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4 unusual facts about TheOneRing.net


TheOneRing.net

For example, it was TheOneRing.net that Peter Jackson emailed in an effort to get his side heard when a lawsuit threatened his chance to film The Hobbit.

Over 1,500 "Ringers" (Lord of the Rings fans) from around the world came to the TheOneRing.net Oscar Party at the Hollywood, CA, American Legion on February 28, 2004.

The site is unique in that there is a mutual working relationship between the crew of TheOneRing.net and that of The Lord of the Rings movies, and now The Hobbit movies.

The foreword by Tom Shippey, well-known Tolkien scholar and author of The Road to Middle-earth and J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, says: "The Internet, the experience of continually answering questions and receiving comments ... give the organizers of TheOneRing.net a perspective which is uniquely broad, and uniquely full of surprises, some of which would have pleased Tolkien very much, but which he could not have expected."


1 E+11 m³

200 billion m3 — estimated volume of the annual net inflow of seawater to the Black Sea (from the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus)

Advisors Asset Management

In 1998, Scott Colyer founded Sterling Resources, a fixed income and wealth preservation company for high net worth clients and institutions in Monument, Colorado.

Arline Friscia

Democrats statewide saw a net gain of three seats in the Assembly in the 1995 elections, with two of the pickups coming in the 19th District where Friscia and John S. Wisniewski knocked off the Republican incumbents Stephen A. Mikulak and Ernest L. Oros.

ASAHI Net

;:ASAHI Net subscribers have the option of donating 100 yen to the effort to end world hunger through the World Food Programme organization as part of the United Nations.

Aviom

Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Aviom produces distributed audio networking gear which uses a proprietary digital audio transport system called A-Net, based on the physical layer of Ethernet and carried over Category 5 cables terminated with 8P8C connectors.

Battle.net

A group of gamers reverse engineered the network protocol used by Battle.net and Blizzard games, and released a free (under the GNU GPL) Battle.net emulation package called bnetd.

Blabbermouth.net

The busiest day so far was 298,000 unique visitors in a single 24-hour period, which occurred on the day of Ronnie James Dio's passing (May 16, 2010).

Carlos Bueno

On the 15th he scored his first goal for the club, against Everton de Viña del Mar in a 5–1 success (also away), coming off the bench at Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso in Coquimbo; nine days later he also found the net against Oriente Petrolero of Bolivia, a in 2–2 home draw (2–3 aggregate loss).

Carmen Busquets

Busquets was included in the Fashion’s New Order list alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and fashion mogul Bernard Arnault.

Climateprediction.net

A thermohaline circulation slowdown experiment was launched in May 2004 under the classic framework to coincide with the film The Day After Tomorrow.

CodeRush

It supports C# 4.0, VB10, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XAML and C++.

Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture

NET is a software framework created by Rockford Lhotka that provides a standard way to create robust object oriented programs using business objects.

Cyber-utopianism

Cyber-utopianism as a concept was first coined by Evgeny Morozov in his book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, this utopianism is a belief that online communication is in itself emancipatory and that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor.

Dada Entertainment

Its assets include Dada’s mobile club, Dada.net, Upoc (mobile community) and Sony Music Box (BREW application live on Verizon Wireless, Alltel and U.S. Cellular).

Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott, The Net Generation Takes The Lead; in: Willms Buhse/Ulrike Reinhard: Wenn Anzugträger auf Kapuzenpullis treffen (When Suits meet Hoodies), whois-Verlag 2009.

Edward Samuel Rogers

, OC (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth.

ESys.net

These features, such as reflection / introspection, the translation to an intermediate representation instead of machine code (the CIL) that still contains information about user-defined classes, platform independence and extensive thread management functionality, are supposed to allow for faster development and easier debugging of systems.

Etherpad

Localization is achieved collaboratively through translatewiki.net.

Frank G. Rubio

He writes in Javier Sierra's Más Allá, Javier Esteban's Generación XXI (now Generacion.Net) and other publications.

Gene Wojciechowski

These works include The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday 2007) with Jerome Bettis; I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA’s Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue (Simon & Schuster 1995) with Reggie Miller; Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion 1999) with Rick Majerus.

Greensteds School

In the last term (Trinity) boys play rugby, football and basketball, while the girls play net ball.

Iskander Makhmudov

In November 2012, it was announced that TMH had increased its net profit by 9 percent to 2.69 billion rubles.

