Re: [FRIAM] I am not Unique

Personally, I found that article was terrible. Maybe the New Yorker is the appropriate place as it reminds of many New Yorkers’ attitude about the rest of the world. I’ve spent over 50 years in travel (not tourism) in around 80 countries, lived in four, visited over 20 professionally, trekked

Re: [FRIAM] IEEE Milestone celebrating computer graphics history at U of Utah

Sadly Frank most of them are younger than us except for Sutherland.Sent from my iPhoneOn Mar 28, 2023, at 7:47 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:Distinguished graybeards.  I got my PhD in 1978.  Am I as old as that guy??---Frank C. Wimberly140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505505 670-9918Santa Fe, NMOn

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

You can feel better: 0.7 ** 10 ~= 0.028. That's 40% better, although, it’s hard to believe that the 0.3 per year is constant for 10 years. Or even correct. The charts from real data seem to show the probability of an 80 year old making it to 90 is 30%. Ed ___ Ed Angel

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

Is there an alternate location if you find it’s closed? Please text or email me if you find it closed in the morning. I can’t get there until after 9:30. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of

Re: [FRIAM] Mike Daly death?

He was there two Fridays ago but we exchanged email last week. Ed Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2022, at 11:39 PM, George Duncan wrote: > >  > That was what I was trying to remember > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University > georgeduncanart.com >

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

I started at Caltech in 1960, the year before Feynman Physics. Before Feynman took over the course, freshman physics was a terrible course that focused for the first two quarters on mechanics problems with a lot of strings and pulleys. I hated it. Feynman once claimed he started Feynman Physics

[FRIAM] Covid

I tested positive for Covid twice yesterday. Fairly mild symptoms: achy and a sore throat. I thought it was an allergy but decided to get tested since we were expecting visitors. I didn’t get the symptoms till Monday evening so there is a fair chance I might have caught it either at FRIAM at

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

It’s much kinder number in hexidecimal. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] Application of robo-pigeon in ethological studies of bird flocks

We were in Taiwan during their first truly democratic election. The U.S. media was filled with dire predictions of imminent war. The reality was that no one in Taiwan was worried about an attack. China and Taiwan, in spite of the rhetoric, were deeply coupled economically and war would be

Re: [FRIAM] Call blockers

We get nomobobo for free from Comcast on our landline. It works real well with known numbers in their database and with numbers we add. We still get a lot of calls that use false local numbers that nomorobo can’t really block. We don’t add these numbers to the nomorobo database since they are

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

There are some references to using tensor products to solve potential equations that go back to 1964. They involve inverting (division?) of a tensor product matrix. I had some of this in my thesis (1968) and is also on the book I wrote that came our around 1972. I only have one copy left (its

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

I remember from my days doing systems and controls that the Kronecker product arises when you extend 1D methods for linear-quadradic problems to 2D. I actually used it in my thesis. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS

Re: [FRIAM] My plan to disrupt education

ome) edward.an...@gmail.com <mailto:edward.an...@gmail.com> > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > > > > On Oct 30, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Frank Wimberly <mailto:wimber...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > >

Re: [FRIAM] My plan to disrupt education

I think the definition of Hispanic-serving is based on the percentage of Hispanic students which is very high at Highlands. The first year I was at UNM, a colleague and I went to career day at Highlands. Because Highlands lacked an Engineering program, we thought it would be an excellent

Re: [FRIAM] we are lost

Reasonableness is in the eye of the beholder. I doubt many Democrats would consider their economic and social positions reasonable. Getting primaried is an issue for all of them. Kinzinger is out. Cheney is in an enormous flight to get reniminated and Romney has to contend with far right

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

<mailto:stephen.gue...@simtable.com> >> CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com <http://www.simtable.com/> >> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 >> twitter: @simtable >> z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtab

Re: [FRIAM] Position Available

The upper Colorado and Green above Cataract Canyon were navigable in the 1800’s and 1900’s between Moab and Green River. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

Close: https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/ ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136

Re: [FRIAM] Dancing Robots

While I was in grad school around 1966, we had a big ARPA (?) grant to build a robotic horse. It was designed to be able to move with any of the possible gaits. The project was not successful because the horse was very heavy and the available motors at the time could not move it fast enough to

