Your voting system is basically a first past the post system. This *really* does effectively mean that any vote not for one of the two major parties is a wasted vote even if the winner is a minority party.
In order for the people to be represented effectively, a proportional representation system would have to be implemented.
Um, you back up your system to 2 tapes simultaneously. One copy stays on site to allow immediate recovery, the other copy goes to your disaster recovery location (outwith fire/flood/earthquake/nuke range [10 - 20miles], anything bigger and frankly it doesn't really matter anyway).
Fairly straightforward. A vist to any Starbucks should pretty much convince you it isn't about coffee at all.
Last year, *all* of the coffee shops within walking distance became Starbucks and when all the coffee shops are Starbucks then it can become difficult to get a decent cup of coffee without buying your own machine.
In order to adjust buoyancy. Nitrogen makes up 70% of air so unless your nitrogen is especially dense/cold it shouldn't settle to the bottom. Alternatively it could be acting as a solar hot-air balloon by making the envelope a dark colour to absorb heat from the sun decrease the density and increase lift.
Yeah, I'm using SGE with a machine room full of solaris boxes to distribute interactive jobs, it's one of those pieces of software you look at afterwards and think, "Yeah, that's nice". Nice, easy to use and flexible system which does what it says on the tin, if not the cutting edge of distributed computing.
The old airships used to need loads of people on the ground to move them around. The Zeppelin has been designed specifically to reduce the ground crew, it has vectored thrust so doesn't really need any. IO believe the only ones necessary now are to help passengers on and off.
It doesn't cost as much to run as a helicopter
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The engines are flat 4 piston engines rather than turbines which reduces servicing costs and it doesn't have to burn fuel to sit stationary in the air. The Zeppelin is also designed specifically to require a minimal ground crew.
At the moment, the development costs still have to be paid and pilots earn a bundle because there aren't very many certified but in the long term the running costs should be lower than a helicopter with a similar carrying capacity. The thing cost around $9 million including ground infrastructure items like mast and refuelling vehicle.
I would agree, the machines you bought are gimmicks, damned near useless for any serious work. I on the other hand recognised that the Palm style machines are executive toys and bought a Psion S5 instead and got real work done on it for 7 years before it failed. The line was discontinued by that point. Then I got a Nokia 9210, basically the successor to the S5, a Psion Series 6 built into the phone and I continue to get real work done on it today and I fully expect to get another 5 years worth of real work done on it.
The people advocating voting machines are trying to solve a problem which doesn't exist. Technology for technology's sake.
Counting time isn't a problem. It would only be a problem if there was less than 1 day between the voting and installing the successful candidate as the representative.
The number of people involved isn't a problem, it's an advantage. They are volunteers and the more people involved, the lower the chance of electoral fraud. You can go watch the count yourself and verify to your own satisfaction that the votes people cast are the votes being counted.
The system is trivial. X marks the spot, it's pretty difficult to get that wrong. If you do manage to make a mistake, it says right there on the voting booth to tell the people manning the polling station and they'll get you another sheet.
The European elections used this cheap, simple, secure, verifiably effective system. 350+million Europeans voted, the UK on Thursday, most of the rest of Europe on Saturday. The vote count will start today at 6pm and will have results out by 9pm BST.
"We have determined that our customers often need extensive relaxation therapy during long and arduous commutes" said GM CEO Richard Wagoner Jr who dismissed claims that SUV owners were more in need of a wakeup call than a sedative environment.
Hey, IBM just won an award for their middleware system. The article talks about websphere MQ, but I'm going to assume it's YAMN for MQ Series. Odd that this never made an/. story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3797191.st m
BTW, you can roll your own to a large degree, (jabber, email, nntp etc) but it makes absolute sense to have some form of MOM in your organisation if you have more than a couple of systems.
Frankly, there's absolutely nothing unusual about this. The general level of management competence is such that, they rarely have any idea of exactly what their existing systems do or what the systems they are buying will do. I don't see why an educational establishment would be any different.
The reason that the US like the UK is basically a two party state (democracy?) is the election system.
