Now lets not give this poor piece of press release any more credence then it deserves, It may be on yahoo's page but its only the equivalent of a company making a mock news story about themselves.
(not to steal your thunder) For the lazy, and those who hate PDF's the relevent paragraph:
The bill also provides that the coding for the software that is used to operate the
system on election day and to tally the votes cast must be publicly accessible and
must be able to be used to independently verify the accuracy and reliability of the
operating and tallying procedures to be employed at an election. In addition, the bill
provides that each municipal clerk or board of election commissioners of a
municipality that uses an electronic voting system for voting at an election shall
provide to any person, upon request, at municipal expense, the coding for the
software that the municipality uses to operate the system and to record and tally the
votes cast.
I think this shows everything thats wrong with the tech review industry. They Adver-review cards pretty much only for kids to drool over and feel bad about their existing card that works just fine on pretty much every game they play; and 'Enthusiasts" IE, one born every minute.
Instead of working as a consumer reports type site, where If i want to buy a good graphics card for my ~700-1100 dollar computer (Not my 4 grand alienware) I would be digging through archaic reviews from a few years ago with test results on old drivers.
Wow, this just in, a 700 dollar card dual SLI card can play games at resolutions larger than my monitor can handle, at colour depths the human eye can't discern, at a framerate so fast the human eye doesnt pick it up, on a game that probably wasn't made to take advantage of the card, and with an actual visual performance increase I can barely notice. But the good news is I smoke em when I run a benchmark utility.
While I personaly only use it for photo organization and simple batch edits (Im feeling lucky to a hundred vacation photos) Its a great program that Google could basicly run as an advertisement for their program. (With the exception of editing out people of course, but that requires much more advanced software - Layers transaparencies, undo levels, brushes, and the whole ball of photoshop really)
Picassa still needs a couple things cleaned up about it (moving and saving your fixed files could be easier) but other than that top notch program. Im glad google bought it, Before that when I tried Piccassa it would crash regularly (got a refund)
I know, they came to my building and gave some speaches about it's implications, pretty impressive stuff being able to manipulate 3D spaces in real time and have the changes propogate without a server. and hey, I'm pretty sure it runs linus (its all platform independent)
Still, It looks pretty funny to see alice looking over a white rabbits shoulder and into a portal to another world.
Basicly you get 3D desktop and web environments, and you exist inside of them (imagine being in a first person shooter.. and instead of shooting, looking at your computer. Now imagine this being a MMOG and instead of the person sneaking up behind you and shooting you in the head online; he is able to see what your doing and interact with you and your screen.
Wow GBytes!?! Thats incredible... That certainly doesnt put you in the majority of slashdot users or anything.
Heh, I always wanted to say this, I just checked my statistics and its true. I downloaded gigabytes before breakfast. (also not piracy and whatnot)
Yes, because when your sole access point to news and information is only available through one hopelessly inept overpriced monopoly, surely its your fault for not mounting a boycott. I shouldn't be able to read this news right now, I should be protesting by not paying a company who wouldn't even notice if I wasn't a subscriber (They didn't get me hooked up for over a month and a half, so I'm going to say thats the case) Luckily I can get TV over the air and I do; But its terrible how little you have access to without the Internet.
The problem isn't how long we keep paying, the problem is how long it will take to get an alternative. And hey, look at that, we're getting an alternative.
Trust me, I went completely unplugged for two months, its not a protest, its sitting in the dark expecting the power companies to notice.
Now god damn them for trying to let us get our Internet over the air as well.
Funny charter story. While they were hooking up our modem they got a call...
Intercom:Hey could you guys maybe come back to that house you just hooked up sometime tonight, he says he isn't getting any channels.
Stooge #1: ah thats the guy who was on his balcony shouting at us to come back as we drove off
Stooge #2: Just say no man.
Stooge #1: Sorry we cant get out there tonight.
(they then sat with us for 20 minutes watching the Sync Light blink in error while watching that 70s show over the airwaves, they left without getting our modem working, said they would get maintenance on it and no one ever showed up for a month even with calling them.)
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I have mod points... and Im living in madison, Im just not sure which way to mod this... I just woke up though.
A question about google that can be answered by effing googling... Oh the irony http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefetc h First result for 'google prefetch'
(Dont take this like im a complete jerk, I'm not too serious;)
I would say the success of Child's Play would be an example of just that, it gets media for gamers and helps sick children at the same time, What could be better?
I just wish they would branch out to more hospitals.
Seriously though, only a portion of our voices comes from our throat, the articulation is produced at the tounge and the lips, how is this going to sound when it picks up whats inside the mouth as well as what we actualy project
And on headsets we sometimes have to worry about the terribly annoying com problem of listening to someone pant at lenght during shows. now do we get to hear him lick the inside of his mouth with sloppy gurgling noises just because he forgot to flip a switch with his tounge? Ick.
