The separation between Sci-Fi, fantasy, alternate history, horror, etc. is terribly blurred. There are many, like McAffery's Pern books, that are essentially fantasy, but take time to rationalize it with science. On the other side are far-future Sci-Fi books with technology so far beyond today's that there is no attempt even to explain it, hence rendering it Clarke-style "sufficiently advanced", and magical.
I've come to like the collective term "speculative fiction". It nicely describes the whole range.
Palm, like Netscape before it, is not the suffering saint being crushed by the giant, but rather a bunch of incompetent fools.
I hadn't considered this comparison. It's 100% dead on. Palm are resting on their market share, at a dead stop on product evolution, in precisely the same way as Netscape circa 3.0. They've lost their hunger.
I'll feel as little sadness for Palm's demise as I did for Netscape's. And likely the same disdain when the antitrust lawyers are inevitably summoned in a last-ditch attempt to make some cash on the way down.
Long time readers will remember when John Carmack won $20K at blackjack. Then donated it to the FSF.
"It takes a small amount of skill to know the right plays and count the cards..."
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Ever seen an agent use the old SABRE reservation system? It wasn't nearly as friendly as a typical UNIX shell - the commands were even more terse and cryptic. A well trained agent could get information faster than with any fancy point and click UI.
Not sure about that. In my, and several of my fellow Canadian's opinion, the donuts being sold at the new Krispy Kreme outlets are much better than Timmie's.
The Tim Horton's coffee, however, is the nectar of the gods.
Yep, Fastload kicked ass. It's the first and last time I ever saw a firmware replacement (for the 1541's pathetic excuse for a firmware) sold as a separate product.
It's a more like telling your guards to be more alert when there's a horde of barbarians camped just outside the city walls. That doesn't imply you expect them to be lax normally.
It's about time, I was starting to think that we'd never blow stuff up with light.
Israel and the US have been jointly developing the Nautilus THEL (Tactical High Energy Laser) anti-missle system for some time now. It's been sucessfully tested many times.
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Now, everybody plays games on consoles in their living room. If you get a high score, its like, so what. Sure, there is online gaming, but that scales out too big, then you don't know anyone.
Not at all. That's like saying that playing games in all the arcades in the world scales out too big. You're not in one room with 100,000 players at once. Once you get into an online game, you'll find your peers through realm, guild, profession, allegiance, or whatever the game has built in. The best online games have thought about the problem finding peers/friends, and it's part of the architecture. Ingame voice is only a year or two away, and it'll make things a little more personal.
Wired this month had a great article on how urban Korean has spawned a series of gaming parlor's where people would go and play warcraft or whatever in a social environment.
Get out much? There are "Counterstrike Parlors" in every major city.
You gotta be kidding. Pointing someone to Robert Asprin as a step-up from Piers Anthony?
Rather ironic. I started reading Asprin after Anthony recommended him in a footnote! Though he did offer it merely by virtue of being the next alphabetically...
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series should be the standard to hold your novels up against.
Good lord. Why, so everything looks good?
Jordan is to the 90's/00's as Anthony was to the 80's. Only worse, because at least Anthony's bad writing has some creative ideas. Jordan and Goodkind are pure formula.
Or tell the bozos who think they're too good for the RefeRrer piece of the header to fuck off-- if they can't trade that simple HTTP header for a look at your web page: screw 'em.
You're forgetting which side of that relationship is hemorraging money and desperate for the traffic. Users are perfectly happy to go to elsewhere if a site doesn't work on the first try.
Companies could prevent deep linking in a heartbeat just by redirecting anything that wasn't referred by their domain.
I haven't been a webmaster in a while, but I think the spread of smart browsers and privacy firewalls that supress "extraneous" information like Referrer: headers would make this unadvisable.
I agree that the platters should be vertical, but wouldn't it be better to have the heads swing horizontally than vertically? (i.e. they "dangle" rather than move up and down against gravity and road vibration)
Once again an interesting story is butchered beyond all recognition by the submittor and / or editors. The *replacement* of conventional CGI by realtime proposed in this story is just plain Drano-drinking stupid.
However, Realtime CGI may well be a viable art form all on it's own. Think live-stage-play with CGI screen output. You could have a troupe of mocap artists / puppeteers manipulating a CGI scene, working with live music and improvising during a performance.
There's a couple kids' shows that have live CGI hosts. They look like crap for the most part (lousy framerate and awful mocap performers), but the potential is probably in there somewhere.
