You don't have to wait any longer. In Canada we have paper voting, and the results are ready for the 11 o'clock news. They had to create a law against releasing results too early, because they felt the results from the east were influencing the west. I'm not sure why anybody would need to have the votes counted much faster than that. Maybe they should just have a big score board in the voting room. As soon as you enter your vote, it shows up on the score board. And have the whole thing is networked, so you can see the results in real time on the internet. That should satisfy your need for instant gratification.
Well, you have to maintain paper records anyway (or you should), so I don't see how using just paper is any more wasteful than using paper "and" computers. Assuming you aren't going to keep paper records, or you are going to discard them after X years, they can just be recycled anyway. Trees are a renewable resource anyway.
I'm not sure that electronic voting should actually be cheaper. With pen and paper voting, you should only need the cost of printing the ballots, and you can even use cardboard voting booths set up on tables like we do here in Canada. It's all very cheap. If you go with computerized voting, you have to buy all the computers, and the cost of replacing them every few years. Printing out the paper trail is more expensive, because you have to use smaller individual printers hooked up to each of the machines. Which is more expensive than having them just printed out on a large printing press. Then there's the cost of hiring trained personel to set them up and maintain them, to ensure they are working correctly. I also just thought of another downside with electronic voting machines. If any of them machines can easily print out a vote, how do you stop somebody from messing with the paper trail, and just printing out more votes. In Canada, the ballots are printed in a very secure manner, in order to ensure that they are all accounted for. And they are printed using some security features similar to those used on printing currency. I don't think that electronic voting offers any features above simple pen and paper human counted votes. They may be counted a bit faster, but that's about it. And when you're voting in November, to get sworn in, in January, you can wait an extra hour or two for the counting to be completed.
Downloading TV seasons for free, and using adblock are just kind of going around the advertising. You really should be boycotting the shows who use advertisers to support their programs. Or only visit sites without ads on them. The advertisers wouldn't be a problem if the publishers of magazines, tv shows, and web sites didn't ask for their ads, or outright refused them. Don't blame the advertisers, They are just providing what the content producers ask for.
I recently tried out Descent 1 with the DEVIL level editor. I couldn't get Devil working in Dosbox, but it would work in VMWare. So I used a shared iso emulating a drive between the two to share the files.
Visual studio is actually a very good IDE. It far surpasses any IDE I've used on Linux. I think Visual Studio is the one thing MS has consistently done well. Granted the libraries they have (MFC) aren't always the easiest to use, but VS has always been a very high quality IDE.
I've had first hand experience running DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 Under VMWare. If i'm not mistaken, I remember finding an old copy of Windows 1.0 on the net and running that under VMWare.
I think that that can be said about Apple in just about every market. The cheapest Apple (the Mini) is around $600. You can get a PC for $350 without even searching for a deal. The difference is that Apple doesn't sell low end machines. It's like complaining that BMW doesn't sell $12,000 cars. Granted the difference here is that you can buy a Toyota, and still drive on the same roads as everyone else. You can't buy a PC and run all the Mac software, and you can't buy a Mac and run all the PC software. I think that eventually Apple will get a much larger market share when you can make a really fast computer for a couple hundred dollars. That day is coming, and when it does, Apple will sell cheap computers.
What kind of messed up camera has USB storage that isn't actually USB storage? Any camera that requires you install a driver to use it is completely messed up. Most camera's I've seen are either PTP or USB storage, or selectable between the two. The only time I've had to install a driver for a camera was on Windows 98, because it didn't have a USB storage driver.
Windows 2000 wasn't supposed to be for the home market, although it worked quite well for many home users. It only had professional and server editions. He was only listing home operating systems. Although I disagree on what he considers great. Windows 95 wasn't all that great. I would say that 98 was much better than 95. 98SE wasn't a new OS. XP was ok, but it would have been better if they just would have released 2000 home edition, and well, I think we can all agree that Vista and ME are some of the worse operating systems ever made.
If your domain means anything to you, then you don't let it expire. Make sure you renew it at least a month before it runs out, just in case there are complications in the renewal process, like your registrar's site is down. If your domain lapses and somebody else buys it out, it's your own dumb fault. It's not like you're required to wait until the day before it expires to renew it.
The simple answer? From my experience, it's because the GUI toolkits suck. Developing desktop apps with the available GUI toolkits is a pain. Developing non-gui and server apps works great in Java.
