I think an even bigger challenge is to get a real doll into deep space orbit. That way aliens can experience the "finer" aspects of human beings, and maybe the won't be so quick to eat all of us, even the men as we are needed to make more females....well until the aliens come with their advanced science that is....damn
Well to be fair, Farenheit 9/11 had a video(though a really crappy quality video) of a public beheading in Saudi Arabia(appearently the old dude wielding the scimitar was weak, as it took 2 hacks to get the head off)
It's really more than that, everything Gartner says is suspect, whether it has to do with Windows or not. This is the same company that over-hypes offshoring, and just by chance happens to have an offshoring consulting unit. No conflict of interest there......
So who decides when a recount is needed? If a voting machine screws up 10% of the time and the winning margin is 5%, how will that be picked up against the assumed scenario of a voting machine working correctly and the winning margin being 5% to a different candidate? If an outcome is so obviously false (e.g. twice as many votes as voters), then the paper trail isn't necessary, and if the paper trail is followed for every election, there is no benefit over normal paper voting.
Well, exit polls are usually very accurate, and would tend to show if something was amiss.
You could have 2 scenarios:
If the exit polls are way out of sync with the results of the electronic voting, then a recount is issued.
If the vote count was withing some small percentage(like say 5) and the loser wants to challenge and can get say 10% of the state to sign a petetion asking for a recount, then one will be issued.
Obviously, these are over-simplified examples, but I think it proves my point that there need to be codified rules for when a recount is issued.
I think that George Tennet gave the most damning testimony against the PATRIOT Act during the 9/11 commission, and he didn't even realize it. In his closing arguments, he said that the US knew everything it needed to know to stop the 9/11 attacks, but everyone held a different piece of the puzzle but didn't want to share that piece with anyone else. The government doesn't need any more power to stop terrorism, they just need to get rid of the bureacracy, which is why this new intelligence office is total BS: they are trying to fight the problem of too much bureacracy with.....MORE bureacracy(yeah, I can't spell). Unfortunately both major political candidates think this the real way to reform intelligence......
The PSP is a very complex machine(with a motor for the cd reader), and thus battery life will vary greatly depending on what you are doing(versus say a gameboy were battery life is easier to determine in general rather than per game) You want to load a lot of textures? That is going to kill your battery life. You want to have a lot of music? Going to kill battery life. A game such as quake will obviously take more battery power than puyo puyo pop. Sony did itself and it's devs a favor by providing this little kit.
Um, listen dumbass, if they can't afford to run their ads everywhere, then how can they afford to bombard certain areas with a ton of advertising and totally ignore other markets hmmm?
Looking forward to your moronic smart-ass answer
Thats my point. If these groups only cared about spreading their message, then they would do it everywhere. But they are trying to get Bush/Kerry elected, and that isn't what the groups are supposed to do.
I don't hear anybody complaining when they lose their job because somebody in Alabama is willing to do it cheaper
Maybe it's because people can follow their jobs to Alabama, but not India. Chew on that for a bit....
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Heh, the problem I have w/ both the swift boat vets and moveon is that they are only advertising in swing states. That is because in actuality the swiftboat vets are endorsing Bush and moveon Kerry. If they really were promoting a certain agenda, why would they not advertise in California or Texas? It's quite obvious why.....
the summary. I read the article(admittedly I haven't read the book), but the following statement seems to miss the point entirely: In short their book argues that the entire system is a (stunned silence) scam.. Um, no it doesn't. What the NYT article states is that the authors see a lot of the changes made to patent law and how the patent office is funded since the 80's has only rewarded trial lawyers.
They don't say that patents should be done away with entirely. They recommend some serious reforms to the system such as a much stricter patent review process where 3rd parties are allowed to have input. They also say that most businesses are more worried about tax reform than they are about patent damage. These are good ideas, and a start to reform.
Gah, I really, REALLY wish people would stop putting bias into their summaries, but this is/., I'm expecting too much I guess.
I say this one is a repeat. It's pretty much ripped word for word from John Kerry's speeches. Bush may give an interesting answer, but I'm not all that confident that he will.
The following quote just tells me how hard CEOs must work: A: We have very high standards for our performance at Intel, for a variety of reasons. The memo was in reference to our performance and (said) that we could improve our performance and we should improve our performance.
while working for Scorpio:
Homer(to some geeks):"Are you guys working?"
Geeks:"Yes sir."
Homer:"Can you work harder?"
Oy, and he wonders why Americans don't want to become engineers anymore.....
Heh, though you have to wonder, is the desktop really the prize market anymore? Now keep in mind this is anectodotal evidence, but I am seeing more and more people use their laptop as their only computer. Why shouldn't they? For a reasonable price, you can get a laptop that does everything most people need to do(web, email, word processor), they are mobile, and now with wireless internet, they look even more attractive.
I think Intel's own worst enemy is themself. I see less and less reason to upgrade(aside from MS continuing to make more bloatware).
been up for a while and only 1 post, from an AC. Everyone must be watching football....FOOTBALL!
Though the screenshFOOTBALLot doesn't look too bad, it will remain to be seen if they can master the FOOTBALL input methoFOOTBALL!ds. Sorry, been watching too much of John MaFOOTBALL!dden
As one of the largest provider of aerospace technologies to the US government, why on earth would Boeing compete with itself? Sure, Boeing isn't going to Mars, but they have produced a lot of stuff that went up into space...
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I think an even bigger challenge is to get a real doll into deep space orbit. That way aliens can experience the "finer" aspects of human beings, and maybe the won't be so quick to eat all of us, even the men as we are needed to make more females....well until the aliens come with their advanced science that is....damn
Well to be fair, Farenheit 9/11 had a video(though a really crappy quality video) of a public beheading in Saudi Arabia(appearently the old dude wielding the scimitar was weak, as it took 2 hacks to get the head off)
It's really more than that, everything Gartner says is suspect, whether it has to do with Windows or not. This is the same company that over-hypes offshoring, and just by chance happens to have an offshoring consulting unit. No conflict of interest there......
we still gotta wait....come on Steve, get out of the hospital and give us our static imports and generics!
