Seriously. Giving bad advice to do illegal actions is one thing, but then it gets modded "interesting"?
I frequently mod stuff "Interesting" that I know is wrong. Then I mod the responses with good information "Informative". This is how one gets an interesting and informative discussion.
Does anyone know if/how often lawsuits like this actually does happend to real people? What US states enforce non-compete clauses without any compensation to the signee?
Wow, what good questions... to ask a Lawyer. Talking with a lawyer doesn't mean not pursuing your capitalist dream. It means figuring out what you can do to cover your ass while you're at it.
It is the fourth fundamental linear circuit element. Transistors (I = k*V^2) and diodes (I = e^V) are not linear. Resistors V = k*I, capacitors I = k*dV/dt (the derivative is a linear operation), inductors V = k*dI/dt, memristors V=k(t)*I are linear.
The reason there are four linear circuit elements is clear if you write these equations in terms and flux and charge.
A program only for kids 130+, must be a pretty big school district. I doubt there were more than one or two kids every few years in my whole town who would have qualified.
Her thought process is exactly the same as a gambling addict. The ethics of casino's and Nigerian scammers are different, but she belongs at Gamblers Anonymous.
Watch out for helpful translations from unknown sources... "Print Nozzle Test" -> "chupa me" "Clean Nozzles" -> "je manque une putain" "Align Print Heads" -> "donde esta mis huevos" "Properties" -> "Pile de Merde" "Refresh" -> "Tenga una cerveza"
That may be true, but none of those places are in the United States
This is only true if you're a US citizen. If you aren't, you are required to have ID. Of course, it gets messy since there isn't any good way to know the difference. So if you can't furnish ID, they'd probably have valid reason to hold you for a short time until they verify you are who you say you are.
Yes, it sucks, but I can't say it is unreasonable.
rectangle kill-yank (cut-paste) is probably the number one reason why I'll drop out of vi when editing a file and open it in emacs (for some reason I always edit config files in vi and code in emacs). So, can I do this in vi, or any other text editor?
Don't get me wrong, I like emacs I just don't like having a 40MB text editor where it isn't needed.
Actually, on the radio the other week they were talking about a new service where people can hire someone to monitor their health care and insurance policy. It isn't cheap but can potentially save a ton of money if you have a chronic health problem or are going through some short term, increased risk event like pregnancy. Of course, most people who really need such a service can't afford it and in a well functioning system it wouldn't be necessary.
Well if Ubuntu wants to compete with Windows, it has to find a way to make it just as simple for Ubuntu users.
I hope drivers for Linux are never as bad as drivers for Windows. Sure, you can use that.exe that came on the CD but it is probably about 5 revisions back. So you pop onto the HW manufacturers website to find an update and have to sort through 50 different versions (do I have rev 1A01 or 1A02?) and then the driver is still buggy so that your system crashes half the time. And a few years down the road when it is time to reinstall/update, those disks are not to be found or are incompatible with your neww OS and the company discontinued support so you dive into the depths of drivers.com hell to find a generic replacement.
I like Linux, where most things 'Just Work' and if they don't there is usually a viable recourse, even if it takes some time. Linux drivers still need work, but Windows is NOT the model to follow.
Same virtual screen ('Virtual 2800 1050' in xorg.conf), in/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup : xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of LVDS
I had seen similar advice before but assumed since my monitors were different resolutions it wouldn't work, but it works fine (except that suddenly my title and desktop fonts are twice as large). Cool.
Woah there. I didn't say that the dems and republicans don't investigate each other. Dirt on Palin is highly valuable and I'm sure that both parties have done there best to dig it up (dems to use, republicans to be prepared). My point was that Joe the Plumber probably isn't worth the kind of hamfisted, amatuerish sleuthing discussed here. The only part of Joe and Obama's conversation that really helps McCain was where Barack said something about spreading the wealth. That is independent of poor Joe, who would probably be better off under the Obama tax plan (unless he is an exceedingly high earning plumber with an amazingly bad tax preparer).
