Having the voting machine record the votes is part of the problem. The reason electronic voting became such a national issue was because of the error-prone ballots in Florida. The solution was to simply come up with a ballot that you couldn't fill out improperly. A simple electronic voting machine the produces a paper ballout which is simultaneously readable by human and machine is the ideal solution. It allows for quickly counting the ballots by machines and is easily verifiable by both the voter and the election board to confirm the machine count. It reduces the development and verification costs of the voting machines because you can develop it without any internal storage or networking. It also means there's no need for a company to concern themselves with trade secrets or state secrets and strengthens the argument for requiring the source code be made public.
Why should you having a piece of paper saying you voted some way mean anything?
I haven't read the text of the bill, but I'm under the assumption that it's requiring a paper ballot, rather than a paper receipt. The ballot is left at the voting station after the voter confirms it is correct.
here is no "fragmentation". Any software that runs on the latest version of RHEL will also run on the latest version of Ubuntu. Or Slackware. etc.
I'm sorry but that's not true without wualification. Any open-source software that you can compile yourself should run on any ditro. But closed-source software distributed in pre-compiled form will most likely only run on the platform it was built on. My employer's new VPN client runs on Red Hat but not Ubuntu, for example.
USB was going nowhere until the iMac came out with only a USB connection for mouse/keyboard/floppy. I don't even remember any x86 motherboards where the USB wasn't just some random jumpers and an optional cable that had the regular connectors on an expanstion slot cover (so you had to give-up a PCI/AGP/ISA expansion slot to use the 'on-board' USB.
Apple made USB and the mouse prominent technologies for consumer personal computers, and now they appear to be trying to repeat that for multi-touch, which was invented by other people, just like USB and mice.
If we are going to afford this sort of luxury to publishers, then shouldn't end users be allows to shift their media, DMCA be damned? Hell, we are not even trying to re-distribute the work for money, we just want to be able to enjoy our movies on our laptops and iPods without having to lug a library of DVDs around and make back-up copies for the day when those DVDs become unreadable due to natural wear.
You are allowed to do those things today. You're not allowed to download MP3s ripped from a CD and burn those to a CDR just because you bought the tape. You have to actually hook up the tape to your computer and capture the audio from your sound card. Same with VHS to VCD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray.
Thanks troll, but PC is where the dollar signs are. Accept reality.
Totally, I mean with all the money Apple is going to rake in from people downloading Safari for Windows for free, I think I'm going to borrow $10k to invest in Apple and laugh all the way to the bank.
There isn't an OSX PC on earth that can run "more software" than any given Windows PC.
I can run Windows (and Linux) on my Mini, either in a dual-boot configuration or in Parallels. So everything you can run in Windows or Linux on your Dell, I can also run on my Mini. But you can't run OS X (without hacking it, the legality of which is undetermined in the US) on your Dell, and therefor can't run any OS X software.
Whatever colour the sky is in your fantasyland, we'd appreciate it if you'd step back into the real world before spouting your insanity on the rest of us fanboi.
Perhaps you double-check what world you're posting from.
but the Dell is bigger and louder, probably consumes more electricity, and doesn't run OS X. And 60 GB is plenty for the system drive. By a 500 GB drive from Lacie for $240 and put all your music/video on that instead (and the form factor is a perfect match with the mini's case, and combined will still be smaller than the Dell). So now it's $349 for a machine that is larger and louder than it needs to be, or $839 for a small/quiet machine with 3.5 times the disk space that can run more software.
I thought that Apple made a big fuss about not allowing the Cell companies to lock users in to long term contracts with subsidized phones and that was why were were going to pay 500+ for the iPhone.
They said it would carry a 2 year contract during the initial announcement at MacWorld in January. They did say no price subsidies, though. The running theory has been the combination of high purchase price and a 2 year contract must mean really cheap plans (like free unlimited data), but I doubt that will happen. I think the purchase price was chosen as a combination of the average prices of smart phones and ipods.
Since Microsoft already paid a licensing fee as a result of the law suit, seems pretty cut and dry. Either both should be rejected, or Eolas keeps the golden goose.
It takes electrical energy to power all those computers, disks, routers, repeaters and cables. Energy which is in the main generated by burning stuff (Unless you live in France, where 80% odd of the electric grid is powered by nuclear plants).
