You know, there are a lot of things that I hate when I got to movies, including but not limited to cell phones going off, people talking loudly, people who go to the bathroom too often, people who eat loudly, people who put there feet up, etc etc. All of these things could be prevented in one way or another.
However, I lack that feeling of self-importance that the entire movie theater revolves around my experience. If someone's cell phone goes off, fine. If they answer it or if it goes off again I politely ask them to get out of the theater. If someone eats too loudly, not much you can do there but tell them, because your food jammer hasn't come in the mail yet. If people are talking, ask them to stop because you can't legally duct tape their mouths shut yet. Jamming cell phones is just an unneeded cost to stop something that isn't even the most common or distracting thing that happens(at least at any movie I've ever seen). If someone does something you don't like, tell them about it, don't sit around thinking about a preemptive strike to try and control other people. Try being assertive, it works even on problems that technology can't solve.
I have personally yet to meet a drug dealer where selling drugs was not their primary, if not only, source of income. The closest thing to exceptions were a couple that held down day jobs at supermarkets or the like as a cover because they were worried about the IRS asking how they pay rent.
You think there's only a few beneficial areas for speed limit enforcement because you can't imagine how a large section of the population would drive if there were no speed limits and no enforcement. I live in a metropolitan area, and I would argue that most places you can drive just about as safely at 5-10 over as you can at the speed limit, I would also say that I'd be driving closer to 10-20 over if I knew I'd never get a ticket because the speed limit isn't worth enforcing in that area. Speed traps are a revenue stream, but they also serve to keep a lot of people honest, or reasonably close to it.
This coming from someone who has spent almost as much on speeding tickets as he did on his car.
Funny, that sounds like the salespeople where I work, all of whom have been out of school for many years, they simply talk like idiots because from their experience that's how you talk to people who don't understand technology and furthermore stupid simplifications are what PHB's love to here.
However, if you think that's bad, talk to people who have never been required to write or speak in an academic setting in their lives. If I see anymore computers plugged in with "power chords" or emails asking me to ask someone "do he need it" I'm going to be sad.
Not that it's a completely valid measure of societies collective intelligence, but when I play Trivial Pursuit from the 70s I laugh at how easy the science questions are. It's the sort of things I learned in 8th grade at an underfunded public middle school, not the type of stuff I'd expect in TP.
I haven't read one post up to this point that has said anything other than that she is flat guilty, but that the punishment was completely unfitting of the crime. I didn't see anyone claiming that OJ is a murderer but they should have let him off the hook.
You can also use it to do al sorts of problematic things like turn off wireless support for laptops just to name one. I have to wonder if what happened there was the fault of nLite or the fault of someone tweaking knobs they shouldn't have. Any tool is dangerous in the hands of someone who doesn't know enough to know they don't know enough.
A lot of people buy their tickets early, at face value, and would never consider paying scalper prices. A lot of other people don't bother and are willing to pay far far more. Raising the cost of tickets might force out 3rd parties, but it would, in many cases lead to fewer people buying tickets and thus less profit overall. There are probably very highly paid people working that sort of thing out.
I've heard to it refered to (and many other unrelated theories as well) as the "Broken Window" theory.
Basically, if a window is broken and no one fixes it then no one will care if two or three windows are broken. If those windows are broken what's one peice off trash on the ground? If people see trash on the ground already they don't feel bad adding anything too it and so on until the neighborhood is in disrepair and no one wants to live there.
WIsh I knew what schools you're talking about, probably would have helped my calculus grade.
The closest I've ever seen is students getting partial credit for some of their work, as in, if a problem requires multiple steps and formulas and you screw it up half way through and end up with a wrong answer you may still garner yourself half points or a third points.
That's not to say that there aren't all sorts of things similar, such as being forced to grade in purple rather than red becuase red makes children feel bad, but I've never seen that kind of "correctness relativism" in math.
