That's what the "Next" button is for on your phone. I think T9 is great. If you only have 9 keys, you're still going to need T9. I doesn't matter how you lay out the letters, it's always faster to type 1 key than average 2 keys for each letter. Depending on how smart the software is, T9 can really speed you up.
My dad always says the same about cars. Don't buy a new model the first year it comes out, or after they do a major overhaul. Buy a car where they haven't really changed anything in the last couple of years and you'll have a lot less problems.
What's the point of transporting all that water up there if it isn't going to be drinkable once you get up that. All that radiation doesn't just disappear. I'm sure it would have some adverse effects on the water. You'd probably be better off lining the walls of the elevator with lead.
Well according to Wikipedia, Playstation has about 1400 games, while the GameCube has about 700 games. So, there's plenty of games for both systems, although Playstation has twice as many games. The difference you see in stores is due to the fact that there's many more people with a PS2, so the decide to dedicate more space to PS2 games. However, Being a GameCube owner I find that GameCube probably has as many good games, if not more than Playstation. Remember it's not the number of games that matter, but how good the games are. I would buy a system that only had 20 games if I thought every one of those games was amazing. I've never even owned more than 20 games for any 1 system anyway.
My sibling poster seems to have gotten the point. You can verify 1 executable, but you can't verify all the executables, on all the voting machines. This is a significant problem, because someone has physical access to those machines. Think about game consoles. We've all seen what happens when you put a mod chip in a unit that was once thought only to run specific signed software. The point is, is that you can get these voting machines to run any software you like, and there's nothing guaranteeing you that when you walk up to that machine on election day, that it will be running the correct software.
How does open source software help voting machines anyway. I mean, how do you prove that the code that's released and analyzed is actually the code loaded onto the thousands (or more) of voting machines around the country? There's too little transparency with computerized voting. I don't care how many people have verified the code is secure, because nobody will be verifying that the code on every voting machine is the code it's supposed to be. It's much easier to just use hand counted paper ballots.
The problem with using standardized tests have always been that teachers spend more time teaching the students how to pass the test than actually teaching them useful skills. I know a guy who's mom is a teacher. On the grade 3 test, they had Venn diagrams that the students were supposed to understand. Now usually they wouldn't teach this kind of thing in grade 3, but since it's on the test, they had to teach it, even though there's much more important things for them to understand, especially at that age group.
Well, I guess they don't have to be encrypted, but the results should be digitally signed, so that we can detect if they are changed. If the only record of my vote is the flip of a bit on a memory card, then I don't see how we can really verify elections.
There's no need for voting machines period. Everything should be done with pen and paper, and counted by hand. Simple. Efficient, and Accurate, and a whole lot less ways to screw with the results. When the only real record of your vote is going from a touch screen to a memory card, how do you know it was counted right.
I have experienced the same thing. My roommate ran Bittorrent on windows XP and frequently got slow(er) download rates (50-100 KBps), yet when I hooked up to the same torrent, on my linux box, going through the same router and connection, I got around 300 KBps. It happened with many torrents, and most of the time I was downloading everything, because it would take 1/4 of the time.
It becomes more apparent when talking about slower computers, as newer computers don't even take a hit when trying to decode mp3, but trying to do the same thing on a 486 would have made the music unplayable. I remember trying to play mp3s on my 486, and they skipped like crazy. If the result of procedural texture is decreased frame rates, like some posters have already have pointed out is a problem, then I don't see how it would really help in this generation. However, I'm sure future generations of consoles with faster or dedicated processors will gain a big advantage by using this technology. The best thing about it is if you have a faster processor, or want to wait long enough, then you could upgrade the graphics in a game, without buying the game again.
I was running XGL/Compiz on Linux, and it ran quite smoothly on my AMD64 3200+ with Radeon x550. I disable it because half the time it wouldn't start up, most likely due to bad ATI drivers. Anyway, speed being the issue, it was very fast. According to a comment here the specs are very low, at P3 1GH and 512 MB of memory with a weak GForce Card.
