Infinite Loop

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Funny

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Infinite Loop
Meghan O'Brien
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Regan O'Riley is a shy software developer who believes she'll never find a woman who can appreciate her self-admitted geekiness. Mel Raines is a lonely cop haunted by a painful past. She has spent years avoiding intimacy with anyone in her life, and she has no intention of changing.

Mel and Regan have a chance meeting in, of all places, a straight bar, and both are surprised at the instant chemistry that springs up between them. But their new connection is put to the test when tragedy strikes Mel's life, forcing her to reconsider her career and her path for the future. When Regan suggests an impromptu road trip to the American Southwest, Mel is eager to grab hold of a temporary escape from reality. But in close company, these two will be tested in ways they never expected. What will happen as they re-examine their choices and their definitions of family? Can Regan and Mel manage to get past obstacles that seem insurmountable?

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Funny.......2006-08-01

This book was entertaining.

Reagan is a computer geek and Mel is a cop. How do those two fit together?

Come along and see how they go thru funny and serious times.

Refreshingly Different Romance.......2006-04-05

Infinite Loop by Meghan O'Brien is another refreshingly different romance novel that has hit the bookshelves lately. It is, however, the type of romance story everyone thinks they want to read, but often have second thoughts after she realizes that idealistic novels don't always entertain. It is the perfect romance story. Right? No one leaves, no one gets stalked, no one is stubborn beyond belief, and best of all - no one gets shot in the end. It's great! Well, without all the drama, what's left?

A pretty good romance, that's what. O'Brien pulls it off. Officer Mel Raines meets geeky software engineer Regan O'Riley in a straight bar and immediately they make a connection. Mel's the typical drop dead gorgeous, dark, player type with no intentions of settling down, and Regan is overly shy, geeky, but cute, and too busy to even try to fit in with mainstream society, even if she did have the confidence.

The two both have issues to deal with in their lives, and soon after their meeting they form a bond and a relationship and head off on a cross country journey. The journey represents a growing and awakening process that both must go through. Mel decides that being a cop is not what she really wants to be doing, and Regan decides that sometimes you have to step out and take a chance to find true love. Surprisingly there is still a lot going on in the story. It took me a while to read, but I kept wanting to come back to see how Mel and Regan were doing. There was no rush; they would be there safe and ready to continue their journey.

O'Brien is a good storyteller, slowly revealing bits of information about the characters through dialogue between Mel and Regan while the story progresses. We get to know them as they get to know each other. It makes the reader feel a part of the story almost. This is a great recipe for hot love scenes as well. Nothing is taboo between these two young lovers as they explore and learn about each others body.

At times it did feel a bit too perfect, but it was all very sweet. It was a nice change from all the cliches we all know and love. I don't like to compare, and the stories are not at all alike, but this book reminded me of the classic Curious Wine for some reason.

Characters So Real You Can Almost Touch Them..........2005-09-26

Meghan O'Brien has outdone herself with this incredibly realistic story of falling in love and facing old demons. Regan O'Riley considers herself the epitome of geekiness, but she's a really cool geek. She has always been one to seek solitude through her computer and video games. Her parents never really knew or understood her, but they were always supportive -- that is, when Regan let them be. Mel Raines is a sexy cop and womanizer. Her past (mother died young, father is an abusive alcoholic) is better left alone, but that all changes after she meets Regan at a straight bar while at a bachelorette party for her college roommate. Scared of being just another notch in Mel's headboard, Regan confronts Mel with their situation. This is a turning point for both of them, and the real beginning of their story.

After Mel's cop partner is shot on duty, Regan suggests they go on an extended road trip. While on the road, both women face demons from their past, but they do it together. They visit their families, make new friends, and discover the joy of being in love for the first time in their lives.

At 282 pages, this book is long enough to tell the whole story of their budding relationship. O'Brien is masterful in describing every scene from tender glances to maddeningly erotic sex. The characters' emotions jump off the page, helping the reader feel like they're in the scene too.

