Just goes to show that almost no group is above being bribed.
"What's even more troubling is that the group has accepted a $1 million gift for a new training institute from Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, which put the testimonial on its Web site."
The author is right there is no need to choose between "accessible voting and verifiable voting". Without paper verification evoting has no future here.
You beat me to it on the quote part. I disagree agree with you about whether this will lead to a police state. Were already jumping in with both feet. We just haven't hit the water yet.
Anyway, "We're at war". WTF? Is that the excuse they're going to use when they roll out the National Grid of cameras to watch the entire country 24/7. Well he's right, THEY certainly are at war. At War against our Freedom. I just love of all these things the post 9/11 government is rolling out to "protect" our freedoms. Of course somehow I doubt these cameras will ever be installed directly in front of any politicans house. NIMBY of course, but sure high traffic areas are fine. Especially if they are in or adjact to minority neighborhoods. At least that's how it starts. Afterall, what are they going to do about it?
This is the exactly the kind of crap that our forefathers were concerned about. An invasive Government that wants to keep tabs on its citizens through either spies on horseback or spies via camera is not one that I or they would want to be a part of.
Verizon which I just switched to offers 1.5/384 DSL for $29 a month. In your case Cable may be a little faster in the download department but certainly not in the value department.
That's simply amazing. That picture looks like someone just used the Healing Brush on a Real photo. If you told me that was a real photo cleaned up I'd definitely believe you at first glance. For me personally only the Forehead and of course the shirt look fake.
On the topic at hand I really would rather the people not look totally real in the types of games I play, FPS. But for Adventure/Mystery games (do they make them anymore btw) etc it could be really cool. Of course real looking people with Brain Dead AI will ruin things. I think the graphic component will arrive well before the AI does. I mean if your playing a game and start acting stupid most AI characters just stare blankly into space not commenting. I want to see games where the Characters are like "Hey jackass, stop running around me in circles" etc.
Because what your describing isn't the case for modern Linux distros. You can also drop fonts into your font directory and have them appear in Linux as well.
Honestly I just have to consider this post a Troll or the possibility that your are lying and have no interest in running Unix as an OS. Because if you had done ANY research there would be no way you could claim that "fonts" are the reason why you are being held back. What a lame excuse. Seriously. Say Linux doesn't support your Games, say its still a bit weak on the multimedia department, but don't give us an excuse from 1998 as the reason why you are "prevented" form using Linux.
I have a 900MHz Dell laptop that I have set to not go above 700MHz. Even at the lower setting it gets warm, but if I run it at 900MHz it will literally burn you if you max out the cpu and touch your hand or bare leg to it. Why these retards released a product that gets so hot you can't touch it is f*cking beyond me. What were they thinking? Did they just assume nobody would ever use a product called a "laptop" on their lap? The other side benefits of running at a lower speed are of course longer battery life and no loud annoying fan to deal with.
First of all we are talking about a Netgear Product so what does Linksys's problem have to do with this? Second of all if you would bother to read the responses in the article you linked to, you would see that some people have already proved that its not a hoax with regards to the Linksys product.
Just fyi for those on the clock. The entire left hand side of the front page is Nudes. It may be just boobs but obviously many companies are going to have a problem with that.
How's that? Just because its Free doesn't mean OSS projects will be able to incorporate it. I didn't read anything about it being GPL.
The last thing we need is the government forcing OSS project to include some closed source code into every project that deals with graphics. If this goes through in the EU and not in the US then the EU is just going to having to do without OSS graphics software.
This is just indicitive of the way the entire Phoenix/Firefox project has been handled from day one on issues that actual users are interested in. They devs simple are not interested in taking in and responding to feedback from users on issues that users really care about like aesthetics. Look at the bugzilla voting system for an example. No matter how many votes a bug gets the devs could care less. Yes at some point someone needs to step in and say "This is how its going to be", but jeez at least try to make it look like you value the opinion of the people who have been bug testing and promoting *zilla for years and years now.
I still use Firefox but I don't particpate anymore. I don't file bugs and I don't post in the forums. If the developers are going to continue to not pay attention to the users then they are losing IMHO their greatest strength outside the actual merit of the products themselves.
Call me a drama queen. Explain how I'm wrong. But don't discount the fact that many people right or wrong feel the same way as I do.
Most people wear rose tinted glasses when remembering BeOS. Beyond a responsive shell and a few nice apps many important parts of it were either broken/missing. For general desktop use and especially corporate use it was lacking to say the least.
Linux is too bloated to work effectively on small embedded platforms like PDAs and you should use embedded XP instead? Man, there are so many things wrong with that statement I don't know where to begin.
