Fileservers are too slow. Besides, this POS system has to have the files locally.
Also, it uses the modem for credit card authorization.
Broadband isn't needed.
So, thanks, but that Gateway thing won't work. But these monitors will be *tremendously* useful for someone like me. Not a nice to have geek toy, but very, very useful.
You honestly think that this thing's not gonna have some kind of security? Hell, otherwise they'd be useless in any kind of business environment. So, sniff away, kiddo.
Well, consider that every man, woman, and child would have to spend coutless hours trying to figure out PC's all over again, overall productivity would plunge. It would be an economic disaster.
Now, I know that virtually nobody on Slashdot has a job, or for the most part, even graduated from high school yet, but this *does* have real world applications. Since this was picked up by ABC news, every story they do is gonna revolve around fat ass home users on their couches. BUT, this thing does have a very practical use.
I'd like to get a few for my store. I have PC's up front, all networked, running my POS systems. I don't really have room for them, and the wires networking them to the back room are a pain. This will be a perfect solution. I can get rid of the PC's in the front, I don't need to worry about employees tripping over wires, and I even have the touchscreen feature that I need.
My guess is that MS had this in mind when developing this, but you can't exactly explain that to ABC News, which caters to people with an average IQ equal to that of a doorknob.
It's going to be incredibly useful. I'm getting a few to use in my stores. I don't have room for PC's up front, and I need touchscreen at the same time. This is designed for commercial or industrial uses. The tablet PC is designed for, well, more of a "gee whiz" factor (like PDA's).
You're not getting lag free over a 100 MB connection? Are you talking about playing a game or something like that? I regularly use Terminal Services with a 56K modem and the lag is relatively minor.
Hey man, that's their decision to have kids. That's their problem. That comes with the territory.
As far as people who bring loud kids to movies, they should be shot on site. Or at least kicked out of the theater ASAP. I shouldn't have my movie experienced ruined, especially at those prices, by other peoples' kids. I say give 'em the boot.
I didn't know that that part wasn't in the movie. That was a really fun part in the book, and one of the few parts that I remember after having read the book several years ago. Hmmm.... maybe I won't go to see this one.
I personally think that MS should drop Europe. Not sell to 'em at all. Just for a little while. It won't take long. After Europeans are forced to spend a bit of time at the Bash prompt, they'll happily shut the hell up. And of course, MS should very aggressively persue piracy there, since it'd spike after they couldn't get MS products legally.
Well, I hope for your sake that "fastmail.fm" (which I've never heard of) stays in business, otherwise, you're gonna be switching email addresses soon, and as anybody with email knows, that's a royal pain in the ass.
First off, parroting "illegal monopoly" makes you sound like a hell of a gov't supporter. I suppose that if, I dunno, vegetables were outlawed, then you'd say you wouldn't eat "illegal vegetables"? Hell, and as far as I'm concerned (thinking for myself now... not parroting), MS isn't a monopoly. There are alternatives, but most people just aren't interested. Forcing people to pick alternatives (ie: the gov't destroying a company) is getting pretty close to a dictatorial gov't. Let the people chose. By and large, the people have chose MS, whether you like it or not.
As far as "Wrong" practices, they've never done anything other than compete in the marketplace. Period. They've produced better products (Recently), they've lowered prices, and they've done a hell of a good job with marketing. If you think that any of this is "wrong", then perhaps you should go live in a cave, because every company on the planet does these things.
...don't fix it. And as far as I'm concerned, W2K isn't broken. I haven't had a *single* hiccup with W2K. I had a few with IIS on a server, but those were my fault (shitty programming... see my journal). Why would I want to devote many, many very valuable hours trying to fix a non-problem. My time is invaluable. Spending a few hundred bucks for W2K then forgetting about it is priceless.
No, it shouldn't. There's nobody else delivering first class mail. And packages, there's little overlap, since the USPS doesn't do large packages, and they also don't do guaranteed delivery on any particular day.
Yes! Spammers are being arrested now! And maybe tomorrow, they'll start enforcing laws about pirated music and start arresting some (more) P2P users. And maybe after that, they'll start enforcing obscenity laws. Great, the Fed is now cracking down on the Net!
