Most booksellers in general bookstores wouldn't recognize a Fantasy or SF book if it jumped up and bit them in the knee.
Their interests mostly lies in knowing their classics and reading the new hip author of the week, or maybe the latest Nobel Prize winner. In their eyes Fantasy or SF is low litterature, which would be kicked out of the shop faster than you could say... if the worthless crap just didn't sell so many copies.
"Speculative Fiction" isn't a historic genere.
I guess you are trying to say "commonly accepted genre". But guess what? Your attempt to classify Fantasy as a sub genre of Science Fiction is even less so, at least among us that actually read the stuff.
Please explain why the fans of the genres would bow down to the genre explanations of librarians and booksellers whose experience of SF/Fantasy at most might extend to LOTR or Asimov's foundation series.
Would you willingly let a general physician perform a brain surgery on your mother?
Would you please be kind enough, pointing out the scientific parts of LOTR, The Belgariad or The sword of truth (bad series)? These are afaik, prime examples of what is considered Fantasy.
Sure, not all stuff that people label Science Fiction is that scientific either, but at least SF mostly tries to tell us what might happen in the future and what technology, society and science of the era might have evolved into.
SF could be seen as a genre of Fantasy, but imo SF and Fantasy are already defined as two separate generes (where overlaps occur, which you mentioned) by most of their readers. Fantasy is the genre where you will find magic, dragons, orchs, goblins, swordfighters or other similar characters, set in an enviroment that more often than not bear some resemblace of medieval or pre medieaval Europe.
If you take the overlaps as proof of point, then it is probaly useless trying to convince you otherwise. But, I can assure you most fans of these kinds of litterature relatively easily can single out what genre the book in question belongs to, by reading a few chapters.
Hint:
If it is Fantasy with elements of SF, place it in the Fantasy bookcase.
If it is SF with elements of Fantasy, place it in the SF bookcase.
Some cases like Stephen King's gunslinger series are very hard to define. In these cases you can always use the classification: good novels (or bad).
Yes, I am very much up to date with the situation in Chechnya. What I am not up to date with are the "overwhelming ongoing data regarding Al Quada's operations in Chechnya." or "There are financial ties, operational ties, recruiting ties, etc.".
How do you make this conclusion? There's overwhelming ongoing data regarding Al Quada's operations in Chechnya. Many of the 9/11 terrorists were originally recruited to go to Chechnya. There are financial ties, operational ties, recruiting ties, etc. It's rather shocking that anyone would make a comment otherwise - it's like claiming Chirac isn't French.
Any references? I don't disagree with you, I am just curious as I haven't seen anything to that effect in any major international media.
According to me a police officer should have the right to arrest people breaking the law. But, as you might have noticed, I am no big fan of capital punishment and in my opinion people who kills others on orders from the "state" or "government" are as much criminals as the ones they are ordered to kill. In my book two fatal wrongs doesn't equal one right.
You see, I think killing someone is such an awful act that it is everyone's responsibility to refuse to do so, regardless of who is giving the order. That, imo, makes anyone who orders or carry out the execution of a murderer as much a murder as the murderer himself.
If there are laws against killing your fellow man, then, yes, according to me, they should be given the same punishment as the original killer, i.e. be killed.
Needless to say, if you read my previous comments, that is definately not what I really want.
If trials were always fair, the world a nice place to live and nobody ever lied, the death penalty might be a realistic, but imho somewhat crude/barbaric option. Unforunately that is not the case.
Read this, text if you have the time and ability. Then tell me again what the difference is between murder and an execution after a trial.
Who will then kill the man who killed the criminal? And who will then kill him? You?
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
No civilized governments do that. Civilized governments arrest and prosecute criminals. Then according to what fits the bill best, they fine, jail or give them proper psychological treatment.
Do you live in some barbaric third world country where torture and imprisonment without fair trials are still part of the legal system too?
I have never really used FORTRAN and was quite intrigued by your comment. A google search for example code brought me some examples of which I found this one the most interresting:
SUMMA = 0.0
ADAM : DO I = 1, 10
X = TAB(I)
EVA : DO J = 1, 20
IF (X > TAB(J)) CYCLE ADAM
X = X + TAB(J)
END DO EVA
SUMMA = SUMMA + X
IF (SUMMA >= 17.0) EXIT ADAM
END DO ADAM
The question is, are all FORTRAN coders that obsessed with various forms of sexual acts?
The most accepted origin of "w00t" is that it is short for "wonderful loot", taken from an online rpg (Everquest), expressed at times of slaying other players and then looting their remains.
Other possible origins are:
1 The one you mentioned. 2 "Wohoo, I got root!" 3 Some expression used in a 30's movie. 4 "Waste of our time"
I think the generally accepted explanation is right. Imho it has a true ring to it.
No 1 feels like something some CS kid thought up when he read W00t after he was pwned, and then frew his own conclusions.
