"There’s still a lot of customers who don’t have debit cards..." Do these customers wait in line for a teller to withdraw cash? Why wait in line? Just go to the automated teller machine at the bank and withdraw cash.
In all of the accounts I have held in the last 20 years, the Debit Card IS the ATM card. So if they don't have a Debit Card, they don't have an ATM card.
The Cloud ate my homework? Certainly more believable than the dog eating it, especially with all the news articles we keep seeing of major vendors such as Microsoft having outages.
The Cloud is great for offline backup services (be sure to encrypt), but connectivity is not a given even in this day and age. Work locally.
I loved my chiclet keyboard on my TRS-80 Co-Co. Everybody else had the full IBM Selectric keyboards. I Guess Tandy was just 30 years ahead of its time. My latest laptop at work has a Chiclet keyboard. I guess it is okay. Luckily, the touchpad is able to draw attention away from the keyboard by the fact that it is utterly, utterly awful. Sometimes, it just doesn't work at all, sometimes you can right click and then while repositioning your hand to click on the popup menu, it dismisses it. Sometimes it right clicks when you want it to left click. Sometimes vice versa. Sometimes the pointer won't move even when you are dragging your finger across the surface. Click and drag is an utter frustration. Unfortunately, this is our corporate standard laptop so there is nothing I can do about it. But if it was my personal one, I would have shipped it back stating that the touchpad rendered it unusable without a connected mouse. It's a Dell , by the way in case you are wanting to avoid similar frustration.
Very clever. Now do Kevin Bacon. I'm sure it would be just as easy.
Why do people insist on trying to prove things with numerology using a translation of the Bible? Does it not work in the original Greek (in the case of Revelations)? Even if it did work in the original Greek, we have to remember that They didn't have copy machines back then and these scrolls were copied by hand. So the exact placement of a word in a verse is not guaranteed from version to version. Nor were there chapters and verses in the original texts. That is a western construct. There is plenty of meaning in the Bible without having to ascribe numerological patterns which cannot possibly be consistent from translation to translation.
if they could prove that all the increased funding was going toward paying developers to develop ever more complex fund raising campaigns, then it would be circular.
This reminds me of when Oklahoma City invented the parking meter to raise additional money for infrastructure downtown. Shortly afterwards, they realized that some people were not paying the parking meters. So they invented the parking enforcement department, the budget of which was approximately equal to the amount of revenue received from the parking meters.
Because the actions inside one state has caused disruption across the country.
That is not the state's fault. They didn't do anything wrong. It was the people, reacting inappropriately, that are a problem. According to the grand jury and the evidence, the police acted inappropriately.
I bet half the people participating in this walkout think the kid's name was Ferguson. They just want an excuse to not go to work and to burn and steal.
By every single metric US drivers are worse than the majority of those in other western countries.
See, there's the problem. In the US, we don't use metric...or metrics.If you believe you are the best, what have you possibly got to benefit by measuring?
They didn't impose a limit rather they said in absence of a clear limit you could not charge someone with speeding since they had no way to know of sure wether or not they were complying with the law.
Sure you can. They didn't harm themselves or anyone else and so therefore the speed was reasonable and prudent and the ticket was baseless.
Usually German cars keep to the right until they have to move over to pass someone, which they only do when no-one faster is in the next lane coming up on them. To sit in the left lane when there is no need to is highly frowned upon, and rather stupid, as people can fly up on you doing over 200, forcing you to merge back over in short notice, when you should have been there anyway.
I can attest to this as well. I have a German car, and it performs exactly as you state. Although I have also noticed that my wife's Japanese car also does the same thing when I am driving it.
You sound like a guy I work with.He turned isolation level down to dirty reads and believes it will have no effect on relational integrity. It is already causing problems with programs picking up items to work on that are not in the correct status. He believes we can solve all these problems by rearranging code. However, if A and B both must happen for a transaction to occur, I don't see how doing B first instead of A but not doing it as a transaction is somehow going to fix the problem. What if you do B first and A blows up? Now you have data that is out of synch.
Don't forget you have to pay the driver. For that 5 mile trip, it is probably about half an hour in New York City. The average Taxi driver's total compensation including benefits is about $50k, and we'll just ignore FICA to make the math easier. $50k is about $25/hour, so the 5 mile trip cost the business $2.70 wear and tear plus about $12.50 in salary and benefits, or a total of about $15.20.
