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What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer?

Started byNeo Fortune <serenity3043@gmail.com>
First post2016-05-06 02:04 -0700
Last post2016-05-17 20:05 -0400
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  What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Neo Fortune <serenity3043@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 02:04 -0700
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-05-06 11:00 -0500
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2016-05-06 16:34 +0000
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-06 18:20 +0100
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2016-05-07 07:12 +0000
            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-05-11 14:55 -0400
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2016-05-11 19:20 +0000
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-11 21:16 +0200
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-07 13:14 +0000
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-07 20:18 -0700
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-08 04:22 +0000
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-05-07 21:46 -0700
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-08 06:58 +0100
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 07:31 -0400
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-06 12:32 -0400
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 02:30 +1000
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2016-05-06 17:19 +0000
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-05-06 19:41 +0200
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Neo Fortune <serenity3043@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 02:43 -0700
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-09 06:58 -0700
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-09 17:05 +0000
            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-10 12:34 +0000
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-05-11 14:38 -0400
                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-11 21:13 +0200
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2016-05-12 12:50 +0100
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-12 17:49 +0000
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2016-05-13 12:10 +0100
                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-12 13:04 +0000
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-13 11:18 -0700
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-15 14:09 +0000
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ibmekon <Ibmekon> - 2016-05-15 21:53 +0100
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-16 12:12 +0000
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-16 06:16 -0700
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-17 12:32 +0000
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-17 10:22 -0500
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-18 07:32 -0400
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-18 12:28 +0000
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? mausg@mail.com - 2016-05-18 19:23 +0000
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-05-18 20:15 -0400
                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> - 2016-05-19 08:06 +0100
                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-19 12:27 +0000
                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-05-19 14:41 -0400
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-19 12:27 +0000
                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-21 04:59 -0700
                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-22 13:15 +0000
                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-05-23 20:14 -0500
                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Alfred Falk <falk@arc.ab.ca> - 2016-05-24 04:45 +0000
                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-24 12:11 +0000
                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> - 2016-05-24 14:19 +0100
                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-25 13:11 +0000
                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-25 09:22 -0700
                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> - 2016-05-25 17:31 +0100
                                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Alfred Falk <falk@arc.ab.ca> - 2016-05-26 21:41 +0000
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-18 23:19 +0100
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-19 12:27 +0000
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-16 06:17 -0700
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-05-23 20:16 -0500
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ibmekon <Ibmekon> - 2016-05-16 20:08 +0100
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-17 12:32 +0000
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-09 16:29 -0300
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Neo Fortune <serenity3043@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 02:10 -0700
            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-10 06:42 -0400
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 07:43 -0500
                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Neo Fortune <serenity3043@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 01:49 -0700
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-05-11 09:06 -0400
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-11 09:47 -0400
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-11 09:33 -0500
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 10:26 -0500
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-11 11:11 -0500
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-11 17:48 +0100
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-16 20:02 -0400
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 12:05 -0500
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-11 14:59 -0500
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 21:32 -0500
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-16 19:59 -0400
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 21:34 -0500
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> - 2016-05-12 03:39 +0100
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-12 06:13 +0100
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-12 14:46 -0400
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-11 14:31 -0400
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-11 14:21 -0700
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-11 17:50 -0500
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-11 16:01 -0700
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 21:35 -0500
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-12 02:50 +0000
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-12 10:07 +0000
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-12 11:39 +0100
                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-12 17:49 +0000
                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-12 21:55 +0100
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-12 13:12 -0700
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Andy Burns <feb2017-usenet@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 00:20 +0100
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-11 21:40 -0400
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2016-05-14 23:47 -0300
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-15 14:09 +0000
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-11 11:37 -0700
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-11 11:40 -0700
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-11 15:15 -0500
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2016-05-11 21:50 +0000
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-11 15:49 -0700
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-05-11 23:36 -0400
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2016-05-12 10:32 +0000
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-13 11:16 -0700
                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-13 15:11 -0700
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-15 17:42 -0400
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-15 17:34 -0500
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-15 20:32 -0400
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-15 22:21 -0700
                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 06:57 -0400
                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-16 13:12 -0500
                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-16 23:25 +0000
                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-16 19:53 -0400
                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 08:23 -0500
                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-17 09:16 -0500
                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-17 10:40 -0500
                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-17 16:59 +0000
                                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-17 13:42 -0500
                                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-17 11:56 -0700
                                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-17 12:10 -0700
                                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? mausg@mail.com - 2016-05-17 19:58 +0000
                                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-18 02:50 -0300
                                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-17 23:51 -0700
                                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-18 07:32 -0400
                                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-18 14:28 -0700
                                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-18 23:18 +0100
                                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2016-05-19 11:07 +0100
                                                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-05-19 10:00 -0400
                                                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-19 12:53 -0400
                                                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-05-23 10:56 -0400
                                                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-23 12:59 -0500
                                                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2016-05-24 00:01 -0300
                                                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-23 18:48 +0000
                                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-19 02:18 -0300
