And you are free, as a consumer, to not use the bundled products.
Microsoft programmers have said many times on various MSDN blogs that a lot of the undocumented APIs that Norton and others use will be closed in Vista to be replaced with documented APIs. I believe some of the posts even invited software developers to get in touch with them if they haven't found a suitable replacement for a private API that your software used in the past.
So basically, Symantec sounds like they are being lazy. "I have to change my APIs that I wasn't supposed to use in the first place OOHH NOOOOES!"
The limitation was intentional in India. Since the machines were sent out to individual communities (outside of the large urban centers of India, many people live in small communities of a few thousand at most), sending out a machien capable of 50,000 votes to a community of 3,000 makes no sense and opens yourself to more fraud potential. I'm not sure if they used higher capacity machines in the larger urban areas.
Electronic voting can go smoothly, though. Look at India's last major election. 600+ million voters. All electronic. The election took three weeks. They had federally governed voting machines. The US, by contrast, allows each state to dictate which machine or method they utilize under few federal standards. The machines in India were verified prior to the election and subject to a rigerous, open process of testing. They went through dozens of public tests to ensure that the machines could be used by the largely illiterate rural communities and that even skilled or determined people were unable to bias a machine. The machines were cheap and nearly dispoable, each only holding a few thousand votes at the most. By contrast, many US electronic systems collect votes together. A compromised or disabled setup in a precinct could put tens of thousands of votes at risk.
No large cries of fraud (IIRC there were a few localized incidents that were more human error than machine/trust errors). It went smoothly.
Unfortunately, the election business in the US is far too much money to go that well. When states start offering contracts in the tens of millions of dollars for "voting equipment" and "election consulting", you're just asking for problems.
No mention of Katherine Harris and the Great Florida Voter Purge of 2000?
Had those thousands of voters been able to vote in either election, the results may have been drastically different.
You know, the one in charge of elections in Florida. The same Katherine that believes that she can do whatever she wants in life because Jesus died for her sins so she is forgiven. The same Harris that believes God chooses our politicians.
Quickest solution to fix the US political system: Instant Runoff Voting.
You need more redudancy than just LibertyWare. The redundancy ensures that if someone is unable to comprehend or understand a word in the name or product, the extra, redundant words would help them understand and comprehend the method and way that the word is conveyed and used.
The same mentality is happening in the US. If you're against the PATRIOT Act, you are anti-American and support the terrorists. If you're against illegal and warrantless wiretapping, you are anti-American and support the terrorists. You must have something to hide if you care that the government can listen to your phone calls for no reason.
'Put it this way, we never have requests to remove them.'
And if they did have requests, you can bet they wouldn't say that they did. Any request to remove them likely would be the "first request" and always the "first request" regardless of how many actual requests they've received.
See my prior suggestion of separating content contributors and content editors. Many organizations already operate under that idea. Mass news is one -- the person gathering the information is rarely the one that writes the end product.
I can see the technical implementation of that being difficult, though.
Some of the other children posts have some good ideas to combat that. Searching on the "experts" site would yield both local, expert results as well as the Wikipedia page(s). Users could then use both. If there isn't a local result, they could still see the Wikipedia version.
Another idea is to allow non-expert contributors to contribute until there are verified experts to take over. They can then edit what has already been written. It could be managed such that contributors could still contribute but would be in the oversight of the experts, much like how papers are written for journals. You have many research assistants that help write the paper under the authority of the researcher(s). I agree, it is unreasonable to think that there are enough willing experts to make every category of knowledge sustainable in an experts-only form.
From what I've read and seen, the anti-import laws are forming more to protect against cheap goods like the ones you mention (textiles) and disposable goods. I don't think the EU is ready to tackle durable goods and high-end consumer goods like the Wii. They need to attract the manufacturing and production to Europe before they can tackle that problem.
I agree that a mirror is a bad idea. Start over and appeal to experts from the start. While the amount of content would be dramatically less, the quality should be much higher.
I don't contribute to Wikipedia as an expert simply because I don't want my edits to compete with wanna-be experts. Why should some bored 17-year-old be able to, without evidence, revert one of my changes? The edit process on Wikipedia seems to revolve around number of edits, too, and general popularity. If someone has edited 1,000 articles that doesn't make them more qualified to edit an article that is covered by my field of expertise just because it is my account's first edit.
I hope this new resource will keep editors and contributors separate. Let the experts contribute as much as they can and let the editors sort out how to present it.
Not to mention that the population of the UK is around 62 million, making it a rather small region to Nintendo. They still have to market the console, pay regulatory fees, etc, thus making their cost-per-unit much higher for the UK than other regions like North America (USA + Canada = 345 million). Since Canada and the US have many similar laws and very few foreign company "entrance" fees (low import tax), their fees are rather low per unit.
Europe is an expensive market to get into for non-European companies. We may love the fact that there are so many countries packed together and each country has its own flavor, but that also means every country has its own rules and regulations and many of them are structured to strongly prefer domestic companies rather than pure importers like Nintendo. The European Union is helping to fix that, albeit slowly.
