It's because typically they don't perform exit polls at all precincts, just those that are seen as particularly close. Thus they may make an election-night projection based upon pre-election polls for the majority of precincts, and exit polls at a select portion. If the results in the precincts that weren't specifically exit-polled turn out differently than expected, then the overall election results will differ from predictions made by those exit polls.
It's also a conveniently moralistic issue to push during campaign season. Lots of "family values" types out there to stem the tide of gambling abuse, and also stop the dreaded terrorists from funneling money through these unregulated channels.
And don't forget dear old SoftSide. I remember waiting for each issue, eagerly awaiting new stuff to type into my Atari 400 (always a pain because most programs were for TRS-80's or Apple's, so some tweaking was usually required to get the programs to run).
One thing that helps Google in this regard is that they are insanely profitable, and their software engineers as described in TFA are really more like product development entrepreneurs, so it's easier to set up an incentive-based program like this that puts a huge, juicy carrot in front of the developers to keep them headed in the right direction. I suspect that 99% of the rest of the IT world doesn't have this luxury.
That said, it's a very interesting example to consider. Within the coming months I'll be forming a new application development group, and the mechanisms of determining what we'll be working on and how it will be prioritized are TBD. Good food for thought, here...
You'd be amazed at the profit structure in the book business, it's far leaner than you suggest. Distribution costs, for example, are quite high, considering that a huge portion of books never sell, and anywhere from a quarter to a third of all books shipped to a bookstore end up getting returned back to the distributor or publisher. Retail bookselling is a risky business - you're not sure what's going to sell, so you need to have plenty of stock on hand to make sales on the hits, but that gets extremely expensive when many of those books don't pan out.
The point I was making was that even if each one of those bullet points (accuracy, completeness, etc.) is achieved to perfection, the question of how much such a database could reduce government spending is still wide open.
To your point about scope, then, the only useful CBA could be to determine the most cost effective way of delivering a certain level of budget information for public consumption, under various guidelines (i.e. internet access, open formats, etc.). In other words, seperating the "this is something we should do," from "this is how we should do it." This proposal sounds like both topics rolled into one, and it's likely that it's being obstructed on the grounds that some forces don't want something like this to be done in the first place, rather than objecting to the method proposed.
Not all things lend themselves to Cost/Benefit Analysis. In this case, the benefit isn't $X saved by Congress, or even the country, because there is no way to tell just how much influence this will have. People will have all sorts of opinions once they see the detailed information, and the net result is impossible to predict.
Any chance we can toss this bum off the Bridge to Nowhere at the opening ceremony?
O'Hara's gotten a lot of living done in that short time.
First of all, we're talking about 25 years! That's hardly a short time. Secondly, since it's a memoir of BBSing in the days of dialup access, I doubt there was "a lot of living done", either.
Basically, they're saying that if people buy the machines (loss leaders) and don't buy the games, Sony will be in trouble. No $hit, Sherlock, that's the way the console business has been for years now.
In many areas, you have separate school district budgets and funding sources for General Administration (read: teacher salaries, supplies, etc.) vs. Capital Improvements (read: building repair/expansion). I know in Indiana over the last few years, some ridiculous football scoreboards and basketball arenas were built, because the schools had a glut in the Capital budget but were constrained in the General Administration area.
Changing those funding sources and spending controls is a long-term affair, and not easily done.
The other factor here is private donation - to be sure, there are a lot of people out there who will easily drop down $$$ for a new football facility, but bitch & moan if a tax hike is proposed to bring in more/better staff. On the other hand, you have donors like the local car dealership, who drops down a few thousand in exchange for some advertising space or something similar. Perhaps something like that could be leveraged on the General Administrative side of the budget - say, a Microsoft-sponsored computer science class? Nobody here would object to that, right?
That's a perfect illustration of how technological devices are only a small part of security. Having solid policies that are actually followed means every bit as much, if not more. From TFA:
"This isn't a vulnerability," Goldsmith explained. "It's someone exploiting a policy weakness, where ATM owners install these things and never change the default password."
All that's in the PDF is the default password, following a warning in BIG BOLD TYPE saying that you need to change the default password before deploying the machine. Would they put in a new combination lock on their vault and leave a combo of 1-2-3? I should hope not...
Don't take this story for more than it is. Yahoo is adjusting their guidance for the quarter downwards (at the low end of their range, not below it), and they note shortfalls in a couple major advertising sectors. There's nothing long-term about it, and they're tossing up a broader slowdown as a possible reason for their shortfall. That sounds like speculation more than anything else...
And yes, IAAE (at least that's what my degree is in, I don't work professionaly as one).
But come on, Chicken Little, can't you sound the bugle and warn those small companies before it's too late? No fair hoarding your secret information from the rest of us...
Excerpts of "The Children of Hurin," which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and other works, have been published before.
"It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father's long version of the legend of the 'Children of Hurin' as an independent work, between its own covers,"
So the question is, will there actually be anything new in here that readers haven't seen before, or is it merely pulling bits from various texts and stitching them together in a fresh binding? Sounds like the latter to me...
Slashvertisements are a little different, however, as they are articles posted by the editors. There have always been informative newspaper articles that in another light, could be looked at as advertisements. For instance, a piece about the dangers of personal computing in the internet age could refer to leading antivirus packages.
On sites like YouTube, however, the premise is that you're seeing personal content being posted. Really, it's just an extension to the maxim of taking in content with a critical mindset. Who produced the content you're seeing, and why did they do so?
