Would there be any problems with giving everyone a random GUID tied to their vote on a receipt, then at the end of the election allowing them to look up their GUID?
btw, you ignored the rest of my post in your reply. You stated that MS made over-hyped claims. When I called you on that, you came up with nothing. But I'm quickly growing tired of this argument, so don't feel obligated to reply.
As far as who knows computers, it's much more than just those who have IT jobs.
Oddly enough, Apple seems to disagree with you. Yes. Apple would, obviously. They weren't who I was referring to.
Let me put it this way: the number of people who know computers is much, much larger than the number of people who use Macs. There. You proved my point. Techies are worth marketing to. You pretty much said it yourself, lol.
Monopolistic practices and the GPL aren't advertising. But deceptive advertising, the GPL philosophy, and monopolisitic practices are all behaviors of a company or group. Those behaviors are factors in how knowledgeable computer users make decisions about which to use. I hope that's clear enough.
The biggest difference is that Apple is "makes over-hyped claims" when directly comparing their product with a competitor's product. I've never seen MS even mention Apple, and they sure haven't said they were more secure than Apple, at least in the past decade.
Also, I already explained why techies are worth marketing to. The Mac market, on the other hand, is probably small enough not to market to.
1. Windows notifies Paul that his copy is pirated. 2. Paul assumes not that his copy is pirated, but that it is a WGA bug. 3. Microsoft notifies Paul that his copy is pirated. 4. Paul believes his copy is pirated.
What changed between 1 and 3? Just that a person was telling him (using another automated WGA tool), rather than WGA telling him?
So Paul didn't bother to think about whether he might have bought a pirated copy, until MS told him to think about it?
A techie who is turned off by advertising is not a techie.
I'd say the opposite, actually. Techies may be interested in Linux because of the philosophy of the GPL. They may be disgusted with MS because of monopolistic behavior.
Techies can see past the basic featureset of a product and determine how it fits in with the philosophy of their field. They may not appreciate a company's deceptive advertising.
From what I've seen, they've turned off a lot of techies. I'd say over 25% of knowledgeable Windows users (which is also over 25% of all knowledgeable computer users, according to marketshare).
Now you could say that those people don't matter. That the ads are for newbies, those uninterested in computers, who just want things to work. But I would say that what may be more important is that all of those newbies seek their computer advice from their techie friends.
Every newbie friend I have that has talked about Macs already thought of them as not a serious option. But they ask me for my opinion, and considering that I've helped most of the same people with purchases, actually customizing their whole purchases for them, the opinion that really matters is mine, not the newbie's.
If Apple fails to convince people in my group that Macs are a serious option, or worse, turns people like me off, they'll have a much harder time convincing the audience they were seeking with those ads.
All in all, I look at the new Macs the same way I do IE7. I may not be interested in actually using them, but I'm glad to see they're getting more capable.
It's another set of eyes attempting to tackle the same problems. The 2 companies in competition may copy the good features of each other, or they may decide that they can do it better by heading back to the drawing board, and come up with a new way to tackle the problem.
The thing that truly bothers me is that I'm old enough (64) that I know this is largely my, and my generation's, fault. I wish I knew where we went wrong. That we did is obvious... that we can't correct our error is also obvious (old men grouse about things - it falls to young men to act). I wish I could recommend a course of action, but I suspect we (my generation) actually threw it all away, without noticing.
We sure didn't teach one damn thing to our (collective) kids about standing up and bucking the system - we seem to have taught them to go for the Bright Shiny and to have the "I'm a victim" attitude about hard choices.
So blame me - I do.
I don't know if you noticed this, but my generation largely voted against Bush, and would vote against any neo-conservative. During the last election, youth vote surged more than any other group.
It has less to do with what your generation taught or didn't teach my generation, and more to do with how your generation voted last election, and for that matter, how they vote on a regular basis.
The last President who never vetoed was James A. Garfield, elected in 1880. I'd call that non-modern history. So the article was accurate at the time of publication.
In my fact checking, I see that Bush now has 1 veto, rejecting additional funding for stem cell research, just over a week ago. The Globe article was written in April.
After wednesday, anyone who pays for it to be downloaded is far more likely to give it a proper testing-out, rather than just opening a document or two and verifying that it doesn't crash. We value things more when we pay for them.
I think that's the primary reason. Even a trivial amount of money transforms the downloader's mentality from that of "free stuff" to "paying customer." It helps them get a bigger ROI (investment being both bandwidth and time spent sifting through feedback).
Bush is not a moron. Bush does not live on a ranch. That is all an image.
Morons don't continuously expand their Presidential powers, while ignoring (breaking) hundreds of laws designed to limit their power. You haven't read this Boston Globe article: Bush challenges hundreds of laws?
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
[...]
Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional.
[...]
