The POS at my current place of work is a shitty piece of Windows software running on Win2k. The machine is way overkill for a POS. Did I mention that the POS software sucks?
I have another job and we use a cool little POS system that runs on a GNU/Linux server and we use an ssh terminal to log into it (it's all automated). It's all text based but it's easy to use and works extremely well (the company has it all on central server because they are a giant chain and they need an easy way to keep track of inventory and sales at every single location).
The ssh terminal app still runs on a 2Ghz P4 running Win2k.
Compared to Win2k WinCE isn't so bad for a POS.
A simple text based POS system is perfectly fine. A glitzy animated flash POS would be pointless. POS systems don't need colorful apps. A few colors would be nice (e.g. black for sold items, red for returned items,...) but black and white works fine (black for sold items, light gray for returned,...). Anything more is getting excessive and wasting money on hardware that is too powerful. Remember that a POS system is used by an employee to ring people up while also keeping track of inventory and making Regulation-Z reports and the like easier.
Maybe a fancy animated self-checkout system to keep people with short attention spans focused on checking their groceries out would make sense.
While on the subject of ATMs, who else wonders why your prefered language isn't marked on your account so you don't have to make that selection at each ATM stop?
Fleet had this feature. It doesn't work anymore now that Bank of America bought them. Bastards.
Actually the Hurd pages are in CVS and AMS (the guy who normally does the web site edits) had his ability to edit the pages revoked while Marcus was busy and didn't notice until recently (AMS can now edit pages again, hooray).
Coding and maintaining web pages are different tasks. If you read the mailing lists and hang out on the IRC channel you'll be kept up to date.
It's different with LyX; you only specify the logical structure of the document. LyX provides a pretty view of those hidden commands. You do not specify the font, text sizes, margins, etc. You specify "heading," "paragraph," "chapter," etc.
The final look of the document can be completely different depending on the style used.
maybe we'll get lucky and cell phones will have 1gb+ memory with built in mp3 player support one day, so i won't have to carry so many different damn devices:P
Pick a Nokia Series 60 phone, any of them (except for the 7610 because it uses RS-MMC). Buy a 1G MMC card (or a 512M RS-MMC for the 7610). Install OggPlay if you want Vorbis; they already have MP3 support.
Ta da, now you have a cellphone that can play mp3s (among other things). You can get fancier MP3 players for Series60 phones but the built-in one works fine. You'd probably want one of the fancy ones if you had 1G of music on the player.
Blame the US mobile providers. They don't buy them.
If you have T-Mobile you can just buy the Asian or European version and it will work (since their network is 100% 1900Mhz). With Cingular you could use that version but you won't be able to use it very many place since most of the network is 850Mhz.
I got my 7610 from Singapore. It rocks and was well worth the $380.
Motorola V180, Siemens CF62T, Nokia 3595/6010 (if you are in North America).
OK so they have color screens and have the ability to run J2ME apps but they are as basic as it gets. The Nokia 3595 has been replaced by the 6010 but I'd recommend searching for a 3595 somewhere because it'll last forever.
I know these things because I work at a cell phone store and we have people come in who have had their 3595's for years and have beat the shit out of them and they are still working perfectly fine.
The other phones are basic flip phones that everyone loves and are usually free if you sign up for cell service.
You can still find basic phones. You just can't find them for money anymore.
Creationists generally don't have a problem with micro-evolution (I mean, humans don't all have the same skin color do we?). It's macro-evolution they have a problem with. These coca plants are still coca plants.
Are you in Maryland? If you are, she was right. You are not allowed to vote on a paper ballot unless it is a special vote (absentee, etc.). A few people tried to use provisional ballots earlier in the year and their votes were ruled invalid (they even appealed to the State Supreme Court and the ruling was upheld). At least in Maryland, you have no choice but to use the Diebold machines.
That said, I doubt that there could be much vote changing by Republicans in Maryland simply because Maryland always goes Democrat by a fairly large margin. If it went Republican it would raise huge red flags and even if the Republican Party were trying to be evil they couldn't in Maryland (note the use of the subjunctive before calling me an evil Republican hater).
In Maryland you have to use the electronic machines. 22 people got together and tried to do early paper ballots but the state supreme court invalidated their votes and said that only absentee voters may use paper ballots in the election.
If Maryland goes for Bush you know something is seriously fucked up.
The paper trail isn't meant for the voter, it's meant for the board of elections. The machines need to print a backup paper version of the ballot in addition to the electronic version. The voter needs to see this paper backup before giving it to the people handling the election to double check that it is correct.
It's too easy to tamper with electronic votes and not have anyone notice.
If this were released I would buy one the moment it was released.
I don't care very much about 3D acceleration; as long as it accelerates a little OpenGL it's OK. The important part is 2D. The 2D performance of most cards (well, of the Radeon and GeForce cards) sucks. I mean, why is it that I can't even get 15fps in Doom II using prboom without OpenGL at 640x480 when I have a Radeon 9100 (AGP 4x) and a dual AthlonMP system? Why does GeForce (the music visualization plugin) get 10fps when the window is 800x600? Especially when the processor isn't even being taxed by it?
