http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23697230/ <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23697230/> Someone who inspired me to get into computers when I was a kid. :(...
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Phil Thayer <phil.thayer@vitalsite.com> wrote:
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Someone who inspired me to get into computers when I was a kid. :(...
This really touched me: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/video-arthur-c.html -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Phil Thayer <phil.thayer@vitalsite.com> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23697230/
Someone who inspired me to get into computers when I was a kid. :(...
This really touched me: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/video-arthur-c.html
-- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
Sir Arthur's story "Imperial Earth" also contains the User Interface guidelines for both pocket computers and Net terminals. Those chapter extracts describing those items should be mandatory reading for UI designers. I teased my wife last night that a fitting tribute would be a full minute shutdown of all Geosynch orbit comsats. Then I came up with the more fitting tribute that we all should make sure his books are in current edition in our school libraries. And we have to research whether he used Linux. -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645
"Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits." This was news to me. I resolve to use the term. I wonder how many people marked Heinlein's passing by sleeping on waterbeds. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Oren Beck <orenbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
a fitting tribute -- At the bottom of this huge heap of promotional strategies, there's a product trying to chew its way out
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