I also agree. I have done 6 years tech support for windows/mac/BSD and before that I did it for everyone I knew for about 10 years.
I am VERY sick of tech support, and I quite frankly don't understand how you people can stand all the stupid people! I'm going back to coding before I go nuts!
I push only macs because I AM SICK OF DOING SUPPORT!!! Its fun to go into darwin and play with some stuff, but only ON MY TERMS.
I'm going 2 get a linux box some day, but not until I miss doing tech support....
HUH? Implementations? MS has stolen code in the past. What makes you think they just dont steal the open source, add some stuff , "fix" by adding some more errors, remove comments (a lesson they learned when the got caught stealing code years ago) and PRESTO! MS "Innovation"!
Who can look over their code to see how many lines of code MS stole and sue them?
We all know how corps abuse IP laws and go after anyone using even 1% of their code. And in 1 case that comes to mind, something like 200 lines of code they GPL'd then changed their mind and now they are suing anyone who might have even thought of using that code.
My city does the roads, and lets the car makers compete on them. We don't have GM make the road than then insist you to only drive GM cars on it.
Cities should do the networks like they do the roads. Usage taxes help maintain the 'information superhighway'. Let the free market build the cars, gas stations, AAA, onstar, etc..
I do not need an ISP. I MUST pay them and I don't even like them. Our city would have saved more money in the long run doing it themselves than all that regulation waste. (including lawsuits, regulation boards, etc.)
right on dude! but it was more yellow than orange in my theater...hmm...
I was surprised they used fractiles. many people don't know what they are (or recognize a common one) and even then only some people see it has a clue into the direction of where math meets nature. It also seemed to backup the idea of having the machines seem more 'alive', that is more human like; as another form of life.
YES! I thought that intro animation was a very good visual representation of whole concept.
Problem is that it was at the beginning, where many people would not get it. Even though the yellow world showed up later....THEY FRICKEN COLOR CODED IT FOR YOU!
The "real" world is also too blue in color just like the matrix was too yellow in color. That always had me wondering since movie #1.
Sure it does. It works about as well as war does. Now if you want to discuss if war 'works' I'm open to that. But terrorism is on par with war, in fact its a type of warfare.
Nuking Japan was terrorism. And that worked.
terrorism \Ter"ror*ism\, n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.] The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. --Jefferson.
Dan Rather said management bosses him around with a right wing bias. Go find the interview on the BBC.
The media does not reflect the country, in fact, they often think they decide what the public thinks. There is a god complex in there, on both sides. Its why they have to tell you everything--they can't even show a 1 minute speech! they have to have 'experts' blab about it instead; paraphrase/summarize because they think we are too stupid. (FYI: I watch cspan)
This war in which half the country and MOST the world was against was completely ignored. I wondered if I was in Soviet Russia, how would a government media act any different than usa media just did? Oh yes, how long have they been reporting we are coming out of 'recession'?
#1) I mean by "they", I mean most the posts I read, and other concerned people. I have heard very little about take-home receipts; but then I'm around smarter people than that I guess...
Take-home crap is worthless; and obvious enough that it should not appease most people with a brain.
Yes, I read the article, like an hour ago. The posts are more fun to read anyhow.
1) a receipt would be something you keep. they are talking audit trails.
2) who is to say the paper matches the computer? ONLY recounts would show anything going on. If candidate X loses by 10% do they ask for a recount?
3) How many "bugs" will produce incorrect printouts that will go unverified? (at least enough to win another 10+%)
4) Transaction ID system can be compromised.
5) A voter ID system is harder to compromise, but is illegal in that you are not anon.
6) A complex hack would involve dumping printouts you don't like; which is EZ since its automated!
7) A more compex hack would result in 2 printouts.
8) A paper trail will not effect the next 1 or 2 elections. So they can come up with other tricks.
9) verification could make butterfly ballots look like child's play. (BTW, nobody mentions how EZ that is to hack, and how it was done in miami..)
9.5) Why not print off a report later? who could tell the difference???....
10) The point behind breaking areas up, is that you can remove corrupted area's results. It also is supposed to make it more difficult to cheat. Machines negate this, esp. when there is only 1-2 kinds of them used.
The motivation to WASTE our money on something so cheaply and securly done, is either foolishness or something else...
I'm sure they already know the % that will correctly verify the vote. And the % that even checks it. In fact, there have been studies were people were asked to recheck their answers, and you'd be surprised how the human mind messes with you...The error rate on that was high enough to get a few points, let alone those who do not check at all.
How big is the print on the paper? Is it in english? Its it black on white? or grey on offwhite? Does it list the whole ballot or just those you voted for? All of these questions will greatly effect the accuracy of verification.
