on my voice mail it says to "enter your password followed by the # key" but if you're calling from the number associated by the account you can simply press "#" and get your voice mail... it doesn't say it on the message but that's how it works.
yeah glite is on life-support in an official capacity, but there is work being done here. Though it's mostly just enough to keep it functional with the changes that google impliment.
It works well enough that I can run it from my own server and access my email in places where gmail might be blocked or otherwise difficult to access directly. which is all I need it for.
Yeah, I find it hilarious that in one story Slashdotters can rant and rave about how terrible Diebold is, and then just gloss over that fact in another which just so happens to also be about Linux.
Even more hilarious is the fact that this article is "from the eat-your-heart-out-diebold dept." So, um... what exactly is diebold eating their heart out over?
I mean we all know the editors can't be arsed to RTFA but you'd think they'd at least look at the pretty pictures...
All political parties have access to the source code, and digitally sign the executable code, and thus can confirm, at any individual machine, that the running software is the official one.
I've thought about this myself and if you don't mind getting your hands dirty you could take an SD card and loaded it up with Linux, and wire it in parallel with the hard drive. install a small switch under the battery or something that switches power from the hard drive to the SD card. Then when traveling set the switch to select the card... it will look like a clean Linux install.
There's a difference between giving your all to help people and dipping into the social wealth to fund things that only really help a small segment of people.
Too much of the latter and your society as a whole will expect it for themselves and eventually become dependent on it.
IMO it shouldn't be the governments job to support causes and "help" the down-trodden but rather be flexible enough to allow it's citizens to support those things themselves.
why should the government be tasked with using tax dollars to support charities when citizens themselves can choose to how and where those dollars are spent by making donations themselves.
IMO the only difference between dems and reps is that the dems want to increase their influence by determining which social groups they will give money too and the reps want to increase their influence by determining which corporate groups they will give money too. Meanwhile they're elected entirely based on a platform of social equality on one side and biblical morality on the other... Neither is doing the American public as a whole any real benefit.
But you have to figure that electricity costs are going to go up over time
Funny enough, Solar panels are becoming more efficient and more affordable as time goes on too.
I for one look forward to the day where my garage has a solar panel on the roof and my full electric car charges overnight costing me ZERO dollars to "fill up". If we see a full electric with a 200 mile range where you can buy the car+ solar charging equipment for under $35K in the next 10 years... that would do wonders to end the oil dependency... I think it's plausible too.
I agree. I always thought it was a bit unrealistic (yes, I know I'm talking about a game here) that your health could ever be measured as a percentage. If you're arm is blown of does that mean you're at 84%? No, I'm pretty sure that means you're at around 2-3%.
Well in real life you don't have a healbar, but you do have nerves and and can generally determine without a health bar if your body is fully functioning or not. In a game you cant feel the damage that your avatar does (not that I'd want to) but that information is someone important.
In the real world if my body was badly hurt I'd be looking for a med kit too, screw whatever else I was doing.
Not that games should be a mirror image of the real world, but IMO if your character has the ability to be injured, you should have some way of knowing by how much and that knowing that should have an effect on your priorities and decision making.
Thats not a DRM, thats another annoyance. It does look like with PSN catching up, Live will have to become free (or significantly cheaper) sooner than later.
FIRST POST... oops I mean you never see non-anons making trollish posts like that, similarly anyone who pulls equivalent crap on Xbox Live gets their account banned. Since it actually costs them if they want to keep doing it, it stops pretty quick. If Xbox live goes free, you can expect to see a barrage of fresh accounts getting made daily with trolls intending to just make the online experience less fun for everyone else.
And honestly it's not that expensive, you can get a 13 month car for about $45 meaning it costs you about $3.50 a month for the service... IMO it's worth every penny if it means I don't have to put up with trolls.
We only have ourselves to blame. Why do you think the interviewers want a test? Because somewhere along the line, in some capacity, they were burned by an unscrupulous IT person who lied about their level of competency.
