So exactly what is the deal with this Roland P. and how is this submission worse than any median front page post?
Googling "Roland Piquepaille" gives some pretty cool links to fun insights. The article itself is quite interesting (albeit short), AND without the typical 12-page ad clickthroughs...
So you disagree with some of P.'s ideas? Well, who gives a fun as long as his submissions are good! What am I missing here?
What happens when a newbie votes for A, changes her mind, tries to erase A and vote for B. This is what happened in the Orange county in 2000 where some people found the ballot confusing and had to change their selection.
How are your machines going to deal with such equivalent of a 'hanging chad'? How is this going to be handled during the recount? (Say, the machine called it B, while A's lawers claim the voter intended A).
Notice that the 'hanging chad' recount problem is about the only reason we need electronic voting: enforcing unambiguous selection guaranteed consistent during the recount.
So, why not have the machine produce a voter-viewable paper record instead, to enforce one-candidate unambiguous selection?
Still, scantrons are WAY better than the magic-hat shitboxes Diebold currently provides.
Wow, I never knew they had that level of automation.
By the way, do you know how the farmers still stay in business? I heard from a relative they only get about $10/acre at best. That just doesn't seem nearly enough to provide for the family, let alone buy GPS steering. Or do they also get the subsidies then?
Well, there already are many 'golden' textbooks/lectures available to students.
From memory: Levi-Civitta tensor calculus textbook (open domain now), the Dick Feynman Lectures on physics (videos/mp3's available), Eric Candell's books.
But there is just no replacement for a professor you can interact with.
Actually, all they ( ocw.mit.edu ) offer is a syllabus, a reading list, and a few sample lecture notes per course (for all but the very basic courses).
While I guess this is better than nothing, this is far short of class videos/webcasts/slides/lecture notes that actually enrolling in a class will provide.
First of all, let me say I agree completely with your general attitude. We should not let women drive. We should not let poor people get free education. Two separate drinking fountains just means shorter lines for everybody.
Now, your problem is that you try to use facts in your arguement; that never works (since the facts have a liberal bias).
When history and statistics currently show that terrorists are overwhelmingly young muslim males, then focusing more attention on young muslim males is neither subjective, nor bigoted, it's mathematics.
That's a losing argument since you will find that most terrorists are actually white Irish Christian males (re: N.Ireland). In America, grand total in terror bombings is still held by the Unabomber et al., not by the Muslimes.
So since the reality cannot help you win arguements like this, you should attack personality of those opposing you, like this:
Liberals are weak on security. Liberals are 'Cut and Run' gay flagburning Mexican hippies. Support our troops.
It that does not work, fall back on Why do you hate America so much!!!!!111!!!!1!!!
Well, that's just common sense: When you offer En1arg3 y0ur p3n1s n0w kind of a deal, such misspellings are to be expected.
Oh, and Ponzi sounds much better when it's Pwn-Z!
All I am saying one should think better before selecting names like SCUMM (for a game emulator) and YoungGrapePics (for a horticultural appreciation society)
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I think the issue here is not the dirty tricks per se, but trying to cover those up. Nixon and Clinton suffered the consequences of their lies, while Reagan was forgiven since he admitted the deed and said he was sorry before the coverup grew big enough to bite him in the arse.
Well, perhaps the real issue here is that the developers should consider changing their product name from ScamVM to something more neutral. It's almost like naming your product Ponzi2U or Rape4Free or WareZ-R-Us.
Then again, if I were named Ahmed Bin Laden, then I might feel differently about it.
No you would not; the bin Ladens (of Osama bin Laden) are one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia. The 9/11 hijackers paid cash for their flight schools.
The absolute majority of foreign students are not eligible for FAFSA, and hence do not even file the applications. Monitoring FAFSA hence targets the long neglected domestic trailor-trash/ghetto terror threat.
Of course applying for FAFSA should not automatically give the Govt a probable cause since George W Bush clearly stated being poor does not make one a criminal by itself: First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.
To control how much 'it will swap' on Linux: #echo [0-100] >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
A better question is how much memory you can address. Could your 32 bit Windows system address over 2^36 bits of memory (64GB), for example? And could you allocate over 2GB to windows kernel? Could your 64-bit linux system address over 2^48 bits of memory?
The good news that it will all even out in the end; jobs will return once dropping wages in the West average around the increasing Indian/Chinese wages.
The better news is that a standard of living in India/China will greatly improve.
The best news is that reaching the 'average' will involve a substantial drop in the quality of life for the West.