ALSO, I will bet my new G5 on the fact no recount will completely match the computer total.
Not funny, you discredit the many possible situations by creating an over-the-top one.
Just think if you worked for a company, and a billion dollars (literally) was being spent on elections; and you wanted some of that money.... You'd find ways to do stuff...
Have "bugs" in the software, where 50% of the people do not verify and re-vote to correct the "bug". This "bug" I personally KNOW about. took 10 reboots of the system before it let the vote correctly register....well it was put onto flashRAM, so I still don't know...
Printing 2 times, 1 for the voter goes to the trash, and 1 for the ballot box. Must be a dozen ways of just doing that trick.
The cheaters behind all this do not really want it fixed. Everyone talking or actually doing something is STILL putting it off long enough for them to gain working control of the government. At which point, they could manage to set things up so they never lose control. Any case, they will do plenty of harm until the problems are fixed.
This is not STUPID mistakes, its INTENTIONALLY STUPID mistakes!
Actually if you know some actual liberals, you'd realize CBS News is right wing. Dan Rather probably leans to the left; however, he MUST lean to the RIGHT to keep his job, he even said so in an interview with the BBC. (I'm surprised he is still employed after that one...)
If bill could not control or curb the internet's insane growth rate, the OS and the office software would fade out and in a way that crazy Oracle guy would be right...
The web is "dead". stuck around 1997. Just think how fast we moved from 93-97.. Now imagine what 5 more of those years would have led us to today?
XHTML3 and SVG2 with ECMAScript 3 and better java integration & speed perhaps?
MOST users would only need a brower, as it would in a way become a high-level OS of sorts in itself. Think about it. Gates sure did...(browser=os)
Well, #2 is actually a good one. Would filter out half my students with JUST THAT problem!! (programming is prereq) You think you have it hard...
#1 is for a fluent C++ guy. I've not touched it for 5 years, such details have faded from my memory. Hope you warn them about the test before hand, so they can prep.Bet they try for other languages they know too. It seems a bit unfar to me. A great C++ programmer might take a while to get back into gear.
I would ask some habit type questions. Good coding practices, and real understanding of OOP would be more important. I don't care if the guy was GOD at hacking out C++ code, if he did not comment, did overly complex unelegant coding, or could not learn to adapt to something new, I would not want him. So what if he/she knows STL or MFC by heart, if he can't use/pickup other stuff he is worthless---too many coders reinvent the wheel to "save time".
>Leveling the world's job market will lower us while raising others.
This is based on the premise that the poor nation's people will rise up instead of bend over. What do you think will be the case? (if yes, its going to take 100s of years...)
fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Just because they did something today, does not mean you can conclude on their motives or future actions in a positive light. Given their past record, the anti-MS-group (aka: anyone with brain) has a high chance of being correct.
The answers will come with time.
Hitler did good stuff for his country and was popular and then his motives became obvious to the world... Get used to being disapointed in waiting for the populace to catch up.
1st the browser issue, now its the media player, next it will be anti-virus, DRM, object file system, built-in database, online shopping ID, MSHTML, MSPDF, MSFLASH, and application certificate systems....etc...
Sooner or later they will not be able to buy out a government, but then, they can just punish smaller countries...
Why not just call them Microsoft OS and leave it at that. Then we just fork over thousands for our "customized" model of windows, like we do with our cars. At least I'll not have bunch of their products to deal with; its all being integrated into 1 thing. Its like if they can't make money with it, put it into the OS so nobody else can either.
and also generators are expensive and sparse in the USA, I had to order from europe for my generator. Which I no longer use, because even with lights the cars don't see me. So I avoid them, and as long as I can see its not a problem. And in the city, it never gets that dark.
It was not proven. This so called "real world" is in itself subjective and not really proven. To say they explained this away after all the depth of the first movie; obviously, would make one think they had brain damage during movie 2. But that is not the case. If you think they explained that away, then you probably think Fox "News" is News. (anyone see the connection?)
Both movies have a surprising amount related to free-will; and in the ending you could say they are making a statement that free will and determinism yeild the same result; so much so you can't be sure if free-will exists. Anyway, with movies #2 & #3 they added more philosophical questions.
I'm sorry some people don't "get it". Checkout the phil section at the library. The brothers did.
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There goes my moderation status for this one...
I also agree. I have done 6 years tech support for windows/mac/BSD and before that I did it for everyone I knew for about 10 years.
I am VERY sick of tech support, and I quite frankly don't understand how you people can stand all the stupid people! I'm going back to coding before I go nuts!
I push only macs because I AM SICK OF DOING SUPPORT!!! Its fun to go into darwin and play with some stuff, but only ON MY TERMS.
