RE: The Story of Stuff
Thanks for the hint ... I looked at it ... it's not completely new to me since I was ecology-aware long before ... but it explains things very well and gives a complete framework ... -Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of Doug Pensinger Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:53 AM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: The Story of Stuff Anyone else seen this? http://www.storyofstuff.com/ Doug ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com CENIT AG, Industriestrasse 52-54, 70565 Stuttgart, Tel.: +49 711 7825-30, Fax: +49 711 7825-4000, Internet: www.cenit.de Geschaeftsstellen: Berlin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Muenchen, Oelsnitz, Saarbruecken Vorstandsmitglieder: Kurt Bengel, Christian Pusch Aufsichtsratsmitglieder: Andreas Schmidt (Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats), Hubert Leypoldt, Andreas Karrer Bankverbindungen: Deutsche Bank (BLZ 600 700 70) Kto. 1661 040 IBAN : DE85 6007 0070 0166 1040 00 SWIFT-CODE : DEUTDESS, Commerzbank (BLZ 600 400 71) Kto. 532 015 500 IBAN : DE83 6004 0071 0532 0155 00 SWIFT-Code : COBADEFF600, BW-Bank (BLZ 600 501 01) Kto. 2 403 313 IBAN : DE17 6005 0101 0002 4033 13 SWIFT-Code : SOLADEST Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart Handelsregister: HRB Nr. 19117 Umsatzsteuer: ID-Nr. DE 147 862 777 ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: Brin: Forward, into the past
I read this one completely and agree. It sometimes can make me sad. Regards Armin Freiberg -- From: The Fool[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Dienstag, 9. September 2003 13:24 To: Brin-L Subject: Brin: Forward, into the past http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030908/COSPI DER08/ Forward, into the past Why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into fantasy? asks SPIDER ROBINSON By SPIDER ROBINSON Monday, September 8, 2003 - Page A17 I've recently returned from Torcon 3, the 61st World Science Fiction Convention, held at the end of August in Toronto. I left it deeply concerned for the future -- not merely of my chosen genre or my chosen country, but my species. I served this Worldcon as its toastmaster, and presiding over our annual Hugo Awards ceremony required me to make a speech. This being the 50th year that Hugos have been given for excellence in SF, I devoted my remarks to the present depressing state of the field. Three short steps into the New Millennium, written SF is paradoxically in sharp decline. My genre has always had its ups and downs, but this is by far its worst, longest downswing. Sales are down, magazines are languishing, our stars are aging and not being replaced. And the reason is depressingly clear: Those few readers who haven't defected to Tolkienesque fantasy cling only to Star Trek, Star Wars, and other Sci Fi franchises. Incredibly, young people no longer find the real future exciting. They no longer find science admirable. They no longer instinctively lust to go to space. Just as we've committed ourselves inextricably to a high-tech world (and thank God, for no other kind will feed five billion), we appear to have become nearly as terrified of technology, of science -- of change -- as the Arab world, or the Vatican. We are proud both of our VCRs, and our claimed inability to program them. I'm not knocking fantasy, but if we look only backward instead of forward, too, one day we will find ourselves surrounded by an electorate that has never willingly thought a single thought their great-grandparents would not have recognized. That's simply not acceptable. That way lies inconceivable horror, a bin Laden future for our grandchildren. SF's central metaphor and brightest vision, lovingly polished and presented as entertainingly as we knew how to make it, has been largely rejected by the world we meant to save. Because I was born in 1948, the phrase I'll probably always use to indicate something is futuristic is space age. There were doubtless grown adults at Torcon 3 who were born after the space age ended. The very existence of the new Robert A. Heinlein Awards, given for the first time at Torcon to honour works that inspire manned exploration of space, proves a need was perceived to foster such works. About the only part of our shared vision of the future that actually came to pass was the part where America just naturally took over the world. But while it's prepared to police (parts of) a planet, the new Terran Federation is so far not interested enough to even glance at another one. Inconceivable wealth and limitless energy lie right over our heads, within easy reach, and we're too dumb to go get them -- using perfectly good rockets to kill each other, instead. The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew for certain men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. So did the late Robert Heinlein -- I just saw him say so to Walter Cronkite last weekend, on kinescope. