Michael Jackson and Britney Spears I can see, but Madonna how so? Sure she changes image every couple albums, but it only means she's smart enough to stay ahead of the game. They say Britney is the new Madonna, but the difference is that the industry uses Britney to make money -- Madonna uses the industry to make money.
Besides, up to American Life she was making pretty good music, but that's a matter of opinion.
When I read this article, my immediate thought, but maybe it's because I'm a (part-time) screenwriter is, this would make a great idea for a love story movie!
A guy gets approached by a girl who jacks into his iPod, and they do it again, and he starts to do it with other people, and with her again many times, and he's fascinated by her beauty and the strange music she listens to, and after a while musters up the courage to ask her name, take her out for a cup of coffee...
But hey, that's me. I see this, I think of love, lambda geek sees this, he thinks of product placement.;-)
So, you mean they're going to build a computer that's going to be bigger, faster and with higher number stats than the current #1? Shocking!
Sorry about the sarcasm, I'm only asking to be proven wrong, but isn't Blue Gene just more of the same, only bigger? Big Mac was interesting because of how cheap it was and because it was the first of its kind to use Macs, the Earth Simulator was interesting because it brought back custom chips for supercomputing as opposed to off the shelf components, we've been reading about IBM's dishwasher-sized supercomputer, articles about efficient supercomputing, so what's new about Blue Gene, besides being newer and bigger?
Once again I'm not bashing, I haven't read much of anything but the/. blurbs, so I'm asking, is it just a bigger supercomputer, or does it have any "real" innovations?
It gave me a really amazing feeling last time I let my Athlon 2200+ chew on a high level code for a couple dozen times the lifespan of the Universe and was able to use some dude's credit card to buy stuffed penguins and caffeine pills from ThinkGeek.
You're crotchety and elitist for good reasons, but modern musicinans have as many reasons and they're as good.
If you hadn't paid attention before, let me say it again : the guitar is a classical, jazz and rock instrument, and there are many classical and jazz musicians who have taken up many instruments, and will agree that the guitar is one ofthe hardest ones, up there with violins or cellos.
And I'm a Liszt fanatic, and a pianist so I think I can appreciate his work, and when I say Hendrix's is as relevant as his I mean it. Paganini is a good enough equivalent too. Rachmaninov is an other.
Among classical listeners you are more likely to find greater discernment though, especially among people who play instruments... they're likely to enjoy music for which they get a good part.
That's right. I blame my guitarist friend for liking guitar bands over others, but then as a pianist I often find myself liking a piano piece more than other people and I find that my instrumental background gives me more of an insight into the qualities of such or such piece.
As popular music... probably 99% I just can't stand listening to. Most of the time it's a simple a thing as their doing nothing but singing the same note over and over, or the same phrase of 3 or 4 notes repeated ad nauseum. It's very hard to appreciate it musically when there is very little or no melody... and usually it just ends up grating on my nerves. Often the only part I can really appreciate is the drummer if they do something more interesting than the standard rock beat, or maybe the bass if they're doing some embellishing and not just the same 3-note loop as well. And the vocalists... well, compared to a trained classical voice, you can't really compare. I tend to pay more attention to the composition than how well the performance is done, but that all goes to heck if the singer doesn't manage to stay in tune...
This is the classic (no joke intended) argument likers of so-called classical music use against so-called popular (i.e. not so-called classical) music. As someone raised in a family that advocates it, I know it inside out, and as someone who counts jazz and rock musicians among his best friends (and who enjoys that music very much) I learned to outgrow it, so even though this is OT discussion I'll take it.
If by popular music you mean what can be seen on MTV then I agree, I can't listen to 99% of it (though some good stuff does make it on MTV), simply because it's a catchy, shitty tune played to simplistic beats, made simply to appeal to our lower instincts and to sell. However if by popular music you mean rock, then I just have to disagree. Some rock is a wasteland when it comes to musical value but some is some very, very good music.
Classical and jazz musicians who have practiced many instruments agree that the guitar is one of the hardest instruments, on the same level that the violin or the cello, and talented rock guitarists like John Satriani as are worthy of praise as Yehudi Menuhin, and Jimi Hendrix is to the 20th century what Franz Liszt is to the 19th.
