To my knowledge AQ doesn't really complain about this because it plays directly to their benefit. Our country is the one that always preachs about being on the moral high ground, except we seem to fail at actually keeping that ground. Other groups and people who point this out are then usually accused of siding with the terrorists, which is so obvious of a logical failure as to not need more explanation.
You could always hire a few of them and run the results through a differential analysis program so that it uses the the parts that match between the transcribers when in doubt.
There was a period as a young single adult where I torrented movies constantly and probably watched a couple at least every night. Now I just use Netflix for most of my passive entertainment. The only stuff I find myself torrenting is regular network TV shows that we get too far behind on watching. I'd really like to watch GoT but I'm not going to buy a cable subscription and pay a premium price for special channels for one or two shows of interest. So for now I just don't watch it at all or wait for it to show up on Netflix.
It would seem to me that you would rather a straight up non stop action movie. That isn't how these movies were billed. Personally I liked the first movie and look forward to watching the second some time in the near future. In order to do just The Hobbit right would have required one very long movie or two shorter ones. Instead they decided to do a trilogy and include more material to flesh out the world more. When originally published The Hobbit came first, only later did Tolkien expand on his world for the LOTR trilogy. So now that we are getting movies delivered out of order it makes sense to include more of the supporting story for the entire world because there is now an existing market with an appetite for more of that world and story.
The thing is that in TV though you don't need a full time stenographer. You need at the most someone for broadcasts without transcripts, and even the talking heads on the news programs are often working from scripts on teleprompters. Probably the cheapest thing they could do is hire a person that is training to become a stenographer. They get real world experience for some pay and the broadcaster gets some semblance of professionalism. In most areas you are talking about four hours of live broadcast a day at the most, a third of that will actually be commercials and probably half of what is left will be canned segments that get reused for multiple time slots.
No kidding. I'm always amazed at the low quality of the captioning for accuracy, spelling, and typo's. News broadcasts seem to be the worst because it is live presumably, but even canned content is often poorly done.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it couldn't happen but the UAE is ruled by a Monarchy. That is a real Monarchy, not the celebrity heads of state that the UK has. There is a king and his word is law, his family owns the biggest businesses, commands the military and picks and chooses economic winners and losers. The UAE is to poor third world countries what the USA is to Mexico and various other poor countries of the Americas. The UAE hasn't had much terrorist hostilities because a previous king threatened to expel and permanently bar entry to everyone of any nation who shared nationality with any terrorist carrying out an attack on their soil. For terrorist organizations that rely on the good will or at least passive acceptance of the people at large in their regions this is simply not worth the gamble.
On top of all that the UAE is a play ground for the rich in that part of the world and much of AQ's funding comes from those people. Turning the country into another war zone would be contrary to AQ's interests financially. To some the UAE may look like a tempting bit of honey comb but in reality it is a well guarded hornets nest.
That is probably true to some extent but it isn't the kind of incentive that we'd really like as a society. We want artists to continue producing content not produce a few big hits and then stop and go live off the procedes for 75+ years. That's how we end up with things like Disney that specialize in using public domain stories to produce slightly new content and using the procedes to prevent that work from ever entering the public domain in turn.
I'm very tempted to buy a homeworx box just to see how it performs because it is so inexpensive. My only hesitation though is that apparently it doesn't do any kind of compression when recording. So whatever storage device you decide to pair with it will need to be huge.
I'll never give DirecTV another cent. Service was crap as reception went all to hell in inclement weather. The DVR would periodically lose it's mind and we'd lose a large backlog of unwatched recorded content, and all the settings like what channels we actually wanted to see listed. I might be convinced to subscribe to a cable service provided I get ala carte pricing and just the channels I want, even then though my price point tops out at a few dollars per channel.
We have our internet service through a cable provider and they call every week trying to sell me on TV service and I tell them every time I'll give them three dollars per channel for each of the major networks and a few others. They counter offer 50+ shit channels I have no interest in along with some of the channels I do want for twice what I'm willing to pay.
