Actually, what would also be a huge help (regardless of reader) would be to only use PDF where it was appropriate to do so -- namely, when the end user actually needs to print said document.
I realize there's pretty much no point in saying this, as it seems that many designers -- especially in large organizations -- seem to give little thought to the end user, and the usability of their site. (inappropriate or unnecessary use of pdf, flash, javascript, popups (still!) etc )
I'm tired of going to a site to find that in order to find out -- for example, where an event is going to take place -- that I have to download a 3 page pdf document, one that would have been so much easier and quicker and accessible as html on a webpage.
I'm willing to bet that, at the very least, half of all pdfs created do not need to be pdfs in the first place.
Yeah, that's a good question. I suspect that MS offered a lot to get them to use it. MLB.TV was the only reason I installed silverlight. I suspect I am not alone. If MLB offered a choice between the two I'd never have installed it. I've yet to come across another site where it's necessary. Now I can safely uninstall it, and most likely never need it again. I had endless problems with it -- especially on my Mac. Silverlight simply did not work well.
The new flash player for MLB.TV this year is a vast improvement on their previous efforts. There's still a few bugs in it, but for the most part it's better.
That said, Flash needs a competitor. It seriously needs one. It's astonishing that it's had so much market share for so long.
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This, of course, does not make Twitter a panacea, but it certainly makes it interesting enough to warrant the occasional Slashdot article.
No, it really doesn't. Demi Moore? Are you kidding? A middle-aged, talentless, has-been, piece of trailer-trash that's only famous for getting her fake tits out in movies. I'd actually stop using Twitter to avoid her.
Plus the fact that it's perfectly possible to keep up with these people (assuming you are that desperate) in many other ways -- all of them more useful and interesting than the occasional 140 character brainfart.
Twitter adds nothing to humanity. Few people of importance are using it, and even they aren't doing anything important with it. It will be gone in less than 5 years. No one will care. The teenagers will have moved on the the next thing.
That said, Twitter is a pretty good example of bad planning, and how not to do things as a developer. So it is indeed interesting to see on/. how they are trying to plug their many holes, and trying desperately to stop the whole thing crashing down regularly.
It could also simply be that there is genuinely more crime next to Police Stations.
Petty criminals will be picked up kept in the cells for the night and let out in the morning -- then they go and commit a local crime. "Crime" doesn't necessarily mean serious crime like murder or rape.
You're right about the rapidly declining quality of Hollywood's output.
Nah, not the case at all. Total nonsense. Hollywood's big studios have changed very little since the 1920s. You can read plenty of stories about Hughes, Goldwyn, Meyer et al, and how much they hired girls for their tits and only cared about the money. It's actually less of a problem now, because actors and crew aren't contracted to studios and have more control of their career. And far, far less films are made now than were in the 30s and 40s -- much less dreck overall.
Yes, digital VFX are commonplace in studio movies. In the past this was done with matte painting, other optical FX and special fx. Different technique -- but same difference.
Hollywood hacks have always ripped-off more talented small studio film-makers. The slow motion crew walk towards a spacecraft -- no, it's not from Armageddon -- it's ripped off from the Right Stuff.
There are very few great blockbuster movies in history that have very much artistic merit -- some yes -- but few. The same is true for romcoms, or comedy generally. Adam Sandler owes much to the Three Stooges, or Harold LLoyd.
99% percent of superhero movies have to all intents and purposes the exact same plot -> birth of hero -> discovers power -> learns power but not quite -> birth of supervillain -> various battles through second act -> confrontation -> oh no this could be it for our hero -> roof top/ warehouse/ etc battle between hero and villain (in rain if poss.) -> super hero masters the one power he didn't quite get -> happily ever after. Nope, hasn't changed a bit since the 1930's.
However, there is fantastic work done in US movies by smaller studios. This has not really changed since the beginning of the industry either.
...Firefox announced that the latest upgrade has multi-threading capability, the awesome bar has been removed, all the memory leaks fixed, and that all new features will be bundled as add-ons rather than built-in, so that users have a choice whether or not to keep them installed.
What? It's just as likely as face recognition! I believe it is also codenamed: FirePony.
I'm getting bloody sick of his internet vandalism.
Get back to the dungeons of wikipedia where you belong, and don't forget to polish the jackboots from your Fahrenheit 451 Fireman's uniform.
Name the station "Colbert".
