Simpler things are sometimes harder to kill. The Andromeda Strain was hard to kill because it was a simple thing which had adapted to an extremely harsh environment.
Similarly, prions -- the deformed proteins associated with Mad Cow and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- survive autoclaving. Bacteria break down in an autoclave, but not prions, which are much simpler things. Very worrisome, because autoclaving is the standard procedure for sterilizing surgical instruments.
Contrast this with complex things -- e.g. human beings -- which can be killed in a thousand simple ways.
More complex, more vulnerable.
I'm reminded of the "trans-warp drive" from one of the Star Trek movies, I forget which: Scotty shuts down the drive by heisting a few chips, and says with a smile: "The more they tinker with the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the works."
Needs a spatial position calibration feature, so hand position of mouse-neutral state can be set to whatever the user likes.
Hands-over-keyboard is one posture. But for example when gaming I might want the mouse-hand in an upright fist-grip position, like a joystick but I'm not actually gripping anything.
One or two parties dominate any given election, along with one or several "minor parties".
But in addition there are usually a handful of "minor-party candidates" who have no real party: individuals with time on their hands and some particular axe to grind.
Democracy is darwinian. If enough people agree with you, by joining the party, your axe-grinding becomes public policy; if not, not.
So too with search engines. If people agree with you by using your service, then you become a household name; if not, not.
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Simpler things are sometimes harder to kill. The Andromeda Strain was hard to kill because it was a simple thing which had adapted to an extremely harsh environment.
Similarly, prions -- the deformed proteins associated with Mad Cow and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- survive autoclaving. Bacteria break down in an autoclave, but not prions, which are much simpler things. Very worrisome, because autoclaving is the standard procedure for sterilizing surgical instruments.
Contrast this with complex things -- e.g. human beings -- which can be killed in a thousand simple ways.
More complex, more vulnerable.
I'm reminded of the "trans-warp drive" from one of the Star Trek movies, I forget which: Scotty shuts down the drive by heisting a few chips, and says with a smile: "The more they tinker with the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the works."
Needs a spatial position calibration feature, so hand position of mouse-neutral state can be set to whatever the user likes.
Hands-over-keyboard is one posture. But for example when gaming I might want the mouse-hand in an upright fist-grip position, like a joystick but I'm not actually gripping anything.
One or two parties dominate any given election, along with one or several "minor parties".
But in addition there are usually a handful of "minor-party candidates" who have no real party: individuals with time on their hands and some particular axe to grind.
Democracy is darwinian. If enough people agree with you, by joining the party, your axe-grinding becomes public policy; if not, not.
So too with search engines. If people agree with you by using your service, then you become a household name; if not, not.
Not like I actually USE my Underwood manual typewriter any more. It's a dusty museum piece.
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But in a pinch -- power outage, post-apocalyptic dark age, whatever -- I can still pound out a memo to FEMA
Motion and friction are great for sex, but terrible for data storage and retrieval.
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Hard drive crash? Hell, I'm old enough to remember when cassette tapes crashed
What we really need: RAM drives the size of a Monolith.
Stop spinning and start grinning!