Why Wolfram SystemModeler Beats Other Modeling Systems. Wolfram SystemModeler is the most complete physical modeling and simulation tool. Unlike other systems, SystemModeler requires no add-ons and fully supports the standard Modelica model language. And SystemModeler is designed to connect perfectly with Mathematica for the ultimate integrated modeling, simulation, and analysis workflow. supported partially supported additional purchase required Simplify Your Workflow SystemModeler implements the Modelica language, which takes advantage of the strengths from component-based modeling, where the flow in components is modeled.
The Modelica Advantage Modelica is an open standard language specifically designed for modeling physical systems. Wolfram MathCore is a founding member of the Modelica Association and has taken an active part in the Modelica language design since 1997. Beyond Simulation. We Love Datavis. Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog. Sync Your Desktop Between Computers with Dropbox | What's New on Shambles.NET. Blog Archive » Next-generation tagging. Image: rosweed In 2003, Joshua Schachter released Delicious, and brought tagging to the web. Delicious gave normal users a place to store and share their information about any web page. By January 2007, a Pew Internet & American Life Project study had found that 28% of online Americans had used tagging.
As offered by Delicious, and popularized by sites such as Flickr and Technorati, basic tagging has three fundamental properties: You can tag any URL.You don’t have to ask permission.Shared public tagging creates social value Most fundamentally, tagging made the web more writeable. This changed our perception of the web itself, from something that was almost entirely read-only to something where we were suddenly invited to contribute. Tagging with Fluidinfo The model of information in Fluidinfo takes tagging to a new level. You can tag anything at all, not just URLs.Tags can optionally be given values.
Tagging is too powerful an idea to be restricted to just URLs or people. Tag with values. Linden Lab To End Era As Second Life-Only Company In 2012. Next year, Linden Lab will end a 9 year corporate history as the developer of a single product, Second Life. Confirming what several sources have told me in recent months, Linden CEO Rod Humble just announced this in his Outlook for 2012 post on the company blog: In addition to delivering new features and increasing our support for Second Life, we will be launching some completely different products next year not related to Second Life. Some of them will be very experimental, but all will fit within our company’s proud history of enabling creativity, which I hope may interest some of you.
Using the plural of "product" is notable, because up until now*, Linden Lab has only confirmed that they are planning to release a single non-SL product. The company is creating several game-like experiments, so evidently we will get to get our hands on some of them too. 2012 should be an interesting year. MiceOnABeam - Home. 2011.Dec.27 | Tools.Jam.
Sloan-C Day Two: Howard Rheingold. Howard Rheingold How could a day start any better than listening to a Howard Rheingold talk? I ask ya. And here’s how he began… Learning should be…- learner-centered- social and peer-to-peer- networked Rheingold explained that, at the beginning of his teaching career, he was influenced by Neil Postman’s book Teaching as a Subversive Activity – “the questions that students ask are more important than the answers they give.” This doesn’t mean you abandon the texts, but you start with questions, and you make it collaborative. Howard wrote an article in a 1987 issue of The Well entitled “Virtual Communities” – and thus the term was coined. In his teaching, Howard emphasizes social learning. H. Here is Howard’s social media classroom platform (built with funding from HASTAC) which he uses to amplify the social environment for his students.
He describes his approach to his courses as “co-teaching” – students do projects, present to peers, and collaboratively author. Like this: Like Loading... Isla Sonoita. The Linden Realms game: Rock on! Note: as of December 2011, Linden Realms is avialable to all SL users, not just Premium accounts. A benefit of being Premium right now is getting to take a look at the new Project LR game (LR apparently standing for “Linden Realms”) that is set to introduce new concepts and tools to Second Life. As I had a spare 15, 20, 30 minutes – hour last night, I decided to see what it was like. Game Portal The first issue (as everyone is now probably no doubt aware) is getting to the game regions – you cannot teleport directly. Instead, one must go to one of the Premium gift kiosks locations and then locate the game portal.
There is nothing to touch or sit on at the portal, no need to manually trigger a teleport – just walk through… …And find yourself in a strange, mist-laden landscape. The game has its own Windlight presets, and I strongly recommend you keep them to add to the sense of fun (and to make it harder to spot lurking rock monsters through the gloom).
Game world and HUD Resurrection Circle. Global Education Conference by Chris Smith (Shamblesguru) on Prezi. Copyright is for everybody. Copyright is an interesting beastie, and a very necessary one. Without Copyright law, most open source licences and Creative Commons licenses would be worthless. Copyright is enshrined in the United States constitution, offering a limited-time protection on works to everybody. That includes folks like you and me who have works worth hundred of millions of dollars, and who might not have the ability to mount a lawsuit. Copyright is for , even if your means are scant and your works only commercially worth a few cents. That’s why the United States Copyright office wants to hear from , as a part of a congressional enquiry into remedies for Copyright small claims.
The Copyright Office has been asked by Congress to study the obstacles facing small copyright claims disputes, as well as possible alternatives. The US Copyright Office is accepting submissions until 16 January 2012 . Found this interesting? Tags: Copyright , Law , USA. Of crystals and games. Last week I reviewed the Linden Realms game – and found it oddly compulsive (up until I completed the first three quests – I understand more are to be added). Shortly thereafter came a comment from Lani Global pointing towards a game she’d developed in OSGrid which bears a strong similarity to the LR game. As I have an OSGrid account, I decided to go over, don a suitably sci-fi-ish outfit (the game is an a sci-fi rp region) and have a look. I did actually have trouble finding the game the first two visits – I found the crystals OK, but couldn’t find a way to interact with them or any sign of a game HUD.
In fairness, the HUD was there – I just didn’t recognise it as such at the time, as it appears to be for a combat system as well. Power source: the start of the quest Anyway, with HUD and health metre safely installed, off I went into the bowels of the pyramid to start my quest. The first part of this is to locate the main power source. It all sounds very familiar, doesn’t it? Like this: Globaled11.