Sorry, no list. I've seen it mentioned and I've seen a couple of specific titles -- see my response above to a sibling post to yours.
Interestingly, a quick search of Amazon UK's web site gets 846 hits for HD-DVD vs 1073 for Blu-Ray, vs Amazon US's only 539 HD-DVD hits vs 639 Blu-Ray hits. Still a preference for BD, but in both categories UK seems to have roughly 1.5 times as many hi-def titles. (My Japanese isn't good enough to do a similar search on Amazon JP, their site seems organized a little differently.)
A couple of examples are "Reign of Fire" (Touchstone/Disney) and "Finding Neverland (Disney), which are BluRay here but is available in Japan (amazon.co.jp) in HD-DVD. The Studio Ghibli stuff that Buena Vista (Disney) distributes here will be available in HD-DVD elsewhere. Of course it remains to be seen if any of the Disney animations (Lion King, Snow White, etc) or stuff like Pirates of the Caribbean (which seems to be Blu-Ray everywhere) will be available this way.
Only in North America. In some other parts of the world Disney titles (at least some of them) are HD-DVD, due to different agreements with local distributers. And HD-DVD has no region encoding.
The hydrodynamics would be interesting. Yeah, two in parallel, synchronized, would probably be simplest from that standpoint, but one wonders what it would do to one's blood pressure. The complications are probably why no animal has ever evolved a double (separate) heart (no vertebrate, anyway). (We need two pumps as it is to compensate for the pressure drop in (1) the lungs and (2) rest of the body, we solve that by making the two pumps beat as one, as it were (our four-chambered heart, one side for venous blood the other for arterial).
Frozen grapefruit are the right size to be used as ammunition in cannons (including air cannons), as well as onagers and trebuchets.
Grapefruit juice can enhance the bioactivity of certain drugs; by concentrating the active ingredient you could arrange to have someone OD on their prescription meds. It'd look like an accidental overdose.
An impromptu weapon could be made by slipping one into the foot of a stocking -- voila, improvised mace, with which you could bludgeon someone. More effective yet if the grapefruit is frozen.
My definition of "warmer" and "nuanced" is "distorted", with the former implying that there's a low-pass filter in there somewhere (for arbitrary values of "low").
But sure, lossy compression also implies distortion of some kind, so it's a question of which has less.
There's nothing wrong with the rocketship-into-space paradigm that shedding some of our collective nuclear phobia wouldn't cure.
Tethers may get you to cislunar space, but you won't get beyond that in any reasonable timeframe without a good propulsion system. (Chemical != good in this context).
You've both got it wrong: Fat men + Couches = Televisions.
They've got to have something to do while sitting there, ergo TVs. Which, after all, came last? Fat men and couches were both around before television.
That said, I'm inclined to agree. Unless they propose a mechanism (okay, I haven't yet read TFA) for preferential production of antimatter by said binary x-ray stars, perhaps those stars are perceived as x-ray stars because they're sitting in the middle of a freaking cloud of anti-matter. You think that might cause a little extra radiation at the short end of the spectrum?
Or, yes, there might be some other thing that's causing both.
antimatter is the only thing a General Products hull isn't proof against.
Well no, it doesn't work too well against high gravitational gradients (tides) either. Okay, actually the hull resists them just fine, it just doesn't do a good job of protecting the occupants.
It didn't help them because they didn't act until the terrorists had already seized control of the plane, and indeed had been in control of the plane for a while. (But yes, it did help people on the ground.) Passengers are more likely to act faster in future -- as witness what happened to the attempted shoe-bomber (according to one report, he was so trussed up that when the plane landed, the FBI had to cut him out of his seat).
I know I've certainly been sitting around on a lazy summer evening and decided to go for a nice drive in the country with my wife, even going so far as to drive in a random direction to see what there is to uncover, several times even making a whole weekend out of the randomness of it. There's lots of great things out there to discover which a computer-controlled car will never find.
What, you don't think you'll be able to tell the computer where you want to go? Or give it commands like "turn left up ahead" or "stop here"? Personally I'd love to be able to really look at the scenery on those country drives rather than dividing my attention between it and the road, and then at the end of the day just tell the car "home, James" and sit back and snooze.
Hell, they could even put in a steering wheel and pedals so that you think you're in control, but the computer just takes those inputs as suggestions.
Does anyone know of any good science fiction authors writing these days? I am looking for science fiction and not SciFi or fantasy...
Yes, but unfortunately the market for it isn't what it used to be. (Actually I suspect that in raw numbers it's better than it's ever been, but most publishing houses compare it against the markets for fantasy and SciFi).
Look for stuff by Steven Baxter, Wil McCarthy, Allen Steele, John Stith, perhaps Jerry Oltion, among others.
