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Comment Re:Flying experience (Score 2) 239 239
What I get out of this story is that, if you're lucky enough to survive the trip in the wheel well, it's much more convenient to travel this way than doing it the regular way: no queuing, no overcharging from the airlines, no restrictions on the amounts of liquids you can carry, no getting your gonads showered with x-rays, no groping from TSA perverts... and of course, no arbitrary, secret no-fly list that prevents you from boarding the plane in the first place.
The airport security theater almost makes me want to risk my life as a stowaway.
I'm not sure about that. For the (surviving) wheel-well travelers, all of that unpleasantness simply comes after the flight. They may not use the backscatter X-ray machine, but I'm sure there will be a far more thorough examination than the TSA would give you, which you will receive on a regular basis. There are also far more limits on what items you can bring with you, not just liquids.
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Of course, the reaction to this will be that advertisers demand their clients (websites) to show the ads in an "inline" fashion, one which the ad-blocker cannot block.
Inline ads cannot be tracked across sites. This would be a win for the consumer, and a loss for the trackers.
Comment Custody of the Data (Score 4, Insightful) 28 28
If the data is needed as evidence in the case, then the court should take custody of it and require all other copies to be destroyed. That way the information is available for the trial, but cannot be (ab)used for any other purpose by the NSA.
Another option would be for the parties to stipulate on what data has been stored, and then proceed in the trial on that assumption.
Comment Re:isn't it used on violent prisoners? (Score 1) 326 326
We unfortunately allow psychopaths and sociopaths to control our prisons. We should be disqualifying anyone who wishes to harm their charges.
Are you referring the the inmate gang leaders, the guards, or the "tough on crime" politicians?
Comment Kudos to Director Raemisch (Score 5, Insightful) 326 326
Comment Re:common carrier (Score 1) 383 383
running robodialers gets you usually the boot... as seen on simpsons.
No. What gets you the boot is prank calling Australia collect.
Comment Re:How does one prevent this ? (Score 2) 120 120
Comment Re:Expect... (Score 3, Interesting) 115 115
Expect yet another 5-4 ruling in favor of big business.
Which big business? Where are big businesses interests on both sides of this issue.
Comment Re:They're already paying (Score 1) 365 365
In a free market they would be allowed to discriminate traffic. Just like you'd be able to vote with your wallet and choose between the two providers available, who happen to have the exact same discrimination list.
That sounds like a fair trade. Once there is a free competitive market of at least 5 independent ISPs in a market, then we can talk about eliminating new neutrality.
Comment Re:LOL wut? (Score 1) 188 188
Why is not like going to the shop and paying with cash?
So instead of blocking TOR they should offer things like Bitcoin?
Exactly, the problem (from the seller's POW) with credit cards is that the transaction can be reversed if the buyer complains. If you have a physical delivery address, and you send the cops there to investigate. If your goods are delivered electronically, then there is no recourse. A scammer could give the billing/shipping address associated with the card, receive the stolen goods, and everything would look kosher until the card owner receives their monthly bill and complains. At this point, the store would get a chargeback, and be screwed over.
With Bitcoin (or other cash-like on-line services) there is no possibility to reverse the transaction, no fraud protection, so once the store completes the transation, they have their money, and it cannot be taken away.
Comment Re:Can you trust the compiler? (Score 4, Interesting) 250 250
The compiler (and support stack) is a MS compiler, and MS is already owned by "the man", so as Kernighan demonstrated you still can't trust it.
The disassembler he used is not. So it is (at least theoretically) possible to see if there is a back door. The compiler has a very low-level view of what it is doing. In order to add a back door, it would need to recognize when it is compiling TC. This could be a much more difficult technical problem than what Kernighan did to login, and, if discovered, would be devastating to MS from a PR standpoint.
Comment Re:Won't take off, but may Rip You Off (Score 1) 240 240
They claim the service is free. FAQ Here [squareup.com] to both parties. So, how do they finance that, other than getting a piece of the debit card fee? (Senders have to use a Debit card).
The get the 1-2 days of float on the translation. That may be enough to enable them to make a little profit.
Comment Android (Score 3, Informative) 31 31
Android already does this. The OS has a set of permissions available for apps (get location data, use camera, access internet, etc.) These permissions are displayed to the user when the app is installed, giving the user the chance to reject the app if the permissions are unacceptable.
Comment Re:Reason to be a producer of a product (Score 3, Insightful) 78 78
.. Sitting around and coming up with wild ideas that might be possible and writing patents on them and then waiting for someone else to do the 90% work before suing them is a very bad taste for the people who really did the work.
What makes this even worse is that the guy who "reinvented" the patented idea in most cases does not even know the patent exists in the first place. The courts have the legal fiction that the knowledge in the patents is in the public domain, but in practice this is not just the case -- especially when a defendant has a disincentive to willfully infringe a patent (better remain ignorant and avoid extra damages). Perhaps we need a system where the patent owner had an affirmative duty to publicize the patent.


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A new gametype that changes the scoring rules of deathmatch, by adding points when dealing damage and removing points when taking damage. Initial release...
It's a new gametype, being a slightly modified version of the standard deathmatch, changing its default scoring system.
In default DeathMatch, scoring reflects the amount of kills you get, subtracting suicides from it. It means that it favors only who deals the last shot, and favors a strategy based on dealing damage when needed. You doesn't need to avoid taking damage to win, you doesn't need to deal most damage to win.
Instead of following the standard scoring, DamageMatch tries to implement a fairer system. The scoring is factored by three values:
These three values are put together every time, checking your current score. It can go either up or down all the time.
Damaging doesn't go up while shooting a shield-belted enemy, yourself (of course) and ignores amounts that exceeds an enemy's life (so redeemer shots and headshots aren't free excessive points).
By applying this new score system, we have a new deathmatch that:
- favors dodging as much as possible, since it'll make you lose less points
- favors doing overall, non-focused damage, instead of doing last shots on dying targets
If you're unhapy about the standard suggested valies, all the four variables that defines the scoring system (percent of damage done, percent of damage taken, percent per kill, percent per death) can be changed via the gametype's rules, when creating a new game.
