Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Technology
Google Chromebook: Google's laptops -- made by Samsung and Acer -- are now the two top sellers on Amazon.com, and six out of the top 14 are Google Chromebooks. Talk to many schools and you'll see them either throwing out Microsoft and Apple products already, or plotting to replace them with Chromebooks in the next year or two. 'Why Google's Chromebook Is Better than Windows, Mac and Android' http://www.thestreet.com/googles-chromebook/http://www.thestreet.com/story/12480667/1/why-googles-chromebook-is-better-than-windows-mac-and-android.html?puc=yahoocm_ven=YAHOO On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The Glyph headset is weird-looking and expensive, but amazingly immersive. ... 'The Future of Personal Entertainment' MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523966/the-future-of-personal-entertainment-in-your-face/ On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card It's a payment ritual as familiar as handing over a $20 bill, and it's soon to go extinct: prepare to say farewell to the swipe-and-sign of a credit card transaction. Beginning later next year, you will stop signing those credit card receipts. Instead, you will insert your card into a slot and enter a PIN number, just like people do in much of the rest of the world. http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/october-2015-the-end-of-the-swipe-and-sign-credit-card/ On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Plus maybe you'll be able to use it as a radiation detector: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/17/263369742/weekly-innovation-a-radiation-detector-in-your-smartphone Probably a mistake as the article says CCDs detect radiation but today's devices use CMOS chips for the camera. But at least you can keep up on Fukushima's encroachment on your environment. Happy gamma rays! On 01/31/2014 07:19 AM, Richard Williams wrote: Meet the $38 tablet: Hands-on with DataWind's UbiSlate 7Ci http://shopping.yahoo.com/datawind-ubislatehttp://shopping.yahoo.com/blogs/digital-crave/meet-38-tablet-hands-datawind-ubislate-7ci-185612468.html On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: What People Want YES! I don't want a curved phone. I want one that won't break when dropped, is waterproof, and that I can see in the sun. And with all-day battery life... https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/statuses/423787604559945728 [image: Inline image 2] On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter at 3:00 AM The activity column shows you what everyone you follow on Twitter is doing. It will tell you if someone just favorited a tweet or followed someone new in a constantly moving stream. But if you follow a lot of heavy Twitter users, the feed will often move fast... 'There Are Things You Do On Twitter That Should Only Be Done At 3' AM' http://www.newstimes.com/technology/business/insider/ On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The anti-NSA smartphone? [image: Inline image 1] Blackphone at Popular Mechanics Of course, perfect encryption (which many argue isn't even possible) is a two-way street. Whether calling, emailing, or texting, the level of security is dependent on what tech or services are being used on the other end of the line. Blackphone, the Security-First Smartphone: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tech-news/silent-circle-announces-security-first-smartphone-16384335?click=pm_latest On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Galaxy Nexus 16GB (Unlocked) Lack of an SD card slot and only 16GB of internal memory. This is the only thing that bothers me. However USB OTG solves part of this problem (with a special cable, you can plug in an external mass storage device -- this does not currently work without rooting, but official support will be included in a future firmware update as confirmed by Google). - Amazon review: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/product-reviews/B005ZEF01A/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1 On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Example of abandoned technology: [image: Inline image 1] On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: So, the Obamacare web site isn't working too well - what else is new? Sometimes it's hell working in IT - for years I tried to get the enrollment systems right at a major community college. When I first got there, they were enrolling students using paper and pen and long
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Technology
The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card It's a payment ritual as familiar as handing over a $20 bill, and it's soon to go extinct: prepare to say farewell to the swipe-and-sign of a credit card transaction. Beginning later next year, you will stop signing those credit card receipts. Instead, you will insert your card into a slot and enter a PIN number, just like people do in much of the rest of the world. http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/october-2015-the-end-of-the-swipe-and-sign-credit-card/ On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Plus maybe you'll be able to use it as a radiation detector: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/17/263369742/weekly-innovation-a-radiation-detector-in-your-smartphone Probably a mistake as the article says CCDs detect radiation but today's devices use CMOS chips for the camera. But at least you can keep up on Fukushima's encroachment on your environment. Happy gamma rays! On 01/31/2014 07:19 AM, Richard Williams wrote: Meet the $38 tablet: Hands-on with DataWind's UbiSlate 7Ci http://shopping.yahoo.com/datawind-ubislatehttp://shopping.yahoo.com/blogs/digital-crave/meet-38-tablet-hands-datawind-ubislate-7ci-185612468.html On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: What People Want YES! I don't want a curved phone. I want one that won't break when dropped, is waterproof, and that I can see in the sun. And with all-day battery life... https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/statuses/423787604559945728 [image: Inline image 2] On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Twitter at 3:00 AM The activity column shows you what everyone you follow on Twitter is doing. It will tell you if someone just favorited a tweet or followed someone new in a constantly moving stream. But if you follow a lot of heavy Twitter users, the feed will often move fast... 