In the town where this mayoral race took place it is very possible that the outcome would change. 8-9 people who told him personally that they would vote for him, himself and his wife... how many of those people had friends who might also vote for him? Why did the other two candidates still have a runoff?
Are you assuming that none of the other candidates votes were incorrectly tallied? Are you also assuming that none of Wooten's votes were incorrectly assigned to another candidate?
If Wooten truely had 9 supporters and the voting machines somehow misassigned all of those votes to another of the candidates this would force a runoff between the other two candidates even though they weren't even close (The official tally was 18 and 18).
"No, this incident is probably not an example of electronic voter fraud." -- How do you mean this? The chances that a man thought he voted for himself but didn't are rather slim. Are you saying that incorrect results due to problems with the system (diebold) does not qualify as voter fraud?
It's not really fair to say he retired as opposed to "left" just because he's too old to get a job elsewhere. Lots of people retire because they dont like the last job where they work. If mr walkman wanted to retire just for the sake of retiring he would have done so earlier.
Not really, I can't see why anyone would be happy with sony getting 80k units out on "launch day". I'm pretty sure their sales numbers weren't as good as the numbers on xbox 360's launch day, they just had so many fewer units that they sold out sooner. The mocking won't stop here.
No, he's stepping down out of respect for his own party. He knows that the public wont elect him (think what you will about the public, you'll be at least partially correct), so he's giving another democrat a chance for the seat he currently occupies. The fact of the matter is the public is still too braindead to vote for anyone who is not a centrist, and coming out of the closet is a very non-centrist thing to do.
Oh my, are you actually inferring that a slashdot coder holds a CS degree? Software engineering is really only helpful on projects that are bigger than just a website.
I'd hardly say that slow/buggy websites are the fault of programmers. A CS major should have all the knowlege they need to understand the how and the reason behind making a solid website. If they aren't getting paid to do a solid site then they wont of course, but that's a management problem.
First, there's a ton of information which is "common knowlege"; This means that plagarism doesn't apply. Second, unless someone makes a direct quote of something they read, it wont show up as plagarism even if it is. The 142 count just means that all of them were flagrantly plagarized. This still seems rather low, but it makes a little more sense.
It was bad enough when EA was snuffing out small developers to rape and pillage their work while treating their employees like sweatshop workers, but now the target for their tactics are their customers...when is enough enough?
If you were going to buy BF 2142 ASAP then I guess it wasn't enough yet.
The census can't keep track of illegal immigration. Many more immigrants come in from mexico than legally from other locations, add that to the fact that a illegal immigrant must take action to become naturalized for their child to be legal, and you have a much different story.
Did you expect a journalist to do the math? They probably just guessed it would be an immigrant because immigration is a hot topic.
You should probably understand that the BMI is a scale, there are ranges of weight for specific height. While you are correct about the BMI not taking muscle into account directy, it does tend to reflect a vast majority of basketball players as healthy. At some point even having more muscle can be a problem for your body to handle. Muscle mass uses more of your body's cardiovascular capacity than fat does (although you wont see as much arterty clogging in a person who excercises regularly); Of course at some point the bones in your body can only take so much, muscles tend to support bone structures but I'm sure only to a certain degree.
The AC who responded about your weight fluctuations being from fat was likely correct. In two months you will lose cardiovascular and lung capacity, possibly even some fat, but you wont lose significant muscle power. I haven't exercised regularly in over a year (and I feel worse for it), but my weight lifting capacity is as high now as it was a year ago.
You're confusing maturity with professionalism; It's hard to tell if "Iceweasel" was chosen in some kind of spite for firefox. It's a parody, but imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. The "FOSS community" is a not a single organization, Debian has always been one of the more concerned distros when it comes to Free Software.
Why does the open source community have to be so mature/professional? Every corporate exec knows what goes on at colleges, but they still want to hire every dumb kid with a degree. You're not going to get any recognition for doing nothing, if you can excel in the field without going to jail then you're probably doing good enough.
You should look into the MegaSquirt (And Spark) independent engine management system. It is basically open source hardware; there are distributors who will sell you a prebuilt system for about $400, or you can get a set of electronics and instructions for about $250. It's a lot of money for a simple computer (and some not so simple sensors), but it's a bargain for an Engine Management system.
While that may become an issue in the future, at the moment the only thing stifiling innovation (and competition) is microsofts memory-dump file format. The ODF is a standard composition format; Any well written program should be able to read ODF files, and should be able to write out an ODF in a similar way that photoshop or your favorite graphics program can output JPEGs. The resulting file may be slightly less useful, but it's a platform.
Nobody said that Apple was making more money than microsoft or dvd distributors... I'm pretty sure that the "biggest distributor" when used in a general sense is the company that distributes more media than any one other company. Number of pieces or piece size may be an issue, but Apple is still really high up there either way. I took such a hard angle against Apple because opposed to what King_TJ originally said here, Apple is a very intrusive company when it comes to DRM distribution and enforcement. You don't like my anlge, but letting Apple off the hook just because you're a fanboy isn't insightful in my book.
How many ways is the dvd pie split? Do you really think that microsoft sells more copies of windows than apple sells itunes songs? Are you sure you're not the one pretending?
Back to DVDs, at least the DVD format is not centrally controlled; DVDs will be playable on their original media even if their distributor goes out of business, or shuts down a devision of their company. If Apple at any time decides to shut down their iTunes devision all the music and videos you "bought" are now useless.
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Send them both to jail and let them sort it out amongst themselves.
But the market for vista clearly is the average user. It's funny because microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot.
In the town where this mayoral race took place it is very possible that the outcome would change. 8-9 people who told him personally that they would vote for him, himself and his wife... how many of those people had friends who might also vote for him? Why did the other two candidates still have a runoff?
