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Your idea has parallels with some of the concepts behind Rudy Rucker's Wetware series, but an obviously different, and original expression.
I'm not expressing disapproval when I say "lifted"; it's been going forever and I think it's A Good Thing. I wouldn't be surprised to find similar parallels in the writings of Plato (don't hold me to this assertion, I haven't read enough to be sure).
Where I have heard this before?
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Hasn't Brin lifted the idea of people making short-lived copies of themselves from the Toons in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (WCRR) by Gary Wolfe?
In that book, the cartoon actors could spawn doppelgangers to act as stunt doubles.
I haven't read Brin's book (although it sounds interesting), and I think it very unlikely that he's lifted more than that idea (WCRR features lethal assaults with custard pies for instance:).
And yes, AFAIK, WCRR was the basis for the Who Framed Roger Rabbit film
Some of the tripe that does make it into print makes me doubt the truth of this assertion.
Maybe the way forward for disillusioned authors is something like/., where authors could submit stories, and readers could rate and comment on submissions. Hell for all I know, such sites already exist and I just haven't found them
Perhaps authors would submit only sample chapters and outlines (like they sometimes do to traditional publishers) and an indication of how much money they think their works are worth. If readers like the samples, they pay up and download the full work.
The marks need not necessarily be missed out on transcription. If they're using the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. TEI allows extra-linguistic marks to be captured alongside the text.
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As usual, it's slightly more complicated: http://www.legaldeposit.org.uk/background.html
Swanage is in Dorset. Lovely.
Surely you mean the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?
According to Zuse himself, he stayed in Germany throughout the war building larger and more complex machines through to the Z4 in 1944-5.
See this biography of him.
No it isn't. What's wrong with Info-ZIP?
Your idea has parallels with some of the concepts behind Rudy Rucker's Wetware series, but an obviously different, and original expression.
I'm not expressing disapproval when I say "lifted"; it's been going forever and I think it's A Good Thing. I wouldn't be surprised to find similar parallels in the writings of Plato (don't hold me to this assertion, I haven't read enough to be sure).
Hasn't Brin lifted the idea of people making short-lived copies of themselves from the Toons in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (WCRR) by Gary Wolfe?
In that book, the cartoon actors could spawn doppelgangers to act as stunt doubles.
I haven't read Brin's book (although it sounds interesting), and I think it very unlikely that he's lifted more than that idea (WCRR features lethal assaults with custard pies for instance:).
And yes, AFAIK, WCRR was the basis for the Who Framed Roger Rabbit film
Publishers won't publish any junk you send them.
Some of the tripe that does make it into print makes me doubt the truth of this assertion.
Maybe the way forward for disillusioned authors is something like /., where authors could submit stories, and readers could rate and comment on submissions. Hell for all I know, such sites already exist and I just haven't found them
Perhaps authors would submit only sample chapters and outlines (like they sometimes do to traditional publishers) and an indication of how much money they think their works are worth. If readers like the samples, they pay up and download the full work.
The marks need not necessarily be missed out on transcription. If they're using the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. TEI allows extra-linguistic marks to be captured alongside the text.