Just because the Libertarian candidate wasn't invited to the debate, doesn't mean he isn't able to get himself on the state's ballot. The Libertarian, along with the Green and Constitution parties(and independent candidate Nader) all are on enough state ballots to theoretically win the election.
The qulification the debate commission is holding against this candidate(all 4 of the 'major' 3-parties) is that you need a significant(15% i believe) support in the polls. Along with the mathmatical ability to win(check) and legal eligability(check).
There is just the 1 rule that is holding these 4 gentleman back, one i think should be revoked.
the RDC makes the rules for who qulifies, they are: 1.must be legally eligable per the Constitution's requirements. 2.must be on enough state ballots to mathmatically win the election(theoretically) 3.must be able to represent(through the average of 5 polls) that you have 15% or more of the electoral college's support.
Dropping #3 from the list would let in a whopping... 4 third-party candidates. Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Indepdent(nader) along with GOP and Democratic party.
This would be roughly equal to the Democratic primary debates, which hosted ~6 candidates.
Do we have any idea(rumors) on what sort os specs, hardware power and features the GC2/Revolution will boast? Will it have full-sized disks? More memory, better graphics card, multiprocessor, wireless ad-hoc connectivity with the DS for LAN gaming, Ethernet port and internet system(X-box live) by default? Anyone?
Software: Jobs did it in the past, supply Fat Binaries of the software, that run on(yup) multiple architectures(Nextstep ran on PPC and x86, a single application could run on either system.) the same idea would happen hear, keep OS X on ppc, while selling hardware, but supply to developers(in droves, give it away like CANDY to anyone who has taken a CS class, try and flood the market for the new sytem) the x86 system for development of fat binaries.
Port all inhouse software to fat binaries, and let longtime developers get free advanced copies of the OS to develop on, etc.
Userbase: Have a long developer-only release... lots of beta and make sure that the x86 version is superior to longhorn, and release BEFORE longhorn.
While handing out OS X86(clever, ay?) to developers and creating a buzz, turn your back on piracy. LET the piracy nuts get copies, let them be beta testers and buzz spreaders.
Apple could make the OS source code compatible with many, if not most/all software for porting. They have done it before with Next, it CAN be done.
How would it work? Well, Apple would need to merge towards a software company. Buy a few more pro apps and secure a nitch. Then, Apple would have to strike pre-announcement contracts with atleast 1, if not 2+ OEMs to sell the systems on... IBM and Sony would be the most obvious. Get them to be able to sell systems when the 1.0 gets released.
My Opinion: Would it work? Iffy, I would say the Jobs could do it if he took both of Apple's feet and dove 100% into the plan. He would completely gamble the companies 4+ billion dollar savings, and maybe survive. I own a 12" powerbook and I think that owning the hardware makes the system better. Yes, it could(maybe) be done. No, I don't think Jobs would do it. Yes, I would support apple if they actually were that gutsy.
No one is stopping the LP or GP from VOICING their opinions publicly, don't blow it out of proportion.
Second, the Debate committee has a standard for candidates, Nader and Cobb met 2 of the three(legally eligable per the constitution and mathmatically capable of winning a majority in the electoral college) the third is the kicker. You have to have evidence prior to the debate(in the form of an average of 5 polls, i think) showing that you have support of 15% of the electoral college.
Both Nader and Cobb have less than a combined 5(or less!) % on the EC, and neith come close to qualifying.
I would suggest we remove the last stipulation and make it a 6 man Presidential debate(4 minority third-parties qualify electorally and legally). Imagine the Primaries(democratic) when they had 6 candidates on the floor. Same idea.
Unencrypted, insecure, unreliable handheld computers? There is an idea. As long as they arn't stolen, or you know, hacked...
The only way a non-present vote could be established for the senate is through a dedicated, private, NSA-secured national fiber network. Either an entirely new network, or an existing Federal/Military use only network.
All through NSA supplied and regulated encryption and Voice and Video streaming for the house/senate floor, along with between congresspeople.
I would be for it mind you, but it would have to be a dependent network. This is too important to rely on a VPN over the internet. If the NSA had full say over it's security, etc. and plenty of money was spent on it to do it properly... Anything less would be insecure.
No. But thank you for twisting my words. I was saying that the Florida election, as a whole, had multiple things wrong with it.
Unfortunately, at the time of that post, I could only think of two facts (points, rather) about the election... Thus, I started the sentence about Nader with "For the hardcore,..." referring to only those extremists who still thought Nader stole the election from Gore. Which, in my opinion, Nader DID play a significant role because of how close the presidential race was.
Florida had multiple problems in their election, hardly any of them have been addressed or fixed.
