Forbid him to learn python. Then he'll do it himself to spite you.
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He lies about where Dent and Rachel are, he lies (if perhaps by omission) to his henchmen about the bank heist at the beginning of the movie.
I disagree, including why I disagree
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I completely disagree with you. I felt that Gotham and its violence was an important part to the story. The constant shyness the movie showed, (cutting away just before acts of violence like the joker cutting someone's face, showing no real consequences to getting shot except a quick shudder and a fall, utterly ignoring the horror of a man burning on top of a pile of money, explosions never harming anyone except where the plot made it unavoidable) made it all seem comic, hollow and flaccid.
The violence was fantasy violence. The city was meant to feel corrupt and chaotic - something Batman, Dent and Gordon were struggling against. Something the Joker was exploiting.
A little artistic integrity instead of self-censorship in the name of a family-friendly blockbuster would have really benefited the movie.
You're ignoring something very important: the brightness of your monitor. 256 steps in a range of 0-150 lumens are going to be much smaller than 256 steps in a range of 0-600 lumens.
The thing about shoes is that while they absorb some energy, they're springy and (good shoes) largely give it back to you when you're lifting your foot. Tiles that absorb energy and don't give it back will indeed make it harder to walk. Probably something akin to walking up a slight incline.
We know that schools run by unions and state government (with strings being pulled by the federal government) don't work.
But why don't they work? I don't know where you're from but around here one of the major reasons private schools get better results than the neighbouring public school is that most of the private schools have the ability to select the students they take. They take the bright kids and these kids do well. The little shits who don't want to learn / ate lead paint for the first six years of their lives end up concentrated in the public schools which can't refuse them.
All your solution does is increase the education gap between the high-achieving kids and low-achieving kids. I think that goes against the whole point of compulsory education, which is that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Realistically you'd want Safari to be able to read more than just its preferences/cache files. What about the case of adding an attachment in a webmail interface? Or uploading a photo to a photo-sharing site? Or submitting an assignment for school? The file the user is trying to read could exist anywhere the user has read privileges for.
Similarly you could restrict Safari's write privileges to just its preferences, cache files and a downloads folder but this removes much of the functionality of things like "Save Asâ¦", "Save Image Asâ¦", "Export Bookmarksâ¦" etc.
The filter capacitor is still one of the most common points of failure in a CFL. Often this is because of over-heating (manufactures cutting corners and using components not rated for high temperature or CFLs used in light fittings not designed for them). Sometimes it's just age. Either way I think it's actually pretty concerning as the CFLs generally only have a fusable resistor and the filter cap has a significant chance of shorting when it dies. How much do you trust your circuit breakers?
That may be true, but does not apply to the public transit system in question. There's no shortage of people wanting to use Melbourne's public transport, but the buses that feed the train system are too infrequent for convenient use, the carparks at railway stations are over-full by 7:30, the tram network is limited and peak times see heavy over-crowding largely because of inept management. Ticket prices have been going up but the rising price of petrol has been a bigger concern for people and patronage just keeps on rising.
If AMD's experimentation with combining the CPU and GPU bears fruit it might actually mean the end for the traditional GPU's. Until the wheel of reinvention turns once again and people start realising that they can find performance gains by splitting the graphics processing load out onto special hardware.
You need two numbers though: separation (dots per inch) and distance to the image. You only need one number: angular resolution. 300dpi at 1m (which is about the accepted upper limit) is about 17 arcseconds, if I got my math right.
It's naÃve to treat the human vision system like a camera. The two things are very different.
It depends, but in this case about 720.
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Human brightness sensitivity is not even close to constant across the total range of brightness we can perceive. It varies widely over the range of colours we can see, and from person to person. Scene composition affects it, too: the shape of an object in relation to nearby objects changes our perception of its brightness. You have to consider lateral inhibition, limited integration capability, the optical modulation function of the eye, and orientation and temporal filtering, not to mention the various forms of noise that affect all parts of the vision system. The human vision system is not a camera and trying to model it as one is extremely naÃve.
With all that warning out of the way, the greyscale Just Noticeable Difference for a monitor of about 600cd/m^2 is equivalent to 720 steps.
For a 1024 steps, the monitor would need a peak intensity of around 4000 cd/m^2 to match the greyscale step increase with the statistically average human just noticeable difference.
It's been 18 months since Apple started selling only 64-bit Intel machines. (The MacBook went Core 2 in November 2006) That's not "quite a while". Only the most bleeding-edge-must-have-it-now nerd wouldn't balk at upgrading his rig more frequently than every 18 months.
Any aperture will cause diffraction. Reflector or refractor. The halos aren't visible in binoculars because they have magnification ratios too small.
Reflectors are preferred over refractors because it's cheaper and easier to make a large mirror than it is to make a large set of refracting optics. A larger diameter aperture will result in less diffraction but the primary motivation for large diameter scopes (and thus the popularity of reflector designs) is that a large diameter is a large "light bucket". The more light you capture, the more (dimmer) objects you can observe.
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Forbid him to learn python. Then he'll do it himself to spite you.
He lies about where Dent and Rachel are, he lies (if perhaps by omission) to his henchmen about the bank heist at the beginning of the movie.
