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[Francisco Marin]

Any one knows a reliable Pre-paid Dial-up ISP (if there is such thing as
pre-paid internet service) and where I can get it??
Thanks in advance
Francisco
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg" <adam at trachtenberg.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP5 on K5


> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, John Lacey wrote:
>
> > Once you get past the "emotional" part, it's a somewhat interesting
> > piece.  I would be more interested in what the Convissors, Shifletts,
> > Sklars, Tractenbergs and Zauneres and other people of that technical
> > caliber on this list have to say...
>
> In Issac Asimov's "Foundation," one of the chapters contains a scene
> when a diplomat visits a planet. During his stay, the diplomat talks
> the entire time. After he leaves one of the political figures
> turns to his opponent and says something to the effect of: "See. I
> told you he'd support our position."
>
> As it turns out, the opponent had secretly taped everything the
> diplomat said over the entire trip, and submitted it to the chair of
> the university's linguistic department for lexical evaluation. The
> evaluation was to filter out all the superfluous diplomatese and
> conflicting statements, so the people on the planet could know exactly
> what he said.
>
> After a complete analysis, it turns out the diplomat said nothing at
> all. Everything canceled out, and they were left with an empty piece
> of paper.
>
> I feel that way about the this piece. I spent 10 minutes reading it,
> but afterwards, I don't feel he said anything meaningful.
>
> I think if he had taken the time to edit the piece and shortened it
> up, it would have been 25% the length and 25x more useful.
>
> To quote Pascal:
>
>    I am sorry for the length of my letter, but I had not the time to
>    write a short one.
>
> -adam
>
> -- 
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> author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook"
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