A decade from now, Mexico will be putting up a fence to keep Americans away. 2030: 'Tour America, the shithole of the Passific Rim'.
I don't have the right to say 'blind people are not allowed to feed it through a screen reader.'
While I see your larger point, from my experience assisting some blind students back in college, the textbook publishers at least will go out of their way to accommodate disabled readers.
While most will not send an electronic copy of the textbook (though one did send a plaintext Linear Algebra/Diff Eq book, without graphs/pictures), they are usually happy to provide a Braille copy at no charge, even when not ordinarily available (one copy will take 10-20 boxes off a Braille printer!).
I guess what I am saying is that if you have a legitimate special need, try contacting the publisher, and do not simply assume they will not help you out.
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Don't worry, in time, Darwin will sort it out.
DRMed societies will stagnate due to the luck of innovation, restrictions on the exchange and development of ideas, etc. In time, 'North America' will be 'liberated' by a more advanced nation, and while some of our children will lose their lives, we will all be arguably better for it under our technologically superior masters.
History is full of examples: 16th century Spain stagnating after expelling freethinkers and Jews, middle age Arabs imposing a religious DRM of sorts on mathematics and philosophy (after inventing numberals, discovering monumental laws, etc. they started chopping off people's digits for heresy). Japan 'DMRing' their culture until 1850s. Chinese hiding behind their Great Firewall after initially inventing gunpowder, philosophy, paper/printing, and flight.
DRM or not, the Human Race will go on (whether it be our children or China's children). Darwin sorts it out in the end.
Well, 100 baseT is inadequate for streaming good video.
Assume no compression (i.e. good video) 800x600 pixels, 32 bits/pxl, 30 fps
Moving that data alone requires 500 Mbps, not counting protocol overhead. Of course, with compression you can easily cut that down by a factor of 10, but that will be lossy.
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So exactly what is the deal with this Roland P. and how is this submission worse than any median front page post?
Googling "Roland Piquepaille" gives some pretty cool links to fun insights. The article itself is quite interesting (albeit short), AND without the typical 12-page ad clickthroughs...
So you disagree with some of P.'s ideas? Well, who gives a fun as long as his submissions are good! What am I missing here?
You misspelled "501 Command not implemented."
What happens when a newbie votes for A, changes her mind, tries to erase A and vote for B. This is what happened in the Orange county in 2000 where some people found the ballot confusing and had to change their selection.
How are your machines going to deal with such equivalent of a 'hanging chad'? How is this going to be handled during the recount? (Say, the machine called it B, while A's lawers claim the voter intended A).
Notice that the 'hanging chad' recount problem is about the only reason we need electronic voting: enforcing unambiguous selection guaranteed consistent during the recount.
So, why not have the machine produce a voter-viewable paper record instead, to enforce one-candidate unambiguous selection?
Still, scantrons are WAY better than the magic-hat shitboxes Diebold currently provides.
Wow, I never knew they had that level of automation.
By the way, do you know how the farmers still stay in business? I heard from a relative they only get about $10/acre at best. That just doesn't seem nearly enough to provide for the family, let alone buy GPS steering. Or do they also get the subsidies then?
1) Trick editors into accepting a fake story that nevertheless violates MSFT's rights under the DMC(P)A ...
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3) Profit?
nothing
Omnia dickta fortiora si dickta latina, motherfucker
Well, there already are many 'golden' textbooks/lectures available to students.
From memory: Levi-Civitta tensor calculus textbook (open domain now), the Dick Feynman Lectures on physics (videos/mp3's available), Eric Candell's books.
But there is just no replacement for a professor you can interact with.
Actually, all they ( ocw.mit.edu ) offer is a syllabus, a reading list, and a few sample lecture notes per course (for all but the very basic courses).
While I guess this is better than nothing, this is far short of class videos/webcasts/slides/lecture notes that actually enrolling in a class will provide.
I believe some newer linksys routers have a synch button you push to add a new device. They call it Secure Easy Setup and that sounds quite useful for customers (never tried that myself): http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/25/HNlinksy swlan_1.html
Now, your problem is that you try to use facts in your arguement; that never works (since the facts have a liberal bias).
That's a losing argument since you will find that most terrorists are actually white Irish Christian males (re: N.Ireland).
In America, grand total in terror bombings is still held by the Unabomber et al., not by the Muslimes.
So since the reality cannot help you win arguements like this, you should attack personality of those opposing you, like this:
Liberals are weak on security.
Liberals are 'Cut and Run' gay flagburning Mexican hippies.
