The time eventually came when I felt ready to try delivering something. I had originally hoped to deliver documents (i.e., sheets of paper) but unfortunately found that one sheet of paper is too heavy for the blimp to lift reliably (I was serious when I said the helium doesn't provide much lift). I settled for a Post-it Note.
...yet the guy who invented that is probably lounging on his own island right now.
So now tell me what's dumb.
How about giving it a buzzword-laden plug [no reg!*] in the Pre-Christmas Sunday Edition Special Section Year In Ideas 2002 [no reg!*] and then trying to charge *$2.95 for access to it a year later?
I've always read a lot of SciFi, and a few years ago I had the same problem. Here's what I ended up getting:
Lensman series, E. E. "Doc" Smith (Must-read classics, guaranteed to feel like newly-discovered Heinlein)
Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (You won't get to Mars without these books.)
Octavia E. Butler: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago, etc. (Real-feeling SciFi from a master of emotion involvement.)
Iaan Banks (Excession and The Player of Games are especially interesting to geeks.)
Greg Egan (Axiomatic has some of the best short stories I've ever read.)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle (Just got this yesterday. It's a total hoot!)
Revelation Space and Chasm City, Alistair Reynolds (Amazingly good for his first books. Technical and friendly.)
Emergence and Threshold, David R. Palmer (Another pair of startlingly good first books by a relative unknown.)
And the ultimate new read, Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science (Enumerating chaos, anyone?)
There's also the annual publications of the Year's Best..., anything well-reviewed in trade mags like Locus, and the reading list of the SciFi geek at your local library (there is one, trust me;-)
I've been receiving UCE from MSN Special Offers to my Hotmail account for a couple of months now. I'm not signed up for it, and I _can't_ unsubscribe because their database doesn't think I am subscribed.
I've tried contacting abuse@hotmail.com, abuse@msn.com, and even filed a report on Microsoft's internal SPAM page. Absolutely no response except automated replies stating that I'm not filing the reports with headers (The MSN Special Offers don't have headers because they're generated internally and not sent over email).
Looks like I have some choices: 1. Give up the Hotmail account I've had for several years. 2. Take it. 3. File a complaint with some law-enforcement agency here in the state of WA.
I believe it's $500 a pop after I've notified them, isn't it? That's...over $20k in the past two months! Yeah, right.
I have to ask why you're limiting yourself to PDAs because I'm surprised you haven't gotten a Sony Vaio, or a MicroPC, or one of the numerous HUD/voice combinations that exist. Heck, an iBook is pretty small, too, and you could easily hook up a small video screen to it and keep it in a backpack.
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Firewireless has been around a while. It even has DRM.
I don't expect to see this anytime soon...
Why would you? We've only been waiting several years already.
So much for being an 'early adopter'.
...yet the guy who invented that is probably lounging on his own island right now.
So now tell me what's dumb.
How about giving it a buzzword-laden plug [no reg!*] in the Pre-Christmas Sunday Edition Special Section Year In Ideas 2002 [no reg!*] and then trying to charge *$2.95 for access to it a year later?
This little siggy stayed home.
...then the design sucks, too. -My other sig is sour.
There's also the annual publications of the Year's Best..., anything well-reviewed in trade mags like Locus , and the reading list of the SciFi geek at your local library (there is one, trust me
I've been receiving UCE from MSN Special Offers to my Hotmail account for a couple of months now. I'm not signed up for it, and I _can't_ unsubscribe because their database doesn't think I am subscribed.
I've tried contacting abuse@hotmail.com, abuse@msn.com, and even filed a report on Microsoft's internal SPAM page. Absolutely no response except automated replies stating that I'm not filing the reports with headers (The MSN Special Offers don't have headers because they're generated internally and not sent over email).
Looks like I have some choices:
1. Give up the Hotmail account I've had for several years.
2. Take it.
3. File a complaint with some law-enforcement agency here in the state of WA.
I believe it's $500 a pop after I've notified them, isn't it? That's...over $20k in the past two months! Yeah, right.
Anybody got the email address of a Hotmail PM?
I have to ask why you're limiting yourself to PDAs because I'm surprised you haven't gotten a Sony Vaio, or a MicroPC, or one of the numerous HUD/voice combinations that exist. Heck, an iBook is pretty small, too, and you could easily hook up a small video screen to it and keep it in a backpack.