We always think we’ll get it out for some special occasion, we just haven’t hosted one ourselves in a while. We think we might after we settle from this move, but who knows.
They kind of died for a little while. I remember seeing Weird Al talking about how they didn’t make any music videos for one of his albums, I think mid-/late-’00s. Then when his next album came around YouTube had made them so important that they made some sort of video for every song on that album. They weren’t all fully produced like in the heyday of MTV, but they wanted to have something to upload.
I guess I had one or something like it when I first moved out. My parents gave it to me along with a matching dining table, all of which had been sitting in their basement. My wife wasn’t a fan of it and when we moved out of the house we listed it for sale, eventually selling it for a few hundred dollars, after sitting on the market for close to 2 months and dropping the price a few times.
My parents were upset when they found out; it turned out they had had that table custom made earlier in their marriage when they could finally afford new furniture. They said they would’ve bought it back for more than we got had they known. But a couple days later they begrudgingly realized they didn’t have room for that furniture and it wouldn’t have made sense for them to buy it.
A few years later they moved into a smaller home since all of us kids had been grown and moved out for years. As they tried to sell furniture and other things they weren’t going to have room for, it became depressing to them to see how little these things were worth that they had spent a lot of money on new. They had a set of china for each of us kids, one they bought or received as a wedding gift, others they had inherited from dead relatives. But it became apparent that we all preferred the same set, the one with the simplest design, yet it also was clear that we would only rarely, if ever, use the china and it’s largely a waste of space for any of us.
I think we might even have our set already, but we never use it and it’s not on display. If we have it it’s in the bottom cabinets of a console my wife loves. Also there are a couple very nice crystal bowls my uncle bought us, that my wife is almost terrified to get out of their box out of fear of breaking them. We understand they’re all nice items and expensive, but we might’ve preferred to have that money spent on things we’d get more use out of.
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I’d bet a lot of the people inside the marketing department knew it was stupid also but their job is to try to sell whatever the big bosses want them to.
Hershey is giving other candy/food manufacturers below-market deals on chocolate or above-market licensing deals to produce their chocolate candies in the USA so Americans don’t discover how much better chocolate tastes without butyric acid. Inexpensive foreign chocolate could destroy The Hershey Company and there are big companies like Nestlé or Mondelēz that could do it relatively easily but instead let Hershey’s produce their brands under license with butyric acid added.
They absolutely can address it, they just don’t. YouTube still offers that feature; creators can mark optional points in their videos that are good places to run ads. There is a frustratingly high percentage of creators (at least the ones I watch) who don’t take advantage of this, leaving YouTube to run ads mid-sentence. You’d think that people who are trying to get paid from ad revenue would take a few minutes to optimize their placement, but most do not.
I loved how shooting on film cameras the focus would literally be set by using the tape measure and adjusting the focus on the lens accordingly, except for the time I forgot I’d been given the set our school had that was in meters instead of feet and wasted about 150 feet of 16 mm film.
I’m aware of doing a mail merge but don’t think I’ve ever done one. I’m assuming I could find instructions if I ever needed to do one. They might’ve even taught us about it in school; I remember in eighth grade a class where they taught us some computer basics using Microsoft Works. That was almost 30 years ago, though, and what I’ve seen with my own kid is very little computer instruction, and the schools all just give them Chromebooks and Google Workspace accounts. It’s all much more basic, so between that and using phones it seems like they actually have less computer knowledge than prior generations. Maybe Gen X, Millennials, and some part of Gen Z will have a peak percentage of their population with computer literacy, more than the generations before or after. I’ll be curious to see what happens as Gen Z and Alpha enter the workforce. I’m starting to take time to teach my kid more about using software more advanced than what they’re exposed to in school.
On our honeymoon, where we stayed we got a credit that we could use towards the spa or the high-end fine dining restaurant on the site. We chose the restaurant and even with the credit I think our bill was over $200, before tip. It was by far the best meal I’ve ever had, though, and our waiter was excellent, far beyond anything I’ve ever had before or since. He had extensive experience in fine dining, previously working many years in New York City at famous places, I think the Waldorf Astoria or something like that. That was when I understood the level of skill that can be attained in that career and how important that is to the fine dining experience.
It wasn’t even much higher than the analog resolution in countries with a 50 Hz electric system. Those were a TV system that ran 625 lines (576 with image). It was wider and ran with twice as many frames, though.
The resolution was more of an improvement in countries with a 60 Hz electric system, their TV ran at 525 lines (486 with image), along with the same benefits of a wider picture and doubled frame rate.
I remember in the early days of flat panels and HDTVs, there were some sold as “enhanced definition” TVs that weren’t actually HD at all. They were the same number of lines as standard definition, just wide. A lot of times people weren’t even watching widescreen content on them, just normal content that was stretched wide. That meant if you were looking at something that was supposed to be a circle, it would be stretched into an oval. I never understood why that didn’t bother more people.
I don’t know enough to know how ethically trained these models are, and I think it’s the same technology as deep fakes which have had very obvious and highly publicized abuses, but in general the digital de-aging techniques seem like one of the more legitimate and acceptable uses of the technology. It’s not always great (see the uncanny valley impact in Rogue One, although that wasn’t de-aging, it was bringing in characters originated with now-deceased actors), but when it’s done well like in Captain Marvel I feel like it enhances the storytelling.
Even at a picnic table, I’m finding myself less tolerant of the bug swarms. I suppose that depends on the locale, though
We always think we’ll get it out for some special occasion, we just haven’t hosted one ourselves in a while. We think we might after we settle from this move, but who knows.
