My questions are not tainted by real world experiences, so feel free to enlighten me. 1. If it is the marketing people who have the final say, why aren't they part of the process from the beginning? 2. If design people can throw in fundamental changes to UI, why are they the last to be asked? In sum: Is this just mismanagement or is there some fundamental truth about real world development that escapes me somehow?

You forgot the journalist for the local newspaper - the only one being paid to listen, though he/she doesn't get enough... ;)

The author should look a the visudo man page.

http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2011cv02564/377900/49/1.pdf

The lawyers were paid upfront - so they may be forced to beat single bones of this skeleton to an en-banc-hearing or the Supreme Court. Both are dead ends.

I guess this charade will have taught Boies Schiller & Flexner that such arrangements are a bad deal. Larry Ellison will have to cough up money for every step he wants to go in Oracle vs. Google (maybe the best coming out of this case).

And, of course, the counterclaims of SCO vs. IBM may have to be dealt with.

Two arguments against that: 1. He/She does not live. If your soul went to heaven - an unlikely proposition, I know - eternal bliss would not be a part of your life, but rather of your afterlife. If this is the place where you can meet your maker, and a place, where you don't live, your maker won't live either, I guess. 2. God has always been envisioned in the Christian theological tradition as a simple being. The same goes for souls and angels, btw. So there is no way of thinking Him as "complex" - because complex things by definition may degenerate, and a degenerating God is inconceivable. Conclusion: Always know your enemy. ;)

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=672&index=672&domain
Search terms: remotest travel time week bbc - you find it on the second page. How do I receive my Google-Fu-points? ;)

I'm quite sure that an engineer gone dentist is the right person to decide on a social science curriculum: This is the leader of the conservative majority. I think the next Oscars should be awarded by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.

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The decisive advantage of open formats should be that you can work around any limitations posed by an application. Moreover, every OO-user can send you a pdf preserving all essential properties of the document. I'm curious why none of these options seems to help you. And, by the way, what is an "epub-company"? A company publishing ebooks in epub format, or rather a company pursuing electronic publishing?

All you need then is an anti-information machine. So SF-writers would have to dream up a machine capable of annihilating information gathered in centuries before in order to compensate for gravitational effects. Oh... wait.. the internet exists... we just have to wait for its effects to get big enough: Buying an amnesia of, say, two years will buy you a journey to alpha centauri in the near future. ;)

1: The /. demographic is probably surprisingly old.
2: That doesn't mean we weren't once 20-30
3: I live in the "boonies/flyover country etc", or Indiana if you've ever heard of it, my house was like 50K, while not a palace it ain't a dump either. my mortgage is only $4something a month. I'm relatively cheap, but groceries for two around a hundred something a week, this puts me more or less in the 1:1 category.

Step 1: "The KDE software compilation team happily acknowledges the bug report you have filed. Why we are happy? This bug report in fact concerns the KDE workspaces team. Or so we believe. Please be so kind as to file your bug report again at the appropriate place. If the KDE workplaces team should be able to prove that this is none of their matter, please be so kind as to reopen this bug. After reopening the bug here, please be aware that it will be triaged for at least nine months as a matter of policy. If you should be obnoxious, we may decide at our own will to extend the period to at least eleven months. Thank you very much for your assistance in making the K Desktop/Compilation/Workspace/Application Experience even better. Salvatory Clause: The expression "K Desktop experience" is only preserved for the purpose of backward compatibility."

Step 2: "Thanks a lot for filing a bug report. We certainly appreciate your willingness to enhance the K Workspaces Experience (formerly known as the K Desktop Experience, an expression preserved only in order to preserve backward compatibility). However, we have noticed in your bug report that Amarok 1.1.4 has been opened while encountering your bug. Since Amarok 1.1.4 certainly cannot be regarded as part of the K Software Compilation experience, you should consider updating. If this does not remove the bug you have encountered, please be so kind as to file a bug first against the respective K Software Compilation. If this should not prove to be sucessful in the next two years, please reconsider opening the bug here. Before that, it will be futile anyway."

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