My family has had TWC for several decades, although we don't use them for our Internet service. As soon as we learned that they'd dropped CBS, we called one of their competitors and signed up with them. We were told that normally, they'd be able to have a tech out to make the switch in two or three days. Right now, it's taking about eleven days because they're so backed up with TWC customers bailing because of this. This sounds like the typical decision MBAs make when they get the chance: raise the short-term bottom line at the expense of long-term interests. With any luck, they'll lose more revenue this quarter because of the loss of customers than they'll make up by cutting down the number of channels they provide.
Does that company still use Infosys? If so, I'd be wondering who's getting a kickback for every under-qualified candidate that gets hired there. There's a reason people say, "Follow the money." It works more often than not. And, to paraphrase another old saying, never attribute to incompetence anything that can be explained by simple greed.
It looks to me as though it was developed by an engineering team with more imagination than common sense. And, I'm sorry to say, nobody took the time to tell them that there are some places where networking was not meant to go.
Of course I understand that. I just wanted to point out that it's not quite as easy as it sounds because you have to take station keeping into account.
You do understand, don't you, that except for the L4 and L5 points all of the Lagrange points are very unstable? If nothing else, Mercury would provide enough perturbation to move something like that out of alignment. You'd need lots of reaction mass, and frequent refueling to keep anything that big in place.
Do you not know just how crap open-source drivers prove to be, when a manufacturer provides enough technical info to allow such to be created?
Yes, as a matter of fact I do. I have a Toshiba laptop with integrated Intel graphics that runs Fedora 19 with Xfce and Compiz. It works very well, TYVM, with no need for proprietary video drivers.
My desktop has nVidia graphics, and uses the same desktop and Compiz. I use the binary drivers as re-packaged for Fedora only because the OSS nouveau driver isn't quite ready for the 3D effects yet. If and when it is, I'll switch over to it for simplicity's sake, as I've heard some very good things about it recently.
That might do it. However, I'm on a Linux-support mailing list with members all over the world. I can often tell that somebody's not a native English speaker because of slight grammar errors or odd constructions, e.g., "That hasn't worked since many years ago." However, that's not the type of error they usually make, although there are more and more young Americans who insist that "Me and my friends went to the movies." is proper English, so you never know.
I'm so glad that I decided to check out the comments before saying something about that. Personally, I'm wondering if knowing English grammar is a requirement for a Ph.D at whatever University he's at. And if not, why isn't it?
It may make sense to you and me, but I doubt that the extra expense required would be acceptable to the VA, or to any other healthcare provider for that matter.
Face it, we don't get any mail anymore that can't wait a day.
Maybe you don't, but some of us do. I get all of my medical care through the VA, and prescription refills all come via USPS. Depending on when I request a refill, I may not get it until I've used the last of the old. (Weekends, holidays, and delays caused by lack of inventory keep delivery times from being as predictable as I'd like.) And, I get a new vial of insulin in an insulated container once a month; I hope you don't think that can easily sit in a depot for another day without potential problems.
You might want to try again because there's been a lot of development the last year or two. I migrated there before Gnome 3 came out because the whole "one true way" mindset and the Gnome dev's flat refusal to make any effort not to break third-party extensions repelled me. Right now, I'm using Xfce 4.10 on Fedora and I'm quite happy with it.
It's not just a Western, it's a new version of the old chapter-a-week serials that used to be shown on the weekends, as are the Indiana Jones movies. Only instead of having anywhere from twelve to fifteen chapters with runtimes of about twenty minutes or so, each chapter is a full-length film. In fact, even the bit of back story given in the opening crawl comes straight from the serials; the only thing really missing is having each episode end with a cliffhanger and begin with the resolution of the previous chapter's ending.
Hollywood blockbusters have largely turned into remixes of the same movie.
And there's a very good reason. More and more, what everybody in Hollywood wants is to be the second person to be the first to do something new. It's not about being creative, imaginative or inventive any more, it's all about jumping on the bandwagon as fast as you can. Why do we see so much SF coming out now? It's because Star Wars and (to a lesser extent Star Trek) were so successful that everybody started copying them. And, if the latest incarnation of the Lone Ranger manages to do well, we'll probably be seeing more Westerns, and that might even be a good idea.
...pay for a lousy B picture in order to get the A pictures.
Clearly, you have no idea what a B picture was, and what it was intended for. B movies were simply low-budget films designed to be the second half of a double-feature. And, just because they were low budget, doesn't mean they were bad. All of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies were B, as were the Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, Nancy Drew movies, among many others. In fact, most of the SF movies from the fifties, including the various ones with giant insects, were B movies. Yes, there were some lousy B movies, but studios that pushed them out usually didn't have much in the way of A movies to go along with them.
