A push poll is a political campaigntechnique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll]. Push polls are generally viewed as a form of negative campaigning. The term is also sometimes used incorrectly to refer to legitimate polls which test political messages, some of which may be negative. Push polling has been condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants.
The mildest forms of push polling are designed merely to remind voters of a particular issue. For instance, a push poll might ask respondents to rank candidates based on their support of abortion in order to get voters thinking about that issue.
More negative are attacks on another candidate by using polls. These attacks often contain information with little or no basis in fact.
True push polls tend to be very short, with only a handful of questions, so as to make as many calls as possible. The data obtained is discarded, not analyzed. Any poll that does not ask demographic information -- such as age, income, or race -- is generally not a legitimate poll, but some form of advertising.
Perhaps the most famous alleged use of push polls is in the 2000 United States Republican Party primaries, when it was alleged that George W. Bush's campaign used push polling to torpedo the campaign of Senator John McCain. Voters in South Carolina reported being asked "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?" an allegation that had no substance but planted the idea of undisclosed allegations in the minds of thousands of primary voters. McCain and his wife had in fact adopted an Asian child.
People who make many calls or are frequently called are well connected nodes in the graph of all phonecalls. These are likely to be influential people.
The 4G iPods use the PortalPlayer PP5020 chipset, and the new Mini and Photos use the PP5022. Other iPods have used various incantations of this chipset.
From vendor chipset PDFs (emphasis added by me):
Real-time encoding of MP3 and ACELP.NET audio formats
Real-time decoding of MP3, WMA, AAC and ACELP.NET formats
Real-time decoding of JPEG and MJPEG formats
TV Out-CCIR 601/656 8-bit digital video output to external NTSC/PAL decoder
Support for up to four Enhanced IDE...
Supports robust data encryption/decryption, including Microsoft(R) DRM technologies
--snip--
Whether or not Apple choses to ever support it in the layer 7(/8) is up to them. It's not a hardware limitation. The chipset itself is pretty robust.
WMP9, IE, RealOne, etc (the only windows machine I own/recommend) (WM2k3)
ObBitch: It doesnt have very good osx support (read: none), tho works for periods of time with some third party software. SyncML should, in theory, work, tho I havent gotten around (anyone?) to getting it to work.
It seems to have a problem keeping track of itself.
I search for "jamie rishaw" (with quotes)
"Showing 1-9 of about 40".
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Logic tells me if it fits about 10 on a page and there are 40 results, there should be 5 or so pages (not 10). So I click on "10". (You know you would, too, dont lie).
"Showing 91-99 of 140"
140??
Previous 1... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
"?"
Let's go for gold. I click on "14". Why? I wanna find the oldest stuff.
"There are no more web results for this query."
Okay, 13.
"There are no more web results for this query."
12?
"There are no more web results for this query."
11?
"There are no more web results for this query."
To A9's credit, the clickable web/books/images/movies/reference/history/bookmark s bar is slick.. (but diary? i'm not a girl.. okay, someone, first a9 hack: change "Diary" to "Notes") =)
My roomie (who I hate) has a printer he was hiding that he's now all of a sudden sharing.
3 words: All. Black. Printjobs.
I repeated those, uh, words, about a hundred times.
Hilarity did -not- ensue.
(Well, it did for me).
This is not "blanket extortion," and really, with the money that the music industry rakes in, five bucks a month is probably more akin to their anal cavities being violated than anyone else's -- Not Everyone Pirates Music, ya know.
$5/student is a good deal.
Let's put it in perspective.
TV is broadcast. Why shouldnt it be free?
They're sending out one signal.. What's one more box on the cable system? It's not costing them anything.
Yet I bet most of you (myself included) pay over $75 a month for this, in one form or another (mine is near $100, for DirecTV and a couple DirecTiVos).
It might be even semi useable if people were, oh, say, stealing from the mafia or bootlegging mafia ice capades shows, and the mafia rolled out a nationwide $5/month "extended service plan," but they're not.
It's not paying a protection fee. The RIAA isnt going to swoop down on you for not doing anything wrong. Maybe once in a while, but I bet you there are more "oops" mob hits than there are "oops" RIAA hits.
Not to stick up for the RIAA, but this licensing is not bad at all. It's better than you'll get with sites like Rhapsody or anywhere else - cheapest Ive seen is ten bucks and I'll tell you, for the subscription rate, you don't get a lot - most artists (and almost _all_ "charting" artists) don't license their stuff for streaming - only purchase.
