An overheating video card will shut down a system. I have one that
does (did) it. I use a laptop as a video player driving an external
VGA display. It would periodically shut down while playing video (and
only then). Setting it up in a A-frame position and ensuring moving
room air was blowing
:03 PM, James Steiner gregortr...@gmail.com wrote:
An overheating video card will shut down a system. I have one that
does (did) it. I use a laptop as a video player driving an external
VGA display. It would periodically shut down while playing video (and
only then). Setting it up in a A-frame
re deleting apps.
apps you install and some pre installed apps uninstall easily, using the
app manager or google play.
some bundled apps are cooked into the OS when it is compiled. so to the OS
they look like system apps, which can not be removed by your user-level
access.
to remove these one
I expect it's still a variant of Align/Avoid/Aggregate, with some Wheel and
Spleen, plus extras having to do with looking at the roost site, and
reacting to wind, and (this is me projecting) reacting to the sheer joy of
being a starling coming to roost with her flock-mates.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014
I think this line of reasoning (using guns and violent games make people
go crazy and shoot people, therefore, restricting access (even more) to
guns and games will make less people shoot people. ) is balderdash.
Correlation is not causation.
Guns and games did not make the person troubled.
I use it but not a lot. I use my phone as both a Wi-Fi hotspot, and
tethered. if I don't watch a lot of video, I don't use a lot of my 2gb.
~~James
On Apr 21, 2012 12:50 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Just curious: If you use it, how well does Wi-Fi tethering work for you?
I
Whoops, sorry glen, I didn't read to the end of your post, missed the *.
I said what you already said. Sorry.
~~James
On Apr 3, 2012 10:06 PM, James Steiner gregortr...@gmail.com wrote:
Option 1, use the network more (throw out chaff), won't work, unless you
are very sophisticated about
I come at the whole I'm ordained so now I can marry folk thing from a
different direction: in many states, *anyone* can be an officient at a
wedding. No special documentation is required. In those places, any
accrediting document for that purpose is a joke document.
~~The Reverend James Steiner
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Victoria Hughes
victo...@toryhughes.com wrote:
Any watermark or copy protection on this format?
Tory,
Don't sweat it. DRM never works anyway.
If anyone has (legal) access to the content, and there is a demand for
it, it will end up stripped of whatever DRM or
I think the most obviously damning fact for that piece is the dearth of
actual climate scientists as signatories. Engineers and weathermen? Talk
about false authority syndrome. Lol
~~James
On Jan 28, 2012 2:25 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
Yesterday's WSJ published an op-ed
If you are using a T-Mobile phone, you can dial 611 for the customer
service line. Otherwise, 800-T-MOBILE is the customer service line.
~~James
On Dec 22, 2011 12:10 PM, Victoria Hughes victo...@toryhughes.com wrote:
Thanks!
This is useful.
I'm sure there is some attractive algorithm to plot
You left out the t-mobile HTC Mytouch 4G slide. I have one in hand now.
$109(msrp $500). Battery life is dependnt on several variables:
How often, how long, display is active.
Which antennas are on (if you have bluetooth, wifi, mobile network, gps,
and cell\sms all on, you get about 90 minutes,
I'm in it now. it looks like the very simple concept of posting
messages to circles lets you emulate everything from twitter feeds
(short messages to the world) to newletters (longer posts to a group)
to chat rooms (posts exchanged among members of a group) to chat and
IM (posts to a single person
Funny. I also use gmail, and exclusively with the web UI. I don't get
these warnings attached to my mailing lists messages. Perhaps I at
some point marked these as trusted? I don't remember doing that!
~~James
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
I've
I've been using Gmail and the web interface for years now. I actually
like it... There must be things you want to so with mail that I just
don't need to do or something.
I find the web UI quite usable--for how I use it.
~~J
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net
-photos-feeding-frenzy-fail-gif/
~~James
James Steiner
turtlezero.com
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LINKS/PICS or it didn't happen...
:)
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
In recognition of people's dislike of same-sex gropings, TSA is now
offering co-ed gropings as an additional, for-pay option. I bet you didn't
know that.
