No Foolin

Loved the fake article in the April issue (Crystal ball for catastrophes). Despite the ludicrousness of a claim to predicting disasters, the article almost fooled meuntil the line 600 petaflops came up. I know that researchers just recently developed a one-teraflop supercomputer. So it would take 600,000 supercomputers to give the degree of processing power that this article says is just working on flash-flood equations.

Since each one of these supercomputers would be outrageously expensive and take up a large room, the idea of 600,000 of these supercomputers merely existing, let alone being used by the same company in six datacenters, is absolutely absurd.

A rather good joke, I must say. Well done.

ADAM AUBE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGER
FIRST INDEPENDENT INSURANCE

Thanks for putting the con in con-am. :-)

BILL BONNERTEACHERS PROTECTIVE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Does this mean you wont be needing those Cray AFJ-3s?

BOB SCHEIDEGGER
AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE

Its So Unusual

I wanted to tell you that I enjoy the irreverent nature of Tech Decisions, especially your editorialsits unusual for the insurance industry.

JOHN JOHNSEN
MANAGING DIRECTOR
TCI CONSULTING & RESEARCH

On Time? Online?

I was reading your April magazine and decided to reference an article to a collegue so I went to your Web site. Imagine my surprise to see March as the latest edition on your site. I always thought that the Internet was for speed. I guess you didnt read the same articles I did.

BOB FERDERER
VICE PRESIDENT, IT
CUNA MUTUAL GROUP

Weve always put each issue online on the 15th of its monththe April issue went online mid-April.

Until this March, we reached subscribers mailboxes in the first week of the month, so there was only a one-week lag before it went online. But now we come out about 10 days earlier, so theres a bigger gap before it goes on the site.

Our subscribers are important to us, and we want them to see a clear value to the printed product above whats on the Web site. Putting the paper version out first is one way we do that.

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