By the time it was published and actually in the stores, Jordan and Tor both knew it would be way longer than a trilogy. Heck, by the time the first draft of the first book was done, everyone knew it wouldn't be wrapped up by book 3 by a long shot. And that was a long time before the book launch.
That's not what the monthly newsletter from the national bookstore chain I bought it from said. Nor was that on the display where I got a free copy if the first part of the first book. By then it had long changed from being a trilogy.
I don't know if it's unfair. When I was talked into buying the first book when it came out, the chain (It's been so long I can't remember if it was Barnes & Noble/B.Daltons, Waldenbooks, etc. One of the big chains anyhow) had both in their monthly newsletter and fliers in the store about how this was book 1 of what would be a 9 part series. Since I started buying the books under that premise, I think I can hold them to being at least within a couple books of that, or having the right to moan about it when it doesn't get finished.
If you think *that* is fantastic, you must have a very shallow knowledge of fantasy.
Gosh, gee-wilikers, I wish I had such an in-depth knowledge of fantasy as you. Piss off. If you have a different taste in books that's fine. If I happen to like something you don't, that's fine too.
since when is expanding a world to make it have more content and be more vivid a bad thing? The goal is not to close up the series as quickly as possible, but to make it an interesting read.
When did I EVER say expanding a world to make it more vivid was a bad thing? I didn't. It simply shouldn't be done at expense of the telling of a story you started.
Tolkien didn't go off track in the LOTR and insert 7 books between The Two Towers and The Return of The King because he wanted to describe intricacies of how Galadriel liked to play with here hair or the affair her blacksmith was having with some maiden. Or give the entire histories of the Silmarillion in there. He tried to keep to the story and complete it. He gave enough details to flesh out the world, but didn't let himself get distracted entirely by them. Further materials to further detail his universe could be published separately, or as part of another set of stories as appropriate.
At one time Jordan said it would be a trilogy. Then 6 books. When wheel was actually introduced in the stores, as I said, it was touted as 1 of 9. I still have the free book (just part of the first whole book) given out at the time. 1 of 9.
Yes, I typo'd on the came and went number. 11 came and went. 13 is the one that's being written at the moment, but won't finish it. Hopefully 14 will.
And I like the descriptions I've heard of Elric of Melniboné, etc. But I tried reading a few of Moorcock's books and stopped because I just hated his writing style.
That's one take on it. The other is to give the faithful readers of the series a much needed conclusion to a story. When Wheel was introduced, it was touted as book 1 of a 9 part series. The first few books were fantastic. Then Jordan decided to stretch out the series so as not to kill his money maker. Book 13 came and went with no conclusion to the story in sight, and Jordan seemed to be milking descriptions of everything in his world for all they were worth in order to extend the series. Unfortunately, he then became ill and died. It's a tragedy for his family. But it's also a loss to millions of fans of his who are left with a story they have invested a lot of time and money in, with no conclusion or closure. I, as a reader, would welcome a competent author, going by Jordan's writing and notes, completing the series.
When the boomers were young, they had really active social lives. They talked to a lot of friends. More than 5, and ones that weren't co-workers. They used to go out all the time and party too. Kinda like you do now.
Now in a few years, you and your current friends will drift a part a bit. You will likely move different places due to different careers. You will have kids. That keeps you really busy. They will have kids. That will keep them really busy. Your job will be putting way more demands on you. Theirs will too. And guess what? The next generation of kids will have more in the flesh social interactions than you will at that time. Phones didn't save them. Texting wont' save you. That's life.
Actually, I think the point of using the goo for "US downhill ski team, and motorcycle clothing manufacturers" is to allow a solid type of protection in a crash in FLEXIBLE material such as clothing. So that normally you can move freely and easily, bending whatever parts of the clothing as you naturally would, but when there is an impact, that part of the clothing turns into a harder ridgid/solid material, offering more protection. Think of a D&D cloak of resistance geeks. Basically, it would be like wearing a normal median weight flexible clothing that suddenly turns into a suit made of shin guards, but all over the place, including joints.
Using it on a laptop is silly. The case is already a firm solid. You could get much better protection by just using a harder shell on the laptop. The spinning hard drive is the only part that truly needs a cushy landing if it stops suddenly and is not protected by a hard shell.
#1 IIS is a web server. That is a juicy target. It's much jucier than a lot more home OSX machines.
