I thought the first book was excelent! I must of read it at least 5 times. I ended up skipping Dune Messiah for some reason. Children of Dune was alright, and then I tried to read God Emperor of Dune. One of the most boring books ever. I gave up after about 100 pages, and it killed the series for me.
I get the impression this series is just another series for the SciFi authors who can't come up with their own ideas.
You are not a web developer are you? You have never experienced the frustration of trying to get a page to work in IE only to find out it generates 100's of error messages in Netscape. But who cares about standards anyway?
Hell who cares if all the computers don't follow the TCP/IP standard exactly, if they get it almost right then thats good enough. Computers will be able to communicate 90% of the time. Hell, why have Hardware standards? If your new keyboard doesn't work with your computer then it is your fault for buying the wrong keyboard. Besides, if all computers followed the standards exactly then they would all be the same, and where's the fun in that?
In June they launched bunyip, a beowulf cluster using 192 processors and running Linux. It was the worlds first sub US$1000 / Gflop performance machine.
I don't think using NT even occured to them. I wonder why?
I read an article on this a few months ago in New Scientist. I don't think they will print bogus articles.
I think the only problem they hadn't worked out was how to steer the craft. Kind of an important problem I would think.
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I get the impression this series is just another series for the SciFi authors who can't come up with their own ideas.
Hell who cares if all the computers don't follow the TCP/IP standard exactly, if they get it almost right then thats good enough. Computers will be able to communicate 90% of the time. Hell, why have Hardware standards? If your new keyboard doesn't work with your computer then it is your fault for buying the wrong keyboard. Besides, if all computers followed the standards exactly then they would all be the same, and where's the fun in that?
In June they launched bunyip, a beowulf cluster using 192 processors and running Linux. It was the worlds first sub US$1000 / Gflop performance machine.
I don't think using NT even occured to them. I wonder why?
I read an article on this a few months ago in New Scientist. I don't think they will print bogus articles. I think the only problem they hadn't worked out was how to steer the craft. Kind of an important problem I would think.