I reckon you could have system a bit like Jury Service......
Well as it seems that politicians staff members do most of the work of crafting bills, and informing the politician of what each bill means. We could have staffers picked by intelligence then via a lottery system. Meaning the government picks randomly people who are intelligent enough to understand law (maybe a law degree might help, but I don't trust most lawyers:) and hard working and offers them the job of congressional staffers. Then you have a lottery system that picks people intelligent people who have good social skills and makes them congresspeople. They are will be required to have regular town hall meetings with the district they are intended to represent. This district also has the power to vote to remove them at anytime (maybe a 2/3 or 3/4 vote). So you would end up with a person who truly represents the will of the people who they represent as was originally intended. Best of all with modern communications these people could stay and would be encouraged to stay in their home town and so their congressional duties virtually.
As he said, "unless I've been especially happy with his performance" Of course personally I'm most happy when they pass as few laws as possible, unless they are to reduce the governments power or unact some stupid law.
They are charging for most of the software you download via CNR. I never understood why they charged for the service in the first place, as any charges reduce your potential software sales customer base.
We ordered this exact printer for work the other day, ordered toner with it because its not clear on if it comes with toner or not. Well guess I'll find out when the shipment arrives. Guess I should have "called" dell. Blah..
Who else are you going to buy? HP? But seriously I love the quality of mine, and yes it does look like a lexmark, but I couldn't tell you for sure. Only had one issue with it, a door sensor, and dell replaced it with no trouble.
I'd pay more for a printer with better ink capacity and lower ink costs.
Surprisingly I've found the Dell Color Lasers to fit this bill.
I have a 3010cn that while the initial purchase was close to $600 the ink last forever and is fairly cheap. BTW when you goto purchase price the ink seperate from the machine, option to purchase the ink at the same time charges you a whole lot more for some reason.
Even still it may seem like a lot of money for ink but realize each cartridge is 2000 pages of JUST THAT COLOR. So in reality it will last a long long and there are no timeouts (from what I've seen). I've been using the same $45 black toner for a year now.
Obviously if you print so rarly $600 is probably too much to spend on a printer though.
Good point, even a meager $50 drop would make a big difference in their sales. I don't think a 5% increase in performance will mean much, so long as it plays the games intended for it. The performance issue will really hit sony a few years later. PS2 has lasted a LONG time in gaming terms simply because the performace was good enough to last till 2006. Don't expect the PS3 to last nearly as long, especially if they keep downgrading it.
Well back in the early days of Microsoft one of their driving mandras was to make it so that the hardware was a commodity and that you'd be paying mainly for the software. Looks like they have finally reaches their goal.
Kindness? As the owner of your kindness I have to say, suck it. Next time don't try and do me any favors./Paid for by the committe to suck it, suck it hard trebek.
Well I guess its the lesser of two evils. You can either let the patent office continue in its current form, which is essentially to grant each and every patent that comes across their desk. Or you can let the public comment on the patent having some hope this comment will inform the patent examiner of prior art.
Sure there are problems to the system, but if you receive your patent you will still get protection if you didn't either you didn't deserve it or the patent examiner made a mistake. Currently the mistake ratio is highly toward the award side, this might change the balance. We really can only wait and see. But the nonaward of a patent is not nessesarily much worse than the award of a bogus patent. The best we can hope for is a better balance. Or we can throw the baby out with the bathwater and just end the existance of patents all together.
Oh comeon, ultimatly its the patent office that has veto power. If the guy whos trying to rip you off can make a logical argument to the patent office, yes he should have every right to try to make his argument. Sure there is a conflict of intrest, and it will be interesting to see if the patent examiners can make a neutral decision that takes in all the fact, or if they are overwhelmed with information and thus kills the process. But saying the public has veto power is simply trolling at best.
Actually the entire point of the patent process initially was that you choose to tradeoff giving up your knowledge to the public, for the government protection of that knowledge used in a commerical invention for X years. Of course people will try to rip it off if its posted publically but that half the point, they can't bring anything to market without your permissions. Sure someone could bring something to market that was only sold in their local town and maybe stay under your radar, but they really arn't hurting your profit, and if they were you'd find out about them fairly quickly.
