They didn't know the number of provisional ballots in question until early today.
The estimates from the secretary of state in Ohio ranged from 150K-250K.
When he found out there were only 140K or so, he conceded.
Kerry is 252 currently...
252 (Kerry currently) + 20 (Ohio) = 272
Not 269.
I know that Ohio is currently leaning towards Bush, but it hasn't been called yet (provisional ballots).
I was just responding to the guy in the parent of my post who said he couldn't get it even with Ohio.
Also, you will only be able to tell after voting is done, after provisional ballots are counted, and after the lawyers are through ravaging Ohio:)
"... Sakaria did a quick check of caller IDs and found that most of the calls from the Democratic party..."
They actually did look at the caller ID of their customer's calls!? And at least researched them enough to figure out that they were Republican or Democratic volunteers?
Holy crap! Isn't this kind of data mining illegal?
Yeah, he means MINIX, the microkernel based O.S. developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. As far as I can tell, Minux is a small Linux distribution developed by Roland Wehren.
Are there people on AMD's payroll that are regular contributors to GCC? If so, I have to claim ignorance on that one...
I'm saying that AMD could put the same scale of work into GCC that Intel puts into their compiler. I don't think that is there yet... please let me know if I'm mistaken.
I don't think it's a bad deal for them... they get some free development on a free project that wouldn't directly profit them to do all in-house anyways. (AFAIK)
Maybe they could even put in for a couple of full-time engineers on the project.
I agree, to an extent. It's been said that Intel's compiler can outdo GCC in some performance benchmarks.
GCC is no slouch though, and obviously Intel is performing some tricks that could also be implemented by GCC.
I think it'd be a great move for AMD to work WITH GNU to optimize 64-bit AMD code from GCC.
Seems like Intel is more prone to keeping secrets when it comes to processors. Maybe this is (yet another) way for AMD to give them a run for their money.
GWB: "I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God' in it. I think that's an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process as opposed to a strict interpretation of the Constitution."
He calls wanting the words "under god" out of the pledge of allegiance (a scary thing in the first place) an opinion. What he doesn't say is that wanting them there in the first place is also an opinion. So Bush seems to want judges that support his opinions. Opinions are "moral" (religious leader) not "ethical" (government leader).
I know our founding fathers were religious, and they incorporated that attitude into the consitution. But America was started to support freedom from religious and governmental oppression. Do you really think that our founding fathers intended to get it all right on the first try? Do you really think they intended tradition to overrule the necessary evolution of the system?
When I have kids someday, I won't raise them to be religious. And I really don't want them to feel ostricized every morning at school when their schoolmates are "pledging allegiance" to some cloth stapled to the wall in the name of an unverifiable "god". Most people say "just don't say that part", but how do you explain that to a kid: "Support your beliefs by abstaining from the pledge, and just ignore everyone who calls you a 'poophead' every day."
It's not just a couple of meaningless words in the pledge, it is government sponsored religion. If you are religious and disagree, try to think what it would be like if the shoe were on the other foot.
John Kerry has at least said (on many occasions) that he doesn't wear his faith on his sleeve and that he won't use it to govern the people.
Definitely true right now... but ideally the technology will be able to directly stimulate your senses someday. Then it might be hard to tell the difference.
Microsoft is already very aware of legit keys -- they printed them.
Also, if you don't download the "genuine software" checker, they won't be able to see if you have a duplicate key.
I'm not saying that it couldn't get worse, but with this particular instance I don't think there is anything to worry about.
In terms of provability, the existence of god cannot be proven any more than than it can be refuted.
Therefore, intelligent people currently take the "mu" position... i.e. we do not have enough information to make a judgement call.
However, we can use reasoning to learn some things about the world around us. Not prove anything, but at least learn to the best of our abilities.
If you accept the supernatural arguments of creating a universe that is meant to fool its inhabitants, you open a pandora's box of irrational thinking. In that world, no statement can be proven invalid.
Yeah, I don't know whether it was cached, or if we have some linkage over Internet2, or whatever... but I just downloaded that from you at 2 megaBYTES per second. I literally got it in less than 3 seconds.
I don't think your university's network is going down anytime soon.
Yeah, here at UTexas of Arlington we are doing pretty good too. I don't even see us on the list!
We have wireless 99% of places on campus, 2 100mb ports in every dorm room, online registration and administrative services, online courses, many cutting edge research projects in CSE (I'm a member of the pervasive computing group), and a huge number of computer labs (one is also open 24/7).
Seriously. And not a student discount in sight, you insensitive clods!:(
It completely rules out a road trip, because the most money you are supposed to spend on a road trip is for gas and half-frozen/rancid hot dogs from the 7-11s (or equivalent) on the way.
It's not as bad as TechEd, but it's still a bummer. That price tag is a showstopper for a lot of people that Apache and open source in general should be very worried about attracting.
Especially with my college cramming MSDNAA stuff in our faces all the time. (I'm not uber-anti-MS, I just tremble at the prices of this kind of stuff for when I get out of school)
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They didn't know the number of provisional ballots in question until early today. The estimates from the secretary of state in Ohio ranged from 150K-250K. When he found out there were only 140K or so, he conceded.
Photoshop costs $600? Gee, I never noticed. Ahem. :)
I originally meant to say open-sourcing or loosening the license. Same question applies with the latter ...
I don't understand what companies have to lose by open-sourcing firmware or software that goes with hardware.
... right?
They make money on the hardware, not the software
Sounds very forward-thinking. I will definitely be listening to this stream when I move there soon.
Kerry is 252 currently ...
