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"Design as Strategy; Argument by Example"
This is a somewhat narcissistic autobiographical story of the designer behind Steve Jobs, and surprisingly many others of Job's ilk. In retrospect I should have felt more incredulity that one man could have been the lead designer on so many influential products in the second half of the 20th century. But I think it's a pretty honest rendition.
Mixed in are his views on business strategy: 1) great design must be artistic, but it must be even more about the engineering, 2) great design is about the user (everyone says this, but few walk the walk), 3) great design should not mirror today's market, but rather must be about what the market could be with 1 or 2 steps (but presumably not 10 steps), 4) globalization makes design more valuable while making much around it less valuable (globalization makes design more strategic in other ways too), 5) great design has always been manufacturing (few seem to remember this).
The book also includes a significant section on greening as an opportunity for designs. I remain unsure rather this section is deep or fashionable fluff.
The best part of the book was the analysis Chinese Manufacturing and Taiwanese Design (i.e., ODMs). He argues that the Chinese manufacturing is far more capable, especially more flexible, than western designers understand and that this gap in awareness is the source of a major shortfall in the potential of western design.
The biggest weakness of the book is that he presents an interesting thesis, namely that design has become one of the key pillars of business strategy, but never follows through with a forceful attempt to prove this thesis. Probably it was self evident to him, but it leaves the non-designer reader unsatisfied.
"The Problem with Case-Study-Centric Analysis"
The book presents 11 case studies of brilliant generals. For each general it presents a short history of key battles that illustrate the general's particular brand of greatness and then provides a set of lessons that could be applied more broadly to military style command. The first time through this book I thought it was great. It's well written, historically informative, and provided an emotional touchstone for a lot of things I already believed, including a lot that was consistent with my beliefs about strategy. I was inclined to give it 5 stars.
The problem started a few weeks after I read this book when I was telling a Chinese friend about the inclusion of Mao Zedong in the list of great generals. The friend somewhat patronizingly claimed that that the key battle narratives in this book were not historical; rather they were a retelling of fictional propaganda created long after the fact. I didn't believe my fried. But there was something about the particular interaction that started an extended investigation. I needed to know if Mao was a great general; the answer seemed to affect too many other aspects of my world view.
After 2 years of part time armature research, I came to believe that Mao was in fact a great general, but that the accounts of his greatness in this book are completely fictionalized.
IMHO Mao's greatness as a general was in his use of what Sun Tzu called "dead spies". This is best illustrated by the Manchurian Campaign, in which prepositioned assets (i.e., sleepers) played a decisive role. The trouble is that the author, I, and most of western culture view this use of dead spies as expletive, immoral, and evil or at least as unmanly. The repulsiveness of the implied lessons, inclines us to believe other versions of history. On the other hand the fictional propaganda was designed to fit with what we want to believe … The deeper trouble is that the facts matter but are only approximately knowable, and at least in this case even small progress in uncovering the facts requires excessive effort.
So … what lesson do I draw from the meta-case study of the Mao Case Study. For starters I do NOT find that the meta-case study leads me to something a kin to epistemological relativism. That would be too much like embracing one case study (or meta-case study) as absolute proof that all cases studies are wrong. But these kinds of case studies feel much deeper much more insightful than they are. It's a kind of vividness bias. Stories are manipulative; in case studies the story takes pursuance over the facts.
On the other hand, thinking in stories seems to be necessary in order to explore less superficial truths, i.e., truths involving extended chains of cause and effect.
"Excellent Apologetics of Amateurism"
This book systematically reviews Obama's foreign policy. The author is an impressive journalist; and the quality of the research is excellent; WikiLeaks is uses somewhat heavy in combination with many other protected sources. Perhaps books are the new outlet for serious journalism.
The book somewhat strongly refutes the idea that Obama's foreign policy is wimpy. For me it also reinforced the idea that his administration is more amateurish than professional. Finally, it somewhat strongly argued that Obama's administration has learned on the job far better than most and has adapted somewhat aggressively, once it finally figures things out.
As a disenfranchised republican I was compelled to vote for Hillary. I tended to view Obama as a Jimmy Carter like character (i.e., well-meaning but perhaps in over his head). In some regards this book reinforced these pre-existing beliefs. The surprising thing, however, is that the book convinced me that Obama somewhat consistently gets to a good outcome in the end, after first pushing several bad strategies. For me this was a new insight.
It is said that Obama is an advocate of Lincoln's idea of a Team of Rivals (see book by that name). If true this book reveals the strengths and weaknesses of this approach. First of all, the team of rivals approach requires a very powerful leader (and Obama is no Lincoln). Secondly it's a pretty ugly process (even Lincoln's presidency reveals that). But in the end this approach maybe more robust than it appears, i.e., eventually getting to a good outcome most of the time.
