that someone can get fired for such a simple mistake. Sure, the mistake had a big effect, but from the story it sounds like a tiny mistake, not really demonstrating incompetence or anything else that I would consider a reason for sacking someone.
Say what you want about unions, but as long as we have companies who treat people like this we need to have something to protect them.
(I know this happened in Taiwan, but I'm they would have been sacked in many other countries as well).
I use my xbox as a media centre most of the time, but when I do play games on it it's through an emulator. The only actual Xbox game I've played for more than an hour is KOTOR.
The latest games are good, and have a wow factor the first time I play each of them, but they don't have any staying power. I always seem to go back to my megadrive/SNES games, and ScummVM.
Part of it is probably reminiscing, but mostly I think older games couldn't rely on great graphics, so they had to make up for it in other areas.
All this means is that if you are going to involve GST, it has to be part of the final auction price, rather than added to it after the auction ends.
And this is good. Adding it on afterwards (unless it is clearly stated on the auction page) is deceptive. ebay received many complaints about this, so they are doing something about it.
Camino looks better and renders faster, for sure. But the reason I use Firefox rather than Safari is the extension system, so it's still my browser of choice.
Yes, I see the error of my ways. I saw the matrices on the website and somehow thought that the ballots were matrices also. Now I understand. Hooray for Condorcet!
In Condorcet you have to compare every candidate with every other candidate. So if there were five candidates with IRV there would be five boxes to number. With Condorcet there would be what, ten boxes to mark? So imagine comparing seventy candidates. Or have I missed something too?
Condorcet would work well in your presidential elections. But if you were to try to use it in a situation like our Australian Senate elections (with dozens of candidates on each ballot), the number of choices to make would place a burden on the voter.
You could use Condorcet in the presidential ballot and preferential (IRV) in bigger ballots, but I believe that it would be less confusing to use the same method of voting in every type of election, so I suggest that IRV is still the better option.
There have been cases of people in my country (Australia) turning down a knighthood because they want the country to become a republic. So what does this mean for a US citizen? Didn't you cut those ties with Britain hundreds of years ago?
... when I tried to use my Windows FAT32 ipod on a Mac. What was happening is that the software uses different libraries on windows or on mac, and the ipod software was corrupting it by overwriting the old library. The newest version of iTunes on mac will warn you that it will overwrite the old library, but obviously the windows version doesn't give this warning yet.
Apparently old mac users don't like the new Finder. However, this is one of the reasons I have never bought a mac before OSX, as a lot of the old UI components were bloody stupid. I expect that once these users get used to the new Finder, they will see how much more sensible it is.
... they ought to fix IE's.png support as well. Not that I use IE, but it annoys me when the transparencies in my avatars don't show up correctly on other people's computers!
The site says that it opens at 2pm on the 5th in London... Eastern Australian states will either be 10 or 11 hours ahead of London (some have daylight savings, some don't) so if it is really syncronised then it will open in Oz at midnight or 1am on the 6th of November. The further east you go (NZ, for example) this will be more evident.
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The IRC didn't refer to an 'air of automatically,' but an 'air of automaticity.' I don't want people to think that Australians are un-edumacated.
I've done it with my PayPal account over this issue, but I'll keep my ebay one until next time.
Say what you want about unions, but as long as we have companies who treat people like this we need to have something to protect them.
(I know this happened in Taiwan, but I'm they would have been sacked in many other countries as well).
The latest games are good, and have a wow factor the first time I play each of them, but they don't have any staying power. I always seem to go back to my megadrive/SNES games, and ScummVM.
Part of it is probably reminiscing, but mostly I think older games couldn't rely on great graphics, so they had to make up for it in other areas.
All this means is that if you are going to involve GST, it has to be part of the final auction price, rather than added to it after the auction ends. And this is good. Adding it on afterwards (unless it is clearly stated on the auction page) is deceptive. ebay received many complaints about this, so they are doing something about it.
because the Revolution will not be televised.
I'm just wondering if raping the Amazon is covered under the GPL.
Camino looks better and renders faster, for sure. But the reason I use Firefox rather than Safari is the extension system, so it's still my browser of choice.
Except that the killers were dressed as Mario and Luigi.
Yes, I see the error of my ways. I saw the matrices on the website and somehow thought that the ballots were matrices also. Now I understand. Hooray for Condorcet!
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I was under the impression you had to compare each and every candidate.
In Condorcet you have to compare every candidate with every other candidate. So if there were five candidates with IRV there would be five boxes to number. With Condorcet there would be what, ten boxes to mark? So imagine comparing seventy candidates. Or have I missed something too?
Condorcet would work well in your presidential elections. But if you were to try to use it in a situation like our Australian Senate elections (with dozens of candidates on each ballot), the number of choices to make would place a burden on the voter. You could use Condorcet in the presidential ballot and preferential (IRV) in bigger ballots, but I believe that it would be less confusing to use the same method of voting in every type of election, so I suggest that IRV is still the better option.
I'd like to see where this little factoid was referenced from, please.
"Welcome to Yesterday's News, can I help you?" "Yes, Timothy would like to cancel his subscription." ... Having said that, yes the map is pretty cool.
Don't install it next to Adblock! The meeting of these two opposing super-extensions will create an implosion that shall engulf the entire universe.
It was a hilarious thread. I was pressing F5 for days ;)
There have been cases of people in my country (Australia) turning down a knighthood because they want the country to become a republic. So what does this mean for a US citizen? Didn't you cut those ties with Britain hundreds of years ago?
... when I tried to use my Windows FAT32 ipod on a Mac. What was happening is that the software uses different libraries on windows or on mac, and the ipod software was corrupting it by overwriting the old library. The newest version of iTunes on mac will warn you that it will overwrite the old library, but obviously the windows version doesn't give this warning yet.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4042 It was a system that Jobs helped design after he left Apple.
Apparently old mac users don't like the new Finder. However, this is one of the reasons I have never bought a mac before OSX, as a lot of the old UI components were bloody stupid. I expect that once these users get used to the new Finder, they will see how much more sensible it is.
... they ought to fix IE's .png support as well. Not that I use IE, but it annoys me when the transparencies in my avatars don't show up correctly on other people's computers!
The site says that it opens at 2pm on the 5th in London... Eastern Australian states will either be 10 or 11 hours ahead of London (some have daylight savings, some don't) so if it is really syncronised then it will open in Oz at midnight or 1am on the 6th of November. The further east you go (NZ, for example) this will be more evident.
Apologies for this off-topic post, but 'wherefore' translates better as 'why' than 'where' (as many people think).
:)
Juliet was basically saying "Why art thou Romeo" (as in why is he from a rival family) rather than asking where he is that that moment.
Therefore, you are asking Objectivity why it is what it is