                                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2016-05-19 07:03 +0000
                                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? mausg@mail.com - 2016-05-19 13:11 +0000
                                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-18 12:28 +0000
                                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-19 02:38 -0300
                                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-21 21:26 -0400
                                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Lawrence Statton NK1G <lawrence@senguio.mx> - 2016-05-18 10:39 -0500
                                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? mausg@mail.com - 2016-05-18 19:21 +0000
                                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-18 12:35 -0700
                                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? mausg@mail.com - 2016-05-18 21:06 +0000
                                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-18 12:34 -0700
                                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-17 14:35 -0500
                                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 15:43 -0500
                                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-17 14:32 -0500
                                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-17 14:53 -0500
                                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-18 07:32 -0400
                                                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-19 02:43 -0300
                                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-17 19:44 +0000
                                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-17 22:40 +0000
                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-17 14:42 +0000
                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-17 17:01 +0000
                                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Lawrence Statton NK1G <lawrence@senguio.mx> - 2016-05-17 12:09 -0500
                                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-17 14:31 -0300
                                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-18 12:28 +0000
                                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 12:33 -0500
                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-17 10:31 -0500
                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-16 20:37 -0400
                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-17 11:12 +0200
                                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-17 05:49 -0700
                                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 08:21 -0500
                                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-05-23 12:23 -0400
                                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-16 22:03 -0700
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 05:09 +1000
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-05-23 09:39 -0400
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-23 09:48 -0500
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-23 13:51 -0400
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-05-23 13:49 -0500
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-11 11:34 -0700
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-11 14:06 -0500
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-11 17:49 +0200
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-11 16:53 +0000
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-12 03:11 -0300
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bernd Felsche <berfel@innovative.iinet.net.au> - 2016-05-14 16:59 +0800
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-14 10:48 +0100
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-05-14 15:53 +0000
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-05-14 09:37 -0700
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-14 12:09 -0500
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-15 14:09 +0000
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-11 17:22 +0100
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-05-11 12:59 -0400
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-21 00:56 +0000
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 22:17 -0400
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-22 05:53 +0000
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-22 11:26 +0100
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 07:13 -0400
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-21 00:56 +0000
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-22 06:43 +0100
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-22 11:22 +0100
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 07:14 -0400
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-22 13:35 +0100
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-22 07:29 -0700
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 08:35 -0500
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-23 06:41 +0100
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-23 16:11 +0200
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-23 16:43 -0300
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-05-23 16:50 -0400
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-24 01:50 -0300
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-24 12:11 +0000
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-24 13:40 +0100
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? mausg@mail.com - 2016-05-24 19:33 +0000
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 21:33 -0400
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 08:54 -0500
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-24 16:38 -0300
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-24 20:04 +0000
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-24 22:24 -0400
                                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-25 12:45 -0700
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 17:15 -0500
                              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-24 11:55 -0400
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-24 18:18 +0100
                                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-05-24 13:26 -0500
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-24 11:59 -0700
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-05-24 17:03 -0300
                                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-05-26 17:55 +0000
                                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-24 11:53 -0700
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-10 17:47 +0100
                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-05-11 14:41 -0400
            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-10 12:34 +0000
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Neo Fortune <serenity3043@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 01:44 -0700
                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-11 11:32 -0700
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Lawrence Statton NK1G <lawrence@senguio.mx> - 2016-05-06 13:55 -0500
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-06 19:29 -0400
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-07 13:14 +0000
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 05:39 -0400
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-07 11:35 +0000
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 17:38 -0400
            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-07 22:30 +0000
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-05-07 13:25 -0700
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-05-07 17:16 -0700
            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 20:39 -0400
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-07 21:57 -0400
                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 22:49 -0400
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-08 07:08 -0700
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-08 20:58 -0400
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-07 13:14 +0000
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-06 12:09 -0700
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-05-07 10:39 +0100
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-07 20:16 -0700
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-08 13:08 +0000
          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-08 16:20 +0200
            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-09 13:08 +0000
              Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name,invalid> - 2016-05-09 15:34 +0200
                Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-10 12:34 +0000
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2016-05-10 13:42 +0000
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-11 12:18 +0000
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-11 13:19 +0000
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-11 16:57 +0100
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-11 16:20 +0000
                            Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-11 17:38 +0100
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-10 15:49 +0200
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-11 12:18 +0000
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-10 11:07 -0400
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-11 12:18 +0000
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-11 13:16 +0000
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-05-11 09:45 -0400
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> - 2016-05-11 16:22 +0100
                          Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-11 15:47 +0000
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-11 10:52 -0400
                        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-11 15:49 +0000
                  Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-10 17:44 +0100
                    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-05-11 12:18 +0000
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-11 13:44 +0100
                      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-11 17:46 +0200
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Thomas Lake <tomlake07@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 10:47 -0700
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-05-10 18:36 +0000
    Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-16 19:45 -0400
      Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-05-17 06:35 +0100
        Re: What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-05-17 20:05 -0400