I'm going 2 get a linux box some day, but not until I miss doing tech support....
HUH? Implementations?
MS has stolen code in the past. What makes you think they just dont steal the open source, add some stuff , "fix" by adding some more errors, remove comments (a lesson they learned when the got caught stealing code years ago) and PRESTO! MS "Innovation"!
Who can look over their code to see how many lines of code MS stole and sue them?
We all know how corps abuse IP laws and go after anyone using even 1% of their code. And in 1 case that comes to mind, something like 200 lines of code they GPL'd then changed their mind and now they are suing anyone who might have even thought of using that code.
WHY CANT THE W3C USE IP LAWS TO STOP THIS!?
Q: Can America Trust Electronic Voting?
A: NO.
My city does the roads, and lets the car makers compete on them.
We don't have GM make the road than then insist you to only drive GM cars on it.
Cities should do the networks like they do the roads. Usage taxes help maintain the 'information superhighway'. Let the free market build the cars, gas stations, AAA, onstar, etc..
I do not need an ISP. I MUST pay them and I don't even like them. Our city would have saved more money in the long run doing it themselves than all that regulation waste. (including lawsuits, regulation boards, etc.)
right on dude!
but it was more yellow than orange in my theater...hmm...
I was surprised they used fractiles. many people don't know what they are (or recognize a common one) and even then only some people see it has a clue into the direction of where math meets nature. It also seemed to backup the idea of having the machines seem more 'alive', that is more human like; as another form of life.
YES! I thought that intro animation was a very good visual representation of whole concept.
Problem is that it was at the beginning, where many people would not get it. Even though the yellow world showed up later....THEY FRICKEN COLOR CODED IT FOR YOU!
The "real" world is also too blue in color just like the matrix was too yellow in color. That always had me wondering since movie #1.
Sure it does. It works about as well as war does. Now if you want to discuss if war 'works' I'm open to that. But terrorism is on par with war, in fact its a type of warfare.
Nuking Japan was terrorism. And that worked.
terrorism
\Ter"ror*ism\, n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.] The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. --Jefferson.
Case point:
Dan Rather said management bosses him around with a right wing bias. Go find the interview on the BBC.
The media does not reflect the country, in fact, they often think they decide what the public thinks. There is a god complex in there, on both sides. Its why they have to tell you everything--they can't even show a 1 minute speech! they have to have 'experts' blab about it instead; paraphrase/summarize because they think we are too stupid.
(FYI: I watch cspan)
This war in which half the country and MOST the world was against was completely ignored. I wondered if I was in Soviet Russia, how would a government media act any different than usa media just did? Oh yes, how long have they been reporting we are coming out of 'recession'?
In Soviet Russia the media...oh, nevermind.
clarification
#1) I mean by "they", I mean most the posts I read, and other concerned people. I have heard very little about take-home receipts; but then I'm around smarter people than that I guess...
Take-home crap is worthless; and obvious enough that it should not appease most people with a brain.
Yes, I read the article, like an hour ago. The posts are more fun to read anyhow.
You're missing the point. Here is a quick top 10:
1) a receipt would be something you keep. they are talking audit trails.
2) who is to say the paper matches the computer? ONLY recounts would show anything going on. If candidate X loses by 10% do they ask for a recount?
3) How many "bugs" will produce incorrect printouts that will go unverified? (at least enough to win another 10+%)
4) Transaction ID system can be compromised.
5) A voter ID system is harder to compromise, but is illegal in that you are not anon.
6) A complex hack would involve dumping printouts you don't like; which is EZ since its automated!
7) A more compex hack would result in 2 printouts.
8) A paper trail will not effect the next 1 or 2 elections. So they can come up with other tricks.
9) verification could make butterfly ballots look like child's play. (BTW, nobody mentions how EZ that is to hack, and how it was done in miami..)
9.5) Why not print off a report later? who could tell the difference???....
10) The point behind breaking areas up, is that you can remove corrupted area's results. It also is supposed to make it more difficult to cheat. Machines negate this, esp. when there is only 1-2 kinds of them used.
The motivation to WASTE our money on something so cheaply and securly done, is either foolishness or something else...
I'm sure they already know the % that will correctly verify the vote. And the % that even checks it.
In fact, there have been studies were people were asked to recheck their answers, and you'd be surprised how the human mind messes with you...The error rate on that was high enough to get a few points, let alone those who do not check at all.
How big is the print on the paper? Is it in english? Its it black on white? or grey on offwhite? Does it list the whole ballot or just those you voted for?
All of these questions will greatly effect the accuracy of verification.
ALSO, I will bet my new G5 on the fact no recount will completely match the computer total.
