i didn't mean increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production/use. i meant incresing the efficiency of engines/electronics/houses/etc. so they use less energy.
case in point, using diesel cycle engines instead of otto cycle engines, revert the trend of power hungry CPUs in computers, use mini-fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent ones, and things like that.
the difference is that around here the trouble makers that were condidered to risky to imprison and torture (hogh profile politicians, artists, etc.) were gladly "invited" to leave the country. there was even that slogan: "brasil, ame-o ou deixe-o" (brasil, love it or leave it).
IE is a loss leader, just like the Xbox. they make up by selling other stuff, like devopment kits for activeX applets and other stuff.
plus it's an anchor to hold people to their products.
how many people you know have computers only to check e-mail and browse the web ? if all these people switch to firefox, how soon they'll realize they can use FF running in linux, freebsd, mac, etc ?
what MS wants is joe sixpack to think that "internet == internet explorer" so they can keep shoveling windows on the unsuspecting masses
that's why our ballots are not connected to any kind of network during voting hours, and they have several physical security measures as well, like tamper proof locks, seals and intusion sensors. if those are violated before vote counting begins, the ballot and all it's votes are voided.
that's an urban legend. i actually read the electoral law. in what concerns the vote counting, nulls and blanks are exactly the same thing. they're called "invalid votes".
the "blank" button and the possibility of voting null by choosing an invalid number exists for a psychological reason only. not everyone is confortable with the idea of voting null, so they're given the option of the blank vote.
in what concerns the counting, only the valid votes are considered.
other urban legend says that if more than half of the votes are null, the election is canceled and another one is made. this is NOT true. the election is repeated ONLY if more that half of the vote are declared null by the electoral court due to fraud. in other words, the election is canceled if the votes are nullified by the justice.
blank votes and null votes are simply excluded from the count. this is stated in arcticle 2nd of law 9.507 from september 30 1997.
the development of the system, and all the intelectual property associated, belong to the electoral justice.
when the system was first develop and used in capitol cities in the 90's, procomp (one of the manufacturers hired to develop the system) was not a diebold subsidiary yet. the other two were Itautec (subsidiary of the 2nd largest private bank of brasil) and Unisys.
all the intelectual property developed by the 3 companies was transfered to the union.
since the IP belongs to the government, they can choose to hire other comapnies to manufacture the units in the future if they son choose.
"It's irrational to create a society wherein good people hide behind walls while the criminals roam free."
it has been like that since the first cities were created. good and honest people who could afford it, would live inside the walls of the city, leaving the open fields to the mobs.
this idea of open cities is recent in human history, and apparently a failed idea. what we see today is a return to the old method off small walled comunities where kids can play outside their homes, for as long as they stay inside the walls of their community.
oh, and about the rational/irrational stuff, who's the crackpot who told you our species is rational ? me and my baseball bat would like to have a little chat with him...
"People with worse judgement than Dvorak have been summarily ignored for the rest of their life"
since he posts on the internet, is kinda hard to stop him from speaking. and big as internet is, there's always people who likes to real a good ol' troll for the entertainment value.
heck, there's people who reads slashdot at -1 threshold...
is this kind of people who links dvorak on slashdot, digg and others. they're just spreading the fun. read dvorak as you'd read a satire and have fun.
"Kryder of Seagate and Healy of Hitachi assure us that new disk-drive features like built-in encryption will protect copyright holders and our own personal records."
so the drives themselves will prevent us from copying media TO them and/or prevented us from copying stuff FROM them ?
what's the potential for abuse here ? try to upgrade to windows BlindenessXP2010 with a leaked key and it'll tell the HD to lock all your files... scary though, isn't it ?
no thanks. i want my terabyte SATA IV disk to be a plain data storage thingie with no stings attached or any sort of "copy protection" or encription. I'll handle data-protection on software myself
IIRC there's a mutual deal between ADM and Intel (part of the setlement of a lawsuit) that allows one company to use the other's technologies. that's what allowed AMD to integrate SSE 1/2/3 in athlons and Intel to integrate AMD64 in pentium4/xeon.
if they both buys graphic chipsets companies, does this means nvidia's technology on ATI GPUs and the other way around ?
or will they shield the newly aquired techs from the setlment ?
as if the artists received any compensation when you buy music from iTunes or any other music sales service based in US.
except for a few big artists who manage their own careers, most of them rely on live performances to make a buck, because the money they make selling pre-recorded music is less than what they'd make in a 9 to 5 job.
there are official, supported versions of MS office for Mac OS. that, plus increased security and less maintenance effort could convince them to switch.
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i didn't mean increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production/use. i meant incresing the efficiency of engines/electronics/houses/etc. so they use less energy.
case in point, using diesel cycle engines instead of otto cycle engines, revert the trend of power hungry CPUs in computers, use mini-fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent ones, and things like that.
sun and wind power are, IMHO, the alternative to oil and coal. hydrogen should be used just as storage/transport of energy.
but even this will be useless if we don't put serious brain power into improving the eficiency of our gadgets/cars/homes/etc.
then move to santo andré, next to são paulo. there's plenty of them in a shopping mall near here. price tag is R$ 2.300,00 (YIKES!!!)
you must be new here.
this is slashdot. any non-issues that can be spinned in an anti-MS way is news.
when they do something good, they're wrong. when they do something bad, they're wrong. for the people here, there's no way MS can win.
not anymore. they took a dive in the first hour of trade. SCOX is at $ 1.62 right now.
you can follow them here: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=SCOX
i tought the movement of heat/temperature was called convection.
metatags can control what a search engine can/can't look at a website.
all the porn sites have to do is put "no-cache" metatags on their pages to keep them off gogle's cache.
now here comes the science. they do research using webcaches as source, come with a meaningles, wrong number and want us to let go of our proverb ???
well, they can have my proverb when they pry it from my cold dead hand!!! the left one, of course. the right is kinda busy right now.
so let's party like it's 1984
the difference is that around here the trouble makers that were condidered to risky to imprison and torture (hogh profile politicians, artists, etc.) were gladly "invited" to leave the country. there was even that slogan: "brasil, ame-o ou deixe-o" (brasil, love it or leave it).
will the gringos have that option ?