Will this actually decrease loading times? It seems to be that as games get bigger, the loading times get longer, would the decrease in space needed make it require more or less time to load the game. Obviously reading the information off the disk would be faster, but I imagine you'd have a lot of computation to do to figure out what the texture is supposed to be. Kind of like how it takes less CPU power to decode a WAV file than to decode an MP3 file.
I would contend that OSS released under GPL does have a price.. that is, accepting of the GPL itself. I think that you will find that some people may find that a steep price indeed
Unless you are comparing it to the BSD license, then there is no price. The GPL only restricts how you may redistribute the product. Most commercial software cannot be redistributed, so this is a non-issue. The GPL in no way inhibits your abilities to use the software.
The first time I used SUSE, I had a terrible experience. I installed it, mostly with the default options, and the updater was broken. It couldn't even download updates. It was SUSE 10.1. I don't understand how they could release an OS with such a critical bug. It kind of soured my on the whole idea of SUSE. Which is kind of sad, since It had such a nice UI.
Besides, it's stupid to wait out in front of best buy when you could go to some store that nobody else would ever think of going to to pick up a PS3. The electronics stores are going to be sold out in no time. Go to something less suspecting like Sears.
Has a study ever been done on brain size of different races? I think it would be quite interesting. Why not do this kind of study? If the study was done accurately, without trying to skew the results, then I don't see any problem with it. Does anybody complain that they've done studies and found out that Africans have larger penises while the Chinese have smaller penises? I wonder how much correlation there is between brain size and intelligence. I've seen people with very large heads (and therefore I can only assume large brains) who are actually quite stupid.
Long term goals are important, but it's also about personal happiness right now too. Either way, I think he'd be better off taking the Perl job. As long as he's making enough money either way, then I don't see a problem with taking a lower paying job, if he thinks he will enjoy it more. The biggest thing he will probably notice between people working on Perl and people working on.Net, is that in.Net there will be a lot more idiots. The only people who know Perl, are the people who have a passion for programming, and learned it on their own, and find it fun. In the.Net world where I work, I see a lot of people who are "MS Certified" and all that junk, yet don't even understand the basics of programming. A lot of my friends who work with.Net see the same thing. So, I don't think it's an isolated issue. That said, if your just a small cog in a giant wheel, nobody will notice if you come in at 9, work until 5, take an hour for lunch, and two 15 minutes breaks. In the smaller company, they may expect that since they are so "fun" that you will want to work extra hours just because you love it so much. If you have kids, working those extra hours, or even being expected to stay after work to play video games may not be what you really want to do.
I guess i'm using an old version of GnuCash, because it defaults to double entry on mine. Maybe it's different between distros. Maybe they changed it for version 2. If it is different for version 2, then why the change? I thought it was nice the old way.
It's not my fault the bands you listen to can only create 4 good songs. All the bands that I buy CDs from can produce CDs that have all the songs being good. And XCP does nothing on my linux box, or on my windows box (same box, dual boot) where I've disabled autoplay. Why would I want my computer to run arbitrary executable by sticking discs into the drive anyway? With iPods shipping with viruses and such, why would I want my computer running arbitrary programs without me asking it to?
Yes, I did, and it totally cancelled out your argument. You're saying that "They Lied!" when they call it plays for sure, even though they never claimed it would play on all devices. You kind of right, plays for sure never really meant much, because it wasn't supported by apple or by low end devices. However, I have to applaud the initiative, as it at least showed they were trying to have multiple players work with the format. not like iTunes which is only supported on the iPod.
But Plays for sure doesn't play on your iPod, so it was never really plays for sure. It was only ever plays for sure on devices that were marked as plays for sure, which is a very small subset of devices.
Which shows that electronic voting isn't the only way to hack the vote. However, it' probably the only way to hack the vote, and not have the voter know about it.
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That's what the "Next" button is for on your phone. I think T9 is great. If you only have 9 keys, you're still going to need T9. I doesn't matter how you lay out the letters, it's always faster to type 1 key than average 2 keys for each letter. Depending on how smart the software is, T9 can really speed you up.
