At 2007-01-02 17:45:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am interested in the 3000-year-old computer story, but I
can't find any explanation in that Scientific American page
I didn't read the article, but surely it's referring to the Antikythera
mechanism (which is, as you say, considerably
At 2006-12-14 01:43:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great read...could not find the URL though.
You mean it's not the first result on google for Wired crowdsourcing?
-- ams
At 2006-12-14 22:00:58 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/wr_nm/arts_music_mozart_dc
I'm completely dumbfounded to note that this article doesn't say *one*
specific word about *where* to find the score, but handwaves on about
on the internet and the web site at
At 2006-12-13 18:45:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My statements are not meant to be support for abuse of coercive power
Then it's rather ironic that you so often associate differing viewpoints
with being in support of, or sympathising with, terrorists.
-- ams
NT as a file server is faster than a dead bat carrying Post-It notes
underwater. But not by much.
-- ams
At 2006-11-24 12:28:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do not recall Ms. Roy doing anything that might be construed as
either, hijacking the event, or being a publicity hog.
For that matter, I don't understand what specious, toxic rhetoric
she's supposed to specialise in, or why it's obvious
At 2006-11-18 17:59:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I prefer the term least common denominator here].
Oh, do you. Well, I hate the term. In terms of arithmetic and fractions,
it's entirely meaningless, and it distresses me that everyone uses it as
if it means a common baseline.
-- ams
At 2006-11-15 16:56:21 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
its now moved to a new box (dell server this time) running ubuntu.
Where's it hosted?
-- ams
(I've been studiously avoiding this thread so far, but...)
At 2006-11-11 18:15:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know to what extent less-intense code reviews would have the
same effects.
In my personal experience, less-intense code reviews can be very helpful
too. We (me and my
At 2006-11-10 18:37:38 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay...is this way of quoting better?
I'm not Udhay... but no, not really.
The idea is that what you quote should have ' ' in front of it, and
your responses shouldn't. In this instance, it looks like sastry said
what you typed about the
At 2006-11-09 03:03:26 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
especially as my windoze laptop takes 30~45 mins to initialise with my
work network on VPN over internet.
30-45 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have ToI delivered to my apartment but can someone suggest an
alternative?
The Hindu, Indian Express,
At 2006-11-09 03:26:05 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Hindustan Times has come up in 3 posts now... I shall give it a
try.
The Hindu isn't The Hindustan Times.
How does the Express compare?
Enthusiastic, but lacking.
-- ams
At 2006-11-07 11:05:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, alternatively: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B,
A, Start
That is cheating ;)
Er, what is any of that supposed to mean or do?
-- ams
At 2006-11-07 11:18:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It means we're big game-geeks.
Aha.
I wonder if there are any big-game geeks on silk.
-- ams
At 2006-11-07 17:57:18 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing except that I am getting RSI from keeping my fingers crossed
for the last 6 years.
http://www.exile.ru/2006-November-03/election_2006.html
-- ams
At 2006-11-08 05:59:38 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consider go and chess. [...]
I have no clue which way things might go
Heh heh.
-- ams
At 2006-11-02 11:10:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sound like a decent blogger to me.
And that's all that really matters, isn't it?
-- ams
I'm curious. Can one show up at, say, Bangalore East railway station at
some arbitrary time during the day, and reasonably expect to arrive at
Bangalore City Station in an hour or less, preferably in one piece?
-- ams
At 2006-09-07 17:08:43 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Such a definition of Hinduism would accommodate just about anyone in
India -- whether Sikh, Jain or Buddhist -- while excluding Islam.
^^
Or atheist, for that matter, since someone always pops up to
At 2006-09-06 18:35:20 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Rishab, why on earth do so many of your posts end up with the silklist
address mentioned twice in To:?
-- ams
At 2006-09-01 13:30:57 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And if any of you come across fresh ones...do send them to me or let
me know about them.
Physicist recommends bigger balls to slow down male tennis players.
(From the Guardian, I think, but I'm not sure. I read it years ago in
the New
At 2006-09-01 16:20:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen
Wow. Self-castration was a capital crime under Roman law?
-- ams
At 2006-09-01 14:08:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But my collection also needs physical specimens...!
I don't know about physical specimens, but someone just pointed me at
this (in an unrelated context):
ICE arrests 15 aliens in Roswell working for U.S. military contractor
At 2006-08-23 10:31:39 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then we must ban babies on flights too, because they can crap
liquid! They puke, too, especially when shaken.
And produce high-frequency sounds that drive other passengers to
violence.
I'm glad more and more people are coming round
At 2006-08-23 11:11:27 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've a six year old to inflict on others. Revenge is mine!
