I don't see how this is nearly as scary as indicated. Yes, you can figure out when somebody picked up their ballet, and you can also tell what order the ballets were cast in. But those two numbers don't directly relate. There could be some interesting statistics there, but nothing that definitively says who voted for whom.
*Anecdote Alert* During the last election whilst voting in my small south-eastern Ohio precinct I watched the 5 people behind me in line vote and cast their ballets before me. Since this all happened on my way to work (7:45am) I was single handedly responsible for destroying this correlation for the vast majority of the voting public. I can't imagine I am the only slow voter, so one has to assume all the records are similarly offset.
Except in The Plains where we actually do have 2 cable Internet providers to choose from, one of which has a peering agreement with the university. Not to mention Albany, which also has RoadRunner available. Or really anywhere north, for that matter. What with DSL available in Nelsonville, and surely something in Logan.
Not to turn this into a flame-fest, but Wilmore is not exactly "the middle of nowhere". Hell, Wilmore is less than 10 minute drive from Nicholasville, a town or approximately 20,000 as of 2000. Moreover, it is just 16 miles from Lexington, whose metro area has a population of over 400,000. Additionally, if I recall, as of 1996 there were more shops in town other than Pa's. It just happened to be the closest one to campus. I do not recall any rudeness from the staff, though to be fair I do not specifically recall friendliness either.
I do not disagree with the crux of your argument, i.e. the size of an establishment is not the end all be all of the level of service. My real point is that you should not misrepresent your case in order to make a point. In the end it only weakens your stance.
It's available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. I only know this because my university, Ohio U, makes it available freely to Fac/Staff/Students. I tried it for a while, but was not too impressed with it. I thought it was slow even compared to KMail. I thought it felt a lot like Eudora did back in '96.
I can't begin to tell you how scary common 'slamming' is. I used to work tech support/customer service for a small long distance provider (~3000 customers). Considering the average intelligence of our customers we took care of all of these complaints.
Personally, I typically handled 5-10 of these per month. MCI seemed to be the worst, and they would usually slam the same customer several times. The higher the bill the more they got slammed. This made our business customers VERY happy, let me tell you.
Working in higher education can often times get you into this kind of situation. The last department I worked for, Math/CS, just recently retired it's chair of 27 years.
I recognize the differences between academics and coporate world, however the things we complain about in a manager exist just as strongly in university. Unreasonable deadlines, low budgets, insufficient knowledge to make the proper decisions, and most prevalent is office politics. And yes, it's not uncommon for a chair to be paid double that of the average faculty.
In December a research doctor was on NPR discussing their findings of cardio-stem cells. So yes, Virginia. There are stem cells in the heart. And since I'm lazy I will leave finding the information as an exercise for the reader.
Maybe you're in an alternative universe, but last time I looked, basic cable modem or DSL service is about $30 a month.
In Kentucky my monthly Adelphia bill for basic cable modem service, no telvision just Internet, was $59 and some change. Given, $5 of that was for "modem rental" but $55 is still substantially more than the number you quoted. These figures are as of July 2004. At that time I moved to Ohio where I was able to talk TimeWarner down to $35/month with no television service. Their typical price was $45.
The cost has come down quite a bit for the consumer, but for Rural America(tm) we still get charge out-the-nose. And the last time I checked that includes the majority of the country.
Heck, it's so old that many people have since graduated and still don't have a landline.
If you don't have a landline, and you don't like the poorly written filth on cable TV, then how do you get Internet access? WiMax isn't ready yet.
I have not had a landline since I moved out of the dorms 5 years ago. I have also never subscribed to cable television. Yet I have always had broadband. It is possible to get cable broadband without the television service. The serviceperson simply installs a high pass filter in the exterior box. Internet without tv was ridiculously high with Adelphia, but TimeWarner seems to be reasonably priced. And definitely still cheaper than a phone line with DSL.
As a US citizen traveling to the UK I've had that happen on both trips. One with Delta, and one on British Air. I can't say this kind of information request is polite, but I have always thought it rather common.
I usually place the bootable cd in the cd drive sometime within the first 45 seconds of boot.
Between the video card bios, the system bios, autodetecting all the IDE devices, and figuring out what it's supposed to do afterwards, one has plenty of time to leisurely put a cd in the drive.
If you can get accepted at a school, you can do it, if you can fund it. If they aren't offering you an assistantship with free tuition and a stipend of more than $10,000 per year, keep looking. Schools recruit undergrads, they hire graduate students.
