If I said "Please contact me by phone, fax, mail or email." you would (at least I would) think that any of the four is acceptable and contact by one would suffice. How do we know that? Because the commas and the "or" form a list of acceptable contact methods (phone, fax, mail and email) and the "or" tells us that any one is acceptable. We also know that the list of acceptable contact methods in the previous sentence contains exactly four items. We know this because the commas and the "and" form a list and the "and" tells us that all are necessary. That's the logic I used when I parsed the sentence. First, I split it at the commas. My parsing mechanism then evaluated the "or"s and determined the "Pentium or compatible" phrase to be one item in the list while the "WindowsXP or WindowsNT" phrase to be two items in the list. The final "or" tells us that if any single item from the list is TRUE the requirement has been met. I believe that what the writer of the original statement intended could be accomplished by inserting the word "and" before the word "Microsoft."
Read the statement carefully. Technically if your PC has:
at least a Pentium® 133mHz or compatible processor or
32 MB RAM or
CD-ROM drive or
soundcard and speakers or
Microsoft ®Windows95® or
Windows98® or
Windows2000® or
Windows ME® or
Windows XP® or
Windows NT 4 ® with Service Pack 4
it meets the minimum system requirements. Looks like you don't have to "upgrade" afterall.
webcurity n. An imaginary word intended to be interpreted as a buzzword, which when used around the right people will make you sound intelligent and thereby increase your job security.
"We have put software on top of Ethernet that basically synchronizes those packets to a master clock and allows it to send many, many channels and have many work stations that work together in synchrony, meaning low latency, meaning music."
That little "WiFi" on vendor's packages indicates that the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance has certified it's interoperability with other vendors. Knowing that, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to use the term "WiFi" to refer to _all_ wireless ethernet devices.
All that needs to occur is for the electoral college to delegate votes in exact proprtion to the population of each state, to the decimal point. The electoral college still exists and your problem evaporates into thin air.
No, the problem would still be there. The only way the electoral college eliminated endless re-counts is that it rounds. If a recount could increase the amount of electoral votes (or fraction of a vote) a candidate gets, they will call for that recount. Because of the electoral college, recounts weren't done in states where one candidate won by a respectable percentage. Only where it was really really close. You're proposed solution is no different the strict popular vote scenario as far as recounts are concerned. Think about it.
That's not why the electoral college was put in place.
I never said it was. We're not arguing that. I'm not saying the current electoral college is perfect the way it is, either. I think states should be allowed (forced?) to divide their electoral votes among the candidates according to the percent of the that state that voted for each candidate.
He only won because of the Electoral College, an aging system that was setup a long time ago, for reasons that don't seem too pertinent today
Let's do a little thought experiment here to determine what would happen if the elecotral college was abolished and we went with a strict popular vote. It's november 2000. All the votes have been cast and counted and the election is close. The side currently in second place calls for a re-count. Where? Well to be fair we'd have to re-count every single vote. Think of all the comotion and lawsuits that Florida's re-count caused and multiply that all by 50. It would take about a year for the final decision to be reached. Sure some processes could happen in parallel, but there's only one supreme court and only 50 state supreme courts and how many voting districts accross the U.S. How would you like to know that in about a month, you'd know who won last years election?
You know, it's times like this I wish for an "unpost" button.
You're right, I read the articles earlier and got my facts mixed up. When I went back to the article I trusted the headline (apparently forgetting that headlines are meant to grab your attention and are not always accurate as stated). I'd like to thank you and Software for pointing that out and I'd also like to apologize to chrome koran for indirectly accusing him of hypocrisy while being guilty of it myself.
Actually there already is. It's just not used that often because it introduces latency that is noticable to most laptop users while the amount of power saved is not.