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#163476

FromCharlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date2016-05-09 17:05 +0000
Message-ID<ngqg0v01dmi@news6.newsguy.com>
In reply to#163467
On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>
>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>
>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>> 
>> What About Earth?
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>> 
>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>
> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and a radio
> play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really happen. Thus, the
> fact that the Earth was a greater computer than Deep Thought, which was
> itself a greater computer than various other contenders for the title,
> such as the Milliard Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that
> novel means nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate
> computer is concerned.

Spoilsport.

And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
Ultimate Answer.

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#163508

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2016-05-10 12:34 +0000
Message-ID<PM0005327C142E8DAF@aca4069b.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#163476
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>>>
>>> What About Earth?
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>>>
>>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>>
>> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and a radio
>> play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really happen. Thus, the
>> fact that the Earth was a greater computer than Deep Thought, which was
>> itself a greater computer than various other contenders for the title,
>> such as the Milliard Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that
>> novel means nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate
>> computer is concerned.
>
> Spoilsport.
>
> And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
> Ultimate Answer.
>
I never liked 42 because it has factors.

/BAH

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#163592

FromBud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com>
Date2016-05-11 14:38 -0400
Message-ID<gqednZO8Pb-M4a7KnZ2dnUU7-bOdnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#163508
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:

> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>>>>
>>>> What About Earth?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>>>>
>>>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>>>
>>> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and a radio
>>> play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really happen. Thus, the
>>> fact that the Earth was a greater computer than Deep Thought, which was
>>> itself a greater computer than various other contenders for the title,
>>> such as the Milliard Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that
>>> novel means nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate
>>> computer is concerned.
>>
>> Spoilsport.
>>
>> And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
>> Ultimate Answer.
>>
> I never liked 42 because it has factors.

I thought that was the whole point?



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#163603

FromMorten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid>
Date2016-05-11 21:13 +0200
Message-ID<vrcc0d-ed2.ln1@sambook.reistad.name>
In reply to#163592
In article <gqednZO8Pb-M4a7KnZ2dnUU7-bOdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
Bud Frede  <frede@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>
>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>>>>>
>>>>> What About Earth?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>>>>>
>>>>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>>>>
>>>> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and a radio
>>>> play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really happen. Thus, the
>>>> fact that the Earth was a greater computer than Deep Thought, which was
>>>> itself a greater computer than various other contenders for the title,
>>>> such as the Milliard Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that
>>>> novel means nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate
>>>> computer is concerned.
>>>
>>> Spoilsport.
>>>
>>> And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
>>> Ultimate Answer.
>>>
>> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>
>I thought that was the whole point?

What is 6 times nine?

