Also note that it's already illegal in Canada to wear a disguise while committing a crime (Section 351), so this is a clarification of the criminal code, not a change.
That doesn't sound right. Of course it's illegal to wear a mask while committing a crime, since it's illegal to commit a crime wearing anything at all (or nothing at all, for that matter).
My understanding is that this increases the punishment of wearing a mask while committing a crime, but it doesn't make it any more illegal than it already is.
Why not? 12 month is a lot of freakin' time... Maybe GM had a very shitty plan on what to do with the bailout, and then 10 months later they came up with a much better plan.
I would argue that one should be able to change their mind, *especially* on major policies. They have the biggest impact, so make damn sure that you're doing the right thing.
especially since both men have a history of flip-flopping
How about saying they "changed their mind", or "made a different decision" instead of "flip-flopping"? Why is it bad that somebody in a position of authority changes their mind in light of new information? Don't you want them to do that? Or do you think that if someone thought that something is bad 4 years ago, they should do everything they can to end it today, even if they now believe it's a bad decision?
You have to learn and adapt as you go along to be successful. We should be looking for that in leaders, instead of calling them "flip-floppers".
I'm little sad they have no real engineering/development in Austin, but they seem to like keeping all of their people working on the same product in the same offices. Spreading an engineering force globally can cause communication issues, so they seem to avoid it.
You don't seem to be searching right... The team working on ARM-based ASICs going into iPads and iPhones is in Austin. Here's an example posting.
Because you don't get to be the size of Pfizer by giving up all your profits. You need to re-invest into growth, and you need to be able to reward people working or investing into the company in order to get them to keep doing it.
If you're already rich, like Paul Newman, and don't need more money, then you can set up a little company to make salad dressings and donate the profits. But, unless you're ridiculously rich, you'll never have the money to build a state-of-the-art research facility to develop new drugs.
Saying 'my new integrated GPU is now half as fast as the slowest discrete card!' is not a great marketing win. If you want to play games well you need something better and if you don't care about games you don't care how fast the integrated graphics are.
The fanboys have this pathalogical need to pretend there is a void that Apple needs to fill. TV is their current fixation.
Whatever. I think you don't have a wife to realize what is and isn't wife-friendly.
I have a simple HTPC setup with a Harmony remote that control everything through a single 'activity' button press, and I still need to go "fix it" once a week. PC freezes, XBMC hangs, IR signals have no 'ack' protocol so they get missed...
Shit happens to most PC-based setups. Wives don't want to deal with the shit. Hence, most things outside of TV aren't wife-friendly.
AMD is clearly talking about using both x86 and GPU for compute work vs. focusing on x86 only... the ARM thing is just a wild speculation, or wishful thinking.
Absolutely. The best movie experience, ever! Everything was exactly the way it should be for a totally fun movie watching experience.. and, add all the special theme nights, and it's the only way to see a movie, once you've been there.
'cept a.22 cal air-powered pellet gun that shoots pellets at 1100 fps might as well be a firearm
Everybody knows that a human eye can't perceive anything more than 60 fps. You need a pellet gun doing 1100 fps only because you have a small.... oh, wait, wrong thread?
If we're going to be calling bullshit, then I'll pitch in... The S95 is f/2 only at widest angle, 24mm, which is useless for portraits, unless you're going to put it a foot from someone's face. And I doubt that your primary goal is to take wide-angle full-room shots in low light.
On the other hand, it goes up to ridiculously slow f/5.9 at 120mm zoom, and I'm sure your "good glass" does do a lot better than f/5.9 at 120mm.
So, there's no way that S95 is usable in low light without flash, except for the most contrived scenarios. (I'll also call bullshit on the GP's "never use flash" comment... if you have an SLR, you might as well learn how to light things.)
I'd throw my 3200ASA concert photography from my 5d up against your shitty crop-sensor medium ISO shots
I doubt anyone would disagree that your full-frame $2K+ camera will take better high ISO shots than a budget SLR -- what's the point of bringing that up, at all? All he's saying is that if you can use a faster lens instead of maxing out your ISO, it's going to look better.
