Holy Shit! This quote whore must moonlight as a publicist for Gore's election contest:
"The story often thrills with its message about the sinister homogeneity of evil and how good can prevail only if diverse types join together to do what's right."
The latest Dr. Dobb's journal is all about operating systems.
There's a great introductory article on the Hurd. It covers differences between monolithic kernels vs. microkernels and hence the Hurd vs. Linux.
The sample ballot was identical to the one bolted to the voting booth. It doesn't take advanced visualizing skills to imagine a dot at the end of the arrow where
the booklet crease is.
You can obviously tell that it's staggered and if you're paying attention there's no way you can accidently vote for the wrong guy. If you follow the logic from
the blue-hairs complaining, then they would have voted for nobody if Pat Buchanan wouldn't have been there because they were looking at pinholes instead
of the arrows on the ballots.
Anybody can get a new punch card if they screw up. If it can be proven that someone was denied a new punch card after turning in the one she was originally given, then the poll worker is guilty of a felony in FL.
Nope, the panhandle elections start and end an hour early.
You're confused. If that were so then the Panhandle polls would be open 0500-1700 Eastern. The panhandle is on central time. The panhandle polls are open 0700-1900 CENTRAL. That means 0800-2000 Eastern. When CNN called Florida for Gore there were still Floridians in the panhandle on their way to the polls or at the polls.
Nope the "sample" ballet looks different than the "real" ballet. The center is differnt. The real ballet is confusing.
The sample ballot was identical to the one bolted to the voting booth. It doesn't take advanced visualizing skills to imagine a dot at the end of the arrow where the booklet crease is.
You can obviously tell that it's staggered and if you're paying attention there's no way you can accidently vote for the wrong guy. If you follow the logic from the blue-hairs complaining then they would have voted for nobody if Pat Buchanan wouldn't have been there because they were looking at pinholes instead of the arrows on the ballots.
Here are some points to hopefully deflate some conspiracy theories:
The networks called Florida before voting in Florida had even finished. The pan handle of Florida is in the central time zone. There was still almost an hour
of voting left when Florida was called. Anyone who was channel surfing through the networks might have noticed that NBC/MSNBC was showing raw
scores along with their predictions. Throughout the "Gore takes Florida" phase of the evening the raw scores were consistenly in favour of Bush by at least
3 percentage points.
As for the Palm Beach ballot being confusing:
A week before elections, every registered voter in Palm Beach receives a sample ballot in the mail that looks exactly like the one bolted to the voting
"booth" (it's really a table with partitions). At your discretion you can mark up your sample ballot and take it to the voting "booth" with you. This makes it so
that there are no surprises when it's time to punch holes and you have a week to think your options over in case you see more choices or issues than you
were expecting to have to vote on.
Some notes on the voting "booth" in Palm Beach:
1: If you insert the punch card into its slot incorrectly, all your holes will be made incorrectly. The worst that can maybe happen is that you'll vote for a
republican congressman when you were on the presidents' ballot page thinking you were punching a hole for Gore. That'd be terrible because your
presidential vote wouldn't be registered and by the time you got to the end of the ballot those votes wouldn't register on the card either.
2: If you insert the punch card into its slot correctly, then the arrows on the ballot pages point directly to a pin hole. The arrows are about 1 cm in size and
the pin hole maybe 1 mm. All you need to do is follow the big arrow pointing to a well spaced little hole.
3: The ballot layout was created by the staff of the Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections. She, a democrat, personally approved it. The democratic & republican parties of Palm Beach then both approved it, too. Why? It was designed
to avoid the confusion that could have been caused if all the candidates were crammed onto one page or were spread out over two non-facing pages.
The poll hours for us in the eastern time zone in Florida was 0700 to 1900 EST and the panhandle polls were open 0700-1900 CST.
When the media incorrectly announced that Gore took Florida it could have affected Bush voters in the panhandle on their way to the polls if they decided there was no further point to it.
BTW, I found out since I made my first post that the Democratic and Republican parties in Palm Beach both also gave their blessings on the ballot layout before the elections.
Here are some points to hopefully deflate some conspiracy theories:
The networks called Florida before voting in Florida had even finished. The pan handle of Florida is in the central time zone. There was still almost an hour of voting left when Florida was called. Anyone who was channel surfing through the networks might have noticed that NBC/MSNBC was showing raw scores along with their predictions. Throughout the "Gore takes Florida" phase of the evening the raw scores were consistenly in favour of Bush by at least 3 percentage points.
As for the Palm Beach ballot being confusing:
A week before elections, every registered voter in Palm Beach receives a sample ballot in the mail that looks exactly like the one bolted to the voting "booth" (it's really a table with partitions). At your discretion you can mark up your sample ballot and take it to the voting "booth" with you. This makes it so that there are no surprises when it's time to punch holes and you have a week to think your options over in case you see more choices or issues than you were expecting to have to vote on.