I was more referring to the server market than the desktop market. Nobody touches the servers except competent people (or at least, that's the way it should be). Looking around the admin tools on Windows, everything gets a complete overhaul everytime they release the next version. And it's not like anybody was really complaining about this part of the user interface that needed help.
The way microsoft changes everything as far as administration goes I'm surprised the admins haven't revolted yet. You have to relearn, and recertify every time a new release comes out. With Linux, different distros have different GUIs for admin tasks, but that's just GUI. You can do everything for admin from the command line, and nothing has really changed much in the last 15 years.
I took a course on assembly programming. The prof spent more than 1 lecture reading sections from the text which was basically a listing of the instruction set, and the definitions of the instructions. He wouldn't show us how to combine the instructions into useful programs. No, he would simply just read the instruction and it's definitiion straight out of the text, and then continue on with the next instruction. One of the worst classes I ever took. But the labs were kind of interesting.
I'm not sure where you went to school, but most students I know actually wanted to take notes. So they could, oh, I don't know, study from them and pass the exams. This isn't grade 9. If you're going to university, you should be taking notes. Personally, I didn't take a lot of notes, as I felt I learned more by just listening. But I was sure to copy down anything that looked really useful, or at least a list of important topics so I could read about them in the text afterwards.
I can not imagine somebody would want to be a teacher, and at the same time, try to stop their students from taking notes. I think this story missed april fools by a few days.
I wonder if the students could be sued for copyright infringement for writing something down on an exam the the professor said during the class. Think of what they are saying. They are saying you are not allowed to write down what the professor is saying, or I guess, summaries of that. So you probably wouldn't be allowed to write stuff down after you left the class. And oh, yeah, you wouldn't be able to write out the answers on the exam if it required writing something that the professor talked about in one of the classes.
I just got my brother in law to install Mandriva. He's been wanting to try out Linux for quite a while now. He's not really much of a computer geek, so I tend not to talk to him much about Linux, but after reading some main stream magazines, he knew enough about Linux that he knew he wanted to give it a try. Linux really is starting to get a lot of attention. It may not be the best option in all cases, especially when you have business critical windows applications. However, for the home user, Linux is a whole lot less hassle, and requires a whole lot less resources to perform the exact same function.
Well, you have the opposite experience I and others I know do. Upon logging in to Vista, or waking from sleep, or waking from hibernation, it waits for about a minute with a black screen, doing absolutely nothing. Before I can do anything. This happens on a few Vista machines I have seen, and doesn't seem to be related to any specific piece of software that is installed.
Actually, Linux's requirements seem to be coming down in some areas. KDE4, despite having way more eyecandy is actually supposed to required less resources than KDE3. Compiz runs fine on my Celeron 1.6 GHz with 512 MB of RAM and Intel GMA laptop. Why can't Vista, with even less eye candy run at respectable speeds? You could easily have most (all?) of the UI upgrades that Vista offers on XP. Some of them you may not really want, like the completely redesigned control panel (why do they have to do it every time?). But it could all easily be done. There isn't anything revolutionary that Vista does.
Just because somebody taught a university level course about something, doesn't mean they actually understand it. I'm sure we've all had our share of incompetent professors. Also, even if you assume that he does know what he's was talking about (he probably does), it doesn't mean he actually shares the same views towards the constitution as we would like him to.
Ok, Dunkin Donuts is cheaper, but how on earth do you consider their coffee good. Last time I was there (about a year ago) they were still serving their coffee in styrofoam cups. Who, in 2007 (it was last year) serves coffee in styrofoam? Not only is it bad for the environmentally unfriendly, it makes the coffee taste like, um... styrofoam!!!. Personally I don't like Starbucks much either, but I prefer coffee I make at home to any franchise.
Does it annoy anybody else that a cup of coffee is a standard in and of itself? A 12 cup coffee maker only makes 12, 5 oz. cups. Since when is 5 oz. equal to a cup? A measuring cup is 8 oz. the and cup that most people use for coffee is probably around 10-16 oz. So, in this study, do they mean the 5 oz. cup, the 8 oz. cup, or the 16 oz. cup?
I drink my coffee black, no sugar, no cream, just pure coffee (and water). I can't stand most of the stuff they sell at Starbucks, Tim Hortons, or any other well known coffee establishment. Which is why the "Double Double" is so popular at Tim Hortons. Load it down with cream and sugar, so you can't taste how burnt it is. Good coffee should be able to be drank black, without tasting bad. I'm not a coffee connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination. But it's a pretty sad state of affairs when Nabob made at home in your Sunbeam coffee maker tastes many times better then the most popular coffee shops.
