Matthew Reilly's books make Dan Brown look like high art. You can tell he's just dying for them to be made into films - and has even marked out the sequences that'll "wow" the audience the most. (Count the exclamation marks, highest-number wins the prize)
In particular the "Scarecrow" books are just *awful*, IMHO
Well you've got (among others)
Peter F Hamilton - global warming, politics etc. (Mindstar Rising trilogy) or epic saga dealing with space-faring cultures and humanity facing the realisation that Death isn't the end (Night's Dawn trilogy), along with many others.
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, Diamond age etc., and his most recent (in the last month) Reamde looking at the successor to World of Warcraft
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon (and the rest of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy) is a stunning 'new' work, well recommended
China Mieville - Perdido Street Station and Scar in particular
Charlie Stross - Halting State is another one about a future with distributed 'augmented reality' games etc.
And not one of 'em talks about social networks etc.
What scares me most about Walmart et al is that all those mouth-breathing 'tards who can't even steer a shopping cart/trolley have driven to get there.
When the bus/train doesn't take me longer to commute, and costs less than driving, I'll consider it.
For example, my current commute is 85 miles each way, and takes an average of two hours. A bit excessive even by my (UK) standards, but there we go. 75 miles of that is driving, which takes me an hour. The last 10 miles is done by train, which takes me - an hour.
If I were to go with public transport the entire way, it would take me three-and-a-half hours each way. Driving costs me roughly £120 per week in fuel. Public transport costs me £100 PER DAY.
Totally agree - this seems to be another case of "Well, no-one was protecting my child!" - do it your damn self.
"mobile apps are the new platform for kids."
I wonder if it's more that mobile apps are the new childminder for kids. Yes, some play games on an iDevice for fun, but it's like TV, I suspect a lot of parents say "Just play on this, little Billy", and let them do that instead of actually spending time with the child. [/cynicism]
Yeah, these big amounts (in the context of a 99 cent game) are ridiculous.
I love the concept of true micropayments, and think it's got a huge market. (Hell, AppStores etc. are proof of that - look at Angry Birds taking more than $1m per day over the Christmas Season) But this add-one stuff that's maybe 200% or 2000% of the original app purchase is just insane.
(Note : I feel the same about add-on packs for cars etc., where you end up spending [significant percentage of car's original price] on upgrades, sports packs etc.
Which might have something to do with the fact that Nazis (as in National Socialists, rather than their modern-day counterparts) haven't really existed for around 65 of those 87 years...
The Daily Mail is *not* a good alternative. It's another hate-filled shitrag of bigotry and clashing themes ("We pay too much to live here, so we need to hire cheap labour" vs "oh no, not immigrants", for example)
I'd agree that the other two are good sources of news, but the Mail? Fuck, they still whine on about conspiracy theories for killing the Princess of Wales. And it still sells papers.
Relying on the Daily Mail for news is like relying on Fox News for level-headed commentary.
The chip itself was stunning - I had a Toshiba Libretto with a Crusoe chip in it, and could get 12-18 hours battery life with the extended battery option. It was slower than hell (600Mhz) but still did all the everyday stuff I needed at the time.
But yeah, Transmeta screwed the pooch on just about every business decision they made, from what I can see/recall...
I'm left-handed, and do use the mouse on the left side of the keyboard. Mind you, I haven't swapped the buttons over - that's just weird...
For me, I find that it's a lot easier to have the mouse on the left hand side. But I'm used to moving to other people's computers (and, being a contractor, changing jobs regularly as well) so I don't fark up the buttons as well.
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Matthew Reilly's books make Dan Brown look like high art. You can tell he's just dying for them to be made into films - and has even marked out the sequences that'll "wow" the audience the most. (Count the exclamation marks, highest-number wins the prize) In particular the "Scarecrow" books are just *awful*, IMHO
I knew you were going to say that
And spells Proprietary in a *very* different/new way too
Well you've got (among others) Peter F Hamilton - global warming, politics etc. (Mindstar Rising trilogy) or epic saga dealing with space-faring cultures and humanity facing the realisation that Death isn't the end (Night's Dawn trilogy), along with many others. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, Diamond age etc., and his most recent (in the last month) Reamde looking at the successor to World of Warcraft Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon (and the rest of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy) is a stunning 'new' work, well recommended China Mieville - Perdido Street Station and Scar in particular Charlie Stross - Halting State is another one about a future with distributed 'augmented reality' games etc. And not one of 'em talks about social networks etc.
