I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a cashier, but isn't it illegal to accept currency that you think is counterfeit? In other words, why would the cashier accept the $2 bills then mark them as "counterfeit"?
I would think that the cashier would either accept the money or reject it and call a supervisor/store security, no in-between. But then again, I'm not a cashier.
As a side note, I think I've only seen a $2 bill a couple of times. It has my favorite reverse side of any U.S. paper money I've seen, a depiction of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, if I remember correctly. I have a $2 bill stored somewhere around here...
A unique user id is just a partial solution as it only addresses the issue of someone voting multiple times. It doesn't deal with the other question of coordinating groups of people to vote.
How would that hypothetical coordination work? It's something that is seen all the time with non-scientific polls. Think of the daily polls on news websites, or maybe even American Idol. For example:
1. Hot topic is on Wikipedia.
2. User thinks "OMG! Everyone should read this! I'll tell all my friends to vote for this, even if they don't know what Wikipedia is. I'll just call/e-mail/IM them with the website address, and tell them to spread the word!"
This starts to fall into a gray area of whether it's right or wrong. It strikes me as wrong for people who wouldn't otherwise read Wikipedia to possibly have such a large role in what would be featured. On the other hand, there is the principle of free speech, and who knows? Maybe some of the people who didn't know about Wikipedia before would start to read it.
Perhaps I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but this does interest me.
Something that would probably help is a rule that once an article is featured, it couldn't be considered again for a period of time so as to allow a healthy turnover of subjects.
The problem with voting for the best articles is the same problem that other elections can face--ballot stuffing. What is to stop people with some sort of agenda from voting many times to promote certain articles or coordinating groups of people to vote?
This would probably be a factor only with ideologically divisive topics. The problem is that the votes engendered by the controversial articles might end up dwarfing the numbers for interesting but obscure subjects. I for one wouldn't want a hypothetical Wikipedia magazine reduced to a compendium of hot-button articles.
I know that this is a pessimistic view of how article voting might work. Don't get me wrong, I like Wikipedia and I enjoy it a lot. I just don't quite trust it.
I think the point regarding the video card is that there are many cheap PCs whose onboard video cards share the main system memory instead of having their own dedicated RAM. To spell it out, you end up with less system memory available for other tasks.
Of course, extra RAM is cheap, but there are many people who buy cheap PCs who wouldn't think of adding memory or even know how to.
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I think one problem with these designs is that the designers seem to think a click wheel is the best interface for everything.
It's a good way to control a music player, and it might be a good control for some cell phone functions, but it would be awful for a camera. Imagine that you want to take a picture at the highest quality resolution, then you have to back up to the top menu to turn on the flash, and then you have to scroll to select red-eye reduction. The click wheel would slow you down, and you might very well miss the shot you wanted.
And that's just a simple picture! Imagine if you were trying to do something more advanced, such as a leading or trailing flash exposure.
Strictly speaking, you may not need an antivirus program for your OS X machine yet, but it's just being a good neighbor (for lack of a better word) to use an antivirus program anyway in order to avoid propagating anything. Why risk spreading anything malicious, especially if you have to exchange files with PCs?
What in the world does Zamfir have to do with mice?
Why in the world would Apple want to merge his Pan flute (amazing though it is) with a mouse? I just don't see the usability benefits of this. Still, I'd love to see how Jonathan Ives and crew accomplish such an innovative design, regardless of any hypothetical advantages of a Pan flute mouse.
Oh, you said Pan wheel. That's what I get for typing faster than I can think.
If the musical is a success, maybe they'll adapt it into a book. Or maybe even a trilogy. If they're lucky, they might be able to get a movie deal out of this.
...specifically the Philippines, everyone in urban areas and most people in rural areas have a cell phone, unless if they're downright starving. A significant number of people think that it's weird to have a landline at all.
Why is this? In my experience, the traditional phone system there is awful. Imagine picking up the phone and getting the call of the neighbor down the block by mistake. Or talking to someone and having your connection fail in mid-sentence.
SMS is in widespread use in the Philippines. You know how in the U.S., news shows will mention their e-mail addy or website? In the Philippines, they push SMS so that the news show can run live opinion polls. They also display people's comments on the bottom of the screen, rather like a stock ticker. Some U.S. television shows do show comments in the same way, but they use e-mail rather than SMS.
A curious corollary I noticed when I was in the Philippines is that the cell phones were a few years ahead of what was available in the U.S. Come to think of it, the cell phones I saw there three years ago have some features which I still haven't seen stateside. I think this is due to the country's proximity to Japan.
I have no idea what the regulatory situation is over there.
This isn't an answer, and I have to admit that I have no idea of what is involved, but would the analysis be something that might be suitable for a distributed computing project along the lines of Folding@Home or SETI@Home?