Ya' know with all of the bullshit floating around here about how Microsoft is "killing" the Net, them having a dominant browser is *nothing* compared to the Fed watching over your shoulder. For as bad spam was, at least the Net used to be free...
What's your point about these two sites? Which one do you think has more traffic? So, which one carries more weight with users? Also, it shows that by the current standard, pages can look slick, but those using the W3C standards look like they're right out of 1996. Oh yeah, let's definitely go back in time because of the all-important bogus "standards". Puh-lease. Get your head out of your ass. Gutenberg is a nice little project, but it doesn't pull any weight with most people. Most people go to a page like that, assume it's some grad student's doctoral thesis from 1996, and leave. That's progress?
My point wasn't that *my* boxes run great. My point is that anyone who even remotely knows what they're doing can keep a W2K box humming along nicely for an indefinite period of time. I kinda' thought this was common knowledge by now, was my point. I'm wondering if these people are, I dunno, running their W2K boxes in ovens, and wondering why they're crashing or something like that. I honestly couldn't figure it out...
But, my guess is that sgtrock is probably right. Must be lots of people running lots of really lousy apps. I don't run software that I haven't investigated thoroughly, and I certainly don't run any betas from other people. Hell, when I was a developer, even I couldn't kill a W2K box with nasty code. I could lock up a processeasy (forget to put a check condition in a loop), but not the whole box. So there must really be a lot of really cruddy apps out there.
... something like the source code for the secrets behind chinese food. How do they make all of that damn food so good and so cheap at the same time? They do that, and you'll see thousands of "Bill's Happy Rucky Chinese Food" shops all over the world not soon thereafter.
Throughout all of these posts, there are always quotes like "...now we don't have to deal with crashing machines all the time...". What in the hell are these people doing to crash their W2K boxes? It's pretty widely known that W2K is *very* stable. My boxes (I know, anecdotal evidence) don't crash. Period. A few very strained web/db servers, a few POS machines, and a few random boxes. No crashes. Ever. What in the hell are all of these people doing to get their W2K boxes to fail? I'm really, really curious.
Well, I wouldn't call their position in the database market "relatively" good. They're #1, and have been for a loooong time.
The Java stuff is cute, but by and large hasn't been implemented much. People buy Oracle because it's been around forever, and has been tested probably more than any other software on the planet. PL/SQL is still, by far and away, much more popular than their Java app. PL/SQL is incredibly optimized and solid, whereas their Java solutions are still getting there.
Their XML parser is definitely good, but the documentation for it is virtually nonexistent.
I don't think that they're necessarily adapting because they have to. Their core business is very strong. I think that they're just trying to expand their market. Of course, they've had lots of misses too. Some of their apps, like Oracle Forms (which is incredible) and their very nice web server while used, aern't nearly as popular as their core RDBMS.
And you forgot one of their coolest new technologies... OODBMS. Very bizarre. Very different. Hasn't taken off yet, but I've used it, and it's very very innovative.
Oracle's not in any trouble *yet*. But I think that they're hurt every time they try to work their way into the low end market to compete against things like MySQL. Bad idea.
Well, what I'm wondering, is who is forcing all of these companies to upgrade? It looks to me like IT people are doing it just so that they can have the newest toy on the block, and MS knows that. I locked my company into W2K, and we're gonna stay here unless there's a damn good reason to switch.
"Bad guys"? They're just trying to make a buck like everybody else. That doesn't make 'em "bad". The majority of the population actually *likes* Shitney Spears. So, they play it because it appeals to a large number of people. It's very simple.
or does Wired seem to have a story about Apple fanatics just about every day? I mean, there's nothing wrong with that if it's "Apple Magazine" or something like that, but Wired seems to be very Apple heavy. Maybe it's because nothing really hip ever really happens outside of the Mac world?
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Fileservers are too slow. Besides, this POS system has to have the files locally.
Also, it uses the modem for credit card authorization.
Broadband isn't needed.
