Voter turnout was within 2% of this election in 2004, 1992, and 1972. As much as the media would like to portray massive voter turnout and a Obama landslide, the facts don't support it.
I've never argued that this election was a "landslide", but to say that Obama didn't bring record numbers to the polls would be flat out lying. To use rhetoric from the WSJ, "the huge voter turnout of some [130 million] -- the largest as a share of the electorate since 1968", can only be attributed to Obama.
DURHAM, N.C. -- Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof so far this year - with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers the first national snapshot.Figures are up for blacks, women and young people. Rural and city. South and North.
56.8% of the voting-age population voted in 2008, up from 55.3% in 2004, but below 1960, 64, and 68 at 63.1%, 61.9%, and 60.8% respectively.
So I'm to understand that for the three elections in the 60's, the voter turnout went down by 1.2 and then 1.1 points, and for the 2008 election voter turnout went up by 1.5 points. Notice the difference in turnout for 04-08 is the largest of the numbers you cite.
Voter turnout for the 1960, `64, and `68 election are the highest in recent memory. As long as we're picking elections arbitrarily why didn't you go with 1980, `84, and `88, when the turnout was 52.6%, 53.1%, and 50.1%? I suspect it's because doing so you would have torn your argument apart.
When one poor, desperate country starts to get wealthy, corporations will simply move to the next one, and let the first slip back into poverty.
Or as the country starts to get wealthy, it invests in higher learning and job specialization. Then once all of the manufacturing jobs go overseas, the country is ready to reinvent themselves as a country of skilled labor. The article mentions that Google and Facebook just recently opened offices there, so there will surely be a lot of higher level positions. This has already happened to countries like Japan and Korea* as factories continually moved west toward China.
This is comparable to the loss of manufacturing here in the United States. Don't bank on your career as an auto worker, but if you go to college for a few years you could relatively easily get a job as a system administrator, accountant, programmer, registered nurse, the list goes on.
* Granted Korea and Japan don't have the best economies in the world, but I wouldn't describe their situation as "slipping back into poverty".
I don't think you understand how hard drives work. From the OS's point of view, storage is digital. That means you can not see the magnetism on the disk. The conversion of analog reading of a magnetic field to a digital value is internal to the disk. Then that data is sent out over the bus for the OS to process.
It's really surprising to see a comment like this get moderated informative on slashdot.
but the fact that no one cares about your identity OR your porn collection. Just zero the disk once and odds are that will be more than good enough for any of your personal data, unless you are the fucking president or something.
I agree completely. No one is going to bother with a few weeks of work taking apart the drive to get access to you're $371.39 bank account when they can spend 1 hour and simply find that the next disk in line is fully formatted and has all the information they need.
The whole article is a little sensationalist and ridiculous to me. I'm surprised to see such shoddy reporting from the BBC.
2. If you'd read the next sentence right after your bold line, you'd notice they were talking about a kernel lock. Not a lock in memcached. Thats a totally valid reason to blame linux.
How do you hope to architect a fix for this? Thought I don't know the specifics, they said that they were using the same UDP socket to transmit from multiple threads. That means you have one kernel space data structure across the entire UDP/IP stack being shared by multiple threads. Therefore you need a lock around updates to that data structure.
Until we see some atomic sendto() operations this is not going to change.
They said that "on Linux, UDP performance was downright horrible."
This statement is just downright disingenuous and wrong. UDP performance in general on Linux is comparable or better than other Operating Systems. What he found out is that accessing a single UDP socket on Linux requires a lock, and that when trying to share that lock over multiple threads you have a performance issue. Welcome to intro level operating systems.
This has nothing to do with UDP performance, which I define as either throughput or in some cases packets per second. He then goes on to imply that he worked around some issues in Linux, when in actuality he attacked the problem from the wrong angle and through trial and error found the obvious solution. Why would you even think to use the same socket in a connectionless protocol like UDP in the first place?
I do agree that in general the article was written in more or less praise of Linux, but reading that sentence makes my blood boil.
The context was misleading. I had assumed what you said was what they meant, but the summary still could have been worded better. Thanks for "spelling it out" though.
NASA hailed the news as proof that Kepler will be able to do its job of finding planets capable of supporting life.
I guess all you need to support life these days is water vapor and carbon dioxide. Never mind that the planet is hotter than the surface of some stars.
