Uh, they all are available for subscription as non-DRM multi-format (PDF,.pdb, and a multitude of other formats) through Fictionwise.
Short stories in audio format are a difficult business model, since the production time for each magazine is equivalent to doing an entire novel, and you have to do it every month. If you're trying to get decent readers, they cost money.
yeah, well we had a nicely formatted pdf version but the current webmaster said they would only accept a.docx and then horked the formatting when they put it up. One of the problems with all-volunteer organizations is that sometimes you get the person who wants the job rather than the person who can do the job.
My wife is the current librarian of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and there's a Children's Recommended Reading List that the club has been keeping up for some time. There's a lot of stuff on there, and it should offer some guidance.
Getting Hugo categories added is a long and tortuous road. There have been attempts in the past to add Best Interactive Video Game and Best Website but they failed through not enough people bothering to nominate and/or vote in those categories. If you're seriously interested, there's a lot more information at this page.
And if you're not into dead tree media, all three (Asimov's, F&SF, and Analog) are also available as PDF subscriptions through Fictionwise, which is how I get them.
Some people pay extra for that.
Unless you think that the guy who buys your old shirt from the thrift store and robs a 7-11 is going to be mistaken for you, of course. So don't forget to remove those monograms before making that donation to Goodwill.
I've been an eMusic subscriber from very early on, and they have never had DRM on anything, to my knowledge, so they could hardly be said to have "gotten ride of DRM as a business decision to enter an under-exploited market".
I think it's more likely that you're just falling into the trap of being overly reverent to the books of your youth and trying to recapture them. I've been reading sf for over 40 years and I feel that writers like Iain Banks, Vernor Vinge, Jeff Vandermeer, Neil Gaiman, and Neal Stephenson (to name just a few) are turning out stuff that is every bit as good as the Golden Age writers, and there are still not-so-newbies like Gene Wolfe and Joe Haldeman turning out quality work.
In 1927? The original Dymaxion 4D tower was designed to be a 200 story rotating apartment tower, if memory serves. Geez, they're only 80 years behind the times.
Fired up iListen from MacSpeech (who license the Philips Voice Recognition model). Spoke both phrases in normal pace and tone. Initial accuracy 75%. Take 30 seconds to correct errors. Accuracy 100%. Even before training/correction, "recognize speech" was at 100%. The training was to teach the difference between "wreck" and "rack" (although it offered "wreck" as one of the options in the correction mode).
It ain't perfect, but training is easy these days and accuracies over 95% are arrived at fairly quickly. The biggest problem for many users seems to be overtraining before they start using the program. Many courts and most captioning systems have moved over to voice transcription systems rather than old fashioned stenography.
My wife does professional transcription and she does almost all of it with Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Windows system. I'm not seeing a lot of difference between Windows and Mac in accuracy or ease of use, though the Windows side used to have a slight advantage. That being said, open source alternatives would be a great thing. The more people working on this stuff, but faster it gets simpler, faster, and more powerful.
If I remember correctly from school, skin effect is fairly negligible at audio frequencies. For example, a 16 gauge solid conductor is 1.2mm thick, the skin effect at 10kHz is.66mm which means that the conductor would have to be thicker than 1.32mm for there to be any loss in that cable whatsoever. the difference between 10kHz and 25kHz is on the order of.01dB (one hundredth of the amount that's detectable to the human ear). Using braided rather than solid core wire doesn't really make much difference unless you're pumping huge amounts of power over very long distances and using substantially heavier cable.
Just one man's opinion, of course, but to me, the significance of Tom Bombadil's cameo appearance in LOTR is the revelation that the Ring of Power does not, in fact, hold sway over all of Middle Earth.
The design consideration of the Abrams was for speed, not fuel efficiency, figuring a battle range of less than 100mi, hence the gas turbine rather than the diesel engine that almost all other tanks use (and yes, diesel engines are inherently more efficient). The type of turbine that's being described by the OP is a turbine to generate electricity, not to move a 60+ton vehicle, so the comparison with a battle tank that uses a different type of turbine for a different purpose seemed pretty senseless.
Without a doubt it's very little known movie called "Psyched by the 4D Witch". Something Weird Video released it on a double feature set with "Monster a Go Go" which positively sparkles by comparison. "4D Witch" has absolutely nothing going for it. It's so bad that a roomful of geeks watching the naked woman performing sexual witchcraft waving candles around were more concerned that she'd somehow set her bad wig on fire than with her naked breasts. This movie is so bad that, when I showed it at a bad movie party at my house, halfway through people were asking if we could watch something good, like "Plan 9" when it was over. Nobody involved with this movie was ever heard from again, and it's a good thing.
