From the article you'd think they were refering to the third world. Dona Ana county contains Las Cruces which has New Mexico State University. A very large state school and a pretty good engineering school. I went there. Second White Sands Missle Range is just over the Oragon Mountains (We used to have tailgate parties and watch the pretty lights).
And did I mention Sandia Labs and Los Alamos in the northern part of the state? Microsoft had its first offices in Albuquerque. Anyone remember the Altair 8800? The place is TECH HEAVY. I mean I remember tourning a reactor at one of the labs on a field trip as a freshman in high school. A lot my classmates parents were engineers or physicists.
And don't get me started about "bleak swath of dessert." To know the dessert is to love it.
I seem to remember a whole Exchange set up for Information Markets in John Brunner's, The Shockwave Rider. I wonder how John Brunner feels about that right now? Science Fiction as prophesy? Copywrite infringement? May DARPA should give him a cut?
Get an old camcorder, solder on an antenna and post a large sign "You are being recorded!"
Seems like the most cost effective solution, at least until you can afford the real thing.
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Don't forget twinkies. 'Course where I come from they only bloom after a cloud-burst and you have to pick out the thorns.
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From the article you'd think they were refering to the third world. Dona Ana county contains Las Cruces which has New Mexico State University. A very large state school and a pretty good engineering school. I went there. Second White Sands Missle Range is just over the Oragon Mountains (We used to have tailgate parties and watch the pretty lights).
And did I mention Sandia Labs and Los Alamos in the northern part of the state? Microsoft had its first offices in Albuquerque. Anyone remember the Altair 8800? The place is TECH HEAVY. I mean I remember tourning a reactor at one of the labs on a field trip as a freshman in high school. A lot my classmates parents were engineers or physicists.
And don't get me started about "bleak swath of dessert." To know the dessert is to love it.
I seem to remember a whole Exchange set up for Information Markets in John Brunner's, The Shockwave Rider. I wonder how John Brunner feels about that right now? Science Fiction as prophesy? Copywrite infringement? May DARPA should give him a cut?
Get an old camcorder, solder on an antenna and post a large sign "You are being recorded!" Seems like the most cost effective solution, at least until you can afford the real thing.