[geeks] Windows XP, ATM's etc

[hike]

If an ATM usage is the same as the good, old smartphone, it will be easier
to use.  The bank has widened their market.  The ATM will piggyback in on
the smartphone paradigm.  This is an economy of usage/knowledge/something.
It is also the bsimple processb.  To simplify needed know-how is to
simplify life.
It is a sign that Bank Presidents and other C* are just geeks at heartbthey
want the bsexyb new thing, the bragging rights.  Only they are IT laymen
and donbt understand that machine may be pretty but they are not
sexybit's
the girl in the picture.


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Fred <FRED at miser.misernet.net> wrote:

> >From:  IN%"geeks at sunhelp.org" 10-FEB-2014 13:00:23.12
> >To:    IN%"geeks at sunhelp.org"
> >CC:
> >Subj:  geeks Digest, Vol 135, Issue 9
>
> >Message: 2
> >Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:19:51 -0500
> >From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Windows XP EOL
>
> >It also discussed how ATM customers (banks) are very excited about the
> >prospect of integrating multi-point touch into new ATMs. (Interfaces that
> will
> >resemble iOS devices, not POS waitress stations...
>
> Apologies if this breaks the thread, got key happy and lost my original
> reply.
> Thank goodness for a generous scrollback buffer.
>
> This isn't a personal attack on you Lionel, but I have seen this very same
> paragraph in multiple mailing lists and forums I frequent lately (and I am
> going to guess you aren't on some of them, so ....)
>
> set mode/type=curmudgeon
>
> Why oh WHY does an ATM need to be "iDeviced" ?  All I want is for it to
> securely take my card (take, dip, swipe, etc) give me options that are
> easy to
> read (like BIG text), give me my money and/or receipt and be done with it.
>  I
> have no desire to swipe, touch, see your silly advertisements etc.
> (first and foremost without sanitizer with tons of other folks grubby hands
> on the ATM).
>
> I have always had the opinion that ATM vendors should have embraced Linux -
> after all most modern-ish ATMs are just computers with a bunch of USB
> peripherals for the cash dispenser, reader, etc.  This way, no one has to
> scramble when the vendor pulls support.  They could even (gosh!) cooperate
> and
> create a Linux ATM consortium for standards between ATM vendors,
> processors,
> etc.
>
> As Scotty said in Star Trek III: The more they overthink the plumbing, the
> easier it is to stop up the drain.
>
> set mode/type=curmudgeon/state=off
>
> To stay a bit on topic of Windows XP, despite Microsoft's best effort to
> scare
> the unwashed masses - in my line of work I see it everywhere and there is
> no
> convincing folks to move (unless of course they end up with a virus or
> software that just doesn't support XP anymore).  It'll be around for
> awhile,
> sans some huge virus or other problem that a patch just can't be issued
> for.
>
> Just IMHO of course.  Apologies if this is a bit off topic, as I am not
> finished with the morning coffee yet. :)
>
> Fred
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