"My one vote is equal to several California votes. Isn't that a great way of saying fuck you?"
That's only a great way of making others want to return the favor. It's also part of the reason for this proposal, which will make those several Californians or Texans or residents of any other darkly red or blue state believe again that their votes matter. Less disilusionment = more voting, which is the whole point.
I have the same problem all the time, but in a situation no one else here seems to have encountered: it happens in my school's Black Box Theatre. The buzzing noise will happen now and then, sometimes a few times in an hour, and drives us crazy. The speakers are top-notch (the theatre was only built 3 years ago), and it's impossible to control all the cellphones that the audience might bring in (aside from the obvious "please silence" announcement before shows).
So what I'm saying is that it's not a trivial issue, in some cases. Any practical advice would be much appreciated.
The average player with a full time job, wife and kids will do it in 1 month.
What about the average player with a full time job, wife, kids, and a life?
The/. article implies (intentionally or no? I cannot say) that the Reader's Choice vote ends tomorrow. I believe the vote began only yesterday, and the schedule on Gamespot's website (I can't seem to find it at the moment) gave January 17th as the closing date for the polls, or perhaps the date when the votes will be counted and released.
I agree, for purely practical reasons... putting them in jail costs us money, whereas fining them costs them money, and helps us pay court costs for prosecution of more spammers.
Actually, he had promised real-time updates tonight with actual results. You can see this at the bottom of the current front page of the website, I believe... but it deosn't seem to have come about, perhaps because he's been so focused on dealing with these attacks.
How did you end up in the video game industry, and what experiences in high-school and college helped that move?
and/or
What path would you recommend for someone interested in getting into the video game industry?
I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to, but I want to make the point that with polling data, in particular polling data on this election, polls that are months and even weeks old are totally insignificant. Where the candidates were polling even 20 days ago has no standing compared to where they are now... there are no trends in this election, because so much of the electorate has already made up its minds, and the number of undecideds regularly fall within the margin of error.
I believe what you are talking about is the methodology used in his "projected electoral outcome" map, or whatever he calls it. He outlines his methodology very clearly on that page of the website. He derived it by researching the realations between final polls and final results of elections, because the final polls (what you call are "SMALLER SAMPLE") are the ones that actually matter.
Good point... but as handorf just said, day-long polls are gaining popularity.
Perhaps, though, I read the information wrong and the poll actually ended on 10/31. It is still quite likely to be more recent than the Quinnipac 10/27-10/31 poll you cited because 3 day polls (which in this case would be 10/29-10/31) are also quite common.
Slykens, he ALWAYS uses the poll with the most recent median date. He's currently using a Zogby poll with a median date of 10/31 in Florida, making it more recent than the Quinnipiac poll. He has explained this many times over the past few weeks:
He only averages polls that have the same median date and polling length.
We can't be awarding patents and trusting the companies not to sue others cause they were the first to try to patent a common feature. We want less corruption/monopolies etc.
Just make them modify the patent to guard against cloning.
Congress arguing that the space shuttles should be permanently grounded isn't due to us putting a low value on space exploration, it's due to us putting a high value on the people we send up there, not to mention the expensive equipment.
You're right, I've been kind of wondering what the next big thing would be... Hubble is on the way out, ISS is just a pretty face...
Here's hoping Bush (as much as I hate the guy) can pull this off, which will be a little tough, unless you wanna privatize the public school system.
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Though you might be half-right about the race part, Prince George's County http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George's_Count y,_Maryland and Montgomery County http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Ma ryland are among the most affluent counties in the United States. PG County is the most affluent county in the USA whose residents are majority black. Montgomery County, though, is almost two-thirds white.
"My one vote is equal to several California votes. Isn't that a great way of saying fuck you?"
That's only a great way of making others want to return the favor. It's also part of the reason for this proposal, which will make those several Californians or Texans or residents of any other darkly red or blue state believe again that their votes matter.