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If I said "Please contact me by phone, fax, mail or email." you would (at least I would) think that any of the four is acceptable and contact by one would suffice. How do we know that? Because the commas and the "or" form a list of acceptable contact methods (phone, fax, mail and email) and the "or" tells us that any one is acceptable. We also know that the list of acceptable contact methods in the previous sentence contains exactly four items. We know this because the commas and the "and" form a list and the "and" tells us that all are necessary. That's the logic I used when I parsed the sentence. First, I split it at the commas. My parsing mechanism then evaluated the "or"s and determined the "Pentium or compatible" phrase to be one item in the list while the "WindowsXP or WindowsNT" phrase to be two items in the list. The final "or" tells us that if any single item from the list is TRUE the requirement has been met. I believe that what the writer of the original statement intended could be accomplished by inserting the word "and" before the word "Microsoft."
Read the statement carefully. Technically if your PC has:
at least a Pentium® 133mHz or compatible processor
or
32 MB RAM
or
CD-ROM drive
or
soundcard and speakers
or
Microsoft ®Windows95®
or
Windows98®
or
Windows2000®
or
Windows ME®
or
Windows XP®
or
Windows NT 4 ® with Service Pack 4
it meets the minimum system requirements. Looks like you don't have to "upgrade" afterall.
webcurity n. An imaginary word intended to be interpreted as a buzzword, which when used around the right people will make you sound intelligent and thereby increase your job security.
**sigh**
"We have put software on top of Ethernet that basically synchronizes those packets to a master clock and allows it to send many, many channels and have many work stations that work together in synchrony, meaning low latency, meaning music."
Doesn't look like modified ethernet to me...
That little "WiFi" on vendor's packages indicates that the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance has certified it's interoperability with other vendors. Knowing that, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to use the term "WiFi" to refer to _all_ wireless ethernet devices.
All that needs to occur is for the electoral college to delegate votes in exact proprtion to the population of each state, to the decimal point. The electoral college still exists and your problem evaporates into thin air.
No, the problem would still be there. The only way the electoral college eliminated endless re-counts is that it rounds. If a recount could increase the amount of electoral votes (or fraction of a vote) a candidate gets, they will call for that recount. Because of the electoral college, recounts weren't done in states where one candidate won by a respectable percentage. Only where it was really really close. You're proposed solution is no different the strict popular vote scenario as far as recounts are concerned. Think about it.
That's not why the electoral college was put in place.
I never said it was. We're not arguing that. I'm not saying the current electoral college is perfect the way it is, either. I think states should be allowed (forced?) to divide their electoral votes among the candidates according to the percent of the that state that voted for each candidate.
He only won because of the Electoral College, an aging system that was setup a long time ago, for reasons that don't seem too pertinent today
Let's do a little thought experiment here to determine what would happen if the elecotral college was abolished and we went with a strict popular vote. It's november 2000. All the votes have been cast and counted and the election is close. The side currently in second place calls for a re-count. Where? Well to be fair we'd have to re-count every single vote. Think of all the comotion and lawsuits that Florida's re-count caused and multiply that all by 50. It would take about a year for the final decision to be reached. Sure some processes could happen in parallel, but there's only one supreme court and only 50 state supreme courts and how many voting districts accross the U.S. How would you like to know that in about a month, you'd know who won last years election?
You know, it's times like this I wish for an "unpost" button.
You're right, I read the articles earlier and got my facts mixed up. When I went back to the article I trusted the headline (apparently forgetting that headlines are meant to grab your attention and are not always accurate as stated). I'd like to thank you and Software for pointing that out and I'd also like to apologize to chrome koran for indirectly accusing him of hypocrisy while being guilty of it myself.
--cough-- Headline of article --cough--
Microsoft lobbying campaign backfires; even dead people write in support of firm
Now how's that not fraudulent
Actually there already is. It's just not used that often because it introduces latency that is noticable to most laptop users while the amount of power saved is not.
Yeah, but is it really worth $20 to download 18 bits and upload 3?
... Oh, they mean Megabits per second ... they should have said so.
I mean really, how much can be said in 18 bits
What?? I don't remember saying that.
Alas, I've been misquoted again...