What a wonderful book! Here's hoping for more from O'Brien in the not too distant future.

Awesome.......2005-08-10

Meghan is one of my favorite writers. Infinite Loop is a very well written story that's hard to put down. The characters are interesting and vulnerable without the usual emotional weakness found in so many lesbian books. I definitely recommend this book.

Infinite Loop Spaces: Hermann Weyl Lectures, The Institute for Advanced Study. (AM-90) (Annals of Mathematics Studies)

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A charming and readable introduction to infinite loop spaces

Infinite Loop Spaces: Hermann Weyl Lectures, The Institute for Advanced Study. (AM-90) (Annals of Mathematics Studies)
John Frank Adams
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Rigorous, but very understandable.......2002-10-06

Although published in 1978, this book could be used as an introduction to the theory of operads and other recent work on homotopy theory and vertex operators. Vertex operators are not discussed in this book, but the theory elucidated herein is good background material for their study.

The author does a great job in motivating the subject in chapter 1. Loop spaces are function spaces of maps from the unit interval to a space with a chosen basepoint, with the property that each map sends 0 and 1 to the base point. The mathematician Jean Pierre Serre introduced the path space in order to study loop spaces, resulting in the famous Serre fibering. The nth homotopy group of the loop space can be shown to be equivalent to the (n+1)-th homotopy group of the original space. The homology of loop spaces can be calculated for some types of spaces, such as wedges of spheres. Infinite loop spaces are essentially sequences of spaces such that the nth element of this sequence is equivalent to the loop space of the (n+1)-th element. This sequence is also known as an "Omega-spectrum" and has the infinite loop space as its zeroth term. The name "spectrum" comes from general considerations involving sequences of spaces where the nth term is equivalent to the loop space of the (n+1)-th term; equivalently, where the suspension of the nth term is equal to the (n+1)-th term. The author reviews how a generalized cohomology theory yields an Omega-spectrum, giving two examples involving Eilenberg-Maclane spaces and complex and real K-theory. One can also start with a spectrum and construct a generalized homology and cohomology theory. Spectra and cohomology theory are thus essentially equivalent.

Chapter 2 is an overview of techniques needed to construct a category of spaces with enough structure so that the infinite loop space functor yields an equivalence from the category of spectra to the category of certain spaces. An example of the latter is given by the Stasheff A-infinity space, and its now ubiquitous property of having a product which is strictly associative. This property allows one to prove that a space is equivalent to a loop space if and only if the space is a Stasheff A-infinity space and that the zeroth homotopy of the space is a group. The Stasheff A-infinity spaces are also used to motivate the construction of 'operads'.

The next chapter the author is concerned with the concept of a space being like another one without being equivalent to it. He discusses the use of 'localization' in homotopy theory, an idea that is analogous to the one in algebra. The use of localization in homotopy theory is due to D. Sullivan, and involves use of the notion of a space being 'A-local', where A is a subring of the rationals. Remembering that a Z-module is A-local if it has the structure of an A-module, a space is A-local if its homotopy groups are A-local. Examples of the use of localization in constructing certain spaces are given. The author also discusses the use of the 'plus construction' that allows the alteration of fundamental groups without affecting the cohomology groups. Then after the construction of the Quillen higher algebraic K-theory groups in this regard, the author describes the relation between a topological monoid and the loop space of the classifying space of this monoid. This involves the notion of 'group completion', which is essentially an isomorphism between the homology of the path components of the monoid and the homology of the loop space of the classifying space of the monoid, but in the (infinite) direct limit.

Chapter 4 introduces the concept of a transfer map. A very elusive idea at first glance, the transfer map is motivated via the n-sheeted covering map of a space on another. The (singular) simplices of each then get matched up by the covering, and the transfer map between the spaces is then defined so that it is equal to the sum of the singular simplices of the covering space. It is in fact a chain map as shown by the author. The transfer maps are related to homotopy classes of the 'structure' maps of chapter 2, and the author gives a few examples of how they are used.

