Some people who work during the elections are volunteers. while others are drafted by the Superior Electoral Tribunal. You can still not go there and do your job as long as you have a strong justification (like not being in the city you vote on the day of election). There is no voting 'in transit' i.e. voting in another city, or in any other 'electoral college' besides your own.
As a compensation, you get a 'lunch ticket' and a letter which entitles you a 1-day off so you can compensate your day working on the Sunday election (just give the letter to your employer, he cannot refuse you the day off, it's part of the electoral law)
By 5:00 PM, no one else can vote. If there is a line, people are given numbers ad only those with numbers in line can cast their votes.
once the last voters finish, the voting system is set to 'closed', meaning no more votes can be computed. at least three paper trails are generated, for three of the people in charge of the voting table. Any one can go there and ask for an extra paper trail, such as me and you. usually, a few people ask for additional paper trails on behalf of their own parties. You can check the paper trail gainst the voters registered for that college, to see if there are any irregularities.
Potentially, a parallel vote counting can be set up, completely contolled by the population, just using the paper trails generated at the end of the election.
The president of the table then takes the machine to the Electoral Tribunal and there they pick up the internal data and do the vote counting.
IMO it's reasonably resistent to tampering, and allow for parallel counting, which makes it resistent to frauds. Yeah, being open source would help for sure, and setting up a country-wide parallel vote counting would be very hard, but it is possible.
I believe the U.S. should just license our technology and be happy with it;-)
you can do a brute-force gcc flags combination searching ofr the very best options.
Looking for the very best set of options for each package, starting on the toolchain to make gcc, then the linux kernel, then starting on stuff like X11 , core desktop environment libraries, and finally the apps.
HUmm, maybe you could use a customized GCC which applies all possible combinations of all optimization flags to each individual function...
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Voice recognition wil never fly in software. it's waaay too computationally expensive. It'll take silicon to make it viable. only now with 2-4 cores the CPUs are going to get there in terms of processiong power to do it real time , and maybe leave a core available to keep the system responsive. And to make it happen in a mobile device, well you will need it in silicon for sure. That gies us one other type of core to dream about in AMD's fusion, a voice recognition processing unit...
Color mode is not 200dpi, but new development technologies allowed it to consume just 1 watt. This new tech is eventually going to be used on all LCDs, as its development was meant for both power consumption *and* production cost reduction. 200 dpi mode is monochrome, e-ink mode for ebook mode, capable of being read comfortably even under direct sunlight. and yes, having pixels so small you can't see them without a magnifying glass DOES look nice.
Yeah, BUT we all know, or should know that the bottleneck the is most likely to bite us is the HD because of both speed and latency issues. While it's true that the Network is a much tighter bottleneck, it's not going to peg you as much down (unless you live in a dream realm of MMORPG and never see the light of the day). HD is much more central to basic computer operations than network. And being the central bottleneck in so many crucial operations, pumping it up is very desirable indeed. And you are not just 'moving the bottleneck around'. You are effectively removing one of the worst bottlenecks, and the runner-up in the bottleneck contest is taking the crown, which will result in a faster machine in quite a few scenarios. Albeit I totally agree that 40GB is way too smal to store all that pr0n... But 500x WILL do wonders for boot-up, opening programs, swap files/partitions, and loading all those 8192x8192 DX10 textures in your GeForce 8800 memory... Which could eventually saturate your PCI Express x16 bus maybe???
I remember having read a somewhat long time ago that a Duron 800, while having the cpu maxed out, could do an equal or better job at a IDE RAID array (don't remember the details, sorry). More recently, on my personal experience, I have an Athlon 3000 as a server with a 4 disk 600GB Software SATA RAID array. A sustained large file copy operation (like an ISO) takes up to 30% CPU processing power, and I have up to 150MB/s r/w speed. As a side note, the kernel detects the optimal checksum calculator as being the SSE2 instruction set. Now, having dual core goodness available, and given that there are cheap cpus with more power than a plain Athlon 3000, the impact is even less, and you can fold in the cost of a RAID card on cpu, or on a better video card.
