Our app took 142 days to be approved. It's a basic financial data app for a large-ish financial data firm in NYC and does nothing more than allow you to access content and our site via the app when the user is logged in.
When we got rejected, it was for violating a rule that all purchases and subscriptions had to go through the Apple in app purchasing system, which was kind of ridiculous. We sell 10,000 seat licenses to large banks -- nobody is going to pay for that with a Visa through their iTunes account. Plus, you literally couldn't do anything with the app until you logged in through our service, so it was clear we were bringing all the users. But they wouldn't budge.
In the end, they requested we remove any sort of link to pages within our platform (which removed a ton of functionality we were counting on) in order to release it. So, thanks Apple. I love basically everything about that company but their app review policies make zero-point-none sense and the result is that we made a shitty app and are playing catch up to rewrite many of our existing webpages in Objective C.
One thing that makes memories much more vivid is the presence of emotion during the events.
Moreover, you can generally tell a true memory from a made up one because it includes emotional, as well as visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, and olfactory components -- i.e. that the person remembers sights, sounds, motions, feels, and smells.
When people attempt to tell a story that's untrue, they usually leave out these aspects to it, which is one of the ways people have for determining whether a person is lying or not.
The majority of articles you submitted were crap, and the lava one would be a quadruplicate post or something. That's why they got rejected, while this didn't.
It was a C&C joke: If you're Soviet, tesla coils use up so much power that you will quickly run out of it if you build the standard tesla power plants. In the game, nuclear plants have something like quintuple the power yield, so to have any number of tesla coils it's a good idea to have nuclear plants.
So a Rottweiler, a Golden Retriever, and a Chihuahua are sitting in a bar, and an attractive French Poodle comes in, and goes "I'll make one of you very happy if you can use the words 'liver' and 'cheese' in a pick up line."
So the Rottweiler comes up and goes "I like liver, I like cheese, and I like you!"
The French Poodle goes, "No, that was really dumb."
So the Golden Retriever tries. "I don't like liver and I don't like cheese, but I do like you!"
And the French Poodle says, "No, that was equally dumb."
The Chihuahua, growing annoyed, walks up and says "Hey, liver alone, cheese with me!"
There are some clocks and radios that do this, too. My assumption was that there was an atomic clock time transmitted via radio to these things, but I could be wrong. Check in the Sharper Image catalog and you'll probably find some. - Adam
I think that brings up an interesting point, and I'm honestly not sure about this, but would they be called "windows" in a windowing system if "Windows" (the MS program) did not exist to give them that name?
If not, it seems fairly arbitrary to me. One has to look at what was the connotation back when the first version of Windows came out. But if so, you have a point.
Actually, according to that first link, it seems that naming a piece of software Windows was, in fact, a good idea. Windows (in the context of software) is an arbitrary name, and it's therefore hard to mistake it for anything else in the software world.
That is to say, it *was* difficult to confuse them, but now that many operating systems use "windows" as part of their UI, it is easier, which leads to all of the kvetching you'll see on this site.
I put my cell phone in the washing machine a while back, and when I took it out, it wasn't working at all. Raising the antenna caused a cascade to come out of the antenna well.
So I took it to Verizon where I declared "I think my cell phone is broken." The guy behind the counter goes "Did it get wet?" to which I replied "I think it might have!"
He declared that it was broken forever without any hope of repair and I was better off buying a new one. Since I didn't have enough cash with me to get a heady new replacement, I took my broken cell home and let it sit.
A couple of days later it was working again, albeit with all of the stored numbers erased.
Can someone please explain to me why one would *not* want electronics to get wet? I mean, I can understand things shorting out should they be run when wet, but if my cell was off when it went in the wash, why would the guy declare it to be broken forever afterwards? Probably a common sense thing I'm missing.
That must have been quite an ego on those Windows 3.x Program Managers. You know, making sure one gigantic window named after you was needed to make anything run.
You'll find some examples listed there. One of the more entertaining, though, is this one, where a ostensibly eloquent lawyer-type writes "...it would be impossible for me to win that case in court [in San Francisco], because everybody is queer out there" halfway through his analysis of the law!
Another example that, in contrast to the previous one, even vaguely resembles professional writing can be found here, at a site that details a New York Supreme Court ruling in the case of Anthony Nacinovich v. Tullett & Tokoyo Forex, Inc, where it was ruled that calling someone gay is defamatory, even though it may be true.
I couldn't find the actual wording of the law, but the person who advised me of this (who is himself a lawyer) told me that the suit had merit. Ergo, the removal of the story.
The most interesting implications for this will be in the area of "libel per se."
