That article is pap and pablum. Mainstream media in its representation of science fiction has NEVER been about the social issues that need to be explored. It's mostly been about the laser blasters and the battle between good and evil with the well-defined bad guy and his maniacal laugh.
It's difficult to represent the true evil of the future in an hour or two on the big screen, which will be rooted in the same place it is now. Secret government activities, secret civilian organizations (militias with weapons), and disgruntled, twisted individuals in their basements with chemistry sets and soldering irons.
You're never gonna see a bad guy with white skin, green hair, and a purple suit making things bad for people. Sci-fi has always had it's silly side, but Arthur C. Clarke held things up nicely, and William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson are still writing and cranking out the ideas in print that make me ponder just fine. I don't need two hours of laser blasters and popcorn munching to satisfy my appetite for sci-fi. The writer of that article seems too impatient to research the subject he writes of.
Any other authors I'm missing?
I STILL use my Mag DX15F on one of my computers. It's the first monitor I ever owned, and I bought it back in '95, and while the casing has yellowed quite a bit with age, the picture looks almost as good as it was then, except for a vertical line on one side of the screen when it boots up, which you can't notice when it finishes booting. Incidentally, the line showed up after some incorrect monitor settings during my first foray with Redhat 5.1.
If Mag made all their monitors as hardy as this one, they probably wouldn't be as profitable.
Of course if you don't like spam, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Then again, if you REALLY hate it...this is interesting... Fight Spam
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/08/27/hln.game.phanto m/
It's interesting that no matter what you see from these guys, it somehow appears there's just no substance to it, just like their fluffy website, that says they're a leader in the 10 billion dollar gaming industry, and all their online store sells is t-shirts, mugs, teddy bears, and frisbees sporting the Infinium logo, and the link for their stock quotes just features blank spaces where the quotes should be.
Wonder who they managed to sucker VC dollars out of? If they don't see the train wreck coming, they deserve to lose their money.
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John Wade, CIO at Saint Luke's Health System Inc., sometimes dresses in drag And he does it just for "fun". Insert Dr. Evil "Ri-i-i-ight." here.
...Minority Report.
That article is pap and pablum. Mainstream media in its representation of science fiction has NEVER been about the social issues that need to be explored. It's mostly been about the laser blasters and the battle between good and evil with the well-defined bad guy and his maniacal laugh. It's difficult to represent the true evil of the future in an hour or two on the big screen, which will be rooted in the same place it is now. Secret government activities, secret civilian organizations (militias with weapons), and disgruntled, twisted individuals in their basements with chemistry sets and soldering irons. You're never gonna see a bad guy with white skin, green hair, and a purple suit making things bad for people. Sci-fi has always had it's silly side, but Arthur C. Clarke held things up nicely, and William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson are still writing and cranking out the ideas in print that make me ponder just fine. I don't need two hours of laser blasters and popcorn munching to satisfy my appetite for sci-fi. The writer of that article seems too impatient to research the subject he writes of. Any other authors I'm missing?
...to quit wearing women's clothing.
I STILL use my Mag DX15F on one of my computers. It's the first monitor I ever owned, and I bought it back in '95, and while the casing has yellowed quite a bit with age, the picture looks almost as good as it was then, except for a vertical line on one side of the screen when it boots up, which you can't notice when it finishes booting. Incidentally, the line showed up after some incorrect monitor settings during my first foray with Redhat 5.1.
If Mag made all their monitors as hardy as this one, they probably wouldn't be as profitable.
Of course if you don't like spam, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Then again, if you REALLY hate it...this is interesting... Fight Spam
"Now thanks to this threat of legal action I will avoid Infinium products."
;)
Ummmm...you're gonna avoid vaporware?
I'm gonna "beta test" a mug from their online store.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/08/27/hln.game.phanto m/
It's interesting that no matter what you see from these guys, it somehow appears there's just no substance to it, just like their fluffy website, that says they're a leader in the 10 billion dollar gaming industry, and all their online store sells is t-shirts, mugs, teddy bears, and frisbees sporting the Infinium logo, and the link for their stock quotes just features blank spaces where the quotes should be.
Wonder who they managed to sucker VC dollars out of? If they don't see the train wreck coming, they deserve to lose their money.
How many more times does that article have to appear in newspapers before it's considered a virus? ;)