Seconded.
If a resource is available it ought to be availed of. Its upto the
copyright holder to protect his work (and royalty stream).
I'm trying to put together a Pirate Party in India for this.
Sarbajit
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Stephen Guerin
stephen.gue...@redfish.comwrote:
In keeping with warez, you could have Journalz, Paperz, Resultz, Rezearch
:-)
On Apr 19, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote:
Seconded.
If a resource is available it ought to be availed of. Its upto the copyright
holder to protect his work (and royalty stream).
I'm
Well, my point wasn't really related to the price. It's more about
cost:benefit, or perhaps low hanging fruit. The cops tell us to lock
our doors, not because locks keep out serious criminals, but because it
puts a tiny hurdle in front of the lazy opportunist criminals.
Seeing the bootlegs so
I think this is a serious and yet sticky issue.
Most of us expect to get paid for our work yet we want access to others'
work for free. Many us have (or have had in the past) institutions who
provide such access as a perq or means to do OUR work.
Among us there are many retirees and a
Ah... the Commons!
The Little Red Hen story is about a generous creature who tries to
help create or enrich the Commons and ultimately must retreat to a
selfish position because noone else will participate.
Who here is as excited about contributing to or grooming the quality and
value of
Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 04/18/2013 12:33 PM:
I'd need to fill out paperwork to distribute it.
Ugh. I do not envy you from that perspective.
It's a 3D model of enzymatic degradation of cellulose. [...] Thus the
hybrid approach.
Hm. That sounds useful for my rhetoric. Is it published or
It's okay Glen, those results are high in the search because they're useful
to people who search. The publisher is using the police powers of our
government to enforce its monopoly on the book, but has chosen to limit its
marketing efforts to the richest people in the world and told the rest to
Ah, the local bookstore. I was in KMart yesterday to pick up a
prescription, so I wandered the book/magazine aisle for a few minutes. A
pretty humbling few minutes it was.
-- rec --
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Ah... the Commons!
The Little Red Hen
On 4/19/13 9:56 AM, glen wrote:
Hm. That sounds useful for my rhetoric. Is it published or at least
described anywhere? I can't find it on the SC11 site.
I have to open source some other code, so I'll throw that one on the
list too. It was an exhibit, not part of the technical program.
Ok,
Roger -
It's okay Glen, those results are high in the search because they're
useful to people who search. The publisher is using the police powers
of our government to enforce its monopoly on the book, but has chosen
to limit its marketing efforts to the richest people in the world and
told
Marcus -
Hm. That sounds useful for my rhetoric. Is it published or at least
described anywhere? I can't find it on the SC11 site.
I have to open source some other code, so I'll throw that one on the
list too. It was an exhibit, not part of the technical program.
Back in my day, we had to
On 4/19/13 11:11 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
Back in my day, we had to LA-UR the posters that went along with the
presentations at SC... do you have at least *that* level of
description released? I know that is usually just enough info to get
the saliva flowing, but sometimes those posters have
Yesterday I asked this
questionhttp://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61542/how-do-forces-work?noredirect=1#comment123788_61542on
StackExchange: physics.
Is there a mechanistic-type explanation for how forces work? For example,
two electrons repel each other. How does that happen? Other than
Roger -
Ah, the local bookstore. I was in KMart yesterday to pick up a
prescription, so I wandered the book/magazine aisle for a few minutes.
A pretty humbling few minutes it was.
Ah, the corner drugstore run by your uncle's best friend! Now we have
KMart/WalMart/Walgreens/CVS/... and where
Marcus -
Usually it's programs related to stuff from papers (already LA-UR'ed),
but on several occasions I've sat down a few weeks ahead of time and
banged out new code (sometimes with vendor involvement). And on this
occasion it was well into the wee hours of the night before the show
in
On 4/19/13 11:59 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
I didn't know you were working on the Biofuels project... very
interesting work...
I'm barely involved, but it is cool. An amazing thing to me about this
the empirical side. For example, the center of integrated
nanotechnologies can actually show
Roger -
What you're seeing is a new piece of common law being established.
If a trademark holder does not defend a trademark by action in the
marketplace, it loses it.
If a patent holder does not market a patented drug which could save
lives, it loses the patent.
If a publisher fails to make
Marcus -
I didn't know you were working on the Biofuels project... very
interesting work...
I'm barely involved, but it is cool. An amazing thing to me about
this the empirical side. For example, the center of integrated
nanotechnologies can actually show individuals enzymes at work. Want
Steve Smith wrote at 04/19/2013 11:55 AM:
And circling back to circular reasoning, how do we classify the Great
Yogi's many circular but dead-nuts-on aphorisms like the one above?
