In Canada, all Federal and Provintial elections are done this way. Everyone understands it. Anyone can very it.
It look like in the US, the system might be as follows,// TOP SECURITY CODE WRITEN IN INDIA^H^H^H^H^HCUBA^H^H^H^HCHINA if( strcmp( candidate, "My Big Joe" ) == 0 )
tally[1] += random( 1, 10 ); else
rally[2]++;
With closed source voting booths, everyone looses their vote. With paper, everyone can verify the code:)
I think that US might need to redefine "democracy" next.
Maybe. We can only verify this by looking. Without the Hubble (or something better), we really have no eyes to look with.
2) There was no big bang, and space is infinite
Well, there is no "Big Bang" the way most people think. But spacetime is finite. If it wasn't, why is the sky not completely filled (white) with all the galaxies? Why can I only see a finite universe? If it is infinite in space, it probably means it is infinite is time (you can't get to infinite size with finite steps in a finite amount of time).
BTW, infinity is not a number:)
3) Space curves back on itself
Sure.
The problem is that more than one of these things is possible. And there are a number of other things that are possible as well. Some of these posibilities are beyond what even Sci-Fi can imagine:)
Ideally it is still going to it's original destination , valley basin or whatever, just rerouted along the way.
Yey! I can drink some Cadmium/Iron/Nickel/Water soup!
You have to realize that there is no decontamination, especially in the countries where they do use 300 tones of water for one ton of steel. It just gets dumped right back it, eventually ending up on your plate:) (eg. fish)
The problem is that the pollution generated in coutries like India or Chine ends up on your plate too (fish swim around:)
Believe it or not, I think Windows 2000 / Windows XP is as stable as linux
So why did I crash 2k every time I passed a wrong value to DirectSound? Or Direct3D? It locked up the entire OS and sometimes it just rebooted.
With X on Linux, no crashes. If I start passing weird values to X, it just craps out my program, at the very most. Most of the time it just ignores the functions (I get a return code that says it say that there was an error). I never managed to crash X with any app that was screwing around with X, video modes, and OpenGL.
Windows has a long(horn) way to go. It appears that the crashes I saw with DirectX will not be "fixed" until managed code is used. I hope that MS can actually seperate processes completely and the GUI is 100% crashproof (from userspace, of course).
The question is "Can you sue the US Patent Office for stifling competition when they granted stupid patents?" eg. Amazon's one-click patent, XML pending patent, patenting *my* DNA, etc..
This is the way that nVidia writes their drivers. The part of the driver that they distribute in source form is the *glue* between Linux hardware API and the driver.
The 2D drivers for X and Windows glue is not nearly as difficult to write as the actual drivers which are device (video card) dependant.
1. Electric motors are cheaper to make than most things you have in your car (engine, transmission, axle, shocks, etc..). This is especially try if they are mass produced.
2. So everytime you change a tire you change the rims too?
Tokyo... Check...
Going across Pacific... Check...
Stomping on Seattle... NYI (not yet implemented)
MS should change their browser's name to King Kong, then we would have some fun, eh?
Note that magnetic fields are NOT related to the voltage in the lines, but to the currents in those lines,
B = N*I/r * (u/2/Pi)
= N*I/r * (2e-7)
This gives you the magnetic field in Tesla (T) from N wires which have I amps of current in it at a distance of r meters.
So, assuming you are 10m away from a 10MW line at 40kV (or I = 10000/40 = 250 amps), so B = 0.0005mT or 5nT.
Of course, if you have one of those "magnetic" stoves, then you are screwed:) Of course, my current lab for physics is working near a magnet that is supplied with 3 volts and 4500 amps:) and I'm about 1 meter from it.. Good thing it is DC and only screwes all the monitors in the building
Since Sun bought "rights" to UNIX from SCO some time ago, I think they can call it UNIX. Otherwise it would be Sunix and the President would need to change his/her last name to Sunis:P
This seems to be analogous to Microsoft getting advice from IBM on how to listen to the end user feedback.
If they want feedback, they should just create slash.gov and post proposed laws there so every could post feedback. At least that would be better than some anonymous e-mail comments that never get acknowledged. But wait, we can't have democracy, we need "democracy"
This compresses talk stream down to 1.6kB/s (or 13kbits). From their readme file:
GSM 06.10 13 kbit/s RPE/LTP speech compression available
-----------
The Communications and Operating Systems Research Group (KBS) at the
Technische Universitaet Berlin is currently working on a set of
UNIX-based tools for computer-mediated telecooperation that will be
made freely available.
