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I've moved to a new internet connection and I'm having issues getting on the web consistently. A few websites (esp. Google) always load as expected. But, most other sites (incl. Bing, Facebook) sometimes get stuck on the "waiting for a response from " portion of the connection.
I don't think it's a web browser problem because FTP connections are having the same problem. I'm using the standard DNS servers provided by the ISP.
In the Internet Explorer web settings, both the "Automatically Detect Settings" and "Use a proxy server for your LAN" are unchecked.
I've contacted the ISP's IT department and the most they recommended was checking
Any ideas what could be going on/how I can fix it?
EDIT: The problem disappears in safe mode, but reappears when I switch back to regular mode (even with all startup programs disabled.
I also tried using the directions in this post: http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/157057-unknown-timeout-issue.html#post1348665 to no avail.
The problem also doesn't appear in a Linux install I have on the same machine.
EDIT 2: I've tried the most recent Realtek drivers from EVGA (motherboard manuf.) and also the versions pushed by manually updating the driver in Device Manager... neither has fixed the problem.
EDIT 3: So... after about a week on the new Windows install... the same problem came back. At this point, I've concluded that something must not be working right on the ISP level... I'm going to ask them to check out the router in the building and see if there's a problem on that level.
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Sounds like it's a problem for your ISP. If everything was OK before the move and this was the only thing that's changed then it doesn't sound like a problem at your end. – ChrisF May 26 '11 at 22:08
Have you checked your modem? – soandos May 27 '11 at 1:48
Don't think it's an ISP problem because other people on the same router (it's a college connection) aren't having the problem. – Alex May 27 '11 at 2:43
Out of curiosity, try switching your DNS servers to and (Google's DNS). See if you have better reliability. (My local ISP's DNS is really rotten, but switching to other DNSs has helped tremendously.) If it doesn't help, it could be the driver for your network card -- try searching for a newer version or a driver from the company that made the card (not necessarily the company that made the computer). – Kerri Shotts May 27 '11 at 4:11
@kerri, if he has already resolved the addresses, or is using FTP, it has nothing to do with his DNS. – MaQleod May 27 '11 at 4:31
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Bypass your router for any of these tests, otherwise your ISP will disregard them. If you can connect your modem directly to your NID (DMARC, NIU, etc), that would be even better as your ISP will likely ask you to bypass your IW (inside wiring) at some point anyway.
Run a few continuous pings, something less than a 1 second interval (I prefer 200ms myself) and just let it go in the back ground. Point one at your ISP's primary DNS and one at Google and one at a random page that you tend to have problems with. When you see a problem, compare the latency or loss you see. This will let you know if it is your ISP or just your route to a given server. If you see only issues to the page you are having trouble with, run an MTR or pathping to it and see where you get the trouble. If this same server shows up on a number of tests to various servers, then see if your ISP can get you placed on a different route. If you see issues going to your ISP's primary DNS, then it is an issue they will have to fix. Most SLA's for loss and latency are in the ISP's favor (unless you have a T1). They will quote you something like more than 3% loss in a one hour period or over 200ms to the first hop on a continuous ping for an hour (common with DSL or cable).
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I am trying to install Ubuntu on my Windows 7 machine. The initial installation finished, when I was then given the option to restart the machine to complete installation.
After restarting it says "Starting Ubuntu". After that the system does not show any messages or options to proceed with the installation.
How can I get the installation to complete?
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What version of Ubuntu (eg Ubuntu 10.04.1 Desktop, 64 bit)? – Cry Havok Aug 19 '11 at 15:01
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When the machine starts it should give you a DOS like window with the option to choose from several boot options one of which is a 'ubuntu safemode' though it may be worded differently. Try this or one of the other boot options and it may sort the problem.
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DOS-like window is a contradiction in adjecto. Better say text screen. – user unknown Aug 19 '11 at 15:12
@user: Many MS-DOS programs had windows, and some of them used graphical VGA modes, too. I agree that "text screen" is a better term, though. – grawity Aug 21 '11 at 20:30
To have a window is not the same as to be a DOS-like window. DOS was an OS (hence DOS). On DOS, they were called frames, or boxes, not windows, afaik. – user unknown Aug 21 '11 at 21:37
One More option is using VMware from inside Windows 7, it is much better option, as if you want to delete your Ubuntu partition in the future, you would not have to re partition your drive space to regain control of it. More over Ubuntu from inside VMware just runs like any other application.
So I suggest try VMWare it saves much of the hassle or simply use LiveCD option if your work is temporary.
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I have a 6 GB Outlook file that won't load in Outlook any more. I am not sure what recovery options I have available. I downloaded one recovery tool demo which shows some but not all mail messages.
Are there any tools that have worked for you? Can I import the PST files directly into another software?
EDIT: I have tried scanpst quite a few times but it fails to recover the file.
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Isn't 6GB above the size limit that Outlook can handle? – Josh E May 20 '09 at 20:39
If the PST is unicode, the PST can be larger than 2GB. – Jeff Miles May 21 '09 at 18:03
possible duplicate of Is there a way to recover deleted emails from an Outlook PST file? – gparyani Mar 28 '14 at 20:51
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Have you tried SCANPST.exe - its part of the office install and is used to recover corrupt PST's Sometimes known as the inbox repair tool The common install path is
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
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See the official Microsoft page for some more info on this and a possible solution using Outlook 2007:
There's also a bunch of free/commercial tools for splitting PST files, e.g:
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The PST file splitter should come in very handy! At least now I can divide and conquer. – aleemb May 21 '09 at 12:17
Always try ScanPst.exe first, but it doesn't always mange to recover the PST.
At this point you are left with a vast array of commercial options starting at around $70, I've had success with recoverytoolbox.com
But your experience will obviously vary. The recovery process will take a LONG time (5-10 hours) due to the size of your PST file - in the future you may consider archiving it to make maintenance on the file quicker!
PS Since 2003 the maximum size for a .pst is 20GB
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I installed SuperCollider. However it didn't appear in my app menu. Also, I can't make up any good command which could start the interpreter.
How should I run it?
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Exactly which package did you install? – Paul Oct 27 '11 at 21:20
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You don't say how you installed supercollider, so I guess you downloaded the source code from the main website? If so, then you don't get any menu entry but you do get the commands. Run the terminal command sclang to get a bare SuperCollider commandline. Or you may well have created the gedit/emacs/vim plugins when you compiled everything (it depends on compile settings) - if so, see the docs for how to start those in SuperCollider-mode.
However, my recommendation is not to install from source code but to use the SuperCollider PPA here (the webpage includes instructions). When you do that, it additionally gives you menu items for "SuperCollider Emacs" and "SuperCollider Vim" which make it a bit more obvious.
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Since recently a dedicated IDE is available for Ubuntu.
Check out this article:
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My main drive on laptop keeps filling up so I take a backup on a USB and delete the original files. But then I find myself getting (downloading or getting from someone else) files that I already have backed-up but couldn't recall at the moment.
So is there a way I can keep a 0-byte file with the same name as teh backed-up copy so that when I'm asked whether to overwrite the existing file, I can easily choose no knowing I probably have this file already in the backup.
EDIT: better yet, replace with a shortcut(.lnk) on the external drive so I can access the files hassle free and not get any errors because of 0-byte files being accidentally opened.
somewhat solution: There's no software or utility that does this automatically I think. I'm just writing out procedure I found best to solve my issue for reference.
• Backup the home drive (D:) onto Backup drive (E:)
• Delete any and all files you don't want from D now that they're "back-ed up".
• Use ShellExView to create SymbolicLinkClone of both (D:) and (E:) in separate folders "d" and "e" in (D:)
I've found that you can copy over (overwrite) the contents of the folder "d" onto "e" but not onto (D:).
• So overwrite "e" with "d" and copy what you can from "d" to (D:).
I guess it'll be more involved than this for future backups though.
This isn't reliable it seems.
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Are all the files in a single folder structure? – Paul Mar 25 '12 at 21:49
No they're all over, and in sub-directories. – laggingreflex Mar 25 '12 at 21:54
Well if you can generate a list somehow, perhaps from the backup utility you use, then it should be straightforward – Paul Mar 25 '12 at 21:59
I can only think of manually writing a batch script or something. But it won't be that easy for me, especially dealing with new backups. – laggingreflex Mar 25 '12 at 22:11
sticking with the shortcut idea, might keep from having misteaks happen more often. Process in groups create the shorts in groups. One copy is not a backup :-) – Psycogeek Mar 25 '12 at 23:25
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I have been on Windows my entire life.
Without getting too technical, what are these things? When I search on the net, I get some technical results. I simple do not understand what these things are!
I work on Windows and completely miss the point when this lingo is used.
How is Linux different from Windows basically. I thought it is a set of operating systems which are open source and/or free.
How wrong am I?
Is it entirely a different world out there??
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The difficult part of understanding the different components of a Linux system versus Windows is that Windows rolls everything up into a ball and gives you the ball as a whole (filesystem, kernel, console, gui, applications, servies, etc...). Linux gives you alternative choices for nearly everything. It's like comparing a toy boat to a lego boat. The toy boat you're stuck with as it comes, the lego boat you can rip apart, extend, shrink, or swap out tons of pieces. – STW Sep 15 '09 at 21:35
exactly, now I am beginning to understand.. – Lazer Sep 15 '09 at 21:50
oh Yoooder I like your analogy, that works pretty well. To extend it, let's call Mac OX a really, really cool lego boat super glued together. U can break the pieces part, but you will spend alot more effort than a linux boat, and there's a chance u might break something. – Roy Rico Sep 15 '09 at 22:50
@Yoooder: wicked nice analogy. – pave Sep 16 '09 at 12:52
all the answers are awesome. cant choose one as 'accepted answer' – Lazer Sep 20 '09 at 22:45
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One important thing to note before we start is that Microsoft is the single source for the Windows operating system, and "Microsoft Windows" might be seen as a single product, but technically it consists of multiple layers of software, working together transparently from the user's point of view. In the Linux world, however, there are multiple software packages available for each of these layers. This array of choices makes it easy for an unaccustomed user to get confused with the terms.
I'll try to explain the multiple layers below.
1st layer — Command line interface / kernel
To understand the multiple layer aspect of Linux and describe it in simple Windows-like terms, let's pretend we're back in the days of Windows 95.
In this analogy, the "Linux" operating system is similar to DOS where everything is executed from a command line interface (abbreviated "CLI"). In fact, on most server installations of Linux, a CLI is the only way to access the machine. After Linux starts up, depending on configuration, it will either stay in command line mode, or start a graphical user interface (abbreviated "GUI") automatically. Additionally, on some machines that stay in CLI mode, a user who logs into the CLI can manually start a GUI.
2nd layer — Graphical user interface
On top of the command line interface sits the GUI. Modern Linux systems typically use an X Server, which is essentially just like the Windows desktop — think of it as a blank canvas.
This layer handles the hardware level of the GUI, managing the input from the keyboard, mouse, etc., and output to monitors, etc. Basically, it handles how things are drawn to the screen; what is drawn on the screen is controlled by a window manager.
3rd layer — Window manager
Sitting on top of the X window system is a window manager. It's responsible for drawing each application on the "canvas", and attaches common window elements like borders, the title bar and minimize/maximize buttons to the window. Switching window managers can be likened to switching between "Classic mode" and "Aero mode" in Windows: the frame of the window will change, while the content of the window stay the same.
The most high-profile window managers in the Linux world are KDE and Gnome, and generally a Linux distribution will focus on one window manager as the primary interface. However, in general, you are able to install any window manager on any distribution and be able to run it without issue.
Ultimately, it's a matter of choice which platform you would want to use. Each provides a large number of applications that run under them, using their framework. Also important to know is that multiple window managers can be running at the same time (Enlightenment can be used under Gnome, etc), but that's typically outside the need of normal users.
With regards to Gnome and KDE, these two projects have grown much larger than being only window managers. Among other things, they also include development frameworks to create applications from. The KDE framework is known as Qt and the Gnome framework is known as GTK. To state the entire scope of these two projects in this post would be information overload.
To help confuse the issue for normal users, the KDE and Gnome frameworks are now also available for use on the MS Windows platform, typically used by applications that are trying to be used on multiple platforms (like the IM client Pidgin). In most instances, however, when you see mentions of Gnome or KDE, a Linux desktop is being described.
Thanks to Phoshi, whose answer I built upon.
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Good in-depth answer, +1 – tj111 Sep 16 '09 at 15:27
+1, good answer. I rate kde :P – Giancarlo Dec 23 '09 at 12:56
Good overview. One correction: KDE & Gnome are not window managers, but "desktop environments". A DE is a bundle of software (config tools, helper programs, file managers, start menu, panel etc.) that provides everything people need on their desktop. A window manager is part of KDE & Gnome, but they're much more. – sleske Feb 16 '10 at 23:11
Also note that while you can use KDE & Gnome in parallel, you can not (normally) run more than one window manager at a time. One program has to decide where your windows will go :-). – sleske Feb 16 '10 at 23:12
Finally "KDE framework is known as Qt, and the Gnome framework is known as GTK" is rather misphrased. KDE is built on the Qt framework, while Gnome is built on GTK. – sleske Feb 16 '10 at 23:13
Easiest definition -
Gnome and KDE are to Explorer, as Linux is to Windows!
I cannot recommend any over any others though.
It is not a entirely different world, but it is a different world!
Edit - Some people have downvoted this due to the definition, so I will explain some more.
Windows is the operating system, Explorer is the name of the "shell" that both is the taskbar and file manager. Whilst I would say 99% of people use Explorer as the Windows shell, it is possible to use others and very easy to switch.
If you want to take a look at others, for example you can even use KDE on Windows.
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Best not to recommend one over the other. I've seen some fierce competition between Gnome and KDE apologists. Try them both out and see which one you prefer. – Tom Sep 15 '09 at 20:51
-1: While this is a nice answer, it's not useful for someone who has never used Linux and has no idea of what window managers are or what are the differences between them. – Javier Sep 15 '09 at 21:02
To most normal user - Explorer is the part where they do file management. They don't see it as the windows mgt system - in that aspect, they would not understand your statement comparing Explorer to Gnome/KDE. – caliban Sep 15 '09 at 21:02
Right, thanks guys! I did say easiest definition - especially as the original poster said "without being getting too technical" I have edited it to make it a bit more accurate... But I do think that most people who even know about this site, (especially a programmer), knows what explorer is. – William Hilsum Sep 15 '09 at 21:10
@Wil : Judging from some of the questions I have seen asked around SU... Wouldn't bet on it that most people know what Explorer(.exe) really is... ;) Usually, when someone says something like "don't get too technical", it's more like saying "I'm complete clueless about tech, but I am too proud to admit it!" Tech support hears these kind of stuff, they go real slow, heheh. – caliban Sep 15 '09 at 21:21
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These are desktop environments - they are the graphical interface to the system, and normally come with a suite of applications designed with them.
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+1 - Love the quick easy screenshot approach. – Hondalex Sep 15 '09 at 21:25
Nice of you to add screenshots :) – alex Sep 15 '09 at 21:28
i don't want to troll, but how do screenshots explain the what KDE & Gnome are? They may explain what the differences between the two are, but if you don't know what either of them is in the first place, I don't think its of any help. Don't get me wrong, i like screen caps, but there is no mention of what a window manager is, or even the basic premise that they mostly run on the Linux operating system. – Roy Rico Sep 15 '09 at 23:06
What Roy said, plus a nitpick: KDE and Gnome are desktop environments strictly speaking. That is, they include window managers but do more than that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment – Jonik Sep 16 '09 at 12:09
-1 from a Windows user, by the defiition of "this answer is not useful." Sorry, but I don't understand any difference from these images. It could be three user's desktops they've configured the way they want; you could do that on any system. It's not apparent what the actual differences are. I've just begun using Linux, and I've not understood this difference yet. – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Nov 14 '09 at 17:26
Linux is actually just the kernel of the OS, that is the part of the OS connected to hardware and a part you don't really see.
In unix-type OS'es graphical application usually runs in X (a.k.a X Window System), on top of X one run a window manager, a special application that handles other applications windows. One might also want toolbars/taskbars/docks etc these are usually part of the desktop enviromment. KDE and Gnome are two different desktop environments, these define the look and feel of your OS, they include window manager, toolbars, taskbars, file explorer etc.
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First correct answer :-). – sleske Feb 16 '10 at 23:14
This is not related to your question, but here's a simple explanation between Linux and other operating systems:
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How true, the Linux paradigm explained :) – invert Oct 15 '09 at 6:29
Very good - and I use all three OSs, I am not a Linux zeslot. – Bob D Dec 22 '09 at 6:31
In simple, windows-centric terms, let's pretend we're back at windows 95. "Linux" is similar to DOS (Lots of variations, entirely Command Line), and KDE, GNOME, are similar to the windows shell that ran on top of DOS.
This doesn't, however, mean KDE and GNOME are 'outdated' compared to windows, it's just a different method of reaching the same goal.
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this explanation is for someone who has used windows, probably better to define CLI, as a "command line interface". – Roy Rico Sep 15 '09 at 21:25
While CLI is an OS-independent term, you're probably right - was just me being lazy :P (Because Command Line Interface is really long to type :() – Phoshi Sep 16 '09 at 12:05
Gnome and KDE are the two most popular window managers for Linux. The Unix operating systems were originally command-line only. Eventually, a program called an X server was added. This program provides facilities for programmers to make graphical software. Gnome and KDE (and others) use these programming utilities to provide a unified desktop, with windows and menus and stuff.
The best way to understand would be to look at screenshots:
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X is older than Linux – Michael Borgwardt Sep 15 '09 at 21:29
Agreed, X predates linux by a long time. – GodEater Sep 16 '09 at 7:21
He means "The Unix operating systems were originally command-line only". – endolith Oct 13 '09 at 22:50
The screenshots are not helpful at all if you don't point out which one is which... – LWZ Sep 11 '14 at 23:04
In Linux, the set of programs that does things like show you windows, show your start menu, your taskbar, etc., is not directly tied to the operating system in general. You can run a GNU/Linux distribution without any graphics at all, or with windowing and task management handled by one of a dozen different systems: Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Fluxbox. These are called Window Managers, because they provide the interface for interacting with all the graphical applications on your GNU/Linux installation.
For a better idea of what I'm talking about, you can simply look at screenshots of all these different things in action; since much of their user-facing distinctiveness is in how they differentiate as interfaces, you can see the different ways they're set up.
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May I suggest: "there are called window manager because they provide the inteface for manipulating windows in the GUI." or something like that? – dmckee Sep 15 '09 at 23:39
Sitting at a Windows computer, I'm looking at screens with windows on them, and the windows have various controls I can click. If I select a window by clicking on it, I might be able to type into it. There's icons down the left side, and a task bar on the bottom.
That's basically what Gnome or KDE do: they provide the same sort of GUI controls I've just mentioned. There are other programs that do much the same thing, but they're not as popular on Linux machines.
An operating system is a piece of software that runs on your computer and makes it basically useful. It allows you to run applications. It comes in layers, more or less.
There's the kernel, which handles things like how files exist on disk or whatever, what processes get to run when, and how much memory they get to use. It doesn't talk to the user directly.
There's system tools that do various things. If you type ls into a Linux command line, or dir into a Windows one, it will give you a list of files with information attached. It fundamentally gets the information from the kernel, but processes it in other ways. (With Windows, these sorts of tools usually come with GUIs, while in Linux they usually don't.)
There's the GUI, which is what you usually work in.
There's other parts, but I'm trying to keep these simple.
In Windows, Microsoft provides all of these neatly wrapped up in large packages. With Linux operating systems, you have choices for a lot of things, and can build a system in lots of different ways.
Many Linux providers provide packages. For example, if you were to install Ubuntu Linux (a popular version), it would work much like Windows in that all sorts of things would be pre-installed, and (barring hardware incompatibilities) would just work. If you used Gentoo Linux instead, you'd find yourself doing a lot more work and making many more decisions. Some people find this fun (there's a very wide range of things some people somewhere will consider fun), and some like being able to tailor their operating system to suit themselves.
There's also cultural differences. Linux operating systems are normally made up of components you can duplicate freely, examine, and change to your liking, and so there's a strong preference for applications you can get on the same terms. (The advantage for the non-technical person is that many apps are free to download and install, quickly, easily, and safely, without worrying about licenses or transferring money around.) Windows users are more used to paying money for closed-source apps they just use. (The advantage here is that people being paid good money for things generally pay more attention to the needs of people who give them money, and so commercial applications are often easier to use, and there's more commercial apps available for things programmers find dull.) Don't exaggerate this too much. There's plenty of closed-source commercial applications that will run nicely on Linux, and plenty of open-source applications you can just grab for Windows.
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It's the distinction between GUI and command line. KDE and Gnome are alternative GUIs. I'll elaborate as to the situation with Windows as Microsoft hasn't always combined the two. There are cases where windows has run on DOS. Like a GUI and Command line, like with the linux situation. So In addition to what has been said.. i'll give another perspective that hasn't been mentioned.
Back in the days of Windows 3.1, Windows was just the GUI. (It looks like they had to be installed separately, and could have been sold in either different boxes or the same box, but were still on separate disks, they were separate programs) Notice of the three disks in view, one says MS-DOS 6.22 and the other two seem to say Microsoft Windows and they're sold in this case, in the same box. Though you could also get them in separate boxes of course. enter image description here
NT aside, Back then, Windows was -technically- not a full OS. It was an add-on for DOS.
The core part of an OS, that makes it an OS, is the Kernel. The Kernel was within DOS, not within Windows.
Windows was a GUI for DOS.
Linux is Command line, like DOS but a far more complex command line, and DOS ceased development long ago.
Linux has GUIs like KDE and Gnome.
With Windows 3.1, what'd happen was DOS would load up, and it'd run a file called autoexec.bat which ran things automatically. You could add a line pointing to the windows 3.1 executable, whatever it was and wherever it was, like C:\WIN\WIN.EXE and then Windows would be loaded like that, from DOS. Automatically.
When Windows 95/98 came along, things got blurred. It was running on DOS but it wanted to look like it wasn't.
(and as a side note, i'd point out that if you make a windows 98 boot disk and don't include a file called msdos.sys with BootGUI=0 and Logo=0 under [options] then a windows 98 splashscreen or menu comes up when it isn't even really loading windows).
Windows XP which came after Windows 98, ran completely without DOS. Windows XP was from the NT family/line, like Windows 2000, and didn't require or run on DOS or any OS.
(Note- some early NTs might've had some kind of relationship with an OS called OS2)
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There were also some other complexities with Win9X, like autoexec.win config.win even an autoexec.ini – barlop Feb 11 '13 at 12:16
I have a simple answer for you:
Get an Ubuntu "Live CD". You can get one for free. Stick it in your computer, and boot from it. Note: it will not install anything on your hard disk, or even touch your hard disk, unless you tell it to do so.
Now play around with it. Surf the web a bit. Maybe try out some games.
You will find that it is different, but not shockingly different.
If Windows is working for you, you may be done at this point. But still, tuck away that Ubuntu CD; it can serve as a handy "rescue CD" to help you if your Windows system ever gets overrun with viruses, or melts down due to a registry error, or whatever.
If you are still curious, you might want to repeat the exercise, this time with a "KUbuntu" CD. Compare how the KDE desktop in KUbuntu looks and works, compared to the GNOME desktop in Ubuntu. Some people really like KDE. Other people prefer GNOME. In Linux, you get to choose. (In Windows, the only choice you have is: run XP, or run Windows 7? If you run XP you get the XP desktop, and if you run Windows 7, you get the Windows 7 desktop. In Windows it all comes together.)
You may have a friend who can give you an Ubuntu CD. Or, you may have a Linux club in your city, where someone would be happy to give you an Ubuntu CD. Or you can make your own:
Here is a web page that describes how to download and burn your own Ubuntu CD.
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To put it simply, Linux is just another choice. It's like you have been eating with a fork and knife all along, and then one day you realized that hey! you can actually eat with just your fingers!
