Much as I like learning about cutting edge research - and can appreciate some of the supercomputer applications that would only be economical with nanotechnology I wondered what the other practical applications of this field were?
Apart from making computers smaller and making tasks that previously required either parallel processing or supercomputers - eg modelling nuclear explosions, weather prediction, orbital calculations, areas of mathematical research - what are the future applications of this research that will benefit the average person?
Your post reminds mean of the Latin phrase caveat emptor - let the buyer beware - in other words when somebody is selling something they will show the buyer all the good points but not mention the bad ones.
Hey - it's difficult writing a bug free, completely compatible, non-crashable graphics driver when people have so many different hardware/ software combinations! You can't test the driver on every one!
Going back to the actual article - in the name of national security the pdf file has been slashdotted.:) Mind you being 4Mb they must have exceeded their bandwidth allowance pretty quickly.
Well that's why you show that your ballot paper has a presiding mark on to the person sitting behind the ballot box. I'm also pretty certain that they make sure that the total number of ballot papers counted is equal to those given out.
There are C++ compilers for the Amiga though - can't think of the name of one off the top of my head but a quick search of Aminet would prove me right.
I'll explain. The list (used) to be compiled every year. So every year forms were sent out to every household. That explains why 17 year olds were included. However there was a delay (as you've got to give some time for the forms to be posted, for people to fill them in and for them to be sent back) - so the year between updates added to the delay between sending out forms and getting them back means that some people who were currently 16 year olds would need to be on the list as they could turn 18 in the period a year and a bit later between the forms being sent out and the register being updated.
Now we've switched to a rolling register (register is updated about every month) I'm not sure if it's still required - but that's what used to be the case until very recently.
Yes, most experienced drivers here in the UK would have a very hard time dealing with the snow & ice I'm sure you get a lot of in Finland. Do you learn how to recover from a skid etc - or is that only for advance drivers? Are there warning signs for reindeer?
Yes the number isn't on a detachable stub that you tear off after showing it to a scrutineer. That's why we have presiding marks! They're the funny little holes punched in the ballot paper when you're handed it.
"Why would you need to have ballot serial numbers to prevent that?"
Well it provides a way that it can be checked which way somebody voted. However they don't strike a name off the voter's list - they just put a mark next to their name. If you are 16 or 17 you can't vote but are in the system in case you turn 18 just before an election. Once my brother (who wasn't 18 yet) was on the voter's list even though he didn't have a vote....
The way voting works (in a polling station) in the UK is thus:-
You go to the polling station, and go to the table representing your subsection of the polling district. They then ask for your address and name. They then put a mark next to your name, get a ballot paper and put a "presiding mark" on it. You then go and put an X next to the person (or persons if you have more than one vote) you wish to vote for. Then you fold the ballot paper twice and go to the ballot box. You show the presiding mark to the person by the ballot box and put it in the ballot box.
Both things are done - numbered ballot papers and checking the voter list.
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Much as I like learning about cutting edge research - and can appreciate some of the supercomputer applications that would only be economical with nanotechnology I wondered what the other practical applications of this field were?
Apart from making computers smaller and making tasks that previously required either parallel processing or supercomputers - eg modelling nuclear explosions, weather prediction, orbital calculations, areas of mathematical research - what are the future applications of this research that will benefit the average person?
Violets are Red,
Roses are Blue,
JPL saw it,
and now you will too.
Your post reminds mean of the Latin phrase caveat emptor - let the buyer beware - in other words when somebody is selling something they will show the buyer all the good points but not mention the bad ones.
As a passenger in the passenger seat using a laptop could be distracting to the driver - why not have this legislation?
Just wait till they find out and they'll put an "except for use by political parties" clause. ;)
Well I'll just agree with you as it was six years ago that I got a provisional licence - such a long time ago it was still all paper with no photo.
Yes that was my second thought - but then I remembered that that game had already been done....
Hey - it's difficult writing a bug free, completely compatible, non-crashable graphics driver when people have so many different hardware/ software combinations! You can't test the driver on every one!
You'd enjoy Dilbert. Your comment reminds me of the pointy-haired boss.
Your options are wrong it'd be:-
/. ludicrous joke option here)
1. Gnome only
2. KDE only
3. Gnome/KDE only
4. Neither of the above
5. (insert some wacky
How about a "Slap Custard Pies at Clippy game"?
Going back to the actual article - in the name of national security the pdf file has been slashdotted. :) Mind you being 4Mb they must have exceeded their bandwidth allowance pretty quickly.
The title of your reply reminds me of the Simpson's episode with the Southern gentleman who accepted Homer's challenge of a duel.
Well that's why you show that your ballot paper has a presiding mark on to the person sitting behind the ballot box. I'm also pretty certain that they make sure that the total number of ballot papers counted is equal to those given out.
The Amiga isn't a dead platform and it's users are far more computer literate on the whole than those of the other more popular platform.
There are C++ compilers for the Amiga though - can't think of the name of one off the top of my head but a quick search of Aminet would prove me right.
I'll explain. The list (used) to be compiled every year. So every year forms were sent out to every household. That explains why 17 year olds were included. However there was a delay (as you've got to give some time for the forms to be posted, for people to fill them in and for them to be sent back) - so the year between updates added to the delay between sending out forms and getting them back means that some people who were currently 16 year olds would need to be on the list as they could turn 18 in the period a year and a bit later between the forms being sent out and the register being updated.
Now we've switched to a rolling register (register is updated about every month) I'm not sure if it's still required - but that's what used to be the case until very recently.
Yes, most experienced drivers here in the UK would have a very hard time dealing with the snow & ice I'm sure you get a lot of in Finland. Do you learn how to recover from a skid etc - or is that only for advance drivers? Are there warning signs for reindeer?
Yes but they probably have rather souped up machines where the slowdown due to emulation is not perceptible.
Oh we account for the ballots by counting them. ;)
Yes the number isn't on a detachable stub that you tear off after showing it to a scrutineer. That's why we have presiding marks! They're the funny little holes punched in the ballot paper when you're handed it.
"Why would you need to have ballot serial numbers to prevent that?"
Well it provides a way that it can be checked which way somebody voted. However they don't strike a name off the voter's list - they just put a mark next to their name. If you are 16 or 17 you can't vote but are in the system in case you turn 18 just before an election. Once my brother (who wasn't 18 yet) was on the voter's list even though he didn't have a vote....
The way voting works (in a polling station) in the UK is thus:-
You go to the polling station, and go to the table representing your subsection of the polling district. They then ask for your address and name. They then put a mark next to your name, get a ballot paper and put a "presiding mark" on it. You then go and put an X next to the person (or persons if you have more than one vote) you wish to vote for. Then you fold the ballot paper twice and go to the ballot box. You show the presiding mark to the person by the ballot box and put it in the ballot box.
Both things are done - numbered ballot papers and checking the voter list.
What's Millebourne?
Well there are a lot of duplicate stories on /.
*sighs* So, are Americans allowed to drive at 16? Here in the UK you can't get a provisional licence until you're 17.