I read Varley's Wheel(?) Trilogy when I was much younger and it had a definite impact on my views of women. Imagining Cirroco Jones as a strong archtype along with the general sense of gender confusion in the series was a powerful message.
Good sci-fi that challenges your innate perspectives is very underrated in todays world.
I agree completely. The magazine started it's descent when they were bought by Conde Nast. They swung into the Red Herring pro-ebiz sector and suck at it. All they have are special advertising sections, electronic/carbon fiber toy buyer guides for people making US$250k/year and business stories I can find in the WSJ. What happened to the revolution? Oh, that's right, it got co-opted by the borg.
And Katz should hang it up. I don't know why he has the resident professor emeritus status he does on/. Let his comments be modded up or down like everyone else. Techno-democracy.
Walter Mossberg is an idiot. Meaning I don't think I have ever agreed with one of his gadget reviews with the exeption of the original Handspring Visor. Why would you use this retardo phone. I wouldn't be caught dead with it. Check out the 3G phones from DoCoMo for great portable devices in this category. (although they have software bugs, the hardware is tremendous.)
I have always considered shrinkwrap software (bundled or not) my property to sell to someone else at my discretion. If I pay $200 for a piece of shrinkwrapped software, I do not differentiate between the physical media and the intellectual property. Maybe I am wrong, but physical poessesion is 9/10ths of the law.
Microsoft has some of the most poorly written and restrictive EULAs in existence. Take a look at the one from Age of Empires for example. They are so worried about people reverse engineering their source code, it is ridiculous. Simply downloading a patch from their wrbsite brings up a EULA.
Unbelievable.
The growth of individual cells in a cancerous tumor is quite different from the controlled expression of cells developing into tissue. Simply controlling cancer cell growth to a slower rate (i.e. a rate of replacement) would not necessarily be beneficial.
The whole in this case is greater than the sum of the parts. For example: If you grew new nerve cells in the brain, the growth would be deleterious to the existing synaptic infrastructure thus destroying the patterns of the connections.
Didn't the Soviets conduct research into musepox as a more contaigous virulaent agent? I seem to recall the lethality of the modified mousepox as high as 95%.
So should I upgrade my PS2 with the optional ethernet/HD? Do I order a new gamecube to play Luigi's Mansion? Do I contribute dollars to fatass Ballmer's checking account? If only we lived under the Taliban we wouldn't have these problems.
...along with Bruce Sterling wrote a great sci-fi book by the same name. Definitely worth checking out. Especially if you are a history of technology/science buff.
It was interesting to read in "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" how Europe fumbled with computer manufacturing to the point that the industry is non-existent. Hopefully the latest round of deregulation will help their telecom companies compete. Whether or not they can efficently transfer technology from the lab to the market as well as the US or Asia remains to be seen.
Considering the ISS budget with the shuttle support is approx. US$5.5bn, I think it is a good time to start re-examining unmanned missions. The ISS may turn out to be a bad platform for micro-gravity research among other things.
At least it keeps the former Russian rocket scientists busy....
Reading science fiction as I was growing up was one of the most positive experiences of my life. It provided me with the tools of imagination and the ability to rectify opposing views on social issues. THe best sci-fi ala Clark, Asimov, Gibson, Heinlein is that the underlying social critique is relevent to the hear and now despite an alien setting.
I think this will appeal to older folks and the generally non-technical out there with lots of cash. I can think of plenty of people who will buy something like this because they simply DO NOT KNOW that you can hook a COMPUTER to you STEREO. Whether it succeeds or not depends on the "friendliness" of the interface and if HP can get it demo'd at stores.
I think it was an earlier release and it may have conflicted with an init or two on my system. I remember I had to downgrade to get stability.
You're right, Microsoft didn't get IE stable until 5.5 and even then under NT/2000 it was only marginally stable.
I haven't tried Opera yet, but who knows?
The last time I used Netscape, it was version 4.x (?) on the Macintosh. Buggy.
So Microsoft can do whatever it wants now, because they learned that all you have to is throw money and lawyers at a problem and it just sort of goes away.......
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My understanding of the ATRAC format (Sony's compression system) is that it converts the digital signal to an analog format. Hence the copying time of the MD player is the same playing time of the music. I.e. if you record 65 minuted of music, it takes 65 minutes to record it to the player.
As written in the FAQ you so pointed to, the MD ATRAC format does not support data unless you use the MD-10 with a SCSI interface.
That was the point I was making. It does not reproduce the audio fidelity digitally. It simply stores an analog input in a digital format. What you get out is not necessarily what you put in.
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I read Varley's Wheel(?) Trilogy when I was much younger and it had a definite impact on my views of women. Imagining Cirroco Jones as a strong archtype along with the general sense of gender confusion in the series was a powerful message.
Good sci-fi that challenges your innate perspectives is very underrated in todays world.
I agree completely. The magazine started it's descent when they were bought by Conde Nast. They swung into the Red Herring pro-ebiz sector and suck at it. All they have are special advertising sections, electronic/carbon fiber toy buyer guides for people making US$250k/year and business stories I can find in the WSJ. What happened to the revolution? Oh, that's right, it got co-opted by the borg.
