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Just from examining the few preview pages on amazon.com, this book appears to be far too basic for anyone who has actually done any serious work with R. I personally would forgo this entire book, and spend the time wandering through the R Graph Gallery which has far more examples with source code and underlying data. It's also rather odd that this book doesn't cover ggplot, grid graphics, lattice, or any of the more commonly used tools in advanced R graphics.

Perhaps this book could be useful as your first foray into graphing with R... but I'm unconvinced it even covers that well.

Completely different. GoBack worked at the disk drive level. If I wanted to revert back to my spreadsheet of last week, I'd revert every other file back to last week too.

Lions "Versions" works at the application level, so that individual document files have a history.

And the patents themselves regard the user interface, and as you can see, they could not be more different.
http://soswindowsfr.free.fr/olivier/goback_fichiers/goback-historique.gif
http://images.apple.com/macosx/lion/images/overview_versions20110127.jpg

Someone went as far as to stick a 170MB IDE drive on an Apple ][e... DIY guide in the link.

That's nothing!

Woz told me about a year ago that Wendell Sanders (STILL working for Apple!) boots his Apple 1 off of his iPod!!!

Yes, I said Apple ONE.

Someone went as far as to stick a 170MB IDE drive on an Apple ][e... DIY guide in the link.

Gaston is a veritable Da Vinci of comic books! He has covered every field -- chemistry, mechanical engineering, electronics, computers, biology, music theory, rocket science. He's european and not a superhero, so I guess that's why you never heard of him

Examples:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2998324088_9106a0bd77_o.jpg
http://briconique.free.fr/images/GastonLagaffe.gif
http://www.sceneario.com/Planche_bd_8065_GASTON.jpg
http://multimedia.fnac.com/multimedia/images_produits/zoom_planche_bd/8/6/9/9782800126968_1.jpg
http://www.dupuis.com/Couvertures/G/9782800145853-G.JPG

It would be all ok if they just cut that fat but of. My preferred ergonomic mouse is not built anymore but here it is:
http://pic003.cnblogs.com/2011/34358/201101/20110116123145684.jpg

It's by far the most ergonomic mouse ever, it features one button, but in those days it was built that button did all a two button mouse did in windows. So I never lacked the second button. Rather I pressed always wrong button when using a two button mouse, as I was used of holding the mouse ergonomically and not with a muscle pull as you have to on most multiple button mice.

Still my preferred way of holding a mouse wold be having the index finger resting on the right side of the mouse. That is both ergonomic and functional. But the mice of today, with GUIs that poorly designed that you need a second button fight all ergonomics. The mice become fat, to support your muscle pull grip of it and forces you to move your whole arm instead of only your finger tips. The mice today are not only too fat, they are way to long.

Currently using a logitech mouse, bit shorter than the mx518 I have at home, the one bundled with a logitech wave keyboard. It's small with todays standards, but it's still to fat and long. Trying to use it with fingertips only causes it to crash into the palm of the hand while pulling it backwards. With the end result that you have to lift your arm from the resting position on the table and move your whole arm.

No wonder people get physically ill with such designs, I can sometimes feel the stress on the arm due to it. I never had that with the old Apple desktop bus mouse II nor with the older uglier Apple desktop bus mouse http://bounav.free.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/finished_vintage_mighty_mouse.jpg

While I'm now on logitech, my next purchase will most likably be: http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/.

With Halo dying on the mac and PC that means my gaming on the computer is mostly gone.

Another reason to pirate games/musics/movies is because you'll have to buy it each time you'll change something.

Let's say I bought N.O.V.A. for my Android Phone 1 year ago (5$) .... tomorrow I decide to change my mind and to change my phone for a iPhone so I'll had to buy it again (+5$). Yeah !!! I got my new Freebox Revolution and decided to check the Freestore.... What ? 5 bucks again (+5$) ? 15$ the same game with just some little tweaks.

