You also have all the little or low-population states who, perhaps, get more than their fair share of electoral votes. The minimum number of electoral votes allocated to a state is 3. So, states such as Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, DC, North and South Dakota, and Vermont each gets three votes, regardless of population. Is that fair? In a sense, each voter in such small states has control over a larger fraction of an electoral vote than does a voter in a large state, such as California.
Yes, smaller states residents have control over a larger fraction of the electoral votes. However it is still so small that it isn't like a small state resident has a big advantage over a large state resident. Plus if the electoral college was disbanded and just a simple majority were instituted we would have campaigns centered around small population centers. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles combined population out weighs Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North and South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah combined. See Shape of Days about some reasons to keep the electoral college. Basically it strikes a balance between equal representation for all people and equal representation for all states.
I checked this out since Northface is close to my house. However I decided that it wasn't for me, I am more of a CIS type guy then CS. I work full-time during the day. I recall, and checked to make sure that you have to take psychology, philosophy, and other classes. This one of the first things I looked into, is this a trade like school, or is it really trying to cram a 4 year degree in two years. I'll admit it is probably more technical skill oriented than your traditional 4 year, but its not completely skimping on the liberal arts.
I think that part of it is that there is less chance for work and social life at Northface. It might be something you don't want to sacrifice, but some people do. I have a full load at the U of U this fall, in the CIS degree program. A typical year (two semesters) at the U of U where I am involves being in class for about 15 hours a week for ~32 weeks (~16 a semester). I am told I should have 30 hours of homework studying outside of class but I haven't had to do that much work for good grades personally. Compared if I was at Northface I would have 47 weeks of school in a year, class would be 8 hours a day M-F. I don't recall is the outside of class expected time/work is explained on the site. However even if the each week of school were equal between the two that would mean that I was getting the same as 6 semesters at the U from Northface.
In theory it could be possible to do the classwork to satisfy a 4 year degree in 2 years. You would just have to have average a little over 20 hours a semester and go fall spring AND summer. So if you don't like it, don't deride it merely on the basis of the fact that they have concentrated the school work down to two years as the standard way of doing things.
I have a PowerBook that I do my web development on. I then use Virtual PC to test the windows IE stuff. I have found that the Mozilla rendering engine on windows/mac/linux is pretty much the same, i.e. testing on one is good enough for all (granted I try and stick with writing things once and having it work everywhere so its the safer (X)HTML/CSS).
The funniest thing is about the time to get an answer. Even if say I phrased my search term wrong, I know in seconds that I'm not getting what I was looking for. So I can adjust it to get what I am looking for. Then Google also won't give me advice about parenting, etc. It'll just give me the answer. Maybe the editors can just let Ask Slashdot submissions be handled by sending the submitter to Google.
Which isn't to say there isn't good Ask Slashdot's, they are just so few and far between these days.
The point is that it is possible to only change the software of a car and get better performance. The parent had discounted that the only way to get better performance requires different hardware. I was merely pointing out a circumstance were a pure software hack could up the performance of a vehicle.
I said over 10%. I believe the horsepower stock is around 180 neighborhood. 25 of 180 is over 10% really don't want to do the math. I know turbo charged cars are purposely tuned conservatively for the reasons you stated. I was just pointing out to the parent post that it is possible to 'hack' a car changing only the software to increase performance.
I haven't checked this out personally, but my friend says that he can get his ECU reprogrammed in his 2003 VW GTI 1.8 Turbo and get ~25 or so horsepower without changing anything else. That is over 10% increase with just changing the software. Of course naturally aspirated engines are more finely tuned while vehicles that have turbos are typically tuned conservatively, so it would only net me a high single digit gain maybe into the double digits IIRC.
You needed night vision googles for that? I could have told you how many people are text messaging, etc. since they don't discretely do it, but rather hold their phone up so they can still comfortably recline in their seat. Ever since I took a zero tolerance policy none have sat close enough for me to bitch at.
All of the number portability things had a disclaimer that it needed to be in the same local market. As someone suggested, just change your billing address if you are happy with your service, if you don't have roaming or long distance charges it should cost you just the same.
