no no... sorry if I was misunderstood... After my ballot was filled out, it goes into the machine and you never see it. So I guess "THEY" have a paper copy... In that you are correct. I wouldn't put it past either one of those three ladies to throw away a random ballot cast by a democrat. In fact, some of the measures they threw in there on the back of the ballot were just... ludicrious... One was to make local wineries in oklahoma be forced to not discriminate against any one who wants to buy their wine (of legal age of course). It didn't go through... I was amazed to say the least... all you had to do was read it to see that the measure was just wrong.
I live in a red state... probably the most red of them all. In fact, it was the third state called - you got it - oklahokma. Every district... red.
That being said, we have lots of republicans mainly because that's what their parents are, or church has told them to be.
My polling place was a church
On the side outside it says "Make sure you pray before your cast your vote." You can take that however you like.
I walk in, on my lunch break, to cast a vote towards the popular vote as I know where I live it counts for nothing, and fill out the form. It is one of those "connect the line" charts.
Let me set a mood first... There is a woman around 90 years old who is reading the paper to validate people are who they say they are. This woman cannot see my face on my drivers license - she didn't even look, even though, for some reason it said "Check identification" on the line where I signed.
I over looked that
I take my form over to my cardboard booth and connect the dots
I take my form over to the machine to put it in... it looks like it is from the 60's and could probably survive a nuclear blast.
There is a red light on the machine. There are two statements on the machine.
"If the light is red, the machine is busy, please wait for it to turn green."
"If the light is green, please insert your ballot.
After waiting about 2 minutes with an impatient look on my face, a woman in her 70's comes over and in a very decrepit and very "talked down to" tone of voice she says... For the sake of my fingers, she will be Decrepit Old Lady - or DOL
DOL - "go ahead and put your ballot in, they looked at it this morning and said the light is just stuck on and will work just fine"
Me - "Ok, but is there some sort of way that I can tell who I voted for - I see some receipt looking things there coming out of the machine, will that give me my results?"
DOL - "If the machine makes a beep your vote has been counted."
Me - "For some reason I highly doubt that, but given the record of this state, my vote doesn't count for much anyways. I can assure you my cantor would be very aburpt if I had to wait one second to vote"
DOL - "If the machine makes the noise, your vote is counted"
Me - "Again, I doubt that"
And I put my ballot in. Nothing got printed, the machine just made a noise. I think the moral here is:
If you leave the ignorant in charge, then whoever "fixes" the polling machine has complete control over your vote.
I mean, what else could explain it except for that clause you sign when working for any major company that any device you design while in their employment is their property?
In the previous elections you had black and white... ummm.. ok - no pun intended here so.... theres nothing to see here - goto 10
10 In this election each candidate will pretty much the same thing - there will be subtleties of course, but it reminds me heavily of the futurama episode where the al gore-ish looking twins were battling for presidency of the world - basically agreeing with what each other said.
It was going to have to happen eventually. One thing i've always thought to myself is, that if the earth is here 50,000 years from now and some cognitive being starts exploring, everything will be told in our landfills... They may not be able to know what we did at this time, but they will know the materials we used - at least Styrofoam;)
yes... those are hundreths of a penny, so take it for what its worth - also that I deal with storage arrays daily.
So unless you are going to go with the magic number of disks (this varies but you'll need quite a few for a raid-5... around 8 or so) your performance is going to be less than stellar. Jump up to an 11 disk raid-5 (or preferrably 6) and you'll be screaming - depending on if you use SAS or SATA drives and your controller card of course.
If you are just wanting a tiny raid to stick in your tower, I would run a 3 drive raid-0, with each drive being around 300 gigs. Then, I would additionally have a 1 TB drive to back up that raid-0. That way, you have extremely fast disk speed via three drives and the redundancy on one drive.
