Let's assume that the straw poll only takes into account the fact that a 56 - 44 popular vote could still result in a win for Bush in the electoral college.
The 7/11 poll is disturbingly evenly split. The difference is so small that voting irregularities could easily constitute the margin.
Also you have to take into consideration the fact that even if this survey was done on a large enough and evenly dispersed population to be accurate and that everyone voted truthfully, NOT EVERYONE WILL VOTE. Does anyone know if Democrats are statistically more or less likely to actually go out and vote than Republicans.
These three things alone will determine our election.
FYI, Verizon has wired much of Northern NJ for FTTP, but NJ State legislation is preventing them from turning their network on. However, verizon has given the order to make the network 'ready to turn on with the flip of a switch' which is pretty cool IMO. Now just to wait for a new governor. The present one hasn't accomplished ANYTHING, and is unlikely that he will now.
Sorta a pity how they are stifiling innovation in this state -- as I watch one of AT&T's former largest test centers be demolished piece by piece. (which managed to hold on for quite a while after the breakup, but is sadly no more...)
Basilisk II can't emulate an MMU which is necessary to run pretty much every form of Unix/Linux, or at least those which would run PearPC -- there are a few REALLY old Unixes which don't require it...
So as cool as that would be, I'm sad to report that it's just not possible.
Speaking of this, I might as well mention that verizon has far more ambitious plans.
They are in the process of wiring several states with Fiber lines to the home to provide phone, internet, and in the future, television (most likely provided by some form of DirecTV due to verizon's recent dealings with DirecTV).
I believe service is already live in a few cities with reported speeds of 50mbps down/15mbps up. All for about $60/month.
This regulation should speed up deployment in a few states such as NJ, which have the networks in place but cannot be turned on due to the regulatory hell that is NJ telecom.
no, no, if you look at the stat log generated by the server, you'll see that the server added the (WEIRD) -- or the browser simply identifies itself as being WEIRD....
I didn't add weird:) the weird was what made it notable....
we really need some sort of standardized XML bookmark format for sharing between platforms and browsers. since most browsers don't extend their bookmarking functionality beyond a simple name/description/folders system, one simple format would be enough.
In fact, data standardization could be good for a lot of things. vCard and vCalendar (now iCal) were both incredibly successful (vCal less so after MS dumped it).
This does a lot to bridge the gap between gaming and the more 'traditional' sports. For one, based upon the spelling and grammer in this post, the general population can (finally) rest assured that nerds and jocks are BOTH equally stupid.
Is it just me, or is this the first well-designed US government website we've seen?
Honestly, it's pleasant to look at, easy to navigate, and actually provides a very nice service to the citizens of the United States without any major roadblocks. It essentially removes any objection to the anti-counterfeitting measures in place in the bills and in software.
And, IIRC, the bills in the PDF have a lot more wrong with them than the red Specimen text -- I think one comment here noted that this would prevent the bills from being read by a vending machine. Pretty cool either way.
Now if only we could start using polymer-based currency like Australia, we'd have TRUE counterfeit-proofed currency.
Gates I will agree is influential in business. Let's not forget the huge number of CS projects going on at Microsoft too -- C# ain't half bad either (the linux community liked it enough to copy it)
Apple under Jobs, however, has made numerous contributions to UI and product design as well as the Unix core of OS X. He's also been innovative in the sense that he's used other people's existing solutions where they are adequate -- Darwin, CUPS, Samba, etc. and created his own where there are no adequate solutions (Aqua, Quartz, Cocoa).
Oh yeah. He released a Desktop Unix which became the most popular in the world within days of its release. What Linux had been trying to do for years, he accomplished in a day. Sure, it was many years in the making, but it can't be denied that OSX was produced from scratch by far far fewer developers than it took to turn windows 2000 into XP.
Torvalds contribution to technology is questionable. There are definite things in the Linux kernel which are very innovative from a CS standpoint -- many of which were made by torvalds. The man is without a dobut a world-class computer scientist, but weather or not his ideas are original is somewhat questionable. He only influenced linux because he had direct control over Linux. His influence lies in innovation in worldwide group collaboration -- actually ORGANIZING linux. I'm not sure if that's technology innovation. Its also worth noting that in general, linux seems to be by and large a 'me-too' version of all of the other operating systems. He pulled tons of great ideas together, but many of them had already been implemented on other systems. Think of linux as a re-implementation of other people's good ideas -- remember that it WAS supposed to be a free unix re-implementation. All he was trying to do was to re-create a commercial application for free (which was strongly helped by his socialist upbringing and free ride at university).
He's right! The look is downright depressing and simply lacks any sort of contrast.
'Default' should be good for 95% of all users. This default theme sucks, no offense to the developers.
