The biggest reason why this works so well in Canada is that the ballot is simple. In a Canadian Federal election, you're voting for one position: your MP. There's typically around five or six names on the ballot. Mark one X, and you're done. This lends itself very well to hand-counting ballots: you can sort them into stacks quickly and someone else can count.
American elections by comparison are much more complicated, with numerous offices being elected at the same time (as well as propositions, and possibly other stuff I'm not aware of as a Canadian) and a significant increase in ballot size as a result. You *can* hand count that, but the manpower required to do it is significantly larger per 1000 ballots. It doesn't help that the ballot design in some states has gotten obtusely complicated.
Hand counting is the way to go, but it works a LOT better when the electoral system itself makes it easy.
There's actually a disclaimer on Red Bull ads in Canada saying that it doesn't make you grow wings, and instead it "helps you maintain alertfulness and wakefullness during periods of fatigue or drowsiness."
No, they wouldn't say they're going to do it, then suffer this embarrassment if it was really doable. The PS3 is a highly RAM starved system, and Skyrim uses a ton of data. Increasing the amount of data is going to hit a wall at some point where it's just not doable. GP already explained why extremely well.
This is Sony's design decisions years ago coming back to bite people in the ass, nothing more.
How many of those games are loading save files with as much persistent world state as Skyrim has?
Zero? Right then. You just have no idea what you're talking about. The PS3's design is fundamentally bad for a game like Skyrim. It's too complicated, too RAM starved, and the SPUs have access to so little memory that you have to use the main CPU for far too much stuff. Trying to cram more data into it now is what's breaking things.
Cable and Satellite can barely handle HD as it is right now due to bandwidth constraints. Unless this also comes with some miracle new encoding that can give us all this extra picture quality without increasing bitrates at all, it's not going to fly. Internet transfer caps make it totally unsuitable for streaming. Optical media isn't exactly the way of the future.
We're a *long* way off from this being available to home users in any kind of practical way.
The fact that real work is done with lots of text, and text goes from top to bottom far more frequently then scales off endlessly to the right?
We have these stupidly huge 16:9 monitors today that can't even display one page of a PDF without scrolling and yet 2/3 of the screen is sitting empty. It's a terrible aspect ratio for computers.
No, you're wrong. He cleared security without a problem the first time. Delta raised a fuss at the gate, and he had to deal with security again. That is when he had problems with them. Then Delta raised a fuss *again* after he'd cleared security twice.
Except that's not what happened. TSA cleared him without incident. Delta (as in: the airline) raised a fuss. TSA then cleared him *again* with considerably more hassle, and Delta still wouldn't let him on the plane.
TSA is bad, but they aren't actually the culprits in this story.
Not that I don't love a good TSA bashing (because they deserve it), but he got through TSA screening without incident. It was a Delta supervisor who raised a fuss, and then Delta who wouldn't let him on the plane after he was cleared by security a *second* time.
Lets make sure we blame the right people for this kind of nonsense. This is corporate bullshit, not government bullshit.
RTFA perhaps? It's in there. I know it's easier to bitch and moan like a fucking moron then to actually RTFA, but lets give it a try:
“He gave a stupid answer,” Arijit recalls hearing the officer say to a supervisor. “And he looks foreign.”
“Certainly he wasn’t implying that dark-skinned people are not real Americans and that white people are the only true Americans,” Arijit writes in part of his snark-filled synopsis. “Fortunately, Mark’s request was denied. Apparently, someone at NFTA recognized this bigoted meathead for the bigoted meathead he was and that nationality is simply a concept that exists solely on paper and cannot be discerned from just looking at someone.”
It's risky as hell. Not for their PC business, really. Home users will get it because it's what comes on a PC. Corporate users will ignore it just like they ignored Vista.
The real danger is that by changing so much in the desktop version, users will get confused and annoyed. That kind of reaction taints an entire brand, exactly like how "Vista" became a four-letter word in the PC industry. Nobody wanted to touch it. If Windows 8 has a negative reaction among users due to how much they screwed up the UI formerly known as Metro, that won't stay contained.
It'll spread to the tablets and phones too. People will see a Windows tablet and immediately think of their last, negative experience with their home PC. Then they'll go buy an iPad.
That's the real danger. This might be a great tablet OS. But it's a shitty desktop OS, and you won't get people buying Windows tablets if they hate the Windows desktop.
This is really about the number of complaints on these types of auctions, nothing more. People who scream discrimination are wrong.
