Niven gets a lot of respect for his ideas. He has come up with a ton of great concepts, and he really understands some of the science better than most writers. But he can't WRITE well. His characters are caricatures. He can set up a short story adequately, but plotting an entire novel is beyond his capability. But I gotta admit that Puppeteers are still my all-time favorite race of aliens!
You ever consider that, just maybe, Motorola and Samsung have told Best Buy to ensure that their tablets are NOT in full working order, so that customers can't do an easy side-by-side comparison with the iPad? They might figure they would get more sales that way, you see...
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like an nail. So you own an IPOD, and that is your hammer. Nothing more to say except IPOD1 was the pits, an IPod version had antenna problems, and Apple still milks developers for any software that could be installed therein. Blackberry has security built-in. Blackberry is not for gamers or teens, it is for business people who work in finance, government, or other professions where security is essential to keep information confidential.
I think he just posted here under an assumed name. ^^^
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of fathers pay child support and more than the court obligates them to, and that the vast majority of mothers routinely don't contribute a dime of their own obligation to provide for their children, instead, forcing them to live off of the contributions of only one parent -- the father, or lining up for a handout from the government to make up the shortfall.
That is very probably the biggest lie ever posted on/. in its entire history. Just ask your local cops how many warrants for failure to pay child support are in their system. Then ask them for a breakdown by gender. Methinks Mr. A. Coward has had his grasp on reality weakened by the acid of his poorly controlled rage against women. Let us hope that he never expresses that rage physically.
Yeah, that guy is obviously the dumbest self made billionaire.
You need to learn the definition of "self made." Hint - it does not contain any references to college roommates, undeserved loyalty or sheer dumb luck.
App stop is empty? Stop shilling for mod points by posting BS.
In related news, a crowd of dazed, starving and dehydrated developers were found wandering along a rural highway in central Washington State. None had any idea of how they came to be there, or any memory of the past 90 days.
They had a pay-for-prime-content plan 4 years ago, before the economy tanked. It didn't fly then. So, now they add "tiers" and take another shot. Anybody running a pool on how long it lasts this time?
What you fail to realize is that it may NOT be mere lip service. Obama may simply not have enough spare time to make sure that his directives are being carried out. But no, you assume "sinister sleaze." Here's a little point of comparison for you - government sources in Russia state that they estimate that approximately 60% of Vladimir Putin's orders are simply being ignored. More than half. And Putin has a hell of a lot more power over his underlings than Obama does.
Adobe is copying Apple from ten years ago by naming the product that comes after 9, 'X'. One key difference: Acrobat X does not run on Apple computers.
Where do you get your misinformation? Reader X runs just fine on my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.
Trust me, after a while you'll get tired of watching porn while driving on that tiny 4" cell phone display and you'll want something bigger... or is that just me?
That's just you. Geeks favor the 4" screen for porn, because then none of the "actors" looks like his junk is bigger than theirs. Which reminds me - you youngsters are DAMN LUCKY that you will never have the experience of watching porn at a drive-in movie theater!
He is also a flaming hypocrite. King is a long time supporter of the Provisional IRA. He has raised funds to support the Provos. Both the British and US governments labeled the Provos a terrorist organization. But King calls them "freedom fighters," of course. And now, King is holding hearings into the terror "threat" posed by American Muslims. Pure bigotry. It's the same stupid crap that got Japanese Americans struck into internment camps during WW II.
For sane people, it's a cruelty-to-animals issue. BTW, the rate of human-animal sex among adolescent rural males is surprisingly high. Google it sometime.
I've never understood why you'd instruct the father of buggery to get behind you. Unless you're into that kind of thing. Really, REALLY into it.
You know where that quote comes from, right? Right? Spoken by one Jesus Christ, according to a book called the Bible. Yeah, we all knew Jesus was pretty "light in the loafers."
A classic example is the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake. The first 2 books, "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast," are brilliant, unique and well worth a dedicated reading. Unfortunately the 3rd book, "Titus Alone," was only partially complete when Peake died of Parkinson's. His editor fleshed out the roughest parts and published it, but it is vastly inferior to the previous novels.
You basically just described the "intelligence failure" that led to the Iraq War. When the CIA and the UN weapons inspectors told the Bush administration that they couldn't find any evidence of Saddam's WMDs, the admin kept asking and asking until it found folks who claimed they *could* find some.
Well, you certainly need to consider his "record sales" before you dismiss his music as unsuccessful. *Record* sales? Seriously? You must be damn near as old as I am.
Please try to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of current events, if you are gonna comment on them. News flash - we do *not* have a "republican congress." We have a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The Senate still has a Democratic majority.
Since it appears we may have some problems in the middle east for some time to come, I think it is time we stop worry about trying to regulate things to hell, and start pumping our own oil pronto!!!
For one thing....let's lift the fucking ban on drilling in the Gulf.
In the first place, hydrofracking produces natural gas, not oil. In the second place, hydrofracking destroys the water supply. Of the things we need more than cheap energy that exacerbates global warming, Number One is WATER.
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Seriously. Read it once, and you will ace the course.
Niven gets a lot of respect for his ideas. He has come up with a ton of great concepts, and he really understands some of the science better than most writers.
But he can't WRITE well. His characters are caricatures. He can set up a short story adequately, but plotting an entire novel is beyond his capability.
But I gotta admit that Puppeteers are still my all-time favorite race of aliens!
You ever consider that, just maybe, Motorola and Samsung have told Best Buy to ensure that their tablets are NOT in full working order, so that customers can't do an easy side-by-side comparison with the iPad?
