Oh, please. Go out in the rain without an umbrella. You might not get wet. While mathematics operates in a world of proofs, the world of natural science does not. We rely on evidence, and the evidence for, say cause and effect, is more than circumstantial. Belief in overwhelming evidence is not same as faith. As Mark Twain said: Faith is believing something you know ain't true.
While the book does not feature human immortality as such, rejuvenation is routine, but expensive. Once you can afford the health insurance, you are effectively immortal. One consequence (apart from people's amusement over the actions taken by 'first-lifers') is a concentration of wealth in a small number of families.
I do not have the book here, nor do I think the character was named, but it was a friend of wosname, the punk in the beginning who gets executed for armed robbery.
The concept behind SmartTags is hardly new - one well-known (at least in hypermedia research, which happens to be my area) example would be 'generic link' found in the Microcosm open hypermedia system, which was first published in Andrew M. Fountain, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath, Hugh C. Davis: MICROCOSM: An Open Model for Hypermedia with Dynamic Linking. ECHT 1990: 298-311.
The generic link designates a link with a selection as source (this would in the simplest case be a string, but could be e.g. a image) and a specific destination. Thus, whereever the selection is encountered, there is a link to the destination. This functionality has been reimplemented a number of times in various open hypermedia systems.
If you find menues inefficient, you would enjoy the interaction system built by Doug. People remember the mouse, but forget the chording keyboard, which was a natural companion for the other hand Using chords, users could issue commands seamlessly while working with the mouse and without requiring any of the unfortunate focus shifts innate in the WIMP interface of today.
Douglas Engelbart has had a profund influence on modern computing (even if most people do not recognise his name), and has an award named in his honor.
Take a look at his hypertext system NLS/Augment - certain elements (esp. regarding naming) certainly suggests that Tim Berners-Lee knew this system, when he created the Web.
A recurring theme in LoTR is the danger that the Ring poses to the powerful and great ones (excepting Tom Bombadil, but he is special). Gwaihir cannot, being the Lord of the Eagles, be considered anything but powerful, and can therefore not be trusted with the Ring anymore than Gandalf, Galadriel, etc. can.
It is my impression that the demand for region free DVD players is relatively limited in the states, certainly compared to Europe. Region 1 (North America) has the largest DVD selection, and thus the need (for the general public) to import DVDs is limited. Furthermore, most American TV sets would have difficulties showing PAL (the European TV standard).
Europe is region 1 (together with Japan, and as others have noted, an increasing number of Japanese DVD releases feature English subtitles), and while the DVD market is rapidly growing, we have still a long way to go, before matching the selection found in region 1, especially wrt. special genres, such as anime.
Luckily, region free DVD players are readily available in stores. These are however usually not Apex etc. players, but modified brand players. I personally own a region free Pioneer DVD player, which handles all regions beautifully. A further advantage is that most European TV sets are able to handle NTSC. There is nothing shady about these modifications - most stores will perform them, and many places do not even sell non modified players (in Denmark, that is).
From my perspective, the only attractive feature of the Apex etc. players is that they often handles (XS)VCDs better than ordinary DVD players. As (XS)VCDs never were an item here in Europe, this is not really much of a problem, unless you burn your own.
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True, pain can be a message to stop doing whatever we're doing.
However, our pain system is severely broken in an number of aspects, and effective pain treatement would be boon to suffers of chronic pain. E.g. an arthritis patient is probably well aware of the condition, and could do without the pain. Another example would be burn victims. Morphine can only do so much, and a pain killer which would block the pain and nothing else would have huge potentials.
It might be difficult to track down these days, but it is one of the best art CD-ROMs I have seen.
It is used in the multimedia aesthetics course at my department.