The difference between a syndrome and a disease is that a disease is a health condition with a clearly identifiable cause while a syndrome is a set of symptoms which define the health condition without a single cause on which to place the blame. Thus a cold is a disease because a viral infection can be identified as the cause.
A "fileserver and VNC client" is an utterly useless combination. Why do you want local data if the processing is remote? And what filesystem calls would you intercept? VNC will never make any.
A lot of clueless people are commenting on this story with only a very hazy sense of what the heck it's about. Business as usual, I guess.
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I've come to like the collective term "speculative fiction". It nicely describes the whole range.
I hadn't considered this comparison. It's 100% dead on. Palm are resting on their market share, at a dead stop on product evolution, in precisely the same way as Netscape circa 3.0. They've lost their hunger.
I'll feel as little sadness for Palm's demise as I did for Netscape's. And likely the same disdain when the antitrust lawyers are inevitably summoned in a last-ditch attempt to make some cash on the way down.
Penny Arcade had their own take on User Friendly.
"It takes a small amount of skill to know the right plays and count the cards..."
Ever seen an agent use the old SABRE reservation system? It wasn't nearly as friendly as a typical UNIX shell - the commands were even more terse and cryptic. A well trained agent could get information faster than with any fancy point and click UI.
"HEY KIDS!! Now with GL_NV_OCCLUSION_QUERY and GL_NV_VERTEXT_ARRAY_RANGE2 support!"
Surprise surprise, the site is dead now...
The Tim Horton's coffee, however, is the nectar of the gods.
And pronounced "Wooster". You'd get laughed out of a British store for calling it Wor-ces-ter-shire sauce.
Yep, Fastload kicked ass. It's the first and last time I ever saw a firmware replacement (for the 1541's pathetic excuse for a firmware) sold as a separate product.
It's a more like telling your guards to be more alert when there's a horde of barbarians camped just outside the city walls. That doesn't imply you expect them to be lax normally.
Israel and the US have been jointly developing the Nautilus THEL (Tactical High Energy Laser) anti-missle system for some time now. It's been sucessfully tested many times.
Not at all. That's like saying that playing games in all the arcades in the world scales out too big. You're not in one room with 100,000 players at once. Once you get into an online game, you'll find your peers through realm, guild, profession, allegiance, or whatever the game has built in. The best online games have thought about the problem finding peers/friends, and it's part of the architecture. Ingame voice is only a year or two away, and it'll make things a little more personal.
Wired this month had a great article on how urban Korean has spawned a series of gaming parlor's where people would go and play warcraft or whatever in a social environment.
Get out much? There are "Counterstrike Parlors" in every major city.
Rather ironic. I started reading Asprin after Anthony recommended him in a footnote! Though he did offer it merely by virtue of being the next alphabetically...
Good lord. Why, so everything looks good?
Jordan is to the 90's/00's as Anthony was to the 80's. Only worse, because at least Anthony's bad writing has some creative ideas. Jordan and Goodkind are pure formula.
Bang on. I can read Harry Potter at 30 and love it, but Anthony's stuff got too boring even at 13.
You're forgetting which side of that relationship is hemorraging money and desperate for the traffic. Users are perfectly happy to go to elsewhere if a site doesn't work on the first try.
I haven't been a webmaster in a while, but I think the spread of smart browsers and privacy firewalls that supress "extraneous" information like Referrer: headers would make this unadvisable.
I agree that the platters should be vertical, but wouldn't it be better to have the heads swing horizontally than vertically? (i.e. they "dangle" rather than move up and down against gravity and road vibration)
However, Realtime CGI may well be a viable art form all on it's own. Think live-stage-play with CGI screen output. You could have a troupe of mocap artists / puppeteers manipulating a CGI scene, working with live music and improvising during a performance.
There's a couple kids' shows that have live CGI hosts. They look like crap for the most part (lousy framerate and awful mocap performers), but the potential is probably in there somewhere.
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You can get all of that from a linux box right now, once it's compromised. What's your point?
Competition? They're both by Sigma Designs.
It's a law that any spelling/grammar flame must contain at least one spelling/grammar mistake. This one's got several.
The difference between a syndrome and a disease is that a disease is a health condition with a clearly identifiable cause while a syndrome is a set of symptoms which define the health condition without a single cause on which to place the blame. Thus a cold is a disease because a viral infection can be identified as the cause.
A "fileserver and VNC client" is an utterly useless combination. Why do you want local data if the processing is remote? And what filesystem calls would you intercept? VNC will never make any.
A lot of clueless people are commenting on this story with only a very hazy sense of what the heck it's about. Business as usual, I guess.