"personality issues" -
04-09-2012
, 05:48 PM
read "dickheads" blockers
"In 1812 he was sitting in his rooms in the Analytical Society looking at
a table of logarithms, which he knew to be full of mistakes, when the
idea occurred to him of computing all tabular functions by machinery. The
French government had produced several tables by a new method. Three or
four of their mathematicians decided how to compute the tables, half a
dozen more broke down the operations into simple stages, and the work
itself, which was restricted to addition and subtraction, was done by
eighty [human] computers who knew only these two arithmetical processes.
Here, for the first time, mass production was applied to arithmetic, and
Babbage was seized by the idea that the labours of the unskilled
computers could be taken over completely by machinery which would be
quicker and more reliable.
”
—B. V. Bowden, Faster than thought, Pitman
Babbage's machines were among the first mechanical computers, although
they were not actually completed, largely because of funding problems and
personality issues."
want to make any kind of progress? you are wasting your time in a
socialist economy
money is nothing -- the thing to DESTROY is people/enterprise creativity |