Funnily enough, I really struggled to get open source OCR software to read OCR-B fonts with any accuracy. They worked better with Arial.
I even tried rendering a PDF to PNG and the trying to read that. All it was was some base64 encoded data with no punctuation, thinking about it, maybe that was the problem.
I think it needs to be said that cleaning up a few Tube stations and and exploded bus is a little bit easier than the mess left over after the Twin Towers collapsed (as well as the hole in the Pentagon).
However, you are absolutely correct - the overreaction has been insane (the UK hasn't been as bad, but then we started off with less rights in the first place).
Compare the most recent attacks in the US & UK: US: Two (clearly sub-par intelligent) men decided to bomb the Boston Marathon - they managed to kill only 3 people because the set the bombs up right where all the medical staff were. Instead of the Government portraying them as a pair of bumbling loners, they cast them as Uber-Terrorists by leveling a WMD charge.
UK: Two men attack Lee Rigby in Woolwich. Their job is then completed for them by some people (who want their 15 minutes of fame) who ensure that the reasons for the attack are broadcast to the world*. The Government charges them with murder, plain and simple.
* Somebody asked "are you telling me nobody should be told why they did it", and my answer is "absolutely, yes". Why do people need to know the reason for the attack, what possible reason could they give that would make you think "yes, running a man over and then beheading him in the street was a rational thing to do?" The attack wouldn't have taken place if the two men knew that they would be arrested and charged with murder without anyone knowing their reasons - as far as I'm concerned, terrorism is a form of attention seeking, and the way to deal with attention seekers is to ignore them.
It's a shame you were labeled a troll. However I completely disagree with you - he also revealed how other countries (UK) are involved, namely the agreement where I spy on your people and you spy on mine, so it can be explained away as completely legal. Not that I'm surprised at all by the revelations, it was pretty obvious when governments use the excuse "we're not monitoring our citizens". I don't even wear a tin foil hat, though I do like to come up with conspiracy theories for shits & giggles (it's also good at winding some people up).
I'm guessing you don't think Germany is a modern stable state either? I mean, its leaders and part of the population was responsible for killing millions (Jews, blacks, disabled, gypsies, Jehovah's witnesses, etc), and that was less than 80 years ago.
FWIW, Germany was one of the few countries in the last decade that didn't blow all it's money on drugs and hookers and then whinge about it when they had nothing left, unlike my home country and my current country of residence. So it certainly meets my definition of stable and modern. Interestingly enough, Turkey wasn't among the list of wastrels needing bailouts either.
Yay, I can check the get regular weather & social updates on the start screen. Funnily enough, that's not a priority for most business users. And I especially like trying to reorganise the tiles - it's like playing a Sliding Puzzle - how could anyone hate that?
It's all well and good having an OS that boots quickly - everyone like that. However, it would be interesting to compare the time saved due to a fast boot, to that wasted by trying to find which "Visual Studio 2..." is the one you actually want.
There's Google's "Verbatim tool". However it's a ballache to use, and I can't see a simple way of using it by default, other than modifying the querystring in Chrome.
Not for the plebs in my office. I keep finding the Ask toolbar and McAffee shite on [self employeed] brokers' computers - it turns out the update installers don't remember your preference - why would they, it would mean less installs.
Face, meet palm. I'm also guessing he's talking about an actual tank, not a 19kg bottle that we tend to use, and swap out for a full one every so often.
Christ, how big is your propane tank? A friend has a gas barbecue that he's had for about 6 years. It's been kept permanently outside (UK) and he often forgets to the cover on, meaning that the heat reflector under the grill has rusted to buggery. The cast iron grill, plate and jets are in perfect condition. Admittedly the jets have had to be re drilled twice as the iron oxide was restricting flow, but that's it.
It also gets used a hell of a lot - the earliest I've cooked on it (his wife calls it my barbecue, it's just that her husband happens to own it) was on New Year's day. Maybe a grill is different from barbecue, and I'm comparing apples to oranges.
That's what Renault do. However it causes my company some headaches when it comes to underwriting them for dealerships - the batteries are leased by the owner, so the car will effectively have no battery when it is part exchanged for a new vehicle. Not many dealerships are keen on leasing a set of batteries for a car that they will (hopefully) sell within 90 days, or (more likely) trade out of.
I can see it mainly being used to request information on citizens than aren't allowed to be spied on by their own government. I'm sure Downing Street will be getting involved in this too.
As somebody who has done lighting (for a very small production), it can be bloody difficult when people start ad-libbing because it can really screw with the cues that you're waiting for. So I'm with the GP - minor changes can cause major confusion.
Too right. My method was to have a T/F quiz with the ballot, from which the vote is weighted (minimum 1 so as not to disenfranchise people, +1 weighting for every correct answer). Not on policies as that is open to bias, but factual questions relating to the vote.
eg: The name of the Labour leader is... T/F The name of the Conservative deputy is... T/F The alternative vote will require people place a number for every candidate T/F
The last IMO was the most commonly misunderstood points about the suggested alternative vote concept in the UK. The amount of times I heard "but it will make me place a vote for the BNP/EDF/Monster Raving Loony Party candidate".
