What I got from the first commercial was: Jerry represents a brainless Microsoft customer who is destined to take first place in the Darwin Awards. His head is so full of idiotic ideas that when Bill Gates wants to sell him a "sweet and chewy" PC, he's first in line to break his teeth.
The second commercial seemed well summed up by this article. A cost/benefit analysis of a Seinfeld/Gates stay is like my experience installing XP: You can explicitly tell them twice to stay off the internet and use an assigned address, but they have no respect for social mores. They will fill your resources with their aging disfunctional bloat.
Just so you know, your suggested explanation of gerrymandering has no application here. The county line hasn't changed from its typical rectangle shape, and they don't tend to change as districts might. (Since the 50 continental states are rather well settled, and the 17th state of Ohio is rather old, its 88 counties have stuck true to form.)
Even if districts become redrawn, it shouldn't effect the popular vote total... the worst that can be done is to deprive a district of the needed equipment, which while true in 2004 did not seem to be the case in 2006. Likewise, Arkansas' Poinsett County from the story remains a simple rectangle as well, although their mayoral vote is confined to a limited district race.
"...My Republican woes," as you call them, stem from the centralized tallies of The Butler County Elections Commission. It pulls the votes from a county full of Diebold machines into a central tallying software, the infamous "GEMS" software: the same software that was seen reporting negative votes as early as the 2000 Election in Florida's Volusia County. With the ability to destroy the taped evidence as seen in HACKING DEMOCRACY (see parent), and no counted-as-cast verification, fraud can occur at the level of both the voting machine and the commission's county headquarters.
I forgot to add some ideas I'd like to see implimented:
Accounting Fraud Charges. While votes are not represented by some dollar amount, they require the same integrity. To career politicians, they *are* dollar figures, both in the public tax dollars that pay their offices, and the financial clout those offices empower in them. It just makes sense that the harshest federal laws (SEC?) should be applied to those who permit hidden bookkeeping in black box machines, who miserably fail an audit trail, and who get caught in the act of falsifying records in federal elections.
Encryption-based Voting. The website for PunchScan.org shows how a voter can be certain at the poll their vote is cast-as-intended, and take home a receipt that verifies their vote is counted-as-cast. That latter item is sadly lacking in current eVoting systems.
Direct Democracy. Career politicans are using a system of "representation" that was very necessary... 200 years ago. Today's technology leaves little excuse for why the electoral college should contradict the popular vote.
Party Independence. "One choice more than Russia" is little choice at all, if more than superficial. When two "opposing" parties collude, they break any checks and balances they'd otherwise compete to enforce. So if, for instance, the judicial and executive branches collude *not* to check each other, then they can make crime into freedom and freedom into crime. It's better for all of us if special interests (e.g. Big Oil) are faced with paying off five or more choices rather than the two party duopoly.
This story at least provides the rare but helpful proof of improper accounting. Usually, in larger races, you'd need a sizable group to testify they had voted contrary to the "official" total. Because laws often allow for a margin of 'error,' there is a definite sense of diluted responsibility that regards acountability to be out of reach in existing systems. At least some systems exist such as PunchScan.org that address the ability for the total to be checked as counted-as-cast. I only wish the story stated *which* electronic voting machines Poinsett County used.
Diebold's Accuvote TS machines have a history of failing the counted-as-cast test, starting with the NEGATIVE 16,022 votes awarded Al Gore in Volusia County's 2000 election. (At the time, Global Elections made the machines. Afterward, they were bought up by Diebold, who were instead infamous for their insecure ATM machines. Ironicly, Their "success" in the voting sector is selling more ATMs to bank chains such as 5th/3rd.)
According to the "HACKING DEMOCRACY" HBO Documentary, Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Elections threw out the signed paper audit tapes used in the 2004 elections, despite the legal obligation to file them for 14 mounths after a presidential election. Bev Harris of Black Box Voting is seen retreiving the tapes from the election board's warehouse trash, with signatures, and it shows hunreds of discrepencies from the "official" tape they printed afresh for her.
In my own experiences here in Butler County Ohio, I have no confidence in the results of our elections: suspicous to say the least. This year's 2006 results deny every Democrat candidate any victory in each race, despite the larger statetotals (including non-electronic voting counties) giving the win to a Democratic Governer, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Senator. But what makes the local results anomolous is that the House Representative an local offices were awarded to Republicans, and the county itself is largely a 'welfare county' whose largest City (Middletown) is founded on a failing steel industry. The disparity seems more closely tied to the voting machines than the voter demographics. Creepy.
