No it doesn't. GP says that each vote is given a unique ID. You get a printed slip with your vote and ID number on it. I'm trying to think of some way that you could take the number with you and verify the accuracy of the record after the election, but I can't think of a simple way to permit someone to carry it out without the possibility of someone physically taking it from them and using it to find out how they voted. I don't think this is a serious concern, but it just seems an unnecessary risk.
I'm not sure you need to go to all that trouble (although insulating the hot water pipes is something I've wanted to do in every house I've lived in). I think all you'd really need is a point source water heater and a low-flow shower head. And a controller for the termerature setting/monitoring, of course, but you could probably retrofit the whole deal in an existing bathroom for a couple thousand.
Yep, that's how it worked for me. My wife and I lived in a little cape cod with ~900 square feet. Then we moved and wanted something "a little bigger". Due to limited house-hunting time, we bought the first thing we both liked, which turned out to be a 4200sf (!) rancher on a hill. Then we moved again, into a more reasonably-sized house (still huge, but only 2800sf). Unfortunately, we had bought enough furniture to fill out the previous house, so this one feels a little cramped...
Oh, and we only lived in the "big" house for a couple of years, and still made 8% profit when we sold it. Real estate is *such* a racket....
Never spent much time with 3.1, did you? Non-overlapping windows, that stupid Program Manager -- there was no comparison to the Mac. Windows 95, OTOH, was where the smack-down really started...
would they be that productive having hot girls in bikinis walking by every five minutes?
Speaking as an Official Bikini Inspector (it's right there on the tee-shirt, sunshine), let me just go on record as reporting that's the only time that I'm productive. Other than that, it just opening and closing this little drink umbrella and feeding the sea gulls cigars.
Check out the article here by Kathy Sierra (of Head First fame). She quotes neuroscientist Elizabeth Gould of Princeton saying "complex surroundings create a complex brain". Basically, a monotonous environment causes the brain to stop producing new neurons. For years, it was thought that we were born with all the neurons we would ever have, largely because all studies of primate brains involved keeping the monkeys in cages -- an environment that inhibits neuron formation and growth! Now research shows that a stimulating environment fosters neuron formation and reduces brain stress. Time to bust out the electric screwdriver!
Making sub-standard wages as compensation for sub-standard supervision. Same reason a lot of people never leave academia. Work on whatever you like, whenever you feel like it, earn about as much as a bus driver. Maybe it's better at bigger schools, but UW-M doesn't strike me as an especially big school...
I learned BASIC "back in the day" (back when it was still spelled in upper case) using an interpreter. I still think this is the best way if you actually want to learn to program. If you just want to write something simple with a GUI, then yes, VB is probably the way to go. I wouldn't classify that as "learning to program", any more than "learning electronics" by building a crystal radio from a kit. Yes, you'll get results, but all you've done is put together some components someone else has made.
If you want to learn to program just to know how, I'd recommend setting up Squeak and playing with that. Or a good Scheme system, there are certainly enough of those around. Something that allows you to explore interactively, instead of having to wade through edit/compile/run cycles.
Yep, that's the way. I've done this twice in the past few years (Philly to Portland, Portland to Lincoln, NE) [yes, I do have some bad karma I'm burning off], and this is what I did. The only real problem I had was the second move, when we decided that rather than buy a house with only a weekend to choose, we had them put our stuff in storage while we found one we liked. When we finally got our furniture, several pieces had been ruined due to water damage, and a half-dozen random things were broken. The company (North American, I believe) was pretty good, giving us money for the stuff that was destroyed and either repairing or replacing the rest. Their repair guy was very good (matching stain colors on an antique filing cabinet), and if we weren't happy with his work, they company told us they'd pay to have the whatever replaced. Obviously, YMMV, and it's nicer if nothing gets broken, but we have enough stuff that we entirely filled a 35' trailer (part of that was a car, though), so it was important to us that everything was packed and unpacked as well as transported.
I've been using one of these for years. Works well, and even impresses the occasional PDA-jaded client. I sometimes still carry my old Palm Pilot (so old it still says "US Robotics" on the front), but I never really found an app that let me draw and annotate diagrams the way I can with pen and paper. The Palm wins when it comes time to play Asteroids, though...;)
I've seen this comment a few times now, and I'm puzzled. Didn't Apple add this to the Mini at the last refresh (when they bumped the iMac's processor speeds)? I'm pretty sure I noticed this on the specs at least a couple of months ago...
I've thought about this before, and I've wondered if there wouldn't be a use for a separate (say) 12V DC system in parallel with the standard AC. This would permit DC devices (like anything that uses a wall wart) to be plugged directly into some sort of socket, while maintaining standard A/C for the things it's good for (large appliances, TVs, etc.).