The only colors used in the program are shades of grey and brown. Did they use the old DOS Doom color palate? The curved lines are a nice start, but they've still got to make it less boxy.
I'm frankly surprised at this, that the combined minds of novell and SUsE who have traditionally been rather good UI designers have let something like this be released.
Even the toolbar is cluttered.
For starters, draw all new icons. These ones suck from an artistic standpoint. Applications should be pleasant to look at. It makes users happy. Take a cue from OS X mail.app and change 'Send/Receive' to 'Get Mail' -- much more human-readable and less wordy. Group reply and reply-to-all under one drop down list similar to the one used for 'New' (but make that darn arrow smaller). Do you really need 'Print' on the toolbar? It's debatable, but you won't loose much functionality by removing it. Finally, 'Cancel' -- the button has no definite function. WHAT exactly are you cancelling? Why would you want to? Mail readers don't exactly do long intensive operations that one would normally want to cancel. 'Not Junk' is also unnecessary. If it's not 'junk', I think we can assume that it's also 'not junk' DUH!
The rest of the app ain't bad. It looks like most other mailreaders. The left pane is also nice, though the icons should all be redrawn, and the icons for Mail/Contacts/Calendars should scale to be as big as the buttons and be nice and visually appealing.
The expensive graphics card craze always seemed so superficial to me. You shell out $500 for a graphics card which is so fast that no games today take advantage of it. By the time there are games which can take advantage of it, there's another faster $500 card out. In the end, all you can do with a $500 card is play some game that's not even out yet. And if you're spending this type of money, you're likely to buy another equally expensive card in the future.
The Apple Cinema Displays on the other hand are quite a different story. If you buy one now, you can rest assured that it will remain a good display for all aplications for 5 years at the very least. Using the 1-year video card theory, we can divide the price of the display by 5.
You should also consider the benefits of a 30" screen. Multitasking becomes much more productive. You get more work done -- faster. A freelance artist, for example, could pay for the screen itself within a month or two from the productivity increase alone. People who do (serious) video editing find it laughable to actually try editing with a small monitor or only one monitor.
Ever since I've began to use my 20" cinema display in a dual-monitor configuration with my powerbook, i've become MUCH more productive. I could never justify paying $500 for something I can only use for gaming for a year, but I can easily lay out $1200 for something which will boost productivity, last 5 years, and also make gaming a bit more enjoyable.
I must congratulate liftport on the increidble amount of human-readable information on their website. It's virtually free of corporate/governmental FUD. Just take a look at the FAQ!
I've never seen a goverment organization or private for-profit venture be so brutally honest. It looks like liftport will have the means to pull this thing off provided that the money doesn't run out before their launch date. IMO, the government should be giving out grants to companies like this. It certainly fits in with the goals of both Bush and Kerry. (Bush because it's private enterprise, and Kerry because it furtheres science).
Take a peek at this quote to see how honest they are: # Will the ribbon produce an electrical current? The last space shuttle-tether experiment, which unspooled about 19 km of cable, generated thousands of volts of electrical potential and kilowatts of power, burned through the insulation of the cable, and generated a tremendous explosive arc of electricity, that snapped the tether. Now imagine a 100,000-km-long cable and its electrical-generating capacity and you begin to see the disastrous potential.
They also seem to have done a lot of worst case scenario planning as well.
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Let's assume that the straw poll only takes into account the fact that a 56 - 44 popular vote could still result in a win for Bush in the electoral college.
The 7/11 poll is disturbingly evenly split. The difference is so small that voting irregularities could easily constitute the margin.
Also you have to take into consideration the fact that even if this survey was done on a large enough and evenly dispersed population to be accurate and that everyone voted truthfully, NOT EVERYONE WILL VOTE. Does anyone know if Democrats are statistically more or less likely to actually go out and vote than Republicans.
These three things alone will determine our election.
Slightly on-topic:
A friend of mine carved George Bush and John Kerry into pumpkins. Definitely worth checking out if you want a few laughs...
Kerry looks scarier on pumpkin than he does in person.
FYI, Verizon has wired much of Northern NJ for FTTP, but NJ State legislation is preventing them from turning their network on. However, verizon has given the order to make the network 'ready to turn on with the flip of a switch' which is pretty cool IMO. Now just to wait for a new governor. The present one hasn't accomplished ANYTHING, and is unlikely that he will now.
Sorta a pity how they are stifiling innovation in this state -- as I watch one of AT&T's former largest test centers be demolished piece by piece. (which managed to hold on for quite a while after the breakup, but is sadly no more...)
Basilisk II can't emulate an MMU which is necessary to run pretty much every form of Unix/Linux, or at least those which would run PearPC -- there are a few REALLY old Unixes which don't require it...
So as cool as that would be, I'm sad to report that it's just not possible.
Speaking of this, I might as well mention that verizon has far more ambitious plans.
