Re: [FRIAM] Ongoing cell-phone threads, esp T-Mobile
Hi Owen, I have both CDMA GSM, and I can travel throughout my country and roam seamlessly (but not interoperatorably) at under 1 cent per minute. I dont have to change my operators in almost 90% of the country. At any well covered location my (GSM) handset can usually detect about 5 or 6 operators. In New Delhi we have 12 operators (all vying in our free - and excessively regulated - environment to get me to switch to their networks - and offering plans guaranteed to give me 25 cents per hour calling rates for lifetime (ie. as long as their company is in business). So if Regulation is bad I wonder why phone costs are so expensive in the land of the free. PS: I know fairly well the pitfalls of a free gmail but dont give a damn. Sarbajit On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: But you have to understand several things to understand why most americans understand very little about celular telecom: 1 - Probably 80% of Friam does not understand the difference between GSM and CDMA, the two major celular protocols in the US. And that they do not interoperate. I've explained to at least 50 people why their Verizon phone will not work in Rome. 2 - Mobile means for americans within 20 miles. Certainly not global. 3 - Coverage maps. I remember trying to tell an Italian about that concept. I failed utterly. It is why most folks in Santa Fe will never use GSM. I'm odd, I use GSM because I travel and won't tolerate the wreck produced by our telecom world. Color me moral. 4 - Roaming: In most GSM areas, Roaming is required by law and is strongly enforced outside the US. Here, if you are a TMobile GSM customer wandering into a ATT area, you definitely will NOT get roaming services. 5 - Regulatory is a dirty word. Free markets cannot handle it. 6 - Costs: I know of few celular user who understands the cost differences between carriers. Here, TMobile (Deutsche Telekom) gives 20% cheaper costs, and allows contract-free services that are very inexpensive, and handles SMS and voice. They even offer very inexpensive phones for SMS/Voice. 7 - History: The french created GSM and lobbied very strongly for its universal adoption. We have states that have far less power, thus are lead by the corporate giants, far larger in income than the states. So chaos is welcomed, to our woe. I could go on. Its a wreck. But because it is too hard for most folks to understand, thus cry out in pain, we are but pawns in the game. It is a deeply painful thing to be a US citizen who understands tech from the bottom up. -- Owen On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm hugely amazed by your post. Being involved in telecom regulatory matters (as a citizen stakeholder) in my country. I'm surprised that consumers in yours tolerate such nonsense. Just to provide some reference points In India: The average postpaid mobile commitment cost is about US$3 per month (which is instantly refunded with equivalent talk time). For prepaid it gets even better with zero (0) commitment and bonus talk times for every balance top-up. Call costs are about 1 CENT (US) per MINUTE to call anywhere within my vast country (ie. for about 1 US$ I can speak for 1 hour) All incoming calls are free. We have per second billing. At regulatory hearings I participate in, my fellow consumers are always griping that there are allegedly other countries in the world where mobile telephony is even cheaper. PS: We can buy any handset from te open market and the telco's vie with each other to connect us free (or a very nominal) charge Sarbajit 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] dream weaver tutor?
Hi all! -Background: in school in part to weather out the economy. took a webdesign class. prof showed a bit of interest in having me in the next web design class he teaches. but It has a focus on dreamweaver of wich I know nothing about. Is there someone on the list and or at the complex that'd be able to tutor for it? 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] dream weaver tutor?