My first guess is that if it's a call center or similar service center they wanted a base station full of employees that American callers are more likely to feel comfortable with. We've seen plenty of stories about companies putting their call centers in the midwest or in oregon because they sound friendly and comforting to American callers, why wouldn't an Indian company with a lot of state side customers do the same?
You're mistaking constitutionally protected freedom of speech with the inherent human right of expression. Censoring this comic was not unconstitutional, it was spineless.
One reason may be the metal reflecting wall that encloses the florescent bulbs behind the screen as well as many having circuit boards that run behind large portions of the screen. You'd need some sort of reflective/transparent casing for that as well as finding a way to stash more boards and wiring out of the way. I also don't think natural lighting would be very effective. As someone who spends a lot of time with piles of laptop screens, they seem very opaque to ambient light, those fluorescents seem like they'd have a lot more power unless you put the screen directly between you and a sunny window.
1) The kids with their overpriced and overpowered subs are the behavioral equivalent of you in your youth. The goal is different but the mindset of lusting over ever better and more unattainable with your friends is the same. Sadly the technology is far too affordable and effective at producing nothing but bass and that's why I have less distraction living next to the airport than living across from the high school.
2) Low end sound quality has also improved. The gap between absolute crap and super high end still exists, but most people aren't working with the lower extreme. Mid-range systems that are just fine for casual listening are cheap and readily available.
The kind we have and that I've heard of in many places so I would assume are somewhat common there is no incomplete or light and dark. When you go in you are given a black marker, you draw a line between two end of an arrow so when you're done your ballot is a series of thick black arrows pointing to your choices. You can fill them out accurately as fast as you can read the ballot and honestly anyone who can't draw a line or somehow manages to fill it out with a pencil would break any system you throw at them.
AT&T (and in our area SBC before the buyout) for all their evil has never done much of anything to slow down my downloading. I haven't even gotten any cease and desist letters like my friends with the local cable monopoly.
Agreed. Throwing them directly at walls or leaving them on the floor of my car to be stepped on sometimes causes problems, but just putting them in a piles had never left me with an unreadable disc.
If I had mod points and hadn't already posted I'd mod you up.
KInd of puts all the whining and cries of foul play (especially the ones that specifically say "cheated") into perspective. If Kasparov knew what he was getting into he can't complain about the outcome.
According to Kasparov he believes that a human player actually made that move behind the scenes, and was in fact controlling the whole thing with help of a computer not the other way around.
I think if you're playing against a computer that not only calculates movies to an incredible depth but also uses a variety of pattern recognitions (which, as I understand is where it's all headed because it's much faster) find a computer that doesn't fall into "the trap that all computers fall into" isn't that exciting.
Moore has also been fighting with Sanje Gupta from CNN about his (Moore's) practice of comparing numbers from different years and different studies even when more comparable numbers are available because his cherry-picked ones make a better point.
It's a pricy lesson, but I can't blame AT&T (as much as I love to, even though my DSL service is more reliable than ever) for this. He bought a $600 phone, was given a proce quote before he left, wracked up a huge bill through his own ignorance, and then cried fowl when they tried to collect on it.
Is it fair that they have it locked down? Not nice, but fair.
Was their billing fair? They have better rates for blackberries, but that's not an issue, it's not like they charged him without his knowledge, gave him false estimates, or anything of that sort.
He got lucky that AT&T let him out of it. There are plenty of people in America who have wrung up huge SMS bills, or blown thousands on ringtones and background and they aren't getting out of it. The route is all the same, carelessness and ignorance.
Any nation that seeks to put itself above others will eventually not be. What a fabulous non-statement. Every monarchy will eventually end! Every nation with an A in the title will end! All of those statements are just as true as yours, it doesn't take much. Up to this point we haven't seen anything that qualifies as forever but there have been plenty who made pretty good runs, and they were not the meek and complacent.
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You know, there are a lot of things that I hate when I got to movies, including but not limited to cell phones going off, people talking loudly, people who go to the bathroom too often, people who eat loudly, people who put there feet up, etc etc. All of these things could be prevented in one way or another.
