Maybe you should recheck your work conditions assumptions. China is known for bad work conditions, some of us have seen it in place. Brazil may have some spots of really bad work conditions, albeit illegal, but generally it seems that work conditions here are better or at least similar to US. Public heath care exists, although somewhat inefficient. Unpaid overtime is illegal. Maximum working hours allowed is 44h/week, typical is 40. 30 days of vacation and 13 salaries annually. Minimum (very minimum) work insurance and retirement plan is guaranteed by the State. Living standards are quite reasonable. You won't be able to buy as much (electronic/electrical) crap as in the US or EU, where the prices are similar internationally, but the basics are compatible with the earnings. About India I don't know, but a quick web research revealed it somewhat worse than Brazil, but regulated and with minimal conditions, that aren't met only in small companies (much like Brazil).
First of all, it still has nothing to do with voltage. Your remark just confirms my point. Although we could argue the real risk of fire, it has nothing to do with the voltage of the device. Voltage is potential, not energy nor power. The argument is totally invalid.
Ok, the panel voltage is about 17V. If anything with 17V cannot be the cause of fires, certainly a li-ion battery cannot, since it's cell is only 3.7V.
Or, in an obligatory car analogy, you say a very heavy truck falling 17m cannot be more destructive than a bicycle falling 100m?
Do you realize that: -> it doesn't need to be grown on land (algae is very productive) -> it doesn't need to be on land usable for food -> It doesn't need to be made with subsidized food crops (corn alcohol is really dumb) -> The use of alcohol as fuel in Brazil is market controlled and not subsidized (although initially it was)
I would count it as misleading if it was being compared with the full cycle of oil. Since it's compared with the exhaust emission of oil, the exhaust emission of biofuel should be used. Now, if you count the emission from harvesting, transporting, refining and so on from oil, the whole emission from producing and refining biofuel should be added. I don't have data to back, but I guess it's much lower either way.
Hum, I think I see your point. Maybe something that encapsulates and virtualizes the machine in a way that would make it independent on the processor and OS? Hum I think you should patent the idea. Maybe you could call it "Interpreted framework for platform independent development". I'm so shure it doesn't exist.
Linux has the phone drivers standard. In windows and newer phones, like the razr, just set the phone to enumerate as mass storage device. It will enumerate as a disk and charge without problems. The factory default setting is to enumerate as a sync device, to sync your phone book with the pc. This isn't a standard driver.
Well, try looking at the population density. If nothing else poses as a problem, like very high taxes and so on, few customers per mile will improve price.
from wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density
pop den Japan: 339
pop den France: 110
pop den US: 31
pop den Brazil: 22
If you are so eager to say no regulation and let the market define for everything else, why aren't you when it affect you position as well? Market regulation only useful when it's for someone else?
That's really what it is (hobby), but I still choose CPUS easily overclockable. Just to run on specs and get a better stability for those of us that have ambient temperature over 30ÂC and high humidity.
Usually, easily overclockable means better design margins.
By the way, more than one report is a must, or it could be only luck. These things are designed for the worst production scenario, and not all pieces produced fall in these conditions.
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Hagh efficiency motors are PMSM and are used in compressors, ventilators and many other apps. These motors cannot be plugged in the AC directly, they need an inverter. The inverter is an alectronic device powered by DC.
One less step of conversion even with (some) motors.
> First, mobile phone cameras, or any other, were forbidden in the ballot
And that is so much easier to forbid than carbon paper? Well, a bit but still.
Yes, given knowledge needed to operate and volume. The main problem for it are cities where coercion is a problem (Rio de Janeiro, for example). For that electronic voting is of little help, although it still helps.
> The voter types a fucking NUMBER, not the candidate's name
I exactly addressed that point: The reason it got easier is because they changed from a name to a number! Do you have paper that does not accept numbers?
It's not the paper that doesn't accept numbers, it's the process in which someone has to "draw" something he doesn't understand, and much harder, someone has to read that drawing after.
