cool article, interesting quote

Well, the number is >10,000 ... depending on how you define civilization maybe as much as 25,000.

The dawn of h*mo sapiens seems like a pretty good metric to me.

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Interesting references. However, except for Somalia, where it is well known there is no effective government, I don't see that the data supports your conclusions.

He posts about it and related ideas on comp.arch

Interesting stuff.

cheers, Rich.

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I like David a lot and respect him, but we have only very occasionally talked with each other on the phone. It's been two years now, I think, since we last talked. I'd like to see what he's written. So thanks. I'll go take a look.

Jon

I just did. I remember now the marketing term he had been using, software cabling.

He recently mentioned the issue there of varying the granularity and that is something I left to static compilation when I was visiting Apollo at Chelmsford and discussing ideas in 1987-8. I'm curious about that facet and if he has a proposition for doing this at run-time.

Anyway, thanks.

Jon

??? That sentence doesn't make any sense.

If it's not black art, why not tell people how it's done?

Does one have to know the secret handshake as well to be let in on the secret?

I've been curious about the problem ever since I was on the receiving end of the problem in Colorado Springs. The City went to the bother and expense to try to optimize the traffic signals to improve traffic flow and the initial operation was well less than optimal. One thing that caught my attention was the traffic engineers' claim that it was difficult to optimize things due to the Springs' irregular street pattern -- this is a city that's laid out on a perfectly square grid.

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Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia. Right.

John

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

What David has (very nicely) described is the way it looks to informed people anywhere outside the States, not just Europe, I'm afraid. We have a different perspective because we're not in it and part of it.

Steve

Looks to me like he's only parroting the disinformation spread by the BBC and such ilk.

I don't think the corruption is any different now than in the past... just faster dissemination through the media and Internet.

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:32:11 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: [snip]

I should have added...

What you should be worried about is when the Democrats come to power in 2008. They're as yellow-striped as a Cheshire cat. They'll pull completely out of the Middle East and leave Europe to Islam ;-)

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Watched too many Hollywood movies ?

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I'm reminded of the battered wife who covers her black eyes with makeup and can't ever admit out loud how badly she is being treated because she has invested so much emotion in being "in love" with the man that is her real problem.

As well as many people *in* the United States ...

2007.

Naaah! They'll still need a President. They'll not get by a Bush veto at the mid-terms.

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[snip]

Naaah! They're out on the streets of France, rioting because they might be expected to actually do some work.

Wonder what they're going to do once Islam takes over? Lob missiles at the UK?

I was supposed to have a project for the next two months, but the client had a project canceled and is taking the work back in-house :-(

What does "resistor simulator" mean. Value range? Work thru zero, or unipolar?

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[snip]

Probably ;-)

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BTW: Which Atmel? I do a lot of work with the Colorado Springs bunch.

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Here's a scenario for you to worry about: W is impeached, Cheney goes into the hospital with heart disease, leaving the veto power in the hands of the Speaker of the House, right after the Democrats win over Congress.