Many may have forgotten that less than four months in office, Bush responded to a US Navy spy plane that was forced down in China... five months before the 9-11-01 hubbub would make the blunders seem irrelevant.
At the time, April 1st 2001, the plane and some 22 (?) US personnel were forced down and detained by China. On April 2nd, Bush issued a unilateral saber-rattling, demanding the return of the personnel, the plane, at the threat of a diplomacy breakdown. China found this "arrogant," and it took 11 days of detention before the US could carefully phrase an apology that satisfied their release.
I remember the news of it all too well... it coincided with the rioting in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine (at the place of my work) which began my daily panic attacks.
That Light Hawaiian Punch is so good I tend to buy it in gallon containers from stores like Meijers, Krogers, or *gasp* Wal-Mart. As little as $1.80USD. We went through four gallons of it at last Saturday's party.
I also favor Splenda over Nutrasweet (Aspartame) every time. Which do you prefer, sucralose's looser bowel movements, or aspartame's headaches? The U.S. Air Force tells pilots not to drink Nutrasweet/Aspartame, as it slows the responses of their nervous systems.
The above products admittedly lack caffeine, but I submit that is a good thing. (Take it from a guy whose racing heartbeat needs his bloodstream purged of adenaline, much less caffeine)...
If you suppliment your caffeine needs elsewhere, you can drink all the soda you want. That way you avoid the threat to your kidneys or panic attacks. By 'elsewhere,' I mean caffeine can come in tablets, teas, or coffees... or instead use natural stimulants like mints.
So do yourself a favor and separate your stimulants from your sodas. Or as someone else here suggested, give water a try... it's amazing. Slimming, reduces asthma symptoms, it does the body good. You can hardly get too much water, unless you wash out salts, so suppliment water with food!:-D
The best Splenda products seem to come from the 7-Up company: The Diet Rite series has no sugar, no calories, no caffeine. It comes in Orange, Raspberry, Cola, Strawberry-Kiwi, Black Cherry, and my personal favorite White Grape, which makes a good mixer.
Their Diet 7-Up is likewise good tasting, and also a good mixer.
But their best product is likely Light Hawaiian Punch, which fully rocks in its own right. And it's the best mixer... with vodka, rum, blackberry merlot, or most anything else you throw at it!:-D
It's important to vote, but even *more* important to reform voting. If you don't vote, you cannot claim to be the object of another's election crimes: you have only yourself to blame for your choice to be excluded. But if you do vote, it's fine to vote your conscience, inside or outside the two patry entrenchment. It's simply more important to fix the machine into behaving fairly than it is to feed your votes into a system that's broken.
On that note, I'd like to add that the electoral college makes myth of the notion "one person, one vote." The playing field is made so uneven, years after Lincoln became the first Republican president, that third parties are excluded from the college, as they no longer are given equal ballot access in all states. (Living in Ohio, we are refused the names of the independant Nader or the Green candidate Cobb, despite their popularity above other third parties. Die-hards will write them in, but it's clearly unequal.) So a vote for a duoplist, Bush or Kerry, is one vote for your choice and a second vote electorally fixed against the other... A vote for third party is only one vote, as it is electorally fixed to vanish statistically into the "protest percentage" that won't win.
Luckily, local elected offices aren't misrepresented by the college (barring vote machine rigging), so third parties can gain a grassroots foothold when smaller offices are won by these alternatives.
What is stunning though is the hijacking of parties these days. Pat Buchanon hijacked the USA Green Party, taking their election funding, so that the only viable portion to escape became the Green Party of States. Now Schwarzenegger became a Republican governer, while acting liberal on social issues, so he can ride the GOP's financial resources, pay tribute to their candidates, while bucking their party position on issues. ("If you love America, you're a Republican. If you don't know what you are, you're a Republican," says the Gov at the Republican Convention. Why not add, 'If you know you're against Republicans, you're still Republican'?)
Collusion is the key. When two "opposing" sides blur too closely, checks and balances bteween the two are destroyed, disenfranchising the people (those who aren't payed politicans) they claim to represent. When the executive branch and the judicial branch come to agreeements that Freedom is a crime, and Crime is a freedom, that's when we really get screwed.
