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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 6, 2023 0:15:50 GMT
Kevin, I became aware of the immense opportunities offered by computers and the internet after I retired in September 1999, and was refused a book in English by a German publisher because the potential readership was too small for its publication to be profitable. I was so frustrated that it was then that I imagined POD, and concluded that if I, an average consumer, could imagine it, then surely some businessmen would think about it, and ask R&D engineers to devise the machines to make POD feasible. You sound very 'gifted'. Although in retrospect it's easy to claim such things. I was fortunate in some of the industries I worked in. I could spot needs. Visualise something to fill them, design them. Put them in to production.
However. Perhaps you should write SF? Many writers of such keep their eyes and ears open for cutting edge technology, new inventions that may show promise and often just theories, and expand on them in to fiction. Often expanding on them so much they become to be seen as potential fantasy to the 'common' man. Often it can even work in reverse. Quite a few inventors and scientists say they got an idea from SF!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 6, 2023 15:26:48 GMT
The beginning was with an intranet in 1968, a scientific and academic network. April 30, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) put the web into the public domain. Per Popular Mechanics The WWW was invented by a British chap called Tim Berners-Lee. Granted he worked at CERN at the time. He's currently head of the World Wide Web Consortium.January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. It is? But its been around since the 1960s, created by the US armed forces to make sure crucial information was not stored all in one place, but easy to get hold of. Basically they were worried about some eggs in one basket getting vaporised, then universities thought it was handy for sharing information. The WWW was only proposed in writing in 1989 and a lot of the protocol code conceived in the mid 1900s. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. Per USG That's prior to the WWW. Prior to that humans had to ring each other up asking if they could communicate via their roomed sized computers.The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network. Per History Channel There you go then. But the History channel is not always to be believed
Something about collective effort is niggling...
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 7, 2023 0:27:40 GMT
Nope, I said he came up with the WWW, not the internet, just as it says at your link "The internet needed to be easier to use. An answer to the problem appeared in 1989 when a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal to his employer, CERN, the international particle-research laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee proposed a new way of structuring and linking all the information available on CERN’s computer network that made it quick and easy to access. His concept for a ‘web of information’ would ultimately become the World Wide Web." CERN had nothing to do with development of the internet, they just used computers and the internet and Tim Berners-Lee devised a way of improving communications access to them, and to computers around the world working on the same thing, Nuclear Research. I bet he had no idea it would eventually be used for clandestinely gathering information about everyone and thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg&t=12swww.youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf48Dhyns&list=RDiDbyYGrswtg&start_radio=1&rv=iDbyYGrswtg
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Post by potet on Apr 7, 2023 22:38:03 GMT
However. Perhaps you should write SF? Many writers of such keep their eyes and ears open for cutting edge technology, new inventions that may show promise and often just theories, and expand on them in to fiction. Often expanding on them so much they become to be seen as potential fantasy to the 'common' man. Often it can even work in reverse. Quite a few inventors and scientists say they got an idea from SF! I was keen in SF when I was a teenager. Now that I am old and impotent, I have developped a great interest in pornography. So far, I have written a single bisexual pornographic novel in French. As it is very bold, it cannot possibly be published. I drew from it a bowdlerized version. Even this milder text would surely offend the average reader. I censored it, and obtained a pornographic book that should be tolerable for people of age interested in such literature. I am waiting for its draft that will be delived on Tuesday next week. I'll leave it aside long enough to have sufficiently forgotten it. Then I'll read it again, and slash off every part that is still too strong for publication. For the final edition my model will be the modern translation of Petronius' Satiricon - wherever a passage is missing, the term LACUNA replaces it. It gives flavour to the resulting text and titillates the reader's imagination. In the foreword, I explain that, after the author's demise, the manuscript was found by the author's half-brother who happens to be the vicar of a village church in my province of Burgundy. This priest eliminates all the passages that are unacceptable, but keeps all the rest because it is mainly a series of utopias written in a straightforward style. Here is the cover.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 7, 2023 23:49:18 GMT
One man's porn is another man's erotica. Or women even. But it depends why you are writing it. What's the purpose of it? I suspect 50 Shades of Grey, just as an example (not really porn, but titillation, apparently) was simply the writer putting her fantasies in to words. And then for some reason, self-publishing them. ( I wonder why she stuck her real name on it?) But perhaps she tamed it down quite a lot from the draft. Is that what you are doing, without the taming down?
