Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-23 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 24-Apr-07, at 10:35 AM, Abhishek Hazra wrote: even his website is designed by spicy mangoes. http://www.spicymango.com/index1.html complete brand integration? The filmstrip on that site is wonky -- it runs in the direction opposite to what one would expect when mousing over -- and then

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-23 Thread Abhishek Hazra
The filmstrip on that site is wonky yeah. that site is nothing great. by the way, have you seen your namesake's site? http://www.geocities.com/antikiran/ deadpan, old, no frills design but stashed with goodies. for example, the spinoza short story http://www.geocities.com/antikiran/spinoza.htm

[silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-24 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
stripes of red, black, white and purple - how much is it [1] worth? apparently at least $46 million [2], guaranteed by sotheby's to david rockefeller who's selling it. -rishab 1. http://economist.com/images/columns/2007w16/Rothko.jpg 2.

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-24 Thread Danese Cooper
$46 million is a ridiculous amount of money for a painting (any painting) but I'd hardly characterize a Rothko as stripes of color. The depth and texture Rothko's methods achieved are much more compelling than can be communicated by a reductionist description (or even a print or photo of

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-24 Thread Deepa Mohan
That was SUCH a good description of Rothko's work Danese. Deepa. On 4/24/07, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $46 million is a ridiculous amount of money for a painting (any painting) but I'd hardly characterize a Rothko as stripes of color. The depth and texture Rothko's methods

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-24 Thread Lawnun
Agreed. An excellent description. As I've only seen the copies (or images on the web), I never really saw how a Rothko work commanded the $ that it does. I have a new appreciation. On a side note, does anyone ever speculate that sometimes the price of these works of art are high both due to

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-24 Thread Abhishek Hazra
thanks for that interesting take on Rothko, Danese. minimalism in visual art, can be often mistaken, for a smart con-job. And particularly for the early modernist masters like Malevich, one almost seems warranted to ask, what's so great about that black square on white background? Even I could

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
of course, minimalist art can indeed be entirely in the eye of the beholder, unless augmented by some explanation of the artist's intention. here is malevich: The black square on the white field was the first form in which nonobjective feeling came to be expressed. The square = feeling, the

Re: [silk] The coming age of air taxis

2007-04-25 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
turn emerged from them. We're a software and logistics company that only happens to make money flying planes, insists Ed Iacobucci, an transport is not a high profit business, and involves enormous operational costs. business logic would suggest that dayjet become, indeed, a software and

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Venkat Mangudi
It feels nice that one can get so much good information to understand art... Being rather art-illiterate (I can appreciate good landscapes, is all), I have newfound respect for art. But, I still do not understand art any better than I did yesterday. I guess this is how my wife feels when I

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
So how can the supermarket possibly sell a pair of these synthetic cream-filled pseudocakes for less than a bunch of roots? For the answer, you need look no farther than the farm bill. this makes no sense at all. farm subsidies are distorting, but the reason it's cheaper to sell

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote [at 01:22 PM 4/25/2007] : this is also why a fresh carrot is more expensive than a frozen one, which is more expensive than a canned one; This is not my experience, in any vegetable market I've seen. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com))

[silk] opening a bank account in U.K.

2007-04-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
I've just ordered me a bargain Ltd., and would like to open a company bank account next time I visit U.K. Anyone here done that as a nonresident? What will I need? How much time does it take? Any suggestions to which bank (must offer online banking option) to use? -- Eugen* Leitl a

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Gautam John
In my experience, the other problem is also due to the fact that the processed food industry essentially competes with human consumption for the same raw material. Given this, processed fruit and vegetables will always be more expensive than fresh. India also does not have much of a processable

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Abhishek Hazra
Yet the general public saw in the nonobjectivity of the representation the demise of art and failed to grasp the evident fact that feeling had here assumed external form this tension between communication vrs intent has a long history and something that gets hotly contested when in comes to

