Here is the Miami Herald's recap of the press-sponsored recounting of the 2000 Florida ballots. Feel free to read it.
There are two key terms to define:
"Undervotes" - these were ballots that were machine-recorded as having no vote cast for any pres/vp candidate
"Overvotes" - these were ballots that were machine-recorded as having a vote cast for more than 1 pair of pres/vp candidates
Here are some of the outcomes if you just recount undervotes - completely ignoring overvotes.
4 county recount (I believe) 1) count anything that looked like a punch: Bush wins by ~800 botes. 2) count 2-corner missing chads, Bush wins by ~300. 3) count only cleanly punched ballots - Gore wins by 3.
Lets say you include both undervotes and overvotes:
Whole state recount: 1) Count anything that looks like a punch(this race only): Gore wins by 600 2) Count anything that looks like a punch (whole ballot has punches not push-throughs): Gore wins by 300 3) Count 2-corner missing chads: Bush wins by 407 4) Count only cleanly punched ballots: Bush wins by 152
So the way I see it - the press recount said "Bush won . . . or maybe Gore. It depends." It is ironic that applying Gore's preferred method of recounting, Bush would have won. But that does not change the outcome of their recount - a Gore victory was possible under a couple of different scenarios after a recount.
This isn't ancient history - this was 2 years ago. Heck, the recount info came out just last year. Why the hell can't people get this right?
CDBaby doesn't have its own "download service" competing with iTMS/MusicMatch/etc. They serve as an electronic distributer. You tell CDBaby "here is my CD. Please place it on iTMS and MusicMatch." CDBaby replies, "we'd love to do that. we hope your band does well. You will be paid 91% of what Apple / MusicMatch pays us for downloads of your songs." CDBaby has deals already worked out with the download services letting them rip/upload music to the stores.
The restriction on filename length in OS X is "maximum length of filenames of the underlying file system". For HFS+ volumes (the default) that's 255 characters.
OS 9 was limited to 31 character filenames. Any number of apps which haven't been updated properly (or are still supposed to work on OS 9) limit names to 31 characters.
It frightens me how so many people don't recognize the serious infringments on constitutional rights our government is performing in the name of "security" makes us all less secure.
So my point was, I read the original poster as saying "there is no way possible we could use Macs because they don't have parallel ports." I respectfully disagreed with him - saying that it was likely one could replace whatever item he had with an equivalent item connecting through a USB port.
I did not worry about financial considerations - that depends on the specific business, the cost of replacing any other infrastructure, etc, etc, etc. I was responding to a technical question - CAN we do it, not WHY should we do it.
Your concern is focused on the WHY part of the question (ie, the system works, why spend the money to upgrade it?) A perfectly valid point. So the answer to the question "Should we replace our systems with Macs?" might have been,"No. we CAN do it (ie, technically possible), but it would be more expensive to do than it was worth."
Does that make more sense?
At any rate, you can buy parallel port to USB and serial port to USB adaptors for $10-15 each, so it's not even like you'd have to throw everything else away.
A) iMacs and eMacs aren't fruit colored anymore. They're white. Not to mention the old fruit colored iMacs had replacable plastic.
B) It's a difference between "a good business case" and "technically possible". I read the original post as "moving to USB/Firewire is technically impossible." You read it as "too much money spent on parallel port devices to upgrade them all at once."
A) No, they don't. And even if you think they do, after the first 10 minutes of use you treat it like any other tool. B) It's nearly 2004. USB and Firewire are how peripherals get hooked up these days. C) That's true. You can add memory, and that's about it. But in a business environment, you don't upgrade by swapping out motherboards or adding in new video cards. You buy new machines.
One could check the records of the science fairs purportedly won, I imagine.
Besides - from the article one gleans that it was based on a well-known, previously tested design. It's novel in the sense that he built it, not so much that it works.
When the Patriot Act came up for a vote in the Senate, it was approved 99-1. The 1 was Russ Feingold. I get to vote for Russ next year. But there's not a single other sitting Senator for which I will ever cast a ballot.
And on a Supreme Court where one of its members thinks "we've got way more rights in this country than the Constitution mandates" (not an an exact quote, but in the ballpark) don't expect any judicial relief.
