I definitely agree that there has been no smoking gun, if anything, the rattled response by the grand ayatollah (announce support for Ahmadinejad win on Saturday, again on Sunday and now declaring a partial recount?) is more suggestive than trying to analyse the published numbers.
It's just that there isn't such a strong argument for either candidate to have won by a landslide. Class differences isn't a smoking gun either. Ahmadinejad has good support in the rural areas but inversely, Mousavi has the better support in cities, regardless of class. You can see citizens of all stripes, gender and age in both camp's protests. It can be a wash for all we know.
As Obama said today, there's something going on in Iran. And it's too early, with too little information, to call it for either side.
There's a serious omission in that op-ed that misrepresents that 2:1 ratio.
Namely, that Ahmadinejad only had the vote of 34% of the those polled while Mousavi had 14%. So yes, technically that's 2:1 where the the sum total of both figures is less than 50%. Read the actual report linked to in the article, they highlight this rather important qualifying information by the big red text on page 3.
And if you look at the actual tallies for that question on page 52, question 27, you will see it's 34% for Ahmadinejad, 14% for Mousavi, 27% (!) don't know and 15% (!!) who refused to answer. Both of those are non-trivial percentages that can swing either candidate for a landslide win. This undermines the implication that there is strong support for Ahmadinejad, by a ratio of 2:1 to his closest rival. Seriously, that's an incredulous omission to make, nevermind the fact that the poll itself was conducted a month ago. It is in these past two weeks that voter's opinion would better reflect their voting preferences, you know, after the actual presidential debates.
Fivethirtyeight.com has a good write up of these points, explaining why the opinion expressed in the editorial is not supported by the report it cites. Juan Cole has another good explanation as well.
(The most interesting question on the survey for me BTW, was the question that asked about developing nuclear energy. A full 83% responded with 'strongly favour' while 11% said 'somewhat favour'. That's 94% combined.)
Networking alone won't help the reformists come into power but it sure is key in spreading information and organising protests and sit-ins (see: Obama '08 election). A lot of people on Slashdot make fun of Twitter but it's incredibly useful in situations like this where other forms of real time communications are shutdown.
Pretty much all the news so far from Iran have been a combination of on the ground journalists + satellite phones + Twitter. Remember CNN's coverage on Tiananmem? Twitter (very roughly) is filling in the same void for Tehran.
Still on Tiger so I'm glad they've made it much faster in Leopard. Switching between Eastern languages for me on Tiger would take a couple of seconds - not a lot but enough to be annoying. Did they finally add drawing support so you can just draw out your characters?
I also believe that Apple wanted to be carrier exclusive so it can take in a proportion of the revenue on the data/voice plans of iPhone users. If it weren't carrier-exclusive, Apple wouldn't be able to negotiate revenue-sharing deals. Not to say this was the driving reason but I think Apple's demand for tight control + revenue made it carrier exclusive.
I just want to point out that OSX (10.4 and below) only support NTFS read-only natively. To get write access, you need to install MacFUSE and use ntfs-3g as well. It's pretty much the same situation as with Linux and NTFS. I'm not sure if OSX 10.5 will include write access natively though.
Ah, so in summary, you're sick of web designers who claim to know CSS but really don't.
Seriously, the problems you described echo of my experience six years ago when we had Netscape 4 and IE5. A lot of plain bad designers were trained back then and if you visit the sites they design now, yeah, you're going to run into the same experience. The good designers use ems and grid layouts for sizing, specify font-families nor use JS browser detection for stylesheet loading.
I hope you realise that Engadget isn't some kid running a blog from his home. Engadget is owned by AOL and has a full staff of people, they attend all the major tech trade shows and do live coverage of some of the bigger events (including the Apple ones). They get sent demo units, get invited to pre-release press events, conduct interview with PR managers and executives (they even had an interview with Bill Gates) and have their own PR contacts at the major companies.
In short, these guys do this for a living and know that trust and credibility is their currency. They don't post random tip offs, they have their network of internal sources and try to confirm with PR teams whenever possible before posting -- exactly how journalists get their information. They did phone Apple PR yesterday and it's when they couldn't reach anyone did they decide to run the story.
