This message is sent automatically to the list every month. So, uh, never mind if you know it already. MANAGING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS To manage your list...
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tom bell
trbell@...
Nov 1, 2000 11:01 am
Late night ramblings by a restless mind. Ted's being the Featured Artist has set me off on several trains of thought that are loosely connected: 1. I remeber...
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Patrick Burgaud
burgaud@...
Nov 1, 2000 1:52 pm
Can anybody help me with a Director script? I tried without succes to create the following action In a field the user types a sery of 6 numbers. (it doesnt...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 1, 2000 7:04 pm
< This quick piece at syntacticalerror by way of introduction to the work of multi-talented artist Kenji Siratori, Japan. If you like this, in coming weeks...
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Peter Howard
peter@...
Nov 1, 2000 7:05 pm
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Charles Atlas Sheppard wrote... ... Charles, You can do this using javascript. Put this code in the <head> section of the document you...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 1, 2000 8:59 pm
Sounds like a bit of work, Patrick, and I'm up to my neck in vismu. But, basically, if there are six numbers, then there are one million possible different...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 1, 2000 9:48 pm
Patrick, convert the string to a numeric and test the value for: value >= 100000 AND value <=999999 (899,999 unique numbers), or, limit the input to numeric...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 2:48 am
... All six-digit numbers are between (or one of) 000000 and 999999; in other words, there are a million of them, not 899,999. Parse the string before you...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 3:26 am
... This is not specified in Patrick's post. My solution works to prove 6 digits as a normal number (no leading zeros), Jim, good for 899,999... the proof is...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 3:39 am
fans of new media and new language, try this: MultiMedia & Internet Dictionary http://www.cgarts.or.jp/jiten...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 3:59 am
Were we to count from 0 to 999,999, which we will forego, we would count one million different numbers, every one of them a 'normal' number. My solution works...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 4:39 am
... Thanks, Claire. Yes, the timing is off on some of the animations. But I'm not so worried about that: the current animations are placeholders for different...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 4:45 am
... which does NOT match Patrick's specification. A normal 6 digit number starts at 100,000 and ends at 999,999 (900,000 unique, not 899,999). Real world...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 5:26 am
... Sure, Ted. All the normal six digit numbers I know of start at 100000, except 000001 to 099999, of course, but they are clearly not 'normal' and so don't...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 5:52 am
... Of course they _do count, esp in applications like accounting, where leading zeros are added, 004229 is a valid account number. As you know, I mean only...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 6:27 am
... Suppose there are n markers. Suppose we consider a six digit number x. First you make sure it is a valid number, ie, something in 000000-999999. Then: case...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 6:42 am
... cool. here's another consideration: assuming six digits, normal people, any of 1M numbers: limit input to numeric only '0' - '9' (also NULL) requires...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 7:23 am
not sure how useful this will be to you, Patrick, but good fun rummaging around in this stuff, Jim. Ted. P.S. more Kenji Siratori text is found here: ...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 7:56 am
The mod operator is very useful, as is the div operator. x mod y yields the remainder of x/y. For instance, 12 mod 5 is 2 40 mod 6 is 4 3 mod 5 is 3 4...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 8:03 am
Also, another very useful thing about the mod operator is its ability to carve a range of numbers into categories, as in the example I gave. Moreover, the...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 11:46 am
... ity to ... . ... te nice. All of this was a lot more fun when programmers were cowboys riding the free and bare metal range, and before corporate software...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 1:17 pm
Well, you're still producing great work, pardner. Guess we better enjoy it while we got it. j....
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 7:12 pm
AltaVista search: "visual poetry" 1. Vispo ~ Langu(im)age: experimental visual poetry, essays on new media... by Ji Vispo Langu(im)age: experimental visual...
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Jennifer Ley
jtley@...
Nov 2, 2000 8:25 pm
I'd hazard a guess that Jim did this by being the first site which consistently indentified itself as Visual Poetry, not electronic, hypertext, etc ... but ...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 2, 2000 9:08 pm
This does not sound like an innocent question to me, considering the source, Ted :) I would say you already know. I wrote a little 'two verse' poem I thought...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 9:53 pm
Am familiar in a basic way with the working of the spiders, Jim, but really had no idea at all about your clever, dare I say, wise, (and playful) play with...
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tom bell
trbell@...
Nov 2, 2000 10:06 pm
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 2, 2000 10:45 pm
[ message to business ] king of plaTAPUS ingabit bad BUTIFYOUDOIT Asih lost and found themetatags THENINDEXESTHEPage sinlanguage...
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Jim Andrews
jim@...
Nov 3, 2000 1:28 am
I don't have the phrase 'singing to the spiders' in there. That's a keeper. Thanks, Ted. Dunno how 'wise' it is, since the search engines frown on you singing...
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Ted Warnell
warnell@...
Nov 3, 2000 1:56 am
I'd like to know more about this idea, perhaps try it using a different set of keywords and etc., and with different seatrch engines, to test the theory....
