... time to find some cheap alchohol and roam the streets.
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I like that idea of not getting employees dependent on a fixed bonus. I also really like the idea of having them decide how to spend the money... it will make them feel more in control and listened to. You could allow them to make the decision themselves, invest up to $1500 on work tools/training, and they can take 75% of what's left over in cash.
You could make it a competition thing. Tie the two games together so that True Crime cops try to catch GTA players. Then you could have gangs of GTA players vs. precincts of True Crime players.
Wow, you actually commute? If you start counting the number of SUVs with passengers and the number of motorcycles with passengers, I'd bet the ratio is similar.
But, I do agree with you... commuters should be taken into consideration... somehow.
Though I have to ask... why can't you fit three people in a standard sized passenger car for travelling to the office?
I don't mean to rag on you Parsec, but I think your ideas of encouraging transportation habits by engineering are naive.
Understood, and taken into consideration. I'm just posting as an idea to be considered. People will drive even if it takes many times times as long to find a spot as walking. Part is probably learned helplessness, and just plain laziness. Engineering and social engineering are both required... and good luck on that!
I don't think we should stop trying and experimenting to improve our cities, though. Even if we make mistakes along the way.
No you'll find them wedged into small spots completely destroying anything around them. Clearly the only solution is to ban people from driving at all.
The way some people drive, that sometimes doesn't seem like a bad idea.
I know, you're arguing the point of absurdity here. But we already legislate, to some degree, certain minimum requirements of vehicles on the road. Why should we, as taxpayers, spend more money on maintenance and construction of roads and parking structures for those who insist on taking much more than they need? Let them fund it by charging a premium for excessively large vehicles.
So make new parking garages 5' tall. You'll get more vehicles in per vertical unit of space. And enforce already existing laws about parking over two spaces. Also, handicap vehicles would remain exempt and still guaranteed a minimum height for the first level of the garage (so they could fit their wheelchair lift equipped van somewhere).
One way to ban large vehicles, would be to only fund / build parking for mini-vehicles. Sure you could drive around in your SUV, but there's nowhere to park the thing.
Would be to ban large vehicles from the city. Only allow one or two-person mini-vehicles in, while every SUV has to park on the border and take public transportation.
It wouldn't be a politically popular move, but it would be space and fuel efficient.
Thanks for the links... I'll have to watch for a good deal for my home server (will be a FW iBook w/combo drive).
I suppose, if you wanted to experiment, and possibly upgrade later, the Pegasos board could be good. But if you wanted to run MacOS X inexpensively, the point of these comments is that's probably not the most cost effective way to do it. And, in fact, you could get a whole lot of mobility in comparison for a similar price.
Or a used iBook from PowerMax: a white G3/500 is about about $839.
If you are a student, you can get the eMac for $749. Or checking Apple's refurbished deals there is a refurbished G3/700 iBook for $799 (non-educational price).
But voters may claim, after the fact, that it changed their vote. Two more design factors may come into play here.
Make the candidate selection part of the VID. It's still not reversible, nor modifiable.
The receipts are barcoded (or similar technology) with the VID.
One receipt, the one they keep, has the vote spelled out clearly.
The other receipt, has no identifiable information on it, this is the vote confirmation receipt.
The voter verifies that the barcodes and VIDs match on both receipts.
On exiting the polls, the voter scans this receipt, verifies that the the readout is the VID, and drops the receipt into a locked box. The scan would later be used to verify that the vote was recorded in the voting machine. The box with the physical receipts would remain locked unless there were more than a few discrepencies.
The voter could later verify that their VID was recorded in the vote.
At the voting machine, the VID and vote recorded would be printed into a locked box, with a window for the voter to view and verify.
At the verification scanning machine, the verification would also be printed into a separate locked box, with a similar window for the voter to view and verify.
Features are:
Votes are recorded:
Once digitally
On physical paper twice
voting machine copy
voter's copy
VIDs are recorded:
digitally twice
voting machine database
exit scanner database
on physical paper three times
voting machine locked box
voter's copy
exit scanner paper to locked box
There can be no more votes than VIDs
There can be no less votes than VIDs
Paper copies of VIDs are kept in two places, not opened unless there are discrepencies
Digital VIDs can be verified online
Problems come in with people working the polls who may stuff ballots, but it seems to me to be a risk with the current system.
tdemark: Would you mind if I reproduced your comments on a web site? I think they're a good starting point which should be disseminated, not buried in a/. story.
Winxx admins hope everything is cool, so they can get back to their cheeseburgers.
Now that is stereotyping... ummm... no, wait... our Wins admins really do like cheeseburgers.
In all fairness, I think our Wins and *nix admins all like to spend time tinkering and improving the systems. The Wins admins just have less free time... if they're keeping up with patches and help desk calls... much less free time, actually. Can you give a manager a convincing argument that the *nix admins aren't spending time adding in features that were already in Windows?
