Iain M Banks' mini-rings make shadow squares unnecessary. A smaller ringworld orbits the star rather than encircling it and with a bit of polar inclination you can set the day/night ratio as you prefer. Still need something pretty sturdy to build them, so I guess they're an alternate app.
The Guardian as a whole is fairly enthusiastic about science and technology, recently expanding their science coverage quite significantly. Scientific advance has collectivism at its very core: individual alchemists never achieved very much and their meagre discoveries died with them in the main.
The advances of technology have regularly introduced people to new types of poverty and misery without really changing the levels. Sweat-shop slave labour over the centuries springs to mind. Historically, collective action has done a lot to ameliorate the worst excesses of capital.
Made me think of Bryan Talbot's Tale of One Bad Rat, which though a masterpiece, would be a huge downer of a game. Way of the Rat looks like it would involve a lot less raped children, which is probably a good thing.
No hints in the press releases. I guess Red Star's Battle sequences lend themselves to RTS and 100 bullets more of a role-playing/FPS mix. 100 bullets is deep, murky stuff and not done yet, so I hope they're careful with the spoilers. Both fine comics, the oversized Red Star collections are particularly lovely things.
Spamassasin proxy for windows which requires minimal setup and works very well for me. I was using Cloudmark's solution, but stopped when they wanted $4.99 monthly to let me keep their database up-to-date. Found their solution flawed anyway, since a lot of people seemed to believe that mailing lists they subscribed to became spam when they grew tired with them.
And lots of specialised extra TV channels once you've made the one-time initial outlay for a digital box. And a bundle of radio stations: NPR without pledge drives on Radio 4 through to proper eclectic modern music on Radio 1. Not much sport though, that you end up paying through the nose for thanks to Mr Murdoch.
Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Lucky Strike" is a nice story considering this hypothetical. Hugo and Nebula nominated and a personal favourite. Collected in a few places;
They stole her data, which was the direct inspiration for the helical structure. I think there's a slightly more direct link there. I know science is done by standing on the shoulders of giants, but this was more like standing on her throat...
Yet again, the real world imitates one of his stories. He has a couple of stories based in a world where everyone's brain is swapped out for a crystal computer. Mindfuck stuff about the true seat of consciousness, mortality and the meaning of "human". Just remembered "Reasons to be cheerful", specifically about brain prosthesics and personality.
This is my third Greg Egan post in the last few months and they've all been ontopic. He thinks big thoughts about our near future and is a much better writer than Cory Doctorow, imho.
Greg Egan, for one, has found quite a lot of material in "the details". Novels about , amongst other topics, a Theory of Everything (Distress) and influencing the collapse of quantum uncertainty (Quarantine) and short stories about all sorts of *very* hard science. Some interesting bio-ethics stuff too, to forge a tenuous Niven link. Good official homepage with lots of full stories online.
and co-written with Jerry Pournelle, kind of spoiling your point...
Hansen's disease?
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Leprosy Genes
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I got the impression that researchers had stopped using "leprosy" to describe the condition because of the negative connotations amongst the general public. Certainly, you hear a lot more about Hansen's disease in the British media.
The Science Daily article refers to leprosy throughout though, suggesting that North America stills prefer that nomenclature. Is this some kind of accreditation thing, akin to Farnsworth and Baird?
Front-line support kind of relies on customers calling in. You keep a skeleton staff in, but they're not going to be run off their feet. Would you want Level 1 phone guys running server stress testing or normalising your Oracle DB?
Suggestions only use idle time. It won't bump a scheduled recording or delete something you actively recorded. You can turn it off, but I can't see why you would.
Sometimes it turns up gems which you wouldn't have found and at least a portion of the suggestions are worthwhile when nothing on your now playing list is to your taste. I get random Simpsons episodes and the BBC news as suggestions when there's space, which is worth 20 seconds deleting a-team reruns every so often.
Grad students earning extra money running tutorials, marking work, that kind of thing...
Storyline about their unionisation battles in Doonesbury, but the archive search isn't working right now.
It's an Icelandic company, so they're developing in an environment where there's plentiful hot water (geothermal). I'm wondering if you could get enough hot water from rooftop water-heating panels. Not the thoroughly expensive photo-voltaic, the much simpler black pipes full of water sort. They're surprisingly efficient even in colder climes: my in-laws in the North of England get most of their hot water from a set. The combination might make this very useful for isolated buildings, even outside of volcanic hot zones.
Slashdot Mirror
Iain M Banks' mini-rings make shadow squares unnecessary. A smaller ringworld orbits the star rather than encircling it and with a bit of polar inclination you can set the day/night ratio as you prefer. Still need something pretty sturdy to build them, so I guess they're an alternate app.
The Guardian as a whole is fairly enthusiastic about science and technology, recently expanding their science coverage quite significantly. Scientific advance has collectivism at its very core: individual alchemists never achieved very much and their meagre discoveries died with them in the main.