The publicity will only do NASA good. It will help popularize space funding amongst an audience of political science students -- and likely future politicians, as well as a whole bunch of other people who simply don't care. Stephen is a friend of NASA, his audience isn't comprised of space geeks on the whole. Having Stephen get them interested in Space is a damned good thing. There is no loss in naming the station after him, no especial advantage in naming it serenity or anything else, but there is a substantial gain in naming it Colbert -- it just makes sense.
Firefox should be focused on 3 things: speed, security and standards. Everything else should be user-controlled with add-ons.
Absolutely 100% agree! I cannot understand what Mozilla are thinking. This should surely be an add-on, so should the awful bar, so should many other things currently slowing down Fx. If I wanted a service like this -- I'd just go to Ask.com. It's so 1997.
Bottom line is this... Chrome and IE8 are already beating Fx on many things. The only advantage to Fx is some add-ons. However, as I understand it, Flashblock and adblock are planned for Chrome. When they actually happen, goodbye Firefox.
If Firefox 4.0 isn't leaner, slimmer and multi-threaded with better memory managment -- assuming that's even possible with the state of Fx code -- then Firefox will quickly go the way of Netscape. It won't be the only memory problem they have -- people will have trouble remembering there ever was a Firefox.
They've gone from first place to last in a few short years. Sad. And totally avoidable.
I would have thought the very first post would have been Godwin-ed. Many posts so far and still no mention of Nazis -- and for once it's probably appropriate to mention them here.
Looks great. So what? What productivity advantages does it give you over XP? In fact, for a business user, it's a new interface and that means a drop in productivity for most users -- at least in the short term.
Now, in these times of recession, explain to me why I want to spend extra money on an operating system that will only cost me money in production loss.
What is the point of Windows 7 exactly? Prettier, sure. Who cares. MS doing better? Probably. MS doing enough? MS doing a comeback? Maybe for IE8 admittedly, but Chrome can still beat it -- while FF has long since lost its way. But overall MS back, or even good? Not yet, not at all.
Which is a completely different thing than actually getting the space station module named after him.
Why shouldn't it be named after him? After all, it makes sense. Bear in mind that there's a lot of people watch the Colbert Report who are not necessarily Space Nerds. But they are people who have political interests, and are active voters. Do you not think it would actually be a really really good thing to have them interested in what NASA is doing? And thus help fund other things?
Colbert is great about generating publicity, the Colbert Bump is real -- so why not bump NASA? Who really cares what the craft is called if it will help NASA?
I'm not sure who we are talking about. Who is it that needs to avoid countries actively censoring?
Considering the countries actively censoring or monitoring I'm aware of are: USA, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Austria, Australia, China, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. I'm sure there also many more.
Are we talking about Latvia trying to route to Luxembourg here? Who?
Surely... The sane thing to do is to actually stand up and stop governments censoring and monitoring, rather than talk about some small country re-routing to another. Look at the list above, that's probably 75% of the internet there (I'm guessing that figure).
Re-routing is a sin of commission. Lets actually fix the fucking problem, rather than step over it. Our Governments do not represent us any more. Get them out of office. Make your voices heard, while you still actually have them.
Or are you just going to sit there and take it? The time to act is now, not soon, nor when it gets really bad.
I think it has a lot to do with fact that the overall writing and show direction is poorly managed. Which is a shame, because it has good actors (well, some of them), it has great production design, camerawork and vfx, and many of the individual scenes are well-written.
However, the rambling, directionless story arcs are what made the show jump the shark about the middle of season 2.
they really oughta have a preview button or something.
Hoist by thine own petard. By the way it's "ought to". See, we can all be pedantic grammar nazis too.
It's easy. And yet... so pointless. Language is a means of communication. For millennia, it had no agreed, defined structure. Then along comes Dr Johnson, the world's first grammar nazi, and spoiled things for everyone by stifling creativity. Shakespeare, a man who -- you know -- was and is, widely renowned for being quite good at English, used to make words up all the time, and bend others to his will. You'd have him shot, no doubt. Or his books burned for grammar crimes.
Did you understand what the summary meant? Yes, you did. So... shut up.
And whose fault is that? The idiots in Government passing the stupid policies or the population that has allowed (even encouraged in some instances) them to do so?
It is ultimately the people who are the problem. Not just those who voted Labour, but those who are police officers, civil servants, people who work in ISPs, those who sit and watch through security cameras, anyone involved with the E-Borders scheme, anyone in Customs and Excise, and many, many more.
