Again, acting in my capacity as the Village Pragmatist, I would assert that
science is the only procedure capable of producing lasting consensus. The
other methods various forms of torture, mostly ... do not produce such
enduring results. N
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:fri
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 you use for up to three computers
on the basic plan. I think carbonite is about the same.
E
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Edward Angel 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 it. The two times
> there was a failure of their data base on my machine getting corrupted,
> they were able to r
.. but I think this will change the stats:
http://www.iclarified.com/28870/watch-the-first-facebook-home-ad-video
Amazing: Facebook/Android adds are a'coming!
-- Owen
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30
I find this a bit hard to believe .. I thought Android was more dominant. I
think the numbers are off, but..
http://www.iclarified.com/28871/apple-extends-smartphone-market-share-lead-over-samsung-chart
..sez:
Apple has extended its smartphone market share lead over Samsung and is
closing th
Just one small teensy note of clarification: I usually only insult
people who disagree with me when they are/have been complete assholes
about it. Which fortunately narrows the field down a bit.
-Doug
I can testify to this, as I disagree with Doug often and he only insults
me when he's bei
your certain kind of zeel would make for a great sith lord-
Just need to figure out how get you intune with the force enough to get
people to come attend at the new sith temple
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Doug if I may observe that you and Howl(sp) seem to have a gr
Doug if I may observe that you and Howl(sp) seem to have a great noes for
asshoelery though in your case from what I can tell your ire for at least
google and people not linux friendly goes up almost instantly.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Just one small teensy note o
I think the church of satan grotos do that.
Maybe we can start a sith and or jedi temple.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> I personally find it disappointing that so many people are willing to
> adopt a belief set with no evidence, based solely on what someone said was
>
Just one small teensy note of clarification: I usually only insult people
who disagree with me when they are/have been complete assholes about it.
Which fortunately narrows the field down a bit.
-Doug
On Apr 4, 2013 6:11 PM, "glen" wrote:
> Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/04/2013 04:45 PM:
> > I wa
Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/04/2013 04:45 PM:
> I was using "evidence" in the scientific sense,
You say that as if everyone agrees on the scientific sense of the term,
which of course they don't. Even reputable scientists disagree on what
constitutes evidence. I know you're willing to insult an
I'm guessing I would have liked your dad, Steve.
--Doug
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Doug -
>
> On a related note, now would appear to be an excellent time to start a
> church, impose mandatory weekly attendance upon the faithful, and charge
> $20 a head at the door ea
Doug -
On a related note, now would appear to be an excellent time to start a
church, impose mandatory weekly attendance upon the faithful, and
charge $20 a head at the door each week.
Clearly you haven't been to FRIAM (in person) lately... you are in
arrears on your dues! We'll take it out of
Well, I suppose. I was using "evidence" in the scientific sense, rather
than the political one, or the one which so many idiots prefer to use which
could loosely defined as "I choose to believe, so there is plenty of
evidence to support my belief."
--Doug
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:37 PM, glen wr
Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/04/2013 04:21 PM:
> I personally find it disappointing that so many people are willing to adopt
> a belief set with no evidence, based solely on what someone said was The
> Truth.
Yeah, but the real problem is equivocation around the word "evidence".
--
=><= glen e. p
I personally find it disappointing that so many people are willing to adopt
a belief set with no evidence, based solely on what someone said was The
Truth.
On a related note, now would appear to be an excellent time to start a
church, impose mandatory weekly attendance upon the faithful, and charg
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:00 PM, cody dooderson wrote:
> It says asm.js only uses numbers. There are no strings or objects. Is that
> true? I think that might be hard to use.
>
Yup. At this point they would have you push "structs" into the TypedArrays
the same way webgl does, when you interleave
Maybe just a pipe dream at this point, but maybe I can have my cake and eat it
too:
http://www.cuencahighlife.com/post/2013/03/31/Ecuadore28099s-ambitious-e28098City-of-Knowledgee28099-project-aims-at-attracting-the-worlde28099s-top-talent.aspx
Since I live a couple of hours from there, I'll be
Nick -
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who take Gullibility
to excess and those who take Skepticism to excess.
I happen to be of the third kind, one who tends to take *both* to
excess... I'm not sure if that helps me get on the world, but I'm not
sure I have a choice anymo
Yes but ...
I didn't believe Watergate the first few times I heard about it, either.
"You aren't telling me that a president that was going to win an election in
a walk actually sent Burglars into the Democratic Headquarters?" I just
could not believe that they could be so stupid. I fell for
There are a surprising number of them on facebook, Nick. To nobody's great
surprise, I guess.
--Doug
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Nicholas Thompson <
nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Doug,
>
> ** **
>
> Somebody laid the chemtrails thing on me the other day … an otherwise
> perfectl
Doug,
Somebody laid the chemtrails thing on me the other day . an otherwise
perfectly sensible neighbor . and I was left standing in the street with my
jaw hanging open. What do you say when somebody your sort of like, touches
you on the upper arm, points skyward and says, "Call me nuts, but
Ron -
I get your point, Doug. I had to suppress the desire to roll my eyes
when once I met someone who looked up at the sky and spoke confidently
of chemtrails.