As far as vocal performance is concerned, there are some rock vocalists with skill equivalent to that of some classical ones. The difference is they aren't judged as the same criteria. As much as I love the voice of a Dietrich Fischer-Diskau or Placido Domingo, I'd like to see each one of them push out a gruelling, top of the lungs scream for thirty seconds and then start singing a melody in the next breath like he was vocalizing like Maynard Keenan or Chino Moreno. I'd like to see either one of them sing in contralto tessitures as well as they do as a baritone and a tenor respectively like Justin Hawkins.
The band Tool have some of the most intricate rythmic patterns I've seen in any composition. The structure of the songs the band Mudvayne puts out is incredible. The basslines, drum patterns and guitar riffs mesh into each other and escalate with rare skill. Ryan Martinie, the bassist for the band, had been playing jazz for 15+ years before he started playing rock and is one of the most talented musicians on earth. Their debut album, L.D. 50, is more than just a collection of songs but an entity, more than just a "concept album" but what every rock album should be, a real work of art that has unity, instead of just plenty of songs thrown on a CD.
I could point out many, many more examples of talented musicians or skillful compositions, orchestration, and much more aspects of rock mu
The article stresses that those microwave interferences can be curtailed with "ordinary magnets" placed "in a specific pattern" so why isn't there a DIY guide for figuring out that pattern and slapping the magnets on the side of the oven? I know I'm probably oversimplifying, but if you know the pattern at which your oven emmits the microwaves, it can't be too hard to figure out the pattern at which you can put the magnets. Am I missing something? Or is it simply because, as they mentioned, reducing microwave interferences is a huge market and "opensourcing" the method would stop that?
Not to sound like ESR, but "hackers" is too widely used as a blanket statement for anyone who does things with computers that you don't understand. "Hackers" can be people who infiltrate networks, write/spread viruses, launch DDoS attacks, but also spammers, or even filesharers.
So I'm wondering what kind of "hackers" this agency is going to go after, the people behind virus attacks, DDoS attacks, spammers, etc., or are they just going to nab a few filesharing teenagers to make the headlines?
I know it's OT, but why do people just put URLs into their posts without taking the time of making them into links? I mean anyone, at least anyone who reads Slashdot knows the link tag and it's just those extra keys to press to save the rest of the world the bother of highlighting, copying and pasting.
Images are even easier to manipulate than words.
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People always seem to think that if there's a picture of something then it's the truth, but pictures are actually even easier to use when it comes to twisting the truth to fit your agenda. I don't mean actually editing the picture, but just using it so it fits your goal. Just alter the tagline and it changes a whole perspective. There was a series of ads for a radio statoin here that showed big pictures and would twist them. For example you'd see a bunch of small dots on a desert with fumes behind them so you could ony see they were vehicles and the tagline would read "Military offensive or rally race?"...
We live in an image-based, image-controlled world. I want my news without images, not made out of images.
GameSpot has declared Chess an inferior name, declaring that "Unlike most games, there is almost no skill required in Chess - no hand-eye coordination, no button-timing".
I agree that the RPG genre is in dire lack of innovation, but so is the entire gaming industry, it doesn't mean RPG is an inferior genre any more than it means videogames are an inferior medium. Declaring a genre is inferior because it challenges your intellect only is ludicrous.
I don't want to defend RPGs against FPSs or action games, simply because I love both for different reasons, it's like comparing tomatoes and cucumbers, cars and trains, a videogaming genre and an other.
Yeah I looked up those Steelcase desks and indeed they are freaking huge, they'd be good. I've been "researching" desk solutions because I just moved and had to leave my ideal desk there...
It's just an Ikea desk, but with the way it was arranged I had my chair parralel to it (instead of sitting on front of it) with my feet propped up in the corner, my keyboard on my lap, my mouse right there by my right hand and when I faced the desk and moved counterclockwise I could see my crap, my mousing area, my screen, my computer, my feet, the door to the office (crucial for me to be facing the door, I'm paranoid) and my TV. I had a little nearby shelf where I had books, a mug of coffee, a lamp and a clock, I could just kick back with my feet on the desk and do good work in a great position, and with a single glance I could embrace everything I'd ever need.
Now I moved and for reasons I won't get into (*cough*wife*cough*) the desk has gone bye-bye and I have to use what will be the kitchen table atm... Let's just say I learnt a lot about space optimization on the fly because I had no other choice. Try to fit a ton of computer equipment, TV, clock, phones, etc. on a 4'x2' desk and let's not forget the fuckton of cables... I used to think the rear of my old desk was a jungle but since this was done in utter chaos and no preoccupation with order, multiplugs simply stacked on top of each other, a certain comic takes a very relevant resonance...
