i find its fairly naive to think that one will find a candidate that that they believe in 100%. With the number of ppl in the US and the quantity of ideas those ppl generate, finding a candidate that agrees with each one (even within their own party let say) is very slim. one needs to look at a candidate that has the ability to make a positive change toward a greater good. so you may disagree on one or even a handful of issues, but do you atleast agree with the way he/she forms their opinion and delivers his/her argument. because in the end, those handful of ideas you disagree with may be changed both in your mind and or his/hers. combine this with the fact that we also have congress/house/supreme court and the few things you don't like about the prospective president may not even matter.
to me obama is the first in a long time of presidential candidates that has the country's interest at heart and has an open enough mind to accept the changes that are and will be happening in this country.
i would also like to add that the format of the gmail page is much more user friendly then either yahoo/msn/hotmail..and it loads a heck of a lot quicker...and the ability to reply without having to load another page is very nice as well
first off look at the source page where that poll was from. possibley more rep. then democrates view and take CNN poll and then remember a little thing that the guys here have at the end of their polls:
Don't complain about lack of options- You've got to pick a few when you do
multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading
the past polls first.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs,
firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane.
maybe also republicans are more likeley to vcte on these polls every day when they get into work or dial up at home.
based on that i think that any internet poll stating who is going to win is crap.. and if you want to look a poll look at the one here that has gore and bush tied. and if you say"well thats slashdot, no one votes truthfully on slashdot" well then why would ppl vote truthfully on CNN.
cinchel
first off, great article, this is why slashdot rocks.
if only more ppl would read these postings(ie the canidates, all the stupid ppl that are going to vot for bush) it seems no one ever looks to see if wahat the canidates are saying is resonable. they jsut go " oh well he must be right "
i alwyays believe in proofs by the numbers, they dont lie, but what we have to do is make this article and others like it as widley available and equllay intrigueing(sp?) as the media papers(i know that they are not intrgueing but millions of ppl blindly follow everything and anything they say)
some one here said that bush wasnt talking about the net in that comment, but if some one like jamie interpretted it that way others (possibly with lower intelligences) could have also interpretted it taht way, and they will vote bush and then we have to fight to keep the internet free and libraries open.
and then we will all wear the same clothes, as teachers we will have to teach by some stupid book in stead of being creative, schools will go down hill, big brother will rise...
ok i think that is enough
sorry about the ramble
cinchel
unless its the comments for the story three weeks ago, but....what about uses for the blind or visually impaired. give each icon a certain feel so that they could find them easier would be great. or maybe even using it to help them figure out what a certian word is , kinda like brail in a way.
in fact a better idea for the brail thing would be some kind of tablet that would translate,lets say a webpage, into brail so that the visually impaired could read the web too. or has this already happened and im in the the dark (wouldnt be the first time)
cinchel:)
If I could have access to, for example, every Nine Inch Nails album for $20 a month, for streaming from anywhere, I'd pay it, and over a year they'd have made just as much money as I've spent on the CD's. you mean you spend $240 a year on NIN records. I am a bit confused.
Other than that, I prefer reading a physical book over an e-book any day. Paper is much nicer on the eyes than an LCD screen. I would also like to read paper over computer screen but when you think of all the paper that could be saved by putting bookd online i will put up with a little eye strain.
1....I thought Sixth Sense was much better myself, in the Best Picture but more particularly the best Original Screenplay category... i dont think anything comes close to being john malkovitch. that was a incredibly creative movie. i think it was horibly over looked. dam academy.
