Remove my books from your lists immediately...The Eternal Question and Children of Hamelin. I am seeking legal action......
I own the copyright to my books and I did NOT give you permission to put them on your sight for lending. REMOVE THEM IMMEDIATELY!...
Please remove my three books from this site. My novel Queen Sacrifice took over a year to write and I consider book piracy to be theft from authors. Any readers who download stolen books are also guilty of stealing from authors....
I'll add my name to this list of people pissed off that you are lending my book without my permission. This will serve as your only notice that you are to remove my book Morgan: The scandal that shook Freemasonry from your service immediately.
I read a lot of post-apocalyptic sci-fi when I was a kid, and the author that really stood out was Walter M. Miller, Jr., author of A Canticle for Leibowitz. He's a strong short story writer as well, but he's seldom mentioned in sci-fi lists -- I speculate it's because his prime writing period was in the 1950s.
It is apparent to Netflix (from its indie apps gallery) that there is a huge interest in mobile apps, especially those dedicated to Netflix queue management. It really is a useful application for people who like to add new films recommended by friends, TV programs, and ads.
Read the TFA. The author uses "soldier" to describe the impacts of these technologies on the battlefield. Clearly, they are not limited to the Marines.
At the Industry Standard, we have a very active prediction market based on technology predictions (Examples include Nintendo announces new DS at E3 [current community consensus 25%] and Firefox 3 out of beta by summer [current community consensus 69%]). In observing the results of the prediction markets, it is very striking how accurate they are -- of the dozens which have generated significant participation, the community has been extremely accurate in terms of picking the correct outcome. This is true even well before the predictions close and the publicly reported news/facts are more definite.
I was very surprised by this. I have always been skeptical of the supposed "wisdom of the crowd" but people have proven to be accurate predictors when their opinions are taken in aggregate.
'I find it very funny to see these complaints (definitely "They've been neglecting it for years" ; Then why are you still blogging on there?'
Fair question. It will take a fair amount of work to do it, I don't want to deal with hosting costs, I'll lose pagerank, and I'll also lose some of my readers when the URL changes.
This shouldn't be surprising. For more than 100 years, Chinese nationalism has thrived on a steady diet of actual and perceived instances of imperialist aggression and interference, not to mention historical justifications and myths for its own imperialist occupation of Tibet and other frontier areas populated by non-Han peoples.
The interesting thing about these developments is how the government is reacting in the runup to the Olympics. The current regime, as part of its strategy for staying in power, has pumped up Chinese nationalism for decades by shrilly denouncing foreign 'insults,' but it has to tread very carefully as the Beijing Olympics approach. Spontaneous demonstrations against athletes, members of the foreign press corps, and foreign visitors would be a disaster for the Olympics and China's public image, but attempting to quiet or clamp down on Han anger might prompt Chinese to turn against the government.
There was a story in the New York Times a few years back about this guy who had received a certain type of chemotherapy and kept getting stopped by the police in the NYC subway. Can't find the link now, but it seemed that it was only this type of treatment that was causing the problem -- it sucks for the poor guy who was getting hassled, but it would be a disaster if a wider band of chemo treatments set off the alerts.
Back in the early '80s, when I first started playing D&D, I think many people assumed Gygax was someone who was inspired by Tolkien and the freewheeling spirit of the 60s to an extreme, but he really did start something special with D&D.
To me, it was more than a game, or an elaborate fantasy. D&D and early text adventures were a cornerstone of my early teens; they collectively spurred my imagination and allowed me to consider other realities beyond what most mainstream media experiences provided. The interactivity was a key differentiator, and in many way trained me (and I assume many others) for grokking the potential of the Web, virtual worlds, and other emerging interactive media.
Around 1977 or so a neighbor's father got Pong. Another neighbor's father had some old home system (TRS-80?) with Scott Adams adventures and other text games loaded from a cassette drive, including the one where you landed on the moon and entered two-word commands to walk around and look for clues. A third neighbor got Odyssey2, and that was a real eye-opener -- space ships in color! In short order, other kids in the neighborhood got the other consoles of that era -- 2600 (the Tank game is a classic) and Intellivision. At our house, we were kind of late -- my dad got me a Colecovision, which I believe didn't come out until the early 1980s. We also played arcade games at the local candlepin bowling alley, but that came at least a year after the home consoles and TRS-80 arrived.