I completely disagree with you. I felt that Gotham and its violence was an important part to the story. The constant shyness the movie showed, (cutting away just before acts of violence like the joker cutting someone's face, showing no real consequences to getting shot except a quick shudder and a fall, utterly ignoring the horror of a man burning on top of a pile of money, explosions never harming anyone except where the plot made it unavoidable) made it all seem comic, hollow and flaccid.
The violence was fantasy violence. The city was meant to feel corrupt and chaotic - something Batman, Dent and Gordon were struggling against. Something the Joker was exploiting.
A little artistic integrity instead of self-censorship in the name of a family-friendly blockbuster would have really benefited the movie.
You're angry over an issue of overly conservative social policy and so you're going to vote for Australia's largest socially conservative party?
Please, show a little respect. You may not agree with him but you shouldn't call him an asshat - the correct term in this case is arsehat.
The oldest laptop Apple supports running Leopard is the November 2002 TiBook, and that shipped with a 60GB drive.
If you honestly believe any nation's politics is a game of two "sides" then you deserve the American political system.
Vodaphone and Optus Mobile have both announced they'll be carrying the iPhone in Australia.
You're ignoring something very important: the brightness of your monitor. 256 steps in a range of 0-150 lumens are going to be much smaller than 256 steps in a range of 0-600 lumens.
The thing about shoes is that while they absorb some energy, they're springy and (good shoes) largely give it back to you when you're lifting your foot. Tiles that absorb energy and don't give it back will indeed make it harder to walk. Probably something akin to walking up a slight incline.
LaTeX is usually required for the final submission, but a lot of journals are accepting Word files for submission for peer review.
Did you really just try to convince an audience largely made up of engineers by quoting a large percentage increase over a miniscule base figure?
But why don't they work? I don't know where you're from but around here one of the major reasons private schools get better results than the neighbouring public school is that most of the private schools have the ability to select the students they take. They take the bright kids and these kids do well. The little shits who don't want to learn / ate lead paint for the first six years of their lives end up concentrated in the public schools which can't refuse them.
All your solution does is increase the education gap between the high-achieving kids and low-achieving kids. I think that goes against the whole point of compulsory education, which is that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Realistically you'd want Safari to be able to read more than just its preferences/cache files. What about the case of adding an attachment in a webmail interface? Or uploading a photo to a photo-sharing site? Or submitting an assignment for school? The file the user is trying to read could exist anywhere the user has read privileges for.
Similarly you could restrict Safari's write privileges to just its preferences, cache files and a downloads folder but this removes much of the functionality of things like "Save Asâ¦", "Save Image Asâ¦", "Export Bookmarksâ¦" etc.
The filter capacitor is still one of the most common points of failure in a CFL. Often this is because of over-heating (manufactures cutting corners and using components not rated for high temperature or CFLs used in light fittings not designed for them). Sometimes it's just age. Either way I think it's actually pretty concerning as the CFLs generally only have a fusable resistor and the filter cap has a significant chance of shorting when it dies. How much do you trust your circuit breakers?
That may be true, but does not apply to the public transit system in question. There's no shortage of people wanting to use Melbourne's public transport, but the buses that feed the train system are too infrequent for convenient use, the carparks at railway stations are over-full by 7:30, the tram network is limited and peak times see heavy over-crowding largely because of inept management. Ticket prices have been going up but the rising price of petrol has been a bigger concern for people and patronage just keeps on rising.
12" PowerBook G4 (nVidia GeForce FX Go5200) and I got the 420MB, along with more than one restart.
That only works in the US and Japan, though. Most of the world has a much more diverse mix of transmissions.
http://medical.nema.org/dicom/final/sup28_ft.pdf
It's naÃve to treat the human vision system like a camera. The two things are very different.
Human brightness sensitivity is not even close to constant across the total range of brightness we can perceive. It varies widely over the range of colours we can see, and from person to person. Scene composition affects it, too: the shape of an object in relation to nearby objects changes our perception of its brightness. You have to consider lateral inhibition, limited integration capability, the optical modulation function of the eye, and orientation and temporal filtering, not to mention the various forms of noise that affect all parts of the vision system. The human vision system is not a camera and trying to model it as one is extremely naÃve.
With all that warning out of the way, the greyscale Just Noticeable Difference for a monitor of about 600cd/m^2 is equivalent to 720 steps.
For a 1024 steps, the monitor would need a peak intensity of around 4000 cd/m^2 to match the greyscale step increase with the statistically average human just noticeable difference.
There's no way I'm getting close enough to a drop bear to gets its DNA. I hear those things are vicious.
It's been 18 months since Apple started selling only 64-bit Intel machines. (The MacBook went Core 2 in November 2006) That's not "quite a while". Only the most bleeding-edge-must-have-it-now nerd wouldn't balk at upgrading his rig more frequently than every 18 months.
Any aperture will cause diffraction. Reflector or refractor. The halos aren't visible in binoculars because they have magnification ratios too small.
Reflectors are preferred over refractors because it's cheaper and easier to make a large mirror than it is to make a large set of refracting optics. A larger diameter aperture will result in less diffraction but the primary motivation for large diameter scopes (and thus the popularity of reflector designs) is that a large diameter is a large "light bucket". The more light you capture, the more (dimmer) objects you can observe.