[FRIAM] Scary event at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

2011-03-12 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
Not sure how long this will be posted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ Quote of the day: ...an explosion like that is something you would want to avoid... Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe

Re: [FRIAM] Scary event at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

2011-03-12 Thread Douglas Roberts
You have to love that classic British art of understatement. --Doug On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Not sure how long this will be posted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ Quote of the day: ...an explosion like that is something you would want

Re: [FRIAM] Scary event at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

2011-03-12 Thread Carl Tollander
BBC stories on this seem to have retained a modicum of rationality. Other google sources are mostly worthless. The live coverage (press conferences, etc) is here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japanhelpchannel though I'm afraid my japanese is not good enough to translate. Much of it

Re: [FRIAM] Streaming of Ed Angel's OpenGL class at Santa Fe Complex

2011-03-12 Thread Edward Angel
Any book on Java, OpenGL and Jogl has to be over five years out of date. Jogl was popular for a while because CS students were learning Java as their primary programming language. There was a lot of activity for a while with Sun and Java3D but when that died, it ignited some interest in Jogl.