I am looking for a fingerprint scanner that I can use to authenticate users for a custom windows app that currently authenticates employees with barcode ID badges.
The fingerprint scanners we have seen can only be used for logging users into windows.
Is there a fingerprint scanner that comes with drivers/software so it will work with a custom application? In other words, it should send the person's ID to the application or as keyboard input when the user scans their fingerprint.
Is there any open source/free OLAP software out there that I can use with Postgres or MySQL? I'm a student and can't afford to shell out big bucks for proprietary OLAP.
"For example, we have 65 playwrights alive today for every one in Elizabethan England. Yet do we have dozens of Shakespeares?"
We no doubt do have dozens of "Shakespeares", who will be recognized for their artistic achievements a couple hundred years from now. Unfortunately we seem to deify historic artists while ignoring the ones living next door to us. And no matter how many times I see people worship at the church of Shakespeare, he still fails to impress me.
Also it is on it's face misleading to compare "playwrights" from hundreds of years ago to "playwrights" today, because the people who would have become playwrights are now doing much more interesting things like writing movie scripts.
How many great "movie producers" did they have in Shakespeare's day?
Don't wait for the government & car industry to turn the tide. For your next vehicle purchase, chose the cleanest option available! Despite popular conspiracy theories about the car industry and the oil companies, car companies will FOLLOW THE MONEY. Buy clean cars and they will make them for you.
I just got back from Germany and fell in love with the Smart car by Swatch/Mercedes. When will they start selling them in the US? They use 1/3 the road space and 1/4 the gas and look fun as hell to drive.
Make sure the next SUV you see leaves with a key inflicted wound down the side of it's greasy flank.
"They could get a $100bn" stock market value, said one person involved.
"However, all the shares would end up with Aunt Agatha in Des Moines and Uncle Milt in Pittsburgh and there would be no real public market at all."
What? You mean the investment bankers and institutional investors aren't interested in buying shares if THEY ARE FORCED TO PAY A FAIR PRICE? All the shares would end up with Aunt Agatha ONLY if she bid more for them. Of course, the real issue is that the investment bankers and institutional investors are peeing their pants at the prospects of losing their privelaged god-given right to buy IPO shares before anyone else can and then flip them for 3x profit on the same day of the IPO.
Google is selling shares to MAKE MONEY. They do not care who owns them. This is a long-needed innovation in finance. Go Google!
Nobody ever accused geeks of understanding Economics......but then, as MERE TECHNICIANS unable to grasp the meaning of what they are doing, can we really expect them to?
Let me break it down nice and simple, as my dear friend Greenspan attempted to do on the congress floor the other day:
Learn it, write it down, take a picture of it. Tatoo it on your pasty white foreheads:
Economic policy is designed to maximize: WEALTH Economic policy is NOT designed to maximize: JOBS
You want to maximize jobs? Go on a riot and destroy all earthmovers. Now replace the earthmovers with 1000 workers with spoons. To dig a ditch it now takes 1000 workers one hour instead of one worker on an earthmover one hour.
Congratulations, you just created 1000 jobs out of 1 job! But it will cost us at least 10x as much to do the same work. Jobs increased, wealth decreased.
No, it did not cost "THE BOSS" 10x as much, it cost US as a society 10x as much. Who do you think pays for that ditch? That hamburger? That car? We all do.
If you still can't break free from your fantasy world, take a visit to China where the above example is illustrated in real life to the scale of billions of people. Yeah, there's a lot of JOBS if you're in the "spoon digger" industry! But wealth, there is not.
Let me hold your hand through the mental leap from "spoon digger" to "code monkey."
I need a new WidgetApp written. A Slashdot geek in San Fransisco quotes me $40,000 at a rate of $80/hour, that comes to 12.5 weeks development time. My good friend in Brazil can also do the project in 12.5 weeks and quotes me R$2000 based on DOUBLE the average monthly salary of R$300. With a 3x exchange rate, that's $666 in US Dollars. Even assuming he takes TWICE AS LONG as expected, it still only costs me $1332 vs. $40,000 from the greedy Slashdot "spoon digger."
Did you notice what else happened? I HAVE MY WIDGETAPP PLUS $38,668 LEFT TO SPEND.
Don't get me wrong, I completely understand that you do not want to lose out on that $40,000 development project because of your own selfish interests. Perfectly understandable. Just don't hide your interests in moral outrage about how "they" are "stealing" "YOUR" precious jobs.
Nobody ever accused geeks of understanding Economics......but then, as MERE TECHNICIANS unable to grasp the meaning of what they are doing, can we really expect them to?
