Invented Cyberpunk ("Dr. Adder", published in 1984, but written much, much earlier, and delayed due to graphic and extremely weird sexual content).
Invented and coined the term Steampunk ("Morlock Night", 1979).
Wrote the book with arguably the biggest number of cool scenes ever ("Farewell Horizontal", 1989). Seriously, read it. This book is nuts.
Also, was a very good friend of Phillip K. Dick's.
Jeter's output in the 80's was nothing sort of astounding. Sadly, he was reduced to doing a lot of hack work in his Star Wars and Bladerunner novels later on, and is all but forgotten today.
I totally second that. With the sixties setting, the James Bond music, even the the Mole Man (The Underminer), The Incredibles was the best Fantastic Four movie one could wish for.
There's no way the upcoming FF flick can top that. Seriously, the promo pictures look like a SciFi channel miniseries.
I got about a third through the book and then had to stop. It's rather unsettling to read about a character in a novel, and then slowly come to realise that it is pretty much oneself who is being described here, and in such an unflattering light.
Ethan Levin is a lot like me, living in the Bay Area as a programmer pushing forty, with an ex-girlfriend working for a nonprofit org, even down to some of the smaller mannerisms (Shudder). I'll stick to O'Reilly books in the future, they are much less unsettling.
I completely agree. Perdido Stree Station and The Scar are monstrously good reads. Here's a guy who has more imagination than all the rest of the current fantasy writer set combined.
Heh, Mervyn Peake meets Clive Barker and Karl Marx with a wicked sense of humor and Stephen King's storytelling skills would be more like it. And where's my Uther Doul action figure?
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It was supposed to come out in April, but I think it's now solicited for August. Saw the solicitation recently on ComicbookResources.
I read "Hardwired" back in the eighties, before I got my grubby little hands on "Neuromancer", and it beats Gibson hands down. Also, it holds up surprisingly well today compared to the usual suspects (Gibson, Sterling, Shiner, etc.)
The IDE definitely has to support Remote Debugging. I personally use JDeveloper from Oracle (which you can download for free). I like a lot of features about it, not the least being able to click on any variable in the editor and jump to the file with the definition of the object.
Remote Debugging is when you connect to a running JVM from the tool through TCP/IP and remote control it. You can set breakpoints, examine variables etc. just like in a normal debugger. This is invaluable, when you have a long running server side application where stuff start to go wrong only after a long uptime.
His books always sound great from the cover text, so I decide to give him one more chance, hoping that his writing has improved with time, and guess what? The book sucks (again).
He has great ideas, but like a big budget Hollywood movie, he doesn't know what to do with them. Gibson on the other hand didn't have a single original idea since Mona Lisa Overdrive, and his plots are usually going nowhere, but he's a great storyteller. It's the difference between a good writer and a bad writer that makes or breaks a book.
People keep forgetting that the database is only one half of what Oracle does.
The other half is Oracle's suite of enterprise standard software, Oracle Applications, which is a huge and unmaintainable pile of spaghetti code that runs against Oracle8. If Oracle would ever opensource the Apps, nobody would even try and download this stuff, much less compile and run it. It's just not worth the trouble.
I for one am glad about Jeter's comeback. This guy wrote some of the most brilliant and offbeat SF ever before he did those awful bladerunner and star wars books (for monetary reasons I suppose. How much do you get paid for one of these anyway?).
Do yourself a favor and read "Farewell Horizontal" from '89. There might be books out there that are better constructed (Vernor Vinge, Gibson), but this novel has the most cool scenes and ideas I've ever seen in a scifi. Unfortunately it's out of print.
What in the world do you want in France? It's a nasty little country, quite expensive (well, not to Americans these days...) and the people are unfriendly.
Why not take an extended vacation first in order to make up your mind, before you actually move there. I'll never understand what it is that Americans like about Europe:)
This is funny. The source code comments are still in german. I would have thought that Sun changed more stuff, because it's been a while since they bought the german company star division, that originally wrote SO. Well, that's fine with me:), but not everybody speaks german.
On the other hand, when star office came first out a couple of years ago, it was regarded as quite a software engineering feat, because they published it on all operating systems at the same time.
