Who doesn’t love France, right? Mountains, beaches, wine, cheese, Le Mans, Le Tour. Then why is it that a country that seemingly has it all, doesn’t want others to have something as well. In this case, why would French airplane manufacturer Airbus put money into developping an idea, only to make sure others don’t use … Meer lezen over Why is Airbus obstructing technological advancement?
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No way around it, economicsis a very important part of our everyday lives. Advertising, marketing, companies, business and politics.
The European court has decided that people have a right to be forgotten, or have certain things forgotten about. This ruling means that Google is no longer allowed to ‘remember’ certain things for us, forever and for everyone. This morning I read an open letter by David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer at Google. Google, he … Meer lezen over Why Google feels it should never ‘forget’. And why they’re wrong.
Obviously, standardisation does not always lead to loss of efficiency. But sometimes it does. The standardisation police are people too (although some of us would hate to admit it) which means they make human mistakes. They see how standardisation of certain processes, like production processes and workflows, works in certain areas. And then they take … Meer lezen over Why standardisation leads to efficiency loss.
As the proud father of two sons I have had to educate myself in an area where I never thought I would have any expertise whatsoever. Tractors. They love them. The two things that make them happiest of all are tractors and playing games on my tablet or laptop. So naturally, when I saw that the … Meer lezen over Farmers from the Pirate Bay.
Mat Honan's piece 'Kill the password' in the latest edition of Wired almost brought me to tears. Mat's online profile was hacked, probably for his Twitter account, @mat, and the hackers decided to just erase all his documents he had files in the cloud. Which meant everything digital he had, including all the pictures of … Meer lezen over The digital future
One of the most important factors for companies to be succesful in marketing is ‘authenticity’. Or at least, such is claimed by marketing gurus. Why is Apple one of the most successful consumer brands in the world? Because of Steve Jobs. And Steve was authentic. Same story with Nike. And Coca Cola. Coca Cola brought … Meer lezen over Being real. Is it really important?
On february 29th Google must have lost a lot of data. Over all social media there were people reminding us that this was the day when we should delete our Google history. On march 1st Google would start combining its data collection (and collected data) from all its services; search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube et cetera. … Meer lezen over A little wake-up call, by Google
Are babyboomers evil? How many dogs may be killed for one human life? Is feeding your snake live kittens something a babyboomer would do? Anyone hurts my kids, they're dead. How many of your friends are bankers? I'm doing fine, but we're in a heap of trouble. Do you still trust Barack Obama? Is an … Meer lezen over Evil
At a Florida rally, Michelle Bachmann (who is in the race to become the presidential candidate for the republicans) said that the hurricane Irene was a reminder of God. God wished to remind the American people about their national debt. Later, when she had sobered up probably, she announced that her comment was meant to … Meer lezen over Michelle Bachmann for president. Yes, she should.
I don't like gold. Not the colour, not the feel of it, not what it represents, none of it. Gold? No thanks. An increasing amount of people seem to disagree with me. A lot of people with a desire to be 'creative' with their money are backing away from currencies like the US dollar in … Meer lezen over Gold? Nah…
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