Just because he's wrong so much of the time and never admits mistakes, doesn't mean he's dumb. Perhaps it just means that he's smart enough to know how to appeal to voters who don't like the "intellectual elite" and he places his re-election as his top priority.. and thus doesn't care if people who wouldn't vote for him anyway think he's an idiot.
So the only way you'll know if he's really dumb is if he loses this election.
Frankly I don't completely agree with any of the candidates on all their positions.. so that leaves me with either a write in, not voting, or voting for one of the 4 "Evils" on my ballot.
In order to vote for one of the "evils" on the ballot, I'm still stuck trying to figure out which is the "Lesser of the 4 Evils".
I sometimes vote for third-party candidates, but that's because I generally don't think there's much of a difference between the two parties in how they actually act. But I don't really think that's the case with these two candidates.
Instead of the no-brainer www.denver.gov they use www.denvergov.com and www.denvergov.org.
That's because there are special naming requirements for cities that use the.gov namespace. Denver would have ended up as something like www.denver-co.gov. Or they could have gone with www.ci.denver.co.us.
I mean, a 16 megapixel image is nice and everything, but not so much useful unless you have a 16.7 megapixel monitor to enjoy it on.
Other folks have mentioned the value of high-resolution images when doing large format printing. The other significant benefit is in cropping. If you take a high-res photo, you can crop and zoom in without noticing a drop in image quality.
Atleast with a PIN and a SecureID you have less of a chance of somebody seeing your PIN and stealing your SecureID tag.
I'm a bit confused.. ATM's already use two-factor authentication: What you know (your PIN) and what you have (your ATM card). Doesn't using a SecurID just add another "what you have" factor? Or are you just saying that you're less likely to lose both your SecurID and card at the same time?
Actually, for what it's worth, it wasn't the Mediterranian that Jesus walked on, but the Sea of Galilee. At 13 miles long by 8 miles wide it is large, but nothing like the Mediterranian.
uhh.. by paying for these you'd create demand, which provides incentive to increase the supply of rooted machines. Not quite what you want to encourage.
This is a nice succinct summary of the issues, however it would be more convincing with links to evidence. For example I found the discussion about the 800 vs 877 toll free number (#38) pretty convincing that the number was only created after F911 came out..
Actually, that's essentially what they call tracking. And it is controversial. Essentially because people who get tracked into the top levels tend to do very well surrounded by other kids who are intelligent, motivated, and supported. But those tracked into the middle or lower levels don't do well, and usually benefit greatly from being mixed in with the more advanced students.
Hmm.. Apple has shipped roughly 1 million 64-bit G5s. Compared to the total worldwide personal computer sales of ~150 million/year, some might say that Apple does not yet have enough 64-bit desktops present in people's homes to qualify as statistically relevant either.:-)
The new little "perks" such as getting a "free" iPod when you go to a school like Duke is not going to influence any intelligent person.
Giving away iPods to individual students might be a minor incentive in itself, but what's really significant about this is that by giving them to ALL students changes the environment of the entire school..
Frankly, though, I think it would me more effective to build the infrastructure to make PDAs extraordinarly useful so that students buy the devices on their own. For example deliver course schedules, syllibus details, campus maps, textbook info, annoucements, class notes and handouts, etc. to PDAs - and make it easy to sync via either wireless connections or IR.
Of course, college students today are mostly on the public dole in the form of grants, government-insured loans (many of which are defaulted upon, passing cost to the taxpayer), and federal aid to their school.
I dunno where you're getting your "facts", but according to the Department of Education website, student loan default rates hit an all-time low last year.
Thus these companies are not Covered Entities and are not bound by HIPAA law, unless they have a Business Associate Agreement with a Covered Entity to preform some function for them, but that is very unlikely.
Some electric companies sell cheap bulbs and fixtures to get people to use less electricity. Seems counter-intuitive that they'd want you to use LESS, but I guess they can service more people that way..
What I thought was particularly remarkable about the bit on NPR's Morning Edition was about GE who apparently figured out with the help of the EPA folks that they could save $3 million just by setting their monitors to turn off when the computer is idle... ok, sure, maybe $3 million isn't very much when you compare it to their annual revenue of $134 billion, but hey, in real dollars it's still a lot.
If they find enough evidence to arrest you, then you're not one of the false positives that we're concerned about.
You mean if they find enough evidence to CONVICT you, then you're not one of the false positives...
that's the problem; it doesn't take a whole heck of a lot of "evidence" to arrest someone. But an arrest for a federal crime like terrorism has a MAJOR impact on someone's life, whether or not they are found guilty.
