| Re: Smoking Man [message #23456] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 09:39 |
Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
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This thread is about lurkers, not about inferior software products that
need IDL newsgroup to prototype the code!
Pavel
Bill wrote:
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> geez... ~18 lurkers + 10 frequent posters = ~28 actual users.
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> Perhaps if rsi made the price of IDL a little more competitive some of
> us lurkers would be able to stop re-implimenting the idl code posted
> here in matlab 6!
>
> PS: The myths about matlab requiring tonnes of memory aren't all that
> true... I have 128MB or ram on a p3 and i'm doing just fine... Volume
> visualization is way better in 6 and te gui is way better than idlde
> will ever be!d
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| Re: Smoking Man [message #23459 is a reply to message #23456] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 09:09  |
billybobsuzanne
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2000
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geez... ~18 lurkers + 10 frequent posters = ~28 actual users.
Perhaps if rsi made the price of IDL a little more competitive some of
us lurkers would be able to stop re-implimenting the idl code posted
here in matlab 6!
PS: The myths about matlab requiring tonnes of memory aren't all that
true... I have 128MB or ram on a p3 and i'm doing just fine... Volume
visualization is way better in 6 and te gui is way better than idlde
will ever be!
In article <MPG.14db50309ba12dc0989d3b@news.frii.com>,
davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote:
> JD Smith (jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu) writes:
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>> David has cast his net with skill and pulled in a fat bounty of
>> lurkers. For some, the thought of bigger fish, observing silently
from
>> just outside the circle of light, floating through a darkened mist
>> unwitnessed, unheard, weighs heavily upon them. So where are the
the
>> smoking men, chuckling to themselves, quiet and throaty, in dark
>> windowless rooms? Sipping cold, stained mugs of coffee in the deep
>> recesses of unknown facilities, judging us with passing and
ambiguous
>> interest. Manipulating the threads of our enterprise, as a boy
>> redirects the unwavering purposefulness of marching ants along a
blade
>> of grass. The puppet-master, the illuminatus mirabilis, for whom
our
>> whole culture is but a toy among many, eventually to be discarded.
>> These are the lurkers we fear, yet cannot face. Show thyself!
>
> 18!? My wife is right. She is *always* right. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
>
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| Re: Smoking Man [message #23460 is a reply to message #23459] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 09:07 |
Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
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That's the Lurkers I was referring to. I can see J and K smile right
now, and maybe others, too :-) Thanks folks, we know you are listening.
Oh, one of the the unknown facilities some of them are in is located
here in Boulder.
I was kind of hoping one of the lurkers would have initials DS, but I
guess not...
Cheers,
Pavel
JD Smith wrote:
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> David has cast his net with skill and pulled in a fat bounty of
> lurkers. For some, the thought of bigger fish, observing silently from
> just outside the circle of light, floating through a darkened mist
> unwitnessed, unheard, weighs heavily upon them. So where are the the
> smoking men, chuckling to themselves, quiet and throaty, in dark
> windowless rooms? Sipping cold, stained mugs of coffee in the deep
> recesses of unknown facilities, judging us with passing and ambiguous
> interest. Manipulating the threads of our enterprise, as a boy
> redirects the unwavering purposefulness of marching ants along a blade
> of grass. The puppet-master, the illuminatus mirabilis, for whom our
> whole culture is but a toy among many, eventually to be discarded.
> These are the lurkers we fear, yet cannot face. Show thyself!>
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| Re: Smoking Man [message #23465 is a reply to message #23460] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 08:13 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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JD Smith (jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu) writes:
> David has cast his net with skill and pulled in a fat bounty of
> lurkers. For some, the thought of bigger fish, observing silently from
> just outside the circle of light, floating through a darkened mist
> unwitnessed, unheard, weighs heavily upon them. So where are the the
> smoking men, chuckling to themselves, quiet and throaty, in dark
> windowless rooms? Sipping cold, stained mugs of coffee in the deep
> recesses of unknown facilities, judging us with passing and ambiguous
> interest. Manipulating the threads of our enterprise, as a boy
> redirects the unwavering purposefulness of marching ants along a blade
> of grass. The puppet-master, the illuminatus mirabilis, for whom our
> whole culture is but a toy among many, eventually to be discarded.
> These are the lurkers we fear, yet cannot face. Show thyself!
18!? My wife is right. She is *always* right. :-(
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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