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From: Ken Smith on 10 Aug 2006 21:13 In article <44DB0CE1.B0F4F7EA(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Phat Bytestard wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:02:53 GMT, joseph2k <quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> >> Gave us: >> >> >The first usable computer was brought to us by Charles Babbage. >> >> Not true. The Abacus was centuries earlier. > >The abacus is a *calculator*, not a computer. but...but...Phat Bytestard said it was a computer and we all know how useful it is. Phat says that ENIAC was the first "useful"[1] computer, therefor Phat has the invention of the abacus happening after ENIAC. [1] his exact word. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 10 Aug 2006 21:14 In article <44DB07E3.86F54DBA(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: [...] >Don't forget that Ferranti ( UK ) gave us virtual memory btw. A highly critical >advance and used to this very day. They also gave us that stupid micro where the program counter was in the ROM chip, so they loose all the points for inventing VM. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 10 Aug 2006 21:23 In article <sc9ld29lqinsvd0u0g5gb8uau5fodl6u2l(a)4ax.com>, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> wrote: [...] > What makes you think I ever thought about or cared what ANY reader >ANYWHERE thinks? The simple fact that you have reponded in the past and will respond in the future proves that you do care what others think. If you didn't you wouldn't be trying to sway opinion. So, why don't you just stop posting to this news group? -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: John Larkin on 10 Aug 2006 21:50 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:05:48 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <Xns981BA62AFFF97jyanikkuanet(a)129.250.170.84>, dated Thu, 10 >Aug 2006, Jim Yanik <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> writes > >>Muslims are required by the Koran to spread the Faith,by sword if >>necessary. > >Jim, you can find words like that in the New Testament, too. > >>Infidels must not be tolerated(must be converted or killed),and "People >>of the Book" must submit and pay the poll tax,or Jizya,or convert to >>Islam. >> >>There's no such thing as "Christian soil" to Muslims. > >No, but there IS to militant Christians, and to White Supremacists. > >>It's merely infidel land to be conquered. > >Well, the Crusaders had similar views 600 years ago. When Christianity >was as old as Islam is now. Oh, great, eveybody will get along in 600 years from now. John
From: krw on 10 Aug 2006 23:14
In article <44DBB830.DEE02B8A(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com says... > > > John Fields wrote: > > > But, he won't be financed unless he's viable in the first place. > > Tou *still* don't get it do you ? > > Financing *makes* for viability ! Like always, you have the world upside-down. Money seeks people who agree with them, not the other way around. -- Keith |