I think you underestimate users. People will double click, unzip and spend however long it takes to run any attachment they get. Even if their e-mail program or ISP or whoever says something like "The attachment is a virus... do not open it." They will still open it.
Tell someone there are 100 billion suns in the Galaxy, and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it, and he has to touch it to make sure.
Secondly, even if you did manage to get the RFID tag number, how exactly would you "check a UPC database?" FYI, these tags are not like UPC codes. UPC codes are not unique. The first 5 (4?) digits of a UPC code identify the manufacturer, the remaining 5 identify the product. For example, 78492 means "GE", and 87369 means "Washing Machine, model GE T705" (warning: completely fake data, for illustrative purposes only). That info is not that hard to find.
First of all, it sure isn't. Hard to find, that is. Just type a UPC code (all 12 digits, please) into Google and see what happens.
Secondly, although the UPC code is on the wane, in its place is the GTIN, the Global Trade ID number, and its electronic cousin, the EPC (Electronic Product Code.) I've already had retailers ask me what our company's time frame is for implementing such codes. Hint: It ain't far off.
Thankfully, RFID will only be used to track palettes and crates of stuff at the store level. At first.
So you didn't read TFA? W*M is doing this to the consumer units. Trust me, my company is piloting with them for just this purpose. Not just pallets and cases, but eaches as well.
I am not a mainframe guy myself, but it is my understanding that they are still very much used and very important with a fairly large worldwide market.
Billions of dollars of transactions flow through z/OS mainframes -- for consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and other products.
In the end, after getting frustrated trying to do the right thing, I used it to apply puddy to my automobile, and it probally is still encased in a lump of pudddy.
I once gave a woman a lift back to her car and she left her Visa card in my van when she left. I called the contact number on the card and they said to cut it up, but that they would contact the customer and mark it 'lost' immediately.
I guess that has become the right thing to do when financial access devices are involved.
The Trolls should look nothing like the Cave Troll in the Fellowship.
Remember the scene in the Fellowship where they were looking for the athelas, after Frodo got stabbed with the Morgul-knife? Can't remember if it's in the theatrical version, but the extended version has Sam's comment that they were in the forest where Bilbo's trolls were, and you saw a fleeting glimpse of three stone statues. I would bet that Weta is going to leverage this somehow.
I hope they perfect, or at least change the formulation, of the prosthetics. I'll bet Rhys-Davies doesn't look forward to more skin eczema in the least.
You'll remember even from the movie that Bilbo talks about not feeling older in terms of physical, but that he felt stretched and I guess old because of the tainted ring?
He felt like "butter spread across too much bread" because the Ring was exerting more and more of its power over him, turning him inexorably into what Smeagol ultimately became. Which is part of the reason that Gandalf was most insistent that Bilbo leave the Ring at that point (at the beginning of the Fellowship); later he may not have physically been able to do it.
... especially when you dropped $9 million on David Boies. You won't be able to do that for very long if you are suing, and being sued, by just about everybody.
You need to be within about 4" to communicate with most RFID tech anyway.
Huh? What about warehouse management systems? What about EZ-Pass? What about those scanners that they aim at the aluminum-foil-lined hat I wear walking down the street?
Despite Michael's concerns, there's nothing in there about tying to individual customer purchases or even getting explicit sales data on competitors' products.
Yet.
Wait till the six-pack or case has an RFID tag in it somewhere.
i also realized that networking, while great, didnt help at all. i have friends in every level of seemingly every industry and not one could help me find any employment.
YMMV, as in everything else. I was laid off October 20, 2002 from a semiconductor manufacturer that used to be part of a large telecom manufacturer that used to be part of a large telephone company... well, you get the idea. My wife works with the spouse of someone employed at an even larger company that actually is making a profit this year and forwarded my resume to him. I got an interview and of 5 candidates, I was the only one with the requisite experience (to be fair, EDI is not a mainstream skillset but it's damned important to large firms.) I got my job offer the day I was off-roll at the laying-off company.
I call that networking -- and incredible timing.:)
True diversity, Charney said, would require thousands of different operating systems, which would make integrating computer systems and networks virtually impossible.
Which begs the question of whether you need "true diversity."
My slightly uneducated guess is that semi-true diversity would work just fine. After all, think of it this way: with simply one other computing platform to choose from, you've just increased the number of options you have by 100%.
Africafe instant coffee (here's an exporter that sells it) is very good. My parents went to Tanzania last year on a relief expedition and brought me back a 50gm tin, which I'm hoarding.:) I need to find a retailer, since this site looks to be a wholesaler.