The objectives accomplished by using your fingers, or using a full cutlery set, is the same - to move food into your mouth. However, using your fingers is free, whereas if you use a full cutlery set, it costs money, and it can be quite expensive depending on how fine the cutlery set is.
For a lot of people, eating with your fingers is unpolished, messy, and uncivilized. They are clumsy at it - lots of food gets dropped between fingers. Most of them give up after a short while. This group of people however are adept with cutlery, and is more than willing to pay for a set of fine well-crafted cutlery so they can eat with finesse, and style even.
However, there is another class of people, that has absolutely no problem eating with their fingers. In fact, they love it! They love how from having only 2 points of contact with their food, it expands to 10 suddenly. They love the choice available - and best of all, they love it that if ever one day all the cutlery disappears in the world - they will know how to use their fingers at least (not like the other bozos).
Linux - is just like eating with your fingers. If you don't know how to do it, it's really messy, and you'll probably hate it. However, once you get the hang of it, you love the choices, and best of all, you love it that you never have to pay for a cutlery set ever again if you don't wish to.
Windows - is like eating with a good, solid, if unremarkable, set of cutlery. Bland, but functional, and hey, everyone's doing it too.
Mac, ah Mac... that's like eating with pure gold cutlery probably. Finely balanced, looks good, but you pay for the privilege.
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:) cool explanation. What I really wanted to know is that apart from what you said, how different is the organization of the OS? How different they are at the core... I did not know the concept of Window Managers, which I think I understand now. – Lazer Sep 15 '09 at 21:19
@eSkay: i'll leave the honors for the others. It's an endless topic on the differences between OSes. P.S you don't sound very unsavvy to me, that's for sure. ;) have fun! – caliban Sep 15 '09 at 21:35
@eSKay: and since you are from India, this analogy shouldn't be too hard to understand. – caliban Sep 15 '09 at 21:40
;) yes I understood that part completely. – Lazer Sep 15 '09 at 21:49
Some of us (including me) think that Linux provides the gold cutlery, that Macs are the good, unremarkable set (it's just another Unix under the hood), and that Windows is like eating with your fingers. It depends on what you are attempting to do, but for me, Linux is the best option there is. – Matthew Talbert Sep 15 '09 at 22:16
Unix and later Linux started as command line based operating systems. The nix philosophy is to provide a simple function that does one thing properly. If you want additional functionality, you take the output of one function and input it to another. When MIT was given given different types of computer workstations, they came up with a platform that allowed graphical environments to be spread across the computers. It was a distributed com;puter environment splitting out the display portion of a program from the processing portion. KDE and Gnome are two different display managers, Gnome being more object oriented than KDE.
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Now then, KDE and GNOME are desktop environments. A window manager is a program that controls the way windows are displayed, but a desktop environment controls the icons and panels (equivalents to the Windows taskbar) on your desktop. If you want a desktop environment that functions exactly like Windows XP, get XPDE. Wish I could post screenshots of my KDE and GNOME, but I'm on Windows now.
Also, linux uses the / instead of C:\ for its root folder. Your Documents folder is in /home/username/Documents and your Pictures folder is in /home/username/Pictures, likewise. Same thing for your Videos, Music, and Downloads folders.
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Settings to send an email from localhost for PHP code in Windows Vista
I am using PHP 5 and Apache to do some programming. My code can correctly send emails on the live server, but on my own development machine, I cannot send emails. There is obviously nothing wrong with my code (since it only fails to send the email on my development machine), so I guess the problem is with my settings.
I have turned off IIS so that I can assign port 80 to Apache. I did not install PHP, Apache, or MySQL by using WAMP or XAMPP - I installed each component individually. I have already tried assigning SMTP to localhost in php.ini and the port number, etc... Nothing works.
I am running on Windows Vista, and am using a router at home. I assign a fixed IP address ( to my development machine. I used PHPMailer where I state a specific from address and to address, and once again, I insist that the code works on my live server - it is just not working on my development machine.
I tried the two solutions given in the last time I asked this question over here: Settings to send an email from localhost for PHP code in Windows Vista
But it turns out the solution that I accepted had a limit of sending 10 emails a day, and for some reason, it was working intermittently. Also, the other solution required me to jump through too many hoops.
Is there a better solution?
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marked as duplicate by BinaryMisfit Feb 18 '10 at 1:18
Might want to put this on stackoverflow.com – D'Arvit Sep 19 '09 at 18:53
I'd switch back to Windows XP if I were you. Better yet, use linux. – Randell Sep 19 '09 at 19:55
Please do not post duplicate questions. Edit the original with more details to get more or better answers. – BinaryMisfit Feb 18 '10 at 1:19
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Try this one:
$headers .= "From: [email protected]" . "\r\n";
mail("[email protected]","test subject","test body",$headers);
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Does anyone know correct 'instructions per cycle' value for AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4171 HE?
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closed as too localized by Breakthrough, Daniel Beck, slhck, Randolph West, Sathya Jul 18 '12 at 7:39
The best you can do is take the estimated instructions per second and divide by the clock frequency. There's no "one right answer" to this question because the answer depends on the assumptions you make. (Is everything in cache? Are we including floating point or string instructions?) – David Schwartz Jul 17 '12 at 19:41
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I don't think there's a simple answer to this question - modern CPUs have lots of different instruction types and it's not always possible to say how a given set of instructions is going to be executed. If you want really detailed specific information, though, you could look in AMD's developer manuals.
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Does anyone have printer drivers for a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on Mac OSX 10.7? Or really does anyone have a good solution for installing drivers?
We set up the foo2hp but it doesn't seem to support everything for the 1600.
If someone has a better solution please let me know.
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We set up the foo2hp
That is the correct driver (at least in Linux land) according to openprinting.org.
but it doesn't seem to support everything for the 1600
The PPD file usually determines what features are supported.
http://www.openprinting.org/driver/foo2hp/ says
PPD files (and the Foomatic XML files to generate them) come with the driver
See http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
This sort of issue is why I only buy printers that support PCL5 and Postscript (or emulations of these) - I still have enough problems with printers.
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Found an answer on the Apple Support site. Remember that the solution for foo2hp is much older, while its a decent solution this one is better. Seems like they're now offering HP drivers for their new flavors of OSX.
(HP Color LaserJet 1600 is similar to the HP Color LaserJet 2600)
Here's a support article updated as of July 5th, 2012: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#HP
Here's the file download: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907
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How to create a desktop shortcut to a Windows 8 Metro app?
How can I make desktop shortcuts of apps on windows 8.
I can not find any way to make shortcuts of windows store apps and the desktop apps from the new start menu.
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marked as duplicate by Moab, KronoS, Karan, Canadian Luke, Indrek Oct 30 '12 at 20:08
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Open up Explorer and head to the following path:
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nice trick,thanks – vishesh Oct 30 '12 at 6:14
this allows programs to be linked to on the desktop, but not true Windows Apps. – Moab Oct 30 '12 at 18:01
Without third party apps it may not be possible. There's the MetroApp Link 2.0 program which could provide a good way to have App shortcuts show up on the Desktop view.
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any way to make shortcuts for desktop apps from the new start menu without third party apps – vishesh Oct 30 '12 at 6:10
Here is a tutorial that explains how to create desktop shortcuts using MetroApp Link.
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I have a server with 30gb of content on. It runs Centos. anyone got any tips on running rsync to sync it to a hard drive (on my local machine)?
Is there any way to use rsync but also have 'version history' of the files?
also I am doing this command
rsync -avz -e ssh user@hostname:/from/directory/on/remote/ /tmp/to/dir/on/local/
but when i cd /tmp/to/dir/on/local and do ls -lah it hasn't kept the file owner (the file owner is my own user on this local machine) . i am running OS X
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The user ids must be identical on those machines or you'll get the uid from the source. – Ярослав Рахматуллин Nov 22 '12 at 11:43
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Re. keeping a version history; no, not just with rsync. You'd need to do this some other way. You could use rsync to copy the files for you but it will keep one directory in sync with one other directory.
One idea, you could rsync from A to B each night. Then rsync from B to B2 and B3 etc. on a daily basis - keeping daily backups of B, using rsync to make those copies.
Re. the file owner - if you're not root you can't chown files to another user. If you can run the command with sudo, that should preserve the owner then.
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I know rsync is a powerful tool.
Can someone please tell me what settings I need to achive the following task.
• the remote server is a linux box with ssh/rsync access
• The original data lives on a remote server and should be transfered to a local computer
• On the remote server, I have a directory with subdirectories and many small files to transfer
• in the top directory, directories and files are created / changed / deleted
• every day I start an rsync task to sync with the remote server
• new files should be created locally
• changed files should be synced
• deleted files should be preserved
• if I delete a file locally that still exists on the remote server it should be created again
• if I modify a file locally that still exists on the remote server, it should be overwritten
so basically the remote server is the master and readonly.
I want to preserve a local copy of all files that live on the server.
But if a file is deleted on the server, I still want to keep the file as a local copy for archive purpose.
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man rsync clearly states all the options you need. – jwbensley Mar 4 '13 at 14:04
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$ rsync -az [email protected]:/path/to/files /path/to/local/directory
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A wisenheimer's comment will follow ;): With that command the folder files will created in /path/to/local/directory; if that is not wanted use ... [email protected]:/path/to/files/ ... (note the trailing slash). – mpy Mar 4 '13 at 15:38
@mpy - yes, good point. I do typically use a trailing slash myself. – EEAA Mar 4 '13 at 15:58
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I'm familiar with manual internet speed testing using sites like speedtest.net. I'd like to set something up to automatically run a speed test once per hour 24x7 (for example) on a Windows machine.
Any advice on a tool/approach to do this?
EDIT: Specifically, I'm looking to obtain the same measurements provided with speedtest.net (ping test and bandwidth test) but in an automated fashion I can run in the background.
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Are you looking to test speed or bandwidth? Speedtest.net measures bandwidth and rudimentary latency, it is by no means a gauge of speed. Honestly, mtr is a really good tool to check latency and loss at all hops over an extended period of time. It isn't the most sophisticated method, but it can tell you enough. If you could be more specific as to what you want to capture, then I'm sure we can be more helpful at suggesting a specific tool or method. – MaQleod Jun 2 '13 at 1:54
I'm looking to get the same measurements speedtest.net gives but in an automated fashion I can run in the background periodically. – Nerdtron Jun 2 '13 at 2:31
updated the question; hopefully its clearer now. – Nerdtron Jun 2 '13 at 2:45
ping using .1 interval and 1000 count and standard iperf should get you what you need. Setup a server elsewhere (for iperf) and loop them in a bash script with output directed at a log file somewhere. – MaQleod Jun 2 '13 at 5:19
I'd like to avoid having to setup my own server -- I was hoping there was some automated way to test against one of the existing servers (speedtest.net for example). – Nerdtron Jun 2 '13 at 11:44
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Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
speedtest-cli works with Python 2.4-3.4
wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py
chmod +x speedtest-cli
$ speedtest-cli -h<br>
[--server SERVER] [--mini MINI] [--source SOURCE]<br>
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit<br>
--bytes Display values in bytes instead of bits. Does not affect<br>
the image generated by --share<br>
--share Generate and provide a URL to the speedtest.net share<br>
results image<br>
--simple Suppress verbose output, only show basic information<br>
--list Display a list of speedtest.net servers sorted by distance<br>
--server SERVER Specify a server ID to test against<br>
--mini MINI URL of the Speedtest Mini server<br>
--source SOURCE Source IP address to bind to<br>
--version Show the version number and exit<br>
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wow! that looks really nice, I'll give that a try. – Nerdtron Oct 3 '14 at 3:20
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I have a good quality MKV file that has several subtitle options. I want to add an additional subtitle file to the list.
Some search online led me to use video converters, and basically re-encode the movie into a new file. That seems really overkill to me. Plus I may loose the previous subtitles, and some image quality along the way.
I'm on OSX.
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Removing subtitles:
mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.mkv -S # remove all subtitle tracks
mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.mkv -s 3,4 # remove tracks 3 and 4
mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.mkv -s '!3' # remove all subtitle tracks except 3
mkvmerge -i input.mkv # show track numbers
Adding subtitles:
mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.mkv subs.srt
mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.mkv --language 0:ger --track-name 0:German subs.srt
Extracting subtitles:
mkvextract tracks input.mkv 3:subs.srt
for f in *.mkv; do
sub=$(mkvmerge -i "$f" | awk '$4=="subtitles"{print;exit}')
[[ $sub ]] || continue
[[ $sub =~ S_TEXT/ASS ]] && ext=ass || ext=srt
track=$(awk -F '[ :]' '{print $3}' <<< "$sub")
mkvextract tracks "$f" "$track:${f%mkv}$ext"
mkvmerge and mkvextract can be installed with brew install mkvtoolnix.
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MKVMerge GUI is already available on Mac OS X, but nevertheless, it's a good how to for console fans. – Bora Jun 18 '13 at 23:35
There are two basic ways of showing subtitles. You can encode the pixels into the video itself. This is called "hardsubbing". The advantage here is the simplicity for the video player, it's just a video stream. The disadvantages are that you had to reencode the video, which takes time, and has some fidelity loss. If you get a better translation, well, it's pixels in the video. And you can only have one language.
What is somewhat better is "softsubbing", which is to have a text file someplace, separate from the video stream. There are many different formats of subtitle files, but at their base they all have "text, start what time, remove what time" at their core. Some have additional features like colors and orientation on the screen. The advantage to this is you can have multiple languages (think of a DVD, you have multiple languages available) and you can fix typos and such in the file. And if you don't need subtitles, well you just turn them off.
Softsubs can either be separate files - most players will automagically look for subtitles with the same name (different extension) as the main video. Or certain container file formats (like MKV) can have them embedded inside. Check out MKVtoolnix (there is a mac port) for MKV file tools. This should let you embed softsubs without reencoding.
Note that not all players can support all formats. My experience is that XBMC has issues with SSA files, but the much simpler SRT files are fine. VLC will play anything, if it's supported on your platform.
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Good answer, though it should be noted that some soft-subtitles -- especially DVD subtitles -- are bitmap-based, rather than text-based. The main effect of which is to make them almost impossible to edit -_- – evilsoup Jun 18 '13 at 16:17
@evilsoup thanks, didn't know that. – Rich Homolka Jun 18 '13 at 17:04
Yep, IDX+SUB VOBsub, where IDX is a text file but SUB contains bitmaps. – Karan Jun 18 '13 at 19:20
changed link to the direct download page. – Bora Jun 18 '13 at 23:38
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Does anyone know a way to pass command line parameters to virtualized programs inside an XP Mode VM?
I have a VM with Internet Explorer6 installed (and another with Internet Explorer7), and using the shortcut publishing functionality I can launch those from the host OS (Windows 7). But I don't want to just launch them, I want command line parameters to them.
The end goal here is that I want to use a Firefox Extension provide "View in Internet Explorer6", "View in Internet Explorer7" and "View in Internet Explorer8" context menus for a page. The native one is easy, as it would just call "iexplorer.exe %1" where %1 is replaced with the current URL, like any old shortcut. It's passing to the VM apps that's tricky...
I tried just adding another parameter to the shortcut I have (which launches VMSal.exe) but that doesn't work...
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Normally, adding a parameter to the shortcut should work, I think. Adding another programm launch maybe isn't the best idea, the command may get stuck on the first program. – Michael K May 17 '11 at 8:13
You could write the parameters to a file in each respective VM's hard drives via network shares, then place a script that reads the file on the VM's hard drive and calls the VM's iexplore with those arguments. Publish shortcuts to the scripts then instead of iexplore directly. – Huckle Feb 5 '12 at 1:10
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Either pass it on through a VBscript, start cmd and run it there or use a batch file in XP mode.
VMSal.exe does not support parameter passing...
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Manual Publishing using a script having parameters: "CommandLineSetting": 2[Allways Require] and "RequiredCommandLine": Param1 Param2 works; follow: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windows_vpc/archive/2009/11/02/publishing-virtual-applications-in-windows-virtual-pc.aspx
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Tolkien Gateway
aglâb in Khuzdul means "spoken language".[1]
[edit] Etymology
The word obviously comes from the radicals G-L, which also appear in the word iglishmêk. -âb is possibly an ending.[2]
[edit] References
2. Magnus Åberg, An analysis of Dwarvish
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Analysis: According To Jim
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Analysis: N1ckola
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Awesome: Rouge Noir
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Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow
A character who makes The Promise, must follow the Prime Directive, or is otherwise The Fettered will be forced to break it... repeatedly. Usually they'll face a veritable parade of situations that force them to choose whether To Be Lawful or Good, Godzilla Thresholds that require heartless necessity, and otherwise constantly force them to compromise their word and/or morals to win, do what's right, survive and/or protect the people they love.
This may take a variety of forms, for example the Actual Pacifist will be turned into a Reluctant Warrior who has to kill to protect the innocent. The Captain will have the completion of their orders and the lives of Innocent Bystanders as mutually exclusive. The Watcher will be compelled off his True Neutral vague fence sitting into taking a side. On a smaller scale, any parent or lover promising to "spend time" with a loved one will be called away to duty... not that the loved one ever understands or puts up with for long.
Expect The Fettered and The Cape with a Heroic Vow to be especially prone to suffer this, though the Noble Demon may be an infrequent target. See also Oddly Common Rarity. If the story has Magically Binding Contracts involved, they'll be as binding as warm swiss cheese. Unless it isn't. If the vow is only broken once or twice, then it's Batman Grabs a Gun.
Anime and Manga
• Roger Smith of The Big O often says that violence is a last resort in his negotiations... but then, we would never get to see him kick ass in his Humongous Mecha if negotiations didn't break down on a regular basis, now would we?
• In Bakuman。, Mashiro and Azuki promise to never see each other until their dreams come true, but this is broken on a few occasions, such as when Mashiro is hospitalized or when Azuki receives an offer to be the female lead in Natural+, resulting in Mashiro having to come to see her, inspiring her to act on her desire to turn it down. They lampshade how often they've seen each other in spite of their promise, but note that the cases have been emergencies. Azuki decides that they will kiss the next time they see each other so that they will commit to their promise. The next time they meet is after Azuki becomes the female lead for Mashiro and Takagi's anime.
• This is the reason Byakuya has become a Knight Templar by the start of Bleach. As a noble, he is expected to embody the rules and traditions of Soul Society, but he broke these rules twice; once to marry a commoner he'd fallen in love with and, when she died, he swore on her deathbed he'd find, adopt, and protect her little sister (Rukia), breaking the law a second time. He swore that this would be the absolute last time, and that he'd obey the laws no matter what from here on. So, later when Rukia was branded a criminal to be executed for her crimes, he obeyed the law, captured her, and prevented her friends from rescuing her. After being defeated by Ichigo, however, Ichigo convinces him that there's nothing wrong with breaking an unjust law, as shown in the page quote of To Be Lawful or Good. Byakuya has also since learned to abuse loopholes when subverting orders that he personally disapproves of but which aren't actually unjust; sometimes it's possible to not personally break any rules but at the same time facilitate someone else breaking them. Especially when his superiors didn't think to specifically forbid him from doing this.
• Dragon Shiryu in Saint Seiya has several of these with direct orders by his Old Master to never use such or such Dangerous Forbidden Technique. Instances include "being forbidden from using Rozan Shōryūha when weakened or Overdrawn at the Blood Bank" (which he had to break against Black Dragon to take him down in a desperate situation ; he only survived by virtue of Heel-Face Turn from Black Dragon impressed by his friendship), "being forbidden from using Rozan Kōryūha" (which he breaks against Capricorn Shura, but admittedly he was on his last leg and a Taking You with Me Heroic Sacrifice was his only way out ; he only survived by virtue of Heel-Face Turn from Shura). The reason why this feels like this trope is because every time he does it, he vocally points out he is breaking his promise with his Old Master, for the greater good, but in reality this is more like a sign that the Godzilla Threshold has been broken and it's time to bring out the big guns.
Comic Books
• In the Marvel Universe the Watcher repeatedly violated his oath of non-intervention. Sometimes he does so outright (as in his very first appearance), other times he finds ways to "technically" obey the oath while still somehow helping Earth's heroes. For example, he likes to make his presence known to Earth's heroes (not difficult given his immense size) whenever observing a major event, even though he can watch events just fine from light-years away. Therefore, he doesn't even have to utter a word to make it clear that something of great importance is about to happen. Original Sin #0 reveals that when the rest of his race vowed never to interfere with other species again, he protested the decision and argued that they could learn from their mistakes and do better next time. He has few qualms about bending or even breaking the oath because he never followed the oath in spirit.
• In Dragon Bones it is mentioned that oaths of allegiance are considered cheap and no one takes them seriously, least of all the high king Jakoven. When an elderly nobleman starts a plea to the king by saying that he has sworn by his life-blood to be loyal to the king, every decent person present pities him for being so naive as to believe that the king would actually honour his promises. It's all about power, if you have power, you can break your promises all you like. Or that's what Jakoven thinks ... until the nobles have had enough and start a revolution.
• And then there is the whole Hurog family, whose holy duty is to protect dragons. They have been doing a pretty bad job for a very, very, very long time. Ward, the protagonist, is the first one to actually do some dragon-protecting. (One of his ancestors killed a dragon, and the ones that came after that liked the title, but never made a real effort to find out what happened to the dragons.
• Used frequently in A Song of Ice and Fire, even to the point of Running Gag extremes. Many major groups in the setting take vows of chastity (Maesters of the Citadel, Black Brothers of the Night's Watch, brothers of the Kingsguard, etc.) and few of them take the vow even a little bit seriously. (The Night's Watch gets by on a bit of Loophole Abuse: their vow is to "take no wife and father no children," and given the ubiquity of moon tea and tansy in the setting, as long as they stick to whores who know their business, there's relatively little chance of that.)
• In the Warrior Cats series, the Warrior Code (which forbids inter-Clan relationships, has rules about territory, lists prerequisites to achieve certain ranks, and lists other rules about what they're allowed and not allowed to do) is broken quite often.
• Goes to the point of deconstruction with Hollyleaf, who is so obsessed with the code that she breaks down when she realizes that she's the product of a forbidden inter-Clan relationship.
• Death of the Discworld is bound by The Duty to impartially collect souls, and has apparently done so offscreen very diligently for thousands of years, but in the books themselves he has a breakdown and runs off more than once, and also spares people's lives repeatedly because of curiosity or pity or personal relations or because Granny Weatherwax asks him to. (He also killed someone for no reason in the first book, but that was before his character was really decided.)
Live-Action TV
• Star Trek: The Original Series. Captain Kirk's willingness to break the Prime Directive whenever he needed to save the Enterprise and/or a "stagnant" culture is well known. He was also a hypocrite on the issue, condemning Captain Tracy in "The Omega Glory" for doing something he had done before and would do again. Note that Mr. Spock was also guilty for not arresting Kirk each time he did it (as noted in "The Omega Glory", any Starfleet officer who doesn't take action is as guilty as the person committing the offense).
• Subsequent captains weren't much better.
• In an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Archer imagines that maybe some day, there'll be some kind of rule or directive to save captains from having to make such judgment calls. Of course, the judgement call in question was his decision to withhold a cure from a dying race, based on Phlox's assertion that nature "selected" them to die so another race could thrive. A Prime Directive would have at least given Archer a rule he could hide behind to justify committing genocide.
• Oddly enough, TNG asserted that Kirk had violated the Prime Directive in circumstances TOS clearly established was not a Prime Directive violation by the interpretation held by Starfleet at the time (they would have been in TNG, but Kirk can hardly be faulted for not knowing about regulation changes decades before they happen).
• "The Drumhead" reveals that even Picard, by far the most diplomatic Captain, nonetheless had nine separate violations on his record. This was a late season 4 episode, meaning he had dozens more episodes and four movies in which to rack up more violations.
Visual Novel
Web Original
• Discussed in the Writing Excuses episode on Comedy: putting a character in a situation in which violating their principles is easy and adhering to them is painful is a good and fairly easy way to create humour or drama, but you can't keep forcing them to break their principles or they stop being principles.