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A new gametype that changes the scoring rules of deathmatch, by adding points when dealing damage and removing points when taking damage. Initial release...
I really like the scoring system described here :)
I used to have Unreal but not sure where the CD is since I haven't played it in a long time. Very happy to see people trying new game modes instead of the same old death match. Keep up the great ideas!
wow, you have great mutator ideas you made so recently.
Very good idear you got here. I'll be sure to give you my say-so on whether or not this noob can handle it.
It's an experimental scoring system, which would be surely appreciated in competitions and such, I guess. Since I didn't have any experience with new gametypes, I decided to give it a try :) I hope you enjoy it.
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OverviewPapyrus Design Group, Inc. was founded by David Kaemmer and his business partner Omar Khudari in 1987. It lasted for 17 years and is best known for its series of racing games based on the NASCAR and IndyCar leagues, with a stress on realism, as well as Grand Prix Legends.
Inspired by Pole Position and Flight Simulator, Kaemmer wanted to make a "simulator on the race track" and approached Electronic Arts to develop an Indy 500-based PC game. Their first game, Indianapolis 500: The Simulation was released in 1989 with a single Indianapolis circuit. The game was famous for its realistic handling, grip, and a believable throttle-to-brake interaction.
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The same year, NASCAR Racing 2 was released, and 800,000 units were sold worldwide, followed by the expansion pack NASCAR Grand National Series Expansion Pack in 1997.
In the fall of 1998, the company released its acclaimed historical open-wheeled simulation Grand Prix Legends, with a completely new physics engine, simulating both new and old race cars with extreme realism. Next, the company released six more NASCAR games: NASCAR Legends (1998), NASCAR Racing - 1999 Edition (1999), NASCAR Racing 3 (2000) and NASCAR Racing 4 (2001). NASCAR Racing 4 had a revamped physics engine and took full advantage of 3D acceleration. Next up were NASCAR Racing 2002 Season and NASCAR Racing 2003 Season.
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"Those two collectives were the good ones in Lake Forest," Hawes says as she waved at a passing motorist who slowed down to honk his support. "Both Mark and Steve really cared about the patients."
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Until he landed in jail, Moen had been living in the same one-story, three-bedroom house in Westminster in which he grew up, the one that witnessed his chaotic evolution from 1970s punk rocker and surf bum to present-day medical-marijuana martyr.
Moen grew up in Northern California but moved to Orange County during junior-high school. Because he lived so close to the beach, he would often ditch classes, hop on a bus and ride down Goldenwest Avenue to surf the bluffs north of the Huntington Beach pier.
He started using cocaine at age 16. "A lot of people in my high school had coke," he says. "I liked it and started injecting it." One time, a rich friend injected him with a mixture of coke and heroin. "He did that without telling me, but I liked it. You feel like God for a couple of seconds on coke, but then you feel really shitty. But with the heroin, you feel like you're in the eddy of a stormy sea."
When Moen turned 18 in the late 1970s, his parents divorced, and he moved in with his grandmother in Huntington Beach. He spent the next six years there, although he admits that most of the time, he wasn't sleeping at his grandmother's home, but rather in his Oldsmobile Delta 88, which he usually parked in Santa Monica. "I just surfed and skated," Moen recalls.
Before long, Moen's drug habit had led to several stints in jail. His parents disowned him, and he fell in with a group of surfers he describes as "basically a bunch of thieves who are now doing 25-to-life." Their lifestyle consisted of surfing, shooting heroin and stealing money from other surfers.
By far the most karmic (and bizarre) arrest in Moen's long history of burglaries was the time he was arrested for shoplifting at a Home Depot. "I tried to walk out of the store with a Moen water faucet so I could resell it for drugs," he says, shaking his head at the absurdity. "Instead, I went to state prison."
Moen met his wife in March of 1998, shortly after being released, and the two quickly fell in love. "On our first date, Mark came and picked me up, and then I pretty much ditched him," Jennifer recalls. "I was using drugs at the time, and I wanted to protect him from that because I knew he was trying not to do that because he had just gotten out." But it wasn't long before both were using heroin together and getting in more trouble. In August 1998, the pair was convicted of stealing a car. Jennifer spent 120 days in jail, and Mark went back to state prison for a three-year sentence.
In the next eight years, Moen managed to hold down a grueling job as a pipe fitter for an oil refinery company, working more than 80 hours per week, and fathered three children: Justin, 7, Jacquelyn, 3, and Jagger, 1. Raising a family introduced some stability into his life, but only temporarily. Jennifer fell back into drug use after becoming addicted to painkillers after her first pregnancy. "From 2003 to 2006, things got pretty bad again," she says. "But we ended up getting sober again."
The burglary case that led to Moen's arrest in Ukiah stemmed from this dark period in his life. Moen remembers little more than waking up in an office building he'd broken into the night before, shortly after he got into an argument with his wife and left the house in a drug-fueled rage. He hadn't stolen anything that night, although he'd planned to, and apparently the police had finally traced him through DNA he unwittingly left at the crime scene.
That same year, Moen fell ill with hepatitis C and had to submit to weekly chemotherapy treatments that left him nauseated and unable to eat. "I lost 65 pounds, and my hair was falling out," Moen says. His gastrointestinal doctor recommended he smoke marijuana to ease the nausea and increase his appetite. "I had to drive up to LA, and OG Kush was selling for $90 an eighth, which I couldn't afford."
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England captain Charlotte Edwards does not think the gloss has been taken off her side's Women's Ashes success despite losing more games than Australia during the multi-format series.
A seven-wicket defeat in the final Twenty20 international in Sydney meant England won only three of the seven games.
Under the points system England still won the series 10-8.
The six points earned in the one-off Test proved decisive as England's injury-hit squad tailed off with four defeats in the last five limited-overs matches, which are worth two points each.
Asked if the series win had therefore been tarnished, Pidley-based Edwards replied: "Not at all. Both teams knew what the format was and ultimately that Test win was the difference between the two teams.
"I've said from the word go it was going to be two evenly-matched teams and it showed.
"They ended the series well but we won the key moments which was the most important thing in this series."