The Isrealis have successfully been hijack free for something like 20 years. They don't do overly intrusive searches, or freak out when someone drops and ipod. They have one basic rule, they shoot to kill anyone who starts hijacking the plane, no questions asked, damned any hostages. They havn't even had an attempted hijacking in many years.
Except when the menu system has the guy rattle on for minute about the new menu structure and all the services they can offer you online. My colleges finanial aid system phone menu rattles on for a few minutes then provides 7 different options all of which provide you directions on how to do that self-help on the phone. There is NO option for an operator or anything dealing with having a problem. Eventually I just pressed '0' (even though it wasn't an option) and it said I was being transfered to an operator, and then gave me a busy signal. Called back and it hung up on me. After about 7 calls I got an operator, who told me to call a different number.
Believe it or not the current versions of all the Microsoft products work just fine now. Someone could buy the rights to the office suite and someone else could buy the OS. Sure theyd probably charge you for updates, but it wouldn't "destroy the PC industry as well know it"
Well these menus are improvements in many ways. I just wish MS provided easy menu templates so that you could choose your menus to look like office 2003 or even office 2000 (or wordperfect). That way there wouldn't be many complains, don't like the ribbon? Run in in 2003 mode.
They are hardly building computers. They are using massive servers that are then virtualized to run thousands of desktop sized computers. I havn't RTFA but can anyone tell me if you can purchase a virtual image of greater stats than the 1.7GHz Xeon.. Or is your only option to purchase several and cluster them?
I don't think thats really the point. One point of course is that competing researchers should have access, though technically they do through subscribing to journals. Now its a given that there arn't many serious biotech researchers who arn't subscribing to all the relevent journals, there are plenty of hobbiest computer scientist, some whom even might rival well funded researches in abilities, who could gain a lot from this free exchange of knowledge. I'm sure there are other fields as well. Now the real problem I see if research that was never published in order to remain secret, even though funded by the government will stay secret. But I guess that was the point. Though some are secret for military reasons, others are simply secret so they can sell the information to the highest bidder.
Can someone explain to me how it is in any way harder to make a hack x64 driver than it is to make an x32 driver. In what way is x64 more secure? I don't get it. Now I understand signed drivers only, that makes sense, but this 64-bit thing just baffles me.
Well our moon with its thin atmopshere couldn't sustain life. Hell you'd blow up on the moon just like you would in the rest of outer space. So maybe should we use sufficient atmophere to not blow up and or instantly freeze (not that being cold should dictate its non planethood but if there is a low enough pressure you reach close to absolute zero real fast).
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Arg, the unused comma strikes again. I mean you show your id so they can sign you in, you get a token that isn't associated with your id, then you walk straight over and put that in the machine. I should have said "The token is taken from the entrance of the poll to the machine after you show your id."
I don't think its NIH syndrome as a lot of good voting systems have been created by Americans. Its a combination of Diebold having a larger sales staff, and maybe a little bit of fraud.
I remember when the local election officer started insisting upon paper receipt ballots he got blackballed by all the "certified" voting companies and the county commisioners slandered him in the newspaper because it caused him to miss a grant deadline when he didn't purchase the Diebold machine that was being forced upon him. After much fighting he eventually reached some comprimise the bascially limited the non reciept electronic voting to the disabled, and everyone else got a old fashion paper ballot (which was optically scanned).
Noo.. The token is taken from the entrance of the poll when you show your id to the machine. This is simply to match the number of people who got in line to the number of people who actually voted. But yes there could be a problem of someone pocketing the token and turning around and not voting. But ultimatly this is no less secure than how most polling stations in which you sign in then walk to a booth and vote.
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I reckon you could have system a bit like Jury Service......
:) and hard working and offers them the job of congressional staffers.
