Required reading.

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Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 14:46:14 2011 No.2353609 [Reply] [Original]

Required reading.

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 14:49:14 2011 No.2353620 File: 2 KB, 154x263, Pensive.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] link to pdf http://www.mediafire.com/?skk3e3jfiggmui5

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 14:49:14 2011 No.2353622 File: 31 KB, 313x398, firstsemesterEE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353609 Required reading for engineers

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 14:49:14 2011 No.2353624 File: 19 KB, 400x301, Revelation space.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Related.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 14:50:14 2011 No.2353625 >>2353620 But that's the book about the atheist monks not The Diamond Age.

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 14:51:14 2011 No.2353633 File: 3 KB, 104x126, Delight 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353625 I know!

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 14:52:14 2011 No.2353636 File: 36 KB, 310x500, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353624 Hey I'm reading that now too. Also required.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 14:55:14 2011 No.2353652 File: 34 KB, 320x475, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 14:56:14 2011 No.2353654 File: 55 KB, 510x680, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 14:57:14 2011 No.2353656 File: 3 KB, 250x242, Attention.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353625 ok, here's the actual diamond age file http://www.mediafire.com/?ghppq7972q0tebr

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 14:59:14 2011 No.2353668 File: 46 KB, 441x383, Win face.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353636 >mfw I have read all of Reynolds books an most of the short stories

wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:00:14 2011 No.2353677
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Does anybody else have libraries of pdf's and html documents they could upload? we could get a big sharing of knowledge thread going on.

ringworld, by larry niven
http://www.mediafire.com/?nzcovyz4ggc

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:02:14 2011 No.2353682 >>2353609 I just downloaded this for my nook, I was looking for another book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:03:14 2011 No.2353684 >>2353624 Terrible.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:04:14 2011 No.2353688 File: 284 KB, 1378x613, library_kindle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353677

wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:06:14 2011 No.2353697
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http://www.mediafire.com/?jvsig0mq0yzpj8l
road not taken, short story featuring the human race and inter stellar conquistadors. Why do humans win? the inter stellar drive is actually kind of ass backwards and when you start using it, you don't develop other tech as enthusiastically, /and/ you're busy conquering the shit out of people.

somebody else should share!

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:07:14 2011 No.2353705 >>2353688 ooh, what michael flynn books do you have? i'm reading january dancer right now.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:08:14 2011 No.2353706 >>2353705 The Wreck of the River of Stars. Seriously a must read. Absolutely brilliant in every respect.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:08:14 2011 No.2353708 liekd cryptonomicon not a fan of nanotechnologies

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:09:14 2011 No.2353717 I'm going to convert a few things here on my lib to .pdf and upload.

wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:12:14 2011 No.2353727

>>2353706
I've read the wreck, I wouldn't undersell it's quality, but it's tone doesn't suit me at some level. the characters shoot themselves in the foot by their unwillingness to communicate.

Have you read the other books that take place in that universe? like the fire star series?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:13:14 2011 No.2353737 >>2353727 Nope. Do you have the Firestar series?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:17:14 2011 No.2353748 >>2353737 Or the January Dancer. Both would be nice additions if you just happen to have them there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:18:14 2011 No.2353758 >>2353688 I wish I had time for that many books :-(

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:19:14 2011 No.2353760 >>2353758 I mostly don't, I add them at a rate far greater than the rate at which it read them.

wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:19:14 2011 No.2353763

>>2353748
unfortunately all my michael flynn stuff is in meat space exclusively. however it doesn't look like you have anything by kim stanley robinson, do you want the mars triology? I think nasa talked awhile about actually making red mars required reading for anybody working on colonization projects.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:20:14 2011 No.2353774 >>2353763 >meat space lol'd. >however it doesn't look like you have anything by kim stanley robinson >>2353688 >Second column >Kim Stanley Robinson

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:21:14 2011 No.2353778 Converted. Gathering and uploading as soon as I get back from taking my dog for a walk. inb4 I get mugged and shot and nobody gets to read anything.

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:23:14 2011 No.2353785 File: 21 KB, 589x375, Intrigued.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353778 that kind of pessimism doesn't suit someone that reads science fiction.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:28:14 2011 No.2353801 >>2353609 castle turing was a particularly awesome part of that book

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:30:14 2011 No.2353808 >>2353785 He's still a flesh-based lifeform. He should be worried, because flesh is fragile.

Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:33:14 2011 No.2353825
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I've posted this before, pic related:
Vinge - Across Realtime
http://www.mediafire.com/?ymkm3zzgtmy

Also:
Best Of Cordwainer Smith
http://www.mediafire.com/?t4eqe5nfc2m9nu9

Robert A Heinlein - Cat Who Walks Through Walls
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnfx5wof3na5b2n

Ken Macleod - The Cassini Division
http://www.mediafire.com/?216aaf8djqozy5z

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:34:14 2011 No.2353835 >>2353801 for some reason it seems like all his books end too abruptly, like in diamond age, huge shit just happens, and then bam, end, no exposition on what happens in the fall out.

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:39:14 2011 No.2353864

>>2353825

I have compiled and edited (The format was fucked) the copy of The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith, proofread against a physical copy I bought. I have a few stories left to correct (The format is, again, fucked for it came from a .txt file) but once it's done I will compile it along with Norstrilia and it's two previous versions (The Planet Buyer, prev. The Boy Who Bought Old Earth, and The Underpeople, prev. The Department Store of Heart's Desire)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 15:42:14 2011 No.2353873 >>2353785 Science fiction isn't all happy go lucky though.....

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:49:14 2011 No.2353902 I think I'm going to include some science and programming textbooks into the collection, just for the kicks and lols. An ultimate /sci/ book collection...