Because we are getting to the point in technology that us humans won't be able to perceive the difference in graphics. You can only make something so lifelike, after that you might as well aim at efficiency.
Is there a single game out there that's so lifelike that you can't perceive the difference between it and a real video?
There's plenty more room for improvement, we're not getting anywhere close to that point.
In those tests, i3 is being tested with external graphics, compared to AMD with the same external graphics. Basically, it's a CPU vs CPU test. Which is pretty ridiculous because they are both targeted to users who will not buy external cards...
The actual i3 vs A8 tests with their associated graphics are tested later in the article here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/21730/8. The results aren't even close - AMD is more than playable, i3 is not.
you can't use google-based sites anymore unless you have serious j-script and ad blockers. 'do no evil' stopped about 5 years ago.
What evil does google.com do if you don't have javascript and ad blockers? I'd love to know whether it's just becoming popular to say things like that now, or if they are really doing something evil?
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Other articles on this test indicate severe side-effects that I, admittedly, don't fully understand. They said that the B cells stop being produced almost altogether in the body, causing a severe chronic toxicity in the body.
Some articles have comments from the researchers saying something along the lines of "it's only been a year, let's see what their lives are in two or five years".
The linked article is definitely a little too skewed on the side of optimism.
The cons outweigh the pros. Until I get some kind of guarantee that nothing I ever do on google+ hurts my other google services (blog, email, YouTube ad revenue, adsense, google voice, etc) I will not join google+.
I don't know what kind of a guarantee are you looking for. The Google VP explicitly said that that can't happen, and their Terms of Service say it, too. It doesn't get much better than that -- you don't expect a personalized contract signed by Larry and Sergey, do you?
He musters the entire weight of his fortune, business and legal team against little guys selling bits of plastic
You're exaggerating. If you decide that someone is selling something that you think you own, and you decide to sue him, you're going to use your corporate lawyers to do it, whether you're greedy or not.
Do you actually know anybody who "dickwaves" about their 3 monitor setup or an expensive video card, or do you just write this because it's a popular opinion on Slashdot? Why is this any different from buying a nice big-screen TV?
Most of us geeks have at least 2 monitors for the productive work anyway, why wouldn't you want to try multi-screen gaming if you could?
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That doesn't sound right. Of course it's illegal to wear a mask while committing a crime, since it's illegal to commit a crime wearing anything at all (or nothing at all, for that matter).
My understanding is that this increases the punishment of wearing a mask while committing a crime, but it doesn't make it any more illegal than it already is.
Citation needed.
I have one saying quite the opposite, actually.
Why not? 12 month is a lot of freakin' time... Maybe GM had a very shitty plan on what to do with the bailout, and then 10 months later they came up with a much better plan.
I would argue that one should be able to change their mind, *especially* on major policies. They have the biggest impact, so make damn sure that you're doing the right thing.
Hard to believe, but based on the surveys going on right now, it seems like at least half of Americans would *not* like national healthcare.
How about saying they "changed their mind", or "made a different decision" instead of "flip-flopping"? Why is it bad that somebody in a position of authority changes their mind in light of new information? Don't you want them to do that? Or do you think that if someone thought that something is bad 4 years ago, they should do everything they can to end it today, even if they now believe it's a bad decision?
You have to learn and adapt as you go along to be successful. We should be looking for that in leaders, instead of calling them "flip-floppers".
You don't seem to be searching right... The team working on ARM-based ASICs going into iPads and iPhones is in Austin. Here's an example posting.
Because you don't get to be the size of Pfizer by giving up all your profits. You need to re-invest into growth, and you need to be able to reward people working or investing into the company in order to get them to keep doing it.
If you're already rich, like Paul Newman, and don't need more money, then you can set up a little company to make salad dressings and donate the profits. But, unless you're ridiculously rich, you'll never have the money to build a state-of-the-art research facility to develop new drugs.
