You're spot on there. We could even use that as an argument for the legal defense of Manning. If indeed the leak was in the interest of National Security (and I am almost convinced that it was), then in doing so Manning was actually performing his duty, and should be acquitted.
Well, Verizon spent $100 million on initial advertising push, and sold over a million units. Google spent $0 on advertising and sold 135 thousand units in the same period of time. Advertising works, folks. Google, which makes the bulk of its cash from advertising should have known that.
The technology already exists, and is already on the market. iZ3D 22" monitor retails on newegg for about $300. There are still a few problems (noticeable cross-talk) that still need to be ironed out, but given how this is the first monitor to actually hit the market I expect later editions to resolve this issue.
All modern school math texts are plagued by pathological examples, and the kind of formalized mathematics that is of little use to anyone who just started learning at the rudimentary level. Conversely, the oversimplified texts verbalize algebraics, which defeats the whole purpose of algebra. You'd be better off finding math texts from about 1961 and earlier.
There IS a test for intelligence. It's called IQ test (actually not a single test, but rather a battery of very different tests). The results of an IQ test are not score-based as your typical test would be. They are also normalized over a very wide large populations. IQ tests are also immutable -- they do not change over time, and you cannot study for an IQ test and get a better score, no matter how hard you try.
This was well-known, but rare issue following SP1 release. The complete description is here.
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Warning Data corruption may occur if either of the following conditions is true:
You use this registry value to enable 48-bit LBA support in the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional.
You install an earlier version of Windows on a disk partition that was previously created by a 48-bit aware operating system, such as Windows XP SP1. And that disk partition is equal to or larger than the current addressable limit of 137 GB.
I really don't understand why everyone bitches about DMV. I've been to many DMV offices around the country, and the only ones that truly suck are in New York City. Same goes for the Post Offices, Social Security Offices, etc. And if you want to talk about bureaucracy, try finding a private practitioner in NYC where you won't have to spend at least 1-2 hours filling out forms, and then spend another hour or two waiting in line to be seen.
Besides, we already have a health care system run by the government -- in the military. And having firsthand experience regarding the quality of health care in both military and civilian worlds, I can confidently make a claim: the corpsmen doctors and dentists take much better care of their patients than their civilian counterparts.
You mean the administration. They would care if the students themselves cared enough. It's way cheaper to fend off RIAA than to clean up after a riot. Of course they know it won't happen -- hell, most of the students don't even vote.
Case in point: what would happen to a restaurant if it were run like a music industry.
Once upon a time in America, a new restaurant opened its doors. The owners called it restaurant Medallika. The rumors of delicious food have started reaching far and wide, and the restaurant grew ever more popular. Every once in a while the chefs would change the menu, the reviews would pour in, and the ecstatic public scurried in to savor the taste of the latest offering. The owners called their regular patrons their "fanbase", and treated them like family. And in return, the patrons became so loyal, that even when the chefs occasionally fucked up, they would still come and even recommend the place to all their friends. And of course, when cooking their own food at home, the would try to reproduce their favorite Medallika recipes.
But the world did not stand still. Technological innovations were introduced, which enabled the customers to share their recipes with millions of others with a click of a button. The "fanbase" even had the audacity to create and sell "Restaurant Medallika" merchandise. The restaurant's popularity has now achieved exponential growth, and soon it became one of the most successful nationwide chains.
Then the lawyers came. Apparently there was an impending grave threat to the success of the franchise: some rogue customers were exchanging genuine restaurant's recipes, and cooking at home without compensation to the franchise. The lawyers said this was tantamount to stealing the restaurant's intellectual property. The owners pondered over this: the profits were clearly still growing, but what if the lawyers were right? Could it be true that the recipe sharers were cutting into the profits? In the end, it was decided that the rogue sharing must be stopped immediately. Legal actions were taken. First to fall was the "nerve center" of the rogue sharing "Sleepster". Many others followed, but something was not quite working. As soon as one of these "nerve centers" went down, another one spawned in its place. So it became necessary to go after rogue fans themselves. Restaurant would send agents to monitor people's eating habits in their homes, and report back if anyone was illegally infringing on the restaurant's intellectual property. Arrests soon followed.
The lawyers reported on the early successes of the campaign to curb "piracy", and collected their righteous reward. Then quite unexpectedly, the profits started falling. The lawyers conducted studies, and concluded that falling profits were the result of "piracy", and steps must be taken to pursue the rogues even more vigorously. More and more arrests followed. The lawyers stepped up their campaign. Then one day the restaurant Medallika opened its doors with a new menu, which all reviewers claimed was the best ever. But nobody came.
