OMFG, Go FUCK yourself and your 'nvidia superior linux support'.
Superior linux support would be, you know, if they actually released the specs to their hardware AND organized and contributed to GPL-licensed drivers for everything AND publicised this and encouraged linux use. THAT would be superiour linux support.
NOT releasing the specs to their hardware and just releasing buggy, outdated, *blackbox* drivers with no source code is the federal pound-you-in-the-ass version of linux support.
if you read the links, you would see the paper is not 'in favor' of anyone. It merely points out that bush did much better than expected in no-recount electronic voting counties and that theres a 99% probability that this was not through chance alone.
Now you draw your own conclusions, but IMHO there is only one reason why the type of machine used to vote could affect the vote so much...
If the researchers would seem to favor anything, it would be the use of voting equipment that allows for accurate voting and checking of the vote.
This isn't how impartiality works...
You don't look at the party choices that are out there, categorize them one dimensionally from left to right and then see where the center is.
You should as a requirement ignore party lines. In fact I'm with Ralph Nader I think the whole political party system is B.S. and should be scrapped.
I'm going to vote for nader
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And he is not a spoiler. He is the only one who is deserving enough of my vote.
If you don't like it, tough shit. When I get in the voting booth and close the curtains, my vote is between ME and who I vote for. Got nothing to do with you.
The story is biased and all of the 5:insightful comments I've read so far are BULLSHIT.
Oh it's never happened to me so it doesn't exist.
Oh yeah the guy was lying from the start because blah blah blah and you blame something you can't understand because it can't malfunction this way it's impossible.
How about you all just shut the fuck up talking as if you could prove this negative. IT HAS HAPPENED TO ME MORE THAN ONCE.
Yes, I drove a POS ford mercury and not once, not twice, not three times.. FOUR times the car accelerated out of control on me WIDE OPEN THROTTLE.
The first two times it happened both on the same 30mph side street (on separate occasions) and then while I was trying to park the car it happened again both times. Scared the piss out of me. I had to lay my 210lbs fairly muscular body on top of the brake pedal to get the car to slow down, then throw it into neutral where it revved to redline and then died down back to normal.
The last two times it happened on the highway but I already knew to throw it into neutral and let it hit the redline and die down.
So if you want to say this particular story is bullshit, go ahead. Do not for FUCK SAKES start saying that this never happens or that it's impossible.
Also, I later found out that this tends to happen to ford cars with a certain type of cruise control. People all round the country are/were getting into unexplainable accidents mostly in parking lots. But apparently FORD are attempting to hush it up just like they do with all the other flaws their cars have. I get a 20% discount on any ford/mercury car because of family ties. I will never buy one again, that car was a death trap.
more importantly, what happens if you don't use the installer that came on the cd to install the software?
That way you never get to see, much less agree to a eula and yet you have the software installed and running.
I just got an athlon64 and I was dying to run the 64-bit version of ut2004 on it. But I couldn't get the demo to work properly and it turns out there were serious bugs not fixed, which were fixed in the full version.
Wow that's prettycool. An internal combustion engine that runs off hydrogen.
I think I would be an early adopter for this if:
I could make my own hydrogen at home by having a hydrogen-making machine hooked up to my water mains and a bunch of solar cells on my house (or wind nearby or whatever).
An affordable car that either uses this type of engine or an electric motor powered by a fuel cell.
a local mechanic that can fix these
I don't think I'd even need shell to be on board if I could make the stuff at home.
Now I wonder what the engine sounds like! It probably growls at wide open throttle in third gear : )
no stars echoed while the password was typed: This is the desired behaviour from a security point of view. It's something that people can get used to fast too, it only confuses on the first try. And it's only the default, you can change it if you think security is stupid, it may even be slack-kde specific default but I wouldn't recommend changing it.
anti-aliased fonts off by default: Yes they should be on by default
far too many options shown by default: This is where it gets interesting. Do you want to please people who will only ever use kde once, or do you want to please people who will use kde all the time? Yes, kde has enough options to be confusing on *the first time you use it*. This is the only sample group they tested. Why don't they have these same people use kde everyday and come back and say if they still want all the options hidden. This is where the gnome ui designers went wrong. They took away all the options and messed up their desktop trying to be the best DE for first day users. Then the users use it for a few weeks and are no longer first time users and switch to something more meaty. This is a complicated thing to think about and I don't think it's worth it to change the interfaces based on sloppy investigations. You have to look at much larger groups of users and see how you can please them all. I'm thinking it's impossible to please everyone, but it's possible to please 90% of new users and 90% of experienced users as well.
