Maybe the POS system company you work, or contract for is 99.9% XP Embedded, but in the past several restaurants I have worked for, it is Linux on most of the touch screen terminals. You can easily tell when the terminal is rebooted and you see Linux loading instead of Windows. Micros and Squirrel are the two most recent vendors, where I have worked and of the 3 restaurants, only one had one XP embedded terminal, all the others were Linux.
Granted, once presented with the actual POS interface, you can't tell if it is Windows or Linux. Just like those bar top systems designed to separate you from your money even faster than a Vegas slot machine.
What about companies that process credit card transactions? What about inventory control software for food processing? Apple? Linux?
Actually those touch screen POS terminals you see in most bars and restaurants? Linux. Those touch screen bar top games? Also Linux. Now the computer in the back office that those communicate with for the managers and chefs? That's probably Windows XP. Some of the POS terminals are Windows embedded from years and years ago, but mostly the POS terminals are Linux. They do the credit card reading/authorizing and inventory if the system is set up for it.
Of course not, this is Slashdot after all, bitch first, RTFA later (if ever) and bitch more. Bonus points (bitch points?) if they do not own a Mac or a Palm device.
Well think about it. If you write a book on motorcycle racing, how many prospective buyers do you think you will have? Not nearly as many as a book on Ruby. Perhaps now with micro publishing we will see more. Also there is a wealth of info in the intarweb, well maybe not so much on actual chassis design, but you can get quite a background just from reading some of the amateur racing websites.
Have you read Kevin Cameron's "Sportbike Tuning Handbook"?
So what are you going to do when Windows 7 comes out and all the software updates again, which probably won't run on your XP machine from 2001? Since you say you want 10 years use, that is about 2.5 years from now, based on when XP came out.
I will take back what I said before about getting over it, as you do have a point. Really though is 129 too much to spend to get Leopard? To use the popular car analogy here, do you expect to get 10 years out of your car without ever buying tires or changing the oil?
BZZZT Wrong, your OSX 10.2 is still upgradeable to 10.2.x. Your XP is not upgradeable to Vista for free, which is what you are asking for. You want Leopard for free because some new software requires it. Your 10.2 has not stopped working. Any software that requires Vista would "Stop working" on your XP-PC as well.
Only if they are not eligible for an upgrade. This is the case with any phone AT&T sells. If you are not eligible for an upgrade, you do not get the subsidized price.
Hmmm then explain the "Blair Witch" movie. I was shot on consumer level film, put together, and got nowhere until a big studio bought the rights to it at Sundance. Do you really think if it was digitized and stuck on a website it would have generated the millions it got when a major studio got behind it and marketed it out the wazoo? Name me a band that has launched into Gold Record status from mp3.com or from individual web sales. It takes money to make money, and the RIAA and the MPAA have the money. For every Britney, Backstreet Boys, Linkin Park, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, there are WAY more failed bands, even with the marketing muscle of the RIAA. The MPAA is about the same, for every Spiderman, there is Godzilla 2000. Joe Average does what the ads say, and it will not change for some time.
I'd wager a significant amount of money that even successful sites like Megatokyo, Slashdot, PvP and other "fringe" sites have far fewer mainstream hits than the big media sites like AOL, CNN, MSNBC, etc....
Hmmm I think you should work 10 hour days, and send all of your earnings above minimum wage to said countries workers to support them. If you don't, then who are you to bitch about what said workers are willing to work?
(MS has cost me a couple of thousand dollars, even if they never saw much of that money. Basically in writeoffs of abandoned software.
How exactly has MS cost you a couple of thousand dollars? You couldn't run your old software on old hardware with the old version of Windows? Isn't that what you are saying is good about Apple? Or are you just trolling and bashing Microsoft for no reason?
Linkin Park has one that has just come out, or is about to come out. Slipknot has one from their first album. Metallica has at least one, and I'm pretty sure there is a Perl Jam one. These are just ones I remember seeing at Fry's, where they actually had a whole endcap of DVD's from musical artists.