• In the fifth Season of Noob, one of the players gets a job that amounts to making a Non-Player Character that is an important part of the game's story be controlled by a real person rather than artificial intelligence. He promises his new boss to never break character while on the job, but between getting used to the character's World Boss statistics, making players that know him aware of the situation and other incidents, there are only one or two scenes showing him not breaking character.
Real Life
• Words like "'til death do you part" and "for as long as you both shall live" are very common in wedding vows. The divorce rate approaches or exceeds 50% in many Western countries (although it's inflated somewhat by serial divorcers). The infidelity rate is harder to measure exactly, but is also quite high. Do the math.
• Likewise, some Catholic bishops release priests from their duties and vows of celibacy, because they've fallen in love and want to get married. It's a relatively long process because of the seriousness of the change and the awareness that often such feelings pass and fade as above, but there is a process in place.
• Averted by the Quakers (a religious group, also called "The society of friends"), who take the Bible's word on not swearing oaths seriously. Thus, they manage to stick to the principles that are in the Bible, the ones of their own religious society (there are several cases in history where Quakers got in trouble for refusing to swear oaths), and don't get into the predicament of having to break vows, as they never made them in the first place.
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Heavenly Creatures
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Western Animation: Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
"Much has changed since the last Mortal Kombat tournament. Dark forces of Outworld have begun invading the Earthrealm. These attacks are seriously weakening Earth's dimensional fabric, enabling not only outworlders to enter the Earthrealm, but warriors from other domains as well. Only the most extraordinary warriors can possibly meet this challenge: Liu Kang, Princess Kitana, Sub-Zero, Jax, Sonya Blade, Nightwolf, Kiva, Kurtis Stryker. Driven by purpose and bound by honor, these are the Defenders of the Realm."
Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (also known as Mortal Kombat: The Animated Series) is an Animated Adaptation of the Mortal Kombat games. It aired on the USA Network's USA Cartoon Express animation block from September to December of 1996.
DotR follows from the events of the first live-action movie. Raiden gathers again a group of warriors to stand against the forces of the Outworld and various other invading dimensions. The series also introduced a handful of characters, one of whom (Quan Chi) was later a mainstay in the fighting games.
DotR makes continuity problematic, since Mortal Kombat: Annihilation starts immediately in the same place. However, the cartoon is held in higher regard than Annihilation, so it generally takes precedence.
This series has examples of:
• Adaptational Villainy: Scorpion. True, he's no saint in the games, but is more neutral if anything. Here? His very first line in the show makes it clear what team he's playing on:
Scorpion: By all the powers of evil, I will not rest until I have my revenge!
• Amazon Brigade: Zara and her female warriors.
• Ambiguously Gay: Jax of all people. Calls Raiden girlfriend on at least one occasion, his first response to defending Sub-Zero is "Hey I don't want to marry the guy!", and flips his lid when you call him "blubber butt".
• Animated Adaptation
• Animation Bump: The final episode has different animation than the rest of the series.
• The Atoner: Sub-Zero
• Backported Development: When Liu Kang has a flashback about his victory over Shang Tsung, Tsung has the beard and facepaint he uses on this series (from Mortal Kombat 3), even though he didn't have them in the live-action movie, which the flashback represents.
• Both played straight and averted with Kano. When he's shown in a flashback of Sonya's partner's death, he wears his series/MK3 outfit, yet in a flashback to their fight in the movie, both Sonya and Kano have their movie looks.
• Badbutt: Sub-Zero, most of the time (however, in two episodes, one of them being the last one, he uses his ice powers to kill enemies)
• Battle Couple: Kitana and Liu Kang.
• Battle Cry: Sonya: "Kombat time!" for the whole team, and "Kiss Off!" for herself.
• Beard of Evil: Kano sports a goatee here.
• Big Bad: Shao Kahn.
• Big "NO!": Poor, poor Smoke delivers one right before his Unwilling Roboticisation
• Back from the Dead: Shang Tsung.
• Broad Strokes: From time to time, in regards to the first movie:
• When Sub-Zero introduces himself, he reveals to be the young brother of the old one, killed by Liu Kang. In the games, the elder Sub-Zero, who would become Noob Saibot, was killed by Scorpion.
• In the Liu Kang vs. Sub-Zero scene of DotR, Kitana sported her outfit from the series, and Sub-Zero (the elder) was finished by Liu Kang throwing a water bucket to him, freezing him. In the first movie, Kitana wore a different outfit, and Liu Kang finished Sub-Zero by throwing said water bucket to him, but the water became a big spearhead, and nailed Sub-Zero to the wall and then got himself frozen.
• Another Liu Kang kill that was softened for the cartoon was Shang Tsung. Sure, he's still reduced to a skeleton upon defeat, but one: he just turns into bones, instead of actually emaciating, and two: the bed of spikes where Tsung landed in the movie is absent.
• Brought Down to Normal: Jax when his bionic arms are damaged in Acid Tongue.
• Canon Foreigner: Asgaarth (a bird-man from Edenia), Oniro (Grand master of the Lin Kuei), Ruby (red female ninja and possible Expy of Jade), Kiva (Nightwolf's pet wolf) and Zara (Kitana's mortal enemy).
• Canon Immigrant: Quan Chi.
• Cross Through: Resurrection is the third part of a four-part storyline aired on November 16, 1996 about a "Warrior King" chasing down a powerful MacGuffin through four (otherwise unrelated) USA Network Saturday morning cartoons. Two notes regarding this: unlike the other three parts, the DotR episode features only the MacGuffin, with the Warrior King himself only appearing as an unexplained-with-just-the-context-of-DotR-alone shadow for all of five seconds; and the american Street Fighter cartoon was one of the other four cartoons in the storyline, making this the closest the two Dueling Games have ever come to interacting.
• Composite Character: Stryker has a couple of personality traits from Johnny Cage, who is absent from this cartoon.
• Deadpan Snarker: Raiden.
"Before you make a bigger Mortal BUTT out of yourself..."
• Disney Villain Death: Scorpion gets frozen by Sub-Zero, then thrown into some kind of pitch-black abyss inside a temple by Raiden.
• Downer Ending: Due to the series' cancellation after one season. Outworld is in chaos with Shao Kahn gone (but there is a very good chance that he'll return anyway), Kitana's rebellion to restore Edenia fails, and there is no indication whatsoever that Earthrealm's invasions will stop.
• Everything's Better with Princesses: Princess Kitana.
• Exposed to the Elements: The characters never seem to dress appropriately in colder environments.
• Five-Man Band
• Five-Token Band
• Flat Character: Cyrax and Sektor.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: A closer inspection of the Dragon Jets reveals decals patterned after the riders' Animalities.
• Fusion Dance: The few times Nightwolf entered kombat himself, he would magically merge with his pet wolf Kiva and open a can of whoop-ass on the enemies. This happened exactly twice in the whole series. Why the others kept him in front of a computer screen all the time is unknown.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: It's pretty obvious what the "Realm of No Return" is supposed to be, which adds levels of Fridge Horror whenever somebody gets banished there by Rayden.
• Hate Plague: In The Secret of Quan Chi.
• Heel-Face Turn: Even though Sub-Zero helps the good guys from the beginning, he mentions he was a Lin Kuei and fought for the forces of darkness. A later episode showed how he came to join the team.
• I Gave My Word: Sub-Zero and Smoke once swore an oath to never fight one another, which Smoke can't remember at first due to being a cyborg, but he ends up remembering it and tells Sub-Zero that it's impossible for them to be friends, but he will honor their oath now that he remembers it.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Sub-Zero's fight with Smoke. It does not work, but he agrees not to kill him, nonetheless.
• Jerkass: Raiden. Sonya can qualify as well due to her abrasiveness, but she has her reasons.
• Lighter and Softer: And freaking how.
• Mecha-Mooks: Most of the robotic Lin Kuei.
• Mission Control: Nightwolf.
• Not Quite Dead: Kano.
• Pungeon Master: Jax, from time to time:
• After Sub-Zero's first appearance:
Sonya: What's that sleaze doing here?
Jax: Seems like he's putting a chill on the invasion.
• The Obi-Wan: Rayden.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Komodai and Karbrac for Reptile and Baraka respectively, to the point where "Karbrac" is almost a total anagram for "Baraka"
• Team Pet: Kiva, Nightwolf's wolf.
• Title Drop: By Nightwolf, in the first episode, called "Kombat Begins Again", after chatting with Liu Kang.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Lieutenant Sonya Blade and Princess Kitana. Ironically, during their inevitable Girls' Night Out Episode, it's Sonya who asks Kitana if she ever misses being a woman, what with all the fighting. Earlier in the episode, Sonya attempted to get herself a makeover, only to be given a sexist remark from Jax.
• Totally Radical: While the series isn't as bad with it as some others, you know you've seen everything when you see, of all people, Raiden saying "Now kick your jets and jam!"
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Oniro and Shang Tsung.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Liu Kang, Jax, Sub-Zero.
• We Used to Be Friends: "Old Friends Never Die"
Alternative Title(s):
Mortal Kombat Defenders Of The Realm, Mortal Kombat
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YMMV: Kid Crusher
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YMMV: Moonraker
The novel:
• Complete Monster: Though his plan is smaller in scale than his film counterpart's, Ian Fleming's original version of Sir Hugo Drax is no less vile. Born "Hugo von der Drache" in Germany and an avid fan of Hitler, Drax ran undercover missions against Britain for the Reich until he was mistakenly wounded by his own side and nursed back to health by the British. Stealing the identity of a MIA soldier with a similar name and feigning amnesia, Drax murdered the first rich man he could find after leaving the hospital for startup money and began plotting to avenge Nazi Germany's defeat. Using his family's holdings in rare metals, Drax paid out of his own pocket to design the Moonraker, a state-of-the-art nuclear missile meant to defend Britain from the Russians, with Drax's philanthropy elevating him to a national hero. The only problem was, the missile was set to destroy London on its first test firing with a real atomic bomb. When Drax describes the intended death toll for this catastrophe to him, Bond (a hardened killer himself) is left almost catatonic. Other crimes include running a motorist off the road and over a cliff due to the mere possibility he might've been a spy, and having people tortured for information with welding torches. For Drax, the mere destruction of their greatest city was not enough; he made himself into the British people's greatest hero just so their collective spirits would be crushed when the nuke hit.
The film:
• Complete Monster: Hugo Drax is a cold, snobbish, understated Control Freak who wishes to exterminate the human race. He has enough of a God complex to engineer a plan to wipe out humanity, build a secret billion-dollar space station and claim that he alone can credit for it, and tell his crazy Nazi space-cult that future generations will look up and "know that there is order in the Heavens" after their insane Evil Plan is completed. Drax gives you plenty of reasons to hate him throughout; setting his dogs on his assistant Corinne is probably one of the nastier moments in the series. Indeed, the sheer scale and horror of his plans combined with his utter lack of redeeming features just might make Drax the single most evil villain in the entire Bond franchise; he certainly has the most terrifying scheme to date, and he is one of the least likeable bad guys overall, both for his cold Smug Snake attitude and for the fact that his explicit reason for not simply shooting the secret agent (and presumably, for every other person he has killed in gruesome ways) is that he wants Bond's death to amuse him. A truly nasty piece of work through and through.
• Critical Dissonance / Critic-Proof: This movie is widely regarded as one of the worst Bond movies, if not the worst, but it was the highest grossing film in the franchise until Golden Eye was released. It is worth bearing in mind that Moonraker tends to receive worse reviews now than it did at release, where some critics accustomed to the sci-fi craze marked it highly - the New York Times even called it the equal of Goldfinger!
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: The scene where Bond disables the station's gravity is truly impressive when you bear in mind this was filmed pre-CGI. The scene features the largest number of weightless actors ever filmed (on wires).
• Crowning Moment of Funny: The Gondola chase scene, which has James piloting a hovercraft down the streets of Venice, to various Reaction Shots, including a dog (with a "you gotta be kidding" expression), a pigeon (which double-takes), and a waiter who pours his patron's drink down his back in shock. It also has two No More for Me gags, with a smoker and a wino tourist.
• Crowning Music of Awesome
• Love It or Hate It: Depending on who you ask, it's either a fun, over-the-top amusement park ride of a movie, or the worst thing to ever happen to Bond (well, aside from the other worst thing to ever happen to Bond). Finding someone just neutral about the film is a rarity.
• Magnificent Bastard: Drax redecorating a gas filled laboratory and turning it into a beautiful Venetian lounge in less than a day, then waiting for Bond, M and the Mister of Defence to show up with gas masks just so he can see the look on Bond's face, just plain reeks of this trope.
• Sequelitis: It is widely considered one of the most ridiculous Bond films.
• So Bad, It's Good: For all the problems this film has, it certainly isn't boring.
• Special Effect Failure
• Bluescreening for Jaws jumping between the cable cars.
• Don't forget the ludicrously fake snake Roger Moore wrestles.
• Villain Decay
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id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc branch branch_author launchpad_bug 5565 Bring eventlet back home oubiwann oubiwann "Evenlet was started by Bob Ippolito and Dononvan Preston. Donovan recently mentioned that his whole initial interest in working on eventlet was digging deeply into Python coroutines, implementing an eventloop for them, and exploring lots of edge cases. At the TSF dinner at PyCon 2012, Donovan and Glyph talked about this, and Donvoan's interest in bringing the lessons learned from eventlet back into Twisted. These lessons, though, take the form of the Actor model (in concurrent programming literature, research, and implementations) and the related Address (receiver, mailbox) model. In other words, asynchronous message passing. This ticket aims to flesh out and land Donovan's exploratory code as a new feature in Twisted." enhancement assigned normal core eventlet,actor,concurrency glyph fzzzy exarkun jesstess dreid mithrandi@… branches/actor-model-coroutines-5565 oubiwann
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The "slowloris" script is not a new attack. But by demonstrating the attack and giving it a personality, it has drawn attention to a significant weakness in Apache HTTPD. We need a response to that, with information on risks and mitigation for server admins.
The slowloris script: threat and limitations
The original slowloris is a perl script, though there are apparently other equivalent scripts floating around. My own testing involved the perl script, on Opensolaris and Linux platforms. It works by opening huge numbers of concurrent connections to the target server, and holding them open so they are unavailable for normal traffic.
The slowloris author notes that the script was ineffective running on Windows, because it only made about 130 concurrent outgoing connections. I observed similar limitations on *X platforms: on Opensolaris it was 252, and on Linux it was 1020. I suspect those could be varied by tuning the host's kernel parameters and/or the Perl build, but I haven't investigated that.
The slowloris script is also a big CPU drain on its own host. Running it on my opensolaris box, it took around 50% of the CPU (as shown by top(1)) to hold 252 connections open and trickle data. On linux it was over 99% to hold 1020 connections. Running both slowloris and apache on the linux box, apache responded effortlessly to /server-status requests while servicing the slowloris attack, all while sharing the <1% of CPU left by slowloris with top and the Gnome desktop.
[Update: 29.Apr.2011] slowloris-perl can be patched (1 line) to reduce CPU drain... (only use 2%, 500 connections in linux-box/threaded, this crash typical server in 15 seconds)
Based in this observation, a sufficient (albeit clumsy) defence against a single attacker is to raise maxclients. This is probably a good idea in any case: the defaults shipped by apache and at least some packagers go back to a time when an average server might have 32Mb RAM! 170 clientes drain almost 1Gb-RAM. However, it may create a conflict with applications running on the webserver that cannot reasonably support large numbers of concurrent clients.
Raising MaxClients
The main concern when raising MaxClients is memory usage. With the single-threaded Prefork MPM, this is a serious issue, as each client requires its own process at a marginal cost likely to be significantly in excess of 1Mb RAM, so 1000 slowloris connections will consume gigabytes of RAM. With a threaded MPM such as Worker or Event, each 1Mb memory gives capacity to handle about 10-20 slowloris connections, so a modern server can comfortably accommodate many thousands of clients (though applications may not). Non-Unix MPMs are also threaded, so I would expect them also to work well with high MaxClients settings, but I have no data.
Note that the memory usage reported by tools like ps(1) and top(1) include shared memory, so they report apparent figures that are far higher than apache's actual per-process usage.
Event MPM
The Event MPM is a partially-asynchronous processing model. However, my tests indicate that it is limited by MaxClients in the same way as other MPMs, and doesn't appear to offer any advantage over Worker in mitigating the effect of Slowloris attacks.
In , Sander Temme wrote: If you're being DOS attacked by trickle requests, you could try setting a very low timeout (default is 5 minutes which doesn't seem to be working for you) and perhaps use mod_evasive or somesuch to flag and firewall the bad clients. TBD: put some numbers to "low timeout".
Resource limits
TCP-level defences: e.g. iptables
Modules: e.g. mod_evasive
DoS (last edited 2012-12-30 10:55:14 by GuillermoGrandes)
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Orion/Meeting minutes/20110505
• Susan McCourt
• Michael Rennie
• Libing Wang
• Mark Macdonald
• Silenio Quarti
• Felipe Heidrich
• McQ Wilson
• Grant Gayed
• Boris Bokowski
• Andrew Niefer
• Dean Roberts
• John Arthorne
• Jon Ferraiolo
For remainder of 0.2 cycle, our focus areas are:
1. Features required for self-hosting
2. Consumability
3. Performance/Polish
4. Documentation
We will start putting our weekly integration builds on orion.eclipse.org.
Status Updates
• Created example of embedding editor
• Started work on landing page
• Polishing off crossfire debug protocol: alpha 7 out soon
• Working on handling editor zoom
• Going for simple fix of making all lines big enough to handle bold/italic
• Now line height doesn't need to change as you type
• Gave talk on Orion at JSConf
• Talk was well attended
• Builds are now sending results to Orion releng list
• Added license root files and switch to use license features
• Working on getting Dojo 1.6.1 into Orbit
• Working on embedding web editors into Eclipse desktop
• Implemented copy/move/rename for project
• Getting documentation infrastructure in place
• Working on make compare editor consumable by others
• Working towards enabling three way compare editor that shows ancestor
• Problem with mixed line terminators that needs to be fixed
• Possibly have editor honor existing line terminators in the file
• Still no good answer for new empty files. Need to determine the server's native line terminator rather than client.
• Setting up example site for embedded editor example
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Auchenai Crypts
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Auchenai Crypts
AC, Crypts
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End boss
Advised level
Player limit
[Auchenai Key] (Heroic mode)
Associated faction
Shirrak the Dead Watcher
Exarch Maladaar
Other Auchindoun instances
Mana-Tombs (5)
Yor (heroic)
Nexus-Prince Shaffar
Auchenai Crypts (5)
Shirrak the Dead Watcher
Exarch Maladaar
Sethekk Halls (5)
Darkweaver Syth
Anzu (heroic)
Talon King Ikiss
Shadow Labyrinth (5)
Ambassador Hellmaw
Blackheart the Inciter
Grandmaster Vorpil
Auchenai Crypts is the main seat of power for the Auchenai - a renegade religious sect of draenei led by the Exarch Maladaar. The crypts are populated by these draenei and the unliving creatures they have summoned. The most important remains interred within the crypt are those of D'ore, one of the naaru. D'ore perished in the collision that brought Oshu'gun (and the draenei) to Draenor. In death, D'ore entered its void stage. The dark energies exuded by this phenomenon resulted, directly or indirectly, in the evils that have since befallen the crypts and indeed, all of Auchindoun. It is a wing of the Auchindoun instance. Its entrance can be found to the west of the Ring of Observance.
Main article: Auchindoun
Dungeon Journal
Bridge of Souls · Crypt of Remembrance · Chamber of the Restless · Halls of the Hereafter
Dungeon Denizens
Auchenai Crypts bosses
Bosses Monsters NPCS
IconSmall Naaru.gif D'ore
Main article: Auchenai Crypts loot
Auchenai Crypts entrance
• Cataclysm Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): New quests added.
• TBC Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Creatures here will no longer occasionally drop aquatic-oriented items, Fish Scales, etc.
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Coal companies sign on for $1b rail link
Posted October 23, 2009 10:31:00
A billion-dollar rail project in central and north Queensland is a step closer to becoming a reality.
The Northern Missing Link project would link the Goonyella coal rail system with the Newlands system, allowing for more coal to reach the upgraded Abbot Point terminal near Bowen.
Premier Anna Bligh says coal companies Lake Vermont and Bowen Central Coal have now come on board and agreed to commercial principles for the project.
She is hoping other coal companies will follow suit.
Ms Bligh says final planning should be done by December and the first work is expected to begin near Moranbah by April next year.
Topics: rail-transport, business-economics-and-finance, industry, coal, moranbah-4744, mackay-4740, newlands-4804, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
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Experiment Eleven: an extraordinary case of scientific deceit
First published:
Monday 19 August 2013 9:10AM
Peter Pringle
After a gap of more than 60 years, new information has come to light that suggests the winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for Medicine stole all the credit for his research student's discovery of Streptomycin, one of the world's first wonder drugs. Journalist Peter Pringle unravels an extraordinary case of scientific intrigue.
Seventy years ago this month, Albert Schatz, a young PhD student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was testing bacteria from the soil when he discovered streptomycin, the antibiotic that was the first effective drug against tuberculosis. TB had killed two billion people in the previous two centuries. Schatz’s discovery led to the closing of numerous sanatoria around the world and brought relief to millions.
But Schatz’s professor, Selman Waksman, would claim full credit for the discovery, calling Schatz a mere lab bench worker. The young Schatz fought back and the result was one of the most vicious battles for credit of a major discovery in the history of science. Schatz won legal recognition as 'co-discoverer', but in 1952, Waksman alone was awarded a Nobel prize.
We often forget that scientists who unearth great facts about nature are like the rest of us, only human. And, like the rest of us, they are prey to the human failings of greed, dishonesty and vanity.
Peter Pringle.
Today, the controversy continues with opposing sides supporting either Professor Waksman, or the student, Schatz. The title of my book, Experiment Eleven, is taken from Schatz’s lab notebooks that were missing for decades but demonstrate that the moment of discovery indeed belongs to Schatz.
Ian Beveridge, the Australian-born animal pathologist who became the director of the Institute of Animal Pathology at Cambridge University in England, wrote a marvellous book in the 1950s called The Art of Scientific Investigation. One of his maxims was 'Complete honesty is, of course, imperative in scientific work.'
Yet, as we have been reading lately the number of retractions in scientific journals suggests a burgeoning trend towards deception. Two years ago, the British journal Nature attributed half of the retractions to plain mistakes, and half to scientific misconduct—such as plagiarism, faked data and altered images.
We are often told this misbehaviour results from systemic problems of the job: the pressures of 'publish or perish' that the modern scientist experiences. Another excuse is that, in the internet age, journal papers are scrutinised by more readers and, inevitably, more mistakes, deliberate or otherwise, are found.
But in the streptomycin case we are not talking about mistakes, this was a case of deliberate distortion—by a professor about the work of his student. The story of streptomycin starts at the beginning of the Second World War.
The hunt was on for new antibiotics that cure the diseases of war—deadly bacterial infections in battle wounds, and epidemics of typhoid, cholera and tuberculosis. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 and the British and Americans rushed the first antibiotic into production in a joint wartime project.
By the D-Day invasion of Normandy, there was enough penicillin to treat the entire Allied invasion force. But penicillin will only cure some bacterial infections. No antibiotic had yet been discovered for the tougher bacteria that cause typhoid and cholera, tularemia, and the deadliest killer of them all, TB, a disease known since the Pharoahs.
Antibiotics are chemicals excreted by bacteria and fungi. Before WW2, scientists in Russia and Europe had noted that one of the most prolific producers appeared to be a group called the Actinomycetes—threadlike strands of cells—and one of the world's experts on this group was Selman Waksman, professor of microbiology at the Rutgers agricultural college.
Waksman was a Russian Jew who fled Tsarist Russia in 1910, took his first degree at Rutgers, and his PhD in California at Berkeley on enzymes produced by bacteria. By WW2 he had become the head of the new Rutgers Department of Microbiology.
