As an intern I took less time than that to Ghost a new PC and physically set it all up again in a new location, without knowing what the hell I was doing (I'm a programmer, not IT). Even if I was getting paid $50 an hour it wouldn't cost that much. Especially not for an average setup time per seat for many identical machines.
If you'd read the article you linked to it talks about The Daily Show vs. The Tonight Show and The Late Show. I wouldn't call either of those network news.
Summary: Bill O'Reilly asserted that "[m]any Americans ages 18 to 24 have no idea what's going on," stating that they "get their news from [Comedy Central host] Jon Stewart and their point of view from bomb-throwing entertainers." In fact, studies have shown that viewers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are consistently better informed about current events than consumers of other media, and Daily Show viewers are significantly better educated than viewers of The O'Reilly Factor. Further, consumers of Fox News in general have been found to be significantly more misinformed about current events than consumers of other mainstream media.
In 2004, the nonpartisan Annenberg Public Policy Center released its National Annenberg Election Survey, which found Daily Show viewers to be better informed on campaign issues than consumers of other late-night television programs, newspapers, network news, or cable news.
The survey asked respondents to answer a six-question quiz designed to measure "political knowledge." Daily Show viewers ages 18 to 29 scored higher than those who consumed any amount of network news, any amount of newspapers, or one to three days of cable news; young Daily Show viewers scored the same as young viewers who watched four or more days of cable news.
Additionally, an October 2003 study conducted by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy (PIPA) found Fox News viewers were "significantly more likely to have misperceptions" about the Iraq war than all other media consumers. The study was "based on a series of seven US polls conducted from January through September" 2003 and measured respondents' "key perceptions and beliefs" on "US policy" in Iraq. The study found that "[t]hose who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions." For instance, of the "three key misperceptions" -- which the study listed as "the beliefs that... links between Iraq and al-Qaeda have been found, that WMD have been found in Iraq and that world public opinion approved of the US going to war with Iraq" -- Fox News watchers were found not only to be the "most likely to hold misperceptions," but "were more than twice as likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions." The PIPA study found that 80 percent of Fox News viewers held at least one of the three misperceptions.
True, it could just be a coincidence. Or it could be a particular (default?) setting in Mailman that causes/prevents getting bounced by gmail that some administrators get right, while others don't.
I don't know what the specific problem may be. I just know that 2 large hosting services both use Mailman and both get bounced by gmail.
In my opinion, the problem with SourceForge lies in that Mailman doesn't work well with Gmail addresses. I use Mailman discussion lists on my DreamHost account, and while testing I couldn't get the emails to work until I added a non-gmail account. I contacted support, blaming them for a while and getting frustrated, until I tried a different email account.
This was DreamHost's response:
I've closed out this ticket for you. I thought I should mention however that quite a few people that have forwards to gmail have ran into similar problem, the only thing that is consistent is that the messages make it to the gmail relays and then disappear.
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I don't think Apple was all that "pro DRM" at all. They simply agreed to it in order to successfully get the whole iTunes music store off to a start with major record labels on-board.
Then why does Apple's DRM still only work with their products?
Ahh, so that's what you were saying. That's not the "goddamn things" I would have expected you to be talking about.
Regarding, what you meant: most malware that I've come across is poorly written enough that it won't work properly without admin. In other words, it will only run until you reboot, rather than installing itself in part of your startup routine.
Theoretically, it could do plenty with a user account though.
It's really not that difficult to run as a limited account. But that discussion has taken place on/. many times.
You could also run as admin and create a limited user, then create a shortcut with runas/savecred that just ran the browser alone as a limited user. After settting it up, it would be as simple as clicking your Firefox icon, like you always do.
I don't know specifically what confidence level specific pollsters were using, but from what I've read, they generally use 95% confidence level with a +-3% error for national elections. Note that doesn't mean there's a 3% "chance the exit poll data was not going to accurately represent the actual data", it means the data is up to 3% off.
Nah. It was a joke. What you posted just sounded similar to something GWB would say.
I can see how failures in voting processes could make democracy not look as grand as Americans say it is, but I don't see how not voting at all could be more favorable than voting with flaws.
all these countries, including the U.S. that are having electronic voting issues are being used by less democratic nations to prove that democracy is bad. Slashdot is playing right into the hands of people like Kim Jong Il, and Hugo Chavez
Yeah. If you question the legitimacy of electronic voting without a paper trail, you are a terrorist.
I say we report CowboyNeal to DHS for harboring this kind of terrorism.
One URL that is clearly a student newspaper. No substance.
