Carnival of the Vanities - The Ten Horned Beast - Page 4

Digitalis
The Truth Laid Bear - Open V. Closed Security And Software V. Reality - Jane seems to argue that naturally, the American public in an open effort is better at solving problems than any one group of expert would be. And I think that's likely true. But I would argue that the huge advantage that an open effort has in finding problems does not apply nearly as much when it comes to solving problems — open is better, but the gulf is not nearly as dramatic as with problem identification.

South Knox Bubba - SKB is back on the air - At some point you will actually start hoping these people coming down the aisle won't stop and ask the same questions you've been asked a hundred times already that day because you know it is another product selection committee from another worldwide mega-conglomerate that isn't going to buy anything in your or their lifetime but are nonetheless on a mission to collect product information from every vendor on the planet as part of their due diligence for The Project that isn't funded and they will ask a lot of stupid questions like will this product shift our paradigm or evolve our line of business infrastructures to align them with our core value proposition or something and then they will go back and have nine months of meetings during which the short-listed Andersen Consulting approved vendors with products that are exactly what they are looking for except they will have to be completely redesigned and rewritten will be strapped to a 767 and flown in to jump through hoops of fire and roll over and sit up and beg until finally a $100 million project is approved that will never get off the ground or if it does it will fail miserably or funding will be cut half-way through and by this time next year they will all be fired and the selected vendor will have all the life sucked out of them by the black hole that was The Project and be out of business when the new product selection committee comes walking down the aisle.

Dogs of War
The Claremont Institute - End Games - On a recent edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, a cadet asked what the U.S. "exit strategy" might be in the event of a war with Iraq. The guests, all retired generals, answered his question, differing from one another only in degree, not in kind. None challenged whether the question was legitimate in the first place.

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