Re: [Edu-sig] Basic dictionary question
I know there's an easy POV-Ray solution to create cross-eyed stereo, or parallax, for free viewing (no glasses). I've trafficked in those a lot, am pretty good looking cross-eyed. I might post my POV-Ray source over in Synergeo and see if Brawley might re-render it for me, in stereo mode. Or better, I should restudy the technique and learn it meself. Rrr. Kirby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Zelle Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:42 PM To: edu-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Basic dictionary question Kirby, Do you have a left and right stereo pair on that rendering? I just can't make heads or tails of it w/o true 3D :-) --John ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
Re: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
-Original Message- From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Arthur'; edu-sig@python.org Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL office in Switzerland - where the timekeeping action has always been - hushed whisper Wait a minute, isn't Kirby secretly Swiss? Or was that Bill Mahrer (HBO)? click target = http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/urner.html; / Uh, ok, not so secret then. /hushed whisper More ethnographic irrelevancy? Great. ;) (I think, see below) The most accomplished and devoted clocksmith within my frame of reference is an old friend, and high school teacher. He would expose his industrial arts students to some of this craft and his passion for it, until he was closed down and retrained into a craftless and passionless Java teacher. Which I guess is progress to the extent we insist on measuring progress in terms of technological content, and weight technological content by year, such that anything from 2000 and before is multiplied by Zero. Note: From Kirby's follow-up measure to my blowing my cool, I am suspecting that he did not mean to berate me for offering the (irrelevant to the list) information he had asked me to offer. So I accept the probability that there was a misunderstanding involved. But at least we learned the further irrelevant fact of the kind of thing of which I am capable. But certainly not generally in response to criticism of the irrelevancy of something I might post - except should it come from someone who asked me to post it. Art ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
Re: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
-Original Message- From: Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- except should it come from someone who asked me to post it. My irrelevancies are almost exclusively self-propelled. So everyone who ever was - except for Kirby, once - is quite safe. Art ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
Re: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
From Kirby's follow-up measure to my blowing my cool, I am suspecting that he did not mean to berate me for offering the (irrelevant to the list) information he had asked me to offer. So I accept the probability that there was a misunderstanding involved. Exactly right. I was saying: look, your background as former CP indoctrinated or whatever can't possibly be common knowledge to people on this list (we simply mustn't presume this shared context/namespace) and so please, in future, if at all possible, supply ample autobio and fleshing out, especially when asking for moratoria or fatwahs, as we cannot possibly be expected to just absorb such context from the ether, as if every intellectual alive just knows what Marxism is about etc. etc. Forty years ago maybe, but not now. Not even then (a lot of innocent people got caught in the cross-fire and *still* don't know what hit 'em). So what I'm saying is, again: autobio is NOT irrelevant. That's why I've been offering mine, that's why I encourage you to keep offering yours. My not of interest to the list was not a put-down, just meant this is not shared background, not everybody-knows stuff. You need to fill us in. You need to see that as your responsibility, and no one else's. I think you leave too much out, try too hard to be pithy. We can't be expected to track. That's all I was saying. Kirby ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