What scares me most about Walmart et al is that all those mouth-breathing 'tards who can't even steer a shopping cart/trolley have driven to get there.
Sir appears to have been within the applicable limits (max speed limit + 10% ) , so sir is fine. :-)
When the bus/train doesn't take me longer to commute, and costs less than driving, I'll consider it. For example, my current commute is 85 miles each way, and takes an average of two hours. A bit excessive even by my (UK) standards, but there we go. 75 miles of that is driving, which takes me an hour. The last 10 miles is done by train, which takes me - an hour. If I were to go with public transport the entire way, it would take me three-and-a-half hours each way. Driving costs me roughly £120 per week in fuel. Public transport costs me £100 PER DAY.
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
XSLT can be useful? Surely that's a Slashdot Story all in itself?
Well I'm on FF4, and can confirm that Firebug, WebDev etc. work fine. So do (of my installed extensions/apps/whatever)
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Totally agree - this seems to be another case of "Well, no-one was protecting my child!" - do it your damn self.
"mobile apps are the new platform for kids."
I wonder if it's more that mobile apps are the new childminder for kids. Yes, some play games on an iDevice for fun, but it's like TV, I suspect a lot of parents say "Just play on this, little Billy", and let them do that instead of actually spending time with the child.
[/cynicism]
Yeah, these big amounts (in the context of a 99 cent game) are ridiculous.
I love the concept of true micropayments, and think it's got a huge market. (Hell, AppStores etc. are proof of that - look at Angry Birds taking more than $1m per day over the Christmas Season) But this add-one stuff that's maybe 200% or 2000% of the original app purchase is just insane.
(Note : I feel the same about add-on packs for cars etc., where you end up spending [significant percentage of car's original price] on upgrades, sports packs etc.
That's what SVN is for.
Particularly hosted SVN servers off-site.
Which might have something to do with the fact that Nazis (as in National Socialists, rather than their modern-day counterparts) haven't really existed for around 65 of those 87 years...
The Daily Mail is *not* a good alternative. It's another hate-filled shitrag of bigotry and clashing themes ("We pay too much to live here, so we need to hire cheap labour" vs "oh no, not immigrants", for example)
I'd agree that the other two are good sources of news, but the Mail? Fuck, they still whine on about conspiracy theories for killing the Princess of Wales. And it still sells papers.
Relying on the Daily Mail for news is like relying on Fox News for level-headed commentary.
Isn't that synonymous with "bricked" anyway?
Suggestions :
Porn Site (plenty of space/processor for video rendering) ( helps get some income for the company)
Render Farm
Torrent Server
Use them for some hosting of local businesses and/or charities - again, helps get some income...
The chip itself was stunning - I had a Toshiba Libretto with a Crusoe chip in it, and could get 12-18 hours battery life with the extended battery option. It was slower than hell (600Mhz) but still did all the everyday stuff I needed at the time.
But yeah, Transmeta screwed the pooch on just about every business decision they made, from what I can see/recall...
I'm left-handed, and do use the mouse on the left side of the keyboard. Mind you, I haven't swapped the buttons over - that's just weird...
For me, I find that it's a lot easier to have the mouse on the left hand side. But I'm used to moving to other people's computers (and, being a contractor, changing jobs regularly as well) so I don't fark up the buttons as well.
My current workplace also uses Disney characters. But they're random lesser-known ones.
I mean, without Googling do you know who Djali, Nakoma and Frollo are? I sure as shit don't.
Equally, I don't know what the hell each one actually does. There's a lopping great list of which one does what. It's a pain in the ass.
You must be new here...
Easy - CSI:Miami is filed under "Shit. Utter, utter shit". There are soap operas more believable/realistic and with better actors.
Hell, when even the Hummers out-act the "star" you know you're in trouble.
Surely that's just the "Alias" effect?
Now *there* was a series with some really shitty tech...
I liked both Atrocity Archives and Jennifer Morgue, both of which made me laugh a lot at the geeky humour.
In particular, I loved it when you discover the reasons for Bob's full name in JM, along with his new sidekick in Pimpf (also part of Jennifer Morgue)
But yes, lots of geeky humour, and stories that work. No, they're not perfect - but they're damn fun to read.
Pffft. With all the rest of the MS security issues, would you *really* trust Windows to update other apps at all?
I know I'd rather make the decision to update Software [X] , rather than letting Windows install it/update it for me.
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