Re: [FRIAM] Some brands of digital electric meters wildly inaccurate on nonlinear loads, and NM may get them soon!

2024-02-14 Thread Sarbajit Roy
://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 2:23 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Not great! > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:13 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > fria

Re: [FRIAM] Some brands of digital electric meters wildly inaccurate on nonlinear loads, and NM may get them soon!

2024-02-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
es/default/files/TechnicalspecificationforMeters_0.pdf >> https://www.derc.gov.in/sites/default/files/Draft-Regulations.pdf >> (for Page 16 of 80) >> Just for your information, In the past 1 year I have paid a grand total of >> about US$ 150 in electricity bills for a

Re: [FRIAM] Some brands of digital electric meters wildly inaccurate on nonlinear loads, and NM may get them soon!

2024-02-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
. and had to pay $15. It also helps that our Govt was pragmatic and kept buying cheap oil from Russia. On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 11:51 PM Gary Schiltz wrote: > Must be heavily subsidized? > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 10:03 AM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Sorry, a correction. I pai

Re: [FRIAM] Some brands of digital electric meters wildly inaccurate on nonlinear loads, and NM may get them soon!

2024-02-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Sorry, a correction. I paid US$ 15 (not 150) for consuming 3,600 units. Sarbajit Roy On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > Hi Bruno > > Smart meters were mandated in New Delhi India in 2008 onwards and we had > the same sort of consumer experience with bills sho

Re: [FRIAM] Some brands of digital electric meters wildly inaccurate on nonlinear loads, and NM may get them soon!

2024-02-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
ters_0.pdf https://www.derc.gov.in/sites/default/files/Draft-Regulations.pdf (for Page 16 of 80) Just for your information, In the past 1 year I have paid a grand total of about US$ 150 in electricity bills for an annual consumption of about 3,600 Kw-Hr (3,600 units). Sarbajit Roy On Tue, Feb 13, 202

Re: [FRIAM] Is the American political system broken?

2023-09-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
In this context, I would like to share the thoughts of an important world leader (not very popular with successive US governments) on 1 party, 2 party and multi-party systems. I found his (poorly translated) analysis very perceptive even if the alternatives he proposed instead were a bit prosaic.

Re: [FRIAM] India

2023-06-02 Thread Sarbajit Roy
> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Thursday, June 1, 2023 3:10 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] India > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM App

Re: [FRIAM] India

2023-06-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
. https://www.hindunews.stream/ On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 2:47 AM Steve Smith wrote: > feeling a little like the cross product of (Vonnegut) Harrison Bergeron > and George Santos ? > On 6/1/23 12:07 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > > Hi Glen > > In so far as the report of droppi

Re: [FRIAM] India

2023-06-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi Glen In so far as the report of dropping the periodic table and evolution from the Class 10 syllabus, it is essentially a question of Hindu class and caste dynamics operating in India. Traditionally, education / knowledge in India was the domain of the Higher castes like Brahmins (Pundits),

Re: [FRIAM] Google Bard

2023-05-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
ChatGPT 3.5 response *If you have a WordPress site with no pages or posts, the default behavior depends on the theme you are using and how it's configured. Typically, when you visit a WordPress site without any content, the homepage will display a message such as "Nothing Found" or "No

Re: [FRIAM] “Cannot connect to DNS server.

2023-05-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try changing your computer's default DNS to Google DNS (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) or OpenDNS. Wait 5 mins and then try to "ping" 8.8.8.8 If the problem persists, then it's an issue specific to your computer / router connection. On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 4:01 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Any

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone on Friam know Linux capabilities on Pentium PCs ?

2023-04-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:52 PM Gary Schiltz wrote: > Just my opinion, but I believe Linux is generally well suited for any > server task. Especially on older and slower hardware > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:42 AM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Hi Friamers >> >> Can any g

[FRIAM] Anyone on Friam know Linux capabilities on Pentium PCs ?

2023-04-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi Friamers Can any guide me if a Pentium PC server at 1,.5 GhZ with 4 GB RAM on a Linux version is capable of doing a certain task very reliably ? As it is a confidential thing, please message me directly. I have to ask as I don't use Linux. regards Sarbajit Roy New Delhi India

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT knows FRIAM

2023-02-24 Thread Sarbajit Roy
I ran the same questions on Chatsonic [https://app.writesonic.com/] I activated the "use latest Google data "checkbox. Me: Do you know the FRIAM group in Santa Fe? CS: Yes, the FRIAM group is a research-oriented research laboratory focused on the study of complex adaptive systems in Santa Fe,

Re: [FRIAM] A very good piece about ChatGPT.