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 7, 2023 23:51:51 GMT
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 7, 2023 23:54:42 GMT
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Post by potet on Apr 9, 2023 9:24:56 GMT
One man's porn is another man's erotica. Or women even. But it depends why you are writing it. What's the purpose of it? I suspect 50 Shades of Grey, just as an example (not really porn, but titillation, apparently) was simply the writer putting her fantasies in to words. And then for some reason, self-publishing them. ( I wonder why she stuck her real name on it?) But perhaps she tamed it down quite a lot from the draft. Is that what you are doing, without the taming down? Yes, I am 'taming it down' in view of its publication. The process is very simple. You write down everything that comes into your mind leaving nothing aside. Once the novel is finished you turn yourself into a puritan censor, and you erase everything that is shocking, or, when possible, you use periphrastic descriptions, e.g. he seeded his slave's garden in the palanquin of his camel from the market to his mansion. Thus you obtain the publishable version. In my blurb, supposedly written by a fictitious critic, I warn that the purpose of bold passages is to lure free minds, while frightening away readers with the erotic outview of a sexton.
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Post by potet on Apr 9, 2023 9:29:48 GMT
Thanks a lot, Kevin, for the two links.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 10, 2023 0:40:40 GMT
One man's porn is another man's erotica. Or women even. But it depends why you are writing it. What's the purpose of it? I suspect 50 Shades of Grey, just as an example (not really porn, but titillation, apparently) was simply the writer putting her fantasies in to words. And then for some reason, self-publishing them. ( I wonder why she stuck her real name on it?) But perhaps she tamed it down quite a lot from the draft. Is that what you are doing, without the taming down? Yes, I am 'taming it down' in view of its publication. The process is very simple. You write down everything that comes into your mind leaving nothing aside. Once the novel is finished you turn yourself into a puritan censor, and you erase everything that is shocking, or, when possible, you use periphrastic descriptions, e.g. he seeded his slave's garden in the palanquin of his camel from the market to his mansion. Thus you obtain the publishable version. Not Porn then. That's the equivalent of old films, where they have a train entering a tunnel, or a falling chimney filmed in reverse.In my blurb, supposedly written by a fictitious critic, I warn that the purpose of bold passages is to lure free minds, while frightening away readers with the erotic outview of a sexton.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 10, 2023 0:45:31 GMT
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Post by potet on Apr 10, 2023 10:39:31 GMT
Kevin wrote: "Not Porn then. That's the equivalent of old films, where they have a train entering a tunnel, or a falling chimney filmed in reverse." All the same, it is "interdit aux moins de 18 ans" (forbidden to people under 18) because I lent a bowdlerized copy to a former colleague of mine, and he was shocked. LOL
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 10, 2023 23:58:27 GMT
Things change. YA fiction now is nothing like how it used to be. I think someone eventually realised that in most countries they can legally have sex at 16. And note I say legally ... Although the age divisions at Lulu and Amazon are still a bit old fashioned, and I expect at most other American SP places also.
There's a bit of a fuss in the UK about some schools considering showing porn. Reason being is sociological I think. Showing the good the bad and the ugly side of sex and how sex and women are often portrayed, and how they should be. There's even talk of teaching sex to starting at the age of five, and even explaining all the different genders there seems to be now. Helps to stop them growing confused I suppose.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Apr 10, 2023 23:59:38 GMT
Have you let the average YA view your missive yet? It could surprise you.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 11, 2023 13:42:55 GMT
Things change. YA fiction now is nothing like how it used to be. I think someone eventually realised that in most countries they can legally have sex at 16. And note I say legally ... Although the age divisions at Lulu and Amazon are still a bit old fashioned, and I expect at most other American SP places also. There's a bit of a fuss in the UK about some schools considering showing porn. Reason being is sociological I think. Showing the good the bad and the ugly side of sex and how sex and women are often portrayed, and how they should be. There's even talk of teaching sex to starting at the age of five, and even explaining all the different genders there seems to be now. Helps to stop them growing confused I suppose. In reality the 'human male is always 46XY and human female is always 46XX' is not the fast and certain rule many people would like to think it is, just as genders [the mental aspect] isn't what so many would like to believe.
Off the top of my head in addition to 46XY and 46XX you have 45X, 46XY CAIS [Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome where the individual is sterile but appears female from birth], 46XY AIS [Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome marked by a sliding scale of intersex characteristics], 46XY Female [reason for developing as female unknown], 46XX Male [reason for developing as male unknown], 47XXY, 47XYY, 46XY SRY-negative [meaning the SRY gene is missing or disabled so the fetus develops as female], 46XX SRY-positive [one X carries the SRY gene meaning the fetus develops as male], and there are others I'm certainly not aware of.
The reason for restrictions on YA adult literature is due to the fact the US federal age of consent is 18, meaning 'children' being exposed to frank discussions on sex is frowned upon.
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