Comment money not spent is not money saved (Score 1) 614
money not spent is not money saved
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How do you back up? (Today is World Backup Day) (extremetech.com) 2
MrSeb writes: "Today is World Backup Day! The premise is that you back up your computers on March 31, so that you're not an April Fool if your hard drive crashes tomorrow. How do Slashdot users back up? RAID? Multiple RAIDs? If you're in LA, on a fault line, do you keep a redundant copy of your data in another geographic region?"
Submission + - Obama Campaign Deploys New Cellular Weapon 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Michael Scherer writes that the Obama fundraising machine has deployed a new cellular campaign weapon designed "to trigger the campaign finance equivalent of an impulse buy" during key political moments in the campaign. The tool links two familiar technologies, SMS and one-click purchasing, by sending out an SMS message to cell phones and smart phones of tens of thousands of previous campaign donors giving them a one-click option to give more money. "Campaign officials hope to be able to return to donors in key moments of emotional excitement," writes Scherer. One person familiar with the ask says that the response rate has been more than 20 times greater than any text message solicitation Obama has sent out before and and the reason is simple: Even with an iPhone, it remains an arduous hassle to enter all the information that is typically required to buy anything online with a credit card. The trick is that anyone who gives even a few dollars to the Obama campaign is asked if they want to keep their credit cards on file to participate in what the campaign calls “Quick Donate.” Now donors just need to write “25,” or “10 and that amount of dollars is immediately drawn from their credit cards. One of the Obama campaign’s best fundraising days in 2008, for instance, came right after Sarah Palin’s convention speech. Now partisans can "vent their outrage or enthusiasm by simply typing one number into their phone.""
Comment put your team before..... (Score 1) 551
... your "customers" and your team will never fail you.
Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? 624
eldavojohn wonders: " Do W3C standards hold any importance to anyone and if so, why? When you finish a website, do you run it to the validator to laugh and take bets, or do you e-mail the results to the office intern and tell him/her to get to work? Since Opera 9 is the only browser to pass the ACID2 test, is strict compliance really necessary?" We all know that standards are important, but there has always been a distance between what is put forth by the W3C and what we get from our browsers. Microsoft has yet to release a browser that comes close to supporting standards (and it remains to be seen if IE7 will change this). Mozilla, although supportive, is still a ways from ACID2 compliance. Web developers are therefore faced with a difficult decision: do they develop their content to the standards, or to the browsers that will render it? As web developers (or the manager of web developers), what decisions did you made on your projects?
