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CodeTRUCKER:
@Mouser: well...that ringing 'endorsement' is enough to make me decide to cut my losses and stop reading Wolfram. I've got enough far more interesting books I want to get caught up on that there's no point in my wasting the effort to chug through those last 800 pages.
Thx for the input. :Thmbsup:
(And all this time I thought maybe it was just...me!)
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P.S. If anybody wants this book, drop me a PM and I'll mail it to you if your address is in the USA. :mrgreen:
-40hz (November 13, 2010, 02:50 PM)
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Hmmm.... maybe you should rethink your position. Here's why...
The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities -- one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist -- their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. "What's the matter?" the psychiatrist asked, baffled. "Don't you want to play with any of the toys?" "Yes," the little boy bawled, "but if I did I'd only break them."
Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. "What do you think you're doing?" the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. "With all this manure," the little boy replied, beaming, "there must be a pony in here somewhere!"
;)
40hz:
rjbull:
The premise is a dystopic future in which computers and an internet-type feed are hardwired into our bodies and integrated directly into our thoughts. So... people walk around with constant advertising targetting them depending on what they are looking at/passing, and carry on private text conversations with others, share memories,-Darwin (November 10, 2010, 10:28 PM)
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Er... don't you have anyone with an Internet-connected mobile phone near you? :o I mean, the future is now the present? And why engage in a series of doubtless painful, expensive operations to insert implants, probably needing them done over in a few years time for maintenance and upgrading, when you could just go to a store, buy an off-the-shelf iSucker, and you're good to go?
Current book in progress: The life and works of Alfred Bestall, illustrator of Rupert Bear by Caroline G. Bott
Just finished:
* I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (one of the Tiffany Aching ones)
* The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus rides again, or rather, before!)
* German Requiem by Philip Kerr (third in his Bernie Gunther series)
Darwin:
I read the Bartimaeus trilogy earlier this year - loved it! Therefore, I MUST read "The Ring of Solomon" - thanks for the pointer, I would not have known that it is out otherwise.
"Feed" was published about 8 years ago and "worked" for me because even after such a brief time it seems prescient...
kyrathaba:
+1 for the Bartimaeus Trilogy
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