Recent posts included a quote - something to effect that we don't read if we
have anything better to amuse ourselves with. I was reading A New Kind of
Science this morning. I rest my case.
Peggy Miller
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group
Peggy,
After reading NKS, try Roger Penrose's, Road to Reality - A complete guide
to the laws of the universe. I own and have read both, but I consult Penrose
often.
Both are meaningful, Penrose a little more so. Neither are what I would
call amusing.
Ken
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I think the quote is mine (this week). It comes from that great 18th
century London dictionary compiler and writer, Samuel Johnson. It
amused me to think that people were complaining about the reluctance
to read as early as that.
P.
Recent posts included a quote - something to effect
If he lived in different times and had said, People in general do not
willingly watch TV if they can have anything else to amuse them., would
we say this was (1) an observation about people being reluctant to watch
TV, or (2) an observation about a collective rational response to the
low
Perhaps the same could be said about obsessive web surfing, Second Life,
Macbook, and so on and on. But perhaps 21st century realities are so
a-palin'
that we need to escape? Paul
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It's only a deal if it's where you
want to go. Find your travel deal here.
As in this is the best thing since...
I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a superior
product to VMWare Workstation:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community
--Doug
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On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
As in this is the best thing since...
I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a
superior product to VMWare Workstation:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community
Doug;
Thanks for that link...rather fascinating.
On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
As in this is the best thing since...
I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a
superior
product to VMWare Workstation:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community
--Doug
Hi Doug, thanks for the pointer.
This is a great opportunity to come support the Supercomputing Challenge
http://www.challenge.nm.org/. Share your work and ideas with the next
generation of New Mexico's software desgners and scientists. And, see what
interests them.
WHAT A Computer, Career, and College Faire for the
A friend mentioned Robert Rosen's 1996 essay On the Limitations of
Scientific Knowledge. It's in a book titled Limits of Scientific Knowledge
edited by John Casti of SFI, with nine other essays presented at a workshop
of that name held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1995. Rosen's
Hi, Owen.
VirtualBox works out of the box (wired or wireless) with NAT networking
enabled. You can also set up a bridge between the host the guest if you
need a fixed IP address to your guest. Haven't found any peripherals yet
that don't work.
Re: Marcus' observation that VMWare supports 64
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