a story as it was told to me by my uncle. my grandfather was working in the nazi department of supplying the army with erhhm.. supplies and when they went out to look for steel of a high quality they found one small company in austria being able to produce steel of that quality, at first they tried to figure out what was done to that steel to give it that quality, but were unable to do so, so they went to austria to that company, where at first they saw nothing uncommon except that the owner was running a small party every evening for his workers.
After a while they found out that the owner made his workers pee in the bucket where the steel was hardened, so my grandfather and his collegues where able to replicate that process. we didn't win the war though.
Douglas Hofstadter's brilliant book "Goedel Escher Bach" comes to my mind. It's a very good read and could have suggested to Scheider 20 years ago that every formally defined system is going to have holes in it.
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I am interested in talking to other people on the network interested in suicide.
I belonged to a club in graduate school, but we couldn't keep membership up.:)
There was article in Salon from Borsook some time ago in she replies on this article from Raymond, where he blames her for being seriously blinkered by her political agenda. and goes on about how she doesn't have a clue.
Metallica hand delivered 335,435 Napster user names to the startup's San Mateo, Calif., office on May 3. (For added effect, it handed the names over on 60,000 pages of paper instead of simply using a few floppy disks.)
This means on every page were 5 usernames? They must have used Arial 72 or similar to print that.
One shouldn't forget that of these 15$, only about 1$ goes to the artist( for minor bands even less). The rest goes to jewel cases, distribution, advertising and the record company, which may use it to promote new talent
Now on Napster we have a diffrent scheme.Take, for example, free advertising, I bet a smaller band would give their first-born children to get 300.000 people offering their songs on napster.
There are no distribution cost, no jewel cases no pressed cd's
So what does that mean? Contrary to all the inflated costs we are likeley to hear in the coming fight it boils down to 1-5$ (the music studio has still to be paid and other variuous costs).
If I could download an album for 2$ I would gladly pay it( not for metallica though, but that's another story)
But the record industries want to maximize their income, they will never pass their savings to the customer, just because they are nice guys.
So I'm quite sure that Napster and other trading networks will help to secure customers rights.
This is the funniest article about CoS i have yet read. After being a Guardian Angel the Authors joins the Celebrity Center in Los Angeles posing as German Rockstar from the Band Nein!Nein!Nein!.
I seem to remember that the old Klingons were specially created to meet with other species. while the Klingons as we know them now are the more pure Klingons which were formerly confined to their home systems.
the older klingons all got killed or smth. by a virus.
Jules: A sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie. I'll never know 'cause even if it did, I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I don't wanna eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense to disregard its own faeces.
Vincent: How about dogs? Dogs eat their own faeces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yes, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but they're definitely dirty. But a dog's got personality. And personality goes a long way.
Vincent: So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he's cease to be a filthy animal?
Jules: We'd have to be talkin' 'bout one motherfuckin' charmin' pig. It'd have to be the Cary Grant of pigs.
"Woo-Hoo!" writes one on the aus.tv.x-files newsgroup
Man, I wish I would be able for such astonishing concatenation of "o"'s and "w"'s and other nice letters, then I could get quoted or even be seen on slashdot.
I liked Haldeman,too. I have read lots of SF books between 12 and 20, but then everything started too look alike, The author which revived my love for SF again was actually Jeff Noon. I think his Vurt-Universe is taking Gibson's Virtual Reality on the next stage, literally a more natural approach.
You might want to check out Vurt and the better sequel Pollen.
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a story as it was told to me by my uncle. my grandfather was working in the nazi department of supplying the army with erhhm.. supplies and when they went out to look for steel of a high quality they found one small company in austria being able to produce steel of that quality, at first they tried to figure out what was done to that steel to give it that quality, but were unable to do so, so they went to austria to that company, where at first they saw nothing uncommon except that the owner was running a small party every evening for his workers.
After a while they found out that the owner made his workers pee in the bucket where the steel was hardened, so my grandfather and his collegues where able to replicate that process.
we didn't win the war though.
I would have expected a lot to happen in my lifetime, but my former school on slashdot, this is simply too much. I think I'll never say never again.
Douglas Hofstadter's brilliant book "Goedel Escher Bach" comes to my mind. It's a very good read and could have suggested to Scheider 20 years ago that every formally defined system is going to have holes in it.
this is taken from the first posting for net.suicide the smiley is mine actually, but it is pretty funny, isn't it?
Aresearch.189 net.suicide utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!research!rob Tue Dec 8 19:35:02 1981 net.suicide I am interested in talking to other people on the network interested in suicide. I belonged to a club in graduate school, but we couldn't keep membership up. :)
ATI has bought ArtX some month ago. But Game Cubes graphics has nothing to do with the current ATI graphics boards.
Hey that's real innovation!
01/08/2000 is today, it's the first of August 2000. Europe has a diffrent dateformat than the U.S.
This means on every page were 5 usernames? They must have used Arial 72 or similar to print that.
Now on Napster we have a diffrent scheme.Take, for example, free advertising, I bet a smaller band would give their first-born children to get 300.000 people offering their songs on napster.
There are no distribution cost, no jewel cases no pressed cd's
So what does that mean? Contrary to all the inflated costs we are likeley to hear in the coming fight it boils down to 1-5$ (the music studio has still to be paid and other variuous costs).
If I could download an album for 2$ I would gladly pay it( not for metallica though, but that's another story)
But the record industries want to maximize their income, they will never pass their savings to the customer, just because they are nice guys.
So I'm quite sure that Napster and other trading networks will help to secure customers rights.
Other countries including Greece and Sweden (also somewhere at xenu.net)
This is the funniest article about CoS i have yet read. After being a Guardian Angel the Authors joins the Celebrity Center in Los Angeles posing as German Rockstar from the Band Nein!Nein!Nein!.
the older klingons all got killed or smth. by a virus.
Jules: They're filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Sausages taste good. Pork chops taste good.
Jules: A sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie. I'll never know 'cause even if it did, I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I don't wanna eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense to disregard its own faeces.
Vincent: How about dogs? Dogs eat their own faeces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yes, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but they're definitely dirty. But a dog's got personality. And personality goes a long way.
Vincent: So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he's cease to be a filthy animal?
Jules: We'd have to be talkin' 'bout one motherfuckin' charmin' pig. It'd have to be the Cary Grant of pigs.
Man, I wish I would be able for such astonishing concatenation of "o"'s and "w"'s and other nice letters, then I could get quoted or even be seen on slashdot.
You might want to check out Vurt and the better sequel Pollen.