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The Red Planet is as close as it's been in 60,000 years -- and the last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars. (Please, go to http://www.marssociety.com and sign the protest petition there.) At Torcon 3, I caught up with Michael Lennick, co-producer of a superb Canadian documentary series about manned spaceflight, Rocket Science. His next project examines the growing phenomenon of people who refuse to believe we ever landed on the moon. Not because he sees them as amusing cranks . . . but because they're becoming as common as Elvis-nuts. And it's hard to argue with their logic: It beggars belief, they say, that we could possibly have achieved moon flight . . . and given it up. On the other hand, I take heart that SF still exists, 50 years after the first Hugo was awarded. My wife's family are Portuguese fisherfolk from Provincetown, Mass., where every summer they've held a ceremony called the Blessing of the Fleet, in which the harbour fills with boats and the archbishop blesses their labours. The 50th-ever blessing was the last. There's no fishing fleet left. For the first time in living memory, there is not a single working fishing boat in P-town . . . because there are no cod or haddock left on the Grand Banks. For all its present problems, science
RE: Test (28 perfect number)
And I happen to be born on the 28th of May... -- From: David Hobby[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Dienstag, 2. September 2003 17:36 To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Test Now, what can you tell me about the number 28? Julia It is nominally the number of days in a month. It is a perfect number, the only even perfect number that is a multiple of 7. (There are some LARGE odd perfect numbers that are multiples of 7, but they don't count. : ) ) ---David ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Brin-L problems
I was already wondering that there are no new items in my Brin folder. Maybe it's the Worm Week? At least my computers are still healthy (a friend of mine had SOBIG and I had to find out and remove it manually because Internet connection was no longer working). Regards Armin -- From: Nick Arnett[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 26. August 2003 06:41 To: Nick Arnett Subject: Brin-L problems I'm sending this message to the whole Brin-L list, to let you know that there's some weird problem I'm having with Mailman, the list server software we use. I'm working to resolve it, but so far, it's being quite difficult to figure out. Some of you have been getting list mail, some haven't. You can see what messages reach the server by going to the archives: http://www.mccmedia.com/pipermail/brin-l/ Feel free to send messages to the list as usual -- that might help me diagnose the problem. If they appear in the archives, but you don't receive them within an hour or so, please let me know (off-list!) Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Windo$e
I would say: Backup ... Backup ... Backup ... Backup ... and keep inventories so you can find out which backup might apply. I would call it an art since it doesn't really seem to be technology yet? Regards Armin Freiberg -- From: Russell Chapman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I think this inconsistency is what really pisses people off. You can start a Win98 machine 5 times in 10 minutes and get different results every time... You can open the same Word document you opened yesterday and splat!. How do you diagnose/repair problems like that? ... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: link: Atlas of the Universe
Wow ... I zoomed through all the views and was amazed... Regards Armin -- From: Alberto Monteiro[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003 21:53 To: Killer Bs Discussion Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: link: Atlas of the Universe It shows the position of the Sun relative to the near stars and then zooms out to the whole observable Universe: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/ Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: I have returned from paradise
I would propose Irfanview, which has a nice Batch Process utility and is freeware for private use (I use it for my shkrinking of images for the website)... Regards Armin -- From: Ronn!Blankenship[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Freitag, 25. Juli 2003 23:54 To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: RE: I have returned from paradise ... I have to figure out how to shrink the pics we took, though. My wife ... And if Jon can't help you with that, I can make some suggestions for freeware programs you can download from the 'net which will do the ... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: SC2 Music (was Re: I have returned from paradise)
I tried to play the MOD files in my WinAmp 2.81 and I'm not sure if all sounds are as they should be but I heard some songs... Sounded rather synthetic but that's probably as designed? Regards Armin -- From: Jim Sharkey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Samstag, 26. Juli 2003 04:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SC2 Music (was Re: I have returned from paradise) Bryon Daly wrote: http://home.comcast.net/~bryon.daly/M4win240.zip http://home.comcast.net/~bryon.daly/SC2_MODS.ZIP The installer for M4win20 doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions? Jim ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Software licenses don't work
Thanks a lot for that one. Regards Armin Freiberg -- From: The Fool[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Montag, 7. Juli 2003 19:57 To: Brin-L Subject: Software licenses don't work http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/idgnet.asp?id=4635 ... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Neanderthal Question ...
