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To: ahhaha who wrote (88926)	9/12/2007 4:11:32 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

Evolution.

To: ahhaha who wrote (88926)	9/12/2007 5:03:04 PM
From: silenceddissenter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The question is how a population with little knowledge can do a better job at accurate assessment than a group with a lot of knowledge. Nasa guys told me they are quitting NASA because they are tired of idiots blowing 250 million dollars on satellites that are not properly designed or engineered - even when the flaws are pointed out before launch. A group with a lot of knowledge creates few errors and tries to bury the ones it does create for fear of retribution, and thus compounds error without allowing an erasing process. IBM had a autosense token ring card back in the day, there was some flaw in the design and hundreds of thousands of these cards got shipped out and worked fine in any clone until you put them into a true blue system. Instead of admitting their error and having the egg on their face - they released a driver to the true blue IBM diehards that was supposed to be an "upgrade" yet all it did was emulate the hardware in software and made any true blue IBM shop running that card have much slower networks. I can't tell you the tech support calls I got from the ground of IT guys wondering why when they pulled out the IBM card from their IBM computers the network got faster but when they plugged the card back in the network got slower - IBM lied - it cost who knows how many thousands of hours of productive efficiency with IT people trying to figure out what was going on. In this case the residue is one of inaccuracy which then is kept in place, and whose state can only be resolved by chaotic transition. The solution to the fix was to pray to god that no one leaked what was really going on. This stands in contrast to the population always making error and correcting them, where transition is smooth and continuous. I was always sad that so many good LOYAL IT people got the shaft and bought the lies of Big Blue. It would have been better to admit the error and let all those people learn the truth. Instead of all that time being wasted trying to cover the lie and avoid the egg. I just saw this movie stardust where robert deniro wears dresses and tells his crew that his reputation is the most important thing!