Owen, that's absolutely fascinating. BTW, Larry Tessler and I go back
to graduate school days. Yow!
Whatever happens. Whatever what is, is what I want. Only that. But
that.
Galway Kinnell
FRIAM Applied
Right on! Your experiences resonate completely with mine.
The Apple story did get ugly. Starting with the Pirate Flag:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt
things slowly degraded between the Lisa and Mac team.
It culminated in a Lisa-Mac team meeting where Jobs
Good for you, Owen. A manager/corporate leader who rips his staff in public
doesn't deserve to have good people working for him. I've heard a number of
stories about Job's asshole factor.
--Doug
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Right on! Your
Apologies for another long thread... thanks to Glen for a well written
response to my original... and apologies to Owen (and others) if this
thread divergence represents a "hijacking" of the original thread.
Quoting Steve Smith circa 09-11-25 01:50 PM:
It is even less surprising
Peter -
Thanks for weighing in with some grounded experience/knowledge on this one.
Is AVENU completely defunct? SimTable (tm) is always in need of more
notional models to demonstrate it's utility across a wide variety of
domains, especially those likely to be involved in public-policy
Owen Densmore wrote:
I'm the baby.
.. oops .. no, the far right middle row, next to Bill.
The one with the shaggy mane and the mustache?
Wait, that is all of them except the baby and the woman!
Looks more like the 70's than the 80's
Hot Air, and Compressibility
A’course air is compressible, and so is water. Any kid who fools around with
bicycle pump or a shock absorber, and believes what he sees, rather than what
he is told, can feel the compressibility. But, but, but, at modest speeds
free air will NOT
plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
You have to sweep your hand at a speed comparable to that of sound
(about 330 m/s here on earth) in order stop the air from getting away
and to achieve any compression.
Ok, so in one of the articles mentioned,
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40993
Yes. And while we are at it, what does it mean when meteorologists say
that air is more dense near the surface than higher up, or that cold air is
denser than warm?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
