of the best ways for
real conversation to be had in virtual spaces. I use the rules in my
classes in the real world. I look at recent things like GamerGate and stuff
coming out of 8chan and wish more communities were fans of those kinds of
rules.
Happy birthday silklist.
Casey
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Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D
Venkat, we just got started, so we're actually finishing up our first title.
Unfortunately we have been mostly working on client projects right now as we
need the capital before we go into building our own. But soon enough you'll
hear about something we've done :)
Welcome…
Nice to see
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
In my opinion, the political discourse in the US has become so
dysfunctional that I've stopped paying attention to it. Maybe I will
when the system finally reboots. I am being serious.
*bump*
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't the lack of mainstream use the main reason Apple and Linux don't see
as many attacks? Therefore, if all of Google were on Apple and Linux, I
guess there is enough reason for a hacker to build up his
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
In the medium term (by which I mean 5-15 years) we're going to reach the
end of the exponential curve of increasing processing power that Gordon
Moore noticed back in the late 1960s. Atoms are on the order of one
nanometre
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i love this. FSF's defective by design campaign has hundreds of people
booking slots to talk to apple's genius experts at apple stores to ask
them detailed questions on apple's insanely proprietary strategies.
that you haven't really
stayed up to date on what science studies as a field is saying. I'm
not going to flog these dead horses with you.
Casey
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RPI STS Department - PhD Candidate
http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/
Sleuthing --
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Casey O'Donnell
RPI STS Department - PhD Candidate
http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Casey O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since I just got my PhD in STS (Science and Technology Studies) I feel
compelled to respond about this, in part because it makes science
studies and postmodernism look
wrote.
Casey
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RPI STS Department - PhD Candidate
http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Really? Even unable to get actual experts to distinguish the Markov
generator texts from actual Derrida?
*Realizes current company, and unlike Dr. Venkatesan choses to not explode.*
Casey
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RPI STS
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Casey O'Donnell wrote:
[snip]
For when you look into the abyss...: Reflections on an Intellectual
Life That Came and Went in 15 Minutes
Prof. Alan Sokal, Department of Physics, NYU
Just tying this thread into a recursive loop:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/12241
Danke Udhay.
Casey
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Casey O'Donnell
RPI STS Department - PhD Candidate
http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/
-developed comic franchise would seem to
lend itself well to the genre without resorting to Western swords and
sorcery shenanigans.
What was the response to the comics? Is it related to the being taught
in school part? Just curious.
Casey
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Casey O'Donnell
RPI STS Department - PhD Candidate
http
- The case of an iPod nano, with its USB cable
Just the case? Like the shell or husk of what once was an iPod Nano?
Or perhaps the carrying case for a working still Nano? If it (the
Nano) isn't in its case, where is it?
I'm all for the breaking apart of iPods, though their design demands
that
On Jan 12, 2008 4:30 AM, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's a Wii?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=enned=usq=nintendo+wiibtnG=Search
For some reason Nintendo, despite having an edge with regard to cost,
does not market their products in India. Microsoft has it figured out
with the Xbox
On 10/31/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/31/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shrug. Wikipedia isn't perfect, the criticisms are valid, but... so what?
Good question. I just have this vague unease that it's becoming a _de
facto_ reference, and wanted to spend
can read about the app here:
http://mailplaneapp.com/
If you're interested, let me know.
Casey
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RPI STS Department - PhD Candidate
http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/
On 8/25/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, the invites aren't strictly necessary - the URL for the app and
the password are rather easy to guess or share.
True, but that's just not very nice. ;)
I'd not characterize webkit as that much more susceptible to bugs than
say
On 8/24/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's on Dec 1-2? December seems to be the month of conferences.
AAA (www.aaanet.org) in Washington, D.C.
Oct - Dec = Conference quarter, for academics.
Mar - Jul = Conference quarter+ for game developers.
It's exhausting.
Casey
Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: [ on 06:40 PM 8/22/2007 ]
So whens the foUv3, going to be ?
If you shoot for December, it would be nice if it was at least the
second weekend. Dec 1-2 is a big conference that I can't miss since
I'm going on the job market.
Keep us all posted on foUv3 developments.
ending
A key assumption in this presentation is that
the costs associated with the current model of
oligopolistic intermediation as well as the
artist lock–in that is its consequence is at
the root of the crisis in music distribution.
