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I gave an introduction in Technology and Activism the other day to the Creative Commons. In that introduction, we (briefly) explored two thought problems: [ music ] How long until you can own every song ever written? My first question had to do with music. If $60 buys a 500GB hard drive, you can put one year . . . → Read More: ipad and ebooks Peter Klein over at Organizations and Markets wonders aloud: It’s easy to come up with examples of organizations run by jerks that failed, but do we have systematic empirical evidence that nice-guy firms finish first? Do the marginal costs of costs of placing rude, self-centered people in management positions outweigh the marginal benefits? It is likely that Peter . . . → Read More: the “no asshole rule” I’m eager to see anyone release a full-sized (US Letter / A4) ebook reader. The Sprint Skiff is promising, and may appear shortly. It looks like an 11.5″ diagonal with roughly 3GB of internal storage available, and expansion through SD cards.
Along with the large screen, it looks far lighter and portable than any laptop . . . → Read More: my entire library In the preface to The Art of Computer Programming (1969), Knuth wrote the following:
I would posit that the vast majority of students who complete an introduction to Computer Science (often heavily focused on introducing the practice of programming) would not say that they felt they had been exposed to “an aesthetic experience much like composing . . . → Read More: knuth’s charge |
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