Re: [FRIAM] Disenfranchised? Americans Elect?

2012-03-18 Thread Owen Densmore
Larry Lessig apparently has two interesting views on AE 1 - Anonymous contributions: He's not bothered by them, mainly because not even the AE candidates will know who they are, thus not having power over the candidate. 2 - Occupy AE: If enough of us jump on AE, it could swing it in a favorable

Re: [FRIAM] Handling Your QR Code Marketing Successfully

2012-03-18 Thread Arlo Barnes
I have seen artistic modifications to QR codes - things like the Go board, but also different colourations across a code, and even logos obscuring parts of the center (not sure how that works, I guess there is a lot of redundancy?) I think the most interesting was a QR cookie (I shall endeavor to

Re: [FRIAM] Handling Your QR Code Marketing Successfully

2012-03-18 Thread Russ Abbott
Neat idea. Here are some imageshttp://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/09/05/worlds-first-fully-functional-qr-code-portraits/that actually scan. I found them with a simple search for QR Code on Google images. The site linked to was on page 8. *-- Russ* On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Arlo Barnes

Re: [FRIAM] Handling Your QR Code Marketing Successfully

2012-03-18 Thread Tom Carter
All -- There is a QR code on the front page of this . . . QR codes are reasonably redundant, so you can just plop whatever you want in the middle (as long as you don't obliterate too much), and it will generally still work . . .

Re: [FRIAM] Handling Your QR Code Marketing Successfully

2012-03-18 Thread Owen Densmore
Are you turning this into a book? Looks great! Please let us know if/when you update it. (BTW, CSSS this year?) -- Owen On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Tom Carter t...@astarte.csustan.edu wrote: All -- There is a QR code on the front page of this . . . QR codes are reasonably

[FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game

2012-03-18 Thread Owen Densmore
Latest shootout results. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=all V8 JS still hanging in there well ahead of all the agile gang (ruby/python/etc). C# seems to be loosing ground to hefty Java, but that could easily be optimization flags. The python numbers may be