A British engineer, Archie Butterworth, invented just such a device, known as the Sidler decades ago. He fitted the working prototype to a Jaguar, no less.
It is worth remembering that there is a significant body of opinion that if you have successfully made it to adulthood, hold down a job and are married (or at least capable of long-term relationships) then you can't really be said to have AS but Residual Asperger's Syndrome as an Adult.
If you are married and self-diagnose or suspect; get a diagnosis and if necessary, get counselling - it could save your marriage.
Displaying 65536 colours with a black white contrast of at least 10.0
Remaining within the weight and dimensions of an A format paperback book of 250 pages.
Passing the bed, beach, bath test - i.e. rolled on and slept on for 8 straight hours every night for 10 years without breaking; withstanding dust and sand ingress for 10 years without breaking; remaining waterproof for 10 years without fault.
Cost to the consumer not exceeding £30/$50.
then ebook readers will be the platform of choice in over 50% of 'reading experiences' in the developed world.
/. may be notorious for it's SNR, but really you can do better than this.
Easily portable, battery-powered, packet switching radios with ranges of at least a mile are not impossible to mass-produce now. So the poster asks that, given the political will, what could happen in societies with a sufficient quorum (for want of a better word) of population density.
Did you really not understand the question, or are that many of that trollish?
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Consider the doctored photo in this instance. First put a masthead above saying LIBERATED and then caption Coalition forces save civilians from Republican Guard reprisals
Then put LEFT TO DIE as your masthead and caption A British soldier stops this child receiving urgent medical attention.
Both are complete fictions, and both say polar opposites.
"Believe nothing of what you hear, and half of what you see."
Perhaps you should qualify this, as I presume you mean 19th century American as opposed to truly Victorian. The UK still has hundreds of thousands of 'working class' (i.e. lowest grade) Victorian houses that are not only structurally sound, but have been retrofitted with gas and electricity supplies, and still have surviving fittings. I have lived in many of this type, and frequently noticed original glass in the windows.
There are no closed environments in the real world.
Everything man made comes to the end of its useful life eventually. When it does it has to recycled or dumped. If you dump it then CFCs will leak out. If you recycle it you have to have the facilities to strip out the CFCs safely.
This is a problem we are only just starting to solve in the UK with our "fridge mountains".
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon ISBN: 057507390X - fantastic, stonking hard, Raymond Chandler SF and Broken Angels ISBN: 0575073241 - the word in the booktrade is 'better than Altered Carbon'. Seriously, read these books.
Neal Asher, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Adam Roberts, and Alastair Reynolds
For fantasy Rob 'Mythago Wood' Holdstock has a new series 'The Merlin Codex' (Celtika and The Iron Grail to date) which takes virtually every other Arthurian retelling out in the street and spanks it in front of its mum
going to be the booksellers who got the proofs (yes, including myself), richly leavened with the self-selecting subsample of Gibson fans who read Gibson and SF. And you know, we're right its very good - the best book I read and re-read in 2002. Gibson is like 95% of "SF" authors in that he examines now with the tools of prognostication - PR is Gibson at his leanest and most lyrical. Don't believe the hype, this book is fantastic.
...try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations, and, finally...
Maybe I am being thick or British or both, but how did the Night's Dawn Trilogy not appear on your bestsellers? If your bestsellers aren't the books that sell best, what criteria have you been using?
And raw unadulterated charts might not be that interesting. Rather than Bibles and Shakespeare, you are just as likely to find dull government documents that create high sales simply by virtue of the material they cover. For example UK booksellers frequently hum and hah over whether to include the Highway Code (does what it says on the tin) and mandatory school curricula that are 'bestsellers' on the list.
I'm not your average/.er so this might not be the info. you're looking for. I did use to run the computer book sections for a British chain of bookstores, however. I'd want intelligent (no Dummies, CIGs or books with friendly colour cartoons of floppy disks), but not rocket scientist (struggle with SAMS white books, and Nutshells)books.
My dream format
Landscape like New Riders "... Magic" books (lay-flat with no special binding)
non-moron step by step like Coriolis Visual Black books. (Also 2 colour printing good, 4 colour bad).
Split style like Peachpit VQS, but not split between images and text, but between reference (outer half) and relevant cookbook "recipes" (gutter half).
More books about wireless networking. Building Wireless Community Networks was great, but it didn't have enough meat, and I was surprised how thin it was. It was more a manifesto, not that that is bad, au contraire.
Why not publish the ultimate recursive manual, "How to Write Documentation (That is Interesting to Read, Informative and Does Not Insult Intelligence)"?
"Use Your Old Hardware" - what you really can do with old pc's, macs, routers, switches, printers etc. With honest advice of when to give it to a deserving cause or just chuck it. Lots of DLable binaries on the website for this book.
And ebooks? Wait till the hardware is
waterproof to 50m
OLED 1200 dpi display
100 Gb storage
battery life is a week even with 50 hours 'reading' time
and is given away like mobile phones when you sign up for a contract (think book clubs).
Final random thought - since many computer books have such a short shelf life, can you make them cheaper by using magazine printers? I will never touch my books on Photoshop 3 or Dreamweaver 2 ever again. But even if I did I have many old computer magazines that are as old, refered to more often, and are still in 'working order'. Cheaper texts for us, and cheaper returns for you.