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:52:14 2011 No.2353916 Okay, I'm re-doing it in a more efficient way. Sometimes I think I should sit down and ponder the most efficient way to do something before brute-forcing it.

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 15:54:14 2011 No.2353923 >>2353873 for the mot part it relies on the assumption that tomorrow exists. That alone can be a rather optimistic stance in some circles.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 15:55:14 2011 No.2353927 >>2353825 >pic What viewer is that? Or did you just cat the file?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 16:22:14 2011 No.2354024 Colonel, I, for one, reeaaalllllyyyy appreciate you going to the trouble of providing us with some great sci fi. Thanks, /sci/lon. :3

>>	wolfram Sat Jan 15 18:19:14 2011 No.2354519 >>2354024 amusingly, the colonel himself hasn't yet posted any actual documents.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 18:52:14 2011 No.2354652 File: 32 KB, 301x303, 1286555354794.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] IT IS FINISHED 3D ART, PROGRAMMING, HISTORICAL, SCIENCE AND SCI-FI ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE MEGABYTES

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 18:59:45 2011 No.2354688 >>2353927 That's just normal notepad with windows colors. I miss Dos.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 19:26:14 2011 No.2354815 I think I will remove a few books here and there in the sf section to conserve the masterpieces, then upload. I can DCC it on #sci@irc.undernet.org if anyone's willing.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 21:29:14 2011 No.2355479 File: 2 KB, 116x127, 1289011473859.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] IT IS HERE http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en IT IS FINALLY UPLOADED AFTER AN HOUR AND A HALF AT 25 KBPS

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Jan 15 21:35:14 2011 No.2355503 File: 13 KB, 299x276, 1278731375161.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2355479 You are truly a furry god among men I will enjoy this on my soon-to-be-arriving Kindle

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 21:36:14 2011 No.2355511

>>2355503

>I will enjoy this on my soon-to-be-arriving Kindle

You're getting a Kindle too? Fuck yeah Kindle bros.

If I have time I will upload the whole of my Kindle's collection in the .mobi format since it's far lighter, and we can all share Kindle contents that don't use up 152 MB.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Jan 15 21:43:14 2011 No.2355537 File: 58 KB, 858x546, aweeklater.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2355511

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 21:44:14 2011 No.2355543 >>2355537 You know you can charge it by plugging the USB on the computer, right? The adapter was wholly unnecessary, mine is sitting next to my monitor and I have never used it because it's for silly American power outlets.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Jan 15 21:48:14 2011 No.2355567 >>2355543 Handy if I'm not around a computer/USB port. I knew I could charge it from USB; and I'll probably do that most of the time.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 21:55:14 2011 No.2355592 >>2355567 Ok then. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:04:14 2011 No.2355639 Bump for free science books. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:05:14 2011 No.2355643 Now that I think about it, I should have added a copy of leopardgirl.jpg in there just to troll you guys.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Sat Jan 15 22:05:14 2011 No.2355645 File: 8 KB, 250x250, saganblueback.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2355643

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:15:14 2011 No.2355690 bump due to the effort that went into this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 22:18:18 2011 No.2355701 >>2355643 I'd like to inform you that, if gengineering ever becomes relatively accessible, I will create sergals. Not for any evil purpose either.

Anonymous Sat Jan 15 22:21:14 2011 No.2355709

Thanks, downloading as I type.
Nice to see both Harry Harrison and Michael Moorcock on your screen cap.
Did you ever read Moorcocks Glorianna, The Unfulfilled Queen?
The best of his literary books (as opposed to those he cranked out during his amphetamine days)
Maybe I'm not looking properly but I can see no Gibson there.
I'm just rereading the Neuromancer trilogy on my brand new Kindle (oh god I love it so much) and it has lost none of the excellence that in many way ways changed my life

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 22:24:14 2011 No.2355720 Why is this board called /sci/, instead of the more appropriate abbreviation of /sci fi/??

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:28:14 2011 No.2355730

>>2355701

:3

>>2355709

>Did you ever read Moorcocks Glorianna, The Unfulfilled Queen?

Nope, not yet. I only got this internet connection two years ago and have read, pre-Kindle, only a few sci.fi books (You can't get them off the Internet, not in this place).

Also, as soon as I'm done with the editing, I'm going to post the whole of the Cordwainer Smith collection. The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia, for your enjoyment.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:28:14 2011 No.2355731 >>2355720 Just because we have artistic inclinations doesn't mean we don't appreciate science.

>>	Boomer !!bcdVCSUmpgT Sat Jan 15 22:29:14 2011 No.2355735 >>2355730 What is your country of origin, again? Also, dude, can you contact me over AIM?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 22:30:45 2011 No.2355736 >>2355709 Motoko Kusanagi = Molly millions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywsjvKeTb1k

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:32:14 2011 No.2355745 >>2355735 >What is your country of origin, again? I never stated my country of origin >;3~~ but nice try. >Also, dude, can you contact me over AIM? Sorry, never bothered. Do you use IRC?

>>	Boomer !!bcdVCSUmpgT Sat Jan 15 22:33:14 2011 No.2355747 >>2355745 I do use IRC.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:35:14 2011 No.2355752 >>2355747 irc.undernet.org Every now and then I create a #sci channel, most of the time I just stay idle on #casualchat to talk to a friend who's often there. Either Chimaera or Chimera are my nicks.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:46:14 2011 No.2355781 Is anybody done downloading? Any comments/suggestions?

Anonymous Sat Jan 15 22:47:14 2011 No.2355783
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Ok just finished downloading

Thank you very, very much, some old favourites, some I've wanted to read and hopefully some undiscovered treasures.

