Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is suspected to be passed to humans from cattle and other animals that have Mad Cow Disease. [...] Nor is there proof that the diesaes spreads between humans.
Very true! I think we can dare to go a step further and say: Nor is there proof that spread of a disease that you get from eating cows can be prevented by hiding in an underground bunker complex.
Also, my favorite part is the end of the article:
Because of the owner's illness and major surgery, the house is currently being offered at only 65% of the actual building costs.
So, go buy it! Play it safe!!! Don't risk illness!
They might be a bit deluded when they think of themselves as a master race (well, only some of them do) but if they were to qualify it as a "master engineering race" then I think there'd be a lot less of us that would argue with it. From rockets to cars, they are excellent engineers.
I AM AN EXCELLENT ENGINEER! I am an excellent engineer! By genetics!!!1!! I genetically r00l!11! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of myself!!!11!! My engineering genes racially own you!
Hey wait, my car... broke down... yesterday... on masterly-engineered Autobahn... my Volkswagen... I checked... couldn't find problem... d00d comes along... Is from Turkey... Looks at motor... does fiddling... car running again... Does not compute! Gene failure!!!!!1!!
Mostly forgotten: Nazi-Germany leadership did not recognize in any way the advantages of the scientific method. The Nazis again and again failed to measure the results of applying new technology and had no systematic approach to exploiting those technologies.
Basically it was: If one of the Nazi-Big-Bosses liked it (because it was loud, big or looked dangerous) they would invest in it. If somehow no very obvious results were coming out of a programme it was usually abandoned. The allies on the other hand employed scientific method and operations research a lot more in evaluating the outcome of their endeavours.
Comparing dutch with german is a huge insult for most Dutch people, including me. Just because it might look/sound the same to foreigners, it's not. The same goes for portugesespanish.
Comparing portugese to spanish is a big insult to Dutch people?
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...in the original version he was simply swimming, no miracle at all.
One of the few cases where the second version is more interesting than the original.
And that is why this may be the killer application for always-on services... something Telcos have been looking for for the past few years!
Next thing on the to do list: Find a variation of this that requires more bandwidth and voila - UMTS killer application.
What about sticky notes with photos on them?
Unfortunately, some of what the article says is true: many great Canadian inventors do not get the recognition that they deserve.
Originally I was going to answer:
ITYM: many great inventors from anywhere outside of the US do not get the recognition that they deserve.
But I'll just go for:
ITYM: nearly all great inventors who are not supported by as great marketing departments don't get the recognition that they deserve.
Motorola is sticking to the one universal platform - Java - which runs on all existing phones and PDAs, whatever OS - and that's the angle the corporate publicity spin suggests. It's true: in February, Motorola announced its first Linux-powered handset, which uses Java technology.
I remember when people thought mobile phones would contain CPUs that run bytecode directly on the hardware. Now it's "we have this platform independent technology that we use to run this other platform independent technology."
Up next: java implementation of the linux kernel that runs on a java processor - so that we can use java-on-linux-on-java.
Munich chose to spend a little more money now to save a LOT of money down the road.
The interesting point is that REALLY NOBODY KNOWS how any new Microsoft setup compares to any new Linux setup when it comes to long-term cost.
No one can possibly know without trying this - and people start trying only now. The results will be seen in 10 years... And at that point the then proven systems won't be available anymore in the proven setup. Damn! And the people who are responsible for the decision will not be available for any responsible holding anymore either. Double-damn!
The TCO argument is a nice sales pitch and may even be true but it is based mostly on untested assumptions.
A lot of companies decide like this: all bids that have a certain (minimal) quality level are considered. Decision between these bids is made by price. Once you have jumped over the quality hurdle it does not matter how high.
To make things worse most of the times you are competing against companies whose quality of work is already taken for granted. They can skip the quality hurdle jumping and go directly to talking about the price.
At the moment the quality hurdle you have to jump is pretty low -- because it is attractive for companies to get more bids into the price negotiation phase of things. Because more bids usually result in lower prices.
Winning proposal of today: send a postcard saying "hi, we are so and so and we offer your system for 0,- $."
When we play games based on World War II, we already know the full outcome of the war, and we (well, most of us anyway) feel that this outcome is worth fighting for. That simply isn't the case yet with Iraq.
How about wargames that allow you to play the German side? Does that make the game less tasteful?
I don't know an answer but I like to play games that involve war and war involves shooting people. It doesn't get better after slapping on convenient semantics (the "Hey! It's okay! I only shoot Germans!" approach).
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Very true! I think we can dare to go a step further and say: Nor is there proof that spread of a disease that you get from eating cows can be prevented by hiding in an underground bunker complex.
Also, my favorite part is the end of the article:
Because of the owner's illness and major surgery, the house is currently being offered at only 65% of the actual building costs.
So, go buy it! Play it safe!!! Don't risk illness!
