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Doing this over the phone has been possible for ages... with devices like this.

Also Dilbert's house is online.... And an Internet enabled washing machine, and this internet enabled microwave are onsale in the UK.. Interestingly aren't available at amazon.com yet

Doing this over the phone has been possible for ages... with devices like this.

Also Dilbert's house is online.... And an Internet enabled washing machine, and this internet enabled microwave are onsale in the UK.. Interestingly aren't available at amazon.com yet

"I can only imagine that one in a completely different society would have a very different thought pattern. The common roots of Western languages indicates a similarity in thought, and people who learn foreign languages are far more adept at understanding and integrating with that society."

For those people that haven't seen it, do yourself a favour and find yourself a copy of Chris Morris's Brass Eye Paedophile Special (buy the DVD or find it by other means). Brass Eye was a truly legendary British TV series exposing the hipocricy of the media, using gullible celebrities and fake documentary-style filmwork to convey the ridiculousness of hysteria & misinformation that has become so commonplace throughout the newspapers & TV. You will laugh your ass off, guaranteed!

I'm waiting to see this USB device to hit the US market. Currently it looks like only the UK and others seem to have access to them.

See what current technology can do here.

The professor has just read Scimitar SL-2 in which a terrorist tries to cause the eruption of the volcano with a nuclear cruise missile

There's a bit of socio-scientific revisionism in the concept of the 'unknown' side of those like Newton. It's bizarre to see this 'unknown' meme pop up again and again, particularly because this side of Newton was most famously pointed out in the bestselling Holy Blood, Holy Grail" twenty years ago.

There's as much resistance to similar evidence about Boyd and Da Vinci, most of it due to ignorance about the 16th century mindset.

Hopefully the Newton Project will do something towards embedding a bit more realism into our historical perspective.

The amazon.com site does show a lot of "votes" for some of the negative reviews though.

While the link in the parent post is getting a lot of moderation done, there are pleny more at Amazon.com that people need to write reviews for, and mod up:

US: Amazon.com, Amazon.com
CA: Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca
UK: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk

While the link in the parent post is getting a lot of moderation done, there are pleny more at Amazon.com that people need to write reviews for, and mod up:

US: Amazon.com, Amazon.com
CA: Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca
UK: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk

While the link in the parent post is getting a lot of moderation done, there are pleny more at Amazon.com that people need to write reviews for, and mod up:

US: Amazon.com, Amazon.com
CA: Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca
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While the link in the parent post is getting a lot of moderation done, there are pleny more at Amazon.com that people need to write reviews for, and mod up:

US: Amazon.com, Amazon.com
CA: Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca
UK: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk

While the link in the parent post is getting a lot of moderation done, there are pleny more at Amazon.com that people need to write reviews for, and mod up:

US: Amazon.com, Amazon.com
CA: Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca
UK: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk

While the link in the parent post is getting a lot of moderation done, there are pleny more at Amazon.com that people need to write reviews for, and mod up:

US: Amazon.com, Amazon.com
CA: Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca
UK: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk

While the link in the parent post is getting a lot of moderation done, there are pleny more at Amazon.com that people need to write reviews for, and mod up:

US: Amazon.com, Amazon.com
CA: Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca, Amazon.ca
UK: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk

The book exists in several versions on various internet bookshops. They all deserve reviews, don't you think? 1, 2

It looks like neither amazon.ca nor amazon.co.uk have attracted many such reviews yet.

This appears to have been quite succesfull with a lot of negative reviews posted allready. UK /.er's - There isn't anything on amazon.co.uk. Get posting: amazon.co.uk

Don't forget to do the amazon.co.uk version too as well as the amazon.com version!!!

I'll just point you in the direction of myAmazon Listmania.

Check out the 'Indie Game Development Survival Guide' as it greatly expands on the article. A great book covering all aspects on how to complete a game (for fun or profit) as part of a hobbyist game-development team!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/158450214 2

What I have done is listen to the Audio Books"> read by Douglas Adams himself.
It gives you that much extra, because you hear what the author wants you to hear, instead of only the text.
It still leaves enough to the imagination.

What I did was ript it, so I had 5 CD's in my car, instead of the 25 and then listen to the mp3's. What else are you going to do when waiting in traffic?
Note that the prices are in UK money.

I don't think so, from what I can recall of brain stuff I did at uni $years ago a child's brain is very 'plastic' (it's easy for nerve cells to make/break connections) a lot is already wired up from the get-go. A lot of tuning has to be done within certain critical time windows (the pathways for stereo vision for example). Babies are not 'blank slates'; research on neonates' shows that they can not only recognise faces, but also mimic facial gestures (see How babies think for some background).

It contains a lot of stuff about getting computers fitted inside your head that interact both with your brain and wirelessly with other computers; they enable people to do such wonderful things as switching off pain, and instant messaging. Definately worth a look if you're interested in this field, and a thoroughly enjoyable universe to experience too :)

History shows us that such inventions have their place. Water may be a problem if your operating in desert or desert like conditions. What about Alpine?

I'm watching a bbc series on abc tv called the real heros of telemark (by ray mear) ~ which follows the story of WWII british trained and equiped, norwegian commandoes conducting raids on a Norsk heavy water plant in norway. Hitler had captured this plant to help in the production of nuclear weapons.

The problems they had with carrying their kit, traversing cold climatic conditions where you could expend upwards of 5000/6000 calaries per day this type of food would have gone a long way to solve their problems in surviving.