I know a guy who got a business degree on a lacross scholarship. He isn't the brightest tool in the shed. I don't know his specific work experience, but I know he was working as a pizza delivery man. He applied for a job to deliver water, and was turned down cause he had a bachelors degree. He would have been right on par for the job too, I felt really bad for him cause he really could have used the stability, and schedule of the water delivery man over his pizza delivery job. He was one of the happiest people I knew in terms of quality of life despite this.
Most intersections in downtown are like that, however 4th West and 2nd South by the Gateway won't give you walk signal unless you hit the button. I can't even count the number of times people didn't hit the button, didn't get the signal and then notice the light changed, so they start crossing late, when the light is shorter cause it was only anticipating vehicle traffic, not pedestrians.
Usually the light changes to yellow when the countdown hits 0. Like someone else said makes it easier to tell if you have a chance of making it through the intersection or not.
The audible beeping is for the visually impaired, but I'll admit its helped me out when I've been talking with a friend and not paying attention to the lights.
http://www.fpdf.org/ it is a completely contained PDF system for PHP. I haven't used it a lot but I've heard it is a lot more sane to use than PDF Lib plus it doesn't require you to compile in the library.
I love Apple, but it does seem if you rub it the wrong way then you just have a bad time with things from them that others have no problems.
Case in point with their hardware I have had 3 different Apple computers now and no problems, my friend has owned two, one had constant inexplicable problems the other is a new 15" AlBook that is waiting till summer break from school to go in for the white spots problem.
My family, friends and I have owned probably two dozen or so different PCs over the years that have had Windows 95 through XP on them, and since I am the default tech support person, I know that none of these computers have had a consistent problem with Quicktime, at least enough to raise the issue with me (which it only takes one movie file they are trying to watch to cause a crash twice, easy to do if they want to see something). I know that on most of those machines when I have used them and had a media choice I always go with Quicktime cause it consistently seemed to be the best compression to quality, and the best at not crashing the system (where as Real Player and Windows Media Player tended to be more buggy). That is just my own experience with it, but as I said, it seems like for some people they just can't catch a break for no apparent reason with Apple, and others have no problems at all. Must be karma from Job's reality distortion field.
It isn't a killer app, but Pac-Man Vs. is fun, especially if you get 4 people playing together. A quick over view of the game, one player plays old school Pac-Man on the Gameboy, the other player(s) play as the ghosts, with a perspective view of them (can only see their immediate surroundings). If a ghost tags Pac-Man those players switch controllers and there is a new Pac-Man. You play to a certain point goal.
What is the firewire cable to either my PowerBook, PowerMac, or do the wall plug that came with my 2nd generation 20 Gig iPod?
seriously though I have to say that everything I have that is Apple has been superior quality, I know some people get a bad apple from time to time, my friend had a PowerBook that just would not play nice, but overall the quality is better than other companies, its because of this pedestal they are on, that the few exceptions really stand out.
There are already a couple of good replies to this but I thought I would throw in my 2 cents. I read the guys post and you say the card reader is rated to 180C, well is the plastic card rated that high? Thats what I thought, just cause the card reader can operate at high temperatures doesn't mean jack in the real world of consumer electronics. You know when the card reader needs to read a plastic card.
Doom was my first experience with how floppies can be fickle. I remember my cousin who introduced me to Wolfenstein 3D, told me his dad had gotten a new game like it called Doom. I think it took like two weeks from when I first got a set of disks with the Doom demo on them before I got a complete set that all of the disks worked. I had even tried downloading it from a local BBS (a hard thing to do when you are not allowed to leave the computer on overnight, and use the modem on your family's only phone line). There was nothing worse then having the 2nd or 3rd disc not work in my computer or my cousin's. Finally after a lot of persistence we got to enjoy Doom.
My dad used to study EMF all day at the local power company. This continued after being bought out by a bigger power company in the region, and then stopped when a overseas power company purchased them. Basically his job was to know what EMF was proven to do.
I can't recall all the details now, he doesn't do that anymore, but near as anyone can prove, it doesn't really effect you. There are no health risks that can be linked specifically to EMF. A lot of people throw up EMF health risks to prevent new power lines coming up in their neighborhood, never mind that is causing serious problems for the surrounding area (brown outs and the such). He spent a lot of time going to city council meetings and the like showing people that their health concerns were invalid. In reality they are more worried about their property value.
