Absolutely. In which case, the aural pain caused by blasting for those few seconds would be immediately linked to the product tag line / name. That's negative reinforcement right there. Good marketing ploy.
I paid off my credit. I'll need to get more to buy a house, but that's it. I'm never touching credit cards, unsecured loans etc again. Paying them off was a PITA I don't want to go through again.
Technically, I am more well off than most of the western world, simply by having no money and no debts. It is the very definition of "wealthy" nowadays.
In a relatively enclosed space (a regular room in a house, for example) you can significantly reduce this washing-out effect by taping a little piece of card in front of your flash. Put it at a 45 degree angle to horizontal, touching the flash at the base (this is easier if you leave two corners to fold over, making a neat surround for the flash). This will redirect the vast majority of the light upwards providing indirect lighting (great for killing shadows), and still let plenty of light through the card to directly light the front of the object. It also completely eliminates red-eye for portraits.
I'm not even an amateur photographer; I just thought it would be a good idea, and it worked. I later found out this is called a "flash reflector". Google it for more info.
That's just how the constitution works; The FBI cannot wholesale monitor "the people". However, if a private entity has data on those people, and gives it to the FBI, and they said they'd do this, then it's our fault for giving them our details instead of telling them to DIAF.
It's no different from software that occasionally reports home with usage statistics.
The difference here is that I wasn't asked if I wanted to provide usage statistics, didn't even know that such statistics were being created, and the data being collected goes way beyond that which would be useful to any developer. Why would they need to know the content of my SMS messages to make a better app? Why do they need to know who I called and when, not just that a call was made?
This is just too invasive. If they made it so it reported the most basic, anonymised stats there wouldn't be a problem. What they have done, however, is load devices which potentially contain sensitive personal data with remote monitoring software, with access to communications made on that device. It's too much, and they need to be called out on it.
Your constitution offers you protection from THE GOVERNMENT doing these kind of things. You signed a contract with A PRIVATE PARTY. Your constitution means NOTHING.
For fuck's sake, someone put this into an X-Factor song so you idiots finally get the message.
... over in a week or two with the modern S. Korea army aided by the U.S. quickly recovering from the initial bombardment and then demolishing the N. Korean army.
N.Korea is a nuclear power with a nutcase in control of The Button. The US won't go NEAR that one.
How many cubic metres of life-bearing volume is there on Mars in comparison to Earth?
Seriously? On this site someone has to ask this? We already have the information we need.
Volume of Earth: 1083210000000 km^3 (Google it). TFS states 1% is habitable / life bearing. Volume of Mars: 163115609799 km^3 (Google it). TFS states 3% is potentially habitable / life bearing
Divide both by 100 for 1% of each volume, multiply Mars result by 3 for 3% = Earth 10832100000km^3, Mars 4893468294km^3.
Earth / Mars = 2.2. Earth has 2.2x the habitable volume of Mars.
I play the opposite way; It's not that entertaining to me, and I play to win. However, I understand that my chances of winning are very slim, so I play only when the payout is (to me) worth the cost of lunch (Euromillions hitting â100m+ typically). I don't expect to win, but the possibility is worth the payout.
It should be noted that this means I've spent around £50 on the lottery since 2008.
Once you're in the jury "pen", you don't leave until the end of the day. Even smoke breaks are within the confines of the court. There is no "hall pass" to go grab a magazine.
Women think they're ugly because all they ever see on TV, in magazines, in clothing shops, are stick thin, photochopped, make-up plastered mannequins with pulses. My idea lets people be honest about their physique and make informed choices about their clothing, hopefully breaking the preconception that you need to be an 8 stone leggy blonde to be attractive, because that's just not true.
What is a fashion designer supposed to do? Show their clothes on physically disgusting people?
How about make clothes for someone who eats more than two biscuits a day? How many clothes are returned because they look better on the hanger than on the person buying them?
I'd offer a 10% discount to any person who agreed to model the items they bought to go into an archive, for use on the online shop. Then people could look at photos of the clothes on someone their build, and choose appropriately. I bet mail order returns would be close to unheard of.
If I discovered or created a cure for cancer, it would be released under a free license already and posted on BitTorrent before I even told the competition organiser.
The thought of bargaining for your life with a pharmaceutical company makes me feel physically ill.
This is why paying an hourly rate is idiotic. If it takes me two hours to do what takes you 8 hours, I could save the company 75% of your wage, and the result is the same. I could spend half an hour picking my nose and still save the company money. Hell, maybe I work best with frequent brief distractions, which to this program will look like lost productivity.
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Absolutely. In which case, the aural pain caused by blasting for those few seconds would be immediately linked to the product tag line / name. That's negative reinforcement right there. Good marketing ploy.
As one of the guys responsible for delivering on salesweasels' promises,
It's ok, you're allowed to say "Engineer" here. You're amongst friends. :)
I paid off my credit. I'll need to get more to buy a house, but that's it. I'm never touching credit cards, unsecured loans etc again. Paying them off was a PITA I don't want to go through again.
Technically, I am more well off than most of the western world, simply by having no money and no debts. It is the very definition of "wealthy" nowadays.
