A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face and arms began to swell. (and Whitey's on the moon) I can't pay no doctor bill. (but Whitey's on the moon) Ten years from now I'll be payin' still. (while Whitey's on the moon) The man jus' upped my rent las' night. ('cause Whitey's on the moon) No hot water, no toilets, no lights. (but Whitey's on the moon) I wonder why he's uppi' me? ('cause Whitey's on the moon?) I wuz already payin' 'im fifty a week. (with Whitey on the moon) Taxes takin' my whole damn check, Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin' up, An' as if all that shit wuzn't enough: A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face an' arm began to swell. (but Whitey's on the moon) Was all that money I made las' year (for Whitey on the moon?) How come there ain't no money here? (Hmm! Whitey's on the moon) Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill (of Whitey on the moon) I think I'll sen' these doctor bills, Airmail special (to Whitey on the moon)
IBM sold the Nazis the tabulating machines as well as customizing the field inputs and tabulation outputs of the punch cards used for recording Jews/Gypsies/homosexuals/dissidents expelled as well as those sent and processed through the concentration camps. The president of the entire company demanded that verbal instructions to his German managers be the rule, to avoid a paper trail. IBM was the sole servicer of machines at all the concentration camp, for FSM's sake. Of course they knew exactly what they were selling. And they sold yet more equipment, customized punch cards and services to Nazi Germany after we were at war with them via their Geneva office which is, at the very least, treason.
Do blame the maker for the use of the tool if the tool was customized for mass killings.
Don't listen to people with no comprehension of moral responsibility or professional (not to mention general human) ethics.
Don't open your digital pie hole if you don't actually know what you're talking about.
Spain, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria. Even France doesn't do remotely as horribly as the CURRENT US government. How's your math now?
Christ, get a grip. Instead of pouring hundreds of billions into flying people to God-damned Mars, we should worry about fixing our educational system so those kids learn science and math and how to read. Giving those billions to Lockheed-Martin isn't going to make our kids better students. After that, we should be worrying about health care, the fact that over 80,000 Americans die of starvation a year, violence, 2 million-plus people in prison and plenty more before we waste money on going to another planet. How about taking care of the people who were affected by Katrina? Or should we just let them all rot while we ooh and ahh over the red planet? How about pouring it all into alternative energy to actually help with both our national security and energy crisis?
Iraq already has sent a trillion dollars into the hands of many of these same companies, and now you want to make sure we do it again from another angle while letting the country continue to go down the shitter. Nice thinking. I grew up as a kid worshiping Jacques Cousteau and Carl Sagan. If we're going to explore an unknown world, why don't we worry about the much cheaper, much closer and far more relevant undersea one first. We can get just as much engineering and far more biological data from the process.
Personally, I think this was fantastic move by Congress. I hope they do it again and again and again. The money raised by our taxes should go towards things that we need considering the various crises we face right now.
If you don't want to watch ads in Safari, may I recommend the plug in Pithhelmet? Also Acidsearch for customized searches and Saft for all kinds of stuff, but especially for saving tabs when closing the browser or for when it crashes.
Obviously there aren't remotely as many plug ins for Safari as there are for Firefox, but some of the ones that do exist are quite good. Check out pimpmysafari.com for overviews of all the Safari plug ins and links to them.
I'm hoping that porting Safari to Windows will result in an exponential increase in plug ins over the next couple years, because the Safari 3.0 beta is blazingly faster than Firefox 2.0.0.4 on my Powerbook.
Have to say that Safari on my Windows box is, in fact, blurry as hell. But since it's a beta I'm willing to cut it some slack for the moment. Plus it does render noticeably faster than Firefox for me.
Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is... Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers. It's too early for me to talk about it... But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."
Huh, by a couple of months do you think it means the day after OS X 10.5 is released? I'm also guessing MS'll announce come of their prospective 'features' at that point too.
It's amazing just how bitter and defensive MS has become this last year in regards to OS X.
I'm pretty easy. A sulfuric acid bath would be fine, or maybe an industrial strength nail gun to the head. If death is too much, I would also settle for the sporking out of my eyes and shoving piranhas into my ear canals.
