Every machine has a paper tape that records all votes. Next to the main screen, there is a little window that the tape scrolls past. Part of the vote process includes "Look at the paper in the window next to the screen. Does the candidate shown match your selection? Press 'Yes' or 'No' to continue." Once they confirm their vote, the paper scrolls on and is saved in case of recount.
Be careful, while this would make the voting system more resilient to tampering, this would weaken the anonymity of the vote - because you indeed have an ordered trail of what has been voted on a particular machine. Both resilience to tampering and anonymity are required in an election, and you must not trade one for another.
Well, I think it all depends on the field you are working on, and the habits of the recruiters of your country. During the past four years, I have been hunting for a new job twice. I work in France, and like a lot of slashdotters in a technical engineering field (but not IT). I did all my job searches by using PDFs. Incidentally, the only people who asked me to send a resume as.doc instead was a large foreign company, namely IBM. For my experience, it appears that:
- Human Resources don't care at all about the file format used, as long as they can open it
- Agencies have tools that can dig in PDFs as well as in.doc.
Obviously, my experience seem to be highly inconsistant with the experience of other slashdotters. So it must be really region-specific.
This game is very well done; however, the marine experience gets significantly less scary as soon as you get the gun that auto-aims. You quickly get the feeling that even if you are taken up by surprise, you can spread bullets and kill the aliens even if you do not see them correctly.
There was one good level, and it went like this: for the first third or so there were no monsters, just creepy ambient sounds and dark rooms. When a gasket blew it scared the hell out of me because I felt uneasy the whole time. I saw shadows crawling across the ceiling, but nothing was alive. I was hoping Doom 3 did that more, but it went back to pure monster closets afterward.
Yes, as far as I remember, this is the first "Delta Labs" level. I do think there was another scary and eery sequence in Doom 3, the single level where you travel in Hell. Hell is definitely a strange place. The environment is very different from the monster closets you're used to in the rest of the game. There is a new powerful monster which is introduced in a good way (breaking a wall in the distance and closing up on you with heavy steps, but not taking you by surprise). Combined with the PDA records of the the scientists who explored Hell just as you and died, it kind of remembered me the atmosphere of the first Unreal, but creepier. After this sequence, coming back into the mars facilities for another monster closet series of levels was kind of disappointing.
The singleton term is also widely used in math. I do think this is an interesting play on word for those who can use the word in their respective fields (mathematics, physics, or software design).
A faulty computer system can result from a software bug (e.g. Ariane 5 first flight), or from an hardware malfunction/maintenance issue. It is not yet clear what the nature of the problem was.
You need to get over the fact that Apple, just like Linux, or Google will get a special treatment on Slashdot. These are products/brands that the typical slashdot reader are interested in. You will see that this "article", even if it is nothing more than a glorified press release, will get a large number of comments, justifying its place on the slashdot frontpage.
You probably mean, don't fly Qantas.
They have been the subject of a surprising number of high-profile incidents, regardless of the plane flown. Coincidences happen, but now this is increasingly becoming a statistic.
Unfortunately, I find the whole tag vs folder confusion a real pain when you are using GMail through IMAP (along with its partial implementation of the standard). This makes IMAP a nice backup solution when you are using GMail, but not a convenient solution for managing your mailbox - at least in my opinion.
I don't see this on a stock install. When there is no hint set, the "lost password" button is not present on the login screen, at least on my computer.
There is little doubt that dance is art in people's minds: the six fine arts classically defined are architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, music and dance. But this doesn't change the fact that you are very right in saying that all is in the eye of the beholder.
ah, i didn't realize that. i wonder why they took so long to submit PDF as an open standard (ISO 32000-1:2008).
This is probably because they didn't want to relinquish the control of the PDF format until it was well developed. Or because they didn't see any benefit of submitting a format already well documented to a standardization organisation before governments expressed their preference to properly standardized formats.
Be careful, MB might have worked good in retail space as "everyone except hard drives manufacturers" knew what it was supposed to mean, but it didn't work as well in engineering space as soon as you mixed storage space (power 2) with data transfert rates (power 10). A MP3 encoded at 128 Kb/s is encoded at 128000 b/s, not 131072 b/s.
So, regardless of the fact they were coined rather abruptly, I find the whole Ki / Mi / etc prefixes to be a rather good move forward.
Sure, but do not forget that if you keep the detector surface constant, you will get less pixel area - which means less signal and a worse signal to noise ratio. Thus, an increase in the "digital" noise you see on the final pictures, especially in low-light conditions. Of course, you can always use longer integration times, but chances are your pictures will end up being blurry.
