Rob said:
HA! It is currently being created and produced on thousands of
personal computers in peoples living rooms all over the world.
Independant artists are everywhere if you even barely care to look.
In the UK, at least, there are still lots of independent labels, and I'm
pretty sure
Looking forward to it.
George A
- Original Message -
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Brin-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:26 AM
Subject: Ask Larry Niven
Of interest to those on the list who like Niven's works:
Ronn!: wrote
Since this seems to have turned into post your resume:
Note really post your resume, but Getting to know you.
George A
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On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 04:33 am, Russell Chapman wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
[2] On my Chinese region-free, macrovision free NTSC/PAL
play-anything sub $100 DVD player from Tesco
I always thought that the macrovision stuff was in the recording
device (ie the VCR/DVR) and the
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:56 am, Gary L. Nunn wrote:
The last ep of the 2001-2002 season suggested something
like Dawn the Vampire Slayer
Alberto Monteiro
Buffy Faith Spinoff Mulled
Christopher Buchanan-president of Mutant Enemy, the production company
behind UPN's Buffy the
Alberto wrote:
Maybe the system discovers that _more_
variety increases the selling - heck, any decently
programmed AI program could find it quite easily:
people _like_ new musical styles.
Yes and no. People typically like new musical styles that are different
*but not too different* from what
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-PLSidq=/ff/sto
ry/5001/20030228/074802.htmphotoid=20030217FX102
U.S. plan: Threat level for every flyer
Civil liberties groups are objecting to a government plan for a new
system that would check background information and assign
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We will gas you when US bombs fall, Kurds told
(Filed: 28/02/2003)
If war comes to Iraq, the Kurds of Kifri will be right in the line of
fire. Iraqi officials have
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3451
Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer
18:13 28 February 03
NewScientist.com news service
Fifty years to the day from the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of
its co-discoverers has caused a storm by suggesting
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/27/1046064145169.html
Iris recognition helps to prevent ID fraud
Sydney
February 27 2003
Imagine a world where your eye is your passport, the key to your
apartment and even confirmation of your gym membership.
For some Australians the task is simple,
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http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=48160
snip
Polyphonic HMI, based in Barcelona, Spain has
developed an artificial
intelligence application that helps music labels
determine the hit
potential of music prior to its release. The new
application is to
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:33:15PM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
I always thought that the macrovision stuff was in the recording device
(ie the VCR/DVR) and the media stream itself, not in the playback
device. Does the macrovision encoding get added to the signal by the
output device?
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First of all, José, I've been referring to you as JJ and realized I haven't
asked; do you prefer JJ or José or something else?
José or something else will do. :) I use JJ for emails because it's short,
and so do most of my work colleagues, so I'll choose
Actually, Kneem, the joke was on the Mexicans, who were laughing at his
insistence that their leaders can't be bought.
At 05:53 PM 2/28/2003 -0600 The Fool wrote:
http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/edrive/iraq022503_whpb.rm?start=28:10
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At 05:41 PM 2/25/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
Reggie wrote:
And some ST fan(atic)s say that Trelane in The Squire of Gothos, was
probably a young Q.
--
There is novel titled Q-Squared by Peter David (I think) where Q and
Trelane battle it out. Not bad as far
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Anyone want to comment here on APL?
I was forced to take an APL course in college as part of NJIT's Statistics and
Actuarial Science program at the time. I can't say that I remember much about it; it
was an introductory course. I don't recall caring for it all that
At 01:10 AM 2/25/03 +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And TOS doesn't have holodeck episodes.
One of the things which made it better than TNG, IMO.
Does the continuity of The Animated Series count? They did have the
holodeck there! Courtesy of DC
At 08:10 PM 2/25/03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 2/25/2003 4:33:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A common octopus in a German zoo has learned
to open jars of shrimp by watching zoo attendants perform the act
underwater. Frida, a 5-month-old female
At 02:22 AM 2/26/03 +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
Rodenberry was actively involved in the writing (and mostly, rewriting)of
Star Trek episodes, especially during the first two seasons of TOS. He was
also involved heavily, although to a lesser degree, in the first three
seasons of TNG
At 11:07 AM 2/26/03 +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't particularly have a problem with COBOL; in fact, I like it a good
sight better than some *other* languages to which I've been exposed, like
FORTRAN (I know, I know, they do completely different
At 08:47 AM 2/26/03 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 07:40 PM 2/25/2003 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He was playing against Clinton, what did you expect?
This is an incredibly cheap shot. Clinton had no support at home or abroad
for a policy to confrount Iraq.
He never asked nor worked for
At 02:32 PM 2/26/03 +, William T Goodall wrote:
I much prefer C to Pascal. Or Modula-2 or Ada or any of those other BD
languages.
BD?
Imagining Whips And Chains In The Computer Room Maru
-- Ronn! :)
Almighty Ruler of the all,
Whose Power extends to great and small,
Who guides the
On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 01:38 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 08:10 PM 2/25/03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Octipi are known to be extremely intelligent creatures as are brine
shrimp. If you accord animals rights on the basis of intelligence
octipi and shrimp should have the same
At 02:32 PM 2/26/03 +, William T Goodall wrote:
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
And the mouse will probably weigh no more than 80-100 pounds . . .
