Well, I'm probably not a typical reader, but some readers might have more than a single copy. Let's see. Of the Ace paperbacks, I have two copies of the first edition, one of the 10th anniversary edition, and two of the 20th (one is signed). Then I have the Ace hardcovers of the 10th and 20th anniversary edition, trade paperback of the 20th, the Phantasia Press hardcover, the Gibson-narrated audiobook on CD and cassette, the Hypercard edition and the Mobipocket version, and the graphic novel (which covered only the first one-third or so). Oh yeah, and one printing in Braille. that makes 15 copies in English.
I also have it in Japanese, French, German, Finnish, and two copies on Italian (my wife picked one up in 1998, and I spotted a different cover on a trip to Torino last winter). I'm still hoping for a trip to Spain, Central or south America to try for spanish & Portuguese editions...
This kid doesn't need to join a corp to support his dream, since he's already living it.
He may think he's already living it, but after a couple of years of doing his own personal and corporate income tax work, trying to find and stay in a reasonably-priced group healthcare plan, and being restricted to a Roth IRA for retirement planning that will do any good, he may find himself working 100 hours a week and 40 of them on "overhead" rather than the work he loves. Megacorp won't look quite so bad then.
The patent also includes delivery of content to the portable device using a phone network (which Amazon has implemented as Whispernet). They'll probably be writing come serious checks.
You're never going to "break even" on a device like this--it doesn't appreciate in value and it doesn't offer any savings over what you might have spent on books, since eBooks are currently the same price as paper books.
Bzzzzt. False. Thanks for playing, but you are dead wrong. Counter example: the cheapest dead-tree edition of Burton's 16 (or 17) volume Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (aka "Arabian Nights") costs approximately US$1000. A downloadable version costs US$25-30 (since it's PD, you can even get a poorly-formatted e-copy for free ). I "broke even" on this, the very first purchase I made for my Sony Reader.
Nah, there's enough left. Lynx, bobcat, lion, cheetah, ocelot. Can even go to some more obscure ones like caracal and jaguarundi before having to take "last-ditch"options like calico, siamese and tabby.
The key here is the phrase 'on the same hardware'. As operating systems do more, they take more hardware to perform adequately. And it's not a Windows thing, it's a MacOS thing and a Linux thing.
Not necessarily. MacOS X, 10.2 was faster than 10.1, and 10.3 faster than 10.2, on the same hardware. It wasn't until 10.4 that you actually started seeing a performance hit on G3 and slower G4 computers.
Just to drag this thread back on-topic, it is my suspicion that spell-checking is EXACTLY what will cause the computer to "fail" the test. In a 15-minute typed discussion, a human is virtually guaranteed to spell at least one word incorrectly. The computer will be the subject with the perfect spelling.
Yep. And most of the 11,100 hits for "subprime mortgage" make it obvious that folks have really been trying hard to avoid seeing the writing on the wall.
And my issue is how much of the work (using the Physics definition) is performed by the competitor. Once a machine is doing the vast majority of the work, it ceases to be a sport by *my* definition. Therefore, to me, bowling (in which a machine sets up the pins and delivers the ball) is more of a sport than auto racing.
I'd love to see the definitions, especially when we've got bozos like Charles Barkley saying that bicycle racing isn't a sport, and ESPN saying that NASCAR is.
How can basketball work without gravity? It plays a key role in the play.
Only in the "scoring" part. If you want to play in zero-gee, just play it like today's NBA. Give each team 100 points and leave an additional seven points up to the discretion of the referee.
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"Watchmen" is juvenile. I mean, at the end the supervillain explains the whole scheme to the heroes before doing them in.
You apparently didn't actually read it. The villain mocks the same cliche in stating that it was all done thirty minutes before. It has many subtleties like this. If this (the easiest one) went over your head, there's not much chance of you comprhending the rest(parallels between the "comic within a comic" and the main storyline, etc.)
It was also EXTREMELY timely. Reading it now has nowhere near the same impact that it had when it originally came out, and provided very timely commentary on the Cold War (The Dark Knight Returns suffers from the same problem, but to an even greater extent).