It's my belief that individual privacy is entirely NOT the same as
government classification (as secret, top secret, etc) of information.
Governments do NOT have a right of privacy. Our government is supposed to
be by, of, and for the people. It's use of secrecy is appropriate (and
should be
Wow, that sounds super-awesome.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Stephen Guerin
stephen.gue...@redfish.comwrote:
Thanks, Dale. I have been enjoying these!
Owen and I have a backburner project where we'd like to employ the Actor
model in a distributed Javascript system using nodeJS on servers
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Scholand, Andrew J ajsc...@sandia.govwrote:
In February 2009 the State Department asked all US missions abroad to list
all installations whose loss could critically affect US national security.
The list includes pipelines, communication and transport hubs.
Ah, the fatal attraction of privilege: the illusion that as long as NOBODY
gives a ff what *you* do, everything is OK.
That's not directed at you, Nick, but I couldn't resist the parallel
structure.
~~J
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
I've never had trouble, malware-wise, with programs obtained from FileHippo,
Softpedia, PCworld, or freewaregenius, among others.
DO watch out for when the program installer subtly offers to install
additional software, such as seach-bars and other shovel-ware.
Avoid advertisement-paid software.
The machine translation story I've heard is: The spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak, after a round trip from English to Russian and
back, became The vodka is good, but the meat is spoiled.
~~James
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.com wrote:
And Gamlet is
Hi, Russ!
One reason it is important is that it demonstrates that life as we
know it has a broader definition that previously thought.
It means that if we find an earth-like planet out there, except with
more arsenic than phosphorus -- in other words, a poisonous-to-us
planet -- we might still
I thought Hamlet was being ironic... Or am I being the Mayor of
Missingthepointsville?
~~James
www.turtlezero.com
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:13 PM, plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
Define yourself. You'll be right!
Me, I prefer Hamlet's definition:
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in
I understand that a 50x to 200x microscope is sufficient for paramecium (and
other things) in pond/gutter watter.
The eyeclops claims up to 200x.. but handheld, it wouldn't be much good.
Anything in a stand, with up to 200x, would be sufficient.
I remember as a kid I had a simple 3 lens
Here is a page of Rob Cockerham's* experience with the Eyeclops:
http://www.cockeyed.com/science/eyeclops/eyeclops.shtml
* Of How Much is Inside, etc.
~~James
www.turtlezero.com
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Stephen Guerin
stephen.gue...@redfish.comwrote:
Hi Nick,
We have the $30
Here in New Jersey, the state is installing some 250,000 solar panels
across the state. These are small, 2x3 foot, 200 watt panels, each
stands alone and they are installed on power/telephone poles all over
the place.
The panels are installed on the 220/110 volt (low voltage) AC side
of the
I thought the whole thing could apply to agent-based modelers, too...
Oh, just model it using the gross oversimplification
~~J
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net wrote:
Yes, what is it with physicists, anyhow?
;-}
--Doug
( A charming engineer)
On Thu,
Another unhelpful reply: I used an old Dell Laptop with its original
WinXP Home OS to do that for $0. I use VNC when I need to work the OS.
;)
~~J
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net wrote:
I guess if you really wanted to use a Mac...
I could build a headless
I've only read one book about it, but I think that that is, more or
less, exactly what PROLOG is for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
Intro to prolog:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~hzhang/c123/LectureA.pdf
Google Docs Quick View: http://bit.ly/b33CcY
~~James
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:29 AM,
NB, in a computer GA, we'd just mix-n-match the hens genes. In the
real world, you can't get more hens without roosters, or a least
without their input, and there's no mixing of between the hens at
all.
~~James
On 7/9/10, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
I should also have added that
Not merely Break-Out, but possibly a ref to Arkanoid, a popular enhanced
break-out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Pong was there knocking bricks out of a bridge.
Sure that
I think that being trained as a scientist starts in 6th year science
class, when one is 11 (I.e. Upon formal exposure to the scientific
method), and continues from then on.
~~James
Turtlezero.com
On 3/23/10, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
Both Eric and Nick use the phrase I was
The admission of total technical incompetence on the part of the
refurb team is stunning.