Can't wait to metamod this one. Someone needs his modding privileges revoked.
That is if you were still running Win 3.1 on a P133 and not Windows 95. A 486 with 8MB ran Win 3.1 fine as well. In fact Windows 95 with say a P100 and 16MB ram ran quite well also. I used to run 95 on a P60 with 8MB of ram. The only time it seemed slow was when I ran Mechwarrior. Once I upgraded to 16MB things went really well. Those running P133's in that timeframe were certainly not complaing of slowness since the P133 was the hottest thing going.
How true. If you just want to do things like crop images, change light levels, adjust saturation etc there is no reason not to use Gimp. For what most digital shutterbugs do GIMP works quite well and it has the added bonus of being a program you can grow into. The sad thing is now that we have mentioned The Gimp, 100 Photoshop fanboys will magically show up and tell us how Gimp sucks and Photoshop rules...Sigh.
Because that's what Red Hat's RHEL life cycle is. In fact it may very well be the longest lifecycle for any Linux available. Although other vendors may be matching it now for all I know. If you were talking about Fedora then well you get what you pay for. It was never meant to be a long term product and they were very up front about it from the beginning.
Nah, if it turned out to be any good I'm sure you'd just end up getting sued by the Networks. The thing is its a LOT of work setting up and running a show, especially one on technology. You need writers, a decent budget for products to review, actual access to hot new technology, and lastly you would need a decent set so your show doesn't look like shit. It can be done on a shoestring budget but it just takes more time and work then most people want to put it in. Are you willing to max out your credit card on new technology to review for a show that you put out for Free? Its going to be a long time before someone can throw together a replacement for TSS etc out of their home.
So let me guess. You didn't read the article? You skimmed it saw "$50" and "Microsoft" in the title and you figured you just do some Trolling.
Well don't feel bad. The three other people here who have already replied to you didn't read it either. They just thought they'd spout off and rag on Microsoft for a product that the f**king headling clearly states isn't even in developement.
You know, I don't like Microsoft. I REALLY don't the shit they've pulled in the past and the FUD they continue to spew. But if your going to Troll them at least reading the entire headline before you post. It will keep you from looking like idiots.
Oh and the mod who had it modded Insiteful before. Bravo.
I thought that was a bizarre statement as well. He got rid of Firefox because IE get in the way?? WTF does that mean? If you set Firefox as the default that's pretty much it. As you pointed out except for WU you just don't have to deal with IE anymore. Back in the Mozilla M days I could see why someone would go back to IE, but now it just makes zero sense to go back a browser that hasn't changed in years and offers no protection from the Internet.
Sure they can. There are cheapie sub >$100 models out there tha can play mp3/wma files. They just have no storage space.
So yeah it will be $50 but no way its $50 and includes any sort of capacity. It probably has 32MB onboard and MS will be more than happy to sell you expensive addon cards. There is just a certain price below which small hard drives will never fall. Feature wise MS will be able to say its "equal" to an Ipod but the big BUT will be the cost of addon memory.
No way MS sells a $50 portable that has a 10GB drive and just takes the hit on the cost. Unlike Xboxes where they can recoup some cash with future sofware sales what would they do here? Hope that people by a lot of music from MS online music stores? Sign up for MSN for a year? Not likely.
If a site is unreachable within the first 10 posts the story gets yanked. Delete it like it never happened. Seriously, how the hell are we supposed to have a discussion about something we can't even read about?
They just won't die. President Clinton did not slash military funds constantly as the Right claimed he actually increased funding. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/09/defense .bill/
His proposed $288 Billion dollar budget was the biggest since 1984 during Reagan's massive buildup. And that was during the Cold war. Clinton's budget was at a time of relative peace so explain to me how he decreased funds? If you mean he increased their pay and medical benefits then yes you'd be right.
The funny thing B*sh et al spread lies and propaganda about "entire divisions not be ready" but when then claim was tested it was found out that he made it up. B*ush lying? Huh. B*sh and compay lied so that if the military fell flat they would have someone to blame. Remember right wing mantra? Blame Clinton. Anyway the funny/sad thing is that B*sh went to Afghanistan and Iraq with Clinton's military and did a great job. Of course they probably should have planned beyond Step 1, Take over Iraq. Who of course does B*sh give credit to? Not the ex Pres.
Of course the hardliners will continue the "Clinton gutted our military" line until the day they or no more. They'll just be wrong, just like you.
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Just goes to show that almost no group is above being bribed.
"What's even more troubling is that the group has accepted a $1 million gift for a new training institute from Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, which put the testimonial on its Web site."
