She keeps sending the two parties away with instruction to try to figure something out, away from courtroom antics. They keep coming back like angry children, ready to fight it out. I'm not surprised that she's fed up with it all.
Personally, I'm hoping that Apple gets a nasty slap in the face.
Best I can figure, the old "knowledge" vs "understanding" is just a discussion of completeness. We like to think there's some kind of magic between the two, but I don't think there is.
Eh. Flash has gotten (at least) its fair share of hate over the last few years. They fought that marketing battle and lost. Badly.
So if people are actively getting away from it anyway, they might as well pull that boat anchor up now while they can and redirect their resources at something more profitable. Keep a skeleton crew on to maintain what's already deployed on mobile devices, and move the rest over to something else.
I'm sure they've run the numbers and have some idea what they're doing. Flash on mobile is too high profile to have made the decision lightly.
Facebook doesn't make people stupid so much as us stupid people like using it. Subtle difference. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go windex my window screens.
It was a TV show, approximately 283 years ago iirc, where Ashton Kutcher would have something awful/irritating happen to another famous person and secretly record them.
His internet connection going down only really matters for POS, which you wouldn't use the Quickbooks Online for. That's done with Aloha, Micros, or whichever other POS option he chooses. Most of those systems will store the transaction for later reconciliation when the connection is available, and have secondary communications options (dial-up and such).
Quickbooks is for your accounting. You use it to enter your cash receipts, expenses, etc. after all that is done. 100% internet connectivity isn't critical there.
I know the use of cloud services flies like a lead balloon around here, but if you're considering windows in a VM to run quickbooks, he should know that QuickBooks is available as an online service now.
Obviously security should be a concern here. However, it's worth noting that Intuit has been handling online tax prep and various data from standalone QuickBooks over the internet for a good long time. It's probably at least as safe as storing a local DB in a Dropbox folder, anyway. So that's an option if you're comfortable with the idea.
I'd have gone with north and south-going Zax, who find one another in the way, and refuse to make even a half-step aside to pass each other and continue on their path.
So they're stuck there. Forever immovable, unable to do what they meant to. The rest of the world moves on. Seasons change, cities are built around them, and still they refuse to compromise, even for mutual advantage.
I'm not sure what the DC one did, but the one in Chicago just got rid of the handgun ban. Chicago and Cook County still have very strict gun ban codes that make AR's illegal unless your local municipality has specifically preempted the county "Assault Weapon Ban". Other rifles are illegal too, and it doesn't have much to do with how they operate. Weird criteria like, "Hand guard that goes around the barrel" and "designed to look like a military rifle" get passed out on a sheet by FFL's when you buy a lower receiver in a nearby county, as a warning.
The joke of all this is that nobody can tell you, universally, what an assault weapon is. It used to have a strict ATF definition, but now it's just a scary political phrase that changes to suit whatever legislation someone is trying to pass.
I had a lame True BASIC course, which I just skipped until the final week. The prof was nice enough to let me just turn in all the coursework and pass the final. I thought that was cool. True Basic, not so much.
I'm plowing through the python course on Udacity now, despite being pretty comfortable in python. You never know what you've been missing, and it's really well done. Working on a useful project over the whole course is good. Working at your own pace is even better. Oh, and I enjoy the little cameos by Sergey Brin.
Interesting that comScore says they lost uniques while their quarterly report to US financial regulators says:
"Monthly active users climbed 29% from a year ago at 955 million and daily active users rose 32% to 552 million. Mobile monthly active users were 543 million, up 67%."
There's more in the report broken down by quarters, but I'd say there's a disconnect in there somewhere.
I'm not sure your (or my) Facebook use is entirely typical. At least their last two quarterly reports suggest that they're still increasing monthly active users by the truckload. That's not just new sign-ups. So overvalued? At like a 115 P/E, absolutely, unless they can find a good way to start making real money in mobile. I don't see the whole service falling off the MySpace cliff of irrelevance any time soon, though.
Instagram I never really understood. I suppose facebook could use it to boost their oft-maligned mobile app and roll the addicted users into the fold. Maybe. I don't know if it could pay off to the tune of a billion dollars though. At least it puts all that content inside their gates, for whatever that's worth.
I'm not the gp, but I'm wondering what kind of deal Starbucks got on the rates. They certainly wouldn't settle for the pricing on the cover.
I do like the SB mobile payment app. I don't do well with keeping individual loyalty cards handy and loaded, but I've always got my phone on me. Did Square always have an API so they can continue to process with them, using their existing point of sale hardware?
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Zynga isn't doing so well lately, either.
Uh, you wanna rethink that? ;)
Yeah, this other one from today was way awesomer.
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/17/arduino-controlled-shark-detection-system/
Exactly what I thought. Dumb rules to placate dumb people.
Just curious, is Italy taxing gas to pay for healthcare, or did you mean our federal fuel subsidies could otherwise pay for healthcare?
She keeps sending the two parties away with instruction to try to figure something out, away from courtroom antics. They keep coming back like angry children, ready to fight it out. I'm not surprised that she's fed up with it all.
Personally, I'm hoping that Apple gets a nasty slap in the face.
