more EE Times nonsense
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From: Spehro Pefhany on 13 Apr 2010 15:19 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:58:26 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >These mags (ED, EET, EDN) seem to be in a content death spiral. Not just editorial content, but ad pages too. When they descended from perfect binding to saddle-stitching...
From: John Larkin on 13 Apr 2010 15:58 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:49:50 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >On Apr 13, 6:39�pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> On Apr 13, 11:14�am, Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> >> > On Apr 13, 6:00�pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> > > On Apr 13, 2:31�am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk> >> > > wrote: >> > > > It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. >> >> > > >http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html >> >> > > Hey, just what we needed--a virus to get loose and bust all Earth's >> > > water to oxygen and hydrogen. >> >> > Do read the article. The virus just provides the scaffold for the >> > active nanoscale components, and MIT was merely boasting about having >> > developed the bit that would split off oxygen; the part that would >> > split off hydrogen is still under development. >> >> Humor. �It's a higher function. > >Looks more like inept plagarism to me - science-fiction writers have >been putting together duff end-of-the-world nanotechnology stories for >at least a decade now, and you've just copied the neglect-of- >conservation-of-energy aspect to try and make a feeble, unoriginal and >irrelevant joke. > >As humour, it certainly high - dead and decaying - but scarcely >functional. Humor is fundamentally associated with design ability. Both require welcoming ambiguity and seeing things from numerous different perspectives. You wouldn't understand. A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. -- Willy Wonka John
From: Tim Williams on 13 Apr 2010 16:20 "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:kqi9s512ni0gg9k184gacqt7tkjtkk62sm(a)4ax.com... > A little nonsense now and then > Is relished by the wisest men. ^ Would you like some mustard, too? Tim -- Deep Friar: a very philosophical monk. Website: http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms
From: John Larkin on 13 Apr 2010 16:53 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:20:40 -0500, "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms(a)charter.net> wrote: >"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message >news:kqi9s512ni0gg9k184gacqt7tkjtkk62sm(a)4ax.com... >> A little nonsense now and then >> Is relished by the wisest men. > ^ > >Would you like some mustard, too? > >Tim The world is separated into two groups: people who live mayonnaise, and people who despise mayonnaise. Me and The Brat are pro-mayo, my wife and elderbrat are totally grossed out by it. John
From: Bill Sloman on 13 Apr 2010 18:00
On Apr 13, 9:58 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:49:50 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman > > > > > > > > <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >On Apr 13, 6:39 pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> On Apr 13, 11:14 am, Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> > On Apr 13, 6:00 pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> > > On Apr 13, 2:31 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk> > >> > > wrote: > >> > > > It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. > > >> > > >http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html > > >> > > Hey, just what we needed--a virus to get loose and bust all Earth's > >> > > water to oxygen and hydrogen. > > >> > Do read the article. The virus just provides the scaffold for the > >> > active nanoscale components, and MIT was merely boasting about having > >> > developed the bit that would split off oxygen; the part that would > >> > split off hydrogen is still under development. > > >> Humor. It's a higher function. > > >Looks more like inept plagarism to me - science-fiction writers have > >been putting together duff end-of-the-world nanotechnology stories for > >at least a decade now, and you've just copied the neglect-of- > >conservation-of-energy aspect to try and make a feeble, unoriginal and > >irrelevant joke. > > >As humour, it certainly high - dead and decaying - but scarcely > >functional. > > Humor is fundamentally associated with design ability. Both require > welcoming ambiguity and seeing things from numerous different > perspectives. Then James Arthur must be defectve in design ability, if that was his idea of humour. > You wouldn't understand. John Larkin once again reinvents reality to suit his perverse point of view. He doesn't recognise a real joke when he sees one in the mirror ... -- Bill Sloman, Njmegen |