Significant numbers of rural Americans said they couldn't subscribe to high-speed services because none was available. Most Americans who did not use fast connections said service was either too expensive or they did not need it.
1)Not Available
Many areas are not populated enough to get Cable or close enough to an exchange get DSL. Try getting either of these in Kansas, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Alaska and many other states in the more rural areas. At least until the phone companies all go fibre like Verizon is.
2)Too Expensive
As soon as the phone companies start competing with the cable companis the prices will go down. Until you have both options available in your area you are stuck with high prices.
3)Not Needed
This is the most overlooked. Who needs broadband when all they do is ocationaly send and recieve email and do light web surfing for at most an hour a day? I'll agree that this isn't most slashdoters, but most of our parents are probably like this and probably our grandparents as well. Assuming that they even have internet much less a computer.
I'm not sure, but it could be that fly wheels are harder to maintain and/or are not as eficient. If you've got a link to information on flywheels to the contary I'd like to see it.
On a more serious note this would help Architecture students who have to render their projects through AutoCAD. I have seen small frames without many effects take 10 minutes per frame. When they have 300 frames or more to render it takes a while.
I've heard that there is an open source web server that has more marketsare than say IIS, but does not have the same number of security issues like IIS has.
You can blame Carter for causing the 15% inflation rates during the 70's for driving up costs. That 5 trillion dollar surplus was an estimate of what would come in at the current rates. That estimate was based on prediction before the tech buble burst. After the buble burst those predictions went right out the window. Current inflation rates are around 1%.
Considering the amount of money spent on SDI, I can't imagine the US not going to great lengths to try to salvage the wreck in order to see what countermeasures the USSR was working on
Something tells me that when it hit the ocean it got scattered into many, many pieces. Probably be too hard to recover all of them. Most probably aren't very big either. This thing also came through the atmosphere on an unplanned trajectory so anything really usefull was burnt as well. It isn't really worth it to recover slag.
A recent University of Pennsylvania study found that surgical patients at hospitals with the worst nurse-staffing levels (ergo the most overworked nurses) have a 31 percent greater chance of dying
31 greater chance of dying? Everyone dies unless nurses have found an imortality serum, so what do they mean here really?
Reasons for using LED over Flourescent:
1) When a flourescent bulb fails, it stops giving off light completely. Usually and LED light will only have 1 led fail at a time. Given theis, you don't have large areas of darkness and don't have to replace the bulb immediatley when a part fails. LEDs fail gracefully.
2) LEDs are more resistant to damage.
3) The LEDs appear to not need to be replaced as often as Flourescent. The largest "Pain" in lighting is having to replace the bulbs. If these new LEDs last sufficiently longer than Flourescnets, they pay for themselves in labor.
4) I'm not sure about this, but I don't think I've seend flourescent spot lights before. However, the LEDs might be able to put out more light than flourescents.
It's not a punchcard system. You go to the machine, push the buttons in and pull a lever. Thats how you vote. There are not punchcards and no paper. We've used them for 20 years or more.
Tell me that when you don't have a job and have zero dollars (or whatever monetary unit you use) in the bank, are up to your eyeballs in debt and don't have enough money to go to McDonalds to get a Happy Meal. Economy=Jobs.
Actually, not the reason she gave didn't seem absurd. Considering some of the people on slashdot say that the systems fraudulently gave bush several hundred thousnd votes.
We can't have checks and balances because people might check too much?
Not the point I was making. What I was saying is that people would never ever trust the machines count. It would basically be pointless under what I diagramed above to even bother with the machines count since people would challenege it by default. They would be better off simply skiping the machine count and only counting the paper in such a setup. At which point there would be no reason for the electronic machines.
Also, we haven't had a paper voting trail for years since before this we had a mechanical machine that did not give a paper ballot or anything. The only change was from mechanical to software in our case.
If paying for an audit count is a problem, then make the party asking for it pay for it
And for every part other than the Republicans and Democrats and the larger of the third parties who don't have mulit million dollars to spend can get a recount how?
