There was also the classic Asimov short that asked the omnicomputer 'how do you stop entropy' and the machine took eons to figure out the answer. Once the answer was gotten there was no one left to tell, so it decided 'let there be light'
Actually the straw polls for the media is entirely different than the delegates elected at the caucus. As of now, Maine, Iowa, Nevada, Louisiana - every caucus state - has not selected any national delegates. That won't be for awhile, months in some cases. Every state has different rules and some caucus rules are even odder than others.
In most states caucus' elected delegates can vote for whomever they please at the county/state level later on. In many cases the actual percentage of delegates who were elected were different based on their voting slate than they were in the straw poll. Ron Paul and Hucklebee have great grassroot support and their delegate lists who were elected are very different than straw polls.
What the media reports are estimates. I wouldn't be surprised for changes in the delegates once the caucus go through the full selection process. Unfortunately this isn't for months and by then the nomination is a fix. So winning a straw poll can cause a false media sensation even if they don't 'win' a states delegates.
We can't make voting easy now;)
How can you trust that the corresponding keypad pushes are correct? I mean do you see a physical piece of paper with the options you chose printed? Otherwise, it's just another version of Evoting.
I've seen videos of election fraud where someone running for office tested a system with a simple button push next to each name. She pushed her name, and some diagnostic screen at the bottom flashed her opponents name for a moment. As there was no paper trail, there would be no way to do a correct recount.
I concur. I live in the district of a previous chair of the House Telecommunications subcommittee. Looking at his contributor's list is a who's who of the telcom industry. Not surprising he followed Ameritech/SBC/AT&T's lead on almost every bit of legislation.
I read that short story in a sci fi yearly best of the best a few years back. Didn't realize outer limits was using those as scripts, although it would make sense to.
War is worth a lot of money, so just follow the money. Is it any wonder that the Oil and big business that got elected wanted to make more money? No-bid contracts with Halliburton, Cheney's ex-CEO spot, worth billions. Closed energy meetings with Cheney, not even disclosing who was attending the meetings.
That's not even getting a tin foil hat out, those are simple facts.
Now for the tin foil hat : Right now the US establishes its presence mostly via Saudi Arabia. Now that we'll have long term bases in Iraq and Afghanistan it gives us more places to project our influence. Why keep our power base located within just one country now that we have so many weapons sitting right next to Iran. It's obvious why we royally ignored all attempts at diplomacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700727.html - war is very profitable.
On top of that OPEC still uses US dollars. Iran is vocal about wanting to use the Euro. If we control a few of the OPEC nations and are the 800 pound gorilla with bases all over the middle east we just might stop a total collapse of the US Dollar.
With universal access fees and grants the telco companies are private companies that were funded in a large part by government fees. I've seen estimates of 200 billion http://www.muniwireless.com/article/articleview/5011 and more being given to develop universal high speed coverage that never materialized.
The '96 telco deregulation act was a step in the right direction stating that they had to share their facilities and lines because they were in fact developed with public funds. This was an 'at cost' sort of setup but was still hokey. DSL wholesale cost to another ISP was often times more than the phone company retail cost to the client - but it was at least an attempt at equity. They were glad to take the public money but were sure against having to do anything because of that.
Then Powell's son was put in charge of the FCC and the pro business/pro monopoly rulings made deregulation go away. Now we're back to the baby bells being larger than AT&T ever was, our infrastructure being sub par compared to the rest of the industrialized world, and consumers who paid taxes for a better system still being locked in to a monopoly, or a duopoly at best.
This decision isn't about business - this is about lobbying at its finest.
1) HP Vista laptops ship with recovery DVDs, there is no reason to create one.
This is incorrect. My HP vista laptop (HP Pavilion dv6258se) didn't come with recovery DVDs. I had to go through the annoying 'let us make you a recovery dvd. PS this is a one time process, don't mess it up' and of course... it failed to burn the 2nd one. At least it let me restart the process completely including remaking the images before burning again, total time of well over an hour. I'd guess different models have different recovery disc methods.
Having had to fix a bootloader issue, I can clearly say that these home brewed recovery DVDs are not a real vista DVD set. They have no recovery capabilities, they are the standard proprietary reformat the HD and start from scratch sort. I had to use a 'real' vista DVD.
On an entirely different matter - I'd suggest staying away from HP if you want to switch wifi cards. They vendor lock specific cards requiring a BIOS hack to get something like the latest atheros cards to work. A totally unnecessary annoyance.