Everything is in C++ and they went out of their way to make sure star office had a very clean and abstract design that would be easily portable to other platforms. That's also one of the reasons it's not as bloated and buggy as M$'s stuff. I'm really looking forward to have a peek at the code. This is finally an open source project where the quality of the code is not on a hobbyist's level.
> In industry buzzword-speak that's > 3-tieredarchitecture. (Tier1: ASP,php, > etc. Tier2: SQL stored procedures, > compile code Tier3: the database
What you say is not entirely correct. In "industry buzzword-speak", Tier 1 is the client (Webbrowser), Tier 2 is the application server (IIS/ASP, Apache/Jserv, Apache/PHP, etc.) and Tier 3 is the database. The whole point of this is to decouple the application logic from the client on one side and from the data store on the other hand.
If you use stored database procedures (Oracle/PL/SQL, SQL Server/TSQL), then you put your business logic on the third tier, which makes the whole thing less scalable and also dilutes your three tier model.
Did somebody actually look at how Glassbook is doing it? It downloads a short description file in XML, then based on that tries to download a certificate for the Glassbook reader, and then downloads the file itself.
From a cryptographic point of view, if you don't need a network connection each time you read the book, then the encrypted content and the key must be on the same machine, not unlike DVD's CSS. Does anybody have ideas about how to write a little utility to decrypt the encrypted PDFs? Just for research purposes, of course.
Could somebody tell me why there's such a hype about this game. Okay, those are the guys that did Warcraft and Starcraft, but was the first Diablo really that great? I found it incredibly tiring to battle level after level of monsters, and at the end I gave up because it became too boring. From the screenshots, Diablo II looks just like the first one, with a little bit of 3d eye-candy thrown in. Are there any improvements in gameplay?
Salon is not doing well? Man, I'm sorry to hear that. Besides Slashdot, Salon is the only other site that I visit every single day. Where else do I get such a range of news, reviews and just overall good writing (Certainly not Slashdot. I like what you guys are saying, but your grammar stinks! And I'm not even a native speaker). Are there more magazines like Salon on the web? I don't think so.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._W._Jeter
Invented Cyberpunk ("Dr. Adder", published in 1984, but written much, much earlier, and delayed due to graphic and extremely weird sexual content).
Invented and coined the term Steampunk ("Morlock Night", 1979).
Wrote the book with arguably the biggest number of cool scenes ever ("Farewell Horizontal", 1989). Seriously, read it. This book is nuts.
Also, was a very good friend of Phillip K. Dick's.
Jeter's output in the 80's was nothing sort of astounding. Sadly, he was reduced to doing a lot of hack work in his Star Wars and Bladerunner novels later on, and is all but forgotten today.
Heh. I read "Les Naufragés du Temps" in a german edition when I was ten. I wonder what a child psychologist would have to say about that :)
for Alan Moore. Somewhere, he's punching the air.
I totally second that. With the sixties setting, the James Bond music, even the the Mole Man (The Underminer), The Incredibles was the best Fantastic Four movie one could wish for.
There's no way the upcoming FF flick can top that. Seriously, the promo pictures look like a SciFi channel miniseries.
I got about a third through the book and then had to stop. It's rather unsettling to read about a character in a novel, and then slowly come to realise that it is pretty much oneself who is being described here, and in such an unflattering light.
Ethan Levin is a lot like me, living in the Bay Area as a programmer pushing forty, with an ex-girlfriend working for a nonprofit org, even down to some of the smaller mannerisms (Shudder). I'll stick to O'Reilly books in the future, they are much less unsettling.
I completely agree. Perdido Stree Station and The Scar are monstrously good reads. Here's a guy who has more imagination than all the rest of the current fantasy writer set combined.
Heh, Mervyn Peake meets Clive Barker and Karl Marx with a wicked sense of humor and Stephen King's storytelling skills would be more like it. And where's my Uther Doul action figure?
It was supposed to come out in April, but I think it's now
solicited for August. Saw the solicitation recently on
ComicbookResources.
Williams rocks.
I read "Hardwired" back in the eighties, before I got my grubby little hands on "Neuromancer", and it beats Gibson hands down. Also, it holds up surprisingly well today compared to the usual suspects (Gibson, Sterling, Shiner, etc.)
