I had to go through this a couple of years ago when I developed a medical condition that demanded a reduction in my once-excessive caffeine intake. My solution?
I didn't go cold-turkey, instead choosing to drink one fewer cup per day or two, and slowly tapering down to zero regular cups. This was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the amount of water I took in, which both gave me something to drink and helped to flush out my system.
In less than a month, the headaches were gone, and I no longer had the cravings for it. It wasn't always fun or easy, but it was quite rewarding to be free of an accidentally-acquired chemical addiction.
When you get down to it, caffeine is no different from nicotine or alcohol, which are in turn no different from cocaine or PCP. All are chemicals the body does not need, and that usually develop into powerful biological dependencies. We're better off with out any of 'em. Just my not-so-humble opinion. *grin*
The scouring of the Shire is the _point_ of the _entire_trilogy_! The message is about Man growing up and taking personal responsibility for himself and his world, and is summed up perfectly in those chapters. Personally, I've liked the films, but they are _not_ The Lord of the Rings; Jackson has changed the entire focus of the story (witness also the presence of elves at Helm's Deep, which detracts mightily from the meaning of the battle).
This is thoroughly wrong. Obviously, no one with moderator points is a historian. The ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel were wiped out (slaughtered and sold into slavery) by the Assyrians centuries before the "Babylonians" (the Chaldeans) entered the picture. The Chaldeans took the two remaining tribes, which comprised the southern kingdom of Judah, into captivity in Babylon, and 40,000 of them returned after the Persians defeated the new Babylon.
I'd love to see a good film adaptation of the Silmarillion, preferably over two to three films, so the full sweep is conveyed. Imagine wars between mighty Noldorin princes and their elven armies and the Balrog-led legions of Morgoth...
Bloom County made the '80s tolerable for me, and I sure could have used it for the last three years of Dubya. Welcome back, Berke! Let's keep it up for a while this time, m'kay? Your legions of fans have waited a loooong time for this.
Oh, and to clarify, since I _know_ someone will mention this...
Most public servants are able to use non-profit status, since they're not a business. Hatch is a public servant, not a corporate entity. Therefore, he's not required to pay for a corporate license.
Quoted from the Hatch site's source: "Please feel free to use this code on your own website free of charge. You can also distribute and modify this source code as long as this Copyright notice remains intact and that you send me notice that you intend to use this code on your website. "
Note the "free to use this code.. free of charge." Now how, exactly, does this translate to "piracy?!"
Like most who'll respond to this question, I'm an ADHDer. I am, in fact, a classic case of both types (hyperactive and inattentive). Additionally, I have the pleasure of living with Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that mostly affects social functioning (it also has symptomatic similarities with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome).
I have found the combination provides for a most stimulating life. *grin* I have quite a high IQ, an unusual amount of creativity, and a bottomless supply of energy. I can multi-task like nobody's business, read over a thousand words per minute, and have a phenomenal memory.
On the down-side, it took me much longer to mature (socially and emotionally) than most folks. In junior college, I was probably equivalent to a 16 year old, and didn't really "grow up" until about 25 or so. Since then I've found that my intellectual development has actually made me _more_ emotionally stable and secure than the average, and while I'm still a social turnip, I'm much better than I was in college.
As far as work experiences go, I'd have to say that it's been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. I've found that my ability to multi-task and my relative speed allow me to get more done than anyone else I've worked with, something that's always endeared me to management. The down-side has been paperwork and office politics. Although I'm not completely useless in this area (having worked in both project and middle-management), I'm not as good people have expected me to be. However, any shortcomings here have always been made up for by my efficiency, and I've consequently always had favourable reviews.
One more thing- I have not taken medication for my ADHD since I was 10. I've found that discipline and philosophy go a lot further in helping one manage this condition. 'Course, that probably only works for certain personality types, and I was undoubtedly aided by my other condition. *grin* Anyone interested in discussing my methodology for managing ADHD can write me at slashdot at morthaur dot net; I'd be happy to help out if I can.
