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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Timothy Gowers, ed) Jennifer Government (by Max Barry) The Supernaturalist (by Eoin Colfer) …

Motorola 68k -> Apple/Motorola/IBM PowerPC -> Intel ???

I was being aspergery about it.

Never seriously… It would be to close to hubris? An early indication of loosing touch with reality? Perhaps indicating the onset of psychosis? Maybe ironically, especially after a …

In a stable environment a large greedy specialist often does better then a lean thrifty generalist. In a more dynamic environment a lean thrifty generalist does better then a large…

FREEMAN DYSON wrote a very good article about the need for heretics in science A quote: "I would like to ask two questions. First, if the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphe…

This was (?) the way the USSR used to handle conscientious objectors: They would send you a letter to go serve in the military, You would go to where you where assigned, You object…

It reminded me of something Knuth once wrote: "Judge an artist not by the quality of what is hanging on the walls, but by the quality of what's in the wastebasket"

I think everyone should learn to read, write, arithmetic, programming and preferable some mathematics.

In most of Europe it's called "informatics" or "informatica" which at least to me makes a lot more sense: It's the study of information: data, languages, semantics, knowledge, know…

That would be a meta-habit… does this also apply to meta-habits?

Personally I think that the physical reality can't be described in a finite Theory of Everything (ToE) for the same reason as that there is no ToE for mathematics? See http://plus.…

How does that cover in anyway the case where I run my own SMTP/IMAP server for me and my minions, and we are encrypting all email with GNU Privacy Guard using the GPGMail plugin to…

This isn't all that surprising if we don't look at the market share in terms of "number of units" but rather in "amount of US$"? While Apple might be selling less units, each unit …

What is impossible is this: You can't have secure communication which is inherently insecure by design. The "backdoor" (a intentional bug) will have to be part of the communication…

I'm guessing that RFC4880 isn't being used nearly enough?

Apple's AirPort works fine for me at the moment. I just wish that its support of IPv6 included DHCPv6… What I don't understand is that most ADSL-modems include a router? I usually …

The idea of being powerless (unless you're dead) is also an illusion. We tend to have more power then we think, but its seldom the kind of power we think we need or the kind of pow…

I don't know about the current systems, have been wireless for more then 4 years now, but the original iMac had non-standard USB usage because Apple wanted the "power" button in th…

No, not everyone does things that makes them famous. To be productive does not require one to either get payed or be famous, one can be quite productive and still not get payed eno…

(1) Being payed is not equivalent with being productive There is a whole lot of work being done by the so called unemployed which really needs to be done but for which no-one is go…

To avoid that weird incentives gap the basic income should be unconditional, so without a means test. Regardless if they are unemployed or employed every citizen receives every wee…