There are so many primo shows featuring stellar writing and acting on television its sick. The Shield. The Wire. Deadwood. Weeds. Rome. The Unit (at least last season). There are sci-fi/fantasy ones that qualify as well. Battlestar Galactica. Doctor Who. Some were amazing but got cancelled too early, like Firefly (still better than BSG) and Angel. Heroes, however, is such a complete abortion of a show that I can't see how it could get better enough to be watchable.
This may be the single dumbest Slashdot 'article' I've ever read, which is saying something. Way to go, dumb-ass.
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Riiight.
A Bug's Life happened to bed a classic retelling of The Seven Samurai in a way that touched all ages, managing to be beautiful and whimsical AND touching. While Antz was a crappy looking tour de garbage made up of unfunny, dated, topical jokes and voiced by such deep and socially-commenting acteurs like Sly Stallone. Guess those 'idiot' masses are right on occasion.
Except for Shrek, of course, which was as ugly and as stupidly, topically unfunny as Antz. Fart jokes? Jesus.
Christ almighty, doesn't ANYone know the facts that the President of Iran has no real independent power? Why the hell do you think "liberal" Rasfajani couldn't push any of his policies? Because there is an actual council of mullahs who run the country. They decide the heavy judicial cases, they decide who the president is, what the president can actually do and the military answers to them. They even have a front man. Does your brain work enough to still remember Ayatollah Khomenei? How about the current Ayatollah Khamenei?
So the fuck what if the president is looney tunes? Ahmanidejad can't do shit. The Guardian Council, the Supreme Leader and the ruling mullahs behind them, on the other hand, are decidely NOT looney tunes (well, they are in that they believe wacko religious crap, but politically they aren't suicidal). They plan to remain in power. They will not be launching unprovoked attacks on Israel.
Jesus, fucking learn some facts somewhere other than television. It's rotting your brains. Read some books. And not by those brain-dead troglodytes of Fox 'News', either. Real books by people who actually know history and choose not to lie about it pathologically to serve their greed.
Actually, not one of them is considered to be in Einstein's class of intellect. The 'smartest' man in physics is supposedly Edward Witten, founder of M-theory. If you listen to the top theoretical physicists talk about him, he seems to be in the running for most brilliant physicist of all time.
You're a fucking moron. Haliburton's theft of Iraq war funds is far greater than the UN's (and since when does the UN = France anyway? How stupid are you?).
I've been to France many times to. Once or twice on business, but most of the time to, you know, ENJOY myself there. And by and large the people there have been friendly and interesting. A hell of a lot more interesting than the average American I run across. Maybe if your experience is that they're snooty it has something to do with the fact that they don't suffer jack-asses (read: you) as lightly as they do here in the States.
Dumb-ass.
Oh, and France's military record is a just a tad greater than America's as well, Personally, I'm a pacifist and I don't find any wars except those of pure defense to invasion or revolution anything to be proud of, but Charlemagne and Napoleon have a bit of a leg up on any US figures I can think of. The US wouldn't exist if France hadn't bankrupted itself funding our revolution against Britain. The French invented the 20th Century special forces and they fought the most bravely (and suffered by far the highest casualties) in WWI. Meanwhile, the French resistance in WWII was about as brave as they come.
Open your eyes, read books, talk to people and, above all else, get your head out of your ass.
Well, it sounds like no matter what answer you get your response will be 'still waiting'.
I have one of the Expose features mated to my middle mouse button. With a click I have all windows miniaturized but in a way I can watch them live. I can see changes in a terminal or an IRC window while I have Quicktime or VLC still playing a movie in a watchable manner.
I can also switch to one of twenty open windows just by visual cue, which is a hell of a lot faster than constantly alt-tabbing through twenty windows to find just the one you want.
Finally, I can combine the Desktop feature of Expose with the All Windows to drag and drop files between those twenty open windows in the blink of an eye. Once again, far more easily and faster than you could using alt-tab.
A) Apple wants Bonjour to be a widely used standard that will be supported by the majority of hardware manufacturers. For this reason, it's in their best interest for as many Windows users as possible to adopt it.
