My county uses a fill in the dot Scantron/SAT-style ballot. The voter inserts his completed ballot into the machine. If the machine detects an over-vote the voter has the option to either get his ballot back (and have it destroyed by election officials)and get another ballot or accept the flawed ballot knowing that the over-voted race will not be counted.
Automatic paper trail. Over-vote detection.
(One touch-screen machine per precinct is available for handicapped individuals. Not having voted on it myself, I don't know the particulars.)
No blood, no foul may not be a legal standard, but it sure as heck is a practical standard.
My guess is (if this is granted cert.), that the SCOTUS will find a way to avoid a zillion patent appeals. This will be couched in some kind of legal reasoning, but "no blood, no foul" is probably the right way to think about this.
The keyboard shortcuts are almost infinitely customizable, though it doesn't appear that ctrl[ or ctrl] are available for use. Available (and assigned) shortcuts are in the top part of the dialog. Assignable functions are in the bottom part, divided by category/function. What you're looking for is Category "format" Function "increase font" and Category "format" Function "reduce font". When you have all three items (shortcut, category, function) selected as you like, click the "modify" button.
The interface isn't exactly intuitive, but it's in there.
Your older car probably can't run anything higher than E-10, which might in fact be what's coming out of the gasoline pump anyway depending on where you are. However, as more E-85 "FlexFuel" vehicles come on line, marginal demand for gasoline will fall (or at least not go up as much), so older vehicles incapable of running E-85 will still see economic benefits related to reduced gasoline consumption.
IE7 breaks old versions of Quickbooks (2004Pro in my case) so I can't update unless I pay for a QB upgrade, which isn't going to happen any time soon. I use Firefox anyway for regular surfing.
I've had varied experiences with lamps from the very same package. Brand name. Either these things are not all up to snuff or a whole crapload of people have dirty power. Even if it is dirty power, the replacement costs for all the wiring in all of those buildings is non-trivial, though I suspect it is largely NOT problem of dirty power since I've had different experiences from the same packages used in the same building. I'm shooting a whole lot better than 50% but I'm still probably net negative on the CFL experiment.
This is a more common phenomenon than you might imagine. If you don't think GE and Philips are manufacturing some of these things in shady Chinese factories you'd be mistaken.
And as mentioned in other posts, they don't work well in cold places (outdoors, attics, garages), and dimmer-capable CFLs are much more expensive and may not work as well.
The point is that as soon as CFLs are ACTUALLY cheaper there will be widespread voluntary adoption. No government intervention is necessary.
In the GoogleDoc word proc there is spell checking.
I'm also in the camp of saying GoogleDocs has a long long way to go to compete with traditional office suites, but it does have spell check (at least in word proc) and it does have its uses.
Not so improbable. At a previous job (a crap job circa 2002) my machine was a P2@266, though with probably more RAM than would have been initially installed. When I started college in the fall of 1997 the rich kids had new Pentium2s @233 and 266.
XP ran OK if you turned off all the preview stuff and GUI animations. (Progs used most were MSOffice 2000 and Harvard Graphics 98). Most importantly it crashed a heck of a lot less than Win98.
Depends on the mass of the object being lifted. The force required to accelerate a pencil at 9.8 m/s^2 is much smaller than the force required to accelerate a craft full of people/equipment.
As a XP-Home user who runs Limited, I didn't even know you could do that on the command line. I usually just run games as Admin and everything else limited. Fairly easy, but still confusing to somebody who doesn't understand Limited Users.
Mozilla was bloated. Pre-1.0 Firebird ran acceptably (though still slowly) on my P166/Win95 machine. Moz didn't. Maybe the coders had something else in mind but for adopters like myself it was all about bloat and squeezing out drips of performance from aging equipment.
Current FF roadmap may be as you say, and I accept that as somebody who uses Firefox 99% of the time and thinks the FF team has make reasonably good choices about which features to include. But I'm pretty sure early adoption of Phoenix/Firebird was a reaction to bloat in Moz.
