They say it is better not to know how sausages and politics are made. Similarly, when you like a song, sometimes it is better not to know the lyrics. I remember the moment I delved into “Smoke Over the Water” and suddenly realized it told a rather primitive story about a hotel fire in Switzerland. I tried …
My cousin served as a tank driver in the Israeli army about 20 years ago. Not that he was too excited about it, as he rather enjoyed slacking around, dating girls and playing the guitar. Instead, he found himself (and three other teenagers) locked in what felt like a mobile steel coffin, while complete strangers were regularly …
Driving to victory with older tanks and slightly obsolete PLM Read More »
In a classic 1992 black comedy movie, two ladies drank a magic potion, which made them immortal, although prone to various health issues, including at some point being technically dead. Maintaining their structural integrity and public appearance was becoming increasingly problematic. 40 years earlier, the B-52 strategic bomber was commissioned into the US military arsenal, joining a multitude of …
Meryl Streep, engineering data longevity and legacy CAD conversion Read More »
Ray Bradbury‘s prose is too dark and depressing. All he writes about are bad things happening to mankind, with no way out. I remember getting sad every single time I read his books, and I quit reading him completely as soon as I discovered Robert Heinlein. What a difference! Heinlein was a firebrand for the Age …
I remember strongly disliking my philosophy classes for their absolute irrelevance to everyday life. It took me 20 years to only start comprehending the infinite wisdom hiding in the murky writings of these predominantly old bald white males. Take Apophatic theology in its simplistic form – defining God by what God is not. Plato postulated that certain things have …
Plato, Aristotle, Dirty Harry, and the benefits of prototyping Read More »
These days people choose a personal identity for every facet of their lives, but when we speak about IT infrastructure, there seem to be only one direction – to the cloud. You can still decide which cloud you are going to trust with your IP, your data, and your business processes – AWS, Azure, Google …
There are so many benefits of owning the entire stack. Just ask Apple – the maker of Mac and then iPad and iPhone as an integrated ecosystem from top to bottom: hardware and OS, with external apps being verified for reliability and even adherence to UI/UX rules. Compare that ecosystem to the Windows or Android worlds with …
What do we know about clouds? Apparently, some of them can be pleasantly intoxicating. I have never heard that expression before, but that’s not the first time I learn new things. How does this apply to the 3DExperience universe? Dassault Systemes and its customers and partners actively discuss a move to the cloud and its benefits, but many of them …
Feet on the ground, head in the (3DEXPERIENCE®) clouds Read More »
Everyone loves to see a giant T-Rex wreaking havoc in movies. If it were possible, who would not love to have a T-Rex as a pet? As a paleontologist, how not to admire this magnificent creature ruling the North American plains a mere 65 million years ago? The T-Rex was truly a pinnacle of the …
How to choose your enterprise search pet (in the context of PLM) Read More »
Evolution is full of surprises. Did you know that cold-blooded animals once had a serious evolutionary advantage over their warm-blooded competitors? Gorgonopsian was a super-predator who ruled the Earth long before the Jurassic era. This early warm-blooded ancestor to mammals had powerful jaws and large canines. But its numerous shortcomings made it ineligible for survival when …
One crocodile’s learned opinion on extracting data from 3DExperience databases Read More »