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From: Eugene Miya on 30 Dec 2009 12:51
>On Dec 16, 5:39=A0pm, Forthminder <menti...(a)myuw.net> wrote:
>> Big Physics is a luxury that the human race can
>> no longer afford. It would be far better to

In article <2679ccda-72fe-4f53-8268-10454a054926(a)n35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
zzbunker(a)netscape.net <zzbunker(a)netscape.net> wrote:
> Well, but supercomputers are also why the
> people understand transistors, invented
> emulators, rather than clocks.

Huh? Understand transistors? Maybe used in later generations after tubes.
Shockley, Bardeen, and Bratten didn't use any computers to understand
them. Nor Pierce, and he was a ex-boss of mine.


> They're why the people who understand economics

I seriously doubt anyone understands economics. Especially economists
except in the very small.

> invented holographic memory and on-line publishing, rather than
>COBAL.

Huh?

> They're why the people who understand engineeing
> invented USB, Atomic Clock Wristwatches, XML, and GPS, rather than
>GE.

Markup languages exist largely because of lawyers. Well so does Unix to
a degree. Supercomputers had nothing to do with GPS.

> They're why the people who understand CRTs invented
> Blue Ray and Self-Replicating Machines, rather than AMA.
>
> They're why the people who understand software, invented
> home broadband, cyber batteries, optical computers, and self-
>assembling robots,
> rather than Chaos Theory

Milo who did home broadband had nothing to do with supercomputers.....
Some s/w is understandable mostly. Most isn't fully understandable.


> They're why the people who understand Firmware invented Cell Phones
>and All-In-One Printers,
> rather than Firmware.
>
> They're why the people undersand FTP, invented CD+rw, rather than
>FTP.

FTP wasn't done by supercomputer people either. In fact, they were
rather opposed to networking.


> They're why the people who understand the navy, invented UAVs and
>Rapid Prototyping,
> rather than the navy.

UAVs date to WWI and arguably even before the Wrights.

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