Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-05-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:54 AM Heather Madrone wrote: Early computing geniuses would grind their teeth in frustration to see > all the ways we waste the computing power we carry around with us. > Yeah. Isn't it awesome? :) Measured purely on clock speed and RAM, my current cellphone (2017

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-05-26 Thread Heather Madrone
Pavitra wrote on 5/26/19 6:58 PM May 26, 2019> The stuff in your pocket *is* a computer. With more processing power and bells and whistles than the early computing devices that one started out with... The supercomputers in our pockets. Early computing geniuses would grind their teeth in

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-05-26 Thread Pavitra
Why not a combination that falls between 1, 2 and 5. Why not attribute it to ambivalence. And a lack of time to put down the necessary argument to support a new hypothesis that both supports and detracts. On another note... The stuff in your pocket *is* a computer. With more processing power

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-05-26 Thread Mark Seiden
On May 26, 2019, 5:07 PM -0700, Heather Madrone , wrote: > > > It has to be pentalemma, otherwise you're mixing Greek and Latin roots, > and that's totally Not Done. you mean like homophobic and television, biodiversity and cyberspace? or Australopithecus? "Television? The word is half Greek,

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-05-26 Thread Heather Madrone
Mark Seiden wrote on 5/26/19 1:09 PM May 26, 2019: why’s it called a “dilemma” when there are 5 possible alternative interpretations? are there only two alternative outcomes to choose among? maybe it should be called a “pentalemma”, or possibly a “quintlemma”? It has to be pentalemma,

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-05-26 Thread Mark Seiden
why’s it called a “dilemma” when there are 5 possible alternative interpretations? are there only two alternative outcomes to choose among? maybe it should be called a “pentalemma”, or possibly a “quintlemma”? On May 25, 2019, 9:26 AM -0700, Tomasz Rola , wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at