As a POS developer I worry a lot about NCs at POS. I remember many years ago, my dad worked on a back office system for Asda, the UK supermarket chain. All dumb terminals at POS. Something (I think it was a major hardware failure) took out the back office, and left the cashiers asking customers how much they usually spent on groceries, and charging them that amount. Cash only, of course.
Now I have a retail chain of my own (ha!) I am constantly defending the position that no matter how much redundancy you put in the back room, even if you use the sexy multi-transport networking in QNX, something can happen that will knock the register off the network. And when that happens, if it's an NC, you have a blocked lane. If it's a PC, and you've coded it right you can still capture all the barcodes, and the customer's credit card number. You might lose something when the cashier has to guess at how much an item without a tag costs, but when everything comes back up, at least you'll know how much you've lost without having to inventory the whole store.
The link in your article works, but both times you refer to it in the text, you misspell it.
Full of Javascript errors, according to IE5 [hack, spit]
I don't know what wally world is, so apparently I'm a moron who should die.
Your level of literacy is about what I'd expect from a small town in Wisconsin.
If I was the kind of person who was offended easily, or could afford $30* I would be registering MinocquaSucksSucks.com.
* have you any idea how much it costs to put all your stuff in a container and put it on a boat for a few weeks? Those sailors must be making a fortune!
Not that a lot of this wouldn't have happened anyway, but a lot of the impetus here is from the much-decried Mindcraft benchmarks.
Now all we need is for Microsoft to pay for a benchmark of SQL Server performance against, say, Interbase, and we could all direct our energies into a great open source DBMS.
It's very slow. On my Palm I can Graffiti as fast as I like, and it keeps up with me. On the Agenda, I'm constantly waiting for the handwriting recognition to catch up. The Agenda is also noticably slower at firing up applications.
Depressingly, I need the Outlook sync tools that didn't ship with it. We're forced to use Outlook at work, and since one of my main uses for a PDA is as a daytimer, I need to keep my Outlook calendar and my PDA synched.
I don't know what can be done about the speed. The Outlook sync will be there (if I weren't busy trying to get a job on the other side of the Atlantic I'd be working on it myself), and when it is it will be usable (for my purposes - I know other people are already using it productively as an Atari 800 emulator!).
LAte reply to this, but it seems to me that delta-v isn't really an issue. Just create a branch of Fort Knox (or whatever the agency is that runs it) on the asteroid in question. The govt then has the gold, and can use it to back the useful paper currency.
They are extremely non-denominational. As far as I can tell, the only bit of required theology is to believe that spam is a sin. I was ordained two years ago and have had one email from them since.
They claim that the IR will talk to any "OBEX-compliant" device. Is this simply at a hardware level, or will I actually be able to exchange appointments, addresses and memos with my wife's Palm?
Recently we've seen several worms attacking vulnerabilities in the default install of Red Hat Linux. What is being done to make the default installation more newbie-friendly from a security point of view? The average desktop user probably doesn't want or need BIND, do they?
I couldn't find any such information on the linked site. Is it too much to ask for/. editors to click on a link before they approve a story? Maybe that's why all my story submissions get rejected - I actually check my links.
Worse than that, we have also enjoyed freedom of association. Now I have to go to lunch with a christian fundamentalist, a tree-hugger and a microsoft PR spokesman rather than the bunch of geeks I usually hang out with.
Production of child pornography => Death sentence
Using child pornography => Electric shocks to the nadgers until you don't like it any more
Transmitting child pornography => just doing your job.
How very unhackerish of you. You have failed to look at both sides of the equation. You can earn as much money as you like, so long as you make the minimum wage equal to at least on tenth of that.
The title of the article was indeed DMCA. However, the article was only tangentially about the DMCA, and mostly about how justice in the USA has been replaced with trial by financial combat.
So, yes, -1 Offtopic for my post, but -1 Troll for the article.
Thank heavens for the insightful person who modded this post down as overrated. Unfortunately, due to the idiosyncracies of the karma system I derive a net -1 karma from this post.
ObNotBitchingAboutSlashCode: DMCA is not the only law ever bought. I didn't mention it. I meant laws in general.
I was effectively deported after my wedding. The INS do not work to any particular timetable. For a while it looked like I would not be allowed back in the US to see my son born.
If you ever want to see the outermost circle of hell, a place where no hope exists, go down to your local INS waiting room.
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As a POS developer I worry a lot about NCs at POS. I remember many years ago, my dad worked on a back office system for Asda, the UK supermarket chain. All dumb terminals at POS. Something (I think it was a major hardware failure) took out the back office, and left the cashiers asking customers how much they usually spent on groceries, and charging them that amount. Cash only, of course.
Now I have a retail chain of my own (ha!) I am constantly defending the position that no matter how much redundancy you put in the back room, even if you use the sexy multi-transport networking in QNX, something can happen that will knock the register off the network. And when that happens, if it's an NC, you have a blocked lane. If it's a PC, and you've coded it right you can still capture all the barcodes, and the customer's credit card number. You might lose something when the cashier has to guess at how much an item without a tag costs, but when everything comes back up, at least you'll know how much you've lost without having to inventory the whole store.
