Which of Niven's work should be made into a movie?
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All you namby whining naysayers notwithstanding, Niven's work is generally good reading and hangs together well.
I am looking forward to reading his new one.
But if any of his work gets made into a movie and sequels, It absolutely has to be Mote.
Somebody contact Peter Jackson to see if he's got some time to do this one. Can't think of anyone who could do it better, IMO.
Other than Niven and Pournelle, I enjoy Christopher Anvil's Kings Legions and Royal Road universe, with his Intersteller Patrol. Guess these kind of stuck to me when I was a kid.
Heinlein would be good, (SIASL, TEFL, TSBTSS) and Asimov too (his Foundation and Robot series) But we all know what happened to these fine author's work when someone tried to make their novels into movies.
Now, if you want to read some really exciting and original SF, go to the link below!
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Portable Storage?
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Its SanDisk.
Of course now it costs an arm and a leg, but it is nearly indestructible, will last you a decade or more, and is very portable. Your data will always be there, and it works on any device you can plug it into.
Nightfall is the best short story in SciFi history. It is seminal Asimov.
The movie of the same name is the worst movie in history.
Of course, its a Roger Corman flick.
The movie had nothing to do with the story, the plot, or the greatness of Asimov's work it was supposedly taken from. Only the title was pilfered from the story by Asimov, in a poor effort to get people to see it.
Rotten to the core!
Asimov should have sued their butts!
Regards, Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com Sorry. No refunds.
You are very correct about the idea of an Apple tablet. Its a dad idea.
I still don't see where people think this new "monitor" is for a tablet. It makes perfect sense that it is for the iMac that will be introduced in 18 days in Paris.
Think about it.
Aluminum clad, wireless, not physically connected to the computer, running the full OS X in a G5 desktop computer (probably water cooled)
You could probably hook a real flat screen monitor to your new iMac, and use this little wireless guy any place you want to.
In other words, the new iMac will come with the little monitor, and you can buy a bigger one to go with it, if you want a bigger one. This is a great marketing paradigm.
I think those 60MB Toshiba drives Apple has been buying up may also be in the new, smaller iMac. It just makes sense, IMO.
Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com "These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
Not a very big one. People in business who can't type for themselves are in trouble. They can't compete. Students are the same way. In fact most students are already much better typists than their parents.
Who does this leave? Very few people. In some businesses an employee using a tablet is seen as backward. He/she would have to write their notes, then later convert them to text with a keyboard, then make their reports, analysis, or presentations. Taking notes in a meeting or during a session with a client by using a silent keyboard on a laptop is much faster an more accurate than scribbling on a tablet.
There is a reason tablets are dying off.
Take a look:
http://engadget.com/entry/8312965763231519/
Regards, Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com "Out of my mind. Back in five minutes."
Thus spoken by someone who probably would not own an Apple computer or iPod anyway, regardless of its availability.
Small Dog Electronics (smalldog.com) still has iMacs for sale, and so do many other places, if you really want one.
Everything else Apple makes is still for sale and available.
Since this marks the time Apple has ever not met its product availability, cut them some slack. Its not like they are Micro$oft trying to ship Longhorn, right?
Here is a great article speculating that the new iMac to be released in 19 days in Paris, is to be a miniature iMac, sort of like the old color Classic Macintosh.
http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=-750
Its small screen will conect wirelessly to the Internet, the Ethernet, via the new mini Apple wireless hub. It will also likely have a small keyboard and mouse to go with it.
Since its supposed to be with an aluminum body, perhaps it will come in mini iPod colors too.
Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com Sorry, no refunds.
If you want a job, that is, a job worth having, you still need to touch type.
Everything in business is in writing. Which means you need to be competent in producing written material in a reasonable amount of time. If everyone in your company is more competent at typing than you are, your position and advancement is weakened.
This also goes without saying (or it should) that you need to know how to say what you want to say in a straightforward fashion. Critical Thought is a minimum competency for most jobs.
