What random person would go around viewing videos on other people's tombstones? Your family would already know all about you and likely also have access to the video without having to visit your grave. This is a great idea because it doesn't need to be reliable. Unless you're a celebrity or somehow otherwise famous, it's likely that nobody will ever use your Vidstone.
On that note, do you think they could make mine one of those scary Flash movies where something suddenly jumps out at unsuspecting passers by?
I don't think that it was harder to see, I think that it was incoherent psychobabble as opposed to interesting and thought provoking philosophical questions.
The Matrix got it right but the following two tried too hard to get it right and went way over the top and beyond the point of being a nonsensical sampling of way too wide a body of thought. The sequels tried to top the original by using the same old schtick, just in larger quantities. The original had magic and its sequels did not.
With its latest cease and desist order, Apple demonstrated its new iLawyer program. A method the corporation hopes to use for protecting itself against any forseeable legal disputes in a method that's easy for users to understand. The new, friendly interface speaks English instead of lawyerese and comes dressed in a soft white suit.
Elsewhere, Microsoft claims to have patented the underlying concept of using lawyers as a high-level communications protocol.
But, but, but... The article implies Microsoft devices and indicates that there are some forthcoming.
Thanks for the link. Microsoft seems to present its cause as a noble one, and I can see where they're coming from. Apple aims to be exclusive and Microsoft aims to be inclusive insofar as music purchase and consumption is concerned.
Yet another victim, left unable to sustain itself in the vacuum of the N-Gage's wake, falls before the allmighty Nokian. The powerful N-Gage Arena community bellows a mightly laugh at the plight of the vastly inferior Tapwave.
Said Jorma Ollila, "How could any device with a name like that ever hope to succeed? One can be engaged, but not tapwaved!"
The goal of all NASA shuttle missions will be to search for damage on the shuttle after a launch and then return home. Today's itinerary involved camera checks of the shuttle. Tomorrow's itinerary? The shuttle crew will be doing an EVA to check the shuttle for damage.
The question is not one of ready or not, but of the arbitrary, blind assumption that readiness can be quantified in years and that a single year actually makes a difference.
Needless to say, nobody is ever naked in the game and there is arguably nothing pornographic about it. In fact, I seem to recall that early in the game when you go to some drug dealer's house to beat him and his cronies to death, a woman is giving head to a guy in one of the other rooms. It's plainly visible, but again nobody is undressed. This didn't spark a controversy, and yet the "Hot Coffee" content is barely any more explicit.
Looking for some "Hot Coffee?" I've got your goods right here, ladies and gentlemen! One copy of Rockstar's controversial, pornography-laden software in mint condition with all original packaging and incorrect ESRB "M" rating! Use the Buy-It-Now! option and I will throw in a floppy disk containing the evil, ungodly "Hot Coffee" modification with which you can experience maximum pornographic pleasure! See blocky character models in underpants gyrate in ways that would make Jesus strike you down on the spot unless you're over eighteen! He's OK with the killing, though, assuming you're at least seventeen.
Seriously though, I still don't get what the brouhaha is all about. Must be because I'm Canadian. I was flipping channels at around 9PM the other day between Tour de France coverage and the Life network was showing some sexual secrets program. The only difference between what they were showing on cable TV and XXX porn was actual entry shots. Now, I don't know if maybe cable is some kind age differentiation system, but it seems to me like anyone of any age, including people under eighteen, could have happened on that pretty graphic sexual content and possibly have gone blind!
5K's pretty damned good for a first run on a first novel. I've got hardcovers (I collect.) by what I would consider modern masters that had 1-2K first runs so you're doing well if they have that kind of confidence in you.
Have you considered submitting short stories to a publication like Analog?
I work in Telecom and every few years one of the various companies that employ engineers, programmers, etc. in the area flushes its staff in a major downsizing or closes up shop entirely and the newly unemployed disperse and wind up in the same role elsewhere, if they manage to find work at all. A few years down the line the new employer will fire a chunk of its staff or close up entirely and the cycle continues. People may even be fired by and subsequently hired by the same company as its fortunes change. It creates a pretty wide network of nomadic professionals who all know each other, assemble in familiar patterns and relative positions at various companies and thus never seem to advance in job roles.
It seems like every single person at my place of employment has had at least three jobs in the past ten years and that many have been unemployed for more than a year during that time period. I've been at the same place for around three years now and have managed to survive several "scares," which leaves me wondering whether I'm playing the role of Damocles. I guess you could qualify the past ten-odd years as anomalous and make a good argument for your case, but I'm not entirely sure.