Really ? I am a bit suprised by your prediction of seeing turboprops vanish, because if anything, I tend to happen to fly nowadays on turboprops much more often than 5 to 10 years ago. Well, maybe the profile of my trips do not make a relevant statistic.
Out of curiosity, is there really a sound difference between a turboprop and a small jet while in the cabin ? When I fly in a small jet, I find the sound to be a "wooosh" during the taxi and a "WOOOSH" during the flight. When I fly in a turboprop, I find the sound to be a "braaaa" during the taxi and a "WOOOSH" during the flight. But I will try to pay more attention next time.
can small countries keep up with military superpowers by upmodding existing robots for their own needs and then arming them?
As always, I don't really see how they might. Have firearms leveled the playing field between superpowers and the others ? Superpowers will probably have the most effective, most scary, most immoral war robots, while the smaller countries will either buy sub-par export models from them or try to mod their roombas.
From the review, there seems to be a lot of talk in the book about jet engines (turbofans). But is the subject of propellers and turbopropellers brought upon ? They are usually considered to be the most efficient for speeds around mach 0.6.
The central ISS modules (Zarya, Zvezda) are Russian. Actually, the docking port the ATV is using is also Russian, using the "probe and drogue" technique. I would call their contribution quite remarkable.
This is the maximum speed on a test run.
The first TGVs were running at 260/270 km/h on regular service in 1981. Current TGVs on regular service run at 220 km/h on classic lines, at 300 km/h on fast lines (called LGV) and at 320 km/h on the Paris-Strasbourg line (LGV EST).
Next generation TGV (called AGV and scheduled for 2010) will probably run faster on regular service, around 360 km/h.
The great speed of the TGV is interesting, but what is more remarkable is the density of its high-speed network: check it over here
Mod parent up ! This a very insightful comment.
NVidia is a fabless company, while Intel has spent millions in fab R&D, which has allowed them to be the first in developing a process based high-K dielectrics. Can a fabless company compete on the CPU market ? A lot of operations on CPUs are not massively serialisable like on GPUs, but are instead sequential in nature. While the core of a GTX 280 runs at 600 or so Mhz, desktop CPUs have a clock speed going higher than 3 GHz. And for this, you need small transistor sizes...
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Every machine has a paper tape that records all votes. Next to the main screen, there is a little window that the tape scrolls past. Part of the vote process includes "Look at the paper in the window next to the screen. Does the candidate shown match your selection? Press 'Yes' or 'No' to continue." Once they confirm their vote, the paper scrolls on and is saved in case of recount.
Be careful, while this would make the voting system more resilient to tampering, this would weaken the anonymity of the vote - because you indeed have an ordered trail of what has been voted on a particular machine. Both resilience to tampering and anonymity are required in an election, and you must not trade one for another.
Well, I think it all depends on the field you are working on, and the habits of the recruiters of your country. During the past four years, I have been hunting for a new job twice. I work in France, and like a lot of slashdotters in a technical engineering field (but not IT). I did all my job searches by using PDFs. Incidentally, the only people who asked me to send a resume as .doc instead was a large foreign company, namely IBM. For my experience, it appears that : .doc.
- Human Resources don't care at all about the file format used, as long as they can open it
- Agencies have tools that can dig in PDFs as well as in
Obviously, my experience seem to be highly inconsistant with the experience of other slashdotters. So it must be really region-specific.
Another modern radiation hard processor would be the AT697
There is already a collision avoidance system in place, called TCAS. Unfortunately, that did not prevent all the mid-air collisions.
This game is very well done; however, the marine experience gets significantly less scary as soon as you get the gun that auto-aims. You quickly get the feeling that even if you are taken up by surprise, you can spread bullets and kill the aliens even if you do not see them correctly.
There was one good level, and it went like this: for the first third or so there were no monsters, just creepy ambient sounds and dark rooms. When a gasket blew it scared the hell out of me because I felt uneasy the whole time. I saw shadows crawling across the ceiling, but nothing was alive. I was hoping Doom 3 did that more, but it went back to pure monster closets afterward.
Yes, as far as I remember, this is the first "Delta Labs" level. I do think there was another scary and eery sequence in Doom 3, the single level where you travel in Hell. Hell is definitely a strange place. The environment is very different from the monster closets you're used to in the rest of the game. There is a new powerful monster which is introduced in a good way (breaking a wall in the distance and closing up on you with heavy steps, but not taking you by surprise). Combined with the PDA records of the the scientists who explored Hell just as you and died, it kind of remembered me the atmosphere of the first Unreal, but creepier. After this sequence, coming back into the mars facilities for another monster closet series of levels was kind of disappointing.
The singleton term is also widely used in math. I do think this is an interesting play on word for those who can use the word in their respective fields (mathematics, physics, or software design).