It wouldn't be hard at all to code up something that just generated 20 500mb files of random bytes.....
So who decides when a recount is needed? If a voting machine screws up 10% of the time and the winning margin is 5%, how will that be picked up against the assumed scenario of a voting machine working correctly and the winning margin being 5% to a different candidate? If an outcome is so obviously false (e.g. twice as many votes as voters), then the paper trail isn't necessary, and if the paper trail is followed for every election, there is no benefit over normal paper voting.
Well, exit polls are usually very accurate, and would tend to show if something was amiss.
You could have 2 scenarios:
If the exit polls are way out of sync with the results of the electronic voting, then a recount is issued.
If the vote count was withing some small percentage(like say 5) and the loser wants to challenge and can get say 10% of the state to sign a petetion asking for a recount, then one will be issued.
Obviously, these are over-simplified examples, but I think it proves my point that there need to be codified rules for when a recount is issued.
I prefer the shady ones that write my MOs on toilet paper.
I think that George Tennet gave the most damning testimony against the PATRIOT Act during the 9/11 commission, and he didn't even realize it. In his closing arguments, he said that the US knew everything it needed to know to stop the 9/11 attacks, but everyone held a different piece of the puzzle but didn't want to share that piece with anyone else. The government doesn't need any more power to stop terrorism, they just need to get rid of the bureacracy, which is why this new intelligence office is total BS: they are trying to fight the problem of too much bureacracy with.....MORE bureacracy(yeah, I can't spell). Unfortunately both major political candidates think this the real way to reform intelligence......
The PSP is a very complex machine(with a motor for the cd reader), and thus battery life will vary greatly depending on what you are doing(versus say a gameboy were battery life is easier to determine in general rather than per game) You want to load a lot of textures? That is going to kill your battery life. You want to have a lot of music? Going to kill battery life. A game such as quake will obviously take more battery power than puyo puyo pop. Sony did itself and it's devs a favor by providing this little kit.
Um, listen dumbass, if they can't afford to run their ads everywhere, then how can they afford to bombard certain areas with a ton of advertising and totally ignore other markets hmmm?
Looking forward to your moronic smart-ass answer
Thats my point. If these groups only cared about spreading their message, then they would do it everywhere. But they are trying to get Bush/Kerry elected, and that isn't what the groups are supposed to do.
I don't hear anybody complaining when they lose their job because somebody in Alabama is willing to do it cheaper
Maybe it's because people can follow their jobs to Alabama, but not India. Chew on that for a bit....
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'Nuff said
*Ducks!
Heh, the problem I have w/ both the swift boat vets and moveon is that they are only advertising in swing states. That is because in actuality the swiftboat vets are endorsing Bush and moveon Kerry. If they really were promoting a certain agenda, why would they not advertise in California or Texas? It's quite obvious why. ....
the summary. I read the article(admittedly I haven't read the book), but the following statement seems to miss the point entirely: In short their book argues that the entire system is a (stunned silence) scam.. Um, no it doesn't. What the NYT article states is that the authors see a lot of the changes made to patent law and how the patent office is funded since the 80's has only rewarded trial lawyers. /., I'm expecting too much I guess.
They don't say that patents should be done away with entirely. They recommend some serious reforms to the system such as a much stricter patent review process where 3rd parties are allowed to have input. They also say that most businesses are more worried about tax reform than they are about patent damage. These are good ideas, and a start to reform.
Gah, I really, REALLY wish people would stop putting bias into their summaries, but this is
I say this one is a repeat. It's pretty much ripped word for word from John Kerry's speeches. Bush may give an interesting answer, but I'm not all that confident that he will.
SUSE is also free, and will solve the problem....:P
Sorry, couldn't resist that one.
Darwin is in control.
Great, now you have to add a Mac flamewar into an already flamewar-prone topic!
The following quote just tells me how hard CEOs must work:
A: We have very high standards for our performance at Intel, for a variety of reasons. The memo was in reference to our performance and (said) that we could improve our performance and we should improve our performance.
while working for Scorpio:
Homer(to some geeks):"Are you guys working?"
Geeks:"Yes sir."
Homer:"Can you work harder?"
Oy, and he wonders why Americans don't want to become engineers anymore.....
Heh, though you have to wonder, is the desktop really the prize market anymore? Now keep in mind this is anectodotal evidence, but I am seeing more and more people use their laptop as their only computer. Why shouldn't they? For a reasonable price, you can get a laptop that does everything most people need to do(web, email, word processor), they are mobile, and now with wireless internet, they look even more attractive.
I think Intel's own worst enemy is themself. I see less and less reason to upgrade(aside from MS continuing to make more bloatware).
been up for a while and only 1 post, from an AC. Everyone must be watching football....FOOTBALL!
Though the screenshFOOTBALLot doesn't look too bad, it will remain to be seen if they can master the FOOTBALL input methoFOOTBALL!ds. Sorry, been watching too much of John MaFOOTBALL!dden
As one of the largest provider of aerospace technologies to the US government, why on earth would Boeing compete with itself? Sure, Boeing isn't going to Mars, but they have produced a lot of stuff that went up into space...
Larry Laffer is the hero of the Leisure Suit Larry games.......created by Al Lowe.....
wake me up when larry (as in flynt) is using it..
Well, pretty soon Larry(as in Laffer) will be using 3d technology!
seemed interesting till I saw that the software was windows only, and that I don't have a webcam, and I can't read....damn