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• Commented on Tim O'Reilly: Kindle needs to embrace standards or die
  Kindle supports images. So it doesn't need to support tables. You need a table, you put in a picture of a table and on you go, assured the formatting is perfect, etc. As for monospaced fonts... yeah, maybe. Though I...
• Commented on Books as planters
  This is a good use books on superstition. Seems only fair, since the trees were completely, utterly wasted in such a use. Oh, and books about religion. But I repeat myself....
• Commented on Scalia Scoffs at Calls for More Data Privacy Protection, Students Surprise Him With Dossier of His Own Data.
  Re-consider privacy: http://fyngyrz.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/on-privacy/...
• Commented on Apple's censors remove NiN app and Anda's Game from iPhone store, citing "objectionable content"
  Here's the thing. Apple isn't my mother. It's just that simple. Since they're trying to play the role of my mother, I'm offended. They're not fit to lick her shoes. As a literary agent, and one of the best in...
• Commented on Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030
  Brainspore: Ouch. Way to ruin a good day....
• Commented on Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030
  USHREW, you: > I just meant that people project themselves, > and their personalities on to their visions > of the unknown. I fully understood that you meant that. > Our gods, fairies and demons take the > form of...
• Commented on Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030
  PAULR: > I'm interested Here's a blog post I made about the subject: http://fyngyrz.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/inefficiencies-of-modern-hlls-and-implications-for-ai/...
• Commented on Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030
  URSHREW shewishly advanced the following: > People think of AI the way they think > about aliens, they essentially make > hyper versions of themselves. Some do, I agree. Then again, some don't. > Where in your argument are AI...
• Commented on Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030
  PAULR: > We're also running out of scale: > you can only pack so many transistors > per cubic millimeter. Quite aside from the fact that we're really only packing square millimeters, not cubic ones, something else you're missing here...
• Commented on Science of the "laughing cure"
  True story: I met my love of eleven years now as one of my students in my martial arts class. She was prone to headaches, and once a month or so, she'd bow out of class, and go perch on...
• Commented on The Strange Realm of Infra-Red: 4
  SOUPISGOODFOOD has it exactly right. Infrared is nothing at all like a pixel transform in terms of how it is created, or what meaning it carries. Pixel transforms show us adjustments of our usual color range. We might see more...
• Commented on Vintage aviation hostess photos
  They absolutely have the right to dress in burlap; and I have the right to drive instead of fly. I'll take driving. Someday, air travel may return to its luxurious beginnings, and if it does, I'll fly again. I see...
• Commented on Great financial advice for writers
  Oy. Don't put your money in Bank -- that's the last place you want it! Banks pay interest because they *use* your money. They use it to leverage loans from the fed up to 10x the amount you deposit (you...
• Commented on Hang your books from the rafters
  And another: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fyngyrz/582936293/ ...we keep most of our paperback SF up there. Use of artificial i-beams (BCI's) at close spacing and without the requirement of supporting anything other than furniture overhead pretty much eliminates any concerns of overloading the beams....
• Commented on New Blade Runner: OMG Deckard is a [REDACTED]
  Hopefully this won't be like the previous director's cut, where they removed the 1940's flavored overdub by Deckard. Pretty much changed the entire character of the movie, and not for the better, either. Still, it's worth getting and seeing in...