-- Ronn! :)
Almighty Ruler of the all,
At 11:59 PM 2/26/03 +0100, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 07:17 26-2-2003 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
When Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate George H.W. Bush, what was
Clinton's response? A cruise missile strike on Iraqi intelligence HQ,
_launched at night so that the building would be
At 06:48 PM 2/27/2003 -0500 Gary L. Nunn wrote:
Right or wrong, good or bad, if GWB attacks Iraq now, he is going to
make the US look like a bully.
How's that?
Has Iraq turned over its anthrax? nerve agents?
Has Iraq fully disclosed its nerve programs?
The fact that destruction of these
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:10:57PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
BD?
Imagining Whips And Chains In The Computer Room Maru
Mm, kind of.
http://www.jargonfile.com/jargon/html/entry/bondage-and-discipline-language.html
--
Paul
I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I
At 10:30 PM 2/26/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
IIRC, in _Genesis II_ Hunt was originally from not too far in our future, and was put
into suspended animation (accidentally, I think) in an underground cave and was
revived 150 or 200 years later, after a nuclear holocaust devastated the
At 07:50 AM 2/27/03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
Java is also the most widely used programming language in the world. What
the heck is so evil about it?
For some, that is sufficient reason to consider it evil, just as M$ is
considered evil because of its industry dominance.
-- Ronn! :)
On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 02:10 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 02:32 PM 2/26/03 +, William T Goodall wrote:
I much prefer C to Pascal. Or Modula-2 or Ada or any of those other
BD languages.
BD?
Imagining Whips And Chains In The Computer Room Maru
From The new Hackers Dictionary Ed
At 06:17 AM 2/28/03 -0500, Kevin Tarr wrote:
replying when no reply is needed
So what else is new here?
;-)
-- Ronn! :)
Almighty Ruler of the all,
Whose Power extends to great and small,
Who guides the stars with steadfast law,
Whose least creation fills with awe,
O grant thy mercy and
At 06:19 PM 2/28/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
Ronn!: wrote
Since this seems to have turned into post your resume:
Note really post your resume, but Getting to know you.
Okay, here's the smiley that should have been there:
;-)
-- Ronn! :)
Almighty Ruler of the all,
Whose Power extends to
At 02:50 AM 3/1/03 +, Paul Walker wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:10:57PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
BD?
Imagining Whips And Chains In The Computer Room Maru
Mm, kind of.
http://www.jargonfile.com/jargon/html/entry/bondage-and-discipline-language.html
I have learned my new term for
At 08:31 PM 2/28/03 -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Anyone want to comment here on APL?
I was forced to take an APL course in college as part of NJIT's Statistics
and Actuarial Science program at the time. I can't say that I remember
much about it; it was an introductory
At 11:01 AM 2/26/2003 -0300 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
In other words, the question now is whether those
serious consequences are either a war, or the UNO
telling Saddam that he is ugly and poos in his
diapers?
[I find it extremely hard to be a Jester with such
mighty competitors in the
At 10:07 PM 2/27/2003 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bush didn't try to get Israel to commit suicide and he didn't try to get
Arafat to stop using suicide. He did nothing and let a bad situation get
out of hand. The Israeli Palestine conflict worsened our relationships with
the muslin world. More
At 07:28 AM 2/25/03 -0600, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
And TOS doesn't have holodeck episodes.
Marvin Long
Does the continuity of The Animated Series count? They did have the
holodeck
there! Courtesy of DC Fontana, I believe. :)
Interesting!
At 10:18 PM 2/27/2003 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For my part I think we should care about the rest of the world for
completely selfish reasons. We need the rest of the world to buy our stuff.
The beauty of trade is that if the above statement is true, then it also
means that the rest of the
At 10:40 PM 2/27/2003 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I remember some of the post attack testimony Bush actually cut funds
for some antiterrosist activities.
This is serious rumour and innuendo that should be backed up and documented
before stating.
When did he order it and why did it take
At 12:53 PM 2/28/2003 + Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I will an imperfect institution like the UN
act to settle disputes among nations, or will the US administration
do this?
To the extent that the United Nations is a world government, then its
executive branch as the US armed forces, from
At 12:41 PM 2/28/2003 + Robert J. Chassell wrote:
As far as I know, except for a minority (who are now part of the
Israeli government coalition), Israelis would like to see a a viable,
peaceful, and democratic Palestinian state.
While this is true, it should be noted that this majority voted
At 03:59 PM 2/27/2003 + Robert J. Chassell wrote:
Israel should support the creation of a viable, peaceful, and
democratic Palestinian state.
Unfortuantely, I think that peaceful and democratic are for more difficult
to achieve than viable at this point - oddly enough. Israel can give
Marvin wrote:
And TOS doesn't have holodeck episodes.
Ronn! replied:
One of the things which made it better than TNG, IMO.
I actually really liked two of the holodeck episodes. The first one was
season one's 11001001, the episode with the aliens called Bynars who
hijack the ship after making
I wrote:
I think there were even some altered or mutated humans, stronger that us
normal types, much like _Andromeda_'s Nietzscheans.