Coffee is supposed to 'outgas' (blow off CO2 that's a result of the endothermic reaction of roasting) for 4 to 24 hours after roasting, and most serious coffee tasters would say that its peak of flavor is 18-72 hours after roasting. I second the reference to Sweet Maria's (http://www.sweetmarias.com) for some good information, as well as a great source of green beans and home roasting supplies.
GlooLabs HomePod
Of course, it's currently vaporware, as it was originally supposed to be ready last March and it's not available yet, but it's $50 less and looks as if it may do more, if and when it ships.
If that's the only choice you make, that's what you get. Changing any system takes work. You get out and organize, you get people who share your political philosophy elected to local offices like neighborhood council, school boards, and dogcatcher. You have to start on the local level and work people up through the system - heck, it's what the religious right has been so successful at doing that they've slanted the American political field fairly dramatically in their direction over the past 25 years or so. You can't change it overnight, and, to paraphrase William Goldman in 'The Princess Bride', anybody who tells you different is selling something.
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This came up at last night's LASFS (Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society) meeting, and Dr. Pournelle said that Heinlein most emphatically did not want this to see the light of day and thought that he had destroyed all the copies. If Ginny were still alive, I'm sure that we wouldn't be seeing this, and I think that it's telling that this didn't appear until shortly after she passed away.
In addition to the other factors that have been mentioned here, that ER tech gets benefits, health insurance, paid vacation, and has some minimal form of job security (although less today than in the past, but that's another discussion). Also, if you think it's a) "a few hours in the studio", b) "beiing treated like a god", and c) "sex with a few groupies", you've been watching too much E! programming or episodes of "Behind The Music" and don't know many working musicians. I don't know a single musician who feels "entitled to millions of dollars for a year's work", and I've been playing guitar, writing, engineering, and producing for 35 years. All most musicians want is the chance to make a living doing what they love. Fewer than 5% of musicians are able to make a living playing music. What's the percentage of trained ER techs who make a living? How many years of training and practice do they have as compared to the lifetime of training and practice that it takes to be a good musician?
BTW, yes, I will go so far as to say that making music (at least music that other people want to listen to) is harder than being an ER tech. Anybody with the proper training, can do the latter, the first requires something a little bit extra.
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Uh, they all are available for subscription as non-DRM multi-format (PDF, .pdb, and a multitude of other formats) through Fictionwise.
Short stories in audio format are a difficult business model, since the production time for each magazine is equivalent to doing an entire novel, and you have to do it every month. If you're trying to get decent readers, they cost money.
yeah, well we had a nicely formatted pdf version but the current webmaster said they would only accept a .docx and then horked the formatting when they put it up. One of the problems with all-volunteer organizations is that sometimes you get the person who wants the job rather than the person who can do the job.
My wife is the current librarian of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and there's a Children's Recommended Reading List that the club has been keeping up for some time. There's a lot of stuff on there, and it should offer some guidance.
Anybody who's spent any time around "fandom", unfortunately.
Getting Hugo categories added is a long and tortuous road. There have been attempts in the past to add Best Interactive Video Game and Best Website but they failed through not enough people bothering to nominate and/or vote in those categories. If you're seriously interested, there's a lot more information at this page.
And if you're not into dead tree media, all three (Asimov's, F&SF, and Analog) are also available as PDF subscriptions through Fictionwise, which is how I get them.
Some people pay extra for that. Unless you think that the guy who buys your old shirt from the thrift store and robs a 7-11 is going to be mistaken for you, of course. So don't forget to remove those monograms before making that donation to Goodwill.
I've been an eMusic subscriber from very early on, and they have never had DRM on anything, to my knowledge, so they could hardly be said to have "gotten ride of DRM as a business decision to enter an under-exploited market".
I think it's more likely that you're just falling into the trap of being overly reverent to the books of your youth and trying to recapture them. I've been reading sf for over 40 years and I feel that writers like Iain Banks, Vernor Vinge, Jeff Vandermeer, Neil Gaiman, and Neal Stephenson (to name just a few) are turning out stuff that is every bit as good as the Golden Age writers, and there are still not-so-newbies like Gene Wolfe and Joe Haldeman turning out quality work.
In 1927? The original Dymaxion 4D tower was designed to be a 200 story rotating apartment tower, if memory serves. Geez, they're only 80 years behind the times.
Fired up iListen from MacSpeech (who license the Philips Voice Recognition model). Spoke both phrases in normal pace and tone. Initial accuracy 75%. Take 30 seconds to correct errors. Accuracy 100%. Even before training/correction, "recognize speech" was at 100%. The training was to teach the difference between "wreck" and "rack" (although it offered "wreck" as one of the options in the correction mode).
It ain't perfect, but training is easy these days and accuracies over 95% are arrived at fairly quickly. The biggest problem for many users seems to be overtraining before they start using the program. Many courts and most captioning systems have moved over to voice transcription systems rather than old fashioned stenography.