I really hate all the slagging that the SCO name's getting, and I think it's unfair to the legacy of a decent company, now that Caldera is doing business under their old moniker. I'd find it hard to believe that SCO (as they were) would ever have engaged in this kind of tactic, and wish that more of the flames were directed at their source (the company formerly known as Caldera).
And as a once-happy long-time user of OpenServer and UnixWare, I'd like to point out to Caldera (or whomever purchases their assets), that I will no longer run their systems (Linux, Unix, or otherwise), and will recommend that all instaled shops I am still in contact with switch to another system as soon as is feasible. Maybe if they lose enough licensing revenue, as well as losing this case (which seems almost certain), Caldera will finally go away for good.
One more thing- the original SCO is still around as Tarantella, which is a fabulous product- easily a match for Citrix, and deserves to succeed. For those who haven't tried it, they have free demos. available, and it must be seen to be believed.
The Nokia IP series are just PCs in nifty-lookin' rack cases. And they're already running OpenBSD, right from the factory. Which, last time I checked, had far better security (and hence made a better FW) than GNU/Linux. If you don't like FW-1, just don't run it! Set up whatever BSD FW you prefer. Duh.
Also, given the very high cost of these boxes, and the fact that (with FW resource usage so low) they won't become obsolete any time soon, why not just leave it alone? How does this save anyone any money?
So even if this proves that global warming is not man-made.. which it doesn't until more researchers find the same answers.. we still should have signed Kyoto.
There's a lot more to pollution than global warming. How's about respiratory ailments? Know what the instances of asthma are like now, as opposed to 50 years ago? How about all of the other diseases being caused by contamination of ground water by toxic chemicals. Look especially to heavily-industrialised but unregulated states like Texas for examples of these kind of health problems.
Also, this does not challenge the damage to the ozone layer, and the probability that it is our doing. What about the tears that have been appearing in it at random, such as the one above Chile that doused a village in direct UV?
Kyoto is also about hedging our bets. As there are methods of accomplishing all of the same industrial goals with less pollution, why do we want to take the chance that it's caused by us, when we can ditch the pollutants and then sleep knowing that if the world bakes, at least it isn't our fault? How will all of you conservative fucks feel in 50 years if you were wrong? "Oops?" This is not something we can go back, say "sorry" and fix. If we are causing permanent damage to the planets ecology, our descendents will pay the price. As long as there is any doubt whatsoever, I'd rather err on the side of caution. I think any rational person would.
Who the hell is 'Pete?' Pink Floyd is, in its current incarnation, Dave Gilmour, Rick Wright, and Nick Mason. Classic lineup also included Roger Waters. Pre-Gilmour band was led by Syd Barrett (now a schizophenrenic recluse).
Also, while I'm a massive Floyd fan, the last two albums were not what I'd call 'good.' Dave is a brilliant musician, but needs good material to craft a good album, and the professional hacks he replaced Roger with don't cut it.
Before you judge Finland over this company's actions, bear in mind a few things:
Finland has arguably the best laws regarding crypto., and personal privacy is guaranteed to a greater degree there than most everywhere else. Note that OpenSSH is based there.
Crime rate is disgustingly low; prisons do not even have walls or bars or armed guards. You can leave your baby in a pram on the sidewalk while you're shopping and Nothing Will Happen.
They are also a very technology-centric country, with the highest concentration of mobile phones per capita, for example.
Okay, I've copied my list out of Amazon, pasted it below, and added some of the titles that didn't fit. Hope this is helpful.
