Try the same experiment after the Jefferson trials ends. Aside from which, you're getting all the articles about the two. You should be limiting your numbers to ones that mention their respective crimes.
Also, search for all dates rather than the current news and watch what happens to the Obama/Rezko number of stories. (Hint, it involves an additional 2,600+ stories while the same for Palin involves an additional 50 stories.) You're missing quite a few stories that haven't happened in the last month.
Part of the reason that the Obama/Rezko connection isn't big news now is that it has been fairly exhaustively covered in the past few years. It isn't new.
Aside from which, I don't know that the Rezko connection is really equivalent to Trooper-Gate. One of those stories involves allegations of abuse of power of executive office, the other does not. A better comparison would be between Obama/Rezko (or better yet Ayers) and Palin/Alaskan Independence Pary.
They are just reporting the facts for the most part. For example, wIth regards to the methodology of most of these surveys mentioning an indictment is `negative' and mentioning the winning of a nobel prize is a `positive.' Which is my point, facts themselves can favor one public persona over another.
An extra hour of light in the evening == higher retail sales. By extending DST, the feds have effectively increased foot traffic in retail districts by a significant amount.
Don't believe me? Look at the groups that lobbied for the new federal rules. Various associations of retailers led the charge.
Sure, you can survey the number of times this candidate was mentioned in a positive or negative light and give an `objective' metric to compare to other candidates. The problem is that such a methodology ignores whether or not a candidate deserves those positive or negative mentions. To take extreme cases, consider either Alaska's Ted Stevens or Louisiana's William Jefferson. One would claim that if media coverage of these two men wasn't disproportionately negative that this would show bias. Sometimes a candidate is deserving of being attacked (or lauded) more frequently than his or her opponent.
The largest hitch in convergence is ubiquitous wireless TCP/IP. Once that happens, VOIP will be added to music players and most other phone services will either need to find something spectacular to add to the mix, change business models, or wither away and die.
The question of whether this was off-campus or on-campus was considered by the judge. In fact the article on Findlaw states:
The MySpace site, Munley said, focused on the principal, and its intended audience was students at the school. A paper copy of the site was brought into school, and the site was discussed in school, he noted, and the picture on the profile was appropriated from the school district's Web site.
What we've got here is a medium (MySpace) that is not only available from on-campus locations, but of which a facsimile was made and brought on to the school campus. If (a) the school blocks MySpace from all on-campus machines and (b) a hard copy of the profile hadn't been brought on to campus, then this story might very well have a different ending.
Consider shots taken close to the buzzer, whether or not a foul has been committed, etc. All sports have the same problems. The difference is of extent, not of kind.
Ponder the full significance of the first part of the sentence ``"If you think about the fact that.NET loads DLLs into the browser itself and then Microsoft assumes they're safe because they're.NET objects.''
This implies to me that the problem isn't with the browser per se but the.Net platform that the browser is built upon.
It doesn't seem to me that there is a difference/in kind/ between scoring a martial arts match by where the punches land and scoring an gymnastic routine by how well the gymnasts hold to certain forms. The only difference I see is that one is easier to judge by virtue of the rules being a bit simpler. That is a difference in extent.
For that matter, I don't see much difference in kind in scoring by using arbitrary rules. Putting a ball into a hoop to get points doesn't seem to me to be all that different than holding a pose to get points.
I would think using these drugs would only be cheating in sports if they build muscle mass past what can be achieved through exercise. I don't think anyone should really be concerned if they helped athletes get to the same level, just with less effort. My only concern is if use of the drugs can put an athlete at a state beyond what they would have been able to attain.
The Miriam-Webster folks document its first/recorded/ usage as early as 1919. Presumably, it had been in used in spoken form even earlier. So this is a case of the IT crowd adopting pre-existing slang rather than IT speak making its way out into the general culture.
I gleaned this from the AP article. The interesting thing to me is how old some of these new words are, like usage of wing nut to describe a radical out in the far wing of a political party dates back to 1900.
