It's almost all attributable to Apple's ATT. Screwed them and Google, and now Apple has plans to take it all.

The article is probably factual and I'm sure in our world of surface glitz and little foundational substance, all it says about the need for such "creative" headshots is probably true, too. But please! This sentence cannot be left unscathed: "I consider myself a facial conveyance strategist." Holy shit!!! Its people like you who have knocked the English Language to its knees. What's wrong with being a photographer? This is worse than cleaners called "Environmental Services Specialists." You need to read George Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language." https://www.orwellfoundation.c... Do us all a favour, and stop turning simple statements into expressions of would be grandeur.

Your whole story is slanted to the stupid prick who gave the driver the wrong instruction! The company made it clear, from the facts you appear reluctant to express, that this was not the right instruction to the driver, and thus the dispatcher idiot will either be retrained, disciplined or fired. But your headline and story are all aimed at discrediting the company and not the individual responsible. But here's the thing: the next time you need something, you'll go online to Amazon and order it!

Your post is flat out wrong, you didn't search far back enough: https://www.amazon.ca/Software... Barry Bhoem's book, The Economics of Software Engineering was written in the late 80s, when he worked at TRW, and his stat is 1000 times more expensive to fix in production, not 100! You appear to be ignoring the testing of software when you make a small change to it while it's in production, To be sure you haven't screwed up anything in the package, you have to retest the whole thing.

I hear you loud and clear, especially the part about which university to attend, to even make sense of Analytics. But when it comes to bad UX and UI, I believe Microsoft takes the prize for the worst offender. And the most costly to society - we have now spent 7 months trying to learn enough about Microsoft's stack to produce a fairly simple app for Microsoft Teams. And we've been developing software apps for >40 years, so it's not that we lack knowledge on how to do this. You said, you get it; you understand that Google is an engineering company and thus it had some excuse for poor UI's about 10 years ago. Ditto for Microsoft, and yes they are innovating, but they are still not giving one tiny thought to UX. And as such they are costing every developer out there, countless hours of wasted effort. MS's documentation is either too high a level, aimed at introducing the topic, or is precisely the detail on the feature I am looking for, but is hopelessly out of date and refers to buttons and functions which are not visible in the UI in front of me. And if you're thinking, just submit a support ticket, it took 7 support calls to find the app I had been given the licence keys to (Dynamics 365) as part of our Developer agreement, because the first 6 people behaved just like me: if you're handed the keys in one admin portal, surely that's where the app will be available from! No, not in MS Land - You get the keys in Partner Central; you activate the app in PowerApps Admin Portal, you provision it or manage its data in Admin365 Portal, and you edit or modify it using the PowerBI portal and not once does it tell you any of this, anywhere. How's that for a totally fucked UX and when I try to point out that life would be much easier if there was just one place to administer the app from, it's like I'm speaking a foreign language. And again, as you said about Google, Microsoft is awash in money these days. They could fix all this in the same way Google could. But they don't give a shit. And, I guess being fair, many of the apps I have to use these days appear to suffer from the same issues. They do the function they were designed for, but they do it without regard for the way the user is trying to use the app to do his or her job function. It blows me away that anyone would develop an app for a function without knowing how that function is used in real life - truly a precise recipe for a horrible user experience. But it does seem that people like you and me are becoming more and more rare.

This could be a very big thing, IF it works. If the test proves that the furnace produces enough hydrogen to warrant further development, and IF that works out, we could end-up not needing oil. That would not only benefit the environment, but it would also change the politics of the middle east completely. Interestingly enough, I wrote a Fantasy novel which required a renewable source of hydrogen to power a fuel cell on a non-fossil fueled boat. Back in 2002 when I did the research into this, I found a bacterial hydrogen generator project which used a genetically altered form of algae to produce hydrogen via photosynthesis. The book is more Fantasy than Sci-Fi, because the boat is sent back in time to 1813 to commit the perfect crime. To steal gold from Napoleon as an act of war committed by the Royal Navy. You can get the first half of Napoleon's Gambit free at, http://napoleonsgambit.com/

If you want a 440 page long answer to this question, you'll find it in a novel called Napoleon's Gambit: Sailing through history to commit the perfect crime. A story about a modern sailor whose hydrogen powered time machine sails him back to 1813, onto the deck of HMS Imperieuse as she sails into battle against overwhelming odds. More at www.napoleonsgambit.com

So let me see if I get the general drift of most of your comments right: Without societies, censors or authority over us, we're all immoral and unethical? What happened to individual choice? All you guys out there (used in a non-sexist way) are telling me that stealing is okay, provided you, taking the best suggestion I read before I stopped in horror, that you document your going along with it to simply CYA? If I found myself in this position, I would take part of that same suggestion to document the whole problem. I'd make a list of all the software which should be bought to make the company legal. Present it to the boss. And if he doesn't instantly implement a plan to acquire it, look for another job if you need the paycheck - else resign immediately. Morals, ethics and honesty - you have them or you don't and there's almost no ambiguity about it (you may be forgiven for stealing a slice of bread to feed your hungry child). This philosophy still seems to me to be the best going: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

When we speak of "Science" in a general sense, it's about using the Scientific Method to pursue a goal or enhance our knowledge. This has nothing to do with the size of the data accumulated to perform the task. These days, all of us are learning to think at "Internet Scale." Join Facebook and "befriend" 200 million people. Enroll in LinkedIn and you have 40 million possible connections. National debts are measured in numbers with more zeros than ever used before to describe money. In other words, every field of human endeavour these days, presents its own data management problem. If I may introduce the crass topic of business into such a rarified air of Science; in today's Inbound Marketing arena, the volume of data being accumulated about Visitors to one's website, some of whom become Prospects and then Clients, is literally Internet sized. So what's a person to do? Same thing we've always done - automate to handle it. We have used technology and tools to overcome human limitations since the first ape used a bone as a hammer (if you liked the movie 2001's analogy). So marketers today can use Sales and Marketing Automation to reduce huge data sets to usable and understandable sizes, in the same way that any other field will employ computer methods to do the same. Data management problems, in other words, are a field unto themselves, requiring specialists such as DBAs, Hardware and Software Engineers. Not Scientists in the general sense, but specialists. There's more on these ideas at http://www.inbound-marketing-automation.ca/blog/