B) It's in Apple's interests to make it insanely easy for people to add Macs to their existing Windows networks. If you can do it in a zeroconf manner, you've just eliminated a hell of a lot of arguments against buying a Mac to put in your Win network. Good for sales, good for mindshare.
C) Adding Exposé would only serve to give one OS X's very best usability features to their competitor and would lessen the reason for anyone to buy Tiger.
The anonymous coward finished writing his retort, his righteous anger turning him on. "Yeah. Commie Cunt had it coming. Damn straight." He began playing with his sub-inch penis, stroking it over and over again, trying desperately to get it up. It was difficult as the rolls of fat that made up his hyper-extended belly kept him from being able to see what was actually going on down there. "Gawd dammit!" he squeeked. It was time for the nukyular option. There was no alternative.
He spun his captain's chair around so he was facing the life-size poster of Tom DeLay, photoshopped into turgid nudity. "Oh yeeeeaaaahhhh, Tommy boy. Ride me, Tommy, ride me!" Drool ran down his cheek as he staggered to his feet and then flung himself/collapsed forward on all fours before his pock-marked god. In his right hand, the 14" Black Mamba that was his closest friend and constant companion. He grunted and squealed, breaking into a sweat in an attempt to get his beefy hands back around to position the head of the Mamba at his back door. Rolling around the room on his belly he screamed in frustration at the unfairness of it all, stopping only briefly to stuff his face full of Krispy Kremes. The glazing melted beneath his onslaught of Republican tears and he tried desperately to lick off as much of the tasty pain as he could.
Finally, exhausted from his efforts, AC returned to his original project. Again, more struggling around the room, with only the first of the inch of the Mamba inserted to show for all his trouble. He again worked his way to his feet, using a step ladder this time. Two hours later, upon success, he released his grip on the step ladder. But his crisco legs had atrophied, and he fell back on his ass, fortuitously jamming all 14 inches up his sphincter. With Tom grinning down at him, AC ejaculated like a rocket. Well, like one of those Missile Defense Shield rockets, which is to say a few micro grams of something seeped out, only to be lost in mass of cheese coating the folds of lard over his groin. But to him, this was is a stupendous victory every bit as great as the one for Democracy going in Iraq right now. He knows in his heart that unlike those Commie Cunts out there spending their time in terror-ridden Iraq, he is the real hero.
Aaaaand no. Wrong. A lot of digital cameras will automatically add things like the time and date without any input. And then there's the fudging thing, where you can add a class of data that goes across all the photos in a 'roll'. Before you even take them.
So that when you then load them on your computer, they already have metadata! And when you use your decentralized filing system thanks to metadata-based search engines, voila! There's metadata to be had to find them, regardless of where they are.
And you're still wrong. A lot of metadata will be inserted automatically, like when you download photos from your digital camera. Metadata isn't just what you enter manually any more.
If you make a document that has no data that you add to it, or even a name (which is impossible on these OSs, you need to give it a name), you will still have metadata such as date embedded automatically in there.
Oh, I totally agree. That's why I said it was only one of the problems Windows faces. So many of the others come from such a crap-infested codebase. I'm an OS X lover, and I'm well aware that a hell of a lot of hard work went into making my computing experience so smooth and problem-free. It's what detached me from my constant need to keep upgrading my rig a few years back. I have a hardware-stable laptop now, and I not only live with it being static, I love it. Especially when each new version of OS X just runs better and better on it.
1. One reason OS X (and Mac OS's through the ages) 'just work' is becaused they're bound to a finite number of tightly integrated hardware. This makes things easier on the OS, and is one reason why Windows has difficulties (needing to cover a bzillion different hardware config permutations). It even causes Linux issues, since hardware config for the average computer user is not exactly its strong suit (although it has indeed made great strides and will, I'm sure, continue to do so).
2. Apple makes its mone off of its hardware. Delink OS X from its hardware, and VWOOOOSH. There go a lot of its profits.
At least this is what I've read in the past, and it seems to make sense. If I'm wrong about either of these, I'm sure polite corrections are forthcoming;)
1984 wasn't actually about 1984. It was about the totalitarian state... ie, the Soviet Union. It was never meant to be predictive, rather it was commentary on extant conditions.
