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Comment Re:I love books (Score 1) 165

I suppose it depends n the authors you enjoy. Niven and Baxter have both produced excellent works in recent decades. For instance, "The Destroyer of Worlds" series is an excellent capstone on Known Space.

Comment Re:I love books (Score 1) 165

Baxter & Pratchett's "The Long Earth" anthology has quite a bit of wonder, but they are experience authors. Paolo Bacigalupi's newer, and there are some interesting ideas and nuggets of wonder in things like "The Windup Girl..

Comment Re:Ctrl-Z (Score 1) 202

I am familiar with UNIX shell job control, and I was not stating that undo came first... only that your insinuation it was some ("modern") Windows-centric thing was in error.

However I will say, it hardly matters if there was an alternate shortcut assignment in some other context a few years beforehand. Particularly when the earlier form has been used by many fewer people in comparison.

Comment Re:lol, mine slurps 100M (Score 1) 110

Text resources are usually sent gzip compressed, and unpacked by the client. The original screed covers this, but it's somewhat buried, and also seems to be overlooked in a lot of the discussion. I would expec in your example that transferred is just that, the compressed bits over the network, while"resources" is how large the data unpacks to.

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