True, Also the point wasn't that the capitalists were that stupid, but that they had so much control over production that the communist revolutionaries couldn't even get rope from a non-capitalist source.
If it were just business code, I wouldn't mind. But the fact that MS's new, flagship framework,.Net, fails to make a clean break from Win32 and Win16 (examples given in TFA), is what bugs me. The backward-compatibility-at-all-costs mindset pervades and cripples significant amounts of consumer-grade commercial and gratis software.
Are you kidding? Sure, some episodes are slow or don't really work, but the second episode of the first "series" (that's "season" in the US) of the new Dr. Who is in my top five favorite sci-fi TV episodes of all time, including all the Star Treks and Babylon 5.
The entire business model of private health insurance is immoral, as they profit from the illness and misfortune of others. The rest of your post is debatable, but this part is obviously wrong. Insurance companies profit when you stay healthy and don't cash in.
The data storage isn't impossible, just expensive. In fact, it's been technically possible since Richard Feynman's famous talk in 1959, "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom":
"There is no question that if the thing [the entire Encyclopaedia Brittanica] were reduced by 25,000 times in the form of raised letters on the pin, it would be easy for us to read it today. Furthermore; there is no question that we would find it easy to make copies of the master; we would just need to press the same metal plate again into plastic and we would have another copy.... I have estimated how many letters there are in the Encyclopaedia, and I have assumed that each of my 24 million books is as big as an Encyclopaedia volume, and have calculated, then, how many bits of information there are (10^15). For each bit I allow 100 atoms. And it turns out that all of the information that man has carefully accumulated in all the books in the world can be written in this form in a cube of material one two-hundredth of an inch wide--- which is the barest piece of dust that can be made out by the human eye. So there is plenty of room at the bottom! Don't tell me about microfilm! "
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Since C99 there is a "bit" data type. It's called bool.
True, Also the point wasn't that the capitalists were that stupid, but that they had so much control over production that the communist revolutionaries couldn't even get rope from a non-capitalist source.
If it were just business code, I wouldn't mind. But the fact that MS's new, flagship framework, .Net, fails to make a clean break from Win32 and Win16 (examples given in TFA), is what bugs me. The backward-compatibility-at-all-costs mindset pervades and cripples significant amounts of consumer-grade commercial and gratis software.
Are you kidding? Sure, some episodes are slow or don't really work, but the second episode of the first "series" (that's "season" in the US) of the new Dr. Who is in my top five favorite sci-fi TV episodes of all time, including all the Star Treks and Babylon 5.
Google is way ahead of you: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
They could be doing this already, the technology is already in place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYLVgMF9R9g
"There is no question that if the thing [the entire Encyclopaedia Brittanica] were reduced by 25,000 times in the form of raised letters on the pin, it would be easy for us to read it today. Furthermore; there is no question that we would find it easy to make copies of the master; we would just need to press the same metal plate again into plastic and we would have another copy.... I have estimated how many letters there are in the Encyclopaedia, and I have assumed that each of my 24 million books is as big as an Encyclopaedia volume, and have calculated, then, how many bits of information there are (10^15). For each bit I allow 100 atoms. And it turns out that all of the information that man has carefully accumulated in all the books in the world can be written in this form in a cube of material one two-hundredth of an inch wide--- which is the barest piece of dust that can be made out by the human eye. So there is plenty of room at the bottom! Don't tell me about microfilm! "