Hi all,
Thanks for the responses so far...
No, I don;t need relativistic flight times. Perhaps it would be helpful if
I explain the problem.
In my campaign a ship just jumped into system, using a jumpgate. The
jumpgate orbits the system's primary at around 100AU. The planet the ship
wants to
Julia Thompson wrote:
1 glass of red wine with a red meat meal assists in digestion and may
help with cholesterol issues. (Can't remember the source.)
Paul, in the Bible, in one of the Letters :-)
Can you point out in which book he mentions the cholesterol part of it?
:)
It's described
Damon asked:
I need to know the formula used to calculate flight time for a spacecraft
using the acceleration/deceleration method of space travel. Anyone know it?
I imagine that you want the relativistic formula, that I
implemented in a Javascript at...
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:33:00AM -0500, Damon wrote:
In my campaign a ship just jumped into system, using a jumpgate. The
jumpgate orbits the system's primary at around 100AU. The planet the
ship wants to go to is around 2 AU. What is the formula to calculate
the time it would take
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:33:00AM -0500, Damon wrote:
In my campaign a ship just jumped into system, using a jumpgate. The
jumpgate orbits the system's primary at around 100AU. The planet the
ship wants to go to is around 2 AU. What is the formula to calculate
the time it would take
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Onderwerp: Re: br!n: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?
How do people getting the full list deal with the volume?
With great
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Verzonden: donderdag 19 december 2002 8:03
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Onderwerp: Re: Question for JDG (or anyone else with a good answer)
Thereby confirming what everybody knows: that government employees
don't
Damon asked:
In my campaign a ship just jumped into system, using a jumpgate. The
jumpgate orbits the system's primary at around 100AU. The planet the ship
wants to go to is around 2 AU. What is the formula to calculate the time it
would take (non-relativistically) for the ship to reach its
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:43:10 -0600
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From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:14 PM
Amanda wrote:
How do people getting the full list deal with the volume?
Jeroen replied:
With great difficulty... GRIN
(But it helps if you can read Brin-L mail at the office.)
Which is the *only* place I can read it. If I tried to spend as much time
on-line at home as I get to spend at
Debbi wrote:
I did read that taking milk in
your tea can sequester the antioxidants away, but I
like my milk anyway!
Chai Time Maru
Yuck! I can't *stand* Chai with milk. It has to be soy, preferrably
Edensoy Extra. :-)
So does soy milk also sequester the antioxidants?
Reggie Bautista
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Van: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: donderdag 19 december 2002 15:44
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Brin-L Chat No More?
But the main advantage a permanent IRC room would have, IMO, is that
night owls like me would be able to log
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Amanda SubbaRao wrote:
How do people getting the full list deal with the volume?
Inquiring and overwhelmed minds want to know ;)
Lots of skimming.
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA)
Jon said:
Now that I think of it, the Culture list has an irc room. Rich, how
popular is it with list members?
It's very popular. There's almost always somebody there and often as
many as five or six people. The population tends to be a little
different to that of the list because it's also
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Brin-L Chat No More?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:58:41 +0100
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Van: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: donderdag 19 december 2002 15:44
Aan: [EMAIL
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: br!n: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:00:54 -0600 (CST)
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Amanda SubbaRao wrote:
How do people getting the full list deal with the
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:47:12 -0500
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:35:33AM +, William T Goodall wrote:
on 19/12/02 1:11 am, Jon Gabriel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik wrote:
working towards it). That thing is money = revenue = sales. Everything
is fungible to an economist or a finance guy. So, to first order, I
Forget all that other technical stuff! What does 'fungible' mean?!
Lal
GSV Confused
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Erik Reuter wrote:
Orbits are more complicated than simply boosting in the direction you
want to go.
Yep. But I think what he wants is a simpler solution, ignoring the
gravitational forces. Using a Hohmann transfer orbit to go from
100 AU to 2 AU would require such a long time that when the
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:20:08AM -0600, Amanda SubbaRao wrote:
I'm sorry, I should have made myself clearer. I don't mean my own
email filters. I mean the filters the listserv has at the website. You
can chose to get brin or scouted, ot, etc, and then there's a
choice as to whether or not
At 04:33 AM 12/19/02 -0500, Damon wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the responses so far...
No, I don;t need relativistic flight times. Perhaps it would be helpful if
I explain the problem.
In my campaign a ship just jumped into system, using a jumpgate. The
jumpgate orbits the system's primary at
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56923,00.html
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William and I were talking about this last night. From all
of y'all who don't like MUDs, and do like IRC, what do you
feel are the pros and cons of each? Maybe we can find some
other MUD server software that does what you like, or even
some other protocol that would combine the best of both
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Other than that, lines of code per coder per month might tell you
something, maybe. Of course, you have to average that over the
lifetime
It's something very close to ~ 3 lines code / Day.
