Re:Do you have to think in Russian?
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Flying By Brain
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Ya nye dumayu tak.
Re:Has anyone considered Decnet?
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Replacing TCP?
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I found one of these in a warehouse back when I was in highschool. I always wondered what such a useless looking cable could be for. It wasn't like that tab would have prevented me from putting the cable in a plug wrong. I ended up grinding off the offensive bit and using it anyway, it was 80ft of otherwise good cable encased in the stiffest plastic I've ever seen used. Now it runs through dirt.
Yes. I rather fancy the idea of living in a Democracy.
You've got the wrong country there buddy. If this were supposed to be that kind of a Democracy there would have been something about a citizen's right to vote in the Constitution. It's a representative Democracy which means that people who understand what's best for everyone vote for those who don't. That's the basic idea anyway.
What you want in this country, and probably any country, is decisions being made by those intimately knowledgeable of the subject and who also have their thumb on the collective pulse of who they represent. It should not be the responsibility of everyone in this country to make those sorts of decisions. That's called mob rule.
Besides, getting 99% voter turnout means that an overwhelming number of people who couldn't care less one way or the other will be voting based on the ideas expressed in their favorite TV shows. That would totally swamp out any third parties for decades to come and effectively perpetuate the media problem the United States is already dealing with.
Leave voting to those who are informed enough to vote, those with some responsibility.
Great. Just when I was feeling outdated by only having a Genesis and a Dreamcast my nice new console gets the latest and greatest in... really dated music.
It was said in an earlier post on a completely different topic, but it applies here:
Crap is easier to edit than air.
Why not let DomainKeys (or any system) get a popular beta? It'll be so much easier to fix the holes later on than to sit around conjecturing for another year until someone else is willing to throw their weight behind one of these systems. There's no getting around that these systems will be in place in the future. Let's start getting everyone used to the idea now.
Seriously people, I got my Magnavox DVD player at Big Lots for $50 and it played anything mpeg1 or mpeg2, that includes avi files and whatnot. Check videohelp.com for lists upon lists of more impressive DivX capable players that are under $50. Two summers ago TechTV reviewed an Apex player for $100 that played DivX and all its breeds as well as DVD-Audio and SACD. If it's firmware upgradeable it almost always can be given newer codec support if it already plays Divx.
Some of these DVD players use generic DVD drives and have firmware upgrades that let you switch out for a harddrive, or they support it natively. We did that in my dorm last year with a Sony.
Why don't we see many benchmarks that give a CPU a price per point rating?
Watching a Sempron go from 1.75GHz at £50 to 2.0GHz at £75 implies a much greater value on the cheaper one. £25 is a bit of a difference. Especially if I clustered computers and could get three 1.75GHz chips for the price of two 2GHz ones.
SPEC2004 should keep track of prices on chips and display the value of each one, that would keep my attention for chip value.
What a crap title for an article. They've just equated "Diebold" with "e-voting" just for the scare-mongering. It gets worse.
The researchers also questioned the use of C++ for the original code, calling it an "unsafe language." Microsoft Windows is largely written in C++, and most UNIX systems are written in a combo of C and C++. It's not impossible to write good code in C++, but it's much harder than using modern code. "Modern code has features to help prevent you from making the most common mistakes," contended Wallach.
Modern code does what? Write the E-voting machines in assembly and make them run on the simplest RISC processor out there. Unless you plan on using the voting machines as public solitaire terminals during the off season there's no reason any complex OS or programming language should be involved in voting. The voting booth devices just need to add. The tabulation machine... adds some more. If you want pretty graphics make the system about as big and scary as an Amiga and leave it be.
It's worth mentioning that here in South Carolina a large portion of the Democrat voters are from New England and have changed their state of residence specifically to make the state appear more liberal.
Florida is such a confusion around election time for much the same reason. It's literally flooded with snowbirds from Canada and New England. This is a serious problem for the schools which are paid for by property taxes and the wealthier homeowners are retirees from up north who really don't consider Florida schools their affair.
Southern locals are generally conservative and they don't like the cold. New England apparently has liberals to share who don't mind our warmer weather.
I took this test two weeks ago. IT IS HEAVILY BIASED TOWARDS BUSH. The test is a push poll, a type of poll that askes biased questions in the hopes of directing people in one direction or another. ... Kerry has proposed repealing the tax cut (also known as "raising taxes") on the richest 1% in order to pay for important social spending (medicare = healthcare so the very poor and children don't die).
The 80s called, they want "do it for the children" back.
