Yeah, I once got a Compaq with a bad hard drive. A month later we got the drive shipped from compaq with the "special" windows installation partition on it.
Suffice it to say I have never, and will never buy a compaq machine since.
Ummm, the barcode readers we use DON'T HAVE ANY DRIVERS!!! They hookup inline with the keyboard (X-term, PC, WinTerm) and turn the barcode into characters. Theres some config stuff, but thats all done by scanning special barcodes that the unit recognizes as configuration codes.
Its really quite simple to attach these to any device that has a keyboard.
Yeah, except that when you want and embedded browser WINCE doesn't have one, and their old Linux based Winterms did. Oh, and it had ICA too, oh and it actaully WORKED!
I borrowed a demo unit from someone else in my company and gave it back because he needed it to be a web browsing client and the WYSE SALES REP. said that an old unit would be his best bet.
Yep you gotta love all that functionality these new WYSE Winterms have.
The real story is WYSE was wanting to do development with Embedded NT and WINCE. In negotiations with Microsoft they were given two prices for building new WinTerms with Embedded NT and WINCE -- the drop all your Linux stuff price (the low one) and the if you keep making stuff with Linux price (unbeliveably high).
So they dropped their Linux based WinTerms. Reports from someone who talked to one of their sales reps. indicated that the new "improved" WinTerms don't work half as well as the old ones. There was, at least a month ago there was still no imbedded browser for the new units.
This was no "Linux isn't good enough thing". This was an example of Micro$off weilding their monopoly power like they always have.
If we are entering a recession, how the hell was that Bush's fault? This one is purley coming on based on Clinton totally ignoring the increase in fuel prices (affecting everyone, everywhere), and the timing on the dot-com bubble bursting. The good times (measured by the NASDAQ boom) were FAKE it was that irrational exuberance that Greenspan was talking about.
You are right about the centrist fiscal policy, but Greenspan's the one doing that. He's basically been running the economy as an engine and changing the mix by manipulating interest rates. It's actually very good fiscal policy. Look for the fed to lower rates 2 or three meetings in a row. But... something has to happen with fuel prices, or were in trobule. Manufacturing can only cut costs for so long before prices will have to rise (unless you sell electricity in CA then you can't raise prices). If fuel prices don't come down the only way I can see for the consumers to keep up their spending will be a tax break.
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Yes, At my company I have been involved im many discussions of this matter -- Not fun.
I play the part of the Oracle dude.
Yeah, I once got a Compaq with a bad hard drive. A month later we got the drive shipped from compaq with the "special" windows installation partition on it.
Suffice it to say I have never, and will never buy a compaq machine since.
Ummm, the barcode readers we use DON'T HAVE ANY DRIVERS!!! They hookup inline with the keyboard (X-term, PC, WinTerm) and turn the barcode into characters. Theres some config stuff, but thats all done by scanning special barcodes that the unit recognizes as configuration codes.
Its really quite simple to attach these to any device that has a keyboard.
Yeah, except that when you want and embedded browser WINCE doesn't have one, and their old Linux based Winterms did. Oh, and it had ICA too, oh and it actaully WORKED!
I borrowed a demo unit from someone else in my company and gave it back because he needed it to be a web browsing client and the WYSE SALES REP. said that an old unit would be his best bet.
Yep you gotta love all that functionality these new WYSE Winterms have.
BZZZZzzzztttt!! Wrong answer dude.
From what I heard:
The real story is WYSE was wanting to do development with Embedded NT and WINCE. In negotiations with Microsoft they were given two prices for building new WinTerms with Embedded NT and WINCE -- the drop all your Linux stuff price (the low one) and the if you keep making stuff with Linux price (unbeliveably high).
So they dropped their Linux based WinTerms. Reports from someone who talked to one of their sales reps. indicated that the new "improved" WinTerms don't work half as well as the old ones. There was, at least a month ago there was still no imbedded browser for the new units.
This was no "Linux isn't good enough thing". This was an example of Micro$off weilding their monopoly power like they always have.
Wow, great analysis of the California situation. I think you are probably more right than anyone will ever admit.
It is fairly interesting to watch this unfold, while I sit here in South Dakota using power from our 4 hydroelectric dams.
If we are entering a recession, how the hell was that Bush's fault? This one is purley coming on based on Clinton totally ignoring the increase in fuel prices (affecting everyone, everywhere), and the timing on the dot-com bubble bursting. The good times (measured by the NASDAQ boom) were FAKE it was that irrational exuberance that Greenspan was talking about.
You are right about the centrist fiscal policy, but Greenspan's the one doing that. He's basically been running the economy as an engine and changing the mix by manipulating interest rates. It's actually very good fiscal policy. Look for the fed to lower rates 2 or three meetings in a row. But... something has to happen with fuel prices, or were in trobule. Manufacturing can only cut costs for so long before prices will have to rise (unless you sell electricity in CA then you can't raise prices). If fuel prices don't come down the only way I can see for the consumers to keep up their spending will be a tax break.
Michael Jackson??
There's a Yahoo Store,
http://stores.yahoo.com/dps2/
where I bought my Leopard Gold case from, on-line. They carry most of that cases from Colorcase.