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The link in your article works, but both times you refer to it in the text, you misspell it.
Full of Javascript errors, according to IE5 [hack, spit]
I don't know what wally world is, so apparently I'm a moron who should die.
Your level of literacy is about what I'd expect from a small town in Wisconsin.
If I was the kind of person who was offended easily, or could afford $30* I would be registering MinocquaSucksSucks.com.
* have you any idea how much it costs to put all your stuff in a container and put it on a boat for a few weeks? Those sailors must be making a fortune!
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Not that a lot of this wouldn't have happened anyway, but a lot of the impetus here is from the much-decried Mindcraft benchmarks.
Now all we need is for Microsoft to pay for a benchmark of SQL Server performance against, say, Interbase, and we could all direct our energies into a great open source DBMS.
No, MySQL does not count.
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I love my Agenda, but...
It's very slow. On my Palm I can Graffiti as fast as I like, and it keeps up with me. On the Agenda, I'm constantly waiting for the handwriting recognition to catch up. The Agenda is also noticably slower at firing up applications.
Depressingly, I need the Outlook sync tools that didn't ship with it. We're forced to use Outlook at work, and since one of my main uses for a PDA is as a daytimer, I need to keep my Outlook calendar and my PDA synched.
I don't know what can be done about the speed. The Outlook sync will be there (if I weren't busy trying to get a job on the other side of the Atlantic I'd be working on it myself), and when it is it will be usable (for my purposes - I know other people are already using it productively as an Atari 800 emulator!).
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Think you're green? My car gets 1 nanoparsec to the microgallon.
1 milliparsec / gallon? I doubt it.
1 nanoparsec per kilogallon I'd believe. That's about 20 miles per gallon.
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LAte reply to this, but it seems to me that delta-v isn't really an issue. Just create a branch of Fort Knox (or whatever the agency is that runs it) on the asteroid in question. The govt then has the gold, and can use it to back the useful paper currency.
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LNUX isn't totally worthless.
Yet.
Nor will you see Larry being led away in handcuffs any time soon. They need the cell space for someone else.
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This article could use more explanation. I'm sure I'm not the only one baffled by all the acronyms.
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No-one uses WML anyway.
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You don't need to pay anyone to become a minister, a fact that I'm sure the spammers didn't mention. In fact the Universal Life Church will ordain you over the internet for free!
They are extremely non-denominational. As far as I can tell, the only bit of required theology is to believe that spam is a sin. I was ordained two years ago and have had one email from them since.
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Mod parent up. Very funny.
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I'm a Minnesota resident, and my last PC came with Win98 preinstalled. How do I let Bill know where to send the check?
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I totally agree. Why is this modded as funny? Tragicomic would be better.
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Hey! I may need a prosthetic for my short-term memory but the rest of me is in full working order!
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They claim that the IR will talk to any "OBEX-compliant" device. Is this simply at a hardware level, or will I actually be able to exchange appointments, addresses and memos with my wife's Palm?
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Recently we've seen several worms attacking vulnerabilities in the default install of Red Hat Linux. What is being done to make the default installation more newbie-friendly from a security point of view? The average desktop user probably doesn't want or need BIND, do they?
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I couldn't find any such information on the linked site. Is it too much to ask for /. editors to click on a link before they approve a story? Maybe that's why all my story submissions get rejected - I actually check my links.
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Worse than that, we have also enjoyed freedom of association. Now I have to go to lunch with a christian fundamentalist, a tree-hugger and a microsoft PR spokesman rather than the bunch of geeks I usually hang out with.
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Why can't people see how simple this is?
Production of child pornography => Death sentence
Using child pornography => Electric shocks to the nadgers until you don't like it any more
Transmitting child pornography => just doing your job.
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How very unhackerish of you. You have failed to look at both sides of the equation. You can earn as much money as you like, so long as you make the minimum wage equal to at least on tenth of that.
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The title of the article was indeed DMCA. However, the article was only tangentially about the DMCA, and mostly about how justice in the USA has been replaced with trial by financial combat.
So, yes, -1 Offtopic for my post, but -1 Troll for the article.
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Thank heavens for the insightful person who modded this post down as overrated. Unfortunately, due to the idiosyncracies of the karma system I derive a net -1 karma from this post.
ObNotBitchingAboutSlashCode: DMCA is not the only law ever bought. I didn't mention it. I meant laws in general.
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Did anyone complain about people purchasing land cheaply?
Native Americans?
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what did you expect? When you buy a law you make sure it can't be used against you.
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It's not instant, and it's certainly not cheap.
I was effectively deported after my wedding. The INS do not work to any particular timetable. For a while it looked like I would not be allowed back in the US to see my son born.
If you ever want to see the outermost circle of hell, a place where no hope exists, go down to your local INS waiting room.
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