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Tuesday, September 7, 2004
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Culture Clash: Those Li'l iPod Gods Are Smiling: "In return for the loss of my library, I got 1,976 new songs chosen by someone else. By inheriting her music, I had a rare opportunity to spend some quality time in somebody else's musical mind." [via MyAppleMenu]
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If it sucks, make it more complicated -- Comment()
Lock-in: "[T]he University of Vienna and its employees are doomed to use SAP and Microsoft. The usage of SAP - if I remember correctly - was imposed on all Austrian universities before they were sent into autonomy. Some say it was a conscious act of complication. It was for sure a good deal for SAP and its consulting firms." [.:| randgaenge |:.] "When something doesn't work, make it more complicated" seems to be the motto of management everywhere.
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Chess computer's thought process: "These breathtaking visualizations of the decision-tree explored by a chess-playing computer are great. [...] A view into the workings of a chess-playing program that must make millions of decisions in each game. In this piece we explore the notion that our lives consist of a vast sequence of choices." [Boing Boing]
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