Father Ted Crilly is an Irish priest who lives in a parochial house on possibly the worst place on Earth, Craggy Island which is situated off the west coast of Ireland. He doesn't live alone though. Living with him is Father Jack Hackett, an old priest with an alcohol problem and a particular liking for the words: arse, drink, girls and feck. The third and final priest who lives with him is Father Dougal Mcguire, a relatively young... and very dim priest. How he got into the priest hood is a mystery. And of course, every priest needs "a nice cup of tea" so they have a housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle. She's unique in every way and a one off, (which is probably a good thing). what she lacks in a life, she makes up in tea.
The two major parties haven't "stacked" anything. The current voting system was around from the beginning of the country, before either party existed.
This is a chicken and egg issue.
The electoral collage system is what made the two party system. And as long as we have two powerful parties they will never allow us to abolish any part of the system that makes them weaker.
In voting systems, Arrow's impossibility theorem, or Arrow's paradox demonstrates the impossibility of designing rules for social decision making that obey a number of 'reasonable' criteria.
The theorem is due to the economist Kenneth Arrow, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize , who proved it in his PhD thesis and popularized it in his 1951 book Social Choice and Individual Values.
The theorem's content, somewhat simplified, is as follows. A society needs to agree on a preference order among several different options. Each individual in the society has his or her own personal preference order. The problem is to find a general mechanism, called a social choice function, which transforms the set of preference orders, one for each individual, into a global societal preference order. This social choice function should have several desirable ("fair") properties:
unrestricted domain or universality: the social choice function should create a complete societal preference order from every possible set of individual preference orders. (The vote must have a result that ranks all possible choices relative to one another, and the voting mechanism must be able to process all possible sets of voter preferences.)
non-imposition or citizen sovereignty: every possible societal preference order should be achievable by some set of individual preference orders. (Every result must be achievable somehow.)
non-dictatorship: the social choice function should not simply follow the preference order of a single individual while ignoring all others.
positive association of social and individual values or monotonicity: if an individual modifies his or her preference order by promoting a certain option, then the societal preference order should respond only by promoting that same option or not changing, never by placing it lower than before. (An individual should not be able to hurt a candidate by ranking it higher.)
independence of irrelevant alternatives: if we restrict attention to a subset of options, and apply the social choice function only to those, then the result should be compatible with the outcome for the whole set of options. (Changes in individuals' rankings of "irrelevant" alternatives [i.e., ones outside the subset] should have no impact on the societal ranking of the "relevant" subset.)
Arrow's theorem says that if the decision-making body has at least two members and at least three options to decide among, then it is impossible to design a social choice function that satisfies all these conditions at once.
Another version of Arrow's theorem can be obtained by replacing the monotonicity criterion with that of:
unanimity or Pareto efficiency: if every individual prefers a certain option to another, then so must the resulting societal preference order.
This statement is stronger, because assuming both monotonicity and independence of irrelevant alternatives implies Pareto efficiency.
With a narrower definition of "irrelevant alternatives" which excludes those candidates in the Smith set, some Condorcet methods meet all the criteria.
Nextel... the main attraction to the walkie-talkie feature is that...(you) don't need to answer...We... established a protocol...where...I Alert them, they answer (if they are in a position to), and then we talk.
Wow your protocal is so much beter than vibrate and voice mail on my cell phone...
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The only downside with a VCR is having to swap tapes but when you think about it, this is not unreasonable...
So really it's just about what's easiest, not power concerns. A DVR based solution sure is sexy, but pointless... I would like a DVR solution that starts taping when I turn on the key and off when the key is off. When the DVR is full it could start deleting the older stuff. I would like to have a camera in the front and in the back and saved to the same frame. It would be great if I am driving and witness an accident or I see a cop run a stop sign. of course I would like 3 buttons: One to save the last 60 seconds of footage when some one else does something stupid One that wipes the last 5 min of footage when I do something stupid. And a 3rd that sets the thing On fire when I get pulled over and I know I am guilty as hell.
I think the night vision goggles are going to be used with electronic water marks that are unique to each theater location. The MPAA is most worried about good quality copies but the theater owners where the good quality copies are being made say I can stop it they must have used a camcorder from the sets.
Now the distributors will say ok here are your night visions goggles make sure it doesn't happen again. If your movies are copied no more 1st run movies for you.
I found a good programmer willing to modify WINE to run an out dated program (www.avimark.com) and submit the changes back to WINE HQ. He was working for cheap in his spare time.
But when we got half way through the project CodeWeavers hired him away.
Maybe a statement along the lines of "This information is believed to have been legally obtained by means of reverse engineering." could take away much of the uncertainty in future cases.
But I thought reverse engineering is illegal under the DMCA?
So what is the easiest way to do a webcam. I want to be able to log in to my office computer and what is going on w/out anyone one having to click ok on the computer with the web cam attached. What software do you recommend. Any free or even better opensource products that will do this?
Actually it would probably boil first. Freezing is a much slower process. The lack of atmospheric pressure would get to it long before the temperature ever did.
It would not boil or freeze.
The word you are looking for is
sublimate.
Even if you are IBM or Dell if M$ decides to pull your dirt cheap licensing of windows and office and make you pay like they do all the little people...
so what does dell pay MS for windows xp home or pro?
