Everyone was afraid of what would happen if things went blatantly wrong. We appear to have avoided that malady. But there was always the question, how will we know if they've tampered with it? The answer was a meek "Well, the exit polls will keep the ballots true."
And today we see the exit polls distinctly differing from the actual counts, and collectively sigh that our nation won't go through the same disaster it did four years ago. If we can't trust the exit polls, why can we trust the voting machines?
I'm saying that when they said four hours, that was what you might call the "optimistic estimate." Any engineer or project planner will tell you never to base your decisions on the most pessimistic or optimistic guess. If they say the battery life is shorter now, my guess is its closer to reality. The only way for sure to find out is playtesting, which should be coming relatively soon if the PSP is as close to market as they say.
If I knew how the people at dslinux.com planned to put linux on there, I might be interested in it without a killer app. As it stands, there's not a lot that I absolutely need now. Pictochat sounds interesting, but I don't know if I can use a wifi router to talk with other people worldwide or not.
That might be interesting, to have a pictochat room for hackers;)
Sony has a reputation of not being straight with developers. If you believe Sony's numbers (or don't look at them too hardly), the PS2 is four times superior to the gamecube. Sony's marketing seems more in touch with their consumers. They know how closely these things are compared and publish specs with the consumer in mind, rather than the developer. So when Sony says 4 hours of portable ps2 power, every game developer friend I know did a little Sony math to figure out the REAL number. Given that 4 hours was already a wanting number, the psp will naturally come up shorter.
I'm not sure I want Nintendo to come up and engage in the same detrimental practices telling me their stuff can move 8 times more polygons than it ever will in a commercial game, or reinforcing gender stereotypes in gaming. Making Zelda cel-shaded turned off many consumers, but it beats selling GTA and MGS to preteens.
Certainly, nobody likes being slandered on the Internet, nor do we like our flaws pointed out publicly. But its something you simply have to deal with.
Honestly, in my hasn't-passed-the-bar psychoanalysis, it seems Merkey is suffering from what a friend who also suffers the same malady called "the CEO's disease." That is, manic/depressive or bipolar disorder, or whatever you wish to call it. I personally dislike that cute title of endearment; my father suffers from the same malady. A closer description would be the "white collar felon's disease." Untreated, its a dangerous mix of activity, enthusiasm and an absolute void of self-doubt or concern. Fortunately these things are easily medicated once recognized. A few doses of lithium salts appears to do the trick, for reasons unknown.
Unfortnately, part of being maniacal is not taking these pills. The path they lead until their own neurochemical system comes back to earth is often twisted and dangerous. Its hard to call them liars, but if you've ever met someone unmedicated in society during this state, the word optimistic is wholly inadequate to describe their worldview. What this man needs is help, before the hole he's digging becomes his grave.
You know, how many blanket pardons is the US gonna give Israel? I look at the whole thing as a double standard in many different ways. US politicians mediate peace talks and negotiations between Palestinians and Israel, yet we favor the protection, defense and perpetuality of Israel. Israel is a democracy for everyone, and a Jewish State. The Jewish State was built out of a need for protection against retribution, and now sponsors its own retribution.
Its time for Israel to get its shit together. It just might be that US influence is preventing the middle east from winning the peace on its own terms.
Actually, the umpires could be percieved as either the UN which Kerry is charicatured as bowing to, or the Supreme Court that validated Bush's 2000 presidency.
Brand new, expensive voting machines are more likely to be found in suburban and well to do areas, which are also likely to be Republican. I think that these counties are likely to face the brunt of the 'bug' disaster that may ultimately result in the evolution of state certified software engineers, and cost a few republicans their elections.
Without regulations, businesses tend to collude and merge. And even with regulations, some find it more profitable to ignore anti-competitive measures and destroy opposition alongside the fundamental nessecities of an open market.
