If it weren't for the fact that they say that the genetic test are normal I would have a theory. My theory is that she may not have the proper receptors. For example, in the case of testicular feminisation, a person has a genetic defect in where there are no testosterone receptors. As a result, what little estrogen is in their system works like gang-busters, because there is nothing to counteract it. Because of this, the general medical recommendation is to have the undeveloped male genitalia removed and have them grow up to be women.
In the book "The making of the Atomic Bomb" the author, Richard Rhodes, points out something very much like this.
One might think that the distribution of Nobel Prize winning physicists might have a normal distribution, but there is a valley in Hungary (if I remember the book correctly) that has an inordinate amount of Nobel Prize winners.
He makes the case that their elementary level education had a role in this. Students were doing inventive things on their own in math and science at a very early age. As a result, a more natural and internal approach to these subjects followed them through life and put them in a better position to do ground-breaking research.
By the way, if you have not read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" I highly recommend it. Not just because of its account of the events of the Manhattan Project, but also because it goes into the philosophy of the 1800's which resulted in the pursuit of bigger, better weapons to rage "Total War". The chemical weapons of WWI were a result of this as well.
Mark Russinovich, runs a website called sysinternals.com, which is now hosted by Microsoft. You might remember him as the person who discovered the Sony Rootkit.
He has a bevy of cool tools, though I think the best are: procmon regmon filemon
Homeboy Russinovich is not afraid of a little assembler. These tools kick ass. The show you every process and their parent child relationship, every file, and every registry key that is being accessed.
As you can imagine filemon and regmon can generate a butt-load of output, and it may take a while to go through, but whenever I have had a problem that required this amount of horsepower I am always happy to sift through the output for the needed gems.
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Along those lines, I have often wondered if this could be part of the reason the Russians and Chinese are so dominant in much of the mathematics journals.
I would think that until the last decade or so, their access to computers was no where near the level that the west enjoys...
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I must admit there was some push pull to this. Lebesque integration and complex analysis was developed largely in part by trying to solve heat transfer problems.
Having said this, I would think that many of the applications of this work was not fully realized many years later.
I must admit weakness in the sense that I do not have many examples. The only one that is coming to mind is the some of the work of Euler's. He found a ways to describe inertia and flexing and strength. It was not until early this century that material science, like studying the strength of materials, was really solidified.
This is a longer life cycle though. About 100 years or better...
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When I was an undergraduate studying mathematics one of the most intriguing comments made by a professor was
Cutting edge mathematics takes about 50 years to find its way into physics, from there it takes about 25 years to find its way into engineering.
With the advent of the LHC and other amazing advances, like easy access to substantial computing power, do you think that this still holds true? By this, I mean do you think that life cycle times will shorten, or will they remain the same because even though these advances are being made, they are at higher, or very specific level, and as such, they will not be able to be developed into applications as quickly?
Thoughts?
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Not to be a paranoid freak, but the subject of the parent comment made me think of Asimov's Foundation Series, in particular the concept of psychohistory.
Campaigns, marketing and political, could be guided by statistical analysis of trends, frequency of ideas being introduced, etc... When this data is coupled with demographics it would be a very powerful tool.
Applications of this would be the guerrilla advertising methods that I first heard described in "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson. Key people could introduce key ideas or augment existing ones in certain enclaves of people that in the past have initiated trends. Much like Locke and Voltaire in Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game".
The truth is that is almost impossible to do this. Most people voices on the internet are muted by the shear volume of voices out there. Also, most people are not using the internet to engage in serious intellectual activity.
By serious intellectual activity I mean challenging and expanding one's own ideas. I really detest a majority of the media, Fox News, provides a particular easy example of people wanting to hear what they already believe. It provides affirmation that they are smart because people on the tv are saying what they believe. I am sure it occasionally offers extended nuances to their own belief system but rarely challenges it.
I took am guilty of this to a certain extent, but I recognize it as a weakness and try to address it. Between the Bush/Gore election and 9/11 I swore off network news. Now I read "The Economist" because it has non-US centric view of the world and listen to NPR on my way to work. It helps. But I must admit that I do not read books are articles defending "intelligent" design, when I am convinced of evolution. Maybe people believe their ideology so thoroughly that they choose not to challenge it...
Damn, sorry for going off into the weeds and getting a little off topic.
If it is a minor scratch, polish it with Turtle wax. I think this fills in the scratches, and is enough for me to rip them as a general rule.