AMD has never been saying that. When Llano came out, it was on par with mid-range discrete cards. You could clearly play quite a few modern games on it: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4444/amd-llano-notebook-review-a-series-fusion-apu-a8-3500m/11
Because 25 hard drives would be a bitch to carry around in your laptop?
The fanboys have this pathalogical need to pretend there is a void that Apple needs to fill. TV is their current fixation.
Whatever. I think you don't have a wife to realize what is and isn't wife-friendly.
I have a simple HTPC setup with a Harmony remote that control everything through a single 'activity' button press, and I still need to go "fix it" once a week. PC freezes, XBMC hangs, IR signals have no 'ack' protocol so they get missed...
Shit happens to most PC-based setups. Wives don't want to deal with the shit. Hence, most things outside of TV aren't wife-friendly.
AMD is clearly talking about using both x86 and GPU for compute work vs. focusing on x86 only... the ARM thing is just a wild speculation, or wishful thinking.
With GTA being almost half of of the population of Ontario, "most", or even "much", is certainly not accurate.
Absolutely. The best movie experience, ever! Everything was exactly the way it should be for a totally fun movie watching experience.. and, add all the special theme nights, and it's the only way to see a movie, once you've been there.
Everybody knows that a human eye can't perceive anything more than 60 fps. You need a pellet gun doing 1100 fps only because you have a small.... oh, wait, wrong thread?
If we're going to be calling bullshit, then I'll pitch in... The S95 is f/2 only at widest angle, 24mm, which is useless for portraits, unless you're going to put it a foot from someone's face. And I doubt that your primary goal is to take wide-angle full-room shots in low light.
On the other hand, it goes up to ridiculously slow f/5.9 at 120mm zoom, and I'm sure your "good glass" does do a lot better than f/5.9 at 120mm.
So, there's no way that S95 is usable in low light without flash, except for the most contrived scenarios. (I'll also call bullshit on the GP's "never use flash" comment... if you have an SLR, you might as well learn how to light things.)
I doubt anyone would disagree that your full-frame $2K+ camera will take better high ISO shots than a budget SLR -- what's the point of bringing that up, at all? All he's saying is that if you can use a faster lens instead of maxing out your ISO, it's going to look better.
Is there a single game out there that's so lifelike that you can't perceive the difference between it and a real video?
There's plenty more room for improvement, we're not getting anywhere close to that point.
In those tests, i3 is being tested with external graphics, compared to AMD with the same external graphics. Basically, it's a CPU vs CPU test. Which is pretty ridiculous because they are both targeted to users who will not buy external cards...
The actual i3 vs A8 tests with their associated graphics are tested later in the article here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/21730/8. The results aren't even close - AMD is more than playable, i3 is not.
What evil does google.com do if you don't have javascript and ad blockers? I'd love to know whether it's just becoming popular to say things like that now, or if they are really doing something evil?
Other articles on this test indicate severe side-effects that I, admittedly, don't fully understand. They said that the B cells stop being produced almost altogether in the body, causing a severe chronic toxicity in the body.
Some articles have comments from the researchers saying something along the lines of "it's only been a year, let's see what their lives are in two or five years".
The linked article is definitely a little too skewed on the side of optimism.
I don't know what kind of a guarantee are you looking for. The Google VP explicitly said that that can't happen, and their Terms of Service say it, too. It doesn't get much better than that -- you don't expect a personalized contract signed by Larry and Sergey, do you?
No, it's just a piece of rubber that acts like your finger.
You're exaggerating. If you decide that someone is selling something that you think you own, and you decide to sue him, you're going to use your corporate lawyers to do it, whether you're greedy or not.
Don't let that stop you from commenting on it...
I guess all the PCs out there just don't work?
Do you actually know anybody who "dickwaves" about their 3 monitor setup or an expensive video card, or do you just write this because it's a popular opinion on Slashdot? Why is this any different from buying a nice big-screen TV?
Most of us geeks have at least 2 monitors for the productive work anyway, why wouldn't you want to try multi-screen gaming if you could?