-- mrr

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#163632

Fromsimon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner)
Date2016-05-12 12:50 +0100
Message-ID<20160512.1150.983501snz@twoplaces.co.uk>
In reply to#163603
On Wednesday, in article
     <vrcc0d-ed2.ln1@sambook.reistad.name>
     first@last.name.invalid "Morten Reistad" wrote:

> In article <gqednZO8Pb-M4a7KnZ2dnUU7-bOdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
> Bud Frede  <frede@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>>
>>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>> On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What About Earth?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>>>>>
>>>>> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and a radio
>>>>> play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really happen. Thus, the
>>>>> fact that the Earth was a greater computer than Deep Thought, which was
>>>>> itself a greater computer than various other contenders for the title,
>>>>> such as the Milliard Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that
>>>>> novel means nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate
>>>>> computer is concerned.
>>>>
>>>> Spoilsport.
>>>>
>>>> And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
>>>> Ultimate Answer.
>>>>
>>> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>>
>>I thought that was the whole point?
> 
> What is 6 times nine?

Almost right: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

-- 
Simon Turner                                    DoD #0461
simon@twoplaces.co.uk
    Trust me -- I know what I'm doing!          -- Sledge Hammer

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#163640

FromCharlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date2016-05-12 17:49 +0000
Message-ID<nh2fo102vp1@news1.newsguy.com>
In reply to#163632
On 2016-05-12, Simon Turner <simon@twoplaces.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wednesday, in article
>      <vrcc0d-ed2.ln1@sambook.reistad.name>
>      first@last.name.invalid "Morten Reistad" wrote:
>
>> In article <gqednZO8Pb-M4a7KnZ2dnUU7-bOdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
>> Bud Frede  <frede@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>
>>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What About Earth?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and a radio
>>>>>> play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really happen. Thus, the
>>>>>> fact that the Earth was a greater computer than Deep Thought, which was
>>>>>> itself a greater computer than various other contenders for the title,
>>>>>> such as the Milliard Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that
>>>>>> novel means nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate
>>>>>> computer is concerned.
>>>>>
>>>>> Spoilsport.
>>>>>
>>>>> And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
>>>>> Ultimate Answer.
>>>>>
>>>> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>>>
>>> I thought that was the whole point?
>> 
>> What is 6 times nine?
>
> Almost right: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

That depends on whether you're working in base 13.

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#163655

Fromsimon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner)
Date2016-05-13 12:10 +0100
Message-ID<20160513.1110.983575snz@twoplaces.co.uk>
In reply to#163640
On 12 May, in article <nh2fo102vp1@news1.newsguy.com>
     cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid "Charlie Gibbs" wrote:

> On 2016-05-12, Simon Turner <simon@twoplaces.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, in article
>>      <vrcc0d-ed2.ln1@sambook.reistad.name>
>>      first@last.name.invalid "Morten Reistad" wrote:
>>
>>> In article <gqednZO8Pb-M4a7KnZ2dnUU7-bOdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
>>> Bud Frede  <frede@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What About Earth?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and
>>>>>>> a radio play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really
>>>>>>> happen. Thus, the fact that the Earth was a greater computer
>>>>>>> than Deep Thought, which was itself a greater computer than
>>>>>>> various other contenders for the title, such as the Milliard
>>>>>>> Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that novel means
>>>>>>> nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate computer
>>>>>>> is concerned.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Spoilsport.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
>>>>>> Ultimate Answer.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>>>>
>>>> I thought that was the whole point?
>>> 
>>> What is 6 times nine?
>>
>> Almost right: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
> 
> That depends on whether you're working in base 13.

Quite so.

Douglas Adams was often asked about base 13... (he said he hadn't
realised it until it was pointed out to him, some time after he wrote
it).

-- 
Simon Turner                                    DoD #0461
simon@twoplaces.co.uk
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#163635

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2016-05-12 13:04 +0000
Message-ID<PM000532A47327EDBF@aca41f2e.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#163592
Bud Frede wrote:
> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>
>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> On 2016-05-09, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:43:04 AM UTC-6, Neo Fortune wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 6:42:00 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no ultimate computer...
>>>>>
>>>>> What About Earth?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEdxO91RWQ
>>>>>
>>>>> The Meaning Of Life = 42
>>>>
>>>> But "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was just a novel (and a radio
>>>> play, and a miniseries, and a movie), it didn't really happen. Thus, the
>>>> fact that the Earth was a greater computer than Deep Thought, which was
>>>> itself a greater computer than various other contenders for the title,
>>>> such as the Milliard Gargantubrain, in the fictional universe of that
>>>> novel means nothing in so far as the real existence of an ultimate
>>>> computer is concerned.
>>>
>>> Spoilsport.
>>>
>>> And we still don't have the Ultimate Question to which 42 was the
>>> Ultimate Answer.
>>>
>> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>
> I thought that was the whole point?

