Most recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

“We also plan on patenting atmospheric air and granting reasonably priced usage licenses for limited daily volumes to every man, woman and child on the planet. It’ll be great!”

Nice try buddy, but if I’m paying for brisket, you better believe I’m going to be the one eating it. On the other hand… I’m Danish and the Tex-Mex around these parts is - well - I would pay you for that. Acting as a food taster deserves fair remuneration. And hazard pay.

Your interpretation seems entirely reasonable to me. For a given value of reasonable.

Much like Vampires, no sane person should ever invite Oracle into their home: Both are bloodsucking parasitical leeches, and you’ll never be rid of the affliction.

Trying to figure out if the mesquite smoked brisket served anywhere that isn’t Texas is worth it?

Urgently needing to get rid of a purloined crate of Ozempic while the po-po is beating down the door and some dickhead clogged up the toilet?

Dunno really.

Very interesting, although I’m going to withhold judgment pending some serious peer review.

Edit: One person doesn’t like peer review to be part of the scientific process.

Dude, people can’t handle the complexity of simply driving the vehicle as it is. Bad things happen when adding handling dynamic communications into the mix with people who aren’t trained to the level of combat pilots. That’s why we don’t let people juggle a cell phone while driving.

Well, I do have a missing molar serving as an example of why you don’t take up a national-level light weight boxing champion on the offer of an unsupervised bare-knuckle spar in a backyard ‘just for fun’.

No, I don’t want to talk about the follies of my youth, but thanks for asking.

Even my ancient, cheap AKG K-55’s still sound great.

Yes, that does sound like the most difficult part of the endeavor. I wish you the best of luck and hope for your success.

While I don’t have any personal experience with their current lineup, I’ve never known anyone to have complaints about their quality. My own 30 year old Dali’s still sound as great as they did when I first got them.

Yeah: A decent pair of AKG headphones :)

More seriously, Dali makes some really nice sounding speakers for their small size and relatively low price.

I don’t see the benefit of the extra level of indirection. Why not just hire a housekeeper to do the same work better without the unnecessary $20k telepresence platform? Sure, it might benefit the creators in harvesting subsidized motion and interaction data that they can later use to cut humans out of the loop, but what’s the benefit to the customers paying for it?

Sure. I can see how the relative simplicity would be attractive to you given the use case, and so long as you know how to backup (and restore) whatever it uses for a database, I guess that’s fine. However, if you can’t do basic things like define new products without essentially hacking application assets, well, that’s… significantly less attractive, I would think.

But you’re the one who knows what will serve your needs best, obviously. Personally I wouldn’t want the potential liability of having to use the reporting features of a non-supported unlicensed piece of software when a tax auditor comes calling.

Unless it literally downloads them each time on application startup without caching the images locally, they’ve got to be in there somewhere. They almost certainly wouldn’t be embedded in the main executable as resources (which you already checked for anyway), so search for common image types: *.bmp (which it evidently already uses), *.png, *.jpg, *.gif and perhaps even *.tga or *.ani. There’s plenty of other possibilities, but those are all less likely.

With that said… I really wouldn’t recommend running a legitimate (let alone an illegitimate) business on pirated software. Have you at least considered looking at some of the freely available open source solutions?

https://github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos perhaps?

There’s a live demo at:

https://demo.opensourcepos.org/

User: admin Password: pointofsale

There’s a fair amount of options: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/blog/free-open-source-pos-software/

Yes it is, and no they aren’t. Get rid of them.

Man, I’m always up for some Burnside. Blues is remarkable for its ability to draw together diverse people. There was this small blues bar in Copenhagen called Mojo. Tiny place - could seat maybe twenty, max capacity perhaps twice that. Always packed. Live gigs every evening of the week, something like five dollars admission at the door - God only know how they managed to pull that off. Some of the best live music I’ve experienced and in good company ranging all the way from teenagers to people in their eighties, all having a good time together.

Edit: And while we’re on the topic of modernized Burnside: Someday Baby (feat. Lyrics Born)

Yes. Blues exists for pretty much that reason.

That’s rich coming from the leader in the field of manufacturing demand out of whole cloth.

“Maybe you can use them to douse yourself, maybe the sugar will just create improvised napalm. Personally, I can’t wait to find out.”