Some notes on the voting "booth" in Palm Beach:
1: If you insert the punch card into its slot incorrectly, all your holes will be made incorrectly. The worst that can maybe happen is that you'll vote for a republican congressman when you were on the presidents' ballot page thinking you were punching a hole for Gore. That'd be terribly because your presidential vote wouldn't be registered and by the time you got to the end of the ballot those votes wouldn't register on the card either.
2: If you insert the punch card into its slot correctly, then the arrows on the ballot pages point directly to a pin hole. The arrows are about 1 cm in size and the pin hole maybe 1 mm. All you need to do is follow the big arrow pointing to a well spaced little hole.
3: The ballot layout was created by the staff of the Palm Beach Commissioner of Elections. She, a democrat, personally approved it. Why? It was designed to avoid the confusion that could have been caused if all the candidates were crammed onto one page or were spread out over two non-facing pages.
So if the government also requires that the terminals be energy star compliant does it make it a big government energy solution? Using that logic then maybe we can lobby for the EPA to pay for library terminals.
Heck, why not make it so that the terminals have to be stylish? Then we can get the National Endowment for the Arts to chip in for iMacs since the spec came from the government and the Endowment is part of the big government.
"Bush favors the government taking money from high income earners and using that money to police other people's kids."
I thought he was going to spend all the taxpayer money on tax cuts for high income earners and trap other people's kids in failing schools for three years. Weren't you listening to Al?
"Republicans claim to be for smaller government then propose a big-government 'solution' to a problem that does not exist."
How is internet filtering at the terminals a big government solution any more than if he said all the terminals needed a wordprocessor so that job hunters could use them to write resumes? Did Bush say government was going to write the software during the portition of the debate I slept through?
Algore wants the government to force ISPs (the private sector) to put in hooks "for the children." That "for the children" crap has been used many times that governments want to raise taxes or reign in freedoms.
Once the government has forced ISPs to put in hooks and has made sure to hire enough people to enforce it "for the children" there'll be nothing separating your data from the children's data.
And we know Algore thinks he knows better than you child, it's for your own good.
>Imagine if this paridigm started being used with other hardware, cars perhaps. Would you >want to sign an agreement when you buy your car that declares that will only get it repaired >at the dealership? Or even worse, that you would not allow the hood to be opened to >anyone who wasn't a Ford employed mechanic. People would be outraged.
Why imagine? It's called a lease. Pretty popular thing.
>My point (and I do have one), is that companies are trying to apply the razor/razorblade loss >leader business plan to computers. The problem is that computers are so damn versatile >that people are finding really cool stuff to do with the razor, and aren't bothering to buy >the razorblade.
The razor is the expensive product you need to constantantly replace. i.e. the Jaz cartridge. The razor blade is the product being sold below market price just to get you to buy razor blades. i.e. the Jaz drive. i.e. You have it backwards.
I didn't find the post so much interesting as a very clever troll maybe.
It blows my mind how many replies are suggesting that this guy consider finding a different job or see what other jobs are available before he decides not to sign!
Come on folks! I come from an American public education background too and even I can tell that "A company I used to work for" is past tense. i.e. he no longer works for said company.
If it's just vocabulary that's the problem then please bookmark this, fellows.
"New Haven, CT - In one of the more controversial commencement addresses in memory, Oracle CEO and college dropout Larry Ellison told Yale's Class of 2000 they were "losers" whose hard-won diplomas would never propel them into the ranks of the super rich.
The evangelical Ellison, noting that college dropouts Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Michael Dell were, like himself, on Forbes' recent top 10 list of billionaires, urged freshmen and sophomores at the ceremony to 'drop out and start up,' and added that the undereducated Yale security guards who ushered him off stage probably had a better shot at uber-wealth than graduating seniors."
If we all take 5 minutes to put the files on our sites and rip off the basic HTML to serve it, it could spread indefinitely.
Nothing gets done when we just don't like something and bitch about it. The lemmings keep marching forward until the point is moot and you have to decide to turn hermit or tell yourself you won't let it happen next time, then get back in the pack. You walk in line long enough and eventually you come to the conclusion that it's futile to complain and just look the other way when tanks are rolling over those who didn't take the hint.
As far back as I can remember the only people who thought gAyOL was cool were people who thought they found something unique and/or special.
I recall holding back laughter during a class presentation when some douche was introducing us to the wonders of the internet (gAyOL) and how he tried hard to keep his bill under $50 a month.
gAyOL is to the internet what MicroSoft is to software and Intel is to microprocessors. Their business models work on hooking uninformed users and keeping them ignorant and dependent.