Hardware RENDER support, Xv (colorspace conversion and decent scaling), XvMC, the ability to process a large number of pixels being thrown at the card (e.g. when running a music visualization program like GeForce, or when running an old game like non-OpenGL Doom), and fast gemetric primitives. That's what matters.
Dude, all of the high end sound cards work great with ALSA. The RME Hammerfall, M-Audio Delta series cards, a bunch of USB-Audio stuff for laptops, and a couple of others. The big-name players in audio (well, basically RME) all provide docs or their cards are simple enough to be easily reverse engineered.
I have a Dual AthlonMP box with a Midiman Delta 1010 and it works great as a Digital Audio Workstation. Check out ardour and Jack. Linux Audio is in a way better state than video is. I still have a Radeon 9100 simply because it's the second-fastest (the FireGL 8800 is faster but way more expensive on eBay) graphics card with Free DRI drivers. And they SUCK speed wise. My sound card can do everything the Windows card can do it and it's fairly high end.
T-Mobile USA offers unlimited GPRS for $19.99 a month. You can get it for $4.99 but a bunch of ports are blocked, $9.99 with fewer blocked. With either of the lower priced options you aren't supposed to acess the net using your laptop connected through your phone but no one will notice...
The T-Mobile rep has yet to be informed of what the rates for EDGE access will be once it's rolled out in January but he said it won't be too much more and will nearly 100% be a flat rate.
You aren't a retard like most people then. I worked at a Quiznos for two years; when they advertised a sub damn near everyone got that sub. It didn't matter if it sucked or they usually got a different sub. They got the sub that was on TV.
A lot of people lack the ability to not be influenced by ads.
Many manual transmissions can't be put into reverse if your travelling more than 10 mph in the forward direction for example.
That has nothing to do with the drive computer, it's simply part of how the transmission works. The syncro will grind but the teeth of the gear won't make contact with the collar until the wheels stop moving.
Jolt makes gum now. It's something like 45mg of caffeine per piece. I got some from Thingeek a while ago and it really works, especially when you're in a computer lab or somewhere else where you can't have a bottle of Mountain Dew lying around.
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The POS at my current place of work is a shitty piece of Windows software running on Win2k. The machine is way overkill for a POS. Did I mention that the POS software sucks?
I have another job and we use a cool little POS system that runs on a GNU/Linux server and we use an ssh terminal to log into it (it's all automated). It's all text based but it's easy to use and works extremely well (the company has it all on central server because they are a giant chain and they need an easy way to keep track of inventory and sales at every single location).
The ssh terminal app still runs on a 2Ghz P4 running Win2k.
Compared to Win2k WinCE isn't so bad for a POS.
A simple text based POS system is perfectly fine. A glitzy animated flash POS would be pointless. POS systems don't need colorful apps. A few colors would be nice (e.g. black for sold items, red for returned items, ...) but black and white works fine (black for sold items, light gray for returned, ...). Anything more is getting excessive and wasting money on hardware that is too powerful. Remember that a POS system is used by an employee to ring people up while also keeping track of inventory and making Regulation-Z reports and the like easier.
Maybe a fancy animated self-checkout system to keep people with short attention spans focused on checking their groceries out would make sense.
While on the subject of ATMs, who else wonders why your prefered language isn't marked on your account so you don't have to make that selection at each ATM stop?
Fleet had this feature. It doesn't work anymore now that Bank of America bought them. Bastards.
Actually the Hurd pages are in CVS and AMS (the guy who normally does the web site edits) had his ability to edit the pages revoked while Marcus was busy and didn't notice until recently (AMS can now edit pages again, hooray).
Coding and maintaining web pages are different tasks. If you read the mailing lists and hang out on the IRC channel you'll be kept up to date.
You've never been to DC before have you?
Home of the evil speeding camera and red light cameras that ticket you when it's green.
No, but Doom/Quake/QuakeII/QuakeIII make me nauseuous when I play them on my 24" screen.
Mostly because I lose my reference point and running around like that fucks with my head.
It's different with LyX; you only specify the logical structure of the document. LyX provides a pretty view of those hidden commands. You do not specify the font, text sizes, margins, etc. You specify "heading," "paragraph," "chapter," etc.
The final look of the document can be completely different depending on the style used.
I can type about 45WPM using T9.
I can type over 100WPM on a normal keyboard though...
Power.
maybe we'll get lucky and cell phones will have 1gb+ memory with built in mp3 player support one day, so i won't have to carry so many different damn devices :P
Pick a Nokia Series 60 phone, any of them (except for the 7610 because it uses RS-MMC). Buy a 1G MMC card (or a 512M RS-MMC for the 7610). Install OggPlay if you want Vorbis; they already have MP3 support.
Ta da, now you have a cellphone that can play mp3s (among other things). You can get fancier MP3 players for Series60 phones but the built-in one works fine. You'd probably want one of the fancy ones if you had 1G of music on the player.
T-Mobile is supposed to be doing a nationwide rollout of EDGE in January.
Blame the US mobile providers. They don't buy them.