I do not think that your voice will replace your keyboard in any future time. Just try to dictate a letter and then format it look the way you want, and you will immediately see that typing it yourself is way faster than dictation and formating.
If you can't type, buy Mavis Beacon and use it. Your survival in school and in business depends on it. It will for a very long time.
Regards, Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com Sorry, no refunds
Using a phone to play music, especially if its the great AAC quality of the iPod means that the battery life will be short.
Perhaps they meant to say it will play, not 12 songs, but 12 minutes....
BTW, will the Motorola play the music as well as the iPod? The iPod's stereo circuitry is most excellent, which is why people love it so much (aside from the cool design).
This is old, but it still applies... In fact, perhaps now, more than ever.
The End of the Internet http://mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=494
(Some time in the near future)
I finally found a way to make money off the Internet. I did it by writing a book about how the Net died.
Not that I made any money while it existed, you see. No one did.
Oh, like everyone else, I loved the Internet for all the freedom it gave me, and the wealth of information and idea exchange, where everyone profited from that free flow of thought and information. But, you know how Man is. Never underestimate his ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
Why did it end? Simple: It was greed.
First it started with the Spammers. There got to be so much Spam, that even Congressmen were snowed under with the daily deluge. No one could get their legitimate mail because of the thousands of fake letters these inventive Spammers were sending out with their Web bots. Congress finally made a law strong enough that any of them could be shot on sight. Some hacker then posted on the Web a public list of the lot of them, and soon they were all dead.
The public, long laboring under all that Spam, liked what they did so much, that they killed off all the hackers too. This had a profound effect on people taking computer science and engineering classes, did you know that?
That was the first nail in the coffin of the Net. We should have all paid attention to it. But no one did. We were all too busy trying to make a buck off of the Net.
The next coffin nail came when the Music and Movie companies finally paid Congress enough money to have the copyright laws changed. It was easy once Disney got them to extend copyright privileges another hundred years. The new law that Congress passed was very comprehensive! In fact, no one could listen to the music without breaking the new laws!
Now it was a Federal offense to even read or see anything that was copyrighted. If you did, there would be an unauthorized copy in your brain that you could access just by remembering. Oh, you could legitimately purchase a copy of anything copyrighted in the stores, but you could never open that copy and view it or listen to it. Tough law!
That's why all the libraries in the country were permanently closed. Right after that the schools and colleges were all shut down, and their teachers and administrators put away for using copyrighted materials in their classrooms. Students, however, were forgiven their offense in this, but all their books and notes were confiscated and burned.
The next nail came with the legal view of computer hardware. That legal POV stated that the desktop, palmtop, or laptop computer you were using could also hold, however briefly, yet another copy of any copyrighted material you might put into it, for transfer to a CD, or perhaps downloaded off the Web. Congress just attached this to their Anti-Terrorism Bill for Secure Systems Standards. Remember, these devices were considered guilty until proven innocent, just as their owners were. It seems the very existence of these machines was now suspect, because someone, somewhere, might use them for pirating copyrighted material!
Therefore all these computing devices became illegal to even own. No more Computers!
The music companies, having now gotten their way with Congress, finally had a law written that was so powerful, even they were locked up! They were all sent to prison for having a copy of their own music, which they had bought (or rather stolen) from the artists. Just deserts!
Then the movie producers and the owners of movie theaters were locked up for the same violation of this powerful new copyright law! They were sent away for distributing more than one copy of their movies.
Then the music artists and singers were all locked away for the same reason. Worse, for under the new law, many were sent up the river for playing their own songs too many time
BTW, I am a writer, and there has never been a real 'writer's' computer, or portable.
First there was the Remington, but that is ancient times.
Then there was the Radio Shack 100, which was a real writer's tool. It even has rudimentary file back up to tape cassettes and the ability to modem your article over a voice phone (iffy).
The eMate is the only close approximation to the writer's computer.