Waksman's small band of researchers soon started finding a handful of antibiotics from microbes in the farmyard soil right outside his laboratory.
In 1942 Albert Schatz, another Russian Jew, joined Waksman's graduate team. His grandfather had come to America in 1899; his family had run a dirt farm in Connecticut, and during the Depression his father became a house painter.
Born in 1920, Schatz studied at the Rutgers Agricultural College, planning to be a farmer. On graduating in 1942 Waksman took him on as a PhD student.
He had a small stipend of $40 a month, lived in a makeshift room off the campus greenhouse and worked day and night alone in a basement lab.
With remarkable good luck, within three months he found a candidate microbe. It seemed to kill the tougher bacteria, including the TB microbe, but Schatz could not know without further experiments whether the antibiotic would also be toxic to animals—and to humans.
In January 1944, Schatz wrote up his initial results for a science journal, Waksman added his own expertise to the article and generously put Albert Schatz's name first: acknowledging Schatz’s key role.
Then Schatz tested streptomycin against the human TB microbe—an experiment so risky of infection that Waksman would not go near the laboratory where Schatz was doing the test. Schatz's lab experiments confirmed that streptomycin was effective against human TB. And the next move was to test it on animals.
By the end of the summer of 1944, it was clear that streptomycin was indeed the first effective cure against TB—and Merck, the drug company, set up production facilities.
Waksman and Schatz signed a patent application, each swearing on oath that they were 'co-discoverers'. Waksman told Schatz that Merck owned the patent because the company had been funding Rutgers research, and that Merck would have the exclusive rights to manufacture streptomycin—and so neither of them would profit from the patent.
But things changed dramatically. Waksman was 57, at the end of his career and determined to become known as the sole discoverer of streptomycin—and reap fame and fortune. So, he began to exclude Schatz from contact with reporters who came to Rutgers to write stories of the new miracle cure.
Also, Waksman arranged without Schatz's knowledge for the patent to be transferred from Merck to Rutgers. And the university was very happy to receive it—with the prospect of millions of dollars from royalties.
Rutgers set up a special foundation to administer the patent—put Waksman in charge, and agreed to pay him 20 per cent of the royalties—again without telling Schatz. The royalties flowed—tens of thousands of dollars a year going into Waksman's personal bank account when his salary was only $10,000.
As he got richer, however, Waksman had pangs of guilt. He started sending Schatz $500 cheques. Schatz wondered where the money was really coming from, so he wrote to Waksman asking for an explanation.
Schatz sued Waksman and Rutgers. His lawyer quickly discovered Waksman had already been paid—a whacking $350,000.
To avoid the bad publicity, Rutgers and Waksman settled the case. Schatz was given a lump sum of $125,000—of which the lawyer took 40 per cent—and in addition a three per cent share in future royalties, about $12,000 a year for the life of the patent, a tidy sum for an essentially penniless researcher.
But most important to Schatz, the court recognised him as the legal 'co-discoverer' of streptomycin. The scientific elite, appalled that Schatz had the audacity to sue his professor, branded him a money-grubber and a spoiled brat.
Schatz had difficulty finding a job in his chosen field of microbe research. Worse was to come. Two years later, on October 23, 1952, the Nobel committee announced that the year's winner of the Nobel prize for medicine was Selman Waksman, now aged 64, a rich scientist who had now become a famous one.
The Nobel citation was unequivocal: it was 'for the discovery of streptomycin'.
After Schatz complained, the Nobel committee re-worded the citation, saying the prize had been given for Waksman's 'ingenious, systematic and successful studies that have led to the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy against tuberculosis.'
But Waksman, in his 6,113–word acceptance lecture, did not mention Albert Schatz, listing him only in an appendix, number 12 out of 19 other Waksman researchers, half of whom had not been at Rutgers when Schatz had discovered streptomycin.
The conclusion of Waksman’s legal team was that Schatz had behaved like a 'A dog yapping at the heels of a great world figure'. After Waksman’s death in 1973, Schatz’s fortunes changed.
In 1989, an English microbiologist named Milton Wainwright of the University of Sheffield interviewed Schatz and wrote up his story in a science journal. Wainwright concluded: Schatz was the discoverer. But a crucial piece of evidence was missing: Albert Schatz's laboratory notebooks. They had been mentioned in the 1950 lawsuit, but not been seen since.
They were prima facie evidence: and yet Rutgers had lost them. Remarkably, during my research, a Rutgers archivist discovered them in an unopened box on the library shelf where Waksman’s papers were stored. On page 32 of one notebook for 1943, in his meticulous cursive, Schatz had entered the date, August 23, the start of his Experiment Eleven.
The case was closed, for me at least. So, if the Nobel committee erred, should we be concerned? I think we should. The Nobel prize is the ultimate accolade in science—among the scientific elite and also in the popular mind. It separates the receivers of the award from all scientists like no other prize. It creates role models
In the streptomycin discovery the Nobel committee did not feel it necessary to look at all the evidence—even though there was plenty of it, especially from the lawsuit—but, most importantly, from the missing notebooks lying in an unopened cardboard box.
The Schatz case is not an isolated incident—and it is repeated today. As Peter Lawrence of the Cambridge Medical Research Lab in the UK wrote recently, research students are like 'boosters on space rockets—they accelerate their supervisors into a higher career orbit, and when their fuel is spent, fall to the ground like burnt-out shells.'
Peter Pringle is a journalist and author. His new book is called Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis. Find out more at The Science Show.
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• Allan Gardiner :
26 Aug 2013 6:11:35pm
If it can be proved beyond all resonable doubt that the Nobel committee have been apprised of the facts surrounding a situation such as that concerning the Albert Schatz/Selman Waksman affair and their involvement with the discovery of streptomycin, and then said committee don't take prompt pains to ensure that requisite and apt amendments obtain, how much credence, if any, should be afforded even the slightest suggestion that the Nobel Prize is the dux nuts for that but decidely deemed quackery?
• David :
17 Sep 2013 6:47:39am
Unfortunately this is very common in scientific research. I worked in research for many years and gave research away because of it. Also, the peer review process for grants is problematic. The major recipients of grants are the one who decide who gets the grants. Grants should be reviewed by an independent group, like the patient office.
• Peter Naus :
08 Nov 2013 10:20:46pm
As a keen amateur, I unfortunately find it difficult to believe the Nobel committee would do more than just be seen to consider the case.
It would surely be detrimental in the extreme (from the point of view of the committee!) to take any action, whether adding a student's name to, or replacing a "discoverer's" name with that of the student's, if for no better reason than fear of 'opening the floodgates'(real or imaginary).
Given the, er, conservative nature of the Prize committee, and the nature of so many members, I'm laying heavy odds against a reasonable, fair, or equitable resolution. More's the pity.
• Jamie Mulcahy :
12 Nov 2013 9:18:45pm
This statement is barely correct. Whilst Fleming discovered penicillin the mould it was an Australian named Howard Florey who actually made the link between this mould and the treatment of disease in humans. Fleming had nothing to do with the mass production of penicillin for the war effort. It is very ironic that you would get this wrong in an Article about wrongful attribution of credit. Fleming was guilty of similar misconduct in the case of penicillin. Read "Howard Florey - The Man who made Penicillin" fro the full details. In it he actually take credit for treating a patient that he never actually met. He had nothing to do with the invention of penicillin as a drug. Might as well say that the first person to discover how to make steel is responsible for landing Armstrong on the moon.
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World Class Workout 10: Climb the Ladder With Janet Evans
For this second leg, concentrate on keeping your pace per 100 the same as you did on the 500, but try swimming slightly faster on the second 400 repeat. You may not have as much rest as you did after the 500, but keep in mind that you are dropping the distance you are swimming so your interval, though consistent in base, will seem shorter. That's part of the challenge.
The 300's are the middle leg of the set, and possibly the most difficult. Not quite endurance repeats (like the 500 and 400), but not short enough to be akin to sprint repeats (200,100), this set is the turning point for how successful you can be overall in this workout. The pace should be equal if not a bit faster than the first two legs you just did, though your effort should be at about 90 percent.
It is the longest leg of the set at 900m, and if you can make the intervals you are home free, but it might be touch-and-go between each 300, so be prepared to swim through with barely a break.
The 4x200 will be your first foray into short repeats. Though the interval base is the same, it will be tougher to finish 4x200 in a row after what came before. Swim to make the interval but be cautious not to shorten your stroke and get sloppy.
Swimmers often tend to change their technique when they shift into overdrive, especially if they feel fatigued. Keep your strokes long and powerful, but increase the effort to 95 percent if you can.
The last 5x100 is your chance to be explosive and fast at the end of two intense miles of pace training. While you may have felt like you were sprinting at 95 percent effort on the 200's, your times should have been at long-distance race pace at that point in the set, assuming your endurance needs work (that is what this set is designed to develop).
For the 100's, you may have to force yourself to sprint at 100 percent effort just to make the interval or keep your previous pace. But the repeats are short; you should have a few seconds rest after each one, and there are only 500 meters in the set as opposed to the previous sets of 800m or 900m.
Getting through this workout and successfully making the intervals is a challenge enough in itself. Once you are able to master it, you should see a significant improvement in the back half of your races.
Triathletes may also notice less fatigue at the end of their swim accompanied by a more powerful exit and transition into the bike leg.
Alternative Intervals
An even more challenging approach to the above workout is to decrease the base-100 interval as you descend down the ladder. For instance:
1 x 500 @ 6:15 (1:15 base)
2 x 400 @ 4:50 (1:12.5 base)
3 x 300 @ 3:35 (1:12 base)
4 x 200 @ 2:20 (1:10 base)
5 x 100 @ 1:08 (1:08 base)
Obviously, this hardcore approach puts more emphasis on descending your interval throughout the set under the assumption that your endurance is already at peak levels.
The challenge here is not simply making the set and maintaining the same pace times throughout, but challenging yourself to swim at threshold and actually dropping your time (not just increasing your exertion effort to maintain it).
For novices that yearn for a taste of elite-level challenges, a more realistic approach to this workout may look like this in a 25-yard pool:
1 x 250 @ 25 secs rest (250 yards)
2 x 200 @ 20 secs rest (400 yards)
3 x 150 @ 15 secs rest (450 yards)
4 x 100 @ 10 secs rest (400 yards)
5 x 50 @ 5 secs rest (250 yards)
TOTAL: 1,750 yards
In general, ladder sets are favored by endurance swimmers because they avoid the monotony of typical endurance training where the same distance may be repeated several times (3 x 1500m, for instance).
Janet Evans' example is effective in that it's not only a ladder in the typical sense (500, 400, 300, 200, 100), but it adds an extra layer of complexity and challenge by increasing the amount of repeats as you are descending down the ladder.
It clearly worked wonders for her career; perhaps it can do wonders for you.
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Quiet town Poleskoye
At the end of our journey we'll visit the town, which was the administrative center for the region called Polissia.. now, the capital of WOLVES LAND.
Here is town soviet building.
During Soviet rule, if someone wanted to build a house they had to keep strict standards. Only well established people, with connections, could build a nonstandard (bigger) house. For 70 years the communist party tried to make all people socially equal, but they failed. Some houses are still larger than others.
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The Moon's Peculiar Dust Gets More Peculiar Still
The microscopic green and orange glass bubbles in lunar regolith are filled with nanoparticles "— vanishingly tiny flecks of mass, some no bigger than molecules" — that mix with the soil when impacts break open the bubbles.
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Interesting, even though he said the moon doesn't have water. I've read that it has huge amounts of water ice.
Is that picture one of the glass beads?
I think so. But that's a guess. I got it by searching for moon dust. It looks like one of them. The article only mentions
Some are tiny sphere-like objects that are formed when a tiny bit of rock vaporizes and cools into a microscopic sphere.
I love the moon dust photo. I learned something about moon dust - many thanks!
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Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us
The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found.
There is also evidence that this group was widespread in Eurasia.
A study in Nature journal shows that Denisovans co-existed with Neanderthals and interbred with our species - perhaps around 50,000 years ago.
An international group of researchers sequenced a complete genome from one of the ancient hominins (human-like creatures), based on nuclear DNA extracted from a finger bone.
'Sensational' find
According to the researchers, this provides confirmation there were at least four distinct types of human in existence when anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) first left their African homeland.
Denisovan tooth
DNA from a tooth (pictured) and a finger bone show the Denisovans were a distinct group
The implications of the finding have been described by Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London as "nothing short of sensational".
Scientists were able to analyse DNA from a tooth and from a finger bone excavated in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia. The individuals belonged to a genetically distinct group of humans that were distantly related to Neanderthals but even more distantly related to us.
The finding adds weight to the theory that a different kind of human could have existed in Eurasia at the same time as our species.
Researchers have had enigmatic fossil evidence to support this view but now they have some firm evidence from the genetic study carried out by Professor Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
"A species of early human living in Europe evolved," according to Professor Paabo.
"There was a western form that was the Neanderthal and an eastern form, the Denisovans."
The study shows that Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of the present day people of the Melanesian region north and north-east of Australia. Melanesian DNA comprises between 4% and 6% Denisovan DNA.
David Reich from the Harvard Medical School, who worked with Svante Paabo on the study, says that the fact that Denisovan genes ended up so far south suggests they were widespread across Eurasia: "These populations must have been spread across thousands and thousands of miles," he told BBC News.
One mystery is why the Denisovan genes are unique in modern Melanesians and are not found in other Eurasian groups that have so far been sampled.
'Fleeting encounter'
Professor Stringer believes it is because there may have been only a fleeting encounter as modern humans migrated through South-East Asia and then on to Melanesia.
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The remains were excavated at a cave site in southern Siberia
"It could be just 50 Denisovans interbreeding with a thousand modern humans. That would be enough to produce this 5% of those archaic genes being transferred," he said.
"So the impact is there but the number of interbreeding events might have been quite small and quite rare."
No one knows when or how these humans disappeared but, according to Professor Paabo, it is very likely something to do with modern people because all the "archaic" humans, like Denisovans and Neanderthals disappeared sometime after Homo sapiens sapiens appeared on the scene.
The study follows a paper published earlier this year by Professor Paabo and colleagues that showed there was interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals as they emerged from Africa 60,000 years ago.
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Youngest millisecond pulsar shines in gamma rays
Globular cluster 47 Tucanae
Globular clusters are old collections of hundreds of thousands of stars
The Fermi space telescope has spotted the youngest-ever millisecond pulsar - a fast-spinning cosmic "lighthouse" that is the leftovers from a supernova.
It is the first pulsar from a globular cluster seen to shine in the highest-energy light we know of: gamma rays.
The pulsar's gamma-ray brightness and evident youth challenge our notions of how such millisecond pulsars form.
The paper in Science suggests such gamma-ray pulsars may be forming as often as "normal" millisecond pulsars.
Pulsars are what remains after a supernova collapses a burnt-out star to a dense, highly magnetised ball of neutrons - a neutron star.
The star rotates, emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation from its magnetic poles; when those poles point toward our telescopes, we see the lighthouse-like flashes.
Millisecond pulsars are a bit more mysterious; they spin faster than they should if they are formed in the normal way, so it has been assumed that they are old, spent neutron stars that gather up material from a nearby star, spinning them back up to even greater speeds than when they formed - "recycled pulsars".
Most of what we know about pulsars has come from studies in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Instead of radio waves, the Large Area Telescope on Nasa's Fermi satellite is designed to catch the higher-energy radiation known as gamma rays, and in its two years of observations it has spotted dozens of these fastest-spinning pulsars shining in gamma rays, much to the team's surprise.
Now, Fermi has provided another surprise by spotting J1823-3021A, a pulsar that seems to break all the rules.
Cluster luck
The pulsar lies within a globular cluster - a dense field of hundreds of thousands of old stars clinging onto each other through gravity, in what one might call the Galaxy's graveyard.
The cluster is about 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.
Because globular clusters are such messy light sources, and millisecond pulsars tend to be weak, until now it has been impossible to definitively spot a single pulsar within them.
But J1823-3021A was hard to miss in the data, said report co-author Tyrel Johnson, a National Research Council research associate resident at the Naval Research Laboratory in the US.
"Previously some of the radio observations told us that this thing seemed weird, seemed young for a millisecond pulsar, but it could've just been an effect of the cluster itself," he told BBC News.
"But with Fermi, we saw that this thing is just as young and energetic, with just as high a magnetic field as the radio timing suggested."
In fact, that one single pulsar seemed to account for all of the gamma-ray light that Fermi sees; prior estimates based on the amount of gamma rays coming from the cluster suggested as many as 100 individual pulsars might be responsible.
Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist, called the work "really exciting".
"Most of the ones that we see individually aren't all that bright, so the ones we can see are close by - whereas globular clusters are a lot further away," she told BBC News.
"So a surprise to see a single millisecond pulsar in a globular cluster."
More surprisingly, J1823-3021A seems to be "spinning down" quickly - the pauses between its lighthouse beam growing longer and longer at an unexpected rate.
"This slowdown corresponds to depositing a lot of energy into the environment, that's why it's so bright," explained Dr McEnery. "But that also means that it's going to end very quickly."
That short lifetime in turn means that such gamma-ray millisecond pulsars should be a rare sight for astronomers, a lucky find - unless this strange example is actually the first of a completely different type of pulsar that, until the advent of gamma-ray telescopes, had never been seen.
And that, perhaps counterintuitively, implies that since Fermi has spotted one, they probably form quite commonly.
"The key point is that it has profound implications for our understanding of how millisecond pulsars are formed and behave in globular clusters, and that in turn may have very strong implications of what's actually going on in a globular cluster," Dr McEnery said.
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In the early 18th century, Georgian Britain was a nation openly, gloriously and often shockingly rude. This was found in the graphic art of Hogarth, Gillray, Rowlandson and George Cruikshank, and the rude theatrical world of John Gay and Henry Fielding. Singer Lucie Skeaping helps show the Georgian taste for lewd and bawdy ballads, and there is a dip into the literary tradition of rude words via the poetry of Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Lord Byron, and Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy.
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BT may have lost in court, but at least it doesn't have to become a copyright cop
It is not often you celebrate a court judgment that you comprehensively lost, but BT emerged from its drubbing by the Motion Picture Association at the High Court yesterday with quite a smile on its face.
The reason is that Justice Arnold's ruling helps ensure that UK internet service providers don't become "copyright cops" on behalf of Hollywood.
On the face of it, the judgment does indeed turn BT into a policeman, or even a censor. The company has been ordered to block its customers from accessing Newzbin, the bête noire of the movie industry because it provides links to, among other things, pirated films. Now BT – and no doubt soon all the UK's ISPs – must launch into the difficult and expensive business of blocking websites that aid (and abet) copyright infringing.
The reality is more helpful to BT, and reassuring to everyone – me included – who wants ISPs kept out of the business of regulating where we can go, what we can see and what we can download on the internet. Many ISPs are big corporations whose instincts may be inimical to freedom on the web, and whose conflicted business roles – as access providers, delivery mechanisms and sometimes even producers of content – certainly are.
Justice Arnold appears to have done nothing to undermine the legal principle of ISPs as "mere conduits" with no responsibility for the content that passes through their pipes. The decision-making process about what is and is not legal behaviour still rests solely with the courts. Yesterday's ruling clarifies that BT must act, but only at the instruction of a judge, and most probably after a decently long legal wrangle in which rights holders have tried and failed other tactics to shut down an infringing website. This is certainly the process that the MPA has used with the slippery Newzbin, which now harvests its members' fees from the safety of the Seychelles.
The responsibility of website publishers remains a much more open question. How many links to copyright infringing content are too many? How do we protect and nurture innovative services that allow legitimate file-sharing, something that is already becoming an important business tool?
Rights holders have told BT that there are perhaps 400 websites out there that they would like to shut because their activities lead to egregious amounts of piracy. Justice Arnold has given them the tools to prevent the good people of the UK from reaching these 400 sites, but of course there will be 400 more by the time they have finished going through the courts.
When the film industry eventually blunders its way towards a business model that gives its customers what they want – movies on demand, on any device, and soon after their cinema release – the High Court drama over Newzbin ought to prove little more than a diversion.
So – no legal harm done, to ISPs or to the right of consumers to go about their business on the net without their internet provider snooping around. Next, reforming the Digital Economy Act.
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Mark 6 GNT
2 On the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue. Many people were there; and when they heard him, they were all amazed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked. "What wisdom is this that has been given him? How does he perform miracles?
3 Isn't he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters living here?" And so they rejected him.
4 Jesus said to them, "Prophets are respected everywhere except in their own hometown and by their relatives and their family." 1
References for Mark 6:4
• 22 6:4 - 6.4 Jn 4.44.
6 He was greatly surprised, because the people did not have faith. Then Jesus went to the villages around there, teaching the people.
8 and ordered them, "Don't take anything with you on the trip except a walking stick - no bread, no beggar's bag, no money in your pockets.
9 Wear sandals, but don't carry an extra shirt."
10 He also told them, "Wherever you are welcomed, stay in the same house until you leave that place.
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• 23 6:11 - 6.11 Ac 13.51.+O+N6.8-11 Lk 10.4-11.
12 So they went out and preached that people should turn away from their sins.
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• 24 6:13 - 6.13 Jas 5.14.
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• 25 6:14 - 6.14, 15 Mt 16.14; Mk 8.28; Lk 9.19.
• h 6:14 - king herod: [Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee.]
15 Others, however, said, "He is Elijah." Others said, "He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of long ago."
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• 26 6:17 - 6.17, 18 Lk 3.19, 20.
18 John the Baptist kept telling Herod, "It isn't right for you to marry your brother's wife!"
22 The daughter of Herodias b came in and danced, and pleased Herod and his guests. So the king said to the girl, "What would you like to have? I will give you anything you want."
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• i 6:22 - The daughter of Herodias; [some manuscripts have] His daughter Herodias.
23 With many vows he said to her, "I swear that I will give you anything you ask for, even as much as half my kingdom!"
24 So the girl went out and asked her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she answered.
25 The girl hurried back at once to the king and demanded, "I want you to give me here and now the head of John the Baptist on a plate!"
28 then he brought it on a plate and gave it to the girl, who gave it to her mother.
29 When John's disciples heard about this, they came and got his body, and buried it.
32 So they started out in a boat by themselves to a lonely place.
References for Mark 6:34
• 27 6:34 - 6.34 Nu 27.17; 1 K 22.17; 2 Ch 18.16; Ez 34.5; Mt 9.36.
35 When it was getting late, his disciples came to him and said, "It is already very late, and this is a lonely place.
36 Send the people away, and let them go to the nearby farms and villages in order to buy themselves something to eat."
37 "You yourselves give them something to eat," Jesus answered. They asked, "Do you want us to go and spend two hundred silver coins c on bread in order to feed them?"
References for Mark 6:37
• j 6:37 - silver coins: [A silver coin was the daily wage of a rural worker (see Mt 20.2).]
38 So Jesus asked them, "How much bread do you have? Go and see." When they found out, they told him, "Five loaves and also two fish."
39 Jesus then told his disciples to make all the people divide into groups and sit down on the green grass.
40 So the people sat down in rows, in groups of a hundred and groups of fifty.
42 Everyone ate and had enough.
43 Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left of the bread and the fish.
44 The number of men who were fed was five thousand.
46 After saying good-bye to the people, he went away to a hill to pray.
References for Mark 6:48
• k 6:48 - pass them by; [or] join them.
49 but they saw him walking on the water. "It's a ghost!" they thought, and screamed.
50 They were all terrified when they saw him. Jesus spoke to them at once, "Courage!" he said. "It is I. Don't be afraid!"
53 They crossed the lake and came to land at Gennesaret, where they tied up the boat.
54 As they left the boat, people recognized Jesus at once.
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Jeremiah 18:19-23 MSG
19 And I said to God: "God, listen to me! Just listen to what my enemies are saying.
20 Should I get paid evil for good? That's what they're doing. They've made plans to kill me! Remember all the times I stood up for them before you, speaking up for them, trying to soften your anger?