I remember the big push for the Bluetooth standard years ago, and then nothing really coming out. Now I have a 17" PowerBook with Bluetooth built-in. I picked up the MS Bluetooth mouse. I really like my wireless mouse. Before you would have to plug in a dongle, and may as well just have a wired mouse that doesn't use batteries. Additionally I have Bluetooth in my mobile phone. I connect to the internet when I am out and about thru GPRS on my mobile. Its really nice to be able to just leave it in my pocket, no wires.
My boss has a Tungsten T and had problems with his cradle and syncing on his mac, so he just syncs using Bluetooth (granted it is slower, but on the plus side he can do it away from his desk). I'm planning on picking up a Palm PDA with Bluetooth soon, not for syncing, but cause I don't want to have a billion contacts in my mobile phone, but with Bluetooth Palm's you can 'dial' from the address book. Very handy.
Just as other people have said, I think that now that Apple is really embracing Bluetooth that we aren't going to see it die anymore than BSD, or Apple are dying.
Why is everything good in the world constantly dying? I just switched over to the dying Apple OS, Mac OS X. It has been the best OS I have ever run. (Not to say it doesn't have its deficiencies, but overall I have enjoyed the experience a lot more than anything else) I own a PS2 and a Gamecube, I have an X Box in the house. The PS2 is in my brothers room, I don't play it that much. The X Box hardly gets turned on by anyone. The Gamecube is in my room so I can readily play it. I used to buy all the games, but I am slowly becoming everything I ever hated, and don't have the time for all of the good games. So I can only play the cream of the crop, which I have found tends to be my Gamecube. I find that my Gamecube is the best of all the systems. I find that I wouldn't trade my Mario Golf, F Zero GX, Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Party 4, Super Smash Brothers Melee, for anything. I've even found the games that are available on other platforms are better on my Gamecube (i.e. Soul Caliber 2).
If this is what dying things are like, I hope that more things that I currently enjoy go into a perpetual state of dying.
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Yes, smaller states residents have control over a larger fraction of the electoral votes. However it is still so small that it isn't like a small state resident has a big advantage over a large state resident. Plus if the electoral college was disbanded and just a simple majority were instituted we would have campaigns centered around small population centers. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles combined population out weighs Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North and South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah combined. See Shape of Days about some reasons to keep the electoral college. Basically it strikes a balance between equal representation for all people and equal representation for all states.
I checked this out since Northface is close to my house. However I decided that it wasn't for me, I am more of a CIS type guy then CS. I work full-time during the day. I recall, and checked to make sure that you have to take psychology, philosophy, and other classes. This one of the first things I looked into, is this a trade like school, or is it really trying to cram a 4 year degree in two years. I'll admit it is probably more technical skill oriented than your traditional 4 year, but its not completely skimping on the liberal arts.
I think that part of it is that there is less chance for work and social life at Northface. It might be something you don't want to sacrifice, but some people do. I have a full load at the U of U this fall, in the CIS degree program. A typical year (two semesters) at the U of U where I am involves being in class for about 15 hours a week for ~32 weeks (~16 a semester). I am told I should have 30 hours of homework studying outside of class but I haven't had to do that much work for good grades personally. Compared if I was at Northface I would have 47 weeks of school in a year, class would be 8 hours a day M-F. I don't recall is the outside of class expected time/work is explained on the site. However even if the each week of school were equal between the two that would mean that I was getting the same as 6 semesters at the U from Northface.
In theory it could be possible to do the classwork to satisfy a 4 year degree in 2 years. You would just have to have average a little over 20 hours a semester and go fall spring AND summer. So if you don't like it, don't deride it merely on the basis of the fact that they have concentrated the school work down to two years as the standard way of doing things.
I have a PowerBook that I do my web development on. I then use Virtual PC to test the windows IE stuff. I have found that the Mozilla rendering engine on windows/mac/linux is pretty much the same, i.e. testing on one is good enough for all (granted I try and stick with writing things once and having it work everywhere so its the safer (X)HTML/CSS).