The IDE definitely has to support Remote Debugging. I personally use JDeveloper from Oracle (which you can download for free). I like a lot of features about it, not the least being able to click on any variable in the editor and jump to the file with the definition of the object.
Remote Debugging is when you connect to a running JVM from the tool through TCP/IP and remote control it. You can set breakpoints, examine variables etc. just like in a normal debugger. This is invaluable, when you have a long running server side application where stuff start to go wrong only after a long uptime.
Why don't you use Adamantium like other people?
Who indeed?
They officially disbanded a couple of years ago.
Sterling can't write. Period.
His books always sound great from the cover text, so I decide to give him one more chance, hoping that his writing has improved with time, and guess what? The book sucks (again).
He has great ideas, but like a big budget Hollywood movie, he doesn't know what to do with them. Gibson on the other hand didn't have a single original idea since Mona Lisa Overdrive, and his plots are usually going nowhere, but he's a great storyteller. It's the difference between a good writer and a bad writer that makes or breaks a book.
The other half is Oracle's suite of enterprise standard software, Oracle Applications, which is a huge and unmaintainable pile of spaghetti code that runs against Oracle8. If Oracle would ever opensource the Apps, nobody would even try and download this stuff, much less compile and run it. It's just not worth the trouble.
I for one am glad about Jeter's comeback. This guy wrote some of the most brilliant and offbeat SF ever before he did those awful bladerunner and star wars books (for monetary reasons I suppose. How much do you get paid for one of these anyway?).
Do yourself a favor and read "Farewell Horizontal" from '89. There might be books out there that are better constructed (Vernor Vinge, Gibson), but this novel has the most cool scenes and ideas I've ever seen in a scifi. Unfortunately it's out of print.
Why not take an extended vacation first in order to make up your mind, before you actually move there. I'll never understand what it is that Americans like about Europe :)
On the other hand, when star office came first out a couple of years ago, it was regarded as quite a software engineering feat, because they published it on all operating systems at the same time. Everything is in C++ and they went out of their way to make sure star office had a very clean and abstract design that would be easily portable to other platforms. That's also one of the reasons it's not as bloated and buggy as M$'s stuff. I'm really looking forward to have a peek at the code. This is finally an open source project where the quality of the code is not on a hobbyist's level.
Gateway machines run Linux pretty well, actually. Except for modems of course :) But stick in a network card, get DSL and you're all set.
> In industry buzzword-speak that's
> 3-tieredarchitecture. (Tier1: ASP,php,
> etc. Tier2: SQL stored procedures,
> compile code Tier3: the database
What you say is not entirely correct. In "industry buzzword-speak", Tier 1 is the client (Webbrowser), Tier 2 is the application server (IIS/ASP, Apache/Jserv, Apache/PHP, etc.) and Tier 3 is the database. The whole point of this is to decouple the application logic from the client on one side and from the data store on the other hand.
If you use stored database procedures (Oracle/PL/SQL, SQL Server/TSQL), then you put your business logic on the third tier, which makes the whole thing less scalable and also dilutes your three tier model.
What's wrong about speaking german? I'm german.
This is so true. Moderate this guy up.
Did somebody actually look at how Glassbook is doing it? It downloads a short description file in XML, then based on that tries to download a certificate for the Glassbook reader, and then downloads the file itself.
From a cryptographic point of view, if you don't need a network connection each time you read the book, then the encrypted content and the key must be on the same machine, not unlike DVD's CSS. Does anybody have ideas about how to write a little utility to decrypt the encrypted PDFs? Just for research purposes, of course.
Could somebody tell me why there's such a hype about this game. Okay, those are the guys that did Warcraft and Starcraft, but was the first Diablo really that great? I found it incredibly tiring to battle level after level of monsters, and at the end I gave up because it became too boring. From the screenshots, Diablo II looks just like the first one, with a little bit of 3d eye-candy thrown in. Are there any improvements in gameplay?
Salon is not doing well? Man, I'm sorry to hear that. Besides Slashdot, Salon is the only other site that I visit every single day. Where else do I get such a range of news, reviews and just overall good writing (Certainly not Slashdot. I like what you guys are saying, but your grammar stinks! And I'm not even a native speaker). Are there more magazines like Salon on the web? I don't think so.
Amazing what people can do with babelfish.