I would change the whole election system. But given that is a huge tangent, and we're only talking about ballots...
I would make the election ballot work like so.
First, give everybody an absentee ballot. Completely eliminate the need to go to the polls on election day. I mean, it's tradition or some crap like that, but seriously. What you do mail everyone who is able/registered to vote. Send them a ballot which is printed in such a way that counterfeiting is extremely difficult/impossible and where validity can be verified by a compute.
The ballot itself will use the SAT bubble in system. #2 pencil, fill in the bubbles. Everyone must mail/hand their ballots in by/on election day.
People too lazy to leave the house/get absentee ballots will vote. People wont counterfiet votes because they can't copy the ballot. Anyone who tries to send in a fake ballot can be fined/punished under the law for election fraud. The ballot is easy to read and fill out.
Fill in the bubble next to the presidential candidate you are voting for: (1) Cthulhu (2) Satan (3) Slick Willy
So, without changing the method of election, I believe this is the best way to do the ballot. Standardized nationwide.
First of all, don't use EZ CD Creator, it's crap. Get a copy of Nero Burning ROM. It is by far the best CD-burning application ever.
Next. Buy a hard drive. Create a FAT32 partition spanning the entire disk. I reccomend getting a high capacity low speed Seagate drive. SCSI if possible. Copy all of your files you want backed up, but don't change often onto this disk. Then take the disk out of your computer, put it in a Sea-Shield and lock it in a fire safe (which you should have anyway).
All of your changing files, documents that you are working on now, burn them to CD using Nero. Nero will make this very easy.
Now, let's say your hard disk crashes. Get a new disc. Install a clean windows on it. XP has the feature that lets you re-import all your settings really easily. Then just copy all the files from the drive and the latest cd back over.
If you can manage to keep the cd stuff to 1 disc you can use a CDRW instead of CDRs to save $$$. The chances of a hard drive that is unused crashing are so astronomically small, don't worry about it.
Most people who are big on consoles aren't so big on pcs. People who aren't big on pcs don't have broadband internet connections. Most people still have dial up, remember that. These people aren't going to get broadband just to hook the ps2 up to the net. And they aren't going to buy a net adapter they don't need. This is why Nintendo is going big with it's cube lan strategy instead of the net. Cube fans have cube fan friends, and cubes are small and portable, and gbas are plentiful. 4 cubes and 16 gbas with appropriate linkage with 4tvs are more fun with more friends than one guy in his house with one cube and the net.
I think the problem here is that the video game industry is contrary to the linux community in nature. The gaming industry creates closed source software and sells it in the store for money with a license for 1 machine. Linux is free as in beer and as in speech, and the software for it is usually the same.
The problem is that the same people who like those closed source games (myself included) also like linux. I think that if linux wants to establish itself as a gaming platform it needs games exclusive to itself that are as good or better than games for windows. More people need to start open source games/game engines for linux. One for every genre would be good.
When I look for video game hardware, especially consoles, the number one question on my mind is "what must-play games are here that aren't anywhere else". That's why I own a GameCube, and that why I use Windows to play games. XBoX and PS2 have good games, but the cube just has more games that I absolutely must play that aren't available for the pc or in the arcade, or on any other platform.
Conclusion: Make new open source games for linux. Make them high quality. Make them so good that people running windows will install linux just to play these games. Remember a really good free game is more popular than a slightly better $50 game. Counter-Strike is free, and I believe it's still #1.
KDE for Win2k/XP? That would totally rock the house. I could have all the game playing of windows with all the nix of KDE. Then when I reboot to real nix it would look almost exactly the same.
you are indeed stuck with fat32 as others have stated. It is the only filesystem that works on all 3 platforms. If you want to format the whole drive as one partition here's a hint. FDISK. I'm tired of all these people using partition magic or other pussified partitioning programs. Get a win98 boot disk or a linux disc and use fdisk. *gasp*!!!
