'We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs.'
I've used a lot of different applications in my life, and one of my favorites of all time (of ALL TIME) is the combination of Photoshop and ImageReady.
I understand your avowed intent, as voiced in your wish, is that a person just like me should be able to freely access these applications, regardless of what monetary device suits my needs.
In my personal case, an IOU that is to be paid by my progeny in 100 years time suits my needs perfectly. The mere fact that I elected to have a vasectomy and HAVE no progeny that I know of is incidental: there is still the possibility that I have offspring without my current knowledge.
I will take the liberty of ordering the software from your website, and understand the monetary transaction (as stipulated in your very public corporate position) is merely a formality, and this money will be returned to me forthwith.
As a man in my early forties (married and faithful to one woman since 1999), I have to say this thread is an eye opener. I never even considered that there was a fad of almost-baldness a few years ago, but female bush is making a comeback.
I guess everything DID change after 9/11!
I wonder how many successful businessmen bed younger women, thinking something like "well, I don't look or act like I'm in my fifties", without knowing (without even knowing to know) that their junk adornment is as fashionable as a Leo Sayer perm.
Within hours of its release, someone will find a way to render the identifying attributes moot. Resampling the film to a slightly slower of higher frame rate. Shaving a few pixels off the top/bottom, or the sides, of the movie and re-stretching the remaining image to fill the space. Tweaking the color saturation (and the addition of a second watermark at 1% opacity). Adding a modulating white-noise pitch above 30kHz (inaudible to us, but it changes the audio signature as surely as having a foghorn blare for two hours to a computer). Or a combination of some of the above, which doesn't detract from our perception of the film but which changes its fingerprint for analysis purposes.
Or at least: the statement about Dems not keeping out of your wallet is the actual flamebait.
This graph shows how, over the last eighty years, the Democratic Party has generated more wealth for the country than the GOP. Even if you ignore Herbert Hoover, it's not even close.
When broken down by State as shown by this graph, eighteen states pay more in Federal taxes than they receive in Federal spending. Only one is Republican (Texas), and it doesn't even hit the top 15.
The reason the Tax Foundation (a libertarian-leaning think tank) gives is that the more urban Blue states supplement the more rural red states.
This shows through to the local level too. "What is most clear is that on a per capita basis the transfer of tax dollars through the state’s fiscal system flows from rich to poorer places and from urban to rural places. This is consistent with the results by analysts from other states who examine the distribution of state government finances" were the findings from this in-depth study (page B:7, 9 of 12, PDF).
The urban Democratic areas are the ones paying out of their wallets, whether it's at the local, state or national level. If your opinion is different, then you believe in something that isn't fact-based. It really is as simple as that. The numbers don't care what your political leanings are.
Moore's Law was an observation of a trend made in 1965 that transistor counts on an integrated circuit had doubled and redoubled over a short period of time, and would continue to do so for at least another ten years (the fact that it has done so for half a century is possibly more than Moore could have hoped for). It was based on observed data that was beyond doubt.
Phlogiston Theory was not a theory in the primary definition of the word (from the Greek theria meaning observed, the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another). It was more a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or (what we now know as scientific) investigation, written as a small update to alchemy (earth, air, fire, water).
Not to start an off-topic flame war, but the two are analogous to Evolution Theory and Creationism Theory.
The Pogoplug website has a page of the latest tweets featuring their name.
The latest flood of tweets are people linking to the story. They don't seem to be linking to DeviceGuru, though. They're linking here.
If you REALLY want to tell people how bad it is, and have it display on their website, Twitter is your friend...
(just sayin')
Over a decade ago, I found that playing a demo of Midtown Madness set to simulate traffic on the 'other side' of the road helped me to drive in urban areas in other countries IRL where they do that. It's a different driving skillset, but if you're going to a country where the steering wheel is in (what you would call) the passenger seat, it helps you build confidence so you have a head start.
I agree with the full seperation of Church and State (viva Jefferson)...but this WAS from the UK. Where the national anthem is God Save The Queen, and the flag is a mashup of Patron Saint flags (cross of St. George, cross of St. Andrew, etc.)