That is an interesting point of view to me. I dislike the default look of Firefox and get very annoyed with the attempts to clone the look of Chrome. But even then I've found the newer Firefox UI tolerable with a couple easy changes without using extensions or messing about in the settings much. The only addon I have for Firefox is NoScript, and I pretty much won't consider using any browser that doesn't have that functionality available either by default or through an addon.
You can also catch fish bare handed, along with other small animals like frogs. Native americans used to chase buffalo off steep drop offs, horses made that easier but they weren't required.
Using tools isn't really all that valid of a criteria anymore though. We've found many species that use tools but aren't anywhere near our intelligence. Otters, alligators, crows and wasps but to name a few have been observed using tools.
In the US at least, K-12 is all called grade school. They might frequently call kids in the 12th grade seniors but that is essentially an empty tradition and trying to make them feel better about themselves.
Calculus as a course all its own isn't usually mandatory, but the algebra and geometry courses that introduce the basics of calculus usually are.
I honestly don't see much of an opportunity cost in requiring a single quarter course in comp sci. When I was in High School we had 40 minute periods and 9 of those in a day. I inevitably ended up with a study hall period every year, a wasted period with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs.
Grade School isn't for training workers. The purpose of grade school is to give kids a basic understanding of a lot of subjects. As our society grows and changes what is considered a basic level will change. One of the biggest advantages of this is that it exposes children to things that they might not find otherwise at home or elsewhere in their environment. They can choose for themselves what they are most interested in for more indepth study. but we need to give them the opportunity to see what all is out there and to some extent that will mean making some classes mandatory. Think about SexEd if you will, how many kids do you think would opt out of that class if it wasn't required? But it is definitely to societies, and the kids, benefit for them to go through it anyways because it can be very practical and useful information.
I don't know about "perfectly good option", I hadn't previously heard of Miracast so I did some reading. It look promising but I can't find much in the way of adapters for it and what is out there has pretty hit or miss reviews. Additionally the range of hardware that might support miracast seems a bit limited. I have a PC with an i5 processor with no WiDi and my video card is a GTX 560 Ti that I can't find any information on supporting miracast. I could possibly update to windows 8.1 which is supposed to natively support Miracast, but a few of my favorite games aparently don't like 8.1.
You would think that what amounts to a wireless HDMI cable wouldn't be that radical of technology, but the offerings seem pretty limited and the prices extravagant.
How is chemistry not relevant anymore? Chemistry is far more prevelant in our day to day lives than computers are. Do you just want to let the next generation of kids grow up ignorant about chemistry and just believe it is all magic? For the same reason I can see the value in a basic computer science class. Coding doesn't necessarily need to be a part of computer science classes, but instead the class should focus on how computers function and how we currently use them in society. They should learn about the strengths and weaknesses of computers, which is where coding could fit in I suppose, so that they can start to imagine how we could use them in the future. Too many people that I meet seem to think that computers are magical devices that can do or solve anything.
Or use a multiple material printer and as you build up the walls fill it with liquid mercury, and add a small valve. When the tube is completed let the mercury drain out for the most part, it should pull a vacume behind it, and then permanently close the valve.
Historically you would make the vacume tube and then put it through a process to create the vacume and seal the tube. One of the better was of creating the vacume was to attach the tube to a tube trap through which mercury was dripped. The space between each drip of mercury would pull out a little more atmosphere.
I'm not very good at drivers and I don't honestly know a ton about the various Unix based operating systems that get used on the Desktop. What occured to me was different flavors of unix like Mint.
You could try XP if you had an old key unused somewhere though.
I wouldn't doubt the fear of reprissals, nor their reality. I've known people who had previous employers put holds on their clearance by saying they were investigating something or other. They old employer didn't have to provide any details about what they were investigating, but simply saying they were doing that can invalidate a security clearance until it is cleared up. And once you don't have a clearance anymore or it's suspended you are up shit creek without a paddle if you don't have an employer pushing for your clearance to be resolved it likely won't ever happen.