And anyone who hasn't got a kindle yet, get one,
It takes half hr to get used to it and then, dare I say it, it is better than a book.
It is so much more comfortable to lie in bed and not to have to hold a book open.
If you dispute this without having tried it, pls stfu.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:48:14 2011 No.2355785 >>2355783 lol just in time after I asked the question. I'm glad you enjoyed it :> If everything works out, I will have a better version next month, and make monthly releases or some shit.

>>	Scia Sat Jan 15 22:50:14 2011 No.2355793 Hey coffee mug i was wondering Whats the highest level of math you have ever taken?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:51:14 2011 No.2355795 >>2355793 I dunno. I know the math but don't know the names, and then I would have to translate it.

>>	Boomer !!bcdVCSUmpgT Sat Jan 15 22:52:14 2011 No.2355800 >>2355795 FOREIGN MATH! Augh!

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:53:14 2011 No.2355802 >>2355800 Yes. Foreign math designed to impart communist and heathen ideals on us foreigners to fuel the social-communist Obamacare conspiracy.

>>	Scia Sat Jan 15 22:57:14 2011 No.2355820 >>2355800 Have you gotten past Factoring Trinomials? Like could you factor -4X^4+8X^3-16X^2

>>	Scia Sat Jan 15 22:57:14 2011 No.2355824 >>2355820 Or are you at trig or calc?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:58:14 2011 No.2355828 >>2355820 I think I can.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 22:59:14 2011 No.2355833 >>2355828 I mean it just looks like another list of monomials.

>>	Scia Sat Jan 15 23:05:14 2011 No.2355858 >>2355828 The answer would be -4X^4+8X^3-16X^2 -4X^2(X^2-2X+4)

Anonymous Sat Jan 15 23:06:14 2011 No.2355861

>>2355793
Why are you asking?

>>2355820 is easy stuff. Even to a complete newbie it's easy to explain.

Of course you'll hear many people pretending the contrary on /sci/, since many people here are full of their beautiful mind and like the idea of being "smarter than the dumb masses who can't do math"...

>>	Scia Sat Jan 15 23:06:14 2011 No.2355865 >>2355858 You can reduce it further but my brain is to tired right now

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 23:08:14 2011 No.2355872 Colonel, I salute you, good sir. :3!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 23:11:14 2011 No.2355885 do you know the projective linear group? It's the general linear group modulo its center. GL(V)/Z(V). Do you know basic Galois theory?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 23:13:14 2011 No.2355893 File: 26 KB, 300x320, 1279325785794.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2355885 Why are you asking me this? And no I don't think I remember that. Then again I'm a year younger than you. Or two or whatever.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 23:15:14 2011 No.2355904 >>2355885 >off-topic attempt to turn this into a pissing contest /sci/ - mathematical wanking

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 23:18:14 2011 No.2355912 >>2355893 >Why are you asking me this? For one to show how fucking irrelevant it is and also because idiots who think that polynomial division is "advanced" fucking annoy me. Enjoy the rest of your thread.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 23:19:14 2011 No.2355917 File: 25 KB, 397x212, 2e1vi3d.jpg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2355912 I assumed as much.

>>	saganchan soon? Sat Jan 15 23:19:14 2011 No.2355918 >>2355912 Right, fuck off. I was getting tired of you too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 23:31:14 2011 No.2355955 Just downloaded. >mfw historical is larger than science >i have no face

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 23:39:14 2011 No.2355984 I put 14 of the books in sf in a sort of pending list, after I read them I will decide whether they are worthy of staying on the list or if they have to go to lesser lists. Because my upload speed is just shit.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 15 23:50:14 2011 No.2356011 Also, any suggestions of science books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 15 23:54:14 2011 No.2356035 File: 19 KB, 983x779, HexagonGeometry.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thank you very much CCM. Have this hexagon I made in mspaint.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 00:03:14 2011 No.2356075 >>2356035 I will save it for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:05:14 2011 No.2356084 >>2355479 Thanks

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 00:16:14 2011 No.2356127 Spread the love <3 www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:21:14 2011 No.2356147 OMg I love you

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 00:22:14 2011 No.2356148 So have you downloaded your BOOKPACK, /sci/? www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:22:14 2011 No.2356153 Diamond Age goes on and on about the failure of A.I. and how human brains are so special. Fuck it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:26:14 2011 No.2356171 >>2356148 Don't download it people, it's jam packed full of virii. I just downloaded it and my norton went haywire.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:32:14 2011 No.2356194 Why would anyone download anything from 4chan? It's bound to be child pornography.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:34:14 2011 No.2356199 >>2355479 send me your genetic code so i can make copies of you. i want to artificially bear your children

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:37:14 2011 No.2356212 File: 5 KB, 480x385, nluvu.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2356171 >norton There's your problem! Also, the plural of virus is viruses.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:37:14 2011 No.2356216 it's as he promised.. macborg with antivirus here..

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 00:38:14 2011 No.2356221 >>2356171 >"virii" you're retarded. Go to bed kid.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 02:16:14 2011 No.2356616 >>2356199 I dont trust others with my genome :<

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 02:26:14 2011 No.2356647 File: 32 KB, 419x658, 3549-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 02:54:14 2011 No.2356746 File: 58 KB, 331x500, anathem.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] has anyone read this? any good? i have it but have not started. want to read diamond age first.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 03:16:14 2011 No.2356839 >>2356746 I've read Anathem. I like it a lot. Snow Crash is actually my favorite book by him in terms of pure reading enjoyment. I feel that in Anathem he got the balance of "cool science shit" and actual story right.

