$600k seems too small for such a large company. This is very sinister behavior. It would be like Burger King parking unmarked trucks or actors playing drunk bums in front of McDondalds' drive-through lanes to block customers.
It's also true an attractive woman can be a psychopath and still have a lot of candidates. "Blinded by beauty". Or is the saying "blinded by booty"? Same thing I guess.
The flip side is the rights of say Blogger users. If I post photo X as a blogger user, it should be up to me to decide if I want to take it down or not, not Google (except maybe in extreme cases, of which this doesn't seem to fall into).
The Blogger user (poster) should be the legal entity responsible for a given blog's content, not Google. Sue the Blogger user if you don't like their content, not Google.
I actually liked the general concept of Notes, just not the implementation (lost data, crashes, bugs, etc.). I even considered starting up a web company around a Notes-like product during the Dot Com bubble (it's what you did back then; it's our Woodstock, don't laugh).
I'm still kicking around the idea for an OSS tool that is a kind of semi-structured Wiki for relatively small teams.
One major thing I remember about Lotus 1-2-3 was how easy it allowed spreadsheet power-users to become programmers (maintainability of code aside) via "Macros". Since it was designed in the pre-mouse era, one typically learned and memorized key-strokes based on the menu choices. (The corresponding letters were highlighted, similar to underscores in Windows menus.)
Thus, to "program", you just gave the menu letter sequence in a Macro function. Thus, "FSfoo{enter}" would mean "File, Save as name 'foo' (fictitious example using Windows idioms). An IF function allowed conditionals, and one could "GO TO" cells that had further letter sequence macros and/or create loops. That's enough to make it Turing Complete. It leveraged existing spreadsheet idioms and menu letters to build programs around.
Accountants and clerks did amazing programming using Lotus 1-2-3. Of course it was spaghetti code, but in the short term they were "programmers".
I haven't seen anything like it before or since. Programming Excel is a PITA even for experienced programmers (in other products).
This topic has the unstated assumption that reactions to men's looks should be compared to reactions to women's looks. Women tend to judge men by their wallet or social status far more than looks. If you are a rich dude with a Lamborghini, you would get flooded with potential suitors just like a female super-model look-alike.
I agree that Mr. O flunks civil liberties as much as Bush (and probably Mitt), but there are other categories to consider besides civil liberties. I wish there were federal issue votes on the ballot for this kind of thing, similar to some States' "propositions". That way we don't have to lump bunches of different issues into:
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You mean, "Burp!"
God = Money, in their mind
$600k seems too small for such a large company. This is very sinister behavior. It would be like Burger King parking unmarked trucks or actors playing drunk bums in front of McDondalds' drive-through lanes to block customers.
That does it! I'm not voting for Gerald Ford again!
By the way, that's heavily paraphrased. I forgot to mention it.
So is the proof-reading
Your eyes are written in Perl?
Not if you play the low keys
"The more you distort things, the less you can tell them from fakes." Surprise surprise surpriiiise!
It's also true an attractive woman can be a psychopath and still have a lot of candidates. "Blinded by beauty". Or is the saying "blinded by booty"? Same thing I guess.
The flip side is the rights of say Blogger users. If I post photo X as a blogger user, it should be up to me to decide if I want to take it down or not, not Google (except maybe in extreme cases, of which this doesn't seem to fall into).
The Blogger user (poster) should be the legal entity responsible for a given blog's content, not Google. Sue the Blogger user if you don't like their content, not Google.
I actually liked the general concept of Notes, just not the implementation (lost data, crashes, bugs, etc.). I even considered starting up a web company around a Notes-like product during the Dot Com bubble (it's what you did back then; it's our Woodstock, don't laugh).
I'm still kicking around the idea for an OSS tool that is a kind of semi-structured Wiki for relatively small teams.
One major thing I remember about Lotus 1-2-3 was how easy it allowed spreadsheet power-users to become programmers (maintainability of code aside) via "Macros". Since it was designed in the pre-mouse era, one typically learned and memorized key-strokes based on the menu choices. (The corresponding letters were highlighted, similar to underscores in Windows menus.)
Thus, to "program", you just gave the menu letter sequence in a Macro function. Thus, "FSfoo{enter}" would mean "File, Save as name 'foo' (fictitious example using Windows idioms). An IF function allowed conditionals, and one could "GO TO" cells that had further letter sequence macros and/or create loops. That's enough to make it Turing Complete. It leveraged existing spreadsheet idioms and menu letters to build programs around.
Accountants and clerks did amazing programming using Lotus 1-2-3. Of course it was spaghetti code, but in the short term they were "programmers".
I haven't seen anything like it before or since. Programming Excel is a PITA even for experienced programmers (in other products).
GIGO
This topic has the unstated assumption that reactions to men's looks should be compared to reactions to women's looks. Women tend to judge men by their wallet or social status far more than looks. If you are a rich dude with a Lamborghini, you would get flooded with potential suitors just like a female super-model look-alike.
I agree that Mr. O flunks civil liberties as much as Bush (and probably Mitt), but there are other categories to consider besides civil liberties. I wish there were federal issue votes on the ballot for this kind of thing, similar to some States' "propositions". That way we don't have to lump bunches of different issues into:
Please select one:
[_] Jerk A
[_] Jerk B
Simple, tides caused by a small local moon.
Dice is gonna start Titaning the reins on you.
Must have been the Mother Of All Porn.
Sue the volcano
I wonder how it would play if newer versions fixed this?
One of the earliest video games was also one of the most realistic in terms of gravity and movement: Spacewar.
War & Buh Fett
It does bring up an interesting question: how does a doctor verify somebody got struck and is not cheating?
Or relabeled it the Dali Edition.