It was only "pushed" back because there was a stipulation in the original agreement that required 85% of tvs to be capable of the digital broadcast. Since you could argue that it wasn't reached (through tvs people owned and didn't use amongst other reasons) they pushed the date back... This time though, the date is mandatory, without the 85% stipulation.
It would take a ton of money to push the date back again, and that would more then likely not be worth the effort for the some-odd 20% of people that use broadcast tv in the U.S.
If you're worried about coercion, you just make the system allow for the reporting of false information. You log in, you setup an account that has an id associated with it, you vote. You can then verify you voted the way you want.
Need to convince someone you voted in a particular fashion? The system allows you to set up another id that is associated with your account, you fill in your vote the way you want to... it produces a report that shows you voted that way when you log in with that id.
No mechanisms for figuring out how many ids are associated with an account (besides those who have the data itself), no mechanism for verifying that someone gave you the id that was actually used in the final counts.
What use is coercion when the people you try to coerce have the ability to make it appear they did what you want?
Being informed about why you vote is completely different then just wanting your vote to count the way you cast it. Show me the light ye defender of freedom! Comfort me in the knowledge and abilities that I have to confirm my vote was recorded and used in the manner which I intended!
Let's just assume you actually make it to election day without landing in jail. Let's then assume you actually had the influence to threaten a few hundred thousand people. Let's then assume you actually make it to my family and kill them and break my kneecaps. Finally let's assume you are able to repeat that across the board for the other people (Whose family members you killed you have no idea how they voted) also without getting shot by the cops. Then... wow, you really accomplished what you set out to do!
Oh, crap, Let's also assume the guy doing the same thing for the other party doesn't deep 6 you!
That's a lot of interesting problems that you managed to side skirt... I dare say you are a Saint for the miracles you have performed!
...because you can't confirm that the vote on the scantron was the vote they used in determining who won the race. With the proper governance in place, you can protect people from intimidation, and even make it worth their while to turn people in who attempt to.
If your boss is the kind of person who would force you to vote a certain way, they are the same kind of person who would make you perform sexual favors for them in order to keep your job... I just don't see it as a problem that has no repercussions.
What's a commercial? Why do the big race politicians spend millions of dollars (They sure aren't doing it to get their "message" out)?
You gotta be kidding me if you think they aren't already buying votes.
Let them attempt to buy elections, make it illegal, put out "honeypots", catch the rats and disqualify them from the race! Even if they could directly buy votes, think of how much money you'd need to spend just to sway an election... and there's no way you could do that without getting caught.
I sure hope someone's vote is worth more then a buck. Personally I wouldn't sell mine for less then a grand. Go ahead, buy the indigent! Hell, at least they'd actually improve their meals for a day, which is the best thing those politicians will ever do for them anyways... How sad is that?
So what if there's a paper trail? It means absolutely nothing unless it's actually used, and is accessible by the people casting the votes! This is something that is wrong with the current system also!
I have no idea who I voted for in any election. I know who I thought I voted for, but I have no idea if it was counted that way. Where can I go to find that out? Let's say there is some way for me to determine if my vote was counted in a certain way. What about everyone else? Is there a way to make sure the vote they think was mine was exclusively mine?
I'd rather have the problems associated with receipts with ids on them that I can log online to see who I voted for instead of the current system.
Hello Programmer_In_Traini, I am Kookus from the great Country of South Africa! This year my wealthy grandfather has perished and left me a considerable portion of his assets, but I am unable to collect due to various legal constraints. If you would be happy to collect the assets, I would greatly reward you with 50% of the total gains! This process will cost you nothing! Just send me your bank account number and I will do the rest!
A huge problem with this is that many hardware manufacturers still don't release enough information to make good drivers for them. It's incredibly difficult to get someone like NVidia on board to release open source drivers, and then you have the smaller hardware manufacturers like Fine Point Innovations who don't even attempt to release drivers for the *nix world (Tablet PC drivers ex. Gateway M280E display).
To me, I don't mind having to download a Hardware specific driver and taint my kernel by using it, I just want my hardware to work... but that is not as easy as it sounds, and for the reason listed above.
It's a vicious circle, we need drivers for the hardware to increase market share. Hardware manufacturer's don't care because there's not enough market share. If the hardware manufacturers would just pony up, we'd be in business! After that, we just need software manufacturers to spend more time tailoring their product for *nix, because they finally have the hardware support they needed to get things done!
If you don't feel fury about anything that you feel is important to you, then I think you need to re-examine your life.
Let's just tell those entomologists that have large collections to not feel any passion about man-made extinctions of certain species of insects, after all... they're only stupid bugs.
The bonus items are their "in" to the market. It's obvious that the reason they are there is to attract people that would normally never think of playing a card game of that nature or have other card games they already have an investment in. What better way to launch a game than to provide a bonus in it for their other product that has 7 million+ people (that is being tailored to a more casual player) with investments in. What do you expect when those casuals find that they have to become a "hardcore" buyer of cards in order to get anything out of it? It's a big turn off.
