/EVERY/ printer I've gone to prints in CYMK. They can convert RGB to CYMK, but the colors won't match 100%. Hell, many desktop printers (Canon, Epson, etc) use CYMK in their printing process, and upscale from RGB.
If you would have read what I said -- I didn't mention checking on SM on it... I don't do that either.
When I bought it, on sale, about 18 months ago, I spent $160 for it. I think brand new, no discounts, the Moto360's went for $250 for the base model, and if you wanted the steel band, they were $300.
I would spend $500 for it? No. It really is mostly a toy. People spend a lot more on less useful things that get less use and are out of date just as quick (like video cards, high-end cell phones, dirt bikes, etc.)
I have a Moto360. For me, in addition to showing the time and date, it acts as a fitness tracker, a voice control for my phone, and a great way to look at the weather when my phone is in my pack when I'm biking (a realtime weather map is useful when biking home).
Indoors, it is a stylish timepiece, no different than any other watch. It does have the added advantage of allowing me to peek at incoming messages when I'm not in a situation where I can break out my phone.
ATMs are usually connected by an ISDN-BRI, GSM, or for regional banks, a Metro-E or MPLS service. They have always used PINs, but they don't use the CHIP in the card for encryption (they use the mag strip).
VLANs aren't hard to do, but when you are talking about a Wendy's that may have, at most, one computer, it becomes a bit much to have 5 subnets for the 4 devices that are connected to the network.
Is it the right way to set things up? Yes. It is practical in every case? Probably not. Remember, there is no IT department for these types of stores -- so everything gets outsourced, and while security is important, it's often not as important as things just working, according to those that use the systems.
This is already happening. As of last month, companies that refused to implement CHIP+PIN (or at least CHIP+Signature) readers were charged a larger % on the transactions. A company like a Wendy's franchiser was already paying between 2.5% and 3.5%, now they are paying 3% to 4%.
Which is pretty silly, since Wendy's corporate has been going around replacing POS terminals across the country over the last 6 months -- and they decided to not put in the chip+pin readers (opting for swipe terminals ONLY). I can only assume that they decided that the cost of the higher percentages was worth the speed of swiping the card.
Sure. But (and this was the case at Target) about your HVAC system that you outsource to a 3rd party vendor. Your POS system can only talk to an accounting system, which in turn talks to the Bank. You've locked down the subnet, sure. BUT since your POS system can talk to the same subnet as that HVAC system (because the boss needs to be able to admin it), and that gets compromised, then there is still a way out. OR they compromise the accounting system which has access to send reports to corporate, and that is the way out.
It's not always that easy, unless you follow the best rules and have everything physically separate -- but then again that costs more money and adds a lot more complexity.
These competition bikes used in the Tour de France don't have movable seat posts. They are one chunk of fiberglass that goes right to the seat stay. I would assume, like the rest of the bike, that the seat post is sealed and aerodynamic.
It depends on the business. Certain businesses can start off small and build up. Some require a lot of capital up front (think, hardware or biotech), where others can rent space from AWS and just pay salary for the first few employees.
There are still ~ 90 Million residential landlines around, down from about 220 million. Depending on the phone, they may not have a display. Additionally, about 10% - 12% of the population over 18 don't have a cell phone.
It depended on the switch. The default settings on AT&T/Lucent 5ESS switches gave you a busy signal if you called your own terminal number. The default settings on the Northern DMS's was to provide two ring cycles on your line.
There were loads of test numbers out there. Some provided a busy, some provided ringback, some provided TAC access to the CO test line, and some provided an automated call to test translations. Those numbers still exist, but they change on a regular basis. It used to be that you could call the operator (0) and ask for those services directly, using the phone company terminology. If you wanted your caller-id, you asked the operator for the "Drop Line ID". Going to the test line you asked for the "Turn Line" or the "M&T line"
There is guaranteed to be one "Time and Temp" service that still exists in each area code -- and in most likelihood, one in each tariff zone. They are great to check call completions across the US because you know that (a) they will always answer and (b) you won't be bothering some random person, even in the middle of the night.
