* [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode
2004-05-12 18:24 ` David Starner
@ 2004-05-13 10:09 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-13 10:46 ` Ludovic Brenta
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From: Marius Amado Alves @ 2004-05-13 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: comp.lang.ada
[when the extraterrestrials come...]
Unicode will be renamed Earthcode, and become a part of Galacticode, a
42-bit code space managed from Vulcan, which will eventually be renamed to
Lacteacode and become a part of Clustercode. By then language is not
evolving anymore so there is a code for each word. Clustercode will finally
become a part of Unicode--this time named right. By then everything has been
said so there is a code for each sentence. At some point in this timeline
the ISO (Intergalactical Standards Organization) went out of business
because 1,000,000,000,000-page printed volumes became unpractical to ship.
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* Re: [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode
2004-05-13 10:09 ` [OT:fun] " Marius Amado Alves
@ 2004-05-13 10:46 ` Ludovic Brenta
[not found] ` <00b101c4390b$c2a8ea90$310d5451@BACUS>
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From: Ludovic Brenta @ 2004-05-13 10:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Yes, I long for the Babel fish.
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* Re: [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode
@ 2004-05-13 17:03 Marius Amado Alves
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From: Marius Amado Alves @ 2004-05-13 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: comp.lang.ada
> Yes, I long for the Babel fish.
Which is of course an embedded application written in Ada 100000 integrating
the Clustercode database as a Mneson graph of 300Z links stored in a quantum
chip.
>
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* Re: [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode
[not found] ` <87fza4vtxj.fsf@insalien.org>
@ 2004-05-14 11:58 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-16 13:47 ` Robert I. Eachus
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From: Marius Amado Alves @ 2004-05-14 11:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: comp.lang.ada
> As Isaac Asimov said, any sufficiently advanced technology is
> indistiguishable from magic.
I think it was Artur C. Clarke, but my favorite is:
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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* Re: [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode
2004-05-14 11:58 ` Marius Amado Alves
@ 2004-05-16 13:47 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-17 0:49 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
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From: Robert I. Eachus @ 2004-05-16 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Um, a few years ago, QM results started showing up that made me think
that magic was pretty old hat. Let's see: quantum teleportation,
Bose-Einstein condensates, viewing without observing, the Nimtz work on
superluminal communication, global causality violation, evaporating
black holes, and of course, the EPR Paradox.
The funniest I thought was a paper from the Nimtz group showing that
their work could NOT, in most circumstances, be used to build a time
machine. (No, that dosen't imply that you can use it to make a time
machine other circumstances. It merely says that if you add a time
machine to a superluminal communication device, both will still work. If
you don't have a time machine to start with, you can't add Nimtz style
superluminal commication and get one.)
--
Robert I. Eachus
"The terrorist enemy holds no territory, defends no population, is
unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of morality. Such
an enemy cannot be deterred, contained, appeased or negotiated with. It
can only be destroyed--and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the business
at hand." -- Dick Cheney
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* Re: [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode
2004-05-16 13:47 ` Robert I. Eachus
@ 2004-05-17 0:49 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
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From: Alexander Kopilovitch @ 2004-05-17 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Robert I. Eachus" wrote:
> Um, a few years ago, QM results started showing up that made me think
> that magic was pretty old hat. Let's see: quantum teleportation,
> Bose-Einstein condensates, viewing without observing, the Nimtz work on
> superluminal communication, global causality violation, evaporating
> black holes, and of course, the EPR Paradox.
>
> The funniest I thought was a paper from the Nimtz group showing that
> their work could NOT, in most circumstances, be used to build a time
> machine. (No, that dosen't imply that you can use it to make a time
> machine other circumstances. It merely says that if you add a time
> machine to a superluminal communication device, both will still work. If
> you don't have a time machine to start with, you can't add Nimtz style
> superluminal commication and get one.)
But they still did not discover quantum viruses. I think that this is
a neglect from their side. Or they already did and I'm just not aware of that?
Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia
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