The minimum wage law does impact certain markets, but let me provide a counter example. I recently attended a local state University, and part of this education included a rudimentary course in macroeconomics. While discussing the elementary models of price ceilings and price floors, the man teaching the course asked a simple question. "How many people work and earn minimum wage?" he asked. Of a classroom holding roughly 300, two raised their hands, as I recall. "Are you waitresses?" Yes, they relied. I'm no economics major, so I can't tell you how the minimum wage intersects service jobs where tips represent a significant income in interesting ways. But generally speaking, the minimum wage affects high school students working at the local laser tag and people who speak english as their next language. I'm more inclined to believe my personal experience and education over a one man think tank (especially one that doesn't even have its own web search in proper order). When nurses near a rural University don't even make a living wage, more than just the local students and populace are in danger.
I'm actually surprised you didn't bring up the Federal Reserve. Thats quite a nutcase position that isn't supported by most businessmen of any variety, be it large, small or imaginary. It seems he backs a Monetarist policy, given his stance on hard currency and the dissolution of the Federal Reserve. This totally ignores that even the founder of the monetarism school of thought reguards the gold standard as untenable and outdated. Dissolving the Fed would have the secondary measure of making small business loans more difficult to obtain, not easier. And this is ignoring the effect that would happen overnight as overseas investment in american markets suddenly drops off the face of the planet and into the stables of the newly formed Euro. If you thought the moaning of people who's portfolios took a hit with the MS lawsuits was bad, wait till you hear how loudly everyone with a 401k, bond traders, pensioners and generally everyone with more than three dollars to their name watches their money shrivel on paper.
Libertarian sounds like a neat idea, until you read the platform they advocate and realize its concentrated Big Business Republican wacko. Break away from the UN? Eliminate minimum wage? Eliminate the Federal Reserve? Make pollution a civil offense? Sell National Reserves and Parks to private owners? Fullscale withdrawl from Iraq?
If you want to raise the domestic income and prosperity, you absolutely need to put money where it will be spent. Its an economic law that increased spending raises income, and saving/investing is the opposite side of this coin. I mean, you don't think that Microsoft is going to begin massive hiring now that the dividend tax rate has been cut, do you? Eliminating the minimum wage really isn't as drastic as it seems, except for those immigrants that Badnarik claims are vital to American prosperity.
I'd rather not cut off the face to spite my nose, if you see what I mean.
So can a single person enter into a marriage between a man and a woman, as well as a "civil union"? Isn't one of the main benefits of states recognizing each other's liscences that it helps prevent serial bigamists?
neither can a linux router running on a pentium box some dude found in his parents closet, without suffering from inordinate delay and lag. Its hard for x86 code to compete with ASIC.
Badnarik's solution sounds like it rids us of the australian ballot. This bastion of privacy was established to prevent people from forcing votes one way or another, either through physical violence, buerocratic jobs, or the power of money. The ballots are public record once cast. They're supposed to be anonmymous, but anyone who wants to buy votes can find a strong path with Badnarik's solution.
I'm personally not so concerned with malicious tampering, although its entirely possible and feasible. I'm more worried about bugs, which seem to be the only constant in today's software.
Indeed the rules in place today do pander to the two party system, and there are some odd laws in various places. For example, no member of the Communist Party can be placed on the ballot in Kansas. This relic does little good; I'd be much more worried about candidates with secret ties to the Communists rather than a guy who's publicly Communist. Another ballot law in Kansas restricted parties with more than two words, like Natural Law Party, until the Natural Law Party. I can't recall the purpose of this law, but the good news is its gone.
Most offices use Office. If you dont have Office, you're at a significant disadvantage. For amateur uses, OpenOffice does a decent job, but professionals need professional grade software that works with their peers. That's just one more reason why Offices don't use X or 'Linux.'
Offices care for prices. They should then spring for the 50 dollar video card instead of the 100 dollar Free video card. Or maybe they'll spring for one of the motherboards with onboard video. The manufacturer is using terrible technology to build this card which leaves to a worse price point.
Offices who need non x86 video card support are incredibly rare, if not mythlogical, beasts. These are the people who a truly open source video card would have to appeal to. Believe it or not, NVIDIA cards already have an open source driver for 2d. I don't have the experience to comment on how that driver fares on nonx86 machines, though I suspect poorly to nonexistant.
