Virginia Heinlein died last January. I blogged it here.
I believe RAH had some nephews who inherited everything. I certainly haven't heard of his estate being assigned to any college or fannish institution (such as Clarion). Perhaps someone else has details?
"It should be published because the author was a smart enough guy to figure out that given how famous he became, if he really didn't want it to see the light of day, he should have destroyed it."
RTFA as they say. Heinline *did* destroy it! Or at least he destroyed all the copies he had access to. The copy being published was in the hands of a third party who was given it to review/critique. It did not come from Heinlein's archives (which Ginnie controlled until her death).
Oh, and a BTW to parent AC posts... Flaming someone as an AC is like a 14 year old talking shit: Clearly to be ignored for its lack of discernment and its cowardance. Anyone who has attended a 'real' SF convention (as opposed to a trekkie thing) knows that a good part of what is discussed is serious, informed and intelligent critique of literary works, albeit SF literary works. In other words adults talking about adult subjects that you probably wouldn't understand...
We discussed this at TorCon...
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We discussed this at TorCon last weekend. The general consensus was:
Everyone would be more confortable about this if Ginnie (Virginia Heinlein) was still alive and vetting this.
There is probably good reason why RAH didn't want it published.
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Nope. Turns out that vacuum makes a great insulator. (Remember vacuum thermoses?) So all cooling must be by radiation, which isn't nearly as efficient as using a heat conductor and a heat sink.
That is what the poster's private parts are for: The heat sink...
On a related note I have a story. It was a late night bull session at a science fiction conference about fifteen years ago. I was in a group consisting of two authors, an editor and a couple of fellow fen in an otherwise empty con suite. The con suite staff tried to close down the bar, but ended up just giving me the keys because we weren't about to leave (I was known to the concom).
We went for hours carrying on a typical SF bull session, ranging across a variety of subjects, when we got onto the subject of whether intersteller war was worth the energy expenditures. After all, the amount of energy required to boost to, say, 1/3 C and then decellerate a good sized spacecraft is itself enough to char a good sized planet. In fact you would be better off to use that energy directly to create whatever it is that the other solar system has that you want. Economically it makes no sense. There just aren't many resources worth the effort to transport, much less sending a conquering fleet as well.
There was some agreement that someone might launch an invasion fleet for religious reasons, but a couple of people disagreed saying that, even then, the cost could not be justified to a taxpaying populace. But then one person, Raul Reyes, made an interesting suggestion for a resource that could not be created easily: Truly large heat sinks.
It works like this; if you are doing enormous (godlike enormous) industrial works you are going to need equally enormous heat sinks. How big? Well, comets in the Keiper belt and Oort cloud would work, but rounding up enough would require so much energy that it isn't worth the effort. Uranus and Neptune are about right. Saturn would work as well, but it is really too hot to be very efficient.
So final agreement was reached about the time the sun was coming up and the wine was running out: Intersteller invasion is worth the cost if you need to use someone else's trans-Jovian planets as heat sinks. And we figured this out years before the Athlon was even a glint in AMD's eye.
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No shit. That is the one egregious change that I cannot ignore -- especially the whole bit about hauling the hobbits back fifty or so miles. Cut out Tom Bombadil? Well, I guess it makes sense. Expand the Aragorn background and give Liv Tyler more screen time? Sure, it's one way you can actually improve over the books. Re-do the battle of Horns Deep for more suspense? They didn't really have to, but so what. Cut the ents back to a few minutes of screen time and make them cartooney? Well, I don't like it; but what you gonna do?
But Faramir? The man was a pupil of Gandalf. A good part of the plot in ROTK is based around his disaffection from his father and the fact it goes way back. And on top of everything else the change added nothing to the story!
Grump...
Call me a pawn of 'the man', but . . .
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Call me a pawn of 'the man', but I will be there in the theaters for both of them. The military-entertainment complex will thank me, but my bladder won't.
Three and half hours... Why don't they have intermissions anymore?
I've been bitching about the same thing for days now. The spam filtering is catching the virus mail sent to me, but I am getting around 50 bounce and virus scanner messages a day.
Annoying as hell. I run Mozilla Mail for a reason, dammit!
What? You mean you don't fix your own microwave ovens? I thought everyone did!
On a more serious note, I have been on panel discussions about 'tools' versus 'appliances', so I have covered this ground before. For me a computer is a tool. What most people want is a toaster. Right now the Palm probably comes closest to delivering on that (sorry Mac heads).
Just mind answering anyone anonomously asking you who was listening when you mentioned it last week. What are the chances the writer was in the group?
Actually I think the chances are pretty low. We are doing C# and.NET in the shop, and the only one in the discussion with C++ skills is pretty rusty. Plus we are on crunch time right now.
But then, we have been on crunch time for a couple of months now. We keep missing the impossible deadline and they keep moving it back a little and saying "OK, we really have to hit the new deadline this time! Everyone needs to put in more hours every week..."
