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We're using Spring and Hibernate in WSAD 5.1.1. When we attempt to set a breakpoint on one of our Spring "managed" beans (ProductDAO), we get the following error:
Attempting to install a breakpoint in the type com.....ProductDAO$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$5c9.. that has no line number attributes. The breakpoint cannot be installed.
Any ideas?
Robert Morschel
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You mean presumably a managed bean that has AOP advice applying to it, using CGLIB (with proxyTargetClass)? Or are you using lookup methods? Normal IoC management won't result in Spring using CGLIB.
This error can be ignored in Eclipse and, I would expect, WSAD. I know it's a bit annoying, but it doesn't affect ability to debug.
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Old 2004-08-09, 21:51 Link #1
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Naruto And DBZ Comparisons
Hope you won't flame me for saying this but...
You know the creator of Naruto did say that he was a huge fan of Akira Toriyama.. and Kishimoto also said that he saw db/dbz (till frieza saga).. so i'm saying maybe he took some ideas from dbz ? ..
allot of people told me that Naruto is "Improved DBZ"
what do you think about it ?
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No, he hasn't taken any ideas.
He has just put in one fan art in the manga,
Some guy's head from DBZ as an ANBU Mask.
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Create a plot line, make it into 30 episodes you got DBZ.
Create a plot line, make it into 1 episodes you got Naruto.
Actually there are numerous differences betweent the series, as well as numerous similarities. It's a stretch to say that Naruto is just a rip off of DBZ but it is evident that the creator did enjoy or take inspiration the style of DBZ.
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I think this thread will be closed very soon but because I'm gentle I will quote myself from an old thread.
Originally Posted by Hunter
Kishimoto is greatly influenced by Akira Toriyama it's a fact admitted several times by Kishimoto (and it's quite obvious anyway) but the storyline of Naruto and DB(Z) are almost nothing alike exept the usual stuff shared by 99% of any shonen.
That's the annoying point about the comparison Naruto/DBZ, people who shout Oh My God There're Sooo Many Common Point! have generally only see these both animes lol.
If you want two shonen really alike with a story line very close to each other look at Yu Yu Hakucho and Flame of Recca for example, btw Naruto has much more commun point with Flame of Recca and HxH than with DB.
Originally Posted by Hunter
Could you enumerate the common points between the storyline of Naruto and DB if you except the common points shared by all the shonen?
The two universes are nothing alike.
Naruto is extremely structured and logical with a defined past, a clear social and political order, it's known that in such country there is such hidden village ninja representing an independent power that haven't the same interest as their host countries in some case, that at the head of the 5 more powerful villages, there is a Kage and then a military command chain clearly explained, as well as a patchwork of great clanic Familly, that the system of tournament has a strategic utility explained, that the various enemies are like that for different reasons which are policy reason from desir of revenge, a mixture of both or some other reasons still unknown.
Dragon ball is more like One Piece, a rich, eccentric and surprising universe but absolutely not structured, the heros travel from place to place with a little story for each island with some new characters and that's all.
I don't say that it's bad (i like DB actually) but it's completely different.
The system of power/chakra is closer to the system of Nen of HxH with a great part for the explanations of the attack/capacity when once again DB is closer of One Piece (just do it).
Without speaking of the shonen stereotyped characters (the strong and dumb hero, the cold rival, the old pervert, etc) you can notice some huge common point between some character's history like Kurapika, the last survivor of his clan, who want to avenge them at all cost, using for that his special capacity (his eyes become red ^^) that enables him to use any type of Nen.
That recalls you something?
Or Flame of Recca, where the hero has 8 Great Dragons inside himself and can use their power, oh by the way he's a Hokage ninja with an only wish : protect his beloved one (and so become the stronger for that) and I forgot, how is named the jutsu of the bad Guy that allows him to create clones of himself?
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Hey kids! Let's compare DBZ and Naruto!
My Answer: No
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files deleted from library but still on hard drive?
Discussion in 'iPod' started by voydas, Nov 30, 2009.
1. macrumors newbie
I didn't realize till after I had deleted several albums and a few large movies from my library that I was neglecting to fully remove the data -- they're still somewhere on the hard drive from what I understand.. How do I go about finding out what is still on my drive but no longer in my library and removing them?
Basically, everything in my library is fine, yet on my disk there are files in the iTunes folder that are no longer in my library that I want to get rid of..
Any suggestions?
2. macrumors 65816
unless you check the box in preferences, everything you import to iTunes is duplicated,
you should be able to find the library in your music folder on your main HD
/Users/Insertyournamehere/music/itunes ;)
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From SL to ML
Discussion in 'OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)' started by digipeter, Dec 1, 2012.
1. macrumors member
Since I started more than 1:30 ours ago downloading Mountain Lion from the store and its icon appearing in the dock, I keep getting the message "waiting".
Is this normal procedure, since the upgrade jumps from 10.6.8 to 10.8, or do I better brake the downloading off? Or better be patient, for how long?
2. macrumors 6502
El Awesome
I had no more than 15min until I rebooted to install ML, although I went from Lion to ML.
Still SL shouldn't take longer than Lion, I'd try again.
3. #3
If you actually mean "downloading" with "downloading", then 90 minutes for downloading is okay, depending on your internet connection. Remember, you download 4 GB of data (the installer), and that may take a while.
The actual installation should not take longer than 30 minutes, once App Store finished downloading the installer.
Just make sure you have an easy way to return to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, if OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is not to your liking. I recently installed OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, but not before cloning my Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installation to another HDD, and I got to use that clone half a day later after ML kept crapping out with some simple task (for which I never experienced such crap as far as I can remember). Maybe I try again in another year, but every OS upgrade from Apple since 2011 seems to be not for me.
4. macrumors 6502
El Awesome
Aggreed. With the Mac Pro I own a high-end machine, and I never have problems. I even have enough driver to use stock PC graphics cards.
But the 2007 iMac of my Dad is terribly slow with Mountain Lion, and my 2008 MacBook Pro also saw faster times. If you're not owning a super-fast Mac, I wouldn recommend using Mountain Lion.
5. macrumors 6502
I agree - If I hadn't wanted an iCloud, I would stay at 10.6.8 ..
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Googles Sue Google (registration required)
Discussion in ' News Discussion' started by MacBytes, Jul 8, 2004.
1. macrumors bot
2. macrumors newbie
I thought one cannot trademart numbers
Isn't "google" or pural form of google a number?
3. macrumors member
Actually, I believe that the number is a googleplex, so google is different enough to be unique in this context.
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It's actually a googolplex.
5. macrumors 68020
yeah, a googol is 1 with a hundred zeros. A googol plex is 1 with a googol zeros.
A googol plex is a number so large, that if you were to write it down as small as you could, it would take more pieces of paper than would fit in the known universe.
6. macrumors 68030
Well then I better wait 'til we know more of the universe. :D
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Chip NoVaMac
Saw a report on TV about this. My question is why did Googles wait so long to fight for their trademark?
9. macrumors 6502
can someone post the story? I don't want to register.
10. macrumors 68040
I haven't found another source for the Washington Post article, but here's a ZDNet article talking about the same lawsuit. And another article I found on the subject.
After reading them (I, too, don't want to give the Washington Post my e-mail address in order to read their articles), I'm convinced that Googles is right and Google is wrong.
Googles registered their trademark first. While there may be some legitimate areas for negotiation and compromise WRT e-mail and book sales, Google is flat out wrong if they are want to try and get their brand on children's products. That is clearly in the domain of the people.
11. macrumors 68040
Trademarks are registered for specific purposes. It was only recently that Google (the search company) decided to move into e-mail, book selling and children's toys - three areas where Googles got there first.
12. macrumors 68040
The way I heard it described (and maybe it's not correct) is that there are less than a googol of particles in the universe. Therefore it is impossible to actually write out the full decimal representation of a googolplex - even if you use the smallest elementary particle to represent a zero, there aren't enough of them.
Amusingly, "googolplex" is also the name of the Springfield movie theater in The Simpsons. Since seeing that usage on TV, I've also adopted it to refer to any really huge movie theater.
13. macrumors 68020
Google calls it's HQ the "Google Plex" as well.
No information is available as to why Google spelled Googol wrong, which was initially made up by some physicist 10 year old.
Of course, Macintosh spelled McIntosh wrong, too (which the spellchecker is currently informing me that I was the one who spelled it wrong)
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Laslo Panaflex
WOW, what a smart ten year old. :0
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Chip NoVaMac
So in theory I can start a company called Kleenex doing lets anti-virus software and be safe?
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No, once a trade mark has become widely known its protection is broadened to all products/services. Of course earlier trade marks (registered and non-registered) keep their rights.
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iMac G5 and iSight?
Discussion in 'Macintosh Computers' started by edge9in, Feb 26, 2005.
1. macrumors newbie
I have read that the iSight now comes with a magnetic mount for the iMac. My question is, would this hurt the hard drive? I thought that magnets could hurt hard drives and erase data? I know that it is unlikely that Apple would release something that would in-turn hurt one of their other devises, but I'm just a little apprehensive. Do I have anything to worry about?
2. macrumors G4
Yes, you're right that magnets can hurt hard drives.
But using the magnetic iSight mount at the point on the iMac that Apple tell you to use it will be absolutely fine.
3. macrumors 6502
You would need an insanely powerful magnet to destroy the data on a hard drive. As a matter of fact, all hard drives already have a very powerful magnet inside them which moves the head back and forth and super fast speeds. The magnet inside hard drives are so strong, once you attach it to another metal, its nearly impossible to pry off with your fingers!
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Actually, no, you don't need a powerful magnet at all. The HD magnets are shielded from the drive platters. The actual electromagnetic force used to flip bits on the platter is very weak. However, most drives are fairly well shielded, and most people don't set magnets on top of their laptops - but even a weak magnet (or EM field, like that generated by a speaker), in the wrong place could wreak havoc on a disk drive. Go hold your drive next to a bulk degausser, which isn't very magnetic but produces a strong EM field, and I doubt it'll retain much of its data.
Edit: but the iSight mount isn't going to affect the iMac HD at all. Wrong mount site for damage risk + shielded drive = no worries.
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(Just watched the webcast) Is spaces gone in Lion?
Discussion in 'Mac OS X 10.7 Lion' started by whitedragon101, Oct 20, 2010.
1. macrumors 6502a
I really hope that "unifying spaces,dashboard,expose,full screen apps" doesn't mean we loose the ability to have multiple desktops.
With spaces I can start working on a topic on one desktop opening multiple safari windows and text documents. Then move to the next desktop and start researching a different topic again using multiple safari windows and text documents. Then I can move back to the desktop I used this morning with a safari windows running youtube and iplayer for some downtime.
Now on the webcast they said they were "unifying spaces,dashboard,expose,full screen apps" into mission control. On the demo it seems the only thing mission control does is stack all like application windows up on a single desktop. Not very handy. I really hope they still have a spaces feature but didn't show it. Web research without multiple desktops is painful.
Please tell me they aren't canning multiple desktops.....
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I don't know anything with certainly, but I believe they are leaving them in, but the interaction with them is changing some. I don't use spaces, but do see their value.
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from http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
It is still there.
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Phew thanks spinnerlys, panic over.
Its amazing when you spend your whole working day on a mac what a major calamity it could be if Apple simply decided to remove a feature you rely on.
5. #5
The windows at the top of the screen when you launch mission control are displaying spaces.
Interesting way of integrating it.
6. macrumors 6502a
I am hoping they have the traditional spaces view too. Otherwise how would you move windows between virtual desktops?
7. RST
macrumors member
Don't take away Spaces! Exactly my thoughts after seeing that.
I feel like many users may be split between using Expose or Spaces, but probably not both. I prefer spaces over Expose. It's definitely one of my favorite tools on Snow Leopard.
Hopefully it's popular enough to stay in it's current form.
8. macrumors newbie
I am seriously afraid that Spaces are endangered.
If we look closely at the Mission Control Screenshot, we will see that "Spaces" have now names - Dashboard, Desktop and any maximized application that is currently running.
As I understood the concept (and the way it was demonstrated unfortunately supports this) - new concept of Spaces follows strict rules, Dashboard is one "Space", Desktop is another (and here is my greatest fear that we wouldn't be allowed to have more classic desktops with multiple windows) and every maximized apps creates another space for itself - ergo Dashboard and Desktop are set, and for antoher spaces you should maximize applications.
That would be small disaster for me too. :(
9. macrumors 6502a
It seems this is definitely worth investigation. If the plan is to get rid of spaces I feel a petition to apple coming on.
10. macrumors 604
Quite right. I use expose, which is why I didn't couldn't upgrade to Snow Leopard.
11. macrumors 6502
I agree with your thoughts on this, but I sure hope they aren't true.
12. macrumors newbie
From what i can tell...
So i watched the whole presentation live on wednesday, and from what i understand, the traditional spaces (which i like OP really heavily on) is gone. They have gone ahead and "upgraded" it to bring all 4 pieces together (Spaces, Expose, etc.).
Their new feature is the top section in Mission Control, it shows the full screen apps you have open, and it opens a new "space" for each full screen app. So using it for full screen apps only will be great, a 2-finger gesture left or right flips between them. However, for any non-fullscreen apps, they all just pile up on the main screen.
That's where the new "expose" feature comes in, all open windows on the main screen are sorted in the middle section of Mission Control.
It looks like it has the potential to work quite well after the learning curve for those of us who are accustomed to the more traditional versions of the individual apps. Hopefully that curve wont be too sharp =)
13. macrumors 6502a
The trouble is a pile is not very useful compare these 2 scenarios:
4 spaces are filled with 8 safari windows and a text document open on each. Each space is themed to whatever was being worked on in that space. You can easily spread the documents out with expose or even (as I do) have the corners of the screen activate spaces to get a birds eye view of the system. Expose even works when viewing all desktops, brilliant :) .
There are still 2 spaces free (I run 6) and switching to them means I can leave the other work-spaces open and have a clean desktop (2 in fact :) ).
48 (4 x 8) safari windows pile up one on top of the other without any ability to group them by work task (same with the 4 documents). They do not even spread out like normal expose but rotate on a kind of 3d carousel. This means flicking through 1 by 1.
This definitely seems like a backward step.
Mission control, ok. Removing multiple desktops NO
14. macrumors 6502a
Totally agree. I don't see how they can take away features that they just added. When they released 10.5 (the last "real" release), they were touting Spaces as one of the major new features. It would be a bit hypocritical of them to act like it's so useless that they can remove it completely and no one would care.
15. macrumors 6502a
Is there any way to find out from Apple if this feature is really gone?
16. macrumors 68000
I know this seem silly but the best bet is probably to email Steve Jobs.
17. macrumors newbie
Well, I have visited the Sneak Peek website of Lion and noticed this -
So if we analyze syntax closely, Spaces are mentioned separately.
Further reading unveils this:
Again "even other Spaces" clearly differs full-screen apps (which still create a one Space by making them full-screen) from genuine Spaces as multiple Desktops as we know them.
So the logical conclusion would be:
1. Spaces and Full-screen apps are still two different things, though maybe on their way to merge, but October 2010 sees them separate
2. The Reason why there is actually only one normal desktop called "Desktop" on Mission Control could be simple, Spaces are disabled by default even nowadays
So at least at this point, what is said may be understood that Spaces are still there, and if you turn them on, you will have Desktop 1,2,3 at your disposal apart from full-screen apps
Who knows what will happen till summer. But I would definately prefer to let Spaces be, as I wrote earlier, they are in fact optional from beginning, and very addictive :)
18. macrumors 6502a
I think you may have something there. It definitely gives spaces its own category distinct from full screen apps. A good sign :)
19. macrumors 65816
I still want to see it.
They showed Expose in Mission Control, I want to see Spaces!!
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Macromedia updates Flash Player for security
Discussion in 'New Mac Application Announcements' started by medea, Mar 7, 2003.
1. macrumors 68030
Macromedia earlier this week issued a security bulletin detailing possible exploits in its Flash Player: "A new version of Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.79 fixes these issues to protect our users from any content that attempts to execute this type of malicious code. Macromedia categorizes this issue as a critical update and recommends users immediately update to the newest player.... As part of the Macromedia Flash Player, we?ve also included a Cumulative Security Patch which addresses previously fixed buffer overrun issues and also potential security issues with domain name spoofing."
2. macrumors G3
I wish they'd sort out the speed issue of the player on the Mac as well......:rolleyes:
3. macrumors regular
it is funny that they release a new player for problems on the mac yet they also release a new website design that doesnt work properly with mac's safari:rolleyes:
4. macrumors member
Their new site sucks . Its to slow , massive swf files , its ugly , trend whored designed , its not finished .... many more reason but I can't be bothred bitching on about it .
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Mr. Anderson
I haven't been back to the site since I couldn't get in with safari. Hopefully when safari becomes a final version 1.0 and not beta this won't be a problem.
It is sad to see that the flash performance is so poor on a mac as well.
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Power challenge of Apple's new Mac
Discussion in 'Macintosh Computers' started by celaurie, Jul 6, 2003.
1. macrumors 6502a
PC Magazine challenges Apple's claims to the fastest desktop computer in the world!
I hope this thread hasn't been posted already! I did search and found no matches.
2. macrumors 68000
I still don't understand why increasing market share is such a big goal to achieve. If a company works well as it is, why trying to enlarge? They work profitable and this is what counts.
3. Moderator emeritus
They are a business, the goal of every business is to grow, get larger market share, and make bigger profits, that's how the world works :rolleyes: If everyone sat still and was happy with what they had, we wouldn't have evloved to where we are today...wherever that is :eek: :confused: :p
4. macrumors 68000
But this would imply that as Apple loses market share, if you believe the analysts, though they work profitable, they will be gone soon. Do you really think so?
5. macrumors 65816
Apple still has a significantly higher market share than Mercedes, and nobody has said that Mercedes is going out of business soon.
What's more, market share statistics can be skewed several ways:
1. Sales only in the U.S.
2. Sales worldwide
3. Sales to repeat buyers
4. Sales only through retail outlets
5. Sales only through mail order outlets
6. Sales over a certain period of time
7. Existing usage base which happens to be as high as 10% according to Fortune magazine. The reason the sales is not as high a percentage is that Macs last longer. It is a double edged sword, build a better machine, and less people will buy from you frequently enough to make your marketshare numbers appear as high as you want them to be for developers to believe in the platform.
At least with emulation, all but the most complex 3-d PC games will play on the Mac. With PCs you don't have emulation to take you past Mac OS 8.1 on a PC.
6. macrumors 68000
That's what I wanted to say: Apple doesn't need to increase market share.
7. macrumors 68030
i find it interesting that the specs they posted were for the smallest system at a single 1.6ghz processor.
8. macrumors 65816
IMO what a naff nothing article. It is said that the claims by Steve Jobs should be taken with a pinch of salt because there was no indication of what was being compared to what. I am sure I did not imagine the real world tests, pitching a new Mac against the fastest PC on the market to render a graphic in Photoshop?
Reading the tech specs on the entry level G5 were less than inspiring and as ever give no indication of what the numbers mean when working in a Mac.
The rest was just a dull nothing piece of not quite Apple bashing.
9. macrumors Penryn
Yes, the 1.6GHz system isn't the fastest in the world. I don't think Steve-o was claiming it to be. Those biatches. ;)
PC Magazine can challenge however they want. There is always going to be an aspect of the Mac that won't be as fast as a PC, and vice versa. I guess it all depends on the tests they use.
10. macrumors 68000
This was my favorite part:
11. macrumors regular
Good at bragging rights, eh?
Maybe that's because he usually HAS SOMETHING WORTHY OF BRAGGING ABOUT!?!?
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Trouble installing SML on Leopard
Discussion in 'Mac Programming' started by tristan123, Oct 28, 2007.
1. macrumors newbie
I've been trying to install SML on Leopard with no success. I had installed it on Tiger with no problems, but now whenever I try to install it an error occurs on the post install script. If anybody has any insight on this I would appreciate the help.
2. macrumors member
Same here. I'll post again if I figure anything out.
3. macrumors newbie
Leopard not recognized as valid os by SML
Hi, when I try to run sml on Leopard that was installed under Tiger, I get the following error:
sml: unable to determine architecture/operating system
I bet "Leopard" needs to be added to a hardcoded list somewhere.
4. macrumors newbie
A new version of sml has just been released. I've just installed it and everything seems to be working fine now.
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WWDC Software Notes: Safari 5, Xcode 4, iTunes 9.2
Discussion in 'MacRumors.com News Discussion' started by MacRumors, Jun 8, 2010.
1. macrumors bot
After all of yesterday's news regarding iPhone 4, iOS 4, Safari 5 and other topics, things are beginning to settle down a bit today, allowing details and smaller items of interest to come to the foreground. In particular, Apple released a number of software updates for both developers and general users yesterday, and details of these releases are beginning to come to light.
- Safari 5: Released to all users yesterday, Safari 5 offers speed enhancements, increased HTML5 support, Reader functionality for facilitating reading of articles on cluttered pages, and new support for third-party extensions to add functionality to the browser application. One of the highlights demoed during Apple's Safari session last night at WWDC was Panic's "Coda Notes", an extension for annotating and sharing webpages. Developers are already quickly pushing out useful extensions for Safari, listings of which are being collated on several sites around the Internet. Some interesting ones:
- Gmail Checker
- Reload Button
- Amazon Search Bar
- Xcode 4: Released yesterday to developers at WWDC, the developer preview version of Xcode 4 is subject to Apple's non-disclosure policy for conference attendees, and thus only a few details have managed to leak out so far. Among the interesting claims coming out, however, is that Interface Builder has been integrated into Xcode, creating a single-window "unified interface" for the development environment.
- iTunes 9.2: A beta version of iTunes 9.2 was seeded to developers alongside the iOS 4 Golden Master Candidate. iTunes 9.2 will be required for iPhone 4 compatibility and supports a number of new features, including support for iBooks enhancements such as PDF compatibility and syncing of bookmarks and other data across iOS 4 devices, app folder organization within iTunes for iOS 4 devices, faster backups for iOS 4 devices, and scrolling and other performance improvements.
Article Link: WWDC Software Notes: Safari 5, Xcode 4, iTunes 9.2
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Small White Car
Oh, great. THAT's what I need. A faster way to spend money on Amazon!
I really love the G-mail checker in theory, but I can't think of any place I don't already have G-Mail synced with a mail program, so I don't think I'd ever use it.
3. macrumors 6502a
Sweet! Can't wait for FireBug, HTML Validator, Screengrab, Unlinker, MeasureIt and Colorzilla extension :D
4. macrumors 68030
Hmm... I may be being a bit too cynical here but why would you want a reload button? There's one at the right-hand side of the address bar.
5. macrumors Penryn
Safari 5 is an improvement but nothing unique. I still wish the shortcuts to switch between tabs weren't as complicated. Extensions are going to be the biggest addition.
6. macrumors G5
Woot reload button!
Not sure why Apple moved it to the right...
Makes more sense on the left especially for people with wide screen.
7. macrumors 68020
IB integrated into XCode? It's about time!
8. macrumors 65832
I am using the near GM seed of 9.2 and it's an improvement in speed. Whenever I would launch a TV show, the beachball would show for a few seconds and then play. Now that same show runs immediately with no delay. Scrolling my music is faster, as is coverflow. Granted I only have 1050 items to go through, but still, it's an improvement.
9. macrumors 68020
CMD+R is my reload button and Gmail is IMAP'd in Mail and pushed to my iPhone. Let me know when there is a "Tabs on top" extension. ;)
10. macrumors G4
Small White Car
Someone fill me in here. People always go on and on about how Firefox is so great because of all the plugins.
Are these Safari 'extensions' the same thing? Or are they not quite the same?
Just wondering if that's something FF users will still be bragging about or if this will shut them up.
11. macrumors newbie
Let's hope some of the 'smaller items of interest' might include a new Mac Pro ;)
12. macrumors G5
In Firefoxi I use
1. Flash blocker
2. Video downloader (don't remember the name)
Safari has flash blocker extension for ages, and the version from Safari 4 works with Safari 5.
In Chrome I also use Flash blocker.
13. macrumors newbie
Just to add to your post: Have you ever looked through the library of Firefox extensions? About 98% of them are garbage.
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Xcode 4 only available to WWDC attendees?! WTF?! I'm a registered iPhone Developer (paid) and don't have access to it? Very odd that Apple allows access to iOS 4, iTunes 9.2 and iAds but not Xcode 4 preview.
15. macrumors 68030
I miss "tabs on top" from the beta. It's the best bit of Google Chrome for me, just seems like a more logical place to put them.
16. macrumors 6502
I've never understood this point of view. Formulating it as an unbiased question: what workflow changes do you expect to be the result of this change?
17. macrumors 6502a
About 2% of extensions I uses are non-garbage :) See my 2nd post above on the top ;)
18. macrumors regular
much needed improvements for Safari.. can't wait.
(okay, so where do i drop these bad boy plug in's to get them to work?)
19. macrumors 6502a
The Reload Extension is actually one of the Sample Extensions created by Apple. So you can thank them for that. :p
20. macrumors 6502
Oh, and any news on a Keywurl-or-equivalent (eg, being able to type 'g hat' into the URL bar to search Google for the word 'hat', as per Firefox) as a proper extension? Or has anybody who has checked the documentation even figured out whether that's possible?
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any info on itunes 9.2 hardware requirements? Just had a sudden panic that it might be Intel only. Having just bought an iPad, and iPhone 4 just around the corner I don't think I could afford to replace my G5 iMac.
22. macrumors 68020
#1 Having XCode check to see if the XIBs and NIBs need saving before building.
#2 Having the IB elements close when I close a project.
#3 Having IB close when I close XCode.
Really though, it's all about #1. That gets me every time.
Also can I ask for a Save All button?
EDIT: Also it would be nice if IB didn't have 50 billion windows floating around for every XIB. Don't know if the new XCode does this or not, but I hate that. (Hate on MS all you want, but Visual Studio does this right)
23. macrumors 68040
My big question: Will there be some sort of official page for Safari Extensions? Or does one exist already? To understand what I mean, see Firefox's official add-on's page. Because as awesome as having extensions for Safari is, it's kind of hindering if Apple doesn't support a giant "gathering place" for developers to post extensions.
24. macrumors 6502
When does iBooks become available for the iPhone and will it be iPhone 4 exclusive? Tried to get books on my 3G earlier and it prompted me to download iBooks which I then couldn't run on the iPhone.
25. macrumors 6502
Agreed. We've paid so why not give it to us??!! Just because we can't all travel around the world to go to a conference.
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All iPads Zagg Invisible Shield: weird bubbles issue.