So, thanks, but that Gateway thing won't work. But these monitors will be *tremendously* useful for someone like me. Not a nice to have geek toy, but very, very useful.
You honestly think that this thing's not gonna have some kind of security? Hell, otherwise they'd be useless in any kind of business environment. So, sniff away, kiddo.
Slick looking, but where do I put my RAID? How about the modem?
Well, consider that every man, woman, and child would have to spend coutless hours trying to figure out PC's all over again, overall productivity would plunge. It would be an economic disaster.
Now, I know that virtually nobody on Slashdot has a job, or for the most part, even graduated from high school yet, but this *does* have real world applications. Since this was picked up by ABC news, every story they do is gonna revolve around fat ass home users on their couches. BUT, this thing does have a very practical use.
I'd like to get a few for my store. I have PC's up front, all networked, running my POS systems. I don't really have room for them, and the wires networking them to the back room are a pain. This will be a perfect solution. I can get rid of the PC's in the front, I don't need to worry about employees tripping over wires, and I even have the touchscreen feature that I need.
My guess is that MS had this in mind when developing this, but you can't exactly explain that to ABC News, which caters to people with an average IQ equal to that of a doorknob.
It's going to be incredibly useful. I'm getting a few to use in my stores. I don't have room for PC's up front, and I need touchscreen at the same time. This is designed for commercial or industrial uses. The tablet PC is designed for, well, more of a "gee whiz" factor (like PDA's).
You're not getting lag free over a 100 MB connection? Are you talking about playing a game or something like that? I regularly use Terminal Services with a 56K modem and the lag is relatively minor.
Hey man, that's their decision to have kids. That's their problem. That comes with the territory.
As far as people who bring loud kids to movies, they should be shot on site. Or at least kicked out of the theater ASAP. I shouldn't have my movie experienced ruined, especially at those prices, by other peoples' kids. I say give 'em the boot.
I didn't know that that part wasn't in the movie. That was a really fun part in the book, and one of the few parts that I remember after having read the book several years ago. Hmmm.... maybe I won't go to see this one.
Sucks that you have kids. Those of us smart enough to stay childless actually *enjoy* going to movies.
I personally think that MS should drop Europe. Not sell to 'em at all. Just for a little while. It won't take long. After Europeans are forced to spend a bit of time at the Bash prompt, they'll happily shut the hell up. And of course, MS should very aggressively persue piracy there, since it'd spike after they couldn't get MS products legally.
Well, I hope for your sake that "fastmail.fm" (which I've never heard of) stays in business, otherwise, you're gonna be switching email addresses soon, and as anybody with email knows, that's a royal pain in the ass.
First off, parroting "illegal monopoly" makes you sound like a hell of a gov't supporter. I suppose that if, I dunno, vegetables were outlawed, then you'd say you wouldn't eat "illegal vegetables"? Hell, and as far as I'm concerned (thinking for myself now... not parroting), MS isn't a monopoly. There are alternatives, but most people just aren't interested. Forcing people to pick alternatives (ie: the gov't destroying a company) is getting pretty close to a dictatorial gov't. Let the people chose. By and large, the people have chose MS, whether you like it or not.
As far as "Wrong" practices, they've never done anything other than compete in the marketplace. Period. They've produced better products (Recently), they've lowered prices, and they've done a hell of a good job with marketing. If you think that any of this is "wrong", then perhaps you should go live in a cave, because every company on the planet does these things.
...don't fix it. And as far as I'm concerned, W2K isn't broken. I haven't had a *single* hiccup with W2K. I had a few with IIS on a server, but those were my fault (shitty programming... see my journal). Why would I want to devote many, many very valuable hours trying to fix a non-problem. My time is invaluable. Spending a few hundred bucks for W2K then forgetting about it is priceless.
No, it shouldn't. There's nobody else delivering first class mail. And packages, there's little overlap, since the USPS doesn't do large packages, and they also don't do guaranteed delivery on any particular day.
Just like we're not allowed to sell things for less than they cost,
Huh? That's not true, and also, it's irrelevant. The site was shut down because the gov't isn't allowed to compete with private companies/people.
