Being that you know so much about rotary engines, I have a quick question for you... Do you know if is possible to have a rotary engine on a motorcycle? Have you heard of any efforts by anyone to do such a thing?
For all the Americans out there, we live in a democracy
The United States is a federal republic, or democratic republic. As others have said before, true democracy is where two wolves and a sheep vote on what's for dinner. Democracies give people the ability to have representative government, while republics protect voters that are in the minority.
For more information, please watch Michael Badnarik's classes on the U.S. Constitution. Coincidentally, Badnarik is the Libertarian Party's Presidential Candidate who was recently interviewed here at Slashdot.
3: Scantrons are ancient, and work well, with a very low error rate
Scantron machines would not handle folded ballots very well. Barcode scanners would probably work better, especially with a checksum built into the barcode. Now for the crazy idea: put RFID tags on the paper ballot that a computer creates or modifies, and then election officials could tabulate the ballot box without even opening it!
It is interesting to note that although the moderators have not agreed with your statements, the quantity and variety of responses which your comment has received is rather impressive.:^)
Here in Florida the people are a bit paralyzed in fear right now... Every two or three weeks, there is a new storm headed our way. One of the biggest changes to weather reporting recently is "doppler indicated tornado cell activity", as the meteorologists call it. Basically they find pockets of cyclonic air on their doppler radar, and they issue a full blown tornado warning for it, whether it really is a tornado or not. It gets a little grating on the nerves to have 5-10 tornado warnings per day when a hurricane is nearby. But, when it's not raining, hot, humid or generally miserable, Florida can be nice.:^)
As for the spammers, I thought they were all in China (we outsourced spam too, right?).
It's been like pursuing a mirage across a desert, never reaching the lush oasis of Cairo, but occasionally coming across a fetid mud puddle or malarial swamp.
That sums it up rather nicely -- thanks for the analogy!
IIRC, "Cairo" was what became NT 4... "Chicago" was Win95. Then there was the OS "Pink" by Taligent (IBM + Apple), but that never surfaced... And then there was BeOS and the BeBox... We can't forget the BeBox! It was... the precious.:^)
The following solution requires mpg123, GNU shellutils, and an MP3 file to decode. Why come here for a Windows solution?:^) #!/bin/bash for i in $(seq n)000 do
mpg123 -w out$i.wav -k $i -n f source_filename.mp3
done
Where n is the number of MP3 frames to skip, in thousands, f is the number of frames to extract per iteration, and source_filename.mp3 is your MP3 file. For a 128kbps MP3, if you wish to extract 30s of audio for roughly every 10 minutes, you would use n=22 and f=1100. Output would be in files named out1000.wav, out2000.wav, and so on. Experimentation with the numbers is encouraged when using different bitrates. Please feel free to critique my bash code -- I am a little rusty.
It may depend on whether or not the "meteor" is a real meteor or just space junk... That being said, though, I couldn't imagine any insurance company that would be trained to tell the difference.:^)
I recently had a hard drive fail on my Powerbook G4 550 (a 2.5 year old machine), and I found the PDF step-by-step guides on Apple's support pages to be more than adequate for the drive replacement. The guides on PB Fixit's site appear to be less detailed than Apple's guides, but then again, I don't think Apple documents how to remove the logic board.:^)
It was interesting to note how many people attributed my laptop's hard drive failure to the fact that it was a Mac. The Powerbook used an IBM Travelstar (or should that be IBM Travesty?) hard drive, which is also very common in PC laptops (as are Toshiba drives). These people just didn't realize that I was toting it back and forth to school every day, and waking it from sleep a LOT daily. Some days I would tote it on the back of my motorcycle, sitting in my backpack without a case of its own (admittedly not a smart thing to do). One day I accidentally dropped it three feet onto hard ground (thankfully while it was off). I can attest that any machine would die given what I put it through. Thankfully, it was just the hard drive, and it was easy to swap out. Otherwise, it's still chugging along, like a double decker bus packed into a sports car body.
If the U.S. military bans digital cameras from personnel, it might give the impression to the world that abusive acts on prisoners can continue without being discovered. If they don't ban cameras, odds are that more humiliating images will be released, inciting further hatred from the Arab community. I am glad that I am not the Secretary of Defense right now...
