This is very interesting, have we just discovered a building block of nano-storage? Cheeni Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/0113240 Posted by:...
Srini RamaKrishnan
cheeni@...
Mar 1, 2007 8:30 am
19554
Because I'm in a Douglas Adams mood, I forward this classic from my inbox archives (note date). I don't remember the chain of events that led to me getting...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Mar 1, 2007 4:46 pm
19555
... Which is more likely, bacteria as civilization archive, or bacteria with their genomes overwhelmed with ads for US green cards and cars for sale in New...
Dave Long
dave.long@...
Mar 1, 2007 5:25 pm
19556
... Industrial Revolution, its called. Or perhaps evolution....
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Mar 1, 2007 5:50 pm
19557
... Or in this case, intelligent design? Devdas Bhagat -- An actor's a guy who if you ain't talkin' about him, ain't listening. -- Marlon Brando...
Devdas Bhagat
devdas@...
Mar 1, 2007 7:40 pm
19558
... I presume the idea was tongue in cheek. DNA doesn't like dead luggage, especially in primitive critters with a high mutation rate. When civilisation crawls...
Eugen Leitl
eugen@...
Mar 1, 2007 8:33 pm
19559
... I wonder about storage capacity per unit size that can be packaged in the bacteria's DNA. If it is really dense, it should be quite fun to have all of...
Thaths
thaths@...
Mar 1, 2007 9:55 pm
19560
I've got two Rs 1000 tickets to this for sale - I accidentally got duplicates. 99 007 55622 (or email) -- Charles From: Arundhai Biswas <reli@...> To:...
Charles Haynes
charles.haynes@...
Mar 2, 2007 4:45 am
19561
Sold! That was fast. -- Charles...
Charles Haynes
charles.haynes@...
Mar 2, 2007 4:53 am
19562
... I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: "being Warnocked" [1]. Footnotes: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_Dilemma -- Alok BOFH...
Alok G. Singh
alephnull@...
Mar 2, 2007 7:45 am
19563
... Cool. There's probably also a name for things that don't yet have names, too. I'm claiming clauses 2 and 4 for my defense. -- Eugen* Leitl <a...
Eugen Leitl
eugen@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:26 am
19564
... Interestingly, the theme of the week for AWAD[1] is "There is a word for it" [2] -- Vinayak 1. http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html 2....
Vinayak Hegde
vinayakh@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:30 am
19565
There's a word for it, there's an organization for that...and probably you can google and get a support group for addicts too... I generally tend to run foul...
Deepa Mohan
mohandeepa@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:34 am
19566
... There's a little bird that everyone calls the Orange-Flanked Bush Robin. In a recent book (The Ripley Guide), it's named Red-Flanked Bush Robin instead,...
Abhijit Menon-Sen
ams@...
Mar 3, 2007 12:49 am
19567
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 05:36 AM 3/3/2007 ] ... Sounds like the set of standard trick questions that most quizzers would be aware of, like "What is...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Mar 3, 2007 3:51 am
19568
http://didi.com/brad/mapOfScience/ -- ams...
Abhijit Menon-Sen
ams@...
Mar 3, 2007 7:13 am
19569
Casey, comments? http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=bot;idno=5283331;rgn=div1;view=text;cc=bot;node=5283331%3A6 The Xbox Auteurs Clive Thompson New...
Thaths
thaths@...
Mar 4, 2007 4:40 pm
19570
this is the part that i dont get : "games that begat movies". i have yet to see a real film born out of a video game... This red vs blue appears fine... in the...
ashok _
listmanster@...
Mar 5, 2007 6:46 am
19571
by real i meant movies with a proper script, character definition, a plot etc... none of those Doom...Tomb Raider ...etc. really met any of the above ...
ashok _
listmanster@...
Mar 5, 2007 7:06 am
19572
... I'm not sure what you mean by "real film" but there've been a few movies that were derived from games. Final Fantasy The Spirits Within, and Doom are two...
Charles Haynes
charles.haynes@...
Mar 5, 2007 7:08 am
19573
... I disagree in the case of "Tomb Raider" but... De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum. -- Charles...
Charles Haynes
charles.haynes@...
Mar 5, 2007 7:20 am
19574
... Those criteria would probably eliminate most movies *not* inspired by video games! -- b...
Biju Chacko
biju.chacko@...
Mar 5, 2007 8:13 am
19575
true... my point was that turning video games into movies does not really result in good movies. it is like watching a fat pimply teenager sitting on a sofa,...
ashok _
listmanster@...
Mar 5, 2007 8:21 am
19576
... But if the player is really good at it and better than you, I don't mind watching... If Angelina Jolie is going to be the protagonist, much better... ...
Venkat Mangudi
silk@...
Mar 5, 2007 8:26 am
19577
"What do you think of Quantum Computers, Erwin?" "I'm simultaneously for and against them." -http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/07feb/uf010023.gif...
... Come to think of it, anyone seen the Mortal Kombat movie?...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Mar 5, 2007 2:05 pm
19580
... I believe I have memories of seeing such a thing. Devdas Bhagat -- "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." George W. Bush September 27, 2000 Comment...
Devdas Bhagat
devdas@...
Mar 5, 2007 2:20 pm
19581
... Hash: SHA256 ... Yes. And the theme tune was everywhere for a few years. Does Ashok's question extend to movies made from theme park rides, as well? Or...
Ramakrishnan Sundaram
r.sundaram@...
Mar 5, 2007 2:46 pm
19582
Yes ... the whole gamut of it.... ... I am not sure about the other way round... movies => theme park rides.......
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