You seriously don't know why someone modded you troll? Hmm.. perhaps it was due to name calling, making highly charged statements with no supporting argument, excessive cursing, sweeping generalizations, angry tone. It's too bad all of that eclipsed the one decent question you had: "Why would you have your teachers on Facebook?". I doubt few will notice that part.
Bookkeeping was only one reason. There are other reasons why purchasing insurance at the cash register is bad: claims filing is more difficult with multiple companies, cost-wise it doesn't pay off, effectively works like a tax, better single policy single company insurance plans are available for all your stuff, no comparison shopping of insurance plans.
They analyze changes in the video data stream, so theoretically it could trigger a false positive if the settings were too strict or too loose, given the scenario of a commercial being featured in a show as part of the show. It would also probably require going fullscreen during the commercial instead of showing a TV playing a commercial.
I tried that. I buy a lot of stuff and ended up with an unmanageable cabinet full of papers. Searching for a single receipt used to take over an hour to locate. It's not worth it for a $50 device. Now I only save receipts for big purchases: > few hundred dollars. I still don't purchase the insurance because it's extremely rare that anything fails on me. Spending a few thousand in mini-insurances over a 10 year span does not pay off when maybe 2 to 4 cheap devices will fail on me. The last time I can remember something failing was a cheap generic wired switch which I bought for $15 and even that died more than 3 years after purchase. Anything else that died was clearly my fault due to dropping or plugging in the wrong adapter (fried a 2 year old $100 printer once).
It's clear to me purchasing individual insurance on every device is not effective. There are much better ways to do it. Option 1: sign up for a credit card with warranty protection. Option 2: sign up for a single insurance plan on home appliances.
The algorithm could perform statistical analysis in a way similar to photo analysis for detecting photoshop altered images. Differences in environment, equipment, compression, frequency/amplitude distribution and range would generate an identifiable signature. Pretty simple stuff for anyone with a statistics, audio, and programming background. Youtube has far more complex algorithms in place for detecting duplicate uploads of copyrighted video that's been altered by way of resampling, recompressing, zooming, cropping, or adding subtitles. It's not magic. It's math.
Have you actually been able to save and locate receipts and warranty papers for some random device you bought 2 years ago? I can't find a receipt after 2 months. After 1 year the thermal receipts really begin to deteriorate. Sometimes they're unreadable after 2 years. Without the receipts, forget it, you don't have insurance even if you paid for it.
Your characterization is very poor. I have a few points about why you are wrong so I will be concise and supply a list.
A growing concern in America among Americans is the rapidly accelerating loss of freedoms on a monthly basis. (ala Patriot Act, police brutality, endless legislation, etc). The segment of Americans who feel "free" is shrinking.
The ones who react abnormally are by nature reactionists. The majority don't react, so your perception becomes skewed due to biased sampling (and possibly selective memory mixed in as well).
Americans as a whole do well on the income scale and make large contributions toward funding global tourism and charity: travel = exposure.
It is true Americans are arrogant (military/economic power, "freedom"), but so are Europeans (culture, legacy, Euro vs USD). It's unfair to characterize Americans as unusually arrogant and self-centered, while giving other nations a free pass. In fact, you invoked the common Euro versus US insult in your post (dumb American).
Americans are sensitive toward criticism because America is genuinely #1 on the list of targets. This is due to America's military power and willingness to use it for good or worse, justly (WW2) or unjustly (Iraq 2.0). It is also due to our prominence and visibility in world media outlets and strong (armed) influence on other nations.
I'm not sure why you zeroed in on the American bit because it actually took a few clicks to determine he was located in USA, but irrespective of that your post will likely be highly regarded and modded up to the max. That won't surprise me because anti-American sentiment is at an all-time high and if it helps pacify those holding those thoughts, then all the better.
Parents and grandparents have the money. It's they who buy a big chunk of games for kids. They don't or aren't technically inclined to keep up-to-date with the violence levels of the multitude of games launched every year. Even with adult ratings, it's difficult to imagine the insane levels of graphic violence in today's games. It's worse if you consider it's active participation playing the bad guy enacting kill and torture scenarios rather than passive observation rooting for the protagonist good guy. Parents think in terms of violence on par with rated R movies, which is like a Disney flick compared to the most violent games which accurately depict exploding body parts in 2x resolution of HDTV.