The plus side is that it does have a very "cockpit" feel to it... I'm like a movie geek in here with all those screens, keyboard on my lap and mouse (thank Christ for wireless technology!) on the windowsill by the desk.
If I really think about it, the ultimate desk would be a little bit more than just a plank, mainly it would have enough (over twenty) power outlets in the back, inside a little trough that runs all the length of it so I could plug everything in and have it all nicely arranged and hidden, quality wood, a little shelving area above it where you can arrange shelves the way you like (height, number, size), drawers would be nice, but still, I repeat, a lot, a *LOT* of surface area.
You know, I tried time and again to find the "ultimate desk" and every one I could find, this one and the others from PoeticTech, and the harder and the more I try, the more I'm convinced that the ultimate desk is a big wooden plank at desk level that I can put all my stuff on. My computer(s), my computer screen(s), my TV, my clock radio, my stereo system, my phone, my action figures, but, more importantly, my junk.
It seems that no desk out there leaves me room for just a few cubic feet of crap. Open manuals lying on their faces, takeout food wrappings, books, piles of paper...
Of course a real desk with good quality wood is better than just a plank, but those ultra-ergonomic moving thingamajig desks would never work with me.
As much as I love Debian, it used to be my flavour of choice until I got tired of the poor hardware support (now over to Gentoo), if I want to hand a disc to Grandma (and I actually had to, or almost, since I wanted to introduce my comp-savvy but MS-loving Grandpa to Linux), I'll choose Mandrake.
The other day I found an old pic of me tearing the wrapping off Mandrake 7.2, which was a refreshing change from Redhat (popped my cherry on Redhat 5.*)... Even though I always preffered the control distros like Slack, Debian and now Gentoo can afford me, I've always loved the slickness of a Mandrake graphical install, getting your hardware recognized, choosing a graphical login and a GUI of your choice and simply using the computer.
Bliss.
Even though it ain't my cuppa, I've always admired the user friendliness of Mandrake, far before Redhat turned into a bloatfest (some might argue it always was...) and we had to deal with that Fedora nonsense.
So thank you, mod me up, I was your "get $flava" flame of the day.
Seriously though, I'll have to replace my server, a pretty cool home-built computer inside the fantastic, cool-looking Antec 1080 (I think it has eight fans all over) case, and I'd been thinking about putting it in one of them sexy, tiny black nForce Shuttle computers, would have been fantastic, but maybe this is a nice alternative.
Most consoles are released towards the end of the year to cash in on the holiday seasons. So if they release this thing december next year, the fuzz is more about 10 months.
This is true of many origins of ST characters... Spock existed only because producers of the show didn't feel a woman being first officer was believable, even in the 23rd century (I'm talking about the first pilot).
On TNG, Gene put Worf there simply to prove the point that yesterday's enemies can be today's allies, and also to have "guy with elaborate makeup" (I read that in one of the books about the shows) on the bridge. Tasha was the more important character, but then she died and Worf grew into one of the most complex and interesting characters of the ST universe.
So sure, Data started out as a measly Spock-equivalent, because apparently no Starfleet facility is without one (Odo, Tuvok), but he grew in a fascinating character, probably my (and many others') favourite of the series.
That's probably you've never been a voracious reader... I gobbled up the three volumes of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy (each one is 1200+ pages long) in a day and a much sleep-deprived night each, and that was because I was on vacation. Now that I have stuff to do, I can't do that sort of thing. I can't stay up all night in my bed to read a fascinating book. Or go lie in a hammock all afternoon with my MD and read 500 pages. Now all the reading I do is on the subway and in the evenings, so yes, even though I'm reading several books (Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, which I'm almost done with, Bernanos' Under Satan's Sun, Denis Lindon's The Gods are Having Fun and Helene Grimaud's Memoires), and I do get a lot of reading done, I really wish I had time to do some serious reading, because I don't.
Many, many moons ago this was announced, and it explained that it would take place after Revolutions, which ruled out many possible endings of the series...
First the review of nVidia cards that came out weeks ago and now this? What next, an article about leaked rumours that there might be a sequel to Kill Bill : Volume One?
