How widgets are displayed in Android varies with the launcher you're using. I suspect you might have seem a Samsung launcher or something as the stock one is done quite nicely, as are most of the other ones I've seen.
iOS needs less baked into the OS, not more. When FaceBook became popular they needed to develop integrated support for it, When Twitter became popular, they need to develop integrated support for it. With Android, everything integrates automatically, popular or not, and this same mechanism allows you to set a different browser as your default. Apple needs to get over their control fetish and greed.
As a service organization, we shouldn't say "No", we should say "No, you can't because of X, but we can do Y to meet your needs". Just saying "No" pisses people off and makes them work around you, and they will work around IT as they have responsibilities in their jobs as well and they see IT as getting in their way, which really, we are.
I really appreciate what Cnonical has done for Linux. I think they've helped push it to a much wider audience than it would have had otherwise... but I'd liek to know why the hell they can't play nice with others and use/contribute to Wayland, KDE, Gnome, etc? They've come up with their own desktop, which is not bad, but now they're creating Mir instead of Wayland, and are apparently creating a new package manager as well. We'dget much better products out sooner if everyone worked towards the same goals.
Data islands doesn't have to mean loss of control. When you have different regulations and compliance requirements, it's actually a good thing. It makes also makes it easier to change technologies, process, procedures, etc, for one area of business data without the normal 'everything or nothing, meaning nothing' change processes that most IT shops are famous for.
This is the trick. Users want discrete computers (PCs, tablets, etc) so they can have enough control to get their work done. Management wants everything centralized so they know what everyone's doing and have control over them (frequently control they don't need.). The mainframe is a (still living) nightmare of usability , cost, and lock-in, although with Linux now available it's getting better in the usability department. 'Head office' will continue to try an control how people get their work done, but in the end they won't be able to stop them. Hopefully, with the centralized web APIs (REST, etc), we can have the best of both worlds, but I think it will take longer than 5 years. People hate giving up control, and central purchasing agencies get all sorts of perks (bribes) from suppliers at the corporate level.
Except that what people may be complaining about is that it doesn't change until you refresh the page. This is just a guess made based on an estimate of the kind of people that would complain about such a thing of course.
I always carry a Leatherman Micra. I lost one once, and managed to buy a whole bag of them from those confiscated from an airport. At least one (given to someone) has returned to where it came from.
That assumes you have complete control over what goes on that drive as well though. Would the possibility of malware, etc, render that untrue, or irrelevant at least?
All of that applies regardless of the methodology. Agile doesn't mean you throw engineering out the window, it means you refactor constantly, exactly as much as is required. I think XP dictates that you do the simplest thing that will solve the problem, although I will still tend to engineer a more expandable solution. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes I waste my time and implement a more complex solution than is ever required.
Yes, the Talk XMPP shutdown and Google Reader are a little disturbing. We're as far as we are with the ubiquity of the internet because of open formats enabling intercommunication and competition between products and services by different providers. That seems to be going away again in favour of platform lock-in with things like iMessage, FaceTime, etc. Google's Hangouts are at least cross platform, but that's really only a mild improvement. You still need to use Google's implementation. I'm just happy I can still use the stuff under Linux for the most part. I'm a little worried about the future, as short sighted greed seems to have taken over.
Admittedly that's because most do Agile quite wrong. I saw a study somewhere that showed that those that the more Agile processes were followed, the better the success rate. Doing half-assed Agile doesn't work well and burns out developers.
As TFA points out, that always works fine when your requirements are *all* known an are completely static. That rarely happens in most fields. Even in the ones where it does it's usually just management having the balls to say "No, you can give us the next bunch of additions and changes when this is delivered, we agreed on that". It frequently ends up delivering something less than useful.
I also don't see him posting that he is doing this as a Google employee or really, that he is related to them in any way. It's an interesting fact, but not necessarily relevant.
The same thing happened last time if I remember correctly. It's a tricky situation... his employer shouldn't be able to control his hobbies, but he shouldn't be making them look like dicks either. Does he advertise himself as a Google employee, or is this the usual anti-Google FUD campaigners throwing this information in where it's not warranted?
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Oracle doesn't want Java or he mobile market. Oracle wants money. Lots of money, now and in the future.
How widgets are displayed in Android varies with the launcher you're using. I suspect you might have seem a Samsung launcher or something as the stock one is done quite nicely, as are most of the other ones I've seen.
iOS needs less baked into the OS, not more. When FaceBook became popular they needed to develop integrated support for it, When Twitter became popular, they need to develop integrated support for it. With Android, everything integrates automatically, popular or not, and this same mechanism allows you to set a different browser as your default. Apple needs to get over their control fetish and greed.
