Probably none. I saw BR first and I love the atmsphere/set design/costume design/what not, but Dick's story is so much better. (But I love PKD's work[1], so I'm probably biased.)
[1]Yes, I made a conscious effort not to say, 'I love Dick.'
IIRC, Mr. Stephenson was writing (by now it'ld be 'wrote') this novel with a fountain pen, to keep himself from being long-winded. At the time I read that comment, however, he said it wasn't working.
As a sidenote, this is perfect timeing: I read Cryptonomicon two years ago & loved it, & I read Zodiac I liked that, but I just started reading Snow Crash last week -- I've barely put it down since. It is a little comic-book -ish, but to me that only helps it. (I.e. I found the one Gibson novel that I read too serious.)
I found a review of the Palm clone... It seems decent, but not any more. If some of the apps get better, it might work for the vast majority of Palm users who need only a datebook & never install any extra apps (& therefore want it cheap).
My favourite alt keyboard-like input has to be Thumbscript. It uses the 9 keys of a number-pad (like on a phone) to input characters. There's a free PalmOS hack, but I would really like to use it with real (physical) buttons, like the prototype pager on the home page./p
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Didn't Boeing recently (plan to?) move to Chicago? Just their HQ, but still...
Maybe now would be a good time to start reading the anthology of his that I have?
I've only read one story so far. 'Unclefish Beholding' is a great piece -- it's atomic science using the English we'd have if there had been no Norman invasion, i.e. no latin/greek-derived words. An 'uncleft' is an atom, 'waterstuff' is hydrogen.
They did register those (openbeos.com|org|net), but couldn't the prefix 'open' imply something besides open sourced? Something, like, maybe online tools for BeIA devices?
Anyways, they could never open source BeOS. There's licensed code all over the place -- when Be open-sourced the Tracker & Deskbar (the file manager & menu thing), quite a bit of work went into cleaning up the code & making sure it could be released. But I _would_ love to see it, so Be: go ahead & prove me wrong!
In fact, Calligrapher was the orignal Newton hwr (aka cursive mode). It was made by a Russian company, but Apple didn't tell them enough about the Newton, so the original version wasn't optimised & thus sucked. This made the Newton doa (with Doonesbury, &c.).
Later, Apple made their own hwr (aka printing mode) which was the great one. Calligrapher also further developed their product, so it's reasonable, & now sell it for wince.
Google-esque, hehe. Google-rip-off more like it. Good thing Google's look has changed (slightly), since otherwise Raging would look exactly the same (with different logo, &c.).
Itsy (DEC [now Compaq]'s research PDA, has had Doom for a while. (It's B&W, unfortunately.) Even better, though, is that the Itsy can be controlled by rotation (called 'Rock 'n' Scroll'), so you just turn the machine to move, & press the one button for shooting.
There are some movies that show this, I'll have to find them.
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I think he means the rugby team dramatized in the film Alive starring Ethan Hawke:
I'm partial to this version myself.
Probably none. I saw BR first and I love the atmsphere/set design/costume design/what not, but Dick's story is so much better. (But I love PKD's work[1], so I'm probably biased.)
[1]Yes, I made a conscious effort not to say, 'I love Dick.'
IIRC, Mr. Stephenson was writing (by now it'ld be 'wrote') this novel with a fountain pen, to keep himself from being long-winded. At the time I read that comment, however, he said it wasn't working.
As a sidenote, this is perfect timeing: I read Cryptonomicon two years ago & loved it, & I read Zodiac I liked that, but I just started reading Snow Crash last week -- I've barely put it down since. It is a little comic-book -ish, but to me that only helps it. (I.e. I found the one Gibson novel that I read too serious.)
You at least knew they made the Canadarm, right?
Uh, maybe because it's all of that in one OS? I can't exactly use Plan 9's namespace stuff along with Be's translators on top of EROS right now.../p
I've heard it's short for Heuristic Algorithm.
Actually, I think the review is just of the OS on a real Palm, but I still find it useful.
I found a review of the Palm clone... It seems decent, but not any more. If some of the apps get better, it might work for the vast majority of Palm users who need only a datebook & never install any extra apps (& therefore want it cheap).
If you meant GPRS, then no, it's '2.5G'. See the excellent Symbian glossary
.My favourite alt keyboard-like input has to be Thumbscript. It uses the 9 keys of a number-pad (like on a phone) to input characters. There's a free PalmOS hack, but I would really like to use it with real (physical) buttons, like the prototype pager on the home page./p
Didn't Boeing recently (plan to?) move to Chicago? Just their HQ, but still...
No, I meant what I said. Search the same link.
The one you mentioned was published in 1960, mine 1989. IIRC, the later one is an extended version of the earlier.
Maybe now would be a good time to start reading the anthology of his that I have?
I've only read one story so far. 'Unclefish Beholding' is a great piece -- it's atomic science using the English we'd have if there had been no Norman invasion, i.e. no latin/greek-derived words. An 'uncleft' is an atom, 'waterstuff' is hydrogen.
They did register those (openbeos.com|org|net), but couldn't the prefix 'open' imply something besides open sourced? Something, like, maybe online tools for BeIA devices?
Anyways, they could never open source BeOS. There's licensed code all over the place -- when Be open-sourced the Tracker & Deskbar (the file manager & menu thing), quite a bit of work went into cleaning up the code & making sure it could be released. But I _would_ love to see it, so Be: go ahead & prove me wrong!
In fact, Calligrapher was the orignal Newton hwr (aka cursive mode). It was made by a Russian company, but Apple didn't tell them enough about the Newton, so the original version wasn't optimised & thus sucked. This made the Newton doa (with Doonesbury, &c.).
Later, Apple made their own hwr (aka printing mode) which was the great one. Calligrapher also further developed their product, so it's reasonable, & now sell it for wince.
Google-esque, hehe. Google-rip-off more like it. Good thing Google's look has changed (slightly), since otherwise Raging would look exactly the same (with different logo, &c.).
Yeah, I think that's my favourite April fools day joke ever.
See the very bottom of the page at http://www.emeraldnet.net/~ravenous/NewtonQuake/fa q.htm
Unfortunately, you are correct.
Yeah, I wish Itsy wasn't just for research. Ipaq (a.k.a. Bitsy) is kind of a bastardization (StrongARM, too).
Man, I wish that was real! The MP2k is great as it is, though.
Here they are: http://research.compaq.com/wrl/projects/itsy/movie s.htm
Oh, & the Itsy runs Linux...
Itsy (DEC [now Compaq]'s research PDA, has had Doom for a while. (It's B&W, unfortunately.) Even better, though, is that the Itsy can be controlled by rotation (called 'Rock 'n' Scroll'), so you just turn the machine to move, & press the one button for shooting.
There are some movies that show this, I'll have to find them.