All the whiners who have been complaining that apple uses heavy handed tactic will now see that Android will do much the same. Tethering? No sorry. Using apps that replace t-mobile services? No Sorry.
Actually that was the very forst thing I thought of. Basically the paint is harnessing photon energy to increase the availability of an energetic and highly reactive compound. It also kills bacteria. If some bacteria figures out how to live in the environment --- alkyline loving bacteria exist-- then it will have free food and no competition.
Unlike anti-bacterial soaps, this food source is persistent so the bacteria can more quickly adapt.
In the past week I've had to deal with items that I had to return to both Tiger direct and Geeks.com and found a big difference.
Geeks and a bunch of nincompoops whos story changes when you get different people on the phone. When my new hard drive failed after 3 days I requested a new case and a new drive. They sent me an IDE drive with a sata case. Then when I complained they said I could either pay to return the case or purchase a new case. Could not convince them that it was their responsibility to make sure the case and the drive were compatible! They take days to respond to e-mail. Sometimes not at all.
Tiger direct, had ahuman answer the phone quickly. Help me pick the right part. Volunteered free shipping both to return and send out the new part. Very positive experience. THeir site however is weirdly indexed so when searching for things, not all the items seem to be in logical categories. SOmehow the best deals tend to be slightly hidden and actually easier to find on google than their own site.
Monarch has very low prices. Never had to deal with customer service so can't rate them.
I've bought a number of computers and parts from Mwave over the years. I've never had a single problem or defective item. Their prices are not always the absolute lowest but generally are close to the lowest.
If you want to buy from just one vendor and you are averse to the massive hassles that can occur when you get bad or wrong parts then Mwave might be the best overall place to shop.
Well the reason to want to use vendor perl is that perl does some very fancy file management stuff that makes it extremely fast for opening and closing files. So one presume a vendor could optimize this to their kernel.
My guess here is that this is just the recurrence of the UTF-8/16 bug.
Grep and Sort on unix set to UTF-8/16 as opposed to LANG = C (or Posix) are about three orders of magnitude slower on large files. (No I'm not exagerating). Recently this Bug showed up once again on the Leopard on mac.
About ten years ago this showed up in Perl on Redhat. Then it went away. I bet it is back.
I think the reason it comes and goes is it depends on if things are compiled to default to UTF-8/16 or to ascii.
I've noticed that my Netflix "watch instantly" simply does not work properly from 4 pm to about 10pm every day. Netflix says it appears to be comcast that is throttling things.
a good netflix connection needs about 2.5 to 3Mb/sec. So if I watch 4 hours of netflix a night then I need 43 Gigibits of data, or roughly 5.4 Gigibytes. times 30 days is only 162 Gigabytes.
So a 250GB cap does not seem way out of line for even substantial usage.
What I want is for COmcast to actually deliver untrhottled bandwidth during prime time. The cap I'm fine with.
Idon't disagree. I think that for now Pen and paper is the best thing. The main problem with pen and paper is that current opscan truly suck and are surpsisingly expensive to operate and maintain and securely store. But until computer solutions mature or there is a large backer for OVC they are the best we can do.
Long term I'd like to see Ranked preference voting and for that the pen and paper solutions are not effective. Current opscans cannot handle them well so those will have to be replaced anyhow. SO I want OVC to be ready for that change over.
Another alleged problem with pen and paper is language and handicap access. In my state we have about a dozen languages some with out a written form (navajoe) that there is a desire to accomodate. THere are ways to do this with pencil and paper--one of the simpler ones is a phone but for some reason there's a push to allow handicapped and regular voters to use the same ballots and that drives things towards electronic.
Well that's the point right. Chavez nullified one eleciton because he said the machines in use (made by US companies) were rigged. SO he creates his own state owned company (smartmatic?). And then he wins on those machines. And Smartmatic owns a share a sequoia.
So either you believe Chavez and the machines were rigged by the CIA or you think maybe Chavez rigged his own machines. Or there was just a dramatic shift in popular opinion.