> A picture appears so even people who can't read can check if they are voting right
Pictures can be put on paper too. Admittedly given the number of parties you'd probably end up with a mess similar to Afghanistan, so you may have a very special situation, but my main point is that your computer voting _also_ works better because someone tried to make it easy while they seem to have made their best to make paper voting hard before.
That would be really hard for legislative elections here. Lots of places with more than 100 candidates. Each party does not have a closed list here, the list is defined also by the elections.
Paper voting here was really easy, you had a list to cross the executive candidate and a field to tell you legislative candidate. That field could have the number, name or nickname of the candidate.
Except the machines are neither open source nor cheap. But they have so far proven to be working.
By the way, they were developed by Procomp and an university research lab, procomp owned the design. Later on Procomp was bought by Diebold.
There is paper trail, but it is by sampling. Now, I can't remember the percentage (something like 1% or 0.1%), but some of the voting machines have indeed a printer and a bag of votes. These paper votes are then counted and verified against the electronic ones.
Wrong, much harder than paper based.
Tampering the elections on a paper based election was really the rule here in small cities. That's pretty easy. One VERY simple method used carbon paper so that the vote for each one would be copied and could be delivered to the candidate as "proof of voting" to retrieve some bucks from him.
Another problem recurrent here in the times of paper: illiterate people vote here. When they had to write down the name of the candidate, it was a nightmare to decipher the vote. It is pretty easy for them to copy some numbers, and they can verify the vote with the pic.
Have you ever built a system with a non-x86 processor?
Many applications you use in the PC are built in a not portable way, and they are really hard to cross-compile. Many won't compile at all. Of course, not to mention the proprietary softwares that only deliver a x86 binary blob.
Ah, before you ask, yes, I work with linux on ARM machines. They are wonderful for a controlled environment, but would be a nightmare in an open environment where the user could install just about anything.
...Not to mention the fact that we're bound to get lost at least once as we move from Luna and Mars to outer-system and extrasolar planets, and you'd much rather have astronauts who know how to ask for directions...:-P
Given the probability of finding someone to ask for directions, I think we would be better of with someone that can read maps.:P
Actually I think the movie is quite correct. It is an exercise in propaganda, and states it clearly in the movie. Not in the fine print in the credits where nobody reads it, but in the final commentary.
The film has a clear and concise set o rules and proves the point by exaggeration and also proves the point that the quantity offered is absurd. It also presents in the movie a counter-example, someone that eats big macs almost daily without any problems associated to it.
Really, I live in Brazil and every single election here is electronic now.
I has became much safer, although there are still some problems (the biggest one being the design of the voting machines not being open). Many problems like vote interpretation (yes, that can be problematic once you can write anything on the ballot), illiterate voting (allowed and obligatory here) becomes much easier, person-vote matching.
One doesn't know beforehand which voting machine goes where and some of them have paper trail.
Electronic voting is also prone to failure, but but it is harder and more expensive to compromise. The methods change.
You don't even need two sets of contacts, as it can be done electronically.
Anyway, the biggest objective on usb development was to make is very cheap on the device side, so anything that adds cost would be dumped very fast. Remember it had some very cheap competitors for the same functionality that the initial proposal had: RS-232, PS/2... And the initial proposal was really for simplistic things like keyboard, mice and joysticks plus some other things.
When it came to more complex applications, it was competing with IEEE1394 (firewire), which is a much better protocol for this. But then, the USB spec was free, the IEEE1394 costs a bunch of money. USB is dead simple at the device end, in IEEE1394 everyone can be a host and it's somewhat complicated. And the list goes on.
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Maybe you should recheck your work conditions assumptions.
China is known for bad work conditions, some of us have seen it in place.
