Will that be content that people really want to watch, or will it be just more channels of junk. This could be an opportunity to have more specialized, more niche stuff.
I had a feeling that satellites were used to deliver the signal to the cable providers, the main branch I used to drive past on the way to school, all those long years ago had a dish visible from the freeway.
I was wondering if that was what the original post I was responding to was refering to, or to satellite delivery to the end consumer.
And if it is delivery to the cable co, the I would have expected thay they would have the satellites already.
I was thinking more from the video side, and the implications that that would have on their "high speed internet" options. It they convert to satellite for video, they still need infrastructure to do the internet and phone over, and satellite wont cut it, as far as I know. So, satellite for just the video puts them in the position of having to maintain all the old plumbing, along with getting the new satellites operational. I dont see how this works, but, heck, I've been wrong before, so I thought I would ask.
I don't recall saying that everyone in the Middle East bought into the Jihadi mindset, but a sizeable number do.
My apology for misreading your post on that.
I see "the west's" course on this as taking away everything that excuses in sympathy for the Jihadist cause, while remaining firm and steadfast. No appeasment. But make it obvious that the way for the masses to get what they want ( which I see as peace to pursue their lives ) is in cooperation. Do I know how to get there? No, but responding to the fringe's rocket attacks by killing those that are close to the "we want to be left in peace" factions is not making our case. Note that I understand Israel's desire to react. It is not unreasonable, but it does no long term good, it accomplishes exactly what the fringe groups want, alienation and disaffect. Blair gave a speech not that long ago, I think he hit the nail on the head.
This is kinda like vietnam, it is hard to bring the true other side to it's knees.
Yes, Hezbollah brought on Lebanon. I think they hoped to force Iran and or Syria into the game. If Israel had declined the leash, do you think they could have brought hezbollah to it's knees? If so, how do you think they would do this, and what would the collateral damage look like? ( the preceeding was not a rhetorical question ).
I dont believe that I ever said that we should give "them" what they want. I merely said that that would be their reponse. My saying that does not mean that I nessesarily believe that it is correct, good, or "what we should do". I am possessed of an ability to at least attempt to understand "the enemy" without believing as they do.
As for my use of "y'all", the parent to my post had used it, I was using that post as a template for humourous purposes.
I dont believe I have a "linguistic superiority complex". I also dont believe that southerners are inherently stupid. You are free to continue to believe I do, or not, as you like.
On Israel, US support of Israel seems to be a large part of the ill will directed at the US by those in the middle east. If you are correct, and everyone in the middle east buys into this Jihadi mindset, then that is equally directed at every non-muslim run country, no? So, why the special stuff aimed at the US and her allies. Mind you, I dont believe that everyone in the middle east believes that. I do believe that there is a fringe element that does, and that they are trying to motivate the vast indifferent masses into action. And it seems that our prejudices and reactions are serving them well.
I dont willfully ignore Jihadi ideology. I dont buy into the notion that the middle east peoples uniformly and totally think this way. If all they do, then why have they not managed more than they have? If they were all so uniformly ready to be suicide bombers, then why havent they accomplished the goal of pushing Israel into the sea? Why did Egypt sign the camp David accords with Israel? Why havent Iran and Syria acted on the provocations of Israel's actions in Lebanon? Why didnt our actions in Iraq lead to a huge tidal wave of terrorists to drive us out? Note, I recogise that some people did go, but not all that many, really, compared to the muslim population of the middle east.
I dont recall saying that Bin Laden was a freedom fighter. I believe he is in the fringe group I mentioned trying to get political and emotional tractions with the masses for the purposes of getting them to act on his behalf. And, yes, I agree that the true calphate you mention is his goal. And I agree that that would be a tragedy for many.
I think the west's greatest weakness is the desire to oversimplify, to believe the sound bites, to be lazy and not continue to look deeper into things.
I sense that your meaning is "the SEC should not be punishing these acts, just pointing them out for the market to deal with".
If I am in error, I beg your indulgence and forgiveness.
If not, then I would ask "how can the market deal with this"? Shareholders will grumble, but if they sell, then someone else will *have* to buy. If the stock is voting, then technically they can vote against the board, but how often does that happen, and just what do the board members learn from this? If there were no external sanctions, would anything happen to the stock price?