Ronn! replied:
With two navels.
LOL! I had completely forgotten about that. How did they explain *that*
particular mutation?
Reggie Bautista
Nick wrote:
Java is also the most widely used programming language in the world. What
the heck is so evil about it?
Ronn! replied:
For some, that is sufficient reason to consider it evil, just as M$ is
considered evil because of its industry dominance.
Given the fact that Java was originally
At 10:19 PM 2/28/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Nick wrote:
Java is also the most widely used programming language in the world. What
the heck is so evil about it?
Ronn! replied:
For some, that is sufficient reason to consider it evil, just as M$ is
considered evil because of its industry
At 10:16 PM 2/28/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
I wrote:
I think there were even some altered or mutated humans, stronger that us
normal types, much like _Andromeda_'s Nietzscheans.
Ronn! replied:
With two navels.
LOL! I had completely forgotten about that. How did they explain *that*
JDG wrote:
Until a majority of Israelis can be convinced that the
Palestinians are fundamental serious about being not just viable, but also
peaceful, then a Palestinian State is impossible, since a
democracy/republic like Israel could never support such a State without
being convinced of that
In a message dated 2/28/2003 10:11:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Of course, it is worth noting that Israel and Palestine had forged a more
or less stable, peaceful relationship until a certain US President tried to
get them to do something, and indeed tried to get
Ronn! wrote:
With two navels.
I replied:
LOL! I had completely forgotten about that. How did they explain *that*
particular mutation?
Ronn! responded:
I don't recall what _scientific_ explanation they had for it (perhaps
someone else will). However, the obvious explanation was that it gave
At 10:34 PM 2/28/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
JDG wrote:
Until a majority of Israelis can be convinced that the
Palestinians are fundamental serious about being not just viable, but
also peaceful, then a Palestinian State is impossible, since a
democracy/republic like Israel could never
In a message dated 2/28/2003 10:18:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
So, which results producing, quote, :consensus, did you
want again
John you cannot actually believe that the current adminstration has been building a
consensus. It has been buying and bullying other
In a message dated 2/28/2003 10:18:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
So, which results producing, quote, :consensus, did you
want again
John you cannot actually believe that the current adminstration has been building a
consensus. It has been buying and bullying other
In a message dated 2/28/2003 10:25:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Why Zim, you warmonger, you!
I wish we had Brin-L archives back to 1991 to see if you
were truly among
that small minority that advocated pushing for Baghdad.
I am pretty sure I didn't comment
Nick wrote:
Java is also the most widely used programming language in the world.
What
the heck is so evil about it?
Ronn! replied:
For some, that is sufficient reason to consider it evil, just as M$ is
considered evil because of its industry dominance.
I responded:
Given the fact that Java was
In a message dated 2/28/2003 10:25:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Nevertheless, I can't believe that you are criticizing Bush I for choosing
the path of peace over the path of war.Iraq was defeated, it made a
deal with us, and agreed to let in inspectors.Of
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 08:31 PM 2/28/03 -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
I was forced to take an APL course in college as part of NJIT's Statistics
and Actuarial Science program at the time. I can't say that I remember
much about it; it was an introductory course. I don't recall caring for
it
Ronn! wrote:
(FWIW, I have always hated with a passion books/stories/etc. which end with
He woke up and it was all a dream, and most of the holodeck episodes are
essentially that.)
OK, somehow I didn't see this line in your email originally. Please feel
free to ignore my question about why you
The Fool posted:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/27/1046064145169.html
Iris recognition helps to prevent ID fraud
Just out of curiosity, would use of colored contact lenses prevent an iris
scan from working? If so, the colored contact lens lobby is gonna fight
this one big time...
At 10:55 PM 2/28/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Ronn! wrote:
(FWIW, I have always hated with a passion books/stories/etc. which end
with He woke up and it was all a dream, and most of the holodeck
episodes are essentially that.)
OK, somehow I didn't see this line in your email originally.
Jose wrote:
The show really scored low for me when Jadzia was replaced, btw. That may
have been a major blow for the show's popularity.
---
WOW! 180 from my perspective. Had no use for Jadzia the Macho, Jadzia I
can do anything you can do. Her endless love tussles
- Original Message -
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie
Soundtrack?]
At 08:31 PM 2/28/03 -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
As the song goes, There's no use crying over spilled perfume.
I replied:
Interesting. There's no such song in English (at least not that I'm aware
of), but there is a commonly used adage, There's no use crying over
spilled milk.
Jeroen responded:
The song does exist, actually. The
At 02:11 PM 3/1/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie
Soundtrack?]
At 08:31 PM
Nick wrote, in regards to Mr Rogers:
I grew up just outside Pittsburgh and used to take piano lessons across the
street from his house.
Not to make light of a sad situation, but good lord, Nick, is there anyone
famous you haven't met? :-) Forget Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Thanks
to you,
Somebody wrote:
Anyone want to comment here on APL?
Someone else replied:
Concise, is how I have heard it described.
And someone else said:
Indecipherable.
Ronn! responded:
But that's part of its appeal: to be able to write a working program which
on paper looks like what would result if a
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