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
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You have to love that classic British art of understatement.
--Doug
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Robert J. Cordingley 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 to
> avoid..."
>
>
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 needs
All,
For reasons I don't altogether understand, Aljazeera has had excellent
coverage of the japan earthquake from the start. This blog feels
particularly current and vivid.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake
Do we have any FRIAM members in Japan? Should we be re
Then there's the American art of overstatement. On the CNN web site it
says, "Pump system caused nuclear blast."
--Frank
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Douglas Roberts
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:49 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied C
Might be useful:
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
With Java, OpenGL and Jogl
David J. Eck
Hobart and William smith Colleges
on-line Book available at http://math.hws.edu/graphicsnotes/
Alfredo
2011/3/9 Stephen Guerin
> We're doing a test stream of Ed's class on UStream starting at noon
> to
Wow. I wish Java had not lost so many battles. The code structure in these
examples are brilliant.
-- Owen
On Mar 12, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote:
> Might be useful:
>
> Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
> With Java, OpenGL and Jogl
> David J. Eck
> Hobart and William
Any book on Java, OpenGL and Jogl has to be over five years out of date.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. Ho
Dear anybody,
I am reviewing a book by a psychologist in which the author makes a
distinction between constraints and causes. Now perhaps I am over thinking
this, but this distinction seems to parallel one made by Feynman in his
famous physics text, where he defines a constraint as a force t
