It gets them MORE; the public success of a witch-hunt is measured in the gross number of people accused, not the net number actually guilty of anything.
I think that it goes to show that legislating each and every thing that can impair your driving is stupid. Get rid of the DUI laws, the cell-phone laws, etc, and just ban "dangerous driving". If you're weaving all over the place, I don't care if the phone is off or in your ear.
CMOS devices (as used in most modern computer chips) are built around a thin layer of oxide insulating the gate from the source and drain. There are also oxide regions isolating devices from one another on the substrate. That said, I'm not sure what sort of state the oxides maintain that the rest of the device does not.
You are apparently so convinced that the objectives of Iran in the Middle East are peaceful and that Mr. Ahmadinejad's numerous statements to the contrary are simply a misunderstanding that I cannot justify listening to you further. He has and continues to encourage violence against specific ethnic groups who he perceives to have slighted him, and has made no move to work towards a more peaceful Middle East (that doesn't involve the removal of all native sects besides his own).
A brief glance reveals that the link you gave is not a list of calls to destroy Israel.
My apologies. There is also a smattering of bigotry, hate, and encouragement of violence upon the western way of life. Nothing in there preaching tolerance or discouraging suicide attacks on nations you've been told to disagree with though.
Where in there does the word "Israel" even appear?
I don't know the Persian term for Israel. You claim 'Qods' means 'Jerusalem', which as the capital of Israel makes it a suitable substitution ("Destroy America" vs "Destroy Washington"; the latter may be directed more against the government than the people, but indicates the same locale).
He is talking about the regime. We do not recognise legally this regime.
Yes, destroying the government of Israel is MUCH nicer than destroying the nation if Israel. I can see where I screwed up the distinction there. My bad. Not.
You will also find Ahmedinejad saying stupid stuff. What you will not find is any talk of Iranian military aggression against Israel.
Of course we won't. What you will find is encouragement of privately managed terrorist attacks, as well as agression by neighbor states such as Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. It's like saying there were no Americans in Laos (No soldiers maybe; lots of American guns and rockets).
Brazil is indeed not known to have threatened map-wiping in recent history, but then neither is Iran, so you have failed to make any point there.
A convenient listing of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls to destroy Israel, including this gem that directly addresses 'map wiping':
"Israel must be wiped off the map... The establishment of a Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world... The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land." -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, October 26, 2005
A restriction of press freedoms is "anything to put Chavez in a bad light"? As far as I know, the organizations that have come out against this move also criticize similar policies in other South American countries. Chavez's move is in the news while the others are not because RCTV just got closed; the surrounding dictators have been clamped down for years.
That actually makes sense. I wonder if a similar effect could be created in an electric oven by adding a bowl of water on an unused shelf. I shall have to find a friend with a gas oven and do some testing.
Just because the whole region is fucked for freedoms doesn't make it ok. When you can't be critical of your government anymore, there's a serious problem. Just because the people who own the station happen to be rich doesn't mean anything (Al Gore is rich! Let's ban his movie!). I would suspect though that those interested in the closed station's message are not merely the wealthy elite, as RCTV was one of the more popular networks in Venezuela (and apparently continues to garner viewership online).
As for some group of ne'er-do-wells owning the country, is replacing them with Hugo Chavez any better? You still have a tiny elite ruling over a sea of peasants. The only reason the man is in power is by giving handouts to the poor with his campaign message attached, at government expense. If George Bush had run GWB '04 hot dog stands outside American polling places using government funds, you'd be up in arms.
What property of electric ovens is it that harms the taste of your food? Both gas and electric ovens heat the air around the dish being cooked... the only difference I can see is that an improperly ventilated gas oven is going to fill the chamber with fumes.
In comparing lossy codecs, naturally you would want to generate some sort of error metric to compare different encoding schemes at a given bitrate. For something like Blu-ray, the media size is determined by existing manufacturing, date density by the limits of the new recording process, and the length of the recordings by the typical range of feature lengths. Codec is really the only twiddle factor in that situation. It would be interesting to see what metric was actually used in that determination, whether they developed an actual algorithm to compare video streams run through various candidate schemes or whether it was a simple A/B test like in the Maximum PC article.
I wouldn't put it past the record companies (and the current trend of economy-controlling governments) to get the American government to buy licenses for the whole population one day, under the argument that they can't effectively license individuals. This is something that has already been done on some college campuses with music subscription services.
