Favorites that I find I can re-read, all on my SF "must read"
Foundation - Azimov, already mentioned Dune - Frank Herbert
(later parts of series less and less interesting for these)
Neuromancer - William Gibson Protector, Tales of Known Space - Larry Niven Permutation City, Axiomatic - Greg Egan Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - the Robert Heinlein I enjoy Downbelow Station - CJ Cherryh Consider Phlebas, Excession - Ian M Banks
... and then personal faves...
Icerigger, The Tar-Ayim Krang, Nor Crystal Tears - Allen Dean Foster Dragonflight, The Ship Who Sang, Crystal Singer - Anne Mcaffry - (notice how the first of each of her sequences is worthwhile?)
I'm by no means a raving civil libitarian, but this just strikes me as stupid.
The sooner someone gets hold of the thing de-compiles it and and posts a set of test responses that allows the kids being grilled to choose what score out of ten they feel like, the better.
For serious "in the zone" coding I usually go for instrumental, the longer the album the better. I listen to Sky, Mike Oldfield, Bach (all six Brandenburg Concerti is a good run); then there's stuff that I count as "pseudo instrumental"; there's words there but who cares: Enya, Rush, Metallica (before self-titled album).
I swear I would double my coding efficiency if Justin Ryan would get Storytime back together and do a couple of really long albums. The Puzzleman is the source.
The boppier the better. Kylie Minogue, Roxette, Ace of Base, I'll even dig out that A-ha tape. I think the energy and optimism really helps in these situations.
Yeah, its a realy problem that when we vote we are effectively choosing from a bundle of attitudes and policy positions that we have to accept as a bloc.
You might buy Giliani for other reasons but hate his taste in art... what're you going to do ?
The "democracy allows 51% to oppress 49%" argument is often levelled at democracy by its detractors. What this overlooks is the fact that in this situation, it only takes 2% of the population on the 51% side to have some sense of public interest (as opposed to self-interest) to turn the table.
As others have pointed out, there quite a lot of rubbish in this article: it insinuates that there isn't really a problem with running out of IPv4 addresses, makes the bizzare comment that one can just change one's IPv4 address at random (what does the author think the point of having an address is, I wonder ?), and so forth.
A little difficult to see where the author is coming from: there's the sort of "Washington Spook"/Defense Department alarmism that you often hear in the privacy debate; but he also gets into everyone, Microsoft and Intel, the EFF, the ITEF etc. Who's barrow is he pushing ?
This is one of those things that there's so little to go on that the only thing really achived by making the announcement is to start arguments. Not that that's a bad thing necessarily... its just that I wish people would save up their press releases until they had something to say. I'd be more impressed with the announcement of the creation of a single, simple, totally novel protien than with this vague talk about recombining bits of bacterial DNA to create a "new" bacteria
"The worm then searches the local file drive for the following file types and deletes them:.c,.cpp,.asm,.doc,.sls, and.ptp, thereby deleting Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files."
Fairly clear what that CNN reported recognises as valuable data... never mind that it might actually delete something valuable like source ...
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Favorites that I find I can re-read, all on
...
my SF "must read"
Foundation - Azimov, already mentioned
Dune - Frank Herbert
(later parts of series less and less interesting
for these)
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Protector, Tales of Known Space - Larry Niven
Permutation City, Axiomatic - Greg Egan
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -
the Robert Heinlein I enjoy
Downbelow Station - CJ Cherryh
Consider Phlebas, Excession - Ian M Banks
... and then personal faves
Icerigger, The Tar-Ayim Krang, Nor Crystal Tears -
Allen Dean Foster
Dragonflight, The Ship Who Sang, Crystal Singer -
Anne Mcaffry - (notice how the first of each
of her sequences is worthwhile?)
_Good_ science fiction ? Good idea to start with, but I thought it dissolved into soap opera.
I'm by no means a raving civil libitarian, but this just strikes me as stupid.
The sooner someone gets hold of the thing de-compiles it and and posts a set of test responses that allows the kids being grilled to choose what score out of ten they feel like, the better.
For serious "in the zone" coding I usually go
for instrumental, the longer the album the better.
I listen to Sky, Mike Oldfield, Bach (all six
Brandenburg Concerti is a good run); then there's
stuff that I count as "pseudo instrumental";
there's words there but who cares: Enya, Rush,
Metallica (before self-titled album).
I swear I would double my coding efficiency if
Justin Ryan would get Storytime back together and
do a couple of really long albums. The Puzzleman
is the source.
The boppier the better. Kylie Minogue, Roxette,
Ace of Base, I'll even dig out that A-ha tape.
I think the energy and optimism really helps in
these situations.
I like a good singing session ... has to be ... Simon & Garfunkle, Cure ...
something I know so well I don't have to think
about
Ditto: anything I've listened to lots. Never use random shuffle.
Yeah, its a realy problem that when we vote we are effectively choosing from a bundle of attitudes and policy positions that we have to accept as a bloc.
... what're you going to do ?
You might buy Giliani for other reasons but hate his taste in art
The "democracy allows 51% to oppress 49%" argument is often levelled at democracy by its detractors. What this overlooks is the fact that in this situation, it only takes 2% of the population on the 51% side to have some sense of public interest (as opposed to self-interest) to turn the table.
As others have pointed out, there quite a lot of rubbish in this article: it insinuates that there isn't really a problem with running out of IPv4 addresses, makes the bizzare comment that one can just change one's IPv4 address at random (what does the author think the point of having an address is, I wonder ?), and so forth.
A little difficult to see where the author is coming from: there's the sort of "Washington Spook"/Defense Department alarmism that you often hear in the privacy debate; but he also gets into everyone, Microsoft and Intel, the EFF, the ITEF etc. Who's barrow is he pushing ?
This is one of those things that there's so little to go on that the only thing really achived by making the announcement is to start arguments. Not that that's a bad thing necessarily ... its just that I wish people would save up their press releases until they had something to say. I'd be more impressed with the announcement of the creation of a single, simple, totally novel protien than with this vague talk about recombining bits of bacterial DNA to create a "new" bacteria
"The worm then searches the local file drive for the following file types and deletes them: .c, .cpp, .asm, .doc, .sls, .ptp, thereby deleting Microsoft Word, Excel,
... never mind that it might
and
and PowerPoint files."
Fairly clear what that CNN reported recognises
as valuable data
actually delete something valuable like source
...