From the breakage issues I've had with FedEx, I avoid them at all costs, especially on international shipments. LCD's in original box+bubble, cracked. Other packages, gouged, dented, shredded, etc
With UPS, my stuff arrives on time, but if it's incoming (US->Canada) then they hold it ransom at the border for *massive* duties + taxes. The taxes I have no problem paying, those go to the government, but the processing fees from UPS can be $25+ on a $100 item. The funny thing about those fees? I recently had UPS screw up and quote me one price, then charge my card another. Apparently the fees are based on the declared *value* of the item, so when they converted USD-CAD it came up in a higher bracket. I'm sorry, but nailing the recipient with an extra fee when you KNEW what it would be based on the declared value should be fraud, that thing was already paid for shipping at the Postal Outlet, so you KNEW how much it should cost. But "oh, I've got this shiny package here, but you can't have it unless you pay our blood money" seems to be the prevalent attitude.
It's too bad that USPS is having such issues in the US, but it seems strange to me, as when shipping between Canada->US, they've continuously been the best option for me. In cases where it does get delayed for duties/etc, it's usually just the straight tax and maybe $5 for processing, and my packages have never arrived broken that I can remember. Not to mention that for a comparable price, USPS Priority gets here faster, whereas UPS sends the damn thing ground on what's probably a moped.
That isn't to say, however, that they can't cause ruinous damage to your life, or even just provide said information to people that CAN put you in jail.
I'm not really so sure that the government needs the excuse of something in my supposedly "private" info to jail me, if they really wanted to I'm sure they could find some obscure law I've violated in some fashion, and at the very least drag me through court until I can afford to little except plead out.
Really, I don't either of them should have certain information about me. I don't need the government knowing who I'm dating, what my gender preference or religion is, etc, and I don't need Walmart knowing how often I buy rubbers or who I'm using them with, or either one knowing what computer stuff I buy on eBay or thinkgeek.
None of it's all that interesting, but who knows if they're going to come up with odd "patterns" because I buy some timers, capacitors and lawn fertilizer or whatever... not good. In my case it probably means I'm a geek setting up something to automatically monitor and water the daisies, but paranoia might add me to some weird watchlist the next time I go through the airport.
On the other hand if they want to know any of the crap I put up on facebook under the assumption that it's going to be public, go ahead. I worry more about what others might put up about me (which may or may not be true)/
Unless they found some other evidence during the investigation, I'd say that anything on the computer should have been automatically tossed out. It's pretty easy for said "hacker" to plant evidence on the computer of people he didn't like.
Still, as grounds for a proper search warrant it should be OK. If they find actual pictures or hard media (not the computer hard drive) then they could go for the conviction.
That's as long as - of course - the hacker wasn't working FOR the police, and also if he himself were caught they should prosecute him under wiretap etc laws...
You know, I hear this argument fairly often, and I still consider it really f*cking stupid. I'm from Canada, but we hear the same B.S. here, so let's get a few things straight:
a) There were no immigrations laws at that time. You can't be illegal if there's no fucking laws to break.
b) Yes, lots of terrible things happened, it doesn't mean that every "white man" shot a dozen indians in order to make claim on the "new world." Some did, but saying that all did is like saying all Germans are Nazis.
c) My ancestors moved here quite sometime after the early colonial days. They weren't trapping beavers and shooting natives, they came as legal immigrants to help do thinks like work mines, build railroads, etc
d) I work born in my home country, again legally, as a citizen.
So how the hell would you classify me as an immigrant? Also, as many people here have stated, it's not immigrants that are the problem (hell, my GF is one), it's illegal immigrants that functions as part of an essentially "underground society" because they aren't supposed to be there. This law unfortunately may have some affect on non-illegals too, which is the part that is stupid and sucks (and needs to be fixed, IMHO), but we don't need to bring the "white man who killed and pillaged" arguments around to deal with that.
Seriously. I have never to my knowledge harmed any indigenous person, but some people expect me to pay and/or feel guilty for it. While indigenous people's may warrant some support for those events that occurred, I myself deserve neither the debt of blame, guilt, nor any other exorbitant costs associated with such.
It does for a lot of laptops. That's why many companies seem to have - for example - a model that ends in -US or CA. The major model number on the top may say DX8200, but the stamp on the bottom is more specifically a DX8243CA...
