Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

On 31/12/2007, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Adrian Levi wrote:
> > On 30/12/2007, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600
> >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and
> >>> the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
> >>> Wernher von Braun
> >>>
> >> Reminds me of Asimov's "The Feeling of Power":
> >> http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html
> >>
> >> Celejar
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for posting that, I really enjoyed reading that. I Asimov was a
> > forward thinker. To write that in his time(1958), even now it has
> > context and is believable...
> >
> But at only 49 years old it is unlikely to be out of copyright! A lot
> of the items on that site may be in the public domain, but an Asimov
> short story is unlikely to be one of them. I see nothing on the site
> that suggests that this individual has checked for copyright on the text
> that he has posted. He only says that the items are things that
> interest him.

>

>

It's also available on this website and does attribute copyright, go figure. http://www.themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.htm

Adrian

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