Edwards admitted some frustration, however, at the way the series has ended.
After securing the Ashes with a nine-wicket win in the first Twenty20 international in Hobart, two heavy losses have followed.
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harine. ARTPOP redone with an artistic approach methodical, contextual, and experiential would have been much more effective. You've got our attention, now say something.
Mrs. Carter on the other hand had the exact opposite problem. Beyonce's eponymous album, tells the story of a Michael Jackson style tragedy. Beyonce exposes with more detail then expected what it is like to be her, to be both Eve and Mary. She expresses how it feels to be a sex object haunted and tortured to be pretty and silent. With audio clips from her past we hear her how her entire life was on stage and how identity cast shades and shadows of doubt when placed under the bright colored lights.
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I fail to see where race plays any part in Marxism or being a Marxist.
Explain exactly how you arrive at that assumption.
And race is where in either of these comments?
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Republican Paul LePage, a climate-change skeptic, is leading in the polls against Democrat Libby Mitchell, Independent Eliot Cutler and some minor candidates.
John, your better than this.
Honestly I don't recall any story but I do remember that the 2008 Presidential election was our ACORN election. It was when Betty Montgomery said it was OK to register and vote by absentee ballot without identification for a day or 3.
The November 4, 2008 General Election the Board of Elections reports there were 1,111,286 registered voters and 1,343,520 votes cast so that's a bit over 100%. http://tinyurl.com/yesfynp
Did I miss that story in the PD? That excuse had to have been a doozie!
You might think that a reporter for Ohio's Largest Newspaper would check the numbers instead of just reporting what a political appointee with a political agenda tells them. Wasn't hard. The reports are right on the Board of Elections web site.
It's all a matter of interpretation or... how you'd like it interpreted
The November 4, 2008 General Election the Board of Elections reports there were 1,111,286 registered voters and 1,343,520 votes cast so that's a bit over 100%. http://tinyurl.com/yesfynp
In the November 3, 2009 General Election the BOE reported only 984,397 registered voters and 388,851 ballots cast. http://tinyurl.com/28nqp4d
September 7, 2010 Primary Election 163,496 out of 976,434
May 4, 2010 Primary Election 234,591 out of 985,476
So other than the 2008 Presidential Election where we had more votes than registered voters 430,000 votes today would well surpass prior elections for the last 2 years. I guess if that's how you wanted it to be reported you could say this is a light turnout.
Everyone! Get out and vote! Doesn't look like they have enough dead voters to win this time!
Ya, well in Iraq they get to dye their finger blue and all we get here is stupid sticker!
LordTharin, if we keep borrowing China will own the whole country.
44104, Or maybe it's time we stop putting up with the professional career politicians who run either party and speak up, and vote their "picks" down in primaries. Maybe we should make sure the folks we do elect never feel safe in keeping their jobs. IE. The Tea Party. I voted for Kasich for Governor and he has 4 years. In 4 years excuses will mean he done, gone, cooked. It's up to us!
Mr.Exner, If you weren't aware you are invited and just so you know you don't have to wear anything special to this Tea Party.
Republicans held majority for 12 years and 6 straight election cycles from 1994 to 2008. The Democrats will lose control after only one term in the majority. Nothing special here folks. Happens every decade or so. Just move on now. Nothing to see here.
The Federal Reserve to bail out the Obama Stimulus!
I understand the stock will have President Obama's picture on it.
Here's a bit of irony!
According to Bloomberg GM's success is in large part, now sit down, GM's success was in large part from No.1 "rising sales of the Buick Excelle sedan in China" and (drum roll please), and from selling "Chevrolet Equinox sport- utility vehicle in the U.S." THEY'RE SUCCEEDING BY SELLING THOSE EVIL SUV'S!


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Mr. Ghosh's letter is extremely welcome. To deal first with "the substance," I am glad that Mr. Ghosh has emphasised that CEEW's "research advocates strengthening the government's capability in water management, not handing it over to the private sector." On this broad principle we are in agreement. But as critics of current water policies in India and elsewhere have said on several occasions, the devil lies in the details. It is entirely possible that the strengthening of government capacity might also work to strengthen already powerful groups — whether corporate houses or agribusinesses. This is why my article was concerned with particular implications of specific steps.
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Feature Articles
Regular Articles
- 1. HRIBF Update and Near-term Schedule
- 2. Recent HRIBF Research - Shell Model Embedded in the Continuum
- 3. Recent HRIBF Research - Opportunities for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at HRIBF
- 4. ISOL'01 to be Held March 11-14
- 5. PAC-6 Scheduled for June 14-15, 2001; Proposals Due May 4
Editors: C. J. Gross and W. Nazarewicz
Feature contributors: R. L. Auble, K. Bennaceur, A. Galindo-Uribarri
Regular contributors: M. R. Lay, M. J. Meigs, P. E. Mueller, D. W. Stracener, B. A. Tatum
Following completion of an experiment using neutron-rich RIBs in October, the RIB injector platform was reconfigured for the installation and testing of a multi-target batch-mode target/ion source for the production of long-lived radionuclides. The target wheel was loaded with four calcium fluoride targets for producing 18F via the 19F(p,pn) reaction, and four nickel targets for producing 56Ni via the the 58Ni(p,p2n) reaction. Testing of the batch-mode target/ion source began in November 2000 and was completed in January 2001. The results of the tests were very encouraging and measured 18F beam intensities were within a factor of 4-5 of the predicted values. The major cause of the lower intensity is believed to be due to the ORIC beam spot being significantly larger than the sputtered area. Experiments using this source have been postponed until the 18F beam intensity can be increased and the users have developed techniques to cope with the large 56Co contaminant which will accompany the 56Ni beam.
The batch-mode assembly was removed in early February 2001, and the RIB injector is being readied for installation of a UC-target/EBP ion-source for continuation of the n-rich RIB research program. The tandem electrostatic accelerator was shut down for scheduled maintenance in mid-January and is presently scheduled to resume operation the week of March 12. Conditioning of the tandem and operation with stable-ion beams is scheduled through mid-March to ensure that the tandem accelerator will be ready to operate at up to 24 MV as required for the n-rich RIB research program.
