There were at least two Tom Swift Jr. series, I think - I recall reading a whole bunch of TSJr books that don't match with some of the lists of TSJr books I see on the web. I had about twenty-odd books - I definitely remember his Flying Lab, Giant Robot and Triphibian Atomicar - (was that the one with the floating highway above the jungle, or was that a separate book?)
Hmmm... of the list, I've read 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, probably 7 (a long time ago), maybe 9, some of 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, some of 15 (thought MiaHM was better and gave up halfway through), 17, 18, and probably 20. Of your list, I've read 3, 4, 5, maybe 6?, 8, 9, 10, and maybe 11. I tend to lose track of what I read when I was a teenager (too long ago), so my memories of the older books aren't as reliable as those of, say, Neal Stephenson.
That said, I find that a lot of the books on this list don't succeed as novels so much as illustrations of a particular concept that the author wanted to write about. Also, reading stuff like this has permanently put me off Orson Scott Card.
...a class action suit against Toshiba for a fault in the floppy drives used in some of their laptops resulted in a decision that cost them over wo billion dollars. What's notable is that in the Toshiba case, not one person came forward to show that the fault had actually caused any data loss. In this case, Sony is now responsible for every bit of malware that utilises their moronic rootkit to hide itself. It's worth noting that there's already one backdoor out there that does this...
The language situation is the same in Japan (and no, it's not a "dialect"; it's just different levels of polite speech), and 8-year-old kids aren't expected to know how to talk to elderly people using correct speech. Just as long as they don't say something deliberately rude, no adult's going to get pissed at them for not knowing the right verb forms.
Yeah right. You know how rampant piracy is there? I wouldn't be surprised to find that MS sells more copies of Windows in North Korea than they do in South Korea.
I agree. I've got a 6600GT in my gaming rig, which on benchmarks comes in somewhere around one-half the performance of a 7800-class card, but it runs Quake4 just fine and costs around a third of the price of a 7800.
It's the same, but you're talking about wo different things. You're saying he has the right to attend the shareholders' meeting. He's agreeing with you, but saying that unless you own a significant block of stock, there's no way Sony's going to listen to you.
That's a very cynical view of the situation (possibly correct, but still cynical).
Look at it this way: the engineer gives the client something that was not in management's plan. As a result:
- management now know that the programmer spent time working on a feature that was not needed to make the sale. - management now have to figure out how to support that feature (both internally and for the client). - management now know that they cannot rely on that programmer to deliver exactly what is required for a product.
From management's point of view, there's very little upside to it.
...but it was presumably written by someone only familiar with Sony Korea, as Sony (the Japanese parent company) has already released the same model in Japan.
IF truthteller AND path_to_own_village THEN YES IF liar AND path_to_own_village THEN NO IF truthteller AND NOT path_to_own_village THEN NO IF liar AND NOT path_to_own_village THEN YES
That still leaves you with no way to know which one is the correct path.
The format comes from Vividas, and while this page says they support Linux, they seem to mean it in the sense that you might be able to run their Java player under Linux if you're lucky.
Patrick Ross has the right to give his RIAA-biased opinions just as much as you have the right to give your software/Linux/techie-biased opinion
Uh, in case you hadn't noticed, Mr. Ross is presenting "his" opinions as the representative of what, at first glance, might appear to be a consumer rights group, and is using a (fairly) respectable on-line publication to do it.
Whereas we're commenting on a/. story.
It doesn't take much to figure out that this guy's so-called opinions are nothing more than a PR team's attempt at swaying public opnion in a way that's favorable to the corporations that finance them, and thus should be taken with a grain of salt approximately the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's head.
Indeed. Their site is here; let's have a quick look at how they describe themselves, shall we? Translation in italics.
"The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented [corporate-centric] think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. Its mission is to educate [lobby] policymakers, opinion leaders and the public about issues associated with technological change, based on a philosophy of limited government [Don't legislate against us, only for us], free markets [Ditto] and individual sovereignty [Don't let consumer rights groups interfere with us making money].