I disagree. I don't think that other search engines will matter at all. Even if they do have a feature or two that's better than Google.
I think the Google fans (myself included) are just as loyal to Google for providing a chic, lucid, intuitive product as Apple fans are. Why? Because they've been conversely loyal to me, the User.
And by Conversely Loyal I mean just that: I feel that Google has been just as loyal to me as I have been to them.
Nay, Google's loyalty to "me" preadates my loyalty to them. Which makes my attachment impervious. In-volatile.
They've been consistent in what they've done, they've never surprised me in doing things (unless it was a delicious surprise, like google local, froogle, GMail or images) and they have been there "for me" 100% of the time; and, without fail, they have delivered a high quality, low noise product.
I don't care what Micros~1 comes out with. I might look, but I certainly won't inhale.
I run (among other things) an online music store. Not plugging it, so I won't identify it.
However, to give accurate numbers, the storage usage now of all of the songs in the store (there are currently 514,000) is 2,322GB (2.3 TB), or 4.51 megs on average per song.
By this, 1M songs should scale to 4.5T.
So, 22 copies of iTMS. But why would you want to make multiple backups on one media?
Surely we need some backups of online *movie* houses on this disc, too..:-)
Here's a search of "ooXle.com" (case insensitive) from COM.
OK, on second thought, I'm not. 2,956 domains. It'd just look, well, bad in a text post.. But I've
posted this list and hopefully the big bad slashdotters wont kill my poor wittle yewnix box grabbing it.
A friend of mine who is over here for a year on training (he's from Germany) had the best reply to this one: "This country is just going nuts.. I dont.. I really dont even know what to say.... I just need to.. heh, get out of here as soon as possible.."
It's a sad day when you realize youre no longer internally proud of your own country.. that it's abandoned its own values and is becoming a de facto police state.
MusicNow offers *both*. Download, and streaming, with no bias towards either. And they've been around the longest.
They just need an advertising budget.:-)
After all, Apple has trademarks of their own, how would they like it if MS or some other company started using them without a license?
They do. "Mactopia.com".
Word Mark MAC Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer storage media, namely a full line of pre-recorded computer programs. FIRST USE: 19941101. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19941101
Owner (REGISTRANT) Apple Computer, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1 INFINITE LOOP Cupertino CALIFORNIA 95014
Slashdot Mirror
Mirror of Mac, Windows and nix version (English) here.
I just got about 350KB/s download of the browser from moz..
From vendor chipset PDFs (emphasis added by me):
Real-time encoding of MP3 and ACELP.NET audio formats
Real-time decoding of MP3, WMA, AAC and ACELP.NET formats
Real-time decoding of JPEG and MJPEG formats
TV Out-CCIR 601/656 8-bit digital video output to external NTSC/PAL decoder
Support for up to four Enhanced IDE ...
Supports robust data encryption/decryption, including Microsoft(R) DRM technologies
--snip--
Whether or not Apple choses to ever support it in the layer 7(/8) is up to them. It's not a hardware limitation. The chipset itself is pretty robust.
This is why the http://myxda.com/XdaII/personal/template/XdaIIProd uctInfo.vmXDA2 still trumps 'em all.
PXA263 400MHz processor
128MB SDRAM(I have 384 in mine) 64MB ROM
65K display (good enuff for me)
camera (motion or still)
BT, Wifi(opt), etc
Phone, GPRS, etc
Handwriting recognition
WMP9, IE, RealOne, etc (the only windows machine I own/recommend) (WM2k3)
ObBitch: It doesnt have very good osx support (read: none), tho works for periods of time with some third party software. SyncML should, in theory, work, tho I havent gotten around (anyone?) to getting it to work.
I search for "jamie rishaw" (with quotes)
"Showing 1-9 of about 40".
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Logic tells me if it fits about 10 on a page and there are 40 results, there should be 5 or so pages (not 10). So I click on "10". (You know you would, too, dont lie).
"Showing 91-99 of 140"
140??
Previous 1 ... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
"?"
Let's go for gold. I click on "14". Why? I wanna find the oldest stuff.
"There are no more web results for this query."
Okay, 13.
"There are no more web results for this query."
12?
"There are no more web results for this query."
11?
