Advertisers and stations used to to say the decibels were the same on programs and that advertisements weren't louder. TIVO showed that was a complete crock. Ads used all possible wall-of-sound technology.

I imagine Google has some valid legal and security issues they are addressing with the changeover. What baffles me is they will not explain their reasons to anybody at all. Makes them seem completely shady and underhanded instead of transparent.

There's a reason they are changing Google Pay. They should tell everyone why.

If the game is not done in time (lots of contracts in place by publicized release date) money will NOT start falling into investor's pockets. That's the problem.

When pundits talked about the Internet of Things, I wasnt sure what things they were talking about.
Ouch.

I learned touch typing in the 4th grade and got really fast at it.

Today, I prefer a full-sized keyboard to a phone keypad, but I hunt and peck while programming. Touch-typing "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." is far, far easier than touch-typing "%(x) := $r+19;"

The Millerites missed the Apocalypse because they were in the wrong place at the right time (1844, 1260 Islam). There was a new religion in Persia that took hold like fire and was stomped out with genocide and it transformed into the Baha'i Faith in 1863.

The reason Christians missed the Apocalypse and Muslims missed the return of the 12th Imam is the same reason Jews missed the Coming of the Messiah (Jesus Christ according to the Christians). They are all expecting the end of the world instead of the end of a religion.

I couldn't remember what the numbers were but that should have been in the article. The population is 60,000 and they get 50 million visitors/year. Start with that as the problem statement.

Constitutional rights and restrictions apply to the governmnet, not to private corporations. If I work for a diamond mine and as part of my employment contract, I am subject to strip searches, that is legal. Should be the same for prison guards but they have unions.

Kind of weird how we can't keep drugs out of maximum security prisons but we think we can keep them out of the country.

I don't wish to defend creimer but the term Black Friday for the big shopping day the day after Christmas is called that because it's usually the first day of the year most retailers finally move into the Black.
It's an auditing term; they finally move out of the Red.

Sorry, but dense cities are just petri dishes for diseases.

That's the thesis of Guns, Germs and Steel. Eurasians had the ideal climate for growing lots of food so they got populated and crowded and took over the world because they had already developed disease resistance.

The TAB key isn't a real key so never use it. Proof: wehn some program says press any key, press tab and see what happens.

Comrade President Trump is an idiot, but at least the borders are closed. From the other side.
It's almost like having a wall that other countries pay for.

The reason folks don't like it is because it's akin to push-polling where you ask the surveyee if s/he's heard any of the rumors about the candidate being a devil-worshiping spawn of Satan who eats children, and then ask if they would vote for him/her.
In other words, it's not like it's a "real" survey (which are not found on the web).
Seems like anyone who thinks any of those ratings means anything is a non-statistician. OTOH, if you get more money with higher ratings, then there is certainly an incentive to push the rating any way possible.
I think it's brilliant. And hard to prevent. I certainly can't rate the app until after I've used it for some time. Apple's gonna have a conniption fit over this because they're the ones who are monetizing the ratings, not anyone else, but they're gonna blame it on the devs.

I suspect the ability to digest milk as an adult came long after cows were being milked.
i.e., the sociologists and dna-ologists are looking for the answer to the wrong question.
Cheese is a very nutritious food, partially digested by the rennet in calf stomachs, and most importantly of all for pre-electric times, cheese self-preserves and lasts for a long time. Cheese and beef jerky would get you thru a bad winter. I suspect they were keeping cows to make cheese because milk doesn't last very long either and just gives the adults bad gas.

I read an interesting article on fans of the MiniCooper. They call themselves Miniacs and get together for rallies regularly. They love the MiniCooper but 3 of the folks were directly quoted as saying once their current car dies, they won't buy another MiniCooper because the new ones aren't small and funky like the old ones. And these are current customers and fans.

CEOs want more and more money all the time but true long-term success comes from dancing with those who brung ya.

That was Google's big insight (when there were a shitload of competitors like altavista and yahoo). Google had a real in-depth search screen where you could search for this and not that in this date range on these pages. Then they hid it all (in advanced search), presenting instead a blank screen with a single text field for searching.

What a concept.
Simplicity.
What dropbox used to have.