I'm impressed that you managed to wrangle this arrangement out of Tor, and on your first novel at that! Print publishers, even in Science Fiction, are generally loath to look to technology for distribution and most don't even accept submissions in electronic format. Kudos on sticking to your guns and on getting your work published. I hope to check out the book.
Sure, Tom. Give Intel product all the coverage in the world, but what about AMD?
"AMD-powered DARPA Grand Challenge competitor overheats and explodes. Kills millions and incinerates $2 million prize. Intel steps up and offers 2 million Pentium MMX Bunny Man dolls ca 1997 to winning team."
Is it totally anonymous? If so, how long before this sort of service is outlawed? Disposable mobile phones that aren't attached to anyone's personal information sound like they'd be superb for terrorists. I hate acting like the alarmist, hypersensitive newsmedia, but it's true. A communications device which cannot be traced back to a person and can also be used as a very handy little detonator...
I suppose that you could be a Jedi without necessarily being a Jedi Knight. Maybe you can't build a lightsabre or use the force, but you can still take to heart the same ideals that a Jedi Knight represents.
It was meant as a joke. You'd need an impossible compressor, condenser and refridgerant to get to temperatures nearing absolute zero. I know this. It was a humorous follow up to the parent, which suggested that nerds were typically bereft of good looks.
As for obtaining liquid nitrogen, it was fifty cents a litre in the basement of the chemistry building when I was in university and they'd let you carry it away in a Thermos so long as you didn't close the lid on it.
Yes, but my problem was with their broadband routers! The browser-based configuration interface used on the Linksys routers is poorly designed from a UI standpoint and it's poorly documented too. Setting up a wide-open network is a snap, but if you want to employ MAC address filtering and WEP encryption you have to search around and engage in a process of trial and error. I found myself consulting their crappy documentation repeatedly, to no avail.
I thought I was the only dissenting voice among the wide praise for Linksys and their wireless products. I didn't need to look at the manual at all for the SMC that I use now. Configuration was 100% intuitive, the device is just as good and the price was lower.
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What random person would go around viewing videos on other people's tombstones? Your family would already know all about you and likely also have access to the video without having to visit your grave. This is a great idea because it doesn't need to be reliable. Unless you're a celebrity or somehow otherwise famous, it's likely that nobody will ever use your Vidstone.
On that note, do you think they could make mine one of those scary Flash movies where something suddenly jumps out at unsuspecting passers by?
I don't think that it was harder to see, I think that it was incoherent psychobabble as opposed to interesting and thought provoking philosophical questions.
The Matrix got it right but the following two tried too hard to get it right and went way over the top and beyond the point of being a nonsensical sampling of way too wide a body of thought. The sequels tried to top the original by using the same old schtick, just in larger quantities. The original had magic and its sequels did not.
Not only do you get beaten up by bullies in real life, but they follow into cyberspace and beat you up in the virtual realm too!
With its latest cease and desist order, Apple demonstrated its new iLawyer program. A method the corporation hopes to use for protecting itself against any forseeable legal disputes in a method that's easy for users to understand. The new, friendly interface speaks English instead of lawyerese and comes dressed in a soft white suit.
Elsewhere, Microsoft claims to have patented the underlying concept of using lawyers as a high-level communications protocol.
Mod parent up. Grandparent is seriously flawed. Kirchoff is rolling in his grave!
Yep. Looks like they "invented" the Voltaic pile. I invented that in a ninth grade science project.
But, but, but... The article implies Microsoft devices and indicates that there are some forthcoming.
Thanks for the link. Microsoft seems to present its cause as a noble one, and I can see where they're coming from. Apple aims to be exclusive and Microsoft aims to be inclusive insofar as music purchase and consumption is concerned.
From the article:
So far, Microsoft hasn't been able to dent the Apple iPod dominance...
Exactly which devices would be doing the denting, or is this a reference to the music players that Microsoft has released in an alternate universe?
I want to moderate this up because I think it's both funny and poignant at some level, but I can't do it in light of the poor delivery.
Yet another victim, left unable to sustain itself in the vacuum of the N-Gage's wake, falls before the allmighty Nokian. The powerful N-Gage Arena community bellows a mightly laugh at the plight of the vastly inferior Tapwave. Said Jorma Ollila, "How could any device with a name like that ever hope to succeed? One can be engaged, but not tapwaved!"
The goal of all NASA shuttle missions will be to search for damage on the shuttle after a launch and then return home. Today's itinerary involved camera checks of the shuttle. Tomorrow's itinerary? The shuttle crew will be doing an EVA to check the shuttle for damage.
The question is not one of ready or not, but of the arbitrary, blind assumption that readiness can be quantified in years and that a single year actually makes a difference.
