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From: Charles Richmond on 6 May 2010 19:18 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: > >> In article <hruvjg$bvo$7(a)news.eternal-september.org>, >> Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote: >> >>> Two plus two equals five... for very large values of two. >> No, for *sufficiently* large values of two. 2.251 is sufficiently large (in >> applescript at least). >> >> round (2.251) + round (2.251) = 4 >> round (2.251 + 2.251) = 5 >> >> (Applescript rounds numbers ending in .5 to the nearest even number unless >> specified otherwise.) > > I would regard 2.251 as a *huge* value of two. But you always *did* see the glass as half full... -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+
From: Nate Edel on 6 May 2010 21:14 In alt.folklore.computers Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > I agree about Leibowitz, and The Forever War. I'll add the Foundation > Trilogy (but not the sequels and prequels), Nightfall, Slan, The Weapon > Shops of Isher, The World of Null-A, Stranger in a Strange Land, and a > number of other Heinlein novels. Surely you mean "Nightfall" ...? Good short story, but the novelization that came later was a poor effort by either author's standards. > And, despite almost universal opinion to the contrary, I include Heinlein's > The Number of the Beast. I liked Number of the Beast, but it helped, I think, to read it /after/ reading all of the complaints and the counterarguments about why it was actually great. -- Nate Edel http://www.cubiclehermit.com/ preferred email | is "nate" at the | "I do have a cause, though. It's obscenity. I'm posting domain | for it."
From: Gene Wirchenko on 6 May 2010 23:59 On 6 May 2010 13:04:17 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above(a)aol.com> wrote: >Gene Wirchenko wrote: >> On Tue, 04 May 2010 23:26:34 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer >> <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: >> >>>Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> writes: >>>> >>>> Pessimist: Looks at the glass as half empty. >>>> >>>> Optimist: Looks at the glass as half full. >>>> >>>> Optometrist: Says "Does the glass look better this way, or this >>>> way... this way, or this way..." >>> >>>Engineer: you know, that glass is twice as big as it needs to be.... >> >> Real Engineer: "That glass is 1.9 times bigger than it needs to >> be." (allowing for a tolerance) >> > >Software engineer: Look at all that unused space! (pause) Uh, I need a bigger glass. (You missed the tail end of it, Barb.) Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko
From: Jennifer Usher on 7 May 2010 01:50 "Patrick Scheible" <kkt(a)zipcon.net> wrote in message news:w9zy6fwg68b.fsf(a)zipcon.net... > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > >> Walter Bushell <proto(a)panix.com> writes: >> >> > In article <758.813T1744T5065541(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, >> > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> > >> >> In article >> >> <michelle-AE88DE.19010405052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, >> >> michelle(a)michelle.org (Michelle Steiner) writes: >> >> >> >> > In article <1068.812T2159T10235148(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, >> >> > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> >> > >> >> >>>>>> That's pretty good, considering that he will probably die >> >> >>>>>> before >> >> >>>>>> Cochrane will be born. Time travel, anyone? >> >> >>>>> >> >> >>>>> Maybe he is friends with the Doctor. >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>> Doctor Who? >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Of course. >> >> >> >> >> >> No, he's on first. >> >> > >> >> > Who's on first? >> >> >> >> That's right. >> > >> > No Wright's on third. >> >> No, I Don't Know is on third. > > I don't give a darn. Oh, he's the quarterback. -- Jennifer Usher
From: Warren Oates on 7 May 2010 08:49
In article <hrvcnb$qfp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Peter Flass <Peter_Flass(a)Yahoo.com> wrote: > Exactly, and I fully expect that relativity will be determined to be a > special case of something else someday. Creationism. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer |