... solitaire?
Selling a used game to someone else does NOT give another person access. It TRANSFERS access from one person to another. The total number of players has not gone up.
Actually, having spoken to a Doctor in a senior position in a large NHS Trust his conclusion wasn't too far from yours, but without the physical USB stick: Instead of a central massive do-everything system all that should have happened / be happening is to specify a set of formats and protocols and then each provider from giant hospital campus to small outreach surgery can use whatever system suits their needs, so long as it talks the language. Also the NHS already has its own secure backnet (fibre and the like, though I expect a good deal of it is VPN too) so it's not like there'd be web services ripe for the hacking hanging on public IPs.
I'm holding out this idealogical hope that when Google+ comes out of beta they'll announce that, "oh, by the way, it's federated, and here's Lars on his Yahoo+ account, and this is me adding him as a friend on my Google+"
Reminds me of an idea I had about 15 years ago, where you could install similar devices under the dancefloor of a club. Lots of people dancing to banging music = free electricity
It was a combination of having SP1 and a setting registry key, EnableBigLBA, that you needed. I don't know why it was so important to correct you, I'm a pedant, sorry.
Believe me, they're shitting bricks about the interwebs, and not just because of the Copyright issues that their corporate donors have been harping on about. The past 50/60 years has been littered with minor revolutions that have been cracked down on because they were getting out of hand, specifically The Misuse of Drugs Act and The Criminal Justice Act. Both a cover, frankly, for bashing down hippies and other people who thought "Wouldn't it be great if we were all just nice to each other?" movements that they overlapped, who do you think rebranded "Anarchy" to mean "Riots" or "Hippy" to mean "Lazy, benefits claiming leecher"? They let us have Glastonbury Festival once a year, with a giant fucking fence around it, and we're supposed to be grateful, and we're supposed to believe that society can't function like that on a large scale, it just can't because, er, um, not screwing everyone else over 24/7 is not good for capitalism, and recycling and sustainability is not good for Oil Company profits./rant (it's monday morning and I'm grouchy)
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yes, quite a lot happens, and my guess (and has been for a loonnng time) is that the split will occur right after they escape from the wood elves and see the lonely mountain for the first time.
It's a thinner book than you'd expect because there's less time spent describing every rock, twig and leaf in every scene and its family history
re: Faramir, they'd built up this mystery about the ring and how it has great manipulative power over people, specifically humans, and he was supposed to just say "meh"?
You're partially correct, but you're missing the key point that it's only the puritanical nutjob ones that scream and shout about it that are like that, there are a whole bunch of practical and pragmatic environmentalists out there, they just aren't as loud.
On a related note I recently had a discussion with a group of vegans and when you get a bunch of vegans together a sort of bizarre pack mentality emerges where the least pure is picked on and ultimately leaves because they can't stand it (in this case me because I was "only" a vegetarian in that I eat dairy products and am therefore a MURDERER!!!!!!!). I presume what would happen next is that the least pure of the remainder is picked on (because, perhaps, they keep chickens for proper free range eggs), and so on (the next one along may have some second hand leather shoes that they decided to keep and use rather than just throwing them out) until there's only one of them left, who presumably never eats anything, doesn't wear any clothes, levitates everywhere to save from stepping on ants and doesn't breathe to save on CO2 pollution...
Eactly, it's like when people's naked pictures leak onto the internet and there's an outcry about somone's career being ruined. I truly don't get that because last time I checked everyone had nipples and buttocks, were we supposed to believe that "famous people" didn't?
It's about time. I wrote my final year physics paper on this, using quantum dots tuned to the wavelengths of RGB for flat panel displays. In 1998.
Most fun part was that I did most of the work from my bedroom, running simulations on the unix system at uni via a C app and my trusty 33.6k modem. Good times.
exactly, when working from home (via windows) I have my OSX laptop on the desk next to me. Heck when I'm at work (where "social" sites are blocked) i have my android phone with unlimited data package with me :)
I thought it meant the data could be stored for several years?
Me too, at the moment the only real-time tv I watch is the news, and even that's not very often. Sometimes I'll manage to catch an F1 or IndyCar race, if I manage to remember, and be in my house, and not busy. TV Shows I get via bittorrent and watch when I get around to it, I'm about a year behind most series now but have plenty of HD space to keep grabbing new episodes as they come out :). My HTPC is built to look just like a standard DVD player (I repurposed the case), has a remote and boots straight into XBMC, so even the kids can operate it (my porn is not in XBMC, it's deeply buried in a nested folder structure elsewhere!)