Naturally, the taxi company is not out there to lose money, so somewhere in there something is less expensive than we have calculated or the ride is more expensive. But what is certain is that the profit is not 500%.
1. Aren't you a little black to be a stormtrooper?
If Star Wars taught us anything, in the future (but somehow the past) Blacks are relegated to positions of being political shills for the empire. Hmm, Star Wars ahead of its time?
I'm not saying it looks bad, I'm just saying it looks like what talented college students were doing for their end of year projects...
That is how the original series was done. My Senior Design instructor, Tom DeFanti, and the Electronic Visualization Lab were responsible for some of the work in the original Star Wars movie.
That's okay. My IT department prevents me from viewing Youtube videos because then I would be unproductive for 88 seconds (while I am eating lunch). So instead, I'll have to spend hours trying to hunt it down on a site that I CAN access. Or maybe I'll just not watch it and post lots of comments anyway. That's how slashdot usually works.
Millenium Falcon shot: I hope he's got a new pilot, because I think Han's getting too old for this. Also: 25+ years later and they're still using original TIE fighters?
Harrison Ford still has a valid pilot's license.
As far as technology goes, what I observed from the episodes 1-3 is that they had better technology available than they did in 4-6, like double bladed light sabers, unlike the paltry one bladed ones available in the future. It's almost like their society is failing and their technology is limited to only what has already been produced and hasn't been destroyed yet. They should count themselves lucky to have TIE fighters.
> The anticipation for Assassin's Creed Unity was such that the myriad of bugs and technical issues experienced at launch felt like an *even greater* slap in the face for gamers
Even greater? So the release of an anticipated game itself is a slap in the face apparently.
I'm so annoyed by this entitled gamer culture, that speaks of "slaps in the face" when a game doesn't work 100% flawless at launch. These "gamers" generally don't know anything about programming, they have no respect for the incredibly complex kind of applications these "games" are. The developers always have to up all the graphical and AI capabilities, plus they have to support every platform, console and PC, under the sun. This amount to a gargantuan programming task under very tight deadlines, all because the "gamers" are waiting for their preorders, and then when launch day comes they speak of "slaps in the face".
Fuck off entitled gamers and your dumb "community", write your own games, I bet you you couldn't even program a tetris.
Wah! Poor developers. It is too much to expect them to be able to deliver a bug free product. Hmm, back in the days before internet or even BBSs, there was no possibility of "bug fixes". Many games were cartridge based. It just had to work. Period. Even into the 90's games had to be production ready before they could be released because updating was not possible. Now that most of the world is connected, we think it is okay to have buggy software because it can be fixed byt downloading a patch. Call me old fashioned, but I don't accept that.
The landfills are there anyway. They are not talking about creating new landfills so they can harvest energy. They are talking about harvesting energy from something which is already there and the available energy is just being wasted.
... plus they don't talk about energy *consumed* in scotland, only generated. It would be more useful if there were a statement that scotland is a net importer vs. exporter of electricity.
That's a good point. The power produced by my house is 100% "renewable" energy. However, the fraction goes down significantly when you consider that I am largely dependent upon the electrical grid.
400 MB is enough to store a library. The problem is, a picture is worth a thousand words, but it takes the space of 100,000. And a video takes the space of 10 or 20 pictures per second of video.
Pictures and video is what a lot of the large drives are being used to store.
Because the cost of a drive to a company is somehow many hundreds of times what it is to you and me. My company measures the cost of disk at $10,000 per terabyte, whereas I can get a 3 Terabyte drive for less than $100.
My company has 60 employees and they have a 1 GB limit on e-mail accounts. I'm not sure they still manufacture drives small enough to where that is a valid limitation.
They also encourage you to back up your data, and provider a shared drive amongst all users which has a total size of 40 GB. Most of our laptops have 1 to 2 TB drives.
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"There’s still a lot of customers who don’t have debit cards..." Do these customers wait in line for a teller to withdraw cash? Why wait in line? Just go to the automated teller machine at the bank and withdraw cash.
In all of the accounts I have held in the last 20 years, the Debit Card IS the ATM card. So if they don't have a Debit Card, they don't have an ATM card.
