Let me get this straight - You want inefficient and wasteful government solely for the benefit of computer programmers that work at Closed-Source houses?
About 2% of the employed population of the US works in "Computer and Mathamatical Science" jobs. Pare that down to the number that work for the government, get rid of the "Mathamatical Science" jobs, and you should be well less than a percent. Your inability to cope shouldn't stand in the way of progress.
Also, what is so bad about paying taxes? Like it or not, the services are (mostly) needed. There's something inherently funny about Libertarians and people against the Government. (Originally from the Onion)
"Use your favorite peer-to-peer network, don't hesitate - it's legal!"
See, it's not.
The CD layout is SuSE's, and they don't want you copying it. This is why they have the FTP install instead. If you were to create ISO's on your own, based on the FTP download, then go ahead and distribute away.
"I would only reccomend SuSE to a newbie who has no desire for messing around with things once its installed, and just wants it to work reasonably well from the beginning."
Bzzt. Try again.
I've been running SuSE since 6.1, and always mess around with things and install extra software, usually not official SuSE packages. Generic RPM's usually work OK. If not, SuSE still ships with enough to./configure, make, make install - which works. Automatic package dependancy does leave a little to be lacking when you use non-SuSE packages (foolib? What the hell is foolib?), but since the monster CD/DVD set contains almost every library you would possibly want, you can install it then.
As for actually installing the RPM's, you could do it with YAST, or KPackage, or by the CLI - the computer dosen't care.
No, Tacoma Narrows is a suspension bridge, which is not constructed in a cantilever fashion. Apples and oranges for construction method. For a suspension bridge, the cables are strung and deck sections are then lifted - no free cantilevers anywhere.
For the cantilever bridge that failed, try the Quebec bridge.
OK, so you are lining out Mr. teamster for the day - "we're loading over here, dump site is down the road, past the second gas station, big yellow sign, got it?" He gets it, seems lucid, but the moment he shuts the door it's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Tard.
Back to the initial argument - IT has hit a point of innovation stagnation for many things.
I'd venture an old pentium running peachtree is not an IT "deployment".
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OK, first off, no fair lumping plumbers and teamsters together. (How's a teamster like a refrigerator? Shut the door and the lights go out.)
See, all of your things you can do ("formula in Excel or setup lvm on your linux server") are not as far apart as you might think. I bet the plumber can hang drywall just as well as you can program Java, if not better. Hell, I'll take your downtime and raise you a sprinkler system. No contest on reliability there.
Bridges with a cantilever / segmental type of construction typically see the highest stresses during construction, before everything is locked together. Since they _just_ locked it together, it's probably ok.
Remember that open source isn't free (beer) by default, just that it is the most popular option.
Where the 'get what you pay for' works in open source is on the big scale. -Open source users can be divided into three functional groups: developers of open source - they pay with code, in a barter arrangement. -People who buy it and / or support for it - businesses, consumers that buy boxed sets. -Freeloaders. They don't contribute, but only post on Slashdot.
So long as the 'pay' from the developers and paying customers exceeds the non-pay of the freeloaders, the collective 'get what we pay for' is still positive.
The HP one you picked looked ok, but feeder looks a little chitsy.
We have a panasonic at work, and use it to scan in design packages. it's something like the model KV-S7065C Don't be fooled by the 'low volume' tag - we routinely make 100 page pdf's out it (high volume = insurance office), even though it will take a few min. Thing works great. Highly reccomended. The panasonic comes with software that allows you to save all as a single file, break into xxx page long files (where you get to pick xxx), and many other features. My favorite is that it makes it easy to create pdf's with changes in page size / resolution. Our packages are mostly design calcs (8.5x11, 300dpi) with a few drawings (11x17, 600dpi), and it works slick.
We used to send out ~5-10 fedex packages a week, but now we just scan and email. Saves so much money, time, and they can get packages right away.
A good way to keep down on the cost is to get a B&W scanner - you probably don't need color anyway, and it keeps the file size way down.
