1. Voter is authenticated (manually, by the attendant) 2. Voter makes choices on touch-LCD panel 3. A receipt is printed with the vote number (not traceable to the voter) and the list of candidates voted for. 4. Voter reviews the list and (if correct) deposits the receipt into a ballot box. 5. Voting is initially tallied electronically. 6. Court reviews the paper receipts if the results are called into question.
Alternatively, you could do it like we do in Canada: paper ballot and pencil. If you've ever watched post-election coverage, you'll notice that we get our results far quicker than Americans, even though our country is far bigger (in area) and is more sparsely populated.
Paper ballots may not seem technologically advanced, but they scale extremely well. How do they vote in India (world's largest democracy with a population 3 times as large as the US)?
At my last job (a smallish art college), I wrote my own in php+mysql. It was pretty basic with the following fields: summary, status, user's priority (number), my priority, detailed request + names and dates, etc. It presented me with a list, ordered by my priority and allowed everybody to easily track their request.
One warning: don't put anything related to time in the user's priority field as they'll abuse it. All of my web-update requests became priority "1 - Immediate Attention Required".
This system saved me hours in phone calls and dealing with crazy artsy-types. It also went a long way with one of the president's goals of "increasing internal communication" with minimal effort on my part.
If you want to speedup your PDF viewing, set the "QuickLaunch" option on the viewer, then it will always be resident in ram, just like your Palm PDF app.
None of the specs you mentioned "beat" a Zaurus. The C750 mentioned in the article has 64MB ram and 64MB flash. My C760 has 128MB flash. They both have a PXA255 400MHz CPU (without the cache errata). I have a 256MB SD card, a 1GB microdrive and a 5GB PCMCIA drive (with CF->PCMCIA Adapter, for mp3s) for my Zaurus, so storage is not an issue. It also comes with a full web browser (Netfront) and can run Opera. Qpdf is a free pdf viewer for the QPE environment and can read any PDF I've seen.
Now the Zaurus is more expensive than the Axim, but then you get to do what _you_ want with it, not what _they_ want you to do with it.
Dynamism sounds like a good company, but if anybody wants to save $100 (and forgo the free shipping if something goes bad) you can get your Zaurus from conics.net. Check the forums for recommendations and localization instructions.
Hey, steam engines are far more efficient than internal-combustion engines, don't knock them.
It's obvious you haven't read the article, or you would know that the Zaurus has a keyboard. The screen swivels to hide it when in portrait mode, but it is far more useful in landscape mode.
Compiling the kernel is never necessary, but it can be fun to unlock hidden potential in your new toy. e.g. the Zaurus' touch screen is actuall pressure sensitive. A new kernel with the correct patch will allow you to make some pretty sweet drawrings (it that's your thing).
I have a C760. It is basically the same unit as the C750, but with double the flash storage (128Mb vs 64Mb) and a bigger battery (1700mAh vs 950mAh). I spent the long-weekend with the in-laws and didn't have to recharge, despite showing it off quite a bit.
The drawback of the C760 is that it is slightly thicker to allow for the battery.
Windows in the only _suported_ sync platform, but scripts (perl) exist to sync with evolution (and others). The format is open, so anyone who wants to write an app for Linux syncing is free to do so.
KOrganizer also runs on the Zaurus, so a sync app for it's data should be trivial.
If all you want is a date and address book, you should stick with a palm. I love being able to ssh/vnc/rdp from anywhere and compile my own kernel to include some features the manufacturer left out.
If you want a "Personal Mobile Tool", nothing out there beats a Zaurus. Keep in mind that you played with a 5x00 series model. the 7x0 models are currently only available in Japan (and are far superior).
The great thing about this is that it's not just a clamshell. Turn the screen around and close it and you have a regular PDA-style stylus-based device. It's the best of both worlds.
A proud C760 owner (same as C750 with longer battery life and 128MB flash ram)
From what I understand, they are using the vendor specific field to ensure that windows hosts can't be authenticated by unix servers. I don't believe this is what the developers intended.
But by paying the "fee", they are giving back to the community. The developer is rewarded and is able to continue work on the free version too (assuming a benevolent[sp?] developer).
If you'd read the article more closely, you'd see that the filesytstem can also be licensed for a fee (ie a non-free license). If others want to incorporate his work and not make the result freely available, they will have to pay for the privilege.
This prevents M$ from stealing his work, making it incompatible with the main branch and calling it WinFS. This is the beauty of the GPL and why I consider it to be a "truely free" license, while I consider the mBSD license to be just a half-step above the public domain. Just look what happened (is happening) to Kerberos.
This will never work. FCC approval will be needed and they'll never get it.
