This is one of the sources of
error, but it is not the only one.

Our magistrates have known well this mystery. Their red robes, the ermine in
which they wrap themselves like furry cats, the courts in which they
administer justice, the fleurs-de-lis, and all such august...

of kings, is as
much more terrible than theirs, as his majesty is greater. Luke 12:4,5.
"And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the
body, and after that, have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn
you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath
power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, Fear him."

It is the fierceness of his wrath that you are exposed to. We often read
of the fury of God; as in Isa. 59:18. "According to their deeds,
accordingly he will repay fury to his adversaries." So Isa. 66...

Move over US -- China to be new driver of world's economy and innovation
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/giot-mou012408.php

from above:

The study’s indicators predict that China will soon pass the United
States in the critical ability to develop basic science and technology,
turn those developments into products and services – and then market
them to the world. Though China is often seen as just a low-cost
producer of manufactured goods, the new “High Tech Indicators” study
done by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology clearly shows
that the Asian powerhouse has much bigger aspirations.

... snip ...

misc. past posts mentioning competitiveness:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#14 hacked TOPS-10 monitors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#28 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales...

I seem to recall that back in the early 1980s the Oracle database was
sold to run on IBM mainframs (System/370). At that time there were
several commercial products (e.g. Datacom, Adabase) that competed with
IBM's own IMS. IMS was hiearchial while the independent products were
relational.

I could only find that early Oracle ran on PDP/Vax machines.

Would anyone know anything more about that? Thanks.

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Too much change opens up financial fault lines
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=1BB19739-2254-4B1A-8BD1-07A50A23D...

this article talks about the lack of agility in lots of legacy financial
dataprocessing.

some of this is related to the massive failed efforts in the 90s to
replace legacy financial dataprocessing operations with
parallel/distributed "object" implementations ... that addressed items
like elimination of the overnight batch window bottlenecks with straight
through processing.

recent post mentioning overnight batch window bottleneck and
straight through processing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#3 on-demand computing

"fault lines" tend to also open up fraud opportunities ... lots of
of past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud

related post about internet introduction creating discontinuity with
regard to insider/outsider focus regarding fraud countermeasures
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#26 folklore indeed

'Erased' personel data on agency tapes can be retrieved, company says
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0108/012308j2.htm

from above:

According to its September 2007 report (GAO-07-1233R), GAO concluded it
could not find "any comprehensible data on any of the tapes using
standard commercially available equipment and data recovery techniques,
specialized diagnostic equipment, custom programming or forensic
analysis."

... snip ...

Sale of Magnetic Data Tapes Previously Used by the Government
Presents a Low Security Risk
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071233r.pdf

Is The Government Reselling Tapes With Sensitive Data?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205917108

from above: