Funny timing. Yesterday I wrote about our use of time cliches. This morning I finally opened my latest issue of Scientific American. Yup, there’s a lead article about the asymmetry of time (runs only forward). It asks this question:
“The basic laws of physics work equally well forward or backward in time, yet we perceive time to move [...]
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Arrow of Time
Posted in analysis of behavior, philosophy, science, time, tagged arrow of time, cosmology, paradox of time, time, time flies on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TPM will not end game piracy
Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, video games, tagged atari, atari founder, drm, tpm, trusted computing, video games on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ADDED 12:30PM: TPM – Trusted Platform Module – it’s a hardware based cryptology
ADDED 11:45AM: I wanted to share a decent, but somewhat technical, research paper on downloading behavior.
“The SCT view of media behavior suggests that the expected positive and negative outcomes of downloading are important initial causes of behavior. The expected outcomes that users experience [...]
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