"The Missing Manual for China and Chinese"
In 1998 I started reading 2 books on Chinese History or Chinese Cultural per year. For a long time the only affect seemed to be that I usually knew more Chinese history than almost all Chinese under about 55 (and quite a bit less than many over about 65). It didn't even endeared me to Chinese; it was much more likely to lead to arguments about revisionism, often devolving towards the absurd.
About 3 years ago I had my first significant breakthrough in this implicit quest when I read, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Mao: The Unknown Story completes the Genghis Khan book. The Khan dynasty and the Mao indulgency are the Yang and the Yin of the hard to see thing that differentiates China, Chinese Culture, and most modern Chinese from the rest of the world. Americans for example are incapable of this degree of dichotomy with respect to anything, but especially with respect to our leaders. (The only plausible expectation is dichotomy with respect to ourselves (individualism seems to facility a greater capacity for dichotomy with respect to ourselves)).
If you read both books back to back and then try to fuse the insights you'll understand most of Chinese history, a lot of Chinese Culture, and a great deal more than you did about modern Chinese.
1) IMHO this book is better than Wild Swans.
2) I have trouble recommending this book to others as strongly as its actual impact, because it's such a painful reed.
3) Both Genghis Khan and Mao conflated history and propaganda to an extent that most of the rest of the world cannot. Although Genghis Khan may have believed in secret non-propaganda histories for their strategic value.
4) I think the first step in understanding these two books is to embrace the More is Different principle. All peoples, cultures, and governments have their moments and their dark sides, but orders of magnitude simply matter. Some numeracy with respect to scale is required to even start to understand.
"Armatures proving that Pros aren't even Trying"
Obviously when dealing with shadowy organizations (or anti-organizations) there are some limits to knowledge. The act of looking intently may change the situation, or acquiring deep insights of murky situations may take so long that the situation changes during the process, only becoming clear in retrospect. However, this book is about as accurate and as informative as is possible for a book about Anonymous. This is the primary reason to read it. It's a good introduction; a reasonably balanced, reasonable acute reporting.
The important takeaways from this book seem to be: 1) that as a cyber-army Anonymous is shockingly low tech and 2) the corollary that as a society we are shockingly vulnerable to low tech attacks.
Anonymous is mostly a large group of board rowdy teenagers with nothing better to do, who meet up on sexually explicit and gore oriented bulletin boards, like 4chan or B, and from time to tie sally forth to experience a bit of mayhem. Sure they are a few elite security exports who may (or may not) be leading them (the whole question of leadership is controversial). But even the elite hackers within Anonymous are rather underwhelming, compared to other cyber-war or cybercrime groups, like author of the Conficker Worm, which was a team of world class professionals.
If you're a believer in Anonymous as a cause this is probably reassuring (these are pretty ordinary people), if you're not a believer this is the doubling unsettling. It reveals the extent to which IT professionals at your work, at companies you buy from, in the government, and behind the medical, financial, personal and computer services you must use in modern life, are not really trying to deal with computer security. It seems that they are not striving to fix the problems, but merely striving to put on a good show in the hopes of deflecting blame for the problem. That is, their goal is not security, but rather security theater. And the police are so out classed (with a few exceptions) that it's like hiring a bunch of 12 year old girls as bouncers at a Megadeath concert (if you're lucky they might avoid becoming victims themselves).
As a society we don't seem to yet ready to do anything about this situation. Sure Anonymous terrorizes some innocent people, but they are mostly terrorizing each other, and they do some good. The problems seem tolerable. But history suggest that this unstable. Over time either someone will figure how to use Anonymous (or similar organizations) as their personal armies. This is roughly the way nearly all of history's most evil megalomaniacs rose to power. Or Anonymous will gradually become more and more evil, corrupted from within by its own power.
The situation today is troubling, but far from dire. The scary bit is the trajectory; and it's very dire.
"Like Big Foot Hunting for the Science Set"
Something is out there. Something mysterious and elusive. Something we don't understand. But it's corporal enough so there is no reasonable doubt that's its real.
I've been fascinated by inter-species viruses for about 15 years: AIDS, Hantavirus, Ebola, Flu, and others. I find myself reading most of the armature literature this topics. I have some sort of need to search for insights into the import but elusive things that are "out there". But the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, Alien Abduction, and the like are a little too speculative to hold my interest. The scientists in me demands a bit more proof, actually quite a bit more proof.
If you relate to what I'm saying, "The Hot Zone" could well be your top summer fun read.
On a personal note my wife is close with one of the top guys at USAMRAA and I moved into a building about a mile from the "Monkey House" features in the story about a year after the main incident. So I'd heard these events discussed at a distance for about 13 years, but I didn't really understand until I read this book.
"Almost Brilliant, Almost Antiquated, Not Anything"
I'm a fan of Kurtzweil. I find his book The Singularity is Near to be an essential part of any modern education. He is also the most financially successful Artificial Inelegance (AI) researcher to date. So he's a great philosopher, a great researcher, and a great businessmen, but apparently he's not infallible, because this book missed the mark.
