I think banks are required to keep statements for ten years. So they have the information somewhere. You might have to do some data entry if you forget to download.
I can respect forgetting to download; I forget to pay bills, deposit checks, invoice clients, and anything to do with money because I'm insufficiently into it. You want to be rich, you gotta be like Al Davis of the Raiders. They say he knows how many rolls of toilet paper there are in the locker room at any given time.
Successful businesspeople NEVER forget to download data about coin; they live for the stuff.
Marry a Chinese woman; they're usually pretty sharp about money. Then your only problem will be stashing a little a way so you can eat lunch like a DC lobbyist without her knowing about it. But you need somebody who loves money in your life.
I am 62, and it is a great comfort to be reminded that the younger people who are rude, dismissive, and even contemptuous of me will get theirs some day. Great post.
That's true. Why do talented college students go to work instead of graduate school? To make money. Why do they need money? To get married. Why do they get married? QED.
This judge is a moron. She will lose and deservedly so. But robocalls have both utility and constitutional protection.1. The consumer has a devastatingly powerful remedy--voting against the caller's campaign. 2. James Madison et al did not want the government to suppress speech, which leads to remedy #2--citizens may attempt to repeal the first amendment. 3. The courts have ruled that corporations and billionaires can spend as much as they like in the name of free expression of political opinion. Robocalls are the cheapest possible way to get a political message to voters and therefore grassroots campaigns should not be silenced. 4. Do you think a fine is going to stop Meg Whitman's campaign? Since she has the money and the willingness to buy saturation television throughout the entire state of California not only through election day but for months, even years after the election is over, she is very likely to act first and beg forgiveness later.
Strongest argument against robocalls: The California PUC has banned their use even by politicians without introduction by a live operator. In other words, you may think they are constitutionally protected, but you are not the Supreme Court and might do well to obey current law.
Back in the day, political spin doctors and crisis managers kept three televisions going at all types to see how the networks were treating their candidate, cause, product, or company.
Now that media is interactive and diffuse, 24 monitors doesn't seem like too many for a single spokesperson to use on a revolving office year to quite literally spin real-time news and comment.
...and counting.
Look, fellow slashdotters. I've never pretended to know doodly about technology. But believe me when I tell you, spin doctory is something about which I know considerable.
Apple has propelled this gizmodo story onto the front pages, just as Obama's guys did when they went after Fox. White House reporters rallied around Fox as if Sean Hannity were James Madison in drag.
Did Gizmodo cross over an ethical line with both feet? Of course. But that's not for Apple PR to pass judgment on.
They are within their legal rights to keep anybody out, but they are out of their f**king minds to do it.
Google shows 643 news stories referencing Gizmodo. That's roughly half as many stories as those about the terror arrests at an NYC airport. And the Developer conf. hasn't even begun.
This is how Apple gets even? Reminds of the mafia guys who shot a rival in the skull and left him in the trunk of a Caddy parked in Hunters Point. Said guy showed up at their trial with a band-aid on his head, testifying his ass off.
But, as someone quite correctly said, "Fuck PR." This is a technical board, so somebody tell me how Gizmodo's servers have thus far avoided being slashdotted into scorched earth.
Denying press credentials to any legitimate news organization, which is Gizmodo sure as hell is, is rotten PR at the very least. Obama even talks to Fox.
This stuff happens when you leave things like secret prototypes lying around Starbucks; it's not the news media's fault that they write about it. It is by way of being their job.
Years ago, a California politician used whiteout to cover over the names of some campaign contributors whom they thought had better remain nameless. Then they copied their financial reports, kept the copies, and mailed the original whited-out version to the Fair Political Practices Commission. Shame on them. They got bad press.
I believe webkit is open source. Again, if there is anyone reading this with above-average web programming skills, I'd like to learn more about Apple and HTML5. If what they've said is an out-and-out lie--not permissible sales talk--I'd like to know. Surely a careful reading of the developer pages and an examination of the demo source code could provide some insight.
For now, I take Jobs at his word on this question. He certainly was telling the truth when said that Flash sucks.
Apple has every reason to want this working on the iPad.
The source code for the CSS, Javascript, and HTML looks standard to me, but I am not a professional web developer or software professional. I have seen IE source code that only worked on Windows, however, and the extra MS-Specific stuff was obvious. This code does not look like this.
The comparison between Apple and Microsoft is suggestive but not entirely reasonable. Apple is not the only hardware manufacturer to differentiate its products with proprietary technology. And, unlike Microsoft, Apple does not require every PC-compatible machine to use its OS (if PC compatibility is desired).
