I assume, then, that you never shut your computer down for the night. Or for the weekend.

The common PC at home is never powered off unless my gf feels "sorry for the machine and wants to give it some rest" (once every few months)

The PC in my appartment is never powered off.

Allow me to point out several meanings of "portmodern" other as "wooly fluff".

It is or a philosophy or shift in conscienceness and awareness:

Postmodernism is a philosophical movement away from the viewpoint of modernism. More specifically it is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the problem of objective truth and inherent suspicion towards global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. It involves the belief that many, if not all, apparent realities are only social constructs, as they are subject to change inherent to time and place.

And the political style evolved OUT of that shift:

Postmodernism in political science refers to the use of postmodern ideas in political science. Postmodernists believe that many situations which are considered political in nature can not be adequately discussed in traditional realist and liberal approaches to political science. [...]
postmodernists believe that people resist realist concepts of power which is repressive, in order to maintain a claim on their own identity. What makes this resistance significant is that among the aspects of power resisted is that which forces individuals to take a single identity or to be subject to a particular interpretation. Meaning and interpretation in these types of situations is always uncertain; arbitrary in fact. The power in effect here is not that of oppression, but that of the cultural and social implications around them, which creates the framework within which they see themselves, which creates the boundaries of their possible courses of action.

Or an indicator in time:

Postmodernity (also spelled post-modernity or termed the postmodern condition) is generally used to describe the economic and/or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century, in the 1980s or early 1990s

May I ask you to direct your saturated notion of this word and associated frustration to those who use it for misc. fluffyness to review their meaning and out-of-context-usage of the word.

everyone's opinions on every subject are equal.

I rather believe democracy is the equality in rights. Not the assumption to equality of one's intellect or alignation of ideals with what is best. And a system to avoid domination by those who feel their ideals are superiour as the "stupid uneducated populus".

In a multi-party system you do end up, sortof, with a more colored government with different ideals in a representation of ideals. (Christian, Liberal, Environmentalists, Extreme Right, Socialist, Chauvenists, ...) representing or a history loyalty of ideals ("my father used to vote for...") or protest votes ("the larger party did not deliver") or actual informed votes ("these guys are the closest to my ideals").

Or are they asking the women what they see?

These women just say "pfffrrt I can seen all colours, even ultraviolet!"

To which the researchers tried to explain how that's unlikely and would try to run some tests..

As suddenly the women says "Is it me, or is it getting hot inhere ?" while there's some 70s funkmusic that comes from her bra, which is bulging...

As the scientist tries to remain his posture, and tries to convince the woman with all spectrum vision he needs to investigate her claims.. she replies "Investigate this.... doctor..." while she pushes her boobs in his face and scientists view is blurred and limited to only a few spectrums... While making up his results out of shame to write down his actual personal findings.

This is generally how women partake in research.

So now I can trace my date to see wether she ever did a porno ?

without properly anticipating the different feeling, it may throw a person off-balance.

Your mother was a woman who worried alot, wasn't she?

Well, Android is free, but they charge you a developer pass...

Of a few bucks.

XCode for IPhone development is free. But you need a developer license to publish which is a bit more expensive.

"Look, look! HTML5! Come visit our site! Please?"

Actually, around here the site *is* used alot in IT, management and enterpreneurship-circles.

Some leading (geeky and idealistic) companies trying to push HTML5 into the web and show it's importance have hosted their presentations on the website. They are understandably "proud" they have made the implementation themselves and are now using "the latest open technology".

In that way 1) it is relevant 2) interesting as it's pro-active for HTML5 on a high-traffic site 3) and a bit of slashvertisement

I think kung fu would be a combination of muscle memory and cognitive memory. So I imagine it's not as easy to simulate the firing synapses required for it.

Is there a neuroscientist here who can elaborate on this?

Why is it when you're looking for something and you give up, that the moment you sit down to tackle another task, you remember where the item was?

It's called threading. You request an information item and it will be delivered at another moment in time while your brain is searching for it.

If you're doing it in a main thread, you're blocking all other processes and are doing emotional system calls because it's not going fast enough. (you get frustrated, angry, or try to force to think faster, blocking you to do what for which you needed the information, ...)

This last is overloading your CPU and makes everything hang. (it's the analogy of windows search indexer running while you're hitting ctrl+alt+del to try to kill what's mysteriously hanging the system. But all your buttonpushing is making it more difficult for the system to handle the task and you're delaying it further)

Err, microfilm tech was likel around at that point, and these things were so famous that folks would have been queuing up to pay for the effort to scan and disseminate them. Other methods would have been around.

It wouldn't have been profitable for those who speculated about the content in various books.

Also, in that day and age, you always have the experts go in first, make their translation, study and interpretation and dumb it down for the general populus in bookform for them to understand. 50 years ago, information was created, distributed and consumed very differently.