Author: Laurell K Hamilton
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Books:
Guilty Pleasures
Laughing Corpse
Circus of the Damned
Lunatic Cafe
Bloody Bones
Killing Dance
Burnt Offerings
Blue Moon
Obsidian butterfly
Narcissus in Chains
Cerulean Sins (Hasn't been released here in Australia yet)
Synopsis: Anita is a hardase monster hunter and necromancer. Kicks butt takes names
etc. Lives in a world where vampirism was legalised, and slowly, more an more
things that go bump in the night are coming out of the woodwork. Worries that
she might be becoming a bit psycho/sociopathic. Of course, all that worrying
means she probably isn't. By book ten, she's 'dating' a master vampire, an
alpha werewolf, and doing a lot of flirting with others. There is a
strong current of D/S & S/M. Dominance, the strength of will to do what
is necessary is a very important thread. Anita herself bugs me, she's a bit
whiny, but I love the supporting cast and the world its set in.
Author: Neal Stephenson
Books:
Snowcrash
Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Zodiac
Synopsis: Come on, you read Slashdot and you haven't heard of this
guy? Crypto is great, but that long wedge of maths a few hunderd pages in can
be a killer to get past. Ditto with some of the digressions. Of course, that
same maths leads to a guy working out an equation for how often he needs to jerk
off v. have sex to maintain optimum mental efficiency. Snowcrash is amazingly
good, Diamond Age can really make you think, and Zodiac is about the chemical
engineer version of James Bond. Its ok to think the main character is an
asshole, thats how Neal wrote him to be.
Author: Tanya Huff
Synopsis: Writes a lot of little one or two book series. Stuff that
feels like the movie length premiere of a tv series. Mostly fluff, but I don't
always want to read about the heavy stuff. Enjoyable. Makes you like her
characters, and want just one more book to come out in that world.
Author: Glen Cook
Series: The Black Company
Books:
The Black Company
Shadows Linger
The White Rose
The Silver Spike
Shadow Games
Dreams of Steel (I've only read this far)
Bleak Seasons
She is the Darkness
Water Sleeps
etc
Synopsis: War in a fantasy land from 'a worms eye view'. The black
company are tough as nails veterans, a mercenary company for hire. They have a
400 year history, and have picked up most every dirty trick. They start to work
for a mighty wizard, one of the 'Ten who were Taken', and things go from there.
Hard for me to describe the way the series is written, but I really enjoyed it.
You don't expect a common soldier to know what spell a sorceror cast, or how,
and that shows in this. Battles are dirty, sorcery is the fantasy worlds
artillery, and the Ten who were Taken are dark, angry powers.
There is so much more to list, these are just my last few that stood out.
I have to agree with what you said. I also think that increased accountability might bring back faith in elected officials. There isn't alot of that here. People just try to get on with their lives, and if a scandal happens, its expected.
Cyber [Cybolo] was a hack - had autoaim, invis, map stuff, etc etc. Heaps of different cheats. And the name made sense if you'd read the Bolo [Keith Laumer] books.
Work your way up to big swathes of text
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To get comfortable reading huge amounts of text on screen, you need to work your way up:
Start small, news groups, email
Subscribe to a few mailing lists
Subscribe to a creative writing mailing list
Start reading creative writing sites
Visit fanfiction.net, set your minimum length to 100,000 words and sit back.
Once you can read a meg of text in a single sitting, you have arrived. Of course, a non blurry monitor helps too.
Most people [get this] DO NOT READ SLASHDOT. They really DON'T CARE. It is a hassle to set up your connection. Its a hassle to move. For a great majority of people, this will have no effect. These are the people that they want to have using their [ahem] service. You 'power users' just make their lives difficult. Please go somewhere else.
The problem with niche players is that they often get swallowed up, starting the whole churn thing again.
Here in Aus we have a great many small ISP's offering broadband, and the big thing they have in common is paying way to much for their bandwidth. They then have to pass these costs on. They find out their first customers are the guys who just left their competitor who just introduced caps. They freak. They didn't plan for this. They have to introduce their own caps.
For more of an idea, have a look at the Whirlpool to see how Australian broadband is faring.
If you use up your quota, you get shaped. [Hit the cap]. Peak time is 7am to midnight. Offpeak is midnight to 7am. If you go over either peak or offpeak quota, you get shaped for both sections.
There is also the fact that its not 'monthly usage' - its a rolling 30 day window. This has the effect of leveling out the user, who tries to maintain an even usage graph. The reporting tools in the customer web site are really quite good.