I would also like to see on the ballot information about the incumbent: percentage of days in parliament; percentage attendance to parliamentary debates, etc.
it skews the electoral system to having to devote most effort to chasing uncommitted
Can't you just spoil your ballot? If I want to show that I'm apathetic (for example the UK Police Commissioner elections) I don't vote. However I normally vote, but in some instances have purposely spoilt my vote so that the turnout is higher (ok, it's only one higher), but I haven't voted for a candidate I want.
However, the electronic machines (in Ireland anyway) don't allow you to spoil your ballot. I was back to Dublin for a weekend when there was [one of] the Nice referendums. I was going to vote Yes, but when I got to the polling station I saw the local TD with a minibus plastered with "Vote Yes", which was in direct contravention of the 24hr moroatoreum on campaigning. The guard (police man) was chatting away to the TD and couldn't care less when I mentioned it to them. So I decided to spoil my ballot, however the machine wouldn't let me do that, so fuck it, I voted no instead.
As I've said previously, most people who this will happen to are lazy, and for some inexplicable reason, proud that they don't know anything about "computers". I'm not defending the GP, it's a shit attitude for those people to have, and it's a shit attitude to say "they deserved it".
However, in my office I explain permissions (with examples) to people with new Android phones. Some make a show of saying they'll never remember that. I use a car analogy (which I've already posted - not a karma whore) which goes along the lines of "When you fill you car up, do you blindly pick the nearest pump, or do you make sure you're not putting petrol into you diesel car".
Most people aren't stupid (no matter how much we may joke about it), but many are ignorant and make a concious decision not to learn about the tools that they use day in - day out.
When showing colleagues how to use their new Android phones I always explain the permissions to them, especially the Contacts, SMS and Calling permissions. The wording I use is "If it's something like Skype, it needs to read your contacts. If it's a football game, it doesn't - don't install it"
On more than one occasion I've been told "how am I supposed to remember that?", to which reply (I work in a motor-trade related business, so I use an obligatory car analogy) "When you drive into a petrol station, do you just blindly pick the nearest pump and start filling up?"
Most of the people who say "I'm not a geek, I can't do that" aren't stupid, they're lazy, ignorant and simply don't want to learn. I tend to try helping them, but if they show no willingness to take in what I say, I tell them that if they're not going to listen, I see no point in wasting my time.
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Funnily enough, I really struggled to get open source OCR software to read OCR-B fonts with any accuracy. They worked better with Arial.
I even tried rendering a PDF to PNG and the trying to read that. All it was was some base64 encoded data with no punctuation, thinking about it, maybe that was the problem.
I think it needs to be said that cleaning up a few Tube stations and and exploded bus is a little bit easier than the mess left over after the Twin Towers collapsed (as well as the hole in the Pentagon).
However, you are absolutely correct - the overreaction has been insane (the UK hasn't been as bad, but then we started off with less rights in the first place).
Compare the most recent attacks in the US & UK:
US: Two (clearly sub-par intelligent) men decided to bomb the Boston Marathon - they managed to kill only 3 people because the set the bombs up right where all the medical staff were. Instead of the Government portraying them as a pair of bumbling loners, they cast them as Uber-Terrorists by leveling a WMD charge.
UK: Two men attack Lee Rigby in Woolwich. Their job is then completed for them by some people (who want their 15 minutes of fame) who ensure that the reasons for the attack are broadcast to the world*. The Government charges them with murder, plain and simple.
* Somebody asked "are you telling me nobody should be told why they did it", and my answer is "absolutely, yes". Why do people need to know the reason for the attack, what possible reason could they give that would make you think "yes, running a man over and then beheading him in the street was a rational thing to do?" The attack wouldn't have taken place if the two men knew that they would be arrested and charged with murder without anyone knowing their reasons - as far as I'm concerned, terrorism is a form of attention seeking, and the way to deal with attention seekers is to ignore them.
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No shit, how the hell have we gotten to the point where every accident report is accompanied with that phrase.
It's a shame you were labeled a troll. However I completely disagree with you - he also revealed how other countries (UK) are involved, namely the agreement where I spy on your people and you spy on mine, so it can be explained away as completely legal. Not that I'm surprised at all by the revelations, it was pretty obvious when governments use the excuse "we're not monitoring our citizens". I don't even wear a tin foil hat, though I do like to come up with conspiracy theories for shits & giggles (it's also good at winding some people up).
I'm guessing you don't think Germany is a modern stable state either? I mean, its leaders and part of the population was responsible for killing millions (Jews, blacks, disabled, gypsies, Jehovah's witnesses, etc), and that was less than 80 years ago.
FWIW, Germany was one of the few countries in the last decade that didn't blow all it's money on drugs and hookers and then whinge about it when they had nothing left, unlike my home country and my current country of residence. So it certainly meets my definition of stable and modern. Interestingly enough, Turkey wasn't among the list of wastrels needing bailouts either.
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Yay, I can check the get regular weather & social updates on the start screen. Funnily enough, that's not a priority for most business users. And I especially like trying to reorganise the tiles - it's like playing a Sliding Puzzle - how could anyone hate that?
