That looks cool, thanks. I wish they'd keep the PalmOS platform for precisely this reason -- cool 3rd party stuff (I bought an app called ShadowPlan). But I fear the worst given the Microsoft partnership.
I'm not sitting there every year punching in two dozen holidays. Granted, some can be made to repeat, but many fall on odd times. There is no option in Palm for "Repeat first weekday after date X in month X" or "Repeat every Third Thursday in November." This is a basic feature of every paper calendar on the market. The people at Palm are total tools.
Software: Palm thinks so highly of its PalmOS that it has switched over to Windows Mobile!
If you *did* like PalmOS, as I did, this is not an encouraging sign about Palm's support for the platform (you still can't make an appointment starting at 11 pm and ending at 12:30 am, or view national holidays, on the Calendar).
If you don't like PalmOS, well, you may be one of the first Windows Mobile fans on the planet, or you're shopping for a Nokia.
This just adds to the many reasons NOT to use H&R Block:
H&R Block successfully lobbied to severely curtail an innovative California program to assist poor people filling out their taxes (Source: This article in Mother Jones, a regular National Magazine Award-winner)
H&R Block charges close to 500 percent for short-term tax refund loans. These loans are predominantely used by poor people claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit. (Source: NY Times Reporter David Cay Johnston's excellent book "Perfectly Legal" and this MSNBC article about the state of California suing H&R Block.)
I have completed the full 1040 for four tax years, including accounting for capital losses and miscellaneous income and interest, and it's just NOT THAT HARD to do your own taxes.
Stretching resources until savings are overwhlemed by resulting inefficiencies? Check.
Don't complain -- your company sounds like it's ready to go public!
If you're writing a charter (cute!), just be sure to ask for some preferred stock options or a pre-IPO allocation from the underwriter. If you don't know what those are, just ask the IT department, they are clearly up to speed.
"Voting for them is basically a vote for the status quo" is total bullshit.
What you said is COMPLETELY different. More nuanced, and worthy of a more nuanced response. "On many key issues there is no substantive difference between the Democrats and Republicans." Well, of course.
On many key issues there ARE substantive differences between the Democrats and Republicans. Voting for the Democrates, therefore, is not "basically a vote for the status quo."
I am not against people voting for a third party. If someone wants to vote Green because they think both parties suck on the environment issue, fine.
But the Green party spread a myth that Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same. Thanks to extreme circumstances, this has now been exposed as completely false. But in the meantime it has directly resulted in the election of the far worse of the two leading candidates.
the Democrats are, much like the Republicans... a vote for the status quo
This is the sort of UTTER BULLSHIT that got GW Bush elected over Al Gore because people were voting for Nader.
If Al Gore were elected, would we be *torturing* people at Abu Gharaib and Guantanamo? Would we be sending citizens of Canada and other allies to countries like Syria and Egypt for torture sessions as part of an "extraordinary rendition" program?
Would the nation's environmental laws be gutted by federal department heads hired from the nation's worst polluters? Would the administration be bullying scientists from FDA, NASA and the Dept of Agriculture (to name but a few) to cover up the deadly side effects of drugs put out by big pharma or to hush up evidence of global warming?
Would the government have exempted million-dollar-plus estates from the estate tax, draining money from social programs? Would it have cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans?
Would THOUSANDS of soldiers have died for want of a $260 armor plate? Would the government be aggressively billing people for busted body army and time in military hospitals?
You might not know JACK SHIT about politics, but don't let that doesn't stop you from trying to corrode the electoral process with total IGNORANCE of the actual behavioral history of Democrat and Republican politicians!
I love that the iPod HiFi takes six D-cell batteries weighing 2.3 pounds. No word on how much playing time you get out of those batteries.
Radio Raheem: Give me 20 D Energizers.
Sonny: 20 C Energizers?
Radio Raheem: Not C, D.
Sonny: C Energizers?
Radio Raheem: D motherfucker, D. Learn to speak English first, all right?
Kim: How many you say?
Radio Raheem: 20, motherfucker, 20.
Sonny: Motherfuck you!
Radio Raheem: Motherfuck you? You, you all right, man.
I guess the choice between frames and CSS might be classified as a religious one.
Choice between WHAT? I think you mean between CSS and tables. Or CSS+XHTML vs. Whatever HTML-like Syntax Works.
