Why is everyone so down on the other Enders Game sequels? OK, so they don't have the same impact as Enders game from an originality and surprise ending (if you hadn't already had it spoilt by someone else, grrrrr) point of view, but certainly Speaker For The Dead compares well with the general run-of-the-mill sci-fi I've read. --
This reminds me of Gibson's datahaven concept in his Neuromancer series. How long can it last? If US lawyers fail to get a site pulled because it is hosted in Russia, will they start going after ISPs that peer with the Russian ISP? "You must drop packets to/from this list of IP addresses or you are helping aid copyright violation" --
I remember back when I bought my first copy of Turbo C++ in 1991 it came with a stack of printed manuals. There was actually a point to them then as well. As I was completely new to C and C++ then it was useful that they supplied a fairly good language tutorial in among all the reference material.
Borland I seem to recall were one of the first companies to provide the now ubiquitous IDE with stacks of online help. Due to the limitations of the machines at the time they couldn't offer too much help online so the manuals were still useful.
Now though online help for a lot of products is pretty comprehensive and when I look at the PDF files that contain what would have been the printed manual I think 'what is the point of having a manual when it contains no more information than the online help?'
If you provide a PDF manual that contains significant information that is not in the online help your customers will appreciate a printed copy of it. If it only repeats the online help but in a fancier typeface, save some trees and just give them the PDF. If you are in the former situation though I would have to question why that significant information isn't in your online help already? --
I agree. Now that 'Open Source' is trendy and mainsteam there are too many preachers. There is really only one group of people who have earned the right to bang on about it and that is the people who made the source 'open', i.e. the coders who made Linux, Apache, Samba, gcc, etc. what they are today. Last talkers and more 'do-ers' is what Open Source needs. --
The difference is: In the VTEC engine there are only two different valve timings. It is not continuously variable as an electronic valve system would be. Why? Because there are no electronics in there. The camshaft has two cam profiles for each valve. Below about 4000rpm one cam profile is used, when the revs get past that, hydraulics push the cam shaft sideways and the other 'high performance' profile is used. Thats why these things are so reliable. Honda offer a 100,000 mile warranty on the engine and they have never had to repair one under warranty. --
Twaddle indeed. Rotary engines are a very cool concept and get a lot of power in a small space, but they are highly inefficient compared to todays leading petrol engines (I'm talking about things like the Honda VTEC rather than those ugly great V8 engines you love in the states). --
That's always the way isn't it? You have to make it personal before the people who legislate actually care enough to do something about it and we're not just talking spam here. --
On my Nokia Communicator I *could* write an application that monitored the text message queue and delete spam. Mobile phone spamming hasn't really happened much in Europe yet though so I'll wait until then... --
Too right. They are soooo going to get their butts sued. This little scam is going to cost them a lot more than 50M --
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Its too bad Apple killed off the clone Mac market and the CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) with it. I'd love to have lots of different architectures to play with but I'm stuck with Intel/AMD lossage. Alpha's too expensive (unless someone out there knows better!) and buying a Mac to run something other than MacOS seems a little 'funny' when you are paying the premium over the Intel hardware so you can have MacOS. --
OK, I know you are joking, but (a) the Iridium statlites aren't that useful anywhere other than right where they are now and (b) they weren't that useful anyway.
Why do you think Iridium went out of business? I took too long to get going, cost to much to run and hence too much to attract any customers. Reading all this stuff about re-using the satalite network for something else makes me laugh too. Do you know that there was no data call facility on Iridium? The thing was designed in the '80s before anyone considered mobile datacoms.
I did read a story about a guy that was going to fly his airplane to the north pole and make an internet connection from there, but since Iridium had no data mode he was going to have to use an accoustic coupler! 300 baud here we go! --
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Why is everyone so down on the other Enders Game sequels? OK, so they don't have the same impact as Enders game from an originality and surprise ending (if you hadn't already had it spoilt by someone else, grrrrr) point of view, but certainly Speaker For The Dead compares well with the general run-of-the-mill sci-fi I've read.
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This reminds me of Gibson's datahaven concept in his Neuromancer series. How long can it last? If US lawyers fail to get a site pulled because it is hosted in Russia, will they start going after ISPs that peer with the Russian ISP? "You must drop packets to/from this list of IP addresses or you are helping aid copyright violation"
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Borland I seem to recall were one of the first companies to provide the now ubiquitous IDE with stacks of online help. Due to the limitations of the machines at the time they couldn't offer too much help online so the manuals were still useful.
Now though online help for a lot of products is pretty comprehensive and when I look at the PDF files that contain what would have been the printed manual I think 'what is the point of having a manual when it contains no more information than the online help?'
If you provide a PDF manual that contains significant information that is not in the online help your customers will appreciate a printed copy of it. If it only repeats the online help but in a fancier typeface, save some trees and just give them the PDF. If you are in the former situation though I would have to question why that significant information isn't in your online help already?
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I agree. Now that 'Open Source' is trendy and mainsteam there are too many preachers. There is really only one group of people who have earned the right to bang on about it and that is the people who made the source 'open', i.e. the coders who made Linux, Apache, Samba, gcc, etc. what they are today. Last talkers and more 'do-ers' is what Open Source needs.
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The difference is: In the VTEC engine there are only two different valve timings. It is not continuously variable as an electronic valve system would be. Why? Because there are no electronics in there. The camshaft has two cam profiles for each valve. Below about 4000rpm one cam profile is used, when the revs get past that, hydraulics push the cam shaft sideways and the other 'high performance' profile is used. Thats why these things are so reliable. Honda offer a 100,000 mile warranty on the engine and they have never had to repair one under warranty.
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Twaddle indeed. Rotary engines are a very cool concept and get a lot of power in a small space, but they are highly inefficient compared to todays leading petrol engines (I'm talking about things like the Honda VTEC rather than those ugly great V8 engines you love in the states).
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Yeh, but everybody will ignore Stallman and use the more wacky north-European 'Brain'.
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Be scared, I heard doubleclick are already onto it.
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That was cool, huh huh
When we sued Amazon's butt
They won't sue again, huh huh
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That's always the way isn't it? You have to make it personal before the people who legislate actually care enough to do something about it and we're not just talking spam here.
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On my Nokia Communicator I *could* write an application that monitored the text message queue and delete spam. Mobile phone spamming hasn't really happened much in Europe yet though so I'll wait until then...
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Too right. They are soooo going to get their butts sued. This little scam is going to cost them a lot more than 50M
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Its too bad Apple killed off the clone Mac market and the CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) with it. I'd love to have lots of different architectures to play with but I'm stuck with Intel/AMD lossage. Alpha's too expensive (unless someone out there knows better!) and buying a Mac to run something other than MacOS seems a little 'funny' when you are paying the premium over the Intel hardware so you can have MacOS.
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It was visible in England as well which is quite rare. Most of the time you can only see it from northern Scotland in the UK at least :(
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OK, I know you are joking, but (a) the Iridium statlites aren't that useful anywhere other than right where they are now and (b) they weren't that useful anyway.
Why do you think Iridium went out of business? I took too long to get going, cost to much to run and hence too much to attract any customers. Reading all this stuff about re-using the satalite network for something else makes me laugh too. Do you know that there was no data call facility on Iridium? The thing was designed in the '80s before anyone considered mobile datacoms.
I did read a story about a guy that was going to fly his airplane to the north pole and make an internet connection from there, but since Iridium had no data mode he was going to have to use an accoustic coupler! 300 baud here we go!
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