Also: I wonder if the attorney's general would be interested in this.
The letter seems to be an admission that Newegg intends to simply take
this defective machine, restore the user partition to the OEM
Thanks, Owen! That was really interesting!
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Just in case anyone missed this:
http://diveintohtml5.org/
.. its a great intro to HTML5, the reason iPad feels it does not need Flash.
-- Owen
Maybe someone should send the poor fellow one of these wi-fi detector shirts:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/991e/
He'll see that the signal is also in the car, and
1. Be cured or
2. Go totally mad, and wander the neighborhood looking for radio
shadows to hide in.
Or
Wow. Wish I could get in on that action.
~~James
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Mikhail Gorelkin gorel...@hotmail.com wrote:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/ai-overview.html
--Mikhail
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Not besides, linkedin doesn't work that way-one must send link
requests to *individuals*. Inviting a listserv address does not
enable the members to link with the sender.
-- James
On 12/11/09, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of this list. I am
Awesome. Hmm.. I wonder what the inspiration for the name HUBzero was ;-)
~~james
www.TURTLEzero.com
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote:
-fyi. New to me, but perhaps others are familiar with this
What is HUBzero™?
HUBzero™ is a platform for
I guess I am a bit ahead of the curve!
A couple months ago at my household we finally canceled cable and
TiVo. For a while now we have downloaded everything through RSS
feed-based subscription to the programs using uTorrent (microTorrent).
The spare laptop that does the downloading has 750 GB of
I've been helped a few times by the sister site, serverfault.com
~~James
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote:
An interesting concept and tool. Has anyone used stackoverflow.com ?
http://stackoverflow.com/faq
-tom
Posterous looks like a cool tool for wide-casting updates to multiple
services, including tweets, blogs, pictures and videos...
~~James
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Thanks for the help, good examples.
One question has popped up for me: You can
I use facebook to keep in casual touch with people I like but whom I
don't have time (or travel options) to see in-person on a regular
basis. So instead of a big catch-up once a quarter (or year!), I'm
more-or-less in-tune with what's going on with them. At least with the
frequent posters /
Firrst, IANAL, and I am in the USA.
As a person who does exactly this (recieve ideas from clients, write
code using those ideas, deliver code to clients) for money, this is
something I have paid attention to. If you wrote down your rules (or
otherwise expressed them in tangible form) you own
I won't use a keyboard that hasn't got the backslash in the right
place. Over the enter key, where it belongs, and my my pinkie can find
it.
Also, I use the navigation keys (home, end, etc) ALL THE TIME, so they
have to be there.
~~James
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Douglas Roberts
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM, russell standishr.stand...@unsw.edu.au wrote:
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:16:55AM -0700, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
The question was: Is there any identifiable property of a system that is
NOT an emergent property, regardless of how one defines system? If
anyone
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
What is odd about this whole interchange is that I can't quite find the
point of view (all experience is 3rd person) Nick is promoting, but it feels
that it could very well be my own habit of experience and language.
What
Its an application of basic geometry.
If the struts of the triangle are made of materials that do not
stretch, compress, or flex (outside of acceptable parameters for the
construction in question), then the triangle is *stable*--even if the
joints are frictionless pivots. This is essentially
I have to admit, I've just reached the limit of my competence. I don't
know what it means for an explanation to be reductive. I'll have to go
read something about that--my lack of formal education is exposed.
A triangle (made of parts) is the name for a particular arrangement of
parts. If you
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
John, and others...
Open, indeed! Thanks for your concise statement of the
problem.
My deep suspicion is that the robots are smoke and mirrors.
That if one needs spatial arrangements to make the model
go
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Victoria Hughes
victo...@toryhughes.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk
Questions like, When is this going to become a commercial product?
Makes me wish I had a dog... though if this could be made to toss
furry cork mice, my cats would play
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM, ppary...@aol.com wrote:
Rivernetwork is completing a paper on the carbon footprint of water use
based on an analysis of the water-energy nexus. Actually when one flushes a
toilet one uses enegry, so just hold it back Nick.
P
If it's yellow, let it mellow.
