Sorry, but the news of a total lack of contrary evidence, if true (I'm not in a position to know all scientific papers issued in the past 10 years), bugs the heck out of me. Where's the dissenting interpretation? Where's the challenge to the assumption?
If there was a 60/40, 75/25, or 80/20 split I'd take the news better...
I saw a Lou Dobbs report night before last and went to the new site (that sight disallowed the referrer of CBS, but I just copied the URL directly to get in). Got my 3 reports within 20 minutes and found an error that could have wrecked my home buying chances in Februrary (contacted the reporting company and they agreed to remove the error; also disputed the items with the credit reporting companies).
Hint: your state is self reporting. I mean, just because my last address on file is Texas doesn't mean I'm NOT from California, does it? (*Cough*)
If the seller didn't disclose the "reason" for the discount, you can easily prevail against him (or her) in court -- and his agent as well (especially in California). If you didn't try to find out why the discount was in effect...well, now you know.
Calm down. The recount in 2000 showed Mr Bush winning in the recount as conducted per the Gore Campaign's wishes. So if the Florida Supreme Court's ruling stood, Bush still would have won.
Sorry. This is not insightful. After the election of 2000 several news organizations paid for a complete recount of the entire state of Florida (Bush won, BTW, under any theory being promoted by either party for a recount; only way Gore would have won was a complete state recount with the most liberal "Chad" and multi-vote policy -- neither side wanted that). The reason such a recount, though not binding, could occur is that the ballots were available to be re-examined due to the existence of a paper trail.
Purely electronic voting machines are not auditable, ther e is no meaningful way to recount the votes ("Recount (Y/n)" just redisplays the totals already submitted, unless the machine is really screwed up).
As a Replubican and GWB supporter I am opposed to electronic voting machines that have no tangible paper trail. Such machines do not invite trust but instead invite mistrust and foster conspiracy theories. Only with an ability to account for each vote should such machines be used in our democratic process.
I worked as a salesman at a Businessland store in Austin, TX, in 1989 and was picked as the store NeXT demonstration specialist. I say *sold* because we never actually sold one, just had a lot of guys from the IBM AIX facility come and look at it. Anyway, it had two prices -- $5000 for education and $10000 for business sales. It was really spectacular; much more than any IBM PS/2 we sold regularly. But the PS/2s were cheaper, had more business software and could be networked with exisiting machines easily.
I did always wonder if the next NeXT would be a NeAT, following the path of IBM's PC XT and AT...
(Nearly bought a pizza box x86 unit in 1993-ish as a student... sigh...But I guess my iBook G4 counts as a successor, eh?)
Just remember, "Hate Bush," as I call the spite-vote in my journal, didn't elect Kerry nor defeat Bush. You'll need to have a positive message by 2008 to win. In fact, some of the "Hate Bush" backfired -- like the Guardian's attempt to sway that county in Ohio to vote Kerry -- that county was the only one Gore won in 2000 that switched to Bush in 2004.
A Beowulf Cluster
So far, we have played around a little bit with the idea of a stand-alone XBOX doing some neat things. But what if we want to actually make a high availability processing cluster across all of our Linux machines at once? This is the murkier world of XBOX PCs, distributed computing. There are a lot of really good documents detailing how to set up a secure, robust and stable Beowulf Cluster, but this isn't one of them. We only want to benchmark 8 XBOXes in parallel operation.
Amazing restraint by the good folks at Amandtech not to pander to the Slashdot crowd with an easy, "Imagine a...."
Regarding Novell's friendliness to Linux and things Open Source, I just want to know what happened to Chris Stone and why his sudden departure occurred coincidental to the Microsoft settlement. This Newsforge article raises good questions.
Kerry was selected by not much more than 100,000 Iowans and New Hampshires and then the rest of the Democrats were saddled with him for the election. Was he the best candidate the Dems could offer in 2004? I dunno. Did he capture the heart of the Dems? Doubtful. There was never a move for John Kerry as much as a move against "W". (See my journal for more on this).
Personally, I am not bothered by a two-party system as much as I am the primary system used to select the two candidates. IMO, the primary system bit the Dems this year. If I was a California Dem or a Texas Dem I'd sure want to change my party's primary system.
Besides a lock by the registrar, how about an autoresponder to the official registrant's email on file saying "No, This domain, [domain], is not approved for transfer to any other party." Or some-such. Granted, lotsa spam will get answered, but wouldn't this constitute response?
True that the Jaguar upgrade was nearly the death knell to the graphic artist team I was familiar with, but it would be unrealistic to think most Macheads (such as myself using an iBook G4 to write this response) wouldn't upgrade along with the new releases. Even at $100 a pop, there is really no alternative to upgrading in the long run. Sweet thing about single vendor lock-in proprietary systems, ain't it? Such is life.
"Please k*** George Bush"? Why are we upset at the Secret Service and not the boob who wrote that paragraph?