The n-rich RIB research program is presently scheduled to run from mid-March, following the ISOL'01 meeting, until late April. During this time, we expect to complete most of the approved n-rich RIB experiments. Following the n-rich research period, a kinetic-ejection negative-ion source, coupled to a hafnia target, will be installed on the RIB injector platform. This target/ion source combination will be similar to that used for the highly successful 17F/18F research program completed last year. During installation of the RIB target/ion source, the tandem accelerator will be available for stable-ion beam experiments in April-May. Operation with 17F/18F beams is presently planned to begin in mid-May and continue through June. Following the 17F/18F campaign, the accelerators will be shut down for scheduled maintenance.
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The recent advances in experimental nuclear physics make it possible to study nuclear systems far from the beta stability line. In these nuclei the residual interaction between discrete and continuum levels is expected to play a crucial role and cannot be neglected. The Shell Model Embedded in the Continuum (SMEC) is a new formalism that can be used to study both static properties (e.g. excitation spectra, radii, quadrupole moments) of exotic nuclei as well as simple reactions in which they are involved [1]. The SMEC is mainly based on the Continuum Shell Model [2], with a more realistic description of the discrete levels, an essential condition for the study of low-lying excitations. In the SMEC formalism, the atomic nuclei is considered as an open quantum system, i.e. the subspaces Q of (quasi-)bound states and P of scattering states are not separated artificially. In our case, the P subspace contains the states with N-1 particles in bound orbits coupled to one particle that can occupy scattering states. We only consider states with asymptotically at most one particle in the continuum, so the projectors on the subspaces fulfill the condition: P+Q=1. The key element of our treatment is the realistic description of the discrete levels. We solve the standard Shell Model (SM) problem:
HQQ Pi = EiPiwhere QHQ=HQQ is identified with a realistic SM Hamiltonian. The eigenstates Pi are the N-particle (quasi-)bound wave functions. We believe that for a quantitative description of the low-lying states in the exotic nuclei one has to use as a starting point the accurate many-body wavefunctions provided by the SM with effective interactions. For the continuum states, we solve the coupled channel equations:
(E(+)-HPP)F E(+)=0where c denotes the different channels and HPP=PHP. The superscript (+) means that boundary conditions for outgoing scattering states are used. The solutions of these equations are the nonresonant part of the scattering states. The couplings between channels depend on the structure of the N and N-1 particle system and are determined microscopically. The third system of equations to be solved consists of the inhomogeneous coupled channel equations:
(E(+)-HPP)Wi(+)=HPQPiin which the source term is primarily given by the SM structure of the N-particle state Pi. The solution of this equation represents the continuation of the discrete state Pi in the P subspace, and describes the fact that a discrete level can decay by emitting a nucleon.
The three distinct functions are then used to express the many-body scattering solutions of the problem and the discrete states wave functions modified by the couplings to the continuum. The latter are related with the effective Hamiltonian
HQQeff=Hwhere GP(+) is the Green function for the motion of single particles in the P subspace. This effective Hamiltonian has complex energy-dependent eigenvalues Ei-iGammai/2. These eigenvalues at energy Ei(E)=E determine the energies and widths of the nuclear states.
Fig. 2-1 - In the left part of the figure, the astrophysical S factor for the reactions 16O(p,gamma)17F [Jp=5/2+] and 16O(p,gamma)This formalism is fully symmetric and consistent in treating the continuum and discrete part of the solutions, the continuum states being modified by all the discrete states, and the discrete levels being modified by the coupling to the continuum.
17F [Jp=1/2+] are plotted as a function of the center of mass energy. The parameters of the residual interaction between P and Q and the effective interaction in Q are discussed in [3]; the experimental values are taken from [4]. The right part represents the phase-shifts for the p+16O elastic scattering as a function of the proton energy for different partial waves. The experimental points are from [5].
The SMEC has been applied for the study of the properties of the mirror nuclei 8B and 8Li, and the radiative capture reaction 7Be(p,gamma)8B, which is the key reaction for the understanding of the solar high energy neutrino flux [1].
As an example, we report here some results concerning the study of 17F and the reactions of elastic scattering p+16O and radiative capture 16O(p,gamma)17F. The spectroscopic properties of 17F reported in [3,6] are well reproduced by our model. We have shown that a realistic description of the structure of 16O and 17F (including the 2 particles - 2 holes correlations) are required in order to reproduce in a consistent way both the spectroscopy of 17F, the 16O(p,gamma)17F astrophysical S factor, and the phase shift of the elastic scattering p+16O (see Fig. 2-1).
The SMEC give the possibility to investigate the static properties of exotic nuclei and the reactions in which they are involved within a single microscopic formalism. It can easily be used for other reactions not discussed here, such as inelastic scattering or proton emission. An extension for systems with more than one particle in the continuum, although not straightforward, is possible. We are currently working on the description of 18Ne and reactions involving 17F. We are also revisiting the radiative capture reaction 7Be(p,gamma)8B by taking into account the influence of the target excitations.
*This work is being developed by a collaboration of researchers from GANIL, the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Krakow, the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the University of Strasbourg, the University of Tennessee, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
[1] K. Bennaceur et al., Nucl. Phys. A651, 289 (1999).
[2] H. W. Barz, I. Rotter and J. Höohn, Nucl. Phys. A275, 111 (1977).
[3] K. Bennaceur et al., Phys. Lett. B488 (2000) 75.
[4] R. Morlock et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3837 (1997).
[5] R.A. Blue and W. Haeberli, Phys. Rev. 137, B284 (1965).
[6] K. Bennaceur et al., Nucl. Phys. A671, 203 (2000).