Even when the technology is perfected to Star Trek standards i.e. you don't even need to think about articulating to make yourself understood by the computer, keyboards will remain the preferred input method of many, including me, simply because it's the fastest. I haven't ever "learned" to type but I average around 100 WPM and peak at 120, without a DVORAK keyboard. I'll rather use that to jolt down an idea, write a letter, program or post at Slashdot than voice recognition.
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Michael Jackson and Britney Spears I can see, but Madonna how so? Sure she changes image every couple albums, but it only means she's smart enough to stay ahead of the game. They say Britney is the new Madonna, but the difference is that the industry uses Britney to make money -- Madonna uses the industry to make money.
Besides, up to American Life she was making pretty good music, but that's a matter of opinion.
When I read this article, my immediate thought, but maybe it's because I'm a (part-time) screenwriter is, this would make a great idea for a love story movie!
;-)
A guy gets approached by a girl who jacks into his iPod, and they do it again, and he starts to do it with other people, and with her again many times, and he's fascinated by her beauty and the strange music she listens to, and after a while musters up the courage to ask her name, take her out for a cup of coffee...
But hey, that's me. I see this, I think of love, lambda geek sees this, he thinks of product placement.
So, you mean they're going to build a computer that's going to be bigger, faster and with higher number stats than the current #1? Shocking!
/. blurbs, so I'm asking, is it just a bigger supercomputer, or does it have any "real" innovations?
Sorry about the sarcasm, I'm only asking to be proven wrong, but isn't Blue Gene just more of the same, only bigger? Big Mac was interesting because of how cheap it was and because it was the first of its kind to use Macs, the Earth Simulator was interesting because it brought back custom chips for supercomputing as opposed to off the shelf components, we've been reading about IBM's dishwasher-sized supercomputer, articles about efficient supercomputing, so what's new about Blue Gene, besides being newer and bigger?
Once again I'm not bashing, I haven't read much of anything but the
You're crotchety and elitist for good reasons, but modern musicinans have as many reasons and they're as good.
If you hadn't paid attention before, let me say it again : the guitar is a classical, jazz and rock instrument, and there are many classical and jazz musicians who have taken up many instruments, and will agree that the guitar is one ofthe hardest ones, up there with violins or cellos.
And I'm a Liszt fanatic, and a pianist so I think I can appreciate his work, and when I say Hendrix's is as relevant as his I mean it. Paganini is a good enough equivalent too. Rachmaninov is an other.
That's right. I blame my guitarist friend for liking guitar bands over others, but then as a pianist I often find myself liking a piano piece more than other people and I find that my instrumental background gives me more of an insight into the qualities of such or such piece.
This is the classic (no joke intended) argument likers of so-called classical music use against so-called popular (i.e. not so-called classical) music. As someone raised in a family that advocates it, I know it inside out, and as someone who counts jazz and rock musicians among his best friends (and who enjoys that music very much) I learned to outgrow it, so even though this is OT discussion I'll take it.
If by popular music you mean what can be seen on MTV then I agree, I can't listen to 99% of it (though some good stuff does make it on MTV), simply because it's a catchy, shitty tune played to simplistic beats, made simply to appeal to our lower instincts and to sell. However if by popular music you mean rock, then I just have to disagree. Some rock is a wasteland when it comes to musical value but some is some very, very good music.
Classical and jazz musicians who have practiced many instruments agree that the guitar is one of the hardest instruments, on the same level that the violin or the cello, and talented rock guitarists like John Satriani as are worthy of praise as Yehudi Menuhin, and Jimi Hendrix is to the 20th century what Franz Liszt is to the 19th.
As far as vocal performance is concerned, there are some rock vocalists with skill equivalent to that of some classical ones. The difference is they aren't judged as the same criteria. As much as I love the voice of a Dietrich Fischer-Diskau or Placido Domingo, I'd like to see each one of them push out a gruelling, top of the lungs scream for thirty seconds and then start singing a melody in the next breath like he was vocalizing like Maynard Keenan or Chino Moreno. I'd like to see either one of them sing in contralto tessitures as well as they do as a baritone and a tenor respectively like Justin Hawkins.
The band Tool have some of the most intricate rythmic patterns I've seen in any composition. The structure of the songs the band Mudvayne puts out is incredible. The basslines, drum patterns and guitar riffs mesh into each other and escalate with rare skill. Ryan Martinie, the bassist for the band, had been playing jazz for 15+ years before he started playing rock and is one of the most talented musicians on earth. Their debut album, L.D. 50, is more than just a collection of songs but an entity, more than just a "concept album" but what every rock album should be, a real work of art that has unity, instead of just plenty of songs thrown on a CD.