The problem with bidding on an intangible item is a simple matter of delivery. If I pay you to cast a spell over eBay, did you do it? How do I know? If what I want didn't happen, I can blame you and just use buyer protection to get my money back.
Tangible goods are still largely acceptable (magic potions seem to be an exception). Which is why holy water is alright - it's a physical thing that doesn't promise to do anything in particular.
It's downright sad what passes for a/. story these days. Klout is bullshit. Nobody on this site cares about Beiber. This is little more then an online pissing contest.
Slow news day has been taken to new epic highs with this garbage.
They want people to make what was formerly known as Metro apps to play in the new UI, because they'll also work on the tablet & phone version. The goal is to have a unified platform to boost the amount of applications on the tablet and help it sell.
Of course, making Metroized apps means they don't work in Windows 7, which now that XP is gradually going away will be the dominant enterprise OS. And of course Metro is so unpopular with desktop users that the tablets are going to get a bad name just due to bad name recognition. So it's a risky strategy at best.
The act of actually writing helps me to remember the information, particularly since I can't write fast enough to just copy down what's said verbatim and have to think about what to record. In addition, pens are cheap, easily replaced if lost or broken, and don't give you a very tempting distraction in the form of the Internet.
They've been calling it Metro for quite a while, including on all that stuff put out about Windows Phone 7. You know WP7, that phone OS of theirs that's in production. If codenames really don't stick around once its in production, then how do they explain that?
The truth here is that Windows 8 has been poorly received, and Metro is the reason why. Too many people hate it on the desktop. In an attempt to change the conversation they're going to change the name and hope that the negative buzz doesn't carry over.
If that's really the case, why did Metro stick around as a name used by MS for so long when WP7 is out in production? They've been calling it that while selling product that uses it.
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The biggest reason why this works so well in Canada is that the ballot is simple. In a Canadian Federal election, you're voting for one position: your MP. There's typically around five or six names on the ballot. Mark one X, and you're done. This lends itself very well to hand-counting ballots: you can sort them into stacks quickly and someone else can count.
American elections by comparison are much more complicated, with numerous offices being elected at the same time (as well as propositions, and possibly other stuff I'm not aware of as a Canadian) and a significant increase in ballot size as a result. You *can* hand count that, but the manpower required to do it is significantly larger per 1000 ballots. It doesn't help that the ballot design in some states has gotten obtusely complicated.
Hand counting is the way to go, but it works a LOT better when the electoral system itself makes it easy.
Well if I was a Nokia shareholder or fan, I'd be pretty angry these days. Elop has done an impressive job of destroying the company.
There's actually a disclaimer on Red Bull ads in Canada saying that it doesn't make you grow wings, and instead it "helps you maintain alertfulness and wakefullness during periods of fatigue or drowsiness."
Shame that the only metric that really matters in the market is how well the OS is selling, eh?
Windows Phone is a total failure.
No, they wouldn't say they're going to do it, then suffer this embarrassment if it was really doable. The PS3 is a highly RAM starved system, and Skyrim uses a ton of data. Increasing the amount of data is going to hit a wall at some point where it's just not doable. GP already explained why extremely well.
This is Sony's design decisions years ago coming back to bite people in the ass, nothing more.
How many of those games are loading save files with as much persistent world state as Skyrim has?
Zero? Right then. You just have no idea what you're talking about. The PS3's design is fundamentally bad for a game like Skyrim. It's too complicated, too RAM starved, and the SPUs have access to so little memory that you have to use the main CPU for far too much stuff. Trying to cram more data into it now is what's breaking things.
Cable and Satellite can barely handle HD as it is right now due to bandwidth constraints. Unless this also comes with some miracle new encoding that can give us all this extra picture quality without increasing bitrates at all, it's not going to fly. Internet transfer caps make it totally unsuitable for streaming. Optical media isn't exactly the way of the future.
We're a *long* way off from this being available to home users in any kind of practical way.
The fact that real work is done with lots of text, and text goes from top to bottom far more frequently then scales off endlessly to the right?
We have these stupidly huge 16:9 monitors today that can't even display one page of a PDF without scrolling and yet 2/3 of the screen is sitting empty. It's a terrible aspect ratio for computers.
No, you're wrong. He cleared security without a problem the first time. Delta raised a fuss at the gate, and he had to deal with security again. That is when he had problems with them. Then Delta raised a fuss *again* after he'd cleared security twice.