Here, read their follow up of the incident. It doesn't excuse them for not making it clear that they were unable to confirm the news before running it and in that way, they were incompetent but asshattery? Stop being an asshole man.
No, this is not Communist China; this is bloody Hong Kong. You know, former colony and now special administrative region with its own law and mini-constitution, you know, based on British common law, you know, where courts swap judges with Australia on multi-year loans.
I know you have an axe to grind but this isn't the story for you to sneak it in. This is about a judge making a stupid decision and a lot of people in Hong Kong getting worried about the interpretation of old obscenity laws on modern circumstances. Let's talk about that instead OK?
But on the same token, for those of us with long commutes and have to be on the road before 7, I wake up and travel to work in the dark now. The few weeks before the DST change, I was able to get up with the sun, that was nice. We're just shifting the window, not actually extending anything. But hey, if these daylight hours are nice, why not just keep these hours all year round?
Now, what I think will happen, is that Turnitin will advise its clients (schools, universities, etc.) that in order to use the service, they must obtain a release from students that includes permission to upload the files. This way, they'll just offload the responsibility for copyright infringement off on the schools, who will just force students to release their work, or refuse to give them a grade.
When I was in university, we had to sign an agreement that whatever we submit to them can be used without my permission, for distribution, for profit, etc. Anything I produce using university resources also fell under this 'agreement' except for maybe one or two special cases. I'm under the impression that this is pretty standard across universities now.
But actually, for courses where we had to use TurnItIn, we had to sign a release. IIRC, it was to the effect that I gave up my copyright and they become the owner of my work. We did have the option to not submit through TurnItIn provided that we talked with the professor and explain our concerns. My sister who's in high school now is not as fortunate. She has to sign the release or no credit will be given. No alternatives at all. Any objection is met with the "if you have nothing to hide..." argument and laughs if you talk about copyright and ownership.
Actually, something that really drove this point home to me was one of the slides during the Macworld premiere of the iPhone. Steve's there's telling us all those awesome features slide by slide and then there was this slide at the end that proclaims "all protected by over 200 patents!"
That was a very striking moment for me. So Apple does a nice, fresh take on how to integrate existing technologies to do something nice and slick but at the same time that they're demonstrating what they've done, they also make it clear that only Apple can do this and only they will be able to do this because they have everything patented.. It's almost like saying, see these shiny, new features? No one else will get close to what we're doing because we won't let them.
Blame Gruber for what exactly? And he wasn't the first high profile Mac blogger to point out the disproportionate revenue distribution either, Gruber's post (the one you linked to) references Gus Mueller's blog post. If anything, Mueller's the one that probably started all this, he even disclosed the figure he was offered to feature his application in MacHeist.
But either way, neither Gruber nor Mueller is screaming bloody murder because of the MacHeist promoters' share of revenue. They arguing rather, that it's dishonest and downright misleading to declare the week to be "The Week of the Independent Mac Developer" when they stand to make a lion's share of the profit. Hello, you're praising independent Mac developers but then you allocate them a fixed rate?
I agree that all this bickering is good for no one but don't blame the guys that call a spade a spade.
His short and simple guide tells you how to set up any decent web browser...
No it doesn't. It tells you how to set it up with Firefox and only Firefox via the FoxyProxy extension. That's a far cry from what you're claiming; no instructions for Safari or Opera.
Not to mention that the hatred for Real is mainly confined to the English speaking world. RMVB is much more popular than any other format in China (source: any China/HK BT tracker) so if this introduces Firefox to the literal masses, then so what?
On Windows, I just download the SDK. Broswer plugin support, java, javac, etc. all just works.
On OSX, I just do a software update. And it just works.
Maybe it's just your OS?
Someone under a pseudo-name posts accusations, a bunch of people respond and get all riled up and encourages more people to join them in their cause. A name is given and random people from all over dig up information about the guy and other random people in real life start harassing the guy and his family. All this without concrete evidence, they're just going by someone's words on the internet. Even when the original poster tries to call things off, they ignore him and keep going. A large, disorderly group of people attacking someone. That is a mob.
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I definitely agree that there has been no smoking gun, if anything, the rattled response by the grand ayatollah (announce support for Ahmadinejad win on Saturday, again on Sunday and now declaring a partial recount?) is more suggestive than trying to analyse the published numbers.
