Could you elaborate a little more about why it sounds a bit... poofy?
My Dutch isn't good at all, but "flickr" sounds pretty much like the Dutch word "flikkeren", which means "flash", "flare", "flicker" in English.
The key to the success of the Canadian system and the principle that the US needs to adopt is that the vote counting is entirely transparent and out in the open. Fraud is very difficult in that environment. There are at least two, and often many more, eyeballs watching every count. It is both repeatable and auditable. The number of eyeballs watching is what is really important. No part of the counting or reporting the count to other officials is out of sight or secret.
Voting machines are really hopelessly obscure and not open in any way and fraud is so easy that it is laughable and ridiculous to even consider them. The criminals will love it. It's a perfect way to make voting meaningless and to ensure that the US eventually becomes a dictatorship. Good luck to the sheep who are willing to let this happen -- soon you will be roast mutton.
The statement that the Chinese have no alphabet is just plain incorrect. A system called "pinyin" using the same alphabet as most European languages has existed for many years and has been taught in Chinese schools. In Chinese, tone (how high or low one's voice is) is important, almost as though it is sung rather than just spoken. Accents are placed over vowels to show rising, falling, rising-falling, high, and neutral tones. Tones are not unique to Chinese. They also play a role in some European languages, such as Swedish.
I'm not sure why pinyin hasn't become the dominant way to write Chinese, since it is much more simple that the classical ideograms. Probably, it has something to do with being too closely associated with the Mandarin dialect (just one of many important dialects in China). Possibly, due to historical and cultural tradition, one is not considered "educated" unless one is fluent at reading and writing the old way. I would like to hear from someone who is actually from China as to why pinyin is not as popular as classical and simplified ideograms.
Apparently Win 98 has a remote administration service that uses RPC, but sounds like one must enable it, else the server portion won't be running.
See: http://www.networkcomputing.com/netdesign/1011part 1a.html
Note that Win 98 has almost no security anyhow, so it is extremely easy to hack into.
CNET has this story about the IDC research report plus comments from Microsoft about some plans for Linux (most already mentioned in previous posts).
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976755.html
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Could you elaborate a little more about why it sounds a bit ... poofy?
My Dutch isn't good at all, but "flickr" sounds pretty much like the Dutch word "flikkeren", which means "flash", "flare", "flicker" in English.
Arrrrr! I meant two pairs of eyeballs, ya swab! (trivia question: who was the first movie pirate to say "arrrr"?)
Voting machines are really hopelessly obscure and not open in any way and fraud is so easy that it is laughable and ridiculous to even consider them. The criminals will love it. It's a perfect way to make voting meaningless and to ensure that the US eventually becomes a dictatorship. Good luck to the sheep who are willing to let this happen -- soon you will be roast mutton.
The statement that the Chinese have no alphabet is just plain incorrect. A system called "pinyin" using the same alphabet as most European languages has existed for many years and has been taught in Chinese schools. In Chinese, tone (how high or low one's voice is) is important, almost as though it is sung rather than just spoken. Accents are placed over vowels to show rising, falling, rising-falling, high, and neutral tones. Tones are not unique to Chinese. They also play a role in some European languages, such as Swedish.
I'm not sure why pinyin hasn't become the dominant way to write Chinese, since it is much more simple that the classical ideograms. Probably, it has something to do with being too closely associated with the Mandarin dialect (just one of many important dialects in China). Possibly, due to historical and cultural tradition, one is not considered "educated" unless one is fluent at reading and writing the old way. I would like to hear from someone who is actually from China as to why pinyin is not as popular as classical and simplified ideograms.
An erroneous blank got inserted into the URL submitted above. The correct link is: Windows 98 Registry Handbook Sorry.
Apparently Win 98 has a remote administration service that uses RPC, but sounds like one must enable it, else the server portion won't be running. See: http://www.networkcomputing.com/netdesign/1011part 1a.html
Note that Win 98 has almost no security anyhow, so it is extremely easy to hack into.
CNET has this story about the IDC research report plus comments from Microsoft about some plans for Linux (most already mentioned in previous posts). http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976755.html