"befehl ist befehl" was proven not to be a defence at Nuremberg. Anyone co-operating with these totalitarian schemes is just guilty as the oppressors that are most surely coming, if not already here.
It is too late. The E-Borders scheme controls entry and exits more surely than the Berlin Wall. The Security camera network means they know where you are while you are in the country. The internet monitoring means they watch what you are doing and know who your friends are, the phone call logging means they know what you are saying, the ability to detain you without charge for longer than anywhere only helps. The population is fat, drunk and broke, and ever more geared towards hating "immigrants", as today's BBC "have your say" only proves. The tripartite excuse of "terrorism", "paedophiles" and "knife crime" are perfect covers for any eventuality.
What more does any dictator actually need? The tools are all there, cheerfully implemented by willing members of the population. These tools will eventually be used.
The UK Police already routinely scan YouTube, MySpace, Bebo and Facebook for "criminal" activity.
While Facebook stuff is already public, and you're utterly retarded if you post anything genuinely incriminating on it, there is still a danger -- now and in the future -- that the definition of "incriminating" may change.
The way The People's Republic of (formerly Great) Britain is going, it's only a question of time before your opinions (such as mine expressed here) will get you a visit from the State Secret Police.
Even if you are foolish enough to believe that Brown-shirt and his Jackboots, Smith and Straw, are not genuinely evil, the fact remains that the UK is now so controlled and monitored, that in the event of a dictator choosing to seize power, the UK population would be unable to fight back (the fact that much of the population is fat and drunk only helps the State cause).
There absolutely must be politicians in the UK who realize that all they need to do is pull the draw-string and the country is sealed up, and at their total mercy. All the pieces of the puzzle are there. It could happen any day. It is already too late.
Sorry no, but in your dreams. GIMP is not a professional tool -- very far from it. It's has little more functionality than Elements. It lacks essential professional tools. It's worthless to a professional.
Perhaps the subtitle should be "From Novice to Enthusiastic Amateur".
adblock is definitely easier. While adblock is necessary, it's flashblock that is an absolute must have for me. I can almost live with ads, I cannot live with flash running without control.
I did read somewhere that flashblock and adblock were being worked on for Chrome -- does anyone know more?
As soon as there's a mac version of Chrome, and adblock and flashblock, Firefox is done for me.
It's a shame, Firefox's gone from being the most innovative, fast, must-have browser to being the least innovating, slow, bloated browser in the space of 4 years. What are the Mozilla developers thinking? They only have themselves to blame. The writing has been on the wall for them for about a year. It's a dead browser surfing. It's only a matter of time before it goes the way of Netscape at this point.
The fact that politicians and media elite now use twitter doesn't make it good. It makes it even more annoying.
It does make it more annoying in the short term. The really good news is that it's also the sign of the beginning of the end of the fad. Vacuous sites like Twitter are flash-in-the-pan. There's no real substance, nor purpose, nor income. The only reason people use them is peer pressure and fashion.
The one sure-fire way of making something deeply uncool is to let a politician use it. Thus, hopefully, Twitter will be as dead as Myspace is in less that 18 months max. The sooner the better.
I could care less about the service, because in the real world it simply doesn't exist for me -- and never will. I don't use it, and I know no-one who does. It is just extremely annoying to people whining on about it everywhere online, like it's something important.
I'd really love to meet the owners of the Twitter site, just to have the chance to punch them in the face for being the most obnoxious sock-puppeteers this planet has ever seen.
HR is ripe to accept any new technology that is thrown its way.
It's really just an attempt to justify their existence. As a child, no-one -- absolutely no-one -- dreams of working in HR. The only people who work in that field are those that have no ambition, insufficient skills, and yet an hunger for power. They are the mediocre and the inadequate.
Smaller firms don't need this kind of technology, nor really any HR at all, because managers -- who are best suited to judge their employees after all -- can assess staff directly, and accurately.
HR departments are the singular reason why Corporations stagnate. Creative, driven, intelligent people are often "difficult" employees. They have opinions and won't necessarily toe the company line. They won't accept adequate, or selling something as a success when it's poor quality. HR depts will promote those who are the polar opposites of that. And this tool seems designed to filter out the outliers, the ones who actually drive a company forward and create change.
If you want your company to cease innovation, give power to your HR dept. If you want a successful, innovative, profitable company, avoid HR as much as possible.
Human Resources is one of the biggest brakes on human development in the 21st Century. They contribute nothing to society, they are simply holding creativity back.
Why would anyone with an heart, soul and brain work for a company that uses these tools?