In a nutshell his answer to the question, "How do you/we make a mind" is "The same way we've been trying for the last 30 years". This answer is so close to brilliant it's spooky. I think there have been profound changes in AI over the last 5 or 6 years. Big data is suddenly revealing (or at least strongly suggesting) that we in fact may have been making pretty good synthetic minds for decades and just didn't know it. The problem has been that having made a good synthetic mind we don't know how to educate it. At the same time (because of advances in AI) we may be on the cusp of discovering that we don't know how to educate biological minds either (and have been making nearly the same mistakes as the AI community has been making). In this book Kurzweil presents much of the data in support of this argument, and then walks away from what to me seemed the logical conclusion.
To make matters worse his overview of 30 years of AI is quite narrow. One might get the impression that he believes that Multi-Layer Hidden Markov Models are all that is needed. Perhaps in some since any of a dozen AI methods are sufficient, in the same since that Truing Machines are sufficient, but the field of synthetic mind creation is much richness than presented here, as the author must have known.
"Shockingly Modern"
I've been sampling the "classics" more for a few years. I have mixed feelings about the classics, as a group. Both time and the "wisdom of the crowd" are a powerful filter, but sometimes the gap in world views is a problem. For example Aristotle's word view was just too un-modern for me glean much from his writings. In contrast Plato requires only a modest ability to explore less modern paradigm and many of his gyms are trivially transported to a modern context.
Sherlock Holms felt like it was written today and merely set in the past. It was truly amazing. The only tell was slight aversion to gore (which I rather think is not such a bad thing).
It is targeted at the young reader, but very inter-generational. It's the perfect book to read to your children or grandchildren.
"Shockingly Modern"
I've been sampling the "classics" more for a few years. I have mixed feelings about the classics, as a group. Both time and the "wisdom of the crowd" are a powerful filter, but sometimes the gap in world views is a problem. For example Aristotle's word view was just too un-modern for me glean much from his writings. In contrast Plato requires only a modest ability to explore less modern paradigm and many of his gyms are trivially transported to a modern context.
Sherlock Holms felt like it was written today and merely set in the past. It was truly amazing. The only tell was slight aversion to gore (which I rather think is not such a bad thing).
It is targeted at the young reader, but very inter-generational. It's the perfect book to read to your children or grandchildren.
"Top Classical Political Work of the 20th Century"
Writing during World War II, Fredrick Hayek (a prominent academic at the London School of Economics), presents a passionate argument for what we now think of as libertarianism, but which he called Classical Liberalism. He argues that central planning, rather it be liberal or conservative is the great evil. This is because central planning can only be implemented through an ever escalating slide towards totalitarianism. He further argues that the British and American traditions of individual freedom are the antidote.
In the context of World War II he argues that although the Nationalizes and the Nazis purport to be the opposite of the Socialist and the Communist, they are merely arguing over how to implement central planning. The important question is rather (or when) to have central planning.
Another perspective on this work is that at any given time the political discourse tends towards the one dimensional. The result is that the actual interaction of the government with "real life" are (with rare exceptions) significantly more multi-dimensional than the discussion of this interaction. From World War I to the present much of the political discussion has focused on the "left/right debate". But the difference between classical liberalism and central planning is the important distinction.
As an aside while arguing with my wife about this book, I had an epiphany, which is suggested by the book, but not explicitly in the book. Neither central planning nor laissez faire are inherently more efficient, the apparent difference in efficiency are a matter of perspective. The difference is strongly analogous to the difference between vertical and horizontal integration in technology. Central planning can more efficiently accomplish a small number of objectives at the expense of an even greater loss of efficiency in other parts of the system (i.e., vertical integration). Laissez faire maximizes system efficiency at the expense of a loss of end-to-end efficiency in nearly every specific objective (i.e., horizontal integration).
"My Pick, Book of the Year, 2013"
The 1960s' (earlier or later depending on the field) represented the zenith of a particular collection of ways of thinking about applied probability, about large systems, and about epistemology. Defining this paradigm is tricky. I think of Thomas Kuhn, Kalman Filters, NASA's approach to quality, Karl Popper, and the invention of the FFT, but list is too idiosyncratic to be helpful. But the point here is that this way of thinking (which I have trouble defining) has given way to a new paradigm that is more about complexity theory (although not so much about chaos theory), network affects, heavy tail distribution, facials, and the unknowable. This book is trying to explain this new paradigm.
Taleb's technical papers have contributed some to the development of this new paradigm, but his great contribution is the creation of an accessible philosophy built around this new science. This philosophical construction started with Fooled by Randomness, progressed in The Black Swan, and now culminates in Anti-Fragile.
To "get it" you probably have to just read the books, but I'll try to explain. In Fooled by Randomness he examines the oft practiced money manager con, where you are sold a betting system is right 80% of the time. Sounds like a winner, but beware, the losses when the scheme is wrong are more than 4 times the winning when it's right. Many a high wage earner has been bilked by myriad versions of this con. In The Black Swan he follows the question of how such cons are constructed, to propose that reality is partitioned into two types of probability distributions: those like the distribution of the height of people and those like the distributions of the wealth of people. The latter distribution is incomprehensibly more varied than the former. He then asserts that randomness fools use when we confusion the two kinds of randomness. In the Anti-Fragile he considers how the two types of randomness are constructed. It is well known that the low variance type arise from combining lots of independent events and the high variability type arise form feedback between lots of connected events.
