I've been doing full-screen DVD since I got my first DVD drive in 1997. Back then, you needed a hardware decoder card for the MPEG2 stream if you didn't have a decent processor, but displaying 30fps 1280x1024 video hasn't been an issue for a long long time. It may be that your GeForce card is supporting some stream decoding operations (at least a couple of my cards boasted "MPEG2 decoder!" on the box), but you don't need a top-end card for the fill rate.
She wasn't exactly chilling on the sidewalk taking a break after a day on The Mall, she was with a crowd of people in town for the sole purpose of sitting on that sidewalk and making a racket. You're allowed to protest, what you're not allowed to do is block a public walkway without a permit.
You can sit wherever you want. But if you're going to have a couple hundred people, and be making a racket, in a busy urban area, you need to stay the hell out of the way. Getting a permit means that traffic can be redirected, police can know what you're doing, etc. It's not like they use permits to silence people; the Klan gets permits to demonstrate all the time (though quite often the police need to protect them, rather than keep them in line). To not even make an effort to follow proceedure is just retarded, but totally in line with Cindy "Withrdraw from Occupied New Orleans" Sheehan's love of the limelight.
The issue that you encounter with taping two cameras together is that the depth of field is going to be different between them because the pupils of the cameras are at different points. When taking still panoramas from multiple shots, you can compensate by using a mount that swivels directly about the pupil of the camera (most mounts do not), but you can't so that with video.
The other awesome thing about this software is that you can apply it to prexisting footage. It separates the background, and stitches together a full sphere from an entire scene. As long as the camera pans around a decent amount, this technique gives you a spherical panorama from a traditional video source.
There are several problems. First, with DNA on file, you can make all kinds of determinations about someone (race, predisposition to certain diseases, etc). While this data isn't an immediate threat in the hands of the government, at some point that data could make it somewhere harmful, ie your insurance company or employer. Second, at subsequent arrests, you're no longer an innocent citizen. You're a citizen who was arrested for something (that you were fully acquited doesn't seem to make much of a difference anymore). Even if you're innocent of the new charge, it's not going to be a happy arrest.
Bottom line, there's worlds of difference between "identifying data on people who have committed crimes" and "identifying data on people who we think have committed crimes".
TDK also developed a coating for high density optical media that has been shown to resist short rubbings with steel wool. In the end, I think it all boils down to more thought going into style than into sense (which is really the proper business decision here, given Apple's clientele)
Of course they don't consider it a social program. Because they are against it, it's a right-wing conspiracy to channel money to the military industrial complex. The point of my post wasn't about the parent's stance on government regulation of deviant porn, it was about how they made a blanket statement about any republican action being to favor big business (this surely isn't a case of benefiting big business; how big is that porn industry again?)
No military/industrial contractor is making money here; just a bunch of desk jockeys in a big government made more of social programs than anything else.
You have no idea how the government works, do you?
Actually, I do. Being a contractor is only a boon when you're in management (government managers don't get bonuses); if you're a grunt member of the Porn Patrol, you want to be in government service so you have a guaranteed raise and can never be fired (even when you job no longer serves a purpose).
Imagine how many millions will be spent just to classify what is 'deviant', let alone any actual attempt at enforcement.
I'm certain that millions will be spent to classify what is 'deviant'. I'm also certain that it will be some conservative think tank that is being paid to make that classification. Then it will be up to some conservative corporation to ferret out the violators on the web and provide the FBI with a list of sites to raid. That's how it will work.
And I suppose that liberal administrations only employ perfectly bipartisan think tanks? Who is it that doesn't understand the workings of government again?
How does your beef with people being against social programs have anything to do with the issue at hand? If anything, the government is allocating money to a social program to solve the 'problem' of pornography. No military/industrial contractor is making money here; just a bunch of desk jockeys in a big government made more of social programs than anything else. Imagine how many millions will be spent just to classify what is 'deviant', let alone any actual attempt at enforcement.
You mean against the party line of the people holding the event. The purpose of the conventions is to parade the various candidates in front of cameras to make empty speaches. No one is there who will be changed in their support in the least. People making a mess outside the building are simply a nuisance. If you're so big to protest, hold your own damn convention, instead of borrowing someone else's.
