If Jeopardy were like the new game shows, when they came back from a commercial they would spend the first 3 minutes or so re-hashing what happened before the commercials (complete with manufactured drama and music). Then they would spend a few minutes playing the next stage of the game, then spend 2 or 3 minutes before the next commercial break showing what is going to happen once the commercials are over (again, with manufactured drama and music). That formula really irritates me when I see it.
I mentioned "Minute To Win It" before. I've never watched that show for the actual entertainment value, but my roommate had it on a couple times and I sat and watched for a while to look at the actual structure of the show. I have actually seen that show come back from a commercial, spend several minutes re-capping everything that had happened up to that point, then the host spends several minutes going over the rules of the next game, making stupid jokes, trying to build up the drama ("are you ready? ARE YOU READY?"), etc, and then he says... ok.. let's start the game... after this break. Back to a commercial. They literally showed no actual game at all during the entire thing, just a re-cap of what happened, an explanation of the next game (these are simple games, they don't require much explanation), and then more commercials. When they came back they again went over the rules of the next game, then actually played it. When I watch things like that I feel like the producers are just hitting their audience over the head with hammers screaming at them about how stupid they are, and the audience just lapping it up. It actually angers me to watch that crap.
That is not what Jeopardy does, this may sound like a weird thing to say but, compared with the current crop of prime-time game shows and reality shows, Jeopardy actually looks like it retains some sort of honesty or integrity. That's a weird thing to say talking about a show that, yes, exists to sell ads, but it's an indication of how low the bar is these days. Jeopardy has stayed more or less constant while everything around them is in a race to the intellectual bottom.
They don't hate smart people. They hate people who are smarter than they are. Which, for half the American people, is the other half.
You sure about that? You might be one of the bottom half. I'm pretty sure the notion that half of the public is smarter than a given person is true for exactly 1 person, the median guy. For everyone less smart than him, more than half are smarter.
The format you're describing is the "new breed" of shows which, as you've correctly determined, are designed to get people to watch commercials. They aren't limited to game shows, either. Those include shows like the one that Howie Mandel hosted a couple years ago which apparently is no longer on the air, or "Minute To Win It" hosted by Guy Fieri (that show has several reasons not to watch it), or nearly any other prime-time game show that appears on a major network. They also include reality shows, for example I think that "Hell's Kitchen" has the highest ratio of commercials to content in minutes. Yes, those shows exist to sell ads. Jeopardy is not one of those shows. Jeopardy doesn't rely on stupid hooks to try and get people to stick around while stretching out the limited content as much as possible. Jeopardy actually shows the entire game without any summary of what just happened or what's about to happen, they take breaks at pre-determined times instead of when the drama is heating up, etc.
You think in a fight that features Bill Nye trying to wield what is essentially a barbell, that Bill Nye would win that fight? Have you seen him? He's not Bill Nye The Fitness Guy.
Forbids government monitoring of every person in the area without warrant.
I don't think there is any such restriction on general monitoring. Police cars have license plate scanners, for instance, and government buildings have surveillance cameras. They are monitoring every person in the area without a warrant. Scanners like these wouldn't even identify people, they would just indicate that there is a person there. I don't think there's anything illegal about that.
44% of US power generation comes from coal, with 23% from natural gas and 20% from nuclear. They have a map that shows each state's breakdown. If you're charging in Washington, Idaho, or Oregon, for example, you're not using a lot of fossil fuel. If you're charging in Wyoming, Indiana, or Kentucky, on the other hand, then it's mostly coal. If you're charging in Vermont then you might as well be fellating a tree, but without the splinters.
Advertising is a way to let people who may be interested in purchasing your product or using your service that you exist, nothing more, nothing less. On a fundamental level, there's nothing wrong with it.
Exactly, and if I didn't watch the Super Bowl this year then I wouldn't have learned that Bud Light is a thing.
The plant didn't shut down. The plant is still operating with 30 or something other wells drilled. The new pipe itself was shut down, because of a failure in one of the valves in the pipe. The pipe was never connected to the plant. It seems entirely possible that a linear structure like a pipe can be shut down by a failure of a single valve. It's not like they can route around the failed valve. They're investigating ways to re-open the sealed pipe in addition to drilling others.
Always look at your own stats before deciding you can afford to not support a particular browser.
I'm proud to say that for our own applications, we no longer test with or officially support IE 6 and 7, we finally dropped that a few years ago. Now if people request new features or bug fixes for those versions we charge them significantly more.
I would think somewhere like google search to be a better place to gather stats for this.
