Re: [FRIAM] Stating the obvious

2008-02-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Don Begley wrote: Not exactly complexity, but Joe Nocera's take http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/technology/02nocera.html?themc=th on MS/Yahoo is well said. But web-based applications are limited by what web browsers can do, and how fast they can do it. As those things improve (e.g. JITed

Re: [FRIAM] Stating the obvious

2008-02-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Birchard Hayes wrote: The offending line is using System; which creates several problems. The first is that this code will only run on Windows and only in Internet Explorer. That's the innovation. CLR bytecodes are interpreted on a JavaScript interpreter. For example, the demos they

Re: [FRIAM] Inside the gPhone: What to expect from Google's Android alliance

2008-02-03 Thread Frank Wimberly
http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/02/01/271/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:24 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Inside the gPhone: What

[FRIAM] SIGGRAPH and visualizing complexity

2008-02-03 Thread Stephen Guerin
SIGGRAPH has a call for complexity and visual analtyics this year: http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/submissions/juried/complexity/ Do you have a full demographic interface or a particularly smart way of dealing with massive amounts of data? For SIGGRAPH 2008, we seek work that addresses three

Re: [FRIAM] Stating the obvious

2008-02-03 Thread Birchard Hayes
On Feb 3, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Indeed `System' is native to Windows, and that fact could be detected such that CLI bytecodes could be directed to the native engine on a Windows or Mono-based system for fast execution. Further, Firefox will also soon have a high

Re: [FRIAM] huge amount of material on Second Life

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Holmes
In this month's Physics World: Doing physics in Second Life http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/32673 Robert P.S. Nick - apparently NOAA have got an SL presence... you could have your avatar wander through its favourite storm system. On Feb 1, 2008 8:58 PM, James Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FRIAM] JASSS on validation

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Holmes
The latest issue of JASSS has an interesting article on the practice (rather than theory) of ABM validation: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/5.html Robert FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.