Where I live (Birmingham, Al) they've erected several signs over the interstates. The signs are ment to warn drivers of potential problems with the roads (traffic accidents, ice, immenent meteor strike, etc). I've been kinda curious as to how they worked since they put them up (so that I might have a little fun with them).
so for all the arguing I've seen on here so far I'm really surprised/impressed that noone mentioned this (from the article):
Last December it was formally announced that multi-billionaire Paul Allen -- the co-founder of Microsoft -- is footing the bill on the SpaceShipOne project.
so my question now is... who owns this technology?
everyone's bitching about how warcraft was based on something else, so wasn't revolutionary. what they forgot to realize is that neither was Doom... anyone remember Wolfenstein 3D (originally released May 5, 1992.)? I'm sure there might have been some predecessors to that as well
Technology is developed before it is standardized. You don't just create paper documents of wishful thinking and then wait for someone to implement it. You start with proposals based on what is possible and usually what exists. After that, it's politics, not engineering.
That's kinda funny. The way I remember it that's EXACTLY what happened with USB2. They came up with the magic numbers then developed the hardware to suit.
How in the world do employers manage to brainwash people into thinking that they're gods? Who says that I have to do what my employer says?
Well... in today's IT market thaey almost are... I don't know what the statistics are, but around here (Birmingham, AL) I'd say there are probably, easily, 100 qualified people for every job listed.
If you took the:
"The server's down, who knew?"
approach I'd say that one of those other 100 might, soon, be having a chance at your job. This shows that you don't care about the company, or your job (I found out that telling an employer that they were a means to an end, getting paid, is a bad thing. they like to feel like you stand behind the product... not just YOUR work).
I use to like to joke with my mom (a degreed HR person) that Humans are not Resources... but in today's market (in the IT field, at least) they can almost be treated as comodities. If someone can do your job without complaining as much, then they can probaby get him... and probably cheaper.
sounds like the same idea... I tried googling for the toy, but got bored. Anyhow... I think it was one of those things that (at an early age) started making me wonder about tech-stuff.
Note, though, that I wasn't born till the early 80s.
my first inclination after readin this was "aww... come on dude. while it may not have been noteworty I DID have somethign to say. Fingers under throat... not in it, and such." But about half-ways down I strated laughing... then I couldn't stop. If I hadn't already posted here I'd give you a FUNNY mod.
I won't argue... while I was writing that I thought to myself "ya know... if one were to crack the system they wouldn't spin it so it'd look bad for the company that designed the system... they'd spin it as how the 'hacker' culture is bad... they'd probably compare these people to spamers and virus writers"
on the same note... if anyone wants to see an example of how America's media hypes up the less-important aspects of, whatever... they should watch Bowling For Columbine. Whie the movie isn't targeted at this it does raise some very important questions.
as I got half-ways through reading the article I got curious... sure enough, if you take a finger (or 2) and stick them under your throat you can feel it contracting slightly... just when reading. so now the question is: does it happen while I'm typing too, and the answer is YES... I actually spell out my words, and say my punctuation, while typing.
reminds me of this toy (was it a "transformers" toy?) I had when I was a kid. you'd basically talk into this tube (without talking... just form your words) and it'd make the sounds. I guess it worked on pressure differences or something... kids get crappy toys now
well... I wasn't meaning to overgeneralize the problem here... what I was meaining to point out was that it is (in theory) a simple system. I don't think it's a problem that it spits out the same results every time you "recount." If they're right, they're right. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the current system is broken... if you can count a set of ballots X number of times and come up with a different number ANY of those times then something's wrong. I think that this is probably one of the best candidates for an "open source" system as I've ever seen. If they're so inclined, Joe Citizen can check to make sure that the system is doing what it's supposed to do and he can know it is, for a fact. I still don't think it's nearly as complex a problem as it's proprosed to be.
ok... I agree with what you're saying, on whole, but disagree with your practices. I don't think we should just walk in and sledge-hammer away at the machines. Using a system with publically known problems is inherently wrong. I don't think this is questioned. But wouldn't it make a much larger statement if Candidate A got 52,000,000,000 (yes... trillion, aka alot more people than are on the planet) votes to candidate B's 52 votes? If you walk in and destroy the machine then all that does is get you in a pair of handcuffs for destroying public property. If you SHOW, to EVERYONE, that the system has problems then that would say something to those in power. Also note that Ghandi "defeated" the British Empire with less drastic measures than you're suggesting.
On a different note. I don't see what the problem with building a secure voting system is. Granted I haven't been programming for THAT long (5 years, at a stretch???), but still... all you're doing is saying that person X has cast a vote and candidate Y has received a vote (yeah... I realize you don't want to document WHO each individual voted for). I don't know, but it sounds like a pretty easy database transaction to me. Also if it is done right then it should pretty much do away with all these "let's recount the votes" questions. If someone wanted to recount it'd take about.5 sec... SELECT * FROM votes WHERE candidate = 'bush'; SELECT count(); or something... depends on the DB technology I guess
I think that, at this point, there will be two major complaints and I want to adress them both.
