I walked into the local video store the other day and stopped, staring at the "life size" Shrek2 display. Every single hair on the donkey had been rendered. Fabulous detail.
Serial printer Handheld scanner Flatbed scanner 2x20 customer display Cash drawer PIN pad Scales.. and so on
You're right. Many of these are serial devices. But most retailers and most ISVs have gone down the path of allowing the hardware supplier to write the drivers (OPOS, or JavaPOS, or other) with the result that if such drivers don't exist, the retailers and ISVs no longer have the expertise in house to write them.
IBM does have such expertise, and while it may be harder for them to write a driver for a Symbol scanner than it would be for Symbol to do it, IBM has more incentive.
IBM used to be profoundly anti-alcohol. Something to do with Thomas J Watson being a Quaker. I may be wrong - it's been almost twenty years since I worked there. Anyway, company policy was offset by the employees, who all drank like fish.
This is not a defense against software patents. If the compiled code infringes a patent, it infringes a patent, and the patent holder can stop anyone they wish from using it. It doesn't matter who contributed the code. The kernel infringes, and you need permission from the patent holder to run the kernel.
*That's* one reason why software patents are so evil.
IBM may be spending billions on Linux, but none of it is helping me. Every retailer who has looked at Linux at point of sale has run up against the same problem: lack of device drivers.
It really wouldn't make a dent in IBM's Linux budget to provide drivers for the most common peripherals attached to their registers. They need to do it now, or Embedded XP (which is not a bad product) is going to become entrenched, and so continue Microsoft's rise in the POS operating system space.
Brother-in-law-6-of-6: fix my computer. Me: Sure [/me fixes computer] Me: Is that a perfectly serviceable 486 box lying unused under the desk? 6of6: Yep. I was going to throw it out. Why? Me: Have you considered making a donation to Rupert's home for retired computers? [/me leaves with the box currently residing at 67.52.33.156]
I'm not quite as historically diverse as a friend who used to have an 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486 and Pentium all powered up at one time. All my boxes participate on my network, for one thing. If I could only find linux drivers for the Mylex RAID array in my AT&T S40...
According to this court, the most advanced patentable life form is higher than canola but lower than a mouse. We will therefore need another ruling before we know if Supreme Court Justices are patentable or not.
In the novelisation of Star Wars, the hangar bay chief on the Death Star says "THX 1138, why aren't you at your post?"
It's sad that as a 10-year-old proto-geek I had read enough background material on Lucas, and seen the movie enough times, to realize (a) this is not the movie dialog, and (b) where the new number came from.
There is a web page devoted to the stormtrooper ambushed on the Millenium Falcon.
My grandmother gets her groceries from an internet grocer. She's 93, and still able to get around, just not able to get to the shops every day nor carry more that a days supply of anything. Delivery works for her.
How it *actually* works is that she calls my mother (who lives almost 200 miles away) and my mother places the order on the companys web site.
Not only do these cases delay justice for people with real complaints, but they are also a burden on the taxpayer. Judges and clerks need to be paid, courtrooms need to be heated and lit, and so on.
We need a real deterrent to filing frivolous lawsuits. Something involving crocodiles.
A4 paper is twice the size and the same shape as A5. A3 is twice the size and the same shape as A4. It goes up to A0, which is (ooh) 16 times bigger than A4.
They should just agree to meet half-way, in Minneapolis. Doesn't matter if they both show up, there's sure to be someone else hanging aroung who wants to fight.
Who said Linux? Admittedly, I read at +3, but the 5 posts that I see above yours come in at 3 for Netware, 1 for Windows, and 1 Office Space reference.
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I walked into the local video store the other day and stopped, staring at the "life size" Shrek2 display. Every single hair on the donkey had been rendered. Fabulous detail.
Obviously the donkey had the Frizzled6 gene, too.
Serial printer .. and so on
Handheld scanner
Flatbed scanner
2x20 customer display
Cash drawer
PIN pad
Scales
You're right. Many of these are serial devices. But most retailers and most ISVs have gone down the path of allowing the hardware supplier to write the drivers (OPOS, or JavaPOS, or other) with the result that if such drivers don't exist, the retailers and ISVs no longer have the expertise in house to write them.
IBM does have such expertise, and while it may be harder for them to write a driver for a Symbol scanner than it would be for Symbol to do it, IBM has more incentive.