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher M. Kelty
but wait... isn't Pollan's argument that without subsidies that entire real transaction of Twinkies could be brought into a more realistically market-driven line with that of carrots? Or, rather, that if we subsidized vegetable growers instead (or no one at all) we could produce market

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:25:56AM -0500, Christopher M. Kelty wrote: Also, my understanding, though very limited of EU subsidies is that they are primarily focused on small and medium size farms, not the megafarms of the US... but that may be propaganda? most definitely not; EU subsidies go

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher M. Kelty
Fair enough: what you are arguing is that one standard method of cost accounting explains why twinkies are cheaper. Other (non-standard? economically suspect?) methods, like focusing only on production costs, or including opportunity costs (all those carrots that were not produced and sold

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
While agro subsidies in the US lead to overproduction of corn and soy which in turn leads to processed food based on the same, the connection between relatively cheap processed food and the obesity epidemic is tenuous. First, processed food does not necessarily decrease the cost of food overall.

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Danese Cooper
But are Twinkies really cheaper when you factor in the cost to society of poor health? There's a book making the rounds here in San Francisco just now called GRUB written by the daughter of the Frances Moore Lappe (who taught us in the 70s that vegetarianism is actually better

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:55:13AM -0700, Danese Cooper wrote: But are Twinkies really cheaper when you factor in the cost to society of poor health? ok, it depends on what you mean by cheaper :-) i meant the retail price (which typically does _not_ include costs to society). and when the

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher M. Kelty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:24:31PM +, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: the evil in current US and EU agricultural subsidies, as with most subsidies, is that they favour industrialised agriculture and products that can come out of industrialised agriculture. these happen to be cereal crops (or

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:31:03PM -0500, Christopher M. Kelty wrote: easier to get where I live). I.e., if it is cheaper to make twinkies than carrots it is because the ingredients for twinkies are all but free today, and people spend their lives thinking up new ways to twinkify everything,

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Thaths
On 4/25/07, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to the earlier comment about raw carrots costing more than canned or frozen...ABSOLUTELY this happens in rich countries where careful farming methods (organic, biodynamic) produce pedigreed produce that people are willing to pay more to

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-04-25 16:26:37 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to repeat an often repeated anecdote: when the Lumiere brothers showed their film of a train pulling into a platform I wonder if the Lumière shorts are available somewhere (online?). I've looked for them, but not found anything. Any ideas?

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: [ on 12:17 AM 4/26/2007 ] which reminds me... the wonders of food processing technology mean that most dried fruits are actually cranberries. apparently they are very cheap to produce in bulk, last forever, have a chewy dried-fruit texture and can be cheaply

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Aditya Chadha
Is there anything that's not up on youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk On 4/25/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2007-04-25 16:26:37 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to repeat an often repeated anecdote: when the Lumiere brothers showed their film of a train

Re: [silk] You Are What You Grow

2007-04-25 Thread Gautam John
Apple juice concentrate and grape juice concentrate are very commonly used natural sweeteners. And legally speaking, jams with such sweeteners are free to declare that they have no added sugar because they haven't added any sugar as such. Welcome to the weird world of food processing. You don't

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-04-25 19:53:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything that's not up on youtube? Wow. I didn't even *think* of looking on Youtube. Thank you! -- ams

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Abhishek Hazra
Is there anything that's not up on youtube? super! thanks. well, if the Lumiere's are there then Feynman has to be there too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOfVX3f5q30 On 4/26/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything that's not up on youtube?