I would imagine the terror watch lists are even more fun because there is no process for getting your name removed or the reasons for it's addition to the list officially investigated.
So if any of that happened you could kiss working in most any government industry goodbye. And that is a lot of potential jobs to rule out. On top of all that if you lived near DC you will very likely have to relocate. That doesn't excuse sacrificing your morals but it is bound to be part of the equation.
I've never had an issue with the IRS but I did deal with a State tax office. I wasn't living in the state anymore but was still considered a resident. During one of those years there was a special income tax levy for just that year. The tax paper work that I got didn't say anything about it and so I didn't know about it or pay it. So a couple years later I started getting notices that I owed back taxes. It took two years of back and forth to get it sorted out. They could't or wouldn't tell me what my mistake was or how much it amounted to. Eventually they sent me a bill with explanatory letter showing that I had underpaid because of that levy and that they were now charging me that plus 100% for the labor of writing the letter. I happily paid it just to get it over with, it amounted to under $500 all told.
In my experience it is rarely all about one factor. All of those things factor into it and any one of them can be a deciding factor depending on the balance of the others.
Depressingly enough this is what I believe also in regards to the rise in autism's prevalence. As a parent it kills me a little every time I see one of those shows on TV where they investigate special rooms in houses, typically in the attic or basement, where there is no doornob on the inside and the space has childrens belongings inside.
Or maybe just not listening to music every waking moment possible. I like music but I frequently would just as soon not have any playing while I'm focusing on something else.
Instead of replacing the computer you could try it under a different operating system. I would think that it could be a problem with the drivers, which should be different under a different OS.
My pet peeve with it is that when you choose all programs it crams everything into a little space with a scroll bar and no matter what the damned thing is always two columns wide when given what I want to be there it should only take 1 column.
And then there is the insistence on having a "show desktop button" next to the clock, which is also impossible to remove without some 3rd party addons.
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To my knowledge AQ doesn't really complain about this because it plays directly to their benefit. Our country is the one that always preachs about being on the moral high ground, except we seem to fail at actually keeping that ground. Other groups and people who point this out are then usually accused of siding with the terrorists, which is so obvious of a logical failure as to not need more explanation.
You could always hire a few of them and run the results through a differential analysis program so that it uses the the parts that match between the transcribers when in doubt.
There was a period as a young single adult where I torrented movies constantly and probably watched a couple at least every night. Now I just use Netflix for most of my passive entertainment. The only stuff I find myself torrenting is regular network TV shows that we get too far behind on watching. I'd really like to watch GoT but I'm not going to buy a cable subscription and pay a premium price for special channels for one or two shows of interest. So for now I just don't watch it at all or wait for it to show up on Netflix.
It would seem to me that you would rather a straight up non stop action movie. That isn't how these movies were billed. Personally I liked the first movie and look forward to watching the second some time in the near future. In order to do just The Hobbit right would have required one very long movie or two shorter ones. Instead they decided to do a trilogy and include more material to flesh out the world more. When originally published The Hobbit came first, only later did Tolkien expand on his world for the LOTR trilogy. So now that we are getting movies delivered out of order it makes sense to include more of the supporting story for the entire world because there is now an existing market with an appetite for more of that world and story.
The thing is that in TV though you don't need a full time stenographer. You need at the most someone for broadcasts without transcripts, and even the talking heads on the news programs are often working from scripts on teleprompters. Probably the cheapest thing they could do is hire a person that is training to become a stenographer. They get real world experience for some pay and the broadcaster gets some semblance of professionalism. In most areas you are talking about four hours of live broadcast a day at the most, a third of that will actually be commercials and probably half of what is left will be canned segments that get reused for multiple time slots.
