They're not asking gender and salary information for purposes of ad targeting; they're simply doing this for demographic. Being able to tell your advertisers that your core audience is males age 30-35 making an average of $135k/year is a big deal to publishers. It means they can draw in advertisers specific to their audience they can make more money.
Credit cards are extremely useful in the hands of the financially disciplined. For example, all cards (not necessarily credit cards) I use for financial transactions have a reward system. I either get miles or some sort of gift certificate or cash back. The percentage I maintain for the reward system is 1%.
There are some cards out there that are progressive in their reward systems; your reward percentage is more depending on how much you charge.
Now, this is where the financial discipline comes in. If you pay off the balance at the end of the billing period, you incur no interest charges. That means if you pay off your balance you automatically get 1% discount off of everything you charge. You're only limited by the credit limits you have. So car repair? 1% off if I charge it. Car insurance? 1% off if I charge it. Roughly every year or so I get about $200 in gift certificates from some sort of my choice in a selection (I shop from those stores anyway) for blowing $20k in the year on stuff I pay for anyway. I'm just waiting for the day when I can pay my mortgage payments with my card. It's very important that you pay your balance off every month. You get all the perks (car rental insurance, rewards, etc.) without the hassles (interests). So there's a compelling reason to get a credit card even if you don't need the it provided you have the discipline.
But credit cards is just the tip of the ice berg. The authorization system from the merchant's point of view is the same for debit cards as well as credit cards. So once the infrastructure is in, you can do both. Debit cards are great. They prevent people with no financial discipline from screwing up too badly.
The fun begins with delayed debit. In such a scheme, instead of immediately withdrawing from your account for purchases, the bank tracks the debit amounts and takes the lump sum out at the end of the month. They keep a running total and an available funds.
Where things start to resemble financial nirvana is when you put delayed debit and reward systems together. If your financial institution isn't offering you delayed debit with reward systems, frankly your financial institution suck.
No, you don't need an entry point into the application. It's like writing a code for the linker. "When this executable is linked, execute this chunk of code." The application's entry point is never reached.
The static block says "Execute whatever is in this block when the class is loaded by the classloader." Now, the standard execution for command line Java apps is JVM a) locates the class file b) loads the class with the appropriate classloader c) runs the main(String[]) method if it exists.
The program from the grand parent post hits right at stage b. Basically it achieves the purpose of printing out "Hello world".
Are you guys this concerned over fifty cents? This is vending machine sodas anyway. Take a count at how often you go to the vending machine. Now, picture where the vending machine is located. Got it? It's INDOORS! Most of the time anyway. If things get bad, just head to the local 7-Eleven. They'll gouge you for worse there.
Yeah. I can see Coca-cola stretching cables and sensors for live updates so they can get an extra fifty cents per can.
Zeus may be faster than Apache. The bottle neck was not Zeus or Apache but Linux's IP stack. I would assume that on a different IP stack, you can determine which, Zeus or Apache, is indeed faster. The result is only true for Linux.
Porting should not be difficult if you designed well. Meaning that interface code should have been separated from the actual protocol/algorithm code. That said, porting the UI is probably required. It's extremely naive to think that the UI from AWT or Swing could be converted into Palm.
An essential element which some of the posters here have missed thus far is that Palm is now the reference platform for the VM for personal devices. It used to be Solaris. It is now PalmOS. This is a huge win for sanity across the board. KVM is being tested on the actual devices it was meant to run on.
It should be noted that while Palm is getting all the news with the KVM, other devices such as the Motorola PageWriter, and the Bull POS. While none of us care about the Bull POS, knowing data and logic transfers from PalmOS to whatever the PageWriter uses and getting consistent behavior out of it, will make life better for the people writing the software.
Using int to represent boolean values is bogus. Yes, it can be used to represent true, false, and error, but that's only valid for languages which don't have a good way of representing errors. The modern languages use exceptions. True or false represents valid return values and an exception is raised for when an error is reached.
This is significantly more sensible than the 0 for false, 1 for true, -1 for error. The code also looks much nicer.
I have NEVER seen a place where, if you were careful (as you should be) in designing your code, you couldn't have nice matching malloc()/free() pairs.
No one ever tries to be not careful. The cautious statement you made of "if you were careful" points out that there are times that you were possibly not careful. malloc()/free() pairs gets more complicated with distributed code.
does the benefit of slavery only benefited a few or did the impact of it affect the entire economy of the south? if the latter is true, doesn't that increase the effect beyond a few? i'm not disagreeing. just looking for a clarification.
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Good lord, this is perhaps one of the most succint and correct analysis and explanation of currency and local trade I've read.
They're not asking gender and salary information for purposes of ad targeting; they're simply doing this for demographic. Being able to tell your advertisers that your core audience is males age 30-35 making an average of $135k/year is a big deal to publishers. It means they can draw in advertisers specific to their audience they can make more money.
