India uses far more secure voting systems that are tamper proof and far more affordable. Of course, many Americans couldn't stand the idea of importing a voting technology from India, assuming they could do a better job.
Let's try using modified Indian EVMs to vote. Perhaps then we'll be able to identify the true winner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machine s
A very effective way to learn to write (especially in large group settings) is to be read a passage slowly and to write what you hear. Then, compare what you wrote to how it is actually written. This technique is seldom used in North America but is used in the French language, with all its grammatical rules.
I learned more about writing in the two months where I was read passages I had to write than in all the years before. And this was in English.
Test yourself. Get a friend to read a passage from a newspaper or book. Write as they read. Then compare. With students, you'll be amazed at how quickly you can identify their weaknesses and where they need to improve just by doing a couple of these exercises. You suddenly see what they're thinking they should write, which is often quite different than what they should be writing.
Quash
It's easy.
1) install Wine
2) install Windows 32 Firefox via Wine
3) install Flash 8 and Java plugins via Win32 Firefox. Hell, install Shockwave while you're at it, too.
Watch the ABC Stream.
If you're outside the U.S., simply go through a U.S. Proxy (see other posts on this thread or do a quick Google search).
So, Linux users outside the U.S., like me, can access these streams.
Enjoy!
Quash
What this shows us is that Google is aligning its Gmail and Google Search layout.
So, with this new layout, it make is much easier for them to now populate the left column with their other apps, like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Writely, GTalk.
This small change could be very useful in helping Google users to bring their Google services together.
First things first. Automatix is aggressively marketed and I'd be careful of the hype. But, in fairness, the person who does it is also very accessible and is quick to work out bugs, so he deserves credit on those fronts.
Ubuntu Guide at EasyLinux
I prefer the new Ubuntu Guide at http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu. It is a simple command-line driven guide that *anyone* can contribute to and which gives you all the same options, if you want to do the apt-get work yourself. Instructions are easy to follow and by the end of it, you know what you've installed, how you did it and, if you'e a newbie, will feel they've learned a lot without much effort.
EASYUBUNTU
If you prefer the "Just Works" approach and don't care about learning a little about Linux, Apt and the command line (nothing wrong with that, so ignore the Linux snobs that say criticize you) I'd suggest trying EasyUbuntu instead of Automatix at http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/.
UBUNTU IS NOT THE MOST USER-FRIENDLY SYSTEM OR THE MOST REFINED LOOKING
I use Ubuntu. I love Ubuntu. But, Ubuntu is no easier to install than Fedora or SuSE. In fact, I'd argue they are easier to install and more complete in their installation options. As well, they are slicker and more professional at the intallation level and on the desktop... by a longshot. They are far more refined. Anyone who disputes this is probably caught up in the Ubuntu hype a bit too much. It's the trendy distro of the moment. Don't underestimate how that clouds people's perception of it.
But, I prefer Debian-based systems, so have gravitated to Ubuntu and left Fedora and SuSE, although both were better a recognizing and setting up my monitor and printer. And I say the above as someone who loves Ubuntu.
The reality is that exhibitors take about 50% of the cut of a movie playing in their theatres and kick back the rest to the distributor/studio. In fact, the big studios take a greater cut of the ticket price at the beginning of a run and it decreases the longer a movie stays in the theatres. This is one (only one) of the reasons that studios try to open movies on 3000+ screens now and get everyone in to the movie in the first couple of weekends. And it's why theatres like movies like March of the Penguins, because they are taking a good chunk of the ticket price, now that it's been in theatres so long.
With all this said, studios shouldn't be negotiating more than cost they would get, per ticket, after the exhibitors have taken their cut. Others will argue they should get even less, feeling movie prices are over-inflated. Fine. But, at minimum, we should start with what the studio gets kicked back, after the exhibitor deducts their fees. $8/USD per movie it ain't!
The other issue is that if downloads are that high in price, people will just keep downloading them for free. If the movie industry is okay with that level of piracy and don't want to reduce it by making downloads more affordable, then that's the implicit deal they make.