Then it can't be the ultimate answer; it's the [ultimate-2n] answer.

/BAH

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#163671

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2016-05-13 11:18 -0700
Message-ID<bb4cd0f3-3b7c-44a1-80a2-5450f3f28144@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#163635
On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 7:02:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
> Bud Frede wrote:
> > jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:

> >> I never liked 42 because it has factors.

> > I thought that was the whole point?

> Then it can't be the ultimate answer; it's the [ultimate-2n] answer.

But if you add 2n for any integer n to 42, the result will still be composite, 
so if the ultimate answer must be prime, 42 can't be that answer minus 2n,

John Savard

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#163698

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2016-05-15 14:09 +0000
Message-ID<PM000532E1EBD7F24B@aca424e3.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#163671
Quadibloc wrote:
> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 7:02:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> Bud Frede wrote:
>> > jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>
>> >> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>
>> > I thought that was the whole point?
>
>> Then it can't be the ultimate answer; it's the [ultimate-2n] answer.
>
> But if you add 2n for any integer n to 42, the result will still be
composite,
> so if the ultimate answer must be prime, 42 can't be that answer minus 2n,

RAts.   I did write it wrong but I don't know how to express it in
mathematical terms.

42 = 6 * 7 = 2 * 3 * 7.  So it takes 2 steps to determine the ultimate
answer.  How would I write that?

I just remembered that one my todo's is to figure out a geometrical
formula for any prime.  I was beginning to see a pattern but got
side-tracked and never went back.

/BAH

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#163704

FromIbmekon <Ibmekon>
Date2016-05-15 21:53 +0100
Message-ID<pklhjb517le29v31u43pvl7qb1o0qf0ir4@4ax.com>
In reply to#163698
On 15 May 2016 14:09:24 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:

>Quadibloc wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 7:02:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>> Bud Frede wrote:
>>> > jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>>
>>> >> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>>
>>> > I thought that was the whole point?
>>
>>> Then it can't be the ultimate answer; it's the [ultimate-2n] answer.
>>
>> But if you add 2n for any integer n to 42, the result will still be
>composite,
>> so if the ultimate answer must be prime, 42 can't be that answer minus 2n,
>
>RAts.   I did write it wrong but I don't know how to express it in
>mathematical terms.
>
>42 = 6 * 7 = 2 * 3 * 7.  So it takes 2 steps to determine the ultimate
>answer.  How would I write that?
>
>I just remembered that one my todo's is to figure out a geometrical
>formula for any prime.  I was beginning to see a pattern but got
>side-tracked and never went back.
>
>/BAH

Looking for any series to generate an infinite number of primes has
proved difficult.
Looking for a series to generate all primes is fools gold !
This is not to be recommended, even if you have feline ancestry.

The wiki page below gives a good summary of the state of play in the
search for primes, a trip down the memory lane of my youth.
My passion was Fermats Last theorem. At one time I even blagged my way
into the British Museum in London to physically get my hands on an
original copy of "Oeuvres de Fermat". Only to find that my schoolboy
20th century french did not allow me to make sense of Fermats 17th
century french.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics

Carl Goldsworthy
--
No reasonable offer refused. Everything must go !