Apple isn't the only retailer to sell Macs. My first Max was the 17" iMac. I bought it from a computer reseller which was Apple certified and more than happy to install after market RAM that was less than half the price of buying the the iMac fully loaded straight from the factory.
I ordered two LED bulbs from CCrane about a year or so ago. I was fairly underwhelmed. Between the directional nature of LEDs, the relative dimness to CFLs, and the poor color quality, they were essentially non usable.
But $120 for a single ~ 800 lumen light bulb? (BTW, that's probably closer to a 50 watt incandescent equivalent than a 60 watt equivalent.) Wowsers. Talk about sticker shock.
If you take two people from different areas of China today, they will have trouble speaking with each other even though both speak Chinese. That a modern speaker of English could not converse with a speaker of Old English doesn't mean that English did not exist back then anymore than speaker of modern Greek cannot understand a speaker of ancient Greek means that Greek did not exist in classical antiquity. Languages evolve over time. Modern English didn't exist. English certainly did.
You're quite wrong on the trade bit unless you're going to exclude Spain, Italy and Greece from Europe. Byzantine style glass made in Greek controlled areas of Italy during this period has been found in China. Raw silk, pearls, spices and gems were regular imports from both India and China. In fact, the Roman emperor Justinian was involved in a minor scandal involving smuggling silk moth eggs from China. It is true that this trade wasn't exclusively by sea. But 90% of the route was by sea.
Are you aware that the republican era at Cordoba began in the 11th century? The fact of the matter is that in the time period we're talking about many governments were in flux and some were very much more like democracies or republics than most of us moderns give them credit for.
Heliocentric models of the solar system go back to the fourth century BC. It was only with the rediscovery of Aristotle in the scholastic period that western Europe began to widely adopt the geocentric system. This is a development that takes place mostly/after/ the time period we're talking about.
So, first it was only the clergy that could write. Now it's the clergy and the aristocracy. Before you know it, it will be the clergy, the aristocracy and some merchants. The average soldier of the Roman army could still write home, or get one of his buddies to write home for him. Literacy rates were fairly high in much of Europe. Certainly, not all areas had the literacy rates of the Byzantine empire.
Modern English didn't exist by Old English was definitely in widespread use by the 11th century.
There was extensive trade between Italy and Spain in Europe and various parts of what is present day China along ocean-going routes, albeit with a hop and a skip over land through Egypt.
Several republics had come and gone including ones at Cordoba in Spain and at Thessalonica in Greece.
The Castilian dialect of Spanish had been in use for at least a century.
A heliocentric view of the solar system had been adopted through a good deal of the western world for almost a thousand years. The earth being at the center of the solar system didn't achieve widespread acceptance until far later when it was decided by the Church of Rome to not be a matter of science but of theology.
The Roman Empire did still exist, as it did right up until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in the fifteenth century.
Europe was largely divided along eastern and western lines into predominantly Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox areas, but not exclusively so. Large areas remained very Pagan.
The average person may have never traveled more than seven miles from the place of his or her birth but communication via letter across the oceans was more common than you might think.
I have to admit ignorance with regards to most of western europe, but in Byzantium estimates at the literacy rate at the time approached 30%. And even in the west, there are non-Church documents that go back to the eleventh century.
In the early 10th century, Scandanavians were regularly used as mercenary forces by Constantinople. By the end of the tenth century, Basil II formed the Varangian Guard, a personal army he knew would always be loyal to him. By the late Byzantine era, the Varangian Guard essentially acted as king makers whenever civil wars between disputants to the throne broke out.
But that is neither here nor there. 1000 years ago from today is usually considered to be the medieval era rather than antiquity. Rather than extracting DNA bones from an ancient, TFA points to extracting DNA from the bones of a medieval.
Ron's campaign seems to be so much more about the message than the man, which is great -- that's the way it should be.
The message won't be serving as president if Ron Paul is elected, Ron Paul the man will be. I don't really care whether or not the president is a great rhetorician. I do care that the president is a competent individual who has the capability and discernment to make tough decisions. For president, I'd rather have someone diametrically opposed to me on most issues but who is competent than someone who holds to exactly the same positions as I do but who doesn't know their corybungus from a hole in the ground.
