With the dell you must buy antivirus software and possibly a better firewall or spyware detection software. You must buy a third party burner program (try using built-in xp burning..).
There's good freeware for filling in where the xp burner is lacking, mainly burning iso's. AVG antivirus, AdAware, and Spybot S&D are good free anti-virus/malware programs.
I think if I were to actually purchase a Mac, I would probably go all out on a Power Mac to make it worthwhile. But for the moment I'm on a $470 Dell (double the storage of the Emac, but lacking elsewhere) running Linux because I'm a student's budget.
"Attached is a sexy picture of Anna Kournikova. To view the picture, simply: 1) save the attachment 2) su - 3) tar -xjf anna.tar.gz 4)./configure 5) make 6) make install 7) anna"
Do some of the major distros (Redhat, etc) have a webservice for updates, akin to windowsupdate.com? I sure hope so; it`s essential for further desktop market share increase.
For the most part, they all do, even most of the little ones. Typing "yum -y update" at the command line keeps me up to date, or I could enable the cron job to do it automatically each night.
Looks like someone's feeding her stories and she's publishing them as her own. Or she just gave them her login. I can't imagine her posting that as hers having known what it said unless she really did write it.
Small populations have the advantage in the senate, and even the house, and the presidency. They are favored at all levels of legistlation. They need protection, but so does the majority. I don't see a problem with giving them favor in 2 out of 3. That ought to really gum up the works, making sure that bills are favored by both small and large populations.
I don't like the idea of making the minority candidate, who's party color is blood red, commander in chief of our armed forces while at the same time giving his party favor in all other levels of legistlation. Giving large populations favor in 1 out of 3 levels provides some balance.
IRV can eliminate the compromise candidate who's the second choice on everyone's ballots. IRV eliminates the compromises, then the extremists leaving us with an extremist winner.
Condorcet (sp?) is practically a drop in replacement for IRV. People vote exactly the same as in IRV, but the result is more fair and favorable under a variety circumstances. They just have to decide the exact algorithm with Condorcet, since there's more than one, some slightly better than others.
Programmers are more sensitive, balanced, horny, wealthy, and desperate than your average person. Just ignore the fact that some of our voices sound totally gay.
Draw an outline of your left hand and it will be used to calculate with an error of +/-5% the score you would have gotten had this been more than a pre-school level task.
These folks pirate Windows because the version they can afford is crap, crap that they were already forced to pay $50 for despite not wanting it.
For those people, who's yearly wages are a fraction of that made by Americans, stealing windows is like stealing a $300/pill prescription drug that costs pennies to make.
I'd honestly like them all to switch to Linux, because piracy should not be condoned, but Microsoft brings it on themselves, and then passes the blame.
What I suspect Microsoft is eventually planning to do is to partially cover the price of hardware, under terms that require manufacturers to only produce drivers for Windows, protected by software patents wherever possible. Complying manufacturers will win in the marketplace, and Microsoft will have strengthened its hold on the market. Windows will further advertise Microsoft products and services, and undermine free alternatives for security reasons. MSN Explorer will be the default browser. Users will be able to order or rent and install software much more easily than if they walked to a store, but the software will either come from Microsoft or there will be a Microsoft tax (listing and certification fees) included. blah blah blah.
Declaring local variables will just add unnecessary typing. Just put it all in globals for maximum code reuse.
And classes, they don't add anything you can't get with functions. All they do is restrict you.
But why even use functions? All that happens is you try to make one piece of code serve multiple uses when you'll be better off tailoring the code to each instance where it's needed.
I expect that provisional ballots would require a bit more validation than usual ballots, to reduce voter fraud at the cost of taking longer to count. But I guess in Ohio's case this would involve checking which candidate was selected on the ballots, and rejecting every third democrat.
TightVNC works pretty well for me, with a few notable issues. I use it exclusively. But on occasion the display updates would just stop, and I'd have to restart the client. Also the client would occasionally crash with an error like unknown colorkey, I forgot the exact text. Using 1.2.9. Haven't checked the latest to see if the bugs have been fixed.
As for security, if you have it set to turn off wallpaper, it turns it off upon every connection attempt, before authentication. It's a pretty resource intensive action. I've been able to use this to DOS my home pc's, opening hundreds of connections. The system bogs down with a rapid flashing of the desktop reminiscent of the japanese seizure robots.
I suppose I should file bug reports for all these.
