It's not like the previous government was doing so well. There's good reasons that he came to power.
The station supported the coup attempt. If Fox and Fox News supported an illegal attempt to overthrow the US government, they might get in trouble with the FCC.
OK, but why did they clump the red and blue together that way? The best advantage I can see is for reducing noise when the gain is boosted on the signal. Otherwise it seems like better color accuracy would be achieved by separating the red and blue like this.
You're forgetting about most indoor environments, especially at night. Parties, clubs, and pubs. All would benefit from low light performance that wasn't horribly grainy.
What are the primary reasons copper prices have increased so much? I wonder if now that the price is high enough, those mining operations are underway again? This would show that while regulations increase the cost of business, if a society decides the regulations are worth it, then business will happen anyway.
Mythbusters never said how often their seat gets cleaned and with what kills-all cleanser. At a business, it might be every day, two days, or a week. At home, maybe some people just wipe it off every once in a while with a wad of toilet paper wetted from the sink. Between those scenarios, one seat will probably be much more dirty.
According to dpreview.com, your camera only does ISO 100. Newer cameras like my A510 do 200 and 400 by increasing the voltage on the analog sensor, which then looks noisier. Sometimes it's still preferable to having a slower shutter and getting blurry photos. I've decided I can live with ISO 200 in some situations, but the 400 is drastically worse. The newest compact cameras offer ISO 800 and 1600 but they're all basically useless modes.
What your camera also has going for it is larger photoreceptors because the resolution is smaller. Every pixel is larger on a sensor or comparable size. If you upgrade to a bigger monitor, like 20" or 22" that do 1680x1050, you'll see it's also time to upgrade your camera to one that fills the screen again. What you might really like is one that has Image Stabilization. That improves your low-light shutter speed by at least two settings. Your camera may take the photo at 1/30th of a second, but it's as crisp and stable as if it had been 1/60th.
Turning your Windows volume down is fine until you find a quicktime movie or flash video where the volume is set to maximum and it plays at 100% instead of your level. Or maybe that's just me because I've stayed with Win2K. Even if it doesn't do that, there's still plenty of sites where the video has been mixed too effing loud and it's clipping all to hell.
Some albums like Soundgarden - Superunknown from 1994 and Foo Fighters from 1995 still had much of their dynamic range. What changed in the late 90's was the overall volume was increased so much the peaks of the drums and bass got clipped. Doing that also deletes any other vocals or instruments playing during the clipped time. It's more like an analog volume adjustment of just sliding the volume up too high when mixing.
What's different now that the video shows is the peaks are not getting clipped anymore, instead they reach 0.0 db but the entire mix is digitally volume maximized so almost every single peak is that loud. Vocals and instruments like guitars are always the same maximum loudness. If the singer sings louder or plays harder the volume the listener hears doesn't change.
It's also why the theme song to Casino Royale, You Know My Name by Chris Cornell sounds so weak. Not only is it rock with orchestral backing, so it's already a wall of sound, but since everything is maximized, when Chris starts singing his lungs out there's no change in the volume. The power and energy of his voice and the music is just destroyed.
I think that depends on how often it's cleaned. In an office, the janitor may clean it every day or at least once a week. At home depending on the house it might be every two weeks or a month.
Here ya go. Watch for yourself, because I'm not getting paid to sell you it. Requires flash.
Judging from Gates' comments at D5, he expects future screens to have at least one camera to look at what users are doing such as pointing or touching the screen, and respond.
Not a problem if the cameras see the hands and arms attached to the fingertips. The cameras could see where a person is pointing from and where their eye level is to correct for parallax. Beyond that, software could try and notice when a user has to try two or three times to find the right finger position and adjust for that user. It could also see differences in fingertips such as fingernails and length, then store profiles to adjust for that user.
If I take water from a stream on your property, you have less to use. If I take a picture of your property, you can still take as many pictures of it as you like.
The Karma is a good player from what a read and a co-worker who is on his second one. On the first one the wheel protruding from the corner broke when he dropped it. He didn't drop it on purpose, but from what he'd heard that was a common problem with the model.
I really want whatever player I get next to have scrolling response that works excellently. From trying out iPod's, I know that player has it. It scrolls fast or slow as soon as I want it to.
Seriously true. I've got enough things I want to do that I'm sticking with Win2K. My configuration is relatively highly customized from the mouse settings, to my daily wallpaper rotator, to the twenty firefox extensions I have, to the way I have the file Explorer set up. Someday I will probably switch and a few months after that be happy with the system. While I'm customizing everything again I will not be having fun.
