COBOL had one language construct that I really liked, 'Move Corresponding.' Much of the work COBOL did centered around data record structures. The 'Move Corresponding' statement allowed you to move all the fields from one record to another whose names matched.
No matter the order, just shovel the coal. Quite useful in its day.
Its not the ear high end sound is needed for, but the ears. The ear is not very good at differentiating between sounds, but the ears do an amaizing job of positioning sounds.
I love high quality sound reproduction where you can see the details in a soundscape with your eyes closed.
11. Because this is the most important election of our lifetime, (unlike, say, 1996, which was, like, totally lame. Why did they even have an election then?) 10. To shut up all those "If you didn't vote then you can't complain" people. 9. Because if you don't vote, the terrorists win (unless you were going to vote for the terrorists, in which case they win anyway). 8. Because people in Iraq braved violence and long lines to vote for their ineffectual government, you don't have to brave either to vote for yours. 7. Because this year Al Franken will literally beat the shit out of you if you're not wearing an "I Voted" sticker. 6. You would like a different politician lying to you for the next two/four/six years. 5. You want your voice to be heard, and the old woman down at the polling station can't leave her post so she'll have to listen. 4. You like to stand in line and pretend you're waiting for a Wii or Playstation III. 3. Perfect opportunity to check if your e-vote hack is in place. 2. Because you're tired of all the Republican scandals and abuses of power, and would like more Democratic scandals and abuses of power. 1. To relive those test taking days in college when you just filled in the circles randomly hoping to get some right.
From Warren Ellis's BAD SIGNAL mailing list: "Karl Rove is not Aleister Crowley, Severus Snape, Darth Vader or Satan. You can kill him by ensuring your vote is counted and being vigilant at your polling station."
In any election I've been to, and I've been to lots, there has been many items to vote on. Often way too many.
You don't have to vote on them all. But it is your DUTY as a citizen to do a bit of homework and make your voice heard.
Remember, the vote is a poll. Your one vote is counted and helps determine the results of the poll. It makes NO difference if your vote swings an election. The importance of your participation is to ensure that the poll is valid. You can't poll the will of the people if the people are unwilling to make their opinions known.
Back in the early 70s I worked for Burroughs supporting their largest mainframes. Burroughs later merged with Sperry to form Unisys. We had an account manager who needed to get the attention of the executives in charge of all the regional IBM systems. In those days the safe choice was IBM, but the other smaller vendors each had much better products. They simply couldn't exist in that environment If they weren't superior to IBM. it was well known that "no one got fired for choosing IBM." So, one day he sent each of these executives a baby pacifier to remind them of the security blanket they were hiding behind.
I remember back in the pre OS X days, at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference, they put some CDs in our tote bags with Macintosh viruses. They discovered it after we got the bags, but the first day. All the sessions started with a big slide warning about the bad CDs.
Even worse, I once worked for a company that sent out a press release with a Microsoft Word virus. Sending a virus in a press release not good marketing.
The problem with Diebold code isn't with eternal crackers, it's with Diebold itself. Everyone knows what a mess Microsoft's made of OS's with viruses and spyware. But nobody suspects Microsoft of installing keytrackers to steal your passwords to rip off your finances.
Diebold, on the other hand, has said they want to deliver votes to the Republicans. The only thing I fear about the possibility of electronic voting code exploits is from the venders, themselves.
The Bush administration is considering moving from Fahrenheit to Celsius. This could reduce a 4 degree long term increase in mean temperature to merely 2.5 degrees.
This would be included with the proposal to move to the Imperial Gallon to achieve as much as a 20% increase in gas mileage.
The last 10% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 1% of a project takes 99% of the time. The last 0.1% of a project takes 99.9% of the time....
I've had no problem with iTunes memory and my collection is 25k+ with album art on 90%+ of the files. It's fast and easy. Smart playlists carve things up any way I've wanted. And, explicit playlists handle the all explicit lists that I might want.
My favorite smart playlist is everything less than a minute, played from short to long. Try it for fun...
