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Gregory.Gadow wrote: sees an obvious opportunity in computing memory systems.
Long gone are the days when somebody discovers something and actually builds something useful, demonstrating its usefulness, rather than making conjecture to garnish brief media coverage. Science has devolved into "we see opportunities!" Venture capitalists probably love that stuff, but probably the smart ones don't.
Anyways, I ramble.
I notice that when my cat eats his food, it leaves distinct patterns of crumbs in the bowl. I see obvious opportunities in applying prediction theory of cat crunchy crumbs with quantum crumbodynamics to predict when my cat will be hungry next. Send me money to research this further, as I want to create a "smart bowl" to alert me on my phone when my cat is hungry.
I think I'll head over to Kickstarter to submit my video of my cat eating.
Marc
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When they discovered how to make buckyballs there was no immediate gain, but now look at the nanotechnology.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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You better hurry and patent it Marc before one of the big boys jump on it. 
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Professor Schrödinger has prior art on this (or does he?)
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Oh no you said 'Math'.
You are in so much trouble when the pedantic brigade get here.
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Good point this side of the pond it is called Maths never worked out why shorten for Mathematics I guess the s probably crept in due to pronunciation (and the accent!), waiting for our Darlek friend to added his view! 
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All you need to know is that, if the American version differs from the UK version, the American version is wrong.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Here's my answer.
Mathematics --> Math
Economics --> Econ
Physics --> Phys
Chemistry --> Chem
I think Math was the only one that stuck phonetically from a university curriculum.
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Actually, Econ is making its way into the lexicon, too.
And everyone knows about chem-trails.
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Americans call it MATH because they only learn one sum.
The civilised world calls it maths because we learn lots of aspects of the subject and realise it should be a plural.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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The origins...[^]
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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What does an integer sequence have to do with cut grass[^]?
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More specifically, cut grain. The earliest development of arithmetic goes hand in hand with tracking harvest yields and, thus, things like taxes and tithes.
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I'm on contract and go to a customer's location three days a week. Today, they expanded the team so we can't fit around a conference room. Many of us hoped that we could move back to our office and work in a quite environment. Instead, the client decided to put us in a "SCRUM Pit". The only thing it has done is magnified the aspects of the environment that we don't like. Its louder and provides more interruptions. Even better, it wasn't set up when we got here. I spent my first hour moving tables, chairs, power cords. I'm living SCRUM out of a text book 
Has anybody had a positive experience with a SCRUM Pit? If so, how long were you in the environment.
Hogan
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Face + Palm, SCRUM = management fad in my view! something that worked in one situation applied to all does not always work... it's like when I'm coding or building electronics at home TV/HiFi in the back ground, place I was at before we had Radio 1 (?) BLASTING all day. Couldn't get any work done at all. If it works once it shouldn't be applied every where! 
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You know you've moved up the ladder when you don't need attend one of those scum meetings (And having be Agile+Standup)
... you ever see a board member be Agile? They aren't. Because management only give instructions. Only foot soldiers need be agile and having to report what they done & failed everyday, in a SCUM meeting!
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So I'm not the only one that calls it SCUM!
Hogan
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indeed! Board meeting typically guys sit down with glass of Whisky in hand and they don't typically talk about what they accomplished on daily basis!
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The first rule of the Scrum Pit is you don't talk about the Scrum Pit.
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I hate stuff like that. It's BS and only lowers productivity... Can't understand why management doesn't understand that you need peace and quiet when working as a programmer... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: peace and quiet
But I like to program to ZZ Top[^].
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Yeah, but that's your choice... Wear your headphones like a good boy... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Can't understand why management doesn't understand that you need peace and quiet when working as a programmer...
Peace and quiet... OK! [^]
Ahhhh... relaxing, best code throughput with this kind of SCRUM 
-- RP
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