Hint, "wiring" != "wire". And neither equal "cable".
24awg copper wire goes for about 1.25 to 1.5 cents per foot per conductor; I'll grant you that's about three times the commodity price for bulk copper, but if I can buy 6 feet of HDMI cable (19 conductors) for less than the price of a Happy Meal, (plus $2 each for the connectors) I don't regard it as expensive.
it's all but impossible to find HDMI to HDMI connectors at most stores.
Try Microbarn, unless you absolutely hate ordering online. I have no connection with them beyond being an occasional (and satisfied) customer. Good prices for all things cable, IMHO. (They sell other stuff too, but so far I've only bought cables from them.)
Nobody in their right mind buys cables at places like Best Buy unless they need the cable right now. Things like that are high markup items, where the stores more than make up for the couple of dollars they shave off the suggested retail of whatever electronics box is on sale this week.
One of my favorite places to order cables, Microbarn, sells 50 foot HDMI cables for $26.99, qty one. Cheaper if you're buying a bunch. The main cost in HDMI cables is the connectors, (a 6 foot HDMI cable at Microbarn is $6, or only $4 for nickel plated connectors), partly due to licensing costs, but wire is cheap.
Some states -- Alabama, Colorado and Idaho for examples -- don't even require a Private Investigator license for Private Investigators. (They may of course require a business license if you're doing it as a business.) Some of the places that do require a license don't have any kind of test for it, you just fill out the paperwork.
That said, some of the organizations of PI businesses in above states are pushing for licensing requirements -- as is common with trade guilds everywhere.
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.docx files actually matches the spec that MS wrote up as OOXML, do you? How precious.
You don't seriously think that what MS Office 2007 puts out in
"Vibrant Media IntelliTxt"
VoMIT, for short?
Sorry, no list. I've seen it mentioned and I've seen a couple of specific titles -- see my response above to a sibling post to yours.
Interestingly, a quick search of Amazon UK's web site gets 846 hits for HD-DVD vs 1073 for Blu-Ray, vs Amazon US's only 539 HD-DVD hits vs 639 Blu-Ray hits. Still a preference for BD, but in both categories UK seems to have roughly 1.5 times as many hi-def titles. (My Japanese isn't good enough to do a similar search on Amazon JP, their site seems organized a little differently.)
A couple of examples are "Reign of Fire" (Touchstone/Disney) and "Finding Neverland (Disney), which are BluRay here but is available in Japan (amazon.co.jp) in HD-DVD. The Studio Ghibli stuff that Buena Vista (Disney) distributes here will be available in HD-DVD elsewhere. Of course it remains to be seen if any of the Disney animations (Lion King, Snow White, etc) or stuff like Pirates of the Caribbean (which seems to be Blu-Ray everywhere) will be available this way.
Especially when Disney is Blu-Ray exclusive
Only in North America. In some other parts of the world Disney titles (at least some of them) are HD-DVD, due to different agreements with local distributers. And HD-DVD has no region encoding.
The hydrodynamics would be interesting. Yeah, two in parallel, synchronized, would probably be simplest from that standpoint, but one wonders what it would do to one's blood pressure. The complications are probably why no animal has ever evolved a double (separate) heart (no vertebrate, anyway). (We need two pumps as it is to compensate for the pressure drop in (1) the lungs and (2) rest of the body, we solve that by making the two pumps beat as one, as it were (our four-chambered heart, one side for venous blood the other for arterial).
I don't know if it'd be correct to describe the gift from Earth as "gadgets"; they were grown organs, not requiring a host body.
As for Niven's earlier future, you might want to take a closer look at what goes on elsewhere in the world.
Frozen grapefruit are the right size to be used as ammunition in cannons (including air cannons), as well as onagers and trebuchets.
Grapefruit juice can enhance the bioactivity of certain drugs; by concentrating the active ingredient you could arrange to have someone OD on their prescription meds. It'd look like an accidental overdose.
An impromptu weapon could be made by slipping one into the foot of a stocking -- voila, improvised mace, with which you could bludgeon someone. More effective yet if the grapefruit is frozen.
And so on...
My definition of "warmer" and "nuanced" is "distorted", with the former implying that there's a low-pass filter in there somewhere (for arbitrary values of "low").
But sure, lossy compression also implies distortion of some kind, so it's a question of which has less.
There's nothing wrong with the rocketship-into-space paradigm that shedding some of our collective nuclear phobia wouldn't cure.
Tethers may get you to cislunar space, but you won't get beyond that in any reasonable timeframe without a good propulsion system. (Chemical != good in this context).
And coffee. One of the few crops that can't be grown in the continental US.
