If I can file my taxes online, why can't I vote online?
I'd rather see companies or governments or whoever spend more time on an online voting system than some fancy computer. I still have to drive to use the computer, so what do I care if it's a paper ballot or e-ballot.
. . . I have no real desire to share with the universe if the price is fair.
I couldn't agree more, but the problem is this:
Who defines whether a price is fair? The current asking price seems to be between $1 and $2 (USD). At these prices, you are paying the same as going out and buying a CD. Except, you don't get the actual CD or cover art.
This is a bit off-topic, but bear with me, and I'll bring it around. I've taken to eBooks lately, as finding English books in Greece is a challenge. Anyways, I was going to buy a new release via Palm Digital Media. They were asking $17.99 for the eBook (list price $24.99). So I went out to amazon, and found the book for $17.49. Now the publisher does not have to pay to make the actual book (paper, binding materials, etc.) or do they have to pay to ship the thing.
So as curiousity got the best of me, I emailed Palm Digital Media, and this is the response I got:
Palm Digital Media doesn't set the list price of the books that we
sell. That's totally controlled by the publisher. We pay the publisher a fixed price for each copy that we sell, based on a percentage of the publisher's list price. But we have to pay that price, even if we were to give the book away. In fact, the price we pay to the publisher is almost exactly the same amount that your local bookstore pays when they buy a dead tree copy. So our prices are usually in the same range as what you'd pay at that local bookstore.
I looked at Amazon.com for this book, and their price is about the same as our subscriber price.
So until the publisher's of e-media realize that it isn't a good deal, there will not be a "fair" price.
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The local DJ's in the Quad Cities, Dwyer & Michaels, have been doing this. They originally started out with the huge slingshots, but then switched over to the canons.
One of the guys is also a motorhead, with a rebuilt '58 sedan. And I think it was a couple of years ago, or maybe last year, that they decided they wanted to mount a t-shirt canon on their car ("Fordzilla").
Now, I haven't seen the finished product, as I no longer live in the area, but I hear that it's pretty cool. I've managed to find some links:
That's why when I bought my Inspiron 8200 back in December, I only ordered it with 128MB, and ordered a 512MB chip from Crucial.
My only issue was, when I was running several application, I would notice a slow down. I would get frequent messages from XP stating that it was going to resize my pagefile.
Well, a week or so ago, I decided to check things out. Since I ordered my laptop with 128MB, Dell had set the pagefile to: minimum 128MB/maximum 384MB. Why they don't just leave it on auto is beyond me. But just be warned if you decide to go the route I went.
Elwood: Well, what was I gonna do? Take away you're only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you, okay?
I realize that this is late in the discussion, and hopefully this will get read.
I use Phoenix for three reasons. First, all I want is a browser. Second, tabbed browsing. Third, the ability to block unwanted pop-ups.
Unfortunately, I am stuck with 56k dialup, where I the fastest connection I have received is 28.8Kbps. I do not appreciate websites that have huge flash ads or anything like that, because the wait is painfully slow.
Who is the thief? Me for using a "service" without full functionality or the company that is shoving a 300K flash ad down my pipe so a website takes five minutes to load? I view it as them stealing my bandwith & time.
I have to agree with the majority here. My Z560's have a much better range than my Creative 5200's. I bought mine from Multiwave Direct for about $150 shipped.
I didn't have a chance to do a lot of listening tests, but I have been very impressed by these. I'm more of an enthusiast (read: wannabe) than an audiophile, but I don't think you'll be dissappointed.
I seriously doubt this will happen, here's why: The technology sponsor (their contract is for Salt Lake - Beijing) has started developing there clients. They have spent a couple of years before Salt Lake, and continue to refine there software. The client is designed for Windows. I don't think that they will want to spend the time/money to port their software to a different platform when it works fine on Windows.
As the article states, this is still up for debate. The sponsors are included in this debate. The sponsors will get their way, because money talks.
Unfortunately, the way the Olympics are run, the sponsors will continue to drive their technologies & brands. Unless the IOC changes how they operate, the current trends will continue.
I work for a company that is a sponser for the Olympics. While delivering all of our printers & copiers, we never had one damaged.
Why? Because they strapped in everything. Heck, when we were done delivering, they would strap in anything left over so it wouldn't just fly around the truck.
Some drivers were better than other, but overall, we had no shipping issues.
My best advice is to use an electronic logistics company to move your equipment. They may cost more, but when you receive damaged equipment, the lost time will more than likely pay for the difference.
The one interesting thing about this, is they took "production" machines without intentionally putting vulnerabilities on them. I think this is the way to do it, because it allows you to view the weaknesses of your servers...
Does this not violate a US citizen's right to free speech? I am a huge olympics fan, and I love reading what the athletes have to say. Unfortunately NBC just does not have enough airtime (even between NBC, CNBC & MSNBC) to share all of the athletes memories. This is a very unfortunate situation, that I hope the IOC will let go of.
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If I can file my taxes online, why can't I vote online?
I'd rather see companies or governments or whoever spend more time on an online voting system than some fancy computer. I still have to drive to use the computer, so what do I care if it's a paper ballot or e-ballot.
Spielberg is signed on as an executive producer which most likely means a financial investment and will not be involved in day-to-day production.
So what day is it everywhere else?
Check out the Xerox Phaser 7300. It will print 26PPM, it handles 11 x 17/A3. The color management is good (not quite as good as the 7700).
The price? Nicely configured at $4200 (starts at $3500).
I have seen the output from the 7300/7700/6200, and it is very impressive. Xerox is really leading the pack in desktop laser color printing right now.
