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this comes as no surprise. But Camerron's post illustrates a deeper issue. The world we live in is a mental model created by our brains, and the data that underlies the model is su…

I'm contrary on this. I see salary level as a negative, not a positive. I want to be paid comparably to my peers. I don't think I'm unique. I think just about all workers want to b…

I have a Fujitsu P2110 with the Transmeta Crusoe CPU. It was passed along by a friend who had upgraded to a more powerful machine but didn't want it to go into the trash. She said …

A universal basic income is not a cure for this particular problem. The reason the idea is getting interest is the number of people who don't have and can't get jobs. Buckminster F…

When was the last time you went to Sourceforge? How do you access it? It isn't ad filled here. They went through a bad patch when owned by the previous owner, who was trying to fig…

Yes, B5 was an aggressive adopter of digital technology. The driver was costs . Models were expensive , and if they could be replaced by CGI, the cost of making the show could be d…

I think I admire the energy and dedication behind this, but I can't see getting one. I've been involved with eBooks for over 15 years. It began when my then employer decided all IT…

An assortment: "The Silent Language" by Edward T. Hall. Hall was an anthropologist attached to the University of New Mexico. He and his research partner, linguist Norman Trager, we…

Whether any government mandated minimum wage boost "works", depends upon who you are. Who benefits from it? If you are currently in a minimum wage job, you may benefit. You're maki…

This is an example of why I flatly refused to install an IM client at a former employer who wanted IT staff connected and instantly available. (The issue was laid to rest in a conf…

The key statement in the article is the last: "Bottom line: Robots do replace workers. On the other hand, some industries that don't automate end up losing workers anyway, because …

The biggest worldview changer for me was probably the work of the late Edward T. Hall. Hall was an anthropologist attached the the University of New Mexico. He and his research par…

Profit is not a "choice", it's a requirement . The one thing we can say for certain about tomorrow is that it will be different from today. We don't know (and likely can't know) ho…

Back in the early 70's, I worked for a government (HUD/ERDA) sponsored project to promote alternative energy use. It was the first flowering of OPEC, gas prices at the pump were ri…

Back in the early 70's, I worked for a government (HUD/ERDA) sponsored project to promote alternative energy use. It was the first flowering of OPEC, gas prices at the pump were ri…

I know Terry, and saw him read this with fellow writer Jack Womack years ago. Terry was the enthusiastic describer of these weird biological critters, and Jack did the " Meat ?" re…

So just what was your goal? You don't really seem to have thought this through. This is a case of "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it." You started a company, convinced…

I don't have just one. Under Windows, I use a fork of Florian Ballmer's Notepad2 to replace Notepad. It's one of a number of editors based on Neil Hodgson's Scintilla edit control.…

I have two Ubuntu Linux installations. The desktop uses XFCE4. The ancient notebook uses LXDE because it's really low end hardware. The notebook can't run Unity. The desktop can, b…

Speaking personally, I never left Firefox. I've been using Mozilla code since the Netscape 7.X days (and tried to use NS6, but it was way too buggy.) I progressed from MS7 to the M…

Nope. Remember that Project Gutenberg hosts books which have lapsed into the public domain. That's not true for a lot of the stuff mentioned. (A decent collection of Van Vogt is av…

A note on various of the Gutenberg SF entries: the versions on Project Gutenberg may be the magazine serial versions. They may differ substantially from the book versions. (Shorter…