I'm the biggest Heinlein fan ever, but "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" left a pretty bad taste in my mouth as his last novel. Maybe this one (even though he wasn't really involved) will help me remember him more fondly. (although there's always Lazarus...)
I don't get it. There was like NO embedded myth in Star Trek, especially when compared to the ORIGINAL Battlestar or to Babylon 5. Those two shows actually had a backstory foundation to sit on. Star Trek? Not a chance, unless you count the Eugenics Wars.
And while most of the/. crowd is perfectly comfortable with that, what percentage of the general population do you think is capable of changing a power supply, for example?
Johnny: Wow, I tell ya, that new Oak Ridge supercomputer is fast.
Crowd: How fast is it?
Johnny: Awh, it's so fast, it'll do an infinite loop in seven seconds.
MaMahon: Yessss!
For the same reason that an acre of land in Beverly Hills California costs more than an acre in Jock Itch Wyoming. Location, location, location.
Seriously, only the top-tier Google/HP/IBM domains are going to bother with registering some of the variants. Hell, even HP can't be bothered with registering "hp.biz".
Week 1: Falls off a mountain, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 2: He's back again, good as new. Anvil falls on his head, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 3: Back for more, all cleaned up. Chases roadrunner into tunnel, train runs him over, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 4: Back again, looking fine. Spring trap slams him into mountainside, boulder falls on him, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 5: Lather, rinse, repeat, yowwwww SPLAT!
Observers suspect he will refuse a $1m (£529,000) prize offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Massachusetts, US, if his proof of the Poincare Conjecture stands up to scrutiny.
A spokesperson for the Clay Mathematics Institute said it would put off making a decision on any award for two years. The $1m prize money could be be split between Perelman and US mathematician Richard Hamilton who devised the "Ricci flow" equation that forms the basis for the Russian's solution.
In mid-2005, the average person bought a new cell phone every 18 months. But by May of this year, the cycle had shortened to 17.6 months, according to a J.D. Power & Associates survey of 18,740 consumers. "Cell phones [are becoming] so increasingly personal, they tend to be a slave to fashion,"
Yah. I think we can all see how that statistical fashion trend is accelerating.:-/
That this was a slow gestating virus that could lie dormant for years before going into reproductive mode. How does 180 days of "apparent" immunity (with no control group?!?) make a valid experiment?
> the outcome will also be decided by which one can show porn the best.
That just isn't so. The super-high-end TV market is driven by the sports fanatics. For every one wall-sized unit sold to a movie nut, ten are sold to (American) football nuts.
Now, some people will argue that "balance" is bad, but those people tend to be more in the "crazy fringe," and Linux in particular was never in that camp.
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I'm the biggest Heinlein fan ever, but "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" left a pretty bad taste in my mouth as his last novel. Maybe this one (even though he wasn't really involved) will help me remember him more fondly. (although there's always Lazarus...)
That's what I was saying - I used to work in a disk laundromat too.
3200 Watts for 120 Terra bytes - that's like two hand-held hair dryers!
What is this "Enterprise" you speak of?
This would be a good chance to retcon the Klingons into Klingons that look like Klingons.
Oh well, back to the old dart^Wdrawing board.
I don't get it. There was like NO embedded myth in Star Trek, especially when compared to the ORIGINAL Battlestar or to Babylon 5. Those two shows actually had a backstory foundation to sit on. Star Trek? Not a chance, unless you count the Eugenics Wars.
And while most of the /. crowd is perfectly comfortable with that, what percentage of the general population do you think is capable of changing a power supply, for example?
That's right, because the MPAA encourages fair debate on the subject.
And that idea was stolen from Steal This Book by Abby Hoffman, a sort of "yippie manifesto" cum revolutionary how-to book.
Johnny: Wow, I tell ya, that new Oak Ridge supercomputer is fast.
Crowd: How fast is it?
Johnny: Awh, it's so fast, it'll do an infinite loop in seven seconds.
MaMahon: Yessss!
For the same reason that an acre of land in Beverly Hills California costs more than an acre in Jock Itch Wyoming. Location, location, location.
Seriously, only the top-tier Google/HP/IBM domains are going to bother with registering some of the variants. Hell, even HP can't be bothered with registering "hp.biz".
He (and his delivery) were much much funnier ("Man, this is some repugnant shit.") in Shaft.
I think it's more like Wyle E. Coyote.
Week 1: Falls off a mountain, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 2: He's back again, good as new. Anvil falls on his head, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 3: Back for more, all cleaned up. Chases roadrunner into tunnel, train runs him over, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 4: Back again, looking fine. Spring trap slams him into mountainside, boulder falls on him, yowwwww SPLAT!
Week 5: Lather, rinse, repeat, yowwwww SPLAT!
No, if you read the summary again, you'll see that he refused his Fields Medalist, which is an entirely different thing.
Yah. I think we can all see how that statistical fashion trend is accelerating.
When can we vote this whole American Idol concept off the island?
Did it really say that?
I only skimmed the review.
That this was a slow gestating virus that could lie dormant for years before going into reproductive mode. How does 180 days of "apparent" immunity (with no control group?!?) make a valid experiment?
> the outcome will also be decided by which one can show porn the best.
That just isn't so. The super-high-end TV market is driven by the sports fanatics. For every one wall-sized unit sold to a movie nut, ten are sold to (American) football nuts.
That the odds that someone compares this to something about the Nazis approaches unity.
I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
Either one is BEST when it's free.
The U.S. citizen has lost all notion of public shame. What in South Korea gets you ostracized, in the U.S. get you on "Entertainment Tonight".