Save power, which means 1)a smaller electricity bill, and 2) longer battery life. Be it your desktop core or a server farm, it could make its way into cache memory if it's fast enough. That is, IF this technology (or an evolution thereof) can be applied directly inside the cpu core design/building process. Of course, swapping your ram to this MRAM is still years away, but if the technology succeeds, it can happen (and everyone wants it to happen).
Also, the PDA/Smartphone crowd would benefit from it too. Instead of having too keep juicing 64+MB of memory, you'll only spend power when you have to change information. Judging for the size (4Mbit), this application is a few years away too, maybe farther than the cache scenario (if there are no serious hurdles to swapping from the current cache technologies into this one), but not as much distant as the desktop/server MRAM-only scenario.
It's worst than you think. The submitter is NOT to blame. He is just quoting the BBC moron which wrote that shit. I have skimmed over the article and it's there.
Except that this not being news at all, it is a stupid article for non-techies, hmm, then YES, the submitter IS to blame. And the/. editors for letting it in.
Linus vetoed converting *the whole kernel* to GPLv3, but also stated that a few portions of it could be under GPLv3. Likewise, once Solaris is under the GPLv3, it might be able to incorporate GPLv2 code, unless v2 is incompatible with v3.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity. I have seen MANY real-world examples of peoples who:
a) think the up and down buttons do the same thing (in part they do: call the elevator), but are blissfully ignorant that one is if you want to go DOWN and the other if you want to go UP. Really.
b) (Most blondes fall in this category) Think you must press the UP button if the elevator is on a floor lower than yours, and the DOWN button if the elevator is on a higher floor.
Sad, but true. Actually it's funny when you remember. But annoying when you get to wait the elevator when one of these morons is around.
Eye strain only happens with active light sources, not pigments. e-Ink is a pigment-based tech, just like reading a book. When color e-paper arrives, advertisement agencies will flock to it so that they don't need to convert between cmykrgb when printing. E-ink has no 'frequency' except for the update speed. after the information is registered, it stays there even if the power is cut. no 60Hz induced headache in this tech. which is good.
They HAD to have a competing offer with waaay too little time for R&D. So they patched up 2 cores with an inferior solution so that they can say 'we have one of these too'. They know it's inferior, but those who are braindead brand buyers will go for it anyway. It will buy them time until they come up with a proper solution in the 2nd gen of their dual cores.
Games. As Wine/ReactOS mature (probably before Vista comes around), Linux+Wine or Dual boot ReactOS or use xen to switch to Between the two. Then MS will have to do quite a feat to justify its price tag. The MS Office cash cow is being dealt with by OpenOffice, MS wil eventually have a small enough market share and fierce enough competition that it will play fair. By 2020 few people will even remember the 'evil' Microsoft. I know IBM used to be the 'evil' in IT mostly by old-timers references.
Having the latest figure of smartphone shipments with 75% of the pie to Symbian, 15% to Linux, 5% to Pocket PC, and the rest to Palm and others, and given that around 80% of the Symbian devices are using Nokia's series60 (Which is a pity, UIQ is way more advanced), i fail to see nokia as killing itself. That said, I too like clamshell designs, but right now I am using a Nokia 6681. I actually think this table can be a *HUGE* win for the linux crowd, because although they are marketing is as a web tablet, it can be though of as a linux *PDA*, as it is not really a big device, with a GREAT screen resolution, wi-fi at G speeds (I can't find any PDA with that built in), and an open development environment, it can be the dream PDA of the linux crowd (despite the lack of a camera).