Discussion in 'iPad Accessories' started by davideotape, Nov 25, 2012.
1. macrumors 6502
so I invested in the Zagg invisible shield for the mini, and had someone professionally "install" it yesterday (I'm no good with that stuff and $15 extra would save me $30 of having to buy a new one for screwing it up so badly). When they were done, it looked great aside from those "micro-bubbles" which are supposed to go away within 24 hours.
well, 24 hours passed and those micro-bubbles are gone. BUT there are ACTUAL bubbles that weren't there before. and they're driving me nuts.
It did undergo some very light use in the 24 hours but i deliberately didn't put a case on it as instructed and used it gently in those 24 hours.
so 2 questions:
- will those larger bubbles go away with further use/time?
- if not, did i get a "bad one" or is this just a trade-off for having this on there? the reason I pulled the trigger on this is because I did it for my phone and it was done so well that you really have to examine the thing super-carefully to know that anything at all is on there.
ALSO-- i found out Zagg's having a 50% off sale for Cyber-Monday starting tonight, so looks like I overpaid anyway (but I'm not gonna return this unless I'm sure the bubbles won't go away).
2. macrumors 68030
do a search here...zagg is junk...if they did not have the best buy account, I think they'd be broke. Rip it off and get one from the other skin makers like bestskinsever or gelaskins...
two names that will let you down: Zagg and Rocketfish......
3. macrumors 6502
thanks. i'm not ripping it off but i will definitely attempt to return it.
in defense of zagg though, my iphone 5 zagg is absolutely perfect and bubble-free and was the catylist of the mini purchase. The other day I was looking at my screen and honestly thought to myself "this phone is brand new, I should really get a screen protector for this, I'm surprised I didn't do that yet" before remembering that yes, I had, and it was on there already believe it or not.
4. macrumors 601
Go with ghost armor instead of zagg
I had zagg on my ipad 3 & twice it started peeling off , the second time the color on the back turned into a different color
I now have ghost armor full body on my iPhone 5 & ipad mini
No problems at all
They got kiosk locations , have them install it
5. macrumors 65816
I just bought a Zagg InvisibleSHIELD for my Mini, which I have no installed yet. I'm pretty sure those Cyber Monday deals are the same price, because I just paid the same price they have listed on their site at BestBuy.
Unless, they mean 10pm MST on Sunday is 12am EST...
6. macrumors 6502
theyre half off today, along with everything else except the keyboards, which are 20%.
update on this: it was looking pretty bad up until last night but im definitely seeing progress. right now there are 2 tiny bubbles offscreen and the rest of it reminds me of my phone. im hoping those go away too but even if they dont i can live with it.
7. macrumors newbie
I installed my protector this weekend. It looks horrible. The bubbles are really bad. If I would have known it was a wet install I would have never gotten it. I am still waiting for a reply from Zagg concerning my bubble complaint.
I thought I did something wrong but after reading this I don't think so. Some of the bubbles have gonna away after 4 days but some remain.
8. macrumors 6502
yeah 4-5 days seems like plenty of time. it does do some weird no bubbles-> lots of bubbles -> some bubbles -> barely any bubbles transformation over 2-3 days (they say 24 hours but it did take days and if im beginning to remember correctly i was a little annoyed with my phone install for a few days too before i was so happy that i forgot it was even on there).
but yeah if youre still seeing them after 4-5 days it likely didnt work.
9. macrumors 68000
Zagg works, but compared to similar skin makers, they are the worse. The only reason people use Zagg is because of their retail presence. My sister-in-law got a Zagg installed on her iPhone 4S by Best Buy. I then had her compare hers to my 4S with PhantomSkinz installed... She instantly could tell the difference. Zagg (the regular version, can't comment on the higher priced "HD" stuff) has always had a "tacky" feel to it. It protects the device just fine from scratches, but I have always felt that the "tackiness" of a Zagg is not suited for a touch screen device.
Brands I would recommend as being better than Zagg and in most cases cheaper too:
Best Skins Ever
Ghost Armor
These are all wet application skins like Zagg, but their stuff has a much smoother feel and less "orange peel" effect than Zagg.
10. macrumors 6502
Super weird but every single bubble seems to gone now. This stuff is a miracle. Now hopefully it doesn't peel.
11. macrumors regular
give it a couple of weeks, it will all disappear from any brand. had same issue with bodyguardz, but after a few weeks it looks perfect.
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Why is it so obvious that what Bane is doing is just "cover" for making Bruce suffer? Where do you see that in the film? (I'm not asking that to be insulting, I really am curious)
Because there's a scene in the movie where Bane actually says to Bruce that all the things he's doing in Gotham amounts to hooey and that he's basically biding his time and killing people until he blows Gotham up...and that he wants Gotham to suffer so Bruce will suffer.
Why does he want Bruce to suffer? Who the hell knows? We're not shown or told why until the end of the film when it turns out that Bane wants Bruce to suffer because Talia wanted him to suffer.
It is possible to have multiple motivations. How is destroying Gotham and its corruption a thinner motivator than any other Nolan Batman villain motivation?
Crane: enjoys playing with people's fears. Thought Ra's was going to ransom the city. Ra's: Wanted to bring "justice" to Gotham by destroying it (same as Bane and Talia).
"The villain's plot" is not what I mean by motivation. I'm talking about what drives the character and motivates their actions, not the villainous actions they wish to take. Frankly, you're right, on the surface, none of Nolan's villains have had terribly interesting or deep motivations, though the exploration of them and where they come from was certainly handled better in previous films than it was in The Dark Knight Rises.
And I don't just mean "thin" in the sense that they're thin as motivations...but in that they're thinly written and executed.
Here's the problem here, in my opinion: people are taking one scene about Bane (the Talia reveal) and making it the all-powerful interpretative key to understanding every scene before it.
That's because, based on the film's content, that's apparently what the filmmakers intended. They parcel out bits about the characters that don't really amount to anything except a building "mystery" until that key scene dumps reveal after reveal on the audience about who is who and where they came from and why they do what they're doing.
But in doing so they are shifting the weight from what we were definitively shown before (Bane's strength, resolve, passion, fervor, etc.) to what they suppose is going on in the Talia reveal scene (oh no Talia is really in charge, Bane is just a lackey!).
No one has said that Bane loses any of his strength, passion, resolve or
fervor...people seem to still very much enjoy Bane's basics. People have simply pointed out that the film suddenly makes it apparent that he's doing what he's doing for rather the thinnest and underdeveloped of reasons. Instead of the reasons the movie pretended to develop, which Bane himself had already revealed to be a ruse.
And if I'm right
The future's looking bright
A symbol in the skies at night
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Brüder in Not (Brethren in Need) was a German relief organization composed of representatives of the Red Cross, the Catholic Caritas, the Evangelical Church charity, the Labor charity, and the Mennonites, to raise funds to aid the refugees who came out of Russia in November and December 1929, most of whom were Mennonites. Prof. B. H. Unruh was the Mennonite representative. Large sums of money were raised by a united appeal, led by President Hindenburg, who contributed 200,000 Reichsmark ($50,000), which were used to pay expenses for the maintenance of the refugees in the three camps at Mölln, Prenzlau, and Hammerstein, until the emigration overseas to Brazil and Paraguay was relatively completed (by August 1930).
Epp, Frank H. Mennonite Exodus: The Rescue and Resettlement of the Russian Mennonites Since the Communist Revolution. Altona, MB: D. W. Friesen & Sons Ltd., 1962: 236.
"Hindenburg Gives $50,000 To Emigres; Red Cross Will Use Fund to Aid Peasants of German Descent to Leave Russia." New York Times (20 November 1929).
Author(s) Harold S Bender
Date Published April 2012
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 445. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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Yahoo Brickhouse exec in the doghouse
Yahoo Brickhouse exec in the doghouse
When you can't take market share, take credit. That's the unspoken motto of Yahoo since Google overshadowed the Web pioneer, and no one has mastered the art like Salim Ismail, the desperately unpopular VP in charge of Yahoo Brickhouse, the San Francisco incubator charged with inventing the company's future. One Yahoo insider calls him "notoriously slimy," and points to Ismail's recent announcement of Fire Eagle as an example of how Valleywag's latest and lamest Silicon Valley Tool does his work.
Tom Coates, the London-based Yahoo who's actually running Fire Eagle, had been quietly talking it up among people interested in the project, which aims to make it easier for people to broadcast their locations across various websites. But when Ismail decided to make a big announcement and brief the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch, Coates's name was nowhere to be seen. What's worse, his engineering team was still working on it and the project, which Ismail said would launch by the end of the month, wasn't ready to go live.
It would be easy to dismiss this as a clever exercise of the classic software-company management trick: Boss preannounces project in order to spur programmers to actually ship code. But Coates was irate enough to force Ismail to backpedal on his blog:
Lots of coverage, mostly good. However, it's important to note that it's just an announcement. The developer launch will happen later this month. Tom Coates and the team have been working tirelessly with some of the world's leading geo-coding experts, and we're almost ready.
There's nothing wrong with a manager hogging the spotlight. There's nothing wrong with using the press to manage unruly programmers. No, Ismail's sin was that he tried those gambits and botched them.
Brickhouse, an inspiring idea, is at once an object of envy and ridicule within Yahoo. With few successful projects coming out of the San Francisco incubator, Ismail's boss, Bradley Horowitz, have been trying to extend the brand to efforts housed in Yahoo's R&D labs and its Advanced Products Group. That, of course, will end up drawing more attention to the San Francisco group's failures.
What really makes Ismail a Silicon Valley Tool? Horowitz is using him. Ismail and Brickhouse are being set up to fail. If Brickhouse has another success like Pipes, expect Horowitz to take credit. And if Brickhouse flops for good? Ismail gets the blame. One almost feels sorry for him.
Ismail's plight wouldn't matter, of course, except for this: While the purple people play political games over who should get the most points for innovation, Google and Facebook are actually inventing useful new software. Maybe people at Yahoo are, too — but thanks to bosses who can't even steal credit successfully, you'll never hear about it.
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P.J. O'Rourke Will Probably Survive Anal CancerP.J. O'Rourke: is there a writer we more heartily wished had a blog right now? The country is in the throes of an ideological earthquake, and P.J. O'Rourke is a right-wing free-market ideologue who is too smart not to allow himself to be tossed around a bit, and too entertaining a writer to elicit much of our indignation in the case he doesn't end up landing that much closer on the spectrum to raging creative class Bolshevism. Well, we'd been wondering where the writer and Rolling Stone "foreign affairs desk" chief had been during the End of Capitalism, and it turns out today that he has been preoccupied getting ass cancer. (His phrase, not ours!) The good news is that it seems to have been detected early: he assures us he has a 95% chance of survival. The other good news: it's good material! From today's LA Times:
Furthermore, I am a logical, sensible, pragmatic Republican, and my diagnosis came just weeks after Teddy Kennedy's. That he should have cancer of the brain, and I should have cancer of the ass ... well, I'll say a rosary for him and hope he has a laugh at me. After all, what would I do, ask God for a more dignified cancer? Pancreatic? Liver? Lung?… No doubt death is one of those mysterious ways in which God famously works. Except, on consideration, death isn't mysterious. Do we really want everyone to be around forever?…Napoleon was doubtless a great man in his time — at least the French think so. But do we want even Napoleon extant in perpetuity? Do we want him always escaping from island exiles, raising fanatically loyal troops of soldiers, invading Russia and burning Moscow? Well, at the moment, considering Putin et al, maybe we do want that. But, century after century, it would get old. And what with Genghis Khan coming from the other direction all the time and Alexander the Great clashing with a Persia that is developing nuclear weapons and Roman legions destabilizing already precarious Israeli-Palestinian relations — things would be a mess. Then there's the matter of our debt to death for life as we know it. I believe in God. I also believe in evolution. If death weren't around to "finalize" the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. We'd eat by surrounding pizzas with our belly flab and have sex by lying on railroad tracks waiting for a train to split us into significant others.
As for that last sentence, I don't know quite what it means, and I am tempted to say if anyone would I'd be that person. But the important part is, P.J. O'Rourke thanks God for death (and to that end, whiskey.) Taxes can't be very far behind.
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Yeah, even the big bad Ben had to start somewhere. Before he was scooping up Emmys and playing arguably the best villain ever, one of Michael Emerson's first gigs? An inmate counselor in a prison guard training video!
This 1992 video was designed to show prison employees how to deal with temperamental prisoners. Michael Emerson plays Higgins' (the unruly prisoner) counselor, Mr. Andrews. He is brought in as a second attempt to calm Higgins down.
This Andrews character sure sucks at manipulation, though. He could take a lesson or two from Ben Linus. I don't know about you, but it's hard for me to distinguish Ben Linus from any character Emerson plays. I watch this and see Ben Linus, but in a mousier, less awesome form.
For a contrast (or lack thereof, because it's pretty much the same exact character) take this scene from season three, where Ben convinces Jack to trust him, using one of baseball's biggest upsets: the 2004 World Series Championship.
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Friend of the Late Show Chris Elliott showed up on Dave's couch and he was revved up on the fact that Jay Leno stopped him for one of his "stupid" Jaywalking segments. You can guess how it went from there.
"That show is for morons—it is not like your show," said Chris to Dave—and this clearly-biased writer has to agree. We must add that Elliot's new show Eagle Heart (premiring Thursday on Adult Swim) sounds pretty appealing.
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Brutal and cultish North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is dead, and as the news spread last night, Twitter users reflected on the news the only way they knew how: by referring to the same racist Team America song so much that it hit the trending topics.
Yes, only a short while after Kim's death became public, so many people on Twitter had decided to quote the title lyric of the song "I'm So Ronery" that it became a "trending topic." "I'm So Ronery," if you don't remember it, is a hilarious ditty from the 2004 film Team America about how Kim Jong-il is lonely, only with an edgy twist: he's Asian. Asian! So he talks funny! Yikes! Talk about politically incorrect! (Or should I say "porriticarry"?!) As always, leave it to Matt Stone and Trey Parker for some really cutting-edge, up-to-date race humor.
And leave it to Twitter—the best place in the world at the moment news breaks and the worst place in the world five minutes later—to reference that race humor, dimly remembered years later, as its first collective response to a world-historical event. I love it! Why even bother coming up with a whole new joke on your own when you can use a seven-year-old bit of "funny accent" humor that trades on stereotypes that were stale in the 1940s? Maybe next time we can work in a bit about how he looked yellow, or something? Or does that require too much thought? Hopefully the next big piece of foreign policy news was covered in Team America, too.
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: White Party Problems
There are those moments where your life changes in an instant and you don't see it coming: a mugging, an accident, the phone call that a family member has died. You were just having a wonderful day and then—slam—something snaps and all the gears come tumbling out of the watch in a comical and tragic disarray. That's sort of what happened to Taylor and Russell last night. The carousel finally stopped.
OK, let's get to the White Party. The episode started off with Adrienne not wanting to go to the White Party, Kim fretting that everyone was going to hate her when she got to the White Party, Kyle worrying that she wasn't ready for the White Party, Brandi trying to figure out how to get her tina for the White Party, and Brandon worried that he was going to run into Justin and he hasn't seen him since the break up and now Justin is sleeping with Troy's best friend Jason and it is going to be totally weird and if he takes G then he's totally going to end up hooking up with Justin again and then Jason and Troy will get all mad and then Michael will post it on Facebook and everyone will know about all their drama! Oh, sorry, I got my White Parties confused. This one has nothing to do with the gay circuit party. It did sound like the Housewives were having some #GayPeopleProblems there for a second. This isn't about a circuit party, it is about some party Kyle throws in her backyard that she and the Housewives have mythologized into some glamorous annual event that everyone wants to attend when in reality it is just a really really really fancy barbecue. So, it's just like the White Party. Got it.
We start with Adrienne telling Paul (in what was obviously a set up conversation by the producers to give some context to what was going to happen later) that the dearly departed Russell Armstrong sent a little prayer to St. Camille Grammer. But it wasn't really a prayer, it was a heresy. He told her that, because she said that Taylor told her that Russell beat her on camera that he was going to sue her. Naturally St. Camille freaked out because no one wants to be sued, especially because she's embroiled in a lifelong battle with her arch-nemesis, the Satan of Kelsey, for her little children. She can't give him any reason to win the children! Adrienne is all freaked out because if Russell is going to sue Camille then he'll sue any of them and won't it be weird if they're at the same party? It will be just like that time Lisa brought her friend Mohammad who has some sort of lawsuit against Russell to Adrienne's house for her shoe fashion show and...nothing happened.
I never would have pegged Adrienne Maloof as a master manipulator. It seems like she's just Maloofing through life doing her best to keep everyone in line and being the sane voice of reason, but man, her inner Machiavelli really Maloofed out last night. She called up Kyle on the afternoon of her party and was like, "Here's the deal. Russell is going to sue Camille. We're next. Don't invite Taylor to your party or no one is coming." Then she hung up the phone, collapsed into an overly ornate chair whose back was seven feet high and stroked a hairless cat in her lap and smiled as the gold highlights in her hair glinted at the brilliance of her scheme.
Kyle, whose hair was being set in curlers as she freaked out about her house not being ready for the party (oh, Kyle, you have a staff of gays who know more about white and parties and white parties than you do, just get pretty and relax and let the geighs handle it, MmmmmmOKrrrrrrrr) and she gets the call and now she is really freaking out. She calls Lisa and Camille (who won't discuss this on camera) and Taylor (who is not answering) and Kim, who doesn't pick up.
That's because Kim is in the middle of having brunch in a hotel room that someone rented for her and her daughters to have a fake meal the day of the White Party. They're eating muffins and croissants and danishes and everything else they smuggled up from the free continental breakfast table in the lobby and Kim's daughters Kimberly Jr. and Whitney are all freaking out because Kim is insisting on bringing Pumice—her boyfriend that is either the Rock Eater from The Never-Ending Story or a boulder with a face drawn on it with lipstick and eyeliner pencil—to the White Party as her date. They do not think it's healthy that their mother has an imaginary boyfriend and that she pretends he gave her a "promise ring" that she wears like an engagement ring. Whitney says, "Ugh, Moooom," her voice going up at the end of every phrase like the curling of a ribbon, "Promise rings are so oveeeeeeer. Not even Selena Gomez wears hers anymorrrrrrrrrre." Kim told them that if they didn't like it and if they didn't like Pumice that they should just keep it to themselves and be nice. Oh, get ready for irony to come back and slap you in the face, Kim.
Now the party is starting and the guests are starting to arrive and no one has talked to Taylor and she's still coming and Kyle is freaking out. She grabs her husband MMMmmmm's hand and says, "Feel how fast my heart is beating right now." God, that is so annoying. Can't you just say, "My heart is beating so fast right now." Why would you lie about that? Why do you need to prove that?
St. Camille floats in on a cloud with a dozen singing choir boys behind her carrying stained glass windows. Her number one acoylte D.D. is beside her and throwing rose petals at her feet. She looks angelicly chic in her white coat dress. Kyle is freaking out and asks Camille what to do. "Oh," Camille says and just flits her hand in the air as if to whisk the whole thing away. St. Camille is above the concerns of these mortals. She does not care how they figure it out, they just better figure it the fuck out.
Lisa shows up and after telling each other how good they look, she and Kyle freak out about Taylor. Then Adrienne shows up and says, "Listen. You need to tell her she can't come. That's it. I decide. Here's how you're going to do it."
Suddenly, everyone's heads turn when they hear a noise. It is Kim. She's there holding her rock boyfriend Pumice in her hand and tossing it in the air menacingly while staring at Brandi. "Hi Kim," Brandi says, trying to be nice. Kim just stands there, tossing her rock staring at Brandi. "I don't like you," Kim finally says. Oh, Kim. Like a boat whose moorings snap in a hurricane, there is nothing secure in Kim Richards' life, except her hatred of Brandi. She hangs onto it like Bette Midler and Shelly Long hang onto the cliff on the poster for Outrageous Fortune. That is all she has.
See, Kim, life is like a mousetrap and it sets up the bait and you grab at it at the worst moment and it snaps back at you, crushing your neck with its cruelty. Kim, who just told her kids that if they have an opinion about someone they don't like to keep it to themselves, is being a total See You Next Tuesday and Every Tuesday for the Rest of Your Life to Brandi. I'm sorry, but Kim and Kyle have just terrorized Brandi for no good reason, just like at this party.
Brandi did everything right in this situation. She explained what seems to be the truth calmly and in a low voice and didn't let Kim drag her into a fight. She explained that, yes, she was overly bitchy to Kim and Kyle at Dana's little casino night party, but that they were mean to her too, something Kim has never apologized or showed any remorse for. Now here is Kim pointing her finger in Brandi's face and just standing there trying to provoke an argument and looking like a jerk, tossing that rock in the air over and over. At one point Kim says, "I don't even want to talk to you," but she is still standing there waiting for Brandi to respond or something. If you don't want to talk to her, Kim, then walk the fuck away! Just ignore her. But no, she stood there in Kyle's house, with her high pony dragging her brains up into a point, and terrorized Brandi for no good reason until Kyle ran over and said, "Knock it off. I don't need that right now."
She does not need this right now because Taylor and Russell are pulling up in a limo in front of the house. Notice how everyone was worried about how the two of them showing up at the party would be awkward and then all they did was sit around and obsess about it until they got there, thereby making the party incredibly awkward? Snap goes the mousetrap.
Taylor and Russell are riding in the limo and it makes me think of last year at Kyle's White Party when Russell ate hamburgers and stood in the corner like a lump with a pulse and then he left Taylor there all alone and then she felt lonely and she took a piece of cake in a box and stood at the end of Kyle's driveway with her cake in a box waiting for her car to pick her up, the night closing in around her and the stars losing a bit of their luster. Remember that? Well, Russell gets in the limo this year and he's talking about how he's ready to have F-U-Double N and drink the whole bottle of vodka, but his face looks like one of those comedy masks that hangs on the wall of a theater dork's bedroom. He's a man who is putting on a brave face for the camera, a man who is painfully trying to sculpt his public image. He is a man who is now dead and he is joking about getting drunk at a party so he will look good. Your television sobs at his very image.
Then they get to the party and Kyle whips out of the house, her dress trailing behind her like a bandage coming unraveled on a windy day. "I'm sorry," she sobs. "We have a problem. You can't come in." She tries to explain the situation, but she's too emotional, a slave to the tears. This is exactly where Adrienne wanted her, her emotional puppet. She Maloofs in and takes control. "Here's what's going to happen. You're going to leave." That's a paraphrase, but that is the message she was sending for realsies (yes, I just said that for realsies).
The whole thing was just a cackling klatch on the front lawn. Taylor wasn't even sure what was going on. Russell, again with his mask on, tried to explain that he sent St. Camille a nice letter, but, as people do when their god is threatened, they all jumped at him and said it was not nice. That it was, in fact, very mean and threatening, and they were all worried. Oh, Russell was working so hard to keep it together, to put on his brave face, but when the gurgles from these people came at him when he got out of the limo, he just shut down. He knew it was over. He could hear it in slow motion, the metal clang of the springs on that mousetrap bring that bar towards him. He could see it coming, but couldn't stop it, he could only stand there and listen as it happened to him. Taylor gets all passive aggressive and snarls through her smile. "Fine, we'll leave even though we just flew in from Vegas just to come to this party."
You think it's over, you think they'll get back in the limo and shake their heads all the way home. But it's not. We learned at Lisa's tea party that Rule #1 is to not go back to into a fight. Last night we learned Rule #2: do not run after the fight. Kyle chased Taylor into her limo to continue. Kyle, let it go. Let everyone cool off. Your party is ruined, and it won't be saved no matter how much you make your mascara run. Did she not learn anything from last year? Did she not remember chasing Kim into a limo and they both imploded, competing black wholes ripping everything apart, the universe falling to pieces one galaxy at a time? Do these people not watch their own damn show?
Kyle goes weeping into the limo and tries to defend Camille which is both brilliant and incredibly stupid, saying that she just repeated something that Taylor had told her. She's thinking about saving everyone from a lawsuit, but she needs to think about saying Taylor from Russell, if what Taylor says about Russell is true. Taylor tells Kyle that Russell knows what Camille said so he knows what Taylor told her and it's all about him hitting her. Basically, they are all peering into the door of the limo confronting Russell about whether or not he beat his wife. This is how it happens. This is how it goes down. It's not nice and neat and a structured confrontation, it's messy and teary and snot filled and just sort of spills out on the front lawn with the neighbors staring into the spotlights from the picture windows in their living rooma. This is life, real and messy and unexpected and unspooling. This is life, snapping another of its billion traps.
And Russell is ruined. He can't defend himself from these people, he can't defend himself in front of his wife, he can't defend himself from the world. He is that lump with a pulse at the party again, no matter how hard he tries, things never go his way. "Just let us go," he croaks, the most sad, defeated end to a fight we have ever heard. "Just let us go," he said, as if it was a spell that would undo all these bonds they created, the ties to these people and this life, the shackles of fame with the benefits of it right under their nose on the other side of their cell, but just out of their reach. "Just let us go." He would erase it all—he will erase it all—because it is all too much. This is life. And now it's over.
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3.17.1 Adapteva Epiphany Options
These `-m' options are defined for Adapteva Epiphany:
Preferrentially allocate registers that allow short instruction generation. This can result in increasesd instruction count, so if this reduces or increases code size might vary from case to case.
Enable the generation of conditional moves.
Emit num nops before every other generated instruction.
Set the offset between the top of the stack and the stack pointer. E.g., a value of 8 means that the eight bytes in the range sp+0...sp+7 can be used by leaf functions without stack allocation. Values other than `8' or `16' are untested and unlikely to work. Note also that this option changes the ABI, compiling a program with a different stack offset than the libraries have been compiled with will generally not work. This option can be useful if you want to evaluate if a different stack offset would give you better code, but to actually use a different stack offset to build working programs, it is recommended to configure the toolchain with the appropriate `--with-stack-offset=num' option.
mode can be set to one the following values:
The default is -mfp-mode=caller
The maximum alignment for SIMD vector mode types. num may be 4 or 8. The default is 8. Note that this is an ABI change, even though many library function interfaces will be unaffected, if they don't use SIMD vector modes in places where they affect size and/or alignment of relevant types.
Split vector moves into single word moves before reload. In theory this could give better register allocation, but so far the reverse seems to be generally the case.
Specify a register to hold the constant −1, which makes loading small negative constants and certain bitmasks faster. Allowable values for reg are r43 and r63, which specify to use that register as a fixed register, and none, which means that no register is used for this purpose. The default is -m1reg-none.