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We have started to investigate the feasibility of using the 25 MV Tandem from the HRIBF for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). AMS is one of the analytical techniques with the highest sensitivity known in physics. The technique of AMS is used to perform measurements of rare isotopes in samples placed in the ion source of an accelerator system. AMS uses a particle accelerator in conjunction with ion sources, magnets and detectors to separate out interferences and count single atoms in the presence of up to 1 x 1016 stable atoms. These radionuclides can be used for a wide variety of dating and tracing applications in environmental and biological monitoring, in the study of ocean circulation patterns, in radioactive waste, nuclear safeguards and nuclear physics. One of the best known applications is radiocarbon 14C dating. Two features make the tandem accelerator the preferred instrument for AMS. First, the requirement of negative ion beams for injection eliminates the interference of some stable isobars (14N, 36Ar, 129Xe) which do not form negative ions that would impair the detection of the radioisotopes of interest (14C, 36Cl, 129I). Second, the stripping of electrons at the high voltage terminal eliminates molecular interference.
The most interesting radioactive nuclear beams (RIBs) produced for astrophysics and nuclear physics involve generally rather short-lived species such as 17F (T1/2=64.5 s) and 18F (T1/2=110 m). By contrast, one of the primary objectives of AMS is the measurement of long-lived radioisotopes produced in natural materials by the interaction of cosmic rays (half-lives from a few years to millions of years). At first sight it would seem that AMS and RIB production are very different fields. However, there are a number of similarities between AMS and RIBs. The removal of interfering isobars is one of several common challenges of both AMS and RIB production. A facility such as HRIBF has a variety of equipment choices for beam transport and analysis and for rejection of unwanted species. Both AMS and RIBs will benefit from the use of the most efficient techniques for production, isobar separation, transport, and detection.
The HRIBF Tandem Accelerator is by far the highest operating voltage electrostatic accelerator in the world. Tandem voltages up to 25.5 MV have been used in experiments. The HRIBF 25 MV Tandem Accelerator is capable of producing beams of 0.1-10 MeV per nucleon for light nuclei and up to 5 MeV per nucleon for mass 80. There are a number of isotopes of interest for AMS where the high energies achieved could represent a very important advantage for their detection. For example, the beam energies are sufficiently high to strip all electrons from a good portion of the ions up to about mass 50. Isobars are then produced in different charge states that can be separated by beam line analyzers. This guarantees a strong suppression (107) of background events originating from lighter isobars. Furthermore, the HRIBF offers a variety of equipment such as high-resolution momentum analyzers (including one internal to the machine), electrostatic analyzers, plus a vast array of particle detection devices. We have started to develop additional detection systems oriented to heavy isotopes. The higher energies achieved will facilitate the isobar separation for the heavy species. The various research tasks include the establishment of beam diagnostic procedures for the low- and high-energy ends of the machine and the study of the stability and reliability of operation of the tandem for extremely low beam intensities. In particular, the ion source, beam optics, terminal voltage stabilization, and detection systems are extremely important in AMS.
Specifically we are interested in the potential use of the facility for the detection of isotopes such as 36Cl, 44Ti, 90Sr, 99Tc, 129I, and 236U. Very recently, an AMS experiment was performed at HRIBF to detect 36Cl, for the first time in a sea water sample from the Scotia Shelf in Nova Scotia, Canada. Also groundwater samples from the Great Artesian Basin (the largest freshwater aquifer in Australia) taken from a well known as "Oodnadatta" and a salina sample from a drilling core from the "Salina Formation" in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The samples in the form of AgCl were placed in the ion source. The tandem was set at 22.5 MeV. The Cl7+ were selected and postripped with a 50 ug/cm2 carbon foil to Cl17+. The ions were then transported to the Enge Spectrometer and deflected to a silicon position sensitive detector in the focal plane. These initial results proved that the HRIBF Tandem is potentially the most powerful in the world for the measurement of chlorine-36.
The 25 MV Tandem Accelerator of the HRIBF offers a powerful tool for AMS. The necessary elements exist at ORNL to explore the establishment of an AMS program: 25 MV Tandem, negative ion-source technology, accelerator physics, mass spectrometry, detector development, and research interests. We will focus on areas where the high voltage of the tandem plus the specialized instrumentation we have (or will develop) can play a unique role in AMS. Our proof-of-principle tests and our results will indicate if it is possible to use HRIBF as a prototyping facility to aid in the development of new AMS methods. This work is currently supported by an ORNL SEED Money Award.
*Participants include A. Galindo-Uribarri, B. Fuentes, J. Doupe, G. D. Alton, R. L. Auble, J. R. Beene, J. Gomez del Campo, R. C. Juras, A. E. Litherland, J. F. Liang, M. J. Meigs, G. D. Mills, D. C. Radford, S. Raman, and D. W. Stracener and represent the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, University of Toronto, and ORNL.
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The ISOL'01 Conference will be held March 11-14 in Oak Ridge, TN. Focusing on nuclear physics studies with radioactive ion beams at ISOL facilities, the conference will have over 50 oral presentations and one poster session. In addition, ISOL'01 is dedicated to the celebration of twenty years of science at the Holifield facility and its continuing leadership role in nuclear physics research. More information including our on-line registration form may be found on our web site at http://www.phy.ornl.gov/isol01/.
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The sixth Program Advisory Committee meeting has been scheduled for June 14-15, 2001. Proposals for experiments will be due on May 4 and must be submitted by email attachment to the address firstname.lastname@example.com. Proposals should be targeted to the radioactive ion beam sources which will be used in the last half of the year. At present, this would involve the neutron-rich LaB6 source targeted at isobaric contaminate-free beams of Br and I. More information, including other ion sources to be scheduled during this period, will be sent out in April. Approximately 100 shifts (8 hours) of RIBs and 100 shifts of SIBs will be allocated.
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To measure the release of 25Al (T1/2= 7.2 s) from the SiC target, an on-line run was performed using a low-intensity proton beam from the Tandem to bombard a target at the UNISOR facility. Due to problems with the source, no 25Al was observed. Since published diffusion rates of aluminum in silicon carbide vary widely, we decided to use a SiC target in powder form having an average particulate diameter of 1 micron to provide short diffusion lengths. At some point, possibly during the pump-down cycle, some of the SiC powder migrated into the Ta transfer line between the target and the ion source. This transfer line operates at 1800 to 2000 C so the SiC in this region dissociated completely causing a large amount of silicon to be released, destroying many of the Ta source parts and 'killing' the ion source efficiency.
