I'm talking hearsay but I think that Russia is not a good example. The businessmen that have installed in Russia say that you have to bow to the maffias, or you are out of business or worse. Of course, a reasonable maffia is not very different from a hard government.
But, if you are producing to export, not for the Russian market, maybe you're bette in a more stable country. __
I am surprised that nobody links this to the pioneer work of Myron Krueger in artificial reality. He was using video recognisation (word?) as an input in the 80s. __
How "inexistent" is the Costa-Rican army actually?
Do they have a strong police?
How do they battle drug traffickers, and foreign guerrillas?
(Amusing fact: at the end of "Jurassic Park", we see the Costa-Rican Air Force helicopters flying to destroy every rest of dinos from Isla Nubla. But there is not CR Air Force!) __
In the "Riverworld" saga, by Philip José Farmer, Erik Bloodaxe carries a very precious axe made of meteoritic iron, since it's the only source of pure metal available in that setting.
Of course, Mark Twain and the others establish a Esperanto-speaking industrial culture later, but... __
If we treat every nation as hostile to the UK, there are only two that actually pose a real threat -- the USA and Russia.
What about France? It has nuclear weapons and they can send troops even by train. Of course, it's Mutual Assured Destruction, but under your conditions, it would be a threat. __
Yeah, but are there good ones unpublished in English?
I read "It's hard to be a god" from Strugatskis and something from Lem and I don't think of them as so big (And the film Solaris is even more boring than 2001). __
Those plans to terraform Mars remind me of those Soviet plans to melt the Northern ice cap with coal dust or space mirrors so that Siberia is a friendlier place.
Fortunately they didn't do it and we have given a break to Antarctica. __
I remember about some science+fantasy story with dragons.
They ate calchareous (sp?) rocks that when mixed with the stomach acid produced hydrogen. The H enabled them to fly, the wings were for control, not substentation. When they had an excess of hydrogen, they could throw flames to burn it.
I don't know how plausible it is, but it suspended my disbelief. __
Back in the mid 19th century gold rush to California, some people were able to make quite a bit of money taking extra durable items with them to sell when they reached their destination.
It's said that, while the '49ers burnt their gold in gambling, whiskey and whores, the people getting rich was Levi Strauss and all the slick suppliers. __
I mean, the metasearch sites for auctions drive visits to eBay (of course, not always). Otherwise they are forcing the buyer to choose eBay / rest of the auctions.
It's a bad business practice if you want to make money from sales commissions. It's the right thing if your model is advertising, but then your model is rubbish. __
I stretch out the sleep capsule, yawn, watch a vide of a CGI sundawn, get my soja burger from the robot, with a glass of alcohol-less beer, and then I'm ready for another 16 hours of Slashdot-reading. __
This post will almost certainly get modded down as trolling or kissing up, but I just wanted to say hooray for Slashdot!:o)
I am happy that moderators could resist this attempt at guilt karmawhoring. Those pathetic self-victimisations make me doubt about moderators. But here they kept their calm.
I saw that an AC claims it moderated the post down, but either it didn't (I see no moderation points) or the posting undid the moderation. __
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Reading it online will never do justice. Having it read will not be the same. And seeing the movie is almost blasphemous.
Of course, the proper setting to enjoy it is in an unlit basement narrated by an old man who memorised it before it was burnt. Add some distant howls of fire trucks and you have total immersion. __
I find it weird that people collect these things, but obviously the French establishment has a bias here.
Do their laws forbid trading of historical items from the Crusades, the Napoleonic wars, the French colonial empire?
All of them remind of a violent past, sometimes against people who are currently French citizens. And I think that the followers of Le Pen still have the myth of the medioeval knight, batling the Sarracenes.
And gosh! recently they analysed the DNA from the heart of the son of Louis XVI. Eeegh!
Don't try to silent history. Explain it and try not to repeat it. __
Keeping old games off use has a good side. It stimulates innovation. It cleans the market, like burning the bushes before planting a new crop.
Imagine if the world were filled with versions of Arkanoid, Tetris, Pacman. By enforcing copyrights, new games are more imaginative and don't rely on this burden of the past.
(Spot how my statements conflict with reality and you'll win an extra life.) __
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I'm talking hearsay but I think that Russia is not a good example.
The businessmen that have installed in Russia say that you have to bow to the maffias, or you are out of business or worse. Of course, a reasonable maffia is not very different from a hard government.
But, if you are producing to export, not for the Russian market, maybe you're bette in a more stable country.
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I am surprised that nobody links this to the pioneer work of Myron Krueger in artificial reality. He was using video recognisation (word?) as an input in the 80s.
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How "inexistent" is the Costa-Rican army actually?
Do they have a strong police?
How do they battle drug traffickers, and foreign guerrillas?
(Amusing fact: at the end of "Jurassic Park", we see the Costa-Rican Air Force helicopters flying to destroy every rest of dinos from Isla Nubla. But there is not CR Air Force!)