Jaggi Singh

Singh currently produces No One Is Illegal Radio, which is broadcast on CKUT and podcasted by the A-Infos Radio Project.

Joe Salmon

Liam Devaney, Donie Nealon and Larry Keane all scored goals for Tipp in the first-half, while Tony Wall sent a 70-yard free untouched to the Galway net.

Ken Banks

Ken Banks is the Founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging application aimed at the grassroots non-profit community.

Media Access Project

One of the bigger cases that lead to current net neutrality rules was in 2007 when internet service provider Comcast was caught directly manipulating or blocking their subscriber’s access to the popular file sharing service BitTorrent.

Michal Tabara

After losing a first-round match to Justin Gimelstob in five sets, Tabara, who was allegedly frustrated by Gimelstob's frequent injury time-outs, spat in Gimelstob's direction as they approached the net to shake hands.

NeoLoad

NeoLoad supports any type of web application including those using J2EE, .NET, AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, GWT, SOAP, PHP, Push technology, etc. as long as they are HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 compliant.

Nery Pumpido

At the 1990 World Cup, Pumpido was at fault for Cameroon's winning goal, fumbling François Omam-Biyik's header into the net as the African nation shocked the defending champions at the tournament's opening game in Milan, winning by a goal to nil.

Net gun

One notable example of a net gun is used in the Predator series of films, most notably Predator 2 and Alien vs. Predator.

OLM.net

In 2000, OLM and its staff and clients were featured on a Leonard Nimoy documentary television show.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun released the software behind photo.net as a free open-source toolkit called the ArsDigita Community System, built on top of the Oracle relational database management system.

Prityazhenya bolshe net

"Prityazhenya bolshe net" (Russian: Притяженья больше нет, No attraction anymore) is the single released in January 2004 by Valeriy Meladze featuring Ukrainian/Russian girl group Nu Virgos.

Recession

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

Ritek

Confusingly, Rimedia, Ridisc and Rivision are not Ritek brands, but instead come from E-net, a company also known for Datawrite, Datasafe and Tuffdisc brands.

Ruairí McKiernan

He is a recipient of a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award, an Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award, and a Junior Chambers Ireland award.

Sedo

Tobias Flaitz, formerly of the privately held German-based Hubert Burda Media, joined Sedo as the new CEO of both Sedo Holding AG (including Sedo's sister company, Affili.net) and Sedo.

SlashNET

SlashNET has been host to numerous IRC forums with famous people in the tech industry, including Ken Coar, Marcel Gagne, Richard Stallman, Jamie Zawinski, Matt Dillon of DragonflyBSD, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda and Jeff 'Hemos' Bates of Slashdot, Rusty Foster and Dylan 'Inoshiro' Griffiths of kuro5hin, and the distributed.net crew.

South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball

The team does not have an official television partner, but Jackrabbit games have been televised on Midco Sports Net, Fox College Sports, the Big Ten Network, ESPN2, ESPNU, and local television networks.

Sports Time

The Kansas City Royals have been shown on its own network, RSTN; Fox Sports Net; Metro Sports, or a combination of them over the years; it is Fox Sports Net-exclusive as of 2008.

String-net liquid

In condensed matter physics, a string-net is an extended object whose collective behavior has been proposed as a physical mechanism for topological order by Michael A. Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen.

Teaser campaign

One of the more notable exceptions to this rule is Spider-Man, whose teaser trailer featured a mini-movie plot of bank robbers escaping in a helicopter, getting caught from behind and propelled backward into what at first appears to be a net, then is shown to be a gigantic spider web spun between the two towers at the World Trade Center.

TestDox

Created by Chris Stevenson in 2003, to date versions exist for .net, PHP and Ruby.

Tomoko Namba

She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's So-net while she was a consultant at Mckinsey.

Tribe.net

tribe.net features many "tribes", loosely based on the theory of urban tribes propounded by Michel Maffesoli and Ethan Watters.

UTF-16

UTF-16 is used by the Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the .NET environments; and the Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit.

Vinod Kumar Dwivedi

He got an MA in Political Science, the Sangeet Prabhakar (Vocal) from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, and the Sangeet Alankar (Vocal) from Gandharav Mandal, and passed the UGC NET lectureship examination (Music).

Wealth tax

In 1999, Donald Trump proposed for the United States a once off 14.25% wealth tax on the net worth of individuals and trusts worth $10 million or more.

Zena El Khalil

Among the speakers were Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and Jonathan Zittrain, one of the principal investigators of the Open Net Initiative.


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