However, I lack that feeling of self-importance that the entire movie theater revolves around my experience. If someone's cell phone goes off, fine. If they answer it or if it goes off again I politely ask them to get out of the theater. If someone eats too loudly, not much you can do there but tell them, because your food jammer hasn't come in the mail yet. If people are talking, ask them to stop because you can't legally duct tape their mouths shut yet. Jamming cell phones is just an unneeded cost to stop something that isn't even the most common or distracting thing that happens(at least at any movie I've ever seen). If someone does something you don't like, tell them about it, don't sit around thinking about a preemptive strike to try and control other people. Try being assertive, it works even on problems that technology can't solve.
I have personally yet to meet a drug dealer where selling drugs was not their primary, if not only, source of income. The closest thing to exceptions were a couple that held down day jobs at supermarkets or the like as a cover because they were worried about the IRS asking how they pay rent.
You think there's only a few beneficial areas for speed limit enforcement because you can't imagine how a large section of the population would drive if there were no speed limits and no enforcement. I live in a metropolitan area, and I would argue that most places you can drive just about as safely at 5-10 over as you can at the speed limit, I would also say that I'd be driving closer to 10-20 over if I knew I'd never get a ticket because the speed limit isn't worth enforcing in that area. Speed traps are a revenue stream, but they also serve to keep a lot of people honest, or reasonably close to it.
This coming from someone who has spent almost as much on speeding tickets as he did on his car.
Funny, that sounds like the salespeople where I work, all of whom have been out of school for many years, they simply talk like idiots because from their experience that's how you talk to people who don't understand technology and furthermore stupid simplifications are what PHB's love to here.
However, if you think that's bad, talk to people who have never been required to write or speak in an academic setting in their lives. If I see anymore computers plugged in with "power chords" or emails asking me to ask someone "do he need it" I'm going to be sad.
Not that it's a completely valid measure of societies collective intelligence, but when I play Trivial Pursuit from the 70s I laugh at how easy the science questions are. It's the sort of things I learned in 8th grade at an underfunded public middle school, not the type of stuff I'd expect in TP.
Milwaukee is the 11th largest in the US. Madison is not, but then again I know plenty of people who got Wiis here months ago.
I haven't read one post up to this point that has said anything other than that she is flat guilty, but that the punishment was completely unfitting of the crime. I didn't see anyone claiming that OJ is a murderer but they should have let him off the hook.
Try again.
You can also use it to do al sorts of problematic things like turn off wireless support for laptops just to name one. I have to wonder if what happened there was the fault of nLite or the fault of someone tweaking knobs they shouldn't have. Any tool is dangerous in the hands of someone who doesn't know enough to know they don't know enough.
Depends on the show.
A lot of people buy their tickets early, at face value, and would never consider paying scalper prices. A lot of other people don't bother and are willing to pay far far more. Raising the cost of tickets might force out 3rd parties, but it would, in many cases lead to fewer people buying tickets and thus less profit overall. There are probably very highly paid people working that sort of thing out.
I've heard to it refered to (and many other unrelated theories as well) as the "Broken Window" theory.
Basically, if a window is broken and no one fixes it then no one will care if two or three windows are broken. If those windows are broken what's one peice off trash on the ground? If people see trash on the ground already they don't feel bad adding anything too it and so on until the neighborhood is in disrepair and no one wants to live there.
WIsh I knew what schools you're talking about, probably would have helped my calculus grade.
The closest I've ever seen is students getting partial credit for some of their work, as in, if a problem requires multiple steps and formulas and you screw it up half way through and end up with a wrong answer you may still garner yourself half points or a third points.
That's not to say that there aren't all sorts of things similar, such as being forced to grade in purple rather than red becuase red makes children feel bad, but I've never seen that kind of "correctness relativism" in math.
