Re: [FRIAM] Airline fee

2008-11-21 Thread Robert Cordingley
A better solution would be a low res image with a bigger watermark and a purchase link to the hi res version. Here's the raw image from the source code... http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/properties/luckovich/art_images/lk1080522d_lr.jpg It's copyrighted too. R Michael Nygard wrote: Snake o

Re: [FRIAM] Airline fee

2008-11-21 Thread Michael Nygard
Snake oil. You sell it to customers who don't know that it doesn't work. On Nov 21, 2008, at 1:58 PM, "glen e. p. ropella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thus spake Jochen Fromm circa 11/21/2008 11:54 AM: http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=23707 That CopyNo mouseover is pretty

Re: [FRIAM] Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage « Bloody Fingers

2008-11-21 Thread Owen Densmore
Sigh, no Mac version. I suspect that'll be fixed soon, and it does look interesting. Might be fun to have someone try it, and see how well it compares with sage. -- Owen On Nov 21, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: An interesting link from that page to a Sage competitor: http:

Re: [FRIAM] Airline fee

2008-11-21 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Jochen Fromm circa 11/21/2008 11:54 AM: > http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=23707 That CopyNo mouseover is pretty annoying... I wonder about things like this. Do they think such a thing actually prevents re-distribution of the image? Or are they just raising the bar a

Re: [FRIAM] Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage « Bloody Fingers

2008-11-21 Thread Robert Holmes
An interesting link from that page to a Sage competitor: http://www.pythonxy.com/foreword.php Robert On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Owen Densmore wrote: > >> While wandering the halls of Sage, I came across this: >> >> http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2

Re: [FRIAM] Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage « Bloody Fingers

2008-11-21 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: While wandering the halls of Sage, I came across this: http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/ SciPy has a lot of stuff, but for statistics it's not in same league of R. R itself a versatile programming language and has a vast set of

[FRIAM] Airline fee

2008-11-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=23707 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] Fwd: sfx Events: Shelley Hirsch on Sunday, The Full Frito Friday

2008-11-21 Thread Don Begley
Santa Fe is fortunate to have Shelley Hirsch at the complex: see the links in the article for more information. Likewise, the Friday night calendar is filling up with innovative work you might want to enjoy. And, please note Jack Leibowitz's event on December 10. We'll have more information

Re: [FRIAM] funny shapes..

2008-11-21 Thread Phil Henshaw
Yes, sure, try finding a buyer for the whole pack of ideas built around modeling the future is a projection from of the past. Notice that the exact point I sold things was when I was disturbed by the unusually high rate of price increase being unsustainable. I didn't wait for a high rate of

[FRIAM] Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage « Bloody Fingers

2008-11-21 Thread Owen Densmore
I've been exploring Sage, the nifty python-based unification of the core of open source mathematics. From their docs: The overall goal of Sage is to create a viable, free, open-source alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Magma, and MATLAB." Pretty big task! While wandering the halls of Sage,