My provider (Gexa) offers service (Gexa Green) with 100% of the power generated by wind, water, and solar. My farts sure do smell good.
Apple doesn't encode the tracks sold at iTS, the studios do, and they'd better be encoding from the masters. That was actually one of the original selling points in the early days of iTMS.
Buying the whole album on iTunes will stay at $9.99 but the tracks will be the 256 kbps non-DRM versions. For most people's audio equipment, 256 kbps will sound the same as the CD.
Will Apple allow users who have purchased DRM encoded tracks the chance to re-buy them without DRM at a reduced price
The original EMI deal included $0.30 upgrades from the 128/DRM version to the 256/non-DRM version. You can upgrade whole albums, too, but I forget the cost there.
I believe the 2.x release will support multiple logins. The last time I used a dev release of 2.x it works like Safari. After entering your Keychain password the form is populated with one of the saved username/password pairs, you just start typing the correct username, and it will autocomplete, and then populate the password field based on what username you typed in.
Do you have statistics on how many U.S. Attorneys the Presidents Clinton, Bush Sr., and Reagan fired in their last two years in office, rather then the first two years? There was no transition to a new President in 2007, so the recent firings seem rather unorthodox. The second half of your quote seems to indicate you acknowledge this differentiation, but your opening statement suggests you're saying there is no difference.
Those damn "The 'New' AT&T" commercials with their stupid "all around the world..." theme. It sounds like a bad Oasis song.
It is, and it happened maybe a month after the frontman publicly berated Jack White for writing an original song for a Coca-Cola commercial (rather than licensing the rights to an existing song like Oasis did).
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The Library of Congress ruled that handsets are not covered by the DMCA.
I think the best use of this app would be to 'cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp' when a telemarketer calls.
Print one thing and record another.
Having the voting machine record the votes is part of the problem. The reason electronic voting became such a national issue was because of the error-prone ballots in Florida. The solution was to simply come up with a ballot that you couldn't fill out improperly. A simple electronic voting machine the produces a paper ballout which is simultaneously readable by human and machine is the ideal solution. It allows for quickly counting the ballots by machines and is easily verifiable by both the voter and the election board to confirm the machine count. It reduces the development and verification costs of the voting machines because you can develop it without any internal storage or networking. It also means there's no need for a company to concern themselves with trade secrets or state secrets and strengthens the argument for requiring the source code be made public.
Why should you having a piece of paper saying you voted some way mean anything?
I haven't read the text of the bill, but I'm under the assumption that it's requiring a paper ballot, rather than a paper receipt. The ballot is left at the voting station after the voter confirms it is correct.
put two partitions on the drive, a small vfat partition with all the driver installers, and the main ext2/3 partition with the data.
here is no "fragmentation". Any software that runs on the latest version of RHEL will also run on the latest version of Ubuntu. Or Slackware. etc.
I'm sorry but that's not true without wualification. Any open-source software that you can compile yourself should run on any ditro. But closed-source software distributed in pre-compiled form will most likely only run on the platform it was built on. My employer's new VPN client runs on Red Hat but not Ubuntu, for example.
USB was going nowhere until the iMac came out with only a USB connection for mouse/keyboard/floppy. I don't even remember any x86 motherboards where the USB wasn't just some random jumpers and an optional cable that had the regular connectors on an expanstion slot cover (so you had to give-up a PCI/AGP/ISA expansion slot to use the 'on-board' USB. Apple made USB and the mouse prominent technologies for consumer personal computers, and now they appear to be trying to repeat that for multi-touch, which was invented by other people, just like USB and mice.
If we are going to afford this sort of luxury to publishers, then shouldn't end users be allows to shift their media, DMCA be damned? Hell, we are not even trying to re-distribute the work for money, we just want to be able to enjoy our movies on our laptops and iPods without having to lug a library of DVDs around and make back-up copies for the day when those DVDs become unreadable due to natural wear.
You are allowed to do those things today. You're not allowed to download MP3s ripped from a CD and burn those to a CDR just because you bought the tape. You have to actually hook up the tape to your computer and capture the audio from your sound card. Same with VHS to VCD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray.