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#163712

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2016-05-16 12:12 +0000
Message-ID<PM000532F493A3E71F@aca41ee3.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#163704
Ibmekon wrote:
> On 15 May 2016 14:09:24 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>Quadibloc wrote:
>>> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 7:02:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>> Bud Frede wrote:
>>>> > jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> >> I never liked 42 because it has factors.
>>>
>>>> > I thought that was the whole point?
>>>
>>>> Then it can't be the ultimate answer; it's the [ultimate-2n] answer.
>>>
>>> But if you add 2n for any integer n to 42, the result will still be
>>composite,
>>> so if the ultimate answer must be prime, 42 can't be that answer minus 2n,
>>
>>RAts.   I did write it wrong but I don't know how to express it in
>>mathematical terms.
>>
>>42 = 6 * 7 = 2 * 3 * 7.  So it takes 2 steps to determine the ultimate
>>answer.  How would I write that?
>>
>>I just remembered that one my todo's is to figure out a geometrical
>>formula for any prime.  I was beginning to see a pattern but got
>>side-tracked and never went back.
>>
>>/BAH
>
> Looking for any series to generate an infinite number of primes has
> proved difficult.

I know.  There are certain "holes" which need to be skipped over.

> Looking for a series to generate all primes is fools gold !
> This is not to be recommended, even if you have feline ancestry.

<grin>  I did figure out how to trisect an angle in a plane but my
high school geometry teacher stated that I cheated by using an
imaginary point in the 3rd dimension.  I never understood why
I couldn't create that point since there isn't anything which limits
the nuimber of dimensions other than usage.
>
> The wiki page below gives a good summary of the state of play in the
> search for primes, a trip down the memory lane of my youth.
> My passion was Fermats Last theorem. At one time I even blagged my way
> into the British Museum in London to physically get my hands on an
> original copy of "Oeuvres de Fermat". Only to find that my schoolboy
> 20th century french did not allow me to make sense of Fermats 17th
> century french.

That must have been a disappointment.  Did you understand the proof
when it did come out?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics

/BAH

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#163713

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2016-05-16 06:16 -0700
Message-ID<2559ef9d-b7ed-436c-a321-132b759d8ae3@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#163712
On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:13:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:

> <grin>  I did figure out how to trisect an angle in a plane but my
> high school geometry teacher stated that I cheated by using an
> imaginary point in the 3rd dimension.  I never understood why
> I couldn't create that point since there isn't anything which limits
> the nuimber of dimensions other than usage.

When I was in Junior High, _Mechanix Illustrated_ published a geometrical 
construction by means of which the angle was trisected by the use of a 
straightedge and compasses.

I went through the proof, and verified that it was correct; following the steps described by the author, one would, in fact, accurately trisect an angle.

However, the world of mathematics was not overturned.

You see, in one of his steps, the author... did something _clever_ with the 
straightedge and compasses; he held the compasses against the straightedge, so 
that he could draw a line satisfying the condition that it passed through a 
given point, and the distance along the line between its intersections with one 
straight line and one arc would equal that to which the compass was spread.

The mathematical proof that an angle can't be trisected "using straightedge and 
compasses" actually refers to trisecting it by means of the basic operations 
which those two tools perform in their normal use.

That something like the author's construction could trisect the angle was known 
to mathematicians all along - as one such trisection of the angle was due to 
Archimedes.

John Savard

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#163736

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2016-05-17 12:32 +0000
Message-ID<PM00053308E5B03FBB@aca40db8.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#163713
Quadibloc wrote:
> On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:13:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>
>> <grin>  I did figure out how to trisect an angle in a plane but my
>> high school geometry teacher stated that I cheated by using an
>> imaginary point in the 3rd dimension.  I never understood why
>> I couldn't create that point since there isn't anything which limits
>> the nuimber of dimensions other than usage.
>
> When I was in Junior High, _Mechanix Illustrated_ published a geometrical
> construction by means of which the angle was trisected by the use of a
> straightedge and compasses.
>
> I went through the proof, and verified that it was correct; following the
steps described by the author, one would, in fact, accurately trisect an
angle.
>
> However, the world of mathematics was not overturned.
>
> You see, in one of his steps, the author... did something _clever_ with the
> straightedge and compasses; he held the compasses against the straightedge,
so
> that he could draw a line satisfying the condition that it passed through a
> given point, and the distance along the line between its intersections with
one
> straight line and one arc would equal that to which the compass was spread.
>
> The mathematical proof that an angle can't be trisected "using straightedge
and
> compasses" actually refers to trisecting it by means of the basic operations
> which those two tools perform in their normal use.
>
> That something like the author's construction could trisect the angle was
known
> to mathematicians all along - as one such trisection of the angle was due to
> Archimedes.