There, fixed that for you. Coffee grows just fine in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
but for the most part it just sits in one place above the earth
As long as that one place is somewhere on the equator, yes -- which China isn't.
Anyway geostationary orbit is about 22000 miles higher up than the orbits of the space trash and other satellites of interest.
You've both got it wrong: Fat men + Couches = Televisions.
They've got to have something to do while sitting there, ergo TVs. Which, after all, came last? Fat men and couches were both around before television.
That said, I'm inclined to agree. Unless they propose a mechanism (okay, I haven't yet read TFA) for preferential production of antimatter by said binary x-ray stars, perhaps those stars are perceived as x-ray stars because they're sitting in the middle of a freaking cloud of anti-matter. You think that might cause a little extra radiation at the short end of the spectrum?
Or, yes, there might be some other thing that's causing both.
antimatter is the only thing a General Products hull isn't proof against.
Well no, it doesn't work too well against high gravitational gradients (tides) either. Okay, actually the hull resists them just fine, it just doesn't do a good job of protecting the occupants.
Are we looking at the galaxy from "above" (north?) or "below" in those diagrams?
Does the circumference sequence go spinward or antispinward (trailing)?
Et cetera, et cetera.
It didn't help them because they didn't act until the terrorists had already seized control of the plane, and indeed had been in control of the plane for a while. (But yes, it did help people on the ground.) Passengers are more likely to act faster in future -- as witness what happened to the attempted shoe-bomber (according to one report, he was so trussed up that when the plane landed, the FBI had to cut him out of his seat).
I know I've certainly been sitting around on a lazy summer evening and decided to go for a nice drive in the country with my wife, even going so far as to drive in a random direction to see what there is to uncover, several times even making a whole weekend out of the randomness of it. There's lots of great things out there to discover which a computer-controlled car will never find.
What, you don't think you'll be able to tell the computer where you want to go? Or give it commands like "turn left up ahead" or "stop here"? Personally I'd love to be able to really look at the scenery on those country drives rather than dividing my attention between it and the road, and then at the end of the day just tell the car "home, James" and sit back and snooze.
Hell, they could even put in a steering wheel and pedals so that you think you're in control, but the computer just takes those inputs as suggestions.
Mod parent insightful.
Unless Comcast wants to start paying me rent for running their cable along the edge of my back yard (their piece of the utility easement).
Hah, I'll have to remember that one.
Mind, there's the tradeoff against the gas and time costs of going to Best Buy twice, but it could still be worth it.
Does anyone know of any good science fiction authors writing these days? I am looking for science fiction and not SciFi or fantasy...
;-)
Yes, but unfortunately the market for it isn't what it used to be. (Actually I suspect that in raw numbers it's better than it's ever been, but most publishing houses compare it against the markets for fantasy and SciFi).
Look for stuff by Steven Baxter, Wil McCarthy, Allen Steele, John Stith, perhaps Jerry Oltion, among others.
And me, when I get published
Someone else with reading comprehension problems.
Hint, "wiring" != "wire". And neither equal "cable".
24awg copper wire goes for about 1.25 to 1.5 cents per foot per conductor; I'll grant you that's about three times the commodity price for bulk copper, but if I can buy 6 feet of HDMI cable (19 conductors) for less than the price of a Happy Meal, (plus $2 each for the connectors) I don't regard it as expensive.
Your economic situation may vary.
My original: "but wire is cheap."
Your strawman: "you think copper wiring is cheap"
I think you need to lay off the crack yourself, it's apparently affecting your reading comprehension skills.
it's all but impossible to find HDMI to HDMI connectors at most stores.
Try Microbarn, unless you absolutely hate ordering online. I have no connection with them beyond being an occasional (and satisfied) customer. Good prices for all things cable, IMHO. (They sell other stuff too, but so far I've only bought cables from them.)
Nobody in their right mind buys cables at places like Best Buy unless they need the cable right now. Things like that are high markup items, where the stores more than make up for the couple of dollars they shave off the suggested retail of whatever electronics box is on sale this week.
One of my favorite places to order cables, Microbarn, sells 50 foot HDMI cables for $26.99, qty one. Cheaper if you're buying a bunch. The main cost in HDMI cables is the connectors, (a 6 foot HDMI cable at Microbarn is $6, or only $4 for nickel plated connectors), partly due to licensing costs, but wire is cheap.
Some states -- Alabama, Colorado and Idaho for examples -- don't even require a Private Investigator license for Private Investigators. (They may of course require a business license if you're doing it as a business.) Some of the places that do require a license don't have any kind of test for it, you just fill out the paperwork.
That said, some of the organizations of PI businesses in above states are pushing for licensing requirements -- as is common with trade guilds everywhere.