Which book will you prefer for evening.
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I am suffering right now, I am waiting for a book on the Inquisition to come in the mail, and a book on heavy metal in the 90s ( via an Amazon order ), and I have nothing to read. When I don't read IT, I read books about music, books about brain science and psychology, or books about history. I just finished the book about how the Chinese discovered America, amongst other things, but turned their back on it. Fascinating stuff.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
I do read IT..But most of the time when I casually read IT books ,I would be reaching some other world within less than 5 mins. And,I may be realising that after one hour..I don't know why? ..Is this a curable desease?:) But if a deadline is there,the same book could be completed within a matter of hours.
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A spiritual guidance book called "
Kurai Onrum Illai" by Sri U. Ve. Mukkur Lakshmi Narasimhachariyar.Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
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I do read IT..But most of the time when I casually read IT books ,I would be reaching some other world within less than 5 mins. And,I may be realising that after one hour..I don't know why? ..Is this a curable desease?:) But if a deadline is there,the same book could be completed within a matter of hours.
Yeah, I do read some IT books without having a specific task related to it, but I do like to broaden my horizons and learn about other things.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Yeah, I do read some IT books without having a specific task related to it, but I do like to broaden my horizons and learn about other things.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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On boats. Big boats. Seriously, the Chinese sent out a huge fleet of ships and basically mapped the world. People like Columbus and James Cook sailed to the countries they 'discovered', using maps drawn by the Chinese.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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After work....If you suggest a book that may help us to forget all those work related stuffs.:) which one it would be... I was so taken by Orhan Pamuk's Snow ,which I am reading now. :)
I've been reading "The Gnostic Scriptures" by Bentley Layton. Interesting stuff. Marc
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After work....If you suggest a book that may help us to forget all those work related stuffs.:) which one it would be... I was so taken by Orhan Pamuk's Snow ,which I am reading now. :)
the tv guide...
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On boats. Big boats. Seriously, the Chinese sent out a huge fleet of ships and basically mapped the world. People like Columbus and James Cook sailed to the countries they 'discovered', using maps drawn by the Chinese.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Really? A new knowledge for me. Crossing sea was forbidden in India during that time.:mad: Otherwise..
Interesting... the chinese were certainly coming to you.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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After work....If you suggest a book that may help us to forget all those work related stuffs.:) which one it would be... I was so taken by Orhan Pamuk's Snow ,which I am reading now. :)
I'm reading East of Eden (again, its such a good read)
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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A spiritual guidance book called "
Kurai Onrum Illai" by Sri U. Ve. Mukkur Lakshmi Narasimhachariyar.Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
Sri U. Ve. Mukkur Lakshmi Narasimhachariyar
He must have widescreen chequebooks.
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I am suffering right now, I am waiting for a book on the Inquisition to come in the mail, and a book on heavy metal in the 90s ( via an Amazon order ), and I have nothing to read. When I don't read IT, I read books about music, books about brain science and psychology, or books about history. I just finished the book about how the Chinese discovered America, amongst other things, but turned their back on it. Fascinating stuff.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Christian Graus wrote:
bout how the Chinese discovered America
WTF! Really, this isn't some goofy pseudo history tome? I'd be curious to hear more about this.
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Christian Graus wrote:
bout how the Chinese discovered America
WTF! Really, this isn't some goofy pseudo history tome? I'd be curious to hear more about this.
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it's a heavily disputed claim.
-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.
I'd google it but I assume most of what I'll get is along the same lines as looking for "Ancient Astronauts".
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I'd google it but I assume most of what I'll get is along the same lines as looking for "Ancient Astronauts".
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I haven't tried that, but there was a discussion about it a while ago on a different board I frequent. From what I recall it's about as well supported factually as the Norse claim was before ruins were found in Canada.
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Christian Graus wrote:
bout how the Chinese discovered America
WTF! Really, this isn't some goofy pseudo history tome? I'd be curious to hear more about this.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
WTF! Really, this isn't some goofy pseudo history tome? I'd be curious to hear more about this.
It is a widely disputed claim as mentioned. There is sufficient evidence to suggest "something" odd happened, but the methods used to "fill in" the gaps in knowledge have brought the author of thise particular book almost no support from historians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1421:_The_Year_China_Discovered_the_World[^] For instance the amount of chinese ancestry in native american culture is known to be exceedingly high. Of course those in favor of parallel adaption have said that such changes do not need a new flow of chinese blood into eastern and central native cultures. There is also still wide dispute on the actual number of landbridge migrations to the new world from asia and wence those migrations came from (at least one may have come from the southern lands of modern China and migrated all the way to say... New Mexico to influence the Navajo). The modern DNA can be compared and say "Mitochondrial DNA states that the Navajo evolved from one of the largest Eve trees, the same Eve that is responsible for the Chinese culture." But what that means, is very difficult to perceive. The genetic Eve trees all support the land-bridge migration of a southern asianic influence, adaptive traits of eyes skin, hair, etc. are difficult to fully understand a timeline, therefore difficult to know if they require modern influence or distant. The resemblance to certain features in Mongolian lines are impossible to understand "when" the influece occured. The book above, itself, ignores some world-of-mouth history from the Inuit that is ignored also by some historians as well, that the Inuit have been helping people cross both directions for as long as they have been there. From idiots attempting to boat the arctic shores from Asia to people trying to cross the ice on foot, they rescue them and pass them from villiage to villiage into the North American continent or back to Asia. This could explain influences from quite a few post-AD cultures that are open mysteries of North America (and currently ignored by historians, and only attempted to be explained by the Inuit stories, and "help from flying saucers" -- personally I like the Inuit stories,
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I am suffering right now, I am waiting for a book on the Inquisition to come in the mail, and a book on heavy metal in the 90s ( via an Amazon order ), and I have nothing to read. When I don't read IT, I read books about music, books about brain science and psychology, or books about history. I just finished the book about how the Chinese discovered America, amongst other things, but turned their back on it. Fascinating stuff.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Christian Graus wrote:
I am waiting for a book on the Inquisition to come in the mail
So... you're expecting the Spanish Inquisition? :~
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After work....If you suggest a book that may help us to forget all those work related stuffs.:) which one it would be... I was so taken by Orhan Pamuk's Snow ,which I am reading now. :)
Cryptonomicron by Neal Stephenson is a great book i read a couple of years ago, as is SnowCrash by the same author. I'm currently re-reading the first half of Anna Karenin (when i get to page 400 it'll just be reading, haven't ever managed to finish it) almost anything By Iain Banks Crow Road and excession are both good, depending if you like fiction or sci-fi.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
Sri U. Ve. Mukkur Lakshmi Narasimhachariyar
He must have widescreen chequebooks.
since chip and pin his writers cramp has mysteriously vanished.