Frank Herbert- Dune series: Dune; Dune Messiah; Children Of Dune; God-Emperor Of Dune; Heretics Of Dune; Chapterhouse Dune
Orson Scott Card- Ender quartet: Ender's Game; Speaker For The Dead; Xenocide; Children Of The Mind
Isaac Asimov- Foundation series: Prelude To Foundation; Forward The Foundation; Foundation; Foundation And Empire; Second Foundation; Foundation's Edge; Foundation And Earth
Isaac Asimov- Robot series: I, Robot; The Complete Robot; The Caves Of Steel; The Naked Sun; The Robots Of Dawn; Robots And Empire; Robot Dreams; Robot Visions
Isaac Asimov- Empire series- The Stars Like Dust; The Currents Of Space; Pebble In The Sky
Misc. Asimov- The Gods Themselves; Nemesis; Nightfall; The End Of Eternity; Gold
Robert A. Heinlein: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress; Stranger In A Strange Land; Starship Troopers; Double Star; Time Enough For Love; The Number Of The Beast; The Cat Who Walks Through Walls; To Sail Beyond The Sunset; Job- A Comedy Of Justice; Red Planet; The Puppet Masters
William Gibson: Neuromancer; Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive; Virtual Light; Idoru; All Tmorrow's Parties; Burning Chrome
Alfred Bester: The Demolished Man; The Stars My Destination; Virtual Unrealities
Theodore Sturgeon: More Than Human; Venus Plus X; Selected Stories
Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End; Rendezvous With Rama; Rama II; The garden Of Rama; Rama Revealed; 2001- A Space Odyssey; 2010- Odyssey Two; 2061- Odyssey Three; 3001- The Final Odyssey; Songs Of Distant Earth; The Fountains Of Paradise; The Hammer Of God; The City And The Stars; The Sands Of Mars; The Ghost From The Grand Banks; The Deep Range
Greg Bear: The Forge Of God; Anvil Of The Stars; Eternity; Eon; Legacy; Blood Music, Moving Mars; Queen Of Angels; Darwin's Radio; Darwin's Children
Larry Niven- Ringworld series: Ringworld; The Ringworld Engineers; The Ringworld Throne
Misc. Niven- Three Books Of Known Space; Protectors; Neutron Star; Integral Trees; The Smoke Ring
Peter F. Hamilton- Night's Dawn Trilogy: Reality Dysfunction- Emergence; Reality Dysfunction- Expansion; Neutronium Alchemist- Consolidation; Neutronium Alchemist- Conflict; Naked God- Flight; Naked God- Faith; also A Second Chance At Eden
David Brin- Uplift series: Sundiver; Startide Rising; The Uplift War; Brightness Reef; Infinity's Shore; Heaven's Reach
Neal Stephenson- Snow Crash; The Diamond Age; Cryptonomicon; Zodiac
Bruce Sterling- Schismatrix Plus; Heavy Weather; Holy Fire; Distraction; Globalhead; A Good Old-Fashioned Future
Vernor Vinge- A Fire Upon The Deep; A Deepness In The Sky
Joe Haldeman- The Forever War; Forever Free; Forever Peace
Dan Simmons- Hyperion; The Fall Of Hyperion; Endymion; The Rise Of Endymion Eric S. Nylund- Signal To Noise; A Signal Shattered
C. J. Cherryh- Foreigner; Invader; Inheritor; Precursor; Defender; Explorer
Philip K. Dick: The Man In The High Castle; A Scanner Darkly; Valis; Ubik; Flow My Tears, The Police Man Said; Confessions Of A Crap Artist; The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch; The Divine Invasion; Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep; Radio Free Albemuth; The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer; Time Out Of Joint; The Simulacra
Daniel Keyes- Flowers For Algernon
Walter M. Miller Jr- A Canticle For Leibowitz; Saint Leibowitz And The Wild Horse Woman
Ben Bova- Privateers; Empire Builders; Mars; Return To Mars; Moonrise; Moonwar; Venus; Jupiter; The Precipice; The Rock Rats
Frederik Pohl- Heechee series: Gateway; Beyond The Blue Event Horizon; Heechee Rendezvous; The Annals Of The Heechee; The Gateway Trip
Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five; Cat's Cradle; Mother Night; The Sirens Of Titan; Welcome To The Monkey House; God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian; Breakfast Of Champions
Aldous Huxley- Brave New World
George Orwell- 1984
Ray Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Illustrated Man; Dandelion Wine; From The Dust Returned; Death Is A Lonely Business
Check out the following link to an Amazon list I created. They only allow 25 items, so I placed the first book from a particular series on top, then listed all related books in the comments box. These are almost all series, with some authors instead represented by a list of best works.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/l is t-browse/-/D0KNH8RDGARB/ref=cm_aya_lm_title.more/0 02-4099811-5020804
Hope this is helpful to you. I can also write you a lost of my favourite fantasy and horror authors/series; just send me an e-mail and ask. I too have a ridiculously large library (~3500 volumes presently).
