Don't know the swedish law, but here it is illegal to profit from pornography of people under 18, but the it is not child-pornography. Child pornography has particular harsh laws and only apply to pornography with actual children, not teenagers or young adults.
I think someone confused Sweden and Scandinavia. Swedes are prudes, and have really weird laws. Denmark on the hand has legalized prostitution, and considers nudity acceptable most places, and sex in public legal as long as you "try" to be discrete.
And nudity isn't considered pornographic or even indecent in Denmark. Some parent groups are starting to act weird, and child pornography is banned in Denmark, but child pornography in Denmark does not mean under US legal-consent teenagers, it means tweens or younger.
additionally, there would be NO functional indicators for alt, speed, horizon, etc. Once the computers have faulted, they no longer share that information.
Alt. must have worked it is recorded correctly by the black box, I see no reason to believe horizon shouldn't have been working, so only visual and speed was impaired. That is still a difficult situation, so no reason to exaggerate it.
Well, if the pilots really did have to make a guess based on faulty input, then "pilot failure" might be better than "pilot fault". In this case though I find it very hard to figure out anything that would justify the nose-up input after two stall warnings, incompetence or perhaps overly tired pilots seems to be the only explanation, but not being an expert on forensics of airplane crashes, I am however willing to accept whatever the continued investigation finds.
No they didn't realize the situation because they didn't know flight actually works. In other words the pilots did not know how to fly an airplane, once the autopilot stopped, because human intervention was needed, the plane was doomed, because the pilots couldn't fly. They reacted to a stalling airplane by pointing the nose of the plane even more upwards and trying to boost power, apparently thinking that would work *FACEPALM*!!!
IT';s kind of sad. Watching a good journalist get sucked in like that.
What makes you think she is a good journalist or sucked in?
The most logical explanation is that she knows what she is doing. It would explain the consistent form-change, and the over-the-top conspiracy theory that would guarantee her free publicity and probably even make people who thinks it sounds stupid, buy the book, in order to find out where it is coming from, or to have laugh.
Sounds to me more like an evil journalist than a good journalist.
Yes, it is very impressive. If I remember correctly hq2x and hq4x are not even real algorithms, they are hand-written tables designed to work well. Even if the new algorithm was not a visual improvement (it is), it would still be impressive.
The hq2x and hq4x filter are all specially made to handle pixel art shapes. Even the generic filters are selected for their ability to upscale pixel art well.
Depends on the environment in which you use the device. If you're in what the sysadmins call "the Big Blue Room", light is coming from a single, very strong source set very far away. If you are in an office with little natural lighting, then you've got dozens of weak light sources scattered all over the place.
No, try looking up a technology called "ambient light", there is an amazing amount if it in "the big blue room", much more than in a indoor office setting. So anything you said about an indoor office is more true outside.
Serious, going outside, you should try it. For extra credit: Figure out how the lighting "algorithm" there works, it is some awesome shit;-)
Anyway the discussion is moving to stupid area, neither normal glossy screens nor matte screens will actually work with the sun in the back, a very good matte screen is almost usable, but not really. When the sun is not in the back a glossy screen is still useless outside in sunshine, and a matte screen works but looks like shit. Indoor they are the same as long as you aren't spooked by your own reflection, and in show-room or store a glossy screen beats the shit out of a matte.
Thanks for making me feel young. My first PC, which I bought in 1992 for my hard-earned newspaper-boy money had a 1024x768 14" screen which was standard at the time (actually the screen could do 1280x1024 as well, but only at 60Hz). I only saw lower resolutions on C64, Amstrads and first generation IBM PCs in the 1980s.
Anyway, yes this means we are back to 1992 in vertical resolution... (and at a lower refresh rate)
I accidentally bought a Thinkpad Edge, in part because I wanted to support the daring move from Lenovo of making good laptops that also looked good. Unfortunately the screen only came in glossy, but I though Lenovo would have compensated with anti-reflective coating, I though Thinkpad would always have good hardware, so I bought it.... But no!!! it was glossy, it was very glossy and it wasn't normal glossy, it was "infinity glass" and worse than any glossy screen I have ever seen, combined with the retardedly backwards low-end resolution of 768p I am so glad I send it back, and I am so glad the shop took it back. I felt sick for a week after having bought that useless piece of shit.
No, norse language did not branch off west germanic languages..
Germanic languages split into three somewhere around North Germany/South Scandinavia: East, West and North, but East Germanic languages later died out.
English is close to Icelandic and Danish, because Denmark conquered and settled England for a century or so around 1000AD, straightening out most of the grammatics of verbs (only the am/are/is separation survived), setting the names of the week-days, introducing danish derived names for life and death, and in general creating a foundation for better understanding between English and North Germanic Languages.
But yes, even without a language-sanity training at swords-point North and West Germanic languages are still closer than Germanic and Italic languages.
