The whole mood in Cardiff was very pessimistic and Welsh supporters were saying they thought they were going to lose and this can't help but filter down to the team.
The Muppets have, in many of their incarnations, sustained a certain amount of double entendre, and this documentary-style glimpse behind the scenes doesn't remove the gauzy filter in any way.
"Even the SEC spam filter can't stop this, " Cox acknowledged in the press conference Thursday.
The resulting cellphone images were low-quality, but nothing a little sepia-filter couldn't fix.
When the doors of his buildings aren't locked, his neighbors filter through to borrow books and records or eat occasional communal meals.
And more concretely, Google's filter won't erase the alleged copyright infringement that's already occurred on the site for more than a year.
"I wouldn't turn off your spam filter, " says Paul Henry, a spokesman for the information technology security firm Secure Computing (nasdaq: SCUR - news - people ).
"One of the things that is unique about this filter is even if you didn't have arsenic in the water and you only had iron, this is still a great filter to filter iron, " said David Nunley.
These days, music and technology are inexorably linked -- from creation and recording, to distribution and discovery, it's hard to imagine a song reaching our ears that hasn't made its way through some electronic filter.
You can filter out the channels you don't receive or only show your favorites though, and while you can easily go straight to any time you'd like, there's no shortcuts to prime time, the time when new shows usually come on.
Others will provide telephone consultations first in order to filter those patients who need to be seen from those who don't.
If that weren't enough, the FE-5020 and FE-4000 also include "Magic Filter" functionality (which some might call "tacky filters, " if the fish eye lens and sepia tone effects aren't really your bag).
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You'd be forgiven if you weren't entirely on the same page with Panasonic regarding its micro color splitter sensor: it's a big break from the traditional Bayer filter approach on digital cameras, and the deluge of text doesn't do much to simplify the concept.
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Rutchik says the YouTube filter only identifies the exact matches with fingerprinted videos--it doesn't even use YouTube's searching and tagging system to pick out similar content.
Schmidt's promise that the filter would sort out YouTube's mounting legal problems, however, hasn't materialized.
The "teabag" isn't the only interesting filtration tech on the horizon, and researchers in California are developing a filter that uses nanotech and silver to produce clean water.
If the lights weren't there, naturally we would approach slowly and carefully and see what other people were doing and filter through, but the traffic lights make us speed up to beat them.
In case you don't have your smartphone app handy, the taps are equipped with LED lights to show the water's filter status as well -- blue means clean, yellow means not so much and red means you should probably get a new filter, pronto.
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