* Posts by Hein Behrens

8 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jun 2008

Motivational speaker in the slammer after HPE applies for court order

Hein Behrens

Re: What does M'Lud mean by that?

Studied Footwear Design at University of the Arts London - London College of Fashion

Three: We won't hike prices if you say yes to £10.5bn O2 merger

Hein Behrens

What about dropping prices?

So if they freeze the price then no dropping prices?

Learn yourself hireable: Top tips for improving your tech appeal

Hein Behrens

edx and coursera

edx running free microsoft courses on typescript, botostrap etc.

Huawei: 'Tizen has no chance', Windows Phone is 'difficult'... it's Android all the way

Hein Behrens

Re: 64,000

Remember it is like the pharmaceutical industry, marketing etc. is counted in R&D.

25kg of cocaine hits Spanish supermarket shelves

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100kg

More than 100kg of cocaine is still missing, the police arrested the smugglers before they could pick up the bananas at the wholse market in Madrid. So out the bananas went to Lidl all over Spain. Off to Lidl now to get some..

How the fate of the US economy rests on a Dell workstation

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The assumptions

The real problem is that econometric modelling is based on assumptions not facts. It is not physics. So you run your model and a month later all the employment or gdp figures get revised by a few percentage points, this happens often the adjustment of macroeconomic indicators.

So rocket science stays the same this is like doing rocket science without the facts.

Thus the fashion for graphing predictions with a probability of error so it all looks good and then Russia invades Georgia and there goes your model like a blown up rocket.

Mayor Boris wants 'WiFi London'

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WIFI

Here in Barcelona they have free wifi anonymously for half an hour a day at all council premises.

The libraries give you fast free wifi access with free electricity if you have a library card for as long as you need it. The libraries are full of people using it as their offices.

Maven and Eclipse strive for Visual Studio 'power'

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Maven drag and drop?

What has Maven got to do with drag and drop vb like ui design?