Microsoft should have followed Apple's lead and ditched the Windows codebase in favour of an abstraction layer. Maintaining backward compatibility over ~20 years worth of products, and building on a codebase that, while admittedly supperior to 9x, is still more than 10 years old is never going to result in real power and stability. There's just too much bad work in there that everything else depends on; if they fixed all the errors, half the applications written to run on it would probably break!
How about OLD! This is VERY old news. I documented where they did this and how to instal RealPlayer without any of it checked _three_years_ago_ for the help desk guys at my last employer. How is it that this is just being noticed & submitted now?!
Oh, and it's annoying, but not illegal. The options are only 'hidden' if you're the type of user who habitually clicks things without looking/reading. Meaning, they're not really hidden at all, and the user is at fault for being annoyed.
For that matter, who uses their actual e-mail address when they instal software?! Use me@privacy.net; it's a black hole for spam.
Arthur C. Clarke Frank Herbert Isaac Asimov Alfred Bester Robert A. Heinlein Orson Scott Card THeodore Sturgeon Ray Bradbury H. G. Wells William Gibson
Anyone want short story and novel references for these guys? Sturgeon and Bester are more obscure now (alas!) but worth the trouble to find.
I've just left an aerospace start-up where I built, deployed and managed over 100 desktop systems myself; they were cheaper and faster than anything the "big guys" could have provided, and I ran into just about zero difficulties over my nearly three years with them.
My ending CAD workstations (running CATIA V5 and Unigraphics 17) were dual Athlons with 1gb+ DDR and a Wildcat graphics board; they were half the price and faster than anything IBM and Compaq demonstrated.
The screenshots show an application that's identical to OpenOffice, save only the name, and the colours used in the instaler. Makes you wonder, what's the point?!
Why does this even merit a/. story; it's just a niche-market re-branding of a free software product. Stick to OpenOffice, it already rocks.
1) Did you ^really^ think the appeal wouldn't go in their favour? The appeals courts in DC are heavily slanted toward the conservative and business-friendly. This has, so far, been no surprise whatsoever. Given MicroSoft's vehement protestations that it had done no wrong, did you expect that the predatory behaviour would cease? Why should they correct a problem that they don't acknowledge exists?
2) That bit about 'first truly unaccountable corporation' is just plain irresponsible. Have you been following the news for the last two decades? There are dozens of 'truly unaccountable' corporate entities. They dominate every aspect of our lives- the government has no real power in this country anymore. Look at the media as a perfect example- part of huge comglomerates, they have interests that transcend their obligation to present the news objectively. Everything you see or read in the major media is incredibly biased, and often just plain wrong. See Ben Bagdikian, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky for details.
Where was I? Oh, yeah.... We are the least democratic of the Western nations, and the most beholden to secretive, autocratic institutions. Corporations have no legal, moral, or economic right or reason to exist, and until this is realised, they will continue to grow in power, crushing every semblance of 'democracy' they happen to stumble across.
3) I think I missed the point of your article- could you please explain? Maybe it has something to do with point 1- if you were actually surprised by any of MicroSoft's actions in the past year, then I guess the article makes a little bit of sense! *grin*
Sorry, Katz, I don't mean to be a putz- I'm only being honest! ----------------------------------------- ------
But then, my expectations were set decidedly low... *grin*
As a movie, I think it was terrible. It moved too quickly, nothing was adequately explained, the acting was mostly bad, etc. However...
Those are some of the better qualities of a typical game, so.. *grin* Seriously, how often do adventurers just charge forward through a session with little regard for background details and plot? If the audience is comprised of average gamers, they shan't do too badly!
Besides, the girls were hot... *wink* ------------------------------------------ -----
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I had to go through this a couple of years ago when I developed a medical condition that demanded a reduction in my once-excessive caffeine intake. My solution?