The funniest thing is about the time to get an answer. Even if say I phrased my search term wrong, I know in seconds that I'm not getting what I was looking for. So I can adjust it to get what I am looking for. Then Google also won't give me advice about parenting, etc. It'll just give me the answer. Maybe the editors can just let Ask Slashdot submissions be handled by sending the submitter to Google.
Which isn't to say there isn't good Ask Slashdot's, they are just so few and far between these days.
The point is that it is possible to only change the software of a car and get better performance. The parent had discounted that the only way to get better performance requires different hardware. I was merely pointing out a circumstance were a pure software hack could up the performance of a vehicle.
I said over 10%. I believe the horsepower stock is around 180 neighborhood. 25 of 180 is over 10% really don't want to do the math. I know turbo charged cars are purposely tuned conservatively for the reasons you stated. I was just pointing out to the parent post that it is possible to 'hack' a car changing only the software to increase performance.
I haven't checked this out personally, but my friend says that he can get his ECU reprogrammed in his 2003 VW GTI 1.8 Turbo and get ~25 or so horsepower without changing anything else. That is over 10% increase with just changing the software. Of course naturally aspirated engines are more finely tuned while vehicles that have turbos are typically tuned conservatively, so it would only net me a high single digit gain maybe into the double digits IIRC.
You needed night vision googles for that? I could have told you how many people are text messaging, etc. since they don't discretely do it, but rather hold their phone up so they can still comfortably recline in their seat. Ever since I took a zero tolerance policy none have sat close enough for me to bitch at.
All of the number portability things had a disclaimer that it needed to be in the same local market. As someone suggested, just change your billing address if you are happy with your service, if you don't have roaming or long distance charges it should cost you just the same.
I know a guy who got a business degree on a lacross scholarship. He isn't the brightest tool in the shed. I don't know his specific work experience, but I know he was working as a pizza delivery man. He applied for a job to deliver water, and was turned down cause he had a bachelors degree. He would have been right on par for the job too, I felt really bad for him cause he really could have used the stability, and schedule of the water delivery man over his pizza delivery job. He was one of the happiest people I knew in terms of quality of life despite this.
my friends and I use nlm or mln to signify giving the bird.
Most intersections in downtown are like that, however 4th West and 2nd South by the Gateway won't give you walk signal unless you hit the button. I can't even count the number of times people didn't hit the button, didn't get the signal and then notice the light changed, so they start crossing late, when the light is shorter cause it was only anticipating vehicle traffic, not pedestrians.
Usually the light changes to yellow when the countdown hits 0. Like someone else said makes it easier to tell if you have a chance of making it through the intersection or not.
The audible beeping is for the visually impaired, but I'll admit its helped me out when I've been talking with a friend and not paying attention to the lights.
http://www.fpdf.org/ it is a completely contained PDF system for PHP. I haven't used it a lot but I've heard it is a lot more sane to use than PDF Lib plus it doesn't require you to compile in the library.
and could be the same amount as someone who didn't actually buy a CD during the time in question.
I think he is talking about the HD PVR, where as you probably have just a normal PVR.
I love Apple, but it does seem if you rub it the wrong way then you just have a bad time with things from them that others have no problems.
Case in point with their hardware I have had 3 different Apple computers now and no problems, my friend has owned two, one had constant inexplicable problems the other is a new 15" AlBook that is waiting till summer break from school to go in for the white spots problem.
My family, friends and I have owned probably two dozen or so different PCs over the years that have had Windows 95 through XP on them, and since I am the default tech support person, I know that none of these computers have had a consistent problem with Quicktime, at least enough to raise the issue with me (which it only takes one movie file they are trying to watch to cause a crash twice, easy to do if they want to see something). I know that on most of those machines when I have used them and had a media choice I always go with Quicktime cause it consistently seemed to be the best compression to quality, and the best at not crashing the system (where as Real Player and Windows Media Player tended to be more buggy). That is just my own experience with it, but as I said, it seems like for some people they just can't catch a break for no apparent reason with Apple, and others have no problems at all. Must be karma from Job's reality distortion field.
It isn't a killer app, but Pac-Man Vs. is fun, especially if you get 4 people playing together. A quick over view of the game, one player plays old school Pac-Man on the Gameboy, the other player(s) play as the ghosts, with a perspective view of them (can only see their immediate surroundings). If a ghost tags Pac-Man those players switch controllers and there is a new Pac-Man. You play to a certain point goal.