Inflict... revenge... hey, wait, aren't you somewhere in Arabia? ;-)
-- ams
At 2006-08-23 12:26:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AIRLINES including Ryanair are considering suing the Government for
up to £300 million to recover the losses incurred since extra
security measures were imposed last week.
At 2006-08-21 15:19:59 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not to be taking sides, but can't free energy be a tortured
euphemism for renewable source of energy? Free is a lot more
attention provoking, which may have been the intended effect. Pool up
money for one ad in a prestigious publication,
At 2006-08-16 11:01:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is exactly why I said (I repeat): We the public have a duty to
choose which side we want to be on
I refuse to be forced into choosing either side.
I certainly don't sympathise with any terrorist agenda, but nor will I
meekly accept
At 2006-08-11 14:06:20 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doesn't anyone realise that EVERY SINGLE TERRORIST is human?
Don't be silly, they're arabs.
-- ams
At 2006-08-10 18:41:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get Carl-Zeiss lenses with anti-glare coating.
My plain old non-Carl Zeiss lenses from Lawrence Mayo's also have an
anti-reflective coating (I've had it for many years, and I like it). I
gather you can get coated lenses from many
At 2006-08-11 07:29:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Baby formula and medicines were exempted.
It's all very well to exempt baby formula, but what about BABIES?
Doesn't anyone realise that EVERY SINGLE TERRIST was once a baby?
-- ams
At 2006-08-08 10:58:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And besides I think I am a pretty darn smart fun guy and this planet
is lucky to have me
Time will tell if the planet feels the same way.
-- ams
At 2006-08-09 15:10:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Assuming QWERTY layout, I would guess that this is a human.
;alskdfj === both sides move towards the center.
Indeed. Real cats also tend to have fewer sudden transitions, and much
longer runs of the same character repeated (which would
At 2006-08-09 19:24:58 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hypothesize that ams' runaway cat has returned home. And the joy
of seeing her (Mimi, right?) back is making him pretend to be Bret
pretending to be her.
I'm afraid not. I think Mimi is dead.
-- ams
At 2006-08-09 23:27:26 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I take it you're a cat person.
You should take no such thing. I'm using a dog as a pillow right now,
and my cat is dead.
-- ams
At 2006-08-08 18:04:11 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WHEN would you (ideally) like to die? At what age?
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve
it through not dying.
-- Woody Allen
-- ams
At 2006-08-07 14:54:18 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maybe i am wrongbut i was always under the impression that
significant natural evolution requires small isolated communities /
populations of the said organism, where the isolation is at least a
period of measurement in terms of
At 2006-08-07 15:57:52 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This plant is ubiquitous in northern kenya
Prosopis juliflora is a problem in many parts of Northern India too.
-- ams
At 2006-08-07 13:53:39 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Want to die in: Bombay (Bandra, to be specific, preferably in the
Linking Road-Hill Road-Pali Hill area)
When I first read this post, my reaction was Let me know when you're
visiting, and I'll
At 2006-08-05 03:07:16 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Humans are evolving.
Where are the selection pressures?
-- ams
At 2006-08-05 10:50:05 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(thalidomide resulted in an unsuccessful mutation, for example).
I don't think it's been conclusively established that thalidomide acts
as a mutagen. Even if it did, what is this meant to be an example of?
See changes in average heights,
At 2006-08-03 20:29:28 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But isn't this getting kinda technical for this list?
Er, no?
-- ams
At 2006-08-02 19:32:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wanted to post a gentle reminder to several of the newer members
that silk is NOT confined to folks from Bangalore
Whew, thanks.
So. Where is everybody located these days?
In Gurgaon, just a few hundred metres outside the Delhi
At 2006-07-31 11:00:48 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not stop being a nanny state and treat *licensed* drivers like
adults who can think for themselves?
Er... Yes, all the licensed drivers I encounter are obviously rational
and thoughtful adults, and I have nothing but the greatest
At 2006-07-20 14:52:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apache Software Foundation?
Yes, them.
-- ams
At 2006-07-18 15:00:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+1 So well said.
Oh great. When did we turn into an ASF mailing list?
-- ams
At 2006-07-17 11:44:40 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
most of my collection is 50s-70s hollywood, kurosawa etc
Mm, Kurosawa.
Do you have any of the following? Nora Inu/Stray Dog, Dodes'ka-den,
Tengoku to jigoku/High and Low, Donzoko/The Lower Depths, Ikimono no
kiroku/I Live in Fear, or
At 2006-07-17 14:25:37 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have High and Low, and Drunken Angel. Would you want 'em?
To put it mildly!
-- ams
At 2006-07-17 15:03:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ams, if you send me you address, I'll reach it to you.