No, the office of the president is really all about the individual far more than the message.
A 60 watt tungsten bulb will put out about 890 lumens vs. > 3,000 lumens for a fluorescent bulb of the same wattage. Perhaps you're confusing the actual wattage with the `same as' description on the package.
Economies of scale only work over the long term. Five years from now, when the additional fixed cost of building another factory has been entirely paid off, each additional unit of production will only be concerned with marginal costs.
New Wii units without a multi-controller/multi-game bundle are selling for a fifty to seventy-five dollar price premium over retail. Even if the 15 million units they've sold to date were sold for USD 50 more, Nintendo would only be making an additional 750,000,000 bucks, less than three-quarters of a billion. And that assumes that everyone willing to pay $250 for Wii is also willing to pay $300 for a Wii which I doubt. It seems to me that a large part of the Wii's popularity is its price.
But more importantly, the lack of a large premium on the Wii from resellers suggest that the present rate of production and price is very close to the market equilibrium. If demand were far outstripping supply, the premium from resellers on eBay would be far higher. If supply were far outstripping demand, we'd be seeing the boxes stack up on the shelves. But from first appearances, it would appear that Nintendo is very close to hitting the sweet spot with their present rate of production.
if you total all the versions of Guitar Hero 3 together the game sold over 1 million units--and many of those were the more expensive bundle with guitar--in only a week. So says Ars Technica
Also, note that the latest version of Madden NFL is in the same ballpark for number of units sold as Halo if you count all versions of Madden.
The same pressures that exist on publically traded companies also exist for private firms. The difference is usally a matter of the number of shareholders and the market capitalization rather than the fact some firms are private and some are public. But even then, some very large firms are privately held. For example, Chrysler Corps. is now a privately held company.
But let's be honest. The Spaniards were probably less impressed by a single span covering a given length than by the fact that these rope bridges were so high up in the mountains. This has less to do with impressive engineering than with the impressiveness of nature. The aqueducts of Cordoba or the ropes used to hold together Darius' pontoon bridge were far more impressive engineering feats than these bridges.
This is not to say that these bridges aren't impressive. They just aren't all that impressive compared to the contemporary engineering in other parts of the world. The Hagia Sophia is still standing. Wither these rope bridges of 500 years ago?
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Try the same experiment after the Jefferson trials ends. Aside from which, you're getting all the articles about the two. You should be limiting your numbers to ones that mention their respective crimes.
Also, search for all dates rather than the current news and watch what happens to the Obama/Rezko number of stories. (Hint, it involves an additional 2,600+ stories while the same for Palin involves an additional 50 stories.) You're missing quite a few stories that haven't happened in the last month.
Part of the reason that the Obama/Rezko connection isn't big news now is that it has been fairly exhaustively covered in the past few years. It isn't new.
Aside from which, I don't know that the Rezko connection is really equivalent to Trooper-Gate. One of those stories involves allegations of abuse of power of executive office, the other does not. A better comparison would be between Obama/Rezko (or better yet Ayers) and Palin/Alaskan Independence Pary.
They are just reporting the facts for the most part. For example, wIth regards to the methodology of most of these surveys mentioning an indictment is `negative' and mentioning the winning of a nobel prize is a `positive.' Which is my point, facts themselves can favor one public persona over another.
An extra hour of light in the evening == higher retail sales. By extending DST, the feds have effectively increased foot traffic in retail districts by a significant amount. Don't believe me? Look at the groups that lobbied for the new federal rules. Various associations of retailers led the charge.
Sure, you can survey the number of times this candidate was mentioned in a positive or negative light and give an `objective' metric to compare to other candidates. The problem is that such a methodology ignores whether or not a candidate deserves those positive or negative mentions. To take extreme cases, consider either Alaska's Ted Stevens or Louisiana's William Jefferson. One would claim that if media coverage of these two men wasn't disproportionately negative that this would show bias. Sometimes a candidate is deserving of being attacked (or lauded) more frequently than his or her opponent.