2023-02-10 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Thanks for the share. This article explains things very well from aspects I had never considered. On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:23 PM Russ Abbott wrote: > It's in the New Yorker > > and intended for a

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...

2023-02-04 Thread Sarbajit Roy
I was asked to check out https://bhagavadgita.ai/ , a ChatGPT powered website by its developers. This is my conversation Krishna 17:54 Radhey Radhey, I am Krishna! Go ahead and send me a message.  You 17:55 bam bholey Krishna 17:55 Radhey Radhey! I will only answer questions about the

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

2022-12-15 Thread Sarbajit Roy
What you are missing includes 1) Disposal of long term hazardous nuclear waste. 2) Problems in maintaining / decommissioning ol older nuclear fission plants 3) Examples like we are seeing Ukraine's nuclear plants caught up in a war. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:59 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Ok

Re: [FRIAM] Pardon the interruption, I have a case of petty theft

2022-09-15 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Before anything else, You need a receipt (or else a transaction reference number) for the 170 you paid to Smiths / Krogers -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom

Re: [FRIAM] SIKE hack

2022-08-04 Thread Sarbajit Roy
The story is dated 3-August, and to think that just last week on 27th July 2022 the headline was "... *IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe ... Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing* "

Re: [FRIAM] self-care

2022-07-12 Thread Sarbajit Roy
like governments. > > > > N > > > > Nick Thompson > > > > thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> > > > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ < > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> > > > > *F

Re: [FRIAM] self-care

2022-07-02 Thread Sarbajit Roy
The hypocrisy of the US govts is amazing. For decades they have been desperately promoting pill based self induced abortions as "safe" abortions in India and Latin America through their puppets like the Guttmacher Institiute and by using misrepresentations and outright lies. These pills are

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

2022-03-22 Thread Sarbajit Roy
For anyone who believes that Russians are brainwashed by Putin propaganda / unaware of the reality of their national situation post Ukraine, or unable to publish inside Russia https://www.rt.com/russia/552333-russia-ukraine-conflict-benefits/ NB: This Rusian author's assessment is very similar

Re: [FRIAM] and don’t miss this

2022-03-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
FYI, their low cost UAVs and drones use Raspberrry Pi processors on their own PCBs. On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 1:59 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Advanced tracking technology! Lol, in Russia that means it has an 80386? > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of glen > Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-12 Thread Sarbajit Roy
potential of versatile, even transportable, surface-to-surface missiles on > the Russian border. Putin was running out of time for his tour of > Ukraine. > > I think I shall buy some LM stock. It seems like a growth area. > > On Mar 12, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >  >

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-12 Thread Sarbajit Roy
If anything, these linked articles highlight the stranglehold US armament suppliers like Lockheed and Raytheon have over the US Government's international policies that they could get unilaterally abrogated the ABM treaty which held for 30 years. On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:28 AM Marcus Daniels

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
ere his > opponents are poisoned, shot or imprisoned. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU3wJc9WmRI > > -J. > > > Original message > From: Sarbajit Roy > Date: 3/9/22 19:31 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Grou

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Is it the one Tolstoy describes in > "Special military operation and peace" ? > > -J. > > > Original message > From: Sarbajit Roy > Date: 3/9/22 19:31 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Subject: R

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Marcus if I can clarify some of this. The "West Ukrainian" people feel BETRAYED by Russia's attack on their country, As fraternal Slavs they did not expect it considering their past history with Russia. Putin is making it clear that he is not targeting the Ukrainian people, per se, but the

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
at 11:11 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Sarbajit, what is the relationship of India and Russia? Is it true that > Russia is India's biggest arms supplier? > https://time.com/6154734/india-ukraine/ > > -J. > > > Original message -------- > From: Sarbajit Roy >

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
nctions hold up, Putin is in for a > world of hurt. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 9, 2022 9:02 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Enamine &g