Seems like Ubuntu/Kubuntu could be like a Toyota Corolla. The basics are all there and relatively intuitive. The difference is that the operating system actually all kinds of configurable features. So on the car it's like every button or dial has a flip-open panel next to it with all kinds of options. Some intuitive, others not.
So when you go looking for the extras, you're going to have to ride the learning curve.
As for Gnome vs. KDE, some cars use a shifter in a straight line, others have a zig-zag path, other's have a race car-style shifter. When buying a car, you still have to learn the shifter and decide which one you're more likely to want. Learning to use the advanced radio controls is another one of those preference things.
You don't need to do hours of research until you want to add four wheel drive capability to your Corolla.
If every DC had shipped with those peripherals, there probably would have been great games for baseball and sword/club-using action games. No pack-in though as always means no uptake.
And what, exactly, makes establishing a second class citizenship either ethical or just, let alone democratic or republican?
There isn't. Once the immigrant becomes a citizen, he or she can become a slacker just like the natural-born.
You're presuming that it is not possible to take part in the politics or even the language without also having to conform to the "culture."
Hardly, culture can be a broad term. If it helps, ignore that word and focus on immigrants who aren't learning and participating in the language and politics.
Your only basis for denying a naturalized citizen all the rights and privileges they are entitled to is whether or not they modify their own personal behavior to better suit your tastes... You would deny extending those same rights, privileges and protections to naturalized citizens based solely on their birthplace.
Nope. Once immigrants become naturalized citizens they have all those rights and privileges. They have become naturalized citizens first though.
If it were truly necessary to be assimilated in French culture to truly grasp the ideals laid out in the Declaration, then the English-speaking United States would not be a republic. The whole point of the document is that it is the "Rights of Man," not "Rights of French Man." Picking and choosing who was entitled to these rights and who was not based on the nature of their birth and upbringing would have been no better than the arguments used by the ancien regime to justify their monarchical rule.
That is a non sequitur. Sure there are translations of French and English writings, but we're talking about people who don't want to read them.
Except that I'm the one here arguing that adherence to the law should be the only demand made of naturalized citizens,
We agree there.
you're the one insisting that adherence to cultural mores should be added to the list of requirements.
Not once they're citizens. I'm not saying adherence either. I'm just saying learn the language, learn and ideally participate in the politics, and want to integrate into the culture.
Besides, Catholic Irish weren't involved in making laws in Ireland at the time, which is why they left.
Non sequitur. How different were the laws in Ireland compared to the United States as compared to the differences between the laws of France and Sharia?
If a person meets the legal requirements for citizenship, what does it matter where they were born?
It doesn't. As long as they meet those requirements. The French may chose to require wannabe citizens learn the language, politics, and culture. How much or how well is another question.
Not only have you decided to put naturalized citizens on a lower tier than natural-born citizens, but now you seem to be subdividing the naturalized people, declaring some countries of origin more desirable than others
I answered the first part earlier. As for the second, I would equally welcome North Africans and Middle Easterners who want to or already know the native language, politics, and culture. Read back and you'll see I was hypothesizing on what if France removed controls on immigration and let people freely move in. Would it become an Islamic State, or would immigration from other places preclude that?
Why are you trying to give legal force to these unspoken "rules?" Why should immigrants be forced to go beyond the basic legal requirements of citizenship?
Natural-born citizens are allowed to live their lives as slackers if they want to. Many Western countries will not people who lack skills immigrate. There's already a higher bar for immigrants. Part of that bar should be immigrants should want to be a part of the country they're joining. Not learning and participating in the common language, politics, and culture is not taking part.
If the "they hate our freedom" argument held any water, they wouldn't be emigrating to begin with. But it is convenient to use to justify your requirements to assimilate as it attempts to justify your xenophobic attitude by making it into an "us or them" proposition. Does freedom of association only apply to those who you would be willing to associate with?
Your presumptions are so off the mark it's comical. You shouldn't be presuming anyway unless you're pretty sure of my position.
When I say "they", it should be clear to you I'm not talking about ALL immigrants. I'm only talking about the people who don't want to assimilate.
Islam is wholly incompatible with republican ideals? Freedom for everybody, so long as you have a Christian background?