I didn't use that method.  I don't remember the proof because I forgot it
when the teacher said I'd cheated.  The only way it can be done is to
pick an aribitrary point outside the given dimensions.  I was told I
couldn't do that.

/BAH

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#163742

FromDave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com>
Date2016-05-17 10:22 -0500
Message-ID<nhfcpp$bhj$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#163736
On 5/17/2016 7:32 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
> Quadibloc wrote:
>> On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:13:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>
>>> <grin>  I did figure out how to trisect an angle in a plane but my
>>> high school geometry teacher stated that I cheated by using an
>>> imaginary point in the 3rd dimension.  I never understood why
>>> I couldn't create that point since there isn't anything which limits
>>> the nuimber of dimensions other than usage.
>>
>> When I was in Junior High, _Mechanix Illustrated_ published a geometrical
>> construction by means of which the angle was trisected by the use of a
>> straightedge and compasses.
>>
>> I went through the proof, and verified that it was correct; following the
> steps described by the author, one would, in fact, accurately trisect an
> angle.
>>
>> However, the world of mathematics was not overturned.
>>
>> You see, in one of his steps, the author... did something _clever_ with the
>> straightedge and compasses; he held the compasses against the straightedge,
> so
>> that he could draw a line satisfying the condition that it passed through a
>> given point, and the distance along the line between its intersections with
> one
>> straight line and one arc would equal that to which the compass was spread.
>>
>> The mathematical proof that an angle can't be trisected "using straightedge
> and
>> compasses" actually refers to trisecting it by means of the basic operations
>> which those two tools perform in their normal use.
>>
>> That something like the author's construction could trisect the angle was
> known
>> to mathematicians all along - as one such trisection of the angle was due to
>> Archimedes.
>
> I didn't use that method.  I don't remember the proof because I forgot it
> when the teacher said I'd cheated.  The only way it can be done is to
> pick an aribitrary point outside the given dimensions.  I was told I
> couldn't do that.
>

Unfortunately, some teachers find kids who think outside the box to be 
too much of a PITA.

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#163765

FromPeter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Date2016-05-18 07:32 -0400
Message-ID<1025970314.485263670.911382.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#163742
Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/2016 7:32 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> Quadibloc wrote:
>>> On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:13:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>> 
>>>> <grin>  I did figure out how to trisect an angle in a plane but my
>>>> high school geometry teacher stated that I cheated by using an
>>>> imaginary point in the 3rd dimension.  I never understood why
>>>> I couldn't create that point since there isn't anything which limits
>>>> the nuimber of dimensions other than usage.
>>> 
>>> When I was in Junior High, _Mechanix Illustrated_ published a geometrical
>>> construction by means of which the angle was trisected by the use of a
>>> straightedge and compasses.
>>> 
>>> I went through the proof, and verified that it was correct; following the
>> steps described by the author, one would, in fact, accurately trisect an
>> angle.
>>> 
>>> However, the world of mathematics was not overturned.
>>> 
>>> You see, in one of his steps, the author... did something _clever_ with the
>>> straightedge and compasses; he held the compasses against the straightedge,
>> so
>>> that he could draw a line satisfying the condition that it passed through a
>>> given point, and the distance along the line between its intersections with
>> one
>>> straight line and one arc would equal that to which the compass was spread.
>>> 
>>> The mathematical proof that an angle can't be trisected "using straightedge
>> and
>>> compasses" actually refers to trisecting it by means of the basic operations
>>> which those two tools perform in their normal use.
>>> 
>>> That something like the author's construction could trisect the angle was
>> known
>>> to mathematicians all along - as one such trisection of the angle was due to
>>> Archimedes.
>> 
>> I didn't use that method.  I don't remember the proof because I forgot it
>> when the teacher said I'd cheated.  The only way it can be done is to
>> pick an aribitrary point outside the given dimensions.  I was told I
>> couldn't do that.
>> 
> 
> Unfortunately, some teachers find kids who think outside the box to be 
> too much of a PITA.
> 
> 

Two things about that.  First, the teacher has to cover the required
material in a limited time and doesn't often have time for digressions,
however interesting.  From seeing the work my wife brought home every
night, they don't have a lot of extra time outside of class, either.

Second, unfortunately, many teachers don't have a wide knowledge of their
subject outside of the material they teach,  and so aren't able to work
with or interact with students beyond that.