I didn't go cold-turkey, instead choosing to drink one fewer cup per day or two, and slowly tapering down to zero regular cups. This was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the amount of water I took in, which both gave me something to drink and helped to flush out my system.
In less than a month, the headaches were gone, and I no longer had the cravings for it. It wasn't always fun or easy, but it was quite rewarding to be free of an accidentally-acquired chemical addiction.
When you get down to it, caffeine is no different from nicotine or alcohol, which are in turn no different from cocaine or PCP. All are chemicals the body does not need, and that usually develop into powerful biological dependencies. We're better off with out any of 'em. Just my not-so-humble opinion. *grin*
The scouring of the Shire is the _point_ of the _entire_trilogy_! The message is about Man growing up and taking personal responsibility for himself and his world, and is summed up perfectly in those chapters. Personally, I've liked the films, but they are _not_ The Lord of the Rings; Jackson has changed the entire focus of the story (witness also the presence of elves at Helm's Deep, which detracts mightily from the meaning of the battle).
This is thoroughly wrong. Obviously, no one with moderator points is a historian.
The ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel were wiped out (slaughtered and sold into slavery) by the Assyrians centuries before the "Babylonians" (the Chaldeans) entered the picture. The Chaldeans took the two remaining tribes, which comprised the southern kingdom of Judah, into captivity in Babylon, and 40,000 of them returned after the Persians defeated the new Babylon.
I'd love to see a good film adaptation of the Silmarillion, preferably over two to three films, so the full sweep is conveyed. Imagine wars between mighty Noldorin princes and their elven armies and the Balrog-led legions of Morgoth...
Bloom County made the '80s tolerable for me, and I sure could have used it for the last three years of Dubya. Welcome back, Berke! Let's keep it up for a while this time, m'kay? Your legions of fans have waited a loooong time for this.
when I do that search on MSN I see 8897853 hits? Was this corrected my Microsoft that fast, or could this be shoddy journalism? Just a question...
I 100MHz Pentium will barely run _one_ mp3 stream; it certainly won't do six! You can't just divide the clock speed here.
Oh, and to clarify, since I _know_ someone will mention this...
Most public servants are able to use non-profit status, since they're not a business. Hatch is a public servant, not a corporate entity. Therefore, he's not required to pay for a corporate license.
before writing up that article?!
.. free of charge." Now how, exactly, does this translate to "piracy?!"
Quoted from the Hatch site's source:
"Please feel free to use this code on your own website free of charge.
You can also distribute and modify this source code as long as this
Copyright notice remains intact and that you send me notice that you
intend to use this code on your website. "
Note the "free to use this code
Idiots...
Like most who'll respond to this question, I'm an ADHDer. I am, in fact, a classic case of both types (hyperactive and inattentive). Additionally, I have the pleasure of living with Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that mostly affects social functioning (it also has symptomatic similarities with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome).
I have found the combination provides for a most stimulating life. *grin* I have quite a high IQ, an unusual amount of creativity, and a bottomless supply of energy. I can multi-task like nobody's business, read over a thousand words per minute, and have a phenomenal memory.
On the down-side, it took me much longer to mature (socially and emotionally) than most folks. In junior college, I was probably equivalent to a 16 year old, and didn't really "grow up" until about 25 or so. Since then I've found that my intellectual development has actually made me _more_ emotionally stable and secure than the average, and while I'm still a social turnip, I'm much better than I was in college.
As far as work experiences go, I'd have to say that it's been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. I've found that my ability to multi-task and my relative speed allow me to get more done than anyone else I've worked with, something that's always endeared me to management. The down-side has been paperwork and office politics. Although I'm not completely useless in this area (having worked in both project and middle-management), I'm not as good people have expected me to be. However, any shortcomings here have always been made up for by my efficiency, and I've consequently always had favourable reviews.
One more thing- I have not taken medication for my ADHD since I was 10. I've found that discipline and philosophy go a lot further in helping one manage this condition. 'Course, that probably only works for certain personality types, and I was undoubtedly aided by my other condition. *grin* Anyone interested in discussing my methodology for managing ADHD can write me at slashdot at morthaur dot net; I'd be happy to help out if I can.