Never said that either, genius. Stop making broad generalizations. Of course Islam is NOT WHOLLY incompatible with republican ideals. However, parts of Islam are incompatible. Depending on how the Koran is interpreted, an Islamic government will seek limits to more or less of those ideals. Look at Islam in Turkey or Indonesia for examples of how it is changing laws and freedoms. Look at many parts of the USA to see how more extreme interpretations of the Bible have changed laws and freedoms.
If French ideals and liberties can't be seen to apply to those from other cultures, then perhaps it's time to change the name of the document to the "Declaration of the Rights of White Men."
Or perhaps that's again nonsense. We're still talking about people who don't want to assimilate, but want to become citizens. It's these people who fail to recognize the importance of the French ideals and liberties.
Yeah, and accepting all those Catholic Irish immigrants managed to destroy the United States, I'm sure.
How different were the laws in Ireland compared to the laws in the USA at the time of the immigration wave? Right. Now compare the laws of France to Sharia. Oops, looks more like apples and oranges doesn't it?
If they are able to meet the requirements for naturalization, does it matter where they were born?
One final time you misunderstand. I'm considering the possibility that enough Eastern Europeans and non-Muslim Africans will immigrate as well to dilute the influence of the North Africans and Middle Eastern immigrants.
Is it not possible to be a law-abiding citizen without having to assimilate?
If people don't want to assimilate, they should not become citizens. If they don't assimilate, they are taking over the country and trying to make it like where they came from. If the native French people as a whole don't want to eventually be living under an Islamic government, they should not let in everyone who wants to move there and remake the country that way. If France removed controls on immigration and let people freely move in, that's what could happen. Though I wonder about what the proportion would be of Eastern Europeans to African to Middle Eastern/North African.
So it sounds like your brother is slowly working himself to death. Or at least he's not getting to enjoy enough of what else there is to do while alive. In exchange for this devotion, about what is his yearly salary?
He made a mod of his school because it's an environment he wanted to play in. FPS games are like cops and robbers meets paintball. He wanted to play his game in an environment he's familiar with.
I'd absolutely love to make a mod for a racing game of my neighborhood, the Bay Area. If hundreds of people uploaded photos of their houses and nearby buildings, that would be a start for modeling the environment. Then people could speed through the streets safely, without actually endangering anyone or breaking the law.
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It's not like the previous government was doing so well. There's good reasons that he came to power.
The station supported the coup attempt. If Fox and Fox News supported an illegal attempt to overthrow the US government, they might get in trouble with the FCC.
Here's another, slightly older video that's pro-Bolivarian. Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war
A DVD-quality version is available from the Internet Archive.
OK, but why did they clump the red and blue together that way? The best advantage I can see is for reducing noise when the gain is boosted on the signal. Otherwise it seems like better color accuracy would be achieved by separating the red and blue like this.
You're forgetting about most indoor environments, especially at night. Parties, clubs, and pubs. All would benefit from low light performance that wasn't horribly grainy.
What are the primary reasons copper prices have increased so much? I wonder if now that the price is high enough, those mining operations are underway again? This would show that while regulations increase the cost of business, if a society decides the regulations are worth it, then business will happen anyway.
Mythbusters never said how often their seat gets cleaned and with what kills-all cleanser. At a business, it might be every day, two days, or a week. At home, maybe some people just wipe it off every once in a while with a wad of toilet paper wetted from the sink. Between those scenarios, one seat will probably be much more dirty.
According to dpreview.com, your camera only does ISO 100. Newer cameras like my A510 do 200 and 400 by increasing the voltage on the analog sensor, which then looks noisier. Sometimes it's still preferable to having a slower shutter and getting blurry photos. I've decided I can live with ISO 200 in some situations, but the 400 is drastically worse. The newest compact cameras offer ISO 800 and 1600 but they're all basically useless modes.
What your camera also has going for it is larger photoreceptors because the resolution is smaller. Every pixel is larger on a sensor or comparable size. If you upgrade to a bigger monitor, like 20" or 22" that do 1680x1050, you'll see it's also time to upgrade your camera to one that fills the screen again. What you might really like is one that has Image Stabilization. That improves your low-light shutter speed by at least two settings. Your camera may take the photo at 1/30th of a second, but it's as crisp and stable as if it had been 1/60th.
Turning your Windows volume down is fine until you find a quicktime movie or flash video where the volume is set to maximum and it plays at 100% instead of your level. Or maybe that's just me because I've stayed with Win2K. Even if it doesn't do that, there's still plenty of sites where the video has been mixed too effing loud and it's clipping all to hell.
