[silk] is there anybody out there

2008-12-02 Thread Zeenath Hasan
Hello, Inviting Silk Listers for a face-to-face on digital practices for democratisation in following cities/ dates, Hyderabad, 2-6 Dec Delhi, 8-15 Dec Bangalore, 16-26 Dec Find brief intro to my research work here. Reply to me directly to hook up ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Poison of your choice

Re: [silk] Speed - The Movie

2008-12-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:54:25AM -, lukhman_khan wrote: There is of course the problem that the jump is physically impossible. The people who make those movies never factor in the IQ levels of the target audience. They think we are fools/dumb anyway. In 98% of all cases, they're

Re: [silk] Speed - The Movie

2008-12-02 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
The people who make those movies never factor in the IQ levels of the target audience. They think we are fools/dumb anyway. In 98% of all cases, they're correct. True. But does it really matter if it's physically possible? It's fiction, anyway. The real problem is that most of those

[silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm

2008-12-02 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
Hi, I gather that there are a whole bunch of you in town this week. I was hoping that we could meet on Thursday evening, 4th Dec for drinks dinner. The best places as I mentioned are around Road #1, Banjara Hills. We could hang out at Firangi Pani and head to dinner next door at Aromas of China

[silk] Musical response to the attacks

2008-12-02 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Interesting. I was sent this link by one of the musicians involved. The band has also posted a somewhat laboured English translation of the lyrics, which I attach below - it doesn't convey the anger of the original. Check the song out - very raw (in more ways than one), as it should be.

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm

2008-12-02 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I gather that there are a whole bunch of you in town this week. I was hoping that we could meet on Thursday evening, 4th Dec for drinks dinner. The best places as I mentioned are around Road #1, Banjara Hills.

Re: [silk] is there anybody out there

2008-12-02 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
Nobody home, Miss Armoured Division. On 12/2/08, Zeenath Hasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Poison of your choice in exchange for your valuable time. snap I really appreciate the spirit of democracy and right to choice here. However I would currently restrict myself to the choicest of

Re: [silk] Speed - The Movie

2008-12-02 Thread Alok G. Singh
Giancarlo Livraghi wrote: The real problem is that most of those movies are quite boring - and the imagination is unimaginative. I agree. Many /good/ movies play fast and loose with the laws of physics as we know them. -- Alok BOFH excuse #112: The monitor is plugged into the serial port

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Malini Aisola [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for restaurants in Hyderabad near Kondapur? Hyderabadi, south indian, anything goes. Suggestions will be

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Malini Aisola [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for restaurants in Hyderabad near Kondapur? Hyderabadi, south indian, anything goes. Suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Skip Kondapur, the restaurants in the area are not the

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm

2008-12-02 Thread Malini Aisola
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am in. 98840 64791. I'll try to make it too. 9911597756 malini

[silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm (Srini Ramakrishnan)

2008-12-02 Thread Zeenath Hasan
Hi Srini, 4th Dec at Hyd clashes with the invitation for the pleasure of our company by Communication and IT Minister at Rock Heights. Zeenath Hi, I gather that there are a whole bunch of you in town this week. I was hoping that we could meet on Thursday evening, 4th Dec for drinks

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm (Srini Ramakrishnan)

2008-12-02 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Zeenath Hasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Srini, 4th Dec at Hyd clashes with the invitation for the pleasure of our company by Communication and IT Minister at Rock Heights. Is Friday evening ok with every one then? I am not going to be able to make it tomorrow

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm

2008-12-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Malini Aisola [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am in. 98840 64791. I'll try to make it too. 9911597756 Drool...and sigh! :) Deepa.

[silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Malini Aisola
Does anyone have any recommendations for restaurants in Hyderabad near Kondapur? Hyderabadi, south indian, anything goes. Suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Malini 9911597756

[silk] Here's a very interesting viewpoint

2008-12-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
By Kanishka Lahiri, a Bangalore-based professional in the semiconductor industry. To send him feedback, please email him directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Er, I would like to be cc-ed in on any feedback too! Deepa. In middle-class educated circles, it has become unfashionable, in fact, often

Re: [silk] I have a laptop battery question...

2008-12-02 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All you techies on this list I have an IQ (no, not what you think, it means, Ignoramus Question)...I bought a laptop, a Toshiba Satellite...the battery was lasting one and a half hours, within a year, though I regularly discharge the battery

Re: [silk] I have a laptop battery question...

