Comment Re:NIMBY at its finest (Score 1) 409
And your credentials are what, exactly?
And your credentials are what, exactly?
Actually, they are deliberately not identifying the patent. Might be a doctor. Might be a nurse. But in any case it was a missionary, someone who went to Africa to tell the people there that his or her own religious beliefs were better than those of the Africans.
I saw an interesting thing on the CBS evening news last night. One of the missionary spokespeople was telling the CBS talking head how distrustful the local people were if the doctor was wearing lots of protective clothing while treating patients. The supposed journalist just let this be stated and never questioned if the spokesperson was trying to say that they sometimes deliberately do without the protective gear to help gain the African people's trust. Apparently these missionaries believe that they should tell these people that the Christian god is better than whatever they believe in, but not bother to try to tell them that civilized science and medicine is better than jungle science.
An additional concept that might also help is the concept of application strangulation. http://paulhammant.com/2013/07/14/legacy-application-strangulation-case-studies/
In addition to the current functions, try to find out what these groups wish they could do, watch what they do. Because as the grand-parent said,
If you are just going to recreate the apps, you might as well not even bother.
If you just recreate the apps, what will motivate the user to use the ERP or the new app built on top of the ERP? You want to put in something beyond their existing tool to motivate them to stop using it. But, also be careful because you don't want to implement something just because it is in the existing tool, it might not actually have any real value. Applying Agile practices to putting a working product in front of users early, and watch what they actually are doing, you might get lucky and find out that some existing functionality really is not necessary. i.e. if users move completely to the new tool and stop referencing the old one, that would be a sign that any other functions left on the list are not that valuable. Then, you get to do one of those rare events where you come in under budget/save money.
Oh no, Fotopedia is shutting down. First, the mandatory "Who the hell is Fotopedia?"
But then the translation: Hype-speak "We truly believe in the concept of storytelling but don't think there is a suitable business in it yet." translates to "Apple or Google or anyone else with more money than sense failed to offer us billions of $$$ for our little toy, so anyone who backed us with their IP can't play with us any more."
As to the quickness of a ten day window, I don't think that is a real issue. Anyone foolish enough to not have retained copies of their images that they store with Fotopedia may lose them, but they gain an important life lesson in return.
Yea, the important thing isn't if it works or not. The important thing is that the US taxpayers keep paying millions for every rocket that might knock down a Hamas missal. That way Israel can comfortably keep practicing genocide in Gaza and building more "settlements".
He who has but four and spends five has no need for a wallet.