I would say that the lower the bitrate a lossless codec can encode to, the better. That is, after all, the whole point of such things: Preserve the original data in as small a representation as possible. As for their preferred bitrate, one of the bigger weaknesses of Maximum PC (I'm a subscriber) is that their 'standard' specs are absurdly high (I would point out a review this month of a 7" LCD with 1280x1024 resolution being called "lower than we'd prefer").
Back when PlayFair and then Hymn came out, there was a clear note in the readme saying that your account info was still in the (un-DRMed) file, and thus you shouldn't go sharing your now-freed files.
What exactly is this literary value you speak of then? If a telling of a story is both entertaining and thought provoking, what more do you want from it? What is a story you would find to possess such value?
The article that you link gives many benefits of fuel injected engines over those equipped with carburetors, but does not make any argument as to the effectiveness of electronic fuel injection over a mechanical fuel injection system. Rather than using a computer interface to adjust the fuel mixture for optimal efficiency, you make mechanical adjustments with a screwdriver or a wrench. The benefits of having fuel squirted into the cylinder by a controlled nozzle rather than evaporated out of a little dish are present regardless of what controls that flow.
As for ABS failures, firstly there are mechanical implementations of ABS, and secondly the mechanical system is still present even in vehicles with electronic ABS. When the ABS computer fails it simply doesn't interrupt the brakes during lockup. I have seen more serious failures of computerized systems, however, where a faulty sensor goes undetected and the brakes interrupt even in non-lockup situations (resulting in absurdly long braking distances).
Interestingly enough, domestic surveillance cameras will be justified by saying that they only record what could be seen from public places anyway... ahh double standards for organizations against individuals.
VGA and DVI claim to deliver 8 bits of precision per channel; these Apple LCDs are only capable of displaying 6 bits of precision. Yes, there is loss in any computer display due to the nature of color triad-based pixels. This problem goes beyond that, and introduces unexpected dithering artifacts into the image. It is entirely possible to create images that look great at 6 bits per channel, but since the downsampling is done at the display rather than by the system, and because the user was not expecting the reduced precision, it oftentimes looks like crap (quick example I've seen is the top toolbar in Firefox; the slight gradient doesn't look pretty when it gets dithered).
Our wonderful nanny state has established so many regulations regarding cars that it is impossible to simply end support of a line of cars. Spares and safety still have to be assured, even if the user is willing to accept responsibility (as I am well aware EV-1 owners were willing to do). That you think it would need to be mandatory for manufacturers to produce a certain quota of electric cars regardless of actual market demand shows that you if anything support this sort of overregulation.
I would say that's a market desire for big trucks over full-size cars. The point was that American car manufacturers offer vehicles with decent mileage, not that the American market looks for them. I would argue that those figures are even more damning for increased mileage standards, since the population at large has shown with their wallets that size is more important than fuel consumption.
My Malibu is one of the "new malibus" that you malign (1998). I don't think you're getting the engine out without a hoist and a friend. Doing a quick wiki, the LG8 engine in the Malibu puts out 175hp, whilst the 4 cylinder shipped in a Camry of similar vintage develops 120hp with its 5S-FE. Maybe you get a lot of power out of those Japanese engines once you put turbochargers and nitrous oxide systems on them, but at that point your mileage and environmental impact have taken just a bit of a hit.
My Chevy Malibu with the big engine option get 35 highway; it's all how you drive it. I'm sure with the V4 I could do even better. You seem to see only the 'halo' vehicles like Hummer and Corvette in your mental image of Detroit.
It was our litigous society that killed the EV-1. There was a time when you could sell things and let the buyer bear the risk that it breaks. Nowadays, if you don't agree to support a car and pay for damages, you get sued.
I don't know about you, but my last sofa, tv, and computer were paid for without the use of credit. Credit cards were involved purely for the rewards points; it could have just as easily been accomplished with cash.
Roman Catholic opposition to birth control is based on very strong religious reasons: they believe that sex is immoral, and should be engaged in only for creating more followers of the Church and even then should not be enjoyed.
Moral reasons are not why we have laws; laws are passed to ensure the safety and stability of society. We prohibit theft not because taking from others for your own benefit is immoral (we actually have laws explicitly designed to take from some groups and give to others), but because if people cannot be assured of the fruits of their labors they would be less inclined to be productive. Thus, the Church and other groups oppose promiscuous sex not by saying that it is immoral or shallow, but on the grounds that it produces a population of children without a father figure (which it is then presumed makes them less able members of society). Arguments against the use of birth control attempt to maintain this social cause to discourage sex for pleasure, despite technological developments making it not a social issue.