I was the IT Specialist of The divisional headquarters of The Salvation Army in Cincinnati - the 'go to' guy for half of Ohio and Norther Kentucky. I was one of the 30,000+ people sending letters to the DoJ regarding Microsoft's anticompetitive pratices. (I shared account of how they tried charging us twice for Office licenses.)
Three months later, I had a four day vacation and when I came back, the locks on my office were changed and my personal contents were cleaned out. They gave me a "farewell interview" to express that their sole reason for firing me was "dissatisfactory performance," which is all their employment policy required. My ten year career with them was over, they would not give me opportunity to defend myself, and they wouldn't give me severance or unemployment.
(The Salvation Army, as a church, is not required by Ohio law to pay into unemployment. Compounded with losing my pension settlement for three months, I spent those months at zero income.)
I found out over a year later that Microsoft was behind it... It wasn't a local decision at all, but was enforced by Paul Kelly, IT Director of New York's Territorial HQ, along with policy banning Linux in our ten state territory! Paul normally has no direct dealings with me on the divisional level, but a contact in New York revealed how pivotal Paul considered me in that contraversy.
I haven't pulled together the witnesses and evidence to prove this in court, but the commonly held opinion is that Paul got the call from Microsoft which says "get rid of the problem, or we'll audit your business licenses."
So it seems The Salvation Army, a church, is also a wholy owned and operated subsidiary of Bill Gate's Evil Empire(tm).
I am aware of both the causing phenomenon (Greenhouse Effect) and the resulting phenonmenon (Global Warming). But Heat Pollution may be enough of a contributing causal phenomenon of its own to warrent further study.
I have several books from O'Reilly on Linux and Samba. Still there is one feat I haven't gotten: Printing from Linux to a Windows 98 Inkjet. I've even dropped the password requirement (behind the firewall), and they still don't talk. The only web advise that looks promising is the unwelcome suggestion of putting Ghostscript for Windows on the PC with the printer, so Linux can send it postscript jobs.
Other than that, there are just application bugs that I wrestle with. Mozilla has its bugs, and version 1.4 sometimes gets a corrupted history that kills all Dynamic content sites (PHP,.ASP, etc.) that send an Expires header. WINE takes a lot of configuring for it to still fail me in running Windows apps.
It's great to see the mention of the wattage and infrared inefficiencies of light sources, but it'd be better still to get numbers on what this does to global warming. If you think about the Terrawatts we're pouring into the atmosphere, there has got to be some measurable totals for temperature increase.
Heat polution can be more direct than light pollution. Light pollution is measurable in how it impedes stargazing, and thanks to this study how it sickens the biosphere... but what of the heat expelled in the generation and consumption of all our electricity?
Anyone flying in a plane at night knows there are a lot of billboards and lit buildings pointing their beams inefficiently into the night sky. I'd love to see some calculations on how many megacalories it takes to warm the earth's atmosphere a couple degrees. Chances are, we're literally consuming our own planet in wasted heat polution.
I don't seem to remember SCO giving IBM much of a chance for "good faith discussions"
More importantly, how can they expect "good faith discussions" from Red Hat, when they used the vehicle of their IBM press to first alledge violation on Red Hat's part?
SCO still has not formally charged someone with copyright violation... Their only (related) suit on record is a "contract breach" with IBM. That makes great grounds for libel and fraud, considering they continue to distribute Linux code over FTP months after proclaiming this a crime against themselves!
Fortunately or unfortunately, (and I believe fortunately) the US allows all people (over the age of 18), even those who aren't paying attention, to vote.
Sadly, this is just untrue. In fact, the U.S. Constitution has yet to assure us a Right To Vote, despite how often that document implies it, as you can read in this ReclaimDemocracy.org link. The 2000 Election illustrates how 94,000 exluded votes (only 3000 of which had 'serious' justification) makes a huge difference.
Several states exclude felons, or even alleged felons, from voting. Why does Canada seem more Free, as their Supreme Court ruled even inmates can vote?
...only better. More resolution, flipable display, and best of all, no WINCE.
The Mobilon stopped production when Microsoft pulled support out from under it. Seems the MIPS processor was a part of the WINCE Tower of Babel that they figured was more dispensible than the SH series.
