Comments on: ketchup! http://blog.moopsfc.com/37/2006/06/16/ketchup/ the continuing saga of your hero Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:27:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: brodie bruce http://blog.moopsfc.com/37/2006/06/16/ketchup/comment-page-1/#comment-282 brodie bruce Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:41:53 +0000 http://blog.moopsfc.com/37/2006/06/16/ketchup/#comment-282 windows is not a good example. cologne was started in 1248. the entire design was finished at that time or whenever before construction started as the vision of one individual (at least from what i understand). windows doesn't even seem to have a good design now. i would expect a large part of the reason nothing like this gets built now is profit. this was not built for any kind of profit and required most likely a huge amount of money, resources and most likely, slave labor. paying people next to nothing or nothing for back breaking labor is most likely the key to any previous large projects. think transcontinental railroad, pyramids (ignoring any potential alien involvement), hoover dam, probably the panama canal, i'm sure the list could go on forever. it would also have to be something that isn't going to have to change for a long time. you couldn't have a computer program that takes 5 years to write much less 50+ since things are constitently changing. windows is not a good example. cologne was started in 1248. the entire design was finished at that time or whenever before construction started as the vision of one individual (at least from what i understand). windows doesn’t even seem to have a good design now. i would expect a large part of the reason nothing like this gets built now is profit. this was not built for any kind of profit and required most likely a huge amount of money, resources and most likely, slave labor. paying people next to nothing or nothing for back breaking labor is most likely the key to any previous large projects. think transcontinental railroad, pyramids (ignoring any potential alien involvement), hoover dam, probably the panama canal, i’m sure the list could go on forever.

it would also have to be something that isn’t going to have to change for a long time. you couldn’t have a computer program that takes 5 years to write much less 50+ since things are constitently changing.

]]> By: Sandy http://blog.moopsfc.com/37/2006/06/16/ketchup/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Sandy Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:30:51 +0000 http://blog.moopsfc.com/37/2006/06/16/ketchup/#comment-269 My question to you is: How in the world did they have the vision, guts, and capability to create places like the Cologne Cathedral in 1100? I can't quite think of the equivalent in today's time, but it would be something that would take us 100s of years to complete given our current and near-term future abilities. No one has the vision, guts, nor capability to start, much less finish, such a project any longer. Very impressive to me. Oh, wait, Windows might be one of those. My question to you is: How in the world did they have the vision, guts, and capability to create places like the Cologne Cathedral in 1100? I can’t quite think of the equivalent in today’s time, but it would be something that would take us 100s of years to complete given our current and near-term future abilities. No one has the vision, guts, nor capability to start, much less finish, such a project any longer. Very impressive to me. Oh, wait, Windows might be one of those.

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