>>	documentaries! Anonymous Sun Jan 16 03:16:45 2011 No.2356837 File: 383 KB, 606x1578, 1292362565888.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ok /sci/ it's late and I'm bored I need the best science or math documentaries you know of and where I find them online.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 07:36:14 2011 No.2357366 bumperro

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 07:42:14 2011 No.2357380 Also, now that I'm at it, I will suggest all of you to read Flowers from Algernon. It's a relatively short story included in the collection. ;____;

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 07:51:14 2011 No.2357400 If you get the chance read "Altered Carbon" by Richard K Morgan. "Player of Games" by Iain M Banks is a good one as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 07:54:14 2011 No.2357402 >>2357400 >banks socialist neo space opera pig swill

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 07:56:14 2011 No.2357405 wut science/programming books are in there?

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 08:02:14 2011 No.2357416

>>2357405

Pale Blue Dot, Cosmos, Engines of Creation, the Greatest show on Earth, The Lives of a Cell.

And in programming: Byte of Python, C for dummies, C++ Unleashed, Dive into Python, GNU Emacs Lisp reference and GNU Emacs manual, Inform Handbook, Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python, Java for Dummies, Programming in Emacs Lisp, Tcl and Tk for the Absolute Beginner, Tkinter for Python, Tutorial on Python Curses programming.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 08:09:14 2011 No.2357436 >>2357416 >Inform Handbook <3

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 08:38:14 2011 No.2357492 File: 74 KB, 395x405, 1290128508158.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2357436 I thought nobody else would know :3

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 08:39:14 2011 No.2357496 - mpd/did

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 08:43:14 2011 No.2357506 File: 61 KB, 454x700, guns-germs-and-steel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 08:44:14 2011 No.2357508 >>2357416 >emacs Just kidding, I don't care what editor you use.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 08:47:14 2011 No.2357514 >>2357506 Queued. >>2357508 I don't, I just thought someone would find it useful.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 08:54:14 2011 No.2357524 File: 69 KB, 233x327, Prinicipia-title.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] /sci/, I'm a dissapoint... If you understand his geometrical magic, huge respect for you.

>>	Tautoulogic !fcsdUrivQ. Sun Jan 16 08:58:14 2011 No.2357535 File: 44 KB, 500x500, 51uwzNETwDL__SS500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 11:39:14 2011 No.2358041 >www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en >www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en >www.megaupload.com/?d=KF10XU5Z&setlang=en Spread the love!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 12:20:14 2011 No.2358179 File: 21 KB, 313x475, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Add this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 12:23:14 2011 No.2358193 >>2358179 Oh God this. It's perfect for the inner 4channer in all of us.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 12:30:14 2011 No.2358218 >>2358193 So far I have only read Jpod and loved it. I should re-read it and write down the witticisms to steal them.

Anonymous Sun Jan 16 12:58:14 2011 No.2358329
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>>2357380
Oh god CCM, you're a magnificent bastard. You did that on purpose.

>P.P.S. Please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bakyard ...

I'm going to cry now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 14:13:14 2011 No.2358651 >>2358329 :\| :\| :\| :*\|

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 15:14:14 2011 No.2358928 File: 7 KB, 224x217, 1264173072024.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2358329 I know bro ;_; Will you huggle with me?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 15:40:14 2011 No.2359083 >>2358928 I think I'll sleep first and see if I'm still sad in the morning

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 16:05:14 2011 No.2359212
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>>2359083

>>2359083

Okay then, sleeping it off is good. That's what I did after reading The Ballad of Lost C'mell.

However it took five days of sleeping it off to get rid of the feeling of vacuousness.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 16:25:14 2011 No.2359328 bump for MOAR books

>>	pascal !PascaL9QAg Sun Jan 16 16:30:14 2011 No.2359348 >>2359328 Paol Anderson starfox

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 17:41:14 2011 No.2359790 >>2359348 >mfw CCM adds the whole Poul Anderson collection and the filesize triples

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 18:07:14 2011 No.2359933 File: 60 KB, 318x470, zubrin_mars.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2359790 >mfw I have only read Tau Zero and liked it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 18:24:14 2011 No.2360018 >>2353609 ai can't pass the turing test? why would I even bother to read this?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 18:57:14 2011 No.2360211 File: 23 KB, 450x338, 1268423890940.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2360018 I think you need a break from reading Accelerando, kid.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 19:09:14 2011 No.2360289 you need to stop getting your science from science fiction I like a nice story, but if its so out of the range of the facts I know to be true then its just disappoiting and not the kind of entertainment I would like to spend my time on.

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 19:18:14 2011 No.2360345

>>2360289

>you need to stop getting your science from science fiction

Who says I do?

>I like a nice story, but if its so out of the range of the facts I know to be true then its just disappoiting and not the kind of entertainment I would like to spend my time on.

The sf collection is mostly hard science fiction and some classics I added just because.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 20:18:14 2011 No.2360628 File: 51 KB, 273x242, 1294057913491.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353609 Colonel, you sexy, sexy man. If I had the head of some kind of cat I swear to God...

Anonymous Sun Jan 16 20:35:14 2011 No.2360721

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 20:49:14 2011 No.2360783 >>2360628 Oh don't start it. The thread has been good so far and there has not been a single instance of leopardgirl.jpg.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 21:51:14 2011 No.2361067 >>2359212 i don't get it. the only part i found in the least bit disapointing was that a genius mind was destroyed, and all of it's potential lost. also, is all this stuff from #bookz ?

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 21:57:14 2011 No.2361094

>>2361067

>i don't get it. the only part i found in the least bit disapointing was that a genius mind was destroyed, and all of it's potential lost.

But it was just depressing. Also, do you mean Flowers for Algernon or The Ballad of Lost C'mell? I'm assuming the former.

>also, is all this stuff from #bookz ?

Some of it, yeah. But then again that's kinda like asking "Is all of this mud from the ground?" bro.