Movies ? Same shit ! You go to the cinema to see the most epic movie ever done : Titanic (8$, ouch) ! And you buy the Director's cut DVD (You're MASOCHIST ! +50$, ouchouch). Now you have to buy the bring new "Titanic BlueRay Uber-Space-Version" with 30% more action, tears, sperm and DRM ! (Let me spank you... +50$, triple-ouch)

It's the same for music : You buy it for your CD Player, for your iPhone, ...

It is so difficult in digital world to let us enjoy our goods on all past and futur devices and charge us only the REAL price of the modifications ...
So ? So I buy it once, and I pirate it as many times as necessary to get it work on my different devices.

> How many isps or carriers now are giving ipv6 as an option

Some ISPs of which I know:

Free.fr in France
AAISP in the UK
XS4All in the Netherlands

And those are just those with which I have had personal contact.

Most academic networks such as HEANet and Janet are also fully-v6.

You think that's cool? Check out the massive copy protection in Dungeon Master. From 1987.

Japanese singer singing Esperanto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4JO7wFvOxM

Turkish movie in Esperanto:
http://vimeo.com/13356766

Chinese government newscast in Esperanto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5uFAM15SDA

Funny how I hear these tired worn arguments from people who can't speak Esperanto and clearly know nothing of it. It's not a western language. Over the years concepts worldwide have been merged into it through usage. And likely it'll change in the future.

Latin:
- EXTREMELY difficult.
- inconsistent.
- Purely western.

Latin by comparison is a purely western product. And very very difficult to learn. Esperanto is easy, yet fully expressive due to it's clever grammar system.

Your post sounds like just a psychological outburst as described in this essay by Claude Piron:
http://claudepiron.free.fr/articlesenanglais/reactions.htm

A poster for the French Pirate Party. "Sharing" is "Partage" in French, very close to "piratage" (piracy) :
http://yvanhoe.free.fr/PP/affichePP.png

I'm using and loving WMC, but sounds like you have installed some cool options. Could you post/list what you have extended it with? Thanks!

Certainly! Here you go:

• MediaBrowser - an XBMC like interface for managing all your ripped movies and TV shows.
• Remote Potato - installs a web-server on your HTPC which will allow you to view what shows you have recorded, manage your recordings (including delete and schedule new shows) and stream recorded TV to your screen.
• MediaControl - a plugin that enables FFWD and RWD for non-WTV and DVR-MS files.
• MoveRecordedTVMovies - a simple command line app which looks for movies stored in your "Recorded TV" folder and moves them elsewhere (complete with correct folder structure). Handy if you don't want TV movies to clutter up your other recordings.
• Shark007 codec pack - the only codec pack you need. Install, select default/recommended settings and you'll be set up with all the major codec support (including MKV with DTS audio).
• TunerFreeMCE (or) NeverMiss.TV - Allows you to watch catchup shows from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

You should also check out The Green Button forums as they have lots of useful information and links to third party software. Also the people on it are extremely friendly if you have questions or issues.

I also have a script which removes duplicate recorded TV shows (when series link glitches) and I'm in the process of cleaning it up to release. I'll post the link to the forum above when it is completed.

Download a statically compiled .tar.gz from the site that has all of it's own dependencies

Chromium does this, and the package manager ends up unable to package security holes that are eventually discovered in the dependencies. That's why Chromium isn't in Fedora.

Download source, './configure' 'make' 'make install' (and before you say 'this is beyond the end users capabilities, they have to go through more shit with installshield

Installing an MSI or InstallShield package doesn't require the use of a keyboard. The command line does, unless you use an on-screen keyboard. What "shit" are you talking about, other than simply presenting a wizard listing things that correspond to all the common options for ./configure? Most "shit" can be bypassed by just pressing Enter to choose the most common configuration. The answer to that, of course, is including a wizard script ./menuconfig that uses Xdialog or something.

But this leaves the problem of not having a compiler and the right -dev packages installed. Should the wizard try to detect whether it's running on Ubuntu or Fedora and run the distribution's counterpart to sudo apt-get install build-essential some-library some-other-library first? And should it come with full forked copies of the source code to these libraries, with all their (as of yet unknown) security holes that the package manager can't patch?