Like Zoidberg
They kind of died for a little while. I remember seeing Weird Al talking about how they didn’t make any music videos for one of his albums, I think mid-/late-’00s. Then when his next album came around YouTube had made them so important that they made some sort of video for every song on that album. They weren’t all fully produced like in the heyday of MTV, but they wanted to have something to upload.
I guess I had one or something like it when I first moved out. My parents gave it to me along with a matching dining table, all of which had been sitting in their basement. My wife wasn’t a fan of it and when we moved out of the house we listed it for sale, eventually selling it for a few hundred dollars, after sitting on the market for close to 2 months and dropping the price a few times.
My parents were upset when they found out; it turned out they had had that table custom made earlier in their marriage when they could finally afford new furniture. They said they would’ve bought it back for more than we got had they known. But a couple days later they begrudgingly realized they didn’t have room for that furniture and it wouldn’t have made sense for them to buy it.
A few years later they moved into a smaller home since all of us kids had been grown and moved out for years. As they tried to sell furniture and other things they weren’t going to have room for, it became depressing to them to see how little these things were worth that they had spent a lot of money on new. They had a set of china for each of us kids, one they bought or received as a wedding gift, others they had inherited from dead relatives. But it became apparent that we all preferred the same set, the one with the simplest design, yet it also was clear that we would only rarely, if ever, use the china and it’s largely a waste of space for any of us.
I think we might even have our set already, but we never use it and it’s not on display. If we have it it’s in the bottom cabinets of a console my wife loves. Also there are a couple very nice crystal bowls my uncle bought us, that my wife is almost terrified to get out of their box out of fear of breaking them. We understand they’re all nice items and expensive, but we might’ve preferred to have that money spent on things we’d get more use out of.
Better than Kit Kat and no Nestlé? Color me intrigued!
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I’d bet a lot of the people inside the marketing department knew it was stupid also but their job is to try to sell whatever the big bosses want them to.
Hershey is giving other candy/food manufacturers below-market deals on chocolate or above-market licensing deals to produce their chocolate candies in the USA so Americans don’t discover how much better chocolate tastes without butyric acid. Inexpensive foreign chocolate could destroy The Hershey Company and there are big companies like Nestlé or Mondelēz that could do it relatively easily but instead let Hershey’s produce their brands under license with butyric acid added.
They absolutely can address it, they just don’t. YouTube still offers that feature; creators can mark optional points in their videos that are good places to run ads. There is a frustratingly high percentage of creators (at least the ones I watch) who don’t take advantage of this, leaving YouTube to run ads mid-sentence. You’d think that people who are trying to get paid from ad revenue would take a few minutes to optimize their placement, but most do not.
I loved how shooting on film cameras the focus would literally be set by using the tape measure and adjusting the focus on the lens accordingly, except for the time I forgot I’d been given the set our school had that was in meters instead of feet and wasted about 150 feet of 16 mm film.
I’m aware of doing a mail merge but don’t think I’ve ever done one. I’m assuming I could find instructions if I ever needed to do one. They might’ve even taught us about it in school; I remember in eighth grade a class where they taught us some computer basics using Microsoft Works. That was almost 30 years ago, though, and what I’ve seen with my own kid is very little computer instruction, and the schools all just give them Chromebooks and Google Workspace accounts. It’s all much more basic, so between that and using phones it seems like they actually have less computer knowledge than prior generations. Maybe Gen X, Millennials, and some part of Gen Z will have a peak percentage of their population with computer literacy, more than the generations before or after. I’ll be curious to see what happens as Gen Z and Alpha enter the workforce. I’m starting to take time to teach my kid more about using software more advanced than what they’re exposed to in school.
This feels like Bender breaking up with the Planet Express Ship in the middle of battle.
“Eh, the moment seemed right.”
On our honeymoon, where we stayed we got a credit that we could use towards the spa or the high-end fine dining restaurant on the site. We chose the restaurant and even with the credit I think our bill was over $200, before tip. It was by far the best meal I’ve ever had, though, and our waiter was excellent, far beyond anything I’ve ever had before or since. He had extensive experience in fine dining, previously working many years in New York City at famous places, I think the Waldorf Astoria or something like that. That was when I understood the level of skill that can be attained in that career and how important that is to the fine dining experience.
My kid does this
It wasn’t even much higher than the analog resolution in countries with a 50 Hz electric system. Those were a TV system that ran 625 lines (576 with image). It was wider and ran with twice as many frames, though. The resolution was more of an improvement in countries with a 60 Hz electric system, their TV ran at 525 lines (486 with image), along with the same benefits of a wider picture and doubled frame rate.
I remember in the early days of flat panels and HDTVs, there were some sold as “enhanced definition” TVs that weren’t actually HD at all. They were the same number of lines as standard definition, just wide. A lot of times people weren’t even watching widescreen content on them, just normal content that was stretched wide. That meant if you were looking at something that was supposed to be a circle, it would be stretched into an oval. I never understood why that didn’t bother more people.
Casual, in fact I’ve barely played in years. I actually bought it on disc for Xbox One before it was free. I’ve never been very good, though.
I’ve seen this format a few times but have no idea what it’s from
I don’t know enough to know how ethically trained these models are, and I think it’s the same technology as deep fakes which have had very obvious and highly publicized abuses, but in general the digital de-aging techniques seem like one of the more legitimate and acceptable uses of the technology. It’s not always great (see the uncanny valley impact in Rogue One, although that wasn’t de-aging, it was bringing in characters originated with now-deceased actors), but when it’s done well like in Captain Marvel I feel like it enhances the storytelling.