Technology to block cellphones have been around for years, but it would be illegal to use it in a theatre (or any other public place).
I can't wait until (through legislation or broad agreement) all portable electronics manufacturers install bluetooth chips in their products. Then all the theatre needs is a bluetooth transmitter that sends a "be quiet" signal. Of course this could be expanded and a "do not record" signal could be broadcase as well. But either way (this Cinea tech or bluetooth), people with camcorders will find a way around it (think Faraday cage).
In the US, the radio spectrum is owned by the people (and licensed out by their reps). Anybody can receive any kind of data they want (transmitting is regulated, tho).
No one can rightly argue that what they are doing is wrong. They are just monitoring the locations of radio transmitters and doing some advanced modelling to relate the locations to traffic data. This is a smart move and benifits all (as long as they don't apply for a patent on the process).
As far as personally tracking people (for speeding tickets and such), since they don't have access to the ESN database (to match your phone up with you) this is not an issue. Now if the government were doing it... But then there'd be the problem with passengers and their phones... Basically this is a non-issue.
Although it's been a while since I've actually read the EULA, swapping out the motherboard and processor shouldn't be a problem as long as you keep the case (with the magic number stuck on it) and the hard drive (with the OEM installation).
Swapping out hard drives may open you up to attack.
You should also be wary of your installation media. If you got OS CDs, they are probably locked to the BIOS signature of your motherboard.
The OEMs I have dealt with (Dell, IBM and HP) all have miserable support. You won't get one of them to come and look at a desktop problem (Servers only please). You'll still have to diagnose the problem and then wait for them to send you the replacement parts (or send them the whole box and be without it for double the time).
You'd be better off building your own and talking with the local supplier if one of your parts goes bad.
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Exactly. Voting would proceed like this:
1. Voter is authenticated (manually, by the attendant)
2. Voter makes choices on touch-LCD panel
3. A receipt is printed with the vote number (not traceable to the voter) and the list of candidates voted for.
4. Voter reviews the list and (if correct) deposits the receipt into a ballot box.
5. Voting is initially tallied electronically.
6. Court reviews the paper receipts if the results are called into question.
Alternatively, you could do it like we do in Canada: paper ballot and pencil. If you've ever watched post-election coverage, you'll notice that we get our results far quicker than Americans, even though our country is far bigger (in area) and is more sparsely populated.
Paper ballots may not seem technologically advanced, but they scale extremely well. How do they vote in India (world's largest democracy with a population 3 times as large as the US)?
At my last job (a smallish art college), I wrote my own in php+mysql. It was pretty basic with the following fields: summary, status, user's priority (number), my priority, detailed request + names and dates, etc. It presented me with a list, ordered by my priority and allowed everybody to easily track their request.
One warning: don't put anything related to time in the user's priority field as they'll abuse it. All of my web-update requests became priority "1 - Immediate Attention Required".
This system saved me hours in phone calls and dealing with crazy artsy-types. It also went a long way with one of the president's goals of "increasing internal communication" with minimal effort on my part.
If you want to speedup your PDF viewing, set the "QuickLaunch" option on the viewer, then it will always be resident in ram, just like your Palm PDF app.
None of the specs you mentioned "beat" a Zaurus. The C750 mentioned in the article has 64MB ram and 64MB flash. My C760 has 128MB flash. They both have a PXA255 400MHz CPU (without the cache errata). I have a 256MB SD card, a 1GB microdrive and a 5GB PCMCIA drive (with CF->PCMCIA Adapter, for mp3s) for my Zaurus, so storage is not an issue. It also comes with a full web browser (Netfront) and can run Opera. Qpdf is a free pdf viewer for the QPE environment and can read any PDF I've seen.
Now the Zaurus is more expensive than the Axim, but then you get to do what _you_ want with it, not what _they_ want you to do with it.
Dynamism sounds like a good company, but if anybody wants to save $100 (and forgo the free shipping if something goes bad) you can get your Zaurus from conics.net. Check the forums for recommendations and localization instructions.
Hey, steam engines are far more efficient than internal-combustion engines, don't knock them.
It's obvious you haven't read the article, or you would know that the Zaurus has a keyboard. The screen swivels to hide it when in portrait mode, but it is far more useful in landscape mode.
Compiling the kernel is never necessary, but it can be fun to unlock hidden potential in your new toy. e.g. the Zaurus' touch screen is actuall pressure sensitive. A new kernel with the correct patch will allow you to make some pretty sweet drawrings (it that's your thing).
I have a C760. It is basically the same unit as the C750, but with double the flash storage (128Mb vs 64Mb) and a bigger battery (1700mAh vs 950mAh). I spent the long-weekend with the in-laws and didn't have to recharge, despite showing it off quite a bit.
