Almost every font in use has fixed-width digits, including Arial. There are fonts out there designed mostly for display work that only have proportional digits, or as part of larger family which has options for both. But in general, unless you try very hard, all those numerical columns will line up.

There were a number of errors made here.

1. They failed to deploy to one of eight servers
2. They failed to automate the deployment to the servers such that it would be impossible to deploy to all servers without knowing.
3. They didn't have a step between code deployment and production activation where they could validate all 8 servers. For instance, in our company, we deploy the prod code to the prod servers but leave them in a "stage" environment, where the production load balancer doesn't hit those instances. Once we've validated, we then switch the load balancers to point to the correct instance.
4. They failed to quickly back out a change when they realized it was having problems. In fact, they backed out the part on seven servers but not the flag that was being sent to the servers, which made things worse.
5. They failed to have a risk-mitigation backstop in place which would have prevented these orders from being submitted once they hit a certain amount, and which was required by SEC Rule 15c3-5(c)(1)(i).

There were a lot of places that you could put in a control to prevent or limit the effect of these kinds of errors, and that's the lesson people need to learn. Yes, mistakes happen! But try to make it hard to make a mistake, easy to recover from a mistake, and really easy to NOTICE a mistake.

All I can find is this in the Apple Dev Forums (login required). It seems that certain people in a workflow without a monitor color profile see differences without embedded profiles look differently. This does not appear to be a problem in a workflow where you regularly profile your monitor (and in fact, I don't see a problem).

So, if you depend on OS X for color accurate work, and if you are working exclusively with untagged images that are to be assumed to be sRGB, and if you have a monitor which does its own sRGB calibration and you're depending on the bits from the image being sent directly to the monitor without adjustment, then you might see problems. I don't know how big of a community that is.

Congress and federal employees have an employer-sponsored health plan just like millions of other Americans. The ACA is not intended to replace employer-sponsored plans. Why should Congress lose theirs when nobody else is?

Now imagine if telco 1 just terminated telecommuting and had everyone work at the nearest office. People still wouldn't be able to walk to someone's desk and confer, because Alice is in Tulsa and Bob is in Memphis, and they're working with a team of people in Secunderabad with a QA team in Manilla.

Banning telecommuting is a nice sound bite but collocating people and inspiring those conversations would take a huge disruption to the facilities and people.

We've got a Sheraton by one of our large branches. We have LOTS of people flying there every week. As a result, the company has negotiated with the Sheraton that they waive the wifi charge for all of us, automatically.

Capitalism works both ways.

Well, I do know Omnipage. It's been on the market for decades, and was acquired by Scansoft and then by Nuance, who are most well-known for their speech recognition technology.

The software used to be highly rated but fell in popularity over the years.

Yes, something more recent than 2004.

What are you doing that means you need to keep OS 9 and machines older than 9 years running?

(FWIW, I don't think the OP has this problem, if he's got a laptop with a 1TB internal disk.)

Nope.

Both iPhones and Apples come with a little AC->USB charging brick and a cable. The difference with most Android phones is that the cable is a standard USB cable, not a 30-pin or lightning cable. But the brick is the dangerous part.

Ken Shirriff did a couple excellent tear downs last year comparing the build of the Apple charger vs a cheap knockoff.

You can have this exact same problem using a cheap knockoff with an Android phone so be careful!

It does not, it runs locally.

It's a dropbox-style cloud, which means it's a folder on your local computer and it syncs to the cloud in the background.

Their Cloud files have useful understanding of the Adobe filetypes and can let you preview on the web, do annotations, turn on and off layers, and download in different formats. For example, I could put an Illustrator file up there and you could toggle layers then download as a png, jpg, AI or a PDF. Those are pretty decent, but the cloud files are definitely not the strong point of Adobe CC right now. Their mobile apps could sync to CC, but they've discontinued most of those except Ideas.

The strong points right now for the cloud piece of CC are the TypeKit account, the 5 basic Business Catalyst sites, and the Adobe Edge & Muse apps (which are only licensed through CC).

You were ahead of the curve! Considering CS3 was released in 2007.

FWIW, you could sell software and transfer licenses fairly liberally (compared to most software vendors I see). It was limited to 4x per license, but that's better than I can do with Office (which will allow you to transfer it only once).

The check happens monthly, and IIRC has a grace period of a few days before it locks things up. So you're only stuck if the internet goes down RIGHT WHEN the license check happens to come around.

Otherwise, you can use it offline just as with all previous versions.

The apps run locally, just the same as all previous versions. Creative Cloud includes dropbox-style syncing of a folder, but it is not required.