Last week we were discussing the MSBlast worm here in the office and I commented, rather offhandly, "I wonder how long it will take before someone writes a phage worm that uses the same hole, but eats MSBlast?"
Apparently the answer is 'Four days at most...'
The extent to which the Internet recapitulates evolution and biological systems is astounding!
Is it just me, or do others feel like the whole SCO thing has somehow slipped into a P.K. Dick novel?
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Heh. I bought my fiance, now wife, a moissanite ring partly because of cost and partly because I really didn't want anything to do with giving money to DeBeers. Anita was fine with it, partly because moissanite has a science fiction connection.
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So? First off, what's to keep us from forming several different special interest groups based on our diverse political leanings? Each with a geek focus, of course. Secondly I believe there are more things than 'rational copyright law' which cross the geek political spectrum; for example privacy issues.
Besides, as/. has also clearly shown, on the balance geeks tend to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative -- with a wide streak of 'leave me the hell alone' onryness. Generally that would describe a Libertarian, except that I think most of us consider the Libertarians idiots who we would rather not associate with.
So what is to keep us from building a geek political coalition around these shared values, while ignoring or compromising on the differences? In many ways existing organizations like the EFF are already doing this. And that is certainly no different than the 'police unions, the AFL-CIO, and the Christian Right' you mention. Do you think they started out as monolithic political blocks? Do you think they really are such now, even if their dollars end up lobbying on single issues?
Our (geeks) biggest problem isn't that we have too diverse a group to reach cohesion, it is that we tend to be individualists who prefer not to act in groups. Overcome that and we geeks are a force to be reckoned with...
I've seen a lot of messages here advocating doing something that 'would hurt SCO' like removing support for SCO systems in the GCC compiler. Besides the fact that this is stooping to their level, it would also have no effect on SCO at all.
Why? Because SCO is no longer a technology company. Their entire business plan is now built around forcing, via the courts, businesses to pay them for software developed and distributed by others. I really doubt they are planning much revenue from sales of their current products, much less continuing to maintain and improve those products in order to maintain their market position.
So you are saying that Linux should remain a hobbyist's tool?
If that is the case, it is a pretty damn self-centered view. Especially considering that many different businesses have added much of value to Linux as they sought to make it more valuable for themselves. If it isn't the case, then perhaps you should care ". . . if businesses can use it or not."
My guess is that you wouldn't be using Linux the way you do today if Linux had not been used by business, big and small, for the past decade.
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Virginia Heinlein died last January. I blogged it here.
I believe RAH had some nephews who inherited everything. I certainly haven't heard of his estate being assigned to any college or fannish institution (such as Clarion). Perhaps someone else has details?
"It should be published because the author was a smart enough guy to figure out that given how famous he became, if he really didn't want it to see the light of day, he should have destroyed it."
RTFA as they say. Heinline *did* destroy it! Or at least he destroyed all the copies he had access to. The copy being published was in the hands of a third party who was given it to review/critique. It did not come from Heinlein's archives (which Ginnie controlled until her death).
Oh, and a BTW to parent AC posts... Flaming someone as an AC is like a 14 year old talking shit: Clearly to be ignored for its lack of discernment and its cowardance. Anyone who has attended a 'real' SF convention (as opposed to a trekkie thing) knows that a good part of what is discussed is serious, informed and intelligent critique of literary works, albeit SF literary works. In other words adults talking about adult subjects that you probably wouldn't understand...
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Nope. Turns out that vacuum makes a great insulator. (Remember vacuum thermoses?) So all cooling must be by radiation, which isn't nearly as efficient as using a heat conductor and a heat sink.
That is what the poster's private parts are for: The heat sink...
On a related note I have a story. It was a late night bull session at a science fiction conference about fifteen years ago. I was in a group consisting of two authors, an editor and a couple of fellow fen in an otherwise empty con suite. The con suite staff tried to close down the bar, but ended up just giving me the keys because we weren't about to leave (I was known to the concom).
We went for hours carrying on a typical SF bull session, ranging across a variety of subjects, when we got onto the subject of whether intersteller war was worth the energy expenditures. After all, the amount of energy required to boost to, say, 1/3 C and then decellerate a good sized spacecraft is itself enough to char a good sized planet. In fact you would be better off to use that energy directly to create whatever it is that the other solar system has that you want. Economically it makes no sense. There just aren't many resources worth the effort to transport, much less sending a conquering fleet as well.
There was some agreement that someone might launch an invasion fleet for religious reasons, but a couple of people disagreed saying that, even then, the cost could not be justified to a taxpaying populace. But then one person, Raul Reyes, made an interesting suggestion for a resource that could not be created easily: Truly large heat sinks.