Besides all of this, isn't there something called kde-kiosk that lets you turn off all the options? isn't this something done at a distribution level rather than kde-project level?
I say let the kde group fix upstream fixes and let the distributions fix their own bugs. IE if you're a distro targetting users who've never used kde, you fix the ui the way you need it, while if you target advanced users, you fix the ui the way you need it. Let the kde project make kde more maleable and let the distros do the final moulding of the user experience.
Is it really the extortionists driving the companies out of buisness, or is it that the companies played fast and loose with OUR personal data and now they are worried about the lawsuits?
They figure the lawsuits and lost sales from this leaked information would cost X amount of money so they're willing to pay less than X to stop the leak. Maybe they should have kept the sensitive information safer in the first place.
This is a result of either incompetence or knowingly cutting corners. (or just plain using Microsoft software. which is both.)
oh dude. By my reckoning they are treated horribly over there.
We have this one chinese lady working as a research assistant here. Every time she's doing minor experiments she freaks OUT like we're gonna beat her if she does something wrong or the test is invalid.
Seriously they must send researchers who make little mistakes in for electricution torture or something down there.
Oh come on. That cynical view might be as comforting as it is black & white but don't tell me you actually believe it.
The fact that the two parties are wasting some of their time talking about older issues and subjective matters does not matter.
The fact that the two parties sound a lot alike when they talk about the important issues doesn't matter.
These two conditions result because a lot of americans don't spend any effort to try to pick the right person and probably are also completely unaware of how to pick the right person. They just end up gossiping and voting on whatever crazy impression comes into their heads. That's why for example kerry can't come out and say what he really thinks of bush. The backlash over superficial reasons would be too great. Think 'Michael Moore' and 'Oscar speech'.
What matters is the track record of the current administration (don't fool yourself their track record won't be any better over the next four years if they're still in power. It will be more of the same.) And, whether it's even possible for kerry's future track record to be as bad as bush's.
Bush's track record is so unbelievably bad that it makes you wonder what he would have to do to make it worse. Would he have to personally go with knife in hand to the middle east and kill some poor people from various countries, then turn round and kill some americans too?
Would he have to actually admit on camera that he doesn't make most of the decisions that a president is supposed to make, that he just sits in board meetings bored out of his mind and then lets other people fill out the paper work which he then sings without bothering to understand?
Would he have to actually release incriminating records of impropriety like those his vice president is refusing to release detailing meeting with crooks and polluters to decide environmental and energy laws?
Maybe, just maybe if he walks around for 4 years with a sign over his head that says "I'm for sale to every corporate interest that bothers to approach me no matter how amoral, evil or unjust. PS: talk to my manager I'm not authorized to make deals."
Oh wait he already almost did that. It's been obvious enough in his actions that he shouldn't need to wear the sign.
Every single, and I mean down to the last one of this administration's action is about three things:
money
power
staying in power
And don't get too excited. It's their money and their power.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take the richest and most powerful people in the world, toss out the ones with any scruples, then let the remainder run the U.S.A.?
You've been living it. You wanted to know what the matrix was. This was it.
Since when did being fair involve giving as much time to each opposing camp?
Look at the swift-boat liars^H^H^H^H veterans adds. One side is substantiated by the record and everyone else including some of those that now changed their story. The other is unsubstantiated bs.
You don't give unsubstantiated BS the same airtime you give sound stories.
Like someone else said, the facts are biased against bush.
Maybe when they release it, my grandkids will be able to use it along with duke nukem forever and the next debian stable release. It will do well to compete with the successor to longhorn also.
Good job E guys.
I keed, I keed.
But in all honesty, I'd like to see some people get paid to work on E17. Because then we might actually see someone who gives a flying fuck about the users.
Being a user myself, it sucks to get the attitude of "oh well, you're just a user. Of course you are not worthy enough to actually be able to taste of this E17, which btw is the broth of the gods 100000x better than anything you've ever used.
This is such BS. I used to read stuff like this and 'oooh' and 'aahhh' at it. But guess what. I'm old enough now that I know it's all bullshit.
I was around in 84. I was around in 94. And now I'm still around in 2004. And guess what? Not a god damn thing has changed. Sure we got the internet and cell phones. But 95% of our lives back then is still the same now.
We wiped our asses with toilet paper in 84 and 94, we do it now and we'll still be doing it in 2014.
we were driving around in our grounded internal combustion engine boxes in 84 & 94 and we still do it now. We'll still do it in 10 years.
