Have you bothered to check Freshmeat or Sourceforge for projects similar to yours? I've been looking for a Point of Sale system, and many of the freely available software systems to something similar to what you ask. The rest is just finding a contract programming team (check your local LUG) to customize the package.
We use the Blaster Advantage, serial and network enabled. They are thermal transfer and use an ink ribbon, so no environmental heat damage problems. We print one at a time, but a few thousand a week so it can handle the load. There are other printers for bigger sized labels, we use them for UPC labels on our merchandise.
I'm considering law school as well. I have a background in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, and Information Science (not the hard core Comp Sci). I've been working in the technical field for a while as a programmer, a sys admin, and a consultant for both types of jobs.
I'm looking at IP Law or public policy. Columbia and Georgetown have pretty good programs for both from what I hear. I also like the JD/PhD program that Georgetown has. It's 5 years, but who can beat a Dr. Esq.?
The man executes hundreds of people during his tenure as governer, starts a war before exhausting all the diplomatic processes, and increases the amount of pollution in the United States (which will kill more in the long run than legalized abortion).
And somehow he's managed to convince you that he views the "sanctity of life" with the same regard that you do. Please, do your homework.
I don't usually respond to ACs, but I'll make an exception.
If you oppose the homosexual agenda because you believe homosexuality to be immoral, that's at least an argument that you can back up.
But this "against gay marriage or special rights for people just because they're gay" business holds no water. Exactly what "special rights" are you talking about? The special benefits that heterosexuals get in tax and probate law? The special benefits that heterosexuals get in health insurance?
If you are going to argue that you are opposed to gay marriage due to civil rights issues, you're screwed.
Sounds like what I am going through. I work for a small company that runs a 12 year old point of sale system written in FoxPro. The previous programmer had spent the past 12 years modifying and customizing it, but never bothered with documenting his changes or even commenting (or indenting for that matter) the code.
So now I get to massage this HUGE kludge of a program. I'm being sneaky though. I'm going back and commenting everything and developing a replacement on the side.
Geez, with the RIAA trying their best to alienate consumers, the MPAA blaming the consumers for crappy sales, and SCO trying to intimidate people into paying for what is essentially in the public domain, I have never felt more like moving out of the USofA.
I read that one too.
Coincidence? I think not.
Too often was Science Fiction ridiculed as being preposterous in the past by idiots who didn't realize that it's as much science as fiction.
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Have you bothered to check Freshmeat or Sourceforge for projects similar to yours? I've been looking for a Point of Sale system, and many of the freely available software systems to something similar to what you ask. The rest is just finding a contract programming team (check your local LUG) to customize the package.
Freshmeat
SourceForge
We use the Blaster Advantage, serial and network enabled. They are thermal transfer and use an ink ribbon, so no environmental heat damage problems. We print one at a time, but a few thousand a week so it can handle the load. There are other printers for bigger sized labels, we use them for UPC labels on our merchandise.
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http://www.cognitive.com/printers/introduction.ht
I'm considering law school as well. I have a background in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, and Information Science (not the hard core Comp Sci). I've been working in the technical field for a while as a programmer, a sys admin, and a consultant for both types of jobs.
I'm looking at IP Law or public policy. Columbia and Georgetown have pretty good programs for both from what I hear. I also like the JD/PhD program that Georgetown has. It's 5 years, but who can beat a Dr. Esq.?
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KVN
That way they can take their addiction with them!
The man executes hundreds of people during his tenure as governer, starts a war before exhausting all the diplomatic processes, and increases the amount of pollution in the United States (which will kill more in the long run than legalized abortion).
And somehow he's managed to convince you that he views the "sanctity of life" with the same regard that you do. Please, do your homework.
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KVN
I don't usually respond to ACs, but I'll make an exception.
If you oppose the homosexual agenda because you believe homosexuality to be immoral, that's at least an argument that you can back up.
But this "against gay marriage or special rights for people just because they're gay" business holds no water. Exactly what "special rights" are you talking about? The special benefits that heterosexuals get in tax and probate law? The special benefits that heterosexuals get in health insurance?
If you are going to argue that you are opposed to gay marriage due to civil rights issues, you're screwed.
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KVN
Sounds like what I am going through. I work for a small company that runs a 12 year old point of sale system written in FoxPro. The previous programmer had spent the past 12 years modifying and customizing it, but never bothered with documenting his changes or even commenting (or indenting for that matter) the code.
So now I get to massage this HUGE kludge of a program. I'm being sneaky though. I'm going back and commenting everything and developing a replacement on the side.
Maybe I'll get promoted too.
Moses invests.
That instead of educating young minds and advancing scientific knowledge, he has chosen to wade through pipes filled with poo and who-know-what-else.
I suppose this wouldn't happen if we paid our educators more. I moved from Biochemistry to IT because I despised writing grant proposals.
I don't blame the man. It seems like the system is a bit wonky if plumbers make more than a professor at a uni.
This guy lives near me! I'm so going to check this dude out. Thanks slashdot for the skinny on some good christmas lights.
-KVN
will inherit the Earth..
*cue Rush*
Geez, with the RIAA trying their best to alienate consumers, the MPAA blaming the consumers for crappy sales, and SCO trying to intimidate people into paying for what is essentially in the public domain, I have never felt more like moving out of the USofA.
You Canadians have any room up there for me?
Hey.. Thanks for all the help guys.
I just wanted to say a few things in response to all your comments.
1) They already play enough of Counterstrike, Pokemon online and whatever holds the teens' attentions these days.
2) They are 12 and 15, so I decided to skip LOGO and move onto Python (all you python nuts can cheer now).
3) Since I don't know Python, I guess I'm going to have to learn it.
4) I always suspected I was a genius, but I thought most people were this smart.
-KlaatuVN
I read that one too. Coincidence? I think not. Too often was Science Fiction ridiculed as being preposterous in the past by idiots who didn't realize that it's as much science as fiction.
Jake Mendelssohn RULES! He's the one who organizes the competition. Ipsa scientia potestas est.