There are actually some decent enlargement algorithms out there that can do better than you would probably think possible. Take a look at the vision chart image. GIGO is an unbeatable law, but there's a lot more you can do with "bad" input than most geeks think. Dude below talking about license plates has the right idea. If the missing information is present elsewhere in the image, or if you have prior knowledge, you can use that to reconstruct portions of the image you want. The more repeating patterns in the image, the better.
Are you kidding? Walking across Skyrim? Have you actually played the game? The dungeons would be doable. Worldmap? Not so much as you have to explore a lot (means walking) to find much of anything. FPS would be more ideal as you can play it in short bursts.
I have the Intel DZ77RE-75K. Great board, but I must say I haven't used the thunderbolt connection (yet). Perhaps for an external raid enclosure in the future, but for the moment, the internal raid is working just fine.
There was a war. About 20 percent of the "palestinians" chose to stay and fight with the Jews. They, and their children, are still living in Israel. Those who voluntarily left were not allowed to return. Then there were two more wars, instigated by the Muslims, in which Israel gained land. I don't think land Israelis paid for their lives for in a defensive war should be returned.
If Hamas, for example, was allowed concrete, they would build bunkers and fortified tunnels for smuggling rockets and it would never get to the people who need it. There are good reasons certain things are restricted.
Israelis do not hold that all Muslims or Arabs are not citizens. That is an important distinction which you miss, unintentionally or otherwise. There were no suicide bombers in SA either.
They treat people of different citizenship differently. Apartheid! They have the audacity to set up checkpoints at the border of their territory. Apartheid! My god. They built a wall. Apartheid! Never-mind the violence of the intifadas and the fact that the security measures have *worked*, it's "Apartheid!" This is nothing like SA, where there were laws in place discriminating against people on the basis of race. I see nothing wrong with treating people of different nationalities differently. Muslims who hold Israeli citizenship have *exactly* the same rights as Jews... in some cases even more considering they do not have to serve in the Military. Were this not the case, you might have a point, but it's not, and you don't. All you serve to do is insult the people who suffered under actual apartheid.
You do realize that whenever one of you assholes boycotts some Israeli company, I make sure to buy 2 of whatever they're selling. The latest was Sodastream. By all means, let me know what's made in the "occupied territories" so I can support them.
Are Quake 3 based, if I remember correctly, which is already open-source. What is the point of this, especially since it doesn't look like they've released the game assets?
You indeed *can* guarantee it won't record by analyzing traffic to and fro from the device, not to mention the likely effects on battery life recording all the time would have. Besides. Why the ever-living fuck would Google risk such bad PR if they were discovered doing such a thing? What would they have to gain from it, and considering the federal and state laws on recording conversations without permission, i could see some very severe penalties. WHY would they risk it. It's unrealistic paranoia and fud.
The device doesn't even have a dedicated internet connection. It can bluetooth tether or use wi-fi, but it's designed to work off-line, only connecting when it really needs a connection.
The device does not record constantly and doesn't even have a dedicated internet connection. How could it possibly be used as an always on surveillance device as suggested in TFA. It's FUD.
It's sensationalist to think Glass records and streams everything you see to Google. The way I understand it, it only records or takes a photo when you tell it to, and you can be a lot more discrete with a mobile phone camera (pretending to text) if you really want to record people without their permission. With glass you have to announce, out-loud, that you are recording. Labeling it "surveilance" is simply FUD. The device doesn't even have it's own dedicated internet connection. If the government/whoever wants to track you, there are any number of ways without glass, simplest being your phone or credit cards.
You don't directly. You suggest watching a documentary because of her interest in the subject and let it do the work. If she gets upset, she'll be upset at the documentary and you can always comfort her.
But it wasn't a fake terror op. As I see it, an undercover agent foiled a plot by volunteering and then surrendering. Nobody was "caught" other than in the sense an undercover operative was recklessly outed by the NYT. This was not a "false flag" attack or anything of the sort. Had an intelligence operative not volunteered, there would have been an actual terror attack, as there was just two years prior in 2009 that very nearly resulted in loss of life. As a result of what the agent did, lives were saved and nobody was ever in danger, as Obama said (and if you've read any of my posts, you'll no i'm hardly an Obama fan, nor was I of his predecessor, bush. As much as I like transparency, when it endangers intelligence operatives, it's not a good thing. There are instances where secrecy is a necessary thing, and when it comes to interfering with plots against the United States, it's a necessary thing. I realize how sometimes the government has cried wolf so many times and lied about so many things that it's hard to take any of their claims seriously, but sometimes there actually is a wolf.
I think you are confusing the two underwear bombers. The second was an agent. He volunteered so the plot would be stopped and handed the bomb over. What was the CIA supposed to do? Out one of their agents? Now I don't trust the government and agree airport security is nuts, but that doesn't mean there aren't constant plots to kill Americans.
