Well okay but Linda brackets the story. Neuromancer simulates her after she dies, and she lives on his beach while he tries to use her to lure Case away from Wintermute. She is a fundamental part of the book's transhuman message But I can't read her thoughts. You were wrong Case. To live here is to live, there is no difference At the end of tjhe book all you see is Neuromancer, Pauley and Linda with her own copy of Case.
You forgot Linda, Neuromancer, Riviera, 3Jane, Maelcum, and Julie Dean. The story doesn't work without any of them. Movies like to have a hero/protagonist and a few others. If you cut the movie down to Case and Molly you miss the point of the book. It will turn into a Johnny Mnemonic prequel, which is what it is, technically.
You have the problem in science fiction that the characters back stories are not always intuitive. How do we explain how Case got to be the way he is?
I have read the book four or five times now. The second time around I might have agreed with you. Executive summary: too many words.
Movie scripts run to, maybe 30 or 40 pages. Novelizations usually have to add stuff. Movies are often based on short stories for this reason.
Neuromancer is a dense novel. Every character has a back story. Probably every character could have their own movie.
You could cut it down and make a movie called Neuromancer but it wouldn't be the same. Also bits have been cut out for different stories. All the cyberpunk stuff in The Matrix for example. The story has been around so long that the movie would look derivative.
Eh, trolling much? If you look outside US, Nokia is dominating. iPhone is nowhere as successful as it is in US. In top of that, Nokia holds patents (that they really deserve) over many technologies used with GSM, 3G and so on.
And Nokia offers a real Linux phone, not just Android or locked-down iPhone shit.
Well I live in Australia and the iPhone is very popular. Most people who want a smart phone will have an iPhone. Many older people who just want to make calls will have a $50 nokia. I use an openmoko, which is also a real Linux phone.
Yeah but that is mainly because of their hold on the market for cheap, dumb phones.
What, you mean by far the most popular phone choice across the world? Not everyone wants a smart-phone or to be held ransom with exorbitant data plans to use the expensive device. The vast majority of the world uses phones to talk, how strange.
Google has a major advantage here as one of the largest companies in the world
Nokia has the major advantage that they are *the* largest phone producer on the face of the planet and have *the* largest world market share by a large percentage.
Yeah but that is mainly because of their hold on the market for cheap, dumb phones. The smartphone market is really a different beast now.
sometime I need to go very fast. A power limited electric motor can't do the latter and would make me feel vulnerable in traffic.
I don't see how a bicycle can ever be safe when mixed up with fast moving heavy traffic; and I doubt that the ability to go "very fast" is what prevents most bicycle accidents.
Consider three modes:
Fully integrated flow. Bicycles moving in line with other traffic at the same speed. Nose to tail collisions are the greatest threat but the risk of this is mitigated because each driver gets a consistent view of the flow, ie, they know what is in front of them and avoiding it is relatively easy.
Fully separated flow. Bicycles moving in their own space (possibly a bicycle lane) with lateral separation from other lanes. Conflict at intersections is the greatest threat where vehicles cross each others path.
Partially integrated flow. Bicycles are moving in the same space (lane) as power vehicles, power vehicles are overtaking partly in the same lane. The greatest threat here is misjudged overtaking manoeuvres, particularly by long vehicles. Drivers assume that the bicycle is a stationary object, when in fact it is moving at half their speed. That kind of thing.
Transitions between modes present their own risks:
Fully separated to fully integrated: The bicycle lane ends at an intersection. Bicyle has to merge right (we drive on the left here) and merge into another lane of traffic. In this situation, it is safer to match your speed with the traffic you merge in to. The faster that lane of traffic is going, the greater will be the separation between vehicles and the easier it will be to merge. Consider that merging into stationary traffic is impossible because nobody can move. So you need to match your speed as the other lane decelerates with means bringing your speed up and down again once you have achieved integrated flow.
Partially integrated to fully integrated: You are cycling along in a narrow curbside lane. Cars are overtaking on the right. Lights ahead go red and almost immediately traffic slows. If I stay where I am I will wind up with flow kind of solidified around me, ie, with a car stopped in the middle of an overtaking manoeuvre, taking up part of the lane to the right. Drivers don't think ahead, you see. So as soon as flow gets down to about 50km/h or so I indicate right and merge into the middle of the lane. I match my speed with that of the vehicle ahead of me and stop behind it. Control of speed here is important too, because I need to transition to integrated flow before that last driver to overtake stops in the middle of overtaking. In conditions like that I cruise at 35km/h but I can accelerate to 45 to encourage integration.
Control of speed is also generally important because braking is your best way to avoid trouble, and using your brakes won't help you if you are moving slowly. Moving fast gives you choices which you won't have moving at a slower speed.
I had problems with bullies through primary and secondary school. One incident which stands out was when the school went to a local pool for swimming lessons. This person had a go at me in the locker room and got caught by one of the swimming pool staff who made it clear to the offender they would be fucked up permanently if they kept it up, so it stopped.