In the first two cases any machine in use now becomes suspect since apparently rigging is possible. In the thrird case then it shows why you need auditable voting systems since unexpected outcomes do occur.
THere's nothing stopping the use of a automated scanner.
The manual scan was actually arrived at as the preferred model after an discussion over months of many voting system and security experts. There's lots of in obvious practical details and security holes foiled by the hand scan. Among the best reason is that it brings in attractive parts of hand counting such as witnesses, and checking of each ballot at is goes by. It destroys residual ballot order. And very high level of individual ballot scrutiny. THere's some downsides to this but a very serious analysis judged this was the best approach. You are free to differ but if you want to object to this as a show stopper then you are oblicated to review the archived e-mail discussions OVC held on this choice.
One part of the OVC system I did not mention is that there will be automated scanners in the voting facility so people can check their own bar codes should they worry. Or they can even scan them with their own cell phones (since it's not a cast ballot, the scan does not consitute a violation of privacy any more than a cell phone picture of a normal hand marked ballot does. )
The linear bar code was chosen because it is the easist to keep information straved in a visible manner--you just can't go hiding things like personally identifiable info because it's easy to limit the size of the code to one that could not support that. And while not evident to every one it is sufficiently evident that indepenent experts can reassure people on that.
Sequoia's data base upload software used microsfoft access which silently dropped all records after the first 32,000. As a result NM lost 12,000 votes in a presidential election decided by 500 votes. The same thing happened in NV the previous election cycle.
Google it. 12,000 votes lost in bernalillo.
the company took the machines and files to denver and then announced had "found" the votes, which were then counted. Sequois is owned by a shadowy Venzuelan consortium that is believed to include hugo chavez.
Because the only open voting system is the one that uses pen&paper, everything else is just a little less obscure then any random proprietary system, since you don't have any guarantee that the system you are voting on is actually the one they claim it is.
The crux with any kind of electronic voting system is that it can't be verified by the voter and if you can't do that, then it should have no place in a democracy.
It's clear you are highly confident that you are right so you will no doubt be surprised to learn that you are simply uneducated. Please take some time and read up on the OVC system. It's one of the only systems that actually meets the criteria you demand and also manages to gain the advantages of computer automation.
The OVC is not propietary. It's 100% open. You don't have to pay a cent to use it or the voting machine design. Their eventual inexpensive but sustainable bussiness model is to certify third parties that use their code and designs meet the specs of those designs. They then use those proceeds to maintain open code. and open designs.
Their system is a two-part (actually 3) system on which one dumb system has a GUI whose sole purpose is to generate a printed paper ballot you can hold in your hand. This is not a cast ballot. it's just amarked ballot. It's up to you to put it into the ballot box or discard it or take it home uncast.
When ballots are deposited into the ballot box they are not scanned at that time (e.g. not an opscan). Only later in a public counting room ballots are removed, shuffled to destroy residual order permenantly, and then wand scanned by hand. The people wand scanning can at any time casually verify that the wand scan record matches the human printed record.
The nice this is that one has a partial check for large anomolies. Every cast ballot has to have been generated so the two machines must match. Hence one can't easily susbtitute new or extra ballots without some very elaborate on-site activity of a nature likely to be caught. Second, it also makes it evident when ballots are not counted, and while there can be some leakage if admistrators don't track ballots uncast, it not only clamps that but lets you see exactly what was on the ballots that were not recorded as cast. Any pattern is a clear give-away of malfeasance.
Since there's no central place where software can be contaminated (e.g. the demonstrated diebold virus attack) and even if it happened you could still count the paper ballots the voter held in their hands, it's very robust against errors.
thus it has the major benefits of both paper ballots and electronic records keeping and allows cross checks that neither can provide.
It's primary remaining weakness is simply the question of whether an electronic pen beats a normal pen. I can give arguments on both side of that.
Another advantage of the OVC bussiness model is that because it runs on commodity PCs you can literally discard the machines (e.g. give them to schools) after each election. THis is a lot cheaper than secure storage and maintainence. Additionally it means you can buy way more than you need for most elections and not have scarcity creating long lines.
