The coming months will test Mr Sarkozy's image anew.

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However, the test preparers inadvertently included the photoshopped image above, which includes a Marauder Battlemech from the wargame franchise BattleTech.

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The FFT added in a statement released to Press Association that it "would be very sad for Richard Gasquet himself, for tennis in general, for French tennis in particular, whose image would be dented" if the positive test was officially confirmed.

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We create an image of the hard drive using PowerQuest's Drive Image software and use the image to restore the system to its original state after each test.

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This image shows a close-up of track marks from the first test drive of NASA's Curiosity rover.

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Corel Linux is also pretty thin on software (at least with respect to the CD-ROM image you can download, which is all I've been able to test so far).

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Scientists at NASA decided to test their ability to communicate via laser to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) by sending an image of the famous painting.

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There were 12 30-second test periods interspersed with three 21-second rest periods, where participants were simply asked to look at a fixed image of a cross.

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Video playback remains limited, and our default test video, which is an .mp4, suffered from plenty of frame dropouts and decoding errors that made the image unwatchable in places.

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This kind of test may even find its way in an augmented-reality device like Google Glass by tracking eye movements as an image moves across the field of view, as a recently uncovered patent suggests.

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