No kidding. I'm always amazed at the low quality of the captioning for accuracy, spelling, and typo's. News broadcasts seem to be the worst because it is live presumably, but even canned content is often poorly done.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it couldn't happen but the UAE is ruled by a Monarchy. That is a real Monarchy, not the celebrity heads of state that the UK has. There is a king and his word is law, his family owns the biggest businesses, commands the military and picks and chooses economic winners and losers. The UAE is to poor third world countries what the USA is to Mexico and various other poor countries of the Americas. The UAE hasn't had much terrorist hostilities because a previous king threatened to expel and permanently bar entry to everyone of any nation who shared nationality with any terrorist carrying out an attack on their soil. For terrorist organizations that rely on the good will or at least passive acceptance of the people at large in their regions this is simply not worth the gamble.
On top of all that the UAE is a play ground for the rich in that part of the world and much of AQ's funding comes from those people. Turning the country into another war zone would be contrary to AQ's interests financially. To some the UAE may look like a tempting bit of honey comb but in reality it is a well guarded hornets nest.
That is probably true to some extent but it isn't the kind of incentive that we'd really like as a society. We want artists to continue producing content not produce a few big hits and then stop and go live off the procedes for 75+ years. That's how we end up with things like Disney that specialize in using public domain stories to produce slightly new content and using the procedes to prevent that work from ever entering the public domain in turn.
I'm very tempted to buy a homeworx box just to see how it performs because it is so inexpensive. My only hesitation though is that apparently it doesn't do any kind of compression when recording. So whatever storage device you decide to pair with it will need to be huge.
I'll never give DirecTV another cent. Service was crap as reception went all to hell in inclement weather. The DVR would periodically lose it's mind and we'd lose a large backlog of unwatched recorded content, and all the settings like what channels we actually wanted to see listed. I might be convinced to subscribe to a cable service provided I get ala carte pricing and just the channels I want, even then though my price point tops out at a few dollars per channel.
We have our internet service through a cable provider and they call every week trying to sell me on TV service and I tell them every time I'll give them three dollars per channel for each of the major networks and a few others. They counter offer 50+ shit channels I have no interest in along with some of the channels I do want for twice what I'm willing to pay.
That is an interesting point of view to me. I dislike the default look of Firefox and get very annoyed with the attempts to clone the look of Chrome. But even then I've found the newer Firefox UI tolerable with a couple easy changes without using extensions or messing about in the settings much. The only addon I have for Firefox is NoScript, and I pretty much won't consider using any browser that doesn't have that functionality available either by default or through an addon.
You can also catch fish bare handed, along with other small animals like frogs. Native americans used to chase buffalo off steep drop offs, horses made that easier but they weren't required.
Using tools isn't really all that valid of a criteria anymore though. We've found many species that use tools but aren't anywhere near our intelligence. Otters, alligators, crows and wasps but to name a few have been observed using tools.
In the US at least, K-12 is all called grade school. They might frequently call kids in the 12th grade seniors but that is essentially an empty tradition and trying to make them feel better about themselves.
Calculus as a course all its own isn't usually mandatory, but the algebra and geometry courses that introduce the basics of calculus usually are.
I honestly don't see much of an opportunity cost in requiring a single quarter course in comp sci. When I was in High School we had 40 minute periods and 9 of those in a day. I inevitably ended up with a study hall period every year, a wasted period with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs.
Grade School isn't for training workers. The purpose of grade school is to give kids a basic understanding of a lot of subjects. As our society grows and changes what is considered a basic level will change. One of the biggest advantages of this is that it exposes children to things that they might not find otherwise at home or elsewhere in their environment. They can choose for themselves what they are most interested in for more indepth study. but we need to give them the opportunity to see what all is out there and to some extent that will mean making some classes mandatory. Think about SexEd if you will, how many kids do you think would opt out of that class if it wasn't required? But it is definitely to societies, and the kids, benefit for them to go through it anyways because it can be very practical and useful information.