Brave New World, on the other hand, was predictive, and brilliantly so. People will ask for their blinders, no need to force them.
Huxley saw the future so clearly and described it well. Orwell saw (part of) his present and described it magnificently.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY
Whitey on the Moon, by Gil Scott-Heron
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.
(while Whitey's on the moon)
The man jus' upped my rent las' night.
('cause Whitey's on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
I wonder why he's uppi' me?
('cause Whitey's on the moon?)
I wuz already payin' 'im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
An' as if all that shit wuzn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face an' arm began to swell.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Was all that money I made las' year
(for Whitey on the moon?)
How come there ain't no money here?
(Hmm! Whitey's on the moon)
Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill
(of Whitey on the moon)
I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,
Airmail special
(to Whitey on the moon)
IBM sold the Nazis the tabulating machines as well as customizing the field inputs and tabulation outputs of the punch cards used for recording Jews/Gypsies/homosexuals/dissidents expelled as well as those sent and processed through the concentration camps. The president of the entire company demanded that verbal instructions to his German managers be the rule, to avoid a paper trail. IBM was the sole servicer of machines at all the concentration camp, for FSM's sake. Of course they knew exactly what they were selling. And they sold yet more equipment, customized punch cards and services to Nazi Germany after we were at war with them via their Geneva office which is, at the very least, treason. Do blame the maker for the use of the tool if the tool was customized for mass killings. Don't listen to people with no comprehension of moral responsibility or professional (not to mention general human) ethics. Don't open your digital pie hole if you don't actually know what you're talking about.
Spain, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria. Even France doesn't do remotely as horribly as the CURRENT US government. How's your math now?
Christ, get a grip. Instead of pouring hundreds of billions into flying people to God-damned Mars, we should worry about fixing our educational system so those kids learn science and math and how to read. Giving those billions to Lockheed-Martin isn't going to make our kids better students. After that, we should be worrying about health care, the fact that over 80,000 Americans die of starvation a year, violence, 2 million-plus people in prison and plenty more before we waste money on going to another planet. How about taking care of the people who were affected by Katrina? Or should we just let them all rot while we ooh and ahh over the red planet? How about pouring it all into alternative energy to actually help with both our national security and energy crisis? Iraq already has sent a trillion dollars into the hands of many of these same companies, and now you want to make sure we do it again from another angle while letting the country continue to go down the shitter. Nice thinking. I grew up as a kid worshiping Jacques Cousteau and Carl Sagan. If we're going to explore an unknown world, why don't we worry about the much cheaper, much closer and far more relevant undersea one first. We can get just as much engineering and far more biological data from the process. Personally, I think this was fantastic move by Congress. I hope they do it again and again and again. The money raised by our taxes should go towards things that we need considering the various crises we face right now.
If you don't want to watch ads in Safari, may I recommend the plug in Pithhelmet? Also Acidsearch for customized searches and Saft for all kinds of stuff, but especially for saving tabs when closing the browser or for when it crashes. Obviously there aren't remotely as many plug ins for Safari as there are for Firefox, but some of the ones that do exist are quite good. Check out pimpmysafari.com for overviews of all the Safari plug ins and links to them. I'm hoping that porting Safari to Windows will result in an exponential increase in plug ins over the next couple years, because the Safari 3.0 beta is blazingly faster than Firefox 2.0.0.4 on my Powerbook. Have to say that Safari on my Windows box is, in fact, blurry as hell. But since it's a beta I'm willing to cut it some slack for the moment. Plus it does render noticeably faster than Firefox for me.
Huh, by a couple of months do you think it means the day after OS X 10.5 is released? I'm also guessing MS'll announce come of their prospective 'features' at that point too.
It's amazing just how bitter and defensive MS has become this last year in regards to OS X.
I'm pretty easy. A sulfuric acid bath would be fine, or maybe an industrial strength nail gun to the head. If death is too much, I would also settle for the sporking out of my eyes and shoving piranhas into my ear canals. There are so many primo shows featuring stellar writing and acting on television its sick. The Shield. The Wire. Deadwood. Weeds. Rome. The Unit (at least last season). There are sci-fi/fantasy ones that qualify as well. Battlestar Galactica. Doctor Who. Some were amazing but got cancelled too early, like Firefly (still better than BSG) and Angel. Heroes, however, is such a complete abortion of a show that I can't see how it could get better enough to be watchable.
