I have read quite a few of his books, and mostly enjoy them, especially the culture ones. Some are better than others, and personally I found 'The Player of Games' and 'Excession' to be the most enjoyable in terms of page turners.
Speaking of UK Sci-Fi authors, do yourself a favour and look up Steven Baxter if you've never heard of him. He's written dozens of intelligent, entertaining, and highly-engaging stories involving multitudes of subjects. He has a talent for being able to tie together events that span millions of years and many distinct time periods while keeping them all relevant to the story. I'd really place him firmly in the top tier of Sci-Fi authors writing today.
In particular, I'd recommend looking into the Destiny's Children series (starting with 'Coalescent') and 'Evolution'. Highly recommended.
This is absolutely correct, and it's almost as if the entire OS/hardware industry is grinding to a halt for these reasons.
Though the possibilities of what you can do on a computer are theoretically limitless, but in practice there's now a small set of functionality (web access, email, office type stuff, or media manipulation apps) for which 99% of people need computers for. Most of what we have is good enough. Over the past twenty years a lot of the advancement has been due to improvements in graphics, which led to directly obvious improvments in usability, and vice versa, but this has plateaued at what we have now. Nobody has come up with any convicing 3D GUI designs that have been demonstrated to be any better or more efficient than where we already are.
Even on the gaming front, consoles appear to be slowly but surely taking that role away from the PC. The endless cycle of nvidia-ATI upgrades is getting old, and I've got better things to spend my money on.
Advancement these days appears to be mostly in server side apps and web-distributed content, and it's as if we've gone full circle back to the days of the dumb terminal. If you're an average user, and your machine keeps working, why do you need to upgrade?
You don't, end of story.
I think someone put up a poll and an article about the same subject at the same time and pointed them at the same comments page. Now all the poll-specific jokes are going to be confusing and out of context.
... bullshit on this.
A popular show, in it's prime, that's currently raking in cash hands over fist for the BBC from various products and merchandising efforts, is going to be axed right in the middle of a massive wave of popularity? Yes, you might kill a popular show just as its popularity or quality is fading, give it a dignified death, whatever. But this makes no sense. Producers and writers can be replaced, refreshed, whatever.
Combined with the fact this is the Sun reporting this, and... well... as I said, bullshit.
You think Brad McQuaid knows how to burn $30 million? Just wait till you see this guy in action. He'll make McQuaid look like Steve Jobs.
Come to think of it, now that McQuaid's on the market again perhaps he'll find his way into Romero's Team. Damn, can you imagine that? A joint Romero-McQuaid MMOG vision? They'll have the combined power to take down any billion dollar development operation, and cause dozens of other local businesses to file for chapter 11 just from proximity fallout alone!
When I see clearly absurd stuff like this, I tend to wonder whether there are other aspects to the story that we're not being told about.
I'm not judging either way, but is it not a possibility that the 'victim' here is screaming loudly about a single innocuous piece of evidence while failing to mention any of the other relevant details or bits of evidence in the 'case'?
1) Vista is actually being well received, and selling like hotcakes despite all reports to the contrary.
2) Even MS-Excel has critical bugs when running under Vista, especially the version used by Microsoft's accounting department.
A technology victory is in reach! I urge everyone to contact their local governors, and hopefully we can get enough cities building spaceship parts to launch before 2020.
Slightly off topic and at the risk of sounding like a troll, I just thought of a big dick joke a la Drew Carey and just had to share:
"My dick is so big even the spammers stopped sending me mails."
Of course there will be bitches!
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I can see it now.
"zomg, they nerfed bitches!"
"53 JRB LFG!"
"wtf, ironworks hates bitches!"
"LF1M Badly Lit Office Corridor just need bitch and gtg"
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Because blowing a gaping hole in their foot isn't going to help them either.
If not, they can just pay someone in China to watch it for them,
Bet nobody will buy Vista in their virtual world either.
Netbook (MSI Wind): EUR400
3G Modem (O2): EUR19.00 + EUR20.00 per month
Problem solved.
Greenland is beating North Korea, Western Sahara, and the Falkland Islands COMBINED!
So stop playing.
As a matter of fact, you can thank the profitable World of Warcraft franchise for bankrolling the development of Starcraft II.
This always leads to the inevitable Version 2.0:
10 print "Please input your name:"
20 input A$
30 print "A$ is a wanker!"