And as much as people love buying music/movies online, remember, folks... as it increases, all those local jobs in movie theatres, video stores and music stores disappear. Some here will discount the value of those jobs, but they're important to people in their local communities.
Mark wrote:
"Though Linspire is not (yet) based directly on Ubuntu, it's not infeasible that the Linspire guys figure out what a good option that would be for them sooner rather than later. There are likely to be many specialised versions of Ubuntu, under other brand names, that have commercial or proprietary features. They might have proprietary fonts or software or add-ons or integration with services, etc."
If I were a Debian developer and read this, this would not make me rest easy. Mark in a colourful character because he paints his life on a grand canvas and shoots for the moon (quite literally, to boot!).
But, it also appears that he'd be happy if most Linux distributions were based on Ubuntu, rather than based on Debian. He talks of the important of Debian, and I think he believes what he writes. But, I'm not entirely sure he sees the roots of his own ambitions.
His ambition appears to be THE core distribution, from which all others flow. And if the above quote doesn't convince you, his work on Bazaar and Launchpad should.
Mark understands that to paint life on a grand canvas, you need your canvas, your brushes, your paints... you need your tools. And he is building them, in Bazaar and Launchpad.
He wrote:
Solving the "distro collaboration problem" would really advance the state of open source. So that's what we set out to do in Ubuntu. We work on Launchpad, which is a web service for collaboration on bugs, and translations, and technical support. We work on Bazaar, which is a revision control system that understands branching and distributions, and is integrated with Launchpad. And hopefully those tools allow us to make our work available easily to Debian, and to Gentoo, and to upstream. And also, allow us to take good work from other distros (even if they would rather we didn't;-)).
I admire Mark for what he's doing. I believe he is genuine in his desire to "always" ensure Ubuntu is free, as in beer and liberty. But, I watch him with caution. He is an ideologue and he must be the Master of his own Universe. That combination often matures in to tyranny when a sense of loss of control sets in.
When the Ubuntu Foundation and development community matures and begins to have disagreements with him and, like an adolescent, is ready for independence, making different choices and wanting to take a different direction than the father who raised it might like, it will be interesting to see how Papa Mark responds.
Rory
So, let me get this straight...
The digital audio player industry, essentially created by Rio in product and law, has allowed the record industry to get rid of manufacturing, get rid of distribution, bypass the B&Ms, create a whole new revenue streamand...
They want an album to still cost the same as a CD, which is already artificially inflated by an oligarchy of greed.
So much for anti-trust laws. These people are G-L-U-T-T-O-N-S!!!
I don't know if they integrated it at the same time as hybrid mode, but they now show one-way streets. In a place like Hamilton, ON, where many streets are one-way, this represents a solid improvement.
CBC's Audience Relations department is critical in gauging a project like this as successful or not.
Why don't we all contact and thank them for doing this.
Contact them here:
http://www.cbc.ca/contact/index.jsp
I also encouraged them to experiment by broadening beyond science/technology shows to their flagship shows.
Every response they get will be read by the read people responsbile for this project.
This guy started working at Google January 17, 2005. He was fired within two weeks. Hardly newsworthy.
Perhaps he should have acclimatized to the company culture before launching his blog.
And in his first entry he talks about possibly turning it in to a book one day. If you were his boss and peers, even if his blog was benign, wouldn't that make you nervous?
The successor to Bittorrent is....
Bittorrent.
Killing Suprnova is the *best* thing that ever happened. That is exactly the form of decentralization that was necessary.
Forget Exeem, or whatever it's called. Just continue to move to the hottest bittorrent site that has your file until it's shut down and them move to the next.
Do people actually think the long arm of the U.S. law is that long??? I can't follow the bouncing ball around the world continuously with success.
Stay with bittorrent, forget that new P2P and just move to the next Bittorrent site.