Brazil may have some spots of really bad work conditions, albeit illegal, but generally it seems that work conditions here are better or at least similar to US. Public heath care exists, although somewhat inefficient. Unpaid overtime is illegal. Maximum working hours allowed is 44h/week, typical is 40. 30 days of vacation and 13 salaries annually. Minimum (very minimum) work insurance and retirement plan is guaranteed by the State. Living standards are quite reasonable. You won't be able to buy as much (electronic/electrical) crap as in the US or EU, where the prices are similar internationally, but the basics are compatible with the earnings.
About India I don't know, but a quick web research revealed it somewhat worse than Brazil, but regulated and with minimal conditions, that aren't met only in small companies (much like Brazil).
First of all, it still has nothing to do with voltage. Your remark just confirms my point. Although we could argue the real risk of fire, it has nothing to do with the voltage of the device.
Voltage is potential, not energy nor power. The argument is totally invalid.
Ok, the panel voltage is about 17V. If anything with 17V cannot be the cause of fires, certainly a li-ion battery cannot, since it's cell is only 3.7V.
Or, in an obligatory car analogy, you say a very heavy truck falling 17m cannot be more destructive than a bicycle falling 100m?
Voltage is potential and not energy/power.
Do you realize that:
-> it doesn't need to be grown on land (algae is very productive)
-> it doesn't need to be on land usable for food
-> It doesn't need to be made with subsidized food crops (corn alcohol is really dumb)
-> The use of alcohol as fuel in Brazil is market controlled and not subsidized (although initially it was)
right?
I would count it as misleading if it was being compared with the full cycle of oil. Since it's compared with the exhaust emission of oil, the exhaust emission of biofuel should be used. Now, if you count the emission from harvesting, transporting, refining and so on from oil, the whole emission from producing and refining biofuel should be added. I don't have data to back, but I guess it's much lower either way.
And the new iPhone works with any service provider, right?
Sure, if you happen to live in Brazil, where unlocked phones is legal obligation.*
*Disclaimer: phones may be locked up to one year if discount on the label price is given, although it must be sold at label price unlocked.
Hum, I think I see your point.
Maybe something that encapsulates and virtualizes the machine in a way that would make it independent on the processor and OS?
Hum I think you should patent the idea. Maybe you could call it "Interpreted framework for platform independent development". I'm so shure it doesn't exist.
Linux has the phone drivers standard.
In windows and newer phones, like the razr, just set the phone to enumerate as mass storage device. It will enumerate as a disk and charge without problems. The factory default setting is to enumerate as a sync device, to sync your phone book with the pc. This isn't a standard driver.
it's not actually true that an "order of magnitude" is 10%
Well, as a matter of fact, it is. It is one order of magnitude lower, from 1x10^0 to 1x10^-1.
Well, try looking at the population density. If nothing else poses as a problem, like very high taxes and so on, few customers per mile will improve price.
from wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density
pop den Japan: 339
pop den France: 110
pop den US: 31
pop den Brazil: 22
If you are so eager to say no regulation and let the market define for everything else, why aren't you when it affect you position as well? Market regulation only useful when it's for someone else?
First post?
That's really what it is (hobby), but I still choose CPUS easily overclockable. Just to run on specs and get a better stability for those of us that have ambient temperature over 30ÂC and high humidity.
Usually, easily overclockable means better design margins.
By the way, more than one report is a must, or it could be only luck. These things are designed for the worst production scenario, and not all pieces produced fall in these conditions.
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Just to add...
Hagh efficiency motors are PMSM and are used in compressors, ventilators and many other apps. These motors cannot be plugged in the AC directly, they need an inverter. The inverter is an alectronic device powered by DC.
One less step of conversion even with (some) motors.
Just two details: ARM7TDMI is a mmu-less processor, so i can't run linux (although it can run uclinux). ARM9 isn't ARMv5 ARM926E is an ARMV5TEJ. ARM920T is an ARMV4. http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM920T.html and http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM926EJ-S.html
> First, mobile phone cameras, or any other, were forbidden in the ballot
And that is so much easier to forbid than carbon paper? Well, a bit but still.