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It gets them MORE; the public success of a witch-hunt is measured in the gross number of people accused, not the net number actually guilty of anything.
I think that it goes to show that legislating each and every thing that can impair your driving is stupid. Get rid of the DUI laws, the cell-phone laws, etc, and just ban "dangerous driving". If you're weaving all over the place, I don't care if the phone is off or in your ear.
CMOS devices (as used in most modern computer chips) are built around a thin layer of oxide insulating the gate from the source and drain. There are also oxide regions isolating devices from one another on the substrate. That said, I'm not sure what sort of state the oxides maintain that the rest of the device does not.
You are apparently so convinced that the objectives of Iran in the Middle East are peaceful and that Mr. Ahmadinejad's numerous statements to the contrary are simply a misunderstanding that I cannot justify listening to you further. He has and continues to encourage violence against specific ethnic groups who he perceives to have slighted him, and has made no move to work towards a more peaceful Middle East (that doesn't involve the removal of all native sects besides his own).
A brief glance reveals that the link you gave is not a list of calls to destroy Israel.
My apologies. There is also a smattering of bigotry, hate, and encouragement of violence upon the western way of life. Nothing in there preaching tolerance or discouraging suicide attacks on nations you've been told to disagree with though.
Where in there does the word "Israel" even appear?
I don't know the Persian term for Israel. You claim 'Qods' means 'Jerusalem', which as the capital of Israel makes it a suitable substitution ("Destroy America" vs "Destroy Washington"; the latter may be directed more against the government than the people, but indicates the same locale).
He is talking about the regime. We do not recognise legally this regime.
Yes, destroying the government of Israel is MUCH nicer than destroying the nation if Israel. I can see where I screwed up the distinction there. My bad. Not.
You will also find Ahmedinejad saying stupid stuff. What you will not find is any talk of Iranian military aggression against Israel.
Of course we won't. What you will find is encouragement of privately managed terrorist attacks, as well as agression by neighbor states such as Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. It's like saying there were no Americans in Laos (No soldiers maybe; lots of American guns and rockets).
Brazil is indeed not known to have threatened map-wiping in recent history, but then neither is Iran, so you have failed to make any point there.
... The establishment of a Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world ... The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land." -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, October 26, 2005
A convenient listing of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls to destroy Israel, including this gem that directly addresses 'map wiping':
"Israel must be wiped off the map
A restriction of press freedoms is "anything to put Chavez in a bad light"? As far as I know, the organizations that have come out against this move also criticize similar policies in other South American countries. Chavez's move is in the news while the others are not because RCTV just got closed; the surrounding dictators have been clamped down for years.
That actually makes sense. I wonder if a similar effect could be created in an electric oven by adding a bowl of water on an unused shelf. I shall have to find a friend with a gas oven and do some testing.
Just because the whole region is fucked for freedoms doesn't make it ok. When you can't be critical of your government anymore, there's a serious problem. Just because the people who own the station happen to be rich doesn't mean anything (Al Gore is rich! Let's ban his movie!). I would suspect though that those interested in the closed station's message are not merely the wealthy elite, as RCTV was one of the more popular networks in Venezuela (and apparently continues to garner viewership online).
As for some group of ne'er-do-wells owning the country, is replacing them with Hugo Chavez any better? You still have a tiny elite ruling over a sea of peasants. The only reason the man is in power is by giving handouts to the poor with his campaign message attached, at government expense. If George Bush had run GWB '04 hot dog stands outside American polling places using government funds, you'd be up in arms.
What property of electric ovens is it that harms the taste of your food? Both gas and electric ovens heat the air around the dish being cooked ... the only difference I can see is that an improperly ventilated gas oven is going to fill the chamber with fumes.
In comparing lossy codecs, naturally you would want to generate some sort of error metric to compare different encoding schemes at a given bitrate. For something like Blu-ray, the media size is determined by existing manufacturing, date density by the limits of the new recording process, and the length of the recordings by the typical range of feature lengths. Codec is really the only twiddle factor in that situation. It would be interesting to see what metric was actually used in that determination, whether they developed an actual algorithm to compare video streams run through various candidate schemes or whether it was a simple A/B test like in the Maximum PC article.
I wouldn't put it past the record companies (and the current trend of economy-controlling governments) to get the American government to buy licenses for the whole population one day, under the argument that they can't effectively license individuals. This is something that has already been done on some college campuses with music subscription services.
