um with the 1930 electonric voting machines you could do both of those with out comprimising data personal data.
It means the voter doesn't log into the voting booth. the voter should only walk up to the both press a few buttons get a confirmation receipt and then stick said receipt in another box. The voting machine then is reset for another voter.
Electronic voting should only make counting faster not a complex database system that records everything about the voter.
Indeed a regular computer system is a waste in such a case. no more than powerful than the newton, or early palm is needed, no full oS is needed. the least complex the better.
I have both oddly enough. google has stated that IMAP is being rolled out to all users. The new interface most likely will be the same. try logging in to the gmail service daily and finding out. remember you have to manually enable IMAP.
I don't qualify for legal version of discounted software. in fact the majority of people who work for small businesses don't. If I asked a friend to buy it for me through his discount I could get them at a decent price but that would be illegal and immoral.
Besides why should I spend $399 for Vista ultimate when I can get Leopard ultimate for $129 and Neo Office J for free?
As a home owner I don't use office software often enough to justify anything other than free as in beer solutions.
>>Thing is, Office is the cheaper and faster option. It costs too much to go to microsoft free solutions, because the truly expensive stuff are employees (who generally can be expected to know Word and Excel automagically) and training time.
Until MSFT completely changes the file format and GUI for MSFT OFFice ala MSFT 2007. Then all new training is required because those who need training memorize locations instead of actions. Indeed the loudest complaints about the new interface is from people who don't understand the differences. while I haven't used it yet and most likely won't(I'm sorry but $1000 for an OS and office suite? I don't think so), I do think it is a step in the right direction.
the problem is people are taught Word, and Excel. They aren't taught word processing or spreadsheets. Every time MSFT releases the OS the layout is slightly different. new training is required for those were taught to memorize the interface.
Heroes is the only thing I watch on NBC. I used to but the episodes missed on iTunes but now there service is windows only and twice the price so I have set up a DVr on my Mac to record them.
Oh well NBC is pissed because their sales have plummeted since they left Itunes. The problem is the people most likely to buy music and TV shows online are those with extra cash and a large piece of those are Mac users. Talk about pissing off the wrong crowd.
dude if you have vinyl forget reel to reel. record to lossless audio format with no compression It will be as good as your reel to reel and you get the portability of modern stuff.
Since the majority of OS X applications are really nothing more than special folders, you can drag and drop them to the new system as fast as you can copy them. when you run the app it will look for new preference settings and failing to find them will result in the default state back but prefence files are stored in one directory in your home directory. you can copy them to.
you don't spend hours reinstalling apps off of CD's and looking for obtuse serial numbers. that's only for the backwards that is windows. Hell Linux you can do something similar most of the time.
want one better, through dan lyons personally blog he blogged about how bloggers are fakes and nothing they say has any real value. He targeting Pj of groklaw with that, but at the same time he was pretending to be fake steve jobs.
lying lyons as I call him isn't worth the Hard drive space to store his works on.
ah but that is the point. without having to deal with air resistance, and only 1/6 the gravity if you can go 150 feet up on earth you can easily go 1000 feet away from the moon. You also need that increase in fuel as one would be trying to reach lunar orbit. which because of the amazing 1/6 gravity difference is a heck of a lot easier.
So any vessel that could survive in earth's atmosphere doing such tests would be already 75% done for lunar module.
Also the company that does it will most likely win the $2 billion dollar contract to build the lunar module for the government. or at least $100 million dollar help us get started fee.
Um it's why I own a powerbook and a Mac Mini. pound for pound they are a great value. I don't like the Macbook but that is only on an aesthetic level.
Apple does have less configuration options than dell, there is one laptop line not 4, there is one desktop line not 8, there is one server line not "insert random number here"
apple does have a limited selection. Note it is limited in quanity not quality.
>>Note that the Constitution provides no means for the Executive to remove Congress.
Sure it does. It's called the commander in chief. the Executive can simply order the military to detain congress. Of course it means you have to have generals in charge that are only loyal to the executive, and not to democracy.