I wouldn't have written developers here as most of them are contributing anything but code (QA, documentation, marketing...) There is no way to know how many developers left OOo, but we know how many joined LibreOffice... See the stats here: http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=734

Qt is awesome. I'm using bouml, a designer that supports UML models. Just curious, but does anyone know what Apple builds Safari in, such that it runs cross-platform? I have researched this a little but haven't found any information. I would imagine that Safari is built with Objective-C and Cocoa libs, so assuming that, there must be some way to talk to Win 32. Any thoughts?

The guy, just like so many other Xbox and PC gamer fans, is just regurgitating every little bit of crap he ever heard hoping to convince people that what they see with their own eyes isn't true. The PS3's Cell+RSX combo this gen has destroyed the Xbox 360 graphically.

It would be no big deal if fanboys like the OP were spewing this type of inane techno-babble back in 2005/6 when the PS3 was not yet released or just released. But in 2010. That's just sad and pathetic.

Xbox and PC gamer fans filled their head with garbage from sites like the beyond3d formums because it told them what they desperately wanted to believe, that it was all lies from Sony and 'teh Cell hype'. Fine, no big deal. But as graphical masterpiece after graphical masterpiece came out on the PS3 that destroyed any Xbox 360 game came out they circled the wagons instead of doing the rational thing of clinging to the crap they filled their head with from the beyond3d forums.

I remember the socalled 'experts' aka desktop PC programmers going on and on and on about how the Killzone 2 footage was simply 'impossible' for the PS3 to ever run. They spouted post after post foaming at the mouth about how it was all 'Sony lies'.

And then:

http://generationdreamteam.free.fr/afrika/killzone2/KillZone2compa.jpg

The real time PS3 Killzone 2 demo came out. It was like there was going to be mass Xbox and PC gamer fan suicides over that. All the lies and bullshit they kept telling themselves about the PS3, Cell, 'hard teh program', 'teh Xbox 360 GPU is better than teh PS3's' was made a mockery.

And this happened with PS3 exclusive after exclusive.

Each time the Xbox and PC fans would rush back to the beyond3d forums to get their talking points about why that latest PS3 didn't really look as good as everyone is seeing with their own eyes, and 'teh 360 could easily handle those graphics but dev just don't want to'.

And now it is 2010 and those same Xbox and PC gamer fans are still sitting around in forums spewing the same bullshit and lies. So sad and pathetic. I remember the Dreamcast fans being bad, but they mostly gave up trying to convince the world that the Dreamcast could keep up with the PS2 after a year or so.

And even if you do use something like Qt for your app, not a lot of people have the time, money or resources to debug the app across multiple OS's, and a jillion or so phone models, all with slightly different versions of these OS's, with different screens, buttons, and capabilities.

Of course, and that's the whole reason to use something like Qt, or Java (android), or Adobe Flash/Flex,SWT (eclipse.org)etc.

The whole philosophy behind Qt, is that you let TrollTech, or Nokia now I guess, handle all the fun stuff of getting it to work across multiple platforms. Sure, there are bugs, just as if you would be using Adobe Flash, or any other x-platform kit, i.e. same thing with Google's version of Java (Android). Right now I'm using bouml, a UML modeling tool built in Qt. Runs on Linux (I think the author does most of his work in that environment), but also Windows.

In France most recent powermeters have an output called "teleinfo" which we can have activated, basically a kind of serial link (output only), repeatedly giving lost of parameters like instant watts, actual indexes in watt.hours and more. This kind of meter can be found second hand on ebay I think, and it is just a matter of demodulating the (well documented) 'teleinfo' output. What I did with this output, is to log the status every minute into a postgresql database (since 07/2008 now) and then it is easy to graph the data. You can see how often and how long the fridge is working etc... As an example of the result: http://2oo4.free.fr/teleinfo.jpg (in French, but you can figure out with the units). Be sure to match the characteristics of your power network (we have 230 volts/50Hz here) Kind Regards, Benoît.

