You are wrong, Sir.
German A-4 rockets, better known as v-2, reached outer space as early as the forties, making them first man made objects in space. The Soviet Lunokhod 1 landed on the moon in november 1970, the first use of a lunar rover. Apollo 15 was the first American use of a rover on the moon, nine months later. In fact, the soviet space program landed a probe on the moon in 1959, the Luna 2.
www.webscription.net is a good site for SciFi e-books, The selection is steadily growing and the books cost around $6. Thats a nice pricepoint for e-books IMO, I buy books there all the time.
Sure, but none of those existing devices have a 10" glass pane without cover. My worry is that it will crack easily if you drop it or it gets subjected to stress in some other way. A small piece of glass, like in a iPod nano or a iPhone is subjected to less stress if its dropped than a larger pane. You dont carry an iMac around very much, and the MacBooks has the other half of the computer shielding the glass when you carry it.
The front of the thing is glass. I was enthusiastic until I realized that a 10" glass plate at the front doesnt make for a portable device thats very tough. I bet theres a very good reason they designed that sleeve for it...
Charles Strosss "A Colder War" short story has enough material to drive several seasons of Ctulhu-esque cold war goodness. If you havent read it, do.
Does it get any better ? Entities from the abyss, cold war politics and lots of interesting historical characters.
Lol, "Self-identified as IT specialists" indeed. Thats one funny document. What would they need that kind of information for ? To evaluate bragging rights ?
Meh, one of the best games ever is "Colonial Conquest" from SSI. Its the reason that I have an Atari ST emulator on my desktop, because when the urge to conquer sets in the only thing that satisfys is a game from 1988.
Nokia N900 is looking better by the minute. Maemo (Linux), and theres Python port for that, so it wont be hard to code for. A Firefox browser with Flash support and generally nice specs on the hardware front. € 540 or so isnt too bad for a smartphone in that class.
I just came home from seeing Avatar in 3D and I must say it rivals Watchmen in sheer visual splendor. The story is a bit predictable, but I didnt really think about that until afterwards because I was so immersed in this beautiful world Cameron has created. It could have used a better soundtrack but then it would have been a completely different movie. Definetly worth the money, and well worth seeing again on the big screen.
I disagree with the "not science fiction" thing, the fact that they didnt combobulate the parallell deflectors and set phasers to stun but instead treated technology as an everyday occurence makes it more believable. The idea of the planet as a network is neat as well, one can imagine the whole thing as a Post-Singularity society, with a sentient network of biological entities as the collective conciousness of the planet.
Uhm, 0 terror attacks in the US, but ask yourself this : How many Americans have died in Iraq and Afghanistan? More US servicemen and -women have died "fighting terrorism" than the number of US citizens killed by terrorists in the post-cold war era. Add to that all the Iraqis and Afghans that have died during the "war on terror". The calculus of terror and "counterterror" is not a pretty thing to behold.
We have a couple laserjet 4000 at my school. They are more than 10 years old, in heavy use and all we do is replace the toner when its depleted. They seem almost unbreakable, if a bit slow by modern standard.
One wonders if the color laserjet 3525 we bought last year will still be chugging along in 2018...
Agree, the Observatory and the collection of chronometers and other old navigation paraphernalia is an interesting experience, plus its always nice to be able to say that you have stood on the zero meridian:)
We spend about $60M per year on this in Sweden. The conditions are that you have to be the second largest newspaper in town, have a circulation of at least 2000 mainly through subscriptions, must not have more than 30% of the local market and it must not have turn a profit. There are other minor conditions as well, but thats basically how it works. The money is apportioned by a special board thats politically independent.
We have subsidies for the press in Sweden, and its working fairly well. The way it works is that the biggest newspaper in a certain market gets no subsidies, but the smaller competitors do. Its intended to ensure that no one company or political organization gets a monopoly on news and published opinion just by being large enough that they can kill off their competitors through that.
The government has no real say in who gets the subsidies since its illegal for a government minister to interfere with the day to day matters of his department. There are no purse strings to pull, and god help the politician in Sweden that even tries, the entire media would be all over him or her.
All the mobile phone companies that do actual work on the technology behind it all like Nokia and SonyEricsson have the hardware patents. The Iphone is a pretty piece of hardware, but the only parts of it that are developed by Apple are the software parts and the physical design. All the protocols and the radio stuff is developed on a whole other level by actual engineers, not the almighty Steve and his designer cohorts:p
There is a lot of research about wikipedia and its veracity going on. You can look at Episteme for instance that did a themed issue about the social web where Wikipedia figures prominently.
I have also read research papers where they establish that the information in Wikipedia generally is as good as or better than encyclopedica brittannica. Dont knock the wikis.
Well, Im sure that we will in short order see drivers for USB keyboards ported to the N900, or why not use a bluetooth one if you wanna do serious typing. It IS a portable device, not a replacement for a laptop.
The lack of competition in the US is funny from a distance. In Sweden we have 4 major carriers with their own nets, plus a number of virtual carriers that buy capacity from the majors. And Sweden is a horrible socialist country where the bad guv'mint decides everything for us...or something...