The Dana is not bad, but still not in the same league as the eMate.
As for laptops, IBM had the best keyboard, until the Apple WallStreet came along. Pismo isn't bad either, but these still did not compare to grabbing and typing a quick story on the eMate, with its instant-on and long battery life.
(If I had to have a heavy laptop to write on, at least could someone put a simple inkjet in it, so I could proof my work wherever I happen to be writing?)
If you notice, the OS is what really gets in the way for a writer. They just want it to work NOW, when they pick it up to use it.
If Apple ever gets a clue about us, they will come out with a new version of the simple eMate, - but with a back-lit screen please.
Forget putting a phone in it, or a hard drive, or any of all those other bells and whistles. We just need to write, without the machine getting itself in our way.
The closer you make it to pencil and paper, (or just a keyboard and screen) the more perfect your device will be, IMO.
Regards, Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com "Out of my mind. Back in five minutes."
Right now, there are a handful of devices that could preplace my eMate.
I love the eMate, and the pre-iMac translucent color, but its too slow, and needs a grayscale screen. I do love the keyboard and long lasting battery life.
Here is the lineup of eMate wannabes. The downside of all of them is that they use Win-duh-ohs.
NEC (MobilePro 900c)
Psion Teklogix (NetBook Pro)
Zupera Technology (SmartBook) (China)
Motorola (MPx Pocket Phone)
HP (Jornada 728)
However, HP may be coming out with a very eMate-like palmtop.
Since HP is licensing the iPod from Apple, perhaps Apple could license HP's new little palmtop with a full sized keyboard. It is, after all, supposed to be a cell phone too.
Subscription is free. But you must click on the website URL to get a continued subscription. A ponderous task, I know.
Clicking again from time to time will allow you to see the ever changing content, where less popular links are dropped and new, hopefully more enjoyable ones are added.
Since my site is for Critical Thinking, it does take some serious skull-sweat to enjoy all those excellent links, stories and diversions.
As of now, consider yourself a life-time subscriber to the venerable "Best Critical Thought On The Web."
Regards, Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com Sorry, no refunds.
This expression is used continually everywhere to describe run away success in sales, popularity, etc. It was used here in this thread at least a dozen times when talking about the fantastic sales of the iPods.
I do not understand this? Who are these hotcake vendors? Where are they selling these hotcakes everyone talks about being so popular? Who buys these hotcakes anyway?
I certainly am not interested in buying hotcakes. They probably aren't Atkins friendly anyway. In fact, they don't sound so appetizing to me. Do they come with syrup? Are they sold with powdered sugar coating? Or fruit toppings? How about with butter or creamc heese?
Sounds like the popular pancakes that used to be sold in Moscow.
Surely this isn't where the term "selling like hotcakes" comes from, right?
How about we all change this old fashioned, outdated and silly phrase!
Lets all being using the term "Selling Like iPods!" instead. ..
Roger Born writing.borngraphics.com "Out of my mind. Back in five minutes."
Actually, this world wouldn't have such a 'memory' of Atlantis if it were somewhere else but here on this planet. This is the only flaw I see so far in Stargate's Atlantis.
Logically, they would have had a much better premise for the show if they time-traveled back into Earth's past to the original Atlantis, instead of dancing off to the Pegasus galaxy.
As to where or what Atlantis really is, Plato almost had it right, but he failed to take into account how old Atlantis really was. That fact has kept anyone from discovering its true location.
Tradition and mythology place Atlantis back before the Flood of Noah, in the near mythical First Earth, when men lived to be a thousand years old. Then there was only one massive continent, and it was also home to other beings besides humans.
In fact, the 'real' story of Atlantis could rival Lord of the Rings in both scope and magnitude, as well as in legend and mythos.
Legend has it that its great and most advanced city, as well as the continent, were both named for its one great Emperor, Atla, who was also believed to be the original Man, Adam, of the Genesis account.
