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THIS IS WHY I DETEST KEYBOARDS.. I WROTE AN ENTIRE POST AND ACCIDENTALLY HIT PAGE DOWN. THE LOT VANNISHED.
AND FAST TYPING HAS EVERYTHING IN UPPER CASE. LOL

Skip i agree. which should cover it for now im too angry to write it all again.

Yeah, they do that sometimes. Drat!
And then you think about Shakespeare writing all those plays with a goose-quill, by candle-light, and no spellcheck or cut-and-paste feature.... and maybe feel a little better.

Console yourself further by thinking of the transcription errors that will result from the direct-brain-input keyboard. (Microsoft announced a release-date, before the programmers have finished a preliminary project outline. It'll have a few bugs.... but, hey! what's new?)

Skip wrote:Yeah, they do that sometimes. Drat!
And then you think about Shakespeare writing all those plays with a goose-quill, by candle-light, and no spellcheck or cut-and-paste feature.... and maybe feel a little better.

Console yourself further by thinking of the transcription errors that will result from the direct-brain-input keyboard. (Microsoft announced a release-date, before the programmers have finished a preliminary project outline. It'll have a few bugs.... but, hey! what's new?)

Skip

Yah i bought new razer Keyboard. backlit it helps me play with myself in the dark.
I type more accurately now but it all comes to attitude and skills.
My whining should be ignored. everything i do, I DO.

what was he thinking when he wrote
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more;
it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
--William Shakespeare--

One of the top 10 in human comments on life

im a lazy bastard.. how do i turn off the hotlinks to words /phrases in my posts.
Or is this now a permanent PIECE OF SHIT we have to put up with.

Soon any product provider will have auto hotlinks so the above post will have razer hotlinked. An we will through evolution work out how to
talk without hotinks.
advertising.......the 1st door on left in hell

All the machines these days think they're smarter than the people who use them. This is because
1. the guys who design the machines have intellectual self-assessment on steroids (to make up for their puny physique and awkwardness with women) and
2. the average IQ of users has been plummeting since the Reagan era.
Another decade, and we'll have chips embedded in our skulls that transmit living-instructions... That pesky paperclip cycles out on your eyeball: I see you're going to the toilet. The paper is on your right. No, the other right. Just two sheets now - A Conserving Citizen is A Good Citizen! Now, flush. Don't forget to wash your hands. Use soap! For more help, click here.
Just as well i'm way behind in technology.

2. the average IQ of users has been plummeting since the Reagan era.

Few know this.. That the BELL curve of IQ is not SET to any desired or past standard.
It is completely dependent on current input.

What was 100 iq today is Not what 100 was in 1933.

The difference requires some work. I leave that to you with above 100 to research.
I was posted by government at 148 in 4 hour test in 90's. 157 in less refined and managed test in 2005.
This does make me smarter or better. SKILL is what i work for. iq simply greases the road.

And above all this . What makes IQ and skill second row.

Imagination. without imagination we are nothing

Skill and imagination are endangered, too. We're taking it all with us! M'nyeh!

Skip wrote:Skill and imagination are endangered, too. We're taking it all with us! M'nyeh!

LOL
[We're taking it all with us!]

Every now and then i meet one with style. A human being. [scipio africanus]
Memory tag ------- skip as in scipio Africanus---------
http://www.historynet.com/romes-craftie ... icanus.htm

Prill

Hey, I'm a smart-ass, not a fighter.

Skip wrote:Hey, I'm a smart-ass, not a fighter.

lol. im moving to split beaver creek montana. guns and split beaver lol.
be all you can be,,,,,,,

prill

I liked Topo Gigio. Who's this little chick?

great stuff.

¿Usted habla español

im learning slowly but surely.
being.. Un hombre de edad

Yo soy lento.



prill.
i plan to retire for good in Uruguay.
Spanish must be the way.

slow and sure the turtle

Gibson is i agree.
a great writer. He and sterling made 'the difference engine.'
One great read .
any who poo poo 2 writers working on one book need to look at larry niven and jerry pournelle
'mote in gods eye'
the moties are so realistic and believable. alien life becomes what they envision.
Robert A. Heinlein, said "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read".

like any team one is the scientist and one the poet. but both are well informed so its a great system.

addition to theme MI. great stuff
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FUX says nyet.

I can't whole-heartedly agree about the collaborations. I liked Sterling alone and all the subsequent Gibson books more than Difference Engine, which i found difficult. (Maybe i'll take another run at it. Time changes one's attitude sometimes. But you can't make me read Niven again: i have so little time left. Lucifer's Hammer the was the dullest rousing good story, ever.
I think Pournelle did far better writing alone.
OTH Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman collaborated on Good Omens, one of my favourite novels. Not sf, but a great perspective on Xtian mythology.

No Spanish, to my chagrin. Even the little bit French i once had is faded away. And i'm losing English vocabulary the way earth is losing species. Will probably die like the head in a basket. Who wrote that short story? See, there goes another memory!

A cyborg with machine parts are not always enchanced.

Technically people with a new hiptransplant are cyborgs, very unglamurously as we like to think of cyborgs as more elaborate beings, but the implant wears over time and must be replaced, and the hip bone must be cut down, thus in the end there may not be sufficient bone.

Even if not worth $6,000,000 - and most of them are not as good-looking as [either] Steve Austin - all hip-transplant patients are worth more after than before. Still a long way to Bannakaffallatta - and we have so little technological advancement time left!