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@RegDwight Yeah, Colin Fine gave the second as an answer to the first.

Ah, he beats me to it.

@RegDwight — This one demonstrates the fallacy of complex question. I answered to show that the original had the same abbreviation.

12:11 PM

It's not at all clear to me that this should not be closed as NARQ.

I mean, if you don't even check your very own premise, then how is it a question?

True. And it's about translations, not necessarily English ones. I only answered because I wanted to b**** slap the dude.

But a "closed as NARQ" would be a sufficient rebuke, I guess.

I am actually not objecting to the answers that much, if at all.

But I am objecting to the question.

It's basically like asking, "why are all cars in Italy red?"

@RegDwight Hence my statement above:

3 mins ago, by Robusto

@RegDwight — This one demonstrates the fallacy of complex question. I answered to show that the original had the same abbreviation.

Anyway, voted to close.

Yeah, I know, I'm just thinking out loud.

Thanks.

12:31 PM

ttyl

Ham and Bacon

12:55 PM

I probably shouldn't be here

Been busy for the past few days

Exams, theses, essays, etc.

Got to go work now.

Heaps of research to do.

Yay! I finally have a contract!

@HamandBacon crack whip Back to the grindstone!

1:24 PM

@Kit — Grats. Hope it's everything you were looking for.

@RegDwight: Every time I go to the home page I see that there are seven flags waiting to be dealt with. But when I click on it, it shows nothing. Then I go back to the home page and the 7 is gone. But if I close the window and open it, the cycle repeats.

1:46 PM

hi @robusto:

Hello.

please help me ..

Is this right sentences :

Its Miss Darling doing master in Image Processing,

I posted questions but no one replied me...:( .
so I am sending you message ..Please help me ..

I maked program for loading video and i got success. but now i want to apply the Sobel Operator and detect the boundry without using Open Cv.. i saw many programs ./.. but they use Open CV function.. i do't want to use Open-CV ..
How can i apply these operations on video thats loaded using Open Cv and VS 6.0 MFC c++ .
I need a sample Progaram or please guide me ..Its urgent.

Is there any mistake in sentences ?

@Miss: I successfully made a program for loading video, but now I want to apply the Sobel Operator and detect the boundary without using Open CV. All of the programs I've looked at use Open CV functionality. I don't want to use Open CV. How can I apply these operations to video loaded using Open CV and VS 6.0 MFC C++? I need a sample program or some guidance. Please help, it's urgent.

Q: What does the number that appears to the right of the "tools" link mean?

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I saw that to the right of the "tools" link was shown a number in a yellow background, but when I clicked on it, I have been taken to the flags page, and the page was empty. What does that number mean? I thought it could mean the number of flagged posts, but clearly it is not so.

support moderator-tools

@robusto : thanks

1:53 PM

@RegDwight — So I ain't alone. Funny that the number 7 shows up in @kia's case as well.

It's the country code for Russia.

I won't be giving any more hints.

I think this is just a new form of torture for high-rep users. They tease us into believing we have powers, then just as we try to use them they vanish.

@robusto: can you please point out the reason for mistakes in sentences.. so that i will do care next time .. please

and please send me email ip_gis@hotmail.com and please mention your name ..

if its possible to you ..

@Miss — If I get time later I will.

ah ok thanks for a good reply @robusto

1:57 PM

np

@Robusto Everything but the benjamins. At least it's guaranteed for 9 months.

All About the Benjamins

All About the Benjamins is an 2002 action movie/comedy movie directed by Kevin Bray, and starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps as a bounty hunter and repeat offender who join forces to find a group of diamond thieves, the former for glory, and the latter to retrieve a winning lottery ticket. Cast *Ice Cube as Bucum, a maverick bounty hunter trying to acquire the funds to start a private investigation firm. Initially interested only in finding a group of diamond thieves who shot at him, he later decides to solve the heist case in order to generate publicity for his would-be firm. *Mike Epps as ...

@Robusto Was it that recent? Gawd, it was awful.

@Kit — It's all about that.

I wisely exercised my option not to see it.

Though personally, I'd take Ice Cube as an actor over Ice T any day of the week.

2:04 PM

I prefer iced coffee.

@Robusto Freak.

;)

Or this guy:

Mr. T

Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud May 21, 1952) is an American actor known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team, as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III, and for his appearances as a professional wrestler. Mr. T is known for his trademark African Mandinka warrior hairstyle, his gold jewelry, and his tough-guy image. In 2006 he starred in the reality show I Pity the Fool, shown on TV Land, the title of which comes from his catchphrase from the film Rocky III. Early life Mr. T was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest son in a family with twelve ch...

@Robusto I pity the fool who don't like Mr. T.

Mr. T is an abbreviation for "Mr. Tea" and was originally developed as a marketing program to counter the success of Mr. Coffee.

Or BA as I prefer to call him.