1) it's just Java 2.0
yeah, ok... it is. I have to admit that I like C# and it DOES have a "striking" similarity to java. ignoring all the other things that are done better, the thing I like the most (on Windows AND Linux... x86 style) is that I can run a.Net application and it runs in a reasonable amount of time. it seems to me like Java's JIT compiler IS just in time... just in time to be slow.
2) layers of abstraction are bad.
I don't care who says what, unless you're writing everything in binary your'e using SOME layer of abstraction. as long as the underlying libraries are written WELL and STABLE then abstraction leads to increades productivity and reliability.
amen... a buddy of mine and I were in Lowes the other day and their machines in the customer service area were running some random *nix variant... am I supposed to believe those are tech savy people? Hell... if they even realized that X11 was different I'd be surprised
according to the definition they are NOT uniform... they have similar burn patterns. similar != uniform
uniform adj.
1) Always the same, as in character or degree; unvarying.
2) Conforming to one principle, standard, or rule; consistent.
3) Being the same as or consonant with another or others.
4) Unvaried in texture, color, or design.
if you wanna start a flame war for mod-poins go somewhere else
So I'm normally annoyed by people correcting my grammer (spelling, etc), but this thread actually made me laugh (albeit at myself). If I had mod points (and the system would permit) I'd give em to ya.
well... my first clue that they had no idea what they were talking about was when I looked at the picture. The article clearly said that it was over $1000 in cash. There's only $600 in the pic. It also said that it was burned uniformly... it clearly isn't.
in response to the tracking of money... people even do it voluntarily... Where's George
this isn't interesting, insightful, or anything else... I just wanted to point it out
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Where I live (Birmingham, Al) they've erected several signs over the interstates. The signs are ment to warn drivers of potential problems with the roads (traffic accidents, ice, immenent meteor strike, etc). I've been kinda curious as to how they worked since they put them up (so that I might have a little fun with them).
:)
example
so yeah... if anyone knows about them then let me know
so my question now is... who owns this technology?
Nifty "cross-platform" C# implementation:
1 1100001 1101001 1010111 1011111 1010011 1011000 1011001 1000011 1001111 1100110 1000000 1000000 100001";
:)
public class DecodeMessage {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
StringReader sr=new StringReader(data);
StringBuffer message=new StringBuffer();
while(true) {
char[] binaryDigits=new char[8];
int bitsRead=sr.read(binaryDigits,0,8);
if(bitsRead==-1) {break;}
byte b=Byte.parseByte(new String(binaryDigits),2);
message.append((char)b);
}
System.out.println(message.toString());
}
static String data=
"01001001001000000111001101101000011011110
01110000011001010110010000100000011000010
00100000010101000110100001101001011011100
01000111011001010110010101101011001000000
01101110001000000100000101110000011100100
01101100001000000100011001101111011011110
01110011001000000100010001100001011110010
00100000011000010110111001100100001000000
01101100011011000010000001001001001000000
01101111011101000010000001110111011000010
00100000011101000110100001101001011100110
01101100011011110111010101110011011110010
01110011011010000110100101110010011101000
}
Just kidding
noone seemed to notice the ad that says:
NOW SHIPPING
Half-Life 2
Doom 3
Halo 2
Click To Order
OBVIOUSLY an AF joke.
everyone's bitching about how warcraft was based on something else, so wasn't revolutionary. what they forgot to realize is that neither was Doom... anyone remember Wolfenstein 3D (originally released May 5, 1992.)? I'm sure there might have been some predecessors to that as well
Well... in today's IT market thaey almost are... I don't know what the statistics are, but around here (Birmingham, AL) I'd say there are probably, easily, 100 qualified people for every job listed.
If you took the: approach I'd say that one of those other 100 might, soon, be having a chance at your job. This shows that you don't care about the company, or your job (I found out that telling an employer that they were a means to an end, getting paid, is a bad thing. they like to feel like you stand behind the product... not just YOUR work).
I use to like to joke with my mom (a degreed HR person) that Humans are not Resources... but in today's market (in the IT field, at least) they can almost be treated as comodities. If someone can do your job without complaining as much, then they can probaby get him... and probably cheaper.
Jesus dude... the X11 team is having an orgi? Can I go to the local CVS to get "access?"
Sorry, I had to... I'm a schtikler for typos.
sounds like the same idea... I tried googling for the toy, but got bored. Anyhow... I think it was one of those things that (at an early age) started making me wonder about tech-stuff.
Note, though, that I wasn't born till the early 80s.
my first inclination after readin this was "aww... come on dude. while it may not have been noteworty I DID have somethign to say. Fingers under throat... not in it, and such." But about half-ways down I strated laughing... then I couldn't stop. If I hadn't already posted here I'd give you a FUNNY mod.