Best I can figure, the old "knowledge" vs "understanding" is just a discussion of completeness. We like to think there's some kind of magic between the two, but I don't think there is.
Bieber and Klout. Double whammy.
http://xkcd.com/1057/
Oh c'mon now, there are so many better reasons to want to punch people over the innerwebs than really bad wordplay.
At best, it's a blip on their radar. I don't think ripples in the market will be very big. ;)
Eh. Flash has gotten (at least) its fair share of hate over the last few years. They fought that marketing battle and lost. Badly.
So if people are actively getting away from it anyway, they might as well pull that boat anchor up now while they can and redirect their resources at something more profitable. Keep a skeleton crew on to maintain what's already deployed on mobile devices, and move the rest over to something else.
I'm sure they've run the numbers and have some idea what they're doing. Flash on mobile is too high profile to have made the decision lightly.
Facebook doesn't make people stupid so much as us stupid people like using it. Subtle difference. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go windex my window screens.
It was a TV show, approximately 283 years ago iirc, where Ashton Kutcher would have something awful/irritating happen to another famous person and secretly record them.
I always assumed that CubeSats and TubeSats would just fall and burn up since they don't have propulsion to keep them up and moving.
IOS says cubesats will fall and burn up after several weeks. http://interorbital.com/CubeSat_1.htm
Though I suppose they could be ejected at greater distances.
His internet connection going down only really matters for POS, which you wouldn't use the Quickbooks Online for. That's done with Aloha, Micros, or whichever other POS option he chooses. Most of those systems will store the transaction for later reconciliation when the connection is available, and have secondary communications options (dial-up and such).
Quickbooks is for your accounting. You use it to enter your cash receipts, expenses, etc. after all that is done. 100% internet connectivity isn't critical there.
(I work for two places with restaurants and bars)
I know the use of cloud services flies like a lead balloon around here, but if you're considering windows in a VM to run quickbooks, he should know that QuickBooks is available as an online service now.
Obviously security should be a concern here. However, it's worth noting that Intuit has been handling online tax prep and various data from standalone QuickBooks over the internet for a good long time. It's probably at least as safe as storing a local DB in a Dropbox folder, anyway. So that's an option if you're comfortable with the idea.
I'd have gone with north and south-going Zax, who find one another in the way, and refuse to make even a half-step aside to pass each other and continue on their path.
So they're stuck there. Forever immovable, unable to do what they meant to. The rest of the world moves on. Seasons change, cities are built around them, and still they refuse to compromise, even for mutual advantage.
I know a few Zax.
The worst one I had was the question, "What did you want to be when you grow up?"
I had to answer that over the phone recently, and the representative responded with something like, "Oh that would be really cool."
I spent the next 20 minutes feeling a bit depressed about my career path. ;)
I'm not sure what the DC one did, but the one in Chicago just got rid of the handgun ban. Chicago and Cook County still have very strict gun ban codes that make AR's illegal unless your local municipality has specifically preempted the county "Assault Weapon Ban". Other rifles are illegal too, and it doesn't have much to do with how they operate. Weird criteria like, "Hand guard that goes around the barrel" and "designed to look like a military rifle" get passed out on a sheet by FFL's when you buy a lower receiver in a nearby county, as a warning.
The joke of all this is that nobody can tell you, universally, what an assault weapon is. It used to have a strict ATF definition, but now it's just a scary political phrase that changes to suit whatever legislation someone is trying to pass.
I had a lame True BASIC course, which I just skipped until the final week. The prof was nice enough to let me just turn in all the coursework and pass the final. I thought that was cool. True Basic, not so much.
I'm plowing through the python course on Udacity now, despite being pretty comfortable in python. You never know what you've been missing, and it's really well done. Working on a useful project over the whole course is good. Working at your own pace is even better. Oh, and I enjoy the little cameos by Sergey Brin.
Interesting that comScore says they lost uniques while their quarterly report to US financial regulators says:
"Monthly active users climbed 29% from a year ago at 955 million and daily active users rose 32% to 552 million. Mobile monthly active users were 543 million, up 67%."
There's more in the report broken down by quarters, but I'd say there's a disconnect in there somewhere.
I'm not sure your (or my) Facebook use is entirely typical. At least their last two quarterly reports suggest that they're still increasing monthly active users by the truckload. That's not just new sign-ups. So overvalued? At like a 115 P/E, absolutely, unless they can find a good way to start making real money in mobile. I don't see the whole service falling off the MySpace cliff of irrelevance any time soon, though.
Instagram I never really understood. I suppose facebook could use it to boost their oft-maligned mobile app and roll the addicted users into the fold. Maybe. I don't know if it could pay off to the tune of a billion dollars though. At least it puts all that content inside their gates, for whatever that's worth.
I'm not the gp, but I'm wondering what kind of deal Starbucks got on the rates. They certainly wouldn't settle for the pricing on the cover.
I do like the SB mobile payment app. I don't do well with keeping individual loyalty cards handy and loaded, but I've always got my phone on me. Did Square always have an API so they can continue to process with them, using their existing point of sale hardware?
Nested parens? Are we allowed to do that?!
I bet sending all your buyers to jail would totally jack-up your seller rating.