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My job plight is not really an issue anymore(!) I have got a role with quite a large company starting the 24th(! ). The problem with a lot of recruiters is they are told X for so many years, Y for so many years, Z for a couple of months. They don't userstand X, Y & Z so you can get discounted for a role which you would be ideal for. My attendance in the PUB can be blamed on Nagy. I got totally frustrated and almost took a role removing rats from Arcade machines. So yeah the Pub served nice ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and took some strain off. It does seem that recurters in general are special, the chances were you were talking with one of them who's English is a second or third language!
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: ... one of them who's English is a second or third language!
Oh, the irony! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I was using the UKs perogitive with English, we invented it, exported it, now we don't know how to use it!
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I'm never ever going to deal with another recruiter.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: I wanted to see that image from the window of space ship when I was 5!
I still do, and I'm 10x+4 that age!
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Yesterday I slipped when getting out of the bathtub and almost did the salto mortale. I managed to avoid breaking any bones or banging my head, but I landed on my starboard nacelle that had to swallow the entire impact.
Now I have a beautiful concussion, shaded in every possible shade of green and blue and look forward to yet another day of sitting on it in the office.
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And I thought you were going to post about the Nika riots... 
I hope you feel better soon.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hang on, what are you calling your nacelle there? Your head? You mentioned a concussion? It that why you're planning to sit on your head?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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A bruised bum is not a concussion ... unless you're brain is ... down there.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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BillWoodruff wrote: A bruised bum is not a concussion ... unless you're brain is ... down there.
1. I know some women that would beg to differ
2. there's the "little head" nearby the 'bottom' - might have gotten whiplashed
3. and the old quote "sh*t for brains."
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Yes, that describes it very well. By now, the pain is almost gone and the colors are fading, so it's probably ok.
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I have a good handle on the particulars of audio file formats, but I am completely out of element when it comes to video. I have noticed that MP4 files are rendered in icon view with a screenshot (perhaps the first frame?), but FLV files do not, so all things being equal, I would prefer to have my videos in MP4 format.
I did a conversion using WinFF, and it seems that the only choice I have is something called H.264 compression, with "very high quality". A 10 MB FLV file converted to a 3 MB MP4 file, but the quality was definitely degraded, which would be expected for such a smaller file due to the entropy. Is it simply impossible to get a good conversion? I don't mind having a larger file as disk space is super dirt cheap these days. Perhaps the problem is that WinFF isn't very good?
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WinFF is just a GUI for FFMPEG, which does support a lossless mode (and slightly less extreme options), but maybe not through WinFF which has its own ideas about presets and so on.
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Try ffmpeg -i input.flv -c copy -copyts output.mp4 to change container, if that doesn't work you can try to reencode using ffmpeg -i input.flv -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a libfaac -q:a 100 output.mp4
More info here[^]
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Man Dies After Being Hit in Face by Firework | NBC Chicago[^]
Quote: One witness who saw the incident said he was handling a large cylindrical firework called a mortar and was with children at the time of his death.
"He wanted to shoot one of these mortar fireworks and the fuse looked like it wasn't working right and he stuck his face over it,"
Read this in the paper today, WTF.
And yes, I'm the only curmudgeon on my block who was not playing with fireworks.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: the only curmudgeon on my block who was not playing with fireworks
That's just un-American.
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Perhaps!
I maintain that it's the positive outcome of having a small firecracker blow up in my hand as a 13 year old.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But the poem doesn't work as well with your celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it day! 
Quote: November the fifth July the fourth has come and gone,
But memories still linger.
I held a banger firecracker in my hand;
Has anyone seen my finger?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: who was not playing with fireworks.
That's exactly the point... they are not toys, they are mini bombs and "playing with" is the last one should do.
I am from one place where fireworks have a lot of traidition. We learn very soon as child that is fascinating but on the same time... that it is serious and one should always have respect and use the brain when firing them.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: ...one should always...use the brain...
If only!
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Nelek wrote: ...one should always have respect and use the brain when firing them.
That would take all the fun away from the Darwin awards candidates. Can't have that - we needs our click-bait!
(Just joking - if I never come across another article about such foolish behavior I would not be lesser for it.)
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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CodeProject
Falls under the category of "cute": nice but useless.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Hmmm, actually could be useful...
bubble the company site, add a nice big heading so they know what it is, recolonise to darker/duller colours and add a meaningless score at the bottom, i.e. "Score: 10.3%, Rating: Dull."
Without being seen place copes on the conference room table just before the next marketing meeting.
- it'll keep them going for at least a day and best of all distract them from any of their own stupid ideas for products.
Sin tack
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