I endeed up doing some coversions for this. I want to say that I ened up doing it in vim, but it also could have been some sh scripts to run sed or awk. Probably vim, as I only had a couple of tables, and then a couple more after that.
It's possible--but it would also mean that the license couldn't get recognised as open under the common open source guidelines.
hawk, who intends someday to include the phrase, "This is free software. You may use it for any purpose, including the extermination of endangered species, the violent overthrow of your government, or planning a nuclear attack on Australia.":)
I'm dusting off old neurons for this, but somewhere around 1980, Popular Electronics had a short article on something like this. A small camera was connected to a grid on the blind p[erson's back. I want to say that the resolution was 128x128, but that may just be because this would be the grid of a 16k dynamic ram at that time. Someone who was in the experiment claimed that he got about the resolution of a small, fuzzy black and white television (but how could he make that comparison).
>so they can learn that the left lane is for PASSING, IDIOT, and if you >arent PASSING, get OUT of the left lane, IDIOT!
This is true in some states. It is very much *not* the law in others, in which both lanes are supposed to carry traffic (AFAIK, however, all states still require that slower traffic keep right, and I'm not aware of any in which "I was driving the speed limit" is a defense).
>Oh, and the that the accleration lane on an highway onramp is for >ACCELERATING, as in you are supposed to match speed with traffic >already on the highway, not force it to brake heavily or swerve so >you can merge on at 40MPH.
>I'll throw in when turning at an intersection, turn into the CLOSEST >lane. Eg, if you are turning right, turn into the RIGHTmost lane of >the road you are turning into,
Oh, those were the mild ones. I had to deal with an intersection in Pennsylvania with two left turn lanes. It was rare to get through there without someone changing lanes in the middle of the left turn!
hawk Ahh, I've seen that you've had to drive with 'zonies. Whose idea was it to remove those red plates--i thought that it was a federally mandated warning label for other drivers . . .
I do think that driving tests should be taken in a vehicle with no power equipment and an unsynchronized manual transmission. But I am willing to allow automatic chokes and spark advance. Grudgingly, but I'd allow them . . .
The H2 isn't a Hummer, the label notwithstanding. It's a Suburban with different sheet metal and a few gadgets borrowed from the Hummer . . .
The H3 is the same thing on yet a smaller chassis . . .
hawk
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Yes, I am a lawyer. No, this is not legal advice. If you get that on slashdot, you may *need* nullification.
>The whole point of a "jury of his peers" is to be a check on the government.
No. The "of his peers" was to limit the power of the king against the nobility. The point of the petit jury (trial jury) was that by rounding up the men of the town that knew the parties involved and already knew what happened, the system could operate swiftly and (hopefully) more accurately. Over time, we switched to juries who didn't know about it.
Contrarty to what the nullification fanatics say, there is *not*, nor has there ever been, a general right of juries to judge the law. Nullification *is* an inherent power of the jury, however. The jury has the power to refuse to convict when following the law to do so would so shock their consciences that they just can't do it. The classic case is the refusal of British juries to convict poor men of theft of bread when the law was changed to make it a felony, punishable by death.
By its very nature, it is not appropriate to instruct juries on nullification. If they hgave to be told, thy're not so shocked that they're doing it in spite of the law. Again, it is *not* the power to judge the law.
Also, there is no appeal of nullification, as it only applies in criminal cases and can only be used to aquit--which is nonappealable under the double jeapordy doctrine.
It's quite real, not a joke. From the theater's end, it makes lots of sense: selling twice as much food at about 90% margin beats the daylights out of the 10% of part of the box that they give up.
Its been several years, but I want to say that it was my brother's econ textbook. It shouldn't be too hard to find, although it's going to predate most newspapers being on the web by a few years . . .
The typical theater deal is "90% over nut." The nut is the cost of running the theater. Ticket proceeds first pay that, and then 90% of the remainder goes to the distributor, and only 10% to the theater. The profits come almost entirely from the snack bar.
Some movies, such as Star Trek, attact crowds that eat so much junk food that theaters pay 100% over nut--*no* profits other than snack bar.
>Another explanation: selective polling and oversampling of women (this >is definitely done) in the exit polls.