Everyone should know that raising taxes means the (rather socialist) U.S. government will be spending more money on aid programs. If that money had been going toward defense (which used to be the primary concern of a government) then I doubt everyone would be complaining about going into Iraq with such a small and underfunded force.
That said, shame on you for trying to illicit an emotional kneejerk about starving children for the purposes of promoting your candidate.
Do you want to pay less taxes so children die from not having immunizations, antibiotics when they're sick, fixed broken bones, etc.?
You had the brass to complain about push polls after asking a question like that?
When the richest ~5% is paying out >50% of the taxes in the United States Bush's tax cuts can be called a severe boon for the rich and bad for everyone else*. Doesn't anyone remember Reagan's "trickle down effect" and what that did for the economy in the 90s?
That's usually because they give away enough money to charity that the tax deduction is immense. Don't complain about that. Complain about what some states allow be called charity. For instance: software and music.
I got similar results with Badnarik, Cobb, and Nader in the top four. The first Republicrat on my list was Bush though, and he was at the bottom.
I'll bet everyone's getting Badnarik, Cobb, or Nader higher up on the list than Bush or Kerry. It's why there's so much bizarre spin out there in the world, no one agrees with Bush or Kerry enough to not ignore a lot of the things they do.
Does anyone actually get Bush or Kerry as one of the top candidates on their list?
In wars of the future soldiers will have to wander around the battlefield picking up increasingly more devastating weapons and ammo left lying around and collecting packs of emryonic cells to bring their life back up to 100.
And in a few hundred years a group of bounty hunters aboard the Bebop will discover this satellite controlling other satelites in the sky and carving patterns in the desert.
I'm going to have to promote Wing Commander and Tomb Raider to you. Tomb Raider seemed to differentiate itself well away from the game so it was enjoyable enough, and I thought Wing Commander was great. I had heard of a game by that name but since I'd never played it I never knew the movie was based on it, and couldn't tell it had anything to do with a game.
Look at this and tell me which major parties the third parties should ally with? I've heard the argument that Nader should offer to differ his electoral votes to Kerry, but who would you assign Badnarick to? Which party between Democrat and Republican most represents the same ideas as each of the third parties?
You're right about the Libertarians not doing this if they were in the debates. If the CPD wasn't set up to exclude third parties we wouldn't be having this problem at all. So while you may be right about their motivations, you've totally dismissed the fact that there is a problem. Redirection and specious reasoning is a habit that comes with the campaign stickers, I understand.
First, read some history about why we two so extremely dominant parties. I know there have nearly always been two main parties, but the amount of exclusion enforced by them now is just scary.
Something to remember about any third parties (or is that 4th, 5th, 6th, and etc.) is that they have been wholly responsible for every change reflected in one of the two dominant parties. Social security, desegregation, Southern succession, welfare, abortion, emission standards, prohibition... all these things came about because there were third parties pushing these ideas, for better or worse. (Go ahead and pick a few more novel ideas out of political history and trace their origins. Pay attention not to who ratified it but to who first pushed it.) To say that they remove themselves from the main political process because they don't compromise principles is the exact opposite of what they've proven themselves capable of doing. Third parties can grow and change a lot faster than a main party and when the main parties see that that change is approved of by so many people only then do they consider that change themselves. The two main parties do nothing *but* compromise their principles, especially when it runs counter to the other party.
The two main political parties represent the bargain the United States has accepted in order to make things simple enough that most everyone can decide on one of them. Third parties represent the change that is needed that is only understood by the few who bother to care about politics while standing up for what they really believe is true despite what the rest of the country has accepted.
Sadly, all political parties are looking for complete control over the government. Think monolithic versus modular and think about how unstable and vulnerable most OS's are compared to any *BSD. (I'm sure you love analogies.) Until we can individually assign cabinet positions, judges, and all the other move makers in Washington, we're just going to have to jump on one of the two bigger bandwagons until something really important comes along that needs our attention. Right now that's the exclusive debates and ruinous ideas of federal healthcare, and my wagon happens to carry a Libertarian bumper sticker.
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Ya nye dumayu tak.
I found one of these in a warehouse back when I was in highschool. I always wondered what such a useless looking cable could be for. It wasn't like that tab would have prevented me from putting the cable in a plug wrong. I ended up grinding off the offensive bit and using it anyway, it was 80ft of otherwise good cable encased in the stiffest plastic I've ever seen used. Now it runs through dirt.
Yes. I rather fancy the idea of living in a Democracy.
