On 10/22/10 18:26, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 at 9:30am, Hearns, John wrote
Hello List,
My University is going for a new HPC System. I was using Rocks +
CentOS
until now but someone suggested to use Redhat HPC Solution with the
new
system.
Please, please don't "roll yo
Robert G. Brown wrote:
But the counters of beans and protectors of profit have decreed now that
every created work of the intellect is a property now, something
that can be bought and sold in damn near perpetuity, long, long after
the creator is dead.
Melancholy Elephants!
--
Mike Davis
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
the mean lifetime of most books
With all due respect (and a lot is due), using HTML tags to mark
emphasis using a console-only email client, *this* /is/ quite
_twisted_. :)
Perhaps you'd pr
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
It's interesting: I just got an iPad a few weeks ago, mostly as a
reader/web-browser device, and I've been reading a variety of
out-of-copyright works: H. Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain. Thank
you Gutenberg Project!
It is awesome, isn't i
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Hearns, John wrote:
As usual, a highly insightful post from RGB.
Aw, again.
Simon Templar? Gay? Cough.
Next you will be telling me that there are gay undertones in Top Gun,
the film with the sexiest astrophysicist ever.
What was it, one of the South Park episodes, t
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:03:08AM -0700, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
> And, since I am sitting/lying here with a very sore back from moving boxes
> of books around this weekend looking for that book that I *know* is in there
> somewhere, the prospect of some magic box that would scan all my books into
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Hearns, John wrote:
> Next you will be telling me that there are gay undertones in Top Gun,
> the film with the sexiest astrophysicist ever.
I beg to differ: the sexiest physicist (albeit not the astro- type,
rather the nuclear physics one) is known to "only come
On 10/25/10 7:53 AM, "Robert G. Brown" wrote:
>
the encoded information.
> Nobody is going to reprint the Saint stories. They are a gay fantasy
> from another time, a swashbuckling series with a delightful conceit and
> innnocent heart. The only way they will ever be preserved for posterit
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> the mean lifetime of most books
With all due respect (and a lot is due), using HTML tags to mark
emphasis using a console-only email client, *this* /is/ quite
_twisted_. :)
> c) Open standards for encoding mechanisms minimize the likelih
As usual, a highly insightful post from RGB.
> a) Multiple copies. Passenger pigeons may be robust, but once the
number of copies drops below a critical point, they are gone. E. Coli
we will always have
> with us (possibly in a constantly changing form) because there are so
very many copies
Just want to add that some thousands of years ago, we had the same issue
moving from stone+chisel to paper+ink. Ink fades, paper mildews and worse,
paper is flammable. The many burnings of the library at Alexandria (and
practically every other ancient major library) could be seen as proof that
we s
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Daniel Kidger wrote:
Ok - so this is a bit off-topic but in my opinion the *only* music format
that will be guaranteed readable in say 100 years time is vinyl and the only
document format that endures will be ink on paper.
SD cards, CDs, DVDs et al. will all become obsolete
Ok - so this is a bit off-topic but in my opinion the *only* music
format that will be guaranteed readable in say 100 years time is vinyl
and the only document format that endures will be ink on paper.
SD cards, CDs, DVDs et al. will all become obsolete as technology
progresses, and even if th
I love books. I have a personal library with well
over 1000 novels (it
fills four or five full size bookshelves, most of the shelves
stacked
two deep with paperbacks and with stacks left out all over the
floor in
one of the
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