21 But enough! Let their children starve! Let them be massacred in battle! Let their wives be childless and widowed, their friends die and their proud young men be killed.
22 Let cries of panic sound from their homes as you surprise them with war parties! They're all set to lynch me. The noose is practically around my neck!
23 But you know all this, God. You know they're determined to kill me. Don't whitewash their crimes, don't overlook a single sin! Round the bunch of them up before you. Strike while the iron of your anger is hot!"
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Parallel Bible results for Ephesians 1:20
The Darby Translation
New International Version
Ephesians 1:20
DBY 20 [in] which he wrought in the Christ [in] raising him from among [the] dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies, NIV 20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,
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Hi, I just bought a HAC4 Pro Plus. Everything work flawlessly but the altimeter. To be precise, it jumps up and down (some meters) even if it is still on my desktop, and if I press slightly the back (on the battery's lid) it jumps even for dozens of meters. If I press the front Ciclosport sign even for hundreds (I think it is where the sensors is located, but I don't really know). I've tried to take out the battery, to tighten the battery's lid, but not very much changed. I'd like to know if is there something I should try before sending it back with warranty. Thank you.
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I recently sold a 9 cog 11~34 cassette. According to the product code (CS-M580) on the cassette lock ring, the cassette (or at least the lock ring) is supposed to be a Deore LX component. However, the buyer claims the cassette is just a lower spec'd "Hyperglide" cassette (Deore instead of Deore LX)!??
I purchased the cassette some time ago from a reputable dealer, but I don't recall the specific model that I purchased, other than it was a "Deore".
How can you tell for certain whether the cassette (cogs) is either a Deore component, or a Deore LX component??
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Figure 2.
Genome-wide allelic SNP distribution. Summary of total bases used for allele calls (quality score ≥ 30, read number ≥ 10) and SNPs detected in each progeny (A-7C126, B-SC05). The progeny are predominantly HB3 parent like. For most positions a single base call was detected; however, mixed positions, i.e. alternate SNP positions were also detected (7C126-0.1%, SC05-0.09%). Of the high confidence single base calls, approximately 8,000 alleles were detected for each progeny line. Interestingly, approximately 0.001% of the SNPs were putative de-novo SNPs that differed from both parents.
Samarakoon et al. BMC Genomics 2011 12:116 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-116
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Sailing Alone Around the World Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium
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Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did Slocum's grandfather work?
(a) Courthouse.
(b) Shipyard.
(c) Railroad.
(d) Lighthouse.
2. What item did savages steal from Slocum?
(a) Tacks.
(b) Beer.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Fishing equipment.
3. What is the name of the province where Slocum was born?
(a) Alberta.
(b) Ontario.
(c) British Columbia.
(d) Nova Scotia.
4. What group of Indians chased the Spray in the Bay?
(a) Anasazi.
(b) Amazonian.
(c) Apache.
(d) Fortesque.
5. What was the name of the man who led the pirates?
(a) Captain Bligh.
(b) Black Pedro.
(c) Blackbeard.
(d) Bluebeard.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the official occupation of John Slocum?
2. Who/what is Juan Fernandez?
3. What word does Slocum use to describe the boat's pace at this point?
4. How much would it have cost Slocum to join the union to work at the shipyard?
5. The man was which type of captain?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the reaction of the townspeople when Slocum agreed to the deal?
2. Who is Ebenezer Pierce? How did the man affect Slocum's future?
3. What is Joshua Slocum's relationship with his father? How is John Slocum described?
4. Slocum details a lot of violent gales in and around the Cape. Discuss the storms and Slocum's thoughts.
5. What was the significance of reaching the Cape of Good Hope?
6. Although the townspeople were amused by Slocum's ambitions, the author saw a different side of the boat. What plans did Slocum have for the Spray?
7. Discuss Slocum's interaction with the crew of the Colombia.
8. Discuss some of the issues encountered by Slocum after leaving Buenos Aires.
9. Aside from the King, Slocum met other people from royal families. Discuss the meeting with Mr. A. Young.
10. Chapter 1 begins with Slocum in Nova Scotia. How is the Canadian province described?
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These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
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When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.
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I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
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Definition of Crisp
2. Curled with the ripple of the water.
5. Lively; sparking; effervescing.
6. Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
9. To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.
10. To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.
Crisp Quotations
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
Salman Khan
Dawn Fraser
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Charles Dudley Warner
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Crisp Translations
crisp in Dutch is knapperig, croquant
crisp in German is knusprig, knusprig, knusperige
crisp in Spanish is crespo
crisp in Swedish is chips, krusa, frisk
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Alternate title: Benito Pablo Juárez García
By late 1860 the conservatives were faltering, and in January 1861 Juárez was able to return to Mexico City and was constitutionally elected president. He was, however, faced with many serious problems: the opposition’s forces still remained intact, the new Congress distrusted its president, and the treasury was virtually empty. As a solution to the latter problem, Juárez decided in July 1861 to suspend payment on all foreign debts for two years. England, Spain, and France decided to intervene to safeguard their investments, and by January 1862 the three countries had landed troops at Veracruz. However, when Britain and Spain realized that Napoleon III intended to conquer Mexico and control it through a puppet, Archduke Maximilian of Austria, they withdrew their forces. The French suffered a major defeat at Puebla on May 5, 1862, but with reinforcements they were able to occupy Mexico City in June 1863, and Maximilian soon arrived to take control of the government.
Forced to leave the capital again, Juárez kept himself and his government alive by a long series of retreats that ended only at El Paso del Norte (later named Juárez) at the Mexican-U.S. border. Early in 1867, as a result of continued Mexican resistance, increased U.S. pressure, and criticism at home, Napoleon decided to withdraw his troops. Soon afterward Mexican forces captured Maximilian and executed him.
Juárez then made the greatest mistake of his political career. In August 1867, shortly after his return to Mexico City, he issued a call for national elections and for a referendum on whether Congress should make five amendments to the constitution. Public opinion did not object to the president’s running for reelection, but the constitutional changes aroused immediate and violent reaction in many quarters, including those sympathetic to Juárez. His proposed changes came under fire because amendments enacted by Congress alone were unconstitutional, and the changes would strengthen the executive power. Juárez was reelected, but the controversy had created such a crisis of confidence that the administration did not even bother to count the votes on the amendments.
Despite illness and personal loss—in October 1870 Juárez suffered a stroke, and three months later his wife died—he decided to run again in 1871. After a bitter campaign he was reelected, but many of his countrymen, refusing to accept the result as final, took up arms against him. Juárez spent the last few months of his life trying to restore peace. He died of a heart attack in 1872 and was buried in the Pantheon of San Fernando in Mexico City.
Juárez’s political rise was a continual struggle to transform his liberal ideas into a permanent political reality and to overcome the prevalent social attitudes toward his Indian background. The prejudices of the 19th century serve to emphasize and enhance Juárez’s extraordinary qualities and achievements. His domestic reforms set the stage for Mexico’s remarkable modernization in the last quarter of the 19th century and freed Mexico from the most-flagrant remnants of neocolonialism. His leadership against the French earned Juárez his place as a national hero.
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Province, Netherlands
Alternate title: Oversticht
Overijssel, provincie (province), northeastern Netherlands. It extends northward “beyond the IJssel” (a distributary of the Rhine) from the provinces of Gelderland to Drenthe and Friesland and lies between Germany (east) and Flevoland province (west). The province is drained by the IJssel, Vecht, Zwarte Water, and Regge rivers and the Twente, Overijssel, and numerous smaller canals. Its capital is Zwolle.
First known as the lordship of Oversticht, a part of the secular domain of the bishops of Utrecht, it was sold to Charles V in 1527 and was incorporated in the Dutch dominions of the Habsburgs. Overijssel was one of the seven original United Provinces of the Netherlands. In medieval times its Hanseatic towns—Kampen, Deventer, and Zwolle—were among the most important in the Netherlands, until the ascendancy of Amsterdam about 1500.
Most of Overijssel is a varied glaciated delta with sandy soil and low hills that were originally covered with heath, patches of woodland, and moist swampy meadows. High-peat regions once extended to the northeast. The largely coastal area north of Zwolle consists of low peat, partly covered with clay. This northwestern part is primarily pasture, supporting cattle and dairying; in the sand regions there is dairying as well as mixed farming. The central Salland district has orchards.
The province has become highly industrialized. The Twente district in the southeast, where cotton spinning, weaving, and bleaching came into prominence in the 19th century, is one of the principal centres of the Dutch textile industry. The main centres are Enschede, Almelo, Hengelo, and Oldenzaal. Other important industrial centres are Deventer, Kampen, and Zwolle. There are two national parks (1934; 1957) in the northwest, preserving peat bogs and marsh plants and providing sanctuaries for waterfowl. Area 1,321 square miles (3,421 square km). Pop. (2009 est.) 1,125,435.
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Sohn Kee-Chung
Korean athlete
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Sohn Kee-Chung: The Defiant One
Officially known at the 1936 Berlin Games as Son Kitei, marathon runner Sohn Kee-Chung symbolized the fierce nationalistic tensions of the era. A native Korean, Sohn lived under the rule of Japan, which had annexed Korea in 1910. From an early age Sohn had chafed under Japanese domination. Though he was forced to represent Japan and take a Japanese name in order to compete in the Olympics, he...
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Ruggiero di Lauria
Ruggiero di Lauria, Lauria also spelled Loria, or Luria, English Roger of Lauria (born c. 1250, Lauria, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [Italy]—died 1304/05, Valencia, Spain), Italian admiral in the service of Aragon and Sicily who won important naval victories over the French Angevins (house of Anjou) in the war between France and Aragon over the possession of Sicily in the 1280s.
Lauria, who was taken from Italy about 1262, grew up at the Aragonese court. In 1283 he was named grand admiral by Peter III of Aragon, the new ruler of Sicily. He defeated the French in June 1283 at Malta and a year later at the Bay of Naples, where he took prisoner the fleet’s commander, Prince Charles the Lame (the future King Charles II of Naples).
In 1285 Lauria inflicted a serious setback on the French king Philip III, who had invaded Catalonia by sea. Lauria’s combined Sicilian-Catalonian squadrons scattered the French fleet. With his control of the coast of Catalonia, Lauria conducted raids against the French coast, cutting off supplies to Philip and thereby saving Catalonia. He later conquered the island of Majorca, a French ally.
James II, who had become king of Sicily upon Peter’s death in 1285 and of Aragon in 1291, reached an agreement with Pope Boniface VIII in 1295 to trade Sicily to Charles II of Anjou. The Sicilians, resentful of that pact, then acclaimed James’s younger brother Frederick III as king, and Lauria helped Frederick protect his crown. Concern for his large estates in Valencia, however, obliged Lauria to change to the Angevin and Aragonese side, whose fleet he led to victories over the Sicilian fleet in 1299 and 1300. When the Peace of Caltabellotta ended the war in 1302 and gave Frederick the island, Lauria retired to his estates in Spain.
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bone marrow transplant
bone marrow transplant, In an autologous bone marrow transplant, hematopoietic stem cells are harvested from the blood or …Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.the transfer of bone marrow from a healthy donor to a recipient whose own bone marrow is affected by disease. Bone marrow transplant may be used to treat aplastic anemia; sickle cell anemia; various malignant diseases of blood-forming tissues, including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma; certain solid cancers such as neuroblastoma; immune deficiency diseases; and metabolic diseases.
In 1956 American physician E. Donnall Thomas performed the first successful syngeneic (genetically identical) bone marrow transplant between two humans. The tissues of the recipient, a patient with leukemia, accepted the donated marrow (or graft) from his identical twin and used it to make new, healthy blood cells and immune system cells. Thomas adopted methods to match the tissues of donor and recipient closely enough to minimize the latter’s rejection of the former’s marrow. He also developed drugs to suppress the immune system, further reducing the chances for graft rejection by the recipient. In 1969 these refinements enabled Thomas to perform the first successful bone marrow transplant in a leukemia patient from a relative who was not an identical twin. In 1990 Thomas was corecipient (with American surgeon Joseph E. Murray) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on bone marrow transplantation.
Autologous and allogeneic transplants
Today, the two most commonly used bone marrow transplants are known as autologous and allogeneic. Both types of transplants are considered forms of stem cell therapy, since hematopoietic stem cells from the bone marrow are central to the recovery of the patient receiving the graft. An autologous transplant is used primarily in the case of cancer patients who are preparing to undergo high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Autologous transplant involves harvesting stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and storing these cells prior to therapy. After the patient has undergone therapy to destroy the cancer cells, the stem cells are injected into the bloodstream to speed recovery of the bone marrow. If an individual’s marrow is diseased—from leukemia, for example—a person with a matching tissue type is found to donate stem cells. This type of transplant is called an allogeneic transplant.
Risks of bone marrow transplant
Major risks associated with bone marrow transplant include increased susceptibility to infection, anemia, graft failure, respiratory distress, and excess fluid, which can lead to pneumonia and liver dysfunction. In addition, a mismatch between donor and recipient tissues can lead to an immune reaction between cells of the host and cells of the graft. When graft cells attack host cells, the result is a dangerous condition called graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), which may be acute or chronic and may manifest as a skin rash, gastrointestinal illness, or liver disease. The risk of GVHD can be minimized through careful tissue-matching. This is done by comparing a set of cell-surface proteins called human leukocyte antigen (HLA)—a system of molecules that enable components of the immune system such as T cells to mount an attack against foreign substances. Donor HLA antigens that exactly match those of the recipient increase the chances for a successful transplant. However, even when a donor antigen match is identical, roughly 40 percent of recipients still develop GVHD; this figure increases to between 60 and 80 percent when only a single antigen is mismatched. Because of the danger of this complication, autologous transplants are more commonly performed.
Bone marrow transplantation initially was not recommended for patients over age 50, because of the higher mortality and morbidity that results and because the incidence of GVHD increases in those over age 30. However, many transplant centres have performed successful bone marrow transplantations in patients well beyond age 50. People who donate bone marrow incur no risk, because they generate new marrow to replace that which has been removed.
Collection of donor stem cells
Hematopoietic stem cells from a bone marrow donor are collected using apheresis. During this procedure, blood is drawn from one arm and passes through a machine that collects the stem cells. The remaining portion of the blood is then returned to the donor via a catheter inserted in the arm opposite the one from which the blood is drawn. Prior to undergoing apheresis, the donor receives injections of a drug such as filgrastim (granulocyte colony-stimulating factor), which mobilizes stem cells into the peripheral blood circulation. Following donation, some people experience fatigue, nausea, muscle pain, bone pain, and headache. Multiple apheresis sessions may be needed to collect a sufficient number of stem cells from a donor. In rare cases, donors may need to undergo bone marrow harvest. In this procedure, the donor is placed under anesthesia, and bone marrow aspiration is performed, typically taking marrow from the iliac crest of the hip or from the breastbone.
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The Real Deal has a great Q&A this week with Danny Meyer, the force behind some of New York's finest restaurantsGramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafeand the only place in town where people will wait an hour in line for a burger, Shake Shack.
In it he talks about how he got into the restaurant business and why he lives in Gramercy, near most of his restaurants. But perhaps his most revealing answer was the one he gave to the question "If you had to eat at Burger King, McDonald’s or Wendy’s, which would you choose?"
Here's what Meyer had to say:
I wouldn’t. I would just wait until the next meal. If someone said, “You’ve got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,” I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.
Really, Popeyes? Sounds like the Shake Shack king isn't actually much of a burger man at all.
Check out the full Q&A here.
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Skull And Bones
Secret Yale Society Includes America's Power Elite
When 60 Minutes first reported on Skull & Bones last October, conspiracy theorists, who see Skull and Bones behind just about everything that goes wrong, and even right, in the world, were relishing the unthinkable - the possibility of two Bonesman fighting it out for the presidency.
And to a man and women, they'd responded to questions with utter silence until an enterprising Yale graduate, Alexandra Robbins, managed to penetrate the wall of silence in her book, "Secrets of the Tomb," reports CBS News Correspondent Morley Safer.
"I spoke with about 100 members of Skull and Bones and they were members who were tired of the secrecy, and that's why they were willing to talk to me," says Robbins. "But probably twice that number hung up on me, harassed me, or threatened me."
Secret or not, Skull and Bones is as essential to Yale as the Whiffenpoofs, the tables down at a pub called Mory's, and the Yale mascot - that ever-slobbering bulldog.
Skull and Bones, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in 1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time. Since then, it has chosen or "tapped" only 15 senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate -- lifetime members of the ultimate old boys' club.
"Skull and Bones is so tiny. That's what makes this staggering," says Robbins. "There are only 15 people a year, which means there are about 800 living members at any one time."
"They do have many individuals in influential positions," says Robbins. "And that's why this is something that we need to know about."
President Bush has tapped five fellow Bonesmen to join his administration. Most recently, he selected William Donaldson, Skull and Bones 1953, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like the President, he's taken the Bones oath of silence.
"I think there is a deep and legitimate distrust in America for power and privilege that are cloaked in secrecy. It's not supposed to be the way we do things," says Rosenbaum. "We're supposed to do things out in the open in America. And so that any society or institution that hints that there is something hidden is, I think, a legitimate subject for investigation."
"It's this sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss. And I lived next to it," says Rosenbaum. "I had passed it all the time. And during the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and whispers coming from the Skull and Bones tomb."
"A woman holds a knife and pretends to slash the throat of another person lying down before them, and there's screaming and yelling at the neophytes," he says.
"Prescott Bush, George W's grandfather, and a band of Bonesmen, robbed the grave of Geronimo, took the skull and some personal relics of the Apache chief and brought them back to the tomb," says Robbins. "There is still a glass case, Bonesmen tell me, within the tomb that displays a skull that they all refer to as Geronimo."
"The preoccupation with bones, mortality, with coffins, lying in coffins, standing around coffins, all this sort of thing I think is designed to give them the sense that, and it's very true, life is short," says Rosenbaum. "You can spend it, if you have a privileged background, enjoying yourself, contributing nothing, or you can spend it making a contribution."
"What's important about the undergraduate years of Skull and Bones, as opposed to fraternities, is that it imbues them with a kind of mission for moral leadership," says Rosenbaum. "And it's something that they may ignore for 30 years of their life, as George W. Bush seemed to successfully ignore it for quite a long time. But he came back to it."
"They're supposed to recount their entire sexual histories in sort of a dim, a dimly-lit cozy room. The other 14 members are sitting on plush couches, and the lights are dimmed," says Robbins. "And there's a fire roaring. And the, this activity is supposed to last anywhere from between one to three hours."
What's the point of this?
"I believe the point of the year in the tomb is to forge such a strong bond between these 15 new members that after they graduate, for them to betray Skull and Bones would mean they'd have to betray their 14 closest friends," says Robbins.
"It is fascinating isn't it? I mean, again, all the people say, 'Oh, these societies don't matter. The Eastern Establishment is in decline.' And you could not find two more quintessential Eastern establishment, privileged guys," says Rosenbaum. "I remember when I was a nerdy scholarship student in the reserve book room at, at the Yale Library, and John Kerry, who at that point styled himself 'John F. Kerry' would walk in."
"There was always a little buzz," adds Rosenbaum. "Because even then he was seen to be destined for higher things. He was head of the Yale Political Union, and a tap for Skull and Bones was seen as the natural sequel to that."
David Brooks, a conservative commentator who has published a book on the social dynamics of the upwardly mobile, says that while Skull & Bones may be elite and secret, it's anything but exciting.
"My view of secret societies is they're like the first class cabin in airplanes. They're really impressive until you get into them, and then once you're there they're a little dull. So you hear all these conspiracy theories about Skull and Bones," says Brooks.
"And to me, to be in one of these organizations, you have to have an incredibly high tolerance for tedium 'cause you're sittin' around talking, talking, and talking. You're not running the world, you're just gassing."
Gassing or not, the best-connected white man's club in America has moved reluctantly into the 21st Century.
"Skull and Bones narrowly endorsed admitting women," says Robbins. "The day before these women were supposed to be initiated, a group of Bonesmen, including William F. Buckley, obtained a court order to block the initiation claiming that letting women into the tomb would lead to date rape. Again more legal wrangling; finally it came down to another vote and women were admitted and initiated."
But Skull & Bones now has women, and it's become more multicultural.
"It has gays who got the SAT scores, it's got the gays who got the straight A's," says Brooks. "It's got the blacks who are the president of the right associations. It's different criteria. More multicultural, but it's still an elite, selective institution."
"You take these young strivers, you put them in this weird castle. They spill their guts with each other, fine. But they learn something beyond themselves. They learn a commitment to each other, they learn a commitment to the community," says Brooks. "And maybe they inherit some of those old ideals of public service that are missing in a lot of other parts of the country."
"Absolutely," says Robbins. "You know, they say, they say the motto at Yale is, 'For God, for country, and for Yale.' At Bones, I would think it's 'For Bones.'"
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The base of S is a circular disk with radius r. Parallelcross-sections perpendicular to the base are isosceles triangleswith height h and unequal side in the base.
(a) Set up an integral for the volume of S
(b) By interpreting the integral as an area, find the volumeof S.
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A collapsible bag contains a glucose solution. If the averagegauge pressure in the vein is 1.33 x 103 Pa, what mustbe the minimum height (h) of the bag to infuse glucose intothe vein. Assume that the specific gravity is 1.02.
I understand the question, but I don't understand why thespecific gravity is multiplied by 103. Could someoneexplain this?
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Plane microwaves are incident on the thin metal sheet that has a long, narrow slit of width 5.0 cm in it. The microwave radiation strikes the sheet at normal incidence. The first diffraction minimum is observed at ? = 37º. What is the wavelength of the microwaves?
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The Christian Century - locusts en Year of the locust <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd field-item-first"> Thirty-four and 17 summers ago, when the Marty family ate dinner on our Victorian porch, we sometimes had to move back indoors because we couldn’t hear ourselves speak. The cicadas, which we called “17-year locusts,” were back. They are returning again this year, and have been sighted and heard as far west as Indiana. Though they have not yet afflicted us, they have raised my curiosity. </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="" target="_blank">read more</a></p> locusts Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:00:00 +0000 Martin E. Marty 8697 at
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Google Desktop 5: Now with more Vista
Google updates its desktop search utility. It's very good, but it's not the only option.
A better-looking sidebar
Yesterday Google quietly updated its desktop search and widget product, Google Desktop. Users who download the updated product (available at Google or here at will notice two things. First, the widget sidebar is now flashier. Instead of using Google's traditional style (flat and boring), the sidebar now looks like it belongs on a Vista desktop (just like Microsoft's own sidebar). It looks good on XP, too. Google updated the graphics on many of its widgets to match.
Functionally, the big improvement is that desktop searches now get previews in the browser window. All results have little plus-sign expansion options, which, when clicked, pop a content window onto the page below the search results. It's much better than previous version, which only displayed search results in separate windows. However, for desktop search, I'm still partial to products that employ a good desktop interface. Google's browser-based approach makes for user interface consistency with its Web search engine, but at the expense of utility.
Google also added antiphishing technology to its desktop search. In our quick tests, we did not trigger any warnings or alerts. There's a bit more info on the Google Desktop blog.
Individual search results can now be previewed. CNET Networks
What's unchanged: As far as we can tell, the Google desktop search technology itself is unchanged. The indexer is relatively fast and accurate, although I have had problems getting it to stay current on very large Outlook archives. The search-as-you-type pop-up results window remains, and it performs very well. Widgets can be dragged out of the sidebar and reside anywhere on your desktop.
But Google does not make the only good desktop search tool. My favorite alternatives are Yahoo's (the company bought the desktop search company X1). Recently I've been using the desktop search that comes with Office 2007. It's good, if not blindingly fast, and it integrates well with Outlook. If you're not going to use Google Desktop (or Vista) and still want desktop widgets, I recommend Yahoo Widgets.