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Too bad this honest CEO must be ruined by his obession with one-button mice. /sarcasm>
I think we should all take a look at Salem PD's website so we all know what's too sacred to parody. ;)
I'm glad you didn't try to interpret having to slam down on a big mushroom head.
"The story often thrills with its message about the sinister homogeneity of evil and how good can prevail only if diverse types join together to do what's right."
-- Nancy Chumin, Dallas Morning News
It's available at their ddj website, here
one of the two identical sample ballots I received (one for my wife and one for me)
You can obviously tell that it's staggered and if you're paying attention there's no way you can accidently vote for the wrong guy. If you follow the logic from the blue-hairs complaining, then they would have voted for nobody if Pat Buchanan wouldn't have been there because they were looking at pinholes instead of the arrows on the ballots.
Anybody can get a new punch card if they screw up. If it can be proven that someone was denied a new punch card after turning in the one she was originally given, then the poll worker is guilty of a felony in FL.
You're confused. If that were so then the Panhandle polls would be open 0500-1700 Eastern. The panhandle is on central time. The panhandle polls are open 0700-1900 CENTRAL. That means 0800-2000 Eastern. When CNN called Florida for Gore there were still Floridians in the panhandle on their way to the polls or at the polls.
Nope the "sample" ballet looks different than the "real" ballet. The center is differnt. The real ballet is confusing.
The sample ballot was identical to the one bolted to the voting booth. It doesn't take advanced visualizing skills to imagine a dot at the end of the arrow where the booklet crease is.
one of the two identical sample ballots I received (one for my wife and one for me)
You can obviously tell that it's staggered and if you're paying attention there's no way you can accidently vote for the wrong guy. If you follow the logic from the blue-hairs complaining then they would have voted for nobody if Pat Buchanan wouldn't have been there because they were looking at pinholes instead of the arrows on the ballots.
The networks called Florida before voting in Florida had even finished. The pan handle of Florida is in the central time zone. There was still almost an hour of voting left when Florida was called. Anyone who was channel surfing through the networks might have noticed that NBC/MSNBC was showing raw scores along with their predictions. Throughout the "Gore takes Florida" phase of the evening the raw scores were consistenly in favour of Bush by at least 3 percentage points.
As for the Palm Beach ballot being confusing:
A week before elections, every registered voter in Palm Beach receives a sample ballot in the mail that looks exactly like the one bolted to the voting "booth" (it's really a table with partitions). At your discretion you can mark up your sample ballot and take it to the voting "booth" with you. This makes it so that there are no surprises when it's time to punch holes and you have a week to think your options over in case you see more choices or issues than you were expecting to have to vote on.
Some notes on the voting "booth" in Palm Beach:
1: If you insert the punch card into its slot incorrectly, all your holes will be made incorrectly. The worst that can maybe happen is that you'll vote for a republican congressman when you were on the presidents' ballot page thinking you were punching a hole for Gore. That'd be terrible because your presidential vote wouldn't be registered and by the time you got to the end of the ballot those votes wouldn't register on the card either.
2: If you insert the punch card into its slot correctly, then the arrows on the ballot pages point directly to a pin hole. The arrows are about 1 cm in size and the pin hole maybe 1 mm. All you need to do is follow the big arrow pointing to a well spaced little hole.
3: The ballot layout was created by the staff of the Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections. She, a democrat, personally approved it. The democratic & republican parties of Palm Beach then both approved it, too. Why? It was designed to avoid the confusion that could have been caused if all the candidates were crammed onto one page or were spread out over two non-facing pages.
The poll hours for us in the eastern time zone in Florida was 0700 to 1900 EST and the panhandle polls were open 0700-1900 CST.
When the media incorrectly announced that Gore took Florida it could have affected Bush voters in the panhandle on their way to the polls if they decided there was no further point to it.
BTW, I found out since I made my first post that the Democratic and Republican parties in Palm Beach both also gave their blessings on the ballot layout before the elections.
The networks called Florida before voting in Florida had even finished. The pan handle of Florida is in the central time zone. There was still almost an hour of voting left when Florida was called. Anyone who was channel surfing through the networks might have noticed that NBC/MSNBC was showing raw scores along with their predictions. Throughout the "Gore takes Florida" phase of the evening the raw scores were consistenly in favour of Bush by at least 3 percentage points.
As for the Palm Beach ballot being confusing:
A week before elections, every registered voter in Palm Beach receives a sample ballot in the mail that looks exactly like the one bolted to the voting "booth" (it's really a table with partitions). At your discretion you can mark up your sample ballot and take it to the voting "booth" with you. This makes it so that there are no surprises when it's time to punch holes and you have a week to think your options over in case you see more choices or issues than you were expecting to have to vote on.