If you want to see just how much of 'you' (and anyone else in the US) there is out there for all to see, go to Spokeo and type in your name. It got my marital status wrong and had a few gaps regarding interests. But my address was on the button and it provided the view of my house from Google StreetView. Just in case I win the lottery and someone wants to kidnap me...
us and uk pints are slightly different as well - well a different number of fluid ounces which are probably different.
It's not just that an old Imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces and the US version is only 16... the amount (if measured in the unchanging milliliters) of how much is in a fluid ounce is different too.
America uses the Imperial system, but not even the same imperial units (first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824) formerly used in the rest of the world.
It's all very confusing!
Other people have touched on it, so I will too. If you have the material in some proprietary document format, even if that format is the most popular format on the planet right now, still convert it into multiple versions of other file types.
Here's an example I had to deal with: ClarisWorks (.cwk) was the most popular computer document format before Microsoft Word introduced the.doc format, and I had a lot of docs in.cwk from my old G3 Mac. Apple stopped supporting it a year ago, so I had to save my older (AppleWorks 5 and before).cwk documents, and resave them as an RTF file for Pages before transferring them to the new iMac. I now have them saved in PDF (that can be read in Preview, Photoshop, and a multitude of PDF reading programs), OpenDocument format (.odt with NeoOffice, Mac's version os OpenOffice), HTML, Word document, and that Rich Text file.
The same could happen to.doc files in a decade or two. MS have decided to push the.docx format in newer versions of Word, so who knows when the older files will require some workaround to be accessed?
Do the same with images (RAW, JPEG, PNG-24), sound files (mp3, AIFF, WAV), whatever it takes to ensure your media won't be unreadable.
I just checked too, because I have been waiting for someone to crack that hardware and bring out a video player for my little iPod nano.
And the short answer: no.
Come ON, Apple. Bring out an update to allow us all to play video on our old hardware./stupid thing to say. They want me to buy another one.
A lot of the job-search websites give you the option to upload your resume as a.doc file.
But butchers it anyway.
The thing now is to put your resume online. Video introduction, a gallery of your work (if you're a designer). It's easy.
There are many policies that facilities will be required to have based on the new HIPAA regulations. Facilities should consider having a policy that specifies how long to retain or keep the medical records. These are known as retention periods. Many states have their own state specific law. Many hospitals and other facilities have one policy that lists all records and documents in their facility and not just medical records. According to the proposed privacy regulation, documents relating to uses and disclosures, authorization forms, business partner contracts, notices of your information practice, responses to a patient who wants to amend or correct their information, the patient's statement of disagreement, and a complaint record must be maintained for 6 years. (See 64 Fed. Reg. 59994). This is the federal statute of limitation for civil penalties. (42 CFR Part 1003). It is the amendment why hospitals and other health care providers maintain medical records as well as billing records on Medicare (Title XVIII), Medicaid (Title XIX), and Maternal and Child Health (Title V) for at least 6 years. Records must also be retained for two years after a patient's death under HIPAA. The Medicare Conditions of Participation, section 42 CFR 482.24 (b), states that all hospitals must retain medical records in their original or legally produced form for a period of 5 years.
Disclaimer: I am a document specialist for a company that itself specialized in business processes for major Part C and Part D health providers. So I know this stuff.
So having you say this is a non-story, based on you citing that records must be adequately destroyed without first stressing that those destroyed records had to be on file, and available at a moment's notice, for YEARS, is disingenuous at best.
It's a story PRECISELY because of th amount of time the records HAD to be retained.
The administration's e-mail policies have been repeatedly challenged by lawmakers and open-government groups, in congressional hearings and in court. Two groups, the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, have accused the White House in lawsuits of violating the Federal Records Act because of what they say is its failure to preserve millions of e-mails, a charge the White House rejects.
The White House's record-keeping problems have thrown new attention on a gap in statutory language covering the retention of presidential records.
"If it is a presidential record, then it does need to be retained. It doesn't matter what the format is -- e-mails can be records," said Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for the National Archives and Records Administration. But the agency has no power to intervene if an administration is not preserving presidential records, inadvertently or not, Cooper said.
