Where I vote, there is an armed uniform officer. You give your name to and address* to an election judge, they hand you a ballot and cross your name off the voter role. The ballot is paper and you mark your selections by filling in ovals with a black felt tip marker. After you come out of the booth, you give your name to to the officer who crosses you off a second list. Then you insert your ballot into the ballot box which has a built in optical scanner.
The whole process took 10 minutes from walking in the front door to walking out again. I didn't have to show ID. I can see the utility of computerized systems for giving independence to disabled voters, but I don't understand the mad rush to implement it for the general populace.
* If you are homeless, you can describe or draw where you spend most of your time on the voter registration form. I don't know how they find you in the roles, presumably there's a "none" heading under addresses.
Just a nit, but the OP should be quoting the AP piece, not attributing it to mainrack:
By David Espo and Liz Sidoti, Associated Press Writers | November 8, 2006
WASHINGTON --Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon, Republican officials said Wednesday. Article Tools
Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.
The reality is that pure Capitalism as an economic system is pretty much a failure. It self destructed in the 30s. Every successful industrial state since then has been structured around a somewhat fascist government economy. The only difference is whether that economy is regulated primarily via military spending (US) or social programs (Europe). Arguably the average working class person is better off under European-style socialism than the Pentagon system, but neither one is ideal.
Unfortunately, Asteroids just isn't the same on a regular CRT. The only way to play is on an arcade machine with the bullets blazing little phosphor trails across a vector monitor.
Mine doesn't on a 384/768 residential line. Neither does Speakeasy. In fact, I've never had to deal with blocked prots because I refuse to do business with ISPs that block ports.
So if UUNet is throttling traffic to Amazon how will switching from Comcast to ATT help? It won't. Chances are all routes from your physical location to a given host passes through one of only a few Tier 1 providers regardless of who your last mile ISP is. Don't think in terms of your local ISP charging you to vist websites, think of trunk carriers charging websites to receive traffic from them.
Breaking Net Neutrality violates the End to End Principal. Think of it this way: would you want a phone call from Boston to Florida to cost more than one from New York to California because some regional telco in Georgia wanted to charge Miami more to receive calls? The end of a rational peering system won't be the end of the Internet, it will just be the end of this internet.
Also, I think that the signal coming off a record player is way weaker than line level (I would guess more like mic level). I jacked my CD player into the phono inputs once, and I'll never do it again. Judging by the blast I received from that incident, I doubt you'd even be able to hear phono through normal line amplification.
All ages shows are becoming a thing of the past. Stricter alcohol regulations, overzealous police, and flighty club owners have combined to drive all ages shows pretty much off the map. Around here anyway (Boston) the Xs used to be reserved for the nondrinkers and it was the straghtedge kids, both over and under 21, that used them as a status symbol.
I've been using CoverFlow for a while now -- it used to be a separate product. It did a very good job on the initial import. IIRC, the original version searched Amazon and maybe a couple of other sites and it wouldn't replace your existing art, it would just skip those albums. I would say it got about 80% of my albums. It did the worst on electronic/techo stuff and my old Boston hardcore albums. I manually googled for the rest and after that, I flipped through the results and tried to find my own art for the really poor quality scans.
I'm really pleased to see this get incorporated in iTunes. It's a much more pleasant way to browse your music if you enjoy listining to albums instead of flipping between tracks in an ADD-like fasion. I hope Apple compensated the author well for it.
You do know you can buy a month's worth of access to WoW in an EB or many other gaming stores for cash, right? I don't know if you can create an account without a credit card, but you could certainly buy and maintain one without.
The hourglass is just a picture. It has no intrinsic meaning as far as the application goes. You're supposed to change the cursor to the hourglass when your program is about to do something that will cause it to cease reacting to user input. Then, after the blocking call, you change it back to a pointer. A process could be pegging the CPU and still be showing the arrow pointer because it can still respond to you (think software HD video decoding). It could also be showing an hourglass and not using any CPU or disk resources at all (like a network application waiting for the server to respond).
Assuming you're on Windows, and that by "busy", you mean how often the CPU has been in use, then go into the Processes tab of Task Manager and look at the CPU time column for PID 0 (System Idle Process). Subtract that time from system up time to get the amount of time the CPU was in use, or divide to get idle%.
But why is that an issue unique to mp3? If you're playing an encoded CD, the volume across tracks should already be balanced. If it's a mixed playlist, then you should have normalized before you encoded. Alternatively, the player could apply (yuk) compression on output.
1. Start decoding an mp3 to raw audio into a circular buffer. 2. Buffer a few ms worth of audio. 3. Start playback using the audio in the buffer. 4. When you reach the end of the current track, move to the next track and start decoding, appending to the same buffer. 5. If the user manually switches tracks, clear the buffer and start back at 1.
I don't see how individual parameters on the mp3 file would affect anything but the decoder. I also don't understand why it would produce artefacts.
They didn't mention any of these people having title insurance. Isn't that pretty much manditory when you purchase a home. If the defrauded buyers were insured, couldn't they file a claim, and use that money to pay off the mortgage?
Apple replaced most of the functionality with funky hotkeys and doesn't have full keyboard-only control
Do you have a link to these hot keys? I really miss Pause when working in the terminal and Insert when editing text. Is there any way to reproduce them in OS X? When I google I only find sites discussing their absence.
Of course, since no one is forcing said country to buy corn from overseas at the expense of their own people you can just as easily place the blame there.
Depending on whether the country in question has gone through "debt restructuring" via the IMF, then yes, someone may be forcing them to buy imported produce. Or they might be forced to cease offering subsidies to their own farmers and export their own produce.
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You can't stick coins in a G string... Won't some one please think of the strippers!