Re: [FRIAM] solving mazes

Constructing a maze by removing walls and finding a path through a maze are very similar and can be done by recursion or backtracking, both of which are equivalent to a mouse leaving his scent along a path and then backing up to a place opening without a scent when it hits a dead end. Ed >

Re: [FRIAM] Watching a Moose solve a Maze Re: solving mazes

I used to give this problem to my graphics students. Here’s one 2D version https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fTNJb4hhgR-6LySQspgM9k-J27KwuLpl?usp=sharing It will generate a new maze each time it’s

Re: [FRIAM] coding versus music

luable delusion." > From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. > "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest > power." Joanna Macy. > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:53 PM Edw

Re: [FRIAM] coding versus music

Going back to Dave’s original post, to me a big part of the issue is what is meant by “coding.” Unfortunately for manys in CS education, coding has come to refer only to the very last step in a complex process; namely, converting a final detailed set of instructions into computer code for a

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

I wrote the following for Reuben Hersh’s memorial. The story is from when Reuben, Vera and I were in the same carpool to UNM. During one of our commutes, Reuben and I were sharing the back seat and Reuben brought up the subject of quaternions. For the mathematician quaternions, which are the

Re: [FRIAM] Abducktion

Literally it says “it pleases me” which is the passive voice leading to the question who is “it?" ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon

Re: [FRIAM] "certain codes of conduct"

Gary, Does temporally past the age of direct involvement imply we’ll be more involved when we’re 80? or 90? Seriously though, I believe a lot can be accomplished by us old farts by being willing to get out of our comfort zones. A few years ago I would have never thought I’d be involved

Re: [FRIAM] albuquerque

It’s not an ABQ problem as much as a Bernalillo sheriff problem. He’s been at odds with the mayor, the council, the governor and the senator for a long time. Among other things he fought body cams for the police. ABQ has long had a serious problem with the police shooting people. A few years

Re: [FRIAM] square land math question

There really does not need to be a difference, Coordinate free geometry is much like vector analysis. You have the equivalent of axioms and I suppose if you so desire you can bring in formal proofs and all the other concepts you like. But what it does for me is give a unified view of linear

Re: [FRIAM] square land math question

Why would you call the limit of the increasing smaller squares a “square”? Would you still say it has a dimension of 2? It has no area and no perimeter. In fractal geometry we can create objects with only slightly different constructions that in the limit have a zero area and an infinite

Re: [FRIAM] Pechakucha Santa Fe

When we did these at the SF Complex, part of the fun was that there was no topic and presenters could talk about anything. And they did. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

t; > > [†] I'm currently (slowly, as usual) reading a nice little book called > "Ignorance" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13574594-ignorance > <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13574594-ignorance> that makes this > point nicely. I put the book down in di

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

on to, and use of libgen is an ethical > question, do you think someone who decides they *should* participate in the > project has made a reasonable ethical choice? > > > [†] I still wonder why they never invited us to their GoT parties. >8^D > > On 7/5/20 4:47 PM,

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

of what is right > is that the availability for copying of material should ideally be in the > hands of the author. My two cents worth. > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:11 PM Sarbajit Roy <mailto:sroy...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I got your book from here > https://www.pdfdrive.

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

> dished out by your publisher's marketing team to "potential" customers. > > Sarbajit > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:52 AM Edward Angel <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu>> wrote: > I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbook author since 1989. My > computer graphi

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

Publishers are not good guys. One counter example: CRC Press returned the copyright to a couple books in which I had chapters because there weren’t many sales and we were able to put our chapters online. The books had only been out a couple of years. Pearson has violated by contract in a way

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

Yes. libgen is a mirror site for libgen.io that has everything on it. It gets taken down every once in a while. They lost a suit from the publishers but being located in Eastern Europe that doesn’t help. When I first went to the site, it asked me to turn off my add blocker

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

t; physical card. > > PPS: 8th edition isn't the default choice edition on Amazon or Pearson when > searching. > > > > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:22 PM Edward Angel <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu>> wrote: > I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbook author

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbook author since 1989. My computer graphics textbook has been the most popular book in the area for 20 years and just came out in its eighth edition with various editions being available in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian. Sadly, the book

Re: [FRIAM] evaporative cooling

https://www.fieldstudyoftheworld.com/persian-ice-house-how-make-ice-desert/ ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM: The Comic Edition: April 2020

Who dod the comic? Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu

Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

The best known tornado simulation has a small anti-cyclone on the side. The narrator describes it as “a rarely see anit-cyclone.” Having asked many time whether it ever has been seen, the answer seems to be “not yet.” Clearly the one in the visualization is an artifact from an imperfect model.

Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

Also even if they are not like bow ties, quadrilaterals need not be flat. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501

Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

Look at Donna Cox’s site at NCSA http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/who-we-are/team/donna-cox-director She’s been doing tornado simulations for over 15 years. We worked with her to put the simulation in planetarium dome. It’s much

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Most elder facilities do not require the huge buy in. In NM there are a large number of smaller facilities that can house up to ten people and are much less expensive. There are also larger ones that are pretty good that don’t have a buy in and charge less than 6K/month although are still out

Re: [FRIAM] Shakira and Plato

No, for you to have a career as sexy singer. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19y bb

The point is that if you check your blood oxygen level you might catch the problem before it is so bad that you have to be put on a ventilator and probably won’t survive. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

We’ve had two life-threatening incidents, one trekking in Nepal and the other in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where the availability of a pulse oximeter made all the difference. We now routinely check our oxygenation with one. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art,

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Nick, I have no problem with anyone wanting to support their local barista. Please remember also that the Food Bank really needs funds. I do have a problem with your view of the 60’s. Those young folks you remember were almost 100% white middle class kids, Almost no blacks, hispanics, native

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> > > > From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On > Behalf Of Edward Angel > Sen

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

This weekend I received an email from a good friend in NZ. Unlike the U.S, NZ spent the last two months preparing for what is happening now. For example, the schools spent a lot of time preparing teachers to be able to teach effectively on line. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

The issue in NM and other poor places around the world is not the debate about whether people should or should not have children but what to do about the children who exist. Do we really want to hold the children responsible for the” sins" of their parents? It seems we who have benefited either

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

Although I totally agree with Merle on the moral issues, I doubt we are going to change any minds on this list. I would like to comment on some of the economic and scientific issues. Over the 40 years I’ve been here, I’ve worked with the labs in open areas (visualization, remediation,

[FRIAM] Microcontroller event at Meow Wolf reminder

The microcontroller event at Meow Wolf is less than two weeks away on March 8. The event started as a microbit event but we’ve expanded it to include all kinds of devices, Some of you indicated that you’d bring a project to demo. The event is open to the public but we expect to have a lot of

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

lking about homology groups. > > --Barry > > On 2 Feb 2019, at 12:56, Tom Johnson wrote: > > How did the melting wax exit the sphere? Probably a hole. So how did you > patch the hole to retain perfect symmetry > T? > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 10:03 PM Edward Angel &

Re: [FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

You might also like Nate Silver’s book “The Signal and the Noise”. It’s almost non technical and has interesting examples of the use and non use of Bayesian reasoning from the house market collapse to evaluating baseball players. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research,

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

For two summers while I was an undergrad I worked on a crack propagation project that was using high speed photography to image crack propagation on thin seamless 18” copper cylinders. During the first summer, I made the cylinders by first making solid wax molds that I lathed to the right

Re: [FRIAM] Few of you ...

Herman Wouk’s brother Victor is credited with being the inventor of the hybrid car. He interviewed me for Caltech when I was a senior in high school. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,

[FRIAM] Micro:bit event March 8

On March 8 4-6 PM, there will be a community micro:bit event at Meow Wolf, jointly sponsored by Meow Wolf, the Computer Science Alliance and the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. It will bring together students, teachers, parents, hackers and many others including I hopeFRIAM and Wedtech to demo,

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

One consequence of the present situation that will have long term consequences is even though the amount of research funding in CS is high, universities are having trouble attracting high quality graduate students, the next generation of educators. Although this situation has little to do with

Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

I would have grabbed the gas station job. I spent a summer working in a warehouse for $1 hour (no benefits too). My boss’ boss, recognizing what I good worker I was, tried to get me to not return to Caltech and keep working in the warehouse. After all, my direct boss was making $60/week after

[FRIAM] Fwd: input needed- expanding Computer Science education in Santa Fe schools

Please consider filling out the survey, especially if you live in Santa Fe. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501

Re: [FRIAM] Chess and Horses

After FRIAM, I remembered the name of the USC Chess Player: Albert Zobrist. He invented Zobrist hashing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobrist_hashing ) which is fundamental to all chess playing programs. He created the first go program too

Re: [FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

o > ubiquitously... sort of the "Hello World" of CG. But probably nothing about > culinary arts or kitchens or even the British love of Tea is likely to be > significant. > > - Stve > > On 2/24/18 6:57 PM, Edward Angel wrote: >> I found the email wit

Re: [FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

I found the email with David’s question for me re the Lena image. I don’t think the Lena image had anything significant to do with the decline in the percentage of women going into CS. It was a very limited group of people that actually dealt with or even saw the image. And they were almost all

Re: [FRIAM] Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker

Both Owen and I were in Rochester in the mid 70’s. Owen was a Xerox and I was at the U of Rochester. We were working with the same people but somehow never met. In the early 80’s I did some consulting with National Computing Systems. They made the machines that read and scored standardized

Re: [FRIAM] What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - The Atlantic

There are a number of things that bother me about the article. First, most (poor) people don’t need a bunch of academics to tell them that a higher wage is an illusion if the cost of living is astronomical. Second, regardless of your philosophical position on affordable housing, as hinted at

[FRIAM] Fwd: October 13 Talk with ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Silvio Micali on Algorand and More Efficient Blockchains

Those of you interested in security (e.g. bitcoin and data) might be interested in this webinar next week. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017

[FRIAM] TEST

Checking if the server has been blacklisted at UNM. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] (amused): Re: Spam solutions

Check out nomorobo.com. It’s free on landlines if the carrier supports it. Small monthly charge for cell phones. We have it since we have a comcast digital phone at home. It captures almost 100% of the robo calls. If one gets through, we can add the number to their data base. Only one every

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

At the risk of pissing off a lot of my friends, Owen's proposal strikes me as tokenism at its worst. If we elites want to do more than talking to and emailing each other, I’d suggest that we instead spend some of our time doing something to help the sad state of education and the economy in NM.

Re: [FRIAM] what other subject is there this morning

Even if Congress were willing to get rid of the EC, the constitutional amendment could never get enough states to pass it. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

There is a large group of distinguished people including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Joy and Martin Rees, who believe that AI is an existential threat and the probability of the human race surviving another 100 years is less than 50/50. Stephen Hawking has said he has no idea what to do

Re: [FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

Relevant to what? Certainly not to becoming a film editor. He probably got good advice at the Filmmakers Institute. I have a couple of close friends whose children married aspiring film editors and writers. The great education my friends' children got at the best universities went to

[FRIAM] Fwd: [1st-mile-nm] Akamai Report

At least we’re tied for 49th; usually we stand alone in 49th place. ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136

Re: [FRIAM] Ting Internet | Crazy fast fiber Internet for US cities

mpson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com > <mailto:friam-boun...@red

Re: [FRIAM] Ting Internet | Crazy fast fiber Internet for US cities

I have a difficult time believing that Ting will decide to come here. Some of the reasons: The pricing is very interesting. Right now I pay about $60/month for 80 mbps downloads and 5-6 mbps uploads. The service has been very reliable. So it sounds good to have the possibility of getting

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Grumble- NM's crappy internet

I now see the brilliance of the City putting $1M to get a connection in the Railyard. As we’re all lined up with our computers waiting a turn to back them up, we’ll want to have coffee, dinner, maybe even shop. We’ll be resurrecting the Railyard. It would be sort of like old paintings of people

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

When I met the (present) mayor, he asked me if I thought the project was just throwing $1M into a hole in the ground. It seems the answer is clear. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

I don’t know if the Qwest lawsuit over the Communications Franchise Ordinance was ever settled. I would think that unless the ordinance was fixed, it will be hard for companies to provide services via this new link. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research,