Microsoft has to pay $521 million for violations of the patent - they used the technology without getting a license first. It's a penalty. It does NOT give them a licence to use this patented technology.
To KEEP using the technology - they'll have to get a licence from Eolas. That's a separate negotiation - and Eolas can name any figure they want - $1, $100 billion, or even "Nope, sorry - you can't use this technology Microsoft no matter how much money you throw at us."
There's an interesting article by Cringley where he talks to the CEO I believe of Eolas. Check it out here
It's been said many a time already - but the "help wanted" ads for H1B visa holders are written very specifically so that only 1 person qualifies.
My experience: company wanted to hire H1B guy. HR person spent day with guy carefully crafting "help wanted" ad to match him specifically. Ad placed - applications arrived - one was found to be a reasonable fit. And "poof!" the funding for that opening "disappeared" - so no interviews were held and no one was hired. A week or so later, a "new" job posting was made, with even more requirements (coincidentally, requirements not met by any previously received applicant), no one was found & H1B guy got his visa.
And anyone who has ever been burned by a MS patch that caused more problems than it prevented will tell you that you should never be the first guy to install a Windows patch.
LOL! My MO for the last 3-4 critical patches has been read about them, then wait for another guy in the hall (hi, Patrick!) to come by and tell me he's installed the patch and tested it out to make sure nothing major broke before I make a move to do the install.
I keep wondering when he's gonna notice that I always let him be the guinea pig.
Comments on applying to the Peace Corps (as someone who's doing this):
There's a long lag time in the application process. I mailed in my preliminary applications this past February. I was told the earliest I can get placed is next January - almost a year lag.
You will be questioned on why you're joining. "I want to help my fellow man and don't mind living in really horribly crappy conditions for the next 27 months" is the correct answer. Anything else will likely raise some eyebrows.
You've got to have a useful skill or show some previous initiative on public service. Experience teaching is a plus. Knowledge of waste water treatment plants is a bigger plus. 6 months volunteer work at a tutoring center is a plus. Experience with Linux, C, C++ will be greated with a blank stare (and yes, I know about the program to wire Senegal).
You've got to be healthy. If you need dental work, it's got to be done before you leave. This can get expensive if you've been putting things off because of lack of insurance. If you're on prescription meds, the number of locations they can send you goes way down (so the length of time you'll wait to get assigned goes way up). If you've been depressed/ever seen a mental health professional (likely if you're suffering through bouts of unemployment) it gets even stickier.
You've really got to not mind living in crappy conditions. I want to emphasize that.
Textbook sales are another good example of the professor and business. When the prefessor, or department, can dictate the purchase of thousands of dollars in books, you can be certain that there is a great deal of schmoozing going along with the sale.
It goes without saying that this isn't always the case. An example:
The "classic" textbook for a particular course in my department (which, it so happens, was written by 3 professors in the department), is not always used to teach the class. If whomever is teaching the class that semester decides they want to emphasize a particular area which is covered better by a different book, they use a different book. This directly takes money out of their pocket, but so be it.
I think they also do it because it lets them approach the material from a different perspective, which gave them ideas for the next edition of their own book.
Please do post the System Profiler report. It'd be interesting to see if there's anything different other than the drive.
To be honest, though, I probably won't bother trying the SCSI drive trick because... a) the all-in-one is my lab's machine, not mine b) I bought a powerbook, so screw the rest of 'em:)
You got OS X to install on an all-in-one? Did you sign some sort of pack with Diablo?
I wasted 3 days in an attempt to do the same - used xPostFacto, replaced all the memory, installed 10.0, 10.1, 10.1 + updates using a custom-burned installed disk, started from a freshly reformatted hard drive, started from a reformatted hard drive + basic install of OS 9.1 - and never got a bootable system. Only thing not stock on the machine was a 13 GB IDE drive replacement for the original 4 GB drive which went bad (and yes, I had it set up with the first partition 8 GB).
There's no real point to this comment - I just wanted to vent.
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Here is the Miami Herald's recap of the press-sponsored recounting of the 2000 Florida ballots. Feel free to read it.
There are two key terms to define:
"Undervotes" - these were ballots that were machine-recorded as having no vote cast for any pres/vp candidate
"Overvotes" - these were ballots that were machine-recorded as having a vote cast for more than 1 pair of pres/vp candidates
Here are some of the outcomes if you just recount undervotes - completely ignoring overvotes.