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
What is going to happen in Ukraine is that Russia is going to teach Ukraine a lesson for flirting with the EU, NATO and western liberalism and signing that NATO document in November 2021. Putin is going to annex the Eastern and Southern parts of Ukraine by setting them up as autonomous

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
cipled liberal democracy is fake and insincere. That seems to be > Putin’s position. But assuming this is all true, and all there is > asserting power, then there is nothing left to talk about. Send out the > aircraft carriers. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbaj

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Both authors of the article are affiliated to the notoriously imperialistic Chatham House think tank. On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:19 PM glen wrote: > Well, for the wartime profiteers amongst us: > > >

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
He's updated himself here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 9:18 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > From Mearsheimer’s argument, Ukrainian nationalism can drain Russian > resources just like it did in Afghanistan. > > On Mar 7, 2022, at 7:32 AM, Sarbaji

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Yes, Prof.John Mearsheimer is very insightful and balanced with a deep sense of history. His Great Delusion lecture is also entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZVIaXFN2lU In addition to the view from Europe, you may also be interested in the view from India

Re: [FRIAM] war footing

2022-03-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
She almost definitely doesn't represent "Russia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpB721W1l34=1122s On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 4:56 AM glen wrote: > This video brings home, to me, the inherent conflict with "do what it > takes to ...": > > I'm Russian I want the rest of the world to hear me out >

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Yes, this excellent article was behind a paywall. This paywall is easily bypassed by either a) turning off Javascript in the browser (easily done by the ublock privacy addon), or b) clearing the cookies for nytimes.com. Sarbajit On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 12:03 AM Barry MacKichan <

Re: [FRIAM] "All [persons] are created equal"

2021-08-27 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nick, I am not a metaphysicist to debate such things with you. Can just state cold facts. All persons would be created equally .. in a perfect world. However, when the world they are born into is imbalanced, in actuality their weightage depends on the circumstances of their birth and the larger

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-26 Thread Sarbajit Roy
, 2021 at 2:43 PM Pieter Steenekamp < piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Sarbajit, so what you're saying is the situation is > much worse in India than what the official numbers indicate. > > Pieter > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 10:48, Sarbajit Roy wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-26 Thread Sarbajit Roy
patients were being turned away in droves before my eyes. Sarbajit On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 1:56 PM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > Pieter > > The official statistics for India are quite (grossly) inaccurate. We can > *conservatively* multiply the number of infections by x10 and the number

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-26 Thread Sarbajit Roy
mectin and low new covid infections in India? > > Pieter > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 04:42, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I would like to give you an "Asian" (perhaps culturally distasteful) >> perspective

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-25 Thread Sarbajit Roy
..@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 25, 2021 10:41 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] On the: R

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-25 Thread Sarbajit Roy
quot; before we used them. The people who are contracting and dying of COVID in India are the ones who are fated to do so because of their own foolishness and ignorance, and also because India's government wanted them to die. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57005563 Sarbajit Roy New Del

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

2021-08-20 Thread Sarbajit Roy
This article may help https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01377-8.pdf On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 8:36 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > What boggles my mind is that the aggregated results are so > consistently wrong. The aggregated efficacy of 67.5% is less than all the > stratified efficacies.

Re: [FRIAM] why, me, o lord?!

2021-07-18 Thread Sarbajit Roy
HWMONITOR to monitor the CPU https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.44.exe On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 9:24 PM wrote: > Thanks everybody. Right now all is quiet. Last night, it was making > noises like a saw-whet owl that has slammed his talons in a car door. I > will pay close

Re: [FRIAM] NYU Professor Creates COVID-19 Dashboard to Compare Country and State Data

2021-01-27 Thread Sarbajit Roy
GIGO. COVID-19 statistics (data) is suspect and not strictly comparable across countries, starting with China's numbers. On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 1:20 AM Tom Johnson wrote: > NYU Professor Creates COVID-19 Dashboard to Compare Country and State Data > by Sabrina I. Pacifici >

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
n > the hands of the author. My two cents worth. > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:11 PM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> I got your book from here >> >> https://www.pdfdrive.com/interactive-computer-graphics-a-top-down-approach-with-webgl-edward-angel-and-dave-d38281420.html >>

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
; > 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 > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.ed

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Edward The PDF of the 7th edition of your book being widely circulated was very likely not generated from its Kindle version, but from the Postscript version used to print your book. It was generated using Adobe Distiller 7+ for a Macintosh. Must have been cloned from one of those unwatermarked