Thank you. I understood that it was using the iris not the retina, but didn't know that it was infrared. And, because there a reasonable possibility that there'd be some light going into the eye, I was concerned that people like me might find it uncomfortable. It's always nice to know that my concerns were unfounded.
My eyes are very sensitive to bright light. Every year, when I get my eyes examined, I have to have them dilated so that the inside of the eye can be properly examined. This procedure is so painful that the ophthalmologist has to hold my eyelid open because no matter how hard I try I can't keep it open otherwise. I've offered to do i, but she always prefers to take care of it herself. And, from what she's said, this isn't exactly uncommon. I can just imagine what's going to happen the first time a student finds out that they can't keep their eye open long enough for the scan and can't get into class without it.
Several times in TFS, it says that the planet is "eclipsed" by the star. This, of course, is nonsense: the correct term is "occluded," and the event is called an occultation.
I think that right now, you and I are arguing two different points. I'm not saying that COBOL was designed to let bean counters write programs, I'm saying that it was designed to let them follow the logic of an already-written program well enough to spot any attempts at theft. As an analogy, you don't have to know how to write a murder mystery to be able to read one and (sometimes) figure things out before the protagonist does.
There are very few non-programmers who can follow most source code and have the slightest idea of what's going on. In many cases, such as Perl, it's often not enough to be a programmer, you need to understand the specific language. COBOL is the only computer language I know of that can be followed by somebody with no programming experience at all.
Of course you can; I never said you couldn't. However, with COBOL, the bean counters can audit your code and reject it either because they can't follow it (and hence don't trust it) or simply because you didn't follow their naming conventions. Remember, they're being paid, in part, to be suspicious; if they can't understand what it does they're not going to trust it.
Back when I had to learn it, in about '82, that's what we were told as an explanation of why it was so verbose. And, if you think I'm blaming COBOL for the issue, you're wrong. If you'll go back to the beginning of this thread, you'll see that the OP claimed that the code wasn't documented and I pointed out that because it was written in COBOL, the source code itself acted as documentation because of how the language was designed.
That may be true where you live, but out here in Southern California it isn't. My ISP doesn't charge by the gigabyte, and I have no complaints about bandwidth. Of course, I don't do on-line gaming, use streaming videos or download either video or audio content for enjoyment later. If you do, you might feel differently.
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My family has had TWC for several decades, although we don't use them for our Internet service. As soon as we learned that they'd dropped CBS, we called one of their competitors and signed up with them. We were told that normally, they'd be able to have a tech out to make the switch in two or three days. Right now, it's taking about eleven days because they're so backed up with TWC customers bailing because of this. This sounds like the typical decision MBAs make when they get the chance: raise the short-term bottom line at the expense of long-term interests. With any luck, they'll lose more revenue this quarter because of the loss of customers than they'll make up by cutting down the number of channels they provide.
Does that company still use Infosys? If so, I'd be wondering who's getting a kickback for every under-qualified candidate that gets hired there. There's a reason people say, "Follow the money." It works more often than not. And, to paraphrase another old saying, never attribute to incompetence anything that can be explained by simple greed.
I know you probably meant "looser restrictions," but I find "loser restrictions" far more accurate.
It looks to me as though it was developed by an engineering team with more imagination than common sense. And, I'm sorry to say, nobody took the time to tell them that there are some places where networking was not meant to go.
I don't know who that man is, but he can't possibly be John Henry! Everybody knows that John Henry was a steel-driving man!
Of course I understand that. I just wanted to point out that it's not quite as easy as it sounds because you have to take station keeping into account.
You do understand, don't you, that except for the L4 and L5 points all of the Lagrange points are very unstable? If nothing else, Mercury would provide enough perturbation to move something like that out of alignment. You'd need lots of reaction mass, and frequent refueling to keep anything that big in place.
Do you not know just how crap open-source drivers prove to be, when a manufacturer provides enough technical info to allow such to be created?
Yes, as a matter of fact I do. I have a Toshiba laptop with integrated Intel graphics that runs Fedora 19 with Xfce and Compiz. It works very well, TYVM, with no need for proprietary video drivers.
My desktop has nVidia graphics, and uses the same desktop and Compiz. I use the binary drivers as re-packaged for Fedora only because the OSS nouveau driver isn't quite ready for the 3D effects yet. If and when it is, I'll switch over to it for simplicity's sake, as I've heard some very good things about it recently.
That might do it. However, I'm on a Linux-support mailing list with members all over the world. I can often tell that somebody's not a native English speaker because of slight grammar errors or odd constructions, e.g., "That hasn't worked since many years ago." However, that's not the type of error they usually make, although there are more and more young Americans who insist that "Me and my friends went to the movies." is proper English, so you never know.
I'm so glad that I decided to check out the comments before saying something about that. Personally, I'm wondering if knowing English grammar is a requirement for a Ph.D at whatever University he's at. And if not, why isn't it?