The french computer scientist Remi Coulom, well-known for the pioneering computer go program Crazy Stone, has published some very interesting research on this issue. He claims not only to beat Elo, but also Glicko, Microsoft's TrueSkill and decayed-history approaches.

I was going to see if I could implement his ideas for the competition, since he's not going to participate himself. But it doesn't look like I have time for it.

Here's the paper in case anyone wants to give it a try. I suspect the approach is a bit more solid than the ad-hoc approaches of the quants.

I kludged up some code a while back to create a shim dll that can be used as the basis for selectively replacing functions in dlls...

A slightly more sophisticated solution would've been Detours.

Or, if you didn't feel like coding, WinAPIOverride32.

He's experimented with fully autonomous flight with realtime data transfer, but only for RC planes IIRC. Maybe you want to look at Arducopter/Aeroquad.

To whom it may concern:

Shame this stuff is never covered when it's done by true homebrewing geeks.

Sincerely,

Dongcopters.

Ah the good memories. The Rom Kernel Manuals and Carl Sassenrath's book Guru Guide to the Amiga still stand out in my mind as good documentation.

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwsassenrath_en.php
I was just cleaning my close and ran across my collection of Transactor and Amiga World Tech magazines. This next move they aren't coming along as I have enough nostalgia items. Sigh, I also gave up the last of my old SGI kit.
The software architecture of the amiga still stands out in my mind as being ahead of its time.
I think of lot of people (at least in the VFX world) grew up on the amiga.
If anybody wants an amiga toaster 4000 setup, let me know. :)

The PDF version http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/piCompute.pdf of the page is up to date, but for some reason the html is behind. Also the PDF correctly displays the mathematical formula, while the html doesn't for me.

But in the end, open architecture of PCs proved beneficial, also / especially to us. It was at least good enough in some areas at the beginning, and vastly improved in the meantime. Even MS wasn't so bad - for all their faults, they mostly succeeded in commoditizing the hardware; that made OSS easier, too.
Amiga...well, for a long time now its zombie focuses on outrageously milking what's left of their fans.

Not saying they weren't great in their time; and really affordable, also in places where PCs would prove out of reach still for almost a decade; gave us real media editing. Even where Blender started. And if it was good for Babylon 5 or NASA...
(and apparently for Scotty, too - supposedly the crew of Star Trek IV wanted an Amiga; but Commodore wouldn't provide it just like that, on notice; what could have been...)

R is an excellent language to learn for just about every field. It's ability to import and export data to MS based resources such as Access, Excel, MS-SQL and other non-MS sources makes it a versital tool. It's commerical parent is S-PLUS and is nearly syntax identical with minor variations. Buy the book, use the tool, impress your Eve Online players by pinning down the July Tritanium prices and hitting the weekly averages within .5 ISK by doing time series analysis using regression plus ARIMA on the residuals. Find out cool things like Hulkageddon impacts frigate prices more then exhumers and MORE! FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY (Except your big sister because she's icky and into boys....) For those what want to do google searches but find 'R' difficult there is the rseek.org site and a few quick links to get you started while you wait for the nutshell book to arrive in the mail. R Intro : http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter/teach/R/RIntro_ov.pdf Programming in R: http://manuals.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/home/programming-in-r R Graph Gallery: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ Big Resource I use: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html The Little Handbook: http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/LHSP.HTM The Big N: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ There are hundreds of PDF references out there that can help as well, too many to list. Good luck, have fun.

• ISP documentation;
• Wikipédia (French page is more complete and up-to-date).

You'd be surprised at how hardcore some of those tetris players are. TGM players for instance are just as insane as shmup fanatics or street fighter experts.

It's quite simple:
The most used software of todays computers for most people is the web browser.