'There Are Things You Do On Twitter That Should Only Be Done At 3' AM' http://www.newstimes.com/technology/business/insider/ On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: The anti-NSA smartphone? [image: Inline image 1] Blackphone at Popular Mechanics Of course, perfect encryption (which many argue isn't even possible) is a two-way street. Whether calling, emailing, or texting, the level of security is dependent on what tech or services are being used on the other end of the line. Blackphone, the Security-First Smartphone: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tech-news/silent-circle-announces-security-first-smartphone-16384335?click=pm_latest On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Galaxy Nexus 16GB (Unlocked) Lack of an SD card slot and only 16GB of internal memory. This is the only thing that bothers me. However USB OTG solves part of this problem (with a special cable, you can plug in an external mass storage device -- this does not currently work without rooting, but official support will be included in a future firmware update as confirmed by Google). - Amazon review: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/product-reviews/B005ZEF01A/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1 On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Example of abandoned technology: [image: Inline image 1] On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: So, the Obamacare web site isn't working too well - what else is new? Sometimes it's hell working in IT - for years I tried to get the enrollment systems right at a major community college. When I first got there, they were enrolling students using paper and pen and long lines standing out in the sun. Teachers would be sitting at long tables enrolling students one by one - it took all day just to enroll in a few courses. Enrollment was hell back then! Then, we got our first PC - an IBM running on DOS. Instructors would walk all the way across campus just to look at it, not use it, just look at it. The college IT director couldn't understand what we were going to do with all that hard drive space! Today, there are over 5,000 PCs on the main campus and another 5,000 spread out over twenty computer labs on five campuses. And, enrollment is still hell! The school has at least three Oracle databases for student enrollment, one for credit card payments, personal data like adds and drops, grades, and the online library database, and then the course database. Not to mention the 3,000 online courses using the Blackboard database! Who do they think is going to run all this technology with me gone? Go figure. Somebody
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Technology
The Glyph headset is weird-looking and expensive, but amazingly immersive. ... 'The Future of Personal Entertainment' MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523966/the-future-of-personal-entertainment-in-your-face/ On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card It's a payment ritual as familiar as handing over a $20 bill, and it's soon to go extinct: prepare to say farewell to the swipe-and-sign of a credit card transaction. Beginning later next year, you will stop signing those credit card receipts. Instead, you will insert your card into a slot and enter a PIN number, just like people do in much of the rest of the world. http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/october-2015-the-end-of-the-swipe-and-sign-credit-card/ On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Plus maybe you'll be able to use it as a radiation detector: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/17/263369742/weekly-innovation-a-radiation-detector-in-your-smartphone Probably a mistake as the article says CCDs detect radiation but today's devices use CMOS chips for the camera. But at least you can keep up on Fukushima's encroachment on your environment. Happy gamma rays! On 01/31/2014 07:19 AM, Richard Williams wrote: Meet the $38 tablet: Hands-on with DataWind's UbiSlate 7Ci http://shopping.yahoo.com/datawind-ubislatehttp://shopping.yahoo.com/blogs/digital-crave/meet-38-tablet-hands-datawind-ubislate-7ci-185612468.html On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: What People Want YES! I don't want a curved phone. I want one that won't break when dropped, is waterproof, and that I can see in the sun. And with all-day battery life... https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/statuses/423787604559945728 [image: Inline image 2] On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Twitter at 3:00 AM The activity column shows you what everyone you follow on Twitter is doing. It will tell you if someone just favorited a tweet or followed someone new in a constantly moving stream. But if you follow a lot of heavy Twitter users, the feed will often move fast... 