Xerox might have something to say about that. Considering they were widely regarded as having the first Graphical UI. And some of the first Mac team came from Xerox. Who knows what would have happened if Xerox moved forward with it.

Seems to counter itself with a statement like: "Parents still report feeling a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives than those who've never had kids."

Obviously if one equates happiness to lower amounts of worries and responsibilities than sure.. But that seems kind of.... superficial?

Note: I am not in anyway saying that those who choose to not have kids are superficial, it is their choice -- just as it was mine to have a kid.

This isn't meant to be sarcastic or condescending, but isn't programming at it's fundamentals math and logic? Those are taught early on.

I mean, I worked with Logo in 6th grade. So I'm really not sure what else you would teach that is different.

I'd certainly like to think I'm an ethical developer, and I always implement the delete as a flag.

I, however, do not implement an easy way to retrieve deleted data without going into the database or through an administrative interface with heavy auditing.

It isn't just about data mining for customer data -- it's about data mining for site usage and user activity. Using metrics off of visited web pages or tracking that way can be too convoluted when the KISS method is: flag it on the data side and you can interpret flow.

I like the concept, but there needs to be some validation check (I clicked on Preview Map without entering any details and got a "NOT FOUND" message in a popup -- using chrome).

I didn't want to register, just wanted to see what you were doing, but how are you creating the URL to pass around? Are you having an "owner" of the group? How do you plan on doing a search?

I'd be interested in helping out (evanos at yahoo).

Good luck!

Thx, I'll fix that. You can fill out the form and click preview without saving anything. This just shows you the route we think you take to the office.

The person who creates the group is the admin. Once you (the admin) create the group you will get a link via e-mail that you can send around the office, so that you co-workers can join. I should really make that clear to people. It is funny how I developed the app but need outside eyes to tell me things like this.. I'll get both those things fixed.

The question is: Why doesn't Yelp have a flag for someone whom is posting a significant number of negative replies and one positive reply for the same business category?

Would make me question whether or not the owner of the business receiving a positive reply is trying to game Yelp's system.

This can be taken to an extreme.

How many corporations make/made printing presses? How many corps make/made network devices, monitors, keyboards, mice, smartphones.

You can go third to fourth order all day long and you'll end up with the same statement:

The only thing that is constant is change. People have to be willing to change and willing to learn or they will be left behind.

And a counter argument could be that given time, HP could have done something productive with WebOS -- the TouchPad, Pre, etc.

WebOS was/is thought by many to be the best mobile OS without a company big enough to push it. HP could have been that company. Especially with the PC business providing some buffer for profit loss while issues with the other hardware were worked out.

Serious question, not meant to infer anything --

but if you used a centralized server for your blog, wouldn't the date/time stamp of that server provide the same information as a mail server would?

In other words: wouldn't that file/database entry timestamp (ie: wordpress' time -- just an example/name of a blog not necessarily available at that time) serve the same purpose?

Yes — but if an evil person were running a blog like that, they could write posts about other people's inventions and put fake old dates on them. They could also fake the timestamps added by their mail server, but not the timestamps added by the mail servers of their subscribers. So the timestamp wouldn't have as much legal weight.

I have a hard time with the WebOS failed to get a foothold under two separate companies.

HP never really tried. $1.2B and then trashing it so quickly? That's not trying.

This was a perfect opportunity to take the time and do it right. A company that was/is good with hardware, now has a great mobile OS. It had some time to take the loss financially with success of other areas (laptops, enterprise software, etc).