Charles Sheffield predicted this telomere therapy in his novel Aftermath back in 1998. It was later developed in the sequel Starfire to not only control cancer but to also extend life (i.e., maintaining a careful balance of telomerase to keep telomeres long enough to prevent cell death but not so long as to result in cancer).
Additionally Alfred Bester alluded to this in The Computer Connection (1975!) where he referred to the fact that the immortals in his story were living just short of runaway cancer...sort of the theory "the cure for cancer is old age."
I'm getting ready to leave my co. too, in a couple months.
The problem is I actually *like* my boss. He and I are on good terms and he's a good guy. The problem is he's hamstrung by our corporation, which is the most heartless collection of sons-of-bitches in the world. There's nothing he can do about it--our dept. budget is capped, our stock is worthless, our top brass has the collective IQ of a glass of milk, and our dept.'s "turf" is getting old and boring.
Time for me to move on but I guess there's nothing I can do to fuck my company over without also fucking over my boss.:-(
One cartridge for 6 ink colors. Great. Now when she runs out of blue ink she just throws away the whole cartridge and buys a $new$ one.
Actually, that's more of a male feature than a female feature. My wife's all big on conservation and recycling and stuff. I just chuck it all in the trash.
I'm having the darndest problems with wake-from-sleep on my 1GHz AlBook 15.
1) Sometimes (10% of the time?) I just get a black screen on wake and have to reboot (CAPSLOCK key LED turns on/off though...so it ain't "dead"). 2) Disabling my Bluetooth mouse and kbd reduces the frequency of this occurring but doesn't eliminate it. 3) When wake succeeds, sometimes I spontaneously lose my Bluetooth connections 4) When wake succeeds, I have to manually make my Airport Extreme card connect to my 802.11b WAP. 5) For the life of me, I cannot keep my Airport Extreme card from disconnecting from my WAP whenever I use Fast User Switching.
On the other hand, they continue to publish stuff by Eric Flint, David Weber, and John Ringo. Horrible, horrible serial-type stuff that constantly re-hashes the same garbage. Yeah, I really want to read about smug characters who sit around all day patting themselves on the back for being so clever.
This review was very useful to me because it proves I'm not the only one who hates this dreck!
According to the whitepaper the 5600 uses Intel's PXA250 XScale chip, which this article seems to imply may well be discontinued already!! Hopefully the new PXA255 is a drop-in replacement. In that case the new 5600s will be even faster since the 255 uses a faster memory bus. If it's not a drop-in expect a delay while Sharp figures out what the heck to do!
I'm running 2.2 on a 233 MHz P2. Why? Because it's my firewall and I don't want to spend calories figuring out how to get MS Netmeeting (for vid-conferencing with the parental units) to work through anything else. It's been running for a good 2-3 years now with no hiccups. Why should I upgrade when it serves my needs perfectly?
Yes, and I remember a Retief (Keith Laumer) episode where all of the aliens had scatological names that were spelled in a way to get past Campbell (I believe). After reading some John Barnes, I sincerely hope today's male nerds don't rely upon sci-fi to clue them in about the female gender. I actually enjoy reading his work, but some of the sexual stuff is way over-the-top. Eric Flint, on the other hand, devoted quite a few pages to some teen's wedding night in 1632. I had to keep checking to make sure I hadn't accidentally picked up a trashy romance novel.
Something I'm puzzled by is the SF genre's increasingly bizarre take on the subject of sex. Sex seems to be more and more gratuitous and graphic in a number of the works I've read by various authors. In the so-called "Golden Age" of science fiction sex was not commonly dealt with, probably as a result of the mores and values during that time. Now the discussion of sex is no longer taboo.
What is your take on this trend? Are authors simply trying to tittilate their audience(s) or are they really attempting to explore the implications of sex in the futures (or pasts, or parallel universes) that they're predicting?
I could've sworn I'd read a short story called "Coolhunting" or something similar in SF Age, Asimov, Analog....or one of those SF rags. Anyone out there remember it? Was this a Gibson short story?
Numerical already developed phase-shift mask tech (http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG2001042 3S0029). Note that they could use 248nm tech to make 25nm features in 2001. Intel apparently licensed it 2 years ago!!!
In my trips to Arizona I've visited a number of fantastic places:
The Titan Missile Museum (an old missile silo): http://www.pimaair.org/titan_01.htm
I would love to buy the place and move in, userfriendly.org-style.
It's companion, the Pima Air Museum, has tons of old aircraft including an SR-71 and JFK's Air Force 1. Be sure to hit the hangers: http://www.pimaair.org/
They're both around Tucson.
The Champlin Fighter Museum has lots of great WWII and WWI stuff:
http://www.champlinfighter.com/ It's east of Phoenix, I think.
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Every time I enter something from my large, diverse personal library, all I get in return are various books by Jon Katz.
Additionally Alfred Bester alluded to this in The Computer Connection (1975!) where he referred to the fact that the immortals in his story were living just short of runaway cancer...sort of the theory "the cure for cancer is old age."
Interesting how life imitates art.
...is a nice try, but oh-so-wrong. 50% of any motion the user makes while manipulating it is non-value-added therbligs!
I'm getting ready to leave my co. too, in a couple months.
:-(
The problem is I actually *like* my boss. He and I are on good terms and he's a good guy. The problem is he's hamstrung by our corporation, which is the most heartless collection of sons-of-bitches in the world. There's nothing he can do about it--our dept. budget is capped, our stock is worthless, our top brass has the collective IQ of a glass of milk, and our dept.'s "turf" is getting old and boring.
