The cables for the digital output of the Gamecube were ridiculously hard to find and expensive. And while few people have TVs capable of 1080p, the cables included with the Wii were composite. Going from composite to S-Video or component produces a noticeable improvement even on SDTVs! It wouldn't have been difficult to include a cable with a couple different video connectors.
First I have to say, this whole article is ridiculous. Paper records provide auditabilitly. I don't know why anyone would think they'd increase accuracy -- that isn't the intent (or if it was the intent, someone screwed up).
They sure did, though they didn't get held accountable. There were districts in Ohio were the official raw results showed more votes for Bush than there were voters. This is a fact.
I don't care how large the circle is, blind people can't see it. And illiterate people still won't be able to read it. And some disabled people still won't be able to mark the circle. Electronic machines solve all those problems.
Programs and Services for Persons with Special Needs
Elections Canada offers information, education and accessibility services to persons who have a disability, seniors, persons with limited reading and writing skills, and persons living in transitional situations (homeless or living in a shelter for victims of abuse). Material is available in alternative formats: large print, Braille, audiocassette and diskette (for talking computers).
Among the services provided by Elections Canada for persons with a disability are:
information, e-mail access, and special ballot registration forms available on the Internet at www.elections.ca
documents specifically for persons with disabilities including reading difficulties
open- and closed-captioned videotapes for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing
a voting template for persons with a visual disability
a toll-free information line for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing:
TTY 1 800 361-8935 (toll-free in Canada and the United States)
mobile polling stations for certain types of institutions as specified by the Canada Elections Act, where seniors or persons with disabilities reside
a special ballot, which allows early voting by mail, or in person at the office of the returning officer, or at home in the case of electors who cannot read or cannot go to the office of the returning officer because of a physical disability
help with registration at the advance polls and election day polling stations
flexible options for voting at advance polls and election offices with guaranteed level access
Elections Canada takes every measure, where possible, to select level-access polling sites. Accessibility is indicated on the voter information card.
transfer certificates permitting electors who use wheelchairs or who have other physical disabilities to vote at facilities providing level access if, in exceptional cases, their own polling sites do not provide this
assistance available at the request of the elector to mark the ballot at the polling station (ordinary or advance), or at the office of the returning officer
transportation of the ballot box from room to room to facilitate voting in hospitals and certain residential institutions
language or sign language interpreter services on request
As default luser said, the difference would be marginal. I probably wouldn't bother upgrading your RAM unless you were also upgrading your CPU to a Core 2 Duo (which doesn't have any motherboards that use regular DDR, IIRC). Here's a benchmark. I have a E6600 which is stable and quiet when overclocked to 3.474 GHz with a Scythe Infinity...and 31 degrees C.
The cable that comes with the Wii is 480i...The digital "HDTV" cable is a separate purchase, which I think is a mistake. The difference is image quality is immediately obvious.
Electronic or, in the case of Florida, mechanical. Electronic systems make any mistakes and fraud far more powerful...in Ohio there were districts that showed (in the official results) more votes for Bush than there were voters. And the problems with mechanical systems such as hanging chads do not exist with an X on a piece of paper.
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Meh, I don't see the appeal of subscribing to someone's list... Privoxy has a near-perfect built-in filter, cleans out a lot more crap, and it's easy enough to add blocks for the few things that slip through.
Man, i dread the day that they isolate the maybe 10,000 people on the planet who actually respond positively to advertising.
Yeah, I'm sure that the reason companies have been pouring billions and billions of dollars into advertising for decades isn't that it works, but that nobody even though to check.
The thing that marketers are best at selling is...advertising. People say that, for example, suckers must be buying stuff from the spam emails they receive, or there wouldn't be spam - but that isn't necessarily true. Spammers only need to convince companies to pay them.
Personally, I'd be happy to just pay a couple bucks per show, or a penny per search, or whatever. I'd have cancelled my cable TV long ago if it weren't for my PVR.
It's a heck of a lot easier than trying to partition the drive when the menu only gives you the option to either wipe the entire disk or manually install. It's also a lot easier to understand than stuff like getting my SD card reader to work.
Or the more user-friendly distros could just pose a simple question in plain english, like in ArcherB's post:
"Do you wish to log whenever a file is written or read? So every time a file is used, it has to write an entry on the HDD, slowing performance, but it can have uses, like in forensics, security or backups (if a file has not been read in three years, it's probably safe to archive and move off the drive)."
With the default answer being "no" and only a single click required to make it "yes".