I actually asked the head official for my area why they don't go to a paper backup system. The completely rational answere is that they believe that no one would ever trust the initial computer count. Basically, here is the rundown of events they believe would happen if there was a paper trail.
1) Everyone votes
2) Electoronic machines report numbers
3) Losing party sues to have paper trail recount
4) Paper trail recount confirms computer count
5) Repeat 3 and 4 a few times.
6) Repeat in every election these machines are used in.
Given that the votes are challeneged and recounted every time, there is no point to going electronic at all. Also for those who care, my county is ~70% Democrats and votes that way. Although I do know that Illinois has many problems with Dead voters voting more than once. And they aren't electronic and they are heavily Democrat.
There is an old saying "If you look hard enough for something you're going to find it. Even if it doesn't exist." This has especially been applied to statistics. I have know people that work with numbers and when someone has asked them to analyze the numbers on something they always ask "What do you want me to prove?" And then they figure out a way to prove it. It would be possible for someone else to take the same set of numbers and conclude that Bush got fewer votes than he should have.
You assume that people have been using only paper trails voting machines before electronic ones came about. The ones in my area were Mechanical and made by Diebold. Mind telling me how we were supposed to do a recount?
I hope you like working for free then and without health care and various other things. At my company HR sets up the paycheck runs, handles all health care, retirement benifits and a few other things.
It's backwards compatible in the same way DVDs are compatible with CDs. You will need a new drive to read these new disks, but the new drives will contain lasers for reading CDs and DVDs as well.
If you mean backwards compatible video format, then it depends on the players hardware and not on the drive. HD-DVD has MPEG2 in the spec. MPEG2 is what DVDs use. So they will still work assuming the MPAA doesn't try to pull a fast one.
There is also the problem of hitting the glass at the right angle to make sure that the phosphorus excites and emits light. The steeper the angle, the harder that is to do. You also have to shape the glass differently on the inside since you are playing around with the focal length. Finally the em fields that aim the electrons have to be able to change their direction to a stepper angle (not sure if that is the grille or not). So it's not just the gun and the grille. Its other stuff too.
CRTs have better refresh rates than LCDs. CRTs have had refresh rates of 75hz for years while LCDs are only up to 25ms (40hz) and 16ms (62.5hz) and CRTs can still faster. The only thing going for the LCDs is the Power Usage. Pollution has yet to be decided. LCDs may be smaller, but there is much less you can recycle in them. CRTs may have lead glass, but you should be able to recycle that glass. I don't think you can recycle and LCD panel. Another thing going for the CRTs is that they can provide true collor every time while LCDs can only aproximate it. Thats why TV stations us CRTs for everything where you have to see what you are getting.
" 'The Evil Dead' is such a special film to Sam, Rob, Bruce and horror fans that we are going to take great care in renewing this franchise," said Joe Drake, Senator Intl. prexy. "By keeping its original formula intact and given audiences' appetite for horror, we expect that we'll have a real hit on our hands."
Ummm... Don't they mean an appetite for Comedy? I don't know about you, but I get more or a laugh out of Army of Darkness than a scream and I assume Evil Dead is the same.
We already have the technology. We shove them into a breeder reactor to get nuclear material that we can use. The problem is that Carter put a ban on breeder reactors in the US.
Easiest way to put this. The closet place to park near a mass transit is where I park. I can then take the bus somewhere or the train. Train goes direct to my workplace, not idea where the busses go. The closet bus stop has no parking for mass transit. As for the city planner, we never had one. Just like most of the US. There are very few pre-planned communities and even the cities never had one originally. I'd say that at least %70 of the pupulation lives in areas that grew organicly with out any planning other than where the sewer, water and power lines are going.
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Significant numbers of rural Americans said they couldn't subscribe to high-speed services because none was available. Most Americans who did not use fast connections said service was either too expensive or they did not need it.