I couldn't agree more, but the problem is this:
Who defines whether a price is fair? The current asking price seems to be between $1 and $2 (USD). At these prices, you are paying the same as going out and buying a CD. Except, you don't get the actual CD or cover art.
This is a bit off-topic, but bear with me, and I'll bring it around. I've taken to eBooks lately, as finding English books in Greece is a challenge. Anyways, I was going to buy a new release via Palm Digital Media. They were asking $17.99 for the eBook (list price $24.99). So I went out to amazon, and found the book for $17.49. Now the publisher does not have to pay to make the actual book (paper, binding materials, etc.) or do they have to pay to ship the thing.
So as curiousity got the best of me, I emailed Palm Digital Media, and this is the response I got:
So until the publisher's of e-media realize that it isn't a good deal, there will not be a "fair" price.
The local DJ's in the Quad Cities, Dwyer & Michaels, have been doing this. They originally started out with the huge slingshots, but then switched over to the canons.
One of the guys is also a motorhead, with a rebuilt '58 sedan. And I think it was a couple of years ago, or maybe last year, that they decided they wanted to mount a t-shirt canon on their car ("Fordzilla").
Now, I haven't seen the finished product, as I no longer live in the area, but I hear that it's pretty cool. I've managed to find some links:
These were all from Dwyer & Michael's website: 2dorks.com.
That's why when I bought my Inspiron 8200 back in December, I only ordered it with 128MB, and ordered a 512MB chip from Crucial.
My only issue was, when I was running several application, I would notice a slow down. I would get frequent messages from XP stating that it was going to resize my pagefile.
Well, a week or so ago, I decided to check things out. Since I ordered my laptop with 128MB, Dell had set the pagefile to: minimum 128MB/maximum 384MB. Why they don't just leave it on auto is beyond me. But just be warned if you decide to go the route I went.
I love my Rio SP250. I have a fairly large CD collection, and I love being able to just switch CD's and have a different portion of my collection.
.ogg files off of CD (vs. my RIO which plays mp3 off of CD)?
But my question is, why would I want to make a lateral move to something that plays
What I would really like to see is a DVD +/- R solution. Then I could have 4.7GB vs. 700MB of music ready to go.
Am I just dreaming, or is there a market for this besides me?
What I want to know:
Is there any software that will allow me to backup my DVD collection, and access them via a nice interface on my TV?
Elwood: Well, what was I gonna do? Take away you're only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you, okay?
Jake: You lied to me.
Elwood: It wasn't lies, it was just bullshit.
I realize that this is late in the discussion, and hopefully this will get read.
I use Phoenix for three reasons. First, all I want is a browser. Second, tabbed browsing. Third, the ability to block unwanted pop-ups.
Unfortunately, I am stuck with 56k dialup, where I the fastest connection I have received is 28.8Kbps. I do not appreciate websites that have huge flash ads or anything like that, because the wait is painfully slow.
Who is the thief? Me for using a "service" without full functionality or the company that is shoving a 300K flash ad down my pipe so a website takes five minutes to load? I view it as them stealing my bandwith & time.
I have to agree with the majority here. My Z560's have a much better range than my Creative 5200's. I bought mine from Multiwave Direct for about $150 shipped.
I didn't have a chance to do a lot of listening tests, but I have been very impressed by these. I'm more of an enthusiast (read: wannabe) than an audiophile, but I don't think you'll be dissappointed.
While this isn't correct grammar, please explain to me how you is spelled wrong.
It's not like Duke Nukem Forever was released, though.
I seriously doubt this will happen, here's why: The technology sponsor (their contract is for Salt Lake - Beijing) has started developing there clients. They have spent a couple of years before Salt Lake, and continue to refine there software. The client is designed for Windows. I don't think that they will want to spend the time/money to port their software to a different platform when it works fine on Windows.
As the article states, this is still up for debate. The sponsors are included in this debate. The sponsors will get their way, because money talks.
Unfortunately, the way the Olympics are run, the sponsors will continue to drive their technologies & brands. Unless the IOC changes how they operate, the current trends will continue.
...when I see it.
Sorry, it had to be said.
I work for a company that is a sponser for the Olympics. While delivering all of our printers & copiers, we never had one damaged.
Why? Because they strapped in everything. Heck, when we were done delivering, they would strap in anything left over so it wouldn't just fly around the truck.
Some drivers were better than other, but overall, we had no shipping issues.
My best advice is to use an electronic logistics company to move your equipment. They may cost more, but when you receive damaged equipment, the lost time will more than likely pay for the difference.
There are some good things about this movie, but the plot will drive nitpicking techheads and nerds nuts with its implausibility.
So Katz just assumes since he's annoying, he's a nerd? Hmmmmm.....
What do you mean Counter Strike isn't fun anymore. Maybe try switching sides. That always seems to help me.
Ohhhhhhhh....CompSci....
Move to Utah, you'll find that separation of church and state do not exist.
What's the big deal, my phone has been running at 2.4GHz for well over a year now.
My guess is that the record companies will just give money to the DoJ to fund their investigation.
Oddly enough, this is the last article written on this subject.
The one interesting thing about this, is they took "production" machines without intentionally putting vulnerabilities on them. I think this is the way to do it, because it allows you to view the weaknesses of your servers...
If 99% of the net went down, we'd all learn to appreciate the 1% of pr0n that's left.
Does this not violate a US citizen's right to free speech? I am a huge olympics fan, and I love reading what the athletes have to say. Unfortunately NBC just does not have enough airtime (even between NBC, CNBC & MSNBC) to share all of the athletes memories. This is a very unfortunate situation, that I hope the IOC will let go of.