'There Are Things You Do On Twitter That Should Only Be Done At 3' AM' http://www.newstimes.com/technology/business/insider/ On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The anti-NSA smartphone? [image: Inline image 1] Blackphone at Popular Mechanics Of course, perfect encryption (which many argue isn't even possible) is a two-way street. Whether calling, emailing, or texting, the level of security is dependent on what tech or services are being used on the other end of the line. Blackphone, the Security-First Smartphone: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tech-news/silent-circle-announces-security-first-smartphone-16384335?click=pm_latest On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Galaxy Nexus 16GB (Unlocked) Lack of an SD card slot and only 16GB of internal memory. This is the only thing that bothers me. However USB OTG solves part of this problem (with a special cable, you can plug in an external mass storage device -- this does not currently work without rooting, but official support will be included in a future firmware update as confirmed by Google). - Amazon review: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/product-reviews/B005ZEF01A/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1 On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Example of abandoned technology: [image: Inline image 1] On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: So, the Obamacare web site isn't working too well - what else is new? Sometimes it's hell working in IT - for years I tried to get the enrollment systems right at a major community college. When I first got there, they were enrolling students using paper and pen and long lines standing out in the sun. Teachers would be sitting at long tables enrolling students one by one - it took all day just to enroll in a few courses. Enrollment was hell back then! Then, we got our first PC - an IBM running on DOS. Instructors would walk all the way across campus just to look at it, not use it, just look at it. The college IT director couldn't understand what we were going to do with all that hard drive space! Today, there are over 5,000 PCs on the main campus and another 5,000 spread out over twenty computer labs on five campuses. And, enrollment is still hell! The school has at least three Oracle databases for
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Plus maybe you'll be able to use it as a radiation detector: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/17/263369742/weekly-innovation-a-radiation-detector-in-your-smartphone Probably a mistake as the article says CCDs detect radiation but today's devices use CMOS chips for the camera. But at least you can keep up on Fukushima's encroachment on your environment. Happy gamma rays! On 01/31/2014 07:19 AM, Richard Williams wrote: Meet the $38 tablet: Hands-on with DataWind's UbiSlate 7Ci http://shopping.yahoo.com/datawind-ubislate http://shopping.yahoo.com/blogs/digital-crave/meet-38-tablet-hands-datawind-ubislate-7ci-185612468.html On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com mailto:pundits...@gmail.com wrote: What People Want YES! I don't want a curved phone. I want one that won't break when dropped, is waterproof, and that I can see in the sun. And with all-day battery life... https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/statuses/423787604559945728 Inline image 2 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com mailto:pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter at 3:00 AM The activity column shows you what everyone you follow on Twitter is doing. It will tell you if someone just favorited a tweet or followed someone new in a constantly moving stream. But if you follow a lot of heavy Twitter users, the feed will often move fast... 'There Are Things You Do On Twitter That Should Only Be Done At 3' AM' http://www.newstimes.com/technology/business/insider/ On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com mailto:pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The anti-NSA smartphone? Inline image 1 Blackphone at Popular Mechanics Of course, perfect encryption (which many argue isn't even possible) is a two-way street. Whether calling, emailing, or texting, the level of security is dependent on what tech or services are being used on the other end of the line. Blackphone, the Security-First Smartphone: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tech-news/silent-circle-announces-security-first-smartphone-16384335?click=pm_latest On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com mailto:pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Galaxy Nexus 16GB (Unlocked) Lack of an SD card slot and only 16GB of internal memory. This is the only thing that bothers me. However USB OTG solves part of this problem (with a special cable, you can plug in an external mass storage device -- this does not currently work without rooting, but official support will be included in a future firmware update as confirmed by Google). - Amazon review: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/ http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/product-reviews/B005ZEF01A/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1 On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com mailto:pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Example of abandoned technology: Inline image 1 On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com mailto:pundits...@gmail.com wrote: So, the Obamacare web site isn't working too well - what else is new? Sometimes it's hell working in IT - for years I tried to get the enrollment systems right at a major community college. When I first got there, they were enrolling students using paper and pen and long lines standing out in the sun. Teachers would be sitting at long tables enrolling students one by one - it took all day just to enroll in a few courses. Enrollment was hell back then! Then, we got our first PC - an IBM running on DOS. Instructors would walk all the way across campus just to look at it, not use it, just look at it. The college IT director couldn't understand what we were going to do with all that hard drive space! Today, there are over 5,000 PCs on the main campus
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Technology for Manifesting Intentions - meeting is changed!