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[50 Cent] Shady
[Eminem] Pussies! {*echoes*}
{*gunfire, some glass shatters, and a car revs then peels out*}
Fall in and get quoted y'all
Yeah, it's Ca$his
Welcome to the Shady gang, G's up!
Obie went plat' and he back with another classic
50 went diamond, smash twice, bastards
D12 multi back-to-back
Eminem become the highest sellin artist in rap
Stat Quo the mixtape messiah, in the Phantom
About to run the A, when we drop "Statlanta"
Bobby Creek, you know his motherfuckin name nigga
Bobby Creek, he ain't no motherfuckin game nigga
I'm Ca$his, mixtape is a classic
EP is a classic; LP, is that shit!
Dart Parker my A&R, but much more
He told me go all out and serve 'em all homeboy
I'm a West nigga, a Midwest nigga
I'm the best nigga, cause we the best niggas
From street team to G.M. to V.P
Shady crime fam in this rap shit is the dream team
[Hook: repeat 2X]
We took a break for a minute and now we bangin
But we've been listenin to everything you've been sayin
Now we're comin for everybody who hatin
From '06 on, everything is Shady
Killa Ca$h hard, 'bout to smash frauds
Lookin past broads, through the rampart
I can handle NARCs, when the cannon sparks
You hit the ground and I snatch your bandanna mark
We ridin out for Proof, it's Shady gang nigga
Hope you bullet-proof, fat fuck lame nigga
Know who I'm talkin to? Glad your man did
You 'bout to get it too, rest with your fam nig'
This a cold game, live by the codes man
E'rything you see is not, a 7-4 king
The son of cocaine, new form of dope man
Plus I'm holdin weight, cause I'm the dope man
A West Coast gangsta, Chi-Town goon
Interstate runner, watch me drive a brick through
And we ain't backin down, way past rappin now
Right before my album drop my homeboys'll clap you down
A born winner, similar to mi familia
County here I'm comin to burn your whole city up
I catch you up in the club empty the fifth on ya
You all know who's pussy, by Vivica
I'm the realest nigga, you wanna Malcolm me?
If you a dealer nigga you can get box from me
I had rocks in jeans, socks of cream, Glocks and things
From March 7th, '06, got with the team
Now I'm on the scenes, reachin out flick it seem
Bein a celebrity bringin me mo' bitches
In a position I'm watched by mo' snitches
In place, at the end of the plots I hold niggas
Figures, are increasing, peace is not
Last week to a point where police was shot
And if niggas wan' know, what I been 'bout lately
Nigga take it how you want bitch, rap for Shady
[Hook] w/ ad libs
Everything is Shady
I'm from the West coast
And the Midwest, C-A-dot, Ca$h!
Boats boy, block boys
We pioneering this, in a race to be legends
Now, Ca$h! We tie dot
I'm a Shady gangsta nigga
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Electronic Relaxtion Lyrics
Produced By: Ta-ku
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[Verse 1: GoldLink]
See I used to love this shit
More than I loved myself
I used to push for that bezzle
And run away from the cops
And pop pop pop at windshields
And bust you smooth off the block
I did this shit before PAC
And way before Drake wore Versach
And no more rocks man I'm done
I'm done with dumb bottled rum
Run fast rabbit run run
I run away from this music industry shit til I die
Mothafuck you faggot niggas mothafuck you all, die
I fight for peace no more beefin'
Yo girl hear my voice she queefin'
And we change up like the seasons
As far as good music go
Cause I got four hundred fifty million rap styles I done flowed
And y'all got like six hundred and seventy million y'all stole
My flow is stupid and cold and fluka flow like I'm old
Did Joey sacrifice Steez, and Aaliyah wouldn't miss her plane
Would this shit just be different or no Beyonce or Jay?
Do I ask too many question to see how you feel inside?
Like, girl
Is easy to love me now?
You ain't talk to me before
Hayfield, the class whore
Bitch fuck with me I'm on top
Bitch I ain't gonna flop
Now make them panties drop
Droptop and see the city lights and drive to Gotham
I don't even use a Notebook I ain't Ryan Gosling
I'm more 1964 Brooks Robinson
The MVP of MLB the B'more hitta' bat and shit
Gimme a break kit kat and shit
Beat his ass and park the whip
Wop wop nigga wop nigga we on
Hear the backseat jump we on right now
God I need yo hand
Lead me to the rock
The promise land
'Caus I don't even know what to do
Real shit
I don't know what to do
I don't wanna fuck up
And don't wanna lose anything with you
Pray pray pray pray pray harder
Which art in heaven our father
If I die, like right now
Lord take care, of my girl Bri
And cut her friends, well not all. Uh. Er
Maybe some, shit
Start over
If a nigga die right before a nigga wake and I pray up to The Lord that my soul is my to take
Real nigga shit
I don't give a fuck
Fuck that beef
Real nigga shit, uh
Um ah um, yeah
I don't know what
But I flow so crazy
Oh my god, oh yeah yeah yeah
Is it easy to love me now?
'Caus you ain't fuck with me before
You a fuckin' ass whore
[Outro: Freak Nasty (Sampled from 2 Live Party)]
Put my hand up on yo' hip
When I dip, you dip, we dip
So c'mon baby, just Pop That P'
And watch Freak Nasty Throw that D, yeah
Ain't nuthin' like a 2 live party
When them girls freak everybody
Those other girls, those other girls
The 2 Live girls make me so, me so
I had a girl doin' S & M
Marquis had a girl doin' her and him
Chinaman had 'em gettin' down low
And m' boy King T was bringin' three mo'
Come one come all if you can hang
But you gotta Move Somethin' and Do the Damn Thang
Clay D got the bottle and I got the blunt
2 Live, Freak Nasty, what's up!
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Dealzmodo: Woot-Off Now Now Now
If you want to buy cheap goods at a cheap price in some sort of exciting way, there's a Woot-off going on. Right now we see a $12.99 Franklin electronic dictionary that will probably sell out before we're done writing this sentence, but hopefully the next few products are better than this. Keep refreshing for that Bag of Crap. [Woot]
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This is My Farewell Transmission From Mars
If you are reading this, then my mission is probably over. This final entry is one that I asked be posted after my mission team announces they've lost contact with me. Today is that day and I must say good-bye, but I do it in triumph and not in grief.As I've said before, there's no other place I'd rather be than here. My mission lasted five months instead of three, and I'm content knowing that I worked hard and accomplished great things during that time. My work here is done, but I leave behind a legacy of images and data. In that sense, you haven't heard the end of me. Scientists will be releasing findings based on my data for months, possibly years, to come and today's children will read of my discoveries in their textbooks. Engineers will use my experience during landing and surface operations to aid in designing future robotic missions. But for now, it's time for me to hunker down and brave what will be a long and cold autumn and winter. Temperatures should reach -199F (-128C) and a polar cap of carbon dioxide ice will envelop me in an icy tomb. Seasons on Mars last about twice as long as seasons on Earth, so if you're wondering when the next Martian spring in the northern hemisphere begins, it's one Earth-year away-October 27, 2009. The next Martian summer solstice, when maximum sunlight would hit my solar arrays, falls on May 13, 2010. That's a long time away. And it's one of the reasons there isn't much hope that I'll ever contact home again. For my mission teams on Earth, I bid a special farewell and thank you. For the thousands of you who joined me on this journey with your correspondence, I will miss you dearly. I hope you'll look to my kindred robotic explorers as they seek to further humankind's quest to learn and understand our place in the universe. The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity (@MarsRovers), are still operating in their sun belt locations closer to the Martian equator; Cassini (@CassiniSaturn) is sailing around Saturn and its rings; and the Mars Science Laboratory (@MarsScienceLab)-the biggest rover ever built for launch to another planet-is being carefully pieced together for launch next year. My mission team has promised to update my Twitter feed as more of my science discoveries are announced. If I'm lucky, perhaps one of the orbiters will snap a photo of me when spring comes around. So long Earth. I'll be here to greet the next explorers to arrive, be they robot or human. It's been a great pleasure to have Mars Phoenix guest blogging for us, reminiscing back on a successful mission via its personality conjurer, the great Veronica McGregor at JPL-maintainer of Phoenix's famous Twitter feed. Just as Doug McCuistion from NASA said on the news conference today, it's certainly more of an Irish wake than a funeral today. We're drinking to you tonight, little buddy. You can see all of Phoenix's previous entries and the official press release announcing the end of Phoenix's mission. Past entries: • Phoenix Mars Lander Looks Back on its Re-BirthThis is What Landing On Mars Feels LikeMartian Ice Is Why I'm Alive and Why I'm Dying
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After Pressing, Touching, Tapping and Shaking? A Scratch
Remember that bizarre, inflatable touchscreen with buttons that crawled out of Carnegie Mellon University's labs a few months back? Those same researchers—who can't get enough of unorthodox input methods—have another one for you: scratch input!
Here's the vision: anything from a phone to a wall to a desk can be fitted with a small stethoscope sensor, which is able to register distinctive scratch vibrations that the human ear usually can't pick up, and read them as commands. Quick test: run your fingernail across your desk, and listen to the sound. Now, put your ear on your desk, and do the same. Not only is the sound louder the second time around—it's completely different, and much higher-pitched. This distinction is at the core of scratch input.
So different and unique are the sounds that the research team thinks they could design a system that could recognize gestures and shapes—like the letter "S", for example—allowing for relatively complex interaction with applications or devices. Think declining a call or pausing your music by scratching your thigh, or opening Expose by drawing two fingers across your desk. Below, a glimpse into our scratch-controlled future, which bears no small resemblance to footage from a containment cell in a mental health facility. [Wired]
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Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy
On the surface, scroll clock looks like a simple visual trick: Look, it's a clock made out of moving scroll bars! This is a marginally clever animation! Then you realize that every one of them actually works.
It's been a looooong time since I've done anything resembling serious web design, so my initial reaction was an iframe-induced panic—what black magic is this, etc—but a quick View Source painted a neat, tidy picture of CSS and Javascript, working together to shatter our basic intuitions about How Things Move, on the internet.
And while it may be a decade late, this is the first truly compelling use for Windows' old Active Desktop feature I've ever seen. This one's for you, inexplicably extant Windows ME users. [Scroll ClockThanks, Marco!]
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When You're Convinced Your Loved Ones Are Imposters
You're looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she's even dressed the same as your mother. In fact, she is your mother. But you're absolutely certain that she's an imposter.
This is the experience of someone suffering from a Capgras delusion, a rare medical disorder in which a person becomes convinced that a loved one has been replaced by someone pretending to be that loved one. The unsettling condition is the topic of this week's episode of Radiolab, entitled "Do I Know You?", and the producers invited Dr. Carol Berman and Dr. V.S. Ramachandran on the program to talk about it.
No one knows exactly what causes Capgras delusions. The doctors cite one example in which the delusions started after a coma and another in which they came in the midst of general dementia. But they can also start out of the blue, which is a terrifying prospect.
Dr. Berman, a psychologist, hypothesizes that Capgras delusions are an individual's way of dissociating a loved one from some perceived flaw—some sort of psychotic denial. This woman is being cruel, and I know my mother to be kind, so this must be an imposter.
Dr. Ramachandran, luxuriously rolling his "r's," suggests that the delusions are caused by faulty circuity in the brain. We identify our loved ones, he says, by their familiar faces but also by the familiar emotions they evoke. If our brain no longer registers those emotions, we deem them an imposter. This woman looks like my mother, but she doesn't make me feel the way my mother makes me feel, so this must be an imposter.
Often times, the individuals subject to the delusions are perfectly normal otherwise. And the conditions that trigger the episodes are oddly narrow. If a person subject to Capgras delusions talks to the loved one on the phone, he recognizes her instantly and converses as normal. It's only in seeing her that the break occurs.
Over the course of the week we've looked at many ways in which memory—human and otherwise—is fallible. But hearing about Capgras delusions and the individuals who suffer from them serves to remind that some memories are more essential than others. [RadioLab]
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Bat(man) On Fire
Who needs the Bat-Signal? Especially when a Canon EOS 7D, a cheapo fireworks sparkler, and a little long exposure trickeration can give you something much, much cooler.
You can check out the full rundown of settings used to create Bat(man) on Fire, by Mina Mikhael and Matthew Barhoma, here. I'm mostly just glad that someone has used their long exposure skills for good, bringing some balance to the universe. [Flickr via Reddit]
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If you're an Apple developer, you can now download the a second developer preview release of OS X 10.7 (Lion). TechCrunch believes it's pretty close to the finished version of the operating system. Aside from sweeping bug and stability fixes, Developer Preview 2 will install on 2011 MacBook Pros and apparently has an updated version of iCal. MacRumors Forums has a running thread of the latest discoveries regarding the release. [TechCrunch and MacRumors]
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Anonymous Is Working On AnonPlus, a Facebook For Hackers and Non-Hackers Alike
Rather than rest on their keyboards after being kicked off Google+, the hacking group known as Anonymous has created a holding page for AnonPlus, a "new social network where there is no fear...of censorship...of blackout...nor of holding back."
Unlaunched the social networking site may be, Anonymous does promise that everyone will be able to create a profile on the account—hacker or not. Another string to add to our social networking bow? It looks like it. Anonymous writes that "we will not be stopped by those looking to troll or those willing to stop the spreading of the truth."
As well as deleting their Google+ profile on counts of violating their community standards, it looks as though Google is taking a hard stance on hacking and has also revoked access to their Gmail account.
Starting a social networking site from the ground up will take time; something Anonymous says will not happen "overnight." Until then, I guess we can start the rumormill churning as to what "features" their site will offer—maybe a poke function that takes down random governments? [AnonPlus via Wired UK]
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If Nikon and Canon Battled on a Chess Board, It Would Look Like This
The dudes over at LensRentals had too much time on their hands, so they staged a game of chess between their inventory of Nikon and Canon lenses. You can do the same too, for nearly $10,000/week.
LensRentals will ship you the entire set, which will cost at least $1,000 in shipping, but they point out that all the pieces have image stabilization.
The complete 32 piece set includes 70-200 f/2.8 pawns, 600mm f/4 Kings and 500mm f4 Queens, 400mm f/2.8 Bishops, 300mm f/2.8 Knights, and 200mm f/2.0 Rooks in black (Nikon) and white (Canon). If you don't already have an appropriate size chess board we will throw in a complete set of 32 white and 32 black stick-on 12" square vinyl tiles so you can create your own.
Game on. [LensRentals via <a href="http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2011/07/s...">PetaPixel]
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As far as internal corporate-sponsored parody videos, I would actually have expected a lot worse out of Microsoft than this three-minute takedown of Gmail. Nerd fight!
The crux of the video (reportedly shown July 20thduring Microsoft's annual global sales conference): people hate Gmail, because of Gmail's snooping and Gmail's poorly targeted ads and Gmail's male pattern baldness. How many of those things actually get people riled up these days, I'm so sure. But any Microsoft humor that doesn't make you cringe has to be considered a solid victory at this point, right? [ZDNet]
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After Steve Jobs' stunning resignation announcement today, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak described the outgoing CEO as the "most important technical leader ever" and an Ayn Rand-style objectivist to Bloomberg News.
In a phone interview with Emily Chang, Wozniak discusses Apple under Jobs' leadership, he'll "be remembered for the next hundred years as the best business leader of our time," quipped Woz, as well as how Apple's corporate culture will be affected by the departure, and how the iPhone is like a person—wait, what?
[Bloomberg via Electronista]
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Steve Jobs Has 313 Apple Patents to His Name
Think Steve Jobs has just been a CEO in his tenure at Apple? Wrooo-ooong. The man's had his hands filthy as an inventor, with over 300 patents. Computers? Duh. Packaging? Yep. Lanyards. Yup.
You've gotta check out this amazing interactive feature from the NYT, showing off all of his patents. [NYT]
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It’s A Case! It’s A Battery! It’s A Projector! It’s … ALL OF THEM
Sometimes, smartphone screens are just not big enough. Linking it to a projector is helpful but it's hardly portable and before you know it, the battery's gone. The Monolith, a triple-threat iPhone case that works as a projector and a battery pack, can light up your room while keeping your gear booboo-free.
The case, made by Japanese accessory maker Century, is said to be capable of providing about three hours of image projection at sizes up to 60 cm (in 16:9 format), in 640×360 resolution, with a 1,000:1 contrast ratio. But with a brightness of a mere 12 lumens, it's certainly no makeshift movie theater. At best, you'll probably end up using it for a viral video party … if you're entertained by three hours of that stuff.
If you are (and I'm not judging you!), you won't have to worry about killing your battery life; the 1,900 mAh battery will either cancel out the drain or boost your iPhone's lifespan up to 50 percent without projector usage and takes four hours to fully charge. For $260, it's a pricey battery pack, but you can decide whether the novelty of having a handy projector is worth the investment.
The Monolith is available in black or white. [Sirobako via TechCrunch]
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Parasite Creates Wasp Zombie Queen
Wasps, like most insects have clear roles for each member of the colony. Basically, everybody makes sure the queen is doing ok making babies. Everything works like clockwork until a Svengali-like fly larva takes over a wasp and makes it do its bidding.
Wired reports that after burrowing into a wasp's abdomen the X. Vesparum fly takes control of the host and forces it to become its slave. Wasps that have been infected with the parasites are even forced to meet up so the parasites can reproduce.
Once a worker wasp with a female parasite is impregnated, it forgoes its instincts to serve and protect the queen and instead takes a place along side the queen. The infected wasps then wait until the queen is out foraging for food and starts dropping parasitic larva around the colony. The larva infect worker wasps and the weird cycle starts all over again. [Wired]
Image: Beani et al./Animal Behaviour
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Hacking Lunchables with an Iron, Blow Dryer and Heater Is Resourcefully Tasty
Pizza blog Slice was curious to see if childhood favorite Lunchables Pizza, could be hacked into something more magnificent and um, more pizza-like so they heated up the cracker, cheese and sauce concoction with an iron, blow dryer and a heater.
Which is best? According to Slice, the iron does well at melting cheese and keeping the crust moist but there's too much cheese loss in the process. Blow drying offers a lot of control on cheese meltage but is tiring and while using a heater creates the most uniformly delicious Lunchables pizza, it isn't exactly desirable in certain months of the year. So is there no hackable solution? Of course not!
Slice wised up and used a combo cooking method of a blow dryer (for the cheese) and an iron (for the crust) to create the "pizza" you see above. Even if you stick your nose in the air to Lunchables, remember that you can use these methods to re-heat your regular pizza if you ever find yourself in a hotel room without an oven or microwave. Read the full Lunchables hacking experiment on Slice. [Slice]
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It doesn't exactly herald a new era of fossil-fuel free transportation, but this experiment showing a tiny aerogel boat zipping along for almost an hour on a drop of ethanol could lead to new ways of thinking about boat propulsion.
The craft doesn't have an equally tiny motor pushing it through the water. Instead, as the ethanol on board vaporizes and passes through the aerogel's nanocellulose membrane, it lowers the surface tension of the water around the boat. So it not only means there's less friction working against it, but as the boat passes and the surface tension of the water behind it increases again, it tends to naturally push it along.
But don't expect to see freighters or even canoes made from aerogel appearing anytime soon. The material is still incredibly expensive and difficult to produce, and it's no where near durable enough to survive even an ice cube-sized obstacle. However, the principles demonstrated in this clip could be harnessed to reduce the drag on large ships, which would in turn reduce their fuel consumption. [YouTube via New Scientist]
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Roku's New HDMI Streaming Stick: $50 and More Than 1,000 Channels
This is Roku's brand new streaming stick. It's only $50 (half the price of the last version), and it's ready to pop into your TV right out of the box.
Available in April, the stick plugs right into your TV's HDMI port and comes with a remote and access to more than 1,000 different channels. It's seemingly Roku's answer to Google Chromecast, and when we saw it demoed last week, we asked Roku why you should buy it instead of Google's offering, which is $15 cheaper. Their answer? Simple—even though Roku's stick also works with an Android or iOS app, some people still just want a remote. You can also stream with this Roku from your phone or tablet, and you can send pictures to your TV screen too. Moreover, you have access to a lot more content on Roku—the PBS and Showtime app are just two examples. Whether that's worth $15 is up to you.
Yes, Chromecast will have a bigger stable of apps someday, but you might not want to wait that long. On top of that, this is a pretty good price when compared to other Rokus, which take up more space and act as video game controllers and have other frills you might not care about. If anything, its nice to have another option for an affordable streaming device. That's certainly worth holding out a month for.
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Tempura With Tentsuyu Sauce
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Tempura With Tentsuyu Sauce is a delight for all those who love Japanese food. The blend of vegetable and rice with the flavorful sauce makes it a delicious and sumptuous recipe. The Tempura With Tentsuyu Sauce is excellent served with steamed rice, do try this recipe at home.
Egg yolk 1
All purpose flour 1 Cup (16 tbs)
Pumpkin 1 Pound, peeled
Baby zucchini 8
Scallions 16 (Thin Ones)
Winter squash/Pumpkin, summer squash flowers 16 Large
Sunflower oil 3 Tablespoon
Salt To Taste
Instant dashi cube 1 Teaspoon, crumbled
Light soy sauce 1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Japanese One)
Dry sherry/Mirin 1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), sweetened with 2 teaspoon sugar
Daikon root 1⁄3
Chili peppers 2
Plain boiled rice 1 Cup (16 tbs) (For Serving)
1 For the batter: in a large bowl, beat the egg yolk well until creamy with 1/2 tsp salt.
2 Gradually beat in 1 cup iced water, adding a little at a time.
3 Sift in the flour and stir only just enough to mix.
4 Cover and chill in the coldest part of the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
5 Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables, by trimming, rinsing, and drying them.
6 Leave about 1 in of stalk attached to the flowers; remove the pistil from inside the flower carefully.
7 Rinse the flowers and spread out on a clean cloth to dry.
8 Cut the peeled pumpkin or winter squash flesh into pieces just under 1/4 in thick and about 2 in long.
9 Cut the zucchini lengthwise into slices just under 1/4 in thick.
10 Cut each of these long slices across, in half.
11 Trim the roots and the ends of the leaves off the scallions.
12 Remove the outermost layer of the bulb and leaves.
13 Cut the inner, tender part of both lengthwise in half.
14 Make the sauce: into a small saucepan, pour 1 cup water.
15 Add the crumbled instant dashi cube, soy sauce, and the mirin; stir well as you heat to just below boiling point.
16 Turn off the heat.
17 Prepare the momiji oroshi ready to be added to the liquid just before serving, peel one third of a daikon root and cut into round slices.
18 Process in the food processor with 1 or 2 chili peppers until it forms a thick puree.
19 Place this puree in a fine mesh plastic sieve and leave to drain over a bowl.
20 Cook the rice.
21 When the rice is ready, reheat the sauce.
22 Pour into individual tiny bowls.
23 Stir about 1 tbsp of the momiji oroshi into each bowl.
24 Heat plenty of oil in a deep fryer to 350°F.
25 Divide the prepared vegetables into 4 batches.
26 Stir the chilled batter very briefly and dip each piece of vegetable in it before adding to the hot oil.
27 Remove from the oil when lightly crisp and pale golden brown.
28 Drain briefly on paper towels.
29 Serve the fried vegetables at once.
30 Serve the rice in one large bowl or in small, individual bowls.
31 Pick up a piece of fried vegetable with chopsticks and dip it in the hot sauce.
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:
Main Dish
Preparation Time:
70 Minutes
Cook Time:
30 Minutes
Ready In:
100 Minutes
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How To Shred Chocolate
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chocolateShredded chocolate adds panache to any dish, dessert or otherwise. However, shredding can be a problem especially if the chocolate begins to melt all over the shredder or the blades of a blender. Many recipes also require the addition of chocolate that has been shreded. To get perfectly shredded chocolate, just a bit of practice and knowledge of the right technique becomes mandatory. Read on for steps to do the job perfectly…
Steps to Shred Chocolate with a Handheld Grater
1. Place cooking chocolate in refrigerator for about 30 minutes. This would keep chocolate firm and make it easier shred. Shredding chocolate
2. Take a clean and dry cheese grater and place one end on the edge of a plate or a bowl while holding the other end.
3. With the dominant hand take the chocolate bar and run it down on the grater. The metal rivets would shred the chocolate into small flakes.
4. Place the chocolate shred in the refrigerator so that they solidify a little bit.
5. They can be used immediately too.
how to shred chocolate Shredding Chocolate in a Blender
1. Cut chocolate into small pieces and place them in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes so that they get firmer.
2. Transfer the small pieces into a blender and process on the pulse setting to get freshly shredded chocolate.
A potato peeler can also be used to shred chocolate if you need a small quantity. You can decorate your desserts and cakes very often with freshly shredded chocolate once you master the art of shredding chocolate.
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Integrated Reporting
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Ball lightning: a shocking (and totally inexplicable) phenomenon
It skitters across the ground, floats in the air, is cold to the touch, and leaves scorch marks. It's been scientifically explained, or hey, it might be a total hallucination. It's ball lightning!
Ball lightning is the name given to a group of phenomena that have not been completely explained, or even agreed upon. Of the two words in its name, only the first is shared by all witnesses. According to most eyewitnesses, it glows and is shaped like a ball.
Everything else varies. Most reports say the balls are orange to beach ball size, but some say they've seen ball lightning the size of a bus. The ball can float, roll and bounce around solid objects, or do both. They're seen indoors or out. Ball lightning has reportedly been cold to the touch, left burn marks in rock, and electrocuted people. It fades away, or explodes and sputters out. Anything goes.
Since the exact properties of ball lightning are not agreed upon, a single explanation for the phenomena can't be reached. Those who believe that ball lightning is cool, consider it to be corona discharge – the same thing that is responsible for Saint Elmo's Fire, which produces light but not much heat. Those who believe it burns what it touches believe that it's a bunch of burning dust kicked up and ignited by lightning strikes. It could also be a plasma ball. Many explanations are out there.
One theory nosed its way ahead of the others in 2007, when Antonio Pavão and Gerson Paiva of Brazil's Federal University of Pernambuco reported making small glowing balls that bounced around the room and scorched their surroundings. These balls made of silicon particles which were shocked by scientists until they produce a burning vapor. The balls only lasted a few seconds in the lab before dissipating, a shorter time than some witnesses of ball lightning say the phenomenon endures in a natural environment, but otherwise the spitting image of the glowing balls that have baffled people for centuries.
