I twisted my ankle night before last getting off the crosstown M79--I kicked the bus door open instead of pushing it with my arm, and went sprawling across the empty sidewalk. I hobbled noisily back to my apartment, but since then I've been unable to walk. Should I stay in tonight or go out? More importantly, if I go out, how am I going to manage to walk? Will ibuprofen be enough or should I combine it with this bottle of rum I've been meaning to finish?
Cool. Just out of curiosity--and not to stereotype anyone, but do you think these folks tend Democratic or Republican? Breslin (the columnist) assumes cellphone users are largely young and Democratic, but it seems to me this might not be the case in rural areas, such as where you live.
The article mentions that pollster John Zogby is "making a segue into Internet polling [using] screened e-mails of hundreds of thousands. Every household has some chance of being polled. How can you not do it that way?"
Seems like a good idea to me, as long as he doesn't just rely on email. Between email and landline telephones, I don't see why you couldn't get a representative sample of the population, as long as you used statistical sampling to compensate for over- and underrepresentation as appropriate.
But where did you go to college? My guess, based on nothing but speculation, is the percentage of people with only cell phones (and no landlines) is greater in cities than in rural areas. Thus, I'd expect polls to be less skewed (if still skewed) in swing states, where the polls really matter, just because a greater fraction of the electorate still has landlines there.
And they only survey one person in a household. They go after a particular individual, not just whoever happens to pick up the phone. At least, that's been my experience with the pollsters.
Based on my experience as a college graduate of this year, I can say pollsters are definitely missing a huge segment of the 18-25 population. NONE of my friends (yeah, I have friends, thank you very much) have a landline to their apartment, and instead rely on cell phones, as do I. Of course, this is in NYC--which raises the question, do rural and suburban areas (read: swing states) also have large populations ditching their landlines for mobiles? If not, it wouldn't seem to affect polls in those areas as much.
That's the problem with extensions--they let the Firefox developers pass the buck to third parties, instead of fixing bugs that really should be resolved in the main codebase.
I think the standard reply would be that that was the look they were going for. You don't have to enjoy it, but lots of other people will. It's a popcorn movie.
Most people who follow this sort of thing are aware that the vast majority of television and print journalists align themselves with the Democratic Party (though whether this makes them "liberal" is a subjective matter)--there was even a New York Times article about the phenomenon a couple weeks ago. However, the tone of your post and the self-superior attitude you adopt caused me to gag.
Indeed, but Wikipedia is indisputably one of the more unreliable sources out there (for all practical purposes). It fares especially poorly in comparison with well-established names in news and history, making even the New York Post look good. I say this as a long-time Wikipedia contributor; check my contribution history.
Because (opinion) on a Mac, unlike on a Linux or Windows box, you don't need more than one button to get things done. Sure, it can be convenient (I myself have an 8 button Logitech) but the OS and most apps are designed so that options are accessible in other ways, and easily at that. This is where it helps that you can hit the menubar with pure muscle memory, since it's at the top of the screen (though if you're able to do that with Windows, more power to you).
The parties, or more accurately Kerry and Bush, are far apart on the issue of Iraq. Not on whether it was proper to go to war at all, granted, but rather on the conduct and overall strategy of the war and, even before that, whether to gather support for it through international diplomatic channels or to flip the world the collective bird.
Just because neither party agrees with you personally doesn't mean there isn't a huge practical difference in their views.
What makes you think they wouldn't nab kids with laser pointers, too, if they caught them in the act? Oh, that's right--you just wanted to take a cheap shot at the MPAA. Don't be such a tool.
That's how you and I judge free societies. It's a mistake to assume other cultures, including the Chinese, use the same criteria. Welcome to postmodernity.
Yeah, it's pretty common practice nowadays to use computer models to assist in urban planning, not just for designing new roads, but also to see where best to widen lanes, where to add additional lanes, and even how to time traffic lights. One problem with prediction, over the long term, is that it turns out no matter how much road you build, it isn't enough. So building in 5% additional capacity staves off traffic problems in the short term, but within a decade or two you've got 10% more drivers, the additional traffic coming from the fact that your original (planned) increase in capacity made it that much easier to drive. Of course, this is why governments are more and more turning to congestion tolls as a way to thwart this cycle. More here.
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I twisted my ankle night before last getting off the crosstown M79--I kicked the bus door open instead of pushing it with my arm, and went sprawling across the empty sidewalk. I hobbled noisily back to my apartment, but since then I've been unable to walk. Should I stay in tonight or go out? More importantly, if I go out, how am I going to manage to walk? Will ibuprofen be enough or should I combine it with this bottle of rum I've been meaning to finish?