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Steve said:
We considered IRC for a while, but it does have disadvantages.
I've seen quite a few of them in the IRC-based monthly
LarryNiven-L chat. People, including complete wack-a-doos,
tend to just wander into the chatroom and ask to cyber, or
ask what we are talking about, then get
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question for JDG (or anyone else with a good answer)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:13:02 -0500
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:46:55PM -, Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Erik wrote:
working towards
I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good. I thought the first
half was excellent. Extremely faithful to the book. There wasn't anything
I would have changed about it. The second half wandered a bit from the book
but was still very well done.
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Spoiler Space
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Forget all that other technical stuff! What does 'fungible' mean?!
Interchangeable. Is it easier for you to post a question like that
rather than surf to something like http://dictionary.com/ and find the
answer?
Well, he might not know about it?
Jon wrote:
Forget all that other technical stuff! What does 'fungible' mean?!
Interchangeable. Is it easier for you to post a question like that
rather than surf to something like http://dictionary.com/ and find the
answer?
Well, he might not know about it?
Lal, you can also try
Richard Baker wrote:
Personally, I prefer IRC because it's an open, mature and
flexible standard with a range of clients for essentially
every platform, including Java. My current IRC client is
certainly better than any MUD client I've ever seen (although
this may be because I haven't looked
From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good. I thought the
first
half was excellent. Extremely faithful to the book. There wasn't
anything
I would have changed about it. The second half wandered a bit from the
book
but was still very well done.
At 01:08 PM 12/19/02 -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 04:33 AM 12/19/02 -0500, Damon wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the responses so far...
No, I don;t need relativistic flight times. Perhaps it would be helpful
if I explain the problem.
In my campaign a ship just jumped into system, using a
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Horn, John wrote:
I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good. I thought the first
half was excellent. Extremely faithful to the book. There wasn't anything
I would have changed about it. The second half wandered a bit from the book
but was still very well
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debbi wrote:
I did read that taking milk in
your tea can sequester the antioxidants away, but I
like my milk anyway!
Chai Time Maru
Yuck! I can't *stand* Chai with milk. It has to be
soy, preferrably Edensoy Extra. :-)
Heretic! Infidel!
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:36 PM 12/18/02 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
Everything is fungible to an economist or a finance guy.
Please! Watch your language!
OK, what was the problem word, fungible or economist? ;)
Julia
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- Original Message -
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Br!n: feudalism is evil, why it must be eradicated (long)
Do you really think that is what he meant by 'unconstitutional'
Monarchy? He
--- Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Baker wrote:
snip
Rich, who might just prefer what he's used to.
Me too, apparently. :-)
I've seen some good arguments for IRC since I sent
my
email, so it sounds like we should seriously
consider
using IRC on a smaller server,
--- Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good.
I thought the first
half was excellent. Extremely faithful to the book.
There wasn't anything
I would have changed about it. The second half
wandered a bit from the book
but was still very well
On 19 Dec 2002 at 15:18, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Baker wrote:
snip
Rich, who might just prefer what he's used to.
Me too, apparently. :-)
I've seen some good arguments for IRC since I sent
my
email, so it sounds like we
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:24:10PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you really think that is what he meant by 'unconstitutional'
Monarchy? He specificially noted it was NOT a constitutional
Monarchy, and you are talking about constitutional monarchies.
I
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More?
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More?
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
So it would take about 4 weeks (2 weeks of acceleration at 1g followed by 2
weeks of deceleration at 1g). Is that good enough for what you need?
BTW, 1 g = 1 light-year / year^2 [with a few percents error :-)], so
any 1-g acceleration for months will require a
- Original Message -
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: What IRCs you about MUDS?
Richard Baker wrote:
Personally, I prefer IRC because it's an open, mature and
flexible standard with a range of
- Original Message -
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brinl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 7:09 PM
Subject: [Listref] Link: Rising breast cancer rate fuels
environmentalconcerns
I meant to post this a bit ago; the in-article link to
_The State of the
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/49/39665.htm?printing=true
Switching from one medication to another, less
expensive one due to prescription drug plan
restrictions may produce some unwanted side effects,
especially for older Americans. A new survey shows
that more than one in five American
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Erik Reuter
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: br!n: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?
To anyone using Outlook Express filters, maybe you can help
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:12:53PM -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote:
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/49/39665.htm?printing=true
Switching from one medication to another, less
expensive one due to prescription drug plan
restrictions may produce some unwanted side effects,
especially for
...
How do people getting the full list deal with the volume?
Inquiring and overwhelmed minds want to know ;)
We could try to make better use of the topics feature of the list server.