They are in the process of wiring several states with Fiber lines to the home to provide phone, internet, and in the future, television (most likely provided by some form of DirecTV due to verizon's recent dealings with DirecTV).
I believe service is already live in a few cities with reported speeds of 50mbps down/15mbps up. All for about $60/month.
This regulation should speed up deployment in a few states such as NJ, which have the networks in place but cannot be turned on due to the regulatory hell that is NJ telecom.
no, no, if you look at the stat log generated by the server, you'll see that the server added the (WEIRD) -- or the browser simply identifies itself as being WEIRD....
:) the weird was what made it notable....
I didn't add weird
You know you've been successful in life when you've got these in your stats:
.mil (USA Military) .arpa (Arpanet)
28: 0.14%: 10: 0.16%: 533,805: 0.17%:
5: 0.02%: 1: 0.02%: 63,463: 0.02%:
7: 0.03%: 3: 0.05%: 95,263: 0.03%: Amiga
3: 0.01%: 1: 0.02%: 43,369: 0.01%: OS/2
10: 0.05%: 0: : 121,863: 0.04%: Mozilla/3.01 (WIERD)
honestly.... major props to anyone who gets hits from os/2 AND the arpanet!
Who thought of The Matrix immediately after reading the blurb about "3mm swimming robots"
scary.....
I normally use Retrospect Express for desktop backups.
Burns to CDR, fast, super-easy to use, and has some excellent scheduling features.
all this steam stuff is just a bunch of hot air
If you don't get it, reread it!
we really need some sort of standardized XML bookmark format for sharing between platforms and browsers. since most browsers don't extend their bookmarking functionality beyond a simple name/description/folders system, one simple format would be enough.
In fact, data standardization could be good for a lot of things. vCard and vCalendar (now iCal) were both incredibly successful (vCal less so after MS dumped it).
"Wolrd Cyber Games 2004"
This does a lot to bridge the gap between gaming and the more 'traditional' sports. For one, based upon the spelling and grammer in this post, the general population can (finally) rest assured that nerds and jocks are BOTH equally stupid.
and so it begins....
sigh.
the FBI exemption is fine by me as long as my 4th ammendment rights remain in place.
because if they have the right to spy on your computer, they also have the right to break down your door and arrest you.
and plus, I don't think that FBI spyware will be infectious or anywhere nearly as intrusive as the spyware most windows users see.
of course, this all doesn't effect me since I use a mac.
I could also avert the whole FBI thing by switching to BeOS or some other obscure platform which the spy thing hasn't been ported to.
really, all I think this is going to do is help catch scammers, spammers, virus writers, and script kiddies.
the ends are worth the means.
so how long before someone throws up a goatse mirror at http://an-unregistered-name.cc/
Is it just me, or is this the first well-designed US government website we've seen?
Honestly, it's pleasant to look at, easy to navigate, and actually provides a very nice service to the citizens of the United States without any major roadblocks. It essentially removes any objection to the anti-counterfeitting measures in place in the bills and in software.
And, IIRC, the bills in the PDF have a lot more wrong with them than the red Specimen text -- I think one comment here noted that this would prevent the bills from being read by a vending machine. Pretty cool either way.
Now if only we could start using polymer-based currency like Australia, we'd have TRUE counterfeit-proofed currency.
you seem to make it seem like an accomplishment.
/. should be nominated for the nobel prize.
sorry to break it to you buddy
you're an ametur in a crowd of professionals. if that's an accomplishment, all of
and let's not turn this into a 200-reply thread about marriage. it seems to happen a lot whenever the issue is raised.
about $20-$35 in change
cash card
id / license
library card
no grocery card. got one of the keychain things. much nicer!
I like to keep it simple.
Errrmm.......
Gates I will agree is influential in business. Let's not forget the huge number of CS projects going on at Microsoft too -- C# ain't half bad either (the linux community liked it enough to copy it)
Apple under Jobs, however, has made numerous contributions to UI and product design as well as the Unix core of OS X. He's also been innovative in the sense that he's used other people's existing solutions where they are adequate -- Darwin, CUPS, Samba, etc. and created his own where there are no adequate solutions (Aqua, Quartz, Cocoa).
Oh yeah. He released a Desktop Unix which became the most popular in the world within days of its release. What Linux had been trying to do for years, he accomplished in a day. Sure, it was many years in the making, but it can't be denied that OSX was produced from scratch by far far fewer developers than it took to turn windows 2000 into XP.