As far as I have read about the subject, looks like they are using teh frequencies in a more intelligent way, pretty much like optimizing code. Do more with less. A quick google will find you a few so-called 'pre-n' wifi, some companies have started developing/selling equipment based on each of teh two standards wannabees (TNG and WWISE), pretty much a gamble. Bet on the right one, you'll have a head start over teh competition to have equipment ready to the market. it will have longer range AND more speed. Some even claim smal improvements (up to 20%) if you use pre-n equipment mixed with (their, of course) a/g equipment. I expect the range to at least double (at least in the technical/theoretical papers)
No, no and NO! You are the Grim Reaper of pets. We already have a graveyard of hamsters, birds, that guinea pig and the little kitty in our backyard. OK, the kitty was my fault, but he shouldn't sleep behing teh car wheel. And I am not even counting the tamagochi you dipped in my coffee to feed it... Only imagine HOW BIG would be the hole to bury that thing. No way. Not even if you have a fit rolling and screaming in the ground at the supermarket. No. Not. Ever.
For those gramatically impaired (or too drunk to think), this page will help you getting the 'In Soviet Russia' beat-the-dead-horse-old-joke right: Soviet Slogan Generator
That's where that nifty quantum entanglement communication device will come into play...spin the electron here, they'll know there instantly. Come to think of it, our little blue marble could make use of it too (intercontinental communications, cell phones, etc).
I would enjoy a 852x480 wide/touchscreen Gumstix-based WiFi(g) GSM/GPRS/EDGE 400MHz w/Bluetooth in a gamepad (psp) format. preferably with an analog stick too, a a 3D OpenGraphics chip, and 256 MB of memory. Running (ahem) GNU/Linux f course, w/ KDE on matchbox (of course Gnomers shall have teh right to theirs version too) AM I ASKING TOO MUCH?
I have an OCed Radeon 9550 / 256 mb, and I agree that Doom 3 ha *no* story and *no* character depth, I liked HL2 much better, but I really think teh Doom3 graphics are stunning, esp. lightning/bump mapping, which is not as good in HL2. HL2 water reflections/effects are schweeet, though.
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Some people who work during the elections are volunteers. while others are drafted by the Superior Electoral Tribunal. You can still not go there and do your job as long as you have a strong justification (like not being in the city you vote on the day of election). There is no voting 'in transit' i.e. voting in another city, or in any other 'electoral college' besides your own.
As a compensation, you get a 'lunch ticket' and a letter which entitles you a 1-day off so you can compensate your day working on the Sunday election (just give the letter to your employer, he cannot refuse you the day off, it's part of the electoral law)
By 5:00 PM, no one else can vote. If there is a line, people are given numbers ad only those with numbers in line can cast their votes.
once the last voters finish, the voting system is set to 'closed', meaning no more votes can be computed. at least three paper trails are generated, for three of the people in charge of the voting table. Any one can go there and ask for an extra paper trail, such as me and you. usually, a few people ask for additional paper trails on behalf of their own parties. You can check the paper trail gainst the voters registered for that college, to see if there are any irregularities.
Potentially, a parallel vote counting can be set up, completely contolled by the population, just using the paper trails generated at the end of the election.
The president of the table then takes the machine to the Electoral Tribunal and there they pick up the internal data and do the vote counting.
IMO it's reasonably resistent to tampering, and allow for parallel counting, which makes it resistent to frauds. Yeah, being open source would help for sure, and setting up a country-wide parallel vote counting would be very hard, but it is possible.
I believe the U.S. should just license our technology and be happy with it ;-)
you can do a brute-force gcc flags combination searching ofr the very best options.
Looking for the very best set of options for each package, starting on the toolchain to make gcc, then the linux kernel, then starting on stuff like X11 , core desktop environment libraries, and finally the apps.
HUmm, maybe you could use a customized GCC which applies all possible combinations of all optimization flags to each individual function...
Voice recognition wil never fly in software. it's waaay too computationally expensive. It'll take silicon to make it viable. only now with 2-4 cores the CPUs are going to get there in terms of processiong power to do it real time , and maybe leave a core available to keep the system responsive. And to make it happen in a mobile device, well you will need it in silicon for sure. That gies us one other type of core to dream about in AMD's fusion, a voice recognition processing unit...
