This is utterly bullshit and you know it. I am from Venezuela and I support our democratic government. It is the immaturity of the opposition which is causing all the noise. The OAS and the Carter Center (both of wich were requested by the opposition as a condition to attend the recall, BTW) audited the result and found no evidence of fraud (the error given by the audit was 0.02%). They compared the votes in the paper trail (that was verified by each voter and is digitally signed so it 'cant' be forged -this depends in how much you trust the technology provider for the elections-).
The observers (the Carter Center, the OAS and about a hundred others) opened the boxes for 150 voting centers and compared the paper receipts with the digital results, giving the error previously mentioned. When the opposition called fraud (without any proof, because they have changed their theory as the previous one is demonstrated false) a new analysis was performed by the CNE, the Carter Center, the OAS and the observers using 200 random boxes and comparing (once again) the paper receipts with the digital results. The error of this second audit was in the range of 0.05%. The opposition did not attend to the second audit because they wanted a manual recount of _all_ the votes in _all_ the country.
Also, several independent groups (I don't have here the other links) made an statistical analysis on the opposition's main argument. The opposition (not everyone, a lot of opposition leaders have accepted the result, but the media don't give them any coverage. In fact some reporters have had 'live' fights with these leaders arguing that their attitude only benefits Chavez) states that the rate of coincidences in the voting centers for the 'SI' (YES) option was a proof of 'tops' or 'limits' for this option in the machines. But the independant analysis found that:
a) These alleged 'limits' are present in every election and only demonstrate that people on a given geograical region tend to have similar prefferences. b) The alleged 'limits' are present for the two options (the opposition only talks about the 'SI', but the 'NO' option has a similar pattern). The 'NO' option has fewer (but not much) coincidences than the 'SI' option, which is normal given that the 'NO' option got more votes. c) These alleged limits do not demonstrate a fraud (they aren't proof that there was no fraud either)
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You know when you're a geek when the prospect of blowing a girlfriend up to pices to settle a dispute sounds more exciting than anything else. Wink, wink.
Perhaps you guys should start working on usability and driver coverage
Such a low UID for a troll... Driver writing is the responsability of the hardware manufacturer. Are you going to tell me that all the drivers for all the hardware that works with windows has been developed by window's developers?
Come to think of it, Linux comes with much more '100% linux drivers' than windows. Linux drivers are written by linux developers, that's why they are more reliable, secure and stable.
makes you think what else in Star Trek might work if it were tried
But you could strap a pair of rockets to a 1000 Tons rock and it would also fly on space... I don't get these trekkies wasting so much time worshipping a mediocre series
There are still a few computing problems that can't be efficiently split into a large number of subproblems that can be executed in parallel. For those cases, a cluster of small machines won't help.
(Score:-10, Wrong)
I'm sorry dude, but this macine is going to have more than 1 CPU in it, and the work will have to be split among the processors and ran in parallel.
(Score:-100, Wronger)
Sorry, but you have it all wrong. The parent is right. The parent stated that there are problems that can't be split in smallest problems for being handled by a cluster of computers. A cluster is a set of computers that work independant of each other and have the ability ro comunicate at ethernet speeds (10 - 100 - 1000 Mbits / Sec). There are problems that cant be solved using this approach, for example calculations where all processes must reuse the same data; with really big data sets the network connections become bottle-neck.
For those kinds of problems (the usual example is a simulation of a nuclear explosion, a star system, etc) you need a single machine with loads of processors sharing the same memory space. That's where supercomputers come to play.
You want to install a network card? Better set aside a weekend to recompile the kernel and then spend countless frustrating hours trying to configure everything.
Linux is not intended to be used by you. Or at least none of the developer distros. If you want a easy to use linux distro then pay for it. Any linux expert would have the network card working inless than 5 minutes in any of the development oriented distros.
Plug the same card into a windows machine and you're browsing the web in under 5 minutes.
Which is a testimonial of the real reason: drivers. If hardware manufacturers would provide the linux distributions with drivers, it would be as easy (or even easier) than in windows. But it is also relative. I have spent days to no end trying to install new hardware in my wife's computer (Windows XP), but I install any new hardware instantly in my gentoo box.
It's just not worth it. I'll spend the $1600 on a new powerbook (that will run OSX and includes an apple WiFi card). Anything is better that continuing to struggle with linux.
Maybe that's the best solution for your problem. Linux is not for everyone. It is designed for me, and for a lot of other's that need (and want) 100% control over their hardware.
Care to name one of them? That is, one programming language, invented prior to Java, that includes detailed exception handling and execution stack traces that show source file name and line numbers (this implies that the language must have native multithread capabilities).