My father gave me one after he was done with it. I don't know what I did to wrong him, but any notion I had about filial love went right out the window when he gave me the keys to "The Rolling Turd." (it was a shit-brown color.)
It wouldn't stay in 2nd gear, it couldn't get out of its' own way, you sweltered in the summer unless you had AC (which just robbed more power from the anemic engine) and you sure couldn't go fast enough in the damn thing to even get 2-60 air conditioning out of it. Plus it had a voracious appetite for front tires because it could never stay in alignment.
I had it a year. Then I gave it to a friend of mine. Mercifully, he was killed (got hit by a car) before he ever found out what a lemon the Pacer was, so I can only imagine that he still thought of me as a friend to the end. I'd hate to have that on my conscience.
Ever hear of "flock?" It's the crap that makes those fuzzy red Christmas ribbons fuzzy. It's the stuff that makes fake velour. And it's made almost by hand. A chopper chops dyed nylon fibers into one hundredth of an inch high pieces. Then the flock fibers are loaded into a hopper. The ribbon or whatever fabric you're using gets a layer of glue put on it. The flock is electrostatically charged and shaken onto the substrate which has an opposite charge. It's then baked in a 400 degree F oven and rolled onto huge rolls, and sent to ribbon or fabric manufacturers.
The server room was directly above the "flock lines." The little pieces of flock get everywhere. Vent filters don't even keep it out. All the keyboards and monitors are covered with a fine layer of this crap. You vacuumed your server twice or three times a day. Best of all, my office was right next to a flock line oven, in an overhead mezzanine. And when do you run Christmas ribbon (red flock?) YES!!!! IN JULY!! A four hundred degree oven. Bad airconditioning. The smell of the glue getting you high -- okay, so it's not all bad.:) -- The people walking around covered in red flock like they were dressed up for a costume party but forgot the pitchforks.
And don't even remind me of the cretin who decided to wire the whole place with silver satin cable terminated, God help me, with wire nuts. And he always vetoed the Cat-5 upgrades because they were "too expensive" but never thought about throwing people all day at the obvious data integrity problems.
I think most people just click on it by accident or because they don't know what else to do.
I love when they mimic the control buttons inside the 'hot' area of the window so it looks like one window inside another. You have to be tres careful to hit the right one.
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I think you underestimate users. People will double click, unzip and spend however long it takes to run any attachment they get. Even if their e-mail program or ISP or whoever says something like "The attachment is a virus... do not open it." They will still open it.
Tell someone there are 100 billion suns in the Galaxy, and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it, and he has to touch it to make sure.
I don't get all this hatred of Wal-Mart.
Check out this article on how they compete.
personal RFID blockers/jammers, like a keyfob
:) RFID devices are, IIRC, blinded by metal.
Or a layer of tinfoil.
Secondly, even if you did manage to get the RFID tag number, how exactly would you "check a UPC database?" FYI, these tags are not like UPC codes. UPC codes are not unique. The first 5 (4?) digits of a UPC code identify the manufacturer, the remaining 5 identify the product. For example, 78492 means "GE", and 87369 means "Washing Machine, model GE T705" (warning: completely fake data, for illustrative purposes only). That info is not that hard to find.
First of all, it sure isn't. Hard to find, that is. Just type a UPC code (all 12 digits, please) into Google and see what happens.
Secondly, although the UPC code is on the wane, in its place is the GTIN, the Global Trade ID number, and its electronic cousin, the EPC (Electronic Product Code.) I've already had retailers ask me what our company's time frame is for implementing such codes. Hint: It ain't far off.
Now, where would you likely be between 8:00 and 10:00 AM on 12/04? ;-)
At the pisser.
Thankfully, RFID will only be used to track palettes and crates of stuff at the store level. At first.
So you didn't read TFA? W*M is doing this to the consumer units. Trust me, my company is piloting with them for just this purpose. Not just pallets and cases, but eaches as well.
with no info anywhere about what Rexx is.
You might have looked in the wrong places.
Why not try The REXX Home Page at IBM?
Or the Rexx Language Association home page?
I am not a mainframe guy myself, but it is my understanding that they are still very much used and very important with a fairly large worldwide market.
Billions of dollars of transactions flow through z/OS mainframes -- for consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and other products.
And that's just at my shop.
Important? You betcha.
In the end, after getting frustrated trying to do the right thing, I used it to apply puddy to my automobile, and it probally is still encased in a lump of pudddy.
I once gave a woman a lift back to her car and she left her Visa card in my van when she left. I called the contact number on the card and they said to cut it up, but that they would contact the customer and mark it 'lost' immediately.