Unless something changes drastically I fully expect a President to try this within the next 20 years.
>>. There isn't anything like license validation, activation, or genuine advantage in OS X, so I guess there isn't anything preventing you from pirating the hell out of one single licensed copy;
there is one thing and that really gets under slashdot nerves. OS X only runs on Apple hardware. So while you can pirate the software as much as you like it only runs on apple hardware which one has to buy from Apple anyways.
For me that's fine, but Apple does have limited configuration choices, so people can't use cheap hardware like Dell does.
My boss does. $20 bucks a month we get charged just so she can use the "internet" as she likes too.
When she got a new computer running windows XP, I made sure to "install AOL". In reality I set AOL.com as her IE 7 home page, changed the shortcut icon and name, and locked down bits and pieces of the browser the best I could. Installing the abomination that is AIM completes the illusion. she has had a hard time adapting to the "new"AOL but accepts it as is.
We do still pay $20 bucks a month for AOL though. I can't seem to break that one out. At least the book keeper is helping me.
OS X has nearly every feature found in Vista Ultimate yet only costs $129.
So tell me again how much MSFT has to pay people? Features are easy to do once you implement a straight forward properly designed system.
Yes I know that MSFT makes all of it's own cool toys, but that's only because it's the MSFT way or nothing inside MSFT. If MSFT stopped duplicating everyone else's work poorly maybe they could release a good OS.
my powerbook died. the graphics chip stopped working, so the display was all screwed up. I bought a new Mac Mini, plugged in my firewire cable into both computers. I booted the bad powerbook into target disk mode, and turned on the mac mini for the first time.
As OS X initaized it gave me the option of importing settings and applications from another computer. It mounted my poor powerbook as a fire wire drive, copied everything over including passwords and user settings. two hours(20 gigs of stuff to copy) I had a nearly identical system up and running. I had to change things like the computers network name, change the resolution, but I was up and running fully. No reinstalling software for a day. it just worked.
I took the powerbook back to apple for repairs. when i got it back I repeated the process in reverse restoring the powerbook to what I had before in just a couple of hours, not days of reinstalling software like windows requires.
Yes I said days as windows software installs don't like being transfered in such ways.
current storage amounts are good until one starts to store videos, like they store MP3's. Of course bandwidth is still keeping video from being common place, but that gap is narrowing.
hopefully they are getting rid of the mini ocean, the coral reef, and the desert to concentrate on plants that produce O2, and food.
Biosphere to me was a waste of space. they tried to do too much in to little space. If they concetrated on say just the rainforest r just a group of plant bearing trees, they would have been a lot better off.
It was less about surviving out in space than it was a giant global warming experiment.
So why don't they set this up in the antartic, or death valley? prove that a closed air tight system can be viable and go from there? Biolab? or what ever was too much in a small space, they should try a simplier version of that.
Once it is working good, then go for the moon. by that point you will have found the way to make it small enough to fit on a rocket anyways.
Has the Internet given mindless fact less fools equal footing as real journalists.
Just look at rob Enderle, Paul Thurrott, or most computer writers who will say just about anything for a buck. They won't check facts, they refuse to show how they come to conclusions when they actually do research, and the research itself is so one sided it's just plain sickening.
One Lady asked a group of dedicated windows admins if they were considering a switch to Linux. They are Windows admins not Linux admins. this isn't a flame war, but it's like asking a group of Mac Admins when they are switching to windows. you are going to get skewed results.
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um with the 1930 electonric voting machines you could do both of those with out comprimising data personal data.
It means the voter doesn't log into the voting booth. the voter should only walk up to the both press a few buttons get a confirmation receipt and then stick said receipt in another box. The voting machine then is reset for another voter.
Electronic voting should only make counting faster not a complex database system that records everything about the voter.
Indeed a regular computer system is a waste in such a case. no more than powerful than the newton, or early palm is needed, no full oS is needed. the least complex the better.
