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Mathematics is about solving traffic problems and computer science is about translating these problem solutions for machines . (These machines have not necessarily to be only digital computers but may be also mechanical machines!) The problems mathematicians and computer scientists are dealing with are of formal nature. Understanding web evolvement is a complex problem. Solutions for problems that come along with web evolvement, have to be of formal nature as they must be understandable for computers . But to find formal solutions for complex problems , you have to be rather a complexity expert than a formalism expert .

The U.S. government support of bankrupt financial institutions like Freddi Mac, Fannie Mae, and AIG will cost the tax payer billions of USD (overall cost of one trillion USD). After the financial support was announced the global markets realized the highest one-day growth since years. As far as I know, this is biggest financial intervention of the government in the U.S. history. The short-term and mid-term effect of this gigantic money injection will becalm the markets and will prevent the really big stock market crunch from happening. But the long-term effect on the market is much more fatal as this support remains an intervention of the government in the market proceedings and as such it is also a disruption of the natural structure and procedures of the market ecosystem. And this ecosystem as every other (also natural) ecosystem is dominated by the principles of evolution . One of this principles is: Inefficient or unadjusted concepts and entities have to vanish in favor of the...

Many technology enthusiasts think that with Chrome Google sound the bell for a new era of applications. In fact the popularity momentum of this bleeding edge technology using browser is just amazing. On the other hand many other tech enthusiasts think that this is just another hype nobody needs. One of these skeptics have wrote an article with three really nice models describing the difference between software of yesterday and the software of tomorrow . Inspired by these impressive models, I have remembered an article, I wrote one year ago . This article described the evolution of software on the basis of LVM . Hereby LVM was characterized as just a further abstraction layer that offers capabilities to manage complex file system setups and which can -- in certain circumstances (but not necessarily!) -- simplify the management of complex data storage facilities: Such technologies enable to manage the progressive complexity which is a ( positive correlating ) predicate of evolution ...

In a brilliant social analysis, aside from ideological blindness , Klaus Schweinsberg , chief editor of Capital (German business news magazine) answers a controversial question: Why the behavior of top managers of transnational corporations seems to be "unsocial" to the general public? Schweinsberg's argumentation do not use any moral referenced reasons. In fact his argumentation is an analysis of the social environment of CEOs and other top managers . Some of the main reasons stated by Schweinsberg are: The current but also the future elite have lost its social adhesion resp. embeddedness. Therefore this elite do not and cannot know what is going around in the real social world/environment; the leadership elite loses its social empathy . But all this is just a result of the socialization (social environment and behavior) of future top managers: Those who want to become somebody in the upper management milieu, have to become a nobody in the gene...

This force is very powerful and can be used as a l ever to accomplish great tasks and to solve substantial problems . Rationality makes the human kind to the most dangerous and powerful species on earth.

The (ideal) beauty of entities is appriciated so much because it shows the (pure) essence of an entity .

The language that is unable to reflect a mind structure and/or ideas as a reason for mental diseases like autism?

A brief comparison between the GPL and BSD license shows that the core premises of freedom can be fully reflected by the BSD license . Whereas the GPL reflects the same idea but adds also some clauses which limit this idea. So the GPL can be thought of as an legal overhead that is put above the BSD license and which intention is to extend the BSD license with obligations . One of the most impressive facts regarding the debate which software license guarantees true freedom are maybe the answers to the question: How many words does freedom need? the BSD license is of the opinion that 231 words should be enough GPLv2 expresses its freedom in 2495 words and the GPLv3 adds further obligations to the GPLv2 which blows up the GPLv3 to 5226 words Which is your favorite? A definition which simply defines what freedom is or a definition that goes beyond this and defines also what freedom is not. Is it possible to define what freedom is not at all? You have to consider an infinite number of...

Sometimes you discover that all people are obsessed by power in all its facets which is not necessarily bad because it is their nature which - per definition of "nature" - cannot be bad. But this is the point where you start to understand what is the propulsive power behind all the things they aspire. You start to arrange the things they done in the accordant context. You begin to understand that all the things they do are not so altruistic as they seem to be. The instruments, methods and tools they are using and the ways they choose are quite different but they want all the same: POWER!

2007 Sun Microsystems licensed its Java framework under the GPLv2. An important question arise from this fact is: Why have a big corporation choose a license with a strong copyleft like GPL instead of a permissive license like the BSD license ? This fact is inasmuch curious because the GPL is supposed to be a "socialism style license". But successful corporations are rational actors and interested in gaining but not decreasing their power and influence. So truly "socialism style licenses" are not really appreciated in these areas. Therefore the GPL was resp. might be in fact the best open source license Sun Microsystems could choose (among others) for OpenSolaris and their Java framework. This depends on the non-permissive nature of the GPL which license agreement is more than five times as long as the BSD license agreement and the GPLv3 is even longer. In its juridical overhead the GPL defines what is not allowed and constrains in this way the freedom of action ...

Many people admire explicit perception based on explicit and formal knowledge because arguments and facts based on this kind of knowledge are commonly known as hard facts. This kind of knowledge is based on the boolean algebra so that its truth value is fully determined by just two values: true and false (and "tertium non datur"). Therefore explicit knowledge have the nature of inviolability because a (apparently true) fact can be -- according to the theory of epistemology -- at least certainly disproven . The notion " fact " is also a typical term of the explicit knowledge set because it is the synonym for a true argument . In fact all engineering science is based on mathematics which bares the idea of formal knowledge resp. truth. Today engineering science is the leading force in economy and therefore also in the educational system. People are trained to admire explicit resp. formal knowledge already in schools and universities because this is the kind of kn...