No, no receipt should be kept correlating specific, identifiable voters and their votes. That leads to the situation where companies could 'encourage' employees to vote in a specific way. The two choices are verification of the details by the voter only, or a general error kind of output.
I seem to remember that there was some sort of cover with the key; that way your ballot just has a lot of bubbles on it. Same sort of security as the 'use my blood' sticker when you donate blood - if the person can read the bar code, they can tell, but otherwise it's secure.
They have that. I went to college in Mass., and they have a glorified scantron machine.
You get you paper ballot and a #2 pencil, and go into the booth. When you come out, they scan it. If it registers any errors, it spits back out, and you get to re-do. If it is correct, it sucks the ballot into the box and records the data electronically.
Assuming there is some good way of making all of these ballot boxes talk to a central computer, it sounds like the best answer to me.
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Let me get this straight -
You want inefficient and wasteful government solely for the benefit of computer programmers that work at Closed-Source houses?
About 2% of the employed population of the US works in "Computer and Mathamatical Science" jobs. Pare that down to the number that work for the government, get rid of the "Mathamatical Science" jobs, and you should be well less than a percent.
Your inability to cope shouldn't stand in the way of progress.
Also, what is so bad about paying taxes? Like it or not, the services are (mostly) needed. There's something inherently funny about Libertarians and people against the Government. (Originally from the Onion)
Now that they have the granary, they won't loose all of their food every time the city goes up a level.
Either that, or I've been playing too much civ.
Holy crap, that would be weird. It's like over 2,000 files, let FTP keep track of them all.
the ftp is mirrored many places - ibiblio , among others, can probably take the slashdotting.
"Use your favorite peer-to-peer network, don't hesitate - it's legal!"
See, it's not.
The CD layout is SuSE's, and they don't want you copying it. This is why they have the FTP install instead. If you were to create ISO's on your own, based on the FTP download, then go ahead and distribute away.
ISO images are not a GNU-given right.
No, they provide (somewhere in the copious documentation) links to download them yourself from SuSE.
Wha-la, source provided.
Arrgh.
a ker
Why do you forget the source!!!
Which of your MS CD's include the source?
Besides, My SuSE CD Set comes with more than an Office Suite.
I've got (In no particluar order):
OpenOffice.org
Koffice
Planmaker/Textm
Gnome Office (Gnumetric, Abiword)
Scribus
That's at least 4.5 Suites, more considering all of the other office-y tools. Not even a fair comparison.
"I would only reccomend SuSE to a newbie who has no desire for messing around with things once its installed, and just wants it to work reasonably well from the beginning."
./configure, make, make install - which works.
Bzzt. Try again.
I've been running SuSE since 6.1, and always mess around with things and install extra software, usually not official SuSE packages. Generic RPM's usually work OK. If not, SuSE still ships with enough to
Automatic package dependancy does leave a little to be lacking when you use non-SuSE packages (foolib? What the hell is foolib?), but since the monster CD/DVD set contains almost every library you would possibly want, you can install it then.
As for actually installing the RPM's, you could do it with YAST, or KPackage, or by the CLI - the computer dosen't care.
I use caps lock all the time at work.
I make lots of calculation sheets in excel - text in caps is consistent, easy to read at small print when you shrink big sheets down to size.
Also, in CAD caps is used pretty much exclusively. Once again, consistently and readability at small sizes.
No, Tacoma Narrows is a suspension bridge, which is not constructed in a cantilever fashion. Apples and oranges for construction method.
For a suspension bridge, the cables are strung and deck sections are then lifted - no free cantilevers anywhere.
For the cantilever bridge that failed, try the Quebec bridge.
Blue collar does not equal manual labor.
Besides, dress code is the worst thing to gauge this on - strippers are blue collar workers.
They got the best dress code ever.
OK, so you are lining out Mr. teamster for the day - "we're loading over here, dump site is down the road, past the second gas station, big yellow sign, got it?"
He gets it, seems lucid, but the moment he shuts the door it's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Tard.