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Having printed books in India on behalf of European and Australian academics, my experience is if the print run is 500+ then the cost of offset printing (on fairly decent paper) and perfect binding a softcover book with approx. 250 -300 pages is about $3.50 per copy shipped to the USA. 500 copies

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
gt; > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Sunday, July 5, 2020 2:33 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfi

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
ndered in the translation. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
cents per page of expensive books accessible to our vast library of PDFs and DJVUs, I would be happy to have them as my student ;-) Sarbajit Roy New Delhi, India On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:24 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > I'll put this out their as I suspect a unpopular opinion. It's be been

Re: [FRIAM] evaporative cooling

2020-05-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi You need a psychometric chart for this. Here's one off the internet https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evaporative-Cooler-Process-on-Psychometric-Chart-where-e-Efficiency-in-percent-T-DBE_fig5_271288974 On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 2:10 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > No scientific results here, but

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

2020-05-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Its a variation on Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill the time) ... "Economies expand to keep their populations sedated" On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:17 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Nick, > > I suspect that if people only did what they 'need to do' the economy would > collapse. > > On Sat, May

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
d also be translated pretty > reasonably to "what could a scientist investigate based on that claim". > Nick is fond of asking questions like "If the wine *is *blood, can we use > it for a transfusion?" Where as I, a bit more petulant, prefer questions > like "Given that o

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
> Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Friday, February 21, 2020 9:3

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
yria 2014-2015 (1%) https://areyouforsyria.weebly.com/ > > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligion > > [2] > https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550617707015?journalCode=sppa > > *From: *Friam on behalf of Sarbajit Roy < >

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
; > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Friday, Febr

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
mbs from the sky on those who disagree with US policies or the US' aforesaid mass delusion called Christianity. Sarbajit Roy Brahma University On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:31 PM wrote: > Geez, Dave, > > There's an awful lot here. Do you mean to take the hardest case? A > person? And p

Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards

2018-03-12 Thread Sarbajit Roy
AVOID proboards.com They take down fora without any warning or reason under their infamous clause 25(a) and they never ever restore a board, so all your work just vanishes. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Thanks, everybody. I will look into

Re: [FRIAM] Quick cross posting re:website maker sugestions

2017-05-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
There are hierarchies for multi-user blogs. For eg. would you want multiple users to be able to edit the same article (like a wiki) ? Or do you want a single user to write "his" article, which an administrator can edit / delete. HTMLY (http://www.htmly.com) is light enough for the 2nd type of

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

2016-11-10 Thread Sarbajit Roy
http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ It seems that depressed economies imply we are going to have a rash of fascism everywhere. Here's to World War III. Cheers. On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Well put. This is not a game. > > > On Tuesday,

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-08-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
t of data used up for each website > contacted. Given the rarity of the problem, the software probably doesn’t > exist. > > > > Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. I will explore it more closely > tomorrow. > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Tho

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-07-31 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try Networx https://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/manual/ On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > > > You will recall that when I am in Massachusetts, I get all of my internet > over a Verizon hotspot. It a bit like eating lunch with a

Re: [FRIAM] Windows users: Uninstall Apple's QuickTime now - The Washington Post

2016-04-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
The wise men at Encyclopedia Dramatica have it just right excerpts: QuickTime is a popular Virus often found on Mac OS X, but is commonly mistaken as a media player brought to you by the lovely people from Apple. Like plenty of other Apple software, it is offered to you free of charge, but will

Re: [FRIAM] Calculus for 9 year olds

2016-03-31 Thread Sarbajit Roy
on the child. Calculus especially is a subject which the child has to be slowly eased into and correlated to physical and biological phenomena. Some non-US boards do this very well,eg. the IGCSE and the IB. Checkout www.desertacademy.org in Santa Fe. Sarbajit Roy http://www.mathspro.in/ On 3/30/16, John

Re: [FRIAM] A physics question

2015-11-18 Thread Sarbajit Roy
gt; > Will change how I see them. > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish

Re: [FRIAM] A physics question

2015-11-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nice question. Probably needs more information though to answer for near some boundary conditions. http://www.igsoc.org:8080/journal/34/116/igs_journal_vol34_issue116_pg64-70.pdf "ABSTRACT : A theory of icicle growth is presented. ... A time-dependent computer model based on the theory shows