And then his punch line is … large systems with lots of feedback among the connected parts can be fragile as when the connections cause cascading failures, or they can be anti-fragile as when small failures lead to compensations that strengthen the system. This insight leads to a way of about almost everything.
Oh yea, the alternate title might be, "The Quasi-Organized Ranting of a Misunderstood Genius". He has learned that anti-fragile things benefit from verity, adversity, and controversy; and has concluded that writing popular books falls in this category. So in each book he increases the narcissus, the adolescence, and the taunting. In this book I think the new high water mark was when he said his former boss was constipated. I hope he hasn't crossed a threshold were the anti-fragile is simply annihilated.
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Milton residents to vote on new fire station in March
Thursday, January 10, 2013
MILTON — Fire Chief Nick Marique is hopeful that when voters go to the polls in March they will approve funding to build a new fire station, which will cost up to $2.69 million.
If voters approve the forthcoming article on the March warrant, the project will be bonded for 20 years at around 3 percent, according to Marique, and it will add about 63 cents to the tax rate — this translates to around $94 or $95 per year of additional taxes for the average Milton home valued at $150,000.
The committee plans to hold public informational meetings later in January, on dates yet to be announced, and there will be more discussion at the town's deliberative session on Feb. 9.
Meanwhile, the public can visit www.miltonfirestation.com and view plans, as well as read the rationale for leaving the existing fire station.
"The current Milton Fire Station is plagued with many issues that affect our ability to respond to emergencies in our community," the website says, and goes on to explain in more detail, a number of problems, including ambulance access, water and rusting, scattered storage, undersized apparatus and exhaust fumes, and a lack of administration space.
"I would expect construction to start in August or September," said Marique, suggesting a completion date of around June 2014. If this comes to pass, it is possible that the old fire station will be put on the market, and money from any sale would go to the town's general fund.
With much more room in the proposed new building, Milton's ladder truck, currently housed in Milton Mills, will be brought down to Milton, Marique said. In addition, the new station would comfortably accommodate two engines, two ambulances, the forestry truck, the rescue truck, the OHRV trailer and the boat trailer. The 11,780-square foot, single story building will incorporate showers, a training room that can hold 40 people (Milton has two full time and 39 volunteer personnel), a decontamination room, lockers for equipment and tools, an air bottle room, and small offices for fire prevention and the chief, and an office to be shared by other officers.
"We are looking forward to better maintenance of our equipment, and to be able to wash the salt off our vehicles when it is below 40 degrees," said Capt. Robin Weeks. The run-off from vehicle-washing inside the new station will be caught in a tank below, and properly removed, said Marique.
It is intended that the new station will be wood-framed with steel supports, and have cement board siding.
Selectman Bridges, noting that he sat in on all the meetings, said, "I think the fire station is really needed, instead of being a nicety, and there are no bells and whistles. Right now, new fire trucks cost us more because they have to be custom made to fit in the old station."
Bridges added, "The cost of building is only going to go up. Right now the cost and the bonding is as low as it will ever be ... and we are not just building for my age group, we are building for 50 years down the road."
Bridges agreed that, if voters approve the forthcoming article, it would add around $95 to the average tax bill in 2014, and this amount would go down annually thereafter.

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Wait for the next article where somebody fixes indentation in Wayland (!!) then we'll have an article about the future of the Linux desktop "This next-generation display server brings MORE exciting changes! A header file was renamed!! Meanwhile, Mesa still doesn't support OpenGL 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2......... Here's a photo of beer."
Hope this makes it clear
First, thank you very much to Mesa, Gallium and OpenSource drivers developers.
The only thing that I have to say is that I could not run "SteamPac 3d" with Mesa 8:
Now with Mesa 9 (Nouveau driver) works as fast as with proprietary drivers.
PD:I see that write everything in capital letters and large size is allowed in this forum. It's very annoying.
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It's supposed to be the "2012" edition, but...