If I'm looking to buy a sports car, which I hopefully will be doing some day, then maybe. I might for instance see a car in a video game that I did not know existed, or that I did not realize had high performance. Depending on the in game performance, and if that bears any relation to the real world performance, I might add the car to the list of cars to test drive.
Of course if I ever have enough money I'll just instantly buy the Ferrari 360 Spyder, and then who needs test driving.
Seriously though, games show off the looks of a car much better than the driving, unless you've got a really expensive simulator, in which case you can probably own multiple cars. There is probably at least a few people out there whou bought a car because it was their favorite in Gran Turismo. And if it means more quality racing games, let the auto manufacturers do whatever they want.
I can say that I would like to see many more girl gamers. Girl gamers are the kinds of girls I would like to go out with, but they are few. I think girls don't game for two reasons. 1) They generally don't like it. 2) there aren't many girl games. It's like football. There are girls who like football, but for whatever reason it's a thing guys like more. It's just the way things are. But as evidenced by things like the sims, there are games that girls will play. Make more of those games.
Only if you are an enemy combatant. And in a war on terror all terrorists are enemy combatants. And terrorist is defined in the patriot act as, just about everybody they want to lock up without trial.
I usually open up the interactive python session and try a couple things out. It's not really a warm up, I'm trying to learn python. I guess it could be though. Try a few lines of code out, then get down to business.
It doesn't matter if the bastard vetos because congress can say screw you in a 2/3 majority, which they no doubt have. the senate is the real decision maker at this point as the house seems to already have its mind made up.
Please, can the government make one good decision this year, please??? I mean sure, it's just a correction of a previous bad move, but it's something. Gotta set the expectation bar low to achieve satisfaction.
First, get a microphone. Then get a laptop with a wireless card. One of those really small laptops from japan would work well. http://www.dynamism.com. Then, just record your audio, type your text and upload by finding a wireless network. What else could you possibly need?
The game of risk is not that terrible, but it does suck in comparison to real board games. If you've ever played the likes of Puerto Rico or El Grande you will realize the lack of strategy in risk. American board games are too much based on luck. Sure, you can calculate the odds and make better decisions, but european board games have almost no luck involved in deciding the winner.
After a game of risk the winner can not safely say they are strategically superior to the losers. In a game of Puerto Rico there is no doubt who is a better person.
instead of difficult to guess passwords, or those pin numbers that change every few seconds, which are almost unguessable (unless of course the password is "password"). All you need to break into the system is a good joke.
Something that a lot of these guys have not thought of, is of course, the obvious answer/truth. File sharing traffic drops in may/june and rises again in late august early september. The college students leave and go back to school with their beloved OCs. Oh dual OC3s, how I miss thee.
The reason that the NYT just doesn't tell google not to cache them is visitors. Let's face it, even though the registration is a bitch the content on the NYT website is fairly decent. They have good articles often enough that geeks went through the effort of finding out how to read without registering. If they have google not cache them, and they close the google news loophole, then they wont appear on google news any longer. And google news is used by many more people than you think.
Hey, we get quite a few visitors from this google news. Let's change it so we get 0 visitors from it.
it tells you which president to vote for based on your stance on the issues. I tested it out and it's very accurate. It gave me a reccomendation for green party 100% and Dean 96%. Since I really want Bush out and 3rd parties don't win, guess who I'm voting for? I'll probably read a few of his entries on Lessig's blog, and unless he's really unkosher this seals the deal.
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I would change the whole election system. But given that is a huge tangent, and we're only talking about ballots...
/registered to vote. Send them a ballot which is printed in such a way that counterfeiting is extremely difficult/impossible and where validity can be verified by a compute.
I would make the election ballot work like so.
First, give everybody an absentee ballot. Completely eliminate the need to go to the polls on election day. I mean, it's tradition or some crap like that, but seriously. What you do mail everyone who is able
The ballot itself will use the SAT bubble in system. #2 pencil, fill in the bubbles. Everyone must mail/hand their ballots in by/on election day.