So spare me this drivel about offices. I don't think you've been in many offices if you speak so quickly with so little information to provide about these "offices."
Well, I find it hard to cheer for a convicted monopoly and market bully. I think the industry atmosphere after the DoJ let MS off easy has been such a hinderence to innovation and startups that its been a disservice to the economy on the whole.
I currently own a couple of nvidia cards. I enjoy that NVIDIA is providing 3d accelleration for my installed software. What this Free Software Friendly board is capable of is minimal. It's essentially an ancient 2d acceleration. 3d support is off the table. I can find that elsewhere; I think there's a few OSS drivers that do that with proprietary cards. Perhaps they can't work on obscure platforms. I don't work with obscure platforms regularly, thats why they're obscure!
From a ROI perspective, you have to convince me there's some improvement over the status quo. I couldn't care less about the source. I know that 3d graphics are among the most alien software topics to developers. Its difficult, especially when you're mixing it with low level programming in a performance sensative environment. Not providing 3d means I'll look for a second card. More likely, I'll be looking at a different card that offers more functionality, even on Linux, at 50 dollars, than this can offer at 100.
Simply put, an free-software friendly board lacks a community to push it forward, and I don't see it treading water among the highly competitive graphics card market. If you want this to sell, you need to identify and explicitly cater to your niche market. Promote it as a learning tool, and grease the community wheels. Just putting it out there and expecting the world to recognize its value won't net you much.
I have to be in the courthouse soon, so I dont have much time to consider your statement, but I still don't see how renaming the indices means more than a simple renumbering of constants and maybe a calculation or two in the algorithm.
Maybe the male centric problem runs deeper than what gender the characters around you, or even the character you control, is. Saving the world, destroying every last zombie, etc seems like a macho thing to do. In today's world of Equal Opportunity, it can be lost on us that women want to be women as much as men want to be men.
Resident Evil uses female characters to emphasize how weak you are, to highten the fright. Imagine our protagonist from Metal Gear in this zombie game. All of a sudden it goes from scary to moderately funny.
If you wanted to point to a game thats sliding over toward women, look no further than Final Fantasy. The series has slowly moved from Saving the Princess and the World by Restoring the Crystal's Light to androgynous characters fighting a war for feeling, and playing dressup. You can say what you want about condesending stereotypes, but its not like placing a woman in place of rambo dissovles the masculine angle. It takes a different kind of game to directly appeal to girls and women.
Well, not every student in MY graduating class, or even the majority of students, were people who got in it for the money, because they liked games, etc. These people generally learn quickly and fill the ranks of your MIS programs. Maybe my school is somehow different, or maybe you havent made it past the classes of attrition.
They say they aren't weed out classes, but in essence they are; its only gonna get harder there-on in, and nearly everything you learn will be useful later. If the classes were curved to where a normal number of people passed, the next class in the chain would become the "weed out" class, or suffer the same degree factory atmosphere.
Don't just read the alogrithms, write them from scratch as well until you understand them. Be aware that some algorithms are completely different if you're using a language that starts arrays at [0] than at [1].
Which algorithm is it that is completely different, exactly?
The good news is that here in Kansas, first time voters need a drivers liscence to vote! So now they're not lying when they come up with innane procedure to deny new voters sufferage.
I think the legislation is a bit light in the description of instant runoff voting. It doesn't describe what should happen in the event of a tie. I'd find it quite possible to find that a pair of candidates received no votes in say, Alaska. Or possibly a very slim number. Hell, do write in votes count?
Also, it seems a bit odd to push for election reform like this without ditching the electoral college. Seems hypocrticial. The fact that the bill is so short implies that the authors don't expect it to go anywhere.
Also, if you want a rundown on the voting systems political scientists have invented, I suggest browing wikipedia on the subject Voting.
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Everyone was afraid of what would happen if things went blatantly wrong. We appear to have avoided that malady. But there was always the question, how will we know if they've tampered with it? The answer was a meek "Well, the exit polls will keep the ballots true."