Well as it seems that politicians staff members do most of the work of crafting bills, and informing the politician of what each bill means. We could have staffers picked by intelligence then via a lottery system. Meaning the government picks randomly people who are intelligent enough to understand law (maybe a law degree might help, but I don't trust most lawyers
Then you have a lottery system that picks people intelligent people who have good social skills and makes them congresspeople. They are will be required to have regular town hall meetings with the district they are intended to represent. This district also has the power to vote to remove them at anytime (maybe a 2/3 or 3/4 vote). So you would end up with a person who truly represents the will of the people who they represent as was originally intended. Best of all with modern communications these people could stay and would be encouraged to stay in their home town and so their congressional duties virtually.
As he said, "unless I've been especially happy with his performance"
Of course personally I'm most happy when they pass as few laws as possible, unless they are to reduce the governments power or unact some stupid law.
They are charging for most of the software you download via CNR. I never understood why they charged for the service in the first place, as any charges reduce your potential software sales customer base.
HEHE :)
We ordered this exact printer for work the other day, ordered toner with it because its not clear on if it comes with toner or not. Well guess I'll find out when the shipment arrives. Guess I should have "called" dell. Blah..
Who else are you going to buy? HP?
But seriously I love the quality of mine, and yes it does look like a lexmark, but I couldn't tell you for sure. Only had one issue with it, a door sensor, and dell replaced it with no trouble.
Isn't that $300 without any toner though? Did it ship with toner?
I'd pay more for a printer with better ink capacity and lower ink costs.
Surprisingly I've found the Dell Color Lasers to fit this bill.
I have a 3010cn that while the initial purchase was close to $600 the ink last forever and is fairly cheap. BTW when you goto purchase price the ink seperate from the machine, option to purchase the ink at the same time charges you a whole lot more for some reason.
Even still it may seem like a lot of money for ink but realize each cartridge is 2000 pages of JUST THAT COLOR. So in reality it will last a long long and there are no timeouts (from what I've seen). I've been using the same $45 black toner for a year now.
Obviously if you print so rarly $600 is probably too much to spend on a printer though.
Good point, even a meager $50 drop would make a big difference in their sales. I don't think a 5% increase in performance will mean much, so long as it plays the games intended for it. The performance issue will really hit sony a few years later. PS2 has lasted a LONG time in gaming terms simply because the performace was good enough to last till 2006. Don't expect the PS3 to last nearly as long, especially if they keep downgrading it.
Well back in the early days of Microsoft one of their driving mandras was to make it so that the hardware was a commodity and that you'd be paying mainly for the software. Looks like they have finally reaches their goal.
Ok you can all go home now.. Microsoft is closed.
Kindness? As the owner of your kindness I have to say, suck it. Next time don't try and do me any favors. /Paid for by the committe to suck it, suck it hard trebek.
Well I guess its the lesser of two evils.
You can either let the patent office continue in its current form, which is essentially to grant each and every patent that comes across their desk.
Or you can let the public comment on the patent having some hope this comment will inform the patent examiner of prior art.
Sure there are problems to the system, but if you receive your patent you will still get protection if you didn't either you didn't deserve it or the patent examiner made a mistake. Currently the mistake ratio is highly toward the award side, this might change the balance. We really can only wait and see. But the nonaward of a patent is not nessesarily much worse than the award of a bogus patent.
The best we can hope for is a better balance. Or we can throw the baby out with the bathwater and just end the existance of patents all together.
Oh comeon, ultimatly its the patent office that has veto power. If the guy whos trying to rip you off can make a logical argument to the patent office, yes he should have every right to try to make his argument. Sure there is a conflict of intrest, and it will be interesting to see if the patent examiners can make a neutral decision that takes in all the fact, or if they are overwhelmed with information and thus kills the process. But saying the public has veto power is simply trolling at best.
