In a good percentage businesses its not even profitable unless they are making a 50% to 100% markup on the products they sell. But at the end of the financial they still only make about 5% net profit, because most of that gross profit goes on all the fixed & on gointg costs of running the business.
Yet MS makes a Net profit of 24%, do you understand the difference.
Their gross profit on those CDs they sell is definitly more than 90%, afterall whats the cost of producing & distributing a CD?. Those CDs that MS sell cost no more to make or sell than those blank CDs that are avaliable for less than a $1 each at retail. But ofcourse MS also has other costs they have to cover to, hence a gross profit of over 90% on items they sell, but a net profit of 24%.
"what's to stop someone from being paid $1000 to look the other way?"
Look the other way & do what may I ask? Actually if you knoew any thing about polling methods in Australia that wouldn't acheive anything anyway. One can only be checked off once & go to the polling booth once & put one form in the ballot box, because, your in a room full of polling staff & they are all looking at you. Anyway its all done in a one way queue format, so the bloke behing you & the bloke behimd him, etc, etc, etc, just wouldn't let you go back to the counter to get another voting form from the 'corrupt official', because the traffic is all one way, you'll be going against the flow.
The only way one could get away with what you are suggesting is if you bribed every single poll worker in the polling booths & every single other voter who was in there at the same time
Anyway Can't you read? Do I have to say the word again - scrutineers.
Here in Australia every single election counter has both a scrutineer from both the Labour party A& the conservative party looking over their shoulders.
"And yet you can't get the names of the two major parties right..".
You Americans are so bloody Americancentric, isn't obvious I was just using "labour & conservative" as an example of the ways its done in Australia.
Really having a hand ballot hand counting system in the US, would be no different than if Australia, the UK, Germany, Canada, Spain & France all voted on the same day.
& the simple fact if all those countries could all finish their hand counts on the same night, so could the US.
Its just a matter of hiring enough Temp staff. Look at Dade county, they reckoned it would have taken 14 days to do a hand county. Which meant if they had just trebled their temp staff they could have done it in 5 days, & if they had hired 15 times as many temp staff & turned all the convention centres & indoor stadiums into counting centres, the hand counting would have been done overnight.
That's the way its done virtually everywhere else in the world
Plus you don't have to worry about "threats, dirty tricks and other shenanigans" because everyone of those thousands of counters have both a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over their shoulders.
It may seem labour intensive, but its only for a day or 2 at the most - it is afterall the standard way its done arround the world (Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Denmark, etc, etc).
You ask "How would an X marks the spot system be immune to being altered? Or having extra ballots entered?"
Well its simple really, the whole election is monitored by the independent election commission & they are the only ones who have the ballot papers (they can be numbered & holigramed). When you get your name crossed off you are given a ballot form, then after you fill it out in your booth you put it in the locked ballot box. From them on to the end of the counting procedure that ballot is only touched by the independent voting staff who are at all times scrutineered by scrutinneers from both the labour & conservative parties.
This is the standard method its done virtually everywhere, except the US & Brazil & one or 2 other places.
"In the 60's it was not uncommon for ballots to be altered (indeed, today there are dead people still voting in some areas of the country...). This is why machine's were brought in, to try and reduce the amount of ballot corruption."
Actually no (It seems I know more about US voting history than you), the US introduced voting machines as far back as a hundred years ago, & by the 60's the vast majority of the US already had voting machines. The reason was simply cost. Counties did not want to hire thousands of temp staff to do the counting. Even though it was just for a day or 2. Plus the political parties were unable or unwilling to provide the thousands of scrutineers that are needed . Mainly because the US has alway stupidly voted on Tuesday, which means people couldn't or wouldn't take time off their regular job.
However this problem is instantly solved if the US did what the rest of the world does & votes on Saturday. Considering how keen American workers are, they wouldn't have any trouble employing thousands of counters to count away all day & night on Saturday & maybe Sunday too. Particully if they are getting double time for working the weekend.
That's the way to do it AC
BTW its been shown time & time again that hand counted 'Keep It Simple Stupid' 'X marks the spot' hand ballots is the best voting system ever devised.
Here in Australia we have a 'number the candidates in order of preferance' preferential voting system & it works well.
Plus we have simple hand ballots. Which are hand counted, & each counter has a labour & conservative scrutineer looking over their shoulders.
The system works perfectly - the secret is to employ thousands of temp workers & lease all the convention centres & indoor stadiums for use as counting systems.