It takes days for transfers to go through. It's like going to a pharmacy and waiting a hour for some monkey to put 30 pills into a bottle.
No, it takes seconds for transfers to go through. It takes days for them to release the funds to you while they sit on the money and make interest.
Possible dependency on on-line services?
The Cloud ate my homework? Certainly more believable than the dog eating it, especially with all the news articles we keep seeing of major vendors such as Microsoft having outages.
The Cloud is great for offline backup services (be sure to encrypt), but connectivity is not a given even in this day and age. Work locally.
I loved my chiclet keyboard on my TRS-80 Co-Co. Everybody else had the full IBM Selectric keyboards. I Guess Tandy was just 30 years ahead of its time. My latest laptop at work has a Chiclet keyboard. I guess it is okay. Luckily, the touchpad is able to draw attention away from the keyboard by the fact that it is utterly, utterly awful. Sometimes, it just doesn't work at all, sometimes you can right click and then while repositioning your hand to click on the popup menu, it dismisses it. Sometimes it right clicks when you want it to left click. Sometimes vice versa. Sometimes the pointer won't move even when you are dragging your finger across the surface. Click and drag is an utter frustration. Unfortunately, this is our corporate standard laptop so there is nothing I can do about it. But if it was my personal one, I would have shipped it back stating that the touchpad rendered it unusable without a connected mouse. It's a Dell , by the way in case you are wanting to avoid similar frustration.
Very clever. Now do Kevin Bacon. I'm sure it would be just as easy.
Why do people insist on trying to prove things with numerology using a translation of the Bible? Does it not work in the original Greek (in the case of Revelations)? Even if it did work in the original Greek, we have to remember that They didn't have copy machines back then and these scrolls were copied by hand. So the exact placement of a word in a verse is not guaranteed from version to version. Nor were there chapters and verses in the original texts. That is a western construct.
There is plenty of meaning in the Bible without having to ascribe numerological patterns which cannot possibly be consistent from translation to translation.
if they could prove that all the increased funding was going toward paying developers to develop ever more complex fund raising campaigns, then it would be circular.
This reminds me of when Oklahoma City invented the parking meter to raise additional money for infrastructure downtown. Shortly afterwards, they realized that some people were not paying the parking meters. So they invented the parking enforcement department, the budget of which was approximately equal to the amount of revenue received from the parking meters.
You're forgetting the matching funds. It's $3,000/bodycam.
Because the actions inside one state has caused disruption across the country.
That is not the state's fault. They didn't do anything wrong. It was the people, reacting inappropriately, that are a problem. According to the grand jury and the evidence, the police acted inappropriately.
I bet half the people participating in this walkout think the kid's name was Ferguson. They just want an excuse to not go to work and to burn and steal.
By every single metric US drivers are worse than the majority of those in other western countries.
See, there's the problem. In the US, we don't use metric...or metrics.If you believe you are the best, what have you possibly got to benefit by measuring?
They didn't impose a limit rather they said in absence of a clear limit you could not charge someone with speeding since they had no way to know of sure wether or not they were complying with the law.
Sure you can. They didn't harm themselves or anyone else and so therefore the speed was reasonable and prudent and the ticket was baseless.
Usually German cars keep to the right until they have to move over to pass someone, which they only do when no-one faster is in the next lane coming up on them. To sit in the left lane when there is no need to is highly frowned upon, and rather stupid, as people can fly up on you doing over 200, forcing you to merge back over in short notice, when you should have been there anyway.
I can attest to this as well. I have a German car, and it performs exactly as you state. Although I have also noticed that my wife's Japanese car also does the same thing when I am driving it.
You sound like a guy I work with.He turned isolation level down to dirty reads and believes it will have no effect on relational integrity. It is already causing problems with programs picking up items to work on that are not in the correct status. He believes we can solve all these problems by rearranging code. However, if A and B both must happen for a transaction to occur, I don't see how doing B first instead of A but not doing it as a transaction is somehow going to fix the problem. What if you do B first and A blows up? Now you have data that is out of synch.