I've found that trying to apply more than one point update has always failed in my experience. Definitely a re-download situation. 2.0.0.4 to.6 would therefore probably not update correctly.
Additionally, if you update internally using "run as administrator" from a limited account (which is usually how I update), I think you must approve "restart firefox now" (which restarts as admin) in order to make things work. Then close the program and start it again as your normal account, at which point it will search for extension updates.
When running Windows there's no real reason for user agent spoofing. With the "IE tab" extension some finicky IE-only website gets the real deal Internet Explorer without the user trying to figure out whether it can be spoofed or not. I suppose spoofing might be useful for non-Windows people, but a sizable chunk of FF users (if not an outright majority) have to be Windows users.
So, the US market just released the Holy-friggin'-grail Jesus phone, the iPhone, and the problem is lack of innovation?
Sorry, but what allows Apple to bring the iPhone to market is Apple's ability to lock-in with AT&T in order to maximize profits for a 5 year clip. Without lock-in, there wouldn't be an iPhone, or it would be much more expensive (even after you factor out the ATT contract).
The 2d nature of monitor systems is only slightly less annoying with the new 3d super gee whiz flying through space multiple workspace navigation systems.
While 3d workspaces certainly would have their applications (medicine for instance), IMO for the average individual 3d would be merely re-creating the physical workspace that the 2d interface replaced. The 2d space is useful because it is an abstraction/simplification of the work that was previously done in 3d.
I'm not thrilled with this opinion, but this isn't classic price fixing. Price fixing is when two or more retailers collude on the price of Coca-Cola and/or Pepsi. This is Coke telling the retailers what to sell the product for, but Coke still faces competition from Pepsi. Now if Coke and Pepsi collude on a retail price, that would be price fixing.
Sometimes snow falls while you are at work, or even while you're on the road. Conditions change. I drive a Front-wheel drive sedan. RWD is frelling retarded. I think most SUVs now can go 2WD or 4WD at the touch of a button. I think just about every SUV owner drives 2WD most of the time because of fuel economy.
And by that argument nobody should ever buy a swiss army knife.
Don't like SUVs? Don't buy one.
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Sure, the terminator gene would solidify a farmer's dependence on Monsanto, but it's also one method of preventing leakage of altered genes into the wild population.
That's not entirely historically accurate. There was once a time when "new conservatives" such as Irving Kristol opposed Marxism, generally favored freedom in its various forms, but were distinct from "cultural conservatives" (ie Pat Buchanan) and from libertarians. One might say that Kristol's son Bill Kristol and others writing for "The Weekly Standard" carry some neocon heritage, but the term has become pejorative as it has simultaneously lost its historical perspective in the absence of the Soviet government.
Full disclosure, I let my year-long subscription to The Weekly Standard lapse recently. I found it to be a good publication, but I'm currently giving National Review a shot and I don't have time to read them both. Stephen Hayes is my favorite TWS contributor.
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Automatic paper trail. Over-vote detection.
(One touch-screen machine per precinct is available for handicapped individuals. Not having voted on it myself, I don't know the particulars.)
My guess is (if this is granted cert.), that the SCOTUS will find a way to avoid a zillion patent appeals. This will be couched in some kind of legal reasoning, but "no blood, no foul" is probably the right way to think about this.
The interface isn't exactly intuitive, but it's in there.
(I abso-friggin'-lutely needed ctrl-d to fill down in Calc.)
Your older car probably can't run anything higher than E-10, which might in fact be what's coming out of the gasoline pump anyway depending on where you are. However, as more E-85 "FlexFuel" vehicles come on line, marginal demand for gasoline will fall (or at least not go up as much), so older vehicles incapable of running E-85 will still see economic benefits related to reduced gasoline consumption.
IE7 breaks old versions of Quickbooks (2004Pro in my case) so I can't update unless I pay for a QB upgrade, which isn't going to happen any time soon. I use Firefox anyway for regular surfing.