Ball lightning: a shocking (and totally inexplicable) phenomenon
But three years after Pavão and Paiva lit up silicon, Alexander Kendl and Joseph Peer from the University of Innsbruck in Austria put forward an alternate theory: ball lightning is just a hallucination brought on by a rapidly changing magnetic field. This is not as unbelievable as it sounds. Subjecting someone's brain to rapidly changing magnetic field can cause electrical activity, which in turn cause the neurons to cook up something good an crazy for the brain to see, hear, or think about. Psychiatrists sometimes use this technique to cause their patients to hallucinate (how forcing someone to hallucinate is therapeutic is something only your psychiatrist can explain). Seeing glowing lights is a common hallucination, so it makes sense that a lot of people would see such a thing if the very atmosphere around them is messing with their head.
There are problems with the idea. To hallucinate strongly, people would have to be closer to an area of intensely shifting magnetic fields than many observers of ball lightning have been. There have been plenty of accounts of ball lightning killing people and doing property damage. And of course there are those balls skittering around a lab.
Ball lightning: a shocking (and totally inexplicable) phenomenon
Some statistics say that as many as one in thirty people have seen ball lightning, which means that there must be quite a few io9ers who have witnessed it. Have you seen it? How long did it last? How did it behave? Did you see any other strange things at the same time?
[Via: National Geographic twice, Universe Today, and USA Today.]
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Three best scenes from last nights Robot Chicken Star Wars special
Wow — last night Robot Chicken aired its third Star Wars special, and it was almost better than the first. It was truly spectacular, especially when Boba Fett called Luke Skywalker Jodi Foster. Here our our three favorite moments.
Death Star Escalator
This scene was just brilliant, I can't stop thinking about it. Does ANYONE know where it's from? It reminded me of the part in Signs where the family is eating pizza and staring at M. Night (who hit their mother with his pick up) but there's got to be another movie scene out there that's closer to this. If you know please, tell me!
And finally a little drunk Fett...
The episode should be up on itunes by now, if you want to watch it in its entirety.
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These ants use their butts to fly
Cephalotes atratus is a species of ant that makes its nest up a tall tree. Since its food is elsewhere, it needs to make a long trek down a tree trunk, during which the ant is exposed to larger insects and birds. Some time back, one of these ants decided it had had enough of this vertical no man's land and decided to jump. Apparently it worked out, since now these ants jump and glide down from their trees in carefully steered descents. They do this despite having no wings, no sails, and no aerodynamic body shape. What they do have is a butt, and the will to use it.
They manage to get where they want to go using a skydiver's move. Many readers will have seen skydivers falling with their chests down and their arms outstretched behind them. This position, and the subtle shift of their arms and legs, allows skydivers to steer as they fall. The ant does the same thing, but in reverse. It spreads its back legs and and drops his butt down, using the precise position of its legs and butt to steer (albeit backwards) to its location.
Despite having to fly blind, the ants are very skillful when it comes to this kind of backwards flight. They steer towards white, vertical surfaces with surprising accuracy. Researchers think the ants aim for these targets because they need to hit other trees, and badly. If they aimed for the floor of the forest, they might end up in puddles or plopped into the mouths of hungry animals. These ants probably became gliders because they fell into a technique that was productive enough to compensate for the ants who went astray on puffs of wind and ended up gobbled up by waiting animals beneath the tree. Or the entire colony just runs on adrenaline.
Via Discovery.
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Read the first chapter of Mira Grant's Blackout right here, right now!
At long last, it's the third book of Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy. You've followed the zombie apocalypse and the blogger drama in Feed and Deadline, and now it's time to find out how it ends. We're proud to present the first chapter of Blackout, the final chapter in the trilogy, below.
Warning: There are huge spoilers for the first two books!
From the Dead
People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.
- Georgia Mason
I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit.
- Shaun Mason
My name is Georgia Carolyn Mason. I am one of the Orphans of the Rising, the class of people who were under two years of age when the dead first started to walk. My biological family is presumably listed somewhere on The Wall, an anonymous footnote of a dead world. Their world died in the Rising. They didn't live to see the new one.
My adoptive parents have raised me to ask questions, understand the realities of my situation, and, in times of necessity, to shoot first. They have equipped me with the tools I need to survive, and I am grateful. Through this blog, I will do my best to share my experiences and opinions as openly and honestly as I can. It is the best way to honor the family that raised me; it is the only way I have to honor the family that lost me.
I'm going to tell you the truth as I understand it. You can take it from there.
- From Images May Disturb You, the blog of Georgia Mason, June 20, 2035.
So George says I have to write a "mission statement," because our contract with Bridge Supporters says I will. I am personally opposed to mission statements, since they're basically one more way of sucking the fun out of everything. I tried telling George this. She told me that it's her job to suck the fun out of everything. She then threatened physical violence of a type I will not describe in detail, as it might unsettle and upset my theoretical readership. Suffice to say that I am writing a mission statement. Here it is:
I, Shaun Phillip Mason, being of sound mind and body, do hereby swear to poke dead things with sticks, do stupid shit for your amusement, and put it all on the Internet where you can watch it over and over again. Because that's what you want, right?
Glad to oblige.
- From Hail to the King, the blog of Shaun Mason, June 20, 2035.
My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man- in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun- holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a horror movie.
My story ended, but I remember everything. I remember the cold dread as I watched the lights on the blood test unit turn red, one by one, until my infection was confirmed. I remember the look on Shaun's face when he realized this was it- it was really happening, and there wasn't going to be any clever third act solution that got me out of the van alive.
I remember the barrel of the gun against my skin. It was cool, and it was soothing, because it meant Shaun would do what he had to do. No one else would get hurt because of me.
No one but Shaun.
This was something we'd never planned for. I always knew that one day he'd push his luck too far, and I'd lose him. We never dreamed that he would be the one losing me. I wanted to tell him it would be okay. I wanted to lie to him. I remember that: I wanted to lie to him. And I couldn't. There wasn't time, and even then, I didn't have it in me.
I remember starting to write. I remember thinking this was it; this was my last chance to say anything I wanted to say to the world. This was the thing I was going to be judged on, now and forever. I remember feeling my mind start to go. I remember the fear.
I remember the sound of Shaun pulling the trigger.
I shouldn't remember anything after that. That's where my story ended. Curtain down, save file, that's a wrap. Once the bullet hits your spinal cord, you're done; you don't have to worry about this shit anymore. You definitely shouldn't wake up in a windowless, practically barren room that looks suspiciously like a CDC holding facility, with no one to talk to but some unidentified voice on the other side of a one- way mirror.
The bed where I'd woken up was bolted to the floor, and so was the matching bedside table. It wouldn't do to have the mysteriously resurrected dead journalist throwing things at the mirror that took up most of one wall. Naturally, the wall with the mirror was the only wall with a door- a door that refused to open. I'd tried waving my hands in front of every place that might hold a motion sensor, and then I'd searched for a test panel in the vain hope that checking out clean would make the locks let go and release me.
There were no test panels, or screens, or ocular scanners. There wasn't anything inside that seemed designed to let me out. That was chilling all by itself. I grew up in a post- Rising world, one where blood tests and the threat of infection are a part of daily life. I'm sure I'd been in sealed rooms without testing units before. I just couldn't remember any.
The room lacked something else: clocks. There was nothing to let me know how much time had passed since I woke up, much less how much time had passed before I woke up. There'd been a voice from the speaker above the mirror, an unfamiliar voice asking my name and what the last thing I remembered was. I'd answered him-"My name is Georgia Mason. What the fuck is going on here?"- and he'd gone away without answering my question. That might have been ten minutes ago. It might have been ten hours ago. The lights overhead glared steady and white, not so much as flickering as the seconds went slipping past.
That was another thing. The overhead lights were industrial fluorescents, the sort that have been popular in medical facilities since long before the Rising. They should have been burning my eyes like acid . . . and they weren't.
I was diagnosed with retinal Kellis-Amberlee when I was a kid, meaning that the same disease that causes the dead to rise had taken up permanent residence in my eyeballs. It didn't turn me into a zombie- retinal KA is a reservoir condition, one where the live virus is somehow contained inside the body. Retinal KA gave me extreme light sensitivity, excellent night vision, and a tendency to get sickening migraines if I did anything without my sunglasses on.
Well, I wasn't wearing sunglasses, and it wasn't like I could dim the lights, but my eyes still didn't hurt. All I felt was thirst, and a vague, gnawing hunger in the pit of my stomach, like lunch might be a good idea sometime soon. There was no headache. I honestly couldn't decide whether or not that was a good sign.
Anxiety was making my palms sweat. I scrubbed them against the legs of my unfamiliar white cotton pajamas. Everything in the room was unfamiliar . . . even me. I've never been heavy- a life spent running after stories and away from zombies doesn't encourage putting on weight- but the girl in the one- way mirror was thin to the point of being scrawny. She looked like she'd be easy to break. Her hair was as dark as mine. It was also too long, falling past her shoulders. I've never allowed my hair to get that long. Hair like that is a passive form of suicide when you do what I do for a living. And her eyes . . .
Her eyes were brown. That, more than anything else, made it impossible to think of her face as my own. I don't have visible irises. I have pupils that fill all the space not occupied by sclera, giving me a black, almost emotionless stare. Those weren't my eyes. But my eyes didn't hurt. Which meant either those were my eyes, and my retinal KA had somehow been cured, or Buffy was right when she said the afterlife existed, and this was hell.
I shuddered, looking away from my reflection, and resumed what was currently my main activity: pacing back and forth and trying to think. Until I knew whether I was being watched, I had to think quietly, and that made it a hell of a lot harder. I've always thought better when I do it out loud, and this was the first time in my adult life that I'd been anywhere without at least one recorder running. I'm an accredited journalist. When I talk to myself, it's not a sign of insanity; it's just my way of making sure I don't lose important material before I can write it down.
None of this was right. Even if there was some sort of experimental treatment to reverse amplification, someone would have been there to explain things to me. Shaun would have been there. And there it was, the reason I couldn't believe any of this was right: I remembered him pulling the trigger. Even assuming it was a false memory, even assuming it never happened, why wasn't he here ? Shaun would move Heaven and Earth to reach me.
I briefly entertained the idea that he was somewhere in the building, forcing the voice from the intercom to tell him where I was. Regretfully, I dismissed it. Something would have exploded by now if that were true.
"Goddammit." I scowled at the wall, turned, and started in the other direction. The hunger was getting worse, and it was accompanied by a new, more frustrating sensation. I needed to pee. If someone didn't let me out soon, I was going to have a whole new set of problems to contend with.
"Run the timeline, George," I said, taking some comfort in the sound of my voice. Everything else might have changed, but not that. "You were in Sacramento with Rick and Shaun, running for the van. Something hit you in the arm. One of those syringes like they used at the Ryman farm. The test came back positive. Rick left. And then . . . then . . ." I faltered, having trouble finding the words, even if there was no one else to hear them.
Everyone who grew up after the Rising knows what happens when you come into contact with the live form of Kellis-Amberlee. You become a zombie, one of the infected, and you do what every zombie exists to do. You bite. You infect. You kill. You feed. You don't wake up in a white room, wearing white pajamas and wondering how your brother was able to shoot you in the neck without even leaving a scar.
Scars. I wheeled and stalked back to the mirror, pulling the lid on my right eye open wide. I learned how to look at my own eyes when I was eleven. That's when I got my first pair of protective contacts. That's also when I got my first visible retinal scarring, little patches of tissue scorched beyond recovery by the sun. We caught it in time to prevent major vision loss, and I got a lot more careful. The scarring created small blind spots at the center of my vision. Nothing major. Nothing that interfered with fieldwork. Just little spots.
My pupil contracted to almost nothing as the light hit it. The spots weren't there. I could see clearly, without any gaps.
"Oh." I lowered my hand. "I guess that makes sense."
I paused, feeling suddenly stupid as that realization led to another. When I first woke up, the voice from the intercom told me all I had to do was speak, and someone would hear me. I looked up at the speaker. "A little help here?" I said. "I need to pee really bad."
There was no response.
There was still no response. I showed my middle finger to the mirror before turning and walking back to the bed. Once there, I sat and settled into a cross- legged position, closing my eyes. And then I started waiting. If anyone was watching me- and someone had to be watching me- this might be a big enough change in my behavior to get their attention. I wanted their attention. I wanted their attention really, really badly. Almost as badly as I wanted a personal recorder, an Internet connection, and a bathroom.
The need for a bathroom crept slowly higher on the list, accompanied by the need for a drink of water. I was beginning to consider the possibility that I might need to use a corner of the room as a lavatory when the intercom clicked on. A moment later, a new voice, male, like the first one, spoke: "Miss Mason? Are you awake?"
"Yes." I opened my eyes. "Do I get a name to call you by?"
He ignored my question like it didn't matter. Maybe it didn't, to him. "I apologize for the silence. We'd expected a longer period of disorientation, and I had to be recalled from elsewhere in the building."
"Sorry to disappoint you."
"Oh, we weren't disappointed," said the voice. He had the faintest trace of a Midwestern accent. I couldn't place the state. "I promise, we're thrilled to see you up and coherent so quickly. It's a wonderful indicator for your recovery."
"A glass of water and a trip to the ladies' room would do more to help my recovery than apologies and evasions."
Now the voice sounded faintly abashed. "I'm sorry, Miss Mason. We didn't think . . . just a moment." The intercom clicked off, leaving me in silence once again. I stayed where I was, and kept waiting.
The sound of a hydraulic lock unsealing broke the quiet. I turned to see a small panel slide open above the door, revealing a red light. It turned green and the door slid smoothly open, revealing a skinny, nervous- looking man in a white lab coat, eyes wide behind his glasses. He was clutching his clipboard to his chest like he thought it afforded him some sort of protection.
"Miss Mason? If you'd like to come with me, I'd be happy to escort you to the restroom."
"Thank you." I unfolded my legs, ignoring pins and needles in my calves, and walked toward the doorway. The man didn't quite cringe as I approached, but he definitely shied back, looking more uneasy with every step I took. Interesting.
"We apologize for making you wait," he said. His words had the distinct cadence of something recited by rote, like telephone tech support asking for your ID and computer serial number. "There were a few things that had to be taken care of before we could proceed."
"Let's worry about that after I get to the bathroom, okay?" I sidestepped around him, out into the hall, and found myself looking at three hospital orderlies in blue scrubs, each of them pointing a pistol in my direction. I stopped where I was. "Okay, I can wait for my escort."
"That's for the best, Miss Mason," said the nervous man, whose voice I now recognized from the intercom. It just took a moment without the filtering speakers between us. "Just a necessary precaution. I'm sure you understand."
"Yeah. Sure." I fell into step behind him. The orderlies followed us, their aim never wavering. I did my best not to make any sudden moves. Having just returned to the land of the living, I was in no mood to exit it again. "Am I ever going to get something I can call you?"
"Ah . . ." His mouth worked soundlessly for a moment before he said, "I'm Dr. Thomas. I've been one of your personal physicians since you arrived at this facility. I'm not surprised you don't remember me. You've been sleeping for some time."
"Is that what the kids are calling it these days?" The hall was built on the model I've come to expect from CDC facilities, with nothing breaking the sterile white walls but the occasional door and the associated one-way mirrors looking into patient holding rooms. All the rooms were empty.
"You're walking well."
"It's a skill."
"How's your head? Any disorientation, blurred vision, confusion?"
"Yes." He tensed. I ignored it, continuing. "I'm confused about what I'm doing here. I don't know about you, but I get twitchy when I wake up in strange places with no idea how I got there. Will I be getting some answers soon?"
"Soon enough, Miss Mason." He stopped in front of a door with no mirror next to it. That implied that it wasn't a patient room. Better yet, there was a blood test unit to one side. I never thought I'd be so happy for the chance to be jabbed with a needle. "We'll give you a few minutes. If you need anything-"
"Using the bathroom, also a skill." I slapped my palm down on the test panel. Needles promptly bit into the heel of my hand and the tips of my fingers. The light over the door flashed between red and green before settling on the latter. Uninfected. The door swung open. I stepped through, only to stop and scowl at the one- way mirror taking up most of the opposite wall. The door swung shut behind me.
"Cute," I muttered. The need to pee was getting bad enough that I didn't protest the situation. I glared at the mirror the entire time I was using the facilities, all but daring someone to watch me. See? I can pee whether you're spying on me or not, you sick bastards.
Other than the mirror- or maybe because of the mirror- the bathroom was as standard- issue CDC as the hallway outside, with white walls, a white tile fl oor, and white porcelain fi xtures. Everything was automatic, including the soap dispenser, and there were no towels; instead, I dried my hands by sticking them into a jet of hot air. It was one big exercise in minimizing contact with any surface. When I turned back to the door, the only things I'd touched were the toilet seat and the floor, and I was willing to bet that they were in the process of self- sterilization by the time I started washing my hands.
The blood test required to exit the bathroom was set into the door itself, just above the knob. It didn't unlock until I checked out clean.
The three orderlies were waiting in the hall, with an unhappy Dr. Thomas between them and me. If I did anything bad enough to make them pull those triggers, the odds were good that he'd be treated as collateral damage.
"Wow," I said. "Who did you piss off to get this gig?"
He flinched, looking at me guiltily. "I'm sure I don't know what you mean."
"Of course not. Thank you for bringing me to the bathroom. Now, could I get that water?" Better yet, a can of Coke. The thought of its acid sweetness was enough to make my mouth water. It's good to know that some things never change.
"If you'd come this way?"
I gave the orderlies a pointed look. "I don't think I have much of a choice, do you?"
"No, I suppose you don't," he said. "As I said, a precaution. You understand."
"Not really, no. I'm unarmed. I've just passed two blood tests. I don't understand why I need three men with guns covering my every move." The CDC has been paranoid for years, but this was taking it to a new extreme.
Dr. Thomas's reply didn't help: "Security."
"Why do people always say that when they don't feel like giving a straight answer?" I shook my head. "I'm not going to make trouble. Please, just take me to the water."
"Right this way," he said, and started back the way we'd come.
There was a tray waiting for us on the bolted- down table in the room where I'd woken up. It held a plate with two pieces of buttered toast, a tumbler full of water, and wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, a can of Coke with condensation beading on the sides. I made for the tray without pausing to consider how the orderlies might react to my moving faster than a stroll. None of them shot me in the back. That was something.
The first bite of toast was the best thing I'd ever tasted, at least until I took the second bite, and then the third. Finally, I crammed most of the slice into my mouth, barely chewing. I managed to resist the siren song of the Coke long enough to drink half the water.
It tasted as good as the toast. I put down the glass, popped the tab on the can of soda, and took my first post- death sip of Coke. I was smart enough not to gulp it; even that tiny amount was enough to make my knees weak. That, and the caffeine rush that followed, provided the last missing piece.
Slowly, I turned to face Dr. Thomas. He was standing in the doorway, making notes on his clipboard. There were probably a few dozen video and audio recorders running, catching every move I made, but any good reporter will tell you that there's nothing like real field experience. I guess the same thing applies to scientists. He lowered his pen when he saw me looking.
"How do you feel?" he asked. "Dizzy? Are you full? Did you want something besides toast? It's a bit early for anything complicated, but I might be able to arrange for some soup, if you'd prefer that . . ."
"Mostly, what'd I'd prefer is having some questions answered." I shifted the Coke from one hand to the other. If I couldn't have my sunglasses, I guess a can of soda would have to do. "I think I've been pretty cooperative up to now. I also think that could change."
Dr. Thomas looked uncomfortable. "Well, I suppose that will depend on what sort of questions you want to ask."
"This one should be pretty easy. I mean, it's definitely within your skill set."
"All right. I can't promise to know the answer, but I'm happy to try. We want you to be comfortable."
"Good." I looked at him levelly, missing my black-eyed gaze. It always made people so uncomfortable. I got more honest answers out of those eyes . . . "You said you were my personal physician."
"That's correct."
"So tell me: How long have I been a clone?"
Dr. Thomas dropped his pen.
Still watching him, I raised my Coke, took a sip, and waited for his reply.
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Detroit Auto Show: Hummer HX and the Halo Warthog, The Final Word
I had a chance to talk with David Rojas and Robert Jablonski, the exterior and interior designers of the Hummer HX Concept with one question on the table: What's the link between the HX and the Warthog from Halo? The answer wasn't as clear as I was hoping. I couldn't get either of the twentysomething designers to admit that the HX was inspired in any least bit by the Warthog from Halo, but I think I can still make a case, even though GM has already openly denied any kind of a link between the two.
Unlike the pictures we saw earlier, the doors and the rear hatch roof were now removed on the vehicle I checked out, which made the HX look even more familiar and justified my relentless drilling of the designers about Halo.
I fully expected Rojas and Jablonski to quickly deny any kind of link—but the llevel of denial was stunning. Not only did Rojas quickly shoot down even the slightest bit of speculation, he was adamant, repeatedly stating the he neither owns an Xbox nor plays Halo. Jablonski echoed these denials. On a normal day that would be a fine, except a few days prior GM's director of exterior design for the HX, Carl Zipfel, admitted that "We all play [Halo]."
If you want to take a gander at this thing, it's clearly not a direct copy of the Warthog, but there are certain factors that one could draw assumptions from. The removable wheel fenders expose plenty of wheel-well action, which looks a lot like the Warthog. A completely covered and protected undercarriage and wheel wells is a necessity in Halo, to protect virtual combatants from imaginary barrages of assorted munitions. The Hummer designers must be anticipating that the HX will encounter similar action in the real world because the vehicle's protected undercarriage is a highly touted feature. The tailgate also opens for quick loading into the back with the folded down seats for when you have to quickly jump in and mount a gun turret. The roof of the HX is also removable, revealing a square top, which could be construed as similar to the Warthog's t-top.
So what's the final word? There isn't one. We've heard mentions of a link from insiders. We've heard speculation of a link across the Web. And even Rojas and Jablonski were quick to joke about the possibility of some kind of partnership with Bungie, makers of Halo, to get the Hummer HX into the game. While in-game advertising isn't something new, Bungie is not the kind of studio to participate in that, but on the other hand, Bungie's partial equity owner, Microsoft, would be more likely to join in.
It is safe to say that the Hummer HX is not a direct copy of the Warthog from Halo, but I can't get away from the fact that they share similar functionality, purposes, intentions—and that the designers were so adamant about their denials. Regardless, the fact of the matter is that neither the Warthog from Halo or the Hummer HX are actual production models. It's intriguing to see video games having a little bit of influence in the automotive industry, even if it is just with a conceptual design that will never see the light of day. Will we ever see GM hire away designers from the video game industry? Who knows?
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2010 Chevy Camaro SS To Star Alongside Christian Slater In New NBC Show
Alright, so there's this guy, Harvey Spivey, who's an efficiency expert. He lives the typical suburban life: wife, two kids, dog, minivan, self hatred. Basically, he's the total opposite of Edward Albright, a 2010 Chevy Camaro SS driving, multilingual, lethal operative. But get this: they share the same body. Whoa.
If you're thinking this sounds like a great idea for a TV show, you're not alone. It's coming to NBC this fall starring Christian Slater. Knight Rider might have some competition.
Revealed also are some more closer-up details of the new Camaro SS than those we were able to discern from the shots we saw of this very same Camaro SS on set of the new show. Check out the super thick A Pillar, blacked out grille and the centrally mounted hood scoop. [My Own Worst Enemy via Camaro Z28.com]
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Spotted on the Nürburgring: A Porsche Boxster and a Porsche Cayman. Normally, this would be an unremarkable occurrence. Except they sound quite a bit different than the last Cayman I drove. Maybe even two fewer cylinders different.
That's what the intrepid 'Ring watchers at Touriclips think, too. They're also pretty certain that's not the flat-six Cayman and Boxster rumble we're used to hearing. I think it's higher-pitched than that.
We know that Porsche is planning a new line of four-cylinder engines, likely flat fours, to debut in their cars over the next few years. I would not be surprised at all if these are the motors being tested here.
What does everybody think of that sound? Is a four-banger Cayman and Boxster something we can get behind?
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Reading-Is-Fundamentalists Slaughter 52 Illiterates
Committed to the eradication of illiteracy “by any means necessary,” RIF was formed in 1973 by a coalition of dissident librarians censured by the government for their extremist views. Some 500 deaths have been linked to the group in the past 24 years, including a 1991 incident in which an armored bookmobile exploded at a Ku Klux Klan rally outside Mobile, AL, killing 83 illiterates. — Satire from The Onion
From The ‘London Times’ of 1904
This Is Your Brain on Writing
When I teach creative writing, I notice that novices frequently write as if describing a what a TV screen would show if a camera had zoomed in for a close-up of their narrator’s face. By contrast, an experienced writer would rely on a much wider range of storytelling techniqes, including dialogue and interior thoughts. “What do you mean?” I say, my brows furrowing in confusion. “Hold on,” says the old man.…
Verizon’s $4.4 billion deal for AOL sends AOL stock on a tear
Verizon has experimented with journalism before, briefly running Sugarstring — where reporters were banned from covering issues like government surveilance and net neutrality (topics in which Verizon is a newsmaker). Verizon buying AOL gives the biggest US wireless carrier access to AOL’s successful digital advertising service and content including the Huffington Post news website. —CS Monitor
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Broadsides: Can't We All Just Get Along?
• Can't a divorced set of parents get along for the sake of the kiddies? If Terri Romanoff-Newman has her way, the answer is yes. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
• Can't we all just band together in the fight against breast cancer? The American Cancer Society is at odds with new guidelines issued by the American College of Physicians about mammograms for women under 50. [CNN]
• Can't a career-minded woman get a break? Yet another study suggests that the longer you wait to procreate, the more likely you are to have a child with autism. [USA Today]
• Can't a parent escape blame? 50% of cases of pertussis (a fancy word for "whooping cough") among babies are attributable to their evil, germ-filled parents. [NYTimes]
• Rich, white lesbians get attention when they gather in groups and flash their tits. And when they dare to criticize the American government. [Feministing, Huffington Post]
• Okay, so what exactly is the difference between a child sex slave and child prostitute? Apparently it's just a matter of jail-time. [Salon]
• No important women died yesterday, according to the Times. [NYTimes]
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For her followup to "Tardy for the Party," Kim spells it out—literally—for the haters on her new track "Google Me." BTW, this is a rap song.
Following her command in the song, we went ahead and Googled her to compile the images seen in this video. Given the search results, we're not really sure that she should be telling "haters" to acquaint themselves with her this way.
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Study Concludes That Working Moms Make Kids Fat
The more mothers work, the fatter their kids get. The solution is obviously to live in a world where, magically, economic necessity doesn't dictate that two parents earn incomes in order to adequately support children. Be richer, moms!
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and a little place called "Cornell" (you ever heard of it?) followed 900 children and found that those with working mothers had slightly higher BMI's than other children.