If that is not enough, i switch to Brasso, and gently use it as the destructions suggest for metal. You must be careful, and not over do it, as this actually removes the plastic coating. If the scratch is deep enough and actually hits the media, you are most likely screwed in my experience.
My wife's father died from metastatic colin cancer that went to his lungs. She still has bouts of depression, and I have often wondered what I should be doing to help her and my kids should I check out early. This is the best that I have ever come across.
My mentor at a university told me an interesting story. He once had an active attack, called the FBI as the attack originated overseas and their first question was "Is the computer worth more than $10k?"
It is damned sad, and whats more frustrating is there is no way to put a dollar value on data. You would think that this would be a no brainer if personally identifiable information is involved.
This was several years ago, so I do not know if the threshhold has increased, but with power to cost decreasing few places have single machines worth more than $20k nowadays.
If you believe that gun ownership does not deter crime, put your money where your mouth is and plant a sign in your front yard that this is "gun-free" household.
THe Pragmatics Programmer: From Journeyman to Master" was published as well in 1999 and is written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. I just got it for Christmas and have been enthralled with it. They spend some time dealing with the refactoring of code as well as wonderul insight into a wealth of other areas.
This is yet another book that I wish I had read years ago. Working a few years in industry really makes you realize how much you can learn from other people. But alas, the problem of youth is that you always think you're the exception.
There was a good article in yesterday's WSJ article about the era of Wal-Mart waning.
Basically, other competitors are now starting to be able to compete on price. But what is more important is the other retailers are providing higher quality goods and better service.
I believe that Wal-Mart's service is actually a big game in limiting reagents. The do not hire enough people to police up the shopping carts and do not hire enough checkers. The are able to maintain an uneasy equilibrium by putting just enough carts out to make sure that the lines are filled to where you are insured of a half hour wait to check out... It must be hard. This schedule is delicate but they are able to maintain it with surprising efficiency.
Also, their meat and produce are at a quality level that makes me crave the good old days of soylent green.
Anyhow, it is a nice article that I gave you the quick overview of, but does talk about their failed RFID initiative. Partly because they do not have the influence of their suppliers that they once had. They also talk about how CostCo has some of the best employee benefits in retail, people are more willing to give their custom to companies with better images.
Actually in the original release there is a very subtle scene that, in my opinion, tells you that Deckard is indeed a replicant.
Deckard sits down to play the piano with Rachel and together they play that piece together. Given the fact that both new that same piece I take it as pretty convincing evidence that they both had the same memories implanted.
Also, watch the first scene where the head cop is trying to get Deckard to come back. It is obviously strained. This guy knows that there Deckard has memory implants and is forcing himself to play the part.
At first I thought they were using the computational signals to push, but after going through the article more carefully I realized that.
Having said that however, it seems that doing this would seriously complicate chip design as most of the actual work in chip design is dealing with electromagnetic concerns.
I have read your replies, and I guess that my point was lost.
The point that I am trying to make, is that the people that do work to learn stuff on their own are possesive of that knowledge, and begrudge people that want it easy.
When I took a class in Fourier Series and Boundary Value problems I made a pact with myself not to use a computer or integration tables to derive answers. As a result, that is when I finally really learned how to integrate functions properly. I had to break the pact twice and I am happy to note that the solutions that I did look up were both series solution, which to be honest, I would be hard pressed to derive in finite time. Was it a waste of time? Maybe, but I learned a lot more than I would have otherwise. The point is I worked for the knowledge, I own it, and yes I do begrudge idiots that ask "how do I mount my modem?" It is clear that have not seriously tried resolving the issue on their own. Having said, I do help those that help themselves. If they have put forth a reasonable effort to resolve the problem, I will help them. Usually by pointing them in the right direction e.g. "look at the file/etc/foo.conf" or "check out the man page for..."
For those of that balk at the six months it took me to get the printer working, it was not like that was all I did for six months, a couple hours here and there as my time between school and work would allow. But I kept after it. And all the wrong paths that I took I did learn something from.
And for those that think that your computer should be an appliance, you are probably right, except that most of the ease of use that you enjoy is because almost everybody makes software to work with windows. So it is easy.
I have to ask the student that is in the graduating class of MIT in 2010 do you like letting people copy your homework or do you prefer to help people? If you do prefer to help people are you offended by those who have done little to nothing on their own trying to resolve the issue? I sure was.
By the way that story is why with little experience I was offered a job. It demonstrated many things: I can learn on my own. I am tenacious.
If you were in a position to hire somebody, would you rather have somebody that played games and made photo albums and never struggled to resolve a problem in charge of your servers or somebody like me?