Some albums like Soundgarden - Superunknown from 1994 and Foo Fighters from 1995 still had much of their dynamic range. What changed in the late 90's was the overall volume was increased so much the peaks of the drums and bass got clipped. Doing that also deletes any other vocals or instruments playing during the clipped time. It's more like an analog volume adjustment of just sliding the volume up too high when mixing.
What's different now that the video shows is the peaks are not getting clipped anymore, instead they reach 0.0 db but the entire mix is digitally volume maximized so almost every single peak is that loud. Vocals and instruments like guitars are always the same maximum loudness. If the singer sings louder or plays harder the volume the listener hears doesn't change.
It's also why the theme song to Casino Royale, You Know My Name by Chris Cornell sounds so weak. Not only is it rock with orchestral backing, so it's already a wall of sound, but since everything is maximized, when Chris starts singing his lungs out there's no change in the volume. The power and energy of his voice and the music is just destroyed.
I think that depends on how often it's cleaned. In an office, the janitor may clean it every day or at least once a week. At home depending on the house it might be every two weeks or a month.
Here ya go. Watch for yourself, because I'm not getting paid to sell you it. Requires flash.
Judging from Gates' comments at D5, he expects future screens to have at least one camera to look at what users are doing such as pointing or touching the screen, and respond.
Not a problem if the cameras see the hands and arms attached to the fingertips. The cameras could see where a person is pointing from and where their eye level is to correct for parallax. Beyond that, software could try and notice when a user has to try two or three times to find the right finger position and adjust for that user. It could also see differences in fingertips such as fingernails and length, then store profiles to adjust for that user.
If I take water from a stream on your property, you have less to use. If I take a picture of your property, you can still take as many pictures of it as you like.
The Karma is a good player from what a read and a co-worker who is on his second one. On the first one the wheel protruding from the corner broke when he dropped it. He didn't drop it on purpose, but from what he'd heard that was a common problem with the model.
I really want whatever player I get next to have scrolling response that works excellently. From trying out iPod's, I know that player has it. It scrolls fast or slow as soon as I want it to.
nah I got the joke and added my own. I should've put a smiley at the end or something.
*winces* DIAF
Seriously true. I've got enough things I want to do that I'm sticking with Win2K. My configuration is relatively highly customized from the mouse settings, to my daily wallpaper rotator, to the twenty firefox extensions I have, to the way I have the file Explorer set up. Someday I will probably switch and a few months after that be happy with the system. While I'm customizing everything again I will not be having fun.
Seems like Ubuntu/Kubuntu could be like a Toyota Corolla. The basics are all there and relatively intuitive. The difference is that the operating system actually all kinds of configurable features. So on the car it's like every button or dial has a flip-open panel next to it with all kinds of options. Some intuitive, others not.
So when you go looking for the extras, you're going to have to ride the learning curve.
As for Gnome vs. KDE, some cars use a shifter in a straight line, others have a zig-zag path, other's have a race car-style shifter. When buying a car, you still have to learn the shifter and decide which one you're more likely to want. Learning to use the advanced radio controls is another one of those preference things.
You don't need to do hours of research until you want to add four wheel drive capability to your Corolla.
If every DC had shipped with those peripherals, there probably would have been great games for baseball and sword/club-using action games. No pack-in though as always means no uptake.
And what, exactly, makes establishing a second class citizenship either ethical or just, let alone democratic or republican?
There isn't. Once the immigrant becomes a citizen, he or she can become a slacker just like the natural-born.
You're presuming that it is not possible to take part in the politics or even the language without also having to conform to the "culture."
Hardly, culture can be a broad term. If it helps, ignore that word and focus on immigrants who aren't learning and participating in the language and politics.
Your only basis for denying a naturalized citizen all the rights and privileges they are entitled to is whether or not they modify their own personal behavior to better suit your tastes... You would deny extending those same rights, privileges and protections to naturalized citizens based solely on their birthplace.
Nope. Once immigrants become naturalized citizens they have all those rights and privileges. They have become naturalized citizens first though.
If it were truly necessary to be assimilated in French culture to truly grasp the ideals laid out in the Declaration, then the English-speaking United States would not be a republic. The whole point of the document is that it is the "Rights of Man," not "Rights of French Man." Picking and choosing who was entitled to these rights and who was not based on the nature of their birth and upbringing would have been no better than the arguments used by the ancien regime to justify their monarchical rule.
That is a non sequitur. Sure there are translations of French and English writings, but we're talking about people who don't want to read them.