Needless to say, nobody is ever naked in the game and there is arguably nothing pornographic about it. In fact, I seem to recall that early in the game when you go to some drug dealer's house to beat him and his cronies to death, a woman is giving head to a guy in one of the other rooms. It's plainly visible, but again nobody is undressed. This didn't spark a controversy, and yet the "Hot Coffee" content is barely any more explicit.
Looking for some "Hot Coffee?" I've got your goods right here, ladies and gentlemen! One copy of Rockstar's controversial, pornography-laden software in mint condition with all original packaging and incorrect ESRB "M" rating! Use the Buy-It-Now! option and I will throw in a floppy disk containing the evil, ungodly "Hot Coffee" modification with which you can experience maximum pornographic pleasure! See blocky character models in underpants gyrate in ways that would make Jesus strike you down on the spot unless you're over eighteen! He's OK with the killing, though, assuming you're at least seventeen.
Seriously though, I still don't get what the brouhaha is all about. Must be because I'm Canadian. I was flipping channels at around 9PM the other day between Tour de France coverage and the Life network was showing some sexual secrets program. The only difference between what they were showing on cable TV and XXX porn was actual entry shots. Now, I don't know if maybe cable is some kind age differentiation system, but it seems to me like anyone of any age, including people under eighteen, could have happened on that pretty graphic sexual content and possibly have gone blind!
5K's pretty damned good for a first run on a first novel. I've got hardcovers (I collect.) by what I would consider modern masters that had 1-2K first runs so you're doing well if they have that kind of confidence in you.
Have you considered submitting short stories to a publication like Analog?
I can corroborate this.
I work in Telecom and every few years one of the various companies that employ engineers, programmers, etc. in the area flushes its staff in a major downsizing or closes up shop entirely and the newly unemployed disperse and wind up in the same role elsewhere, if they manage to find work at all. A few years down the line the new employer will fire a chunk of its staff or close up entirely and the cycle continues. People may even be fired by and subsequently hired by the same company as its fortunes change. It creates a pretty wide network of nomadic professionals who all know each other, assemble in familiar patterns and relative positions at various companies and thus never seem to advance in job roles.
It seems like every single person at my place of employment has had at least three jobs in the past ten years and that many have been unemployed for more than a year during that time period. I've been at the same place for around three years now and have managed to survive several "scares," which leaves me wondering whether I'm playing the role of Damocles. I guess you could qualify the past ten-odd years as anomalous and make a good argument for your case, but I'm not entirely sure.
As long as you've sold enough to cover your advance! Being published by Tor speaks volumes of a book's quality. How many hardcovers did they print?
I'm impressed that you managed to wrangle this arrangement out of Tor, and on your first novel at that! Print publishers, even in Science Fiction, are generally loath to look to technology for distribution and most don't even accept submissions in electronic format. Kudos on sticking to your guns and on getting your work published. I hope to check out the book.
/* just kidding
Sure, Tom. Give Intel product all the coverage in the world, but what about AMD?
"AMD-powered DARPA Grand Challenge competitor overheats and explodes. Kills millions and incinerates $2 million prize. Intel steps up and offers 2 million Pentium MMX Bunny Man dolls ca 1997 to winning team."
just kidding */
Better than "wallah."
*rolls eyes*
Is it totally anonymous? If so, how long before this sort of service is outlawed? Disposable mobile phones that aren't attached to anyone's personal information sound like they'd be superb for terrorists. I hate acting like the alarmist, hypersensitive newsmedia, but it's true. A communications device which cannot be traced back to a person and can also be used as a very handy little detonator...
I suppose that you could be a Jedi without necessarily being a Jedi Knight. Maybe you can't build a lightsabre or use the force, but you can still take to heart the same ideals that a Jedi Knight represents.
Hoag's Object. So unusual they call it an object!
It was meant as a joke. You'd need an impossible compressor, condenser and refridgerant to get to temperatures nearing absolute zero. I know this. It was a humorous follow up to the parent, which suggested that nerds were typically bereft of good looks.
As for obtaining liquid nitrogen, it was fifty cents a litre in the basement of the chemistry building when I was in university and they'd let you carry it away in a Thermos so long as you didn't close the lid on it.
He's the HVAC tech that got them to 50nK. Brrr.
Yes, but my problem was with their broadband routers! The browser-based configuration interface used on the Linksys routers is poorly designed from a UI standpoint and it's poorly documented too. Setting up a wide-open network is a snap, but if you want to employ MAC address filtering and WEP encryption you have to search around and engage in a process of trial and error. I found myself consulting their crappy documentation repeatedly, to no avail.
I thought I was the only dissenting voice among the wide praise for Linksys and their wireless products. I didn't need to look at the manual at all for the SMC that I use now. Configuration was 100% intuitive, the device is just as good and the price was lower.