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Message: [QUOTE="JSH, post: 3615099"] Not surprising to me. The modern system buries the individual. Maybe that's part of why I quit working for others as a programmer. You can't really brag about your code or really even say a lot about what you did. I will say that code I worked on if it's still part of a certain system is helping to save lives. Cool. That you have patents. I already did a search in Google and Yahoo! and kind of satisfied my curiosity. I'm fascinated now about how corporations bury the individual, but I think it's also the world. One of my ongoing projects is figuring out how popular my open source project is, and so far I've had very little success, but it would seem to me there are people out there using it, or Google and Yahoo! just really like putting my app at #1 for its name just for fun, oh well. It's a weird world. Takes playing with some things, inventing some things, to figure out just how weird and how opposite this world is to what it claims it is, or does. I'm in no hurry to code this algorithm, and the world has given me no reason to speed things up. Unlike you I don't believe in this world's quick acceptance of innovation, as I know that it works the opposite. It can take decades for innovations to work their way through, so no matter what any program I wrote might show, nothing would happen. Nothing. Over 6 years ago back when I was naive like you and was still working at mathematical research I was working on an algorithm to count prime numbers and after making a change, my screen filled up with primes, and I got this indescribable thrill. I was certain it was this huge moment that would end any debate about my research as that algorithm did then what nothing else does to this day in its search for primes which it declared in a way by those primes that filled my screen. And it didn't matter. 6 years ago. I have 6 years of experience of how the real world works. Social forces against innovation are too strong. Only time matters. There really is no reason for me to code my algorithm because it DOES I believe work. And because it is so huge and proves that P=NP it may be decades before it is accepted, no matter what I or anyone else does because that is the way it works in the real world. If you think otherwise it is because you believe in things no true because you've never had the opportunity to test those beliefs. I have. James Harris [/QUOTE]

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