This is the truth. Mod parent up. IT Project Managers all need to read Steve McConnell's "Rapid Application Development". It is literally The Holy Bible of IT Proj Mgmt.
This is great that Google is not censoring applications just because some stupid person could theoretically use it to get away with doing something stupid. This is why I do not own any Apple products. Freedom! It's nice that Google doesn't penalize the responsible people for the actions of idiots.
To all you Apple users, no drunk person will think to avoid crashing into you just because you have a white apple on your back window. If they are drunk they will be making stupid decisions regardless of whether or not there's an app for that.
It just depends on what level you're referring to. At the state level it is largely majority-rule thus democratic. At the national level, it is not purely democratic style majority rule; it is a Republic form of representation for each state. It is true that all states are Federally organized as equals among each other. But that's more a question of how they are organized not how much voting influence each has.
All that aside, it's the Democrat party, people. Not the Democratic party.
I've changed my mind slightly on this topic after I read about a guy who knew the Feds were trying to keep tabs on him. He publicly shared his geo-information for literally everywhere he went. Blogged publicly about everything he did and everyone he talked to. Tweeted about every little thing he did. And he had as many friends as would have him. This put his entire life out for the public record. This kept the Feds from privately nabbing him and then making up their own story about his life and all of the insidious things they wanted to finger him for.
I, now, just assume that if the Feds want to get me they will. If they want any info about me they can get it. So who am I fooling by hiding my activity? I would only be making it easier for them to fabricate the narrative of my life and then pin it on me. A very private lifestyle makes it easy for them to get away with it since nobody knows anything about me and could prove otherwise.
So now I love Google and everything Google Apps. I love my Android phone. I think I'm sort of boring so I'm not the type who uses Facebook much anyway (but I do have an account). I've got a Twitter account but have never really gotten into tweeting. My best defense of my normal, innocent life is for me to be social and use the Internet to control and communicate the narrative of my life.
Yea! The Dilbert Randomized Constitution Generator. You tell it what you want the constitution to protect and it ignores everything you say by spitting out some pre-prepared statement that didn't address anything you asked for. Kind of like everything in DC right now except the Constitution.
User: "Please add an article protecting every citizen's free speech."
App: "Done. We'll call that the Fairness Doctrine."
User: "Please add an article protecting every citizen's right to own firearms."
App: "Done. We will refer to that as the Brady Bill."
User: "Please add something in there making it so the Feds can't force citizens to buy certain goods and services"
App: "Done. That's called the Healthcare Reform Act."
User: "Please put something in there so the Federal government can't legislate religion or morality."
App: "Done. 'Married' people of opposite genders get tax breaks now."
User: "Please make it illegal to kill other humans."
App: "Done. We will now have capital punishment; and we will make it legal to kill another human as long as they are on the opposite side of the birth canal."
User: "I think this app is buggy. It does the opposite of everything I tell it to do."
App: "No you are buggy. It is now illegal to make any of your day-to-day decisions on your own. Effective immediately the Feds will tell you how to live your life and make all of your decisions for you."
User: "I want a refund. I think I got screwed."
App: "No refunds. But if you pay for another upgrade we'll do more of what we've been doing and the app will be amazing after you pay for the upgrade."
App: "The upgrade is only a few hundred billion dollars? Think of the children."
App: "...Hello?"
App: "Don't you care about the old people?"
Yea, it's kind of weird. You'll be using an app and this message will pop up blocking the entire screen. And you can't get back to what you were in the middle of till you acknowledge the pop-up. After you've dealt with the pop up you can resume what you just got interrupted from doing. Then when you exit the app you were in you have to remember all the texts/emails/etc that popped up and interrupted what you were previously working on. Then you have to click into each app that alerted you and find who & what you need to reply to one at a time app-by-app. If you forgot an alert, well, it just get's overlooked. There's no single place where all the alerts are collected so you can see them all together and work through them or clear them out.
It doesn't seem like it would be that hard for Apple to implement it. I speculate that they are trying to figure out how to get even easier than Android for bragging rights but are coming up short since Android's notification system is easy, simple and powerful.
Steve Jobs has no place in his company for allowing any external influence one upon anything related to design and user experience. Not even the user. This means he will control everything. Where you stand on the spectrum of freedom vs walled garden will determine whether you go all-in on Apple products or not.
Wikipedia does not hold control of every detail this tightly. They encourage outsiders to influence everything about the site and it's content. Same thing with Android. You can do anything you want to your device with no fear of reprisal from Google. Not so with Apple. Make Jobs mad and you'll wake up to your new iBrick.