I see you, samzenpus
In a relatively enclosed space (a regular room in a house, for example) you can significantly reduce this washing-out effect by taping a little piece of card in front of your flash. Put it at a 45 degree angle to horizontal, touching the flash at the base (this is easier if you leave two corners to fold over, making a neat surround for the flash). This will redirect the vast majority of the light upwards providing indirect lighting (great for killing shadows), and still let plenty of light through the card to directly light the front of the object. It also completely eliminates red-eye for portraits.
I'm not even an amateur photographer; I just thought it would be a good idea, and it worked. I later found out this is called a "flash reflector". Google it for more info.
That's just how the constitution works; The FBI cannot wholesale monitor "the people". However, if a private entity has data on those people, and gives it to the FBI, and they said they'd do this, then it's our fault for giving them our details instead of telling them to DIAF.
Softly softly catchy monkey.
It's no different from software that occasionally reports home with usage statistics.
The difference here is that I wasn't asked if I wanted to provide usage statistics, didn't even know that such statistics were being created, and the data being collected goes way beyond that which would be useful to any developer. Why would they need to know the content of my SMS messages to make a better app? Why do they need to know who I called and when, not just that a call was made?
This is just too invasive. If they made it so it reported the most basic, anonymised stats there wouldn't be a problem. What they have done, however, is load devices which potentially contain sensitive personal data with remote monitoring software, with access to communications made on that device. It's too much, and they need to be called out on it.
wow. Slashdot must pay a bounty for dumb questions to drive traffic.
So you've heard of the new "Sponsored Question" posts?
No contract with a carrier voids the constitution
Your constitution offers you protection from THE GOVERNMENT doing these kind of things. You signed a contract with A PRIVATE PARTY. Your constitution means NOTHING.
For fuck's sake, someone put this into an X-Factor song so you idiots finally get the message.
Don't worry. Most will have to ask someone what "grossly overconfident" means so few will feel the sting.
You sound pretty sure about that...
... over in a week or two with the modern S. Korea army aided by the U.S. quickly recovering from the initial bombardment and then demolishing the N. Korean army.
N.Korea is a nuclear power with a nutcase in control of The Button. The US won't go NEAR that one.
Yeah, well think about it. The government of North Korea is such an evil bunch of feckwits they can't even get coal for Christmas.
Coal is expensive, bub. In Europe, really naughty kids are getting Euro's in their stockings instead.
How many cubic metres of life-bearing volume is there on Mars in comparison to Earth?
Seriously? On this site someone has to ask this? We already have the information we need.
Volume of Earth: 1083210000000 km^3 (Google it). TFS states 1% is habitable / life bearing.
Volume of Mars: 163115609799 km^3 (Google it). TFS states 3% is potentially habitable / life bearing
Divide both by 100 for 1% of each volume, multiply Mars result by 3 for 3% = Earth 10832100000km^3, Mars 4893468294km^3.
Earth / Mars = 2.2. Earth has 2.2x the habitable volume of Mars.
I play the opposite way; It's not that entertaining to me, and I play to win. However, I understand that my chances of winning are very slim, so I play only when the payout is (to me) worth the cost of lunch (Euromillions hitting â100m+ typically). I don't expect to win, but the possibility is worth the payout.
It should be noted that this means I've spent around £50 on the lottery since 2008.
...it will have to be trapezoidal in shape, no multi-touch and nothing resembling a screen on one side and a back on the other
I'm seriously going to cash in on my trapezoid braille-nostril-interface tablet come 2101.
That is, of course, unless war is beginning.
Admitting that you both work for the Daily Mail won't make you any friends.
Once you're in the jury "pen", you don't leave until the end of the day. Even smoke breaks are within the confines of the court. There is no "hall pass" to go grab a magazine.
Your analogy is flawed; Cars come in one shape and appearance, excluding a few optional extras like racing stripes or a leather interior.
This is more like giving it a good wax job, shooting in good light, and then panel-beating it into the shape of a Lambourghini.
See this Peugeot advert for an example.
Women think they're ugly because all they ever see on TV, in magazines, in clothing shops, are stick thin, photochopped, make-up plastered mannequins with pulses. My idea lets people be honest about their physique and make informed choices about their clothing, hopefully breaking the preconception that you need to be an 8 stone leggy blonde to be attractive, because that's just not true.
What is a fashion designer supposed to do? Show their clothes on physically disgusting people?
How about make clothes for someone who eats more than two biscuits a day? How many clothes are returned because they look better on the hanger than on the person buying them?
I'd offer a 10% discount to any person who agreed to model the items they bought to go into an archive, for use on the online shop. Then people could look at photos of the clothes on someone their build, and choose appropriately. I bet mail order returns would be close to unheard of.
TOWIE
If I discovered or created a cure for cancer, it would be released under a free license already and posted on BitTorrent before I even told the competition organiser.
The thought of bargaining for your life with a pharmaceutical company makes me feel physically ill.
This is why paying an hourly rate is idiotic. If it takes me two hours to do what takes you 8 hours, I could save the company 75% of your wage, and the result is the same. I could spend half an hour picking my nose and still save the company money. Hell, maybe I work best with frequent brief distractions, which to this program will look like lost productivity.