I know people that gripe about Hotmail's 2MB limit
That's because they count mail filtered into your Junk Mail folder against your 2MB quota. If you don't empty the folder frequently, it's easy to lose a third of your space just to the junk mail that sits in there in the deletion queue for 7 days.
Two technologies, one free, the other having outrageous royalties...
That's what I've always heard too, but exactly HOW high are the royalties? Best I could find was this PDF, which says in the middle of page 4, "Royaly rates range up to a maximum of approximately 2.5% for RDRAMs and a maximum of approximately 5% for logic ICs."
Prices for RDRAM were *way* more than 5% more than DDR... anyone else have something to site regarding royalty rates??
then it's somehow illegal when other companies decide to use other processes instead?
It isn't simply that they decided not to use it, it's that they conspired with other companies in an illegal anti-competitive manner.. essentially saying, "I won't license with them if you don't." Or, at least that's what RAMBUS is claiming they did.
Just like any company can decide they want to cell a doohickey for $1000 more than everyone else, but if they conspire with the other doohickey vendors to all raise their price by $1000 so they can make nice profit, it's illegal.
maybe, maybe you could attach a.22 pistol underneath it, I can't think of anything else
Something like that might work better for the OTHER side. Israeli would probably be more interested in some sort of GPS/laser targeting system so they can call in precision assassination strikes from an F-16.
Speed is the central issue. For right or wrong, a great many people want the voting results and they want them now. Computers can provide that. Counting ballots by hand cannot. Even counting paper ballots by computer can't provide the kind of speed these people want.
Granted counting by hand can't provide instantanious results, but Canada counts their ballots by hand at the precinct, allowing them to complete their national ballot count in only four hours.
The REALLY useful thing computers allow you to do, (if implimented properly), is eliminate rejected ballots, since it can do error checking before submitting the ballot. Canada's hand counted ballots had a ~1.1% rejection rate: a rather low percentage, but it amounts to nearly 140,000 votes that didn't get counted.
They've been charging most everyone an extra $1.55 per line for "Federal Programs Cost Recovery Fee" - which is really just a rate increase disguised as a government-imposed fee. What sucks about it is that all I get out of it is 9 minutes/month for three months. I don't even use all my minutes as is... I bet the lawyers made better than that.
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Just because he's wrong so much of the time and never admits mistakes, doesn't mean he's dumb. Perhaps it just means that he's smart enough to know how to appeal to voters who don't like the "intellectual elite" and he places his re-election as his top priority.. and thus doesn't care if people who wouldn't vote for him anyway think he's an idiot.
So the only way you'll know if he's really dumb is if he loses this election.
Nope, it's just Badnarik, Bush, Cobb, and Kerry on the ballot in Massachusetts. See here for MA election info.
Frankly I don't completely agree with any of the candidates on all their positions.. so that leaves me with either a write in, not voting, or voting for one of the 4 "Evils" on my ballot.
In order to vote for one of the "evils" on the ballot, I'm still stuck trying to figure out which is the "Lesser of the 4 Evils".
I sometimes vote for third-party candidates, but that's because I generally don't think there's much of a difference between the two parties in how they actually act. But I don't really think that's the case with these two candidates.
Instead of the no-brainer www.denver.gov they use www.denvergov.com and www.denvergov.org.
.gov namespace. Denver would have ended up as something like www.denver-co.gov. Or they could have gone with www.ci.denver.co.us.
That's because there are special naming requirements for cities that use the
Except Powerbooks don't work when they're closed. Think Toughbook.
Actually, as I understand it, they work fine closed as long as an external monitor is connected. So just stick a VGA terminator on it.
I mean, a 16 megapixel image is nice and everything, but not so much useful unless you have a 16.7 megapixel monitor to enjoy it on.
Other folks have mentioned the value of high-resolution images when doing large format printing. The other significant benefit is in cropping. If you take a high-res photo, you can crop and zoom in without noticing a drop in image quality.
Atleast with a PIN and a SecureID you have less of a chance of somebody seeing your PIN and stealing your SecureID tag.
I'm a bit confused.. ATM's already use two-factor authentication: What you know (your PIN) and what you have (your ATM card). Doesn't using a SecurID just add another "what you have" factor? Or are you just saying that you're less likely to lose both your SecurID and card at the same time?
Actually, for what it's worth, it wasn't the Mediterranian that Jesus walked on, but the Sea of Galilee. At 13 miles long by 8 miles wide it is large, but nothing like the Mediterranian.
uhh.. by paying for these you'd create demand, which provides incentive to increase the supply of rooted machines. Not quite what you want to encourage.