I am saying the Mac's harddrive be read-only. I wouldn't want you to walk up to my 12" powerbook, plug-in a laptop, and have an Administrator account on my machine, just because your account, when you created it on your iMac, was setup as an administrator.
The iPod's non-native, or non-authenticated, computers shouldn't be able to write... However, my iPod should be able to login to my powerbook, and my mom's ibook, for example, and have Admin rights. My ipod, however, should not have admin rights on any other mac I try to log into on. That is a security hole.
"That single sentence gives quite a bit of insight into a very major reason that Windows is so popular. The very fact that one has to research into applications is a drawbridge for many would-be switchers."
I would argue that is the perception, not requirement of needing research that hurts. I have yet to find a single thing I can't do with my mac that I can do with my Windows box. Period. And I knew coming in, the names might be different(Winzip vs. Stuffit Expander) but the functionality is all their.
The perception of difference and change is what hurts the mac, in my opinion.
That is nice, but I want a 15 gig iPod that lets me backup and use my user folder on the portable harddrive. Auto syncing when I plug in to my laptop, but let me go to a friend's machine and let me log in as me... With pre configured security, obviously... the HDD would be read-only for the most part.
That is what I want. That is what I am waiting for.
Diebold uses 802.11b wireless networking for (atleast some) of their booths... This is extremely hackable, sniffable, and crackable... hell it is LAUGHable. Completely insecure.. Anyone within signal distance(couple hundred feet with a palm pilot) could compromise the entire vote count by dozens or thousands.
There machines have been hacked into numerous times. Right there in the booth, for testing puproses, they have been compromised. There are 3-5 line scripts that can be run on the machines that can cast X number of votes however you want.
These machines are not secure, in any form. Besides which, they leave no recountable papertrail, they are only end results with no verification.
AND, the CEO has publicly said he will do everything he can to get Bush elected.
There was more wrong with the florida election than just that. For the hardcore, Nader had 1.3% of the vote, Bush won by less than %0.1. So had Nader not ran, it is reasonable to say Gore would have won.
40,000 (i believe is the number, check me) voters were dual registered in NY and FL, and could have cast votes in both states.
There were more conspiracy theorizing, but the facts elude me, at the moment.
The founding fathers, along with some of the biggest revolutions of all time(sit-ins for equal rights, just about the entire life of Ghandi) have been carried out through peaceful protest. What are on?
Any candidate that is on enough state ballots to THEORETICALLY win the election, is invited to the debates.
Write ins and anyone not on enough ballots, are not. To invite them would cause too many logisitical problems that you outlined above. But if winning the election is atleast a possibility, then they would be welcome. I believe this would make it a 3 man debate(Cobb is on enough, i believe), I don't believe Nader is on enough ballots, but he might be, if so, it would be 4.
what idiot would steal something as distinct as a massive load of systems and games, and sell them in bulk? Wether he stole 1 (or a handful) of piles, or individually, you wouldn't sell them in bulk. A sale that big would grab TOO MUCH attention and would easily be suspicious.
He has to test them... because he has 50x of a single machine. How does he know if each works, he probably hasn'y used 59 of his 60 SNES in a long friggin time. Give him a break.
you are saying a rookie should be able to swallow the CCNA in under a month? You are rediculous.
Most colleges teach it in a 9-month break neck course. Going from nothing, to lan/wan configurations, troubleshooting, router configuration, routing protocols(RIP(2) to (E)IGRP, etc), switching configuration, ACLs, STP, VLANs, VLSM / subnetting, PPP and ISDN/DDR...
Some of those, very basic, subnetting, RIP, LANs, fairly straightfoward. But learning, building/deploying and working on the equipment does actually take time, you can't just read the book as homework and take a test.
Do I think the CCNA is an end-all be-all test? Heck no. But it does have a wide range of technology covered, and is a pretty broad and eye-openning course to take. Don't bash it out of hand.
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bummer, I wish bash had this feature... all i've got is lynx, and it doesn't even support ActiveX!
Not entirely.
Just because the Libertarian candidate wasn't invited to the debate, doesn't mean he isn't able to get himself on the state's ballot. The Libertarian, along with the Green and Constitution parties(and independent candidate Nader) all are on enough state ballots to theoretically win the election.
The qulification the debate commission is holding against this candidate(all 4 of the 'major' 3-parties) is that you need a significant(15% i believe) support in the polls. Along with the mathmatical ability to win(check) and legal eligability(check).
There is just the 1 rule that is holding these 4 gentleman back, one i think should be revoked.
That would be an interesting job... Treasurer of the American Socialist party. Heh. Good times.
Simple, people.
the RDC makes the rules for who qulifies, they are:
1.must be legally eligable per the Constitution's requirements.