I worked at the Electronics and Computing for Physics at CERN as a summer student in 1993. It is truly an impressive site, with many very talented people (e.g. I had a guy called Tim Berners-Lee show me a thing called the World-Wide Web). As one of the last things during my three month stay, I got to visit the Aleph detector. We took an elevator approx. 100 meters down into the ground (the LEP ring is underground and actually tilted slighty as not to collide with nearby mountains). These detectors are HUGE (methinks on the order of 20 meters tall), and generate quite a fierce magnetic field - most computers down there had very warped displays ^/^.
It was by the way the first place, I ever saw scientific notation used for numberz: A Swiss physicist was giving a briefing on the Large Hadron Collider (the new collider with superconducting magnets, they are going to place in the ring), and at that time estimated the cost around 1 x 10^9 Swiss Francs...
I don't really see the lack of DVD playback as a big issue. Adding DVD playback to a game console may be a big seller in Japan (it certainly helped the PS2), where DVD players so far have not sold very well, but in the States and in Europe, DVD players are doing much better. So... why buy a second DVD player (and why should everything be able to play DVDs in the first place? This is a game machine.)?
If you really insist DVD playback from a Nintendo machine, then Matsushiba (one on Nintendo's major partners in this little project) will be releasing DVD players with the 'N-cube' innards, thus giving you the best of both worlds.
I have been using Fitaly for my Palm for almost a year now. It is fairly easy to learn, and much faster than Graffiti (which I still use for the odd command or two, but nothing else). This is the 'soft' keyboard version, though I believe there is now a plastic overlay version available. It is one of the smoothest Palm applications I have used - it integrates well with other applications, and scrolls whatever is on the screen, so the cursor is always visible. Highly recommended.
> that was Al Capone's defense as well. He died in Alcatraz.)
Minor nitpick. Al Capone was released in 1939, and died from syphilis in 1947.
And bribes are certainly not a viable strategy for Microsoft. I would even question the real effect of the heavy lobbying that they have involved themselves in.
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Oh, please. Go out in the rain without an umbrella. You might not get wet. While mathematics operates in a world of proofs, the world of natural science does not. We rely on evidence, and the evidence for, say cause and effect, is more than circumstantial. Belief in overwhelming evidence is not same as faith. As Mark Twain said: Faith is believing something you know ain't true.
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While the book does not feature human immortality as such, rejuvenation is routine, but expensive. Once you can afford the health insurance, you are effectively immortal. One consequence (apart from people's amusement over the actions taken by 'first-lifers') is a concentration of wealth in a small number of families.
I do not have the book here, nor do I think the character was named, but it was a friend of wosname, the punk in the beginning who gets executed for armed robbery.
The concept behind SmartTags is hardly new - one well-known (at least in hypermedia research, which happens to be my area) example would be 'generic link' found in the Microcosm open hypermedia system, which was first published in Andrew M. Fountain, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath, Hugh C. Davis: MICROCOSM: An Open Model for Hypermedia with Dynamic Linking. ECHT 1990: 298-311.
The generic link designates a link with a selection as source (this would in the simplest case be a string, but could be e.g. a image) and a specific destination. Thus, whereever the selection is encountered, there is a link to the destination. This functionality has been reimplemented a number of times in various open hypermedia systems.
If you find menues inefficient, you would enjoy the interaction system built by Doug. People remember the mouse, but forget the chording keyboard, which was a natural companion for the other hand Using chords, users could issue commands seamlessly while working with the mouse and without requiring any of the unfortunate focus shifts innate in the WIMP interface of today.
Douglas Engelbart has had a profund influence on modern computing (even if most people do not recognise his name), and has an award named in his honor.
Take a look at his hypertext system NLS/Augment - certain elements (esp. regarding naming) certainly suggests that Tim Berners-Lee knew this system, when he created the Web.
A recurring theme in LoTR is the danger that the Ring poses to the powerful and great ones (excepting Tom Bombadil, but he is special). Gwaihir cannot, being the Lord of the Eagles, be considered anything but powerful, and can therefore not be trusted with the Ring anymore than Gandalf, Galadriel, etc. can.
