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Marcus, Some interesting questions. I'll have to answer them offline! David On Thursday 18 October 2001 12:26, Marcus Carr wrote: > David Lyon wrote: > > His existing product could easily work for Video, Pizza and Takeout > > allowing people to look at the menu on the kiosk outside the shop before > > going in and purchasing. In fact, they could easily purchase from outside > > the shop and then only go in when they need to collect the pizza or > > video. > > a) How does the shop justify spending $15k on such a device? > > b) How do ask it if the anchovies are packaged in peanut oil, since you're > allergic to peanuts? > > c) Why use XML instead of an HTML form and a printer? > > d) How do you pay cash? > > > If you can do this sort of thing today, then it can't be that hard to > > extend the technology a bit further back to someones home or phone or car > > console using xml. > > A reasonable conclusion then is that it's not economically viable, not that > the technology doesn't support it. > > > Sure there are lots of challenges but XML can get everywhere, it just > > needs people to be focused on looking for commercially viable > > opportunities and being able to execute them. > > That's not exclusive to XML - concentrating on commercially viable > opportunities is the standard goal of pretty much any business. > > > -- > Regards, > > Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... > ___________________________________________________________________ > Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au > ___________________________________________________________________ > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." > - Einstein
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