IBM used to be profoundly anti-alcohol. Something to do with Thomas J Watson being a Quaker. I may be wrong - it's been almost twenty years since I worked there. Anyway, company policy was offset by the employees, who all drank like fish.
Hence free bread in a restaurant.
An artist can't possibly own all the numbers his song could be digitized into!
Bzzzt! That's exactly what he owns. Welcome to the ludicrous world of "intellectual property".
Technically, you're still right. MS-DOS is the leading OS shipped on Point of Sale terminals.
This is not a defense against software patents. If the compiled code infringes a patent, it infringes a patent, and the patent holder can stop anyone they wish from using it. It doesn't matter who contributed the code. The kernel infringes, and you need permission from the patent holder to run the kernel.
*That's* one reason why software patents are so evil.
IBM may be spending billions on Linux, but none of it is helping me. Every retailer who has looked at Linux at point of sale has run up against the same problem: lack of device drivers.
It really wouldn't make a dent in IBM's Linux budget to provide drivers for the most common peripherals attached to their registers. They need to do it now, or Embedded XP (which is not a bad product) is going to become entrenched, and so continue Microsoft's rise in the POS operating system space.
WTF?
It's too bad the price of crack isn't tied to the price of oil. There'd be a lot less strange moderation going on around here if it were.
Brother-in-law-6-of-6: fix my computer.
Me: Sure
[/me fixes computer]
Me: Is that a perfectly serviceable 486 box lying unused under the desk?
6of6: Yep. I was going to throw it out. Why?
Me: Have you considered making a donation to Rupert's home for retired computers?
[/me leaves with the box currently residing at 67.52.33.156]
I'm not quite as historically diverse as a friend who used to have an 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486 and Pentium all powered up at one time. All my boxes participate on my network, for one thing. If I could only find linux drivers for the Mylex RAID array in my AT&T S40...
According to this court, the most advanced patentable life form is higher than canola but lower than a mouse. We will therefore need another ruling before we know if Supreme Court Justices are patentable or not.
In the novelisation of Star Wars, the hangar bay chief on the Death Star says "THX 1138, why aren't you at your post?"
It's sad that as a 10-year-old proto-geek I had read enough background material on Lucas, and seen the movie enough times, to realize (a) this is not the movie dialog, and (b) where the new number came from.
There is a web page devoted to the stormtrooper ambushed on the Millenium Falcon.
Geek cliche coming up.
My grandmother gets her groceries from an internet grocer. She's 93, and still able to get around, just not able to get to the shops every day nor carry more that a days supply of anything. Delivery works for her.
How it *actually* works is that she calls my mother (who lives almost 200 miles away) and my mother places the order on the companys web site.
The one they won't give you unless you cough up $25.95+tax.
Iain McDairmid has a nude scene in Ep3?
/. libido when they find out Natalie Portman is also in that scene. A beowulf cluster of hard-ons, if you will.
Imagine the reaction of the collective
George Lucas does his best directing in the editing booth.
The solution for the traveller is VPN, or webmail.
I liked the *first* re-recording better than the bass-heavy version their running now.
I agree with the grandparent. It took a while to grow on me too. Probably because it's so unexpected in the context of a scifi show theme tune.
Of course, my Star Trek-related musical tastes are somewhat unusual. I also like Scott Bakula's recording of Pig Island.
Not only do these cases delay justice for people with real complaints, but they are also a burden on the taxpayer. Judges and clerks need to be paid, courtrooms need to be heated and lit, and so on.
We need a real deterrent to filing frivolous lawsuits. Something involving crocodiles.
That's East Goatse, MN. Goatse is in North Dakota, as any ful no.
I thought the Obligatory Simpsons Quote was going to be:
"I, for one, welcome our new underwater robot overlords"
They should just agree to meet half-way, in Minneapolis. Doesn't matter if they both show up, there's sure to be someone else hanging aroung who wants to fight.
If a "right" isn't defined, then it is assumed to be legal
You're new here[*], aren't you?
[*] Slashdot or America. Take your pick.
and it is well known that partisan, sensationalistic idiots never say anything true, even by accident.
Who said Linux? Admittedly, I read at +3, but the 5 posts that I see above yours come in at 3 for Netware, 1 for Windows, and 1 Office Space reference.