"...will reimburse you for all reasonable duplication costs."
Going off a standard schedule for copy costs and associated labor ("reasonable") would still be an awful lot of money since we're talking likely hundreds of thousands of documents here, but probably more money than FSF would actually need to produce the documents. If an accounting is required of billable hours for those getting the docs together, hire OSS programmers who could use some extra cash. Therefore, this could in the end be a large donation by SCO to the FSF and OSS programmers.
Elections in America rarely involve voting for one candidate over others for one office. You can have president, senator, congressman, governor, state senator, state representative, mayor, sheriff, district attorney, judge, and other people to vote for. Plus, there are the various states that have the initiative process, in which the voter votes for certain issues including state constitutional amendments.
You need a more complex machine for all that.
But your process has some good ideas. For us, maybe the following: Have some kiosks with touchscreens that all plug directly into a box like in the India method. This box will have a small server and a 16-port ethernet switch all within it, plus a small built-in touchscreen on top. When a kiosk is plugged-in, press a button to validate on the server. Then press a voting start button. When someone comes in, activate a machine for voting on the server like in the India method. Voter punches buttons and gets a paper receipt with a transaction SN. When all's done, press the "voting complete" button on the server, which will close off all ports, encrypt and sign all results and shut down, unable to restart without a key.
The state elections office will have the boot key and the key to decrypt the results and check the signature.
Must be, for oldest article put up as news by Slashdot. I found this in '96 when I started doing prepress work in metric paper sizes in Germany.
But what the article doesn't mention is that for many of these, there's an oversize, like A3 oversize when you need to do full-bleed on an A3 page (printing goes to the edge of the paper).
RDRAM was some pretty interesting technology, and very helpful in getting high-speed memory for things that needed it, such as game consoles and servers.
Too bad it was invented by such a nasty company with no vision.
To tell you the truth I know nothing of OSX, so whether or not there are actual performance gains with new releases is not my place to say.
Just pick any Mac board around the time upgrades came out. 10.0 to.1 to.2 to.3, every time people are saying things run so much faster and the system is much more responsive -- on the same exact hardware.
Microsoft has brought us into the culture of bloatware acceptance. The belief seems to be that code doesn't need to be optimized because the brute force of today's processors make up for any clunkiness
Strange, isn't it? Yet for some reason, every release of OS X has people cooing over how much faster their current machine is after they upgrade. Why this wrong direction for MS?
Exactly. Someone not doing the right paperwork just cost Bill $800K. Not good. But like with tax preparers, it's always your fault in the end if something isn't right.
, that's peanuts to Gates. It is probably 1 week's income for the guy.
That's the point. It's simply a matter of forgetting one piece of paperwork in an otherwise completely legal stock purchase. There's no sign of any criminal intent or conspiracy, and therefore no need for a massive fine for something relatively trivial.
Almost $600 to get a single-processor PC almost down to the sound level of a dual-processor Mac. Kind of puts that "Mac is more expensive" mantra into perspective if you like your computer quiet.
Out there somewhere is an mp3 with the voiceover of doom talking about how D&D is evil and ruining people's lives, leading kids to the devil. Meanwhile, the voices in the background of geeks playing D&D were stupid-funny! I want to cast a spell, no you don't have that spell, I want to cast it anyway, no you can't, where's the Mountain Dew, in the fridge, no it isn't.....
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People talk about D&D as just the kids playing with friends, but sometimes it was a family affair. My grandmother taught my cousin and me D&D in the late 70s when we were both under 10 years old. All of us sitting out in the garage playing late into the summer night are still some of the fondest memories she has of me and my late cousin.
The New York Times offers up a thought-provoking article ('First With the Scoop, if Not the Truth' -
At first I thought the article was going to be about the NYT itself, but no, they're just pointing at others who don't have much less journalistic integrity than themselves.
In the 90s he came out with an album with IIRC only four tracks on it. When people complained it was so short he said something like "Most albums are a few good songs padded with junk, and I just left out the junk."
I'd bet that most AACs at iTunes are ripped from the master instead of from CDs. It's likely that an AAC>CD>OGG rip couldn't be differentiated from a CD>OGG rip by the average person.
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That's what I love about the Google Deskbar should I ever decide to remove it. Making it disappear will be three clicks away.
"...will reimburse you for all reasonable duplication costs."
Going off a standard schedule for copy costs and associated labor ("reasonable") would still be an awful lot of money since we're talking likely hundreds of thousands of documents here, but probably more money than FSF would actually need to produce the documents. If an accounting is required of billable hours for those getting the docs together, hire OSS programmers who could use some extra cash. Therefore, this could in the end be a large donation by SCO to the FSF and OSS programmers.
Then how would the Indian technology easily handle the 20+ votes someone would cast in a US election?