Not funny, you discredit the many possible situations by creating an over-the-top one.
Just think if you worked for a company, and a billion dollars (literally) was being spent on elections; and you wanted some of that money.... You'd find ways to do stuff...
Have "bugs" in the software, where 50% of the people do not verify and re-vote to correct the "bug". This "bug" I personally KNOW about. took 10 reboots of the system before it let the vote correctly register....well it was put onto flashRAM, so I still don't know...
Printing 2 times, 1 for the voter goes to the trash, and 1 for the ballot box. Must be a dozen ways of just doing that trick.
The cheaters behind all this do not really want it fixed. Everyone talking or actually doing something is STILL putting it off long enough for them to gain working control of the government. At which point, they could manage to set things up so they never lose control. Any case, they will do plenty of harm until the problems are fixed. This is not STUPID mistakes, its INTENTIONALLY STUPID mistakes!
Actually if you know some actual liberals, you'd realize CBS News is right wing. Dan Rather probably leans to the left; however, he MUST lean to the RIGHT to keep his job, he even said so in an interview with the BBC. (I'm surprised he is still employed after that one...)
IE was there to kill the internet not netscape.
If bill could not control or curb the internet's insane growth rate, the OS and the office software would fade out and in a way that crazy Oracle guy would be right...
The web is "dead". stuck around 1997. Just think how fast we moved from 93-97.. Now imagine what 5 more of those years would have led us to today?
XHTML3 and SVG2 with ECMAScript 3 and better java integration & speed perhaps?
MOST users would only need a brower, as it would in a way become a high-level OS of sorts in itself. Think about it. Gates sure did...(browser=os)
Well, #2 is actually a good one. Would filter out half my students with JUST THAT problem!! (programming is prereq) You think you have it hard...
#1 is for a fluent C++ guy. I've not touched it for 5 years, such details have faded from my memory. Hope you warn them about the test before hand, so they can prep.Bet they try for other languages they know too. It seems a bit unfar to me. A great C++ programmer might take a while to get back into gear.
I would ask some habit type questions. Good coding practices, and real understanding of OOP would be more important. I don't care if the guy was GOD at hacking out C++ code, if he did not comment, did overly complex unelegant coding, or could not learn to adapt to something new, I would not want him. So what if he/she knows STL or MFC by heart, if he can't use/pickup other stuff he is worthless---too many coders reinvent the wheel to "save time".
Just ask yourself this as an american:
If we had all mainstream media be government media; would it REALLY be that much different???
(think especially related to things the government actually cares about--like wars---econ...)
>Leveling the world's job market will lower us while raising others.
This is based on the premise that the poor nation's people will rise up instead of bend over. What do you think will be the case? (if yes, its going to take 100s of years...)
fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Just because they did something today, does not mean you can conclude on their motives or future actions in a positive light. Given their past record, the anti-MS-group (aka: anyone with brain) has a high chance of being correct.
The answers will come with time.
Hitler did good stuff for his country and was popular and then his motives became obvious to the world...
Get used to being disapointed in waiting for the populace to catch up.
Does this whole thing sound similar to anyone??
1st the browser issue, now its the media player, next it will be anti-virus, DRM, object file system, built-in database, online shopping ID, MSHTML, MSPDF, MSFLASH, and application certificate systems....etc...
Sooner or later they will not be able to buy out a government, but then, they can just punish smaller countries...
Why not just call them Microsoft OS and leave it at that. Then we just fork over thousands for our "customized" model of windows, like we do with our cars. At least I'll not have bunch of their products to deal with; its all being integrated into 1 thing. Its like if they can't make money with it, put it into the OS so nobody else can either.
I commute too. even in winter.
take a look at:
superbrightleds.com
and also generators are expensive and sparse in the USA, I had to order from europe for my generator. Which I no longer use, because even with lights the cars don't see me. So I avoid them, and as long as I can see its not a problem. And in the city, it never gets that dark.
So now I don't even bother.
I suppose the worst job would be the dorks posting those sick comments...
;-)
but not as bad as the losers who try to post 1st...
wow 5th post? boy I must be lucky! ;-)
It was not proven. This so called "real world" is in itself subjective and not really proven. To say they explained this away after all the depth of the first movie; obviously, would make one think they had brain damage during movie 2. But that is not the case. If you think they explained that away, then you probably think Fox "News" is News. (anyone see the connection?)
Both movies have a surprising amount related to free-will; and in the ending you could say they are making a statement that free will and determinism yeild the same result; so much so you can't be sure if free-will exists. Anyway, with movies #2 & #3 they added more philosophical questions.
I'm sorry some people don't "get it".
Checkout the phil section at the library. The brothers did.