One of the conclusions I came away with is pretty obvious: The more geometrically balanced a molecule is, the more stable it is. Typically, more stable molecules are also harder to create. Entropy tends to dictate lower energy structures.
i have a slight corection, the reason the bucky ball is more stable(and most organic molecules) is not based on geometry but on resonance (sp?). in a bucky ball there is an extended Pi cloud due to the formation of of the ball. this extended pi cloud is what makes it _very_ stable since electrons like to be stablized by as many nulcei aspossible and teh extended pi cloud makes it so they are stablized by all teh carbons in the bucky ball. so yoy were close buts its not the geometry that makes it stable but the stability that forms the geometry just my $.02
i think we havea winner Let's see... robotic cat.... needs to be able to: -Sit comatose for hours on end yeah my win box does that -Meow incessantly for no reason whatsoever can anoyone say blue screen -Mindlessly scratch all furniture it sees to shreads funiture=hard disks, floppys, cdrom drives, etc. -Ignore everything that people say to it self explanitory The technology to accomplish this has existed for decades. yup and bill has the patent
keep that in mind when picking the puzzles. i wouldnt mind if they were some times programer based but i would also like(and i am sure others woudl too) some other topics for puzzles. how about: chemistry (organic systesis) math (proofs, logic, calc) etc... Basiclly keep it geeky and keep it changing.
...about the rest of the world, i was talking to my father in law about Y2k and he was telling me: (qoute from email)
What I was saying was that there are a number of countries (probably 100 to 110) who have no preparation for Y2K and that this would result in those countries going on manual status at the first of the year until computer concerns could be solved (about $200 billion worth in the next year). Amongst those are some that have missles in silos. Now, we think of hackers in the U.S. as being guys looking to be either a nuisance or to make a quick buck. But what if a terrorist organization decided to hack into one of these computers and launch a missle. Probably be easier than hacking into your home computer. Arming the warhead would be more difficult since they use mostly input codes, but a launch would send a message that they were not to be trifled with. Possible targets include: China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel.
i never thought of this before but it seems very likely.
can you imagine if MS did buy this up we would have to get plug-in's so that it would work in other contries and if there was a staff that updated articles in the book it would take them years to get them in there and the entry would be something like "mostly harmless" or for a restruant "mostly food" and if MS did control it it would only work on every third tues. of the forth month of the second moon phase (i.e about how offten windows works perfectly)
Slashdot Mirror
font scaling on a high res monitor could help out.
i find its fairly naive to think that one will find a candidate that that they believe in 100%. With the number of ppl in the US and the quantity of ideas those ppl generate, finding a candidate that agrees with each one (even within their own party let say) is very slim. one needs to look at a candidate that has the ability to make a positive change toward a greater good. so you may disagree on one or even a handful of issues, but do you atleast agree with the way he/she forms their opinion and delivers his/her argument. because in the end, those handful of ideas you disagree with may be changed both in your mind and or his/hers. combine this with the fact that we also have congress/house/supreme court and the few things you don't like about the prospective president may not even matter.
to me obama is the first in a long time of presidential candidates that has the country's interest at heart and has an open enough mind to accept the changes that are and will be happening in this country.
i would also like to add that the format of the gmail page is much more user friendly then either yahoo/msn/hotmail..and it loads a heck of a lot quicker...and the ability to reply without having to load another page is very nice as well
cinchel
first off look at the source page where that poll was from. possibley more rep. then democrates view and take CNN poll and then remember a little thing that the guys here have at the end of their polls :
Don't complain about lack of options- You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks. Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first. This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane.
maybe also republicans are more likeley to vcte on these polls every day when they get into work or dial up at home. based on that i think that any internet poll stating who is going to win is crap.. and if you want to look a poll look at the one here that has gore and bush tied. and if you say"well thats slashdot, no one votes truthfully on slashdot" well then why would ppl vote truthfully on CNN. cinchel
first off, great article, this is why slashdot rocks. if only more ppl would read these postings(ie the canidates, all the stupid ppl that are going to vot for bush) it seems no one ever looks to see if wahat the canidates are saying is resonable. they jsut go " oh well he must be right " i alwyays believe in proofs by the numbers, they dont lie, but what we have to do is make this article and others like it as widley available and equllay intrigueing(sp?) as the media papers(i know that they are not intrgueing but millions of ppl blindly follow everything and anything they say) some one here said that bush wasnt talking about the net in that comment, but if some one like jamie interpretted it that way others (possibly with lower intelligences) could have also interpretted it taht way, and they will vote bush and then we have to fight to keep the internet free and libraries open. and then we will all wear the same clothes, as teachers we will have to teach by some stupid book in stead of being creative, schools will go down hill, big brother will rise... ok i think that is enough sorry about the ramble cinchel
unless its the comments for the story three weeks ago, but....what about uses for the blind or visually impaired. give each icon a certain feel so that they could find them easier would be great. or maybe even using it to help them figure out what a certian word is , kinda like brail in a way. in fact a better idea for the brail thing would be some kind of tablet that would translate,lets say a webpage, into brail so that the visually impaired could read the web too. or has this already happened and im in the the dark (wouldnt be the first time) cinchel :)
Update: 10/03 07:33 PM by H: /me hangs head in
shame.
