Placement in some kind of secure receptacle for the purpose of a later recount
It seems like a terrible idea to actually give the voter the receipt. How could an accurate recount be made if voters are allowed to leave the polling place with the receipt? (Some would be lost, some would be forged, etc). Instead, I thought the purpose of the paper receipts was for visual verification (essentially, adding another "db" in your example, but this "db" is verifiable without a computer by human beings), and subsequently the possibility of having a human-only recount, or a recount performed by an optical reader manufactured by some disinterested third party. This would make it much harder to fake a vote (having to fake both the computerized record and the physical record which is voter verified).
Windows has increased their uptime by 20% [...]
So if windows servers were available 90% of the time htey have now hit 95% [...]
This doesn't seem correct to me - if Windows "increased its uptime by 20%" from an original uptime of 90% then it would have 90% + (.2 *.9) = 108% uptime (or read a different way, 110% uptime). Clearly, you didn't mean either of these. But even if we were to read the statement as "decreased its downtime by 20%" we would still have 10% downtime - (20% of original downtime, or 2%) = 8% downtime. So we'd have 92% uptime, not 95% as you have stated.
They can't kill off the GPLed MySQL, but they can kill off the **commercial version** by purchasing the backend products and then reducing or eliminating their development. This means that a company or third party vendor that wanted to develop an app using MySQL would not be able to use the commercial version of MySQL in an effective way (since they would now be tied to Oracle, and Oracle's development whims of development for the MySQL backend products like InnoDB and BDB), and they also cannot use the GPLed MySQL unless they want to GPL their own application.
Oracle thus makes it sensible for any vendor who doesn't want to be tied to an rapidly deprecating platform to use the Oracle database.
He said "server side" resizing. That's far different from client size resizing and it is a very important feature. The client requests the image in a certain size and compression and the server creates it from the high resolution image.
While waiting at a dentist's office about 3 weeks ago, I was reading a (semi-old) issue of popular mechanics which featured a small article/blurb about a fashion designer that had integrated titanium fibers into a shirt. Sure it retailed for something like $5,000, but it automatically snapped back into shape when you put it near heat due to the titanium. It looked really neat, too.
Quite frankly, I think this is where the future of "wearable technology" lies. Not in big computers or paintable LCD screens for your skin, but in modification to things we currently like and use (shirts) that make them easier and more useful.
I can imagine that if that shirt were marketed at a more reasonable price (with titanium that's hard, but it's beside the point) it would become very popular. Many people would rather have a shirt you never have to iron than a screen in their leg.
Anyone else find it absolutely fascinating that Network Solutions' policies, even well after the buyout by Verisign, still affect the 'internet economy' greatly. I mean, just their original monopolizing option of making people buy a two year registration caused us to have a major fallout after that time period. It's always seemed odd to me that companies can have that much effect and general will over the economy and society as a whole.
Less than half the size and weight of the Nomad Jukebox plus a firewire connection that can fill the player's 6GB hard drive in only 10 minutes.
This quote is from the article and yet, a quick search of Apple's website yields the following: "iPod: High capacity: The 5GB hard disk drive can store up to 1,000 songs.
This "article" on mp3.com is really lacking in the accuracy department. And probably the worst quote from the article: "Fair or not, RIAA president Hillary Rosen and Osama Bin Laden are interchangeable in the eyes of many Net savvy consumers."
"Fair or not, RIAA president Hillary Rosen and Osama Bin Laden are interchangeable in the eyes of many Net savvy consumers."
This type of comparison, especially when made in major news publications, is just stupidity. Drawing an analogy between people who do/have done entirely different "bad" things is just inane. I find it hard to believe that this kind of "reporting" can get past the people who look over the publications of Mp3.com and even harder to believe that some people actually agree with the assertion.
What I find truly interesting about all this is not just that they are measuring the velocity changes (the acceleration) of the Cassini probe, but that after getting back the information of the forces at work, they will have to somehow determine exactly where the gravitational waves are coming from.
Think of it this way: If two planets are on opposite sides of the probe, and both are emitting gravitational forces, then the probe will be subjected to the net forces of the two planets. The equation for relative force of gravity comes to mind here, and I assume they will be using it when calculating multiple sources of gravity.
(GmM)/(R^2) gives the acceleration of the system for two masses in space, so any resultant force must take into account that it could come from several different masses.
JPL engineers have carefully instrumented a large dish antenna at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone complex near Barstow, Calif., to send and receive the higher frequencies with unprecedented Doppler sensitivity. The upgrade includes refined pointing capability needed to exploit the higher frequencies, said Sami Asmar, supervisor of JPL's Radio Science Group. Other new equipment at Goldstone will allow researchers to correct for the atmosphere's distortion of radio transmissions and improve performance of the search.