[silk] Flights to Switzerland from India

2007-04-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
So what's the best way to get to Zurich from India? Nobody except for Swiss Air offers a direct flight, and I'm not very eager to fly bankrupt European airlines that offer all the goodness of government run, union backed efficiency. Cheeni

Re: [silk] Flights to Switzerland from India

2007-04-26 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 26/04/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's the best way to get to Zurich from India? Emirates to Zurich via Dubai? Binand

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-26 Thread Sriram Karra
On 4/25/07, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul242005/sundayherald1230252005722.asp Super... quote Subbana always reacted sharply to the criticism that Neenasam's activities at Heggodu are irrelevant in a poor country like ours. The

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-26 Thread Sriram Karra
On 4/25/07, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but i think you will agree that the public is not a apriori conceptual category. a very specific public is imagined into existence through specific interventions as shared codes of appreciation do not emerge spontaneously. There was a recent

[silk] Riya moves back to USA

2007-04-26 Thread Madhu Menon
The CEO of Riya.com has a blog post about how he's moving from Bangalore back to California because the wages in Bangalore have shot up like nuts: http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/2007/04/episode_26_indi.html -- * Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine Indiranagar, Bangalore

Re: [silk] Flights to Switzerland from India

2007-04-26 Thread Divya Sampath
Direct to Zurich, if you're close to an airport that SwissAir services. Otherwise, to Zurich via Frankfurt or Munich (Lufthansa) or via Paris (Air France). I've done all of the above. cheers, Divya - Original Message From: Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [silk] Flights to Switzerland from India

2007-04-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Divya Sampath wrote: Direct to Zurich, if you're close to an airport that SwissAir services. Otherwise, to Zurich via Frankfurt or Munich (Lufthansa) or via Paris (Air France). I've done all of the above. GVA / ZRH are actually far more pleasant airports to transit through - very small,

Re: [silk] Riya moves back to USA

2007-04-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 4/26/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CEO of Riya.com has a blog post about how he's moving from Bangalore back to California because the wages in Bangalore have shot up like nuts: http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/2007/04/episode_26_indi.html Companies looking for

Re: [silk] Riya moves back to USA

2007-04-26 Thread Deepa Mohan
Very articulate analysis of the situation Cheeni! This is what I call the British Raj syndrome...at first, the natives can be slaves...but very soon, will demand emancipation! Deepa. On 4/27/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

[silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html Inflation, Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression April 26, 2007 Michael Nystrom, MBA When I was about 9 years old, my father took my elder sister and I to see a performance by a famous magician called Blackstone

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-28 Thread Deepa Mohan
Excellent article.Thank you.I am not economist enough to have an opinion about its predictions; I will wait and see. Deepa. On 4/28/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html Inflation, Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression April 26, 2007

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Sat, April 28, 2007 8:52 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote: http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html I think that what will break the back of the US economy will be the coming real estate crash (and its attendant death spiral of foreclosures and distress sales) along with steadily rising oil

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-29 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 29 Apr 2007 10:06 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Sat, April 28, 2007 8:52 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote: http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html This stuff is particularly interesting to me. Ages ago, after living in the UK for long enough to acquire permanent resident status there

[silk] If you've ever been lost reading the NYC subway map...

2007-04-29 Thread Venkat Mangudi
There's light at the end of the tunnel. :-) (Images have been deleted in the post. But you have to see it to be convinced) http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/396-helpful-distortion-at-nyc-london-subway-maps Eddie Jabbour, graphic designer for Kick Design, is obsessed with replacing the

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-29 Thread Bruce Metcalf
shiv sastry wrote: This stuff is particularly interesting to me. I have been asked to attend a visa interview with my family in two in 3 weeks from today. I was weighing the educational opportunity options for my kids in the US. By education, I assume you do *not* mean public schools?

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:22:09AM -0400, Bruce Metcalf wrote: I was weighing the educational opportunity options for my kids in the US. By education, I assume you do *not* mean public schools? It's expensive, but it's still one of the best educations to be had in the world, if you choose

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Long
http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html My personal prediction is that it's much easier for currency to inflate than for housing prices to significantly decline. Looking from the outside, much of the climb in the Dow has been a reaction to the decline of the dollar -- just for the

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-30 Thread Charles Haynes
Having recently seen a number of Rothko's works up close at personal at the Tate. I now get him, and have to agree. You cannot (I could not) appreciate Rothko from reading about him, seeing his work reproduced in art books, or viewing reproductions of his work. However once I was actually *there*

