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  • Pre-Apple Jobs and Woz check sells for $135,000

    chadbagchadbag
    It is NOT a “temporary check before their
    account was officially opened”.  That makes no sense.  You can’t draw on accounts that are t opened. 

    What this is is a “counter check.” Such checks are blank and have the account and routing numbers added at the branch and are used while awaiting the actual printed checks (which in those days came from the bank most of the time).  After the account is officially opened. 

    Called a “counter check” because they are issued over-the-counter by the branch to the account holder of a new account.  

    shaminobaconstangwatto_cobraFileMakerFeller

  • Apple gives in on the End Call button position in latest iOS 17 beta

    chadbagchadbag
    JamesCude said:
    Yeah welp people at Apple need to justify their jobs and when you hit version 17 of a piece of software these are the kinds of things done to show progress.
    Politicians, middle managers, long running software (developers).  Everyone needs to justify their existence.  I find it irritating that things are constantly changing for no real UX reason.   Sometimes I think it is that changes are not thought through.  

    MacOS (this may go back to OS9?) would not remove focus from an app automatically unless the system health required it.  Ie a system level issue that would damage the system or your data had happened and immediate attention was required.   Any other time a way was provided to notify the user of a change that needed attention.  Now any app can instigate system actions that grab focus.   Terrible experience.  I am typing in a window and all of a sudden so non essential service finished and grabs focus with some non essential dialog.  

    The red button, the thing I describe above , are all symptoms of the “make changes and don’t think them through and justify them” syndrome. 
    OferwilliamlondonAlex1NFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Russian kangaroo court fines Apple two seconds of profit over News row

    chadbagchadbag
    Did Apple even show up?  If they didn’t show up the judge could have found against them without looking at evidence or arguments.  

    and for the claim it wasn’t a “Kangaroo Court” but a real legal “formal institution “:  most kangaroo Courts are formal institutions in their countries.  Does not make them any less a kangaroo court.  Countries that don’t respect the rule of law have kangaroo court systems by definition.  
    williamlondon

  • Pre-Apple check by Jobs and Woz up for auction

    chadbagchadbag
    So this is not really a “pre-Apple “ check.  It is a temporary “Apple” check.   “Pre-Apple” implies the check is from a venture before Apple or before they organized the company.  It seems to be, from the description and the confirmation that all the numbers match later known Apple checks, a check from before they received the Apple printed checks.   Not a “pre-Apple” check. 
    shaminowatto_cobra

  • Pre-Apple check by Jobs and Woz up for auction

    chadbagchadbag
    Weird check for so many reasons.
    Would a check really require two signatures (and for such a low value)?
    Why do the amounts not match? ($100.97 vs $116.97)
    Would they really have written the cents as a fraction in the upper line rather than just the lower line?
    Would they have written out “dollars” on the line that already says “dollars” at the end?
    it also seems weird to me that the printed MICR numbers at the bottom don’t align with each other, with those at the far right matching one of the dollar amounts listed on the check (0000011697). But maybe there’s a good reason for that. 
    Having been a finance clerk for several years at a church  (before online donations became a thing) and processing many checks for donations weekly, as well as having run a business that took checks often, and having written enough checks for a lifetime, none of these things are really that off.  

    The encoded check value printed lower right is printed when the check comes in to aid in the automatic processing of it so often doesn’t line up. 

    The written amount vs the number amount is an easy enough mistake.  I’ve done it myself many times.  

    I usually write the cents on the number line as a fraction myself to avoid making it easy for someone to change the check value (it’s easy to turn a decimal into a comma).  And I’ve found myself sometimes writing “dollars” on the written line before the cents more than once. I don’t usually do that.  But have enough in my life.   Most of these things are to help avoid ambiguity.  

    The dual signatures is probably because it was a joint business account and either they or the bank wanted it.  


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