Sure we have a *few* new things. We have cheaper and smaller cell phones, so some people have them. We have the internet and faster computers.
He's claiming faster computers will change our lives because they get 128 times faster every ten years. WOW that's incredible (/sarchasm). What has that brought us the last 2 decades?
weather reporters are not any more accurate than they used to be where I live.
He talks about how our toilets and toothbrushes will analyze our fluid samples and tell us if we're getting sick and what we have. Dream on buddy. I work as an R&D biochemist and let me tell you, product development in these areas take MAJOR time. Not 10 years. If we dont have working prototypes in peoples homes for trials right now, the ordinary person won't have diddly in 10 years. You can run into a snag (murphy's law, you WILL run into a snag) and take 5-10 years just to work out one detail so you can get back on track.
He talks about how roads in 10 years will have microchips embedded so they can drive your car for you. That one had me on the floor laughing. My city hasn't paved the roads with normal asphalt in 10 years. You think they're gonna repave all the roads with stuff that doesn't even exist right now and be done in 10 years? L O L. They've taken 6 months and counting just to redo a 500m strech of road outside my house. They're still not done.
Sure, I wont dispute that we'll have some of the technology to do some of the stuff this guy talks about in 10 years. But at most it will still be a pipe dream in somebody's laboratory. no way it will be a fully functional 100% coverage public infrastructure or cheap consumable.
Don't be fooled by this guy because he writes good sci-fi. That's exactly what he's written here, good sci-fi. Your life will still be the same in 2014.
I predict most of his predictions will fall through. What he needs to do, is look at areas that are already functional in laboratories and are already cheap to do. Certain kinds of gene therapy for example. The ones to do with enhancing muscle growth. Inserting broken myostatin genes, or extra IGF1 genes into muscle cells. These are things that are already working in animal models (ie. good enough for athletes to say fook it and try it) and are also cheap to do because you only need to prepare the material once and you can administer it at no cost and produce more very cheaply.
You want my prediction? in 8 years, watch for a shitload of olympic records to get thrashed.
Would be 4d recognition. The 3 dimensions already listed in the article combined with time. Essentially, a device could record the 3 dimensions as you sign.
Quote:Too bad it also means fewer jobs to make the money to buy the cheap items... Since it takes fewer people to make the same # of items it did 10 years ago.
Well that is good news, because all of those unemployed people can get jobs making even more things efficiently and we can have more choice and variety. There is no shortage of things to discover, invent or build. Efficiency isn't a bad thing in itself, it actually leans more to the good side of things. What is bad is when the upper strata of society dominates the gains from our newfound technological wonders and keeps the standard of living for everyone else in a different ballpark to theirs.
When it only takes 10 workers to make something where it used to take 1000, those 10 workers should be well paid and have decent benefits.
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Superior linux support would be, you know, if they actually released the specs to their hardware AND organized and contributed to GPL-licensed drivers for everything AND publicised this and encouraged linux use. THAT would be superiour linux support.
NOT releasing the specs to their hardware and just releasing buggy, outdated, *blackbox* drivers with no source code is the federal pound-you-in-the-ass version of linux support.
Now you draw your own conclusions, but IMHO there is only one reason why the type of machine used to vote could affect the vote so much...
If the researchers would seem to favor anything, it would be the use of voting equipment that allows for accurate voting and checking of the vote.
It wasn't strong enough. Not to wipe them all out. Stupid UTAH is the armpit of the United States, with the crazy cults and the SCO...
A konqueror plugin that automatically retrieves logins from bugmenot.com.
Man am I sick of being bugged by registration sites.
IF that is the case why don't they make all their shows available for download with commercials included?
This isn't how impartiality works...
You don't look at the party choices that are out there, categorize them one dimensionally from left to right and then see where the center is.
You should as a requirement ignore party lines. In fact I'm with Ralph Nader I think the whole political party system is B.S. and should be scrapped.
And I wish there was a mod category of "stupid".
And he is not a spoiler. He is the only one who is deserving enough of my vote.
If you don't like it, tough shit. When I get in the voting booth and close the curtains, my vote is between ME and who I vote for. Got nothing to do with you.
Oh it's never happened to me so it doesn't exist.
Oh yeah the guy was lying from the start because blah blah blah and you blame something you can't understand because it can't malfunction this way it's impossible.
How about you all just shut the fuck up talking as if you could prove this negative.
IT HAS HAPPENED TO ME MORE THAN ONCE.
Yes, I drove a POS ford mercury and not once, not twice, not three times.. FOUR times the car accelerated out of control on me WIDE OPEN THROTTLE.
