It may have gone "better" but from the MSN article: the Indian machines are far from perfect. They don't provide a "paper trail," which some computer-voting experts consider essential.
A Verified Voter Audit Trail is essential in any democratic system.
Actually, I just flew back from Bilbao (capital of the Basque Country) and there was no extra security in evidence. Just the usual x-ray/metal detector on entering the air side.
It is probably safe if you are careful but it is definitely not good for your ears.
Every time you "clean" your ear canals you irritate the lining which stimulates it to create more wax. Which makes you want to clean the wax out, which stimulates the lining etc.
There is a excellent series on the Discovery channel here in Europe at the moment called Kitchen Chemistry
Heston Blumenthal a renowned English Chef explains the science of taste and how cooking affects what we perceve as taste.
Danny O'Brien (of NTK fame) writes a good column in the (English) Sunday Times. This week it was about US/British attidudes to and laptops mobile phones
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An American friend who was staying in London noticed the difference. "I got funny looks when I was using my laptop on the Tube," he told me. I know those funny looks -- they stopped me using my laptop or handheld on public transport in the UK.
I could deduce some revealing sociological basis for this -- the brashness of the American male, the technophobia of the British bourgeoisie. But it would be balderdash. After all, the British show strong hardware-bonding instincts with the mobile phone.
The reason is simpler: cash. The average $1,500 American laptop, mapped to take account of the difference in average annual income in the UK, costs the equivalent of £600. British laptops cost closer to £1,500.
In the UK, a laptop is a luxury, perhaps grudgingly paid for by a company, rarely purchased by the individual. They are not possessions, they are fragile prizes, too costly to be flashed around in public, too precious to be damaged with cheap paint jobs.
Here in America, laptops are a utility, a personal effect, as opposed to the mobile phone. These are still expensive to rent and run, are bought mainly by businesses, and are hardly something to sully with stickers. The idea of customising a phone with different ring tones and coloured panels has been slow to catch on. Even carrying it around all the time is thought of as needlessly ostentatious by many Americans.
It is a subtle swaparound, but one that might have a bearing on how future technologies spread. Perhaps there will be a split between the specialist, sprightly, throwaway mobile-phone-loving nations, and the general-purpose, hefty but powerful, laptop-wielding old school of the States.
I think he is right and I think this law is a bad idea. Should you legislate for social decorum and where should you draw the line?
As has been mentioned this is not such a problem in other countries that have had a proliferation of mobile phones longer than the US and we are growing out of it. I have a feeling that this would end up like those (aprocryphal) laws often quoted on joke sites - "It is illegal to drive a pig to market while not wearing shoes"
A great site for European Users is Komplett (or.de,.ie,.co.uk,.no,.se).
They have an excellent website: good selection, well laid out, good navingation tools (View by name, View By Price, include tax etc.) and good ordering system. They have good prices and very reasonable (my last order €8 on ~1½ kg) shipping charges which importantly is with DHL Express (2 days), so you can track your shipment on the DHL website (which is brilliant - I've been stuck in limbo several times not knowing when or if a shipment will arrive when buying from other retailers like dabs.com). And no I don't work for Komplett, just a happy customer.
As many others have said it will probably not be cheaper when you build your first machine but you will get higher quality parts. What this means is that when it comes time to upgrade (in 9-12 months) you only need to upgrade part of your system (say, only motherboard, processor, memory and graphics card). Also having bought quality parts any you upgrade can still continue to have a useful life as a server or SO's machine.
Also a good idea is to lurk for a while in some of the product newsgroups / online forums.
One thing that you should not forget is that building your own PC is a lot of fun! It's interesting, satisfying and educational.
So in the long run I think that it is both cheaper and more rewarding.
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It may have gone "better" but from the MSN article:
the Indian machines are far from perfect. They don't provide a "paper trail," which some computer-voting experts consider essential.
A Verified Voter Audit Trail is essential in any democratic system.
This is one of the reasons the Independent Commission on Electronic Voting and Counting rejected the use of e-Voting at the recent European elections in Ireland despite the Government having spent in excess of €50m.
There were many public objections to the system.
Actually, I just flew back from Bilbao (capital of the Basque Country) and there was no extra security in evidence. Just the usual x-ray/metal detector on entering the air side.
This was a coulple of days after ETA had detonated 2 small bombs in the neighbouring provinces.
It is probably safe if you are careful but it is definitely not good for your ears.
Every time you "clean" your ear canals you irritate the lining which stimulates it to create more wax. Which makes you want to clean the wax out, which stimulates the lining etc.
"You should never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ears."
I was flying out of Dublin last Sunday at 4:20pm. The incoming flight (SAS) was delayed 30 mins. I wonder if that was the reason why...
There was no announcement as to the reason for the delay.
There is a excellent series on the Discovery channel here in Europe at the moment called Kitchen Chemistry
Heston Blumenthal a renowned English Chef explains the science of taste and how cooking affects what we perceve as taste.
Instructions:
Pull pin
Throw 1,000m
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The only difference between unclear war and nuclear war is how you use the UN
Other Usefull ones are:
Win + Pause/Break = System Properties
Ctrl + Shift + Esc = Task Manager
In this context it seems to me that AOL is'ent doing anything earth shattering - just playing to the strengths of its sister companies.
As has been mentioned this is not such a problem in other countries that have had a proliferation of mobile phones longer than the US and we are growing out of it. I have a feeling that this would end up like those (aprocryphal) laws often quoted on joke sites - "It is illegal to drive a pig to market while not wearing shoes"
They have an excellent website: good selection, well laid out, good navingation tools (View by name, View By Price, include tax etc.) and good ordering system. They have good prices and very reasonable (my last order €8 on ~1½ kg) shipping charges which importantly is with DHL Express (2 days), so you can track your shipment on the DHL website (which is brilliant - I've been stuck in limbo several times not knowing when or if a shipment will arrive when buying from other retailers like dabs.com). And no I don't work for Komplett, just a happy customer.
As many others have said it will probably not be cheaper when you build your first machine but you will get higher quality parts. What this means is that when it comes time to upgrade (in 9-12 months) you only need to upgrade part of your system (say, only motherboard, processor, memory and graphics card). Also having bought quality parts any you upgrade can still continue to have a useful life as a server or SO's machine.
If you are going to build your own machine you do need to do your homework. Overview sites like http://www.arstechnica.com/, http://www.sharkyextreme.com are useful but don't always get it right. I find component/area focused wesites invaluable. Here are some good examples: http://www.motherboards.org/ , http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/ , http://storagereview.com/
Also a good idea is to lurk for a while in some of the product newsgroups / online forums.
One thing that you should not forget is that building your own PC is a lot of fun! It's interesting, satisfying and educational. So in the long run I think that it is both cheaper and more rewarding.