Right because being burned by incompetence doesn't happen in any other field right?
It couldn't be the fact that most companies haven't a clue how to properly manage IT and grasp for any available opportunity to quantify work done and qualify decisions made even if doing so grossly inappropriate.
I suspect that they want more people to check out the idle section by putting some of it on the main page and figure the disagree mails are the most appropriate vehicle.
I enjoy them, it's about the only part of the idle section I do like.
How about we just stop using social security numbers as though they're some sort of magical security token? It was never designed for that purpose, and if you put the slightest bit of thought into it, you immediately realize that it's not secure at all. People act like it's some sort of super-secure password that authenticates who you are, but then you're basically required to give out that password to random people on a semi-regular basis.
I think it's part of a larger problem where people seem attracted to the idea of associating new things to existing identifiers, even if it's not even close to appropriate.
In Prey velocity was maintained just like in portal. Though you're right that all of the portals were pre-created for you. Though I do believe there were one or two that changed position, and quite a few on angular surfaces.
The biggest difference was that you couldn't create the portals yourself, and there were no situations where you'd leave a portal and enter another one to keep building velocity. I suspect you're right about development shortcuts, else we would have seen more interesting use of Prey's portal system.
The problem was that there were using a machine. From a voting system used in a proper democracy I expect that it is verifiable by the voters themselves, pen&paper is exactly that, a machine doesn't even come close and never will, since kind of by definition its a magic black box that might count your vote or not, you can't really tell.
I couldn't disagree more...
There is no reason a machine counted vote can't be just as verifiable as a human counted vote.
Just because diebold built a "black box" doesn't mean it needs to be that way. Having the code that runs in the machine open source means that anyone can verify the way in which the machine has processed the vote.
The notion that people counting votes by hand is somehow always more accurate than a machine counted vote is ludicrous to me. I wouldn't even trust myself to count votes accurately. I don't trust diebold's code either, but I would certainly trust a machine with open, tested, and verified firmware.
I realize this is a joke but one has to wonder... wouldn't this be a great opportunity for the open source community to figure out how to salvage the hardware on these machines by replacing the software with something Open and less prone to errors?
I mean, it's not like they were tricked by some game presented as "Princess Peach Pony Adventures" rated E and discovered a secret level which involved skinning people alive.
Hmm... Someone should make a Woodland Critters game...
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on my voice mail it says to "enter your password followed by the # key" but if you're calling from the number associated by the account you can simply press "#" and get your voice mail... it doesn't say it on the message but that's how it works.
yeah glite is on life-support in an official capacity, but there is work being done here. Though it's mostly just enough to keep it functional with the changes that google impliment.
It works well enough that I can run it from my own server and access my email in places where gmail might be blocked or otherwise difficult to access directly. which is all I need it for.
Something tells me that an email system that only depends on your hard drive with no net connection wouldn't be very useful.
FWIW I don't seem to be having any problems getting gmail through my gmail-lite install.
Even more hilarious is the fact that this article is "from the eat-your-heart-out-diebold dept." So, um... what exactly is diebold eating their heart out over?
I mean we all know the editors can't be arsed to RTFA but you'd think they'd at least look at the pretty pictures...
it's because
Meaning they actually have to make a product worthy enough to get purchased over their competitors... instead of just getting an exclusive contract.
That is gorgeous... and it's mean too, so I guess it's proves TFA's point.
Those are some great suggestions.
I've thought about this myself and if you don't mind getting your hands dirty you could take an SD card and loaded it up with Linux, and wire it in parallel with the hard drive. install a small switch under the battery or something that switches power from the hard drive to the SD card. Then when traveling set the switch to select the card... it will look like a clean Linux install.
"pants" is a British adjective synonymous with "rubbish".
Who?
There's a difference between giving your all to help people and dipping into the social wealth to fund things that only really help a small segment of people.