Are you seriously suggesting that the germ theory of disease (ie, the reason for improvements in hygeine and sanitation) isn't part of the field of medicine?
If the Wii comes to completely dominate the industry, there's a good chance a lot of really first-rate, complicated, serious games will never be released, in favor of hundreds of Wii sports clones.
Yeah, "first-rate, complicated, serious games" like Madden 2010, or Halo 4, or Call of Duty 5?
What if I bought a $1.50 can of pop from the vending machine? Everyone knows the cost is 1/10 of this. Is that theft? Or I was talked into buying a $50 extended warranty? Or I bought a diamond for two months' salary? Nearly every company (the oil industry in particular) on the face of the earth has no problem taking advantage of people in the same manner.
"Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes."
Maybe if it's crammed full of heatpipes and the whole case is a heatsink. Even then, there's a limit to how small it can get without overheating. Otherwise, your choices are:
small and powerful, but noisy silent and powerful, but big
small and silent, but slow
Some boards, such as my Asus P5W DH Deluxe have different ways to overclock, some of which are absurdly simple, such as "overclock 30%". By looking at the values it used, and a quick google search, it didn't take me long to figure out how to overclock to much faster speeds with the manual settings. (The problem I had at first was setting my memory far too fast and making the system crash. By setting it to ~800 mhz, I got my processor stable at 3.5GHz easily.)
A large percentage of Canadians live in a climate where they have the choice of producing CO2 or freezing to death in winter. Also, getting oil from tar sands makes a huge amount of CO2...I suppose Canada could always drastically reduce its CO2 production by not selling any oil.:)
A bootable USB memory stick has some disadvantages as well. First of all, not every PC is able to boot from USB. Second, if the machine does boot from USB, not all hardware is detected or configured properly, since the hardware "changes" every day. Third, booting from USB "locks" the machine: It's either the already installed OS or your OS, not both at the same time.
To get rid of these disadvantages, you can carry your own machine as well, not just your OS and your applications and your settings and your user data. You can do this by buying a laptop. But it's expensive, a physical burden and risky. The USB memory stick is cheap, light and easier to protect. A virtual machine , like QEMU, is cheap, light and easy to protect as well. With such a virtual machine, we are able to boot our OS on top of the already installed OS. Now we have two OS's running concurrently on one machine! ALT-TAB is enough to hide your machine and get back to work...
The tricky part is trying to have the OS on your USB memory stick to be able to boot both natively and in a virtual machine. But it can be done. And that's what makes QEMU-Puppy unique.
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The cables for the digital output of the Gamecube were ridiculously hard to find and expensive. And while few people have TVs capable of 1080p, the cables included with the Wii were composite. Going from composite to S-Video or component produces a noticeable improvement even on SDTVs! It wouldn't have been difficult to include a cable with a couple different video connectors.
The difference in the pictures for Zelda and Excite Truck sets on this site are similar to the difference I saw on my TV.
They sure did, though they didn't get held accountable. There were districts in Ohio were the official raw results showed more votes for Bush than there were voters. This is a fact.
I don't care how large the circle is, blind people can't see it. And illiterate people still won't be able to read it. And some disabled people still won't be able to mark the circle. Electronic machines solve all those problems.
A very, very small percentage of people have these problems. And for the few that do:
Programs and Services for Persons with Special Needs
Elections Canada offers information, education and accessibility services to persons who have a disability, seniors, persons with limited reading and writing skills, and persons living in transitional situations (homeless or living in a shelter for victims of abuse). Material is available in alternative formats: large print, Braille, audiocassette and diskette (for talking computers).
Among the services provided by Elections Canada for persons with a disability are:
TTY 1 800 361-8935 (toll-free in Canada and the United States)
As default luser said, the difference would be marginal. I probably wouldn't bother upgrading your RAM unless you were also upgrading your CPU to a Core 2 Duo (which doesn't have any motherboards that use regular DDR, IIRC). Here's a benchmark. I have a E6600 which is stable and quiet when overclocked to 3.474 GHz with a Scythe Infinity...and 31 degrees C.
The cable that comes with the Wii is 480i...The digital "HDTV" cable is a separate purchase, which I think is a mistake. The difference is image quality is immediately obvious.
Electronic or, in the case of Florida, mechanical. Electronic systems make any mistakes and fraud far more powerful...in Ohio there were districts that showed (in the official results) more votes for Bush than there were voters. And the problems with mechanical systems such as hanging chads do not exist with an X on a piece of paper.
