Anyone have any experience with the glove helping with mousing as well? The article focuses on keyboard use, but many RSI injuries are mouse-specific, usually because the mouse is out to the side of the keyboard and the user has to keep one arm extended at a weird angle to reach it. Wondering if the pellets help/interfere.
Neuromancer paved the way for later SF like the Matrix (and, woefully, Johnny Mnemonic) and he coined the term 'cyberspace.' Plus his writing style is fast, tight and in-your-face. He, along with Bruce Sterling and other 'cyberpunk' writers, brought SF out from the old school and made it fresh. Any list has to include Gibson, imho.
Lots of bands have been selling CDs with bonus material for a long time -- Gorillaz had a key to access stuff on their website last year. Is this really news? Besides, does this really discourage "piracy"? Encouragement to buy the CD doesn't equate to discouragement to rip it later or download some MP3s to hear it before you buy.
Granted, I read the book the first time was when I was 13, but the thing that made the biggest impression on me was the inner turmoil of Paul's character. The coolest aspects were the mind-over-body control he learned from his mother, and the prescience he was already experiencing before his drug-induced oddessey with the Fremen. Why do filmmakers insist on making this book into a bad set/bad costume extravaganza? When you read the book, you aren't overwhelemed by gratuitous costuming descriptions and pointless technology. The whole point of the story is the coming-of-age of a boy destined to rule the universe (with concommitant power struggles and 60's Green Party agenda). The political-religious struggle between the Emperor, Harkonnens, Bene Gesserit, etc. make this story fun - not the cheesy effects. Too bad they didn't treat this like a character study of power and corruption.
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Anyone have any experience with the glove helping with mousing as well? The article focuses on keyboard use, but many RSI injuries are mouse-specific, usually because the mouse is out to the side of the keyboard and the user has to keep one arm extended at a weird angle to reach it. Wondering if the pellets help/interfere.
Neuromancer paved the way for later SF like the Matrix (and, woefully, Johnny Mnemonic) and he coined the term 'cyberspace.' Plus his writing style is fast, tight and in-your-face. He, along with Bruce Sterling and other 'cyberpunk' writers, brought SF out from the old school and made it fresh. Any list has to include Gibson, imho.
Lots of bands have been selling CDs with bonus material for a long time -- Gorillaz had a key to access stuff on their website last year. Is this really news? Besides, does this really discourage "piracy"? Encouragement to buy the CD doesn't equate to discouragement to rip it later or download some MP3s to hear it before you buy.
It's "porca madonna". While literally it is "pig madonna", it actually means "the Virgina Mary is a whore" colloquially.
She should have mace/pepper spray or a small pocket knife.
> Where's the Antitrust Division when we need it?
Being told to "butt out and give big business as much advantage over the powerless individual as possible" by the Bush Administration, of course.
Granted, I read the book the first time was when I was 13, but the thing that made the biggest impression on me was the inner turmoil of Paul's character. The coolest aspects were the mind-over-body control he learned from his mother, and the prescience he was already experiencing before his drug-induced oddessey with the Fremen. Why do filmmakers insist on making this book into a bad set/bad costume extravaganza? When you read the book, you aren't overwhelemed by gratuitous costuming descriptions and pointless technology. The whole point of the story is the coming-of-age of a boy destined to rule the universe (with concommitant power struggles and 60's Green Party agenda). The political-religious struggle between the Emperor, Harkonnens, Bene Gesserit, etc. make this story fun - not the cheesy effects. Too bad they didn't treat this like a character study of power and corruption.