Comment Re:Legacy Systems. (Score 1) 144
I love this:
>> Searching for records first goes to the "safe" side. If no records found use legacy system.
I love this:
>> Searching for records first goes to the "safe" side. If no records found use legacy system.
You do understand that the number of titles currently available via (legal) streaming is far, far less than the number of titles available via shipped plastic?
I'm sure I saw at least three dozen other commercials last night, anyone want to post an article about those?
I have no idea what "AAA" means in video game context, either. I am not a gamer. I know plenty of geeks that don't game.
It's just for a "study", aka a way to funnel govt money into the private sector.
No, they are not qualified, and the project wouldn't be done internally. The USPS is a treasure trove of outsourced, poorly-implemented half-done years-late projects, such as Flats Sequencing System and eInduction. The whole entity looks like a gigantic money funnel to companies like Northrup and Accenture.
And it's these 400 customers who demand delivery tracking. USPS performance is inconsistent across facilities and they are always pulling tricks like "unload incoming bulk mail and let sit for 2 days before doing an inbound scan". Those 400 customers want to know why a percentage of their multi-million-dollar bulk mailing arrived in the mailbox after the sale was over. That's what drives the tracking initiatives.
You complained a year ago about a choice Netflix made five years ago? Wow, you've got the pulse of technology.
USPS has the APIs but they are so obtuse and FIPS-standards-laden that the USPS points you to Indicia or Pitney Bowes if you ask about implementing the API.
..."thousands of bugs" he says, on the heels of a fairly large remotely-exploitable openssl security hole. Go OSS!
You disagree that many, if not most, organizations are plump with multiple layers of ineffective management?
At 42, I can tell you it gets worse. The idiocy of management is boundless, as is their energy in pushing their ideas and their inability to absorb any information.
Yes, I've had the misfortune to hear countless client complaints resulting from their failure to lower the TTL well in advance of a planned DNS change on a key host.
In summary - once the DNS information is changed in the database, the DNS server continues to serve out stale information for the next 10,000+ queries.
Mod up!
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