IE is a loss leader, just like the Xbox. they make up by selling other stuff, like devopment kits for activeX applets and other stuff.
plus it's an anchor to hold people to their products.
how many people you know have computers only to check e-mail and browse the web ? if all these people switch to firefox, how soon they'll realize they can use FF running in linux, freebsd, mac, etc ?
what MS wants is joe sixpack to think that "internet == internet explorer" so they can keep shoveling windows on the unsuspecting masses
there are many paid engineers working for mozilla foundation, and before that, AOL kept a bunch of people on the payroll working on mozilla/netscape.
what changed was not the salary status of the developers, but the managment style guiding the devolopment.
do your math. 186 million minus 125 million equals 61 million. 61 million is close to 30% of 186 million.
the numbers are correct.
print the vote, cut it out, drop it on a bag.
that won't give a lot of randomness, but would certainly make it harder to find voting patterns.
that's why our ballots are not connected to any kind of network during voting hours, and they have several physical security measures as well, like tamper proof locks, seals and intusion sensors. if those are violated before vote counting begins, the ballot and all it's votes are voided.
that's an urban legend. i actually read the electoral law. in what concerns the vote counting, nulls and blanks are exactly the same thing. they're called "invalid votes".
the "blank" button and the possibility of voting null by choosing an invalid number exists for a psychological reason only. not everyone is confortable with the idea of voting null, so they're given the option of the blank vote.
in what concerns the counting, only the valid votes are considered.
other urban legend says that if more than half of the votes are null, the election is canceled and another one is made. this is NOT true. the election is repeated ONLY if more that half of the vote are declared null by the electoral court due to fraud. in other words, the election is canceled if the votes are nullified by the justice.
blank votes and null votes are simply excluded from the count. this is stated in arcticle 2nd of law 9.507 from september 30 1997.
more information here.
the development of the system, and all the intelectual property associated, belong to the electoral justice.
when the system was first develop and used in capitol cities in the 90's, procomp (one of the manufacturers hired to develop the system) was not a diebold subsidiary yet. the other two were Itautec (subsidiary of the 2nd largest private bank of brasil) and Unisys.
all the intelectual property developed by the 3 companies was transfered to the union.
since the IP belongs to the government, they can choose to hire other comapnies to manufacture the units in the future if they son choose.
dude, this is is certainly one of the most IDIOTIC trolls i've seen in /. in a while. and i've seen many...
notebook bateries are removable so you can replace it by a fully charged one while on the move.
imagine you're flying from USA to europe, you keep using the notebook. when the batery dies, just pop it off and put another one, fully charged.
UPSes are not portable, so no need to replace bateries.
here in brasil we're laughing all the way to our excelent, simple, functional and almost tamper proof electronic balots...
USA's voting system is showing it's age, and crooks are taking advantage of it to grab and stay in power. time for an overhaul, people.
"It's irrational to create a society wherein good people hide behind walls while the criminals roam free."
it has been like that since the first cities were created. good and honest people who could afford it, would live inside the walls of the city, leaving the open fields to the mobs.
this idea of open cities is recent in human history, and apparently a failed idea. what we see today is a return to the old method off small walled comunities where kids can play outside their homes, for as long as they stay inside the walls of their community.
oh, and about the rational/irrational stuff, who's the crackpot who told you our species is rational ? me and my baseball bat would like to have a little chat with him...
"People with worse judgement than Dvorak have been summarily ignored for the rest of their life"
since he posts on the internet, is kinda hard to stop him from speaking. and big as internet is, there's always people who likes to real a good ol' troll for the entertainment value.
heck, there's people who reads slashdot at -1 threshold...
is this kind of people who links dvorak on slashdot, digg and others. they're just spreading the fun. read dvorak as you'd read a satire and have fun.
"Kryder of Seagate and Healy of Hitachi assure us that new disk-drive features like built-in encryption will protect copyright holders and our own personal records."
so the drives themselves will prevent us from copying media TO them and/or prevented us from copying stuff FROM them ?
what's the potential for abuse here ? try to upgrade to windows BlindenessXP2010 with a leaked key and it'll tell the HD to lock all your files... scary though, isn't it ?
no thanks. i want my terabyte SATA IV disk to be a plain data storage thingie with no stings attached or any sort of "copy protection" or encription. I'll handle data-protection on software myself
IIRC there's a mutual deal between ADM and Intel (part of the setlement of a lawsuit) that allows one company to use the other's technologies. that's what allowed AMD to integrate SSE 1/2/3 in athlons and Intel to integrate AMD64 in pentium4/xeon.
if they both buys graphic chipsets companies, does this means nvidia's technology on ATI GPUs and the other way around ?
or will they shield the newly aquired techs from the setlment ?
as if the artists received any compensation when you buy music from iTunes or any other music sales service based in US.
except for a few big artists who manage their own careers, most of them rely on live performances to make a buck, because the money they make selling pre-recorded music is less than what they'd make in a 9 to 5 job.
there are official, supported versions of MS office for Mac OS. that, plus increased security and less maintenance effort could convince them to switch.