I really hate all the slagging that the SCO name's getting, and I think it's unfair to the legacy of a decent company, now that Caldera is doing business under their old moniker. I'd find it hard to believe that SCO (as they were) would ever have engaged in this kind of tactic, and wish that more of the flames were directed at their source (the company formerly known as Caldera).
And as a once-happy long-time user of OpenServer and UnixWare, I'd like to point out to Caldera (or whomever purchases their assets), that I will no longer run their systems (Linux, Unix, or otherwise), and will recommend that all instaled shops I am still in contact with switch to another system as soon as is feasible. Maybe if they lose enough licensing revenue, as well as losing this case (which seems almost certain), Caldera will finally go away for good.
One more thing- the original SCO is still around as Tarantella, which is a fabulous product- easily a match for Citrix, and deserves to succeed. For those who haven't tried it, they have free demos. available, and it must be seen to be believed.
The Nokia IP series are just PCs in nifty-lookin' rack cases. And they're already running OpenBSD, right from the factory. Which, last time I checked, had far better security (and hence made a better FW) than GNU/Linux. If you don't like FW-1, just don't run it! Set up whatever BSD FW you prefer. Duh.
Also, given the very high cost of these boxes, and the fact that (with FW resource usage so low) they won't become obsolete any time soon, why not just leave it alone? How does this save anyone any money?
So even if this proves that global warming is not man-made.. which it doesn't until more researchers find the same answers.. we still should have signed Kyoto.
There's a lot more to pollution than global warming. How's about respiratory ailments? Know what the instances of asthma are like now, as opposed to 50 years ago? How about all of the other diseases being caused by contamination of ground water by toxic chemicals. Look especially to heavily-industrialised but unregulated states like Texas for examples of these kind of health problems.
Also, this does not challenge the damage to the ozone layer, and the probability that it is our doing. What about the tears that have been appearing in it at random, such as the one above Chile that doused a village in direct UV?
Kyoto is also about hedging our bets. As there are methods of accomplishing all of the same industrial goals with less pollution, why do we want to take the chance that it's caused by us, when we can ditch the pollutants and then sleep knowing that if the world bakes, at least it isn't our fault? How will all of you conservative fucks feel in 50 years if you were wrong? "Oops?" This is not something we can go back, say "sorry" and fix. If we are causing permanent damage to the planets ecology, our descendents will pay the price. As long as there is any doubt whatsoever, I'd rather err on the side of caution. I think any rational person would.
Who the hell is 'Pete?' Pink Floyd is, in its current incarnation, Dave Gilmour, Rick Wright, and Nick Mason. Classic lineup also included Roger Waters. Pre-Gilmour band was led by Syd Barrett (now a schizophenrenic recluse).
Also, while I'm a massive Floyd fan, the last two albums were not what I'd call 'good.' Dave is a brilliant musician, but needs good material to craft a good album, and the professional hacks he replaced Roger with don't cut it.
Before you judge Finland over this company's actions, bear in mind a few things:
Finland has arguably the best laws regarding crypto., and personal privacy is guaranteed to a greater degree there than most everywhere else. Note that OpenSSH is based there.
Crime rate is disgustingly low; prisons do not even have walls or bars or armed guards. You can leave your baby in a pram on the sidewalk while you're shopping and Nothing Will Happen.
They are also a very technology-centric country, with the highest concentration of mobile phones per capita, for example.
Oh, and medical care is every citizen's right
Okay, I've copied my list out of Amazon, pasted it below, and added some of the titles that didn't fit. Hope this is helpful.