There were, however, some positive aspects to this experiment. First, most (>90%) of the SiC powder was still in the target holder and had not sintered. Second, while there was evidence that the production beam did irradiate the target, no 26Al (T1/2= 7.1x105 years) was observed in the remaining SiC target material after the irradiation. This is evidence that the diffusion rate of aluminum in silicon carbide may be reasonably fast since the target temperature was reduced to less than 1000 C within two minutes after the end of the irradiation, effectively trapping any 26Al that remained in the target at that time. Some 26Al was found in the TIS enclosure deposited on cooler surfaces.
The next on-line test to look for the release of Al isotopes will be done with a SiC fiber target in order to eliminate problems inherent with a powder target. Even though the release efficiency of short-lived isotopes from the fibers (15 micron diameter) is likely to be lower than from the powder, we should be able to extract enough beam to optimize the ion source parameters. In parallel, a design for the target holder will be developed to accommodate the fine powder targets, since powders (if they do not sinter) have the largest surface to volume ratios.
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In the last newsletter, we reported that a shorting strap was removed from three tube sections which had been shorted for more than a year, and magnets were placed to try to alleviate any electron leakage into these tubes. The first conditioning period showed that these tubes were now able to be conditioned easily and to hold that conditioning for a long period of time. It is not known whether the magnets cured the problem or the problem went away with time. In any case, we now have the full column available and could have operated at 24+ MV before the current tank opening, but no experiment needed the corresponding energy. It required 132 hours of conditioning to reach this level, and we should be able to return with a minimal amount of conditioning after the tank is closed. The accelerator was conditioned to high voltage in anticipation of higher energies needed for neutron-rich beams.
New Alpha Omega oxygen monitors have been installed in place of the Beckman monitors, which had required a great deal of maintenance throughout the years. The new monitors will require very little maintenance and should not cause as many false alarms.
A microchannel plate detector has been installed in the diagnostics box at the image of the second-stage mass separator in beam line 12. The focal area of this magnet is instrumented with a rotating wire beam profile monitor, remotely operable horizontal and vertical slits, a Faraday cup, a moving tape collection system, and now this new type of beam profile monitor. This detector was developed as a transmission timing detector for use at energies greater than 1 MeV-A. However, we have found that it retains its excellent position sensitivity when used as a stopped beam imaging device at 200 keV. The device consists of a target foil that is inserted into the beam and a stationary microchannel plate that detects the secondary electrons emitted from the foil by the beam particles and is read out by a resistive layer anode. Both the foil and the microchannel plate are backed by magnets which guide the secondary electrons. The signals from the detector are processed and displayed to yield a real time updating two dimensional view of the beam. With a defocused beam incident on the object slits, we saw spectacular images of both the object and image slits. This new capability will help us understand the optics of the second-stage mass separator and improve our ability to separate isobars injected into the tandem accelerator.
The turbopump mounted on the beam line 9 diagnostics box providing the upstream pumping for the target ion source failed. Since it is necessary to pump on both sides of the target ion source (the turbopump mounted on the quadrupole box immediately after the target ion source provides the downstream pumping), the operating turbopump mounted on the diagnostics box in front of the first-stage mass separator was moved to the beam line 9 diagnostics box. This arrangement provides adequate pumping capability pending repair of the failed turbopump which was moved into the hood in RADLAB for bearing replacement. In addition to the turbopump work, the O-ring was replaced in the high vacuum valve isolating beam line 9 from the target ion source and the actuator for the viewer in the beam line 9 diagnostics box was removed. All of this work proceeded smoothly despite having to be performed in full anti-contamination clothing including respirators. Even in the post uranium carbide regime (where contamination levels on the extract electrode were 35 rad/hr (beta) a couple of weeks after fission-product production), we are still able to effectively conduct maintenance in C-111S.
The platform motor-generator shaft was overhauled because of excessive vibration. The platform and source motor-generators run continuously; the last shaft overhaul for both was over two years ago.
During this reporting period we also replaced the air motor for the coupling mechanism between the target ion source and beam line 9, moved the controls for the roughing pumps in C111S to C111N, and installed a backing vacuum accumulator for the turbopump in beam line 12 to minimize the running of its associated roughing pump. For the first time we remotely fixed a leak in the previously mentioned coupling mechanism by adjusting (from C111N) the air pressure to its pneumatic clutch.
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A new vacuum chamber has been installed directly behind the RMS target chamber and before the first quadrupole of the RMS. The chamber is a 6-way, 8-inch inner-diameter cross and mounts directly to the target chamber. This arrangement will allow the placement of detectors and catcher foils some 46 cm from the target. Such arrangements will be ideal in the study of nanosecond isomers, prompt gating of reaction products with a micro-channel plate plus thin foil detector, and possibly time-of-flight measurements with other detectors. The present micro-channel plate detector subtends approximately +/-2.5 degrees with respect to the beam.
Fig. RA3-1 - The new 6-way cross located between the RMS target chamber and the first quadrupole is shown. The distance from the target to the center of the cross is approximately 46 cm. At present, a micro-channel plate detector is inserted in the upper section of the cross. The picture may be enlarged by "clicking" on the image. Other images are also available.This new measuring position is available for user experiments. Space constraints exist when used in combination with the CLARION array and the cross is not compatible when the forward array (Si detector) part of the HyBall is in place.
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The new Users Executive Committee held their first telephone conference call with the facility in mid-January. A brief status report of the facility was presented and discussions ranged from the results of PAC-5, the problems of isobaric beam contamination, and the location of the annual HRIBF Users Meeting. A poll of the users has been conducted and it has been decided to declare that the ISOL'01 conference, which includes a tour of the HRBIF, will satisfy the annual meeting requirement mandated in the Users Charter. We hope to return to our traditional annual meetings at the DNP next year.
Other business conducted at the meeting was the election of the vice-chair of the committee. We are happy to announce that Ani Aprahamian will serve in this capacity for this year and will become chair of the committee in 2002. Congratulations Ani!
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Beam suggestions should be within the relevant facility parameters/capabilities listed below.