Excel is pretty good, but I dont see anything groundbreaking or "great" about it, really. I would think 123 or Visicalc would get it. I can understand the rational behind not giving it to Visicalc in terms of not being complete, but 123 was. All Excel added was running with a native Windows UI.
You have obviously forgotten that the elites deserve much better treatment than the averages do.
And of course, he is just so right on the button in pointing out that investor confidence is not built unless the investors are allowed to keep their heads in the sand.
And for the sarcasm impaired, sarcasm mode is now off.
I looked for a page that described the advantages of BCD, but I could not find one. So I'll have a stab at it myself. Basically, while slower, BCD can maintain arbitrary precision. If you have monitary items and you have a good handle on the range of values, you can store and operate on these values without any rounding losses at all.
I bothered to ask the question of what to use for monitary usage at a financial institution in my recent past. I was a bit ( pardon the pun ) suprised to get a blank stare, to have to explain what I was talking about. Floats where good enough. Course, I had a problem in.net with iterating thru a list of values ( testing, each was.1, for 10% ), and the sum wasnt 1.0. Had to do a bunch of
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Will that be content that people really want to watch, or will it be
just more channels of junk. This could be an opportunity to have
more specialized, more niche stuff.
Tubes, ha, you crack me up.
I had a feeling that satellites were used to deliver the
signal to the cable providers, the main branch I used to
drive past on the way to school, all those long years
ago had a dish visible from the freeway.
I was wondering if that was what the original post I was
responding to was refering to, or to satellite delivery
to the end consumer.
And if it is delivery to the cable co, the I would have
expected thay they would have the satellites already.
I was thinking more from the video side, and the implications that
that would have on their "high speed internet" options. It they
convert to satellite for video, they still need infrastructure to
do the internet and phone over, and satellite wont cut it, as far
as I know. So, satellite for just the video puts them in the
position of having to maintain all the old plumbing, along with
getting the new satellites operational. I dont see how this works,
but, heck, I've been wrong before, so I thought I would ask.
Why do they need satellites?
Deer Boss,
You forget that I wrote the timeclocking system.
You better see *your* boss bright and early
Monday morning. Remember, I read BOFH nearly
religiously. Dont make this too hard on yourself.
Duhavid
PS: What is this "clocking out" thing you talk of?
:-)
I thought it was worth a shot.
This is your boss.
I quite agree.
See you Monday. Bright and early!
He also took them out of Israel.
:-)
Egypt, Exodus,
Babylon Daniel
Persia, Ester
Then there is "my kingdom is not of this world", John 18:36
My apology for misreading your post on that.
I see "the west's" course on this as taking away everything
that excuses in sympathy for the Jihadist cause, while remaining
firm and steadfast. No appeasment. But make it obvious that
the way for the masses to get what they want ( which I see as
peace to pursue their lives ) is in cooperation. Do I know
how to get there? No, but responding to the fringe's rocket
attacks by killing those that are close to the "we want to be
left in peace" factions is not making our case. Note that I
understand Israel's desire to react. It is not unreasonable,
but it does no long term good, it accomplishes exactly what
the fringe groups want, alienation and disaffect. Blair gave
a speech not that long ago, I think he hit the nail on the head.
This is kinda like vietnam, it is hard to bring the true other side
to it's knees.
Yes, Hezbollah brought on Lebanon. I think they hoped to force
Iran and or Syria into the game. If Israel had declined the leash,
do you think they could have brought hezbollah to it's knees? If
so, how do you think they would do this, and what would the collateral
damage look like? ( the preceeding was not a rhetorical question ).
I dont believe that I ever said that we should give
"them" what they want. I merely said that that would
be their reponse. My saying that does not mean that
I nessesarily believe that it is correct, good, or
"what we should do". I am possessed of an ability
to at least attempt to understand "the enemy" without
believing as they do.
As for my use of "y'all", the parent to my post had
used it, I was using that post as a template for
humourous purposes.
I dont believe I have a "linguistic superiority complex".
I also dont believe that southerners are inherently stupid.
You are free to continue to believe I do, or not, as
you like.
