Muere Michael Hart, padre del libro electrónico

Hoy murió Michael Hart, norteamericano, quien fundó en 1971 el Proyecto Gutenberg, que desde esa fecha se ha dedicado a capturar en formato digital libros cuyo copyright ha expirado.

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Classification biologique

Les espèces actuellement les plus proches de l'humain sont les deux espèces de chimpanzé : Pan troglodytes (le chimpanzé commun) et Pan paniscus (le bonobo). Par leur proximité phylogénétique avec l’homme, viennent ensuite le gorille et l'orang-outan. Le génome des humains ne diffère que de 0,27 % de celui des chimpanzés et de 0,65 % de celui des gorilles. Ces chiffres conduisent à estimer que notre lignée s'est séparée de celle des chimpanzés il y a environ cinq millions d'années, et des gorilles il y a environ sept millions d'années

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Nabokov's Lectures on Literature at Cornell University where he was appointed an instructor in 1948, reveals his controversial ideas concerning art.^{[citation needed]} He firmly believed that novels should not aim to teach and that readers should not merely empathise with characters but that a 'higher' aesthetic enjoyment should be attained, partly by paying great attention to details of style and structure. He detested what he saw as 'general ideas' in novels, and so when teaching Ulysses, for example, he would insist students keep an eye on where the characters were in Dublin (with the aid of a map) rather than teaching the complex Irish history that many critics see as being essential to an understanding of the novel.

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To him, the "originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity" of creating a chess problem was similar to that in any other art.

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His Time obituary reads "Politically, Nabokov saw himself as an old-fashioned liberal, though by current standards he was a William F. Buckley conservative. His suggestion that the portrait of a head of government "should not exceed a postage stamp in size" makes good sense in any ideology.

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Influenced by the Swiss anthropologist Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–87), Walter Benjamin coined the term “auratic perception”, denoting the aesthetic faculty by means of which civilization may recover an appreciation of myth.

Baudelaire began asserting that traditional art was inadequate for the new dynamic complications of modern life.

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The observer-participant dialectic

is evidenced in part by the dandy culture. Highly self-aware, and to a certain degree

flamboyant and theatrical,

dandies of the mid-nineteenth century created scenes through outrageous acts like walking turtles on leashes down the streets of Paris. [1] Such acts exemplify a flâneur's active participation in and fascination with street life while displaying

a critical attitude towards the

uniformity,
speed,
and anonymity of modern life in the city.


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The approach to the circuits which evolved at MIT was to set about to make the circuits fast and then the computer simple.




Through our history, many of the ideas came from our customers.



But in general, the market wasn't asking for it. Market surveys came to the conclusion that people wanted exactly what they had. That's because that's all they'd ever seen.



You never can say for sure because somebody else might have done it first.

DKA: Is DEC more open with its information about machine design than other companies?

KO: Probably so, because of [our] academic background. But even more important, it takes a lot of discipline to get people to write. After you're finished with a job, it's very hard to write about you've done because you're ready to go on to something new. Getting people to write down all they know about the project they worked on takes discipline and effort.



The company changes consistently and regularly. The people we hired initially of course were not trained in computers. They came from all kinds of backgrounds. Musicologists was surprisingly popular.



The military is always several years behind in computers, and getting farther and farther behind. They're not in a position to lead the computer industry just because of the way they're organized.



I think the interesting thing to observe about computers and computer technology is that the most significant changes people don't notice. Things they worry about never become a problem. For example, the hand calculator really was a revolution. No one predicted it, no one worried about it. It sneaked up on us and suddenly we all have them, we all use them, and we never thought of it as revolution. It just sneaked up on us.



I tell our people when I'm asked to lecture, look at the old people you want to be like.



I used to think that computers could do no harm. But there are some things which do worry me. Some people study computers and don't learn anything else. Computers are just tools to do something; you better be expert in something and consider the computers the tool. The computers are fun and exciting but they're just tools, and we better make sure that we know something about what the computers are supposed to solve not just the computers.


Computers also produce an enormous amount of data and people get confused with that. Data is not information. That's been pointed out. You put the data in a form which is useful and you have some information. But a large amount of data isn't information. I think in business making graphs is a menace.




***********ken olsen

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"The Internet is not about technology; it's about communication. The Internet connects people who have shared interests, ideas and needs, regardless of geography."

*************Bob Taylor


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