So even though all votes are counted by hand & we have a 95% turnout we always know the results by monday morning (our elections are on the day it should be - Saturday) & useally know them on the same night the poll was on.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised
). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commission's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
Machine voting systems just fuck things up. What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else. It's precisely because Americans useing voting machines that their voting system is such a mess. There are reasons why virtually rest of the world uses simple hand ballots - they work & they work perfectly
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised
). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the bloody mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised
). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised
). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised
). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
CD drives slower that 8X cameout before CDR discs, so they arn't reliably compatible with them, but faster (as in newer ones) work fine with them. Its the same with with CD drives slower than about 16X, arn't compatible with CDRW discs, but new ones work fine with them.
Who knows, maybe CD drives that come out soom may also be read compatible with these triple density CDRW discs to.
& are told not to bother coming in.
We have good labour laws in Oz & in the award I'm in they have to give a months notice, which is a 28 day payoff, & considering I'm in a trade where demand is higher than supply it means it pays to get sacked at least 3 times & years. One is alway re-employed before the day is out & it means one is in effect get double pay for that first month.
By International standards CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN are consided centre/right media...
Just look at how the protests in Seattle were reported.
Look at the way those same media outlets keep pushing the personality cult of Alan Greenspan, the hero of global financial 'reforms' that are overiding workers rights & enviromental standards across the world. New WTA rules mean Countries can't even block imports for enviromental or labour reasons. So (for example) Australia can't ban imports of rainforest timber or rice grown on slash n burnt rain forest land.
Or compare the way they report the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
For example they went on for a week about those 2 reservists who were killed in Ramallah, yet they never mentioned anything about the 2 elderly Palestinians (one was 82) who were slaughtered by New York Jewish settlers, while the Israeli army just stood back & watched. The 2 old men were trying to stop the settlers from confiscating their olive groves that had been in their family for over 3oo years. (Has anyone noticed that all those troublemaking crazy Jewish settlers have loudmouth New York accents)
Plus they never mention the fact that more Palestinians have been victims of Israeli terrorism than Israelis who have been victims of Palestinian terrorism.....Look at that interveiw that NBC's political correspondent (I forget his name) had with Nader. Where he kept on going on about Arrafat being a former terrorist. Yet does NBC ever mention that the former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin & his minister Yitzar Shamir were both wanted for terrorism & murder by the British, & that they were responsable for the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from central Israel in the 40's, using the same technics that the Serbs used in Bosnia & Kosovo - They led the attack by the Israeli terrorist gangs, the Stern Gang & the Irgun, on the Arab village of Dier Yassin, where 260 old men, womem & children were murdered. Then they got on the radio & said that would happen to any other Arabs who didnt leave & 700000 Palestinians were driven out. Then the Israeli govt gave a defacto OK to the slaughter by passing legislation so Israelis could confiscate the houses of the Palestinians who were driven out.
I remember reading somewhere that for BeOS to be POsix complient, that BeInc had to make it multi-user, which it aparently is.
They just choose not to dsistribute it in multuser form.
Well this what I remember reading somewhere.
.......the reason why RDRAM is a lot dearer than SDRAM or DDR-SDRAM is because of quite a few factors.
1st, it involves a completely different Fab setup, while Fab changes were miniscule for SDRAM & then DDR-SDRAM too. This means a huge investment in plant for the memory makers which has to be passed on.
Also because of the way RDRAM works (it runs very hot & fast, consequently heat-spreaders cum EMI-shields are needed) which means the individual RAM chips cannot be fully tested till they are moduled, so if one is fucked, the whole module is fucked & they are all wasted (whereas SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM chips can be fully tested before they are muduled). That is one of many the reasons why RDRAM yeilds will always be very low making RDRAM as expensive option. Well that's the way it was explained to me.
This problem, apparently does not exist though as far as rambus memory chips in consols are concerned because they are setup differently.
Samsung has a huge multi-billion dollar SDRAM supply contract with Intel - all those Intel computers that are made in Intel factory in Singapore, that then get re-badge by other OEMs, will have Samsung RDRAM in it.
The Other 3 RAM makers that caved in either did it because they had business with Rambus or were involved in the Sony PS2 'industry' (which contains RDRAM) or were selling there RAM business/fabs & didn't want litigation hanging over their heads.
Not one else will cave in.
But since then I I've recollected those Albums, well the songs on them using Napster.
Seeing when one purchases an album one also receives the right to copy that album for ones own personal use, then that means I still have a license to copy those songs. The receipts I have (I always keep receipts) are my proof, they are in fact my license to copy those songs off the net.