Al gore's cousin Bedo. It's well know that carbon emissions can temporarily increase reflection. Indeed it was noted that China's Olympics carbon load will actually cause global warming. This does not mean the models are wrong, it actually means they are right. All the more scary really since these models were in some doubt.
iPhone one-button: just a button and 15 digit numeric display. You dial it by setting it like you would a digital alarm clock. Just hold the button down while the digits count up, stop when it gets to the number you want to dial. If you miss, you gotta go around again.
Why do you overpay? or are you simply saying you wish you could get all the things the iPhone offers for less? Either way, your argument that follows makes no sense given you don't have to overpay.
I don't get it. Buy $600 phone. Pay $60-90/month to use it. And you can't tether.
That's what I'd be the most interested in anyways. WOW on the go would be fun.
Well duh and i'd like a pony too. You are paying for the service you are getting not the one you wish you were getting. Maybe someome will write an app called "net-sell". and I can go to coffeeshops and rent my iphone connection to all the people in the room.
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I think the old error message ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? pretty much sums up Vista.
But it's not vista Beta 3 as much as it named after the movie SEVEN.
it's got the seven deadly sins including sloth and gluttony.
And at the end, you'll with it was your head in the box.
Erm, and WHAT makes you implying that there will be no tethering or allowing apps to replace T-Mobile services?
I'm not just implying it. They have flat out said so. No Tethering the G1 on the data plan offered.
All the whiners who have been complaining that apple uses heavy handed tactic will now see that Android will do much the same. Tethering? No sorry. Using apps that replace t-mobile services? No Sorry.
Basically paypal and e-bay are ridicuously bad about protecting people from scams.
However this is a move in the right direction. Recently they put a 30 day escrow on pay pal payments. Which they should have done years ago.
Now it's much safer to shop.
or Boo Hoo, what if someone read your paper and then did not cite it in their derivative work?
Citations are a matter of academic integrity and publishing ethics not law.
Actually that was the very forst thing I thought of. Basically the paint is harnessing photon energy to increase the availability of an energetic and highly reactive compound. It also kills bacteria. If some bacteria figures out how to live in the environment --- alkyline loving bacteria exist-- then it will have free food and no competition.
Unlike anti-bacterial soaps, this food source is persistent so the bacteria can more quickly adapt.
For this issue Rosetta at home (Boinc) might be a better choice for protein structure. It's already wokring on the prion problem.
In the past week I've had to deal with items that I had to return to both Tiger direct and Geeks.com and found a big difference.
Geeks and a bunch of nincompoops whos story changes when you get different people on the phone. When my new hard drive failed after 3 days I requested a new case and a new drive. They sent me an IDE drive with a sata case. Then when I complained they said I could either pay to return the case or purchase a new case. Could not convince them that it was their responsibility to make sure the case and the drive were compatible! They take days to respond to e-mail. Sometimes not at all.
Tiger direct, had ahuman answer the phone quickly. Help me pick the right part. Volunteered free shipping both to return and send out the new part. Very positive experience. THeir site however is weirdly indexed so when searching for things, not all the items seem to be in logical categories. SOmehow the best deals tend to be slightly hidden and actually easier to find on google than their own site.
Monarch has very low prices. Never had to deal with customer service so can't rate them.
I've bought a number of computers and parts from Mwave over the years. I've never had a single problem or defective item. Their prices are not always the absolute lowest but generally are close to the lowest.
If you want to buy from just one vendor and you are averse to the massive hassles that can occur when you get bad or wrong parts then Mwave might be the best overall place to shop.
apparently this is a leopard "feature".
here's an example of this on a mac OS 10.5 /tmp/foo
[CODE]
perl -we 'for (0..1000000) { print rand(1),"\n"}' >
time sort /tmp/foo
real 0m36.169s
user 0m35.731s
sys 0m0.264s
echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
setenv LANG C
time sort /tmp/foo > /tmp/foo2
0.966u 0.201s 0:01.27 91.3%
SO for a small file it's 40 times faster when not defaulting to UTF-8
Perl on leopard however appears to assume LANG=C bey default and is quite fast. As is grep.