The advances of technology have regularly introduced people to new types of poverty and misery without really changing the levels. Sweat-shop slave labour over the centuries springs to mind. Historically, collective action has done a lot to ameliorate the worst excesses of capital.
Made me think of Bryan Talbot's Tale of One Bad Rat, which though a masterpiece, would be a huge downer of a game. Way of the Rat looks like it would involve a lot less raped children, which is probably a good thing.
No hints in the press releases. I guess Red Star's Battle sequences lend themselves to RTS and 100 bullets more of a role-playing/FPS mix. 100 bullets is deep, murky stuff and not done yet, so I hope they're careful with the spoilers. Both fine comics, the oversized Red Star collections are particularly lovely things.
Spamassasin proxy for windows which requires minimal setup and works very well for me. I was using Cloudmark's solution, but stopped when they wanted $4.99 monthly to let me keep their database up-to-date. Found their solution flawed anyway, since a lot of people seemed to believe that mailing lists they subscribed to became spam when they grew tired with them.
You can find this definition, i.e., "literally, a coming up, an improvement of one's situation", a few pages before the entry for embiggen, I think..
Anyone who's continued obscurity baffles and confuses you? Writers or artists.
How about the same question for success? No need for diplomacy, what gets said on Slashdot stays on Slashdot
And lots of specialised extra TV channels once you've made the one-time initial outlay for a digital box. And a bundle of radio stations: NPR without pledge drives on Radio 4 through to proper eclectic modern music on Radio 1. Not much sport though, that you end up paying through the nose for thanks to Mr Murdoch.
General Alternity collection
All Stanley Robinson, all the time
They stole her data, which was the direct inspiration for the helical structure. I think there's a slightly more direct link there. I know science is done by standing on the shoulders of giants, but this was more like standing on her throat...
..robbed of her credit and too dead to fight the point: more details here
Posthumously slagging off the person who gifted him a Nobel about her dress sense, what a wanker!
Original here, still on the front page for science
Yet again, the real world imitates one of his stories. He has a couple of stories based in a world where everyone's brain is swapped out for a crystal computer. Mindfuck stuff about the true seat of consciousness, mortality and the meaning of "human". Just remembered "Reasons to be cheerful", specifically about brain prosthesics and personality.
Home page with free stories
This is my third Greg Egan post in the last few months and they've all been ontopic. He thinks big thoughts about our near future and is a much better writer than Cory Doctorow, imho.
Greg Egan, for one, has found quite a lot of material in "the details". Novels about , amongst other topics, a Theory of Everything (Distress) and influencing the collapse of quantum uncertainty (Quarantine) and short stories about all sorts of *very* hard science. Some interesting bio-ethics stuff too, to forge a tenuous Niven link. Good official homepage with lots of full stories online.
and co-written with Jerry Pournelle, kind of spoiling your point...
I got the impression that researchers had stopped using "leprosy" to describe the condition because of the negative connotations amongst the general public. Certainly, you hear a lot more about Hansen's disease in the British media.
The Science Daily article refers to leprosy throughout though, suggesting that North America stills prefer that nomenclature. Is this some kind of accreditation thing, akin to Farnsworth and Baird?
My wife suggested we book tickets for opening night as a Valentine's day treat.
I'm a lucky guy.
The trailers look like they're working from Frank Miller's classic run and Michael Clarke Duncan looks like he'll do justice to the Kingpin.
Based on a Silverado, so they could get a whole campaign using some of that cool night-vision footage the military releases.
$1m for something a $15k Stinger would trash seems a lot though.
Front-line support kind of relies on customers calling in. You keep a skeleton staff in, but they're not going to be run off their feet. Would you want Level 1 phone guys running server stress testing or normalising your Oracle DB?
You don't have to own the stock. You can buy it post-crash to cover your puts. See here for a nice real world example.
under $20, you can get them engraved, they're really handy little tools for your keyring/belt loop/purse
Suggestions only use idle time. It won't bump a scheduled recording or delete something you actively recorded. You can turn it off, but I can't see why you would.
Sometimes it turns up gems which you wouldn't have found and at least a portion of the suggestions are worthwhile when nothing on your now playing list is to your taste. I get random Simpsons episodes and the BBC news as suggestions when there's space, which is worth 20 seconds deleting a-team reruns every so often.
Grad students earning extra money running tutorials, marking work, that kind of thing... Storyline about their unionisation battles in Doonesbury, but the archive search isn't working right now.
It's an Icelandic company, so they're developing in an environment where there's plentiful hot water (geothermal). I'm wondering if you could get enough hot water from rooftop water-heating panels. Not the thoroughly expensive photo-voltaic, the much simpler black pipes full of water sort. They're surprisingly efficient even in colder climes: my in-laws in the North of England get most of their hot water from a set. The combination might make this very useful for isolated buildings, even outside of volcanic hot zones.
Favourite show you were personally involved in and favourite work by other folks?