I've been laid-off (from a job I loved) and it didn't hurt a bit. Had a few months off, worked on some independent projects, then eventually got another job. The independent work eventually paid off, and I've since moved onto an even better gig (a job I even love more and even better pay).
I find the whole working at one company very boring. You get much better experience and knowledge working through different jobs and different situations.
There are many things that "the scientists" don't agree on. They certainly don't all agree on Al Gores take on it, and they don't all agree on the "Day after tomorrow's" take on it. They also don't all agree on how to fix it, or if it even can be "fixed".
Sure, man is having an impact on things, but, should we waste billions of dollars building C02 capturing plants or cover the earth with a sun shield?
Are people driving around in Hybrid cars/helping/ things? Well, no, they are still hurting, maybe even more.
If you don't want to have an impact on the planet, you shouldn't be living or breathing.
Turkey is not going to make it into the EU anytime soon.
I was just there 3 weeks ago. While many things are progressive, the country still lacks many of the standards that EU member states enjoy.
The streets are horrible. They burned trash right in the open in the street. The city, Istanbul, just smelled horrible. There was plenty of swindling tourists.
Look at the ideastorm homepage. It's almost all opensource and/or linux posts. If they were censoring, there wouldn't be any. Maybe they just deleted a duplicate post?
I somehow doubt they will be able to pack the full goodness of photoshop into an online site.
One of the best ones I have seen so far is lunapic.com. It's got all the basic edits, lots of effects, and it's pretty fast too.
I doubt that most of that is human generated. Probably most those 700k you would call space dust. There is nothing we can do about that.. only make the things we send up tough enough to withstand impact with the small stuff.
Actually, Yahoo did do this to me. Deleting many years worth of my email. At the time, I was a PREMIUM member, paying for my 25 megs of storage.
The claimed that I deleted it, ( though, there is no mass delete ) and that there was no way to recover it. It was their error resulting from some upgrade.
The fact is, paying for email doesn't necessarily mean you get backups or better service.
It's well known that setting a low or no reserve on the item can net you a higher price in the end. The main reason for this is people get caught up in the action when the price is low, then turn it into a game to win the item.
Well, it's impossible to detect well done shill bidding. I think it's dumb to bid on commodity items in ebay. If you see an item you want, you just bid the price on it you'd be willing to pay. If it goes above that, oh well, the seller loses your business. The half.com environment is much better for stuff that should be fixed price.. and it's much better for the buyer to compare prices.
If you buy something and don't get it, I'd call that getting ripped off. That's pretty common, but just look at the seller rating, and if the deal is "too good to be true".
The fixing auctions, with shill bidders on the other hand, isn't as bad in my book. Just don't pay more than you want to pay for it. This is the sellers way of saying they don't want to sell it for less. Getting "caught up" in an auction for a common item is just dumb.
Just stick to the fixed price items, or just set your bid once (at the price want to pay for it) for the item you want. If you're bidding multiple times on an item, you're caught up in the game and have a problem.
I don't know about your particular problem, but other camera flaws have been fixed with processing.
For example, if your camera adds a vignette, you shoot a piece of white paper, then remove that shading from all the photos.
This is gives you an automatic, scriptable way to do that with ImageMagick:
uhg, the Buy/Google integration is pretty bad.
I've had problems with 3 google checkout orders. The main problem is that after you place the order, there is not a good integration with the order process system. This is fine for smaller companies, but for Buy.com, it's a disaster. For example, to cancel or return an item, it takes much longer to get a response through the google checkout than through the regular process. I'm still waiting for an Xmas gift replacement that was ordered in early Dec.. Two other items I've never gotten, they were canceled. With one of them, I only got partial credit.
None of these all in one devices seem to handle video in / out very well, or make good remotes. For all the example hardware they have listed for AMD Live, it's just a regular computer w/ a dvd burner and some special software.
Also missing from the list is what businesses are doing to us. I can't think of one thing on that list that directly affects me. However, there are numerous things that big companies are doing to us that directly affect me.
Disclosure of searches by aol, yahoo, etc.
Music industry invading our computers with root kits
Movie companies limiting our ability to play movies we own.
Insecurity at companies holding confidential data
About the only thing that the government has done, that has directly affected me, is increased security measures at airports. A minor inconvenience that has worked so far!
Well, the license plate checks are already getting much more automated.
I remember a few years ago in NYC seeing a guy in a car driving around typing in every single license plate # he could see. I'm sure it was just an insurance company thing to check for stolen/missing cars, but who knows how many things they check.
Of course, they have cameras that can read the plates now anyway, don't even need the guy. They can just mount a camera somewhere, or drive it around and map who and where everybody is.
They are refering to when a hybrid (non charging) goes into all electric mode. That is, the engine stops, and runs off the batteries that were charged during things like braking or idling. It also can come from running the engine at an idle RPM, while driving slower. It's/almost/ free energy, and it definitely should be considered when calculating the MPG. The EPA is not helping at all if they aren't testing real world type uses of the vehicle.
For highway, they should put in a gallon of gas and run the car at highway speeds.
For city, they should put in a gallon of gas and do stop and go traffic.
From what I hear, they don't actually even measure how much gas they put in the car!!!
I was just issued my new passport, and while it feels different than the old one, it doesn't have the new logo. As long as I don't lose my passport, I should be good and electronic free until 2016. Hopefully by then, they would have worked through any of those nasty security problems.
Since passports have such a long expiration date, most people won't have to worry about this for many years.
Yes, exactly. The article is completely inaccurate saying that it's global warming. It's on a delta, like the land of New Orleans. The islands are sinking and washing away.
Not the first either.
