Novell agrees to be acquired by Attachmate.

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Kevin D. Clark
> <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > I barely trust people to drive in two dimensions, let alone three!
> >
> > My commute takes me a little while, so I have to drive in four.
> 
>   You may travel in four, but your direction and rate of movement
> along one dimension is fixed.  You're not driving for that; you're
> just along for the ride.  And you have limited influence over another
> dimension.  So *driving*, it is more like 2.5 dimensions.  Like the
> original Doom!  No respawn or save games, though.  Bummer.

Yeah, jeez--I recently took a 4k-mile road-trip with my family,
and about .7k miles in..., someone slammed into my (parked) car.
I really wished I'd had some sort of revision-control, there--
it would have been great to just revert that whole `parking' series
and re-do it with my car parked one more space to the right.

Though, to be fair..., one *does* at least get some amount of control
over *how fast* one moves forward through time (e.g.: the pot
of coffee that I just brewed for my wife...).

Coincidentally, I just caught the last half-hour of `The Exchange'
on NHPR, where Laura Knoy was doing a call-in+interview with
Howard Mansfield about his book... on time:

    http://www.nhpr.org/howard-mansfield-time-and-place

There were, at least, a few interesting remarks from Mansfield
in the last few minutes--something about the Amish having
chosen to maintain control over `the clock' and choosing
which technologies to accept or reject as a means to that end.
I'm considering becoming techno-Amish (keeping my computers...
and my flying car...).

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