However, there are many other problems:
- Lot's of poor people can't read/write.
- If they can read/write, can they often can't read/write English
- Who will educate all these people on how to use computers?
They have interfaces in local languages and try to be graphical enough to be "intuitive", though of course they still need some hands one instruction.
Singapore and Hongkong... though risks like SARS make them less desirable places.
Rubbish. Both are very safe. Compare the risks of SARS (most of the deaths were of young or elderly, those at risk from "ordinary" flus everywhere) against very low road fatalities (because of the large use of public transport), and almost no gun crime (because only police have guns).
Politically though, Singapore is pretty authoritarian, and HK is gradually bending towards Beijing.
Now look me straight in the eye and tell me you've _never_ been tempted to fast-forward
That's the problem... this is a movie that demands to be seen in a cinema. Don't lessen it by watching it on a small screen.
If you have a repertory cinema nearby, catch it the next time around.
or the endless psychedelic sequence.
Mind blowing man! It was revolutionary in 1968; it was the in thing to drop acid and sit in the front row to see that, though I was a little young for that; I was 10 at the time and made a special trip to the city and stayed with my aunt to see it.
Indeed, P2P is also fair use. That's quite clear from the fact that it is non-commercial and thus has nothing to do with copyright.
Though sympathetic to your general view, this is wrong. Doesn't matter whether you are distributing a copy of a copyright work "non-commercially" or selling it; it's still a violation of copyright. The governing principle is (AFAIK, IANAL) not whether YOU are making money or not, but whether your distribution could adversely affect the rights and income of the copyright owner. That's where "fair use" should come in, why you can quote brief extracts in another work without specific permission.
Do we really know that the computers tried to take over in the Dune universe?
Of course in Herbert's worlds you never know what's true and what's conspiracy. (I'm disregarding the posthumous prequels, haven't read them.) My point was that there are no robots in Dune; not because Herbert didn't think of them but because society had decided to ban them for some reason. Similar mechanisms have been used by other authors. (Worlds where you do have intelligent robots, like Star Wars, but in a totally illogical way, are worse -- robot soldiers are just clumsy cannon fodder here, but they'd really be more like Terminators.)
Not any more -- check out Vance Integral Edition. The entire corpus in a uniform edition of 44 volumes. "The V.I.E. project was begun in 1998; it is composed of hundreds of Vance readers world wide. In 2003 we published 22 of 44 projected volumes." Please send me one for Christmas.
Maybe because despite repeated claims to be ending a series, authors continue to go back to mine tired ideas when nothing else is making them money?
Note at the end of the FA "B.C. writer Spider Robinson's latest novel is Callahan's Con.". How many Callahan stories has Spider written since (ca.) 1977?
it seems pretty ludicrous to me to have interstellar travel and nuclear powered force field wristbands and nothing to help with something so fundamental as basic computation.
At the same time as he was writing the Foundation stories, where far i the future there didn't seem to be computers, he was also writing his robot series, which had AI in the very near future. I'm not sure if he did this dichotomy on purpose; many years later he unified these future histories by something to do with the robots going underground to guide humanity from secrecy (I didn't read many of these, they seemed crappy compared with his earlier work).
Also Frank Herbert in Dune was one of several authors who posted a future where computers were banned because as they grew more intelligent they always tried to take over....
But I have to say that also reading some of Heinlein's stories of aspiring astronauts saving up to buy a slide rule, or learning logarithm tables by heart to become a navigator, seem a bit quaint. But these details don't make the stories unreadable, SF is one field where you should always look at the copyright date so you know where the future begins. (Look at HG Wells, Jules Verne, for instance.)
However, the guy may be saying there is something in the adaptation, not present in the original, which is what his tiles refer to?
In the movie the Discovery went to Jupiter (as the tiles mention), but in the book it was Saturn (apparently they tried to do Saturn, but the special effects for the rings looked too fake).
Also, while I'm rambling, the reporter who wrote the news story made some mistakes -- for instance he says Kubrich was English, though he was born in New York. He also states that 2001 is boring, so he's obviously a Philistine.
Blast from the past:"If the computer is an 80486-based system, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) can be plugged into its socket in more than one way....Inserting Single Inline Memory Modules (SIMMs) should be relatively simple..."
Probably the whole UK/US billion thing PP
No, actually it's just the stupid submitter and careless editor who didn't notice the BBC story actually says "Now it handles more than 200 million and..."
I love Postscript, and there is some great Adobe software, but they have a habit of killing off niche software becasue it conflicts with some part of their business plan. Such as the Ares font applications FontChameleon, FontFiddler, FontMonger, FontHopper, FontMinder(they didn't want cheap font editors available), and Adobe File Utilities, a conversion app that the bastards bought up and killed.