If market price = 0 (if that even is a meaningful statement), that means people are not willing to pay anything for the software, and so paid demand = 0. The only way this can happen is if no one wants the software or somehow they are getting it free. Getting it free is what we've seen in the sale of bytes generally, like with pirated games and mp3s.
Any ECON 101 course will teach that there are both demand and supply curves. In this case, we have established that market price = 0, although it isn't because the demand = 0. He was happily selling the extensions for > 0 before, so there were people willing to pay for it. Rather, it's that people are willing to supply for
$0. So it's the supply curve in the supply and demand curves that causes equilibrium to be $0.
Today, I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them, and I was surprised to see that IBM is going to give its IntelliStation POWER Series workstations the boot in January '09.
Another run on. May I suggest:
Today I was toying with the idea of buying an AIX workstation. I'm going to be able to afford one in the near future, but I was surprised to find that IBM is won't be offering their IntelliStation POWER series workstations past January '09.
There's too much ambiguity in the first version. That is because there is only one verb, "playing with the thought", but you qualified it (don't know the proper grammatical term) with both "Today", and "one day in the future". The reader doesn't know you're talking about buying them in the future till he completes the sentence. Using "again" to qualify the verb makes it even more confusing and wordy.
Furthermore:
A black day for AIX on the desktop.
There's no subject in this sentence. "It is a black day..." would make more sense.
I'm going to leave it their because for the sake of the sanity of the native English speakers on the page.
Please ignore above post. After re-reading, I realize what I said is exactly what you're intending to do. I hope you find a good home for it somehwere;)
The focus is on kids that have never seen a PC before, not kids that go home and play on daddy's laptop. If you're going to donate to a local school, it'll probably have to be the "get 1" laptop that you donate. Of course I'm assuming that you're writing from somewhere in the western world, if you're posting from Peru, maybe you can see if the OLPC guys get you a deal.
You can guarantee that M$ will not upgrade them if they can't even run windows XP out of the box. The issue is that Windows doesn't run on open firmware, which is the default for OLPC.
You don't even have a normal file system unless you go to the Terminal and bypass all the UI.
You're making the presumption that a hierarchal is the best way to organize data. Of course, you would think that, because you're used to using one, but that doesn't mean that there aren't better systems out there for people learning for the first time.
All that said, its still a great little machine, but $400 its quite a bit of money and you can get better hardware for that.
It would be foolish for someone to buy from the G1G1 program and expect the most productive machine out there. In the end, the person entering the program should be doing this either for charity or to satisfy their curiosity.
The number 1 problem with the XO-1 is the keyboard. The machine just wasn't made to fit adult hands. For a child, I'm sure everything is perfect, but don't expect to do any large amount of work on it without an external keyboard, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Other than that it's a perfectly comparable to other sub-notebooks. Obviously twice the price of what it should be, but it's extremely light and rugged. It's the ideal machine for anyone wanting to run linux, since the entire machine is completely open, including the BIOS. The dual-mode screen could really be useful for if you want to work outside one day, which is pretty much impossible with my T60.
Diana Owen, who leads the American Studies program at Georgetown University, said presidents were not advised to use e-mail because of security risks and fear that messages could be intercepted.
"They could come up with some bulletproof way of protecting his e-mail and digital correspondence, but anything can be hacked," said Ms. Owen, who has studied how presidents communicate in the Internet era. "The nature of the president's job is that others can use e-mail for him."
What's wrong with PGP? Surely they could bring a consultant in from the NSA or something to advise in this. I have a hard time believing that I can send secure emails and yet they aren't able to do so presidential level.
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You're being rather disingenuous, aren't you.
No more disingenuous than you.
1.5% is significantly lower than 4%, 5% or 6%, yet I don't recall hearing about the massive numbers that turned out to support Bush.
Really? Because I do:
The huge voter turnout of some 120 million--the largest as a share of the electorate since 1968--adds to the mandate because it means the country was fully engaged in this national debate.
More Americans voted for Mr. Bush for president than have voted for any other presidential candidate in American history, more even than the 54.5 million who voted for Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide.
But I've -- very rarely, I can't think of a time that an incumbent president, particularly one in trouble, has succeeded while expanding turnout; 120 million ballots were cast in this election. And the president did a remarkable job of bringing more Republicans, people who have never voted before in the Republican side, to the polls.
And back to your argument:
Voter turnout was within 2% of this election in 2004, 1992, and 1972. As much as the media would like to portray massive voter turnout and a Obama landslide, the facts don't support it.