The meraki gear is very cool. Instant mesh and the price for external equipment is great.
It does have a WPA mode (PSK only) so I recommend it to anyone needing simple access points in their home.
The domestic market has a few options, hughes net, which used to be directv's offering, is out there. It's cheap enough for sat.
Directv is now pushing wildblue, which uses a new KA band launched a few years ago, and is not just a retro hack of a C band bird like everyone else. Wildblue is better, but it's not that great either.
If you want web browsing, it's adequate. If you want file downloads, it's better. Latency is the real issue, speed of light is too slow to talk to something in geo orbit 32K miles away. By time everything is said and done you're 1/2 a second to 1 second to more latency just for the 'local loop'. Clicking on a link on a webpage becomes annoying, forget realtime anything, many VPNs, gaming is out of the question.
Weather is rarely an issue unless it's intensive storms over you, or over the sat uplink facility. But a clear southern view of the sky can be an issue.
Having sold a variety of sat Internet systems years ago, it's better than dialup if that's your only option. As soon as DSL or Cable is available, it's not long before the sat internet is dropped. I'd stay away, far away from sat if there is anything else available.
I have a longer ring finger by a few mm, yet math was always my worst subject. On the SAT tests, math/verbal were scored the same. On the ACT I aced verbal, math was by far the worse.
For many parts of the US, telco monopolies stop competition so there is no reason to lower pricing.
The data access is usually not so bad price wise for what you get, the local loop is often the expensive part. If you're sitting on top of fiber, are in a large city that actually has competition, then a T1 can start at 199 for a Tier 1.
Get outside of the city limits into most of the US real estate and you enter monopolistic telco company territories. Then the loop gets real expensive.
Ma Bell was broken up years ago, yet the FCC in the 90s and beyond were more than happy to let the baby bells merge. During Powell's kid's management of the FCC big business ran rampant, and that still continues (Nice political family nepotism, as the Sec of State you can get your kid to run the FCC...) Now we have the monsters of Verizon and SBC/AT&T. If you do business in one of their monopoly areas, you almost always HAVE to use them.
For example, I'm in Verizon land. I have some SBC T1s - yet underlying them is Verizon.
I have some Sprint T1s, underlying them is Verizon. No matter whom I choose, Verizon has to be involved since they're the monopoly.
Until the FCC decides to allow real telco competition we're not going to see rate reductions for a service that has no competition.
The other ajax IM client I'm familier with is http://www.mabber.com/. If that's firewalled also, convince all your friends to use Gtalk and use the gmail/gtalk interface.
Corporations trying to get us to do actual work, bah!
All this talk about shooting birds, and not a single comment about shooting a 78 year old guy in the face.
Where's the daily showesque commentary?
I hope they do make a new Bird Hunt - multiplayer of course since what isn't nowadays. With Friendly fire! Think of the possibilities! You too can act just like the privledged few who have 10,000 raised quail released for your private hunting pleasure. Just sit down in front of the TV and shoot 78 year old guys in the face all night long. With the added bonus of the media not catching a whiff for not just one day, but for all time. Nintendo would bring non-gamers into the fold with that title.
Since it's so easy to add a fx search bar addition, the temptation to create an adsense branded google search came. Sure it's against their AUP, but was worth a shot. Put it on a variety of computers, different locations, different IP blocks, etc. I have to hand it to google, they noticed it very quickly and I got a firm reminder to not do anything outside of their policies. So on to idea two - bouncing through a proxy search, putting in the adsense search tags, then directing to google - same result, google yelling. Oops!
I wonder if increased competition by other search engines will eventually make google reconsider. I'm sure organizations, school systems, etc would mandate IE over firefox if they earned money via an authorized adsense search.
Hundreds of ISPs would switch to firefox if adsense searches could be "sub branded" to firefox like an MLM scheme.
On the one hand I'm glad there is firefox, on the other - easy money just out of reach...
I emailed Google a number of times about this awhile ago, finally some helpdesk responded that it worked how they wanted it and to just include + in front of every word
"+to +be +or +not +to +be"
they didn't seem to understand that putting quotes around it should do the same thing.
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There was also the classic Asimov short that asked the omnicomputer 'how do you stop entropy' and the machine took eons to figure out the answer. Once the answer was gotten there was no one left to tell, so it decided 'let there be light'
Does anyone else take this as a deliberate flamebait article so that the only candidate talked about IS Ron Paul?