-- 
Pete

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#163768

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2016-05-18 12:28 +0000
Message-ID<PM0005331CD84CAAFE@aca414ec.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#163742
Dave Garland wrote:
> On 5/17/2016 7:32 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> Quadibloc wrote:
>>> On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:13:19 AM UTC-6, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>
>>>> <grin>  I did figure out how to trisect an angle in a plane but my
>>>> high school geometry teacher stated that I cheated by using an
>>>> imaginary point in the 3rd dimension.  I never understood why
>>>> I couldn't create that point since there isn't anything which limits
>>>> the nuimber of dimensions other than usage.
>>>
>>> When I was in Junior High, _Mechanix Illustrated_ published a geometrical
>>> construction by means of which the angle was trisected by the use of a
>>> straightedge and compasses.
>>>
>>> I went through the proof, and verified that it was correct; following the
>> steps described by the author, one would, in fact, accurately trisect an
>> angle.
>>>
>>> However, the world of mathematics was not overturned.
>>>
>>> You see, in one of his steps, the author... did something _clever_ with
the
>>> straightedge and compasses; he held the compasses against the
straightedge,
>> so
>>> that he could draw a line satisfying the condition that it passed through
a
>>> given point, and the distance along the line between its intersections
with
>> one
>>> straight line and one arc would equal that to which the compass was
spread.
>>>
>>> The mathematical proof that an angle can't be trisected "using
straightedge
>> and
>>> compasses" actually refers to trisecting it by means of the basic
operations
>>> which those two tools perform in their normal use.
>>>
>>> That something like the author's construction could trisect the angle was
>> known
>>> to mathematicians all along - as one such trisection of the angle was due
to
>>> Archimedes.
>>
>> I didn't use that method.  I don't remember the proof because I forgot it
>> when the teacher said I'd cheated.  The only way it can be done is to
>> pick an aribitrary point outside the given dimensions.  I was told I
>> couldn't do that.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, some teachers find kids who think outside the box to be
> too much of a PITA.

And the ones smarter than them.  What bugged me is that he wouldn't tell
me why I couldn't place a point outside the given dimensions.  that should
have been easy to do since geometry starts with a few basic (can't think
of the term now) assumptions.  There wasn't any that I knew of which
outlawed extending 2D to 3D.


/BAH

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#163772

Frommausg@mail.com
Date2016-05-18 19:23 +0000
Message-ID<slrnnjpg8n.19c.mausg@Smaus.org>
In reply to#163768
On 2016-05-18, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
> Dave Garland wrote:
>> On 5/17/2016 7:32 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>> Quadibloc wrote:
>>> when the teacher said I'd cheated.  The only way it can be done is to
>>> pick an aribitrary point outside the given dimensions.  I was told I
>>> couldn't do that.
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, some teachers find kids who think outside the box to be
>> too much of a PITA.
>
> And the ones smarter than them.  What bugged me is that he wouldn't tell
> me why I couldn't place a point outside the given dimensions.  that should
> have been easy to do since geometry starts with a few basic (can't think
> of the term now) assumptions.  There wasn't any that I knew of which
> outlawed extending 2D to 3D.
>
>
> /BAH
Axioms?..
The Greeks were not into 3d.

-- 
greymaus

iD|marrA Raa|fLa 
Ireland

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#163779

Fromsidd@situ.com (sidd)
Date2016-05-18 20:15 -0400
Message-ID<nhj0j2$5ff$1@Lazarus.situ.com>
In reply to#163772
In article <slrnnjpg8n.19c.mausg@Smaus.org>,  <mausg@mail.com> wrote:
>Axioms?..
>The Greeks were not into 3d.


i distinctly remember the last couple books of Euclid had 3D ...

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#163784

FromAndrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date2016-05-19 08:06 +0100
Message-ID<opidnWpTV68K-KDKnZ2dnUU78I2dnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#163779
On 19/05/2016 01:15, sidd wrote:
> In article <slrnnjpg8n.19c.mausg@Smaus.org>,  <mausg@mail.com> wrote:
>> Axioms?..
>> The Greeks were not into 3d.
>
>
> i distinctly remember the last couple books of Euclid had 3D ...
>

Pity all the 'official' tools were 2D.

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