It's far more productive to demonstrate at an event where there are people who might be inclined to change their views. When the point of the convention is "we don't agree with group X", group X isn't going to gain a whole heck of a lot of ground.
What the hell is the point of expressing leftist views at the biggest conservative event of the year? It's like Jehovah's Witnesses targetting a synagogue or a mosque. Gatherings at opposition events only serve to piss people off.
There will be a day when China is ready for democracy, but that is still ahead of us. When the day comes, the instruments (Google and other Internet tools) will be in place to facilitate the regime shift.
The point about companies like Yahoo restricting content and reporting dissent is that at some point, the Internet *won't* be able to assist in facilitating a regime shift. The American revolution was brought about, among other things, by people distributing inflamitory pamphlets. Guess what? Despotic regimes now tightly control printed media. The newspapers won't be bringing China to revolution any time soon, and if you don't watch out, the Internet will lose that capability as well.
This guy was arrested while reading a paper copy of a Wikipedia article... if that's made illegal... well, bored passengers are going to go violent at some point.
Indeed. Timeshifting may hurt DVD sales, but are legally-enforced DRM measures any better if they begin to hurt sales of PVRs? Just as the introduction of radios hurt telegraph sales, so might the introduction of PVRs hurt DVD sales of content available on cable/over the air. It's not a problem, it's just how things work...
It doesnt implement any particular standard, but it has all of them burned into a ROM in case you need to look something up. In unused regions of the chip, they laid in the names of prominent IEEE members.
Haven't you heard? It was determined that people who wear glasses think to much, and often refuse to buy the official line. They've been added to the Axis of Evil, since North Korea was bumped to the Pending list.
This just in: Dayton, TN has ruled that no dictionary showing the developmental history of words may be used in its schools, as this violates biblical doctrine that God caused all languages to spring into being at once.
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I've been doing full-screen DVD since I got my first DVD drive in 1997. Back then, you needed a hardware decoder card for the MPEG2 stream if you didn't have a decent processor, but displaying 30fps 1280x1024 video hasn't been an issue for a long long time. It may be that your GeForce card is supporting some stream decoding operations (at least a couple of my cards boasted "MPEG2 decoder!" on the box), but you don't need a top-end card for the fill rate.
That or he is uniquely suited to understand that quite often people in bad situations put themselves there.
$0.05/pg copies at the supermarket add up ...
She wasn't exactly chilling on the sidewalk taking a break after a day on The Mall, she was with a crowd of people in town for the sole purpose of sitting on that sidewalk and making a racket. You're allowed to protest, what you're not allowed to do is block a public walkway without a permit.
You can sit wherever you want. But if you're going to have a couple hundred people, and be making a racket, in a busy urban area, you need to stay the hell out of the way. Getting a permit means that traffic can be redirected, police can know what you're doing, etc. It's not like they use permits to silence people; the Klan gets permits to demonstrate all the time (though quite often the police need to protect them, rather than keep them in line). To not even make an effort to follow proceedure is just retarded, but totally in line with Cindy "Withrdraw from Occupied New Orleans" Sheehan's love of the limelight.
The issue that you encounter with taping two cameras together is that the depth of field is going to be different between them because the pupils of the cameras are at different points. When taking still panoramas from multiple shots, you can compensate by using a mount that swivels directly about the pupil of the camera (most mounts do not), but you can't so that with video.
The other awesome thing about this software is that you can apply it to prexisting footage. It separates the background, and stitches together a full sphere from an entire scene. As long as the camera pans around a decent amount, this technique gives you a spherical panorama from a traditional video source.
Surely you mean the stolen cesium chloride?
I bet people would buy the MP3 playing jacket by the millions if it was white with a big grey apple on the back ...
There are several problems. First, with DNA on file, you can make all kinds of determinations about someone (race, predisposition to certain diseases, etc). While this data isn't an immediate threat in the hands of the government, at some point that data could make it somewhere harmful, ie your insurance company or employer. Second, at subsequent arrests, you're no longer an innocent citizen. You're a citizen who was arrested for something (that you were fully acquited doesn't seem to make much of a difference anymore). Even if you're innocent of the new charge, it's not going to be a happy arrest.