Color mode is not 200dpi, but new development technologies allowed it to consume just 1 watt. This new tech is eventually going to be used on all LCDs, as its development was meant for both power consumption *and* production cost reduction.
200 dpi mode is monochrome, e-ink mode for ebook mode, capable of being read comfortably even under direct sunlight. and yes, having pixels so small you can't see them without a magnifying glass DOES look nice.
DX10 and games.
Yeah, BUT we all know, or should know that the bottleneck the is most likely to bite us is the HD because of both speed and latency issues. While it's true that the Network is a much tighter bottleneck, it's not going to peg you as much down (unless you live in a dream realm of MMORPG and never see the light of the day). HD is much more central to basic computer operations than network. And being the central bottleneck in so many crucial operations, pumping it up is very desirable indeed.
And you are not just 'moving the bottleneck around'. You are effectively removing one of the worst bottlenecks, and the runner-up in the bottleneck contest is taking the crown, which will result in a faster machine in quite a few scenarios.
Albeit I totally agree that 40GB is way too smal to store all that pr0n... But 500x WILL do wonders for boot-up, opening programs, swap files/partitions, and loading all those 8192x8192 DX10 textures in your GeForce 8800 memory... Which could eventually saturate your PCI Express x16 bus maybe???
I remember having read a somewhat long time ago that a Duron 800, while having the cpu maxed out, could do an equal or better job at a IDE RAID array (don't remember the details, sorry).
More recently, on my personal experience, I have an Athlon 3000 as a server with a 4 disk 600GB Software SATA RAID array. A sustained large file copy operation (like an ISO) takes up to 30% CPU processing power, and I have up to 150MB/s r/w speed. As a side note, the kernel detects the optimal checksum calculator as being the SSE2 instruction set. Now, having dual core goodness available, and given that there are cheap cpus with more power than a plain Athlon 3000, the impact is even less, and you can fold in the cost of a RAID card on cpu, or on a better video card.
Save power, which means 1)a smaller electricity bill, and 2) longer battery life. Be it your desktop core or a server farm, it could make its way into cache memory if it's fast enough. That is, IF this technology (or an evolution thereof) can be applied directly inside the cpu core design/building process. Of course, swapping your ram to this MRAM is still years away, but if the technology succeeds, it can happen (and everyone wants it to happen).
Also, the PDA/Smartphone crowd would benefit from it too. Instead of having too keep juicing 64+MB of memory, you'll only spend power when you have to change information. Judging for the size (4Mbit), this application is a few years away too, maybe farther than the cache scenario (if there are no serious hurdles to swapping from the current cache technologies into this one), but not as much distant as the desktop/server MRAM-only scenario.
It's worst than you think. The submitter is NOT to blame. He is just quoting the BBC moron which wrote that shit. I have skimmed over the article and it's there.
/. editors for letting it in.
Except that this not being news at all, it is a stupid article for non-techies, hmm, then YES, the submitter IS to blame. And the
Linus vetoed converting *the whole kernel* to GPLv3, but also stated that a few portions of it could be under GPLv3. Likewise, once Solaris is under the GPLv3, it might be able to incorporate GPLv2 code, unless v2 is incompatible with v3.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity.
I have seen MANY real-world examples of peoples who:
a) think the up and down buttons do the same thing (in part they do: call the elevator), but are blissfully ignorant that one is if you want to go DOWN and the other if you want to go UP. Really.
b) (Most blondes fall in this category) Think you must press the UP button if the elevator is on a floor lower than yours, and the DOWN button if the elevator is on a higher floor.
Sad, but true. Actually it's funny when you remember. But annoying when you get to wait the elevator when one of these morons is around.
PS3 (next year). And Xbox 360 (nah).
Actually, with tooth paste, a swiss army knife and some dental floss you can do a much more powerful explosive.
