You can also argue it's only 3 colors : red, green, and blue (plus black ?). G=1 and G=255 are actually the same color, but with a different luminosity.
CIE diagrams show colors, at max luminosity. A color being a combination of hue and saturation. This is also this definition of color another poster is suggesting when he writes that the human eye can only see 16000 colors, the eye being able to see millions of shades. (If you're using 16-bit color on your screen, you should be able to differentiate colors that differ of a unit in some luminosities)
I have a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this comment is too narrow to contain. ... and you are infringing on my patent on "using Fermat-like sentences on Slashdot".
I watched an interview with him on PBS and he didn't seem all that polarizing. A single interview isn't enough to understand the guy... He says lots of things, is consistent in an interview, but can say the opposite the week later (more on that later). Also, he wasn't polarizing in the last two weeks, as I wrote. He even maybe wasn't polarizing in the last two months, I'm not sure, because one of his strategy is to let other people in his party say controversial things for him. If polls show opinion agree, he will take the idea on his own account. If not, he will quickly dismiss the idea as not his own.
He's very professional when it comes to communication. He controls what's said about him, and editors have been fired to being critical of him.
Bottom line, France is a big part of the reasons we are at war in Iraq. If this guy was president back then, we wouldn't have gone in. There was a period of time were Iraq was doing everything possible to comply with it's obligations then France declared it would Veto and resolutions calling for war If Sarkozy was president back then, the only that would have change is that France would have been part of the coallition as Russia was going to veto anyway. History might have been different, but the war would have happened anyway as Bush & Co wanted that war really bad.
and then Iraq kicked the inspectors out. Wow, fact distortion ! Iraq never kicked the inspectors out, neither in 1998nor in 2003 (search "UN inspectors Iraq" for more)
Even if france didn't support the war, keeping quiet in this one statement would have changed the entire line of history. Sarkozy would have supported war for sure. Back on its changing opinion, he was critical of the french government while meeting Bush, then the year later cheered the way that same government handled that same issue.
IMHO, it's not a strategy, he is far-right. He and his minions - many of them have been in far-right organizations before - took the party from the inside. Most media are in the hands of Sarkozy's friends, so he has a far-right politic, but without the disrespectability of the far-right. Clever.
However I wouldn't say it is dog-whistle politic, or it is with a twist. It is not intended to nazi supporters (I don't think there is much of them), but to the uneducated masses who ignore(*) history (and has in that sense quite an orwellian meaning), while scaring others. Most of his campaign strategy relied on polarizing the debates, then stopping to do that for only two weeks betweens the two turns of the vote and set himself as a victim when others argue (IMHO rightfully) that he is a fascist for such kind of statements.
BTW, at the time he took the UMP, he used the same tactics of victimizing himself when he encountered internal opposition...
(*) or forgot, as it seems only people 65+ are voting in their majority for Sarkozy, but at a majority of 75%... My guess is that that score is also due to older people not conceiving to see a women at the head of the country...
You speak as if the politicians are creating the divisions, Because I really believe that's the case. While I mostly agree agree with you, it's not completely true. It's both politicians and media. Of course, most viewed / heard / read media in France are in the hands of friends of Sarkozy. -- La France est le seul pays du monde où, si vous ajoutez dix citoyens à dix autres, vous ne faites pas une addition, mais vingt divisions. [Pierre Daninos] (France is the only country in the world where, if you add ten citizens to ten others, you don't make an addition, but twenty divisions.)
Or look at it from MS's perspective. Why should I do ? I see it from my perspective. I see nothing wrong with MS doing a Flash copycat, if they don't use anti-competitive means to strongarm it on web developpers (abusing monopoly and all that, which remains to be seen). But calling it cross-platform is a bit of a stretch - especially when it is less "cross-platform" than competitors. Well, a plug-in being available for (MS-Windows version of) Firefox is better than nothing I guess... BTW, MS doesn't seem to respect other's registered trademarks. If they write Internet Explorer®, shouldn't they write Firefox® ?
Google Office on another side Isn't that one really cross-platform, using open standards ? Of course it would require MS to compete on a foot of equality to do the same...
Seriously, there is none so deaf as he who will not hear.
What about all these fine standards made available by the W3C ? SMIL maybe ?
Wait, nobody uses it because MSIE, used by 80% of people, doesn't implement it. Who's at fault ? From the Wikipedia, implementation have been made mainly for handheld and mobile devices... where MSIE doesn't rule.
If you consider that humans are to the "society" what cells are to the human body, it makes sense. Humans get specialized, and brain cells don't reproduce (much*) either. It's also probably better because they use a lot more energy and live longer.
* (IIRC it has been found a few years ago that they can duplicate, though at a slow pace, while before it was believed they didn't)
I guess you weren't paying attention when MS decided that a crash was more user friendly than a "malformed document" dialog box:)
I mean, if the application crash, any user will know that something bad happened. If you give the average user a dialog box, he will automatically click OK without reading it (he has been trained to do that), then go puzzled : "huh, where's my document ?".
