The sci.electronics.design pledge

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

"Rich Grise" <rich@example.net> wrote in message
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The most compassionate thing we could do for Africa is leave them alone
to sort out their own problems.

FYI, Iraq, too.

If it wasn't for Oil, we could even let Africa sort out Iraq ...

 

[John Fields]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:03:49 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:

"Frank Bemelman" <f.bemelmanx@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:21:20 +0200, "Frank Bemelman"
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On 18 Oct 2004 13:21:29 GMT, cfoley1064@aol.com (CFoley1064) wrote:
Subject: Re: The sci.electronics.design pledge
From: Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com
Date: 10/18/2004 7:33 AM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <10n7e1o5p78sbf0@news.supernews.com
CFoley1064 <cfoley1064@aol.com> says...


snip

''But you can't run the world on faith.''

What a bleak, appalling thing to say. What else could you run the
world on? Why else would you have and love your children?

Wow! A left turn!

Another smoke curtain John? Pick one line out of context
and turn into some sort of important thing here?

You are truly a master of smoke curtains, except that is
it bloody obvious everytime you present one.

Do you have kids, Frank? What kind of world do you want them to live
in? What do you want them to *be*?

That's not my point. Love, affection, trust, emotions, all very
nice indeed. But you pick one line out of context, and turn it
into a great discovery, as if the whole article is a load of
rubbish. You have a habit of doing so. Evading the crux. Generating
smoke. So, once again, you came up with a smoke curtain. You're
blind or pretending blindness.




You don't have to read it,
you don't have to respond.

So who is responsible?
You are!

---
Trolling, you troublemaking little bitch?

You've just _gotta_ stick your little cunt nose in everywhere it
doesn't belong, don'tcha?

--
John Fields

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:44:02 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:05:55 GMT, the renowned Rich Grise
rich@example.net> wrote:

I don't like fully-simulated CGI characters, because it seems like they
never sit still. Maybe the programmer just wants to continue to show
off his nice fluid movements or something. But even just standing
there, they're swaying back and forth, or undulating or something.
Kinda gives me the creeps.

There was an episode of _The Simpsons_ where Homer is transported into
some kind of 3-D CGI world. He said something like "ooh, it feels like
it's costing a fortune just standing here".

I remember this one. This is an example of how drugs can enhance one's
understanding of a higher dimensionality. ;-)

[snip mention of S/W I've never heard of]

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:30:56 +1300, Terry Given wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:

I don't like fully-simulated CGI characters, because it seems like
they never sit still. Maybe the programmer just wants to continue to
show off his nice fluid movements or something. But even just standing
there, they're swaying back and forth, or undulating or something.
Kinda gives me the creeps.

I hate to break it to you Rich, but we ALL sway when just "standing
there" - think control loops. standing upright basically consists of
almost but not quite falling over. Tequila does not help

Yeah, I know that, and I'm sure that the state of the art of the
"be alive" algorithms are aiming at that paragon, but just to help
make my point: everybody's seen those human mannequin performers who
sit so close to motionless that they can fool you - the CGIs _never_
do that. And it's not like they're drunk, trying to keep their balance,
it's like there's an unnatural dither term that somebody introduced to
simulate realism or something. They didn't want the rigid jerky motions
of SouthPark-grade construction paper animations, or the mechanical
jerky, bouncy movements of a mechanical robo-arm, they're going for
live stuff, and missing the mark.

Maybe it's that there' snot enough randomness to it. Or maybe we
need to learn to give our programs Free Will. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:34:33 +0100, Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:31:21 +0100, Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:
Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:18:20 -0700, the renowned Mark Fergerson
BTW, know anything about photovoltaic cells, specifically
the ones in cheapie calculators? I'm trying to decide what
to use to hide them in a piece of "jewelry" that won't
excessively impair their light-converting ability.
Last I looked at them, the cheap PV cells were pretty wimpy. Maybe low
tens of uA under normal room lighting. And big.
What's this got to do with the US elections?
You are SEVERELY off topic!
Well, there's this, if you want to stir the honeypot:
http://www.livingcompassion.org/
Anybody going to the rally? ;-)

The most compassionate thing we could do for Africa is leave them alone
to sort out their own problems.

FYI, Iraq, too.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Guy Macon]

Paul Burridge <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> says...

"Frithiof Andreas Jensen" <frithiof.jensen@die_spammer_die.ericsson.com
wrote:

Hmm - Feel a Project coming up:

May Be one can hack Spambayes into service as an intelligent News Proxy,
recognising the kind of postings one likes and killing - the rest ;-)

Excellent suggestion. Go for it!

I would pay a lot for a newsreader that does bayesian filtering
with learning. I have my own home-built bayesian filter, but it's
the kind of thing an EE would write, not a professional job.

You could start with the WinNV codebase - It was developed by NASA
so it's free to use as a base for a commercial product.

Get the source code here:
http://my.execpc.com/~mspankus/

And don't miss these classic webpages on the subject:
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html
http://www.bgl.nu/bogofilter/graham.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/spamfaq.html

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:59:19 -0500, the renowned John Fields
<jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:00:49 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:02:57 -0500, John Fields wrote:

Or come to the conclusion that someone more highly developed would have
had no need to offend or to offend accidentally.

Offense is only taken by the one who takes offense.

---
Not true.

If an arrow never takes flight, avenging the pierced heart of a friend
won't happen.
---

A wise man is never insulted, for the truth will increase his wisdom,
and an untruth is not worthy of note.

---
A wise man is never insulted.

"If someone comes to give you a gift and you do not receive it," the
master replied, "to whom does the gift belong?"



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
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