They might be a bit deluded when they think of themselves as a master race (well, only some of them do) but if they were to qualify it as a "master engineering race" then I think there'd be a lot less of us that would argue with it. From rockets to cars, they are excellent engineers.
I AM AN EXCELLENT ENGINEER! I am an excellent engineer! By genetics!!!1!! I genetically r00l!11! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of myself!!!11!! My engineering genes racially own you!
Hey wait, my car... broke down... yesterday... on masterly-engineered Autobahn... my Volkswagen... I checked... couldn't find problem... d00d comes along... Is from Turkey... Looks at motor... does fiddling... car running again... Does not compute! Gene failure!!!!!1!!
I must have been adopted!!!
(True story, though).
Mostly forgotten: Nazi-Germany leadership did not recognize in any way the advantages of the scientific method. The Nazis again and again failed to measure the results of applying new technology and had no systematic approach to exploiting those technologies.
Basically it was: If one of the Nazi-Big-Bosses liked it (because it was loud, big or looked dangerous) they would invest in it.
If somehow no very obvious results were coming out of a programme it was usually abandoned.
The allies on the other hand employed scientific method and operations research a lot more in evaluating the outcome of their endeavours.
Comparing dutch with german is a huge insult for most Dutch people, including me. Just because it might look/sound the same to foreigners, it's not. The same goes for portugesespanish.
Comparing portugese to spanish is a big insult to Dutch people?
...in the original version he was simply swimming, no miracle at all.
One of the few cases where the second version is more interesting than the original.
"Accidents will happen" They all heard Sven say He fired his sasser to the wind That child blew a child (hes gay!)
Is that what they call "script kiddie pr0n"?
And that is why this may be the killer application for always-on services... something Telcos have been looking for for the past few years!
Next thing on the to do list: Find a variation of this that requires more bandwidth and voila - UMTS killer application.
What about sticky notes with photos on them?
Ever since the Hindenburg accident the technology has been nearly dead, just as if we had stopped building ships after the Titanic sank.
We would have stopped building ships, if we had managed to blow one up with 50 dead roughly ten years after building the first logboat in 10,000 B.C.
Otherwise the analogy is just fine.
And it has X.28... that's even better than X.25.
Unfortunately, some of what the article says is true: many great Canadian inventors do not get the recognition that they deserve.
Originally I was going to answer:
ITYM: many great inventors from anywhere outside of the US do not get the recognition that they deserve.
But I'll just go for:
ITYM: nearly all great inventors who are not supported by as great marketing departments don't get the recognition that they deserve.
Motorola is sticking to the one universal platform - Java - which runs on all existing phones and PDAs, whatever OS - and that's the angle the corporate publicity spin suggests. It's true: in February, Motorola announced its first Linux-powered handset, which uses Java technology.
I remember when people thought mobile phones would contain CPUs that run bytecode directly on the hardware.
Now it's "we have this platform independent technology that we use to run this other platform independent technology." Up next: java implementation of the linux kernel that runs on a java processor - so that we can use java-on-linux-on-java.
arbitrarily selected and
impossible to enforce.
Case in point: "pol The email message was sent on behalf a politician in public office"
Having said that, I suggest the following MPCs: mil, sex, drugs, rocknroll, ???, profit.
Munich chose to spend a little more money now to save a LOT of money down the road.
The interesting point is that REALLY NOBODY KNOWS how any new Microsoft setup compares to any new Linux setup when it comes to long-term cost.
No one can possibly know without trying this - and people start trying only now. The results will be seen in 10 years... And at that point the then proven systems won't be available anymore in the proven setup. Damn! And the people who are responsible for the decision will not be available for any responsible holding anymore either. Double-damn!
The TCO argument is a nice sales pitch and may even be true but it is based mostly on untested assumptions.
Heavy on the exposition, light on brains [...]
ITYM "heavy on the exposition of brains"
ME: I will now recite three random numbers... 74... 21... 48... 11...
SLASHDOT GUY: Well among others you definitely missed 82.
ME: Thank you for the valuable information.
But, why on Earth would you concentrate on all that little stuff, when you make HUUUGE plot deviations for little or no reason?
Because their fan base is known to be totally consumed with details, versions and micro-scale issues while the big picture usually escapes them...
A lot of companies decide like this: all bids that have a certain (minimal) quality level are considered. Decision between these bids is made by price.
Once you have jumped over the quality hurdle it does not matter how high.
To make things worse most of the times you are competing against companies whose quality of work is already taken for granted. They can skip the quality hurdle jumping and go directly to talking about the price.
At the moment the quality hurdle you have to jump is pretty low -- because it is attractive for companies to get more bids into the price negotiation phase of things. Because more bids usually result in lower prices.
Winning proposal of today: send a postcard saying "hi, we are so and so and we offer your system for 0,- $."
I don't know an answer but I like to play games that involve war and war involves shooting people. It doesn't get better after slapping on convenient semantics (the "Hey! It's okay! I only shoot Germans!" approach).