Best Buy did do a deal like this with the Rolling Stones. But, they carried their product exclusively. It so angered music retailers that many dumped the whole Stones back catalogue (read: huge financial hit).
I'm actually surprised Vertigo single is for sale on iTunes. If it's not also on sale in the stores as a single, that could be causing some problems.
And U2 could never get away with releasing the full album to only iTunes first with retailers to follow. They'd get killed.
[quote]----- What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand ---[/quote]
I don't understand this part:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
That's *actually* what the Second Amendment says. It was designed so a government-mandated militia could be quickly called up. It does not extend the right to bear arms beyond a "standing militia."
And, in fact, when it was created, this is who could not legally bear arms in the States.
1) women
2) blacks
3) people who did not own property.
Who's left? White, male property owners. So, the underlying intent is to reinforce the power of the states and its institutions, not to preserve the individual rights of citizens.
I see the sardonic tone in your sig, but I couldn't resist.;)
Actually, the clicking thumb wheel works very well for me on both my Nitrus and my Karma. I prefer it to the iPod, imho. It increases with speed the faster you move it, so it can race through big lists. And on the Karma, the alphabet on the left was likely put in place because no matter how refined a wheel is, 5000 songs is a lot. Giving the consumer the choice to scroll the whole list or quickly move to a letter, as a short cut, is useful. That alphabet is a big time saver and works really quite nicely.
I submitted this story about a week ago - Sept 9th, I believe. So, I've got to agree with other posters - it's old news.
Since then:
-the judge's ruling was ignored by the state.
-testerday, the story took a turn again, with the same judge ordering Nader's name off the ballot, once again.
And tomorrow, Friday, we'll see was the Fla. Supreme Court does.
If Slashdot is going to have a politics section, it's going to have to keep it current, so it can compete with the other breaking news sites.
Rory
Dating outside your party has one possible benefit. A benefit the Republican Party and Bush has used quite effectively over the past four years.
Bush: problems at home
jobs
high gas prices
eroding education
Solution: focus outside your home
terrorism, Osama, Saddam, you're either with us or against us, evil U.N.
Same goes with a Dem and Rep dating, for example.
Problem at home:
money
job loss
poor sex life
focus outside the home:
I lot my job because you're a Republican
We have a poor sex life because you're a democrat
You see, there's always value in the red herring...
To arrest our "Bikes Without Bush" friend for vandalism makes little sense since he wasn't actually using the bike during his MSNBC interview. He had it with him but had not demonstrated its use.
So, why was he arrested? America the Free? Not anymore.
Only a libertarian would overlook that Gilligan's Island is actually an allegory for a communist society. Odd, you say? Let's discuss:
On Gilligan's Island, the Howell's, in all their pomp, bring all their money on a three hour tour. It's value on the island: worthless. But, they drape themselves in their mainland social positions and, as a result, become the buffoons of the show.
The Professor controls knowledge on the island. There is no place for religion. Only fact, logic, and above all else, science.
The skipper drives the capitalist machine on to the rocks, destroying it and becoming the *real* side-kick of the *supposed* side-kick: Gilligan. Look closely at their relationship.
And whose island is it? That's right, it's Gilligan's Island. The everyman. The lowest person in the social order on the boat, that day. Yet, the centre of the island, clad in communist red, once they shipwreck. The commonman now reigns.
And Ginger and Mary Anne? Well, even communists like chicks./. that!
Having useed both, I'll say that the scroll wheel of the Carbon, which is clickable, is much easier to use and control than the Pod when moving through music trees. It just is. Try both with drives fully loaded. Compare. You'll see.
In Canada, we can pay each other via email. EMT (Email Money Transfer) is available through all banks. From your on-line banking site, you can transfer money to any person who also does on-line banking and have an email address. So, you pay them at your bank site, they get an email from the bank, click on it and deposit the money in to their account. It's very secure.
So, you're paying through email, not by email. If email voting also followed this principle, it might work.