Chapter 5 is a quick overview of the Adams conjecture, which is essentially an assertion that the image of KO(X) in KF(X) can be characterized explicitly. Detailed proofs are omitted but references are given for the interested reader.

In chapter 6, the author restricts his attention to the K-theory of spectra. The treatment is concerned in large degree with the question of the existence of infinite loop map between infinite loop structures, and finding such a map, checking whether it is unique. This question is answered for particular types of spectra, via the Madsen, Snaith, and Tornehave theorem. Also, the Adams-Priddy theorem is proved, showing that one can construct on a space a unique infinite loop space structure. The reader gets more examples of the use of localization, in that some spaces can become equivalent as infinite loop spaces upon localization. The origin of K-theory in this chapter comes from the replacing of spectra that are not known by ones that are (namely the ones in classical K-theory). The author shows how the Madsen-Snaith-Tornehave theorem works in the context of both complex and real (periodic) K-theory. Detailed proofs are given for all of these results.

A charming and readable introduction to infinite loop spaces.......2000-05-15

Reading this book made me excited about infinite loop spaces, which I had always imagined to be a very dry topic. Adams informal style reads as smoothly as a purely expository work, but gave me enough understanding and insight to make me feel like I could fill in the details myself if I needed to. Even if this isn't always literally true, it certainly oriented me well enough to be able to make sense of the literature. I especially liked the discussion of A_infty spaces.

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How Apple wrotes the story of the PC; then got written out of its own story
The best history of Apple Computer yet
The story of Apple doesn't get better then this.
A library read
Informative and entertaining

Infinite Loop
Michael Malone
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Release Date: 1999-02-16

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Apple Computer has made for good copy over the years. From its beginnings in the garage owned by Steve Jobs's parents and the launch of the Macintosh to the regimes of John Scully and Gil Amelio, Apple's story is irresistible and has been captured in books such as The Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz, The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki, Insanely Great by Steven Levy, and Apple by Jim Carlton. Now in Infinite Loop, Michael S. Malone offers what may be the best rendition yet of Apple's storied past.

Malone's account begins deep in the heart of Santa Clara Valley and the early lives of Apple's two founders, Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Malone seamlessly interlaces his accounts of the forces that shaped the two Steves--from the nascent electronics industry of the '60s and companies such as Sylvania and Hewlett Packard to Jobs's work at Atari and his repeated, and often deceitful, manipulation of his genius friend, the Woz. From these early beginnings, Malone takes the reader through the life of Apple Computer: its founding and launch of the Apple I, the return of Steve Jobs, the rollout of the iMac. In the end, Malone, a journalist who grew up in Silicon Valley and first covered Apple in 1979, writes that Apple was a company with lots of attitude but one that was bereft of character, and only when that fact was laid bare "did the essential hollowness of the enterprise stand exposed." Infinite Loop is a wonderfully written, even gripping, corporate biography that anyone who has fallen under Apple's spell will enjoy. Recommended. --Harry C. Edwards

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The inside story of how one of America's most beloved companies--Apple Computer--took off like a high-tech rocket--only to come crashing to Earth twenty years later.

No company in modern times has been as successful at capturing the public's imagination as Apple Computer. From its humble beginnings in a suburban garage, Apple sparked the personal computer revolution, and its products and founders--Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak--quickly became part of the American myth.

But something happened to Apple as it stumbled toward a premature middle age. For ten years, it lived off its past glory and its extraordinary products. Then, almost overnight, it collapsed in a two-year free fall.

How did Apple lose its way? Why did the world still care so deeply about a company that had lost its leadership position? Michael S. Malone, from the unique vantage point of having grown up with the company's founders, and having covered Apple and Silicon Valley for years, sets out to tell the gripping behind-the-scenes story--a story that is even zanier than the business world thought. In essence, Malone claims, with only a couple of incredible inventions (the Apple II and Macintosh), and backed by an arrogance matched only by its corporate ineptitude, Apple managed to create a multibillion-dollar house of cards. And, like a faulty program repeating itself in an infinite loop, Apple could never learn from its mistakes. The miracle was not that Apple went into free fall, but that it held up for so long.