Don't forget you have to pay the driver. For that 5 mile trip, it is probably about half an hour in New York City. The average Taxi driver's total compensation including benefits is about $50k, and we'll just ignore FICA to make the math easier. $50k is about $25/hour, so the 5 mile trip cost the business $2.70 wear and tear plus about $12.50 in salary and benefits, or a total of about $15.20.
Naturally, the taxi company is not out there to lose money, so somewhere in there something is less expensive than we have calculated or the ride is more expensive. But what is certain is that the profit is not 500%.
So considering that in space, there is no G-Force,
You have clearly never been in space.
1. Aren't you a little black to be a stormtrooper?
If Star Wars taught us anything, in the future (but somehow the past) Blacks are relegated to positions of being political shills for the empire. Hmm, Star Wars ahead of its time?
I'm not saying it looks bad, I'm just saying it looks like what talented college students were doing for their end of year projects...
That is how the original series was done. My Senior Design instructor, Tom DeFanti, and the Electronic Visualization Lab were responsible for some of the work in the original Star Wars movie.
That's okay. My IT department prevents me from viewing Youtube videos because then I would be unproductive for 88 seconds (while I am eating lunch). So instead, I'll have to spend hours trying to hunt it down on a site that I CAN access. Or maybe I'll just not watch it and post lots of comments anyway. That's how slashdot usually works.
Millenium Falcon shot: I hope he's got a new pilot, because I think Han's getting too old for this. Also: 25+ years later and they're still using original TIE fighters?
Harrison Ford still has a valid pilot's license.
As far as technology goes, what I observed from the episodes 1-3 is that they had better technology available than they did in 4-6, like double bladed light sabers, unlike the paltry one bladed ones available in the future. It's almost like their society is failing and their technology is limited to only what has already been produced and hasn't been destroyed yet. They should count themselves lucky to have TIE fighters.
> The anticipation for Assassin's Creed Unity was such that the myriad of bugs and technical issues experienced at launch felt like an *even greater* slap in the face for gamers
Even greater? So the release of an anticipated game itself is a slap in the face apparently.
I'm so annoyed by this entitled gamer culture, that speaks of "slaps in the face" when a game doesn't work 100% flawless at launch. These "gamers" generally don't know anything about programming, they have no respect for the incredibly complex kind of applications these "games" are. The developers always have to up all the graphical and AI capabilities, plus they have to support every platform, console and PC, under the sun. This amount to a gargantuan programming task under very tight deadlines, all because the "gamers" are waiting for their preorders, and then when launch day comes they speak of "slaps in the face".
Fuck off entitled gamers and your dumb "community", write your own games, I bet you you couldn't even program a tetris.
Wah! Poor developers. It is too much to expect them to be able to deliver a bug free product. Hmm, back in the days before internet or even BBSs, there was no possibility of "bug fixes". Many games were cartridge based. It just had to work. Period. Even into the 90's games had to be production ready before they could be released because updating was not possible. Now that most of the world is connected, we think it is okay to have buggy software because it can be fixed byt downloading a patch. Call me old fashioned, but I don't accept that.
The ash cloud is only a kilometer high? Why don't they just fly over it?
The landfills are there anyway. They are not talking about creating new landfills so they can harvest energy. They are talking about harvesting energy from something which is already there and the available energy is just being wasted.
... plus they don't talk about energy *consumed* in scotland, only generated. It would be more useful if there were a statement that scotland is a net importer vs. exporter of electricity.
That's a good point. The power produced by my house is 100% "renewable" energy. However, the fraction goes down significantly when you consider that I am largely dependent upon the electrical grid.
In truth, there is no such thing as a renewable energy source. Some energy sources just happen to be unsustainable on a longer timeline than others.
400 MB is enough to store a library. The problem is, a picture is worth a thousand words, but it takes the space of 100,000. And a video takes the space of 10 or 20 pictures per second of video.
Pictures and video is what a lot of the large drives are being used to store.
Because the cost of a drive to a company is somehow many hundreds of times what it is to you and me. My company measures the cost of disk at $10,000 per terabyte, whereas I can get a 3 Terabyte drive for less than $100.
My company has 60 employees and they have a 1 GB limit on e-mail accounts. I'm not sure they still manufacture drives small enough to where that is a valid limitation.
They also encourage you to back up your data, and provider a shared drive amongst all users which has a total size of 40 GB. Most of our laptops have 1 to 2 TB drives.