Because if Verizon can push the extra cost blame onto Microsoft, they can push it back onto consumers. When the cost overrun is paid for, Verizon keeps the price hike in place so long as they have few competitors.
Not all businesses or business models are in the business of producing the best product for the least amount of money.
One possible solution to at least domestic-originated spam from open relays is to create a small government-contracted group of server administrators. Their sole job would to be to identify open relays and provide short-term aid to organizations with such open relays. Many of the smaller, vulnerable servers likely do not have a full time administrator, or even a part time one, for that matter.
It doesn't take a security vulnerability to make sendmail vulnerable... all it takes is a rookie Linux administrator configuring it and setting it up incorrectly.
Many times I imagine that rookie administrators are trying to get sendmail just to work right so they enable something they shouldn't. It works... and they never bother to address their issue correctly, or even know that they addressed it incorrectly.
Yahoo's RSS system is pretty broken. Our news feeds have the same content from late August. I contacted Yahoo and they gave me a form-response about that every time I update my content I have to "ping" Yahoo through some non-standard interface. That isn't the point of RSS. RSS is a pull technology, not push.
I think te GP was trying to make a point that NASA has faced budget crunches. During the race to the moon and for a while after, NASA had massive funding. When Hubble went up and the public was routinely wowed by images from the far reaches of space, politicians felt comfortable in fully funding NASA. But when massive budgetary items come up like Iraq or 9/11 domestic security spending, things like NASA got pinched.
I really don't think NASA cuts have really impacted IIS construction, though. Columbia was the biggest delay (years) as well as other technical problems. Most of NASA's cuts have been in other, smaller programs such as probes and such.
The mentioned city is small by comparison to major cities in the US. I can see subsidizing this plant, but there should be no reason to subsidize plants in say, New York City. In fact, if it turned out to work and to work predictably, I can see the generated power subsidizing trash collection.
Has the MythTV community thought about developing a community-based real, physical product? E.g., a cheap system with a decent hard drive, decent tuner card, and comes with everything already installed?
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And you are free, as a consumer, to not use the bundled products.
Microsoft programmers have said many times on various MSDN blogs that a lot of the undocumented APIs that Norton and others use will be closed in Vista to be replaced with documented APIs. I believe some of the posts even invited software developers to get in touch with them if they haven't found a suitable replacement for a private API that your software used in the past.
So basically, Symantec sounds like they are being lazy. "I have to change my APIs that I wasn't supposed to use in the first place OOHH NOOOOES!"
The limitation was intentional in India. Since the machines were sent out to individual communities (outside of the large urban centers of India, many people live in small communities of a few thousand at most), sending out a machien capable of 50,000 votes to a community of 3,000 makes no sense and opens yourself to more fraud potential. I'm not sure if they used higher capacity machines in the larger urban areas.
Electronic voting can go smoothly, though. Look at India's last major election. 600+ million voters. All electronic. The election took three weeks. They had federally governed voting machines. The US, by contrast, allows each state to dictate which machine or method they utilize under few federal standards. The machines in India were verified prior to the election and subject to a rigerous, open process of testing. They went through dozens of public tests to ensure that the machines could be used by the largely illiterate rural communities and that even skilled or determined people were unable to bias a machine. The machines were cheap and nearly dispoable, each only holding a few thousand votes at the most. By contrast, many US electronic systems collect votes together. A compromised or disabled setup in a precinct could put tens of thousands of votes at risk.
No large cries of fraud (IIRC there were a few localized incidents that were more human error than machine/trust errors). It went smoothly.
Unfortunately, the election business in the US is far too much money to go that well. When states start offering contracts in the tens of millions of dollars for "voting equipment" and "election consulting", you're just asking for problems.
What would they do with the money? Burning greenbacks likely pollutes more than burning oil...
Don't bother. He's obviously over-compensating for something. I'd hate to find out what.
More importantly, we probably shouldn't trust Windows for defense systems any more than the Chinese should have trusted the Great Wall.
No mention of Katherine Harris and the Great Florida Voter Purge of 2000?
Had those thousands of voters been able to vote in either election, the results may have been drastically different.
You know, the one in charge of elections in Florida. The same Katherine that believes that she can do whatever she wants in life because Jesus died for her sins so she is forgiven. The same Harris that believes God chooses our politicians.
Quickest solution to fix the US political system: Instant Runoff Voting.
You need more redudancy than just LibertyWare. The redundancy ensures that if someone is unable to comprehend or understand a word in the name or product, the extra, redundant words would help them understand and comprehend the method and way that the word is conveyed and used.
The same mentality is happening in the US. If you're against the PATRIOT Act, you are anti-American and support the terrorists. If you're against illegal and warrantless wiretapping, you are anti-American and support the terrorists. You must have something to hide if you care that the government can listen to your phone calls for no reason.
'Put it this way, we never have requests to remove them.'
And if they did have requests, you can bet they wouldn't say that they did. Any request to remove them likely would be the "first request" and always the "first request" regardless of how many actual requests they've received.