The money a drug company invests into R&D is an investment. You assume some of the risks granted by such an investment: whether the patents will be granted or rejected, unforeseen long-term side effects, class action lawsuits, etc. Moreover, since patents are granted by the government in the first place, it is the government's right to take them away as it sees fit.
We would attack Russia if we could do so with impunity, and if it were profitable in some way. The only way to do so at this time is to unleash the force of our think tanks. The wars of attrition are typically won by the side with better economy, not the better military. But best wars are won without a single bullet being fired. We flood their country with NGO's led by celebrity expatriates; we finance their political opposition, and then express outrage at their reaction to our "honorable" intentions.
The perception of terrorism created by mass media is big deal, however, since that's what keeps the viewers glued to tv sets. How often do you get to watch people jump out of the buildings over 400 meters tall? The cost of lives lost is immeasurable to the immediate families, but on the national level, it was a relatively small bump (six times as many people have died in car accidents the same year). Far more damage to the country resulted not directly from terrorist attacks, but from the policies our own government has put into place: insane air travel restrictions, the PATRIOT act, the second gulf war, etc. Mass appeal madness is the one thing we do very well.
Why oh why does it still take 2 minutes to trace a phone call back to the source? Haven't anyone heard of caller id lately? The days of relay boxes have been over for over 40 years! It doesn't take minutes to triangulate your mobile phone either.
As we all have all seen recently, it doesn't really matter how powerful an arsenal we have. In the war of conquest, nothing works short of genocide. Wake me up when they come up with something against tandem warhead RPG's and snipers.
In all likelihood, the brits knew who was behind it from the very beginning. The question was whether they would want to butt heads with Russia over a small nut like Litvinenko. The assasination in itself was merely a shot across Berezovsky's bow, who's lately become a major nuisance to Russia's geopolitical interests. In that sense, the alleged assasin has only done his duty for his country, nothing more, nothing less. Something else must have forced the issue to resurface -- perhaps the recent gas "shortage". If the Brits surrender Berezovsky they'll want something more substantial in return.
..and the personnel to handle everything from routine maintenance to casualty repair. Sure you have 'em... That's why the "bug juice" we had to drink on Saipan tasted like hydraulic fluid; but hey, all the testing equipment showed the water's fine!
At least, in the U.S. the primary benefactors of the tax dollars are the wealthy. (Also, the progressive tax system are based on income, not wealth; so your 50% figure is incorrect.) Neither our airline nor our food industry could self-sustain without tax dollars. Interstate highways and railway systems will fall apart without upkeep as well. Corporations could not resolve disputes peacefully without our court system, and their property would not be safe without professional police force. A significant portion of our tax revenue flows into armed forces upkeep, which is necessary to protect our investments overseas.
Look up "inverse telecine". Film material (24fps) transmitted in 1080i is nearly always hard-telicined 1080p source. IVTC allows seamless reconstruction of original 1080p frames. Video material (30fps) transmitted in 1080i cannot be inverse telecined, but can be "decombed", which involves weaving even and odd scanlines, a process which does degrade picture quality by 25-30%. There is but a handful of consumer television sets on the market with 1920X1080 native resolution, and none can perform ivtc in real time as yet. You can, however watch broadcast transport stream caps with a dscaler or mplayer ivtc filter if you have a sufficiently fast CPU (or GPU -- see for instance nvidia's purevideo product comparison specs here). The difference in picture quality will be significant.
Even if they collect taxes on recreational drugs, they will lose all the revenue from prescription drugs. There are no patents on marijuana. Pharmaceutical companies will quickly be put out of business. Prozac cannot compete with heroin.
I'd give virtual immortality a fair chance. Simulate a human on a quantum level in a virtual environment. Correct errors in protein production, and you can stop aging; you can then forget about silly things like cancer altogether. Accidental death or dismemberment? No problem -- just respawn a saved copy of yourself somewhere.
Yeah, and I suppose the entire continental US automatically came into possession of some polgrims from the Mayflower? And I guess the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Panama were a real threat to our way of life?
Actually, she has quite a following. Her vocal style follows traditional Japanese performing arts much more closely than modern j-pop. Aside from that, her music has overall more complexity and depth than Lennon's, and perhaps worth mentioning, several songs have made it into other performers' repertoirs.
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You're spot on there. We could even use that as an argument for the legal defense of Manning. If indeed the leak was in the interest of National Security (and I am almost convinced that it was), then in doing so Manning was actually performing his duty, and should be acquitted.