/. Let his comments be modded up or down like everyone else. Techno-democracy.
And Katz should hang it up. I don't know why he has the resident professor emeritus status he does on
Meow.
Glock 21 .45ACP
at least that's on my list....
or
PS2
Grand Theft Auto 3
Metal Gear Solid 2
Yeah baby.
WARNING: This is a rant.
Walter Mossberg is an idiot. Meaning I don't think I have ever agreed with one of his gadget reviews with the exeption of the original Handspring Visor. Why would you use this retardo phone. I wouldn't be caught dead with it. Check out the 3G phones from DoCoMo for great portable devices in this category. (although they have software bugs, the hardware is tremendous.)
Dumb guy, dumber phone.
Unless you think that big is the new small....
I have always considered shrinkwrap software (bundled or not) my property to sell to someone else at my discretion. If I pay $200 for a piece of shrinkwrapped software, I do not differentiate between the physical media and the intellectual property. Maybe I am wrong, but physical poessesion is 9/10ths of the law.
Microsoft has some of the most poorly written and restrictive EULAs in existence. Take a look at the one from Age of Empires for example. They are so worried about people reverse engineering their source code, it is ridiculous. Simply downloading a patch from their wrbsite brings up a EULA.
Unbelievable.
The growth of individual cells in a cancerous tumor is quite different from the controlled expression of cells developing into tissue. Simply controlling cancer cell growth to a slower rate (i.e. a rate of replacement) would not necessarily be beneficial.
The whole in this case is greater than the sum of the parts. For example: If you grew new nerve cells in the brain, the growth would be deleterious to the existing synaptic infrastructure thus destroying the patterns of the connections.
Didn't the Soviets conduct research into musepox as a more contaigous virulaent agent? I seem to recall the lethality of the modified mousepox as high as 95%.
What I want more than anything is Soul Caliber 2....
So should I upgrade my PS2 with the optional ethernet/HD? Do I order a new gamecube to play Luigi's Mansion? Do I contribute dollars to fatass Ballmer's checking account? If only we lived under the Taliban we wouldn't have these problems.
...along with Bruce Sterling wrote a great sci-fi book by the same name. Definitely worth checking out. Especially if you are a history of technology/science buff.
I loved HHH and M.U.L.E and Archon and all the old 8-bit EA games.
Although Civ III on a P3-900 is pretty kick ass.
Idiot. Don't vote for corporations by not spending your dollar or shekel or rubel or whatever.
bu they have restricted access since 09/11. You can't even hike in the woods around it anymore.
It was interesting to read in "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" how Europe fumbled with computer manufacturing to the point that the industry is non-existent. Hopefully the latest round of deregulation will help their telecom companies compete. Whether or not they can efficently transfer technology from the lab to the market as well as the US or Asia remains to be seen.
Can be corrected by a simple oral surgery procedure these days. I don't know about the '70s.
Considering the ISS budget with the shuttle support is approx. US$5.5bn, I think it is a good time to start re-examining unmanned missions. The ISS may turn out to be a bad platform for micro-gravity research among other things.
At least it keeps the former Russian rocket scientists busy....
Reading science fiction as I was growing up was one of the most positive experiences of my life. It provided me with the tools of imagination and the ability to rectify opposing views on social issues. THe best sci-fi ala Clark, Asimov, Gibson, Heinlein is that the underlying social critique is relevent to the hear and now despite an alien setting.
My 2 cents.
Amen to that brother. Mine came in the wooden box and the IC had maybe 100 gates in it.
I think this will appeal to older folks and the generally non-technical out there with lots of cash. I can think of plenty of people who will buy something like this because they simply DO NOT KNOW that you can hook a COMPUTER to you STEREO. Whether it succeeds or not depends on the "friendliness" of the interface and if HP can get it demo'd at stores.
I think it was an earlier release and it may have conflicted with an init or two on my system. I remember I had to downgrade to get stability.
You're right, Microsoft didn't get IE stable until 5.5 and even then under NT/2000 it was only marginally stable.
I haven't tried Opera yet, but who knows?
The last time I used Netscape, it was version 4.x (?) on the Macintosh. Buggy.
So Microsoft can do whatever it wants now, because they learned that all you have to is throw money and lawyers at a problem and it just sort of goes away.......
Electron, proton, neutron
Up, down, top,
bottom, strange, charmed
blue, red, green
Yikes!
My understanding of the ATRAC format (Sony's compression system) is that it converts the digital signal to an analog format. Hence the copying time of the MD player is the same playing time of the music. I.e. if you record 65 minuted of music, it takes 65 minutes to record it to the player.
As written in the FAQ you so pointed to, the MD ATRAC format does not support data unless you use the MD-10 with a SCSI interface.
That was the point I was making. It does not reproduce the audio fidelity digitally. It simply stores an analog input in a digital format. What you get out is not necessarily what you put in.
Nothing stays under their radar for long. I'd like to see this gadget for sale at Coconuts or Musicland.
Vinyl is the way to go anyway....