My wife does professional transcription and she does almost all of it with Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Windows system. I'm not seeing a lot of difference between Windows and Mac in accuracy or ease of use, though the Windows side used to have a slight advantage. That being said, open source alternatives would be a great thing. The more people working on this stuff, but faster it gets simpler, faster, and more powerful.
Enter a junk password at the 'login' page. If it lets you in, it's a phishing site trying to harvest your information.
Do Beat Horse Until Horse is Not Dead
If I remember correctly from school, skin effect is fairly negligible at audio frequencies. For example, a 16 gauge solid conductor is 1.2mm thick, the skin effect at 10kHz is .66mm which means that the conductor would have to be thicker than 1.32mm for there to be any loss in that cable whatsoever. the difference between 10kHz and 25kHz is on the order of .01dB (one hundredth of the amount that's detectable to the human ear). Using braided rather than solid core wire doesn't really make much difference unless you're pumping huge amounts of power over very long distances and using substantially heavier cable.
Just one man's opinion, of course, but to me, the significance of Tom Bombadil's cameo appearance in LOTR is the revelation that the Ring of Power does not, in fact, hold sway over all of Middle Earth.
The design consideration of the Abrams was for speed, not fuel efficiency, figuring a battle range of less than 100mi, hence the gas turbine rather than the diesel engine that almost all other tanks use (and yes, diesel engines are inherently more efficient). The type of turbine that's being described by the OP is a turbine to generate electricity, not to move a 60+ton vehicle, so the comparison with a battle tank that uses a different type of turbine for a different purpose seemed pretty senseless.
The lightest version of the Abrams weighs about 62 tons (124000 lbs, 56245 kg). It's gonna guzzle fuel no matter what type of engine it's got.
http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/ and I think it's about time somebody put it into production.
Without a doubt it's very little known movie called "Psyched by the 4D Witch". Something Weird Video released it on a double feature set with "Monster a Go Go" which positively sparkles by comparison. "4D Witch" has absolutely nothing going for it. It's so bad that a roomful of geeks watching the naked woman performing sexual witchcraft waving candles around were more concerned that she'd somehow set her bad wig on fire than with her naked breasts. This movie is so bad that, when I showed it at a bad movie party at my house, halfway through people were asking if we could watch something good, like "Plan 9" when it was over. Nobody involved with this movie was ever heard from again, and it's a good thing.
Coffee is supposed to 'outgas' (blow off CO2 that's a result of the endothermic reaction of roasting) for 4 to 24 hours after roasting, and most serious coffee tasters would say that its peak of flavor is 18-72 hours after roasting. I second the reference to Sweet Maria's (http://www.sweetmarias.com) for some good information, as well as a great source of green beans and home roasting supplies.
The Trans-Performance has been out for at least 5 years and it's only just now showing up on Slashdot? I have to say I'm disappointed.
GlooLabs HomePod Of course, it's currently vaporware, as it was originally supposed to be ready last March and it's not available yet, but it's $50 less and looks as if it may do more, if and when it ships.
If that's the only choice you make, that's what you get. Changing any system takes work. You get out and organize, you get people who share your political philosophy elected to local offices like neighborhood council, school boards, and dogcatcher. You have to start on the local level and work people up through the system - heck, it's what the religious right has been so successful at doing that they've slanted the American political field fairly dramatically in their direction over the past 25 years or so. You can't change it overnight, and, to paraphrase William Goldman in 'The Princess Bride', anybody who tells you different is selling something.
This came up at last night's LASFS (Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society) meeting, and Dr. Pournelle said that Heinlein most emphatically did not want this to see the light of day and thought that he had destroyed all the copies. If Ginny were still alive, I'm sure that we wouldn't be seeing this, and I think that it's telling that this didn't appear until shortly after she passed away.
In addition to the other factors that have been mentioned here, that ER tech gets benefits, health insurance, paid vacation, and has some minimal form of job security (although less today than in the past, but that's another discussion). Also, if you think it's a) "a few hours in the studio", b) "beiing treated like a god", and c) "sex with a few groupies", you've been watching too much E! programming or episodes of "Behind The Music" and don't know many working musicians. I don't know a single musician who feels "entitled to millions of dollars for a year's work", and I've been playing guitar, writing, engineering, and producing for 35 years. All most musicians want is the chance to make a living doing what they love. Fewer than 5% of musicians are able to make a living playing music. What's the percentage of trained ER techs who make a living? How many years of training and practice do they have as compared to the lifetime of training and practice that it takes to be a good musician? BTW, yes, I will go so far as to say that making music (at least music that other people want to listen to) is harder than being an ER tech. Anybody with the proper training, can do the latter, the first requires something a little bit extra.