I have both oddly enough. google has stated that IMAP is being rolled out to all users. The new interface most likely will be the same. try logging in to the gmail service daily and finding out. remember you have to manually enable IMAP.
I don't qualify for legal version of discounted software. in fact the majority of people who work for small businesses don't. If I asked a friend to buy it for me through his discount I could get them at a decent price but that would be illegal and immoral.
Besides why should I spend $399 for Vista ultimate when I can get Leopard ultimate for $129 and Neo Office J for free?
As a home owner I don't use office software often enough to justify anything other than free as in beer solutions.
>>Thing is, Office is the cheaper and faster option. It costs too much to go to microsoft free solutions, because the truly expensive stuff are employees (who generally can be expected to know Word and Excel automagically) and training time.
Until MSFT completely changes the file format and GUI for MSFT OFFice ala MSFT 2007. Then all new training is required because those who need training memorize locations instead of actions. Indeed the loudest complaints about the new interface is from people who don't understand the differences. while I haven't used it yet and most likely won't(I'm sorry but $1000 for an OS and office suite? I don't think so), I do think it is a step in the right direction.
the problem is people are taught Word, and Excel. They aren't taught word processing or spreadsheets. Every time MSFT releases the OS the layout is slightly different. new training is required for those were taught to memorize the interface.
ah so you never returned your Sony Batteries.
remind me never to borrow your computer.
Heroes is the only thing I watch on NBC. I used to but the episodes missed on iTunes but now there service is windows only and twice the price so I have set up a DVr on my Mac to record them.
Oh well NBC is pissed because their sales have plummeted since they left Itunes. The problem is the people most likely to buy music and TV shows online are those with extra cash and a large piece of those are Mac users. Talk about pissing off the wrong crowd.
And where are you going to find high quality audio cd's? Mos tof hte ones I find are horribly mastered with all the tones as high as possible.
Go to a concert and listen to a song live, and then listen to the cd version. the CD version always sucks.
Besides AIFF or wav fies are uncompressed, there are no artefacts so you can take the rich vinyl sound and keep it.
dude if you have vinyl forget reel to reel. record to lossless audio format with no compression It will be as good as your reel to reel and you get the portability of modern stuff.
go get a Mac and learn the easy way of life.
Since the majority of OS X applications are really nothing more than special folders, you can drag and drop them to the new system as fast as you can copy them. when you run the app it will look for new preference settings and failing to find them will result in the default state back but prefence files are stored in one directory in your home directory. you can copy them to.
you don't spend hours reinstalling apps off of CD's and looking for obtuse serial numbers. that's only for the backwards that is windows. Hell Linux you can do something similar most of the time.
want one better, through dan lyons personally blog he blogged about how bloggers are fakes and nothing they say has any real value. He targeting Pj of groklaw with that, but at the same time he was pretending to be fake steve jobs.
lying lyons as I call him isn't worth the Hard drive space to store his works on.
ah but that is the point. without having to deal with air resistance, and only 1/6 the gravity if you can go 150 feet up on earth you can easily go 1000 feet away from the moon. You also need that increase in fuel as one would be trying to reach lunar orbit. which because of the amazing 1/6 gravity difference is a heck of a lot easier.
So any vessel that could survive in earth's atmosphere doing such tests would be already 75% done for lunar module.
Also the company that does it will most likely win the $2 billion dollar contract to build the lunar module for the government. or at least $100 million dollar help us get started fee.
personally I will just settle for outlawing all lawyers.
Oh dear god no. a Flash based editor for creating Flash for the masses.
the recursion alone is enough to create another myspace, or facebook.
Um it's why I own a powerbook and a Mac Mini. pound for pound they are a great value. I don't like the Macbook but that is only on an aesthetic level.
Apple does have less configuration options than dell, there is one laptop line not 4, there is one desktop line not 8, there is one server line not "insert random number here"
apple does have a limited selection. Note it is limited in quanity not quality.
