Requests for ACH transfers are collected by banks and submitted in batches, once a day, and the banks receiving the transfers also process the payments once a day, leading to long waits.
In the US, the law says most funds must be available within, I believe, 2 business days. How is this a "long wait"? I know that in this day of zero-length attention spans, where people cannot go ten minutes (on a date) at Starbucks w/o checking their smartphones, that might *seem* long, but seriously it's not.
And the rich get richer and the poor get poorer -- America where the Walton family (majority shareholders in Walmart) has wealth equal to the wealth of the bottom 42% of Americans combined.
I'm thinking about getting a girlfriend. Sue made me promise to find someone else and be happy with her. Nine years out, still haven't gotten started on that... (My last "first" date was in 1985 w/Sue.) It's the last promise to her I have left to keep.
That's the second day in a row someone uses a hilarious animal simile that gives me weird but hilarious mental images.
A friend of mine the other day used "as calm and relaxed as a rabbit on crack after a chili enema"
Well... I actually have about 25 stuffed animals. My wife couldn't have children (and was a teacher, so got her kid fix at school) and had allergies so we couldn't have pets, so we had stuffed animals. She died in Jan 2006 (after 20 years together) and now all I have left of us is memories, photos and our stuffed animals. Remember Sue...
P.S. Our rhinoceros' name is "Oserous" and his best friend is our buffalo named "Buffy"...
which often makes about as much sense as arguments between a 3-year old and their stuffed animals during a tea party.
I'm 51 and find that my stuffed animals can often be quite cogent. Sometimes a parent must simply resort to "because I said so". Also, it helps to stick with decaf tea - especially for the carnivores and animals that spook easily. A hopped-up, jittery, stampeding rhinoceros ruins everyone's day. Then you may have to dart him, etc...
AI will do what it is programming to do and follow the rules we lay out for it to follow.
I was a research assistant in college back in the 1980s working on a project investigating abstract data types, fault-tolerant programming and automatic programming techniques in LISP and Prolog (NASA funded grant) and routinely wrote code that could extend and/or re-write itself, sometimes with unexpected, yet functional, results.
Rogue, Moria and the likes.
I personally played Rogue and Moria.
Don't forget the original Hack on which Nethack is based - (basically) the same game, but on ASCII terminals (yes, I'm that old).
I played both Rogue and Hack on the VAX-785 running BSD back in college. Rogue was more forgiving, like if you ran out of food (faint, continue, repeat...), where Hack was hell-bent on killing you for the slightest mistake. You were boned if you died in Hack, restarted and ran into your former dog - who hadn't been fed in a while. Lesson: Teach your pet to hunt non-humans or be prepared to end him.
Developers of snappy apps get much more freedom to bundle the exact versions of libraries that they want to use with their apps. It’s much easier to make a snappy package than a traditional Ubuntu package – just bundle up everything you want in one place, and ship it.
So when a library needs a security / other update, I'll possibly have to update several snappy packages that all contain the affected library? Ya, that's sooo much better Mark.
I think Microsoft sees that the RedHat model of machine subscriptions is lucrative, and wants to go with that.
Ya, no. RedHat subscriptions and their (default) constant nagging is one reason I use Ubuntu / Mint or other Debian-based systems. Another is familiarity, but I'm actually not too old to learn new thing, just don't care to fix things that aren't broken. That said, Unity is an abomination and I'm leaning that way about Systemd, but am not willing to fight about it - yet.
I cannot imagine an IT shop failing to check the background of a system administrator who will be working with banking systems
Yes, it's much better for the criminals in banks - or Wall Street banks anyway - to be the executives. Wait, did you mean *convicted* criminals? Never mind.
It is possible that he has felony convictions that have subsequently been reduced to misdemeanor charges due to good behavior, but normally in those circumstances the applicant doesn't have to disclose them, as on-record they're now misdemeanors retroactively, not felonies.
Although, for a U.S. Security Clearance one must disclose both the charges and final convictions on the application regardless of what the local records say (or now say, for things that age off the record) - the FBI keeps detailed records for, apparently, forever.
But Obama's social media team was often quicker to respond to things and more creative.
Or perhaps, Republicans are just slower and less creative about somethings, but certainly not everything. For example, take their plans for universal/affordable health care, immigration, the minimum wage, women's issues, the working poor, or... oh wait.
The secret to succesful uni studies is skimming - use the minimum amount of effort to extract only what you need from a document, whether it's a book or a scientific paper.
I too held out until recently on getting a smartphone, and only made the leap because my literally 8YO flip phone wouldn't hold a charge for a full day and they stopped making new batteries for it in 2010.
I still carry a Qualcomm QCP-1900 I bought in 1998 - only makes phone calls - for travel and emergencies, but generally never turn it on. Battery seems to still work okay. My provider nTelos recently force upgrade my service plan to their newest lowest plan that includes 500 minutes and unlimited texting - my phone can't text.
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Requests for ACH transfers are collected by banks and submitted in batches, once a day, and the banks receiving the transfers also process the payments once a day, leading to long waits.
In the US, the law says most funds must be available within, I believe, 2 business days. How is this a "long wait"? I know that in this day of zero-length attention spans, where people cannot go ten minutes (on a date) at Starbucks w/o checking their smartphones, that might *seem* long, but seriously it's not.
Almost certainly not from Slashdot. From their stats, most of their visitors are in France.
Probably French cabbies blocking the interweb tubes...
Allowing UberPOP means leaving 57,000 French taxis high and dry, and thus 57,000 families.
If it isn't based on the "Blade Runner 2" novel, I'll give it a shot.