Bush is the first president in modern history who has never vetoed a bill, giving Congress no chance to override his judgments. Instead, he has signed every bill that reached his desk, often inviting the legislation's sponsors to signing ceremonies at which he lavishes praise upon their work.
Then, after the media and the lawmakers have left the White House, Bush quietly files ''signing statements" -- official documents in which a president lays out his legal interpretation of a bill for the federal bureaucracy to follow when implementing the new law. The statements are recorded in the federal register.
In his signing statements, Bush has repeatedly asserted that the Constitution gives him the right to ignore numerous sections of the bills -- sometimes including provisions that were the subject of negotiations with Congress in order to get lawmakers to pass the bill. He has appended such statements to more than one of every 10 bills he has signed.
Bush knows exactly what he's doing. Calling him a moron is simply underestimating his gross disrespect for your freedoms and the Constitution, and is a distraction from his intent to give himself more and more power while taking away your rights.
Worse than that. Israeli companies have access to a large part of our phone system, including maintaining some of the wiretap systems. Mossad has been suspected of wiretapping public officials and infiltrating several government agencies.
CAMERON: Here's how the system works. Most directory assistance calls, and virtually all call records and billing in the U.S. are done for the phone companies by Amdocs Ltd., an Israeli-based private elecommunications company.
Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America, and more worldwide. The White House and other secure government phone lines are protected, but it is virtually impossible to make a call on normal phones without generating an Amdocs record of it.
In recent years, the FBI and other government agencies have investigated Amdocs more than once. The firm has repeatedly and adamantly denied any security breaches or wrongdoing. But sources tell Fox News that in 1999, the super secret national security agency, headquartered in northern Maryland, issued what's called a Top Secret sensitive compartmentalized information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of calls in the United States were getting into foreign hands - in Israel, in particular.
...ever try Tony Hawk games on the PC without a controller? It just doesn't work... well...
No, but I've tried it with a controller on a PC. Logitech RumblePad. It works about as well as on console. Other games I liked with a controller were GTA3, Midnight Club 2 (racing), and one of the Tomb Raiders.
The control is sometimes better, sometimes slightly awkward if I was already used to the PS2 controller for that game. But the graphics absolutely blew away the PS2, even on the same games. And remapping any key, downloading patches, cheap online play, etc. seal the deal.
That doesn't appear to be a complete transcript. Specifically:
_sniper_ hehehehe.. _sniper_ all other members of the UN security council wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and democracy) vetoed it....Israel says the resolution was fair. _sniper_ hell yeah.. _sniper_ NUKE ISRAEL!
What's he saying "hell yeah..." and "hehehehe.." to? It seems completely incongruous with the rest of his statements, unless something was left out.
Have you ever checked the actual list of seeds/peers (Advanced button in BitTornado)? You're connected, sure, but you're not transferring with all of them if you actually check the individual transfer rates.
BTW, I've had over 500 peers and 200 seeds for really popular files before. But that's not typical.
But I think I'll go on using it the way most Americans do. After all, it gives etymologists something to do tracing the evolution of the widespread new definition.
Firefox has just completed downloading an important update and must be restarted so that the update can be installed. Update: Firefox 1.5.0.5
Ironic that I received that message as I was reading this story, and about to post that automatic update will only download IE7, but will give the users a choice of whether or not to install it. Kind of like the message I just received for Firefox.
Bandwidth is really the only issue with this release method, but not so much for a single user. Businesses who would be affected by the download can install the IE7 Update Blocker Toolkit to prevent even the download.
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Would there be any problems with giving everyone a random GUID tied to their vote on a receipt, then at the end of the election allowing them to look up their GUID?
I've seen that computer programmer testifying on Google Video
Its pretty simple really. When things are bad, you don't vote for the incumbent party. That would be stupid.
btw, you ignored the rest of my post in your reply. You stated that MS made over-hyped claims. When I called you on that, you came up with nothing. But I'm quickly growing tired of this argument, so don't feel obligated to reply.
As far as who knows computers, it's much more than just those who have IT jobs.
Oddly enough, Apple seems to disagree with you.
Yes. Apple would, obviously. They weren't who I was referring to.
Let me put it this way: the number of people who know computers is much, much larger than the number of people who use Macs. There. You proved my point. Techies are worth marketing to. You pretty much said it yourself, lol.
Monopolistic practices and the GPL aren't advertising. But deceptive advertising, the GPL philosophy, and monopolisitic practices are all behaviors of a company or group. Those behaviors are factors in how knowledgeable computer users make decisions about which to use. I hope that's clear enough.
The biggest difference is that Apple is "makes over-hyped claims" when directly comparing their product with a competitor's product. I've never seen MS even mention Apple, and they sure haven't said they were more secure than Apple, at least in the past decade.
Also, I already explained why techies are worth marketing to. The Mac market, on the other hand, is probably small enough not to market to.