Eye strain only happens with active light sources, not pigments. e-Ink is a pigment-based tech, just like reading a book. When color e-paper arrives, advertisement agencies will flock to it so that they don't need to convert between cmykrgb when printing. E-ink has no 'frequency' except for the update speed. after the information is registered, it stays there even if the power is cut. no 60Hz induced headache in this tech. which is good.
They HAD to have a competing offer with waaay too little time for R&D. So they patched up 2 cores with an inferior solution so that they can say 'we have one of these too'. They know it's inferior, but those who are braindead brand buyers will go for it anyway. It will buy them time until they come up with a proper solution in the 2nd gen of their dual cores.
Games. As Wine/ReactOS mature (probably before Vista comes around), Linux+Wine or Dual boot ReactOS or use xen to switch to Between the two. Then MS will have to do quite a feat to justify its price tag. The MS Office cash cow is being dealt with by OpenOffice, MS wil eventually have a small enough market share and fierce enough competition that it will play fair. By 2020 few people will even remember the 'evil' Microsoft. I know IBM used to be the 'evil' in IT mostly by old-timers references.
Having the latest figure of smartphone shipments with 75% of the pie to Symbian, 15% to Linux, 5% to Pocket PC, and the rest to Palm and others, and given that around 80% of the Symbian devices are using Nokia's series60 (Which is a pity, UIQ is way more advanced), i fail to see nokia as killing itself.
That said, I too like clamshell designs, but right now I am using a Nokia 6681.
I actually think this table can be a *HUGE* win for the linux crowd, because although they are marketing is as a web tablet, it can be though of as a linux *PDA*, as it is not really a big device, with a GREAT screen resolution, wi-fi at G speeds (I can't find any PDA with that built in), and an open development environment, it can be the dream PDA of the linux crowd (despite the lack of a camera).
As far as I have read about the subject, looks like they are using teh frequencies in a more intelligent way, pretty much like optimizing code. Do more with less. A quick google will find you a few so-called 'pre-n' wifi, some companies have started developing/selling equipment based on each of teh two standards wannabees (TNG and WWISE), pretty much a gamble. Bet on the right one, you'll have a head start over teh competition to have equipment ready to the market. it will have longer range AND more speed. Some even claim smal improvements (up to 20%) if you use pre-n equipment mixed with (their, of course) a/g equipment. I expect the range to at least double (at least in the technical/theoretical papers)
Just do it.
No, no and NO! You are the Grim Reaper of pets. We already have a graveyard of hamsters, birds, that guinea pig and the little kitty in our backyard.
OK, the kitty was my fault, but he shouldn't sleep behing teh car wheel. And I am not even counting the tamagochi you dipped in my coffee to feed it... Only imagine HOW BIG would be the hole to bury that thing.
No way. Not even if you have a fit rolling and screaming in the ground at the supermarket. No. Not. Ever.
For those gramatically impaired (or too drunk to think), this page will help you getting the 'In Soviet Russia' beat-the-dead-horse-old-joke right:
Soviet Slogan Generator
That's where that nifty quantum entanglement communication device will come into play...spin the electron here, they'll know there instantly. Come to think of it, our little blue marble could make use of it too (intercontinental communications, cell phones, etc).
I would enjoy a 852x480 wide/touchscreen Gumstix-based WiFi(g) GSM/GPRS/EDGE 400MHz w/Bluetooth in a gamepad (psp) format. preferably with an analog stick too, a a 3D OpenGraphics chip, and 256 MB of memory. Running (ahem) GNU/Linux f course, w/ KDE on matchbox (of course Gnomers shall have teh right to theirs version too) AM I ASKING TOO MUCH?
FOOLS!!! Just wait when in reaches 42...
I have an OCed Radeon 9550 / 256 mb, and I agree that Doom 3 ha *no* story and *no* character depth, I liked HL2 much better, but I really think teh Doom3 graphics are stunning, esp. lightning/bump mapping, which is not as good in HL2. HL2 water reflections/effects are schweeet, though.