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... the tracks seem to be separated just fine on the CDs I purchase.
w/wireless
"When you care enough to frag your family."
"I missile you."
Oops, let me put that in a proper URL.
They sell it down at the local home improvement store.
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... time to find some cheap alchohol and roam the streets.
I like that idea of not getting employees dependent on a fixed bonus. I also really like the idea of having them decide how to spend the money... it will make them feel more in control and listened to. You could allow them to make the decision themselves, invest up to $1500 on work tools/training, and they can take 75% of what's left over in cash.
You could make it a competition thing. Tie the two games together so that True Crime cops try to catch GTA players. Then you could have gangs of GTA players vs. precincts of True Crime players.
Wow, you actually commute? If you start counting the number of SUVs with passengers and the number of motorcycles with passengers, I'd bet the ratio is similar.
But, I do agree with you... commuters should be taken into consideration... somehow.
Though I have to ask... why can't you fit three people in a standard sized passenger car for travelling to the office?
I don't mean to rag on you Parsec, but I think your ideas of encouraging transportation habits by engineering are naive.
Understood, and taken into consideration. I'm just posting as an idea to be considered. People will drive even if it takes many times times as long to find a spot as walking. Part is probably learned helplessness, and just plain laziness. Engineering and social engineering are both required... and good luck on that!
I don't think we should stop trying and experimenting to improve our cities, though. Even if we make mistakes along the way.
No you'll find them wedged into small spots completely destroying anything around them. Clearly the only solution is to ban people from driving at all.
The way some people drive, that sometimes doesn't seem like a bad idea.
I know, you're arguing the point of absurdity here. But we already legislate, to some degree, certain minimum requirements of vehicles on the road. Why should we, as taxpayers, spend more money on maintenance and construction of roads and parking structures for those who insist on taking much more than they need? Let them fund it by charging a premium for excessively large vehicles.
So make new parking garages 5' tall. You'll get more vehicles in per vertical unit of space. And enforce already existing laws about parking over two spaces. Also, handicap vehicles would remain exempt and still guaranteed a minimum height for the first level of the garage (so they could fit their wheelchair lift equipped van somewhere).
One way to ban large vehicles, would be to only fund / build parking for mini-vehicles. Sure you could drive around in your SUV, but there's nowhere to park the thing.
Would be to ban large vehicles from the city. Only allow one or two-person mini-vehicles in, while every SUV has to park on the border and take public transportation. It wouldn't be a politically popular move, but it would be space and fuel efficient.
What if you compiled the code? If debugging information is stripped, shouldn't "x=5" be the same as "myVariable=5; /* blah blah blah */"?
Perhaps this will result in a router tax, similar to the CD-R tax... because, everyone knows, CD-Rs are only used to burn illegally copied music.
Sorry, misunderstood what they were doing... mod me down.
I can't stand commercial radio... are public/ college stations in the mix?
Thanks for the links... I'll have to watch for a good deal for my home server (will be a FW iBook w/combo drive).
I suppose, if you wanted to experiment, and possibly upgrade later, the Pegasos board could be good. But if you wanted to run MacOS X inexpensively, the point of these comments is that's probably not the most cost effective way to do it. And, in fact, you could get a whole lot of mobility in comparison for a similar price.
Or a used iBook from PowerMax: a white G3/500 is about about $839.
If you are a student, you can get the eMac for $749. Or checking Apple's refurbished deals there is a refurbished G3/700 iBook for $799 (non-educational price).
I thought I remembered having something like that in high school... {hmmm}... maybe it was just the calculator version.
Or see one of those stupid Casio calculator/phone # storing watch circa 1980s... smaller than a credit card.
But voters may claim, after the fact, that it changed their vote. Two more design factors may come into play here.
At the voting machine, the VID and vote recorded would be printed into a locked box, with a window for the voter to view and verify.
At the verification scanning machine, the verification would also be printed into a separate locked box, with a similar window for the voter to view and verify.
Features are:
VIDs are recorded:
There can be no more votes than VIDs
There can be no less votes than VIDs
Paper copies of VIDs are kept in two places, not opened unless there are discrepencies
Digital VIDs can be verified online
Problems come in with people working the polls who may stuff ballots, but it seems to me to be a risk with the current system.
tdemark: Would you mind if I reproduced your comments on a web site? I think they're a good starting point which should be disseminated, not buried in a /. story.
... but what's a few million "}"s among friends...
Winxx admins hope everything is cool, so they can get back to their cheeseburgers.
Now that is stereotyping... ummm... no, wait... our Wins admins really do like cheeseburgers.
In all fairness, I think our Wins and *nix admins all like to spend time tinkering and improving the systems. The Wins admins just have less free time... if they're keeping up with patches and help desk calls... much less free time, actually. Can you give a manager a convincing argument that the *nix admins aren't spending time adding in features that were already in Windows?
** Woowheee, brownouts!! **