2:05 PM

Mr. Coffee

Mr. Coffee is a registered trademark of Sunbeam Products, Inc. d/b/a Jarden Consumer Solutions. The Mr. Coffee brand manufactures automatic-drip kitchen coffee machines as well as other products. Its advertising spokesman was former baseball player Joe DiMaggio. The device was invented by engineers Edward Able and Erwin Schulze. In 1972, the Mr. Coffee brand drip coffee maker was made available for home use. In 1995, a variation was produced by the same company for tea called "Mrs. Tea". The machine differed from the Mr. Coffee branded appliance only in detail as the drip process w...

See? Mr. Tea is so obviously superior.

@Robusto Yes, I know. I had one as a child.

It says Mrs. Tea.

I mean, Mr. Tea could clobber the hell out of Mr. Coffee.

Are you claiming that Mr. Tea is superior to Mrs. Tea?

Mr. T could Clubber Lang the hell out of Mr. Coffee.

@Kit Ta-da!

@Kit — Mr. Tea would never claim that. Not if he ever wanted to have sex again, I mean.

@Vitaly Hello, my friend!

2:08 PM

Hello.

@Robusto Too funny.

Hey, Spiderman.

I am tempted to post a rant that positive superstition is an oxymoron.

@Vitaly — Rant away. I will upvote you.

@Vitaly Where are you getting "positive superstition" from?

2:09 PM

@Robusto Um, you mean "not if he ever wanted to have sex with Mrs. Tea again".

@RegDwight — The Tea couple is nothing if not faithful. Geez, don't they teach you anything in Russia?

@Robusto They cleave one unto the other.

@Kit — Erm, I guess I failed to phrase that in English. Should be “superstition without negative connotation:” english.stackexchange.com/q/29012/3286

I wonder if Mr. Tea is into tea-bagging?

I knew was Russian mistake.

2:11 PM

@Vitaly Well, yes, but I think he explains himself well enough in the question.

@Robusto See, at least they do teach mistakes in Russia!

Also, the Teas are faithful, but they do like to party.

Tea Party movement

The Tea Party movement (TPM) is an American populist political movement which is generally recognized as conservative and libertarian,See following for information on Tea Party Movement Conservatism: * [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/05/AR2010100501491.html Tea party, religious right often overlap, poll shows] Washington Post, October 5, 2010 * [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-movement-sarahpalin Sarah Palin's 'mamas': more grisly than grizzly] The Guardian, October 25, 2010 and has sponsored protests and supported...

z7sg

In Soviet Russia mistakes teach they

@Robusto I've been waiting for that.

@Robusto THWACK!

2:12 PM

You don't disappoint.

My teabagging joke was funnier.

Knight Industries have no say in what's funny in this room and what's not.

@Kit — Wait, who gave you THWACKing privileges? Those gotta be earned.

Yeah, and that.

@Robusto I am the protégé of @Martha.

Unless she thwacks me for it.

2:14 PM

@Kit — I'll wait for @Martha to verify that you are indeed her protege.

@RegDwight It's a good thing I'm not affiliated with Knight Industries then.

I am the antitege of Martha.

@RegDwight — Wow. Dude.

@RegDwight Ouch.

Thank you, thank you.

2:15 PM

I mean, that was a total sucker punch.

Thank you.

I will get you back. Just you wait and see.

►

And hell's comin' with me.

Followin.

Back to the Bible school for you.

I thought en-dashes were used for number spans and hyphens for words?

Ranges of all kinds.

2:20 PM

guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer

En dashes are also used to find out which n is the fastest.

A: "Hardware-counter-based tools" or "hardware-counter based tools"?

I think this answer is incorrect then.

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This one is tricky because it is solved with a mark of punctuation called the "en-dash." Its length is longer than a hyphen and shorter than a full em-dash. It's the middle one in this series: - – — So with a term like "Hardware-counter-based tools" the solution is to use an en-dash between "cou...

1–10, Paris–London flight, mother–daughter relationship.

Ems have those races too.

@Kit Wow, that is so a dupe. How come it's not closed?

2:21 PM

@RegDwight Right, and it's a dupe. Too new to be closed, I guess.

MrHen noticed it.

Q: How to connect a word and a phrase with a dash?

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For example, "file system" and "related". Is it "file system-related"? It will appear as if it is a compound of "file" and "system-related", won't it?

phrases punctuation adjectives hyphen modifiers

@Kit MrHen is a bit off the mark there, though.

@RegDwight Better add that to the list.

180 more rep and I can vote on it!

@Kit So get more rep! As you SO so shall you rep.

@Robusto Oh no. That is SO bad.

Aw, come on. That was a little bit of "hell comin' with me" ...

2:24 PM

@Robusto And I'm working on it!

And his name that sat on him was Robusto.

Hooray, a unicorn!

@aedia It's the IPU!