How could, say, Christianity or Islam exist once we discover other species? Wouldn't it disprove creation mythology, by extension casting doubt on the rest of it? I don't think it's unrealistic to think that after a hundred of so years after first contact the last vestiges of religion would entirely disappear.
My favorite inconsistency from the last episode was with the "amplifier" in the latest episode. If they're flying around an amplifier that gets everything to work within miles, why do they need to attach a separate necklace to the missile launcher? Does it only work for the bad guys? Also. Once the power went out, the gun on the helicopter should not have fired as i'm pretty sure they're electrically powered. There are so many holes in the plot in every single episode. I must have missed where they explained how the power went out, though. It's explained the government was experimenting with ways to inhibit power selectively (and perhaps this went wrong), but nothing definitive has been said, unless I missed it. And yeah. The main character is not very interesting. Her mother is OK, though. I've always liked that actor since Lost. As to flashbacks... What else do you expect from JJ?
And yet B5 includes "souls". Humans and Minbari share souls, which in the show, are real. It's not just alien religion. It implies the religion, or at least part of it, holds validity. DS9 has similar religion too, even with gods that end up being powerful, energy based life forms, but it has no souls. Roddenberry's Star Trek was openly hostile towards religion, as I assume you know. I don't consider this unrealistic. I think if any civilization is going to get to the stars, it's going to have to abandon religion. If we don't we'll kill each other far before. Even if religion were not abandoned before making contact with other species, it certainly would be afterwards. It would disprove every single creation story. How could religion exist?!?!
I didn't see it that way. I mean the only "gods" in the show ended up being frauds (powerful energy based life forms that messed with our evolution so we would view them as gods). Even the soul hunters explained that if they did not capture the minds/souls before they died, they would be lost forever. About the only truly metaphysical thing in the show was Humans an Minbari sharing "souls" (some sort or re-incarnation), but even that could perhaps be explained away through the science of the series.
I do, however, agree that he was far too tolerant of religion. I would have preferred open hostility a-la Picard from Roddenberry's Star Trek. After he died, the series stopped criticizing religion openly and even broke his wishes by introducing it as a positive aspect of culture in DS9 (although even then, the "gods" are merely aliens.). Shows today are too politically correct. You won't see a speech like this today.
I think most networks today would get too many complaints if they openly bashed religion. It's too politically dangerous to rock the boat. It's a shame since that's exactly what good sci-fi is supposed to do.
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There are actually some decent enlargement algorithms out there that can do better than you would probably think possible. Take a look at the vision chart image. GIGO is an unbeatable law, but there's a lot more you can do with "bad" input than most geeks think. Dude below talking about license plates has the right idea. If the missing information is present elsewhere in the image, or if you have prior knowledge, you can use that to reconstruct portions of the image you want. The more repeating patterns in the image, the better.
Are you kidding? Walking across Skyrim? Have you actually played the game? The dungeons would be doable. Worldmap? Not so much as you have to explore a lot (means walking) to find much of anything. FPS would be more ideal as you can play it in short bursts.
This. And contact the authorities. Those countries do have a lot of terrorist activity.
I have the Intel DZ77RE-75K. Great board, but I must say I haven't used the thunderbolt connection (yet). Perhaps for an external raid enclosure in the future, but for the moment, the internal raid is working just fine.
Same exact config here and no issues. Make sure Chrome is up to date, maybe?
Gays can serve in the military. Even gay marriage is recognized, which is more than can be said for most of Europe or the US.
There was a war. About 20 percent of the "palestinians" chose to stay and fight with the Jews. They, and their children, are still living in Israel. Those who voluntarily left were not allowed to return. Then there were two more wars, instigated by the Muslims, in which Israel gained land. I don't think land Israelis paid for their lives for in a defensive war should be returned.
If Hamas, for example, was allowed concrete, they would build bunkers and fortified tunnels for smuggling rockets and it would never get to the people who need it. There are good reasons certain things are restricted.
Israelis do not hold that all Muslims or Arabs are not citizens. That is an important distinction which you miss, unintentionally or otherwise. There were no suicide bombers in SA either.
They treat people of different citizenship differently. Apartheid! They have the audacity to set up checkpoints at the border of their territory. Apartheid! My god. They built a wall. Apartheid! Never-mind the violence of the intifadas and the fact that the security measures have *worked*, it's "Apartheid!" This is nothing like SA, where there were laws in place discriminating against people on the basis of race. I see nothing wrong with treating people of different nationalities differently. Muslims who hold Israeli citizenship have *exactly* the same rights as Jews... in some cases even more considering they do not have to serve in the Military. Were this not the case, you might have a point, but it's not, and you don't. All you serve to do is insult the people who suffered under actual apartheid.
You do realize that whenever one of you assholes boycotts some Israeli company, I make sure to buy 2 of whatever they're selling. The latest was Sodastream. By all means, let me know what's made in the "occupied territories" so I can support them.
Are Quake 3 based, if I remember correctly, which is already open-source. What is the point of this, especially since it doesn't look like they've released the game assets?