Maybe for air traffic controllers, but its hard to imagine any use of this microphone outside of the most extreme conditions.
So you pay a reasonable price for a movie on a closed MPAA tracker, using their flavor of the bittorent client, the movie is half a gig, You leave it on overnight and end up sharing 4 gigs, You get an email on the tracker the next day saying you qualify for a dollar off your next purchase due to the amount you give back to the network. The next movie you buy is considerably cheaper because you didnt turn the client off the seccond you got it.
If they would be willing to put a little bit of incentive back into the network (which is incredibly cheap for them to run) we can replace the feel good feeling you get when we share linux distros with the cold hard greed of capitalism:D
Haha, You Sir must have this problem often, being the geek that other geeks feel superior and comparatively normal enough to make fun of.
But on a serious note, Poor Con hygiene is no laughing matter. Smelling like a rotting cabbage doesn't make you 'cool',it doesn't make you fit in, and it certainly doesn't make you a 'geek' you just smell unpleasant and will never experience consensual sex.
1 Computers will be developed that can drive better than people
2 People will absolutely love it and will only take over occasionally when they feel like it
3 Accidents rates will drop steadily as competition for the safest vehicle heats up
4 Despite considerably safer driving every system has flaws, a few accidents happen.
5. A few lawyers decide its the car manufacturers at fault, a few trials, a some convincing words about how the "victim" was "wronged, and a sympathetic jury willing to "stick it to big business"
6 A few billion dollar class action suits later...
7 Goto Step Zero.
Ever get to that point where you have seen a word so many times it begins to stop looking like a word, Or at the very least, looks spelled incorrectly?
Slashdot Mirror
One of the services they offer are VOIP comparisons for 200 dollars, Of their twelve endorsed vendors Skype is nowhere on the list. http://www.infotech.com/Products%20and%20Services/ Vendor%20and%20Software%20Selection/VoIP.aspx
Now lets not give this poor piece of press release any more credence then it deserves, It may be on yahoo's page but its only the equivalent of a company making a mock news story about themselves.
Great link!
(not to steal your thunder) For the lazy, and those who hate PDF's the relevent paragraph:
The bill also provides that the coding for the software that is used to operate the system on election day and to tally the votes cast must be publicly accessible and must be able to be used to independently verify the accuracy and reliability of the operating and tallying procedures to be employed at an election. In addition, the bill provides that each municipal clerk or board of election commissioners of a municipality that uses an electronic voting system for voting at an election shall provide to any person, upon request, at municipal expense, the coding for the software that the municipality uses to operate the system and to record and tally the votes cast.
Yes, because we all know machines suck at tasks like accurately counting numbers in the millions, a situation that simply humans excel at.
We also know that it will only be easier to use some archaic punch card system than simply touching your candidates name and confirming it.
We also know that hanging computer code is a frequent problem, requiring many votes to be discounted regularly.
Also, since many places already use a computer to read analog votes; That doesn't add any extra possibility for error.
In conclusion, what the hell are you ranting about?
Then you weren't nearly as stoned or high as people who say it is generally are.
Or, http://www.missionrisk.com/ Shareware, Multiplayer, Online lobby, Simple.
They have just craploads of... Crap!
Surely this is the business model of the future!
I think this shows everything thats wrong with the tech review industry. They Adver-review cards pretty much only for kids to drool over and feel bad about their existing card that works just fine on pretty much every game they play; and 'Enthusiasts" IE, one born every minute.
Instead of working as a consumer reports type site, where If i want to buy a good graphics card for my ~700-1100 dollar computer (Not my 4 grand alienware) I would be digging through archaic reviews from a few years ago with test results on old drivers.
Wow, this just in, a 700 dollar card dual SLI card can play games at resolutions larger than my monitor can handle, at colour depths the human eye can't discern, at a framerate so fast the human eye doesnt pick it up, on a game that probably wasn't made to take advantage of the card, and with an actual visual performance increase I can barely notice. But the good news is I smoke em when I run a benchmark utility.
Duh, With two petabytes. ;)
While I personaly only use it for photo organization and simple batch edits (Im feeling lucky to a hundred vacation photos) Its a great program that Google could basicly run as an advertisement for their program. (With the exception of editing out people of course, but that requires much more advanced software - Layers transaparencies, undo levels, brushes, and the whole ball of photoshop really)
Picassa still needs a couple things cleaned up about it (moving and saving your fixed files could be easier) but other than that top notch program. Im glad google bought it, Before that when I tried Piccassa it would crash regularly (got a refund)
I know, they came to my building and gave some speaches about it's implications, pretty impressive stuff being able to manipulate 3D spaces in real time and have the changes propogate without a server. and hey, I'm pretty sure it runs linus (its all platform independent)
Still, It looks pretty funny to see alice looking over a white rabbits shoulder and into a portal to another world.