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It's because typically they don't perform exit polls at all precincts, just those that are seen as particularly close. Thus they may make an election-night projection based upon pre-election polls for the majority of precincts, and exit polls at a select portion. If the results in the precincts that weren't specifically exit-polled turn out differently than expected, then the overall election results will differ from predictions made by those exit polls.
Remember, he's an architect in training, which probably means he's working on his 2nd-year Condescencion skills...
It's also a conveniently moralistic issue to push during campaign season. Lots of "family values" types out there to stem the tide of gambling abuse, and also stop the dreaded terrorists from funneling money through these unregulated channels.
And don't forget dear old SoftSide. I remember waiting for each issue, eagerly awaiting new stuff to type into my Atari 400 (always a pain because most programs were for TRS-80's or Apple's, so some tweaking was usually required to get the programs to run).
That's what I get for only reading one of TFA's...
This may not be the original attribution, but it looks like Pablo Picasso coined the phrase, "Good artists copy. Great artists steal."
I enjoyed the pilot, and it's got a Season Pass on my Tivo...
One thing that helps Google in this regard is that they are insanely profitable, and their software engineers as described in TFA are really more like product development entrepreneurs, so it's easier to set up an incentive-based program like this that puts a huge, juicy carrot in front of the developers to keep them headed in the right direction. I suspect that 99% of the rest of the IT world doesn't have this luxury.
That said, it's a very interesting example to consider. Within the coming months I'll be forming a new application development group, and the mechanisms of determining what we'll be working on and how it will be prioritized are TBD. Good food for thought, here...
Here we go, 500 comments about how management doesn't know anything.
Dyslexics of the World, Untie!
What is this "dot-slash" of which you speak?
You'd be amazed at the profit structure in the book business, it's far leaner than you suggest. Distribution costs, for example, are quite high, considering that a huge portion of books never sell, and anywhere from a quarter to a third of all books shipped to a bookstore end up getting returned back to the distributor or publisher. Retail bookselling is a risky business - you're not sure what's going to sell, so you need to have plenty of stock on hand to make sales on the hits, but that gets extremely expensive when many of those books don't pan out.
The point I was making was that even if each one of those bullet points (accuracy, completeness, etc.) is achieved to perfection, the question of how much such a database could reduce government spending is still wide open.
To your point about scope, then, the only useful CBA could be to determine the most cost effective way of delivering a certain level of budget information for public consumption, under various guidelines (i.e. internet access, open formats, etc.). In other words, seperating the "this is something we should do," from "this is how we should do it." This proposal sounds like both topics rolled into one, and it's likely that it's being obstructed on the grounds that some forces don't want something like this to be done in the first place, rather than objecting to the method proposed.
Not all things lend themselves to Cost/Benefit Analysis. In this case, the benefit isn't $X saved by Congress, or even the country, because there is no way to tell just how much influence this will have. People will have all sorts of opinions once they see the detailed information, and the net result is impossible to predict.
Any chance we can toss this bum off the Bridge to Nowhere at the opening ceremony?
So what would be a proper alternative? Something like "webcast" perhaps?
O'Hara's gotten a lot of living done in that short time.
First of all, we're talking about 25 years! That's hardly a short time.
Secondly, since it's a memoir of BBSing in the days of dialup access, I doubt there was "a lot of living done", either.
Basically, they're saying that if people buy the machines (loss leaders) and don't buy the games, Sony will be in trouble. No $hit, Sherlock, that's the way the console business has been for years now.
In many areas, you have separate school district budgets and funding sources for General Administration (read: teacher salaries, supplies, etc.) vs. Capital Improvements (read: building repair/expansion). I know in Indiana over the last few years, some ridiculous football scoreboards and basketball arenas were built, because the schools had a glut in the Capital budget but were constrained in the General Administration area.
Changing those funding sources and spending controls is a long-term affair, and not easily done.
The other factor here is private donation - to be sure, there are a lot of people out there who will easily drop down $$$ for a new football facility, but bitch & moan if a tax hike is proposed to bring in more/better staff. On the other hand, you have donors like the local car dealership, who drops down a few thousand in exchange for some advertising space or something similar. Perhaps something like that could be leveraged on the General Administrative side of the budget - say, a Microsoft-sponsored computer science class? Nobody here would object to that, right?
All that's in the PDF is the default password, following a warning in BIG BOLD TYPE saying that you need to change the default password before deploying the machine. Would they put in a new combination lock on their vault and leave a combo of 1-2-3? I should hope not...
Oh, and football. Sweet, sweet football.
Remember, we're talking about the University of Virginia. I don't think he missed much there.
Don't take this story for more than it is. Yahoo is adjusting their guidance for the quarter downwards (at the low end of their range, not below it), and they note shortfalls in a couple major advertising sectors. There's nothing long-term about it, and they're tossing up a broader slowdown as a possible reason for their shortfall. That sounds like speculation more than anything else...
And yes, IAAE (at least that's what my degree is in, I don't work professionaly as one).
But come on, Chicken Little, can't you sound the bugle and warn those small companies before it's too late? No fair hoarding your secret information from the rest of us...
So the question is, will there actually be anything new in here that readers haven't seen before, or is it merely pulling bits from various texts and stitching them together in a fresh binding? Sounds like the latter to me...
Slashvertisements are a little different, however, as they are articles posted by the editors. There have always been informative newspaper articles that in another light, could be looked at as advertisements. For instance, a piece about the dangers of personal computing in the internet age could refer to leading antivirus packages.
On sites like YouTube, however, the premise is that you're seeing personal content being posted. Really, it's just an extension to the maxim of taking in content with a critical mindset. Who produced the content you're seeing, and why did they do so?
AFAIK, Dunn is stepping down as Chairwoman, but will retain a place on the board of directors...