it's a way of sharing music, that's what podcasting is.
kind of like when I was in an APA and we shared mix tapes of music we liked by sending these newfangled cassette tapes to everyone on the mailing list and they'd forward it on to the next person.
only much much faster. and without tapes. and with music compression.
Pod is for Apple iPod - hence the icon on this thread.
> yeah. like on 9-11 when we were attacked by the superior forces of the > combined armies and navies of the Russian Empire - or was it China?
Did I say that it was the only threat? No. And I saw the threat from Al Queda years ago, back when all your political philosophy could screw up the courage to do was lob a few expensive cruise missles at camels and declare terrorism a 'police' responsibility. Had we correctly seen Radical Islam as an ememy at least by the time of the 1st attempt on the World Trade Center and entered the war then, liberated Afganistan from the Taliban then, odds are they wouldn't have still been a problem, at least not one organized enough to accomplish something as complicated as 9-11.
I built cruise missiles while your political philosophy sold stingers to the same people who attacked us then. Before that, I did counter-terrorism against other extremists from a similar region.
And my point is that an investment in Space Weapons is one of the dumbest things you could do - and I say that because I actually know what does and what doesn't work and what the conditions would have to be for them to actually work in real war.
Now, if you want to argue the merits of hot rocks in space, fine - that plan was one of the few that might have worked. But the rest were a giant black hole that wouldn't have worked - and still won't - since physics hasn't changed due to your "philosophy".
The real world cares nothing for outdated 18th century philosophies posing as 20th century philosophies - they're still dead ends.
[some resource links from some friends of mine at the Fremont Arts Council, which puts on an annual light show by local Fremonsters in or near Seattle]
You can find incandescent "grain of wheat" lamps at www.allelectronics.com, or similar ones at Radio Shack for 2 or 3 times the price.
To nominate a book for a Hugo award, you need to be a member of this year's World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). This year's Worldcon is in Britain. You do the math.
Except people bought their WorldCon tix a long time ago, and you're ignoring the Permanent WorldCon Floating Committee.
Perhaps it's that those who went to the WorldCon might have been reading more British/UK SF than usual, in preparation for the trip, and thus would tend to nominate such authors more than average?
seriously, get a grip. Not everything is a direct result of what america wants to believe is the worlds worst tragedy. Hey, if every writer was british, that means there was no asian writers! They must all be traumatised by that big wave thing!
It's just our way of dealing with the decline of the American Empire, just like when the British had to deal with the decline of the British Empire.
We'll get over it, learn Mandarin, and be happy serfs, just give us time.
Yeah, i guess you're right. There shall be no sh on my servers! The so-called vulnerability is only the consequence of the fact that *gasp*, when you execute a shell script, the script can modify files(!, etc etc).
Don't bash the bearer of bad news... I was just going csh csh when the ksh news came out.
Twas MSFT pulled the plug on it, not I.
Besides, you could always get a Mac or use Linux/BSD instead.
Try looking online in Spain at a major bookstore - that would be my first try.
There have been winners who wrote first in another language which was then translated to English - I can think of a few who first wrote the story in French and the English translation won a Hugo.
But, in general, it's stories written primarily in English.
One: Backlash against US dominance in SF&F beforehand.
Two: Backlash against Pacific NW (esp. Seattle and Vancouver) dominance in SF&F beforehand.... or...
maybe they just wrote cooler stuff and filmed all the cool SF&F stuff up in Vancouver so we got shut out of the running?
back in the days of being a SMOF, i took Bill Gibson's Hugo from Australia to Vancouver thru customs... good thing one of the security gaurds was a fan, but nowadays I'd never even be able to do that [looks like a rocket/mortar]
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at least for 802.11 that is.
now, as to whether or not it makes sense - well, probably not, but that never stopped anyone.
it's a way of sharing music, that's what podcasting is.
kind of like when I was in an APA and we shared mix tapes of music we liked by sending these newfangled cassette tapes to everyone on the mailing list and they'd forward it on to the next person.
only much much faster. and without tapes. and with music compression.
Pod is for Apple iPod - hence the icon on this thread.
I seem to recall we built these things called satellites which sit in this thing called a geo-synchronous orbit.
And we did it to save money.
Now we're going backwards.
Whatever - MTV still is lame.
as in freedom, not free as in beer.
isn't that supposed to be bheer?
However, while I agree that Information wants to be free, I prefer cider myself.
I mean really, how much impact could any event have that only happens once every three or four years....
Um, so you slept thru Nov 2000 and 2004?
would be a space elevator.
However, it presumes we can handle the security and technological issues and cooperate.
I'm not so sure we can. Sadly.
> yeah. like on 9-11 when we were attacked by the superior forces of the
> combined armies and navies of the Russian Empire - or was it China?
Did I say that it was the only threat? No. And I saw the threat from Al Queda years ago, back when all your political philosophy could screw up the courage to do was lob a few expensive cruise missles at camels and declare terrorism a 'police' responsibility. Had we correctly seen Radical Islam as an ememy at least by the time of the 1st attempt on the World Trade Center and entered the war then, liberated Afganistan from the Taliban then, odds are they wouldn't have still been a problem, at least not one organized enough to accomplish something as complicated as 9-11.
