Body count is a poor metric for comparison of how big an atrocity is, even if you discount the exponential growth in population since the Crusades and Dark Ages. I fail to see how shoving pyramids up peoples asses, ripping their arms off, pouring lead down their throats, ripping wet rags that have been stuffed down their throats out, disembowling, and burning alive are better than warfare since you have allowed some sadist to watch while he does this in the name of God. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada
Ideally, however scientists fall into the same traps. This doesn't discount observation, after all we wouldn't have GPS satelites without Relativity, but that doesn't mean our best model is complete or the most optimal for explaining things.
You still cannot say god doesn't exist. Its sort of a conundrum. You have morons telling you the bible is the word of god and sticking to it in spite of overwhelming evidence, but you still cannot prove them wrong when it comes to the existence of god itself. Its unfortunate many of them disregard facts for their own dream land, but all the same, its not false nor true when it comes to the crux of the religious argument, i.e. God exists and created everything you see. Saying because it is unproven and thus you must not believe is a fallacy, since it is possible that unproven things exist. Since we have no construct to observe or test such things it remains unanswered until some point in the future, or never.
I attended an interesting seminar about this, but I can't for the life of me remember who presented the material. It was essentially outlining the problem with "pixel-based" methods, since human beings and other animals don't even do this. It just happens to be the easiest way to get a machine to do things. The individual argued that pixel-based methods essentially have reached their limitations, and was instead arguing on more of an approach based on human perception through neurological research that I did not fully understand. He wrote some paper with another medical paper as reference about how the human brain actually decomposes faces into some "face space". They did actual experiments using human beings and modified pictures of people's faces to verify their theory that this "face-space" is how humans actually recognize faces.
There are legitimate reasons for wearing ski masks in cold environments. I doubt it would attract suspicion there. Also, men disguised as women wearing Burqa would be hard to spot.
I worked on a facial recognition biometrics project in grad school as a research assistant, the leading platform we found to compete against was Pitt-patt and even it wasn't suitable for this application. This research area is flooded with research, and most people are not taking ground-breaking steps.
I only knew of Elder Scrolls as the name of the entire series, sort of like how you can have a book series with a different name than the actual individual books. However the game boxes, advertisements, and how the games are referred to by everyone including media always use the specific name, i.e. : Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim. Mojang is not behaving badly at all. Scrolls is too simple and universal a word to let anyone have a copyright on it. Elder Scrolls? Yes, that's a bit more specific. An analogy to this lawsuit would be like the Tolkien estate suing someone over using the word "Rings" as their book title.
Uhh, I don't know, maybe because fantasy RPG's typically have you know, scrolls in them. If this is blatant trademark infringement than a rectangle is blatant infringement of Apples patent on the iPad.
There, solved the problem. The reason people trivialize this is because its a ridiculous argument coming from Bethesda. The name Scrolls vs. Elder Scrolls doesn't confuse anyone that doesn't have a severe mental deficiency.
You know, doing a quick search I can't find anything either, but I do remember a discovery or other learning-type channel special on the fall of the Roman Empire where they talked about it. Ill look some more and post.
Its not entirely true. When good numbers from companies come out their stock does better. I.e. people care if the company does well because the stock price increases. Sure, they don't ACTUALLY care about people in the company or how its managed, they just care that the company is profitable, has sustainable levels of debt, etc. and continues to grow.
MBA is a joke degree anyway at most institutions. Its a good supplemental if you have a degree in something else, but anyone with just an MBA (from most institutions) shouldn't even be considered employable beyond a general manager of a grocery store or retail outlet. My best friend went through his MBA after getting a Finance degree, and having experience looking through his homework and curriculum, a fucking idiot could do it. It is know Harvard and other ivy league schools MBA's are significantly harder, however.
It boggles my mind why anyone thinks a CEO is worth that much at all. No CEO should make 200 times the lower level employees. Especially when they prove to be incompetent time and time again.
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God wants it this way.
Firefox has been the most unstable pile of crap the last 3 times Ive updated it. I switched to Chrome.
Sounds like multiple partner positions.
Body count is a poor metric for comparison of how big an atrocity is, even if you discount the exponential growth in population since the Crusades and Dark Ages. I fail to see how shoving pyramids up peoples asses, ripping their arms off, pouring lead down their throats, ripping wet rags that have been stuffed down their throats out, disembowling, and burning alive are better than warfare since you have allowed some sadist to watch while he does this in the name of God. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada
Ideally, however scientists fall into the same traps. This doesn't discount observation, after all we wouldn't have GPS satelites without Relativity, but that doesn't mean our best model is complete or the most optimal for explaining things.