But really, there is no need to choose. I use the deprecated b tag all the time, because it is SIMPLE, love to use tables, because they WORK for displaying on various screen sizes, plus (gasp) deploy the font tag from time to time for quick prototypes. And, guess what? I also use CSS. Fact is, Firefox and IE support CSS alongside HTML elements. And so the standards.
I could care less about what is "deprecated" by W3C, as though they are going to come over and scold me, and as though I would care.
The first rule of surveillance is this: Always bug yourself.
"Omykod, neighbor, I just discovered a webcame in MY shower, too! Chekkidout!"
"Wow dude, someone put that same keylogger on my laptop, too! Here it is, right in the process list on my Windows Task Manager!"
"Greek Allies: Thank you for sharing your concerns that we were behind the recent suspicious rerouting of cell phone calls made by your top government officials. As you can see from the attached mobile phone company records, our embassy has been a victim of this heinous eavesdropping as well. We look forward to working with you to find the Real Perpetrators. Sincerely, CIA Field Chief -REDACTED-"
Yahoo was what people used to search the Internet. The fact that some of the tech was outsourced did not seem to matter, particularly because the directory results were included. It turns out it was foolish of Yahoo to outsource the core of its business -- "Finding things on the Internet." This is precisely my point.
I remember the directory too, but it rapidly fell behind. By roughly 97 or 98, Yahoo's full text search was the industry leader and a huge source of revenues, especially once businesses stopped paying to be listed in the directory. The original search engine searched both the directory and a full text index of the Internet -- this was pre Google.
Hello, my name is Yahoo. During the dot-com boom, I forgot search was important and let Google take over my core franchise. Then in 2002 I spent $235 million buying Inktomi to try and catch up and create the "highest quality search."
Now, just as Google becomes choked with spamblogs and linkfarms and results bought and paid for by SEOs, I am once again ceding competitiveness in the most important part of Internet media.
If you are a shareholder, and this bothers you, please remember you bought stock in a company WHOSE NAME MEANS FUCKING IDIOT.
++Good point. When Pixar was just a cool little company, it gave Jobs cred with the media companies, since he knew the value of copyright. If he becomes a Disney hotshot (even just on their board), suddenly he looks like a threat.
Guess what -- If this was going to happen, no one would be leaking it.
Now, to figure out what is really going on, think about who is incentivized to leak. Disney? Well, considering how incredibly weak this makes them look, and considering how expensive their supposed acquisition of Pixar just got due to this news breaking, I think we can safely rule them out.
On the other hand, Pixar in general and Steve Jobs in particular come off looking pretty great. There are all kinds of inflated numbers being thrown around about how much Disney will pay, which helps Pixar win concessions from other suitors who want to distribute its movies. Also, Jobs is practically crowned new king of Disney in these stories, which helps his public image.
Most importantly, all this chatter brings Pixar even with or above Disney in the public mind in terms of brand quality. If Disney is offering so much, Pixar must be their creative equal or superior, the thinking goes.
Only slightly less important, any big Pixar executives of shareholders (*cough*Jobs*cough*) just saw their stock options get even more valuable.
So by a wide margin, this leak appears to benefit Pixar and hurt Disney.
I wonder if Steve Jobs has the sort of media access and pull to do a leak like this?/sarcasm.
Is Mr. Nazario writing about Python or Perl? I couldn't quite tell, because fully half the sentences in his summary text mention Perl.
He writes the Python is "quickly supplanting Perl in some circles." That's an intriguing statement. But instead of explaining how great Python is in concrete terms (in either summary or review), Mr. Nazario seems content to simply rip on Perl with flamebait like
unlike Perl, it's very easy to do complicated things in simple, legible code
and
unlike Perl, many Python developers I know don't bother with a dozen ways to perform a simple action, they get it done and move on
This could leave a lot of people with the conclusion that Python mainly appeals to people with a chip on their shoulder about Perl, which does not serve the Python community well -- particularly when there are languages like Ruby that have evolved demonstrably superior ways of getting things done (compared to frameworks available for Perl OR Python).
I was at Best Buy and am pretty sure I overheard Bob Metcalfe going off to one of the sales staff about how much _both_ nex-gen DVD formats suck, since neither can handle the forthcoming Video Internet. He suggested that newer DVD formats be developed to take hold in the next few years.
So I'd, you know, save my money for now. (You'll probably need it for a new operating system anyway, based on some other stuff he was saying.)