Here is a link to the real story of Atlantis. This is a free 500KB download of a short novel in RTF format, which will open in any word processor.
Nah. The real Atlantis was on the First Earth, from before the flood of Noah, by ancient tradition.
There was only a single continent and it was called Atlandis, named in honor of its first emperor, Atla, who was also the man Adam from the creation account in Genesis.
Atlandis, as you know, was an advanced civilization which suddenly destroyed in a great flood.
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All you namby whining naysayers notwithstanding, Niven's work is generally good reading and hangs together well.
I am looking forward to reading his new one.
But if any of his work gets made into a movie and sequels, It absolutely has to be Mote.
Somebody contact Peter Jackson to see if he's got some time to do this one. Can't think of anyone who could do it better, IMO.
Other than Niven and Pournelle, I enjoy Christopher Anvil's Kings Legions and Royal Road universe, with his Intersteller Patrol. Guess these kind of stuck to me when I was a kid.
Heinlein would be good, (SIASL, TEFL, TSBTSS) and Asimov too (his Foundation and Robot series) But we all know what happened to these fine author's work when someone tried to make their novels into movies.
Now, if you want to read some really exciting and original SF, go to the link below!
Roger Born
http://writing.borngraphics.com
"We also walk dogs..."
The new iMac had BETTER BE AWESOME!
Go to the current iMac site. http://www.apple.com/imac/
Take another look at that great, world-class design.
That sucker's just about perfect!
Now, picture those STUPID new iMac "photos" talked about here, next to these (old, awesomely designed) iMacs.
Tell me these two things are even relevant
!? -Or related!?
If the next generation G5 iMac is not at least as uber-cool and as well designed as the former generation iMac, Apple is in BIG trouble!
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
"Sorry. No Refunds."
I've seen the new iMac!
It must be only for pointy haired bosses.
Can you say Etch-A-Sketch?
=)
Its SanDisk.
2 gbms.asp
Of course now it costs an arm and a leg, but it is nearly indestructible, will last you a decade or more, and is very portable. Your data will always be there, and it works on any device you can plug it into.
Here is the link:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0401/04010808sandisk
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Sorry. No refunds.
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1802835139
Nightfall is the best short story in SciFi history. It is seminal Asimov.
The movie of the same name is the worst movie in history.
Of course, its a Roger Corman flick.
The movie had nothing to do with the story, the plot, or the greatness of Asimov's work it was supposedly taken from. Only the title was pilfered from the story by Asimov, in a poor effort to get people to see it.
Rotten to the core!
Asimov should have sued their butts!
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Sorry. No refunds.
You are very correct about the idea of an Apple tablet. Its a dad idea.
I still don't see where people think this new "monitor" is for a tablet. It makes perfect sense that it is for the iMac that will be introduced in 18 days in Paris.
Think about it.
Aluminum clad, wireless, not physically connected to the computer, running the full OS X in a G5 desktop computer (probably water cooled)
You could probably hook a real flat screen monitor to your new iMac, and use this little wireless guy any place you want to.
In other words, the new iMac will come with the little monitor, and you can buy a bigger one to go with it, if you want a bigger one. This is a great marketing paradigm.
I think those 60MB Toshiba drives Apple has been buying up may also be in the new, smaller iMac. It just makes sense, IMO.
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
Target market?
Not a very big one. People in business who can't type for themselves are in trouble. They can't compete. Students are the same way. In fact most students are already much better typists than their parents.
Who does this leave? Very few people. In some businesses an employee using a tablet is seen as backward. He/she would have to write their notes, then later convert them to text with a keyboard, then make their reports, analysis, or presentations. Taking notes in a meeting or during a session with a client by using a silent keyboard on a laptop is much faster an more accurate than scribbling on a tablet.
There is a reason tablets are dying off.
Take a look:
http://engadget.com/entry/8312965763231519/
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
"Out of my mind. Back in five minutes."