I just dl'd this. The transparency setting is hella cool.
I've had varied experiences with lamps from the very same package. Brand name. Either these things are not all up to snuff or a whole crapload of people have dirty power. Even if it is dirty power, the replacement costs for all the wiring in all of those buildings is non-trivial, though I suspect it is largely NOT problem of dirty power since I've had different experiences from the same packages used in the same building. I'm shooting a whole lot better than 50% but I'm still probably net negative on the CFL experiment.
And as mentioned in other posts, they don't work well in cold places (outdoors, attics, garages), and dimmer-capable CFLs are much more expensive and may not work as well.
The point is that as soon as CFLs are ACTUALLY cheaper there will be widespread voluntary adoption. No government intervention is necessary.
I'm also in the camp of saying GoogleDocs has a long long way to go to compete with traditional office suites, but it does have spell check (at least in word proc) and it does have its uses.
I wonder if this means anything for Sears, since Kmart is owned by Sears Holdings (ticker symbol SHLD).
XP ran OK if you turned off all the preview stuff and GUI animations. (Progs used most were MSOffice 2000 and Harvard Graphics 98). Most importantly it crashed a heck of a lot less than Win98.
Depends on the mass of the object being lifted. The force required to accelerate a pencil at 9.8 m/s^2 is much smaller than the force required to accelerate a craft full of people/equipment.
Anything shared for public consumption would use the more compatible .doc
As a XP-Home user who runs Limited, I didn't even know you could do that on the command line. I usually just run games as Admin and everything else limited. Fairly easy, but still confusing to somebody who doesn't understand Limited Users.
Current FF roadmap may be as you say, and I accept that as somebody who uses Firefox 99% of the time and thinks the FF team has make reasonably good choices about which features to include. But I'm pretty sure early adoption of Phoenix/Firebird was a reaction to bloat in Moz.
Additionally, if you update internally using "run as administrator" from a limited account (which is usually how I update), I think you must approve "restart firefox now" (which restarts as admin) in order to make things work. Then close the program and start it again as your normal account, at which point it will search for extension updates.
When running Windows there's no real reason for user agent spoofing. With the "IE tab" extension some finicky IE-only website gets the real deal Internet Explorer without the user trying to figure out whether it can be spoofed or not. I suppose spoofing might be useful for non-Windows people, but a sizable chunk of FF users (if not an outright majority) have to be Windows users.
Sorry, but what allows Apple to bring the iPhone to market is Apple's ability to lock-in with AT&T in order to maximize profits for a 5 year clip. Without lock-in, there wouldn't be an iPhone, or it would be much more expensive (even after you factor out the ATT contract).
While 3d workspaces certainly would have their applications (medicine for instance), IMO for the average individual 3d would be merely re-creating the physical workspace that the 2d interface replaced. The 2d space is useful because it is an abstraction/simplification of the work that was previously done in 3d.
I'm not thrilled with this opinion, but this isn't classic price fixing. Price fixing is when two or more retailers collude on the price of Coca-Cola and/or Pepsi. This is Coke telling the retailers what to sell the product for, but Coke still faces competition from Pepsi. Now if Coke and Pepsi collude on a retail price, that would be price fixing.
Sometimes snow falls while you are at work, or even while you're on the road. Conditions change. I drive a Front-wheel drive sedan. RWD is frelling retarded. I think most SUVs now can go 2WD or 4WD at the touch of a button. I think just about every SUV owner drives 2WD most of the time because of fuel economy.
Don't like SUVs? Don't buy one.
Sure, the terminator gene would solidify a farmer's dependence on Monsanto, but it's also one method of preventing leakage of altered genes into the wild population.
Full disclosure, I let my year-long subscription to The Weekly Standard lapse recently. I found it to be a good publication, but I'm currently giving National Review a shot and I don't have time to read them both. Stephen Hayes is my favorite TWS contributor.