Too much of the latter and your society as a whole will expect it for themselves and eventually become dependent on it.
IMO it shouldn't be the governments job to support causes and "help" the down-trodden but rather be flexible enough to allow it's citizens to support those things themselves.
why should the government be tasked with using tax dollars to support charities when citizens themselves can choose to how and where those dollars are spent by making donations themselves.
IMO the only difference between dems and reps is that the dems want to increase their influence by determining which social groups they will give money too and the reps want to increase their influence by determining which corporate groups they will give money too. Meanwhile they're elected entirely based on a platform of social equality on one side and biblical morality on the other... Neither is doing the American public as a whole any real benefit.
That's the thinking that will allow your government to mandate that all cars be restricted in this way in the future... you know, "for the children"
Funny enough, Solar panels are becoming more efficient and more affordable as time goes on too.
I for one look forward to the day where my garage has a solar panel on the roof and my full electric car charges overnight costing me ZERO dollars to "fill up". If we see a full electric with a 200 mile range where you can buy the car+ solar charging equipment for under $35K in the next 10 years... that would do wonders to end the oil dependency... I think it's plausible too.
Well in real life you don't have a healbar, but you do have nerves and and can generally determine without a health bar if your body is fully functioning or not. In a game you cant feel the damage that your avatar does (not that I'd want to) but that information is someone important.
In the real world if my body was badly hurt I'd be looking for a med kit too, screw whatever else I was doing.
Not that games should be a mirror image of the real world, but IMO if your character has the ability to be injured, you should have some way of knowing by how much and that knowing that should have an effect on your priorities and decision making.
You're just upset that they posted your mail.
FIRST POST... oops I mean you never see non-anons making trollish posts like that, similarly anyone who pulls equivalent crap on Xbox Live gets their account banned. Since it actually costs them if they want to keep doing it, it stops pretty quick. If Xbox live goes free, you can expect to see a barrage of fresh accounts getting made daily with trolls intending to just make the online experience less fun for everyone else.
And honestly it's not that expensive, you can get a 13 month car for about $45 meaning it costs you about $3.50 a month for the service... IMO it's worth every penny if it means I don't have to put up with trolls.
Right because being burned by incompetence doesn't happen in any other field right?
It couldn't be the fact that most companies haven't a clue how to properly manage IT and grasp for any available opportunity to quantify work done and qualify decisions made even if doing so grossly inappropriate.
I suspect that they want more people to check out the idle section by putting some of it on the main page and figure the disagree mails are the most appropriate vehicle.
I enjoy them, it's about the only part of the idle section I do like.
I think it's part of a larger problem where people seem attracted to the idea of associating new things to existing identifiers, even if it's not even close to appropriate.
In Prey velocity was maintained just like in portal. Though you're right that all of the portals were pre-created for you. Though I do believe there were one or two that changed position, and quite a few on angular surfaces.
The biggest difference was that you couldn't create the portals yourself, and there were no situations where you'd leave a portal and enter another one to keep building velocity. I suspect you're right about development shortcuts, else we would have seen more interesting use of Prey's portal system.
I couldn't disagree more...
There is no reason a machine counted vote can't be just as verifiable as a human counted vote.
Just because diebold built a "black box" doesn't mean it needs to be that way. Having the code that runs in the machine open source means that anyone can verify the way in which the machine has processed the vote.
The notion that people counting votes by hand is somehow always more accurate than a machine counted vote is ludicrous to me. I wouldn't even trust myself to count votes accurately. I don't trust diebold's code either, but I would certainly trust a machine with open, tested, and verified firmware.
I realize this is a joke but one has to wonder... wouldn't this be a great opportunity for the open source community to figure out how to salvage the hardware on these machines by replacing the software with something Open and less prone to errors?
Hmm... Someone should make a Woodland Critters game...
...my thoughts exactly
you're obviously hanging out with the wrong old ladies.