Anyway its not as if Radio Birdman, the Stooges, the Velvet Underground or the Joy Division are going to sue me - as I work in a cash industry & all my assets are in assumed names or the names of relatives.
manufactured twisted pair (& non twisted paired) round IDC cable is expensive.
Just ring Newark/Farnel & ask them what the price of a roll of 80 core round IDC cable is?
You have to remember that about every 3 inchs the cores have to be flat & joined for about an inch, so IDC connectors can connect to them. The rest of the core has to be split so the cable doesnt bucklwe or spring back (& so the twisted pairs can be twisted too, in the twisted pair variety)
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Well more or less (similar concept, different materials - plastic)
Check out these keyboards
Well?
Quicktime works fine for me, on both IE5 & Opera 5 & they both work with the 3ivX Quicktime plugins.
. But there are other ones too - Choice Cast?
In a good percentage businesses its not even profitable unless they are making a 50% to 100% markup on the products they sell. But at the end of the financial they still only make about 5% net profit, because most of that gross profit goes on all the fixed & on gointg costs of running the business. Yet MS makes a Net profit of 24%, do you understand the difference. Their gross profit on those CDs they sell is definitly more than 90%, afterall whats the cost of producing & distributing a CD?. Those CDs that MS sell cost no more to make or sell than those blank CDs that are avaliable for less than a $1 each at retail. But ofcourse MS also has other costs they have to cover to, hence a gross profit of over 90% on items they sell, but a net profit of 24%.
"what's to stop someone from being paid $1000 to look the other way?"
Look the other way & do what may I ask? Actually if you knoew any thing about polling methods in Australia that wouldn't acheive anything anyway. One can only be checked off once & go to the polling booth once & put one form in the ballot box, because, your in a room full of polling staff & they are all looking at you. Anyway its all done in a one way queue format, so the bloke behing you & the bloke behimd him, etc, etc, etc, just wouldn't let you go back to the counter to get another voting form from the 'corrupt official', because the traffic is all one way, you'll be going against the flow.
The only way one could get away with what you are suggesting is if you bribed every single poll worker in the polling booths & every single other voter who was in there at the same time
Anyway Can't you read? Do I have to say the word again - scrutineers.
Here in Australia every single election counter has both a scrutineer from both the Labour party A& the conservative party looking over their shoulders.
"And yet you can't get the names of the two major parties right..".
You Americans are so bloody Americancentric, isn't obvious I was just using "labour & conservative" as an example of the ways its done in Australia.
Really having a hand ballot hand counting system in the US, would be no different than if Australia, the UK, Germany, Canada, Spain & France all voted on the same day.
& the simple fact if all those countries could all finish their hand counts on the same night, so could the US.
Its just a matter of hiring enough Temp staff. Look at Dade county, they reckoned it would have taken 14 days to do a hand county. Which meant if they had just trebled their temp staff they could have done it in 5 days, & if they had hired 15 times as many temp staff & turned all the convention centres & indoor stadiums into counting centres, the hand counting would have been done overnight.
That's the way its done virtually everywhere else in the world
Plus you don't have to worry about "threats, dirty tricks and other shenanigans" because everyone of those thousands of counters have both a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over their shoulders.
It may seem labour intensive, but its only for a day or 2 at the most - it is afterall the standard way its done arround the world (Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Denmark, etc, etc).
You ask "How would an X marks the spot system be immune to being altered? Or having extra ballots entered?"
Well its simple really, the whole election is monitored by the independent election commission & they are the only ones who have the ballot papers (they can be numbered & holigramed). When you get your name crossed off you are given a ballot form, then after you fill it out in your booth you put it in the locked ballot box. From them on to the end of the counting procedure that ballot is only touched by the independent voting staff who are at all times scrutineered by scrutinneers from both the labour & conservative parties.
This is the standard method its done virtually everywhere, except the US & Brazil & one or 2 other places.
"In the 60's it was not uncommon for ballots to be altered (indeed, today there are dead people still voting in some areas of the country...). This is why machine's were brought in, to try and reduce the amount of ballot corruption."
Actually no (It seems I know more about US voting history than you), the US introduced voting machines as far back as a hundred years ago, & by the 60's the vast majority of the US already had voting machines. The reason was simply cost. Counties did not want to hire thousands of temp staff to do the counting. Even though it was just for a day or 2. Plus the political parties were unable or unwilling to provide the thousands of scrutineers that are needed . Mainly because the US has alway stupidly voted on Tuesday, which means people couldn't or wouldn't take time off their regular job.
