In Canada, there are cardboard templates that fit over a ballot, with cut-outs over each hole where you can put an X. I'm not sure if they have Braille lettering on the template to indicate which hole is for which candidate.
The idea is that a blind person can put the template over their ballot, get someone to tell them what order the candidates are listed in, then take their ballot and mark in privacy. "My candidate is the fourth hole from the top, so I will count the holes down and mark my X there."
Nothing to it, and a little piece of cheap cardboard costs less than a voting machine.
The whole point of entertainment is TO FUCKING ENTERTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to break it to you, but the whole point of entertainment companies is to make money, generally through the sale of entertainment products of one kind or another. If they could make more money selling oranges than they are making selling this week's hot sitcom, they would be selling oranges instead.
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It consumes ZERO power to hold the current image on an E-Ink screen.
What about holding the book itself in ram (or whatever), though?
I read ebooks on my Palm. That's all that I use it for, actually. I went through a period a while ago where I read a bunch of books-on-paper for several months and didn't turn the Palm on. When I did, the battery was flat and the whole thing was wiped out. I recharged it, reset it and restored it from the image on my computer. But the point is, my books were all gone on that device.
Will books disappear from this device like that as well?
Who needs a sequential printout? Just print each vote on a little tag (we could even call it a "ballot") and dump it into a box, maybe even a "ballot box".
You forgot to mention that the ballot boxes are opened and shown to be empty to everyone present at the start of the polling day before the boxes are sealed and voting begins.
I am in Canada. Saskatchewan, in fact. I pay 8.24 cents/kwh to Sask Power for my electricity. This is for "Commercial General Service". I'm not sure what residential power rates are; they may be a big cheaper.
I do the same with Weasel Reader rather than Plucker. Is there any advantage to using Plucker over Weasel Reader? I just looked at the Plucker web page and didn't see anything that jumped out at me....
It will raise some flags if you pass assignments with flying colours but consistantly fail tests.
I can see your point, but I disagree with your conclusion or assumption.
I can speak only for myself, but I am one person who doesn't do well under pressure. Give me something do to and let me go home where I can sit on my couch, have a cup of tea, and meditate over the problem for a while (for lack of a better description) and I will come back tomorrow with an answer. And it will be a good one.
Give me a piece of paper with a question written on it and tell me to sit at a desk with the clock ticking behind me and you won't get much out of me that's worthy of any attention at all.
Some people may call that approach intellectual laziness. I don't think that's an accurate description. I think it's simply an inability to handle stress.
But who said thinking had to be a stressful occupation? I certainly don't.
There is one other option that you didn't mention there. Before I got DESQview and used that to run my two-line BBS, I ran it using DoubleDOS on an XT, believe it or not.
Actually, Linus is a guy who had someone else name the OS after him when he uploaded the original version to a FTP server without any particular name at all. The guy who ran the server decided to call it Linux. Linus didn't call it anything at all, other than a new project.
Then make sure to stop using your cable box, your cell phone, your game console connected to an online service, and your PC running Windows.
Of everything on your list, the only thing that I actually have is a cell phone. My game console is a Mame arcade machine. All four of my PC's run Linux. And I don't watch TV at all, and haven't for years.
I am quite content with what I have.
Somehow, I don't think I'm unique, especially among the Slashdot crowd...
I can almost top that. Or at least equal it. One day last week one of my customers (who has a Linux network that I set up for them) mentioned that adding numbers with their OpenOffice spreadsheet was a real nuisance. They track their sales with a big spreadsheet. So I said, "Show me what you're doing and maybe I can simplify it." He loaded up his spreadsheet and proceeded to add up the columns with a calculator. Until that moment, he never knew that a spreadsheet could do math!
That's from FreeDOS 0.82 that I have installed on my computer at this momment; I can't imagine why they would remove it from version 1.0 since it's working fine.
I have no depth perception in the usual sense of the word. In fact, I don't know what depth perception in the way that you mean it would even look like, as I have never had it. A television screen or a movie screen look perfectly "normal" to me, though other people tell me that it looks flat.
That is the way that I see, and always have. I do wear glasses, though.
A lack of depth perception has never bothered me. I can tell when something is close or far away, if that is all there is to it.
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In Canada, there are cardboard templates that fit over a ballot, with cut-outs over each hole where you can put an X. I'm not sure if they have Braille lettering on the template to indicate which hole is for which candidate.
The idea is that a blind person can put the template over their ballot, get someone to tell them what order the candidates are listed in, then take their ballot and mark in privacy. "My candidate is the fourth hole from the top, so I will count the holes down and mark my X there."
Nothing to it, and a little piece of cheap cardboard costs less than a voting machine.
So, the way to achieve this is by changing contents in the pagefile by writing disk sectors directly.
This problem on Vista isn't newly discovered. It was discussed here earlier this month, in fact.
