It's similar to the episode where there's a series called Team Wormhole or something. In the episode one of the actors asks a question about a script that is like the episode in which Daniel's out of phase with the rest of the world but yet he doesn't fall through the floor. They give a nod to the fact that sometimes not all the facts line up but sometimes you've just got to go with it.
You have to actually read the wikipedia link to know that Duverger's "law" is not absolute. There are counterexamples and there is no reason to believe that the US couldn't be one of these.
Our system was designed so that we could vote for the man (or woman) we think is best for the job. If he's on the ballot then there's nothing wrong with voting for him. If you say that a candidate is "stealing" someone elses votes then I say they weren't his votes to begin with. A vote for a third party isn't someone elses vote to lose, it's their vote to win by convincing that voter that they're the right person for the office.
Also a third party is healthy for the process because often if a third party threatens to steal the majority vote from a larger party, the larger party will offer an alliance, making consessions to the minority voice to get their support. This annexation of smaller parties isn't the mean spirited process of dismantling their platform, but comprimise. These "sacrificed" votes are ways to let the major parties know that you're not satisfied with their current goals and that they need to accomidate you and not the other way around.
DSB-T STB that plays MPEG2 over SMB and with so much trauam in the LBC it's kinda hard bein snoop D O Double G with my BLT. I'll be hangin over here with my WLAN wearin SPF 30 cause of the UV...
Am I the only one that had to read the title and description like 4 times to get the gist of this? I know acronyms are a fact of life but I think my brain is starting to overload on them.
I think they could really pull it off. If they make their IM client as easy as user-friendly and reliable as their email client with some nifty new features it could draw a lot of people from AIM. I know I was drawn from hotmail along with my entire family and almost all of my friends. If they give enough reasons to switch, people won't complain about the hassle associated with it.
Long article, definately worth the read if you're thinking about going into testing. I marvel at how 'thourough' testing can be and still there's these ellusive bugs because it's simply impossible to track down every tiny (or not so tiny) fault in the code. Say what you want about Microsoft but this guy certainly has a good head on his shoulders.
Flexability, I can name a ton, GURPS, FUDGE, FATE... do you really want a level system? Would you find it easy to play as a party of Bunnies in D20? Simplicity, again I'd go for FUDGE, though there are plenty of other examples. Playability is all in the eye of the beholder but combat in D&D seems overly cumbersome with all the feats and bonuses to calculate (How many attacks of opportunity do I get if the Orc is nearsighted with a toothache and me thief has 12 daggers of cheapness?) needless to say, almost any other system I think is more playable, but that's just me. Check out Faterpg.com if you don't believe me.
The D&D 30th anniversary is just an overhyped way for WoTC to sell more books. IMHO the only real merit of D&D is that it set the ball rolling and brings RPG to the masses. There are a lot of better systems out there in terms of playbility or realism or flexability, plain and simple. If 'it works and it's what everyone else plays' were a good enough reason, Linux would never have made it past Linus's HD.
It's good to see this AC can post rationally, and objectively. Why don't we all post our favorite stereotype and preach it as gospel? This kind of rhetoric turns political debate into a punchline rather than thoughtful discussion.
Great, I love Paranoia, but in the article description can't we point the to link that we get the headline from? Link three titled 'using a web log' was the only one of the six links provided that had any mention of it 'going gold.' Am I the only one who finds this annoying?
Go ahead and mod me off topic, I've got karma to spare.
My point was that these people that listen to Bill O'Reilly don't generally have opinions. They are just parroting what Mr. O'Reilly tells them.
Thank you Mr. Independant thinker, now I know I've been a parrot all my life and I can turn my attention now to forming my own opinion.
Seriously though, "these people"? Just who are you talking about? I know plenty of well educated people who happen to be Bill O'Reilly fans, just like I know plenty of well educated people who listen to Shawn Hannity's radio show. However these people have no problems disagreeing with the hosts of their respective sources of analysis (not news thank you very much). If you listen to callers on the show, a lot are well spoken dissenters who respectfully disagree with O'Reilly's or Hannity's opinions.