Well the reason to want to use vendor perl is that perl does some very fancy file management stuff that makes it extremely fast for opening and closing files. So one presume a vendor could optimize this to their kernel.
My guess here is that this is just the recurrence of the UTF-8/16 bug.
Grep and Sort on unix set to UTF-8/16 as opposed to LANG = C (or Posix) are about three orders of magnitude slower on large files. (No I'm not exagerating). Recently this Bug showed up once again on the Leopard on mac.
About ten years ago this showed up in Perl on Redhat. Then it went away. I bet it is back.
I think the reason it comes and goes is it depends on if things are compiled to default to UTF-8/16 or to ascii.
I've noticed that my Netflix "watch instantly" simply does not work properly from 4 pm to about 10pm every day. Netflix says it appears to be comcast that is throttling things.
a good netflix connection needs about 2.5 to 3Mb/sec. So if I watch 4 hours of netflix a night then I need 43 Gigibits of data, or roughly 5.4 Gigibytes. times 30 days is only 162 Gigabytes.
So a 250GB cap does not seem way out of line for even substantial usage.
What I want is for COmcast to actually deliver untrhottled bandwidth during prime time. The cap I'm fine with.
Idon't disagree. I think that for now Pen and paper is the best thing. The main problem with pen and paper is that current opscan truly suck and are surpsisingly expensive to operate and maintain and securely store. But until computer solutions mature or there is a large backer for OVC they are the best we can do.
Long term I'd like to see Ranked preference voting and for that the pen and paper solutions are not effective. Current opscans cannot handle them well so those will have to be replaced anyhow. SO I want OVC to be ready for that change over.
Another alleged problem with pen and paper is language and handicap access. In my state we have about a dozen languages some with out a written form (navajoe) that there is a desire to accomodate. THere are ways to do this with pencil and paper--one of the simpler ones is a phone but for some reason there's a push to allow handicapped and regular voters to use the same ballots and that drives things towards electronic.
Well that's the point right. Chavez nullified one eleciton because he said the machines in use (made by US companies) were rigged. SO he creates his own state owned company (smartmatic?). And then he wins on those machines. And Smartmatic owns a share a sequoia.
So either you believe Chavez and the machines were rigged by the CIA or you think maybe Chavez rigged his own machines. Or there was just a dramatic shift in popular opinion.
In the first two cases any machine in use now becomes suspect since apparently rigging is possible. In the thrird case then it shows why you need auditable voting systems since unexpected outcomes do occur.
THere's nothing stopping the use of a automated scanner.
The manual scan was actually arrived at as the preferred model after an discussion over months of many voting system and security experts. There's lots of in obvious practical details and security holes foiled by the hand scan. Among the best reason is that it brings in attractive parts of hand counting such as witnesses, and checking of each ballot at is goes by. It destroys residual ballot order. And very high level of individual ballot scrutiny. THere's some downsides to this but a very serious analysis judged this was the best approach. You are free to differ but if you want to object to this as a show stopper then you are oblicated to review the archived e-mail discussions OVC held on this choice.
One part of the OVC system I did not mention is that there will be automated scanners in the voting facility so people can check their own bar codes should they worry. Or they can even scan them with their own cell phones (since it's not a cast ballot, the scan does not consitute a violation of privacy any more than a cell phone picture of a normal hand marked ballot does. )
The linear bar code was chosen because it is the easist to keep information straved in a visible manner--you just can't go hiding things like personally identifiable info because it's easy to limit the size of the code to one that could not support that. And while not evident to every one it is sufficiently evident that indepenent experts can reassure people on that.
Sequoia's data base upload software used microsfoft access which silently dropped all records after the first 32,000. As a result NM lost 12,000 votes in a presidential election decided by 500 votes. The same thing happened in NV the previous election cycle.