In this case, it's the PUBLISHER trying to trick the consumer. The advertiser is the one who is really tricked though, because they ultimately pay for the click.
Yes, I would think that your implementation would also be unacceptable. When you look at the purpose of your images, it is to draw attention to the ad. There is already a policy about not drawing undo attention to ads.
If you images were actually there for a reason, like clickable thumbnails of other comics, then, that would be a different story.
Since this practice is so wide spread, I think they'll only slowly act. They probably will only go after the people putting the images next to the ads first. However, if you really love your adsense account, I would seriously reconsider what you are doing.
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I find the whole working at one company very boring. You get much better experience and knowledge working through different jobs and different situations.
There are many things that "the scientists" don't agree on. They certainly don't all agree on Al Gores take on it, and they don't all agree on the "Day after tomorrow's" take on it. They also don't all agree on how to fix it, or if it even can be "fixed".
Sure, man is having an impact on things, but, should we waste billions of dollars building C02 capturing plants or cover the earth with a sun shield? Are people driving around in Hybrid cars /helping/ things? Well, no, they are still hurting, maybe even more.
If you don't want to have an impact on the planet, you shouldn't be living or breathing.
You have no idea what begging the question means. You're welcome to ask other questions though.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792 811497638&hl=en
It covers both the politicization of the issue, and many scientific facts ignored by global warming films.
Turkey is not going to make it into the EU anytime soon. I was just there 3 weeks ago. While many things are progressive, the country still lacks many of the standards that EU member states enjoy. The streets are horrible. They burned trash right in the open in the street. The city, Istanbul, just smelled horrible. There was plenty of swindling tourists.
Look at the ideastorm homepage. It's almost all opensource and/or linux posts. If they were censoring, there wouldn't be any. Maybe they just deleted a duplicate post?
I somehow doubt they will be able to pack the full goodness of photoshop into an online site. One of the best ones I have seen so far is lunapic.com. It's got all the basic edits, lots of effects, and it's pretty fast too.
I doubt that most of that is human generated. Probably most those 700k you would call space dust. There is nothing we can do about that.. only make the things we send up tough enough to withstand impact with the small stuff.
"After all, is it that much different (other than cost to the police) from tailing a person in an unmarked police vehicle? "
I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it.
Actually, Yahoo did do this to me. Deleting many years worth of my email. At the time, I was a PREMIUM member, paying for my 25 megs of storage. The claimed that I deleted it, ( though, there is no mass delete ) and that there was no way to recover it. It was their error resulting from some upgrade. The fact is, paying for email doesn't necessarily mean you get backups or better service.
It's well known that setting a low or no reserve on the item can net you a higher price in the end. The main reason for this is people get caught up in the action when the price is low, then turn it into a game to win the item.
Well, it's impossible to detect well done shill bidding. I think it's dumb to bid on commodity items in ebay. If you see an item you want, you just bid the price on it you'd be willing to pay. If it goes above that, oh well, the seller loses your business. The half.com environment is much better for stuff that should be fixed price.. and it's much better for the buyer to compare prices.
The fixing auctions, with shill bidders on the other hand, isn't as bad in my book. Just don't pay more than you want to pay for it. This is the sellers way of saying they don't want to sell it for less. Getting "caught up" in an auction for a common item is just dumb.
Just stick to the fixed price items, or just set your bid once (at the price want to pay for it) for the item you want. If you're bidding multiple times on an item, you're caught up in the game and have a problem.
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uhg, the Buy/Google integration is pretty bad. I've had problems with 3 google checkout orders. The main problem is that after you place the order, there is not a good integration with the order process system. This is fine for smaller companies, but for Buy.com, it's a disaster. For example, to cancel or return an item, it takes much longer to get a response through the google checkout than through the regular process. I'm still waiting for an Xmas gift replacement that was ordered in early Dec.. Two other items I've never gotten, they were canceled. With one of them, I only got partial credit.
Ok, so call it ignorance.
Water poisoning is the #1 killer of marathoners. It's certainly well known to some people.
None of these all in one devices seem to handle video in / out very well, or make good remotes. For all the example hardware they have listed for AMD Live, it's just a regular computer w/ a dvd burner and some special software.
About the only thing that the government has done, that has directly affected me, is increased security measures at airports. A minor inconvenience that has worked so far!
I remember a few years ago in NYC seeing a guy in a car driving around typing in every single license plate # he could see. I'm sure it was just an insurance company thing to check for stolen/missing cars, but who knows how many things they check.
Of course, they have cameras that can read the plates now anyway, don't even need the guy. They can just mount a camera somewhere, or drive it around and map who and where everybody is.
For highway, they should put in a gallon of gas and run the car at highway speeds.
For city, they should put in a gallon of gas and do stop and go traffic.
From what I hear, they don't actually even measure how much gas they put in the car!!!
I was just issued my new passport, and while it feels different than the old one, it doesn't have the new logo. As long as I don't lose my passport, I should be good and electronic free until 2016. Hopefully by then, they would have worked through any of those nasty security problems.
Since passports have such a long expiration date, most people won't have to worry about this for many years.
Yes, exactly. The article is completely inaccurate saying that it's global warming. It's on a delta, like the land of New Orleans. The islands are sinking and washing away. Not the first either.
In this case, it's the PUBLISHER trying to trick the consumer. The advertiser is the one who is really tricked though, because they ultimately pay for the click.
If you images were actually there for a reason, like clickable thumbnails of other comics, then, that would be a different story.
Since this practice is so wide spread, I think they'll only slowly act. They probably will only go after the people putting the images next to the ads first. However, if you really love your adsense account, I would seriously reconsider what you are doing.