... at least I wouldn't have to second guess whether I'd really be better off with larger genitalia.
I mean, when someone wants lots of money it is obviously a scam... but what if, for a little money, "she would want to lick it like a lolly pop" all the time!.
Yup - Exit Polling, while nice for fast estimates of the expected result, is totally worthless for verification.
Think about it: You can't exit-poll EVERY polling place. Where are you going to do your exit polling? Precincts that you expect to vote the way you want [liberal/conservative]. Even then, who's to say the poll taker is honest? She can just write down whatever they want.
Dishonesty in exit polling can be used either way - to bolster a corrupted un-auditable e-vote system ["the poll matches the vote" - Or - to impeach it "the exit poll is way off from the reported vote!"]
The article just says stations, but it doesn't say where those stations are.
I would not be at all surprised if this is an urban phenomenom. Seems I've seen stuff like this reported about cities before.
I bet rural stations don't show such fluctuations, so what's the point?
Clearly this is not a global effect, since the article names specific countries, so, what does it mean? What's the context? My bathroom gets steamy everytime I use it... so what?
No, it is not the be-all end-all of programming languages.
There are none of those. They ALL suck.
I have been a well paid programmer (yes, even in today's economy) for 20+ years. I have used VMS, DOS, Windows whatever, Macs, and various real-time OS's as platforms. I have used BASIC, Z80, i860, FORTRAN, ALGOL, C, C++, C#, VB, and countless scripting languages (including the write-only language known as Perl).
They all suck, and I like it that way. I get paid more because of it.
If your PHB could just ask the computer do do what he wanted, I would be out of a job.
Bottom line: Different languages for different tasks. If I want to write a nice windows app, quick (and know the end user has the 20MB download for the environment) I'd not hesitate to use C# today. If I want a nice, small statically linked exe - you don't pick C#.
I downloaded the script - the copyright is no good
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I got the perl script. The first thing I notice is that the copyright is tllatoy unecnofirble...
I like music (and I *own* the cds from which 95%+ of my MP3 come).
Lots of people like seeing live music. I am not one of them.
In my experience live music is brutally loud, in a crowded environment with all food and drink overpriced. No comment on ticket price, that is neither here nor there - that is what the market will bear (of course I guess the food and drink prices are too, but it is a monopoly then...)
Let someone else deal with it for 1/10th the price. Spend 5% of the time making sure they do twice as much work as you would have if you were working full time.
If you repeat this process at 10 jobs, like I have, you get 9x the income of one job, and only about 1/2 the work!
Eventually we'll live in the StarTrek Universe.
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Stuff is getting cheaper and cheaper. You are dumb if you buy "stuff" and think it will be worth more later.
I can't tell the difference between a fake diamond and a real diamond, so, if they are both pure carbon crystals, why should I pay more for the real one?
I like "fake" emeralds better than "real" ones. The fake ones (chemically the same) have no imperfections!
If I made a gold coin (with real gold) that looked just like an "old" one, what's the difference?
Ideas are worth money, not stuff. He he, and some people think information wants to be free.
Really, I want to have some thing entertaining that I can "pick up" quickly. Despite that fact that I read/. I am not a total geek.
I like playing games, but I do have a life. I can't spend too much time getting into it. Just point, shoot, kill. Let me find new stuff to kill for 15-20 hours and I will feel I've had my money's worth.
Then I go online and play the same game I just learned against others and it doesn't matter that it doens't stay new. If it is a good game, live people as opponents will keep it interesting.
Amazon already has user ratings on books... just type in, oh, say "chemistry for dummies" and you'll see that it gets a 5 star rating, AND you'll get links to "Customers who bought this book also bought..."
Alas, "differential equations for dummies" found no titles. (I always liked the "why" of double integration - "say you are in a room filling with poisonous gas, which is heavier than air, coming from a pipe in the center of the ceiling... Where is the best place to stand to live the longest." Heh, my answer is "outside the room!")
Ask Slashdot, and you'll likely get the same information, just sorted on a different "key", but I guess that's what you wanted...
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I mean, when someone wants lots of money it is obviously a scam... but what if, for a little money, "she would want to lick it like a lolly pop" all the time!.
Think about it: You can't exit-poll EVERY polling place. Where are you going to do your exit polling? Precincts that you expect to vote the way you want [liberal/conservative]. Even then, who's to say the poll taker is honest? She can just write down whatever they want.
Dishonesty in exit polling can be used either way - to bolster a corrupted un-auditable e-vote system ["the poll matches the vote" - Or - to impeach it "the exit poll is way off from the reported vote!"]
Either way, one knows nothing.
End of message.
I would not be at all surprised if this is an urban phenomenom. Seems I've seen stuff like this reported about cities before.
I bet rural stations don't show such fluctuations, so what's the point?