Yes, given knowledge needed to operate and volume. The main problem for it are cities where coercion is a problem (Rio de Janeiro, for example). For that electronic voting is of little help, although it still helps.
> The voter types a fucking NUMBER, not the candidate's name
I exactly addressed that point: The reason it got easier is because they changed from a name to a number! Do you have paper that does not accept numbers?
It's not the paper that doesn't accept numbers, it's the process in which someone has to "draw" something he doesn't understand, and much harder, someone has to read that drawing after.
> A picture appears so even people who can't read can check if they are voting right
Pictures can be put on paper too. Admittedly given the number of parties you'd probably end up with a mess similar to Afghanistan, so you may have a very special situation, but my main point is that your computer voting _also_ works better because someone tried to make it easy while they seem to have made their best to make paper voting hard before.
That would be really hard for legislative elections here. Lots of places with more than 100 candidates. Each party does not have a closed list here, the list is defined also by the elections.
Paper voting here was really easy, you had a list to cross the executive candidate and a field to tell you legislative candidate. That field could have the number, name or nickname of the candidate.
You mean, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin ?
If Orkut and Google Docs are .Net 3.5, how can I run them from my linux box?
Except the machines are neither open source nor cheap. But they have so far proven to be working.
By the way, they were developed by Procomp and an university research lab, procomp owned the design. Later on Procomp was bought by Diebold.
There is paper trail, but it is by sampling. Now, I can't remember the percentage (something like 1% or 0.1%), but some of the voting machines have indeed a printer and a bag of votes. These paper votes are then counted and verified against the electronic ones.
Wrong, much harder than paper based.
Tampering the elections on a paper based election was really the rule here in small cities. That's pretty easy. One VERY simple method used carbon paper so that the vote for each one would be copied and could be delivered to the candidate as "proof of voting" to retrieve some bucks from him.
Another problem recurrent here in the times of paper: illiterate people vote here. When they had to write down the name of the candidate, it was a nightmare to decipher the vote. It is pretty easy for them to copy some numbers, and they can verify the vote with the pic.
Have you ever built a system with a non-x86 processor?
Many applications you use in the PC are built in a not portable way, and they are really hard to cross-compile. Many won't compile at all. Of course, not to mention the proprietary softwares that only deliver a x86 binary blob.
Ah, before you ask, yes, I work with linux on ARM machines. They are wonderful for a controlled environment, but would be a nightmare in an open environment where the user could install just about anything.
Given the probability of finding someone to ask for directions, I think we would be better of with someone that can read maps. :P
Actually I think the movie is quite correct. It is an exercise in propaganda, and states it clearly in the movie. Not in the fine print in the credits where nobody reads it, but in the final commentary. The film has a clear and concise set o rules and proves the point by exaggeration and also proves the point that the quantity offered is absurd. It also presents in the movie a counter-example, someone that eats big macs almost daily without any problems associated to it.
Really, I live in Brazil and every single election here is electronic now.
I has became much safer, although there are still some problems (the biggest one being the design of the voting machines not being open). Many problems like vote interpretation (yes, that can be problematic once you can write anything on the ballot), illiterate voting (allowed and obligatory here) becomes much easier, person-vote matching.
One doesn't know beforehand which voting machine goes where and some of them have paper trail.
Electronic voting is also prone to failure, but but it is harder and more expensive to compromise. The methods change.
You don't even need two sets of contacts, as it can be done electronically. Anyway, the biggest objective on usb development was to make is very cheap on the device side, so anything that adds cost would be dumped very fast. Remember it had some very cheap competitors for the same functionality that the initial proposal had: RS-232, PS/2... And the initial proposal was really for simplistic things like keyboard, mice and joysticks plus some other things. When it came to more complex applications, it was competing with IEEE1394 (firewire), which is a much better protocol for this. But then, the USB spec was free, the IEEE1394 costs a bunch of money. USB is dead simple at the device end, in IEEE1394 everyone can be a host and it's somewhat complicated. And the list goes on.