They hope you forget to send in the rebate form, while still making the buy decision based on the after-rebate price, and have the money to pay the before-rebate price. And they have lots of restrictions to disqualify people, like only sending rebates to certain types of mailing addresses, requiring the rebate to be sent in by a certain date, and only sending one rebate per address for all time. Plus they can send you targetted advertisements and such.
Imagine buying two of those only to realize you can't get a rebate on the 2nd one, or you're otherwise disqualified from getting rebates altogether. Works great for them.
The optimal electoral strategy is to attempt to invade your opponent's territory on the political spectrum, stealing his supporters while keeping your own. A candidate can be as far upleft as Nader, but they stand to lose more votes by pissing off the opposition's supporters than their own, so to win they must hide their true colors. It sucks but that's how our shitty electoral system works.
Nader's best chance at the presidency is to join the democratic party and act like a 90% republican after he wins the primaries, by doing his best to avoid talking about the on the split issues. Then once/if elected, he can do whatever he wants.
With this type of application, bugs are not limited to programming errors.
Can you honestly say that there's no way to destroy votes, either digitally or physically, change votes, add fake votes, vote more than once, act as a fake client, act as a fake server, act as a man in the middle, obtain private voting records without a key, or prevent further users from voting. Or imagine 5 voting machines are intended for a certain area, and only 4 are made available, but nobody notices. Can someone rig the 5th to upload fake votes? Or if someone goes into a mostly (your party here) area and breaks apart a machine, sure they'll be arrested, but will those votes be recoverable in most cases? How do you verify the identity of a voter? Etc.
You need to address every possible exploit you can think of. You can't achieve 100% security, but you can make it damn hard to break and be able to make certain guarantees about the integrity and completeness of the voting records. Some people are just complete jerks and you never know how far they'll go to force their will upon others.
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Actually javascript+html works very well for a wide variety of uses with proper abstraction.
With the dell you must buy antivirus software and possibly a better firewall or spyware detection software. You must buy a third party burner program (try using built-in xp burning..).
There's good freeware for filling in where the xp burner is lacking, mainly burning iso's. AVG antivirus, AdAware, and Spybot S&D are good free anti-virus/malware programs.
I think if I were to actually purchase a Mac, I would probably go all out on a Power Mac to make it worthwhile. But for the moment I'm on a $470 Dell (double the storage of the Emac, but lacking elsewhere) running Linux because I'm a student's budget.
I can just imagine...
./configure
"Attached is a sexy picture of Anna Kournikova.
To view the picture, simply:
1) save the attachment
2) su -
3) tar -xjf anna.tar.gz
4)
5) make
6) make install
7) anna"
Do some of the major distros (Redhat, etc) have a webservice for updates, akin to windowsupdate.com? I sure hope so; it`s essential for further desktop market share increase.
For the most part, they all do, even most of the little ones. Typing "yum -y update" at the command line keeps me up to date, or I could enable the cron job to do it automatically each night.
Looks like someone's feeding her stories and she's publishing them as her own. Or she just gave them her login. I can't imagine her posting that as hers having known what it said unless she really did write it.
The code would be nearly identical on any platform.
I should start reading my posts before clicking submit.
The could would be nearly identical on any platform.
Thankfully, we don't have to sell it to the population, just the republicrat legistlators who will protect their control by any means necessary.
Small populations have the advantage in the senate, and even the house, and the presidency. They are favored at all levels of legistlation. They need protection, but so does the majority. I don't see a problem with giving them favor in 2 out of 3. That ought to really gum up the works, making sure that bills are favored by both small and large populations.
I don't like the idea of making the minority candidate, who's party color is blood red, commander in chief of our armed forces while at the same time giving his party favor in all other levels of legistlation. Giving large populations favor in 1 out of 3 levels provides some balance.
IRV can eliminate the compromise candidate who's the second choice on everyone's ballots. IRV eliminates the compromises, then the extremists leaving us with an extremist winner.
Condorcet (sp?) is practically a drop in replacement for IRV. People vote exactly the same as in IRV, but the result is more fair and favorable under a variety circumstances. They just have to decide the exact algorithm with Condorcet, since there's more than one, some slightly better than others.
Programmers are more sensitive, balanced, horny, wealthy, and desperate than your average person. Just ignore the fact that some of our voices sound totally gay.
Draw an outline of your left hand and it will be used to calculate with an error of +/-5% the score you would have gotten had this been more than a pre-school level task.
