Aging 2008 panel Q&A: How Fast Will Stem Cell Research Adavance
During the panel at Aging 2008, Michael West, Gregory Stock and William Haseltine respond to how quickly stem cell research is expected to produce results.
Michael West announces Embryome.com
Back from Understanding Aging conference
I went to listen to Richard Stallman at U.C. Berkeley on "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks". At the end I asked Richard about my publishing software under LGPL with one part free (PHP and javascript code) and another part copyrighted (flash code.) He told me I was unethical. From his talk and writing, I gather the ethics are that I'm not allowing someone else the ability to see and modify the code I've written in the Flash portion.
I respect Richard's personal ethic to share all code that he's written. I disagree with him imposing his personal ethics and methods on others.
Not everyone else has the same needs and requirements with software and other products as Richard. Many do not want to and will not modify computer code. More essential, an exchange of work performed is a contract between two or more individuals. It's a negotiation where both parties find the best agreement for a product. In the future some or all of the Flash source code may be available. And it is likely available on a negotiated basis. But to require only one method of disseminating coded takes away the freedom to distributing and negotiating work. That is unethical.
I arrived at iPhoneDevCamp Saturday, June 7th, mid-afternoon. I walked through shooting people intently working on their hacks.
Tags: iPhone, iPhoneDevCamp, Barcamp, Adobe
vPIP Presenting at Oct. 25th SFCutters Meeting
Photo from IDAnderson Flickr Photostream of Walter Murch talk at MacWorld 2006 presented by SF Cutters SF Cutters has been around since March of 2000 with monthly meetings in downtown San Francisco on tools, techniques, Q&A, etc. for using Final Cut Pro. It is the first Final Cut Pro users group.
For the upcoming October 25th meeting I will talk for about 20 minutes on different methods to present your videos on web pages. These methods -- such as using Dreamweaver, podpress, blip.tv, revver, etc. -- will be compared to my open source utility vPIP (video Playing In Place) . If this topic is of interest, please come and ask questions and talk to me afterwards.
The event starts at 6:30 pm at dvGarage - 785 Market San Francisco. There's a $5.00 charge for pizza and a raffle ticket to win a prizes. The other speakers are Larry Jordan, Ethan Markowitz of Jungle Software, John Dalton of Synthetik Software, Joel Hinojosa and Paul Kalbach.
