Correct. If the TV is displaying an ad, and the pixel at 100,100 requests a red pixel, and it displays a blue pixel, it's a faulty pixel. If it displays a red pixel, it's fine, regardless of whether the red pixel is part of an ad or not.
Just checked on Amazon, you can find plenty of non-smart TVs if you look. Depends on what you need. If you're using HDMI for the most part, they seem to have 2-3 ports and a USB port. Sceptre and LG make non-smart TVs with decent size ranges. The only problem is going to be if you want to go for 4K, those seem to be strictly smart TVs so far. Of course, you can also find low end smart TVs, now, too.
Sure there are, just look at any social network today. Those may not seem historically significant to us, but similar documents throughout history (casual letters and correspondences) have greatly impacted the understanding of the times and events that took place in our own history. Preserving and understanding the context of emoticons (and emoji) is going to be important for historians of the future to understand what drove the 21st century.
Another interesting take on this, what if humanity dies out and our records are discovered by a species without a face, or the ability to form facial expressions, or who simply don't (cultural taboo)? These emoticons representing states of our faces would be totally foreign to them, and probably remain completely indecipherable. So written sarcasm or gentle insults may look completely serious to them if they cannot understand the emoticons attached to change the tone of the words themselves.
I don't understand why some people think there's something wrong with studying humanity and its components. Why can we study the behavior of other animals but not humans? There's so many unique and interesting aspects of human cultures out there, and how they interact with each other, that there's no end to what we might uncover and understand. That understanding has made possible advances in how we work, how we play, how we socialize, and what we respond to. It shapes our entertainment, our advertising, our work conditions, our housing and building designs, social media, etc. Just because it's not a hard science doesn't mean we don't feel benefits from discoveries in the field.
If you're talking about that the employer is paying for its employees to go on smoke breaks during which they don't work? Then yes, they're unpaid, because the employer is getting nothing for the time they pay then.
Smoke gets into the walls and permeates. Eventually, you'd have the whole area around the room smelling like smoke, and pity the poor SOBs who have to sit near it. And your resale value (or the landlord's leasing value) would go down, since once you vacated someone would have to tear out that room and the surrounding area to clean it up.
We probably cover more health problems due to obesity than tobacco anyway. Unless you're going to start judging what your coworkers eat (and if you already do, congrats on being the office asshole!), this is pretty moot.
Also in older cities like Duluth, MN without the means to pump tons of money into the infrastructure. A few main roads have water mains running underneath, which keeps snow from staying on them too long (or ice from really forming), but many of Duluth's hills become icy and can be extremely dangerous for cars without 4x4/AWD and proper brakes. The general right of way is given to those coming down the hill, they may not be able to stop for you.
I'd like to see a serious study about the addictive and side effects of nicotine in e-cigs. Most nicotine studies are done with cigarettes and the bath of chemicals there really dilutes the findings on nicotine alone.
That said, the delivery system is still pretty obnoxious. Whether or not the cloud of exhaled vapor is "just water vapor" or not, it still projects into the air and affects the people around the vaper.
Whereas caffeine's delivery system is totally isolated, only the person consuming it will be affected.
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OP was talking about displaying adverts. What does that have to do with defective pixels displaying wrong information from an input stream?
What are they?
Correct. If the TV is displaying an ad, and the pixel at 100,100 requests a red pixel, and it displays a blue pixel, it's a faulty pixel. If it displays a red pixel, it's fine, regardless of whether the red pixel is part of an ad or not.
Just checked on Amazon, you can find plenty of non-smart TVs if you look. Depends on what you need. If you're using HDMI for the most part, they seem to have 2-3 ports and a USB port. Sceptre and LG make non-smart TVs with decent size ranges. The only problem is going to be if you want to go for 4K, those seem to be strictly smart TVs so far. Of course, you can also find low end smart TVs, now, too.
On the other hand, it means if you wait a few years you can find lower end TVs with the specs you want, as higher end TVs move past those features.
Except those aren't defective pixels. They're working properly. The issue is with the content, not the delivery mechanism.
LOL!
No.
Sure there are, just look at any social network today. Those may not seem historically significant to us, but similar documents throughout history (casual letters and correspondences) have greatly impacted the understanding of the times and events that took place in our own history. Preserving and understanding the context of emoticons (and emoji) is going to be important for historians of the future to understand what drove the 21st century.
Another interesting take on this, what if humanity dies out and our records are discovered by a species without a face, or the ability to form facial expressions, or who simply don't (cultural taboo)? These emoticons representing states of our faces would be totally foreign to them, and probably remain completely indecipherable. So written sarcasm or gentle insults may look completely serious to them if they cannot understand the emoticons attached to change the tone of the words themselves.
What do words mean?
"See you later." Will you actually see me later, or are you just saying good bye?
"How are you?" Are you really inquiring as to my well being, or is this just a greeting?
"Yeah" Is that agreement? Exclamation? A question? An interjection?
"Love" (see also: "Hate") Can mean anywhere from "I generally enjoy this" to "I would be depressed if parted from it"
You're not a fan of [] [] [] [] in your text?
I don't understand why some people think there's something wrong with studying humanity and its components. Why can we study the behavior of other animals but not humans? There's so many unique and interesting aspects of human cultures out there, and how they interact with each other, that there's no end to what we might uncover and understand. That understanding has made possible advances in how we work, how we play, how we socialize, and what we respond to. It shapes our entertainment, our advertising, our work conditions, our housing and building designs, social media, etc. Just because it's not a hard science doesn't mean we don't feel benefits from discoveries in the field.
It's easier to fake it when you're not leaving the office for 15 minutes several times per day.
If you're talking about that the employer is paying for its employees to go on smoke breaks during which they don't work? Then yes, they're unpaid, because the employer is getting nothing for the time they pay then.
Smoke gets into the walls and permeates. Eventually, you'd have the whole area around the room smelling like smoke, and pity the poor SOBs who have to sit near it. And your resale value (or the landlord's leasing value) would go down, since once you vacated someone would have to tear out that room and the surrounding area to clean it up.
We probably cover more health problems due to obesity than tobacco anyway. Unless you're going to start judging what your coworkers eat (and if you already do, congrats on being the office asshole!), this is pretty moot.
I might have been the only household that skipped directly from composite to HDMI.
Hey, the only reason our roads are under construction less often than Winnipeg is that we poorly distribute our money to infrastructure!
Also in older cities like Duluth, MN without the means to pump tons of money into the infrastructure. A few main roads have water mains running underneath, which keeps snow from staying on them too long (or ice from really forming), but many of Duluth's hills become icy and can be extremely dangerous for cars without 4x4/AWD and proper brakes. The general right of way is given to those coming down the hill, they may not be able to stop for you.
They're not going to get caffeine from an odor, though.
Not really. You're ignoring the addiction and trying to make the delivery method healthier.
I'd like to see a serious study about the addictive and side effects of nicotine in e-cigs. Most nicotine studies are done with cigarettes and the bath of chemicals there really dilutes the findings on nicotine alone.
That said, the delivery system is still pretty obnoxious. Whether or not the cloud of exhaled vapor is "just water vapor" or not, it still projects into the air and affects the people around the vaper.
Whereas caffeine's delivery system is totally isolated, only the person consuming it will be affected.
I mean, sure, just like an alcoholic is better off drinking light beer or spirits so they don't ingest so many empty calories.
I don't think you live where the air hurts your face.
I don't think you know what gender reassignment surgery does. Hint: Apple does not support shoving your phone down your pants to unlock it.