Slashdot Mirror
This article is on the front page of google news w/ slashdot as the 1st source. I am starting to loose respect for google.
Father Ted Crilly is an Irish priest who lives in a parochial house on possibly the worst place on Earth, Craggy Island which is situated off the west coast of Ireland. He doesn't live alone though. Living with him is Father Jack Hackett, an old priest with an alcohol problem and a particular liking for the words: arse, drink, girls and feck. The third and final priest who lives with him is Father Dougal Mcguire, a relatively young... and very dim priest. How he got into the priest hood is a mystery. And of course, every priest needs "a nice cup of tea" so they have a housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle. She's unique in every way and a one off, (which is probably a good thing). what she lacks in a life, she makes up in tea.
This is a chicken and egg issue.
The electoral collage system is what made the two party system. And as long as we have two powerful parties they will never allow us to abolish any part of the system that makes them weaker.
In voting systems, Arrow's impossibility theorem, or Arrow's paradox demonstrates the impossibility of designing rules for social decision making that obey a number of 'reasonable' criteria. The theorem is due to the economist Kenneth Arrow, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize , who proved it in his PhD thesis and popularized it in his 1951 book Social Choice and Individual Values. The theorem's content, somewhat simplified, is as follows. A society needs to agree on a preference order among several different options. Each individual in the society has his or her own personal preference order. The problem is to find a general mechanism, called a social choice function, which transforms the set of preference orders, one for each individual, into a global societal preference order. This social choice function should have several desirable ("fair") properties: unrestricted domain or universality: the social choice function should create a complete societal preference order from every possible set of individual preference orders. (The vote must have a result that ranks all possible choices relative to one another, and the voting mechanism must be able to process all possible sets of voter preferences.) non-imposition or citizen sovereignty: every possible societal preference order should be achievable by some set of individual preference orders. (Every result must be achievable somehow.) non-dictatorship: the social choice function should not simply follow the preference order of a single individual while ignoring all others. positive association of social and individual values or monotonicity: if an individual modifies his or her preference order by promoting a certain option, then the societal preference order should respond only by promoting that same option or not changing, never by placing it lower than before. (An individual should not be able to hurt a candidate by ranking it higher.) independence of irrelevant alternatives: if we restrict attention to a subset of options, and apply the social choice function only to those, then the result should be compatible with the outcome for the whole set of options. (Changes in individuals' rankings of "irrelevant" alternatives [i.e., ones outside the subset] should have no impact on the societal ranking of the "relevant" subset.) Arrow's theorem says that if the decision-making body has at least two members and at least three options to decide among, then it is impossible to design a social choice function that satisfies all these conditions at once. Another version of Arrow's theorem can be obtained by replacing the monotonicity criterion with that of: unanimity or Pareto efficiency: if every individual prefers a certain option to another, then so must the resulting societal preference order. This statement is stronger, because assuming both monotonicity and independence of irrelevant alternatives implies Pareto efficiency. With a narrower definition of "irrelevant alternatives" which excludes those candidates in the Smith set, some Condorcet methods meet all the criteria.
Wow your protocal is so much beter than vibrate and voice mail on my cell phone ...
The only downside with a VCR is having to swap tapes but when you think about it, this is not unreasonable...
So really it's just about what's easiest, not power concerns. A DVR based solution sure is sexy, but pointless...
I would like a DVR solution that starts taping when I turn on the key and off when the key is off. When the DVR is full it could start deleting the older stuff. I would like to have a camera in the front and in the back and saved to the same frame. It would be great if I am driving and witness an accident or I see a cop run a stop sign.
of course I would like 3 buttons:
One to save the last 60 seconds of footage when some one else does something stupid
One that wipes the last 5 min of footage when I do something stupid.
And a 3rd that sets the thing On fire when I get pulled over and I know I am guilty as hell.
Now the distributors will say ok here are your night visions goggles make sure it doesn't happen again. If your movies are copied no more 1st run movies for you.
But Abe finished that idea with the Civil War.
But when we got half way through the project CodeWeavers hired him away.
How should I go about finding a new programmer?
Now it is up to 2 of 4... http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Apr/04232004/nation_w/1 59922.asp
We just turned oplocks off on windows or samba. We take a preformance hit but the crappy 3rd party program we use won't work with oplocks on.
I like to where the condom inside out so it is ribbed for MY pleasure.
So where is the photo of the Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine?!?
I am sure Dr Arrow is proud! For more info on Arrow's paradox click Here.
To answer my own post: Linux for $200 http://pchdtv.com/hd_2000_right_down.html
Sure if you want to run windows...
I want My HD MythTV...
http://www.greggman.com/japan/electronics.htm
But I thought reverse engineering is illegal under the DMCA?
forget my speed how about recording the license plate of the guy that cut me off or passed me and sending it to the cops.
of course I would want a dump button for when I do something stupid :)
So what is the easiest way to do a webcam. I want to be able to log in to my office computer and what is going on w/out anyone one having to click ok on the computer with the web cam attached. What software do you recommend. Any free or even better opensource products that will do this?
Need Caffine
You are correct. My point is it doesn't exist in the liquid form so it would go directly from solid to liquid.
It would not boil or freeze. The word you are looking for is sublimate.
so what does dell pay MS for windows xp home or pro?
Very interesting (and for the time high tech) approach. But why not just bomb the dam from the other side?