I generally feel the same way, and this is usually abutted with
something about crop circles and maybe a reference to the grassy kno
All this contrasery over the sigh.
I think sigh and sighing is a good thing it can lead to interesting
conversations. :P
On 4/4/13, Ron Newman wrote:
> I get your point, Doug. I had to suppress the desire to roll my eyes when
> once I met someone who looked up at the sky and spoke confidently of
It says asm.js only uses numbers. There are no strings or objects. Is that
true? I think that might be hard to use.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote:
> I read the first half of their tutorial last night. I looks that they have
> attacked one
Interesting. I suppose I'm guilty of dysrhetorica, here. My intention
in describing my friend who is now receiving acupuncture was to orient
the conversation towards _action_ and away from thoughts about Truth. I
tend to try telling stories of my actual experience with actual people
and events
There have also been scientific studies involving something called that
"nocebo" effect, in which expectations of harm are self-fulfilling. I
apologize that I can't at the moment find references to the following two
examples.
People who felt themselves sensitive or insensitive to cell phone radiat
I think the distinction is about *confirmation bias*?
If you assume that placebo effects are in some way *bad* and that we
need to seek ways to predict their effect waning or seek to determine
when and how to "burst the placebo bubble" most gently then that is what
we will find... examples of
Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/04/2013 11:37 AM:
> you often see what you look for.
I'll raise you and assert that you _always_ see what you look for ...
which takes me back to Kauffman's paper and his failure to cite Robert
Rosen's treatment of anticipatory systems (aka final cause). Our
expectati
Glen -
I always ask them why they feel the need to take a class? Just jump in
and start doing it. Why not just buy a guitar and start banging on it?
Why do you feel the need to "take a class"? They always answer with
weird (to me) justificationism and excuses. "I'm not disciplined
enough."
I get your point, Doug. I had to suppress the desire to roll my eyes when
once I met someone who looked up at the sky and spoke confidently of
chemtrails.
I'm reminded of something Joseph Campbell said - who looked as deeply into
the beliefs of human beings across history as anyone. He said that
I've restricted my participation in this discussion because I started a new
schedule of medications yesterday and I wasn't sure whence my enthusiasm
came. That's sort of a transcebo effect, everything I take appears to have
subtle side effects, but appearances can be deceiving, and you often see
w
Actually, I think there is active scientific research trying to understand
the placebo effect, because the effect and its benefits have been well
documented. As Feynman points out, better understanding could lead to
improved placebo effect.
Bruce
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Ron Newman wrote
Steve Smith wrote at 04/04/2013 11:04 AM:
> They have something to talk about with like minded
> people and even "professionals" who will assure them that their symptoms
> are as real as the cures being offered.
This seems spot on to me. In a similar vein, I know so many people who
express their
Ron Newman wrote at 04/04/2013 10:57 AM:
> But you're missing the point.: *something* is working for them if they
> believe it is, and is not for you or anyone who doesn't believe it is. The
> question is how does it work? No, that's not good enough, because it too
> easily leads back to prematu
Well shoot, as long as we're talking about irrational belief sets, how
about if we throw chemtrails into the mix. There is a not insignificant
segment of the US population who fervently believe that "they" are
poisoning us, on purpose. But only on those days that the jets leave con
... er ... chem
Ron-
If the placebo is double blind I've heard the percentage shoots up.
But the fact remains that a mere thought, or belief, is affecting
something. If science were untainted that would be the basis for
massive investigation.
I like your point. When I first recognized the significance of a
But you're missing the point.: *something* is working for them if they
believe it is, and is not for you or anyone who doesn't believe it is. The
question is how does it work? No, that's not good enough, because it too
easily leads back to premature assumptions. The question is: how can
placeb
Barry MacKichan wrote at 04/04/2013 10:29 AM:
> I've heard it is very effective, but only for a time until the
> patient discovers it is a placebo. Call it the Lincoln effect ("You
> can fool all of ….").
A friend of mine announced that she's now getting acupuncture for her
chronic back and neck p
If the placebo is double blind I've heard the percentage shoots up. But
the fact remains that a mere thought, or belief, is affecting something.
If science were untainted that would be the basis for massive
investigation.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackic...@mackic
I've heard it is very effective, but only for a time until the patient
discovers it is a placebo. Call it the Lincoln effect ("You can fool all of
….").
--Barry
On Apr 4, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ron Newman wrote:
> There's no money in it (actually, there's a lot of money in it) but the
> effects
I agree with Feynman. Sort of, with a caveat to follow after a short
digression.
What about the placebo effect, a standard reference for FDA approval of
medications? There's no money in it (actually, there's a lot of money in
it) but the effects - 30% efficacy I heard once - are impressive, wit
I read the first half of their tutorial last night. I looks that they have
attacked one of the weak points of C++ in a componentized world -- making sure
that pointers don't outlive the object they are pointing to, even when passed
to unknown (at compile time) functions and marshaled to other pr
Owen,
Yes, Netflix is implemented with HTML5 on the Samsung (ARM) Chromebook.
Could you see Google allowing a M$ solution on one of their products?
Originally, Google & Netflix were going to implement the app for the cb
with NACL, but apparently changed their minds.
-Doug
On Apr 3, 2013 10:00 P
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