Except that I'm the one here arguing that adherence to the law should be the only demand made of naturalized citizens,
We agree there.
you're the one insisting that adherence to cultural mores should be added to the list of requirements.
Not once they're citizens. I'm not saying adherence either. I'm just saying learn the language, learn and ideally participate in the politics, and want to integrate into the culture.
Besides, Catholic Irish weren't involved in making laws in Ireland at the time, which is why they left.
Non sequitur. How different were the laws in Ireland compared to the United States as compared to the differences between the laws of France and Sharia?
If a person meets the legal requirements for citizenship, what does it matter where they were born?
It doesn't. As long as they meet those requirements. The French may chose to require wannabe citizens learn the language, politics, and culture. How much or how well is another question.
Not only have you decided to put naturalized citizens on a lower tier than natural-born citizens, but now you seem to be subdividing the naturalized people, declaring some countries of origin more desirable than others
I answered the first part earlier. As for the second, I would equally welcome North Africans and Middle Easterners who want to or already know the native language, politics, and culture. Read back and you'll see I was hypothesizing on what if France removed controls on immigration and let people freely move in. Would it become an Islamic State, or would immigration from other places preclude that?
Why are you trying to give legal force to these unspoken "rules?" Why should immigrants be forced to go beyond the basic legal requirements of citizenship?
Natural-born citizens are allowed to live their lives as slackers if they want to. Many Western countries will not people who lack skills immigrate. There's already a higher bar for immigrants. Part of that bar should be immigrants should want to be a part of the country they're joining. Not learning and participating in the common language, politics, and culture is not taking part.
If the "they hate our freedom" argument held any water, they wouldn't be emigrating to begin with. But it is convenient to use to justify your requirements to assimilate as it attempts to justify your xenophobic attitude by making it into an "us or them" proposition. Does freedom of association only apply to those who you would be willing to associate with?
Your presumptions are so off the mark it's comical. You shouldn't be presuming anyway unless you're pretty sure of my position.
When I say "they", it should be clear to you I'm not talking about ALL immigrants. I'm only talking about the people who don't want to assimilate.
Islam is wholly incompatible with republican ideals? Freedom for everybody, so long as you have a Christian background?
Never said that either, genius. Stop making broad generalizations. Of course Islam is NOT WHOLLY incompatible with republican ideals. However, parts of Islam are incompatible. Depending on how the Koran is interpreted, an Islamic government will seek limits to more or less of those ideals. Look at Islam in Turkey or Indonesia for examples of how it is changing laws and freedoms. Look at many parts of the USA to see how more extreme interpretations of the Bible have changed laws and freedoms.
If French ideals and liberties can't be seen to apply to those from other cultures, then perhaps it's time to change the name of the document to the "Declaration of the Rights of White Men."
Or perhaps that's again nonsense. We're still talking about people who don't want to assimilate, but want to become citizens. It's these people who fail to recognize the importance of the French ideals and liberties.
Yeah, and accepting all those Catholic Irish immigrants managed to destroy the United States, I'm sure.
How different were the laws in Ireland compared to the laws in the USA at the time of the immigration wave? Right. Now compare the laws of France to Sharia. Oops, looks more like apples and oranges doesn't it?
If they are able to meet the requirements for naturalization, does it matter where they were born?
One final time you misunderstand. I'm considering the possibility that enough Eastern Europeans and non-Muslim Africans will immigrate as well to dilute the influence of the North Africans and Middle Eastern immigrants.
Is it not possible to be a law-abiding citizen without having to assimilate?
If people don't want to assimilate, they should not become citizens. If they don't assimilate, they are taking over the country and trying to make it like where they came from. If the native French people as a whole don't want to eventually be living under an Islamic government, they should not let in everyone who wants to move there and remake the country that way. If France removed controls on immigration and let people freely move in, that's what could happen. Though I wonder about what the proportion would be of Eastern Europeans to African to Middle Eastern/North African.
So it sounds like your brother is slowly working himself to death. Or at least he's not getting to enjoy enough of what else there is to do while alive. In exchange for this devotion, about what is his yearly salary?
He made a mod of his school because it's an environment he wanted to play in. FPS games are like cops and robbers meets paintball. He wanted to play his game in an environment he's familiar with.
I'd absolutely love to make a mod for a racing game of my neighborhood, the Bay Area. If hundreds of people uploaded photos of their houses and nearby buildings, that would be a start for modeling the environment. Then people could speed through the streets safely, without actually endangering anyone or breaking the law.
I'm so glad I wasn't eating or drinking just now. Thanks for the laugh.