Howard, Welcome to your local Custom's Checkpoint. I believe that a few countries have been using this technology to spot criminals and terrorists for a few years now.
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2005 12:45 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: The clamor begins for IBM to give up the code for OS/2 > > > Not wanting to continue this argument - I am wondering how much demand > there > will be for business applications to handle graphics and sound in advanced > ways. > Certainly there will be continued needs to use such for identification > purposes. Maybe salesmen in stores will be told by their terminals the > name of > the customer who walked in the door (which the mainframe recognized from > the > security camera). Lots of these applications will want to be in big, > fast > databases. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