-- From: Ronn!Blankenship[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Montag, 23. Juni 2003 12:10 To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Neanderthal Question ... At 11:21 PM 6/22/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: ... How dare you say Neanderthal! That's Neandertal. Greg Bear spells it Neandertal. Robert J. Sawyer spells it Neanderthal. Tal is German for valley. It used to be spelled Thal, and that's preserved in some place names. So either should be fine, but Julia's right, one should say tal. ... As far as I know ... the location meanwhile is spelled Neandertal but when the bones were found, it was spelled Neanderthal (that was some time ago) and it is general use that names of species/races are never changed in spelling so those people are still correctly spelled Homo neanderthalensis. Some information on the place can be found at: http://www.neanderthal.de/e_thal/pg_30.htm http://www.google.de/search?q=%22Homo+neanderthalensis%22ie=ISO-8859-1hl=d emeta= gives 3900 hits http://www.google.de/search?hl=deie=ISO-8859-1q=%22Homo+neandertalensis%22 meta= gives 584 hits which is what I expected. Funny enough: http://www.google.de/search?hl=deie=ISO-8859-1q=Neandertal+meta= gives 25100 hits http://www.google.de/search?hl=deie=ISO-8859-1q=Neanderthal+meta= gives 64200 hits Regards Armin Freiberg ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Powers of 10 - Java Applet
In http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ you can find a very nice demonstration of zooming from the galaxy view down to the quarks. Regards Armin Freiberg ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Spam?: Powers of 10 - Java Applet
Hmm ... I do read some of the messages, I posted a few myself but I cannot understand (or explain) why my address does appear in these spams. But it may be a coincidence that in the last weeks I seem to have been a victim of some Joe job - I got a number of bounces of undeliverable spam-mail with me as Return-To-address which I never sent. I started to ignore this. Regards Armin Freiberg -- From: Erik Reuter[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Freitag, 13. Juni 2003 19:51 To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Powers of 10 - Java Applet On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 07:18:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ you can find a very nice demonstration of zooming from the galaxy view down to the quarks. Regards Armin Freiberg Below are the complete headers from one of the spams Jeroen sent me two copies of. Notice the part for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Can you explain this? ... for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 12 Jun 2003 22:36:23 - ... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Bloggraffiti
Hi Debbie, http://www.blograffiti.com/fulldisplay.php?imgid=111308fullsizeformat=jpg is very good and http://www.blograffiti.com/fulldisplay.php?imgid=111386fullsizeformat=jpg also. Congratulations. I am not good at painting with the mouse. -- From: Deborah Harrell[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 22:48 To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Bloggraffiti Armin (and Han, but he liked Armin's better, so I'm going with that one) posted a better way to display our masterpieces, so Im going to try it: http://www.blograffiti.com/fulldisplay.php?imgid=111386fullsizeformat=jpg http://www.blograffiti.com/fulldisplay.php?imgid=111325fullsizeformat=jpg http://www.blograffiti.com/fulldisplay.php?imgid=112308fullsizeformat=jpg Catasstrophy Indeed Maru ;) __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: The Geek Test
Well, I only made a 19 % Geek ... hmm ... -- From: Jon Gabriel[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2003 05:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Geek Test The Geek Test: http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: The Geek Test
http://www.myfreearcade.com/games/antrun.html is also nice -- From: Han Tacoma[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Killer Bs Discussion Sent: Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2003 17:57 To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: The Geek Test OK, for all Geeks, here's something to test yourselves with. The Packman Game http://www.myfreearcade.com/games/splatman.swf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