Frank Herbert- Dune series: Dune; Dune Messiah; Children Of Dune; God-Emperor Of Dune; Heretics Of Dune; Chapterhouse Dune
Orson Scott Card- Ender quartet: Ender's Game; Speaker For The Dead; Xenocide; Children Of The Mind
Isaac Asimov- Foundation series: Prelude To Foundation; Forward The Foundation; Foundation; Foundation And Empire; Second Foundation; Foundation's Edge; Foundation And Earth
Isaac Asimov- Robot series: I, Robot; The Complete Robot; The Caves Of Steel; The Naked Sun; The Robots Of Dawn; Robots And Empire; Robot Dreams; Robot Visions
Isaac Asimov- Empire series- The Stars Like Dust; The Currents Of Space; Pebble In The Sky
Misc. Asimov- The Gods Themselves; Nemesis; Nightfall; The End Of Eternity; Gold
Robert A. Heinlein: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress; Stranger In A Strange Land; Starship Troopers; Double Star; Time Enough For Love; The Number Of The Beast; The Cat Who Walks Through Walls; To Sail Beyond The Sunset; Job- A Comedy Of Justice; Red Planet; The Puppet Masters
William Gibson: Neuromancer; Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive; Virtual Light; Idoru; All Tmorrow's Parties; Burning Chrome
Alfred Bester: The Demolished Man; The Stars My Destination; Virtual Unrealities
Theodore Sturgeon: More Than Human; Venus Plus X; Selected Stories
Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End; Rendezvous With Rama; Rama II; The garden Of Rama; Rama Revealed; 2001- A Space Odyssey; 2010- Odyssey Two; 2061- Odyssey Three; 3001- The Final Odyssey; Songs Of Distant Earth; The Fountains Of Paradise; The Hammer Of God; The City And The Stars; The Sands Of Mars; The Ghost From The Grand Banks; The Deep Range
Greg Bear: The Forge Of God; Anvil Of The Stars; Eternity; Eon; Legacy; Blood Music, Moving Mars; Queen Of Angels; Darwin's Radio; Darwin's Children
Larry Niven- Ringworld series: Ringworld; The Ringworld Engineers; The Ringworld Throne
Misc. Niven- Three Books Of Known Space; Protectors; Neutron Star; Integral Trees; The Smoke Ring
Peter F. Hamilton- Night's Dawn Trilogy: Reality Dysfunction- Emergence; Reality Dysfunction- Expansion; Neutronium Alchemist- Consolidation; Neutronium Alchemist- Conflict; Naked God- Flight; Naked God- Faith; also A Second Chance At Eden
David Brin- Uplift series: Sundiver; Startide Rising; The Uplift War; Brightness Reef; Infinity's Shore; Heaven's Reach
Neal Stephenson- Snow Crash; The Diamond Age; Cryptonomicon; Zodiac
Bruce Sterling- Schismatrix Plus; Heavy Weather; Holy Fire; Distraction; Globalhead; A Good Old-Fashioned Future
Vernor Vinge- A Fire Upon The Deep; A Deepness In The Sky
Joe Haldeman- The Forever War; Forever Free; Forever Peace
Dan Simmons- Hyperion; The Fall Of Hyperion; Endymion; The Rise Of Endymion
Eric S. Nylund- Signal To Noise; A Signal Shattered
C. J. Cherryh- Foreigner; Invader; Inheritor; Precursor; Defender; Explorer
Philip K. Dick: The Man In The High Castle; A Scanner Darkly; Valis; Ubik; Flow My Tears, The Police Man Said; Confessions Of A Crap Artist; The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch; The Divine Invasion; Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep; Radio Free Albemuth; The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer; Time Out Of Joint; The Simulacra
Daniel Keyes- Flowers For Algernon
Walter M. Miller Jr- A Canticle For Leibowitz; Saint Leibowitz And The Wild Horse Woman
Ben Bova- Privateers; Empire Builders; Mars; Return To Mars; Moonrise; Moonwar; Venus; Jupiter; The Precipice; The Rock Rats
Frederik Pohl- Heechee series: Gateway; Beyond The Blue Event Horizon; Heechee Rendezvous; The Annals Of The Heechee; The Gateway Trip
Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five; Cat's Cradle; Mother Night; The Sirens Of Titan; Welcome To The Monkey House; God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian; Breakfast Of Champions
Aldous Huxley- Brave New World
George Orwell- 1984
Ray Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Illustrated Man; Dandelion Wine; From The Dust Returned; Death Is A Lonely Business
Check out the following link to an Amazon list I created. They only allow 25 items, so I placed the first book from a particular series on top, then listed all related books in the comments box. These are almost all series, with some authors instead represented by a list of best works.
l is t-browse/-/D0KNH8RDGARB/ref=cm_aya_lm_title.more/0 02-4099811-5020804
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/
Hope this is helpful to you. I can also write you a lost of my favourite fantasy and horror authors/series; just send me an e-mail and ask. I too have a ridiculously large library (~3500 volumes presently).
