Google Plus tried fixing that with its "circles" feature. Of course, that never really went anywhere..
Excellent point. Plus and Wave were ahead of their time.
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The doctor I've been with since 1998 has refused to adopt the digital system. He's getting older unfortunately and I suspect in another few years he'll be retiring only to be replaced by a doctor who embraces digitalization. It's far and few these days to find paper only offices. Which is a shame, as I feel the more modern the medical system is the less personable, less "family doctor" oriented, heck more often only to be bought up by a network. Quaint is under rated, futurism is over rated.
I can see that working today in dentistry more so than general practice. I’ve got medication that insurance has dictated that I need to refill a weekly med monthly and it arrives precisely the week I need to take it. I need to time my vacations around this med now.
I get that I’m ranting against healthcare and not doctors, but I’d run far from any doctor that’s paper only these days.
There are probably fewer than 100 websites that couldn’t be a single Postgres instance on nice server hardware, with good caching.
Not everything on the internet is a “website” and then there are several website hosting platforms that aggregate the individual concerns.
I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult.
Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it.
Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another salesman, sabotage a pneumatic tube messaging system, and sneak into your boss' office.
It all makes perfect sense for adults familiar with office work and all the movies it references. But I recall I tried it when I was maybe 14 and I couldn't make head nor tails of it. I didn't even realize the pneumatic tubes were actually a thing.
Things like Monkey Island and even Full Throttle are far more accessible.
This is a great assessment that I never realized until you said it. There are so many games from that era that I played that fit that mold. I was playing Leisure Suit Larry as a 10 year old! I can’t imagine parents these days letting their kids play that at all!
I’ve read the register throughout the years but I never thought much about the folks behind it. The obituary tells a wild story that was heartwarmingly written by a friend. Now I’m waiting for the biopic!
> According to the cybersecurity company, it replied by saying it wouldn't agree to swift disclosure, and pointed JetBrains to its policy against silently patching vulnerabilities, which stipulates that if companies violate that policy, Rapid7 will itself release the full details of the vulnerability, including enough information to allow people to develop exploits, within 24 hours.
Did JetBrains engage Rapid7 to conduct an audit? If not, I think describing this as a “violation” is a step too far: if two companies have no pre-existing relationship then there’s no reason for one of them to start complying with arbitrary policies set by the other.
If on the other hand JetBrains engaged Rapid7 to audit TeamCity and then tried to wriggle out of their contract when a vulnerability was found, then this isn’t a great look.
Agreed, this feels a bit like extortion based on the way this article was written. Especially if they were engaged in a paying contract, why would Jetbrains accept disclosure?
Far far more people have a biometric reader or smart token than have a cell phone.
Smart phones are obviously phones and have biometrics. What you're left with is comparing the number of people with non-smart phones (~31 million in the U.S.) to the number of people without smartphones but who have biometric tablets, Windows Hello-enabled computers, PIV cards, etc.
Do you have statistics on the number of people who do not have smart phones but do have these other devices? I am not sure the intersection is as high as you imply.