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You are wrong, Sir. German A-4 rockets, better known as v-2, reached outer space as early as the forties, making them first man made objects in space. The Soviet Lunokhod 1 landed on the moon in november 1970, the first use of a lunar rover. Apollo 15 was the first American use of a rover on the moon, nine months later. In fact, the soviet space program landed a probe on the moon in 1959, the Luna 2.
www.webscription.net is a good site for SciFi e-books, The selection is steadily growing and the books cost around $6. Thats a nice pricepoint for e-books IMO, I buy books there all the time.
Sure, but none of those existing devices have a 10" glass pane without cover. My worry is that it will crack easily if you drop it or it gets subjected to stress in some other way. A small piece of glass, like in a iPod nano or a iPhone is subjected to less stress if its dropped than a larger pane. You dont carry an iMac around very much, and the MacBooks has the other half of the computer shielding the glass when you carry it.
The front of the thing is glass. I was enthusiastic until I realized that a 10" glass plate at the front doesnt make for a portable device thats very tough. I bet theres a very good reason they designed that sleeve for it...
As long as politics in the US is decided by who has the largest wallet things like that will be the logical conclusion.
The fucked up part is that your School has a need for a Security Guard.
Charles Strosss "A Colder War" short story has enough material to drive several seasons of Ctulhu-esque cold war goodness. If you havent read it, do. Does it get any better ? Entities from the abyss, cold war politics and lots of interesting historical characters.
The Nokia N900 has an ARM processor and full Flash support, v9.4 currently and 10.1 is coming in a few weeks according to Nokia. Its quite doable.
Lol, "Self-identified as IT specialists" indeed. Thats one funny document. What would they need that kind of information for ? To evaluate bragging rights ?
Meh, one of the best games ever is "Colonial Conquest" from SSI. Its the reason that I have an Atari ST emulator on my desktop, because when the urge to conquer sets in the only thing that satisfys is a game from 1988.
Nokia N900 is looking better by the minute. Maemo (Linux), and theres Python port for that, so it wont be hard to code for. A Firefox browser with Flash support and generally nice specs on the hardware front. € 540 or so isnt too bad for a smartphone in that class.
I just came home from seeing Avatar in 3D and I must say it rivals Watchmen in sheer visual splendor. The story is a bit predictable, but I didnt really think about that until afterwards because I was so immersed in this beautiful world Cameron has created. It could have used a better soundtrack but then it would have been a completely different movie. Definetly worth the money, and well worth seeing again on the big screen.
I disagree with the "not science fiction" thing, the fact that they didnt combobulate the parallell deflectors and set phasers to stun but instead treated technology as an everyday occurence makes it more believable. The idea of the planet as a network is neat as well, one can imagine the whole thing as a Post-Singularity society, with a sentient network of biological entities as the collective conciousness of the planet.
Uhm, 0 terror attacks in the US, but ask yourself this : How many Americans have died in Iraq and Afghanistan? More US servicemen and -women have died "fighting terrorism" than the number of US citizens killed by terrorists in the post-cold war era. Add to that all the Iraqis and Afghans that have died during the "war on terror". The calculus of terror and "counterterror" is not a pretty thing to behold.
Pandemic is a measure of how widespread a disease is, not its lethality.
Well, if thats true he must have some standing to have opinions about lawsuits where code he has contributed appears ? Nothing weird about that IMO.
We have a couple laserjet 4000 at my school. They are more than 10 years old, in heavy use and all we do is replace the toner when its depleted. They seem almost unbreakable, if a bit slow by modern standard. One wonders if the color laserjet 3525 we bought last year will still be chugging along in 2018...
Agree, the Observatory and the collection of chronometers and other old navigation paraphernalia is an interesting experience, plus its always nice to be able to say that you have stood on the zero meridian :)
We spend about $60M per year on this in Sweden. The conditions are that you have to be the second largest newspaper in town, have a circulation of at least 2000 mainly through subscriptions, must not have more than 30% of the local market and it must not have turn a profit. There are other minor conditions as well, but thats basically how it works. The money is apportioned by a special board thats politically independent.
The government has no real say in who gets the subsidies since its illegal for a government minister to interfere with the day to day matters of his department. There are no purse strings to pull, and god help the politician in Sweden that even tries, the entire media would be all over him or her.
Mod the above guy up!
All the mobile phone companies that do actual work on the technology behind it all like Nokia and SonyEricsson have the hardware patents. The Iphone is a pretty piece of hardware, but the only parts of it that are developed by Apple are the software parts and the physical design. All the protocols and the radio stuff is developed on a whole other level by actual engineers, not the almighty Steve and his designer cohorts :p
There is a lot of research about wikipedia and its veracity going on. You can look at Episteme for instance that did a themed issue about the social web where Wikipedia figures prominently. I have also read research papers where they establish that the information in Wikipedia generally is as good as or better than encyclopedica brittannica. Dont knock the wikis.
Well, I for one think its very cool. I might buy one just because its shiny.
Well, Im sure that we will in short order see drivers for USB keyboards ported to the N900, or why not use a bluetooth one if you wanna do serious typing. It IS a portable device, not a replacement for a laptop.
The lack of competition in the US is funny from a distance. In Sweden we have 4 major carriers with their own nets, plus a number of virtual carriers that buy capacity from the majors. And Sweden is a horrible socialist country where the bad guv'mint decides everything for us...or something...