On a semi-related note, I added a Vim cheat sheet and compiled a good tutorial into .pdf format <3

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 22:01:14 2011 No.2361103 >>2361094 yeah, the former well there are plenty of good books that aren't on #bookz

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 22:02:14 2011 No.2361107 >>2361103 And those I find through Google. Like the two Blender books I included there. And the Tcl/Tk for Beginners one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 22:02:14 2011 No.2361109 >>2361094 well it wasn't depressing enough to cry about >>2361103 im ^ this guy

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 22:04:14 2011 No.2361120 >>2361109 >well it wasn't depressing enough to cry about I didn't cry, sure, but Jesus. That last line.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 22:34:14 2011 No.2361237 File: 70 KB, 278x411, 1294961698030.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2359212 >mfw I suddenly remember seeing that magazine on my grandfather's nightstand, in a corner of the drawer Oh God the implications. Oh God.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 16 22:42:14 2011 No.2361274 Just got a ton of virii off this.

>>	General Tea Cup Sun Jan 16 22:43:14 2011 No.2361278 >>2361274 Yeah, my norton went off as well from this.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sun Jan 16 22:47:14 2011 No.2361299 File: 49 KB, 376x358, interesting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2361274 >2011 >still uses Windows!

>>	General Tea Cup Sun Jan 16 22:50:14 2011 No.2361306 >>2361299 No I'm using a PC, normally I use my mac though.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 00:09:14 2011 No.2361655 >>2361306 That's only mildly acceptable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 00:16:14 2011 No.2361675 >>2361655 mildly unacceptable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 00:42:14 2011 No.2361800 >>2361094 Just finished the C'Mell story. I can see why you love it. Not a bad story.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 06:48:14 2011 No.2362835 bumping a good thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 09:54:14 2011 No.2363443 >>2362835

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 10:09:14 2011 No.2363485 So if I want to get into cyberpunk, is The Diamond Age a good start? I'd prefer something a bit more near-future, but providing a detailed setting is the most important part.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 10:30:14 2011 No.2363537 >>2363485 I think The Diamond Age is post-cyberpunk (Not a silly "hurr durr humins be evil" dystopia), but I guess sure.

Anonymous Mon Jan 17 12:31:14 2011 No.2363876

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Though I'd like to see the sf section dedicated to purely hard science fiction books.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 12:55:14 2011 No.2363957 >>2363537 Jeez I'm working on it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 13:32:14 2011 No.2364092 File: 107 KB, 429x410, happy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >this thread is still here

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 13:35:14 2011 No.2364104 >>2353609 Of course, you need to read Snow Crash before you read The Diamond Age, otherwise you'll miss the references..

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 14:07:14 2011 No.2364238 >>2364104 It had that many references I lost?

>>	GUY Mon Jan 17 15:15:14 2011 No.2364448 Holy necromatic threads batman! This thing is still alive. >>2364238 there were a couple, like YT is the teacher in new atlantis, but not a whole lot.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 15:29:14 2011 No.2364498 >>2364448 >there were a couple, like YT is the teacher in new atlantis, but not a whole lot. Oh, that I assumed from the tvtropes page.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 15:36:14 2011 No.2364530 >>2364498 I assume you visit TVTropes frequently? So you can avoid the usual clichés and tropes in your own works?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 15:47:14 2011 No.2364572 File: 10 KB, 200x189, 1295132162001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read it before you did, ASSHOL! You probably haven't even read Snowcrash, have you? Neal Stephenson is mai husbando and mai husbando alone. Get the fuck out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 15:49:14 2011 No.2364583 >>2364572 Excuse my anger but I am a giant hipster and can't bear to see my so obscure tastes be picked up by mainstream flaming furfags who want to yiff all day and night. Such cases.

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>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 16:14:14 2011 No.2364709 >>2364530 Yeah, I visit it a lot, but if all my works were to be trope-free then I might as well delete it all. I'd say it's mildly original but fuck.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 16:15:14 2011 No.2364720 >>2364583 >implying my furfaggotry isn't more about deep-rooted psychological issues

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 16:34:36 2011 No.2364837 >>2364720 >implying there's ever any other reason for furfaggotry. You're exactly like Sonichu, just slightly better at not looking retarded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 16:38:14 2011 No.2364862 >>2364837 Wait, maybe I shouldn't be spreading grief and jackassery via the internet. Nevermind, brah, you're cool with me.

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 16:56:14 2011 No.2364929
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>>2364862

>implying I'm like chris-chan

I may be a slightly misanthropic self-diagnosed not-really-assdburgers-but-close-to-it-or-whatever, but hey at least I have friends and meet up with them every at most ~2 weeks +/- five days.

And I don't hoverhand or hoverbody like this guy.

Yeah I'd call it hoverbody.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 16:58:14 2011 No.2364938 The Jade Empire

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 17:42:14 2011 No.2365168 fuck off you stupid namefag

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 17:44:14 2011 No.2365189 >>2365168 You know you love me for supplying all of you with books.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 19:28:14 2011 No.2365674 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 17 22:10:14 2011 No.2366550 >>2353620 That's not The Diamond Age.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jan 17 22:58:14 2011 No.2366869 File: 47 KB, 400x400, 1291512321528.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2366550

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 02:20:14 2011 No.2367957 up you go

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 07:09:14 2011 No.2368793 This shit's still alive?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 13:04:14 2011 No.2369968 Colonel, don't leave us!

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Tue Jan 18 14:38:14 2011 No.2370425 >>2369968 Don't worry bro.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 16:38:14 2011 No.2371001 up goes the thrad

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 16:51:14 2011 No.2371079 Hey Colonel Coffee Mug, what kind of formats does the Kindle open and how does it handle A4 pdf?

