I am guessing that this is going to end up be a PR nightmare for Yelp once Google let's the hounds loose. They have been such an easy target in the past.
It shouldn't be. If anything, being as big as Dell makes me wonder why it hasn't happened already.
I work at an Enterprise software company a few orders of magnitude smaller than Dell. The number of people we have who don't even begin to understand how SSL works beyond 'its encrypted now' is frustrating.
Dell can probably recruit better people than we can, but I don't know if they can recruit better people at volume, top to bottom. It only takes a couple of people to not understand what they are doing and 'just get it done' for this to happen.
In that particular case, it's likely less "fail to comprehend the consequences of their actions" and more "underestimate the chances of being caught"...
Given how gigantic this market is, that's a pretty common occurance (i.e., starting a property/vacation rental/related site).
There's already plenty of other big players like HA, VRBO, FK, TA, rent and countless others. There's even giants that doing this that are not fully devoted to short-term rentals and vacation stuff like CL.
That doen't even touch on the devoted timeshare and timeshare-related stuff. Or, how many convenient insurance companies can you think of that will underwrite policies for these shot-term renters?
There's just so much opportunity in this field....
This seems like very good idea to me. It is good enough that I will try to remind people in-person and online about it.
I have given eulogies before. I have focused on only things I wanted to remember and perhaps things I thought others would want to remember--not that there's anything majorly wrong with that. It is not easy to devise guidelines about what should and should not be communicated. But, I do think it is a disservice to someone's life with a disease to be summarized with a single word or short phrase--ESPECIALLY if that time frame is many years.
In summary, I see the issues as:
- Individuals summarizing another person's experience with a disease or condition using single words or short phrases such as "battle" or "long fight"
- Focusing only on periods of their life prior to to their diagnosis
- The ignoring of accomplishments, day-to-day realities of life, significant persons, significant places, etc. after their diagnosis
The author's point directly conflicts with your suggestion of using U+0027. The author correctly states that the apostrophe when used inside a contracted English word should be treated as a modifier letter. There is a Unicode apostrophe character set aside and labelled as exactly this--U+02BC.
The author's point makes sense to me. I agree and my initial thought is that the correct thing to do is recommend U+02BC be the apostrophe.
This is something for the future. It won't be faithfully reflected in text for years or decades.
For something like a DMV, it is important that a live human being personally verify individuals and documents in-person. This is inefficient by design, but quite necessary.
Automation of things such as this with current technology makes something as important as vehicle licensing and government-issued identification (along with everything that entails) a very risky and dangerous thing indeed.
Okay, so going to the DMV is boring and even infuriating. But, for now, we must have human beings asking all of the questions, administering all of the tests, looking at every person in the face, double and triple-checking things and so on.
Yet in other countries similar processes are no where near as painful, so the claim that "having human beings involved necessarily makes things painfully in efficient" is not very plausible.
For reasons I don't understand American government systems tend to be very difficult and painful to deal with. This not unique to the US, but in the developed world most other nations have seen improvements since the '70's. The US, not so much.
Getting a driver's license or health card in Canada used to be pretty painful. Today it's very streamlined. You still have to deal with people face-to-face, but the process has been designed to be quick and efficient.
I'm in the UK, and "going to the DMV" is one of those US rituals I don't understand. We have one licensing office and interact with it entirely by post or Internet. Photo authentication can be done off the passport photo system.
This is one of those interesting items that is truly deserving of the headline "Neat Trick."
It reminds me of a card trick that I learned as a child that appeared to work by magic, but instead worked every time because it involved something complex going on involving math.
