Indeed. DC is 10 miles (16km) square. (with Arlington being the part of the square that resides in VA). With the capitol building as its center, that's only 7km to the farthest tip of DC. Essentially, you'll be unable to fly a drone ANYWHERE in DC and in huge swaths of adjacent MD and DC.
In fact, 25km would essentially rule out drones anywhere inside the DC Beltway...
It seems most (all?) election schemes are "choose at most N from this list". But what about support for "Instant Runoff Voting"? By that meaning, this is my first choice, this is my sencond choice, etc. And you tabulate the votes multiple times (using each voters' most viable candidate, eliminating candidates who fare poorly each time) until you get a clear winner.
It helps to avoid the problem of the third party spoiler.
e.g. you have 3 candidates say: bush, kerry, nader.
bush gets 45% of the vote kerry gets 45% of the vote nader gets 10% of the vote
no clear winner yet. Eliminate nader of the people who voted for him as their first choice... 4% voted for bush as their 2nd choice. and 6% voted for kerry. retabulate
bush 49%, kerry 51%
(of course, then you send it to the electoral college, and they hand it to bush... but that's another reform)
Ever since they sued Atari (and others) for the look-n-feel of the trashcan in GEM which was in reality an idea they "discovered" while on a tour at Xerox PARC, I've sworn off all Apple products.
As a Sendmail, Inc. employee, I have to say it's worth it. 8^)
The biggest feature of Sendmail Pro is the GUI front end to the sendmail.cf (actually the.m4) and map files. As a consultant, I am building lots and lots of client configurations, and without the GUI, I'm, quite honestly, lost. But with the GUI it is very easy to set up and maintain a sendamil.cf. *Plus* you can then delegate the maintainance to another user who may not be completely sendmail savvy, but the online help associated with the GUI (with numerous pointers to appropriate sections of the bat book) helps a lot.
The map editor is currently simplistic. But (AFAIK) that's being worked on.
Another huge feature associated with Sendmail Pro is support. If the open source sendmail breaks, who do you call? You can post to the sendmail.org mailing list or comp.mail.sendmail, and *hope* that someone replies. That is the one real downfall of open source (IMO).
With Sendmail Pro, we have real live bodies who do phone and email based tech support. We have consultants who can assist with setup and configuration/customization. For the base price, there's one level of support. You can opt to spend more, and get better levels of support. I can't say what those costs are (I don't know... I'm just one of our consultants... not a sales dude).
But many companies like spending that money when it gives them a body/organization they can point to (even if they never need to).
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I could swear this is what destroyed Krypton...
Indeed. DC is 10 miles (16km) square. (with Arlington being the part of the square that resides in VA). With the capitol building as its center, that's only 7km to the farthest tip of DC. Essentially, you'll be unable to fly a drone ANYWHERE in DC and in huge swaths of adjacent MD and DC.
In fact, 25km would essentially rule out drones anywhere inside the DC Beltway...
Calvin has been trying to figure out which muscle to flex for decades...
And it's vera nice!
Can you say bash from cygwin?!? thought you could
It seems most (all?) election schemes are "choose at most N from this list". But what about support for "Instant Runoff Voting"? By that meaning, this is my first choice, this is my sencond choice, etc. And you tabulate the votes multiple times (using each voters' most viable candidate, eliminating candidates who fare poorly each time) until you get a clear winner.
It helps to avoid the problem of the third party spoiler.
e.g. you have 3 candidates say: bush, kerry, nader.
bush gets 45% of the vote
kerry gets 45% of the vote
nader gets 10% of the vote
no clear winner yet. Eliminate nader
of the people who voted for him as their first choice... 4% voted for bush as their 2nd choice. and 6% voted for kerry. retabulate
bush 49%, kerry 51%
(of course, then you send it to the electoral college, and they hand it to bush... but that's another reform)
Given his recent history, how long before he and his bozo lawyers file patents on a
"method for the transport and return of civilian passengers to near space in a reusable craft"
?
They're called trash men^W^Wsolid waste disposal
specialists (or some BS, eh?)
I have an old IBM Convertible (circa 86?)...
that's a portable terminal. I'm typing this on
a Dell laptop... are they next!?!
Ever since they sued Atari (and others) for the look-n-feel of the trashcan in GEM which was in reality an idea they "discovered" while on a tour at Xerox PARC, I've sworn off all Apple products.
I have yet to regret that decision.
As a Sendmail, Inc. employee, I have to say it's worth it. 8^)
.m4) and map files. As a consultant, I am building lots and lots of client configurations, and without the GUI, I'm, quite honestly, lost. But with the GUI it is very easy to set up and maintain a sendamil.cf. *Plus* you can then delegate the maintainance to another user who may not be completely sendmail savvy, but the online help associated with the GUI (with numerous pointers to appropriate sections of the bat book) helps a lot.
The biggest feature of Sendmail Pro is the GUI front end to the sendmail.cf (actually the
The map editor is currently simplistic. But (AFAIK) that's being worked on.
Another huge feature associated with Sendmail Pro is support. If the open source sendmail breaks, who do you call? You can post to the sendmail.org mailing list or comp.mail.sendmail, and *hope* that someone replies. That is the one real downfall of open source (IMO).
With Sendmail Pro, we have real live bodies who do phone and email based tech support. We have consultants who can assist with setup and configuration/customization. For the base price, there's one level of support. You can opt to spend more, and get better levels of support. I can't say what those costs are (I don't know... I'm just one of our consultants... not a sales dude).
But many companies like spending that money when it gives them a body/organization they can point to (even if they never need to).
Regards,
Richard
Thought you could...