My first guess is that if it's a call center or similar service center they wanted a base station full of employees that American callers are more likely to feel comfortable with. We've seen plenty of stories about companies putting their call centers in the midwest or in oregon because they sound friendly and comforting to American callers, why wouldn't an Indian company with a lot of state side customers do the same?
You're mistaking constitutionally protected freedom of speech with the inherent human right of expression. Censoring this comic was not unconstitutional, it was spineless.
One reason may be the metal reflecting wall that encloses the florescent bulbs behind the screen as well as many having circuit boards that run behind large portions of the screen. You'd need some sort of reflective/transparent casing for that as well as finding a way to stash more boards and wiring out of the way. I also don't think natural lighting would be very effective. As someone who spends a lot of time with piles of laptop screens, they seem very opaque to ambient light, those fluorescents seem like they'd have a lot more power unless you put the screen directly between you and a sunny window.
Two things to consider.
1) The kids with their overpriced and overpowered subs are the behavioral equivalent of you in your youth. The goal is different but the mindset of lusting over ever better and more unattainable with your friends is the same. Sadly the technology is far too affordable and effective at producing nothing but bass and that's why I have less distraction living next to the airport than living across from the high school. 2) Low end sound quality has also improved. The gap between absolute crap and super high end still exists, but most people aren't working with the lower extreme. Mid-range systems that are just fine for casual listening are cheap and readily available.
The kind we have and that I've heard of in many places so I would assume are somewhat common there is no incomplete or light and dark. When you go in you are given a black marker, you draw a line between two end of an arrow so when you're done your ballot is a series of thick black arrows pointing to your choices. You can fill them out accurately as fast as you can read the ballot and honestly anyone who can't draw a line or somehow manages to fill it out with a pencil would break any system you throw at them.
AT&T (and in our area SBC before the buyout) for all their evil has never done much of anything to slow down my downloading. I haven't even gotten any cease and desist letters like my friends with the local cable monopoly.
Welcome to our one month of "summer" in Wisconsin.
Oh how I long for a dry heat...
Agreed. Throwing them directly at walls or leaving them on the floor of my car to be stepped on sometimes causes problems, but just putting them in a piles had never left me with an unreadable disc.
If I had mod points and hadn't already posted I'd mod you up.
KInd of puts all the whining and cries of foul play (especially the ones that specifically say "cheated") into perspective. If Kasparov knew what he was getting into he can't complain about the outcome.
According to Kasparov he believes that a human player actually made that move behind the scenes, and was in fact controlling the whole thing with help of a computer not the other way around.
I think if you're playing against a computer that not only calculates movies to an incredible depth but also uses a variety of pattern recognitions (which, as I understand is where it's all headed because it's much faster) find a computer that doesn't fall into "the trap that all computers fall into" isn't that exciting.
Moore has also been fighting with Sanje Gupta from CNN about his (Moore's) practice of comparing numbers from different years and different studies even when more comparable numbers are available because his cherry-picked ones make a better point.
It's a pricy lesson, but I can't blame AT&T (as much as I love to, even though my DSL service is more reliable than ever) for this. He bought a $600 phone, was given a proce quote before he left, wracked up a huge bill through his own ignorance, and then cried fowl when they tried to collect on it. Is it fair that they have it locked down? Not nice, but fair.
Was their billing fair? They have better rates for blackberries, but that's not an issue, it's not like they charged him without his knowledge, gave him false estimates, or anything of that sort.
He got lucky that AT&T let him out of it. There are plenty of people in America who have wrung up huge SMS bills, or blown thousands on ringtones and background and they aren't getting out of it. The route is all the same, carelessness and ignorance.
Any nation that seeks to put itself above others will eventually not be. What a fabulous non-statement. Every monarchy will eventually end! Every nation with an A in the title will end! All of those statements are just as true as yours, it doesn't take much. Up to this point we haven't seen anything that qualifies as forever but there have been plenty who made pretty good runs, and they were not the meek and complacent.
Good thing everyone disregarded that wacky Theodor Geisel too.