The daily average is about 200 meg a day in peak times. Its ok. If you want to download an iso, or leech from p2p, you need to go easy for a few days afterwards.
However, I do think bandwidth charges will kill p2p faster than anything else. Why would I want to share if it costs me?
and taste for sugar. Remember, more of the world has read these books. The movie was shot in england. Is Columbus [the director, not the sailor] english as well?
Any more trimming would have had fans calling for his blood. Again.
They're becoming more common. USB ports on the front make plugging in those occasional devices much easier. Things like memory sticks, the camera you borrowed off a friend, etc.
All this talk of gcc for cross platform. If he's writing code that requires all that big iron, he's using c++ [or c - arguably faster, but nastier] because he needs that speed. Thats why he is using native compilers, and not compiling in compatability mode.
To help with the complexity of building, try ant. Ant is great.
Dont even mention using assembler for speed.
Outlook has size of message off by default
on
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Most people don't know how, or why, to turn it on. When it is turned on, most people don't know what the size unites represent - b, K, M.
Microsofts Expiry Cycle states that you get 5 years mainstream support, 2 years extended, 8+ years online self help. That probably means 2 and a bit more years for win2k.
I think, however, that MS announced this was probably the last service pack for win2k. Which is a shame.
Telstra are a massive behemoth. There is frequent talk of 800lb gorillas referring to the RIAA. Well, in Australia, Telstra is King Kong to that Gorilla.
They tried this sort of shit years ago, with Wireplay, Telstra's online gaming network. it died, because people weren't willing to use a proprietary client to access games that were free elsewhere. When said client was also sucking down its own bandwidth, u can see why it failed. Now that more and more people are broadband, looks like they are trying again.
Don't get me wrong, they have to make money out of their investment somehow, but I don't think this is the way yet.
The closest I've come is buying a decent sized case, no motherboard, and putting a bunch of drivers in it, some with 5.25 -> 3.5 adapters on, and buying an internal 50ping to external honda adapter to run an extension cable between the two cases. Looks like two computers under the desk.
Lasik was one of the best things I have ever done. I had it done about 4 years ago now. My vision is not perfect - my astigmatism was to great to be fully corrected, however, I can now do things. Especially after I changed my asthma medication as well. It has opened up sport - I play squash now. It has improved my self image - don't feel quite so geeky, [should I say that on slashdot?]. It has also lowered things to carry - phone, keys, wallet, glasses, glasses case with prescription sunnies, etc etc
I have noticed haloing at night - or in my case, more 'starring' from light sources. I havent really noticed a loss of night vision - an earlier poster mentioned that it is hard to find true darkness in an urban environment, and I have to agree. I have also had to learn to focus a slightly different way - your eye has learned to get the best image it can - it needs to learn a slightly new way.
I had my eyes done 2 weeks apart. Did one eye, went out, gave it a chance to heal up, and provided good diagnosis on that one, proceed with second eye. The operation takes about 20 minutes, including prep time. I turned up, and was given some valium to keep me calm. After that kicked in, a nurse scrubbed my face to remove any loose particles in order to prevent contamination. They take you in, and lie you back under a monster of a machine.
The keratomy [slicing of the eye] is the scary bit. The doctor warned me that I would lose my vision for a moment as my retina detached while the machine was sucking for the slice. The eye is marked at 4 cardinal points before the slice, and these have to line up after the flap is put back down, in order to ensure it is where it should be. The laser buzzes, there is a smell of burning hair, and then they tidy back up. All good.
They check things after 15 minutes, and I had some contamination under one flap - a tiny piece of something. In that case, they put you back in, lift the flap, and clean it again. It was fine after that.
Some panadeine forte that night, and next morning - feels a bit like sand in your eye - and a clear hard eyepatch taped to your face so you dont scratch, or deform it in your sleep. A few checkups, and done.
I was going to build a site once, when bandwidth was cheap, I had a lot more free time, and I was much dumber. TVonDVD.com. Even had a little spinning logo worked up, of an old fashioned tv on a cd.
But the domain was taken, and I quit the job for better pay with a higher workload.
I take pride in the fact that almost anyone can read my code and see what it does. I'm not really a very good programmer, but the only comments I ever use are function headers. Noone ever complains when its time to debug my code.
Gotta Love it. Especially when you're in a club, off your trolley, eye wobbles and shakes, and you can still text "Where are you? The World is a lonely place!" to your friends so they can come and find you.
