Making something a felony makes it less likely you'll get a conviction since the jury feels bad about the felony charge. Probably means fewer convictions in CA than elsewhere if I had to guess.
Soliciting prostitution can be illegal. There's no reason to make prostitution itself illegal. They are victims as much as perpetrators in a lot of cases.
Oh, yes I did find it. "It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard."
Yes, it's documented. That's not really an acceptable excuse to make this setting the default.
I keep posting variations of this, but I think it's ridiculous that the machine has OCR in it, but they didn't use that OCR to verify that the compressed version read as the same characters as the original. There's really no excuse for this. And why would the default settings be so low as to cause character substitution? I guess it's relative to font size, but maybe it should identify high-detail areas and use a higher match threshold for those when making the patch library.
And with it being on an HTML settings page and not in the dialog of the actual scan process...not great. It's funny that it has built-in OCR, but it won't use that to determine if the character substitution DID occur after compressing and warn you of it (or silently recompress it at a higher setting). Machine's aren't being made smart enough.
And yet these machines have OCR built-in. So they could use the OCR as a sanity check to make sure that the algorithm didn't replace any characters. If the OCR of the original and the JBIG2 version match, you're OK. If not, automatically increase the quality until you get a match.
It actually looks better. We shouldn't go back 100 years or more on typography just to placate technical users who can't be bothered to deal with it. They're only "smart" quotes if the publishing software picks the left or right quotation mark for you automatically. They are just standard left quote and right quote characters otherwise. Characters that weren't on early computers because we were so bit-frugal, not because they weren't already in use in typography.
The only time it's a bad thing is if you're trying to copy snippets of code from a Wordpress blog. And a lot of people on Wordpress are publishing without realizing that quotes are converted and don't have any plugin installed to allow code blocks that go unchanged.
Maybe you just need to get/make a clipboard utility that will correct this for you if it bothers you so much.
He didn't say original prohibition. He said drug prohibition. That was Nixon. Well, not really - the drugs were already illegal. He just declared war (well, not really - only congress can do that [argument for another day]). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs
The iPhone I had would send MMSs rather than regular text messages
Which is also terrible if the recipient is on a pay as you go service. For me, it costs me 5x as much to receive an MMS (25 cents) instead of an SMS (5 cents). For short messages, this is just an outrageous waste of money for some recipients. I didn't know phones did that until my wife started getting group updates about a co-worker who is in the hospital.
Sure, I'd love to wait and find out. It will be literally impossible. Headlines will spoil it, photos attached to stories will spoil it. Won't even be able to log into Facebook. Just trying to look up details on air date. It will be impossible to remain uninformed.
Right. They record your phone call, make a text transcription and then discard the recording (unless you're on a special watchlist or trip any red flags). The text is just the metadata!
Do you know how much "big soap" spends on its marketing budget? They don't call them soap opera's for nothing. Also - skin sensitivities that preclude you from using anything with artificial dyes/fragrances. If you're buying plain soap you might as well make your own and save on the 10x-100x markup.
It might be a false dichotomy, but it's not a false dilemma. All your choices are bad. Voting for someone who has no chance of getting enough votes to get into office might be more respectable, but it's still a bad choice too. That is, unless you're going by the original Greek roots and that saying dilemma means there are only two choices. That's not really the current meaning in English, though.
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Making something a felony makes it less likely you'll get a conviction since the jury feels bad about the felony charge. Probably means fewer convictions in CA than elsewhere if I had to guess.
Until you "stream" the video from your computer to the computer screen, thus becoming a distributor ;-)
Soliciting prostitution can be illegal. There's no reason to make prostitution itself illegal. They are victims as much as perpetrators in a lot of cases.
Maybe that's what you has wanted.
Oh, yes I did find it. "It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard."
Yes, it's documented. That's not really an acceptable excuse to make this setting the default.
I keep posting variations of this, but I think it's ridiculous that the machine has OCR in it, but they didn't use that OCR to verify that the compressed version read as the same characters as the original. There's really no excuse for this. And why would the default settings be so low as to cause character substitution? I guess it's relative to font size, but maybe it should identify high-detail areas and use a higher match threshold for those when making the patch library.
And with it being on an HTML settings page and not in the dialog of the actual scan process...not great. It's funny that it has built-in OCR, but it won't use that to determine if the character substitution DID occur after compressing and warn you of it (or silently recompress it at a higher setting). Machine's aren't being made smart enough.
I guess you'll never reach them by phone if you leave off the last digit of their phone number.
And yet these machines have OCR built-in. So they could use the OCR as a sanity check to make sure that the algorithm didn't replace any characters. If the OCR of the original and the JBIG2 version match, you're OK. If not, automatically increase the quality until you get a match.
It actually looks better. We shouldn't go back 100 years or more on typography just to placate technical users who can't be bothered to deal with it. They're only "smart" quotes if the publishing software picks the left or right quotation mark for you automatically. They are just standard left quote and right quote characters otherwise. Characters that weren't on early computers because we were so bit-frugal, not because they weren't already in use in typography.
The only time it's a bad thing is if you're trying to copy snippets of code from a Wordpress blog. And a lot of people on Wordpress are publishing without realizing that quotes are converted and don't have any plugin installed to allow code blocks that go unchanged.
Maybe you just need to get/make a clipboard utility that will correct this for you if it bothers you so much.
And how will they keep up with making all the dupe posts? The summary is supposed to be grossly wrong here anyway.
He didn't say original prohibition. He said drug prohibition. That was Nixon. Well, not really - the drugs were already illegal. He just declared war (well, not really - only congress can do that [argument for another day]).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs
I admit, IANAL, but doesn't this give grounds for any convicted drug felon to try for a retroactive mistrial?
What a seriously underrated show. And one that's gone unnoticed by most of the nerd crowd for being so mainstream in its airtime/channel.
Tastes like despair.
Got a friend in California that will tell you the time and date?
The iPhone I had would send MMSs rather than regular text messages
Which is also terrible if the recipient is on a pay as you go service. For me, it costs me 5x as much to receive an MMS (25 cents) instead of an SMS (5 cents). For short messages, this is just an outrageous waste of money for some recipients. I didn't know phones did that until my wife started getting group updates about a co-worker who is in the hospital.
It's being announced 3 months before the reveal episode airs. Piracy makes no difference. Essentially completely off-topic.
Agreed.
Sure, I'd love to wait and find out. It will be literally impossible. Headlines will spoil it, photos attached to stories will spoil it. Won't even be able to log into Facebook. Just trying to look up details on air date. It will be impossible to remain uninformed.
No. I didn't say it wasn't the best choice. I voted 3rd-party in the last election. It's just still part of a dilemma of choices.
I don't watch football and nobody was talking about the primaries.
Right. They record your phone call, make a text transcription and then discard the recording (unless you're on a special watchlist or trip any red flags). The text is just the metadata!
Do you know how much "big soap" spends on its marketing budget? They don't call them soap opera's for nothing. Also - skin sensitivities that preclude you from using anything with artificial dyes/fragrances. If you're buying plain soap you might as well make your own and save on the 10x-100x markup.
I don't do it. But it makes perfect sense to me.
It might be a false dichotomy, but it's not a false dilemma. All your choices are bad. Voting for someone who has no chance of getting enough votes to get into office might be more respectable, but it's still a bad choice too. That is, unless you're going by the original Greek roots and that saying dilemma means there are only two choices. That's not really the current meaning in English, though.