Rather than a democratic conspiracy, it is more likely to have been bored clerks at these agencies who looked up the information out of curiosity. Just as the passport applications of the candidates were improperly accessed during the primaries. There is almost nothing for the party to gain by using potentially illegal methods to find dirt on poor Joe, and huge Nixon-esk risks. He really isn't significant enough to be worth it.
My laptop has a radeon card and 1400x1050 screen (which is why I haven't replaced it, those screens are scarce these days) and I usually use external LCDs at 1280x1024, so a single virtual desktop isn't a good solution. A similar mixed resolution setup on my desktop with an Nvidia card works well enough (so long as compiz is off) and was trivial to setup using the nvidia-config tool. Its not that dual monitors on Linux doesn't work, it just doesn't work nearly as well as it should and would quickly surpass the patience of any normal person to do an abnormal setup.
As a Linux Zealot with Mod points, I'd love to mod your exaggerations down. But, I use dual monitors and it never works as well as it should. On my laptop, I can only clone screens. On my desktop it works well except that compiz gets confused with dual monitors (so I turn it off). The latest Fedora and Ubuntu are making strides but it is still extremely disappointing. I love Linux, I'd never go back to Windows but I really wish dual monitor setup was better.
There are some advantages of optical scan over touch screen.
1. If the touch screens break, you're SOL. If the optical scan breaks people can still fill out ballots while a new machine is delivered (many places that use touch screens keep paper ballots on hand as a backup, why not just start with the paper ballots?). 2. With an optical scan system, you only need one or two machines per precinct. This is much cheaper. A limited number of touch screens has repeatedly led to long lines and disenfranchised voters. 3. With optical scan, the system is counting the same thing that people see. This is much easier to verify than a system where people count text and the machine counts a bar code.
So one effective solution is to have optical scan machines and one special machine, with a paper human readable record, for the blind/handicapped per voting site. Do mandatory manual count on a random sample of ballots, with the number of ballots counted based on how close the vote is. If the vote is close enough, a full count is mandatory for that vote.
Huge amounts of time goes into commissioning the detectors, from model validation to connectivity testing to lifetime testing. The kind of 'random' testing normally done in QA (make 100, test 10 and if none fail you're pretty sure 99% will work) isn't sufficient here since that 1% fault can be the difference between success and failure. Just about every piece is individually tested, then tested after installation on a subcomponent, then tested after the subcomponent is moved to storage and then tested after it has been installed on the detector, and ten tested again once the component next to it has been installed.
Sometimes a problem can slip through all of this testing. Cables that failed because of shoddy work at the supplier were found during commissioning of one of the detectors, it wouldn't be surprising similar be even loss obvious shoddiness slipped through.
I'm guessing a cable was specified to XYZ and the supplier sold them a cable with spec X labeled XYZ. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened at CERN. Cables for harsh environments are expensive to make and expensive to buy, so there is a lot of temptation to cut corners.
500,000 per year. You can't compare the number of people traveling abroad for medical procedures to the total number of insured people. The best comparison would probably be the number of people who travel for a surgery versus the number who stay in the US to get a surgery and pay for it (via insurance or out of pocket), which is a much smaller number than the total insured population. I don't think I'll find that with a two second web search. None of this detail is necessary to realize that there are huge problems in the US health care system and that it is in need of reform. I would expect anyone responsible for formulating these reforms to do that research in detail (expect as in they have a duty, not that they'll necessary do it).
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Seriously. Giving bad advice to do illegal actions is one thing, but then it gets modded "interesting"?
I frequently mod stuff "Interesting" that I know is wrong. Then I mod the responses with good information "Informative". This is how one gets an interesting and informative discussion.
Does anyone know if/how often lawsuits like this actually does happend to real people? What US states enforce non-compete clauses without any compensation to the signee?