Where I vote, there is an armed uniform officer. You give your name to and address* to an election judge, they hand you a ballot and cross your name off the voter role. The ballot is paper and you mark your selections by filling in ovals with a black felt tip marker. After you come out of the booth, you give your name to to the officer who crosses you off a second list. Then you insert your ballot into the ballot box which has a built in optical scanner.
The whole process took 10 minutes from walking in the front door to walking out again. I didn't have to show ID. I can see the utility of computerized systems for giving independence to disabled voters, but I don't understand the mad rush to implement it for the general populace.
* If you are homeless, you can describe or draw where you spend most of your time on the voter registration form. I don't know how they find you in the roles, presumably there's a "none" heading under addresses.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/arti
You forgot to link to the most important Santorum site of all!
The reality is that pure Capitalism as an economic system is pretty much a failure. It self destructed in the 30s. Every successful industrial state since then has been structured around a somewhat fascist government economy. The only difference is whether that economy is regulated primarily via military spending (US) or social programs (Europe). Arguably the average working class person is better off under European-style socialism than the Pentagon system, but neither one is ideal.
Unfortunately, Asteroids just isn't the same on a regular CRT. The only way to play is on an arcade machine with the bullets blazing little phosphor trails across a vector monitor.
Mine doesn't on a 384/768 residential line. Neither does Speakeasy. In fact, I've never had to deal with blocked prots because I refuse to do business with ISPs that block ports.
So if UUNet is throttling traffic to Amazon how will switching from Comcast to ATT help? It won't. Chances are all routes from your physical location to a given host passes through one of only a few Tier 1 providers regardless of who your last mile ISP is. Don't think in terms of your local ISP charging you to vist websites, think of trunk carriers charging websites to receive traffic from them.
Breaking Net Neutrality violates the End to End Principal. Think of it this way: would you want a phone call from Boston to Florida to cost more than one from New York to California because some regional telco in Georgia wanted to charge Miami more to receive calls? The end of a rational peering system won't be the end of the Internet, it will just be the end of this internet.
Also, I think that the signal coming off a record player is way weaker than line level (I would guess more like mic level). I jacked my CD player into the phono inputs once, and I'll never do it again. Judging by the blast I received from that incident, I doubt you'd even be able to hear phono through normal line amplification.
All ages shows are becoming a thing of the past. Stricter alcohol regulations, overzealous police, and flighty club owners have combined to drive all ages shows pretty much off the map. Around here anyway (Boston) the Xs used to be reserved for the nondrinkers and it was the straghtedge kids, both over and under 21, that used them as a status symbol.
I've been using CoverFlow for a while now -- it used to be a separate product. It did a very good job on the initial import. IIRC, the original version searched Amazon and maybe a couple of other sites and it wouldn't replace your existing art, it would just skip those albums. I would say it got about 80% of my albums. It did the worst on electronic/techo stuff and my old Boston hardcore albums. I manually googled for the rest and after that, I flipped through the results and tried to find my own art for the really poor quality scans.
I'm really pleased to see this get incorporated in iTunes. It's a much more pleasant way to browse your music if you enjoy listining to albums instead of flipping between tracks in an ADD-like fasion. I hope Apple compensated the author well for it.
More specifically, send it to the HoL.
You do know you can buy a month's worth of access to WoW in an EB or many other gaming stores for cash, right? I don't know if you can create an account without a credit card, but you could certainly buy and maintain one without.
The hourglass is just a picture. It has no intrinsic meaning as far as the application goes. You're supposed to change the cursor to the hourglass when your program is about to do something that will cause it to cease reacting to user input. Then, after the blocking call, you change it back to a pointer. A process could be pegging the CPU and still be showing the arrow pointer because it can still respond to you (think software HD video decoding). It could also be showing an hourglass and not using any CPU or disk resources at all (like a network application waiting for the server to respond).
Assuming you're on Windows, and that by "busy", you mean how often the CPU has been in use, then go into the Processes tab of Task Manager and look at the CPU time column for PID 0 (System Idle Process). Subtract that time from system up time to get the amount of time the CPU was in use, or divide to get idle%.
But why is that an issue unique to mp3? If you're playing an encoded CD, the volume across tracks should already be balanced. If it's a mixed playlist, then you should have normalized before you encoded. Alternatively, the player could apply (yuk) compression on output.
Why would this not work:
1. Start decoding an mp3 to raw audio into a circular buffer.
2. Buffer a few ms worth of audio.
3. Start playback using the audio in the buffer.
4. When you reach the end of the current track, move to the next track and start decoding, appending to the same buffer.
5. If the user manually switches tracks, clear the buffer and start back at 1.
I don't see how individual parameters on the mp3 file would affect anything but the decoder. I also don't understand why it would produce artefacts.
They didn't mention any of these people having title insurance. Isn't that pretty much manditory when you purchase a home. If the defrauded buyers were insured, couldn't they file a claim, and use that money to pay off the mortgage?
Probably something like this one.
I prefer C:
Stuff it in a bale of marijuana!
Just goes to show that this comic was way ahead of its time...
Hey, I like my local politicians to be petty and vindictive. It keeps me entertained when the Soxs are sucking
Careful pulling your wallet out to retrieve your list, you wouldn't want to accidentally get shot 41 times.
Do you have a link to these hot keys? I really miss Pause when working in the terminal and Insert when editing text. Is there any way to reproduce them in OS X? When I google I only find sites discussing their absence.
Depending on whether the country in question has gone through "debt restructuring" via the IMF, then yes, someone may be forcing them to buy imported produce. Or they might be forced to cease offering subsidies to their own farmers and export their own produce.