If you really want to show someone which way you will be voting, you can.
I can just let anyone look at what I voted for, since the booth only provides privacy if you want it. If I wanted to make it less obvious, I could get an absentee ballot, last I checked, they came without a booth and voting supervisors.
You are talking about problems that arise from diversity, but this is a controlled environment.
Take a standardised printer (just one type of b/w matrix printer), with only one mode of operation (no two ways to interpret data, hence no misinterpretations, lock-ups or control codes printed out), only use one driver (dito), have the printer maker supply paper that won't jam, and make sure to insert a new ribbon at the start of the day.
To top it off, have a spare printer ready, and get another one if the first is actually used.
Since it will only take effect one month after the registration deadline, and they get it at once if they want to, they'll have at least one month's leisure to legally call you. If you miss the deadline by a day, they'll find you by comparing the current list to the one from 8/31, and know they have nearly 4 months to drive you crazy.
Read the last part again - especially from "Many small companies..." onwards.
Software patents are defended as protection to small companies, which is contrary to what experience suggests.
Geeks are most likely to be moved into action by this, so they are among the primary audience. I didn't know I could do something as part of an organized effort until I saw this/. story.
Since lawyers are those who profit most from that system, they are also the ones to make sure it doesn't improve / it gets worse.
"Coincidentally", they are also the only ones to really understand the system.
Lately, I've been buying all my computer gear at a store (here in Germany) that will print all their receipts on a regular laser printer (A4 paper, with all their fine print on the back), even if it's just a couple of CD markers.
It helps, of course, that they are also very reasonable about price while at the same time having personnel that know what they are selling and good return/warranty policies... sorry, I'm starting to sound like a ****** commercial;o)
In fact, I'm just a happy customer, which may be the fault of my local store's manager or in the whole chain, I don't know, but they seem to have a good reputation in general. They also have a very obvious mail order rebate that I've never taken advantage of and know why.
That page sounds deliberately confusing, and there are very conspicious offers of courses for several thousand $s a week. It's exactly what I would have expected M$ to write about Linux, if anything.
I haven't seen a typewriter in a movie for years now. Er, don't you remember "You've Got Mail"? There was this crazy typewriter-collecting technophobe...
Maybe the best argument in favour of cross-platform APIs for gaming companies is not Linux, but Mac OS.
Mac users can't usually run windoze for games, they are a somewhat smaller market than windoze, but still much more significant in terms of money spent on such things than Linux. If there was an API that made porting to Mac OS a no-brainer, that might justify the investment into not using DirectX any more (remember, they've been using it for some time now, and they know it in and out), and a Linux port might become a byproduct of producing for both the windoze and Mac worlds.
It is a CDROM live file system distribution with an amazing hardware detection and driver base. Basing a bootable game on it would make it run on pretty much every PC currently available.
Obviously you've never had OO.o open messed up MSWord files that MSWord refused to open - it's actually been very helpful in some cases, and it just worked wonders convincing people that having it around wasn't a bad idea at all. It may be that the conversion filters are not perfect, but since they work better than the original, it's fine by me, thank you very much.
it depends - in this case, capital punishment might help
just roast the known spammer alive on a small flame
or, also funny, drop small grains of shot on him... one for each spam mail sent. adjust the drop height so that typical spammers are killed in the process, but not too early on
remember to do it in public and have live TV broacasts of it
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I can just let anyone look at what I voted for, since the booth only provides privacy if you want it. If I wanted to make it less obvious, I could get an absentee ballot, last I checked, they came without a booth and voting supervisors.
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Take a standardised printer (just one type of b/w matrix printer), with only one mode of operation (no two ways to interpret data, hence no misinterpretations, lock-ups or control codes printed out), only use one driver (dito), have the printer maker supply paper that won't jam, and make sure to insert a new ribbon at the start of the day.
To top it off, have a spare printer ready, and get another one if the first is actually used.
Normal paranoia won't see that fail.
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Software patents are defended as protection to small companies, which is contrary to what experience suggests.
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- that community is unreliable since they are unavailable to our urgent needs because of politics
- that whole open source development model will soon collapse due to conditions we can't change
- that pesky Linux advocate doesn't get things done, either
Kiwaiti"Coincidentally", they are also the only ones to really understand the system.
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It helps, of course, that they are also very reasonable about price while at the same time having personnel that know what they are selling and good return/warranty policies... sorry, I'm starting to sound like a ****** commercial ;o)
In fact, I'm just a happy customer, which may be the fault of my local store's manager or in the whole chain, I don't know, but they seem to have a good reputation in general. They also have a very obvious mail order rebate that I've never taken advantage of and know why.
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sorry, I'm x86 only :o(
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If enough people really want a native Aqua version, they can create it. It seems OO.o couldn't find them.
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- the intro
- the sound track
- a mom-compatible explanation to the special appeal of online acquaintances
- Meg Ryan
- everybody's got three fingers on their hands (er, I'm getting carried away here... by people dressed in white...)
Kiwaiti2.2% No
maybe it would even be 0% No and, er, 101% Yes?
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Er, don't you remember "You've Got Mail"? There was this crazy typewriter-collecting technophobe...
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Mac users can't usually run windoze for games, they are a somewhat smaller market than windoze, but still much more significant in terms of money spent on such things than Linux. If there was an API that made porting to Mac OS a no-brainer, that might justify the investment into not using DirectX any more (remember, they've been using it for some time now, and they know it in and out), and a Linux port might become a byproduct of producing for both the windoze and Mac worlds.
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It is a CDROM live file system distribution with an amazing hardware detection and driver base. Basing a bootable game on it would make it run on pretty much every PC currently available.
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just roast the known spammer alive on a small flame
or, also funny, drop small grains of shot on him... one for each spam mail sent. adjust the drop height so that typical spammers are killed in the process, but not too early on
remember to do it in public and have live TV broacasts of it
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