You still cannot say god doesn't exist. Its sort of a conundrum. You have morons telling you the bible is the word of god and sticking to it in spite of overwhelming evidence, but you still cannot prove them wrong when it comes to the existence of god itself. Its unfortunate many of them disregard facts for their own dream land, but all the same, its not false nor true when it comes to the crux of the religious argument, i.e. God exists and created everything you see. Saying because it is unproven and thus you must not believe is a fallacy, since it is possible that unproven things exist. Since we have no construct to observe or test such things it remains unanswered until some point in the future, or never.
I attended an interesting seminar about this, but I can't for the life of me remember who presented the material. It was essentially outlining the problem with "pixel-based" methods, since human beings and other animals don't even do this. It just happens to be the easiest way to get a machine to do things. The individual argued that pixel-based methods essentially have reached their limitations, and was instead arguing on more of an approach based on human perception through neurological research that I did not fully understand. He wrote some paper with another medical paper as reference about how the human brain actually decomposes faces into some "face space". They did actual experiments using human beings and modified pictures of people's faces to verify their theory that this "face-space" is how humans actually recognize faces.
There are legitimate reasons for wearing ski masks in cold environments. I doubt it would attract suspicion there. Also, men disguised as women wearing Burqa would be hard to spot.
I worked on a facial recognition biometrics project in grad school as a research assistant, the leading platform we found to compete against was Pitt-patt and even it wasn't suitable for this application. This research area is flooded with research, and most people are not taking ground-breaking steps.
Yes, Americans are all stupid. That must why we have shit like this going on in our country. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/28/business/main20112612.shtml OR http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8793243/UK-riots-dont-expect-sentences-to-be-cut-judge-tells-rioters.html OR http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8793269/China-population-to-become-worlds-biggest-polluters.html OR http://www.oneafricanow.com/ OR http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/world/asia/dozens-killed-in-attack-on-pilgrim-bus-in-pakistan.html?_r=1&ref=iran.
I only knew of Elder Scrolls as the name of the entire series, sort of like how you can have a book series with a different name than the actual individual books. However the game boxes, advertisements, and how the games are referred to by everyone including media always use the specific name, i.e. : Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim. Mojang is not behaving badly at all. Scrolls is too simple and universal a word to let anyone have a copyright on it. Elder Scrolls? Yes, that's a bit more specific. An analogy to this lawsuit would be like the Tolkien estate suing someone over using the word "Rings" as their book title.
Stephanie Meyer (author of Twilight) is a pile of shit compared to either of the other authors. She is literally one of the worst authors out there.
Uhh, I don't know, maybe because fantasy RPG's typically have you know, scrolls in them. If this is blatant trademark infringement than a rectangle is blatant infringement of Apples patent on the iPad.
Scrolls != Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim,
Scrolls != Elder Scrolls VI : Oblivion,
Scrolls != Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind,
Scrolls != Elder Scrolls II : Daggerfall,
Scrolls != Elder Scrolls I : Arena.
There, solved the problem. The reason people trivialize this is because its a ridiculous argument coming from Bethesda. The name Scrolls vs. Elder Scrolls doesn't confuse anyone that doesn't have a severe mental deficiency.
Apparently he couldn't handle it.
Zuckerberg is a fucking asshole, he's not a genius like the show portrays him, and hes has no principals.
You know, doing a quick search I can't find anything either, but I do remember a discovery or other learning-type channel special on the fall of the Roman Empire where they talked about it. Ill look some more and post.
The Roman Empire outlawed certain types of machines to protect laborers.
I fucking hate self-checkout.
More than that. The average American makes between 500,000 and 1,000,000 in a lifetime.
Its not entirely true. When good numbers from companies come out their stock does better. I.e. people care if the company does well because the stock price increases. Sure, they don't ACTUALLY care about people in the company or how its managed, they just care that the company is profitable, has sustainable levels of debt, etc. and continues to grow.
MBA is a joke degree anyway at most institutions. Its a good supplemental if you have a degree in something else, but anyone with just an MBA (from most institutions) shouldn't even be considered employable beyond a general manager of a grocery store or retail outlet. My best friend went through his MBA after getting a Finance degree, and having experience looking through his homework and curriculum, a fucking idiot could do it. It is know Harvard and other ivy league schools MBA's are significantly harder, however.
Well, apparently competent people, i.e. HP's CEO's, aren't competent either.
HP tried that. It didn't work.
It boggles my mind why anyone thinks a CEO is worth that much at all. No CEO should make 200 times the lower level employees. Especially when they prove to be incompetent time and time again.