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From: T i m on 8 Jun 2010 12:54 On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:56:37 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> Is this the one where the lead would go about on a hoverboard, >> 'pooning' a tow off other vehicles, or am I thinking of something >> else? > >No; that's something else which I have read but whose title I forget. I >think it was 'Snow Crash'. Okay, but not up to Gibson standards Cheers (n Jim), that sounds familiar. Quite frighteningly, try though I might I can't recall anything else from any of the other books. One may have been set (or party set) on some sort of space freighter (another ship attaching to theirs and people getting on board ..) but that could probably be one of 1024 titles. <sigh> It was during a regular 30 min commute into The City a while back and the guy next door (with a ~1000 book library) leant me 4 or 5 books which he felt were 'good examples' from different SiFi / genres. I remember they were all good but couldn't compete with chatting. Because of my poor ability to focus it also meant I read most of the books two or three times (repeated paragraphs). Cheers, T i m
From: zoara on 8 Jun 2010 18:06 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: >> >>> - Folders! I trust that means what I think it means. >> >> No, it doesn't. >> >> Unless you mean something other than I think you think you mean, > > which >> would be less likely. > > No, I meant what you think I meant, and you're right, it doesn't. > It just means you can group apps. Why don't they call them app groups, > instead of using the misleading "folders" label. Except that the iPhone's folders are a more realistic metaphor than the Mac's - after all, how many people have real folders that contain folders full of folders? -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 8 Jun 2010 18:06 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Marco Bakker <marco(a)mac.local> wrote: > >>>>> - Folders! I trust that means what I think it means. >>>> >>>> Not really. Folders, but not subfolders. >>>> >>>> I'm on Apple's side on this one but I reckon many won't be. >>> >>> That will be me then. And why only nine apps? Meh. >> >> The limit is twelve apps. > > Good point. The icon for them implies nine, but you seem to be able to > get three rows of four icons. I still think that's a curious lack of the usual "sweating the details" you normally see from Apple. The mini-icon should just "zoom up" to show the same number of apps full-size, whether that's nine or twelve or whatever other number. Then it feels like a physical box containing physical things inside it, rather than an abstract representation where the contents shift. I guess FTFF has found another platform. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Bruce Horrocks on 8 Jun 2010 18:43 On 08/06/2010 10:47, Jim wrote: > On 2010-06-08, Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> Jim<jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>> On 2010-06-08, Jaimie Vandenbergh<jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> >>> wrote: >>>>>> Calling Charlie Stross... sounds like an instance of BASILISK STARE >>>>>> being released into the wild to me. Come to think of it, Retina, >>>>>> TURN >>>>>> and ICE sound like some sort of countermeasures too. >>>>> >>>>> "ICE - Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics" (c/o William Gibson) >>>> >>>> Eep - Neuromancer was released 26 years ago! I feel old. >>> >>> And to my shame I've still not read it. >> >> Freak > > [hangs head in shame] > > Jim Don't. It's sci fi. You have to grow out of it sometime. [ducks] -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: Bruce Horrocks on 8 Jun 2010 18:47
On 08/06/2010 12:51, Peter Ceresole wrote: > Richard Tobin<richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > >> I have a feeling it might seem a little dated now. "Four megabytes >> of hot RAM". > > Oh well; it's not techology. Like all futurist books, it's *magic*. I > mentioned to Gibson that I'd seen the US DoD videos he refers to in > Neuromancer and said how much I admired his imagining of immersive > interfaces, at a time when the thing that welcomed you to the most > widely used database of the time, DBase 1, was a single *dot* on the <bzzzt> There was no dBase 1 - it started at II. (But it did start with a dot. Which was perfectly okay in the days when you were expected to RTFM first.) > screen. He said 'Oh, I wasn't thinking of computers, I was thinking of > how people used television.' Which made perfect sense. His interest > wasn't in the tech, it was in how people related to it. -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com) |