Re: [FRIAM] Future Generating Machines...

uǝlƃ wrote: I'd argue that any surviving bureaucracy works *most* of the time, almost by definition. One scholar who has taken a serious look at Parkinson’s Law is Stefan Thurner, a professor in Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna. Thu

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

“Of course they did not have access to real databases, nor did they have to solve problems of data reconciliation among those disparate databases. This kind of infrastructure, as was pointed out, would have added significant time for them to complete a 'full function' app.” This reminds me of t

Re: [FRIAM] My View: "What's in your COVID-19 vaccination number?"

Truth. And well written as always. Cjf Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Tom Johnson Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2021 12:36 PM To: Friam@redfish. com Subject: [FRIAM] My View: "What's in your C

Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice

e to wait for a larger screen iPhone but as for my 2G, Its Dead Jim! No worries. Glad to see we agree on TMo. Damn I wish they had not gone the AWS route. -- Owen On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chris Feola mailto:ch...@nextpression.com>> wrote: Hi Owen, Glad to help. Short an

Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice

n't really understand as well as I'd like (TMo about to die? Why do plans cost so much?, WTF w/ AWS?) So that's it! And I really thank you for your clear explanation of some of the android world that I didn't "get". -- Owen On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Chris

Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice

ctober 31, 2011 4:52 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Chris Feola mailto:ch...@nextpression.com>> wrote: Of the phones, the Galaxy has far and away the best screen, but you

Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice

Greetings, We're a mobile development company, and consequently we have one or more of everything: iPads, iPhones, Xooms, Transformers, Moto Atrix, HTC Sensation, MyTouchSlide 4G, Samsung Galaxy's... Of the phones, the Galaxy has far and away the best screen, but you'll always find them laying

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

Hey Nick, We use Dropbox a ton; here's why. I've never been a big fan of cloud storage-It's OK, but I've always had access to servers and such, so there didn't seem to be much of a point for someone in my situation. Dropbox, however, is a game changer. First, clients for everything. In my offic

Re: [FRIAM] Query about rating agencies/groups

Well said, Grant. And there's also the small matter of all 70,000+ Android apps being written in Java, with another 2,500 shipping weekly. cjf Christopher J. Feola President, nextPression Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...

Re: [FRIAM] Google Voice

It's pretty brilliant stuff. Don't think of it as a phone service, a la Skype. Think of it as a manager for all your telephoney. For example, you no longer have to worry about phone number portability; give out your Google voice number, and route it wherever you wish. Change carriers? Change number

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress

Hi Nick, Let me tell you a story that I hope will find cheerful. A few years ago my beautiful oldest daughter was putting together a project for her high school AP history class. She decided to cover Brown v. Board of Education as sort of a performance art piece, segregating the class and giving a

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress

n Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 4:46 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress Chris - > This is why libertarians believe in divided government. The donkeys and > elephants both steal and abuse

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress

:09 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress Chris, Thanks. See my last rather garbled note about the fact that treating coporate vs government power as a zero-sum game might be a serious thinking error. We all seem to fear most corporate AND government

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress

rom: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Chris Feola Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:21 AM To: nickthomp...@earthlink.net; 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress Hey Nick, I'm a

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress

Hey Nick, I'm a libertarian; I hope you don't mind me taking a crack at it. Most small L libertarians I know (I'm distinguishing us from the Libertarian Party, which is another thing altogether) are deeply cynical people. It's not that we believe corporations are good; it's that EVERYONE gets tha

Re: [FRIAM] What you can do.

bigger problem [threat to our democracy]. Thanks Robert On 5/14/10 7:16 PM, Chris Feola wrote: No problem, Robert-help me into the boat. Who is press? Who isn't? Who decides? cjf Christopher J. Feola President, nextPression Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola From: friam

Re: [FRIAM] What you can do.

Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 5:20 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What you can do. Actually Chris, I think you are also missing the boat by focusing on the technicalities of a legal argument most of us would have to pay someone to help us with. So see

Re: [FRIAM] What you can do.

Actually, Sarbajit is quite on point. If you read the decision you will see that one reason the law was struck down was it tried to get around its obvious violation of the 1st Amendment by carving out an exemption for "media" since the press is, largely, corporate. Overturning this decision therefo

Re: [FRIAM] Arizona meets the Facebook community

Ariz. gov signs bill revising new immigration law April 28, 2010 Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed a follow-on bill approved by Arizona legislators that make revisions to the state's sweeping law against illegal immigration - changes she says should quell concerns that the measure will lead to rac

Re: [FRIAM] Net Neutrality Ruling

A good explainer here: http://volokh.com/2010/04/07/the-fcc-and-the-internet/ There are two possible sources of express statutory authority in the 1934 Communications Act: Title II (which gives the FCC authority to regulate “telecommunications services”) and Title VI (authority over “cabl

Re: [FRIAM] xkcd - A Webcomic - Alternative Energy Revolution

The sidekick was Sancho Panza, of course. "I'm Sancho, yes I'm Sancho ..." I can't even sing in email. cjf Christopher J. Feola President, nextPression Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com]

Re: [FRIAM] Verizon FiOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Switched to FIOS from DSL more than two years ago. The rollout here in North Texas is neighborhood by neighborhood; I've had it for more than two years, and my friend across town still doesn't have it anywhere close. And he's anxious: FIOS is a huge upgrade from anything else. I routinely get 6-

Re: [FRIAM] art and science

A fascinating discussion. E.O. Wilson made much the same point in his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, where he argued that a narrow reliance on mathmatics had destroyed philosophy in particular, while in general an increasing reliance on specialization and mathmatics had handicapped scie

[FRIAM] Decade of the Mind Conference 4

Greetings This invitation is extended to all participants in the Cognitive Systems Workshop series hosted by Sandia National Laboratories from 2003-2006. You are cordially invited to attend the Fourth Decade of the Mind Conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa near Al

Re: [FRIAM] Obama, Proposition 8

Perhaps I can lend a little bit of perspective here. I was married in the Philippines; despite the rather extensive influence of the Catholic Church there, marriage consists of two separate and unrelated ceremonies. First there is what is called a "civil ceremony," generally done before a judge,

Re: [FRIAM] LaTeX

- I was addicted to WinEDT. Nice editor (I still use it when I forget a tag) and has splell chexing. ;-) The greek/AMS symbols on buttons are a great intro for math markup. -Chris On 12/30/06, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, sorry to bother folks so much about math notati