Hi, Gil -- Dreamweaver is really quite easy, and there are a ton of tutorials on the web (and probably in the program). I have an old copy for Windows, should you want to borrow it. But for starters, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6rRLw5ggOg -tom On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all! -Background: in school in part to weather out the economy. took a webdesign class. prof showed a bit of interest in having me in the next web design class he teaches. but It has a focus on dreamweaver of wich I know nothing about. Is there someone on the list and or at the complex that'd be able to tutor for it? 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 -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.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] Brian Cox - The Colbert Report - 2011-25-07 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
At wedtech we got talking about Brian Cox and his TV series: Wonders of the Solar System Wonders of the Universe. Robert Holmes mentioned that he's got a fascinating career, from rock star to physics including a BBC radio show .. see our wedtech emails below. So I looked for more and found a Colbert Report interview! http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/393044/july-25-2011/brian-cox Way fun. Nice to see one of us capture some minds. I've finished the Solar System series and am starting in on the radio shows and just everything is abs-fab. Woonderfull! -- Owen -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.com Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [WedTech] Brian Cox (physicist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To: wedt...@redfish.com ... and let's not forget his radio programme, The Infinite Monkey Cagehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w —R On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: From today's lunch, the wikipedia article for Brian Cox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist) Rock roll, a PhD, and naturally TED BBC science TV. -- Owen 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] 10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, tour of 50 photos 1 MB size each via DropBox: Rich Murray 2011.07.2
10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, tour of 50 photos 1 MB size each via DropBox: Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.htm Wednesday, August 3, 2011 [ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/92 [ you may have to Copy and Paste URLs into your browser ] __ [ Note: this long post serves to provide detailed evidence for shared discussions about the effects on ground rocks of very hot, high pressure gas jets from multiple clusters of air bursts of already highly fragmented debris in solar orbit from an initially large mostly ice comet. ] What a great pleasure for me to have such an playful, informed, intelligent, helpful, many-faceted response! http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/Sailor_Hat.html It was a real treat to see the photos of the shocked, melted, and glazed rocks, which were within the initial high temperature, high pressure fireball from .0005 KT TNT (500 tons TNT) for a few seconds -- I've been finding very similar rocks on the large volcanic plateau just W of Santa Fe, Caja del Rio, which extends from the La Bajada 200 m dropoff SW of Santa Fe to just E of the Rio Grande canyon, where White Rock bedroom community lies on the W side: 1. a surface litter of freshly cracked rocks of all sizes 2. lava rocks still in place, horizontal or vertical, cracked and fractured, that have a lighter color very bubbly interior structure, which shades into a dense compacted subsurface of 1-10 cm thickness, with the surface highly melted, and often with a metallic lustre, usually very black and blue-black, sometimes with iridescent colors, a glaze of 1-30 mm 3. rocks that seem thoroughly melted and twisted 4. concave depressions and fractures, suggesting to me blast effects 5. 1-10 m rocks that seem thoroughly cracked, often tilted and tossed 6. bubbly red lava may become 1 cm to 1 m dense, darker red chert-like rocks I'll send you a photo from a dramatic site by a public road, W of road 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico: ~10 m broken rock hill with black glazes above old mine, just W of Rancho Allegre Road, just S of Coyote Trail (on E side), W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in area of expensive homes, ranches, artists, movie sets. 35.479730 -106.085926 1.865 km el top [ The October 1996 Google Earth historical imagery has a nice BW image with the same resolution of about 1 m, while Google Maps Satellite view indicates that this site is on the NE edge of a 7 km wide volcanic region, with unusual blue-black, red-brown, and white areas -- possibly all triggered by a concentration of directed Boslough jets from air burst ice comet fragments... ] Rich Murray and Michael H. Barron studied this site from 10:35 AM to 11:25 AM Friday December 10, 2010, taking 50 photos. The various shades of brown to blue-black glazes, 1-3 mm thick, coat the oddly rough, sharp textures of the ordinary lighter color bedrock, which seems to be in place, fractured into 1-5 m pieces. My interpretation is that a dense Boslough jet, from a 35 km/sec mostly ice comet fragment air burst, at about 45 deg, with extremely complex chaotic flows at high pressures and up to 5800 deg K, fractured, ablated, and glazed the bedrock in a brief process, perhaps a few seconds, in early Holocene times, since the ground litter has many sharp fragments, not yet softened by normal erosion. This gestalt pattern of ablation is easily found in all directions within the 160 km radius of my own field visits since November, 2008. In mutual service, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com 505-819-7388 Rich Murray 2011.08.03 0.1-1.0 MB BlackBerry photos on DropBox.com to learn about and install free 2 GB online storage space with DropBox, go to http://db.tt/hB3TNp1 1. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01431-20101210-1036.jpg 10:36 AM .816 MB 2048X1024 px BlackBerry 3.2 MPx camera December 10 2010 Friday [ double-click the image for higher resolution and size ] my silver 2001 Suzuki Esteem SW parked facing S by W side of Rancho Alegre Road, my friend Michael H. Barron walking over the ground, as usual littered with sharp rock fragments, towards a enticing 10 m high outcrop of fractured level bedrock -- no fences or warning signs 35.479730 -106.085926 1.865 km el top 2. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01432-20101210-1037.jpg 10:37 AM .939 MB a filled in small mine entrance on the E side of the hill close to the W side of the road 3. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01433-20101210-1040.jpg 10:40 AM 1.04 MB fractured 1-2 m bedrock blocks in place, with dark