You indeed *can* guarantee it won't record by analyzing traffic to and fro from the device, not to mention the likely effects on battery life recording all the time would have. Besides. Why the ever-living fuck would Google risk such bad PR if they were discovered doing such a thing? What would they have to gain from it, and considering the federal and state laws on recording conversations without permission, i could see some very severe penalties. WHY would they risk it. It's unrealistic paranoia and fud.
The device doesn't even have a dedicated internet connection. It can bluetooth tether or use wi-fi, but it's designed to work off-line, only connecting when it really needs a connection.
The device does not record constantly and doesn't even have a dedicated internet connection. How could it possibly be used as an always on surveillance device as suggested in TFA. It's FUD.
It's sensationalist to think Glass records and streams everything you see to Google. The way I understand it, it only records or takes a photo when you tell it to, and you can be a lot more discrete with a mobile phone camera (pretending to text) if you really want to record people without their permission. With glass you have to announce, out-loud, that you are recording. Labeling it "surveilance" is simply FUD. The device doesn't even have it's own dedicated internet connection. If the government/whoever wants to track you, there are any number of ways without glass, simplest being your phone or credit cards.
You don't directly. You suggest watching a documentary because of her interest in the subject and let it do the work. If she gets upset, she'll be upset at the documentary and you can always comfort her.
I was just thinking this. As repressive as China is, it's paradise compared to NK.
But it wasn't a fake terror op. As I see it, an undercover agent foiled a plot by volunteering and then surrendering. Nobody was "caught" other than in the sense an undercover operative was recklessly outed by the NYT. This was not a "false flag" attack or anything of the sort. Had an intelligence operative not volunteered, there would have been an actual terror attack, as there was just two years prior in 2009 that very nearly resulted in loss of life. As a result of what the agent did, lives were saved and nobody was ever in danger, as Obama said (and if you've read any of my posts, you'll no i'm hardly an Obama fan, nor was I of his predecessor, bush. As much as I like transparency, when it endangers intelligence operatives, it's not a good thing. There are instances where secrecy is a necessary thing, and when it comes to interfering with plots against the United States, it's a necessary thing. I realize how sometimes the government has cried wolf so many times and lied about so many things that it's hard to take any of their claims seriously, but sometimes there actually is a wolf.
Bankers. Bankers wouldn't stone me to death for who I fuck.
I think you are confusing the two underwear bombers. The second was an agent. He volunteered so the plot would be stopped and handed the bomb over. What was the CIA supposed to do? Out one of their agents? Now I don't trust the government and agree airport security is nuts, but that doesn't mean there aren't constant plots to kill Americans.
How could, say, Christianity or Islam exist once we discover other species? Wouldn't it disprove creation mythology, by extension casting doubt on the rest of it? I don't think it's unrealistic to think that after a hundred of so years after first contact the last vestiges of religion would entirely disappear.
My favorite inconsistency from the last episode was with the "amplifier" in the latest episode. If they're flying around an amplifier that gets everything to work within miles, why do they need to attach a separate necklace to the missile launcher? Does it only work for the bad guys? Also. Once the power went out, the gun on the helicopter should not have fired as i'm pretty sure they're electrically powered. There are so many holes in the plot in every single episode. I must have missed where they explained how the power went out, though. It's explained the government was experimenting with ways to inhibit power selectively (and perhaps this went wrong), but nothing definitive has been said, unless I missed it. And yeah. The main character is not very interesting. Her mother is OK, though. I've always liked that actor since Lost. As to flashbacks... What else do you expect from JJ?
And yet B5 includes "souls". Humans and Minbari share souls, which in the show, are real. It's not just alien religion. It implies the religion, or at least part of it, holds validity. DS9 has similar religion too, even with gods that end up being powerful, energy based life forms, but it has no souls. Roddenberry's Star Trek was openly hostile towards religion, as I assume you know. I don't consider this unrealistic. I think if any civilization is going to get to the stars, it's going to have to abandon religion. If we don't we'll kill each other far before. Even if religion were not abandoned before making contact with other species, it certainly would be afterwards. It would disprove every single creation story. How could religion exist?!?!
I didn't see it that way. I mean the only "gods" in the show ended up being frauds (powerful energy based life forms that messed with our evolution so we would view them as gods). Even the soul hunters explained that if they did not capture the minds/souls before they died, they would be lost forever. About the only truly metaphysical thing in the show was Humans an Minbari sharing "souls" (some sort or re-incarnation), but even that could perhaps be explained away through the science of the series.
I do, however, agree that he was far too tolerant of religion. I would have preferred open hostility a-la Picard from Roddenberry's Star Trek. After he died, the series stopped criticizing religion openly and even broke his wishes by introducing it as a positive aspect of culture in DS9 (although even then, the "gods" are merely aliens.). Shows today are too politically correct. You won't see a speech like this today.
I think most networks today would get too many complaints if they openly bashed religion. It's too politically dangerous to rock the boat. It's a shame since that's exactly what good sci-fi is supposed to do.