I would consider (and have given to my nephews and nieces) short story collections. Short enough for them to work with but very rewarding. In particular Clarke, Asimov, Niven. For Heinlein I would stick to early Heinlein (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles ), say : "Rocket Ship Galileo", "Farmer in the Sky","The Rolling Stones".
I would also consider various short story collections. The great advantage is that if some of them don't resonate with one or more of your kids then next one will.
Also : with respect to some stories being "darker and more political". As long as they are also reading stories with a different messages / vibes then they will not even notice.
The New Xbox 2 (or Xbox 360?) is using the PowerPC , if fact Microsoft is currently using Apple G5 as the development platform. So they will have experiance on the Power architecture. I seem to remeber them doing some work in with NT on PCC in 98? but it was killed.
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I don't know a lot about the MTA/Trea stuff, save they have been doing highly parallel and shared shared memory system for a long time, and indeed I belive they have pioneered a lot in this space. (see From Here to Petraflops)
The differance is that MultiCore is going mainstream. Intel, ADM, IBM, Sun all have chips we can buy in the next year. Not as powerfully as Trea, but a lot cheaper.
My point would be that - regardless of why its happening - there is a major change it hardware happening, Like the change from Intel 16 bit to 32 bit, which took several years, but much more difficult. (we are also going 64 bit is servers and desktops to address all that chaep ram, but that is also most a non-story.)
The industry has been talking about Parallelism for a long, long, time. Looks like we a now starting down that path. Its going to be hard, but it is rewarding. Which is part of Herb Sutter's and Tim Bray's message. The OS's, tools, and applications that do this right are going have a big advantage in the server and desk/laptop market with all that highly scablible hardware.
Here's a revision of my original post (hopefully much improved) and a summary of the (on topic) discussion.
Lots of discussion going on about 'folksonomies' - bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own - as used in (recent web sites) Del.icio.us
(http://de.licio.us/), a shared bookmarking web site referred to as "Delicious", and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/), a photo sharing web site.
Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies which examines user-generated metadata as
implemented and applied in two web services - Del.icio.us and Flickr - designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots
classification.
IFTF's Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no synonym control (
"mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us); no hierarchy and content types; and only simple one-word tags.
Are these features or bugs? Consensuss says 'feature'. Andrew Ducker has a suggestion for synonyms and a modest proposal
The submitter assumed you had heard of Del.icio.us and Flickr (if not used them) and whated to learn more about "folksonomies" defined in the article as : bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own. It was also assuned you had a better than grade 10 level of reading and/or education, and could figure things out.
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I would consider (and have given to my nephews and nieces) short story collections. Short enough for them to work with but very rewarding. In particular Clarke, Asimov, Niven. For Heinlein I would stick to early Heinlein (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles ), say : "Rocket Ship Galileo", "Farmer in the Sky" ,"The Rolling Stones".
I would also consider various short story collections. The great advantage is that if some of them don't resonate with one or more of your kids then next one will.
One new book worth looking at is Cory Doctorow's Little Brother http://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/
Also : with respect to some stories being "darker and more political". As long as they are also reading stories with a different messages / vibes then they will not even notice.
The New Xbox 2 (or Xbox 360?) is using the PowerPC , if fact Microsoft is currently using Apple G5 as the development platform. So they will have experiance on the Power architecture. I seem to remeber them doing some work in with NT on PCC in 98? but it was killed.
The differance is that MultiCore is going mainstream. Intel, ADM, IBM, Sun all have chips we can buy in the next year. Not as powerfully as Trea, but a lot cheaper.
My point would be that - regardless of why its happening - there is a major change it hardware happening, Like the change from Intel 16 bit to 32 bit, which took several years, but much more difficult. (we are also going 64 bit is servers and desktops to address all that chaep ram, but that is also most a non-story.)
The industry has been talking about Parallelism for a long, long, time. Looks like we a now starting down that path. Its going to be hard, but it is rewarding. Which is part of Herb Sutter's and Tim Bray's message. The OS's, tools, and applications that do this right are going have a big advantage in the server and desk/laptop market with all that highly scablible hardware.
Tim Bray concurrently covered a simmlar topic in Software in the TLP Era and offers some strategies to deal with the coming MultiCore chips.
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Folksonomies (the first meme of 2005?) is attributed by Wikipedia to Thomas Vander Wa.
Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies which examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services - Del.icio.us and Flickr - designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
IFTF's Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us); no hierarchy and content types; and only simple one-word tags. Are these features or bugs? Consensuss says 'feature'. Andrew Ducker has a suggestion for synonyms and a modest proposal
Joho the Blog notices a discussion about what to call it in Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?,
John Battelle links into Taggle and "federated tagging".
I wonder if a Google Suggest like system might reduce 'lazy tagging' ,and maybe synonym control when
the federation appears.
New: In Beyond Laser Tag and Telephone Tag, JC Francois wonders if "2005 will be the year of tagging".
Will Folksonomies lead to the nirvana of the Semantic Web, or at least Semantic web light? (see : ftrain.com August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web)
Tag, you're still it!"
The submitter assumed you had heard of Del.icio.us and Flickr (if not used them) and whated to learn more about "folksonomies" defined in the article as : bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own. It was also assuned you had a better than grade 10 level of reading and/or education, and could figure things out.
In the bottom half of the Google Keyhole, Google Scholar post. Today must be a slow Google news day.
modified and moderated perhaps?