I won't argue... while I was writing that I thought to myself "ya know... if one were to crack the system they wouldn't spin it so it'd look bad for the company that designed the system... they'd spin it as how the 'hacker' culture is bad... they'd probably compare these people to spamers and virus writers"
on the same note... if anyone wants to see an example of how America's media hypes up the less-important aspects of, whatever... they should watch Bowling For Columbine. Whie the movie isn't targeted at this it does raise some very important questions.
as I got half-ways through reading the article I got curious... sure enough, if you take a finger (or 2) and stick them under your throat you can feel it contracting slightly... just when reading. so now the question is: does it happen while I'm typing too, and the answer is YES... I actually spell out my words, and say my punctuation, while typing.
reminds me of this toy (was it a "transformers" toy?) I had when I was a kid. you'd basically talk into this tube (without talking... just form your words) and it'd make the sounds. I guess it worked on pressure differences or something... kids get crappy toys now
well... I wasn't meaning to overgeneralize the problem here... what I was meaining to point out was that it is (in theory) a simple system. I don't think it's a problem that it spits out the same results every time you "recount." If they're right, they're right. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the current system is broken... if you can count a set of ballots X number of times and come up with a different number ANY of those times then something's wrong. I think that this is probably one of the best candidates for an "open source" system as I've ever seen. If they're so inclined, Joe Citizen can check to make sure that the system is doing what it's supposed to do and he can know it is, for a fact. I still don't think it's nearly as complex a problem as it's proprosed to be.
ok... I agree with what you're saying, on whole, but disagree with your practices. I don't think we should just walk in and sledge-hammer away at the machines. Using a system with publically known problems is inherently wrong. I don't think this is questioned. But wouldn't it make a much larger statement if Candidate A got 52,000,000,000 (yes... trillion, aka alot more people than are on the planet) votes to candidate B's 52 votes? If you walk in and destroy the machine then all that does is get you in a pair of handcuffs for destroying public property. If you SHOW, to EVERYONE, that the system has problems then that would say something to those in power. Also note that Ghandi "defeated" the British Empire with less drastic measures than you're suggesting.
.5 sec...
On a different note. I don't see what the problem with building a secure voting system is. Granted I haven't been programming for THAT long (5 years, at a stretch???), but still... all you're doing is saying that person X has cast a vote and candidate Y has received a vote (yeah... I realize you don't want to document WHO each individual voted for). I don't know, but it sounds like a pretty easy database transaction to me. Also if it is done right then it should pretty much do away with all these "let's recount the votes" questions. If someone wanted to recount it'd take about
SELECT * FROM votes WHERE candidate = 'bush';
SELECT count();
or something... depends on the DB technology I guess
I think that, at this point, there will be two major complaints and I want to adress them both.
.Net application and it runs in a reasonable amount of time. it seems to me like Java's JIT compiler IS just in time... just in time to be slow.
1) it's just Java 2.0
yeah, ok... it is. I have to admit that I like C# and it DOES have a "striking" similarity to java. ignoring all the other things that are done better, the thing I like the most (on Windows AND Linux... x86 style) is that I can run a
2) layers of abstraction are bad.
I don't care who says what, unless you're writing everything in binary your'e using SOME layer of abstraction. as long as the underlying libraries are written WELL and STABLE then abstraction leads to increades productivity and reliability.
amen... a buddy of mine and I were in Lowes the other day and their machines in the customer service area were running some random *nix variant... am I supposed to believe those are tech savy people? Hell... if they even realized that X11 was different I'd be surprised
or, maybe, in Hong Kong they take into account SPELLING DIFFERENCES...
roboTcop != robocop
in soviet russia robot cops police YOU!
wait...
is it sad that I'm using an E-Machine to reply to this from?
according to the definition they are NOT uniform... they have similar burn patterns.
similar != uniform
uniform adj.
1) Always the same, as in character or degree; unvarying.
2) Conforming to one principle, standard, or rule; consistent.
3) Being the same as or consonant with another or others.
4) Unvaried in texture, color, or design.
if you wanna start a flame war for mod-poins go somewhere else
there's a bit of information on the CIA's website about it too. no explosion info though
So I'm normally annoyed by people correcting my grammer (spelling, etc), but this thread actually made me laugh (albeit at myself). If I had mod points (and the system would permit) I'd give em to ya.
voila!
well... my first clue that they had no idea what they were talking about was when I looked at the picture. The article clearly said that it was over $1000 in cash. There's only $600 in the pic. It also said that it was burned uniformly... it clearly isn't.
in response to the tracking of money... people even do it voluntarily... Where's George
this isn't interesting, insightful, or anything else... I just wanted to point it out
sorry AC... I don't think you really read my posting. try again because it makes sense.