I'll bet Washington, Adams and Jefferson never drank Coke or Pepsi."Would you like Coke, Pepsi or Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi. Wait, how about Dr. Pepper or Mr. Pibb or Diet Dr. Pepper? Oh we also got Diet Sprite""No thanks, I would prefer water. Plain old tap water.""Sorry that's not available. We have this fine selection of similarly oversweet carbonated beverages, look one of them is even a different color than the rest. Really, these are the best soda's money can buy.""No thanks, what I need is water, plain ordinary tap water."No choice. As far as the US 2008 presidential campaign, there simply is no choice, the US will continue the failed interventionist, terrorist creating, policies of Bush (and before that Clinton):
"The most important issue facing America is not even being debated by the presidential candidates. With the exception of Ron Paul, all of the candidates are acting on the assumption that America's interventionist foreign policy should continue. They only differ on the details of the intervention."..."George Washington – still the wisest man ever to serve as president – warned us against interventionism. As he said, there is no reason for America to involve itself in the intrigues, feuds and wars that plague most parts of the world"
More news on Metro deployment, this is could be just more information from an earlier interview with Metro's Wolfram. Still, I think this is a decisive moment for the RFID supply-chain.
"A senior executive at the $81 billion European retail giant Metro Group says the efficiencies the chain saw in RFID trials were so compelling they just had to deploy. The chain, based in Germany, has informed all of its suppliers that they need to ship all RFID pallets to Metro fully RFID tagged by Oct. 1, said Gerd Wolfram, an IT managing director for the chain."
The chain, based in Germany, has informed all of its suppliers that they need to ship all RFID pallets to Metro fully RFID tagged by Oct. 1, said Gerd Wolfram, an IT managing director for the chain."
Rumor has it that the Sirit IN510 did quite well in Odin's UHF reader benchmark tests. I'd guess that the IN510 kicked ass in the lotsa-tags on a pallet portal test.
"For the ninth installment of its benchmarking test series, designed to provide unbiased performance evaluation of RFID hardware, ODIN put each interrogator through a battery of tests. Six were performed in a controlled environment, while three were conducted inside a warehouse, with RF noise to determine the readers' performance in a real-world environment". "The readers tested were Alien's ALR8800, Caen's A968EU, Feig's ID ISC.LRU2000, Impinj's URP1000-ETSI, Intermec's IF61, Motorola's XR480EU and Sirit's IN510. "No one reader was superior in every test," says Bret Kinsella, ODIN's chief operating officer. "In fact, no one reader was superior in more than three tests." "
"The readers tested were Alien's ALR8800, Caen's A968EU, Feig's ID ISC.LRU2000, Impinj's URP1000-ETSI, Intermec's IF61, Motorola's XR480EU and Sirit's IN510. "No one reader was superior in every test," says Bret Kinsella, ODIN's chief operating officer. "In fact, no one reader was superior in more than three tests." "