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Tue Jan 18 16:51:14 2011 No.2371086 >>2371079 http://packratstudios.com/index.php/2008/05/04/how-to-hack-your-amazon-kindle-to-read-all-your-ebook s-and-documents-including-pdf-doc-xls-chm-lit-etc/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 16:53:14 2011 No.2371096 >>2371079 It opens azw and .mobi ebooks (use calibre to convert .epub stuff). A4 pdf looks ok on landscape orientation but is annoying to scroll through.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 16:55:14 2011 No.2371124 >>2371086 >>2371096 ok, thanks

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 17:21:14 2011 No.2371310 Oh goodie, this is still here. Is there an audiobook version available for any of these? Or any other good sci-fi books? In before ADD

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 17:22:14 2011 No.2371320 seconded, I want an audiobook of this.

Anonymous Tue Jan 18 17:33:14 2011 No.2371398

Can anyone recommend any of the books in this thread to me? I'm a huge fan of libertarian or quasi-libertarian sci fi writers. I've read nearly all of Heinlein's work (Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of my all time favorites) and The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith is amazing, as well as Phillip K. Dick's work. Any suggestions, kind sirs?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 17:35:14 2011 No.2371414 >>2371320 http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3979759/Neil_Stevenson_-_The_Diamond_Age.rar Found this, but apparently it has bad sound quality and the files are in the wrong order.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 17:47:14 2011 No.2371509 >>2371414 we need something better :/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 18:19:14 2011 No.2371719 What a great thread. Just want to say that Diamond Age and Snow Crash are two of my favorite books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 18:22:14 2011 No.2371740 >>2371719 Oh, and here is another torrent for ya'll http://theaudiobookbay.com/audio-books/the-diamond-age/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 18:23:14 2011 No.2371754 >>2371740 requires login :/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 18:24:14 2011 No.2371762 >>2371754 good enough site, take the 15 seconds.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 18:27:14 2011 No.2371785 >>2371762 *to register god i'm tired.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 18:34:14 2011 No.2371841 >>2371719 are there any good books like them?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 18 23:10:14 2011 No.2373198 bump because awesome thread

>>	BioTechFag Tue Jan 18 23:36:14 2011 No.2373286 >Genome: The Autobiography of a Species >The Selfish Gene >After Man: A Zoology of the Future >The Demon-Haunted World >Endless Forms Most Beautiful >The Singularity is Near

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 06:29:14 2011 No.2374715 good thread deserves a bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 09:32:14 2011 No.2375157 BUMP!

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 11:23:14 2011 No.2375441 >>2373286 I had three of those, anyways I will get the others and properly add them. And thank you guys for bumping this! I didn't expect it to last so long!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 11:25:14 2011 No.2375443 >>2375441 We're just waiting for moar stuff. And we want to see how long we can keep this thread going.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 11:50:14 2011 No.2375513 I was planning to deliver the scibooks monthly.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 12:10:14 2011 No.2375581 >>2375513 No point in keeping this thread alive then. Four days is enough I guess.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 12:12:14 2011 No.2375588 File: 7 KB, 74x57, zubrin-trollin-5.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2375581 Fuck it, in that case (And because I will probably finish in less than a month) I shall deliver... TOMORROW! PREPARE YOUR ANUSES

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 15:50:14 2011 No.2376347 >>2375588 Let's keep this up then

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 17:25:14 2011 No.2376819 bumpo!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 17:26:14 2011 No.2376829 What should I start reading if I want to get into sci-fi?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 20:12:14 2011 No.2377810 >>2376829 Well you always have colonial's usual list: House of Suns, the Diamond Age, First Landing, Coyote, in mostly that order.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 20:14:14 2011 No.2377825 I saw this thread about a week ago is this the same thread since then?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 20:15:14 2011 No.2377834 >>2377810 Thanks Colonel. Could I call you Furry Colonel?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 20:19:14 2011 No.2377853 wat teh fuck i bought the book a week ago from your reccommenndatioon, you betta not dissaappoinnt kill diz thread already. I'm starting to become angrified

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 20:20:14 2011 No.2377859 >>2377825 Yes. >>2377834 I don't see why not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 20:25:14 2011 No.2377887 >>2377859 Awesome. What about Asimov, or Bradbury? (I'm a complete ignorant when it comes to literature T_T)

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 20:30:14 2011 No.2377920

>>2377887

I like Bradbury. I liked both The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.

Asimov: I read him when I was younger, starting with Foundation and going through the whole series. I loved him back then but then again, I had read nothing of sci-fi. As I read other works I realized Asimov wasn't nearly all that good: He was a scientist but his Foundation series (I can't speak for the other many, many books he wrote) were all messed up scientifically, even if it was just for the plot, it was all very static (Nothing changes after thousands of years), and the characters were pretty flat. I liked the plots, but I don't know why people say his vision of the future was so amazing ( ._.)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 21:04:18 2011 No.2378154 I consider Bradbury to be more a fantasy author than scifi. Then again, I also consider Burroughs to be more scifi than Bradbury.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 21:27:14 2011 No.2378297 Finishing up the Cordwainer Smith collection. Gave up on editing a few of the stories. They are just too long to do it manually, but I will ask around /g/ if they know how to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 21:55:14 2011 No.2378490 buuuuuuuump

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 22:23:14 2011 No.2378682 File: 18 KB, 480x360, 1292042661258.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OH GOD IT'S DONE THE CORDWAINER SMITH COMPILATION IT IS COMPLETE

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 22:39:14 2011 No.2378785 Added: 22 Articles and Essays by Sagan The Selfish Gene Genome: Autobiography of a cell

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 22:41:14 2011 No.2378795 >>2378785 well link the download already, man.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 22:42:14 2011 No.2378804 >>2378795 I'm still adding a few others ;)

