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Nereus writes "The BBC News is reporting on an interesting new software product developed by three undergraduates at the University of Aberdeen [and the Universities of Hull and Sheffield]. The University Leisure and Lifestyle Manager (ULL) is the ultimate student companion, helping in all aspects of life; from choosing text books, to getting home from the pub after a few too many. Hopefully it won't put an end to the traditional student pastime of waking up on a park bench after a night out, with a traffic cone on your head..."
Whatever happened to people using their heads to make smart decisions on how to handle their day to day existence?
Geez.
The older I get, the less I like everyone else.
Handy stuff. I know when I'm piss drunk, I have no trouble at all operating a smart phone/PDA.
It would be a deal if it came with like discounts on cab rides or local bar coupons or booze shop discounts.
Some nice ideas, but I've never had any choice in what textbooks to get, so I've got no use for that little widget. And how's it gonna actually give me feedback on essays beyond the spell/grammar check capability already in MS Word/ OO Write? The whole thing strikes me as being a jack of all trades, master of none.
"Mr Grieve is confident the system can be used in the real world."
That is what really matters. There are literally thousands of nifty little student projects created each year. While ideas are interesting, they are cheap. Even the most clever ideas die.
In this case, the students were lucky enough to get some press. That exposure, of course, will drive the idea up the ladder. Still, exposure alone will not make the idea successful in the market. Bravo to the students for getting some free PR!
Linux suffers from similar problems. It just doesn't matter how great it is. What matters, to many people, but not all, is how Linux is adopted in the marketplace. The best ideas don't necessarily win. Product marketing, solid management, planning, quality, and more, all matter.
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It's not much help if you can't operate it.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
perhaps it depends on what sort of drunk you are. i did a number of programming assignments while wasted enough to not recall doing it in the morning. the really weird thing. the code was properly indented, commented and made sence. some of it even had little insightful tricks to it. (lots of spelling errors, but they where my spelling errors)
now that i have a job in the real world, my boss wont let me program from home (drunk) or drink booz at work.
... you should actually use your own brain!
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
My pet hypothesis is that whatever is considered sexy is "what rich people look like." For most of human history, being fat was a sign of wealth (and therefore health and fertility) because only rich people consistently had enough to eat. But these days, it takes wealth to be thin -- fattening food is much cheaper than healthy food, and the majority of jobs at any level on the socieconomic scale involve little or no physical labor, so you have to have time and money to exercise. (The part about the jobs is particularly true for women, which may be why the worship of thin-ness is more pronounced in females, although it increasingly occurs in both sexes.) And since wealth is always a sign of reproductive fitness, it's always sexy.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
I think that it has less to do with the rich and all to do with scarcity. The more rare something is the more valused it will be. This is something about people that has been true and will be true forever.