Dear Junk:
Thus spoken by someone who probably would not own an Apple computer or iPod anyway, regardless of its availability.
Small Dog Electronics (smalldog.com) still has iMacs for sale, and so do many other places, if you really want one.
Everything else Apple makes is still for sale and available.
Since this marks the time Apple has ever not met its product availability, cut them some slack. Its not like they are Micro$oft trying to ship Longhorn, right?
Regards,
Tablets are dead. Even Micro$oft may be getting out of the tablet business. Laptops outsell tablets a hundred to one.
l et_mac/
http://engadget.com/entry/8312965763231519/
I think this new screen is for the new iMac.
It is wireless.
It may detach from the CPU/hard drive.
It is aluminum (in colors?).
It has the full OS X.
It may be small like the old Macinosh Classics.
Here are the links:
http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=-750
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/13/apple_tab
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/imacg5specs.html
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Its not for a tablet Mac or a Videoplayer Mac.
Its for the new iMac!
Here is a great article speculating that the new iMac to be released in 19 days in Paris, is to be a miniature iMac, sort of like the old color Classic Macintosh.
http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=-750
Its small screen will conect wirelessly to the Internet, the Ethernet, via the new mini Apple wireless hub. It will also likely have a small keyboard and mouse to go with it.
Since its supposed to be with an aluminum body, perhaps it will come in mini iPod colors too.
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Sorry, no refunds.
If you want a job, that is, a job worth having, you still need to touch type.
Everything in business is in writing. Which means you need to be competent in producing written material in a reasonable amount of time. If everyone in your company is more competent at typing than you are, your position and advancement is weakened.
This also goes without saying (or it should) that you need to know how to say what you want to say in a straightforward fashion. Critical Thought is a minimum competency for most jobs.
I do not think that your voice will replace your keyboard in any future time. Just try to dictate a letter and then format it look the way you want, and you will immediately see that typing it yourself is way faster than dictation and formating.
If you can't type, buy Mavis Beacon and use it. Your survival in school and in business depends on it. It will for a very long time.
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Sorry, no refunds
Perhaps it will look like the new Motorola V3 just introduced?
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http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/motorola-v3-raz
Very thin and cool. This could be an Apple iPod phone, the way it looks, plus its got a PDA color screen.
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Using a phone to play music, especially if its the great AAC quality of the iPod means that the battery life will be short.
Perhaps they meant to say it will play, not 12 songs, but 12 minutes....
BTW, will the Motorola play the music as well as the iPod? The iPod's stereo circuitry is most excellent, which is why people love it so much (aside from the cool design).
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
This is old, but it still applies... In fact, perhaps now, more than ever.
The End of the Internet
http://mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=494
(Some time in the near future)
I finally found a way to make money off the Internet. I did it by writing a book about how the Net died.
Not that I made any money while it existed, you see. No one did.
Oh, like everyone else, I loved the Internet for all the freedom it gave me, and the wealth of information and idea exchange, where everyone profited from that free flow of thought and information. But, you know how Man is. Never underestimate his ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
Why did it end? Simple: It was greed.
First it started with the Spammers. There got to be so much Spam, that even Congressmen were snowed under with the daily deluge. No one could get their legitimate mail because of the thousands of fake letters these inventive Spammers were sending out with their Web bots. Congress finally made a law strong enough that any of them could be shot on sight. Some hacker then posted on the Web a public list of the lot of them, and soon they were all dead.
The public, long laboring under all that Spam, liked what they did so much, that they killed off all the hackers too. This had a profound effect on people taking computer science and engineering classes, did you know that?
That was the first nail in the coffin of the Net. We should have all paid attention to it. But no one did. We were all too busy trying to make a buck off of the Net.
The next coffin nail came when the Music and Movie companies finally paid Congress enough money to have the copyright laws changed. It was easy once Disney got them to extend copyright privileges another hundred years. The new law that Congress passed was very comprehensive! In fact, no one could listen to the music without breaking the new laws!
