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I think a lot of societies that maintain ties to the past believe in ghosts. As I said we have two spirit houses in our front yard and so does everyone else in the village. Maybe not two but at least one on every property.
My wife puts out offerings and burns incense in front of them on all Buddha days.
They are also spread out in the fields and grouped along the sides of roads where there have been fatal accidents. I am thinking about doing a photo essay of Thailand featuring them. Some are quite elaborate.
I have a dog that howls a lot. He has been doing this since he was a puppy. My sister-in-law says it is because he is visited by ghosts.
I don't usually pay attention when he howls but when all the dogs in the village howl late at night it is really eerie.
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CarefulCoder wrote: it will automatically search out all that spammer's messages, report them using your account,
Not so sure that is a good idea - what if he has a dozen non-spam messages, and one spam one? I'm pretty sure the Chris will be well annoyed if your system spam reports non-spam messages, because it will confuse his anti spam systems.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Very good point; I'll tone back the automation. Thanks for the feedback!
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Let the good people of metropolis deem that which is spam and report accordingly.
We have enough righteous folks who report as spam or abuse anything that does not conform to their limited world view.  We don't need to automate the process.
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Too much automation - IMHO...
Not sure all messages should be removed - marking non-spam messages as spam will index it's content as spam an may cause of wrong behavior of CP's spam filter...
You may split it
1. Report the current message as spam.
2. Show all other messages for human-review too
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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After reading the posts above I'm thinking I'll move along a path like this instead.
I agree, automatically reporting all the other member's posts as spam, even if they were checked by the computer first, could cause more problems than benefits.
Thanks for the feedback guys! 
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I agree that the automation may tend to piss off CM if you get it wrong. How about if you can inspect the content of the post, decide if it is spam and flag everything by the op with the same content. The latest crop have just been copy paste of the same content!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It runs very slowly with delays on arrow keys and typing.
In order to work at the same speed as earlier versions one has to TURN OFF the hardware acceleration checkbox!
WTF?
If they know about this why not have it turned off by default?
C'mon MS, get it sorted!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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could be you just need to update your drivers.
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Same thing in Visual Studio 2010 (I don't know about VS2012/13).
[EDIT]
I guess it's not exactly the same. I cannot find the link right now, but somewhere I read that in Visual Studio it's not only visual stuff that gets offloaded to the GPU.
Visual Studio 2010 WAS painfully slow[^]
Other Clickety[^]
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Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
modified 22-Feb-14 23:23pm.
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It's cuz everything you type gets echoed to a keylogger at the NSA so they can monitor you in real time.
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The Disable Hardware Acceleration checkbox was checked by default on my system!
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It also contains an Alcohol meter - it checks your blood alcohol level via a reader in your keytops, and tries to work out what your drunken typing was originally supposed to be. Understandably, this takes considerable processor resources... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It may surprise you to know that not one drop of alcohol has passed my lips since NYE!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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"Surprise" isn't the word I would use...
In the queue for a liver transplant? Or just giving up drinking? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Dalek Dave wrote: It may surprise you to know that not one drop of alcohol has passed my lips since NYE because enema is more economical.
FTFY 
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Unfortunately, candidates aren’t judged on how well they do their jobs; they’re judged on how well they describe how they do their jobs.
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Rarely these days do I ever get a support call where a customer has attempted to find the answer to their question or problem before calling. It seems that the spirit of discovery and 'figuring things out on one's own are a thing of the past.  As programmers, we are supposed to alert users when something goes wrong, ideally in terms they can understand, and with some guidance on how to resolve the problem. We often take great pains to create effective alerts/prompts/messages/documentation for end users so they can resolve their own issues and not have to call the support line. The best documentation in the world is worthless if users don't read it, and that seems to be the case more and more these days. Once customers (or family members) have clicked the 'Easy' button (remote desktop) and been able to sit back and relax while I take over their systems, they seem to become hooked. It quickly becomes the first impulse when they have questions or don't understand something. While I try to use the situation to educate/train them/me, some users call with the same issues/requests repeatedly.
It makes me wonder which statements may be true.
a) People are becoming dumber. They really don't know how to find their own answers. Remember F1, you might, but most don't.
b) People are becoming apathetic. They really don't care if other help options are available. They have your number, and they know you have the answer. Besides, they have paid a support contract and support means training right?
c) People are becoming lazy. They see the Help buttons in your program, and know you have online resources, but can't be bothered with having to read a document! 
d) People are becoming smarter. Feign a) and you can get someone to do your thinking for you.
My brother in-law has asked for some time this weekend to help figure out why his 3 year old laptop is 'so slow' and shows 'not responding' all the time. Sounds like a job for 'CleanMyPC.com'! This is the guy who was unhappy when he couldn't figure out how to set his email font to comic sans.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'll tell you a trick :
Do not create an easy button to contact you.
Seriously, put some barrier like a stupid waiting music when they are calling you that play during 5 minutes before you pick up the phone.
Remove the easy button and make them do a 10 steps process manually while you are on the phone so you can remotely connect.
By adding or removing frictions you can control habits.
For example, when I saw I spent to much time on Facebook, I stopped using the "remember my password" checkbox, and putted a password I can't remember buried in a file on my drive that I must open with another long pass phrase password I must correctly type from the first time.
I can always go on Facebook... but the habit to systematically do that disappeared because it's a pain to write the password. (Applied same technique for my mails)
Use that at your advantage on others, they will never notice it.
As developers we are pushed to create effective solution... but remember : if it is effective, people will use it 
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Thanks for the facebook tip will do that for my phone, as well twitter too and my phone charms for all those messages which have nothing to do with me. ha somebody tweeted something you might be interested in etc. Not too sure about skype though.
I know this off topic a bit but it would be nice to have an aggreator which just chimes for everything once a day or two.
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Yes, in other word a RSS feed of social medias, but the kids don't like RSS nowadays. 
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Nicolas Dorier wrote: they will never notice it.
Smart people will notice it. My cable company does this.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sure every cable company does that.
The trick is that most of the time smart people fix the problem by themselves.
If smart people are in the mud, you can always give them the "fast line".
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It's not a new phenomenon - but don't go to QA, it'll only depress you further.
Years ago, I was technical manager (I.e. in charge of anything more complex than a mains plug) for a small-to-medium sized company, that sold overseas via a worldwide network of independent distributers. In charge of support and care for all these was our International Sales Manager, who took frequent trips round the world to see them and wave the flag. He naturally took his own sample of our kit with him, so it was set up to work at all times.
Except... He was forever complaining that the mains lead we fitted was far too short... So it was replaced - we fitted 3m as standard.
It was replaced, he complained, it was replaced...
Eventually we worked out what was happening: he'd arrive in a new country, find the mains plug didn't fit, cut it off, fit a new one, move on to the next country...
And he never resized that this shortened the lead by 10cm each time...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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More than likely a combination of all of that. Additionally, today almost everyone is called on to do more in less amount of time with less resources. It could just be that your customers have learned that you're a quicker solution than poking at the problem themselves.
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