Let me break it down nice and simple, as my dear friend Greenspan attempted to do on the congress floor the other day:
Learn it, write it down, take a picture of it. Tatoo it on your pasty white foreheads:
Economic policy is designed to maximize: WEALTH
Economic policy is NOT designed to maximize: JOBS
You want to maximize jobs? Go on a riot and destroy all earthmovers. Now replace the earthmovers with 1000 workers with spoons. To dig a ditch it now takes 1000 workers one hour instead of one worker on an earthmover one hour.
Congratulations, you just created 1000 jobs out of 1 job! But it will cost us at least 10x as much to do the same work. Jobs increased, wealth decreased.
No, it did not cost "THE BOSS" 10x as much, it cost US as a society 10x as much. Who do you think pays for that ditch? That hamburger? That car? We all do.
If you still can't break free from your fantasy world, take a visit to China where the above example is illustrated in real life to the scale of billions of people. Yeah, there's a lot of JOBS if you're in the "spoon digger" industry! But wealth, there is not.
Let me hold your hand through the mental leap from "spoon digger" to "code monkey."
I need a new WidgetApp written. A Slashdot geek in San Fransisco quotes me $40,000 at a rate of $80/hour, that comes to 12.5 weeks development time. My good friend in Brazil can also do the project in 12.5 weeks and quotes me R$2000 based on DOUBLE the average monthly salary of R$300. With a 3x exchange rate, that's $666 in US Dollars. Even assuming he takes TWICE AS LONG as expected, it still only costs me $1332 vs. $40,000 from the greedy Slashdot "spoon digger."
Did you notice what else happened? I HAVE MY WIDGETAPP PLUS $38,668 LEFT TO SPEND.
Don't get me wrong, I completely understand that you do not want to lose out on that $40,000 development project because of your own selfish interests. Perfectly understandable. Just don't hide your interests in moral outrage about how "they" are "stealing" "YOUR" precious jobs.
Welcome to the market economy. Compete or die.
Slashdot Mirror
Their web site was slashdotted... is anyone able to access it now?
And I just ordered a KeySpyer from keyspyer.com
Any word on if it is legal for private use, outside of a company?
I think this would make my life a lot more productive and less stressful.
IBM, where's the download link? I want to actually try it!
I am looking for a fingerprint scanner that I can use to authenticate users for a custom windows app that currently authenticates employees with barcode ID badges.
The fingerprint scanners we have seen can only be used for logging users into windows.
Is there a fingerprint scanner that comes with drivers/software so it will work with a custom application? In other words, it should send the person's ID to the application or as keyboard input when the user scans their fingerprint.
Is there any open source/free OLAP software out there that I can use with Postgres or MySQL? I'm a student and can't afford to shell out big bucks for proprietary OLAP.
> Well, if there's one immutable law of economics, it's this: where there is a demand, there will be a supply.
Funny, I think giving the software away for free kind of does away with any applicable laws of economics
"For example, we have 65 playwrights alive today for every one in Elizabethan England. Yet do we have dozens of Shakespeares?"
We no doubt do have dozens of "Shakespeares", who will be recognized for their artistic achievements a couple hundred years from now. Unfortunately we seem to deify historic artists while ignoring the ones living next door to us. And no matter how many times I see people worship at the church of Shakespeare, he still fails to impress me.
Also it is on it's face misleading to compare "playwrights" from hundreds of years ago to "playwrights" today, because the people who would have become playwrights are now doing much more interesting things like writing movie scripts.
How many great "movie producers" did they have in Shakespeare's day?
Don't wait for the government & car industry to turn the tide. For your next vehicle purchase, chose the cleanest option available! Despite popular conspiracy theories about the car industry and the oil companies, car companies will FOLLOW THE MONEY. Buy clean cars and they will make them for you.
I just got back from Germany and fell in love with the Smart car by Swatch/Mercedes. When will they start selling them in the US? They use 1/3 the road space and 1/4 the gas and look fun as hell to drive.
Make sure the next SUV you see leaves with a key inflicted wound down the side of it's greasy flank.
"They could get a $100bn" stock market value, said one person involved.
"However, all the shares would end up with Aunt Agatha in Des Moines and Uncle Milt in Pittsburgh and there would be no real public market at all."
What? You mean the investment bankers and institutional investors aren't interested in buying shares if THEY ARE FORCED TO PAY A FAIR PRICE? All the shares would end up with Aunt Agatha ONLY if she bid more for them. Of course, the real issue is that the investment bankers and institutional investors are peeing their pants at the prospects of losing their privelaged god-given right to buy IPO shares before anyone else can and then flip them for 3x profit on the same day of the IPO.