Please before you make large blanket statements, have something to back them up with.
The real question is, will anyone actually go and see this movie? As we all know, it's the even numbered trek movies that don't suck (for the most part). I challenge you to name one good odd numbered trek movie.
Well yes it's about that, but it's also about applying logic to various situations like philosophy and motorcycle maintenance. The background coloring is about mental ilness and a father's journey to try and connect with his son.
I think that if your business model involves relying on people to forget to stop paying for your product after they're done with it, then you are NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH.
Well it's certainly not a perfectly straightforward and all together honest bussiness model but I'm sure companies make a lot of money from recurring payments that get noticed only after someone sees it on their bill 1 - 2 months later.
Also, make sure you send out resumes. Lots of resumes...You know how I got my first real job? Through a friend-of-a-friend, who happened to have also graduated from my school ten years before.
So your advice is to send out resumes...even if that's not how you got your first real job? I'm not saying this isn't good advice but I'm just astounded by what some people try to pass off as a good argument.
Your point is well taken, however I was posting to be funny, I really didn't think that viruses would bring such systems to a screeching halt very easily. In addition I would argue that your average cell phone user is even less tech savvy than your average email user. Any sysadmin that has to deal with email worms on their system knows that user permittance is a lot easier to get than one would imagine.
Here is the link I was too lazy to include earlier. Better explains my comment...and when I said we I meant regular readers of slashdot, which apparently you aren't.
Slashdot Mirror
It's similar to the episode where there's a series called Team Wormhole or something. In the episode one of the actors asks a question about a script that is like the episode in which Daniel's out of phase with the rest of the world but yet he doesn't fall through the floor. They give a nod to the fact that sometimes not all the facts line up but sometimes you've just got to go with it.
You have to actually read the wikipedia link to know that Duverger's "law" is not absolute. There are counterexamples and there is no reason to believe that the US couldn't be one of these.
Our system was designed so that we could vote for the man (or woman) we think is best for the job. If he's on the ballot then there's nothing wrong with voting for him. If you say that a candidate is "stealing" someone elses votes then I say they weren't his votes to begin with. A vote for a third party isn't someone elses vote to lose, it's their vote to win by convincing that voter that they're the right person for the office.
Also a third party is healthy for the process because often if a third party threatens to steal the majority vote from a larger party, the larger party will offer an alliance, making consessions to the minority voice to get their support. This annexation of smaller parties isn't the mean spirited process of dismantling their platform, but comprimise. These "sacrificed" votes are ways to let the major parties know that you're not satisfied with their current goals and that they need to accomidate you and not the other way around.
Hmmm and D&D just turned 30 too... coincidence?
DSB-T STB that plays MPEG2 over SMB and with so much trauam in the LBC it's kinda hard bein snoop D O Double G with my BLT. I'll be hangin over here with my WLAN wearin SPF 30 cause of the UV...
Am I the only one that had to read the title and description like 4 times to get the gist of this? I know acronyms are a fact of life but I think my brain is starting to overload on them.
I think they could really pull it off. If they make their IM client as easy as user-friendly and reliable as their email client with some nifty new features it could draw a lot of people from AIM. I know I was drawn from hotmail along with my entire family and almost all of my friends. If they give enough reasons to switch, people won't complain about the hassle associated with it.
Great, cause what this world needs is yet another verstion of Dust.
Long article, definately worth the read if you're thinking about going into testing. I marvel at how 'thourough' testing can be and still there's these ellusive bugs because it's simply impossible to track down every tiny (or not so tiny) fault in the code. Say what you want about Microsoft but this guy certainly has a good head on his shoulders.
I wasn't talking about 'ease' merely flexability. If you want 'ease' try 'Fairy Meat' or FUDGE.