4 county recount (I believe)
1) count anything that looked like a punch: Bush wins by ~800 botes.
2) count 2-corner missing chads, Bush wins by ~300.
3) count only cleanly punched ballots - Gore wins by 3.
Lets say you include both undervotes and overvotes:
Whole state recount:
1) Count anything that looks like a punch(this race only): Gore wins by 600
2) Count anything that looks like a punch (whole ballot has punches not push-throughs): Gore wins by 300
3) Count 2-corner missing chads: Bush wins by 407
4) Count only cleanly punched ballots: Bush wins by 152
So the way I see it - the press recount said "Bush won . . . or maybe Gore. It depends." It is ironic that applying Gore's preferred method of recounting, Bush would have won. But that does not change the outcome of their recount - a Gore victory was possible under a couple of different scenarios after a recount.
This isn't ancient history - this was 2 years ago. Heck, the recount info came out just last year. Why the hell can't people get this right?
. . .but you totally missed the point.
CDBaby doesn't have its own "download service" competing with iTMS/MusicMatch/etc. They serve as an electronic distributer. You tell CDBaby "here is my CD. Please place it on iTMS and MusicMatch." CDBaby replies, "we'd love to do that. we hope your band does well. You will be paid 91% of what Apple / MusicMatch pays us for downloads of your songs." CDBaby has deals already worked out with the download services letting them rip/upload music to the stores.
Here's more info about their service.
And in related news, John Connor has completed stocking his fallout shelter.
The restriction on filename length in OS X is "maximum length of filenames of the underlying file system". For HFS+ volumes (the default) that's 255 characters.
OS 9 was limited to 31 character filenames. Any number of apps which haven't been updated properly (or are still supposed to work on OS 9) limit names to 31 characters.
Well said.
It frightens me how so many people don't recognize the serious infringments on constitutional rights our government is performing in the name of "security" makes us all less secure.
So my point was, I read the original poster as saying "there is no way possible we could use Macs because they don't have parallel ports." I respectfully disagreed with him - saying that it was likely one could replace whatever item he had with an equivalent item connecting through a USB port.
I did not worry about financial considerations - that depends on the specific business, the cost of replacing any other infrastructure, etc, etc, etc.
I was responding to a technical question - CAN we do it, not WHY should we do it.
Your concern is focused on the WHY part of the question (ie, the system works, why spend the money to upgrade it?) A perfectly valid point. So the answer to the question "Should we replace our systems with Macs?" might have been,"No. we CAN do it (ie, technically possible), but it would be more expensive to do than it was worth."
Does that make more sense?
At any rate, you can buy parallel port to USB and serial port to USB adaptors for $10-15 each, so it's not even like you'd have to throw everything else away.
Then, as suggested elsewhere, slap on a serial & parallel port for ~$20.
A) iMacs and eMacs aren't fruit colored anymore. They're white. Not to mention the old fruit colored iMacs had replacable plastic.
B) It's a difference between "a good business case" and "technically possible". I read the original post as "moving to USB/Firewire is technically impossible." You read it as "too much money spent on parallel port devices to upgrade them all at once."
C) Yep.
B) Google disagrees about cash drawers, barcode scanners, magnetic swipe (aka credit card swipe), etc..
C) Firewire RAID is not tough to find.
A) No, they don't. And even if you think they do, after the first 10 minutes of use you treat it like any other tool.
B) It's nearly 2004. USB and Firewire are how peripherals get hooked up these days.
C) That's true. You can add memory, and that's about it. But in a business environment, you don't upgrade by swapping out motherboards or adding in new video cards. You buy new machines.
One could check the records of the science fairs purportedly won, I imagine.
Besides - from the article one gleans that it was based on a well-known, previously tested design. It's novel in the sense that he built it, not so much that it works.
When the Patriot Act came up for a vote in the Senate, it was approved 99-1. The 1 was Russ Feingold. I get to vote for Russ next year. But there's not a single other sitting Senator for which I will ever cast a ballot.
And on a Supreme Court where one of its members thinks "we've got way more rights in this country than the Constitution mandates" (not an an exact quote, but in the ballpark) don't expect any judicial relief.
At least the all staff meetings finish quickly.