In light of President George W. Bush's convincing win, Rapoport attempted to explain how the polling services could have been wrong.
Convincing win? Mmm...I love the smell of bias in the morning.
"I'm not sure what happened. I don't think anybody is," Rapoport said. "But I think the Kerry voters were angry at Bush, and that anger made them more willing to respond to the surveys. Nationwide, refusals clearly were Republican."
How the fuck would they know which people who didn't talk to them were Republican?
Many conservatives don't respond to polls. Their vote is no one else's business, including pollsters. If they don't respond to the polls, they are underrepresented in the poll data. The statistics may look one way while the real data is another way. It's an inexact science.
Okay. Here's some more statistics for you: What percentage of the previous exit polls were anywhere near this wrong? If conservatives avoid pollsters now, they should have in previous elections as well. If exit polls are really that imprecise, they should have been just as wrong in previous years. Oh, they weren't? Next you're going to try to explain why that statistic is imprecise.
Secondly, while the Slashdot crowd is particularly left liberal and you might see anti-Bush sentiments, that is not necessarily so throughout the country. You might be surprised to know that most of the US actually supports President Bush, and leans towards the Republican ideology.
Wrong.
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 9:05 a.m. EDT
Bush Approval Rating Up to 42 Percent
President George W. Bush enjoyed a modest rise in public approval after his recent political offensive on Iraq and national security, but voters still favor Democrats in the November 7 congressional election, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Thursday.
Zogby said Republicans could benefit from the climb in Bush's approval, sparked by increased support among his base voters. The poll found 42 percent of voters thought Bush's job performance was excellent or good, up from 39 percent two weeks ago and 34 percent in mid-August....
Six weeks before voters decide which party controls the U.S. Congress, a majority thinks the country is on the wrong track and nearly three-quarters give the Republican-led Congress negative marks for its job performance.
It's 291 MB for a 22 minute TV show (no commercial half hour show). By comparison, Unbox are ~450-500 MB for the same shows. Both codecs (VC-1 and H.264) are comparable in quality per bitrate. Both codecs completely destroy MPEG-2 and don't suffer from the same compression artifacts that DivX and XviD do.
The videos I've downloaded have looked better than 2.7 GB MPEG-2 TV recordings done on my PC, due to the analog noise SDTV introduces.
In order of preference: HDTV (MPEG-2) > DVD (MPEG-2) > Unbox (VC-1) > iTMS (H.264) > DVD-rip (XviD) > SDTV recording (MPEG-2).
Now, it would be great if they offered to pick up non-Dell computers too when you make a purhase and want to get rid of the old stuff.
They do. It's part of the old program that has been around a few years. You can still do that. This just adds free recycling of Dell computers with no purchase necessary.
It may be a better offer if you could include computers from any source, not just dell, right?
They will, as part of a new purchase. That was their old recycling program, and it's still in effect. The new program adds recycling of Dell products at any time.
You have to have *something* to do with Dell before they'll ship your junk for free.
I'd recommend M-Audio as well. In a break out box. All the professional solutions are external. If you can find a cheap one that is still external, it's probably at least better than most consumer cards.
You'll still have some latency problems because of your PC, but I'm not sure if that will be an issue with what you're using it for. Check M-Audio's recommended PCs/Macs if it's an issue.
So many hours spent stoned with my friends after class playing Goldeneye or Mario Kart 64...ahh...the memories. Both were an intro to what would become LAN parties, except you only had to bring your controller for hours of enjoyment. I can't say I've really had that much fun with any other console. Taking turns with GTA just isn't the same.
Or maybe their own systems didn't ship with the lemon batteries that they gave to everyone else...
In that case, it would be Sony "not [being] prone to the same defect that other OEMs have been subjected to," and would look a whole lot like a supplier's sabotage of a competitor.
I know if I was Dell or Lenovo or Apple, I would seriously consider terminating all POs with Sony's name on them.
Its not like Bethseda had to sit down and write Cell assembly all day every day. The Unreal engine is available for use (although I doubt they used that), the same tree engine they use on the XBox360 is available,
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Almost $1000 to upgrade a PC, per seat?
As an intern I took less time than that to Ghost a new PC and physically set it all up again in a new location, without knowing what the hell I was doing (I'm a programmer, not IT). Even if I was getting paid $50 an hour it wouldn't cost that much. Especially not for an average setup time per seat for many identical machines.
How about an article that compares The Daily Show to O'Reilly?
True, it could just be a coincidence. Or it could be a particular (default?) setting in Mailman that causes/prevents getting bounced by gmail that some administrators get right, while others don't.