I previously worked in a company that ran mostly on ad revenue. Ads are a lot more complicated than "show user a picture and/or text, wait for him to click and buy."
Most of them do things like:
a) Track impressions: How many times a given ad is shown. Advertisors pay for a given number in a given period of time
b) Tracks clicks (of course), and track which impressions lead to clicks which lead to sales
c) Note the general location of the user. Some ads only target users of a certain region. It doesn't make much sense to advertise a product only available in the US to some dude in Australia. Advertisers also want to know what areas are more or less interested in their product
d) Lots, lots more
Now if a company is dealing with third-party adservers, many issues come up when you run into certain unsavory types. Where I previously worked, we were quick to track them down and cut off that advertiser. Often enough it was an advertiser who in turn carried ads for another network (and so on) until somewhere along the line somebody slipped a bad one in. Just as often ads were blamed when it was actually a user with an infected computer (and the virus was showing ITS ads) or somebody had slipped in a naughty link somewhere with some script that got past validation.
And how would NYT track the content of a third-party. The third-party is being used specifically because they know more about handling ads than NYT, and they control what goes out?
You're saying that if a buisness could cut the wages of employees, keep the employees, it would then keep the money for itself, and all that would happen is the buisness would make more money? You're making a lot of huge assumptions there, that ITRW, would not happen.
Wow, your glasses must be a real special tint of rose. Look in any big city. One thing you'll find is plenty of immigrants who cannot work legally, or can but don't know their legal rights. And the employers will f*** with them as much as they can get away with. Not all employers, mind you, but enough to be substantial.
When I lived in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), my ex - who was a legal immigrant - had tons of job offers that were degradingly low for her skill level, and often illegally so. Heck, she had a lawyer offer her a job for a "daily rate" which was less than the legal minimum. Within the Asian/Indian community I found that there was tons of job-fraud going on. Companies that paid below minimum wage (and pocketed the difference), had illegal hours, required employees pay for all their work-required supplies/equipment (against the local laws), etc etc.
There will *always* be people in vulnerable situations that can be taken advantage of. Often enough these are immigrants (and not necessarily illegal ones), because they're unaware of the laws, or because they're willing to spend years in near-squalor locally to send what is decent-money in the homeland back to support their families. Companies do cheap out and cut wages when they can manage to avoid being caught because when one people finally gets fed up, there's another desperate person to fill his/her place. Eventually that deck of cards may fall, but in the meantime you're reporting that profits are up, the shareholders are happy, and you eventually get to float away on a golden parachute or quit before the sh*t hits the fan and leave it to the next sucker to deal with.
Apathy - Maybe ET simply doesn't give a f*** about humans. Maybe it doesn't even realize we're here. ET might be 2 stories tall, and come from a planet 100x the mass and size of earth. It might regard us as no more than we do ants, or - heck - not even notice us at all, and accidentally irradiate the planet when passing through. It might come to talk to whales or dolphins a-la-star-trek for all we matter. Or bugs, because it has more in common with them.
Disgust - It's a fairly common theme. ET is disgusted with the way humans live. Or feels we're too dangerous to let us grow to a period of advancement where we might be able to screw up the rest of the universe and not just our home-planet
Anger - An ET crash-lands and we pull apart the ship and dissect the bodies. Heck, we might not realize they are bodies. Maybe we kill ET's siblings by accident or ignorance. Either way, it doesn't win us brownie points
Religion - ET isn't coming to eat us, enslave us, or whatever such things. They're coming to enlighten us that Xoangf8an2 is the supreme philosophy of the universe. When we fail to understand, or balk at the principals/requirements of the religion,we must be eliminated.
Well, those are all the bad scenarios. Personally I'd be happier to think that ET would land in secret, and start slowly training, teaching, or converting select groups of humans. Heck, if you look at so called "aliens abductions" as them taking select humans to try and adapt them to the ways of the universe, learn from us, and have us learn from them (no anal probes thanks), then perhaps such things are so unlikely after all.
I don't have any US examples, but look up the case of "Irvin Leroux" in Canada. From my understanding of the case, Revenue Canada (Canuckian equivilent to the IRS) screwed up on his taxes and said he owed a whole bunch of back taxes. The bank backing his property panicked and rescinded his mortgage - which he couldn't pay back on an immediate basis - before it became a possible loss to them, and he lost it all.