And today we see the exit polls distinctly differing from the actual counts, and collectively sigh that our nation won't go through the same disaster it did four years ago. If we can't trust the exit polls, why can we trust the voting machines?
I'm saying that when they said four hours, that was what you might call the "optimistic estimate." Any engineer or project planner will tell you never to base your decisions on the most pessimistic or optimistic guess. If they say the battery life is shorter now, my guess is its closer to reality. The only way for sure to find out is playtesting, which should be coming relatively soon if the PSP is as close to market as they say.
If I knew how the people at dslinux.com planned to put linux on there, I might be interested in it without a killer app. As it stands, there's not a lot that I absolutely need now. Pictochat sounds interesting, but I don't know if I can use a wifi router to talk with other people worldwide or not.
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That might be interesting, to have a pictochat room for hackers
Sony has a reputation of not being straight with developers. If you believe Sony's numbers (or don't look at them too hardly), the PS2 is four times superior to the gamecube. Sony's marketing seems more in touch with their consumers. They know how closely these things are compared and publish specs with the consumer in mind, rather than the developer. So when Sony says 4 hours of portable ps2 power, every game developer friend I know did a little Sony math to figure out the REAL number. Given that 4 hours was already a wanting number, the psp will naturally come up shorter.
I'm not sure I want Nintendo to come up and engage in the same detrimental practices telling me their stuff can move 8 times more polygons than it ever will in a commercial game, or reinforcing gender stereotypes in gaming. Making Zelda cel-shaded turned off many consumers, but it beats selling GTA and MGS to preteens.
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Certainly, nobody likes being slandered on the Internet, nor do we like our flaws pointed out publicly. But its something you simply have to deal with.
Honestly, in my hasn't-passed-the-bar psychoanalysis, it seems Merkey is suffering from what a friend who also suffers the same malady called "the CEO's disease." That is, manic/depressive or bipolar disorder, or whatever you wish to call it. I personally dislike that cute title of endearment; my father suffers from the same malady. A closer description would be the "white collar felon's disease." Untreated, its a dangerous mix of activity, enthusiasm and an absolute void of self-doubt or concern. Fortunately these things are easily medicated once recognized. A few doses of lithium salts appears to do the trick, for reasons unknown.
Unfortnately, part of being maniacal is not taking these pills. The path they lead until their own neurochemical system comes back to earth is often twisted and dangerous. Its hard to call them liars, but if you've ever met someone unmedicated in society during this state, the word optimistic is wholly inadequate to describe their worldview. What this man needs is help, before the hole he's digging becomes his grave.
Well everyone knows globals are bad... In multithreaded programs unprotected globals can lead to race conditions, or worse....
You know, how many blanket pardons is the US gonna give Israel? I look at the whole thing as a double standard in many different ways. US politicians mediate peace talks and negotiations between Palestinians and Israel, yet we favor the protection, defense and perpetuality of Israel. Israel is a democracy for everyone, and a Jewish State. The Jewish State was built out of a need for protection against retribution, and now sponsors its own retribution.
Its time for Israel to get its shit together. It just might be that US influence is preventing the middle east from winning the peace on its own terms.
Actually, the umpires could be percieved as either the UN which Kerry is charicatured as bowing to, or the Supreme Court that validated Bush's 2000 presidency.
Brand new, expensive voting machines are more likely to be found in suburban and well to do areas, which are also likely to be Republican. I think that these counties are likely to face the brunt of the 'bug' disaster that may ultimately result in the evolution of state certified software engineers, and cost a few republicans their elections.
But I'm still not convinced.
Without regulations, businesses tend to collude and merge. And even with regulations, some find it more profitable to ignore anti-competitive measures and destroy opposition alongside the fundamental nessecities of an open market.
