The system used by pollsters, is to call randomly until a category is filled in i.e if you need 50 ppl of the age between 18-24, you'll call and call till the quota is full.
Therefore while statistically, it may be true that some parts of a given population has no landline telephone access, all a polster has to do is to find a dozen or so of their peers among hundred thousands or even millions of housholds to cover that segment.
Lately, I was involved in local elections in my country, and to my opinion, the more worriyng factor is how people are tired of having unsolicited calls and simply answer falsely to pollsters, cut the call in the midst or doing anything else that may mislead the survey the best they can.
While I can understand ppl that hate telemarketing, polling has a very important role in public and commercial life. Almost everybody likes to read polls but is reluctent to take part in it..
I would like to see a list of ppl that do want to take part in polls for pollsters to chose from, same as a "Don't call us" list. If the "wiiling to participate" list will be comprehensive and diverse enough, it may save a lot of trouble for everyone..
He works too from home, albeit a bigger one than yours, but takes looong holidays away in Camp David and in his Texas ranch to recuperate from the trauma..no, not that of working from home, but from actually have to work for the first time in his life..
A few hundreds of the workstations at the employment agency, are already equipped with MS Office.
The rest of the work stations are used mainly to process employment and unemployed data, and need only an office suite to occationally write a memo or do some basic calculations or tables using a spreadsheet. For that purpose, OO is more than enough once it has full Hebrew support, and can import at least basic Word or Excell documents.
In addition, that network is serviced by IBM, so the match and the matchmaker are obvious..
Therefore, it is not a real breakthrough albeit a significant first step.
However, the Israely finance ministry has allocated a few hundred K $ to support Hebrew interface for open source software.
Israel is currently under heavy financial strain, and budget cuts, and that may promote a faster shift towards much cheaper open source software, in the near future.
Looking at the scholarly discussion about spoofing MAC's (Or not), don't they use there in Cornell account names and passwords to get access to the network? If that is the case, as I believe is, than, The U can bill the account for the accumulated bandwidth usage, regardless of platforms MACs and all other means, other than accessing using stollen accounts' data.
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The system used by pollsters, is to call randomly until a category is filled in i.e if you need 50 ppl of the age between 18-24, you'll call and call till the quota is full. Therefore while statistically, it may be true that some parts of a given population has no landline telephone access, all a polster has to do is to find a dozen or so of their peers among hundred thousands or even millions of housholds to cover that segment. Lately, I was involved in local elections in my country, and to my opinion, the more worriyng factor is how people are tired of having unsolicited calls and simply answer falsely to pollsters, cut the call in the midst or doing anything else that may mislead the survey the best they can. While I can understand ppl that hate telemarketing, polling has a very important role in public and commercial life. Almost everybody likes to read polls but is reluctent to take part in it.. I would like to see a list of ppl that do want to take part in polls for pollsters to chose from, same as a "Don't call us" list. If the "wiiling to participate" list will be comprehensive and diverse enough, it may save a lot of trouble for everyone..
He works too from home, albeit a bigger one than yours, but takes looong holidays away in Camp David and in his Texas ranch to recuperate from the trauma..no, not that of working from home, but from actually have to work for the first time in his life..
A few hundreds of the workstations at the employment agency, are already equipped with MS Office. The rest of the work stations are used mainly to process employment and unemployed data, and need only an office suite to occationally write a memo or do some basic calculations or tables using a spreadsheet. For that purpose, OO is more than enough once it has full Hebrew support, and can import at least basic Word or Excell documents. In addition, that network is serviced by IBM, so the match and the matchmaker are obvious.. Therefore, it is not a real breakthrough albeit a significant first step. However, the Israely finance ministry has allocated a few hundred K $ to support Hebrew interface for open source software. Israel is currently under heavy financial strain, and budget cuts, and that may promote a faster shift towards much cheaper open source software, in the near future.
WOW, I wonder how Mr. Gates will survive such a "shock and awe" attack..Is he doomed like Saddam Husein?
Looking at the scholarly discussion about spoofing MAC's (Or not), don't they use there in Cornell account names and passwords to get access to the network?
If that is the case, as I believe is, than, The U can bill the account for the accumulated bandwidth usage, regardless of platforms MACs and all other means, other than accessing using stollen accounts' data.