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1999-10-27 Thread alans
> > Hi! > > Just an advice to the REBOL homepage maintainers: Better remove this part of > the page "http://www.rebol.com/whyrebol.html": > > "It flows from the same theory that Einstein proved: everything is relative." > > Why? Because it shows a great deal of ignorance. > > Sorry about havi

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1999-10-28 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry about having that opinion - I'm not a fanatic physicist, but do know > that the point of Einstein's relativity theory is that the speed of light is > constant (i.e., /not/ relative), and I'm generally tired of cases of science You are right, but that implies (in

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1999-10-28 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi! > > ... - I'm not a fanatic physicist, but do know > that the point of Einstein's relativity theory is that the speed of light is > constant (i.e., /not/ relative), and I'm generally tired of cases of science > reduced to some nice-sounding crap. > ... > > Do a

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1999-10-29 Thread carl
Ole, Thought we might be pushing beyond the speed-of-hype here. Hey, the lighter the hype mass, the less energy it takes to accelerate it, right? The fastest hype is the lightest weight. I agree with you. So, axed it will be. A brainstorm item, and we don't need it to push our ideas. Of c

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1999-10-28 Thread ole_f
Hi , 28-Oct-1999 you wrote: >> Sorry about having that opinion - I'm not a fanatic physicist, but do know >> that the point of Einstein's relativity theory is that the speed of light is >> constant (i.e., /not/ relative), and I'm generally tired of cases of science >You are right, but that impli

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1999-10-28 Thread Jonathan . Saunders
> BTW, if REBOL Tech. _do_ want to cite Einstein, better make > it "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not > simpler". That fits REBOL a lot more, I guess. Nice quote. That's one of the ones they use on one of the Waba pages: http://www.wabasoft.com/spec.html. (Waba is a programming

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1999-10-28 Thread carl
Always been one of my favorites. But, also overused. -Carl At 10/28/99 04:42 PM -0400, you wrote: >> BTW, if REBOL Tech. _do_ want to cite Einstein, better make >> it "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not >> simpler". That fits REBOL a lot more, I guess. > >Nice quote. That's on

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1999-10-29 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Before this discussion gets out of control (but thanks for enlightening me, > anyway ;-) ), I'd like to point out that the meaning of my original mail was > that I really cannot see any equivalence between Einstein's relativity theory > and REBOL, other than the word "r

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1999-10-29 Thread mjmalpha
tober 28, 1999 5:03 PM Subject: [REBOL] "Everything is relative"... hmmm... Re:(3) >> BTW, if REBOL Tech. _do_ want to cite Einstein, better make >> it "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not >> simpler". That fits REBOL a lot more, I guess. >

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1999-11-02 Thread petr . krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > On 28-Oct-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > relativity theory and REBOL, other than the word "relative". (Besides, as > > far as I remember, "Relative Expression-Based Object Language" was made up > > _after_ the name "REBOL" was decided upon...) > > I don't

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1999-01-02 Thread ole_f
Hi Elliott, 2-Nov-1999 you wrote: >> relativity theory and REBOL, other than the word "relative". (Besides, as >> far as I remember, "Relative Expression-Based Object Language" was made up >> _after_ the name "REBOL" was decided upon...) >I don't know about this, but I do remember reading about