The main problem I see with ATMs is usually that the screen is recessed an inch or more relative to the buttons, and therefore if you are not looking at it from the exact angle the designer intended the alignment is messed up. That should not occur with touchscreens, which makes them better. The problem shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM is inexcusable and clearly a software problem (if you read the full description), not an alignment problem, because only a tiny portion of the screen reacted for Obama. If it was just an alignment problem then Obama should have reacted to the same sized area as Romney, just offset. It strongly stinks of deliberate tampering, and I am guessing an objective third party will never be allowed to inspect it for tampering (trade secrets and all that).
Full disclosure, I was screwed by the Facebook IPO.
Because you thought the company was worth 400 times earnings? I don't really fault Facebook for selling their stock for as much as they could get, and I don't think there was anything undisclosed. Personally I wouldn't have bought FB for more than about $3 a share.
That's a little different from touching one place and having it think you touched somewhere else, which is what people are claiming the voting machines are doing.
Of course if you are using a mail-in ballot you can show it to anyone you want before dropping it in the mail. They could even watch you seal the envelope and drop it in the mail for you. And mail-in ballots are becoming much more common and encouraged by the major parties.
In most places the "booth" is just a small fold out screen. It might prevent the person standing next to you from seeing who you are picking but if I pulled out my phone and tried to take a picture it would be pretty obvious.
I keep hearing all the news about touch screens being out of calibration. I have a 2 years old iPhone with no problems. Has anyone had calibration problems with their smart phone? I think there is a problem with shitty programming, but I doubt it really has anything to do with touch screens, and machines with physical buttons can have shitty programming (or deliberately corrupt programming) as well.
If you wanted to regard a script as "arms" then running a script is equivalent to firing a gun. The 2nd amendment only protects owning and carrying weapons, not firing them. Firing them is illegal in pretty much every city in the US (with narrow exceptions). And the original poster admitted running the script.
No, but most non-Christian scholars (and even most Christian ones now, out of respect) use BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era) rather than BC and AD. I doubt those conventions existed at the time of the writing of the US Constitution.
Most "pro-life" politicians I've heard support the death penalty and every war we've been in, no matter how unjustified. And lately they have been pretty vocal about allowing people to starve to death or die from lack of health care if they can't afford it. I think it's pretty clear what the "fuck 'em" comment refers to.
Except that 2000 years is nothing, not even the "blink of an eye" in the time scale of the universe.
People who believe in Revelations generally also believe the world is less than 10,000 years old, so that logic doesn't really work (not that logic has anything to do with it).
You shouldn't need corporate donations to reach the $50,000 mark. You could do it with $5000 people donating $10 each. That's 0.076% of the Massachusetts population. I think it is a fairly reasonable concept that if you can't do that you are not a serious candidate.
I recognize that humanity has overpopulated the earth, that does not diminish my desire to have a child at some point.
It may not diminish your desire, but hopefully it alters your actions. At the very least I would hope you would choose have 1 or 2 and not 3 or more. If all couples had just 1 child the population would drop by 50% each generation (obviously with a time delay since people live much longer than one generation). 2 is steady state.
Yes, much better than Courier. Of course there are many other fonts that are also much better than Courier, so I don't think this new font is really needed, but Courier majorly sucks, particularly the lowercase L, but overall just ugly.
The wireless mics that operate in that range were not made illegal - the rule was discussed but never implemented. They do risk becoming useless because of interference, and no one sells mics in the US that use those frequencies anymore, but if you own them you can still use them.
But we're heading once again to a level where efficient programming is going to become more important (low-end, cheap devices like Arduino and Raspberry for the consumer-end and high-end multi-processor systems like GPGPU and shared clusters on a pay-per-cycle on the other end).
Or high-speed trading, where any delay, no matter how small, can have a big impact on profit.
In a GPGPU scientific environment (where I work) shaving 10ms off a single looped calculation can easily end up giving you a result 7 days faster.
You found 10ms to shave off a single calculation? 10 ms is practically infinity, even 10 ns would be important on most modern machines.
I probably couldn't be a good painter either, but I can't be sure, because I've never tried - I did take a painting class once but gave up, because it seemed I didn't have any talent, and didn't particularly have much desire to try. Great painters didn't start that way, they spent thousands of hours practicing. Same with great programmers. I did seem to have some natural talent for programming, but I also had parents that got me started at a very early age, and have definitely spent over 30,000 hours doing it. I am a great programmer now, but definitely wasn't when I only had 1000 hours practice. See 10,000-Hour Rule
Indeed, I had several professors who were great at theory but lousy at programming - one of them was a former grad student of Dijkstra, and he was the worst (although to arrogant to realize it).
Obama may have a net worth of over 1M now (I don't know), but he spent most of his life poor. Romney grew up rich and privileged. That makes is a big difference.
The quote says "optical light", which means the range visible to humans. The quote also says "the same principles of physics", which could easily be interpreted to mean "still EM radiation". So there is nothing wrong with that quote.
Bionic eyes already exist and are tested in humans. The resolution sucks (less than 600 pixels) but I could see a hybrid solution - 600 pixels could easily be enough to aim the camera where you want, blink, and then the external camera and software could use OCR to read the text to you.