So having a decent web-browser make AmigaOS much more usable. And for most else it already have good software. Sure it may not be the state of the art for video editing or something such but for everyday use everything is there and people enjoy their old apps I assume.

Origyn Web Browser is a Webkit based browser for MorphOS and AmigaOS4:
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/
http://os4depot.net/share/network/browser/owb.lha

Someone has obviously made it possible to play Youtube videos from within iBrowse, which atleast back in the day was an Amiga browser not based on any other engine which I know of:
http://os4depot.net/share/network/browser/ib_youtube.lha
iBrowse web page:
http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/
Looks like it got a flash plugin for MorphOS:
http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/news.php?id=1169229504

And there exist a PPC-version of AWEB:
http://os4depot.net/share/network/browser/aweb.lha

Enough people use it that they have donated more than 5000 euro to get it ported to that page. I don't know if it handles the donation from the old project which was about the same think, getting a modern browser (gecko) on AmigaOS.

System friendly applications will run through JIT emulation, and you also got some native apps.

For the less friendly things you'll have to run complete machine emulation such as UAE.

For instance I assume YAM just work, but through emulation:
http://trac.yam.ch/

OWB would most likely run native:
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/
http://charlie.amigaspirit.hu/screenshots/macmini/mini-MorphOS-OWB-1.8-teaser.mov

Hey, it plays videos from Youtube! More capable than iPad? ...

Here you've got Project X running in E-UAE in MorphOS:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd0zzh_uae-in-ambient_videogames

Hi,

If you want to implement video in a cross-browser compatible way, couldn't you do it with an object tag?

That's what I used to do in the 1990s, and, as far as I can tell, that method still works.

I assumed WHDLoad could handle pretty much anything, but I may be wrong.

The problem is, the Amiga has a vast library of software (primarily games and demoscene productions) that boots off directly from a floppy and employs custom disk-loading routines which start off from the bootblock. This was done back in the days when an HDD was seen as an expensive extra.

At the beginning, the assumption was that most people interested in games would be using the cheaper Amigas, possibly with no HDD, and they would only have a floppy drive or two at their disposal. (The early Amiga models did not come with HDDs as standard.) Custom trackloading routines were also used for copy protection and performance reasons: reading raw data off the tracks and copying it to the memory is faster than if you load the same data by means of files and a filesystem. And, of course, just powering on the machine and inserting a floppy was an intuitive, simple-to-use interface for starting games; akin to the cartridges on the game consoles.

(The AmigaOS itself, and software normally running under it - tools and utilities, shareware and productivity titles - were always made to be HDD-installable and they utilized a normal filesystem from the beginning, of course. But there's a staggering amount of old games and demos that go with their custom raw disk format and a custom trackloader.)

Now, WHDLoad - which is essentially a binary patch library for various Amiga software titles - remedies that problem for some titles, by making such older releases HDD-installable and their fixing potential compatibility problems with the newer Amigas and newer AmigaOS versions. The patches might even clean up some badly written software, making them allocate memory properly and even adding clean-up and "quit to the OS" functions, instead of requiring a reboot of the machine after you're done with the game. This is all good, and a great accomplishment, but WHDLoad needs a separate driver (called a "slave" in WHDLoad terms) written for each piece of software it "supports". So it's not a universal solution.

Also, since the Amiga floppy disk drive controller is very flexible in how it can be programmed, and the AmigaOS normally uses a floppy format that is incompatible, on the sector level, with standard PC floppy controllers (formatting 880 KB on a DD floppy and 1760 KB on an HD floppy), generic products such as the PLR Electronics 3 ½ floppy drive to USB flash drive reader are not likely to work on the Amiga.

There is an interesting hobbyist DIY hardware project called A Universal Floppy Disk Drive Emulator, however, which aims at making floppy drives redundant on Amigas and many other devices, by replacing them with a floppy disk drive emulator. It is basically the same idea as with the above-mentioned PLR Electronics product, but the project is hobbyist-driven and open, and also guaranteed to be compatible with the low-level sector format that the Amiga normally uses. You can find the schematics and the required software on the linked website.