Except that's not what happened. TSA cleared him without incident. Delta (as in: the airline) raised a fuss. TSA then cleared him *again* with considerably more hassle, and Delta still wouldn't let him on the plane.
TSA is bad, but they aren't actually the culprits in this story.
Not that I don't love a good TSA bashing (because they deserve it), but he got through TSA screening without incident. It was a Delta supervisor who raised a fuss, and then Delta who wouldn't let him on the plane after he was cleared by security a *second* time.
Lets make sure we blame the right people for this kind of nonsense. This is corporate bullshit, not government bullshit.
"Sure you can wear the shirt, but if you do then government thugs will do unkind things to you."
Land of the "free" indeed.
RTFA perhaps? It's in there. I know it's easier to bitch and moan like a fucking moron then to actually RTFA, but lets give it a try:
“He gave a stupid answer,” Arijit recalls hearing the officer say to a supervisor. “And he looks foreign.”
“Certainly he wasn’t implying that dark-skinned people are not real Americans and that white people are the only true Americans,” Arijit writes in part of his snark-filled synopsis. “Fortunately, Mark’s request was denied. Apparently, someone at NFTA recognized this bigoted meathead for the bigoted meathead he was and that nationality is simply a concept that exists solely on paper and cannot be discerned from just looking at someone.”
And 117% of the pirates are just doing it because their DRM is so bad.
See, I can make up stats too!
You mean like they killed XP?
Windows 8 has no traction with their corporate users. 7 isn't going anywhere.
It's risky as hell. Not for their PC business, really. Home users will get it because it's what comes on a PC. Corporate users will ignore it just like they ignored Vista.
The real danger is that by changing so much in the desktop version, users will get confused and annoyed. That kind of reaction taints an entire brand, exactly like how "Vista" became a four-letter word in the PC industry. Nobody wanted to touch it. If Windows 8 has a negative reaction among users due to how much they screwed up the UI formerly known as Metro, that won't stay contained.
It'll spread to the tablets and phones too. People will see a Windows tablet and immediately think of their last, negative experience with their home PC. Then they'll go buy an iPad.
That's the real danger. This might be a great tablet OS. But it's a shitty desktop OS, and you won't get people buying Windows tablets if they hate the Windows desktop.
This is really about the number of complaints on these types of auctions, nothing more. People who scream discrimination are wrong.
The problem with bidding on an intangible item is a simple matter of delivery. If I pay you to cast a spell over eBay, did you do it? How do I know? If what I want didn't happen, I can blame you and just use buyer protection to get my money back.
Tangible goods are still largely acceptable (magic potions seem to be an exception). Which is why holy water is alright - it's a physical thing that doesn't promise to do anything in particular.
It's downright sad what passes for a /. story these days. Klout is bullshit. Nobody on this site cares about Beiber. This is little more then an online pissing contest.
Slow news day has been taken to new epic highs with this garbage.
Oh man is that bad luck!
Yes it was. Microsoft's own blogs liked to call it that, including on all the Windows Phone 7 stuff (which has been for sale for quite a while now).
It was totally Metro right up until Metro became a four letter word to PC buyers.
It's called Windows 7. You can expect it to be a lot more popular in the enterprise then 8.
They want people to make what was formerly known as Metro apps to play in the new UI, because they'll also work on the tablet & phone version. The goal is to have a unified platform to boost the amount of applications on the tablet and help it sell.
Of course, making Metroized apps means they don't work in Windows 7, which now that XP is gradually going away will be the dominant enterprise OS. And of course Metro is so unpopular with desktop users that the tablets are going to get a bad name just due to bad name recognition. So it's a risky strategy at best.
The act of actually writing helps me to remember the information, particularly since I can't write fast enough to just copy down what's said verbatim and have to think about what to record. In addition, pens are cheap, easily replaced if lost or broken, and don't give you a very tempting distraction in the form of the Internet.
YMMV of course, but that's what works for me.
They've been calling it Metro for quite a while, including on all that stuff put out about Windows Phone 7. You know WP7, that phone OS of theirs that's in production. If codenames really don't stick around once its in production, then how do they explain that?
The truth here is that Windows 8 has been poorly received, and Metro is the reason why. Too many people hate it on the desktop. In an attempt to change the conversation they're going to change the name and hope that the negative buzz doesn't carry over.
If that's really the case, why did Metro stick around as a name used by MS for so long when WP7 is out in production? They've been calling it that while selling product that uses it.
It sounds more like an excuse to me.