I like that. In fact, that's what I always thought the "paper trail" was about. That way, people can't provide counterfeit ballots, they can't prove who they voted for, etc.
I wouldn't be as concerned about voters voluntarily selling their vote as I would be about employers, relatives, whatever pressuring me to vote a certain way, and demanding proof.
Anonymous voting(The "Austrailian ballot") added a lot to the fairness of our election system. I wouldn't want to lose that.
I was a little disappointed by the HotHardware review...they're stacking AMD's value processor line against older versions of Intel's performance line. That makes sense until you try to compare things that depend on, e.g. processor caches.
$15/month for the one I subscribed too. There are cheaper and more expensive options, though. It depends on how many books you want access to at one time. (Keep in mind that there's a minimum time you can have a single book checked out.)
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So they've found a new way to hide "BSD is dying" in their trolls?
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For me, O'Reilley's Linux in a Nutshell allowed me to charge in with both guns drawn back in 2000. (Read: I'd hosed my Windows installation, and the Compaq restore CD wasn't working.)
They have books on both Linux and BSD here. And, so long as you have a machine to read them from, check out their Safari service. I loved it. (but had to cancel to pay for tuition last Fall. I'm still planning on going back.)
The result has been a ridiculously expensive form of theater that's sucking funding away from the uncrewed space program.
I read an old book about that. It talked extensively about all unmanned rocketry and space missions from Goddard's work through using V2s (and at one point using a broken headlight as an altimeter), through the moon, venus, mars and Pioneer unmanned missions. Its title was "Exploring Space".
I last read it in 4th grade, around the same time I read Chuck Yeager's autobiography (another great book...I re-read it this past weekend), both for that Pizza Hut reading challenge where you'd get a free personal pan pizza if you read enough.
Sure, a lot of it can be automated, but how are you going to learn about human physiological responses to zero-gravity? From flights thus far, we already know that life support for long term flights are going to be a much larger problem than just storing enough food.
And longs flights are going to be necessary to colonize anything. Until, of course, we can travel at reletavistic speeds, or at least at a significant constant acceleration. At that point, time will be much more forgiving on our bodies, since we won't experience as much of it.
(1) Avoiding single points of failure for the entire human race (e.g., giant asteroid nails Earth);
By that, I assume you mean the eventual colonization of locations other than Earth. I completley agree. Even if you assumed that experiments done thus far in space could be done in a self contained robot, you could never replace the medical data we've gathered from studying the astronauts themselves.
For instance, we now know that even with an excercise regimine, astronauts still lose bone mass at a disturbing rate. Therefore, very long term zero-gravity flights are going to be a problem. We have to find a way to keep them from losing that bone mass before we can go anywhere.
And there are certainly some solutions not yet found that would not only benefit astronauts, but people with osteoperosis here at home.
I'm looking. I found a 30-day evaluation, but I'm waiting for the confirmation email for my "myQNX" account so I can look at their downloads page. Has anyone else noticed GMail being slow?
I would guess Rube Goldberg isn't one your favorites?
Really, simply taking the long way around to do something that could be done in a much simpler fashion is cool in itself. It's like climbing Mt. Everest "because it's there," but without the frostbite and risk of freezing to death. And maybe it's a little easier.
That's simply not true, at least regarding the issues people pay attention to. Go to vote-smart.org's section on Kerry's voting history. I can't find a single entry where he abstained.
Looking in the rear view mirror is a must for any driver. You should know as much about your environment as you possibly can.
Those split seconds aren't "extra"...if there's a car in your rear-view mirror, you should glance at it long enough to get an estimate of how far away they are. Are they too close? Will they hit you if you break suddenly? Absorbing a car's facial expression shouldn't require concious effort.
That said, I think it's a bad idea to start with. I've frequently driven in places where glaring at another driver will get you run off the road.
The water softener in the room next to mine watches water usage to determine the schedule to use when recharging. (Namely, when I'm awake, but my parents are asleep.)
You could probably do something similar watching percentile-seconds of CPU usage over time. Have a program do that, then run a list of commands scheduled to run "when the computer is free for a while."
Local families adopt sailors in basic training for a couple days. They take them out to eat, give them Christmas presents, that sort of thing. It's very helpful to morale among the recruits.
My parents and I drove down to Chicago, and were able to "adopt" my brother.
It was the tail end of Christmas vacation, and I don't have an Internet connection at home, so I was desperate for some Slashdot reading.
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I like that. In fact, that's what I always thought the "paper trail" was about. That way, people can't provide counterfeit ballots, they can't prove who they voted for, etc.
I wouldn't be as concerned about voters voluntarily selling their vote as I would be about employers, relatives, whatever pressuring me to vote a certain way, and demanding proof.
Anonymous voting(The "Austrailian ballot") added a lot to the fairness of our election system. I wouldn't want to lose that.
