It sounds that simple, but this hurts the independent software vendor. Why should they prevent me, a software vendor, from selling my software to you, or better yet, your mother?
I found mapquest.com's similar (but free and now sadly missing) service useful when househunting, to get a better idea of what to expect of the neighborhoods I was considering.
It saved me the trouble of going out to view the house, only to find it shared a backyard with the local GiantSuperWigglyFoodMart. I could find this out from the comfort of my own couch.
You can't tell me that no one else thought of Quark when they saw this story?
Hmmm... Now that Ronald Moore is done with the Battlestar Galactica reimagining, maybe he can turn his mind to this forgotten classic sci-fi of the '70's... Imagine what he could do with Betty I and Betty II...
I've always thought the ideal development environment would be a virtual chamber.
Most IDEs and editors feel visually constraining. (Think how useful your desk would truly be if you had to interact with it through a 12x13 hole.
I want the complete document in front of me, with another complete document sitting right next to it. (I actually used to print out code, lay it out on the floor, and debug with a pencil.
My own tastes have been wandering afield over the last decade. I still enjoy good Sciece Fiction and Fantasy, but my fiction shelves now include such marvelous reads as Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. Think ST:TOS set in the age of sail during Britain's wars with France. See W.W. Norton's pages for a list of the books. Heartily recommended, and with 20 books in the series, as well as other books by the author, it may last you a month or three.
As a genealogist, I would give almost anything to find reliable information on my ancestors from 500+ years ago. While I don't expect the majority of my own descendents to care in 500 years, there will likely be a few who wonders about their ancestry back in the ol' Sol system.
On cremation... Not necessarily a bad idea, but I'd still like a monument to my existance.
[...] Their will be hickups, and your dealing with an environment where the item will not be replaced for years, possibly decades. [...]
Is this a given, or do Bluetooth and other hightech-enabled consumer goods open the door to the possibility of upgrading your [dishwasher | dryer | stove | doorbell] every three years? I'm sure the Maytag repairman is salivating at the thought of recurring revenue, as are Home Depot, Sears, Bill Gates [ob-borg reference],etc.
I've always been of the opinion that laws should have an expiration date. This, over time, would cull out the "nuisance" laws, and laws that really mattered to a society would be kept. It might also force the government to think carefully before inflicting a new law on the populace in order to please a special interest group.
Not to pick sides here, but what does believing in God have to do with whether we should "create life"? (Leaving out the fact for a moment that my parent's "created" three life forms in a highly specialized laboratory, for which I personally am eternally grateful.)
It sounds more like a comfort and safety issue than a religious issue to me.
Can we be comfortable with creating life in a laboratory? Well, we've become comfortable with in vitro fertilization, so I suspect we can get comfortable with creating life at a much finer level of detail.
Can we do it safely? This seems like the stumbling block to me. How do we do it in such a way that we don't create a monster? (All the nano-probe horror stories are applicable here.) Can Victor control his Monster?
Will we do it? Probably. Pandora's box has been opened again, and all we have left is Hope. Perhaps that is all we ever had and all we'll ever have.
(Question for further discussion: How are Hope and Faith related?)
Given everyone's preoccupation with Cryptonomicon, I would have thought that someone else would have brought up Interface, written under the pseudonym Stephen Bury by Neal Stephenson.
Basic synopsis is: o Governor has stroke. o Shady politicos give governor chip very much like in article. o Fun and hilarity ensue as governor runs for presidency.
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It sounds that simple, but this hurts the independent software vendor. Why should they prevent me, a software vendor, from selling my software to you, or better yet, your mother?
I found mapquest.com's similar (but free and now sadly missing) service useful when househunting, to get a better idea of what to expect of the neighborhoods I was considering.
It saved me the trouble of going out to view the house, only to find it shared a backyard with the local GiantSuperWigglyFoodMart. I could find this out from the comfort of my own couch.
Hmmm... Now that Ronald Moore is done with the Battlestar Galactica reimagining, maybe he can turn his mind to this forgotten classic sci-fi of the '70's... Imagine what he could do with Betty I and Betty II...
I've always thought the ideal development environment would be a virtual chamber.
Most IDEs and editors feel visually constraining. (Think how useful your desk would truly be if you had to interact with it through a 12x13 hole.
I want the complete document in front of me, with another complete document sitting right next to it. (I actually used to print out code, lay it out on the floor, and debug with a pencil.
My own tastes have been wandering afield over the last decade. I still enjoy good Sciece Fiction and Fantasy, but my fiction shelves now include such marvelous reads as Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. Think ST:TOS set in the age of sail during Britain's wars with France. See W.W. Norton's pages for a list of the books. Heartily recommended, and with 20 books in the series, as well as other books by the author, it may last you a month or three.
Okay, slightly off-topic, but it's been vexing me... How can I open a file from CLI via oo641c?
I expect this information was of the deceased, which is available.
As a genealogist, I would give almost anything to find reliable information on my ancestors from 500+ years ago. While I don't expect the majority of my own descendents to care in 500 years, there will likely be a few who wonders about their ancestry back in the ol' Sol system.
On cremation... Not necessarily a bad idea, but I'd still like a monument to my existance.
John
I hand over more than this every 15 April. See what it gets me?
[...] Their will be hickups, and your dealing with an environment where the item will not be replaced for years, possibly decades. [...]
Is this a given, or do Bluetooth and other hightech-enabled consumer goods open the door to the possibility of upgrading your [dishwasher | dryer | stove | doorbell] every three years? I'm sure the Maytag repairman is salivating at the thought of recurring revenue, as are Home Depot, Sears, Bill Gates [ob-borg reference],etc.
I've always been of the opinion that laws should have an expiration date. This, over time, would cull out the "nuisance" laws, and laws that really mattered to a society would be kept. It might also force the government to think carefully before inflicting a new law on the populace in order to please a special interest group.
Not to pick sides here, but what does believing in God have to do with whether we should "create life"? (Leaving out the fact for a moment that my parent's "created" three life forms in a highly specialized laboratory, for which I personally am eternally grateful.)
It sounds more like a comfort and safety issue than a religious issue to me.
Can we be comfortable with creating life in a laboratory? Well, we've become comfortable with in vitro fertilization, so I suspect we can get comfortable with creating life at a much finer level of detail.
Can we do it safely? This seems like the stumbling block to me. How do we do it in such a way that we don't create a monster? (All the nano-probe horror stories are applicable here.) Can Victor control his Monster?
Will we do it? Probably. Pandora's box has been opened again, and all we have left is Hope. Perhaps that is all we ever had and all we'll ever have.
(Question for further discussion: How are Hope and Faith related?)
Given everyone's preoccupation with Cryptonomicon, I would have thought that someone else would have brought up Interface, written under the pseudonym Stephen Bury by Neal Stephenson.
Basic synopsis is:
o Governor has stroke.
o Shady politicos give governor chip very much like in article.
o Fun and hilarity ensue as governor runs for presidency.