Idaho has 4 electoral votes. The latest poll suggests that Bush will get a 2-1 victory in Idaho, but that poll is from early September, because even the pollsters don't think it's worth worrying about.
It's funny, living in Massachusetts now, having grown up in Idaho. Massachusetts is almost as Democratic as Idaho is Republican, except that we have had a long string of Republican governors. Why would Massachusetts elect a conservative Mormon Republican governor? I don't know, but we did. Too bad he has no power with a veto-proof legislature.
Yup, I'm also in Massachusetts. I'm usually a Republican voter, and I can't support Kerry, but I also can't support Bush for a number of reasons. Voting for Badnarik seems like the best way to send a message that I'm a disgruntled Republican.
Not that I agree with the Libertarians, but I would like to see their ideas get more consideration.
So isn't the real issue that there are bugs that allow your cookie file to be exposed? Shouldn't those be considered critical security bugs regardless of what Google does?
I've only heard of one modern case of an evevator falling due to a failure of the safety system, and that was in the WTC disaster.
You're far more likely to get hurt from slipping on the stairs than from taking the elevator.
Yes, you do have a point about trusting technology even though it isn't 100%. However, in order to keep that trust, we have to investigate those few cases where it fails so that the problem can be corrected.
I would love to have this technology as an optional interface to my cruise control. I should be able to tell the car to maintain the speed limit (plus a constant, perhaps).
Interesting. For the non-physicists here, the wikipedia article on the Island of stability is more accessible.
From that article:
The term "particularly stable" is in comparison to the half-lives of slightly lighter or heavier elements; the half-lives of elements in the island of stability are still expected to be measured in fractions of a second, or perhaps measured in days, though some theoretical possibilities include much longer periods.
All the really heavy elements created so far have been highly unstable. However, I seem to recall a theory that suggested that some heavier elements may be more stable; perhaps able to survive long enough to be useful.
The real goal, though is to expand our understanding of physics. We're pushing the edge of our capabilities, and that's where we have the most to learn. Do the new elements behave exactly as predicted, or do we need a better model? Can the techniques used to produce these atoms be applied to other situations?
I was having the same issues. My impression is that this is currently a Senate-only bill (or at least they're only pushing us to call Senators right now).
This is especially critical if your Senator is on the Judiciary Committee. There's a member's list at the Senate web site.
Is there any advantage to these builds over the ones I get in my Gentoo system? I've already set my CFLAGS to optimize for my processor, but 20% sounds like a lot more than what I would normally expect from those changes. Or do the default builds include debugging or things that would be turned off in other distribution builds, as well?
Donation records are public. I ran for a non-partisan office in my small town, and I had to file records for every donation (there were only two, including myself). You can look that up in the state records.
Now they would have private information regarding who has volunteered on campaigns, as well as correlation between donations and specific fund-raising efforts.
Besides that, I can't think of anything they would have that isn't public record. Like most of these big databases, the power comes from combining data that they already had in new ways.
Remember, the parties don't have any special access to private information. I would expect that everything in this database was pulled from data in the public record. This is probably similar to databases used for gerrymandering. They have the voting results for every race by precinct. They have demographic information for every block from the census data. They have voter registration data (it's public record). They can correlate all of that to determine where they should go to get more voters that will likely support them.
Do you mean intellectual property rights? Or just property rights? (Or both?)
Liberals tend to value the needs of society above those of the individual, and hence, sacrifice property rights for environmental protection. (Often this is good; sometimes it goes too far without compensation for property owners, but that's another debate.) Perhaps that's an angle that we can use in lobbying our Congressmen on the Democratic side--emphasize the societal benefit of looser IP laws.
If the polls were accurate, you would expect 95% of the polls to be within their margin of error, because that's the definition of the margin--it's a statistical probability that, given a true random sample, there is a 95% chance that the actual value is within that margin.
My guess is that the military networks aren't being blocked, but civilian ones are, so the military (Republican) vote will come through fine, but the civilian vote (more Democratic?) won't.
Sure, they're only talking about PPV now, but that's content that currently you can record on a VCR and keep forever, so why not on a PVR?
The PVR companies are agreeing to this because they can't afford the legal fight, and the media companies are pushing for this because it will be much easier to get this written into law once if they can say it's already common practice.
And what's to stop them from applying the same technology to non-PPV shows next year?
Or in my case, we recorded "24" on our ReplayTV and didn't start watching the second season until we had the whole season. We've had other shows on there over a year because we just hadn't gotten around to watching them. Time limits defeat the whole purpose of a PVR.
