O'rly?!
When was the last time You were in Poland? 70's? 80's? At most 90's?
Having Poland called 3rd world regime requires a lot of ill will. Thieves are in all societies. I could imagine similar incident (I repeat - incident) in any european country.
Comparing corruption of Ukraine to Poland's is a huge mistake. In the mids of 2000's there was a huge corruption scandal in Poland (tampering with media law). Central figure went to jail (no suspension) and since the a lot changed in country's minds. Corruption is perceived as something really wrong by most. Mentioned situation with HP was a huge scandal too and to be fair it was unearthed by polish counterpart of FBI (CBA).
Comparing Poland's attutude towards corruption to those of Russia or Mexico is really unfair.
Having in mind that a mop of hair can induce static charge makes it more understandable that we attribute exceptional intelligence to scientist with hair in mess (i.e. Albert Einstein):-)
Let's grow long hair and make them electrically charged!:-)
When purchasing my dishwasher a couple of years ago I went through the manual to learn what each program button does.
To my astonishment one of the programs under "eco" label was described as: "Do not use. Only for EU dishwasher economy testing."
How ingenuous!
Should the radio tower in Poland [http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46244] did not collapse in early 90s due to mishap of support crew it would be only 3rd of world's tallest structures.
It looks pretty similar to what was depicted in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga#Man-machine_symbiosis). Namely - OCTattoos. The difference is that in the book they were worn not only for practical reasons but also as an adjournment.
Still waiting for wormholes though...
I would emphasize on authors who write about dystopias and examine carrefuly human nature and social conditioning.
To name the one: Janusz Zajdel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Zajdel )
Probably there are many other who wrote about it, but give a try someone who really knows how it was when totalitarian regime ruled in his country.
Market driver is one thing, but you have to also take into account the cost of providing per event billing for SMSes. Sending even a kilobyte (while SMS is roughly 160 bytes) of data over ISP link just adds to total volume used this month. But in case of SMS it must be recorded who, when, to whom, etc. and then usually presented on the bill (be it paper or electronic). In the mean time you have to store it somewhere and process it through billing systems. Not to mention enhance the billing interface capacity of SMSC handling the traffic.
As an engineer I always felt that simple and elegant solution is a paragon of correctness. It's our Holy Grail. However working for major cellular telephony company in IT department I learned that with its immense complexity of all mobile network infrastructure (switches, HLRs, INs, etc.) and all the variety of IT systems interconnected it is not possible to design something which is truly simple. Yet the company as a whole is able to translate this incomprehensible mesh into services that are usually easy to use and seem simple and elegant to customer. And this is what successful enterprises do - i.e. like Google - they provide in simple form something that internally is unbelievably complex. Nobody wants this complexity to surface to end-user level, yet nobody will ever be able to make underlying technology much simpler.
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O'rly?! When was the last time You were in Poland? 70's? 80's? At most 90's? Having Poland called 3rd world regime requires a lot of ill will. Thieves are in all societies. I could imagine similar incident (I repeat - incident) in any european country.
Comparing corruption of Ukraine to Poland's is a huge mistake. In the mids of 2000's there was a huge corruption scandal in Poland (tampering with media law). Central figure went to jail (no suspension) and since the a lot changed in country's minds. Corruption is perceived as something really wrong by most. Mentioned situation with HP was a huge scandal too and to be fair it was unearthed by polish counterpart of FBI (CBA). Comparing Poland's attutude towards corruption to those of Russia or Mexico is really unfair.
Having in mind that a mop of hair can induce static charge makes it more understandable that we attribute exceptional intelligence to scientist with hair in mess (i.e. Albert Einstein) :-)
Let's grow long hair and make them electrically charged! :-)
When purchasing my dishwasher a couple of years ago I went through the manual to learn what each program button does. To my astonishment one of the programs under "eco" label was described as: "Do not use. Only for EU dishwasher economy testing." How ingenuous!
Should the radio tower in Poland [http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46244] did not collapse in early 90s due to mishap of support crew it would be only 3rd of world's tallest structures.
It looks pretty similar to what was depicted in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga#Man-machine_symbiosis). Namely - OCTattoos. The difference is that in the book they were worn not only for practical reasons but also as an adjournment. Still waiting for wormholes though...
Many companies filtered out FB access. Natural move is to switch to what's not banned - G+ :-)
I would emphasize on authors who write about dystopias and examine carrefuly human nature and social conditioning. To name the one: Janusz Zajdel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Zajdel ) Probably there are many other who wrote about it, but give a try someone who really knows how it was when totalitarian regime ruled in his country.
Market driver is one thing, but you have to also take into account the cost of providing per event billing for SMSes. Sending even a kilobyte (while SMS is roughly 160 bytes) of data over ISP link just adds to total volume used this month. But in case of SMS it must be recorded who, when, to whom, etc. and then usually presented on the bill (be it paper or electronic). In the mean time you have to store it somewhere and process it through billing systems. Not to mention enhance the billing interface capacity of SMSC handling the traffic.
As an engineer I always felt that simple and elegant solution is a paragon of correctness. It's our Holy Grail.
However working for major cellular telephony company in IT department I learned that with its immense complexity of all mobile network infrastructure (switches, HLRs, INs, etc.) and all the variety of IT systems interconnected it is not possible to design something which is truly simple. Yet the company as a whole is able to translate this incomprehensible mesh into services that are usually easy to use and seem simple and elegant to customer. And this is what successful enterprises do - i.e. like Google - they provide in simple form something that internally is unbelievably complex. Nobody wants this complexity to surface to end-user level, yet nobody will ever be able to make underlying technology much simpler.