I don't know about other people, but I'd donate my spare CPU cycles if it would help keep the Voyager project going.
The largest flash player in the article strikes me as being not too much larger than the round containers that Sony and other manufacturers provide for carrying earbud style headphones.
I'm not suggesting that Sony is simply reusing earbud cases for their new MP3 player. However, it would be convenient if there were an MP3 player which would let you wind the earphones into the unit.
What, you don't see the benefit of Top 40 programming? You get the same functionality as the iPod shuffle without the expense. They're saving you $99 or more! How many other media outlets can make that same claim?
OK, so you don't get to choose the songs on the radio. Minor detail.
I would think that there would still be a lot of people (home users) who are running Windows 95, 98, 2000 or XP unpatched. Not everybody can afford to buy new systems every couple of years, and not everybody would even think of upgrading their operating system, let alone patching it or activating a firewall.
Seriously. Instead of trying to get Paramount to make a partial/whole season of episodes, why not try to get a miniseries which would tie up any dangling plot threads? Sort of like what was done with Farscape (and yes, I thought the Farscape miniseries was a poor substitute for another season of eps.)
With a miniseries, Paramount could limit their expenses vs. a whole season. Heck, they could plug it as "Enterprise is back on the air for a limited time" or whatever, and try to boost ratings that way.
The problem I see with doing an Enterprise miniseries is that it wouldn't be much different from what they're doing right now with the three-episode story arcs. What dangling plot threads are there now, in the post-Xindi Enterprise show?
The only thing I can think of right now is the unresolved relationship between Trip and T'Pol.
While I think that this idea of academic validation is interesting, I also think that professors would want to get paid for their time and effort in reviewing Wikipedia entries.
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I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a cashier, but isn't it illegal to accept currency that you think is counterfeit? In other words, why would the cashier accept the $2 bills then mark them as "counterfeit"?
I would think that the cashier would either accept the money or reject it and call a supervisor/store security, no in-between. But then again, I'm not a cashier.
As a side note, I think I've only seen a $2 bill a couple of times. It has my favorite reverse side of any U.S. paper money I've seen, a depiction of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, if I remember correctly. I have a $2 bill stored somewhere around here...
A unique user id is just a partial solution as it only addresses the issue of someone voting multiple times. It doesn't deal with the other question of coordinating groups of people to vote.
How would that hypothetical coordination work? It's something that is seen all the time with non-scientific polls. Think of the daily polls on news websites, or maybe even American Idol. For example:
1. Hot topic is on Wikipedia.
2. User thinks "OMG! Everyone should read this! I'll tell all my friends to vote for this, even if they don't know what Wikipedia is. I'll just call/e-mail/IM them with the website address, and tell them to spread the word!"
This starts to fall into a gray area of whether it's right or wrong. It strikes me as wrong for people who wouldn't otherwise read Wikipedia to possibly have such a large role in what would be featured. On the other hand, there is the principle of free speech, and who knows? Maybe some of the people who didn't know about Wikipedia before would start to read it.
Perhaps I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but this does interest me.
Something that would probably help is a rule that once an article is featured, it couldn't be considered again for a period of time so as to allow a healthy turnover of subjects.
The problem with voting for the best articles is the same problem that other elections can face--ballot stuffing. What is to stop people with some sort of agenda from voting many times to promote certain articles or coordinating groups of people to vote?
This would probably be a factor only with ideologically divisive topics. The problem is that the votes engendered by the controversial articles might end up dwarfing the numbers for interesting but obscure subjects. I for one wouldn't want a hypothetical Wikipedia magazine reduced to a compendium of hot-button articles.
I know that this is a pessimistic view of how article voting might work. Don't get me wrong, I like Wikipedia and I enjoy it a lot. I just don't quite trust it.
AC writes: but if they are all "running" don't you have a mobile home? though old computers don't have the speed of todays.
In that case, make sure that all of the PCs are of the laptop/notebook variety.
...if you had a house built of running PCs.
That would be quite an electric bill, though.
That's not very good mileage.
Oops, I misread the headline.
Maybe I could try running Virtual PC on my G4 iMac, and run CherryOS on top of that.
Then again, maybe that's not such a good idea.
...on second thought, maybe not.
It doesn't sound like something that I would expect to show up at Folding@Home anytime soon.
I think the point regarding the video card is that there are many cheap PCs whose onboard video cards share the main system memory instead of having their own dedicated RAM. To spell it out, you end up with less system memory available for other tasks.
Of course, extra RAM is cheap, but there are many people who buy cheap PCs who wouldn't think of adding memory or even know how to.
