Banking IT here. We rely on those frames, and while we are forced to constantly evaluate solutions that don't involve them, it simply doesn't make sense to take the core transaction processing away from the frames. Speed, reliability, capacity on demand when we need it, IBM still has great support.

Sure, the cost of potentially migrating businsss code away from COBOL and FORTRAN figures into the equation. the reverse engineering, re-design, testing, bla bla bla... would be expensive. For what? Platforms that may or may not be able to handle volume at crunch time. No thanks.

but I must deactivate.

So it'll be like notepad++ without all the features.

>>I can't imagine this being a serious threat that they would actually be able to create their own free filing online system.

Maybe they don't have to. perhaps an option is to change the model. So that an Intuit, or others can bid to become that service /for/ the IRS.

Maybe be like a Post Office where besides being the basic tax filing service, they'd sell value-adds of some type. Similar to what they do today, but in a cleaner less deceptively worded way.

I was thinking that ATT would be the better choice, because it's 5G can't spread the virus as fast as the other guys networks.

Indeed - a fantastic episode. If you're a TOS fan, this one is well worth checking out. A few 'holy shit' plot moments too.

Who cares? They are just a hair metal band who are well past their prime.

Stating what is obvious to 99% of the community here. OSX is based on a BSD. The OS is a customized UNIX with the GUI and Mac stuff built on top of it.**

The new UNIX subsystem in Win10 is just that, a subsystem. Still being fleshed out, btw.

**side note: look at what Apple did on top of that BSD. I think that's an example of what a LINUX could be with enough attention and development time.

I'm not as smart as I thought. Forgot about the sligs.

Growing meat in their Axlotl tanks......

The Gholas... They're made of meat!

If I had points I'd mod you through the roof. Great page!!

>>He made plenty of money." He should have stayed in school for the betterment of humanity.

With all that money he made, he is indeed working towards the betterment of humanity.

Indian sweatshops. Cheap ass commodity labor.

Wipro too. I'm not surprised. We know that Wipro is a shit company, in my shop. That's why they're on the prohibited vendor list. Fuck em.

JMS,

If you had the chance, would you go back and do stories about the last great war, Valen, and the role that B4 actually played in the series history?

B4. I think i get it now. :)

Also, the future that was touched on in the last episodes, would you ever want to flesh that out?

And what DID happen to JS when he died and went beyond The Rim?

PS: Thank you for the finest show in Sci Fi history.

What they aren't showing us are the huge half mechanical demons with rocket launchers grafted onto their arms........