RE: Functional quantum computer?
He's an existance proof that people can be intelligent in some areas, yet astoundingly obtuse in others. Peter [Jim: It's ok that you have no problem with your ineffective methods of giving pointers to articles, but your wasting your own and other's time - there's simply no reason for people to follow your links, since they are generally useless]
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
Actually, not *entirely* useless. Usually right after jim talks about an article and posts a link that doesn't point at it, someone else will post a correct link. If Jim just shut up, some of these stories probably would escape our notice. In the course of correcting his errors, people do provide useful information. Bear
At 8:04 AM -0800 1/9/01, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Your definition of "useful" is different from mine. I believe lists like ours should primarily be about discussions and points of view, not a third-hand CNET or Register or Slashdot. There are many Web sources of breaking news (not that a lot of the "functional quantum computer" sorts of stories are usually breaking news...). Personally, I like it when someone finds a news item, provides a detailed URL, even quotes (in ASCII, not MIME!) a paragraph or two, and then comments on it and connects it to Cypherpunks issues. Merely dumping out "general science" items, with general URLs, is just plain abusing the list. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
Right. Most news organizations nowadays provide some kind of "alert" service. Wired News has one that lets readers choose to be alerted by name of author or keyword: http://www.wired.alerts.com/wired/add_alert.jsp These, to buttress your point, are better mechanisms to be alerted to relevant articles than the cpunks list is. -Declan On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:42:07AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:04:18AM -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Yeah in a: "Gee, if I didn't sideswipe that truck and crash into this utility pole, I never would have noticed that quarter on the ground!" sort of way. -- ___ ___ . . ___ \ / |\ |\ \ _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__
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