I live in a Spanish speaking country, without any knowledge whatsoever about german. Three years ago I was working for a German company developing the intranet for a very large european corporation.
After eight months of joy and fulfillment (the project was really good and enjoyable) I was reassigned to take over a project started three months before my arrival (it was 11 months old when I took care of it) because the Project Manager had been fired. The project had to be delivered in two or three months and was the bigest pile of sh*t I have ever seen: harcoded strings, copied and pasted all over the place, used three different database servers (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres) depending on the mood of the developer, used a client/server architecture when it was not needed and created a lot of innecesary APIs (it had a complete implementation of a SOAP-like protocol, implemented for communications, instead of using SOAP or Axis). It was about one million lines long and 40% done. Those three or four months where living hell trying to decode what the heck where the developers thinking (BTW, the project did not have any single piece of comment).
At the end we delivered the system with one month of delay, but the client was happy and to ease the pain I was promoted after setting it up on production:)
Great, great, great comment. The grandparent most likely was a troll, but it's always great to see comments like this. Hope to see more of them around.
Or... maybe linux developers don't care for Joe user. I know, you are a troll, but to the mods that made you insightful (since the comment per se isn't) goes this:
Linux is a lot more than a set of "incremental patches". It has been rewritten over and over, not completely but large chunks at a time. Linux will never beat Windows un the Joe User category, because that's not the objective. If Linux was ever to become the prevalent OS I'm pretty sure most of us would stop using it. Not because we're a bunch of elitist assholes, but because you must make very strong concesions when your OS will be used by hundreds of millions of people.
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suso.org has had imap and pop and webmail for years all with unlimited storage. Some people are storing more than a gigabyte of email there.
So what? suso.org it's a paid service, gmail is not. Stop plugging your product with lame qoutes like that.
Crazy scientist is creating psychotic robot that has the ability to wake or kill hibernating humans.
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You don't need any robot to do that, just sent Matthew along
You wish, sore loser.
Well, if the US mocked the moon landing, I suppose it's time for the russians for their share of airtime!!!
I'm hitting d like crazy with wget.
:)
At last, a good use for these useless scripts I have to bother my friends
Hehe, now that you have practiced a bit, why don't you head over to the beer and wine article and post your comment?
'This is not the article you are looking for'
This is utterly bullshit and you know it. I am from Venezuela and I support our democratic government. It is the immaturity of the opposition which is causing all the noise. The OAS and the Carter Center (both of wich were requested by the opposition as a condition to attend the recall, BTW) audited the result and found no evidence of fraud (the error given by the audit was 0.02%). They compared the votes in the paper trail (that was verified by each voter and is digitally signed so it 'cant' be forged -this depends in how much you trust the technology provider for the elections-).
The observers (the Carter Center, the OAS and about a hundred others) opened the boxes for 150 voting centers and compared the paper receipts with the digital results, giving the error previously mentioned. When the opposition called fraud (without any proof, because they have changed their theory as the previous one is demonstrated false) a new analysis was performed by the CNE, the Carter Center, the OAS and the observers using 200 random boxes and comparing (once again) the paper receipts with the digital results. The error of this second audit was in the range of 0.05%. The opposition did not attend to the second audit because they wanted a manual recount of _all_ the votes in _all_ the country.
Also, several independent groups (I don't have here the other links) made an statistical analysis on the opposition's main argument. The opposition (not everyone, a lot of opposition leaders have accepted the result, but the media don't give them any coverage. In fact some reporters have had 'live' fights with these leaders arguing that their attitude only benefits Chavez) states that the rate of coincidences in the voting centers for the 'SI' (YES) option was a proof of 'tops' or 'limits' for this option in the machines. But the independant analysis found that:
a) These alleged 'limits' are present in every election and only demonstrate that people on a given geograical region tend to have similar prefferences.
b) The alleged 'limits' are present for the two options (the opposition only talks about the 'SI', but the 'NO' option has a similar pattern). The 'NO' option has fewer (but not much) coincidences than the 'SI' option, which is normal given that the 'NO' option got more votes.
c) These alleged limits do not demonstrate a fraud (they aren't proof that there was no fraud either)
You know when you're a geek when the prospect of blowing a girlfriend up to pices to settle a dispute sounds more exciting than anything else. Wink, wink.
So, we can interpret that line as saying "Our product sucks so we need to fix a few bugs to avoid our dumbass customers calling us all day"?
Exactly
Funny as s**t!!!!
Congrats, if you would have posted that logged in you would have hundreds of fans right now
Great post, you've gone right to my friends list (that'a an +5, Insightful without mod pints :)
Perhaps you guys should start working on usability and driver coverage
... Driver writing is the responsability of the hardware manufacturer. Are you going to tell me that all the drivers for all the hardware that works with windows has been developed by window's developers?