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Posted by No_Name_ (16193 posts) - - Show Bio
DC's #0 September issues have all been looking into the past -- digging into the heart and back story of many 'New 52' characters; getting to the heart of who they are and what it is that makes them tick. These September issues have become both a way for the creators of many DC titles to expound on the overarching theme or plot of their story, as well as a way to give comic book readers a look at the identity, personality and origin of many popular DC characters. When it comes to a team book like LEGION LOST, how do you tell an origin story? Some of DC's team books are looking to bring the spotlight onto a particular character; in the case of LEGION LOST, that character is Timber Wolf.
Earlier this week we were given the opportunity to share with you a peek into the zero issue of LEGION LOST where creators Tom DeFalco and Pete Woods would be exploring the identity and the origin of Timber Wolf. So, how much of the character's origin story do you think will be changed? Will the rare Zuunium element still have a big role in who he is and what he becomes? It will be interesting to see how much of his origin has changed from his first appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #327. What would you like to see? Check out LEGION LOST #0 in stores on September 12th, 2012.
== TEASER ==
#1 Posted by wowylied (238 posts) - - Show Bio
The mouse like so sad here.
#2 Posted by loupadam (4 posts) - - Show Bio
That cover seem eerily familiar...
#3 Posted by Loki9876 (3325 posts) - - Show Bio
#4 Posted by kid Apollo (751 posts) - - Show Bio
timberwolf= fave legionnaire
#5 Posted by TheSmallvillefan12 (190 posts) - - Show Bio
Anything Legion related is awesome.
#6 Posted by chalkshark (1256 posts) - - Show Bio
As far as I can tell, the Legion's continuity was left, largely, intact, so I don't foresee any "new" 52 shenanigans overwriting Timber Wolf's established history.
#7 Posted by Omega Ray Jay (8326 posts) - - Show Bio
@loupadam: Lol, brilliant find!
#8 Posted by Herx (501 posts) - - Show Bio
@loupadam said:
That cover seem eerily familiar...
If it ain't broke don't fix it :)
#9 Posted by Miss_Garrick (1761 posts) - - Show Bio
Well, seeing as it's Tom DeFalco, a writer I've always liked, I've no problem here really.
#10 Posted by Shazam78 (153 posts) - - Show Bio
Berserker Claw!
#11 Posted by Fuchsia_Nightingale (10191 posts) - - Show Bio
#12 Posted by maesterwar (28 posts) - - Show Bio
Yay, one of my all time favorite Legionaries. Can't wait to see him go full on Beast mode.
#13 Posted by RedheadedAtrocitus (6958 posts) - - Show Bio
Big fan of Timberwolf so I'm definitely going to enjoy this ^^
#14 Posted by Green ankh (1077 posts) - - Show Bio
I totally love the idea and look of the LOSH. But i really want to like the book too, i just can't find a series i can read more than a few issues of. I have tried..... I liked hte last REBELS allot but that is as close i have gotten.
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@TheSmallvillefan12 said:
Anything Legion related is awesome.
#16 Posted by TDK_1997 (15916 posts) - - Show Bio
I may actually get this.
#17 Posted by ronzimmerman (4 posts) - - Show Bio
now just bring back Karate Kid and Ferro Lad and they've got themselves a cool Legion team again.
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(Source: Rensselaer)
New State of the Climate report provides evidence
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By zinfamous on 8/5/2010 3:10:43 PM , Rating: 5
the raising of cattle can certainly be connected to human activity.
but you lose credibility when you try to claim that there is something "unnatural" about eating animals.
We evolved to eat fucking animals. This is undeniable. no way in hell the apes that climbed down from the trees and stuck to eating grapes and berries would have ever achieved the necessary protein compliment to sustain the evolving human brain.
IN FACT, the only way that we now have nearly comparable protein compliments in plant matter (as we find in meat) is due to our generations of human cultivation of plant matter, FOR OUR BENEFIT. Humans surviving purely on flora is in no way "natural."
"Morals" about eating animals? wtf.
Does the ave. American diet contain too much eat? pretty much. Is the ave american population compared to the world population, and our typical dietary compliment a huge factor when you consider the world population? I'm not so sure, but I'm inclined to say "not likely."
RE: Not the issue
By ClownPuncher on 8/5/2010 3:56:30 PM , Rating: 5
To be honest, I've been eating bacon for every meal for 16 years and I can move objects with my mind.
RE: Not the issue
By quiksilvr on 8/5/2010 4:38:39 PM , Rating: 5
I'll have what he's having.
RE: Not the issue
By HostileEffect on 8/5/2010 6:10:49 PM , Rating: 1
Same here, ketogenics FTW.
RE: Not the issue
By jmunjr on 8/6/10, Rating: -1
RE: Not the issue
By gixser on 8/5/2010 4:21:48 PM , Rating: 5
We evolved to eat fucking animals.
Can't we at least wait until they have finished?
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...But we're the unethical ones.
RE: Not the issue
By The Raven on 8/11/2010 4:38:20 PM , Rating: 2
The noble preying mantis will get his head bitten off whilst in the act. The much larger female having done nothing but eat will devour the male mid-coitus.
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By spoerad1 on 8/5/2010 4:44:32 PM , Rating: 2
while i myself eat meat and agree that it is natural, what is natural has little to do with what is moral or ethical. Its natural for animals to do many things unthinkable to us. How ever this line of thinking quickly snowballs, where do we stop. Why is wrong to eat animals? if its because they suffer during the raising and slaughter process, we can prevent that, if its simply morally wrong to eat other living creatures than you could add flora to the list of living beings and say eating is morally wrong. Not that any of this is really has any validity of others but ethics is a tricky, subjective matter at best.
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I didn't say that eating MEAT was unnatural.
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I. "You Can't Sell a Phone Without the Apps"
Comments Nokia VP Bryan Biniak:
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Nokia VP Bryan Biniak [Image Source:]
Nokia Lumia 1020
Windows Phone marketplace
Source: International Business Times
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RE: Blames MS ?
By maven81 on 7/29/2013 10:22:15 AM , Rating: 5
Making android phones would mean competing with the likes of Samsung, which would stretch Nokia too thin. They would always be an also ran, rather then a top tier android manufacturer. Witness how well things are going for HTC which makes only android phones.
I say it's better to be a leader in their market, then a bit player in the android market.
RE: Blames MS ?
By retrospooty on 7/29/2013 10:24:51 AM , Rating: 2
And how is that working out for them?
Like I said, they could have made both, not ONLY android. Its as if they learned nothing from slowly riding Symbian from dominance into the pit of irrelevance.
RE: Blames MS ?
By maven81 on 7/29/2013 10:28:16 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah I know you said they could make both, but that requires more resources. And I'm not convinced the small increase in sales would justify the effort. Sure they have a meager market share right now but at least it's growing steadily.
RE: Blames MS ?
By retrospooty on 7/29/2013 10:32:59 AM , Rating: 2
Well, good luck Nokia.
As far as "blaming" MS, its kind of a BS move though. There is one choice that everyone is buying and one that no-one is buying and you pick which one? Then you blame them? Whatever.
RE: Blames MS ?
By Reclaimer77 on 7/29/2013 11:20:31 AM , Rating: 2
Yes but I'm sure when Microsoft pitched the partnership to Nokia, they made certain assurances . Or gave them some kind of prediction of where they would be at today with Windows phone.
This is what I have always criticized Microsoft about. They treat their consumer devices as hobbies instead of worthwhile persuits. Windows Phone is stagnating but they don't seem to care.
Its time for an exit strategy Nokia. Why throw good money after bad and develop WP apps? That's crazy! And it still wont solve the biggest hole in the WP inventory: lack of Google apps.
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By Reclaimer77 on 7/29/13, Rating: 0
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Stop looking at your tiny penis.
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Derp... S3 from Q2 2012
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By EnzoFX on 7/29/2013 6:50:04 PM , Rating: 2
and now Nokia's going to do their work for them. Getting devs to port their apps. MS fail.
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By Mint on 7/29/2013 7:47:13 PM , Rating: 2
It's not working out that badly. They're up to 7.4M smartphones in the last quarter, and the 1020 is grabbing headlines. Growth is faster than any non-Samsung Android manufacturer.
If they went with Android, they'd be starting form 0% and competing with guys in Korea and China who have cost advantages and significant market share in 2011.
If Nokia made the switch in 2009, Android would've been hands down the smart choice. But in late 2010? WP is their best chance. MS isn't going to let WP wither away. It's too important to the future of personal computing and ecommerce. Don't forget that MS is paying Nokia $250M per quarter in their deal, and they only get that money back from Nokia in license fees years in the future if WP8 succeeds. I highly doubt MS would have given Nokia that money if they went multiplatform with Android.
They pumped $4B in losses to take on the Playstation juggernaut for a presence in the living room, and they'll spend a few billion to get a place in your pocket as well.
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RE: Blames MS ?
By maven81 on 7/29/2013 10:25:09 AM , Rating: 2
Sorry, that should say mostly android phones, I forgot that they make windows phones too.
RE: Blames MS ?
By jmarchel on 7/29/2013 12:51:20 PM , Rating: 2
Are you saying Nokia is unable to compete ? Then they deserve to die.
RE: Blames MS ?
By BladeVenom on 7/30/2013 10:05:16 AM , Rating: 1
When they announced the switch to Windows, Nokia was making more than four times as many smartphones as Samsung. Nokia was the number one smartphone manufacturer in the word then. They would not have had any trouble then competing against Samsung. Besides Samsung made both Android and Windows phones.
RE: Blames MS ?
By wind79 on 7/30/2013 11:23:55 AM , Rating: 1
What is wrong with being the Top Manufacturer for Android? When Nokia first decided to go with Windows, Android was still young and anyone's game. Given the polish of Nokia, the Lumia 1020 running on Android would probably dominate the Galaxy S4. Nokia made a wrong choice, and crying over spilled milk is not helping.
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By drebo on 5/25/2007 4:53:05 PM , Rating: 4
Neither company provides all the bandwidth it can to its customers. They should both be fined and thrown in prison. Of course, in the US, cable and broadband companies are a legal monopoly. Perhaps some government regulation is in order. It might actually force the companies to actually provide a decent service. I pay $50/mo for a 5mbit cable connection. I can guarantee that Europe and South East Asia don't pay half that for twice the connection. Broadband companies fuck consumers over almost as much as the RIAA and MPAA.
I'd like to see the network all owned and operated by a single entity with government pressure to provide the absolute best service possible. Never going to happen, I know...but I can dream, right?
RE: Regulation
By mxzrider2 on 5/25/2007 5:13:34 PM , Rating: 3
i don't want government involvement in cable or broadband service. what i want is more companies striving for the effort. too bad where im at the little guy ( us cable.) sucks worse than comcast or direct tv. both of which are good to me at my two houses. ( i have both dtv and comcast.) i have direct tv where i cant get comcast. and one of the real reasons i have comcast in my house in town is because broadband was faster than dsl at the time i got got . just recently dsl cought up in my area.
RE: Regulation
By Newspapercrane on 5/25/2007 7:22:58 PM , Rating: 2
Where I'm at, we don't even have a little guy.
We can't get DSL in most parts (I live in one of the few parts of town where you can.) It's comcast, and direct TV, but due to buildings most of the southern sky is blocked. For our television service and broadband service, it's comcast, or nothing.
RE: Regulation
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RE: Regulation
By Oregonian2 on 5/25/2007 5:17:10 PM , Rating: 2
Not entirely true. In some areas around here (and soon at my house) there will be three choices for TV service: Comcast cable, DirecTV (what we have) and Verizon FIOS TV services. The first two compete directly with one another now for TV service, and there will be FIOS later this year (I hope) at our house -- but FIOS already exists for large areas in my metro area (West suburbs of Portland). Not exactly a monopoly when one has three choices (in addition to broadcast-only). But in some areas there may be only DirecTV in which case they've a monopoly, and cable areas w/o south facing sky won't have the DirecTV option. Verizon's FIOS has a long way to go to cover the country, but they're spending astronomical amounts to install the fiber to expand.
RE: Regulation
By gradoman on 5/25/2007 5:24:33 PM , Rating: 2
We are getting something that we should have had in the 90s. Don't let them fool you, they received a lot of money, promised a better network and didn't deliver -- til 2006-2006, ooh Fiber Optic network, right to your door, whooop-ti-effing-do. Quite a few OTHER modern nations have had, and have, better service than we do.
For less, mind you.
RE: Regulation
By Samus on 5/25/2007 7:25:30 PM , Rating: 3
It's just like our [USA] automotive, cell phone, utility industry, etc. We are so far behind the rest of the world, sometimes it's hard to remember why America is so great :(
RE: Regulation
Yeah for Capitalism driving inovation!!! </sarc>
RE: Regulation
RE: Regulation
I think you need to modify your statement a little.
There's a very important word you left out.
Government regulation in and of itself is not a bad thing.
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By fxnick on 5/26/07, Rating: -1
RE: Regulation
By theapparition on 5/29/2007 9:37:15 AM , Rating: 2
Sometimes, when your first, you don't always get the best things. Other counties benefit from your knowledge and initial mistakes.
American consumers are also rather slow to adopt change, so when pointing fingers, be sure to include yourself.
RE: Regulation
By Oregonian2 on 5/29/2007 7:59:31 PM , Rating: 2
Not sure what you're talking about. In terms of Verizon's FIOS, they're spending an incredible amount of money to build the network, and I've a number of friends who've had the service for quite a while (at least the internet service part, the video service is new) and they love it. Unless they use debt-financing to pay for it, they're going as absolutely fast as they can (read the quarterly financial stuff they put out as to their capex spending).
Unlike a lot of other countries, we're not a zillion people per square foot. The US is spread out a lot more than many places it costs quite a bit to install things -- plus Americans are rather frugal so getting people to pay for wowie zowie stuff at a high enough percentage to get the per-user costs down can be a problem (where places like Japan have higher acceptance for spendy nice things from things I've read). Not sure why Verizon is bringing FIOS to our part of the country (west suburbs of Portland) other than we're the state's high-tech area (Silicon Rain Forest) so the acceptance percentage may be good (and that we're a Verizon area for landline phone service, formerly a "GTE" area).
The problem isn't delivery, it's making a business case of being able to profit off of it (yes, I'm using the evil word "profit", but that's what makes things happen everywhere). It's not cheap to run that fiber under my neighborhood's streets to my house and all the others (most of whom may not pay anything at all for it), especially when cable is already installed. High density places are cheaper to deliver service, but, uh, sometimes high density housing in the U.S. isn't the kind that house middle to upper class folk who would pay for FIOS sort of services. Those who would most likely sign up for it tend to be be in spread out suburbs (I only say this statistically, there are high-rise places I know locally that are VERY spendy places). Of course, other areas may vary, I only speak of the cities that I've lived in over the years. I also know that some places in the US can be very spendy to have things installed due to government and union rules. If it can't be made to at least look profitable it won't get done.
RE: Regulation
By dmark07 on 5/25/2007 5:49:20 PM , Rating: 2
Sounds like you are stuck at a cable plant that is still using DOCSIS 1.x The max that you can get out of this specification is 10Mbps. Aside from the DOCSIS used you also need a very tight cable plant to sustain higher data transmission rates. Most cable companies are preparing for a jump to DOCSIS 3 in which multiple data streams can be tied together and speeds can be reached as fast as 160Mbps.
RE: Regulation
By drebo on 5/25/2007 6:17:34 PM , Rating: 3
That has nothing to do with it. I have Charter cable which is on DOCSIS 2. It's not a question of "can't" right now, it's a question of "don't want to". Cable companies simply don't supply as much bandwidth as they can. And, as it stands, there's nothing to make them. THAT is why regulation is needed.
US companies aren't going to do it on their own. That's not the nature of things. Hell, I work for an ISP. I know how it works. They sit and sit and watch their pocket-books grow fat. Only when someone complains loud enough will they ever do anything. And even then, it's minimal.
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By dmark07 on 5/25/2007 6:34:25 PM , Rating: 1
I work for an ISP as well and in our situation it is an issue with the DOCSIS standard. If you are stuck at a lower speed then it is more than likely because your cable provider feels that they dont have the competition to warrant a spped boost either that or as I said earlier, your cable plant is not "tight" enough to sustain higher speeds. If you really want regulation on the cable companies so bad look at the push to cable card(meaning it is already there). For internet regulation, look at Ma Bell or the new AT&T as well as Verizon whose DSL speeds are sub-par compared to cable (unless they are utilizing Fiber to the home). I agree higher internet speeds would be great but place the blame equally.
RE: Regulation
By drebo on 5/25/2007 6:43:07 PM , Rating: 3
And you don't have a problem with that?
Wow, you truely are a sucker for the crap the cable companies are spewing.
As for the DSL comparison, DSL has always offered the better deal. In my area (not to my residence, unfortunately), 3mbit DSL is available for less than 2/3rds the cost of 3mbit cable and less than half the cost of 5mbit cable. Slower? Maybe. Better deal? Without question.
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Well here you go:
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By arazok on 5/25/2007 6:28:51 PM , Rating: 2
Because we all know how well everything the government gets involved with turns out...
Actually, wait a minute... Doesn't the government already regulate cable operators?! Perhaps THATS the problem?!?! Eureka!
RE: Regulation
By knar on 5/25/2007 7:30:58 PM , Rating: 2
wow 50/month for 5mbit..jesus man...for once im happy to live in canada.....i get 20mbit for 60 a month with unlimited bandwidth (both up and down)
RE: Regulation
By drebo on 5/25/2007 7:49:08 PM , Rating: 2
You know, I wouldn't mind the high price if it were worth paying. As in, if it were the best possible connection. But it's not. Nowhere near it. I don't mind paying a premium for a premium service, but this certainly is not a premium service.
When I go to the car wash, I pay a little extra for the wax, because I know I'm getting a better deal. Where I live, cable internet (Charter, specifically) has a monoply on broadband. I know for an absolute fact that they are not using their network to its potential. Why not? Well, it sure as hell isn't for the benefit of their customers. It's because there's nothing forcing them to. They know their customers have no other choice, so they continue to rape them with ungodly rates. Not only that, but they nickel and dime customers as well. What broadband company charges a monthly fee for the modem? None I've ever worked with before, that's for damn sure.
RE: Regulation
By Spivonious on 5/27/2007 10:47:29 AM , Rating: 2
Here in PA I get 6Mbps with no bandwidth limits for $42.95/month. If I wasn't also a cable TV customer I think it goes up to $59.95/month.
RE: Regulation
By ira176 on 5/26/2007 4:23:36 AM , Rating: 2
Cable companies are truly monoplies, and instead of regulating them, my local governmental agency seems to have been bought off by this cable company. My city gets a "franchise fee", for allowing the cable company exclusive rights to provide cable to my city. So basically, no competition, besides Direct TV, and cable subscribers get to pay extra to the cable company, so that the cable company can pay the city the fee and rake in the profits.
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By CyberInferno on 5/27/2007 5:02:10 AM , Rating: 1
Here's an interesting article about how misleading prices of broadband in other places can be:
$10.85 per month broadband in China not such a hot deal:
It's all relative to how much money the average person makes.
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Captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein speaks in Baghdad on Dec. 14, 2003, in this image from television. (AP Photo/US Military via APTN)
This could get me in trouble, because it's going to sound like I long for the days of dictators like Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, Hosni Mubarak, Marshall Tito, the Shah.
I don't. But I do wonder, from the standpoint of national security, were we somehow better off when they were still around? In some cases, were even their own citizens better off too? Hard to say, but also hard to dismiss.
So, as Americans for whom freedom is a precious principle but security is a prime priority, it's a question worth asking. If our geopolitical strategy amounts to choosing the lesser of two evils, and it often does, then arguably, the world was a better place — for us, anyway — when there were dictators who controlled their people. Because however malicious their means, terrorists couldn't operate within their borders and thus couldn't threaten us. We have plenty of counterterrorism tools at our command, both military and civil, but none works better than containing the threat at its source.
Iraq is the poster boy for this kind of thinking. Saddam was a bad guy; I was among a handful of journalists who got to one of the Kurdish villages he gassed, leaving hundreds of grotesque corpses as a warning to others who harbored dreams of rebellion. Morality prevents me from calling Saddam's ruthless reign the good ol' days.
But here's the other side of the coin: Notwithstanding the flimsy grounds for the U.S. invasion in 2003, was Iraq then the breeding ground for terrorism that it is today? The fact is, we invaded Iraq to drive out terrorists who were not actually there until we went in to drive them out. Think ISIL, which is trying to establish and expand what would amount to an anti-Western terrorists' haven. That is Iraq, post-Saddam.
To carry the argument further, neither are most Iraqis plainly better off. While Iraqis didn't live lives we'd envy when Saddam was around, they were able to go about their business pretty much without interference as long as they didn't get on his bad side. Today? There is no good side to be on. If you're Sunni, the government is shutting you out of civil life in Iraq. If you're Shiite, ISIL is shutting you down. Citizens can't go to the market, kids can't go to school, mourners can't go to a funeral without the threat of a car bomb that might kill them.
Hindsight is a wonderful tool. And it's only with hindsight that I raise these questions. In fact, if another dictator was brutally mistreating his people today, I'd probably be agitating to go in and get him. But not before asking, who's likely to replace him?
Greg Dobbs of Evergreen was a correspondent for ABC News for 23 years, then for HDNet television's "World Report."
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Bionic vs. Razr
Discussion in 'Motorola Droid Bionic' started by IslandBrian, Dec 29, 2011.
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Greetings, all. Newb here. I searched around but couldn't find an on-point thread, so here goes.
I have a Bionic. The data drops are killing me. I know there is a new update out or coming out that is supposed to fix it, yadda yadda. But I just got so sick of it today, that I called Verizon and ordered a Razr. I have until 1/15 to decide which one to keep.
Soooooo I would like some feedback: should I keep the Bionic or go for the Razr? Why?
I apologize if this is covered elsewhere (and if so, please direct me to the thread).
Thanks for your help and feedback!
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On the exact same page as your thread:
By the way, the RAZR and every other 4G phone is suffering from data outages. It has more to do with the network than the phones themselves.
And as a side note, check out the comments about the 901 build in this thread:
This new build, which you can install on your phone tonight, seems to have fixed 99% of the data problems with the bionic. Other than the nationwide outages that seem to be plaguing the 4G market here lately.
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Before you can begin to play bridge, you need to outfit yourself with some basic supplies. Actually, you may already have some of these bridge supplies around the house, just begging for you to use them. What do you need? Here’s your bottom-line list:
• Four warm bodies, including yours.
• A table — a square one is best. In a pinch, you can play on a blanket, on a bed, indoors, outdoors, or even on a computer if you can’t find a live-and-in-person game.
• One standard deck of playing cards (remove the jokers).
• A pencil and a piece of paper on which you can keep score. You can use any old piece of paper — a legal pad, the back of a grocery list, or even an ancient piece of papyrus.
• Snacks. You'll need sustenance when you take a break. Playing bridge can become fierce!
Here are a couple of hints from a longtime bridge player about how you can make getting started with the game a little easier:
• Watch a real bridge game to observe the mechanics of the game.
• Round up three friends who are interested in playing. Don’t worry if you all don’t know what you’re doing. Everyone begins knowing nothing; some even end up that way.
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Today's How-To shows that with a little ingenious wiring, a pair of headphones can become a pair of low-power rechargeable wireless speakers. For this mod you will need:
• One or more wireless headphone sets with rechargeable bases (we used inexpensive Sony RF headphones)
• A soldering iron
• Two channel socket and plug connectors for power
• A miniature slider switch
• Some thin cabling
• Plexiglas and hot glue or other material to build speaker housings
• A dremel or similar to make openings in the speaker housings
If your artsy friends have been begging you to build them wireless speakers on the cheap for their Burning Man installation, read on. If not, it's still a helluva lot of fun, so read on anyway!
Step 1: Modding the Charging Base
First open the recharging base of the wireless headphone set. Our unit had five screws underneath.
Unscrew the circuit board from the back of the unit.
