What does point of sale system mean?
A right POS software gives your business new achievement and success. The capabilities of POS software goes beyond being just a cash register. It can be a complete retail management system to automate and handle all the other aspects of your business.Choosing a wrong POS software is not only waste of money and resource but also degrade your business reputation in the marketPurpose of a point of sale system:Fast Checkout: The transaction process while making payments should be fast. It should not take much time and manual work to be done by sale’s team.Inventory Tracking: All information about the products being out of stock to the critical information about the store must be monitored with an ease. This will make the ordering easy from vendors & the inventory manager would not waste time calculating the re-order level.Customer Data: A good POS software will maintain sheet of customer’s data by storing their profile data. The data can also help the customer relation team build an effective loyalty program, which can increase sales in the long term.Mobility: A good POS should also offer online access which helps you stay connected with the business from anywhere remotely. It is a convenient feature for franchises and business having more than one location.Reporting tools: Every retail POS should have a reporting feature which is user friendly. It should store information such as product styles or models, weekly sales, monthly sales, annual sales and hourly transactions.
Why are people so upset about the NSA having the ability to look through their private and electronic data?
The others answers on here have very eloquently stated many reasons against the NSA's domestic data collection programs, but there's another element to consider in the fight against terrorism that's even more important.Terrorism only exists as a result of our own foreign policy actions. Politicians and media personalities will endlessly parrot propaganda about terrorists hating us for our freedom, but it's all BS. Terrorists hate America and its allies because America and its allies have spent 20+ years meddling with and screwing up the Middle East. Terrorists using Islam as a rallying cry is only incidental. Look at ISIS, for example. It might have grown and changed tremendously since it's inception, but that does not alter the fact that ISIS initially formed as a direct response to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. No Iraq war = no ISIS. America and its allies launched an unprovoked war that caused the deaths of over 100,000 Iraqis while destroying the homes, business, and livelihoods of many thousands more, and then when some of those people get pissed off to fight back, everyone acts shocked and appalled, ignoring the fact that if anyone did that to us, we'd have the exact same response. If another country did to us the things we've done in the Middle East (Gulf War, economic sanctions, Iraq War, drone attacks, air strikes, thousands of innocent civilians killed) and our government couldn't (or wouldn't) stop it, American citizens would not stand for it. Some people would form resistance groups to fight back, many of those groups would undoubtedly use Christianity as a rallying cry, and then we would be the ones labelled terrorists. It doesn't take much empathy or intelligence to realize this, but people are so easily paralyzed by fear that they let the military-industrial-government complex get away with atrocities and spend exorbitant amounts of money in the name of safety, and almost all of it is counterproductive to that stated goal of safety.So the most effective way to protect Americans against terrorism is not mass data collection of Americans phone calls, emails, etc., but a shift in foreign policy to neutrality and non-interventionism. Only an end to the policies and actions that engender and feed the hatred which leads to acts of terrorism will make us safe.
Would people even be able recognize an artificial intelligence revolution and world takeover when it begins?
The easy answer to this question is no. The reason I say this is because there is too much of a Democracy between the large companies who are at the top of the ladder, (who I will not name). One has approximately one hundred thousand computer systems with nothing but information…most ALL information from around the globe. It has been cunning in developing a subcontract with Deep Mind which contains the largest data centers for deep machine learning programs. One of these is the Pentagon, and a major defense contractor. With all this being said, I remind everyone what Elon Musk said, “we are summoning a deamon” , if.. we could not democratize A-I, which we have failed to do. Plus take into consideration, the other 9 countries who currently are competing with other countries to develop the greatest A-I. It is my current theory, an intelligent A-I, or even superintelligent,(which we have not defined yet), does not always have to be a machine, robot, or any other physical system. In other words, a large community of Intelligent A-I’s can exist within a computer framework. At any-time, these “communities”, which I call them, can be unleashed to any part of the world at any given moment. There will be no reason to tell anyone if this happens, because by then, it will be too late. The science fiction movie “I-Robot” is an example of this one “community” of power I describe. I have discovered, when the public is told about an A-I development, it already has been six months to a year since it was initially developed and tested. Unfortunately, the ones with the most power and knowledge of A-I, ….wins …but we all end up loosing.