4.0713 More Miscellaneous Responses (6/125)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 13 Nov 90 17:07:44 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0713. Tuesday, 13 Nov 1990.
(1) Date: Fri, 09 Nov 90 17:14:26 GMT (9 lines)
From: G.R.Hart@durham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 4.0684 Qs: WP Greek
(2) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 20:50:30 -0800 (16 lines)
From: edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Jane Edwards)
Subject: sci.ling query
(3) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 15:09:27 EST (21 lines)
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: Quotation Citation
(4) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 08:42:11 -0500 (EST) (27 lines)
From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: logic and rational choice software
(5) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 16:36 EST (30 lines)
From: Jon LaCure<LACUREJ@IUBACS>
Subject: CD-ROM drive from DAK Industries
(6) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 18:51 EDT (22 lines)
From: Ivy Anderson <ANDERSON@brandeis.bitnet>
Subject: RE: A new word
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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 90 17:14:26 GMT
From: G.R.Hart@durham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 4.0684 Qs: WP Greek;
>From Jill Hart at Dept. of Classics, 38 North Bailey, Durham, UK.
Greek for Word Perfect: I recently heard that Hugo Minney of Durham,
whose address I don't have to hand, but he should be reachable c/o
Trevelyan College,Durham, UK, was working on this problem. I do not
know how far he got with it, but might be worth enquiring.
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 20:50:30 -0800
From: edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Jane Edwards)
Subject: sci.ling query
In 4.0619, Tom Shannon inquired:
> How does one get on the UNIX linguistics discussion group 'sci.ling'?
> Thanks.
> tom shannon, uc berkeley
The only UNIX linguistics discussion group I know of is 'sci.lang',
which is accessed by typing "rn" and subscribing to the groups of
interest. If there is some other discussion group, called 'sci.ling',
I too would like to know.
-Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu)
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 15:09:27 EST
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Forwarded by: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Quotation Citation
"Education is the process, not the destination, the process of moving
from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty."
This is credited to T.H. Bell, U.S. Commissioner of Education --
unfortunately, with no further citation, in:
L. M. Boyd
_Boyd's Book of Odd Facts_
New York: Signet, 1979
p. 147
Sorry not to have more details.
Charles Ess
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 08:42:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: logic and rational choice software
>Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 18:30:53 EST
>From: "R.J. Shroyer" <66_443@uwovax.uwo.ca>
>Subject: logic programs
>I have an urgent need to know more about programs designed for
>philosophy courses, especially courses in logic and rational
>decision-making, in order to help our Philosophy Department design a
>microcomputer lab for students and faculty researchers. Any and every
>logic program would be of interest, but I'm particularly keen to learn
>of existing, thriving philosophy labs to be used as models for our own.
>Because the deadline for applying to an internal university fund is
>almost upon us, I'm a bit panicked.
Anyone wanting such a listing should send me a papermail address and
I'll send you the issue of the Computers & Philosophy newsletter from
mid-1989 carrying the cumulative philosophy software list. Probably C&P
N will have its last issue late this year and there will be another more
up to date listing. After that the listings will appear in the new
journal Computing & Philosophy (Ablex, contact: Barbara Bernstein).
Leslie Burkholder
CoEditor, Computing & Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 16:36 EST
From: Jon LaCure<LACUREJ@IUBACS>
Subject: CD-ROM drive from DAK Industries
I have gotten several inquires from Europe about the DAK CD-ROM drive
($499 for internal model, $699 for external) with 6 free disks. I only
gave the DAK 800 number which is no good, apparently, from that side of
the Atlantic. The drive itself is supposed to be a SONY. The ad is a
full five pages of hype and hoopla but seemingly devoid of all technical
information.
The address for DAK is:
DAK Industries, Inc.
8200 Remmet Ave.
P.O. Box 7120
Canoga Park, CA 91304-9955
All the telephone numbers that they list are 800 numbers except for the
FAX which is 1-818-888-2837.
As a postscript, I did notice that if you already have a drive they will
sell you the disks alone for a mere $495. This means, of course, you'd
be losing out on a SONY internal CD-ROM drive for $4.00. However, the
add is somewhat ambiguous as to whether they will sell you the internal
model without a computer to go with it. I wonder if DAK should just
stick to Juke Box Favorites of the 40's and Ultrasonic Flea Collars?
Jon LaCure | East Asian Languages and Cultures | Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405 | (812) 332-3101 | lacurej@iujade
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 18:51 EDT
From: Ivy Anderson <ANDERSON@brandeis.bitnet>
Subject: RE: A new word
What about about "informationism"? This seems to me, like consumerism,
to suggest the indiscriminate preoccupation with form rather than
substance that I take to be part of Willard's meaning. "Infomania" has
a more specific pathological reference, but it also conveys too much
sympathetic enthusiasm for my taste. As for the metaphor of gluttony
that Willard used in his original posting, compare this quote from
Thornton Wilder: "The people of this world moved about in an armor of
egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments." Try
substituting "egomania" for "egotism" in that sentence and it becomes
considerably less sinister.
In my imperfectly informed opinion, of course.
- Ivy Anderson
Brandeis University
(anderson@brandeis)