Solder two wires to the circuit board where the recharging wires connect. These two wires are those which you have already soldered to the male end of your socket and plug connectors. This will serve as the power for the rechargeable batteries as we will be destroying the headphone housing to build the speakers.
File a notch in the base to accommodate the charging plug's wires with a dremel or file. Replace the circuit board and close the charging base with the screws you removed earlier.
Step 2: Choose a Speaker Set-up
Next, for the headphone to speaker mod, there are several choices.
1. You may choose to have both left and right speakers in one housing with all of the charging circuits and batteries. (This example is pictured below:)
2. Perhaps you want the speakers to be separate, but cabled between left and right. Half of the circuitry can be placed in one housing, half in the other. (In the example pictured below only one speaker of the two has been completed, the other will hold the loose driver and radio circuitry:)
3. You may want two separate left and right channels in separate housings with separate batteries and circuitry. For this example you will need two sets of headphones. You may choose to place two sets of drivers in each channel's housing. (This example not pictured because it is the same as Example 1 except there are two speakers instead of one.)
4. Maybe your Burning Man friends are putting on the pressure for multichannel audio in your mod. In this case, you can buy six sets of the Sony headphones. The Sony model of cheapest RF headphones has a selector for three different radio channels on the back of the base. In theory this means you can send three sets of stereo which equals six unique channels of wireless audio out. (See drawing below:)
Step 3: Modding the Headphones into Speakers
Take apart the headphones by unscrewing all the screws and popping open the housing. Try to keep the cables between the two sides of the headphones intact. If you need to cut the cables to remove all the circuitry, simply do so and resolder the connections later. Cut the battery housing down around the batteries with a dremel or small plastic cutting saw but keep it intact as well. Create a small plastic box from Plexiglas and first cut a hole large enough to access the batteries. First pictured below is Example 1 with both drivers in the same housing, then Example 2 with one driver in each housing:
Cut a small rectangular hole out of the housing for an on/off switch. This needed to be soldered in place of the spring-based momentary switch in the headphones we used. Our headphone model turned on when the inside band of the headphones were pulled by the shape of the wearer's head. We replaced this with a sliding switch which we then glued into the housing:
Next cut a hole in the Plexiglas box large enough for the speaker housing. Remember that the speaker should be fairly well sealed for resonance purposes. Viewed from the inside, the speaker glued on the hole looks like this, below:
Now solder the other end of the power connector (the female end that fits the connector on the wire now sticking out of the charging base) to wire. Solder the two wires of the power cable to the charging tabs that were in the headphone housing. These tabs were the ones that came in contact with the charging springs when the headphones were placed on the charging base. Two views of the power connector (ours in this case is large and white in the photos) follow showing the tabs where the wires were soldered.
Now test your speaker(s) with your system's base with audio to make sure you haven't forgotten anything. Repeat the steps above for each speaker in your system. You may want to glue down the channel selector dials on the speaker side if you decide to go the multichannel route. Also the volume dial on our sets have been glued to maximum for applications where the speakers are in a public setting. Alternately you may wish to cut rectangular holes in your speaker housing to access the volume and RF channel selection potentiometers.
Some other further development for you electrical engineering types can include creating audio outputs for better speakers and gain stages instead of speakers on the receiving end. Be creative! This How-To is by no means meant to be a finished creative entity.
Leave us feedback if you send some of these bad boys up in balloons in the high desert.
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After initially seeing EA's explanation about its pay-to-play DLC weaponry in Battlefield: Bad Company on MTV's Multiplayer, it was time for a nice walk around the block to inhale some crisp spring air and exhale some vexation before sitting down to write about it. The publisher states that five of the DLC weapons in its upcoming FPS will be "free," and the other five will be bundled with the game's "Gold Edition." For gamers who don't want to buy the "Gold Edition," the weapons will be available to purchase through PSN and XBM -- no prices are currently attached to the weapons.
EA states that the pay-to-play weaponry in B:BC will not unbalance the game and that "more weapons offer players more choices but do not create an advantage/disadvantage for players who do not opt to buy new item." Wait, what? Paying extra money for weapons other players don't have doesn't change the game experience? We had hoped EA had given up on its dubious microtransactions, but we're sure consumers will vote using their wallets if they agree with EA's tactic.
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Jason, who needs a laptop drive upgrade that doesn't involve the words "solid state." Or "really expensive." If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
"I am in the market for a 2.5-inch notebook drive for my new Core i7 MacBook Pro. The biggest concern for me is performance, with storage after that, and impact on battery life last. Every SSD I have seen is over my budget. I am wondering which hard drive will be the best non-solid state drive to fit in a MBP. Some people mentioned Seagate's Momentus XT, which is a hybrid drive -- are they any good? Thanks!"
One thing Jason left out was his capacity requirements and actual budget, but we'll go ahead and assume he wants something larger than 40GB and cheaper than the average SSD. Any blazing HDDs out there for the taking? Go on, it's not like giving up your secret will make everyone reading this go buy up the remaining inventory. No promises on that, though.
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While President Obama signs off on the future of space exploration, NASA is on the move, developing new ways to get a look at the fourth planet from the sun. We've seen our share of rovers (and one sweet hopper) in this space, and now the gang at the Langley Research Center is hard at work on a rocket-powered, robotic Mars-bound airplane. ARES, or Aerial Regional-Scale Environmental Surveyor, is 16.4 feet long, made from a lightweight polymer-carbon composite material, and has a wingspan of 21 feet. "A powered airplane flying a mile above the surface can obtain measurements over inaccessible parts of Mars and collect a whole bunch of data that no rover can collect," according to atmospheric scientist Joel Levine. Perhaps most exciting, the machine would be able to fly over the southern highlands, an area whose mountains, craters, and volcanoes have hindered exploration in the past. Sadly, all good things must come to an end -- and ARES is no exception. Although its flight would last for a mere two hours, it could cover over nine hundred miles of unexplored territory, collecting data on everything from chemicals and signs of water to the magnetic field in this region.
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Although in the earliest stages of development, this virtual reality gaming rig already looks pretty intriguing. Engineered by clever kids at the University of Texas at Austin, it hot-wires an eye tracking camera to a motorised pico projector with the result that the player literally can't take their eyes off the screen. Wherever they look, that is where their view of the gaming world is projected. The rig makes most sense in a first-person shooter, although the students have also tried it in a flight simulator where the player uses their head to roll and pitch the aircraft. Yes, it looks rather similar to the Microvision PicoP laser projection gun we wielded at CES, but there's a key difference: the player does not need to hold anything or have anything attached to their body. This unencumbered Kinect-esque approach could potentially allow a greater sense of freedom -- except that, for it to work, the player is forced to sit directly in front of the eye tracker. Find a way to fix this, dear Longhorns, and you could be onto something. Video after the break.
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Gator was a sequel.
connelallison asked:
Who else thinks Warlords of Draenor sounds much more like a Hearthstone expansion than a WoW one? I remember reading that this trademark didn't mention mousepads either, which is in contrast with all the previous expansions which had them in the collector's editions.
Hearthstone isn't even out of beta yet. If Warlords of Draenor is a legitimate trademark, as it appears to be, it's for WoW, not Hearthstone.
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Is there any relation between Tyrion Lannister and Tirion Fordring? A Song of Ice and Fire is pretty old, but so is Warcraft. Maybe they read the books and thought it was a cool name to give to a character? Also, are there any other references from that series in WoW?
I'd wager only Chris Metzen knows if he named one character after the other, though it wouldn't be the first time a WoW character had a name alluding to another fantasy character/place. Anduin Lothar is named after the Anduin River in Lord of the Rings, for example.
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What is the most reliable Realm population source?
As I understand it, realmpop.com is the most reliable one if you want strictly realm population; wowprogress.com is good for raiding population.
ScottLeyes asked:
Does anyone else think that Heroes of the Storm/Blizzard All-Stars/Blizzard DOTA is going to be shown as something MONUMENTALLY DIFFERENT from what we've seen previously?
Think about this: There is NO WAY Blizzard can unseat League of Legends, et al, from their dominant position(s) in eSports and market saturation. The only way that HotS makes sense is for Blizz to scale it back to some simpler, more "casual-friendly" tablet/smartphone. Free-to-play, no eSports, cosmetic cash shop... use it as a cheap way to get more people to notice their three "main" franchises.
I definitely think HotS is going to be a more casual, entry-level MOBA. MOBAs are obtuse, unfriendly, and many other adjectives that make them a bad experience for new or casual players. If Blizzard can do what they did for TCGs with Hearthstone, maybe they can do it for MOBAs with HotS.
This article was originally published on WoW Insider.
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What arguments does Macbeth make in his soliloquy in Act 1, scene 7 against the murder...
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What arguments does Macbeth make in his soliloquy in Act 1, scene 7 against the murder of Duncan in Macbeth?
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Macbeth tries to talk himself into killing Duncan, but he does not want to because Duncan has promoted him, because they are kinsman, and because Duncan is his guest.
Macbeth is concerned about killing Duncan because he is his kinsman and his subject. He should be loyal to Duncan, not murder him.
He's here in double trust:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed (Act 1, scene 7)
Macbeth notes that he is also Duncan’s host, and it is his responsibility to “shut the door” against his murderer, not murder him himself.
Macbeth also notes that Duncan is a good king, and does not deserve death.
Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against
The deep damnation of his taking-off (Act 1, scene 7)
Duncan has done nothing to cause Macbeth to kill him. He has been a loyal subject to the king, and there is no reason for the king to suspect otherwise. It is only Macbeth’s ambition that causes him to murder Duncan. His ambition, and his wife’s prodding.
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Macbeth mentions that Duncan is at his castle in "double trust," which means that Duncan has two reasons to trust Macbeth, and that Macbeth will do him no harm and will protect him.
Firstly, Duncan is his "kinsman," which means that they are related to one another, not only because they are citizens of the same country, but also in blood. Duncan and Macbeth are cousins, all the more reason for Macbeth not to harm him – such a deed would be unnatural in the extreme.
Secondly, Macbeth is Duncan's "subject," and as his subject, he has to honor his king and show allegiance and loyalty. A loyal subject should not even consider the thought of bringing harm to his king, let alone plot his assassination.
These two reasons on their own speak "strong ... against the deed." They are more than ample conviction for Macbeth not to kill Duncan.
Furthermore, Duncan is also Macbeth's guest, and it is imperative for a host to ensure the safety of his guests. It would go against the grain if the host should consider committing any dark, obnoxious deed against his guest/s.
Also, Duncan has been a kind and gentle king. He has taken care of his subjects and has not been a tyrannical and despotic leader. He has been gentle and "clear" in his "great office" which implies that his actions were never questionable – further evidence that killing him would be a purposeless exercise.
Because Duncan is such a good king, there would be a clamor to bring the murderer/s to justice. There would be a cry in heaven against the assassination. Macbeth would be damned forever – more than enough reason to not even consider Duncan's assassination. Macbeth also realizes that not only would he be damned, but also that those loyal to Duncan (which more than likely would be practically the whole of Scotland) would seek revenge against the callous murderer.
These are the reasons Macbeth provides against killing Duncan. The only motive for him to continue with this dastardly deed would be his unbridled ambition and greed.
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OPPT Chemical Fact Sheet EPA 749-F-94-008 CHEMICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: CARBON DISULFIDE (CAS NO. 75-15-0) prepared by OFFICE OF POLLUTION PREVENTION AND TOXICS U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY August 1994 __________________________________________________________________________ Chemicals can be released to the environment as a result of their manufacture, processing, and use. EPA has developed information summaries on selected chemicals to describe how you might be exposed to these chemicals, how exposure to them might affect you and the environment, what happens to them in the environment, who regulates them, and whom to contact for additional information. EPA is committed to reducing environ- mental releases of chemicals through source reduction and other practices that reduce creation of pollutants. __________________________________________________________________________ WHAT IS CARBON DISULFIDE, HOW IS IT USED, AND HOW MIGHT I BE EXPOSED? Carbon disulfide is a colorless, flammable liquid with a pleasant odor. Impure samples have a yellow color and a disagreeable odor. It occurs naturally mostly due to the action of microorganisms living in sediments found on the sea floor and in marshes. Carbon disulfide is produced in large amounts (207 million pounds in 1992) by three companies in the United States. US demand for carbon disulfide has declined in recent years and is likely to continue to fall. The largest users of carbon disulfide are chemical companies that make rayon. Companies use smaller amounts of the chemical to make agricultural fumigants, rubber chemicals, and cellulose. Companies also use carbon disulfide to clean metal surfaces. Olive oil processors use the chemical to extract olive oil. Exposure to carbon disulfide can occur in the workplace or in the environment following releases to air, water, land, or groundwater. Carbon disulfide enters the body when breathed in with contaminated air or when consumed with contaminated food or water. It is also absorbed through skin contact. It does not remain in the body due to its breakdown and removal. WHAT HAPPENS TO CARBON DISULFIDE IN THE ENVIRONMENT? Carbon disulfide evaporates when exposed to air. It dissolves when mixed with water. Most direct releases of carbon disulfide to the environment are to air. Carbon disulfide also evaporates from water and soil exposed to air. Once in air, it breaks down to other chemicals. Because it is a liquid that does not bind well to soils, carbon disulfide that makes its way into the ground can move through the ground and into groundwater. Plants and animals are not likely to store carbon disulfide. HOW DOES CARBON DISULFIDE AFFECT HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT? Effects of carbon disulfide on human health and the environment depend on how much carbon disulfide is present and the length and frequency of exposure. Effects also depend on the health of a person or the condition of the environment when exposure occurs. Breathing or otherwise consuming carbon disulfide for short periods of time adversely affects the human nervous system. Effects range from dizziness and headaches, to blurred vision and agitation, to convulsions, coma, and death. Carbon disulfide vapor also irritates the nose and the throat. Direct skin contact with liquid carbon disulfide causes chemical burns. Carbon disulfide can severely damage the eyes. These effects are not likely to occur at levels of carbon disulfide that are normally found in the environment. Breathing or otherwise consuming small amounts of carbon disulfide over long periods of time can cause potentially permanent damage to the human nervous system. Effects range from tremors and weakness to mental impairment. Carbon disulfide can also damage the human cardiovascular system, resulting in increased blood pressure and coronary heart disease. Workers repeatedly exposed to carbon disulfide have developed gastro- intestinal and immune insufficiency problems. Laboratory studies show that exposure to large amounts of carbon disulfide during pregnancy adversely affects the developing fetus of animals. Studies also show that repeated exposure to carbon disulfide causes adverse kidney effects in animals. Carbon disulfide by itself is not likely to cause environmental harm at levels normally found in the environment. Carbon disulfide can contribute to the formation of photochemical smog when it reacts with other volatile organic substance in air. 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WHAT OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES OR GROUPS CAN I CONTACT FOR INFORMATION ON CARBON DISULFIDE? __________________________________________________________________________ AGENCY/GROUP PHONE NUMBER __________________________________________________________________________ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (404) 639-6000 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (513) 742-2020 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (800) 356-4674 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Check your local phone book under U.S. Department of Labor)
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The enthusiasm of believers
The Evolution Deceit
The enthusiasm of believers
The source of believers' enthusiasm: their faith, love and devotion to Allah
Believers' enthusiasm is non-abating
"The believers are only the ones who have believed in Allah and His Messenger and then doubt not but strive with their properties and their lives in the cause of Allah. It is those who are the truthful." (Surah al-Hujurat, 15)
This description reveals the enthusiasm believer's harbor in their hearts. It is so because no matter what, the unyielding struggle to uphold their values lasts for a lifetime and is only sustained with an enthusiasm that faith grants to man. The merit of the believers' steadfastness in their struggle and the value of their continuous efforts are also stated by Prophet Muhammad (saas): "The most beloved deeds to Allah are those done regularly." (Narrated by al-Bukhari)
Another factor keeping believers' enthusiasm strong and fresh is the mood of apprehension combined with longing in their hearts, which they experience throughout their lives:
"And invoke Him in fear and aspiration. Indeed, the mercy of Allah is near to the doers of good." (Surah al-A'raf, 56)
"They fear their Lord and are afraid of the evil of [their] account."( Surah ar-Ra'd, 21)
As seen, a believer's concept of zeal is completely different from that of a society of ignorance. Compared to the temporary enthusiasms of disbelievers, believers' zeal is a never-ending exuberance nourished by faith in Allah. He has given believers glad tidings of the result of continuous zeal in the Qur'an:
"And give good tidings to the believers that they will have from Allah great bounty." (Surah al-Ahzab, 47)
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Advanced “Vlookup” in Microsoft Excel 2010
In this article we will learn about how we can use Vlookup formula in Microsoft Excel 2010.
VLOOKUP: The Vlookup formula returns a value from the intersection between the found lookup value in the leftmost column and a column index number in the Table Array.
Syntax of “VLOOKUP” function: =VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,[range_lookup])
Uses of Vlookup Function
We use this function to pick the values from one data to another, but the condition is we should have the common values in both data’s so we can easily pick the value.
Let’s take an example and understand how and where we can use Vlookup function in Microsoft Excel 2010 and 2013.
Example 1: We have 2 data sets. In which we have require joining date from 1st data to 2nd data.
To pick the value from 1st data to 2nd data we have common value is Emp. code, So we will put the Vlookup function through Emp. code follow below mentioned steps to pick the joining date:-
• Select the cell H13 and write the formula.
• =VLOOKUP(G3,A3:B13,2,0)press enter.
• The function will return the joining date for this L2399 Emp code.
• To return the date of joining to all the employees, Copy the same formula and paste in the range H4:H13.
Note: If the common value we do not have in other data from which we want to pick the data so formula will give the #N/A error. As you can see in above snapshot the employee code L1089 in not available in 1st data set so formula is giving the error.
This is all about the Vlookup function in Microsoft Excel 2010 and 2010.
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1. I am interested in Tip 2 to solve my problem. Col A has names and Titles in it. Ex [LName],[Title], [FName]. Titles repeat, one to many. In Column E, I wanted certain titles inserted; otherwise leave blank. Is there a VLOOKUP formula that will handle that? Many Thanks
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Death Moon (1978)
A manager is sent to vacation by his doctor due to symptoms of stress. He chooses Hawaii, because that's where his grandfather worked as a missionary. He doesn't know that his grandpa and all male successors are cursed by the Voodoo… More
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King of the Avenue (2010)
His drug lord father killed in a police shootout, ambitious young criminal Taz sells his soul to the devil in exchange for total power, and quickly rises to the top of the food chain. But later, as his competitors all begin to topple like… More
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Can the vitamins from lotions be absorbed for use by our bodies?
Asked by pleiades (6543 points ) April 4th, 2014
Basically I’m wondering if the vitamins in lotion just gets stuck on the skin or not.
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cazzie's avatar
Actually, some things do go through the skin barrier. Water soluble vitamin like vitamin C has been shown to be delivered but it is unstable. It’s useful for skin health when applied topically, but you won’t prevent scurvy because it isn’t absorbed as if you had eaten it. Here is a good reference:
syz's avatar
While there are transdermal applications for many medications, I doubt that any vitamins in lotions are viable enough to be of any use, even if they did penetrate the epidermis.
bea2345's avatar
I often wondered if my shampoo, body lotion, etc. would be more effective if I took them orally.
Dan_Lyons's avatar
If you mix your lotion with a little DMSO, it (the vitamins, lotion, everything) will immediately permeate your physical body in mere seconds.
Unfortunately outlawed by the FDA it is available at veterinarians.
Judi's avatar
I don’t know about vitamins, but essential oils can have effects on your body.
JLeslie's avatar
@cazzie Can you just rub an orange on your body? I remember when vitamin C was first being introduced in cosmetic products. I happened to be a buyer at the time, I think Lancôme was one of the firsts I dealt with, and the face lotion was packaged differently to try to keep it more airtight, because of it’s instability. The product had a shorter shelf life than most of their products, especially once opened.
cazzie's avatar
@JLeslie, You can rub an orange on your body if you like, but your blood stream won’t get any vitamin c and you’ll be sticky.
cazzie's avatar
What topical vit C will do is it does reach the lower level of your skin in the collagen, but forget the expensive creams with it. I’ve said this before. Mash up a kiwi and give yourself a mask. Don’t get any in your eyes.
And, don’t mess with DMSO. You are more likely to poison yourself than improve your health.
JLeslie's avatar
@cazzie I only meant for my skin, not for internal absorption. Since the vitamin is so unstable in the lotions, and the lotions tend to be expensive. I just have no idea the concentration of the vitamin in the fruit compared to the lotions. What is DSMO?
bea2345's avatar
WebMd has an article on DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide). It is a by-product of paper manufacturing and has some medical applications because it is easily absorbed by the skin. Whatever is on the skin becomes absorbed with the DMSO. It sounds dangerous.
cazzie's avatar
The guy who invented the delivery system for the nicotine patch said to my boyfriend, ‘With DMSO, you can absorb small livestock into the skin.’ Yes. Dangerous.
Unbroken's avatar
Well the skin is the biggest organ. But most of the vitamins in lotions are so deteriorated and impure its a gimmick.
bea2345's avatar
Sometimes I wonder if I have to eat the product instead of putting it on my skin.
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@bea2345 hahaha…. but seriously, don’t do that.
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Prep 30 mins
Cook 3 hrs
This is a rich, but a little different split pea soup. I have been making this for 30 years. I have no idea where it came from. It takes a little time to make, but it is worth it.
Ingredients Nutrition
1. Cut the ribs into serving pieces.
2. Place ribs and next five ingredients in a large saucepot.
3. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer and cover.
4. Simmer two hours.
5. Cool in the refrigerator until any fat has hardened and can be removed easily.
6. Discard the fat.
7. You can do this the day before and leave in refrigerator overnight.
8. Before serving add the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil.
9. Reduce heat to simmer and cover.
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Dr Manny's Notes
Steve Jobs' Death Spotlights Hard-to-Detect Cancers
This week, America lost one of its greatest innovators to what was likely a recurrence of the pancreatic cancer he had battled for years. Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc, was just 56 when he died Wednesday.
It’s hard to fathom that a man who was at the forefront of the latest technological developments, and who likely had access to some of the best medical care in the world, could succumb to cancer – especially since his 2004 announcement treatment had worked, and a successful liver transplant in 2009.
Doctors speculate that his cancer likely returned and maybe even spread to his lymph nodes or liver.
The truth is, there are a number of cancers – pancreatic cancer, included – that are still virtually undetectable, even after all the great strides we have made in medicine over the years.
What’s worse, is that these cancers can develop unexpectedly and “disguise” themselves as other health conditions.
Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer, which affects about 44,000 Americans each year, can usually only be controlled if it is found before it spreads – and it is very hard to find in some cases. That’s because there aren’t any noticeable signs or symptoms in the early stages of pancreatic cancer.
When signs, such as jaundice, back/abdominal pain and weight loss, finally do begin to present themselves, they can be confused as symptoms of a number of other illnesses. Additionally, the pancreas is hidden behind other organs such as the stomach, small intestine, liver, gall bladder and spleen.
Kidney cancer
Like pancreatic cancer -- kidney, or renal cell cancer -- is hard to detect because there are few symptoms in the early stages of the disease, which affects 54,000 people in the U.S. per year. One of the earliest warning signs is discolored urine, or urine that has a high blood cell count. A person might also experience back pain and weight loss.
There are certain risk factors for kidney cancer, such as smoking, obesity or high blood pressure, but the cancer also develops in many people who do not have any of these risk factors, and doctors still cannot explain why this happens.
Gastric cancer
Gastric cancer, or stomach cancer, is diagnosed in 21,000 Americans per year, and typically only half of them survive. Since symptoms of gastric cancer often do not appear until the disease is advanced, only one in five cases is found at an early stage before it the cancer spreads to other areas of the body.
Signs of the cancer can include poor appetite, weight loss, abdominal pain, discomfort above the navel, a sense of fullness in the upper abdomen after small meals, heartburn, indigestion, nausea, vomiting and abdominal swelling.