It's just that there isn't such a strong argument for either candidate to have won by a landslide. Class differences isn't a smoking gun either. Ahmadinejad has good support in the rural areas but inversely, Mousavi has the better support in cities, regardless of class. You can see citizens of all stripes, gender and age in both camp's protests. It can be a wash for all we know.
As Obama said today, there's something going on in Iran. And it's too early, with too little information, to call it for either side.
There's a serious omission in that op-ed that misrepresents that 2:1 ratio.
Namely, that Ahmadinejad only had the vote of 34% of the those polled while Mousavi had 14%. So yes, technically that's 2:1 where the the sum total of both figures is less than 50%. Read the actual report linked to in the article, they highlight this rather important qualifying information by the big red text on page 3.
And if you look at the actual tallies for that question on page 52, question 27, you will see it's 34% for Ahmadinejad, 14% for Mousavi, 27% (!) don't know and 15% (!!) who refused to answer. Both of those are non-trivial percentages that can swing either candidate for a landslide win. This undermines the implication that there is strong support for Ahmadinejad, by a ratio of 2:1 to his closest rival. Seriously, that's an incredulous omission to make, nevermind the fact that the poll itself was conducted a month ago. It is in these past two weeks that voter's opinion would better reflect their voting preferences, you know, after the actual presidential debates.
Fivethirtyeight.com has a good write up of these points, explaining why the opinion expressed in the editorial is not supported by the report it cites. Juan Cole has another good explanation as well.
(The most interesting question on the survey for me BTW, was the question that asked about developing nuclear energy. A full 83% responded with 'strongly favour' while 11% said 'somewhat favour'. That's 94% combined.)
Networking alone won't help the reformists come into power but it sure is key in spreading information and organising protests and sit-ins (see: Obama '08 election). A lot of people on Slashdot make fun of Twitter but it's incredibly useful in situations like this where other forms of real time communications are shutdown.
Pretty much all the news so far from Iran have been a combination of on the ground journalists + satellite phones + Twitter. Remember CNN's coverage on Tiananmem? Twitter (very roughly) is filling in the same void for Tehran.
Still on Tiger so I'm glad they've made it much faster in Leopard. Switching between Eastern languages for me on Tiger would take a couple of seconds - not a lot but enough to be annoying. Did they finally add drawing support so you can just draw out your characters?
Ah but OS X's input editor is dog slow to switch to whereas Window's input editor switches almost instantly.
FWIW, I have a 754 with four hard drives and a fanless card. It idles just below 100W and at 28C. I also have a Mac mini that idles at 30W.
My Intel Mac mini on the other hand idles around 25 watts and boot at ~35 watts. My monitor draws more wattage than my computer.
You sure about that? I remember using Word 6.0 in Win3.1 back in 1993. It was pretty good, clipboard and all.
Uh oh, it looks like my current OpenGL hardware is now obsolete.
I also believe that Apple wanted to be carrier exclusive so it can take in a proportion of the revenue on the data/voice plans of iPhone users. If it weren't carrier-exclusive, Apple wouldn't be able to negotiate revenue-sharing deals. Not to say this was the driving reason but I think Apple's demand for tight control + revenue made it carrier exclusive.
I just want to point out that OSX (10.4 and below) only support NTFS read-only natively. To get write access, you need to install MacFUSE and use ntfs-3g as well. It's pretty much the same situation as with Linux and NTFS. I'm not sure if OSX 10.5 will include write access natively though.
Ah, so in summary, you're sick of web designers who claim to know CSS but really don't.
Seriously, the problems you described echo of my experience six years ago when we had Netscape 4 and IE5. A lot of plain bad designers were trained back then and if you visit the sites they design now, yeah, you're going to run into the same experience. The good designers use ems and grid layouts for sizing, specify font-families nor use JS browser detection for stylesheet loading.
I hope you realise that Engadget isn't some kid running a blog from his home. Engadget is owned by AOL and has a full staff of people, they attend all the major tech trade shows and do live coverage of some of the bigger events (including the Apple ones). They get sent demo units, get invited to pre-release press events, conduct interview with PR managers and executives (they even had an interview with Bill Gates) and have their own PR contacts at the major companies.