Government, at least the creation of laws, should be inefficient. It's another check against governmental power. Some of the worst legislation was very efficiently passed--right after some crisis prompted it (the PATRIOT act is the obvious example).
So what stops someone who registers a study from still deciding not to publish the results if they aren't favorable to the funding drug company? It does mean that there is public information that a study was started, which can mean some pressure to publish.
And nothing stops a drug company from funding a bunch of studies that aren't registered, and then registering duplicate studies that they then expect to be most favorable. Of course, the registration process would then add expense and delay in getting out this sort of slanted results.
At least even with the current system, I expect the peer reviewed journals are much better than the sort of "studies" that get published regarding the computer industry (e.g., TCO of Windows vs. Linux).
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Nonsense.
China has long been one of the five (now sevel with Inida and Pakistan) admitted nuclear powers. They don't need to build new reactors for secret nuclear programs because their nuclear program isn't secret.
Faster cards for gamers may be nice, but what I'm really interested in is a better card for my MythTV box. My main concern is having MPEG decoding for HDTV output and minimal heat output (no fans).
I seem to recall nVidia promising better MPEG/HDTV support in there upcoming cards. Will the low-end of this generation be fanless?
The math co-processor goes all the way back to the original 8086 processor, which could be paird with an 8087 for hardware floating point support. There was also the 80287 for use with the 80286 and the 387 for use with the 386. The 486DX included a built-in math co-processor, but the 468SX did not. I do not believe that there was ever a separate 487 co-processor.
But that's irrelevant to patents. Intel may well have developed some clever implementation of certain key floating-point calculations which they patented. There have undoubtedly been floating-point improvements covered by new patents in every major new x86 release.
The question is which patents are really holding AMD back? Without talking to AMD engineers, we won't get a real answer to that question.
The site doesn't work with Mozilla. First, the JavaScript doesn't display the real link when you move the mouse over the link, so you have to look at the HTML source to figure it out. Second, when you submit your answers, it just reloads the quiz.
Also, the 180GB SCSI drives were half-height, while the 146GB SCSI drives are low profile, so you can fit more of them into the same space.
I haven't seen any of the roadmaps recently, but it has been a while since the 146GB drives came out, so it's probably time for a bump in the next 3-6 months.
With 1/6g, the motion in the flag from putting it in place would keep the flag waving for a while, certainly long enough for some of the first pictures.
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Idaho has 4 electoral votes. The latest poll suggests that Bush will get a 2-1 victory in Idaho, but that poll is from early September, because even the pollsters don't think it's worth worrying about.
It's funny, living in Massachusetts now, having grown up in Idaho. Massachusetts is almost as Democratic as Idaho is Republican, except that we have had a long string of Republican governors. Why would Massachusetts elect a conservative Mormon Republican governor? I don't know, but we did. Too bad he has no power with a veto-proof legislature.
Yup, I'm also in Massachusetts. I'm usually a Republican voter, and I can't support Kerry, but I also can't support Bush for a number of reasons. Voting for Badnarik seems like the best way to send a message that I'm a disgruntled Republican.
Not that I agree with the Libertarians, but I would like to see their ideas get more consideration.
So isn't the real issue that there are bugs that allow your cookie file to be exposed? Shouldn't those be considered critical security bugs regardless of what Google does?
I've only heard of one modern case of an evevator falling due to a failure of the safety system, and that was in the WTC disaster.
You're far more likely to get hurt from slipping on the stairs than from taking the elevator.
Yes, you do have a point about trusting technology even though it isn't 100%. However, in order to keep that trust, we have to investigate those few cases where it fails so that the problem can be corrected.
I would love to have this technology as an optional interface to my cruise control. I should be able to tell the car to maintain the speed limit (plus a constant, perhaps).
Interesting. For the non-physicists here, the wikipedia article on the Island of stability is more accessible.
From that article:
The term "particularly stable" is in comparison to the half-lives of slightly lighter or heavier elements; the half-lives of elements in the island of stability are still expected to be measured in fractions of a second, or perhaps measured in days, though some theoretical possibilities include much longer periods.
All the really heavy elements created so far have been highly unstable. However, I seem to recall a theory that suggested that some heavier elements may be more stable; perhaps able to survive long enough to be useful.
The real goal, though is to expand our understanding of physics. We're pushing the edge of our capabilities, and that's where we have the most to learn. Do the new elements behave exactly as predicted, or do we need a better model? Can the techniques used to produce these atoms be applied to other situations?
I was having the same issues. My impression is that this is currently a Senate-only bill (or at least they're only pushing us to call Senators right now).
This is especially critical if your Senator is on the Judiciary Committee. There's a member's list at the Senate web site.