Ah - I think you missed the point.
Microsoft has to pay $521 million for violations of the patent - they used the technology without getting a license first. It's a penalty. It does NOT give them a licence to use this patented technology.
To KEEP using the technology - they'll have to get a licence from Eolas. That's a separate negotiation - and Eolas can name any figure they want - $1, $100 billion, or even "Nope, sorry - you can't use this technology Microsoft no matter how much money you throw at us."
There's an interesting article by Cringley where he talks to the CEO I believe of Eolas. Check it out here
It's been said many a time already - but the "help wanted" ads for H1B visa holders are written very specifically so that only 1 person qualifies.
My experience: company wanted to hire H1B guy. HR person spent day with guy carefully crafting "help wanted" ad to match him specifically. Ad placed - applications arrived - one was found to be a reasonable fit. And "poof!" the funding for that opening "disappeared" - so no interviews were held and no one was hired. A week or so later, a "new" job posting was made, with even more requirements (coincidentally, requirements not met by any previously received applicant), no one was found & H1B guy got his visa.
LOL! My MO for the last 3-4 critical patches has been read about them, then wait for another guy in the hall (hi, Patrick!) to come by and tell me he's installed the patch and tested it out to make sure nothing major broke before I make a move to do the install.
I keep wondering when he's gonna notice that I always let him be the guinea pig.
Is anyone else experiencing all sorts of oddities with Yahoo Games after this install?
In Safari, all text is replaced by X'd out squares.
Camino won't load.
I've check with Hearts & Pool - am I the only one this is happening to?
Comments on applying to the Peace Corps (as someone who's doing this):
There's a long lag time in the application process. I mailed in my preliminary applications this past February. I was told the earliest I can get placed is next January - almost a year lag.
You will be questioned on why you're joining. "I want to help my fellow man and don't mind living in really horribly crappy conditions for the next 27 months" is the correct answer. Anything else will likely raise some eyebrows.
You've got to have a useful skill or show some previous initiative on public service. Experience teaching is a plus. Knowledge of waste water treatment plants is a bigger plus. 6 months volunteer work at a tutoring center is a plus. Experience with Linux, C, C++ will be greated with a blank stare (and yes, I know about the program to wire Senegal).
You've got to be healthy. If you need dental work, it's got to be done before you leave. This can get expensive if you've been putting things off because of lack of insurance. If you're on prescription meds, the number of locations they can send you goes way down (so the length of time you'll wait to get assigned goes way up). If you've been depressed/ever seen a mental health professional (likely if you're suffering through bouts of unemployment) it gets even stickier.
You've really got to not mind living in crappy conditions. I want to emphasize that.
That is all.
It goes without saying that this isn't always the case. An example:
The "classic" textbook for a particular course in my department (which, it so happens, was written by 3 professors in the department), is not always used to teach the class. If whomever is teaching the class that semester decides they want to emphasize a particular area which is covered better by a different book, they use a different book. This directly takes money out of their pocket, but so be it.
I think they also do it because it lets them approach the material from a different perspective, which gave them ideas for the next edition of their own book.
As a graduate student at UW, my suggestion to you is this:
Don't go to graduate school.
That is all.
Dave
When has Apple ever failed to deliver on their promises*? I think you need another glass of the kool-aid.
.
*excluding OpenDoc, Bedrock, Copeland, Yellow Box for Windows . .
Some version did.
Please do post the System Profiler report. It'd be interesting to see if there's anything different other than the drive.
... :)
To be honest, though, I probably won't bother trying the SCSI drive trick because
a) the all-in-one is my lab's machine, not mine
b) I bought a powerbook, so screw the rest of 'em
you might want to check here or here for some help.
You got OS X to install on an all-in-one? Did you sign some sort of pack with Diablo?
I wasted 3 days in an attempt to do the same - used xPostFacto, replaced all the memory, installed 10.0, 10.1, 10.1 + updates using a custom-burned installed disk, started from a freshly reformatted hard drive, started from a reformatted hard drive + basic install of OS 9.1 - and never got a bootable system. Only thing not stock on the machine was a 13 GB IDE drive replacement for the original 4 GB drive which went bad (and yes, I had it set up with the first partition 8 GB).
There's no real point to this comment - I just wanted to vent.