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Cool. Just out of curiosity--and not to stereotype anyone, but do you think these folks tend Democratic or Republican? Breslin (the columnist) assumes cellphone users are largely young and Democratic, but it seems to me this might not be the case in rural areas, such as where you live.
The article mentions that pollster John Zogby is "making a segue into Internet polling [using] screened e-mails of hundreds of thousands. Every household has some chance of being polled. How can you not do it that way?"
Seems like a good idea to me, as long as he doesn't just rely on email. Between email and landline telephones, I don't see why you couldn't get a representative sample of the population, as long as you used statistical sampling to compensate for over- and underrepresentation as appropriate.
But where did you go to college? My guess, based on nothing but speculation, is the percentage of people with only cell phones (and no landlines) is greater in cities than in rural areas. Thus, I'd expect polls to be less skewed (if still skewed) in swing states, where the polls really matter, just because a greater fraction of the electorate still has landlines there.
And they only survey one person in a household. They go after a particular individual, not just whoever happens to pick up the phone. At least, that's been my experience with the pollsters.
Dude, it's New York Newsday, my hometown newspaper. Where I come from that's right-of-center rhetoric.
Based on my experience as a college graduate of this year, I can say pollsters are definitely missing a huge segment of the 18-25 population. NONE of my friends (yeah, I have friends, thank you very much) have a landline to their apartment, and instead rely on cell phones, as do I. Of course, this is in NYC--which raises the question, do rural and suburban areas (read: swing states) also have large populations ditching their landlines for mobiles? If not, it wouldn't seem to affect polls in those areas as much.
That's the problem with extensions--they let the Firefox developers pass the buck to third parties, instead of fixing bugs that really should be resolved in the main codebase.
USB? IEEE 1394? 802.11? Touchpads on laptops? Quiet computing?
And that is why Linux sucks for the desktop. Sorry, but it's true.
I think the standard reply would be that that was the look they were going for. You don't have to enjoy it, but lots of other people will. It's a popcorn movie.
Most people who follow this sort of thing are aware that the vast majority of television and print journalists align themselves with the Democratic Party (though whether this makes them "liberal" is a subjective matter)--there was even a New York Times article about the phenomenon a couple weeks ago. However, the tone of your post and the self-superior attitude you adopt caused me to gag.
I've got news for you: You are what you hate.
Hahahahahaha!
Indeed, but Wikipedia is indisputably one of the more unreliable sources out there (for all practical purposes). It fares especially poorly in comparison with well-established names in news and history, making even the New York Post look good. I say this as a long-time Wikipedia contributor; check my contribution history.
Don't make me laugh.
Please see this.
Thanks for reminding me of the saying: "Mac OS and Windows have advocates. Linux has apologists."
Well, but that's what you agreed to when you forked over your 99c. Them's the breaks.
It's really slow, though, isn't it? Please tell me it's not just me.
Because (opinion) on a Mac, unlike on a Linux or Windows box, you don't need more than one button to get things done. Sure, it can be convenient (I myself have an 8 button Logitech) but the OS and most apps are designed so that options are accessible in other ways, and easily at that. This is where it helps that you can hit the menubar with pure muscle memory, since it's at the top of the screen (though if you're able to do that with Windows, more power to you).
The parties, or more accurately Kerry and Bush, are far apart on the issue of Iraq. Not on whether it was proper to go to war at all, granted, but rather on the conduct and overall strategy of the war and, even before that, whether to gather support for it through international diplomatic channels or to flip the world the collective bird.
Just because neither party agrees with you personally doesn't mean there isn't a huge practical difference in their views.
Pretty much the same way you'd build your own Dell computer, I suppose, except you order all the parts from Apple instead of Dell.
Did you just call Howard Dean electable? Don't make me laugh. Yaaaargh!
What makes you think they wouldn't nab kids with laser pointers, too, if they caught them in the act? Oh, that's right--you just wanted to take a cheap shot at the MPAA. Don't be such a tool.
That's how you and I judge free societies. It's a mistake to assume other cultures, including the Chinese, use the same criteria. Welcome to postmodernity.
Yeah, it's pretty common practice nowadays to use computer models to assist in urban planning, not just for designing new roads, but also to see where best to widen lanes, where to add additional lanes, and even how to time traffic lights. One problem with prediction, over the long term, is that it turns out no matter how much road you build, it isn't enough. So building in 5% additional capacity staves off traffic problems in the short term, but within a decade or two you've got 10% more drivers, the additional traffic coming from the fact that your original (planned) increase in capacity made it that much easier to drive. Of course, this is why governments are more and more turning to congestion tolls as a way to thwart this cycle. More here.