For those that don't follow graffiti news, Banksy articles are appearing in media all over the world right now as his pieces (or imitations of the original, Blek le Rat , and Banksy style) appear as promotion for his movie Exit Through The Gift Shop

Banksy pieces showing up in San Francisco
Banksy in Seattle
Banksy feud with King Robbo

the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator (in SD and USB flavors) which works even on Amiga and accurately down to rendering old-school marvels such as playing music by drive noises.

Painstakingly hand-made in small numbers for now, if that's not a project to be spread from high-volume automated production lines by the likes of Seeed, then what is?

The PC was the most affordable machine for somewhat serious computing.

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/amiganasa_en.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga#Notable_historic_uses

It was said about the Apple TV too.

The AppleTV is the first step in a new direction. The problem is that neither Apple or anyone else has found the right formula. Actually, Free.fr seems to be one step in the right direction with their FreeBox HD: http://www.free.fr/adsl/index.html

The company saw revenue rise by 25% year-on-year to EUR 1.95 billion in the year, while net profit jumped 75.2% year-on-year to EUR 175.9 million in 2009

Amen to that.
I live in Palo Alto, heart of the Silicon Valley I was told. Fastest connection I can get (without having to take a 2nd mortgage, that is): 768 kbit/s. And, with a static IP, the same price as 9 years ago. WTF?!?
In the meantime, French ISPs are addressing complaints that 22 Mbit/s VDSL is a bit old-school by offering 100 Mbit/s FTTH (phone and TV included, of course), Japanese get Gigabit for ~60$/mo...
AT&T, I'm glad you're upgrading your equipment at long last... Now when can I get better than 3rd-world connection?

IMHO every programmer should read Apple's Human Interface Guidelines even if they don't work on interfaces directly or never touch a Mac.

Computers can't be made "easier" just by hiding levels of abstraction - the key is understanding how people react to the things in the world that they need to interact with. There are some well-studied principles that make computers much more pleasant to deal with, such as:

1. direct manipulation when possible
2. modelessness when possible
3. principle of least surprise
4. forgiveness (undo; default options least likely to cause damage)
5. maintain perception of stability

The guidelines aren't a cure-all and they aren't bullet-proof (otherwise they'd be rules instead of guidelines), but they give developers an idea of the kinds of issues they're likely to encounter when their software comes face-to-face with an end user.

For a good idea of what happens when these principles are ignored, see:

Interface Hall of Shame
http://thedailywtf.com/

I know that as late as 1995, NASA still had some satellites that were still controlled by some Commodore 64s in a warehouse near White Sands, New Mexico.

Are you sure those weren't actually Amigas? This page has some information - even photos and screenshots - about the usage of the Commodore Amiga at NASA.

So... Admiral Motti gains another hundred or so pounds and takes on the role of Baron Harkonnen?

*ahem*
http://kokak.free.fr/DoomGLES.htm

Meh, one of the best games ever is "Colonial Conquest" from SSI. Its the reason that I have an Atari ST emulator on my desktop, because when the urge to conquer sets in the only thing that satisfys is a game from 1988.

Pascal Bringer (Kroah) is currently beta testing a Windows version that plays like the original without the bugs. It will be good, this guy knows what he's doing and loves his work.

Go here immediately.

http://bringerp.free.fr/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

(screwed up my tags the first time)

Avidemux always seemed like a natural partner to VLC to me. Based off the same FFMPEG code, QT or GTK interfaces, straightforward design, and despite the name it can do many file types. It's excellent for simple cut and paste editing, very much a Linux equivalent of Virtualdub. Why do so many free software projects try to reinvent the wheel rather reuse and improve on the code that is out there? I always thought that was the point of free software.

