Good score for the marketing people. Buy our phones and get protection against those nasty viruses. Right now the chances of your phone getting infected are practically nil, and most phone viruses have been demonstrated by AV firms themselves to help seed a market for them in the future.
All of these issues are settled in the counting hall. A relative of mine has been counting ballots in local and national elections for over 20 years and explained the process to me. If the counter has the slightest doubt as to the validity of a voting form they are placed into separate pile. These ballots are then examined by the all the candidates themselves or their representatives. Almost always agreement is reached as to what candidate the elector intended to vote for, or whether the ballot is to be treated as spoilt (an increasing number of voters are doing this deliberately). Also at any time a candidate may, under supervision, inspect the stacks of ballots in the counting hall.
All votes are then stored securly for a certain number of years. If later a candidate wishes to challenge the result the ballots can be brought out for a recount or further examination.
I really cannot imagine a system with more integrity.
Give paper ballot to voter. Voter makes mark next to chosen candidate. Voter places ballot in ballot box. Count ballots in the presense of the candidates.
Here in the UK this system has worked without incident for several hundred years. Any other way opens up the system to irregularities, be they accidental or malicious.
I like Itanium. It's a pretty neat architecture which crushes most before it in FP intensive tasks. It is clear why it has done well in HPC. But HPC is nothing more than a niche.
Now here are the problems:
32 bit (x86) perfomance sucks. All those apps you've spent years developing will need re-writing (A simple recompile is often out of the question).
HP (in collusion with Intel) killed perfectly good archs. in Alpha and PA-RISC in an effort to get people to migrate to IA-64. A few may have made the move but this has mostly served to push people towards the vasty cheaper x86. HP, and to a lesser extent Intel, should provide what their customers want, not what they think is best for them.
It still uses a shared bus architecture. There are diminishing returns as you add more processors.
Itanium requires massive caches to get the best from it. Cache = Silicon = Cost. It is clear that a large scale seeding exercise is still underway with Itanium systems being provided at or below cost. Looks like it will be a long time before there will be any return on the billions invested in Itanium.
Luckily for AMD, the Opteron/A64 was designed with dual-core in mind. As I understand it both cores will talk to each other via an internal Hypertransport link and (as with current Opertons) together with the internal memory controller will eliminate the need for an external northbridge. It is also expected that upon release they will drop directly into existing motherboards with nothing more than a BIOS upgrade.
Intel will find things more challenging. Both cores will have to contend the GTL bus, currently the Achilles heel of their MP solutions, by communicating via an external northbridge.
Who came up with this 'digital divide' crap? I only associate this phrase with ludicrous schemes such as bringing the Internet to impoverished African states.
Call me old fashioned; but food, santitation, housing, education and social justice come first. Only when these are in place can we think about exposing these people to free music, porn and inane ramblings on sites like... slashdot.
I appreciate your points. I'm not totally against recorded music but I do think it's become too dominant over live performances. Artists do deserve royalties from their recordings but as it stands music is way overpriced and it's through playing live that they should really earn their crust.
In the last couple of decades the record producer has become more and more responsible for the way recorded music sounds. They can make crap music and mediocre singers sound good. Thus nowadays recorded music should be in no way a measure of their true talent, that can now only be done by seeing them perform live.
I appreciate the humour in what you said but I truly believe we should all pay for our music, but instead of getting it on a piece of plastic, it should be delivered the way music was intended, i.e live.
Live performances are the only way to ensure that the artist gets both the money and recognition they deserve. Sadly the art of the live performance, barring a few notable exceptions, is one that's been foreign for mosts of todays 'artists'.
All I can say is that if you like a particular band or singer then get out there and go see them play. Only then will you get the get the true feel for what talent they have.
The reason why DRI drivers work so well is because ATI didn't write them. But as you should know DRI only supports older cards such as your 9200. If you own a card that is only a little newer, then you are forced to use ATI's proprietry drivers. These, as everyone seems to know except yourself, suck ass. My 9600Pro gets a least 30% less fps in games than in Windows, not to mention the numerous glitches I encounter.
If you run Linux, you run Nvidia, it's as simple as that.
Zyklon B was devloped as a pesticide, and was widely used a such in Nazi camps until someone had the bright idea to kill the inmates with it. Today, it is to some extent still used as a pesticide although obviously they don't call it Zyklon.
Shows that such things do have legitimate uses, including Nazi 'memorabilia', which maybe collected by individuals who have absolutely no facist beliefs.
Let's face it, it'll only give them time to develop new ways to terrorize their users. If they're not web browsing they'll only be reading people's email or planting porn in home directories.
' Interesting and alarming article from the Brownsville (TX) Herald about how Texas students are purchasing books from their college bookstores, transporting them across the border into Mexico, and photocopying the books there to save money. The books are then returned to the bookstore for full credit.'