The problem, in short, is that people other than the MP3 file creator are including links to the MP3 files as enclosures in their own RSS feeds, which are published without the consent of the original MP3 creator. This is a lot like inlining images off someone elses server into your own Web page -- generally considered nefarious, although not always wrong, especially if you have permission.
My proposed solution is to include "authorized" RSS URLs as meta-info on the MP3 file itself in an ID3 tag. Podcasting clients would then need to look for this tag (call it "authorized-feeds" or somesuch) and, if present, alert the user in some fashion (custom icon?) that the feed is not the official feed and is unathorized to boot. Maybe even refuse to automatically download the enclosures without special prompting from the user.
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That looks cool, thanks. I wish they'd keep the PalmOS platform for precisely this reason -- cool 3rd party stuff (I bought an app called ShadowPlan). But I fear the worst given the Microsoft partnership.
I'm not sitting there every year punching in two dozen holidays. Granted, some can be made to repeat, but many fall on odd times. There is no option in Palm for "Repeat first weekday after date X in month X" or "Repeat every Third Thursday in November." This is a basic feature of every paper calendar on the market. The people at Palm are total tools.
Here's the score on Palm and its Treo:
Hardware: Famously prone to failure.
Software: Palm thinks so highly of its PalmOS that it has switched over to Windows Mobile!
If you *did* like PalmOS, as I did, this is not an encouraging sign about Palm's support for the platform (you still can't make an appointment starting at 11 pm and ending at 12:30 am, or view national holidays, on the Calendar).
If you don't like PalmOS, well, you may be one of the first Windows Mobile fans on the planet, or you're shopping for a Nokia.
Seriously, though, the White House press corps should pick this up. "Next on NBC Nightly News, our exclusive IRC interview with the president."
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[StonezzzPhilipsNBC] Prez, why r u h8ing on detainees @ Gitmo + Abu?
* StonezzzPhilips kicked from #whouse
[W] Next question?
Incompetence? Check.
Ignoring front-line workers? Check.
Stretching resources until savings are overwhlemed by resulting inefficiencies? Check.
Don't complain -- your company sounds like it's ready to go public!
If you're writing a charter (cute!), just be sure to ask for some preferred stock options or a pre-IPO allocation from the underwriter. If you don't know what those are, just ask the IT department, they are clearly up to speed.
Not on tech, of course. More important stuff!
"Voting for them is basically a vote for the status quo" is total bullshit. What you said is COMPLETELY different. More nuanced, and worthy of a more nuanced response. "On many key issues there is no substantive difference between the Democrats and Republicans." Well, of course. On many key issues there ARE substantive differences between the Democrats and Republicans. Voting for the Democrates, therefore, is not "basically a vote for the status quo."
I am not against people voting for a third party. If someone wants to vote Green because they think both parties suck on the environment issue, fine.
But the Green party spread a myth that Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same. Thanks to extreme circumstances, this has now been exposed as completely false. But in the meantime it has directly resulted in the election of the far worse of the two leading candidates.
This is the sort of UTTER BULLSHIT that got GW Bush elected over Al Gore because people were voting for Nader.
If Al Gore were elected, would we be *torturing* people at Abu Gharaib and Guantanamo? Would we be sending citizens of Canada and other allies to countries like Syria and Egypt for torture sessions as part of an "extraordinary rendition" program?
Would the nation's environmental laws be gutted by federal department heads hired from the nation's worst polluters? Would the administration be bullying scientists from FDA, NASA and the Dept of Agriculture (to name but a few) to cover up the deadly side effects of drugs put out by big pharma or to hush up evidence of global warming?
Would the government have exempted million-dollar-plus estates from the estate tax, draining money from social programs? Would it have cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans?
Would THOUSANDS of soldiers have died for want of a $260 armor plate? Would the government be aggressively billing people for busted body army and time in military hospitals?
You might not know JACK SHIT about politics, but don't let that doesn't stop you from trying to corrode the electoral process with total IGNORANCE of the actual behavioral history of Democrat and Republican politicians!
Choice between WHAT? I think you mean between CSS and tables. Or CSS+XHTML vs. Whatever HTML-like Syntax Works.
But really, there is no need to choose. I use the deprecated b tag all the time, because it is SIMPLE, love to use tables, because they WORK for displaying on various screen sizes, plus (gasp) deploy the font tag from time to time for quick prototypes. And, guess what? I also use CSS. Fact is, Firefox and IE support CSS alongside HTML elements. And so the standards.