The minimum wage law does impact certain markets, but let me provide a counter example. I recently attended a local state University, and part of this education included a rudimentary course in macroeconomics. While discussing the elementary models of price ceilings and price floors, the man teaching the course asked a simple question. "How many people work and earn minimum wage?" he asked. Of a classroom holding roughly 300, two raised their hands, as I recall. "Are you waitresses?" Yes, they relied. I'm no economics major, so I can't tell you how the minimum wage intersects service jobs where tips represent a significant income in interesting ways. But generally speaking, the minimum wage affects high school students working at the local laser tag and people who speak english as their next language. I'm more inclined to believe my personal experience and education over a one man think tank (especially one that doesn't even have its own web search in proper order). When nurses near a rural University don't even make a living wage, more than just the local students and populace are in danger.
I'm actually surprised you didn't bring up the Federal Reserve. Thats quite a nutcase position that isn't supported by most businessmen of any variety, be it large, small or imaginary. It seems he backs a Monetarist policy, given his stance on hard currency and the dissolution of the Federal Reserve. This totally ignores that even the founder of the monetarism school of thought reguards the gold standard as untenable and outdated. Dissolving the Fed would have the secondary measure of making small business loans more difficult to obtain, not easier. And this is ignoring the effect that would happen overnight as overseas investment in american markets suddenly drops off the face of the planet and into the stables of the newly formed Euro. If you thought the moaning of people who's portfolios took a hit with the MS lawsuits was bad, wait till you hear how loudly everyone with a 401k, bond traders, pensioners and generally everyone with more than three dollars to their name watches their money shrivel on paper.
Libertarian sounds like a neat idea, until you read the platform they advocate and realize its concentrated Big Business Republican wacko. Break away from the UN? Eliminate minimum wage? Eliminate the Federal Reserve? Make pollution a civil offense? Sell National Reserves and Parks to private owners? Fullscale withdrawl from Iraq?
If you want to raise the domestic income and prosperity, you absolutely need to put money where it will be spent. Its an economic law that increased spending raises income, and saving/investing is the opposite side of this coin. I mean, you don't think that Microsoft is going to begin massive hiring now that the dividend tax rate has been cut, do you? Eliminating the minimum wage really isn't as drastic as it seems, except for those immigrants that Badnarik claims are vital to American prosperity.
I'd rather not cut off the face to spite my nose, if you see what I mean.
So can a single person enter into a marriage between a man and a woman, as well as a "civil union"? Isn't one of the main benefits of states recognizing each other's liscences that it helps prevent serial bigamists?
neither can a linux router running on a pentium box some dude found in his parents closet, without suffering from inordinate delay and lag. Its hard for x86 code to compete with ASIC.
The spectrum is unliscenced. Every device just has to deal with it. Some may be better than others for the job ;)
Badnarik's solution sounds like it rids us of the australian ballot. This bastion of privacy was established to prevent people from forcing votes one way or another, either through physical violence, buerocratic jobs, or the power of money. The ballots are public record once cast. They're supposed to be anonmymous, but anyone who wants to buy votes can find a strong path with Badnarik's solution.
I'm personally not so concerned with malicious tampering, although its entirely possible and feasible. I'm more worried about bugs, which seem to be the only constant in today's software.
Indeed the rules in place today do pander to the two party system, and there are some odd laws in various places. For example, no member of the Communist Party can be placed on the ballot in Kansas. This relic does little good; I'd be much more worried about candidates with secret ties to the Communists rather than a guy who's publicly Communist. Another ballot law in Kansas restricted parties with more than two words, like Natural Law Party, until the Natural Law Party. I can't recall the purpose of this law, but the good news is its gone.
Most offices use Office. If you dont have Office, you're at a significant disadvantage. For amateur uses, OpenOffice does a decent job, but professionals need professional grade software that works with their peers. That's just one more reason why Offices don't use X or 'Linux.'
Offices care for prices. They should then spring for the 50 dollar video card instead of the 100 dollar Free video card. Or maybe they'll spring for one of the motherboards with onboard video. The manufacturer is using terrible technology to build this card which leaves to a worse price point.