#2 Linux is used very often as a server. Once again, a much much jucier target than some OSX desktop.
#3 They do, just much less of them, as with apps. Less written, less looking, less discovered.
#5 Modern *nixes have pretty much all implemented this feature which OSX has neglected to implement. What else haven't they done right as the other *nixes have?
So if you are a scientist, and you think the thing extremely unlikely to be real, even though there are (notoriously unreliable) eyewitnesses, exactly how much time and money do you think you are going to invest in it?
With unlimited budgets and resources, sure, I'd look at it. With the realistic amount of resources at my disposal? I think I'll investigate something else that I already believe is real and have a curiosity about.
"Then Mythbusters did the "blind drunk" driving test and found that a blind person can follow directions and drive passably. "
Bah. Top Gear had a blind man drive a car around a racetrack by following directions 4 years earlier than that Mythbusters episode. He even beat a few sighted people's time who they've had on.
History of any of the following conditions (operative notes, endoscopy reports, and/or pathology reports must be reviewed locally to confirm that the candidate meets at least one of the following entry criteria).
1. Colorectal adenoma(s) 1 cm in maximal diameter
2. Colorectal adenoma(s) with villous or tubulovillous histology
3. Colorectal adenoma(s) with high-grade dysplasia
o Willingness to avoid pregnancy or impregnate (see below) for the period of active study (1 year).
o ECOG performance status 0 or 1
o Hemoglobin greater than 95% of the lower limit of institutional normal. Platelets 100,000/L.
o AST (SGOT), ALT (SGPT), alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin, BUN, creatinine 1.5x upper limit of institutional normal.
o ANA 1:160
Exclusion Criteria:
* Receiving any other investigational agents.
* Presence of an active acute or chronic infection
* History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to the study agents.
* History of heritable cancer syndrome (FAP, HNPCC)
* Patients with a history of auto-immune disease such as, but not restricted to, inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, scleroderma, or multiple sclerosis.
* History of malignancy 5 years prior to the Registration/Randomization evaluation, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer.
* Any use of oral corticosteroids 12 weeks prior to Registration/Randomization.
* Current or planned use of immunomodulators including: Remicade, 6-MP (Mercaptopurine), Methotrexate, cyclosporine, or other immunomodulatory drugs.
* Pregnant women, because the teratogenic or abortifacient effects of the study agents remain incompletely defined. Breastfeeding women, because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with the study agents.
The poster of the story didn't even bother to read the link he provided... You can install it from a USB drive from the source. Asus simply doesn't provide that installer on their install CD.
This is a non-story. The distro doesn't need windows to install. The distributor was just being cheap.
Umm, a lot of them already do. I live in the midwest. If I drive below x number of miles/year, my insurance gives a bit of a discount. It's not a lot, but neither is the one California is talking about.
Why is this on/. ? It's already done lots of places by lots of companies. It's not news for nerds. It's not really news at all.
Psst. The vast majority of the land in the country is not urban or suburban. Urban + rural residential make up ~7% of land in the US.
7% is NOT the majority of places in the U.S.
I live in a rural area. I can do pretty much whatever I want on my land as long as if I build a structure I get a building permit and inspection to make sure things are up to safety codes.
Plenty of mathematicians work with private companies that also make them sign NDAs where they could be sued for everything (or more) than they're worth if they break them.
Don't sign agreements you don't intend to abide by. This goes for everything, not just government business.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. I do medical research. Mostly open NIH funded stuff, but sometimes when grants are tough to come by I work on pharmaceutical company projects, which I sign NDAs about. I'm very careful not to let information protected by that NDA from slipping into conversation with other folks, let alone putting people from competitors on the project...
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This was 1990, so book 9 definitely wasn't out.
Oh yes, I did. It was a loooong time ago.
By the time it was published and actually in the stores, Jordan and Tor both knew it would be way longer than a trilogy. Heck, by the time the first draft of the first book was done, everyone knew it wouldn't be wrapped up by book 3 by a long shot. And that was a long time before the book launch.
That's not what the monthly newsletter from the national bookstore chain I bought it from said. Nor was that on the display where I got a free copy if the first part of the first book. By then it had long changed from being a trilogy.