I landed a job as UNIX admin from learning UNIX out of necessity and then as a hobby. When I got out of the military and started to school I purchased a computer so I would not have to work in school labs. My mathematics degree required two core CS classes, algorithms and data structures and the CS department uses Linux. So rather than piss and moan I purchased another hard drive and dual booted my machine. The reason that I purchased another hard drive is so that I could revert because I knew that I was not going to get it right the first few times. After being able, to once again do my homeword at home, I spent another 6 months getting my printer to work. It was an Deskjet 612 that used the printing performance architecture (PPA) drivers that some guy in Oregon reverse engineered with little or no help from HP. I figured if he had the wherewithall to accomplish that I should be able to at least get it working.
I spent many hours reading books on Linux in general, and countless hours browsing the web for help on UNIX printing. Wound up switching to CUPS, when it was fairly new, and managed to get it working. It was a lot of work and the only reason that I was able to do it was that I had the attitude that the "machine is not going to win."
Most people want everything handed to them, and if you do not have a self started attitude UNIX is fairly intimidating. The quote that I developed about Microsoft and Bill Gates is this:
"Bill Gates brought computing to the masses, pity they weren't ready for it."
I find the following is true for different subjects.
For science, and in particular, mathematics, I use books and library sources. Unless it news about science and technology which I read exclusively online.
For leisure reading I always buy used or new. I want to be able to hold it and feel it.
For news I purchased an online subscription to a major newpaper. I do not want all that wasted paper. I also view a few other free news sources, like slashdot, or listen to npr.
I noticed that I pay a lot more attention to stupid hollywood gossip now because there is a bounty of information available. I used to never read entertainment weekly, us, or magazines of the like but now I routinely stumble across stupid gossip stories and read them. I use imdb quite a bit for trivia and if I can not find the answer there i look no further.
Also, for general trivia, I almost exclusively use the net now. THe only exception being if it a really interesting question and I can not find the answer online. If it is a dull question and I can not find it online I will look no further.
For work, unix sys admin, I use both frequently. Lists are a huge wealth of troubleshooting info, but for general skills, like programming, I will read from books.
Mileage will probably vary hugely depending on the person and their reading habits. I am a fairly enthusiastic leisure reader so I doubt that my fondness for honest to god, hold it in my hand and read on the toilet print books will never abate.
is that IBM doesn't back off. I hope they grind these unethical bastards into the ground and do not let them settle, be bought out, or otherwise escape what is truly deserved.
We have all heard of DA's making examples out of people. I hope that the corporate lawyers and executives can see past the bottom line and send a message.
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Kiln People has similar background and is also a very engaging book about privacy, what it is to be human, and intellectual property rights. Brin does an excellent job a putting in humor as well.
While I have not read Morgan's Altered Carbon I know that I will because of the fun I had reading Kiln People and thinking about the philosophical questions present in Kiln People.
While on the topic one of the reasons that I enjoy's Brin's work so much is that he does a superb job of creating a believeable society and political structure given an amazing scientific advancement and its supporting technology or if something in physics was altered a little. Read the Practice Effect for an example of the latter.
Cheers and thanks for the review. I now have something else to read since I finished Harry Potter 5 so quickly.
It also takes a look at the history and philosophy of the late 1800's that lead to the development of chemical weapons used in WWI, and how the atomic was the natural evolution of these events/ideas. This is the first book that I read about the atomic bomb that brings these things into light.
I agree that the book does focus quite a bit on the science it also brings the scientist's lives to life.
It also points out that there is a valley in Romania ? (i believe, it has been a couple of years since i have read this book) that has a huge density of nobel prize winnign scientists. He looks at the methods used in their elementary education that may have contributed to this one area producing a disproportionate amount of nobel laureates.
All in all, I agree it is a wonderful book. I also recommended his book "Deadly Feasts" which takes a look at prion dieseases. Mad-cow is a prion disease. These are unique as the are a particular protein that can cause infections. David Brin references these in nifty ways in his book "Kiln People" - also a good read.
Thank, it will take a while to get together some real type of study. One of my biggest concerns is reliable data. My alamanac for example has a section "firearm related deaths" as far as I can tell it does not differentiate between a cop shooting a criminal or any other justifiable homocide or one citizen shooting another.
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If it weren't for the fact that they say that the genetic test are normal I would have a theory. My theory is that she may not have the proper receptors. For example, in the case of testicular feminisation, a person has a genetic defect in where there are no testosterone receptors. As a result, what little estrogen is in their system works like gang-busters, because there is nothing to counteract it. Because of this, the general medical recommendation is to have the undeveloped male genitalia removed and have them grow up to be women.