However this problem is instantly solved if the US did what the rest of the world does & votes on Saturday. Considering how keen American workers are, they wouldn't have any trouble employing thousands of counters to count away all day & night on Saturday & maybe Sunday too. Particully if they are getting double time for working the weekend.
That's the way to do it AC BTW its been shown time & time again that hand counted 'Keep It Simple Stupid' 'X marks the spot' hand ballots is the best voting system ever devised.
Here in Australia we have a 'number the candidates in order of preferance' preferential voting system & it works well. Plus we have simple hand ballots. Which are hand counted, & each counter has a labour & conservative scrutineer looking over their shoulders. The system works perfectly - the secret is to employ thousands of temp workers & lease all the convention centres & indoor stadiums for use as counting systems. So even though all votes are counted by hand & we have a 95% turnout we always know the results by monday morning (our elections are on the day it should be - Saturday) & useally know them on the same night the poll was on.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised ). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commission's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
Machine voting systems just fuck things up. What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else. It's precisely because Americans useing voting machines that their voting system is such a mess. There are reasons why virtually rest of the world uses simple hand ballots - they work & they work perfectly
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised ). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the bloody mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised ). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised ). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
What is it with America's love of voting machines? They don't use them virtually anywhere else.
Haven't you bloody Americans learnt the KISS system - Keep It Simple Stupid.
This means no bloody machines, period !!! If Australia (& also virtually the rest of the democratic world) can do hand counted paper ballots, then so can the US.
The only reason they use machine systems in the US is to cut costs, but the simple fact is they arn't as good (they invalidate more votes then hand counts do, they intimidate & confuse a good percentage of voters & they increase the odds of something fuking up (murphy's law)
Look at the mess, as well as the fuked up punch card machines you have counties with lever machines, other with optical machines, toggle switch machines, push button machines & also touch screen systems too. Then there are places like Oregon where all votes are of the mail in variety (which obviously discriminates against the homeless & disorginised ). The simple fact is that huge numbers of people are intimidated with this complicated mess that's one of the reasons why most Americans don't vote & why the US has about the lowest voter turnout in the OECD.
Look at all the people that are intimidated by machines & even now still refuse to use Automatic Teller Machines, & there are plenty more people like that then just the illiterate, the elderly & immigrants that have poor 2nd language skills.
Its as if the bureaucracy in the US are on purposefully trying to discourage the masses from voting.
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
Which means 'X marks the spot' hand ballots.
That means a peice of paper with the candidates listed in a columne & another columne of boxes on the side with just one box next to each candidate.
Here are a couple of examples of 'KISS' paper ballots, the 1st one is an example of an Australian preferential ballot (any Americans who support 3rd parties should be demanding that the US system be made either preferential or proportional, otherwise no 3rd parties will ever make any long term headway), the 2nd ballot is an example of an ''X' marks the spot' ballot.
As far as counting goes the US should be doing what Australia does (& most of the rest of the developed world does similar) & hold the vote on a Saturday (I wonder how many blue collar workers in the US chose not to vote because of the incoveniance of voting on a Tuesday), using local schools as voting centres. Then leasing indoor stadiums & convention centres nationwide which are to be used as counting centres for the thousands of temp workers employed to count the votes. Each counter also has a Labour & conservative scrutineer looking over his/her shoulders.
Sure its labour intensive, but as any UN election observer will tell you this is the best system if you want high turnouts with low rates of invalid votes & a result that's as accurate as can be, by Monday morning at the latest (actually in the vast majority of elections we know who's won by about 8pm the same night).
Also all politicians must be removed from any decision making processes as far as the running of elections are concerned, etc.
Look at the way democratic afiliated local officials OKed the hand count iin Palm Beach & then the Republican Florida SoS blocked the hand count (& she was Bush's co-campaign manager, which makes it an even worse conflict of interest). That sort of thing is unheard of in Australia. Where an Independent Australian Electoral Commision administers federal elections & the various state electoral commisions administers state & local elections.
No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process (except for calling the date of the election). As far as recounts, re-votes, referendums (in Australia politions can't amend the constitution, only the people can through referendums. Where a majority of the total votes & a majority in a majority of states, responds 'yes' to the amendment) & by-elections, etc are concerned only the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter.
CD drives slower that 8X cameout before CDR discs, so they arn't reliably compatible with them, but faster (as in newer ones) work fine with them. Its the same with with CD drives slower than about 16X, arn't compatible with CDRW discs, but new ones work fine with them. Who knows, maybe CD drives that come out soom may also be read compatible with these triple density CDRW discs to.
