Perhaps this sounds petty but it drives me nuts when my colleagues say "ie" meaning Microsoft Internet Explorer. Of course, i.e. is short for Latin "id est"
(that is). I never write just IE (even capitalized). I write "MS-IE" or "Internet Explorer".
If you read your link you'll see that its supported in the title bar but not in HREF. HREF is a pretty darn important place to support it. ie no linking!
Use genguid (or other tool) to make a globally unique number and place that number at the bottom of your page a link with google's "I'm feeling lucky" searching for the GUID.
FreeDCE is a Linux implementation of MS-RPC and DCOM. Could be a nice starting point. I have used to successfully talk between a Windows server and a Linux client app.
In Canada the election results are always out
soon after the polls close in the West.
In fact some people in the West complain that
the results are known before many people vote
after work in BC and their vote doesn't count
as much as others. I don't buy that complain but
it shows that results get tallied up very quickly.
Do you really think you might be so incapacitated that you can dial 911 but can't speak?! If your house is on fire just dial the fire dept (number post by the phone of course) and tell them where you are.
I just voted in Toronto.
(For Miller
in case you are wondering.)
I was interested to see they had a hybrid system.
You marked your vote on paper but then its run thru a scanner which presumably counts the votes. So the second the polls close they'll know the results. But the old style ballots are around for recounts.
They scanned thru one lady's ballot and the machine gave an error. The election official looked at the ballot with her and told her had mistakenly voted for two people for mayor - duh. She was talken over to a table and I assume her first ballot would be destroyed and she was given a second one. Normally ballots like that from people who are too stupid to know how to vote would not count. That seems like a bad side-effect of this device.
I am not sure what I think about the official looking at her secret ballot.
A display on the machine show the number of voters. At 11:30 it was only 101 people (including me but not include that woman).
Doesn't seem like very many for a very dense urban riding. I guess my vote might count.
Getting all those phone lines would cost a bundle
and for each phone line you'd need a computer
with an Internet connection. There are zillions
of local areas in the world -- they can't have a presence in them all. Don't cha think?
I was just wondering if anyone knows how the
VoIP calls are routed to the PSTN.
Does, say, Packet8 have a gateway on each continent that hooks into the PSTN.
So when I call USA -> France it might use
the nearest gateway in the UK? Just wondering.
As a part way step it would be cool if the VoIP phone wasn't actually a phone but just a device that "lite-up" regular land lines in your house. ie a VoIP POTS "modem". Then you could use any wireless phone and the cost of the device would be less.
Because Lee had his own funding from the Canadian government, and because Joklik was supervising numerous other postdocs and graduate students on top of his duties as department chair, Lee was given a relatively free rein to work on topics that interested him...
My tax dollars let a smart guy do whatever he wanted and look what happened.
Is there a BSD-licensed.doc import/export library? If there was all office produces could use it and it would be a commodity thing. That would be a nice move.
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Yours in pettiness.
I have the same arragement except no voice mail on the cell phone ;_)
Also its a bit tricky when the workmates call you after hours to go out for a beer. Since they call the work line and I don't answer at nite.
If you read your link you'll see that its supported
in the title bar but not in HREF. HREF is a pretty darn important place to support it. ie no linking!
Use genguid (or other tool) to make a globally unique number
and place that number at the bottom of your
page a link with google's "I'm feeling lucky"
searching for the GUID.
FreeDCE is a Linux implementation of MS-RPC and DCOM. Could be a nice starting point. I have used to successfully talk between a Windows server and a Linux client app.
In Canada the election results are always out soon after the polls close in the West. In fact some people in the West complain that the results are known before many people vote after work in BC and their vote doesn't count as much as others. I don't buy that complain but it shows that results get tallied up very quickly.
I gave the OpenCD to manty people for Xmas last
year. Its cheap and they seemed to like it.
One whacky site...
http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp
Do you really think you might be so incapacitated that you can dial 911 but can't speak?! If your house is on fire just dial the fire dept (number post by the phone of course) and tell them where you are.
I was interested to see they had a hybrid system. You marked your vote on paper but then its run thru a scanner which presumably counts the votes. So the second the polls close they'll know the results. But the old style ballots are around for recounts.
They scanned thru one lady's ballot and the machine gave an error. The election official looked at the ballot with her and told her had mistakenly voted for two people for mayor - duh. She was talken over to a table and I assume her first ballot would be destroyed and she was given a second one. Normally ballots like that from people who are too stupid to know how to vote would not count. That seems like a bad side-effect of this device. I am not sure what I think about the official looking at her secret ballot.
A display on the machine show the number of voters. At 11:30 it was only 101 people (including me but not include that woman). Doesn't seem like very many for a very dense urban riding. I guess my vote might count.
Getting all those phone lines would cost a bundle and for each phone line you'd need a computer with an Internet connection. There are zillions of local areas in the world -- they can't have a presence in them all. Don't cha think?
I was just wondering if anyone knows how the VoIP calls are routed to the PSTN.
Does, say, Packet8 have a gateway on each continent that hooks into the PSTN.
So when I call USA -> France it might use the nearest gateway in the UK? Just wondering.
As a part way step it would be cool if the VoIP phone wasn't actually a phone but just a device that "lite-up" regular land lines in your house.
ie a VoIP POTS "modem". Then you could use any wireless phone and the cost of the device would be less.
Well there's always web accelerating in squid and ProxyPass in Apache. Which, I agree, are hacks. But they work.
IPv6 would remove the practice of ISPs selling
IP address at a premium. For that alone its worth it. Would make for more grassroots servers.
Would be nice to have something like this
for the regular *nix environment.
What about ...Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting ... seems more important to me.
Isn't this news that matters.
Is there a BSD-licensed .doc import/export library?
If there was all office produces could use it
and it would be a commodity thing. That would be a nice move.
I can't think of any way to use gets() safely.
s = malloc(INFINITY);
gets(s);
Doesn't just one experiment produce 45 zillion
megabytes. (Don't quote me on that.)
It's about 6 Exabytes.
Oh, come on. Small numbers are better than big numbers. How about 6 -- the Smallest Perfect Number
So Microsoft sponsored LAMP?!
But LAMP is Linux Apache Mysql {Perl, Python, Php}
eg http://www.onlamp.com/
This is exactly why China is developing its alternative to WinTel and European countries
(eg Germany) are exploring Linux.