Kick ass flow chart of the arrest process.

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Neat multi-touchscreen user interfaces

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You should read the actual patent application for more and scarier examples. It's only a few pages long anyway. It looks like Microsoft wants users to pay separately for every basic OS functionality that they use through some sort of web shop, much the same way that antiquated mainframes used to be licensed out but with the added pixie-dust of “…through the internet”. It will actively throttle down functionality that it is capable of, but which has not been payed for. Or it will “restrict unauthorized operating system extensions from being installed that may support unauthorized hardware and/or software”. So not only do you have to pay for new hardware, you have to pay again in order to use it to it's full capacity. And you can bet that the hardware makers will have to pay Microsoft as well to be included in their web shop.

A dystopian future - looking beyond Windows Vista

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The Internet and related technologies are having a profound effect on social, economic and political institutions and processes worldwide -and this effect has consequences for democracies and democratic development. Examples abound of uses of the Internet in the democratic context from assisting in overthrowing or circumventing autocratic regimes to promoting advocacy, government transparency, and accountability in existing or emerging democracies. Citizens, politicians, civil servants, civil and non-governmental organizations, companies, institutions of all types, and large state and private sector bureaucracies are employing technologies and the Internet to communicate, provide and access information, and become more efficient-often resulting in enhanced and strengthened democratic processes and more effective governance. Strengthening and encouraging the use of such technologies in democratic development has thus become an imperative spanning a broad range programming areas for NDI.

In fact, everywhere that NDI works democracy practitioners and activists are using new technologies to improve their access to information across borders and issue areas, enhancing their efficiency and effectiveness by deploying a range of computer and ICT-related systems that support their work.

Increasingly, in response to the needs and requests of our partners NDI has been implementing programs with information and communications technology (ICT) components that support our programs, target democratic institutions and/or support democrats in general. In 2001 NDI created a new division within the Institute that formally incorporated ICTs as a tool for NDI's democracy programming.

Examples of the types of ICT programs that NDI typically conducts in emerging democratic countries include developing legislative tracking systems and interactive websites for parliaments or NGO partners, creating Internet-connected parliament research and training centers, providing IT strategic planning and infrastructure rollout assistance to partner institutions, building databases to support election observation missions and forecast election results, and constructing general network and communications systems in the local government, legislative and civil society areas. NDI has also conducted a range of programs with ICT components including web-based collaborative networks and on-line databases of democratic development material such as NDI's Access Democracy database.

NDI - National Democratic Institute

Below are images of the first prototype for an actual end-user application I ever built.

When I founded my company, it was to make process flow software for attorneys. The product was called Hammurabi (and no, the Hammurabic code was not exceedingly complex compared to other law at the time, in fact it was a great simplification and clarification). The idea being that there is a limited amount of variation among most cases of the same type. The simplest example we used when the product was conceived was an eviction. There is a very deterministic set of things that happen in Georgia for an eviction to occur. We mapped them on a napkin.

The idea here was to provide a collaborative process flow for each type of case, in which the state of each case was defined in a map. Every stakeholder can monitor the progress of the case at all times, even clients. Once you initialized a case map for a new case, the maps automatically included template documents and forms for the next step in the case at each node, and could be modified to account for variations between cases. Each node in the map contained notes, documents (evidence, briefs, motions, etc.). MS Word is embedded in the UI, the documents are arranged the way attorneys think, the system tracks the work state and progress on each document, and times you as you work, so that we could take the guess work (fudging) out of legal billing.

The diamonds with ?'s in them are decision points, and clicking on them pulls up expert legal advice on what to do, etc. Again, editable. The nodes change color to indicate completion as you navigate the case map and approach resolution, which is indicated (if I remember correctly) by an emboldened outline to a node. The system was also to manage deadlines, contacts, calls, etc. Way too ambitious for a startup (me) without a track record, because it would have taken alot of people to get built. I also had no clue about writing a business plan at the time, so there was no way anyone would give me any money.

The system was supposed to make legal work more efficient, so that you could handle more clients and charge less. Whats more, billing would be more annotated, because what documents and phases of the case were worked on would be automatically in the bill. In retrospect, some unrealistic idealism was going on there.

There are several reasons the system would make lawyers more efficient. The first is that it takes time to recollect what state a particular case is in, because one attorney often handles dozens of cases, and even more that are dormant (and these would take even longer to remember). Whats more, one attorney is not the only person working on any given case. The state map and annotations allow each person working on the case to keep up to date with its progress, even if they haven't thought about it for weeks, months, years. The map presents a user with the most important thing to know: what to do next. ... [ Read More (0.6k in body) ]

Process Flow Software for Attorneys: Hammurabi

I got tired of coding, so I went for a walk at 1:30AM. It was about -8F, and snot froze in my beard. But its so quiet here at night. Straight out of the old west...

If you are in the colorado springs area and like slots, and low limit blackjack and poker (big bet is $5), then I highly suggest a visit. I would really like to take the gold mine tours, but they are not open in winter. Cripple Creek is about 50 miles into the rockies from Colorado Springs, is at 9494 feet, and generally kicks ass.

Cripple Creek, Colorado, at 1:30AM on My Birthday, Feb 1, 2007

from: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osbornekevin

Summary

- Turns up late, most every day. Programming engine doesn't really
kick in 'til midafternoon, and up until then will happily browse RSS
feeds, write personal emails, and fantasize about peforming sordid sex
acts while staring out the window.
- When finally getting around to tapping something useful out on the
keyboard, will produce code that is often enough of a particularly
poor quality. The insufferable banality of domain-specific business
logic drives the extrusion of nothing other than fetid little stools
of code, like a mangy cat with a bent tail and gammy leg squatting and
mewling as its little programming-porticullis lets loose with yet
another poorly formed explusion.
- Soon enough will be back to circumventing the internet filter and
logging on to home linux boxen to manage bittorrent downloads and
perform housekeeping tasks (a.k.a filing freshly downloaded porn by
size and colour of sexual extremity and number of partners involved).
- Managers will find the candidate to be just as much an insufferable
prig as any other engineer, believing that anyone not coding full-time
is semi-imbecilic and finding your needs for 'on-time' and 'on-budget'
to be the plaintive whinings of a corporate shill who sold out to the
man long ago.
- When entering into salary and performance reviews passive-agressive
neuroticism will only be matched by overinflated sense of self-worth
and entitlement. Will be miffed if renumeration extortions are not
ridiculous enough and leave in the middle of a late project to swan
off to yet another deluded firm who have no idea that any engineer
worth their salt can swan by hacking 100 minutes of mangled
obfuscation a week while still billing 40 hours plus overtime.

Specialties:
Skiving, Bilking, Surfing, Bludging. Watercooler Etiquette. Nose
Picking, Masturbation on the Premises, Intermittent Bathing. Stealing
Stationery and Peripherals, Posting the entire IP Codebase on
Sourceforge.

hahahaha!

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