Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
Lord of the Rings

Jackson Slated to Make Hobbit Movie, Sequel 496

Posted by Zonk from the hobbit-two-electric-bugaloo dept.
A user writes "Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, and MGM have agreed to work on two new movies: a film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit', and a further sequel. From the article: 'The two Hobbit films ... are scheduled to be shot simultaneously, with pre-production beginning as soon as possible. Principal photography is tentatively set for a 2009 start, with the intention of 'The Hobbit' release slated for 2010 and its sequel the following year, in 2011.'" Not sure if it would be possible to nab Ian Holm as Bilbo, but here's hoping.

Comment Re:Will schools adopt it for research? (Score 1) 272

by Dietlama (#21740616) Attached to: Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia
In my experience, the key for student research projects is not the source of the article (Wikipedia or Google, etc...), it's the quality of the sources referenced in the article. If the Knol has references that are credible, students should be checking those out. Personally, I'd need to see what the overall quality of the articles were on Knol before I'd allow it in a research paper. For instance, information on King Arthur at Wikipedia is very good, whereas info on George Bush or some other current public figure, is more likely to be vandalized.
Data Storage

Penny-Sized Flash Module Holds 16GB 146

Posted by Zonk from the okay-now-we're-in-the-future dept.
nerdyH writes "Intel describes its new 2GB to 16GB SSDs (solid state disks) as 'smaller than a penny, and weighing less than a drop of water.' The parts are '400 times smaller in volume than a 1.8-inch hard drive,' Intel boasts, 'and at 0.6 grams, 75 times lighter.' Sampling now, with mass production set for Q1 2008, the Z-P140 is described as an 'optional' part of Intel's Menlow chipset, built in turn as part of Intel's vision for Linux-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs)."
Windows

Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product 842

Posted by kdawson from the foregone-conclusion dept.
Shadow7789 writes "No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC World has declared that Windows Vista is the most disappointing product of 2007. Quoting: 'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?... No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'"

Slashdot Top Deals

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. -- Thomas Jefferson

Close