[FRIAM] Grey Thumb meeting: Artificial Real Life

2007-09-07 Thread Stephen Guerin
Grey Thumb looks to be having a cool talk on Monday convenenient to Friamistas in the Boston area: Grey Thumb Meeting Reminder Featuring a talk by Jason Kelly When: 7:00pm September 10, 2007 Where: The Asgard Irish Pub & Restaurant (350 Mass. Ave, Central Square, Cambridge) Who: All are wel

Re: [FRIAM] politics and cliques

2007-09-07 Thread Günther Greindl
Dear Glen, > If we all (even newly born babies) were objective and able to think > rationally about their world, can you imagine the onslaught of > homogeneity we would see? It seems like we'd immediately snap into a > gravity well of conservatism governed by "rationality". Perhaps the > indoctr

Re: [FRIAM] network 'hubs' v. 'hives'

2007-09-07 Thread wecraven
Phil, That makes sense, although I don't know if it necessarily needs to be a negative image. There's a strong desire to create images which support one's own self-image or sense of place, so if one of the "aliens" appears to be an enemy of your enemy you would tend to assign that alien a positive

Re: [FRIAM] Does this include you, Owen?

2007-09-07 Thread David Mirly
For Apple stock in particular, I would zoom out a little further than a few days and you will see that it is fairly normal for this stock to have really wide swings for a variety of reasons and sometimes for no reason at all (at least that I can tell). For instance, it was way down into the

Re: [FRIAM] Does this include you, Owen?

2007-09-07 Thread Raymond Parks
Folks, The really interesting part of this situation is Apple's stock performance since Tuesday. I think that drove the refund as much as the complaints on user forums. Or, perhaps, the stock price drop is investors fearing that the real reason for the iPhone price drop is slow sales. If so