The largest hitch in convergence is ubiquitous wireless TCP/IP. Once that happens, VOIP will be added to music players and most other phone services will either need to find something spectacular to add to the mix, change business models, or wither away and die.
What we've got here is a medium (MySpace) that is not only available from on-campus locations, but of which a facsimile was made and brought on to the school campus. If (a) the school blocks MySpace from all on-campus machines and (b) a hard copy of the profile hadn't been brought on to campus, then this story might very well have a different ending.
Consider shots taken close to the buzzer, whether or not a foul has been committed, etc. All sports have the same problems. The difference is of extent, not of kind.
Ponder the full significance of the first part of the sentence ``"If you think about the fact that .NET loads DLLs into the browser itself and then Microsoft assumes they're safe because they're .NET objects.''
This implies to me that the problem isn't with the browser per se but the .Net platform that the browser is built upon.
It doesn't seem to me that there is a difference /in kind/ between scoring a martial arts match by where the punches land and scoring an gymnastic routine by how well the gymnasts hold to certain forms. The only difference I see is that one is easier to judge by virtue of the rules being a bit simpler. That is a difference in extent.
For that matter, I don't see much difference in kind in scoring by using arbitrary rules. Putting a ball into a hoop to get points doesn't seem to me to be all that different than holding a pose to get points.
I would think using these drugs would only be cheating in sports if they build muscle mass past what can be achieved through exercise. I don't think anyone should really be concerned if they helped athletes get to the same level, just with less effort. My only concern is if use of the drugs can put an athlete at a state beyond what they would have been able to attain.
The Miriam-Webster folks document its first /recorded/ usage as early as 1919. Presumably, it had been in used in spoken form even earlier. So this is a case of the IT crowd adopting pre-existing slang rather than IT speak making its way out into the general culture.
I gleaned this from the AP article. The interesting thing to me is how old some of these new words are, like usage of wing nut to describe a radical out in the far wing of a political party dates back to 1900.
Apple isn't the only retailer to sell Macs. My first Max was the 17" iMac. I bought it from a computer reseller which was Apple certified and more than happy to install after market RAM that was less than half the price of buying the the iMac fully loaded straight from the factory.
I ordered two LED bulbs from CCrane about a year or so ago. I was fairly underwhelmed. Between the directional nature of LEDs, the relative dimness to CFLs, and the poor color quality, they were essentially non usable. But $120 for a single ~ 800 lumen light bulb? (BTW, that's probably closer to a 50 watt incandescent equivalent than a 60 watt equivalent.) Wowsers. Talk about sticker shock.
If you take two people from different areas of China today, they will have trouble speaking with each other even though both speak Chinese. That a modern speaker of English could not converse with a speaker of Old English doesn't mean that English did not exist back then anymore than speaker of modern Greek cannot understand a speaker of ancient Greek means that Greek did not exist in classical antiquity. Languages evolve over time. Modern English didn't exist. English certainly did.
You're quite wrong on the trade bit unless you're going to exclude Spain, Italy and Greece from Europe. Byzantine style glass made in Greek controlled areas of Italy during this period has been found in China. Raw silk, pearls, spices and gems were regular imports from both India and China. In fact, the Roman emperor Justinian was involved in a minor scandal involving smuggling silk moth eggs from China. It is true that this trade wasn't exclusively by sea. But 90% of the route was by sea.
Are you aware that the republican era at Cordoba began in the 11th century? The fact of the matter is that in the time period we're talking about many governments were in flux and some were very much more like democracies or republics than most of us moderns give them credit for.
Heliocentric models of the solar system go back to the fourth century BC. It was only with the rediscovery of Aristotle in the scholastic period that western Europe began to widely adopt the geocentric system. This is a development that takes place mostly /after/ the time period we're talking about.
So, first it was only the clergy that could write. Now it's the clergy and the aristocracy. Before you know it, it will be the clergy, the aristocracy and some merchants. The average soldier of the Roman army could still write home, or get one of his buddies to write home for him. Literacy rates were fairly high in much of Europe. Certainly, not all areas had the literacy rates of the Byzantine empire.
