Germany has that dual system as well, each voter gets to place one vote on a party and one vote on a representative. Representatives are sent in on a majority vote basis per district (i.e. winner takes all), party votes are tallied over the country and then used to proportionally distribute the remaining seats to each party. Parties have their lists in which order seats are assigned (usually with their cancellor candidate on spot #1). The cancellor is voted into office by the representatives. Usually the candidate from the majority party or coalition takes that spot.
Selecting precints on ANY logic is stupid and inaccurate. Statistics rely on choosing a completely random sample otherwise they are skewed and useless.
It's part Hichhiker reference and part hatred towards Nintendo's European division due to their endless delays, unreleased games and unjustified price hikes compared to other regions or the PC.
If you want to pay extra for lower latency and guaranteed levels of packet loss, you should have the ability to do that. It certainly isn't free for the ISP to provide this higher grade of service.
Yes but the net neutrality debate was spawned by the network owners wanting to charge the service you access for that improved service, not the user (even though that service is already paying his own network provider which can be different from the one you have). That causes costs hidden to the customer as those services will need to make up for the expenses somehow and some may be forced to raise their prices or suffer the degraded service. The debate also covers whether network providerss will prevent companies offering services that compete with the provider's own services from accessing that "improvement" package.
Without net neutrality you still can't decide to pay more for higher priority traffic, you will still be limited by the (dis)agreements between your network operator and the service you access.
I think this parable is applicable here. Though I remember it ending with "a new bloke took over and decided it was more cost effective to outfit every car with a toilet".
Every time a biology related story is posted the discussion degenerates to Creationism vs. Evolution.
Which makes me wonder why. I mean, we don't start discussing whether Santa Claus exists every time a Christmas related story pops up, why do we talk about creationism?
I don't know about you but my parents didn't put any more emphasis on "don't kill people" than they did on other subjects, in fact it's probably one of the topics they addressed the least. Yet I have more resistance towards killing than I have towards not brushing my teeth after every meal.
Yes but the problem is to tell the emulator which code should be run at full CPU speed and which should be run at C64 speed. You don't want your games to run 729 times as fast and not all loading is just reading from the disk. Since the emulator couldn't tell just from a normal image you'd need to add markers to it (e.g. lines 23-420 are a load routine, run these at full speed) or hand the user the "warp" button. The latter is a pretty inconvenient approach as by the time the user notices it's done loading and releases the button the game may already have begun and played for a few seconds.
Debian being completely free software also means that you can take ANY part of it and be assured that you can make any modifications you like and redistribute it under the GPL. With a "proprietary" browser in there that wouldn't be the case anymore, the user would need to check the license for everything he modifies.
In fact, if I remember right, the US supreme court decided that the right to free speech included the right to give money to whoever you wish; and denied campaign finance reform legislation under the principle that an individual must be free, under the First Ammendment, to give money to whoever he or she choses.
So I can give money to a judge heading a lawsuit that involves me? Or a policeman that just caught me?
I think the legislative should be held to the same standards as the judicative or executive.
Slashdot Mirror
No but you can patent the way you made them work. Patents aren'T about the abstract concept (or idea), they're about the implementation.
Adding them, no. Making them work, yes.
Where did you get a remote controlled boomerang with built-in camera from?
All anti-air weapons come with radars these days, you're not going to hit a UAV with an AK-47 no matter how good of a shot you are.
Germany has that dual system as well, each voter gets to place one vote on a party and one vote on a representative. Representatives are sent in on a majority vote basis per district (i.e. winner takes all), party votes are tallied over the country and then used to proportionally distribute the remaining seats to each party. Parties have their lists in which order seats are assigned (usually with their cancellor candidate on spot #1). The cancellor is voted into office by the representatives. Usually the candidate from the majority party or coalition takes that spot.
Selecting precints on ANY logic is stupid and inaccurate. Statistics rely on choosing a completely random sample otherwise they are skewed and useless.
I've seen ATMs run Windows ME. Guess someone did buy that...
It's part Hichhiker reference and part hatred towards Nintendo's European division due to their endless delays, unreleased games and unjustified price hikes compared to other regions or the PC.
If you want to pay extra for lower latency and guaranteed levels of packet loss, you should have the ability to do that. It certainly isn't free for the ISP to provide this higher grade of service.
Yes but the net neutrality debate was spawned by the network owners wanting to charge the service you access for that improved service, not the user (even though that service is already paying his own network provider which can be different from the one you have). That causes costs hidden to the customer as those services will need to make up for the expenses somehow and some may be forced to raise their prices or suffer the degraded service. The debate also covers whether network providerss will prevent companies offering services that compete with the provider's own services from accessing that "improvement" package.
Without net neutrality you still can't decide to pay more for higher priority traffic, you will still be limited by the (dis)agreements between your network operator and the service you access.
You gotta serve somebody, it's either capitalism or communism.
Or a hybrid thereof as in pretty much every market that exists in real life.
You forgot
3. Net Neutrality means YOU pay more.
I think this parable is applicable here. Though I remember it ending with "a new bloke took over and decided it was more cost effective to outfit every car with a toilet".
That's nothing that can't be fixed with cloning.
I think we just laid the foundation for a new joke religion...
Every time a biology related story is posted the discussion degenerates to Creationism vs. Evolution.
Which makes me wonder why. I mean, we don't start discussing whether Santa Claus exists every time a Christmas related story pops up, why do we talk about creationism?
And in ninety years the aliens come over to play and notice that the information *might* be a bit out of date.
Where are you getting the 20 buck fix from?
I don't know about you but my parents didn't put any more emphasis on "don't kill people" than they did on other subjects, in fact it's probably one of the topics they addressed the least. Yet I have more resistance towards killing than I have towards not brushing my teeth after every meal.
Yes but the problem is to tell the emulator which code should be run at full CPU speed and which should be run at C64 speed. You don't want your games to run 729 times as fast and not all loading is just reading from the disk. Since the emulator couldn't tell just from a normal image you'd need to add markers to it (e.g. lines 23-420 are a load routine, run these at full speed) or hand the user the "warp" button. The latter is a pretty inconvenient approach as by the time the user notices it's done loading and releases the button the game may already have begun and played for a few seconds.
SmokingGNU
Debian being completely free software also means that you can take ANY part of it and be assured that you can make any modifications you like and redistribute it under the GPL. With a "proprietary" browser in there that wouldn't be the case anymore, the user would need to check the license for everything he modifies.
In fact, if I remember right, the US supreme court decided that the right to free speech included the right to give money to whoever you wish; and denied campaign finance reform legislation under the principle that an individual must be free, under the First Ammendment, to give money to whoever he or she choses.
So I can give money to a judge heading a lawsuit that involves me? Or a policeman that just caught me?
I think the legislative should be held to the same standards as the judicative or executive.
After all, it isn't really free software if it is encumbered by trademarks. Will the next GPL revision address this?
~$ dumptruck
This isn't a dumptruck, try "tubes".
Because everyone knows the videogame to a movie sucks but we aren't sure about this yet?