Certain kinds of leukemia
Finally, with leukemia, the difficulty of detection depends on what type a person develops. The American Cancer Society lists four types of leukemia: Acute lymphocytic, chronic lymphocytic, acute myeloid and chronic myeloid. Combined, the four kinds of the disease affect 45,000 Americans annually.
Chronic forms of leukemia develop slowly over a period of years, while acute forms develop rapidly and require immediate treatment for the person to survive longer than a few months.
While there is less time to treat acute leukemia, the symptoms are more visible. They include fatigue, shortness of breath, pale skin, fever, prolonged bleeding from minor cuts, unexplained bruises, and tiny, red spots under the skin. Chronic leukemia, on the other hand, is typically only identified by a blood test taken during a routine exam or during testing for an unrelated problem.
Unfortunately, cause of leukemia is still largely unknown. But researchers believe it may be a combination of environment and genetic factors.
All of these cancers listed above – pancreatic, kidney, gastric and leukemia – can be diagnosed through physical exams and medical tests such as CT scans, MRIs, blood tests and ultrasounds (though the tests vary according to the type of cancer).
The best way to protect yourself is to know your body and see a doctor right away if you notice any significant changes.
Steve Jobs allowed us to see the world through the eyes of a true technological visionary. But let us also learn from his courageous fight against this devastating disease to be proactive in the fight against it.
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Release Notes: Released on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. This is the most significant revision since the project began over a decade ago. The most obvious differences with version 2.0 are the significant changes to the API. These changes aim to: modernize the API to use collections and generics, remove ambiguities and redundancies, hide/remove methods that should not be public to client code, improve separation of concerns, and introduce a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for working with the core entities (jobs and triggers).
• 26 Feb 2011 16:07
Release Notes: This is a bug fix release addressing a few minor bugs.
• 25 Sep 2005 21:09
Release Notes: This release contains several new features and changes, as well as a good number of bugfixes. The first phase of a significant rework of the documentation is complete.
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Release Notes: Thos release contains a number of new features and bugfixes. The most notable additions/changes are performance improvements, improved XML initialization, more convenient interruption of executing jobs, new "interceptor" behavior for job/trigger listeners, new scheduling options for triggers, and a new mechanism for jobs to report the results of their operation.
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#15 - tiddycats (10/18/2013) [-]
"Quick claw stops being a piece of dick and works"
Also does anyone else notice how any moves with less than a 90 hit ratio seem to miss as if they have a 50 hit ratio whenever you're fighting anything above wild pokemon? Seriously I had a 75 hit ratio move miss 4 times in a row against the same gym leader.
#39 to #15 - anonymous (10/18/2013) [-]
There's a 1/250 chance of that happening. With 4 million games sold in the first 2 days, it's probably a pretty common occurrence.
#35 to #15 - feratrox (10/18/2013) [-]
Actually my Tyrantrum had a Quick Claw and it would activate at all the best moments. He nearly killed that Mega Gardevoir with Head Smash that way (which has never missed for me, same with Hawlucha's Hi Jump Kick) but since he was 17 levels lower she hung on and killed him with Moonblast.
Then I remembered Steel is now supereffective against her, so I sent out Aegislash which was 13 levels lower and he OHKO'd with Iron Head. My luck has been amazing in this game. I wonder how it's all gonna go wrong eventually...
Oh and I never used pokemon amie. I'm that lucky.
User avatar #27 to #15 - knightr **User deleted account** (10/18/2013) [-]
Im not very lucky so this is why I just stick with attacks that have 100% accuracy.
I swear, even if an atk has 95 acc it's still misses about 25% of the time, especially when playing online and that missed attack would've determine/make or break my victory..
I once used water shuriken (which also has 100 accuracy) and it still missed and I lost because of it...
User avatar #18 to #15 - hypex (10/18/2013) [-]
Pokemon utilizes true random, such is the chance with shinies and stuff like that
true random means you have a 75% chance of hitting every time
pseudo random such as DotA2 and other more "competitive" games use means the chance goes up whenever you miss
User avatar #16 to #15 - bonlino (10/18/2013) [-]
its probably also effected by the pokemon's evasiveness.
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Your top 3 Dreamcast games are headed to XBLA..
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2 years ago#51
Project Justice
Phantasy Star Online(although I'd prefer Blue burst or at least episode 1+2)
Power Stone 2
Would make me so happy. Really.
2 years ago#52
1. Shenmue
2. Omikron/Illbleed tie
3. Shadowman
2 years ago#53
I think it was Crazy Invaders or something like that.
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2 years ago#54
RycerX posted...
I hate you.
2 years ago#55
If it was a top-wish list:
Skies of Arcadia
Time Stalkers
2 years ago#56
1. silver
2. floigan bros
3. armada
2 years ago#57
1. Skies of Arcadia
2. Shenmue
3. illbleed or D2
Steam, PSN, XBL & Nintendo ID: OmegaBlades
3DS: 1032-1408-2462
2 years ago#58
Skies of Arcadia
Zombie Revenge
Outtrigger or Alien Front Online.
I'll swallow your soul!
2 years ago#59
My top 3:
Zero Gunner 2
Cosmic Smash
Virtua Striker 2
anonymous4ever posted...
AlkalineKitten posted...
Maken X
Cannon Spike
Spawn: In the Demon's Hand
Maken X was the very definition of overrated. I never understood why people hold it in such high regard. Same goes for Cannon Spike to a lesser extent.
It's just because it looks a bit 'manga' and is quite easy, the story is okay too I suppose. I consider it one of the worst games I ever played on the Dreamcast. Not because it was unplayable or anything, just the graphics and gameplay were so terminally dull. One of the most repetitive and shallow games I've ever played. A real chose to play, and no cut scene can get me to play something that crap.
2 years ago#60
Plenty of good DC games are already on the platform.
So if we can only choose from ones that aren't:
Shenmue II
Virtua Fighter 3tb
Honorable mention goes to Daytona USA 2001.
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Review by Renegade39
"Need For Speed Carbon: The Breakdown"
Having played almost every need for speed title I was pumped when I found out that there was going to another Need For Speed after Need For Speed Most Wanted, possibly the best one yet in my opinion. Carbon does not dissapoint if you were a fan of basically anything since Need For Speed Underground, but there are parts about it that fall a bit short.
Gameplay: 9/10
Need For Speed has generally always had good gameplay, but Carbon goes up that one more notch from Most Wanted; it includes the styles of each car. Carbon breaks up the cars into 3 categories; Muscle, Exotic, and Tuner. Your Muscle cars consist of cars like your Camaro SS, your Dodge Charger SRT8; your Exotics consist of your Porsches and Lamborghini's; and finally your tuners consist of your Nissan Skylines, and Toyota Supras. This is a step up because each car handles pretty well to it's real life counter part; the muscle car will rip down the straight stretches, but struggle a bit in the corners, the Tuners won't be as fast but could pull a 90 degree turn on ice, and the exotics are well....just the best all around =P. Also you have your nitrous, and speedbreaker from Most Wanted as well. Then there is another new addition: you can customize how your car works. Like for example, you can tune your nitrous to either give you a large jolt of power for a small amount of time, or tune it to give you a longer but less powerful boost of power. You can tune your tires for more stick or slide, your turbo's and superchargers to kick in at higher or lower rpm's, but even if none of that interests you you can just put it to the middle and the car still performs pretty well. Also all your game modes are back from most wanted except drag, which has been removed for some reason. But you still have your basic Circuit, Sprint, Checkpoint(tollbooth), Speedtrap, and back from the Underground series Drift, and a new mode called Canyon. Before I get into the Canyon I want to talk about the drift, and how it lacks sometimes. For example, I was drifting with my car and doing fine, then all of a sudden out of nowhere it grips SUPER hard and shoots me into the wall and I lose all my points. Also, since when can't a muscle car keep it's rpm up while the wheels are smoking? Ah well, can't nail it all =P.
Now on to the Canyon, there are 2 type of Canyon races; a Canyon drift, and the actual Canyon race which consists of you starting off chasing your oppenent down the mountain trying to keep as close to him as you possibly can, then in the second segment they do the same to you. And if you manage to get down the mountain quicker than your oppenent, you win.
Another new addition to this years game is your 'crew' members. The crew members have 3 types of behaviors, blocker, drafter, and scout. Your blocker blocks for you, go figure, and he also can take out other cars and knock them way back. The drafter will pull infront of you and locks you into a sort of seam that increases your speed a lot (speedtrap anyone?). And finally the scout basically stays infront of you and tells you where all the shortcuts are, and I found this useful if you drive a Muscle car because then you can avoid all those nasty turns =P. At the beginning of the game the crew members are pretty useful, but near the end they are more of an annoyance sometimes, and get in your way more than are useful. It was a nice try, but some more work could have been done here as well. As I'm sure most people will wonder...what happened to the cops? The cops are basically just there to make it feel like your actually doing something illegal....because the cops have really nothing to do with the games story. Even still, the cop AI is much harder to escape from this time, and each area you race in now has a heat level ranging from 1-5. 1 being less, and 5 being the most, and the higher the heat level of the area you are racing in then the more likely the cops will come after you during a race. Overall the Gameplay is great, which I give 9/10
Graphics: 9/10
Not a whole lot to say here. The environment looks nice and crisp, the cars look realistic, and the paint, autosculpt, and aftermarket rims, bodykits, and spoilers look amazing. The game runs nice and smooth all the time, and even in the major police chases I found even on my first generation Ps2 it doesn't slow down at all, unlike Most Wanted where the latency kind of chopped on the major police chases. Overall the Graphics are great, which I give 9/10
Sound: 10/10
This does NOT include music, this just includes the sound from the different cars, skids, etc. The cars sound pretty realistic; the muscle cars have that rumble that everybody loves, and when you upgrade your turbo/supercharger you can hear it engage, and when you upgrade your engine the sound of your car changes. All the sounds are nice and clear, and never seem to have an off beat. Overall 10/10
Music: 5/10
After the absolutely amazing sountrack that was on Most Wanted, what the heck happened to this game? The soundtrack is terrible, minus 1 or 2 songs you hear maybe once or twice in the entire time you will play the game. Once again VERY dissapointing. Overall 5/10
Story: 7/10
Yes, this game has a story that continues after Most Wanted, but is rather confusing and the game randomly reminds you of the day you left this city that you used to come from. Though the story is rather intruiging, which may have some people keep on playing just to find out what it's about....
Overall 7/10
Replay Value: 9/10
After you complete certain events in the game you get 'rewards' for doing so, which help you unlock some bonus cars like the M3, the Firetruck, and Cross's Corvette. Also the game has a similar challenge series that Most Wanted did. This will keep you amused after the Career mode, and even after you've finished those there is always the customization part of the game that can keep you amused for hours on end. Overall 9/10
In conclusion to this review, Need For Speed Carbon is a great addition the the Need For Speed series, and although it isn't as good as most wanted in some area's, it definatly bests it in others.
Rent or Buy? I'd say buy, I picked this game up for $49.99 and still havn't regretted it yet, this game is great for having at your buddies place, and great for just yourself at home when you're bored and have nothing else to do.
Final Score: 9.0/10
Also...this is my first review, so hopefully you guys arn't to harsh on me =P
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Rogue by SBAllen
Version: 1.55 | Updated: 05/12/00 | Printable Version
Marvel vs Capcom 2: Rogue FAQ
v.1.55 by Sailor Bacon <>
12 May 2000
"Sailor Bacon" Tyner. Rogue is copyright Marvel.
The newest version of this FAQ can always be found at:
Revision History
v.1.55 Added Snapback info and solved the "Secret Super" problem.
v.1.45 Killed the typo demon..
v.1.4 Added even more Power Drains!!
v.1.3 Added a little info to the Gamma Assist Type to silence the
masses, added info on the Taunt and the Rising Repeating Punch.
v.1.25 Added Spiral Power Drains and a little more strategy.
v.1.2 Fixed info in the colors section, major updates to the Power Drain
v.1.1 Fixed up a few things, added a few things..
v.1.0 Um... everything.
Table of Contents
-Character History
-Opening Animation
-Winning Poses
-Assist Types
-Normal Moves
-Moves Legend
-Special Moves
-Super Moves
-Power Drain Attributes
-Abyss Strategy
-Final Words
Rogue Character History
Rogue is a sexy southern woman with a bad attitude and a dangerous kiss.
Her basic background is that Rogue developed the power to steal the powers
and memories of others by making flesh to flesh contact with them. Mystique
discovered her and raised her to become a member of the Brotherhood of Evil
Mutants. During a fight with Ms. Marvel, she accidently permanently absorbed
both her powers and her memories. She began to question her own identity
from that of Ms. Marvel and came to Professor Xavier for help. He recruited
her for the X-Men where she denounces Mystique and uses for powers for the
good of humanity.
Rogue Colors
To get Rogue's different colors, select her with the following
A Button: Green jacket, green and yellow bodysuit, yellow gloves and
boots, green headband.
B Button: Brown jacket, brown and yellow bodysuit, yellow gloves and
boots, brown headband.
X Button: Aqua blue jacket, aqua blue and light blue bodysuit, light
blue gloves and boots, green headband.
Y Button: Black jacket, black and white bodysuit, white gloves and
boots, black headband.
L Button: Blue jacket, blue and yellow bodysuit, yellow gloves and
boots, blue headband.
R Button: Light blue jacket, light blue and yellow bodysuit, yellow
gloves and boots, light blue headband.
Rogue Opening Animation
Rogue jumps onto the screen, wipes off her boots while saying "Get ready",
then prepares for battle.
Rogue Winning Poses
-Rogue backflips and changes into a sexy little outfit with a halter top
and short jean shorts.
-Rogue spins around and says "Ta-da!" while striking a pose.
-Rogue points towards the opponent and says "Bye bye".
-Rogue lifts her fists triumphantly and shouts "I did it!"
Rogue Assist Types
Alpha: Assist Move: Rising Repeating Punch
Tag Team Super: Good Night, Sugar (1st half only)
This is a pretty fun assist type to use and arguably the best one. Granted,
you have to be pretty close for it to hit but if it does you can set up
some wacky combos. Plus, the disadvantage of positioning with the Beta type
is nonexistant.
Beta: Assist Move: Repeating Punch
This is arguably the best assist type to use with Rogue though I personally
prefer Alpha type. The main problem with this assist type is that it comes
out from the far edge of the screen and goes about 2/3 of the screen. It's
easy to see coming and easy to block if blocking is even necessary due to
the short range of the move.
Gamma: Assist Move: Power Drain
Yes Power Drain is unblockable and yes you can combo from it, but for my
money this still isn't a very useful assist type. There, now will all you
people quit emailing me telling me something I already know??
Rogue Normal Moves
the second hit in a combo)
Standing Jab Punch: Nothing special, just a quick little punch.
Standing Strong Punch: A forceful side punch to the gut.
Standing Fierce Punch: A very forceful side punch that knocks the opponent
across the screen. It's a little slow coming out to save it for combos.
Standing Short Kick: A rather high kick that isn't overly useful on its own.
Standing Forward Kick: Another quick high kick..
Standing Roundhouse Kick: Your launcher. Rogue backflips and kicks the
opponent, throwing them into the air. It's a quick move that can catch an
opponent jumping in at you. Use it then follow them up for a quick Aerial
Rave into a Power Drain.
Ducking Jab Punch: Your standard jabbing punch. Nothing of note here.
Ducking Strong Punch: A dashing elbow attack
Ducking Fierce Punch: Another launcher, Rogue does a powerful uppercut
that knocks the opponent up in the air. It's harder to follow up than the
standing Roundhouse, so immediately press U and start the Aerial Rave or
you'll most likely whiff. I'd recommend cutting the Rave short as well.
Ducking Short Kick: A downward little kick..
Ducking Forward Kick: Opposite of the ducking Short, Rogue kicks upwards
on this one.
Ducking Roundhouse Kick: Your standard painful sweep. You can combo the
opponent immediately afterwards by initiating the Power Dive Punch with
SK and pounding on SK so she immediately punches downwards.
Jumping Jab Punch: A jumping version of her standing Jab. Woohoo!!!!
Jumping Strong Punch: A slightly downward version of the standing Jab.
Jumping Fierce Punch: Rogue brings her fists down with force onto the poor
opponent. You can immediately follow this with the Repeating Punch while
still in the air for more damage.
Jumping Short Kick: A jumping version of her crouching Short.
Jumping Forward Kick: A jumping version of her crouching Forward.
Jumping Roundhouse Kick: A straight-to-the-point painful kick. As with FP,
you can follow this with the Repeating Punches for extra damage.
Down + Roundhouse Kick in air: Rogue comes down at a sharp angle at the
opponent. If you're close enough you can launch into a mini-combo but I'd
recommend following it with either the Repeating Punches, Power Drain,
or Good Night, Sugar.
Throw: (F or B) + FP: Rogue grabs the opponent, launches into the air,
informs them that they should "Get ready!" and punches them back to the
Snapback D, DF, F + (Assist 1 or Assist 2)
Rogue's Snapback is the same as her Fierce Punch.
Moves Legend
D = Down
DF = Down-Forward
F = Forward
DB = Down-Back
B = Back
P = Any Punch
JP = Jab (weak) Punch
FP = Fierce (strong) Punch
PP = Both Punches
K = Any Kick
SK = Short (weak) Kick
RK = Roundhouse (strong) Kick
KK = Both Kicks
Rogue Special Moves
Repeating Punch: D, DF, F + P (can also be used in air)
Rogue runs at the enemy while flailing at them. She ends the move with an
uppercut (that cannot be followed up for an Aerial Rave). This is one of
Rogue's better attacks that can easily be worked into combos for nice
damage. This move can also be done in the air.
Rising Repeating Punch: F, D, DF + P
Rogue goes into the air at a 45 degree angle and punches twice, followed
by a smashing blow to the ground. It's a good anti-air move. Plus, you
can pound on the P buttons to get extra hits.
Power Dive Punch: F, D, DF + K (press K to activate)
Rogue soars straight up into the air and comes down at a 45 degree angle
with her fist extended. The point where she begins her descent depends
on when you push K the second time. This is almost guaranteed to go
full screen so it can be used as a surprise attack.. a few times...
Power Drain: D, DB, B + K (can also be used in air)
This is the move that truly defines Rogue and makes her so unique. She
grabs the opponent and gives them a nice long kiss, gaining a certain
power-up in the process. This should be used as often as possible to
attempt to keep the power-up throughout the fight. A list of what
power-up is given to you by what opponent is listed below. This move can
be used in the air so use that to your advantage. Oh, and let's not
forget that the move is unblockable so it's good to ting the enemy with.
Air Dash: F, F in air
Fool your opponents by jumping backwards then dashing back towards them
to nail them with a combo. Just don't get carried away or they won't be
fooled for long. It's also good for dodging Supers or other moves if you
are close enough to get over the enemy.
Taunt: SK + Start
Rogue blows a kiss at the enemy while taunting them by saying "Bye-bye,
Darlin'". Oh, and you can launch the opponent across the screen with
this move. ^_^
Launcher: RK or D + FP
Rogue Super Moves
Good Night Sugar: D, DF, F + PP
Rogue does an extended version of the Repeating Punch and ends it in the
air with a Power Drain, only she says "Good night, Sugar" instead of the
usual "Power drain". Since it is your only Super Move, you've got to get
used to using it. Luckily, it's insanely easy to work this move into a
combo and it's yet another way to keep your power up from the opponent.
"Secret" Super: Assist 1 + Assist 2 with 1 Super Bar
For some reason, everyone thought that Rogue had a secret Super move
that no one could figure out. Well, here's how you do it. Rogue goes
towards the enemy with fists flying. I know it's not really that big of
a secret, but I'm listing it here so people quit emailing me.
Rogue Power Drain
MAJOR props to CJayC from GameFAQs for notating most of the basic Power
Drains and saving me the time of having to Power Drain from everyone
myself. Again you prove your coolness.
----DEFENSE UP---- -----POWER UP----- -----SPEED UP-----
C.America (no shield) Amingo Cammy
Collossus Blackheart Chun-Li
Doctor Doom Cable Felicia
Guile Captain America Gambit
Iceman Captain Commando Hayato
Iron Man Cyclops Lost Adamantium Wolverine
Jin Gouki Marrow
Magneto Hayato (Plasma) Morrigan
Omega Red Juggernaut (PowerUp) Psylocke
Roll Ken Silver Samurai (Ikazuchi)
Ruby Heart Nash SonSon
Sakura RockMan Spiral (Speed Dance)
Silver Samurai Ryu Storm
Spiral Sabretooth Strider Hiryu
Tron Bonne Sakura (Evil) Wolverine
War Machine Shuma-Gorath (Chaos)
Zangief Silver Samurai (Honou)
Spiral (Power Dance)
-----*LIFE UP----- ----SUPER ARMOR--- -----NOTHING------
Anakaris Collossus (Power-Up) Rogue
Bulleta Hulk
Dan Jin (Desperation)
Dhalsim Juggernaut
Jill Valentine Sentinel
Kobun Silver Samurai (Mizu)
Shuma-Gorath **Zangief (Metal)
*Note: Life Up only works when your life bar has "red life" in it. It
changes all the red energy back into yellow energy. It's like tagging
out basically.
**Note: Rogue also walks and shakes the ground like Metal 'Gief. ^_^
Rogue Combos
Aerial Rave Combos:
JP, SK, JP, SK, Power Drain
JP, SK, JP, SK, Repeating Punches
Ground Combos:
-JP, SK, JP, SK, Power Drain
-JP, SK, JP, SK, Repeating Punches, Good Night, Sugar
-JP, SK, SK, Rising Repeating Punches
-JP, SK, JP, SK, RK, U, JP, SK, JP, SK, Power Drain
-D + JP, D + JP, D + SK, D + RK, Power Dive Punch (with SK), K
-D + JP, D + JP, D + SK, D + FP, U, JP, JP, Repeating Punches
-Jump-in, JP (in air), JP (in air), JP, SK, FK, U, JP, SK, JP, SK,
Power Drain
Rogue Strategy
-Power Drain as much as you can! I know I probably don't need to tell you
this but I cannot emphasize enough how useful this special move is.
-The Power Dive Punch, Air Dash, and Repeating Punch are all good moves
that can connect no matter where you are on the screen, change up your
position to throw off the rhythm of the opponent.
-The Power Drain is unblockable... use it... a lot...
-You've got pretty good combos skills so don't be afraid to use them.
You can almost always finish of a combo with Power Drain.
Abyss Strategies
Rogue is NOT good at all for fighting Abyss but if you choose to do so
here's a decent strategy. And pretend your Super Bar doesn't exist.. and
Power Drain for that matter..
Form One: Duck and hit him with little combos. Just try to wear him down
without eating any moves yourself. Super jump when you're cornered or see
a Super coming then nail him from behind.
Form Two: Believe it or not, you've got a pretty good chance against this
form. Get on the other side of the screen and start a RK Power Dive Punch.
about halfway up the screen, press K again to nail him and try to time
your launch to avoid his attacks. Get the hell away from him and repeat.
The Power Dive Punch goes through his bubbles as well.
Form Three: All you can do is block a whole lot and nail the core or the
solid form whenever possible. If you've gotten this far then give him
hell and pray for luck. It's a tough job to take out Abyss with Rogue so
feel good about yourself if you can.
Final Words
characters AND for providing most of the Power Drains. You rule! I'd also
like to thank myself for spending the time it took to write this FAQ.
^_^ I'd like to thank Capcom for making such an awesome game and to
Marvel for letting their characters appear in this awesome game. Any
comments, suggestions, flames, dogs, etc can be emailed to me at
I'd like to thank...
-J-Boogie for a correction to the Colors section and for pointing out
that I left off RockMan, Ryu, and Spider-Man in the Power Drain section.
-KronoVortx for pointing out the Collossus Power-Up Power Drain.
-Ed! for the Spiral Dance Powers Drains
-Nicholas Louis Rogal for the CapAm Shieldless Power Drain.
I'd like to thank the following site for background info on Rogue:
Rogue (X-Men): Shrine of the Green Goddess
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