I guess that has become the right thing to do when financial access devices are involved.
Remember the scene in the Fellowship where they were looking for the athelas, after Frodo got stabbed with the Morgul-knife? Can't remember if it's in the theatrical version, but the extended version has Sam's comment that they were in the forest where Bilbo's trolls were, and you saw a fleeting glimpse of three stone statues. I would bet that Weta is going to leverage this somehow.
I hope they perfect, or at least change the formulation, of the prosthetics. I'll bet Rhys-Davies doesn't look forward to more skin eczema in the least.
He felt like "butter spread across too much bread" because the Ring was exerting more and more of its power over him, turning him inexorably into what Smeagol ultimately became. Which is part of the reason that Gandalf was most insistent that Bilbo leave the Ring at that point (at the beginning of the Fellowship); later he may not have physically been able to do it.
Like yours?
Sure. This could've come from any director at my company.
... especially when you dropped $9 million on David Boies. You won't be able to do that for very long if you are suing, and being sued, by just about everybody.
Huh? What about warehouse management systems? What about EZ-Pass? What about those scanners that they aim at the aluminum-foil-lined hat I wear walking down the street?
Four inches. Hah!
Yet.
Wait till the six-pack or case has an RFID tag in it somewhere.
Ah, another person who's read "Adolescence of P1." Thought it was just me. :)
YMMV, as in everything else. I was laid off October 20, 2002 from a semiconductor manufacturer that used to be part of a large telecom manufacturer that used to be part of a large telephone company... well, you get the idea. My wife works with the spouse of someone employed at an even larger company that actually is making a profit this year and forwarded my resume to him. I got an interview and of 5 candidates, I was the only one with the requisite experience (to be fair, EDI is not a mainstream skillset but it's damned important to large firms.) I got my job offer the day I was off-roll at the laying-off company.
I call that networking -- and incredible timing.
Which begs the question of whether you need "true diversity."
My slightly uneducated guess is that semi-true diversity would work just fine. After all, think of it this way: with simply one other computing platform to choose from, you've just increased the number of options you have by 100%.
Where can I download that?
Africafe instant coffee (here's an exporter that sells it) is very good. My parents went to Tanzania last year on a relief expedition and brought me back a 50gm tin, which I'm hoarding. :) I need to find a retailer, since this site looks to be a wholesaler.
My father gave me one after he was done with it. I don't know what I did to wrong him, but any notion I had about filial love went right out the window when he gave me the keys to "The Rolling Turd." (it was a shit-brown color.)
It wouldn't stay in 2nd gear, it couldn't get out of its' own way, you sweltered in the summer unless you had AC (which just robbed more power from the anemic engine) and you sure couldn't go fast enough in the damn thing to even get 2-60 air conditioning out of it. Plus it had a voracious appetite for front tires because it could never stay in alignment.
I had it a year. Then I gave it to a friend of mine. Mercifully, he was killed (got hit by a car) before he ever found out what a lemon the Pacer was, so I can only imagine that he still thought of me as a friend to the end. I'd hate to have that on my conscience.
Ever hear of "flock?" It's the crap that makes those fuzzy red Christmas ribbons fuzzy. It's the stuff that makes fake velour. And it's made almost by hand. A chopper chops dyed nylon fibers into one hundredth of an inch high pieces. Then the flock fibers are loaded into a hopper. The ribbon or whatever fabric you're using gets a layer of glue put on it. The flock is electrostatically charged and shaken onto the substrate which has an opposite charge. It's then baked in a 400 degree F oven and rolled onto huge rolls, and sent to ribbon or fabric manufacturers.
:) -- The people walking around covered in red flock like they were dressed up for a costume party but forgot the pitchforks.
The server room was directly above the "flock lines." The little pieces of flock get everywhere. Vent filters don't even keep it out. All the keyboards and monitors are covered with a fine layer of this crap. You vacuumed your server twice or three times a day. Best of all, my office was right next to a flock line oven, in an overhead mezzanine. And when do you run Christmas ribbon (red flock?) YES!!!! IN JULY!! A four hundred degree oven. Bad airconditioning. The smell of the glue getting you high -- okay, so it's not all bad.
And don't even remind me of the cretin who decided to wire the whole place with silver satin cable terminated, God help me, with wire nuts. And he always vetoed the Cat-5 upgrades because they were "too expensive" but never thought about throwing people all day at the obvious data integrity problems.
Ah, thanks for bringing back THOSE memories.
I love when they mimic the control buttons inside the 'hot' area of the window so it looks like one window inside another. You have to be tres careful to hit the right one.
Assholes.