From Twitter by David Brin, retweeted by Lessig:
http://www.7billionworld.com/
.. Don't forget the page scrolls both directions!
Nice way to get an idea just how big a billion is!
-- Owen
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
How do I find which one is me!
Robert C
(snicker)
On 4/14/13 9:04 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
From Twitter by David Brin, retweeted by Lessig:
http://www.7billionworld.com/
.. Don't forget the page scrolls both directions!
Nice way to get an idea just how big a billion is!
-- Owen
Nick,
I guess I would call this a functional state. Or perhaps a disposition.
You could also (and equally well--or equally badly) use Lewin's phrase the
field at the
present time. Or rather, since we do want to talk about existents that
persist in time but
may have different states at
Russ,
Ok. So, the question is, what is the value added of saying green state
rather than just saying that the light is green. Something comes through
the gate with the camel, so to speak. What is it? N
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott
Sent:
I've got a friend who had a a large volume of video (15 hrs apparently)
that he'd like to break into 1 hr segments and make available on the web.
He was concerned that youtube wouldn't host this sort of thing, at least
not for free.
Do any of us have experience with this sort of thing? Would
Sarbajit, Thanks for your comments/questions about my Fed suggestion. I'm
not an engineer and wasn't thinking about a PID control mechanism. (In
fact, I had to look it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller!) I
was leaving the decision about how to move the levers/dials to
FED personnel
butting in here...
Nick, Saying that the light is green is reporting an observation.
Saying the light is in a green state is making a statement about the
light as a mechanism. As I said, I think of the notion of state as
identifying a collection of functionalities. So attributing a green
See, I always knew the world population wasn't *THAT* big, it fits into
a single web-page after all!
And to Ron and Merle, you were right, you CAN get 7Billion people on the
same page! And they all LOOK happy.
I tried zooming out with my cmd-- key and got down about 6 levels of
zoom before
Oh wait, I'm the one with the red tie on holding hands with the guy with
a blue tie on. What number am I?
Robert C
On 4/14/13 9:17 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
How do I find which one is me!
Robert C
(snicker)
On 4/14/13 9:04 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
From Twitter by David Brin, retweeted