1. Windows notifies Paul that his copy is pirated.
2. Paul assumes not that his copy is pirated, but that it is a WGA bug.
3. Microsoft notifies Paul that his copy is pirated.
4. Paul believes his copy is pirated.
What changed between 1 and 3? Just that a person was telling him (using another automated WGA tool), rather than WGA telling him?
So Paul didn't bother to think about whether he might have bought a pirated copy, until MS told him to think about it?
I'd say the opposite, actually. Techies may be interested in Linux because of the philosophy of the GPL. They may be disgusted with MS because of monopolistic behavior.
Techies can see past the basic featureset of a product and determine how it fits in with the philosophy of their field. They may not appreciate a company's deceptive advertising.
From what I've seen, they've turned off a lot of techies. I'd say over 25% of knowledgeable Windows users (which is also over 25% of all knowledgeable computer users, according to marketshare).
Now you could say that those people don't matter. That the ads are for newbies, those uninterested in computers, who just want things to work. But I would say that what may be more important is that all of those newbies seek their computer advice from their techie friends.
Every newbie friend I have that has talked about Macs already thought of them as not a serious option. But they ask me for my opinion, and considering that I've helped most of the same people with purchases, actually customizing their whole purchases for them, the opinion that really matters is mine, not the newbie's.
If Apple fails to convince people in my group that Macs are a serious option, or worse, turns people like me off, they'll have a much harder time convincing the audience they were seeking with those ads.
All in all, I look at the new Macs the same way I do IE7. I may not be interested in actually using them, but I'm glad to see they're getting more capable.
It's another set of eyes attempting to tackle the same problems. The 2 companies in competition may copy the good features of each other, or they may decide that they can do it better by heading back to the drawing board, and come up with a new way to tackle the problem.
Either way, we win.
I don't know if you noticed this, but my generation largely voted against Bush, and would vote against any neo-conservative. During the last election, youth vote surged more than any other group.
It has less to do with what your generation taught or didn't teach my generation, and more to do with how your generation voted last election, and for that matter, how they vote on a regular basis.
http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_His
The last President who never vetoed was James A. Garfield, elected in 1880. I'd call that non-modern history. So the article was accurate at the time of publication.
In my fact checking, I see that Bush now has 1 veto, rejecting additional funding for stem cell research, just over a week ago. The Globe article was written in April.
So the article was correct.
I think that's the primary reason. Even a trivial amount of money transforms the downloader's mentality from that of "free stuff" to "paying customer." It helps them get a bigger ROI (investment being both bandwidth and time spent sifting through feedback).
Morons don't continuously expand their Presidential powers, while ignoring (breaking) hundreds of laws designed to limit their power. You haven't read this Boston Globe article:
Bush challenges hundreds of laws?
Bush knows exactly what he's doing. Calling him a moron is simply underestimating his gross disrespect for your freedoms and the Constitution, and is a distraction from his intent to give himself more and more power while taking away your rights.
Lot's of information from a Fox News report series:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7
No, but I've tried it with a controller on a PC. Logitech RumblePad. It works about as well as on console. Other games I liked with a controller were GTA3, Midnight Club 2 (racing), and one of the Tomb Raiders.
The control is sometimes better, sometimes slightly awkward if I was already used to the PS2 controller for that game. But the graphics absolutely blew away the PS2, even on the same games. And remapping any key, downloading patches, cheap online play, etc. seal the deal.
What's he saying "hell yeah..." and "hehehehe.." to? It seems completely incongruous with the rest of his statements, unless something was left out.
Imagine that. Opening up Explorer or Finder to a video folder and having all 30 videos playing instead of thumbnails. That would be sweet.
* Harddrive limitations notwithstanding.
DivX and H.264 are codecs. Both are MPEG-4 codecs. DivX is MPEG-4 ASP and H.264 is MPEG-4 AVC.
MPEG-4 is also a container, just like AVI. You don't say a player can play "AVI format"; you list which codecs it plays.
And they don't even get that right. TV pixels aren't square. That's why capture cards capture at 720x480.
Actually, though, you can't measure NTSC in pixels that way. It's effective resolution after a complicated calculation is about 320x350.
Have you ever checked the actual list of seeds/peers (Advanced button in BitTornado)? You're connected, sure, but you're not transferring with all of them if you actually check the individual transfer rates.
BTW, I've had over 500 peers and 200 seeds for really popular files before. But that's not typical.
But I think I'll go on using it the way most Americans do. After all, it gives etymologists something to do tracing the evolution of the widespread new definition.
Ironic that I received that message as I was reading this story, and about to post that automatic update will only download IE7, but will give the users a choice of whether or not to install it. Kind of like the message I just received for Firefox.
Bandwidth is really the only issue with this release method, but not so much for a single user. Businesses who would be affected by the download can install the IE7 Update Blocker Toolkit to prevent even the download.
This really isn't that big of a deal.