The author is right there is no need to choose between "accessible voting and verifiable voting".
Without paper verification evoting has no future here.
You beat me to it on the quote part. I disagree agree with you about whether this will lead to a police state. Were already jumping in with both feet. We just haven't hit the water yet.
Anyway, "We're at war". WTF? Is that the excuse they're going to use when they roll out the National Grid of cameras to watch the entire country 24/7. Well he's right, THEY certainly are at war. At War against our Freedom. I just love of all these things the post 9/11 government is rolling out to "protect" our freedoms. Of course somehow I doubt these cameras will ever be installed directly in front of any politicans house. NIMBY of course, but sure high traffic areas are fine. Especially if they are in or adjact to minority neighborhoods. At least that's how it starts. Afterall, what are they going to do about it?
This is the exactly the kind of crap that our forefathers were concerned about. An invasive Government that wants to keep tabs on its citizens through either spies on horseback or spies via camera is not one that I or they would want to be a part of.
Verizon which I just switched to offers 1.5/384 DSL for $29 a month. In your case Cable may be a little faster in the download department but certainly not in the value department.
That's simply amazing. That picture looks like someone just used the Healing Brush on a Real photo. If you told me that was a real photo cleaned up I'd definitely believe you at first glance. For me personally only the Forehead and of course the shirt look fake.
On the topic at hand I really would rather the people not look totally real in the types of games I play, FPS. But for Adventure/Mystery games (do they make them anymore btw) etc it could be really cool. Of course real looking people with Brain Dead AI will ruin things. I think the graphic component will arrive well before the AI does. I mean if your playing a game and start acting stupid most AI characters just stare blankly into space not commenting. I want to see games where the Characters are like "Hey jackass, stop running around me in circles" etc.
I just absolutely love pointing that out to people when they say Linux is always hard to use and can't possibly be made into a usable PVR.
Because what your describing isn't the case for modern Linux distros. You can also drop fonts into your font directory and have them appear in Linux as well.
Honestly I just have to consider this post a Troll or the possibility that your are lying and have no interest in running Unix as an OS. Because if you had done ANY research there would be no way you could claim that "fonts" are the reason why you are being held back. What a lame excuse. Seriously. Say Linux doesn't support your Games, say its still a bit weak on the multimedia department, but don't give us an excuse from 1998 as the reason why you are "prevented" form using Linux.
I have a 900MHz Dell laptop that I have set to not go above 700MHz. Even at the lower setting it gets warm, but if I run it at 900MHz it will literally burn you if you max out the cpu and touch your hand or bare leg to it. Why these retards released a product that gets so hot you can't touch it is f*cking beyond me. What were they thinking? Did they just assume nobody would ever use a product called a "laptop" on their lap? The other side benefits of running at a lower speed are of course longer battery life and no loud annoying fan to deal with.
First of all we are talking about a Netgear Product so what does Linksys's problem have to do with this? Second of all if you would bother to read the responses in the article you linked to, you would see that some people have already proved that its not a hoax with regards to the Linksys product.
Just fyi for those on the clock. The entire left hand side of the front page is Nudes. It may be just boobs but obviously many companies are going to have a problem with that.
Just having a bit of fun mate.
Wow. Just mindblowing. A VERY bold move by Apple.
How's that? Just because its Free doesn't mean OSS projects will be able to incorporate it. I didn't read anything about it being GPL.
The last thing we need is the government forcing OSS project to include some closed source code into every project that deals with graphics. If this goes through in the EU and not in the US then the EU is just going to having to do without OSS graphics software.
This is just indicitive of the way the entire Phoenix/Firefox project has been handled from day one on issues that actual users are interested in. They devs simple are not interested in taking in and responding to feedback from users on issues that users really care about like aesthetics. Look at the bugzilla voting system for an example. No matter how many votes a bug gets the devs could care less. Yes at some point someone needs to step in and say "This is how its going to be", but jeez at least try to make it look like you value the opinion of the people who have been bug testing and promoting *zilla for years and years now.
I still use Firefox but I don't particpate anymore. I don't file bugs and I don't post in the forums. If the developers are going to continue to not pay attention to the users then they are losing IMHO their greatest strength outside the actual merit of the products themselves.
Call me a drama queen. Explain how I'm wrong. But don't discount the fact that many people right or wrong feel the same way as I do.
Most people wear rose tinted glasses when remembering BeOS. Beyond a responsive shell and a few nice apps many important parts of it were either broken/missing. For general desktop use and especially corporate use it was lacking to say the least.