In short, these guys do this for a living and know that trust and credibility is their currency. They don't post random tip offs, they have their network of internal sources and try to confirm with PR teams whenever possible before posting -- exactly how journalists get their information. They did phone Apple PR yesterday and it's when they couldn't reach anyone did they decide to run the story.
Here, read their follow up of the incident. It doesn't excuse them for not making it clear that they were unable to confirm the news before running it and in that way, they were incompetent but asshattery? Stop being an asshole man.
No, this is not Communist China; this is bloody Hong Kong. You know, former colony and now special administrative region with its own law and mini-constitution, you know, based on British common law, you know, where courts swap judges with Australia on multi-year loans.
I know you have an axe to grind but this isn't the story for you to sneak it in. This is about a judge making a stupid decision and a lot of people in Hong Kong getting worried about the interpretation of old obscenity laws on modern circumstances. Let's talk about that instead OK?
But on the same token, for those of us with long commutes and have to be on the road before 7, I wake up and travel to work in the dark now. The few weeks before the DST change, I was able to get up with the sun, that was nice. We're just shifting the window, not actually extending anything. But hey, if these daylight hours are nice, why not just keep these hours all year round?
When I was in university, we had to sign an agreement that whatever we submit to them can be used without my permission, for distribution, for profit, etc. Anything I produce using university resources also fell under this 'agreement' except for maybe one or two special cases. I'm under the impression that this is pretty standard across universities now.
But actually, for courses where we had to use TurnItIn, we had to sign a release. IIRC, it was to the effect that I gave up my copyright and they become the owner of my work. We did have the option to not submit through TurnItIn provided that we talked with the professor and explain our concerns. My sister who's in high school now is not as fortunate. She has to sign the release or no credit will be given. No alternatives at all. Any objection is met with the "if you have nothing to hide..." argument and laughs if you talk about copyright and ownership.
This is Canada too, not the US.
Actually, something that really drove this point home to me was one of the slides during the Macworld premiere of the iPhone. Steve's there's telling us all those awesome features slide by slide and then there was this slide at the end that proclaims "all protected by over 200 patents!"
That was a very striking moment for me. So Apple does a nice, fresh take on how to integrate existing technologies to do something nice and slick but at the same time that they're demonstrating what they've done, they also make it clear that only Apple can do this and only they will be able to do this because they have everything patented.. It's almost like saying, see these shiny, new features? No one else will get close to what we're doing because we won't let them.
Blame Gruber for what exactly? And he wasn't the first high profile Mac blogger to point out the disproportionate revenue distribution either, Gruber's post (the one you linked to) references Gus Mueller's blog post. If anything, Mueller's the one that probably started all this, he even disclosed the figure he was offered to feature his application in MacHeist.
But either way, neither Gruber nor Mueller is screaming bloody murder because of the MacHeist promoters' share of revenue. They arguing rather, that it's dishonest and downright misleading to declare the week to be "The Week of the Independent Mac Developer" when they stand to make a lion's share of the profit. Hello, you're praising independent Mac developers but then you allocate them a fixed rate?
I agree that all this bickering is good for no one but don't blame the guys that call a spade a spade.
Well actually, I think most of the world understands football better than politics...
No it doesn't. It tells you how to set it up with Firefox and only Firefox via the FoxyProxy extension. That's a far cry from what you're claiming; no instructions for Safari or Opera.
Not to mention that the hatred for Real is mainly confined to the English speaking world. RMVB is much more popular than any other format in China (source: any China/HK BT tracker) so if this introduces Firefox to the literal masses, then so what?
On Windows, I just download the SDK. Broswer plugin support, java, javac, etc. all just works. On OSX, I just do a software update. And it just works. Maybe it's just your OS?
And of course, most people in China don't have internet access in the first place...
You got any reference to back up your claim that the Chinese government excutes peopel for IP piracy?
Wait, did we read the same article?
Someone under a pseudo-name posts accusations, a bunch of people respond and get all riled up and encourages more people to join them in their cause. A name is given and random people from all over dig up information about the guy and other random people in real life start harassing the guy and his family. All this without concrete evidence, they're just going by someone's words on the internet. Even when the original poster tries to call things off, they ignore him and keep going. A large, disorderly group of people attacking someone. That is a mob.