Well, Verizon spent $100 million on initial advertising push, and sold over a million units. Google spent $0 on advertising and sold 135 thousand units in the same period of time. Advertising works, folks. Google, which makes the bulk of its cash from advertising should have known that.
British police officers *do not* look like that :(
That's OK, US viewers certainly understand it, after all, the British police boxes likewise don't look on the inside like that (I hope).
But... but... but... what does SHE look like on the inside?
The technology already exists, and is already on the market. iZ3D 22" monitor retails on newegg for about $300. There are still a few problems (noticeable cross-talk) that still need to be ironed out, but given how this is the first monitor to actually hit the market I expect later editions to resolve this issue.
All modern school math texts are plagued by pathological examples, and the kind of formalized mathematics that is of little use to anyone who just started learning at the rudimentary level. Conversely, the oversimplified texts verbalize algebraics, which defeats the whole purpose of algebra. You'd be better off finding math texts from about 1961 and earlier.
There IS a test for intelligence. It's called IQ test (actually not a single test, but rather a battery of very different tests). The results of an IQ test are not score-based as your typical test would be. They are also normalized over a very wide large populations. IQ tests are also immutable -- they do not change over time, and you cannot study for an IQ test and get a better score, no matter how hard you try.
You use this registry value to enable 48-bit LBA support in the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional.
You install an earlier version of Windows on a disk partition that was previously created by a 48-bit aware operating system, such as Windows XP SP1. And that disk partition is equal to or larger than the current addressable limit of 137 GB.
I really don't understand why everyone bitches about DMV. I've been to many DMV offices around the country, and the only ones that truly suck are in New York City. Same goes for the Post Offices, Social Security Offices, etc. And if you want to talk about bureaucracy, try finding a private practitioner in NYC where you won't have to spend at least 1-2 hours filling out forms, and then spend another hour or two waiting in line to be seen.
Besides, we already have a health care system run by the government -- in the military. And having firsthand experience regarding the quality of health care in both military and civilian worlds, I can confidently make a claim: the corpsmen doctors and dentists take much better care of their patients than their civilian counterparts.
You mean the administration. They would care if the students themselves cared enough. It's way cheaper to fend off RIAA than to clean up after a riot. Of course they know it won't happen -- hell, most of the students don't even vote.
Case in point: what would happen to a restaurant if it were run like a music industry.
Once upon a time in America, a new restaurant opened its doors. The owners called it restaurant Medallika. The rumors of delicious food have started reaching far and wide, and the restaurant grew ever more popular. Every once in a while the chefs would change the menu, the reviews would pour in, and the ecstatic public scurried in to savor the taste of the latest offering. The owners called their regular patrons their "fanbase", and treated them like family. And in return, the patrons became so loyal, that even when the chefs occasionally fucked up, they would still come and even recommend the place to all their friends. And of course, when cooking their own food at home, the would try to reproduce their favorite Medallika recipes.
But the world did not stand still. Technological innovations were introduced, which enabled the customers to share their recipes with millions of others with a click of a button. The "fanbase" even had the audacity to create and sell "Restaurant Medallika" merchandise. The restaurant's popularity has now achieved exponential growth, and soon it became one of the most successful nationwide chains.
Then the lawyers came. Apparently there was an impending grave threat to the success of the franchise: some rogue customers were exchanging genuine restaurant's recipes, and cooking at home without compensation to the franchise. The lawyers said this was tantamount to stealing the restaurant's intellectual property. The owners pondered over this: the profits were clearly still growing, but what if the lawyers were right? Could it be true that the recipe sharers were cutting into the profits? In the end, it was decided that the rogue sharing must be stopped immediately. Legal actions were taken. First to fall was the "nerve center" of the rogue sharing "Sleepster". Many others followed, but something was not quite working. As soon as one of these "nerve centers" went down, another one spawned in its place. So it became necessary to go after rogue fans themselves. Restaurant would send agents to monitor people's eating habits in their homes, and report back if anyone was illegally infringing on the restaurant's intellectual property. Arrests soon followed.
The lawyers reported on the early successes of the campaign to curb "piracy", and collected their righteous reward. Then quite unexpectedly, the profits started falling. The lawyers conducted studies, and concluded that falling profits were the result of "piracy", and steps must be taken to pursue the rogues even more vigorously. More and more arrests followed. The lawyers stepped up their campaign. Then one day the restaurant Medallika opened its doors with a new menu, which all reviewers claimed was the best ever. But nobody came.