It works like this; if you are doing enormous (godlike enormous) industrial works you are going to need equally enormous heat sinks. How big? Well, comets in the Keiper belt and Oort cloud would work, but rounding up enough would require so much energy that it isn't worth the effort. Uranus and Neptune are about right. Saturn would work as well, but it is really too hot to be very efficient.
So final agreement was reached about the time the sun was coming up and the wine was running out: Intersteller invasion is worth the cost if you need to use someone else's trans-Jovian planets as heat sinks. And we figured this out years before the Athlon was even a glint in AMD's eye.
No shit. That is the one egregious change that I cannot ignore -- especially the whole bit about hauling the hobbits back fifty or so miles. Cut out Tom Bombadil? Well, I guess it makes sense. Expand the Aragorn background and give Liv Tyler more screen time? Sure, it's one way you can actually improve over the books. Re-do the battle of Horns Deep for more suspense? They didn't really have to, but so what. Cut the ents back to a few minutes of screen time and make them cartooney? Well, I don't like it; but what you gonna do?
But Faramir? The man was a pupil of Gandalf. A good part of the plot in ROTK is based around his disaffection from his father and the fact it goes way back. And on top of everything else the change added nothing to the story!
Grump...
Call me a pawn of 'the man', but I will be there in the theaters for both of them. The military-entertainment complex will thank me, but my bladder won't.
Three and half hours... Why don't they have intermissions anymore?
I've been bitching about the same thing for days now. The spam filtering is catching the virus mail sent to me, but I am getting around 50 bounce and virus scanner messages a day.
Annoying as hell. I run Mozilla Mail for a reason, dammit!
What? You mean you don't fix your own microwave ovens? I thought everyone did!
On a more serious note, I have been on panel discussions about 'tools' versus 'appliances', so I have covered this ground before. For me a computer is a tool. What most people want is a toaster. Right now the Palm probably comes closest to delivering on that (sorry Mac heads).
Oh shut up! I don't want to see the receipt to some guy's toilet.
That's OK. I am perfectly capable of being amazed at myself. Of course if you really want to I don't mind...
But then, we have been on crunch time for a couple of months now. We keep missing the impossible deadline and they keep moving it back a little and saying "OK, we really have to hit the new deadline this time! Everyone needs to put in more hours every week..."
Last week we were discussing the MSBlast worm here in the office and I commented, rather offhandly, "I wonder how long it will take before someone writes a phage worm that uses the same hole, but eats MSBlast?"
Apparently the answer is 'Four days at most...'
The extent to which the Internet recapitulates evolution and biological systems is astounding!
Is it just me, or do others feel like the whole SCO thing has somehow slipped into a P.K. Dick novel?
Heh. I bought my fiance, now wife, a moissanite ring partly because of cost and partly because I really didn't want anything to do with giving money to DeBeers. Anita was fine with it, partly because moissanite has a science fiction connection.
So? First off, what's to keep us from forming several different special interest groups based on our diverse political leanings? Each with a geek focus, of course. Secondly I believe there are more things than 'rational copyright law' which cross the geek political spectrum; for example privacy issues.
/. has also clearly shown, on the balance geeks tend to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative -- with a wide streak of 'leave me the hell alone' onryness. Generally that would describe a Libertarian, except that I think most of us consider the Libertarians idiots who we would rather not associate with.
Besides, as
So what is to keep us from building a geek political coalition around these shared values, while ignoring or compromising on the differences? In many ways existing organizations like the EFF are already doing this. And that is certainly no different than the 'police unions, the AFL-CIO, and the Christian Right' you mention. Do you think they started out as monolithic political blocks? Do you think they really are such now, even if their dollars end up lobbying on single issues?
Our (geeks) biggest problem isn't that we have too diverse a group to reach cohesion, it is that we tend to be individualists who prefer not to act in groups. Overcome that and we geeks are a force to be reckoned with...
I've seen a lot of messages here advocating doing something that 'would hurt SCO' like removing support for SCO systems in the GCC compiler. Besides the fact that this is stooping to their level, it would also have no effect on SCO at all.
Why? Because SCO is no longer a technology company. Their entire business plan is now built around forcing, via the courts, businesses to pay them for software developed and distributed by others. I really doubt they are planning much revenue from sales of their current products, much less continuing to maintain and improve those products in order to maintain their market position.
So you are saying that Linux should remain a hobbyist's tool?
If that is the case, it is a pretty damn self-centered view. Especially considering that many different businesses have added much of value to Linux as they sought to make it more valuable for themselves. If it isn't the case, then perhaps you should care ". . . if businesses can use it or not."
My guess is that you wouldn't be using Linux the way you do today if Linux had not been used by business, big and small, for the past decade.
Go here. Follow links. Watch video. Laugh your ass off.
This looks like a good time to point to an oldie, but a goodie!
Just more fodder for my argument that we are living in a Science Fiction universe. Sadly, it is not one of the utopian ones...
Oh, excuse me. My communicator is signalling, I mean my cell phone is ringing.