Configuration Files

With the seductive nature of configuration files amplified by our broadband abilities as led to some very poor decision. I cannot find anyone to tell me why someone would think that a 251 kb xml config file that the video application relies on is a good idea. In fact, most people found it to be rather retarded. Have we lost site of what a kb is? or 251 kb. If you were to open your favorite text editor, with normal fonts, 251 kb would amount to 61 pages. How can this be a good idea? How could someone think that this is smart?

This further illustrates the fact that there is no debate of ideas, we take the path of least resistance without any look to the future. There for a brief time we were thinking about future compatibility, but that buzz word was replaced by "an organic aggregate site dynamically generate to deliver rich streaming content to our guests. "

Does anyone know what this means? Please, someone explain it to me. Actually I want several people tell me what they think it means and then we will see who is all on the same page.

Here is a new buzz word, "Build monitors in your flash stupid."

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Bigger than expected

I wonder how people view the site, not our guests but the people working on it. Everyone seems to caught up in their own little piece of the picture nobody (except the creative director) has come to the realization that the site is very extremely huge.

Do the people know about how big everything is. We think in terms of gigabytes and see little difference between 4 gigabytes and 8 gigabytes. This tainted lens prevents us from seeing the big picture, how all this is supposed to fit together. There is no debate on issues we surrender to group think. Nobody really thinks anything through and if they do, they don't ask the right questions.

In the holy trinity Greek philosopher you can see the subtle an of growing an idea.

Socrates asked the right questions, didn't have all the answers but he got people thinking. Freud and to some extent Einstein have both had many of their key theories disproven. So where they wrong? Not at all, they were merely asking questions, they gave people a new way of thinking about things, a different perspective. There were the questions seekers.

Plato sought the right answers. He know that he didn't have them but firmly believe that the truth is out their if only the right questions were asked. Fortunately for him Socrates was his teacher so asking the right questions was a bit more intuitive for him. He saw methods in which to discerns the truth and develop ways to ascertain the truth. The truth of the world of Plato is different than the truth of modern day America so we don't look to Plato for the answers but to process of finding the right answers.

Aristotle did practical implementation. (Alexander the Great)