Very alarming indeed. Who would have thought that students with all the money they have would try something as despicable as this.
But could someone please explain why they have to travel over the border to use a photocopier? Is this against the Patriot Act or something?
A lot of accidents could be avoided if private pilots were encouraged more to acquire instrument ratings
Can't speak for the FAA, but here in the UK our equivalent, the CAA; does little to encourage private pilots to take up instrument training. It could be argued that the requirements are even obstructive, much of the training is overly complex, unnecessary and much will only ever apply to airline pilots. This of course adds to the cost, and flying is expensive over here as it is.
GA pilots here frequently bend the rules and often fly VFR in IMC. Most of the time they get away with it but some will inevitably find themselves in the shit when the unpredictable British weather closes in. If basic and affordable instrument training was available then many of these situations wouldn't happen.
The French drink more, smoke more and do less than most Westerners. Yet they are third in the WHO rankings for life expectancy behind Japan and Australia while the United States languishes in 24th place. All I can say is that the French must be doing something right.
Americans work harder for longer hours, get paid more but die earlier. The French work less hours, get more holidays and live longer. So who is really the most successful?
Am I the only one who is sick of the hype surrounding WiFi?
I mean for fucks sake, one of my colleagues makes a point of sitting in Starbucks at lunchtime just to been seen browsing with his Powerbook. Conveniently forgets that he's got the best part of a 155Mbps pipe in his office if he could be arsed plugging a patch lead into the wall.
And now we're up to 54mbps and more with this new standard. Is your average Starbucks ponce going to notice all this extra speed?
Some experts now believe that Newton along with Einstein both 'suffered' from Aspergers Syndrome (a form of autism). I'm a little sceptical, although these people may have shown signs of Aspergers many psychiatrists will tell you that diagnosis is difficult enough with a living person; never mind someone whose been dead for tens or hundreds of years.
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I would be sold if they included a BFG and railgun.
Good score for the marketing people. Buy our phones and get protection against those nasty viruses. Right now the chances of your phone getting infected are practically nil, and most phone viruses have been demonstrated by AV firms themselves to help seed a market for them in the future.
All of these issues are settled in the counting hall. A relative of mine has been counting ballots in local and national elections for over 20 years and explained the process to me. If the counter has the slightest doubt as to the validity of a voting form they are placed into separate pile. These ballots are then examined by the all the candidates themselves or their representatives. Almost always agreement is reached as to what candidate the elector intended to vote for, or whether the ballot is to be treated as spoilt (an increasing number of voters are doing this deliberately). Also at any time a candidate may, under supervision, inspect the stacks of ballots in the counting hall.
All votes are then stored securly for a certain number of years. If later a candidate wishes to challenge the result the ballots can be brought out for a recount or further examination.
I really cannot imagine a system with more integrity.
Give paper ballot to voter.
Voter makes mark next to chosen candidate.
Voter places ballot in ballot box.
Count ballots in the presense of the candidates.
Here in the UK this system has worked without incident for several hundred years. Any other way opens up the system to irregularities, be they accidental or malicious.
..will it survive a 40 degree cotton program with fast spin?
Sadly no phone I've owned has passed the test.
I like Itanium. It's a pretty neat architecture which crushes most before it in FP intensive tasks. It is clear why it has done well in HPC. But HPC is nothing more than a niche.
Now here are the problems:
32 bit (x86) perfomance sucks. All those apps you've spent years developing will need re-writing (A simple recompile is often out of the question).
HP (in collusion with Intel) killed perfectly good archs. in Alpha and PA-RISC in an effort to get people to migrate to IA-64. A few may have made the move but this has mostly served to push people towards the vasty cheaper x86. HP, and to a lesser extent Intel, should provide what their customers want, not what they think is best for them.
It still uses a shared bus architecture. There are diminishing returns as you add more processors.
Itanium requires massive caches to get the best from it. Cache = Silicon = Cost. It is clear that a large scale seeding exercise is still underway with Itanium systems being provided at or below cost. Looks like it will be a long time before there will be any return on the billions invested in Itanium.
Luckily for AMD, the Opteron/A64 was designed with dual-core in mind. As I understand it both cores will talk to each other via an internal Hypertransport link and (as with current Opertons) together with the internal memory controller will eliminate the need for an external northbridge. It is also expected that upon release they will drop directly into existing motherboards with nothing more than a BIOS upgrade.
Intel will find things more challenging. Both cores will have to contend the GTL bus, currently the Achilles heel of their MP solutions, by communicating via an external northbridge.
Who came up with this 'digital divide' crap? I only associate this phrase with ludicrous schemes such as bringing the Internet to impoverished African states.
Call me old fashioned; but food, santitation, housing, education and social justice come first. Only when these are in place can we think about exposing these people to free music, porn and inane ramblings on sites like... slashdot.
