As have corporations, and most corporations have the same motivation (profit) and ethics (see "motivation") as the mob. Indeed, corporations ARE our government in the U.S. At least the mob is up-front about its motives.
Can't cite a reference, but I'd venture to guess that governments were here before mobs. Your hypothesis might better have read "The Mob is like Government", but I suppose that would render the remainder of your argument meaningless.
Oh wait, maybe we should turn essential services like police protection over to the mob!?
...they are not regulated in any way. Anyone (other than stockholders) cheering this movement into an unregulated marketplace by this rapacious, anonymous, arbitrary, capricious and arrogant organization has probably never had dealings with it.
American idio...I mean citizens have given away every shred of privacy to the credit card companies, to everyone for whom they carry "loyalty cards", and to every dot-com entity (and others) whose web site they visit. "Social networking" web sites? A better way to collect and sell more detailed information about you. Really, why should we care if the always-on box(es) that cast blue flickering glows out of every window on the street are capturing your faces, your emotions and your body english?
Interesting that there is sooooooooooooo much concern about the gummint collecting information when the Experians, the Equifax's, Wal-Mart and the gods only know who else already know more about you than your mother.
A lot of the bloat, and probably a fair amount of the usability problems we see today are there because developers have the latest and greatest computer systems with multi-gigs of RAM, terabytes of disk space, and vast amounts of on-screen real estate. Hence their work products are best run on the latest and greatest computer systems with multi-gigs of RAM, terabytes of disk space, and vast amounts of on-screen real estate.
Give'em a 1280x1024 monitor, a gig of RAM and 250gigs of HDD and tell'em to make their code run, and run well, on that system. That way the rest of us can actually use what they write.
Agreed. Long before most of you were born, i.e., in the 1960s-70s, it was a given that if IBM told you (a customer) that they were putting another 100 people to work on a piece of late software, they were really telling you the project had been killed.
And of course there's the classic Mythical Man Month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month) which, of course, no one reads any more.
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As have corporations, and most corporations have the same motivation (profit) and ethics (see "motivation") as the mob. Indeed, corporations ARE our government in the U.S. At least the mob is up-front about its motives.
Can't cite a reference, but I'd venture to guess that governments were here before mobs. Your hypothesis might better have read "The Mob is like Government", but I suppose that would render the remainder of your argument meaningless. Oh wait, maybe we should turn essential services like police protection over to the mob!?
...they are not regulated in any way. Anyone (other than stockholders) cheering this movement into an unregulated marketplace by this rapacious, anonymous, arbitrary, capricious and arrogant organization has probably never had dealings with it.
American idio...I mean citizens have given away every shred of privacy to the credit card companies, to everyone for whom they carry "loyalty cards", and to every dot-com entity (and others) whose web site they visit. "Social networking" web sites? A better way to collect and sell more detailed information about you. Really, why should we care if the always-on box(es) that cast blue flickering glows out of every window on the street are capturing your faces, your emotions and your body english? Interesting that there is sooooooooooooo much concern about the gummint collecting information when the Experians, the Equifax's, Wal-Mart and the gods only know who else already know more about you than your mother.
A lot of the bloat, and probably a fair amount of the usability problems we see today are there because developers have the latest and greatest computer systems with multi-gigs of RAM, terabytes of disk space, and vast amounts of on-screen real estate. Hence their work products are best run on the latest and greatest computer systems with multi-gigs of RAM, terabytes of disk space, and vast amounts of on-screen real estate. Give'em a 1280x1024 monitor, a gig of RAM and 250gigs of HDD and tell'em to make their code run, and run well, on that system. That way the rest of us can actually use what they write.
Agreed. Long before most of you were born, i.e., in the 1960s-70s, it was a given that if IBM told you (a customer) that they were putting another 100 people to work on a piece of late software, they were really telling you the project had been killed. And of course there's the classic Mythical Man Month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month) which, of course, no one reads any more.
Ban commercials. That might help to wrest the U.S. government from its Corporate Overlords.