Slashdot Mirror
India uses far more secure voting systems that are tamper proof and far more affordable. Of course, many Americans couldn't stand the idea of importing a voting technology from India, assuming they could do a better job. Let's try using modified Indian EVMs to vote. Perhaps then we'll be able to identify the true winner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machine s
A very effective way to learn to write (especially in large group settings) is to be read a passage slowly and to write what you hear. Then, compare what you wrote to how it is actually written. This technique is seldom used in North America but is used in the French language, with all its grammatical rules. I learned more about writing in the two months where I was read passages I had to write than in all the years before. And this was in English. Test yourself. Get a friend to read a passage from a newspaper or book. Write as they read. Then compare. With students, you'll be amazed at how quickly you can identify their weaknesses and where they need to improve just by doing a couple of these exercises. You suddenly see what they're thinking they should write, which is often quite different than what they should be writing. Quash
Install Wine, Install Win32 Firefox, install Win32 Flash 8 and Java plugins. Enjoy!
It's easy. 1) install Wine 2) install Windows 32 Firefox via Wine 3) install Flash 8 and Java plugins via Win32 Firefox. Hell, install Shockwave while you're at it, too. Watch the ABC Stream. If you're outside the U.S., simply go through a U.S. Proxy (see other posts on this thread or do a quick Google search). So, Linux users outside the U.S., like me, can access these streams. Enjoy! Quash
What this shows us is that Google is aligning its Gmail and Google Search layout. So, with this new layout, it make is much easier for them to now populate the left column with their other apps, like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Writely, GTalk. This small change could be very useful in helping Google users to bring their Google services together.
First things first. Automatix is aggressively marketed and I'd be careful of the hype. But, in fairness, the person who does it is also very accessible and is quick to work out bugs, so he deserves credit on those fronts. Ubuntu Guide at EasyLinux I prefer the new Ubuntu Guide at http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu. It is a simple command-line driven guide that *anyone* can contribute to and which gives you all the same options, if you want to do the apt-get work yourself. Instructions are easy to follow and by the end of it, you know what you've installed, how you did it and, if you'e a newbie, will feel they've learned a lot without much effort. EASYUBUNTU If you prefer the "Just Works" approach and don't care about learning a little about Linux, Apt and the command line (nothing wrong with that, so ignore the Linux snobs that say criticize you) I'd suggest trying EasyUbuntu instead of Automatix at http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/. UBUNTU IS NOT THE MOST USER-FRIENDLY SYSTEM OR THE MOST REFINED LOOKING I use Ubuntu. I love Ubuntu. But, Ubuntu is no easier to install than Fedora or SuSE. In fact, I'd argue they are easier to install and more complete in their installation options. As well, they are slicker and more professional at the intallation level and on the desktop... by a longshot. They are far more refined. Anyone who disputes this is probably caught up in the Ubuntu hype a bit too much. It's the trendy distro of the moment. Don't underestimate how that clouds people's perception of it. But, I prefer Debian-based systems, so have gravitated to Ubuntu and left Fedora and SuSE, although both were better a recognizing and setting up my monitor and printer. And I say the above as someone who loves Ubuntu.
The reality is that exhibitors take about 50% of the cut of a movie playing in their theatres and kick back the rest to the distributor/studio. In fact, the big studios take a greater cut of the ticket price at the beginning of a run and it decreases the longer a movie stays in the theatres. This is one (only one) of the reasons that studios try to open movies on 3000+ screens now and get everyone in to the movie in the first couple of weekends. And it's why theatres like movies like March of the Penguins, because they are taking a good chunk of the ticket price, now that it's been in theatres so long. With all this said, studios shouldn't be negotiating more than cost they would get, per ticket, after the exhibitors have taken their cut. Others will argue they should get even less, feeling movie prices are over-inflated. Fine. But, at minimum, we should start with what the studio gets kicked back, after the exhibitor deducts their fees. $8/USD per movie it ain't! The other issue is that if downloads are that high in price, people will just keep downloading them for free. If the movie industry is okay with that level of piracy and don't want to reduce it by making downloads more affordable, then that's the implicit deal they make. And as much as people love buying music/movies online, remember, folks... as it increases, all those local jobs in movie theatres, video stores and music stores disappear. Some here will discount the value of those jobs, but they're important to people in their local communities.