Yes but the llama had its day; in Soviet Russia, the llama whips you.
I appreciate your points. I'm not totally against recorded music but I do think it's become too dominant over live performances. Artists do deserve royalties from their recordings but as it stands music is way overpriced and it's through playing live that they should really earn their crust.
In the last couple of decades the record producer has become more and more responsible for the way recorded music sounds. They can make crap music and mediocre singers sound good. Thus nowadays recorded music should be in no way a measure of their true talent, that can now only be done by seeing them perform live.
I appreciate the humour in what you said but I truly believe we should all pay for our music, but instead of getting it on a piece of plastic, it should be delivered the way music was intended, i.e live.
Live performances are the only way to ensure that the artist gets both the money and recognition they deserve. Sadly the art of the live performance, barring a few notable exceptions, is one that's been foreign for mosts of todays 'artists'.
All I can say is that if you like a particular band or singer then get out there and go see them play. Only then will you get the get the true feel for what talent they have.
Can we settle this once and for all?
Virii is not a word in the English language; or any other language as far as I know.
I recommend correctional facilities for those using the word 'virii'.
The reason why DRI drivers work so well is because ATI didn't write them. But as you should know DRI only supports older cards such as your 9200. If you own a card that is only a little newer, then you are forced to use ATI's proprietry drivers. These, as everyone seems to know except yourself, suck ass. My 9600Pro gets a least 30% less fps in games than in Windows, not to mention the numerous glitches I encounter.
If you run Linux, you run Nvidia, it's as simple as that.
Zyklon B was devloped as a pesticide, and was widely used a such in Nazi camps until someone had the bright idea to kill the inmates with it. Today, it is to some extent still used as a pesticide although obviously they don't call it Zyklon.
Shows that such things do have legitimate uses, including Nazi 'memorabilia', which maybe collected by individuals who have absolutely no facist beliefs.
Let's face it, it'll only give them time to develop new ways to terrorize their users. If they're not web browsing they'll only be reading people's email or planting porn in home directories.
For gods sake keep them occupied.
From the first link:
' Interesting and alarming article from the Brownsville (TX) Herald about how Texas students are purchasing books from their college bookstores, transporting them across the border into Mexico, and photocopying the books there to save money. The books are then returned to the bookstore for full credit.'
Very alarming indeed. Who would have thought that students with all the money they have would try something as despicable as this.
But could someone please explain why they have to travel over the border to use a photocopier? Is this against the Patriot Act or something?
A lot of accidents could be avoided if private pilots were encouraged more to acquire instrument ratings
Can't speak for the FAA, but here in the UK our equivalent, the CAA; does little to encourage private pilots to take up instrument training. It could be argued that the requirements are even obstructive, much of the training is overly complex, unnecessary and much will only ever apply to airline pilots. This of course adds to the cost, and flying is expensive over here as it is.
GA pilots here frequently bend the rules and often fly VFR in IMC. Most of the time they get away with it but some will inevitably find themselves in the shit when the unpredictable British weather closes in. If basic and affordable instrument training was available then many of these situations wouldn't happen.
Does this new chip make the Internet go faster like other Intel chips?
It's as simple as this, if people save money by going with OSS then they have more money to spend elsewhere. One industry shrinks, another grows.
I install Linux, Microsoft loses. Because I installed Linux I now have more money in my pocket, Brewing industry gains.
As long as such changes are gradual, the impact on the economy is nil.
The French drink more, smoke more and do less than most Westerners. Yet they are third in the WHO rankings for life expectancy behind Japan and Australia while the United States languishes in 24th place. All I can say is that the French must be doing something right.
Americans work harder for longer hours, get paid more but die earlier. The French work less hours, get more holidays and live longer. So who is really the most successful?
" If you run Google ads, Google pays you."
..in Soviet Russia?
uhh, if at the office he'd be surfing for free, instead of paying Buck's extortionate rates.
:)
Plus, at the office the coffee's also free and we don't have any web filtering
Am I the only one who is sick of the hype surrounding WiFi?
I mean for fucks sake, one of my colleagues makes a point of sitting in Starbucks at lunchtime just to been seen browsing with his Powerbook. Conveniently forgets that he's got the best part of a 155Mbps pipe in his office if he could be arsed plugging a patch lead into the wall.
And now we're up to 54mbps and more with this new standard. Is your average Starbucks ponce going to notice all this extra speed?
..If you still want to make a profit, you have to charge less for your software to make more people willing to buy it.
Some experts now believe that Newton along with Einstein both 'suffered' from Aspergers Syndrome (a form of autism). I'm a little sceptical, although these people may have shown signs of Aspergers many psychiatrists will tell you that diagnosis is difficult enough with a living person; never mind someone whose been dead for tens or hundreds of years.