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OriginalGriff wrote: Think Detroit
When was the last time you were here??
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Gawd! 12, 15 years ago maybe? But I hear it has gone downhill a lot since then...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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I'm not sure "downhill" is sufficient to describe the decline.
I think you may have just given Manchester an unfustified bad name. 
If you leave "downtown" proper, it goes bad, really bad, really fast.
Have look at the abandoned buildings around here[^]. Note the collasped roofs... It's like this all up and down Gratiot, and pretty much everywhere else.
StreetView doesn't do it justice. You have to experience it in person to get the full effect.
The area around Gratiot and Conner[^] is the second most dangerous 'hood in the entire country. Don't look at what's directly on Gratiot or now nice the grass appears to be from up high. Look around in the subdivisions, get down to street view.
A really nice example of what's happening here can be found in the trees just south of this intersection. Trees and streets, but no houses. The GoogleMaps car didn't go in there for a reason. It used to be a subdivision, but was cut off from the streets by newish businesses that were built later.
Looking around you'll see empty lots covered in grass. Those used to be houses, all (eventually) demolished, but they're pretty much surrounded by more abandoned houses. For example...[^]
All the grass you see around here[^] used to be filled with houses crammed together so tight there was only about 5 feet of space between them. Oh, and the school in there (top center of map) is also abandoned.
And that's just a small sampling of the East side. The West side of Detroit is worse. This[^] area holds the title for the most dangerous 'hood in the country. Here, the chances of you landing in the hospital, or worse, are 1 in 7.
What's Manchester got on this? 
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You make Manchester look like Sydney
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If you accept remote work, i may take it...
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Nope it's office base I'm afraid.
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He's probably wearing a tinfoil hat as well.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Might be friends with John McAfee too 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Would YOU trust Microsoft, even if you worked there?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Been advised to repost here.
I am sure some of you will get upset by this OT post, but I am trying to reach coders with knowledge about numerical processing in C/C++.
I am a beginner in this form of computing, presently trying to implement FFT in signal detection and processing.
I am no mathematician and have trouble transferring mathematical formulas to code.
I am presently looking for some reasonable text(book) to learn about the numerical computing.
I have found this source “Numerical Recipes in C” but I am not sure if that is a good starting point for me.
I am not looking for specific processing library, I just want someplace to start learning.
Thanks for understanding
Cheers
Vaclav
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Note: this is not intended as a statement of political opinion, a denouncement, an endorsement, a fatwa, a bill of excommunication, a fluorescent wriggling pedipalp on a lure designed for troll-fishing, a poison-pill, or a paean. It's meant to be simply another footnote to the on-going encyclopedia of the surreal that every culture updates every nanohertz.
"HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius compared the exchanges to Apple products. The tech company doesn't just abandon its products if they have glitches - it improves them with updates, she pointed out to health care reporters yesterday. "No one is calling on Apple to not sell devices for a year or two or get out of the business because the whole thing is a failure. Everybody assumes [if] there's a problem, [Apple will] fix it and move on." [^].
That's U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sibelius, speaking of the roll-out of ObamaCare.
"Hello, you have reached Universal Health Care Exchange 3.0, now featuring the Turbo blur-reduction filter for 300% faster assitance for your stupid, incoherent, vague, whinging, concerns. Please press pound-sign nine to continue."
#9
"Hello, you have reached the products and services dispatch center 2.3 beta: our monitors show your respirator is running an outdated version of iOS; we can be of assistance to you by first helping you upgrade iOS. If that is convenient, please press #1; if that is not convenient, or this is an emergency, please press #0."
#0
"Hello, you have reached HHS Emergency Services version 1.123: our monitors show your respirator is running an outdated version of iOS; we can be of assistance to you by first helping you upgrade iOS. If that is convenient, please press #1; if that is not convenient, or this is an emergency, please press #0."
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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People will use popular references that they know of, and that their intended audience know of.
I can imagine that in a few years politician will use other kind of popular references.
I'd rather be phishing!
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BillWoodruff wrote: The tech company doesn't just abandon its products if they have glitches - it improves them with updates
Er, yeah[^].
apple, like all tech companies, drops products that aren't selling, and only "improves them with updates" if they're selling.
Nice of her to admit to her level of knowledge, of both the industry and the real world, though.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Unfortunately... the comparison neglects to realize the gov't controls one, while the private sector controls the other... big big difference.
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Her analogy has a fatal flaw... Apple doesn't tax you if you don't buy their product or a competitors.
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But Apple fanboys look at you with a disapproving glare. That's almost the same as a tax, right? It certainly taxes my patience... 
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Only if you care what they think. Otherwise it's just an interesting exercise in watching people think that feeling smug actually makes them superior.
Personally, I take the Mr T approach. You know, pity the fool..
Plugging an android into a telly to watch a movie from the memory card usually presents an opportunity to ask - "Really? What do you mean that's neat? Cant yours do that too?"
I know, I know. Its a guilty pleasure. :smirk:
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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enhzflep wrote: people think that feeling smug actually makes them superior.
Nope... just makes them look like fools.
Case in point:
enhzflep wrote: Plugging an android into a telly to watch a movie from the memory card usually presents an opportunity to ask - "Really? What do you mean that's neat? Cant yours do that too?"
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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That, sir, deserves a 5.
I guess I walked right into that one. 
Yet another testimony to my foolishness. No wonder I bought an android.
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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It's just like the TARDIS.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Is the job section still around here, I'm looking for a developer but want the circumvent the cowboys agencies in the first instance.
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Nope. It got pulled a while back.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So am I free to advertise with out fear of retribution 
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