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From: Jim on 8 Jun 2010 06:15 On 2010-06-08, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> > What about Islands in the Net (Stirling) and Snow Crash (Stephenson)? >> >> Snow Crash, certainly. I'm not a _complete_ barbarian. > > I've read all of those, but Neuromancer is by *far* the best. Best > story, best writing, most fun. Ok, ok, I get the hint! :-) Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Chris Ridd on 8 Jun 2010 06:16 On 2010-06-08 09:49:07 +0100, Pd said: > FaceTime > > H.264 AAC SIP STUN TURN ICE RTP SRTP > > Awesome, so many initialisms. But Stun? Do you really want that on a > front-facing camera? What if it goes off accidentally? STUN and TURN enable NAT traversal, so you can have stuff "outside" your LAN making connections to your device inside. This is what tells us that FaceTime can connect iPhones on different networks. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Traversal_Utilities_for_NAT> -- Chris
From: Woody on 8 Jun 2010 06:28 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> It's certainly on my list. > > Do try it. I read it when it first came out- I really am that old- and > it is still one of the most brillian SF stories of all time. I am really not that old and so did I! And count zero, and Mona Lisa overdrive. Hmm.. Maybe I am that old. <sigh> -- Woody
From: Richard Tobin on 8 Jun 2010 06:46 In article <1jjrlh2.1mzja9x1wm7imwN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >I've read all of those, but Neuromancer is by *far* the best. Best >story, best writing, most fun. I have a feeling it might seem a little dated now. "Four megabytes of hot RAM". -- Richard
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 8 Jun 2010 07:35
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:36:35 +0100, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: >On 2010-06-07 21:32:56 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) said: > >> Haven't got time to read any more, but interesting stuff. Any Mac stuff, >> I wonder? > >Nothing. Unless, tangentially, you suddenly realise that the gutting of >iMovie was in preparation for this launch. Meh. > >Non-Mac news good and I'll keep my eye on upgrade pricing from O2. No >AppleTV or input tablet as yet - maybe for later. Oh, and I -do- hope >they asked Cisco nicely about iOS... It was Cisco who owned the iPhone trademark, too. I wonder if the agreement back in 2007 included the name iOS as well? Cheers - Jaimie -- "Hard as nails, hard as nails - So would you be if you lived one hundred and eighty years on sunflower seeds and biscuit crumbs." - Polynesia |