Perhaps this implementation is not a perfect example of the system I want, but it is a step in the right direction. In my ideal, vote buying would be difficult, as there would be no way to keep an individual from reassigning their vote to another representative.
Of course they aren't going for direct democracy. That is an organizational nightmare. Direct *Representation* is the model I have always advocated, and that is what they are doing. I should have a vote, and be able to give that vote to anyone that I feel is able to represent my views and interests best.
I didn't realize GIMP handled RAW (NEF and suchlike) formats and allowed adjusting of whitepoints, etc. I thought it was purely a raster image editor/tweaker.
Glad we could set you straight on that. I love the RAW tools in GIMP, they simplify my workflow significantly.
You completely overlooked the revenue vs profit mistake in the summary. If they are losing $31000 in revenue every minute, they are also not-losing 0$N31000 worth of merchandise. Assuming a phenomenal 50% profit margin, they would only actually be losing-money losing $15500 per minute.
To actually *prove* your premise, I would probably start by considering the corners. Since each corner has 3 colors, they cannot change position relative to each other [between solved configuration"s"] except by symmetric operations. Nor can the edge cubes, by similar logic. I am not sure how to state it formally. I am also not sure how to extend the concept to prove that the central square cannot be rotated, but given that you "know" that to be true, I would hope a proof is possible (without resorting to mechanical analysis of the cube).
I have lived a few places with $25+ theaters... Their only perk? Only people willing to pay $25+ for a ticket are in the theater with you, which significantly cuts down on asshattery.
You missed the part where he is running KDE, not Gnome. KDE is a more mature environment in almost every way (accessibility being one of the notable exceptions, I use Gnome on tablet PCs for its better onscreen keyboard and cursor manipulation functions).
Why do people assume they get to assign the numerical value for moderations? You get to pick the description, the numbers are up to *ME*. Every slashdot user (me) can weight moderations for themselves, completely outside the control of the moderator (you). If you gave him five Funny and five Insightful, that would be a total moderation of -10 because I weight funny as -3 and insightful as +1.
You will want good zoom functionality when you have a 30"+ monitor and some jackass thinks it's cool to use 8 point text in the middle of a 600-px fixed width layout. But now that FF3 has it, you won't have to go to Opera:)
I disagree. I was an Opera user for years. I switched to Mozilla when it started to mature, but I still user Opera on occasion. Opera is the innovator in the field. They had GOOD full page zoom years before anyone else had anything even remotely close. They provided user-accessible stylesheet switching that rocked, including some default stylesheets that were a godsend for web development (label and outline block elements, etc). Don't forget user-agent switching. Also, Opera is damn fast, and it runs on more handheld devices than any other browser (although "gecko" is close if you count all the browsers that use it including minimo).
Aww, you bought a house 10+ miles from the nearest grocery store, school, library, transit station, etc... This is the part where we don't feel sorry for you.
"can afford to drive" and "can afford to travel" have nothing to do with each other. Americans have spent fifty years developing the idea that traveling alone is normal. It is not. Get on a damn train or bus, or carpool. 13MPG is pretty awesome if you have 12+ people in the vehicle.
I take offense at the blurb's description of CSS as "copy protection". CSS has nothing to do with copying, it is "playback protection", just like almost any other sort of encryption.
Unfortunately your plan requires the cable company to add hardware at the pole, you can't just tack 1/3 of a mile of cable onto the network and expect to get signal at the end. That additional effort on their part will cost you.
My solution to this same problem, years ago, was to put the cable modem at the road, then run a single 1400ft line of 10B5 ethernet from the road to the house (no other inexpensive option had the range). And, regarding running either type of cable, why go to so much trouble? Lay it right on the ground and trust the housing to keep it safe. As of today, that cable has been sitting alongside the driveway for 7 years without suffering a failure. Some day, someone will drive something treaded across it and break it, and it will take ten minutes to terminate both broken ends and reconnect them.
Pipes lets you use a GUI to write little 'programs' (functions appear as elements in a flowchart) that aggregate and process data from almost any source on the web. For fun, my first pipe was a simple experiment, I took the slashdot RSS feed and performed a flickr search on all the "imporant" keywords in each story title, then presented a list of stories+photos. Was easy, educational, funny in many cases, and not completely useless.
You can also go there with the use of really smart computers to do the navigating, but those are banned in the Dune universe due to a war with sentient machines ~10000 years before the time of the Dune books.
A cheap Canon Powershot digital camera, plus the CHDK firmware replacement* to get motion activation, plus a SD wifi card to capture the pics directly to your securely hidden PC. You'll want to take it apart and remove the IR filter, there are guides on how to do that for various models. Best cheap solution I can think of.
* - technically it's a binary that runs on top of the existing firmware. so sue me.
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Perhaps this implementation is not a perfect example of the system I want, but it is a step in the right direction. In my ideal, vote buying would be difficult, as there would be no way to keep an individual from reassigning their vote to another representative.
[not a fan of geographic representation]
Of course they aren't going for direct democracy. That is an organizational nightmare. Direct *Representation* is the model I have always advocated, and that is what they are doing. I should have a vote, and be able to give that vote to anyone that I feel is able to represent my views and interests best.