I don't know if it's unfair. When I was talked into buying the first book when it came out, the chain (It's been so long I can't remember if it was Barnes & Noble/B.Daltons, Waldenbooks, etc. One of the big chains anyhow) had both in their monthly newsletter and fliers in the store about how this was book 1 of what would be a 9 part series. Since I started buying the books under that premise, I think I can hold them to being at least within a couple books of that, or having the right to moan about it when it doesn't get finished.
If you think *that* is fantastic, you must have a very shallow knowledge of fantasy.
Gosh, gee-wilikers, I wish I had such an in-depth knowledge of fantasy as you. Piss off. If you have a different taste in books that's fine. If I happen to like something you don't, that's fine too.
since when is expanding a world to make it have more content and be more vivid a bad thing?
The goal is not to close up the series as quickly as possible, but to make it an interesting read.
When did I EVER say expanding a world to make it more vivid was a bad thing? I didn't. It simply shouldn't be done at expense of the telling of a story you started.
Tolkien didn't go off track in the LOTR and insert 7 books between The Two Towers and The Return of The King because he wanted to describe intricacies of how Galadriel liked to play with here hair or the affair her blacksmith was having with some maiden. Or give the entire histories of the Silmarillion in there. He tried to keep to the story and complete it. He gave enough details to flesh out the world, but didn't let himself get distracted entirely by them. Further materials to further detail his universe could be published separately, or as part of another set of stories as appropriate.
At one time Jordan said it would be a trilogy. Then 6 books. When wheel was actually introduced in the stores, as I said, it was touted as 1 of 9. I still have the free book (just part of the first whole book) given out at the time. 1 of 9.
Yes, I typo'd on the came and went number. 11 came and went. 13 is the one that's being written at the moment, but won't finish it. Hopefully 14 will.
And I like the descriptions I've heard of Elric of Melniboné, etc. But I tried reading a few of Moorcock's books and stopped because I just hated his writing style.
Different people have different tastes.
That's one take on it. The other is to give the faithful readers of the series a much needed conclusion to a story. When Wheel was introduced, it was touted as book 1 of a 9 part series. The first few books were fantastic. Then Jordan decided to stretch out the series so as not to kill his money maker. Book 13 came and went with no conclusion to the story in sight, and Jordan seemed to be milking descriptions of everything in his world for all they were worth in order to extend the series. Unfortunately, he then became ill and died. It's a tragedy for his family. But it's also a loss to millions of fans of his who are left with a story they have invested a lot of time and money in, with no conclusion or closure. I, as a reader, would welcome a competent author, going by Jordan's writing and notes, completing the series.
WORK for the money and not have the years in jail.
Nah, they aren't worried about spending too much time in jail. Last week they stole some iPhones and found out how easy it is to jailbreak.
Even worse, the real topic was disappointing. I was hoping it was an article about the Palm Pre.
Psst, kid, let me let you in on a secret....
When the boomers were young, they had really active social lives. They talked to a lot of friends. More than 5, and ones that weren't co-workers. They used to go out all the time and party too. Kinda like you do now.
Now in a few years, you and your current friends will drift a part a bit. You will likely move different places due to different careers. You will have kids. That keeps you really busy. They will have kids. That will keep them really busy. Your job will be putting way more demands on you. Theirs will too. And guess what? The next generation of kids will have more in the flesh social interactions than you will at that time. Phones didn't save them. Texting wont' save you. That's life.
Actually, I think the point of using the goo for "US downhill ski team, and motorcycle clothing manufacturers" is to allow a solid type of protection in a crash in FLEXIBLE material such as clothing. So that normally you can move freely and easily, bending whatever parts of the clothing as you naturally would, but when there is an impact, that part of the clothing turns into a harder ridgid/solid material, offering more protection. Think of a D&D cloak of resistance geeks. Basically, it would be like wearing a normal median weight flexible clothing that suddenly turns into a suit made of shin guards, but all over the place, including joints.
Using it on a laptop is silly. The case is already a firm solid. You could get much better protection by just using a harder shell on the laptop. The spinning hard drive is the only part that truly needs a cushy landing if it stops suddenly and is not protected by a hard shell.
Some problems with your arguments.
#1 IIS is a web server. That is a juicy target. It's much jucier than a lot more home OSX machines.
#2 Linux is used very often as a server. Once again, a much much jucier target than some OSX desktop.