I should have included this in my other comment, but a better representation would probably come from accumulated stats of social networks around the world, including things like Twitter and Tumblr.
I would think somewhere like google search to be a better place to gather stats for this.
You would think, but then again most people probably don't change the default search provider in their browser. And I don't believe that IE's default search provider is Google.
Another member of the intelligence committee says she didn't know:
The intelligence committee is a joke. Either they knew about the program and allowed it, in which case they should not be overseeing the intelligence community, or they were not aware of what was going on, in which case they should not be overseeing the intelligence community.
It's quite a stretch to go from teaching in a public school what the Holy Bible says about creation and having that as another creation story along with abiogenesis (which has less proof)
There is less proof for abiogenesis then there is for Christian creationism? Tell me, exactly what is the proof for Christian creationism?
No, Google has not paid for the use of the stops. You're referencing an article written 2 days ago about a proposal that just got passed which will go into effect in July. They have not been paying for the use of the stops, hence the protesting, hence the new proposal that you linked to. That proposal is a response to the issue of them not paying. They are not paying voluntarily, they are being forced by the city to pay. I mean, look at the headline on the article you referenced:
Apple, Google Shuttles to Pay to Use Public Bus Stops in San Francisco
"To Pay" means in the future. If they were paying now that would say "are paying" instead of "to pay". The second paragraph pretty much spells it out:
Previously, the city was not receiving any income from the campus buses, even though they often used city bus stops. Today that changed as the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) approved a pilot proposal (via The Verge) that will require commuter shuttle buses from companies like Apple to pay $1 for each stop they make every day.
The last paragraph indicates that the program is set to start in July.
So, again, one issue that the protesters have been raising is that the buses use the public bus stops, but haven't been paying anything. Sorry to shake your fragile faith. Hopefully you have a better day.
I'm sorry, but do renters not have any rights in California? Here in Massachusetts, it is an insanely difficult and lengthy process for a landlord to evict a tenant. I know this for a fact, as my father-in-law owns several rental properties and has a really bad habit of accepting unsavory tenants.
From what I read, it sounds like the landlords are exploiting a loophole in the law. Where I live we also have very strong protections for renters, they wouldn't be able to do that here.
Oh no! They caused the house you bought a while ago to have a massive increase in value! Those bastards!
People renting the house that get evicted because someone else will pay 3x as much don't have any equity in the house. The landlords are making out, yeah. The renters, not so much.
I'm just curious where exactly you think the tech workers SHOULD live if you think this is an issue.
I'm not taking sides in this, I don't even live in California. I was pointing out what the issues are that people are protesting because someone asked.
So they're being too eco-friendly with the bus rides? Or everyone's jealous about the benefits? Or public transportation isn't crowded enough? I don't get it but I have the sneaking suspicion that these people are morons.
One issue is that they are using the existing network of bus stops, but they don't contribute anything to the city. Workers wait at the existing bus stops, the private buses stop there, but the private buses do not pay any additional tax or anything that would be associated with maintaining the public transport network.
The other issue is that, since all of the young high-paid workers are living in the city instead of near work, they have driven up prices to the point that existing residents can no longer afford to live there. In some cases, landlords have evicted existing paying residents simply because they would be able to get more rent from someone else. Apparently there is some law or ordinance that gives the landlords power to do that, so people are protesting against that also.
They basically want the companies to contribute to the public transportation infrastructure, and they would also really appreciate it if people working for those companies stopped offering so much money for housing within the city. That second one is probably not likely to happen.
[Ceres] is a rock–ice body 950 km (590 mi) in diameter and the smallest identified dwarf planet. It contains about one-third of the mass of the asteroid belt.
You're in the asteroid belt? You are the asteroid belt!
I'm not sure what the license actually says, so I'm not sure if they expressly disallow people from making changes or not. Practically, they couldn't do that, if they are distributing the code then people are able to change it. It might not make sense to change it if you're just going to update at some point in the future, but it's a possibility.
Anyway, the reason I kept posting things like that was because people kept referring to the software as "closed-source" or something like that, when it's not. The source is open, it's just not free. The major difference between vBulletin and any other open-source PHP project is the license, that's it. It's open-source software that isn't free (both kinds).
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If Jeopardy were like the new game shows, when they came back from a commercial they would spend the first 3 minutes or so re-hashing what happened before the commercials (complete with manufactured drama and music). Then they would spend a few minutes playing the next stage of the game, then spend 2 or 3 minutes before the next commercial break showing what is going to happen once the commercials are over (again, with manufactured drama and music). That formula really irritates me when I see it.