Offices who need non x86 video card support are incredibly rare, if not mythlogical, beasts. These are the people who a truly open source video card would have to appeal to. Believe it or not, NVIDIA cards already have an open source driver for 2d. I don't have the experience to comment on how that driver fares on nonx86 machines, though I suspect poorly to nonexistant.
So spare me this drivel about offices. I don't think you've been in many offices if you speak so quickly with so little information to provide about these "offices."
Well, I find it hard to cheer for a convicted monopoly and market bully. I think the industry atmosphere after the DoJ let MS off easy has been such a hinderence to innovation and startups that its been a disservice to the economy on the whole.
I currently own a couple of nvidia cards. I enjoy that NVIDIA is providing 3d accelleration for my installed software. What this Free Software Friendly board is capable of is minimal. It's essentially an ancient 2d acceleration. 3d support is off the table. I can find that elsewhere; I think there's a few OSS drivers that do that with proprietary cards. Perhaps they can't work on obscure platforms. I don't work with obscure platforms regularly, thats why they're obscure!
From a ROI perspective, you have to convince me there's some improvement over the status quo. I couldn't care less about the source. I know that 3d graphics are among the most alien software topics to developers. Its difficult, especially when you're mixing it with low level programming in a performance sensative environment. Not providing 3d means I'll look for a second card. More likely, I'll be looking at a different card that offers more functionality, even on Linux, at 50 dollars, than this can offer at 100.
Simply put, an free-software friendly board lacks a community to push it forward, and I don't see it treading water among the highly competitive graphics card market. If you want this to sell, you need to identify and explicitly cater to your niche market. Promote it as a learning tool, and grease the community wheels. Just putting it out there and expecting the world to recognize its value won't net you much.
I have to be in the courthouse soon, so I dont have much time to consider your statement, but I still don't see how renaming the indices means more than a simple renumbering of constants and maybe a calculation or two in the algorithm.
Maybe the male centric problem runs deeper than what gender the characters around you, or even the character you control, is. Saving the world, destroying every last zombie, etc seems like a macho thing to do. In today's world of Equal Opportunity, it can be lost on us that women want to be women as much as men want to be men.
Resident Evil uses female characters to emphasize how weak you are, to highten the fright. Imagine our protagonist from Metal Gear in this zombie game. All of a sudden it goes from scary to moderately funny.
If you wanted to point to a game thats sliding over toward women, look no further than Final Fantasy. The series has slowly moved from Saving the Princess and the World by Restoring the Crystal's Light to androgynous characters fighting a war for feeling, and playing dressup. You can say what you want about condesending stereotypes, but its not like placing a woman in place of rambo dissovles the masculine angle. It takes a different kind of game to directly appeal to girls and women.
Well, not every student in MY graduating class, or even the majority of students, were people who got in it for the money, because they liked games, etc. These people generally learn quickly and fill the ranks of your MIS programs. Maybe my school is somehow different, or maybe you havent made it past the classes of attrition.
They say they aren't weed out classes, but in essence they are; its only gonna get harder there-on in, and nearly everything you learn will be useful later. If the classes were curved to where a normal number of people passed, the next class in the chain would become the "weed out" class, or suffer the same degree factory atmosphere.
Don't just read the alogrithms, write them from scratch as well until you understand them. Be aware that some algorithms are completely different if you're using a language that starts arrays at [0] than at [1].
Which algorithm is it that is completely different, exactly?
The good news is that here in Kansas, first time voters need a drivers liscence to vote! So now they're not lying when they come up with innane procedure to deny new voters sufferage.
I think the legislation is a bit light in the description of instant runoff voting. It doesn't describe what should happen in the event of a tie. I'd find it quite possible to find that a pair of candidates received no votes in say, Alaska. Or possibly a very slim number. Hell, do write in votes count?
Also, it seems a bit odd to push for election reform like this without ditching the electoral college. Seems hypocrticial. The fact that the bill is so short implies that the authors don't expect it to go anywhere.
Also, if you want a rundown on the voting systems political scientists have invented, I suggest browing wikipedia on the subject Voting.