You've got the wrong country there buddy. If this were supposed to be that kind of a Democracy there would have been something about a citizen's right to vote in the Constitution. It's a representative Democracy which means that people who understand what's best for everyone vote for those who don't. That's the basic idea anyway.
What you want in this country, and probably any country, is decisions being made by those intimately knowledgeable of the subject and who also have their thumb on the collective pulse of who they represent. It should not be the responsibility of everyone in this country to make those sorts of decisions. That's called mob rule.
Besides, getting 99% voter turnout means that an overwhelming number of people who couldn't care less one way or the other will be voting based on the ideas expressed in their favorite TV shows. That would totally swamp out any third parties for decades to come and effectively perpetuate the media problem the United States is already dealing with.
Leave voting to those who are informed enough to vote, those with some responsibility.
And so has this article.
I can't track it down but the same "news" was reported 2 or 3 years ago likely making this is the most delayed dupe ever. A new Slashdot record!
If SC had been smart they would have seceded and *not* fired on Fort Sumpter, thus forcing the US to have to play the heavy.
Heh, so it was a bunch of college-aged punks* who started the War of Northern Agression*.
* Citadel Cadets
* Civil War
Especially silly when SC is already the buckle on the U.S. Bible Belt.
Especially scary since SC was the first to secede from the U.S. back in 1860.
I wonder if exercising the Constitutional right to secede is a violation of homeland security?
What about the Christians? They're not claiming to be akin to a Bush state, they're basically trying to CREATE a Bush state.
This could be done in ASCII. The lameness filter is costing me 25,000 Euros!!!
Great. Just when I was feeling outdated by only having a Genesis and a Dreamcast my nice new console gets the latest and greatest in... really dated music.
Oh, how cool this does *not* make me feel.
It was said in an earlier post on a completely different topic, but it applies here:
Crap is easier to edit than air.
Why not let DomainKeys (or any system) get a popular beta? It'll be so much easier to fix the holes later on than to sit around conjecturing for another year until someone else is willing to throw their weight behind one of these systems. There's no getting around that these systems will be in place in the future. Let's start getting everyone used to the idea now.
Seriously people, I got my Magnavox DVD player at Big Lots for $50 and it played anything mpeg1 or mpeg2, that includes avi files and whatnot. Check videohelp.com for lists upon lists of more impressive DivX capable players that are under $50. Two summers ago TechTV reviewed an Apex player for $100 that played DivX and all its breeds as well as DVD-Audio and SACD. If it's firmware upgradeable it almost always can be given newer codec support if it already plays Divx.
Some of these DVD players use generic DVD drives and have firmware upgrades that let you switch out for a harddrive, or they support it natively. We did that in my dorm last year with a Sony.
Why don't we see many benchmarks that give a CPU a price per point rating?
Watching a Sempron go from 1.75GHz at £50 to 2.0GHz at £75 implies a much greater value on the cheaper one. £25 is a bit of a difference. Especially if I clustered computers and could get three 1.75GHz chips for the price of two 2GHz ones.
SPEC2004 should keep track of prices on chips and display the value of each one, that would keep my attention for chip value.
What a crap title for an article. They've just equated "Diebold" with "e-voting" just for the scare-mongering. It gets worse.
The researchers also questioned the use of C++ for the original code, calling it an "unsafe language." Microsoft Windows is largely written in C++, and most UNIX systems are written in a combo of C and C++. It's not impossible to write good code in C++, but it's much harder than using modern code. "Modern code has features to help prevent you from making the most common mistakes," contended Wallach.
Modern code does what? Write the E-voting machines in assembly and make them run on the simplest RISC processor out there. Unless you plan on using the voting machines as public solitaire terminals during the off season there's no reason any complex OS or programming language should be involved in voting. The voting booth devices just need to add. The tabulation machine... adds some more. If you want pretty graphics make the system about as big and scary as an Amiga and leave it be.
Isn't this illegal? It's like a bizarre form of carpetbagging.
It's worth mentioning that here in South Carolina a large portion of the Democrat voters are from New England and have changed their state of residence specifically to make the state appear more liberal.
Florida is such a confusion around election time for much the same reason. It's literally flooded with snowbirds from Canada and New England. This is a serious problem for the schools which are paid for by property taxes and the wealthier homeowners are retirees from up north who really don't consider Florida schools their affair.
Southern locals are generally conservative and they don't like the cold. New England apparently has liberals to share who don't mind our warmer weather.
I took this test two weeks ago. IT IS HEAVILY BIASED TOWARDS BUSH. The test is a push poll, a type of poll that askes biased questions in the hopes of directing people in one direction or another.