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Actually, what would also be a huge help (regardless of reader) would be to only use PDF where it was appropriate to do so -- namely, when the end user actually needs to print said document.
I realize there's pretty much no point in saying this, as it seems that many designers -- especially in large organizations -- seem to give little thought to the end user, and the usability of their site. (inappropriate or unnecessary use of pdf, flash, javascript, popups (still!) etc )
I'm tired of going to a site to find that in order to find out -- for example, where an event is going to take place -- that I have to download a 3 page pdf document, one that would have been so much easier and quicker and accessible as html on a webpage.
I'm willing to bet that, at the very least, half of all pdfs created do not need to be pdfs in the first place.
Mod parent insightful!
Yeah, that's a good question. I suspect that MS offered a lot to get them to use it. MLB.TV was the only reason I installed silverlight. I suspect I am not alone. If MLB offered a choice between the two I'd never have installed it. I've yet to come across another site where it's necessary. Now I can safely uninstall it, and most likely never need it again. I had endless problems with it -- especially on my Mac. Silverlight simply did not work well.
The new flash player for MLB.TV this year is a vast improvement on their previous efforts. There's still a few bugs in it, but for the most part it's better.
That said, Flash needs a competitor. It seriously needs one. It's astonishing that it's had so much market share for so long.
No, it really doesn't. Demi Moore? Are you kidding? A middle-aged, talentless, has-been, piece of trailer-trash that's only famous for getting her fake tits out in movies. I'd actually stop using Twitter to avoid her.
/. how they are trying to plug their many holes, and trying desperately to stop the whole thing crashing down regularly.
Plus the fact that it's perfectly possible to keep up with these people (assuming you are that desperate) in many other ways -- all of them more useful and interesting than the occasional 140 character brainfart.
Twitter adds nothing to humanity. Few people of importance are using it, and even they aren't doing anything important with it. It will be gone in less than 5 years. No one will care. The teenagers will have moved on the the next thing.
That said, Twitter is a pretty good example of bad planning, and how not to do things as a developer. So it is indeed interesting to see on
It could also simply be that there is genuinely more crime next to Police Stations.
Petty criminals will be picked up kept in the cells for the night and let out in the morning -- then they go and commit a local crime. "Crime" doesn't necessarily mean serious crime like murder or rape.
Nah, not the case at all. Total nonsense. Hollywood's big studios have changed very little since the 1920s. You can read plenty of stories about Hughes, Goldwyn, Meyer et al, and how much they hired girls for their tits and only cared about the money. It's actually less of a problem now, because actors and crew aren't contracted to studios and have more control of their career. And far, far less films are made now than were in the 30s and 40s -- much less dreck overall.
Yes, digital VFX are commonplace in studio movies. In the past this was done with matte painting, other optical FX and special fx. Different technique -- but same difference.
Hollywood hacks have always ripped-off more talented small studio film-makers. The slow motion crew walk towards a spacecraft -- no, it's not from Armageddon -- it's ripped off from the Right Stuff.
There are very few great blockbuster movies in history that have very much artistic merit -- some yes -- but few. The same is true for romcoms, or comedy generally. Adam Sandler owes much to the Three Stooges, or Harold LLoyd.
99% percent of superhero movies have to all intents and purposes the exact same plot -> birth of hero -> discovers power -> learns power but not quite -> birth of supervillain -> various battles through second act -> confrontation -> oh no this could be it for our hero -> roof top/ warehouse/ etc battle between hero and villain (in rain if poss.) -> super hero masters the one power he didn't quite get -> happily ever after. Nope, hasn't changed a bit since the 1930's.
However, there is fantastic work done in US movies by smaller studios. This has not really changed since the beginning of the industry either.
No, that's not true. OMG Poniez!!!1! was funny. It's just unfortunate that Taco has not yet topped it.
This year hasn't been that great, I'm afraid. Next year Taco... there's always next year.
...Firefox announced that the latest upgrade has multi-threading capability, the awesome bar has been removed, all the memory leaks fixed, and that all new features will be bundled as add-ons rather than built-in, so that users have a choice whether or not to keep them installed.
What? It's just as likely as face recognition! I believe it is also codenamed: FirePony.
Get back to the dungeons of wikipedia where you belong, and don't forget to polish the jackboots from your Fahrenheit 451 Fireman's uniform.
Name the station "Colbert".