Increased television viewing wasn't responsible for the change in BMI, nor was a decrease in physical activity responsible. Rather, researchers surmised that perhaps the uptick in body mass has to do with the interrupted sleep and eating patterns of children of working moms, since obviously fathers can't be bothered to do stuff like feed the kids or make sure they get to bed on time or take them to school.
Harvard researcher Alison E. Field was a little dubious of the study.
"For one thing, we don't know why these mothers were going in and out of the workforce," Field said. "Some women choose to go back to work and others have to because they need the income. The reason the mothers are working can have a very different impact on how their families are eating, and that kind of gets glossed over in this study."
Another limitation of the paper, Field noted, is that because the children were studied around the time of puberty, it's possible that other developmental factors may have accounted for changes in BMI.
Nevertheless, Field agreed that a key take-home message for working parents is that they "need to think twice about feeding their families a lot of processed, pre-packaged foods."
That's right, poor people. Think twice about feeding your kids the only food you can afford to feed them or have time to prepare or can acquire easily in your neighborhood.
The More Moms Work, The Heavier Their Kids Get [Business Week]
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I knew that it was time to find a new doctor after she suggested I lie to my ex-boyfriend (I didn't even want to get back together with him) and say that I was pregnant. Even in my crazy, unstable state of mind — I knew that this was not the advice that seemed helpful.
I've had just about as many psychologists, shrinks and guidance counselors as I have had sexual partners … and all I'll say to that is: I've had more than four and less than 70. Finding a good professional that you can talk it out with is seriously like finding a good hairdresser. The first few times you see them, they want to do their best; it's that honeymoon period of excitement. Both parties want it to work out. They want to make you happy and keep you coming back for more.
Once they've got you reeled in, they might starting getting a little too comfortable and push the limits — (you know, like chopping an extra five inches off of your hair because THEY think it's best for you). Usually one of two things happen: You live happily ever after with your shrink and keep seeing them. OR, things start to get not so nice after they've had a few months to gain your trust and suck you in.
It can be easy to confuse someone being a dickwad with a professional attempting to give you a dose of tough love and reality that you're paying to hear. However the delivery and in the manner which the therapist chooses to do so, can make all of the difference.
How to Tell if Your Doctor SUCKS.
Our sessions got shorter and shorter. Ending 20 to 30 minutes early. Throughout this whole ordeal it became very obvious to me that Dr. S did not like me. She would scold me for having a water bottle on her couch. If my cell phone rang, she'd get angry at me … but if HER phone rang, she could answer it.
I started rebelling by saying that if my phone rang I could answer it because I was paying to be there and it was MY time. She didn't like that … but I was right.
If you leave your therapy session more upset than when you come in, that's a pretty good sign that your doctor is a douche. A good therapist will make sure you've calmed down so when you walk out the door you won't feel like jumping off of the Empire State Building. And many times, I felt just that lousy after spending a hellacious hour-or less-with Dr. S.
This also happened around the time she yelled at me, "You're an alcoholic and you need help!" Words I didn't like to hear, but because of that statement which was so bold, harsh and made me cry, I DID check myself into a program which saved my life. It only took a week of me sobering up to realize that I didn't have to put up with her anymore.
This is what I emailed to her: "Dr. S, Thank you for your time with me. I have decided to take a different direction in how I will approach therapy from now on as I enter sobriety. Best of luck to you." (Feel free to copy and paste if you'd like to send this to your shrink you'd like to fire!)
Dr. S wrote back a simple. "OK. Good luck."
Of course I wanted her to fight for me to stick with her, but by then I knew we didn't like each other. The poor woman really must've needed that extra $75 I gave her each week.
I then started seeing an extremely sweet soft-spoken woman, Dr. A. She told me that she didn't usually work with patients, but evaluated them and placed them with other doctors. In this case, however, she would personally take me on.
Dr. A would make me lay on a couch with a piece of paper over a pillow, in a very bland medicinal room with muted Van Gogh art prints and several boxes of Kleenex. I didn't like laying down. She asked why. She asked "Why" a lot.
I spent our sessions doing all of the talking, spilling my guts out, working myself up into a frenzy, and when it was time to leave, I'd be frustrated. After working with Dr. A for about a month, I realized I liked her a lot as a person, but as a medical professional it just wasn't working. I made the dreaded phone call. "
Hi Dr. A, I don't think I'm going to be able to see you anymore."
"It's just not working for me, and I really wish it was, but it's not helping and I'm not feeling any change in my progress."
"Well, maybe we should talk about it," she said.
"No, I don't want to talk about it because I know that I'm done, and I really am sorry because I think you're a great person, but this isn't working for me and what I need in my life right now."
I heard in her voice that she really was disappointed, but she wasn't going to force me to do anything I didn't want to do. We hung up. I cried. Dr. A was the sweetest therapist ever, but when it came down to it, it wasn't working. If I had her number now, I'd call her and thank her for being a sweetheart.
Now I'm working with a therapist on an as-needed basis. He doesn't force me to come in. If he pisses me off, I tell him, but that's usually because he's telling me something that I need to hear and work on. He gives me a dose of tough love if and when I need it.
Therapists WILL tell you things about yourself that you won't like to hear, but part of therapy is being willing and open to change. Once a therapist personally attacks you, purposely forces you to dwell on something that is traumatic and that you're not ready to deal with yet, imposes and tries to force their personal beliefs on you…that's when there is a problem. Therapy isn't always fun, but it shouldn't be something you dread and walk out of feeling less than.
The most important thing to realize about working with any therapist? They are working for YOU on your dime! And if something doesn't feel kosher about your situation with them, it's your right to cut the cord and find help elsewhere. After all, it's your life.
This post originally appeared on XOJane. Republished with permission.
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There are a lot of things that make for a good marriage. I don't know what they are, because I've never been married, and I don't believe that human behavior is predictable and controllable via magic formulas, and also "marriage" is a construct based on an archaic daughter-selling ceremony, which means that what actually makes for a good marriage, in the most traditional sense, is a herd of fine steer and a chest of money and a stack of fresh hankies for that weeping 13-year-old. But ANYHOOZ, I'm sure there are some fairly universal things that make for a "good" marriage, such as hugs. And talking. And taking turns doing the dishes. And—according to a new study—possibly your genetic makeup too.
New research out of UC Berkeley suggests that there may be a genetic component to successful longterm monogamous relationships. They studied 100 people, along with their partners, over a period of 13 years, and believe they may have found a link between healthy, stable relationships (a designation that seems utterly subjective, but okay) and an allele known as 5-HTTLPR.
Clearly the sheer number of complex, confounding factors and external forces that shape every relationship—personal history, unexpected tragedies, basic personal compatibility, whether she laughs or cries at your farts, etc.—make a simple "good at relationships"/"bad at relationships" dichotomy utterly absurd. There are no magic formulas. Everyone is kind of good and kind of bad at every relationship, all of which are both good and bad, and constantly changing, all of the time, until they end, or don't. Wrangling that unpredictable beast is at the core of all longterm relationships.
But it's not so implausible (to me, via my guts, anyway) that different people are very slightly genetically predisposed to processing stresses and problems in very slightly different ways, and that those predispositions might make certain pairings of problem-solvers very slightly more or less compatible. I totally buy that. Like, for instance, when I get stressed out I really really want to talk about it and I stare at my boyfriend like a Keane painting until he runs and hides in the basement, whereas when he gets stressed out he really really wants to doodle on the piano for three hours and OH MY GOD LINDY WHY ARE YOU STARING AT ME ARE YOU HAUNTED OR SOMETHING JESUS CHRIST. We make up for that disconnect by talking and trying hard and loving each other the most and making the best jokes and working and him talking a little more than he wants to and me chilling the fuck out a little more than I want to. It doesn't make us "incompatible"—it's one tiny drop in the big churning, leaky, intoxicating bucket that is a grown-up longterm relationship.
Anyway, back to the study:
I still don't totally get if it's better to have short alleles or long alleles, or if your alleles should rub together when you walk or if you should be striving for an allele gap. It seems like if you both have short alleles and you're really super compatible in nearly every way, the only hurdle is that you might cut and run at the first sign of hardship. And the long allele situation sounds safe but a little cold—like, I don't know if I want to just be content in my relationship because I'm not sensitive enough to notice that it's broken. (And obviously, yes, this is all speculative and I am just speculating for fun.)
Whatever the case, relationships are what they are—they're infinitely complex, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, and there's nothing "bad" about letting them die instead of clinging to longterm unhappiness out of some antiquated obligation. Especially when it just might be biology.
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Anglo-Saxon England
Research Article
The early Kentish ‘divorce laws’: a reconsideration of Æthelberht, chs. 79 and 80
Carole A. Hougha1
a1 University of Nottingham
Evidence concerning the position of women in Anglo-Saxon England, particularly during the early period, is sparse and often difficult to assess. Surviving law-codes constitute an important source of information, but due to their cryptic phraseology and sometimes archaic vocabulary they are notoriously open to misinterpretation. Two clauses from the earliest extant code, issued by King Æthelberht of Kent towards the beginning of the seventh century, are commonly treated as evidence of the independent status of divorced women in early Kentish society. So far as I am aware this view has never been challenged, although it remains uncorroborated by other sources and is by no means the only possible interpretation of the text. In this paper I wish to put forward an alternative reading.
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Book Notices
M. J. R. Fasham, editor. Flows of Energy and Materials in Marine Ecosystems: Theory and Practice, ix, 733 pp. Plenum Press, 1984. Price $110.00. (NATO Conference Series.)
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Climate Change Takes Flight in New Novel
Apr 19, 2013
Originally published on May 21, 2013 2:11 pm
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Flora Lichtman. Why do we believe what we believe? And how is it that two people can look at the exact same set of circumstances and see two completely different things? That philosophical question is at the center of a new book where, to put it another way, one person's beautiful miracle is another person's ecological crisis. Here to talk more about that miracle or crisis, depending on your point of view, is the writer, Barbara Kingsolver. Her previous books include "Animal, Vegetable Miracle", and "The Poisonwood Bible." She's been awarded the National Humanities Medal. Her new book is "Flight Behavior." It's a novel. She joins us from WHYY, in Philadelphia. Thanks for joining us today.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER: You're welcome. I'm glad to be here.
LICHTMAN: Give us a thumbnail sketch of what this book is about.
KINGSOLVER: This book is about a shocking, very beautiful, and probably disastrous biological event that happens on a farm in southern, rural Appalachia. And I don't want to be the spoiler, but if you do that's on you. But basically, this - this is discovered - this event, it's a very freakish, amazing thing that should happen somewhere else in the world, and suddenly, one winter, it occurs on a mountaintop in eastern Tennessee, among rural conservative farmers, who are prone to see it as a miracle from the Lord. But it attracts a lot of attention, and the media come in and scientists come in and they declare it, at least the scientists declare it, a disastrous manifestation of a changing climate. It is fiction. It's a novel in which I use this device to talk about - about climate change, about the methods of science, because that's a really big part of this novel. These scientists who come in have to really have a conversation with the people who live here. And it's really about this, as you said in the beginning, why we decide to believe what we believe and why it's so difficult for us to have this conversation about climate change.
LICHTMAN: Okay, this is the point where you can lodge your complaints at me, because I am about to spoil it. So turn off your radio if you don't want to know. The event is a migration of Monarch butterflies and it's not clear, originally, what it looks like. It looks like a lake of fire, is how you describe it, and then later, you describe it this way. Even the tree trunks were butterfly pelts all the way up, like the bristling, hairy legs of giants. Have you seen these monarchs in person?
KINGSOLVER: Well, yes, of course, I have. I had to when I realized that I wanted to write this novel and this is the way I wanted to do it. I wanted to use the monarchs - okay, we'll say it - the monarchs as a device. I, of course, had to be able to describe this phenomenon infinitely, in many different ways, and to express in language how amazing and how beautiful it is. So I had to go and see that. And I did go to Mexico and spent time on the mountaintops in Michoacan, where these - where the whole species, or the whole population of eastern monarchs congregates in the winter. And so I had to be able to re-create that. So, yes, I have seen them, and it is a wonder of the world.
LICHTMAN: You can see why people would look at it and think it's a miracle.
KINGSOLVER: Especially if they were unprepared to see it any other way.
KINGSOLVER: But the story is conveyed through the eyes of this farmer's wife, who discovers it, actually, in a - she's kind of in an awkward situation. She's going somewhere where she's not supposed to be, and she sees it and she's not allowed to tell anyone. But she feels it's her personal burning bush. She takes it as a warning to go back. I wanted to write it, initially, through her eyes so that you, too, would not know what you are seeing, but later ...
LICHTMAN: If Science Friday didn't spoil it for you.
KINGSOLVER: Well, yeah. But you see what I mean, because it is about perception and how we need to be - to understand what we're seeing before we can really see it. That's really key to understanding this whole issue of climate change and why we see or don't see what's right in front of us.
LICHTMAN: What drew you to monarchs in the first place?
KINGSOLVER: I had really wanted to write about the subject for a long time. I live in southern Appalachia. I am surrounded by neighbors and friends, people I respect very much, who don't really understand climate change or believe in it. Even though, as farmers, they're getting socked by it. We've had unprecedented, disastrous weather time and again. So it's such a strange contradiction that the people in our continent, who were first to feel the harm of a changing climate, are the last to be able to talk about it. That was such a conundrum and such rich territory for a novel to tread that I was just looking for the right way to get into the subject. And one morning, I just woke up with this vision in my eyes of millions of butterflies covering the forest behind my house. I just, I mean, I didn't actually see it. I imagined it. I just - I woke up and there it was, and I knew that was it. I was really excited because to write - the difference between journalism and fiction is that you need - it has to be symbolic. You need a plot, you need characters, and you need a way to enter the story that isn't telling, but showing. And you need, of course, extraordinary events. You need conflict.
LICHTMAN: I mean, you also seem sort of perfectly positioned to write this because you have a background in science. You have a degree in biology, right?
KINGSOLVER: Several of them, in fact. That's right, I always loved reading and writing as a kid, but I didn't imagine that I could be lucky enough to be a writer. For a living, I thought I should study something practical, so - and I love science. I really feel I am a scientist. I was cut out to be a scientist. I studied biology in college, and I actually have a Master's degree in evolutionary biology. And I have always loved science, but somehow, apparently, love writing novels more.
LICHTMAN: Why aren't many other people writing these stories? I mean, it seems to me like climate change is so ripe for good symbolism. I mean, the world is melting, there are floods, there're catastrophes. It seems well suited.
KINGSOLVER: Not to mention, an urgent matter. But you're right, very few novelists have tackled it. And I really think part of that is that, well, it's a scary subject in every way, but also, most novelists aren't trained in science. We have this divide in our culture. I think, kids decide pretty early on whether they groove on the math and chemistry classes or whether they're going to run for their lives into history and AP English, and it just goes on from there. We establish this - we kind of establish these roots for ourselves in which we're not going to really cross over, and it becomes increasingly difficult to do that. I think a lot of people are afraid of science really, which is - which is bad news for everybody, because we really all need to understand a certain amount of science in order to make decent policy about the world we live in. But the truth is translating scientific ideas from physics and mathematics and biology into vernacular English is difficult enough, and then translating it into fiction, so that it's all there, unobtrusively, is extremely challenging. And that was both a daunting and a really fun part of this novel. In order to bring the reader into this world of scientists studying climate change in front of their eyes, they had to know something about the physics of why warm air holds more moisture. I wrote in this novel about the difference between correlation and causation, one of my pet peeves with journalists when they report on science. It requires a certain comfort with the literature and with the subject to begin to translate that into plot and character, and to make it really compelling. So the people who might think they're afraid of science can read this novel, enjoy this novel, without knowing that they're being educated in science.
LICHTMAN: One of the interesting things about how this novel is structured is that we get a really full explanation of climate science, I think, without any condescension, because the protagonist is learning about it herself. Do you think that there are ways in which fiction might be actually better suited to take on issues like this than nonfiction?
KINGSOLVER: I absolutely do, and that's why I do it. As I said earlier, for one thing, you can introduce ideas to people in a nonthreatening way. You can introduce science to people who didn't know they were interested in science. You can also talk about how people come to their truths, which was really a big part of this novel. Ultimately, even though the science and the butterflies are the central device here, a novel has to be about people. And what I really wanted to get at was the opening question that you made very clear. Why do we believe or disbelieve the evidence we see for climate change? And because I live in southern Appalachia, and have great respect for communities of people who have chosen to believe otherwise, I really wanted to look into how we make those choices and how it's possible to begin a conversation across some of these divides, between scientists and nonscientists, between rural and urban, between progressive and conservative. That when it comes to understanding the scientific truths about the world, there must be another way to bring information to people that is beyond simply condescending and saying, well, if only you had the facts, if only you knew what I did, then you would be a smart person. That gets you nowhere. And again, this is my community, this is my culture. Another rarity in literature is not very many people write about southern Appalachia very respectfully, and that was important to me, as well.
LICHTMAN: Do you have science - I have 30 seconds left - but will we see science in your next book?
KINGSOLVER: Absolutely.
LICHTMAN: Well, I look forward to it. Thank you for joining us today.
KINGSOLVER: It's my pleasure.
LICHTMAN: Barbara Kingsolver is the author of "Flight Behavior." This is Science Friday, from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Speak Clearly and Carry a Golf Stick in Kinect Sports
"Xbox," I say, "Streak 20," and the huddle breaks. My quarterback trots up to the line. I instinctively half-squat and reach out my hands, placing them under the giant rear end of an invisible lineman. "Hike!"
There is a slight delay between command and action, and sometimes I'm not sure if Kinect Sports: Season 2 is responding to my voice or the fact I've stood up straight. Both trigger the start of a play in the game's American football component.
Sure, I looked like an idiot to anyone watching me stick my big fat ass out in the Kinect pod booth at E3. There was a palpable lag that kept it from being an entirely smooth experience. But when it worked, it was fun, it put a smile on my face when I hit my streaking receiver perfectly over the shoulder, and it foreshadowed some of what I expect to see when Madden NFL integrates Kinect support next year.
Following the flagship Kinect Sports, Season 2 will offer six new activities when it releases in the last quarter of the year. In addition to football, you get golf, darts, skiing, baseball and tennis. At E3, I saw golf and football.
First, football. It's a minigame, though an entertaining one when it works. You get four downs to score a touchdown or kick a field goal. Multiplayer is handled either cooperatively (you and a receiver, there are no running plays) or as a turn-based competition (both facing a CPU defense). Eight plays come up on the screen, one of which is the field goal, and you can pick them either with your hand or by saying their name aloud. The riskier plays are to the left of the screen.
When the ball is snapped, you control your quarterback's aim by stepping forward or backward (left or right relative to the screen, as you're facing to the side). I didn't prefer this method of control but was told later that advanced settings will recognize your shoulder posture and aim your pass in that direction.
From there, your job is simply to make a throwing motion. Receivers downfield will carry a green icon if they're open (red if they're covered). Complete the pass, and if you're playing with a buddy, it's up to him to run like hell - that means moving his legs up and down as fast as he can. In singleplayer, it's you doing the running.
My last pass of the demonstration was an 80-yard catch and run for a touchdown. "That's the longest pass I've caught today!" said my demonstrator. "I bet you say that to everyone," I replied.
Kicking a field goal is a simple leg motion, provided you're within a close enough range. You know it, I know it, the American people know it, within two weeks of release we're going to see some mishaps on YouTube. "We'll see 10 videos of someone slinging his shoe into the television," my demonstrator said.
"Yeah, but eight of them will be faked," I replied.
That was football. Golf was more of a full-service experience, laid out on a custom-built course that offered a few high-risk shortcuts and terrain features to exploit, like catching a downhill to add some roll to your drive. Shot distance seemed to be pegged largely to your club type (which you may change with voice command). In putting, Kinect did differentiate between a soft, hard, and really hard stroke, so you can rattle out easy putts if you swing unreasonably hard.
Your green reads were manifested in a line that turned more translucent (or vanished) the more you were aimed away from the correct angle on the hole. Moving your aim was again the step forward/step backward control seen in football. Holding your hand over your brow, like you're looking out across a field, gives you a flyby view of the hole. On the whole, golf is the sport that makes the most sense with motion controlled video gaming, and Kinect Sports handled it appropriately.
I wasn't shown the other four sports, but was told that skiing will be a slalom-style competition controlled by leaning for turns (and jumping, when you hit moguls); baseball apparently is a home-run derby style competition although it will incorporate a pitching component. Tennis seems straightforward enough. I was told Darts is the real gem, but was given no information as to how it is controlled or what its particular move set is.
Kinect Sports 2 sounds like the kind of title that should be bundled with the device when it releases by the end of the year. For existing owners, the football game is an interesting novelty but the golf component, being a fuller experience, is more likely what would make it worth picking up.
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UFO Catchera are Sega redemption games. Arcade punters operate a claw and attempt to pull out prizes that range from stuffed animals to instant noodle. Sega didn't make this particular UFO Catcher. Toyota did.
The 8-ton, 29-foot-tall and 39-foot-wide UFO Catcher appeared in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills over the weekend as part of a promotion for the Toyota's Ractis compact car.
Previously, the largest crane game in the world was created in San Diego in 2004. Toyota's UFO Catcher was nearly twice as large.
Check out the jumbo sized stuffed animals and then wonder how the hell you get something like that home. Not in a Ractis, that's how.
クレーンもぬいぐるみもデカイ!! とにかくデカイすぎる [RocketNews via Arcade Heroes]
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Assassin's Creed III Changes Weather, Changes Sides, Loses Towers
There's a big Assassin's Creed III feature in the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, and having just thumbed through it, there's some interesting stuff not already revealed in there that's worth pointing out.
About trees. And Generals. And snow. And the great American frontier.
Previous games had a day/night cycle, but ACIII goes one step further and has a seasonal cycle. So during your travels the cities and countryside of the North American colonies will bleed from summer to winter, the latter bringing with it deep snow and complete changes to the animation and capabilities of the game's hero, Connor.
The game features both Boston and New York, both pivotal locations in the War of Independence, but in between them it has something a lot bigger: the "frontier". This stretch of wilderness is 1.5x the size of the entire game world in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, meaning there should be plenty of places to climb trees, shimmy up mountains and hunt wild animals (for furs and money, of course, and the better the kill, the bigger the reward).
Like Ezio's tale, Connor's will run its course over decades. The game kicks off in 1753, with the colonies still happily a possession of the mother country, and will finish in 1783, the same year the Treaty of Paris brought an end to the War of Independence.
Some of the real historical figures already confirmed to be making an appearance in ACIII are George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and, most interestingly, the equally heroic and tragic British-then-American General Charles Lee. The Game Informer story says "a large majority" of characters you meet in the game are actual historical figures, a first for the series.
That awful "tower defence" mode from Revelations is gone. Phew.
Ubisoft says the game will be trying to avoid making the war, and its combatants, a simplistic good vs evil struggle. There'll be bad Americans and good Brits, and the motives of both the Assassin's and Templars will be shown to similarly murky.
You can read a whole lot more on the game in the latest issue of Game Informer, digital copy linked below.
Assassin's Creed III Cover Story [Game Informer Digital]
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The New Gears of War Campaign Gets Harder As You Get Better
Last night, I had a chance to play OverRun mode, the great-looking new versus multiplayer in Gears of War: Judgment. Today, I sat down with Epic's Cliff Bleszinski and People Can Fly's Adrian Chmielarz to hear the first details about its single-player campaign.
There are a number of substantial-sounding tweaks to gameplay, all of which will result in a harder-core (and just plain harder) single-player game.
For starters, there's something that Chmielarz called "S3," or the smart spawn system. It sounds more or less like Left 4 Dead's AI director—based on how you're doing in the campaign, the game will change the flow of the game, sometimes dramatically.
If you're doing well, more and more difficult enemies will spawn in different locations, pushing you harder; if you're doing poorly, the game will ease up. This all happens relative to the difficulty that you've chosen at the outset—if you're playing on casual, it won't get too hard.
The idea is to promote replayability, since as Bleszinski pointed out, many people thought that Gears 3 was a short game even though it was technically their longest. That's because it was a bit too easy, in his opinion. The goal with Gears of War: Judgment is to give players something much more difficult.
The other big change is something called the "Declassification System," which is a smart bit of shiftiness built into the game's story. Which, as we already knew, is a prequel that will star the series' up-till-now second bananas Baird and Cole Train over a decade before the events of the first three Gears game. Bleszinski described Judgment as taking place slightly after Emergence Day—to put it in game terms, he called it "Emergence Day's launch window."
(Of course, I asked if Emergence Day had day-one DLC. Bleszinski declined to comment. Heh.)
"There's more game in this game than previously."
See, Gears of War: Judgment is a "frame narrative"—the entire story is testimony given at Baird, Cole, and the rest of Kilo Squad's trial for treason. We're not sure what events led to them being disgraced as they have been, and we'll find out over the course of the game.
The flashbacks won't be reliable, however—at least, not 100%. Sometimes, Baird and company will remember things "wrong," and eventually you'll get a "declassified" version of each mission to play. Sometimes that'll mean that you have weapon restrictions, or that the setting or number of enemies are different. Other times it sounds like the implications could be more dramatic, though we didn't get into the details of what that might mean, exactly.
This is all laying the groundwork for a nifty bit of storytelling, though I must say I was a bit bummed to hear about another feature that allows players to "unlock" power-ups and weapons that are fuzzy because they "can't be remembered." But if you spend points, you'll remember them!
I don't quite know why this idea turns me off—after all, having different power-ups will make the levels feel different. But something about it seems silly? We'll see how it looks in the final game.
Most of what I heard about Gears of War: Judgment sounds as though the game will be much faster-paced, brutal, dynamic and difficult than its predecessors.
"There's more game in this game than previously," said Chmielarz.
With the game slated for a 2013 release, we will doubtless see more of the single-player game in the not-too-distant future. Regardless, what Chmielarz and Bleszinski are talking about aren't merely cosmetic changes—these will likely substantially change the feel of Gears.
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ChefVille 'The Undead Chef' Quests: Everything You Need to Know
The second portion of ChefVille's Halloween event has finally launched in our restaurants, as players are now encouraged to upgrade both the Halloween Cauldron and Haunted Broiler to unlock Intermediate Level dishes. This comes by way of two new quest series that are activated via a single quest that we'll look at below.
From there, you can jump straight into a series of four "Undead Chef" quests, which we're here to guide you through now. First things first, you'll need to complete the Extra Creepy Cauldron quest, which is now available to complete for the next eight days.