Time for me to move on but I guess there's nothing I can do to fuck my company over without also fucking over my boss.
MCN is the geek's motorcycle mag. Good reviews, scientific comparisons of products, and NO ADS. Think about that for a second.
"Department officials say they will send 'ripples' through an industry"
Perhaps they mean "jiggles"?
She's hot, she rides a motorcycle, and she has an accent.
:-(
I think I'm in love.
Of course, our kids will each have 9 heads.
One cartridge for 6 ink colors. Great. Now when she runs out of blue ink she just throws away the whole cartridge and buys a $new$ one.
Actually, that's more of a male feature than a female feature. My wife's all big on conservation and recycling and stuff. I just chuck it all in the trash.
On the other hand, I'm the cheap one.
I'm having the darndest problems with wake-from-sleep on my 1GHz AlBook 15.
1) Sometimes (10% of the time?) I just get a black screen on wake and have to reboot (CAPSLOCK key LED turns on/off though...so it ain't "dead").
2) Disabling my Bluetooth mouse and kbd reduces the frequency of this occurring but doesn't eliminate it.
3) When wake succeeds, sometimes I spontaneously lose my Bluetooth connections
4) When wake succeeds, I have to manually make my Airport Extreme card connect to my 802.11b WAP.
5) For the life of me, I cannot keep my Airport Extreme card from disconnecting from my WAP whenever I use Fast User Switching.
C'mon, Apple, fix these please...
Somebody gets it! :-)
Actually, I went through most of Laumer's work before I even found out about any of the Retief stuff.
Retief's fun, just not earth-shatteringly great. Probably what Keith used to pay the bills while thinking up Truly Good stuff.
Baen has been reprinting a lot of Laumer's stuff.
On the other hand, they continue to publish stuff by Eric Flint, David Weber, and John Ringo. Horrible, horrible serial-type stuff that constantly re-hashes the same garbage. Yeah, I really want to read about smug characters who sit around all day patting themselves on the back for being so clever.
This review was very useful to me because it proves I'm not the only one who hates this dreck!
...to anyone who's ever ridden a motorcycle. Getting nailed by a bee in the middle of the chest at 75 mph is no treat, let me tell you.
And I'll bet a bee weighs a LOT less than the chunk of foam that hit the Columbia.
Hey, it's not like this was rocket science...just basic PHYSICS, for Pete's sake!
It's really, really sad that I heard this story on NPR yesterday and I'm reading it on Slashdot today.
Yeah, but The Three Amigos did it best. ;-)
Don't make me Ang Lee.
You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
They ripped all that off the car and it still tips the scales at over 1700 lbs??? That engine must have a cast lead block or something.
According to the whitepaper the 5600 uses Intel's PXA250 XScale chip, which this article seems to imply may well be discontinued already!! Hopefully the new PXA255 is a drop-in replacement. In that case the new 5600s will be even faster since the 255 uses a faster memory bus. If it's not a drop-in expect a delay while Sharp figures out what the heck to do!
I'm running 2.2 on a 233 MHz P2. Why? Because it's my firewall and I don't want to spend calories figuring out how to get MS Netmeeting (for vid-conferencing with the parental units) to work through anything else. It's been running for a good 2-3 years now with no hiccups. Why should I upgrade when it serves my needs perfectly?
Yes, and I remember a Retief (Keith Laumer) episode where all of the aliens had scatological names that were spelled in a way to get past Campbell (I believe). After reading some John Barnes, I sincerely hope today's male nerds don't rely upon sci-fi to clue them in about the female gender. I actually enjoy reading his work, but some of the sexual stuff is way over-the-top. Eric Flint, on the other hand, devoted quite a few pages to some teen's wedding night in 1632. I had to keep checking to make sure I hadn't accidentally picked up a trashy romance novel.
Something I'm puzzled by is the SF genre's increasingly bizarre take on the subject of sex. Sex seems to be more and more gratuitous and graphic in a number of the works I've read by various authors. In the so-called "Golden Age" of science fiction sex was not commonly dealt with, probably as a result of the mores and values during that time. Now the discussion of sex is no longer taboo.
What is your take on this trend? Are authors simply trying to tittilate their audience(s) or are they really attempting to explore the implications of sex in the futures (or pasts, or parallel universes) that they're predicting?
Replying to my own post, how gauche.
Google seems to be my friend:
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook297.htm
Wonder how similar these stories/themes are?
I could've sworn I'd read a short story called "Coolhunting" or something similar in SF Age, Asimov, Analog....or one of those SF rags. Anyone out there remember it? Was this a Gibson short story?
Numerical already developed phase-shift mask tech (http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG2001042 3S0029). Note that they could use 248nm tech to make 25nm features in 2001. Intel apparently licensed it 2 years ago!!!
In my trips to Arizona I've visited a number of fantastic places:
The Titan Missile Museum (an old missile silo):
http://www.pimaair.org/titan_01.htm
I would love to buy the place and move in, userfriendly.org-style.
It's companion, the Pima Air Museum, has tons of old aircraft including an SR-71 and JFK's Air Force 1. Be sure to hit the hangers:
http://www.pimaair.org/
They're both around Tucson.
The Champlin Fighter Museum has lots of great WWII and WWI stuff:
http://www.champlinfighter.com/ It's east of Phoenix, I think.
What is this?! A Jerry Lewis Dupe-a-Thon?