[FRIAM] Bluetooth earphones [the [hopefully] final report]

[Nick Thompson]

Dear Colleagues, 

 

Having received some very good advice from FRIAMMERS, I thought I would
report back .  You recall was the problem that I had gotten given these very
fancy Sony Bluetooth earphones which did not work more than a few feet from
the Computer.  So, I called HP, which has a call center in Rio Rancho, of
all places, which is usually very good, not only because they know a lot but
also because they tell you when the DON'T know ( instead of saying three
minutes into the conversation, "Well you could reformat your hard disk and
reinstall windows," like so many places do.)   They said they didn't know
much about Bluetooth, but it would not surprise them if the range was well
below specification.  Called Sony, and they were ABSOLUTELY worthless.
Impenetrable and unresponsive.  Called Roger, and he said "Try a dongle;
costs 5 bucks; might work."  So, I went to Amazon (because of their return
policy) and ordered a 5 dollar dongle.  It didn't work and came with little
documentation and no place to go for support.  Sent it back [no questions
asked] and ordered a 12 dollar dongle from KINIVO because I noticed in the
Amazon comments that they responded to comments and gave a support site.
The KINOVO dongle instructions were also inadequate, but their emails
response was quick and to the point and their dongle is now shining its
little blue light and transmitting to every corner of our small apartment.  

 

I am VERY happy.  

 

Thanks everybody, 

 

Nick   

 

 

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 


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Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

[glen]

On 01/20/2015 10:20 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 09:18 -0700, Roger Critchlow wrote:


   http://pnis.co/vol2/s1.html Neural correlates of people waiting to
get into Heaven



They joke that "The eventual results of this experiment (which are not
yet available) have been accepted “in principle”, and will be published
when made available by the author(s)."

It seems to me there is a fixation on positive results.  To get funding,
it is usually necessary to pre-register a set of questions, at least, if
not the scientific methods. So wouldn't it be better if funding requests
and submission of academic papers were the same process, and double
blind?


The problem with intricate jokes is they rely on an intricate audience. 
 The joke would be far funnier if they'd included a poes-law-like 
description of the aims and methods ... but fewer people would be 
willing to play the game.  So, although it would be funnier, fewer 
people would find it funny ... humor economics?


I feel the same way about Charlie Hebdo and the opinions of Sam Harris 
(http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/sam-harris-liberals-like-greenwald-aslan-support-thuggish-ultimatum-of-islamic-terrorists/).


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⇔ glen


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