Within the pages of Infinite Loop, we discover a bruising portrait of the megalomaniacal Steve Jobs and an incompetent John Sculley, as well as the kind of political backstabbings, stupid mistakes, and overweening egos more typical of a soap opera than a corporate history. Infinite Loop is almost as wild and unpredictable, as exhilarating and gut-wrenching, as the story of Apple itself.

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How Apple wrotes the story of the PC; then got written out of its own story.......2007-02-25

At first the story of the PC industry's scruffy origins, "Infinite Loop" becomes the cautionary fable of Apple Computers - from the garage to the iMac (1999 - the book closes before the dot-com bust and the "iPod".) Though I can't vouch for accuracy, "Loop" is encyclopedic and compelling though at times prone to hyperbole. (Malone uses words like "technologist" in their simplest sense or "guru" and Steve Jobs's famous "reality-distortion field" as if these words were real.) "Loop" is an incredible tale - of great achievement mixed with catastrophe, and promising more of the latter. Apple created great products or at least great ideas, but profits were often stymied and market share eroded. Malone makes an interesting point comparing Apple to Intel, the CPU giant that didn't create the market for processors over which it now reigns with near supremacy - having to find its way in an existing market ensured that Intel would remain a real and practical company; Apple arose when computers were largely fantasy - unsurprisingly, Malone's Apple remains a fantasy of a company.

Bringing computers to the masses, Apple's story unsurprisingly recounts the dawn of American cyber culture. The concept of PC's seems to predate capable technology and quality-assurance. (The original "Apple I" debuted in a time when people bought computer kits, and had to supply their own cases; later Apples suffer all sorts of QA problems.)

Malone offers a fascinating study of a techno-cultural revolution - in which the techno-savvy (who once comprised the entire market for computers) and market-savvy worked with and against each other to bring PC's to a generation of Americans who hadn't yet embraced the VCR (and never learned how to program them). The two sides were best typified by the founding Steves of Apple - Wozniak & Jobs. "Woz", a brilliant, if feckless engineer, was easily the genius of the two, but he was otherwise manipulated like a chess piece by Jobs. If Woz was the brains of Apple, Malone has Jobs as Apple's heart. Charismatic, yet childlike, entrenched in the computer industry while lacking any genuine background in their technology, given to mercurial whims and not infrequently making himself unwelcome, Jobs's life soon eclipses the evolution of computing in the story of Apple's rise and fall.

As Apple grows into a real company (in Malone's view, a genuine-looking company, soon to be robbed of its primacy when real competition appears), the strains appear. When the issues were technological, Woz rescued Apple - among other things, Wozniak refined the iconic Apple II and invent practical disk-drives. IBM entered the fray with its MS-DOS based machines - setting the stage for cheap, if initially unfriendly computers to exile Apple to the market's fringes. With Woz marginalized, Jobs courts John Sculley to take over as CEO, then gets ousted by a Sculley-backed board. In one of the ironies that will prove typical in Apple's story, the two will exchange verbal blows before Apple's board citing each other's respective weaknesses - each side's character assessment will prove painfully accurate. Moreover, the Sculley-Jobs war will set the pattern for succession of Apple's leadership - battles for control of Apple between flawed characters roughly equal in their capacity to doom the company.

Apple peaks at the dawn of the Macintosh - the Mac was impressive, and the "1984" spot aired during Superbowl XVIII is now legendary, but sales were disappointing, the result of mistakes that rendered the machine overpriced and underpowered.

