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Commented on Ouch!
I like to ensure my web experience is solid and runs cross-platform. And my choice of browser experience involves NoScript being enabled by default. And I cater to folks who think like me. So: no AJAX-based comments. I agree...
Commented on Books I will not write, #1 (of an ongoing series)
Hominids have spread out and occupied almost all ecological niches, including parasites and scavengers, but there's no actual humans per se. Meh, if it's a sapient Homo, it's a Human to me....
Commented on PSA: New Book Deal
I used to be a huge sucker for this sort of thing, but I have apparently gotten a lot better: this time I caught on when I read Readers commented favourably on the interpersonal romance subplots in the Merchant Princes...
Commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
Torrents are usually large collections. Single books (or small collection - trilogies, etc.) are often shared on image boards by putting the book in a rar or zip and embedding it in an image (often a picture of the book...
Commented on More Flame Bait
Consoles are for kids? Really? What is more childish is pointless console/PC fanboyism from either side. If there are no exclusive games you want to play on given platform, sure, don't bother with it. But most adult gamers I know...
Commented on More Flame Bait
IA64 is Itanium, the competitor IBM's POWER series. AMD64/x86-64 are the correct terms. x64 is incorrectly used by many Windows kiddies (but at least it isn't referring to something else). And yes, there are several distros that work on PPC...

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bellinghman commented on Ouch!
Not in all cases. With BitTorrent-style peer-to-peer protocols, the more people interested in something, the better it performs. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to implement a distributed blog architecture....
Charlie Stross commented on Ouch!
AhahaHaHA! ... Oops. Tim, that would be logical. But this is the publishing industry you're talking about. Even the big publishers don't get that kind of real time fine-grained information. Bookscan -- the best book sales tracking network out there -- only captures about 50% of sales (in the US) and can tell you how they're doing from week to week. (In the UK, bookscan is a lot more efficient and, I'm told, captures everything, with daily granularity. But even so ...)...
klaupaucius commented on Ouch!
Can you tell, what blog engine do you use?...
Charlie Stross commented on Ouch!
Movable Type, somewhat customised, backing onto MySQL, on Linux ( not saying what flavour lest someone goes dumpster-diving for backdoors)....
Charlie Stross commented on Ouch!
Teresa, I don't think Bookscan in the UK knows who is buying what books -- merely how many copies of each title are sold. (I'm told Hachette's ability to track sales around the UK is astonishing to an almost scary degree -- able to track down to number of copies of a given title per individual store per day -- but again: they don't know who is buying them, much less who is reading them.) The most reassuring thing about the server-melting experience was learning that my ISP doesn't consider it to be an unusual load -- they have other...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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