I've heard of similar issues with renovations that the banks didn't approve of, and believes to be devaluing the property that they have stake in (though in those cases it's often the owner trying to do something dumb like renovations that don't meet code).
Another fun item on a mortgage is an "interest rate differential." The odds are - and always will be - stacked again you in favor of the big corps, but lets hope that Sony will go down for this one.
The upside to public employment is you've got to really suck to get fired.
Actually, it's a downside, especially if you're newer or lower on the ol' totem-pole. You might do 2x as much work as Bob in the next cubicle. Heck, he might goof off 80% of the day, but if there are cut-backs - and he's been there longer - guess who gets canned? Not to mention that your own work/stress load would probably be a lot less if you weren't also compensating for Bob's lack of effort.
Indeed. Canada suffers from similar issues, to the point where glorifying terrorists in public floats seems acceptable. Freedom of religion is one thing, but it seems that when it comes to conflicts with law or good sense, we err on the side of not offending said religions/beliefs. Sorry, but if your beliefs involve blowing up a plane (or marketplace, bus, subway, whatever) full of civilians, then you they don't belong here!
IMHO, feel free to wear what you want (except weapons). Read whatever book you want. Attend whatever ceremonies you want. But when it comes to violence or encroaching upon the peace/safety of others... law should trump religion.
I had tried to pick some base products that would translate over. I figured bread might be uncommon, but most of my Chinese friends drink milk so I had thought it might be comparable.
It seems that the pay-rate isn't terrible, then, with a day's work paying for a week's food. How about rent/housing, etc?
"15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week, for around 65 cents per hour"
That's about 4.6 Yuan per hour. Accord to wikianswers, that means you'd have to work about two hours to afford 1 quart of milk. WA also mentions the cost of bread being around $2.50, which - assuming somebody didn't use a $ to mean Yuan - is about 17 Yuan... over 2 days work?
I'm sure this varies somewhat by region, and rice is likely more common than bread, but if anyone from China could perhaps confirm a base price?
So how fair does that seem so far?
If people are working 15h days constantly, and napping at work, that's probably because they need to do so to get by or try to get ahead in life. IMHO, at a fair wage they should hopefully be able to work 8-10h days, and/or have 1-2 days off instead of 0-1.
I wonder how hard it would be to visit some of these factories (and where exactly they are). If I had the opportunity I'd love to drop in and share a little wealth with the workers. A few thousand bucks CAD or USD would probably go a decent distance.
While this situation doesn't seem quite the same, assuming that a virus or disease can't cross species isn't always a safe gamble. For example, see "mad cow disease", which crosses to humans, and is thought to have crossed to cows via their ingestion of proteins created from the ground remains of other animals. It may be a variant of scabies (from sheep).
How easy is it for a customer to obtain proof that they were or were not texting at a given time?
Texting might be a bit more difficult, but in terms of actual calls my bill has logs of the time, duration, and destination #. They record the amount of texts I've made for billing, and don't tell me when or to whom, but that may be information you could request or supeona.
If they're that good, then mention the company's NAME! Seriously, we're quick to jump on and tell about BAD companies, I would love to hear which ones are considered good in case they're available in my area.
Has anyone else notice that google's search is actually starting to become a bit spammed out? I love most of big G's services, but searching seems to have become somewhat of an abysmal exercise of hunt-and-dig through sites that are massively spamming for key-words. I'm not talking about those like experts-exchange either, but rather the thousands of throwaway-domains that pop up in the top search results (especially for less common searches, like programming stuff), yet other than spammed keywords, have NOTHING to do with what you were searching for.
Maybe Google needs some way to moderate/report sites that spam in this manner, so that their crawlers can take a bit more care with those domains, etc.
From about grade 3 through to the end of high school. I was "well known", but definitely not popular (mainly due to mouthing off the *wrong* individual early on when he tried to assert his dominance).
We're not talking just the usual name-calling crap either, but some rather extensive beatings that to this day have left small scars on the back of my head, and my two front teeth are a bit lower than they should be due to being punched in the face.