See my prior suggestion of separating content contributors and content editors. Many organizations already operate under that idea. Mass news is one -- the person gathering the information is rarely the one that writes the end product.
I can see the technical implementation of that being difficult, though.
Some of the other children posts have some good ideas to combat that. Searching on the "experts" site would yield both local, expert results as well as the Wikipedia page(s). Users could then use both. If there isn't a local result, they could still see the Wikipedia version.
Another idea is to allow non-expert contributors to contribute until there are verified experts to take over. They can then edit what has already been written. It could be managed such that contributors could still contribute but would be in the oversight of the experts, much like how papers are written for journals. You have many research assistants that help write the paper under the authority of the researcher(s). I agree, it is unreasonable to think that there are enough willing experts to make every category of knowledge sustainable in an experts-only form.
Complex problem no matter how you look at it.
From what I've read and seen, the anti-import laws are forming more to protect against cheap goods like the ones you mention (textiles) and disposable goods. I don't think the EU is ready to tackle durable goods and high-end consumer goods like the Wii. They need to attract the manufacturing and production to Europe before they can tackle that problem.
I agree that a mirror is a bad idea. Start over and appeal to experts from the start. While the amount of content would be dramatically less, the quality should be much higher.
I don't contribute to Wikipedia as an expert simply because I don't want my edits to compete with wanna-be experts. Why should some bored 17-year-old be able to, without evidence, revert one of my changes? The edit process on Wikipedia seems to revolve around number of edits, too, and general popularity. If someone has edited 1,000 articles that doesn't make them more qualified to edit an article that is covered by my field of expertise just because it is my account's first edit.
I hope this new resource will keep editors and contributors separate. Let the experts contribute as much as they can and let the editors sort out how to present it.
Not to mention that the population of the UK is around 62 million, making it a rather small region to Nintendo. They still have to market the console, pay regulatory fees, etc, thus making their cost-per-unit much higher for the UK than other regions like North America (USA + Canada = 345 million). Since Canada and the US have many similar laws and very few foreign company "entrance" fees (low import tax), their fees are rather low per unit.
Europe is an expensive market to get into for non-European companies. We may love the fact that there are so many countries packed together and each country has its own flavor, but that also means every country has its own rules and regulations and many of them are structured to strongly prefer domestic companies rather than pure importers like Nintendo. The European Union is helping to fix that, albeit slowly.
Because if Verizon can push the extra cost blame onto Microsoft, they can push it back onto consumers. When the cost overrun is paid for, Verizon keeps the price hike in place so long as they have few competitors.
Not all businesses or business models are in the business of producing the best product for the least amount of money.
One possible solution to at least domestic-originated spam from open relays is to create a small government-contracted group of server administrators. Their sole job would to be to identify open relays and provide short-term aid to organizations with such open relays. Many of the smaller, vulnerable servers likely do not have a full time administrator, or even a part time one, for that matter.
It doesn't take a security vulnerability to make sendmail vulnerable... all it takes is a rookie Linux administrator configuring it and setting it up incorrectly.
Many times I imagine that rookie administrators are trying to get sendmail just to work right so they enable something they shouldn't. It works... and they never bother to address their issue correctly, or even know that they addressed it incorrectly.
They *gave* you a rubber band? I had to *steal* mine...
Yahoo's RSS system is pretty broken. Our news feeds have the same content from late August. I contacted Yahoo and they gave me a form-response about that every time I update my content I have to "ping" Yahoo through some non-standard interface. That isn't the point of RSS. RSS is a pull technology, not push.
Maybe it's just their time of the month. Better keep your distance.
I think te GP was trying to make a point that NASA has faced budget crunches. During the race to the moon and for a while after, NASA had massive funding. When Hubble went up and the public was routinely wowed by images from the far reaches of space, politicians felt comfortable in fully funding NASA. But when massive budgetary items come up like Iraq or 9/11 domestic security spending, things like NASA got pinched.
I really don't think NASA cuts have really impacted IIS construction, though. Columbia was the biggest delay (years) as well as other technical problems. Most of NASA's cuts have been in other, smaller programs such as probes and such.
The mentioned city is small by comparison to major cities in the US. I can see subsidizing this plant, but there should be no reason to subsidize plants in say, New York City. In fact, if it turned out to work and to work predictably, I can see the generated power subsidizing trash collection.
Only if it works.
Why are you against physical destruction? Let your IT department have a field trip to an abadoned parking lot with some sledge hammers.
I'd rather have no alt-text then the alternative:
..."
"target-dot-com. image: transparent-dot-gif, placeholder. image: transparent-dot-gif, placeholder. store directory. image: transparent-dot-gif, placeholder. welcome to target-dot-com. image: transparent-dot-gif, placeholder. link: household. image: transparent-dot-gif, placeholder. image: transparent-dot-gif, placeholder. link: gardening supplies
Has the MythTV community thought about developing a community-based real, physical product? E.g., a cheap system with a decent hard drive, decent tuner card, and comes with everything already installed?