PFF's research combines academic analysis [paid-for studies] with a practical understanding of how public policy is actually made [yet more lobbying]. Its senior fellows and other scholars are leading experts in their fields, with distinguished careers in government [ex-government officials turned lobbyists], business [corporate mouthpieces], academia [assistant lecturers desparate for grant money] and public policy [our pet politicians]. Its research is substantive, scholarly and unbiased [Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!]. At the same time [yes, we really were lying in the previous sentence], PFF is focused on having an impact on public policy.
PFF's underlying philosophy combines an appreciation for the positive impacts of technology with a classically conservative view of the proper role of government [See previous comment about not interfering with us making money]. We believe that the technological change embodied in the digital revolution has created tremendous opportunities for enhanced individual liberty [See previous comment about those goddamn consumer rights groups], as well as wealth creation [for us] and higher living standards [for us]. Those opportunities can only be realized if governments resist the temptation to regulate [DMCA? What's that? Extension of copyright? Never heard of it] , tax [us] and control [us]. Government has important roles to play in society [like helping us], including protecting [our] property rights and individual liberties [hahahaha], but its tendency is to reach beyond its legitimate functions in ways that harm [help] consumers, burden citizens [with all this messy legal stuff they really don't need to know about, right? By the way, Mr. Senator, how many callgirls will you be needing tonight?] and slow progress [of the growth of our bank balances]."
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There were at least two Tom Swift Jr. series, I think - I recall reading a whole bunch of TSJr books that don't match with some of the lists of TSJr books I see on the web. I had about twenty-odd books - I definitely remember his Flying Lab, Giant Robot and Triphibian Atomicar - (was that the one with the floating highway above the jungle, or was that a separate book?)
Hmmm... of the list, I've read 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, probably 7 (a long time ago), maybe 9, some of 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, some of 15 (thought MiaHM was better and gave up halfway through), 17, 18, and probably 20.
Of your list, I've read 3, 4, 5, maybe 6?, 8, 9, 10, and maybe 11.
I tend to lose track of what I read when I was a teenager (too long ago), so my memories of the older books aren't as reliable as those of, say, Neal Stephenson.
That said, I find that a lot of the books on this list don't succeed as novels so much as illustrations of a particular concept that the author wanted to write about. Also, reading stuff like this has permanently put me off Orson Scott Card.
Really? I'm liking it so far.
Most likely they disable the USB ports in the BIOS and password-lock it, or switch them off in the registry and lock it down with admin privileges.
...a class action suit against Toshiba for a fault in the floppy drives used in some of their laptops resulted in a decision that cost them over wo billion dollars.
What's notable is that in the Toshiba case, not one person came forward to show that the fault had actually caused any data loss.
In this case, Sony is now responsible for every bit of malware that utilises their moronic rootkit to hide itself. It's worth noting that there's already one backdoor out there that does this...
The language situation is the same in Japan (and no, it's not a "dialect"; it's just different levels of polite speech), and 8-year-old kids aren't expected to know how to talk to elderly people using correct speech. Just as long as they don't say something deliberately rude, no adult's going to get pissed at them for not knowing the right verb forms.
Gary Coleman grew up???
China already has. Their one child policy has resulted in a rapidly-aging population - figure on 25% of mainland Chinese being over 60 by 2050.
Yeah right. You know how rampant piracy is there? I wouldn't be surprised to find that MS sells more copies of Windows in North Korea than they do in South Korea.
Yeah, four wanted stars and a helicopter on your ass instantaneously. Sorta ruins the point of it...
...you obviously have some serious issues if you get so worked up at someone else over your own fucking mistake.
...to go back and check my post for the part where I said "stupid n00b".
Can't find it? That's because it ISN'T THERE. Now go play in traffic, OK?
Jesus Christ CT, you're back on /.!
You realise you had a gap of around a year in your posting history over 2004-2005?