The GP was likely not the victim of such systematic torment, or is too old to remember being young. It's not just the events happening at the time, it's the steady flow of mind-and-mood adjusting chemicals that tends to lend towards all sorts of rapid swings of mood.
The funny thing is, I was more or less *voted* by the general populace to be most likely to go off the deep end, and yet I'm not one of those that ended up with scarred wrists, a nasty addiction, or any other such things. For all the torment, I just dove into other things that kept me distanced from the BS that was going on.
I still remember to this day being very, very confused when there was a period of about a week where everyone in school was being unusually nice to me. I couldn't figure it out until about 2-3 days in when somebody told me about the Columbine incident. It seemed odd to me, since I wasn't a trenchcoat wearer and had little interest in guns/weapons/violence.
So maybe my hobbies kept me sane, who knows. I did like games like quake, doom, etc, which may have help relieve frustrations (but really it was just fun to get out and compete with people on my level).
To those in similar situations, life gets much better after high school. In the meantime, get out on your bike or whatever, get some some, and a bit of exercise. Sun = vitamin D = happier. After high school, you will likely meet more friends of similar interests in college etc, and if you do something about poor self-maintenance, probably some girls as well. Try meeting girls as just friends. Don't try and get in their pants. You'll learn a lot.
Or, and stay away from drugs and excess. If you survived up until the end of high school, then things that mess up your mental state aren't likely to be all that helpful.
Or some nutball might come up with a way to target individuals with given genetic backgrounds for termination/sterilization etc. Einstein never anticipated the A-bomb, after all. Hopefully nobody will find a way to mis-use this technology
It's useful for looking up non-urban areas, seeing more of a "lay of the land" type of view, or taking not of geographical entities which aren't really as important to a road-map type system.
I find that maps are good in terms of transit, and earth is good in terms of terrain. I'd imagine that "Earth" might also be useful if used in making games, etc, such as a flight simulator.
It definitely does sound like we're in the same ballpark. I've been working from the "red book" and built a hierarchal class system for scene->object->element->face->vertex and camera, etc. My camera pitch rotation is a bit messed when it hits 180 but otherwise it was going well until life distracted me from the hobby-coding again. I'd love to trade ideas/assistance in porting the base GL code up to something like SDL or Ogre.
Email me ph3or7mix@ph6o8rmi1x.c3om. (Remove the numbers, it's obfuscated to reduce spam)
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From the breakage issues I've had with FedEx, I avoid them at all costs, especially on international shipments. LCD's in original box+bubble, cracked. Other packages, gouged, dented, shredded, etc
With UPS, my stuff arrives on time, but if it's incoming (US->Canada) then they hold it ransom at the border for *massive* duties + taxes. The taxes I have no problem paying, those go to the government, but the processing fees from UPS can be $25+ on a $100 item. The funny thing about those fees? I recently had UPS screw up and quote me one price, then charge my card another. Apparently the fees are based on the declared *value* of the item, so when they converted USD-CAD it came up in a higher bracket. I'm sorry, but nailing the recipient with an extra fee when you KNEW what it would be based on the declared value should be fraud, that thing was already paid for shipping at the Postal Outlet, so you KNEW how much it should cost. But "oh, I've got this shiny package here, but you can't have it unless you pay our blood money" seems to be the prevalent attitude.
It's too bad that USPS is having such issues in the US, but it seems strange to me, as when shipping between Canada->US, they've continuously been the best option for me. In cases where it does get delayed for duties/etc, it's usually just the straight tax and maybe $5 for processing, and my packages have never arrived broken that I can remember. Not to mention that for a comparable price, USPS Priority gets here faster, whereas UPS sends the damn thing ground on what's probably a moped.
That isn't to say, however, that they can't cause ruinous damage to your life, or even just provide said information to people that CAN put you in jail.
I'm not really so sure that the government needs the excuse of something in my supposedly "private" info to jail me, if they really wanted to I'm sure they could find some obscure law I've violated in some fashion, and at the very least drag me through court until I can afford to little except plead out.
Really, I don't either of them should have certain information about me. I don't need the government knowing who I'm dating, what my gender preference or religion is, etc, and I don't need Walmart knowing how often I buy rubbers or who I'm using them with, or either one knowing what computer stuff I buy on eBay or thinkgeek.