We also got a VIC-20 at that time, because I wanted to fiddle around with programming. A few people have mentioned it before, but I'll say it again... for a lot of people of my generation, video games fostered an interest in programming and other types of computing technologies. Generally, if you played games a lot, experimenting with PCs, software, and programming was a common next step.
I read an interview with Gibson some years ago in which he said his reaction to seeing Blade Runner (before Neuromancer came out) was disappointment that Scott et al were the first to create this dark future world. The interview (or a similar one) is referenced here and apparently came from a 1992 issue of Details:
Gibson, in an interview by Lance Loud in an article on the 10th anniversary of "Blade Runner" for the magazine "Details" (October 1992 issue), had the following to say:
"About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the "look" of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head! With time, as I got over that, I started to take a certain delight in the way the film began to affect the way the world looked. Club fashions, at first, then rock videos, finally even architecture. Amazing! A science fiction movie affecting reality!"
The same reference says Heavy Metal actually influenced both Scott and Gibson:
"Years later, I was having lunch with Ridley, and when the conversation turned to inspiration, we were both very clear about our debt to the Métal Hurlant [the original Heavy Metal magazine] school of the '70s--Moebius and the others. But it was also obvious that Scott understood the importance of information density to perceptual overload. When Blade Runner works best, it induces a lyrical sort of information sickness, that quintessentially postmodern cocktail of ecstasy and dread. It was what cyberpunk was supposed to be all about."
There is also a connection to Escape from New York, according to the reference.
The "Great Firewall", authorities texting website admins, and regular meetings with a few dozen major websites aren't going to solve the PRC's information control problem. IP blocks can be circumvented. Filters can be tricked. And even if they have 10,000 'Net police texting website owners, they won't be able to remove more than a handful of messages from the millions of forums and comment threads that have been created.
There's only one solution that *might* work for them if Internet discourse gets too uncomfortable, and that's pulling the plug on the Internet, just like their Burmese pals did a few weeks ago. But China has a far more developed 'net infrastructure and industry, a huge SMS network that has been used to spread news of protests, and stronger business and personal connections with the outside world. They may have to batten down the hatches for the upcoming party congress, but they also have to look open and friendly in the runup to the Beijing Olympics.
... a Microsoft spokesperson said the information received was inaccurate and Microsoft has not deployed the update that includes reduced functionality mode in non-validated copies of Windows Vista this week.
That said, the spokesperson indicated the anti-piracy measure is still on its way in the form of a Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) update.
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I read a lot of post-apocalyptic sci-fi when I was a kid, and the author that really stood out was Walter M. Miller, Jr., author of A Canticle for Leibowitz. He's a strong short story writer as well, but he's seldom mentioned in sci-fi lists -- I speculate it's because his prime writing period was in the 1950s.
It is apparent to Netflix (from its indie apps gallery) that there is a huge interest in mobile apps, especially those dedicated to Netflix queue management. It really is a useful application for people who like to add new films recommended by friends, TV programs, and ads.
BitTorrent claims it is actually trying to reduce congestion.
Is the make and model data already included in jpeg's file header? See here
Sorry, the use of "code" instead of "character" was my error. I corrected it in TFA, after being notified by a /. editor.
Oh, the irony:
A Catch 22 for Wikipedia: Should Deletionpedia entry be deleted?
The Slashdot thread is referenced in both the article and the Wikipedia talk page.
Ian Lamont
The Industry Standard
Read the TFA. The author uses "soldier" to describe the impacts of these technologies on the battlefield. Clearly, they are not limited to the Marines.
At the Industry Standard, we have a very active prediction market based on technology predictions (Examples include Nintendo announces new DS at E3 [current community consensus 25%] and Firefox 3 out of beta by summer [current community consensus 69%]). In observing the results of the prediction markets, it is very striking how accurate they are -- of the dozens which have generated significant participation, the community has been extremely accurate in terms of picking the correct outcome. This is true even well before the predictions close and the publicly reported news/facts are more definite. I was very surprised by this. I have always been skeptical of the supposed "wisdom of the crowd" but people have proven to be accurate predictors when their opinions are taken in aggregate.