Yes! Spammers are being arrested now! And maybe tomorrow, they'll start enforcing laws about pirated music and start arresting some (more) P2P users. And maybe after that, they'll start enforcing obscenity laws. Great, the Fed is now cracking down on the Net!
Ya' know with all of the bullshit floating around here about how Microsoft is "killing" the Net, them having a dominant browser is *nothing* compared to the Fed watching over your shoulder. For as bad spam was, at least the Net used to be free...
What's your point about these two sites? Which one do you think has more traffic? So, which one carries more weight with users? Also, it shows that by the current standard, pages can look slick, but those using the W3C standards look like they're right out of 1996. Oh yeah, let's definitely go back in time because of the all-important bogus "standards". Puh-lease. Get your head out of your ass. Gutenberg is a nice little project, but it doesn't pull any weight with most people. Most people go to a page like that, assume it's some grad student's doctoral thesis from 1996, and leave. That's progress?
My point wasn't that *my* boxes run great. My point is that anyone who even remotely knows what they're doing can keep a W2K box humming along nicely for an indefinite period of time. I kinda' thought this was common knowledge by now, was my point. I'm wondering if these people are, I dunno, running their W2K boxes in ovens, and wondering why they're crashing or something like that. I honestly couldn't figure it out...
But, my guess is that sgtrock is probably right. Must be lots of people running lots of really lousy apps. I don't run software that I haven't investigated thoroughly, and I certainly don't run any betas from other people. Hell, when I was a developer, even I couldn't kill a W2K box with nasty code. I could lock up a processeasy (forget to put a check condition in a loop), but not the whole box. So there must really be a lot of really cruddy apps out there.
... something like the source code for the secrets behind chinese food. How do they make all of that damn food so good and so cheap at the same time? They do that, and you'll see thousands of "Bill's Happy Rucky Chinese Food" shops all over the world not soon thereafter.
Throughout all of these posts, there are always quotes like "...now we don't have to deal with crashing machines all the time...". What in the hell are these people doing to crash their W2K boxes? It's pretty widely known that W2K is *very* stable. My boxes (I know, anecdotal evidence) don't crash. Period. A few very strained web/db servers, a few POS machines, and a few random boxes. No crashes. Ever. What in the hell are all of these people doing to get their W2K boxes to fail? I'm really, really curious.
Well, I wouldn't call their position in the database market "relatively" good. They're #1, and have been for a loooong time.
The Java stuff is cute, but by and large hasn't been implemented much. People buy Oracle because it's been around forever, and has been tested probably more than any other software on the planet. PL/SQL is still, by far and away, much more popular than their Java app. PL/SQL is incredibly optimized and solid, whereas their Java solutions are still getting there.
Their XML parser is definitely good, but the documentation for it is virtually nonexistent.
I don't think that they're necessarily adapting because they have to. Their core business is very strong. I think that they're just trying to expand their market. Of course, they've had lots of misses too. Some of their apps, like Oracle Forms (which is incredible) and their very nice web server while used, aern't nearly as popular as their core RDBMS.
And you forgot one of their coolest new technologies... OODBMS. Very bizarre. Very different. Hasn't taken off yet, but I've used it, and it's very very innovative.
Oracle's not in any trouble *yet*. But I think that they're hurt every time they try to work their way into the low end market to compete against things like MySQL. Bad idea.
Well, what I'm wondering, is who is forcing all of these companies to upgrade? It looks to me like IT people are doing it just so that they can have the newest toy on the block, and MS knows that. I locked my company into W2K, and we're gonna stay here unless there's a damn good reason to switch.
"Bad guys"? They're just trying to make a buck like everybody else. That doesn't make 'em "bad". The majority of the population actually *likes* Shitney Spears. So, they play it because it appeals to a large number of people. It's very simple.
I don't know what IE does that Mozilla can't,
ActiveX.
or does Wired seem to have a story about Apple fanatics just about every day? I mean, there's nothing wrong with that if it's "Apple Magazine" or something like that, but Wired seems to be very Apple heavy. Maybe it's because nothing really hip ever really happens outside of the Mac world?