Wow, what good questions ... to ask a Lawyer. Talking with a lawyer doesn't mean not pursuing your capitalist dream. It means figuring out what you can do to cover your ass while you're at it.
It is the fourth fundamental linear circuit element. Transistors (I = k*V^2) and diodes (I = e^V) are not linear. Resistors V = k*I, capacitors I = k*dV/dt (the derivative is a linear operation), inductors V = k*dI/dt, memristors V=k(t)*I are linear.
The reason there are four linear circuit elements is clear if you write these equations in terms and flux and charge.
I'm out of mod points, so I'll just thank you for the clear and reasonable explanation.
A program only for kids 130+, must be a pretty big school district. I doubt there were more than one or two kids every few years in my whole town who would have qualified.
I'm disappointed, I'd hoped you'd understand all of it. It isn't as funny if you don't know what the phrases mean.
Her thought process is exactly the same as a gambling addict. The ethics of casino's and Nigerian scammers are different, but she belongs at Gamblers Anonymous.
The kind of person who votes for someone because they "seem just like me," and that's the best that can be.
Watch out for helpful translations from unknown sources...
"Print Nozzle Test" -> "chupa me"
"Clean Nozzles" -> "je manque une putain"
"Align Print Heads" -> "donde esta mis huevos"
"Properties" -> "Pile de Merde"
"Refresh" -> "Tenga una cerveza"
I kid, project looks great.
...and how much are we the public going to see?
My guess is a $15 "cost recovery" surcharge.
That may be true, but none of those places are in the United States
This is only true if you're a US citizen. If you aren't, you are required to have ID. Of course, it gets messy since there isn't any good way to know the difference. So if you can't furnish ID, they'd probably have valid reason to hold you for a short time until they verify you are who you say you are.
Yes, it sucks, but I can't say it is unreasonable.
rectangle kill-yank (cut-paste) is probably the number one reason why I'll drop out of vi when editing a file and open it in emacs (for some reason I always edit config files in vi and code in emacs). So, can I do this in vi, or any other text editor?
Don't get me wrong, I like emacs I just don't like having a 40MB text editor where it isn't needed.
Is the only alternative to write shell script to ssh into every machine and do the install?
Back in the day, I had a text file with the names of all of our machines. for name in `cat machinlist.txt`; do ssh $name yum install -y software; done
You don't even need a script.
Don't bother pointing out all the problems with that, I know. But it does work (once you fix the syntax errors).
Actually, on the radio the other week they were talking about a new service where people can hire someone to monitor their health care and insurance policy. It isn't cheap but can potentially save a ton of money if you have a chronic health problem or are going through some short term, increased risk event like pregnancy. Of course, most people who really need such a service can't afford it and in a well functioning system it wouldn't be necessary.
Well if Ubuntu wants to compete with Windows, it has to find a way to make it just as simple for Ubuntu users.
I hope drivers for Linux are never as bad as drivers for Windows. Sure, you can use that .exe that came on the CD but it is probably about 5 revisions back. So you pop onto the HW manufacturers website to find an update and have to sort through 50 different versions (do I have rev 1A01 or 1A02?) and then the driver is still buggy so that your system crashes half the time. And a few years down the road when it is time to reinstall/update, those disks are not to be found or are incompatible with your neww OS and the company discontinued support so you dive into the depths of drivers.com hell to find a generic replacement.
I like Linux, where most things 'Just Work' and if they don't there is usually a viable recourse, even if it takes some time. Linux drivers still need work, but Windows is NOT the model to follow.
Same virtual screen ('Virtual 2800 1050' in xorg.conf), in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup :
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024
xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of LVDS
I had seen similar advice before but assumed since my monitors were different resolutions it wouldn't work, but it works fine (except that suddenly my title and desktop fonts are twice as large). Cool.
