Yesterday I read an article about how Danone’s industrial yoghourts are struggling in the Spanish market, as cheaper private labels sold by discount supermarkets are taking over the industrial yoghourt market and higher expenders prefer artisan yoghourt. Danone is in a hard place as they use fresh milk, whereas the cheaper competitors use rehydrated milk or dairy concentrates. Quality is generally lower but price can be as low as one third that of Danone’s base products (natural and flavored yoghourts) and so Danone’s share has been shrinking for years (another story are specialty dairies).
In the race between price and quality, price wins. Be it airplane tickets or yoghourts, people will gleefully give up quality for a lower price tag… and then will complain about being handed the quality they paid for.
Both are utopias in idea really (or something really close in realization). I dont think both have a chance of happening in form they are described, in full. Just like the film “Things to come” did not predict everything correctly, but revealed some clues to the future.
It’s hard for such drastic changes to occur. The other kids argued “How did no one notice this happening” and “If people didn’t like it why didn’t they stop it”. Since it was just one guy that went, “I want the world to be like this” then poof, alphas, betas, gammas, etc.
Though… they have developed cloning, and gene manipulation… and for 1984, there are cameras everywhere, phones, schools, laptops, satellites. Seems close enough. All the possibilities come together in once place… Scary when you actually think about it
Its mixed up. Both were correctly predicting, but only in some pearticular areas. ‘All of it’ will never happen. The fact that these books exist is already a factor preventing happening of the bad part, like ideas that are there as a camoufladged warning.
Utopias in realization will look much worse I think. If anybody will try, he will be surprised that nothing works, everything because of people. I have lived in socialist state so I know a part. It was always nice, untill you turned your eyes away from television. Hipocrisy cant be hidden when its daily reality.
Due to an incredibly busy schedule in the second half of 2017 and a few other factors that significantly reduced our manpower late in the year, the release of these prizes unfortunately slipped through the cracks and they weren’t issued as promised.
LOL, he was too busy banning us here on forums.
(Project.Mayhem. has not been issued with PLEX due to the fact that the alliance has closed.)
Multithreaded packet filtering testing. Looks good with a set number of threads. On the other hand having one listener thread start a new thread for each packet crashed the whole thing rather fast, among other interesting side-effects…
I’ve no idea how true the football part is but the hockey part is 100% truth. Just last week one of our players got his face sliced open pretty bad, went to the locker room to get stitches during the intermission and then got back out on the ice and played like nothing ever happened.
And then there was a crazy guy that played the in the stanley cup final with a punctured lung and broken ribs about 5 years ago.
My pain receptors are like that. Initially I feel something. After a few seconds its gone. Its both good and bad. Good because pain sucks to feel. Bad because you may be hurt more than you think.
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