(or are you in b'lore?)
Me? No, I'm in Delhi. Where are you?
-- ams
Has anyone been there?
Does anyone know if it's sensible to expect to arrive in Bangalore in
the morning, and be in Madikere by evening? What's the best way to do
it? Bus to Mysore and another to Madikere? Would a taxi be expensive?
Are the buses regular enough that I don't have to worry about
At 2006-07-17 08:27:38 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I wouldn't travel by bus if I had a lot of potentially
fragile luggage (cameras, for example).
I'd rather not travel by bus either. I'm a few centimetres too tall to
ever be comfortable in one, and the very thought of an
At 2006-07-10 19:18:56 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Crab, any progress on the conversion of the Eudora MBX files?
Not yet. I was busy with the Archiveopteryx 1.08 release (now done). I
planned to work on your mbx files on Wednesday, after I sort out some
misbehaving code for a client.
But
At 2006-07-07 07:38:39 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts? Bharath, I know you were playing with putting all silk
messages into a database - what is the current status of that?
If only I could get my hands on those messages...
-- ams
At 2006-07-06 19:41:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why a database? They are not as malleable as text.
Huh?
-- ams
At 2006-06-29 19:32:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now use the same system for flying cars, but now they can also hop over
each other or switch lanes vertically (rather than just horizontally)
if space / speed profiles require it. Makes it easier.
It would be easier only if hopping up and
At 2006-06-30 16:24:43 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I may be so presumptuous as to ask - what does one do with a $5000
lens? I mean what can one do with that you can't do with a $500 lens.
Take good photographs of birds.
-- ams
At 2006-06-29 12:33:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I presume that 7.9 * 10^28, or 2^96. That wouldn't be reasonable,
because IPv6 only has 2^128 addresses.
Why is it unreasonable? It leaves 4294967295 other /32 IPv6 blocks.
-- ams
At 2006-06-29 12:50:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A /32 is okay I guess, but the claim was /96.
But a /96 is much smaller than a /32!
They're talking about a /32 block, which contains 2^96 addresses.
(I'm having a hard time getting excited about Google being allocated a
/32, but that
At 2006-06-29 12:11:45 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If company A is overfilling trains, that creates an opportunity for
company B to win customers over to itself by offering better service.
How would it do that without having to lay a duplicated set of tracks?
(No, really, it's a serious
At 2006-06-29 14:09:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, *did* they get 96 bits out of 128?
Yes. They own 2001:4860::/32.
http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=!%20NET6-2001-4860-1
-- ams
So, folks, when's the next silk-list meet? I can't wait!
*hugs and (air-)kisses to all*
-- ams
At 2006-06-13 10:43:28 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I must say, escargots or foie gras sounds SO much better than
snails and duck liver!
And sauterelles et de miel sauvage!
-- ams
At 2006-05-29 18:50:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and, well, um, pardon the ignorance, but whats the best way to buy?
Get http://www.bhphotovideo.com to ship it to your friend.
-- ams
At 2006-05-29 19:13:01 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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does the frog know it has a latin name?
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I don't know, but there's a bird called Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)
whose call
At 2006-05-17 11:29:10 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I learnt photography on an assortment of Mamiya twin lens cameras
(does anyone here remember those?)
Sort of. I want one of these: http://www.rollei.jp/e/pd/MiniD.html
-- ams
At 2006-04-28 11:50:55 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its a Berkeley XML Db v/s a specialized XML Database
Good lord. For something so horrendously evil, I'd insist on reading the
source for the commercial product before making up my mind (and figure
out how I'd feel about maintaining the
At 2006-04-27 11:20:54 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i am considering the nikon d70s, but am confused by opinions ranging
from crap to marvellous to overpriced.
So you're asking for an extra opinion to make everything clear? :-)
I think the D70s is a fine camera. I wish I could afford one.
At 2006-04-26 12:28:43 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its very climate dependant, so the best thing to do would be call up
the GVNP (you'll find them on the web) office, and check.
(It's the GMVN not GVNP, by the way, for those asking Google.)
-- ams
At 2006-04-26 22:58:25 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone elucidate what sort of code this is? this is going to bug
me until I find out!
It's just every pair of bytes reversed:
$ echo 1234|dd conv=swab
2143
$ echo mohandeepa|dd conv=swab
omahdneeap
The swab is for
At 2006-04-25 22:06:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was told by the locals and the people at our camp outside Ghangaria
that July could be wet with poor visibility though the flowers would
be abundant.
That's exactly what my July was like. I had to sit around watching the
rain for hours
At 2006-04-26 10:04:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vardhini: We are going to Uttaranchal next month (our present schedule
is 18th to 29th May) and would like to know...when you went in May,
was the Valley of Flowers in bloom or was it too early?