You, like Britain use a first past the post system. You vote for an individual to be your representative. The problem is that the voting system doesn't ackowledge the fact that these individuals have banded together into parties. e.g The Labour party in the UK got only 42% of the popular vote across the country, that's a minority, 68% of the population didn't want them in power but the election system has given them a large majority of 65% in the parliament. That's a kick in the teeth for the majority and for democracy.
The solution is to change the election system to a proportional representation system. It increases the political complexity, but that basically is a reflection of the complexity of peoples lives.
NOT less. The counters are volunteers so it doesn't cost any more money but the more people involved the lower the chance of electoral fraud. I have to wonder why the US government is so desperate to reduce the numbers of people involved in determining who the government should be.
We've just had European elections. Around 200 million voters, about a 50% turnout overall. PAPER ballots, very simple and very effective, we won't know the results till Sunday, but does that really matter?
Because there isn't much evidence that CCTV *actually* makes you safer. The massive Manchester CCTV system has singularly failed to reduce crime significantly despite spending millions on it. In fact, the crime rates have increased since the system was installed in 2001.
"I've never heard of a single instance of someone suborning CCTV for their own ends"
CCTV is *entertainment*. I have seen instances on television of people suborning CCTV for their own ends. Where do you think the footage comes from? There was a recent case of one bloke who tried to commit suicide. It was caught on CCTV, the video of which was then sold to a TV company for broadcast.
http://www.legal500.com/devs/uk/it/ukit_130.htm http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/pres s -releases-2003/liberty-winss-key-cctv-case.shtml
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You're making the assumption that what you have is actually a democracy. It looks like a two party state to me.
Your voting system is basically a first past the post system. This *really* does effectively mean that any vote not for one of the two major parties is a wasted vote even if the winner is a minority party.
In order for the people to be represented effectively, a proportional representation system would have to be implemented.
I've had 2 spam text messages this year. One from Orange (bastards). I got 3 last year, so not a massive problem.
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
also for a commercial application.
http://www.mindjet.com/
And the originator:
http://www.buzancentre.com/TBuzan.html
Um, you back up your system to 2 tapes simultaneously. One copy stays on site to allow immediate recovery, the other copy goes to your disaster recovery location (outwith fire/flood/earthquake/nuke range [10 - 20miles], anything bigger and frankly it doesn't really matter anyway).
Fairly straightforward. A vist to any Starbucks should pretty much convince you it isn't about coffee at all.
Last year, *all* of the coffee shops within walking distance became Starbucks and when all the coffee shops are Starbucks then it can become difficult to get a decent cup of coffee without buying your own machine.
"Patent lawyers in favour of extending patents to software."
If you really need that much data, it will fairly quickly become cheaper than hard disk storage. Add something like Bacula to back it up.
Yeah, though that's ammonia rather than nitrogen. The web site specifically mentions nitrogen so if they're using ammonia, they're telling porkies.
In order to adjust buoyancy. Nitrogen makes up 70% of air so unless your nitrogen is especially dense/cold it shouldn't settle to the bottom. Alternatively it could be acting as a solar hot-air balloon by making the envelope a dark colour to absorb heat from the sun decrease the density and increase lift.
Yeah, I'm using SGE with a machine room full of solaris boxes to distribute interactive jobs, it's one of those pieces of software you look at afterwards and think, "Yeah, that's nice". Nice, easy to use and flexible system which does what it says on the tin, if not the cutting edge of distributed computing.
The Zeppelin NT has a rigid spine, the cells are arranged round about the spine. It isn't a blimp.
The old airships used to need loads of people on the ground to move them around. The Zeppelin has been designed specifically to reduce the ground crew, it has vectored thrust so doesn't really need any. IO believe the only ones necessary now are to help passengers on and off.
The engines are flat 4 piston engines rather than turbines which reduces servicing costs and it doesn't have to burn fuel to sit stationary in the air. The Zeppelin is also designed specifically to require a minimal ground crew.