My dad always says the same about cars. Don't buy a new model the first year it comes out, or after they do a major overhaul. Buy a car where they haven't really changed anything in the last couple of years and you'll have a lot less problems.
What's the point of transporting all that water up there if it isn't going to be drinkable once you get up that. All that radiation doesn't just disappear. I'm sure it would have some adverse effects on the water. You'd probably be better off lining the walls of the elevator with lead.
Well according to Wikipedia, Playstation has about 1400 games, while the GameCube has about 700 games. So, there's plenty of games for both systems, although Playstation has twice as many games. The difference you see in stores is due to the fact that there's many more people with a PS2, so the decide to dedicate more space to PS2 games. However, Being a GameCube owner I find that GameCube probably has as many good games, if not more than Playstation. Remember it's not the number of games that matter, but how good the games are. I would buy a system that only had 20 games if I thought every one of those games was amazing. I've never even owned more than 20 games for any 1 system anyway.
My sibling poster seems to have gotten the point. You can verify 1 executable, but you can't verify all the executables, on all the voting machines. This is a significant problem, because someone has physical access to those machines. Think about game consoles. We've all seen what happens when you put a mod chip in a unit that was once thought only to run specific signed software. The point is, is that you can get these voting machines to run any software you like, and there's nothing guaranteeing you that when you walk up to that machine on election day, that it will be running the correct software.
How does open source software help voting machines anyway. I mean, how do you prove that the code that's released and analyzed is actually the code loaded onto the thousands (or more) of voting machines around the country? There's too little transparency with computerized voting. I don't care how many people have verified the code is secure, because nobody will be verifying that the code on every voting machine is the code it's supposed to be. It's much easier to just use hand counted paper ballots.
The problem with using standardized tests have always been that teachers spend more time teaching the students how to pass the test than actually teaching them useful skills. I know a guy who's mom is a teacher. On the grade 3 test, they had Venn diagrams that the students were supposed to understand. Now usually they wouldn't teach this kind of thing in grade 3, but since it's on the test, they had to teach it, even though there's much more important things for them to understand, especially at that age group.
Well, I guess they don't have to be encrypted, but the results should be digitally signed, so that we can detect if they are changed. If the only record of my vote is the flip of a bit on a memory card, then I don't see how we can really verify elections.
There's no need for voting machines period. Everything should be done with pen and paper, and counted by hand. Simple. Efficient, and Accurate, and a whole lot less ways to screw with the results. When the only real record of your vote is going from a touch screen to a memory card, how do you know it was counted right.
I have experienced the same thing. My roommate ran Bittorrent on windows XP and frequently got slow(er) download rates (50-100 KBps), yet when I hooked up to the same torrent, on my linux box, going through the same router and connection, I got around 300 KBps. It happened with many torrents, and most of the time I was downloading everything, because it would take 1/4 of the time.
It becomes more apparent when talking about slower computers, as newer computers don't even take a hit when trying to decode mp3, but trying to do the same thing on a 486 would have made the music unplayable. I remember trying to play mp3s on my 486, and they skipped like crazy. If the result of procedural texture is decreased frame rates, like some posters have already have pointed out is a problem, then I don't see how it would really help in this generation. However, I'm sure future generations of consoles with faster or dedicated processors will gain a big advantage by using this technology. The best thing about it is if you have a faster processor, or want to wait long enough, then you could upgrade the graphics in a game, without buying the game again.
I was running XGL/Compiz on Linux, and it ran quite smoothly on my AMD64 3200+ with Radeon x550. I disable it because half the time it wouldn't start up, most likely due to bad ATI drivers. Anyway, speed being the issue, it was very fast. According to a comment here the specs are very low, at P3 1GH and 512 MB of memory with a weak GForce Card.
