> You want to get up and switch out the cartridge every time you wish to play another game?

I'd love to be able to plug in 10 cartridges and leave them there instead of swapping media.

Sound may be a better analogy than you realize. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction

You can't go home again.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy.

The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.

Blindsight, by Peter Watts.

But correlation does not imply causality, so you don't know for sure that it worked!

"Who the f*ck rated this garbage 'Insightful'?!?!"

Literal interpretation FAIL.

If it ever navigates "the freezing depths of the Northern Sea" it will just be a very expensive nuclear powered shipwreck.

It goes more like this:

1) ???
2) Ditch Java
3) Profit!

The Opus site links to this great writeup explaining why 16bit/48khz audio all we'll ever need for consumer audio distribution: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

Those who live in a paradise don't want more people to move there.

Asher is my favorite guilty pleasure. I would argue that he is on the hard end of the spectrum because it really is about the tech and aliens and AI ruled Polity and so on. These things are all central to the action rather than being backdrops or flavoring, and the space opera generally has some philosophical undercurrents.

Neal Asher writes a huge range of great monsters, action scenes with excellent pacing, firefights on seriously ridiculous scales, parasites with weird life-cycles, strange aliens and ecologies, and is just unreasonably fun to read. If he has a fault, it's underdeveloped villains with questionable motivations, but I'm happy to overlook them and get on with the good stuff.

Try Adaptogenic for an introductory Asher fix: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/adaptogenic.htm

Blindsight, besides being the best thing I've ever read, has a rather stark outlook on the nature of consciousness and what that means for us as human beings. I don't consider it depressing, though some might, and Watts calls his portrayal of human nature "almost childishly optimistic."

From Watts' homepage: "Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts." —James Nicoll

> My prediction for the VP candidate is going to be a Cheney 2.0

I misread this and thought yes, a Cherry 2000 would make for a very interesting election.

The headline is not the question asked by the submitter.

In other news: making games is much harder than playing them.