40 goto 30
I have read quite a few of his books, and mostly enjoy them, especially the culture ones. Some are better than others, and personally I found 'The Player of Games' and 'Excession' to be the most enjoyable in terms of page turners.
Speaking of UK Sci-Fi authors, do yourself a favour and look up Steven Baxter if you've never heard of him. He's written dozens of intelligent, entertaining, and highly-engaging stories involving multitudes of subjects. He has a talent for being able to tie together events that span millions of years and many distinct time periods while keeping them all relevant to the story. I'd really place him firmly in the top tier of Sci-Fi authors writing today.
In particular, I'd recommend looking into the Destiny's Children series (starting with 'Coalescent') and 'Evolution'. Highly recommended.
In the same sense that Hillary would 'love to work with' Obama.
This is absolutely correct, and it's almost as if the entire OS/hardware industry is grinding to a halt for these reasons.
Though the possibilities of what you can do on a computer are theoretically limitless, but in practice there's now a small set of functionality (web access, email, office type stuff, or media manipulation apps) for which 99% of people need computers for. Most of what we have is good enough. Over the past twenty years a lot of the advancement has been due to improvements in graphics, which led to directly obvious improvments in usability, and vice versa, but this has plateaued at what we have now. Nobody has come up with any convicing 3D GUI designs that have been demonstrated to be any better or more efficient than where we already are.
Even on the gaming front, consoles appear to be slowly but surely taking that role away from the PC. The endless cycle of nvidia-ATI upgrades is getting old, and I've got better things to spend my money on.
Advancement these days appears to be mostly in server side apps and web-distributed content, and it's as if we've gone full circle back to the days of the dumb terminal. If you're an average user, and your machine keeps working, why do you need to upgrade?
You don't, end of story.
Hasn't Sun been falling behind in the just-about-everything race for quite a few years now?
I tried being one of them. Couldn't stand the the constant interruptions from the colonel.
Oh wait...
I think someone put up a poll and an article about the same subject at the same time and pointed them at the same comments page. Now all the poll-specific jokes are going to be confusing and out of context.
The biggest business blunder of the century.
... bullshit on this. A popular show, in it's prime, that's currently raking in cash hands over fist for the BBC from various products and merchandising efforts, is going to be axed right in the middle of a massive wave of popularity? Yes, you might kill a popular show just as its popularity or quality is fading, give it a dignified death, whatever. But this makes no sense. Producers and writers can be replaced, refreshed, whatever. Combined with the fact this is the Sun reporting this, and ... well ... as I said, bullshit.
It's okay Vanguard fans, another MMO has been announced recently that's sure to ease the utter failure and disappointment of Vanguard.
Ladies and gentleman pretending to be ladies, I give you The John Romero MMOG!
You think Brad McQuaid knows how to burn $30 million? Just wait till you see this guy in action. He'll make McQuaid look like Steve Jobs.
Come to think of it, now that McQuaid's on the market again perhaps he'll find his way into Romero's Team. Damn, can you imagine that? A joint Romero-McQuaid MMOG vision? They'll have the combined power to take down any billion dollar development operation, and cause dozens of other local businesses to file for chapter 11 just from proximity fallout alone!
When I see clearly absurd stuff like this, I tend to wonder whether there are other aspects to the story that we're not being told about.
I'm not judging either way, but is it not a possibility that the 'victim' here is screaming loudly about a single innocuous piece of evidence while failing to mention any of the other relevant details or bits of evidence in the 'case'?
The way I see it, this can be one of two things:
1) Vista is actually being well received, and selling like hotcakes despite all reports to the contrary.
2) Even MS-Excel has critical bugs when running under Vista, especially the version used by Microsoft's accounting department.
I always thought this guy was one of the scarier technology mascots out there.
Wait, you mean that's not a guy in a rubber suit?
A technology victory is in reach! I urge everyone to contact their local governors, and hopefully we can get enough cities building spaceship parts to launch before 2020.
Excellent job sir. Recommend new 'zunepony' comedy tag.
Slightly off topic and at the risk of sounding like a troll, I just thought of a big dick joke a la Drew Carey and just had to share: "My dick is so big even the spammers stopped sending me mails."
I can see it now.
"zomg, they nerfed bitches!"
"53 JRB LFG!"
"wtf, ironworks hates bitches!"
"LF1M Badly Lit Office Corridor just need bitch and gtg"
etc...
I'm interested, but I don't have a lot of time to go out to the movies these days. Can I pay someone in China to go see it for me?