You are confusing formal policy with written policy.
Your comment is illogical given that what they meant by "formal policy" was that it was written down (such as in an employee handbook) and that "informal policy" meant it was spoken by the boss.
A contract is a contract, regardless of whether it is written down. The writing is nothing more than evidence of a contract, it is not the contract itself.
Legal yes... but try proving a verbal contract. It's not easy. Thus explains the general consensus that spoken contracts are worth jack shit because it boils down to he-said/she-said in court.
Who said he had power to amend the policy anyway? If he said "Hey man, don't worry about Article III Paragraph 15 in your handbook, it's OK to have sex in the police vans", do you think it would hold? How about doubling employees PTO time? Eliminating severance on termination? (The answer is no to all of those.)
Most Americans don't drink hot tea (which is what Lipton is primarily identified with). But even still, haven't you been to the tea aisle in a US market lately? It's exploded with numerous varieties including imports. Lipton is 1 choice among dozens.
MythTV allows you to record programs and the commercials are automatically skipped without even needing a button press.
I'm just curious. If you're watching a movie or TV show which features an in program TV commercial (fictional or real) as part of the show, does MythTV detect it as a commercial and skip over it?
Example 1: some movies have scenes of the protagonist sitting around watching TV. Example 2: a show featuring the funniest TV commercials.
I bet only a few would even bother to notice the source if they made it freely available. People's curiosity tends to get peaked when they're denied access to something or when standard operating procedure deviates from the norm (SOP: GPL code = src level access).
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Cuba has a single climate, small population, and tiny land size. China is in a far stronger position to manufacture domestic products than Cuba is, therefore Cuba is more dependent on high priced imports. Having access to locally manufactured products gives you purchasing power because there is no currency exchange. That's an enormous advantage compared to a Cuban citizen who has to purchase more imports.
The US blockade makes it worse because regional imports (from the Americas) suffer reduced price competition. Consider that distance is a huge factor in pricing imports: more distance = more fuel + longer trip time. Not having access to an enormous highly competitive marketplace literally within 125 miles from a US border must be devastating to their market opportunity.
Who decided that all those things are what would be "fair" in a perfect world, might I ask?
I don't see why there is confusion. Obviously, the author of gp did. Why would that not be acceptable?
Rights and our sense of fairness are human concepts based on a mix of opinion, logic and emotion guided by evolution. There may be supporting arguments for every opinion, but in the end correctness is unprovable by any absolute measure.
Naturally, as humans, we are going to define what human rights are. The GP is perfectly within his right to define them (yea... it's recursive), and you or others may differ with your definitions but that does not necessarily detract from his (or hers). Our civilization is guided by the rights we grant ourselves and collectively we decide how that will be expressed with law, custom, and etiquette. Of course as a group, we must achieve a degree of consensus in order to manifest those. That occurs as a result of individuals advocating and vocalizing their opinions and definitions, which is what the GP did.
It's not possible using scientific method to prove or disprove that food, shelter, healthcare (or whatever else) are human rights, but that's not what the focus should be. The focus should be on if we want to decide if they are rights. That decision is based on presenting arguments which answer questions like the following:
Which is the best for human survival?
Which raises the average standard of living?
Which raises the standard of living for the disadvantaged but imposes the least burden on the advantaged?
Which imposes the least overall burden?
Which raises efficiency?
Which satisfies our need of independence?
Which aligns with our sense of fairness?
Which matches our sense of civilization?
Which fosters an environment we want to live in?
Which motivates instead of demotivates?
Which maximizes total opportunity?
Which raises the baseline level of opportunity?
Which is possible?
If we determine that something is not a right, then we move to the next debate: is it a privilege? (such as welfare, college grants, driving cars, etc)
Summary: fairness, rights, and civilization are what we say they are.
When you're a teenager living in a poor neighborhood, you don't have a choice. I've had enough to know what to do. You disarm them by feeding their ego. You let them know quickly that you recognize their power and authority over you (even though they don't in theory and it is ridiculous to have to do so).
Americans are so strange in the way they arbitrarily call certain species pets and other species food.
It's not arbitrary at all. See, it all depends on how cute the animal is. We don't get riled up about the poor treatment of ugly animals--only the cute and cuddly ones. Cats, dogs, baby seals, pandas, penguins, otters, polar bears, etc.
