Thanks for the correction on the date. I think you'll be surprised at how fast banks adopt this. It's a major cost savings for them to be able to eliminate the filing and forwarding of the paper check and reproduce a replacement check only when needed.
So yes, after the 28th there will be paper flying around and it's definitely not going to disappear any time soon, but the volume will begin to decrease after that date. And I'm sure most of the larger banks have Check21 projects in place and will startup on or soon after that date. I just finished up a piece of one such project.
My paycheck once took a trip around the country. Took over a week to get there.
My rent check took a month to get to my landlord and lived a few blocks away.
Oh, and when you deposit a check. The banks now just make a copy and shred the original. So you're really not any better off using paper. Do a news search for Check21
At least for me for 10 years or more. Honestly I never understood how the HD 3 1/2" floppies lasted as long as they did. When I bought boxes, half the disks wouldn't format and the other half would die within a week. One of the most unreliable ways to store data I've ever seen.
Definitely beneficial! We could take Tribes 2 or Quake, or the like and build entire simulated armies. Instead of actually killing people we could simulate wars and just abide by the results.
And you thought computer games were bad. They may save us from extinction.
I could see them offering $100k to the winner without batting an eye. Are they awarding enough to first place?
Yeah, that 10k is a bargain for the publicity they get. I'm sure there are other expenses as well, but it's still a bargain
Creating new ideas and systems does not require experience alone -- it requires a great deal of potential.
And I've seen projects created by very smart creative people that ended up a mess. For two reasons, the person while creative and smart wasn't an experienced coder. And the person started slinging code without any kind of road map. While the program worked well in the beginning it digenerates into a mess as others try to maintain it. Eventually another smart person comes along and rewrites it and the cycle starts all over again.
There was an excellant article on FoxNews.com discusing the social engineer impacts of China. And that's basically what they were saying. Society when left alone is better able to deal with problems than some central entity. And that artifical external tinkering usually has unintended consequences.
I happened to run across a guy discussing his career moves and some other somewhat sensitive items. I had put in a couple of company names in Google and up popped his blog.
One should try and be a bit more anonymous or general when blogging.
No it's not. It would be if the porch light became dimmer as more people read by it, but it doesn't. Or if bandwidth was unlimitted.
Imaging if you have a dozen people sitting outside sending out millions of messages containing spam. This has already happened in hotels. You're bandwidth for your real patrons and your internal network is going to be severly affected.
Oh, sorry, you must have thought I was joking. Oddly enough I got a similar reaction when I walked into the pet shop earlier this morning.
I wonder how much thermal energy these hamsters would generate during this activity.
One hamster may not be much, but imagine a building full of hamsters each running on its own wheel! And for those peak usage periods just throw in a cat to the mix.
But if MS had required your average user to think about security they would have had as much desktop penetration as UNIX did. When all this began, security wasn't that big of a deal. And is MS alone in this issue? What about Apple, I don't remember dealing with users an Apple Mac.
Used to be I only went out to the store after watching TV to buy all the stuff I saw on the commercials. Now I'll be doing that after every video game I play. I guess I'll have to fill out more of those credit card applications.
The equation I was driving at is valid, software + hardware + setup + maintenance = cost.
In my particular case Windows won out. I've been using Windows since Win286, so I know it well. I've used UNIX on and off over the years so I'm not nearly as versed in it.
So another component that I would get out of this discussion, is that using Windows guru's to admin UNIX/Linux system is expensive as would be using UNIX guru's to admin Window servers.
It's similar to the UI arguments on the Mac. I've been around a lot of Mac users who swear by the UI. After having a Power book for a couple of years I just ended up swearing at it.
There is more to cost than the software. My time is worth at least $50 an hour. And so if I have to muck around with a free piece of software more than commercial it can quickly become more "expensive" than its commercial counterpart.
Would you take a free car if it cost $1000 for gas and maintenance?
The cool part is the VM, not the language. I've used Java, C#, C++, and many others. Java and C# offer modest improvements over C++ while taking away a number of useful tools.
Hopefully at some point someone will get it right and come out with a language that is truly an improvement.