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You don't have to wait any longer. In Canada we have paper voting, and the results are ready for the 11 o'clock news. They had to create a law against releasing results too early, because they felt the results from the east were influencing the west. I'm not sure why anybody would need to have the votes counted much faster than that. Maybe they should just have a big score board in the voting room. As soon as you enter your vote, it shows up on the score board. And have the whole thing is networked, so you can see the results in real time on the internet. That should satisfy your need for instant gratification.
Well, you have to maintain paper records anyway (or you should), so I don't see how using just paper is any more wasteful than using paper "and" computers. Assuming you aren't going to keep paper records, or you are going to discard them after X years, they can just be recycled anyway. Trees are a renewable resource anyway.
I'm not sure that electronic voting should actually be cheaper. With pen and paper voting, you should only need the cost of printing the ballots, and you can even use cardboard voting booths set up on tables like we do here in Canada. It's all very cheap. If you go with computerized voting, you have to buy all the computers, and the cost of replacing them every few years. Printing out the paper trail is more expensive, because you have to use smaller individual printers hooked up to each of the machines. Which is more expensive than having them just printed out on a large printing press. Then there's the cost of hiring trained personel to set them up and maintain them, to ensure they are working correctly. I also just thought of another downside with electronic voting machines. If any of them machines can easily print out a vote, how do you stop somebody from messing with the paper trail, and just printing out more votes. In Canada, the ballots are printed in a very secure manner, in order to ensure that they are all accounted for. And they are printed using some security features similar to those used on printing currency. I don't think that electronic voting offers any features above simple pen and paper human counted votes. They may be counted a bit faster, but that's about it. And when you're voting in November, to get sworn in, in January, you can wait an extra hour or two for the counting to be completed.
Downloading TV seasons for free, and using adblock are just kind of going around the advertising. You really should be boycotting the shows who use advertisers to support their programs. Or only visit sites without ads on them. The advertisers wouldn't be a problem if the publishers of magazines, tv shows, and web sites didn't ask for their ads, or outright refused them. Don't blame the advertisers, They are just providing what the content producers ask for.
I recently tried out Descent 1 with the DEVIL level editor. I couldn't get Devil working in Dosbox, but it would work in VMWare. So I used a shared iso emulating a drive between the two to share the files.
Visual studio is actually a very good IDE. It far surpasses any IDE I've used on Linux. I think Visual Studio is the one thing MS has consistently done well. Granted the libraries they have (MFC) aren't always the easiest to use, but VS has always been a very high quality IDE.
I've had first hand experience running DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 Under VMWare. If i'm not mistaken, I remember finding an old copy of Windows 1.0 on the net and running that under VMWare.
I think that that can be said about Apple in just about every market. The cheapest Apple (the Mini) is around $600. You can get a PC for $350 without even searching for a deal. The difference is that Apple doesn't sell low end machines. It's like complaining that BMW doesn't sell $12,000 cars. Granted the difference here is that you can buy a Toyota, and still drive on the same roads as everyone else. You can't buy a PC and run all the Mac software, and you can't buy a Mac and run all the PC software. I think that eventually Apple will get a much larger market share when you can make a really fast computer for a couple hundred dollars. That day is coming, and when it does, Apple will sell cheap computers.
What kind of messed up camera has USB storage that isn't actually USB storage? Any camera that requires you install a driver to use it is completely messed up. Most camera's I've seen are either PTP or USB storage, or selectable between the two. The only time I've had to install a driver for a camera was on Windows 98, because it didn't have a USB storage driver.
Windows 2000 wasn't supposed to be for the home market, although it worked quite well for many home users. It only had professional and server editions. He was only listing home operating systems. Although I disagree on what he considers great. Windows 95 wasn't all that great. I would say that 98 was much better than 95. 98SE wasn't a new OS. XP was ok, but it would have been better if they just would have released 2000 home edition, and well, I think we can all agree that Vista and ME are some of the worse operating systems ever made.
If your domain means anything to you, then you don't let it expire. Make sure you renew it at least a month before it runs out, just in case there are complications in the renewal process, like your registrar's site is down. If your domain lapses and somebody else buys it out, it's your own dumb fault. It's not like you're required to wait until the day before it expires to renew it.
The simple answer? From my experience, it's because the GUI toolkits suck. Developing desktop apps with the available GUI toolkits is a pain. Developing non-gui and server apps works great in Java.