I've never argued that this election was a "landslide", but to say that Obama didn't bring record numbers to the polls would be flat out lying. To use rhetoric from the WSJ, "the huge voter turnout of some [130 million] -- the largest as a share of the electorate since 1968", can only be attributed to Obama.
DURHAM, N.C. -- Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof so far this year - with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers the first national snapshot.Figures are up for blacks, women and young people. Rural and city. South and North.
From Fox News.
Nearly half of newly-registered voters in Ohio are aged 18-29.
From fivethirtyeight
And you said:
56.8% of the voting-age population voted in 2008, up from 55.3% in 2004, but below 1960, 64, and 68 at 63.1%, 61.9%, and 60.8% respectively.
So I'm to understand that for the three elections in the 60's, the voter turnout went down by 1.2 and then 1.1 points, and for the 2008 election voter turnout went up by 1.5 points. Notice the difference in turnout for 04-08 is the largest of the numbers you cite.
Voter turnout for the 1960, `64, and `68 election are the highest in recent memory. As long as we're picking elections arbitrarily why didn't you go with 1980, `84, and `88, when the turnout was 52.6%, 53.1%, and 50.1%? I suspect it's because doing so you would have torn your argument apart.
When one poor, desperate country starts to get wealthy, corporations will simply move to the next one, and let the first slip back into poverty.
Or as the country starts to get wealthy, it invests in higher learning and job specialization. Then once all of the manufacturing jobs go overseas, the country is ready to reinvent themselves as a country of skilled labor. The article mentions that Google and Facebook just recently opened offices there, so there will surely be a lot of higher level positions. This has already happened to countries like Japan and Korea* as factories continually moved west toward China.
This is comparable to the loss of manufacturing here in the United States. Don't bank on your career as an auto worker, but if you go to college for a few years you could relatively easily get a job as a system administrator, accountant, programmer, registered nurse, the list goes on.
* Granted Korea and Japan don't have the best economies in the world, but I wouldn't describe their situation as "slipping back into poverty".
I don't think you understand how hard drives work. From the OS's point of view, storage is digital. That means you can not see the magnetism on the disk. The conversion of analog reading of a magnetic field to a digital value is internal to the disk. Then that data is sent out over the bus for the OS to process.
It's really surprising to see a comment like this get moderated informative on slashdot.
but the fact that no one cares about your identity OR your porn collection. Just zero the disk once and odds are that will be more than good enough for any of your personal data, unless you are the fucking president or something.
I agree completely. No one is going to bother with a few weeks of work taking apart the drive to get access to you're $371.39 bank account when they can spend 1 hour and simply find that the next disk in line is fully formatted and has all the information they need.
The whole article is a little sensationalist and ridiculous to me. I'm surprised to see such shoddy reporting from the BBC.
I haven't heard of any software solution that can recover overwritten data.
Likewise. Barring actually disassembling the drive, I think GP's post is bullshit.
How can software get past the fact that the hard disk controller will be handing the OS all 0's?
Then when you go to a friends house all you have to do is boot up their computer and...
oh wait...
Actually, I think this is actually more in the spirit of the poster's complaint.
It's a shame CableCard never caught on - then companies like TiVO could have offered a viable alternative to a set top box.
Um, companies like TiVO do offer alternatives. I'm using a TiVO HD with cableCARD right now, as a matter of fact.
2. If you'd read the next sentence right after your bold line, you'd notice they were talking about a kernel lock. Not a lock in memcached. Thats a totally valid reason to blame linux.
How do you hope to architect a fix for this? Thought I don't know the specifics, they said that they were using the same UDP socket to transmit from multiple threads. That means you have one kernel space data structure across the entire UDP/IP stack being shared by multiple threads. Therefore you need a lock around updates to that data structure.
Until we see some atomic sendto() operations this is not going to change.
They said that "on Linux, UDP performance was downright horrible."
This statement is just downright disingenuous and wrong. UDP performance in general on Linux is comparable or better than other Operating Systems. What he found out is that accessing a single UDP socket on Linux requires a lock, and that when trying to share that lock over multiple threads you have a performance issue. Welcome to intro level operating systems.
This has nothing to do with UDP performance, which I define as either throughput or in some cases packets per second. He then goes on to imply that he worked around some issues in Linux, when in actuality he attacked the problem from the wrong angle and through trial and error found the obvious solution. Why would you even think to use the same socket in a connectionless protocol like UDP in the first place?