His issue is that "...this mechanism fails utterly if [the two parties] have different power levels to begin with." His primary example was one of police deception during a suspect's interrogation (and later perjury in court). He asks "Why aren't all interrogations recorded?" This is exactly what The Transparent Society proposes. Leveling the playing field. He complains about the NSA's warrantless surveillance, but in The Transparent Society, a Grand Jury would be looking at the same information as the investigators. He's making Brin's argument for him.
It wasn't an anti-satellite missile. It was an anti-missile missile, and it only worked because of the decayed orbit of the satellite. This missile would not be able to touch a "working" satellite.
Cool! Thanks, those didn't come up in my search. I was relying on the uPenn pages, thinking they were comprehensive, and they only point to the for-pay version. Of course, I've already sent them the $$$...
At least I didn't pay fictionwise, which is charging twice as much.
Im not sure why people look at it as being a $400 device.
Sure it's a $400 device. You just need to figure out if it's "worth" $400 to you.
I've been reading on a Palm OS device for almost a decade now, and I can tell you that it isn't a whole lot of fun. Small type, frequent page changes, and LCD technology all add up to serious eyestrain.
I've also always wanted to read the unabridged "Arabian Knights," but the cheapest dead-tree edition runs about $1K US. An e-edition, however, can be purchased for as little as $25.
Therefore, a "$400 device" using eInk saves me $600 on the very first book I want to buy. The rest is just gravy. (Besides, I bought the $300 device from Sony rather than the $400 Kindle, saving even more).
HP 15C + 25 years, still in daily use.
Backpack storage (undergrad) in temperatures down to -5 F (Michigan).
Backpack storage (graduate) in temperatures up to +130 F (car in Texas).
I've lost track of how many sets of batteries, but it's at least four.
Thanks for your comment. Coming to the discussion late, the first thing I did was search on "aluminum," to make sure that somebody had corrected the bad science. Shame on you, PopSci. If aluminum didn't burn, the Space Shuttle wouldn't exactly go, uh, anywhere.
All of the on-line biographies of you gloss over your "formative years" and seem to concentrate on your prop comedy stand-up work in the Twin Cities as being the impetus for MST3K. However, having grown up in the Green Bay area myself, I can't help but think that some of MST3K (especially its connection to irresistibly awful movies) was inspired in part by WLUK's TJ and the ANT show. Can you comment or elaborate on whether you enjoyed this show as a teenager?
I got in the car prepared to tolerate Stipe's ego. Radiohead made him look like Ghandi.
Off-topic, but favorite Stipe story: 1987 concert in which the man stood on stage preaching to the audience. "Don't eat meat." Of course, at the time, he happened to be wearing a leather jacket and sneakers.
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Well, I'm probably not a typical reader, but some readers might have more than a single copy. Let's see. Of the Ace paperbacks, I have two copies of the first edition, one of the 10th anniversary edition, and two of the 20th (one is signed). Then I have the Ace hardcovers of the 10th and 20th anniversary edition, trade paperback of the 20th, the Phantasia Press hardcover, the Gibson-narrated audiobook on CD and cassette, the Hypercard edition and the Mobipocket version, and the graphic novel (which covered only the first one-third or so). Oh yeah, and one printing in Braille. that makes 15 copies in English. I also have it in Japanese, French, German, Finnish, and two copies on Italian (my wife picked one up in 1998, and I spotted a different cover on a trip to Torino last winter). I'm still hoping for a trip to Spain, Central or south America to try for spanish & Portuguese editions...
He may think he's already living it, but after a couple of years of doing his own personal and corporate income tax work, trying to find and stay in a reasonably-priced group healthcare plan, and being restricted to a Roth IRA for retirement planning that will do any good, he may find himself working 100 hours a week and 40 of them on "overhead" rather than the work he loves. Megacorp won't look quite so bad then.
Which is why I'm guessing he put up the same post, but signed as "Bill the angry Grue" at rockpapershotgun.com
Just posting to get my "April fool" achievement.