No 2 might be true, hacker lingo tends to cling on. But I guess then we would be quickly told that our explanations of w00t were very wrong from the beginning.
No 3 was probably thought up by someone who heard something that sounded like w00t in some old movie and thought he found the origin in an unexpected place.
No 4 doesn't fit the (triumphant) context where w00t is commonly used. But, it is the explanation that is best fit to describe this utterly meaningless post.
They went after the right people if the owners of the DC hubs stated that you need to share 100 GB of illegal warez/movies/music.
If the hub owners just stated that you need to share 100 GB of data, then I can't see how they can be responsible for what the users share. Sure, they should as any service provider ban users that are misconducting upon request of the owner of the copyrighted material, but according to the article Dep of justice didn't see it that way.
I am not a lawyer, but to me they (Hub owners) rather broke the contract with their ISP when setting up these servers (The hub).
Go after the people sharing the stuff, not the ones who supply the means of sharing them. This is like when they where after Kazaa for sharing illegal material, but on a lesser scale.
That scenerio could happen anywhere. In America, we the people believe we should have the right to arm ourselves against the possibility of it happening.
If that scenario happened here where I live, I would call the police. Then I would tell the intruders the police have been called, which in turn likely would lead to them running off. Last time I called the police to report a violent crime (mugging), they were at the scene within 5 minutes and managed to arrest the criminal.
I think he spoke of gun related deaths i America in general, not the ones caused by you specifically.
In that society, police aren't needed either. Also in that society, the bears eat everyone because people can't outrun bears.
No, they (bears) would still be killed by people armed with pencils.
Seriously, few guns sold in America are bought with intent of protecting yourself or loved ones against wild animals. (most firearms sold are not that effective against a 300 pound bear)
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define: 1 mm = 1000.
1 m = 1000 mm, per definition.
1000x1000 = ?
You would also need a hell of a lot of dot matrix printer paper. And ink-tape cartridges (not sure if that is what they were called).
What part of "lets define a millimeter as 1000" don't you get?
Actually, in a narrative sense you are more right than your scornful remark makes it seem.
The classical definition of a protagonist (about whom the story is told) is of a man or woman who changes or matures into something different.
Problem is, in star wars we have multiple protagonists:
Luke, from whiny teenager to almost a full grown, responsible man.
Han-Solo, from smuggler to law abiding good guy (who gets the girl).
Vader, from evil incarnate to caring father. (Or rather, from nice young boy to evil incarnate, back to good guy, if we count ep. 1 - 3).
Hm, a stretch, this last example is.
But, get my point, you do.
The same folk who read 2001 will read LOTR. Those who watch Star Wars will watch Star Trek or Xena.
Have you actually ever met or spoken to anyone interrested in SF/Fantasy at all?
You are joking, right?
... if the worthless crap just didn't sell so many copies.
Most booksellers in general bookstores wouldn't recognize a Fantasy or SF book if it jumped up and bit them in the knee.
Their interests mostly lies in knowing their classics and reading the new hip author of the week, or maybe the latest Nobel Prize winner. In their eyes Fantasy or SF is low litterature, which would be kicked out of the shop faster than you could say
"Speculative Fiction" isn't a historic genere.
I guess you are trying to say "commonly accepted genre". But guess what? Your attempt to classify Fantasy as a sub genre of Science Fiction is even less so, at least among us that actually read the stuff.
Please explain why the fans of the genres would bow down to the genre explanations of librarians and booksellers whose experience of SF/Fantasy at most might extend to LOTR or Asimov's foundation series.
Would you willingly let a general physician perform a brain surgery on your mother?
Fantasy is a sub-genere of Sci-fi.
Um, yeah. Right.
Would you please be kind enough, pointing out the scientific parts of LOTR, The Belgariad or The sword of truth (bad series)? These are afaik, prime examples of what is considered Fantasy.
Sure, not all stuff that people label Science Fiction is that scientific either, but at least SF mostly tries to tell us what might happen in the future and what technology, society and science of the era might have evolved into.
SF could be seen as a genre of Fantasy, but imo SF and Fantasy are already defined as two separate generes (where overlaps occur, which you mentioned) by most of their readers. Fantasy is the genre where you will find magic, dragons, orchs, goblins, swordfighters or other similar characters, set in an enviroment that more often than not bear some resemblace of medieval or pre medieaval Europe.
If you take the overlaps as proof of point, then it is probaly useless trying to convince you otherwise. But, I can assure you most fans of these kinds of litterature relatively easily can single out what genre the book in question belongs to, by reading a few chapters.
Hint:
If it is Fantasy with elements of SF, place it in the Fantasy bookcase.
If it is SF with elements of Fantasy, place it in the SF bookcase.
Some cases like Stephen King's gunslinger series are very hard to define. In these cases you can always use the classification: good novels (or bad).