I would say that the lower the bitrate a lossless codec can encode to, the better. That is, after all, the whole point of such things: Preserve the original data in as small a representation as possible. As for their preferred bitrate, one of the bigger weaknesses of Maximum PC (I'm a subscriber) is that their 'standard' specs are absurdly high (I would point out a review this month of a 7" LCD with 1280x1024 resolution being called "lower than we'd prefer").
Back when PlayFair and then Hymn came out, there was a clear note in the readme saying that your account info was still in the (un-DRMed) file, and thus you shouldn't go sharing your now-freed files.
What exactly is this literary value you speak of then? If a telling of a story is both entertaining and thought provoking, what more do you want from it? What is a story you would find to possess such value?
The article that you link gives many benefits of fuel injected engines over those equipped with carburetors, but does not make any argument as to the effectiveness of electronic fuel injection over a mechanical fuel injection system. Rather than using a computer interface to adjust the fuel mixture for optimal efficiency, you make mechanical adjustments with a screwdriver or a wrench. The benefits of having fuel squirted into the cylinder by a controlled nozzle rather than evaporated out of a little dish are present regardless of what controls that flow.
As for ABS failures, firstly there are mechanical implementations of ABS, and secondly the mechanical system is still present even in vehicles with electronic ABS. When the ABS computer fails it simply doesn't interrupt the brakes during lockup. I have seen more serious failures of computerized systems, however, where a faulty sensor goes undetected and the brakes interrupt even in non-lockup situations (resulting in absurdly long braking distances).
Interestingly enough, domestic surveillance cameras will be justified by saying that they only record what could be seen from public places anyway ... ahh double standards for organizations against individuals.
VGA and DVI claim to deliver 8 bits of precision per channel; these Apple LCDs are only capable of displaying 6 bits of precision. Yes, there is loss in any computer display due to the nature of color triad-based pixels. This problem goes beyond that, and introduces unexpected dithering artifacts into the image. It is entirely possible to create images that look great at 6 bits per channel, but since the downsampling is done at the display rather than by the system, and because the user was not expecting the reduced precision, it oftentimes looks like crap (quick example I've seen is the top toolbar in Firefox; the slight gradient doesn't look pretty when it gets dithered).
Our wonderful nanny state has established so many regulations regarding cars that it is impossible to simply end support of a line of cars. Spares and safety still have to be assured, even if the user is willing to accept responsibility (as I am well aware EV-1 owners were willing to do). That you think it would need to be mandatory for manufacturers to produce a certain quota of electric cars regardless of actual market demand shows that you if anything support this sort of overregulation.
I would say that's a market desire for big trucks over full-size cars. The point was that American car manufacturers offer vehicles with decent mileage, not that the American market looks for them. I would argue that those figures are even more damning for increased mileage standards, since the population at large has shown with their wallets that size is more important than fuel consumption.
My Malibu is one of the "new malibus" that you malign (1998). I don't think you're getting the engine out without a hoist and a friend. Doing a quick wiki, the LG8 engine in the Malibu puts out 175hp, whilst the 4 cylinder shipped in a Camry of similar vintage develops 120hp with its 5S-FE. Maybe you get a lot of power out of those Japanese engines once you put turbochargers and nitrous oxide systems on them, but at that point your mileage and environmental impact have taken just a bit of a hit.
My Chevy Malibu with the big engine option get 35 highway; it's all how you drive it. I'm sure with the V4 I could do even better. You seem to see only the 'halo' vehicles like Hummer and Corvette in your mental image of Detroit.
It was our litigous society that killed the EV-1. There was a time when you could sell things and let the buyer bear the risk that it breaks. Nowadays, if you don't agree to support a car and pay for damages, you get sued.
I don't know about you, but my last sofa, tv, and computer were paid for without the use of credit. Credit cards were involved purely for the rewards points; it could have just as easily been accomplished with cash.
Roman Catholic opposition to birth control is based on very strong religious reasons: they believe that sex is immoral, and should be engaged in only for creating more followers of the Church and even then should not be enjoyed.
Moral reasons are not why we have laws; laws are passed to ensure the safety and stability of society. We prohibit theft not because taking from others for your own benefit is immoral (we actually have laws explicitly designed to take from some groups and give to others), but because if people cannot be assured of the fruits of their labors they would be less inclined to be productive. Thus, the Church and other groups oppose promiscuous sex not by saying that it is immoral or shallow, but on the grounds that it produces a population of children without a father figure (which it is then presumed makes them less able members of society). Arguments against the use of birth control attempt to maintain this social cause to discourage sex for pleasure, despite technological developments making it not a social issue.