Such a low UID for a troll
Come to think of it, Linux comes with much more '100% linux drivers' than windows. Linux drivers are written by linux developers, that's why they are more reliable, secure and stable.
AND LANDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now let's just wait for the official altitude
And who am I goung to trust over this issue? The low UID mabu(178417) or the just registered Tuvai(783607).
So I, Joe Slashdot, will trust on the comment by mabu.
makes you think what else in Star Trek might work if it were tried
... I don't get these trekkies wasting so much time worshipping a mediocre series
But you could strap a pair of rockets to a 1000 Tons rock and it would also fly on space
There are still a few computing problems that can't be efficiently split into a large number of subproblems that can be executed in parallel. For those cases, a cluster of small machines won't help.
(Score:-10, Wrong)
I'm sorry dude, but this macine is going to have more than 1 CPU in it, and the work will have to be split among the processors and ran in parallel.
(Score:-100, Wronger)
Sorry, but you have it all wrong. The parent is right. The parent stated that there are problems that can't be split in smallest problems for being handled by a cluster of computers. A cluster is a set of computers that work independant of each other and have the ability ro comunicate at ethernet speeds (10 - 100 - 1000 Mbits / Sec). There are problems that cant be solved using this approach, for example calculations where all processes must reuse the same data; with really big data sets the network connections become bottle-neck.
For those kinds of problems (the usual example is a simulation of a nuclear explosion, a star system, etc) you need a single machine with loads of processors sharing the same memory space. That's where supercomputers come to play.
You want to install a network card? Better set aside a weekend to recompile the kernel and then spend countless frustrating hours trying to configure everything.
Linux is not intended to be used by you. Or at least none of the developer distros. If you want a easy to use linux distro then pay for it. Any linux expert would have the network card working inless than 5 minutes in any of the development oriented distros.
Plug the same card into a windows machine and you're browsing the web in under 5 minutes.
Which is a testimonial of the real reason: drivers. If hardware manufacturers would provide the linux distributions with drivers, it would be as easy (or even easier) than in windows. But it is also relative. I have spent days to no end trying to install new hardware in my wife's computer (Windows XP), but I install any new hardware instantly in my gentoo box.
It's just not worth it. I'll spend the $1600 on a new powerbook (that will run OSX and includes an apple WiFi card). Anything is better that continuing to struggle with linux.
Maybe that's the best solution for your problem. Linux is not for everyone. It is designed for me, and for a lot of other's that need (and want) 100% control over their hardware.
Care to name one of them? That is, one programming language, invented prior to Java, that includes detailed exception handling and execution stack traces that show source file name and line numbers (this implies that the language must have native multithread capabilities).
This should be moderated funny ... I believe the poster was trying to post in the previous article 'Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses'
... hehe
Hilarious indeed
Hey, is that from the discussion a few days ago about the laser that offers new insight?
I'm asking because I think I read it somewhere in there and was pissing myself off laughing.
I live in a Spanish speaking country, without any knowledge whatsoever about german. Three years ago I was working for a German company developing the intranet for a very large european corporation.
:)
After eight months of joy and fulfillment (the project was really good and enjoyable) I was reassigned to take over a project started three months before my arrival (it was 11 months old when I took care of it) because the Project Manager had been fired. The project had to be delivered in two or three months and was the bigest pile of sh*t I have ever seen: harcoded strings, copied and pasted all over the place, used three different database servers (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres) depending on the mood of the developer, used a client/server architecture when it was not needed and created a lot of innecesary APIs (it had a complete implementation of a SOAP-like protocol, implemented for communications, instead of using SOAP or Axis). It was about one million lines long and 40% done. Those three or four months where living hell trying to decode what the heck where the developers thinking (BTW, the project did not have any single piece of comment).
At the end we delivered the system with one month of delay, but the client was happy and to ease the pain I was promoted after setting it up on production
Funny as hell ... mod accordingly
Great, great, great comment. The grandparent most likely was a troll, but it's always great to see comments like this. Hope to see more of them around.
Or ... maybe linux developers don't care for Joe user. I know, you are a troll, but to the mods that made you insightful (since the comment per se isn't) goes this:
Linux is a lot more than a set of "incremental patches". It has been rewritten over and over, not completely but large chunks at a time. Linux will never beat Windows un the Joe User category, because that's not the objective. If Linux was ever to become the prevalent OS I'm pretty sure most of us would stop using it. Not because we're a bunch of elitist assholes, but because you must make very strong concesions when your OS will be used by hundreds of millions of people.
This is the first time a Fantasy movie wins the Best Picture award ... yeha!!!!!
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Of course, we may see now a lot of crappy fantasy movies just riding the wave