None of it's all that interesting, but who knows if they're going to come up with odd "patterns" because I buy some timers, capacitors and lawn fertilizer or whatever... not good. In my case it probably means I'm a geek setting up something to automatically monitor and water the daisies, but paranoia might add me to some weird watchlist the next time I go through the airport.
On the other hand if they want to know any of the crap I put up on facebook under the assumption that it's going to be public, go ahead. I worry more about what others might put up about me (which may or may not be true)/
Unless they found some other evidence during the investigation, I'd say that anything on the computer should have been automatically tossed out. It's pretty easy for said "hacker" to plant evidence on the computer of people he didn't like.
Still, as grounds for a proper search warrant it should be OK. If they find actual pictures or hard media (not the computer hard drive) then they could go for the conviction.
That's as long as - of course - the hacker wasn't working FOR the police, and also if he himself were caught they should prosecute him under wiretap etc laws...
You know, I hear this argument fairly often, and I still consider it really f*cking stupid. I'm from Canada, but we hear the same B.S. here, so let's get a few things straight:
a) There were no immigrations laws at that time. You can't be illegal if there's no fucking laws to break.
b) Yes, lots of terrible things happened, it doesn't mean that every "white man" shot a dozen indians in order to make claim on the "new world." Some did, but saying that all did is like saying all Germans are Nazis.
c) My ancestors moved here quite sometime after the early colonial days. They weren't trapping beavers and shooting natives, they came as legal immigrants to help do thinks like work mines, build railroads, etc
d) I work born in my home country, again legally, as a citizen.
So how the hell would you classify me as an immigrant? Also, as many people here have stated, it's not immigrants that are the problem (hell, my GF is one), it's illegal immigrants that functions as part of an essentially "underground society" because they aren't supposed to be there. This law unfortunately may have some affect on non-illegals too, which is the part that is stupid and sucks (and needs to be fixed, IMHO), but we don't need to bring the "white man who killed and pillaged" arguments around to deal with that.
Seriously. I have never to my knowledge harmed any indigenous person, but some people expect me to pay and/or feel guilty for it. While indigenous people's may warrant some support for those events that occurred, I myself deserve neither the debt of blame, guilt, nor any other exorbitant costs associated with such.
Thankfully, for most products this doesn't happen
It does for a lot of laptops. That's why many companies seem to have - for example - a model that ends in -US or CA. The major model number on the top may say DX8200, but the stamp on the bottom is more specifically a DX8243CA...
I previously worked in a company that ran mostly on ad revenue. Ads are a lot more complicated than "show user a picture and/or text, wait for him to click and buy."
Most of them do things like:
a) Track impressions: How many times a given ad is shown. Advertisors pay for a given number in a given period of time
b) Tracks clicks (of course), and track which impressions lead to clicks which lead to sales
c) Note the general location of the user. Some ads only target users of a certain region. It doesn't make much sense to advertise a product only available in the US to some dude in Australia. Advertisers also want to know what areas are more or less interested in their product
d) Lots, lots more
Now if a company is dealing with third-party adservers, many issues come up when you run into certain unsavory types. Where I previously worked, we were quick to track them down and cut off that advertiser. Often enough it was an advertiser who in turn carried ads for another network (and so on) until somewhere along the line somebody slipped a bad one in. Just as often ads were blamed when it was actually a user with an infected computer (and the virus was showing ITS ads) or somebody had slipped in a naughty link somewhere with some script that got past validation.
And how would NYT track the content of a third-party. The third-party is being used specifically because they know more about handling ads than NYT, and they control what goes out?
You're saying that if a buisness could cut the wages of employees, keep the employees, it would then keep the money for itself, and all that would happen is the buisness would make more money? You're making a lot of huge assumptions there, that ITRW, would not happen.
Wow, your glasses must be a real special tint of rose.
Look in any big city. One thing you'll find is plenty of immigrants who cannot work legally, or can but don't know their legal rights. And the employers will f*** with them as much as they can get away with. Not all employers, mind you, but enough to be substantial.