1.1 PRIME/DMA-buf?
2.1 2012 edition. He/She links to SLASHDOT THREADS from 2009 and 2007. WAT
http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/files/audio.png I don't have experience about pulseaudio + multiuser but I do remember the "linux sucks" talk by datenwolf where he did a live demonstration how consolekit transferred the access rights on a fast user switch. Is the problem that the first user's pulseaudio would still have access even if it technically shouldn't have?
http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/files/linuxaudio.png No. Just no. At first sight I saw about five programs/libraries that are also available on windows. You have such a headache on windows because you can choose between directly outputting sound to the windows sound architecture or using SDL or openal? Every time someone posts this they don't seem to understand what it means: Most of the items shown are abstractions that are there to faciliate certain things or make sure you don't need to write sound system specific code.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.p...5&cid=39847439 No. That his sound doesn't work (yes, "doesn't work" is his whole description) out of the box with pulseaudio while alsa works is obviously a bug. But he doesn't even know that dmix has been enabled for years now? And then his ranting is incoherent that because everything was still set to pulse it uses still pulseaudio and thus sound mixing worked... So why does it suddenly work now, and how, after he purged pulseaudio? Did he not kill pulseaudio and it was still running from memory? Still, why did it work with pulseaudio now and not before? Sorry, if you rely on incoherent rants that have no reasonable description whatsoever of what the problem is you're gonna have a bad time with me.
Some 3rd party programmer should step in right now, RE the proprietary drivers PM code, write a open source implementation and do a pull request. Yes, I know, this is unlikely to happen...
If someone reverse engineers it -and i thing the same goes for nvidia- then you will probably get proper dynamic PM.
The same for video acceleration.
Does this apply to UVD as well as power management, or should we keep working on UVD ?
my humble sugestion:
1. gather money(xorg foundation) for looots of cheap cards (too burn)
2. set up a (semi)automated blackbox rig or two
3. get some1 dumb enough to read hexdumps all day
4. lock him/them in a room with the rig's for a month, no proper food till its all figured out
5. ??
6. profit


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March 19th, 2002, 07:51 PM #1RocketsheepGuest
Science fiction for young readers.
I can find heaps of titles aimed at teenagers but because 'children's fiction' has assumed it IS a genre (kids don't have tastes?) I have to rely on word of mouth to find good titles for the under 12's.
Do you know any?
March 20th, 2002, 12:29 AM #2
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Heilein's 'Star Beast' is excellent for for young readers (and older ones too, actually). Andre Norton's Beast Master book and its sequel are also good.
You might also think about Ender's Game; it's quite violent in places, but is certainly compelling, and is written in a fairly simple style.
March 20th, 2002, 01:26 PM #3
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Heinlein, Asimov and Norton all published a number of juveniles. I grew up on that stuff! I bet it's still good, but can you find it in print? Nowadays I suppose kids would read Star Wars and other novelizations of Science Fictions movies and TV shows. My kids read Fantasy, but no Science fiction yet.
March 20th, 2002, 02:06 PM #4
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Ray Bradbury. First read him around that age and it blew my mind, became my favorite writer until I went to college.
Also the famous Madeleine L'Engle books in the WRINKLE IN TIME series, although it's probably more fantasy than SF, really.
I used to read the Tom Swift books when I was very young (before Bradbury). I have no idea whether they still publish them. Very optimistic by-the-numbers sf, nothing too special.
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Hi. Clifford D. Simak's books rarely have violence or sexual content. They are some great books. I would recommend Highway of Eternity or Special Deliverance. Also, there is a writer named William Sleator. I read a book by him when I was an eighth grader called Singularity. It is awesome! I still own that book.
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caves of steel-asimov and wasn't ender's game originally aimed at children?
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H.M Hoover had some scifi books published back in the mid to late 80's that were aimed toward younger readers. I'm not sure if they are still in print or not, but here are the titles. This isn't a series. Each is a stand alone novel, and all are fairly short.
Children of Morrow
The Delikon
The Lost Star
Return to Earth
This Time of Darkness
The Shepard Moon
March 21st, 2002, 05:26 PM #8RocketsheepGuest
Thank you everyone... excellent tips.
March 28th, 2002, 10:02 AM #9
Children of Morrow is an excellent one.
Also, all the Danny Dunn books, Escape to Witch Mountain (and the rest of Alexander Key's stuff if you can find it), everything by William Sleator (especially The Boy who Reversed Himself, Strange Attractors, House of Stairs), and Children of the Dust by Lawrence if you can find it.
Also The Girl With the Silver Eyes, forgot who wrote it, but unlike most of my list it's STILL IN PRINT, whoa what a thought. Keeping good books in print. Amazon has it.
April 2nd, 2002, 08:10 AM #10CarmichaelGuest
The Asimovs did a couple of sci-fi paperbacks about an unusually talented robot named Norby. They are about 10 years old or so. Kinda silly, but not a bad read.
April 2nd, 2002, 02:37 PM #11
I recently bought the Wrinkle in Time series for my 8 yr. old daughter. I read it as a kid, but really didn't remember it, so I just reread it. The best thing about A Wrinkle in Time is the great lead female role. I find it so hard to find books for her that show strong women, particularly in the SF/Fantasy genre. I am currently reading The Wizard of Earthsea to her. While Le Guin is one of my all time favorite authors, the Earthsea trilogy has absolutely no female characters of any merit.
The downside (for me) of A Wrinkle in Time is that there are some fairly heavy religious (Christian) references. (We are not Christian.) But, I talked to my daughter about it before she started it and she was ok with that.