Ensuring everybody in their cubicles are only running the software they are meant to. No IM clients, no P2P, only their proprietary little enterbrise database querying tool. And Outlook. [This is a corporate office]
Anyone who uses multiple DMZ's in their network. With a lot of servers. I'm thinking hosting companies that want to ensure their clients only get the services they pay for.
Slashdot Mirror
Author: Laurell K Hamilton
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Books:
Synopsis: Anita is a hardase monster hunter and necromancer. Kicks butt takes names etc. Lives in a world where vampirism was legalised, and slowly, more an more things that go bump in the night are coming out of the woodwork. Worries that she might be becoming a bit psycho/sociopathic. Of course, all that worrying means she probably isn't. By book ten, she's 'dating' a master vampire, an alpha werewolf, and doing a lot of flirting with others. There is a strong current of D/S & S/M. Dominance, the strength of will to do what is necessary is a very important thread. Anita herself bugs me, she's a bit whiny, but I love the supporting cast and the world its set in.
Author: Neal Stephenson
Books:
Synopsis: Come on, you read Slashdot and you haven't heard of this guy? Crypto is great, but that long wedge of maths a few hunderd pages in can be a killer to get past. Ditto with some of the digressions. Of course, that same maths leads to a guy working out an equation for how often he needs to jerk off v. have sex to maintain optimum mental efficiency. Snowcrash is amazingly good, Diamond Age can really make you think, and Zodiac is about the chemical engineer version of James Bond. Its ok to think the main character is an asshole, thats how Neal wrote him to be.
Author: Tanya Huff
Synopsis: Writes a lot of little one or two book series. Stuff that feels like the movie length premiere of a tv series. Mostly fluff, but I don't always want to read about the heavy stuff. Enjoyable. Makes you like her characters, and want just one more book to come out in that world.
Author: Glen Cook
Series: The Black Company
Books:
Synopsis: War in a fantasy land from 'a worms eye view'. The black company are tough as nails veterans, a mercenary company for hire. They have a 400 year history, and have picked up most every dirty trick. They start to work for a mighty wizard, one of the 'Ten who were Taken', and things go from there. Hard for me to describe the way the series is written, but I really enjoyed it. You don't expect a common soldier to know what spell a sorceror cast, or how, and that shows in this. Battles are dirty, sorcery is the fantasy worlds artillery, and the Ten who were Taken are dark, angry powers.
There is so much more to list, these are just my last few that stood out.
Or get a phone that supports it. Sheesh.
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I have to agree with what you said. I also think that increased accountability might bring back faith in elected officials. There isn't alot of that here. People just try to get on with their lives, and if a scandal happens, its expected.
Cyber [Cybolo] was a hack - had autoaim, invis, map stuff, etc etc. Heaps of different cheats. And the name made sense if you'd read the Bolo [Keith Laumer] books.
- Start small, news groups, email
- Subscribe to a few mailing lists
- Subscribe to a creative writing mailing list
- Start reading creative writing sites
- Visit fanfiction.net, set your minimum length to 100,000 words and sit back.
Once you can read a meg of text in a single sitting, you have arrived. Of course, a non blurry monitor helps too.The problem with niche players is that they often get swallowed up, starting the whole churn thing again.
Here in Aus we have a great many small ISP's offering broadband, and the big thing they have in common is paying way to much for their bandwidth. They then have to pass these costs on. They find out their first customers are the guys who just left their competitor who just introduced caps. They freak. They didn't plan for this. They have to introduce their own caps.
For more of an idea, have a look at the Whirlpool to see how Australian broadband is faring.
If you use up your quota, you get shaped. [Hit the cap]. Peak time is 7am to midnight. Offpeak is midnight to 7am. If you go over either peak or offpeak quota, you get shaped for both sections.
There is also the fact that its not 'monthly usage' - its a rolling 30 day window. This has the effect of leveling out the user, who tries to maintain an even usage graph. The reporting tools in the customer web site are really quite good.
The daily average is about 200 meg a day in peak times. Its ok. If you want to download an iso, or leech from p2p, you need to go easy for a few days afterwards.
However, I do think bandwidth charges will kill p2p faster than anything else. Why would I want to share if it costs me?
and taste for sugar. Remember, more of the world has read these books. The movie was shot in england. Is Columbus [the director, not the sailor] english as well?
Any more trimming would have had fans calling for his blood. Again.
Under the lid of my A1000 were the signatures of all the developers, molded into the plastic. _That_ was class.
These people had style. Pity the business model didn't work out.
They're becoming more common. USB ports on the front make plugging in those occasional devices much easier. Things like memory sticks, the camera you borrowed off a friend, etc.