'I find it very funny to see these complaints (definitely "They've been neglecting it for years" ; Then why are you still blogging on there?' Fair question. It will take a fair amount of work to do it, I don't want to deal with hosting costs, I'll lose pagerank, and I'll also lose some of my readers when the URL changes.
This shouldn't be surprising. For more than 100 years, Chinese nationalism has thrived on a steady diet of actual and perceived instances of imperialist aggression and interference, not to mention historical justifications and myths for its own imperialist occupation of Tibet and other frontier areas populated by non-Han peoples. The interesting thing about these developments is how the government is reacting in the runup to the Olympics. The current regime, as part of its strategy for staying in power, has pumped up Chinese nationalism for decades by shrilly denouncing foreign 'insults,' but it has to tread very carefully as the Beijing Olympics approach. Spontaneous demonstrations against athletes, members of the foreign press corps, and foreign visitors would be a disaster for the Olympics and China's public image, but attempting to quiet or clamp down on Han anger might prompt Chinese to turn against the government.
There was a story in the New York Times a few years back about this guy who had received a certain type of chemotherapy and kept getting stopped by the police in the NYC subway. Can't find the link now, but it seemed that it was only this type of treatment that was causing the problem -- it sucks for the poor guy who was getting hassled, but it would be a disaster if a wider band of chemo treatments set off the alerts.
In the traditional, 50s group, I would include Clarke, Heinlein, and Asimov. 60s-70s era: Delaney, Niven, Pohl 80s-90s: Bova, Gibson, Stephenson
Back in the early '80s, when I first started playing D&D, I think many people assumed Gygax was someone who was inspired by Tolkien and the freewheeling spirit of the 60s to an extreme, but he really did start something special with D&D. To me, it was more than a game, or an elaborate fantasy. D&D and early text adventures were a cornerstone of my early teens; they collectively spurred my imagination and allowed me to consider other realities beyond what most mainstream media experiences provided. The interactivity was a key differentiator, and in many way trained me (and I assume many others) for grokking the potential of the Web, virtual worlds, and other emerging interactive media.
Around 1977 or so a neighbor's father got Pong. Another neighbor's father had some old home system (TRS-80?) with Scott Adams adventures and other text games loaded from a cassette drive, including the one where you landed on the moon and entered two-word commands to walk around and look for clues. A third neighbor got Odyssey2, and that was a real eye-opener -- space ships in color! In short order, other kids in the neighborhood got the other consoles of that era -- 2600 (the Tank game is a classic) and Intellivision. At our house, we were kind of late -- my dad got me a Colecovision, which I believe didn't come out until the early 1980s. We also played arcade games at the local candlepin bowling alley, but that came at least a year after the home consoles and TRS-80 arrived. We also got a VIC-20 at that time, because I wanted to fiddle around with programming. A few people have mentioned it before, but I'll say it again ... for a lot of people of my generation, video games fostered an interest in programming and other types of computing technologies. Generally, if you played games a lot, experimenting with PCs, software, and programming was a common next step.
The original headline I submitted was: Researcher lists new HP/Compaq laptop exploits Not too far from your suggestion ...
The "Great Firewall", authorities texting website admins, and regular meetings with a few dozen major websites aren't going to solve the PRC's information control problem. IP blocks can be circumvented. Filters can be tricked. And even if they have 10,000 'Net police texting website owners, they won't be able to remove more than a handful of messages from the millions of forums and comment threads that have been created. There's only one solution that *might* work for them if Internet discourse gets too uncomfortable, and that's pulling the plug on the Internet, just like their Burmese pals did a few weeks ago. But China has a far more developed 'net infrastructure and industry, a huge SMS network that has been used to spread news of protests, and stronger business and personal connections with the outside world. They may have to batten down the hatches for the upcoming party congress, but they also have to look open and friendly in the runup to the Beijing Olympics.
What about storage costs? Those data centers ain't cheap ...
Now I have a real excuse. It will pay for itself, if I get the right games ...