The progress is that your documents are not bound to the local computer/network they are stored on. Cloud-based apps let you use any computer or smartphone to interact with your docs. The changes are saved into the cloud.
Here's something to consider... today if somebody steals your laptop they get all of your docs, passwords, email (if you use an email client) and everything else stored locally. In a cloud-based situation none of your docs were stored locally. So only the physical machine is lost and none of your data was stolen.
Market share has nothing to do with the definition of "Monopoly". As defined, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.
I work for a "rich corporation". We have not had the means to increase our staff in over 2 years. Over that period nobody has gotten raises or bonuses either. The Democrats would like to see the Bush tax cuts expire and see the balance sheet of corporations take an additional 3% tax hit. Lovely.
Haha! Nope. This is... Google Wave. Anybody remember that that Australian guy that just left Google to work at Facebook? Yep, Wave was his brainchild and his last project for Google. It was all about "conversations" and such. Lars Rasmussen will finally see Wave go prime-time. It'll just be a highly streamlined/tailored version for Facebook. You guys remember the big Wave beta video where people were calling Wave a Facebook Killer? Ironic.
Maybe... Or maybe it's just because they are the social chatterbox type. And that type is the personality who always has to be in relationships. Bookworms & nerds just don't tend to become textaholics because they don't care as much about having their ear to the grapevine with all 500 of their closest friends.
Open Source appeals to the phone manufacturers. Always has. Google hasn't been running any commercials falsely setting the expectations of phone customers that they will be able to easily program their phone any way they like.
To the end-customer, Android offers choice. There are many different form factors and carriers to choose from. I can choose my phone based on what I primarily need my phone to do for me. People like having options.
They predict the trajectory of the missile. If it's not aimed at US soil or any of our forward deployed installations we don't shoot it down. It's not like our missile shield is supposed to shoot down anything and everything that flies in the sky.
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This is the truth. Mod parent up. IT Project Managers all need to read Steve McConnell's "Rapid Application Development". It is literally The Holy Bible of IT Proj Mgmt.
This is great that Google is not censoring applications just because some stupid person could theoretically use it to get away with doing something stupid. This is why I do not own any Apple products. Freedom! It's nice that Google doesn't penalize the responsible people for the actions of idiots.
To all you Apple users, no drunk person will think to avoid crashing into you just because you have a white apple on your back window. If they are drunk they will be making stupid decisions regardless of whether or not there's an app for that.
This was one of the first things Obama did when he got into office.
Or my favorite, "Mobular"
"Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it." -Jobs
It just depends on what level you're referring to. At the state level it is largely majority-rule thus democratic. At the national level, it is not purely democratic style majority rule; it is a Republic form of representation for each state. It is true that all states are Federally organized as equals among each other. But that's more a question of how they are organized not how much voting influence each has.
All that aside, it's the Democrat party, people. Not the Democratic party.
I've changed my mind slightly on this topic after I read about a guy who knew the Feds were trying to keep tabs on him. He publicly shared his geo-information for literally everywhere he went. Blogged publicly about everything he did and everyone he talked to. Tweeted about every little thing he did. And he had as many friends as would have him. This put his entire life out for the public record. This kept the Feds from privately nabbing him and then making up their own story about his life and all of the insidious things they wanted to finger him for.
I, now, just assume that if the Feds want to get me they will. If they want any info about me they can get it. So who am I fooling by hiding my activity? I would only be making it easier for them to fabricate the narrative of my life and then pin it on me. A very private lifestyle makes it easy for them to get away with it since nobody knows anything about me and could prove otherwise.
So now I love Google and everything Google Apps. I love my Android phone. I think I'm sort of boring so I'm not the type who uses Facebook much anyway (but I do have an account). I've got a Twitter account but have never really gotten into tweeting. My best defense of my normal, innocent life is for me to be social and use the Internet to control and communicate the narrative of my life.
Yea! The Dilbert Randomized Constitution Generator. You tell it what you want the constitution to protect and it ignores everything you say by spitting out some pre-prepared statement that didn't address anything you asked for. Kind of like everything in DC right now except the Constitution.
User: "Please add an article protecting every citizen's free speech."
App: "Done. We'll call that the Fairness Doctrine."
User: "Please add an article protecting every citizen's right to own firearms."
App: "Done. We will refer to that as the Brady Bill."
User: "Please add something in there making it so the Feds can't force citizens to buy certain goods and services"
App: "Done. That's called the Healthcare Reform Act."