They might figure they would get more sales that way, you see...
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like an nail. So you own an IPOD, and that is your hammer.
Nothing more to say except IPOD1 was the pits, an IPod version had antenna problems, and Apple still milks developers for any software that could be installed therein.
Blackberry has security built-in. Blackberry is not for gamers or teens, it is for business people who work in finance, government, or other professions where security is essential to keep information confidential.
I think he just posted here under an assumed name. ^^^
Can't wait for the A10 in that case.
Warthog love!
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of fathers pay child support and more than the court obligates them to, and that the vast majority of mothers routinely don't contribute a dime of their own obligation to provide for their children, instead, forcing them to live off of the contributions of only one parent -- the father, or lining up for a handout from the government to make up the shortfall.
That is very probably the biggest lie ever posted on /. in its entire history.
Just ask your local cops how many warrants for failure to pay child support are in their system. Then ask them for a breakdown by gender.
Methinks Mr. A. Coward has had his grasp on reality weakened by the acid of his poorly controlled rage against women. Let us hope that he never expresses that rage physically.
Yeah, that guy is obviously the dumbest self made billionaire.
You need to learn the definition of "self made."
Hint - it does not contain any references to college roommates, undeserved loyalty or sheer dumb luck.
Windows Phone Marketplace fastest to hit 10,000 app milestone
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/windows-phone-marketplace-fastest-to-hit-10000-app-milestone/5596
App stop is empty? Stop shilling for mod points by posting BS.
In related news, a crowd of dazed, starving and dehydrated developers were found wandering along a rural highway in central Washington State. None had any idea of how they came to be there, or any memory of the past 90 days.
They had a pay-for-prime-content plan 4 years ago, before the economy tanked. It didn't fly then.
So, now they add "tiers" and take another shot. Anybody running a pool on how long it lasts this time?
What you fail to realize is that it may NOT be mere lip service. Obama may simply not have enough spare time to make sure that his directives are being carried out.
But no, you assume "sinister sleaze."
Here's a little point of comparison for you - government sources in Russia state that they estimate that approximately 60% of Vladimir Putin's orders are simply being ignored. More than half. And Putin has a hell of a lot more power over his underlings than Obama does.
Adobe is copying Apple from ten years ago by naming the product that comes after 9, 'X'. One key difference: Acrobat X does not run on Apple computers.
Where do you get your misinformation? Reader X runs just fine on my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.
Adobe tells me that I'm running version 10.3.180.42. Or rather, mostly *blocking* version 10.3.180.42 with ClickTo Flash in 64 bit Safari.
Trust me, after a while you'll get tired of watching porn while driving on that tiny 4" cell phone display and you'll want something bigger... or is that just me?
That's just you. Geeks favor the 4" screen for porn, because then none of the "actors" looks like his junk is bigger than theirs.
Which reminds me - you youngsters are DAMN LUCKY that you will never have the experience of watching porn at a drive-in movie theater!
I had a Mac that shipped with 512M. It sucked pretty badly when trying to use MacOS until I finally upgraded the RAM to a civilized amount.
That's one reason Apple developed iOS.
He is also a flaming hypocrite.
King is a long time supporter of the Provisional IRA. He has raised funds to support the Provos. Both the British and US governments labeled the Provos a terrorist organization. But King calls them "freedom fighters," of course. And now, King is holding hearings into the terror "threat" posed by American Muslims.
Pure bigotry. It's the same stupid crap that got Japanese Americans struck into internment camps during WW II.
For sane people, it's a cruelty-to-animals issue.
BTW, the rate of human-animal sex among adolescent rural males is surprisingly high. Google it sometime.
I've never understood why you'd instruct the father of buggery to get behind you. Unless you're into that kind of thing. Really, REALLY into it.
You know where that quote comes from, right? Right?
Spoken by one Jesus Christ, according to a book called the Bible.
Yeah, we all knew Jesus was pretty "light in the loafers."
No, they just think Macs are "too expensive."
Fools twice over, in other words.
A classic example is the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake. The first 2 books, "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast," are brilliant, unique and well worth a dedicated reading.
Unfortunately the 3rd book, "Titus Alone," was only partially complete when Peake died of Parkinson's. His editor fleshed out the roughest parts and published it, but it is vastly inferior to the previous novels.
The FIRST one was unreadable. Jordan purely sucked as a writer. And Donaldson is barely tolerable in small doses.
You basically just described the "intelligence failure" that led to the Iraq War. When the CIA and the UN weapons inspectors told the Bush administration that they couldn't find any evidence of Saddam's WMDs, the admin kept asking and asking until it found folks who claimed they *could* find some.
Well, you certainly need to consider his "record sales" before you dismiss his music as unsuccessful.
*Record* sales? Seriously? You must be damn near as old as I am.
Iran does not belong in that list. The Shah was not "old guard." His family was installed in power by the British in the early 20th Century.
Please try to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of current events, if you are gonna comment on them.
News flash - we do *not* have a "republican congress." We have a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The Senate still has a Democratic majority.
Who cares?
Since it appears we may have some problems in the middle east for some time to come, I think it is time we stop worry about trying to regulate things to hell, and start pumping our own oil pronto!!!
For one thing....let's lift the fucking ban on drilling in the Gulf.
In the first place, hydrofracking produces natural gas, not oil.
In the second place, hydrofracking destroys the water supply. Of the things we need more than cheap energy that exacerbates global warming, Number One is WATER.