If a human being can take a running jump and achieve orbit and/or escape velocity, it's an asteroid. If it has sufficient gravity to be a planet, but it orbits around another planet instead of the sun, it is a moon.
I think it would be really cool if someone would invent a two wheeled electric scooter, with a seat, and add pedals, so you could charge the battery. That way, instead of constantly going home to recharge, you could just hop on, turn the pedals, and ride it all day...
This machine has a large red vote button at the top of the machine that will glow red once the ballot is complete. Every voting machine has three (3) large posters in it telling people in English, Spanish, and Creole that they must complete the ballot and press the flashing red button to complete their vote.
If a voter walks away from the machine without hitting the button, the vote monitors will try to catch them before they leave and ask that they complete the voting process.
If someone leaves the poll before completing the vote, the voting supervisor and assistant supervisor will go to the machine, and press the "next page" button until they reach the end of the ballot. They will then submit the ballot by pressing the vote button for the voter. They will not change existing vote selections in any way, and people present are welcome to witness that process.
What is then submitted is a ballot with votes, but not for all questions. Please note that even the voter themselves is not required to make a selection for every ballot question. If I wanted to vote, and yet left every ballot question unanswered, it would still be a legal vote. A waste of time, but still a legal vote.
Those of us who work elections go to GREAT lengths to assist every voter, and we let them know that if they have any questions during the voting process, to just ask and we will answer their questions. Of course this applies only to the voting process. We can't answer "who should I vote for" types of questions, because that would be unethical.
For everyone saying that this is "yet another example" of voting problems in Florida, IT IS NOT. The vote went fine, and some voters submitted incomplete ballots. It happens, and it is their choice, even if it seems illogical to some of us. This was NOT a case of the machines not counting votes, it's a case of voters not casting them in the first place. Linking to misinformed Reuters type news stories doesn't give anyone the truth on this...
If you actually look at the picture, closely, you will see that the racks themselves are NOT angled to reduce active cooling.
At the left side of the row of racks, there is an angled cover, which is either decorative, or being used to force cold air down the row of racks. Likely, its just decorative, and the cold air is being forced up from the raised flooring below.
Just like it is in every other enterprise-grade computer room...
I recently attached RFID tags to everything I own. I took a digital photograph, and entered each item into an object oriented database.
Now, I look up my stuff in the database, download the RFID ID into the reader, and wander aimlessly around the house until my RFID reader starts beeping.
Prefab homes can be built to last
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A lot of people are suggesting that prefab homes are essentially "throw-aways" that won't last. I don't think this is the case, and there seems to be solid evidence against it.
In the city of Savannah, GA many of the homes are known as "Sears homes", because they were prefab kits sold by the Sear Roebuck company about a century ago. Today, you can find plenty of those homes standing just fine, and built to last.
My aunt has a Sears home that has survived fires, hurricanes, Saint Patrick's Day parties, etc.
I'd buy prefab without any reservations as long as the parts met my quality requirements.
Just like the air WE breathe, the water WE drink, and the electromagnetic spectrum WE communicate with.
If there comes a time when the IPv4 address space truly runs out, and the world is not ready for the full IPv6 changeover, those who are blatantly wasting their allocations with primitive network schemes (that would be you, MIT) should be required to implement a more sophisticated NAT scheme. Get over it
Virtual Reality Destroyed - Lusers forced to experience Actual Reality
Thousands of unwashed virgins living in their parents basements were forced out into the real world today. Squinting in sunlight for the first time since reaching puberty, nerds contemplating actual sex, to replace their now unavailable private game chat...
Actually, I have a fairly large kitchen. The size constraint isn't so much will it fit, but that nobody but me wants a computer in the kitchen. The smaller and less obtrusive I can make it, the better chance I have of getting it past everyone.
And as for the clutter in the kitchen, its all mine...
I tried this route actually, calling Dell's refurb outlet, as well as their tech support line. They couldn't seem to grasp the idea that I actually wanted one of those dead pixel/ dead column LCDs, and I wouldn't be returning it as defective.
Of course, when I explained that in return for buying one of their returned monitors, I wanted it cheap ( as in under $100 ), that's when they got hopelessly confused and the conversation went nowhere...
Actually, you are the one making a big mistake. A welder's mask with a 14 filter is perfectly safe for watching the sun. You can check the Sky & Telescope website to confirm. As for using floppies, that is foolhardy, but they are your eyes, so go right ahead if you like walking with a white cane...
Are you sure this movie was only three hours?