At the moment, the development costs still have to be paid and pilots earn a bundle because there aren't very many certified but in the long term the running costs should be lower than a helicopter with a similar carrying capacity. The thing cost around $9 million including ground infrastructure items like mast and refuelling vehicle.
I would agree, the machines you bought are gimmicks, damned near useless for any serious work. I on the other hand recognised that the Palm style machines are executive toys and bought a Psion S5 instead and got real work done on it for 7 years before it failed. The line was discontinued by that point. Then I got a Nokia 9210, basically the successor to the S5, a Psion Series 6 built into the phone and I continue to get real work done on it today and I fully expect to get another 5 years worth of real work done on it.
The people advocating voting machines are trying to solve a problem which doesn't exist. Technology for technology's sake.
Counting time isn't a problem. It would only be a problem if there was less than 1 day between the voting and installing the successful candidate as the representative.
The number of people involved isn't a problem, it's an advantage. They are volunteers and the more people involved, the lower the chance of electoral fraud. You can go watch the count yourself and verify to your own satisfaction that the votes people cast are the votes being counted.
The system is trivial. X marks the spot, it's pretty difficult to get that wrong. If you do manage to make a mistake, it says right there on the voting booth to tell the people manning the polling station and they'll get you another sheet.
The European elections used this cheap, simple, secure, verifiably effective system. 350+million Europeans voted, the UK on Thursday, most of the rest of Europe on Saturday. The vote count will start today at 6pm and will have results out by 9pm BST.
"We have determined that our customers often need extensive relaxation therapy during long and arduous commutes" said GM CEO Richard Wagoner Jr who dismissed claims that SUV owners were more in need of a wakeup call than a sedative environment.
Hey, IBM just won an award for their middleware system. The article talks about websphere MQ, but I'm going to assume it's YAMN for MQ Series. Odd that this never made an /. story.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3797191.s
BTW, you can roll your own to a large degree, (jabber, email, nntp etc) but it makes absolute sense to have some form of MOM in your organisation if you have more than a couple of systems.
Frankly, there's absolutely nothing unusual about this. The general level of management competence is such that, they rarely have any idea of exactly what their existing systems do or what the systems they are buying will do. I don't see why an educational establishment would be any different.
The reason that the US like the UK is basically a two party state (democracy?) is the election system.
You, like Britain use a first past the post system. You vote for an individual to be your representative. The problem is that the voting system doesn't ackowledge the fact that these individuals have banded together into parties. e.g The Labour party in the UK got only 42% of the popular vote across the country, that's a minority, 68% of the population didn't want them in power but the election system has given them a large majority of 65% in the parliament. That's a kick in the teeth for the majority and for democracy.
The solution is to change the election system to a proportional representation system. It increases the political complexity, but that basically is a reflection of the complexity of peoples lives.
NOT less. The counters are volunteers so it doesn't cost any more money but the more people involved the lower the chance of electoral fraud. I have to wonder why the US government is so desperate to reduce the numbers of people involved in determining who the government should be.
We've just had European elections. Around 200 million voters, about a 50% turnout overall. PAPER ballots, very simple and very effective, we won't know the results till Sunday, but does that really matter?
It's the easiest way to get 1.3TB from here to there.
Because there isn't much evidence that CCTV *actually* makes you safer. The massive Manchester CCTV system has singularly failed to reduce crime significantly despite spending millions on it. In fact, the crime rates have increased since the system was installed in 2001.
s s -releases-2003/liberty-winss-key-cctv-case.shtml
"I've never heard of a single instance of someone suborning CCTV for their own ends"
CCTV is *entertainment*. I have seen instances on television of people suborning CCTV for their own ends. Where do you think the footage comes from? There was a recent case of one bloke who tried to commit suicide. It was caught on CCTV, the video of which was then sold to a TV company for broadcast.
http://www.legal500.com/devs/uk/it/ukit_130.htm
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/press/pre
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2071397.stm
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Far far far cheaper and more effective way of reducing crime is simply better lighting.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors251.
Is that the war against Eastasia or the war against Euroasia?