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Kerry has proposed repealing the tax cut (also known as "raising taxes") on the richest 1% in order to pay for important social spending (medicare = healthcare so the very poor and children don't die).
The 80s called, they want "do it for the children" back.
Everyone should know that raising taxes means the (rather socialist) U.S. government will be spending more money on aid programs. If that money had been going toward defense (which used to be the primary concern of a government) then I doubt everyone would be complaining about going into Iraq with such a small and underfunded force.
That said, shame on you for trying to illicit an emotional kneejerk about starving children for the purposes of promoting your candidate.
Do you want to pay less taxes so children die from not having immunizations, antibiotics when they're sick, fixed broken bones, etc.?
You had the brass to complain about push polls after asking a question like that?
When the richest ~5% is paying out >50% of the taxes in the United States Bush's tax cuts can be called a severe boon for the rich and bad for everyone else*. Doesn't anyone remember Reagan's "trickle down effect" and what that did for the economy in the 90s?
*aren't all U.S. citizens socialist?
That's usually because they give away enough money to charity that the tax deduction is immense. Don't complain about that. Complain about what some states allow be called charity. For instance: software and music.
I got similar results with Badnarik, Cobb, and Nader in the top four. The first Republicrat on my list was Bush though, and he was at the bottom.
I'll bet everyone's getting Badnarik, Cobb, or Nader higher up on the list than Bush or Kerry. It's why there's so much bizarre spin out there in the world, no one agrees with Bush or Kerry enough to not ignore a lot of the things they do.
Does anyone actually get Bush or Kerry as one of the top candidates on their list?
In wars of the future soldiers will have to wander around the battlefield picking up increasingly more devastating weapons and ammo left lying around and collecting packs of emryonic cells to bring their life back up to 100.
And in a few hundred years a group of bounty hunters aboard the Bebop will discover this satellite controlling other satelites in the sky and carving patterns in the desert.
You are an ass.
Now we're just going to sit here and wait for the first person to mention Nazi's or Hitler. We'll be approaching 1 in no time!
I'm going to have to promote Wing Commander and Tomb Raider to you. Tomb Raider seemed to differentiate itself well away from the game so it was enjoyable enough, and I thought Wing Commander was great. I had heard of a game by that name but since I'd never played it I never knew the movie was based on it, and couldn't tell it had anything to do with a game.
Look at this and tell me which major parties the third parties should ally with? I've heard the argument that Nader should offer to differ his electoral votes to Kerry, but who would you assign Badnarick to? Which party between Democrat and Republican most represents the same ideas as each of the third parties?
You're right about the Libertarians not doing this if they were in the debates. If the CPD wasn't set up to exclude third parties we wouldn't be having this problem at all. So while you may be right about their motivations, you've totally dismissed the fact that there is a problem. Redirection and specious reasoning is a habit that comes with the campaign stickers, I understand.
First, read some history about why we two so extremely dominant parties. I know there have nearly always been two main parties, but the amount of exclusion enforced by them now is just scary.
Something to remember about any third parties (or is that 4th, 5th, 6th, and etc.) is that they have been wholly responsible for every change reflected in one of the two dominant parties. Social security, desegregation, Southern succession, welfare, abortion, emission standards, prohibition... all these things came about because there were third parties pushing these ideas, for better or worse. (Go ahead and pick a few more novel ideas out of political history and trace their origins. Pay attention not to who ratified it but to who first pushed it.) To say that they remove themselves from the main political process because they don't compromise principles is the exact opposite of what they've proven themselves capable of doing. Third parties can grow and change a lot faster than a main party and when the main parties see that that change is approved of by so many people only then do they consider that change themselves. The two main parties do nothing *but* compromise their principles, especially when it runs counter to the other party.
The two main political parties represent the bargain the United States has accepted in order to make things simple enough that most everyone can decide on one of them. Third parties represent the change that is needed that is only understood by the few who bother to care about politics while standing up for what they really believe is true despite what the rest of the country has accepted.
Sadly, all political parties are looking for complete control over the government. Think monolithic versus modular and think about how unstable and vulnerable most OS's are compared to any *BSD. (I'm sure you love analogies.) Until we can individually assign cabinet positions, judges, and all the other move makers in Washington, we're just going to have to jump on one of the two bigger bandwagons until something really important comes along that needs our attention. Right now that's the exclusive debates and ruinous ideas of federal healthcare, and my wagon happens to carry a Libertarian bumper sticker.