The law governing nonpresidential federal records is stronger. The National Archives can demand an explanation from any federal agency that it suspects is mishandling records, and it can request a Justice Department probe. Private parties can sue to force compliance with federal records laws, but not the presidential-records statute.
So what happens if a probe is launched? Well, thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley (and the fuck up that was Enron, with BushCo's friend Kenneth Lay), Chapter 73 of USC18 (United States Code 18, Obstruction of Justice) was beefed up. Specifically Section 1505.
1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committee
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'We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs.'
I've used a lot of different applications in my life, and one of my favorites of all time (of ALL TIME) is the combination of Photoshop and ImageReady.
I understand your avowed intent, as voiced in your wish, is that a person just like me should be able to freely access these applications, regardless of what monetary device suits my needs.
In my personal case, an IOU that is to be paid by my progeny in 100 years time suits my needs perfectly. The mere fact that I elected to have a vasectomy and HAVE no progeny that I know of is incidental: there is still the possibility that I have offspring without my current knowledge.
I will take the liberty of ordering the software from your website, and understand the monetary transaction (as stipulated in your very public corporate position) is merely a formality, and this money will be returned to me forthwith.
Yours, Jackpot777.
As a man in my early forties (married and faithful to one woman since 1999), I have to say this thread is an eye opener. I never even considered that there was a fad of almost-baldness a few years ago, but female bush is making a comeback.
I guess everything DID change after 9/11!
I wonder how many successful businessmen bed younger women, thinking something like "well, I don't look or act like I'm in my fifties", without knowing (without even knowing to know) that their junk adornment is as fashionable as a Leo Sayer perm.
Thank you fellow Slashdotters!
Within hours of its release, someone will find a way to render the identifying attributes moot. Resampling the film to a slightly slower of higher frame rate. Shaving a few pixels off the top/bottom, or the sides, of the movie and re-stretching the remaining image to fill the space. Tweaking the color saturation (and the addition of a second watermark at 1% opacity). Adding a modulating white-noise pitch above 30kHz (inaudible to us, but it changes the audio signature as surely as having a foghorn blare for two hours to a computer). Or a combination of some of the above, which doesn't detract from our perception of the film but which changes its fingerprint for analysis purposes.
Or at least: the statement about Dems not keeping out of your wallet is the actual flamebait. This graph shows how, over the last eighty years, the Democratic Party has generated more wealth for the country than the GOP. Even if you ignore Herbert Hoover, it's not even close. When broken down by State as shown by this graph, eighteen states pay more in Federal taxes than they receive in Federal spending. Only one is Republican (Texas), and it doesn't even hit the top 15. The reason the Tax Foundation (a libertarian-leaning think tank) gives is that the more urban Blue states supplement the more rural red states. This shows through to the local level too. "What is most clear is that on a per capita basis the transfer of tax dollars through the state’s fiscal system flows from rich to poorer places and from urban to rural places. This is consistent with the results by analysts from other states who examine the distribution of state government finances" were the findings from this in-depth study (page B:7, 9 of 12, PDF). The urban Democratic areas are the ones paying out of their wallets, whether it's at the local, state or national level. If your opinion is different, then you believe in something that isn't fact-based. It really is as simple as that. The numbers don't care what your political leanings are.
...and it ran out in the mid 1970s (it was a ten year prediction made in 1965).
Moore's Law was an observation of a trend made in 1965 that transistor counts on an integrated circuit had doubled and redoubled over a short period of time, and would continue to do so for at least another ten years (the fact that it has done so for half a century is possibly more than Moore could have hoped for). It was based on observed data that was beyond doubt. Phlogiston Theory was not a theory in the primary definition of the word (from the Greek theria meaning observed, the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another). It was more a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or (what we now know as scientific) investigation, written as a small update to alchemy (earth, air, fire, water). Not to start an off-topic flame war, but the two are analogous to Evolution Theory and Creationism Theory.