A typical family accumulates books, magazines, videos, and memorabilia faster than a speeding minivan. But you don't have to know the Dewey decimal system to get these materials in order. Borrow ideas from the following cataloged collections. The goods are stowed with efficiency and decoration in mind.
Family photos, journals, scrapbooks, and mementos are stashed neatly behind attractive neutral facades. Corral items of various sizes in corrugated cardboard and cream or beige decorative paper covers, giving the assortment a cohesive look. Choose vessels with similar colors, and stay consistent even if it means covering some containers yourself. A soft chair and small desk nearby makes sorting and labeling a welcome chore.
Bring your cookbooks and recipe cards with you from one food prep area to another on a handy rolling cart. A tall bottom shelf holds any size tome, and a short shelf puts oft-used recipe cards within reach. Wrought-iron braces on the sides and back of the shelves keep items from falling off. Look for a cart with a top surface at convenient waist height to make reading recipes easy. Then add a portable cookbook holder. Keep your recipe cards together and stored in good-looking galvanized tins and lunch boxes. Tucked on the upper shelf, they're a shiny counterpoint to the darkly stained wicker.
Give your bookshelves a makeover to conceal any ratty-cover paperbacks, anti bring beautiful hardcover books front and center. Start by pulling all the books off the shelves and grouping them by color and cover type. Tuck the paperbacks into square baskets and stack some books on the shelves. Then, fill in with hardcover books, sorted by color. Too many dark books will create a black hole on your shelves, so break up the pattern with lighter ones.
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COBOL had one language construct that I really liked, 'Move Corresponding.' Much of the work COBOL did centered around data record structures. The 'Move Corresponding' statement allowed you to move all the fields from one record to another whose names matched.
No matter the order, just shovel the coal. Quite useful in its day.
Its not the ear high end sound is needed for, but the ears. The ear is not very good at differentiating between sounds, but the ears do an amaizing job of positioning sounds.
I love high quality sound reproduction where you can see the details in a soundscape with your eyes closed.
And, please, please, please, make him the Republican candidate.
Simple(ton) Economics:
Lets say they lose $50 per Zune, then the less they sell, the more they don't lose.
11. Because this is the most important election of our lifetime, (unlike, say, 1996, which was, like, totally lame. Why did they even have an election then?)
10. To shut up all those "If you didn't vote then you can't complain" people.
9. Because if you don't vote, the terrorists win (unless you were going to vote for the terrorists, in which case they win anyway).
8. Because people in Iraq braved violence and long lines to vote for their ineffectual government, you don't have to brave either to vote for yours.
7. Because this year Al Franken will literally beat the shit out of you if you're not wearing an "I Voted" sticker.
6. You would like a different politician lying to you for the next two/four/six years.
5. You want your voice to be heard, and the old woman down at the polling station can't leave her post so she'll have to listen.
4. You like to stand in line and pretend you're waiting for a Wii or Playstation III.
3. Perfect opportunity to check if your e-vote hack is in place.
2. Because you're tired of all the Republican scandals and abuses of power, and would like more Democratic scandals and abuses of power.
1. To relive those test taking days in college when you just filled in the circles randomly hoping to get some right.
From Warren Ellis's BAD SIGNAL mailing list: "Karl Rove is not Aleister Crowley, Severus Snape, Darth Vader or Satan. You can kill him by ensuring your vote is counted and being vigilant at your polling station."
In any election I've been to, and I've been to lots, there has been many items to vote on. Often way too many.
You don't have to vote on them all. But it is your DUTY as a citizen to do a bit of homework and make your voice heard.
Remember, the vote is a poll. Your one vote is counted and helps determine the results of the poll. It makes NO difference if your vote swings an election. The importance of your participation is to ensure that the poll is valid. You can't poll the will of the people if the people are unwilling to make their opinions known.
Back in the early 70s I worked for Burroughs supporting their largest mainframes. Burroughs later merged with Sperry to form Unisys. We had an account manager who needed to get the attention of the executives in charge of all the regional IBM systems. In those days the safe choice was IBM, but the other smaller vendors each had much better products. They simply couldn't exist in that environment If they weren't superior to IBM. it was well known that "no one got fired for choosing IBM." So, one day he sent each of these executives a baby pacifier to remind them of the security blanket they were hiding behind.