Now it was a Federal offense to even read or see anything that was copyrighted. If you did, there would be an unauthorized copy in your brain that you could access just by remembering. Oh, you could legitimately purchase a copy of anything copyrighted in the stores, but you could never open that copy and view it or listen to it. Tough law!
That's why all the libraries in the country were permanently closed. Right after that the schools and colleges were all shut down, and their teachers and administrators put away for using copyrighted materials in their classrooms. Students, however, were forgiven their offense in this, but all their books and notes were confiscated and burned.
The next nail came with the legal view of computer hardware. That legal POV stated that the desktop, palmtop, or laptop computer you were using could also hold, however briefly, yet another copy of any copyrighted material you might put into it, for transfer to a CD, or perhaps downloaded off the Web. Congress just attached this to their Anti-Terrorism Bill for Secure Systems Standards. Remember, these devices were considered guilty until proven innocent, just as their owners were. It seems the very existence of these machines was now suspect, because someone, somewhere, might use them for pirating copyrighted material!
Therefore all these computing devices became illegal to even own. No more Computers!
The music companies, having now gotten their way with Congress, finally had a law written that was so powerful, even they were locked up! They were all sent to prison for having a copy of their own music, which they had bought (or rather stolen) from the artists. Just deserts!
Then the movie producers and the owners of movie theaters were locked up for the same violation of this powerful new copyright law! They were sent away for distributing more than one copy of their movies.
Then the music artists and singers were all locked away for the same reason. Worse, for under the new law, many were sent up the river for playing their own songs too many time
Tricksey!
Them IBMsies!
They are not the One!
- - -
I just now saw the Motorola MPx Pocket Phone.
UGH!
Never mind that one either!
Its a flip phone with a qwerty keyboard in the base, set sideways!
Tricksey MPxsies!
We hates them!
Uhhh . . . No.
Where's the clamshell with the built-in IBM keyboard?
I could buy seven or eight DANAs for one of these.
Nice product, but not for a writer, thanks.
Roger
Pluckin' on the ol' banjo...
BTW, I am a writer, and there has never been a real 'writer's' computer, or portable.
First there was the Remington, but that is ancient times.
Then there was the Radio Shack 100, which was a real writer's tool. It even has rudimentary file back up to tape cassettes and the ability to modem your article over a voice phone (iffy).
The eMate is the only close approximation to the writer's computer.
The Dana is not bad, but still not in the same league as the eMate.
As for laptops, IBM had the best keyboard, until the Apple WallStreet came along. Pismo isn't bad either, but these still did not compare to grabbing and typing a quick story on the eMate, with its instant-on and long battery life.
(If I had to have a heavy laptop to write on, at least could someone put a simple inkjet in it, so I could proof my work wherever I happen to be writing?)
If you notice, the OS is what really gets in the way for a writer. They just want it to work NOW, when they pick it up to use it.
If Apple ever gets a clue about us, they will come out with a new version of the simple eMate, - but with a back-lit screen please.
Forget putting a phone in it, or a hard drive, or any of all those other bells and whistles. We just need to write, without the machine getting itself in our way.
The closer you make it to pencil and paper, (or just a keyboard and screen) the more perfect your device will be, IMO.
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
"Out of my mind. Back in five minutes."
Right now, there are a handful of devices that could preplace my eMate.
s _h andheld_comeback/
I love the eMate, and the pre-iMac translucent color, but its too slow, and needs a grayscale screen. I do love the keyboard and long lasting battery life.
Here is the lineup of eMate wannabes. The downside of all of them is that they use Win-duh-ohs.
NEC (MobilePro 900c)
Psion Teklogix (NetBook Pro)
Zupera Technology (SmartBook) (China)
Motorola (MPx Pocket Phone)
HP (Jornada 728)
However, HP may be coming out with a very eMate-like palmtop.