The other thing to note is that the CDMA providers in the US and Canada were also the incumbents. The reason why they could reach further and and wider was because the had the largest chunk of the good spectrum (sub 1Ghz). Verizon started out with the 800/950 spectrum and Sprint/Nextel had 700Mhz pretty much locked up. AT&T, T-Mobile and others started with 1700/1800/1900/2100 and had to deploy more antennas with more juice to get similar coverage. The cell standard didn't have much to do with this other than the original GSM was much slower than the original CDMA2000 (due to the lack of channel sharing). CMDA2000 was also a bit better at multipath/ghosting issues but "3G GSM" had even better error correction for that.
In the mid-90's into the mid-2000's, OS/2 was very popular in the banking industry. I'd say about half of my customers ran OS/2 on the teller's machines and most other desktops that had to do with customer data (most likely because most of these banks used IBM AS/400 Mainframes, and the clients to these apps were written for OS/2). I started seeing a lot of banks switch to Windows-based PCs in the mid 2000's, then connecting to the mainframes via terminal software.
I've got the Moto 360, and it lasts about 36 hours on heavy use, and about 48 hours with my normal use. This is acceptable in my case -- I drop it on the charging cradle when I go to bed, and it's ready when I'm up. It only takes about 45 minutes for a full charge, so even charging it when I'm getting ready in the morning is not a problem.
There are other brands that I know are better and many more that have worse battery life. It's a consideration, like like battery life on a phone. But in my case, I feel pretty good considering I've had the watch for just over a year and a half.
Except it's not, and no announcement has been made. In fact, Adobe release a PR for the next version of the Flash Player two days ago.... http://labs.adobe.com/technolo...
Then again, if you honestly don't know, then you haven't been paying attention to anything related to the internet for at least the last 5 years. Little hint : about half of the Fortune 100 uses them for at least some of their services.
High-rent city like Kalamazoo? The Kalamazoo that you can easily rent a nice 800 ft^2 apartment for $400/month? It's the same city where the median house sells for $65,000.
Oh, it's already been happening. AT&T has been lobbying (successfully in many states like Florida and Michigan) to shutdown their central offices and force users to wireless. They've been divesting in their infrastructure in order to make it so people have no excuse but to switch to the more lucrative wireless service....
The first COs are scheduled to be shutdown in 2017. You can expect wired connections in large portions of the USA to go dark in 2020.
For work, I still carry the Motorola Droid Maxx. which was built as a durable, long-lasting phone. I don't do many apps on it, but it lasts ~ 6-8 days, depending how much I'm on the phone (usually about an hour a day). This means I only have to charge it on the weekends.
My old flip-phone, which this thing replaced, would easily last 7-14 days depending on how much I was on the phone. I think the box of my old flip-phone listed 20 days of battery for standby....
You see them in hospitals all the time because the hospital can own the pager system (not have to pay a monthly fee to anybody), and they can guarantee the uptime and coverage -- things you can't do with a cell phone.
If it only worked that way. The real game they are playing is to file your taxes with a bunch of fake dependents, every dedication they can take, etc., in order to drive up a refund. They then send the refund to a bank account they own and run away with the money, usually several thousand dollars. This often happens without you knowing at all. When you try to submit your real tax return, the IRS bounces it because you already filed. You then have to go through all sorts of hoops to prove to the IRS you are filing your real taxes and you don't need to pay them back the refund they've already send "you".
It happened to one of my co-workers last year. He didn't get it cleaned up until nearly August -- and he had to spend several hundred hours on the phone, in court, at the IRS office, etc. to get everything straightened out.
Same was true for the Apple ][ Basic (I grew up with an Apple IIc then we upgraded to a IIGS when the logic board failed).
I remember the AppleIIGS came with a manual with all the memory locations and what they did. It was trivial to do PEEK and POKE commands to get access to the mouse subsystem or the high-res graphics system (thank god they mapped the PLOT commands to be able to use the high-res graphics system.. it would have been brutal to POKE for every dot on the screen).
Being a bored kid in elementary school, I was able to write my own version of the Apple Finder with full mouse control. I also remember seeing Scored Earth running on one of the computers at the local community college and wrote my own version of that as well. Of course, back then you could find a "physics engine" for those types of games by rekeying functions found in BASIC programming magazines:)
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My 2FA code (which I have to use to login to pretty much everything) changes every 20 seconds. I guess that's A++++++ then, right?
