I haven't seen Walter Jon Williams mentioned. Two of his more cyberpunkish novels are Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind. Even better, I think, is Aristoi, a novel set in the far future. He has also written some pretty snappy short stories; you can find a collection of them in Facets. (I particularly like "Dinosaurs".)
Dean Ing had a novel called The Ransom of Black Stealth One which had a plane that had a similar cloaking technology. The surface of the plane was covered with display elements which could display whatever was "behind" the plan.
One intricacy in the novel (which I haven't seen addressed here) was that, because the display elements were essentially omnidirectional, the transparency effect was directed at a specified target. In other words, if the fictional plane were trying to thread its way through a formation of enemy planes, the transparency system would be directed to make the plan transparent to a particular designated enemy plane. The plane would still be mostly transparent to the other enemy planes, but the effect would break down for the display elements that were visible to both the designated plane and the other planes.
This comment bas been getting some ridicule, but I thought I would chip in with some specific things I would like to see fixed in Mozilla running on Windows:
Ability to manage Flash items like one can currently manage images through the Image Manager.
Support for a "smooth scroll" feature like IE has. (This is useful for tracking text after partial page scroll at the end of the page.)
Better keyboard support when navigating bookmarks. In particular, if you say "Alt-b m", you always get the Bookmark Manager even if you have a bookmark or bookmark folder that begins with "m". (IE recognizes the ambiguity in this kind of scenario; "m" will rotate among the "m" items, bookmarks or otherwise.)
Have Ctrl-o map to Open Web Location. (Yeah, I know that users can probably accomplish that with some userprefs.js hacking, but why not just have the mapping match the IE behavior (on Windows only).)
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Wired magazine has in its archives a (long) article by Neil Stephenson on the laying of undersea fiber.
I'm wondering about the pronunciation. Is it (or, will it be) AR-HAT, ur-HAT, or (silent "h") RAT? I prefer the lattermost, mainly because it is monosyllabic and ends in a hard consonant (like a lot of "effective" expletives).
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I haven't seen Walter Jon Williams mentioned. Two of his more cyberpunkish novels are Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind. Even better, I think, is Aristoi, a novel set in the far future. He has also written some pretty snappy short stories; you can find a collection of them in Facets. (I particularly like "Dinosaurs".)
Dean Ing had a novel called The Ransom of Black Stealth One which had a plane that had a similar cloaking technology. The surface of the plane was covered with display elements which could display whatever was "behind" the plan.
One intricacy in the novel (which I haven't seen addressed here) was that, because the display elements were essentially omnidirectional, the transparency effect was directed at a specified target. In other words, if the fictional plane were trying to thread its way through a formation of enemy planes, the transparency system would be directed to make the plan transparent to a particular designated enemy plane. The plane would still be mostly transparent to the other enemy planes, but the effect would break down for the display elements that were visible to both the designated plane and the other planes.
This comment bas been getting some ridicule, but I thought I would chip in with some specific things I would like to see fixed in Mozilla running on Windows:
Except that instead of Cowboy Neal they have "Anonymous Paprica" (?)
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Wired magazine has in its archives a (long) article by Neil Stephenson on the laying of undersea fiber.
Why isn't it 100%? Wouldn't every return to addiction begin with a single partaking?
I'm wondering about the pronunciation. Is it
(or, will it be) AR-HAT, ur-HAT, or (silent "h")
RAT? I prefer the lattermost, mainly because it
is monosyllabic and ends in a hard consonant (like
a lot of "effective" expletives).