[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Voices of reason notice the right wing is batshit insane
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
Ben Smith notes that George Packer and Andrew Sullivan are lamenting the irrationality of the right and he posits that liberals are going to be increasingly relying on this argument the more we lose.
He might be right about that. But I would love to know where people have been the last decade or so.
…dirty hippies like me have been talking about "epistemic relativism," "PoMo conservatism" (terms I coined to annoy wingnuts) for years now, and long before the serious people noticed "epistemic closure". …It's just a little bit late in the game for for our intellectual betters to take notice of something that's been going on for quite a long time…
The fact that [Obama] and all of his worshipers among the intellectual elite fail to acknowledge (or even notice) the radicalism of his opponents is just as much of a problem… In fact, I would have to say that it's also a form of "epistemic closure" at this point.
- Limitations of Windows PowerShell vs. Linux SSH/bash
- ZDNet: "I've had the opportunity to work with PowerShell recently, on Windows 7. And I have to admit, I'm impressed with some things, but disappointed with others"
- The Computer Chip Is on the Verge of a Generational Change
- [ReadWriteWeb - Curt Hopkins]
The "memristor" from Hewlett-Packard and Hynix; and the "nanoelectromechanical switches" from DARPA and Case Western Reserve University hint at a future in which the nature of computing itself may change as much as the interface.
…The memristor chip will accommodate a hard drive's worth of information. Perhaps even more important than the continuance of Moore's Law is the fact that a memristor requires a small percentage of a traditional chip's energy to function… Imagine a future of computing where the vast amounts of currently inaccessible data is at your fingertips… An e-reader for every citizen of the developing world and a laptop for every child seem much less pie in the sky in such a world.
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