Cauldron Crusade
• Upgrade Your Halloween Cauldron to Intermediate
• Eat at Neighbors' Restaurants 6 Times
• Tend 12 Wild Pumpkins at Neighbors' Restaurants
This quest is a bit misleading, as the Wild Pumpkins task implies that you can simply tend 12 Wild Pumpkins at three different friends' restaurants, but it looks like you'll actually need to visit 12 different friends instead. This could be a glitch that's fixed later, but for now, be prepared for such a setup going in. As for the Halloween Cauldron upgrade, this is completed by collecting a large variety of building materials. You'll need four Cauldron Tricks, four Bubbling Banter, and four Spider Spells, all of which are earned through individual requests sent to neighbors.
You'll also need five each of Cauldron Treats and five Witches Warnings, with these two items coming by way of general news posts placed on your wall. When you complete this upgrade, you'll gain access to two more dishes: Cackling Kettle Corn and Beef & Pumpkin Chili, but of course, you won't need to cook any of those just yet. Completing this quest gives you five XP, 50 coins and two Corn. From here, you'll be able to access the "Undead Chef" quests, which immediately introduce another building project.
New Haunt
• Upgrade Haunted Broiler to Level 2
• Have 2 Spooky Halloween Ribbons in Pumpkin Waffles
• Give 7 Chef's Services with Creepy Crepes
Thankfully, both of these dishes are prepared within the original Haunted Broiler, so you can work on the upgrade in the "background" while these dishes are cooking. Just remember that you can't access the menu to ask for parts while a dish is actually cooking, so ask for everything you need to before making the Broiler "busy" again. A single Pumpkin Waffles requires two Pumpkin Puree, one Dough and one Salt to prepare (along with three minutes), while Creepy Crepes take two minutes and require three Pumpkins, one Flour and two Milk. Since you won't get very many servings for a single preparation of Creepy Crepes, you'll want to make sure you're actively playing the game when you serve it to finish this task so that you (hopefully) don't have to cook it all over again just to reach seven.
As for the Haunted Broiler, this upgrade requires five Werewolf Whispers and five Angelic Anecdotes, both of which are earned by asking your friends to send them to you specifically. You'll also need six Terrifying Tips, which are earned via a general news post placed on your wall. This quest guide will continue to expand in the future, as we learn more about what makes these quests tick.
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Happy birthday, Final Fantasy! You were first released in Japan on December 18, 1987. You're 25. Good times. Now listen. We need to talk.
There used to be a day when seeing the name "Final Fantasy" meant we were about to play something fantastic, when your "brand"—as the kids like to call it these days—was a sign of something special. Those days are gone. Now you're a fucking mess.
The problems started a while ago—with that awful Spirits Within movie, really—but the first major blow to the Final Fantasy clout was FFXIII. Granted, some people loved walking Lightning down the Tube, but many of your fans were disillusioned by the style-over-substance approach. Lots of people weren't happy.
Then there was the FFXIV disaster, the vaporware Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and the endless remakes of the first four Final Fantasy games. (Fun fact: There have been nine—count'em, nine—re-releases of Final Fantasy IV. FFVI and FFVII? Two.)
It's like Square Enix is teaching us all a crash course in "How To Make Your Fans Hate You Forever."
Now you're sticking the Final Fantasy name on just about anything. Look at Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade, the ridiculous mobile/social game that launched last week without sound. How do you release a Final Fantasy game without any sound? Nobuo Uematsu must be rolling in his cryogenic sleep chamber.
How the hell did you let this happen, Final Fantasy? Take a good, hard look at yourself. Think about what you've become. What you want to be. You're old enough to rent a car now. Time to get your shit together. Happy birthday.
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Online Dating
falling 4 sum1 over the net, possible???
hey guys.. do u think its possible to fall for sum1 with online dating (camming, facebook, txts, calls, mails) with out really meeting this person face to face?
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Ask Eveover a year ago
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Yes, it's very possible to fall for some...
Yes, it's very possible to fall for someone over the net. Trouble is, people can be anyone they want to be when you talk to them online. They can fill your head with all sorts of nonesense saying they're a pilot, a model etc just to catch your eye. They can even send you pictures that is NOT them (saying they don't have a webcam at the minute.) The person starts to build up a persona of this person, falling for who they THINK that person is. That is why it is SO important for parents to monitor what their kids do on the net as there are so many dangerous people out there conditioning youngsters.
That being said, lots of people are more or less who they say they are but it's only when you actually meet with them face to face then you really see if the chemistry is there. They could have an irritating habit, be shorter than you thought, or their hygiene or dress sense could be iffy. Internet relationships can work but it's ALWAYS best to meet, (in a built up area with lots of other people) preferably within a reasonable period of chatting to see if they are all that you think.
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Simone de Boudoir
Simone de Boudoirover a year ago
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I totally think it's possible to connect...
I totally think it's possible to connect with someone online without having met them. For me though, eventually we'd have to meet.
This is how I met my current partner. We met online (Myspace of all places) and started chatting and immediately there was a spark. We spoke online all night long for about two weeks straight and then he took a bus to come and meet me.
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StillFiguringasdfaItOutover a year ago
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The problem with facebook, texts, and ma...
The problem with facebook, texts, and mails is that this style of communication cuts out 80% of the communication (the voice, the body language, the timing) which we naturally fill in with our own imagination, expectations, history, and any other assumption. And if people have too much time to think about what they write, they will filter out parts of themselves as well (because they can move into writing what they think they should write, versus being more themselves).
Sure the communication gets deep quickly, but we read a lot of it with our inner voice... so we build this image of the other person that is less about who they are (and more about who we are... of course we love them ;-) )
So while I think phone calls and camming does help improve communications, if you haven't met the person face to face you really don't know them (not on that intimate, chemistry, we really click, kind of way)
So no... you can't truly fall for someone over the net. (I will concede that people might be more open in their communications, so when you do meet them, you feel like you already know them and are more open to them... but...)
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2sweet4uover a year ago
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I think its possible to fall in love up ...
I think its possible to fall in love up to a certain point. You can get emotionally connected to someone (quickly) because the conversations usually get deep very quickly. There is only so much to talk about with a person that you never met in person so the conversation usually gets personal quick (in my experience).
I just believe that love can only get so far without being in physical contact with the person at some point. Of course long distance relationships and people who go to war still have immense love for their partners but at some point they were together before the separation. I think it's impossible to reach that level without ever being together in person.
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scarlettewiththeropeover a year ago
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I dunno guys, I've done online dating, a...
I dunno guys, I've done online dating, and I see a BIG difference between becoming attracted to someone online, and even developing a crush, and falling in love. Falling in love is a big thing for me. I don't fall in love casually; if I say I love you, I mean it, all out, there's a part of me that wants to have you there forever. So, to me, to really fall in love with someone, you need to really KNOW them, in a way born of experience as well as communication. Communication is very important, but it's not everything. Online, all you know of a person is how they represent themselves, and the way a person sees him/herself is probably not exactly the same as how they actually are. I maintain that you should know someone in real life before getting to the emotional investment of 'love.'
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MC423over a year ago
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I think it's absolutely possible. Peopl...
I think it's absolutely possible. People feel more comfortable talking behind some type of "wall" rather that be a phone or computer. The conversations tend to get serious a lot quicker. There isn't as much of an ability to flirt because body language and contact is taken out of the equation.
I just think it would be weird to see a person for the first time. Think about it, you know so much about this person from communication but you've never even physically touched the person. Then you see each other in person....I would think that first time or two would be awkward.
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Albedoover a year ago
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I have done this too. It really isn't th...
I have done this too. It really isn't that different than in person, though as sexpert said your conversations do tend to develop more deeply and quickly over the interwebs, that is all you have after all.
Though sometimes things can be totally different in person. I met a woman who I had been having great online conversations with and things fell decidedly flat in person. I have also had polar opposite reactions when I have met other women I have been talking to, so you never know how things will translate.
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sexpertover a year ago
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I have done this. I fell hard and fast. ...
I have done this. I fell hard and fast. If anything, I fall for people harder over the internet than when I just meet them in person, because over the net, all your interactions are very intense communications. When you go on a date, you might just be watching a movie together, or having dinner, and you only need intermittent conversation, but over the net, with the guy that I fell for, we were hardcore, deep, and intense. I suppose this could happen in person, but it can definitely also happen online.
When I did finally meet him, and we had our first date, I ended up saying "I love you" to him. Oh dear, poor guy. We were together for a year, and by the end of it, I was ready to marry him.
I would still suggest to anyone who does long distance, or online dating that you meet the person before you get married. Making sure that you have sexual chemistry, and that someone acts the same in person as they do online is a must in my books.
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scarlettewiththeropeover a year ago
Answer 9 of 9
I suppose it's possible... after all, pe...
I suppose it's possible... after all, people fall in love with prison inmates who they talk to through letters. Hell, they fall in love with serial killers that they talk to through letters.
Doesn't make it a good idea though.
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Wake up without an alarm clock
Sleepyheads like myself live in perpetual envy of those who can just wake up without an alarm clock. In fact, my college roommate woke up every morning without his alarm going off once. WikiHow explains how you can join this elite group by training yourself to set a mental alarm. Although I don't think I could ever ditch the alarm clock altogether, I would love to wake up pleasantly each morning moments before my alarm blasted me into reality. Do any of you posses this incredible skill? What tips can you share with the group?
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Readefine Gives Any Site or Feed a Newspaper Look
Windows/Mac/Linux (AIR): Say what you will about newspapers, but the old gray ladies are laid out for quick reading. Cross-platform app (and webapp) Readefine breaks any site or feed into column-split articles and easy access jumps to other posts.
Some sites splay just far too much, well, stuff on their front page to make you want to dig into any particular article, and some articles are laid out in text that's too wide or too intruded upon by other elements. Readefine takes the current article you're looking at and gives it the center slot, and lays out the other articles, ordered by feed location, around your article on the edges. You can change the font, size, and other layout aspects if you don't like the default, but it reads pretty well right from the get-go.
The app takes in RSS feeds, HTML or plain text sites URLs, as well as copy-and-paste text. The neat side feature is being able to log into Google Reader through Readefine and read your feeds inside it, moving from article to article with familiar n/p and spacebar shortcuts.
Don't dig having to run AIR on your system? You can try out Readefine in its web form. Otherwise, Readefine is a free download, requires the Adobe Air platform to run.
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How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Your Android is supposed to keep you instantly connected to your digital life. It can do that, but it needs some help. These best-of-class applications make sending files, syncing music, swapping web sites, and other phone-computer hook-ups so much easier.
Two-Way Tools: Android to Desktop to Android
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Even though Android allows for removable SD card storage, and is a lot more open than the iPhone when it comes to file storage, very few people carry a USB cable or micro-SD converter card everywhere they go. Nor should they, since these apps make it easier to send files and ideas between two different screen sizes.
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
After you install Dropbox on your various laptop and desktop systems, then add the Android app to your phone, you'll occasionally wonder why USB cables still exist. Simply place a file in your Dropbox folder (or elsewhere on your system), and it shows up on your phone. Dropbox on Android also comes with built-in handlers for PDFs, audio and video files, text and Word documents, and a few other files. You can also send your Dropbox files to other apps on your phone, or press and hold on a file to download it for safekeeping on your SD card.
Dropbox on Android offers you all kinds of creation powers, and the means to send files from your phone to your desktop computers. You can make a text file, instantly snap a picture or video, record an audio note, or upload any file on your SD card, and it all ends up syncing right back to your desktop. So when someone says, "Hey, I bet you can't print at home from your Android," you go ahead and prove them wrong. Or simply grab a picture of that watch your spouse liked for Christmas, either way. [Homepage] [AppBrain]
Alternative: SugarSync SugarSync offers the same kind of "2 GB free, sync anywhere" functionality as Dropbox, but it differentiates itself in its options. There's no one folder you have to drop everything into; you choose which desktop/laptop files are synced across your systems. If you only care about getting Word documents and PDFs backed up, you can set that up. It's a strong alternative with a good Android client. [Homepage] [AppBrain]
Notes, URLs, Phone Numbers, and Other Small Bits of Data
When an idea strikes you, or somebody wants you to remember something, you should be able to save it using any computer you've got handy, then see it, in real time, on any other computer. These tools make it so.
Simplenote / mNote
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
We've praised Simplenote as the holy grail of ubiquitous plain-text capture; mNote syncs your Simplenote entries between your account and your Android phone. mNote updates on a user-specified schedule (or you can force immediate update), you can add and delete notes, and you can tweak how much of the note you see (just the headline or up to 9 lines of preview from the note). The interface is extremely simple and the features are limited, but in this case that's hardly a criticism given that no-frills text editing is the draw of Simplenote. [AppBrain]
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
We've sung the praises of Evernote time and time again as a great mobile note taking tool, and one of the reasons is its availability on all platforms. From the mobile app, you can quickly add text, photo, and voice notes, and have them immediately synced to the desktop application for further transcription and organization. Similarly, you can create any note in the desktop client and access it on-the-go from Evernote's easily searchable database. No matter where you are, Evernote keeps all the things you need to remember close at hand. [Homepage] [AppBrain]
Reading Material
A friend tweets a great blog post you want to dig into, or you're digging on an ebook you want to read. Stash your reading for your bigger screen with these tools.
Read Later (Instapaper) and PaperDroid (Read It Later)
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Both Instapaper and Read It Later capture articles, strip them down to their barest picture/text essence, and make them available wherever you have web access. We've put the two services head to head, but whichever reading app you like better, you've got an Android app that can send your browser pages to it. PaperDroid actually stores an offline reading list on your phone, while Read Later embeds itself in the Share menu for sending articles over; you'll need to browse to Instapaper's web site to read your stuff on your phone. [Read Later (AppBrain)] [PaperDroid (AppBrain)]
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Like it does on every platform, Kindle for Android quietly grabs your Amazon ebook purchases, brings them onto your machine, and saves the bookmarks, highlights and notes, and the page you left off on as you read. [Homepage] [AppBrain]
One-Way Tools: Desktop to Android
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Remote Control and Screen Viewing
It may seem like a niche case, but some Android apps are pretty in-depth, and using them—or at least setting them up—can be more comfortable from your full keyboard and mouse.
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Unlike some dead-simple apps, using AndroidScreencast isn't a two-click affair. It is, however, a great tool for viewing, controlling, and recording your Android phone from the comfort of your desktop. You'll need to install the Android SDK Manager to use AndroidScreencast and then download the AndroidScreencast Java app here—Java Runtime Environment 5+ required. Plug in your phone, run the Java app, and you'll see something similar to the screenshot above. Most keystrokes and mouse commands transfer well from the computer to the Android interface—the scroll wheel even works on long documents and web pages. AndroidScreencast requires a rooted phone for full functionality, non-rooted phones can view and record but not interact with the Android interface. [Homepage]
App Syncing and Instant Installation
Until Android's Market updates (due in November, supposedly), installing and removing applications in bulk, or even one at a time, is a search, hope, and then click-four-times affair. Not so with this great utility.
AppBrain and Fast Web Installer
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
From a pure convenience standpoint, it's hard to beat AppBrain and its counterpart app, the Fast Web Installer. Head to AppBrain's web market, sign in through your Google account, then search for an app you've heard about or came across. Click Install, and seconds later, the app is beaming directly to your phone and installing as soon as it's downloaded. You can also pick out multiple apps in AppBrain to sync to your phone the next time you open its app on your phone, and maintain lists of apps to recommend to friends. It's also the handiest tool for bulk uninstalls. [Homepage] [AppBrain] [Fast Web Installer]
Web Pages, Map Locations, and Text
When you're heading out the door, or need to look at something you can't pull up on your phone, hit up these tools.
Chrome to Phone and Fox to Phone
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
It's easier to look up web sites and map locations in your full-size computer browser, and much easier to copy a block of text, even if you actually need the data on your phone. Install Chrome to Phone, or its Firefox counterpart Fox to Phone, in your browser, and beaming those pages and snippets to your phone is a one or two-click process. Both work through the Chrome to Phone Android app on your phone, which you'll only need to link once to your Google account. After that, it's a fairly fast route from your desktop to your pocket. [Chrome to Phone (Chrome extension)] [Fox to Phone (Firefox extension)] [AppBrain (Android app)]
As with pulling files from Android, tools like this are often easier than the manual methods. In this case, actually, it's dead simple.
Awesome Drop
DropBox is king for keeping a large number of your files synced and accessible across platforms. For absolutely dead-simple file transfer from a computer to your Android phone, however—no special desktop software or registration required—Awesome Drop is, well, awesome. Install Awesome Drop on your Android phone then visit Awesome Drop's web interface to get a random PIN. Plug that random pin into the Awesome Drop App on your phone and a temporary link is formed between the Awesome Drop web interface and your phone. Any files you drag and drop onto the web interface are transferred to your phone. Despite the brevity of this description it still doesn't do justice to how dead-simple the process is. Watch the video above to see it in action. [Homepage][AppBrain]
iTunes Library
For some people, iTunes is the only music manager there is—or, at least, the only media manager they're seriously tied into. Get some iTunes-to-Android flow going with this helper.
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Any Android phone will let you drag and drop music files to its SD card for use in the Android music player, but most people prefer to sync their device with their desktop media player. While apps like DoubleTwist, MediaMonkey, and Songbird already provide pretty good syncing capabilities, the ever-popular iTunes does not. For that, there's previously mentioned iSyncr.
iSyncr comes as an Android app bundled with a PC or Mac app installed on your phone's SD card. All you need to do is plug your phone in, fire up the desktop app, and choose which playlists to sync. It will not only sync your music, but also iTunes' album art, ratings, and play counts. And as if that weren't enough, PC users can even sync their music over Wi-Fi with a simple add-on. It's the easiest way to get your iTunes tracks synced to your phone, hands down. [Homepage] [AppBrain]
One-Way Tools: Android to Desktop
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
SMS, Phone Calls, and More
When you're working at your desk, you should be able to be at your desk, on your computer, working. Having a phone blipping you constantly with emails, SMS, and other notifications is doubling up on electronic distractions. Send your phone matters to your desktop to reclaim your attention, and give your Android a break.
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
While smartphones give you access to things you normally need a computer for (like email), SMS messages and phone calls are still phone-centric. No one likes typing on that small keyboard if they don't have too, though, so you can move those interactions to your computer with TalkMyPhone. TalkMyPhone sends you notifications of incoming SMS messages, phone calls, and battery states via Jabber. Furthermore, you can reply to those messages (as well as send SMS messages to any of your other contacts) right from the IM window. Check out our instructions on how to set it up here. [Homepage] [AppBrain]
Web Pages
People tell you about great sites all the time, and you sometimes find just what you're looking for on your phone. You could email yourself a link, or save yourself the trouble and half the time with this handy tool.
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
Browsing on your phone is useful, but it isn't exactly fun. If you're browsing on-the-go and want to transfer a web page to your PC for further reading, Android2Cloud is the perfect solution. Just install the app from the Market and its associated Chrome Extension. When it prompts you to set up an account, just type in your Gmail address and follow the steps to give Android2Cloud access to your account. Now, when you want to send a page from your phone to your computer, just hit Menu > More > Share Page, and choose Android2Cloud. Hit the extension's button in Chrome, and Android2Cloud will bring up the page you were reading.
Note that I've found setting up your account using the mirror server worked better than the overloaded official server. Just type that server's address into the Server box at the beginning of the account setup process, and use the modified Chrome extension on that page instead of the one on the download page. [Homepage] [AppBrain]
If you don't have your USB cable or SD card reader handy, here's how to fling files from your Android to any computer.
WiFi File Explorer
How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
WiFi File Explorer turns your SD card into the root of a basic web-based file server. Run the app and point your web browser at the local-network URL it provides. There you can browse and download files as though the phone was directly tethered to the computer in front of you—handy for those times your phone is happily charging upstairs and you really want to access a file from the laptop in your office. Upgrading to the premium version adds in the ability to upload files to the SD card, delete them, copy them, and zip them. (Free, Premium $1.10) [Homepage][AppBrain]
Those are the apps that strike us as the path of least resistance between a full computer and an Android. What tools do you use every day to sync your dual digital lives?
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No, College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life
It's graduation season, and graduates (both high school and college) are probably hearing the usual nostalgic proclamations: "Enjoy it… your college years are the best of your life." No matter who you are, someone is sure to profess that the student is experiencing the pinnacle of their life. It better not be.
This post originally appeared on Dappered.
That's not to say that your late teens or early twenties spent at a university can't be a blast. Far from it. But high school and college… it ain't real. You're still leashed. Fenced in. There are bumpers in your gutters and training wheels bolted to your back axle.
You don't have anywhere the level of control you get afterward. You're simply not able to make all the decisions you'd like to. Whether it's the required gen-ed courses you're forced to take, what the heck the dining hall is serving that day, or what time that class is offered this semester. Even your last name—your family, siblings, and your parents reputation in the community—can box you in. Self-starters and creators can feel suffocated in the structure of high school, college, and early adulthood.
Control = Decisions + Effort.
Control + Time = Whatever the hell you want.
People who tell high schoolers and college students that "these are the best of years of your life" thrived when they didn't have control. That's not good.
If your life peaks in high school or college, you've either had terrible luck, or, you've blown it. And if you've blown it, it's never too late to retake some of that control by making different decisions.
For the grads or soon to be grads, if someone looks you in the eye and utters the "this is/was the best time of your life" garbage, nod and smile. And know that even if it was awesome, it absolutely gets better.
No more fences. Go. Do.
Why believing "College is the best time of your life" is wrong | Dappered
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The Best Home Remedies for Any Ailment, Backed By Research
Home remedies are awesome ways to fix common little problems like hangovers, headaches, acne, and just about everything else. But how much research goes into them? Let's take a look at which ones have studies behind them.
The human body is a pretty complex machine, so we can't dig into every cure out there. Below you'll find a few of the more common maladies we all face and the home remedies with research to back up their claims. As you'd expect, most home remedies aren't researched that much, but a handful of studies have promising results. As always, we're not doctors, so if you have any serious issues be sure to talk with your doctor first.
Pain Relief
The Best Home Remedies for Any Ailment, Backed By Research
Nobody likes being in pain so you'll find a ton of different home remedies for various types of pains out there. Of course, not that many home pain relief remedies have much research behind them.
If you don't want to reach for a bottle of Advil every time you have a headache, a few alternatives might help. For tension headaches, a small study published in Australian Family Physician suggests that a small amount of Tiger Balm on the forehead may help with pain relief. Peppermint oil has a similar effect on headaches, but more research is need for both.
For a spicier solution, we also have anecdotal evidence that sex helps relieve migraine headaches. The rush of endorphins that comes from an orgasm turns off migraine pain temporarily. Conversely, The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services points to several studies that suggest relaxation training helps with stress-induced headaches. All that said, with headaches, it's best to concentrate on prevention rather than treatment when possible.
Sprains, Twists, and Other Sores
Chances are that if you've ever sprained a body part, you've put ice on it. As it turns out, research from Vanderbilt University shows that ice really is the best solution for most bone and joint injuries. If you do suffer an injury, apply ice and a little pressure for about 15-20 minutes. Then remove it for an equal amount of time, and apply again.
Studies also show that arnica gel decreases pain and stiffness in arthritis sufferers. This may extent to athletes who suffer soreness or strains. WebMD points out that since arnica is poisonous, you need to use a diluted formula if you're going to rub it on sore areas.
Nobody likes toothaches and they're often hard to deal with because it's hard to get inside your mouth. A 2006 study published in The Journal of Dentistry shows that clove oil is just as effective at relieving tooth pain as other pain medications. Just dab a cotton swab with a small amount of clove oil and apply it to the area that hurts. Within a couple of minutes it should go numb.
The Best Home Remedies for Any Ailment, Backed By Research
Hangover remedies are a dime a dozen. Solutions range from greasy foods to more alcohol, but the basic theme of successful hangover cures is pretty simple: hydration.
Of course, there's all kinds of ways to hydrate that don't need studies. If you're looking for a research-backed solution, a study published in Food & Function says that Sprite is the best hangover cure. At a basic level, Sprite speeds up the breakdown of alcohol to help get rid of your hangover. When you're hungover, acetaldehyde lingers in the body and makes you feel gross. Sprite (and soda water) have an enzyme that turns into acetate, which helps with recovery. Eggs cause a similar reaction. Research has only been down in lab beakers, but it's still a promising result.
Cold and Flu
The Best Home Remedies for Any Ailment, Backed By Research
We've talked a lot about cold and flu cures so we won't spend too much time on them here because the basics haven't changed much over the years.
For a sore throat, a survey published in Pediatrics showed that honey helps relieve both your throat and your cough. Just swallow two teaspoons before bed. If honey isn't your thing, a study by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine shows that gargling with salt water helps with a cough. Dissolve half a teaspoon of salt in a full glass of water, gargle a few seconds, and spit it out.
Skin Remedies
The Best Home Remedies for Any Ailment, Backed By Research
Skin remedies are some of the most common topics for home remedies. Whether it's a bit of acne or athlete's foot, covering your body in household fluids is oddly commonplace.
Acne is one of those skin issues that has thousands of solutions, but few have stood the scrutiny of a study. A small number of studies have found tea tree oil effective at fighting acne. Just apply a small amount to your acne daily to shrink that zit down.
Athlete's Foot
All it takes to get athlete's foot is a step on a moist floor or a bit of time in a gym where the fungus is present. Getting rid of it isn't as easy. A study in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed that garlic is just as effective as the drug Lamisil for treating athlete's foot. The New York Times suggests finely crushing cloves of garlic into a foot bath and soaking your feet for 30 minutes a day until it's gone.
Atopic Dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis is a type of eczema that results in dry, itchy skin. If you're looking for a treatment you'll find in your own kitchen, a small study published on Dermatitis shows that olive oil and coconut oil are both effective treatments. Coconut oil applied to the skin twice daily for four weeks helps reduce dryness and has antibacterial effects as well.
Dandruff is a common scalp condition where small bits of skin flake off on your scalp. While it's not contagious or serious, it is obnoxious. Unfortunately, it's also difficult to treat and while a ton of remedies exist, none of them definitively get rid of dandruff.
Doctors typically recommend eating healthy and getting a little sun to manage dandruff, but a small study shows that tea tree oil is effective at fighting dandruff. It's still inconclusive how effective it might be, but you can try mixing a drop of tea tree oil into your shampoo to see if it helps.
The most common home remedy for warts is to put a small piece of duct tape over it to kill it off. A 2012 review of studies showed mixed results, but duct tape is still commonly recommended because it's easy to try. The McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a simple regimen to follow:
In order for duct tape to work in the treatment of warts, it must be used as directed. The duct tape should be cut approximately 1/4 inch in size larger than the actual wart(s). If the duct tape covers too much normal, healthy skin tissues, skin irritation will develop. The duct tape should be left in place for cycles lasting six days. After six days, the duct tape should be removed, the wart soaked, then gently debrided with a thick emery board or pumice stone and left uncovered overnight. A new piece of duct tape should be reapplied the next morning.