I think one problem with these designs is that the designers seem to think a click wheel is the best interface for everything.
It's a good way to control a music player, and it might be a good control for some cell phone functions, but it would be awful for a camera. Imagine that you want to take a picture at the highest quality resolution, then you have to back up to the top menu to turn on the flash, and then you have to scroll to select red-eye reduction. The click wheel would slow you down, and you might very well miss the shot you wanted.
And that's just a simple picture! Imagine if you were trying to do something more advanced, such as a leading or trailing flash exposure.
Strictly speaking, you may not need an antivirus program for your OS X machine yet, but it's just being a good neighbor (for lack of a better word) to use an antivirus program anyway in order to avoid propagating anything. Why risk spreading anything malicious, especially if you have to exchange files with PCs?
George Lucas just wants to make Jar-Jar Binks a more real character.
A more really annoying character, that is.
What in the world does Zamfir have to do with mice?
Why in the world would Apple want to merge his Pan flute (amazing though it is) with a mouse? I just don't see the usability benefits of this. Still, I'd love to see how Jonathan Ives and crew accomplish such an innovative design, regardless of any hypothetical advantages of a Pan flute mouse.
Oh, you said Pan wheel. That's what I get for typing faster than I can think.
If the musical is a success, maybe they'll adapt it into a book. Or maybe even a trilogy. If they're lucky, they might be able to get a movie deal out of this.
Can anyone shed some (flicker-free) light on this?
Simple-- YOU are a robot, THEY are not.
YOU are a Cylon, THEY are not. Surprise!
...specifically the Philippines, everyone in urban areas and most people in rural areas have a cell phone, unless if they're downright starving. A significant number of people think that it's weird to have a landline at all.
Why is this? In my experience, the traditional phone system there is awful. Imagine picking up the phone and getting the call of the neighbor down the block by mistake. Or talking to someone and having your connection fail in mid-sentence.
SMS is in widespread use in the Philippines. You know how in the U.S., news shows will mention their e-mail addy or website? In the Philippines, they push SMS so that the news show can run live opinion polls. They also display people's comments on the bottom of the screen, rather like a stock ticker. Some U.S. television shows do show comments in the same way, but they use e-mail rather than SMS.
A curious corollary I noticed when I was in the Philippines is that the cell phones were a few years ahead of what was available in the U.S. Come to think of it, the cell phones I saw there three years ago have some features which I still haven't seen stateside. I think this is due to the country's proximity to Japan.
I have no idea what the regulatory situation is over there.
This isn't an answer, and I have to admit that I have no idea of what is involved, but would the analysis be something that might be suitable for a distributed computing project along the lines of Folding@Home or SETI@Home?
I don't know about other people, but I'd donate my spare CPU cycles if it would help keep the Voyager project going.
...how this improves my Solitaire experience!
The largest flash player in the article strikes me as being not too much larger than the round containers that Sony and other manufacturers provide for carrying earbud style headphones.
I'm not suggesting that Sony is simply reusing earbud cases for their new MP3 player. However, it would be convenient if there were an MP3 player which would let you wind the earphones into the unit.
It's probably bad form to reply to your own message, but anyway...
My last comment would have been a whole lot funnier if I had added the following text:
You mean you didn't want to hear "Since U Been Gone" again? But it's been over an hour since you last heard that song.
They only have 40 songs to choose from.
What, you don't see the benefit of Top 40 programming? You get the same functionality as the iPod shuffle without the expense. They're saving you $99 or more! How many other media outlets can make that same claim?
OK, so you don't get to choose the songs on the radio. Minor detail.
I would think that there would still be a lot of people (home users) who are running Windows 95, 98, 2000 or XP unpatched. Not everybody can afford to buy new systems every couple of years, and not everybody would even think of upgrading their operating system, let alone patching it or activating a firewall.
...use the computer that's in front of me in order to go online so that I can find the computer that's in front of me.
Seriously. Instead of trying to get Paramount to make a partial/whole season of episodes, why not try to get a miniseries which would tie up any dangling plot threads? Sort of like what was done with Farscape (and yes, I thought the Farscape miniseries was a poor substitute for another season of eps.)
With a miniseries, Paramount could limit their expenses vs. a whole season. Heck, they could plug it as "Enterprise is back on the air for a limited time" or whatever, and try to boost ratings that way.
The problem I see with doing an Enterprise miniseries is that it wouldn't be much different from what they're doing right now with the three-episode story arcs. What dangling plot threads are there now, in the post-Xindi Enterprise show?
The only thing I can think of right now is the unresolved relationship between Trip and T'Pol.
While I think that this idea of academic validation is interesting, I also think that professors would want to get paid for their time and effort in reviewing Wikipedia entries.