[e2e] Open the floodgate

[Cannara]

Sam, maybe you haven't been an engineer, because your example of IC engines is
actually backwards -- they're 20-40% efficient at fuel burning, even the two
old Jags we have!  Horses & oxen are about 2% -- only slightly more if you eat
them, as the Japanese used to do on their western island, when they were too
old (the horses, not the people) to haul logs.  So, if we'd followed your
advice on this side of the pond, anyway, lots more folks would be speaking
German these days.  :]

Alex

Sam Manthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Cannara wrote:
> 
> > David,
> >
> > Interesting that referrals to the poor security or performance designed into
> > the Internet by choice or omission leads to raising Il Duce (Mussolini) from
> > the dead.  So we just ignore the fantastic volume of undesired traffic on the
> > Internet because we're afraid of Mussolini-like discipline?  Being of Italian
> > descent, I recall relatives wanting to hang him, because he was a cheap
> > crackpot with a mistress, not quite the capable fellow you raise.  When we
> > talk personal discipline, let's think more on folks like Michelangelo,
> > Puccini, Da Vinci, etc.,
> 
> I thought that Da Vinci was a total hacker?  I'm not sure that his
> helicopter plans would pass as a disciplined engineering approach
> to design, even at the IETF :-).
> 
> time-to-market (or deployment) wins.  Seems to me that discipline comes
> later, after the innovation and deployment.  We are still to this day
> driving vehicles that burn fossil fuels, which is a bad design choice
> IMO, but there are a lot of very disciplined engineers focused on
> implementing that design choice today.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Sam