Amen to that. When I started applying for MS programs I was told that if you get accepted, but no funding, the department does not think you're good enough for them. Don't get too held up on the stipend. Often times they don't give out anything but the lowest amount, usually grader for around $9k/yr, to first year students. Just make sure tuition is included and it's enough to live on.
Also, look for CS programs that are either in an engineering school or in an engineering department. They tend to be the happy medium between computer science and engineering. And make sure to apply early. The application deadline for international students at most schools have already passed, and yes that deadline can make the difference.
Now, suddenly, only two states have a vote count which is wildly divergent from the exit polling. Those states are Ohio and Florida. They were polled entirely by Diebold machines.
Last night on this cnn site the exit polls showed a male/female average of 51% Kerry. It's different now, but even before I would not call it "wildly divergent"
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/sta tes/OH/P/00/index.html
And besides, so far as I know all of Ohio used punch cards. I know this is true of 2 counties specifically, and the footage I saw of any
Ohio voting place I saw on ONN (Ohio News Network) showed punch cards.
In The Plains, (Athens Co.) OH everything seemed to be going smoothly. I saw one woman turned away, she had not registered yet. There were 4 precincts at my polling place, but the longest line was around 30 minutes.
This was my first time using a punch card and I don't see what the big deal is. It seems pretty damn idiot proof to me, and trust me I've met my fair share of idiots. I used to teach middle-school algebra to college students;) At least we have laws on how to handle (PREGNANT|HANGING|DIMPLED)chads.
I can believe the Forrester remark. But remember, Microsoft, generally, only DISCLOSES a vulnerability once a fix has been made available. Whereas with Mozilla the vulnerability is disclosed almost as soon as it's discovered, then the coders work their asses off to get it fixed.
So the statement may be true, but it ignores the extenuating circumstances.
and recover it's cost via a fee that was charged to all businesses for phone usage (and I think, probably still is).
There is a recovery fee we're still required to charge called a PICC (pixy). I don't know the history behind it, but that sounds reasonable. We charge $3.50 per line, and some companies I see charge as much as $10!
Is this different than the old style inter-ocular lens? 4-5 years ago my eye doc mentioned it along with the laser procedures, I am a -9 in both eyes. It was only discussed in passing so I did not get more specific information from him.
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I don't see how this is nearly as scary as indicated. Yes, you can figure out when somebody picked up their ballet, and you can also tell what order the ballets were cast in. But those two numbers don't directly relate. There could be some interesting statistics there, but nothing that definitively says who voted for whom.
*Anecdote Alert* During the last election whilst voting in my small south-eastern Ohio precinct I watched the 5 people behind me in line vote and cast their ballets before me. Since this all happened on my way to work (7:45am) I was single handedly responsible for destroying this correlation for the vast majority of the voting public. I can't imagine I am the only slow voter, so one has to assume all the records are similarly offset.
Except in The Plains where we actually do have 2 cable Internet providers to choose from, one of which has a peering agreement with the university. Not to mention Albany, which also has RoadRunner available. Or really anywhere north, for that matter. What with DSL available in Nelsonville, and surely something in Logan.
If I recall, it was designed to store figures from the census. Weird, I know.
Not to turn this into a flame-fest, but Wilmore is not exactly "the middle of nowhere". Hell, Wilmore is less than 10 minute drive from Nicholasville, a town or approximately 20,000 as of 2000. Moreover, it is just 16 miles from Lexington, whose metro area has a population of over 400,000. Additionally, if I recall, as of 1996 there were more shops in town other than Pa's. It just happened to be the closest one to campus. I do not recall any rudeness from the staff, though to be fair I do not specifically recall friendliness either.
I do not disagree with the crux of your argument, i.e. the size of an establishment is not the end all be all of the level of service. My real point is that you should not misrepresent your case in order to make a point. In the end it only weakens your stance.
It's available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. I only know this because my university, Ohio U, makes it available freely to Fac/Staff/Students. I tried it for a while, but was not too impressed with it. I thought it was slow even compared to KMail. I thought it felt a lot like Eudora did back in '96.
I can't begin to tell you how scary common 'slamming' is. I used to work tech support/customer service for a small long distance provider (~3000 customers). Considering the average intelligence of our customers we took care of all of these complaints.
Personally, I typically handled 5-10 of these per month. MCI seemed to be the worst, and they would usually slam the same customer several times. The higher the bill the more they got slammed. This made our business customers VERY happy, let me tell you.
Working in higher education can often times get you into this kind of situation. The last department I worked for, Math/CS, just
recently retired it's chair of 27 years.
I recognize the differences between academics and coporate world, however the things we complain about in a manager exist just as
strongly in university. Unreasonable deadlines, low budgets, insufficient knowledge to make the proper decisions, and most prevalent is
office politics. And yes, it's not uncommon for a chair to be paid double that of the average faculty.