If you have T-Mobile you can just buy the Asian or European version and it will work (since their network is 100% 1900Mhz). With Cingular you could use that version but you won't be able to use it very many place since most of the network is 850Mhz.
I got my 7610 from Singapore. It rocks and was well worth the $380.
Motorola V180, Siemens CF62T, Nokia 3595/6010 (if you are in North America).
OK so they have color screens and have the ability to run J2ME apps but they are as basic as it gets. The Nokia 3595 has been replaced by the 6010 but I'd recommend searching for a 3595 somewhere because it'll last forever.
I know these things because I work at a cell phone store and we have people come in who have had their 3595's for years and have beat the shit out of them and they are still working perfectly fine.
The other phones are basic flip phones that everyone loves and are usually free if you sign up for cell service.
You can still find basic phones. You just can't find them for money anymore.
Creationists generally don't have a problem with micro-evolution (I mean, humans don't all have the same skin color do we?). It's macro-evolution they have a problem with. These coca plants are still coca plants.
Nokia's implementation of T9 is excellent. I can type about 45WPM using it (I get a hair over 100 on a normal keyboard).
Are you in Maryland? If you are, she was right. You are not allowed to vote on a paper ballot unless it is a special vote (absentee, etc.). A few people tried to use provisional ballots earlier in the year and their votes were ruled invalid (they even appealed to the State Supreme Court and the ruling was upheld). At least in Maryland, you have no choice but to use the Diebold machines.
That said, I doubt that there could be much vote changing by Republicans in Maryland simply because Maryland always goes Democrat by a fairly large margin. If it went Republican it would raise huge red flags and even if the Republican Party were trying to be evil they couldn't in Maryland (note the use of the subjunctive before calling me an evil Republican hater).
In Maryland you have to use the electronic machines. 22 people got together and tried to do early paper ballots but the state supreme court invalidated their votes and said that only absentee voters may use paper ballots in the election.
If Maryland goes for Bush you know something is seriously fucked up.
The paper trail isn't meant for the voter, it's meant for the board of elections. The machines need to print a backup paper version of the ballot in addition to the electronic version. The voter needs to see this paper backup before giving it to the people handling the election to double check that it is correct.
It's too easy to tamper with electronic votes and not have anyone notice.
If this were released I would buy one the moment it was released.
I don't care very much about 3D acceleration; as long as it accelerates a little OpenGL it's OK. The important part is 2D. The 2D performance of most cards (well, of the Radeon and GeForce cards) sucks. I mean, why is it that I can't even get 15fps in Doom II using prboom without OpenGL at 640x480 when I have a Radeon 9100 (AGP 4x) and a dual AthlonMP system? Why does GeForce (the music visualization plugin) get 10fps when the window is 800x600? Especially when the processor isn't even being taxed by it?
Hardware RENDER support, Xv (colorspace conversion and decent scaling), XvMC, the ability to process a large number of pixels being thrown at the card (e.g. when running a music visualization program like GeForce, or when running an old game like non-OpenGL Doom), and fast gemetric primitives. That's what matters.
Dude, all of the high end sound cards work great with ALSA. The RME Hammerfall, M-Audio Delta series cards, a bunch of USB-Audio stuff for laptops, and a couple of others. The big-name players in audio (well, basically RME) all provide docs or their cards are simple enough to be easily reverse engineered.
I have a Dual AthlonMP box with a Midiman Delta 1010 and it works great as a Digital Audio Workstation. Check out ardour and Jack. Linux Audio is in a way better state than video is. I still have a Radeon 9100 simply because it's the second-fastest (the FireGL 8800 is faster but way more expensive on eBay) graphics card with Free DRI drivers. And they SUCK speed wise. My sound card can do everything the Windows card can do it and it's fairly high end.
T-Mobile USA offers unlimited GPRS for $19.99 a month. You can get it for $4.99 but a bunch of ports are blocked, $9.99 with fewer blocked. With either of the lower priced options you aren't supposed to acess the net using your laptop connected through your phone but no one will notice...
The T-Mobile rep has yet to be informed of what the rates for EDGE access will be once it's rolled out in January but he said it won't be too much more and will nearly 100% be a flat rate.
You aren't a retard like most people then. I worked at a Quiznos for two years; when they advertised a sub damn near everyone got that sub. It didn't matter if it sucked or they usually got a different sub. They got the sub that was on TV.
A lot of people lack the ability to not be influenced by ads.
Many manual transmissions can't be put into reverse if your travelling more than 10 mph in the forward direction for example.
That has nothing to do with the drive computer, it's simply part of how the transmission works. The syncro will grind but the teeth of the gear won't make contact with the collar until the wheels stop moving.
So you write a portable version in Java and use the optimized version wherever you can.
That way it's still portable but will run faster on architectures which have optimized cores written for them.
Jolt makes gum now. It's something like 45mg of caffeine per piece. I got some from Thingeek a while ago and it really works, especially when you're in a computer lab or somewhere else where you can't have a bottle of Mountain Dew lying around.
You could always code the easily vectorizable stuff in C with inline assembly and call it from Java using your preffered runtime's FFI.