It may make sense to you and me, but I doubt that the extra expense required would be acceptable to the VA, or to any other healthcare provider for that matter.
Face it, we don't get any mail anymore that can't wait a day.
Maybe you don't, but some of us do. I get all of my medical care through the VA, and prescription refills all come via USPS. Depending on when I request a refill, I may not get it until I've used the last of the old. (Weekends, holidays, and delays caused by lack of inventory keep delivery times from being as predictable as I'd like.) And, I get a new vial of insulin in an insulated container once a month; I hope you don't think that can easily sit in a depot for another day without potential problems.
I tried XFCE, but it wasn't quite there.
You might want to try again because there's been a lot of development the last year or two. I migrated there before Gnome 3 came out because the whole "one true way" mindset and the Gnome dev's flat refusal to make any effort not to break third-party extensions repelled me. Right now, I'm using Xfce 4.10 on Fedora and I'm quite happy with it.
I don't need to watch that to know about the serials. I've been a fan of them for almost thirty years.
It's not just a Western, it's a new version of the old chapter-a-week serials that used to be shown on the weekends, as are the Indiana Jones movies. Only instead of having anywhere from twelve to fifteen chapters with runtimes of about twenty minutes or so, each chapter is a full-length film. In fact, even the bit of back story given in the opening crawl comes straight from the serials; the only thing really missing is having each episode end with a cliffhanger and begin with the resolution of the previous chapter's ending.
Hollywood blockbusters have largely turned into remixes of the same movie.
And there's a very good reason. More and more, what everybody in Hollywood wants is to be the second person to be the first to do something new. It's not about being creative, imaginative or inventive any more, it's all about jumping on the bandwagon as fast as you can. Why do we see so much SF coming out now? It's because Star Wars and (to a lesser extent Star Trek) were so successful that everybody started copying them. And, if the latest incarnation of the Lone Ranger manages to do well, we'll probably be seeing more Westerns, and that might even be a good idea.
...pay for a lousy B picture in order to get the A pictures.
Clearly, you have no idea what a B picture was, and what it was intended for. B movies were simply low-budget films designed to be the second half of a double-feature. And, just because they were low budget, doesn't mean they were bad. All of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies were B, as were the Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, Nancy Drew movies, among many others. In fact, most of the SF movies from the fifties, including the various ones with giant insects, were B movies. Yes, there were some lousy B movies, but studios that pushed them out usually didn't have much in the way of A movies to go along with them.
Thank you. I understood that it was using the iris not the retina, but didn't know that it was infrared. And, because there a reasonable possibility that there'd be some light going into the eye, I was concerned that people like me might find it uncomfortable. It's always nice to know that my concerns were unfounded.
My eyes are very sensitive to bright light. Every year, when I get my eyes examined, I have to have them dilated so that the inside of the eye can be properly examined. This procedure is so painful that the ophthalmologist has to hold my eyelid open because no matter how hard I try I can't keep it open otherwise. I've offered to do i, but she always prefers to take care of it herself. And, from what she's said, this isn't exactly uncommon. I can just imagine what's going to happen the first time a student finds out that they can't keep their eye open long enough for the scan and can't get into class without it.
Several times in TFS, it says that the planet is "eclipsed" by the star. This, of course, is nonsense: the correct term is "occluded," and the event is called an occultation.
I think that right now, you and I are arguing two different points. I'm not saying that COBOL was designed to let bean counters write programs, I'm saying that it was designed to let them follow the logic of an already-written program well enough to spot any attempts at theft. As an analogy, you don't have to know how to write a murder mystery to be able to read one and (sometimes) figure things out before the protagonist does.
There are very few non-programmers who can follow most source code and have the slightest idea of what's going on. In many cases, such as Perl, it's often not enough to be a programmer, you need to understand the specific language. COBOL is the only computer language I know of that can be followed by somebody with no programming experience at all.
Of course you can; I never said you couldn't. However, with COBOL, the bean counters can audit your code and reject it either because they can't follow it (and hence don't trust it) or simply because you didn't follow their naming conventions. Remember, they're being paid, in part, to be suspicious; if they can't understand what it does they're not going to trust it.
Back when I had to learn it, in about '82, that's what we were told as an explanation of why it was so verbose. And, if you think I'm blaming COBOL for the issue, you're wrong. If you'll go back to the beginning of this thread, you'll see that the OP claimed that the code wasn't documented and I pointed out that because it was written in COBOL, the source code itself acted as documentation because of how the language was designed.
That may be true where you live, but out here in Southern California it isn't. My ISP doesn't charge by the gigabyte, and I have no complaints about bandwidth. Of course, I don't do on-line gaming, use streaming videos or download either video or audio content for enjoyment later. If you do, you might feel differently.