Agreed. It is sad, if only there was a way to get the Horse to drink once it has been led to the water.
It would be great if this sort of stuff went main stream. Lets hope it leads to implementations that the world can't ignore! P On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 January 2012 15:11, Peter Franta <[email protected]> wrote: > > VPRI answer to their Government and Private Funders, not those of us who > > have the fortune to observe as they go. > > Government-funded is publically funded. I'm disappointed that public > funding rules apparently impose nothing more than an annual report on > publically-funded research programs. > > > It is my understanding the deliverable is not a "product" but "lessons > > learned" to go and do it for real! Not ideal for us but then they're not > > serving us. > > If they're government-funded they're serving the US taxpayer. > Admittedly I'm not a US citizen, but heck, I contribute to the > revenues of plenty of US corporations, on which they presumably pay > tax. And I said nothing about product, but I'll get to that later. > > > Clearly this doesn't match your expectations. This is frustrating to you > but > > are your expectations their concern? Where do these expectations come > from? > > It matches my expectations all too well: brilliant research looking > like it will be flushed down history's toilet like so much other > brilliant research before it. > > > Popular/Successful <> Better. > > Exactly. If it were the same, it wouldn't be necessary to popularise > better research in order to make it successful. Good stuff doesn't > drive out bad by sheer superiority, sadly. > > Simply doing good research is not enough. If it were we'd be decades > ahead in computing, and centuries in other fields. > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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