Selenium. Or Lithium. There's a bunch of cool names in the periodic table.
I was a little disappointed by the HotHardware review...they're stacking AMD's value processor line against older versions of Intel's performance line. That makes sense until you try to compare things that depend on, e.g. processor caches.
$15/month for the one I subscribed too. There are cheaper and more expensive options, though. It depends on how many books you want access to at one time. (Keep in mind that there's a minimum time you can have a single book checked out.)
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So they've found a new way to hide "BSD is dying" in their trolls?
For me, O'Reilley's Linux in a Nutshell allowed me to charge in with both guns drawn back in 2000. (Read: I'd hosed my Windows installation, and the Compaq restore CD wasn't working.)
They have books on both Linux and BSD here. And, so long as you have a machine to read them from, check out their Safari service. I loved it. (but had to cancel to pay for tuition last Fall. I'm still planning on going back.)
The result has been a ridiculously expensive form of theater that's sucking funding away from the uncrewed space program.
I read an old book about that. It talked extensively about all unmanned rocketry and space missions from Goddard's work through using V2s (and at one point using a broken headlight as an altimeter), through the moon, venus, mars and Pioneer unmanned missions. Its title was "Exploring Space".
I last read it in 4th grade, around the same time I read Chuck Yeager's autobiography (another great book...I re-read it this past weekend), both for that Pizza Hut reading challenge where you'd get a free personal pan pizza if you read enough.
Not true.
Sure, a lot of it can be automated, but how are you going to learn about human physiological responses to zero-gravity? From flights thus far, we already know that life support for long term flights are going to be a much larger problem than just storing enough food.
And longs flights are going to be necessary to colonize anything. Until, of course, we can travel at reletavistic speeds, or at least at a significant constant acceleration. At that point, time will be much more forgiving on our bodies, since we won't experience as much of it.
(1) Avoiding single points of failure for the entire human race (e.g., giant asteroid nails Earth);
By that, I assume you mean the eventual colonization of locations other than Earth. I completley agree. Even if you assumed that experiments done thus far in space could be done in a self contained robot, you could never replace the medical data we've gathered from studying the astronauts themselves.
For instance, we now know that even with an excercise regimine, astronauts still lose bone mass at a disturbing rate. Therefore, very long term zero-gravity flights are going to be a problem. We have to find a way to keep them from losing that bone mass before we can go anywhere.
And there are certainly some solutions not yet found that would not only benefit astronauts, but people with osteoperosis here at home.
I'm looking. I found a 30-day evaluation, but I'm waiting for the confirmation email for my "myQNX" account so I can look at their downloads page. Has anyone else noticed GMail being slow?
Although it's free for personal use, according to my Dad. He uses QNX frequently at Work.
I would guess Rube Goldberg isn't one your favorites?
Really, simply taking the long way around to do something that could be done in a much simpler fashion is cool in itself. It's like climbing Mt. Everest "because it's there," but without the frostbite and risk of freezing to death. And maybe it's a little easier.
Vote Smart shows the results of the things he actually voted on, not all of the votes before the Senate.
Ah. Thanks for clarifying that.
That's simply not true, at least regarding the issues people pay attention to. Go to vote-smart.org's section on Kerry's voting history. I can't find a single entry where he abstained.
You missed a spot:
(1) violates federal or state criminal law and (2) is dangerous to human life.
I can see it now...
"I was unable to get to 70W by 45N, because there was an Army base there. Update: Someone's knocking on the door."
Then why spell it "froogles" instead of "froogals"?
Yeah...It wasn't gratuitous, and it certainly wasn't a movie.
Looking in the rear view mirror is a must for any driver. You should know as much about your environment as you possibly can.
Those split seconds aren't "extra"...if there's a car in your rear-view mirror, you should glance at it long enough to get an estimate of how far away they are. Are they too close? Will they hit you if you break suddenly? Absorbing a car's facial expression shouldn't require concious effort.
That said, I think it's a bad idea to start with. I've frequently driven in places where glaring at another driver will get you run off the road.
The water softener in the room next to mine watches water usage to determine the schedule to use when recharging. (Namely, when I'm awake, but my parents are asleep.)
You could probably do something similar watching percentile-seconds of CPU usage over time. Have a program do that, then run a list of commands scheduled to run "when the computer is free for a while."
Some people may find it useful, but the amount of information that is valuable to the average person in real time isn't all that big.
That's one reason to charge more for it...get it into the market of people who'd find it useful.
No...IE was in kiosk mode the whole time. I don't know what happened when I left.
Local families adopt sailors in basic training for a couple days. They take them out to eat, give them Christmas presents, that sort of thing. It's very helpful to morale among the recruits.
My parents and I drove down to Chicago, and were able to "adopt" my brother.
It was the tail end of Christmas vacation, and I don't have an Internet connection at home, so I was desperate for some Slashdot reading.
...but at least you got good signal.