Elections in America rarely involve voting for one candidate over others for one office. You can have president, senator, congressman, governor, state senator, state representative, mayor, sheriff, district attorney, judge, and other people to vote for. Plus, there are the various states that have the initiative process, in which the voter votes for certain issues including state constitutional amendments.
You need a more complex machine for all that.
But your process has some good ideas. For us, maybe the following: Have some kiosks with touchscreens that all plug directly into a box like in the India method. This box will have a small server and a 16-port ethernet switch all within it, plus a small built-in touchscreen on top. When a kiosk is plugged-in, press a button to validate on the server. Then press a voting start button. When someone comes in, activate a machine for voting on the server like in the India method. Voter punches buttons and gets a paper receipt with a transaction SN. When all's done, press the "voting complete" button on the server, which will close off all ports, encrypt and sign all results and shut down, unable to restart without a key.
The state elections office will have the boot key and the key to decrypt the results and check the signature.
All OSS of course.
Must be, for oldest article put up as news by Slashdot. I found this in '96 when I started doing prepress work in metric paper sizes in Germany.
But what the article doesn't mention is that for many of these, there's an oversize, like A3 oversize when you need to do full-bleed on an A3 page (printing goes to the edge of the paper).
IIRC, they actually invented RDRAM. But then they tried getting some underhanded patents on SDRAM as the standard was being worked out.
RDRAM was some pretty interesting technology, and very helpful in getting high-speed memory for things that needed it, such as game consoles and servers.
Too bad it was invented by such a nasty company with no vision.
Knowing the history, I'd say SCO is just a new division of RAMBUS. There are so many parallels between SCO/Linux and RAMBUS/SDRAM tech, it's scary.
To tell you the truth I know nothing of OSX, so whether or not there are actual performance gains with new releases is not my place to say.
.1 to .2 to .3, every time people are saying things run so much faster and the system is much more responsive -- on the same exact hardware.
Just pick any Mac board around the time upgrades came out. 10.0 to
Forgot to add that "Slashdot is part of OSDN" since the story is from NewsForge.
Microsoft has brought us into the culture of bloatware acceptance. The belief seems to be that code doesn't need to be optimized because the brute force of today's processors make up for any clunkiness
Strange, isn't it? Yet for some reason, every release of OS X has people cooing over how much faster their current machine is after they upgrade. Why this wrong direction for MS?
Somebody needs to lose his job.
Exactly. Someone not doing the right paperwork just cost Bill $800K. Not good. But like with tax preparers, it's always your fault in the end if something isn't right.
, that's peanuts to Gates. It is probably 1 week's income for the guy.
That's the point. It's simply a matter of forgetting one piece of paperwork in an otherwise completely legal stock purchase. There's no sign of any criminal intent or conspiracy, and therefore no need for a massive fine for something relatively trivial.
$800K just for forgetting to do your paperwork? They definitely take this stuff seriously.
Almost $600 to get a single-processor PC almost down to the sound level of a dual-processor Mac. Kind of puts that "Mac is more expensive" mantra into perspective if you like your computer quiet.
Unless the budgeting increases, the review process for a patent could double to 5 years
Congress just needs to quit siphoning off the money that the USPTO makes from application fees.
DOS Prompt Here
Out there somewhere is an mp3 with the voiceover of doom talking about how D&D is evil and ruining people's lives, leading kids to the devil. Meanwhile, the voices in the background of geeks playing D&D were stupid-funny! I want to cast a spell, no you don't have that spell, I want to cast it anyway, no you can't, where's the Mountain Dew, in the fridge, no it isn't.....
People talk about D&D as just the kids playing with friends, but sometimes it was a family affair. My grandmother taught my cousin and me D&D in the late 70s when we were both under 10 years old. All of us sitting out in the garage playing late into the summer night are still some of the fondest memories she has of me and my late cousin.
But man was she a harsh dungeon master.
Too bad Albert Speer isn't still alive. He knew how to arrange a searchlight light show!
The New York Times offers up a thought-provoking article ('First With the Scoop, if Not the Truth' -
At first I thought the article was going to be about the NYT itself, but no, they're just pointing at others who don't have much less journalistic integrity than themselves.
Because if the courts figure out your scam then your ass is grass.
In the 90s he came out with an album with IIRC only four tracks on it. When people complained it was so short he said something like "Most albums are a few good songs padded with junk, and I just left out the junk."
I'd bet that most AACs at iTunes are ripped from the master instead of from CDs. It's likely that an AAC>CD>OGG rip couldn't be differentiated from a CD>OGG rip by the average person.
I haven't tried it, but it makes sense.
Hosted on a server in a country that doesn't believe in stupid IP laws. Move the projects there.