bertm

Why not take a reverse engineered Ultima Online server and client, and add your AI twist to it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online_shard_emulation

http://www.runuo.com/index.php

This paper built upon work that Stephen Hawking did.

"The hypothesis of gravity being an entropic force has a history that goes back to research on black hole thermodynamics by Bekenstein and Hawking in the mid-1970s. These studies suggest a deep connection between gravity and thermodynamics." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_as_an_entropic_force

someone might be able to find a better source.

I think a quote from Feynman is apt. "I think it is safe to say that no one understands Quantum Mechanics." (Richard Feynman)

My understanding of the article is this, simple yet hopefully useful.

Einstein and many others in the past assumed and observed that the inertial mass is always equal to the gravitational mass because no measurement has or could tell them apart.

Like the break down of classical mechanics at small scales, so too does this assumption, or so this papers calculations predict. In fact the calculations suppose a situation in which you could measure, through "atomic spectroscopy", a difference in these masses.

One must remember this is in the QM world, the size scale of atoms and mass scale of electrons, not with "classical" sized things.

I am curious about what it takes to get PR on Techcrunch.com for a new startup.

Links to the project discussed and the white paper [pdf]:

http://www.peertopatent.org/

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v20/20HarvJLTech123...

"Drew is being prosecuted for illegal recording, a Class I felony punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison."

The sentence length mentioned strikes me as severe, seems the law is being use in a way that differs from the original intent.

Beware of mistaking knowledge for intelligence. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1369781

This presents an interesting paradox though because at the end of the day a decision is required. Do I eat thing X or thing Y? And in what proportion? So when a set of things is not well understood but a decision is required, many non science strategies enter. So what can be done about this?

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

--Ben F

Your design looks like a 37signals clone.

Good QM joke...

Correct me if I am wrong, this seems like a far leap from what the law was intended to do. The ruling would mean good for Facebook and bad for our society.

The idea was meant to fairly generic. Your example would be closer to what I mean if your business model had some sort of regulation involved i.e. time or money you had to spend getting the greenlight from government.

An example idea was a one-click online employment agency. Employment in general is steeped with redtape.

"I would suggest not grouping software by distinctions which do not matter for your users."

Yet naturally there seem to be these distinctions drawn; Useful in both understanding markets and producing usable products. A personal example: I use MS Office, Adobe Master Collection, Intuit Quickbooks; all natural collections of single feature software.

"Your users do not have a point at which their demand for software is saturated, any more than they have a point at which their demand for products is saturated."

It seems natural that there would be a saturation point, because a consumer is limited by both time and money.

“"Hold on, wait a minute -- do I need a widget for this, or a suite?" “

Personally, if I found that the lion’s share of a software suite was valuable I would purchase that vs. the individual products with the same feature set.

Modern day pretentious diction! Orwell would be rolling in his grave! [http://www.george-orwell.org/Politics_and_the_English_Langua...]