Keep in mind that the reported number would *not* be weighted 80% women and 20% men, however. Instead, in this example, the average for women would be added to the percentage of actual voters expected to be female, that for men by their percentage, and the two added.
It actually goes a lot deeper than that, with correction factors and weighting by subgroup.
>There also seems to be a trend that conservatives are less likely to >want to answer political surveys than liberals.
I call this the Royko effect in my statistics classes. In 1980, President Carter conceded with the poles still open in the west (which cost his party house seats--when an election is called, many voters from the losing party stay home. This also happened in the Florida panhandle with Bush/Gore with the incorrect announcement that polls were closed and premature calling of the election for Gore). Carter's concession was based on projections from exit polls.
In the aftermath, networks pledged not to call states untill the polls closed. Mike Royko went father in his syndicated column, telling voters that they had a moral obligation to lie to exit polls. Some polls, missing the issue, then added a, "Do you read Mike Royko?" question, apparently expecting a tru8thful response there from someone alreeady lying to them . . .
> Exactly what kind of tamper prevention mechanisms do you want them to put in there?
Enough of a seal to determine that it has been opened, with all parts such as hard drives, memory, and flash memory on the other side of the seal?
It's not clear from the article what kinds of tests were done--were they from the outside and on the voter accessible parts, or did they open the case.
I would *hope* that if the case were opened, the machine would no longer be considered intact and usable. If Diebold's concerns are for a machine that was only tested from the outside, the machine is inadequate. If it flash memory cards outside of a seal, the machine is inadequate to start . . .
But then, I come from the only state that required a paper trail on the machines, so . . .
>The casino can't lose more money than was loaded into the machine >(well, plus the amount fed into it during the day).
Err, yes they can. Machines don't and *can't* hold enough to pay the largest jackpots. Generally the limit is a few hundred or thousand coins, with anything higher paid by the attendants (or by check).
About fifteen years ago, gaming found some crooked machines that had made it through their testing. It was possible to knock the game to a cheat mode after powerup by hitting a certain sequence of keys. It didn't make a major change, but once in this mode, it would not deal the last card of a royal flush when it came up (most of the time; they were careful there, too). The machine came up in the honest state aty powerup.
In a graduate math class, the professor stopped me afterwars, with thge comment, "Noone can write TeX that fast."
I wasn't using TeX; it was Word 5.1 with some custom macros. (No, you couldn't possibly go that fast in today's word with the wretched "Equation Editor." Yes, it can be done in LyX, though you might need a couple of keyboard macros (in particular, "copy line above and paste." It might be possible with the current version of OpenOffice: I know that you can type equations tex-like into another window; I don't know if you can get there without mousing around.[which involves looking at the keyboard; old {pre 6.0} Word and LyX can be operated entirely from the keyboard when writing and modifying equations.])
The first time a professor handed out his lecture notes I was amazed, moreso by the fact that it was an obvious but overlooked solution and I'd never seen it before than by his willingness to share.
I always did the same in my ownb classes. Time spent madly scribbling what I write is a simple waste of time, and stops students from paying attention. They always had a reduced version of my slides (whose main point was really to make sure that I didn't skip a planned topic).
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Nice big ones, with the poles opposed to give a 1/2 inch gap?
hawk
I endeed up doing some coversions for this. I want to say that I ened up doing it in vim, but it also could have been some sh scripts to run sed or awk. Probably vim, as I only had a couple of tables, and then a couple more after that.
hawk
It's possible--but it would also mean that the license couldn't get recognised as open under the common open source guidelines.
:)
hawk, who intends someday to include the phrase, "This is free software. You may use it for any purpose, including the extermination of endangered species, the violent overthrow of your government, or planning a nuclear attack on Australia."
I'm dusting off old neurons for this, but somewhere around 1980, Popular Electronics had a short article on something like this. A small camera was connected to a grid on the blind p[erson's back. I want to say that the resolution was 128x128, but that may just be because this would be the grid of a 16k dynamic ram at that time. Someone who was in the experiment claimed that he got about the resolution of a small, fuzzy black and white television (but how could he make that comparison).
hawk
>so they can learn that the left lane is for PASSING, IDIOT, and if you
>arent PASSING, get OUT of the left lane, IDIOT!