What? Did Vardhini go to the Valley of
At 2006-04-24 14:25:00 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am, alas, not surprised, by this incident.
Me neither.
A friend and I had just completed an evening walk (albeit a bit late),
and were resting in the car in the parking lot at Nehru Park prior to
driving off, when two of the city's
At 2006-04-24 22:23:38 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the weekends I'm a naturalist/wildlife photographer.
I like your Crested Serpent Eagle:
http://amoghavarsha.net/photography/nagarahole_20-01-06/tn/IMG_6993.jpg.html
(I have a ghastly photograph somewhere of a half-eaten rat that I
At 2006-04-24 15:35:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Being sidetracked by old threads is one of the good things about
email.
Yes. That's why I want a complete-ish copy of the list archives. I was
thinking about using http://www.archiveopteryx.org to provide a nice
IMAP/webmail archive. Silk
At 2006-04-25 07:44:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It may be worth noting that this is a convention followed, inter alia,
by some tools that translate HTML markup into plain text.
What, like lynx -dump? Non solum pro URLibus? Or how else do they decide
what to put in the footnotes?
--
At 2006-03-09 10:33:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
doesn't the Godel line sound like it should have been said by
Heisenberg?
I thought Heisenberg's dialogue was rather strained, but Gödel's line
sounds about right: he's saying the proposition is undecidable within
the closed system of the
At 2006-02-21 09:12:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also teachers need to discuss why history is important - its a call
to patriotism for sure
It... is?
-- ams
At 2006-02-23 10:23:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Leaving aside for the moment the issue of Why would anyone want
to keep alive the idea of the nation state, it would seem to be
inarguable that there *do* exist various parties who *do* want
to do precisely this.
Yes, I guess it's pretty
At 2006-02-22 06:39:32 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone's interested in the details, the court transcripts are
available online at http://www.hdot.org/ieindex.html.
Not only court transcripts, but (in the Evidence section), scholarly
critiques of his work. Particularly interesting is
At 2006-02-20 19:12:52 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My memory fails me, as it often does, but the opening lines of Love
in the time of Cholera by Marquez was among the best I have ever
read.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of
the fate of unrequited love.
At 2006-02-20 22:46:37 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahimsa Peace Silk is made from the cocoons of wild and semi-wild
silk moths of India.
After a few thousand years of being reared in captivity, the Silk Moth
(Bombyx mori) has become entirely dependent on humans for its survival.
It is
At 2006-02-21 07:37:57 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a few thousand years of being reared in captivity, the Silk Moth
(Bombyx mori) has become entirely dependent on humans for its survival.
It is extinct in the wild, has lost its ability to fly, and can feed on
Mulberry leaves only if
At 2006-01-09 13:37:49 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The key to bird photography is fast focus. You don't have time to
think, compose, meter and click.
Er, well, I don't know about that. I agree that fast focusing is useful,
but thinking seems rather more important to me.
I'd second the
At 2006-01-09 10:56:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you need wide-field and what's your budget?
Since I'd never heard of wide-field, I'm guessing I can live without it.
;-) I don't know what my budget is, yet. I'm just looking around to get
an idea of what is and isn't possible.
-- ams
At 2006-01-09 14:38:51 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you want to do the Moon, stars, the planets, or nebula?
Yes :-)
Seriously, I think I'd spend most of my time on stars and planets. I'm
not hoping for much in the way of nebulae, beyond looking at M42 and a
couple of other easy-to-see
At 2006-01-09 08:13:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess this is one measure of how colonized we all are that even
names of places in countries that do not speak English have to be
polite in reference to the English language.
Huh?
What happens when bored morons get hold of a
Anyone here interested in astronomy?
I'd appreciate recommendations for telescope vendors (.IN-centric) and
good introductory books.
-- ams
Hi Dave.
At 2006-01-09 00:54:46 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would you all recommend for birds?
The combination of a 500mm lens and a digital SLR body (especially the
Canon ones, which give you a 1.6x focal length boost) is good enough
to take some excellent bird photographs, but every
At 2006-01-06 11:41:33 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in the story goes - not sure if apocryphal - that Janah would wait for
Margaret Bourke White to take her image, and he would shoot his frame
using light from her flash...
Not sure if apocryphal?!
It sounds like trying to take photographs
At 2005-12-14 09:22:39 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...is bloody difficult.
http://toroid.org/misc/steppe.jpeg
http://toroid.org/misc/steppe2.jpeg
Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis). Near Berinag, Uttaranchal. 2005-12-28.
-- ams
At 2005-12-10 11:43:43 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What mount is that? EF or EF-S?
EF.
-- ams
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