I seem to recall an even more awesome *parabolic* cardboard (and foil)
solar cooker from the 70s.
~~James
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, ppary...@aol.com wrote:
Alas, this nice idea, solar cardboard box ovens, has been tried in
developing countries for 30+ years and has never really made an
Yeah... I thought so:
http://solarcooking.org/plans/
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:43 PM, James Steiner gregortr...@gmail.com wrote:
I seem to recall an even more awesome *parabolic* cardboard (and foil)
solar cooker from the 70s.
~~James
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, ppary...@aol.com wrote
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Robert Howard r...@symmetricobjects.com wrote:
If they can get the cost of a few weeks of charcoal down to $5,
I bet they can get that box oven down to 50 ¢.
Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like a cardboard box with AL foil on the
flaps, with another foil-lined box
Scripted. People are not that inter-coordinated. At least, not until
we all get our hive-mind implants.
Also, they say at the very end of the video: PR stunt for Belgium reality show.
Even so, if it wasn't a PR stunt, I would have guessed it was an
Improv Anywhere mission, a cross between
I spend a lot of time on visualization programming in NetLogo and I'm
also a usability wonk, so I was interested in the article, and enjoyed
it.
I had never thought about deliberately avoiding optical illusion side-effects.
I agree that good vis design can evoke information, and that bad vis
I always used tongs for the grosser larva, and a badminton racquet for
the moths. Also for cabbage moths, and any other white-ish flying
thing I saw.
The dog thought it was fricken hilarious--helping the crazy screaming
monkey swing the racquet around. Whee! Badminton was one of his
favorite
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote:
(it's organic :-). Alternately, you wait two weeks after all your
neighbours have planted squash and then plant. All the bugs will go to
them first and you shouldn't have many of them.
This suggests another option:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Victoria Hughes
victo...@toryhughes.com wrote:
A neophyte question:
What indicates so clearly the fake animation? Some of it seems fabricated
The one scene that I most suspect is fake is the giant walking sheep animation.
Pay close attention to the legs...
My day job is for the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters.
I'm pretty sure someone did something similar using citation indexes.
If only I could find the link.
~~James
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Map of knowledge
at
Yes. In my neighborhood (Trenton NJ) Verizon has abandoned copper, and
installing fiber optic everywhere. You can't buy DSL or POTS
phone-over-copper here anymore. You MUST get either FiOS (from
verizon) or cable broadband from Comcast.
Each offers a 3-way bundle of internet, telephone, and
Speaking of TV--once really nice thing about Comcast cable in Trenton
(NJ) is that the minimal anntenna service level of service, that
costs about $12 a month, includes about 50 channels, i.e. all the
usual tier1 basic cable stuff.
In philly with whatever-it-is-now, the antenna service was
I'll pitch in:
I have (but don't necessarily use):
DOS 7 (with default command line enhancements it's actually useful)
Kixtart
Auto-Hotkey
PHP
NetLogo
Javascript
VB_
Lotus 1-2-3 macro language
Q-Basic
I have actually used netlogo for certain simple text-massaging
problems--not the best, but
Bingo. Ignorant but paranoid/scared customers boondoggled by slick
sales tactics, I guess.
Its so sad to see bad software like that. I mean, if you're going to
be evil, then go all the way. Jeez.
~~James
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Michael Nygard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Snake oil. You
Consider also the relligions that have.supported and do sanctify
same-sex marriages, without regard for, indeed in spite of, the legal
status of such unions, e.g. the Meetings of Friends (Quakers).
On 11/9/08, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Orlando
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:49 PM, John F. Kennison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In every (perfect) circle. Either the diameter
or the circumference will be irrational.
Said the Diameter: I am 12
Said the Circumference: I am a cute fuzzy bunny! Wakka wakka!
~~James
It may not be a category error, but a domain error... applying
definitions of objects from one domain to similarly named objects in
another.
This error is the basis of the classic paradox regarding immovable
object's interactions with irresistible forces. The question of what
happens when the
Not a movie, but a television program, Stargate SG-1, featured
something called the Replicators, a race of robot things made up
from tiny, self-organizing, adaptive, self-repairing sub-units.