I built cruise missiles while your political philosophy sold stingers to the same people who attacked us then. Before that, I did counter-terrorism against other extremists from a similar region.
And my point is that an investment in Space Weapons is one of the dumbest things you could do - and I say that because I actually know what does and what doesn't work and what the conditions would have to be for them to actually work in real war.
Now, if you want to argue the merits of hot rocks in space, fine - that plan was one of the few that might have worked. But the rest were a giant black hole that wouldn't have worked - and still won't - since physics hasn't changed due to your "philosophy".
The real world cares nothing for outdated 18th century philosophies posing as 20th century philosophies - they're still dead ends.
"Microsoft strongly supports the promotion of open standards"
That's where his credibility was lost on me.
But they do.
How else can you embrace and extend and enpatent if there aren't open standards to do it from?
yeah. like on 9-11 when we were attacked by the superior forces of the combined armies and navies of the Russian Empire - or was it China?
um, don't think so. why do you want to live in Fear?
most satellites - well, the official ones not launched under the black ops budget - are actually Canadian or European, not American.
seriously, check the published stats at space.com
the We that is the military-industrial complex that cares nothing for earth's citizens?
or
the current regime?
or
the people who actually live in the world who disagree with most of what is done in their name?
[some resource links from some friends of mine at the Fremont Arts Council, which puts on an annual light show by local Fremonsters in or near Seattle]
You can find incandescent "grain of wheat" lamps at www.allelectronics.com, or similar ones at Radio Shack for 2 or 3 times the price.
In some cases Christmas lights work well.
which, in a way are even more retro-cool since many of the first computers used LED readouts, so it's like a wayback machine to the real future.
To nominate a book for a Hugo award, you need to be a member of this year's World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). This year's Worldcon is in Britain. You do the math.
...]
Except people bought their WorldCon tix a long time ago, and you're ignoring the Permanent WorldCon Floating Committee.
Perhaps it's that those who went to the WorldCon might have been reading more British/UK SF than usual, in preparation for the trip, and thus would tend to nominate such authors more than average?
[yes, I remember Jane's Fighting SMOFs well
seriously, get a grip. Not everything is a direct result of what america wants to believe is the worlds worst tragedy. Hey, if every writer was british, that means there was no asian writers! They must all be traumatised by that big wave thing!
It's just our way of dealing with the decline of the American Empire, just like when the British had to deal with the decline of the British Empire.
We'll get over it, learn Mandarin, and be happy serfs, just give us time.
Although it's been proven that it's a common vulnerability in *all* shells, there's something to be said about the average windows user.
At MSFT, all the users are above average and all the vulnerabilities are just in your imagination.
8 little windows vista features walked around the park. DRM bully came and whacked them all dead.
No new Windows Vista features were left alive, so Microsoft put some new colors in and everybody bought it.
And then, out of the memory hole came the good IE fairy, and she said "Look, script kiddies, IE cookies and script holes for everyone!"
And everyone was happy, until their computers crashed the very next day.
i believe Vista is a trademark of another firm other than MSFT - be careful, you don't want to get sued for infringement ...
Yeah, i guess you're right. There shall be no sh on my servers! The so-called vulnerability is only the consequence of the fact that *gasp*, when you execute a shell script, the script can modify files(!, etc etc).
... I was just going csh csh when the ksh news came out.
Don't bash the bearer of bad news
Twas MSFT pulled the plug on it, not I.
Besides, you could always get a Mac or use Linux/BSD instead.
include scripting that's vulnerable on the servers, but not on the clients.
Yeah, it's not like they actually seek out servers to hack, right?
WTF is an SMOF?
It's like a SMOG, but the fen version, not the gamer version.
and are really Americans living in the UK ...
hey, when your skills are in your head like writers are, you can live anywhere you want to.
Arthur C. Clarke, for example, lived in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). Many writers move when they want to, or reside in more than one country.
Besides, does it really matter?
Try looking online in Spain at a major bookstore - that would be my first try.
There have been winners who wrote first in another language which was then translated to English - I can think of a few who first wrote the story in French and the English translation won a Hugo.
But, in general, it's stories written primarily in English.
One: Backlash against US dominance in SF&F beforehand.
... or ...
... good thing one of the security gaurds was a fan, but nowadays I'd never even be able to do that [looks like a rocket/mortar]
Two: Backlash against Pacific NW (esp. Seattle and Vancouver) dominance in SF&F beforehand.
maybe they just wrote cooler stuff and filmed all the cool SF&F stuff up in Vancouver so we got shut out of the running?
back in the days of being a SMOF, i took Bill Gibson's Hugo from Australia to Vancouver thru customs
Well, no, IIRC Jupiter would need to be 40 times more massive to start a fusion reaction. (I forget the exact figure, but it's large :)
Is that with or without large rectangular shapes?