You think that looks silly you should see this.
Croquet http://www.opencroquet.org/
Basicly you get 3D desktop and web environments, and you exist inside of them (imagine being in a first person shooter.. and instead of shooting, looking at your computer. Now imagine this being a MMOG and instead of the person sneaking up behind you and shooting you in the head online; he is able to see what your doing and interact with you and your screen.
Wow GBytes!?! Thats incredible... That certainly doesnt put you in the majority of slashdot users or anything. Heh, I always wanted to say this, I just checked my statistics and its true. I downloaded gigabytes before breakfast. (also not piracy and whatnot)
Yes, because when your sole access point to news and information is only available through one hopelessly inept overpriced monopoly, surely its your fault for not mounting a boycott. I shouldn't be able to read this news right now, I should be protesting by not paying a company who wouldn't even notice if I wasn't a subscriber (They didn't get me hooked up for over a month and a half, so I'm going to say thats the case) Luckily I can get TV over the air and I do; But its terrible how little you have access to without the Internet.
The problem isn't how long we keep paying, the problem is how long it will take to get an alternative. And hey, look at that, we're getting an alternative.
Trust me, I went completely unplugged for two months, its not a protest, its sitting in the dark expecting the power companies to notice.
Now god damn them for trying to let us get our Internet over the air as well.
Funny charter story. While they were hooking up our modem they got a call...
Intercom:Hey could you guys maybe come back to that house you just hooked up sometime tonight, he says he isn't getting any channels.
Stooge #1: ah thats the guy who was on his balcony shouting at us to come back as we drove off
Stooge #2: Just say no man.
Stooge #1: Sorry we cant get out there tonight.
(they then sat with us for 20 minutes watching the Sync Light blink in error while watching that 70s show over the airwaves, they left without getting our modem working, said they would get maintenance on it and no one ever showed up for a month even with calling them.)
I have mod points... and Im living in madison, Im just not sure which way to mod this... I just woke up though.
...or perhaps exactly what it wants?
"Nupedia was characterized by an extensive peer-review process designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to professional encyclopedias"
Well, at 24 articles they have Wikipedia beat.
A question about google that can be answered by effing googling... Oh the ironyc h First result for 'google prefetch'
;)
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefet
(Dont take this like im a complete jerk, I'm not too serious
I would say the success of Child's Play would be an example of just that, it gets media for gamers and helps sick children at the same time, What could be better? I just wish they would branch out to more hospitals.
Seriously though, only a portion of our voices comes from our throat, the articulation is produced at the tounge and the lips, how is this going to sound when it picks up whats inside the mouth as well as what we actualy project And on headsets we sometimes have to worry about the terribly annoying com problem of listening to someone pant at lenght during shows. now do we get to hear him lick the inside of his mouth with sloppy gurgling noises just because he forgot to flip a switch with his tounge? Ick. Maybe for air traffic controllers, but its hard to imagine any use of this microphone outside of the most extreme conditions.
So you pay a reasonable price for a movie on a closed MPAA tracker, using their flavor of the bittorent client, the movie is half a gig, You leave it on overnight and end up sharing 4 gigs, You get an email on the tracker the next day saying you qualify for a dollar off your next purchase due to the amount you give back to the network. The next movie you buy is considerably cheaper because you didnt turn the client off the seccond you got it.
:D
If they would be willing to put a little bit of incentive back into the network (which is incredibly cheap for them to run) we can replace the feel good feeling you get when we share linux distros with the cold hard greed of capitalism
Haha, You Sir must have this problem often, being the geek that other geeks feel superior and comparatively normal enough to make fun of.
But on a serious note, Poor Con hygiene is no laughing matter. Smelling like a rotting cabbage doesn't make you 'cool',it doesn't make you fit in, and it certainly doesn't make you a 'geek' you just smell unpleasant and will never experience consensual sex.
1 Computers will be developed that can drive better than people
2 People will absolutely love it and will only take over occasionally when they feel like it
3 Accidents rates will drop steadily as competition for the safest vehicle heats up
4 Despite considerably safer driving every system has flaws, a few accidents happen.
5. A few lawyers decide its the car manufacturers at fault, a few trials, a some convincing words about how the "victim" was "wronged, and a sympathetic jury willing to "stick it to big business"
6 A few billion dollar class action suits later...
7 Goto Step Zero.
Mod parent and article up.
Surprisingly good writing from a high school senior.
Way over there.
Uh, I would call that "The Americas" Plural...
Ever get to that point where you have seen a word so many times it begins to stop looking like a word, Or at the very least, looks spelled incorrectly?