Torvalds contribution to technology is questionable. There are definite things in the Linux kernel which are very innovative from a CS standpoint -- many of which were made by torvalds. The man is without a dobut a world-class computer scientist, but weather or not his ideas are original is somewhat questionable. He only influenced linux because he had direct control over Linux. His influence lies in innovation in worldwide group collaboration -- actually ORGANIZING linux. I'm not sure if that's technology innovation. Its also worth noting that in general, linux seems to be by and large a 'me-too' version of all of the other operating systems. He pulled tons of great ideas together, but many of them had already been implemented on other systems. Think of linux as a re-implementation of other people's good ideas -- remember that it WAS supposed to be a free unix re-implementation. All he was trying to do was to re-create a commercial application for free (which was strongly helped by his socialist upbringing and free ride at university).
He's right! The look is downright depressing and simply lacks any sort of contrast.
'Default' should be good for 95% of all users. This default theme sucks, no offense to the developers.
The only colors used in the program are shades of grey and brown. Did they use the old DOS Doom color palate? The curved lines are a nice start, but they've still got to make it less boxy.
I'm frankly surprised at this, that the combined minds of novell and SUsE who have traditionally been rather good UI designers have let something like this be released.
Even the toolbar is cluttered.
For starters, draw all new icons. These ones suck from an artistic standpoint. Applications should be pleasant to look at. It makes users happy. Take a cue from OS X mail.app and change 'Send/Receive' to 'Get Mail' -- much more human-readable and less wordy. Group reply and reply-to-all under one drop down list similar to the one used for 'New' (but make that darn arrow smaller). Do you really need 'Print' on the toolbar? It's debatable, but you won't loose much functionality by removing it. Finally, 'Cancel' -- the button has no definite function. WHAT exactly are you cancelling? Why would you want to? Mail readers don't exactly do long intensive operations that one would normally want to cancel. 'Not Junk' is also unnecessary. If it's not 'junk', I think we can assume that it's also 'not junk' DUH!
The rest of the app ain't bad. It looks like most other mailreaders. The left pane is also nice, though the icons should all be redrawn, and the icons for Mail/Contacts/Calendars should scale to be as big as the buttons and be nice and visually appealing.
Dude, no human has reflexes like that.
You're either:
a) Not human
b) Jedi
c) Stoned/Drunk
Go become a fighter pilot or something like that.
Actually, the supreme court decided a few years ago that the copyrigt holders indeed do not have the right to do this.
I believe it was over a weird-al song -- Amish Paradise if I recall correctly. If it goes to the courts, it should be a pretty straightfoward case.
As long as these people CAN convince the judge that what they are doing is a parody, LucasFilm doesn't have a leg to stand on.
I'll bite.
The expensive graphics card craze always seemed so superficial to me. You shell out $500 for a graphics card which is so fast that no games today take advantage of it. By the time there are games which can take advantage of it, there's another faster $500 card out. In the end, all you can do with a $500 card is play some game that's not even out yet. And if you're spending this type of money, you're likely to buy another equally expensive card in the future.
The Apple Cinema Displays on the other hand are quite a different story. If you buy one now, you can rest assured that it will remain a good display for all aplications for 5 years at the very least. Using the 1-year video card theory, we can divide the price of the display by 5.
You should also consider the benefits of a 30" screen. Multitasking becomes much more productive. You get more work done -- faster. A freelance artist, for example, could pay for the screen itself within a month or two from the productivity increase alone. People who do (serious) video editing find it laughable to actually try editing with a small monitor or only one monitor.
Ever since I've began to use my 20" cinema display in a dual-monitor configuration with my powerbook, i've become MUCH more productive. I could never justify paying $500 for something I can only use for gaming for a year, but I can easily lay out $1200 for something which will boost productivity, last 5 years, and also make gaming a bit more enjoyable.
Don't LCD projectors have tiny high-res LCDs inside them that can do 1280x1024 or higher?
And based on the size of today's LCD projectors, i'd say that they're smaller or equal to 2.2 inches diagonal.
Could this be that it's just the first tiny display that's not ridiculously expensive and is durable enough for general use?
Correct me if I'm wrong....
I must congratulate liftport on the increidble amount of human-readable information on their website. It's virtually free of corporate/governmental FUD. Just take a look at the FAQ!
I've never seen a goverment organization or private for-profit venture be so brutally honest. It looks like liftport will have the means to pull this thing off provided that the money doesn't run out before their launch date. IMO, the government should be giving out grants to companies like this. It certainly fits in with the goals of both Bush and Kerry. (Bush because it's private enterprise, and Kerry because it furtheres science).
Take a peek at this quote to see how honest they are:
# Will the ribbon produce an electrical current?
The last space shuttle-tether experiment, which unspooled about 19 km of cable, generated thousands of volts of electrical potential and kilowatts of power, burned through the insulation of the cable, and generated a tremendous explosive arc of electricity, that snapped the tether. Now imagine a 100,000-km-long cable and its electrical-generating capacity and you begin to see the disastrous potential.
They also seem to have done a lot of worst case scenario planning as well.