Talk about shooting themselves in the foot.
Meh, I don't see the appeal of subscribing to someone's list... Privoxy has a near-perfect built-in filter, cleans out a lot more crap, and it's easy enough to add blocks for the few things that slip through.
Yeah, I'm sure that the reason companies have been pouring billions and billions of dollars into advertising for decades isn't that it works, but that nobody even though to check.
The thing that marketers are best at selling is...advertising. People say that, for example, suckers must be buying stuff from the spam emails they receive, or there wouldn't be spam - but that isn't necessarily true. Spammers only need to convince companies to pay them.
Personally, I'd be happy to just pay a couple bucks per show, or a penny per search, or whatever. I'd have cancelled my cable TV long ago if it weren't for my PVR.
It's more at the level of choosing between ext3 and xfs, which are options - but not when the most basic install is chosen.
It's a heck of a lot easier than trying to partition the drive when the menu only gives you the option to either wipe the entire disk or manually install. It's also a lot easier to understand than stuff like getting my SD card reader to work.
Or the more user-friendly distros could just pose a simple question in plain english, like in ArcherB's post:
"Do you wish to log whenever a file is written or read? So every time a file is used, it has to write an entry on the HDD, slowing performance, but it can have uses, like in forensics, security or backups (if a file has not been read in three years, it's probably safe to archive and move off the drive)."
With the default answer being "no" and only a single click required to make it "yes".
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Are you seriously suggesting that the germ theory of disease (ie, the reason for improvements in hygeine and sanitation) isn't part of the field of medicine?
If the Wii comes to completely dominate the industry, there's a good chance a lot of really first-rate, complicated, serious games will never be released, in favor of hundreds of Wii sports clones.
Yeah, "first-rate, complicated, serious games" like Madden 2010, or Halo 4, or Call of Duty 5?
What if I bought a $1.50 can of pop from the vending machine? Everyone knows the cost is 1/10 of this. Is that theft? Or I was talked into buying a $50 extended warranty? Or I bought a diamond for two months' salary? Nearly every company (the oil industry in particular) on the face of the earth has no problem taking advantage of people in the same manner.
"Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes."
Maybe if it's crammed full of heatpipes and the whole case is a heatsink. Even then, there's a limit to how small it can get without overheating. Otherwise, your choices are:
small and powerful, but noisy
silent and powerful, but big
small and silent, but slow
Then add what they pay in private costs, and it isn't a pretty picture: Public and private expenditure on health
Some boards, such as my Asus P5W DH Deluxe have different ways to overclock, some of which are absurdly simple, such as "overclock 30%". By looking at the values it used, and a quick google search, it didn't take me long to figure out how to overclock to much faster speeds with the manual settings. (The problem I had at first was setting my memory far too fast and making the system crash. By setting it to ~800 mhz, I got my processor stable at 3.5GHz easily.)
A large percentage of Canadians live in a climate where they have the choice of producing CO2 or freezing to death in winter. Also, getting oil from tar sands makes a huge amount of CO2...I suppose Canada could always drastically reduce its CO2 production by not selling any oil. :)
It's not that there's any free lunch, but Americans pay more per capita in taxes to health care than the Japanese do in both public and private costs combined.
The United States has the Hummer of health care systems.
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A bootable USB memory stick has some disadvantages as well. First of all, not every PC is able to boot from USB. Second, if the machine does boot from USB, not all hardware is detected or configured properly, since the hardware "changes" every day. Third, booting from USB "locks" the machine: It's either the already installed OS or your OS, not both at the same time.
To get rid of these disadvantages, you can carry your own machine as well, not just your OS and your applications and your settings and your user data. You can do this by buying a laptop. But it's expensive, a physical burden and risky. The USB memory stick is cheap, light and easier to protect. A virtual machine , like QEMU, is cheap, light and easy to protect as well. With such a virtual machine, we are able to boot our OS on top of the already installed OS. Now we have two OS's running concurrently on one machine! ALT-TAB is enough to hide your machine and get back to work...
The tricky part is trying to have the OS on your USB memory stick to be able to boot both natively and in a virtual machine. But it can be done. And that's what makes QEMU-Puppy unique.
Well, I know Opera isn't, but aren't a bunch of other browsers based on the same engine as Firefox? Seamonkey/Mozilla, Konqueror, etc?
One of these babies. I dual-boot with Linux Mint. I chose it over the "new and improved" model, which is not fanless like the P7120, and comes with Vista.