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Interesting ... so, just to check my understanding with an example, this photo depicts what is merely a large number of electromagnetic reactions?

Right on. I always install Adblock with Firefox or Mozilla. I haven't seen a pop-up or flash advertisement for months. They all seem to come from a few advertisers. Here is my adblock list:

http://.mediaplex.com/* http://.tribalfusion.com/*
http://.doubleclick.net/* http://.adbureau.net/*
http://.atdmt.com/* http://.emode.com/*
http://.advertising.com/* http://.tickle.com/*
http://.fastclick.net/* http://.falkag.net/*
http://.e.akamai.net/* http://.yieldmanager.com/*
http://.casalemedia.com/* http://.serving-sys.com/*
http://.pointroll.com/* http://.thinktarget.com/*
http://.zedo.com/* http://.com.com/cnwk.*/Ads/*
http://.qnsr.com/* http://ar.atwola.com/*
http://ads.guardian.co.uk/* http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/*
http://.starwave.com/* http://ads.ign.com/advertisers/*
http://ads.space.com/RealMedia/ads/* http://gfx.dvlabs.com/*

...When I left Sun to go to NeXT, I thought
Objective-C was the coolest thing since sliced bread, and I hated C++.
So, naturally when I stayed to start the (eventually) Java project, Obj-C
had a big influence. James Gosling, being much older than I was, he had
lots of experience with SmallTalk and Simula68, which we also borrowed
from liberally.

The other influence, was that we had lots of friends working at NeXT at
the time, whose faith in the black cube was flagging. Bruce Martin was
working on the NeXTStep 486 port, Peter King, Mike Demoney, and John
Seamons were working on the mysterious (and never shipped) NRW (NeXT RISC
Workstation, 88110???). They all joined us in late '92 - early '93 after
we had written the first version of Oak. I'm pretty sure that Java's
'interface' is a direct rip-off of Obj-C's 'protocol' which was largely
designed by these ex-NeXT'ers... Many of those strange primitive wrapper
classes, like Integer and Number came from Lee Boynton, one of the early
NeXT Obj-C class library guys who hated 'int' and 'float' types.

Another interesting side-note, (so as not to break any rules on my first
[and last]-ever posting to comp.sys.newton), John Seamons, (who happened
to be Andy Bechtolsheim's roommate at Stanford and largely reponsible for
the first ever port of Unix to the SUN-0) once did a port of Oak (Java)
to the Newton. We were in the midst of trying to do a deal with 3DO to
run as their OS/API, and we didn't have any 3DO dev systems on hand, so
John took apart an Apple Newton 100 and wired it up to a bunch of logic
analyzers, reverse engineered the interfaces and actually got some of the
original Star7 demo to run on this machine. After the 3DO deal tubed, I
think most of the code was lost to history... last I heard, John was out
in Aspen working for wnj, so you never know.

Sigh... we sure knew how to have fun in those days...

-Patrick

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Patrick Naughton
President and CTO
Starwave Corporation
http://www.starwave.com/people/naughton

And except that he hasn't got a bad-boy image, and seems a genuinely nice-guy with some actual talent ... nerd sounds like an awful stretch.

When Tiger was a freshman at Stanford, he was 6'2 140lbs, wore very thick glasses off the course (-11 nearsitedness), suffered from allergies, and (according to his college teammates) was an awful dancer. His college teammates called him "Urkel".

The Tiger Woods we see today is largely the result of Lasik surgery, strenuous weight training, and an image that is carefully controlled by IMG.

Are the real Americans the Amish ones in Pennsylvania, or the ones up the mountain villages in Arizona, or swimming the river in Sedona half way up the 'Mogollen' obstacle ?

The ones who'll help you raise a barn, if you want to start a family ? The ones who'll let you scrump apples in the fall ?

The ones who trek the donkeys up and down the Grand Canyon, or who keep the tents clean at the bottom if you want to walk ?

Here's one.

How will this exercise help them ?

I'm not sure that much exercise is needed.

Here's a picture. Decide for yourself (he's on the right).

Of course he was on PTI once with no makeup... looked like he escaped Evil Dead ;)

Fortunately, google is your friend :-)

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/ach ievers/erv0-022
http://www.mikedust.com/spirits/images/spirits-art icle-erving.jpg
http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2001/0712/ photo/s_erving_si.jpg
http://www.remembertheaba.com/TributeMaterial/360- drj002a.jpg
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/ach ievers/erv0-000

I also didn't know what he looked like until just now :-)