What about this?
    http://cabinet.auriol.free.fr/Documents/cache_catharsis.htm
"""
Popular belief in the catharsis theory remains strong despite the theory's dismal record in research findings. According to the catharsis hypothesis, acting aggressively or even viewing aggression is an effective way to reduce anger and aggressive feelings. One likely reason for the continued widespread belief in catharsis is that the mass media continue to endorse the view that expressing anger or aggressive feelings is healthy, constructive, and relaxing, whereas restraining oneself creates internal tension that is unhealthy and bound to lead to an eventual blowup.
    The present research was concerned with a pair of related questions. First, can media support for the catharsis hypothesis cause people to engage in catharsis-seeking activities, such as aggressive action? Second, if media messages do persuade people to believe in the effectiveness of catharsis, will their own indulgence in aggressive action produce that effect?
    The concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy suggests that people's beliefs can shape their choices and the outcomes of their actions, so that expectations tend to come true by virtue of the changed behaviors resulting directly from the expectations (e.g., Darley & Fazio, 1980). Although researchers have mostly failed to find laboratory evidence of catharsis effects, it is plausible that media endorsement produces such self-fulfilling prophecies, which in turn might be sufficient to sustain popular belief in catharsis. In the present research, we provided people with procatharsis messages telling them that acting aggressively or expressing anger is a good way to reduce inner tensions. Consistent with the self-fulfilling prophecy notion, we investigated whether such messages would increase behavioral choices of aggressive activity following an anger provocation (Study 1) and, more important, would help produce the anticipated benefits of expressing anger (Study 2)--specifically, by reducing aggressive behavior toward another person after the participant was supposedly able to reach catharsis by hitting a punching bag.
"""

That said, I agree with you lots of aspects of our current social system, especially the school system, are messed up in various ways. My own thoughts on how to fix them:
    "Post-Scarcity Princeton, or, Reading between the lines of PAW for prospective Princeton students, or, the Health Risks of Heart Disease"
    http://www.pdfernhout.net/reading-between-the-lines.html

Also related by me more recently on education issues:
    http://www.cnewmark.com/2009/12/making-govt-work-a-huge-step.html#comments
    http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-October/005379.html
    http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/005584.html
    http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/006005.html

The issue with the blazelabs experiment is that the dielectric used with the device they tested is air and for it to work in a vacuum it apparently needs a solid dielectric, I'm surprised they didn't construct such a lifter to pursue that avenue of inquiry.

Now this experiment was conducted in a vacuum and it worked, and if you note the design of the device it has a solid dielectric.

And another example of a lifter with a solid dielectric. .

As for the physics of the Biefeld-Brown effect, based on experiments conducted where the electrodes of different lifters are unlinked it doesn't appear that the effect depends on ion wind, but something else, possibly based on electrokinetics.

The issue with the blazelabs experiment is that the dielectric used with the device they tested is air and for it to work in a vacuum it apparently needs a solid dielectric, I'm surprised they didn't construct such a lifter to pursue that avenue of inquiry.

Now this experiment was conducted in a vacuum and it worked, and if you note the design of the device it has a solid dielectric.

And another example of a lifter with a solid dielectric. .

As for the physics of the Biefeld-Brown effect, based on experiments conducted where the electrodes of different lifters are unlinked it doesn't appear that the effect depends on ion wind, but something else, possibly based on electrokinetics.

The issue with the blazelabs experiment is that the dielectric used with the device they tested is air and for it to work in a vacuum it apparently needs a solid dielectric, I'm surprised they didn't construct such a lifter to pursue that avenue of inquiry.

Now this experiment was conducted in a vacuum and it worked, and if you note the design of the device it has a solid dielectric.

And another example of a lifter with a solid dielectric. .

As for the physics of the Biefeld-Brown effect, based on experiments conducted where the electrodes of different lifters are unlinked it doesn't appear that the effect depends on ion wind, but something else, possibly based on electrokinetics.

Lightning 1.0b1 will be released shortly. In the meantime, use the Lightning Nightly Updater. It sounds scarier than it is. Lightning is actually quite stable now.

This one seems to work
http://dl.free.fr/oTyRx6Wfi