I mean, they seem to have known of the glitch ahead of time, can't they just check the type of IPod connected? If it's nor compatible, ITunes simply won't connect to the older IPods... problem solved and IPods saved.
I'm not an IPod user, so illuminate me if I'm on the wrong track...
I, for one, long for the days when the economy was booming, civil liberties were intact, the world basically liked us, and the nation's biggest problem was a stupid blow job.
One more thing -- at least Bill Clinton had the guts to attend the funerals of servicemen killed in action. He was a real President. Resident Bush has yet to stand in front of one of the hundreds of coffins coming back to this country because of the decisions he has made.
But, hey, he sure looks good in that flight suit...
Put a big 64-box at the precinct. Print up ballots on paper. Have voters put an 'X' by the candidate with the Crayola. Votes are counted by hand. In fact, an eight year old could even do the counting.
Problem solved... and voters can even pick their favorite color. Burnt Umber, anyone?
Sound childish? Maybe, but it probably would be more accurate than e-voting. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
Put a big 64 box of Crayolas at each precinct. Print up a bunch of ballots with big boxes next to the names of the candidates. Mark ballot with Crayola. Voters can even pick their favorite color.
Count by hand.
Sounds childish, but I get the feeling it would be more accurate than e-voting.
Judging from the quality of the pictures on the guy's site, this is not even a hundred dollar camera at retail. It probably cost these guys $10 to make this hunk of plastic. I get the feeling they're breaking even on the cameras and hoping to get revenue on prints.
Even if it did cost a more, why should I feel sorry for the company that gives them away for $10.99? If that's the case, they need to be renting them, not selling them. I mean, if they lose money on each unit, a competitor such as Wolf Camera could just buy the cameras in bulk to bankrupt Ritz.
We can't make any good products because when we do, someone finds a way to hack and ruin it!
Judging from the quality of the pictures on that guy's website, this is certainly NOT a good product. A cheap-O disposable 35mm takes much better pictures for the same price or less.
Built a storage server two years ago, it's run like a tank since I put it online.
Dual 800MHz PIII in a Supermicro Motherboard. Cheap-O video card Gigabit card 40 GB system drive. 6x80MB Maxtor drives (5400 rpm) Escalade RAID-5 card.
I chose 5400 rpm drives for several reasons:
A) A little bit cheaper B) Used half the power of the 7200 C) Runs a lot cooler D) Higher MTBF
Every drive that has ever failed on me has been because of heat. I put several fans in the case to make sure the drives don't overheat. So far so good (knocks wood)
Yeah, but the gap between pro and consumer has narrowed considerably in the past decade. I'd probably invest my money in a good microphone and a tube preamp before I spent any money on an Apogee.
A six channel, 24 bit USB audio interface for under $250 is not bad at all... Forget the pads, it might actually make a nice audio interface for home musicians. I wonder how well it works with the popular multitrack software such as Cakewalk, Cubase, etc...
Closed source software is great for things like banks and automobile ignition systems, but when it comes to deciding the future of our democracy, I would like to know EXACTLY what is going on inside the code.
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think companies need to make a profit off of elections. It introduces some very serious conflicts of interest.
I don't understand how a piece of paper equals coercion.
If you marked a paper ballot with a pen, and dropped the ballot in a box, then that would also be coercion? Seems like that's the way its been done for centuries.
What makes it different if the paper comes out of the voting machine before it gets dropped in the box?
In fact, there is no difference. Why do we even need the voting machine?
I'm leaning towards a really low tech solution: simple paper and pen for ballots
Makes a lot of sense. Pretty hard to tamper with ink, and even then, you'd need to do it a ballot at a time.
Right now it seems as though the owner of Diebold is openly rooting for Bush. Using a computer, his company can affect a lot of ballots very quickly. That worries me.
If the owner of the Flair Pen company was rooting for Bush, I wouldn't worry in the least because pens can't be controlled via modem... I hope.
Let's see, the software is written on a Microsoft base, is closed source and... shudder... appears to be prone to tampering. Just like Diebold and I would imagine every other vendor's software.
We need to get the source in the open, and more importantly, we need to have these machines give paper ballot reciepts as well as an internal audit tape like those found on ATMs...
There is a bill in the House (H.R. 2239) that already has a lot of support and addresses a lot of these issues. Please urge your representative to support it as well.
I review 3D graphics software and hardware for a number of publications and have been doing so for almost 10 years. First of all, the really expensive stuff, like hardware, you rarely get to keep. Software you can keep, but I'm in the position where most of the vendors send me software anyways, whether I review it or not. That's good, because it gives me a way to compare and contrast things and I don't give good reviews just to get the latest copy of a program.
