User: pbobby

Is SF harder to write now than before?

On: Ask Larry Niven

Meaning: Is it more difficult to be scientifically convincing, or to create futuristic scenarios that are plausible?

That's it?

On: Taken?

You make a statement like that but don't post your conclusions after 'picking it apart'?

This article sounds more like a troll posting on a bbs somewhere.

Just realized this?

On: Scientists Don't Read the Papers They Cite

It seems to me that people who really do the research end up publishing material that is recognized as conspiratorial, very right wing or very left wing.

Politically reporting reporting and discovery is such that doesn't 'rock the boat' or forms conclusions too 'off the wall'

Usage

On: Do People Really Use Their PDAs?

I use mine all the time.... to read eBooks /:)

Skewed report from the NYTimes

On: Cell Phone Service Degenerates Further

Again, the NYTimes only really cares about NYC. Since when did NYC reflect the United States?

Manhattan having some part of their infrastructure overloaded? Why should that be a surprise?

As for the rest of the country (except other major cities), we're doing just fine.