Imagine that you're inside a big cylinder, infinite in length, and looking towards the exit (infinitely far away).
Your data is laid out on the inside of the cylinder. You can only see what's in front of you, and not too far away (what's closer than the horizon).
You can move forward, making objects that were further away appear coming out of the horizon). You can move backwards, making objects that were just behind you appear at the edge of you field of view (the edge of the screen).
Kithran wrote: Well as I understand it local calls are unmetered in the US and the big question is why shouldn't they also be unmetered in the UK (and the rest of Europe).
When the US Telcos introduced free local calls, voice calls was all there was -- and people didn't have any reason to leave a call connected for hours on end
What should be noted is, that in the US and other places where local calls are unmetered, it still costs some money to the operator, which in turn gets this money from long distance users.
This is called cross-subsidizing, and is considered evil if you want a fair competition for smaller companies which won't offer long distance calls.
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Hm, brown iPods anyone?
Alcent? It has a good sound to it.
And http://www.alcent.com/ says 403 Forbidden.
Well of course. How do you think lunarians dig all these craters? With a shovel?
Why would one use "pc" instead of "%", which is shorter and less confusing ?
No, seriously, that's a real question. Is this some local usage in some part of the world?
Instead of going all this trouble to crack open an Xbox, the should just ship it via UPS...
An even better book about this subject, by the truly excellent Greg Egan, is _Diaspora_.
Go read it, it's Egan's best, I swear.
Imagine that you're inside a big cylinder, infinite in length, and looking towards the exit (infinitely far away).
Your data is laid out on the inside of the cylinder. You can only see what's in front of you, and not too far away (what's closer than the horizon).
You can move forward, making objects that were further away appear coming out of the horizon). You can move backwards, making objects that were just behind you appear at the edge of you field of view (the edge of the screen).
So I'd call this a cylindrical horizon.
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Kithran wrote: Well as I understand it local calls are unmetered in the US and the big question is why shouldn't they also be unmetered in the UK (and the rest of Europe).
When the US Telcos introduced free local calls, voice calls was all there was -- and people didn't have any reason to leave a call connected for hours on end
What should be noted is, that in the US and other places where local calls are unmetered, it still costs some money to the operator, which in turn gets this money from long distance users.
This is called cross-subsidizing, and is considered evil if you want a fair competition for smaller companies which won't offer long distance calls.