Re: [FRIAM] if you use google

2015-10-28 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try this http://www.google.com/custom Sarbajit On 10/29/15, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Some of you that use google might find this handy > > http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/27/google-http-search-yes-it-is-still-possible/ > > > recently google.com started to redirect to

Re: [FRIAM] Hosting Service

2015-09-29 Thread Sarbajit Roy
https://www.openshift.com/ On 9/29/15, glen ep ropella wrote: > These guys have a cheap option: > >http://directspace.net/services/virtual/ovzfeatures.php > > I have the $4/month one and it works well enough. > > On 09/28/2015 11:57 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: >> The

Re: [FRIAM] Optimizing cell phone plans...

2015-04-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
My own data plan in India gives me 2GB+unlimited Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp. It costs me about US$2 per month. The provider also gives free access to many websites using Facebook's internet.org, but there is a huge uproar here because people say it violates something called net neutrality Sarbajit

Re: [FRIAM] Google's Graveyard

2015-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Google's products are highly intrusive. Whenever I use them I feel as though I'm a lab rat in somebody's experiment. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ On 2/5/15, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: It's only fair to say the google ecology is converging to some degree and is pretty

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Rohinni's Lightpaper Is Incredibly Thin, And Printable

2014-11-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Invisibility cloak ? Sarbajit On 11/23/14, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Pretty impressive: ​​ http://www.fastcolabs.com/3038890/rohinnis-lightpaper-is-incredibly-thin-and-printable ​From the article: How would you use light if it was paper-thin and could be applied to any

Re: [FRIAM] second computer issue

2014-10-10 Thread Sarbajit Roy
/questions/998289 Try and use the FF ESR versions instead of the latest version they keep upgrading you to. Switch to Seamonkey which doesn't seem to have these memory issues. Sarbajit Roy On 10/4/14, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Russ, thanks for the quick response! It's

Re: [FRIAM] bootable backup of windows?

2014-10-04 Thread Sarbajit Roy
RUFUS http://rufus.akeo.ie/ On 10/4/14, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! Anyone have recommendations of software that can make a bootable windows backup? I'm looking for one that can do so to a USB Drive- Like is there something like OmniDisk or Diskutility from Mac

Re: [FRIAM] SEO

2014-03-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi Owen Google is cracking down on blackhat SEO. Several things are wrong about this website, starting from its spammy name. Nothing that can't be fixed easily - and CHEAPLY. PS: here are the website's key phrases 3 Word PhrasesCount Density more about our 2 1.81%

Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam

2014-03-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nick At the cost of privacy. If you can use either POP or IMAP to access your emails on earthlink, try accessing them through a Gmail account and allow Gmail's spam filters to do their magic Just make sure though to setup Gmail to leave all messages on earthlink. In fact if you let Gmail loose

Re: [FRIAM] FPI 210

2014-02-22 Thread Sarbajit Roy
with a shortage of tillable land and farm labour prepared to work. Sarbajit Roy On 2/22/14, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com wrote: A Mathematical Formula Predicted Today's Worldwide Protests Over a Year Ago http://www.policymic.com/articles/82855/a-mathematical-formula-predicted-today-s-worldwide

Re: [FRIAM] disk cloning?

2013-12-28 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try Norton Ghost. Its free. On 12/29/13, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings fellow technomancers, After trying ease to do backup and shadow copy clone for window both seem to take ages and n quite a complete backup I wonder if anyone hasexprience with backing up a

Re: [FRIAM] Wix

2013-11-08 Thread Sarbajit Roy
I had a similar situation. I was recently advising some whistleblowing academic researchers in India's leading management institute who were pulling the chain on massive plagiarism and sexual harassment etc. and needed a online platform We considered Wix, rejected it as too bloated, non-SEO

Re: [FRIAM] TLS encryption [was gmail forums exploded]

2013-08-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
try https: // ecomail DOT at On 8/17/13, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: On 8/16/13 9:13 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: I switched to an IMAP client (T-Bird) 3 days ago when their latest nonsense started. Speaking of e-mail providers, I've noticed that a some of my providers

Re: [FRIAM] gmail forums exploded

2013-08-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Thanks for the link I switched to an IMAP client (T-Bird) 3 days ago when their latest nonsense started. Gillian Densmore wrote: The new gmail in box, compose, and forcing hang outs on you has caused lots of threads like productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/yl_XPO5Hw6Y[726-750-false]

Re: [FRIAM] digital ethics

2013-04-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Seconded. If a resource is available it ought to be availed of. Its upto the copyright holder to protect his work (and royalty stream). I'm trying to put together a Pirate Party in India for this. Sarbajit On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Stephen Guerin stephen.gue...@redfish.comwrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Systems, State, Recursion, Iteration.