I don't know about "perfectly good option", I hadn't previously heard of Miracast so I did some reading. It look promising but I can't find much in the way of adapters for it and what is out there has pretty hit or miss reviews. Additionally the range of hardware that might support miracast seems a bit limited. I have a PC with an i5 processor with no WiDi and my video card is a GTX 560 Ti that I can't find any information on supporting miracast. I could possibly update to windows 8.1 which is supposed to natively support Miracast, but a few of my favorite games aparently don't like 8.1.
You would think that what amounts to a wireless HDMI cable wouldn't be that radical of technology, but the offerings seem pretty limited and the prices extravagant.
How is chemistry not relevant anymore? Chemistry is far more prevelant in our day to day lives than computers are. Do you just want to let the next generation of kids grow up ignorant about chemistry and just believe it is all magic? For the same reason I can see the value in a basic computer science class. Coding doesn't necessarily need to be a part of computer science classes, but instead the class should focus on how computers function and how we currently use them in society. They should learn about the strengths and weaknesses of computers, which is where coding could fit in I suppose, so that they can start to imagine how we could use them in the future. Too many people that I meet seem to think that computers are magical devices that can do or solve anything.
Or use a multiple material printer and as you build up the walls fill it with liquid mercury, and add a small valve. When the tube is completed let the mercury drain out for the most part, it should pull a vacume behind it, and then permanently close the valve.
Historically you would make the vacume tube and then put it through a process to create the vacume and seal the tube. One of the better was of creating the vacume was to attach the tube to a tube trap through which mercury was dripped. The space between each drip of mercury would pull out a little more atmosphere.
I'm not very good at drivers and I don't honestly know a ton about the various Unix based operating systems that get used on the Desktop. What occured to me was different flavors of unix like Mint.
You could try XP if you had an old key unused somewhere though.
I wouldn't doubt the fear of reprissals, nor their reality. I've known people who had previous employers put holds on their clearance by saying they were investigating something or other. They old employer didn't have to provide any details about what they were investigating, but simply saying they were doing that can invalidate a security clearance until it is cleared up. And once you don't have a clearance anymore or it's suspended you are up shit creek without a paddle if you don't have an employer pushing for your clearance to be resolved it likely won't ever happen.
I would imagine the terror watch lists are even more fun because there is no process for getting your name removed or the reasons for it's addition to the list officially investigated.
So if any of that happened you could kiss working in most any government industry goodbye. And that is a lot of potential jobs to rule out. On top of all that if you lived near DC you will very likely have to relocate. That doesn't excuse sacrificing your morals but it is bound to be part of the equation.
I've never had an issue with the IRS but I did deal with a State tax office. I wasn't living in the state anymore but was still considered a resident. During one of those years there was a special income tax levy for just that year. The tax paper work that I got didn't say anything about it and so I didn't know about it or pay it. So a couple years later I started getting notices that I owed back taxes. It took two years of back and forth to get it sorted out. They could't or wouldn't tell me what my mistake was or how much it amounted to. Eventually they sent me a bill with explanatory letter showing that I had underpaid because of that levy and that they were now charging me that plus 100% for the labor of writing the letter. I happily paid it just to get it over with, it amounted to under $500 all told.
In my experience it is rarely all about one factor. All of those things factor into it and any one of them can be a deciding factor depending on the balance of the others.
Depressingly enough this is what I believe also in regards to the rise in autism's prevalence. As a parent it kills me a little every time I see one of those shows on TV where they investigate special rooms in houses, typically in the attic or basement, where there is no doornob on the inside and the space has childrens belongings inside.
Or maybe just not listening to music every waking moment possible. I like music but I frequently would just as soon not have any playing while I'm focusing on something else.
Instead of replacing the computer you could try it under a different operating system. I would think that it could be a problem with the drivers, which should be different under a different OS.
My pet peeve with it is that when you choose all programs it crams everything into a little space with a scroll bar and no matter what the damned thing is always two columns wide when given what I want to be there it should only take 1 column.
And then there is the insistence on having a "show desktop button" next to the clock, which is also impossible to remove without some 3rd party addons.