/EVERY/ printer I've gone to prints in CYMK. They can convert RGB to CYMK, but the colors won't match 100%. Hell, many desktop printers (Canon, Epson, etc) use CYMK in their printing process, and upscale from RGB.
If you would have read what I said -- I didn't mention checking on SM on it... I don't do that either.
When I bought it, on sale, about 18 months ago, I spent $160 for it. I think brand new, no discounts, the Moto360's went for $250 for the base model, and if you wanted the steel band, they were $300.
I would spend $500 for it? No. It really is mostly a toy. People spend a lot more on less useful things that get less use and are out of date just as quick (like video cards, high-end cell phones, dirt bikes, etc.)
I have a Moto360. For me, in addition to showing the time and date, it acts as a fitness tracker, a voice control for my phone, and a great way to look at the weather when my phone is in my pack when I'm biking (a realtime weather map is useful when biking home).
Indoors, it is a stylish timepiece, no different than any other watch. It does have the added advantage of allowing me to peek at incoming messages when I'm not in a situation where I can break out my phone.
2400 baud, but who's counting ;)
ATMs are usually connected by an ISDN-BRI, GSM, or for regional banks, a Metro-E or MPLS service. They have always used PINs, but they don't use the CHIP in the card for encryption (they use the mag strip).
VLANs aren't hard to do, but when you are talking about a Wendy's that may have, at most, one computer, it becomes a bit much to have 5 subnets for the 4 devices that are connected to the network.
Is it the right way to set things up? Yes. It is practical in every case? Probably not. Remember, there is no IT department for these types of stores -- so everything gets outsourced, and while security is important, it's often not as important as things just working, according to those that use the systems.
Didn't say they did. The boss has one computer, which has access to both networks to do administrative functions on both.
This is already happening. As of last month, companies that refused to implement CHIP+PIN (or at least CHIP+Signature) readers were charged a larger % on the transactions. A company like a Wendy's franchiser was already paying between 2.5% and 3.5%, now they are paying 3% to 4%.
Which is pretty silly, since Wendy's corporate has been going around replacing POS terminals across the country over the last 6 months -- and they decided to not put in the chip+pin readers (opting for swipe terminals ONLY). I can only assume that they decided that the cost of the higher percentages was worth the speed of swiping the card.
Sure. But (and this was the case at Target) about your HVAC system that you outsource to a 3rd party vendor. Your POS system can only talk to an accounting system, which in turn talks to the Bank. You've locked down the subnet, sure. BUT since your POS system can talk to the same subnet as that HVAC system (because the boss needs to be able to admin it), and that gets compromised, then there is still a way out. OR they compromise the accounting system which has access to send reports to corporate, and that is the way out.
It's not always that easy, unless you follow the best rules and have everything physically separate -- but then again that costs more money and adds a lot more complexity.
These competition bikes used in the Tour de France don't have movable seat posts. They are one chunk of fiberglass that goes right to the seat stay. I would assume, like the rest of the bike, that the seat post is sealed and aerodynamic.
It depends on the business. Certain businesses can start off small and build up. Some require a lot of capital up front (think, hardware or biotech), where others can rent space from AWS and just pay salary for the first few employees.
There are still ~ 90 Million residential landlines around, down from about 220 million. Depending on the phone, they may not have a display. Additionally, about 10% - 12% of the population over 18 don't have a cell phone.
So... yeah... it's a thing.
It depended on the switch. The default settings on AT&T/Lucent 5ESS switches gave you a busy signal if you called your own terminal number. The default settings on the Northern DMS's was to provide two ring cycles on your line.
There were loads of test numbers out there. Some provided a busy, some provided ringback, some provided TAC access to the CO test line, and some provided an automated call to test translations. Those numbers still exist, but they change on a regular basis. It used to be that you could call the operator (0) and ask for those services directly, using the phone company terminology. If you wanted your caller-id, you asked the operator for the "Drop Line ID". Going to the test line you asked for the "Turn Line" or the "M&T line"
There is guaranteed to be one "Time and Temp" service that still exists in each area code -- and in most likelihood, one in each tariff zone. They are great to check call completions across the US because you know that (a) they will always answer and (b) you won't be bothering some random person, even in the middle of the night.