User: "Please put something in there so the Federal government can't legislate religion or morality." App: "Done. 'Married' people of opposite genders get tax breaks now."
User: "Please make it illegal to kill other humans." App: "Done. We will now have capital punishment; and we will make it legal to kill another human as long as they are on the opposite side of the birth canal."
User: "I think this app is buggy. It does the opposite of everything I tell it to do."
App: "No you are buggy. It is now illegal to make any of your day-to-day decisions on your own. Effective immediately the Feds will tell you how to live your life and make all of your decisions for you."
User: "I want a refund. I think I got screwed."
App: "No refunds. But if you pay for another upgrade we'll do more of what we've been doing and the app will be amazing after you pay for the upgrade."
App: "The upgrade is only a few hundred billion dollars? Think of the children."
App: "...Hello?"
App: "Don't you care about the old people?"
He wasn't bashing the product. Just the large heard of stinky iSheep.
Yea, the whole batch of self-sealing stem bolts is probably bad.
Is this like drafting in stock car racing?
Yea, it's kind of weird. You'll be using an app and this message will pop up blocking the entire screen. And you can't get back to what you were in the middle of till you acknowledge the pop-up. After you've dealt with the pop up you can resume what you just got interrupted from doing. Then when you exit the app you were in you have to remember all the texts/emails/etc that popped up and interrupted what you were previously working on. Then you have to click into each app that alerted you and find who & what you need to reply to one at a time app-by-app. If you forgot an alert, well, it just get's overlooked. There's no single place where all the alerts are collected so you can see them all together and work through them or clear them out.
It doesn't seem like it would be that hard for Apple to implement it. I speculate that they are trying to figure out how to get even easier than Android for bragging rights but are coming up short since Android's notification system is easy, simple and powerful.
Steve Jobs has no place in his company for allowing any external influence one upon anything related to design and user experience. Not even the user. This means he will control everything. Where you stand on the spectrum of freedom vs walled garden will determine whether you go all-in on Apple products or not.
Wikipedia does not hold control of every detail this tightly. They encourage outsiders to influence everything about the site and it's content. Same thing with Android. You can do anything you want to your device with no fear of reprisal from Google. Not so with Apple. Make Jobs mad and you'll wake up to your new iBrick.
I'd rather eat Jell-O if I had to choose between it and insects.
So we need to be sensitive and realize that cows are people too. But we feel no sympathy for for the insect kingdom?
It is kind of amusing that the only way to get Apple to give their customers a non-Apple option is to pass a law.
Nifty. They can keep theirs and add a micro slot somewhere on the holy tablet.
I never feel sorry for Apple.
The progress is that your documents are not bound to the local computer/network they are stored on. Cloud-based apps let you use any computer or smartphone to interact with your docs. The changes are saved into the cloud.
Here's something to consider... today if somebody steals your laptop they get all of your docs, passwords, email (if you use an email client) and everything else stored locally. In a cloud-based situation none of your docs were stored locally. So only the physical machine is lost and none of your data was stolen.
Market share has nothing to do with the definition of "Monopoly". As defined, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.
I work for a "rich corporation". We have not had the means to increase our staff in over 2 years. Over that period nobody has gotten raises or bonuses either. The Democrats would like to see the Bush tax cuts expire and see the balance sheet of corporations take an additional 3% tax hit. Lovely.
It could have healed the Man In the Mountain!
Haha! Nope. This is... Google Wave. Anybody remember that that Australian guy that just left Google to work at Facebook? Yep, Wave was his brainchild and his last project for Google. It was all about "conversations" and such. Lars Rasmussen will finally see Wave go prime-time. It'll just be a highly streamlined/tailored version for Facebook. You guys remember the big Wave beta video where people were calling Wave a Facebook Killer? Ironic.
"perform acts"
...giggle...
Maybe... Or maybe it's just because they are the social chatterbox type. And that type is the personality who always has to be in relationships. Bookworms & nerds just don't tend to become textaholics because they don't care as much about having their ear to the grapevine with all 500 of their closest friends.
Open Source appeals to the phone manufacturers. Always has. Google hasn't been running any commercials falsely setting the expectations of phone customers that they will be able to easily program their phone any way they like.
To the end-customer, Android offers choice. There are many different form factors and carriers to choose from. I can choose my phone based on what I primarily need my phone to do for me. People like having options.
They predict the trajectory of the missile. If it's not aimed at US soil or any of our forward deployed installations we don't shoot it down. It's not like our missile shield is supposed to shoot down anything and everything that flies in the sky.