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-30 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 4/24/07, Lawnun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] On a side note, does anyone ever speculate that sometimes the price of these works of art are high both due to the artistic merit of the piece, and the status of the prior owner? When I read the economist piece, it struck me that part of the

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-30 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 4/28/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html This is a description that would fit the current state of the Indian economy rather well. In an inflation ridden India of first time frivolous consumers and debtors, it seems difficult to afford a

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-30 Thread Thaths
On 4/30/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were I to be rash enough to splurge on a house of my own at the present moment, it would cost me a rather large fortune, financed no doubt by usurious debt. Debt which I would possibly find hard to repay if the Indian economy were to hit

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [30/04/07 13:17 -0700]: Can someone point me to a couple of examples of instances where the real estate market went belly up? I am more interested in examples where investments lost value over a large period of time rather than short-term losses. I ask because I keep hearing dire warnings

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-30 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 12:06 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: but one statistic I heard yesterday of 9 out of 10 car buyers taking out a loan to finance their purchase strikes me as about right. Loans for cars make eminent sense for many reasons. A whole lot of people who run businesses (such as

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-30 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
I suspect you credit authorities with more responsibility than they actually bear. May I recommend Robert Neuwirth's Shadow Cities? Here's a review: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002029.html Here's the author's blog: http://squattercity.blogspot.com/ Here's him giving a talk at TED

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-04-30 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 12:06 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: The US maybe headed for a fall, but a similar fall in India will have rather more pronounced and dire consequences. This may be a simplistic assessment. If you drive up towards Yelahanka past Mekhri circle you will see, on your left a

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-01 Thread Deepa Mohan
Dear Shiv, Having just seen one of those Maternity Hotels, your email struck a chord... PS - I have a garden with a lake for sale - about 240 acres in all. It's called Lalbagh. Anyone interested? I'm selling it cheap because I'm emigrating to the US I want. If you could just throw in your

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Long
Can someone point me to a couple of examples of instances where the real estate market went belly up? I am more interested in examples where investments lost value over a large period of time rather than short-term losses. I ask because I keep hearing dire warnings of real estate meltdown, but

[silk] How much is too much?

2007-05-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Nice things this guy learnt from random stock pictures. Enjoyed everyone of them and I think it is hard to just notice these things if you are not looking for it. I am sure that I will look at the pictures in ads with more interest now. :-)

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-01 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
Can someone point me to a couple of examples of instances where the real estate market went belly up? I am more interested in examples where investments lost value over a large period of time rather than short-term losses. I ask because I keep hearing dire warnings of real estate meltdown,

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-01 Thread Thaths
On 5/1/07, Shyam Visweswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently looking for a home and have been doing some reading. With respect to the US, till around 2001, the value of a home bought a century ago remained even when adjusted for inflation. I have a reference somewhere for it. Since 2001

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Thaths wrote [at 01:17 PM 4/30/2007] : Can someone point me to a couple of examples of instances where the real estate market went belly up? I am more interested in examples where investments lost value over a large period of time rather than short-term losses. This is a long, data-laden (and

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-01 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
--- Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/28/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but what we have in India is a spiraling inflation of urban land prices while rural land continues to lie untouched by the Indian economic miracle unless it has some potential of touching

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-01 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 5/1/07, Pavithra Sankaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] This is completely untrue. In and around Bandipur where I work, which is 80 kms from anywhere, land situated 2 kms from the highway, accessible only through a dirt track, sells for 5-600,000 Rs. an acre. Merely two years ago, it was

[silk] HD-DVD and Digg

2007-05-01 Thread Gautam John
Via Slashdot: An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along with the account of the diggers who submitted them. Diggers are in open revolt against the moderators and are retaliating in clever and inventive

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Long
The key observation is that the rural land hasn't appreciated because of wealth created by the rural people... To first order, isn't this true everywhere? Urban areas may be good at producing capital because they have to be; when one must trade for resources, one must develop export goods