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|Commissioning of the RMS
|As+Ti sub-barrier fusion
|Gomez del Campo/ORNL
|Commissioning of the DRS
|RIB development on UNISOR
|Decay studies at the proton drip line in the 100Sn region with a 56Ni radioactive beam
|Target ion source development (actinide targets)
|Tandem development
|High voltage injector development
|Beam diagnostics development
|Search for the decay of 16+ isomer in 96Cd
|(p,t) reactions with SIDAR detector array
|Accelerator mass spectrometry
|Doupe/Univ Toronto
|HYBALL charged particle detector system response
|Decay study of a short-lived proton emitter 103Sb
|Identification of excited states in the odd-odd, self-conjugate nucleus 70Br
|Structure and ultra-fast dynamics of electrons in nano-structures and bulk solids by particle induced X-ray spectroscopy
|Power outage/recovery
|Scheduled maintenance
|Scheduled maintenance/operator training
|Unscheduled maintenance
|Unscheduled maintenance, tandem injector
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great British writer
The current crop of British sf writers have restored my faith in SciFi. Hamilton, Asher, Morgan, Banks, et all produce superior stories, tech, and characters. The American debut of Gridlinked doesn't disappoint as Asher really delivers the goods with this story of revenge, xenoc explorations, a hi-tech universe and enough action to really get your heart pumping. What a...
Published on March 23 2004 by Jeffrey Owens
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Impressive first novel
I just finished this novel last night - and it left me with a feeling that the best has yet to come from Neal Asher.
Many interesting ideas were introduced and Asher's 'Polity' promises to be a great backdrop for many future novels - likewise the main character Ian Cormac is interesting and complex enough to star in many more adventures. For me there were two things...
Published on May 26 2005 by ryan b buckley
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great British writer,
Jeffrey Owens (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
The current crop of British sf writers have restored my faith in SciFi. Hamilton, Asher, Morgan, Banks, et all produce superior stories, tech, and characters. The American debut of Gridlinked doesn't disappoint as Asher really delivers the goods with this story of revenge, xenoc explorations, a hi-tech universe and enough action to really get your heart pumping. What a refreshing change after so much of the mindless drivel that passes for Science Fiction these days, especially the Star Wars series, Star Trek , Honor Harrington and all the rest that passes itself off as scifi. Am I just ranting or do other's feel this way?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Impressive first novel,
ryan b buckley (Olympos Mons) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gridlinked (Paperback)
I just finished this novel last night - and it left me with a feeling that the best has yet to come from Neal Asher.
Many interesting ideas were introduced and Asher's 'Polity' promises to be a great backdrop for many future novels - likewise the main character Ian Cormac is interesting and complex enough to star in many more adventures. For me there were two things that kept it from scoring higher than 3 stars. What follows will not spoil the plot if you have yet to read the novel - however if you would rather dive in without knowing what to expect (like I do)I'd skip the rest of this review, and just buy the book - it is well worth the read.
Firstly, the theme of Cormac being separated from the grid was never fully explored later in the book. I would have liked to see this continued throughout the novel. Asher seems to forget about it half way through and focuses on Cormac as "action hero" rather than "social misfit with no humanity". Pity.
Secondly, there are 2 main plotlines and 1 tiny one which never really crossover in a way that makes sense. The revenge theme just wraps up too easily for my tastes and never connects with The Maker storyline as I hoped it would. The Stanton story ended very poorly and added nothing to the novel for me - a real shame since Stanton was a great character - I was hoping for some real interaction between him and Cormac more than just the "why choose a life of crime" conversation they have that lasts for thirty seconds.
In the end though I thought this book was quite good and I will definitely read his other novels. I would sum up his style as half way between the noir-action of Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon) and the space opera of Alistair Reynolds (Revelation Space) - both great British Sci-Fi writers who I would choose over Asher, but then again why waffle? Just read all three and don't forget to read Iain M. Banks' culture novels as well while you're at it!
-- Ryan Buckley
3.0 out of 5 stars Great star to a potential series-maker,
TSP (University Park, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gridlinked (Paperback)
Like the reviewer below, I had some issues with the character development and treatments in this book. Asher sets up his principal character, Ian Cormac, to be a type of futuristic 007-meets-Indiana-Jones. Yet, while he spends a great deal of time in the first 1/3 of the book dealing with Cormac's inner world, I agree with the other reviewer that the treatment of Cormac's gridlink exclusion and its effects on him was rather glossed over in the last 2/3 of the novel, odd considering the title of the work. However, I got a sense early on that this book was setting up characters, technology and worlds that would re-appear later in other works, which of course I now know to be the case, as I've also read Line of Polity.
Asher seems overly enamored of twenty-dollar words when five-dollar ones would suffice. I don't believe hard sci-fi needs to be so obdurate in its word choices - he sometimes uses obscure or almost archaic English in places. While some might excuse this of him as he is British, I've spent enough time in the UK with British intellectuals to know this isn't a universal trait.
Overall, this was an enjoyable enough summer sci-fi read that I also have consumed his other books, but I don't think he's yet on par with his peers, such as Richard Morgan. All the same, I will keep reading his works.
5.0 out of 5 stars entertaining futuristic science fiction,
Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
The technician enters the runcible gate to star transport to the planet Samerkand, but something goes astray and his arrival ignites a nuclear explosion that kills at least ten thousand people. Earth Central Security legend Horace Blegg assigns his top gun veteran agent Ian Cormac to investigate the GRIDLINKED Samerkand disaster. Blegg also warns Cormac that his GRIDLINKED cybernetic implants that tie him into the AI network are destroying his brain. To save his mind he must delink, but can he survive without the technology he has relied on like a drug for three decades?
While Cormac struggles to adjust to an unplugged existence, he makes inquiries into the explosion. However, Arian Pelter and thugs working for him want Ian dead because Cormac killed his sister while working a separatist's case. As Cormac acts and reacts clumsily, Arian becomes self-assured that he will assassinate his enemy soon.
The technology is cleverly designed so that the reader can sense this futuristic galaxy has some unique gadgetry yet all the gizmos are interwoven into the terrific action-packed plot. The investigation subplot into whether an accident or sabotage occurred is exciting and hooks the reader even while the death count dramatically rises. However, the key to Neal Asher's fabulously complex science fiction is Cormac and Pelter whose cat and mouse contest makes for an engrossing and entertaining futuristic science fiction novel that runs at hyperspeed.