Will this actually decrease loading times? It seems to be that as games get bigger, the loading times get longer, would the decrease in space needed make it require more or less time to load the game. Obviously reading the information off the disk would be faster, but I imagine you'd have a lot of computation to do to figure out what the texture is supposed to be. Kind of like how it takes less CPU power to decode a WAV file than to decode an MP3 file.
The first time I used SUSE, I had a terrible experience. I installed it, mostly with the default options, and the updater was broken. It couldn't even download updates. It was SUSE 10.1. I don't understand how they could release an OS with such a critical bug. It kind of soured my on the whole idea of SUSE. Which is kind of sad, since It had such a nice UI.
Besides, it's stupid to wait out in front of best buy when you could go to some store that nobody else would ever think of going to to pick up a PS3. The electronics stores are going to be sold out in no time. Go to something less suspecting like Sears.
Has a study ever been done on brain size of different races? I think it would be quite interesting. Why not do this kind of study? If the study was done accurately, without trying to skew the results, then I don't see any problem with it. Does anybody complain that they've done studies and found out that Africans have larger penises while the Chinese have smaller penises? I wonder how much correlation there is between brain size and intelligence. I've seen people with very large heads (and therefore I can only assume large brains) who are actually quite stupid.
Long term goals are important, but it's also about personal happiness right now too. Either way, I think he'd be better off taking the Perl job. As long as he's making enough money either way, then I don't see a problem with taking a lower paying job, if he thinks he will enjoy it more. The biggest thing he will probably notice between people working on Perl and people working on .Net, is that in .Net there will be a lot more idiots. The only people who know Perl, are the people who have a passion for programming, and learned it on their own, and find it fun. In the .Net world where I work, I see a lot of people who are "MS Certified" and all that junk, yet don't even understand the basics of programming. A lot of my friends who work with .Net see the same thing. So, I don't think it's an isolated issue. That said, if your just a small cog in a giant wheel, nobody will notice if you come in at 9, work until 5, take an hour for lunch, and two 15 minutes breaks. In the smaller company, they may expect that since they are so "fun" that you will want to work extra hours just because you love it so much. If you have kids, working those extra hours, or even being expected to stay after work to play video games may not be what you really want to do.
You seem to think that I care.
My Method is to just disallow posting of html. I have a simple blog, and if they try to do anything like post too many HREFs or or something, then I just deny the post. That seemed to work for the most part. The bots usually tried to post URLs on my site, so if they posted something like with < and >. They also try posting [link]...[/link] which also doesn't work on my blog, so I just display an error message and let the user fix it. You can still post straight URLs, but that's not too good for spammers, because they usually want a link. I also stop people from trying to post more than 5 URLs in a single post, since I noticed the bots like to do that. I recently upgraded by blog to use AJAX to submit the comments. Adds an extra layer of protection against the bots, but I really haven't needed any since I added in the filters mentioned above.
I guess i'm using an old version of GnuCash, because it defaults to double entry on mine. Maybe it's different between distros. Maybe they changed it for version 2. If it is different for version 2, then why the change? I thought it was nice the old way.
It's not my fault the bands you listen to can only create 4 good songs. All the bands that I buy CDs from can produce CDs that have all the songs being good. And XCP does nothing on my linux box, or on my windows box (same box, dual boot) where I've disabled autoplay. Why would I want my computer to run arbitrary executable by sticking discs into the drive anyway? With iPods shipping with viruses and such, why would I want my computer running arbitrary programs without me asking it to?
Yes, I did, and it totally cancelled out your argument. You're saying that "They Lied!" when they call it plays for sure, even though they never claimed it would play on all devices. You kind of right, plays for sure never really meant much, because it wasn't supported by apple or by low end devices. However, I have to applaud the initiative, as it at least showed they were trying to have multiple players work with the format. not like iTunes which is only supported on the iPod.
But Plays for sure doesn't play on your iPod, so it was never really plays for sure. It was only ever plays for sure on devices that were marked as plays for sure, which is a very small subset of devices.
Which shows that electronic voting isn't the only way to hack the vote. However, it' probably the only way to hack the vote, and not have the voter know about it.