Actually, I read somewhere that Walmart's tactics are rather brutal. They come into an area and then undersell all the local mom and pop stores. That doesn't sound too bad, until you see that they are leveraging thier deep corpate pockets to do it. They undersell until the local shops have all folded, then jack the price up on thier stuff until the price is higher than it was at the mom and pop shops. The only reason Walmart is able to do this is because they have deep pockets and can undersell for longer than the small guys can. So, it's not that the mom and pops were ineffiecient, just that Walmart was able to kill them.
I have visions in my head about thousands of geeks recreating "the night of the living dead"..."caffieeeenee"groan'CAFFIEEEEEEEENNNNEEEEE "caffiene.....
So how much longer before our fiddling with lightbulb structures turns a simple light bulb into a photonic computer. Then how long before said computer goes insane shifts over to a red color and then when we go,'all right bring he pod bay lights back to normal, bulb' they reply 'i'm afraid i can't do that, dave'. To which we will reply, 'who the fsck is this dave person...honey we need to get a new bulb, this one's gone insane...'
No I did get it. I just don't think there's a real market for it in normal peoples' lives. Only those with inventories that must bwe controlled (government and corporations) will have a need for it. But the article seemed to imply some groovy home applications that I just don't see as worthwhile.
If you get a different doctor, that doctor should be in contact with your old doctor. How trivial would it be to have a website with access to a database lik that and then all you need to do is put in the names of all the drugs you take. I still don't see a major use for the tags outside of the pharmecy keeping track of the drugs.
TV dinners are a little more complex than just popping in the microwave and zapping until hot. I live off those icky Banquet dinners. Instructions involve heating for a time period, striring something and heating for another time period. Might as well push the buttons to set the time period too cause you still have to fiddle with things.
point taken, but then again, something like this would be great for anything dealing with inventory problems, and you need large quantaties to inventory to make a system like this worthwhile. Not many people have a need for something like this, they just don't have that much stuff.
The RFID won't help in this situation unless there is a large database of drugs/side effects/interactions built to show the doctor what's what. But once the database is there, the RFID isn't essential and could only be used in limited cercomstances. Your doctor SHOULD have a list of the medications he prescibed you in your file. The main thing I can think of that might make this useful, is for inventory control in the pharmecy. Making sure you get the right drug in the correct amounts. And that is still not what I would consider 'consumer side', more like the back end of a Walmart than my living room.
Tags for stores are one thing, but do you have any desire to KEEP the tag? Which brings up environmental concerns now. How do you get rid of these tags? just chuck them in the garbage? Do they contain any elemnts that might be considered toxic? When they talk about printable organic RFIDs, what do they mean? The chemical definition of organic or the new wave definition of organic? This is on top of the questionable tone of the article which seems to imply that this'll be a boon to the consumer, when, it would more aptly be a boon for the retailer. Just think about real time inventories combined with data mining techniques and customer tracking (membership/discount cards)
How do you pattern recognize that bag of popcorn that's sandwiched in between paper towels and your box of frosted chocolate sugar bombs. When I go shopping the cart is full to the brim, there's just stuff in there that no camera would be able to see. Which would be a moot point if everything had a radio ID tag...
Who needs this? seriously? The part about being able to just push you cart through a checkstand and having the totals come up seems like a good idea...and that's about it.
frozen dinners might automatically give cookng instructions to microwave ovens.
OR you could read the instructions
A wine lover could look on a computer screen and see what's in her wine cellar
OR she could, i don't know, go down into her cellar? How far could it be?
Prescription drug bottles could work together to send you a warning if the combination of pills you're about to swallow would be toxic.
God forbid you acutally talk to your DOCTOR about all those pills your taking.
The eyeglass thing is a red herring too. Been wearing glasses since 3rd grade, everytime I 'lose' them, they turn out to be on my face.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, just cause it's new (and fangled, no less), doesn't mean it has to be shoved into every thing. Do your lightbulbs REALLY need webservers? Does your microwave REALLY need to be able to check your email? It seems like everytime they get soembody to say something like this, they all come up with the most ludicrous ideas for how to use this tech. For instance, why didn't he suggest meshing these things with pressure sensors and putting them into your tires. Then have you car tell you that you have a low tire and whatnot. I am going to shut up now, because lack of sleep and this cold are making ramble.
Karl Marx? Anybody got an Adam Smith? Thomas Paine? Well if you have a Marx, how about a Friedrich Engels? OOOh!!! A Nietzsche! I'll trade that for one of my Machiavellis...
Color me a skeptic, but I'll believe in this so called 'Star Wars Episode II' when I can go to theater and see it with my own two eyes. Don't believe everything you read, this 'StarWars' is pure fiction. Pictures can be faked, and video can be edited. I'm waiting for some good solid PROOF of this 'Star Wars: Episode II'. Until then it's just so much hokem.
Wait, what were we talking about? Jar-Jar must die? I'm down with that. But so many people here want to see Jar-Jar die. I want to see something else happen. I want Jar-Jar to be turned into that monster in Jabba's palace from "Return of the Jedi". That would rock, cause then Jar-Jar would be this painfully, horribly disfigured creature, AND we would have all seen him die a painfull death already, no waiting.
yeah no doubt. That's roughly 1 entry every 2 and a half minutes. But these are TAX records, so they probably are entering shitloads of information on each person.
Stop it. You're making me drool...and I have no need for that kind of horsepower. Just stop talking filet mingon to a guy that hasn't eaten anything but Banquet boxed meals in 6 months.
The IT people are blaming the Mayor for not buying the new AS/400 a year ago. I say they should fire the Mayor for not listening to the sane proprosals by the IT dept.
