You don't even need to win an elector to make an impact. If the third-party vote in a state is enough to keep either major party from getting a majority, the losing party will consider what they can do to pick up the third-party voters in the future.
Another factor is the volume of products produced and sold. Nintendo probably spent as much or more to design their product than the medical device company. But they are able to divide that cost by 10s of thousands (or more) of products sold as opposed to several hundred of the high-priced systems.
The major parties have no incentive to change the status quo.
Sooner or later, more people will discover that both major parties are evil, and there's no real harm in voting for a third party. Maybe I'm too optimistic, though.
If neither candidate comes close to representing your views, you've nothing to gain by voting for the one that may have a slight edge over the other one.
If the Republicans lose an election because a significant number of conservatives vote Libertarian, maybe that will help shift the party back in a better direction.
Similarly, if the Green party splinters off enough votes from the Democrats, it may move the Democratic party off in whatever direction the Green's stand for.
I can't see how continuing to vote only for the two major parties is making anything better.
If my deposit goes into someone else's account, I will notice and make sure that the bank fixes it. If the bank does something wrong, somebody is going to point it out.
If my vote doesn't go to the right candidate, or phantom votes get added to some other candidate, I won't know it.
Microsoft doesn't have much leverage with respect to Vista licenses. The best way to retaliate would be to refuse to allow Dell to install XP any more.
AIX's JFS contains licensed code from outside sources. Several years ago, JFS was redesigned from the ground up for OS/2 Warp Server. This version does not contain any encumbered code and was designed to be more scalable than AIX's version. This JFS first shipped last year with Warp Server for e-Business.
Therefore, the Linux offering of JFS is not the same filesystem you'll find on AIX, and you won't be able to share a JFS file system between AIX and Linux. (You will be able to share one between Linux and Warp Server.)
I'd say 2.3.99-pre6 is a pretty recent version of the kernel. I'm testing my current changes on 2.4.0-test1-ac19, but it's not ready for the rest of the world yet. There hasn't been a whole lot of discussion, but we do reply when something is sent to the jfs-discussion mailing list. As far as the kernel mailing list. We do read it, as well as linux-fsdevel. If we haven't been posting, it's because we're still in the porting stage and are still learning about the existing design. We'll be contributing more after 2.4 is stable and the real journaling discussion gets hot on the 2.5 kernel.
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You don't even need to win an elector to make an impact. If the third-party vote in a state is enough to keep either major party from getting a majority, the losing party will consider what they can do to pick up the third-party voters in the future.
Another factor is the volume of products produced and sold. Nintendo probably spent as much or more to design their product than the medical device company. But they are able to divide that cost by 10s of thousands (or more) of products sold as opposed to several hundred of the high-priced systems.
I get the impression that the $75 max only applies to the top tier.
The major parties have no incentive to change the status quo.
Sooner or later, more people will discover that both major parties are evil, and there's no real harm in voting for a third party. Maybe I'm too optimistic, though.
If neither candidate comes close to representing your views, you've nothing to gain by voting for the one that may have a slight edge over the other one.
If the Republicans lose an election because a significant number of conservatives vote Libertarian, maybe that will help shift the party back in a better direction.
Similarly, if the Green party splinters off enough votes from the Democrats, it may move the Democratic party off in whatever direction the Green's stand for.
I can't see how continuing to vote only for the two major parties is making anything better.
If my deposit goes into someone else's account, I will notice and make sure that the bank fixes it. If the bank does something wrong, somebody is going to point it out.
If my vote doesn't go to the right candidate, or phantom votes get added to some other candidate, I won't know it.
Microsoft doesn't have much leverage with respect to Vista licenses. The best way to retaliate would be to refuse to allow Dell to install XP any more.
Dell can give me a cd with the craplets on it, so it can still get it's money from the craplet companies, and offer me a lower-priced computer. :-)
Hmm. Maybe new ads will be rendered in this new format. Then non-IE browsers will get ad-blocking for free!
As previously stated JFS is released under GPL.
AIX's JFS contains licensed code from outside sources. Several years ago, JFS was redesigned from the ground up for OS/2 Warp Server. This version does not contain any encumbered code and was designed to be more scalable than AIX's version. This JFS first shipped last year with Warp Server for e-Business.
Therefore, the Linux offering of JFS is not the same filesystem you'll find on AIX, and you won't be able to share a JFS file system between AIX and Linux. (You will be able to share one between Linux and Warp Server.)
I'd say 2.3.99-pre6 is a pretty recent version of the kernel. I'm testing my current changes on 2.4.0-test1-ac19, but it's not ready for the rest of the world yet. There hasn't been a whole lot of discussion, but we do reply when something is sent to the jfs-discussion mailing list. As far as the kernel mailing list. We do read it, as well as linux-fsdevel. If we haven't been posting, it's because we're still in the porting stage and are still learning about the existing design. We'll be contributing more after 2.4 is stable and the real journaling discussion gets hot on the 2.5 kernel.