#3 They do, just much less of them, as with apps. Less written, less looking, less discovered.
#5 Modern *nixes have pretty much all implemented this feature which OSX has neglected to implement. What else haven't they done right as the other *nixes have?
So if you are a scientist, and you think the thing extremely unlikely to be real, even though there are (notoriously unreliable) eyewitnesses, exactly how much time and money do you think you are going to invest in it?
With unlimited budgets and resources, sure, I'd look at it. With the realistic amount of resources at my disposal? I think I'll investigate something else that I already believe is real and have a curiosity about.
The grandparent probably got it mixed up with
Androgen-insensitivity-syndrome
Umm, that article seemed to talk only about pharma company R&D. The U.S. spends another ~$30 Billion a year on R&D through the NIH.
"Then Mythbusters did the "blind drunk" driving test and found that a blind person can follow directions and drive passably. "
Bah. Top Gear had a blind man drive a car around a racetrack by following directions 4 years earlier than that Mythbusters episode. He even beat a few sighted people's time who they've had on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbiYtg5geoo
You go here: http://clinicaltrials.gov/
And find the trial you are interested in, and see if you meet the requirements.
In the case of this one:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00773097?term=colorectal+vaccine&rank=2
Inclusion Criteria:
Age 40 - 70 years of age.
History of any of the following conditions (operative notes, endoscopy reports, and/or pathology reports must be reviewed locally to confirm that the candidate meets at least one of the following entry criteria).
1. Colorectal adenoma(s) 1 cm in maximal diameter
2. Colorectal adenoma(s) with villous or tubulovillous histology
3. Colorectal adenoma(s) with high-grade dysplasia
o Willingness to avoid pregnancy or impregnate (see below) for the period of active study (1 year).
o ECOG performance status 0 or 1
o Hemoglobin greater than 95% of the lower limit of institutional normal. Platelets 100,000/L.
o AST (SGOT), ALT (SGPT), alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin, BUN, creatinine 1.5x upper limit of institutional normal.
o ANA 1:160
Exclusion Criteria:
* Receiving any other investigational agents.
* Presence of an active acute or chronic infection
* History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to the study agents.
* History of heritable cancer syndrome (FAP, HNPCC)
* Patients with a history of auto-immune disease such as, but not restricted to, inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, scleroderma, or multiple sclerosis.
* History of malignancy 5 years prior to the Registration/Randomization evaluation, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer.
* Any use of oral corticosteroids 12 weeks prior to Registration/Randomization.
* Current or planned use of immunomodulators including: Remicade, 6-MP (Mercaptopurine), Methotrexate, cyclosporine, or other immunomodulatory drugs.
* Pregnant women, because the teratogenic or abortifacient effects of the study agents remain incompletely defined. Breastfeeding women, because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with the study agents.
Not only that, but the mutation that caused the spiky leaves might also be tied to some other beneficial non-obvious trait the tree has.
But certainly the most likely answer at this point is 500 years is a very, very short time in tree generations.
The poster of the story didn't even bother to read the link he provided... You can install it from a USB drive from the source. Asus simply doesn't provide that installer on their install CD.
This is a non-story. The distro doesn't need windows to install. The distributor was just being cheap.
Umm, a lot of them already do. I live in the midwest. If I drive below x number of miles/year, my insurance gives a bit of a discount. It's not a lot, but neither is the one California is talking about.
Why is this on /. ? It's already done lots of places by lots of companies. It's not news for nerds. It's not really news at all.
Psst. The vast majority of the land in the country is not urban or suburban. Urban + rural residential make up ~7% of land in the US.
7% is NOT the majority of places in the U.S.
I live in a rural area. I can do pretty much whatever I want on my land as long as if I build a structure I get a building permit and inspection to make sure things are up to safety codes.
Why is this coward's post insightful?
Plenty of mathematicians work with private companies that also make them sign NDAs where they could be sued for everything (or more) than they're worth if they break them.
Don't sign agreements you don't intend to abide by. This goes for everything, not just government business.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. I do medical research. Mostly open NIH funded stuff, but sometimes when grants are tough to come by I work on pharmaceutical company projects, which I sign NDAs about. I'm very careful not to let information protected by that NDA from slipping into conversation with other folks, let alone putting people from competitors on the project...
The guy was far more than careless.
Correct someone who is not a good example of my profession.