I would assume that the long lines are more the exception than the rule. And I guess it's because people have heard stories about long lines, so they turn up early to make sure they get to vote. Obviously there is a big line when everyone comes at the same time, instead of scattered all through the day, like we do in countries where we trust the voting system to actually work the whole day and without major mishaps.
Oh the other hand again, having an offical address in a database can (not saying it always does) also help prevent fraud/identity-crime, and make moving easier. For instance phone companies will only send new SIM-cards to my registered address. Tax-returns and study loan can only be paid out to my registered accounts. And when you move, quite a few "important" databases (banks/etc) is automatically updated. As stated elsewhere, they know a lot about you anyway, so might just as well admit it, and make it easier for everyone...
Which is why it's always good to have MS Word Viewer installed. Free download, and it renders files the same way as Word does. (I mostly use it to print (to PDF) large documents where those little rendering errors in OOo add up over several pages...)
For starters, with 25 stops, there is 300 distances, so there has to be some numbers missing. To find which ones, I filled all the numbers into a spreadsheet, calculated the length/difference between all numbers, and then put that all together and sorted them. The lowest missing number is 81.
If you tried starting at the other end, you would have gotten results much quicker. Everything from 469 to 479 is missing. (Quite obvious actually, as the second and second-last numbers are 12/13 away from the ends.)
All analog capture cards I've ever tried this with have had a slight delay in showing stuff on-screen. (I've had 4 in the last 10-12 years.) Not much, just enough to notice it's there, especially when looking for it. I've never tried to play fast-paced game on it so I can't say if it's enough to affect gameplay, mainly because the picture quality suffered too much (due to de-interlace/resize/etc) for my taste.
From what I've heard the reason is that consumer TV's mostly are designed in either USA or Japan, both NTSC/60hz regions. Those NTSC designs are then modified to handle PAL/50hz signals, without discarding compability.
The nice thing about it was that PAL TVs could handle "everything". The downside was that the "modified NTSC" solution didn't display PAL signals as well as a native PAL design would have been capable of.
No idea is it is actually the real reason, but it made sense at the time... (As in the 10-20 years before flat panels took over)
As you've probably seens mentioned lots of times here on slashdot already, there is a big difference between a physical product and something that can be duplicated at nearly no cost.
It worked for Radiohead to let people set their price, because 1) enough people paid to give them a nice profit, and 2) their loss for each freeloader was the cost of bandwidth only.
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I would assume that the long lines are more the exception than the rule. And I guess it's because people have heard stories about long lines, so they turn up early to make sure they get to vote. Obviously there is a big line when everyone comes at the same time, instead of scattered all through the day, like we do in countries where we trust the voting system to actually work the whole day and without major mishaps.
Oh the other hand again, having an offical address in a database can (not saying it always does) also help prevent fraud/identity-crime, and make moving easier. For instance phone companies will only send new SIM-cards to my registered address. Tax-returns and study loan can only be paid out to my registered accounts. And when you move, quite a few "important" databases (banks/etc) is automatically updated. As stated elsewhere, they know a lot about you anyway, so might just as well admit it, and make it easier for everyone...
Might I ask *which* EU-country you were living in, and when? EU is a big place, with significant differences when it comes to things like this...
Which is why it's always good to have MS Word Viewer installed. Free download, and it renders files the same way as Word does. (I mostly use it to print (to PDF) large documents where those little rendering errors in OOo add up over several pages...)
For starters, with 25 stops, there is 300 distances, so there has to be some numbers missing. To find which ones, I filled all the numbers into a spreadsheet, calculated the length/difference between all numbers, and then put that all together and sorted them. The lowest missing number is 81.
If you tried starting at the other end, you would have gotten results much quicker. Everything from 469 to 479 is missing. (Quite obvious actually, as the second and second-last numbers are 12/13 away from the ends.)
All analog capture cards I've ever tried this with have had a slight delay in showing stuff on-screen. (I've had 4 in the last 10-12 years.) Not much, just enough to notice it's there, especially when looking for it. I've never tried to play fast-paced game on it so I can't say if it's enough to affect gameplay, mainly because the picture quality suffered too much (due to de-interlace/resize/etc) for my taste.
But it still forms one continuous surface of water with Lake Huron, which does cross a border.
From what I've heard the reason is that consumer TV's mostly are designed in either USA or Japan, both NTSC/60hz regions. Those NTSC designs are then modified to handle PAL/50hz signals, without discarding compability.
The nice thing about it was that PAL TVs could handle "everything". The downside was that the "modified NTSC" solution didn't display PAL signals as well as a native PAL design would have been capable of.
No idea is it is actually the real reason, but it made sense at the time... (As in the 10-20 years before flat panels took over)
As you've probably seens mentioned lots of times here on slashdot already, there is a big difference between a physical product and something that can be duplicated at nearly no cost.
It worked for Radiohead to let people set their price, because 1) enough people paid to give them a nice profit, and 2) their loss for each freeloader was the cost of bandwidth only.
...And here I thought it was UserIDs that was used for that purpose...