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 23:12:14 2011 No.2378969 Fuck this, I can't upload this right now. I will just shut down and get over my real-life duties and upload later.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 19 23:20:14 2011 No.2379000 >>2378969 inb4 thread 404s before he returns

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 23:23:14 2011 No.2379021 >>2379000 Probably.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 23:39:14 2011 No.2379121 File: 628 KB, 1600x900, Screenshot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Contents of Carl Sagan folder. Also, in the sf folder, items with the [] before their names are the ones I'm dubious whether to keep or not.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Jan 19 23:53:14 2011 No.2379198 Just one last bump before I leave.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 00:05:14 2011 No.2379262 File: 137 KB, 448x352, 1285355133958.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2379121 whoa

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 06:44:14 2011 No.2380554 there's no 404 for you just yet

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 10:16:14 2011 No.2380998 We demand a link.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 11:04:14 2011 No.2381194 Uploading now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:07:14 2011 No.2381208 This should get archived!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:24:14 2011 No.2381272 Thanks!

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>>	Christian Scientist Thu Jan 20 13:29:14 2011 No.2381874 Diamond Age in the collection?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 13:36:14 2011 No.2381901 >>2381874 Yes, along with all of the works of Cordwainer Smith personally compiled into "The Rediscovery of Man".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 13:38:14 2011 No.2381908 File: 90 KB, 525x700, 1289068565674.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2381853 Thank you >holy shit! :-)

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 13:48:14 2011 No.2381946 File: 30 KB, 640x480, 1285625727669.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2381853 Many thanks.

>>	Christian Scientist Thu Jan 20 13:49:14 2011 No.2381952 File: 135 KB, 500x428, 3619964116_c926641cf9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Cheers!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 13:52:14 2011 No.2381961 File: 60 KB, 441x338, mfw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw

>>	Frey Thu Jan 20 13:55:14 2011 No.2381974 File: 64 KB, 1024x768, 1292639703002.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2381853 Thanks bro. Wizard cat approves of your post.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 13:58:14 2011 No.2381987 File: 23 KB, 284x423, 12768435561.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2381853 I never get to use this image.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 14:02:14 2011 No.2382008 File: 17 KB, 451x316, 1264945548091.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2381853

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>>	Scia Thu Jan 20 15:25:14 2011 No.2382361 >>2379121 Which OS is that?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 15:27:14 2011 No.2382368 >>2382361 Ubuntu.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 15:27:14 2011 No.2382370 >>2382361 Ubuntu 10.10 -- Normally I use Crunchbang, but this is a new comp, and I need to get another CD for the 64 bit version.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 15:49:14 2011 No.2382506 How can I get a good deal on a Kindle?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 15:52:14 2011 No.2382525 >>2382506 You can't.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 15:56:14 2011 No.2382544 File: 42 KB, 150x150, 1295345483478.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2382525

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 15:56:14 2011 No.2382545 File: 3 KB, 210x230, 1293912937518.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2382506 You can't. But it's more than worth it. Even if you end up paying three times the price.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 16:01:14 2011 No.2382567 File: 17 KB, 189x182, face77.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2353609 You and your nanotechnology CCM.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 16:15:14 2011 No.2382628 File: 141 KB, 195x195, 1289168146571.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2382567 Nanotech > AI.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 16:41:14 2011 No.2382717 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 17:32:14 2011 No.2382953 up this one goes

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 17:33:14 2011 No.2382955 File: 27 KB, 264x351, 1273986034556.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2381853 CCM delivers.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 18:03:14 2011 No.2383078 Thanks for your request. It has been added to our database and the thread will be archived as soon as enough request for that thread have been made. This thread has been requested 2 times now.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 18:09:45 2011 No.2383121 So, CCM, what you gonna do with all the points you get from this? Build the space elevator?

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 18:10:14 2011 No.2383126 >>2383121 What points? Megaupload gives people points due to downloads. Uh. brb account

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 18:14:14 2011 No.2383152

>>2382628
Nanotech = AI = bullshit utopia pipe dream

Nanotech will amount to nothing more complex than cellular machinery, which isn't the god tech you make it out to be. Big advancements will come from the technology, no doubt, but your assumption that it will lead a revolution into an entirely new state of civilization is unfounded.

Hope is never a good thing to integrate into predictions either.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 18:18:14 2011 No.2383178 >>2383152 It doesn't have to be a utopia, it might as well lead into a self-destructing nanoanarchy.

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 18:23:14 2011 No.2383205

>>2383178
It still relies on god tech capabilities that many not even be possible let alone predicted. The most we could hope for is the equivalent of repurposed cellular machinery.

It also seems like you are implying nanotech will bring about a sudden jump in technological power of doing. Advancements will likelly progress how they always have, one invention at a time. One person will develop a process that create one specific type of cellular machine. Another person a decade later may make the process a little easier and then a decade later another person may make it slightly more efficient. There is no reason to predict a sudden nanotech revolution.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 18:25:14 2011 No.2383221 >>2383205 What if Diamond Mechanosynthesis is proven feasible? Research into it is still being conducted and this will continue until someone proves it doesn't work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 18:39:14 2011 No.2383316 bumpin and requesting archite

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 19:06:14 2011 No.2383464

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 19:21:14 2011 No.2383561 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 19:31:14 2011 No.2383600 Thanks for your request. It has been added to our database and the thread will be archived as soon as enough request for that thread have been made. This thread has been requested 4 times now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 19:35:14 2011 No.2383620 >>2383600 I see your four and raise you a five. Thanks for your request. It has been added to our database and the thread will be archived as soon as enough request for that thread have been made. This thread has been requested 5 times now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 19:35:45 2011 No.2383622 >>2383600 >6 times now

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 19:45:14 2011 No.2383669
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>Thread 2353609 has already been archived.