Typically, if I like something and it's worth it, I give it a good review. If it's crap, I don't even want it on my system, so it's deleted and put back on the shelf or in the trash. Hardware like graphics cards are also treated the same, if they don't work well, why keep them?
As for off-the shelf items, usually by the time it gets on the shelf, the review has to be in print. I usually get machines/software that are the first ones off the line or in late beta. This puts me in the unfortunate position of having to trust the vendor that bugs will be fixed, etc... I try and wait until the actual release, but sometimes deadlines are deadlines.
Finally, I've never had a machine that has been rigged or altered for a review, but I'm sure some vendors do that sort of thing.
I really thought this quote from the last man to set foot on the moon was particularly insightful:
"NASA is too old, too bureaucratic, and too risk adverse. Either a new agency would need to be created to implement such a program or NASA would need to be restructured largely along the lines of the NASA of the late 1960s," Schmitt said.
Schmitt said of particular importance is for NASA to consist of engineers and technicians in their 20s and managers to be in their 30s, and the re-institution of design engineering activities in parallel with those of contractors.
Sadly, it's very hard to get rid of an agency the size of NASA and replace it with a bunch of young turks. I agree that NASA does need new blood, a new direction and a kick in the pants, but how that will happen is beyond me.
We do animation for film and video. I'll be patiently wating for the Mental Ray port. Real-time global illumination sounds like a great use for these puppies.
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I mean, they seem to have known of the glitch ahead of time, can't they just check the type of IPod connected? If it's nor compatible, ITunes simply won't connect to the older IPods... problem solved and IPods saved.
I'm not an IPod user, so illuminate me if I'm on the wrong track...
I have gotten celtic music and Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie from the site
Funny, when I visited the site, I only got two dead trolls.
Of course, this post is a troll... so that makes three.
"I am sure your boy Bush never lied right?"
:
Two words
Mission Accomplished.
But he sure looked swank in that flight suit...
I, for one, long for the days when the economy was booming, civil liberties were intact, the world basically liked us, and the nation's biggest problem was a stupid blow job.
One more thing -- at least Bill Clinton had the guts to attend the funerals of servicemen killed in action. He was a real President. Resident Bush has yet to stand in front of one of the hundreds of coffins coming back to this country because of the decisions he has made.
But, hey, he sure looks good in that flight suit...
Put a big 64-box at the precinct. Print up ballots on paper. Have voters put an 'X' by the candidate with the Crayola. Votes are counted by hand. In fact, an eight year old could even do the counting.
Problem solved... and voters can even pick their favorite color. Burnt Umber, anyone?
Sound childish? Maybe, but it probably would be more accurate than e-voting. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
Keep it simple, stupid.
Put a big 64 box of Crayolas at each precinct. Print up a bunch of ballots with big boxes next to the names of the candidates. Mark ballot with Crayola. Voters can even pick their favorite color.
Count by hand.
Sounds childish, but I get the feeling it would be more accurate than e-voting.
I would use Burnt Sienna to cast my vote, btw.
Red lights are used in the PRINTING process, not the developing process. Put a red light on a hunk of undeveloped film and you ruin it...
Judging from the quality of the pictures on the guy's site, this is not even a hundred dollar camera at retail. It probably cost these guys $10 to make this hunk of plastic. I get the feeling they're breaking even on the cameras and hoping to get revenue on prints.
Even if it did cost a more, why should I feel sorry for the company that gives them away for $10.99? If that's the case, they need to be renting them, not selling them. I mean, if they lose money on each unit, a competitor such as Wolf Camera could just buy the cameras in bulk to bankrupt Ritz.
We can't make any good products because when we do, someone finds a way to hack and ruin it!
Judging from the quality of the pictures on that guy's website, this is certainly NOT a good product. A cheap-O disposable 35mm takes much better pictures for the same price or less.
This product was doomed to fail, regardless.
The question is, then, what extra benefits does it add over a motorcycle
For one, your replacement tire budget is cut in half...
Built a storage server two years ago, it's run like a tank since I put it online.
Dual 800MHz PIII in a Supermicro Motherboard.
Cheap-O video card
Gigabit card
40 GB system drive.
6x80MB Maxtor drives (5400 rpm)
Escalade RAID-5 card.