What a miserably written and horribly acted show. I found myself wishing Nissan hadn't ponied up to bring it to us with limited commercial breaks.
This may be the single dumbest Slashdot 'article' I've ever read, which is saying something. Way to go, dumb-ass.
Riiight.
A Bug's Life happened to bed a classic retelling of The Seven Samurai in a way that touched all ages, managing to be beautiful and whimsical AND touching. While Antz was a crappy looking tour de garbage made up of unfunny, dated, topical jokes and voiced by such deep and socially-commenting acteurs like Sly Stallone. Guess those 'idiot' masses are right on occasion.
Except for Shrek, of course, which was as ugly and as stupidly, topically unfunny as Antz. Fart jokes? Jesus.
Rasfajani should read Khatami.
So the fuck what if the president is looney tunes? Ahmanidejad can't do shit. The Guardian Council, the Supreme Leader and the ruling mullahs behind them, on the other hand, are decidely NOT looney tunes (well, they are in that they believe wacko religious crap, but politically they aren't suicidal). They plan to remain in power. They will not be launching unprovoked attacks on Israel.
Jesus, fucking learn some facts somewhere other than television. It's rotting your brains. Read some books. And not by those brain-dead troglodytes of Fox 'News', either. Real books by people who actually know history and choose not to lie about it pathologically to serve their greed.
An iPod's an Apple, not a Mac. A Mac is an Apple computer. So I guess our king-of-I.Q. status is still safe;)
Actually, not one of them is considered to be in Einstein's class of intellect. The 'smartest' man in physics is supposedly Edward Witten, founder of M-theory. If you listen to the top theoretical physicists talk about him, he seems to be in the running for most brilliant physicist of all time.
You're a fucking moron. Haliburton's theft of Iraq war funds is far greater than the UN's (and since when does the UN = France anyway? How stupid are you?). I've been to France many times to. Once or twice on business, but most of the time to, you know, ENJOY myself there. And by and large the people there have been friendly and interesting. A hell of a lot more interesting than the average American I run across. Maybe if your experience is that they're snooty it has something to do with the fact that they don't suffer jack-asses (read: you) as lightly as they do here in the States. Dumb-ass. Oh, and France's military record is a just a tad greater than America's as well, Personally, I'm a pacifist and I don't find any wars except those of pure defense to invasion or revolution anything to be proud of, but Charlemagne and Napoleon have a bit of a leg up on any US figures I can think of. The US wouldn't exist if France hadn't bankrupted itself funding our revolution against Britain. The French invented the 20th Century special forces and they fought the most bravely (and suffered by far the highest casualties) in WWI. Meanwhile, the French resistance in WWII was about as brave as they come. Open your eyes, read books, talk to people and, above all else, get your head out of your ass.
Well, it sounds like no matter what answer you get your response will be 'still waiting'.
I have one of the Expose features mated to my middle mouse button. With a click I have all windows miniaturized but in a way I can watch them live. I can see changes in a terminal or an IRC window while I have Quicktime or VLC still playing a movie in a watchable manner.
I can also switch to one of twenty open windows just by visual cue, which is a hell of a lot faster than constantly alt-tabbing through twenty windows to find just the one you want.
Finally, I can combine the Desktop feature of Expose with the All Windows to drag and drop files between those twenty open windows in the blink of an eye. Once again, far more easily and faster than you could using alt-tab.
A) Apple wants Bonjour to be a widely used standard that will be supported by the majority of hardware manufacturers. For this reason, it's in their best interest for as many Windows users as possible to adopt it. B) It's in Apple's interests to make it insanely easy for people to add Macs to their existing Windows networks. If you can do it in a zeroconf manner, you've just eliminated a hell of a lot of arguments against buying a Mac to put in your Win network. Good for sales, good for mindshare. C) Adding Exposé would only serve to give one OS X's very best usability features to their competitor and would lessen the reason for anyone to buy Tiger.
