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There's a funny story behind the 4004. The chip was created for a contract with a Japanese calculator company. When the engineer sent to... -
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Ggban007 reacted to MoonSong's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Not necessarily, technology development isn't linear nor steady. Right now we are at peak "gold rush" stage of the cycle. Investor money...
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I was just thinking that 95% of the hatred and divisiveness we see today are because people have seen very different memes in their...
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For you, maybe, but for me it created my dream job -- correcting people on the Internet, and castng very vocal judgement about their...
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I'm posting this because A. I'm having a bad day and assaulting you with terrible puns makes me feel better, and B... I used to work...
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Last night, I dragged myself out my island lair and watched the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie at the theater - One Battle After...
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Some people whine that SciFi in which an advanced civilization forgets how to make and repair its tech is unrealistics. <Waves hands at...
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Ggban007 replied to the thread Fans of long series of big novels, sound off!.Ones I've enjoyed, in no particular order as quite different series: Malazan book of the fallen and various spinoffs by Ericson and...
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Ggban007 reacted to DrunkonDuty's post in the thread Fans of long series of big novels, sound off! with Like.
Rivers of London is a big series, 9 novels, 3-4 novellas, half a dozen graphic novels. Lots of fun. I've just started a re-read of the...
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Ggban007 reacted to Olgar Shiverstone's post in the thread Fans of long series of big novels, sound off! with Like.
Very much depends on the quality and content of the series for me. I finally finished Feist's Multi-War (Riftwar, Serpentwar, etc)...
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A much shorter series (3 books) but indubitably doorstoppers from the 80s/90s was the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series by Tad Williams. I...
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See you in another ten years.... :p ((The way Erickson kills off well-liked characters makes G.R.R. Martin look like an amateur. And...
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I like big books and you other readers can't deny
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For me the biggest two are: Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson An awesome tale about compassion, and railing against...