Bottom line, there's worlds of difference between "identifying data on people who have committed crimes" and "identifying data on people who we think have committed crimes".
TDK also developed a coating for high density optical media that has been shown to resist short rubbings with steel wool. In the end, I think it all boils down to more thought going into style than into sense (which is really the proper business decision here, given Apple's clientele)
Of course they don't consider it a social program. Because they are against it, it's a right-wing conspiracy to channel money to the military industrial complex. The point of my post wasn't about the parent's stance on government regulation of deviant porn, it was about how they made a blanket statement about any republican action being to favor big business (this surely isn't a case of benefiting big business; how big is that porn industry again?)
You have no idea how the government works, do you?
Actually, I do. Being a contractor is only a boon when you're in management (government managers don't get bonuses); if you're a grunt member of the Porn Patrol, you want to be in government service so you have a guaranteed raise and can never be fired (even when you job no longer serves a purpose).
I'm certain that millions will be spent to classify what is 'deviant'. I'm also certain that it will be some conservative think tank that is being paid to make that classification. Then it will be up to some conservative corporation to ferret out the violators on the web and provide the FBI with a list of sites to raid. That's how it will work.
And I suppose that liberal administrations only employ perfectly bipartisan think tanks? Who is it that doesn't understand the workings of government again?
How does your beef with people being against social programs have anything to do with the issue at hand? If anything, the government is allocating money to a social program to solve the 'problem' of pornography. No military/industrial contractor is making money here; just a bunch of desk jockeys in a big government made more of social programs than anything else. Imagine how many millions will be spent just to classify what is 'deviant', let alone any actual attempt at enforcement.
You mean against the party line of the people holding the event. The purpose of the conventions is to parade the various candidates in front of cameras to make empty speaches. No one is there who will be changed in their support in the least. People making a mess outside the building are simply a nuisance. If you're so big to protest, hold your own damn convention, instead of borrowing someone else's.
It's far more productive to demonstrate at an event where there are people who might be inclined to change their views. When the point of the convention is "we don't agree with group X", group X isn't going to gain a whole heck of a lot of ground.
What the hell is the point of expressing leftist views at the biggest conservative event of the year? It's like Jehovah's Witnesses targetting a synagogue or a mosque. Gatherings at opposition events only serve to piss people off.
There will be a day when China is ready for democracy, but that is still ahead of us. When the day comes, the instruments (Google and other Internet tools) will be in place to facilitate the regime shift.
The point about companies like Yahoo restricting content and reporting dissent is that at some point, the Internet *won't* be able to assist in facilitating a regime shift. The American revolution was brought about, among other things, by people distributing inflamitory pamphlets. Guess what? Despotic regimes now tightly control printed media. The newspapers won't be bringing China to revolution any time soon, and if you don't watch out, the Internet will lose that capability as well.
Missionaries on Titan can only end in tears:
..."
"On the first day, God created the Earth
"I live on Titan, how does this apply to me?"
or:
"In Soviet Titan, Earth creates God!"
Whoa! Watch where you link that stuff ... at least goatse doesn't get you on the terrorist watch list.
This guy was arrested while reading a paper copy of a Wikipedia article ... if that's made illegal ... well, bored passengers are going to go violent at some point.
Indeed. Timeshifting may hurt DVD sales, but are legally-enforced DRM measures any better if they begin to hurt sales of PVRs? Just as the introduction of radios hurt telegraph sales, so might the introduction of PVRs hurt DVD sales of content available on cable/over the air. It's not a problem, it's just how things work ...
It doesnt implement any particular standard, but it has all of them burned into a ROM in case you need to look something up. In unused regions of the chip, they laid in the names of prominent IEEE members.
With enough nuclear weapons, you can pressurize any country to a radically higher than normal level, albeit only for a fraction of a second.
Haven't you heard? It was determined that people who wear glasses think to much, and often refuse to buy the official line. They've been added to the Axis of Evil, since North Korea was bumped to the Pending list.
This just in: Dayton, TN has ruled that no dictionary showing the developmental history of words may be used in its schools, as this violates biblical doctrine that God caused all languages to spring into being at once.