I could care less about what is "deprecated" by W3C, as though they are going to come over and scold me, and as though I would care.
"Omykod, neighbor, I just discovered a webcame in MY shower, too! Chekkidout!"
"Wow dude, someone put that same keylogger on my laptop, too! Here it is, right in the process list on my Windows Task Manager!"
"Greek Allies: Thank you for sharing your concerns that we were behind the recent suspicious rerouting of cell phone calls made by your top government officials. As you can see from the attached mobile phone company records, our embassy has been a victim of this heinous eavesdropping as well. We look forward to working with you to find the Real Perpetrators. Sincerely, CIA Field Chief -REDACTED-"
Dr. Melfi: "Sounds to me like Anthony Jr. may have stumbled onto existentialism."
Tony Soprano: "Fuckin' Intanet!"
Yahoo was what people used to search the Internet. The fact that some of the tech was outsourced did not seem to matter, particularly because the directory results were included. It turns out it was foolish of Yahoo to outsource the core of its business -- "Finding things on the Internet." This is precisely my point.
I remember the directory too, but it rapidly fell behind. By roughly 97 or 98, Yahoo's full text search was the industry leader and a huge source of revenues, especially once businesses stopped paying to be listed in the directory. The original search engine searched both the directory and a full text index of the Internet -- this was pre Google.
Now, just as Google becomes choked with spamblogs and linkfarms and results bought and paid for by SEOs, I am once again ceding competitiveness in the most important part of Internet media.
If you are a shareholder, and this bothers you, please remember you bought stock in a company WHOSE NAME MEANS FUCKING IDIOT.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
Bummer. Too bad it is physically impossible to publish a blog without a commenting feature. If only there was a way!
++Good point. When Pixar was just a cool little company, it gave Jobs cred with the media companies, since he knew the value of copyright. If he becomes a Disney hotshot (even just on their board), suddenly he looks like a threat.
Now, to figure out what is really going on, think about who is incentivized to leak. Disney? Well, considering how incredibly weak this makes them look, and considering how expensive their supposed acquisition of Pixar just got due to this news breaking, I think we can safely rule them out.
On the other hand, Pixar in general and Steve Jobs in particular come off looking pretty great. There are all kinds of inflated numbers being thrown around about how much Disney will pay, which helps Pixar win concessions from other suitors who want to distribute its movies. Also, Jobs is practically crowned new king of Disney in these stories, which helps his public image.
Most importantly, all this chatter brings Pixar even with or above Disney in the public mind in terms of brand quality. If Disney is offering so much, Pixar must be their creative equal or superior, the thinking goes.
Only slightly less important, any big Pixar executives of shareholders (*cough*Jobs*cough*) just saw their stock options get even more valuable.
So by a wide margin, this leak appears to benefit Pixar and hurt Disney.
I wonder if Steve Jobs has the sort of media access and pull to do a leak like this? /sarcasm.
Popups are implemented in JavaScript too, but Firefox famously allows the user to block that behavior.
The technology is a virtual copy of Google, but their pigeons get eight weeks of vacation per year and full pensions.
He writes the Python is "quickly supplanting Perl in some circles." That's an intriguing statement. But instead of explaining how great Python is in concrete terms (in either summary or review), Mr. Nazario seems content to simply rip on Perl with flamebait like
unlike Perl, it's very easy to do complicated things in simple, legible code and
unlike Perl, many Python developers I know don't bother with a dozen ways to perform a simple action, they get it done and move on
This could leave a lot of people with the conclusion that Python mainly appeals to people with a chip on their shoulder about Perl, which does not serve the Python community well -- particularly when there are languages like Ruby that have evolved demonstrably superior ways of getting things done (compared to frameworks available for Perl OR Python).
So I'd, you know, save my money for now. (You'll probably need it for a new operating system anyway, based on some other stuff he was saying.)
Well f*cking said!!
My proposed solution is to include "authorized" RSS URLs as meta-info on the MP3 file itself in an ID3 tag. Podcasting clients would then need to look for this tag (call it "authorized-feeds" or somesuch) and, if present, alert the user in some fashion (custom icon?) that the feed is not the official feed and is unathorized to boot. Maybe even refuse to automatically download the enclosures without special prompting from the user.