Re:The Snow Crash intellectual virus a reality?
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I for one can say that I was not handed a copy of SnowCrash. For that matter, none of my friends had even heard of SnowCrash, let alone Neal Stephenson.
Once in a while, there are some people who just go out on a limb, and buy books just for the heck of it... influenced by the jacket art and the cover blurbs, or even just because the title strikes them in a certain way. I can't say it was the best book I've ever read, but neither was it the worst book I've ever read. And I've even been toying with the idea of picking up another of his works to get a better impression of Stephenson's work.
And besides, if "Nobody Buys SnowCrash By Themselves" who bought the first copy of it to hand around?;->
I'll listen to most anything Alternative, Industrial, Hard Core, Punk, etc, etc, etc, but if I'm really into it, then the only real noise I hear is when the CD stops...
And it has to be a CD, because the radio music is too interrupted - DJs, commercials, annoying songs, and the like.
Even under solaris, on a fast box, JWS was never much of a speed demon. However, it did have the best GridBagLayout tools I've seen yet in a GUI builder for Java.
But on the other hand, if you ever had to unwrap all the layers of the "shadow" components to get at the AWT classes directly, I don't think you'd be complaining too loudly about JWS's demise.
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Once in a while, there are some people who just go out on a limb, and buy books just for the heck of it... influenced by the jacket art and the cover blurbs, or even just because the title strikes them in a certain way. I can't say it was the best book I've ever read, but neither was it the worst book I've ever read. And I've even been toying with the idea of picking up another of his works to get a better impression of Stephenson's work.
And besides, if "Nobody Buys SnowCrash By Themselves" who bought the first copy of it to hand around? ;->
I'll listen to most anything Alternative, Industrial, Hard Core, Punk, etc, etc, etc, but if I'm really into it, then the only real noise I hear is when the CD stops...
And it has to be a CD, because the radio music is too interrupted - DJs, commercials, annoying songs, and the like.
Even under solaris, on a fast box, JWS was never much of a speed demon. However, it did have the best GridBagLayout tools I've seen yet in a GUI builder for Java.
But on the other hand, if you ever had to unwrap all the layers of the "shadow" components to get at the AWT classes directly, I don't think you'd be complaining too loudly about JWS's demise.
You can walk into any store that sells mac stuff and pick up a copy of the OS... 8.0, 8.5, 9.0 have all shipped that way.