my clock only says 4:11pm right now and i think i am in the same timezone as him?(eastern)
If I could have access to, for example, every Nine Inch Nails album for $20 a month, for streaming from anywhere, I'd pay it, and over a year they'd have made just as much money as I've spent on the CD's.
you mean you spend $240 a year on NIN records. I am a bit confused.
Other than that, I prefer reading a physical book over an e-book any day. Paper is much nicer on the eyes than an LCD screen.
I would also like to read paper over computer screen but when you think of all the paper that could be saved by putting bookd online i will put up with a little eye strain.
1....I thought Sixth Sense was much better myself, in the Best Picture but more particularly the best Original Screenplay category... i dont think anything comes close to being john malkovitch. that was a incredibly creative movie. i think it was horibly over looked. dam academy.
One of the conclusions I came away with is pretty obvious: The more geometrically balanced a molecule is, the more stable it is. Typically, more stable molecules are also harder to create. Entropy tends to dictate lower energy structures.
i have a slight corection, the reason the bucky ball is more stable(and most organic molecules) is not based on geometry but on resonance (sp?). in a bucky ball there is an extended Pi cloud due to the formation of of the ball. this extended pi cloud is what makes it _very_ stable since electrons like to be stablized by as many nulcei aspossible and teh extended pi cloud makes it so they are stablized by all teh carbons in the bucky ball.
so yoy were close buts its not the geometry that makes it stable but the stability that forms the geometry
just my $.02
i think we havea winner
Let's see... robotic cat.... needs to be able to:
-Sit comatose for hours on end
yeah my win box does that
-Meow incessantly for no reason whatsoever
can anoyone say blue screen
-Mindlessly scratch all furniture it sees to shreads
funiture=hard disks, floppys, cdrom drives, etc.
-Ignore everything that people say to it
self explanitory
The technology to accomplish this has existed for decades.
yup and bill has the patent
keep that in mind when picking the puzzles. i wouldnt mind if they were some times programer based but i would also like(and i am sure others woudl too) some other topics for puzzles. how about:
chemistry (organic systesis)
math (proofs, logic, calc)
etc...
Basiclly keep it geeky and keep it changing.
:)
video streams of what Goo life was like. Goo Sports, Goo Politics, Goo Art, the possibilities are endless
:)
all together
goo goo goo
talking about goo
my friend too
you would too
goo
yr friend
thurston moore
(j/k)
...about the rest of the world, i was talking to my father in law about Y2k and he was telling me: (qoute from email)
What I was saying was that there are a number of countries (probably 100 to 110) who have no preparation for Y2K and that this would result in those countries going on manual status at the first of the year until computer concerns could be solved (about $200 billion worth in the next year). Amongst those are some that have missles in silos. Now, we think of hackers in the U.S. as being guys looking to be either a nuisance or to make a quick buck. But what if a terrorist organization decided to hack into one of these computers and launch a missle. Probably be easier than hacking into your home computer. Arming the warhead would be more difficult since they use mostly input codes, but a launch would send a message that they were not to be trifled with. Possible targets include: China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel.
i never thought of this before but it seems very likely.
what was the honey for?
can you imagine if MS did buy this up
we would have to get plug-in's so that it would work in other contries
and if there was a staff that updated articles in the book it would take them years to get them in there and the entry would be something like "mostly harmless"
or for a restruant "mostly food"
and if MS did control it it would only work on every third tues. of the forth month of the second moon phase (i.e about how offten windows works perfectly)
just a thought