I chose 5400 rpm drives for several reasons:
A) A little bit cheaper
B) Used half the power of the 7200
C) Runs a lot cooler
D) Higher MTBF
Every drive that has ever failed on me has been because of heat. I put several fans in the case to make sure the drives don't overheat. So far so good (knocks wood)
Resident Bush is an (A) who is surrounded by (B)
Cheney is the Illuminati, Bush Jr is the puppet. If he was smart, ol' junior would have listened to his Dad rather than uncle Dick.
That's a double negative. Wouldn't a disappointing failure be a mediocre success?
Perhaps it should be spectacular failure...
Yeah, but the gap between pro and consumer has narrowed considerably in the past decade. I'd probably invest my money in a good microphone and a tube preamp before I spent any money on an Apogee.
A six channel, 24 bit USB audio interface for under $250 is not bad at all... Forget the pads, it might actually make a nice audio interface for home musicians. I wonder how well it works with the popular multitrack software such as Cakewalk, Cubase, etc...
Closed source software is great for things like banks and automobile ignition systems, but when it comes to deciding the future of our democracy, I would like to know EXACTLY what is going on inside the code.
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think companies need to make a profit off of elections. It introduces some very serious conflicts of interest.
I don't understand how a piece of paper equals coercion.
If you marked a paper ballot with a pen, and dropped the ballot in a box, then that would also be coercion? Seems like that's the way its been done for centuries.
What makes it different if the paper comes out of the voting machine before it gets dropped in the box?
In fact, there is no difference. Why do we even need the voting machine?
I'm leaning towards a really low tech solution: simple paper and pen for ballots
Makes a lot of sense. Pretty hard to tamper with ink, and even then, you'd need to do it a ballot at a time.
Right now it seems as though the owner of Diebold is openly rooting for Bush. Using a computer, his company can affect a lot of ballots very quickly. That worries me.
If the owner of the Flair Pen company was rooting for Bush, I wouldn't worry in the least because pens can't be controlled via modem... I hope.
Let's see, the software is written on a Microsoft base, is closed source and... shudder... appears to be prone to tampering. Just like Diebold and I would imagine every other vendor's software.
We need to get the source in the open, and more importantly, we need to have these machines give paper ballot reciepts as well as an internal audit tape like those found on ATMs...
There is a bill in the House (H.R. 2239) that already has a lot of support and addresses a lot of these issues. Please urge your representative to support it as well.
I review 3D graphics software and hardware for a number of publications and have been doing so for almost 10 years. First of all, the really expensive stuff, like hardware, you rarely get to keep. Software you can keep, but I'm in the position where most of the vendors send me software anyways, whether I review it or not. That's good, because it gives me a way to compare and contrast things and I don't give good reviews just to get the latest copy of a program.
Typically, if I like something and it's worth it, I give it a good review. If it's crap, I don't even want it on my system, so it's deleted and put back on the shelf or in the trash. Hardware like graphics cards are also treated the same, if they don't work well, why keep them?
As for off-the shelf items, usually by the time it gets on the shelf, the review has to be in print. I usually get machines/software that are the first ones off the line or in late beta. This puts me in the unfortunate position of having to trust the vendor that bugs will be fixed, etc... I try and wait until the actual release, but sometimes deadlines are deadlines.
Finally, I've never had a machine that has been rigged or altered for a review, but I'm sure some vendors do that sort of thing.
I really thought this quote from the last man to set foot on the moon was particularly insightful :
"NASA is too old, too bureaucratic, and too risk adverse. Either a new agency would need to be created to implement such a program or NASA would need to be restructured largely along the lines of the NASA of the late 1960s," Schmitt said.
Schmitt said of particular importance is for NASA to consist of engineers and technicians in their 20s and managers to be in their 30s, and the re-institution of design engineering activities in parallel with those of contractors.
Sadly, it's very hard to get rid of an agency the size of NASA and replace it with a bunch of young turks. I agree that NASA does need new blood, a new direction and a kick in the pants, but how that will happen is beyond me.
We do animation for film and video. I'll be patiently wating for the Mental Ray port. Real-time global illumination sounds like a great use for these puppies.
How do I extract the correct names of these callers and report them to the FTC when they call? I get at least three per day.
...the scientists, who discovered that London taxi drivers are smarter than average London residents
I think memorizing every single street in the city of London does make you pretty darn smart.
Though, London cabbies are certainly not short on opinions. Maybe memorizing every street also makes one think they know everything about anything.
But only the owner can release it into the public domain. This would have had to have been the owner of Sys V, not SGI.
Anybody know if AT&T/Caldera/SCO ever GPL'd this?