Interesting Links for 23-10-2012

[andrewducker]

• How the Apple Rumour Mill works.
  (tags: apple technology funny )
• Amazon charges UK publishers 20 per cent VAT on book sales when it only pays 3 per cent
  (tags: uk tax amazon )
• In 1973 Chile experimented with a computer-assisted economy.
  (tags: chile cybernetics computers technology economics )
• E-Ink Android phone promises a week long

Comments

[strawberryfrog]

Realistic starship bridge simulator: nothing happens for several decades.

[bart_calendar]

I'd argue that Dr. Jones isn't even that much of a linguistics expert, since a major plot point revolves around him not being able to speak Hovito.

[henriksdal]

when you have a starship bridge sim party I WANT TO PLAY also bagsy SCIENCE or drawing on a beard and being Riker.

[andrewducker]

You'd be an awesome Riker.

[simont]

In 1973 Chile experimented with a computer-assisted economy.

These computers promptly escaped from a maximum-security economy to the Santiago underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as calculators of fortune.

[andrewducker]

Sporfle!