Despite popular belief, truth is not a complete defense against libel. If the comment is sexual in nature (e.g. "This prostitute is not a virgin," "This hairy-palmed fifteen year old masturbates feverishly") then it can be brought to court as libel without the plaintiff having to prove or disprove anything.
The reason that I am more familiar than I would like to be with this is because I wrote a satirical "news" story on my LiveJournal once about a fictional kid who masturbated too much, and I assigned the kid a pseudonym that happened to be the real AIM screen name of a person I knew in real life. Stupid, I know. Even though only seven words were devoted to linking the pseudonym to the fictional character, the kid eventually found it and his mother threatened to sue. The story has since been erased.
If a similar thing happened on a message board after this ruling, I wonder if the poster could still be brought up on libel charges?
Road Runner here didn't "support" IE 5 until well after IE 5.5 came out. Maybe they still don't support 5. I'm heading out the door so I don't have time to check, but they're generally pretty slow about the whole deal.
Nowhere in the article did it mention that this would be a replacement for a SSN, tax number, or do anything besides act as a way for people to contact you.
When you give someone your number with this, you are giving them only contact information, and nothing more. Treat it accordingly.
In my opinion, the entire notion of a pseudo-secret ID number like social security numbers, is silly anyway, as they can be too easily obtained and abused. There needs to be a better alternative; I just can't think of one right now.
I think that these aren't such a good idea because the private sector already has the whole personal communications thing covered pretty well, and they don't make me remember an email addy like 4.1.4.1.6.5.4.2.0.2.1.e164.arpa@whitehouse.gov (or whatever).
Read the article; don't assume everything will be used to invade your privacy.
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Our app took 142 days to be approved. It's a basic financial data app for a large-ish financial data firm in NYC and does nothing more than allow you to access content and our site via the app when the user is logged in.
When we got rejected, it was for violating a rule that all purchases and subscriptions had to go through the Apple in app purchasing system, which was kind of ridiculous. We sell 10,000 seat licenses to large banks -- nobody is going to pay for that with a Visa through their iTunes account. Plus, you literally couldn't do anything with the app until you logged in through our service, so it was clear we were bringing all the users. But they wouldn't budge.
In the end, they requested we remove any sort of link to pages within our platform (which removed a ton of functionality we were counting on) in order to release it. So, thanks Apple. I love basically everything about that company but their app review policies make zero-point-none sense and the result is that we made a shitty app and are playing catch up to rewrite many of our existing webpages in Objective C.
Any other horror stories out there about this?
But everybody knows that Shakespeare was meant to be read in the original Klingon!
The manufacturer's website lists the price ($123.12 to $143.12).
One thing that makes memories much more vivid is the presence of emotion during the events.
Moreover, you can generally tell a true memory from a made up one because it includes emotional, as well as visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, and olfactory components -- i.e. that the person remembers sights, sounds, motions, feels, and smells.
When people attempt to tell a story that's untrue, they usually leave out these aspects to it, which is one of the ways people have for determining whether a person is lying or not.
The majority of articles you submitted were crap, and the lava one would be a quadruplicate post or something. That's why they got rejected, while this didn't.
I'm not flaming you, I'm just being honest.
Don't you mean iNkwell?
It was a C&C joke: If you're Soviet, tesla coils use up so much power that you will quickly run out of it if you build the standard tesla power plants. In the game, nuclear plants have something like quintuple the power yield, so to have any number of tesla coils it's a good idea to have nuclear plants.
Duh, that's why you build the nuclear power plants.
This has been posted before at about the same time last year!
/. editors ever check for these sort of things?
Don't the
If slashdot didn't run crap articles every so often, you would have nowhere to post your rejected submissions without being marked "offtopic."
Offtopic: "It has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but [my story]!"
Interesting: "Why does slashdot run a story about a stapler but not [my story]!"
So, stop bitching.
So a Rottweiler, a Golden Retriever, and a Chihuahua are sitting in a bar, and an attractive French Poodle comes in, and goes "I'll make one of you very happy if you can use the words 'liver' and 'cheese' in a pick up line."
So the Rottweiler comes up and goes "I like liver, I like cheese, and I like you!"
The French Poodle goes, "No, that was really dumb."
So the Golden Retriever tries. "I don't like liver and I don't like cheese, but I do like you!"
And the French Poodle says, "No, that was equally dumb."
The Chihuahua, growing annoyed, walks up and says "Hey, liver alone, cheese with me!"
Imagine that the only transmission from Earth that makes it to some alien civilization is this concert, and they disregard it as background noise.
Tragic.
- Adam
That's okay, this is slashdot. It shouldn't matter.
