I've had a syncope like that before when I was younger.
I had the flu at the time, and one morning I immediately got out of bed and went to the bathroom. On the way back to my room, I started to feel dizzy and noticed my eyesight fading. First it seemed to go black and white, then to tunnel-vision, as if I could only see what was directly in front of me. My hearing faded as well - I was on the verge of collapsing (unbeknownst to me) and I could hear my family shouting out as if I was listening to them through a poor AM radio signal and speaker. My father grabbed me before I collapsed and hit my head on the corner of a desk.
After going to the doctor, we determined the causes:
* Standing up too quickly (jumping straight out of bed)
* Low blood pressure
* Possible dehydration
* Going to the bathroom
The trick to prevent passing out when you start feeling dizzy is to get blood flowing back into your head. The easiest way to do that is lie on your back and lift your feet high in the air. And of course, keep hydrated and avoid standing too quickly.
This is why I think Capitalism is failing. As we move into a more virtual world, where the means of production are owned by all, value derived from utility (the principle tenet of neoclassical thought) becomes almost meaningless, less a few required cases.
Look at Communism, it began to crumble when Labour as value stopped making sense, i.e. intellectual work was the driving force of the economy during the cold war. Just ask Doctors in Cuba, where farmers often earn more.
As we move into a more virtual world, where work is no longer connected to sweat labour, or direct utility, when everyone owns a machine capable of digital and physical reproduction our fundamental understanding of value will shift; bringing about new economic principles.
We could lose all this virtual stuff overnight and the world would be much like before, it's funny how things are all different and yet nothing changes. Facebook could disappear and you'd likely never notice (unless you happened to hold stock).
But someone still has to grow crops, build houses, produce the goods we use and someone still has to know how to set bones and how to apply stitches.
The virtual world is mostly a first world luxury, if not an outright illusion.
Work will always be connected to sweat labour, maybe not directly but it will be very hard to get rid of that factor in a sustainable manner.
Capitalism is not failing, it is simply adapting to a new situation. And Communism didn't crumble because labour as value stopped making sense, we simply have never had communism, only a bunch of people using it as a fig leaf to cover up their crimes.
Robots/Automation already grows crops, builds houses and produces goods we use. 6 people are involved in the production of millions of TVs at Panasonic. Foxconn is adding millions of robots to its workforce. While not a virtual world, it definitely is a growing into a more digitally operated world.
Ubiquitous surveillance and a swarm of drones doing policing probably is as effective as most law enforcement is. I don't like it though... but not liking something does not make it less effective.
In the new world, the value of sweat is falling, but the value of each person's time is improving.
Too bad this is never going to be heard or understood by the majority of people, until it is too late. (Leave Facebook?! but how will I keep in touch with everyone?)
But don't worry, I have a tinfoil hat for this exact problem.
I could never understand that point. Corporations are people everywhere. Corporation is just a group of people (shareholders/owners and management/employees) with a contractual hierarchy owning some property (equity). Same way NGOs are people, HOAs are people, football teams are people... And it's like that everywhere in the world, it's a very basic property of human societies.
That's why corporate donations traditionally include donations from "members" of the corporation as donation from the corporation BTW.
Now, in civilized countries, individuals within these groups are given some legal protection from responsibility for the group's actions. There are certain advantages to that approach (more innovation, risk taking, investment, etc) but most importantly collective responsibility is simply wrong.
The idea of corporations being people goes back to Rome when someone decided that the laws regarding disputes between persons could be applied to an organization as well. Corpus == body, the body of people being treated as a person in considering the accusation. That said, governments have always been able to regulate what corporations can do until the Citizens United decision of 2010. Corporations used to be chartered by the government to meet a specific objective and were only allowed to spend money towards that objective; government regulatory policy was deny-by-default. Aaron Burr's Manhattan Company in 1799 was the first modern corporation in the US that was allowed to spend its money freely.
This would be a killer feature for me. If a notebook can have a similar battery life as an iPad, that's a huge feature.
If I have a keyboard/track(pad|point) combo, I don't need/want a touchscreen. Thus I'd prefer a halfway-decent ARM chromebook over, say, a Transformer Prime, or an iPad+bt-keyboard-case (otherwise you're spending half your time with your arm raised, messing with the touchscreen)
I've been waiting for that for a while, and even bought an Efika MX Smartbook.
It's not worth it.Just buy an AMD fusion laptop. I got the Thinkpad E325 and it's much more powerful than either Atom or all current ARM chips and battery lasts for 7h+.
Leadership, foresight and intuition are needed in a technical founder as well.
There are many many more non technical people looking to do a start-up; it is also the case that most non-technical professionals can easily be replaced. But remember we are talking of partners, not employees.
From your mention of the bathroom floor, I can only assume you were urinating while standing, which is a very common trigger for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_response. For more specific definition see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micturition_syncope
Not a big deal really, but as always might want to get it checked out to rule out more serious conditions.