The real question is if the anomolies are any more or any less than with paper ballots.
Less. Australia has always only ever had paper ballots. When the result is close, like within 0.25%, losing candidates typically call for a recount. The recount can take a week. What is the deviation of recount from original figures? Typically below 0.0001%.
Can the potential difference in votes amount to a larger number than the margins by which either candidate won in a given state?
That depends. Are you asking only about the wrong votes that we know about or would you also want to include any wrong votes that we haven't detected yet?
while microsoft discontinues support for old systems, they go to extraordinary lengths...... read raymond chen's blog...
Joel Spolsky wrote in his now famous article about two opposing camps at Microsoft, one of which he calls the "Raymond Chen Camp" and the other, the "MSDN Camp".
Flip. Flop. The strategic direction is the result of a tension amongst younger people that is arbitrated by a few central older characters.
Linux, seems to be organized along different lines. The unpaid authors are motivated by other interests and by different values. Linux may be akin to a spiritual journey for some authors. Such a force may result in a coherency over time that stems from a belief system rather than from a marketplace.
But that's just about the author geeks who create Linux. The marketing people may be on yet different journeys still.
IBM's doing well and plays a part in Linux community.
Meanwhile, the community exhibits a lot of diversity and that's both a sign of flexibility and a source of strength.
Decisions like that one from the NHS take a lot of time and effort. The sales cycle is measured in years. Microsoft excels at this process. They have people talking to people and organizations constantly, feeding them material to show their bosses and committees.
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When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent.
Those data don't warrant the conclusion "Warm Offices Boost Productivity."
The improvement could simply be a result of the change. The gains might not be sustained over time. Lowering the temperature another 3 degrees six weeks later could also yield an improvement.
A change is as good as a holiday.
Warmth may seem great when you lack it but then the same can be said for coolness.
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The real question is if the anomolies are any more or any less than with paper ballots.
Less. Australia has always only ever had paper ballots. When the result is close, like within 0.25%, losing candidates typically call for a recount. The recount can take a week. What is the deviation of recount from original figures? Typically below 0.0001%.
Can the potential difference in votes amount to a larger number than the margins by which either candidate won in a given state?
That depends. Are you asking only about the wrong votes that we know about or would you also want to include any wrong votes that we haven't detected yet?
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If C/C++ is the culprit for all these problems in software, then what is to blame for all these problems outside of software?
English?
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it costs up to ten times as much to fix an error by the time it hits the market as it would to catch it during the design
Are you sure about that factor?
What if there are 100,000,000 users?
MS seems to have caught SCO disease.
Wireless headphones are a natural for Skype. You can walk around the room talking on the phone.
You forgot back-handers!
Linux offers karma bonus.
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Proof, no proof, hole, no hole... it really doesn't matter.
This has now been proven.
while microsoft discontinues support for old systems, they go to extraordinary lengths... ... read raymond chen's blog...
Joel Spolsky wrote in his now famous article about two opposing camps at Microsoft, one of which he calls the "Raymond Chen Camp" and the other, the "MSDN Camp".
Flip. Flop. The strategic direction is the result of a tension amongst younger people that is arbitrated by a few central older characters.
Linux, seems to be organized along different lines. The unpaid authors are motivated by other interests and by different values. Linux may be akin to a spiritual journey for some authors. Such a force may result in a coherency over time that stems from a belief system rather than from a marketplace.
But that's just about the author geeks who create Linux. The marketing people may be on yet different journeys still.
IBM's doing well and plays a part in Linux community.
Meanwhile, the community exhibits a lot of diversity and that's both a sign of flexibility and a source of strength.
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Even if Linux is better/cheaper/faster...
Decisions like that one from the NHS take a lot of time and effort. The sales cycle is measured in years. Microsoft excels at this process. They have people talking to people and organizations constantly, feeding them material to show their bosses and committees.
Who is making the corresponding effort for Linux?
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Nokia announced in June that Series 60 will feature SVG UI and viewer support.
Nokia rocks!!
How about a phone that gets better reception?
Where do you live?
Sounds like you could do with a better transmitter.
Happy about this?
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Only 7% said intelligence!!!!! HOLY FUCK!!! JESUS CHRIST, is this the country that I'm living in?!?!?!?
An intelligent person like you could probably answer that question yourself if you stopped to think.
But don't let me stop you.
Publications like this play an important role in establishing best practices and community, two key enablers of standardization.
These in turn will lead to greater adoption, and more publications. A virtuous cycle.
... on drugs .
why doesn't stern organize mass complaint filings
He did.
He did.
then if the fcc takes no action on thousands of letters, he can genuinely talk about hypocricy
He did. That was the clip you were commenting on.
I really don't know why slashdot would legitimate anything this person has written by carrying this story.
Are you saying it'd be better to hate her silently and ignore her for the rest of time?
Do as HP says not as HP does.
those morons jump on trendy bandwagons faster than 14 year old girls.
yeah? Around here morons jump on 14 year old girls quicker than anything.
When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent.
Those data don't warrant the conclusion "Warm Offices Boost Productivity."
The improvement could simply be a result of the change. The gains might not be sustained over time. Lowering the temperature another 3 degrees six weeks later could also yield an improvement.
A change is as good as a holiday.
Warmth may seem great when you lack it but then the same can be said for coolness.
Just FYI, "across the pond" always refers to the Atlantic Ocean.
In Atlantic countries that may be true.
Meanwhile in the Pacific "across the pond" means "across the Pacific". That is why Telstra calls their ISP business BigPond.
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Our ocean is bigger than your ocean..
If genes are cseg then junk is dseg. Right?
-- John Von Neumann (dead, but interested in biology now that it's an information science)
For use as a PDA, presumably
I don't think many people are using PDAs for that these days.
I'm making a lot of extra money, so if that's "fucking retarded", well, I guess it just must be then.
How much extra money are you making from your web site?