The original VGA was capable of 256 colors at 360x480. It just wasn't in the bios and pixel addressing was a little more complicated.
To run a $299 Windows?
These folks pirate Windows because the version they can afford is crap, crap that they were already forced to pay $50 for despite not wanting it.
For those people, who's yearly wages are a fraction of that made by Americans, stealing windows is like stealing a $300/pill prescription drug that costs pennies to make.
I'd honestly like them all to switch to Linux, because piracy should not be condoned, but Microsoft brings it on themselves, and then passes the blame.
What I suspect Microsoft is eventually planning to do is to partially cover the price of hardware, under terms that require manufacturers to only produce drivers for Windows, protected by software patents wherever possible. Complying manufacturers will win in the marketplace, and Microsoft will have strengthened its hold on the market. Windows will further advertise Microsoft products and services, and undermine free alternatives for security reasons. MSN Explorer will be the default browser. Users will be able to order or rent and install software much more easily than if they walked to a store, but the software will either come from Microsoft or there will be a Microsoft tax (listing and certification fees) included. blah blah blah.
Why not? As long as you can diff it the next day...
Declaring local variables will just add unnecessary typing. Just put it all in globals for maximum code reuse.
And classes, they don't add anything you can't get with functions. All they do is restrict you.
But why even use functions? All that happens is you try to make one piece of code serve multiple uses when you'll be better off tailoring the code to each instance where it's needed.
I expect that provisional ballots would require a bit more validation than usual ballots, to reduce voter fraud at the cost of taking longer to count. But I guess in Ohio's case this would involve checking which candidate was selected on the ballots, and rejecting every third democrat.
One word: outsourcing
TightVNC works pretty well for me, with a few notable issues. I use it exclusively. But on occasion the display updates would just stop, and I'd have to restart the client. Also the client would occasionally crash with an error like unknown colorkey, I forgot the exact text. Using 1.2.9. Haven't checked the latest to see if the bugs have been fixed.
As for security, if you have it set to turn off wallpaper, it turns it off upon every connection attempt, before authentication. It's a pretty resource intensive action. I've been able to use this to DOS my home pc's, opening hundreds of connections. The system bogs down with a rapid flashing of the desktop reminiscent of the japanese seizure robots.
I suppose I should file bug reports for all these.
They hope you forget to send in the rebate form, while still making the buy decision based on the after-rebate price, and have the money to pay the before-rebate price. And they have lots of restrictions to disqualify people, like only sending rebates to certain types of mailing addresses, requiring the rebate to be sent in by a certain date, and only sending one rebate per address for all time. Plus they can send you targetted advertisements and such.
Imagine buying two of those only to realize you can't get a rebate on the 2nd one, or you're otherwise disqualified from getting rebates altogether. Works great for them.
The optimal electoral strategy is to attempt to invade your opponent's territory on the political spectrum, stealing his supporters while keeping your own. A candidate can be as far upleft as Nader, but they stand to lose more votes by pissing off the opposition's supporters than their own, so to win they must hide their true colors. It sucks but that's how our shitty electoral system works.
Nader's best chance at the presidency is to join the democratic party and act like a 90% republican after he wins the primaries, by doing his best to avoid talking about the on the split issues. Then once/if elected, he can do whatever he wants.
I think they'll hold off until the special edition.
10kHz? That's way too low for horizontal sweep (even televisions are 15.75kHz) and way, way too high for vertical.
That's what I thought. It goes away if I push on the top of the monitor.
And the not hanging up was the ONLY bug.
Should we take your word for it?
With this type of application, bugs are not limited to programming errors.
Can you honestly say that there's no way to destroy votes, either digitally or physically, change votes, add fake votes, vote more than once, act as a fake client, act as a fake server, act as a man in the middle, obtain private voting records without a key, or prevent further users from voting. Or imagine 5 voting machines are intended for a certain area, and only 4 are made available, but nobody notices. Can someone rig the 5th to upload fake votes? Or if someone goes into a mostly (your party here) area and breaks apart a machine, sure they'll be arrested, but will those votes be recoverable in most cases? How do you verify the identity of a voter? Etc.
You need to address every possible exploit you can think of. You can't achieve 100% security, but you can make it damn hard to break and be able to make certain guarantees about the integrity and completeness of the voting records. Some people are just complete jerks and you never know how far they'll go to force their will upon others.
A new monitor from Dell that outputs an ear-bleedingly loud 10khz whine?