Google it. 12,000 votes lost in bernalillo.
the company took the machines and files to denver and then announced had "found" the votes, which were then counted. Sequois is owned by a shadowy Venzuelan consortium that is believed to include hugo chavez.
Because the only open voting system is the one that uses pen&paper, everything else is just a little less obscure then any random proprietary system, since you don't have any guarantee that the system you are voting on is actually the one they claim it is.
The crux with any kind of electronic voting system is that it can't be verified by the voter and if you can't do that, then it should have no place in a democracy.
It's clear you are highly confident that you are right so you will no doubt be surprised to learn that you are simply uneducated. Please take some time and read up on the OVC system. It's one of the only systems that actually meets the criteria you demand and also manages to gain the advantages of computer automation.
The OVC is not propietary. It's 100% open. You don't have to pay a cent to use it or the voting machine design. Their eventual inexpensive but sustainable bussiness model is to certify third parties that use their code and designs meet the specs of those designs. They then use those proceeds to maintain open code. and open designs.
Their system is a two-part (actually 3) system on which one dumb system has a GUI whose sole purpose is to generate a printed paper ballot you can hold in your hand. This is not a cast ballot. it's just amarked ballot. It's up to you to put it into the ballot box or discard it or take it home uncast.
When ballots are deposited into the ballot box they are not scanned at that time (e.g. not an opscan). Only later in a public counting room ballots are removed, shuffled to destroy residual order permenantly, and then wand scanned by hand. The people wand scanning can at any time casually verify that the wand scan record matches the human printed record.
The nice this is that one has a partial check for large anomolies. Every cast ballot has to have been generated so the two machines must match. Hence one can't easily susbtitute new or extra ballots without some very elaborate on-site activity of a nature likely to be caught. Second, it also makes it evident when ballots are not counted, and while there can be some leakage if admistrators don't track ballots uncast, it not only clamps that but lets you see exactly what was on the ballots that were not recorded as cast. Any pattern is a clear give-away of malfeasance.
Since there's no central place where software can be contaminated (e.g. the demonstrated diebold virus attack) and even if it happened you could still count the paper ballots the voter held in their hands, it's very robust against errors.
thus it has the major benefits of both paper ballots and electronic records keeping and allows cross checks that neither can provide.
It's primary remaining weakness is simply the question of whether an electronic pen beats a normal pen. I can give arguments on both side of that.
Another advantage of the OVC bussiness model is that because it runs on commodity PCs you can literally discard the machines (e.g. give them to schools) after each election. THis is a lot cheaper than secure storage and maintainence. Additionally it means you can buy way more than you need for most elections and not have scarcity creating long lines.
Al gore's cousin Bedo. It's well know that carbon emissions can temporarily increase reflection. Indeed it was noted that China's Olympics carbon load will actually cause global warming. This does not mean the models are wrong, it actually means they are right. All the more scary really since these models were in some doubt.
Okay so did transmeta and Via have licences?
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Hey if they can fake a moon landing why are people upset about some fireworks.
If the fireworks are tape delayed anyhow, exactly what is is about them being "live" that makes them better than CG.
iPhone one-button: just a button and 15 digit numeric display. You dial it by setting it like you would a digital alarm clock. Just hold the button down while the digits count up, stop when it gets to the number you want to dial. If you miss, you gotta go around again.
iPhone Shuffle: Just drunk dials from your address list. Switch setting to dial in order or random.
iPhone Femto: So small no one but smart people can see it. And you don't have to speak. You just imagine the conversation.
Why do you overpay? or are you simply saying you wish you could get all the things the iPhone offers for less? Either way, your argument that follows makes no sense given you don't have to overpay.
I don't get it.
Buy $600 phone.
Pay $60-90/month to use it.
And you can't tether.
That's what I'd be the most interested in anyways. WOW on the go would be fun.
Well duh and i'd like a pony too. You are paying for the service you are getting not the one you wish you were getting. Maybe someome will write an app called "net-sell". and I can go to coffeeshops and rent my iphone connection to all the people in the room.
why? surely the GPL allows compiling of code?