This is true in some states. It is very much *not* the law in others, in which both lanes are supposed to carry traffic (AFAIK, however, all states still require that slower traffic keep right, and I'm not aware of any in which "I was driving the speed limit" is a defense).
>Oh, and the that the accleration lane on an highway onramp is for
>ACCELERATING, as in you are supposed to match speed with traffic
>already on the highway, not force it to brake heavily or swerve so
>you can merge on at 40MPH.
>I'll throw in when turning at an intersection, turn into the CLOSEST
>lane. Eg, if you are turning right, turn into the RIGHTmost lane of
>the road you are turning into,
Oh, those were the mild ones. I had to deal with an intersection in Pennsylvania with two left turn lanes. It was rare to get through there without someone changing lanes in the middle of the left turn!
hawk
Ahh, I've seen that you've had to drive with 'zonies. Whose idea was it to remove those red plates--i thought that it was a federally mandated warning label for other drivers . . .
gawrsh, some of us just use the emergency room entrance that lets you drive to within a few feet of the door, but maybe we're old fashioned :)
hawk
I do think that driving tests should be taken in a vehicle with no power equipment and an unsynchronized manual transmission. But I am willing to allow automatic chokes and spark advance. Grudgingly, but I'd allow them . . .
hawk
The H2 isn't a Hummer, the label notwithstanding. It's a Suburban with different sheet metal and a few gadgets borrowed from the Hummer . . .
The H3 is the same thing on yet a smaller chassis . . .
hawk
Yes, I am a lawyer. No, this is not legal advice. If you get that on slashdot, you may *need* nullification.
>The whole point of a "jury of his peers" is to be a check on the government.
No. The "of his peers" was to limit the power of the king against the nobility. The point of the petit jury (trial jury) was that by rounding up the men of the town that knew the parties involved and already knew what happened, the system could operate swiftly and (hopefully) more accurately. Over time, we switched to juries who didn't know about it.
Contrarty to what the nullification fanatics say, there is *not*, nor has there ever been, a general right of juries to judge the law. Nullification *is* an inherent power of the jury, however. The jury has the power to refuse to convict when following the law to do so would so shock their consciences that they just can't do it. The classic case is the refusal of British juries to convict poor men of theft of bread when the law was changed to make it a felony, punishable by death.
By its very nature, it is not appropriate to instruct juries on nullification. If they hgave to be told, thy're not so shocked that they're doing it in spite of the law. Again, it is *not* the power to judge the law.
Also, there is no appeal of nullification, as it only applies in criminal cases and can only be used to aquit--which is nonappealable under the double jeapordy doctrine.
hawk, esq.
>then I'll have died in my car, and I don't want to think about why that would happen.
. . . that happens when a power surge simultaneously bolts the doors shut and turns the radio to disco . . .
hawk
It's quite real, not a joke. From the theater's end, it makes lots of sense: selling twice as much food at about 90% margin beats the daylights out of the 10% of part of the box that they give up.
Its been several years, but I want to say that it was my brother's econ textbook. It shouldn't be too hard to find, although it's going to predate most newspapers being on the web by a few years . . .
hawk
The only dollar theater here just raised its price from $2 to $2.50 . . .
hawk, not believing that this has actually happened to Vegas
The typical theater deal is "90% over nut." The nut is the cost of running the theater. Ticket proceeds first pay that, and then 90% of the remainder goes to the distributor, and only 10% to the theater. The profits come almost entirely from the snack bar.
Some movies, such as Star Trek, attact crowds that eat so much junk food that theaters pay 100% over nut--*no* profits other than snack bar.
hawk
. . . why an EPROM? Use a PROM or masked ROM . . .
hawk
>Another explanation: selective polling and oversampling of women (this
>is definitely done) in the exit polls.
Keep in mind that the reported number would *not* be weighted 80% women and 20% men, however. Instead, in this example, the average for women would be added to the percentage of actual voters expected to be female, that for men by their percentage, and the two added.
It actually goes a lot deeper than that, with correction factors and weighting by subgroup.
>There also seems to be a trend that conservatives are less likely to
>want to answer political surveys than liberals.