Hello ~~@aedia~~ @unicorn!

@aedia Greetings, most holy!

@RegDwight — Wait till it speaks. I've never seen a talking unicorn.

2:26 PM

@Robusto Have faith, silly. That's no ordinary unicorn.

@Kit — To hell with faith. I demand empirical evidence.

Invisible Pink Unicorn

The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink. She is a rhetorical illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot, sometimes mentioned in conjunction with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The IPU is used to argue that supernatural beliefs are arbitrary by, for example, replacing the word God in any theistic statement with Invisible Pink Unicorn. The mutually exclusive attributes of pinkness and invisibi...

Um, how is that a paradox?

"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them." — Steve Eley

@RegDwight Isn't paradox the plural form of parody?

2:30 PM

@Robusto No, dummy, paradox is the singular of paradoxen.

@Robusto No, a paradox is two PhDs.

I mean, d'oh!

And that brings us nicely back to Tea.

Or rather "teapots."

And do, as in do re mi.

Ut re mi.

It makes sense in my head.

2:32 PM

@RegDwight — I think you mean D'oh! re me ...

Ut queant laxis resonāre fibris
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum,
Solve polluti labii reatum,
Sancte Iohannes.

Don't make me go all Sound of Music on your ass.

Not a single d'oh in there.

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The unicorn is neither invisible nor pink and as such I have no faith in it.

@RegDwight — Obviously a mistranslation then.

2:33 PM

@RegDwight Have you seen the Simpsons Do Re Mi?

@Kit I have no idea which scene from which episode you mean, but yes, I most certainly have.

@RegDwight It begins "Dough, the stuff that buys me beer"

"Ray, the guy who serves me beer"

"Me, the guy who drinks the beer."

"Fa, how far I'll go for beer"

So, let's have another beer

La, let's have another beer

Tea, no, thanks, I'll just have beer

You mean coffee?

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aedia

2:40 PM

I'm awake! Really! I swear!

@Kit Well done on the thwacking.

With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his chatroom, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. "The unicorn," he said, "spoke a word."

@RegDwight But the unicorn is too polite to speak with its mouth full of roses!

Not this one, obviously.

Or perhaps we're just out of roses.

I need a lily, quick.

@Martha @RegDwight @Robusto See!

@RegDwight Try violets. Unless you're opposed to the use of violets, of course.

2:44 PM

Will this do? The picture was taken on Easter Sunday...

aedia

@Martha Awwh!!!

@Kit Meh. That coming from a protégé of someone who can't even be bothered to thwack antitégé doesn't mean jac... omygod not baby pictures nooooo im out

My work here is done. Have fun, folks!

@Kit (how come nobody thwacks you for THAT awful awfulness???)

Jez

kawwwwwwwwwwwwfie

2:46 PM

@RegDwight Untouchable.

Jez

americans, pronounce words properly.

@Martha We have that same xylophone, except in purple.

Jez

also, stop saying 'go to the bathroom' instead of crap

@Kit I never realized your social status was that low.

@Jez It's "drop a deuce," doucheknuckle.

2:47 PM

@RegDwight Oh, just THWACK! already.

@RegDwight Ha! I was thinking Elliot Ness, not Indian caste system.

@Martha Why on Earth? Why?

I am not opposed to the use of violets!

@Kit That's funny. I wonder if my cousin got hers here in America. It seems an odd thing to lug that far, but my cousin can be rather odd.

@RegDwight You are all about flax and violets, aren't you, flower lover?

Gardenmonger!

Careful, Kit. You are not as untouchable as you think you are.

2:51 PM

@Martha I'm begging for a thwacking. It helps my focus.

Untouchable with a finger ≠ untouchable with a ruler.

Oh, ok then: THWACK!

@Martha Thank you, mistress.

@Martha BTW, I finally got my contract!

@Kit Yay for non-unpaid work!

Um, those two statements are not as related as they might appear.

2:52 PM

Your protégé contract?

Martha actually sends you stuff to sign?

@RegDwight No. See above about "those two statements are not as related as they might appear".

@RegDwight I am not affiliated with Martha.

@Martha I am regarding the second statement as completely separate from the first.

Well, then, what's the confusion?

No confusion. Just a question.

Certainly I may ask questions in this room!

I could have just as well asked, "your contract with Knight Industries?"

But I haven't.

2:57 PM

Jun 3 at 0:45, by Kit

@Martha Thanks. I'm kind of slacking badly. I have technically been working without a contract for the last two days.

That is so June 3rd.

Besides, my question is still valid.

@RegDwight Oh. Right. Professional, contracted, regular employee.

At Knight Industries?

I'm distracted because I keep looking at the paperwork.

@RegDwight No. I'm not affiliated with Knight Industries.

But will you once you sign?

2:59 PM

I'm offically a database programmer.

Ah.

But not with Knight Industries.