2.must be on enough state ballots to mathmatically win the election(theoretically)
3.must be able to represent(through the average of 5 polls) that you have 15% or more of the electoral college's support.
Dropping #3 from the list would let in a whopping... 4 third-party candidates. Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Indepdent(nader) along with GOP and Democratic party.
This would be roughly equal to the Democratic primary debates, which hosted ~6 candidates.
Do we have any idea(rumors) on what sort os specs, hardware power and features the GC2/Revolution will boast? Will it have full-sized disks? More memory, better graphics card, multiprocessor, wireless ad-hoc connectivity with the DS for LAN gaming, Ethernet port and internet system(X-box live) by default? Anyone?
Is it easy to update the distro from within the distro? Can you run a script?
I would like to see the GUI for YUM have this feature, personally. Be able to stay current 100% from the yum application
Software:
Jobs did it in the past, supply Fat Binaries of the software, that run on(yup) multiple architectures(Nextstep ran on PPC and x86, a single application could run on either system.) the same idea would happen hear, keep OS X on ppc, while selling hardware, but supply to developers(in droves, give it away like CANDY to anyone who has taken a CS class, try and flood the market for the new sytem) the x86 system for development of fat binaries.
Port all inhouse software to fat binaries, and let longtime developers get free advanced copies of the OS to develop on, etc.
Userbase:
Have a long developer-only release... lots of beta and make sure that the x86 version is superior to longhorn, and release BEFORE longhorn.
While handing out OS X86(clever, ay?) to developers and creating a buzz, turn your back on piracy. LET the piracy nuts get copies, let them be beta testers and buzz spreaders.
Apple could make the OS source code compatible with many, if not most/all software for porting. They have done it before with Next, it CAN be done.
How would it work? Well, Apple would need to merge towards a software company. Buy a few more pro apps and secure a nitch. Then, Apple would have to strike pre-announcement contracts with atleast 1, if not 2+ OEMs to sell the systems on... IBM and Sony would be the most obvious. Get them to be able to sell systems when the 1.0 gets released.
My Opinion:
Would it work? Iffy, I would say the Jobs could do it if he took both of Apple's feet and dove 100% into the plan. He would completely gamble the companies 4+ billion dollar savings, and maybe survive. I own a 12" powerbook and I think that owning the hardware makes the system better. Yes, it could(maybe) be done. No, I don't think Jobs would do it. Yes, I would support apple if they actually were that gutsy.
No one is stopping the LP or GP from VOICING their opinions publicly, don't blow it out of proportion.
Second, the Debate committee has a standard for candidates, Nader and Cobb met 2 of the three(legally eligable per the constitution and mathmatically capable of winning a majority in the electoral college) the third is the kicker. You have to have evidence prior to the debate(in the form of an average of 5 polls, i think) showing that you have support of 15% of the electoral college.
Both Nader and Cobb have less than a combined 5(or less!) % on the EC, and neith come close to qualifying.
I would suggest we remove the last stipulation and make it a 6 man Presidential debate(4 minority third-parties qualify electorally and legally). Imagine the Primaries(democratic) when they had 6 candidates on the floor. Same idea.
Unencrypted, insecure, unreliable handheld computers? There is an idea. As long as they arn't stolen, or you know, hacked...
The only way a non-present vote could be established for the senate is through a dedicated, private, NSA-secured national fiber network. Either an entirely new network, or an existing Federal/Military use only network.
All through NSA supplied and regulated encryption and Voice and Video streaming for the house/senate floor, along with between congresspeople.
I would be for it mind you, but it would have to be a dependent network. This is too important to rely on a VPN over the internet. If the NSA had full say over it's security, etc. and plenty of money was spent on it to do it properly... Anything less would be insecure.
No. But thank you for twisting my words. I was saying that the Florida election, as a whole, had multiple things wrong with it.
..." referring to only those extremists who still thought Nader stole the election from Gore. Which, in my opinion, Nader DID play a significant role because of how close the presidential race was.
Unfortunately, at the time of that post, I could only think of two facts (points, rather) about the election... Thus, I started the sentence about Nader with "For the hardcore,
Florida had multiple problems in their election, hardly any of them have been addressed or fixed.
I am saying the Mac's harddrive be read-only. I wouldn't want you to walk up to my 12" powerbook, plug-in a laptop, and have an Administrator account on my machine, just because your account, when you created it on your iMac, was setup as an administrator.
The iPod's non-native, or non-authenticated, computers shouldn't be able to write... However, my iPod should be able to login to my powerbook, and my mom's ibook, for example, and have Admin rights. My ipod, however, should not have admin rights on any other mac I try to log into on. That is a security hole.