I read all 3 articles and it turns out that not only was the tax information on the AS400, but so was a couple of other vital city funtions...like jail records and business liscences. I'll have to re-read the articles to absolutly sure, but there was definately more than JUST tax records on that ting.
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If you watched the superman cartoons, youd realise that he uses a mirror and his heat vision to shave.
Actually, I read somewhere that Walmart's tactics are rather brutal. They come into an area and then undersell all the local mom and pop stores. That doesn't sound too bad, until you see that they are leveraging thier deep corpate pockets to do it. They undersell until the local shops have all folded, then jack the price up on thier stuff until the price is higher than it was at the mom and pop shops. The only reason Walmart is able to do this is because they have deep pockets and can undersell for longer than the small guys can. So, it's not that the mom and pops were ineffiecient, just that Walmart was able to kill them.
I ddin't know I was supposed to put the comic books AWAY. All I did was gor from Archie and transformers to cherry poptart and eveangelion.
Are you guys saying you wanted REALISM from a movie based on a COMIC BOOK? (smacks forehead)
You haven't seen "too much coffe man" then have you...he obviously is a product of coffee induced mutation.
I have visions in my head about thousands of geeks recreating "the night of the living dead"..."caffieeeenee"groan'CAFFIEEEEEEEENNNNEEEEE "caffiene.....
Thank you...boy is my face red.
So how much longer before our fiddling with lightbulb structures turns a simple light bulb into a photonic computer. Then how long before said computer goes insane shifts over to a red color and then when we go,'all right bring he pod bay lights back to normal, bulb' they reply 'i'm afraid i can't do that, dave'. To which we will reply, 'who the fsck is this dave person...honey we need to get a new bulb, this one's gone insane...'
Too bad the lone gunmen are dead. They'd have been able to get to the bottom of this....or maybe they already did...
No I did get it. I just don't think there's a real market for it in normal peoples' lives. Only those with inventories that must bwe controlled (government and corporations) will have a need for it. But the article seemed to imply some groovy home applications that I just don't see as worthwhile.
If you get a different doctor, that doctor should be in contact with your old doctor. How trivial would it be to have a website with access to a database lik that and then all you need to do is put in the names of all the drugs you take. I still don't see a major use for the tags outside of the pharmecy keeping track of the drugs.
Tags for stores are one thing, but do you have any desire to KEEP the tag? Which brings up environmental concerns now. How do you get rid of these tags? just chuck them in the garbage? Do they contain any elemnts that might be considered toxic? When they talk about printable organic RFIDs, what do they mean? The chemical definition of organic or the new wave definition of organic? This is on top of the questionable tone of the article which seems to imply that this'll be a boon to the consumer, when, it would more aptly be a boon for the retailer. Just think about real time inventories combined with data mining techniques and customer tracking (membership/discount cards)
How do you pattern recognize that bag of popcorn that's sandwiched in between paper towels and your box of frosted chocolate sugar bombs. When I go shopping the cart is full to the brim, there's just stuff in there that no camera would be able to see. Which would be a moot point if everything had a radio ID tag...
Am I the only one that hopes that after they get Doom III out of the way they'll bring back Commander Keen?
OR you could read the instructions
OR she could, i don't know, go down into her cellar? How far could it be?
God forbid you acutally talk to your DOCTOR about all those pills your taking.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, just cause it's new (and fangled, no less), doesn't mean it has to be shoved into every thing. Do your lightbulbs REALLY need webservers? Does your microwave REALLY need to be able to check your email? It seems like everytime they get soembody to say something like this, they all come up with the most ludicrous ideas for how to use this tech. For instance, why didn't he suggest meshing these things with pressure sensors and putting them into your tires. Then have you car tell you that you have a low tire and whatnot. I am going to shut up now, because lack of sleep and this cold are making ramble.
I did, like 500 times, and I still get nothing...
If no-one else is gonna say it then I will.
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WIGGY
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Karl Marx? Anybody got an Adam Smith? Thomas Paine? Well if you have a Marx, how about a Friedrich Engels? OOOh!!! A Nietzsche! I'll trade that for one of my Machiavellis...
September is going to rock! Solar sailing space craft AND new Dragonball Z on cartoon network. Yup, that's my life, space and cartoons...
Color me a skeptic, but I'll believe in this so called 'Star Wars Episode II' when I can go to theater and see it with my own two eyes. Don't believe everything you read, this 'StarWars' is pure fiction. Pictures can be faked, and video can be edited. I'm waiting for some good solid PROOF of this 'Star Wars: Episode II'. Until then it's just so much hokem.
Wait, what were we talking about? Jar-Jar must die? I'm down with that. But so many people here want to see Jar-Jar die. I want to see something else happen. I want Jar-Jar to be turned into that monster in Jabba's palace from "Return of the Jedi". That would rock, cause then Jar-Jar would be this painfully, horribly disfigured creature, AND we would have all seen him die a painfull death already, no waiting.
yeah no doubt. That's roughly 1 entry every 2 and a half minutes. But these are TAX records, so they probably are entering shitloads of information on each person.
Stop it. You're making me drool...and I have no need for that kind of horsepower. Just stop talking filet mingon to a guy that hasn't eaten anything but Banquet boxed meals in 6 months.
The IT people are blaming the Mayor for not buying the new AS/400 a year ago. I say they should fire the Mayor for not listening to the sane proprosals by the IT dept.
It's even worse than that.
I read all 3 articles and it turns out that not only was the tax information on the AS400, but so was a couple of other vital city funtions...like jail records and business liscences. I'll have to re-read the articles to absolutly sure, but there was definately more than JUST tax records on that ting.
GROAN...