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In the "Riverworld" saga, by Philip José Farmer, Erik Bloodaxe carries a very precious axe made of meteoritic iron, since it's the only source of pure metal available in that setting.
Of course, Mark Twain and the others establish a Esperanto-speaking industrial culture later, but...
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Info about tha Soviet film "Solyaris" based on Stanislaw Lem's book, from IMDB.
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If we treat every nation as hostile to the UK, there are only two that actually pose a real threat -- the USA and Russia.
What about France? It has nuclear weapons and they can send troops even by train. Of course, it's Mutual Assured Destruction, but under your conditions, it would be a threat.
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Yeah, but are there good ones unpublished in English?
I read "It's hard to be a god" from Strugatskis and something from Lem and I don't think of them as so big (And the film Solaris is even more boring than 2001).
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As they said in the book, suidac! (sp?)
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Another argument for reviewing old books is that what's old in the US can be a fresh translation in Finland, Indonesia or whatever.
Especially, I think that Eastern Europe has a lot of interesting Western books to discover, don't they?
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Those plans to terraform Mars remind me of those Soviet plans to melt the Northern ice cap with coal dust or space mirrors so that Siberia is a friendlier place.
Fortunately they didn't do it and we have given a break to Antarctica.
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My recall is from TV but I don't know if it was animated or acted.
Diamond mines explain the tendency of dragons to collect huge treasures. Are diamonds affected by acids?
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I remember about some science+fantasy story with dragons.
They ate calchareous (sp?) rocks that when mixed with the stomach acid produced hydrogen. The H enabled them to fly, the wings were for control, not substentation. When they had an excess of hydrogen, they could throw flames to burn it.
I don't know how plausible it is, but it suspended my disbelief.
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I don't think you would want to be on Mars unprotected, I know they will use suits or something
:)~
Would some bikinis do?
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They dont need a A.C/fan to keep themselves cool
Actually, in my Slashdot experience, Anonymous Coward fans usually bring flames.
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First thing I thought is that BeOpen is a site for BeOS Open Source Software.
Are you still in time to change it to something more Pythonesque?
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Back in the mid 19th century gold rush to California, some people were able to make quite a bit of money taking extra durable items with them to sell when they reached their destination.
It's said that, while the '49ers burnt their gold in gambling, whiskey and whores, the people getting rich was Levi Strauss and all the slick suppliers.
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What about all the metasearch sites that don't even take you to the site? (that's why I use them)
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Isn't it bad on the long run for eBay?
I mean, the metasearch sites for auctions drive visits to eBay (of course, not always). Otherwise they are forcing the buyer to choose eBay / rest of the auctions.
It's a bad business practice if you want to make money from sales commissions. It's the right thing if your model is advertising, but then your model is rubbish.
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That would make my day.
I stretch out the sleep capsule, yawn, watch a vide of a CGI sundawn, get my soja burger from the robot, with a glass of alcohol-less beer, and then I'm ready for another 16 hours of Slashdot-reading.
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This post will almost certainly get modded down as trolling or kissing up, but I just wanted to say hooray for Slashdot! :o)
I am happy that moderators could resist this attempt at guilt karmawhoring. Those pathetic self-victimisations make me doubt about moderators. But here they kept their calm.
I saw that an AC claims it moderated the post down, but either it didn't (I see no moderation points) or the posting undid the moderation.
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Reading it online will never do justice. Having it read will not be the same. And seeing the movie is almost blasphemous.
Of course, the proper setting to enjoy it is in an unlit basement narrated by an old man who memorised it before it was burnt. Add some distant howls of fire trucks and you have total immersion.
__
I find it weird that people collect these things, but obviously the French establishment has a bias here.
Do their laws forbid trading of historical items from the Crusades, the Napoleonic wars, the French colonial empire?
All of them remind of a violent past, sometimes against people who are currently French citizens.
And I think that the followers of Le Pen still have the myth of the medioeval knight, batling the Sarracenes.
And gosh! recently they analysed the DNA from the heart of the son of Louis XVI. Eeegh!
Don't try to silent history. Explain it and try not to repeat it.
__
Keeping old games off use has a good side. It stimulates innovation. It cleans the market, like burning the bushes before planting a new crop.
Imagine if the world were filled with versions of Arkanoid, Tetris, Pacman. By enforcing copyrights, new games are more imaginative and don't rely on this burden of the past.
(Spot how my statements conflict with reality and you'll win an extra life.)
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hopefully in the future there will be strong enough interconnection
Really? All I can see is big companies merging with big companies to form bigger companies.
The bigger they get, the harder it is for a new player to come into the market of international backbone connections.
And the fewer players, the easier it is to get denied service.
This is not Fidonet where you could dial another node.
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IBM will use OS/2 on at least the commentator stations in the Sidney 2000 Olympics.
Maybe they will use it in more places but I don't like reading PDFs.
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