~~James
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Joshua Thorp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone think of a
Her education of how to think critically and spot hoaxes and viral
advertising, I presume!
~~James
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Roger Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The video is priceless, I'm incorporating it into my daughters' educations.
-- rec --
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:06 AM,
, but only in my ear?
etc. etc.
Robert C.
James Steiner wrote:
Her education of how to think critically and spot hoaxes and viral
advertising, I presume!
~~James
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Roger Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The video is priceless, I'm incorporating
I use hosting matters (www.hostingmatters.com) for turtlezero.com and
others (e.g. www.peephaiku.com)
They offer fantastico for easy install of an assortment of
opensource cms and other apps,, plus you could install others at will.
Has all the usual stuff: php, perl, mysql, etc..
I find their
On Jan 22, 2008 11:14 AM, Don Begley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 21, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
On Jan 21, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
As I tell my son, you don't really know how to use your computer
until
you've mastered the shell.
You really haven't
On Dec 27, 2007 12:33 PM, Steve Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does it not seem possible (even likely if we look closely) that the ills of
this planet today are very likely positively correlated with energy
consumption?
Maybe, but correlation does not always mean causation. I think the big
I use skype because it is trivial to do conference calls with it. I
only connect to people that I have in my contacts list. I would never
accept a call from a stranger on skype--what would be the point? Also,
I arrange all my skype calls ahead of time through other
communications channels--so a
I hear you!
Microsoft has taken it once step futher with Windows, licensing software to
*processors*, not computers, not people. So, if one upgrades the processor
in a computer (or one replaces an obsolete or damaged motherboard and
processor), you are expected to purchase a new Microsoft
http://www.hardwareguys.com/picks/fdd.html
What they say:
If you need to read an old 5.25 diskette, contact your local
computer store, which probably has a stack of 5.25 HD (1.2 MB) FDDs
in the back room and will probably give you one for the asking.
Wouldn't that would be nice!
~~James
I've seen where the undocked window ends up off the edge of the screen.
In Windows: To fix, do alt-tab, or ctrl-tab or whatever is needed to
make that window active (but invisible). Then hit alt+space, M. Then
hit an arrow key. Then move the mouse. That should attach the window
to your mouse for
Ugh. With Steve's reply to me, I just realized that I accidentally
reused a very inappropriate subject line for my conference
recommendations request. I'm very sorry and embarrassed.
~~James
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Hi, folks!
As a birthday present to myself, I want to send myself to one of the
ABM /CAS/EB/etc conferences.
I've noticed that there's a few. If I can only afford to go to one,
which one should I go to?
At least two I know of will have a NetLogo workshop on the agenda, and
that's a draw, since
So, why was indigo worthy of inclusion, while cyan was not?
~~James
http://www.turtlezero.com
(JA-86)
On 12/2/06, Dede Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re Pamela's reply: Me, too! Re Robert's: When I was growing up, we
learned Roy G. Biv, a name silly enough that you weren't likely to
So from a computer science or security perspective, how robust do you think
this system is?
It's laughably bad. As has been said before: the software that runs
inside Las Vegas slot machines is better written, better controlled,
better monitored. Likewise the hardware.
I recall reading that
I found this overview to be very informative, rather alarming, and
only as technical as minimally needed.
On arstechnica website:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars
Also available as a free, PDF: (PDF Link)
http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf
In today's Coding Horror Jeff Atwood talks about the effectiveness of
CAPTCHAs and how the news of their demise is greatly exaggerated.
Also, he says that even though his own site uses a very simple CAPTCHA
(the test word is the same, every time), it reduces (his claim)
comment spam on his site
On 10/30/06, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holy cow! I hadn't any idea just how far folks had to go to protect
themselves! The fact that OCR doesn't help is quite surprising to
me. Good article, thanks.
Well, that's the whole idea, right? CAPTCHAs were invented with the
intent that
Ooo. This is one that I can answer.
In most computer language syntax, the statement @X = Y assigns the
value Y to variable @X.
In some comptuer languages, the *expression* ( @X == Y ) compares @X
and Y for equality (does @X contain the value Y ?) and returns a
result of true or false.
In some
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