The newest progression after object oriented programming seems to be Aspect Oriented programming. At the world famous Palo Alto Research Center, AspectJ was developed to compile AOP software into Java Bytecode. http://www.aspectj.org/
Of course, it's not a true departure from Java... it even recommends that program filenames end in.java . It can compile java code, but not the other way around.
"It's not that transistors use less material, but that the atoms themselves in the material shrink!" declares Special Agent Fox Mulder, expert in conspiracy theories.
"For eons we've wondered how come Dinosaurs were so much larger than modern mammals, but it's because the closer you get to the Big Bang, the largers those atoms were. I have something in my pocket that will astonish you..."
Agent Mulder removes from his pocket an atom the size of a tennis ball. "This is an atom from the Dawn of Time itself. The Al Queda has been trying to get there hands on this puppy, because you can split it with a butter knife."
(Portions of this post were lifted from a bit of Fan Video called "The Fed-EX Files" produced by a film crew in Montreal, Canada.)
> Strange -- hardware manufacturers don't often underestimate their products' capabilities, do they?
It's common for the aspirations of engineers to be lobotomized a little by the larger marketting beast. I've read several articles on the web where a Celeron motherboard could be greatly sped up by placing celophane tape over a single pin of the Celeron's card edge connector. But then we stray into the area of overclockers...
THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE that springs to mind is on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Color Computers. There was some story about doubling the RAM by bending two pins on a socketted IC chip. The story was that the onboard capacity was crippled for the sake of easy in-store upgrades.
You can't say "... it turns out to be phenomenally difficult to prove..."!
Actually, he is quite correct that it continues to be difficult to prove. Even if the proof can be contained in a statement that's Einteinianly simple (E=m_0c^2), the road to reach that proof has still proven to be phenomenally difficult.
I've been trying to publish my proof of Goldbach's conjecture, and it's just 12 pages long. (I'm serious.) I'm discovering a lot of barriers in Academia to getting heard. But as simple as the result sounds, the road to get there took weeks for direction and years for refinement... And I doubt it could be attained by someone who weren't a multidisciplinary scientist-and-artist, becuase the problem-solving required both the logic and the thinking-outside-the-box to deconstruct known methods into untried ones.
I'm not surprised in the least, since a 'fearsome foursome' is the ideal median for many of the best brainstorming committees. In publications, in comedy teams, it's surprisingly frequent.
I'm certsin it has a lot to do with being heard. Among more than four, you can easily feel as if your contributions go unheard. Fewer than four, you lack the same critical mass of stimulus from which to springboard ideas. Seven is often a maximum for a serious core group, and every dozen tends to have a Judas, just by numbers.
Last Year we had an IT Conference at the IBM Conference Center in Palisades NY. Great place, thin clients in the halls and all the hotel rooms.
Trick is, the room thin clients were set up differently than those in the halls. In the room, it was all rigged into a centrally managed Cirtix server, while the halls were diskless internet clients (with possibly more RAM).
When I'd call up web pages using FLASH, like http://www.MondoMiniShows.com/ , the sucky performance of Citrix was glaringly obvious. You'd be lucky to get about one frame per second.
Sneaking out into the hallway, I could view the animations in all their smoothness and highspeed glory. Still thin, but the native performance was spectacular by contrast.
Citrix performance isn't quite as speedy as X Window throughput. The LTSP yields better results and sound.
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What I got from the first commercial was:
Jerry represents a brainless Microsoft customer who is destined to take first place in the Darwin Awards. His head is so full of idiotic ideas that when Bill Gates wants to sell him a "sweet and chewy" PC, he's first in line to break his teeth.
The second commercial seemed well summed up by this article. A cost/benefit analysis of a Seinfeld/Gates stay is like my experience installing XP: You can explicitly tell them twice to stay off the internet and use an assigned address, but they have no respect for social mores. They will fill your resources with their aging disfunctional bloat.
Just so you know, your suggested explanation of gerrymandering has no application here. The county line hasn't changed from its typical rectangle shape, and they don't tend to change as districts might. (Since the 50 continental states are rather well settled, and the 17th state of Ohio is rather old, its 88 counties have stuck true to form.)
