Re: [FRIAM] funny shapes..

2008-11-20 Thread Robert Holmes
Phil - thanks for your timely suggestion that I should sell my Monsanto stock a year ago. Do you have any recommendations for what I should sell last week? -- Robert On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Phil Henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5yr Dow & Monsanto today > www.synapse9.com/issues/image

[FRIAM] funny shapes..

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Henshaw
5yr Dow & Monsanto today www.synapse9.com/issues/images/Dow5yr11.08.jpg www.synapse9.com/issues/images/Monsanto5yr11.08a.jpg Phil FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, ar

Re: [FRIAM] Adobe Alchemy

2008-11-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Saul Caganoff wrote: Hmmm c/c++ into actionscript. It's not a source -> source transformation, it's a matter of what the target object code is, i.e. bytecode instead of x86. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a

Re: [FRIAM] Adobe Alchemy

2008-11-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
glen e. p. ropella wrote: Thus spake Saul Caganoff circa 11/20/2008 04:01 PM: Hmmm c/c++ into actionscript. Is this gold into lead or lead into gold? Prolly more like turkeys into chickens. In the case of codes with a lot of dynamic message dispatch (Objective C), Firefox's new JI

Re: [FRIAM] Adobe Alchemy

2008-11-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Saul Caganoff circa 11/20/2008 04:01 PM: > Hmmm c/c++ into actionscript. > > Is this gold into lead or lead into gold? Prolly more like turkeys into chickens. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com F

Re: [FRIAM] Adobe Alchemy

2008-11-20 Thread Saul Caganoff
Hmmm c/c++ into actionscript. Is this gold into lead or lead into gold? On 11/21/08, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/ > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Frid

Re: [FRIAM] DARPA's 23 Questions

2008-11-20 Thread Carl Tollander
OK. Might have something to contribute on 2,3,7,12,16. BTW, adding this to the paper mashup on locality: http://www.institutnicod.org/Reduction/7.OntComplSys.pdf Backpack is getting heavy again C. jstafurik wrote: DARPA has a BAA (Broad Agency Announcement) for 23 Mathematical Challenges

[FRIAM] Top 10 wicked cool algorithms - Network World

2008-11-20 Thread jstafurik
For the friam algorithmers, here is one list of the 10 most wicked cool algorithms out there. Interestingly, there are no financial algorithms, such as Black-Scholes, the arguably has had the greatest financial impact on our society (and led to major financial crises such as the demise of Long T

[FRIAM] DARPA's 23 Questions

2008-11-20 Thread jstafurik
DARPA has a BAA (Broad Agency Announcement) for 23 Mathematical Challenges it would like to have researchers solve. (https://www.fbo.gov/download/9bc/9bce380aafb19f9ad3bda188bfc1ab20/DARPA-BAA-08-65.doc) Friamers should find many of these interesting, although some like "The Mathematics of

[FRIAM] David MacKay: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

2008-11-20 Thread Owen Densmore
Interesting news from David MacKay, the author of the absfab Info Theory book we're using in our Winter's Read wedtech sessions. He's taken on sustainability and has equations as well as surmise: http://www.withouthotair.com/ Here's a synopsis: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainab

Re: [FRIAM] Time for some Slashdot perspective

2008-11-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Sunny Fugate wrote: That is, unless your company demands that you use a specific software vendor's product. Then it really is a prison, or at least a detention area. If your company demands that you use *only* a specific software, then it's your company that's the prison. Otherwise, get Virt

Re: [FRIAM] Time for some Slashdot perspective

2008-11-20 Thread Douglas Roberts
Hey, been there, doing that. My company was "All Windows, all the time" until just recently. I need to have a Windows VM running at all times on my Linux box so that I can enter my time, submit my travel expenses, run a propriety Windows-only VPN app to get in through the firewall, create ppt fil

Re: [FRIAM] Time for some Slashdot perspective

2008-11-20 Thread Sunny Fugate
"If you can leave any time you like, it's not a prison. It's just a really shitty hotel." That is, unless your company demands that you use a specific software vendor's product. Then it really is a prison, or at least a detention area. In my perspective the prevalence of craptastic softwa

[FRIAM] Adobe Alchemy

2008-11-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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2008-11-20 Thread Douglas Roberts
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/19/liability-for-software-at-hospital/ -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Frida