No sympathy here for someone so stupid to write a sentence like that.
I mean, all the idiot got was a visit. That should have been expected.
Hmm. Perhaps God heard her prayer and this is His way of saying "prayer not granted."
Slashdot Mirror
Fortunately the market is so small compared to the potential number of users that any "market leader" today pales in comparison to the potential.
It's a quite different struggle than the desktop/laptop market.
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No thanks.
If there was a 60/40, 75/25, or 80/20 split I'd take the news better...
No dissenting opinion at all?
[Owner/Operator of iBook G4 and Dell 5150]
See the problem: Apple and ... IBM-compatible. Not I-B-M.
The situation is the same today. Friends and family have Apples (Macs) or IBM-compatibles (PCs).
No wonder IBM is getting out the PC market.
Hint: your state is self reporting. I mean, just because my last address on file is Texas doesn't mean I'm NOT from California, does it? (*Cough*)
Not one conducted by the government, no. But the private sector paid for at least one.
Er, source?
I have a good one (the actual recount report), should you care to ask.
If the seller didn't disclose the "reason" for the discount, you can easily prevail against him (or her) in court -- and his agent as well (especially in California). If you didn't try to find out why the discount was in effect...well, now you know.
Calm down. The recount in 2000 showed Mr Bush winning in the recount as conducted per the Gore Campaign's wishes. So if the Florida Supreme Court's ruling stood, Bush still would have won.
Purely electronic voting machines are not auditable, ther e is no meaningful way to recount the votes ("Recount (Y/n)" just redisplays the totals already submitted, unless the machine is really screwed up).
As a Replubican and GWB supporter I am opposed to electronic voting machines that have no tangible paper trail. Such machines do not invite trust but instead invite mistrust and foster conspiracy theories. Only with an ability to account for each vote should such machines be used in our democratic process.
Memento...sounds vaguely familiar but I can't recall...oops time for another insulin shot!
I could be wrong about the price -- remember I never rang one up at the BusinessLand price and I never sold them in an educational setting.
I did always wonder if the next NeXT would be a NeAT, following the path of IBM's PC XT and AT...
(Nearly bought a pizza box x86 unit in 1993-ish as a student... sigh...But I guess my iBook G4 counts as a successor, eh?)
Just remember, "Hate Bush," as I call the spite-vote in my journal, didn't elect Kerry nor defeat Bush. You'll need to have a positive message by 2008 to win. In fact, some of the "Hate Bush" backfired -- like the Guardian's attempt to sway that county in Ohio to vote Kerry -- that county was the only one Gore won in 2000 that switched to Bush in 2004.
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Amazing restraint by the good folks at Amandtech not to pander to the Slashdot crowd with an easy, "Imagine a...."A Beowulf Cluster
So far, we have played around a little bit with the idea of a stand-alone XBOX doing some neat things. But what if we want to actually make a high availability processing cluster across all of our Linux machines at once? This is the murkier world of XBOX PCs, distributed computing. There are a lot of really good documents detailing how to set up a secure, robust and stable Beowulf Cluster, but this isn't one of them. We only want to benchmark 8 XBOXes in parallel operation.
Regarding Novell's friendliness to Linux and things Open Source, I just want to know what happened to Chris Stone and why his sudden departure occurred coincidental to the Microsoft settlement. This Newsforge article raises good questions.
GMail's forwarding works well -- and sans ads.I don't need POP3 access with forwarding.
Personally, I am not bothered by a two-party system as much as I am the primary system used to select the two candidates. IMO, the primary system bit the Dems this year. If I was a California Dem or a Texas Dem I'd sure want to change my party's primary system.
Well, that doesn't make sense -- if I respond it's yes but if I don't it's yes? That won't fly.
Besides a lock by the registrar, how about an autoresponder to the official registrant's email on file saying "No, This domain, [domain], is not approved for transfer to any other party." Or some-such. Granted, lotsa spam will get answered, but wouldn't this constitute response?
True that the Jaguar upgrade was nearly the death knell to the graphic artist team I was familiar with, but it would be unrealistic to think most Macheads (such as myself using an iBook G4 to write this response) wouldn't upgrade along with the new releases. Even at $100 a pop, there is really no alternative to upgrading in the long run. Sweet thing about single vendor lock-in proprietary systems, ain't it? Such is life.
Mac OSX: Sacrificing liberty for beaut
"Please k*** George Bush"? Why are we upset at the Secret Service and not the boob who wrote that paragraph? No sympathy here for someone so stupid to write a sentence like that. I mean, all the idiot got was a visit. That should have been expected. Hmm. Perhaps God heard her prayer and this is His way of saying "prayer not granted."
- but some how every time i think of unix i start thinking of Dos 3.2.
That's a dumbed down Disk OS of the 80's. You're thinking "Boy George" to Pike's "David Cassidy" and, yes, we really DO want to hurt you.