I was more referring to the server market than the desktop market. Nobody touches the servers except competent people (or at least, that's the way it should be). Looking around the admin tools on Windows, everything gets a complete overhaul everytime they release the next version. And it's not like anybody was really complaining about this part of the user interface that needed help.
The way microsoft changes everything as far as administration goes I'm surprised the admins haven't revolted yet. You have to relearn, and recertify every time a new release comes out. With Linux, different distros have different GUIs for admin tasks, but that's just GUI. You can do everything for admin from the command line, and nothing has really changed much in the last 15 years.
I took a course on assembly programming. The prof spent more than 1 lecture reading sections from the text which was basically a listing of the instruction set, and the definitions of the instructions. He wouldn't show us how to combine the instructions into useful programs. No, he would simply just read the instruction and it's definitiion straight out of the text, and then continue on with the next instruction. One of the worst classes I ever took. But the labs were kind of interesting.
I'm not sure where you went to school, but most students I know actually wanted to take notes. So they could, oh, I don't know, study from them and pass the exams. This isn't grade 9. If you're going to university, you should be taking notes. Personally, I didn't take a lot of notes, as I felt I learned more by just listening. But I was sure to copy down anything that looked really useful, or at least a list of important topics so I could read about them in the text afterwards.
I can not imagine somebody would want to be a teacher, and at the same time, try to stop their students from taking notes. I think this story missed april fools by a few days.
I wonder if the students could be sued for copyright infringement for writing something down on an exam the the professor said during the class. Think of what they are saying. They are saying you are not allowed to write down what the professor is saying, or I guess, summaries of that. So you probably wouldn't be allowed to write stuff down after you left the class. And oh, yeah, you wouldn't be able to write out the answers on the exam if it required writing something that the professor talked about in one of the classes.
I just got my brother in law to install Mandriva. He's been wanting to try out Linux for quite a while now. He's not really much of a computer geek, so I tend not to talk to him much about Linux, but after reading some main stream magazines, he knew enough about Linux that he knew he wanted to give it a try. Linux really is starting to get a lot of attention. It may not be the best option in all cases, especially when you have business critical windows applications. However, for the home user, Linux is a whole lot less hassle, and requires a whole lot less resources to perform the exact same function.
Well, you have the opposite experience I and others I know do. Upon logging in to Vista, or waking from sleep, or waking from hibernation, it waits for about a minute with a black screen, doing absolutely nothing. Before I can do anything. This happens on a few Vista machines I have seen, and doesn't seem to be related to any specific piece of software that is installed.
Actually, Linux's requirements seem to be coming down in some areas. KDE4, despite having way more eyecandy is actually supposed to required less resources than KDE3. Compiz runs fine on my Celeron 1.6 GHz with 512 MB of RAM and Intel GMA laptop. Why can't Vista, with even less eye candy run at respectable speeds? You could easily have most (all?) of the UI upgrades that Vista offers on XP. Some of them you may not really want, like the completely redesigned control panel (why do they have to do it every time?). But it could all easily be done. There isn't anything revolutionary that Vista does.
Just because somebody taught a university level course about something, doesn't mean they actually understand it. I'm sure we've all had our share of incompetent professors. Also, even if you assume that he does know what he's was talking about (he probably does), it doesn't mean he actually shares the same views towards the constitution as we would like him to.
Ok, Dunkin Donuts is cheaper, but how on earth do you consider their coffee good. Last time I was there (about a year ago) they were still serving their coffee in styrofoam cups. Who, in 2007 (it was last year) serves coffee in styrofoam? Not only is it bad for the environmentally unfriendly, it makes the coffee taste like, um... styrofoam!!!. Personally I don't like Starbucks much either, but I prefer coffee I make at home to any franchise.
Does it annoy anybody else that a cup of coffee is a standard in and of itself? A 12 cup coffee maker only makes 12, 5 oz. cups. Since when is 5 oz. equal to a cup? A measuring cup is 8 oz. the and cup that most people use for coffee is probably around 10-16 oz. So, in this study, do they mean the 5 oz. cup, the 8 oz. cup, or the 16 oz. cup?
I drink my coffee black, no sugar, no cream, just pure coffee (and water). I can't stand most of the stuff they sell at Starbucks, Tim Hortons, or any other well known coffee establishment. Which is why the "Double Double" is so popular at Tim Hortons. Load it down with cream and sugar, so you can't taste how burnt it is. Good coffee should be able to be drank black, without tasting bad. I'm not a coffee connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination. But it's a pretty sad state of affairs when Nabob made at home in your Sunbeam coffee maker tastes many times better then the most popular coffee shops.