Yes, I am very much up to date with the situation in Chechnya. What I am not up to date with are the "overwhelming ongoing data regarding Al Quada's operations in Chechnya." or "There are financial ties, operational ties, recruiting ties, etc.".
How do you make this conclusion? There's overwhelming ongoing data regarding Al Quada's operations in Chechnya. Many of the 9/11 terrorists were originally recruited to go to Chechnya. There are financial ties, operational ties, recruiting ties, etc. It's rather shocking that anyone would make a comment otherwise - it's like claiming Chirac isn't French.
Any references? I don't disagree with you, I am just curious as I haven't seen anything to that effect in any major international media.
Nope.
According to me a police officer should have the right to arrest people breaking the law. But, as you might have noticed, I am no big fan of capital punishment and in my opinion people who kills others on orders from the "state" or "government" are as much criminals as the ones they are ordered to kill. In my book two fatal wrongs doesn't equal one right.
You see, I think killing someone is such an awful act that it is everyone's responsibility to refuse to do so, regardless of who is giving the order. That, imo, makes anyone who orders or carry out the execution of a murderer as much a murder as the murderer himself.
If there are laws against killing your fellow man, then, yes, according to me, they should be given the same punishment as the original killer, i.e. be killed.
Needless to say, if you read my previous comments, that is definately not what I really want.
*Sigh*
My whole point was that imo, a government that on a regular basis kills it's own citizens has no right to call themselves "civilized".
If trials were always fair, the world a nice place to live and nobody ever lied, the death penalty might be a realistic, but imho somewhat crude/barbaric option. Unforunately that is not the case.
Read this, text if you have the time and ability. Then tell me again what the difference is between murder and an execution after a trial.
No. Your point being?
Who will then kill the man who killed the criminal? And who will then kill him? You?
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
Someone knew what he was talking about.
They also arrest and execute criminals.
No civilized governments do that. Civilized governments arrest and prosecute criminals. Then according to what fits the bill best, they fine, jail or give them proper psychological treatment.
Do you live in some barbaric third world country where torture and imprisonment without fair trials are still part of the legal system too?
...but, you could certainly drive around with one of the all your base station thingies looking for a signal.
Operator: We get signal!
Stalker: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Stalker: It's her!!
As Chris Woods pointed out at OSNews comments, it is more like a remake of the Howie computer made by an UK company called Redten.
Imho neither Microsoft nor Apple is a company you would like to be dependant on.
Konfabulator, anyone.
Totally off topic, but...
The most accepted origin of "w00t" is that it is short for "wonderful loot", taken from an online rpg (Everquest), expressed at times of slaying other players and then looting their remains.
Other possible origins are:
1 The one you mentioned.
2 "Wohoo, I got root!"
3 Some expression used in a 30's movie.
4 "Waste of our time"
I think the generally accepted explanation is right. Imho it has a true ring to it.
No 1 feels like something some CS kid thought up when he read W00t after he was pwned, and then frew his own conclusions.
No 2 might be true, hacker lingo tends to cling on. But I guess then we would be quickly told that our explanations of w00t were very wrong from the beginning.
No 3 was probably thought up by someone who heard something that sounded like w00t in some old movie and thought he found the origin in an unexpected place.
No 4 doesn't fit the (triumphant) context where w00t is commonly used. But, it is the explanation that is best fit to describe this utterly meaningless post.
w00t!
Not if there are many duplicates at different users of every file shared on the network.
Perhaps. Perhaps not.
They went after the right people if the owners of the DC hubs stated that you need to share 100 GB of illegal warez/movies/music.
If the hub owners just stated that you need to share 100 GB of data, then I can't see how they can be responsible for what the users share. Sure, they should as any service provider ban users that are misconducting upon request of the owner of the copyrighted material, but according to the article Dep of justice didn't see it that way.
I am not a lawyer, but to me they (Hub owners) rather broke the contract with their ISP when setting up these servers (The hub).
Go after the people sharing the stuff, not the ones who supply the means of sharing them. This is like when they where after Kazaa for sharing illegal material, but on a lesser scale.
Your example is like having a shop in NYC selling Al Qaida memorabilia, celebrating the 911 attacks.
That scenerio could happen anywhere. In America, we the people believe we should have the right to arm ourselves against the possibility of it happening.
If that scenario happened here where I live, I would call the police. Then I would tell the intruders the police have been called, which in turn likely would lead to them running off. Last time I called the police to report a violent crime (mugging), they were at the scene within 5 minutes and managed to arrest the criminal.
Don't you have a police force where you live?
I've never killed anyone.
I think he spoke of gun related deaths i America in general, not the ones caused by you specifically.
In that society, police aren't needed either. Also in that society, the bears eat everyone because people can't outrun bears.
No, they (bears) would still be killed by people armed with pencils.
Seriously, few guns sold in America are bought with intent of protecting yourself or loved ones against wild animals. (most firearms sold are not that effective against a 300 pound bear)