/ending
Certainly an interesting read. While I
While I definitely agree that online media distribution is going to be
quite big as time goes on. But isn't it also being sectioned off by
the same people already with stakes in it? Looking at most online
distribution systems for games, that is certainly the case. I'm also
think about
On 6/25/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sent along primarily for the inclusion of 'blogosphere' and 'blog' itself. :-)
So blogosphere is annoying, but I don't really think blog is, other
than that it's kind of like cool at this point, all the squares are
using it. All of those
On 6/4/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
summary: it is inefficient as a social norm, but perfect equilibrium,
once the cost of women yelling at men who leave the seat up is modelled.
http://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-social-norm-of-leaving-the-toilet-seat-down-a-game-theoretic-analysis/
http://worldwithoutoil.org/Default.aspx
Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but in light of the recent
discussions about the US economy in which oil inevitably comes up, I
thought I'd toss it out there.
Taken from http://worldwithoutoil.org/what.aspx
What's Going On Here?
WORLD WITHOUT
of the
racism experienced by members of ...
Casey O'Donnell,
Editorial Assistant
Jacki Swearingen,
Managing Editor
Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun Editors,
Cultural Anthropology
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http://homepage.mac.com/codonnell/
It'd be wonderful if you could actually post a sample bounce or two -
far easier than looking at the headers and trying to second guess what
is getting your email filtered.
Here is one, I'll look for another:
Your message to:
- EMAILADDY
was considered unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE).
Subject:
Right, this is what I've done, but for an editorial staff that is
already over-taxed, and we end up sending around 1000 review requests
in a year (because 90% decline the request), this would end up taking
lots of time. I spend roughly 20 hours a week dealing with email for
the journal, which
:) I'm actually at the Game Developer's Conference this week in San
Francisco, hence the slow response. Oddly fitting actually.
So, movie snobbery aside (which is what this has been primarily), what
does it really mean to use game engines to do this kind of work?
Oh, and by the way Red vs. Blue
The unfortunate thing about GDC Prime is that an invite means you
still have to pay more money. It's already expensive! *sigh*
Casey
On 3/7/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Casey O'Donnell wrote:
:) I'm actually at the Game Developer's Conference this week in San
Francisco
On 2/20/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I run a recent fluorescent. It sucks pretty much the same way the
other systems did. I don't like the delay at lighting, the time it takes
I find the delay to be a small price for reduced power consumption.
I run a rack full of hardware, which
My wife and I recently converted every bulb in our apartment from
incandescent to these new swirly bulbs. It cost us around $150.00 to
convert all of them, with the logic that energy and replacement
savings would offset investment cost. She's a business woman, and I've
learned to speak her
I recently ran across two interesting projects...
One which visualized old Atari games in an interesting way:
http://benfry.com/distellamap/
As well as one which displays the sprite memory (like texture memory
now, only way ahead of its time) of the Nintendo Entertainment System:
You could just buy a new airport and get the CD with it. ;)
I don't blame SOX or Apple. I blame Enron.
Casey
On 2/20/07, Srini RamaKrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anish Mohammed wrote:
btw did u try n ?
I don't intend paying for the software update. I thought it downright
sneaky of Apple
On 1/31/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, you have to admit that Carey is one of those unisex names
like Jean or Madhu. :)
Or Casey.
The journal where I'm an editorial assistant I frequently am emailed
as Ms. O'Donnell. I don't mind. I do feel a bit bad about the day I
meet
On 2/1/07, Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, the word conscience continues to bother me. So does the word
Spiderman. :)
Not that anyone would really want to anyway, but best not read my
dissertation. I've been working some folks working on a game that
might be related to
On 1/30/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Enter one cchoice:
2) Fail
It's morning. Everything fails before noon. And it was before noon
when you sent it. So my decision still stands.
Casey
On 1/14/07, Carey Lening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's more on the designer, wearing her own design:
http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2005/12/the_burqini.html
I found the same page via images.google:
http://images.google.com/images?q=burqini
Casey
On 1/10/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least some of the labelling is inaccurate. In an map - that is a serious
drawback.
Labels shmables... that would imply that I could always find labels
for streets IN Bangalore. Just knowing what to expect from a road is
really nice (curves
On 1/10/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=enq=Bangalore+Indiaie=UTF8z=12ll=12.985155,77.560043spn=0.138835,0.346069om=1
OMG!
I hate Google for posting this AFTER I was in Bangalore.
The road data isn't in Google Earth yet...
