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To: jcholewa who wrote (21116)	11/30/2000 8:48:37 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

JC: If you reply, do so in the unmod thread if you can ... I'm in a rush so didn't have the opportunity to move the topic. :) I was going to reply, but then thought that I'd probably just get another email from JC asking me to stay On Topic ;). (well, more "off election", but still...) Anyway, this isn't totally OT, because I did want to ask you something else: Have you read the EBNews story Andreas mentioned? ebnews.com Have you heard ANYTHING about an API chipset for AMD? The article is a bit vague, in that it has some old quotes followed by something that may or may not be new: The Concord, Mass., company said in January that it is working on a four- and six-way capable chipset, called Tasman, for the Athlon. A complementary two-way chipset, called Caspian, has been validated in the laboratory and will be formally announced in January, said Guy Ludden, a marketing manager at API NetWorks. -fyo

To: jcholewa who wrote (21116)	11/30/2000 10:03:15 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 275872

JC, Clarke's 2001 book was a novelization of the movie written afterwards; the movie was in turn (loosely) inspired by a Clarke short story, "The Sentinel". The book was Clarke's long winded response to Kubrick's interpretation. So he disagreed with Kubrick, so what, I don't imagine anybody beyond SF people will ever much care what Clarke wrote. Kubrick is in a different class. Without 2001 the movie, Clarke might at best be remembered for allegedly inventing geosynchronous satellites, as if the idea weren't a standard first year physics problem.

To: jcholewa who wrote (21116)	11/30/2000 1:02:36 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

JC, Re: OT: I very much like Clarke's early books (anything before the 1980s, as most of his later sequels are incredibly poor stories). Yes, his latest books were a little bit disappointing. Since Clarke is in his eighties now this isn't that surprising. But I liked his "Rama" series (together with Gentry Lee) very much. The first book was written in the 70's but the three sequels are newer (90's). From the older books "Fountains of Paradise", "Songs of Distant Earth" and "Childhood's End" are very good -- I'd highly recommend then to you if you haven't read them. I have read virtually everything from him... IMO he's one of the greatest Science-Fiction authors of the century. The book was loads better than the movie. The movie retained much of the strong plot of the book, but overly confused its ending and happened to be about four times slower than it should have been. IMO the book was only one possible interpretation of the movie. The book was very straight forward and didn't let much speculation left. The movie on the other hand was very difficult to "understand" at the first time and had many interesting concepts that could be interpreted in many different ways. IIRC Clarke and Kubrick developed the story together but the actual screenplay was written by Kubrick alone while Clarke was writing his "version" of the story. If you reply, do so in the unmod thread if you can I know I should but ... just too lazy. Sorry. Won't happen again. ;) Andreas