The only one conducting some sort of "pissing contest" here is you.
Agreed. About 3 hours from "Insert the CD" to "Running as router with PPPoE and pf".
I agree. I've got a 6600GT in my gaming rig, which on benchmarks comes in somewhere around one-half the performance of a 7800-class card, but it runs Quake4 just fine and costs around a third of the price of a 7800.
Dell CPU price secret formula: $1 per MHz + $7 postage.
It's the same, but you're talking about wo different things.
You're saying he has the right to attend the shareholders' meeting.
He's agreeing with you, but saying that unless you own a significant block of stock, there's no way Sony's going to listen to you.
That's a very cynical view of the situation (possibly correct, but still cynical).
Look at it this way: the engineer gives the client something that was not in management's plan. As a result:
- management now know that the programmer spent time working on a feature that was not needed to make the sale.
- management now have to figure out how to support that feature (both internally and for the client).
- management now know that they cannot rely on that programmer to deliver exactly what is required for a product.
From management's point of view, there's very little upside to it.
...but it was presumably written by someone only familiar with Sony Korea, as Sony (the Japanese parent company) has already released the same model in Japan.
...it's already been released in Japan.
No.
IF truthteller AND path_to_own_village THEN YES
IF liar AND path_to_own_village THEN NO
IF truthteller AND NOT path_to_own_village THEN NO
IF liar AND NOT path_to_own_village THEN YES
That still leaves you with no way to know which one is the correct path.
The format comes from Vividas, and while this page says they support Linux, they seem to mean it in the sense that you might be able to run their Java player under Linux if you're lucky.
Patrick Ross has the right to give his RIAA-biased opinions just as much as you have the right to give your software/Linux/techie-biased opinion
/. story.
Uh, in case you hadn't noticed, Mr. Ross is presenting "his" opinions as the representative of what, at first glance, might appear to be a consumer rights group, and is using a (fairly) respectable on-line publication to do it.
Whereas we're commenting on a
It doesn't take much to figure out that this guy's so-called opinions are nothing more than a PR team's attempt at swaying public opnion in a way that's favorable to the corporations that finance them, and thus should be taken with a grain of salt approximately the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's head.
Indeed. Their site is here; let's have a quick look at how they describe themselves, shall we? Translation in italics.
"The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented [corporate-centric] think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. Its mission is to educate [lobby] policymakers, opinion leaders and the public about issues associated with technological change, based on a philosophy of limited government [Don't legislate against us, only for us], free markets [Ditto] and individual sovereignty [Don't let consumer rights groups interfere with us making money].
PFF's research combines academic analysis [paid-for studies] with a practical understanding of how public policy is actually made [yet more lobbying]. Its senior fellows and other scholars are leading experts in their fields, with distinguished careers in government [ex-government officials turned lobbyists], business [corporate mouthpieces], academia [assistant lecturers desparate for grant money] and public policy [our pet politicians]. Its research is substantive, scholarly and unbiased [Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!]. At the same time [yes, we really were lying in the previous sentence], PFF is focused on having an impact on public policy.
PFF's underlying philosophy combines an appreciation for the positive impacts of technology with a classically conservative view of the proper role of government [See previous comment about not interfering with us making money]. We believe that the technological change embodied in the digital revolution has created tremendous opportunities for enhanced individual liberty [See previous comment about those goddamn consumer rights groups], as well as wealth creation [for us] and higher living standards [for us]. Those opportunities can only be realized if governments resist the temptation to regulate [DMCA? What's that? Extension of copyright? Never heard of it] , tax [us] and control [us]. Government has important roles to play in society [like helping us], including protecting [our] property rights and individual liberties [hahahaha], but its tendency is to reach beyond its legitimate functions in ways that harm [help] consumers, burden citizens [with all this messy legal stuff they really don't need to know about, right? By the way, Mr. Senator, how many callgirls will you be needing tonight?] and slow progress [of the growth of our bank balances]."