Clearly this is not a global effect, since the article names specific countries, so, what does it mean? What's the context? My bathroom gets steamy everytime I use it... so what?
Obviously the HARDWARE is correct, I mean if they say there are 100,000,000,000 bytes on a drive, I am sure there are.
In my experience, stable hardware is far less likely to be the problem than software. In this case I know it is a software issue.
Obviously, the OS vendors are wrong! Who told them to report 152GB for a 160,000,000,000 byte disk!
They should sue Microsoft! (well, and um, Apple, and "Linux", or your OS mfg of choice, unless it reports all the bytes, period.)
On a more cynical note: I am sure this suit is backed, not by some disgruntled consumer so much as by his brother-in-law, a sleazy lawyer.
B) That doen't mean if they didn't trade music that they would buy it.
Of course, they are avoiding paying for it. They either don't think it is worth the retail price, or they can't afford it.
People who have lots of money spend it on crap all the time, hell, I even hear rich people buy Porche's to crash them, for safety test purposes.
Hmmm, I wonder if Bill Gates has illegal MP3 files?
No, it is not the be-all end-all of programming languages.
There are none of those. They ALL suck.
I have been a well paid programmer (yes, even in today's economy) for 20+ years. I have used VMS, DOS, Windows whatever, Macs, and various real-time OS's as platforms. I have used BASIC, Z80, i860, FORTRAN, ALGOL, C, C++, C#, VB, and countless scripting languages (including the write-only language known as Perl).
They all suck, and I like it that way. I get paid more because of it.
If your PHB could just ask the computer do do what he wanted, I would be out of a job.
Bottom line: Different languages for different tasks. If I want to write a nice windows app, quick (and know the end user has the 20MB download for the environment) I'd not hesitate to use C# today. If I want a nice, small statically linked exe - you don't pick C#.
I got the perl script. The first thing I notice is that the copyright is tllatoy unecnofirble...
If you weren't so forgetful, you could have posted all at once and only had one set of moderated points spent rating you!
Java, schmava. .NET? you can't even use that for a filename in Windows. All computers and computer languages suck. But hey, it's a living.
Lots of people like seeing live music. I am not one of them.
In my experience live music is brutally loud, in a crowded environment with all food and drink overpriced. No comment on ticket price, that is neither here nor there - that is what the market will bear (of course I guess the food and drink prices are too, but it is a monopoly then...)
Only instead of a new "folder", it was push everything into a box, Bills and all.
It made me cringe, but, hey, "They'll send that bill again if they want to get paid..." and now the desk is clean.
They come in, wipe everything out, I move, change my name and start fresh.
I do this everytime there is a new Windows version, just so I don't have to decide between "full" or "upgrade".
Just don't bust that laptop open and wrap tape around a big shard of LCD glass to make a knife... that would be wrong.
Let someone else deal with it for 1/10th the price. Spend 5% of the time making sure they do twice as much work as you would have if you were working full time.
If you repeat this process at 10 jobs, like I have, you get 9x the income of one job, and only about 1/2 the work!
I can't tell the difference between a fake diamond and a real diamond, so, if they are both pure carbon crystals, why should I pay more for the real one?
I like "fake" emeralds better than "real" ones. The fake ones (chemically the same) have no imperfections!
If I made a gold coin (with real gold) that looked just like an "old" one, what's the difference?
Ideas are worth money, not stuff. He he, and some people think information wants to be free.
Hmmm. If every Windows user with a virus knows a Linux user, does that mean knowing a Linux user gives you a virus.
I like playing games, but I do have a life. I can't spend too much time getting into it. Just point, shoot, kill. Let me find new stuff to kill for 15-20 hours and I will feel I've had my money's worth.
Then I go online and play the same game I just learned against others and it doesn't matter that it doens't stay new. If it is a good game, live people as opponents will keep it interesting.
Is banning someone on their OS Choice a religious issue? Sure seems to be around here.
Only 2 of the top 20 are "Windows" problems...
2038-01-19T03:14:07Z... tick...
Warning, critical maintenance 2000 years overdue! Abort, Retry, Cancel?
The ones that weren't worth saving will be gone, and those that were worth saving, someone will have preserved them, legally or not.
Isn't Crom a R. E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian) God?
Yeah, and if I had bought Microsoft instead of my first computer (4.77Mhz dual floppy w/ DOS and CPM!) I'd be a millionaire (if I sold at the peak).
Alas, "differential equations for dummies" found no titles. (I always liked the "why" of double integration - "say you are in a room filling with poisonous gas, which is heavier than air, coming from a pipe in the center of the ceiling... Where is the best place to stand to live the longest." Heh, my answer is "outside the room!")
Ask Slashdot, and you'll likely get the same information, just sorted on a different "key", but I guess that's what you wanted...