Support our troops.
It that does not work, fall back on Why do you hate America so much!!!!!111!!!!1!!!
Well, that's just common sense: When you offer En1arg3 y0ur p3n1s n0w kind of a deal, such misspellings are to be expected.
Oh, and Ponzi sounds much better when it's Pwn-Z!
All I am saying one should think better before selecting names like SCUMM (for a game emulator) and YoungGrapePics (for a horticultural appreciation society)
I think the issue here is not the dirty tricks per se, but trying to cover those up. Nixon and Clinton suffered the consequences of their lies, while Reagan was forgiven since he admitted the deed and said he was sorry before the coverup grew big enough to bite him in the arse.
Well, perhaps the real issue here is that the developers should consider changing their product name from ScamVM to something more neutral. It's almost like naming your product Ponzi2U or Rape4Free or WareZ-R-Us.
So you do not like the program that is supposed to protect you from terrorists. Would rather have Clinton and Saddam back in power?
Why do you hate America so much?
The absolute majority of foreign students are not eligible for FAFSA, and hence do not even file the applications. Monitoring FAFSA hence targets the long neglected domestic trailor-trash/ghetto terror threat.
Of course applying for FAFSA should not automatically give the Govt a probable cause since George W Bush clearly stated being poor does not make one a criminal by itself:
First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.
You know, FY2005 $12,600,000,000 in profits can go a long way.
So yes, they could win. Considering what they could do having that kind of cash at their disposal, it is just amazing at how nice they play.
tinfoil time: I am told one could arrange a hit for about 10k... which means MS could 'take care' of some 1,260,000 OSS developers.
In Terminal.app do
#man nvram
Of course to actually change something (e.g. a bootup OF password) you technically need to become root.
To control how much 'it will swap' on Linux: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
#echo [0-100] >
A better question is how much memory you can address. Could your 32 bit Windows system address over 2^36 bits of memory (64GB), for example? And could you allocate over 2GB to windows kernel?
Could your 64-bit linux system address over 2^48 bits of memory?
The good news that it will all even out in the end; jobs will return once dropping wages in the West average around the increasing Indian/Chinese wages.
The better news is that a standard of living in India/China will greatly improve.
The best news is that reaching the 'average' will involve a substantial drop in the quality of life for the West.
A decade from now, Mexico will be putting up a fence to keep Americans away.
2030: 'Tour America, the shithole of the Passific Rim'.
Well, should one get a copy of 64bit Vista Ultimate (without drivers) or get 4 gigs of RAM + 10.1 Suse 64_x86 that works out of the box?
Dick Cheney's voice: Microsoft is in its last death-throes
While I see your larger point, from my experience assisting some blind students back in college, the textbook publishers at least will go out of their way to accommodate disabled readers.
While most will not send an electronic copy of the textbook (though one did send a plaintext Linear Algebra/Diff Eq book, without graphs/pictures), they are usually happy to provide a Braille copy at no charge, even when not ordinarily available (one copy will take 10-20 boxes off a Braille printer!).
I guess what I am saying is that if you have a legitimate special need, try contacting the publisher, and do not simply assume they will not help you out.
Don't worry, in time, Darwin will sort it out.
DRMed societies will stagnate due to the luck of innovation, restrictions on the exchange and development of ideas, etc. In time, 'North America' will be 'liberated' by a more advanced nation, and while some of our children will lose their lives, we will all be arguably better for it under our technologically superior masters.
History is full of examples: 16th century Spain stagnating after expelling freethinkers and Jews, middle age Arabs imposing a religious DRM of sorts on mathematics and philosophy (after inventing numberals, discovering monumental laws, etc. they started chopping off people's digits for heresy). Japan 'DMRing' their culture until 1850s. Chinese hiding behind their Great Firewall after initially inventing gunpowder, philosophy, paper/printing, and flight.
DRM or not, the Human Race will go on (whether it be our children or China's children). Darwin sorts it out in the end.
I for one welcome our future DRM-free overlords.
That depends on the design.
For a quick proof of concept, your microwave oven's FC will 'stop' your cordless phone, but will not stop your cell phone (try it!).
Even 2" aluminum schielding will not stop some frequencies, e.g. short gamma-rays!
Well, 100 baseT is inadequate for streaming good video.
Assume no compression (i.e. good video) 800x600 pixels, 32 bits/pxl, 30 fps
Moving that data alone requires 500 Mbps, not counting protocol overhead. Of course, with compression you can easily cut that down by a factor of 10, but that will be lossy.