252 (Kerry currently) + 20 (Ohio) = 272
Not 269.
I know that Ohio is currently leaning towards Bush, but it hasn't been called yet (provisional ballots).
I was just responding to the guy in the parent of my post who said he couldn't get it even with Ohio. Also, you will only be able to tell after voting is done, after provisional ballots are counted, and after the lawyers are through ravaging Ohio :)
Kerry currently has 242 electoral votes, with Ohio (20), Wisconsin(10), Iowa(7), Nevada(5), and New Mexico(5) still in limbo.
So Kerry could get Ohio + Wisconsin + some others and have plenty more than 270.
"... Sakaria did a quick check of caller IDs and found that most of the calls from the Democratic party ..."
They actually did look at the caller ID of their customer's calls!? And at least researched them enough to figure out that they were Republican or Democratic volunteers?
Holy crap! Isn't this kind of data mining illegal?
Yeah, he means MINIX, the microkernel based O.S. developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. As far as I can tell, Minux is a small Linux distribution developed by Roland Wehren.
Tanenbaum is the owner of electoral-vote.com.
Mirrordotted!
Sorry it's not immediately obvious to me. Who are they?
Are there people on AMD's payroll that are regular contributors to GCC? If so, I have to claim ignorance on that one ...
... please let me know if I'm mistaken.
... they get some free development on a free project that wouldn't directly profit them to do all in-house anyways. (AFAIK)
I'm saying that AMD could put the same scale of work into GCC that Intel puts into their compiler. I don't think that is there yet
I don't think it's a bad deal for them
Maybe they could even put in for a couple of full-time engineers on the project.
I agree, to an extent. It's been said that Intel's compiler can outdo GCC in some performance benchmarks.
GCC is no slouch though, and obviously Intel is performing some tricks that could also be implemented by GCC.
I think it'd be a great move for AMD to work WITH GNU to optimize 64-bit AMD code from GCC.
Seems like Intel is more prone to keeping secrets when it comes to processors. Maybe this is (yet another) way for AMD to give them a run for their money.
From the second presidential debate:
GWB: "I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God' in it. I think that's an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process as opposed to a strict interpretation of the Constitution."
He calls wanting the words "under god" out of the pledge of allegiance (a scary thing in the first place) an opinion. What he doesn't say is that wanting them there in the first place is also an opinion. So Bush seems to want judges that support his opinions. Opinions are "moral" (religious leader) not "ethical" (government leader).
I know our founding fathers were religious, and they incorporated that attitude into the consitution. But America was started to support freedom from religious and governmental oppression. Do you really think that our founding fathers intended to get it all right on the first try? Do you really think they intended tradition to overrule the necessary evolution of the system?
When I have kids someday, I won't raise them to be religious. And I really don't want them to feel ostricized every morning at school when their schoolmates are "pledging allegiance" to some cloth stapled to the wall in the name of an unverifiable "god". Most people say "just don't say that part", but how do you explain that to a kid: "Support your beliefs by abstaining from the pledge, and just ignore everyone who calls you a 'poophead' every day."
It's not just a couple of meaningless words in the pledge, it is government sponsored religion. If you are religious and disagree, try to think what it would be like if the shoe were on the other foot.
John Kerry has at least said (on many occasions) that he doesn't wear his faith on his sleeve and that he won't use it to govern the people.
Definitely true right now ... but ideally the technology will be able to directly stimulate your senses someday. Then it might be hard to tell the difference.
"Pompeii would be peopled by computer-generated characters"
How would they respond to you running around saying "YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE IN A FIERY DEATH!!!!"
the company that was routing internet over the magnetic filed around power lines (not through the power lines)?
Microsoft is already very aware of legit keys -- they printed them. Also, if you don't download the "genuine software" checker, they won't be able to see if you have a duplicate key. I'm not saying that it couldn't get worse, but with this particular instance I don't think there is anything to worry about.
Sattire does make you feel better, though. Makes you feel good that at least a few other people see the problems.
...
But maybe that just discourages change even more
In terms of provability, the existence of god cannot be proven any more than than it can be refuted.
... i.e. we do not have enough information to make a judgement call.
Therefore, intelligent people currently take the "mu" position
However, we can use reasoning to learn some things about the world around us. Not prove anything, but at least learn to the best of our abilities.
If you accept the supernatural arguments of creating a universe that is meant to fool its inhabitants, you open a pandora's box of irrational thinking. In that world, no statement can be proven invalid.
Yeah, I don't know whether it was cached, or if we have some linkage over Internet2, or whatever ... but I just downloaded that from you at 2 megaBYTES per second. I literally got it in less than 3 seconds.
I don't think your university's network is going down anytime soon.
Yeah, here at UTexas of Arlington we are doing pretty good too. I don't even see us on the list!
We have wireless 99% of places on campus, 2 100mb ports in every dorm room, online registration and administrative services, online courses, many cutting edge research projects in CSE (I'm a member of the pervasive computing group), and a huge number of computer labs (one is also open 24/7).
Seriously. And not a student discount in sight, you insensitive clods! :(
It completely rules out a road trip, because the most money you are supposed to spend on a road trip is for gas and half-frozen/rancid hot dogs from the 7-11s (or equivalent) on the way.
It's not as bad as TechEd, but it's still a bummer. That price tag is a showstopper for a lot of people that Apache and open source in general should be very worried about attracting.
Especially with my college cramming MSDNAA stuff in our faces all the time. (I'm not uber-anti-MS, I just tremble at the prices of this kind of stuff for when I get out of school)