Harriet Klausner
5.0 out of 5 stars Intense Cross between Buck Rodgers and 007!,
Rodney Powell "fairmont66" (Macon,Georgia) - See all my reviews
I loved this book! Gridlinked was a super read set in a high-tech 25th century universe where interstellar travel is done instantly through runcibles-matter transmitters control by A.I.
Ian Cormac-our hero who can best be described 25th century James Bond who is burned out from years of being linked to his AI in missions. Cormac lastest mission he must find the cause of destruction of runcibles which resulted in death of thousands of people. Cormac's got two problems in this case: one is mysterious and possible deadly alien construct called the Dragon who has something to do with the runcible tragedy and the other is brutal psychopathic interstellar terrorist by the name of Arian Pelter who is after Cormac for killing his sister in his last mission! Pelter is aided by terrifying and nearly unstoppable android called Mr. Crane!Gridlinked is awesome space opera that combines hard science with james bondian action sequences between humans, cyborgs and assasins!Asher's world-building skills are wonderful! his Heroes and villians are three-dimensional.I look forward to Asher's next book!
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional debut from brilliant writer,
Mr. K. Mahoney "Kevin Mahoney" (Punked Books, London, UK) - See all my reviews
At first, it may seem that the pace is maybe a little too quick, and that Asher has so much story that he has to squeeze it in. But that's probably just me - it does take me a little while to get to grips with a new book, even if it does feature a universe with which I'm quite familiar. Angelina Pelter may be swiftly dispatched by the fast moving Ian Cormac at the very beginning of this novel, but Cormac's master does allow us to catch up by ordering the removal of his gridlink. Cormac is warned that staying gridlinked for so long may well have dehumanised him. Horace Blegg, Cormac's legendary boss, decides to interrupt Cormac's current mission involving the Separatists on Cheyne III to dispatch him to Samarkand, which has unfortunately been devastated by the destruction of a runcible gate. Thus Asher cleverly gets us to identify with Cormac, since the secret agent seeks to regain his own identity. There's a quote in the novel which says that Neal Asher is just as good as John Meaney. However, where Asher supersedes John Meaney is in the strength of his characterisation (to such an extent that Cormac's strong line on crime and punishment could be jeopardized).
Neal Asher's science is also good. The Runcible mode of transport seems much in line with the recent discovery of black holes at the centre of galaxies (and Asher has been writing about Runcible technology for quite a while). Where Neal Asher has always seemed strongest is in his creation of biological entities - mycelium and pseudopods are real science. However, Gridlinked has also finally revealed that Asher does have quite a whimsical tone. It's a delight to finally discover that the Polity's mode of transport was named after the runcible spoon in Edward Lear's nonsense rhyme 'The Owl and the Pussycat'. Some readers may think that the Polity is a bit like Iain M. Banks' Culture. However, Neal Asher is a bit of an expert in the martial arts, so he's far more knowledgeable about flying shuriken than other writers in this field. Besides, Banks didn't invent AI, as Asher reminds us by nicknaming Earth Central 'Hal'. There's a bit of Arthur C. Clarke in other ways - Dragon is a mysterious godlike being. But Asher also seems to have gone to the very depths of Science Fiction, by utilizing Prometheus in a way that Mary Shelley would have approved of (Dragon turns up in Frankenstein Monster mode, with exceedingly uncharitable thoughts towards its creator). The fantastic Golem android Mr Crane also gets to do his Bela Lugosi impersonation. Asher might have also been reading some literary studies on science fiction - note the term he uses when Dragon produces the first Dracoman on Aster Colora. Although Dragon doesn't have teeth like Spielberg's Jaws, he still has a considerable bite with the help of his pseudopods.
The mention of a creature called 'Dragon' jars at first. But Asher has given his leviathan a character which can be greatly appreciated. Certainly, this seems to be the closest that Asher has ever come to replicating the fantasy narrative that he employed in his first (unpublished) novel. The wolverine substance of adamantium seems to be a marvel too, but Asher's use comes from the fall of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings. Like the great Victorian Gothic novels, today's 'Western' fiction still seems alternatively fascinated and appalled by the East, most notably here in the 'presence' of Horace Blegg. Although the concept of the 'dinosauroid' may have entered the realm of the players of fantasy games, it does have an actual basis in fact: Dr. Dale Russell is a real palaeontologist. I was also delighted to see that Asher named Samarkand after the city on the Great Silk Road. Movie makers looking for the next 'Matrix' or 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' would do well to come knocking on Neal Asher's door.
I suppose I was a bit concerned that Anti-Grav Cars modelled on the Ford Cortina might date this novel, along with the pop tune (more Culture Club than Culture is 'Melting Pot'), but the longevity of Edward Lear's nonsense rhyme can be a powerful excuse - we just don't know what part of popular culture will survive in the years to come. Gridlinked deserves to live on, and there is much left in the Asher universe to explore (I was very happy to see mention of the gruesome leeches from 'Spatterjay' again). It turns out the retro Anti-Grav cars are also staple of the Asher universe - they were first mentioned in the Runcible Tale Blue Holes and Bloody Waters. Oh, and did I mention that Neal Asher also has great wit? The novel explicitly compares Cormac with James Bond - the book Bond, rather than the movie Bond, I'd say - Cormac is hard, but fair. The baddies may die in gruesome ways, but Cormac doesn't stand round trying to think of dismissive quips or pointless eulogies. Much of the humour comes from the excellent intros to each chapter (it's the best guide I've read to Asher's Universe). Gridlinked is a fast-paced action cyber-thriller which could beat the sushi out of The Matrix on any day of the week. And the good news is that Neal Asher's novel The Skinner is even better.
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb second wave cyberpunk,
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Every line of this debut novel crackles with energy and ideas. The backdrop is a society enhanced by connectivity (the Grid of the title) and cross-galaxy travel made possible by runcible technology; the plot has all the kinetic force of a runaway bullet train. I'm reminded of Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix, but I think Grindlinked tops that one for pure joy of reading. Buy it.
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