Is there any advantage to these builds over the ones I get in my Gentoo system? I've already set my CFLAGS to optimize for my processor, but 20% sounds like a lot more than what I would normally expect from those changes. Or do the default builds include debugging or things that would be turned off in other distribution builds, as well?
Donation records are public. I ran for a non-partisan office in my small town, and I had to file records for every donation (there were only two, including myself). You can look that up in the state records.
Now they would have private information regarding who has volunteered on campaigns, as well as correlation between donations and specific fund-raising efforts.
Besides that, I can't think of anything they would have that isn't public record. Like most of these big databases, the power comes from combining data that they already had in new ways.
Remember, the parties don't have any special access to private information. I would expect that everything in this database was pulled from data in the public record. This is probably similar to databases used for gerrymandering. They have the voting results for every race by precinct. They have demographic information for every block from the census data. They have voter registration data (it's public record). They can correlate all of that to determine where they should go to get more voters that will likely support them.
Do you mean intellectual property rights? Or just property rights? (Or both?)
Liberals tend to value the needs of society above those of the individual, and hence, sacrifice property rights for environmental protection. (Often this is good; sometimes it goes too far without compensation for property owners, but that's another debate.) Perhaps that's an angle that we can use in lobbying our Congressmen on the Democratic side--emphasize the societal benefit of looser IP laws.
If the polls were accurate, you would expect 95% of the polls to be within their margin of error, because that's the definition of the margin--it's a statistical probability that, given a true random sample, there is a 95% chance that the actual value is within that margin.
What this shows is that 11% of polls are flawed.
My guess is that the military networks aren't being blocked, but civilian ones are, so the military (Republican) vote will come through fine, but the civilian vote (more Democratic?) won't.
That's a flawed analogy.
Sure, they're only talking about PPV now, but that's content that currently you can record on a VCR and keep forever, so why not on a PVR?
The PVR companies are agreeing to this because they can't afford the legal fight, and the media companies are pushing for this because it will be much easier to get this written into law once if they can say it's already common practice.
And what's to stop them from applying the same technology to non-PPV shows next year?
Or in my case, we recorded "24" on our ReplayTV and didn't start watching the second season until we had the whole season. We've had other shows on there over a year because we just hadn't gotten around to watching them. Time limits defeat the whole purpose of a PVR.
Government, at least the creation of laws, should be inefficient. It's another check against governmental power. Some of the worst legislation was very efficiently passed--right after some crisis prompted it (the PATRIOT act is the obvious example).
So what stops someone who registers a study from still deciding not to publish the results if they aren't favorable to the funding drug company? It does mean that there is public information that a study was started, which can mean some pressure to publish.
And nothing stops a drug company from funding a bunch of studies that aren't registered, and then registering duplicate studies that they then expect to be most favorable. Of course, the registration process would then add expense and delay in getting out this sort of slanted results.
At least even with the current system, I expect the peer reviewed journals are much better than the sort of "studies" that get published regarding the computer industry (e.g., TCO of Windows vs. Linux).
Nonsense.
China has long been one of the five (now sevel with Inida and Pakistan) admitted nuclear powers. They don't need to build new reactors for secret nuclear programs because their nuclear program isn't secret.
Faster cards for gamers may be nice, but what I'm really interested in is a better card for my MythTV box. My main concern is having MPEG decoding for HDTV output and minimal heat output (no fans).
I seem to recall nVidia promising better MPEG/HDTV support in there upcoming cards. Will the low-end of this generation be fanless?
The math co-processor goes all the way back to the original 8086 processor, which could be paird with an 8087 for hardware floating point support. There was also the 80287 for use with the 80286 and the 387 for use with the 386. The 486DX included a built-in math co-processor, but the 468SX did not. I do not believe that there was ever a separate 487 co-processor.
But that's irrelevant to patents. Intel may well have developed some clever implementation of certain key floating-point calculations which they patented. There have undoubtedly been floating-point improvements covered by new patents in every major new x86 release.
The question is which patents are really holding AMD back? Without talking to AMD engineers, we won't get a real answer to that question.
The site doesn't work with Mozilla. First, the JavaScript doesn't display the real link when you move the mouse over the link, so you have to look at the HTML source to figure it out. Second, when you submit your answers, it just reloads the quiz.
Also, the 180GB SCSI drives were half-height, while the 146GB SCSI drives are low profile, so you can fit more of them into the same space.
I haven't seen any of the roadmaps recently, but it has been a while since the 146GB drives came out, so it's probably time for a bump in the next 3-6 months.
With 1/6g, the motion in the flag from putting it in place would keep the flag waving for a while, certainly long enough for some of the first pictures.