Google bought few years ago an old paper mill in Finland. It is located near the sea. It will use sea water for cooling. Winwind has erected three wind turbines there. I think Google donated the land/ let them built them there.
Yes it works, but what benefits did we truly get from switching so early?
(I'm really asking for your opinion of what's better, not trying to flame.)
Terrestial feed is so crowded that the quality of signal is barely watchable on a 26" flat screen. ( Did you see Tekniikan Maailma's review this summer?)
Cable is a bit better. Practically the only difference is electrical TV-Guide, news are still brought by Text-TV and I can't come up with anything else.
Well, u can remove subtitles and change the audio language, though the language part was possible in analog tv. I don't use either feature, though some of course might.
Now we have a nation full of Digital tuners that are not capable of HD feed......and I really think switching to HD is going to take forever because of this.
No politician is going to commit the political suicide of "Remember how we forced you to switch to Digital TV just a couple years ago? Well, we are going to do it again."
Our switch was rushed and in retrospect IMHO for all the wrong reasons. The technological advances that were part of the initial reasons for the switch never came to life and the switch date was kept because it had been set without considering if it really was the right time.
(i.e. user's IQ is equivalent to a mostly dead rodent of unusually small size and any options would confuse poor afore mentioned user and therefore options are bad).
It is funny how everything can be so black and white. Maybe people who disagree with you on how they use the desktop might still not be stupid.
I can understand how people can value the abundance of configuration options. That's ok.
I, however, don't want to configure everything nor do I want everything to be configurable. I just want stuff to work and the defaults to be reasonable. It's a bit the same thing for me with coffee. I just want good coffee, I don't want to make 10 choices before it.
So, this is where people who don't care about choices are coming from, or atleast some of them.
An Electronic voting system in a democracy needs to be designed in such way that 70 years old person who maybe has seen a computer couple times and 20-year-old, will have the same success rate.
There never ever should have been a button labeled "OK". Instead maybe one with "Press this and you'll vote will be registered and locked."
The machine should never have allowed the voting process to be left at that limbo state. Giving the card back actually implies to the voter that the voting has been succesfully finished if the system doesn't clearly state to the voter that his/her vote has not been registered.
This sounds like a nice feature to keep stupid people from voting.
Yes, this is a tech site but you can't honestly be that arrogant can you?
This has nothing to do with stupidity of the voters and everything with the quality level of the system design required for voting systems. And stupid people have the right to vote too.
What exactly is "Insightful" in the parent post? Could some mod care to enlighten me?
Idea that women lose interest in a bald guy is, eh, exactly something I would expect to read on a monday morning before I've had my coffee.
There are, actually, quite a lot of different reasons why people go bald ( Yes, women go bald too.) Explaining them all with wish-wash reasoning is rather bold. (Yes, I was in the mood for rather bad pun. Still waiting for that coffee.)
Gene remains in the gene pool if it is good at making as much copies of itself as possible.
We may be labeled ass backwards, but I think we have this one right. Registration seems to really screw with potential voters.
Wow, I did not know this and I just thought that the whole USA requires this registration. Which I have never really understood due to the following reason:
Here in Finland, the only thing you need to do to be able to vote, is to bring some kind of identification with you when you go to vote.( You are notified in advance by mail of your right to vote. )
In my opinion, every obstacle which one can take away from the voting process is a good thing.
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Google bought few years ago an old paper mill in Finland. It is located near the sea. It will use sea water for cooling. Winwind has erected three wind turbines there. I think Google donated the land/ let them built them there.
So, it seems, your ideas are rather good.
Yes it works, but what benefits did we truly get from switching so early?
(I'm really asking for your opinion of what's better, not trying to flame.)
Terrestial feed is so crowded that the quality of signal is barely watchable on a 26" flat screen.
( Did you see Tekniikan Maailma's review this summer?)
Cable is a bit better. Practically the only difference is electrical TV-Guide, news are still brought by Text-TV and I can't come up with anything else.
Well, u can remove subtitles and change the audio language, though the language part was possible in analog tv. I don't use either feature, though some of course might.
Now we have a nation full of Digital tuners that are not capable of HD feed... ...and I really think switching to HD is going to take forever because of this.
No politician is going to commit the political suicide of "Remember how we forced you to switch to Digital TV just a couple years ago? Well, we are going to do it again."
Our switch was rushed and in retrospect IMHO for all the wrong reasons. The technological advances that were part of the initial reasons for the switch never came to life and the switch date was kept because it had been set without considering if it really was the right time.
(i.e. user's IQ is equivalent to a mostly dead rodent of unusually small size and any options would confuse poor afore mentioned user and therefore options are bad).
It is funny how everything can be so black and white. Maybe people who disagree with you on how they use the desktop might still not be stupid.
I can understand how people can value the abundance of configuration options. That's ok.
I, however, don't want to configure everything nor do I want everything to be configurable. I just want stuff to work and the defaults to be reasonable. It's a bit the same thing for me with coffee. I just want good coffee, I don't want to make 10 choices before it.
So, this is where people who don't care about choices are coming from, or atleast some of them.
On last sunday at 20.00 when the voting booths closed here in Finland the results of the advance voting were published.
A bit over 20 % voted in advance and about 90 % of the advance votes were counted at 20.00.
( Ballpark numbers, I might be a bit off )
(This was a municipal election but especially in presidential elections, at 20.01 the suspense is pretty much over.)
At around 23.00 the results started to be clear and at the latest at 00.51 all the votes had been counted.
This with paper and pen votes.
An Electronic voting system in a democracy needs to be designed in such way that 70 years old person who maybe has seen a computer couple times and 20-year-old, will have the same success rate.
There never ever should have been a button labeled "OK". Instead maybe one with "Press this and you'll vote will be registered and locked."
The machine should never have allowed the voting process to be left at that limbo state. Giving the card back actually implies to the voter that the voting has been succesfully finished if the system doesn't clearly state to the voter that his/her vote has not been registered.
This sounds like a nice feature to keep stupid people from voting.
Yes, this is a tech site but you can't honestly be that arrogant can you?
This has nothing to do with stupidity of the voters and everything with the quality level of the system design required for voting systems. And stupid people have the right to vote too.
So,
Research to fight Spam is what creates Skynet?
Porn and cheap pills made of baking powder really are the doom of us?
That's really depressing.
What exactly is "Insightful" in the parent post? Could some mod care to enlighten me?
Idea that women lose interest in a bald guy is, eh, exactly something I would expect to read on a monday morning before I've had my coffee.
There are, actually, quite a lot of different reasons why people go bald ( Yes, women go bald too.) Explaining them all with wish-wash reasoning is rather bold. (Yes, I was in the mood for rather bad pun. Still waiting for that coffee.)
Gene remains in the gene pool if it is good at making as much copies of itself as possible.
We may be labeled ass backwards, but I think we have this one right. Registration seems to really screw with potential voters.
Wow, I did not know this and I just thought that the whole USA requires this registration.
Which I have never really understood due to the following reason:
Here in Finland, the only thing you need to do to be able to vote, is to bring some kind of identification with you when you go to vote.( You are notified in advance by mail of your right to vote. )
In my opinion, every obstacle which one can take away from the voting process is a good thing.