I love the idea, but unfortunately, while Sheetz will give you a receipt for your order, complete with your order number and what you ordered, you will receive no such printout from most electronic voting machines.
As far as training goes, in Cuyahoga County Ohio (Cleveland), the techs working the polls, in addition to being the highest-paid poll workers, are required to take an eight hour training course. I had considered the idea of being a tech worker for the polls, but was unable to justify to myself the time investment necessary. While $250 sounds like a lot, you have to work an eight hour day (training) and a fourteen hour day (election day) to get it. While there is a "doing your civic duty" vibe you get, I donate blood every two months to light that one up.
Also, you're ignoring the twice-annual special elections and the primary elections every spring in the cycle years. Still, no excuse for the incompetence.
First, a preface. There are sites out there that will do what you want, and as part of their fees, will handle the site development, order processing, and fulfillment. If you really want to do it yourself, remember that there are typically per-transaction as well as percentage fees for card processing, which is why micropayments have yet to really take off.
Now, that being said, OSCommerce will do what you want. It will provide a pretty interface, allow you to create time and/or number of download limited links, and has plugins to handle billing with pretty much anyone you'd ever want (and some you wouldn't touch) to handle your billing.
If you put that secret in a database and then you sell your business, what can I do? Sue you?
That depends. I remember a time when our federal government actually sometimes did the right thing. When a company swore up and down they wouldn't disclose your personal information, they would sue them if they tried to. Now, they just retroactively change the law so that information can be disclosed without penalties.
What is unfortunate in this is that it punishes the company that "does the right thing", in allowing usage of the term to flourish as long as it was all lower case and in no way disparaged the fine products of the Hormel company. Now, they're at risk for losing their trademark for not "defending" it. This will simply encourage companies to go after Mike Rowe Soft, folks using keywords for PPC campaigns, and anything with the word "pod" in it. If you were Apple, and you saw this going down on Hormel, what would you do with anyone using "pod" in conjunction with audio files, video files, or portable music players?
It's buggy, slow, fraudulently packaged, consumes an inordinate amount of your CPU, has been delayed many times, delivers on only a fraction of its originally advertised functionality, and is extremely expensive.
Has someone let Steve Ballmer know that Optimus has stolen Microsoft's marketing plan?????
The cameras and high-density servers just do their job, only more efficiently and less expensively.
And don't bitch about missing "Murder She Wrote" or "Matlock", or how those crazy kids dress these days, or how their car got forty rods to the hogshead...
Feh. When I was twelve, I was the team lead for a small (three of us) team that was adopting the game "Lemonade Stand" written in Apple Basic, to one where you were the proprietor of a whorehouse. Supply, demand, buy low and sell high, all were incorporated.
And today, nearly twenty years later, I find myself a lead developer again, though sadly, the applications are much less personally interesting.
Netflix already has done this, I'm sure. Dig around, find out how they run their distribution centers, and copy their work. No use reinventing the wheel when someone else already built a business model around keeping track of a crapload of discs.
This is easy. What you want are Avian Carriers. There is some latency possible, and inclement weather will lead to some potential packet loss, but it's definitely the best solution.
If it's CNN or NPR, it's in the very tip of the middle finger of the left hand attached to an outstretched arm. If it's the Wall Street Journal, it's somewhere deeply embedded in a rich person's pocket. If it's Fox News, it's in the middle of the brain, but unfortunately, said the head containing it is suffering from a recto-cranial inversion.
Even better, implement some sort of on-demand filtering so my cable box censors it if I choose.
The ClearPlay DVD player will take a file from ClearPlay to use to skip objectionable portions. Both the MPAA and the Directors Guild of America sued ClearPlay. The MPAA claimed it created a derivative work, the DGA claimed it harmed the brand name of its member directors.
I hear the NOS sticker is good for two teraflops, and if they put a big unpainted wing on top of it, that's another three teraflops. Stage III, including the watermelon shooter con exhaust pipe, takes it up an additional ten teraflops!
What's next? Real blames everything on someone else for their awful product?
What? You think YOU can write a better application that is just this side of spyware and malware without having mass user revolt? You think YOU can integrate video games and an application for listening to streaming media, and not have it come out like some bizarre Mecha-Streisand??
Ya know, if you had any wonder that a half-wit can't be elected, found out to be a fraud, and then re-elected, just look at the current regime in the US. NUKE-yuh-luhr?
My first MUD-like game was Island of Kesmai. At the ridiculous per-hour charges of compuserve, this grew into an expensive habit. After I found Gamestorm's Legends of Kesmai, they had me hooked for $9.95 per month from the time I found it until the time they pulled the plug, after selling out to EA to give them the Aries engine. I never had, nor have since, found a community quite like Kesmai.
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I love the idea, but unfortunately, while Sheetz will give you a receipt for your order, complete with your order number and what you ordered, you will receive no such printout from most electronic voting machines.
As far as training goes, in Cuyahoga County Ohio (Cleveland), the techs working the polls, in addition to being the highest-paid poll workers, are required to take an eight hour training course. I had considered the idea of being a tech worker for the polls, but was unable to justify to myself the time investment necessary. While $250 sounds like a lot, you have to work an eight hour day (training) and a fourteen hour day (election day) to get it. While there is a "doing your civic duty" vibe you get, I donate blood every two months to light that one up.
