Sorry, but I'd rather watch a good film with a good plot and good acting on VHS any day over a whizz-bang technical film with crappy pretty-boy/barbie-girl actors and a script written by a committee...
MSR is actually less restrictive than an average PhD program, you can work on basically anything you want, which is one of the reasons PhDs find it so appealling.
This might also be the reason very little seems to make its way from MSR into actual products. Perhaps some more directed research might improve their standing? More "what problem can we come up with a solution for?" rather than "what would be fun to work on today"? Some blue sky thinking is good - a whole reseatch lab devoted to it and ignoring the practical is not...
If they can fit Windows on a Pocket PC device, some suitable modification of this might work on the OLPC PC. Pocket PCS between 32 to 128 MBytes of RAM and 32+ MBytes of ROM so would fit nicely. Remove the touch screen functionality, add some keyboard and other minimum functionality needed and you should still be well within the memory requirements.
ActiveX - why not let others use your computer resources too MicrosoftBOB - bwahahahahahahaha Clippy - bwahahahahahahaha x 200 MP3 player with WiFi (crippled beyond belief) Brown Mp3 players (my god - who told them brown was the in colour?) PlaysForSure - but not on our player
My idea would be to have a system like till receipts with all votes being tallied on a large roll of paper which is visible through a glass window. You vote on the touch screen - get a printed receipt and your vote is printed on the roll. ou look through the glass window and compare what is on your receipt to the roll - if they don't match you kick up a stink!
Then the roll can be used as an independent check against the computer tallied results. Make the print out in a machine-readable type face and you could also have machines that you load the roll of paper into and can do an independent tally. Or you can have humans count the tally from the rolls.
Seems simple and provides a number of checking methods...
Whereas I can find West Life and Britney Spears CDs in every used record store in existence - so presumably these guys must be the height of excellence for you?
Maybe he couldn't find them because nobody could bear to part with their CDs? if you had to sell some of your collection, wouldn't you sell the trash first?
Euro notes of different sizes and European vending machine handle them OK. make your $100 dollar bill the same size ass your current $1 and make all the rest somewhat smaller and you'll be fine...
For the last three months, I have had even less access to my money than a blind person (who knows his PIN) would have. I've been using my bank card on all purchases, something a blind person is just as capable of doing.
How does a blind person know that the amount they are being told they are paying actually matches what they are paying? The terminals don't have a display a blind person can "read" or a voiced amount, so they could still be ripped of by unscrupulous people.
I agree - and as a person who often buys from US sites to be shipped to Europe, it's even more annoying when you have to go through the whole process of giving names, CC details, etc. only to be told right at the end that they don't ship outside US... (or if they do, but the postage costs will be 5 x the cost of the item you're ordering (and way above what the US Postal service actually charges. Look guys, if you don't want to ship to Europe, just tell me up front! Don't wait until the last minute or charge me a ridiculous amount to discourage me!)
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...the architect's design for the refurbishment is quite nice:
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http://shatterhand007.com/Formula/FORMULAAtlantis
But most of these aren't good films.
Sorry, but I'd rather watch a good film with a good plot and good acting on VHS any day over a whizz-bang technical film with crappy pretty-boy/barbie-girl actors and a script written by a committee...
I'll pass on this one
I love the concept of interfacing with the ship's AI as a person on a screen,
What, like Holly in Red Dwarf, you mean?
And if so, which side is he on? The devil-spawned "Christian" fundamentalists' or the devil-spawned baby-slaying heathens'?
And who cares? Let's just kill them all and let God sort them out (in the game of course)
... an Earthlink representative said that he had received no notice of any email problems. Next question please.
And the customers have also been complaining in their 1000s to complaints_dept@earthlink.com
MSR is actually less restrictive than an average PhD program, you can work on basically anything you want, which is one of the reasons PhDs find it so appealling.
This might also be the reason very little seems to make its way from MSR into actual products. Perhaps some more directed research might improve their standing? More "what problem can we come up with a solution for?" rather than "what would be fun to work on today"? Some blue sky thinking is good - a whole reseatch lab devoted to it and ignoring the practical is not...
...who bought all the PS3s!
If they can fit Windows on a Pocket PC device, some suitable modification of this might work on the OLPC PC. Pocket PCS between 32 to 128 MBytes of RAM and 32+ MBytes of ROM so would fit nicely. Remove the touch screen functionality, add some keyboard and other minimum functionality needed and you should still be well within the memory requirements.
.. the force fields around the secret NASA outpost on the dark side of the moon are deflecting more meteoroids to the observable side of the moon...!
... but they make such a mess of it!
ActiveX - why not let others use your computer resources too
MicrosoftBOB - bwahahahahahahaha
Clippy - bwahahahahahahaha x 200
MP3 player with WiFi (crippled beyond belief)
Brown Mp3 players (my god - who told them brown was the in colour?)
PlaysForSure - but not on our player
Move to Europe... or Cuba ;-)
Unless they caught violating the PINal code and sent to the PINitentiary where they risk getting their own ATM PINetrated.
http://www.splashpower.com/Products
Pity it's not ready yet...!
My idea would be to have a system like till receipts with all votes being tallied on a large roll of paper which is visible through a glass window. You vote on the touch screen - get a printed receipt and your vote is printed on the roll. ou look through the glass window and compare what is on your receipt to the roll - if they don't match you kick up a stink!
Then the roll can be used as an independent check against the computer tallied results. Make the print out in a machine-readable type face and you could also have machines that you load the roll of paper into and can do an independent tally. Or you can have humans count the tally from the rolls.
Seems simple and provides a number of checking methods...
"Peter Frampton Live" - doesn't everybody?
Whereas I can find West Life and Britney Spears CDs in every used record store in existence - so presumably these guys must be the height of excellence for you?
Maybe he couldn't find them because nobody could bear to part with their CDs? if you had to sell some of your collection, wouldn't you sell the trash first?
... more convenient (= quicker and cheaper) for me to go to the local video store and buy or rent the DVD.
So where's the incentive for me for downloading it via bitorrent and letting MPAA profit from using my bandwidth ?
Note to self:
;-)
PoS System = Point of Sale system and not Piece of Shit system...
Been working on the latter far too long
www.noneofmp3.com
I'm not blind but I generally walk to ATMs. Why would he need to drive? I'm sure I must be missing something.
;-)
;-)
you're probably missing the extra 200 pounds the lard-assed American at the drive-in ATM has
(Please feel free to mod as flamebait
Euro notes of different sizes and European vending machine handle them OK. make your $100 dollar bill the same size ass your current $1 and make all the rest somewhat smaller and you'll be fine...
For the last three months, I have had even less access to my money than a blind person (who knows his PIN) would have. I've been using my bank card on all purchases, something a blind person is just as capable of doing.
How does a blind person know that the amount they are being told they are paying actually matches what they are paying? The terminals don't have a display a blind person can "read" or a voiced amount, so they could still be ripped of by unscrupulous people.
I agree - and as a person who often buys from US sites to be shipped to Europe, it's even more annoying when you have to go through the whole process of giving names, CC details, etc. only to be told right at the end that they don't ship outside US... (or if they do, but the postage costs will be 5 x the cost of the item you're ordering (and way above what the US Postal service actually charges. Look guys, if you don't want to ship to Europe, just tell me up front! Don't wait until the last minute or charge me a ridiculous amount to discourage me!)
I for one welcome our new Democratic overlords