The joke does loose a lot in delivery, though.
Back to the initial argument - IT has hit a point of innovation stagnation for many things.
I'd venture an old pentium running peachtree is not an IT "deployment".
OK, first off, no fair lumping plumbers and teamsters together. (How's a teamster like a refrigerator? Shut the door and the lights go out.)
See, all of your things you can do ("formula in Excel or setup lvm on your linux server") are not as far apart as you might think. I bet the plumber can hang drywall just as well as you can program Java, if not better.
Hell, I'll take your downtime and raise you a sprinkler system. No contest on reliability there.
But is USPS slower / more expensive because they have worse IT, or because they employ more full-time workers and don't offshore anything?
Bet it's not the IT.
The bridge should be set now.
Bridges with a cantilever / segmental type of construction typically see the highest stresses during construction, before everything is locked together. Since they _just_ locked it together, it's probably ok.
Remember that open source isn't free (beer) by default, just that it is the most popular option.
Where the 'get what you pay for' works in open source is on the big scale.
-Open source users can be divided into three functional groups:
developers of open source - they pay with code, in a barter arrangement.
-People who buy it and / or support for it - businesses, consumers that buy boxed sets.
-Freeloaders. They don't contribute, but only post on Slashdot.
So long as the 'pay' from the developers and paying customers exceeds the non-pay of the freeloaders, the collective 'get what we pay for' is still positive.
The HP one you picked looked ok, but feeder looks a little chitsy.
We have a panasonic at work, and use it to scan in design packages. it's something like the model KV-S7065C Don't be fooled by the 'low volume' tag - we routinely make 100 page pdf's out it (high volume = insurance office), even though it will take a few min. Thing works great. Highly reccomended. The panasonic comes with software that allows you to save all as a single file, break into xxx page long files (where you get to pick xxx), and many other features.
My favorite is that it makes it easy to create pdf's with changes in page size / resolution. Our packages are mostly design calcs (8.5x11, 300dpi) with a few drawings (11x17, 600dpi), and it works slick.
We used to send out ~5-10 fedex packages a week, but now we just scan and email. Saves so much money, time, and they can get packages right away.
A good way to keep down on the cost is to get a B&W scanner - you probably don't need color anyway, and it keeps the file size way down.
POS = Piece of Shit.
i.e., load of crap.
OK, again -
architecture is not art.
If you want to play artist, make sculptures and big monuments. Buildings have a main purpose of function.
You cannot possibly compare Picasso's swirls of paint with millions of dollars of metal.
I will agree that Gehry has hoodwinked a lot of people out of their money.
Gehry is a hack, a one-trick pony. His trick is composed of complicated curves, lack of right angles, and excessive stainless steel. Find me a Gehry building that does not contain these three things - there is no uniqueness there. These things are expensive, unneeded, and Do not confuse nor mingle too closely art and architecture. Art serves only itself, architecture serves the public.
No, no receipt should be kept correlating specific, identifiable voters and their votes. That leads to the situation where companies could 'encourage' employees to vote in a specific way.
The two choices are verification of the details by the voter only, or a general error kind of output.
Incorrectly, as in voting for two presidential candidates.
More likely where it is city commissioners, and you get a pick 5 from 15 situation.
I agree that you have the right to have a 0 vote counted.
You know, it's been a while since I used it.
I seem to remember that there was some sort of cover with the key; that way your ballot just has a lot of bubbles on it.
Same sort of security as the 'use my blood' sticker when you donate blood - if the person can read the bar code, they can tell, but otherwise it's secure.
They have that.
I went to college in Mass., and they have a glorified scantron machine.
You get you paper ballot and a #2 pencil, and go into the booth. When you come out, they scan it. If it registers any errors, it spits back out, and you get to re-do. If it is correct, it sucks the ballot into the box and records the data electronically.
Assuming there is some good way of making all of these ballot boxes talk to a central computer, it sounds like the best answer to me.
"Modding me down doesn't make me wrong."
No, but it does allow the rest of us to point and laugh.