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(...) Eventually you will get a plasma, composed of neucleii and some electrons. At that point it's not really relevant to talk about compounds, what you have is basically soup. From memory you can't dissociate most simple molecules before they (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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So is anyone else participating in the SETI@Home program? I have 5 computers running it right now. Will probably have it running on another 8 or 10 soon. (URL) Lego Shop at Home: 800-835-4386 (USA) / 800-267-5346 (Canada) www.lugnet.com/news/ - A (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey all, Just a quick question, or series of questions, but it'll keep me up all night if I don't find the answer. :-, If you take a sealed container with nothing but pure water, and you heated it enough -- assuming the container withstands the heat (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Awww, it's not _that_ much longer in perl: perl -alne 'print $F[3]' although it certainly doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely. (...) Can't columns be grabbed easily in Scheme/Lisp? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's in reference to the awk idiom: awk '{ print $4 }' which is much longer to do in perl. I personally use this as a shell command inside Emacs all the time. I'm not good at perl one-liners. -Tim (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "Boy, am I glad my IQ tests came back negative." Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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John Cromer wrote in message ... (...) Scarey experience the other day: in a shop, and the difficult customer says to the clerk "I've got a 180 IQ, explain it to me". Like, so what? I've got a size 13 foot. The only relevance is that it's about to (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Two guys are sitting at a bar and one turns to the other and says, "my IQ is 180. What's yours?" The other guy says, "Mine's 185! Say, did you know Fuchsian differentials have zero-integral solutions only if their monodromy representation is (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 11 May 1999 20:50:40 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) That would be the apostrophe as "=bt4" person? Haven't seen a recent message to test that. But had always appeared as so with it off, so we shall see. The Uber (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 11 May 1999 18:14:47 GMT, Thomas Main uttered the following profundities... (...) Unfortunately they don't carry the clari.* newsgroups. :( But thanks for the pointer, anyway. I shall check them regularly, should that situation change. (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Do you get a problem with Thomas Möller's messages when this HTML is off? (...) It must have come from Space. (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Richard, I'm not sure if i understand your question completely, but www.deja.com (formerly Dejanews) features newsgroups via e-mail. You might check that out. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 19:59:18 GMT, Mike Stanley uttered the following profundities... (...) I shall brave Linux soon. Had intended to do so on my current machine, but BIOS doesn't support my 8.4GB HD as the master. And, try figuring out what (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 20:13:23 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) Thanks. Expected to find it somewhere as its own, rather than as part of something else! (...) Discovered quite by accident, and extremely useful. (You know the (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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A question: I have set myself up to receive the lsahs updates via e-mail, as I will be in the US for 2 weeks, and would like to take advantage of the offers, should any be of interest. But that isn't the question! The real question is related, (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Lego miniatures wargames
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(...) Just a couple: Brikwars (URL) Hammer (URL) last one has links to some others as well. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm, I don't think I'm old enough for that yet. :-D I've just picked up Perl relatively recently. I'd hesitate to do a 100 Mb STDIO pipe on any MS platform. In DOS and Win16/95/98 (which are single-tasking OS's no matter what MS tells you), (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I have, at various times, seen rules for using Legos and Lego minifigs to stage battles a la Warhammer 40k or other miniatures wargames. Can anyone point me to them on the web? I'm especially interested in sci-fi and fantasy versions, and not so (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Aha, here it is: perl -ane (...) FS is awk is the field separator, not the record separator. The record separator in awk is RS. Hmm, doesn't look like Perl has an input field separator -- only an output field separator $, and input/output (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm... I *think* a2p handles this by giving the perl script the "while(<>)" loop. I don't think perl will do that by itself. (...) Check perlvar, in the section on $/ (input record separator) -- in Perl, it can only be a regular string, but (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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