I bought a few packs on launch day to see if it was worth it, and it's not. I'll stick to my MtG and if for some reason I really need to have that turtle mount or whatever, I'll buy it off ebay in a few months when they go for 20 bucks a piece.
The game itself is tailored for a huge investment, and half of the available playability of the game revolves around expansions that haven't been released yet. With Magic the Gathering, you can go out and buy a starter deck that will give you many more hours of playability and enjoyment then this wasteful card game. Seriously, if you want the collectibles for the mmorpg, buy them off ebay.
The prizes from the card game are a form of collectible themselves. It's akin to minting a new coin and throwing it into random boxes of cereal. Along with throwing coins in cereal you throw in a piece of paper that says: "Collect X amount of these and get a coin". Are you telling me that coin collector's everywhere are going to be buying that cereal to eat it?
They aren't supposed to be "special" in the sense that only 1 person has them. They would have been special enough if everyone who bought cards got them, because even that will only be a fraction of the WoW player base. It's just infuriating that Blizzard would take a hard stance on trading items in game for real world currency, and then basically slap a price tag on novelty items to the tune of a few grand.
You could buy yourself a very well geared character on ebay for less than the amount you'd need to spend to acquire just that trinket the spews off a particle effect... Ooooh, wow, shiny!
I Played Magic: The Gathering, and it was a fun game. I could see myself playing the card game of Warcraft, because as I bought cards there would be some other incentive, but currently, there is no incentive. I'm not going to be buying 3 grand worth of cards to get some novelty items. The other prizes in the card game are on scratch off cards, and those are the "rare" items that not everyone gets. Since those are really the only actual prizes you can win, you might as well just buy them off ebay if you really want them, because it will be a helluvalot cheaper.
Might be a decent idea, because there would have to be a war to change it back into a democracy, and maybe then we can rid the country of the "bad" people... Wait.. which ones are the bad people?
I'm sure it still has a mechanical component for fail-safe firing. Like the pin is still used, but only for compeleting a circuit, not actually igniting the fuel.
Are you smoking something? I haven't found anything yet in the mass-produced consumer market that hasn't been relatively easy to get working. I've got things from external usb sound systems to internal cards of all flavors of things made by creative to work just fine.
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It was only "pushed" back because there was a stipulation in the original agreement that required 85% of tvs to be capable of the digital broadcast. Since you could argue that it wasn't reached (through tvs people owned and didn't use amongst other reasons) they pushed the date back... This time though, the date is mandatory, without the 85% stipulation.
It would take a ton of money to push the date back again, and that would more then likely not be worth the effort for the some-odd 20% of people that use broadcast tv in the U.S.
If you're worried about coercion, you just make the system allow for the reporting of false information.
You log in, you setup an account that has an id associated with it, you vote. You can then verify you voted the way you want.
Need to convince someone you voted in a particular fashion? The system allows you to set up another id that is associated with your account, you fill in your vote the way you want to... it produces a report that shows you voted that way when you log in with that id.
No mechanisms for figuring out how many ids are associated with an account (besides those who have the data itself), no mechanism for verifying that someone gave you the id that was actually used in the final counts.
What use is coercion when the people you try to coerce have the ability to make it appear they did what you want?
Being informed about why you vote is completely different then just wanting your vote to count the way you cast it. Show me the light ye defender of freedom! Comfort me in the knowledge and abilities that I have to confirm my vote was recorded and used in the manner which I intended!
Let's just assume you actually make it to election day without landing in jail. Let's then assume you actually had the influence to threaten a few hundred thousand people. Let's then assume you actually make it to my family and kill them and break my kneecaps. Finally let's assume you are able to repeat that across the board for the other people (Whose family members you killed you have no idea how they voted) also without getting shot by the cops. Then... wow, you really accomplished what you set out to do!
Oh, crap, Let's also assume the guy doing the same thing for the other party doesn't deep 6 you!
That's a lot of interesting problems that you managed to side skirt... I dare say you are a Saint for the miracles you have performed!
...because you can't confirm that the vote on the scantron was the vote they used in determining who won the race.
With the proper governance in place, you can protect people from intimidation, and even make it worth their while to turn people in who attempt to.
If your boss is the kind of person who would force you to vote a certain way, they are the same kind of person who would make you perform sexual favors for them in order to keep your job... I just don't see it as a problem that has no repercussions.
I'd rather be ignorant on a subject then a complete asshole like you.
What's a commercial? Why do the big race politicians spend millions of dollars (They sure aren't doing it to get their "message" out)?
You gotta be kidding me if you think they aren't already buying votes.
Let them attempt to buy elections, make it illegal, put out "honeypots", catch the rats and disqualify them from the race! Even if they could directly buy votes, think of how much money you'd need to spend just to sway an election... and there's no way you could do that without getting caught.
I sure hope someone's vote is worth more then a buck. Personally I wouldn't sell mine for less then a grand. Go ahead, buy the indigent! Hell, at least they'd actually improve their meals for a day, which is the best thing those politicians will ever do for them anyways... How sad is that?