Mostly this is spawned by frustration at having to cons up "wart removers" (basically 1' extensions cords) for computer equipment, but I wonder if there's enough DC-capable equipment in a house to make it worthwhile. Would (say) a CD or DVD player benefit from the ability to remove the power supply and run directly from DC?
Apple iPod Hi-Fi (from Apple): * Class D amp * Two 180mm midrange drivers (acoustically suspended) * One 130mm woofer (ported) * Frequency response: 53Hz to 16kHz ± 3 dB * Maximum peak sound pressure level: 108 dB at 1 m (AC); 102 dB at 1 m (DC)
Bose SoundDock (from Bose): * 6.65" H x 11.91" W x 6.48" D 16.89 x 30.26 x 16.47 cm 4.56 lb (2.1 kg)
Can you show specs that demonstrate the Bose product to be superior? To anything? Can you even find specs for the SoundDock on Bose's site (beyond those shown here)? If so, trot 'em out, Bose-tool.
I keep reading these comments about how the bottom is "heavier" than the top, so it'll fall faster. The secret is that it is denser, so it's less affected by air resistance than the top, thus leading to its, well, leading position during the fall.
Um, this is the way it's always been. I remember when I first joined the ACM, I checked out the "help wanted" section they have in the back, and I was shocked (shocked, I tell you!) to find that they were offering people with Ph.D.s only a fraction of what the current going rate was. I mean, they were advertising positions that required a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, and they were paying $22K, when the average starting salary was closer to $30K. I supposed that these people were used to living on research assistantships or similary low-paying gigs, but if I had an advanced degree and I could do things that only a couple hundred people on the planet could do, I'd damn sure hold out for some serious green.
It could be those positions offered hefty raises once you proved yourself, but I pretty much lost interest in going for an advanced degree after I saw that.
the principals of RAID applied across all of their hardware
What, so they ground up David Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy Katz to a puree and smeared them all over their data center? Hmmm, a blood sacrifice, could explain their success, although it does conflict with their official "do no evil" policy....
Or did you mean they applied the principles of RAID across their enterprise? Now that would make more sense, but it's not what you said.
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No it doesn't. GP says that each vote is given a unique ID. You get a printed slip with your vote and ID number on it. I'm trying to think of some way that you could take the number with you and verify the accuracy of the record after the election, but I can't think of a simple way to permit someone to carry it out without the possibility of someone physically taking it from them and using it to find out how they voted. I don't think this is a serious concern, but it just seems an unnecessary risk.
I'm not sure you need to go to all that trouble (although insulating the hot water pipes is something I've wanted to do in every house I've lived in). I think all you'd really need is a point source water heater and a low-flow shower head. And a controller for the termerature setting/monitoring, of course, but you could probably retrofit the whole deal in an existing bathroom for a couple thousand.
Disclaimer: I am not a plumbing contractor.
Yep, that's how it worked for me. My wife and I lived in a little cape cod with ~900 square feet. Then we moved and wanted something "a little bigger". Due to limited house-hunting time, we bought the first thing we both liked, which turned out to be a 4200sf (!) rancher on a hill. Then we moved again, into a more reasonably-sized house (still huge, but only 2800sf). Unfortunately, we had bought enough furniture to fill out the previous house, so this one feels a little cramped...
Oh, and we only lived in the "big" house for a couple of years, and still made 8% profit when we sold it. Real estate is *such* a racket....
this -- with an OC-3 line...
Never spent much time with 3.1, did you? Non-overlapping windows, that stupid Program Manager -- there was no comparison to the Mac. Windows 95, OTOH, was where the smack-down really started...
would they be that productive having hot girls in bikinis walking by every five minutes?
Speaking as an Official Bikini Inspector (it's right there on the tee-shirt, sunshine), let me just go on record as reporting that's the only time that I'm productive. Other than that, it just opening and closing this little drink umbrella and feeding the sea gulls cigars.
Check out the article here by Kathy Sierra (of Head First fame). She quotes neuroscientist Elizabeth Gould of Princeton saying "complex surroundings create a complex brain". Basically, a monotonous environment causes the brain to stop producing new neurons. For years, it was thought that we were born with all the neurons we would ever have, largely because all studies of primate brains involved keeping the monkeys in cages -- an environment that inhibits neuron formation and growth! Now research shows that a stimulating environment fosters neuron formation and reduces brain stress. Time to bust out the electric screwdriver!
Making sub-standard wages as compensation for sub-standard supervision. Same reason a lot of people never leave academia. Work on whatever you like, whenever you feel like it, earn about as much as a bus driver. Maybe it's better at bigger schools, but UW-M doesn't strike me as an especially big school...
Is that trendoid-speak for "supports GPS"?
Clue: with GPS, satellites track YOU!
We may all live in the basement, but some of us are looking at the joists!
(/me notices the whine of Oscar Wilde spinning in his grave rises in pitch....)
