Entries from November 2008

Limelight Networks ?

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 30, 2008 at 8:32am   User  by Ian

Seems I’m not alone in being annoyed by Limelight Networks LLC. Seems both Akamai and MIT sued them, and so did Level 3, the largest Tier-1 network provider underlying so many major ISP’s. LLNW on the other hand are a big media content service provider with their own dedicated networks, but only a very small 1% [...]

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$20m Fireworks in Three Minutes !

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 30, 2008 at 7:54am   User  by Ian

Mad. You see the scale on the big screen monitor in the foreground showing an aerial view of the whole of Dubai’s Palm Island Atlantis Resort opening fireworks event, as well as the fireworks in direct view from in front of the hotel facade. (Thanks to MCSeavey)

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Maths Leaves Me Trailing

Comments   26   Date Arrow  November 23, 2008 at 1:09pm   User  by Ian

Mentioned to Island in the comment thread about the Multiverse below, the problem that otherwise credible stories in physics are accompanied by mathematical theory near incomprehensible to laymen such as myself. I had this feeling previously when trying to understand the “Dirac Nilpotent Rewrite” behind the Rowlands and Diaz work in quantum information theory. Reminded [...]

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Reciprocal Pirsig Links

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 22, 2008 at 10:27am   User  by Ian

Thanks to Rogelio Casado (Brazilian blogger) for the link to this 2005 Pirsig / ZMM article including a link back to my Timeline. Rogelio’s post is here. Thanks to BabelFish for an attempt at English translation from the Portugese.

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Anthropics, Multiverses & Strings

Comments   12   Date Arrow  November 19, 2008 at 3:21am   User  by Ian

Thanks to Piers Young at Monkey Magic for the link to this article from Discover. A good summary of issues based on interviews by Tim Folger with working scientists in the field, many of whom I’ve quoted before on psybertron. Strange how the multiverse idea is still seen as the most convincing solution to the [...]

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So It Goes … dot dot dot

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 3, 2008 at 2:32pm   User  by Ian

Had one of those transatlantic (twelve hours of sunset) opportunities to get a bit of reading in last week, a week in Boston. (Incidentally encountered Steven Pinker in the hotel bar, though left him undisturbed deep in conversation with another, having just explained he was my second favourite evolutionary psychology / linguistic philosopher, after Dan [...]

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