We dont' have a lot of time to play and will choose another game system if yours requires us to spend an inordinate amount of time flipping through a stack of "core PHBs and DMGs" to find the specs on some feat or talent tree ability.
What are you doing to reduce time spent looking stuff up?
This guy appears to be an idiot 1.) Every project has its own unique requirements and, so, "one size fits all" is usually a bad strategy. COTS can be used, but how to continually evolve those COTS together into a real world business solution is something you need the IT department for. 2.) Even when you are willing to accept the disadvantages of a generic solution, there are tradeoffs in the "early adapter"/"late adapter" decision which require an IT literate person to properly contextualize. Navigating by dead reckoning (that is, purely quantitatively) for any sustained period of time is expensive and/or moronic.
It has taken the form of a super charged global IT based economy. It's *why* Open Source will be so important. Its *why* the next boom will be primarily about software.
But, that's only its first form. There's more stuff coming from that area in the near future.
I'm intrigued by the idea of people taking nth generation smart drugs while working on resarching n + 1th generation smart drugs ad nauseum.
This could quickly accelerate out of control.
Maybe I'm being a bit too dramatic though.
Speaking of biodiesel, I wonder if the technology below could be modified to work with it and how useful combining the two technologies would be. It doubles the energy output.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6360675/
Its early in the morning and I may not be thinking clearly yet. Tell me if this makes any sense.
Imagine if this stuff was in a vacuum. If it were torn, its edges would have ionic charges. They would want to reconnect.
This material, in a vacuum, should heal its wounds to some extent.
Of course a problem would be preventing wrinkles that would occur when an atom bonded with an atom other than the one it was originally bonded to.
But I wonder if a gentle sustained vibration along the entire sheet would help remove those wrinkles.
So I can ruthlessly mutilate the brain cells I wasted on this article.
Is it just me or was that article written with so much energy that it reminds you of Tom Sawyer trying to get people to white wash a fence?
*bangs head* minutes of my time was wasted on this, people. Minutes!!
It reminds me of why I *hate* "critical thinking" in the social sciences.
I may be wrong, but I think the FF was, in fact, original in that it wasn't merely a bunch of superheroes who had started off with their own comics and had been thrown together. The FF is a family of superheroes and the emphasis in their comic was a focus on this family aspect.
I'm not going to say that personal relationships between superheroes weren't mentioned earlier (look at Batman and Robin), but I can think of no comic in which it was the focus (at least not before FF).
I believe one very good place to start off would be IT development in the poorest of the poor countries (which is one of the UN's goals for the millenium).
The reason is that, as others pointed out, the X Prizes work best when used to increase incentive for things we already know how to do.
This could improve the lives of people living in these countries AND make us, as a species, better able to know what we know.
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We dont' have a lot of time to play and will choose another game system if yours requires us to spend an inordinate amount of time flipping through a stack of "core PHBs and DMGs" to find the specs on some feat or talent tree ability. What are you doing to reduce time spent looking stuff up?
This guy appears to be an idiot
1.) Every project has its own unique requirements and, so, "one size fits all" is usually a bad strategy. COTS can be used, but how to continually evolve those COTS together into a real world business solution is something you need the IT department for.
2.) Even when you are willing to accept the disadvantages of a generic solution, there are tradeoffs in the "early adapter"/"late adapter" decision which require an IT literate person to properly contextualize. Navigating by dead reckoning (that is, purely quantitatively) for any sustained period of time is expensive and/or moronic.
It has taken the form of a super charged global IT based economy. It's *why* Open Source will be so important. Its *why* the next boom will be primarily about software. But, that's only its first form. There's more stuff coming from that area in the near future.
I'm intrigued by the idea of people taking nth generation smart drugs while working on resarching n + 1th generation smart drugs ad nauseum. This could quickly accelerate out of control. Maybe I'm being a bit too dramatic though.
Speaking of biodiesel, I wonder if the technology below could be modified to work with it and how useful combining the two technologies would be. It doubles the energy output. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6360675/
Its early in the morning and I may not be thinking clearly yet. Tell me if this makes any sense. Imagine if this stuff was in a vacuum. If it were torn, its edges would have ionic charges. They would want to reconnect. This material, in a vacuum, should heal its wounds to some extent. Of course a problem would be preventing wrinkles that would occur when an atom bonded with an atom other than the one it was originally bonded to. But I wonder if a gentle sustained vibration along the entire sheet would help remove those wrinkles.
So I can ruthlessly mutilate the brain cells I wasted on this article. Is it just me or was that article written with so much energy that it reminds you of Tom Sawyer trying to get people to white wash a fence? *bangs head* minutes of my time was wasted on this, people. Minutes!! It reminds me of why I *hate* "critical thinking" in the social sciences.
I may be wrong, but I think the FF was, in fact, original in that it wasn't merely a bunch of superheroes who had started off with their own comics and had been thrown together. The FF is a family of superheroes and the emphasis in their comic was a focus on this family aspect. I'm not going to say that personal relationships between superheroes weren't mentioned earlier (look at Batman and Robin), but I can think of no comic in which it was the focus (at least not before FF).
I believe one very good place to start off would be IT development in the poorest of the poor countries (which is one of the UN's goals for the millenium). The reason is that, as others pointed out, the X Prizes work best when used to increase incentive for things we already know how to do. This could improve the lives of people living in these countries AND make us, as a species, better able to know what we know.