Although I realize this was an homage to Monty Python, I think you still could have safely said that Microsoft's chief weapon is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt.:^)
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Also, the Audi TT was originally a concept car that required very little changing to become a production car.
Being that you know so much about rotary engines, I have a quick question for you... Do you know if is possible to have a rotary engine on a motorcycle? Have you heard of any efforts by anyone to do such a thing?
For more information, please watch Michael Badnarik's classes on the U.S. Constitution. Coincidentally, Badnarik is the Libertarian Party's Presidential Candidate who was recently interviewed here at Slashdot.
It is interesting to note that although the moderators have not agreed with your statements, the quantity and variety of responses which your comment has received is rather impressive. :^)
Here in Florida the people are a bit paralyzed in fear right now... Every two or three weeks, there is a new storm headed our way. One of the biggest changes to weather reporting recently is "doppler indicated tornado cell activity", as the meteorologists call it. Basically they find pockets of cyclonic air on their doppler radar, and they issue a full blown tornado warning for it, whether it really is a tornado or not. It gets a little grating on the nerves to have 5-10 tornado warnings per day when a hurricane is nearby. But, when it's not raining, hot, humid or generally miserable, Florida can be nice. :^)
As for the spammers, I thought they were all in China (we outsourced spam too, right?).
I remember Pink and Taligent. I remember Byte Magazine. Viva le passé! :^)
IIRC, "Cairo" was what became NT 4... "Chicago" was Win95. Then there was the OS "Pink" by Taligent (IBM + Apple), but that never surfaced... And then there was BeOS and the BeBox... We can't forget the BeBox! It was... the precious. :^)
Hey, your poll added up to 100% -- that alone makes it more statistically sound than most Slashdot polls... :^)
Hey, thanks for the idea... I just found some neat videos of sun flares... Check them out here.
#!/bin/bash
for i in $(seq n)000
do
- mpg123 -w out$i.wav -k $i -n f source_filename.mp3
doneWhere n is the number of MP3 frames to skip, in thousands, f is the number of frames to extract per iteration, and source_filename.mp3 is your MP3 file. For a 128kbps MP3, if you wish to extract 30s of audio for roughly every 10 minutes, you would use n=22 and f=1100. Output would be in files named out1000.wav, out2000.wav, and so on. Experimentation with the numbers is encouraged when using different bitrates. Please feel free to critique my bash code -- I am a little rusty.
OK. Is it bigger or smaller? Inquiring minds need to know!
It may depend on whether or not the "meteor" is a real meteor or just space junk... That being said, though, I couldn't imagine any insurance company that would be trained to tell the difference. :^)
Just so the NYT knows, we are "nuttily suspicious" of free registrations as well. :^)
It did say he only invested in two companies -- perhaps NeXT wasn't publicly traded?
I recently had a hard drive fail on my Powerbook G4 550 (a 2.5 year old machine), and I found the PDF step-by-step guides on Apple's support pages to be more than adequate for the drive replacement. The guides on PB Fixit's site appear to be less detailed than Apple's guides, but then again, I don't think Apple documents how to remove the logic board. :^)
It was interesting to note how many people attributed my laptop's hard drive failure to the fact that it was a Mac. The Powerbook used an IBM Travelstar (or should that be IBM Travesty?) hard drive, which is also very common in PC laptops (as are Toshiba drives). These people just didn't realize that I was toting it back and forth to school every day, and waking it from sleep a LOT daily. Some days I would tote it on the back of my motorcycle, sitting in my backpack without a case of its own (admittedly not a smart thing to do). One day I accidentally dropped it three feet onto hard ground (thankfully while it was off). I can attest that any machine would die given what I put it through. Thankfully, it was just the hard drive, and it was easy to swap out. Otherwise, it's still chugging along, like a double decker bus packed into a sports car body.
If the U.S. military bans digital cameras from personnel, it might give the impression to the world that abusive acts on prisoners can continue without being discovered. If they don't ban cameras, odds are that more humiliating images will be released, inciting further hatred from the Arab community. I am glad that I am not the Secretary of Defense right now...
Every time I saw AOL's name at the beginning of a movie, I shuddered... I think even The Matrix was a victim of this...
Although I realize this was an homage to Monty Python, I think you still could have safely said that Microsoft's chief weapon is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt. :^)