"That single sentence gives quite a bit of insight into a very major reason that Windows is so popular. The very fact that one has to research into applications is a drawbridge for many would-be switchers."
I would argue that is the perception, not requirement of needing research that hurts. I have yet to find a single thing I can't do with my mac that I can do with my Windows box. Period. And I knew coming in, the names might be different(Winzip vs. Stuffit Expander) but the functionality is all their.
The perception of difference and change is what hurts the mac, in my opinion.
That is nice, but I want a 15 gig iPod that lets me backup and use my user folder on the portable harddrive. Auto syncing when I plug in to my laptop, but let me go to a friend's machine and let me log in as me... With pre configured security, obviously... the HDD would be read-only for the most part.
That is what I want. That is what I am waiting for.
Diebold uses 802.11b wireless networking for (atleast some) of their booths... This is extremely hackable, sniffable, and crackable... hell it is LAUGHable. Completely insecure.. Anyone within signal distance(couple hundred feet with a palm pilot) could compromise the entire vote count by dozens or thousands.
There machines have been hacked into numerous times. Right there in the booth, for testing puproses, they have been compromised. There are 3-5 line scripts that can be run on the machines that can cast X number of votes however you want.
These machines are not secure, in any form. Besides which, they leave no recountable papertrail, they are only end results with no verification.
AND, the CEO has publicly said he will do everything he can to get Bush elected.
There was more wrong with the florida election than just that. For the hardcore, Nader had 1.3% of the vote, Bush won by less than %0.1. So had Nader not ran, it is reasonable to say Gore would have won.
40,000 (i believe is the number, check me) voters were dual registered in NY and FL, and could have cast votes in both states.
There were more conspiracy theorizing, but the facts elude me, at the moment.
Boston Tea Party? Sit-ins? Ghandi?
The founding fathers, along with some of the biggest revolutions of all time(sit-ins for equal rights, just about the entire life of Ghandi) have been carried out through peaceful protest. What are on?
Bush, Kerry, Cobb and Nader. Am I missing one?
I agree though, mathmatical ability to win the election should be the deciding line.
Simple question, simple answer.
Make a provision for what qualifies a candidate:
Any candidate that is on enough state ballots to THEORETICALLY win the election, is invited to the debates.
Write ins and anyone not on enough ballots, are not. To invite them would cause too many logisitical problems that you outlined above. But if winning the election is atleast a possibility, then they would be welcome. I believe this would make it a 3 man debate(Cobb is on enough, i believe), I don't believe Nader is on enough ballots, but he might be, if so, it would be 4.
What is wrong with a 4 man debate?
you drooled over 78 Nintendo's, and would buy them all, simultaneously, given the chance?
Buy one for 20 bucks. Play it for a month, get bored, sell.
Rinse, repeat.
with a wire cutter, some soddering, a NES gun and a lot of cabling, along with a very, very bright white light...
You could simultaneously set the highest record for Duck Hunt on a distributed NEW (cluster?).... The girlws would SWOON!
what idiot would steal something as distinct as a massive load of systems and games, and sell them in bulk? Wether he stole 1 (or a handful) of piles, or individually, you wouldn't sell them in bulk. A sale that big would grab TOO MUCH attention and would easily be suspicious.
He has to test them... because he has 50x of a single machine. How does he know if each works, he probably hasn'y used 59 of his 60 SNES in a long friggin time. Give him a break.
Like THIS? Speak your query into the phone, it spits out a X-digit number. Go to your browser and open the results page, type in your # and bam, your results... sites has a story about Google developing a voice-in -> voice-out search interface... It would take a lot of work, good voice recognition, and a good interface for returning results(clear, understandable list over voice).
Yea, like this one.
you are saying a rookie should be able to swallow the CCNA in under a month? You are rediculous.
Most colleges teach it in a 9-month break neck course. Going from nothing, to lan/wan configurations, troubleshooting, router configuration, routing protocols(RIP(2) to (E)IGRP, etc), switching configuration, ACLs, STP, VLANs, VLSM / subnetting, PPP and ISDN/DDR...
Some of those, very basic, subnetting, RIP, LANs, fairly straightfoward. But learning, building/deploying and working on the equipment does actually take time, you can't just read the book as homework and take a test.
Do I think the CCNA is an end-all be-all test? Heck no. But it does have a wide range of technology covered, and is a pretty broad and eye-openning course to take. Don't bash it out of hand.
How powerful a cluster is needed to run 200 desktops? and how high can you scale, workstation count wise, with your cluster arrangement.
Finally, what is your, in your opinion, bottleneck for scaling? Clutser system bus, bandwidth to/from the cluster? Max RAM per server on teh cluster?
Thanks. This is something I would like to persue at a school district I work for.