I do agree that in general the article was written in more or less praise of Linux, but reading that sentence makes my blood boil.
The context was misleading. I had assumed what you said was what they meant, but the summary still could have been worded better. Thanks for "spelling it out" though.
NASA hailed the news as proof that Kepler will be able to do its job of finding planets capable of supporting life.
I guess all you need to support life these days is water vapor and carbon dioxide. Never mind that the planet is hotter than the surface of some stars.
In my case, I was first taught functional programming, even though it was in C++.
Then you weren't taught functional programming. Perhaps you meant procedural?
Again, Where is the download link of RHEL ?
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise
If market price = 0 (if that even is a meaningful statement), that means people are not willing to pay anything for the software, and so paid demand = 0. The only way this can happen is if no one wants the software or somehow they are getting it free. Getting it free is what we've seen in the sale of bytes generally, like with pirated games and mp3s.
Any ECON 101 course will teach that there are both demand and supply curves. In this case, we have established that market price = 0, although it isn't because the demand = 0. He was happily selling the extensions for > 0 before, so there were people willing to pay for it. Rather, it's that people are willing to supply for $0. So it's the supply curve in the supply and demand curves that causes equilibrium to be $0.
see c#25807817 for an explanation.
A black day for AIX on the desktop.
There's no verb in this sentence.
Today, I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them, and I was surprised to see that IBM is going to give its IntelliStation POWER Series workstations the boot in January '09.
Another run on. May I suggest:
Today I was toying with the idea of buying an AIX workstation. I'm going to be able to afford one in the near future, but I was surprised to find that IBM is won't be offering their IntelliStation POWER series workstations past January '09.
There's too much ambiguity in the first version. That is because there is only one verb, "playing with the thought", but you qualified it (don't know the proper grammatical term) with both "Today", and "one day in the future". The reader doesn't know you're talking about buying them in the future till he completes the sentence. Using "again" to qualify the verb makes it even more confusing and wordy. Furthermore:
A black day for AIX on the desktop.
There's no subject in this sentence. "It is a black day..." would make more sense.
I'm going to leave it their because for the sake of the sanity of the native English speakers on the page.
Please ignore above post. After re-reading, I realize what I said is exactly what you're intending to do. I hope you find a good home for it somehwere ;)
The focus is on kids that have never seen a PC before, not kids that go home and play on daddy's laptop. If you're going to donate to a local school, it'll probably have to be the "get 1" laptop that you donate. Of course I'm assuming that you're writing from somewhere in the western world, if you're posting from Peru, maybe you can see if the OLPC guys get you a deal.
You can guarantee that M$ will not upgrade them if they can't even run windows XP out of the box. The issue is that Windows doesn't run on open firmware, which is the default for OLPC.
You don't even have a normal file system unless you go to the Terminal and bypass all the UI.
You're making the presumption that a hierarchal is the best way to organize data. Of course, you would think that, because you're used to using one, but that doesn't mean that there aren't better systems out there for people learning for the first time.
All that said, its still a great little machine, but $400 its quite a bit of money and you can get better hardware for that.
It would be foolish for someone to buy from the G1G1 program and expect the most productive machine out there. In the end, the person entering the program should be doing this either for charity or to satisfy their curiosity.
The number 1 problem with the XO-1 is the keyboard. The machine just wasn't made to fit adult hands. For a child, I'm sure everything is perfect, but don't expect to do any large amount of work on it without an external keyboard, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Other than that it's a perfectly comparable to other sub-notebooks. Obviously twice the price of what it should be, but it's extremely light and rugged. It's the ideal machine for anyone wanting to run linux, since the entire machine is completely open, including the BIOS. The dual-mode screen could really be useful for if you want to work outside one day, which is pretty much impossible with my T60.
Diana Owen, who leads the American Studies program at Georgetown University, said presidents were not advised to use e-mail because of security risks and fear that messages could be intercepted.
"They could come up with some bulletproof way of protecting his e-mail and digital correspondence, but anything can be hacked," said Ms. Owen, who has studied how presidents communicate in the Internet era. "The nature of the president's job is that others can use e-mail for him."
What's wrong with PGP? Surely they could bring a consultant in from the NSA or something to advise in this. I have a hard time believing that I can send secure emails and yet they aren't able to do so presidential level.