I mentioned "Minute To Win It" before. I've never watched that show for the actual entertainment value, but my roommate had it on a couple times and I sat and watched for a while to look at the actual structure of the show. I have actually seen that show come back from a commercial, spend several minutes re-capping everything that had happened up to that point, then the host spends several minutes going over the rules of the next game, making stupid jokes, trying to build up the drama ("are you ready? ARE YOU READY?"), etc, and then he says... ok.. let's start the game... after this break. Back to a commercial. They literally showed no actual game at all during the entire thing, just a re-cap of what happened, an explanation of the next game (these are simple games, they don't require much explanation), and then more commercials. When they came back they again went over the rules of the next game, then actually played it. When I watch things like that I feel like the producers are just hitting their audience over the head with hammers screaming at them about how stupid they are, and the audience just lapping it up. It actually angers me to watch that crap.
That is not what Jeopardy does, this may sound like a weird thing to say but, compared with the current crop of prime-time game shows and reality shows, Jeopardy actually looks like it retains some sort of honesty or integrity. That's a weird thing to say talking about a show that, yes, exists to sell ads, but it's an indication of how low the bar is these days. Jeopardy has stayed more or less constant while everything around them is in a race to the intellectual bottom.
They don't hate smart people. They hate people who are smarter than they are. Which, for half the American people, is the other half.
You sure about that? You might be one of the bottom half. I'm pretty sure the notion that half of the public is smarter than a given person is true for exactly 1 person, the median guy. For everyone less smart than him, more than half are smarter.
I watched an gameshow on a US network once.
Whoa guys watch out, we've got an expert here.
The format you're describing is the "new breed" of shows which, as you've correctly determined, are designed to get people to watch commercials. They aren't limited to game shows, either. Those include shows like the one that Howie Mandel hosted a couple years ago which apparently is no longer on the air, or "Minute To Win It" hosted by Guy Fieri (that show has several reasons not to watch it), or nearly any other prime-time game show that appears on a major network. They also include reality shows, for example I think that "Hell's Kitchen" has the highest ratio of commercials to content in minutes. Yes, those shows exist to sell ads. Jeopardy is not one of those shows. Jeopardy doesn't rely on stupid hooks to try and get people to stick around while stretching out the limited content as much as possible. Jeopardy actually shows the entire game without any summary of what just happened or what's about to happen, they take breaks at pre-determined times instead of when the drama is heating up, etc.
You think in a fight that features Bill Nye trying to wield what is essentially a barbell, that Bill Nye would win that fight? Have you seen him? He's not Bill Nye The Fitness Guy.
Forbids government monitoring of every person in the area without warrant.
I don't think there is any such restriction on general monitoring. Police cars have license plate scanners, for instance, and government buildings have surveillance cameras. They are monitoring every person in the area without a warrant. Scanners like these wouldn't even identify people, they would just indicate that there is a person there. I don't think there's anything illegal about that.
Tesla addresses that issue on their site:
http://www.teslamotors.com/goe...
44% of US power generation comes from coal, with 23% from natural gas and 20% from nuclear. They have a map that shows each state's breakdown. If you're charging in Washington, Idaho, or Oregon, for example, you're not using a lot of fossil fuel. If you're charging in Wyoming, Indiana, or Kentucky, on the other hand, then it's mostly coal. If you're charging in Vermont then you might as well be fellating a tree, but without the splinters.
Damnit, you beat me to it. This system will be no match for the infamous Seventh Furry Battalion.
Is there a decent option for watching live sports yet? That's the one thing holding me back, I even already have a HTPC built but still have cable.
Commercials is what pays for the programs.
Then where do my cable subscription fees go?
The alternative is a TV station that charges per program or per month.
Paying only for what I actually watch would be a fantastic service if it existed. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist.
Advertising is a way to let people who may be interested in purchasing your product or using your service that you exist, nothing more, nothing less. On a fundamental level, there's nothing wrong with it.
Exactly, and if I didn't watch the Super Bowl this year then I wouldn't have learned that Bud Light is a thing.
The plant didn't shut down. The plant is still operating with 30 or something other wells drilled. The new pipe itself was shut down, because of a failure in one of the valves in the pipe. The pipe was never connected to the plant. It seems entirely possible that a linear structure like a pipe can be shut down by a failure of a single valve. It's not like they can route around the failed valve. They're investigating ways to re-open the sealed pipe in addition to drilling others.
What the hell is that?
Anyway, Linux users can continue running Opera 12, I assume it's still out there somewhere. It's the last good version of Opera that still ran Presto.
Always look at your own stats before deciding you can afford to not support a particular browser.