It's all well and good having an OS that boots quickly - everyone like that. However, it would be interesting to compare the time saved due to a fast boot, to that wasted by trying to find which "Visual Studio 2..." is the one you actually want.
I put double sided sticky tape on my carpet for that authentic cinema feel.
Astalavista.box.sk?
There's Google's "Verbatim tool". However it's a ballache to use, and I can't see a simple way of using it by default, other than modifying the querystring in Chrome.
Not for the plebs in my office. I keep finding the Ask toolbar and McAffee shite on [self employeed] brokers' computers - it turns out the update installers don't remember your preference - why would they, it would mean less installs.
Hmm, that's eerily identical to how I started using Google.
Ah, so that's who Ned Flanders' other neighbours are. I always wondered.
Face, meet palm. I'm also guessing he's talking about an actual tank, not a 19kg bottle that we tend to use, and swap out for a full one every so often.
Christ, how big is your propane tank? A friend has a gas barbecue that he's had for about 6 years. It's been kept permanently outside (UK) and he often forgets to the cover on, meaning that the heat reflector under the grill has rusted to buggery. The cast iron grill, plate and jets are in perfect condition. Admittedly the jets have had to be re drilled twice as the iron oxide was restricting flow, but that's it.
It also gets used a hell of a lot - the earliest I've cooked on it (his wife calls it my barbecue, it's just that her husband happens to own it) was on New Year's day. Maybe a grill is different from barbecue, and I'm comparing apples to oranges.
That's what Renault do. However it causes my company some headaches when it comes to underwriting them for dealerships - the batteries are leased by the owner, so the car will effectively have no battery when it is part exchanged for a new vehicle. Not many dealerships are keen on leasing a set of batteries for a car that they will (hopefully) sell within 90 days, or (more likely) trade out of.
I can see it mainly being used to request information on citizens than aren't allowed to be spied on by their own government. I'm sure Downing Street will be getting involved in this too.
As somebody who has done lighting (for a very small production), it can be bloody difficult when people start ad-libbing because it can really screw with the cues that you're waiting for. So I'm with the GP - minor changes can cause major confusion.
Too right. My method was to have a T/F quiz with the ballot, from which the vote is weighted (minimum 1 so as not to disenfranchise people, +1 weighting for every correct answer). Not on policies as that is open to bias, but factual questions relating to the vote.
eg: ... T/F ... T/F
The name of the Labour leader is
The name of the Conservative deputy is
The alternative vote will require people place a number for every candidate T/F
The last IMO was the most commonly misunderstood points about the suggested alternative vote concept in the UK. The amount of times I heard "but it will make me place a vote for the BNP/EDF/Monster Raving Loony Party candidate".
I would also like to see on the ballot information about the incumbent: percentage of days in parliament; percentage attendance to parliamentary debates, etc.
it skews the electoral system to having to devote most effort to chasing uncommitted
Can't you just spoil your ballot? If I want to show that I'm apathetic (for example the UK Police Commissioner elections) I don't vote. However I normally vote, but in some instances have purposely spoilt my vote so that the turnout is higher (ok, it's only one higher), but I haven't voted for a candidate I want.
However, the electronic machines (in Ireland anyway) don't allow you to spoil your ballot. I was back to Dublin for a weekend when there was [one of] the Nice referendums. I was going to vote Yes, but when I got to the polling station I saw the local TD with a minibus plastered with "Vote Yes", which was in direct contravention of the 24hr moroatoreum on campaigning. The guard (police man) was chatting away to the TD and couldn't care less when I mentioned it to them. So I decided to spoil my ballot, however the machine wouldn't let me do that, so fuck it, I voted no instead.
Now they're not allowing women to pleasure themselves? That's just sick.
As I've said previously, most people who this will happen to are lazy, and for some inexplicable reason, proud that they don't know anything about "computers". I'm not defending the GP, it's a shit attitude for those people to have, and it's a shit attitude to say "they deserved it".
However, in my office I explain permissions (with examples) to people with new Android phones. Some make a show of saying they'll never remember that. I use a car analogy (which I've already posted - not a karma whore) which goes along the lines of "When you fill you car up, do you blindly pick the nearest pump, or do you make sure you're not putting petrol into you diesel car".
Most people aren't stupid (no matter how much we may joke about it), but many are ignorant and make a concious decision not to learn about the tools that they use day in - day out.
When showing colleagues how to use their new Android phones I always explain the permissions to them, especially the Contacts, SMS and Calling permissions. The wording I use is "If it's something like Skype, it needs to read your contacts. If it's a football game, it doesn't - don't install it"
On more than one occasion I've been told "how am I supposed to remember that?", to which reply (I work in a motor-trade related business, so I use an obligatory car analogy) "When you drive into a petrol station, do you just blindly pick the nearest pump and start filling up?"
Most of the people who say "I'm not a geek, I can't do that" aren't stupid, they're lazy, ignorant and simply don't want to learn. I tend to try helping them, but if they show no willingness to take in what I say, I tell them that if they're not going to listen, I see no point in wasting my time.