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The main problem I see with ATMs is usually that the screen is recessed an inch or more relative to the buttons, and therefore if you are not looking at it from the exact angle the designer intended the alignment is messed up. That should not occur with touchscreens, which makes them better. The problem shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM is inexcusable and clearly a software problem (if you read the full description), not an alignment problem, because only a tiny portion of the screen reacted for Obama. If it was just an alignment problem then Obama should have reacted to the same sized area as Romney, just offset. It strongly stinks of deliberate tampering, and I am guessing an objective third party will never be allowed to inspect it for tampering (trade secrets and all that).
Voted at 9 am, no line, paper ballot, polling place was about 0.1 miles from my house.
Full disclosure, I was screwed by the Facebook IPO.
Because you thought the company was worth 400 times earnings? I don't really fault Facebook for selling their stock for as much as they could get, and I don't think there was anything undisclosed. Personally I wouldn't have bought FB for more than about $3 a share.
That's a little different from touching one place and having it think you touched somewhere else, which is what people are claiming the voting machines are doing.
Of course if you are using a mail-in ballot you can show it to anyone you want before dropping it in the mail. They could even watch you seal the envelope and drop it in the mail for you. And mail-in ballots are becoming much more common and encouraged by the major parties.
In most places the "booth" is just a small fold out screen. It might prevent the person standing next to you from seeing who you are picking but if I pulled out my phone and tried to take a picture it would be pretty obvious.
I keep hearing all the news about touch screens being out of calibration. I have a 2 years old iPhone with no problems. Has anyone had calibration problems with their smart phone? I think there is a problem with shitty programming, but I doubt it really has anything to do with touch screens, and machines with physical buttons can have shitty programming (or deliberately corrupt programming) as well.
The US has been at war for the last 10 years.
If you wanted to regard a script as "arms" then running a script is equivalent to firing a gun. The 2nd amendment only protects owning and carrying weapons, not firing them. Firing them is illegal in pretty much every city in the US (with narrow exceptions). And the original poster admitted running the script.
No, but most non-Christian scholars (and even most Christian ones now, out of respect) use BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era) rather than BC and AD. I doubt those conventions existed at the time of the writing of the US Constitution.
Most "pro-life" politicians I've heard support the death penalty and every war we've been in, no matter how unjustified. And lately they have been pretty vocal about allowing people to starve to death or die from lack of health care if they can't afford it. I think it's pretty clear what the "fuck 'em" comment refers to.
Except that 2000 years is nothing, not even the "blink of an eye" in the time scale of the universe.
People who believe in Revelations generally also believe the world is less than 10,000 years old, so that logic doesn't really work (not that logic has anything to do with it).
You shouldn't need corporate donations to reach the $50,000 mark. You could do it with $5000 people donating $10 each. That's 0.076% of the Massachusetts population. I think it is a fairly reasonable concept that if you can't do that you are not a serious candidate.
I recognize that humanity has overpopulated the earth, that does not diminish my desire to have a child at some point.
It may not diminish your desire, but hopefully it alters your actions. At the very least I would hope you would choose have 1 or 2 and not 3 or more. If all couples had just 1 child the population would drop by 50% each generation (obviously with a time delay since people live much longer than one generation). 2 is steady state.
Involuntary manslaughter?
Yes, much better than Courier. Of course there are many other fonts that are also much better than Courier, so I don't think this new font is really needed, but Courier majorly sucks, particularly the lowercase L, but overall just ugly.
The wireless mics that operate in that range were not made illegal - the rule was discussed but never implemented. They do risk becoming useless because of interference, and no one sells mics in the US that use those frequencies anymore, but if you own them you can still use them.
But we're heading once again to a level where efficient programming is going to become more important (low-end, cheap devices like Arduino and Raspberry for the consumer-end and high-end multi-processor systems like GPGPU and shared clusters on a pay-per-cycle on the other end).
Or high-speed trading, where any delay, no matter how small, can have a big impact on profit.
In a GPGPU scientific environment (where I work) shaving 10ms off a single looped calculation can easily end up giving you a result 7 days faster.
You found 10ms to shave off a single calculation? 10 ms is practically infinity, even 10 ns would be important on most modern machines.
I probably couldn't be a good painter either, but I can't be sure, because I've never tried - I did take a painting class once but gave up, because it seemed I didn't have any talent, and didn't particularly have much desire to try. Great painters didn't start that way, they spent thousands of hours practicing. Same with great programmers. I did seem to have some natural talent for programming, but I also had parents that got me started at a very early age, and have definitely spent over 30,000 hours doing it. I am a great programmer now, but definitely wasn't when I only had 1000 hours practice. See 10,000-Hour Rule
Indeed, I had several professors who were great at theory but lousy at programming - one of them was a former grad student of Dijkstra, and he was the worst (although to arrogant to realize it).
Obama may have a net worth of over 1M now (I don't know), but he spent most of his life poor. Romney grew up rich and privileged. That makes is a big difference.
The quote says "optical light", which means the range visible to humans. The quote also says "the same principles of physics", which could easily be interpreted to mean "still EM radiation". So there is nothing wrong with that quote.
Bionic eyes already exist and are tested in humans. The resolution sucks (less than 600 pixels) but I could see a hybrid solution - 600 pixels could easily be enough to aim the camera where you want, blink, and then the external camera and software could use OCR to read the text to you.
external keyboard and mouse, easy.
You need an understanding of history every time you go to vote. Those that don't have it tend to vote Republican.