Here I’ll argue that workers’ unions have similarities to monopolies and that equal/minimum wages have similarities with cartels, and note the difference in how these are dealt with. Monopolies and Cartels Monopolies have a bad ring to them. Nobody likes monopolies, in peoples’ minds manifested as huge, greedy monsters stealing your money. Cartels are just […]
As a follow-up on my post showing CPN Tools on OS X, I now give to you: CPN Tools on iPad: Again, no, this isn’t true. I’m really just running Air Display on my iPad and connect it to my Mac, which has the new Parallels 6 (which is mighty shiny in itself) and a […]
I do get a lot of spam comments on my blog (approximately 4500 comments in the last 6 months). Most are just ridiculous crap I delete, but some of them are quite amusing. This one made me chuckle. And then I deleted it. MichaelTime person of the year 2006, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2012. westergaard.eu/ […]
I decided to add some color to my office, in the form of a Britney calendar. Pretty. …whaddya mean, it isn’t 2009? If B says it’s 2009, it’s 2009! MichaelTime person of the year 2006, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2012. westergaard.eu/ […]
For the last couple weeks, I've been working on a new operational support service with, among others, Joyce Nakatumba and Fabrizio Maggi. Work has basically been focusing on two points: making a new protocol with support for sessions and making a meta-model for queries, supporting more structured requests and, in particular, responses. After spending some […]
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In ProM we use SlickerBox, a library providing a pretty neat skinning of Swing. Unfortunately, SlickerBox is very time-consuming and difficult to use if you go beyond the (very few) supported widgets. I wanted to set up a preferences pane for the new operational support service, and for shit and giggles decided to actually make […]