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I also think that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles will be the killer app for GBA GC connectivity. Other than the problems pointed out by Penny Arcade in this comic http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-0
What is the firewire cable to either my PowerBook, PowerMac, or do the wall plug that came with my 2nd generation 20 Gig iPod?
seriously though I have to say that everything I have that is Apple has been superior quality, I know some people get a bad apple from time to time, my friend had a PowerBook that just would not play nice, but overall the quality is better than other companies, its because of this pedestal they are on, that the few exceptions really stand out.
It would be more like this:
Apple: What shall we innovate today?
Microsoft: What shall we rip off of Apple today?
Linux: What shall we rip off of MS?
There are already a couple of good replies to this but I thought I would throw in my 2 cents. I read the guys post and you say the card reader is rated to 180C, well is the plastic card rated that high? Thats what I thought, just cause the card reader can operate at high temperatures doesn't mean jack in the real world of consumer electronics. You know when the card reader needs to read a plastic card.
Doom was my first experience with how floppies can be fickle. I remember my cousin who introduced me to Wolfenstein 3D, told me his dad had gotten a new game like it called Doom. I think it took like two weeks from when I first got a set of disks with the Doom demo on them before I got a complete set that all of the disks worked. I had even tried downloading it from a local BBS (a hard thing to do when you are not allowed to leave the computer on overnight, and use the modem on your family's only phone line). There was nothing worse then having the 2nd or 3rd disc not work in my computer or my cousin's. Finally after a lot of persistence we got to enjoy Doom.
The question is there no bias in this investigation of bias in video game sites?
My dad used to study EMF all day at the local power company. This continued after being bought out by a bigger power company in the region, and then stopped when a overseas power company purchased them. Basically his job was to know what EMF was proven to do.
I can't recall all the details now, he doesn't do that anymore, but near as anyone can prove, it doesn't really effect you. There are no health risks that can be linked specifically to EMF. A lot of people throw up EMF health risks to prevent new power lines coming up in their neighborhood, never mind that is causing serious problems for the surrounding area (brown outs and the such). He spent a lot of time going to city council meetings and the like showing people that their health concerns were invalid. In reality they are more worried about their property value.
I remember the big push for the Bluetooth standard years ago, and then nothing really coming out. Now I have a 17" PowerBook with Bluetooth built-in. I picked up the MS Bluetooth mouse. I really like my wireless mouse. Before you would have to plug in a dongle, and may as well just have a wired mouse that doesn't use batteries. Additionally I have Bluetooth in my mobile phone. I connect to the internet when I am out and about thru GPRS on my mobile. Its really nice to be able to just leave it in my pocket, no wires.
My boss has a Tungsten T and had problems with his cradle and syncing on his mac, so he just syncs using Bluetooth (granted it is slower, but on the plus side he can do it away from his desk). I'm planning on picking up a Palm PDA with Bluetooth soon, not for syncing, but cause I don't want to have a billion contacts in my mobile phone, but with Bluetooth Palm's you can 'dial' from the address book. Very handy.
Just as other people have said, I think that now that Apple is really embracing Bluetooth that we aren't going to see it die anymore than BSD, or Apple are dying.
Why is everything good in the world constantly dying? I just switched over to the dying Apple OS, Mac OS X. It has been the best OS I have ever run. (Not to say it doesn't have its deficiencies, but overall I have enjoyed the experience a lot more than anything else) I own a PS2 and a Gamecube, I have an X Box in the house. The PS2 is in my brothers room, I don't play it that much. The X Box hardly gets turned on by anyone. The Gamecube is in my room so I can readily play it. I used to buy all the games, but I am slowly becoming everything I ever hated, and don't have the time for all of the good games. So I can only play the cream of the crop, which I have found tends to be my Gamecube. I find that my Gamecube is the best of all the systems. I find that I wouldn't trade my Mario Golf, F Zero GX, Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Party 4, Super Smash Brothers Melee, for anything. I've even found the games that are available on other platforms are better on my Gamecube (i.e. Soul Caliber 2).
If this is what dying things are like, I hope that more things that I currently enjoy go into a perpetual state of dying.