What happened?
The money a drug company invests into R&D is an investment. You assume some of the risks granted by such an investment: whether the patents will be granted or rejected, unforeseen long-term side effects, class action lawsuits, etc. Moreover, since patents are granted by the government in the first place, it is the government's right to take them away as it sees fit.
We would attack Russia if we could do so with impunity, and if it were profitable in some way. The only way to do so at this time is to unleash the force of our think tanks. The wars of attrition are typically won by the side with better economy, not the better military. But best wars are won without a single bullet being fired. We flood their country with NGO's led by celebrity expatriates; we finance their political opposition, and then express outrage at their reaction to our "honorable" intentions.
The perception of terrorism created by mass media is big deal, however, since that's what keeps the viewers glued to tv sets. How often do you get to watch people jump out of the buildings over 400 meters tall? The cost of lives lost is immeasurable to the immediate families, but on the national level, it was a relatively small bump (six times as many people have died in car accidents the same year). Far more damage to the country resulted not directly from terrorist attacks, but from the policies our own government has put into place: insane air travel restrictions, the PATRIOT act, the second gulf war, etc. Mass appeal madness is the one thing we do very well.
Why oh why does it still take 2 minutes to trace a phone call back to the source? Haven't anyone heard of caller id lately? The days of relay boxes have been over for over 40 years! It doesn't take minutes to triangulate your mobile phone either.
As we all have all seen recently, it doesn't really matter how powerful an arsenal we have. In the war of conquest, nothing works short of genocide. Wake me up when they come up with something against tandem warhead RPG's and snipers.
In all likelihood, the brits knew who was behind it from the very beginning. The question was whether they would want to butt heads with Russia over a small nut like Litvinenko. The assasination in itself was merely a shot across Berezovsky's bow, who's lately become a major nuisance to Russia's geopolitical interests. In that sense, the alleged assasin has only done his duty for his country, nothing more, nothing less. Something else must have forced the issue to resurface -- perhaps the recent gas "shortage". If the Brits surrender Berezovsky they'll want something more substantial in return.
..and the personnel to handle everything from routine maintenance to casualty repair. Sure you have 'em... That's why the "bug juice" we had to drink on Saipan tasted like hydraulic fluid; but hey, all the testing equipment showed the water's fine!At least, in the U.S. the primary benefactors of the tax dollars are the wealthy. (Also, the progressive tax system are based on income, not wealth; so your 50% figure is incorrect.) Neither our airline nor our food industry could self-sustain without tax dollars. Interstate highways and railway systems will fall apart without upkeep as well. Corporations could not resolve disputes peacefully without our court system, and their property would not be safe without professional police force. A significant portion of our tax revenue flows into armed forces upkeep, which is necessary to protect our investments overseas.
Does anyone know if Firefox 2 supports freetype 2 properly through its api? FF 1.5 has been a bitch to get to display Vista Cleartype fonts correctly.
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Look up "inverse telecine". Film material (24fps) transmitted in 1080i is nearly always hard-telicined 1080p source. IVTC allows seamless reconstruction of original 1080p frames. Video material (30fps) transmitted in 1080i cannot be inverse telecined, but can be "decombed", which involves weaving even and odd scanlines, a process which does degrade picture quality by 25-30%. There is but a handful of consumer television sets on the market with 1920X1080 native resolution, and none can perform ivtc in real time as yet. You can, however watch broadcast transport stream caps with a dscaler or mplayer ivtc filter if you have a sufficiently fast CPU (or GPU -- see for instance nvidia's purevideo product comparison specs here). The difference in picture quality will be significant.
Even if they collect taxes on recreational drugs, they will lose all the revenue from prescription drugs. There are no patents on marijuana. Pharmaceutical companies will quickly be put out of business. Prozac cannot compete with heroin.
I'd give virtual immortality a fair chance. Simulate a human on a quantum level in a virtual environment. Correct errors in protein production, and you can stop aging; you can then forget about silly things like cancer altogether. Accidental death or dismemberment? No problem -- just respawn a saved copy of yourself somewhere.
Yeah, and I suppose the entire continental US automatically came into possession of some polgrims from the Mayflower? And I guess the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Panama were a real threat to our way of life?
Actually, she has quite a following. Her vocal style follows traditional Japanese performing arts much more closely than modern j-pop. Aside from that, her music has overall more complexity and depth than Lennon's, and perhaps worth mentioning, several songs have made it into other performers' repertoirs.