Are you assuming that none of the other candidates votes were incorrectly tallied? Are you also assuming that none of Wooten's votes were incorrectly assigned to another candidate?
If Wooten truely had 9 supporters and the voting machines somehow misassigned all of those votes to another of the candidates this would force a runoff between the other two candidates even though they weren't even close (The official tally was 18 and 18).
"No, this incident is probably not an example of electronic voter fraud."
-- How do you mean this? The chances that a man thought he voted for himself but didn't are rather slim. Are you saying that incorrect results due to problems with the system (diebold) does not qualify as voter fraud?
Did it occur to any of you that "launch day" means launch in the home market?
It's not really fair to say he retired as opposed to "left" just because he's too old to get a job elsewhere. Lots of people retire because they dont like the last job where they work. If mr walkman wanted to retire just for the sake of retiring he would have done so earlier.
Not really, I can't see why anyone would be happy with sony getting 80k units out on "launch day". I'm pretty sure their sales numbers weren't as good as the numbers on xbox 360's launch day, they just had so many fewer units that they sold out sooner. The mocking won't stop here.
No, he's stepping down out of respect for his own party. He knows that the public wont elect him (think what you will about the public, you'll be at least partially correct), so he's giving another democrat a chance for the seat he currently occupies. The fact of the matter is the public is still too braindead to vote for anyone who is not a centrist, and coming out of the closet is a very non-centrist thing to do.
Oh my, are you actually inferring that a slashdot coder holds a CS degree? Software engineering is really only helpful on projects that are bigger than just a website.
Don't forget about the guy who observed it and the slashdot editor who posted it.
I'd hardly say that slow/buggy websites are the fault of programmers. A CS major should have all the knowlege they need to understand the how and the reason behind making a solid website. If they aren't getting paid to do a solid site then they wont of course, but that's a management problem.
First, there's a ton of information which is "common knowlege"; This means that plagarism doesn't apply. Second, unless someone makes a direct quote of something they read, it wont show up as plagarism even if it is. The 142 count just means that all of them were flagrantly plagarized. This still seems rather low, but it makes a little more sense.
On the other side of the coin there's not as much reason to protect Milli Vanilli in the first place.
too bad opera still doesn't work on ebay.
I'd say her interest peaked _BEFORE_ you walked to your VW Diesel Rabbit.
If you were going to buy BF 2142 ASAP then I guess it wasn't enough yet.
The census can't keep track of illegal immigration. Many more immigrants come in from mexico than legally from other locations, add that to the fact that a illegal immigrant must take action to become naturalized for their child to be legal, and you have a much different story.
Did you expect a journalist to do the math? They probably just guessed it would be an immigrant because immigration is a hot topic.
You should probably understand that the BMI is a scale, there are ranges of weight for specific height. While you are correct about the BMI not taking muscle into account directy, it does tend to reflect a vast majority of basketball players as healthy. At some point even having more muscle can be a problem for your body to handle. Muscle mass uses more of your body's cardiovascular capacity than fat does (although you wont see as much arterty clogging in a person who excercises regularly); Of course at some point the bones in your body can only take so much, muscles tend to support bone structures but I'm sure only to a certain degree.
The AC who responded about your weight fluctuations being from fat was likely correct. In two months you will lose cardiovascular and lung capacity, possibly even some fat, but you wont lose significant muscle power. I haven't exercised regularly in over a year (and I feel worse for it), but my weight lifting capacity is as high now as it was a year ago.
You're confusing maturity with professionalism; It's hard to tell if "Iceweasel" was chosen in some kind of spite for firefox. It's a parody, but imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. The "FOSS community" is a not a single organization, Debian has always been one of the more concerned distros when it comes to Free Software. Why does the open source community have to be so mature/professional? Every corporate exec knows what goes on at colleges, but they still want to hire every dumb kid with a degree. You're not going to get any recognition for doing nothing, if you can excel in the field without going to jail then you're probably doing good enough.
That's like saying that Sept 11 WASN'T a tragedy for American Airlines. Get a life.
Those games can only be considered classic if you're eleven. Oh wait, nevermind.
You should look into the MegaSquirt (And Spark) independent engine management system. It is basically open source hardware; there are distributors who will sell you a prebuilt system for about $400, or you can get a set of electronics and instructions for about $250. It's a lot of money for a simple computer (and some not so simple sensors), but it's a bargain for an Engine Management system.
While that may become an issue in the future, at the moment the only thing stifiling innovation (and competition) is microsofts memory-dump file format. The ODF is a standard composition format; Any well written program should be able to read ODF files, and should be able to write out an ODF in a similar way that photoshop or your favorite graphics program can output JPEGs. The resulting file may be slightly less useful, but it's a platform.
Nobody said that Apple was making more money than microsoft or dvd distributors... I'm pretty sure that the "biggest distributor" when used in a general sense is the company that distributes more media than any one other company. Number of pieces or piece size may be an issue, but Apple is still really high up there either way. I took such a hard angle against Apple because opposed to what King_TJ originally said here, Apple is a very intrusive company when it comes to DRM distribution and enforcement. You don't like my anlge, but letting Apple off the hook just because you're a fanboy isn't insightful in my book.
Most CS types would say that SLL is Singly Linked List. The construct allows for references to next, but not to previous.
How many ways is the dvd pie split? Do you really think that microsoft sells more copies of windows than apple sells itunes songs? Are you sure you're not the one pretending?
Back to DVDs, at least the DVD format is not centrally controlled; DVDs will be playable on their original media even if their distributor goes out of business, or shuts down a devision of their company. If Apple at any time decides to shut down their iTunes devision all the music and videos you "bought" are now useless.