Elections in Turkey

Yes we have national elections in Turkey within 2 weeks ...

I will try to analyze the possible results from my perspective. These results don't show neither my political ideas nor show the actual results (which we will see in two weeks time).

There are 5 main political parties right now with the possibility of entering to the parliament (that doesn't mean that I also believe so) according to the surveys and the media:
AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi - Fair and Justice Party)
CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - People Republic Party)
MHP (Milliyetci Hareket Partisi - Nationalist Movement Party)
DP (Demokrat Parti - Democratic Party)
GP (Genc Parti - Young Party)

AKP is the current ruling (governing) party and CHP is the main opposition party in the parliament. Of these political parties CHP is left and the others are right sided. MHP, DP and GP are loosely connected to the religion if compared to AKP. The current government (AKP) is achieved a lot in the sense of rights / regulations and also according to some views in the economical performance. But there are strong oppositions to their acts in rights / regulations point of view. The main argument is to "Pick-up from Europe and Apply here" logic. This argument states that AKP, for Turkey's accession to Euroepan Union, accepted and deployed some regulations which theoretically makes sense but in practice not applicable to Turkey. What makes the things worse is, without any adaptations, these regulations cause problems in Turkey. Economical view arguments involve that "the world economy is rising so Turkish economy is rising". This argument is based on the economical achievements of the countries at Turkey scale (such as Brasil, Mexico and Argentina).

CHP earns points because of its possibility to enter to the parliament and the actions it followed during the presidential elections. But CHP loses points because of its president Deniz Baykal, especially internal reactions are the main concern.

MHP sits on top of nationalist ideas and earns points because of its support for PKK leader execution. Especially after the elections in France (Sarkozy with strong pronunciations against Turkey's accession to EU) and bad steps in EU process, MHP is one of the destinations for the voters as a reaction.

GP is strongly against AKP as its leader Cem Uzan and his holding has been ruined by the current government. GP also has similar political view to MHP.

DP has the following drawbacks: (Although everything has been cleared in courts) Its leader has some bad impressions in minds. Secondly, the failure of combination with another right side party (ANAP, Anavatan Partisi, Homeland Party) created a bad impression in minds.

There are also party independent candidates for the parliament and they are in a big number but as I can't analyze their ideas individually, I left them out of scope.


So after brief situation summary, here is my guess for the results (if anything extraordinary doesn't happen):
AKP --> %25-27
MHP --> %18-20
CHP --> %16-18
DP --> %9-12
GP --> %6-8
This is my opinion...

Another view is the vote percentage of AKP will increase to %37-40. And in another one AKP will be %22-24 and CHP will be around %20.

So that is all for now. We will see the results in two weeks.

But there is a certain fact that Turkey is rising .....

Install Vista From HDD

Installing Vista from HDD instead of CD/DVD ROM is clearly/briefly explained here :
http://11011.net/archives/000645.html

Today I got an e-mail from my friend about Microsoft Surface Computing, Touch Screen Table. It is an interesting product. Watch here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DasPNFrP24.

G8

They met again today ...

They decide about the future ...

They don't take China ...

They agreed on global warming ...


Are they really big?

This is the news!

Pardus

I do support Pardus...




Stay tuned...

Enjoy Beryl

I still couldn't get the Vista release ... The emphasis on the visualization from its earlier versions pushed me for the alternatives. Beryl as a desktop manager (with support of different window managers) was a good candidate. I installed it (although it was a little bit problematic because of my vga card) and I enjoy the wonderful OpenGL effects.

Don't wait, use it ...

http://www.beryl-project.org/

Tendencies

What I learned nowadays (in a really abstract/general manner) :

Software agents paradigm is regarded as the future computing paradigm for software development. The frontrunners of this paradigm mainly argue to OOP and emphasize its lackness of expressibility on contemporary requirements. That is the current discussion. There is the notion of artifact in agent oriented computing which has its computational capabilities (internal and external behaviours). This notion opens so many ways of research/idea directions to be researched. So we (will) hear both "artifact" and the "context" more often in this field.

Information Retrieval
An important observation is the absence of foundation (founding theories, models etc.) in IR.

Nutch (as crawler, "the software bundle of Nutch already includes Lucene internally", and search engine interface) and Lucene (indexer). Nutch works with Tomcat. You crawl the (intranet) web sites with Nutch and index them for retrieval.

On the other hand, you can create your own customized search engine with Google (Google Customized Search Engine).


Next --> Trust Management

Stay tuned...

Feelings and Being Busy

Do we have feelings when we are busy? Are they the pushing force to do something or we don't feel when we are really busy?

I force myself for the blog: I must write, I must write :). But I am so busy that my agenda changes so often. So I forget to text up my feelings at that time and because of agenda change, my feelings are out of date when I have time to write.
Hopefully, I had time to write these :).

This is what I feel now...