"This term, which came originally from shipbuilding, now refers to the geometrical representation of all the vehicle's interior and exterior surfaces that are visible to the customer - taking all technical and formal aesthetic requirements into account. The 'Strake' therefore embodies the core competence for the finest surface finishes and the associated quality."
- from
Developing the Audi Q7
This
Times piece discusses the first thing I thought of when I heard the Yahoo-MS news a couple weeks ago - that being the philosophical technology differences. The couple of acquired properties that MS ported supposedly were a nightmare to port to their platform and there’s just no way they could rewrite all of Yahoo’s systems. Would they be able to stomach running Java and PHP on *nix boxes?
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