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Author: Paul MartinPaul Martin Date: Dec 16, 2006 01:13
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Zebee Johnstone wrote:> "Although we have a few students for whom the Harvards of the world
> were real options, and I'm always happy to get those students, the
> fact of it is that most of our students â<80><93> if they would have gone
> elsewhere at all â<80><93> would have gone to nothing-special four-year
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Author: Robert SneddonRobert Sneddon Date: Dec 17, 2006 12:29
In message <3bc9o2devrm6g1p05rjjj8s5gk6pbhe9nq@ 4ax.com>, Jasper Janssen
jjanssen.org> writes>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:35:49 +0000 (UTC), brian@ karoshi.ucsd.edu (Brian
>Kantor) wrote: >> Most are already too
>>brittle to survive scanning and I don't know how to unbind them
>>anyway[1].
>
>I hear the process is called guillotining, and uses equipment that quite
>resembles the name.
I use the kitchen microwave (which is Someone Else's Microwave) to melt
the glued spines of paperback books I want to scan. One of those
back-burner projects I have in mind is to build a jig to rebind the
pages back together afterwards.
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Author: Robert SneddonRobert Sneddon Date: Dec 18, 2006 14:36
In message <455do2d6m4oemdn2gmac05pqm0m1irdl1p@ 4ax.com>, Lionel
imagenoir.com> writes>On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:04:48 +0000 (UTC), sethb@ panix.com (Seth
>Breidbart) wrote: >>Good thing the universe isn't FORTRAN then.
>
>Based on the evidence so far, it seems more likely to be Intercal.
Quantum Intercal.
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To reply, my gmail address is nojay1 Robert Sneddon
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Author: Bernard PeekBernard Peek Date: Dec 18, 2006 22:29
In message <4586b678$0$339$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Maarten Wiltink
kittensandcats.net> writes>"Bernard Peek" shrdlu.com> wrote in message
>news:i6$Zv+NsDphFFwQJ@delta.shrdlu.com...
>[...]>> CFO: "Bernard, will you take a look at this program? It's been running
>> for two hours and head office is holding on the line waiting for the
>> output so they can close the books for the year."
>>
>> {FX: clattering keyboards}
>>
>> Me: "Yup, I've looked at it. It's been optimised, and it's not
>> maintainable. I'll rewrite an earlier version and have the results in
>> another hour."
>
>Optimised for what? Job security? Not for running time, from the sound
>of it.
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Author: Bernard PeekBernard Peek Date: Dec 18, 2006 22:36
In message gort.thesatya.com>, Satya
satyaonline.cjb.net> writes>On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:12:58 +0100, Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>> Optimised for what? Job security? Not for running time, from the sound
>> of it.
>
>It still boggles me that some of the bioinformatics types have "queries"
>that have a runtime measured in hours and sometimes days. I don't get
>it.
Not just them. I ran a program that calculated how many people look at
UK billboards and that had a 72 hour runtime (and that was after I moved
it to the new server.) Reminds me of two folks I knew in the early 90s
who shared an IBM PC. It was personal because it was only used by one of
them at a time. It was a 3090 600J with some go-faster stripes.
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Bernard Peek
back in search of cognoscenti
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Author: Robert SneddonRobert Sneddon Date: Dec 18, 2006 23:27
In message ihnp4.ucsd.edu>, Brian Kantor
karoshi.ucsd.edu> writes>Robert Sneddon nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:>>
>> I use the kitchen microwave (which is Someone Else's Microwave) to melt
>>the glued spines of paperback books I want to scan.
>
>I'd never heard of that technique; I'll give it a try.
Some details, to save you wrecking a few books experimenting...
It takes about a minute at full power in a 900W oven to get the glue to
melt. It will cool and set in less than fifteen seconds, so you have to
get in pretty quick and pull out a chunk of pages from the binding. The
glue will "string". Try and avoid getting it on the printed surface as
it messes up the scans. Any glue that lands on the rotating glass plate
in the microwave will scrape off easily once it sets.
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Author: Steve VanDevenderSteve VanDevender Date: Dec 19, 2006 08:34
Robert Sneddon nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In message <455do2d6m4oemdn2gmac05pqm0m1irdl1p@ 4ax.com>, Lionel
> imagenoir.com> writes
> >>On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:04:48 +0000 (UTC), sethb@ panix.com (Seth
>>Breidbart) wrote: >
>>>Good thing the universe isn't FORTRAN then.
>>
>>Based on the evidence so far, it seems more likely to be Intercal.
>
> Quantum Intercal.
Intercal has COME FROM. Quantum Intercal has _nondeterministic_ COME
FROM.
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stevev@ hexadecimal.uoregon.edu PGP keyprint 4AD7AF61F0B9DE87 522902969C0A7EE8
Little things break, circuitry burns / Time flies while my little world turns
Every day comes, every day goes / 100 years and nobody shows -- Happy Rhodes
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Author: David Cameron StaplesDavid Cameron Staples Date: Dec 19, 2006 08:45
in Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:34:30 -0800, Steve VanDevender in hic locum
scripsit:
> Robert Sneddon nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >> In message <455do2d6m4oemdn2gmac05pqm0m1irdl1p@ 4ax.com>, Lionel
>> imagenoir.com> writes
>> >>>On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:04:48 +0000 (UTC), sethb@ panix.com (Seth
>>>Breidbart) wrote: >>
>>>>Good thing the universe isn't FORTRAN then.
>>>
>>>Based on the evidence so far, it seems more likely to be Intercal.
>>
>> Quantum Intercal.
>
> Intercal has COME FROM. Quantum Intercal has _nondeterministic_ COME
> FROM.
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