Even if districts become redrawn, it shouldn't effect the popular vote total... the worst that can be done is to deprive a district of the needed equipment, which while true in 2004 did not seem to be the case in 2006. Likewise, Arkansas' Poinsett County from the story remains a simple rectangle as well, although their mayoral vote is confined to a limited district race.
"...My Republican woes," as you call them, stem from the centralized tallies of The Butler County Elections Commission. It pulls the votes from a county full of Diebold machines into a central tallying software, the infamous "GEMS" software: the same software that was seen reporting negative votes as early as the 2000 Election in Florida's Volusia County. With the ability to destroy the taped evidence as seen in HACKING DEMOCRACY (see parent), and no counted-as-cast verification, fraud can occur at the level of both the voting machine and the commission's county headquarters.
Diebold's Accuvote TS machines have a history of failing the counted-as-cast test, starting with the NEGATIVE 16,022 votes awarded Al Gore in Volusia County's 2000 election. (At the time, Global Elections made the machines. Afterward, they were bought up by Diebold, who were instead infamous for their insecure ATM machines. Ironicly, Their "success" in the voting sector is selling more ATMs to bank chains such as 5th/3rd.)
According to the "HACKING DEMOCRACY" HBO Documentary, Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Elections threw out the signed paper audit tapes used in the 2004 elections, despite the legal obligation to file them for 14 mounths after a presidential election. Bev Harris of Black Box Voting is seen retreiving the tapes from the election board's warehouse trash, with signatures, and it shows hunreds of discrepencies from the "official" tape they printed afresh for her.
In my own experiences here in Butler County Ohio, I have no confidence in the results of our elections: suspicous to say the least. This year's 2006 results deny every Democrat candidate any victory in each race, despite the larger state totals (including non-electronic voting counties) giving the win to a Democratic Governer, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Senator. But what makes the local results anomolous is that the House Representative an local offices were awarded to Republicans, and the county itself is largely a 'welfare county' whose largest City (Middletown) is founded on a failing steel industry. The disparity seems more closely tied to the voting machines than the voter demographics. Creepy.
Many may have forgotten that less than four months in office, Bush responded to a US Navy spy plane that was forced down in China... five months before the 9-11-01 hubbub would make the blunders seem irrelevant.
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At the time, April 1st 2001, the plane and some 22 (?) US personnel were forced down and detained by China. On April 2nd, Bush issued a unilateral saber-rattling, demanding the return of the personnel, the plane, at the threat of a diplomacy breakdown. China found this "arrogant," and it took 11 days of detention before the US could carefully phrase an apology that satisfied their release.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-ju
I remember the news of it all too well... it coincided with the rioting in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine (at the place of my work) which began my daily panic attacks.
The incident five years ago cost the life of one of the two Chinese escort pilots. Their new "solution" is agruably less deadly.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/0
I also favor Splenda over Nutrasweet (Aspartame) every time. Which do you prefer, sucralose's looser bowel movements, or aspartame's headaches? The U.S. Air Force tells pilots not to drink Nutrasweet/Aspartame, as it slows the responses of their nervous systems.
If you suppliment your caffeine needs elsewhere, you can drink all the soda you want. That way you avoid the threat to your kidneys or panic attacks. By 'elsewhere,' I mean caffeine can come in tablets, teas, or coffees... or instead use natural stimulants like mints.
So do yourself a favor and separate your stimulants from your sodas. Or as someone else here suggested, give water a try... it's amazing. Slimming, reduces asthma symptoms, it does the body good. You can hardly get too much water, unless you wash out salts, so suppliment water with food!
The best Splenda products seem to come from the 7-Up company: The Diet Rite series has no sugar, no calories, no caffeine. It comes in Orange, Raspberry, Cola, Strawberry-Kiwi, Black Cherry, and my personal favorite White Grape, which makes a good mixer. :-D
Their Diet 7-Up is likewise good tasting, and also a good mixer.
But their best product is likely Light Hawaiian Punch, which fully rocks in its own right. And it's the best mixer... with vodka, rum, blackberry merlot, or most anything else you throw at it!
I forgot to 'bottom-line it' for the readers:
It's important to vote, but even *more* important to reform voting. If you don't vote, you cannot claim to be the object of another's election crimes: you have only yourself to blame for your choice to be excluded. But if you do vote, it's fine to vote your conscience, inside or outside the two patry entrenchment. It's simply more important to fix the machine into behaving fairly than it is to feed your votes into a system that's broken.