1)Not Available
Many areas are not populated enough to get Cable or close enough to an exchange get DSL. Try getting either of these in Kansas, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Alaska and many other states in the more rural areas. At least until the phone companies all go fibre like Verizon is.
2)Too Expensive
As soon as the phone companies start competing with the cable companis the prices will go down. Until you have both options available in your area you are stuck with high prices.
3)Not Needed
This is the most overlooked. Who needs broadband when all they do is ocationaly send and recieve email and do light web surfing for at most an hour a day? I'll agree that this isn't most slashdoters, but most of our parents are probably like this and probably our grandparents as well. Assuming that they even have internet much less a computer.
And don't forget the movie "I,Robot", which had nothing at all to do with Isaac Asimov's book other than having robots and the same three laws.
I'm not sure, but it could be that fly wheels are harder to maintain and/or are not as eficient. If you've got a link to information on flywheels to the contary I'd like to see it.
On a more serious note this would help Architecture students who have to render their projects through AutoCAD. I have seen small frames without many effects take 10 minutes per frame. When they have 300 frames or more to render it takes a while.
I've heard that there is an open source web server that has more marketsare than say IIS, but does not have the same number of security issues like IIS has.
It's called Apache. From Apache.org
And we will call it Mythril!
Does this mean that grandma can now knit me a bullet proof vest?
You can blame Carter for causing the 15% inflation rates during the 70's for driving up costs. That 5 trillion dollar surplus was an estimate of what would come in at the current rates. That estimate was based on prediction before the tech buble burst. After the buble burst those predictions went right out the window. Current inflation rates are around 1%.
Considering the amount of money spent on SDI, I can't imagine the US not going to great lengths to try to salvage the wreck in order to see what countermeasures the USSR was working on
Something tells me that when it hit the ocean it got scattered into many, many pieces. Probably be too hard to recover all of them. Most probably aren't very big either. This thing also came through the atmosphere on an unplanned trajectory so anything really usefull was burnt as well. It isn't really worth it to recover slag.
A recent University of Pennsylvania study found that surgical patients at hospitals with the worst nurse-staffing levels (ergo the most overworked nurses) have a 31 percent greater chance of dying
31 greater chance of dying? Everyone dies unless nurses have found an imortality serum, so what do they mean here really?
Reasons for using LED over Flourescent:
1) When a flourescent bulb fails, it stops giving off light completely. Usually and LED light will only have 1 led fail at a time. Given theis, you don't have large areas of darkness and don't have to replace the bulb immediatley when a part fails. LEDs fail gracefully.
2) LEDs are more resistant to damage.
3) The LEDs appear to not need to be replaced as often as Flourescent. The largest "Pain" in lighting is having to replace the bulbs. If these new LEDs last sufficiently longer than Flourescnets, they pay for themselves in labor.
4) I'm not sure about this, but I don't think I've seend flourescent spot lights before. However, the LEDs might be able to put out more light than flourescents.
It's not a punchcard system. You go to the machine, push the buttons in and pull a lever. Thats how you vote. There are not punchcards and no paper. We've used them for 20 years or more.
The Economy Isn't Everything.
Tell me that when you don't have a job and have zero dollars (or whatever monetary unit you use) in the bank, are up to your eyeballs in debt and don't have enough money to go to McDonalds to get a Happy Meal. Economy=Jobs.
Actually, not the reason she gave didn't seem absurd. Considering some of the people on slashdot say that the systems fraudulently gave bush several hundred thousnd votes.
We can't have checks and balances because people might check too much?
Not the point I was making. What I was saying is that people would never ever trust the machines count. It would basically be pointless under what I diagramed above to even bother with the machines count since people would challenege it by default. They would be better off simply skiping the machine count and only counting the paper in such a setup. At which point there would be no reason for the electronic machines.
Also, we haven't had a paper voting trail for years since before this we had a mechanical machine that did not give a paper ballot or anything. The only change was from mechanical to software in our case.