Also, you're ignoring the twice-annual special elections and the primary elections every spring in the cycle years. Still, no excuse for the incompetence.
DUH.
While Google has a pretty good track record, there have been a few flops. This may prove to be one of them.
First, a preface. There are sites out there that will do what you want, and as part of their fees, will handle the site development, order processing, and fulfillment. If you really want to do it yourself, remember that there are typically per-transaction as well as percentage fees for card processing, which is why micropayments have yet to really take off.
Now, that being said, OSCommerce will do what you want. It will provide a pretty interface, allow you to create time and/or number of download limited links, and has plugins to handle billing with pretty much anyone you'd ever want (and some you wouldn't touch) to handle your billing.
If you put that secret in a database and then you sell your business, what can I do? Sue you?
That depends. I remember a time when our federal government actually sometimes did the right thing. When a company swore up and down they wouldn't disclose your personal information, they would sue them if they tried to. Now, they just retroactively change the law so that information can be disclosed without penalties.
clearly thoes denied their WoW fix can't be expected to behave entirely rationally.
Jack Thompson, it's good to see you've seen the light. Can you please stop going after Take Two now, mmmmkay?
What is unfortunate in this is that it punishes the company that "does the right thing", in allowing usage of the term to flourish as long as it was all lower case and in no way disparaged the fine products of the Hormel company. Now, they're at risk for losing their trademark for not "defending" it. This will simply encourage companies to go after Mike Rowe Soft, folks using keywords for PPC campaigns, and anything with the word "pod" in it. If you were Apple, and you saw this going down on Hormel, what would you do with anyone using "pod" in conjunction with audio files, video files, or portable music players?
It's buggy, slow, fraudulently packaged, consumes an inordinate amount of your CPU, has been delayed many times, delivers on only a fraction of its originally advertised functionality, and is extremely expensive.
Has someone let Steve Ballmer know that Optimus has stolen Microsoft's marketing plan?????
The cameras and high-density servers just do their job, only more efficiently and less expensively.
And don't bitch about missing "Murder She Wrote" or "Matlock", or how those crazy kids dress these days, or how their car got forty rods to the hogshead...
Feh. When I was twelve, I was the team lead for a small (three of us) team that was adopting the game "Lemonade Stand" written in Apple Basic, to one where you were the proprietor of a whorehouse. Supply, demand, buy low and sell high, all were incorporated.
And today, nearly twenty years later, I find myself a lead developer again, though sadly, the applications are much less personally interesting.
Netflix already has done this, I'm sure. Dig around, find out how they run their distribution centers, and copy their work. No use reinventing the wheel when someone else already built a business model around keeping track of a crapload of discs.
This is easy. What you want are Avian Carriers. There is some latency possible, and inclement weather will lead to some potential packet loss, but it's definitely the best solution.
If it's CNN or NPR, it's in the very tip of the middle finger of the left hand attached to an outstretched arm. If it's the Wall Street Journal, it's somewhere deeply embedded in a rich person's pocket. If it's Fox News, it's in the middle of the brain, but unfortunately, said the head containing it is suffering from a recto-cranial inversion.
We prefer to think of it as NNPOV, or Non-Negative Point of View.
Yours,
Hu Jintao, President of China
Yah. Like you need to go to a museum to see it when you can just go here!
The CSS for "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"? I'd like to use that as my starting point. TIA!
Even better, implement some sort of on-demand filtering so my cable box censors it if I choose.
The ClearPlay DVD player will take a file from ClearPlay to use to skip objectionable portions. Both the MPAA and the Directors Guild of America sued ClearPlay. The MPAA claimed it created a derivative work, the DGA claimed it harmed the brand name of its member directors.
I'm sure the theater would be MORE than happy to provide this service to you, for a mere $75 deposit, $60 refundable.
I hear the NOS sticker is good for two teraflops, and if they put a big unpainted wing on top of it, that's another three teraflops. Stage III, including the watermelon shooter con exhaust pipe, takes it up an additional ten teraflops!
What's next? Real blames everything on someone else for their awful product?
What? You think YOU can write a better application that is just this side of spyware and malware without having mass user revolt? You think YOU can integrate video games and an application for listening to streaming media, and not have it come out like some bizarre Mecha-Streisand??
THANK GOD! :)
Is it possible to host a datacentre out at sea?
To listen to them talk, Sealand's HavenCo is already there and what you're looking for.
Ya know, if you had any wonder that a half-wit can't be elected, found out to be a fraud, and then re-elected, just look at the current regime in the US. NUKE-yuh-luhr?
A method for displaying the caller on a telephone by use of a projection system that is either a peripheral to or integrated with the telephone.
Prior art, BEY-OTCHES!
My first MUD-like game was Island of Kesmai. At the ridiculous per-hour charges of compuserve, this grew into an expensive habit. After I found Gamestorm's Legends of Kesmai, they had me hooked for $9.95 per month from the time I found it until the time they pulled the plug, after selling out to EA to give them the Aries engine. I never had, nor have since, found a community quite like Kesmai.