People too lazy to leave the house/get absentee ballots will vote. People wont counterfiet votes because they can't copy the ballot. Anyone who tries to send in a fake ballot can be fined/punished under the law for election fraud. The ballot is easy to read and fill out.
Fill in the bubble next to the presidential candidate you are voting for:
(1) Cthulhu
(2) Satan
(3) Slick Willy
So, without changing the method of election, I believe this is the best way to do the ballot. Standardized nationwide.
Ask Nintendo.
Mario, Link, Pokemon, Kirby, Metroid, etc.
No original IP? Must not own a GBA or GCN.
First of all, don't use EZ CD Creator, it's crap. Get a copy of Nero Burning ROM. It is by far the best CD-burning application ever.
Next. Buy a hard drive. Create a FAT32 partition spanning the entire disk. I reccomend getting a high capacity low speed Seagate drive. SCSI if possible. Copy all of your files you want backed up, but don't change often onto this disk. Then take the disk out of your computer, put it in a Sea-Shield and lock it in a fire safe (which you should have anyway).
All of your changing files, documents that you are working on now, burn them to CD using Nero. Nero will make this very easy.
Now, let's say your hard disk crashes. Get a new disc. Install a clean windows on it. XP has the feature that lets you re-import all your settings really easily. Then just copy all the files from the drive and the latest cd back over.
If you can manage to keep the cd stuff to 1 disc you can use a CDRW instead of CDRs to save $$$. The chances of a hard drive that is unused crashing are so astronomically small, don't worry about it.
Most people who are big on consoles aren't so big on pcs. People who aren't big on pcs don't have broadband internet connections. Most people still have dial up, remember that. These people aren't going to get broadband just to hook the ps2 up to the net. And they aren't going to buy a net adapter they don't need. This is why Nintendo is going big with it's cube lan strategy instead of the net. Cube fans have cube fan friends, and cubes are small and portable, and gbas are plentiful. 4 cubes and 16 gbas with appropriate linkage with 4tvs are more fun with more friends than one guy in his house with one cube and the net.
I think the problem here is that the video game industry is contrary to the linux community in nature. The gaming industry creates closed source software and sells it in the store for money with a license for 1 machine. Linux is free as in beer and as in speech, and the software for it is usually the same.
The problem is that the same people who like those closed source games (myself included) also like linux. I think that if linux wants to establish itself as a gaming platform it needs games exclusive to itself that are as good or better than games for windows. More people need to start open source games/game engines for linux. One for every genre would be good.
When I look for video game hardware, especially consoles, the number one question on my mind is "what must-play games are here that aren't anywhere else". That's why I own a GameCube, and that why I use Windows to play games. XBoX and PS2 have good games, but the cube just has more games that I absolutely must play that aren't available for the pc or in the arcade, or on any other platform.
Conclusion: Make new open source games for linux. Make them high quality. Make them so good that people running windows will install linux just to play these games. Remember a really good free game is more popular than a slightly better $50 game. Counter-Strike is free, and I believe it's still #1.
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KDE for Win2k/XP? That would totally rock the house. I could have all the game playing of windows with all the nix of KDE. Then when I reboot to real nix it would look almost exactly the same.
The real reason nobody uses apple is because they only have 3 products.
1) Bad fucking ass laptops
2) Rockin' mp3 players
3) Super Multimedia Graphics workstations for photoshop/quick time type artsy people.
Ever seen a 16 cpu server running mac? How about a mac database server?
you are indeed stuck with fat32 as others have stated. It is the only filesystem that works on all 3 platforms. If you want to format the whole drive as one partition here's a hint. FDISK. I'm tired of all these people using partition magic or other pussified partitioning programs. Get a win98 boot disk or a linux disc and use fdisk. *gasp*!!!
If I'm looking to buy a sports car, which I hopefully will be doing some day, then maybe. I might for instance see a car in a video game that I did not know existed, or that I did not realize had high performance. Depending on the in game performance, and if that bears any relation to the real world performance, I might add the car to the list of cars to test drive.
