Clearly, the disdain and lack of respect shown by Americans (here and even in the mainstream press) towards their political class shows there is something dysfunctional in the current state of affairs in DC.
Now, I could further elaborate, but since I'm a "troll", obviously I should stay quiet.
This plainly shows how poorly organized your unions are.
This is most likely due to the overall lack of care for the common good so prevalent in the US, under the guise of simplistic interpretations of freedom, free enterprise and self responsibility.
While the US constitution is a monument that has shone through the past centuries and has been an inspiring source of both social and economic progress, it is time to call for its retirement and a renewal of the American social contract.
The US constitution is doubtlessly the oldest constitution still in force. Can you believe it, a nation that has not once felt the need to deeply restructure their political system in over two centuries? This surely shows how inspired the founding fathers were. But let's not forget they were also slavers, valuing colored people at 3/5th of a white person.
Our societies evolve, and the aspirations of Peoples evolve too. Now most advanced nations (except the US) have moved forward into a "market-based, social-oriented economy".
Unfortunately, it will require a much greater downfall of the US might before Americans finally realize this and accept the need for such a profound renovation of their political and social system.
That's too bad, the US gave the rest of the world a lot, but the world can't help against such self-induced demise.
Any actual published material? If yes, please tell the w3c (public-web-plugins@w3.org).
See the W3C FAQ on the topic. It seems old, but they still need more convincing examples of prior art to fight the EOLAS case.
Well, 20 years ago, in my neural networks class, we were estimating the total memory capacity of a brain at 12GB. This was based on computing the memory capacity of a functioning 100B neurons simulated neural network designed after the best understanding we had at the time on how our brain works.
I trust my university professor more than a geocities page.
Mind you, with a reasonable compression scheme, I doubt there's much more that needs to be known and remembered.
Commenters seem very young today. Noone remembers the failures of Intel's and Motorola first attemps at addressing RISC designs? Both the Motorola 88000 and the Intel i860 were great designs that failed.
Back in the 90's, I did some work for the Ontario Telepresence Project. We did lots of studies on videoconferencing, shared mediaspaces...
What strikes me given the relative lack of outcome of the project, compared to the ubiquity of today's camera phones, is that the Telepresence project had it wrong when it wanted to have people *face* each other during conversations.
It turns out, this is not what we want. Staring at your interlocutor's face is not what you do in a usual conversation, it's even embarassing. You look at a shared point of interest. Turning the camera the opposite side of the screen was the way to go. First, you could use the cell phone as a camera, and second, in a phone conversation, it's much more useful to say "look at this", than to offer a nice view of you're hairy nose.
Or, to put it like St. Exupery:
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction...
Assuming a competitive, market-based economy, any software of sufficiently broad usage is bound to become free, as its marginal production cost is null. The free software movement is not much more than the social expression of this basic economical fact. Software distinguishes itself from other works of the mind, such as music, in that its originality is by no means a part of its value or utility. As a consequence, the software industry is bound to live on the margins generated by software innovation and specialization
But you have to carry the fuel from the port terminal (where the powerplants most likely are) to your home (through the shop). That should be in the ballpark of 7% transmission loss too...
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
