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Just to clarify. Isaac Asimov has written AT LEAST 509 books inside of 75 years (counting joke books, but not counting research papers, of which he has several).
http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_titles.html

Wikianswers lists it at 512-515
http://preem.tejat.net/~tseng/Asimov/Alphabetical.html#C

One of these books is "I, Robot". None of them are sequels to this book. "I, Robot" was published in 1950. He wrote AT LEAST 507 books after it. You have to think that if he had wanted a sequel, he would have jotted down a note, or started writing it, or, you know, said in an interview that he planned one.

Also, they are short stories set in a universe that he wrote (rather prolifically) in. It isn't exactly like he he gave up on the concept of a "3 Laws of Robotics" book.

Try www.tejat.net for even more hilarity. No wonder this muppet doesn't have to cater for IE.

define "still accessible" for this webserving nOOb? i see no qualifiers so i ask.

I'll bite.

Until this post, nothing on the Internet or my webserver linked here. Now this post links to it, but even without this link someone could've typed that URL into a web browser and gotten to that important confidential document.

However, even though I am linking here, you can't get to it. Rather than security through obscurity, that's real access control. (No such file exists; I have a mostly-empty /private directory that 403s almost everyone and 401s the rest.)

-:sigma.SB

define "still accessible" for this webserving nOOb? i see no qualifiers so i ask.

I'll bite.

Until this post, nothing on the Internet or my webserver linked here. Now this post links to it, but even without this link someone could've typed that URL into a web browser and gotten to that important confidential document.

However, even though I am linking here, you can't get to it. Rather than security through obscurity, that's real access control. (No such file exists; I have a mostly-empty /private directory that 403s almost everyone and 401s the rest.)

-:sigma.SB

I actually did some research into this.

The reason no image format directly supports HSV or HSL is that in order to have a decent perceptual precision you have to have a LOT of actual precision. (8+8+8 bits is not enough.) In addition, if you lossily compress the H, S, and V/L channels separately, the result looks worse than for YCbCr, or even RGB.

-:sigma.SB

"It stinks!"

Oh no. I'm in Pod People!

It was MST'ed, by the way.

-:sigma.SB

http://forums.tejat.net/ms.html This page replaced the index page for my forums. (Alright, I admit it, I modified it slightly to look better in Mozilla... but it otherwise matches layout-wise the 404 error page on microsoft.com.)
-:sigma.SB