There are good reasons to criticize Apple for its business practices (capricious APP rejection policies, for example), but it's a bit premature to cry wolf about this HTML5 demo. Think of Adobe's zero day warning yesterday before you slam Apple for at the least attempting to get to open standards.
This is a technical forum. What, exactly, is non-standard in the demo code?
It's their right to install this sw on the computers they own.
California is a community property state. This means your wife owns half of your computer.
Uh, oh.
And even if you live in a spare bedroom at your mom's house, single and bad husband material at age 32, you may not want this software to email mom a jpeg of the download page from www.toilet-rated-pron.com
She bought it for you, remember?
Like the Toyota-Tesla deal--and a thousand animated Starbucks conversations that I hear every day, where only depression and silence ruled last year--this is sign that the Valley is not only heating up but poised to drag the entire world economy out of the doldrums.
Facebook is only one customer of bandwidth, and I doubt that it will vanish off the planet any time soon.
Yeah, I'm a bull on this town (mine), but history is with me on this.
It's the highly-educated people, stupid.
Anyone who has done technical support will have had occasion to wish that some users had studied a bit of BASIC. It teaches the fundamental difference between computers and everything that preceded them--the ability to store and execute instructions:
10 n=n+1
20 Print "Hello"
30 if n=10 goto 50
40 goto 10
50 whatever
I am an English major, and I don't know if the above code would actually produce 10 "hellos," as I expect, but I know conceptually that this is how computers work. And therefore I know enough to understand why my spelling checker, for example, doesn't always do what I expect.
I can't believe that learning BASIC causes blindness. but if it does, most young programmers would like to be allowed to keep doing it at least until until they have to wear glasses.
I agree. Most college freshman hang out with one another, and many are often a year apart already (17-19). The ought to be some planning about what to do with 20-22-old post-docs, however.
A guy's hitchhiking, looking for work in the Great Depression.
A big car slows down, and the driver yells at him, "Who are you for in the election?"
The guy answers, "Roosevelt!" and the big car peels off and splatters him with gravel.
After a little more of this, the guy finally realizes that only rich Republicans have cars and the money to buy gas. So when a fancy sports car slows down to ask the same question, he replies, "Hoover!"
The pretty rich girl lets him in, and he can't help noticing that her skirt is way up her thighs. So he says,
"For godsakes, lady, pull your skirt down. I've only been a Republican for five minutes, and already I feel like f**king somebody.
Retail advertisers (like me) need saturation coverage of small geographical areas and the (highly annoying) big splash ads over two or three days that drive customers to sales days.
Of course, we could all start selling online all over the world, but then every storefront mom and pop would have to adopt radical (and expensive to implement) new business methods.
I'll try to quit whining. It's doggy dog out there.
If you buy Pampers at a grocery store, you'll see an ad, and probably a coupon, for Huggies on the back of your cash register receipt.
This is not merely an analogy; it precisely the same thing using paper instead of web pages.
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I think banks are required to keep statements for ten years. So they have the information somewhere. You might have to do some data entry if you forget to download. I can respect forgetting to download; I forget to pay bills, deposit checks, invoice clients, and anything to do with money because I'm insufficiently into it. You want to be rich, you gotta be like Al Davis of the Raiders. They say he knows how many rolls of toilet paper there are in the locker room at any given time. Successful businesspeople NEVER forget to download data about coin; they live for the stuff. Marry a Chinese woman; they're usually pretty sharp about money. Then your only problem will be stashing a little a way so you can eat lunch like a DC lobbyist without her knowing about it. But you need somebody who loves money in your life.
No attempt at irony goes unpunished.
I am 62, and it is a great comfort to be reminded that the younger people who are rude, dismissive, and even contemptuous of me will get theirs some day. Great post.
Same as with Jesus Christ. After the New Testament, He did nothing worthwhile. I think it all went to His head.
That's true. Why do talented college students go to work instead of graduate school? To make money. Why do they need money? To get married. Why do they get married? QED.
Zuckerman's wealth is a divine sign of election and sanctification. Me, I must be hellbound.
"You did it backwards. You're supposed to marry the Jewish girl and fool around with the shiksa." So buy the iPad and steal software for your PC.
Strongest argument against robocalls: The California PUC has banned their use even by politicians without introduction by a live operator. In other words, you may think they are constitutionally protected, but you are not the Supreme Court and might do well to obey current law.
Oops. For some of us, even a single monitor is too many.
Back in the day, political spin doctors and crisis managers kept three televisions going at all types to see how the networks were treating their candidate, cause, product, or company. Now that media is interactive and diffuse, 24 monitors doesn't seem like too many for a single spokesperson to use on a revolving office year to quite literally spin real-time news and comment.
