The real reason Wal-Mart hasn't gained anything from RFID quite yet is that the technology isn't being used the way it should be used and that is for convenience and loss prevention.
Convenient stores could make it really easy to find products with a proper RFID search system with kiosks in the store. That would work out in a way that could make it really easy for customers to find stuff. However the problem comes down in that you end up becoming too efficient... when you have a sale and you are retail giant you want the sale to bring in customers to buy the higher GM products... not the sale items! That loses you money when customers can actually FIND the stuff that is CHEAP. Far better to keep it the way it is there... so that doesn't work out and store giants like Wal-Mart are backpeddling.
The loss prevention use of RFID is great but theives can bypass any form of security and disgruntled employees don't usually care if someone is stealing 100% of the time... 70% of the time the employee will let even a theif leave the store when the excuse the theif gives COULD make sense... so it's lose/lose there... even with sophisticated loss prevention measures that would use RFID to track products leaving the store. Customers can come up with a valid-seeming excuse to get past so called last-chance methods for loss prevention like receipt checker employees. "Oh I bought this last week and I had a question about it..."
The best way to have loss prevention it seems is to move to a web or an ORDER ONLY system like you see at stores where employees bring out the products to the customer -- but even those types of stores suffer from theft. Customer can't get to products, customer can't steal em!!
RFID while it sounds good, and while it has great potential is stuck being a lose/lose... from the profit standpoint. Customers would profit from it, but they also stand to lose out... so w/e... next technology!
For years Yahoo was infested with spammers on their front page, but the fact is -- Google is susceptible to an erosion of moral tenacity, just like any other corporation. Someone from within has given the keys to someone who has paid a lot of money to get them. This isn't a hack job... it's an inside job.
One click, plus a few minutes to absorb the details. The idea of a site like slashdot is to summarize things well, to give readers the choice of what they want to read or discuss. When a summary is confusing, it's a waste of time posting it, apart from the link to details.
Please, Slashdot editors, you gave me a buffer overflow. Try to explain those kinds of twisted stories better before throwing the green-light. I now have to READ THE EFFING ARTICLE, before knowing what it's really about.:(
I like to be able to make a decision of whether something is worth my time BEFORE reading it.
You're right about Linux, but I wouldn't want to see other OSes move towards userspace as much. The others lack the necessary support and free access to keep userspace away from asshats.
1. Bug is reported. 2. Secretly, a team of crack programmers (or programmers on crack) develop the patch. 3. The patch sits in a repository until public outcry. 4. Public outcry. 5. Patch released... LOOK HOW FAST WE ARE!
When hardware drivers are responsible for system integrity, all hope of safety is permanently lost. Introducing the new battleground for virus writers... fake patches:
YOUR VIDEO CARD NEEDS NEW DRIVERS: CLICK NEXT!!!!!
What else do you think Product Activation is for? That's easy... limit of liability. You activate and agree to terms and conditions when you do so. Therefore if you come to them with warranty issues, they can waive your contract because you activated and say that your issue is not covered. If you fail to activate your product, they can then hit you with the fact that you failed to activate and therefore they are not required to warrant their product.
Damned if you do, meet damned if you don't! Pleased to meet you.
(Now, if only OS's could get crappier over time, like cars...) Maybe MS should release a "critical update" that turns it into Windows ME or 98.
Couldn't help think of Cinderella when you said that. But is that what people really want? Do they really want software decay? No.
That's part of what older generations can't grasp... is how software is infinite and does not degrade like every other product. That means the best business model with software will always be SERVICE not product or captive audience. Just offer a service that makes sense and people will buy it.
RIAA attempts to run with parent's use of terminology at their next hearing, where a 99yr old man is charged with downloading the Dukes of Hazard theme song, among other delightful TV show theme songs.
"You, sir, are hereby charged with SNEAK THIEVERY and LUDE CONDUCT, and also of being a DOWNLOADING DRUGGIE."
I didn't argue that all advanced lifeforms should be similar, I merely pointed out that their appearance makes sense to me. I offered no proof that a crystalline cube-race from a distant star does not exist.
Life has a scientific pattern and nature is lazy, so therefore your post, while interesting is lacking real critical merit. There are multiple forces at work that give water its properties, not just one, and they all share some common ground. Some animals on Earth ignore the norm when it comes to evolution, and that is cool and all, but they are not evolving as fast as people have. I'm not going to argue subjectives about massively superior races, because that notion is ludicrous to me. It's a circular reference.
Yes, far superior life likely exists, but we're talking about a couple of bozos who ran into our planet with their spaceship. Come on man, that kinda crap is on YouTube every day but it's some guys driving their skateboards into walls and getting their teeth knocked out!
My post was to frame the idea that the aliens could have a sense of humour, or they might not be as serious as we like to frame them. We need to step back and look at the possibility that they were shot down by the US, or they didn't notice our planet and drove into it, or they miscalculated their entry arc and went splat. The common denominator on all those possibilities is that they are not as advanced as we had suspected.
They should have known we would have shot them down, if that is what happened and they should have adapted to overcome that possibility, as fit as possible.
They could have easily been doing some kind of joke.