When I lived in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), my ex - who was a legal immigrant - had tons of job offers that were degradingly low for her skill level, and often illegally so. Heck, she had a lawyer offer her a job for a "daily rate" which was less than the legal minimum. Within the Asian/Indian community I found that there was tons of job-fraud going on. Companies that paid below minimum wage (and pocketed the difference), had illegal hours, required employees pay for all their work-required supplies/equipment (against the local laws), etc etc.
There will *always* be people in vulnerable situations that can be taken advantage of. Often enough these are immigrants (and not necessarily illegal ones), because they're unaware of the laws, or because they're willing to spend years in near-squalor locally to send what is decent-money in the homeland back to support their families. Companies do cheap out and cut wages when they can manage to avoid being caught because when one people finally gets fed up, there's another desperate person to fill his/her place. Eventually that deck of cards may fall, but in the meantime you're reporting that profits are up, the shareholders are happy, and you eventually get to float away on a golden parachute or quit before the sh*t hits the fan and leave it to the next sucker to deal with.
Well, those are all the bad scenarios. Personally I'd be happier to think that ET would land in secret, and start slowly training, teaching, or converting select groups of humans. Heck, if you look at so called "aliens abductions" as them taking select humans to try and adapt them to the ways of the universe, learn from us, and have us learn from them (no anal probes thanks), then perhaps such things are so unlikely after all.
Don't forget "OMG! RACISM!"
Unless it happens to be against Muslims, in which case these days it pretty much seems to get a pass...
I don't have any US examples, but look up the case of "Irvin Leroux" in Canada. From my understanding of the case, Revenue Canada (Canuckian equivilent to the IRS) screwed up on his taxes and said he owed a whole bunch of back taxes. The bank backing his property panicked and rescinded his mortgage - which he couldn't pay back on an immediate basis - before it became a possible loss to them, and he lost it all.
Here's another case with a car loan.
I've heard of similar issues with renovations that the banks didn't approve of, and believes to be devaluing the property that they have stake in (though in those cases it's often the owner trying to do something dumb like renovations that don't meet code).
Another fun item on a mortgage is an "interest rate differential." The odds are - and always will be - stacked again you in favor of the big corps, but lets hope that Sony will go down for this one.
The upside to public employment is you've got to really suck to get fired.
Actually, it's a downside, especially if you're newer or lower on the ol' totem-pole. You might do 2x as much work as Bob in the next cubicle. Heck, he might goof off 80% of the day, but if there are cut-backs - and he's been there longer - guess who gets canned? Not to mention that your own work/stress load would probably be a lot less if you weren't also compensating for Bob's lack of effort.
Indeed. Canada suffers from similar issues, to the point where glorifying terrorists in public floats seems acceptable. Freedom of religion is one thing, but it seems that when it comes to conflicts with law or good sense, we err on the side of not offending said religions/beliefs. Sorry, but if your beliefs involve blowing up a plane (or marketplace, bus, subway, whatever) full of civilians, then you they don't belong here!
IMHO, feel free to wear what you want (except weapons). Read whatever book you want. Attend whatever ceremonies you want. But when it comes to violence or encroaching upon the peace/safety of others... law should trump religion.
Just to clarify something. Curious, bored students might not have a lot of experience, but they probably do have a whole lot of time...
Thanks for clarifying!
I had tried to pick some base products that would translate over. I figured bread might be uncommon, but most of my Chinese friends drink milk so I had thought it might be comparable.
It seems that the pay-rate isn't terrible, then, with a day's work paying for a week's food. How about rent/housing, etc?
"15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week, for around 65 cents per hour"
That's about 4.6 Yuan per hour. Accord to wikianswers, that means you'd have to work about two hours to afford 1 quart of milk. WA also mentions the cost of bread being around $2.50, which - assuming somebody didn't use a $ to mean Yuan - is about 17 Yuan... over 2 days work?
I'm sure this varies somewhat by region, and rice is likely more common than bread, but if anyone from China could perhaps confirm a base price?
So how fair does that seem so far?
If people are working 15h days constantly, and napping at work, that's probably because they need to do so to get by or try to get ahead in life. IMHO, at a fair wage they should hopefully be able to work 8-10h days, and/or have 1-2 days off instead of 0-1.
I wonder how hard it would be to visit some of these factories (and where exactly they are). If I had the opportunity I'd love to drop in and share a little wealth with the workers. A few thousand bucks CAD or USD would probably go a decent distance.