Nice social engineering CmdrTaco!
Actually the straw polls for the media is entirely different than the delegates elected at the caucus. As of now, Maine, Iowa, Nevada, Louisiana - every caucus state - has not selected any national delegates. That won't be for awhile, months in some cases. Every state has different rules and some caucus rules are even odder than others. In most states caucus' elected delegates can vote for whomever they please at the county/state level later on. In many cases the actual percentage of delegates who were elected were different based on their voting slate than they were in the straw poll. Ron Paul and Hucklebee have great grassroot support and their delegate lists who were elected are very different than straw polls. What the media reports are estimates. I wouldn't be surprised for changes in the delegates once the caucus go through the full selection process. Unfortunately this isn't for months and by then the nomination is a fix. So winning a straw poll can cause a false media sensation even if they don't 'win' a states delegates. We can't make voting easy now ;)
How can you trust that the corresponding keypad pushes are correct? I mean do you see a physical piece of paper with the options you chose printed? Otherwise, it's just another version of Evoting.
I've seen videos of election fraud where someone running for office tested a system with a simple button push next to each name. She pushed her name, and some diagnostic screen at the bottom flashed her opponents name for a moment. As there was no paper trail, there would be no way to do a correct recount.
I concur. I live in the district of a previous chair of the House Telecommunications subcommittee. Looking at his contributor's list is a who's who of the telcom industry. Not surprising he followed Ameritech/SBC/AT&T's lead on almost every bit of legislation.
If only the FBI knew they could blackhole an IP with a click of a button
I read that short story in a sci fi yearly best of the best a few years back. Didn't realize outer limits was using those as scripts, although it would make sense to.
War is worth a lot of money, so just follow the money. Is it any wonder that the Oil and big business that got elected wanted to make more money? No-bid contracts with Halliburton, Cheney's ex-CEO spot, worth billions. Closed energy meetings with Cheney, not even disclosing who was attending the meetings.
That's not even getting a tin foil hat out, those are simple facts.
Now for the tin foil hat : Right now the US establishes its presence mostly via Saudi Arabia. Now that we'll have long term bases in Iraq and Afghanistan it gives us more places to project our influence. Why keep our power base located within just one country now that we have so many weapons sitting right next to Iran. It's obvious why we royally ignored all attempts at diplomacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700727.html - war is very profitable.
On top of that OPEC still uses US dollars. Iran is vocal about wanting to use the Euro. If we control a few of the OPEC nations and are the 800 pound gorilla with bases all over the middle east we just might stop a total collapse of the US Dollar.
With universal access fees and grants the telco companies are private companies that were funded in a large part by government fees. I've seen estimates of 200 billion http://www.muniwireless.com/article/articleview/5011 and more being given to develop universal high speed coverage that never materialized.
The '96 telco deregulation act was a step in the right direction stating that they had to share their facilities and lines because they were in fact developed with public funds. This was an 'at cost' sort of setup but was still hokey. DSL wholesale cost to another ISP was often times more than the phone company retail cost to the client - but it was at least an attempt at equity. They were glad to take the public money but were sure against having to do anything because of that.
Then Powell's son was put in charge of the FCC and the pro business/pro monopoly rulings made deregulation go away. Now we're back to the baby bells being larger than AT&T ever was, our infrastructure being sub par compared to the rest of the industrialized world, and consumers who paid taxes for a better system still being locked in to a monopoly, or a duopoly at best.
This decision isn't about business - this is about lobbying at its finest.
1) HP Vista laptops ship with recovery DVDs, there is no reason to create one.
This is incorrect. My HP vista laptop (HP Pavilion dv6258se) didn't come with recovery DVDs. I had to go through the annoying 'let us make you a recovery dvd. PS this is a one time process, don't mess it up' and of course... it failed to burn the 2nd one. At least it let me restart the process completely including remaking the images before burning again, total time of well over an hour. I'd guess different models have different recovery disc methods.
Having had to fix a bootloader issue, I can clearly say that these home brewed recovery DVDs are not a real vista DVD set. They have no recovery capabilities, they are the standard proprietary reformat the HD and start from scratch sort. I had to use a 'real' vista DVD.
On an entirely different matter - I'd suggest staying away from HP if you want to switch wifi cards. They vendor lock specific cards requiring a BIOS hack to get something like the latest atheros cards to work. A totally unnecessary annoyance.
