Something that has always bothered me though, is how likely is it that anything brought from earth would survive better than martian organisms that might exist? In other words, it is akin to worrying about flying sharks into the middle of the sahara desert and worrying they will wipe out all of the local lifeforms.
I always park in an empty part of the parking lot. I tried parking in the occupied parts, but my car is too small to shove all those other cars out of the way.
I dunno, to me not every real book is worth more than an electronic copy. In some cases yet, but not in every case.
And what if Amazon started a deal where, after you buy the kindle (or a kindle like device), you could pay a reasonable monthly fee and download as many books as you like? Better yet, a cheaper kindle that can only hold 50 books, so you can only have 50 at a time, but as you read and delete them a new one is downloaded from your amazon queue automatically?
It wouldn't totally get rid of all my paper books, but I could probably get rid of at least 90% of them if something like the above existed.
And what about cost? Seriously, if this thing is $500, I don't care how great it looks; for me (and I am guessing, the average slob) that would be too expensive.
Sorry to reply to myself, but make sure you start with the first book; the books are confusing in the way that they are named (see the wikipedia entry for a good explanation of order).
I also liked Saberhagen's Sword series as well (well, at least the first several; I don't think I have read them all). He wrote great fantasy in addition to scifi.
Since you already beat me to mentioning that particular one, I put forth my other favorite, the Von Neumann machines, aka Berserkers as another fictional doomsday device.
Yeah, because the first thing I am gonna think while running from a horde of zombies is, "Damn, I should go write a Slashdot journal entry about this".
...I can't walk into an interview and drop a name like MIT...
If only you had gone to the Michigan Institute of Technology instead...granted it is geared towards people seeking careers as automotive mechanics, but just think, being able to say, "I went to MIT" would be totally worth it.
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Something that has always bothered me though, is how likely is it that anything brought from earth would survive better than martian organisms that might exist? In other words, it is akin to worrying about flying sharks into the middle of the sahara desert and worrying they will wipe out all of the local lifeforms.
How about 5 lines of code plus twenty lines of comments explaining why the previous coder was an idiot?
That's ok; since I am an American you could have used grams of fairy dust and it would have meant as much to me as pounds and pence.
If your platypii hadn't eaten all my sick walrii this would have never happened.
I always park in an empty part of the parking lot. I tried parking in the occupied parts, but my car is too small to shove all those other cars out of the way.
The horrible part comes when you do a screen print and forget to swap the colors, thus negating all that money you were saving on toner.
Finally, a reason to dust off all those eco friendly dot matrix printers that have a "draft" mode.
Just imagine how many electrons could be saved if people used this font in their browser.
Plus, extra good when the hungry mobs with pitchforks and torches start looking for people to blame for the current financial situation.
So, I'm confused as to how they can justify this.
You have to pay a premium for the better OS?
Sarcastic irony, the best form of humor.
This thing could be really awesome if you were holding it when you walked outside in the rain.
The nice thing is now you don't need a time machine to do it.
Your life won't be complete until you augment your iPhone with a new postcard! Bidding starts at only $1!!
The joke around the place I used to work was that the little smit icon represented the salesguy running away with our money.
commander "horndog" riker
Except near the end he looked more like, "I ate a few dozen too many corndogs" Riker, with that synthahol gutt he had going.
I dunno, to me not every real book is worth more than an electronic copy. In some cases yet, but not in every case.
And what if Amazon started a deal where, after you buy the kindle (or a kindle like device), you could pay a reasonable monthly fee and download as many books as you like? Better yet, a cheaper kindle that can only hold 50 books, so you can only have 50 at a time, but as you read and delete them a new one is downloaded from your amazon queue automatically?
It wouldn't totally get rid of all my paper books, but I could probably get rid of at least 90% of them if something like the above existed.
And what about cost? Seriously, if this thing is $500, I don't care how great it looks; for me (and I am guessing, the average slob) that would be too expensive.
The alternative link listed in the article is working at the moment.
Sorry to reply to myself, but make sure you start with the first book; the books are confusing in the way that they are named (see the wikipedia entry for a good explanation of order).
I also liked Saberhagen's Sword series as well (well, at least the first several; I don't think I have read them all). He wrote great fantasy in addition to scifi.
It is always best to do your research when buying a new chip so you don't get shanghaied.
Since you already beat me to mentioning that particular one, I put forth my other favorite, the Von Neumann machines, aka Berserkers as another fictional doomsday device.
Yeah, because the first thing I am gonna think while running from a horde of zombies is, "Damn, I should go write a Slashdot journal entry about this".
...I can't walk into an interview and drop a name like MIT...
If only you had gone to the Michigan Institute of Technology instead...granted it is geared towards people seeking careers as automotive mechanics, but just think, being able to say, "I went to MIT" would be totally worth it.