If you want to talk about spending big bucks, Dell has a product called the MD1000 that can't be beat for price. You can stick SATA or SAS in there, you can daisy chain three together, and six if you use both channels (you have to use their PERC5 or PERC6e to be supported but other cards work if you play nice but I wouldn't). And each enclosure holds 15 drives. They will also have an offering for a 24 disk array that is only 2u as well that holds 2.5inch drives... sas only of course...
if you've been around the IT world for more than 10 years, you've seen them come and go... MySpace will be no different...
People are starting to grow tired of it as its novelty is wearing off - I mean seriously - how long can you post silly little pictures on other people profiles before it becomes boring?
So, Dell is about to offer up their MD1120 - same exact thing as the MD1000 but with 24 drives - 2.5" each.
If you didn't care about redundancy, for a DB this thing would be perfect... Mix and match slower sas drives in an array that doesn't require such fast IO, then on your data intensive VD, have SSD's!
life will continue on as it has - much uncared about by generation Y or Z. It seems that they put something in the drinking water that made the super suboridant and unwilling to confront anything, and to view the government as too large to take on. Look in the mirror - there is your government.
And for you gen Y'ers (i doubt many gen Z's read this page)you must have been bottle fed if you care.
well shoot... With the tricks i've picked up over the years, and after I get back from the patent office, you guys (men) better watch yourselves... I'm going to put patents on every sexual maneuver that I can think of!
Just pointing out the stupidity of things - and 15 minutes out of hibernation as well.
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men. Sorry - Had to! ;)
hemp paper? Lots of famous documents were written on it...
i think he's saying, like many, that if you voted for Obama, you are a socialist.
I vote just to count towards the popular vote... the electoral college should burn. As should super delegates
no no... sorry if I was misunderstood... After my ballot was filled out, it goes into the machine and you never see it. So I guess "THEY" have a paper copy... In that you are correct. I wouldn't put it past either one of those three ladies to throw away a random ballot cast by a democrat. In fact, some of the measures they threw in there on the back of the ballot were just... ludicrious... One was to make local wineries in oklahoma be forced to not discriminate against any one who wants to buy their wine (of legal age of course). It didn't go through... I was amazed to say the least... all you had to do was read it to see that the measure was just wrong.
I live in a red state... probably the most red of them all. In fact, it was the third state called - you got it - oklahokma. Every district... red.
That being said, we have lots of republicans mainly because that's what their parents are, or church has told them to be.
My polling place was a church
On the side outside it says "Make sure you pray before your cast your vote." You can take that however you like. I walk in, on my lunch break, to cast a vote towards the popular vote as I know where I live it counts for nothing, and fill out the form. It is one of those "connect the line" charts.
Let me set a mood first... There is a woman around 90 years old who is reading the paper to validate people are who they say they are. This woman cannot see my face on my drivers license - she didn't even look, even though, for some reason it said "Check identification" on the line where I signed.
I over looked that
I take my form over to my cardboard booth and connect the dots
I take my form over to the machine to put it in... it looks like it is from the 60's and could probably survive a nuclear blast.
There is a red light on the machine. There are two statements on the machine.
"If the light is red, the machine is busy, please wait for it to turn green."
"If the light is green, please insert your ballot.
After waiting about 2 minutes with an impatient look on my face, a woman in her 70's comes over and in a very decrepit and very "talked down to" tone of voice she says... For the sake of my fingers, she will be Decrepit Old Lady - or DOL
DOL - "go ahead and put your ballot in, they looked at it this morning and said the light is just stuck on and will work just fine"
Me - "Ok, but is there some sort of way that I can tell who I voted for - I see some receipt looking things there coming out of the machine, will that give me my results?"
DOL - "If the machine makes a beep your vote has been counted." Me - "For some reason I highly doubt that, but given the record of this state, my vote doesn't count for much anyways. I can assure you my cantor would be very aburpt if I had to wait one second to vote"
DOL - "If the machine makes the noise, your vote is counted"
Me - "Again, I doubt that"
And I put my ballot in. Nothing got printed, the machine just made a noise. I think the moral here is:
If you leave the ignorant in charge, then whoever "fixes" the polling machine has complete control over your vote.