As I see it, the trickiest thing here will be taking the "exquisitely accurate measurements" and turning them into real, useable models of gravity given off by our neighboring planets.
For those interested in the ethical/moral issues..
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Though most of the issues are readily apparent and most people are at least partially familiar with them, there are some that I foun to be quite interesting (especially the commercialization aspect of genetic code):
Though those statistics may seem somewhat intriguing, one must remember that in actuality it is highly unlikely that the people playing solitaire would rather spend their time building a large building or monumental structure.
This is not off-topic. Just listen and understand.
In general, computer gaming in the adult realm is the result of hours of boredom (Unlike teenagers/kids/some young adults who simply play the games as a hobby or a past time). And this boredom is usually a result of not having something to do at a job, or perhaps at home. People who spend hours playing solitaire generally wouldn't take it upon themselves to work on an Empire State Building or a Panama Canal.
Let's see this article for what it really is: "Lot's of people who have a lot of time on their hands spend hours achieving nothing." Or less cynically: "People, unaided by their jobs, find other routes to circumvent boredom."
As a premise for this post, I had owned a Casio model E-100 for roughly 2 years until last week when I traded with a friend for his Palm III.
Quite simply, I decided that the E-100 lacked true portability. This new device, and all others from non Palm or Handspring vendors, tend to simply be very large and cumbersome.
What I love about the Palm is the ability for me to put it in my shirt pocket and not have it way that down. Though this may seem trivial, it is very important to me as I generally would rather not have a large device in my pants pocket (Aside from the obvious "device" already there).
Anyway, I what I think needs to happen is that designers should take a look at a device like the Rex (remember that? It was a PCMCIA card that had a screen and PIM apps on it) and attempt to improve on that. A simple color screen shouldn't increase size overall too much, but would increase definition and clarity quite a bit. There seems to be a fairly large market for people who want simple, cheap PIM and PDA devices without hundreds of MB of storage, wireless networking, a Pentium IV processor and other crazy stuff that simply doesn't belong.
Anyone out there with investment capital and some friends with engineering degrees listening?
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- Visual verification by the voter (and then)
- Placement in some kind of secure receptacle for the purpose of a later recount
It seems like a terrible idea to actually give the voter the receipt. How could an accurate recount be made if voters are allowed to leave the polling place with the receipt? (Some would be lost, some would be forged, etc). Instead, I thought the purpose of the paper receipts was for visual verification (essentially, adding another "db" in your example, but this "db" is verifiable without a computer by human beings), and subsequently the possibility of having a human-only recount, or a recount performed by an optical reader manufactured by some disinterested third party. This would make it much harder to fake a vote (having to fake both the computerized record and the physical record which is voter verified).Try this for a more accurate "spam" vs. "hot dogs" google fight:
o rd1=Spam+-email+-filter&word2=Hot+Dogs
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&w
They can't kill off the GPLed MySQL, but they can kill off the **commercial version** by purchasing the backend products and then reducing or eliminating their development. This means that a company or third party vendor that wanted to develop an app using MySQL would not be able to use the commercial version of MySQL in an effective way (since they would now be tied to Oracle, and Oracle's development whims of development for the MySQL backend products like InnoDB and BDB), and they also cannot use the GPLed MySQL unless they want to GPL their own application.
Oracle thus makes it sensible for any vendor who doesn't want to be tied to an rapidly deprecating platform to use the Oracle database.
Come on, we've all seen what happens when lasers are put in space...
I'm just waiting for our political enemies' houses to start filling with popcorn as in Real Genius!
He said "server side" resizing. That's far different from client size resizing and it is a very important feature. The client requests the image in a certain size and compression and the server creates it from the high resolution image.
I assume he meant molar, not million. Don't assume it's a different quantification just because you've never taken basic chemistry courses.
The word Berkeley is actually quite correct. Check this link to University of California Berkeley's Website: http://www.berkeley.edu/
While waiting at a dentist's office about 3 weeks ago, I was reading a (semi-old) issue of popular mechanics which featured a small article/blurb about a fashion designer that had integrated titanium fibers into a shirt. Sure it retailed for something like $5,000, but it automatically snapped back into shape when you put it near heat due to the titanium. It looked really neat, too.
Quite frankly, I think this is where the future of "wearable technology" lies. Not in big computers or paintable LCD screens for your skin, but in modification to things we currently like and use (shirts) that make them easier and more useful.
I can imagine that if that shirt were marketed at a more reasonable price (with titanium that's hard, but it's beside the point) it would become very popular. Many people would rather have a shirt you never have to iron than a screen in their leg.