Google is selling shares to MAKE MONEY. They do not care who owns them. This is a long-needed innovation in finance. Go Google!
Nobody ever accused geeks of understanding Economics... ...but then, as MERE TECHNICIANS unable to grasp the meaning of what they are doing, can we really expect them to?
Let me break it down nice and simple, as my dear friend Greenspan attempted to do on the congress floor the other day:
Learn it, write it down, take a picture of it. Tatoo it on your pasty white foreheads:
Economic policy is designed to maximize: WEALTH
Economic policy is NOT designed to maximize: JOBS
You want to maximize jobs? Go on a riot and destroy all earthmovers. Now replace the earthmovers with 1000 workers with spoons. To dig a ditch it now takes 1000 workers one hour instead of one worker on an earthmover one hour.
Congratulations, you just created 1000 jobs out of 1 job! But it will cost us at least 10x as much to do the same work. Jobs increased, wealth decreased.
No, it did not cost "THE BOSS" 10x as much, it cost US as a society 10x as much. Who do you think pays for that ditch? That hamburger? That car? We all do.
If you still can't break free from your fantasy world, take a visit to China where the above example is illustrated in real life to the scale of billions of people. Yeah, there's a lot of JOBS if you're in the "spoon digger" industry! But wealth, there is not.
Let me hold your hand through the mental leap from "spoon digger" to "code monkey."
I need a new WidgetApp written. A Slashdot geek in San Fransisco quotes me $40,000 at a rate of $80/hour, that comes to 12.5 weeks development time. My good friend in Brazil can also do the project in 12.5 weeks and quotes me R$2000 based on DOUBLE the average monthly salary of R$300. With a 3x exchange rate, that's $666 in US Dollars. Even assuming he takes TWICE AS LONG as expected, it still only costs me $1332 vs. $40,000 from the greedy Slashdot "spoon digger."
Did you notice what else happened? I HAVE MY WIDGETAPP PLUS $38,668 LEFT TO SPEND.
Don't get me wrong, I completely understand that you do not want to lose out on that $40,000 development project because of your own selfish interests. Perfectly understandable. Just don't hide your interests in moral outrage about how "they" are "stealing" "YOUR" precious jobs.
Welcome to the market economy. Compete or die.
Nobody ever accused geeks of understanding Economics... ...but then, as MERE TECHNICIANS unable to grasp the meaning of what they are doing, can we really expect them to?
Let me break it down nice and simple, as my dear friend Greenspan attempted to do on the congress floor the other day:
Learn it, write it down, take a picture of it. Tatoo it on your pasty white foreheads:
Economic policy is designed to maximize: WEALTH
Economic policy is NOT designed to maximize: JOBS
You want to maximize jobs? Go on a riot and destroy all earthmovers. Now replace the earthmovers with 1000 workers with spoons. To dig a ditch it now takes 1000 workers one hour instead of one worker on an earthmover one hour.
Congratulations, you just created 1000 jobs out of 1 job! But it will cost us at least 10x as much to do the same work. Jobs increased, wealth decreased.
No, it did not cost "THE BOSS" 10x as much, it cost US as a society 10x as much. Who do you think pays for that ditch? That hamburger? That car? We all do.
If you still can't break free from your fantasy world, take a visit to China where the above example is illustrated in real life to the scale of billions of people. Yeah, there's a lot of JOBS if you're in the "spoon digger" industry! But wealth, there is not.
Let me hold your hand through the mental leap from "spoon digger" to "code monkey."
I need a new WidgetApp written. A Slashdot geek in San Fransisco quotes me $40,000 at a rate of $80/hour, that comes to 12.5 weeks development time. My good friend in Brazil can also do the project in 12.5 weeks and quotes me R$2000 based on DOUBLE the average monthly salary of R$300. With a 3x exchange rate, that's $666 in US Dollars. Even assuming he takes TWICE AS LONG as expected, it still only costs me $1332 vs. $40,000 from the greedy Slashdot "spoon digger."
Did you notice what else happened? I HAVE MY WIDGETAPP PLUS $38,668 LEFT TO SPEND.
Don't get me wrong, I completely understand that you do not want to lose out on that $40,000 development project because of your own selfish interests. Perfectly understandable. Just don't hide your interests in moral outrage about how "they" are "stealing" "YOUR" precious jobs.
Welcome to the market economy. Compete or die.