GrandGranini - Slashdot User

Comment K. W. Jeter (Score 1) 1130

by GrandGranini on Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:22AM (#40931169) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._W._Jeter

Invented Cyberpunk ("Dr. Adder", published in 1984, but written much, much earlier, and delayed due to graphic and extremely weird sexual content).

Invented and coined the term Steampunk ("Morlock Night", 1979).

Wrote the book with arguably the biggest number of cool scenes ever ("Farewell Horizontal", 1989). Seriously, read it. This book is nuts.

Also, was a very good friend of Phillip K. Dick's.

Jeter's output in the 80's was nothing sort of astounding. Sadly, he was reduced to doing a lot of hack work in his Star Wars and Bladerunner novels later on, and is all but forgotten today.

Comment Re:Forrest? (Score 2) 64

by GrandGranini on Monday March 12, 2012 @10:14AM (#39325701) Attached to: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud Dies At 73

Heh. I read "Les Naufragés du Temps" in a german edition when I was ten. I wonder what a child psychologist would have to say about that :)

"Digital Universe" Enters the Zettabyte Era 137

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @11:00AM from the less-than-half-porn dept.

miller60 writes "In 2010 the volume of digital information created and duplicated in a year will reach 1.2 zettabytes, according to new data from IDC and EMC. The annual Digital Universe report is an effort to visualize the enormous amount of data being generated by our increasingly digital lives. The report's big numbers — a zettabyte is roughly a million petabytes — pose interesting questions about how the IT community will store and manage this firehose of data. Perhaps the biggest challenge isn't how much data we're creating — it's all the copies of it. Seventy-five percent of all the data in the Digital Universe is a copy, according to IDC. See additional analysis from TG Daily, The Guardian, and Search Storage."

Submission + - Survey: Windows loses ground with developers (infoworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @10:07AM

An anonymous reader writes: InfoWorld is running an article that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls 12 percent, according to an Evans Data survey of North American developers. The arrival of Windows Vista likely only kept the numbers from being even worse.

Activation Problems in iPhone Paradise 434

Posted by Zonk on Monday July 02, 2007 @01:09AM from the long-wait-short-celebration dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Unfortunately it appears that some activations of Apple's new iPhone have gone badly. After waiting in line 36 hours I'm still unable to activate my phone. I'm documenting the AT&T circus call by call on my blog. I've had my hold calls dropped, been patched into other users unable to activate their phone instead of AT&T customer service reps, been told that my wife must get a new phone and that the family plan can't work for me. I've been told that the problem is that I'm not putting a new chip into my iPhone in the slot on the left side of my phone when no slot there exists. PR Blogger Steve Rubel has also been documenting his problems on his Twitterstream. According to an unscientific poll being conducted by Engadget about half of the people who bought iPhones have had activation trouble with about 38% of problems still unresolved." Even the folks at MacWorld weren't immune to these issues.

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