Thanks troll, but PC is where the dollar signs are. Accept reality.
Totally, I mean with all the money Apple is going to rake in from people downloading Safari for Windows for free, I think I'm going to borrow $10k to invest in Apple and laugh all the way to the bank.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=1 0462
Some people value form, as well as function.
There isn't an OSX PC on earth that can run "more software" than any given Windows PC.
I can run Windows (and Linux) on my Mini, either in a dual-boot configuration or in Parallels. So everything you can run in Windows or Linux on your Dell, I can also run on my Mini. But you can't run OS X (without hacking it, the legality of which is undetermined in the US) on your Dell, and therefor can't run any OS X software.
Whatever colour the sky is in your fantasyland, we'd appreciate it if you'd step back into the real world before spouting your insanity on the rest of us fanboi.
Perhaps you double-check what world you're posting from.
but the Dell is bigger and louder, probably consumes more electricity, and doesn't run OS X. And 60 GB is plenty for the system drive. By a 500 GB drive from Lacie for $240 and put all your music/video on that instead (and the form factor is a perfect match with the mini's case, and combined will still be smaller than the Dell). So now it's $349 for a machine that is larger and louder than it needs to be, or $839 for a small/quiet machine with 3.5 times the disk space that can run more software.
Chenanigans? Wasn't that a Native American tribe in western Texas?
no, it's the restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls.
I thought that Apple made a big fuss about not allowing the Cell companies to lock users in to long term contracts with subsidized phones and that was why were were going to pay 500+ for the iPhone.
They said it would carry a 2 year contract during the initial announcement at MacWorld in January. They did say no price subsidies, though. The running theory has been the combination of high purchase price and a 2 year contract must mean really cheap plans (like free unlimited data), but I doubt that will happen. I think the purchase price was chosen as a combination of the average prices of smart phones and ipods.
Since Microsoft already paid a licensing fee as a result of the law suit, seems pretty cut and dry. Either both should be rejected, or Eolas keeps the golden goose.
It takes electrical energy to power all those computers, disks, routers, repeaters and cables. Energy which is in the main generated by burning stuff (Unless you live in France, where 80% odd of the electric grid is powered by nuclear plants).
My provider (Gexa) offers service (Gexa Green) with 100% of the power generated by wind, water, and solar. My farts sure do smell good.
Apple doesn't encode the tracks sold at iTS, the studios do, and they'd better be encoding from the masters. That was actually one of the original selling points in the early days of iTMS.
and quite bit more than... THE FUCKING CD.
Buying the whole album on iTunes will stay at $9.99 but the tracks will be the 256 kbps non-DRM versions. For most people's audio equipment, 256 kbps will sound the same as the CD.
Will Apple allow users who have purchased DRM encoded tracks the chance to re-buy them without DRM at a reduced price
The original EMI deal included $0.30 upgrades from the 128/DRM version to the 256/non-DRM version. You can upgrade whole albums, too, but I forget the cost there.
Complete this sentence: DRM is about enabling tools to... recognize a joke.
what Apple wants is their AAC to become the defacto standard over mp3.
AAC isn't Apple's codec. It's the MPEG group's replacement for MP3.
Camino doesn't use/support Xul.
I believe the 2.x release will support multiple logins. The last time I used a dev release of 2.x it works like Safari. After entering your Keychain password the form is populated with one of the saved username/password pairs, you just start typing the correct username, and it will autocomplete, and then populate the password field based on what username you typed in.
ctrl+k puts the cursor in the search bar, ctrl+up/ctrl+down cycles between search engines
Do you have statistics on how many U.S. Attorneys the Presidents Clinton, Bush Sr., and Reagan fired in their last two years in office, rather then the first two years? There was no transition to a new President in 2007, so the recent firings seem rather unorthodox. The second half of your quote seems to indicate you acknowledge this differentiation, but your opening statement suggests you're saying there is no difference.
Those damn "The 'New' AT&T" commercials with their stupid "all around the world..." theme. It sounds like a bad Oasis song.
It is, and it happened maybe a month after the frontman publicly berated Jack White for writing an original song for a Coca-Cola commercial (rather than licensing the rights to an existing song like Oasis did).