Though I really would love more improvements in the development environments. Today's environments are 20 years old and not capable of managing the software we're creating today. Think about it, nothing much has changed since Borland's Turbo Pascal.
"Disposable" makes me think you use it and throw it in the trash. I don't think of those Blue Rhino propane tanks as disposable. It's more like "returnable". Hopefully the cameras you get will be in better shape than some of those Blue Rhino tanks I've seen.
Free? What is free? I've went that route before and often find that I spend extra time to deal with the "free" stuff. It's an important point Open Source must learn. Time isn't free. And if your product costs me hours more than a commercial product, then that's a cost to me. If I can save $100 on a unit, and spend 5 hours dinking with it, that's not exactly a win for me, IMO. DISCLAIMER: I have never used MythTV, so I'm not saying that it's harder to use. This is just from my experience with other "free" stuff.
I was bitten by poorly written software installed on my system by a game I had installed. I never realized the thing had installed a program that launched at startup and continued to run. Once a minute it would go out to the manufacture's site and do who knows what.
I was playing Tribes and noticed that every so off my link would get bad, about once a minute. I thought it was my ISP.
While sitting watching TV I had happened to leave Task Manager up and running. I saw the CPU go to 100% for a couple of seconds. That peaked my interest. Sorted on CPU usage and waited and sure enough it happened again. I found the offending process, terminated it, did some checking and found out it had been installed by this game. AND it turned out this was what was causing Tribes to freeze ever so often.
Honestly I don't mind authors trying to protect their software, but hey, leave my system alone. There are enough buggy drivers I have to live with without someone adding something else that can crash the entire system.
And I wonder how long it will take for someone to create a hacked version of the driver that will negate their efforts?
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Thanks for the correction on the date. I think you'll be surprised at how fast banks adopt this. It's a major cost savings for them to be able to eliminate the filing and forwarding of the paper check and reproduce a replacement check only when needed.
So yes, after the 28th there will be paper flying around and it's definitely not going to disappear any time soon, but the volume will begin to decrease after that date. And I'm sure most of the larger banks have Check21 projects in place and will startup on or soon after that date. I just finished up a piece of one such project.
My paycheck once took a trip around the country. Took over a week to get there.
My rent check took a month to get to my landlord and lived a few blocks away.
Oh, and when you deposit a check. The banks now just make a copy and shred the original. So you're really not any better off using paper. Do a news search for Check21
I think a ceramic material would be better and cheaper. Something similar to the heat shield tiles on the shuttle.
If you had a very calm day you could probably buy one of these. They offer a wireless video camera for it.
At least for me for 10 years or more. Honestly I never understood how the HD 3 1/2" floppies lasted as long as they did. When I bought boxes, half the disks wouldn't format and the other half would die within a week. One of the most unreliable ways to store data I've ever seen.
Good by and good riddence!
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? It doesn't matter if it's a nuclear effect "in your mind".
Maybe if everyone thinks happy thoughts it would come to pass. Think hard and a signature line will appear
Definitely beneficial! We could take Tribes 2 or Quake, or the like and build entire simulated armies. Instead of actually killing people we could simulate wars and just abide by the results.
And you thought computer games were bad. They may save us from extinction.
I could see them offering $100k to the winner without batting an eye. Are they awarding enough to first place?
Yeah, that 10k is a bargain for the publicity they get. I'm sure there are other expenses as well, but it's still a bargain
Creating new ideas and systems does not require experience alone -- it requires a great deal of potential.
And I've seen projects created by very smart creative people that ended up a mess. For two reasons, the person while creative and smart wasn't an experienced coder. And the person started slinging code without any kind of road map. While the program worked well in the beginning it digenerates into a mess as others try to maintain it. Eventually another smart person comes along and rewrites it and the cycle starts all over again.
There was an excellant article on FoxNews.com discusing the social engineer impacts of China. And that's basically what they were saying. Society when left alone is better able to deal with problems than some central entity. And that artifical external tinkering usually has unintended consequences.
And that's why the USSR had so much success in technology because the government played such a defining role.