I learned BASIC "back in the day" (back when it was still spelled in upper case) using an interpreter. I still think this is the best way if you actually want to learn to program. If you just want to write something simple with a GUI, then yes, VB is probably the way to go. I wouldn't classify that as "learning to program", any more than "learning electronics" by building a crystal radio from a kit. Yes, you'll get results, but all you've done is put together some components someone else has made.
If you want to learn to program just to know how, I'd recommend setting up Squeak and playing with that. Or a good Scheme system, there are certainly enough of those around. Something that allows you to explore interactively, instead of having to wade through edit/compile/run cycles.
Yep, that's the way. I've done this twice in the past few years (Philly to Portland, Portland to Lincoln, NE) [yes, I do have some bad karma I'm burning off], and this is what I did. The only real problem I had was the second move, when we decided that rather than buy a house with only a weekend to choose, we had them put our stuff in storage while we found one we liked. When we finally got our furniture, several pieces had been ruined due to water damage, and a half-dozen random things were broken. The company (North American, I believe) was pretty good, giving us money for the stuff that was destroyed and either repairing or replacing the rest. Their repair guy was very good (matching stain colors on an antique filing cabinet), and if we weren't happy with his work, they company told us they'd pay to have the whatever replaced. Obviously, YMMV, and it's nicer if nothing gets broken, but we have enough stuff that we entirely filled a 35' trailer (part of that was a car, though), so it was important to us that everything was packed and unpacked as well as transported.
I've been using one of these for years. Works well, and even impresses the occasional PDA-jaded client. I sometimes still carry my old Palm Pilot (so old it still says "US Robotics" on the front), but I never really found an app that let me draw and annotate diagrams the way I can with pen and paper. The Palm wins when it comes time to play Asteroids, though... ;)
having to write scripts for Windows, OS X and Linux
And just screw all us BSD/Solaris folks, right?
Um, it adds 802.11 and Bluetooth
I've seen this comment a few times now, and I'm puzzled. Didn't Apple add this to the Mini at the last refresh (when they bumped the iMac's processor speeds)? I'm pretty sure I noticed this on the specs at least a couple of months ago...
I've thought about this before, and I've wondered if there wouldn't be a use for a separate (say) 12V DC system in parallel with the standard AC. This would permit DC devices (like anything that uses a wall wart) to be plugged directly into some sort of socket, while maintaining standard A/C for the things it's good for (large appliances, TVs, etc.).
Mostly this is spawned by frustration at having to cons up "wart removers" (basically 1' extensions cords) for computer equipment, but I wonder if there's enough DC-capable equipment in a house to make it worthwhile. Would (say) a CD or DVD player benefit from the ability to remove the power supply and run directly from DC?
But then they would have had to change the school's nick from ISU to iState....
What degree is higher than a PhD?
A PhDD? Everybody wants double-Ds!
Feb. 30, 2006
So this didn't really happen?
Well, let's look at the specs!
Apple iPod Hi-Fi (from Apple):
* Class D amp
* Two 180mm midrange drivers (acoustically suspended)
* One 130mm woofer (ported)
* Frequency response: 53Hz to 16kHz ± 3 dB
* Maximum peak sound pressure level: 108 dB at 1 m (AC); 102 dB at 1 m (DC)
Bose SoundDock (from Bose):
* 6.65" H x 11.91" W x 6.48" D 16.89 x 30.26 x 16.47 cm 4.56 lb (2.1 kg)
Can you show specs that demonstrate the Bose product to be superior? To anything? Can you even find specs for the SoundDock on Bose's site (beyond those shown here)? If so, trot 'em out, Bose-tool.
That line right there rendered your entire post as useless and uniformed.
Actually, it was his mention of a Bose product.
Do we have any polls regarding age of Slashdotters?
Yeah, a long time ago. Guess you're too young to remember...
I keep reading these comments about how the bottom is "heavier" than the top, so it'll fall faster. The secret is that it is denser, so it's less affected by air resistance than the top, thus leading to its, well, leading position during the fall.
Um, this is the way it's always been. I remember when I first joined the ACM, I checked out the "help wanted" section they have in the back, and I was shocked (shocked, I tell you!) to find that they were offering people with Ph.D.s only a fraction of what the current going rate was. I mean, they were advertising positions that required a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, and they were paying $22K, when the average starting salary was closer to $30K. I supposed that these people were used to living on research assistantships or similary low-paying gigs, but if I had an advanced degree and I could do things that only a couple hundred people on the planet could do, I'd damn sure hold out for some serious green.
It could be those positions offered hefty raises once you proved yourself, but I pretty much lost interest in going for an advanced degree after I saw that.
the principals of RAID applied across all of their hardware
What, so they ground up David Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy Katz to a puree and smeared them all over their data center? Hmmm, a blood sacrifice, could explain their success, although it does conflict with their official "do no evil" policy....
Or did you mean they applied the principles of RAID across their enterprise? Now that would make more sense, but it's not what you said.