"There are no more web results for this query."
To A9's credit, the clickable web/books/images/movies/reference/history/bookmark s bar is slick.. (but diary? i'm not a girl.. okay, someone, first a9 hack: change "Diary" to "Notes") =)
My roomie (who I hate) has a printer he was hiding that he's now all of a sudden sharing. 3 words: All. Black. Printjobs. I repeated those, uh, words, about a hundred times. Hilarity did -not- ensue. (Well, it did for me).
Well, maybe not cheaper..
That'd be "Libraries of congress," FWIW. What _is_ the storage size of an "LOC", anyhow? Anyone?
Sigh.. Maybe I'm one in a millon, but chrikey, Why Wont LOTR Die Already?
It's obvious technology, yes, but what ever happened to that thread?
So could..
Music isn't free.
Period.
This is not "blanket extortion," and really, with the money that the music industry rakes in, five bucks a month is probably more akin to their anal cavities being violated than anyone else's -- Not Everyone Pirates Music, ya know.
$5/student is a good deal.
Let's put it in perspective.
TV is broadcast. Why shouldnt it be free?
They're sending out one signal.. What's one more box on the cable system? It's not costing them anything.
Yet I bet most of you (myself included) pay over $75 a month for this, in one form or another (mine is near $100, for DirecTV and a couple DirecTiVos).
But music.. $5 a month.. is extortion?
Reality check.... cmon....
Mafia?
Don't stir the pot.
Talk about bad analogies.
It might be even semi useable if people were, oh, say, stealing from the mafia or bootlegging mafia ice capades shows, and the mafia rolled out a nationwide $5/month "extended service plan," but they're not.
It's not paying a protection fee. The RIAA isnt going to swoop down on you for not doing anything wrong. Maybe once in a while, but I bet you there are more "oops" mob hits than there are "oops" RIAA hits.
Not to stick up for the RIAA, but this licensing is not bad at all. It's better than you'll get with sites like Rhapsody or anywhere else - cheapest Ive seen is ten bucks and I'll tell you, for the subscription rate, you don't get a lot - most artists (and almost _all_ "charting" artists) don't license their stuff for streaming - only purchase.
I disagree. I don't think that other search engines will matter at all. Even if they do have a feature or two that's better than Google.
I think the Google fans (myself included) are just as loyal to Google for providing a chic, lucid, intuitive product as Apple fans are. Why? Because they've been conversely loyal to me, the User.
And by Conversely Loyal I mean just that: I feel that Google has been just as loyal to me as I have been to them.
Nay, Google's loyalty to "me" preadates my loyalty to them. Which makes my attachment impervious. In-volatile.
They've been consistent in what they've done, they've never surprised me in doing things (unless it was a delicious surprise, like google local, froogle, GMail or images) and they have been there "for me" 100% of the time; and, without fail, they have delivered a high quality, low noise product.
I don't care what Micros~1 comes out with. I might look, but I certainly won't inhale.
Ive actually forgotten they were there...
I run (among other things) an online music store. Not plugging it, so I won't identify it. However, to give accurate numbers, the storage usage now of all of the songs in the store (there are currently 514,000) is 2,322GB (2.3 TB), or 4.51 megs on average per song. By this, 1M songs should scale to 4.5T. So, 22 copies of iTMS. But why would you want to make multiple backups on one media? Surely we need some backups of online *movie* houses on this disc, too.. :-)
OK, on second thought, I'm not. 2,956 domains. It'd just look, well, bad in a text post.. But I've posted this list and hopefully the big bad slashdotters wont kill my poor wittle yewnix box grabbing it.
Here's some more interesting ones:
5 characters:
6 characters:
7 characters:
jamie
Only???
Remember, on that cold April day in 1994, Canter and Siegel "only" sent out 4-5,000 messages to Usenet.
Spammers are like cats. You let 'em get away with something once... and you're screwed.
Go Verizon.
It's a sad day when you realize youre no longer internally proud of your own country.. that it's abandoned its own values and is becoming a de facto police state.
What happened, guys??
MusicNow offers *both*. Download, and streaming, with no bias towards either. And they've been around the longest. They just need an advertising budget. :-)
Actually, $455 a week = $23360 per year. There are 52 weeks, not (week * 4 * 12) (48). Nonetheless, I think I paid more than that in taxes.. :(
They do. "Mactopia.com".