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Umm, perhaps you'll tell the Swiss.
A British engineer, Archie Butterworth, invented just such a device, known as the Sidler decades ago. He fitted the working prototype to a Jaguar, no less.
It is worth remembering that there is a significant body of opinion that if you have successfully made it to adulthood, hold down a job and are married (or at least capable of long-term relationships) then you can't really be said to have AS but Residual Asperger's Syndrome as an Adult.
If you are married and self-diagnose or suspect; get a diagnosis and if necessary, get counselling - it could save your marriage.
then ebook readers will be the platform of choice in over 50% of 'reading experiences' in the developed world.
/. may be notorious for it's SNR, but really you can do better than this.
Easily portable, battery-powered, packet switching radios with ranges of at least a mile are not impossible to mass-produce now. So the poster asks that, given the political will, what could happen in societies with a sufficient quorum (for want of a better word) of population density.
Did you really not understand the question, or are that many of that trollish?
Which original?
..simply by changing the caption.
Consider the doctored photo in this instance. First put a masthead above saying LIBERATED and then caption Coalition forces save civilians from Republican Guard reprisals
Then put LEFT TO DIE as your masthead and caption A British soldier stops this child receiving urgent medical attention.
Both are complete fictions, and both say polar opposites.
"Believe nothing of what you hear, and half of what you see."
Take them to the nearest charity shop. If you are looking for cheap books then a few pence from a charity shop is not much to pay.
..true geeks still live at home into their forties.
Perhaps you should qualify this, as I presume you mean 19th century American as opposed to truly Victorian. The UK still has hundreds of thousands of 'working class' (i.e. lowest grade) Victorian houses that are not only structurally sound, but have been retrofitted with gas and electricity supplies, and still have surviving fittings. I have lived in many of this type, and frequently noticed original glass in the windows.
..will prevent any useful pictures being produced.
http server $33
webcam $25
802.11 adaptor $64
and yet a wireless network camera is $329! Yes I am oversimplifying, but you get my point - What is going on?
I can't believe that /. is so full of CompSci's that Yield Managment is newsworthy - this has been taught at university for years.
There are no closed environments in the real world.
Everything man made comes to the end of its useful life eventually. When it does it has to recycled or dumped. If you dump it then CFCs will leak out. If you recycle it you have to have the facilities to strip out the CFCs safely.
This is a problem we are only just starting to solve in the UK with our "fridge mountains".
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon ISBN: 057507390X - fantastic, stonking hard, Raymond Chandler SF and Broken Angels ISBN: 0575073241 - the word in the booktrade is 'better than Altered Carbon'. Seriously, read these books.
Neal Asher, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Adam Roberts, and Alastair Reynolds
For fantasy Rob 'Mythago Wood' Holdstock has a new series 'The Merlin Codex' (Celtika and The Iron Grail to date) which takes virtually every other Arthurian retelling out in the street and spanks it in front of its mum
going to be the booksellers who got the proofs (yes, including myself), richly leavened with the self-selecting subsample of Gibson fans who read Gibson and SF. And you know, we're right its very good - the best book I read and re-read in 2002. Gibson is like 95% of "SF" authors in that he examines now with the tools of prognostication - PR is Gibson at his leanest and most lyrical. Don't believe the hype, this book is fantastic.
...try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations, and, finally...
It's alive and kicking.
...under the sun.
I think Midge Ure might have something to say about that!
Maybe I am being thick or British or both, but how did the Night's Dawn Trilogy not appear on your bestsellers? If your bestsellers aren't the books that sell best, what criteria have you been using? And raw unadulterated charts might not be that interesting. Rather than Bibles and Shakespeare, you are just as likely to find dull government documents that create high sales simply by virtue of the material they cover. For example UK booksellers frequently hum and hah over whether to include the Highway Code (does what it says on the tin) and mandatory school curricula that are 'bestsellers' on the list.
Apparently BT could in 1992.
You don't know many ten year old boys, do you?
- Landscape like New Riders "... Magic" books (lay-flat with no special binding)
- non-moron step by step like Coriolis Visual Black books. (Also 2 colour printing good, 4 colour bad).
- Split style like Peachpit VQS, but not split between images and text, but between reference (outer half) and relevant cookbook "recipes" (gutter half).
More books about wireless networking. Building Wireless Community Networks was great, but it didn't have enough meat, and I was surprised how thin it was. It was more a manifesto, not that that is bad, au contraire.Why not publish the ultimate recursive manual, "How to Write Documentation (That is Interesting to Read, Informative and Does Not Insult Intelligence)"?
"Use Your Old Hardware" - what you really can do with old pc's, macs, routers, switches, printers etc. With honest advice of when to give it to a deserving cause or just chuck it. Lots of DLable binaries on the website for this book.
And ebooks? Wait till the hardware is
- waterproof to 50m
- OLED 1200 dpi display
- 100 Gb storage
- battery life is a week even with 50 hours 'reading' time
- and is given away like mobile phones when you sign up for a contract (think book clubs).
Final random thought - since many computer books have such a short shelf life, can you make them cheaper by using magazine printers? I will never touch my books on Photoshop 3 or Dreamweaver 2 ever again. But even if I did I have many old computer magazines that are as old, refered to more often, and are still in 'working order'. Cheaper texts for us, and cheaper returns for you.