Ahh that makes sense. I figured out why I have not had the problem since I got the mod points a couple of days ago, I have been so bored at work that I have been reading/. stories with under 100 comments, when I went looking for a story with lots of comments, *BANG* same problem. One more reason to load up W2K on my work computer, or go back to using Linux there...
I don't know why this was modded funny when it is true. It happens to me with Windows 98 with IE, but W2K with IE does not exhibit the same problem. Opera and Mozilla on Linux do not appear to have the problem. Although now that I think about it, since I got mod points the other day, it hasn't done it.
It's about how some laser disc created 15 years ago cannot be read by any technology available today.
That is bullshit, it would read fine in my Pioneer LD player, just because you cannot BUY a reader now does not make it unreadable. Can you even buy a 5.25 inch floppy drive anymore? 15 years ago those were common backup drives. Hell, I used to backup to QIC-6250 drives, I bet you cannot buy one of those anymore, but the tapes are still good if I can read them in an existing drive. You either have to migrate your data to new media, or make sure you can read the old media, it is all part of backup stradegy.
The flipdown one is $2995.00. OUCH. Still it is a neat device, but missing a few key features I think. Where is the touch screen? Recipie program? Wireless? I couldn't find if it would play streaming audio from my server. Since it doesn't look to allow loading of software, no AOL or MSN, how does it get updated for new software? I really would like to have a LCD panel WITH touch screen in my kitchen that I could view recipies and play streaming audio with. Oh well, back to coming up with something myself I guess.
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Maybe the POS system company you work, or contract for is 99.9% XP Embedded, but in the past several restaurants I have worked for, it is Linux on most of the touch screen terminals. You can easily tell when the terminal is rebooted and you see Linux loading instead of Windows. Micros and Squirrel are the two most recent vendors, where I have worked and of the 3 restaurants, only one had one XP embedded terminal, all the others were Linux.
Granted, once presented with the actual POS interface, you can't tell if it is Windows or Linux. Just like those bar top systems designed to separate you from your money even faster than a Vegas slot machine.
What about companies that process credit card transactions? What about inventory control software for food processing? Apple? Linux?
Actually those touch screen POS terminals you see in most bars and restaurants? Linux. Those touch screen bar top games? Also Linux. Now the computer in the back office that those communicate with for the managers and chefs? That's probably Windows XP. Some of the POS terminals are Windows embedded from years and years ago, but mostly the POS terminals are Linux. They do the credit card reading/authorizing and inventory if the system is set up for it.
Of course not, this is Slashdot after all, bitch first, RTFA later (if ever) and bitch more. Bonus points (bitch points?) if they do not own a Mac or a Palm device.
Well think about it. If you write a book on motorcycle racing, how many prospective buyers do you think you will have? Not nearly as many as a book on Ruby. Perhaps now with micro publishing we will see more. Also there is a wealth of info in the intarweb, well maybe not so much on actual chassis design, but you can get quite a background just from reading some of the amateur racing websites.
Have you read Kevin Cameron's "Sportbike Tuning Handbook"?
same way you make a pig fly
but, the swine flu
So what are you going to do when Windows 7 comes out and all the software updates again, which probably won't run on your XP machine from 2001? Since you say you want 10 years use, that is about 2.5 years from now, based on when XP came out.
I will take back what I said before about getting over it, as you do have a point. Really though is 129 too much to spend to get Leopard? To use the popular car analogy here, do you expect to get 10 years out of your car without ever buying tires or changing the oil?
BZZZT Wrong, your OSX 10.2 is still upgradeable to 10.2.x. Your XP is not upgradeable to Vista for free, which is what you are asking for. You want Leopard for free because some new software requires it. Your 10.2 has not stopped working. Any software that requires Vista would "Stop working" on your XP-PC as well.
In other words, get over it.
The builder and grocer sell each item one time, and then have to produce more. Slightly different I would say.