If paying for an audit count is a problem, then make the party asking for it pay for it
And for every part other than the Republicans and Democrats and the larger of the third parties who don't have mulit million dollars to spend can get a recount how?
I actually asked the head official for my area why they don't go to a paper backup system. The completely rational answere is that they believe that no one would ever trust the initial computer count. Basically, here is the rundown of events they believe would happen if there was a paper trail.
1) Everyone votes
2) Electoronic machines report numbers
3) Losing party sues to have paper trail recount
4) Paper trail recount confirms computer count
5) Repeat 3 and 4 a few times.
6) Repeat in every election these machines are used in.
Given that the votes are challeneged and recounted every time, there is no point to going electronic at all. Also for those who care, my county is ~70% Democrats and votes that way. Although I do know that Illinois has many problems with Dead voters voting more than once. And they aren't electronic and they are heavily Democrat.
There is an old saying "If you look hard enough for something you're going to find it. Even if it doesn't exist." This has especially been applied to statistics. I have know people that work with numbers and when someone has asked them to analyze the numbers on something they always ask "What do you want me to prove?" And then they figure out a way to prove it. It would be possible for someone else to take the same set of numbers and conclude that Bush got fewer votes than he should have.
You assume that people have been using only paper trails voting machines before electronic ones came about. The ones in my area were Mechanical and made by Diebold. Mind telling me how we were supposed to do a recount?
(those HR people have no purpose)
I hope you like working for free then and without health care and various other things. At my company HR sets up the paycheck runs, handles all health care, retirement benifits and a few other things.
It's backwards compatible in the same way DVDs are compatible with CDs. You will need a new drive to read these new disks, but the new drives will contain lasers for reading CDs and DVDs as well.
If you mean backwards compatible video format, then it depends on the players hardware and not on the drive. HD-DVD has MPEG2 in the spec. MPEG2 is what DVDs use. So they will still work assuming the MPAA doesn't try to pull a fast one.
There is also the problem of hitting the glass at the right angle to make sure that the phosphorus excites and emits light. The steeper the angle, the harder that is to do. You also have to shape the glass differently on the inside since you are playing around with the focal length. Finally the em fields that aim the electrons have to be able to change their direction to a stepper angle (not sure if that is the grille or not). So it's not just the gun and the grille. Its other stuff too.
CRTs have better refresh rates than LCDs. CRTs have had refresh rates of 75hz for years while LCDs are only up to 25ms (40hz) and 16ms (62.5hz) and CRTs can still faster. The only thing going for the LCDs is the Power Usage. Pollution has yet to be decided. LCDs may be smaller, but there is much less you can recycle in them. CRTs may have lead glass, but you should be able to recycle that glass. I don't think you can recycle and LCD panel. Another thing going for the CRTs is that they can provide true collor every time while LCDs can only aproximate it. Thats why TV stations us CRTs for everything where you have to see what you are getting.
" 'The Evil Dead' is such a special film to Sam, Rob, Bruce and horror fans that we are going to take great care in renewing this franchise," said Joe Drake, Senator Intl. prexy. "By keeping its original formula intact and given audiences' appetite for horror, we expect that we'll have a real hit on our hands."
Ummm... Don't they mean an appetite for Comedy? I don't know about you, but I get more or a laugh out of Army of Darkness than a scream and I assume Evil Dead is the same.
We already have the technology. We shove them into a breeder reactor to get nuclear material that we can use. The problem is that Carter put a ban on breeder reactors in the US.
Easiest way to put this. The closet place to park near a mass transit is where I park. I can then take the bus somewhere or the train. Train goes direct to my workplace, not idea where the busses go. The closet bus stop has no parking for mass transit. As for the city planner, we never had one. Just like most of the US. There are very few pre-planned communities and even the cities never had one originally. I'd say that at least %70 of the pupulation lives in areas that grew organicly with out any planning other than where the sewer, water and power lines are going.