Actually the entire point of the patent process initially was that you choose to tradeoff giving up your knowledge to the public, for the government protection of that knowledge used in a commerical invention for X years. Of course people will try to rip it off if its posted publically but that half the point, they can't bring anything to market without your permissions. Sure someone could bring something to market that was only sold in their local town and maybe stay under your radar, but they really arn't hurting your profit, and if they were you'd find out about them fairly quickly.
The Isrealis have successfully been hijack free for something like 20 years. They don't do overly intrusive searches, or freak out when someone drops and ipod. They have one basic rule, they shoot to kill anyone who starts hijacking the plane, no questions asked, damned any hostages. They havn't even had an attempted hijacking in many years.
Except when the menu system has the guy rattle on for minute about the new menu structure and all the services they can offer you online. My colleges finanial aid system phone menu rattles on for a few minutes then provides 7 different options all of which provide you directions on how to do that self-help on the phone. There is NO option for an operator or anything dealing with having a problem. Eventually I just pressed '0' (even though it wasn't an option) and it said I was being transfered to an operator, and then gave me a busy signal. Called back and it hung up on me. After about 7 calls I got an operator, who told me to call a different number.
Believe it or not the current versions of all the Microsoft products work just fine now. Someone could buy the rights to the office suite and someone else could buy the OS. Sure theyd probably charge you for updates, but it wouldn't "destroy the PC industry as well know it"
Well these menus are improvements in many ways. I just wish MS provided easy menu templates so that you could choose your menus to look like office 2003 or even office 2000 (or wordperfect). That way there wouldn't be many complains, don't like the ribbon? Run in in 2003 mode.
They are hardly building computers. They are using massive servers that are then virtualized to run thousands of desktop sized computers. I havn't RTFA but can anyone tell me if you can purchase a virtual image of greater stats than the 1.7GHz Xeon .. Or is your only option to purchase several and cluster them?
I don't think thats really the point. One point of course is that competing researchers should have access, though technically they do through subscribing to journals. Now its a given that there arn't many serious biotech researchers who arn't subscribing to all the relevent journals, there are plenty of hobbiest computer scientist, some whom even might rival well funded researches in abilities, who could gain a lot from this free exchange of knowledge. I'm sure there are other fields as well. Now the real problem I see if research that was never published in order to remain secret, even though funded by the government will stay secret. But I guess that was the point. Though some are secret for military reasons, others are simply secret so they can sell the information to the highest bidder.
So why will the 32 bit version allow you to install unsigned drivers? Just something to help existing XP users upgrade?
Can someone explain to me how it is in any way harder to make a hack x64 driver than it is to make an x32 driver. In what way is x64 more secure? I don't get it. Now I understand signed drivers only, that makes sense, but this 64-bit thing just baffles me.
Well our moon with its thin atmopshere couldn't sustain life. Hell you'd blow up on the moon just like you would in the rest of outer space. So maybe should we use sufficient atmophere to not blow up and or instantly freeze (not that being cold should dictate its non planethood but if there is a low enough pressure you reach close to absolute zero real fast).
Arg, the unused comma strikes again. I mean you show your id so they can sign you in, you get a token that isn't associated with your id, then you walk straight over and put that in the machine. I should have said
"The token is taken from the entrance of the poll to the machine after you show your id."
Or something to that effect.
I don't think its NIH syndrome as a lot of good voting systems have been created by Americans. Its a combination of Diebold having a larger sales staff, and maybe a little bit of fraud.
I remember when the local election officer started insisting upon paper receipt ballots he got blackballed by all the "certified" voting companies and the county commisioners slandered him in the newspaper because it caused him to miss a grant deadline when he didn't purchase the Diebold machine that was being forced upon him. After much fighting he eventually reached some comprimise the bascially limited the non reciept electronic voting to the disabled, and everyone else got a old fashion paper ballot (which was optically scanned).
Noo.. The token is taken from the entrance of the poll when you show your id to the machine. This is simply to match the number of people who got in line to the number of people who actually voted. But yes there could be a problem of someone pocketing the token and turning around and not voting. But ultimatly this is no less secure than how most polling stations in which you sign in then walk to a booth and vote.