The story is pretty much your basic good overcomes evil through love. But, what makes it a great introduction to SF is it uses tesseracts to travel through time and space, has neat aliens and visions of distant planets.
June 18th, 2002, 08:56 PM #12RocketsheepGuest
Thanks again everyone. I'm going to find this info extremely useful.
Now, if I were talking SF movies to say... a ten year old... what do you think their range of experience would be?
Poor little things haven't even heard of War of the Worlds or Day of the Triffids!
July 10th, 2002, 02:59 PM #13
RocketSheep-- (are those retro-boosters genetically grafted on?)
No one (I am shocked) has mentioned Sylvia Engdahl's "Enchantress From the Stars" (a good, perspective-bending book which blends Fantasy and Sci-Fi interestingly). This was a Newberry Honor book.
The Giver, by Lois Lowry--not hard science, but very Bradbury-esque.
Also, there's a series out by Lois McMaster Bujold about a Miles Vorkosigan that, I think (the first book, The Warrior's Apprentice) would make good reading for a younger audience.
There's an old series (if you can find it--check the used book stores) called "The Planetbuilders" written under the name Robin Tallis. The series can be read out of order and I recall reading them at about 11 or so.
There does seem an absence of newer sf vs. fantasy for youngsters--which is a shame.
(As to movies/etc... a sf-bent ten year old would still like Day of the Triffids, if you can find it <g>)
July 11th, 2002, 05:50 AM #14RocketsheepGuest
Thank you, thank you. I get to corrupt... er... influence a pile of preteens towards the wonders of science fiction. My list is coming along nicely now.
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With 4 children, this is a subject I've been interested in for a while. Some good suggestions on this thread, thanks all.
Apart from those mentioned, the following (excluding fantasy as offtopic for this thread) have all been read and enjoyed by my eldest (now 11.5 years old), and several by my second (now 9.5 years old):
The Witches of Karres - Schmidt (iirc)
Next of Kin - Eric Frank Russell
The Tripods trilogy - John Christopher (The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, The Pool of Fire)
Various excellent Heinleins:
Have space suit, will travel
The tunnel in the sky
Citizen of the galaxy
Starman Jones
The star beast
In fact, the Star Beast was the least enjoyed of the Heinleins, I gather, because it was "a bit slow" at the start.
I'm on the lookout for several more books I remember as good from my own childhood - one in particular being Mission of Gravity by (I think) Clements.


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Thai curry is gaining popularity thanks to the many great Thai restaurants in the United States. Making a great bowl of Thai curry to go with soft and fluffy jasmine rice is easier than you think, even though you might not be familiar with Thai ingredients.
I love all sorts of curry but I find Thai curry one of the easiest curry to master. Instant curry paste from trusted brands such as Mae Ploy and Maesri are readily available in Asian markets or online. Get yourself a bottle of fish sauce, palm sugar (or sugar as a replacement), coconut milk, and you will most certainly have a decent bowl of Thai curry.
I made this flavorsome Thai curry yesterday from leftover ingredients in my fridge, all in less than 30 minutes. Call me lucky but I always have fr0zen seafood, so I made Thai red curry with tiger prawns and scallops. I then served my Thai curry over a bowl of steamed jasmine rice. It was an easy but uber satisfying lunch.
Think Thai curry is too complicated or intimidating to attempt at home? Think twice. Cooking Asian food is rather easy and a rewarding experience. Follow my recipe below and you will soon be whipping up a mean pot of Thai curry for your family!
Now, what is your favorite Thai curry?
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Scallops are certainly the seafood I prefer (eating ad cooking). We can find fresh scallops here from october to march (I have a friend fisherman!). I'll try your recipe …
Looks super-yummy!
I'm gonna try it soon! (expecially now that I finally found a shop here which sells thai ingredients!!)
I'm a big fan of Thai curry, and this looks like a great one. The scallops and shrimp look incredible!
May I ask how you store palm sugar to keep it moist? When I first buy my palm sugar (block form), it is soft and moist but after storing it in the cabinet at room temperature for several weeks, it tends to dry up. Is it still ok to use then? Thanks.
Oh gosh Bee, I am drooling!
I can't get enough, when I make a Thai curry I eat till It's gone!
I love Thai Curry.
Ah this dish is fast making me hungry! It looks simply amazing and I can just imagine how perfect a steaming cup of white rice will pair with this.
Green curry definitely — with chicken, potatoes and eggplant. I do love red curries too — you have try making your own paste!
I've never had Thai curry as in the Caribbean growing up we usually use the madras powder type of curry. Your dish does look amazing enough for me to want to try. Will let you know how it turns out. Sourcing the kaffir lime may be a bit difficult though.
Happy Cooking!
Mmmm, great post, beautiful pics! Cannot wait to try it.
Hi. I want to try this recipe, sounds delicious but I cannot find palm sugar where I live. Is there any substitute for it?