This is a nice succinct summary of the issues, however it would be more convincing with links to evidence. For example I found the discussion about the 800 vs 877 toll free number (#38) pretty convincing that the number was only created after F911 came out..
Actually, that's essentially what they call tracking. And it is controversial. Essentially because people who get tracked into the top levels tend to do very well surrounded by other kids who are intelligent, motivated, and supported. But those tracked into the middle or lower levels don't do well, and usually benefit greatly from being mixed in with the more advanced students.
Hmm.. Apple has shipped roughly 1 million 64-bit G5s. Compared to the total worldwide personal computer sales of ~150 million/year, some might say that Apple does not yet have enough 64-bit desktops present in people's homes to qualify as statistically relevant either. :-)
The new little "perks" such as getting a "free" iPod when you go to a school like Duke is not going to influence any intelligent person.
Giving away iPods to individual students might be a minor incentive in itself, but what's really significant about this is that by giving them to ALL students changes the environment of the entire school..
Frankly, though, I think it would me more effective to build the infrastructure to make PDAs extraordinarly useful so that students buy the devices on their own. For example deliver course schedules, syllibus details, campus maps, textbook info, annoucements, class notes and handouts, etc. to PDAs - and make it easy to sync via either wireless connections or IR.
I dunno where you're getting your "facts", but according to the Department of Education website, student loan default rates hit an all-time low last year.
HIPAA only applies to Covered Entities:
- Health plans
- Health care providers
- Health care clearinghouses
Thus these companies are not Covered Entities and are not bound by HIPAA law, unless they have a Business Associate Agreement with a Covered Entity to preform some function for them, but that is very unlikely.Some electric companies sell cheap bulbs and fixtures to get people to use less electricity. Seems counter-intuitive that they'd want you to use LESS, but I guess they can service more people that way..
What I thought was particularly remarkable about the bit on NPR's Morning Edition was about GE who apparently figured out with the help of the EPA folks that they could save $3 million just by setting their monitors to turn off when the computer is idle... ok, sure, maybe $3 million isn't very much when you compare it to their annual revenue of $134 billion, but hey, in real dollars it's still a lot.
You mean if they find enough evidence to CONVICT you, then you're not one of the false positives...
that's the problem; it doesn't take a whole heck of a lot of "evidence" to arrest someone. But an arrest for a federal crime like terrorism has a MAJOR impact on someone's life, whether or not they are found guilty.
That's because they count mail filtered into your Junk Mail folder against your 2MB quota. If you don't empty the folder frequently, it's easy to lose a third of your space just to the junk mail that sits in there in the deletion queue for 7 days.
That's what I've always heard too, but exactly HOW high are the royalties? Best I could find was this PDF, which says in the middle of page 4, "Royaly rates range up to a maximum of approximately 2.5% for RDRAMs and a maximum of approximately 5% for logic ICs."
Prices for RDRAM were *way* more than 5% more than DDR... anyone else have something to site regarding royalty rates??
That's the point. *WHY* was it so expensive? ...Rambus says it was because chip makers manipulated the price.
It isn't simply that they decided not to use it, it's that they conspired with other companies in an illegal anti-competitive manner.. essentially saying, "I won't license with them if you don't." Or, at least that's what RAMBUS is claiming they did.
Just like any company can decide they want to cell a doohickey for $1000 more than everyone else, but if they conspire with the other doohickey vendors to all raise their price by $1000 so they can make nice profit, it's illegal.
maybe, maybe you could attach a .22 pistol underneath it, I can't think of anything else
Something like that might work better for the OTHER side. Israeli would probably be more interested in some sort of GPS/laser targeting system so they can call in precision assassination strikes from an F-16.
Granted counting by hand can't provide instantanious results, but Canada counts their ballots by hand at the precinct, allowing them to complete their national ballot count in only four hours.
The REALLY useful thing computers allow you to do, (if implimented properly), is eliminate rejected ballots, since it can do error checking before submitting the ballot. Canada's hand counted ballots had a ~1.1% rejection rate: a rather low percentage, but it amounts to nearly 140,000 votes that didn't get counted.
Funny you should suggest that. I just got my Notice of Class Action Settlement papers in the mail from Nextel.
They've been charging most everyone an extra $1.55 per line for "Federal Programs Cost Recovery Fee" - which is really just a rate increase disguised as a government-imposed fee. What sucks about it is that all I get out of it is 9 minutes/month for three months. I don't even use all my minutes as is... I bet the lawyers made better than that.