Ok, i'm done... Sorry for making it that long.
Trying to figure out whats what here...
microvision.com
I work for a rather large computer company - you've seen our ads. If we don't want our users to get out on the internet, our firewall will block them.
nothing more to see here - unless I can throw some common sense in your general direction.
I mean, what else could explain it except for that clause you sign when working for any major company that any device you design while in their employment is their property?
Is there a emoticon for rolling eyes I can use?
I'm going to try to sue Nicholas Cage for being such a bad actor
you work for dell
;)
So, it begs the question - where's our savior, Gordan Freeman?
instead of trying to make your own improvements, just shrink it down and use multiple instances of it?
In all seriousness, I was wondering what intel's next plan was since it was stated a couple years ago that multicores was the way to go.
In the previous elections you had black and white... ummm.. ok - no pun intended here so .... theres nothing to see here - goto 10
10 In this election each candidate will pretty much the same thing - there will be subtleties of course, but it reminds me heavily of the futurama episode where the al gore-ish looking twins were battling for presidency of the world - basically agreeing with what each other said.
mining our landfills will begin...
;)
It was going to have to happen eventually. One thing i've always thought to myself is, that if the earth is here 50,000 years from now and some cognitive being starts exploring, everything will be told in our landfills... They may not be able to know what we did at this time, but they will know the materials we used - at least Styrofoam
yes... those are hundreths of a penny, so take it for what its worth - also that I deal with storage arrays daily.
So unless you are going to go with the magic number of disks (this varies but you'll need quite a few for a raid-5... around 8 or so) your performance is going to be less than stellar. Jump up to an 11 disk raid-5 (or preferrably 6) and you'll be screaming - depending on if you use SAS or SATA drives and your controller card of course.
If you are just wanting a tiny raid to stick in your tower, I would run a 3 drive raid-0, with each drive being around 300 gigs. Then, I would additionally have a 1 TB drive to back up that raid-0. That way, you have extremely fast disk speed via three drives and the redundancy on one drive.
If you want to talk about spending big bucks, Dell has a product called the MD1000 that can't be beat for price. You can stick SATA or SAS in there, you can daisy chain three together, and six if you use both channels (you have to use their PERC5 or PERC6e to be supported but other cards work if you play nice but I wouldn't). And each enclosure holds 15 drives. They will also have an offering for a 24 disk array that is only 2u as well that holds 2.5inch drives... sas only of course...
if so... consider it for mice only. I've been waiting years for something that has proven in mice, but just "never seems to cross that gap" to humans.
But then again, when you consider a does of medication that costs 3000 dollars, why would anyone want to cure such a profitable disorder?
if you've been around the IT world for more than 10 years, you've seen them come and go... MySpace will be no different...
People are starting to grow tired of it as its novelty is wearing off - I mean seriously - how long can you post silly little pictures on other people profiles before it becomes boring?
Anything to discount the alien theory
So, Dell is about to offer up their MD1120 - same exact thing as the MD1000 but with 24 drives - 2.5" each.
If you didn't care about redundancy, for a DB this thing would be perfect... Mix and match slower sas drives in an array that doesn't require such fast IO, then on your data intensive VD, have SSD's!
That would be pretty slick.
your company name is something that the other company will be like... Oh EM GEE! Lets standardize gaming but use our competitors name!!
life will continue on as it has - much uncared about by generation Y or Z. It seems that they put something in the drinking water that made the super suboridant and unwilling to confront anything, and to view the government as too large to take on. Look in the mirror - there is your government.
And for you gen Y'ers (i doubt many gen Z's read this page)you must have been bottle fed if you care.
well shoot... With the tricks i've picked up over the years, and after I get back from the patent office, you guys (men) better watch yourselves... I'm going to put patents on every sexual maneuver that I can think of!
Just pointing out the stupidity of things - and 15 minutes out of hibernation as well.
that you open and even though there is nothing tangible in it, "EEEEEEEEE-Villllllll!" is somehow heard....
your soul.
Muahahahah
-D