I'm proud to say that for our own applications, we no longer test with or officially support IE 6 and 7, we finally dropped that a few years ago. Now if people request new features or bug fixes for those versions we charge them significantly more.
I would think somewhere like google search to be a better place to gather stats for this.
I should have included this in my other comment, but a better representation would probably come from accumulated stats of social networks around the world, including things like Twitter and Tumblr.
I would think somewhere like google search to be a better place to gather stats for this.
You would think, but then again most people probably don't change the default search provider in their browser. And I don't believe that IE's default search provider is Google.
StatCounter's 24.91% is a much more impressive decline to me than W3Schools' 9%.
Please put a warning when you're posting links like that, some of us are at work.
Another member of the intelligence committee says she didn't know:
The intelligence committee is a joke. Either they knew about the program and allowed it, in which case they should not be overseeing the intelligence community, or they were not aware of what was going on, in which case they should not be overseeing the intelligence community.
It's quite a stretch to go from teaching in a public school what the Holy Bible says about creation and having that as another creation story along with abiogenesis (which has less proof)
There is less proof for abiogenesis then there is for Christian creationism? Tell me, exactly what is the proof for Christian creationism?
No, Google has not paid for the use of the stops. You're referencing an article written 2 days ago about a proposal that just got passed which will go into effect in July. They have not been paying for the use of the stops, hence the protesting, hence the new proposal that you linked to. That proposal is a response to the issue of them not paying. They are not paying voluntarily, they are being forced by the city to pay. I mean, look at the headline on the article you referenced:
Apple, Google Shuttles to Pay to Use Public Bus Stops in San Francisco
"To Pay" means in the future. If they were paying now that would say "are paying" instead of "to pay". The second paragraph pretty much spells it out:
Previously, the city was not receiving any income from the campus buses, even though they often used city bus stops. Today that changed as the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) approved a pilot proposal (via The Verge) that will require commuter shuttle buses from companies like Apple to pay $1 for each stop they make every day.
The last paragraph indicates that the program is set to start in July.
So, again, one issue that the protesters have been raising is that the buses use the public bus stops, but haven't been paying anything. Sorry to shake your fragile faith. Hopefully you have a better day.
I'm sorry, but do renters not have any rights in California? Here in Massachusetts, it is an insanely difficult and lengthy process for a landlord to evict a tenant. I know this for a fact, as my father-in-law owns several rental properties and has a really bad habit of accepting unsavory tenants.
From what I read, it sounds like the landlords are exploiting a loophole in the law. Where I live we also have very strong protections for renters, they wouldn't be able to do that here.
Oh no! They caused the house you bought a while ago to have a massive increase in value! Those bastards!
People renting the house that get evicted because someone else will pay 3x as much don't have any equity in the house. The landlords are making out, yeah. The renters, not so much.
I'm just curious where exactly you think the tech workers SHOULD live if you think this is an issue.
I'm not taking sides in this, I don't even live in California. I was pointing out what the issues are that people are protesting because someone asked.
So they're being too eco-friendly with the bus rides? Or everyone's jealous about the benefits? Or public transportation isn't crowded enough? I don't get it but I have the sneaking suspicion that these people are morons.
One issue is that they are using the existing network of bus stops, but they don't contribute anything to the city. Workers wait at the existing bus stops, the private buses stop there, but the private buses do not pay any additional tax or anything that would be associated with maintaining the public transport network.
The other issue is that, since all of the young high-paid workers are living in the city instead of near work, they have driven up prices to the point that existing residents can no longer afford to live there. In some cases, landlords have evicted existing paying residents simply because they would be able to get more rent from someone else. Apparently there is some law or ordinance that gives the landlords power to do that, so people are protesting against that also.
They basically want the companies to contribute to the public transportation infrastructure, and they would also really appreciate it if people working for those companies stopped offering so much money for housing within the city. That second one is probably not likely to happen.
[Ceres] is a rock–ice body 950 km (590 mi) in diameter and the smallest identified dwarf planet. It contains about one-third of the mass of the asteroid belt.
You're in the asteroid belt? You are the asteroid belt!
I'm not sure what the license actually says, so I'm not sure if they expressly disallow people from making changes or not. Practically, they couldn't do that, if they are distributing the code then people are able to change it. It might not make sense to change it if you're just going to update at some point in the future, but it's a possibility.
Anyway, the reason I kept posting things like that was because people kept referring to the software as "closed-source" or something like that, when it's not. The source is open, it's just not free. The major difference between vBulletin and any other open-source PHP project is the license, that's it. It's open-source software that isn't free (both kinds).