Google shows 643 news stories referencing Gizmodo. That's roughly half as many stories as those about the terror arrests at an NYC airport. And the Developer conf. hasn't even begun. This is how Apple gets even? Reminds of the mafia guys who shot a rival in the skull and left him in the trunk of a Caddy parked in Hunters Point. Said guy showed up at their trial with a band-aid on his head, testifying his ass off. But, as someone quite correctly said, "Fuck PR." This is a technical board, so somebody tell me how Gizmodo's servers have thus far avoided being slashdotted into scorched earth.
This stuff happens when you leave things like secret prototypes lying around Starbucks; it's not the news media's fault that they write about it. It is by way of being their job.
Years ago, a California politician used whiteout to cover over the names of some campaign contributors whom they thought had better remain nameless. Then they copied their financial reports, kept the copies, and mailed the original whited-out version to the Fair Political Practices Commission. Shame on them. They got bad press.
I believe webkit is open source. Again, if there is anyone reading this with above-average web programming skills, I'd like to learn more about Apple and HTML5. If what they've said is an out-and-out lie--not permissible sales talk--I'd like to know. Surely a careful reading of the developer pages and an examination of the demo source code could provide some insight. For now, I take Jobs at his word on this question. He certainly was telling the truth when said that Flash sucks.
Apple has every reason to want this working on the iPad. The source code for the CSS, Javascript, and HTML looks standard to me, but I am not a professional web developer or software professional. I have seen IE source code that only worked on Windows, however, and the extra MS-Specific stuff was obvious. This code does not look like this. The comparison between Apple and Microsoft is suggestive but not entirely reasonable. Apple is not the only hardware manufacturer to differentiate its products with proprietary technology. And, unlike Microsoft, Apple does not require every PC-compatible machine to use its OS (if PC compatibility is desired).
There are good reasons to criticize Apple for its business practices (capricious APP rejection policies, for example), but it's a bit premature to cry wolf about this HTML5 demo. Think of Adobe's zero day warning yesterday before you slam Apple for at the least attempting to get to open standards. This is a technical forum. What, exactly, is non-standard in the demo code?
California is a community property state. This means your wife owns half of your computer. Uh, oh. And even if you live in a spare bedroom at your mom's house, single and bad husband material at age 32, you may not want this software to email mom a jpeg of the download page from www.toilet-rated-pron.com She bought it for you, remember?
Like the Toyota-Tesla deal--and a thousand animated Starbucks conversations that I hear every day, where only depression and silence ruled last year--this is sign that the Valley is not only heating up but poised to drag the entire world economy out of the doldrums. Facebook is only one customer of bandwidth, and I doubt that it will vanish off the planet any time soon. Yeah, I'm a bull on this town (mine), but history is with me on this. It's the highly-educated people, stupid.
10 n=n+1
20 Print "Hello"
30 if n=10 goto 50
40 goto 10
50 whatever
I am an English major, and I don't know if the above code would actually produce 10 "hellos," as I expect, but I know conceptually that this is how computers work. And therefore I know enough to understand why my spelling checker, for example, doesn't always do what I expect.
I can't believe that learning BASIC causes blindness. but if it does, most young programmers would like to be allowed to keep doing it at least until until they have to wear glasses.
I agree. Most college freshman hang out with one another, and many are often a year apart already (17-19). The ought to be some planning about what to do with 20-22-old post-docs, however.
You know, Bobby Fischer-style?
It was a serious question; I'm not technical enough to know the answer. I read Slashdot to try to wise myself up.
Doesn't running Windows on top of OS X already provide additional reliability?
A guy's hitchhiking, looking for work in the Great Depression. A big car slows down, and the driver yells at him, "Who are you for in the election?" The guy answers, "Roosevelt!" and the big car peels off and splatters him with gravel. After a little more of this, the guy finally realizes that only rich Republicans have cars and the money to buy gas. So when a fancy sports car slows down to ask the same question, he replies, "Hoover!" The pretty rich girl lets him in, and he can't help noticing that her skirt is way up her thighs. So he says, "For godsakes, lady, pull your skirt down. I've only been a Republican for five minutes, and already I feel like f**king somebody.
...for all intensive purposes.
Retail advertisers (like me) need saturation coverage of small geographical areas and the (highly annoying) big splash ads over two or three days that drive customers to sales days. Of course, we could all start selling online all over the world, but then every storefront mom and pop would have to adopt radical (and expensive to implement) new business methods. I'll try to quit whining. It's doggy dog out there.
If you buy Pampers at a grocery store, you'll see an ad, and probably a coupon, for Huggies on the back of your cash register receipt. This is not merely an analogy; it precisely the same thing using paper instead of web pages.