On Israel, US support of Israel seems to be a large part
of the ill will directed at the US by those in the middle
east. If you are correct, and everyone in the middle east
buys into this Jihadi mindset, then that is equally directed
at every non-muslim run country, no? So, why the special
stuff aimed at the US and her allies. Mind you, I dont
believe that everyone in the middle east believes that. I
do believe that there is a fringe element that does, and
that they are trying to motivate the vast indifferent masses
into action. And it seems that our prejudices and reactions
are serving them well.
I dont willfully ignore Jihadi ideology. I dont buy into the
notion that the middle east peoples uniformly and totally think
this way. If all they do, then why have they not managed more
than they have? If they were all so uniformly ready to be
suicide bombers, then why havent they accomplished the goal
of pushing Israel into the sea? Why did Egypt sign the camp
David accords with Israel? Why havent Iran and Syria acted
on the provocations of Israel's actions in Lebanon? Why didnt
our actions in Iraq lead to a huge tidal wave of terrorists to
drive us out? Note, I recogise that some people did go, but
not all that many, really, compared to the muslim population
of the middle east.
I dont recall saying that Bin Laden was a freedom fighter.
I believe he is in the fringe group I mentioned trying to get political
and emotional tractions with the masses for the purposes of
getting them to act on his behalf. And, yes, I agree that the
true calphate you mention is his goal. And I agree that that
would be a tragedy for many.
I think the west's greatest weakness is the desire to oversimplify, to
believe the sound bites, to be lazy and not continue to look deeper
into things.
Cheaper would be an AS/400 with 5250 emulation
cards in those PCs.
The response is likely to be
"Can y'all ( they are from the south of the
middle east, y'know ) give us back
Palistine? Find another place for
the Israelis? Please? Thanks, guys".
Na.
What you really need is that stewardess that says
"Room for one more, Honey" as you are getting on
the plane.
Then you can know, and run screaming from the plane.
Temperature was important as well.
I see.
So, you are saying the SEC has done all it is supposed to do?
Then my question is "there is a regulation, if the SEC should
not enforce it, who should"?
I sense that your meaning is "the SEC should not be punishing these
acts, just pointing them out for the market to deal with".
If I am in error, I beg your indulgence and forgiveness.
If not, then I would ask "how can the market deal with this"?
Shareholders will grumble, but if they sell, then someone else
will *have* to buy. If the stock is voting, then technically
they can vote against the board, but how often does that happen,
and just what do the board members learn from this? If there
were no external sanctions, would anything happen to the stock
price?
Excel is pretty good, but I dont see anything groundbreaking
or "great" about it, really. I would think 123 or Visicalc
would get it. I can understand the rational behind not
giving it to Visicalc in terms of not being complete, but
123 was. All Excel added was running with a native Windows
UI.
You have obviously forgotten that the elites deserve
much better treatment than the averages do.
And of course, he is just so right on the button
in pointing out that investor confidence is not
built unless the investors are allowed to keep
their heads in the sand.
And for the sarcasm impaired, sarcasm mode is now off.
I knew that. I was suprised that they didnt.
l
FYI, you reimplemented BCD, basically, with your
string solution. There are packages to do that,
I saw a couple listed in other posts. Here is
one.
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decnumber.htm
Thanks.
I had expected them to have a library of such things,
since that was their business.
See, I knew that, hence the question to them.
I was suprised that they didnt.
I knew that. I was hoping that they would say something like
"Yeah, we use ". The blank stare was
a bit suprising.
Binary Coded Decimal would be one.
I looked for a page that described the advantages
of BCD, but I could not find one. So I'll have a
stab at it myself. Basically, while slower, BCD
can maintain arbitrary precision. If you have
monitary items and you have a good handle on the
range of values, you can store and operate on these
values without any rounding losses at all.
It is a little newsworthy.
.net with iterating thru .1, for 10% ), and the
I bothered to ask the question of what to use for monitary
usage at a financial institution in my recent past. I was
a bit ( pardon the pun ) suprised to get a blank stare, to
have to explain what I was talking about. Floats where good
enough. Course, I had a problem in
a list of values ( testing, each was
sum wasnt 1.0. Had to do a bunch of
decimal.parse(value.ToString())
to get things to sum up correctly.
I dont recall having said I adore Dvorak.