They could have easily had a kind of malfunction.
It could have been a hoax and the guy who saw the ship might have easily either been in on the hoax or he could have been fooled by people who would want to fool him... perhaps to slander his integrity?
A drop of water is the same shape in any atmosphere (relative to temperature and gravity), so who would argue that people wouldn't kinda take the same basic shape anyway? If they crashed, the idea they were of higher intelligence sheds new light on theories of their conquering ways. They came to Earth likely to give us an intergalactic hug and US air force likely shot them down, thinking they were Russians.
Boy were they surprised!
The mystifying result of that accident sheds light on the nature of the universe itself......... We're all stupid!!
This is a marketing tactic. Google knows that many people will respect this move.
But it brings into focus a new corporate strategy... the use of regulation over competition. Asking for regulation is against the traditional American business philosophy, which typically favours deregulation.
This could play out in favour of Microsoft who will likely ask that Google get regulated more heavily, which will result in some interesting news for the world, to come. And yes, I know something you don't.;-) And, no, I don't like it, either.
Gambling involves you throwing thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars away REPEATEDLY until BROKE. Gaming involves spending hours and hours on a computer instead of giving your family attention or doing things for them. The way I look at it, they should all be doing things for me TOO, and then we'll talk.
That said, if they are the ideal family and they cherish you, then you won't really want to spend every waking our on a game or in a betting parlour, would you?
The root of these problems are MORE PROBLEMS. Find the root of them and it won't be sooooo bad.
John has to know that with popularity will come the pressures of fanmail. Do not answer all of it. Pick three a day, MAX, that are worthy of response, and archive/backup the rest (mainly for legal reasons).
You have to delegate your time when you're a public figure. Don't waste it by talking to people who idolize you. At the very best it will make them STILL LOVE YOU. At the very worst, it could break the illusion of your stardom and cause them to lose interest (and you lose your fan) -- or even cause them to get a wrong vibe from you that could lead to some serious personal safety ramifications.
Sometimes stars need to be up in the sky. At night.
Slashdot Mirror
"Hello 411? How come I get more than a million listings for that number? And how come the first 10 listings all go to telemarketers?"
It's nawt hawt -- it's cooooold!
It makes sense though, because sometimes something so hot feels cold and sometimes something so cold seems hot. Slow news day ftl.
Those were the days.
PS... STFU about Ebay, douches.
... is another organization's treasure!
They should have got her for Surreal Life, but I'm sure Fox News will find something stupid for her to say.
The real reason Wal-Mart hasn't gained anything from RFID quite yet is that the technology isn't being used the way it should be used and that is for convenience and loss prevention.
... next technology!
Convenient stores could make it really easy to find products with a proper RFID search system with kiosks in the store. That would work out in a way that could make it really easy for customers to find stuff. However the problem comes down in that you end up becoming too efficient... when you have a sale and you are retail giant you want the sale to bring in customers to buy the higher GM products... not the sale items! That loses you money when customers can actually FIND the stuff that is CHEAP. Far better to keep it the way it is there... so that doesn't work out and store giants like Wal-Mart are backpeddling.
The loss prevention use of RFID is great but theives can bypass any form of security and disgruntled employees don't usually care if someone is stealing 100% of the time... 70% of the time the employee will let even a theif leave the store when the excuse the theif gives COULD make sense... so it's lose/lose there... even with sophisticated loss prevention measures that would use RFID to track products leaving the store. Customers can come up with a valid-seeming excuse to get past so called last-chance methods for loss prevention like receipt checker employees. "Oh I bought this last week and I had a question about it..."
The best way to have loss prevention it seems is to move to a web or an ORDER ONLY system like you see at stores where employees bring out the products to the customer -- but even those types of stores suffer from theft. Customer can't get to products, customer can't steal em!!
RFID while it sounds good, and while it has great potential is stuck being a lose/lose... from the profit standpoint. Customers would profit from it, but they also stand to lose out... so w/e
For years Yahoo was infested with spammers on their front page, but the fact is -- Google is susceptible to an erosion of moral tenacity, just like any other corporation. Someone from within has given the keys to someone who has paid a lot of money to get them. This isn't a hack job... it's an inside job.
One click, plus a few minutes to absorb the details. The idea of a site like slashdot is to summarize things well, to give readers the choice of what they want to read or discuss. When a summary is confusing, it's a waste of time posting it, apart from the link to details.
He rejected the rejector's rejection? Hmmm. K.
:(
Please, Slashdot editors, you gave me a buffer overflow. Try to explain those kinds of twisted stories better before throwing the green-light. I now have to READ THE EFFING ARTICLE, before knowing what it's really about.
I like to be able to make a decision of whether something is worth my time BEFORE reading it.
..."choose to suddely implement hitherto unknown features via Service Packs or Auto Updates."
Especially unannounced / unapproved updates. Your machine may have been patched while you read this.
A beo~ oh nevermind... wrong direction!
Clearly this is an early formation of an EVIL BEING. Destroy it!!!!
You're right about Linux, but I wouldn't want to see other OSes move towards userspace as much. The others lack the necessary support and free access to keep userspace away from asshats.
