There’s a human analog here: people do not want to hear additional details. They want you to get to the point as fast as possible. Here’sa Miss Manners articleon “Is there any polite way to encourage someone who is recounting an anecdote to you to come to the point a little faster?
To stop those, it's this exercise's policy to cast a wide net and cover borderline products, at the very least so we can formally define them as "not a messaging app." Thus, Wave makes the cut. For the record: Google Wave was email, not a messaging app. It wasn't reall...
But it was clearly a mistake on Google’s part to include that language when it shouldn’t have been there, and I should have been grateful to the people that pointed it out. Instead of getting snippy with people, my reaction should have been more along the lines of “Oh crap, I don...
As in his 2007 talk at Google, Obama then offered the same (ironically apocryphal) anecdote about Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan winning a heated debate with the line, “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” The radical difference in information...
We intend to give customers unmatched choice, quality, value and experiences that will define the future of media and communications." ••••Added Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes: "This is a great day for Time Warner and its shareholders. Combining with AT&T dramatically ...
"are doing work that is closely related to that of their predecessors" (p. 4). How could it possibly be otherwise? What needs watching, they delicately indicate, is the danger that new historicism becomes old antiquarianism, and an assumption that "a striking...