More than ever the season of gifts is the season of gadgets. For those who aren’t exactly sure what makes something a gadget, it boils down to this: It’s a toy for adults who are in such denial of their childish side that they childishly insist on giving their toys another label, as if that [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Tis The Season
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
“Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of striving to fulfill wishes of the material kind. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.”
Hmmm, so we enter what is for a huge percentage of the world’s population [...]
Computer Tech Advance at IBM
Saturday, December 1, 2007
NOTE: Severely delayed “current event” blog to follow. This was written at the start of the the tech difficulty, but could not be posted until now.
Researchers are working on processors far smaller than micro-electronic circuits of today. They are close to having individual atoms hold information by having an on/off, or zero/one state. Presently they [...]
Is life possible when the computer goes kablooey?
Saturday, December 1, 2007
The first posts on this site included a discourse on whether Albert Einstein would blog, or even use a computer. Much of his success was due to simplicity, both in thought and in lifestyle. If he could get by without something, no matter how essential others might consider this thing to be, he would do [...]