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Re:Haldeman deserves it for sure...
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2006 Nebula Awards
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· Score: 4, Informative
Reading the finalist listing though, I've seen that there is the damn fine novel 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke. Very amazing book, superbly written, it even has annotations in essay style, definitely a contender which I recommend to anyone interested in reading a good novel and as a fantasy genre initiation (though I would never define it as 'fantasy').
I recently finished reading this novel, and it was outstanding. I highly recommend it. Incidentally, it won several other awards, including the Locus Award, the 2005 World Fantasy Award, and the 2005 Hugo Award. You can find out more about it here: http://www.jonathanstrange.com/
Sure, intercepting traffic is much easier over wireless, so you might be sharing your IM conversations, for example, with a lot more people than you think, but that doesn't mean credit card numbers are necessarily less secure. They are just as secure as on any land-line based Internet access. If you only submit personal/financial data over SSL/TLS-secured connections, you are in good shape (or as good as it gets). If you submit this sort of information without checking for security, well, then being on a hard line won't help you.
Phish's taping policy explicitly allows taping of their concerts and noncommercial distribution of the resulting recordings, as do many of the policies of similar (and dissimilar, e.g. U2) bands.
Maybe you're talking about someone selling tapes on a streetcorner, but I would hardly call the taping community a bunch of bootleggers.
I agree with your assessment of the three Timothy Zahn Star Wars books, they are actually quality work unlike the plethora of other money-grubbing trash that has appeared with the Star Wars name on it.
If you want some gritty fantasy with political intrigue and war as the focus rather than Unlikely Young Hero Comes Into Magical Powers (tm), I recommend you check out George R. R. Martin's series that begins with A Game of Thrones and continues with A Clash of Kings.
Another series that I really enjoy and is out of the mainstream is Jack Whyte's Camulod series, which is a pseudo historical fiction interpretation of the Authurian legend with just a touch of the mystical rubbed in. I think the first book is called Skystone; I know it's Sky-something.
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There are no Gecko (rendering engine) changes in Firefox 2.0. It's based on the same version of Gecko that Firefox 1.5 was. Firefox 3.0 will be based on Gecko 1.9 and is expected to pass the ACID2 test.
I recently finished reading this novel, and it was outstanding. I highly recommend it. Incidentally, it won several other awards, including the Locus Award, the 2005 World Fantasy Award, and the 2005 Hugo Award. You can find out more about it here: http://www.jonathanstrange.com/
Sure, intercepting traffic is much easier over wireless, so you might be sharing your IM conversations, for example, with a lot more people than you think, but that doesn't mean credit card numbers are necessarily less secure. They are just as secure as on any land-line based Internet access. If you only submit personal/financial data over SSL/TLS-secured connections, you are in good shape (or as good as it gets). If you submit this sort of information without checking for security, well, then being on a hard line won't help you.
Phish's taping policy explicitly allows taping of their concerts and noncommercial distribution of the resulting recordings, as do many of the policies of similar (and dissimilar, e.g. U2) bands.
Maybe you're talking about someone selling tapes on a streetcorner, but I would hardly call the taping community a bunch of bootleggers.
I agree with your assessment of the three Timothy Zahn Star Wars books, they are actually quality work unlike the plethora of other money-grubbing trash that has appeared with the Star Wars name on it.
If you want some gritty fantasy with political intrigue and war as the focus rather than Unlikely Young Hero Comes Into Magical Powers (tm), I recommend you check out George R. R. Martin's series that begins with A Game of Thrones and continues with A Clash of Kings. Another series that I really enjoy and is out of the mainstream is Jack Whyte's Camulod series, which is a pseudo historical fiction interpretation of the Authurian legend with just a touch of the mystical rubbed in. I think the first book is called Skystone; I know it's Sky-something.
Cheers,
Goncyn