But around school it was a social problem and the teachers were a part of it.
Yeah its is intended to give you a power assisted bicycle, nothing more than that unless you want to build a proper motorbike and get a license. There was this guy who used to ride on my cycle commuting route who had hotted up his two stroke power assisted bicycle, partly by removing the muffler on the exhaust. He would sit right beside me on hills, deafening me and pissing me off. I am glad that if power assisted bicycles have to come back, they are electric.
Presumably if the scanner sees something they will have to strip search the passenger. Whether they find anything or not they will have to justify why they took the extra step. So pictures will be stored. Pictures will be needed for training, performance evaluations and validating the equipment, as well.
Yeah but I am suggesting that a motorised vehicle is inherently less safe then a human powered vehicle because there are fewer barriers to going fast. It takes time to increase your fitness to be able to ride a bicycle fast. In that time you gain experience in handling the vehicle. On a power vehicle you can go as fast as you tell it to from the word go, so I suggest that overall it won't be as safe.
I see this as a problem, because bicycles are not particularly safe to begin with.
This PDF has a table which tries to put radiation exposure from X Rays into context. For example: Computed Tomography (CT)-Body is comparable to three years exposure to background radiation. So how much radiation do I get from one of these scanners? I am a bit worried about it because I have had a lot of X Rays and one CT in the last six months.
Well I have four years of cycle commuting in heavy traffic behind me for a total of 15000km. I broke my right humerus on a tram line in July 2009 and recovered. I had a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in December 2009 and I am probably going to go back to cycle commuting in three months or so.
So how about you, AC? Do you reckon I am a pussy because I express my concerns about cycling conditions?
Helmet: A thing to keep your brains in your skull while on a bike, a motorcycle, skis, or during rough sex.
Yes. I have one of those.
Throttle: a device to control the speed of a vehicle.
My bicycle doesn't seem to have one of those, which is part of the problem. The low rolling resistance means that if you turn left on a wet surface when the wind is pushing you to the right, you could wind low on coefficient of friction.
Unless your battery is dead (in which case you're pulling some dead weight along with you -- but nothing horrid), there's nothing making a leg-based sprint any harder on an e-bike than it is on any other pedal-powered vehicle; to the contrary, it's much, much easier to keep up a sprint when there's an extra 650W added to the output from your legs.:)
Where I live, having an engine over 200 watts makes your bike a motorbike. I have never seen a power assisted bicycle with decent pedals so I doubt they are going to keep up in a sprint. I see a few converted bicycles and a few electric motor scooters in the sub 200W category. All of them are very slow.
I wonder about how safe they are. My heart rate scales with the speed I travel and my reflexes tend to scale the same way. Sometimes I get scared riding with a strong tail wind because I feel that I am going faster than my body is setup to do.
The other thing is that sometimes I need to go slow, and sometime I need to go very fast. A power limited electric motor can't do the latter and would make me feel vulnerable in traffic.
Everybody where I work outside engineering uses IE. At the most firefox might be kind of a perversion they might dabble with one day if they want IT to know they are a rebel. I am sure that most big workplaces with big, professional IT departments will only use IE.
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Having propulsion means you can operate it for a long time in an orbit which will decay and still expect it to reenter if it stops working.
No. Conroy is a tool. Getting rid of him won't change the underlying problem.
Sure. Just like I have district and magistrates burgers which are obviously of lesser quality than supreme burgers.
And in France its called the Court Royale
Well okay but Linda brackets the story. Neuromancer simulates her after she dies, and she lives on his beach while he tries to use her to lure Case away from Wintermute. She is a fundamental part of the book's transhuman message But I can't read her thoughts. You were wrong Case. To live here is to live, there is no difference At the end of tjhe book all you see is Neuromancer, Pauley and Linda with her own copy of Case.
As long as it has Mafia guys with MAFIA written on their jackets in dayglow letters.
You forgot Linda, Neuromancer, Riviera, 3Jane, Maelcum, and Julie Dean. The story doesn't work without any of them. Movies like to have a hero/protagonist and a few others. If you cut the movie down to Case and Molly you miss the point of the book. It will turn into a Johnny Mnemonic prequel, which is what it is, technically.
You have the problem in science fiction that the characters back stories are not always intuitive. How do we explain how Case got to be the way he is?
I have read the book four or five times now. The second time around I might have agreed with you. Executive summary: too many words.
Yes you are probably right there.
Movie scripts run to, maybe 30 or 40 pages. Novelizations usually have to add stuff. Movies are often based on short stories for this reason.
Neuromancer is a dense novel. Every character has a back story. Probably every character could have their own movie.
You could cut it down and make a movie called Neuromancer but it wouldn't be the same. Also bits have been cut out for different stories. All the cyberpunk stuff in The Matrix for example. The story has been around so long that the movie would look derivative.
Eh, trolling much? If you look outside US, Nokia is dominating. iPhone is nowhere as successful as it is in US. In top of that, Nokia holds patents (that they really deserve) over many technologies used with GSM, 3G and so on.
