Re: [silk] Human species 'may split in two'

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Long
sounds like the kind of junk one would expect from an economist. With apologies to that particular tribe. More to the point, it was done for Bravo, "A televisual broadcaster for the modern gentleman", target demographic: male 18-35. Let me know when Nature runs a special insert covering "The

Re: [silk] Planespotting

2006-10-20 Thread sastry
On Fri October 20 2006 11:22 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > The planespotter who had started this chain of events had no idea > what he was doing by posting the photo online. He was just > documenting the landing, which he assumed was that of an American > millionaire, as part of his hobby. Udhay, t

Re: [silk] The end of the 'Click'?

2006-10-20 Thread sastry
Part of the problem IMHO is the "double click' where you click 100% more times than you need to click. Its a bit like .. Part of the problem IMHO is the "double click' where you click 100% more times than you need to click. A single click reduces clicking effort by half. The act of clicking

Re: [silk] India as a nation of self-employed

2006-10-20 Thread sastry
On Fri October 20 2006 3:48 am, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > Are there large obstacles to such people becoming self-employed in > India today? It seems to me that the obstacles for some of them are > becoming larger in the US; for example, teachers are mostly employees > due to students' desire

Re: [silk] The Economist effect: Not all news media are dumbing it down

2006-10-20 Thread Kragen Javier Sitaker
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:37:51 +0100 (BST), bonobashi wrote: > Very briefly, while the overt aim is to 're-position' TIME > magazine, the covert one is stated clearly, almost too clearly to > make it covert - that of reaching a different cross-section of > readership, thereby attracting a dif

[silk] The end of the 'Click'?

2006-10-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
We have been trained to 'click' to perform actions by the various windowing systems (x, mac, windoze). Do we think we are going to stop clicking in the future? Will it save is from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? I found this interesting website on these lines. http://www.dontclick.it/ regards, Venka

[silk] Complex Problem Solving

2006-10-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.idiagram.com/CP/cpprocess.html Very interesting visual model to break it down to individual components. I wonder how scalable this model is... Any thoughts? regards, Venkat

Re: [silk] For all you Beatles fans out there

2006-10-20 Thread Deepa Mohan
I  DID enjoy! Thank you.   Deepa.  On 10/20/06, Aditya Kapil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Enjoy http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/dailymail.html?in_article_id=411526&in_page_id=1790 22:54pm 19th October 2006 The shenanigans between Paul and Heather McCartney, as revealed in

[silk] For all you Beatles fans out there

2006-10-20 Thread Aditya Kapil
Enjoyhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/dailymail.html?in_article_id=411526&in_page_id=1790 22:54pm 19th October 2006 The shenanigans between Paul and Heather McCartney, as revealed in the court papers published in the Mail this week, reveal the kind of tempestuous relations