The patent also includes delivery of content to the portable device using a phone network (which Amazon has implemented as Whispernet). They'll probably be writing come serious checks.
Bzzzzt. False. Thanks for playing, but you are dead wrong. Counter example: the cheapest dead-tree edition of Burton's 16 (or 17) volume Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (aka "Arabian Nights") costs approximately US$1000. A downloadable version costs US$25-30 (since it's PD, you can even get a poorly-formatted e-copy for free ). I "broke even" on this, the very first purchase I made for my Sony Reader.
Nah, there's enough left. Lynx, bobcat, lion, cheetah, ocelot. Can even go to some more obscure ones like caracal and jaguarundi before having to take "last-ditch"options like calico, siamese and tabby.
Not necessarily. MacOS X, 10.2 was faster than 10.1, and 10.3 faster than 10.2, on the same hardware. It wasn't until 10.4 that you actually started seeing a performance hit on G3 and slower G4 computers.
Just to drag this thread back on-topic, it is my suspicion that spell-checking is EXACTLY what will cause the computer to "fail" the test. In a 15-minute typed discussion, a human is virtually guaranteed to spell at least one word incorrectly. The computer will be the subject with the perfect spelling.
Yep. And most of the 11,100 hits for "subprime mortgage" make it obvious that folks have really been trying hard to avoid seeing the writing on the wall.
And my issue is how much of the work (using the Physics definition) is performed by the competitor. Once a machine is doing the vast majority of the work, it ceases to be a sport by *my* definition. Therefore, to me, bowling (in which a machine sets up the pins and delivers the ball) is more of a sport than auto racing.
His issue is that "...this mechanism fails utterly if [the two parties] have different power levels to begin with." His primary example was one of police deception during a suspect's interrogation (and later perjury in court). He asks "Why aren't all interrogations recorded?" This is exactly what The Transparent Society proposes. Leveling the playing field. He complains about the NSA's warrantless surveillance, but in The Transparent Society, a Grand Jury would be looking at the same information as the investigators. He's making Brin's argument for him.
It wasn't an anti-satellite missile. It was an anti-missile missile, and it only worked because of the decayed orbit of the satellite. This missile would not be able to touch a "working" satellite.
At least I didn't pay fictionwise, which is charging twice as much.
I've been reading on a Palm OS device for almost a decade now, and I can tell you that it isn't a whole lot of fun. Small type, frequent page changes, and LCD technology all add up to serious eyestrain.
I've also always wanted to read the unabridged "Arabian Knights," but the cheapest dead-tree edition runs about $1K US. An e-edition, however, can be purchased for as little as $25.
Therefore, a "$400 device" using eInk saves me $600 on the very first book I want to buy. The rest is just gravy. (Besides, I bought the $300 device from Sony rather than the $400 Kindle, saving even more).
HP 15C + 25 years, still in daily use. Backpack storage (undergrad) in temperatures down to -5 F (Michigan). Backpack storage (graduate) in temperatures up to +130 F (car in Texas). I've lost track of how many sets of batteries, but it's at least four.
Too bad you think anyone in the current (or potential future) Executive Branch is capable of telling the difference.
Thanks for your comment. Coming to the discussion late, the first thing I did was search on "aluminum," to make sure that somebody had corrected the bad science. Shame on you, PopSci. If aluminum didn't burn, the Space Shuttle wouldn't exactly go, uh, anywhere.
All of the on-line biographies of you gloss over your "formative years" and seem to concentrate on your prop comedy stand-up work in the Twin Cities as being the impetus for MST3K. However, having grown up in the Green Bay area myself, I can't help but think that some of MST3K (especially its connection to irresistibly awful movies) was inspired in part by WLUK's TJ and the ANT show. Can you comment or elaborate on whether you enjoyed this show as a teenager?
Off-topic, but favorite Stipe story: 1987 concert in which the man stood on stage preaching to the audience. "Don't eat meat." Of course, at the time, he happened to be wearing a leather jacket and sneakers.