Isn't this much better than some close-source codec? Real probably uses GSM for that 14kbps codec anyway!!
BTW, this codec is excellent for text and even somewhat good for music (though like a bad AM radio in the music area:)
Apple now supports GSM in their player:)
This will not fly. From the "goodmail systems" website:
Goodmail Systems has developed a patent-protected email stamping process that addresses the root economic causes of spam.
...
Responsible mass-mailers, who have watched email decline in viability as a marketing and group communications tool, will be able to communicate more effectively and benefit from dramatic increases in delivery rates.
Sooo, they have patented some hash algorithm (or some encryption like GPG has) to identify people. Well, that is bloody original. Isn't it like PGP and GnuPG ??
Futhermore, since free software will not incorporate anything like this, this entire thing will fail. If MS/Yahoo put this into their emails, we'll see a bunch of replies - sednamil/exim/postfix/etc.. " has detected a virus in form of a patented hash. Please use a non-compromised e-mail client and/or server. This message has been deleted from the server.":P
So the entire "Terror alert" system is the US (you know, the color codes) *IS* terrorism. I mean it freaks the shit out of people everytime they raise that thing to High.
You always hear, "The terror level is High, but please continue what you were doing. There is no danger". WTF???
What Al Qaeda is doing is just sending crap all over the internet and elsewhere to terrorize with *information*. They don't even need to blow themselves up anymore to raise the blood pressure of at least 30% of americans. Good work "Homeland security".
Sun should simply control the trademark of Java and the API *not* the implementation.
There are many examples where this works and does not fragment anything. Just look at OpenGL - people can add extensions to the API without changing the core. Any application using OpenGL that compiles with OpenGL API, must work under a complient driver.
Java should be controlled exactly like OpenGL is controlled and not like DirectX. Just a thought.
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Puretracks has crap AFAICT and their site does not even work with Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox... :(
DRM (Digital Rights Management) - the future SCO... Sad.
Why not just "Put an X here" voting?
// TOP SECURITY CODE WRITEN IN INDIA^H^H^H^H^HCUBA^H^H^H^HCHINA
:)
In Canada, all Federal and Provintial elections are done this way. Everyone understands it. Anyone can very it.
It look like in the US, the system might be as follows,
if( strcmp( candidate, "My Big Joe" ) == 0 )
tally[1] += random( 1, 10 );
else
rally[2]++;
With closed source voting booths, everyone looses their vote. With paper, everyone can verify the code
I think that US might need to redefine "democracy" next.
1) The universe is a lot older than we thought
Maybe. We can only verify this by looking. Without the Hubble (or something better), we really have no eyes to look with.
2) There was no big bang, and space is infinite
Well, there is no "Big Bang" the way most people think. But spacetime is finite. If it wasn't, why is the sky not completely filled (white) with all the galaxies? Why can I only see a finite universe? If it is infinite in space, it probably means it is infinite is time (you can't get to infinite size with finite steps in a finite amount of time).
BTW, infinity is not a number :)
3) Space curves back on itself
Sure.
The problem is that more than one of these things is possible. And there are a number of other things that are possible as well. Some of these posibilities are beyond what even Sci-Fi can imagine :)
Yey! I can drink some Cadmium/Iron/Nickel/Water soup!
You have to realize that there is no decontamination, especially in the countries where they do use 300 tones of water for one ton of steel. It just gets dumped right back it, eventually ending up on your plate :) (eg. fish)
The problem is that the pollution generated in coutries like India or Chine ends up on your plate too (fish swim around :)
So why did I crash 2k every time I passed a wrong value to DirectSound? Or Direct3D? It locked up the entire OS and sometimes it just rebooted.
With X on Linux, no crashes. If I start passing weird values to X, it just craps out my program, at the very most. Most of the time it just ignores the functions (I get a return code that says it say that there was an error). I never managed to crash X with any app that was screwing around with X, video modes, and OpenGL.
Windows has a long(horn) way to go. It appears that the crashes I saw with DirectX will not be "fixed" until managed code is used. I hope that MS can actually seperate processes completely and the GUI is 100% crashproof (from userspace, of course).
The question is "Can you sue the US Patent Office for stifling competition when they granted stupid patents?" eg. Amazon's one-click patent, XML pending patent, patenting *my* DNA, etc..
This is the way that nVidia writes their drivers. The part of the driver that they distribute in source form is the *glue* between Linux hardware API and the driver.
