Your right to swing your arms ends where my nose begins. In the same way, the freedom of speech does not give you the right to harass people. How would you feel if someone followed you around all the time, telling you how worthless you were, or threatening to kill you and your family (which is against the law). The freedom of speech does not give anybody the right to say whatever they want, whenever they want.
My biggest problem with these anti-online X laws are why we need to specify "on the internet". If all you're adding is "on the internet", then the law shouldn't need to be written in the first place. If it's illegal, then it's illegal. If it's not already illegal off the internet, I would wonder why doing it on internet would change the legality.
Even if you are going to have people live up there, what's the point. In case you haven't figured it out yet, life is much better down here. Much less severe conditions, and you have people to talk to. And if you don't like the people you're currently talking to, you can go off and find some more people. Unless we can actually find a way to mine the moon, cheaper than we could find the same elements on earth, I really don't see the moon as being a useful place to visit. The first time around was nice, just to say we did it. But it's really nothing more than a really big rock, which happens to orbit our planet.
I wonder how loose of a picture you could use. Most facial recognition works by measuring the distance between the eyes, and other features on the face. Could you just draw the basic features of a face with the right proportions to get into the laptop?
Don't worry, you can still get parallel ports and 9-pin serial. That board has serial, parallel, usb, IEEE 1394, PS2, RJ45, and a bunch of audio connectors. That has technology from the 1980's right up until the latest technology. Sadly, I think the only common port it is missing is ESATA.
You've never opened an Office 97 document in notepad have you? There's more binary junk in there than actual text content. However, you would have better luck just opening it in OpenOffice.
Same here. I was just talking with my wife about this programmable slideshow program we used in highschool. Although i'm sure ours ran on DOS. Although the basic premise of the program seems quite similar. I remember doing an x-wing fighter animation in highschool. I even had music and everything. Apart from LOGO, it was probably my first exposure to programming.
I was going to say the same thing. Trains can be good for shorter trips. You can get from downtown(ish) Ottawa, to downtown (real downtown) Toronto in 5 hours. The flight is only 45 minutes, but once you count check-in, security, boarding, taken-off, and travelling from the airport to downtown, you're looking at about the same amount of time anyway. Both are roughly the same price, but the train seats are a lot more comfortable, and the whole experience is much more pleasant.
Yeah, it's like Java, if except that everything is declared as type object. It treats every object the same, and just assumes that all the functions you try to call exist, until it runs them. I really don't see why people like dynamically typed languages. It's like working in VB6 with everything defined as "Variant". Does not having variable types help in any way? Personally, I really like static typed languages. I never did understand why dynamic typing would help. My compiler catches a large percentage of my errors. I'd hate to have to run through all the code paths, just to ensure I didn't mistype a function call. Yes I know tests should do this anyway, but it's a little bit easier to get stuff up and running if you know all the function names are correct before you run it.
The summary says for every solvable cube. What does that mean. Every configuration is a solvable one. If you remove a corner and rotate it, and place it back in the cube, the cube is no longer solvable, but I would argue that it's no longer a rubik's cube either.
Sorry, I was referring to the Canadian system which my parent poster was talking about. The people with the US system is that the guy who gets 50%+1 of the votes gets complete governing power. In a good election system, both parties would have about equal power.
Again, if the counting machine is rigged, it's really hard to get a recount. It's just better to count by hand in the first place. If you think it's at all necessary to have a paper trail to do recount, because you don't trust the machine, then you might as well not use the machine in the first place.
Even worse is having too many machines being broken, or not enough machines to begin with, so voters have to wait hours in line, and many just end up leaving after deciding it's not worth it.
What's wrong with our national elections? Pen and Paper with human counting. It's the most transparent and verifiable (by everyday citizens). And if you east coast guys wouldn't count so fast, we wouldn't have to create laws against releasing results until all the polls were closed.
But what good is a paper trail if you can't get a recount? It's very hard to get an actual recount. And even if you do, they don't recount everything. They recount a certain percentage, and then if there's a problem found with that "randomly selected" sample, you get to recount the whole batch. And what happens if the recount finds a discrepency. They correct it. But what about all the other voting districts. They haven't done a revote yet. So if there was something really wrong with the way the machines counted, the vote count would still be quite off.
That's the hard part about e-voting. It's hard to tell when something fraudulent is happening. With pen and paper, human counted voting, it's easy to watch to ballot box to ensure it's empty when you start, that no extra votes are deposited, and that all votes are counted properly. With computers, it's hard for people to actually watch and see what's going on. You could probably swap out the entire insides of a voting machine, make it work completely differently, yet look exactly the same, without anybody noticing.
Most users don't even know what CMYK is. Sure the makes a difference to graphic designers, but that's a very small percentage (.5% ) of the population.
It was the computer's fault, or more rightly, whoever programmed that software. Seriously, who makes the default option to delete everything on your blackberry?
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You can say whatever you want on XBox Live voicechat. Just make sure you don't use your real name.
Your right to swing your arms ends where my nose begins. In the same way, the freedom of speech does not give you the right to harass people. How would you feel if someone followed you around all the time, telling you how worthless you were, or threatening to kill you and your family (which is against the law). The freedom of speech does not give anybody the right to say whatever they want, whenever they want.