It is my impression that the demand for region free DVD players is relatively limited in the states, certainly compared to Europe. Region 1 (North America) has the largest DVD selection, and thus the need (for the general public) to import DVDs is limited. Furthermore, most American TV sets would have difficulties showing PAL (the European TV standard).
Europe is region 1 (together with Japan, and as others have noted, an increasing number of Japanese DVD releases feature English subtitles), and while the DVD market is rapidly growing, we have still a long way to go, before matching the selection found in region 1, especially wrt. special genres, such as anime.
Luckily, region free DVD players are readily available in stores. These are however usually not Apex etc. players, but modified brand players. I personally own a region free Pioneer DVD player, which handles all regions beautifully. A further advantage is that most European TV sets are able to handle NTSC. There is nothing shady about these modifications - most stores will perform them, and many places do not even sell non modified players (in Denmark, that is).
From my perspective, the only attractive feature of the Apex etc. players is that they often handles (XS)VCDs better than ordinary DVD players. As (XS)VCDs never were an item here in Europe, this is not really much of a problem, unless you burn your own.
True, pain can be a message to stop doing whatever we're doing.
However, our pain system is severely broken in an number of aspects, and effective pain treatement would be boon to suffers of chronic pain. E.g. an arthritis patient is probably well aware of the condition, and could do without the pain. Another example would be burn victims. Morphine can only do so much, and a pain killer which would block the pain and nothing else would have huge potentials.
It might be difficult to track down these days, but it is one of the best art CD-ROMs I have seen.
It is used in the multimedia aesthetics course at my department.
> assuming you can flash the Sony devices with OS/4.0 when it comes out (which I doubt since it looks like OS/4.0 won't fit in 2mb
According to the Sony Web site, this new version will feature 8 MB of Flash, which should do nicely.
According to this C|Net article, it will in fact be released in the states. I hope that Europe will also be covered...
I worked at the Electronics and Computing for Physics at CERN as a summer student in 1993. It is truly an impressive site, with many very talented people (e.g. I had a guy called Tim Berners-Lee show me a thing called the World-Wide Web). As one of the last things during my three month stay, I got to visit the Aleph detector. We took an elevator approx. 100 meters down into the ground (the LEP ring is underground and actually tilted slighty as not to collide with nearby mountains). These detectors are HUGE (methinks on the order of 20 meters tall), and generate quite a fierce magnetic field - most computers down there had very warped displays ^/^.
It was by the way the first place, I ever saw scientific notation used for numberz: A Swiss physicist was giving a briefing on the Large Hadron Collider (the new collider with superconducting magnets, they are going to place in the ring), and at that time estimated the cost around 1 x 10^9 Swiss Francs...
I don't really see the lack of DVD playback as a big issue. Adding DVD playback to a game console may be a big seller in Japan (it certainly helped the PS2), where DVD players so far have not sold very well, but in the States and in Europe, DVD players are doing much better. So... why buy a second DVD player (and why should everything be able to play DVDs in the first place? This is a game machine.)?
If you really insist DVD playback from a Nintendo machine, then Matsushiba (one on Nintendo's major partners in this little project) will be releasing DVD players with the 'N-cube' innards, thus giving you the best of both worlds.
I have been using Fitaly for my Palm for almost a year now. It is fairly easy to learn, and much faster than Graffiti (which I still use for the odd command or two, but nothing else). This is the 'soft' keyboard version, though I believe there is now a plastic overlay version available.
It is one of the smoothest Palm applications I have used - it integrates well with other applications, and scrolls whatever is on the screen, so the cursor is always visible. Highly recommended.
> Does LEGO stand for anything?
It is short for 'Leg Godt', Danish for 'play well'.
> that was Al Capone's defense as well. He died in Alcatraz.)
Minor nitpick. Al Capone was released in 1939, and died from syphilis in 1947.
And bribes are certainly not a viable strategy for Microsoft. I would even question the real effect of the heavy lobbying that they have involved themselves in.