1) A truly original and inovative product will take some time to clone -- there will be a lead, in which user base/fan base/multiplayer communities should create critical mass.
That's not true at all. It can take a long time to develop the concept and game design before you even start implementation. For a 1 man shop doing it on his own the implementation time could be many, many times longer compared to an established corporation with an existing dev shop working to copy your concept and design. In this case, the corporation can accomplish many man hours of work in a compressed time window, produce the work, and then jump ahead of you buy pumping more dollars into deployment channels and advertising.
ask questions (shows interest) but always search the docs/google first
provide feedback but only if it is tactful and constructive and you have a plan for a solution (if you don't have a plan, you will look like a fool when they followup with ".. so what's your suggestion for a solution?"
spend some time researching the topics before attending meetings
find something that you think needs fixing, put together a list of suggestions, and work on getting it assigned to you--latching onto concrete things will help you justify your presence and beef up your resume
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That's what drive through is for.
Also, it's spelled "fuck".
You seriously don't know why someone modded you troll? Hmm.. perhaps it was due to name calling, making highly charged statements with no supporting argument, excessive cursing, sweeping generalizations, angry tone. It's too bad all of that eclipsed the one decent question you had: "Why would you have your teachers on Facebook?". I doubt few will notice that part.
Bookkeeping was only one reason. There are other reasons why purchasing insurance at the cash register is bad: claims filing is more difficult with multiple companies, cost-wise it doesn't pay off, effectively works like a tax, better single policy single company insurance plans are available for all your stuff, no comparison shopping of insurance plans.
Self & group deprecation won't win you friends across the pond. Also, piling on isn't constructive.
Yes. MythTV. The answer to my original question is: possibly. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commflagging
They analyze changes in the video data stream, so theoretically it could trigger a false positive if the settings were too strict or too loose, given the scenario of a commercial being featured in a show as part of the show. It would also probably require going fullscreen during the commercial instead of showing a TV playing a commercial.
Or...... "Pay using a credit card with warranty protection."
I tried that. I buy a lot of stuff and ended up with an unmanageable cabinet full of papers. Searching for a single receipt used to take over an hour to locate. It's not worth it for a $50 device. Now I only save receipts for big purchases: > few hundred dollars. I still don't purchase the insurance because it's extremely rare that anything fails on me. Spending a few thousand in mini-insurances over a 10 year span does not pay off when maybe 2 to 4 cheap devices will fail on me. The last time I can remember something failing was a cheap generic wired switch which I bought for $15 and even that died more than 3 years after purchase. Anything else that died was clearly my fault due to dropping or plugging in the wrong adapter (fried a 2 year old $100 printer once).
It's clear to me purchasing individual insurance on every device is not effective. There are much better ways to do it. Option 1: sign up for a credit card with warranty protection. Option 2: sign up for a single insurance plan on home appliances.
The algorithm could perform statistical analysis in a way similar to photo analysis for detecting photoshop altered images. Differences in environment, equipment, compression, frequency/amplitude distribution and range would generate an identifiable signature. Pretty simple stuff for anyone with a statistics, audio, and programming background. Youtube has far more complex algorithms in place for detecting duplicate uploads of copyrighted video that's been altered by way of resampling, recompressing, zooming, cropping, or adding subtitles. It's not magic. It's math.
It's no "accident" that none of the "hate on America" posts got rated "Overrated".
Have you actually been able to save and locate receipts and warranty papers for some random device you bought 2 years ago? I can't find a receipt after 2 months. After 1 year the thermal receipts really begin to deteriorate. Sometimes they're unreadable after 2 years. Without the receipts, forget it, you don't have insurance even if you paid for it.
Your characterization is very poor. I have a few points about why you are wrong so I will be concise and supply a list.
I'm not sure why you zeroed in on the American bit because it actually took a few clicks to determine he was located in USA, but irrespective of that your post will likely be highly regarded and modded up to the max. That won't surprise me because anti-American sentiment is at an all-time high and if it helps pacify those holding those thoughts, then all the better.
Just to counter with a devil's advocate...
Parents and grandparents have the money. It's they who buy a big chunk of games for kids. They don't or aren't technically inclined to keep up-to-date with the violence levels of the multitude of games launched every year. Even with adult ratings, it's difficult to imagine the insane levels of graphic violence in today's games. It's worse if you consider it's active participation playing the bad guy enacting kill and torture scenarios rather than passive observation rooting for the protagonist good guy. Parents think in terms of violence on par with rated R movies, which is like a Disney flick compared to the most violent games which accurately depict exploding body parts in 2x resolution of HDTV.