When I watched it, there were like five different places where I thought the movie had reached the end, but then it would just keep going. On and On and On... I could swear this thing was at least 6 hours long...
Anything that is capable of movement can travel at a fraction of orbital velocity. Take me for example. If we suppose that orbital velocity for me is 18,000 MPH, and that I can walk briskly at 3 miles per hour, then that means that I can walk at 3/18000 of my orbital velocity, which translates to 1/6000.
My car travels at approximately 80 MPH on the freeway, which works out to 1/225 of orbital velocity for a Honda Civic. Put in hi-octane and a good downhill stretch, and we might me able to get that up to 1/150th of orbital velocity.
I worked at the polls in Miami-Dade County this Tuesday. The machines are flash updated through an infrared (IRDA?) port on the side of the machine. The flash updating device looks like a video game cartridge. Loading the Ballots takes 6 minutes under ideal conditions. The true setup time is almost 20 minutes per machine.
They gave us ONE (1) of those flash loader cartridges.
Multiply that 6-20 minutes by the number of the voting machines, and you have the reason for the delay. They told us to start setting up at 6 AM, to be ready by 7 AM.
To my precinct's credit, we started early, and had enough machines ready that there were no signicant delays when people started coming in. By 8 AM, we had all the machines operational.
My mother's precinct on the other hand, had only one machine ready at 7 AM.
These machines are not like any PC you have seen; they are tablets, with no floppy, network connection, etc. Just an infrared port, a printer output jack, and a touchscreen. As far as "booting", they seem to be instant on from BIOS. Its only loading the ballot questions, which has to be done at the start of the day, with several witnesses present, that causes the delay.
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If a human being can take a running jump and achieve orbit and/or escape velocity, it's an asteroid. If it has sufficient gravity to be a planet, but it orbits around another planet instead of the sun, it is a moon.
Ironically, you managed to deliver the punchline without getting the joke...
I think it would be really cool if someone would invent a two wheeled electric scooter, with a seat, and add pedals, so you could charge the battery. That way, instead of constantly going home to recharge, you could just hop on, turn the pedals, and ride it all day...
Yeah, keep telling yourself that...
The machine in question is an ESS iVotronic.
This machine has a large red vote button at the top of the machine that will glow red once the ballot is complete. Every voting machine has three (3) large posters in it telling people in English, Spanish, and Creole that they must complete the ballot and press the flashing red button to complete their vote.
If a voter walks away from the machine without hitting the button, the vote monitors will try to catch them before they leave and ask that they complete the voting process.
If someone leaves the poll before completing the vote, the voting supervisor and assistant supervisor will go to the machine, and press the "next page" button until they reach the end of the ballot. They will then submit the ballot by pressing the vote button for the voter. They will not change existing vote selections in any way, and people present are welcome to witness that process.
What is then submitted is a ballot with votes, but not for all questions. Please note that even the voter themselves is not required to make a selection for every ballot question. If I wanted to vote, and yet left every ballot question unanswered, it would still be a legal vote. A waste of time, but still a legal vote.
Those of us who work elections go to GREAT lengths to assist every voter, and we let them know that if they have any questions during the voting process, to just ask and we will answer their questions. Of course this applies only to the voting process. We can't answer "who should I vote for" types of questions, because that would be unethical.
For everyone saying that this is "yet another example" of voting problems in Florida, IT IS NOT. The vote went fine, and some voters submitted incomplete ballots. It happens, and it is their choice, even if it seems illogical to some of us. This was NOT a case of the machines not counting votes, it's a case of voters not casting them in the first place. Linking to misinformed Reuters type news stories doesn't give anyone the truth on this...
Peut-etre il est parce que vous parlez francais ? Babelfish...
If you actually look at the picture, closely, you will see that the racks themselves are NOT angled to reduce active cooling.
At the left side of the row of racks, there is an angled cover, which is either decorative, or being used to force cold air down the row of racks. Likely, its just decorative, and the cold air is being forced up from the raised flooring below.
Just like it is in every other enterprise-grade computer room...
I recently attached RFID tags to everything I own. I took a digital photograph, and entered each item into an object oriented database.
Now, I look up my stuff in the database, download the RFID ID into the reader, and wander aimlessly around the house until my RFID reader starts beeping.
No really, I am not kidding, I swear...
We call it a "murse", you insensitive clod.
A lot of people are suggesting that prefab homes are essentially "throw-aways" that won't last. I don't think this is the case, and there seems to be solid evidence against it.
