[FRIAM] The true crisis is still to come
Did you know that 8 out of 10 from the biggest companies of the world live from oil or oil-consuming products? I think the true crisis is still to come, see http://blog.cas-group.net/2008/10/the-true-crisis-is-still-to-come/ -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Grappa Wireless Internet
Charming people but their internet service sucks. My connection from them is currently running at about 300K instead of the 1.5M I'm paying for ($70 per month). Also because of the location of their radio towers (Santa Fe ski basin) their service gets even worse during the winter. Last winter they ended up giving everyone a rebate on one month's fee, though personally I'd have rather have the up-time than the cash. As soon as my contact expires, I'm transfering to Qwest, who have just started offering DSL in my neighbourhood. Robert On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM, peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://grappawireless.com/about.html Anyone in the group have any experience or comments on these guys ( : ( : pete -- Peter Baston *IDEAS* *www.ideapete.com* http://www.ideapete.com/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] The true crisis is still to come
You really have to wonder in a complexity science forum why taking on endless multiplying complications, as a standard planning concept, would not be quickly brought into question. The opening statement in on that CAS webpage is: Forget the financial crisis, the true global economic crisis will come in the next ten years. The end of cheap oil and the beginning of climate change are the first warning signs. We wont be able to stop increasing oil prices in the long term. And we wont be able to stop climate change and global warming. That's only true if the phrase true global economic crisis assumes we don't realize the error in endlessly multiplying the size and complexity of the system. Even without any physical resource limits of any kind the compounding complexity of continual growth makes any system completely unmanageable. You get learning demands that exceed the possible range of learning responses for the parts not changing. We're supposed to have learned by seeing the exploding complexity of the financial schemes as the core problem in the recent collapse. The central cause of that complexity was that they were built to maintain financial system growth in the absence of similar physical system growth. We should learn from experience. The problem of collapse is not with the pins that prick our bubbles but the pumps that pump them to the point of bursting. Phil Henshaw -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:25 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] The true crisis is still to come Did you know that 8 out of 10 from the biggest companies of the world live from oil or oil-consuming products? I think the true crisis is still to come, see http://blog.cas-group.net/2008/10/the-true-crisis-is-still-to-come/ -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Grappa Wireless Internet
Robert Holmes wrote: Charming people but their internet service sucks. My connection from them is currently running at about 300K instead of the 1.5M I'm paying for ($70 per month). I'm on a similar Motorola 600Mhz System run by the San Ildefonso corporation Tewacom.com and have a similar experience (paying $60/month). My service varies from 0-1.5M with ~.3M typical. I get almost total dropouts for minutes at a time. They continue to insist that my service is symmetric but it is rare that I get more than 50% of download on upload. I use: http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ most of the time. If there is something inherently limited in these systems, I'd like to understand it. I don't like pestering people trying to do their job (TewaCom or Grappa) but I also like getting consistent, expected performance. Also because of the location of their radio towers (Santa Fe ski basin) their service gets even worse during the winter. Last winter they ended up giving everyone a rebate on one month's fee, though personally I'd have rather have the up-time than the cash. I'm one mile from the TewaCom Xmitter and I get little if any weather-related problems, but do seem to find dropouts and I seem to need to reboot the 600Mhz modem somewhere between several times over a few days to only once in a month. As soon as my contact expires, I'm transfering to Qwest, who have just started offering DSL in my neighbourhood. I switched from 1.5M (nominally down) Satellite WildBlue (56k up) which was *never* down but averaged .5M down and .05 up with lots of lag. WildBlue also had monthly quotas (not sliding) which did not support iTunes-class downloads on a regular basis. Previously I was on dialup which I rarely got higher than 28K connection with effective speeds of maybe 50% of that. I think Wireless on this scale makes most sense only when there are no other choices. If DSL or Cable come available, I think they are a better answer. Robert On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM, peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://grappawireless.com/about.html Anyone in the group have any experience or comments on these guys ( : ( : pete -- Peter Baston IDEAS www.ideapete.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