If you say Pakistanese and Indians belong to the same ethnic group, there would be a some truth to that.
Thanks. Considering they were the same country till 1947 it would be amazing if new races had evolved.
As for language and culture; that's obviously not what was being discussed, just physical appearance, especially since the gentlemen in question were wearing overalls and speaking English.
i'm assuming that this book will be just one large alien-sex orgy, as heinlein has been digressing into longer and longer alien sex rants in his books.
Since it was written it 1938, that doesn't follow. (Also, I dont recall any "alien" sex, just lots of hetero, and occasionally homo, and a little pedo.)
However, according to the FA, it was spiked becasue it was "too racy" for the staid 30s. If so, and that's not just marketing (instead of "too immature"), the I'll have to reconsider my opinion. I'd thought he'd just degenerated into a dirty old man as he got older.
Yes, that's one of the failures of the modern academic system, both on the part of the teachers who should be grading content; and on the part of the student who should be concerned with producing content rather than design.
So those girls in primary school who drew hearts as dots on their "i"s were right.
In any case Wordpad handles all of that nicely. No need for a fully fledged "Enterprise" word processer for most writing. Even serious writing. Even in the bloody "enterprise" itself. Formating memos is actually goofing off and playing around.
As someone who works in publishing, the initial phase of extracting plain text from the dog's breakfast of Word formatting gets more onerous by the year.
Hell for most writing applications parent is correct. About all you need is vi and ispell.
If only the Slashdot editors were so sophisticated. They've fixed the "Incompatability" in the heading now, but not the one in the original post. They publish about 4 paragraphs of text a day per person, and fuck up at least 50% of them. When I edit a book, I aim for less than one mistake per 100 pages.
you can take a document and send it through the mail (to yourself) just to get it stamped with the current date.
That proves nothing; you can post an unsealed envelope to yourself, and then open it and insert whatever documents you like at a later time and seal it. (The stamp and franking aren't on the seal, are they?)
Go to a JP if you need a dated document that will stand up in court, or for that matter any third party to witness and sign it.
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- Lot's of poor people can't read/write.
- If they can read/write, can they often can't read/write English - Who will educate all these people on how to use computers?
They have interfaces in local languages and try to be graphical enough to be "intuitive", though of course they still need some hands one instruction.
PS No apostrophe in "lots".
Rubbish. Both are very safe. Compare the risks of SARS (most of the deaths were of young or elderly, those at risk from "ordinary" flus everywhere) against very low road fatalities (because of the large use of public transport), and almost no gun crime (because only police have guns).
Politically though, Singapore is pretty authoritarian, and HK is gradually bending towards Beijing.
That's the problem... this is a movie that demands to be seen in a cinema. Don't lessen it by watching it on a small screen.
If you have a repertory cinema nearby, catch it the next time around.
or the endless psychedelic sequence.
Mind blowing man! It was revolutionary in 1968; it was the in thing to drop acid and sit in the front row to see that, though I was a little young for that; I was 10 at the time and made a special trip to the city and stayed with my aunt to see it.
Though sympathetic to your general view, this is wrong. Doesn't matter whether you are distributing a copy of a copyright work "non-commercially" or selling it; it's still a violation of copyright. The governing principle is (AFAIK, IANAL) not whether YOU are making money or not, but whether your distribution could adversely affect the rights and income of the copyright owner. That's where "fair use" should come in, why you can quote brief extracts in another work without specific permission.
Of course in Herbert's worlds you never know what's true and what's conspiracy. (I'm disregarding the posthumous prequels, haven't read them.) My point was that there are no robots in Dune; not because Herbert didn't think of them but because society had decided to ban them for some reason. Similar mechanisms have been used by other authors. (Worlds where you do have intelligent robots, like Star Wars, but in a totally illogical way, are worse -- robot soldiers are just clumsy cannon fodder here, but they'd really be more like Terminators.)
Not any more -- check out Vance Integral Edition. The entire corpus in a uniform edition of 44 volumes. "The V.I.E. project was begun in 1998; it is composed of hundreds of Vance readers world wide. In 2003 we published 22 of 44 projected volumes." Please send me one for Christmas.
Note at the end of the FA "B.C. writer Spider Robinson's latest novel is Callahan's Con.". How many Callahan stories has Spider written since (ca.) 1977?