Less disilusionment = more voting, which is the whole point.
I have the same problem all the time, but in a situation no one else here seems to have encountered: it happens in my school's Black Box Theatre. The buzzing noise will happen now and then, sometimes a few times in an hour, and drives us crazy. The speakers are top-notch (the theatre was only built 3 years ago), and it's impossible to control all the cellphones that the audience might bring in (aside from the obvious "please silence" announcement before shows). So what I'm saying is that it's not a trivial issue, in some cases. Any practical advice would be much appreciated.
The average player with a full time job, wife and kids will do it in 1 month. What about the average player with a full time job, wife, kids, and a life?
The /. article implies (intentionally or no? I cannot say) that the Reader's Choice vote ends tomorrow. I believe the vote began only yesterday, and the schedule on Gamespot's website (I can't seem to find it at the moment) gave January 17th as the closing date for the polls, or perhaps the date when the votes will be counted and released.
I agree, for purely practical reasons... putting them in jail costs us money, whereas fining them costs them money, and helps us pay court costs for prosecution of more spammers.
Actually, he had promised real-time updates tonight with actual results. You can see this at the bottom of the current front page of the website, I believe... but it deosn't seem to have come about, perhaps because he's been so focused on dealing with these attacks.
How did you end up in the video game industry, and what experiences in high-school and college helped that move? and/or What path would you recommend for someone interested in getting into the video game industry?
I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to, but I want to make the point that with polling data, in particular polling data on this election, polls that are months and even weeks old are totally insignificant. Where the candidates were polling even 20 days ago has no standing compared to where they are now... there are no trends in this election, because so much of the electorate has already made up its minds, and the number of undecideds regularly fall within the margin of error. I believe what you are talking about is the methodology used in his "projected electoral outcome" map, or whatever he calls it. He outlines his methodology very clearly on that page of the website. He derived it by researching the realations between final polls and final results of elections, because the final polls (what you call are "SMALLER SAMPLE") are the ones that actually matter.
Good point... but as handorf just said, day-long polls are gaining popularity. Perhaps, though, I read the information wrong and the poll actually ended on 10/31. It is still quite likely to be more recent than the Quinnipac 10/27-10/31 poll you cited because 3 day polls (which in this case would be 10/29-10/31) are also quite common.
sadly, it's more like 80 more days. Bush is still president until Jan. 20, inauguration.
Slykens, he ALWAYS uses the poll with the most recent median date. He's currently using a Zogby poll with a median date of 10/31 in Florida, making it more recent than the Quinnipiac poll. He has explained this many times over the past few weeks: He only averages polls that have the same median date and polling length.
didn't we hear about this a few weeks/months ago?
...why is Linux Today's founder no longer with Linux Today? Don't mean to flame or anything, I was just wondering.
...this means world peace for our and all following generations, right?
It's not an iPod clone simply because it's a flash media MP3 player, not a hard drive MP3 player like an iPod is.
...is run 'em on solar power (scratch that, WIND power!) so it'll only cost pennies to fly, instead of your life savings.
(joke)
We can't be awarding patents and trusting the companies not to sue others cause they were the first to try to patent a common feature. We want less corruption/monopolies etc. Just make them modify the patent to guard against cloning.
So Apple is trying to patent some stuff they didn't invent?
Hey, you have to give them some credit for CREATING the game in the first place.
*sheds tear*
answer: to get the article posted here. :)
meh, just makin sure it's obvious. I'd rather be repetitive than misinterperated.
Congress arguing that the space shuttles should be permanently grounded isn't due to us putting a low value on space exploration, it's due to us putting a high value on the people we send up there, not to mention the expensive equipment.
You're right, I've been kind of wondering what the next big thing would be... Hubble is on the way out, ISS is just a pretty face... Here's hoping Bush (as much as I hate the guy) can pull this off, which will be a little tough, unless you wanna privatize the public school system.