My biggest problem with these anti-online X laws are why we need to specify "on the internet". If all you're adding is "on the internet", then the law shouldn't need to be written in the first place. If it's illegal, then it's illegal. If it's not already illegal off the internet, I would wonder why doing it on internet would change the legality.
Even if you are going to have people live up there, what's the point. In case you haven't figured it out yet, life is much better down here. Much less severe conditions, and you have people to talk to. And if you don't like the people you're currently talking to, you can go off and find some more people. Unless we can actually find a way to mine the moon, cheaper than we could find the same elements on earth, I really don't see the moon as being a useful place to visit. The first time around was nice, just to say we did it. But it's really nothing more than a really big rock, which happens to orbit our planet.
I wonder how loose of a picture you could use. Most facial recognition works by measuring the distance between the eyes, and other features on the face. Could you just draw the basic features of a face with the right proportions to get into the laptop?
Well, I know which one makes for a better movie.
Wow, that's slow. With glxgears -fullscreen, I get 245 FPS on a Celeron M 1.6 GHz, with and Intel GMA 950. Acer Aspire 3680.
You can download System 7.5.3 directly from apple. Wow, 19 disks. Vista only takes 1 disc. And they say Vista is bloated.
I remember playing around with Basilisk at one point, and seem to remember there being a utility to read HFS file system disks.
Don't worry, you can still get parallel ports and 9-pin serial. That board has serial, parallel, usb, IEEE 1394, PS2, RJ45, and a bunch of audio connectors. That has technology from the 1980's right up until the latest technology. Sadly, I think the only common port it is missing is ESATA.
You've never opened an Office 97 document in notepad have you? There's more binary junk in there than actual text content. However, you would have better luck just opening it in OpenOffice.
Same here. I was just talking with my wife about this programmable slideshow program we used in highschool. Although i'm sure ours ran on DOS. Although the basic premise of the program seems quite similar. I remember doing an x-wing fighter animation in highschool. I even had music and everything. Apart from LOGO, it was probably my first exposure to programming.
I was going to say the same thing. Trains can be good for shorter trips. You can get from downtown(ish) Ottawa, to downtown (real downtown) Toronto in 5 hours. The flight is only 45 minutes, but once you count check-in, security, boarding, taken-off, and travelling from the airport to downtown, you're looking at about the same amount of time anyway. Both are roughly the same price, but the train seats are a lot more comfortable, and the whole experience is much more pleasant.
Yeah, it's like Java, if except that everything is declared as type object. It treats every object the same, and just assumes that all the functions you try to call exist, until it runs them. I really don't see why people like dynamically typed languages. It's like working in VB6 with everything defined as "Variant". Does not having variable types help in any way? Personally, I really like static typed languages. I never did understand why dynamic typing would help. My compiler catches a large percentage of my errors. I'd hate to have to run through all the code paths, just to ensure I didn't mistype a function call. Yes I know tests should do this anyway, but it's a little bit easier to get stuff up and running if you know all the function names are correct before you run it.
The summary says for every solvable cube. What does that mean. Every configuration is a solvable one. If you remove a corner and rotate it, and place it back in the cube, the cube is no longer solvable, but I would argue that it's no longer a rubik's cube either.
Sorry, I was referring to the Canadian system which my parent poster was talking about. The people with the US system is that the guy who gets 50%+1 of the votes gets complete governing power. In a good election system, both parties would have about equal power.
Again, if the counting machine is rigged, it's really hard to get a recount. It's just better to count by hand in the first place. If you think it's at all necessary to have a paper trail to do recount, because you don't trust the machine, then you might as well not use the machine in the first place.
Even worse is having too many machines being broken, or not enough machines to begin with, so voters have to wait hours in line, and many just end up leaving after deciding it's not worth it.
What's wrong with our national elections? Pen and Paper with human counting. It's the most transparent and verifiable (by everyday citizens). And if you east coast guys wouldn't count so fast, we wouldn't have to create laws against releasing results until all the polls were closed.
But what good is a paper trail if you can't get a recount? It's very hard to get an actual recount. And even if you do, they don't recount everything. They recount a certain percentage, and then if there's a problem found with that "randomly selected" sample, you get to recount the whole batch. And what happens if the recount finds a discrepency. They correct it. But what about all the other voting districts. They haven't done a revote yet. So if there was something really wrong with the way the machines counted, the vote count would still be quite off.
That's the hard part about e-voting. It's hard to tell when something fraudulent is happening. With pen and paper, human counted voting, it's easy to watch to ballot box to ensure it's empty when you start, that no extra votes are deposited, and that all votes are counted properly. With computers, it's hard for people to actually watch and see what's going on. You could probably swap out the entire insides of a voting machine, make it work completely differently, yet look exactly the same, without anybody noticing.
Most users don't even know what CMYK is. Sure the makes a difference to graphic designers, but that's a very small percentage ( .5% ) of the population.
The best part about MPlayer is the MPlayer Plug-In which allows you to watch apple movie trailers in full screen.
I personally find the ergonomic keyboards to be more uncomfortable than the conventional ones.
It was the computer's fault, or more rightly, whoever programmed that software. Seriously, who makes the default option to delete everything on your blackberry?