With the arrival of IBM PC's and clones, "Loop" concentrates on Apple rather than the industry which has already begun to marginalize it. The story falls into a bit of a loop itself - returning to contradictory failures and successes, market share and profit margins, boardroom battles, unpopular execs and repeated calls to regain market share by licensing Mac-clones.

"Loop" is a great read, but loses steam in its latter half when it focuses on Apple - we know that Apple is being cut off from that larger digital world, but Malone never shows us how much that world had changed since the days of Woz's garage. Instead of a story showing technology changing the world, we've got dueling execs, indistinguishable from those in other corporate-fables. Malone interjects a bit much, which obscures the line between fact and subjective observation. (ex.: when a post-Apple Sculley is asked to comment on the course of the industry, Malone basically writes "Who the f**k cares what Sculley thought?" - we get the idea, Sculley=bad.) Also, Malone is perhaps a tad too forced in charting how Apple would have progressed had the principals (mostly Jobs, but also Woz) seen the obvious. (Malone has Woz demonstrating a terminal he built/designed for another company well before the dawn of Apple - was the conceptual link between that terminal and the internet that slim?) Lastly, Malone's closing with Jobs's return and the debut of iMac seems forced - with the dot-com bust that followed "Loop", the finality of a story ending in 1999 is, to the say the least, premature. As mentioned by others, Jobs gets tarred here, but he's not alone - painful and embarrassing flaws haunt all of his successors. Worse than failure, they failed and shunted away.

Though weaker in the end, "Loop" is still consistently readable, a compelling (if dated) tale of a company and a dream of all it could be.

The best history of Apple Computer yet.......2005-09-13

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Rating: "A" -- a fresh treatment of a familiar story. Required reading for Macintosh users and people interested in the computer business (and/or strange entrepeneurs).

The basic Apple story -- Wozniak & Jobs in their Silicon Valley garage, Apple's meteoric rise, Job's tantrums & dismissal, Apple losing the market to IBM & Microsoft, falling to a near-bankrupt niche player; then Job's return & Apple's resurrection -- is well-known to anyone with even a casual interest in the computer business. So why would anyone write -- or read -- a new book about Apple?

For the simple reason that Malone's written the best one yet. Lots of fresh details and anecdotes: Jobs lied to his partner early, and stole $3000 due Wozniak. Jobs dated Joan Baez (note 1) after he became a millionaire. Jobs deserted his first child, and resisted paying child support for years. Jobs' legendary visit to Xerox PARC, & then borrowing their graphic interface for the Mac -- didn't happen that way. Apple was already far along on the Mac GUI project, and Jef Raskin should get the credit for inventing the Mac interface. Jobs first tried to kill the Mac project -- he championed the ill-fated Lisa (named after his abandoned daughter). When the Lisa failed, he pushed Raskin aside, and claimed the credit for the Macintosh.

Steve Jobs clearly isn't a nice guy -- but Apple couldn't have succeeded without him, as Wozniak was hopeless at business and marketing. And Apple went off the rails after he got the boot -- John Scully, who Jobs hired away from Pepsi, proved sadly inept as a hi-tech CEO, as did his successors Spindler and Amelio. Whatever Jobs' faults, he's a master marketer and visionary.

So Apple drifted along, lacking anyone in charge with an instinct for the jugular -- someone like (for instance) Bill Gates, who tried at least twice to get control of the Mac OS. What a pity he didn't; millions would have been spared the horrors of early Windows versions, and I wouldn't be stuck with an increasingly less-useful Macintosh (sigh).