Mark wrote: "Though Linspire is not (yet) based directly on Ubuntu, it's not infeasible that the Linspire guys figure out what a good option that would be for them sooner rather than later. There are likely to be many specialised versions of Ubuntu, under other brand names, that have commercial or proprietary features. They might have proprietary fonts or software or add-ons or integration with services, etc." If I were a Debian developer and read this, this would not make me rest easy. Mark in a colourful character because he paints his life on a grand canvas and shoots for the moon (quite literally, to boot!). But, it also appears that he'd be happy if most Linux distributions were based on Ubuntu, rather than based on Debian. He talks of the important of Debian, and I think he believes what he writes. But, I'm not entirely sure he sees the roots of his own ambitions. His ambition appears to be THE core distribution, from which all others flow. And if the above quote doesn't convince you, his work on Bazaar and Launchpad should. Mark understands that to paint life on a grand canvas, you need your canvas, your brushes, your paints... you need your tools. And he is building them, in Bazaar and Launchpad. He wrote: Solving the "distro collaboration problem" would really advance the state of open source. So that's what we set out to do in Ubuntu. We work on Launchpad, which is a web service for collaboration on bugs, and translations, and technical support. We work on Bazaar, which is a revision control system that understands branching and distributions, and is integrated with Launchpad. And hopefully those tools allow us to make our work available easily to Debian, and to Gentoo, and to upstream. And also, allow us to take good work from other distros (even if they would rather we didn't ;-)).
I admire Mark for what he's doing. I believe he is genuine in his desire to "always" ensure Ubuntu is free, as in beer and liberty. But, I watch him with caution. He is an ideologue and he must be the Master of his own Universe. That combination often matures in to tyranny when a sense of loss of control sets in.
When the Ubuntu Foundation and development community matures and begins to have disagreements with him and, like an adolescent, is ready for independence, making different choices and wanting to take a different direction than the father who raised it might like, it will be interesting to see how Papa Mark responds.
Rory
So, let me get this straight... The digital audio player industry, essentially created by Rio in product and law, has allowed the record industry to get rid of manufacturing, get rid of distribution, bypass the B&Ms, create a whole new revenue streamand... They want an album to still cost the same as a CD, which is already artificially inflated by an oligarchy of greed. So much for anti-trust laws. These people are G-L-U-T-T-O-N-S!!!
Novell laid off European sales staff. It's re-organizing its sales arm. It did not lay off any engineering/tech staff.
I don't know if they integrated it at the same time as hybrid mode, but they now show one-way streets. In a place like Hamilton, ON, where many streets are one-way, this represents a solid improvement.
CBC's Audience Relations department is critical in gauging a project like this as successful or not. Why don't we all contact and thank them for doing this. Contact them here: http://www.cbc.ca/contact/index.jsp I also encouraged them to experiment by broadening beyond science/technology shows to their flagship shows. Every response they get will be read by the read people responsbile for this project.
Woops. The link would have helped! Sorry. http://www.knetdome.com/bt/?torrent=suse93
Here's a torrent for SuSE 9.3. Go swarm happy!
This guy started working at Google January 17, 2005. He was fired within two weeks. Hardly newsworthy. Perhaps he should have acclimatized to the company culture before launching his blog. And in his first entry he talks about possibly turning it in to a book one day. If you were his boss and peers, even if his blog was benign, wouldn't that make you nervous?
The successor to Bittorrent is.... Bittorrent. Killing Suprnova is the *best* thing that ever happened. That is exactly the form of decentralization that was necessary. Forget Exeem, or whatever it's called. Just continue to move to the hottest bittorrent site that has your file until it's shut down and them move to the next. Do people actually think the long arm of the U.S. law is that long??? I can't follow the bouncing ball around the world continuously with success. Stay with bittorrent, forget that new P2P and just move to the next Bittorrent site.