If there's space for Madonna in the Kabbala, then I'm sure there's space for a decent FPS where you frag Golem's in Prague. The manual for the Kabbala game might take several years to read though.

Mini Ipods Available in the UK, very soon.

You're not entirely correct. Yes, the lyrics and music of the song are still covered by copyright, but THIS PARTICULAR RECORDING of the song will not be, after 31st Dec 2004. So two Europeans could share an MP3 of it on Kazaa perfectly legally, or you could sample it and remix THIS RECORDING (a la JXL v. Elvis) - anything that involves the "mechanical reproduction" of this particular recording will not be covered by copyright any more. Because of the 50 year rule for recorded music copyrights, a lot of famous recordings are entering the public domain in Europe - for example the work of Maria Callas. Indepedent record labels can therefore release their own compilations of these recordings - often at bargain prices. It's important that we fight this issue, if it comes round to the European Parliament - they might not act quickly enough to "save" these particular recordings - BUT on 1st Jan 2013 the recordings of a certain Liverpool quartet will start to enter the public domain. If EMI is still around at this stage, and haven't forced a change of the law through, then you can bet there will be the most almighty wailing...

Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate in Economics) argues this very point in his new book ( The Roaring Nineties: Seeds of Destruction ) and comes to the conclusion that the idea you mentioned doesn't work.

The book is an interesting read (at least so far), though his style is rather bland.

For an entertaining SF novel based on this, see Greg Egan's Permutation City. (And though entertaining, it has very serious philosophical points to make.)

Another nifty graphic novel well worth checking out is Spooked by Antony Johnston. He's not so well known (yet), but does some really cool and atmospheric stuff.

He sounds like he'd get on very well with Dave Gorman, who, after a drunken bet, made it his goal to find 52 other people named Dave Gorman, and also got a bit obsessed with Googlewhacking.

Also Danny Wallace who after having bet Dave Gorman to find 52 Dave Gorman's got it into his head that he needed 1000 people to join him , without actually knowing what they were joining (there are now over 8000 joinees).

And then of course there is the inimitable Tony Hawks (not Tony Hawk) who needed to win a bet that he could hitch-hike around the entire coast of Ireland with a refridgerator.

All of their books are highly recommended (especially Join Me, which is the funniest book I've ever read.

Cisco's software is completely different. Add to the fact that they may not normally allow unlicensed books about their software, and you've got a sticky situation.

What you're basically saying is that you cannot write about how you configure a Cisco router? What about books like these ? I would be very surprised if Cisco demanded licencse from the "Dummies" series, just as an example.

And just to add to what the others have said, Java and VB .Net are not ECMA standards. Sun has kept a tight grip around Java so as not to loose control over it, there are still hundreds of books available on Java.

Actually it was a well thought out and a well written post. You are the one who is ranting a load of crap. You find the theory repellent so you attack it and the poster rather than argue against it. Not surprising as this is /. after all.

Steven Pinker discusses similar problems in his book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Suggesting that nature can be an important factor (even if only a little) gets you labelled a extremist nutter. Yet those who say mans instincts are unimportant are considered moderate and acceptable. Robert Winston in his BBC programme also had to deal with similar attacks after his show aired.

It is clear, to me at least, that a large portion of human behaviour has an instinctive aspect to it. Some reinforced by culture and others reigned in by the same. No one is denying upbringing and culture have an affect on how someone behaves or that people are unable to contain the animal within. (Which I presume is your beef with the post). Just that human evolution has also provided some instinct mechanisms that also affect how someone behaves. I don't recall the 'crap' spouting poster suggesting otherwise.

You mean like this book and the others in the series?

I recognise most of these rules from here - note the publication date.

Quite a good book. The things being said are good. The way they are said is terrible. Very poor writing.

No , i'm not connected with the book or the publisher in any way - i was just impressed with the layout and the usage of screenshots and the step by step explanations within , in purely non-geek terminology.

I accept donations - keep them coming ;)

And I write software some popular, some not, donations are always a good thing!

It's available on DVD now, finally.

Dean Koontz wrote a book about this. Not that I'm a huge fan, but found that book pretty good.

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Has anyone but me read the book The Stardroppers by John Brunner? In this book, "stardropping" is the latest hype. Using portable receivers, people listen to cosmic background radiation. What they hear is not only noise and static...

Sounds like Brunner's story from 1972 has become reality :-)

(And yes, I know, we don't carry receivers, but the resemblance with the plot is still striking :-)

Has anyone but me read the book The Stardroppers by John Brunner? In this book, "stardropping" is the latest hype. Using portable receivers, people listen to cosmic background radiation. What they hear is not only noise and static...

Sounds like Brunner's story from 1972 has become reality :-)

(And yes, I know, we don't carry receivers, but the resemblance with the plot is still striking :-)

What the hell are the people who DO have one reading?

What the hell are the people who DO have one reading?

This one seems to be popular on Amazon - Amazon Link

The Z machines and their inventor are also mentioned in a beautiful book, most suitable for geek coffee tables everywhere - "Computers: An Illustrated History" (direct Amazon UK link).

A suitable Father's day present if he's a geek too?

amazon quake 4 preorder page

That has been there for ~2 years I think. Anyone crazy enough to put the money down would probably be clamouring for the damn box they paid for to show up.

Robots do not have human intuition and a desk-jockey running a probe remotely doesn't have the situational awareness required for innovative on-spot decisions.

Read Man on the Moon and tell me that human mind isn't the most valuable instrument in off world exploration.