At the same time as he was writing the Foundation stories, where far i the future there didn't seem to be computers, he was also writing his robot series, which had AI in the very near future. I'm not sure if he did this dichotomy on purpose; many years later he unified these future histories by something to do with the robots going underground to guide humanity from secrecy (I didn't read many of these, they seemed crappy compared with his earlier work).
Also Frank Herbert in Dune was one of several authors who posted a future where computers were banned because as they grew more intelligent they always tried to take over....
But I have to say that also reading some of Heinlein's stories of aspiring astronauts saving up to buy a slide rule, or learning logarithm tables by heart to become a navigator, seem a bit quaint. But these details don't make the stories unreadable, SF is one field where you should always look at the copyright date so you know where the future begins. (Look at HG Wells, Jules Verne, for instance.)
In the movie the Discovery went to Jupiter (as the tiles mention), but in the book it was Saturn (apparently they tried to do Saturn, but the special effects for the rings looked too fake).
Also, while I'm rambling, the reporter who wrote the news story made some mistakes -- for instance he says Kubrich was English, though he was born in New York. He also states that 2001 is boring, so he's obviously a Philistine.
Blast from the past:"If the computer is an 80486-based system, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) can be plugged into its socket in more than one way....Inserting Single Inline Memory Modules (SIMMs) should be relatively simple..."
Really? Try this search, or this.
The eventually goal is to be able to write a sentence such as "Google google google google?" and have it make complete sense.
Being John Malkovich
WAITER MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich?
GIRL MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich.
WAITER MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich.
(Turning to Malkovich)
Malkovich?
Malkovich looks down at the menu. Every item is "Malkovich." He screams
Probably the whole UK/US billion thing PP No, actually it's just the stupid submitter and careless editor who didn't notice the BBC story actually says "Now it handles more than 200 million and ..."
When Kazaa Lite did it, it was down to just another corporation, profiting from piracy.
What bullshit is this? KAzaalite is Kazaa with the popups/spyware/adware crap removed. Who is profiting (and how) from Kazaa Lite?
It never got out of beta. "The beta program for Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.6 on Linux has now ended.... At this time, a commercial version of FrameMaker for the Linux platform is not available.", where "this time" is prior to December 2000.
I love Postscript, and there is some great Adobe software, but they have a habit of killing off niche software becasue it conflicts with some part of their business plan. Such as the Ares font applications FontChameleon, FontFiddler, FontMonger, FontHopper, FontMinder(they didn't want cheap font editors available), and Adobe File Utilities, a conversion app that the bastards bought up and killed.
Thanks. Considering they were the same country till 1947 it would be amazing if new races had evolved.
As for language and culture; that's obviously not what was being discussed, just physical appearance, especially since the gentlemen in question were wearing overalls and speaking English.
And the cover really looks like a period piece too -- but not in a good way.
Since it was written it 1938, that doesn't follow. (Also, I dont recall any "alien" sex, just lots of hetero, and occasionally homo, and a little pedo.)
However, according to the FA, it was spiked becasue it was "too racy" for the staid 30s. If so, and that's not just marketing (instead of "too immature"), the I'll have to reconsider my opinion. I'd thought he'd just degenerated into a dirty old man as he got older.
Since we're talking about physical appearance, they ARE part of the same (ethnic) group.
The article "states" that, but how does anyone know? The thieves didn't give any interviews.
So those girls in primary school who drew hearts as dots on their "i"s were right.
In any case Wordpad handles all of that nicely. No need for a fully fledged "Enterprise" word processer for most writing. Even serious writing. Even in the bloody "enterprise" itself. Formating memos is actually goofing off and playing around.
As someone who works in publishing, the initial phase of extracting plain text from the dog's breakfast of Word formatting gets more onerous by the year.
Hell for most writing applications parent is correct. About all you need is vi and ispell.
If only the Slashdot editors were so sophisticated. They've fixed the "Incompatability" in the heading now, but not the one in the original post. They publish about 4 paragraphs of text a day per person, and fuck up at least 50% of them. When I edit a book, I aim for less than one mistake per 100 pages.
>Not if you had a Mac, it wasn't.
If you used Xerox Ventura, as I still do, you had WYSIWG in 1986 (running on GEM over DOS).
Word is even more dominant on Macs than Windows. What are you using -- Simpletext? BBedit?
That proves nothing; you can post an unsealed envelope to yourself, and then open it and insert whatever documents you like at a later time and seal it. (The stamp and franking aren't on the seal, are they?)
Go to a JP if you need a dated document that will stand up in court, or for that matter any third party to witness and sign it.
Downloads from Linuxiso.org; also has pretty cheap "buy disk" links if you're on a modem. Also see Distrowatch.