Casey
On 12/16/06, Manar Hussain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or maybe movies are getting better:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/did_movie_quali.html
SNIP
Did movie quality go up this year?
By Marc Hedlund on December 07, 2006
Every year, disgruntled movie critics overstuffed with aging
On 12/16/06, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/16/06, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the basis for thinking that the number of good movies are less now?
The number of replays ?
The number of times you can watch a movie even after knowing the story
well.
Hollywood
On 12/15/06, Nandkumar Saravade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, the real question is why policemen, who are very much a part of
the society and are as human as other members, indulge in brutality,
violation of the due process and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
I think the conversation has entered the realm of theory without any
empirical source to bounce back upon. While both are useful/necessary,
theory tends to hold the privileged position, as well as the one we
turn to in conversations/games/confrontations like this.
However, it began at the level
On 12/13/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
India joins New Zealand, Thailand and Switzerland in issuing perfumed
stamps.
Cabbage scented stamps, anyone?
The Irish haven't announced anything yet, oh, wait, that would
probably be whiskey not
On 12/3/06, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
question #1: Can the OS language be changed to English without reinstalling
OSX ?(I know with XP you need to reinstall the OS if you want to change the
language).
Yes, you can change the lang at any time. System Preferences -
International. Is
Well, I saw the subject line and thought you were going to be talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
(from: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/about.html)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research system developed at Bell Labs
starting in the late 1980s. Its original
On 11/28/06, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Er...Casey and I decided, after looking at the thousands during dusk, that
it should have been called Dragonflies!
The dragonflies were beautiful. I'm sure they were happily munching on
mosquitoes and other assorted winged bugs. I don't think
On 11/26/06, Zainab Bawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am Zainab Bawa, currently registered for my Ph.D. at the Center for the Study
of Culture and Society (CSCS) in Bangalore. I plan to work on different
financial networks operating in Bangalore and Mumbai and how these are
influencing the
On 11/25/06, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Enquiring minds want to know.
You see a picture of an egg, a bed, and a Chicken. The chicken is
smoking. The egg is saying, I guess we know an answer to THAT age old
question. (This is not my joke)
The next pane you see a man accusing Udhay of
On 11/22/06, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i believe the original was the devilbunnies thing... see
devilbunnies.org.
Which to me seems possibly rooted in:
http://www.amazon.com/Bunnicula-Rabbit-Tale-Mystery-Deborah-Howe/dp/0689806590
Or perhaps more simply:
On 11/18/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One amusing consequence of this kind of business english policy is that
when these guys post a question to a tech mailing list, they often end
up triggering spamassassin filters looking for nigerian scams (which use
a very similar
On 11/17/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Through the earth. It was photographed by the Super-Kamiokande
experiment in Japan with 503.8 days and nights of exposure.
The resolution of the image is very interesting it appears to be a
64x64 piece of data to generate it (look at the
On 11/17/06, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The inside surface of the tank is lined with 11,146 50-cm diameter light
collectors called photo-multiplier tubes. In addition to the inner
sqrt(11 146) = 105.574618
:( Where did the other pixels go? And why isn't the pool square
So
It's my fault. I landed in Bangalore last night and scared everyone off. ;)
On 11/15/06, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Practically a whole day without any posts on Silk? Am I missing something?
On 11/13/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It might be best to remember the pythagorean maxim
x^2 + y^ = b^2?
cKO
On 11/10/06, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/Nov/2006, at 6:43 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
The idea is that what you quote should have ' ' in front of it, and
your responses shouldn't. In this instance, it looks like sastry said
what you typed about the Sardarji. Also,
I know my initial geek out brought some of the gamers out to play, but
are there any game developers on the list? I'm heading out on Monday
for Bangalore, then later to Hyderabad and later Chennai. My time is
pretty structured in Bangalore and Chennai, though I'll have more than
enough time to
On 11/7/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts you'd like to share on the midterm polls?
Well, after my first two experiences voting in the US ('00 and '04), I
woke up the next morning with a hangover (one after prematurely
celebrating and one after knowing defeat) and a
On 11/7/06, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
work that out? I am willing to bring my car,which will then take 4 people
(little Wagon R) but I need company to drive back late at night in case I
can't stay overnight...anyone volunteering? The person can, if need be, stay
overnight at my place
It means we're big game-geeks. Or at least 80's pop-culture-geeks.
It does:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
The important part being that it gave you 30 lives to start instead of
3 when playing Contra on the NES.
On 11/7/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 2006-11-07
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