People buy these players because they are small and light. A laptop HD still sucks up power, mainly due to the small, moving head.
A solid state mp3 player may not have as much capacity, but its tiny and as you can see from the advertispage - 12hrs off a AAA battery.
I'm sure it could be piped into emacs
All this talk of gcc for cross platform. If he's writing code that requires all that big iron, he's using c++ [or c - arguably faster, but nastier] because he needs that speed. Thats why he is using native compilers, and not compiling in compatability mode.
To help with the complexity of building, try ant. Ant is great.
Dont even mention using assembler for speed.
Most people don't know how, or why, to turn it on. When it is turned on, most people don't know what the size unites represent - b, K, M.
A bit more education is required.
Microsofts Expiry Cycle states that you get 5 years mainstream support, 2 years extended, 8+ years online self help. That probably means 2 and a bit more years for win2k.
I think, however, that MS announced this was probably the last service pack for win2k. Which is a shame.
Telstra are a massive behemoth. There is frequent talk of 800lb gorillas referring to the RIAA. Well, in Australia, Telstra is King Kong to that Gorilla.
They tried this sort of shit years ago, with Wireplay, Telstra's online gaming network. it died, because people weren't willing to use a proprietary client to access games that were free elsewhere. When said client was also sucking down its own bandwidth, u can see why it failed. Now that more and more people are broadband, looks like they are trying again.
Don't get me wrong, they have to make money out of their investment somehow, but I don't think this is the way yet.
The closest I've come is buying a decent sized case, no motherboard, and putting a bunch of drivers in it, some with 5.25 -> 3.5 adapters on, and buying an internal 50ping to external honda adapter to run an extension cable between the two cases. Looks like two computers under the desk.
Lasik was one of the best things I have ever done. I had it done about 4 years ago now. My vision is not perfect - my astigmatism was to great to be fully corrected, however, I can now do things. Especially after I changed my asthma medication as well. It has opened up sport - I play squash now. It has improved my self image - don't feel quite so geeky, [should I say that on slashdot?]. It has also lowered things to carry - phone, keys, wallet, glasses, glasses case with prescription sunnies, etc etc
I have noticed haloing at night - or in my case, more 'starring' from light sources. I havent really noticed a loss of night vision - an earlier poster mentioned that it is hard to find true darkness in an urban environment, and I have to agree. I have also had to learn to focus a slightly different way - your eye has learned to get the best image it can - it needs to learn a slightly new way.
I had my eyes done 2 weeks apart. Did one eye, went out, gave it a chance to heal up, and provided good diagnosis on that one, proceed with second eye. The operation takes about 20 minutes, including prep time. I turned up, and was given some valium to keep me calm. After that kicked in, a nurse scrubbed my face to remove any loose particles in order to prevent contamination. They take you in, and lie you back under a monster of a machine.
The keratomy [slicing of the eye] is the scary bit. The doctor warned me that I would lose my vision for a moment as my retina detached while the machine was sucking for the slice. The eye is marked at 4 cardinal points before the slice, and these have to line up after the flap is put back down, in order to ensure it is where it should be. The laser buzzes, there is a smell of burning hair, and then they tidy back up. All good.
They check things after 15 minutes, and I had some contamination under one flap - a tiny piece of something. In that case, they put you back in, lift the flap, and clean it again. It was fine after that.
Some panadeine forte that night, and next morning - feels a bit like sand in your eye - and a clear hard eyepatch taped to your face so you dont scratch, or deform it in your sleep. A few checkups, and done.
I was going to build a site once, when bandwidth was cheap, I had a lot more free time, and I was much dumber. TVonDVD.com. Even had a little spinning logo worked up, of an old fashioned tv on a cd.
But the domain was taken, and I quit the job for better pay with a higher workload.
Oh well
Did u read the review?
I take pride in the fact that almost anyone can read my code and see what it does. I'm not really a very good programmer, but the only comments I ever use are function headers. Noone ever complains when its time to debug my code.
Gotta Love it. Especially when you're in a club, off your trolley, eye wobbles and shakes, and you can still text "Where are you? The World is a lonely place!" to your friends so they can come and find you.
Ensuring everybody in their cubicles are only running the software they are meant to. No IM clients, no P2P, only their proprietary little enterbrise database querying tool. And Outlook. [This is a corporate office]
Anyone who uses multiple DMZ's in their network. With a lot of servers. I'm thinking hosting companies that want to ensure their clients only get the services they pay for.