The Pogoplug website has a page of the latest tweets featuring their name. The latest flood of tweets are people linking to the story. They don't seem to be linking to DeviceGuru, though. They're linking here. If you REALLY want to tell people how bad it is, and have it display on their website, Twitter is your friend... (just sayin')
Over a decade ago, I found that playing a demo of Midtown Madness set to simulate traffic on the 'other side' of the road helped me to drive in urban areas in other countries IRL where they do that. It's a different driving skillset, but if you're going to a country where the steering wheel is in (what you would call) the passenger seat, it helps you build confidence so you have a head start.
I get it. I get jokes.
I get jokes.
The what what sleeping bag? C'mon, this is slashdot. Kick it up a notch and Google it if you don't know it! /taunaun
I agree with the full seperation of Church and State (viva Jefferson) ...but this WAS from the UK. Where the national anthem is God Save The Queen, and the flag is a mashup of Patron Saint flags (cross of St. George, cross of St. Andrew, etc.)
My phone number is unlisted. Has been all my life. I'm not in the phonebook, and I never have been. I'll let that sink in.
If you want to see just how much of 'you' (and anyone else in the US) there is out there for all to see, go to Spokeo and type in your name. It got my marital status wrong and had a few gaps regarding interests. But my address was on the button and it provided the view of my house from Google StreetView. Just in case I win the lottery and someone wants to kidnap me...
How many of the current apps will need updates because the programmers forgot the simplest of lines of code... close(); ...?
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
us and uk pints are slightly different as well - well a different number of fluid ounces which are probably different.
It's not just that an old Imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces and the US version is only 16... the amount (if measured in the unchanging milliliters) of how much is in a fluid ounce is different too. America uses the Imperial system, but not even the same imperial units (first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824) formerly used in the rest of the world. It's all very confusing!
You, sir, receive one free internet.
Other people have touched on it, so I will too. If you have the material in some proprietary document format, even if that format is the most popular format on the planet right now, still convert it into multiple versions of other file types. Here's an example I had to deal with: ClarisWorks (.cwk) was the most popular computer document format before Microsoft Word introduced the .doc format, and I had a lot of docs in .cwk from my old G3 Mac. Apple stopped supporting it a year ago, so I had to save my older (AppleWorks 5 and before) .cwk documents, and resave them as an RTF file for Pages before transferring them to the new iMac. I now have them saved in PDF (that can be read in Preview, Photoshop, and a multitude of PDF reading programs), OpenDocument format (.odt with NeoOffice, Mac's version os OpenOffice), HTML, Word document, and that Rich Text file.
The same could happen to .doc files in a decade or two. MS have decided to push the .docx format in newer versions of Word, so who knows when the older files will require some workaround to be accessed?
Do the same with images (RAW, JPEG, PNG-24), sound files (mp3, AIFF, WAV), whatever it takes to ensure your media won't be unreadable.
This doesn't look the least bit like Lucy Liu. And this is /. ...there's SUPPOSED to be a reference to Sarah Connor, surely.
Funny post is funny!
I just checked too, because I have been waiting for someone to crack that hardware and bring out a video player for my little iPod nano. And the short answer: no. Come ON, Apple. Bring out an update to allow us all to play video on our old hardware. /stupid thing to say. They want me to buy another one.
Or in sync. /ducks
A lot of the job-search websites give you the option to upload your resume as a .doc file.
But butchers it anyway.
The thing now is to put your resume online. Video introduction, a gallery of your work (if you're a designer). It's easy.
http://www.hipaadvisory.com/regs/recordretention.htm
Disclaimer: I am a document specialist for a company that itself specialized in business processes for major Part C and Part D health providers. So I know this stuff.
So having you say this is a non-story, based on you citing that records must be adequately destroyed without first stressing that those destroyed records had to be on file, and available at a moment's notice, for YEARS, is disingenuous at best.
It's a story PRECISELY because of th amount of time the records HAD to be retained.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012102070_pf.html
So what happens if a probe is launched? Well, thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley (and the fuck up that was Enron, with BushCo's friend Kenneth Lay), Chapter 73 of USC18 (United States Code 18, Obstruction of Justice) was beefed up. Specifically Section 1505.
1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committee