On that note, I'd like to add that the electoral college makes myth of the notion "one person, one vote." The playing field is made so uneven, years after Lincoln became the first Republican president, that third parties are excluded from the college, as they no longer are given equal ballot access in all states. (Living in Ohio, we are refused the names of the independant Nader or the Green candidate Cobb, despite their popularity above other third parties. Die-hards will write them in, but it's clearly unequal.) So a vote for a duoplist, Bush or Kerry, is one vote for your choice and a second vote electorally fixed against the other... A vote for third party is only one vote, as it is electorally fixed to vanish statistically into the "protest percentage" that won't win.
Luckily, local elected offices aren't misrepresented by the college (barring vote machine rigging), so third parties can gain a grassroots foothold when smaller offices are won by these alternatives.
What is stunning though is the hijacking of parties these days. Pat Buchanon hijacked the USA Green Party, taking their election funding, so that the only viable portion to escape became the Green Party of States. Now Schwarzenegger became a Republican governer, while acting liberal on social issues, so he can ride the GOP's financial resources, pay tribute to their candidates, while bucking their party position on issues. ("If you love America, you're a Republican. If you don't know what you are, you're a Republican," says the Gov at the Republican Convention. Why not add, 'If you know you're against Republicans, you're still Republican'?)
Collusion is the key. When two "opposing" sides blur too closely, checks and balances bteween the two are destroyed, disenfranchising the people (those who aren't payed politicans) they claim to represent. When the executive branch and the judicial branch come to agreeements that Freedom is a crime, and Crime is a freedom, that's when we really get screwed.
Twenty Four... in only Twelve!
I was the IT Specialist of The divisional headquarters of The Salvation Army in Cincinnati - the 'go to' guy for half of Ohio and Norther Kentucky. I was one of the 30,000+ people sending letters to the DoJ regarding Microsoft's anticompetitive pratices. (I shared account of how they tried charging us twice for Office licenses.)
Three months later, I had a four day vacation and when I came back, the locks on my office were changed and my personal contents were cleaned out. They gave me a "farewell interview" to express that their sole reason for firing me was "dissatisfactory performance," which is all their employment policy required. My ten year career with them was over, they would not give me opportunity to defend myself, and they wouldn't give me severance or unemployment.
(The Salvation Army, as a church, is not required by Ohio law to pay into unemployment. Compounded with losing my pension settlement for three months, I spent those months at zero income.)
I found out over a year later that Microsoft was behind it... It wasn't a local decision at all, but was enforced by Paul Kelly, IT Director of New York's Territorial HQ, along with policy banning Linux in our ten state territory! Paul normally has no direct dealings with me on the divisional level, but a contact in New York revealed how pivotal Paul considered me in that contraversy.
I haven't pulled together the witnesses and evidence to prove this in court, but the commonly held opinion is that Paul got the call from Microsoft which says "get rid of the problem, or we'll audit your business licenses."
So it seems The Salvation Army, a church, is also a wholy owned and operated subsidiary of Bill Gate's Evil Empire(tm).
Joel 'Twisty' Nye, MCSA, Linux+
I am aware of both the causing phenomenon (Greenhouse Effect) and the resulting phenonmenon (Global Warming). But Heat Pollution may be enough of a contributing causal phenomenon of its own to warrent further study.
I have several books from O'Reilly on Linux and Samba. Still there is one feat I haven't gotten: Printing from Linux to a Windows 98 Inkjet. I've even dropped the password requirement (behind the firewall), and they still don't talk. The only web advise that looks promising is the unwelcome suggestion of putting Ghostscript for Windows on the PC with the printer, so Linux can send it postscript jobs.
.ASP, etc.) that send an Expires header. WINE takes a lot of configuring for it to still fail me in running Windows apps.
Other than that, there are just application bugs that I wrestle with. Mozilla has its bugs, and version 1.4 sometimes gets a corrupted history that kills all Dynamic content sites (PHP,
It's great to see the mention of the wattage and infrared inefficiencies of light sources, but it'd be better still to get numbers on what this does to global warming. If you think about the Terrawatts we're pouring into the atmosphere, there has got to be some measurable totals for temperature increase.
