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Hmm, how about some very near future. The break up of the Euro is increasingly likely - how likely? lets say somewhere between 1 and 25% probability of occurrence in the next two years. On the assumption that the break...
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My reading of the thought experiment was that if human aging slows by a factor of ten, then the same factor would apply to the period of female reproduction fertility. However, if that is not the case, you end up...
Commented on iPad corner
Hmm interesting ideal laptop/slate combo you put forward there. Can't comment on transformer ergonomics as I don't have one yet... but I am not convinced there is anything that wonderful about the iPad 2 either. Usability well, based on Android...
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Hmm. I know the answer to this one. Sell the Ipad and get and Asus transformer with docking station. Tell me you haven't been considering it....
Commented on Beer in Manhattan
I wasn't aware that Charlie was in Boston last week and as I only fly over there on Saturday morning - getting to last weeks show wouldn't have been doable. Never mind...
Commented on Beer in Manhattan
Your road trip does take you to Boston next weekend by any chance does it? If you are there and speaking, I will drop by....
Commented on Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
I do enjoy your posts Charlie!! Interesting read on the articles of faith underlying Wikileaks and I would suggest not too far aware from the thought process that informs our coalition overlords when they publicise swathes of government spending. It...
Commented on Books I will not write #4: Space Pirates of KPMG
Damn your eyes - such interesting blog posts when I am nominally working. I will be back later with some questions...

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Greg. Tingey commented on Head crash
Martin @ 245 YES Salmond is, actually, interested in only one thing. More power for Alex Salmond. He's really, really slimy, I'm afraid. See my earlier comments on the puritanical nannying-complex that the SNP has....
brucecohenpdx commented on Head crash
And as I recall one of the reasons things blew up in the Balkans was the lack of a central authority to stop people from trying to take back lands lost in battles 400 years or more ago. AIUI, the problem was more that there was a central authority (the Serbian administration of Slobodan Milošević) that was actively involved in trying to take back lands lost in battles 400 years or more ago. As it usually happens, attempting to right old wrongs became equivalent to avenging old grudges on all sides....
Moderator Alan commented on Head crash
It may be understated, but lying there turned off it's still a Kindle (or Sony eReader, or whatever). What it's not is a Gollancz Yellow, or O'Reilly Animal, or whatever. The primary brand is inevitably dominated by the reader, if only because it's larger than the screen it contains. For someone watching from across an aisle, it's going to remain that way. When someone is reading a traditional book on a train, I can usually make out what it is that they're reading - which general genre if nothing else. With an ebook, that's not currently possible. It's as if...
Moderator Alan commented on Head crash
It's also a lot slower popping forwards and backwards. With a paper book, if I want to quickly check something elsewhere in it, I can stick a finger at the current place and open the book at the other point. I've not yet seen anything electronic which manages that access that quickly....
Moderator Alan commented on Head crash
I find that what I most frequently want to jump to is the copyright page, to check when whatever was written. Either that, or the 'other books by' if I think I might be at the wrong point in a series....

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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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