I always feel a bit sad when I see Peter Norton's name being dragged through the mud.
He's the one who chose to sell his name, so I find it difficult to cry too hard for him.
The whole point of entertainment is TO FUCKING ENTERTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to break it to you, but the whole point of entertainment companies is to make money, generally through the sale of entertainment products of one kind or another. If they could make more money selling oranges than they are making selling this week's hot sitcom, they would be selling oranges instead.
It consumes ZERO power to hold the current image on an E-Ink screen.
What about holding the book itself in ram (or whatever), though?
I read ebooks on my Palm. That's all that I use it for, actually. I went through a period a while ago where I read a bunch of books-on-paper for several months and didn't turn the Palm on. When I did, the battery was flat and the whole thing was wiped out. I recharged it, reset it and restored it from the image on my computer. But the point is, my books were all gone on that device.
Will books disappear from this device like that as well?
Who needs a sequential printout? Just print each vote on a little tag (we could even call it a "ballot") and dump it into a box, maybe even a "ballot box".
You forgot to mention that the ballot boxes are opened and shown to be empty to everyone present at the start of the polling day before the boxes are sealed and voting begins.
And this happened in Toronto, Ontario.
Did you report this operation to the RCMP?
They have Operation Phonebuster (http://www.phonebusters.com) set up to deal with just exactly this sort of thing.
I would much rather have the other guy chasing me for money than have me chasing him.
If I want to dispute a bill for any reason, I am in a better position when they don't already have my money in their pocket.
I am in Canada. Saskatchewan, in fact. I pay 8.24 cents/kwh to Sask Power for my electricity. This is for "Commercial General Service". I'm not sure what residential power rates are; they may be a big cheaper.
I do the same with Weasel Reader rather than Plucker. Is there any advantage to using Plucker over Weasel Reader? I just looked at the Plucker web page and didn't see anything that jumped out at me....
"This is UNIX. I know this."
The file viewer in Jurassic Park really does exist.
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
It will raise some flags if you pass assignments with flying colours but consistantly fail tests.
I can see your point, but I disagree with your conclusion or assumption.
I can speak only for myself, but I am one person who doesn't do well under pressure. Give me something do to and let me go home where I can sit on my couch, have a cup of tea, and meditate over the problem for a while (for lack of a better description) and I will come back tomorrow with an answer. And it will be a good one.
Give me a piece of paper with a question written on it and tell me to sit at a desk with the clock ticking behind me and you won't get much out of me that's worthy of any attention at all.
Some people may call that approach intellectual laziness. I don't think that's an accurate description. I think it's simply an inability to handle stress.
But who said thinking had to be a stressful occupation? I certainly don't.
There is one other option that you didn't mention there. Before I got DESQview and used that to run my two-line BBS, I ran it using DoubleDOS on an XT, believe it or not.
DESQview on my 486 was much nicer, obviously.
Actually, Linus is a guy who had someone else name the OS after him when he uploaded the original version to a FTP server without any particular name at all. The guy who ran the server decided to call it Linux. Linus didn't call it anything at all, other than a new project.
Then make sure to stop using your cable box, your cell phone, your game console connected to an online service, and your PC running Windows.
Of everything on your list, the only thing that I actually have is a cell phone. My game console is a Mame arcade machine. All four of my PC's run Linux. And I don't watch TV at all, and haven't for years.
I am quite content with what I have.
Somehow, I don't think I'm unique, especially among the Slashdot crowd...
I'm pretty sure that http://www.customizegoogle.com/ will do what you want.
I can almost top that. Or at least equal it. One day last week one of my customers (who has a Linux network that I set up for them) mentioned that adding numbers with their OpenOffice spreadsheet was a real nuisance. They track their sales with a big spreadsheet. So I said, "Show me what you're doing and maybe I can simplify it." He loaded up his spreadsheet and proceeded to add up the columns with a calculator. Until that moment, he never knew that a spreadsheet could do math!
It does, as a matter of fact.
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That's from FreeDOS 0.82 that I have installed on my computer at this momment; I can't imagine why they would remove it from version 1.0 since it's working fine.
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What else?
Actually, real geeks used filedv13 to create a logical hard drive with 512k clusters to store their FidoNet messages on.
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And yet each new release of Fedora Core has been an improvement over the last.
Depends on wheere in the release cycle you sit. On release, FC5 was less stable than FC4 was at the current update level.
That has pretty much been fixed between then and now, but it remains a fact.
I have no depth perception in the usual sense of the word. In fact, I don't know what depth perception in the way that you mean it would even look like, as I have never had it. A television screen or a movie screen look perfectly "normal" to me, though other people tell me that it looks flat.
That is the way that I see, and always have. I do wear glasses, though.
A lack of depth perception has never bothered me. I can tell when something is close or far away, if that is all there is to it.