1. Bug is reported.
2. Secretly, a team of crack programmers (or programmers on crack) develop the patch.
3. The patch sits in a repository until public outcry.
4. Public outcry.
5. Patch released... LOOK HOW FAST WE ARE!
When hardware drivers are responsible for system integrity, all hope of safety is permanently lost. Introducing the new battleground for virus writers... fake patches:
YOUR VIDEO CARD NEEDS NEW DRIVERS: CLICK NEXT!!!!!
Video Games are designed to be fun and typically fantasy based. People will give away money to the makers of video games for hours of enjoyment.
The reality is that anyone who lost money on this is getting what they paid for.
What else do you think Product Activation is for?
That's easy... limit of liability. You activate and agree to terms and conditions when you do so. Therefore if you come to them with warranty issues, they can waive your contract because you activated and say that your issue is not covered. If you fail to activate your product, they can then hit you with the fact that you failed to activate and therefore they are not required to warrant their product.
Damned if you do, meet damned if you don't! Pleased to meet you.
(Now, if only OS's could get crappier over time, like cars...) Maybe MS should release a "critical update" that turns it into Windows ME or 98.
Couldn't help think of Cinderella when you said that. But is that what people really want? Do they really want software decay? No.
That's part of what older generations can't grasp... is how software is infinite and does not degrade like every other product. That means the best business model with software will always be SERVICE not product or captive audience. Just offer a service that makes sense and people will buy it.
RIAA attempts to run with parent's use of terminology at their next hearing, where a 99yr old man is charged with downloading the Dukes of Hazard theme song, among other delightful TV show theme songs.
"You, sir, are hereby charged with SNEAK THIEVERY and LUDE CONDUCT, and also of being a DOWNLOADING DRUGGIE."
I didn't argue that all advanced lifeforms should be similar, I merely pointed out that their appearance makes sense to me. I offered no proof that a crystalline cube-race from a distant star does not exist.
Life has a scientific pattern and nature is lazy, so therefore your post, while interesting is lacking real critical merit. There are multiple forces at work that give water its properties, not just one, and they all share some common ground. Some animals on Earth ignore the norm when it comes to evolution, and that is cool and all, but they are not evolving as fast as people have. I'm not going to argue subjectives about massively superior races, because that notion is ludicrous to me. It's a circular reference.
Yes, far superior life likely exists, but we're talking about a couple of bozos who ran into our planet with their spaceship. Come on man, that kinda crap is on YouTube every day but it's some guys driving their skateboards into walls and getting their teeth knocked out!
My post was to frame the idea that the aliens could have a sense of humour, or they might not be as serious as we like to frame them. We need to step back and look at the possibility that they were shot down by the US, or they didn't notice our planet and drove into it, or they miscalculated their entry arc and went splat. The common denominator on all those possibilities is that they are not as advanced as we had suspected.
They should have known we would have shot them down, if that is what happened and they should have adapted to overcome that possibility, as fit as possible.
They could have easily been doing some kind of joke.
They could have easily had a kind of malfunction.
It could have been a hoax and the guy who saw the ship might have easily either been in on the hoax or he could have been fooled by people who would want to fool him... perhaps to slander his integrity?
You never know!
A drop of water is the same shape in any atmosphere (relative to temperature and gravity), so who would argue that people wouldn't kinda take the same basic shape anyway? If they crashed, the idea they were of higher intelligence sheds new light on theories of their conquering ways. They came to Earth likely to give us an intergalactic hug and US air force likely shot them down, thinking they were Russians.
... ... We're all stupid!!
Boy were they surprised!
The mystifying result of that accident sheds light on the nature of the universe itself...
This is a marketing tactic. Google knows that many people will respect this move.
;-) And, no, I don't like it, either.
But it brings into focus a new corporate strategy... the use of regulation over competition. Asking for regulation is against the traditional American business philosophy, which typically favours deregulation.
This could play out in favour of Microsoft who will likely ask that Google get regulated more heavily, which will result in some interesting news for the world, to come. And yes, I know something you don't.
Your family would want to play WOW with you. ;-)
And in a better world than that, they would beat you at it.
Gambling involves you throwing thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars away REPEATEDLY until BROKE. Gaming involves spending hours and hours on a computer instead of giving your family attention or doing things for them. The way I look at it, they should all be doing things for me TOO, and then we'll talk.
That said, if they are the ideal family and they cherish you, then you won't really want to spend every waking our on a game or in a betting parlour, would you?
The root of these problems are MORE PROBLEMS. Find the root of them and it won't be sooooo bad.
John has to know that with popularity will come the pressures of fanmail. Do not answer all of it. Pick three a day, MAX, that are worthy of response, and archive/backup the rest (mainly for legal reasons).
You have to delegate your time when you're a public figure. Don't waste it by talking to people who idolize you. At the very best it will make them STILL LOVE YOU. At the very worst, it could break the illusion of your stardom and cause them to lose interest (and you lose your fan) -- or even cause them to get a wrong vibe from you that could lead to some serious personal safety ramifications.
Sometimes stars need to be up in the sky. At night.
So why should the definition of it be so unparalleled?