Your comment is illogical given that what they meant by "formal policy" was that it was written down (such as in an employee handbook) and that "informal policy" meant it was spoken by the boss.
Legal yes... but try proving a verbal contract. It's not easy. Thus explains the general consensus that spoken contracts are worth jack shit because it boils down to he-said/she-said in court.
Who said he had power to amend the policy anyway? If he said "Hey man, don't worry about Article III Paragraph 15 in your handbook, it's OK to have sex in the police vans", do you think it would hold? How about doubling employees PTO time? Eliminating severance on termination? (The answer is no to all of those.)
Most Americans don't drink hot tea (which is what Lipton is primarily identified with). But even still, haven't you been to the tea aisle in a US market lately? It's exploded with numerous varieties including imports. Lipton is 1 choice among dozens.
I'm just curious. If you're watching a movie or TV show which features an in program TV commercial (fictional or real) as part of the show, does MythTV detect it as a commercial and skip over it?
Example 1: some movies have scenes of the protagonist sitting around watching TV. Example 2: a show featuring the funniest TV commercials.
I bet only a few would even bother to notice the source if they made it freely available. People's curiosity tends to get peaked when they're denied access to something or when standard operating procedure deviates from the norm (SOP: GPL code = src level access).
Peaked curiosity leads to investigation.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Cuba has a single climate, small population, and tiny land size. China is in a far stronger position to manufacture domestic products than Cuba is, therefore Cuba is more dependent on high priced imports. Having access to locally manufactured products gives you purchasing power because there is no currency exchange. That's an enormous advantage compared to a Cuban citizen who has to purchase more imports.
The US blockade makes it worse because regional imports (from the Americas) suffer reduced price competition. Consider that distance is a huge factor in pricing imports: more distance = more fuel + longer trip time. Not having access to an enormous highly competitive marketplace literally within 125 miles from a US border must be devastating to their market opportunity.
Playing Mario Galaxy would really suck with a keyboard. No thanks. I'll keep my wireless Wiimote^H^H^H^H^H^H^H joystick.
I don't see why there is confusion. Obviously, the author of gp did. Why would that not be acceptable?
Rights and our sense of fairness are human concepts based on a mix of opinion, logic and emotion guided by evolution. There may be supporting arguments for every opinion, but in the end correctness is unprovable by any absolute measure.
Naturally, as humans, we are going to define what human rights are. The GP is perfectly within his right to define them (yea... it's recursive), and you or others may differ with your definitions but that does not necessarily detract from his (or hers). Our civilization is guided by the rights we grant ourselves and collectively we decide how that will be expressed with law, custom, and etiquette. Of course as a group, we must achieve a degree of consensus in order to manifest those. That occurs as a result of individuals advocating and vocalizing their opinions and definitions, which is what the GP did.
It's not possible using scientific method to prove or disprove that food, shelter, healthcare (or whatever else) are human rights, but that's not what the focus should be. The focus should be on if we want to decide if they are rights. That decision is based on presenting arguments which answer questions like the following:
If we determine that something is not a right, then we move to the next debate: is it a privilege? (such as welfare, college grants, driving cars, etc)
Summary: fairness, rights, and civilization are what we say they are.
When you're a teenager living in a poor neighborhood, you don't have a choice. I've had enough to know what to do. You disarm them by feeding their ego. You let them know quickly that you recognize their power and authority over you (even though they don't in theory and it is ridiculous to have to do so).
It's not arbitrary at all. See, it all depends on how cute the animal is. We don't get riled up about the poor treatment of ugly animals--only the cute and cuddly ones. Cats, dogs, baby seals, pandas, penguins, otters, polar bears, etc.
That's not true at all. It can take a long time to develop the concept and game design before you even start implementation. For a 1 man shop doing it on his own the implementation time could be many, many times longer compared to an established corporation with an existing dev shop working to copy your concept and design. In this case, the corporation can accomplish many man hours of work in a compressed time window, produce the work, and then jump ahead of you buy pumping more dollars into deployment channels and advertising.
You haven't lived until you've debugged and patched a bug at 3am while inebriated. Fun stuff.