I like Thai green curry the best! Yes, super easy with the curry pastes…always have them in the pantry together with fish sauce and coconut milk :)
like yr blog every much..nice photo. nice writing…nice food…always make me hungry..admire yr passion…
I am a filipino and live in southern ca.thank goodness a have access to alot of asian stores.love your recipes specially the curries.i have tried a lot of your recipes and they all came out good.great website keep it it up.wish you would post a hot and sour soup.thats my favorite.
Where can we find Mae Ploy red curry paste in Malaysia?
I make this sauce seperaaely and serve over a piece of fried salmon. Its called chu chee and all my friends say it is the best salmon ever. Everyone in alaska has a lot of salmon and this is a great way to cook it up. You can make the sauce at home ahead of time and cook a piece of salmon wrapped in foil over the bbq for outings, fast and delicius.
Can you confirm that the amount of coconut milk is 80mL? A can is 400mL so I'm wondering if you meant 800mL. Hope to hear from you before I start cooking it – I'm off to get some ingredients now. Looks delicious!
I was wondering if anyone knew how long to cook the chicken for? I'm completely new to cooking and feel like I overcooked it. >.<
Also, if I wanted to incorporate pineapple into this recipe, when would I add it? With the veggies?
How many people does this recipe serve? I didn't see the info above.
Any tips on how to soften up rock hard palm sugar? Here in asian shops where I live I can only buy it in a hard formed flattened round shape. Grating takes forever so I usually give up and use brown sugar.
wow I love the hole look of this dish my mouth is watering just looking at it have to make this dying to try it, also just wondering where you got your bowl from, it's rather nice, I'm looking for something similar in style. thanks
Please comment on the amount of coconut milk, several posters have inquired. 80 ml just doesn't seem right. And to the posters inquiring about softening palm sugar bought in hard cake, place the cake in a plastic sandwich bag and pound with a meat mallet, you can then grind in a mortar with a pestle to get it to a fine consistency but it's not necessary.
I so love this recipe. I have tried it several times. My family loves it!
My family loves this recipe! I have tried a lot of your recipes and I love the beautiful pictures that accompany them. Totally Awesome!


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Phoronix: What's New In The Land Of Wayland?
It's been a few weeks since really mentioning the Wayland Display Server at Phoronix (the last time was in June when XWayland and xf86-video-wlshm were released). It's not because development of this next-generation Linux display server has stalled, but there's been some progress made and overall just the lower level of activity during the summer months...
is the remote wayland GSoC project being worked on and is there any blog or something documenting the progress???
Since Wayland runs on OpenGL ES 2.0 and AMD promised a year ago that it'll support ES 2.0 natively in its binary PC drivers - can anyone please confirm that the support has indeed landed?
If so I might buy an AMD card instead of Nvidia since I'm about to learn ES 2.0.
I think that any card supporting OpenGL 2 (or possibly 3?) can also support OpenGL ES 2. I am also pretty sure that the Nvidia binary drivers are already supporting OpenGL ES 2.
I could settle on testing my stuff on WebGL but it would be at best a stopgap solution.
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Age of Armor
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Age of Armor Overview
Age of Armor provides players with an incredibly complicated and robust design system, but does little in the way of explaining how to properly navigate it. Players can customize almost every part of their Mech and participate in both PvE and PvP combat once they are happy with their design. Unfortunately, the slower-paced combat and hard to digest translations may deter many players from truly experiencing all that Age of Armor has to offer.
Playable Races:
Neo Humans – Long-range Focused
Natural Humans - Healing Focused
Enhanced Humans - Melee Focused
Mechs: Can be built from the ground up to player specifications.
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By Cody 'Neramaar' Hargreaves
I can't be sure, by I like to think that there are a great many MMO games released across Asia that never make it to western shores. I often wonder who is tasked with choosing which games should be translated into English, and which shouldn't. More importantly, I wonder who decides when they are finished with the translation – who gets to the final say. I wonder this, as I wonder what I would do to them if I ever had the opportunity to meet them in person. It's not something I can safely mention here (I don't make it a habit to insult the Korean Mafia publicly), but I'd give him a piece of my mind, that's for sure.
Playing Age of Armor inspired many of these fantasies, as the translation appears to have been carried out by a team of dyslexic 6 year-old orphans. Many of the quests are almost completely incomprehensible, making game immersion damn near impossible. It baffles me how anyone in their right mind could consider Age of Armor ready for a western release – it's a vastly complicated game already without adding a layer of engrish to it.
As Age of Armor is primarily a mech-based RPG much of the game is based around upgrading and modifying both your pilot (you) and your mech (your giant metal robot). When you first begin playing you will be given the choice between three different character types, Natural Humans (Healing), Neo Humans (Ranged), and Enhanced Humans (Melee). Each look slightly different from the next, and have their own individual styles and story background.
After choosing a pilot, you are next asked to choose a mech. Of course, with only one option to choose from, it feels extremely limited right from the beginning. This isn't a major problem when once you've begun to understand the game design, but to begin with it feels slightly limited, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth. The more important issue was in the initial customization of my mech skills and statistics.
