Re: [FRIAM] atmospherics

2012-06-14 Thread Greg Sonnenfeld
Ah i was mentioning the exosphere because it was very relevant to the question about layering/mixing of gases. Hydrogen is on the most outer layer as would be expected. I do imagine alot of this comes from space ions as well. Greg Sonnenfeld “Two h's walk into a

Re: [FRIAM] atmospherics

2012-06-14 Thread Bruce Sherwood
Another example of a top-of-the-atmosphere special layer is of course the ozone (O3) layer, continually produced by ultraviolet light but unstable. These surface phenomena don't have anything to do with how nitrogen, oxygen, and uranium hexafluoride are distributed throughout the atmosphere.

[FRIAM] MacBook Pro Recommendations

2012-06-14 Thread Gary Schiltz
I'm getting ready to buy a new MacBook Pro, as my 2007 pre-unibody 15 machine is getting a little long in the tooth (I will fix it up a bit to serve as a backup). I'm looking for opinions on which to get. It will be used my main machine for software development, including Java, iOS, Lisp,

Re: [FRIAM] MacBook Pro Recommendations

2012-06-14 Thread Joseph Spinden
I have a 17 MacBook Pro with the non-glare screen. I like the non-glare screen a lot. soon after I got it, I came across a friend from LANL that had a similar MacBook Pro without the non-glare screen. He said that was the biggest mistake he had made. I think the 17 is great if you are

[FRIAM] Tyne ‹ ~Flow

2012-06-14 Thread Tom Johnson
Interesting simulation/data viz project. http://www.flowmill.org/tyne Concept Tyne is a visualisation of data from 5 sensor values recorded by ~Flow, a tidemill floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal waterwheel. ~Flow was initiated by Owl

Re: [FRIAM] Tyne ‹ ~Flow

2012-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
I presume ~Flow is pronounced tilde-Flow, a sort of dyslexic pun, I guess. My C++ heritage can't stop reading this as Flow destructor, however :). Maybe that might even be appropriate, depending on how efficient it is at extracting energy. Cheers On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 01:30:06PM -0600, Tom