Cheers,
wmaheriv
Microsoft should have followed Apple's lead and ditched the Windows codebase in favour of an abstraction layer. Maintaining backward compatibility over ~20 years worth of products, and building on a codebase that, while admittedly supperior to 9x, is still more than 10 years old is never going to result in real power and stability. There's just too much bad work in there that everything else depends on; if they fixed all the errors, half the applications written to run on it would probably break!
How about OLD! This is VERY old news. I documented where they did this and how to instal RealPlayer without any of it checked _three_years_ago_ for the help desk guys at my last employer. How is it that this is just being noticed & submitted now?!
Oh, and it's annoying, but not illegal. The options are only 'hidden' if you're the type of user who habitually clicks things without looking/reading. Meaning, they're not really hidden at all, and the user is at fault for being annoyed.
For that matter, who uses their actual e-mail address when they instal software?! Use me@privacy.net; it's a black hole for spam.
Arthur C. Clarke
Frank Herbert
Isaac Asimov
Alfred Bester
Robert A. Heinlein
Orson Scott Card
THeodore Sturgeon
Ray Bradbury
H. G. Wells
William Gibson
Anyone want short story and novel references for these guys? Sturgeon and Bester are more obscure now (alas!) but worth the trouble to find.
I've just left an aerospace start-up where I built, deployed and managed over 100 desktop systems myself; they were cheaper and faster than anything the "big guys" could have provided, and I ran into just about zero difficulties over my nearly three years with them.
My ending CAD workstations (running CATIA V5 and Unigraphics 17) were dual Athlons with 1gb+ DDR and a Wildcat graphics board; they were half the price and faster than anything IBM and Compaq demonstrated.
The screenshots show an application that's identical to OpenOffice, save only the name, and the colours used in the instaler. Makes you wonder, what's the point?!
/. story; it's just a niche-market re-branding of a free software product. Stick to OpenOffice, it already rocks.
Why does this even merit a
1) Did you ^really^ think the appeal wouldn't go in their favour? The appeals courts in DC are heavily slanted toward the conservative and business-friendly. This has, so far, been no surprise whatsoever. Given MicroSoft's vehement protestations that it had done no wrong, did you expect that the predatory behaviour would cease? Why should they correct a problem that they don't acknowledge exists?- ------
2) That bit about 'first truly unaccountable corporation' is just plain irresponsible. Have you been following the news for the last two decades? There are dozens of 'truly unaccountable' corporate entities. They dominate every aspect of our lives- the government has no real power in this country anymore. Look at the media as a perfect example- part of huge comglomerates, they have interests that transcend their obligation to present the news objectively. Everything you see or read in the major media is incredibly biased, and often just plain wrong. See Ben Bagdikian, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky for details.
Where was I? Oh, yeah.... We are the least democratic of the Western nations, and the most beholden to secretive, autocratic institutions. Corporations have no legal, moral, or economic right or reason to exist, and until this is realised, they will continue to grow in power, crushing every semblance of 'democracy' they happen to stumble across.
3) I think I missed the point of your article- could you please explain? Maybe it has something to do with point 1- if you were actually surprised by any of MicroSoft's actions in the past year, then I guess the article makes a little bit of sense! *grin*
Sorry, Katz, I don't mean to be a putz- I'm only being honest!
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I don't understand why you keep repeating this. I've seen this same message four times now....
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But then, my expectations were set decidedly low... *grin*- -----
As a movie, I think it was terrible. It moved too quickly, nothing was adequately explained, the acting was mostly bad, etc. However...
Those are some of the better qualities of a typical game, so.. *grin* Seriously, how often do adventurers just charge forward through a session with little regard for background details and plot? If the audience is comprised of average gamers, they shan't do too badly!
Besides, the girls were hot... *wink*
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