Re: HP 50G, the real deal

It looks like they got rid of the soft keys! Based on the pictures, the keys look more like those on the 48G (I'm basing this on the little tabs you can see above some of the keys -- I think those are a hard-key only feature). With any luck they'll have the 48G response too!

-- Ryan

On 2006-06-06 00:38:18 -0400, "John H Meyers" <jhmeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:25:07 -0500:

http://commerce.hpcalc.org/
for the same price as the 49g+. No specs though.

There is a newly added clear photo, however,
which you can compare:

http://commerce.hpcalc.org/images/50g.jpg
http://commerce.hpcalc.org/images/49gplus.jpg

Doesn't the announcement from racunalniske-novice.com
in Ljubljana, Slovenia say it all,
much like what was already reportedly said by Moravia's rep?

This is a bit like the press coverage on an election day --
various news channels desperate to be the very first to announce the results,
yet all one needs to do is retire, sleep, and arise on the next day,
when it's been fully published in every newspaper anyway.

Except nowadays, when ballots that can readily be visually inspected
are to be replaced by electronic machines which can't, which is
soon to leave the process in more doubt than it ever has been before.

We had excellent "mark sensing" paper ballots that were clear,
unambiguous to humans, countersigned by poll-watchers,
and pretty tamper-evident, now to be replaced by unauditable
invisible counters, reportedly an open door to invisible fraud,
making it impossible for anyone to visbly see again, for example,
how 19,000 clearly double-punched [not partially punched]
disqualified ballot forms in a single county in Florida
could have sneaked GII into the White House, when it was so apparent
from the paper ballots themselves (and what turned out to be
very accurate exit polls) that those were mostly intended Gore votes.

Well, we have our Democratic primary election here tomorrow;
fortunately, we don't have to use the newest paperless machines -- yet:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16740526&BRD=1142&PAG=461&dept_id=567522&rfi=6

"One

feature of the [intermediate phase?] optical scan machines
is that if there's an overvote, such as when a voter
marks more than one oval in a category,
the machine automatically spits the ballot back out,
giving the voter an opportunity to fix the error."

If that had been in place in Palm Beach County Florida
in November of 2000, GII would not be in office today.

Some technology leaves more of an imprint on world history;
how much impact will the HP50G leave in its wake?

[r->] [OFF]


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