Some notes on the voting "booth" in Palm Beach:
1: If you insert the punch card into its slot incorrectly, all your holes will be made incorrectly. The worst that can maybe happen is that you'll vote for a republican congressman when you were on the presidents' ballot page thinking you were punching a hole for Gore. That'd be terribly because your presidential vote wouldn't be registered and by the time you got to the end of the ballot those votes wouldn't register on the card either.
2: If you insert the punch card into its slot correctly, then the arrows on the ballot pages point directly to a pin hole. The arrows are about 1 cm in size and the pin hole maybe 1 mm. All you need to do is follow the big arrow pointing to a well spaced little hole.
3: The ballot layout was created by the staff of the Palm Beach Commissioner of Elections. She, a democrat, personally approved it. Why? It was designed to avoid the confusion that could have been caused if all the candidates were crammed onto one page or were spread out over two non-facing pages.
Heck, why not make it so that the terminals have to be stylish? Then we can get the National Endowment for the Arts to chip in for iMacs since the spec came from the government and the Endowment is part of the big government.
I thought he was going to spend all the taxpayer money on tax cuts for high income earners and trap other people's kids in failing schools for three years. Weren't you listening to Al?
How is internet filtering at the terminals a big government solution any more than if he said all the terminals needed a wordprocessor so that job hunters could use them to write resumes? Did Bush say government was going to write the software during the portition of the debate I slept through?
Algore wants the government to force ISPs (the private sector) to put in hooks "for the children." That "for the children" crap has been used many times that governments want to raise taxes or reign in freedoms.
Once the government has forced ISPs to put in hooks and has made sure to hire enough people to enforce it "for the children" there'll be nothing separating your data from the children's data.
And we know Algore thinks he knows better than you child, it's for your own good.
I'd be interested in knowing how Apple started to work on Pink in 1986. Wasn't Pink the superstud OS response to superstud PowerPC CHRP?
>want to sign an agreement when you buy your car that declares that will only get it repaired
>at the dealership? Or even worse, that you would not allow the hood to be opened to
>anyone who wasn't a Ford employed mechanic. People would be outraged.
Why imagine? It's called a lease. Pretty popular thing.
>My point (and I do have one), is that companies are trying to apply the razor/razorblade loss
>leader business plan to computers. The problem is that computers are so damn versatile
>that people are finding really cool stuff to do with the razor, and aren't bothering to buy
>the razorblade.
The razor is the expensive product you need to constantantly replace. i.e. the Jaz cartridge. The razor blade is the product being sold below market price just to get you to buy razor blades. i.e. the Jaz drive. i.e. You have it backwards.
I didn't find the post so much interesting as a very clever troll maybe.
Come on folks! I come from an American public education background too and even I can tell that "A company I used to work for" is past tense. i.e. he no longer works for said company.
If it's just vocabulary that's the problem then please bookmark this, fellows.
Did you forget by the time you reached the end of the comment that said comment began with "A company I used to work for"?
What part of 'used to work for' did you have problems understanding?
"New Haven, CT - In one of the more controversial commencement addresses in memory, Oracle CEO and college dropout Larry Ellison told Yale's Class of 2000 they were "losers" whose hard-won diplomas would never propel them into the ranks of the super rich.
The evangelical Ellison, noting that college dropouts Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Michael Dell were, like himself, on Forbes' recent top 10 list of billionaires, urged freshmen and sophomores at the ceremony to 'drop out and start up,' and added that the undereducated Yale security guards who ushered him off stage probably had a better shot at uber-wealth than graduating seniors."
What about "Women In Missionary Position"
If we all take 5 minutes to put the files on our sites and rip off the basic HTML to serve it, it could spread indefinitely.
Nothing gets done when we just don't like something and bitch about it. The lemmings keep marching forward until the point is moot and you have to decide to turn hermit or tell yourself you won't let it happen next time, then get back in the pack. You walk in line long enough and eventually you come to the conclusion that it's futile to complain and just look the other way when tanks are rolling over those who didn't take the hint.
There's lots of desireable textured body parts. Nipples, pubes, labia, etc.
If it weren't for the fact that Napster is free you wouldn't have to *remove gratuitously incorrect Napster comparison there*
As far back as I can remember the only people who thought gAyOL was cool were people who thought they found something unique and/or special.
I recall holding back laughter during a class presentation when some douche was introducing us to the wonders of the internet (gAyOL) and how he tried hard to keep his bill under $50 a month.
gAyOL is to the internet what MicroSoft is to software and Intel is to microprocessors. Their business models work on hooking uninformed users and keeping them ignorant and dependent.