Heat polution can be more direct than light pollution. Light pollution is measurable in how it impedes stargazing, and thanks to this study how it sickens the biosphere... but what of the heat expelled in the generation and consumption of all our electricity?
Anyone flying in a plane at night knows there are a lot of billboards and lit buildings pointing their beams inefficiently into the night sky. I'd love to see some calculations on how many megacalories it takes to warm the earth's atmosphere a couple degrees. Chances are, we're literally consuming our own planet in wasted heat polution.
SCO still has not formally charged someone with copyright violation... Their only (related) suit on record is a "contract breach" with IBM. That makes great grounds for libel and fraud, considering they continue to distribute Linux code over FTP months after proclaiming this a crime against themselves!
Sadly, this is just untrue. In fact, the U.S. Constitution has yet to assure us a Right To Vote, despite how often that document implies it, as you can read in this ReclaimDemocracy.org link.
The 2000 Election illustrates how 94,000 exluded votes (only 3000 of which had 'serious' justification) makes a huge difference.
Several states exclude felons, or even alleged felons, from voting. Why does Canada seem more Free, as their Supreme Court ruled even inmates can vote?
...only better. More resolution, flipable display, and best of all, no WINCE.
The Mobilon stopped production when Microsoft pulled support out from under it. Seems the MIPS processor was a part of the WINCE Tower of Babel that they figured was more dispensible than the SH series.
Of course, it's not a true departure from Java... it even recommends that program filenames end in .java . It can compile java code, but not the other way around.
"It's not that transistors use less material, but that the atoms themselves in the material shrink!" declares Special Agent Fox Mulder, expert in conspiracy theories.
"For eons we've wondered how come Dinosaurs were so much larger than modern mammals, but it's because the closer you get to the Big Bang, the largers those atoms were. I have something in my pocket that will astonish you..."
Agent Mulder removes from his pocket an atom the size of a tennis ball. "This is an atom from the Dawn of Time itself. The Al Queda has been trying to get there hands on this puppy, because you can split it with a butter knife."
(Portions of this post were lifted from a bit of Fan Video called "The Fed-EX Files" produced by a film crew in Montreal, Canada.)
It's common for the aspirations of engineers to be lobotomized a little by the larger marketting beast. I've read several articles on the web where a Celeron motherboard could be greatly sped up by placing celophane tape over a single pin of the Celeron's card edge connector. But then we stray into the area of overclockers...
THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE that springs to mind is on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Color Computers. There was some story about doubling the RAM by bending two pins on a socketted IC chip. The story was that the onboard capacity was crippled for the sake of easy in-store upgrades.
Actually, he is quite correct that it continues to be difficult to prove. Even if the proof can be contained in a statement that's Einteinianly simple (E=m_0c^2), the road to reach that proof has still proven to be phenomenally difficult.
I've been trying to publish my proof of Goldbach's conjecture, and it's just 12 pages long. (I'm serious.) I'm discovering a lot of barriers in Academia to getting heard. But as simple as the result sounds, the road to get there took weeks for direction and years for refinement... And I doubt it could be attained by someone who weren't a multidisciplinary scientist-and-artist, becuase the problem-solving required both the logic and the thinking-outside-the-box to deconstruct known methods into untried ones.
I'm not surprised in the least, since a 'fearsome foursome' is the ideal median for many of the best brainstorming committees. In publications, in comedy teams, it's surprisingly frequent.
I'm certsin it has a lot to do with being heard. Among more than four, you can easily feel as if your contributions go unheard. Fewer than four, you lack the same critical mass of stimulus from which to springboard ideas. Seven is often a maximum for a serious core group, and every dozen tends to have a Judas, just by numbers.
Last Year we had an IT Conference at the IBM Conference Center in Palisades NY. Great place, thin clients in the halls and all the hotel rooms.
Trick is, the room thin clients were set up differently than those in the halls. In the room, it was all rigged into a centrally managed Cirtix server, while the halls were diskless internet clients (with possibly more RAM).
When I'd call up web pages using FLASH, like http://www.MondoMiniShows.com/ , the sucky performance of Citrix was glaringly obvious. You'd be lucky to get about one frame per second.
Sneaking out into the hallway, I could view the animations in all their smoothness and highspeed glory. Still thin, but the native performance was spectacular by contrast.
Citrix performance isn't quite as speedy as X Window throughput. The LTSP yields better results and sound.