To each his own, though.
Because Microsoft has always been extremely focused on high volume, low price,
Ok, is it just me, or does pricing an OS at like two to three hundred dollars not really sound like high volume, low price.
Maybe it's his billions and billions of dollars that makes him think that such an overpriced OS is "high volume, low price."
Gimp.
Anyone else find it absolutely fascinating that Network Solutions' policies, even well after the buyout by Verisign, still affect the 'internet economy' greatly. I mean, just their original monopolizing option of making people buy a two year registration caused us to have a major fallout after that time period. It's always seemed odd to me that companies can have that much effect and general will over the economy and society as a whole.
3. Apple iPod
Less than half the size and weight of the Nomad Jukebox plus a firewire connection that can fill the player's 6GB hard drive in only 10 minutes.
This quote is from the article and yet, a quick search of Apple's website yields the following:
"iPod:
High capacity: The 5GB hard disk drive can store up to 1,000 songs.
This "article" on mp3.com is really lacking in the accuracy department.
And probably the worst quote from the article:
"Fair or not, RIAA president Hillary Rosen and Osama Bin Laden are interchangeable in the eyes of many Net savvy consumers."
This stuff is just dismal.
"Fair or not, RIAA president Hillary Rosen and Osama Bin Laden are interchangeable in the eyes of many Net savvy consumers."
This type of comparison, especially when made in major news publications, is just stupidity. Drawing an analogy between people who do/have done entirely different "bad" things is just inane. I find it hard to believe that this kind of "reporting" can get past the people who look over the publications of Mp3.com and even harder to believe that some people actually agree with the assertion.
What I find truly interesting about all this is not just that they are measuring the velocity changes (the acceleration) of the Cassini probe, but that after getting back the information of the forces at work, they will have to somehow determine exactly where the gravitational waves are coming from.
Think of it this way: If two planets are on opposite sides of the probe, and both are emitting gravitational forces, then the probe will be subjected to the net forces of the two planets. The equation for relative force of gravity comes to mind here, and I assume they will be using it when calculating multiple sources of gravity.
(GmM)/(R^2) gives the acceleration of the system for two masses in space, so any resultant force must take into account that it could come from several different masses.
JPL engineers have carefully instrumented a large dish antenna at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone complex near Barstow, Calif., to send and receive the higher frequencies with unprecedented Doppler sensitivity. The upgrade includes refined pointing capability needed to exploit the higher frequencies, said Sami Asmar, supervisor of JPL's Radio Science Group. Other new equipment at Goldstone will allow researchers to correct for the atmosphere's distortion of radio transmissions and improve performance of the search.
As I see it, the trickiest thing here will be taking the "exquisitely accurate measurements" and turning them into real, useable models of gravity given off by our neighboring planets.
Though most of the issues are readily apparent and most people are at least partially familiar with them, there are some that I foun to be quite interesting (especially the commercialization aspect of genetic code):
Ethical, legal, and social issues
Though those statistics may seem somewhat intriguing, one must remember that in actuality it is highly unlikely that the people playing solitaire would rather spend their time building a large building or monumental structure.
This is not off-topic. Just listen and understand.
In general, computer gaming in the adult realm is the result of hours of boredom (Unlike teenagers/kids/some young adults who simply play the games as a hobby or a past time). And this boredom is usually a result of not having something to do at a job, or perhaps at home. People who spend hours playing solitaire generally wouldn't take it upon themselves to work on an Empire State Building or a Panama Canal.
Let's see this article for what it really is: "Lot's of people who have a lot of time on their hands spend hours achieving nothing." Or less cynically: "People, unaided by their jobs, find other routes to circumvent boredom."
As a premise for this post, I had owned a Casio model E-100 for roughly 2 years until last week when I traded with a friend for his Palm III.
Quite simply, I decided that the E-100 lacked true portability. This new device, and all others from non Palm or Handspring vendors, tend to simply be very large and cumbersome.
What I love about the Palm is the ability for me to put it in my shirt pocket and not have it way that down. Though this may seem trivial, it is very important to me as I generally would rather not have a large device in my pants pocket (Aside from the obvious "device" already there).
Anyway, I what I think needs to happen is that designers should take a look at a device like the Rex (remember that? It was a PCMCIA card that had a screen and PIM apps on it) and attempt to improve on that. A simple color screen shouldn't increase size overall too much, but would increase definition and clarity quite a bit. There seems to be a fairly large market for people who want simple, cheap PIM and PDA devices without hundreds of MB of storage, wireless networking, a Pentium IV processor and other crazy stuff that simply doesn't belong. Anyone out there with investment capital and some friends with engineering degrees listening?