The drawback of the C760 is that it is slightly thicker to allow for the battery.
This is not entirely accurate...
Windows in the only _suported_ sync platform, but scripts (perl) exist to sync with evolution (and others). The format is open, so anyone who wants to write an app for Linux syncing is free to do so.
KOrganizer also runs on the Zaurus, so a sync app for it's data should be trivial.
Here are some links for you:
http://www.zaurus.com/dev/board/ (sharp developer message board)
http://www.externe.net/zaurus/forum/
tonnes of info there
If all you want is a date and address book, you should stick with a palm. I love being able to ssh/vnc/rdp from anywhere and compile my own kernel to include some features the manufacturer left out.
If you want a "Personal Mobile Tool", nothing out there beats a Zaurus. Keep in mind that you played with a 5x00 series model. the 7x0 models are currently only available in Japan (and are far superior).
I was trying to remember that rhyme... Between this and the reruns on Space, I'm getting excited.
I'd be very interested in getting the first season on DVD. Hopefully they'll include the never aired episodes too (there was at least one).
It's a real shame they had to cancel this show, just as it's long-term plot was getting interesting.
They had introduced the characters and developed the mystery of the doctor's sister until I was really interested in her story. Then Bamn! Cancelled.
Hopefully I learn more about the men with blue gloves from the movie...
The great thing about this is that it's not just a clamshell. Turn the screen around and close it and you have a regular PDA-style stylus-based device. It's the best of both worlds.
A proud C760 owner (same as C750 with longer battery life and 128MB flash ram)
From what I understand, they are using the vendor specific field to ensure that windows hosts can't be authenticated by unix servers. I don't believe this is what the developers intended.
IMO it's anti-competitive and illegal, but IANAL.
But by paying the "fee", they are giving back to the community. The developer is rewarded and is able to continue work on the free version too (assuming a benevolent[sp?] developer).
I see no problem with this.
If you'd read the article more closely, you'd see that the filesytstem can also be licensed for a fee (ie a non-free license). If others want to incorporate his work and not make the result freely available, they will have to pay for the privilege.
This prevents M$ from stealing his work, making it incompatible with the main branch and calling it WinFS. This is the beauty of the GPL and why I consider it to be a "truely free" license, while I consider the mBSD license to be just a half-step above the public domain. Just look what happened (is happening) to Kerberos.
Couldn't they just have hung a VW or the Golden Gate Bridge, or something?
Wait, that's been done... This was lame..
Just a quick reminder that Linus isn't manging the 2.4 tree anymore. He's moved on to the 2.5 tree.
Marcelo Tosatti is managing the 2.4 tree.
I would argue that the tech you linked to constitutes blocking, and not jamming.
IMHO the term "jamming" implies it it active jamming, I don't believe there is any other kind of "jamming".
This will never work. FCC approval will be needed and they'll never get it.
Technology to block cellphones have been around for years, but it would be illegal to use it in a theatre (or any other public place).
I can't wait until (through legislation or broad agreement) all portable electronics manufacturers install bluetooth chips in their products. Then all the theatre needs is a bluetooth transmitter that sends a "be quiet" signal. Of course this could be expanded and a "do not record" signal could be broadcase as well. But either way (this Cinea tech or bluetooth), people with camcorders will find a way around it (think Faraday cage).
In the US, the radio spectrum is owned by the people (and licensed out by their reps). Anybody can receive any kind of data they want (transmitting is regulated, tho).
No one can rightly argue that what they are doing is wrong. They are just monitoring the locations of radio transmitters and doing some advanced modelling to relate the locations to traffic data. This is a smart move and benifits all (as long as they don't apply for a patent on the process).
As far as personally tracking people (for speeding tickets and such), since they don't have access to the ESN database (to match your phone up with you) this is not an issue. Now if the government were doing it... But then there'd be the problem with passengers and their phones... Basically this is a non-issue.
Check out Thomas Greene's article at the Register, a great critique.
Although it's been a while since I've actually read the EULA, swapping out the motherboard and processor shouldn't be a problem as long as you keep the case (with the magic number stuck on it) and the hard drive (with the OEM installation).
Swapping out hard drives may open you up to attack.
You should also be wary of your installation media. If you got OS CDs, they are probably locked to the BIOS signature of your motherboard.
This is not true.
The OEMs I have dealt with (Dell, IBM and HP) all have miserable support. You won't get one of them to come and look at a desktop problem (Servers only please). You'll still have to diagnose the problem and then wait for them to send you the replacement parts (or send them the whole box and be without it for double the time).
You'd be better off building your own and talking with the local supplier if one of your parts goes bad.