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From: Walter Bushell on 5 May 2010 08:14 In article <hrqoft$enh$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote: > Yeah!!! Where the hell would the world be today without the > three-phase electric motor??? All the "heavy industry" plants rely > on this workhorse, and Tesla invented it. Ah, I remember a exhibit in the Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C. of a steam powered factory. The ceiling was entirely belts, because every machine was belt powered. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Walter Bushell on 5 May 2010 08:15 In article <slrnhu29n6.2eu.gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com>, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com> wrote: > Thomas R. Kettler wrote: > > That explains why honeybees have been dying by the millions. People > > having been telling them they can't fly! > > > ><http://www.greenearthfriend.com/2009/01/colony-collapse-disorder-ccd-hon > > eybees-dying-by-the-millions/> > > They have been dying by the millions because of a disease they had > no immunity to. There is now a vaccine for it, > > The same thing has happened in human history, look up the "black plague" > (100m dead in 1400), syphilis (1m dead in Europe between 1494-1546) and the > influenza pandemic (1918) (50m deaths). > > Geoff. OK, I hope they don't have to use a syringe to inject it. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: jmfbahciv on 5 May 2010 08:43 Michelle Steiner wrote: > In article <1b39y7n47b.fsf(a)snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>, > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > >> None of the three is remotely plausible. > > That's what "they" said about almost every innovation. > You cannot innovate physical laws of nature. Human innovation is merely taking advantage of those laws. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 May 2010 08:43 Charles Richmond wrote: > jmfbahciv wrote: <snip> >> Did you know that Mark Twain wrote science fiction? I don't have the >> book unpacked so I can't give you the title. >> >> /BAH > > _A Conneticutt Yankee in King Authur's Court_??? > Nope. I'd completely forgotten about that one. It's a story about a time when humans have disappeared and animals have evolved to the point where they have societies and communication among themselves. The stuff left by humans is considered dangerous. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 May 2010 08:43
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > jmfbahciv wrote: > >> Nope. What remains of the work produced by DEC is all over the place; >> it's simply not recognized. > > And their misdeeds too, for example, that stupid backwards memory model for > storing data that was the exact opposite of everyone else's. I don't understand what you're talking about. You can store data any which way you wanted to. > > It was picked up by Intel and we stuck with it today on the Mac. > > In comparison, the PPC used the saner model. Are you talking about push down lists? /BAH |