It is fascinating stuff though.
In the book "The making of the Atomic Bomb" the author, Richard Rhodes, points out something very much like this.
One might think that the distribution of Nobel Prize winning physicists might have a normal distribution, but there is a valley in Hungary (if I remember the book correctly) that has an inordinate amount of Nobel Prize winners.
He makes the case that their elementary level education had a role in this. Students were doing inventive things on their own in math and science at a very early age. As a result, a more natural and internal approach to these subjects followed them through life and put them in a better position to do ground-breaking research.
By the way, if you have not read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" I highly recommend it. Not just because of its account of the events of the Manhattan Project, but also because it goes into the philosophy of the 1800's which resulted in the pursuit of bigger, better weapons to rage "Total War". The chemical weapons of WWI were a result of this as well.
Mark Russinovich, runs a website called sysinternals.com, which is now hosted by Microsoft. You might remember him as the person who discovered the Sony Rootkit.
He has a bevy of cool tools, though I think the best are:
procmon
regmon
filemon
Homeboy Russinovich is not afraid of a little assembler. These tools kick ass. The show you every process and their parent child relationship, every file, and every registry key that is being accessed.
As you can imagine filemon and regmon can generate a butt-load of output, and it may take a while to go through, but whenever I have had a problem that required this amount of horsepower I am always happy to sift through the output for the needed gems.
Along those lines, I have often wondered if this could be part of the reason the Russians and Chinese are so dominant in much of the mathematics journals.
I would think that until the last decade or so, their access to computers was no where near the level that the west enjoys...
I must admit there was some push pull to this. Lebesque integration and complex analysis was developed largely in part by trying to solve heat transfer problems.
Having said this, I would think that many of the applications of this work was not fully realized many years later.
I must admit weakness in the sense that I do not have many examples. The only one that is coming to mind is the some of the work of Euler's. He found a ways to describe inertia and flexing and strength. It was not until early this century that material science, like studying the strength of materials, was really solidified.
This is a longer life cycle though. About 100 years or better...
When I was an undergraduate studying mathematics one of the most intriguing comments made by a professor was
Cutting edge mathematics takes about 50 years to find its way into physics, from there it takes about 25 years to find its way into engineering.
With the advent of the LHC and other amazing advances, like easy access to substantial computing power, do you think that this still holds true? By this, I mean do you think that life cycle times will shorten, or will they remain the same because even though these advances are being made, they are at higher, or very specific level, and as such, they will not be able to be developed into applications as quickly?
Thoughts?
Not to be a paranoid freak, but the subject of the parent comment made me think of Asimov's Foundation Series, in particular the concept of psychohistory.
Campaigns, marketing and political, could be guided by statistical analysis of trends, frequency of ideas being introduced, etc... When this data is coupled with demographics it would be a very powerful tool.
Applications of this would be the guerrilla advertising methods that I first heard described in "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson. Key people could introduce key ideas or augment existing ones in certain enclaves of people that in the past have initiated trends. Much like Locke and Voltaire in Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game".
The truth is that is almost impossible to do this. Most people voices on the internet are muted by the shear volume of voices out there. Also, most people are not using the internet to engage in serious intellectual activity.
By serious intellectual activity I mean challenging and expanding one's own ideas. I really detest a majority of the media, Fox News, provides a particular easy example of people wanting to hear what they already believe. It provides affirmation that they are smart because people on the tv are saying what they believe. I am sure it occasionally offers extended nuances to their own belief system but rarely challenges it.
I took am guilty of this to a certain extent, but I recognize it as a weakness and try to address it. Between the Bush/Gore election and 9/11 I swore off network news. Now I read "The Economist" because it has non-US centric view of the world and listen to NPR on my way to work. It helps. But I must admit that I do not read books are articles defending "intelligent" design, when I am convinced of evolution. Maybe people believe their ideology so thoroughly that they choose not to challenge it...
Damn, sorry for going off into the weeds and getting a little off topic.
If it is a minor scratch, polish it with Turtle wax. I think this fills in the scratches, and is enough for me to rip them as a general rule.
If that is not enough, i switch to Brasso, and gently use it as the destructions suggest for metal. You must be careful, and not over do it, as this actually removes the plastic coating. If the scratch is deep enough and actually hits the media, you are most likely screwed in my experience.
I actually read the article first and then googled more references.
This article is amazing.