It's got to be better than Shakespeare's sequel to "Hamlet".
And the rich get richer and the poor get poorer -- America where the Walton family (majority shareholders in Walmart) has wealth equal to the wealth of the bottom 42% of Americans combined.
When someone starts a sentence with "I don't mean to be...", there's at least a 99% chance that they mean to be.
The same can probably be said of "With all due respect..."
I think you should definitely get a live pet now.
I'm thinking about getting a girlfriend. Sue made me promise to find someone else and be happy with her. Nine years out, still haven't gotten started on that... (My last "first" date was in 1985 w/Sue.) It's the last promise to her I have left to keep.
That's the second day in a row someone uses a hilarious animal simile that gives me weird but hilarious mental images.
A friend of mine the other day used "as calm and relaxed as a rabbit on crack after a chili enema"
Well... I actually have about 25 stuffed animals. My wife couldn't have children (and was a teacher, so got her kid fix at school) and had allergies so we couldn't have pets, so we had stuffed animals. She died in Jan 2006 (after 20 years together) and now all I have left of us is memories, photos and our stuffed animals. Remember Sue...
P.S. Our rhinoceros' name is "Oserous" and his best friend is our buffalo named "Buffy" ...
Simply hand the law enforcement officer your mobile phone.
which often makes about as much sense as arguments between a 3-year old and their stuffed animals during a tea party.
I'm 51 and find that my stuffed animals can often be quite cogent. Sometimes a parent must simply resort to "because I said so". Also, it helps to stick with decaf tea - especially for the carnivores and animals that spook easily. A hopped-up, jittery, stampeding rhinoceros ruins everyone's day. Then you may have to dart him, etc...
When I introduced it to my then girlfriend, she eventually ascended three times. I only ever managed two.
Okay; we get it. Stop bragging about your penis.
AI will do what it is programming to do and follow the rules we lay out for it to follow.
I was a research assistant in college back in the 1980s working on a project investigating abstract data types, fault-tolerant programming and automatic programming techniques in LISP and Prolog (NASA funded grant) and routinely wrote code that could extend and/or re-write itself, sometimes with unexpected, yet functional, results.
Rogue, Moria and the likes. I personally played Rogue and Moria.
Don't forget the original Hack on which Nethack is based - (basically) the same game, but on ASCII terminals (yes, I'm that old).
I played both Rogue and Hack on the VAX-785 running BSD back in college. Rogue was more forgiving, like if you ran out of food (faint, continue, repeat...), where Hack was hell-bent on killing you for the slightest mistake. You were boned if you died in Hack, restarted and ran into your former dog - who hadn't been fed in a while. Lesson: Teach your pet to hunt non-humans or be prepared to end him.
but I can't seem to find any way to disable the damn public network.
Two words: Faraday cage.
Developers of snappy apps get much more freedom to bundle the exact versions of libraries that they want to use with their apps. It’s much easier to make a snappy package than a traditional Ubuntu package – just bundle up everything you want in one place, and ship it.
So when a library needs a security / other update, I'll possibly have to update several snappy packages that all contain the affected library? Ya, that's sooo much better Mark.
But on $375K of retirement income, he can't be all that broke, even given New York housing prices.
And he could, you know, move somewhere less expensive...
I think Microsoft sees that the RedHat model of machine subscriptions is lucrative, and wants to go with that.
Ya, no. RedHat subscriptions and their (default) constant nagging is one reason I use Ubuntu / Mint or other Debian-based systems. Another is familiarity, but I'm actually not too old to learn new thing, just don't care to fix things that aren't broken. That said, Unity is an abomination and I'm leaning that way about Systemd, but am not willing to fight about it - yet.
.50 or .60 what per GiB?
Quarts? Furlongs? Solar masses?
Libraries of Congress - obviously.
In reality, the French fought hard for 45 days and suffered over 350,000 casualties.
Was that a whole 45 days, including weekends and holidays?
I cannot imagine an IT shop failing to check the background of a system administrator who will be working with banking systems
Yes, it's much better for the criminals in banks - or Wall Street banks anyway - to be the executives. Wait, did you mean *convicted* criminals? Never mind.
It is possible that he has felony convictions that have subsequently been reduced to misdemeanor charges due to good behavior, but normally in those circumstances the applicant doesn't have to disclose them, as on-record they're now misdemeanors retroactively, not felonies.
Although, for a U.S. Security Clearance one must disclose both the charges and final convictions on the application regardless of what the local records say (or now say, for things that age off the record) - the FBI keeps detailed records for, apparently, forever.
But Obama's social media team was often quicker to respond to things and more creative.
Or perhaps, Republicans are just slower and less creative about somethings, but certainly not everything. For example, take their plans for universal/affordable health care, immigration, the minimum wage, women's issues, the working poor, or ... oh wait.
I guess there's some money in being a Nobel laureate - even having "no income outside of academia" (as mentioned elsewhere).
And is that in Dollars or Pounds?
The secret to succesful uni studies is skimming - use the minimum amount of effort to extract only what you need from a document, whether it's a book or a scientific paper.
And knowing how the "Index" works :-)
I too held out until recently on getting a smartphone, and only made the leap because my literally 8YO flip phone wouldn't hold a charge for a full day and they stopped making new batteries for it in 2010.
I still carry a Qualcomm QCP-1900 I bought in 1998 - only makes phone calls - for travel and emergencies, but generally never turn it on. Battery seems to still work okay. My provider nTelos recently force upgrade my service plan to their newest lowest plan that includes 500 minutes and unlimited texting - my phone can't text.