Last summer I went on a field trip to a sewage treatment plant. The power to run the plant comes solely from the methane they harvest. I asked about whether they sent any of the power back out to the grid and the guide said that they didn't generate nearly enough to do that. So, unless suburban New Yorkers have a lower methane output than everyone else I'm pretty skeptical that this would be really feasible.
The common focus is on societies that are individualized, with members recognising each other as individuals, and stable, with long-lived members and on-going relationships, and in which there are learned survival skills and social behaviours. You might be able to say that but insects do not view each other as individuals and thus are not the subject of the book.
Most of the posts so far have been about windows gamepads and usb adapters. I really only want to use my ps2 gamepads since i already have them and they are perfect for just about everything except arkanoid, the problem is I still have no idea which adapters work with emulators running on OSX (esp macmame, snes9xcustom, bannister's emulators.) If anybody can point me in the right direction that'd be sweet.
I heard a rumor somewhere that the sequel to space channel 5 would utilize the trance-vibrator peripheral for rez. anyone know if that is true of the new us version?
that's only true if you aren't buying a promo copy of a cd, which technically aren't supposed to be sold but at least in nyc make up a large part of the contents of used cd stores. those actually cost the label money.
i think the issue is not the amount of light or darkness but the fact that this is unnatural light. mankind creates things that have repercussions, its important that if we do these things we examine the results.
I agree that actual hard science wasn't all that important to Dick, however he hated the idea of being accepted by the mainstream in literature. He was proud of being a writer in the S-F ghetto. In "The Shifting Realities" he has a scathing essay about how much he hated post-modern literary critiques and the attempts to make S-F acceptable. I think he says some scathing things about Delaney who like Dick was usually short on science but is the most notable S-F writer trying for literary acceptance.
The electronic voice technique this guy is talking about has its roots not in Thomas Edison but in the experiments of some East European mad scientist name Raudive. He wrote some book about it and then someone else wrote a book about that, called "Voices from the Tape" William Burroughs read that book at some point and it became hip and post-modern. Some record label just re-released a cd of the original Raudive "experiments."
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If the article is right in saying that the machines are using human minds to monitor their fusion power plants, presumably the machines are somewhat lacking in processing power. Why then, can they create a computer generated world to occupy humans minds to distract them from their monitoring of the fusion plants. Also wouldn't creating a virtual world for people to occupy mess with their ability to monitor anything but the virtual world. This all seems really poorly thought out beyond the desire to make some cash.
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Last summer I went on a field trip to a sewage treatment plant. The power to run the plant comes solely from the methane they harvest. I asked about whether they sent any of the power back out to the grid and the guide said that they didn't generate nearly enough to do that. So, unless suburban New Yorkers have a lower methane output than everyone else I'm pretty skeptical that this would be really feasible.
The common focus is on societies that are individualized, with members recognising each other as individuals, and stable, with long-lived members and on-going relationships, and in which there are learned survival skills and social behaviours.
You might be able to say that but insects do not view each other as individuals and thus are not the subject of the book.
Most of the posts so far have been about windows gamepads and usb adapters. I really only want to use my ps2 gamepads since i already have them and they are perfect for just about everything except arkanoid, the problem is I still have no idea which adapters work with emulators running on OSX (esp macmame, snes9xcustom, bannister's emulators.) If anybody can point me in the right direction that'd be sweet.
I heard a rumor somewhere that the sequel to space channel 5 would utilize the trance-vibrator peripheral for rez. anyone know if that is true of the new us version?
hmmm. and in other news dogs prefer dry food to the stuff in the can. hmmm. nerds are cat people aren't they? damn.
we're talking about macs here, when the hell could you play an fps on a mac without a box of crayolas?
that's only true if you aren't buying a promo copy of a cd, which technically aren't supposed to be sold but at least in nyc make up a large part of the contents of used cd stores. those actually cost the label money.
I personally prefer to feed brownies to the unknowing extroverts and then watch em squirm in their chemically induced introversion. Suckers.
i think the issue is not the amount of light or darkness but the fact that this is unnatural light. mankind creates things that have repercussions, its important that if we do these things we examine the results.
I agree that actual hard science wasn't all that important to Dick, however he hated the idea of being accepted by the mainstream in literature. He was proud of being a writer in the S-F ghetto. In "The Shifting Realities" he has a scathing essay about how much he hated post-modern literary critiques and the attempts to make S-F acceptable. I think he says some scathing things about Delaney who like Dick was usually short on science but is the most notable S-F writer trying for literary acceptance.
The electronic voice technique this guy is talking about has its roots not in Thomas Edison but in the experiments of some East European mad scientist name Raudive. He wrote some book about it and then someone else wrote a book about that, called "Voices from the Tape" William Burroughs read that book at some point and it became hip and post-modern. Some record label just re-released a cd of the original Raudive "experiments."
If the article is right in saying that the machines are using human minds to monitor their fusion power plants, presumably the machines are somewhat lacking in processing power. Why then, can they create a computer generated world to occupy humans minds to distract them from their monitoring of the fusion plants. Also wouldn't creating a virtual world for people to occupy mess with their ability to monitor anything but the virtual world. This all seems really poorly thought out beyond the desire to make some cash.