Therefore MS choice:)
I think i shall add some more:):):) just in case someone could take that seriously, after all it's MS we're talking about:)
Another World was known as "Out of this World" in the US. It was one of the most famous adventure games of the era (at least in France), with Alone in the Dark.
First, this is not exactly new. For example, I've read years ago about an equipment with a camera and a dot-matrix that could be put on the finger of a blind person, so that person could see in a low-resolution.
What's interesting is that it can also apply to add sense we might not have in the first place.
Now the writer doesn't understand much about senses:( There are more than five, and he even cites internal ear. The balance sense is a full sense, while proprioception is a mix of senses : mainly balance sense, touch (wind orientation changing, heat from the sun), vision (even eyes closed you might be able to see a little light from the sun), sources of sound rotating...
Also, other classic senses are also mixes :
Touch is composed from (at least) pression sensing, heat sensing. Taste is all what composes touch (feeling of the texture of what you eat, heat) plus tongue receptors, plus flavours receptors, closely related to smell.
Pain is a separated sense, it's a stress from cell that then emit strong signals in nerves and can originate from internal organs.
Also this is not the first flaw affecting animated cursors. I remember having read about that a few years ago. Googling "animated cursor flaw" gets me to 2004-12-29. So, their problems with animated cursors are really old, back to the NT 4 era.
The registration part annoys me. I would say it's more similar to the RIAA somewhat giving away illegal copies then suing.
I can't see any reason why these students would have registered their documents, except for the purpose of getting somewhat solid grounds in a provoked lawsuit for copyright violation...
According to the lawsuit, each of the students obtained a copyright registration for papers they submitted to Turnitin. The lawsuit filed against Turnitin's parent company, iParadigms LLC, seeks $150,000 for each of six papers written by the students.
"My son's major objection is that he does not cheat, and this assumes he does. This case is not about money, and we don't expect to get that." Yeah, right ! I always register what I write, of course !
Excepted it doesn't disable the window manager AFAIK.
The key I know about is "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell" I've used it to start cygwin xwin X server in place of explorer, but if you're launching a win32 app, it still has XP borders. And if you're launching a browser window, it will launch the full desktop.
Is there an equivalent to 'nautilus --no-desktop' for MS explorer ?
Is there a mean to replace the whole window manager ?
From the prices to the end of the table you would think that an XBox 360 is just a bit cheaper with more hard drive capacity for the otherwise same set of features.
But I think the comparison isn't fair. First, the price for paying online is for one single year on XBox360 side, while it's free (except communication costs...) on Sony's side.
Also you can buy cheaper parts to get the same functionnality for Sony, while to lower the price of the XBox360, you need to choose to lose some functionality.
Also, adding an external hard drive to get the same capacity costs a lot:/ It would be more fair to add, say, an external hard drive extension of X GB for the XBox360 and an external hard drive extension of (X+60) GB for the PS3.
It's a pity that the article gives all the info to see that PS3 is cheaper while at the same time somehow chooses to advertise the opposite:(
And now Vista is upon us, and it's not detecting a lot of real obscure hardware, like say, MY CDROM DRIVE. <sarcasm> It's probably because it isn't HDCP-dis^Wenabled and as such isn't on the..AA white list </sarcasm>
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You can also argue it's only 3 colors : red, green, and blue (plus black ?).
G=1 and G=255 are actually the same color, but with a different luminosity.
CIE diagrams show colors, at max luminosity. A color being a combination of hue and saturation. This is also this definition of color another poster is suggesting when he writes that the human eye can only see 16000 colors, the eye being able to see millions of shades.
(If you're using 16-bit color on your screen, you should be able to differentiate colors that differ of a unit in some luminosities)
Reminds me of Commander Blood.
Rendez-vous at the Big-Bang
Has someone played it ?
He's very professional when it comes to communication. He controls what's said about him, and editors have been fired to being critical of him. Bottom line, France is a big part of the reasons we are at war in Iraq. If this guy was president back then, we wouldn't have gone in. There was a period of time were Iraq was doing everything possible to comply with it's obligations then France declared it would Veto and resolutions calling for war If Sarkozy was president back then, the only that would have change is that France would have been part of the coallition as Russia was going to veto anyway. History might have been different, but the war would have happened anyway as Bush & Co wanted that war really bad. and then Iraq kicked the inspectors out. Wow, fact distortion ! Iraq never kicked the inspectors out, neither in 1998 nor in 2003 (search "UN inspectors Iraq" for more) Even if france didn't support the war, keeping quiet in this one statement would have changed the entire line of history. Sarkozy would have supported war for sure. Back on its changing opinion, he was critical of the french government while meeting Bush, then the year later cheered the way that same government handled that same issue.
IMHO, it's not a strategy, he is far-right.
He and his minions - many of them have been in far-right organizations before - took the party from the inside.
Most media are in the hands of Sarkozy's friends, so he has a far-right politic, but without the disrespectability of the far-right.
Clever.
However I wouldn't say it is dog-whistle politic, or it is with a twist. It is not intended to nazi supporters (I don't think there is much of them), but to the uneducated masses who ignore(*) history (and has in that sense quite an orwellian meaning), while scaring others.
