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Comment What? (Score 2, Funny) 209

When Is It Better To Modify the ERP vs. Interfacing It?

Modify the what?

I work for one of the largest HVAC manufacturers

A what manufacturer?

We've currently spent millions of dollars investing in an ERP system

A what system?

but it's been a great ordeal getting the thing to work for us across SBUs

Across what?

(via API of choice)?

Ooh, I know that one!

Our CIO

Chief... something... officer...

Comment Re:MORE strangness? (Score 1) 144

First: when we have established a universal law, and something obeys that law, it is not strange.

Strangeness is a subjective quality.

The laws themselves are strange to the majority of people because they run counter to everyday experience, therefore things that obey those laws also appear strange.

Two: when you assert that something flies against intuition, you'd better ask some gradeschool kids first. Mine called the author an idiot. (They're 8 and 10.)

Then they probably didn't understand the experiment, or you explained it just poorly enough to get the response you wanted for your Slashdot post to make it look all clever and stuff.

Three: if someone's experiment results in the observation of a well known, well documented, scientifically named phenomenon, (superposition,) it is rude to call it "more." Or "new." Just rude.

This goes beyond "simple" superposition, and is indeed a new phenomenon.

Comment Out of the public domain? (Score 4, Insightful) 96

out of the public domain

If you can see it from public property and tell what it is, it's (effectively) in the public domain, isn't it?

If it's supposed to be secret, and someone who shouldn't know where it is does, you've got a security leak.

I'd say Google's doing them a favour. If any of their secret installations turn up on it, you know it's time to shut them down or move them.

Comment Re:Prescription != illegal != illicit (Score 3, Informative) 511

Is it illegal to abuse legally obtained drugs?

Um.... Yeah, it is.

Taking it in any way that is contrary to the written prescription is illegal.

As another user asked above, can you cite the law that would be broken?

http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecr...

The above page, for example, discusess "seven state legislative strategies that have potential to impact prescription drug misuse, abuse and overdose," but none of these are about what the patient may do with medication.

Comment Re:What does unwind mean?? (Score 3, Funny) 149

Microsoft would reduce engineering in Beijing and San Diego and unwind engineering in Oulu, Finland.

I'd guess someone confused "unwind" with "wind-down," as in slow down (possibly to an eventual halt).

Then again, they might have meant "wind-up," as a business synonym for closing down/ceasing operations (with the implication that this is being done in a tidy manner, rather than abruptly being forced out of business).

Or perhaps they're winding-down before they wind-up.

I'm not winding you up here.

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