The first two times it happened both on the same 30mph side street (on separate occasions) and then while I was trying to park the car it happened again both times. Scared the piss out of me. I had to lay my 210lbs fairly muscular body on top of the brake pedal to get the car to slow down, then throw it into neutral where it revved to redline and then died down back to normal.
The last two times it happened on the highway but I already knew to throw it into neutral and let it hit the redline and die down.
So if you want to say this particular story is bullshit, go ahead. Do not for FUCK SAKES start saying that this never happens or that it's impossible.
Also, I later found out that this tends to happen to ford cars with a certain type of cruise control. People all round the country are/were getting into unexplainable accidents mostly in parking lots. But apparently FORD are attempting to hush it up just like they do with all the other flaws their cars have.
I get a 20% discount on any ford/mercury car because of family ties. I will never buy one again, that car was a death trap.
more importantly, what happens if you don't use the installer that came on the cd to install the software?
That way you never get to see, much less agree to a eula and yet you have the software installed and running.
sad replying to my own post but... BLAH. No updated 64-bit version. At least I could not find one.
Hopefully I they updated the amd64 version too.
I think I would be an early adopter for this if:
I don't think I'd even need shell to be on board if I could make the stuff at home.
Now I wonder what the engine sounds like! It probably growls at wide open throttle in third gear : )
This is the desired behaviour from a security point of view. It's something that people can get used to fast too, it only confuses on the first try. And it's only the default, you can change it if you think security is stupid, it may even be slack-kde specific default but I wouldn't recommend changing it.
Yes they should be on by default
This is where it gets interesting. Do you want to please people who will only ever use kde once, or do you want to please people who will use kde all the time?
Yes, kde has enough options to be confusing on *the first time you use it*. This is the only sample group they tested. Why don't they have these same people use kde everyday and come back and say if they still want all the options hidden.
This is where the gnome ui designers went wrong. They took away all the options and messed up their desktop trying to be the best DE for first day users. Then the users use it for a few weeks and are no longer first time users and switch to something more meaty. This is a complicated thing to think about and I don't think it's worth it to change the interfaces based on sloppy investigations. You have to look at much larger groups of users and see how you can please them all. I'm thinking it's impossible to please everyone, but it's possible to please 90% of new users and 90% of experienced users as well.
Besides all of this, isn't there something called kde-kiosk that lets you turn off all the options? isn't this something done at a distribution level rather than kde-project level?
I say let the kde group fix upstream fixes and let the distributions fix their own bugs. IE if you're a distro targetting users who've never used kde, you fix the ui the way you need it, while if you target advanced users, you fix the ui the way you need it. Let the kde project make kde more maleable and let the distros do the final moulding of the user experience.
Well then explain to me why one night when my russian friend wanted to drink really fast he blurts out:
"Jood, just inyecht it into my weins!!"
Is it really the extortionists driving the companies out of buisness, or is it that the companies played fast and loose with OUR personal data and now they are worried about the lawsuits?
They figure the lawsuits and lost sales from this leaked information would cost X amount of money so they're willing to pay less than X to stop the leak. Maybe they should have kept the sensitive information safer in the first place.
This is a result of either incompetence or knowingly cutting corners. (or just plain using Microsoft software. which is both.)
We have this one chinese lady working as a research assistant here. Every time she's doing minor experiments she freaks OUT like we're gonna beat her if she does something wrong or the test is invalid.
Seriously they must send researchers who make little mistakes in for electricution torture or something down there.
This could be the most common error online.
Come on people get it right. EFFECT is a NOUN.
The fact that the two parties are wasting some of their time talking about older issues and subjective matters does not matter.
The fact that the two parties sound a lot alike when they talk about the important issues doesn't matter.
These two conditions result because a lot of americans don't spend any effort to try to pick the right person and probably are also completely unaware of how to pick the right person. They just end up gossiping and voting on whatever crazy impression comes into their heads. That's why for example kerry can't come out and say what he really thinks of bush. The backlash over superficial reasons would be too great.
Think 'Michael Moore' and 'Oscar speech'.
What matters is the track record of the current administration (don't fool yourself their track record won't be any better over the next four years if they're still in power. It will be more of the same.) And, whether it's even possible for kerry's future track record to be as bad as bush's.
Bush's track record is so unbelievably bad that it makes you wonder what he would have to do to make it worse. Would he have to personally go with knife in hand to the middle east and kill some poor people from various countries, then turn round and kill some americans too?