And Nokia offers a real Linux phone, not just Android or locked-down iPhone shit.
Well I live in Australia and the iPhone is very popular. Most people who want a smart phone will have an iPhone. Many older people who just want to make calls will have a $50 nokia. I use an openmoko, which is also a real Linux phone.
Yeah but that is mainly because of their hold on the market for cheap, dumb phones.
What, you mean by far the most popular phone choice across the world? Not everyone wants a smart-phone or to be held ransom with exorbitant data plans to use the expensive device. The vast majority of the world uses phones to talk, how strange.
True but not relevant to this discussion.
"Dune" is probably the greatest 20th-century science fiction novel. It is, for better or worse, unfilmable.
Yes I think they should at least try to film a different unfilmable novel. How about Neuromancer or Ringworld?
Google has a major advantage here as one of the largest companies in the world
Nokia has the major advantage that they are *the* largest phone producer on the face of the planet and have *the* largest world market share by a large percentage.
Yeah but that is mainly because of their hold on the market for cheap, dumb phones. The smartphone market is really a different beast now.
Thanks. It must fly.
I don't see how a bicycle can ever be safe when mixed up with fast moving heavy traffic; and I doubt that the ability to go "very fast" is what prevents most bicycle accidents.
Consider three modes:
Transitions between modes present their own risks:
Control of speed is also generally important because braking is your best way to avoid trouble, and using your brakes won't help you if you are moving slowly. Moving fast gives you choices which you won't have moving at a slower speed.
Thats very interesting. Can you point me to some information about your recumbent? I have considered using one for commuting.
I had problems with bullies through primary and secondary school. One incident which stands out was when the school went to a local pool for swimming lessons. This person had a go at me in the locker room and got caught by one of the swimming pool staff who made it clear to the offender they would be fucked up permanently if they kept it up, so it stopped.
But around school it was a social problem and the teachers were a part of it.
Yeah its is intended to give you a power assisted bicycle, nothing more than that unless you want to build a proper motorbike and get a license. There was this guy who used to ride on my cycle commuting route who had hotted up his two stroke power assisted bicycle, partly by removing the muffler on the exhaust. He would sit right beside me on hills, deafening me and pissing me off. I am glad that if power assisted bicycles have to come back, they are electric.
Presumably if the scanner sees something they will have to strip search the passenger. Whether they find anything or not they will have to justify why they took the extra step. So pictures will be stored. Pictures will be needed for training, performance evaluations and validating the equipment, as well.
Yeah but I am suggesting that a motorised vehicle is inherently less safe then a human powered vehicle because there are fewer barriers to going fast. It takes time to increase your fitness to be able to ride a bicycle fast. In that time you gain experience in handling the vehicle. On a power vehicle you can go as fast as you tell it to from the word go, so I suggest that overall it won't be as safe.
I see this as a problem, because bicycles are not particularly safe to begin with.
This PDF has a table which tries to put radiation exposure from X Rays into context. For example: Computed Tomography (CT)-Body is comparable to three years exposure to background radiation. So how much radiation do I get from one of these scanners? I am a bit worried about it because I have had a lot of X Rays and one CT in the last six months.
Well I have four years of cycle commuting in heavy traffic behind me for a total of 15000km. I broke my right humerus on a tram line in July 2009 and recovered. I had a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in December 2009 and I am probably going to go back to cycle commuting in three months or so.
So how about you, AC? Do you reckon I am a pussy because I express my concerns about cycling conditions?
Some important words/ides for you.
Helmet: A thing to keep your brains in your skull while on a bike, a motorcycle, skis, or during rough sex.
Yes. I have one of those.
Throttle: a device to control the speed of a vehicle.
My bicycle doesn't seem to have one of those, which is part of the problem. The low rolling resistance means that if you turn left on a wet surface when the wind is pushing you to the right, you could wind low on coefficient of friction.
Unless your battery is dead (in which case you're pulling some dead weight along with you -- but nothing horrid), there's nothing making a leg-based sprint any harder on an e-bike than it is on any other pedal-powered vehicle; to the contrary, it's much, much easier to keep up a sprint when there's an extra 650W added to the output from your legs. :)
Where I live, having an engine over 200 watts makes your bike a motorbike. I have never seen a power assisted bicycle with decent pedals so I doubt they are going to keep up in a sprint. I see a few converted bicycles and a few electric motor scooters in the sub 200W category. All of them are very slow.
I wonder about how safe they are. My heart rate scales with the speed I travel and my reflexes tend to scale the same way. Sometimes I get scared riding with a strong tail wind because I feel that I am going faster than my body is setup to do.
The other thing is that sometimes I need to go slow, and sometime I need to go very fast. A power limited electric motor can't do the latter and would make me feel vulnerable in traffic.
Everybody where I work outside engineering uses IE. At the most firefox might be kind of a perversion they might dabble with one day if they want IT to know they are a rebel. I am sure that most big workplaces with big, professional IT departments will only use IE.