Mine's gdnguyen@gmail.com.
Please only email me if you're barely legal and running a webcam. Thank you.
Credit cards are extremely useful in the hands of the financially disciplined. For example, all cards (not necessarily credit cards) I use for financial transactions have a reward system. I either get miles or some sort of gift certificate or cash back. The percentage I maintain for the reward system is 1%.
There are some cards out there that are progressive in their reward systems; your reward percentage is more depending on how much you charge.
Now, this is where the financial discipline comes in. If you pay off the balance at the end of the billing period, you incur no interest charges. That means if you pay off your balance you automatically get 1% discount off of everything you charge. You're only limited by the credit limits you have. So car repair? 1% off if I charge it. Car insurance? 1% off if I charge it. Roughly every year or so I get about $200 in gift certificates from some sort of my choice in a selection (I shop from those stores anyway) for blowing $20k in the year on stuff I pay for anyway. I'm just waiting for the day when I can pay my mortgage payments with my card. It's very important that you pay your balance off every month. You get all the perks (car rental insurance, rewards, etc.) without the hassles (interests). So there's a compelling reason to get a credit card even if you don't need the it provided you have the discipline.
But credit cards is just the tip of the ice berg. The authorization system from the merchant's point of view is the same for debit cards as well as credit cards. So once the infrastructure is in, you can do both. Debit cards are great. They prevent people with no financial discipline from screwing up too badly.
The fun begins with delayed debit. In such a scheme, instead of immediately withdrawing from your account for purchases, the bank tracks the debit amounts and takes the lump sum out at the end of the month. They keep a running total and an available funds.
Where things start to resemble financial nirvana is when you put delayed debit and reward systems together. If your financial institution isn't offering you delayed debit with reward systems, frankly your financial institution suck.
No, you don't need an entry point into the application. It's like writing a code for the linker. "When this executable is linked, execute this chunk of code." The application's entry point is never reached.
See that's just it. The app *is* the class in Java.
It works like this.
The static block says "Execute whatever is in this block when the class is loaded by the classloader." Now, the standard execution for command line Java apps is JVM a) locates the class file b) loads the class with the appropriate classloader c) runs the main(String[]) method if it exists.
The program from the grand parent post hits right at stage b. Basically it achieves the purpose of printing out "Hello world".
heh. the reason no one creates a java failure weblog is because it only takes a moron to create a failure. it takes genious to create success.
take anyone off the streeth, you've got a java failure in 15 minutes.
Are you guys this concerned over fifty cents? This is vending machine sodas anyway. Take a count at how often you go to the vending machine. Now, picture where the vending machine is located. Got it? It's INDOORS! Most of the time anyway. If things get bad, just head to the local 7-Eleven. They'll gouge you for worse there.
Yeah. I can see Coca-cola stretching cables and sensors for live updates so they can get an extra fifty cents per can.
Put things into perspectives.
Clearly you haven't been to the bay area. It's been cold as hell. I don't think summer has reached the san francisco area yet.
Zeus may be faster than Apache. The bottle neck was not Zeus or Apache but Linux's IP stack. I would assume that on a different IP stack, you can determine which, Zeus or Apache, is indeed faster. The result is only true for Linux.
Wired says that they sold out.
Porting should not be difficult if you designed well. Meaning that interface code should have been separated from the actual protocol/algorithm code. That said, porting the UI is probably required. It's extremely naive to think that the UI from AWT or Swing could be converted into Palm.
An essential element which some of the posters here have missed thus far is that Palm is now the reference platform for the VM for personal devices. It used to be Solaris. It is now PalmOS. This is a huge win for sanity across the board. KVM is being tested on the actual devices it was meant to run on.
It should be noted that while Palm is getting all the news with the KVM, other devices such as the Motorola PageWriter, and the Bull POS. While none of us care about the Bull POS, knowing data and logic transfers from PalmOS to whatever the PageWriter uses and getting consistent behavior out of it, will make life better for the people writing the software.
This is an extremely lovely development.
Using int to represent boolean values is bogus. Yes, it can be used to represent true, false, and error, but that's only valid for languages which don't have a good way of representing errors. The modern languages use exceptions. True or false represents valid return values and an exception is raised for when an error is reached.
This is significantly more sensible than the 0 for false, 1 for true, -1 for error. The code also looks much nicer.
No one ever tries to be not careful. The cautious statement you made of "if you were careful" points out that there are times that you were possibly not careful. malloc()/free() pairs gets more complicated with distributed code.
we prefer the short direct route.
"IP sucks and stuff." works well.
does the benefit of slavery only benefited a few or did the impact of it affect the entire economy of the south? if the latter is true, doesn't that increase the effect beyond a few? i'm not disagreeing. just looking for a clarification.
Gee, I guess hostid doesn't do anything like serial numbers on the proposed Pentium III at all.