Re: [FRIAM] digital ethics

From an author's perspective: 1. By downloading a pirated copy, you lower the number of books a library will purchase which does cost the author. 2. Having a permanent copy has some value over a library book for many people. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology

Re: [FRIAM] digital ethics

, but I don't think they've done it yet. Az doesn't offer pdf's yet but I'm sure they'll both improve their page references etc, and go multiformat sometime. -- Owen On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: From an author's perspective: 1

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

In addition to the other reasons for offsite backup, let me add break-ins. Mush more likely than a fire. Within two minutes your computers can all be gone. I doubt any statistics on disk failures. I've had two backup disks and an internal disk fail in the last year. Two of the failures were on

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

Unable to find a VHS player to buy, I bought a refurbished VHS/DVD recorder from Best Buy for about $100 which works fine for transferring VHS to DVD. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

_ On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: You can specify directories or back up the whole disk. Being a little cheap and having 3 computers on my account, I don't back up the OS or some aps that are easy to reload. You pay by the how much space

Re: [FRIAM] World Religions

In the recent documentary Marley there's footage of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Apr 4, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: I'm pretty simplistic about it and use mozy. My computers are backed up automatically and I don't spend any time thinking about

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

I'm pretty simplistic about it and use mozy. My computers are backed up automatically and I don't spend any time thinking about it. The two times there was a failure of their data base on my machine getting corrupted, they were able to recover everything quickly. When we returned to NM after

Re: [FRIAM] MacPro Wifi compatibility in France

I never had any problems with my Mac Air traveling all over France and northern Italy. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

Pov-Ray is pretty standard. What kinds of output does Sketch-Up provide? Pete Shirley (formerly Utah, now Nvidia) was working on GPU ray tracers. There is also an example of a WebGL fragment shader ray tracer in WebGL Beginners Guide. If you have Obj files, there are Obj to JS converters so

Re: [FRIAM] Just For Ed

I'll have to revise all my earlier posts. Definitely worthy of at least 3 credits in any program at the best universities. Theory and practice, what more could one ask for. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

a substantial, radical and revolutionary change. davew On Sun, Mar 31, 2013, at 03:30 PM, Edward Angel wrote: Dave, Actually, I had only one very slight disagreement with you which I kind of forgot about by the end of my email. I have no problem with what you are proposing and should

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

Dave, I don't think interesting describes my response to this post. More like disgusted. I would have said outraged but I'm getting too used to seeing nonsense on the web to respond as I used to. Although I agree with most of the points you and Bruce made, I disagree in a couple of important

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

of corresponding one-semester university courses. Bruce On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: Dave, I don't think interesting describes my response to this post. More like disgusted. I would have said outraged but I'm getting too used to seeing nonsense

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

There are a lot statistics for Engineering and CS salaries. I believe the major factor is that while engineering/CS professor salaries have gone up at about the same rate as those in industry, the typical teaching load has more than dropped in half. Consequently, the cost of teaching a student

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

31, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: Let me ask you the following question: Do you think that the student who chooses digipen will get a better CS education that if she went to the University of Washington which has one of the top CS programs? How does the answer depend

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

about graduation rates for on-line schools, like Full Sail University or Walden? I think the Feds have started requiring for-profits to start posting this data, but could not find it in a cursory search. davew On Sun, Mar 31, 2013, at 09:48 AM, Edward Angel wrote: Dave

Re: [FRIAM] perplexed by netflix

We're still all DVD and all Blue Ray. We get maybe 1 in 10 with a problem, usually a scratch. One potential issue may be an old DVD player. New features on DVDs can require at least a software upgrade to the player. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

I got the call a couple of months ago. He tried to give the impression that he was working for Microsoft and they were doing the monitoring. He got very flustered when I pointed out that I had only Apple hardware and didn't run Windows. That didn't stop him from continuing his pitch. I finally

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

didn't give him the chance to get annywhere when could bairly say Microsoft I just hung up. That virln(Roach) is probably scurring around I doubt that the kind of person that goes to or is on the FRIAM list is his mark. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: I

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

I doubt this is still true but when I was younger the maps showed that Saudi Arabia was on solar time, i.e. the time depended on where you were standing. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer

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