Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Come on! Who reads footnotes? If it was important they would have put it in the main text.
(P.S dose --> douse)
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A link to the Australian website just launched that Audrey Young was referring to:
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Most business people are trying to integrate the iPhone into a Microsoft legacy system. It doesn't really work.
I'm not sure what you are on about. And I guess I don't really care. But since you brought it up; my iPhone integrates just fine with our corporate MS Exchange servers for email, calendar and contacts.
The iPod and the iPhone have made Apple widely popular recently,yet still hardly anyone owns a Mac.
Yes, fewer people own Macs than PCs. Not quite "hardly anyone" though.
Choose the tool suited to the job at hand
For me, my iPhone and MacBook Pro are the best tools for my job. They may not be for you, but your requirements are not mine.
And what is it ok for Jobs to be so rich while you continue to pay all his bills?
And he has one of my kidneys! No, actually, it's my son's kidney, but I don't care. Jobs deserves it.
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Whate are the chances of the PS3 and XBox 360 both dying at the same time? (Assuming no correlation).
Still, I can see the drama. We just upgraded from PS2 to XBox 360 this Christmas and I would not have wanted to deal with the 360 breaking down in those first days. Hell, I had to schedule and negotiate an outage with the kids to move some cabling around.
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On which subject, Philip.
Ah, I had not seen that before.
this Hitchens piece on Larsson
Great new word: Schwedenkrimi.
Where is the Kiwikrimi?
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If you watched the movie (or read the book) and wondered which part of the original title "Män som hatar kvinnor" translates to Dragon or Tattoo, give up now.
The Swedish title means "Men who hate women", but apparently that was deemed too aggressive for the English-speaking market.
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If you mean gang-like patches
I want a Mongrel Blog patch.
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I have never seen them in English, though. Are they available?
Note to self: Learn 2 library. I see that AKL library has these (in English).
Oh, I will argue that the best of Gene Wolfe's "science fiction" (his magisterial Book of The New Sun as Exhibit A) is better than Atwood's "speculative fiction".
I've never read Atwood, but I did dip my toe in fantasy (or is that Sci-Fi?) a while ago by reading Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. I had high expectations but was left a bit underwhelmed. Although I really liked the Ascian language.
Edit: Giovanni - snap!
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Another as-of-yet culpably omitted luminary: Stanislav Lem. I still have Solaris down as one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
True dat. Solaris and the short story Terminus are among the most compelling and scariest stories I have ever read. Not to mention Memoirs found in a bath-tub.
I have never seen them in English, though. Are they available?
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There is a very good summary of the whole Google vs China affair over at Ars Technica.
Among other things, it contains a quote from People's Daily Online where it's stated that:
the Chinese need their censorship because "the Chinese society has generally less information bearing-capacity than developed countries such as the US, which is an objective reality that no one can deny."
So that's why they don't have or need free speech!