Yes, go to your preferences, click on your homepage, and uncheck Zonk. Just got done doing it myself after the the last N^N dupes and this... that after reporting it to the editors before it went live.
Here's a story of creativity and innovation in ham radio. Check out Elecraft -- this all sprouted from the brain of Wayne Burdick and others who designed some innovative low-power ham tranceiver kits for the Northern California QRP Club. Elecraft kits are not only superior to the old Heathkit kits, but the end result is a high quality transceiver comparable to the expensive commercial gear.
But if they are indeed this widespread, I would have to say the election couldnt have reflected accurately what the people voted
These stories throw out raw numbers that sound big, but you must look at the statistical significance of those numbers in context. Show me statistically significant disrcrepencies that are widespread, and I'll don the foil hat. Otherwise, we have to use our brains rather than our emotions to understand the imperfection of any election system and work on ways to improve it.
The original press release is here. In it, it states:
Methodology Note: NPD MusicWatch Digital information is collected continuously from the PCs of 40,000 volunteer online panelists, balanced to represent the online population of PC users. NPD's MusicLab survey was fielded in September of 2003 to a representative sample of 5,000 respondents aged 13 and older.
Still, you have to believe their volunteer panelists wouldn't fess up to having any downloaded music given the current RIAA intimidation tactics.
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This issue reminds me of back when I used to work on sendmail for a major computer company's flavor of UX. I was reviewing changes from the original BSD sources, when I found several diffs in the comments -- where a previous maintainer of the code had corrected Eric Allman's split infinitives!
I'm not sure what bug that fixed...:-)
Of course, my own contribution to the useless code changes department was that I changed an error message for our sendmail's "-k" option (kill the running sendmail daemon) to: "sendmail: I see no daemon here.". Not sure if it was ever appreciated, but at least customers could see that one:-)
Several of us at work have used an IM back channel during conference calls and meetings. Usually its a MST3K-like commentary on the goings on. It's a good BS-meter for a meeting -- the more sarcasm on the channel, the more likely the meeting is utter BS.
Rude? Probably... but anything on the IM back channel was in our heads anyway, so perhaps it's just good therapy:-)
This info was recommended by a friend several months ago:
http://www.hussman.org/fitness/
Overall, good info, well researched. I've dropped from 310 to 245 in about 6 mo w/ this info, a new diet (higher protien than before), and regular exercise. Another 50 lbs and I think I'll be a normal human once again:-)
Often time this principle applies to people on the project, not just the software being developed. I've learned from experience that really sharp people with a broken user interface can destroy a project!! You have to try to minimize interaction points with folks like that and find where they can excel and use their talents without creating problems for the others on the team. A difficult nut to crack at times and a far more critical factor to project success that the programming language, source management tools, etc...
"How the hell am I ever going to be able to download my brain into these damn little robots if they don't hurry up and make them smarter? I running out of time, dammit!!!"
Granted Zahi has a big mouth, granted he doesn't know how to talk to journalists, but his dedication and honnesty are obvious to anybody who looks into the field (and no, reading Graham Hancock's 'work' does not qualify).
Zahi lost some credibitlity with the general populous over his setup of the "discovery" of a "heretofore unknown" tomb on a Fox special a few years ago. It's hard to respect a scholar who knowingly lies to the public just for the sake of sensationalism.
(And no, I'm no proponent of "alternadoxy" or the like, but I do appreciate researchers who demonstrate honesty and credibility in everything they do...)
The people who can't quite get a few thousand pounds of satellite into orbit around Mars now want to sling a 62-mile diameter asteroid around Earth? No thanks....
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Yes, go to your preferences, click on your homepage, and uncheck Zonk. Just got done doing it myself after the the last N^N dupes and this... that after reporting it to the editors before it went live.
Here's a story of creativity and innovation in ham radio. Check out Elecraft -- this all sprouted from the brain of Wayne Burdick and others who designed some innovative low-power ham tranceiver kits for the Northern California QRP Club. Elecraft kits are not only superior to the old Heathkit kits, but the end result is a high quality transceiver comparable to the expensive commercial gear.
These stories throw out raw numbers that sound big, but you must look at the statistical significance of those numbers in context. Show me statistically significant disrcrepencies that are widespread, and I'll don the foil hat. Otherwise, we have to use our brains rather than our emotions to understand the imperfection of any election system and work on ways to improve it.
No, it seems that a court has ruled otherwise, now doesn't it?
Methodology Note: NPD MusicWatch Digital information is collected continuously from the PCs of 40,000 volunteer online panelists, balanced to represent the online population of PC users. NPD's MusicLab survey was fielded in September of 2003 to a representative sample of 5,000 respondents aged 13 and older.
Still, you have to believe their volunteer panelists wouldn't fess up to having any downloaded music given the current RIAA intimidation tactics.
Of course, my own contribution to the useless code changes department was that I changed an error message for our sendmail's "-k" option (kill the running sendmail daemon) to: "sendmail: I see no daemon here.". Not sure if it was ever appreciated, but at least customers could see that one :-)
Rude? Probably... but anything on the IM back channel was in our heads anyway, so perhaps it's just good therapy :-)
This info was recommended by a friend several months ago: http://www.hussman.org/fitness/ Overall, good info, well researched. I've dropped from 310 to 245 in about 6 mo w/ this info, a new diet (higher protien than before), and regular exercise. Another 50 lbs and I think I'll be a normal human once again :-)
Often time this principle applies to people on the project, not just the software being developed. I've learned from experience that really sharp people with a broken user interface can destroy a project!! You have to try to minimize interaction points with folks like that and find where they can excel and use their talents without creating problems for the others on the team. A difficult nut to crack at times and a far more critical factor to project success that the programming language, source management tools, etc...
"How the hell am I ever going to be able to download my brain into these damn little robots if they don't hurry up and make them smarter? I running out of time, dammit!!!"
Zahi lost some credibitlity with the general populous over his setup of the "discovery" of a "heretofore unknown" tomb on a Fox special a few years ago. It's hard to respect a scholar who knowingly lies to the public just for the sake of sensationalism.
(And no, I'm no proponent of "alternadoxy" or the like, but I do appreciate researchers who demonstrate honesty and credibility in everything they do...)
That would be a joke, son....
This was already discussed here this past May. Thanks for posting it again -- we'll look forward to seeing it appear again in December!
The people who can't quite get a few thousand pounds of satellite into orbit around Mars now want to sling a 62-mile diameter asteroid around Earth? No thanks....