My wife's father died from metastatic colin cancer that went to his lungs. She still has bouts of depression, and I have often wondered what I should be doing to help her and my kids should I check out early. This is the best that I have ever come across.
My mentor at a university told me an interesting story. He once had an active attack, called the FBI as the attack originated overseas and their first question was "Is the computer worth more than $10k?"
It is damned sad, and whats more frustrating is there is no way to put a dollar value on data. You would think that this would be a no brainer if personally identifiable information is involved.
This was several years ago, so I do not know if the threshhold has increased, but with power to cost decreasing few places have single machines worth more than $20k nowadays.
If you believe that gun ownership does not deter crime, put your money where your mouth is and plant a sign in your front yard that this is "gun-free" household.
I have yet to see one do it.
THe Pragmatics Programmer: From Journeyman to Master" was published as well in 1999 and is written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. I just got it for Christmas and have been enthralled with it. They spend some time dealing with the refactoring of code as well as wonderul insight into a wealth of other areas.
This is yet another book that I wish I had read years ago. Working a few years in industry really makes you realize how much you can learn from other people. But alas, the problem of youth is that you always think you're the exception.
There was a good article in yesterday's WSJ article about the era of Wal-Mart waning.
Basically, other competitors are now starting to be able to compete on price. But what is more important is the other retailers are providing higher quality goods and better service.
I believe that Wal-Mart's service is actually a big game in limiting reagents. The do not hire enough people to police up the shopping carts and do not hire enough checkers. The are able to maintain an uneasy equilibrium by putting just enough carts out to make sure that the lines are filled to where you are insured of a half hour wait to check out... It must be hard. This schedule is delicate but they are able to maintain it with surprising efficiency.
Also, their meat and produce are at a quality level that makes me crave the good old days of soylent green.
Anyhow, it is a nice article that I gave you the quick overview of, but does talk about their failed RFID initiative. Partly because they do not have the influence of their suppliers that they once had. They also talk about how CostCo has some of the best employee benefits in retail, people are more willing to give their custom to companies with better images.
Actually in the original release there is a very subtle scene that, in my opinion, tells you that Deckard is indeed a replicant.
Deckard sits down to play the piano with Rachel and together they play that piece together. Given the fact that both new that same piece I take it as pretty convincing evidence that they both had the same memories implanted.
Also, watch the first scene where the head cop is trying to get Deckard to come back. It is obviously strained. This guy knows that there Deckard has memory implants and is forcing himself to play the part.
Remember nothing in a movie is an accident.
At first I thought they were using the computational signals to push, but after going through the article more carefully I realized that.
Having said that however, it seems that doing this would seriously complicate chip design as most of the actual work in chip design is dealing with electromagnetic concerns.
seems like this would be juju of the worst kind.
It seems that using a field to push ions around would create "inertia" or damping on the signal that is pushing it.
Wouldn't this impact performance or timing issues within the chip?
I have read your replies, and I guess that my point was lost.
/etc/foo.conf" or "check out the man page for ..."
The point that I am trying to make, is that the people that do work to learn stuff on their own are possesive of that knowledge, and begrudge people that want it easy.
When I took a class in Fourier Series and Boundary Value problems I made a pact with myself not to use a computer or integration tables to derive answers. As a result, that is when I finally really learned how to integrate functions properly. I had to break the pact twice and I am happy to note that the solutions that I did look up were both series solution, which to be honest, I would be hard pressed to derive in finite time. Was it a waste of time? Maybe, but I learned a lot more than I would have otherwise. The point is I worked for the knowledge, I own it, and yes I do begrudge idiots that ask "how do I mount my modem?" It is clear that have not seriously tried resolving the issue on their own. Having said, I do help those that help themselves. If they have put forth a reasonable effort to resolve the problem, I will help them. Usually by pointing them in the right direction e.g. "look at the file
For those of that balk at the six months it took me to get the printer working, it was not like that was all I did for six months, a couple hours here and there as my time between school and work would allow. But I kept after it. And all the wrong paths that I took I did learn something from.
And for those that think that your computer should be an appliance, you are probably right, except that most of the ease of use that you enjoy is because almost everybody makes software to work with windows. So it is easy.
I have to ask the student that is in the graduating class of MIT in 2010 do you like letting people copy your homework or do you prefer to help people? If you do prefer to help people are you offended by those who have done little to nothing on their own trying to resolve the issue? I sure was.
By the way that story is why with little experience I was offered a job. It demonstrated many things:
I can learn on my own.
I am tenacious.
