This recreates the correct 800x600 experience for optimum viewing. We've had 800x600 for years and years and it's well-proven and stable. There's certainly no need for all these extra resolutions to complicate things!
So there's about 15000 to 18000 votes to count?
Paper ballots. Electronic sounds awesome, but it's a lot of hassle for a small amount of votes.
Say you've got 5 polling stations with 4 people at each one, so 20 people. 350 or so ballots per station, each person has to tally up 100 votes at the end of polling.
You could count the entire lot twice in an hour at 4 ballots a minute per person.
So your 5 voting machines cost, what, $5K each? So $25K all up?
You can pay those 20 people $500 for that one day and spend $10K on wages.
You print 30,000 voting forms (at 5 cents each that's $1500) and getting some nice locked boxes ($2000) and storage of ballots for 12 months ($1000) in case of recount.
Oh look, you've got $10.5K left over. Use that to make a park nice and pretty somewhere.
Yeah, but you can't sell *that* on The Shopping Network, can you?
Guys, guys, you're using technology as a crutch for cheques.
Ditch the cheques and get with the rest of the world over here in the 21st century with cards and NFC and Paywave and shit.
My bank processes transactions on my debit/credit card in chronological order. If a transaction is delayed - which is pretty rare these days - it's slotted back in at it's correct time when it arrives. They let things slide up to -$500 in my account, after which I get a text message saying "Hey, what's the deal?"
Last time I had a chequebook was in the late 90's , and perhaps it was around then that I last saw someone paying for their groceries with one. It's a needless complication these days and I can't understand why people still cling to them.
an actual coordinated attack within a 'safe' democratic
It's a single fool with a gun, not a group.
Hi there, Tox pusher. Did you not even read the very first few sentences he posted? The one that said :
I use Skype because for $15/m I can have unlimitted calling to local numbers in Thailand, from the US. And can make unlimitted US calls, too. Outbound only, inbound costs extra. I have it for my wife.
So you like Tox. That's great. It doesn't have all the features of Skype. Some of that is good (one-click government eavesdropping) some of that is bad (POTS integration). And yes, one of the 'features' of Skype is the fact that it's got a very large user base. So you're not just convincing Grandma to swap over, you need to convince Grandma's friends that she also talks to, and so on and so forth. And they just don't see the need for 'secure encrypted communication that only they have the keys to'. They're just (mostly) talking shit and waving to each other.
Open your eyes a bit and admit those problems, and people will start taking your opinion more seriously. Tox may be a solution for you (and maybe me, it looks interesting), but it's not a solution for the masses, because they already have an adequate solution.
It's pretty simple. One of them has to find and kill the other.
There can be only one.
But out of the millions of nude photos that are probably sent between cell phone users every month, a vanishly small proportion of them get stolen in security breaches of cloud storage.
But J-Law is not an anonymous nobody that only a very small number of people want to see naked.
There's no reason to think that Jennifer Lawrence and other victims of the hacking scandal underestimated the risk of the photos being stolen from the cloud. If anything, most users are probably over-estimating the risk today
She is not most users, she's a special case. Her risk is not the same, she's much more visible, much more desired.
It's not just a sample of random numbers, there's value attached to these images, and the value of most user's images is much lower than the value of those who are professionally attractive. Something of greater value is obviously at a greater risk of unauthorized access than something of average value.
Have you got a lisp? Because "90th" sure sounds like one.
It's 'nineties' (90's) , not 'nineteeth' (90th)
He didn't cause the delay. If you build systems for normal users, you have to expect them to make errors, and the system has to catch those errors and handle them in a non-fatal way. If it doesn't, your system is broken.
To be fair, Sydney Airport processed 37.9 million passengers in 2013, so one or two people mucking it up ain't too bad.
And there are certainly a lot of gushing reviews and no shortage of hype.
The crotchety old man in me wonders precisely what we're going to use it for again? Apart from teh awesome!1! games.......
And with regards to old-school slashdot, need we bring up CmdrTaco's review of the iPod? There's been plenty of hatin' round these parts going on for decades now.
Did you care to read the link, which said things such as excellent resistance to UV and cosmic radiation?
Anyhoo, I guess it's an iterative process. Better wheels on the next one please guys.
Ultra low temperature silicon rubber springs to mind.
Could have bonded a couple of millimetres thickness onto each alloy wheel. It seems the wheels only break when they have no cushioning underneath them, then the point loads on the tread are too high.
Oh well, I guess they'll know for next time
Still unsure as to why they didn't go with polyurethane or hard plastic wheels or similar. Probably about the same weight as the alloy ones, much less susceptible to fatigue.
Might be hard to find something that's good for those temperatures, but surely not that hard. Or were they expecting more sandy areas?
And binoculars, for that matter.
Is your job running? You'd better go catch it!