> For example: > If you wish to develop for OSX, you are limited in your choices. Nope. Not yet, anyway
> If you wish to develop for Windows, you are limited in your choices. Nope. Not in any way what so ever
> If you wish to develop for.NET, you are limited in your choices. Naaa, not really. It is like saying if you develop C++ you are limited C++, in other words: Stupid
> If you wish to develop for a game console, you are limited in your choices. Yes, they are like smart phones
> If you wish to develop for the web, you are limited in your choices. Nope, see the the.NET argument
Wow, that was a surprisingly bad list of examples, only one was true and the rest was not even remotely true. I could come up with one or two examples that would fit your point, but I really don't see the point. A few specific platforms has stupid rule(r)s that really suck, and the fact that there is now more than one device of that kind, doesn't make it a good or acceptable thing.
But I guess I am expecting too much for people to RTFM.
Good point, but you know I could also use a browser where I didn't have to read manual in order to use it?
I like short-cuts, but if they are not 100% standard across all applications I use or displayed on the screen constantly at all times, they are not really any good.
Sweden is a very online nation, you will also see Oslo on the list, again Norway is another very online nation but Oslo if a fair bit smaller than Stockholm. Additionally people living in Stockholm has an unusually high concentration of delusional people who truly believe Stockholm is of any real significance.
But, they explain later that the method they used makes the comparison warped towards cities closer to the poles. So that might explain it better than the mad Swedish theory;)
Error-correction is not needed when you don't do compression (notice how there is error-correction on the compressed channels?) A single pixel error displayed for a fraction of a second is not important, and adding error-correction would increase the bandwidth making the cable more susceptible to errors. Signal errors is a hit or miss thing, there is either a lot of them because there is electromagnetic noise, or there is so few it doesn't matter unless error has cascading effects.
The YUV picture formats used by MPEG and thus DVDs are often supersampled (downscaled) from a higher resolution. There is in YUV signals a slight bias to the sampling that means it carries a hint about how a good upscaling to twice the resolution (1->2x2) should look like. Especially interlaced YUV picture streams can be upscaled with very good results, but only by a good upscaler, a poor upscaler fucks up interlacing and doesn't use the hints.
If the signal has been encoded properly and is properly upscaled again, you can actually do a lot better than scaling pictures in photoshop.
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Don't know the swedish law, but here it is illegal to profit from pornography of people under 18, but the it is not child-pornography. Child pornography has particular harsh laws and only apply to pornography with actual children, not teenagers or young adults.
I think someone confused Sweden and Scandinavia. Swedes are prudes, and have really weird laws. Denmark on the hand has legalized prostitution, and considers nudity acceptable most places, and sex in public legal as long as you "try" to be discrete.
What difference would that make? The legal age for consent in Scandinavia is not 18. This story doesn't make any sense.
And nudity isn't considered pornographic or even indecent in Denmark. Some parent groups are starting to act weird, and child pornography is banned in Denmark, but child pornography in Denmark does not mean under US legal-consent teenagers, it means tweens or younger.
Alt. must have worked it is recorded correctly by the black box, I see no reason to believe horizon shouldn't have been working, so only visual and speed was impaired. That is still a difficult situation, so no reason to exaggerate it.
Well, if the pilots really did have to make a guess based on faulty input, then "pilot failure" might be better than "pilot fault". In this case though I find it very hard to figure out anything that would justify the nose-up input after two stall warnings, incompetence or perhaps overly tired pilots seems to be the only explanation, but not being an expert on forensics of airplane crashes, I am however willing to accept whatever the continued investigation finds.
No they didn't realize the situation because they didn't know flight actually works. In other words the pilots did not know how to fly an airplane, once the autopilot stopped, because human intervention was needed, the plane was doomed, because the pilots couldn't fly. They reacted to a stalling airplane by pointing the nose of the plane even more upwards and trying to boost power, apparently thinking that would work *FACEPALM*!!!
What makes you think she is a good journalist or sucked in?
The most logical explanation is that she knows what she is doing. It would explain the consistent form-change, and the over-the-top conspiracy theory that would guarantee her free publicity and probably even make people who thinks it sounds stupid, buy the book, in order to find out where it is coming from, or to have laugh.
Sounds to me more like an evil journalist than a good journalist.
I too doubt Apple copied LG, but there are essentially two conclusions to draw from that story:
1) Apple copied LG
2) Two devices can look similar without copying each other.
I find case 2) to be more interesting to the Samsung-Apple case.
Yes, it is very impressive. If I remember correctly hq2x and hq4x are not even real algorithms, they are hand-written tables designed to work well. Even if the new algorithm was not a visual improvement (it is), it would still be impressive.
The hq2x and hq4x filter are all specially made to handle pixel art shapes. Even the generic filters are selected for their ability to upscale pixel art well.
No, try looking up a technology called "ambient light", there is an amazing amount if it in "the big blue room", much more than in a indoor office setting. So anything you said about an indoor office is more true outside.