Flexability, I can name a ton, GURPS, FUDGE, FATE... do you really want a level system? Would you find it easy to play as a party of Bunnies in D20? Simplicity, again I'd go for FUDGE, though there are plenty of other examples. Playability is all in the eye of the beholder but combat in D&D seems overly cumbersome with all the feats and bonuses to calculate (How many attacks of opportunity do I get if the Orc is nearsighted with a toothache and me thief has 12 daggers of cheapness?) needless to say, almost any other system I think is more playable, but that's just me. Check out Faterpg.com if you don't believe me.
The D&D 30th anniversary is just an overhyped way for WoTC to sell more books. IMHO the only real merit of D&D is that it set the ball rolling and brings RPG to the masses. There are a lot of better systems out there in terms of playbility or realism or flexability, plain and simple. If 'it works and it's what everyone else plays' were a good enough reason, Linux would never have made it past Linus's HD.
Yes... yes you are... now go sit in the corner and think before posting again.
It's good to see this AC can post rationally, and objectively. Why don't we all post our favorite stereotype and preach it as gospel? This kind of rhetoric turns political debate into a punchline rather than thoughtful discussion.
Great, I love Paranoia, but in the article description can't we point the to link that we get the headline from? Link three titled 'using a web log' was the only one of the six links provided that had any mention of it 'going gold.' Am I the only one who finds this annoying?
Go ahead and mod me off topic, I've got karma to spare.
I got mine and spent the money on a few spindles of blank CDs to uh... back up my songs... yeah that's it...
My point was that these people that listen to Bill O'Reilly don't generally have opinions. They are just parroting what Mr. O'Reilly tells them.
Thank you Mr. Independant thinker, now I know I've been a parrot all my life and I can turn my attention now to forming my own opinion.
Seriously though, "these people"? Just who are you talking about? I know plenty of well educated people who happen to be Bill O'Reilly fans, just like I know plenty of well educated people who listen to Shawn Hannity's radio show. However these people have no problems disagreeing with the hosts of their respective sources of analysis (not news thank you very much). If you listen to callers on the show, a lot are well spoken dissenters who respectfully disagree with O'Reilly's or Hannity's opinions.
Please before you make large blanket statements, have something to back them up with.
I hate to be picky but "Open Source"? Wouldn't a better analogy be GPL? I mean what source is there in Television?
The real question is, will anyone actually go and see this movie? As we all know, it's the even numbered trek movies that don't suck (for the most part). I challenge you to name one good odd numbered trek movie.
HOPE stands for Hackers of Planet Earth, last year they had the lockpicking thing as well as a seminar on caller id spoofing.
Are we going to get this story every month now for the entire run of the magazine?
The Road Ahead, by Bill Gates?
*ducks*
Well yes it's about that, but it's also about applying logic to various situations like philosophy and motorcycle maintenance. The background coloring is about mental ilness and a father's journey to try and connect with his son.
I think that if your business model involves relying on people to forget to stop paying for your product after they're done with it, then you are NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH.
Well it's certainly not a perfectly straightforward and all together honest bussiness model but I'm sure companies make a lot of money from recurring payments that get noticed only after someone sees it on their bill 1 - 2 months later.
Also, make sure you send out resumes. Lots of resumes...You know how I got my first real job? Through a friend-of-a-friend, who happened to have also graduated from my school ten years before.
So your advice is to send out resumes...even if that's not how you got your first real job? I'm not saying this isn't good advice but I'm just astounded by what some people try to pass off as a good argument.
Your point is well taken, however I was posting to be funny, I really didn't think that viruses would bring such systems to a screeching halt very easily. In addition I would argue that your average cell phone user is even less tech savvy than your average email user. Any sysadmin that has to deal with email worms on their system knows that user permittance is a lot easier to get than one would imagine.
Here is the link I was too lazy to include earlier. Better explains my comment...and when I said we I meant regular readers of slashdot, which apparently you aren't.