>Thanks - have added Intellectuals to my Amazon cart.

The part regarding Chomsky is brief but reminds one of one of Chomsky's most truly appalling deviations from reason - his reaction to the Cambodian genocide.

( didn't happen - Western propaganda - then maybe happened but much exaggerated then happened but it was America's fault etc. )

the sections on Sartre, Brecht, Tolstoy etc are genius
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>>Read the Aronson. Liked it.
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>>You don't want to get me started on Chomsky <s> His genius is obvious. I the 60s I was actually sympathetic to a lot of his politics.
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>>But I rather think of him like Ezra Pound, in that when he gets outside his area of expertise (linguistics) he starts going further and further off the rails. Perhaps the love child of Betrand Russell and Rosa Luxemburg. Bernard Shaw, Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg, HG. Wells moving into the political realm give me the same kind of unease.
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>>I find him brilliant, stimulating, infuriating, manifestly wrong about a lot of geo-political issues, holding a tenuous grasp on a lot of history, blinded by his anarcho-syndicalist dogmatism and like a lot of really brilliant people misunderstood most by a lot of those who extoll the parts of his politics they like. I think his polemics are very academic and therefore appealing to some, but are pretty much divorced from a world in which things actually have to be done.
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>>If you want a really good read, find a copy of Paul Johnson's Intellectuals (or pretty much anything else by Paul Johnson. Modern Times is quite good. Popular history at its best.
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>>>Yes, I read Nudge quite a while ago and did enjoy it - very interesting. This is also a great read:
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>>>Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): by Elliot Aronson - http://tinyurl.com/yg7czt7
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>>>What do you think of Noam Chomsky? Was given a book by him (but havent read it yet).
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>>>>I agree. I see it more as a convenience. Your license becomes portable and not tied to a particular machine.
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>>>>Hey, I was thinking about you the other day and was about to send you an email. I greatly enjoyed "Talent is Overrated" and I would like to recommend to you Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein. About framing choices. Fascinating stuff and very relevant for software designers as well as many others.
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>>>>>>>Wrong. HASP or USB Keys or "dongle" still provide one of the strongest forms of software copy-protection. See for example
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>>>>>>>http://www.aladdin.com/hasp/dongles.aspx
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>>>>>>And they are pretty much universally hated by users and system administrators/ support staff. They become even more hated when the port or other connection they require is no longer available on the customers' hardware (think parallel port dongles).
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>>>>>I don’t know the general feelings about USB keys in the population at large or amongst system administrators in specific. For general software aimed at end-users I agree this would not be a good solution simply because you don’t want multiple keys hanging around, being plugged in/out or chained together. That would be a hindrance. But for a developer, to enforce one copy of the development environment per developer, this is a total non-issue.