I call this the Royko effect in my statistics classes. In 1980, President Carter conceded with the poles still open in the west (which cost his party house seats--when an election is called, many voters from the losing party stay home. This also happened in the Florida panhandle with Bush/Gore with the incorrect announcement that polls were closed and premature calling of the election for Gore). Carter's concession was based on projections from exit polls.
In the aftermath, networks pledged not to call states untill the polls closed. Mike Royko went father in his syndicated column, telling voters that they had a moral obligation to lie to exit polls. Some polls, missing the issue, then added a, "Do you read Mike Royko?" question, apparently expecting a tru8thful response there from someone alreeady lying to them . . .
hawk
> Exactly what kind of tamper prevention mechanisms do you want them to put in there?
Enough of a seal to determine that it has been opened, with all parts such as hard drives, memory, and flash memory on the other side of the seal?
It's not clear from the article what kinds of tests were done--were they from the outside and on the voter accessible parts, or did they open the case.
I would *hope* that if the case were opened, the machine would no longer be considered intact and usable. If Diebold's concerns are for a machine that was only tested from the outside, the machine is inadequate. If it flash memory cards outside of a seal, the machine is inadequate to start . . .
But then, I come from the only state that required a paper trail on the machines, so . . .
hawk
>The casino can't lose more money than was loaded into the machine
>(well, plus the amount fed into it during the day).
Err, yes they can. Machines don't and *can't* hold enough to pay the largest jackpots. Generally the limit is a few hundred or thousand coins, with anything higher paid by the attendants (or by check).
About fifteen years ago, gaming found some crooked machines that had made it through their testing. It was possible to knock the game to a cheat mode after powerup by hitting a certain sequence of keys. It didn't make a major change, but once in this mode, it would not deal the last card of a royal flush when it came up (most of the time; they were careful there, too). The machine came up in the honest state aty powerup.
I forget exactly how they were caught . . .
hawk
I've called 911 more times than I'd like to admit, but I will anwayy
1988 or so, San Diego: "A car just flipped, spun 720 degrees, bouncing off the concrete barrier 3 times."
"Was anyone hurt?"
1990, Las Vegas: The dumpster behind my office is on fire!
"Where are you?"
"It doesn't show on your systems?"
"No,not here."
2002 or so, Pennsylvania: child drank "yucky water." handled reasonably.
Last year, Pennsylvania: barely & pre-teens camping in the yard, some moron terrorizing them. Well handled.
Last week: one of my students, in a contest to see who could jump the fartherest from the swing . . .
And there are a couyple more that don't come right to mind.
I've never been put on hold, though . . .
hawk
oops!
Let's try again.
Here's a screen shot for nethack in 1984,
+---------+
|...O.....|
|.....@d..+
|.........|
+-----+---+
Now, here's one from the current version:
+---------+
|...O.....|
|.....@d..+
|.........|
+-----+---+
This clearly shows the superiority of technology used in text games. But then, nethack is the only game that *matters*.
hawk
someone actually uses those graphic commands? :)
hawk
"notegivingis the process of passing material from the professor's page to that of the students without passing through either brain."
gosh, some of us just *asked* our law professors for permission . . .
exactly one did not immediately say yes, and that one merely wanted my promise to share them with others . . .
hawk
*giggle*
In a graduate math class, the professor stopped me afterwars, with thge comment, "Noone can write TeX that fast."
I wasn't using TeX; it was Word 5.1 with some custom macros. (No, you couldn't possibly go that fast in today's word with the wretched "Equation Editor." Yes, it can be done in LyX, though you might need a couple of keyboard macros (in particular, "copy line above and paste." It might be possible with the current version of OpenOffice: I know that you can type equations tex-like into another window; I don't know if you can get there without mousing around.[which involves looking at the keyboard; old {pre 6.0} Word and LyX can be operated entirely from the keyboard when writing and modifying equations.])
hawk, who switched from Mac to unix over LyX
The first time a professor handed out his lecture notes I was amazed, moreso by the fact that it was an obvious but overlooked solution and I'd never seen it before than by his willingness to share.
I always did the same in my ownb classes. Time spent madly scribbling what I write is a simple waste of time, and stops students from paying attention. They always had a reduced version of my slides (whose main point was really to make sure that I didn't skip a planned topic).
hawk