On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Dibyo wrote:
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> On 26 September 2012 22:51, Tim Bray wrote:
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>> There’s no doubt that it’s drop-dead cool, but the pictures are fairly
>> limited in terms of traditional photographic values: resolution,
>> sensitivity, and so on. Also, you have to use their
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
wrote:
> This product [1] has been in the news for a while now. How is it? Is it the
> next best thing to sliced bread as they claim it is? Has anyone tried it
> out?
I was at the e.g. conference where it was demonstrated and it does
seem to
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> So I was going through this link. While I know that 'do the needful' and
>> 'revert back' are wrong usages even though it's common here, I was surprised
>> that a lot of other wo
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM, John Sundman wrote:
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>
> Maybe. Maybe he'll re-apply for Brazillian citizenship, and then we'll find
> out. I could become quite the soap opera!
>
He still has it. Brazilian citizenship is hard to lose. Supposedly you
should lose it if you get citizenship elsew
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
>> My experience differs from his. In my experience most people think of
>> Brazilians as "brown" people - some beautiful exotic hybrid, but
>> definitively non-white. Brazil is a
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
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> [0] Interestingly Brazil has some of the same baggage of a vast poor
> underbelly as India; but it fares vastly better on the visa waiver
> thing. There's greater segregation of the population there of course,
> and some racism, but st
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
> > "Baddi maga" could mean son of prostitute.
>
> "HIjo de puta" (lit. "son of a whore" but meaning approximately the
> same as "son of a bitch" in english) is a very common Spanish curse.
>
That one exists in Portuguese too. It may have th
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:03 PM, mark seiden wrote:
> > i'm often in new york, but not next week.
> >
> > but i know it well, so if anyone needs recommendations, i can supply.
> the more specific the requirements,
> > th
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:24 AM, ss wrote:
[...]
>
> But regular time off once a week is alien in India, cruel as it may sound.
> If
> you look at Indian businessmen, traders, farmers and priests there is no
> concept of taking one day off in a week. Oh yes people take time off
> regularly
> eve
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
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> The scale isn't much, but the quality was something else. Experts took hours
> to tell apart fake from real. In effect it doesn't matter - the current
> design of Indian notes will need to be taken out of service - a cost of
> hundr
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> A hypothesis! Is it testable? Let's see...
>
>> 1) Population pressure (and attendant perception, at a societal level,
>> of scarcity of various resources - a perception that has a gre
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Seems to me as if G+ is just a whole lot of work adding the same family,
> acquaintances and friends to yet another network and keeping up with
> them...can someone tell me what the unique benefits are? Frankly, I took it
> on just because it is
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Madhu Menon wrote:
> On 29-06-2011 18:25, Neha Viswanathan wrote:
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>> Me too?
>>
>> Me three! Please! :)
>
> I don't want an invite, thanks. The last time this kind of thing happened
> was Google Wave, and see how that turned out. :P
Ha. Well, I think wave w
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Jon Cox wrote:
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> [..]
>
> Regulatory structures in the US are so weak that most folks will
> remain in a state of nervous denial until it's too late for them.
> When all debt obligations are factored totaled, we supposedly
> owe $500k/person. I can only thin
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On 18-May-11 6:29 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
>
>> There's a technology where you write with real ink on real paper -
>> except it has a pattern of tiny infra-red dots and the pen has a tiny
>> camera that watches them moving, and from this
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Fascinating. Besides, how could I resist forwarding a piece with this title?
>
> Udhay
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/science/08silk.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all
>
Fio Omeretto spoke at TED this year about silk. It should be up at
I'm andreum
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
> mahesh@
> Thanks, Udhay - it had gone to the junk folder.
>
>
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:41:45PM +0530, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
>> One for me suresh?
>
> I also now have 5, so if anyone is still not served, drop
> me a line.
>
Me, please.
Andre
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
> wrote:
>>
>> On 24 November 2010 12:47, Sriram Karra wrote:
>>>
>>> Are vegetarians just plain dull?!
>>
>>
>> No. They're just prejudiced in my opinon.
>>
> Huh! I said flowerpot mu
Hello,
I was thinking of organizing a meetup of silk list participants who
happen to be in Sao Paulo tomorrow (October 28th). Anyone that might
be here for any event of something?
Regards,
Andre
On Saturday, October 9, 2010, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
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> I was at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam earlier this week, and it was an
> amazing revelation for me that even an inspired genius like Van Gogh attended
> painting lessons all through his life and clearly got better over time. His
>
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Deepak Misra
wrote:
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> http://www.librarything.com
>
This is my girlfriends profile on librarything, which includes a large
part of my own bookshelf:
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Bibi
She also uses anobii:
http://www.anobii.com/bibi/books
Andre
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Andre Manoel
> wrote:
>>
>> For those who really like the kind of books that he rights, he rights
>> books that such people really like. I'm one of those people and h
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Indrajit Gupta [16/06/10 21:49 +0530]:
>>
>> Obviously you like 'the Russians'; acid test: did you like the Inspector
>> General? But this lot, well, War and Peace was as good or as bad as one of
>
> That gogol social commentary disg
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
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>
> Obviously you like 'the Russians'; acid test: did you like the Inspector
> General? But this lot, well, War and Peace was as good or
> as bad as one of our contemporary multi-volume swords-and-sorcery fantasies;
> and had the virtue mo
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:
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> Most people can't get through Stephenson, but I'd recommend starting with
> _Snow Crash_, _The Diamond Age_, or _Anathem_. _Cryptonomicon_
> is like candy if you happen to be up on Alan Turing and Enigma, however.
> I love everything Step
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Anil Kumar wrote:
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> Calling the attention of the bibliophiles on Silk -
>
>
>
> 1. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce: Internet searches on “most difficult” and
> “hard to read” novels unfailingly recognize Finnegan’s Wake as the most
> difficult work of fiction in
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