>It is probably still waiting to be reviewed by the mods, which means it can take a few days until it is available in the archive.

>mfw

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 20:14:14 2011 No.2383896 File: 36 KB, 277x350, 1266368991555.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2383669 GREAT SUCCESS

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 20:34:14 2011 No.2383979 File: 12 KB, 85x84, zubrin-trollin-4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Everybody post Zubrin to celebrate the archiving.

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>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Thu Jan 20 20:56:14 2011 No.2384071 >>2384043 The thread was already archived with no instances of furryness, please don't start now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 21:20:14 2011 No.2384169 File: 216 KB, 422x422, Hella_jeff_mousepad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2384043 How about I slap your shit so hard it causes a vacuum metastability event?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 21:24:14 2011 No.2384185 >>2384043 I don't know whether to hate you or ask for source, so I'll do both - I hate you, source?

GLaDOS !!29iUolj25tH Thu Jan 20 21:42:14 2011 No.2384235
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Attention Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q, your link have been DLed and archived on a back up source. The FBI will ass rape you hurr.

Seriously, no one that is a scientist will give a fuck, so no worries about take down. However, the links have been archived with your name attached to them. I do this for awesome individuals that take the time to give back to the people of 4chan, anonymous or tripfag. That said, is there a message you would like to put onto this awesome copy pasta text for future readers to see?

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 21:46:14 2011 No.2384249

The Diamond Age was fucking boring and you know it. Nothing happens except for an army of little girls killing a bunch of angry Chinese people. He even resorts to using sanitized versions of old cultures in lieu of inventing a convincing/interesting future society.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 21:46:18 2011 No.2384248 >>2384185 Your hate only makes my nipples harder. Sauce is a somewhat amateurish-looking webcomic named Slightly Damned.

GLaDOS !!29iUolj25tH Thu Jan 20 22:11:14 2011 No.2384369
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>>2384235
Fine then, this is the copy pasta of win.

By Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q

Stephenson, Neal - Anathem.pdf
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Stephenson, Neal - The Diamond Age.zip
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Ringworld.zip
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turtledove road duo.zip
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Across Realtime - FULL.txt
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Smith, Cordwainer - Best Of Cordwainer Smith.txt
http://www.mediafire.com/?t4eqe5nfc2m9nu9

Robert A Heinlein - Cat Who Walks Through Walls.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnfx5wof3na5b2n

Ken Macleod - Fall Revolution 3 - The Cassini Division.pdf
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scibooks_[CCM,15,1,2011]_[v.11.1].zip
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scibooks_[CCM,20,2,2011]_[v.11.2].zip
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Q: Hey Colonel Coffee Mug, what kind of formats does the Kindle open and how does it handle A4 pdf?

A: http://packratstudios.com/index.php/2008/05/04/how-to-hack-your-amazon-kindle-to-read-all-your-ebook
s-and-documents-including-pdf-doc-xls-chm-lit-etc/

Audio:
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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:16:14 2011 No.2384394 >>2384369 >Heinlein I LOVE YOU GLaDOS

>>	GLaDOS !!29iUolj25tH Thu Jan 20 22:24:14 2011 No.2384433 >>2384394 Please look at >>2353825 And kindly preform Eugenics on your gentiles

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:33:14 2011 No.2384482 >>2384248 Thanks brah.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 02:31:14 2011 No.2385707 We need more threads like this. Much much more.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Fri Jan 21 08:48:11 2011 No.2386648 >>2384369 Fuck I had left lol.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Fri Jan 21 09:57:14 2011 No.2386870 File: 23 KB, 320x240, 1251511965499.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw my post caused the thread to autosage Time to start deleting people.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 10:12:18 2011 No.2386910 >>2386870 >start deleting people lol brutal

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Fri Jan 21 10:21:14 2011 No.2386929 Here's the complete collection of Cordwainer Smith formatted by me if anyone wants it individually. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7G290P2X

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 12:16:50 2011 No.2387292 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 12:22:14 2011 No.2387309 Shit! No! Don't die yet! Only six days, we need to get a full week.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 12:36:14 2011 No.2387355 >Tons of shitty sci-fi I can see how this is /sci/ related.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 12:46:50 2011 No.2387375 >>2387309 Only one day left for the next Sat.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Fri Jan 21 14:10:29 2011 No.2387726 bemp?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 16:45:29 2011 No.2388474 bemp

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Fri Jan 21 19:31:20 2011 No.2389403 Bemp.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Fri Jan 21 23:56:09 2011 No.2391020 Five minutes to a full week!

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 22 00:01:14 2011 No.2391048 File: 113 KB, 364x336, 1291772213648.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Aaaand a whole week of this thread. Fucking win even if I say so myself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 22 00:11:14 2011 No.2391102 I'll stop bumping now. This was a good thread, thanks CCM.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 22 00:50:14 2011 No.2391331 File: 38 KB, 480x640, 1286174127111.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw all the free sf books in this thread Now I just need to find the time to actually read some of them.

Anonymous Sat Jan 22 00:58:14 2011 No.2391378

>>2384249
>>The Diamond Age was fucking boring and you know it.

you know I had actually stopped reading it because I was finding it too dense and slow-paced and I thought nothing of interest was ever going to happen

>>Nothing happens except for an army of little girls killing a bunch of angry Chinese people.

but reading that, hmm, now I actually kinda want to finish the damn thing
thanks!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 22 04:25:14 2011 No.2391954 bump for SCIENCE!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 22 06:31:14 2011 No.2392370 wat

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 22 10:34:14 2011 No.2392975 Fucking SATURDAY. One whole fucking week.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Jan 22 10:36:14 2011 No.2392978 A whole week, guise >;3~~

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 22 15:35:14 2011 No.2394074 One whole week :3

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