The anonymous coward finished writing his retort, his righteous anger turning him on. "Yeah. Commie Cunt had it coming. Damn straight." He began playing with his sub-inch penis, stroking it over and over again, trying desperately to get it up. It was difficult as the rolls of fat that made up his hyper-extended belly kept him from being able to see what was actually going on down there. "Gawd dammit!" he squeeked. It was time for the nukyular option. There was no alternative.
He spun his captain's chair around so he was facing the life-size poster of Tom DeLay, photoshopped into turgid nudity. "Oh yeeeeaaaahhhh, Tommy boy. Ride me, Tommy, ride me!" Drool ran down his cheek as he staggered to his feet and then flung himself/collapsed forward on all fours before his pock-marked god. In his right hand, the 14" Black Mamba that was his closest friend and constant companion. He grunted and squealed, breaking into a sweat in an attempt to get his beefy hands back around to position the head of the Mamba at his back door. Rolling around the room on his belly he screamed in frustration at the unfairness of it all, stopping only briefly to stuff his face full of Krispy Kremes. The glazing melted beneath his onslaught of Republican tears and he tried desperately to lick off as much of the tasty pain as he could.
Finally, exhausted from his efforts, AC returned to his original project. Again, more struggling around the room, with only the first of the inch of the Mamba inserted to show for all his trouble. He again worked his way to his feet, using a step ladder this time. Two hours later, upon success, he released his grip on the step ladder. But his crisco legs had atrophied, and he fell back on his ass, fortuitously jamming all 14 inches up his sphincter. With Tom grinning down at him, AC ejaculated like a rocket. Well, like one of those Missile Defense Shield rockets, which is to say a few micro grams of something seeped out, only to be lost in mass of cheese coating the folds of lard over his groin. But to him, this was is a stupendous victory every bit as great as the one for Democracy going in Iraq right now. He knows in his heart that unlike those Commie Cunts out there spending their time in terror-ridden Iraq, he is the real hero.
TabletPC/PocketPC = Newton
Media Center PC = MythTV (one of many)
Xbox = Atari/Ninteno/Sega/Sony/Are you actually serious?!
Aaaaand no. Wrong. A lot of digital cameras will automatically add things like the time and date without any input. And then there's the fudging thing, where you can add a class of data that goes across all the photos in a 'roll'. Before you even take them. So that when you then load them on your computer, they already have metadata! And when you use your decentralized filing system thanks to metadata-based search engines, voila! There's metadata to be had to find them, regardless of where they are.
And you're still wrong. A lot of metadata will be inserted automatically, like when you download photos from your digital camera. Metadata isn't just what you enter manually any more. If you make a document that has no data that you add to it, or even a name (which is impossible on these OSs, you need to give it a name), you will still have metadata such as date embedded automatically in there.
Oh, I totally agree. That's why I said it was only one of the problems Windows faces. So many of the others come from such a crap-infested codebase. I'm an OS X lover, and I'm well aware that a hell of a lot of hard work went into making my computing experience so smooth and problem-free. It's what detached me from my constant need to keep upgrading my rig a few years back. I have a hardware-stable laptop now, and I not only live with it being static, I love it. Especially when each new version of OS X just runs better and better on it.
1. One reason OS X (and Mac OS's through the ages) 'just work' is becaused they're bound to a finite number of tightly integrated hardware. This makes things easier on the OS, and is one reason why Windows has difficulties (needing to cover a bzillion different hardware config permutations). It even causes Linux issues, since hardware config for the average computer user is not exactly its strong suit (although it has indeed made great strides and will, I'm sure, continue to do so).
2. Apple makes its mone off of its hardware. Delink OS X from its hardware, and VWOOOOSH. There go a lot of its profits. At least this is what I've read in the past, and it seems to make sense. If I'm wrong about either of these, I'm sure polite corrections are forthcoming;)
Please, that was just a sad post. Can't wait to get Tiger next month, whether it's rough-edged or not.
Brave New World, on the other hand, was predictive, and brilliantly so. People will ask for their blinders, no need to force them.
Huxley saw the future so clearly and described it well. Orwell saw (part of) his present and described it magnificently.