So what if there's a paper trail? It means absolutely nothing unless it's actually used, and is accessible by the people casting the votes! This is something that is wrong with the current system also!
I have no idea who I voted for in any election. I know who I thought I voted for, but I have no idea if it was counted that way. Where can I go to find that out? Let's say there is some way for me to determine if my vote was counted in a certain way. What about everyone else? Is there a way to make sure the vote they think was mine was exclusively mine?
I'd rather have the problems associated with receipts with ids on them that I can log online to see who I voted for instead of the current system.
Hello Programmer_In_Traini,
I am Kookus from the great Country of South Africa! This year my wealthy grandfather has perished and left me a considerable portion of his assets, but I am unable to collect due to various legal constraints. If you would be happy to collect the assets, I would greatly reward you with 50% of the total gains! This process will cost you nothing! Just send me your bank account number and I will do the rest!
Are these the statistics for SCO's stock?
No, you just won't have the extra functionality of the graphics portion of the chip... Which, hey!, isn't any different then today!
A huge problem with this is that many hardware manufacturers still don't release enough information to make good drivers for them. It's incredibly difficult to get someone like NVidia on board to release open source drivers, and then you have the smaller hardware manufacturers like Fine Point Innovations who don't even attempt to release drivers for the *nix world (Tablet PC drivers ex. Gateway M280E display).
:(
To me, I don't mind having to download a Hardware specific driver and taint my kernel by using it, I just want my hardware to work... but that is not as easy as it sounds, and for the reason listed above.
It's a vicious circle, we need drivers for the hardware to increase market share. Hardware manufacturer's don't care because there's not enough market share. If the hardware manufacturers would just pony up, we'd be in business! After that, we just need software manufacturers to spend more time tailoring their product for *nix, because they finally have the hardware support they needed to get things done!
Oh if only it were so simple
Windows DUH! Because it automagically boots up by default without asking for a username and password!
Those are some mighty fine ellipses you got in that quote!
If you don't feel fury about anything that you feel is important to you, then I think you need to re-examine your life.
Let's just tell those entomologists that have large collections to not feel any passion about man-made extinctions of certain species of insects, after all... they're only stupid bugs.
The bonus items are their "in" to the market. It's obvious that the reason they are there is to attract people that would normally never think of playing a card game of that nature or have other card games they already have an investment in. What better way to launch a game than to provide a bonus in it for their other product that has 7 million+ people (that is being tailored to a more casual player) with investments in. What do you expect when those casuals find that they have to become a "hardcore" buyer of cards in order to get anything out of it? It's a big turn off. I bought a few packs on launch day to see if it was worth it, and it's not. I'll stick to my MtG and if for some reason I really need to have that turtle mount or whatever, I'll buy it off ebay in a few months when they go for 20 bucks a piece. The game itself is tailored for a huge investment, and half of the available playability of the game revolves around expansions that haven't been released yet. With Magic the Gathering, you can go out and buy a starter deck that will give you many more hours of playability and enjoyment then this wasteful card game. Seriously, if you want the collectibles for the mmorpg, buy them off ebay.
The prizes from the card game are a form of collectible themselves. It's akin to minting a new coin and throwing it into random boxes of cereal. Along with throwing coins in cereal you throw in a piece of paper that says: "Collect X amount of these and get a coin". Are you telling me that coin collector's everywhere are going to be buying that cereal to eat it?
They aren't supposed to be "special" in the sense that only 1 person has them. They would have been special enough if everyone who bought cards got them, because even that will only be a fraction of the WoW player base. It's just infuriating that Blizzard would take a hard stance on trading items in game for real world currency, and then basically slap a price tag on novelty items to the tune of a few grand.
You could buy yourself a very well geared character on ebay for less than the amount you'd need to spend to acquire just that trinket the spews off a particle effect... Ooooh, wow, shiny!
I Played Magic: The Gathering, and it was a fun game. I could see myself playing the card game of Warcraft, because as I bought cards there would be some other incentive, but currently, there is no incentive. I'm not going to be buying 3 grand worth of cards to get some novelty items. The other prizes in the card game are on scratch off cards, and those are the "rare" items that not everyone gets. Since those are really the only actual prizes you can win, you might as well just buy them off ebay if you really want them, because it will be a helluvalot cheaper.
Might be a decent idea, because there would have to be a war to change it back into a democracy, and maybe then we can rid the country of the "bad" people...
Wait.. which ones are the bad people?
Or we could just remove all the doors....
chemically assisted spatially controlled field evaporated tip cascfet a bit easier.
Me?
I'm sure it still has a mechanical component for fail-safe firing. Like the pin is still used, but only for compeleting a circuit, not actually igniting the fuel.
Are you smoking something? I haven't found anything yet in the mass-produced consumer market that hasn't been relatively easy to get working.
I've got things from external usb sound systems to internal cards of all flavors of things made by creative to work just fine.
I think you need a new mantra.
damn, that was introduced in 97, gotta find something earlier :(