Yes, that's what makes this whole episode so bizarre: Google owns that
phone. They had LG manufacture it for them. Google owns Android - it's
theirs! And they failed to make the phone work. And since it's an unlocked
GSM phone, the operator is not an issue: purchase a sim card from any GSM
There was a very interesting article in Time last October. The reporter took
three versions of an introductory physics course: one at an elite university,
one at an inner-city community college and one with a MOOC. Her observations
were that each was suited for some and not for others. The
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Nick: Just in case it wasn't clear, the friam list is on two mail
archives that are searchable, although not particularly well.
Try Googling:
friam redfish nick thompson
or:
friam redfish Preserving email correspondence
or simply searching
I'm not surprised MOOCs have a high dropout rate: they're designed that
way. You sign up for 2-3 of them and stay in the one you like most.
MOOCs are likely to have a great impact on the firewalled papers problem
(JSTOR etc) by providing enough clout to build their own open repositories.
And
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/01/semi-final-note-on-nexus-4.html
Nice post! And its interesting to see there are quite a few folks aware of
Google's apparent indifference.
My puzzle is just Why?. Hasn't
I'm gonna hazard the opinion that you don't get indifference. It is a
mind set that, by its nature you can't self detect if you have it.
Microsoft has had it on and off over the years. LANL had it for most of
the 20 year period that I worked there. Google has it in spades. Last
year I was
As a side note, the careful observer will notice that I did not post that
last blog article until *after* I had received the RMA authorization and
UPS shipping label from Google...
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
I'm gonna hazard the opinion that
Nick: could you do me a favor? After all the input, could you sorta play
scenarios or prototypes?
These are common design practices that take an idea and actually mock it
up. Scenarios include workflow .. i.e. how the design is used on a
daily, weekly, and archive basis. Prototypes are a crude
I'm willing to donate a FRIAM license of
MyIdeaTreehttp://www.myideatree.com(drag and drop building of
network graphs from links). I'd learn a ton
about usability from that. The email / blog content would have to be
located on the web somewhere.
Ron
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Owen
Thanks, Owen.
I fooled around with the problem a bit more yesterday and immediately
encountered a problem I hadn't expected. It was easy to collect all the
emails from one them in one place, but NOT easy to get an email, with it's
headers, into text. Apparently in email (unlike in the
All of which is true, Owen, but I'm afraid you're making the natural
mistake of extrapolating from your own interests, experiences, and high
capabilities. The people like you and others on this list are in the world
at large a set of measure zero, albeit a set we don't want to neglect or
fail to
Right, Owen. I will try to mock it up. But perhaps not immediately. My
thought was to take one of the recent FRIAM orgies and organize it by hand
as I think it should be when it has been processed by the program I hope to
invent for myself (stifled laughter in the background). Somebody has
Regard motivation and opportunity, I keep hearing anecdotes, like dropping
a shipment of tablets, with no explanation, no instructions, manuals in
English, in an African village where no one speaks English...and five
months later they are teaching themselves English and have hacked the
tablets in
MOOCs have had two great benefits. First they have shaken up the universities,
which hopefully will lead them to address the educational issues they have
avoiding dealing with for a long time. Second, they do provide access to people
who would otherwise have none.
Nevertheless, I see them as
My spin on the MOOC's is that they set teachers free to teach rather than
wasting everyone's time posing as authorities dispensing lectures. Most
teachers cannot be authorities in all the courses they teach, and very few
people are really good lecturers. Though we're doing undergraduate and
Jochen Fromm,
Which would require us to migrate FRIAM to a forum, right?
I hear that gmail is more forum like in how it keeps mail. I should look
into that. Perhaps it's just a matter of my receiving my mail in a
different mail handler.
N
-Original Message-
From: Friam
My gripe with Google is that they chip away at my privacy and then glue the
chips together to build a marketing model of me. A podcast on alternatives to
Google is at http://macpowerusers.com/2012/03/mpu-077-dumping-google/. Too bad
that the content-to-time ratio for podcasts is so low, but it
Yep, if you're going to say it like it is about your employer, better be
prepared for the result.
--Doug
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Barry MacKichan
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote:
My gripe with Google is that they chip away at my privacy and then glue
the chips together to build
Bruce --
I didn't mean to dismiss content expertise altogether. It's impossible to
even begin to make sense of a technical subject without some content
expertise. And you would hope that people who enjoyed facilitating a
subject would continue to deepen their understanding of the subject, and
Interesting...
Here are some ideas to think about or shoot down.
Is there a role for different types of arrows between entities? I can imagine
writing something and wanting to indicate that it is in response to (a
particular paragraph?) of a particular email, but I might also want to point
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:01:21PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Thanks, Owen.
I fooled around with the problem a bit more yesterday and immediately
encountered a problem I hadn't expected. It was easy to collect all the
emails from one them in one place, but NOT easy to get an
Uh, I'm gonna guess that Nick is not a Unix user.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.auwrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:01:21PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Thanks, Owen.
I fooled around with the problem a bit more yesterday and immediately
My mistake in reading your note was to have in mind the local professor,
not undergrad or graduate teaching assistants. In our own implementation of
a giant course, we did quite a lot of training and support of the TAs, and
we structured lab and problem sessions in such a way that the TA needed
But the tools I mentioned are also available on Windows. The main
things to avoid are webmail and the P.O.S. called Outlook.
Cheers
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 03:34:53PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Uh, I'm gonna guess that Nick is not a Unix user.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Russell
Barry,
Yes, arrows can be of different types. Colors are now supported in the UI.
Styles (dotted, etc.) are supported in the backend, only awaiting an
afternoon to put in the UI to select the style you want.
Weighting of arrows is also supported, currently being saved in the shared
database,
P.S., I forgot to mention, there's an API for all of this, to generate
graphs programatically should that become applicable.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Ron Newman ron.new...@gmail.com wrote:
Barry,
Yes, arrows can be of different types. Colors are now supported in the
UI. Styles
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote:
snip
Most striking is that none of the entities providing MOOCs have a
sustainable business model. They are being supported by foundations, such
as the Gates Foundation with the Khan Academy, or as experiments by some of
Right. When we were messing around with SFX's sys admin model, I found
archives for both friam and sfx and found that with a fairly small effort
(l1/2 hr say) could convert them between various formats. This was needed
for an experiment to save the early friam material and to get sfx onto
Not as far as teaching is concerned. That should come from tuition and the
state for public universities. At least it used to. In a typical large
university only about 20% if the budget comes from teaching (tuition plus state
support). That is very different from when we were students.
The
On 1/21/13 3:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Uh, I'm gonna guess that Nick is not a Unix user.
Unix tools are not the best for this kind of task. One would better
served with a programmable editor or e-mail client that can traverse
lines and work in terms of sentences and paragraphs. One
Um, I'm gonna guess that Nick is not an Emacs user. Quite the opposite,
probably.
On Jan 21, 2013 6:33 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote:
On 1/21/13 3:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Uh, I'm gonna guess that Nick is not a Unix user.
Unix tools are not the best for this kind of
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