Best Buy did do a deal like this with the Rolling Stones. But, they carried their product exclusively. It so angered music retailers that many dumped the whole Stones back catalogue (read: huge financial hit). I'm actually surprised Vertigo single is for sale on iTunes. If it's not also on sale in the stores as a single, that could be causing some problems. And U2 could never get away with releasing the full album to only iTunes first with retailers to follow. They'd get killed.
[quote]----- What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand ---[/quote] I don't understand this part: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." That's *actually* what the Second Amendment says. It was designed so a government-mandated militia could be quickly called up. It does not extend the right to bear arms beyond a "standing militia." And, in fact, when it was created, this is who could not legally bear arms in the States. 1) women 2) blacks 3) people who did not own property. Who's left? White, male property owners. So, the underlying intent is to reinforce the power of the states and its institutions, not to preserve the individual rights of citizens. I see the sardonic tone in your sig, but I couldn't resist. ;)
Actually, the clicking thumb wheel works very well for me on both my Nitrus and my Karma. I prefer it to the iPod, imho. It increases with speed the faster you move it, so it can race through big lists. And on the Karma, the alphabet on the left was likely put in place because no matter how refined a wheel is, 5000 songs is a lot. Giving the consumer the choice to scroll the whole list or quickly move to a letter, as a short cut, is useful. That alphabet is a big time saver and works really quite nicely.
I submitted this story about a week ago - Sept 9th, I believe. So, I've got to agree with other posters - it's old news. Since then: -the judge's ruling was ignored by the state. -testerday, the story took a turn again, with the same judge ordering Nader's name off the ballot, once again. And tomorrow, Friday, we'll see was the Fla. Supreme Court does. If Slashdot is going to have a politics section, it's going to have to keep it current, so it can compete with the other breaking news sites. Rory
Dating outside your party has one possible benefit. A benefit the Republican Party and Bush has used quite effectively over the past four years. Bush: problems at home jobs high gas prices eroding education Solution: focus outside your home terrorism, Osama, Saddam, you're either with us or against us, evil U.N. Same goes with a Dem and Rep dating, for example. Problem at home: money job loss poor sex life focus outside the home: I lot my job because you're a Republican We have a poor sex life because you're a democrat You see, there's always value in the red herring...
To arrest our "Bikes Without Bush" friend for vandalism makes little sense since he wasn't actually using the bike during his MSNBC interview. He had it with him but had not demonstrated its use. So, why was he arrested? America the Free? Not anymore.
Only a libertarian would overlook that Gilligan's Island is actually an allegory for a communist society. Odd, you say? Let's discuss: On Gilligan's Island, the Howell's, in all their pomp, bring all their money on a three hour tour. It's value on the island: worthless. But, they drape themselves in their mainland social positions and, as a result, become the buffoons of the show. The Professor controls knowledge on the island. There is no place for religion. Only fact, logic, and above all else, science. The skipper drives the capitalist machine on to the rocks, destroying it and becoming the *real* side-kick of the *supposed* side-kick: Gilligan. Look closely at their relationship. And whose island is it? That's right, it's Gilligan's Island. The everyman. The lowest person in the social order on the boat, that day. Yet, the centre of the island, clad in communist red, once they shipwreck. The commonman now reigns. And Ginger and Mary Anne? Well, even communists like chicks. /. that!
Having useed both, I'll say that the scroll wheel of the Carbon, which is clickable, is much easier to use and control than the Pod when moving through music trees. It just is. Try both with drives fully loaded. Compare. You'll see.
In Canada, we can pay each other via email. EMT (Email Money Transfer) is available through all banks. From your on-line banking site, you can transfer money to any person who also does on-line banking and have an email address. So, you pay them at your bank site, they get an email from the bank, click on it and deposit the money in to their account. It's very secure. So, you're paying through email, not by email. If email voting also followed this principle, it might work.