The meraki gear is very cool. Instant mesh and the price for external equipment is great. It does have a WPA mode (PSK only) so I recommend it to anyone needing simple access points in their home.
The domestic market has a few options, hughes net, which used to be directv's offering, is out there. It's cheap enough for sat.
Directv is now pushing wildblue, which uses a new KA band launched a few years ago, and is not just a retro hack of a C band bird like everyone else. Wildblue is better, but it's not that great either.
If you want web browsing, it's adequate. If you want file downloads, it's better. Latency is the real issue, speed of light is too slow to talk to something in geo orbit 32K miles away. By time everything is said and done you're 1/2 a second to 1 second to more latency just for the 'local loop'. Clicking on a link on a webpage becomes annoying, forget realtime anything, many VPNs, gaming is out of the question.
Weather is rarely an issue unless it's intensive storms over you, or over the sat uplink facility. But a clear southern view of the sky can be an issue.
Having sold a variety of sat Internet systems years ago, it's better than dialup if that's your only option. As soon as DSL or Cable is available, it's not long before the sat internet is dropped. I'd stay away, far away from sat if there is anything else available.
I have a longer ring finger by a few mm, yet math was always my worst subject.
On the SAT tests, math/verbal were scored the same.
On the ACT I aced verbal, math was by far the worse.
Take pride in being an aberration of statistics!
I can't wait to see what the devs are hiding in the DVD to take up all that space waiting to be unlocked by the next hot coffee.
With the wonders of multiplexing you don't need that much copper, a single pair will work for a PRI or T1.
For many parts of the US, telco monopolies stop competition so there is no reason to lower pricing. The data access is usually not so bad price wise for what you get, the local loop is often the expensive part. If you're sitting on top of fiber, are in a large city that actually has competition, then a T1 can start at 199 for a Tier 1. Get outside of the city limits into most of the US real estate and you enter monopolistic telco company territories. Then the loop gets real expensive. Ma Bell was broken up years ago, yet the FCC in the 90s and beyond were more than happy to let the baby bells merge. During Powell's kid's management of the FCC big business ran rampant, and that still continues (Nice political family nepotism, as the Sec of State you can get your kid to run the FCC...) Now we have the monsters of Verizon and SBC/AT&T. If you do business in one of their monopoly areas, you almost always HAVE to use them. For example, I'm in Verizon land. I have some SBC T1s - yet underlying them is Verizon. I have some Sprint T1s, underlying them is Verizon. No matter whom I choose, Verizon has to be involved since they're the monopoly. Until the FCC decides to allow real telco competition we're not going to see rate reductions for a service that has no competition.
The drug enforcement agency sure is letting this opiate of the masses get out of hand.
This has been out for awhile. Siemen's Digital graffitti http://w4.siemens.de/ct/en/technologies/se/beispie le/graffitis.html, Yellow Arrow http://yellowarrow.net/ and Socialight http://socialight.com/ all do GPS based info.
Although they all basically suck right now so maybe apple will figure out how to do it right.
The other ajax IM client I'm familier with is http://www.mabber.com/. If that's firewalled also, convince all your friends to use Gtalk and use the gmail/gtalk interface. Corporations trying to get us to do actual work, bah!
Head on over to http://meebo.com/ for web based I/M that hits the major networks. Great to get around company firewalls too.
All this talk about shooting birds, and not a single comment about shooting a 78 year old guy in the face.
Where's the daily showesque commentary?
I hope they do make a new Bird Hunt - multiplayer of course since what isn't nowadays. With Friendly fire! Think of the possibilities! You too can act just like the privledged few who have 10,000 raised quail released for your private hunting pleasure. Just sit down in front of the TV and shoot 78 year old guys in the face all night long. With the added bonus of the media not catching a whiff for not just one day, but for all time. Nintendo would bring non-gamers into the fold with that title.
I wonder if increased competition by other search engines will eventually make google reconsider. I'm sure organizations, school systems, etc would mandate IE over firefox if they earned money via an authorized adsense search.
Hundreds of ISPs would switch to firefox if adsense searches could be "sub branded" to firefox like an MLM scheme.
On the one hand I'm glad there is firefox, on the other - easy money just out of reach...
I emailed Google a number of times about this awhile ago, finally some helpdesk responded that it worked how they wanted it and to just include + in front of every word "+to +be +or +not +to +be" they didn't seem to understand that putting quotes around it should do the same thing.