2013-04-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Dear Russ I've read your paper on *how the Fed can fix the economy: *You've programed the states of the economy and frozen the Fed's response in turns of those states like traffic lights. It reminds me of classical control theory - pure and immediate Proportional control to control a single

Re: [FRIAM] perplexed by netflix

2013-04-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Dear Bruce If you liked 3 Idiots, you may enjoy its even better prequel - Munna Bhai MBBS. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374887/ Sarbajit On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote: Despite all this, we experience a very low fraction of unreadable DVDs from

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

2013-03-15 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi Steve I must mention that these scamsters target victims aged 50+ presumably with little knowledge of computers and under-informed of human psychology. Probably picked the wrong bunch at FRIAM :-). Doug (from what I observe) takes care of himself very well. I'll ask my friends to devise a

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

2013-03-15 Thread Sarbajit Roy
at 7:15 PM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve I must mention that these scamsters target victims aged 50+ presumably with little knowledge of computers and under-informed of human psychology. Probably picked the wrong bunch at FRIAM :-). Doug (from what I observe) takes care

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Petition Response: Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research

2013-02-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
digressing, I (non citizen) just registered and voted today on another We the People, Petition. So its kind of neat to see that US policies get voted on by Global Citizens. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Do you have prove US Citizenship to

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/144204/unlocking-new-mobile-phones-becomes-illegal-in-the-us-tomorrow On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: That is why an unlocked phone can be to your advantage. On Feb 16, 2013 10:06 PM, Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor

2013-02-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nick What flavour/version of Windows are you running and how much RAM do you have installed?. Try Ctr-Alt-Del and see if a Task Manager pops up. If so, click on Processes. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote: Nick it sounds like you are on the right track. I

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Just to update fellow FRIAMers. The most common standard display device in the world today is the 16x2 character LCD display. The vast majority of installations use it in 4 bit mode. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: As a courtesy to our old-fashioned

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
A sundial only works consistently (sort of) between the tropics. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: I prefer the sundial, myself. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Steve Being a devotee of ancient computing devices myself, I was responding to Doug's TRS-80 ascii comment here's what a 16x2 LCD module looks like http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hN2n9HggfCw/T2TOHEMIAsI/AAc/LrJ6uy2cNrs/s1600/lcd162b-yhy.jpg These critters are so ubiquitous that you fail to

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
We call it chip-on-glass, and it actually improves the reliability of the device. When thiese devices first came out they used a Hitachi processor/IC. Then some Koreans made a clone (shifted around some control words), then the Chinese made their clone ICs (more control word shifts and

Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings

2012-12-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet Invented in India. Outlawed 22-2 with Britain and the USofA in favour at the Hague Convention. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Plus

Re: [FRIAM] Hacking Phones In China

2012-10-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
My advice for your friends would be to get a local Chinese person to buy a USD$ 40 Chinese phone/tablet for them which would give them googlemaps. On 10/13/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Dear FRIAM, I thought, at the very minimum, this might amuse some of you, and

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
1) I am a pure (acharya) Brahmin. This means that we marry endogamously to ensure that chromosomes like Genghis Khan's do not enter our genetic code,. 2) Previously we followed our own variation of Genghis Khan genetic propagation by the practice of Kulinism. This allows a dominant gene

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
are your courts dealing with it. http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/cases/USA.htm On 10/6/12, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fm wrote: Small nit --- On Sat, Oct 6, 2012, at 12:29 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: Apparently the LDS / Mormons use the same method. You are correct only in the case

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
On 10/5/12, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us wrote: I read the books listed in the reverse of the order in which I listed them. Perhaps because of that, I think the order of relevance is also increasing. In particular, the authors of IEWTIL (rhymes with futile) explain why they believe a third

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