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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: spam
Date: Sep 20, 2008 10:52

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Dennis Ruffer wrote: Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:17:52 GMT From: Dennis Ruffer <druffer@speakeasy.net> I remember doing many paper comparisons, along the lines of the thin paper overlay method described by John Passaniti earlier. The "triad" was a classic printing pattern for blocks in polyForth where 3 blocks would fit on one printed page. In the end, the shadow would also fit with a smaller font....
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Made in China is a Toxic word : The Portrait of a Toxic Olympic Host -- Chinese parents panic over tainted milk
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Author: Micky Wong
Date: Sep 20, 2008 10:34

...that were found to contain pesticide. Japanese officials later said the dumplings had also been linked to food poisoning cases in China. January 2008 US pharmaceutical company Baxter withdrew Chinese-made batches of the blood-thinning drug heparin after 81 patients died. The deaths were linked to the presence of a substitute chemical. September 2008 Four Chinese infants have died and at least 6,000 more are ill after consuming melamine...
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Is Drinking from the Toilet Bowl the Best Way to Deal with Water
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Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 20, 2008 09:25

..., versus $520 per acre-foot of reclaimed water), and rebranding sewage as a valuable resource became a no-brainer. With the demand for water growing, some aquifers dropping faster than they're replenished, snowpacks thinning and climate change predicted to make dry places even drier, water managers around the country, and the world, are contemplating similar schemes. Los Angeles and San Diego, which both rejected potable reuse, have raised ...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: Dennis Ruffer
Date: Sep 20, 2008 07:17

.... THe word .TRIAD suggests that printing screens was common. Old FIG screen doc's suggest this strategy, but I have never seen this explained. I remember doing many paper comparisons, along the lines of the thin paper overlay method described by John Passaniti earlier. The "triad" was a classic printing pattern for blocks in polyForth where 3 blocks would fit on one printed page. In the end, the shadow would also fit with a ...
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Re: Mobile phone interference
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Author: B J Foster
Date: Sep 20, 2008 00:29

... case when all the other phones were polycarbonate. In any case, the polycarbonate phones have a foil lining inside the case. Same applies to laptops. Arrant nonsense. "to achieve the extraordinary thinness of the MOTORAZRâ„¢ V3, we had to use metal rather than plastic for the casing to provide the necessary strength" (Motorola company report, 2006) "The radiation of electromagnetic energy is an important concern for ...
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Re: Financial System Stability - It isn't that difficult
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Author: Sean
Date: Sep 19, 2008 22:39

... much to imagine, I can accept that. The try this .... China and others, sell all their US Dollars & Notes in Govt Reserves, AND, call in their debts the US Govt owes them, right now! What happens in the USA? Ponder that, and stop pretending how insulated and how important and invincible you believe you are. The US is on very thin ice at present, and you're under attack from all quarters, and don't even realise it yet.
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Re: ...Science Reinvents God... by Stuart Kauffman
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Author: Pat Flannery
Date: Sep 19, 2008 22:31

John J wrote: What's that rule of usenet again? When a thread has stretched to become thin and meaningless, it is inevitable that it eventually becomes punctuated with the words Nazi, Fascist... The specific rule was that if a thread goes on long enough, sooner or later Hitler and the Nazis get mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law At sci.space.history, the law would have been that if the thread went on...
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US-NY: New York-Senior Developer/Architect
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Author: JobCircle.Com
Date: Sep 19, 2008 14:42

...complex Java and C/C++ projects. Responsibilities: Primary mission is to aid the investment banking development community across all lines of business to adopt and consume Utility Services through the existing Access (Rich and Thin client), Mediation (TZ/ESB) and Server (JASRE, grid) frameworks. The primary focus will be to help the Equities and Capital Markets Trading application development teams to design, implement and promote their critical ...
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We're Paying the Price Today for Decades of Relentless Dam Building
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Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 19, 2008 13:36

... water circulates as freshwater while oceans represent 97 percent of the world's stores and the remaining 2 percent is tied up in glaciers and polar ice caps. This finite water pie divides ever more thinly as population, agriculture and the industrial economy expands. The uninterrupted Earth is a dynamic solar and geothermal energy system which powers the hydrologic and rock cycles. It conducts and convects energy flows from the earth's ...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: John Passaniti
Date: Sep 19, 2008 13:05

...) with differences highlighted, and accept or reject the changes. That code is still around somewhere, I'm sure. This kind of reminds me of years ago when I would look for differences by printing on cheap (thin) printer paper, laying one on the other, and holding it up to the window to see the differences. Primitive, but effective. And not unlike what I still end up having to do with most schematic capture applications (most...
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