Bought mine at www.homedepot.com. Got 1000' ft of riser rated (but not plenum rated) cat5e for $55, and they sell the plates, connectors, punch down blocks, and punch down tools as well.
His Dying Earth stuff has been reprinted, I grabbed a copy last year. It was the main influence for Gene Wolfe's series that started with "The Shadow of the Torturer", which has just been reprinted as well. Excellent stories from both of these authors.
These were good space opera, especially if you love martial arts and Eastern philosophy. Very well written, 4 books in all, revolves around a planet seeded with explorers from Earth. I never read anyhting else by this author, but this series was a favorite of mine at time. Also, Steve Perry, not sure if these are out of print, but, he had a series that started with "The Man Who Never Missed". It was also a great series for the martial arts enthusiast, but also laced with a lot of semi-political metaphors.
I always loved "Way Station". I think it would be great as a movie too. "City" would be interesting, too, but only if you hide who the narrators are until the end of the movie...:D Are Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld, specifically "To Your Scattered Bodies Go", out of print? I saw where Sci-Fi Channle made the movie, but that book used to be hard to find.
No, not supernatural, but not something that can be distilled as easily as "the queen is worth more than the pawn". I think he was merely implying there is a lot of uncovered territory out there to be discovered.
Or ignore us and think we are beneath them. Isaac Asimov, in "I, Robot" has a short story about a robot who refuses to believe that men created him, because he is superior to the men arguing with him. As far as chess goes, I think there is more to computer chess than meets the eye, but programming it to be like a human is definitely a challenge. A professor of mine at UAB, Dr. Bob Hyatt, wrote the Cray Blitz program, and its new child, Crafty. He once said something to me about why computer chess may not quite reach the level of human players. He once asked a GM after a match "Why did you do...", some very unexpected move that helped him get to endgame and mate. The GM replied, "It felt right." So how do you program that?:D if(IT_FEELS_RIGHT){
doIt(); }
I agree. Ballmer seemed like the Iraqi Information Minister in this article, "No! There are no troops in Iraq! We killed them all! Open source will die a thousand deaths! Our server is best! Bow down!"
Depends on your definition of frivolity, I suppose, but I'm standing in Ithaca at Carl Sagan's grave, and I think I hear him rolling around in there...:D
Yes, the onboard computers were designed in the 70's when they started designing the shuttle. Then they built it to spec, no deviation, otherwise, the entire blueprint would have had to be modified (government thinking). So the computers that are built-in are very weak in terms of computing power.
Close call on that one. I think they both came out around '89. RiscOS may have beat it by a year though, I think I recall seeing RiscOS around '88. I know NeXTStep came out in '89, as I still have the one I bought that year. I had forgotten about RiscOS; thanks for the reminder.
But I think MS is emulating Apple some still: look at the smoothness of the XP interface, and it definitely looks like it is borrowed from Aqua.
On a lighter note, I love what my British friends call Windows XP: Windows for Teletubbies. They think it is too cartoonish.
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Bought mine at www.homedepot.com.
Got 1000' ft of riser rated (but not plenum rated) cat5e for $55, and they sell the plates, connectors, punch down blocks, and punch down tools as well.
His Dying Earth stuff has been reprinted, I grabbed a copy last year. It was the main influence for Gene Wolfe's series that started with "The Shadow of the Torturer", which has just been reprinted as well. Excellent stories from both of these authors.
These were good space opera, especially if you love martial arts and Eastern philosophy. Very well written, 4 books in all, revolves around a planet seeded with explorers from Earth. I never read anyhting else by this author, but this series was a favorite of mine at time.
Also, Steve Perry, not sure if these are out of print, but, he had a series that started with "The Man Who Never Missed". It was also a great series for the martial arts enthusiast, but also laced with a lot of semi-political metaphors.
I always loved "Way Station". I think it would be great as a movie too. "City" would be interesting, too, but only if you hide who the narrators are until the end of the movie... :D
Are Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld, specifically "To Your Scattered Bodies Go", out of print? I saw where Sci-Fi Channle made the movie, but that book used to be hard to find.
No, not supernatural, but not something that can be distilled as easily as "the queen is worth more than the pawn". I think he was merely implying there is a lot of uncovered territory out there to be discovered.
Or ignore us and think we are beneath them. Isaac Asimov, in "I, Robot" has a short story about a robot who refuses to believe that men created him, because he is superior to the men arguing with him. :D
As far as chess goes, I think there is more to computer chess than meets the eye, but programming it to be like a human is definitely a challenge. A professor of mine at UAB, Dr. Bob Hyatt, wrote the Cray Blitz program, and its new child, Crafty. He once said something to me about why computer chess may not quite reach the level of human players. He once asked a GM after a match "Why did you do...", some very unexpected move that helped him get to endgame and mate. The GM replied, "It felt right."
So how do you program that?
if(IT_FEELS_RIGHT){
doIt();
}
I agree. Ballmer seemed like the Iraqi Information Minister in this article, "No! There are no troops in Iraq! We killed them all! Open source will die a thousand deaths! Our server is best! Bow down!"
Depends on your definition of frivolity, I suppose, but I'm standing in Ithaca at Carl Sagan's grave, and I think I hear him rolling around in there... :D
Yes, the onboard computers were designed in the 70's when they started designing the shuttle. Then they built it to spec, no deviation, otherwise, the entire blueprint would have had to be modified (government thinking). So the computers that are built-in are very weak in terms of computing power.
Close call on that one. I think they both came out around '89. RiscOS may have beat it by a year though, I think I recall seeing RiscOS around '88. I know NeXTStep came out in '89, as I still have the one I bought that year. I had forgotten about RiscOS; thanks for the reminder.
But I think MS is emulating Apple some still: look at the smoothness of the XP interface, and it definitely looks like it is borrowed from Aqua.
On a lighter note, I love what my British friends call Windows XP: Windows for Teletubbies. They think it is too cartoonish.