& are told not to bother coming in. We have good labour laws in Oz & in the award I'm in they have to give a months notice, which is a 28 day payoff, & considering I'm in a trade where demand is higher than supply it means it pays to get sacked at least 3 times & years. One is alway re-employed before the day is out & it means one is in effect get double pay for that first month.
Yes HP's Agilent are the ones who developed the optical mouse, they just licensed the technology to MS & Logictech.
By International standards CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN are consided centre/right media... Just look at how the protests in Seattle were reported. Look at the way those same media outlets keep pushing the personality cult of Alan Greenspan, the hero of global financial 'reforms' that are overiding workers rights & enviromental standards across the world. New WTA rules mean Countries can't even block imports for enviromental or labour reasons. So (for example) Australia can't ban imports of rainforest timber or rice grown on slash n burnt rain forest land. Or compare the way they report the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. For example they went on for a week about those 2 reservists who were killed in Ramallah, yet they never mentioned anything about the 2 elderly Palestinians (one was 82) who were slaughtered by New York Jewish settlers, while the Israeli army just stood back & watched. The 2 old men were trying to stop the settlers from confiscating their olive groves that had been in their family for over 3oo years. (Has anyone noticed that all those troublemaking crazy Jewish settlers have loudmouth New York accents) Plus they never mention the fact that more Palestinians have been victims of Israeli terrorism than Israelis who have been victims of Palestinian terrorism.....Look at that interveiw that NBC's political correspondent (I forget his name) had with Nader. Where he kept on going on about Arrafat being a former terrorist. Yet does NBC ever mention that the former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin & his minister Yitzar Shamir were both wanted for terrorism & murder by the British, & that they were responsable for the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from central Israel in the 40's, using the same technics that the Serbs used in Bosnia & Kosovo - They led the attack by the Israeli terrorist gangs, the Stern Gang & the Irgun, on the Arab village of Dier Yassin, where 260 old men, womem & children were murdered. Then they got on the radio & said that would happen to any other Arabs who didnt leave & 700000 Palestinians were driven out. Then the Israeli govt gave a defacto OK to the slaughter by passing legislation so Israelis could confiscate the houses of the Palestinians who were driven out.
I remember reading somewhere that for BeOS to be POsix complient, that BeInc had to make it multi-user, which it aparently is. They just choose not to dsistribute it in multuser form. Well this what I remember reading somewhere.
.......the reason why RDRAM is a lot dearer than SDRAM or DDR-SDRAM is because of quite a few factors. 1st, it involves a completely different Fab setup, while Fab changes were miniscule for SDRAM & then DDR-SDRAM too. This means a huge investment in plant for the memory makers which has to be passed on. Also because of the way RDRAM works (it runs very hot & fast, consequently heat-spreaders cum EMI-shields are needed) which means the individual RAM chips cannot be fully tested till they are moduled, so if one is fucked, the whole module is fucked & they are all wasted (whereas SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM chips can be fully tested before they are muduled). That is one of many the reasons why RDRAM yeilds will always be very low making RDRAM as expensive option. Well that's the way it was explained to me. This problem, apparently does not exist though as far as rambus memory chips in consols are concerned because they are setup differently.
on the website so people can download the player to see your 3D models
Samsung has a huge multi-billion dollar SDRAM supply contract with Intel - all those Intel computers that are made in Intel factory in Singapore, that then get re-badge by other OEMs, will have Samsung RDRAM in it. The Other 3 RAM makers that caved in either did it because they had business with Rambus or were involved in the Sony PS2 'industry' (which contains RDRAM) or were selling there RAM business/fabs & didn't want litigation hanging over their heads. Not one else will cave in.
But since then I I've recollected those Albums, well the songs on them using Napster. Seeing when one purchases an album one also receives the right to copy that album for ones own personal use, then that means I still have a license to copy those songs. The receipts I have (I always keep receipts) are my proof, they are in fact my license to copy those songs off the net. Anyway its not as if Radio Birdman, the Stooges, the Velvet Underground or the Joy Division are going to sue me - as I work in a cash industry & all my assets are in assumed names or the names of relatives.
nuff said
manufactured twisted pair (& non twisted paired) round IDC cable is expensive. Just ring Newark/Farnel & ask them what the price of a roll of 80 core round IDC cable is? You have to remember that about every 3 inchs the cores have to be flat & joined for about an inch, so IDC connectors can connect to them. The rest of the core has to be split so the cable doesnt bucklwe or spring back (& so the twisted pairs can be twisted too, in the twisted pair variety)
That's all.