Here is the link to the new HP:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/06/hp_moot
Since HP is licensing the iPod from Apple, perhaps Apple could license HP's new little palmtop with a full sized keyboard. It is, after all, supposed to be a cell phone too.
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
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Subscription is free. But you must click on the website URL to get a continued subscription. A ponderous task, I know.
Clicking again from time to time will allow you to see the ever changing content, where less popular links are dropped and new, hopefully more enjoyable ones are added.
Since my site is for Critical Thinking, it does take some serious skull-sweat to enjoy all those excellent links, stories and diversions.
As of now, consider yourself a life-time subscriber to the venerable "Best Critical Thought On The Web."
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Sorry, no refunds.
This expression is used continually everywhere to describe run away success in sales, popularity, etc. It was used here in this thread at least a dozen times when talking about the fantastic sales of the iPods.
.
I do not understand this? Who are these hotcake vendors? Where are they selling these hotcakes everyone talks about being so popular? Who buys these hotcakes anyway?
I certainly am not interested in buying hotcakes. They probably aren't Atkins friendly anyway. In fact, they don't sound so appetizing to me. Do they come with syrup? Are they sold with powdered sugar coating? Or fruit toppings? How about with butter or creamc heese?
Sounds like the popular pancakes that used to be sold in Moscow.
Surely this isn't where the term "selling like hotcakes" comes from, right?
How about we all change this old fashioned, outdated and silly phrase!
Lets all being using the term "Selling Like iPods!" instead. .
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
"Out of my mind. Back in five minutes."
Actually, there are other stories around about robots or machines becoming self-aware, besides those of the venerable Issac Asimov.
The idea is that there was nobody around to program these beings. They just came into their own awareness, quite apart from humans.
Some of these stories are quite good, and the interaction between them and people is much like it might be between men and aliens.
Here is a link to one of these, in a short story form.
You might enjoy the comparison to Asimov's concepts of planned programed intelligences.
http://writing.borngraphics.com/1mary.htm
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
Strider44:
What planet is that schedule for?
Pacific Time, Planet Earth:
7 PM Stargate SG-1
9 PM Atlantis
Both are two hour shows.
6 PM is the background introduction show to Atlantis.
Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Actually, this world wouldn't have such a 'memory' of Atlantis if it were somewhere else but here on this planet. This is the only flaw I see so far in Stargate's Atlantis.
Logically, they would have had a much better premise for the show if they time-traveled back into Earth's past to the original Atlantis, instead of dancing off to the Pegasus galaxy.
As to where or what Atlantis really is, Plato almost had it right, but he failed to take into account how old Atlantis really was. That fact has kept anyone from discovering its true location.
Tradition and mythology place Atlantis back before the Flood of Noah, in the near mythical First Earth, when men lived to be a thousand years old. Then there was only one massive continent, and it was also home to other beings besides humans.
In fact, the 'real' story of Atlantis could rival Lord of the Rings in both scope and magnitude, as well as in legend and mythos.
Legend has it that its great and most advanced city, as well as the continent, were both named for its one great Emperor, Atla, who was also believed to be the original Man, Adam, of the Genesis account.
Here is a link to the real story of Atlantis. This is a free 500KB download of a short novel in RTF format, which will open in any word processor.
http://writing.borngraphics.com/ADAM.rtf
Enjoy!
Roger Born
Nah.
The real Atlantis was on the First Earth, from before the flood of Noah, by ancient tradition.
There was only a single continent and it was called Atlandis, named in honor of its first emperor, Atla, who was also the man Adam from the creation account in Genesis.
Atlandis, as you know, was an advanced civilization which suddenly destroyed in a great flood.
Here is the link:
http://writing.borngraphics.com/ADAMintro.htm
Roger Born
Lord Wu!
Get off the damn Internet, you fossil!
Go back to your galaxy and leave us alone!
Better yet, climb into your Sarcophagus and never come out again!
Not a fan of Lord Wu