Malone argues that Apple's mixed success and failure reflects the founders' personalities -- true enough, I suppose, but what I find more interesting is Jobs and Wozniak as two more poster-children for "successful inventors and entrepeneurs who are really weird." These people aren't usually well-balanced -- think J. Paul Getty, Howard Hughes, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates -- ranging from mild eccentrics to monsters. Which doesn't take away from their accomplishments, but serves as cautionary tales for those who must deal with such personalities. The trick being, of course, to maximize their contributions and minimize the collateral damage. Easier said than done, especially once they graduate to multi-billionaire status...
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(1) well, she's just barely old enough to be his mother...

review copyright 1999 by Peter D. Tillman
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The story of Apple doesn't get better then this........2003-01-10

What can I say. Great Book!!! I got hooked right from the foreword. The writing is crisp and the author has done a elegant job of balancing the history,technology and, people connected with Apple.The chapters are excellently divided according to the stages the company went through. For eg. the first chapter is called 'ROOTS', then 'SEED', 'SPROUT', 'SAPLING' etc. For me this the best book on Apple or for that matter the best book on the history of any computer company. Bravos to you Mr. Malone.

A library read.......2002-09-26

Typo laden and factual errors-- and NO citations. (Come on!)

I enjoyed reliving some of the computing history that I grew up in, but one error for example describes the Atari 2600 as their venture into the home computing market (it was simply a cartridge based game machine to my recollection). Malone also seems to want to villify Jobs and portray everyone else as having a tragic flaw as if this was all a giant Greek tradgey. I had to return this book to the library as I became sickened by the arrogance and personalities, backstabbing, and ruthless (anti)corporate politics of the Silicon Valley business world portrayed here.

Of course it could all be true.

Informative and entertaining.......2002-08-02

Michael S. Malone's Infinite Loop: How The World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane is the tale of a company that had it all - and blew it.

In the early days of personal computers, Apple had superior technology and customers that displayed fanatical product loyalty. Its young founders became instant archetypes of the bravado and creativity that made the U.S. high-tech industry the envy of the world. But Jobs and Wozniak achieved too much too early in life, and Apple, it seems, lost its magic.

From the unique vantage point of having grown up with Jobs and Wozniak, and having covered Apple for years as a journalist, Malone manages to tell a fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the world?s most insanely great company.

As a technophile, I very much enjoyed this book. As a Mac addict I couldn?t help wanting to put my hands over my eyes and scream as I read about some of the company?s great blunders.

No review would be complete without also noting that while Malone brings to this account authority and understanding of the big picture, his disgust with Steve Jobs at times oozes from the pages of this book. Still, Infinite Loop is a great read and the most comprehensive account of Apple Computer?s history. I also recommend The Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz (if you can find it).

Stochastic Analysis (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)

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This book accounts in 5 independent parts, recent main developments of Stochastic Analysis: Gross-Stroock Sobolev space over a Gaussian probability space; quasi-sure analysis; anticipate stochastic integrals as divergence operators; principle of transfer from ordinary differential equations to stochastic differential equations; Malliavin calculus and elliptic estimates; stochastic Analysis in infinite dimension.

Control and Observer Design for Nonlinear Finite and Infinite Dimensional Systems (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

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This volume presents a well balanced combination of state-of-the-art theoretical results in the field of nonlinear controller and observer design, combined with industrial applications stemming from mechatronics, electrical, (bio–) chemical engineering, and fluid dynamics. The unique combination of results of finite as well as infinite–dimensional systems makes this book a remarkable contribution addressing postgraduates, researchers, and engineers both at universities and in industry. The contributions to this book were presented at the Symposium on Nonlinear Control and Observer Design: From Theory to Applications (SYNCOD), held September 15–16, 2005, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The conference and this book are dedicated to the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr.–Ing. Dr.h.c. Michael Zeitz to honor his life – long research and contributions on the fields of nonlinear control and observer design.

Infinite Loop: Stories About the Future by the People Creating It : Software Development's Own Anthology of Science Fiction (Software Development Bo)

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Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Groups (Translations of Mathematical Monographs)

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This book is devoted to representations of two classes of infinite-dimensional groups: current groups and diffeomorphism groups. The author presents a complete treatment of the subject, including general methods for constructing irreducible representations of infinite-dimensional groups and general results about such representations. He also exhibits deep relations between representations of infinite-dimensional groups and the theory of Fock spaces, the theory of point random processes, and other branches of mathematics.

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