Linux is too bloated to work effectively on small embedded platforms like PDAs and you should use embedded XP instead? Man, there are so many things wrong with that statement I don't know where to begin.
Can't wait to metamod this one. Someone needs his modding privileges revoked.
That is if you were still running Win 3.1 on a P133 and not Windows 95. A 486 with 8MB ran Win 3.1 fine as well. In fact Windows 95 with say a P100 and 16MB ram ran quite well also. I used to run 95 on a P60 with 8MB of ram. The only time it seemed slow was when I ran Mechwarrior. Once I upgraded to 16MB things went really well. Those running P133's in that timeframe were certainly not complaing of slowness since the P133 was the hottest thing going.
How true. If you just want to do things like crop images, change light levels, adjust saturation etc there is no reason not to use Gimp. For what most digital shutterbugs do GIMP works quite well and it has the added bonus of being a program you can grow into. The sad thing is now that we have mentioned The Gimp, 100 Photoshop fanboys will magically show up and tell us how Gimp sucks and Photoshop rules...Sigh.
Because that's what Red Hat's RHEL life cycle is. In fact it may very well be the longest lifecycle for any Linux available. Although other vendors may be matching it now for all I know.
If you were talking about Fedora then well you get what you pay for. It was never meant to be a long term product and they were very up front about it from the beginning.
Nah, if it turned out to be any good I'm sure you'd just end up getting sued by the Networks. The thing is its a LOT of work setting up and running a show, especially one on technology. You need writers, a decent budget for products to review, actual access to hot new technology, and lastly you would need a decent set so your show doesn't look like shit. It can be done on a shoestring budget but it just takes more time and work then most people want to put it in. Are you willing to max out your credit card on new technology to review for a show that you put out for Free? Its going to be a long time before someone can throw together a replacement for TSS etc out of their home.
So let me guess. You didn't read the article? You skimmed it saw "$50" and "Microsoft" in the title and you figured you just do some Trolling.
Well don't feel bad. The three other people here who have already replied to you didn't read it either. They just thought they'd spout off and rag on Microsoft for a product that the f**king headling clearly states isn't even in developement.
You know, I don't like Microsoft. I REALLY don't the shit they've pulled in the past and the FUD they continue to spew. But if your going to Troll them at least reading the entire headline before you post. It will keep you from looking like idiots.
Oh and the mod who had it modded Insiteful before. Bravo.
I thought that was a bizarre statement as well. He got rid of Firefox because IE get in the way?? WTF does that mean? If you set Firefox as the default that's pretty much it. As you pointed out except for WU you just don't have to deal with IE anymore. Back in the Mozilla M days I could see why someone would go back to IE, but now it just makes zero sense to go back a browser that hasn't changed in years and offers no protection from the Internet.
Sure they can. There are cheapie sub >$100 models out there tha can play mp3/wma files. They just have no storage space.
So yeah it will be $50 but no way its $50 and includes any sort of capacity. It probably has 32MB onboard and MS will be more than happy to sell you expensive addon cards. There is just a certain price below which small hard drives will never fall. Feature wise MS will be able to say its "equal" to an Ipod but the big BUT will be the cost of addon memory.
No way MS sells a $50 portable that has a 10GB drive and just takes the hit on the cost. Unlike Xboxes where they can recoup some cash with future sofware sales what would they do here? Hope that people by a lot of music from MS online music stores? Sign up for MSN for a year? Not likely.
I know I know, walked right into that one. But still it is rather annoying.
If a site is unreachable within the first 10 posts the story gets yanked. Delete it like it never happened. Seriously, how the hell are we supposed to have a discussion about something we can't even read about?
They just won't die. President Clinton did not slash military funds constantly as the Right claimed he actually increased funding.e .bill/
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/09/defens
His proposed $288 Billion dollar budget was the biggest since 1984 during Reagan's massive buildup. And that was during the Cold war. Clinton's budget was at a time of relative peace so explain to me how he decreased funds? If you mean he increased their pay and medical benefits then yes you'd be right.
The funny thing B*sh et al spread lies and propaganda about "entire divisions not be ready" but when then claim was tested it was found out that he made it up. B*ush lying? Huh. B*sh and compay lied so that if the military fell flat they would have someone to blame. Remember right wing mantra? Blame Clinton. Anyway the funny/sad thing is that B*sh went to Afghanistan and Iraq with Clinton's military and did a great job. Of course they probably should have planned beyond Step 1, Take over Iraq. Who of course does B*sh give credit to? Not the ex Pres.
Of course the hardliners will continue the "Clinton gutted our military" line until the day they or no more. They'll just be wrong, just like you.