The 2D drivers for X and Windows glue is not nearly as difficult to write as the actual drivers which are device (video card) dependant.
Electric cars are step 1. Step 2 is to get the fusion reactor working commercially.
Only after Step 2 can we get rid of most of the fosil fuels.
Flying cards... hmm... Ok, so people can't drive in 2D. How the hell will they drive in 3D??
:)
Just a thought. I would not want to get t-boned at 3000 feet by some drunk
1. Electric motors are cheaper to make than most things you have in your car (engine, transmission, axle, shocks, etc..). This is especially try if they are mass produced.
2. So everytime you change a tire you change the rims too?
Hey Bill! Ever heard of IPv6?
Since most spammers attempt to locate relays by chance, they would have a horrible time finding new open relays on an IPv6 internet.
But why give away IP addresses when you can charge $1/mo per IP!
Tokyo... Check... Going across Pacific... Check... Stomping on Seattle... NYI (not yet implemented) MS should change their browser's name to King Kong, then we would have some fun, eh?
Oh boy.. :)
BTW, MPAA might know how to manage ripped DVDs
Patent 9433043: The method by which nerons are stimilated to discharge ... (pause) ... electrons.
Patent 9433044: The method by which pressing ordered objects causes a letter to appear on a display
Patent 9433045: The method of for ( ;; ) { ... }
Innovation [noun] - the different ways that one may file a patent and/or sue for profit.
(riders must be less than 50 kg/120 lbs) Sooo, this excludes like 95% of all americans.....
B = N*I/r * (u/2/Pi)
= N*I/r * (2e-7)
This gives you the magnetic field in Tesla (T) from N wires which have I amps of current in it at a distance of r meters.
So, assuming you are 10m away from a 10MW line at 40kV (or I = 10000/40 = 250 amps), so B = 0.0005mT or 5nT.
Of course, if you have one of those "magnetic" stoves, then you are screwed :) Of course, my current lab for physics is working near a magnet that is supplied with 3 volts and 4500 amps :) and I'm about 1 meter from it.. Good thing it is DC and only screwes all the monitors in the building
What about if you want to move your data to another box? Even if you think if Flash or whatever, these are slow and die much faster than a HD.
I have no idea how the parent is "Insightful". Moderation hint for parent: Funny + 5
Is this the quality of music that RIAA is trying to sell??? No wander no one is paying for it!!
Since Sun bought "rights" to UNIX from SCO some time ago, I think they can call it UNIX. Otherwise it would be Sunix and the President would need to change his/her last name to Sunis :P
If they want feedback, they should just create slash.gov and post proposed laws there so every could post feedback. At least that would be better than some anonymous e-mail comments that never get acknowledged. But wait, we can't have democracy, we need "democracy"
libgsm1
This compresses talk stream down to 1.6kB/s (or 13kbits). From their readme file:
Isn't this much better than some close-source codec? Real probably uses GSM for that 14kbps codec anyway!!
BTW, this codec is excellent for text and even somewhat good for music (though like a bad AM radio in the music area :)
:)
Apple now supports GSM in their player
Goodmail Systems has developed a patent-protected email stamping process that addresses the root economic causes of spam.
...
Responsible mass-mailers, who have watched email decline in viability as a marketing and group communications tool, will be able to communicate more effectively and benefit from dramatic increases in delivery rates.
Sooo, they have patented some hash algorithm (or some encryption like GPG has) to identify people. Well, that is bloody original. Isn't it like PGP and GnuPG ??
Futhermore, since free software will not incorporate anything like this, this entire thing will fail. If MS/Yahoo put this into their emails, we'll see a bunch of replies - sednamil/exim/postfix/etc.. " has detected a virus in form of a patented hash. Please use a non-compromised e-mail client and/or server. This message has been deleted from the server." :P
You always hear, "The terror level is High, but please continue what you were doing. There is no danger". WTF???
What Al Qaeda is doing is just sending crap all over the internet and elsewhere to terrorize with *information*. They don't even need to blow themselves up anymore to raise the blood pressure of at least 30% of americans. Good work "Homeland security".
Sun should simply control the trademark of Java and the API *not* the implementation.
There are many examples where this works and does not fragment anything. Just look at OpenGL - people can add extensions to the API without changing the core. Any application using OpenGL that compiles with OpenGL API, must work under a complient driver.
Java should be controlled exactly like OpenGL is controlled and not like DirectX. Just a thought.