The publicity will only do NASA good. It will help popularize space funding amongst an audience of political science students -- and likely future politicians, as well as a whole bunch of other people who simply don't care. Stephen is a friend of NASA, his audience isn't comprised of space geeks on the whole. Having Stephen get them interested in Space is a damned good thing. There is no loss in naming the station after him, no especial advantage in naming it serenity or anything else, but there is a substantial gain in naming it Colbert -- it just makes sense.
Absolutely 100% agree! I cannot understand what Mozilla are thinking. This should surely be an add-on, so should the awful bar, so should many other things currently slowing down Fx. If I wanted a service like this -- I'd just go to Ask.com. It's so 1997.
Bottom line is this... Chrome and IE8 are already beating Fx on many things. The only advantage to Fx is some add-ons. However, as I understand it, Flashblock and adblock are planned for Chrome. When they actually happen, goodbye Firefox.
If Firefox 4.0 isn't leaner, slimmer and multi-threaded with better memory managment -- assuming that's even possible with the state of Fx code -- then Firefox will quickly go the way of Netscape. It won't be the only memory problem they have -- people will have trouble remembering there ever was a Firefox.
They've gone from first place to last in a few short years. Sad. And totally avoidable.
Dunno about that, but I suspect phantom limbs may explain "first post". Or maybe phantom brain explains that better.
Can anyone tell me what the conversion factor is from Libraries of Congress to Libraries of Alexandria?
I would have thought the very first post would have been Godwin-ed. Many posts so far and still no mention of Nazis -- and for once it's probably appropriate to mention them here.
Looks great. So what? What productivity advantages does it give you over XP? In fact, for a business user, it's a new interface and that means a drop in productivity for most users -- at least in the short term.
Now, in these times of recession, explain to me why I want to spend extra money on an operating system that will only cost me money in production loss.
What is the point of Windows 7 exactly? Prettier, sure. Who cares. MS doing better? Probably. MS doing enough? MS doing a comeback? Maybe for IE8 admittedly, but Chrome can still beat it -- while FF has long since lost its way. But overall MS back, or even good? Not yet, not at all.
Why shouldn't it be named after him? After all, it makes sense. Bear in mind that there's a lot of people watch the Colbert Report who are not necessarily Space Nerds. But they are people who have political interests, and are active voters. Do you not think it would actually be a really really good thing to have them interested in what NASA is doing? And thus help fund other things?
Colbert is great about generating publicity, the Colbert Bump is real -- so why not bump NASA? Who really cares what the craft is called if it will help NASA?
I'm not sure who we are talking about. Who is it that needs to avoid countries actively censoring?
Considering the countries actively censoring or monitoring I'm aware of are: USA, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Austria, Australia, China, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. I'm sure there also many more.
Are we talking about Latvia trying to route to Luxembourg here? Who?
Surely... The sane thing to do is to actually stand up and stop governments censoring and monitoring, rather than talk about some small country re-routing to another. Look at the list above, that's probably 75% of the internet there (I'm guessing that figure).
Re-routing is a sin of commission. Lets actually fix the fucking problem, rather than step over it. Our Governments do not represent us any more. Get them out of office. Make your voices heard, while you still actually have them.
Or are you just going to sit there and take it? The time to act is now, not soon, nor when it gets really bad.
Science? Well, it's like science, but not science. Why not take a leaf out of the Sci-Fi channel and call it "Creation Syence".
That should eliminate any possible confusion with actual science.
I don't think that's why people dislike the show.
I think it has a lot to do with fact that the overall writing and show direction is poorly managed. Which is a shame, because it has good actors (well, some of them), it has great production design, camerawork and vfx, and many of the individual scenes are well-written.
However, the rambling, directionless story arcs are what made the show jump the shark about the middle of season 2.
Great idea -- bad, bad, bad execution.
Hoist by thine own petard. By the way it's "ought to". See, we can all be pedantic grammar nazis too.
It's easy. And yet... so pointless. Language is a means of communication. For millennia, it had no agreed, defined structure. Then along comes Dr Johnson, the world's first grammar nazi, and spoiled things for everyone by stifling creativity. Shakespeare, a man who -- you know -- was and is, widely renowned for being quite good at English, used to make words up all the time, and bend others to his will. You'd have him shot, no doubt. Or his books burned for grammar crimes.
Did you understand what the summary meant? Yes, you did. So... shut up.
It is ultimately the people who are the problem. Not just those who voted Labour, but those who are police officers, civil servants, people who work in ISPs, those who sit and watch through security cameras, anyone involved with the E-Borders scheme, anyone in Customs and Excise, and many, many more.