While this situation doesn't seem quite the same, assuming that a virus or disease can't cross species isn't always a safe gamble. For example, see "mad cow disease", which crosses to humans, and is thought to have crossed to cows via their ingestion of proteins created from the ground remains of other animals. It may be a variant of scabies (from sheep).
How easy is it for a customer to obtain proof that they were or were not texting at a given time?
Texting might be a bit more difficult, but in terms of actual calls my bill has logs of the time, duration, and destination #. They record the amount of texts I've made for billing, and don't tell me when or to whom, but that may be information you could request or supeona.
If they're that good, then mention the company's NAME! Seriously, we're quick to jump on and tell about BAD companies, I would love to hear which ones are considered good in case they're available in my area.
Has anyone else notice that google's search is actually starting to become a bit spammed out? I love most of big G's services, but searching seems to have become somewhat of an abysmal exercise of hunt-and-dig through sites that are massively spamming for key-words. I'm not talking about those like experts-exchange either, but rather the thousands of throwaway-domains that pop up in the top search results (especially for less common searches, like programming stuff), yet other than spammed keywords, have NOTHING to do with what you were searching for.
Maybe Google needs some way to moderate/report sites that spam in this manner, so that their crawlers can take a bit more care with those domains, etc.
From about grade 3 through to the end of high school. I was "well known", but definitely not popular (mainly due to mouthing off the *wrong* individual early on when he tried to assert his dominance).
We're not talking just the usual name-calling crap either, but some rather extensive beatings that to this day have left small scars on the back of my head, and my two front teeth are a bit lower than they should be due to being punched in the face.
The GP was likely not the victim of such systematic torment, or is too old to remember being young. It's not just the events happening at the time, it's the steady flow of mind-and-mood adjusting chemicals that tends to lend towards all sorts of rapid swings of mood.
The funny thing is, I was more or less *voted* by the general populace to be most likely to go off the deep end, and yet I'm not one of those that ended up with scarred wrists, a nasty addiction, or any other such things. For all the torment, I just dove into other things that kept me distanced from the BS that was going on.
I still remember to this day being very, very confused when there was a period of about a week where everyone in school was being unusually nice to me. I couldn't figure it out until about 2-3 days in when somebody told me about the Columbine incident. It seemed odd to me, since I wasn't a trenchcoat wearer and had little interest in guns/weapons/violence.
So maybe my hobbies kept me sane, who knows. I did like games like quake, doom, etc, which may have help relieve frustrations (but really it was just fun to get out and compete with people on my level).
To those in similar situations, life gets much better after high school. In the meantime, get out on your bike or whatever, get some some, and a bit of exercise. Sun = vitamin D = happier.
After high school, you will likely meet more friends of similar interests in college etc, and if you do something about poor self-maintenance, probably some girls as well.
Try meeting girls as just friends. Don't try and get in their pants. You'll learn a lot.
Or, and stay away from drugs and excess. If you survived up until the end of high school, then things that mess up your mental state aren't likely to be all that helpful.
Or some nutball might come up with a way to target individuals with given genetic backgrounds for termination/sterilization etc. Einstein never anticipated the A-bomb, after all. Hopefully nobody will find a way to mis-use this technology
It's useful for looking up non-urban areas, seeing more of a "lay of the land" type of view, or taking not of geographical entities which aren't really as important to a road-map type system.
I find that maps are good in terms of transit, and earth is good in terms of terrain. I'd imagine that "Earth" might also be useful if used in making games, etc, such as a flight simulator.
It definitely does sound like we're in the same ballpark. I've been working from the "red book" and built a hierarchal class system for scene->object->element->face->vertex and camera, etc. My camera pitch rotation is a bit messed when it hits 180 but otherwise it was going well until life distracted me from the hobby-coding again. I'd love to trade ideas/assistance in porting the base GL code up to something like SDL or Ogre.
Email me ph3or7mix@ph6o8rmi1x.c3om. (Remove the numbers, it's obfuscated to reduce spam)
2D samples are great, and I see that the last touches on OpenGL, but does anyone know a place with some more in-depth tuts for SDL+GL?
If nobody buys the demos, then they won't figure out how shitty and bug-ridden the full version will likely be.