ThinkWiki has a good writeup of the steps to automate this, and tie it in to your function keys:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
Woah there. I didn't say that the dems and republicans don't investigate each other. Dirt on Palin is highly valuable and I'm sure that both parties have done there best to dig it up (dems to use, republicans to be prepared). My point was that Joe the Plumber probably isn't worth the kind of hamfisted, amatuerish sleuthing discussed here. The only part of Joe and Obama's conversation that really helps McCain was where Barack said something about spreading the wealth. That is independent of poor Joe, who would probably be better off under the Obama tax plan (unless he is an exceedingly high earning plumber with an amazingly bad tax preparer).
Rather than a democratic conspiracy, it is more likely to have been bored clerks at these agencies who looked up the information out of curiosity. Just as the passport applications of the candidates were improperly accessed during the primaries. There is almost nothing for the party to gain by using potentially illegal methods to find dirt on poor Joe, and huge Nixon-esk risks. He really isn't significant enough to be worth it.
My laptop has a radeon card and 1400x1050 screen (which is why I haven't replaced it, those screens are scarce these days) and I usually use external LCDs at 1280x1024, so a single virtual desktop isn't a good solution. A similar mixed resolution setup on my desktop with an Nvidia card works well enough (so long as compiz is off) and was trivial to setup using the nvidia-config tool. Its not that dual monitors on Linux doesn't work, it just doesn't work nearly as well as it should and would quickly surpass the patience of any normal person to do an abnormal setup.
As a Linux Zealot with Mod points, I'd love to mod your exaggerations down. But, I use dual monitors and it never works as well as it should. On my laptop, I can only clone screens. On my desktop it works well except that compiz gets confused with dual monitors (so I turn it off). The latest Fedora and Ubuntu are making strides but it is still extremely disappointing. I love Linux, I'd never go back to Windows but I really wish dual monitor setup was better.
There are some advantages of optical scan over touch screen.
1. If the touch screens break, you're SOL. If the optical scan breaks people can still fill out ballots while a new machine is delivered (many places that use touch screens keep paper ballots on hand as a backup, why not just start with the paper ballots?).
2. With an optical scan system, you only need one or two machines per precinct. This is much cheaper. A limited number of touch screens has repeatedly led to long lines and disenfranchised voters.
3. With optical scan, the system is counting the same thing that people see. This is much easier to verify than a system where people count text and the machine counts a bar code.
So one effective solution is to have optical scan machines and one special machine, with a paper human readable record, for the blind/handicapped per voting site. Do mandatory manual count on a random sample of ballots, with the number of ballots counted based on how close the vote is. If the vote is close enough, a full count is mandatory for that vote.
Huge amounts of time goes into commissioning the detectors, from model validation to connectivity testing to lifetime testing. The kind of 'random' testing normally done in QA (make 100, test 10 and if none fail you're pretty sure 99% will work) isn't sufficient here since that 1% fault can be the difference between success and failure. Just about every piece is individually tested, then tested after installation on a subcomponent, then tested after the subcomponent is moved to storage and then tested after it has been installed on the detector, and ten tested again once the component next to it has been installed.
Sometimes a problem can slip through all of this testing. Cables that failed because of shoddy work at the supplier were found during commissioning of one of the detectors, it wouldn't be surprising similar be even loss obvious shoddiness slipped through.
A lot of those wiz kid 'quants' had PhD's in physics. Not kidding. No, really, I'm not.
I'm guessing a cable was specified to XYZ and the supplier sold them a cable with spec X labeled XYZ. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened at CERN. Cables for harsh environments are expensive to make and expensive to buy, so there is a lot of temptation to cut corners.
500,000 per year. You can't compare the number of people traveling abroad for medical procedures to the total number of insured people. The best comparison would probably be the number of people who travel for a surgery versus the number who stay in the US to get a surgery and pay for it (via insurance or out of pocket), which is a much smaller number than the total insured population. I don't think I'll find that with a two second web search. None of this detail is necessary to realize that there are huge problems in the US health care system and that it is in need of reform. I would expect anyone responsible for formulating these reforms to do that research in detail (expect as in they have a duty, not that they'll necessary do it).