There are some clocks and radios that do this, too. My assumption was that there was an atomic clock time transmitted via radio to these things, but I could be wrong. Check in the Sharper Image catalog and you'll probably find some.
- Adam
I think that brings up an interesting point, and I'm honestly not sure about this, but would they be called "windows" in a windowing system if "Windows" (the MS program) did not exist to give them that name?
If not, it seems fairly arbitrary to me. One has to look at what was the connotation back when the first version of Windows came out. But if so, you have a point.
Yours in confusion,
- Adam
Actually, according to that first link, it seems that naming a piece of software Windows was, in fact, a good idea. Windows (in the context of software) is an arbitrary name, and it's therefore hard to mistake it for anything else in the software world.
That is to say, it *was* difficult to confuse them, but now that many operating systems use "windows" as part of their UI, it is easier, which leads to all of the kvetching you'll see on this site.
- Adam
I put my cell phone in the washing machine a while back, and when I took it out, it wasn't working at all. Raising the antenna caused a cascade to come out of the antenna well.
So I took it to Verizon where I declared "I think my cell phone is broken." The guy behind the counter goes "Did it get wet?" to which I replied "I think it might have!"
He declared that it was broken forever without any hope of repair and I was better off buying a new one. Since I didn't have enough cash with me to get a heady new replacement, I took my broken cell home and let it sit.
A couple of days later it was working again, albeit with all of the stored numbers erased.
Can someone please explain to me why one would *not* want electronics to get wet? I mean, I can understand things shorting out should they be run when wet, but if my cell was off when it went in the wash, why would the guy declare it to be broken forever afterwards? Probably a common sense thing I'm missing.
- Adam
That must have been quite an ego on those Windows 3.x Program Managers. You know, making sure one gigantic window named after you was needed to make anything run.
Search on google for: libel law "per se"
You'll find some examples listed there. One of the more entertaining, though, is this one, where a ostensibly eloquent lawyer-type writes "...it would be impossible for me to win that case in court [in San Francisco], because everybody is queer out there" halfway through his analysis of the law!
Another example that, in contrast to the previous one, even vaguely resembles professional writing can be found here, at a site that details a New York Supreme Court ruling in the case of Anthony Nacinovich v. Tullett & Tokoyo Forex, Inc, where it was ruled that calling someone gay is defamatory, even though it may be true.
I couldn't find the actual wording of the law, but the person who advised me of this (who is himself a lawyer) told me that the suit had merit. Ergo, the removal of the story.
- adam
The most interesting implications for this will be in the area of "libel per se."
Despite popular belief, truth is not a complete defense against libel. If the comment is sexual in nature (e.g. "This prostitute is not a virgin," "This hairy-palmed fifteen year old masturbates feverishly") then it can be brought to court as libel without the plaintiff having to prove or disprove anything.
The reason that I am more familiar than I would like to be with this is because I wrote a satirical "news" story on my LiveJournal once about a fictional kid who masturbated too much, and I assigned the kid a pseudonym that happened to be the real AIM screen name of a person I knew in real life. Stupid, I know. Even though only seven words were devoted to linking the pseudonym to the fictional character, the kid eventually found it and his mother threatened to sue. The story has since been erased.
If a similar thing happened on a message board after this ruling, I wonder if the poster could still be brought up on libel charges?
- Adam
For a moment I thought this was interesting
No you didn't. You're just looking for a chance to be pedantic.
Road Runner here didn't "support" IE 5 until well after IE 5.5 came out. Maybe they still don't support 5. I'm heading out the door so I don't have time to check, but they're generally pretty slow about the whole deal.
- Adam
Totally. That's like talking about the "Netscape/'You've Got Pictures!'/Turner Classic Movies" mega-corp.
- Adam
Nowhere in the article did it mention that this would be a replacement for a SSN, tax number, or do anything besides act as a way for people to contact you.
When you give someone your number with this, you are giving them only contact information, and nothing more. Treat it accordingly.
In my opinion, the entire notion of a pseudo-secret ID number like social security numbers, is silly anyway, as they can be too easily obtained and abused. There needs to be a better alternative; I just can't think of one right now.
I think that these aren't such a good idea because the private sector already has the whole personal communications thing covered pretty well, and they don't make me remember an email addy like 4.1.4.1.6.5.4.2.0.2.1.e164.arpa@whitehouse.gov (or whatever).
Read the article; don't assume everything will be used to invade your privacy.
- Adam
Erm, I don't know why that is coming up as goatse.cx. Don't click, kids, cut and paste instead, making sure to remove the space.
Not a Troll,
- Adam