In December a research doctor was on NPR discussing their findings of cardio-stem cells. So yes, Virginia. There are stem cells in the heart. And since I'm lazy I will leave finding the information as an exercise for the reader.
Maybe you're in an alternative universe, but last time I looked, basic cable modem or DSL service is about $30 a month.
In Kentucky my monthly Adelphia bill for basic cable modem service, no telvision just Internet, was $59 and some change. Given, $5 of that was for "modem rental" but $55 is still substantially more than the number you quoted. These figures are as of July 2004. At that time I moved to Ohio where I was able to talk TimeWarner down to $35/month with no television service. Their typical price was $45.
The cost has come down quite a bit for the consumer, but for Rural America(tm) we still get charge out-the-nose. And the last time I checked that includes the majority of the country.
Heck, it's so old that many people have since graduated and still don't have a landline.
If you don't have a landline, and you don't like the poorly written filth on cable TV, then how do you get Internet access? WiMax isn't ready yet.
I have not had a landline since I moved out of the dorms 5 years ago. I have also never subscribed to cable television. Yet I have always had broadband. It is possible to get cable broadband without the television service. The serviceperson simply installs a high pass filter in the exterior box. Internet without tv was ridiculously high with Adelphia, but TimeWarner seems to be reasonably priced. And definitely still cheaper than a phone line with DSL.
Which sentence are you talking about for Mitnick? The one that made him famous was a 7 years stint from 1995 to 2002.
As a US citizen traveling to the UK I've had that happen on both trips. One with Delta, and one on
British Air. I can't say this kind of information request is polite, but I have always thought it rather common.
I usually place the bootable cd in the cd drive sometime within the first 45 seconds of boot.
Between the video card bios, the system bios, autodetecting all the IDE devices, and figuring out what it's
supposed to do afterwards, one has plenty of time to leisurely put a cd in the drive.
Hey! I well remember playing mtrek on my Amiga 1000 using 1200 baud. Of course going anywhere near Earth was always bad news, talk about lag.
If you can get accepted at a school, you can do it, if you can fund it. If they aren't offering you an assistantship with free tuition and a stipend of more than $10,000 per year, keep looking. Schools recruit undergrads, they hire graduate students.
Amen to that. When I started applying for MS programs I was told that if you get accepted, but no funding, the department does not think you're good enough for them. Don't get too held up on the stipend. Often times they don't give out anything but the lowest amount, usually grader for around $9k/yr, to first year students. Just make sure tuition is included and it's enough to live on.
Also, look for CS programs that are either in an engineering school or in an engineering department. They tend to be the happy medium between computer science and engineering. And make sure to apply early. The application deadline for international students at most schools have already passed, and yes that deadline can make the difference.
Now, suddenly, only two states have a vote count which is wildly divergent from the exit polling. Those states are Ohio and Florida. They were polled entirely by Diebold machines.
a tes/OH/P/00/index.html
Last night on this cnn site the exit polls showed a male/female average of 51% Kerry. It's different now, but even before I would not call it "wildly divergent" http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/st
And besides, so far as I know all of Ohio used punch cards. I know this is true of 2 counties specifically, and the footage I saw of any Ohio
voting place I saw on ONN (Ohio News Network) showed punch cards.
In The Plains, (Athens Co.) OH everything seemed to be going smoothly. I saw one woman turned away, she had not registered yet. There were 4 precincts at my
;) At least we have laws on how to handle (PREGNANT|HANGING|DIMPLED)chads.
polling place, but the longest line was around 30 minutes.
This was my first time using a punch card and I don't see what the big deal is. It seems pretty damn idiot proof to me, and trust me I've met my fair share of idiots.
I used to teach middle-school algebra to college students
I can believe the Forrester remark. But remember, Microsoft, generally, only DISCLOSES a vulnerability once a fix has been made available. Whereas with Mozilla the vulnerability is disclosed almost as soon as it's discovered, then the coders work their asses off to get it fixed.
So the statement may be true, but it ignores the extenuating circumstances.
and recover it's cost via a fee that was charged to all businesses for phone usage (and I think, probably still is). There is a recovery fee we're still required to charge called a PICC (pixy). I don't know the history behind it, but that sounds reasonable. We charge $3.50 per line, and some companies I see charge as much as $10!
Is this different than the old style inter-ocular lens? 4-5 years ago my eye doc mentioned it along with the laser procedures, I am a -9 in both eyes. It was only discussed in passing so I did not get more specific information from him.