I could point out many, many more examples of talented musicians or skillful compositions, orchestration, and much more aspects of rock mu
As opposed to the readers' fingers?
The article stresses that those microwave interferences can be curtailed with "ordinary magnets" placed "in a specific pattern" so why isn't there a DIY guide for figuring out that pattern and slapping the magnets on the side of the oven? I know I'm probably oversimplifying, but if you know the pattern at which your oven emmits the microwaves, it can't be too hard to figure out the pattern at which you can put the magnets. Am I missing something? Or is it simply because, as they mentioned, reducing microwave interferences is a huge market and "opensourcing" the method would stop that?
If he's an asshat for trolling, then what are you for taking the bait? And what am I for pointing that out to you?
...HAND.
Not to sound like ESR, but "hackers" is too widely used as a blanket statement for anyone who does things with computers that you don't understand. "Hackers" can be people who infiltrate networks, write/spread viruses, launch DDoS attacks, but also spammers, or even filesharers.
So I'm wondering what kind of "hackers" this agency is going to go after, the people behind virus attacks, DDoS attacks, spammers, etc., or are they just going to nab a few filesharing teenagers to make the headlines?
I know it's OT, but why do people just put URLs into their posts without taking the time of making them into links? I mean anyone, at least anyone who reads Slashdot knows the link tag and it's just those extra keys to press to save the rest of the world the bother of highlighting, copying and pasting.
People always seem to think that if there's a picture of something then it's the truth, but pictures are actually even easier to use when it comes to twisting the truth to fit your agenda. I don't mean actually editing the picture, but just using it so it fits your goal. Just alter the tagline and it changes a whole perspective. There was a series of ads for a radio statoin here that showed big pictures and would twist them. For example you'd see a bunch of small dots on a desert with fumes behind them so you could ony see they were vehicles and the tagline would read "Military offensive or rally race?"...
We live in an image-based, image-controlled world. I want my news without images, not made out of images.
GameSpot has declared Chess an inferior name, declaring that "Unlike most games, there is almost no skill required in Chess - no hand-eye coordination, no button-timing".
I agree that the RPG genre is in dire lack of innovation, but so is the entire gaming industry, it doesn't mean RPG is an inferior genre any more than it means videogames are an inferior medium. Declaring a genre is inferior because it challenges your intellect only is ludicrous.
I don't want to defend RPGs against FPSs or action games, simply because I love both for different reasons, it's like comparing tomatoes and cucumbers, cars and trains, a videogaming genre and an other.
Yeah I looked up those Steelcase desks and indeed they are freaking huge, they'd be good. I've been "researching" desk solutions because I just moved and had to leave my ideal desk there...
It's just an Ikea desk, but with the way it was arranged I had my chair parralel to it (instead of sitting on front of it) with my feet propped up in the corner, my keyboard on my lap, my mouse right there by my right hand and when I faced the desk and moved counterclockwise I could see my crap, my mousing area, my screen, my computer, my feet, the door to the office (crucial for me to be facing the door, I'm paranoid) and my TV. I had a little nearby shelf where I had books, a mug of coffee, a lamp and a clock, I could just kick back with my feet on the desk and do good work in a great position, and with a single glance I could embrace everything I'd ever need.
Now I moved and for reasons I won't get into (*cough*wife*cough*) the desk has gone bye-bye and I have to use what will be the kitchen table atm... Let's just say I learnt a lot about space optimization on the fly because I had no other choice. Try to fit a ton of computer equipment, TV, clock, phones, etc. on a 4'x2' desk and let's not forget the fuckton of cables... I used to think the rear of my old desk was a jungle but since this was done in utter chaos and no preoccupation with order, multiplugs simply stacked on top of each other, a certain comic takes a very relevant resonance...
The plus side is that it does have a very "cockpit" feel to it... I'm like a movie geek in here with all those screens, keyboard on my lap and mouse (thank Christ for wireless technology!) on the windowsill by the desk.
If I really think about it, the ultimate desk would be a little bit more than just a plank, mainly it would have enough (over twenty) power outlets in the back, inside a little trough that runs all the length of it so I could plug everything in and have it all nicely arranged and hidden, quality wood, a little shelving area above it where you can arrange shelves the way you like (height, number, size), drawers would be nice, but still, I repeat, a lot, a *LOT* of surface area.