>>Note that the Constitution provides no means for the Executive to remove Congress.
Sure it does. It's called the commander in chief. the Executive can simply order the military to detain congress. Of course it means you have to have generals in charge that are only loyal to the executive, and not to democracy.
Unless something changes drastically I fully expect a President to try this within the next 20 years.
>>. There isn't anything like license validation, activation, or genuine advantage in OS X, so I guess there isn't anything preventing you from pirating the hell out of one single licensed copy;
there is one thing and that really gets under slashdot nerves. OS X only runs on Apple hardware. So while you can pirate the software as much as you like it only runs on apple hardware which one has to buy from Apple anyways.
For me that's fine, but Apple does have limited configuration choices, so people can't use cheap hardware like Dell does.
My boss does. $20 bucks a month we get charged just so she can use the "internet" as she likes too.
When she got a new computer running windows XP, I made sure to "install AOL". In reality I set AOL.com as her IE 7 home page, changed the shortcut icon and name, and locked down bits and pieces of the browser the best I could. Installing the abomination that is AIM completes the illusion. she has had a hard time adapting to the "new"AOL but accepts it as is.
We do still pay $20 bucks a month for AOL though. I can't seem to break that one out. At least the book keeper is helping me.
OS X has nearly every feature found in Vista Ultimate yet only costs $129.
So tell me again how much MSFT has to pay people? Features are easy to do once you implement a straight forward properly designed system.
Yes I know that MSFT makes all of it's own cool toys, but that's only because it's the MSFT way or nothing inside MSFT. If MSFT stopped duplicating everyone else's work poorly maybe they could release a good OS.
actually that's a really good idea. customers get what they want and MSFT gets burned by developing an OS that no one wants.
next up Universal will have a free subscription service that only works with universal branded mp3 players, that can only decode universal's mp3 drm.
oh wait.
It has half the processor too.
Why it's cool that's easy
my powerbook died. the graphics chip stopped working, so the display was all screwed up. I bought a new Mac Mini, plugged in my firewire cable into both computers. I booted the bad powerbook into target disk mode, and turned on the mac mini for the first time.
As OS X initaized it gave me the option of importing settings and applications from another computer. It mounted my poor powerbook as a fire wire drive, copied everything over including passwords and user settings. two hours(20 gigs of stuff to copy) I had a nearly identical system up and running. I had to change things like the computers network name, change the resolution, but I was up and running fully. No reinstalling software for a day. it just worked.
I took the powerbook back to apple for repairs. when i got it back I repeated the process in reverse restoring the powerbook to what I had before in just a couple of hours, not days of reinstalling software like windows requires.
Yes I said days as windows software installs don't like being transfered in such ways.
current storage amounts are good until one starts to store videos, like they store MP3's. Of course bandwidth is still keeping video from being common place, but that gap is narrowing.
hopefully they are getting rid of the mini ocean, the coral reef, and the desert to concentrate on plants that produce O2, and food.
Biosphere to me was a waste of space. they tried to do too much in to little space. If they concetrated on say just the rainforest r just a group of plant bearing trees, they would have been a lot better off.
It was less about surviving out in space than it was a giant global warming experiment.
So why don't they set this up in the antartic, or death valley? prove that a closed air tight system can be viable and go from there? Biolab? or what ever was too much in a small space, they should try a simplier version of that.
Once it is working good, then go for the moon. by that point you will have found the way to make it small enough to fit on a rocket anyways.
Has the Internet given mindless fact less fools equal footing as real journalists.
Just look at rob Enderle, Paul Thurrott, or most computer writers who will say just about anything for a buck. They won't check facts, they refuse to show how they come to conclusions when they actually do research, and the research itself is so one sided it's just plain sickening.
One Lady asked a group of dedicated windows admins if they were considering a switch to Linux. They are Windows admins not Linux admins.
this isn't a flame war, but it's like asking a group of Mac Admins when they are switching to windows. you are going to get skewed results.