Stomach Issues
The Best Home Remedies for Any Ailment, Backed By Research
Like headaches, stomach issues have all kinds of solutions without a lot of research. Nobody likes a stomach ache, but you can treat them with a few ingredients you have on hand all the time.
Heartburn sucks, but you don't have to reach for the antacids right away. The easiest home remedy is chewing gum. Studies show chewing gum decreases heartburn because it helps force fluids back into the stomach. If you have heartburn, just pop in a piece of sugarless gum and see if it helps.
Motion Sickness
If you suffer from motion sickness, several studies show that ginger is one of the best home remedies out there. If you're feeling nauseas, shave off a few pieces of ginger root and eat it fresh. Ginger also helps with nausea related to morning sickness.
Upset Stomach
Chances are that if you've ever had an upset stomach, you've heard that peppermint is a good solution. Studies show that peppermint helps with irritable bowel syndrome, nausea, and heartburn. If there's such thing as a cure all for a generally upset stomach, peppermint is a good place to start. For an upset stomach, just take 90 mg of peppermint oil a day.
Of course, thousands of home remedies exist that haven't stood the test of a research team. That doesn't mean they don't work for you. Many are more about science and chemistry, so studies aren't really needed to prove their efficiency.
Photos by Igor Zakowski, John Takai, Mr. Thomas, Ktoine, Craig Finlay, Zzzack, Evil Erin.
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From: Charles Pritchard <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:23:30 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Paul Kinlan <[email protected]>
CC: Greg Billock <[email protected]>, public-webapps Group WG <[email protected]>, "[email protected] [email protected]" <[email protected]>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Greg Billock <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the model doesn't prohibit, nor does it
> encourage, the passing of MessageChannel.
> It's very much made for an RPC style of communication, but if
> the message being passed back is a channel, well that's just fine.
> Am I mistaken? What I'm seeing is that we get MessageChannel
> for free, and there's no need to specify further.
> Individual Intent authors can do that themselves.
> Yes. We envision RPC-style request/response as the sweet spot for
> intents. We've definitely considered use cases which are better
> served by opening a persistent
> don't pass the data across it, as you would for say "share" "image/*",
> but rather it is the initiation of a protocol - whose mime-type is yet
> to be determined; something like application/x-protocol-uucp
My concern is the plumbing of Transferable.
Sending Array Buffers across channels is great for short apps.
It's a "transfer" intent. I'm transferring ownership of a buffer or a
It's still appropriate that mime types be specified. Many protocols have
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RE: agenda: HTML-A11Y Task Force, 26 January at 16:00Z
From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:47:27 -0600
To: Cynthia Shelly <[email protected]>
Cc: Frank Olivier <[email protected]>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <OF771D8DF8.E60C2C90-ON86257998.004A761F-86257998.004BC236@us.ibm.com>
Here is a link to the draft proposal for the agenda:
Cynthia, Frank,
I would encourage Frank to reference the real world use cases for canvas
accessibility at this URL:
It substantiates what Frank has put together and it is also something Ian
had asked for. The use cases include input directly from Jost Eckhardt from
AI Squared.
This is a great improvement over the last one. I think it requires some
editorial work and a few other things:
A method to remove all the path assignments (this was something I
believe Mozilla suggested as well)
A statement about actually removing associate paths for elements that go
away (this could easily be added in the last 1 or 2 bullets)
A determination, in step 2, if the user agent is dispatching the same
event or creating a new one with additional data to be fired?
Thank you for pulling this together Frank.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: Cynthia Shelly <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>, Frank Olivier
<[email protected]>, Richard
Date: 02/01/2012 10:22 PM
Subject: RE: agenda: HTML-A11Y Task Force, 26 January at 16:00Z
Frank has an updated draft of the canvas hit testing change proposal. Can
we please add discussion of this to the agenda? If possible, can we do
this near the beginning of the hour?
Thank you,
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael[tm] Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: agenda: HTML-A11Y Task Force, 26 January at 16:00Z
** agenda for HTML-A11Y Task Force Telecon 26 January 2012 at 16:00Z for 60
Meeting: HTML-A11Y telecon
agenda+ vote on TF support for the Meta Generator CP
agenda+ Subteam Reports: Media; Text; Canvas; ARIA Mappings; Bug
agenda+ Other Business
agenda+ Identify Scribe for 02 February
Meta Generator CP:
** Resource: Key Task Force URIs
Consensus Procedures:
Work Statement:
** conference infrastructure access information a.k.a. dial-in
+1.617.761.6200 (This is a U.S. number).
+ (This is a French number)
+44.203.318.0479 (This is a UK number)
During the conference you can manage your participation with Zakim commands
as follows:
61# to mute yourself
60# to unMute yourself
41# to raise your hand (enter speaking queue)
40# to lower your hand (exit speaking queue)
The system acknowledges these commands with a rapid, three-tone
confirmation. Mobile phone users especially should use the mute function
function is a good idea for anyone not using IRC.
Alternatively, bypass the Zakim prompts and SIP directly into our
teleconference - SIP: [email protected]
Instructions for how to connect using SIP:
Place for users to contribute additional VoIP tips.
* IRC access
There will also be an IRC channel available. The server is irc.w3.org, the
is #html-a11y.
* Gregory Rosmaita's scribing and participation tips
queuing and for posting the log to the web, see:
- for RRSAgent, that captures and posts the log with special attention to
action items:
- for Zakim, the IRC interface to the bridge manager, that will maintain
speaker and agenda queues:
forbid IRC, see:
- for more on W3C use of IRC see:
Michael[tm] Smith
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[moved]: Nothing in App. B of OWL Language Reference 31 March 2003
From: Dan Connolly <[email protected]>
Date: 02 Jul 2003 17:11:05 -0500
Cc: Guus Schreiber <[email protected]>, webont-comments at W3C <[email protected]>, "Hayes, Patrick J." <[email protected]>, "Latimer, Richard S." <[email protected]>, "Thomas, William" <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
I see that you have moved this discussion to www-rdf-logic;
very well.
For bookkeeping purposes, this marks the public-webont-comments
part of the thread closed.
On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 16:25, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
> Thing and Nothing belong to two separate universes,
> the universe of things which exist,
> and the universe of things which do not exist.
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Re: Namespace Fixup Proposal
From: Henry S. Thompson <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:20:42 +0100
To: Norman Walsh <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hash: SHA1
Norman Walsh writes:
> HST wrote:
> | Yes, but it still won't necessarily serialise without work, and it's
> | possible that serialising will introduce failure to round-trip.
> | Suppose the matrix has an ns-attribute for the default namespace, but
> | the included bit consists entirely of no-namespace elts. The
> | serialised result will be borked. To detect this, you have to look at
> | every node in the inserted tree.
> I suppose the default namespace *is* a special case. But I don't think
> that's a problem.
> Here's a document:
> <rootelem xmlns="rootns">
> <div xmlns="xhtml">
> <target/>
> </div>
> </rootelem>
> Suppose I want to replace target with some subtree. When do I ever have
> to look at the subtree's descendants?
> To insert
> <x:otherroot xmlns:x="xxxns">
> <nons/>
> </x:otherroot>
> I simply make sure that if there's a default namespace where 'target'
> appears, I undeclare it. Everything else "just works". No?
Now consider this case:
<p:rename match="my:foo" new-name="foo" xmlns:my="http://www.example.com/ns"/>
when the imput is
<foo xmlns="http://www.example.com/ns">
Fixup in this case will have to not only rename the element from {},
but also remove the xmlns [namespace attribute] from the <foo> elt and
push it down on to _all_ the <baz> elements.
Namespace fixup is _full_ of these silly fiddly messy corner cases,
and I think we will not be thanked by implementors if we make them do
it at every step. I particularly _don't_ want to get into the
business of trying to specify in detail what checks and fixes each
step which _might_ mess things up must do. I think putting the
requirement on serialization, at the margins, is going to be much
simpler to state, understand and implement.
> |> Allowing un-fixed-up markup to flow between steps lets it get deeply
> |> burried in documents through operations that wouldn't normally cause
> |> fixup to be necessary.
> |
> | I don't understand.
> My point is just that there are a few steps that allow namespaces to
> get out of wack. If we don't mandate that namespaces are fixed up *on
> those steps*, then *every* step can produce documents that have broken
> namespaces. That just seems awful.
As you point out, the crucial bits will _never_ get screwed up. That
is, the [local name]s and [namespace name]s of elements and attributes
themselves. That means, right there, that we've covered the 99%
case. Getting the [namespace attribute], [in-scope namespaces] and
[prefix] properties right is on the one hand _much_ harder, and on the
other _much_ less important, until and unless you get to serialization.
> |> On a separate, but related, topic, I'm confused about how the SAX
> |> argument plays out. Why is it hard to do this fixup with SAX? When do
> |> you ever have to buffer more than one start element event?
> |
> | SAX filters just pass along what you give them. If we require NS fixup
> | between steps, everyone using a SAX substrate will have to put an NS
> | fixup filter _every_ pair of steps, won't they?
> I don't think so. It just means that, *in steps where namespaces can
> get broken*, *the step* will have to make sure that it doesn't output
> broken elements. But it'll never have to buffer more than one start
> tag to do that, I think.
See above example.
- --
Half-time member of W3C Team
URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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webdav minutes as text
From: Larry Masinter <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:39:31 PST
To: [email protected]
Message-Id: <97Feb7.133931pdt."244"@palimpsest.parc.xerox.com>
Del's message seemed to have attached the minutes as uuencoded data,
and the hypermail software archive doesn't cope with that, so here's
my translation of what was sent:
WEBDAV Meeting Notes
January 27, 28 1997
U.C. Irvine, Irvine CA
An open meeting was held for those interested in the WEBDAV
initiative. The meeting was held on the campus of the University
of California, Irvine. The primary focus of the meeting was to
review and discuss a proposed draft specification.
Chair: Introductions and general remarks.
Web Collections .................. Yaron Goland
WC presented as a mechanism for giving structured response
to an HTTP request that is machine readable, without
breaking older clients. WC is encoded as a set of HTML tags
with some simple semantics.
Question: Why HTML? Why not straight up HTTP?
Answer: Single message type for both "pure" HTTP and HTML
Presentation (continued):
WC data can be
1. referenced - <WCAT rel=foo HREF="anchor">
2. hidden - using HDATA
3. explicit - between <WCDATA> ... </WCDATA> tags
Comment: So you will have to encode binary data? This is
A General Discussion of the Issues Ensues:
Question: Why not use "webmaps" or "sitemaps"?
Answer: WC is the same initiative as "web/site maps". Just the
name has changed.
Question: (Clarification of above question:) So why tinker with
the original "webmap" spec?
Answer: Spec was inadequate.
Comment: This is bad design:
1. WC is a flawed mechanism
2. not good overlap between machine
readable/human readable response
Response: Focus on the object-model. Is it complete? Consistent?
Web Collections are just a convenient vehicle for
expressing the object model; if there is a better way
of expressing the model, we'll use it.
1Hubub: A protracted discussion on the merits/folly of using
HTML to encode an object model for structured HTTP
response ensues.
Chair: Moves to discuss the Structured Response Object Model
independently of encoding.
Response: Motion fails. More discussion as above.
Yaron: Do we all agree that:
1. we need a well defined Structured Response
Object Model and,
2. we should have no dependencies on
incomplete/ongoing work in other working
[A short discussion period on the above points. Editor
senses group general agreement on 1., 2. above,
although no official poll is taken.]
Presentation (continued):
Hierarchical Collections are presented as a special case of
Web Collections, used to support FCS or "directory" like
Light Links (Meta Data) .............. Jim Whitehead
Explanation of link structure (source, dest, type) as an
expression of a binary relation on the cross product
RESOURCE X RESOURCE.
Question: Who manages the link "types" (e.g., registration)?
Answer: Core link types ("core" to implementing WEBDAV) are
defined in the specification. Other "types" owned and
managed various groups (e.g., Dublin Core). Namespace
convention for link types is schema.(schema.type).
Response: Take care! Define namespace requirements for links so
that WEBDAV complies with the "Schema" work group
(Chris Weider, Chair).
Comment: Why be non-extensible w.r.t. the link definition? Allow
other fields to be added to the core fields (source,
dest, type).
Comment: PICS is doing meta-data. The authors would be well
advised to look at the PICS effort.
1 - Shorthand for "unstructured discussion". No disrespect
for the group or the Chair is intended.
Presentation (continued):
The LINK method is presented.
Comment: Method name conflicts with the LINK in HTTP/1.1
Comment: Links as presented are inadequate for annotation.
Question: Are links discoverable/extensible in a robust way? How
does the Schema/Method stuff tie in?
Comment: Look at PICS namespace registration stuff; it may have
good ideas for schema registration.
Presentation (continued):
UNLINK method presented.
Question: Should first rev WEBDAV be dodging
notification/transaction issues?
Comment: This link model may not be efficient on the wire (Keith
will write down his concerns on this issue and submit
to the list).
Presentation (continued):
The convenience methods GETLINKS, GETLINKVAL and SETLINKVAL
are presented.
Question: What identifies a link?
Answer: The triple (source, dest, type) is the unique ID.
Question: Must either source or dest equal the URI of the
resource which contains the link?
Answer: Yes, the authors (somewhat arbitrarily) decreed that
source or dest should equal the URI of the resource
where the link resides.
Response: (Roy) This restriction should be lifted.
The LINKSEARCH Method ............... Yaron Goland
The LINKSEARCH method is briefly presented.
Comment: Scoping rules for search are inadequate.
Comment: Use "agent" rather than "arbiter".
Comment: BNF errors need to be cleaned up.
Comment: Interaction between the resource namespace and links
(which are defined on resources) can be problematical
in a distributes setting.
Comment: BNF should be modified to reflect extensible link
Comment: Design team is shortsighted due to focus on schedule
constraints. Is the team doing its homework? Do the
team members understand the issues? Are the team
members capable of understanding the logical
consequences of their design decisions?
The difference between "checkout" (for version control)
versus "lock" (for document repository) is explained. Lock
is intended to control resource "collision"; lock is not an
access control mechanism.
Question: Why can't lock tokens cross "client space" boundaries?
This seems to be an arbitrary decree.
Comment: Range locking as described abuses the HTTP/1.1 notion
of range. Why not address ranges with teir own URI?
Comment: Agrees with comment above. Design team broke its own
rule (WEBDAV acts only URI addressable objects). URI
addressable ranges more compatible with HTTP
philosophy. Also, how do entity tags differ from lock
tokens, functionally speaking?
Comment: What is WEBDAV locking in the context of highly
replicated resources?
Hubub: Much discussion over replicated, distributed resources.
Chair: Requests that range locking be taken to the discussion
list, noting the following outstanding issues:
1. locking highly replicated resources,
2. advisory lock vs. exclusive lock,
3. support for "graceful degradation" of
Comment: With respect to above recommendation by chair; the
proper forum for resolving design issues in general is
on the list. IETF is an open forum.
Question: What about "orphaned" lock tokens? Spec should say
something about the conditions that can lead to lost
Special Presentation
Email Access to WEBDAV Functionality
Email & WEBDAV ................. Einar Stefferud
Do not ignore mail transport level! Push vs pull models;
mail has some pluses:
1. Latency can work for you
2. Administrative functions - mail more autonomous,
3. Mail is mature, tested technology.
Industry has evolving, Jungian mindset:
1. Computing - no connectivity,
2. Networking - Autonomous homogeneous nodes,
3. Interneteorking - Autonomous heterogeneous nodes,
4. Interworking - Autonomous heterogenous distributed
Day Two
Review of "champion" models. Presents the "version tree" as
conceived by the design team, with "default published
version" (dpv), "history" links and "version tree handle".
Comment: Tree handle and the dpv: if we access the dpv through
tree handle for some methods, how do we get to the
handle itself?
Response: Can't use redirect; we get pushback from the Server
Config crowd.
Question: Which methods act on dpv via tree handle? Which do not?
Is there consistency here?
Hubub: Extended discussion on what version "control" means in
a distributed environment.
Chair: Directs that a discussion of Version Control in a
distributed, replicated environment be established on
the list.
Question: Does the design accommodate "derivitaive" work?
Question: Where is the definition of "history" in the spec? Also,
"history" may itself be a distributed object; does spec
recognize this possibility?
Comment: Spec assumes that server enforces a version control
model. Shouldn't the client be asserting the model? At
least some provision should be made for client setting
policy rather than assume server always does so.
Comment: Design should support derivative work in widely
distributed context (i.e. design should support
derivative work with client asserting policy).
Comment: The concept of "history", dpv, indeed much of the spec
assumes central point of control. Monolithic thinking
defeats the long-term vision of "Interworking". Don't
be seduced into taking the easy way of server-centric,
single point of control - the way of the Dark Side.
Comment: Think in terms of "authoritative" vs "non-
authoritative" sources with respect to where things
reside (e.g., "Clear Case").
Comment: Interoperability is the IETF gold standard by which to
measure the elements of any protocol. In this case,
provision should be made for the client to set version
policy, and it should be recognized that the "tree" may
well be a highly distributed object with many locally
idiosyncratic representations. The tree might not
reside in a single, absolute reference frame; but the
client should be able to assert any logically
consistent framework from which to view the tree (in
whole or part)that can be expressed as a "well formed"
Comment: WEBDAV should not exclude server/server transactions.
Fine if WEBDAV doesn't define such transactions.
Comment: Design team should focus on the needs of the Internet
when writing spec; may help shift emphasis to
client/interoperability. Why not split the spec? A
monolithic spec leads to monolithic design!
Presentation (continued):
The CHECKOUT method is presented. Discovery of method
capability is deferred to a later presentation.
Question: Checkout function is too complicated. Must one do
discovery? Seems to require three-step procedure.
Answer: One need only ask once for server support of method
Question: "Derived-From", wasn't this supposed to be addressable?
What happend here?
Question: Where is "UNCHECKOUT"?
Chair: Leads a discussion on whether to seek official status
as a working group with the IETF, the W3C, or both.
Much discussion.
Chair: Moves for a vote on the following: Shall WEBDAV proceed
to seek IETF working group status with all due speed?
Response: Motion seconded. The Ayes have it.
Chair: Moves that the group take ten minutes discussing the
following proposal: Should we split the draft spec?
Response: Motion seconded. Passed.
Much discussion of pros and cons. An emerging consensus
to re-evaluate the situation when IETF working group
status is attained.
Chair: When should we schedule WEBDAV work group meeting at
Response: General response indicates Monday morning would be
Chair: Directs editor to submit current draft to IETF asap.
Chair: Directs editor to post meeting notes asap, with above
directive taking precedence.
Namespace Manipulation ......... Asad Faizi, Del Jensen
Presentation (Asad):
Asad briefly presents COPY MOVE etc.
Comment: The statement "byte move or anything else" should be
"byte move and anything else".
Comment: Discoverability is fine, but how can a client enforce
Comment: Having different things happen at different servers is
a recipe for disaster.
Hubub: On the meaning of the phrase "byte for byte copy", much
discussion. What is COPY in Web context? The phrase
"byte for byte" not sufficiently abstract. Should be
phrased without reference to encoding or representation
of the resource data. People who cannot grasp this
abstraction have no business writing the specification.
Comment: Change the name of COPYHEAD.
Comment: WEBDAV header names should not mimic other header
names. Too confusing, even if context resolves outright
Comment: Should discuss on the list whether COPY/MOVEHEAD should
be in spec.
[Ed. Note: The Chair also took notes on Namespace:]
The methods copyhead and movehead also elicited some
discussion. The rationale for these methods was stated
as being a way for clients to discover, before the
method is performed, the consequences of a copy or a
move. Participants pushed back on this, stating that
all that was needed was a way for clients to determine
what happened after a method was performed. The need to
discover ahead of time which links would be
copied/moved was also raised, and there was some
discussion on why predefined links might change from
one part of the namespace to another.
[Ed. Note: End of Chair's Notes on Namespace]
UNDELETE, DESTROY .................. Del Jensen
Brief overview of semantics.
Comment: HTTP/1.1 DELETE semantics imply all access to an object
via HTTP is removed. Therefore UNDELETE-ing a DELETEd
URI does violence to the HTTP object model.
Hubub: Much discussion on UNDELETE and destroy, at the end of
which there appears to be an emerging consensus that
UNDELETE and DESTROY are not appropriate WEBDAV
Lauren: Informs the group that the XML draft spec is available
at <http://www.w3.org.pub/www/tr/wd-xml-961114.html>.
[Ed. Note: The Chair kindly took notes on the following
Method Capability Discovery ............ Yaron Goland
Yaron gave an overview on his proposal (which he stated had
not been previously agreed to by the design team) for method
capability (interface) discovery, which he termed "schema
Comments: Participants noted that the functionality described for
capability discovery in DAV was similar to the proposed
functionality for the Protocol Extension Protocol (PEP)
for HTTP, and there was a proposal to remove the
capability discovery mechanism from the WebDAV
specification and work it into a general-purpose HTTP
extensibility mechanism.
One participant also noted that there was a similar set
of functionality being proposed by the Internet
Printing group. Another observation made about the
capability discovery mechanism was that it shared some
similarities to an RPC-type system, and was half of an
interface definition language. Participants questioned
whether this level of generality was needed. This then
led into a high-level discussion on the need for a
capability discovery mechanism.
What came out during the discussion was that the design
team had assumed a model where clients would have to
discover the capabilities of a server, then adapt
themselves to the current capabilities of the server.
Several participants stressed that a better model to
adopt would be to have simple clients able to operate
with a variety of back ends (with a minimum of
adaptation). Several participants also noted that by
having so many different functionality options, it was
difficult to determine the core DAV functions that all
clients can depend on.
At the end of this session, there was a poll of opinion
across the participants, where each participant was
able to express their opinion on capability discovery.
The sentiment exposed by this was that the capability
discovery mechanism in the current specification is too
complex, and too powerful for WebDAV needs.
Furthermore, the sentiment was expressed that it would
be good if the WebDAV specification could bemodified so
that capability discovery isn't necessary at all.
End Of Meeting
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From: Julian Reschke <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:30:19 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Lisa Dusseault <[email protected]>
Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> Here's proposed text to use if we end up allowing UNLOCK against any
> resource covered by the lock token, as is currently the case in most
> implementations:
> The UNLOCK method identifies a lock to remove with the lock token in
> the Lock-Token request header. The Request-URI MUST identify a
> resource within the scope of the lock.
Right now I'm saying:
The UNLOCK method removes the lock identified by the lock token in the
Lock-Token request header from the resource identified by the
Request-URI, and all other resources included in the lock. Note that the
UNLOCK request may be submitted to any resource locked by that lock
(even those that are locked indirectly).
..but I guess this is equivalent.
> Then later in the error code information for UNLOCK:
> 400 (Bad Request) - No lock token was provided, or request was
> made to a Request-URI that was not within the scope of the lock.
For the case where the lock-token header *is* present I defined:
"5.2.1 DAV:lock-token-matches precondition
The lock identified by the "Lock-Token" request header exists, and the
resource identified by the Request-URI indeed is directly locked by the
specified lock."
so you'd get a 403 with DAV:error in this case. The more preconditions
we precisely identify, the less new clients will have to rely on
specific 4xx codes...
Best regards, Julian
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Re: Horizontal rules
From: Jason White <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 11:06:59 +1000 (AEST)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980329104929.19959A-100000@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
CSS 2 makes it possible to associate an audio cue with the HR element.
In some circumstances, this may suffice as an auditory analogue of the
horizontal rule. I would also suggest that it is preferable to indicate
structure by means of the DIV element rather than the horizontal rule,
since the former allows hierarchies to be generated, as in the following
<div title="part 1">
<div title="chapter 1">
<div title="chapter 2">
Given a structure of the form outlined above, a user agent could provide
navigation options which facilitate efficient traversal of the hierarchy,
for example as a means of gaining an overview of the document or locating
sections of interest in the absence of an adequate table of contents. The
use of HR alone to indicate divisions within the document would offer no
representation in the HTML markup of its structural organisation. If both
HR and DIV are used together, then the functionality of the TITLE
attribute of one of these elements becomes redundant.
Received on Saturday, 28 March 1998 20:07:04 UTC
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RE: My comments on tables vs image maps
From: Shurel Reynolds-Hartman <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:57:15 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I agree on all points except one, i.e., (3).
If we stick to the topic of image maps.
> 3. The argument is that most (or all?) versions of Netscape
> and Explorer cannot be configured to 'Text' mode.
> They present "alt" text is a small size font, even if it
> is H1.
In an image map, we don't need headers <H1>, or do we? Image maps are nothing but navigation means via points.
> Also in graphical media with no mouse (e.g. tv )
> image maps constitute a very serious usability
> problem.
Well if the link of the image map cannot be reach, I suppose that the normal links cannot be reached either.
Received on Friday, 31 July 1998 03:57:56 UTC
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Re: internationalisation?
From: David Woolley <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:25:28 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
* fear than many people who can only read Greek wouldn't have Greek fonts
* installed!). They couldn't even have used a standard langtag for the URI,
Lack of fonts is a reasonable assumption for the audience, although I suspect
this page is provided more for political correctness than because it
will get many hits.
Ex-patriate communities in the UK don't seem to install proper native
language support, even when they can - on home machines - and often
go for solutions that have been obsoleted by better browsers in their
ancestral countries. On the other hand, I suspect that those who
do need to use their own language as the primary medium, and actually
have access to the web, will have some form of proper support for
fonts, although possibly on the basis of ignoring the page content
character set and forcing an assumed character set. I suspect most
people with insufficient English will not be web users.
They are also unlikely to have set the language negotiation options on
their browser, or even be aware of them. This is probably true,
even if they are in the minority that actually use that language as
their primary browsing language.
Some of the languages, e.g. Bengali, are just not supported at all
by web fonts - the BBC World service pages have proper Hindi, but use
romanised Bengali, and even the Hindi requires a special third party font
for most users.
Note that the choice of languages is based on the languages of
immigrant communities, so the page is not intended for visiting
businessmen or even students.
In this case, JPEG is totally the wrong format, as they can only get
a small image size at the expense of a lot of artefacts, when a bi-level
GIF should have been much more accurate and almost certainly smaller.
It's unfortunately impossible to completely undo this sort of corruption
to get a true size for the GIF.