Though this model isn't entirely new, a previous work colleague of mine only watched TV shows when they were released on DVD.
Have been working on something similar very very slowly: a single ASP.Net web page (which could easily be ported to PHP no doubt) that acted as a proxy web browser that encrypted its traffic using a GPG key randomly generated (or provided by the user). It'd be text only ( = no accusations of being used for child pr0n or for teh pirates) but the idea would be that anyone could drop it into their own website without having to configure it and instantly people living under opressive censoring regimes (China,Iran,US,etc.) would be able to open that web page and use it as a web browser to get to news sites and the like.
I actually did, switched from OpenSUSS 11.4 to a Hackintosh, don't ever want to go back (unless the ghost of steve jobs comes to haunt me, then I may consider it)
Yep, whenever I see a photo for a burger-meal or a breakfast the entire thing is shades of yellow (assuming brown counts as dark yellow): cheese (bright yellow), bread (off white tan), bacon (brown), burger (dark brown), fries/wedges/chips (yellow), chicken nuggets (tan), sausage (brown).
And then the omnivores continue to persist the myth that non-meat eaters don't get enough protein, any of you guys ever eaten a vitamin?
This
I've been vegetarian for 18 years and thought free range eggs were all fine and dandy until about a month or two ago when someone finally explained this to me. Now adjusting slowly over to vegan.
fish + dairy = prescatarian
Does anybody else here think that the Like button shouldn't track you even if you ARE logged in?
I have no problem with the Like button being there. But EVEN IF I AM LOGGED INTO FACEBOOK it should not record my page hit unless I click that button.
That's the 5/6 items you've used most recently. For most computer users who are NOT power users this is probably web browser, email, word processor, photo viewer and .... er.... solitaire?
Selling a used game to someone else does NOT give another person access. It TRANSFERS access from one person to another. The total number of players has not gone up.
Actually, having spoken to a Doctor in a senior position in a large NHS Trust his conclusion wasn't too far from yours, but without the physical USB stick: Instead of a central massive do-everything system all that should have happened / be happening is to specify a set of formats and protocols and then each provider from giant hospital campus to small outreach surgery can use whatever system suits their needs, so long as it talks the language. Also the NHS already has its own secure backnet (fibre and the like, though I expect a good deal of it is VPN too) so it's not like there'd be web services ripe for the hacking hanging on public IPs.
I'm holding out this idealogical hope that when Google+ comes out of beta they'll announce that, "oh, by the way, it's federated, and here's Lars on his Yahoo+ account, and this is me adding him as a friend on my Google+"
Boom
Reminds me of an idea I had about 15 years ago, where you could install similar devices under the dancefloor of a club. Lots of people dancing to banging music = free electricity
It was a combination of having SP1 and a setting registry key, EnableBigLBA, that you needed. I don't know why it was so important to correct you, I'm a pedant, sorry.
There was one in 1983, too? Why did nobody tell me!? Does this one have a happy ending?
Brief Voyager moan : The setup was great, two rival (warring!) crews trying to get along on one ship. The payoff? Fuck all.
Believe me, they're shitting bricks about the interwebs, and not just because of the Copyright issues that their corporate donors have been harping on about. The past 50/60 years has been littered with minor revolutions that have been cracked down on because they were getting out of hand, specifically The Misuse of Drugs Act and The Criminal Justice Act. Both a cover, frankly, for bashing down hippies and other people who thought "Wouldn't it be great if we were all just nice to each other?" movements that they overlapped, who do you think rebranded "Anarchy" to mean "Riots" or "Hippy" to mean "Lazy, benefits claiming leecher"? They let us have Glastonbury Festival once a year, with a giant fucking fence around it, and we're supposed to be grateful, and we're supposed to believe that society can't function like that on a large scale, it just can't because, er, um, not screwing everyone else over 24/7 is not good for capitalism, and recycling and sustainability is not good for Oil Company profits. /rant (it's monday morning and I'm grouchy)
also works with 95 > 95B
(95C, "Windows 97" breaks the pattern though, but it's best to pretend that one never existed anyway)