> Certainly the people buying software know best what their requirements are.
I doubt it. The people who are going to use the software are the ones who know what the requirements are. The people buying it should be asking the users, but rarely do.
For a large software deployment, you should be getting part of your requirements from discussions with users, but there will often be a lot of requirements from non-user stakeholders. For government deployments, even more so.
Have you ever actually worked in a large org or government IT department? :D
Commendable ideas, but they do not translate to reality. Even taking the OSS discussion out of the equation: Understanding and integrating user requirements in development processes is a hard problem in general. It gets worse when we are talking about resource-constrained contexts (like government IT)
I didn’t say it wasn’t hard. Regardless it is extremely routine for multiple stakeholders groups to be involved in software purchases, at least over my 20 years of experience.
Very, very neat, and a testament to the 'that's neat' way of doing science. I also love that the device has an innate 'periodicity' of movement. Somewhat reminiscent of the Strandbeest concept (also by a Dutch gentleman Theo Jansen).
Strandbeest is one of the coolest things ive seen in real life. For the people not knowing about it, Veritasium actually made a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaAjR_RRJs.
No, you're the one in denial. Just have a look at the decade old book "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" to see the flaw in your assumptions.
It details many Concrete examples of exactly how the companies are manipulating everything about food for profit.
Kessler, further FDA head has written about this topic extensively as well.
I've never had any lack of focus or motivation to get anything done since I started Tz.
I did have some energy loss, especially at first, but I assume that was because my body was struggling to cope with a lack of carbs. However, after a couple of weeks that for the most part disappeared.
Absolutely understand. Never had joint issues, but after being on Tz for a couple of months, I had knee and hip pain.
I'm convinced it was muscle loss, because after I boosted my protein intake and exercise, they started to go away. All but gone now (thankfully).
Intuitively, I suspect any acid is bad for your teeth. But I see that statement primarily from Dentists, and their track record in a number of areas is less than stellar. Prime example: Flossing and 6 month checkups. Neither of which have good scientific evidence, despite their widespread promotion.
I go every three months, and they have a good amount of tartar to clean off my teeth then. Also before I did that I was having pretty significant pockets for gum disease for all my teeth (it was close to the point where it's irreversible).
It's mostly under control now, except for problem areas in two specific spots, but even those are still better than they were.
I haven't really changed my dental hygeine habits other than going in for routine cleanings twice as often, so it's definitely helping.
IIRC, the Sumerians (through the Akkadians perhaps) left records stating they had to build walls around their cities. Which to me certainly implies the Sumerians had cities without walls for some time. Pretty big deal that, to have recorded it.
Cities subjected by some empire or another were sometimes forced to tear down their walls and there were perhaps periods of relative isolation and peacefulness during the founding of some cities where one wasn't immediately necessary, but even very ancient settlements commonly had at least palisades. There are probably some other exceptions; Sparta famously did not have walls under the philosophy that nobody should ever dare even try them, but they were also blessed by geography.
I wouldn't believe any missionaries statements of fact. After all, their history is as bad or worse than Columbus wrt the treatment of the native peoples in the Americas.