As far as I can tell (I'm more familiar with simplified Chinese characters
than the traditional option presented here, and I've forgotten a lot of
the little Hindi I once learned), but it looks like one ends up with a cop
out page telling people to phone in and outlining the scope of the phone
service, so the equivalent service is not a web service.
Even though content negotiation would probably not have worked in a UK
context, it wouldn't surprise me if the web site designers were unaware
of the feature.
[ one line paragraph fixed ]
> This is not an i18n solution.
The basic strategy is probably the best minimal approach in a UK
domestic context, although possibly only for political correctness.
The implementation is poor, but the whole TfL site is heavily into
scripting etc., rather than basics - the best version of their Journey
planner is actually the PDA one, because it can't use scripting, images,
etc., so has to use standard form controls.
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danbri's experimental writeup of RDF striped syntax
From: Dan Brickley <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:58:15 -0400 (EDT)
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Not sure if this worked, but wanted to have a go at it anyhow. Needs (as
do so many things) a bunch of work. Pictures and better worked examples,
most obviously...
Received on Friday, 19 October 2001 15:58:15 UTC
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Re: BGSOUND, no need for it
Scott E. Preece (
Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:30:13 -0500
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:30:13 -0500
Message-Id: <>
From: "Scott E. Preece" <>
In-reply-to: Stephanos Piperoglou's message of Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:48:03 +0300
Subject: Re: BGSOUND, no need for it
From: Stephanos Piperoglou <>
| One question, slightly relevant:
| The STYLE tag lets you specify content type so that the UA can know what
| language the stylesheet is in. How come the STYLE *attribute* doesn't? What
| if a browser supports DSSSL and CSS1 and something else as well? How does it
| distinguish which language the directives in a STYLE attribute are?
Back when the STYLE attribute was a hot topic, there was some discussion
of whether and how to type-tag the STYLE attribute. The issue sort of
got lost in the fuss over whether the attribute should exist at all.
Nobody offered very convincing reasons, at the time, why an author would
want to use two different STYLE notations inside a single document (the
need for being able to refer to different notations in separate external
stylesheets is more obvious). Lacking such reasons, many of us thought
that there was no obvious need to type-tag the attribute - it could just
default to the type of the STYLE element.
You raise, on the other hand, a more cconvincing justification. It
*does* seem reasonable that you might want to have multiple notations to
cover different domains (such as audio vs visual styling). So maybe the
W3C should revisit this in specifying the STYLE attribute. Two obvious
notations that come to mind would be to either provide a STYLE-TYPE
attribute that could be used along with the STYLE attribute or to
allow a delimited prefix containing the type within the STYLE attribute
value (e.g., STYLE="[text/ass]onMouseOver: speak-text(whisper)"). In
either case, the assumption would be that the default went with the
STYLE element.
scott preece
internet mail:
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From: Bart Szyszka <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:52:21 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: "Daniel Hiester" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Nir Dagan" <[email protected]>
> If you want it to be rendered by existing browsers serve it as HTML, otherwise
> "to be resolved"
page. Those settings are specified with MIME types on the server. You can
set any extension for HTML documents. I can make my files .BART if I
wanted to.
Bart Szyszka [email protected] ICQ:4982727
B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com
Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web!
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Re: Promotion of XHTML
From: John Lewis <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:16:14 -0600
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Peter wrote on Monday, December 30, 2002 at 11:47:23 AM:
> Which leads me to believe that text/html is correct for XHTML
> documents when used as HTML for web sites.
That's true if it's HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0, but not (for example)
XHTML 1.1 or normal XHTML 1.0. The original point was, for those
documents NOT served as text/html, Win IE chokes. The reason is, of
course, that Win IE only supports HTML, not XHTML. It can handle
HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 *because* it's HTML-compatible. Win IE has
no actual XHTML support--just HTML support. Hopefully a future version
will support XHTML.
Received on Monday, 30 December 2002 13:16:42 UTC
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Re: Difference between role and property
From: Shane McCarron <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:17:47 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Sjoerd Visscher <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
I have asked the resident HTML WG RDF guru to reply to this. However,
basically you should think of the role attribute as an abstract enabler
for binding accessibility to parts of a document. The property
attribute is more for defining explicit metadata about portions of a
document (or the whole document). I am confident that Mark will do a
far better job of explaining this than I ever could. Suffice to say
that the resulting RDF tuple for the two expressions below is very
Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
> What is the difference between
> <span role="dc:creator">Sjoerd Visscher</span>
> and
> <span property="dc:creator">Sjoerd Visscher</span>
Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180
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InverseFunctional properties are the new URI?
From: Phil Dawes <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:52:01 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hi All,
I've noticed that some RDF specs (including FOAF and DOAP) use
inverseFunctional properties instead of URIs to identify instance
I can see an instant benefit in doing this - end users don't need to
worry about the problems of minting URIs, maintaining them etc..
Is this the way RDF is going - URIs for the schema, BNodes with
InverseFunctional properties for the instancedata?
What are the consequences?
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Entities in the Content Property
From: Andrew n marshall <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:57:37 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hi, I'm looking for a clarification to CSS2.
Should entities (like character entities) be expanded if included via the
content property? For an example of what I am refering to, please see the
example page:
Received on Wednesday, 9 August 2000 09:14:18 GMT
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Re: class attribute deprecated with <span>?
From: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:57:20 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:19:16 -0600, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm reading the "HTML and XHTML" book by Musiciano and Kennedy, published
> by O'Reilly. It says that it is deprecated to use style, class and id
> attributes with the <span> tag. (This is on page 300.) However, I notice
> on the CSS web site that there are a number of examples of using <span>
> this way.
> Is this really deprecated?
No. See the HTML spec:
As long as there no 'D' in the column 'Depr.', the attribute is not
deprecated. Only 'name' is deprecated.
> If so, why, and what is the accepted way to
> apply formatting to a short range of text?
If one of the more semantic elements is not suitable, using SPAN is fine.
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
Received on Friday, 7 February 2003 14:58:46 GMT
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Re: Making pt a non-physical unit
From: Brad Kemper <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:48:27 -0800
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: Ambrose LI <[email protected]>
Cc: fantasai <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Giuseppe Bilotta <[email protected]>, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>, www-style <[email protected]>
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Ambrose LI <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I suspect that web archives of HTML emails aren't a very important
>> use
>> case here. If they're advertisements, then they might break, but
>> that's
>> ok because how many people really want to view web archives of email
>> advertisements? If they're written by people, then chances are they
>> aren't that dependent on the exact font size since the vast majority
>> of people writing email just use flowed text and not fancy layouts.
> I'm a bit puzzled why would email advertisements would come into mind
> here. When email archives are mentioned I think of mailing list
> archives, with the not-so-just-occasional HTML mail that got sent. I
> think we're talking about mailing list postings here, and nothing to
> do with advertisements.
> --
> cheers,
> -ambrose
For what it's worth, there are many things sent out in laid out HTML
that a person might want to reference later from their Web mail client
besides advertising. A couple that come to my mind are informative
newsletters and banking alerts.
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RE: Beta Validator usability suggestion
From: Nick Kew <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:45:26 +0100 (BST)
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Nick Kew wrote:
> In view of the reawakening of this perennial thread, I've just posted
> the ParserMessages source file I use for Page Valet[1].
Aaargh! I knew that needed a URL, but I missed the one for the post
I was referring to:-(
(not posted to this list because the attachment is rather large for
something that'll be of possible interest only to a small core
Nick Kew
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From: Dick Brooks <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:24:44 -0500
To: "Jeffrey Kay" <[email protected]>
Jeff wrote:
>I'd agree that text/xml would be really hard to distinguish SOAP messages
>from others without processing the XML directly. I'd be more in favor of a
>text/xml-soap or application/xml-protocol or something like that to clearly
>identify the kind of XML involved. It's not a perfect solution, but it
>solves the "signal" problem without having to resort to another header.
>Another thought might be to use something like:
> Content-Type: text/xml; format=xml-protocol
>This would have the same signal effect as SOAPAction, but without the extra
>header value.
This is how the original ebXML spec was written. The multipart/related
media type has a "type" parameter that contains the MIME media type of the
body part, which in ebXML's case contained the ebXML header document with
a "Content-type: application/eb+xml". When a message broker received a
message containing
"Content-type: multipart/related; type=application/eb+xml" it dispatched
processing to
an ebXML aware handler. When ebXML incorporated SOAP we had to follow
the rules in SOAP/1.1, which defines the content-type of a SOAP message as
There is no way for a message broker to distinguish an ebXML message from
any other
SOAP message, using the Content-type, given this requirement. This is where
fills-in the "missing" data needed by the message broker in order to
processing to an ebXML aware handler.
>The concern I have is that the SOAPAction header semantics are unclear for
>given XMLP transaction. There shouldn't need to be any additional routing
This is where WSDL fits in. If we can assume that SOAP services will be
using WSDL then SOAPAction semantics are perfectly clear. The WSDL
file that was created by the service implementer "tells" the "caller" the
value to use for SOAPAction within the soapAction attribute of the
binding section of the WSDL file. A client simply sets the SOAPAction based
the WSDL defined value whenever the service is called.
>information outside the basic HTTP stream since HTTP is pretty much
>from a point to point routing perspective. Everything else should be in
>envelope. URIs should be complete enough for message broker dispatching --
>URIs are supposed to identify unique resources, so message brokers
>be multiplexing or overloading URIs. Even so, with a Content-Type
>specified above, a message broker should work just fine without a new HTTP
I agree, however that's not possible without changing the SOAP spec to allow
implementers to specify their own Content-types. All SOAP messages carried
HTTP are Content-type: text/xml according to section 6 of the SOAP spec,
"HTTP applications MUST use the media type "text/xml" according to RFC
2376 [3] when including SOAP entity bodies in HTTP messages."
Dick Brooks (ebXML liaison)
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Re: LC-Issue #230
From: Jean-Jacques Moreau <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:02:14 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Don Mullen <[email protected]>
CC: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>, [email protected], Herve Ruellan <[email protected]>
Upon reflexion, I think this is already where we are; and in fact we may have
set a trend: isn't the Web Method feature named by a URI already? How else would
we name features that are not modules, not MEPs and not bindings? How would we,
for example, name a (hypothetical) attachment feature?
Features are good; URIs are better. ;-)
+1 to Glen's proposal.
Don Mullen wrote:
> The problem raised in the discussion of issue LC-230 is that SOAP features
> may be abstract, and it might be difficult to give a definitive URI to them,
> whereas SOAP modules are concrete, expressed as SOAP headers.
> It is unclear to me whether this is a valid argument.
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He led me on
Hi Meredith,
I met this guy at work and we quickly developed a great friendship. After some time, though, he would send me messages that hinted that he had feelings for me. I kept pushing it off because I had just gotten out of a four-year relationship and wasn't sure if I wanted another one, but I finally gave in and decided to see what would happen. After a few days of talking about our feelings, he asked me to be his girlfriend. The problem is that I was nervous about dating someone from work, so I mentioned that I didn't think it was a good idea because I didn't want to ruin our friendship. His response was not to worry.
After a couple of days he invited me over to meet his family. Once again, before I went over, I asked him if he was sure, and his response was yes. After that, things seemed to be going well (we went on a couple of dates, he told me he hasn't felt strongly about someone in a really long time and that I made him very happy), until the other night when he said he wanted to talk. He proceeded to tell me that he felt things were moving too fast, that he's not sure what he's doing, and that it's not me, it's him. He literally used every excuse he could think of. He told me I didn't have to leave to go home (but why would I stay?) and then as I was leaving, he said he would talk to me tomorrow! Really?! I'm really confused as to what the issue really is. I mean, he was the one to instigate every situation. Every time that I wasn't sure about something, he would seem very sure, but it turns out he wasn't so sure after all. What could he be thinking? It's really bothering me because I feel led on. What should I do?
– Confused, Boston
You have to remember that he can't predict the future. He was confident that he wanted to do all of these things (become a couple, meet the parents, etc.); he just couldn't anticipate how he'd feel after he did them.
He sounds fairly immature and short-sighted. And yes, you were led on and it stinks. But maybe the lesson here is that you should listen to your gut, not his. He asked if you wanted to be his girlfriend just a few days after talking about your feelings. That felt weird to you, but you let him convince you that it was OK. A few days later, he wanted you to meet his family. You had some doubts, but he assured you that it was fine. I don't think that you were ready for any of these steps.
My assumption is that this relationship would have ended no matter what because as he put it, it's him, not you. But now you know that your gut was right. If you have concerns about the pace of the relationship, you're allowed to skip the reassurances and simply slow it down.
Readers? What was he thinking? And what does he want from her now? What should she do? Discuss.
– Meredith
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dance of joy!, Numfar
Insomniac musings
Posted on 2011.03.02 at 03:42
What do you do when you're sick and can't sleep? I don't know about you, but I find out that every episode of Buffy is on Netflix Streaming, and start a Slayer Festival, starting with "Once More with Feeling" from the sixth season.
Hard to believe it's been ten years, but this season still holds up beautifully. The "Buffy was in Heaven" revelation, the Spike/Buffy house demolition team, Willow and Tara splitting and Amy being de-ratted -- still just as much fun as ten years ago.
Sometimes nature sucks.
Posted on 2011.01.14 at 16:39
I turned on a nature program on NatGeoWild for my grandmother because we both like nature programs, and this one was about lions and hyenas. It was all good for a while, and watching the lioness play with her cubs was just delightful. Hyena cubs are actually pretty cute too, even if they do grow up into horrid hyenas.
But I went downstairs to make Mama some tea and get her an oatmeal cookie, and came back to a horrible scene. The lioness had been bitten by a cobra and was unable to protect her cubs from the hyenas, and I was treated to the awful sight of hyenas carrying off the poor lion babies. AIGH!
I have always been fascinated with nature photography, and wonder -- just how the hell do nature photographers stay neutral in the face of such awful scenes? I'd have a hard time not chasing the hyenas away from the lioness and the cubs, and an even harder time just letting them kill all the kittens. I went into my bedroom and snuggled with Bruce, who was a lucky kitten -- his sibs were killed by a wild animal, and even now, 14 years later, he has a terror of barking dogs. He's very quiet, and stays close to the ground -- he's not a "Higher and higher" kitty. If I were a nature photographer, how could I have left that poor kitten to the fate of his siblings, and *not* taken him in and raised him? [snuggles kitty some more] He's my big boofy baby.
I know that nature is harsh. I don't have to like it. [sniffle]
(ps: for what it's worth, I don't like it much when I see lions catching baby antelope, either.)
Calvin I'm Significant/dust speck
What do *you* think of Fred Phelps and the Westboro "church"?
Posted on 2011.01.12 at 01:33
Current Mood: angryangry
Someone I've known for a very long time says that he's not seen very many Christians condemning the Westboro "church people." I told him he hasn't been listening.
Do me a favor gang -- please speak up. What do *you* think of Fred Phelps and his "church"?
Political: Everyone poops
Politics SUCK. They have no place in this tragedy.
Posted on 2011.01.10 at 19:18
Current Mood: distresseddistressed
I wanted to post this as my Facebook status, but can't quite get it right. I guess I'll just put it in my journal, and consider crying myself to sleep over murdered people who were murdered by a *madman*. I can't get that little girl's face out of my head.
We are *all* humans. We are all Americans*, not just Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, or Conservatives, or Moderates. The sooner we stop the us vs. them fingerpointing and rhetoric on *all* sides, the better. My heart cries to see people who normally get along well ripping each other to shreds over pre-conceived ideas of what the "opposition" is like. Please. Just stop blaming, and get back to working towards CIVIL DISCOURSE to work out differences. PLEASE.
This only became political when one sheriff decided to jump to conclusions and made it political before he had all the facts. That was unprofessional and incredibly irresponsible. Now it's coming out that the gunman was actually leaning far more on the leftist side -- should the country now turn and start condemning all left-leaning people? NO. They should all just effing STOP blaming each other for the actions of a clinically diagnosed insane man who should have never been able to get a gun. He could have just as easily gone after his professors and classmates at his community college, but he went after Giffords because she was a symbol of the government he was fighting against in his own mind. His blogs are the rantings of a madman, and it doesn't take someone with a degree to recognize that. Call me ableist if you want, I don't give a flying frak. I know I'm not. Unstable people should be cared for and given opportunities, but gun-ownership should NOT be one of those opportunities.
I admire Giffords for many reasons, not the least of which being her moderate stance. It's tragic that anybody be cut down in service to their country, but this moderate finds it even a touch more tragic that a fellow moderate has been cut down when her balanced voice is *clearly* needed now.
Are there ill-advised things posted on blogs and websites around the political sphere? Hell yeah. Maybe people will start to think twice before they "take aim" at their faceless opponents (or even when calling them by name). But I am convinced that everybody needs to listen to Sting's song "Russians," with a context towards *any* fellow human being. I wish he'd update the song to reflect the current political situation.
Please, no us-vs-them rhetoric in the comments. I just don't want to hear it anymore. It's *hateful*, and what's really sad is that so many people don't seem to recognize that they're spewing just as much hate as those they profess to hate. That's WTF all over.
*This is obviously aimed at my countryfolk. Apologies to my Canadian, European, and other friends reading.
Bruce HA!
Oh dear. Oh dearydearydear.
Posted on 2011.01.10 at 18:31
Current Mood: amusedamused
Apologies in advance to any of my friends if they actually *worked* on this book.
Dethklok animated
Guilty pleasures, musical edition
Posted on 2011.01.09 at 19:51
Current Mood: amusedamused
We talk about weird crap sometimes. Guilty pleasures came up in conversation last night because I had warbled a line from a Britney Spears song at him in answer to some question or another, and that started us talking about the guilty pleasures. I confessed to enjoying a few Spice Girls songs, esp. to work out to. He immediately broke into "If you wanna be my lover..." and then he said "Yep, that's you -- Nerdy Spice."
I think I like it. Nerdy Spice. Yeah. [chuckle]
there a tribble, Here a tribble
Odd musing on desserts
Posted on 2010.12.07 at 15:20
Current Mood: curiouscurious
Hmm. Just saw an ad for a "giant cupcake maker."
Isn't a giant cupcake simply...a cake?
Content Lioness
Anti-bullying message
Posted on 2010.10.20 at 16:39
I am wearing purple today in honor of *all* bullying victims. I feel that by singling out only the gay ones we do them a disservice by pointing out a large part what made them insecure in the first place. I don't think that sexual orientation should matter except to the one(s) a person is sexually involved with.
As a survivor of some really horrendous bullying that didn't stop until I *made* it stop some time in my early twenties (yes, it can extend further than childhood), I want to tell kids that yes, it does get better, but you have to find it within yourself to make it better too.
We as a society have to grab the bullies by the collar and make them stop. We have to find out what's making the bullies want to harm others to make themselves feel better. If treatment doesn't work, prosecution needs to happen for repeat offenders -- assault is assault, no matter what the age of the offender. It's not something to ignore as "kid stuff" because those kids grow up to be abusers and keep going with being abusers unless they're made to STOP.
It hasn't necessarily gotten worse in recent years; it's just gotten more media attention. Older schoolmates had me beaten into a fetal position while my grandmother helplessly tried to make them stop. She was walking me home to try to protect me from bullies; they didn't care and beat me up in front of her anyway. This was more than thirty years ago. There were no headlines for me, no vigils to keep people from hurting me, no arrests of my long-term bullies. Some of them kept going for an effing *decade* -- I saw some of the same people in high school, and they kept going with it. What happened? I got suspended for fighting back. Great message to send a smart kid -- no wonder I cut out of school in favor of self-motivated study and life experience instead. No wonder I turned to books in libraries to fuel my ravenous need for knowledge -- I was getting next to nothing out of a public school education other than the message that I didn't really matter and that the bullies were protected while I wasn't. I know I was far from the only one -- some of you are here on my f'list, and know who you are.
But I survived. I moved on to a great career in publishing and learned a ton there; I've changed careers and am looking for my next move there. I've met thousands of fascinating people, and most of them are not bullies. My first husband (married at age 20; separated from at 21) turned out to be a bully, and I walked away. I'd thought he learned, but a recent email exchange via FB proved otherwise. No one bullies me anymore -- hello, welcome to my blocklist. He's the one and only member. I still encounter would-be bullies (mostly out to make me feel bad for my physical appearance, like they have the right to comment), but have a thicker skin and ability to slough off the abuse. I guess that came with age and experience.
So how do we teach the kids that you *don't* have to take it? We have such mixed messages about reporting such things to authorities -- horrible words like "tattling" and "snitching" and the associated shunning of those who speak up do nothing to help encourage victims to stand up and report their bullies. What the hell is a victim supposed to do?
There's been a bomb threat made towards a Pennsylvania courthouse. The journalists wrote "A bomb scare was called in..."
Uh, *no*. It's a bomb *threat*. It's only downgraded to a "scare" when the bomb squad declares it a scare. Until then, it's a *threat*.
WTF, people? Don't they teach this stuff in journalism school anymore??
Bruce HA!
I want this!
Posted on 2010.10.18 at 19:52
Hahahahahaha! I just saw a review of this app on NY1. I don't have an iPhone, but it might make one more attractive to me. It's an app where you can point your phone at someone/thing, push a button, and PEWPEWPEW! It makes sound effect and a visual of shooting lasers at them.
What makes this funny to me is many years ago, I had an old Chevette. On the dashboard of the Chevette, mounted with velcro, was a small black box with four buttons and a speaker -- each button made a different sound effect of mass destruction. Gunfire, lasers, whistling bombs, missiles -- if someone cut me off, I had the fantasy of having front-loaded heat-seeking missiles give them hard justice. I actually got pulled over by a cop who thought it was a radar detector (they're illegal in Virginia), and he laughed when I demonstrated that, no officer, it's not a radar detector, it's a frustration-venting machine. :D He asked me where I bought it, and said he wanted one. He did warn me that it did look like a radar detector, so I might be pulled over again for it, but he sent me on my way.
This app wouldn't work while I was driving (I'd have to hold the phone up to catch images of those I wish to blow up) but I still think it's hysterical.
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Part 3: The Overcrowded Skies Part 3: The Overcrowded Skies
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by Justin Fines, Labour , Morgan Currie, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Lindsay Utz, David Axe, Rus Garofalo, Andrew Bouvé
November 12, 2008
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If you get this worked out, would you be willing to release your Net::Stomp hacks? I'm desperatly needing HA for my perl publishers (and subscribers for that matter), but I don't have the hours to do it in house at the moment. -D > -----Original Message----- > From: Ramit Arora [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Implementing failover for Net::Stomp > > > > Hi, > I am using ActiveMQ 5.0.0. My application requires Perl > publishers & Java > subscribers. Since HA is a necessity, I wish to implement failover > capability in the Net::Stomp client for Perl. > I've already come up with a basic solution, but I am facing > the following > problem: > I use the pipe broken signal to detect master broker failure > from perl. The > pipe does not break until the master shuts down its Stomp > connector. If I > abruptly shut down the master (power down or kill -9), then > there is no > issue. But if I cleanly shutdown the master (^C), then the > master does not > shut down its Stomp connector until it has done its cleanup. > This normally > takes around 10secs. This results in the Perl client sending > messages to the > broker for those crucial ten seconds. These messages are lost & not > delivered to the Java client. > Is there are any other way of detecting that the master is > shutting down? > Perhaps something using the STOMP ERROR frame? > > TIA, > Ramit > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Implementing-failover-for-Net%3A%3AStomp -tp16207964s2354p16207964.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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It would help if my links actually hadn't been stripped :( Here they are: project on github: schema files: generated base classes: getTblLinkInts() in BaseTbl3: cheers, h. On Feb 28, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Helge Weissig wrote: > Hi, > > I just ran into what may be a feature or a bug... trying to find out which: When I define a table in schema1.xml and another two, including a link table for a many-to-many relationship in schema2.xml, where schema2.xml includes schema1.xml as an external schema, torque will not generated the getter methods for the foreign keys. > > To illustrate, I have created a github project. As you will see, there are two schema files: first-schema.xml and second-schema.xml which includes the first. The generated base classes for tbl1 and tbl3 differ in that BaseTbl3 has the getter methods for the link table tbl_link_int (e.g. getTblLinkInts()), whereas BaseTbl1 does not. > > I think it would be a very useful feature to be able to split a large schema into several sub-schema files and not lose the ability to generate these setters! Maybe I am doing something wrong though!? > > Any input would be appreciated. > > cheers, > h. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail:
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[SciPy-dev] Package organization
Pearu Peterson pearu at scipy.org
Fri Oct 14 16:29:20 CDT 2005
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Travis Oliphant wrote:
> First. I like what Fernando is trying to do with the scipy.kits
> concept. The most valuable thing scipy could provide is a mechanism
> for auto-indexing your scipy-related packages for a help browser. I
> don't think packages would need to live under scipy to accomplish this
> (but it would make it easier). There are other mechanism like the
> environment variable concept that could also collect package
> information. In fact, I wonder if scipy could detect that some module
> imported it and add that to some internal index (or only add it if the
> module defined some __scipy__ name or something...
That's a difficult problem and I think with some nasty hacks it could be
solved, e.g. overwriting builtin __import__ function by adding to it some
callback mechanism.
> Second. Regarding the debate over the .lib directory. I could accept
> the fact that an extremely flat packaging structure has advantages.
> After all MATLAB "gets away" with an enormously flat system. I also see
> the dependency problem with a hierarchial approach. I think Robert
> raises a valid point, that a nested hierarchy is largely just a
> documentation/indexing issue.
Then we have been talking about different things. I agree that too deep
hierarchy can cause problems but I have never throught about it from the
documentation point of view. And I never meant that scipy packages should
be organized with a deep directory structure, the depth 2 or 3 is more
than enough.
> It could be handled using some standard
> form of keywords/GAMS classification numbers in the sub-packages
> themselves.
> For example in optimize.py
> __gamskeys__ = {'fmin': 'G1a1a'}
> Then scipy could provide an indexing system that would pick all of these
> names up and produce a GAMS hierarchy of code available.
That's a nice idea.
> I think one of the purpose of the .lib directory is to extract those
> elements of the current full scipy that cause interdependencies among
> the modules to a 'library' directory that holds the actual dependencies.
> It could still serve that purpose. If we just start moving things
> to the library on a case-by-case basis, it might help us decide what
> should really go there.
> While I don't really have enough data to form a strong opinion, I like
> the idea of a flat structure under scipy with perhaps a few
> sub-directories like lib and sandbox.
I think that putting certain scipy packages under subdirectories lib,
sandbox, and maybe kits, is all that I would wish.
I have designed scipy.distutils to handle scipy package directories
with any depth. But I hope that scipy.distutils design did not give this
impression that we would need more than these subdirectories in scipy.
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