I didn't realize GIMP handled RAW (NEF and suchlike) formats and allowed adjusting of whitepoints, etc. I thought it was purely a raster image editor/tweaker.
Glad we could set you straight on that. I love the RAW tools in GIMP, they simplify my workflow significantly.
You completely overlooked the revenue vs profit mistake in the summary. If they are losing $31000 in revenue every minute, they are also not-losing 0$N31000 worth of merchandise. Assuming a phenomenal 50% profit margin, they would only actually be losing-money losing $15500 per minute.
To actually *prove* your premise, I would probably start by considering the corners. Since each corner has 3 colors, they cannot change position relative to each other [between solved configuration"s"] except by symmetric operations. Nor can the edge cubes, by similar logic. I am not sure how to state it formally. I am also not sure how to extend the concept to prove that the central square cannot be rotated, but given that you "know" that to be true, I would hope a proof is possible (without resorting to mechanical analysis of the cube).
I have lived a few places with $25+ theaters... Their only perk? Only people willing to pay $25+ for a ticket are in the theater with you, which significantly cuts down on asshattery.
You missed the part where he is running KDE, not Gnome. KDE is a more mature environment in almost every way (accessibility being one of the notable exceptions, I use Gnome on tablet PCs for its better onscreen keyboard and cursor manipulation functions).
Important data left out of summary... This record is for XBox Live Arcade downloads. Has nothing to do with actual total sales.
Why do people assume they get to assign the numerical value for moderations? You get to pick the description, the numbers are up to *ME*. Every slashdot user (me) can weight moderations for themselves, completely outside the control of the moderator (you). If you gave him five Funny and five Insightful, that would be a total moderation of -10 because I weight funny as -3 and insightful as +1.
Damn Small Linux packs a lot more usefulness into the same size as a minimal Debian installation.
You will want good zoom functionality when you have a 30"+ monitor and some jackass thinks it's cool to use 8 point text in the middle of a 600-px fixed width layout. But now that FF3 has it, you won't have to go to Opera :)
I disagree. I was an Opera user for years. I switched to Mozilla when it started to mature, but I still user Opera on occasion. Opera is the innovator in the field. They had GOOD full page zoom years before anyone else had anything even remotely close. They provided user-accessible stylesheet switching that rocked, including some default stylesheets that were a godsend for web development (label and outline block elements, etc). Don't forget user-agent switching. Also, Opera is damn fast, and it runs on more handheld devices than any other browser (although "gecko" is close if you count all the browsers that use it including minimo).
Aww, you bought a house 10+ miles from the nearest grocery store, school, library, transit station, etc... This is the part where we don't feel sorry for you.
"can afford to drive" and "can afford to travel" have nothing to do with each other. Americans have spent fifty years developing the idea that traveling alone is normal. It is not. Get on a damn train or bus, or carpool. 13MPG is pretty awesome if you have 12+ people in the vehicle.
I take offense at the blurb's description of CSS as "copy protection". CSS has nothing to do with copying, it is "playback protection", just like almost any other sort of encryption.
Unfortunately your plan requires the cable company to add hardware at the pole, you can't just tack 1/3 of a mile of cable onto the network and expect to get signal at the end. That additional effort on their part will cost you.
My solution to this same problem, years ago, was to put the cable modem at the road, then run a single 1400ft line of 10B5 ethernet from the road to the house (no other inexpensive option had the range). And, regarding running either type of cable, why go to so much trouble? Lay it right on the ground and trust the housing to keep it safe. As of today, that cable has been sitting alongside the driveway for 7 years without suffering a failure. Some day, someone will drive something treaded across it and break it, and it will take ten minutes to terminate both broken ends and reconnect them.
My slashdot moderation settings are set for (-3, Funny), makes things a lot easier to read.
*cough* Do you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch! *cough*
The most awesome Web 2.0 tool that Google didn't invent...
http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/about-pipes/
From... YAHOO?!?
Pipes lets you use a GUI to write little 'programs' (functions appear as elements in a flowchart) that aggregate and process data from almost any source on the web. For fun, my first pipe was a simple experiment, I took the slashdot RSS feed and performed a flickr search on all the "imporant" keywords in each story title, then presented a list of stories+photos. Was easy, educational, funny in many cases, and not completely useless.
a) large "tooltips" (by which I assume you mean img title attributes) render "properly" instead of truncated in FF3b5
b) truncating title attributes is not a bug
And those of us who download Adobe Premiere Pro illegally never even see the serial number question... Hooray for keeping honest people pissed :)
You can also go there with the use of really smart computers to do the navigating, but those are banned in the Dune universe due to a war with sentient machines ~10000 years before the time of the Dune books.
$40/mo for unlimited calling to anywhere in the country on my cell with MetroPCS. Cheaper if I don't want voicemail.
What is this "long distance" that you speak of?
A cheap Canon Powershot digital camera, plus the CHDK firmware replacement* to get motion activation, plus a SD wifi card to capture the pics directly to your securely hidden PC. You'll want to take it apart and remove the IR filter, there are guides on how to do that for various models. Best cheap solution I can think of.
* - technically it's a binary that runs on top of the existing firmware. so sue me.