I haven't been paying much attention these last few years, but I haven't seen Neal Asher's name in these lists. His 'Polity' books are my favorite sort-of-recent SF - space opera with a side dash of horror and plenty of story, but not too implausible. If you mostly like Iain M. Banks 'Culture' books but they sometimes bore you, give Asher's 'Polity' novels a shot.
"The truth will set you free", and all the historical universities the Church founded, would not convince you otherwise, I suppose.
Oh, well. Can't have mere facts shaking beliefs. Carry on.
... or any equivalent web service will render those "Office" files for you in a modern browser.
"Installing software" is becoming increasingly quaint, except for a very few heavy duty applications.
Telcos bill their customers for data, and want to go to the regulators to also charge Google/etc. Fine.
But, while the regulators are looking into it, perhaps they could also look into things like the "4 euro/week" subscriptions to wallpapers and ringtones, plus the premium SMS charges for 1-in-30 drawings of movie tickets, etc. The telcos' cut of those interesting money-transfer operations may not be big enough.
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Stross is probably hinting at this Emo Phillips joke:
http://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=61;t=000011
When I look at the tables for MJ/kg here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density , I see 9.0 for Li-air batteries and around 46 for liquid fuels.
It's a heavy handicap, and I'm not sure that technical prowess and good marketing can overcome it.
You have to consider what it means for a calculator to be on approved lists for school systems all over the world.
You do not mess with that lightly.
I haven't been paying much attention these last few years, but I haven't seen Neal Asher's name in these lists. His 'Polity' books are my favorite sort-of-recent SF - space opera with a side dash of horror and plenty of story, but not too implausible. If you mostly like Iain M. Banks 'Culture' books but they sometimes bore you, give Asher's 'Polity' novels a shot.
Thanks, that clears it up. The not-so-subtle aroma of boondoggle gets stronger ...
The flywheel unit seems to hold 250 kW.h (TFA: "1 megawatt for as much as 15 minutes")
"The truth will set you free", and all the historical universities the Church founded, would not convince you otherwise, I suppose. Oh, well. Can't have mere facts shaking beliefs. Carry on.
... or any equivalent web service will render those "Office" files for you in a modern browser. "Installing software" is becoming increasingly quaint, except for a very few heavy duty applications.
Telcos bill their customers for data, and want to go to the regulators to also charge Google/etc. Fine. But, while the regulators are looking into it, perhaps they could also look into things like the "4 euro/week" subscriptions to wallpapers and ringtones, plus the premium SMS charges for 1-in-30 drawings of movie tickets, etc. The telcos' cut of those interesting money-transfer operations may not be big enough.
Already happened, and we have proof: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php#comments
Bezos is old enough to know about the CueCat barcode scanner, and smart enough to not fall for that one. Not everybody's case ...
That Ballmer had no prepared spin is amazing.
"I am very surprised." is the prepared spin.
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."
-- Cardinal Richelieu