# It ain't over till it's over. http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/12128
# You wouldn't have won if we had beaten
Glen -
1) "It ain't over till it's over." http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/12128
2) "You wouldn't have won if we had beaten you."
http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/12129
3) "If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it."
http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/12132
4)
Steve --
I think we do it not because every patented invention is an exemplar of the
system, but because some patents are so brilliant that they make up for all
the grief that the rest of them put us through. Sort of like public
education?
It's funny that you bring up patents, because I've been
Russ asks:
Is there a mechanistic-type explanation for how forces work? For example,
two electrons repel each other. How does that happen? Other than saying
that there are force fields that exert forces, how does the electromagnetic
force accomplish its effects. What is the
Now here's a deal! SitePoint, a well respected tech publisher, will sell
you ALL their ebooks/videos for $97. Wow! This is the sort of evolution I
was discussing under the library idea.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:14 PM, SitePoint bo...@sitepoint.com wrote:
**
Hi there,
This is your last
Roger -
I fear you have something here... but I hate to give over to it. It is
sending restless kids to detention where they learn from the rowdy kids
there how to be rowdy, then send the rowdies to juvie where the nasties
teach them... only to have 20% of our population in prison breeding
I dunno, Owen, sounds like a business that may be in bankruptcy in a few
weeks.
-- rec --
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Now here's a deal! SitePoint, a well respected tech publisher, will sell
you ALL their ebooks/videos for $97. Wow! This is
Owen -
Now here's a deal! SitePoint, a well respected tech publisher, will
sell you ALL their ebooks/videos for $97. Wow! This is the sort of
evolution I was discussing under the library idea.
And how does that work out for Ed, Pamela, Fred, Tory, Bruce, Ruth, et
alii? Do they get
Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 04/19/2013 09:32 AM:
I'm contrasting compile-time assertions against run-time assertions, and
claiming the former is better when it can be achieved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspondence
That's awesome! Thanks for that link. It proves
Along the lines that Lee is mentioning with fields being the first
class objects, Bruce Sherwood may be able to illuminate some of the
current thinking in Quantum Field Theory and how interpretations are
made with respect to forces.
Bruce?
-Stephen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:36 PM,
One of the replies to my question on StackExchange was that what really
mattered was that something is accelerated. Since acceleration is really(?)
a matter of a change in energy of the thing accelerated, perhaps the most
fundamental interaction is the transfer of energy from one entity (whatever
Talking about digital ethics, this just popped up on John Resig's (JS
Ninja) twitter stream:
https://www.gittip.com/about/
The idea is to give a weekly tip to the folks you care about and who's
work helps you too.
-- Owen
How forces work:
Theres the dark forces and light forces with all persistant and guide your
destiny.
They push against each other yet somehow balance out.
With enough of the dark forces you can choke people you deem incompitent,
or shoot lightning from your hands.
I hope that helps answers the
Aya, it turns out Bruce recently unsubscribed from FRIAM. I hope you guys
on the list are happy with your signal to noise ratio ;-)Just
kidding...keep it up.
Anyway, Bruce, as I had hoped, had a nice response, albeit offlist. If you
want to respond to this thread, please cc: Bruce. I copy his
(bad joke aside): Russ do you have a specific type of force group of forces
in mind?
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
One of the replies to my question on StackExchange was that what really
mattered was that something is accelerated. Since acceleration
Russ,
Before people knew about magnetism, it must have seemed miraculous that two
stones would spontaneously start to move toward (or away from) each other. Now
we can say, Oh, it's just magnetism. But if we think about long enough, we
may still wonder how two objects can move toward or away
Thanks for all the answers. To answer John's question first, magnetism
doesn't seem miraculous (it's too familiar), but I can't say I understand
how it works. It was just that question about magnetism that Feynman was
asked as the start of the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM in
I like the question. I wonder what the answer will be? N
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Russ,
I think Bruce was using the traditional photon explanation (particles, or
particle/waves as primitives) as a setup to introduce the more novel
approach of treating fields as primitives.
This is more appealing to me and tends to be how we write agent-based
models that scale. In fact, one of
+2 !
How forces work:
Theres the dark forces and light forces with all persistant and guide
your destiny.
They push against each other yet somehow balance out.
With enough of the dark forces you can choke people you deem
incompitent, or shoot lightning from your hands.
I hope that helps
leptons-
I think it is all intermediate vector bosons... or maybe I just like
the way that phrase sounds?
-boson
Thanks for all the answers. To answer John's question first, magnetism
doesn't seem miraculous (it's too familiar), but I can't say I
understand how it works. It was just that
If everything is fields, how do fields transfer energy from one to another?
(I still have to read Hobson papers.)
*-- Russ Abbott*
*_*
*** Professor, Computer Science*
* California State University, Los Angeles*
* My paper on how the Fed can fix
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