I don't have much extra time right now, but perhaps some folks would like to
come up with categories that
on 19/12/02 10:10 pm, Steve Sloan II at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Baker wrote:
Personally, I prefer IRC because it's an open, mature and
flexible standard with a range of clients for essentially
every platform, including Java. My current IRC client is
certainly better than any MUD
On 19 Dec 2002 at 19:58, Robert Seeberger wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: What IRCs you about MUDS?
Richard Baker wrote:
Personally, I prefer IRC because it's
On 19 Dec 2002 at 18:37, Nick Arnett wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erik Reuter Sent:
Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: br!n: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?
To
Damon asked-
Is there a list somewhere of the aircraft used in this event?
I didn't find a listing in the quick search I did. Found some listings of
events, but I am still not sure how to find out the details from the bit I
looked at.
Try this
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do people getting the full list deal with the
volume?
Inquiring and overwhelmed minds want to know ;)
We could try to make better use of the topics
feature of the list server.
snip
Hmm. I need to test some clustering code soon... I
could
Of course! What was I thinking (or not thinking)? Welcome back and
good luck with the job hunt.
john
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 11:12 PM, Damon wrote:
Hey Damon...What was your 'brief flirtation' with the army? What are
you doing now?
I was in the Army for a few years?
What am I
At 12:13 AM 12/20/02 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
So it would take about 4 weeks (2 weeks of acceleration at 1g followed
by 2
weeks of deceleration at 1g). Is that good enough for what you need?
BTW, 1 g = 1 light-year / year^2 [with a few percents error :-)]
William T Goodall wrote:
What about Hotline?
I didn't know anything about it until I looked around for its home page:
http://www.hotspringsinc.com/
It looks pretty interesting, but it excludes people on Linux
machines, unlike IRC and MUD/MUSHes.
- Original Message -
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: Volume ( was RE: br!n: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author
AreYou?)
What would happen with thread creep?
Who are you calling a thread creep? huh?
Debbie asked-
OTOH, where *does* one¹ hold the line on health costs?
This is a doozie to work through, maybe we can start this one bit at a time
and try an international flair. So far to date (after some schooling and
thinking) I like the Australian System best. Philisophically I figure
--- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/49/39665.htm?printing=true
snip
The survey, commissioned by Project Patient Care
and conducted by
Harris Interactive, suggests that drug plan
formularies may have a
negative impact on the
Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Embarassingly enough, I knew about both of those already, but the word looked
made up. Silly me for such a strange assumption.
Lal
GSV I Blame The Culture List
And not your Xompitor?
Doug
Or however you spell it.
on 20/12/02 3:54 am, Steve Sloan II at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
What about Hotline?
I didn't know anything about it until I looked around for its home page:
http://www.hotspringsinc.com/
It looks pretty interesting, but it excludes people on Linux
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would happen with thread creep?
Who are you calling a thread creep? huh? huh?
LOL
If the spacesuit fits...
fires up a can of Silly String
GSV Pantenefy
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do people getting the full list deal with the
volume?
Inquiring and overwhelmed minds want to know ;)
We could try to make better use of the topics
feature of the list server.
snip
Hmm. I need to test some
Debbie wrote-
Switching from one medication to another, less
expensive one due to prescription drug plan
restrictions may produce some unwanted side effects,
especially for older Americans. A new survey shows
that more than one in five American adults over 50
have been prescribed or
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
The non-relativistic is trivial. No, I am not a _star_ship pilot,
just a _space_ship pilot. My ships have never gone
much farther than the Moon.
Well, there's a star in this here space. 8^)
Doug
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William T Goodall wrote:
There are some Hotline clients for Linux:
There is GtkHx at http://gtkhx.sourceforge.net/
And Fidelio at http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~abas/fidelio/
And HX at a http://hx.fortyoz.org/
Very interesting... :-)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debbie asked-
[actually, it was Ronn]
OTOH, where *does* one¹ hold the line on health
costs?
This is a doozie to work through, maybe we can start
this one bit at a time
and try an international flair. So far to date
(after some schooling and
thinking) I
Umm - another demographic that goes along with 'burbs
and higher education - delayed pregnancy, fewer
pregnancies, poss. less brestfeeding (although
actually I think that breastfeeding proportions go
*up* with socioeconomics now (reversed years/decades
ago) ?) - anyway, those are risk factors for
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Listref] Link: Rising breast cancer rate
fuelsenvironmentalconcerns
Why are spaces disapearing in subject lines? The last space disapears
first.
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Sorry for not formally sending my picks last week -
but I was packing my bags for a nice Florida vacation.
So, here I am, under a palm tree on a warm winter
night on a small island off the cost of Florida - and
my thoughts turn again to my NFL picks. I am 139-85
(.651) for the year, and the
70 matches
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