A faulty computer system can result from a software bug (e.g. Ariane 5 first flight), or from an hardware malfunction/maintenance issue. It is not yet clear what the nature of the problem was.
You need to get over the fact that Apple, just like Linux, or Google will get a special treatment on Slashdot. These are products/brands that the typical slashdot reader are interested in. You will see that this "article", even if it is nothing more than a glorified press release, will get a large number of comments, justifying its place on the slashdot frontpage.
They are contributing to Webkit (Safari engine), which they use in their mobile framework Android.
You probably mean, don't fly Qantas.
They have been the subject of a surprising number of high-profile incidents, regardless of the plane flown. Coincidences happen, but now this is increasingly becoming a statistic.
Unfortunately, I find the whole tag vs folder confusion a real pain when you are using GMail through IMAP (along with its partial implementation of the standard). This makes IMAP a nice backup solution when you are using GMail, but not a convenient solution for managing your mailbox - at least in my opinion.
I don't see this on a stock install. When there is no hint set, the "lost password" button is not present on the login screen, at least on my computer.
There is little doubt that dance is art in people's minds: the six fine arts classically defined are architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, music and dance. But this doesn't change the fact that you are very right in saying that all is in the eye of the beholder.
Still, a lot of people are calling it a "Gameboy". Of course, your mileage can vary according to geographic regions.
ah, i didn't realize that. i wonder why they took so long to submit PDF as an open standard (ISO 32000-1:2008).
This is probably because they didn't want to relinquish the control of the PDF format until it was well developed. Or because they didn't see any benefit of submitting a format already well documented to a standardization organisation before governments expressed their preference to properly standardized formats.
Same for fastmail.fm.
Be careful, MB might have worked good in retail space as "everyone except hard drives manufacturers" knew what it was supposed to mean, but it didn't work as well in engineering space as soon as you mixed storage space (power 2) with data transfert rates (power 10). A MP3 encoded at 128 Kb/s is encoded at 128000 b/s, not 131072 b/s.
So, regardless of the fact they were coined rather abruptly, I find the whole Ki / Mi / etc prefixes to be a rather good move forward.
Sure, but do not forget that if you keep the detector surface constant, you will get less pixel area - which means less signal and a worse signal to noise ratio. Thus, an increase in the "digital" noise you see on the final pictures, especially in low-light conditions. Of course, you can always use longer integration times, but chances are your pictures will end up being blurry.
Really ? I am a bit suprised by your prediction of seeing turboprops vanish, because if anything, I tend to happen to fly nowadays on turboprops much more often than 5 to 10 years ago. Well, maybe the profile of my trips do not make a relevant statistic.
Out of curiosity, is there really a sound difference between a turboprop and a small jet while in the cabin ? When I fly in a small jet, I find the sound to be a "wooosh" during the taxi and a "WOOOSH" during the flight. When I fly in a turboprop, I find the sound to be a "braaaa" during the taxi and a "WOOOSH" during the flight. But I will try to pay more attention next time.
can small countries keep up with military superpowers by upmodding existing robots for their own needs and then arming them?
As always, I don't really see how they might. Have firearms leveled the playing field between superpowers and the others ? Superpowers will probably have the most effective, most scary, most immoral war robots, while the smaller countries will either buy sub-par export models from them or try to mod their roombas.
From the review, there seems to be a lot of talk in the book about jet engines (turbofans). But is the subject of propellers and turbopropellers brought upon ? They are usually considered to be the most efficient for speeds around mach 0.6.
The central ISS modules (Zarya, Zvezda) are Russian. Actually, the docking port the ATV is using is also Russian, using the "probe and drogue" technique. I would call their contribution quite remarkable.
This is the maximum speed on a test run.
The first TGVs were running at 260/270 km/h on regular service in 1981. Current TGVs on regular service run at 220 km/h on classic lines, at 300 km/h on fast lines (called LGV) and at 320 km/h on the Paris-Strasbourg line (LGV EST).
Next generation TGV (called AGV and scheduled for 2010) will probably run faster on regular service, around 360 km/h.
The great speed of the TGV is interesting, but what is more remarkable is the density of its high-speed network: check it over here
Mod parent up ! This a very insightful comment.
NVidia is a fabless company, while Intel has spent millions in fab R&D, which has allowed them to be the first in developing a process based high-K dielectrics. Can a fabless company compete on the CPU market ? A lot of operations on CPUs are not massively serialisable like on GPUs, but are instead sequential in nature. While the core of a GTX 280 runs at 600 or so Mhz, desktop CPUs have a clock speed going higher than 3 GHz. And for this, you need small transistor sizes...