"befehl ist befehl" was proven not to be a defence at Nuremberg. Anyone co-operating with these totalitarian schemes is just guilty as the oppressors that are most surely coming, if not already here.
It is too late. The E-Borders scheme controls entry and exits more surely than the Berlin Wall. The Security camera network means they know where you are while you are in the country. The internet monitoring means they watch what you are doing and know who your friends are, the phone call logging means they know what you are saying, the ability to detain you without charge for longer than anywhere only helps. The population is fat, drunk and broke, and ever more geared towards hating "immigrants", as today's BBC "have your say" only proves. The tripartite excuse of "terrorism", "paedophiles" and "knife crime" are perfect covers for any eventuality.
What more does any dictator actually need? The tools are all there, cheerfully implemented by willing members of the population. These tools will eventually be used.
The UK Police already routinely scan YouTube, MySpace, Bebo and Facebook for "criminal" activity.
While Facebook stuff is already public, and you're utterly retarded if you post anything genuinely incriminating on it, there is still a danger -- now and in the future -- that the definition of "incriminating" may change.
The way The People's Republic of (formerly Great) Britain is going, it's only a question of time before your opinions (such as mine expressed here) will get you a visit from the State Secret Police.
Even if you are foolish enough to believe that Brown-shirt and his Jackboots, Smith and Straw, are not genuinely evil, the fact remains that the UK is now so controlled and monitored, that in the event of a dictator choosing to seize power, the UK population would be unable to fight back (the fact that much of the population is fat and drunk only helps the State cause).
There absolutely must be politicians in the UK who realize that all they need to do is pull the draw-string and the country is sealed up, and at their total mercy. All the pieces of the puzzle are there. It could happen any day. It is already too late.
"From Novice to Professional"
Sorry no, but in your dreams. GIMP is not a professional tool -- very far from it. It's has little more functionality than Elements. It lacks essential professional tools. It's worthless to a professional.
Perhaps the subtitle should be "From Novice to Enthusiastic Amateur".
adblock is definitely easier. While adblock is necessary, it's flashblock that is an absolute must have for me. I can almost live with ads, I cannot live with flash running without control.
I did read somewhere that flashblock and adblock were being worked on for Chrome -- does anyone know more?
As soon as there's a mac version of Chrome, and adblock and flashblock, Firefox is done for me.
It's a shame, Firefox's gone from being the most innovative, fast, must-have browser to being the least innovating, slow, bloated browser in the space of 4 years. What are the Mozilla developers thinking? They only have themselves to blame. The writing has been on the wall for them for about a year. It's a dead browser surfing. It's only a matter of time before it goes the way of Netscape at this point.
It does make it more annoying in the short term. The really good news is that it's also the sign of the beginning of the end of the fad. Vacuous sites like Twitter are flash-in-the-pan. There's no real substance, nor purpose, nor income. The only reason people use them is peer pressure and fashion.
The one sure-fire way of making something deeply uncool is to let a politician use it. Thus, hopefully, Twitter will be as dead as Myspace is in less that 18 months max. The sooner the better.
I could care less about the service, because in the real world it simply doesn't exist for me -- and never will. I don't use it, and I know no-one who does. It is just extremely annoying to people whining on about it everywhere online, like it's something important.
I'd really love to meet the owners of the Twitter site, just to have the chance to punch them in the face for being the most obnoxious sock-puppeteers this planet has ever seen.
It's really just an attempt to justify their existence. As a child, no-one -- absolutely no-one -- dreams of working in HR. The only people who work in that field are those that have no ambition, insufficient skills, and yet an hunger for power. They are the mediocre and the inadequate.
Smaller firms don't need this kind of technology, nor really any HR at all, because managers -- who are best suited to judge their employees after all -- can assess staff directly, and accurately.
HR departments are the singular reason why Corporations stagnate. Creative, driven, intelligent people are often "difficult" employees. They have opinions and won't necessarily toe the company line. They won't accept adequate, or selling something as a success when it's poor quality. HR depts will promote those who are the polar opposites of that. And this tool seems designed to filter out the outliers, the ones who actually drive a company forward and create change.
If you want your company to cease innovation, give power to your HR dept. If you want a successful, innovative, profitable company, avoid HR as much as possible.
Human Resources is one of the biggest brakes on human development in the 21st Century. They contribute nothing to society, they are simply holding creativity back.
Why would anyone with an heart, soul and brain work for a company that uses these tools?