Of course if I ever have enough money I'll just instantly buy the Ferrari 360 Spyder, and then who needs test driving.
Seriously though, games show off the looks of a car much better than the driving, unless you've got a really expensive simulator, in which case you can probably own multiple cars. There is probably at least a few people out there whou bought a car because it was their favorite in Gran Turismo. And if it means more quality racing games, let the auto manufacturers do whatever they want.
I can say that I would like to see many more girl gamers. Girl gamers are the kinds of girls I would like to go out with, but they are few. I think girls don't game for two reasons. 1) They generally don't like it. 2) there aren't many girl games. It's like football. There are girls who like football, but for whatever reason it's a thing guys like more. It's just the way things are. But as evidenced by things like the sims, there are games that girls will play. Make more of those games.
Only if you are an enemy combatant. And in a war on terror all terrorists are enemy combatants. And terrorist is defined in the patriot act as, just about everybody they want to lock up without trial.
As long as it takes less time that TFC2 it's all good. I gotta get a new computer anyway, so Valve can take all the time they want.
Is the killer app I'm waiting for. I just need some money to buy a portable computing device.
I've already got and had secure zip files for years.
somestuff.zip.pgp
whoah! what a concept!
I usually open up the interactive python session and try a couple things out. It's not really a warm up, I'm trying to learn python. I guess it could be though. Try a few lines of code out, then get down to business.
It doesn't matter if the bastard vetos because congress can say screw you in a 2/3 majority, which they no doubt have. the senate is the real decision maker at this point as the house seems to already have its mind made up.
Please, can the government make one good decision this year, please??? I mean sure, it's just a correction of a previous bad move, but it's something. Gotta set the expectation bar low to achieve satisfaction.
If I can get remote display and gtk I'll make a switch. But there's gotta be a distro that makes it easy, like Mandrake or something.
First, get a microphone. Then get a laptop with a wireless card. One of those really small laptops from japan would work well. http://www.dynamism.com. Then, just record your audio, type your text and upload by finding a wireless network. What else could you possibly need?
The game of risk is not that terrible, but it does suck in comparison to real board games. If you've ever played the likes of Puerto Rico or El Grande you will realize the lack of strategy in risk. American board games are too much based on luck. Sure, you can calculate the odds and make better decisions, but european board games have almost no luck involved in deciding the winner.
After a game of risk the winner can not safely say they are strategically superior to the losers. In a game of Puerto Rico there is no doubt who is a better person.
Don't drink coffee.
Don't smoke anything.
Don't drink lots of soda or eat lots of candy.
Do brush your teeth everymorning and every night.
Voila! Perfectly clean teeth. I'm 21 and I've had 1 cavity ever take my advice. I attribute it mostly to my never drinking coffee or soda, ever.
instead of difficult to guess passwords, or those pin numbers that change every few seconds, which are almost unguessable (unless of course the password is "password"). All you need to break into the system is a good joke.
The Friar's club will be the ultimate H4x0r clan.
Something that a lot of these guys have not thought of, is of course, the obvious answer/truth. File sharing traffic drops in may/june and rises again in late august early september. The college students leave and go back to school with their beloved OCs. Oh dual OC3s, how I miss thee.
The reason that the NYT just doesn't tell google not to cache them is visitors. Let's face it, even though the registration is a bitch the content on the NYT website is fairly decent. They have good articles often enough that geeks went through the effort of finding out how to read without registering. If they have google not cache them, and they close the google news loophole, then they wont appear on google news any longer. And google news is used by many more people than you think.
Hey, we get quite a few visitors from this google news. Let's change it so we get 0 visitors from it.
Duh.
Check out http://www.selectsmart.com/president/
it tells you which president to vote for based on your stance on the issues. I tested it out and it's very accurate. It gave me a reccomendation for green party 100% and Dean 96%. Since I really want Bush out and 3rd parties don't win, guess who I'm voting for? I'll probably read a few of his entries on Lessig's blog, and unless he's really unkosher this seals the deal.
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