The other thing to note is that the CDMA providers in the US and Canada were also the incumbents. The reason why they could reach further and and wider was because the had the largest chunk of the good spectrum (sub 1Ghz). Verizon started out with the 800/950 spectrum and Sprint/Nextel had 700Mhz pretty much locked up. AT&T, T-Mobile and others started with 1700/1800/1900/2100 and had to deploy more antennas with more juice to get similar coverage. The cell standard didn't have much to do with this other than the original GSM was much slower than the original CDMA2000 (due to the lack of channel sharing). CMDA2000 was also a bit better at multipath/ghosting issues but "3G GSM" had even better error correction for that.
In the mid-90's into the mid-2000's, OS/2 was very popular in the banking industry. I'd say about half of my customers ran OS/2 on the teller's machines and most other desktops that had to do with customer data (most likely because most of these banks used IBM AS/400 Mainframes, and the clients to these apps were written for OS/2). I started seeing a lot of banks switch to Windows-based PCs in the mid 2000's, then connecting to the mainframes via terminal software.
I've got the Moto 360, and it lasts about 36 hours on heavy use, and about 48 hours with my normal use. This is acceptable in my case -- I drop it on the charging cradle when I go to bed, and it's ready when I'm up. It only takes about 45 minutes for a full charge, so even charging it when I'm getting ready in the morning is not a problem.
There are other brands that I know are better and many more that have worse battery life. It's a consideration, like like battery life on a phone. But in my case, I feel pretty good considering I've had the watch for just over a year and a half.
Except it's not, and no announcement has been made. In fact, Adobe release a PR for the next version of the Flash Player two days ago.... http://labs.adobe.com/technolo...
If you honestly don't know -- http://lmgtfy.com/?q=AWS
Then again, if you honestly don't know, then you haven't been paying attention to anything related to the internet for at least the last 5 years. Little hint : about half of the Fortune 100 uses them for at least some of their services.
High-rent city like Kalamazoo? The Kalamazoo that you can easily rent a nice 800 ft^2 apartment for $400/month? It's the same city where the median house sells for $65,000.
Oh, it's already been happening. AT&T has been lobbying (successfully in many states like Florida and Michigan) to shutdown their central offices and force users to wireless. They've been divesting in their infrastructure in order to make it so people have no excuse but to switch to the more lucrative wireless service....
The first COs are scheduled to be shutdown in 2017. You can expect wired connections in large portions of the USA to go dark in 2020.
For work, I still carry the Motorola Droid Maxx. which was built as a durable, long-lasting phone. I don't do many apps on it, but it lasts ~ 6-8 days, depending how much I'm on the phone (usually about an hour a day). This means I only have to charge it on the weekends.
My old flip-phone, which this thing replaced, would easily last 7-14 days depending on how much I was on the phone. I think the box of my old flip-phone listed 20 days of battery for standby....
You see them in hospitals all the time because the hospital can own the pager system (not have to pay a monthly fee to anybody), and they can guarantee the uptime and coverage -- things you can't do with a cell phone.
If it only worked that way. The real game they are playing is to file your taxes with a bunch of fake dependents, every dedication they can take, etc., in order to drive up a refund. They then send the refund to a bank account they own and run away with the money, usually several thousand dollars. This often happens without you knowing at all. When you try to submit your real tax return, the IRS bounces it because you already filed. You then have to go through all sorts of hoops to prove to the IRS you are filing your real taxes and you don't need to pay them back the refund they've already send "you".
It happened to one of my co-workers last year. He didn't get it cleaned up until nearly August -- and he had to spend several hundred hours on the phone, in court, at the IRS office, etc. to get everything straightened out.
Same was true for the Apple ][ Basic (I grew up with an Apple IIc then we upgraded to a IIGS when the logic board failed).
I remember the AppleIIGS came with a manual with all the memory locations and what they did. It was trivial to do PEEK and POKE commands to get access to the mouse subsystem or the high-res graphics system (thank god they mapped the PLOT commands to be able to use the high-res graphics system.. it would have been brutal to POKE for every dot on the screen).
Being a bored kid in elementary school, I was able to write my own version of the Apple Finder with full mouse control. I also remember seeing Scored Earth running on one of the computers at the local community college and wrote my own version of that as well. Of course, back then you could find a "physics engine" for those types of games by rekeying functions found in BASIC programming magazines :)