flamebait? hey don't get me wrong, i had a lot of respect for valve, then they utterly screwed up with HL patching, releasing them too often and in a way that made it impossible to update witha single patch. At that point I just quit playing CS. Then you've got TF2... erm yeah... So if HL2 happens, I will eat my words... anyway
I'll have to look out the Effinger books, not come across them, but if they're anything like the arabesks i really should!
I guess his willingness to talk to fans may stem from his journalistic past, he used to write for the Grauniad and I think a couple of other papers, so I think he's relatively down to earth.
And if I were to buy Effendi in hardback it wouldn't fit on my bookshelf properly! I was expecting it to be out in paperback by Xmas, can't be long now?!?
I keep meaning to get round to reading whichever (possibly Lucifer's Ghost?) that is more based on the kind of SF Vampire stuff, since I really liked the Cardinal in redrobe, and think it could be a really cool set up for a novel, since I like the promise of vampire based work, but am constantly disappointed by the writing itself.
Well, I reckon some of the stuff by Jon Courteney Grimwood is rather good, especially RedRobe, and Pashazade (plus the sequel Effendi that I am awaiting in paperback). RedRobe I thought was particularly good.
At the moment though I've been mainly reading all the Haruki Murakami books, which while not SF I do thoroughly recommend, he's a fantastic writer, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' being especially fine.
And if you like Murakami David Mitchell, author of Ghostwritten and Number9Dream is very good.
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Any interference with the redbook standard (oh, notice that word standard) will have to have some interference on the audio, and no matter how small, it's still going to be negative. And surely this kind of defeats the original marketing of CD's as "The best audio quality available".
yeah erm, if you look closer it shows, and says "SoloTrek XFV is a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft that a person *steps on*, straps on, and flies in an upright position." You can see where the feet actually are supported by the craft, meaning no weight from the actual machine is taken by the human body, it supports the pilot. As for whether you believe the video or not, well...
Yup, I try to use nothing but Maxtor hard drives. Everone I've seen running Seagate and other high end drives have all had great problems with them. But I've never had a Maxtor hard drive die. I still have my old 100mb Maxtor from ooooh, years back, and it works fine. Fair enough it's not in my machine but it works all the same! I currently have a Western Digital 30gb in along with my Maxtor 20gb, and the WD seems to have survived so far, but it's not actually my drive, i'm just using it til i go out and buy a Maxtor 120gb.
So as far as personal experience goes, i do recommend Maxtor.
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flamebait? hey don't get me wrong, i had a lot of respect for valve, then they utterly screwed up with HL patching, releasing them too often and in a way that made it impossible to update witha single patch. At that point I just quit playing CS. Then you've got TF2... erm yeah... So if HL2 happens, I will eat my words... anyway
...that Valve actually release something other than another patch for Half-Life?
Nah, not even Micro$oft can manage that!
Slink
I'll have to look out the Effinger books, not come across them, but if they're anything like the arabesks i really should!
I guess his willingness to talk to fans may stem from his journalistic past, he used to write for the Grauniad and I think a couple of other papers, so I think he's relatively down to earth.
And if I were to buy Effendi in hardback it wouldn't fit on my bookshelf properly! I was expecting it to be out in paperback by Xmas, can't be long now?!?
I keep meaning to get round to reading whichever (possibly Lucifer's Ghost?) that is more based on the kind of SF Vampire stuff, since I really liked the Cardinal in redrobe, and think it could be a really cool set up for a novel, since I like the promise of vampire based work, but am constantly disappointed by the writing itself.
Well, I reckon some of the stuff by Jon Courteney Grimwood is rather good, especially RedRobe, and Pashazade (plus the sequel Effendi that I am awaiting in paperback). RedRobe I thought was particularly good.
At the moment though I've been mainly reading all the Haruki Murakami books, which while not SF I do thoroughly recommend, he's a fantastic writer, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' being especially fine.
And if you like Murakami David Mitchell, author of Ghostwritten and Number9Dream is very good.
Slink
Any interference with the redbook standard (oh, notice that word standard) will have to have some interference on the audio, and no matter how small, it's still going to be negative. And surely this kind of defeats the original marketing of CD's as "The best audio quality available".
yeah erm, if you look closer it shows, and says "SoloTrek XFV is a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft that a person *steps on*, straps on, and flies in an upright position." You can see where the feet actually are supported by the craft, meaning no weight from the actual machine is taken by the human body, it supports the pilot. As for whether you believe the video or not, well...
Yup, I try to use nothing but Maxtor hard drives. Everone I've seen running Seagate and other high end drives have all had great problems with them. But I've never had a Maxtor hard drive die. I still have my old 100mb Maxtor from ooooh, years back, and it works fine. Fair enough it's not in my machine but it works all the same! I currently have a Western Digital 30gb in along with my Maxtor 20gb, and the WD seems to have survived so far, but it's not actually my drive, i'm just using it til i go out and buy a Maxtor 120gb. So as far as personal experience goes, i do recommend Maxtor.
Same cd 5 times? Nonsense! Thank god my bro got me a mp3 cd player for the car!