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Comment Re:So, Essentially (Score 1) 114

Well, you obviously dont know what you are talking about. Does "Private" ring any bells? In any well sorted fake DVD 9 store you can get a Private collection stacked with the other DVDs, If you know what Private stands for, you buy ur porn there, no screenshots on the back, so unsuspecting customers usually wont buy it. And even if, happy surprise!

Comment Chinas rule in Space would be preferable to US (Score 1) 200

If you can expect any nation to make big streps into space its china. They came quite far in short time and now it looks as if they will collaborate with NASA. I would put my bets on china on who will have the first million people in space ;-) And since governments are inherently evil, screw criticism on China for human rights stuff, get me into space and let me be a space buccaneer! They see themselves in space, more then the US, they need lands for their millions. I dont think its as abstract for the average chinese as it is for westerners. And given the history of china as an open merchant state I think they'd do a good job governing early space!

Comment Re:Ideas aren't worth anything (Score 1) 539

Reference to further up, Deming didnt invent it either. And probably the most important "lean" parts came from the japanese themselves, and they got it from the chinese. The weird thing is that noone would consider chinese now as lean or efficient, but they were the leaders in high tech, valuable goods for millenia. And if you read some old newspapers about the chinese building the railroads in the 18 hundreds, it was especially mentioned how well they could organize themselves into work groups and elect leaders among themselves. Something the chinese have been doing in their gongye till about the 16th-17th century. And if its Dehua white porcelain or other goods, the daoist way of self organizing still shines through in lean. But confucianism, western missionaries and good old communism got rid of most of that. So its no surprise american corporations didnt catch on...

Comment Just dump the stuff (Score 1) 393

Why would anyone store TV-shows? As if there is not enough new stuff coming out all the time. What happened to your VCR collection? You probably havent watched one of em and just tossed em years back. What happened to your DVD backups? i havent pulled one of mine out in the last, mhhm, 5 years. I have TBs on my server, and finally realized that I just delete everything older than 2 years because I wont be coming around to watching the old stuff anyway. Not far in the future u can save all ur itunes stuff, movies, vcr on a little pill and swallow it, and soon after that it will be in a cloud anyway and u can, hopefully, search and access it all.
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Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously 543

Banana ricotta pancakes writes "Microsoft has confirmed that there will be a widespread public beta of Windows 7 in early 2009, while urging device manufacturers to start immediate testing with its pre-beta release to avoid the widespread hardware compatibility problems that contributed so much to the negative perception of Vista. 'There is not another WinHEC planned before Windows 7 is released,' Microsoft has warned them. Better hope that testing goes well."

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