From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-09-02T02:57:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Important Research Project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: >> On Sep 1, 7:13 am, "E.D.G." wrote: >>> "E.D.G." wrote in message >>> >>> news:13ddcvm1bsu3s94@corp.supernews.com... >>> >>>> Important Research Project (Related to computer programming) >>>> Posted by E.D.G. on August 30, 2007 edgrs...@ix.netcom.com >>> This effort was not successful. >> Shocking, isn't it ? > >>> And I am returning to trying to slowly >>> make progress with the computer program I have been developing. >> You might have more luck if you read http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum >> before asking for help again. > > If you feed it, it will grow. :) > > I took a look at E.D.G.'s web site. While a noble effort, it's hardly > something an amateur can expect to do better than professionals, and > that appears to be the situation here. > > E.D.G., please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you trying to use > astronomical calculations to predict earthquakes, a subject that > attracted a great deal of notoriety on Usenet when the late Iben > Browning predicted an earthquake on the New Madrid fault that failed to > happen? > > E.D.G.: Are you in fact a geophysicist with a degree, published > peer-reviewed works on earthquake prediction, etc., or just an amateur > with some ideas that you'd like some help implementing? > > P.S.: To tie this to Ruby, Ruby originated in Japan, and one of the major centers for earthquake prediction research is in Japan. E.D.G., if you really have some *new* ideas on the subject, which I doubt, perhaps you should learn Ruby rather than trying to work in Perl. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG2aga8fKMegVjSM8RAiaIAKCeP9zqptXmLeFR2tKT19IwQpQEXQCeIlKf e5RZSbvK3x2iFL5HFNhy1II= =u+AS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----