The link is sitting there relatively quietly on the page (it is towards the bottom of the inset, as 'See the full results of the poll'), but they did publish the full results of the poll, as a pdf:
(It even includes results of past polls for many of the question...)
I'm not trying to hold NBC/WSJ up as a paragon of journalism here, I had no idea that they were this thorough before I responded to the other comment, I just don't think that much of the cynicism directed towards the 'mass media' is well placed, mostly because, for all their faults, many of them are trying to report actual news in an honest way. You were cynical enough to assume that they were not publishing the full results (Of course, I have no idea how much time you spent looking for the full results, except that it was not enough to find them).
(that link works when clicked on from a Google search, but given that the WSJ has a mighty paywall, I don't know if it will work otherwise)
So maybe you need to talk about a more nuanced group than 'the media' (I wouldn't be particularly shocked if other major outfits were at least approximately as responsible).
The savings aren't going to be that marvelous, the power supply for my laptop is only 65 watts, which means that it probably isn't consuming more than about 570 kilowatt hours per year (Given that it can be on and charge the battery, I would guess that it uses less than 65 watts most of the time...).
I reboot XP about once a month. I guess it helps me that I am not a complete idiot (obviously, by using Windows at all, I must be some level of idiot), but I don't think there are all that many people rebooting Windows multiple times per day.
I often do stupid things like ignoring automatic updates for several weeks at a time (if none of them are fixes for remote exploits of software that I use, where's the hurry?).
It seems like you should be able to dump it three times, and automatically use the two that are the same (perhaps not even checking the third most of the time).
Basically, you are currently using a bratwurst solution, when what you really want is the full burrito.
No. I can't find anything discussing it, but I have a vague notion that the singular form is used when a distance is use as an adjective: "An 8 inch gap", "A 7 mile hike", "A 50 mile trip", and so on. O.k., so thinking about that enough to type it into a clear sentence led me to this, and the rule is that adjectives are not plural in English:
We are running into a descriptivist vs prescriptivist problem here. You may want to label tax evasion as anti-American, but if you took a survey of actual behavior, I guess that you would be disappointed.
When I take a look around, I'm pretty sure that avoiding taxes is a very American behavior.
(do note that Microsoft employees do pay things like property tax and fuel tax, it isn't as if 100% of their activity is free riding, it would take a very sophisticated analysis to clearly decide if the presence of the company is a net drain or benefit to the state's resources (though I would not be particularly surprised to find out that the presence of thousands and thousands of wealthy people was actually a good thing...))
If his program consisted of something other than "Sell a questionable business plan for asset protection services to damn fools.", his success at it doesn't factor into it (because he wasn't necessarily running the system he was selling).
I was under the impression that the qwerty (style) keyboard was the key issue. Browsing around, it looks like the SAT bans calculators for having a keyboard, and the ACT bans them for having a CAS.
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I would guess that one thing a lawyer would do is to hire a statistician to evaluate the article.
The link is sitting there relatively quietly on the page (it is towards the bottom of the inset, as 'See the full results of the poll'), but they did publish the full results of the poll, as a pdf:
http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ-NBC_Poll090617.pdf
(It even includes results of past polls for many of the question...)
I'm not trying to hold NBC/WSJ up as a paragon of journalism here, I had no idea that they were this thorough before I responded to the other comment, I just don't think that much of the cynicism directed towards the 'mass media' is well placed, mostly because, for all their faults, many of them are trying to report actual news in an honest way. You were cynical enough to assume that they were not publishing the full results (Of course, I have no idea how much time you spent looking for the full results, except that it was not enough to find them).
NBC always reports on the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. I think they commission it. They seem to do a decent job of describing how they do it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124527518023424769.html
(that link works when clicked on from a Google search, but given that the WSJ has a mighty paywall, I don't know if it will work otherwise)
So maybe you need to talk about a more nuanced group than 'the media' (I wouldn't be particularly shocked if other major outfits were at least approximately as responsible).
WD-40 is never the right lubricant, and it probably isn't the penetrating oil you are looking for.
Your whole day? Just rip if from some Youtube video, I'm sure it is there.
The savings aren't going to be that marvelous, the power supply for my laptop is only 65 watts, which means that it probably isn't consuming more than about 570 kilowatt hours per year (Given that it can be on and charge the battery, I would guess that it uses less than 65 watts most of the time...).
I reboot XP about once a month. I guess it helps me that I am not a complete idiot (obviously, by using Windows at all, I must be some level of idiot), but I don't think there are all that many people rebooting Windows multiple times per day.
I often do stupid things like ignoring automatic updates for several weeks at a time (if none of them are fixes for remote exploits of software that I use, where's the hurry?).
It seems like you should be able to dump it three times, and automatically use the two that are the same (perhaps not even checking the third most of the time).
Basically, you are currently using a bratwurst solution, when what you really want is the full burrito.
I doubt it would help much.
No. I can't find anything discussing it, but I have a vague notion that the singular form is used when a distance is use as an adjective: "An 8 inch gap", "A 7 mile hike", "A 50 mile trip", and so on. O.k., so thinking about that enough to type it into a clear sentence led me to this, and the rule is that adjectives are not plural in English:
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/adjective.html
We are running into a descriptivist vs prescriptivist problem here. You may want to label tax evasion as anti-American, but if you took a survey of actual behavior, I guess that you would be disappointed.
I was on a slippery slope once. I got mud all over my pants.
Once, I ate a bug. It wasn't really my fault, it flew into my mouth when I was talking, and when I coughed, I accidentally swallowed it.
There have been plenty of 40+ mpg cars with anemic engines and minimal metal brought to market; most people don't buy them.
When I take a look around, I'm pretty sure that avoiding taxes is a very American behavior.
(do note that Microsoft employees do pay things like property tax and fuel tax, it isn't as if 100% of their activity is free riding, it would take a very sophisticated analysis to clearly decide if the presence of the company is a net drain or benefit to the state's resources (though I would not be particularly surprised to find out that the presence of thousands and thousands of wealthy people was actually a good thing...))
If his program consisted of something other than "Sell a questionable business plan for asset protection services to damn fools.", his success at it doesn't factor into it (because he wasn't necessarily running the system he was selling).
Isn't Japan a rhinoceros?
Did someone immediately punch him in the Alta Vista?
Tits? Or something else?
It's an attitude, not a technology problem. And it is a good attitude, not a problematic one.
Also, do you really expect high school and college students to sit in class dicking with the POS calculator on their phone or PDA or whatever?
We could call it "PBS".
You do realize that Google is a very successful internet ad sales company, right?
They provide search and other services because it gives them a convenient place to put the ads that they sell.
I was under the impression that the qwerty (style) keyboard was the key issue. Browsing around, it looks like the SAT bans calculators for having a keyboard, and the ACT bans them for having a CAS.
I'm pretty sure the TI-86 sitting on my desk here did not come with an 11 year warranty.
I guess my thinking was that they don't really 'use' ground water (at least not in the same way that something like irrigation does).