I happened to run across a guy discussing his career moves and some other somewhat sensitive items. I had put in a couple of company names in Google and up popped his blog.
One should try and be a bit more anonymous or general when blogging.
No it's not. It would be if the porch light became dimmer as more people read by it, but it doesn't. Or if bandwidth was unlimitted.
Imaging if you have a dozen people sitting outside sending out millions of messages containing spam. This has already happened in hotels. You're bandwidth for your real patrons and your internal network is going to be severly affected.
Favouring a theory because it fits in with your prejudices is the first step on a slippery slope that ultimately leads to nonsenses like creationism.
And the blinding belief in the theory of evolution.
Oh, sorry, you must have thought I was joking. Oddly enough I got a similar reaction when I walked into the pet shop earlier this morning. I wonder how much thermal energy these hamsters would generate during this activity.
One hamster may not be much, but imagine a building full of hamsters each running on its own wheel! And for those peak usage periods just throw in a cat to the mix.
But if MS had required your average user to think about security they would have had as much desktop penetration as UNIX did. When all this began, security wasn't that big of a deal. And is MS alone in this issue? What about Apple, I don't remember dealing with users an Apple Mac.
Tactics 101. Use your enemy to defeat your enemy.
Used to be I only went out to the store after watching TV to buy all the stuff I saw on the commercials. Now I'll be doing that after every video game I play. I guess I'll have to fill out more of those credit card applications.
The equation I was driving at is valid, software + hardware + setup + maintenance = cost. In my particular case Windows won out. I've been using Windows since Win286, so I know it well. I've used UNIX on and off over the years so I'm not nearly as versed in it. So another component that I would get out of this discussion, is that using Windows guru's to admin UNIX/Linux system is expensive as would be using UNIX guru's to admin Window servers. It's similar to the UI arguments on the Mac. I've been around a lot of Mac users who swear by the UI. After having a Power book for a couple of years I just ended up swearing at it.
There is more to cost than the software. My time is worth at least $50 an hour. And so if I have to muck around with a free piece of software more than commercial it can quickly become more "expensive" than its commercial counterpart.
Would you take a free car if it cost $1000 for gas and maintenance?
The cool part is the VM, not the language. I've used Java, C#, C++, and many others. Java and C# offer modest improvements over C++ while taking away a number of useful tools. Hopefully at some point someone will get it right and come out with a language that is truly an improvement. Though I really would love more improvements in the development environments. Today's environments are 20 years old and not capable of managing the software we're creating today. Think about it, nothing much has changed since Borland's Turbo Pascal.
Why the heck does such a little notification app take up 7megs? I'm tired of lazy developers gobling up my system RAM.
"Disposable" makes me think you use it and throw it in the trash. I don't think of those Blue Rhino propane tanks as disposable. It's more like "returnable". Hopefully the cameras you get will be in better shape than some of those Blue Rhino tanks I've seen.
Free? What is free? I've went that route before and often find that I spend extra time to deal with the "free" stuff. It's an important point Open Source must learn. Time isn't free. And if your product costs me hours more than a commercial product, then that's a cost to me. If I can save $100 on a unit, and spend 5 hours dinking with it, that's not exactly a win for me, IMO. DISCLAIMER: I have never used MythTV, so I'm not saying that it's harder to use. This is just from my experience with other "free" stuff.
I was bitten by poorly written software installed on my system by a game I had installed. I never realized the thing had installed a program that launched at startup and continued to run. Once a minute it would go out to the manufacture's site and do who knows what. I was playing Tribes and noticed that every so off my link would get bad, about once a minute. I thought it was my ISP. While sitting watching TV I had happened to leave Task Manager up and running. I saw the CPU go to 100% for a couple of seconds. That peaked my interest. Sorted on CPU usage and waited and sure enough it happened again. I found the offending process, terminated it, did some checking and found out it had been installed by this game. AND it turned out this was what was causing Tribes to freeze ever so often. Honestly I don't mind authors trying to protect their software, but hey, leave my system alone. There are enough buggy drivers I have to live with without someone adding something else that can crash the entire system. And I wonder how long it will take for someone to create a hacked version of the driver that will negate their efforts?