Religions > Atheism > OT: New Scientist Competition: invent a new scientific term.
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"Therion Ware" |
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21 Nov 2003 07:00:14 PM |
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OT: New Scientist Competition: invent a new scientific term. |
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opfeedback.jsp
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FINALLY, a reminder about the Feedback annual competition.
This year you are invited to invent a new scientific word that we need
and define it in an appropriately pompous way.
You may submit up to three entries per person by letter, fax or email.
Thanks to the generosity of its makers, 10 lucky winners will each
receive a bottle of Labrot & Graham's award-winning Woodford Reserve
bourbon whiskey, and, thanks to Cambridge University Press, they will
also receive a copy of Climate: Into the 21st Century, the outstanding
overview of our weather edited by William Burroughs.
The winning entries will be chosen on the basis of their wit and
originality. All entries must reach us by Monday 8 December.
The winners will be announced in the 20/27 December issue. The
editor's decision is final.
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Sounds like fun!
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"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: <http://www.Video2CD.com>. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
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| User: "Dave H." |
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| Title: Re: New Scientist Competition: invent a new scientific term. |
22 Nov 2003 12:17:15 AM |
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"Therion Ware" <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote in message
news:a6dtrvoa43eml9304c22udc4foa8c4s9ca@4ax.com...
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opfeedback.jsp
<start>
FINALLY, a reminder about the Feedback annual competition.
This year you are invited to invent a new scientific word that we need
and define it in an appropriately pompous way.
You may submit up to three entries per person by letter, fax or email.
Thanks to the generosity of its makers, 10 lucky winners will each
receive a bottle of Labrot & Graham's award-winning Woodford Reserve
bourbon whiskey, and, thanks to Cambridge University Press, they will
also receive a copy of Climate: Into the 21st Century, the outstanding
overview of our weather edited by William Burroughs.
The winning entries will be chosen on the basis of their wit and
originality. All entries must reach us by Monday 8 December.
The winners will be announced in the 20/27 December issue. The
editor's decision is final.
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Sounds like fun!
OT to your OT post, but I was looking at Sorenson 3.5 suite, and was
wondering what kind of compression ratio one gets without loosing quality
using that product.
We are going to be starting an online video library, and this looks like
it could be quite useful.
Thanks in advance.
To reply with e-mail, remove the barf.
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: New Scientist Competition: invent a new scientific term. |
22 Nov 2003 02:04:30 AM |
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:17:15 GMT in alt.atheism, Dave H. ("Dave H."
<dhaapala@houston.barf.rr.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
"Therion Ware" <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote in message
news:a6dtrvoa43eml9304c22udc4foa8c4s9ca@4ax.com...
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opfeedback.jsp
<start>
FINALLY, a reminder about the Feedback annual competition.
This year you are invited to invent a new scientific word that we need
and define it in an appropriately pompous way.
You may submit up to three entries per person by letter, fax or email.
Thanks to the generosity of its makers, 10 lucky winners will each
receive a bottle of Labrot & Graham's award-winning Woodford Reserve
bourbon whiskey, and, thanks to Cambridge University Press, they will
also receive a copy of Climate: Into the 21st Century, the outstanding
overview of our weather edited by William Burroughs.
The winning entries will be chosen on the basis of their wit and
originality. All entries must reach us by Monday 8 December.
The winners will be announced in the 20/27 December issue. The
editor's decision is final.
<end>
Sounds like fun!
OT to your OT post, but I was looking at Sorenson 3.5 suite, and was
wondering what kind of compression ratio one gets without loosing quality
using that product.
We are going to be starting an online video library, and this looks like
it could be quite useful.
It's actually quite good, but not quite as good as it suggests (more
than 100% compression...!). I use it with Discreet Cleaner and
Premiere and always get good results. However, the thing that really
kills QT (and Real) when considered against Windows Media is the price
of the server. The Microsoft one is free, and the others aren't....
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: <http://www.Video2CD.com>. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
all posts to this email address are automatically deleted without being read.
** atheist poster child #1 ** #442.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: New Scientist Competition: invent a new scientific term. |
23 Nov 2003 05:08:38 PM |
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:04:30 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> posted in alt.atheism:
It's actually quite good, but not quite as good as it suggests (more
than 100% compression...!).
More than 100% compression would give you a compressed file with a
negative size. I could use that - keep a few terrabytes on my 20 gig
drive. The more I saved on it, the more free space there would be.
Eventually I could have terrabytes of free space. (Memories of
Netware and its ability to save files larger than the drive.)
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"Christians, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each
other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of
agreement in their teachings. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own
with deceitful nonsense, and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its
side."
- Celsus (2nd century C.E.)
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: New Scientist Competition: invent a new scientific term. |
23 Nov 2003 06:03:05 PM |
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:08:38 GMT in alt.atheism, Al Klein (Al Klein
<rukbat@pern.invalid>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:04:30 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> posted in alt.atheism:
It's actually quite good, but not quite as good as it suggests (more
than 100% compression...!).
More than 100% compression would give you a compressed file with a
negative size. I could use that - keep a few terrabytes on my 20 gig
drive.
I think it's better than that: perhaps a file of negative size also
travels backwards through time, meaning that you get to see films that
haven't been made yet!
The more I saved on it, the more free space there would be.
Eventually I could have terrabytes of free space. (Memories of
Netware and its ability to save files larger than the drive.)
Netware was wonderful and NDS is still streets ahead of Active
Directory.
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: <http://www.Video2CD.com>. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
all posts to this email address are automatically deleted without being read.
** atheist poster child #1 ** #442.
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New Scientist Competition: invent a new scientific term. |
21 Nov 2003 07:25:50 PM |
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Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
FINALLY, a reminder about the Feedback annual competition.
This year you are invited to invent a new scientific word that we need
and define it in an appropriately pompous way.
This reminds me of a great "Calvin & Hobbes" cartoon. Calvin says
it's amazing how scientists can conceive of all the matter in the
universe exploding out of a tiny dot, but can't come up with a more
evocative name than the Big Bang. So he renames it the Horrendous
Space Kablooey.
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