Re: [silk] HD-DVD and Digg

2007-05-02 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Gautam John wrote: Via Slashdot: An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/02/0235228.shtml http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/ Related story. The

Re: [silk] HD-DVD and Digg

2007-05-02 Thread Gautam John
And it looks like Digg capitulated to the online frenzy. The creature devoured its creator. But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective

[silk] Plastic sheet delivers wireless power

2007-05-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
(next step, a smart phased array tracking a rectenna at a distance) http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070423/full/070423-11.html Published online: 29 April 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070423-11 Plastic sheet delivers wireless power Desks and walls could one day light up electronics without need for

[silk] To Treat the Dead

2007-05-02 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek/ To Treat the Dead The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks―and death itself. By Jerry Adler Newsweek May 7, 2007 issue - Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are

Re: [silk] Plastic sheet delivers wireless power

2007-05-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
Very interesting, but I am wary of could be, may be inventions...too many of them are never heard of again! Deepa. On 5/2/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (next step, a smart phased array tracking a rectenna at a distance) http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070423/full/070423-11.html

Re: [silk] To Treat the Dead

2007-05-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:21:36PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek/ Once again the cryonics people have been decades ahead of the mainstream. as recently as 1993, my ass. 1983, maybe. http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/cambridge.html To

Re: [silk] Plastic sheet delivers wireless power

2007-05-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:31:39PM +0430, Deepa Mohan wrote: Very interesting, but I am wary of could be, may be inventions...too many of them are never heard of again! That thing is too damn useful not to happen. In fact in a decade some people would be able to make that stuff at home, with a

Re: [silk] To Treat the Dead

2007-05-02 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 5:21 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: The body on the cart is dead, but its trillions of cells are all still alive. Becker wants to resolve that paradox in favor of life. er... what will they do if they get this chap's heart beating again? Use him as an organ donor I

Re: [silk] To Treat the Dead

2007-05-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:10:29PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: er... what will they do if they get this chap's heart beating again? I wouldn't. I would perfuse him, and freeze him. Use him as an organ donor I suppose. That's a possibility, but I presume this is about throwing up the window of

Re: [silk] To Treat the Dead

2007-05-02 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 9:37 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: There is no fixed time for brain death. A lot of the damage cascades appear hours and days after the ischemic event. A whole of them are blockable. I would be interested to hear about what is blockable and by what means. A classmate of mine

Re: [silk] To Treat the Dead

2007-05-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:54:52PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2007 9:37 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: There is no fixed time for brain death. A lot of the damage cascades appear hours and days after the ischemic event. A whole of them are blockable. I would be interested to

Re: [silk] [ccm-l] Doctors Change the Way They Think About Death

2007-05-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Lex, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Lex, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 08:09:40 -0400 To: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ccm-l] Doctors Change the Way They Think About Death Lance is a great

[silk] The order effect in human abductive reasoning

2007-05-03 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
Can someone with academic access get this paper? http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/teta/ 2006/0018/0002/art7 Belief revision, a process in which one revises one's current belief in the light of new information, is an essential component of human abductive reasoning.

[silk] World Without Oil

2007-05-03 Thread Casey O'Donnell
http://worldwithoutoil.org/Default.aspx Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but in light of the recent discussions about the US economy in which oil inevitably comes up, I thought I'd toss it out there. Taken from http://worldwithoutoil.org/what.aspx What's Going On Here? WORLD WITHOUT

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-03 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 03 May 2007 5:51 pm, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: The devil is in the details. Indeed. The devil IS in the details. Thanks for the inputs anyway. When I work out the economics of getting a Green card and weigh cost against risk in the short, medium and long term, India appears to be a

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-03 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
--- shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 5:51 pm, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: The devil is in the details. Indeed. The devil IS in the details. Thanks for the inputs anyway. When I work out the economics of getting a Green card and weigh cost against risk in

Re: [silk] Where is the US economy heading?