Well then.. what do you call a Quarter pounder in Chile?
McRoyale with cheese, motherfucker?
Only if they are not eligible for an upgrade. This is the case with any phone AT&T sells. If you are not eligible for an upgrade, you do not get the subsidized price.
Hmmm then explain the "Blair Witch" movie. I was shot on consumer level film, put together, and got nowhere until a big studio bought the rights to it at Sundance. Do you really think if it was digitized and stuck on a website it would have generated the millions it got when a major studio got behind it and marketed it out the wazoo? Name me a band that has launched into Gold Record status from mp3.com or from individual web sales. It takes money to make money, and the RIAA and the MPAA have the money. For every Britney, Backstreet Boys, Linkin Park, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, there are WAY more failed bands, even with the marketing muscle of the RIAA. The MPAA is about the same, for every Spiderman, there is Godzilla 2000. Joe Average does what the ads say, and it will not change for some time.
I'd wager a significant amount of money that even successful sites like Megatokyo, Slashdot, PvP and other "fringe" sites have far fewer mainstream hits than the big media sites like AOL, CNN, MSNBC, etc....
Hmmm I think you should work 10 hour days, and send all of your earnings above minimum wage to said countries workers to support them. If you don't, then who are you to bitch about what said workers are willing to work?
(MS has cost me a couple of thousand dollars, even if they never saw much of that money. Basically in writeoffs of abandoned software.
How exactly has MS cost you a couple of thousand dollars? You couldn't run your old software on old hardware with the old version of Windows? Isn't that what you are saying is good about Apple? Or are you just trolling and bashing Microsoft for no reason?
Which artists are producing music on DVD's?
Linkin Park has one that has just come out, or is about to come out. Slipknot has one from their first album. Metallica has at least one, and I'm pretty sure there is a Perl Jam one. These are just ones I remember seeing at Fry's, where they actually had a whole endcap of DVD's from musical artists.
"the best of" episodes of She's the Sherriff starring Suzanne Sommers.
There are best of episodes of that show?
Ahh that makes sense. I figured out why I have not had the problem since I got the mod points a couple of days ago, I have been so bored at work that I have been reading /. stories with under 100 comments, when I went looking for a story with lots of comments, *BANG* same problem. One more reason to load up W2K on my work computer, or go back to using Linux there...
I don't know why this was modded funny when it is true. It happens to me with Windows 98 with IE, but W2K with IE does not exhibit the same problem. Opera and Mozilla on Linux do not appear to have the problem. Although now that I think about it, since I got mod points the other day, it hasn't done it.
It's about how some laser disc created 15 years ago cannot be read by any technology available today.
That is bullshit, it would read fine in my Pioneer LD player, just because you cannot BUY a reader now does not make it unreadable. Can you even buy a 5.25 inch floppy drive anymore? 15 years ago those were common backup drives. Hell, I used to backup to QIC-6250 drives, I bet you cannot buy one of those anymore, but the tapes are still good if I can read them in an existing drive. You either have to migrate your data to new media, or make sure you can read the old media, it is all part of backup stradegy.
What did they use, blackbirds? The hell is that?!
At least they weren't penis birds.
Hmmm I think you need to look at Baen for a publisher that "gets it".
Or better yet, try this or if you want free try this . No reason to pirate books when there are quality works available for free or low cost.
The flipdown one is $2995.00. OUCH. Still it is a neat device, but missing a few key features I think. Where is the touch screen? Recipie program? Wireless? I couldn't find if it would play streaming audio from my server. Since it doesn't look to allow loading of software, no AOL or MSN, how does it get updated for new software? I really would like to have a LCD panel WITH touch screen in my kitchen that I could view recipies and play streaming audio with. Oh well, back to coming up with something myself I guess.
Don't most slashdot readers just eat whatever mom puts on the table?
Which PC maker has a DVD burner shipping standard?
Sony for one. $1199.00 but no monitor, and sold out online. Best Buy probably has them.