Most of his campaign strategy relied on polarizing the debates, then stopping to do that for only two weeks betweens the two turns of the vote and set himself as a victim when others argue (IMHO rightfully) that he is a fascist for such kind of statements.
BTW, at the time he took the UMP, he used the same tactics of victimizing himself when he encountered internal opposition...
(*) or forgot, as it seems only people 65+ are voting in their majority for Sarkozy, but at a majority of 75%... My guess is that that score is also due to older people not conceiving to see a women at the head of the country...
Of course, most viewed / heard / read media in France are in the hands of friends of Sarkozy.
--
La France est le seul pays du monde où, si vous ajoutez dix citoyens à dix autres, vous ne faites pas une addition, mais vingt divisions. [Pierre Daninos]
(France is the only country in the world where, if you add ten citizens to ten others, you don't make an addition, but twenty divisions.)
Does anyone know how it works for (La)TeX ? Do they also use tables, or is there some generic algorithm ?
BTW, MS doesn't seem to respect other's registered trademarks. If they write Internet Explorer®, shouldn't they write Firefox® ? Google Office on another side Isn't that one really cross-platform, using open standards ? Of course it would require MS to compete on a foot of equality to do the same...
Wow, a copy of an OS News flame post :) (same team of astroturfers ?)
Seriously, there is none so deaf as he who will not hear.
What about all these fine standards made available by the W3C ? SMIL maybe ?
Wait, nobody uses it because MSIE, used by 80% of people, doesn't implement it. Who's at fault ?
From the Wikipedia, implementation have been made mainly for handheld and mobile devices... where MSIE doesn't rule.
If you consider that humans are to the "society" what cells are to the human body, it makes sense. Humans get specialized, and brain cells don't reproduce (much*) either. It's also probably better because they use a lot more energy and live longer.
* (IIRC it has been found a few years ago that they can duplicate, though at a slow pace, while before it was believed they didn't)
(appears 4 times in the first page of results)
on Slashdot we're still between real men !
OMG ponies !
I guess you weren't paying attention when MS decided that a crash was more user friendly than a "malformed document" dialog box :)
:)
:) :) :) just in case someone could take that seriously, after all it's MS we're talking about :)
I mean, if the application crash, any user will know that something bad happened. If you give the average user a dialog box, he will automatically click OK without reading it (he has been trained to do that), then go puzzled : "huh, where's my document ?".
Therefore MS choice
I think i shall add some more
Another World was known as "Out of this World" in the US.
It was one of the most famous adventure games of the era (at least in France), with Alone in the Dark.
I saw it last week :)
Both are just weird tactics...
First, this is not exactly new. For example, I've read years ago about an equipment with a camera and a dot-matrix that could be put on the finger of a blind person, so that person could see in a low-resolution.
:(
What's interesting is that it can also apply to add sense we might not have in the first place.
Now the writer doesn't understand much about senses
There are more than five, and he even cites internal ear. The balance sense is a full sense, while proprioception is a mix of senses : mainly balance sense, touch (wind orientation changing, heat from the sun), vision (even eyes closed you might be able to see a little light from the sun), sources of sound rotating...
Also, other classic senses are also mixes :
Touch is composed from (at least) pression sensing, heat sensing.
Taste is all what composes touch (feeling of the texture of what you eat, heat) plus tongue receptors,
plus flavours receptors, closely related to smell.
Pain is a separated sense, it's a stress from cell that then emit strong signals in nerves and can originate from internal organs.
Also this is not the first flaw affecting animated cursors. I remember having read about that a few years ago. Googling "animated cursor flaw" gets me to 2004-12-29.
So, their problems with animated cursors are really old, back to the NT 4 era.
The registration part annoys me. I would say it's more similar to the RIAA somewhat giving away illegal copies then suing.
I can't see any reason why these students would have registered their documents, except for the purpose of getting somewhat solid grounds in a provoked lawsuit for copyright violation...
Excepted it doesn't disable the window manager AFAIK.
The key I know about is "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell"
I've used it to start cygwin xwin X server in place of explorer, but if you're launching a win32 app, it still has XP borders. And if you're launching a browser window, it will launch the full desktop.
Is there an equivalent to 'nautilus --no-desktop' for MS explorer ?
Is there a mean to replace the whole window manager ?
From the prices to the end of the table you would think that an XBox 360 is just a bit cheaper with more hard drive capacity for the otherwise same set of features.
:/ It would be more fair to add, say, an external hard drive extension of X GB for the XBox360 and an external hard drive extension of (X+60) GB for the PS3.
:(
But I think the comparison isn't fair.
First, the price for paying online is for one single year on XBox360 side, while it's free (except communication costs...) on Sony's side.
Also you can buy cheaper parts to get the same functionnality for Sony, while to lower the price of the XBox360, you need to choose to lose some functionality.
Also, adding an external hard drive to get the same capacity costs a lot
It's a pity that the article gives all the info to see that PS3 is cheaper while at the same time somehow chooses to advertise the opposite
... because one-buttoned mice still are too complex...