2007-05-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:13:29PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: When I work out the economics of getting a Green card and weigh cost against risk in the short, medium and long term, India appears to be a better bet for me and my family. I can do more for them from here. However, I will mull

[silk] Any silk lister attending JAX 2007?

2007-05-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Just heard about this on the radio. Looks like an interesting conference. Before I register, is there a chance for a mini silk meet? Any experience with attending this conference in the past would be appreciated. Venkat

[silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
Does anyone know where I can pick up a Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Slug) in Bangalore? I'm in the mood for wireless storage and audio.

Re: [silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:34:01PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Does anyone know where I can pick up a Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Slug) in Bangalore? I'm in the mood for wireless storage and audio. What are you going to do with it? Reflash the firmware? -- Eugen* Leitl a

Re: [silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 04-May-07, at 2:06 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: What are you going to do with it? Reflash the firmware? Yes. I need HFS+ support. I haven't tried USB Audio on Linux yet, but if I can get it working, Soundflower + EsounD should make for a nice, cheap wireless audio setup. I miss my Airport

[silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread freeman murray
http://telegraphindia.com/1070106/asp/weekend/story_7202699.asp Casting a wide net Young Indian entrepreneurs are creating a buzz on the Internet with a spate of new websites, says Shrabonti Bagchi What's common to the new generation of entrepreneurs on the Indian Internet? They are young,

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Funny, funny .. I've not heard of 90% of these portals. And they missed out probably the best new kid on the block - cleartrip.com Far far better than what passes for an online ticketing site in india (makemytrip.com, yatra.com etc suck bad, have more than their share of bugs). Cleartrip's

Re: [silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Biju Chacko
SP Road? On 5/4/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I can pick up a Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Slug) in Bangalore? I'm in the mood for wireless storage and audio.

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Funny, funny .. I've not heard of 90% of these portals. And they missed out probably the best new kid on the block - cleartrip.com Far far better than what passes for an online ticketing site in india (makemytrip.com, yatra.com etc suck bad, have more than their

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Badri Natarajan
Except for Kavita Iyer's minglebox.com that also figured in TOI today, have not heard of any of them. Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? I've seen ads for Fropper, but that's about it. With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [04/05/07 18:06 +0530]: Except for Kavita Iyer's minglebox.com that also figured in TOI today, have not heard of any of them. Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? Funnily enough, I know merasnap.com (or at least, I've seen its founder VV Kadam around on

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Badri Natarajan [04/05/07 14:04 +0100]: I've seen ads for Fropper, but that's about it. With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people use cybercafes), the market has got to be pretty small for these guys.

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 4 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people use cybercafes) I thought cybercafes (at least in urban centres) to be a dying breed. A lot more laptops to be seen on

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Venkat Mangudi wrote [at 05:36 AM 5/4/2007] : Except for Kavita Iyer's minglebox.com that also figured in TOI today, have not heard of any of them. Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? I know Kavita - she's smart. That said, I have no idea what her offering does, except

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Thaths
On 5/4/07, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people use cybercafes), the market has got to be pretty small for these guys. I heard Vint Cerf mention the number 40

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 04/05/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny, funny .. I've not heard of 90% of these portals. And they missed out probably the best new kid on the block - cleartrip.com They seem to do Referer-based access control at least of their website. Apart from numbers that

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alok G. Singh [04/05/07 20:05 +0530]: Also, Internet World Stats [1] gives a projected figure of 42 million for March 2007 (based on a Nov 2006 survey). That's about 4% of the population. Which reminds me of that 2001 experiment in a Delhi slum by someone from NIIT. A computer (no keyboard,

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Binand Sethumadhavan [04/05/07 17:32 +0200]: Are they really a great site? I'd love to see one that actually understands that some flights of IA are International, and hence require longer connection times (and arrive at/depart from non-standard terminals, especially at Mumbai). Y'know,

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 04 May 2007 6:06 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? Ah - but silk-list was part of India 1.0. Comparing Opples with Aranges shiv

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