Without an explanation or tutorial of any kind, customizing my mech was on par with doing the dishes for my mother as she screamed "You've missed a spot!" from the other side of the room, both acting as experiences I should hope to never repeat again. There were literally hundreds of different options to choose form, each seemingly more confusing than the next, and with no explanation whatsoever I found myself both frustrated, and a little scared.
Little did I know, this was only the beginning of my many troubles in Age of Armor, the over-complicated skill and statistic system proved even more complicated once I realized that the entire game was written in an incomprehensible form of engrish, and for the most part, made Age of Armor an absolute chore to play.
In a confused panic, my instinctive reaction to the initial mech creation screen in Age of Armor was to spam as many skills points as I could manage into anything that looked remotely useful, and rush into playing headfirst. What a mistake I had made. With seemingly no tutorial, and little but my well-trained MMO instincts to guide me, I found my first few minutes in Age of Armor to be a largely painful experience. To this day I'm still not entirely sure, but I believe I was first asked to create yet another mech – although this time with even more overly complicated options at my disposal. I never really got around to creating that mech, but we'll come to that a little later…
After discovering that mech creations was still light-years beyond my current level of AoA expertise, I resorted to simply wandering around the amazing high-tech and brilliantly designed city I had been placed in. This is by far the standout feature of Age of Armor, the graphics are crisp and detailed, and the large mech frames that litter the city are a pure feast for the eyes to any anime fan. While navigating the city, I happened to notice a strange button hiding in the top left corner of my screen. It read 'bonus', and had me immediately excited.
And I stayed excited too, at least I did the first 10 times I clicked it. Each time I clicked the bonus I was given some new item I didn't know how to use, then it would just pop right back up again begging to be clicked. By the end of it, I had clicked the 'bonus' button over twenty times, and was level 15. Yup, level 15 before I had even killed an enemy. It's safe to say that at this point I had very little enthusiasm left by this point, and was losing patience fast.
Being the all powerful level 15 pilot that I was, I decided that it was time to find something to fight. The quests were illegible so there was no chance in me finding salvation there, and I still couldn't wrap my head around building a mech, so combat was really the only option I had available to me. After several long minutes of searching, I had still found no promising exit opportunity for the city, but happened to stumble upon a strange looking elevator. "Why the hell not?" I thought to myself as I entered the elevator, of course, little did I know that my final moments of AoA would be in that elevator. Or more appropriately, in the room the elevator led me to.
In said room, I found nothing. And when I say nothing, I am including an exit. I was trapped in a bland room filled with terminals I was unable to access, and after over an hour of searching, had still found no sign of a way out. Eventually I decided to make a new character, and also eventually I found my way outside the city. My discovery was less than amusing, as the combat in Age of Armor is both slow, and incredibly boring. I never had a chance to engage in any PvP based combat, but given the PvE style, I can't imagine that I'm missing much.
For those that don't so much mind the poor translation, lack of direction, or slow and overly repetitive combat, Age of Armor has quite a lot of depth. The skills advancement system is quite impressive, and the mech customization options are staggering. The problem is that unless you spend the better part of the next 20 years learning to navigate the interface and features, you'll have a hard time experiencing any of it.
Final Verdict: Poor
If bad translation and highly over-complicated game systems were all I had to compete with the I would most likely recommend that you give Age of Armor a try, If you like that sort of thing. But with game functions that lead only to pure and total frustration, I can't even do that. If you're hungering for some mech combat, check out Exteel, it's everything AoA should be, and a whole lot more.
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CPU: Pentium III 500
Graphics Card: GeForce2 MX400
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BS: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering; Webb Institute of Naval Architecture
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Senior Engineer, Engineer, Associate Engineer; Bethlehem Steel Corporations Sparrows Point Shipyard, 1978 -1983
Chief Engineer, Chief Marine Engineer, R.E. Derecktor of RI Shipyard, 1983 - 1991
Courses Taught, 2002 to Present:
ME1: Introduction to Marine Engineering
ME 3: Machine Design
ME 4: Machinery Systems Design
ME 6: Marine Diesel and Machinery Plant Design
NA7/Ship Design 2
Ship Design II; NA 10
Marine Transportation & Ship Production
Machine Shop
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Professional Engineer (NY)
Professional Development Activities:
Professional engineering continuing education.
Honors and Professional Recognition: None
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Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Additional Duties Beyond Teaching, 2002 to Present:
SNAME Energy Efficiency Workshop: Panel 1 - The Impact of Ship Design on Energy Efficiency, March 2014.
Additional Duties Beyond Teaching, 2002 to Present:
Thesis Advisor
Marine Engineering Lab Chair
Machine Shop Director
Yacht Club Advisor
Service Beyond Webb Institute:
Proprietor of a private consulting business, specializing in shipboard propulsion shaft design and alignment, vibration measurement and analysis. Also provides general naval architecture and marine engineering services on commercial vessels, including Professional Engineering certification of ship designs.