I don't know what the specific problem may be. I just know that 2 large hosting services both use Mailman and both get bounced by gmail.
This was DreamHost's response:
I don't know if that means that GMail rejects Mailman messages, or Mailman has problems sending to Gmail addresses, but one way or another, it doesn't work right.
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Then why does Apple's DRM still only work with their products?
They use it for vendor lock-in. They love it.
Stop giving them a pass because they're Apple.
No, it's not.
Ha, I like the examples within the sentence that describes them.
Ahh, so that's what you were saying. That's not the "goddamn things" I would have expected you to be talking about.
Regarding, what you meant: most malware that I've come across is poorly written enough that it won't work properly without admin. In other words, it will only run until you reboot, rather than installing itself in part of your startup routine.
Theoretically, it could do plenty with a user account though.
It's really not that difficult to run as a limited account. But that discussion has taken place on /. many times.
/savecred that just ran the browser alone as a limited user. After settting it up, it would be as simple as clicking your Firefox icon, like you always do.
You could also run as admin and create a limited user, then create a shortcut with runas
I don't know specifically what confidence level specific pollsters were using, but from what I've read, they generally use 95% confidence level with a +-3% error for national elections. Note that doesn't mean there's a 3% "chance the exit poll data was not going to accurately represent the actual data", it means the data is up to 3% off.
Nah. It was a joke. What you posted just sounded similar to something GWB would say.
I can see how failures in voting processes could make democracy not look as grand as Americans say it is, but I don't see how not voting at all could be more favorable than voting with flaws.
Yeah. If you question the legitimacy of electronic voting without a paper trail, you are a terrorist.
I say we report CowboyNeal to DHS for harboring this kind of terrorism.
One URL that is clearly a student newspaper. No substance.
Convincing win? Mmm...I love the smell of bias in the morning.
How the fuck would they know which people who didn't talk to them were Republican?
Here's a more relevant URL:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-51738167
John Stewart is a fucking comedian!
Get a grip.
Okay. Here's some more statistics for you: What percentage of the previous exit polls were anywhere near this wrong? If conservatives avoid pollsters now, they should have in previous elections as well. If exit polls are really that imprecise, they should have been just as wrong in previous years. Oh, they weren't? Next you're going to try to explain why that statistic is imprecise.
Wrong.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/28/9150
http://news.google.com/news?q=bush+approval+ratin
It's 291 MB for a 22 minute TV show (no commercial half hour show). By comparison, Unbox are ~450-500 MB for the same shows. Both codecs (VC-1 and H.264) are comparable in quality per bitrate. Both codecs completely destroy MPEG-2 and don't suffer from the same compression artifacts that DivX and XviD do.
The videos I've downloaded have looked better than 2.7 GB MPEG-2 TV recordings done on my PC, due to the analog noise SDTV introduces.
In order of preference:
HDTV (MPEG-2) > DVD (MPEG-2) > Unbox (VC-1) > iTMS (H.264) > DVD-rip (XviD) > SDTV recording (MPEG-2).
Some of their TV shows are not yet available on DVD, and aren't broadcast in HDTV.
The only way you're going to get a very-close-to-DVD quality copy of those episodes *right now* is to download them from iTMS or Unbox.
Have you even watched them yet? They're certainly better quality than all those SDTV channels you watch on your 60" TV.
They do. It's part of the old program that has been around a few years. You can still do that. This just adds free recycling of Dell computers with no purchase necessary.
They will, as part of a new purchase. That was their old recycling program, and it's still in effect. The new program adds recycling of Dell products at any time.
You have to have *something* to do with Dell before they'll ship your junk for free.
I'd recommend M-Audio as well. In a break out box. All the professional solutions are external. If you can find a cheap one that is still external, it's probably at least better than most consumer cards.
You'll still have some latency problems because of your PC, but I'm not sure if that will be an issue with what you're using it for. Check M-Audio's recommended PCs/Macs if it's an issue.
So many hours spent stoned with my friends after class playing Goldeneye or Mario Kart 64...ahh...the memories. Both were an intro to what would become LAN parties, except you only had to bring your controller for hours of enjoyment. I can't say I've really had that much fun with any other console. Taking turns with GTA just isn't the same.
In that case, it would be Sony "not [being] prone to the same defect that other OEMs have been subjected to," and would look a whole lot like a supplier's sabotage of a competitor.
I know if I was Dell or Lenovo or Apple, I would seriously consider terminating all POs with Sony's name on them.
On the PC, they use the Havok physics engine, which is available for PS3.
Damn, those weren't the kind of pictures I was expecting.
There, the thread is no longer worthless.