As a service organization, we shouldn't say "No", we should say "No, you can't because of X, but we can do Y to meet your needs". Just saying "No" pisses people off and makes them work around you, and they will work around IT as they have responsibilities in their jobs as well and they see IT as getting in their way, which really, we are.
I really appreciate what Cnonical has done for Linux. I think they've helped push it to a much wider audience than it would have had otherwise ... but I'd liek to know why the hell they can't play nice with others and use/contribute to Wayland, KDE, Gnome, etc? They've come up with their own desktop, which is not bad, but now they're creating Mir instead of Wayland, and are apparently creating a new package manager as well. We'dget much better products out sooner if everyone worked towards the same goals.
Hell, just the competition would be a good thing. IT organizations are supposed to be service organizations, but very, very few actually act like one.
Data islands doesn't have to mean loss of control. When you have different regulations and compliance requirements, it's actually a good thing. It makes also makes it easier to change technologies, process, procedures, etc, for one area of business data without the normal 'everything or nothing, meaning nothing' change processes that most IT shops are famous for.
This is the trick. Users want discrete computers (PCs, tablets, etc) so they can have enough control to get their work done. Management wants everything centralized so they know what everyone's doing and have control over them (frequently control they don't need.). The mainframe is a (still living) nightmare of usability , cost, and lock-in, although with Linux now available it's getting better in the usability department. 'Head office' will continue to try an control how people get their work done, but in the end they won't be able to stop them. Hopefully, with the centralized web APIs (REST, etc), we can have the best of both worlds, but I think it will take longer than 5 years. People hate giving up control, and central purchasing agencies get all sorts of perks (bribes) from suppliers at the corporate level.
Except that what people may be complaining about is that it doesn't change until you refresh the page. This is just a guess made based on an estimate of the kind of people that would complain about such a thing of course.
I always carry a Leatherman Micra. I lost one once, and managed to buy a whole bag of them from those confiscated from an airport. At least one (given to someone) has returned to where it came from.
I'll take responsibility for it. It will have about as much effect as trying to pin the responsibility for the decision on any government official.
Well, he does have execute permission for *everyone*.
They bring it up every now and then just to stir up the "Creationists".
That assumes you have complete control over what goes on that drive as well though. Would the possibility of malware, etc, render that untrue, or irrelevant at least?
Many offer hope. It's delivering the reality that seems to be beyond anyone's grasp once they've had a taste of power.
All of that applies regardless of the methodology. Agile doesn't mean you throw engineering out the window, it means you refactor constantly, exactly as much as is required. I think XP dictates that you do the simplest thing that will solve the problem, although I will still tend to engineer a more expandable solution. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes I waste my time and implement a more complex solution than is ever required.
Yes, the Talk XMPP shutdown and Google Reader are a little disturbing. We're as far as we are with the ubiquity of the internet because of open formats enabling intercommunication and competition between products and services by different providers. That seems to be going away again in favour of platform lock-in with things like iMessage, FaceTime, etc. Google's Hangouts are at least cross platform, but that's really only a mild improvement. You still need to use Google's implementation. I'm just happy I can still use the stuff under Linux for the most part. I'm a little worried about the future, as short sighted greed seems to have taken over.
Odds are that you don't need to convince Vint Cerf or Google in general about the advantages of open formats.
The same applies to any *open* format.
Admittedly that's because most do Agile quite wrong. I saw a study somewhere that showed that those that the more Agile processes were followed, the better the success rate. Doing half-assed Agile doesn't work well and burns out developers.
As TFA points out, that always works fine when your requirements are *all* known an are completely static. That rarely happens in most fields. Even in the ones where it does it's usually just management having the balls to say "No, you can give us the next bunch of additions and changes when this is delivered, we agreed on that". It frequently ends up delivering something less than useful.
They also do not understand responsibility.
I also don't see him posting that he is doing this as a Google employee or really, that he is related to them in any way. It's an interesting fact, but not necessarily relevant.
The same thing happened last time if I remember correctly. It's a tricky situation ... his employer shouldn't be able to control his hobbies, but he shouldn't be making them look like dicks either. Does he advertise himself as a Google employee, or is this the usual anti-Google FUD campaigners throwing this information in where it's not warranted?
Multi-tasking and multi-window are two separate things. I don't think the current version of Metro lets you multi-window either.