If you were in a position to hire somebody, would you rather have somebody that played games and made photo albums and never struggled to resolve a problem in charge of your servers or somebody like me?
I landed a job as UNIX admin from learning UNIX out of necessity and then as a hobby. When I got out of the military and started to school I purchased a computer so I would not have to work in school labs. My mathematics degree required two core CS classes, algorithms and data structures and the CS department uses Linux. So rather than piss and moan I purchased another hard drive and dual booted my machine. The reason that I purchased another hard drive is so that I could revert because I knew that I was not going to get it right the first few times. After being able, to once again do my homeword at home, I spent another 6 months getting my printer to work. It was an Deskjet 612 that used the printing performance architecture (PPA) drivers that some guy in Oregon reverse engineered with little or no help from HP. I figured if he had the wherewithall to accomplish that I should be able to at least get it working.
I spent many hours reading books on Linux in general, and countless hours browsing the web for help on UNIX printing. Wound up switching to CUPS, when it was fairly new, and managed to get it working. It was a lot of work and the only reason that I was able to do it was that I had the attitude that the "machine is not going to win."
Most people want everything handed to them, and if you do not have a self started attitude UNIX is fairly intimidating.
The quote that I developed about Microsoft and Bill Gates is this:
"Bill Gates brought computing to the masses, pity they weren't ready for it."
I find the following is true for different subjects.
For science, and in particular, mathematics, I use books and library sources. Unless it news about science and technology which I read exclusively online.
For leisure reading I always buy used or new. I want to be able to hold it and feel it.
For news I purchased an online subscription to a major newpaper. I do not want all that wasted paper. I also view a few other free news sources, like slashdot, or listen to npr.
I noticed that I pay a lot more attention to stupid hollywood gossip now because there is a bounty of information available. I used to never read entertainment weekly, us, or magazines of the like but now I routinely stumble across stupid gossip stories and read them. I use imdb quite a bit for trivia and if I can not find the answer there i look no further.
Also, for general trivia, I almost exclusively use the net now. THe only exception being if it a really interesting question and I can not find the answer online. If it is a dull question and I can not find it online I will look no further.
For work, unix sys admin, I use both frequently. Lists are a huge wealth of troubleshooting info, but for general skills, like programming, I will read from books.
Mileage will probably vary hugely depending on the person and their reading habits. I am a fairly enthusiastic leisure reader so I doubt that my fondness for honest to god, hold it in my hand and read on the toilet print books will never abate.
is that IBM doesn't back off. I hope they grind these unethical bastards into the ground and do not let them settle, be bought out, or otherwise escape what is truly deserved.
We have all heard of DA's making examples out of people. I hope that the corporate lawyers and executives can see past the bottom line and send a message.
Kiln People has similar background and is also a very engaging book about privacy, what it is to be human, and intellectual property rights. Brin does an excellent job a putting in humor as well.
While I have not read Morgan's Altered Carbon I know that I will because of the fun I had reading Kiln People and thinking about the philosophical questions present in Kiln People.
While on the topic one of the reasons that I enjoy's Brin's work so much is that he does a superb job of creating a believeable society and political structure given an amazing scientific advancement and its supporting technology or if something in physics was altered a little. Read the Practice Effect for an example of the latter.
Cheers and thanks for the review. I now have something else to read since I finished Harry Potter 5 so quickly.
WTF? I would not mind one pop up message that told my that but every fucking page?
Kiss my rosy red toxic ass!
It also takes a look at the history and philosophy of the late 1800's that lead to the development of chemical weapons used in WWI, and how the atomic was the natural evolution of these events/ideas. This is the first book that I read about the atomic bomb that brings these things into light.
I agree that the book does focus quite a bit on the science it also brings the scientist's lives to life.
It also points out that there is a valley in Romania ? (i believe, it has been a couple of years since i have read this book) that has a huge density of nobel prize winnign scientists. He looks at the methods used in their elementary education that may have contributed to this one area producing a disproportionate amount of nobel laureates.
All in all, I agree it is a wonderful book. I also recommended his book "Deadly Feasts" which takes a look at prion dieseases. Mad-cow is a prion disease. These are unique as the are a particular protein that can cause infections. David Brin references these in nifty ways in his book "Kiln People" - also a good read.
goodbye is just to good a word so i say fare thee well
Thank, it will take a while to get together some real type of study. One of my biggest concerns is reliable data. My alamanac for example has a section "firearm related deaths" as far as I can tell it does not differentiate between a cop shooting a criminal or any other justifiable homocide or one citizen shooting another.
time will tell