Modern English didn't exist by Old English was definitely in widespread use by the 11th century.
There was extensive trade between Italy and Spain in Europe and various parts of what is present day China along ocean-going routes, albeit with a hop and a skip over land through Egypt.
Several republics had come and gone including ones at Cordoba in Spain and at Thessalonica in Greece.
The Castilian dialect of Spanish had been in use for at least a century.
A heliocentric view of the solar system had been adopted through a good deal of the western world for almost a thousand years. The earth being at the center of the solar system didn't achieve widespread acceptance until far later when it was decided by the Church of Rome to not be a matter of science but of theology.
The Roman Empire did still exist, as it did right up until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in the fifteenth century.
Europe was largely divided along eastern and western lines into predominantly Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox areas, but not exclusively so. Large areas remained very Pagan.
The average person may have never traveled more than seven miles from the place of his or her birth but communication via letter across the oceans was more common than you might think.
I have to admit ignorance with regards to most of western europe, but in Byzantium estimates at the literacy rate at the time approached 30%. And even in the west, there are non-Church documents that go back to the eleventh century.
In the early 10th century, Scandanavians were regularly used as mercenary forces by Constantinople. By the end of the tenth century, Basil II formed the Varangian Guard, a personal army he knew would always be loyal to him. By the late Byzantine era, the Varangian Guard essentially acted as king makers whenever civil wars between disputants to the throne broke out. But that is neither here nor there. 1000 years ago from today is usually considered to be the medieval era rather than antiquity. Rather than extracting DNA bones from an ancient, TFA points to extracting DNA from the bones of a medieval.
From fad diets to late night infomercial exercise devices, Consumers Union has a long history of testing out exactly this sort of thing.
For example, I suspect that the OS/2 v2 SMP kernel would be an excellent study for comp sci students.
No, the office of the president is really all about the individual far more than the message.
A 60 watt tungsten bulb will put out about 890 lumens vs. > 3,000 lumens for a fluorescent bulb of the same wattage. Perhaps you're confusing the actual wattage with the `same as' description on the package.
Economies of scale only work over the long term. Five years from now, when the additional fixed cost of building another factory has been entirely paid off, each additional unit of production will only be concerned with marginal costs.
New Wii units without a multi-controller/multi-game bundle are selling for a fifty to seventy-five dollar price premium over retail. Even if the 15 million units they've sold to date were sold for USD 50 more, Nintendo would only be making an additional 750,000,000 bucks, less than three-quarters of a billion. And that assumes that everyone willing to pay $250 for Wii is also willing to pay $300 for a Wii which I doubt. It seems to me that a large part of the Wii's popularity is its price.
But more importantly, the lack of a large premium on the Wii from resellers suggest that the present rate of production and price is very close to the market equilibrium. If demand were far outstripping supply, the premium from resellers on eBay would be far higher. If supply were far outstripping demand, we'd be seeing the boxes stack up on the shelves. But from first appearances, it would appear that Nintendo is very close to hitting the sweet spot with their present rate of production.
Also, note that the latest version of Madden NFL is in the same ballpark for number of units sold as Halo if you count all versions of Madden.
The same pressures that exist on publically traded companies also exist for private firms. The difference is usally a matter of the number of shareholders and the market capitalization rather than the fact some firms are private and some are public. But even then, some very large firms are privately held. For example, Chrysler Corps. is now a privately held company.
But let's be honest. The Spaniards were probably less impressed by a single span covering a given length than by the fact that these rope bridges were so high up in the mountains. This has less to do with impressive engineering than with the impressiveness of nature. The aqueducts of Cordoba or the ropes used to hold together Darius' pontoon bridge were far more impressive engineering feats than these bridges.
This is not to say that these bridges aren't impressive. They just aren't all that impressive compared to the contemporary engineering in other parts of the world. The Hagia Sophia is still standing. Wither these rope bridges of 500 years ago?