Re: [FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game

2012-05-30 Thread Greg Sonnenfeld
Just wanted to point out that the C# tested here was done with the recently made community Mono engine. Not the mature .NET engine. Greg Sonnenfeld “Two h's walk into a bar. The first one says, What is this? Some kind of physics joke?” On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:12

[FRIAM] SF Complex closing this Friday. Final event celebration and Thank You to the Santa Fe community

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen Guerin
Santa Fe Complex Community, This Friday will be the final event at Santa Fe Complex. We plan to go out with a strong Thank You celebration to the Santa Fe community for its support over our last 4 years! Please come out this Fri June 1 from 6p-10p for two great two simultaneous shows: -

[FRIAM] wireless hotspot help!

2012-05-30 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I am struggling with my new MIFI box from Verizon and I am wondering if there is a standard download/upload task I can give it to see if I am actually getting faster service than through dial up. It feels AWFULLY slow right now. I am in the mosquito infested bog in massashusetts about 3 miles

Re: [FRIAM] wireless hotspot help!

2012-05-30 Thread Douglas Roberts
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: I am struggling with my new MIFI box from Verizon and I am wondering if there is a standard download/upload task I can give it to see if I am actually getting faster

[FRIAM] re diagnosis

2012-05-30 Thread peggy miller
To Sarah -- go see a Chinese/Ayurvedic Medicinal Herbalist. There are ways to help your arthritis besides just computer aids! Seriously. Peggy -- Miss Peggy Miller, owner/OEO Highland Winds wix.com/peggymiller/highlandwinds Art Studio/HerbShop is at 1520 S. 7th St. W. (Just off Russell, four

Re: [FRIAM] re diagnosis

2012-05-30 Thread Dean Gerber
To Sarah' You have probably already done this, but if not please go to a board certified Rheumatologist at good hospital or Medical Center.  There have been many advances in treatment in recent years, and a medically sound diagnosis is essential, as is the advice and treatment options offered

Re: [FRIAM] SF Complex closing this Friday. Final event celebration and Thank You to the Santa Fe community

2012-05-30 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Steve, I am sorry I cannot be there. I am in the bog. Santa Fe should be grateful for what you-all have accomplished in this time. I look forward to your next re-incarnation, whatever it might be. Hugs all around, Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com

[FRIAM] List of Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-30 Thread Jochen Fromm
Hi Nick, I went to the library today and picked up a standard textbook about psychology (Drew Westen, Psychology, Wiley, 2002). Then I selected the most interesting questions from all the central questions I found. Which are already answered and which are largely unsolved? A) (neuroscience)

Re: [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

2012-05-30 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I found the article horrifying. Is anybody old enough to remember a sixties research project with a cute name which centered around a long running debate concerning whether setting off an abomb in the upper atmosphere would obliterate the vanallen belts, destroy the ozone layer, or just set

Re: [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

2012-05-30 Thread Carl Tollander
I think it was called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Theodore Sturgeon. I recall there were giant squid. On 5/30/12 9:01 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I found the article horrifying. Is anybody old enough to remember a sixties research project with a cute name which centered around a

Re: [FRIAM] List of Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-30 Thread Carl Tollander
If you're going to talk about the brain, you need to pause slightly before you say it, then turn your head a degree or two, lift your chin slightly, look nobly into the distance, and say it in quotes. the brain. Suddenly someone stands, we all raise our glasses, and they say,