Hey Turq, Susan certainly gets you, me and Vaj's panties in a bunch, doesn't she? Off to manifest some sleep... --- On Fri, 9/19/08, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Technology for Manifesting Intentions - meeting is changed! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:01 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan my3paths@ wrote: Hi everyone, The first meeting of the Technology for Manifesting Intentions group that was scheduled for Sept 19 at 7:30 at Revelations in Fairfield is being postponed due to a very exciting new development. Tommorrow night, Sept 19 at 8pm at Dalby Hall in the Argiro Student Center (MUM campus) there is a free showing of the movie THE SECRET and then John Hagelin and Michael Beckwith, both of whom are featured speakers in the movie, will be there live for a discussion afterwards. So I am postponing our first meeting one week so that everyone can go and see the movie in the fabulous new Dalby Hall and have a chance to hear John Hagelin and Michael Beckwith talk about the technologies for manifesting yoru intentions!!! Support of nature - we couldn't begin our group meetings with a better opportunity! See you all there. Any questions please call 760 687-5911 Sincerely, Susan Sayler Translation: No one expressed the slightest bit of interest in my group meetings. I'm going to pretend that it was because of a film scheduled at the same time (that I was too 'unsupported by nature' to know about and plan around) and not because no one buys into this moodmaking shit I'm trying to peddle. Furthermore, by sending this out, I'm going to co-opt anyone who DOES attend the film so that later I can suggest that they're part of my group. Susan, Just to follow up a bit, and hopefully a bit less snide, the above was my first reaction to this announcement. This is my second. I, for one, am not convinced about all this manifesting intentions stuff. What I have seen for decades now, among anyone who believes that what they're doing is manifesting intentions, is that what they're really doing is what I mentioned once before, Moodmaking, moodmaking, moodmaking. I've heard people say things like (literally), Yes, I parked my car last night with its tail end sticking out into the intersection and it got totalled by a garbage truck this morning, so I won't be able to use it to drive to the job interview I should be going to, but all of this is *really* the support of nature because now I can use the insurance money I'm going to get for my car to pay my rent for the next month, and don't need to find that job after all. I can just sit and meditate and wait for the next 'support of nature' event. Call me an old cynic, but this sounds a lot to me *not* like support of nature but more like train- ing oneself to moodmake pretty much anything that happens into Something good is happening and pretend that you're having support of nature. What ever happened to, if you want something, actually *working* to achieve it? What ever happened to expending a little *effort* to achieve one's goals, be they personal or universal? What ever happened to taking some individual respons- ibility for one's individual karma? I think Maharishi did tens of thousands of people and the whole New Age that emerged from meditation and Eastern thought being introduced to the West a huge and terrible disservice. Do less and accom- plish more and Do nothing and accomplish every- thing is IMO a lazy, non-evolutionary approach to life, a way to systematically avoid DOING THE WORK. What I suspect (although I may be wrong) is that your group, if it ever forms, is going to present a bunch of buzzwords and ways of thinking that allow people who don't want to or are not willing to DO THE WORK to moodmake anything that happens to them as 1) support of nature, and 2) having manifested their intentions. I have rarely seen anyone *really* manifest their intentions using any of this New Age crap. But I've seen a lot of people *claim* that they have. I've seen them take credit for the weather or for things that are clearly out of their control or anyone/ anything else's control, I've seen them claim that serious fuckups and oversights and laziness on their part resulted in good things. And basically, I have seen them waste their lives on this stuff instead of picking a few *good* intentions and then just going out and DOING THE WORK necessary to achieve them. Since gathering a group of people around yourself seems to be one of *your* intentions, and since Fairfield seems to have more suckers per square
