Arrangements like this take the complexity out of an implementation. As an RFID solutions provider, HP is already familiar with the challenges, trials, compliance, and full-scale RFID implementations in our own supply chain, and with Alien we have an expanded offering to bring to our customers.

We're spending $6 billion to $7 billion a month in Iraq -- that's not efficient spending of defense money.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always comes interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.

Because of the complexity and difficulty of snow plowing at the high school, the arrangement worked out with the town is we hire a private contractor to do the snow plowing at the high school. It frees up public works to concentrate on the roads and the other five schools.

This is good for the novice. They can absorb the complexity of a multi-leg bet and understand it easily. It's a bet that people can cash.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.