In the city of Savannah, GA many of the homes are known as "Sears homes", because they were prefab kits sold by the Sear Roebuck company about a century ago. Today, you can find plenty of those homes standing just fine, and built to last.
My aunt has a Sears home that has survived fires, hurricanes, Saint Patrick's Day parties, etc.
I'd buy prefab without any reservations as long as the parts met my quality requirements.
This board has two USB 2.0 connectors.
Buy a LinkSys/D-Link/etc. USB ethernet adapter, and you are set to go. They are supported in Windows AND Linux.
That's right, no state income tax. Only a sales tax on certain goods and services.
Who marked that bozo a 4-interesting? He (and they) need a clue.
Not True.
The RIAA Attorneys have been getting their's from Whitney and Bobby for months...
Bullshit.
The IPv4 Address Space is a SHARED RESOURCE
Just like the air WE breathe, the water WE drink, and the electromagnetic spectrum WE communicate with.
If there comes a time when the IPv4 address space truly runs out, and the world is not ready for the full IPv6 changeover, those who are blatantly wasting their allocations with primitive network schemes (that would be you, MIT) should be required to implement a more sophisticated NAT scheme. Get over it
We buy enough stock to be the controlling vote at the next shareholders meeting.
At that meeting we vote to transfer all SCO intellectual property into the public domain.
We then vote to liquidate the remaining assets of the company, firing everyone working in that shop summarily.
Let it be a lesson for any other company thinking of messing with the Open Source movement...
Virtual Reality Destroyed - Lusers forced to experience Actual Reality
Thousands of unwashed virgins living in their parents basements were forced out into the real world today. Squinting in sunlight for the first time since reaching puberty, nerds contemplating actual sex, to replace their now unavailable private game chat...
Actually, I have a fairly large kitchen. The size constraint isn't so much will it fit, but that nobody but me wants a computer in the kitchen. The smaller and less obtrusive I can make it, the better chance I have of getting it past everyone.
And as for the clutter in the kitchen, its all mine...
I tried this route actually, calling Dell's refurb outlet, as well as their tech support line. They couldn't seem to grasp the idea that I actually wanted one of those dead pixel/ dead column LCDs, and I wouldn't be returning it as defective.
Of course, when I explained that in return for buying one of their returned monitors, I wanted it cheap ( as in under $100 ), that's when they got hopelessly confused and the conversation went nowhere...
Actually, you are the one making a big mistake. A welder's mask with a 14 filter is perfectly safe for watching the sun. You can check the Sky & Telescope website to confirm. As for using floppies, that is foolhardy, but they are your eyes, so go right ahead if you like walking with a white cane...
Are you sure this movie was only three hours?
When I watched it, there were like five different places where I thought the movie had reached the end, but then it would just keep going. On and On and On...
I could swear this thing was at least 6 hours long...
At the reception, you can make your wife Open Source. (i.e. - free as in beer)
Of course, if Richard Stallman is there, he'll want to call her GNU/wife...
You might want to relearn your fractions...
Anything that is capable of movement can travel at a fraction of orbital velocity. Take me for example. If we suppose that orbital velocity for me is 18,000 MPH, and that I can walk briskly at 3 miles per hour, then that means that I can walk at 3/18000 of my orbital velocity, which translates to 1/6000.
My car travels at approximately 80 MPH on the freeway, which works out to 1/225 of orbital velocity for a Honda Civic. Put in hi-octane and a good downhill stretch, and we might me able to get that up to 1/150th of orbital velocity.
See how easy math is?....
Vampiagra
I worked at the polls in Miami-Dade County this Tuesday. The machines are flash updated through an infrared (IRDA?) port on the side of the machine. The flash updating device looks like a video game cartridge. Loading the Ballots takes 6 minutes under ideal conditions. The true setup time is almost 20 minutes per machine.
They gave us ONE (1) of those flash loader cartridges.
Multiply that 6-20 minutes by the number of the voting machines, and you have the reason for the delay. They told us to start setting up at 6 AM, to be ready by 7 AM.
To my precinct's credit, we started early, and had enough machines ready that there were no signicant delays when people started coming in. By 8 AM, we had all the machines operational.
My mother's precinct on the other hand, had only one machine ready at 7 AM.
These machines are not like any PC you have seen; they are tablets, with no floppy, network connection, etc. Just an infrared port, a printer output jack, and a touchscreen. As far as "booting", they seem to be instant on from BIOS. Its only loading the ballot questions, which has to be done at the start of the day, with several witnesses present, that causes the delay.