..would be a copyright free $100 bill.
I remember back in the pre OS X days, at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference, they put some CDs in our tote bags with Macintosh viruses. They discovered it after we got the bags, but the first day. All the sessions started with a big slide warning about the bad CDs.
Even worse, I once worked for a company that sent out a press release with a Microsoft Word virus. Sending a virus in a press release not good marketing.
The problem with Diebold code isn't with eternal crackers, it's with Diebold itself. Everyone knows what a mess Microsoft's made of OS's with viruses and spyware. But nobody suspects Microsoft of installing keytrackers to steal your passwords to rip off your finances.
Diebold, on the other hand, has said they want to deliver votes to the Republicans. The only thing I fear about the possibility of electronic voting code exploits is from the venders, themselves.
"iwantmynamenow.com" is only one OpenID service. A better place to start is at the OpenID wiki.
Here it is:
http://www.lifewiki.net/openid/OpenIDServers
works for Apple. So gets a very honorable mention, because employees are exempt from the list.
The Bush administration is considering moving from Fahrenheit to Celsius. This could reduce a 4 degree long term increase in mean temperature to merely 2.5 degrees.
This would be included with the proposal to move to the Imperial Gallon to achieve as much as a 20% increase in gas mileage.
The best we found in the 60s were music majors.
starts with this:
Was sich überhaupt sagen läßt, läßt sich
klar sagen; und wovon man nicht reden
kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The last 10% of a project takes 90% of the time. ...
The last 1% of a project takes 99% of the time.
The last 0.1% of a project takes 99.9% of the time.
So, at some point you just ship it.
I've had no problem with iTunes memory and my collection is 25k+ with album art on 90%+ of the files. It's fast and easy. Smart playlists carve things up any way I've wanted. And, explicit playlists handle the all explicit lists that I might want.
My favorite smart playlist is everything less than a minute, played from short to long. Try it for fun...
Good, at least the standards will now need to be open standards.
Any program is guaranteed eventually to halt on Windows!
Back in the day, when Apple was one bad day from becoming a memory, MacWorld had a glowing-postive view of the future.
They were right. Just look at where Apple is today.
I bought Apple stock back then and now with super gains all my future Macs are already paid for.
Here is one link:_ color/p1010010.html
http://urbanist.typepad.com/photos/41114_books_by
And another:
http://flickr.com/photos/vsgoliath/54335788/
According to Better Homes and Gardens:
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A typical family accumulates books, magazines, videos, and memorabilia faster than a speeding minivan. But you don't have to know the Dewey decimal system to get these materials in order. Borrow ideas from the following cataloged collections. The goods are stowed with efficiency and decoration in mind.
Family photos, journals, scrapbooks, and mementos are stashed neatly behind attractive neutral facades. Corral items of various sizes in corrugated cardboard and cream or beige decorative paper covers, giving the assortment a cohesive look. Choose vessels with similar colors, and stay consistent even if it means covering some containers yourself. A soft chair and small desk nearby makes sorting and labeling a welcome chore.
Bring your cookbooks and recipe cards with you from one food prep area to another on a handy rolling cart. A tall bottom shelf holds any size tome, and a short shelf puts oft-used recipe cards within reach. Wrought-iron braces on the sides and back of the shelves keep items from falling off. Look for a cart with a top surface at convenient waist height to make reading recipes easy. Then add a portable cookbook holder. Keep your recipe cards together and stored in good-looking galvanized tins and lunch boxes. Tucked on the upper shelf, they're a shiny counterpoint to the darkly stained wicker.
Give your bookshelves a makeover to conceal any ratty-cover paperbacks, anti bring beautiful hardcover books front and center. Start by pulling all the books off the shelves and grouping them by color and cover type. Tuck the paperbacks into square baskets and stack some books on the shelves. Then, fill in with hardcover books, sorted by color. Too many dark books will create a black hole on your shelves, so break up the pattern with lighter ones.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1041/i
It's a great cross platform library for iBook, PowerBook, MacBook, iMac, the mini, Power Mac, and every other significant system I can think of.