Serious, going outside, you should try it. For extra credit: Figure out how the lighting "algorithm" there works, it is some awesome shit ;-)
Anyway the discussion is moving to stupid area, neither normal glossy screens nor matte screens will actually work with the sun in the back, a very good matte screen is almost usable, but not really. When the sun is not in the back a glossy screen is still useless outside in sunshine, and a matte screen works but looks like shit. Indoor they are the same as long as you aren't spooked by your own reflection, and in show-room or store a glossy screen beats the shit out of a matte.
Thanks for making me feel young. My first PC, which I bought in 1992 for my hard-earned newspaper-boy money had a 1024x768 14" screen which was standard at the time (actually the screen could do 1280x1024 as well, but only at 60Hz). I only saw lower resolutions on C64, Amstrads and first generation IBM PCs in the 1980s.
Anyway, yes this means we are back to 1992 in vertical resolution... (and at a lower refresh rate)
I accidentally bought a Thinkpad Edge, in part because I wanted to support the daring move from Lenovo of making good laptops that also looked good. Unfortunately the screen only came in glossy, but I though Lenovo would have compensated with anti-reflective coating, I though Thinkpad would always have good hardware, so I bought it.... But no!!! it was glossy, it was very glossy and it wasn't normal glossy, it was "infinity glass" and worse than any glossy screen I have ever seen, combined with the retardedly backwards low-end resolution of 768p I am so glad I send it back, and I am so glad the shop took it back. I felt sick for a week after having bought that useless piece of shit.
No, I prefer moving pictures, and hate ghosts, and the smell of fried cat.
No, norse language did not branch off west germanic languages..
Germanic languages split into three somewhere around North Germany/South Scandinavia: East, West and North, but East Germanic languages later died out.
English is close to Icelandic and Danish, because Denmark conquered and settled England for a century or so around 1000AD, straightening out most of the grammatics of verbs (only the am/are/is separation survived), setting the names of the week-days, introducing danish derived names for life and death, and in general creating a foundation for better understanding between English and North Germanic Languages.
But yes, even without a language-sanity training at swords-point North and West Germanic languages are still closer than Germanic and Italic languages.
> For example:
> If you wish to develop for OSX, you are limited in your choices.
Nope. Not yet, anyway
> If you wish to develop for Windows, you are limited in your choices.
Nope. Not in any way what so ever
> If you wish to develop for .NET, you are limited in your choices.
Naaa, not really. It is like saying if you develop C++ you are limited C++, in other words: Stupid
> If you wish to develop for a game console, you are limited in your choices.
Yes, they are like smart phones
> If you wish to develop for the web, you are limited in your choices. .NET argument
Nope, see the the
Wow, that was a surprisingly bad list of examples, only one was true and the rest was not even remotely true. I could come up with one or two examples that would fit your point, but I really don't see the point. A few specific platforms has stupid rule(r)s that really suck, and the fact that there is now more than one device of that kind, doesn't make it a good or acceptable thing.
No, in hell the barmen are swedish and so are the bar-prices.
Barman: Are you sure you sure you should be having ANOTHER beer? you have already had ONE!
If netbooks are not supposed to run GNOME3, why has it been simplified to better fit tablets and netbooks but screwing desktops?
In my high schools a solution you couldn't argue for was considered failed because it could have been calculated by a calculator.
Good point, but you know I could also use a browser where I didn't have to read manual in order to use it?
I like short-cuts, but if they are not 100% standard across all applications I use or displayed on the screen constantly at all times, they are not really any good.
Wow, you mean like in other browsers since the year 2000?
Sweden is a very online nation, you will also see Oslo on the list, again Norway is another very online nation but Oslo if a fair bit smaller than Stockholm. Additionally people living in Stockholm has an unusually high concentration of delusional people who truly believe Stockholm is of any real significance.
But, they explain later that the method they used makes the comparison warped towards cities closer to the poles. So that might explain it better than the mad Swedish theory ;)
Error-correction is not needed when you don't do compression (notice how there is error-correction on the compressed channels?) A single pixel error displayed for a fraction of a second is not important, and adding error-correction would increase the bandwidth making the cable more susceptible to errors. Signal errors is a hit or miss thing, there is either a lot of them because there is electromagnetic noise, or there is so few it doesn't matter unless error has cascading effects.
The YUV picture formats used by MPEG and thus DVDs are often supersampled (downscaled) from a higher resolution. There is in YUV signals a slight bias to the sampling that means it carries a hint about how a good upscaling to twice the resolution (1->2x2) should look like. Especially interlaced YUV picture streams can be upscaled with very good results, but only by a good upscaler, a poor upscaler fucks up interlacing and doesn't use the hints.
If the signal has been encoded properly and is properly upscaled again, you can actually do a lot better than scaling pictures in photoshop.