[Pw_forum] bands_FS.x and spin polarized metals

[Stefano Baroni]

happily enough, different people have a different sense of humor!
i enjoyed very much this thread.
best wishes to you all
S.

On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Marcel Mohr wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Huiqun Zhou wrote:
>
>> Wow, what a "home computer"! Moor's law hadn't been invented
>> at that time, right? :-)
>> Are there any copyright issue to prevent me from using it in my
>> presentation about "concise history of personal computer"?
>
> Although I liked it very much, too. I showed it to a colleague and  
> he told
> me it is fake.
>
> It is a picture of a sumbarine control station see
> http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
>
> Sorry for being the spoiler
> Marcel
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing the precious picture with us!
>>
>> Huiqun Zhou
>> @Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paolo Giannozzi" <giannozz at nest.sns.it>
>> To: "PWSCF Forum" <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] bands_FS.x and spin polarized metals
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 12, 2007, at 21:58 , Nicola Marzari wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I am old enough to have seen card punchers in action, so the term
>>>>> "abend" is not unknown to me, but I guess younger people don't
>>>>> know that it is a shorthand for "abnormal end", on IBM  
>>>>> mainframes...
>>>>
>>>> What's a mainframe ? Is it like a really, really big ipod ?
>>>
>>> do you remember the picture of the "home computer
>>> in 2004" you sent me some time ago ?
>>> http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/public/pc2004.jpg
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> P.
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