2008-12-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All you techies on this list I have an IQ (no, not what you think, it means, Ignoramus Question)...I bought a laptop, a Toshiba Satellite...the battery was lasting one

[silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm

2008-12-02 Thread Zeenath Hasan
Yes to Firangi Paani on Friday, Dec 5th evening. Zeenath On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Zeenath Hasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Srini, 4th Dec at Hyd clashes with the invitation for the pleasure of our company by Communication and IT Minister at Rock Heights. Is Friday evening ok

[silk] mathematics gets more unreasonably effective

2008-12-02 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Forwarded from another list. What *fun*! Udhay http://arxivblog.com/?p=740 Encode a system of axioms as a set of quantum states. A given measurement on this system can then be thought of as a proposition. Some measurements come up with random results. Do they

Re: [silk] Here's a very interesting viewpoint

2008-12-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepa Mohan wrote, [on Tuesday 02 December 2008 09:31 PM]: By Kanishka Lahiri, a Bangalore-based professional in the semiconductor industry. To send him feedback, please email him directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] What

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Madhu Menon
Biju Chacko wrote: I notice that the Restaurant scene is increasingly being dominated by the large chains like the BJN group. While quite often the food from these restaurants is pretty good, I can't help but wonder if their deep pockets are squeezing smaller players out of business. Madhu,

Re: [silk] Speed - The Movie

2008-12-02 Thread Gautam John
Looks like there's a sequel in the making: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Keanu-Might-Be-Addicted-To-Speed-11079.html

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] (Large chains don't always produce great food. You only have to visit the lunch buffet at Mainland China to realise it.) Not at all disputing what you say, but as a counter-point Angeeti has almost always impressed me

Re: [silk] Here's a very interesting viewpoint

2008-12-02 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
Onti, scroll down deepa and see please! On 12/3/08, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepa Mohan wrote, [on Tuesday 02 December 2008 09:31 PM]: By Kanishka Lahiri, a Bangalore-based professional in the

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Large chains don't always produce great food. You only have to visit the lunch buffet at Mainland China to realise it.) Madhu Madhu...you say, I notice...don't always produce great food. Are there chains that do? I

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chains that do? I think that mass-produced food will always taste different from food cooked in small quantities. Thats' why, I feel, I can never get the taste of the food at a wedding hall in my kitchen..and vice versa.

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju Chacko wrote: I notice that the Restaurant scene is increasingly being dominated by the large chains like the BJN group. While quite often the food from these restaurants is pretty good, I can't help but wonder if their

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - Thursday evening 7pm

2008-12-02 Thread Rishab Ghosh
this sounds like fun. i still have to find time to eat at rayalaseema ruchulu (sp?) and some amazing biryani places... -r On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:11:14PM +0530, Zeenath Hasan wrote: Yes to Firangi Paani on Friday, Dec 5th evening. Zeenath On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Zeenath

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Madhu Menon
Deepa Mohan wrote: Madhu...you say, I notice...don't always produce great food. Are there chains that do? There are chains like McDonald's, and there are chains like the BJN group. One is cheap, mass-produced food that is never great, just adequate, but consistent. The latter is a fine

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepa Mohan wrote: Madhu...you say, I notice...don't always produce great food. Are there chains that do? There are chains like McDonald's, and there are chains like the BJN group. One is cheap, mass-produced food that

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Thaths
On 12/2/08, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's Little Italy, Mzuri Zana, and Irani Chai around the Jubilee Hills area. What sort of food does Mzuri Zana serve? Thaths (who will be in Hyderabad in a couple of weeks) -- Silly Indians. Our God made their God -- Homer J.

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Thaths
On 12/2/08, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's Little Italy, Mzuri Zana, and Irani Chai around the Jubilee Hills area. What sort of food does Mzuri Zana serve? Thaths (who will be in Hyderabad in a couple of weeks) -- Silly Indians. Our God made their God -- Homer J.

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially a coffee shop.. I didn't get the impression that it was much of a 'foodie' place.. maybe I didn't order the right thing. No, it isn't a foodie place - but it's always busy. Cheeni

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-02 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially a coffee shop.. I didn't get the impression that it was much of a 'foodie' place.. maybe I didn't order the right thing. *cough* top post *cough* From the name I was expecting an East African cafe of some sort