Would he have to actually admit on camera that he doesn't make most of the decisions that a president is supposed to make, that he just sits in board meetings bored out of his mind and then lets other people fill out the paper work which he then sings without bothering to understand?
Would he have to actually release incriminating records of impropriety like those his vice president is refusing to release detailing meeting with crooks and polluters to decide environmental and energy laws?
Maybe, just maybe if he walks around for 4 years with a sign over his head that says "I'm for sale to every corporate interest that bothers to approach me no matter how amoral, evil or unjust. PS: talk to my manager I'm not authorized to make deals."
Oh wait he already almost did that. It's been obvious enough in his actions that he shouldn't need to wear the sign.
Every single, and I mean down to the last one of this administration's action is about three things:
And don't get too excited. It's their money and their power.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take the richest and most powerful people in the world, toss out the ones with any scruples, then let the remainder run the U.S.A.?
You've been living it. You wanted to know what the matrix was. This was it.
Look at the swift-boat liars^H^H^H^H veterans adds. One side is substantiated by the record and everyone else including some of those that now changed their story. The other is unsubstantiated bs.
You don't give unsubstantiated BS the same airtime you give sound stories.
Like someone else said, the facts are biased against bush.
Good job E guys.
I keed, I keed.
But in all honesty, I'd like to see some people get paid to work on E17. Because then we might actually see someone who gives a flying fuck about the users.
Being a user myself, it sucks to get the attitude of "oh well, you're just a user. Of course you are not worthy enough to actually be able to taste of this E17, which btw is the broth of the gods 100000x better than anything you've ever used.
I was around in 84. I was around in 94. And now I'm still around in 2004. And guess what? Not a god damn thing has changed. Sure we got the internet and cell phones. But 95% of our lives back then is still the same now.
We wiped our asses with toilet paper in 84 and 94, we do it now and we'll still be doing it in 2014.
we were driving around in our grounded internal combustion engine boxes in 84 & 94 and we still do it now. We'll still do it in 10 years.
Sure we have a *few* new things. We have cheaper and smaller cell phones, so some people have them. We have the internet and faster computers.
He's claiming faster computers will change our lives because they get 128 times faster every ten years. WOW that's incredible (/sarchasm). What has that brought us the last 2 decades?
weather reporters are not any more accurate than they used to be where I live.
He talks about how our toilets and toothbrushes will analyze our fluid samples and tell us if we're getting sick and what we have. Dream on buddy. I work as an R&D biochemist and let me tell you, product development in these areas take MAJOR time. Not 10 years. If we dont have working prototypes in peoples homes for trials right now, the ordinary person won't have diddly in 10 years. You can run into a snag (murphy's law, you WILL run into a snag) and take 5-10 years just to work out one detail so you can get back on track.
He talks about how roads in 10 years will have microchips embedded so they can drive your car for you. That one had me on the floor laughing. My city hasn't paved the roads with normal asphalt in 10 years. You think they're gonna repave all the roads with stuff that doesn't even exist right now and be done in 10 years? L O L. They've taken 6 months and counting just to redo a 500m strech of road outside my house. They're still not done.
Sure, I wont dispute that we'll have some of the technology to do some of the stuff this guy talks about in 10 years. But at most it will still be a pipe dream in somebody's laboratory. no way it will be a fully functional 100% coverage public infrastructure or cheap consumable.
Don't be fooled by this guy because he writes good sci-fi. That's exactly what he's written here, good sci-fi. Your life will still be the same in 2014.
I predict most of his predictions will fall through. What he needs to do, is look at areas that are already functional in laboratories and are already cheap to do. Certain kinds of gene therapy for example. The ones to do with enhancing muscle growth. Inserting broken myostatin genes, or extra IGF1 genes into muscle cells. These are things that are already working in animal models (ie. good enough for athletes to say fook it and try it) and are also cheap to do because you only need to prepare the material once and you can administer it at no cost and produce more very cheaply.
You want my prediction? in 8 years, watch for a shitload of olympic records to get thrashed.
Would be 4d recognition. The 3 dimensions already listed in the article combined with time. Essentially, a device could record the 3 dimensions as you sign.
Well that is good news, because all of those unemployed people can get jobs making even more things efficiently and we can have more choice and variety. There is no shortage of things to discover, invent or build.
Efficiency isn't a bad thing in itself, it actually leans more to the good side of things. What is bad is when the upper strata of society dominates the gains from our newfound technological wonders and keeps the standard of living for everyone else in a different ballpark to theirs.
When it only takes 10 workers to make something where it used to take 1000, those 10 workers should be well paid and have decent benefits.