A lot.
Seriously, even if you didn't RTFA, the blurb specified the player is an alternative for people who don't want to use a computer.
You know, I tried time and again to find the "ultimate desk" and every one I could find, this one and the others from PoeticTech, and the harder and the more I try, the more I'm convinced that the ultimate desk is a big wooden plank at desk level that I can put all my stuff on. My computer(s), my computer screen(s), my TV, my clock radio, my stereo system, my phone, my action figures, but, more importantly, my junk.
It seems that no desk out there leaves me room for just a few cubic feet of crap. Open manuals lying on their faces, takeout food wrappings, books, piles of paper...
Of course a real desk with good quality wood is better than just a plank, but those ultra-ergonomic moving thingamajig desks would never work with me.
Actually, more like "Get Mandrake"
As much as I love Debian, it used to be my flavour of choice until I got tired of the poor hardware support (now over to Gentoo), if I want to hand a disc to Grandma (and I actually had to, or almost, since I wanted to introduce my comp-savvy but MS-loving Grandpa to Linux), I'll choose Mandrake.
The other day I found an old pic of me tearing the wrapping off Mandrake 7.2, which was a refreshing change from Redhat (popped my cherry on Redhat 5.*)... Even though I always preffered the control distros like Slack, Debian and now Gentoo can afford me, I've always loved the slickness of a Mandrake graphical install, getting your hardware recognized, choosing a graphical login and a GUI of your choice and simply using the computer.
Bliss.
Even though it ain't my cuppa, I've always admired the user friendliness of Mandrake, far before Redhat turned into a bloatfest (some might argue it always was...) and we had to deal with that Fedora nonsense.
So thank you, mod me up, I was your "get $flava" flame of the day.
Seriously though, I'll have to replace my server, a pretty cool home-built computer inside the fantastic, cool-looking Antec 1080 (I think it has eight fans all over) case, and I'd been thinking about putting it in one of them sexy, tiny black nForce Shuttle computers, would have been fantastic, but maybe this is a nice alternative.
Most consoles are released towards the end of the year to cash in on the holiday seasons. So if they release this thing december next year, the fuzz is more about 10 months.
Hahaha I get it! You're sarcastically criticizing a guy for flaming Microsoft without good reason and getting modded up for it!
Am I the only one getting tired of this whole debacle?
This is true of many origins of ST characters... Spock existed only because producers of the show didn't feel a woman being first officer was believable, even in the 23rd century (I'm talking about the first pilot).
On TNG, Gene put Worf there simply to prove the point that yesterday's enemies can be today's allies, and also to have "guy with elaborate makeup" (I read that in one of the books about the shows) on the bridge. Tasha was the more important character, but then she died and Worf grew into one of the most complex and interesting characters of the ST universe.
So sure, Data started out as a measly Spock-equivalent, because apparently no Starfleet facility is without one (Odo, Tuvok), but he grew in a fascinating character, probably my (and many others') favourite of the series.
That's probably you've never been a voracious reader... I gobbled up the three volumes of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy (each one is 1200+ pages long) in a day and a much sleep-deprived night each, and that was because I was on vacation. Now that I have stuff to do, I can't do that sort of thing. I can't stay up all night in my bed to read a fascinating book. Or go lie in a hammock all afternoon with my MD and read 500 pages. Now all the reading I do is on the subway and in the evenings, so yes, even though I'm reading several books (Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, which I'm almost done with, Bernanos' Under Satan's Sun, Denis Lindon's The Gods are Having Fun and Helene Grimaud's Memoires), and I do get a lot of reading done, I really wish I had time to do some serious reading, because I don't.
Many, many moons ago this was announced, and it explained that it would take place after Revolutions, which ruled out many possible endings of the series...
First the review of nVidia cards that came out weeks ago and now this? What next, an article about leaked rumours that there might be a sequel to Kill Bill : Volume One?
Arg, my mistake. Well, to my defense the article is slashdotted.
Even when the technology is perfected to Star Trek standards i.e. you don't even need to think about articulating to make yourself understood by the computer, keyboards will remain the preferred input method of many, including me, simply because it's the fastest. I haven't ever "learned" to type but I average around 100 WPM and peak at 120, without a DVORAK keyboard. I'll rather use that to jolt down an idea, write a letter, program or post at Slashdot than voice recognition.