Hi, Terry brought along his Samsung Chromebook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook Possibly this one. http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/chrome-os-devices/XE303C12-A01US (All Chromebooks have lowercase keyboard glyphs.) They come with a developer mode, allowing more play with the hardware than the default Chrome OS. https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoswikisite/home/what-s-new-in-dev-and-beta/developer-mode
An informal value transfer system based on the performance and honour of a huge network of money brokers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala The Ripple network is intended to be a peer-to-peer distributed social network service with a monetary honour system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks; this form is financial capital (fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and the Ripple currency) backed completely by social capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_%28monetary_system%29 Gofer: A lazy functional language designed by Mark Jones at the Programming Research Group, Oxford, UK in 1991. http://foldoc.org/gofer SPIN is a general tool for verifying the correctness of distributed software models in a rigorous and mostly automated fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_model_checker The Tragedy of the Commons isn't inevitable in practice. https://plus.google.com/115649437518703495227/posts/TWCyJzVF49k Andrew's project, "Receive top tweets from your timeline in a daily email digest. TweetQureet learns what you're most interested in." http://www.qureet.com/ Two views on folks' daily toil; "John Maynard Keynes predicted that... countries like Great Britain... would have achieved a 15-hour work week". http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/08/labour-markets-0 Blogger, bought by Google in 2003. Source of the blogspot.co.uk pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_%28service%29 Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-10-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
