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Increase storage on Apple TV?
Discussion in 'Apple TV and Home Theater' started by Yorkienav, Aug 9, 2009.
1. macrumors newbie
I am new to the whole Apple set up and after being so impressed with my mac book I decide to continue down the Apple route. I have purchased a 500gb time capsule and Apple TV and everything is working great. However, when i purchased the items i was led to believe from the sales assistant that i did not require to purchase the 160gb Apple Tv (bought the 40gb one) as I could store everything on the 500g Time capsule. Having had everything set up for a week or so, the Apple TV is already half full and I can't seem to link it to the Time Capsule. Am i doing something wrong or was I led down the garden path a little? Is there an easy answer to increasing the capacity o the Apple TV? or linkig it to the Time Capsule?
2. macrumors 68020
You seem to be storing media on the aTV and need to Stream from the TC. If you Stream the media is not stored on the aTV HD.
If you are interested in opening the aTV and adding a larger HD here is a link to begin.
3. macrumors newbie
With the Apple TV showing up in your devices on Itunes, click on the Apple TV, under Summary choose custom sync, then click each tab, movies, tv shows, music, podcasts & photos and under each one uncheck the box next to "Sync" So that all fields are grey'd out. Now your APPLE TV is set up to not sync any content from your computer.
Now take all of the content stored on your Time Machine or any internal or external hard drive and drag and drop it into the appropriate place on Itunes. Once this is done, when you use your apple tv, you should see all music, tv shows, & movies just as they appear on your itunes. You will not have anything stored on your apple tv at all, but will be able to keep all your content on your computer, attached Hard drive or Time machine, and watch/listen to it instantly on the Apple tv.
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iPod classic help
Discussion in 'iPod' started by Muppetsliveon, Jul 20, 2012.
1. macrumors newbie
Hey. I'm new here. I'm having problems with an iPod classic 80gb 6th generation. I hook it up to the computer open up the iPod file. I'm thinking this is the problem. Help, please?
2. macrumors newbie
Why are you trying to open the .metadata_never_index file? What good will that do you?
What are you trying to do? Put music on it? Is it a new iPod, or at least new to you? If you're trying to open that file, then that means you at least see the iPod. Does the iPod show up in iTunes?
3. macrumors 65816
Please make your question more clear.
4. macrumors newbie
I put my ipod on the usb cord. Windows gives me a scan and fix (recommended) window. I click scan and fix. Then it gives me a window that says check and fix problems. So I click check on Automatically fix file system errors and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. I click start.
"Some problems were found and fixed. any files that were affected by these problems were moved to a folder named 'found' on the device or disk. Your device or disk is now ready to use.
If you removed the device or disk before all files were fully written to it, parts of some files may still be missing. If so, go back to the source and recopy those files to your device or disk."
5. macrumors newbie
Can anybody help me?
6. macrumors 6502a
Have you installed iTunes? If so, does the ipod show up in the left hand column of itunes?
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Macbook late 2008 unibody getting heat slowdown
Discussion in 'MacBook' started by MindBrain, Feb 6, 2010.
1. macrumors regular
Hey I was wondering if I should be getting heat slowdown while gaming on my Macbook (9400m graphics, aluminum Oct. 2008) I first noticed the problem in X-Plane and was able to control it a number of ways (smcfancontrol setting fans to max, and using a cooling pad helped)
So a while later I install bootcamp and windows XP, even with fans at max and the cooling pad, for some games I will get the slowdown after a few mins. I know it's heat related slowdown because if I quit when it happens I check the temperature of the cpu and it's around 200 degrees.
I'm not sure how abnormal this is, I'm also still testing to see if using 2x antialiasing helps (by lowering framerate) but I'm not sure.
I've read about reapplying thermal paste, but has this shown improvements in my particular model?
I want to take it to the Apple store, but I'm out of the 1 year warranty, however, should they have something to do with it if the computer had the problem inside the warranty period but was not noticeable then, as I wasn't running high end games?
If anyone has any help it would be appreciated. Btw my current temperature is 126 degrees, with just this firefox web window open. Thanks
edit: I've found lowering the maximum prerendered frames option in the nvidia control panel, from 3 to 0 (will try settings of 1 and 2 later) helped. Anyone else doing hard gaming on their late 2008 macbook have any opinions, please, thanks. I've been running Dawn of War 2 demo as a sort of benchmark
2. macrumors regular
Wow no one has any advice? I'm just looking for people and run intensive games in Windows XP, and wondering what your temps are. Do you use a cooling pad, do you get heat slowdown when you don't use a cooling pad? What's the deal?
3. macrumors regular
Kat King123
Well this can be a problem or be normal it all depends on which model do you have the 2.0ghz or the 2.4ghz macbook.
if its the 2.4ghz model then your fine but it is running pretty hot but the cpu can handle up to about 221F.
But if its the 2.0ghz model then theres something wrong it can only handle about 194F.
But for me i have a macbook similar to yours i overclock from 2ghz to 2.3 whenever im in windows 7 and i put the GPU up to it normal speed because apple likes to underclock:rolleyes: Never had any temp problems
4. Pax
macrumors 6502a
Istat nano?
If you download Istat nano (a Dashboard widget) you can set it to show temperatures of the various components.
What temperatures do you see when both CPUs are running flat out? Particularly for the CPU and the heatsink.
If the CPU and the heatsink temperatures are within less than about 40 F of each other changing the thermal paste probably won't make much difference.
eg if the CPU maxes out at 194 F then I would expect to see the heatsink at 158 F or hotter.
5. macrumors regular
Thanks for the replies. I have the 2.4ghz Intel Core2Duo.
Upon running 2 instances of "yes > /dev/null" (2 since, 1 for each core I'm assuming, as running 1 puts my cpu use at 50%) After a few mins my cpu temperature is at 208 degrees, I don't know how much higher it can go because at this temperature I'm worried and I shut them down.
Currently my cpu is 149 degrees, heatsink A 146 degress, heatsink B 126 degrees. About 80% cpu idle, listening to sound, 5 web pages open, no cooling pad. So according to Pax thermal paste won't help, however I havn't checked these differences at higher temperatures.
What gets me is does other peoples macbooks control the heat (or generate less) more efficiently then mine (when we're running at same settings)
Are there people out there running intensive games with no slowdown while not using a cooling pad? Or is it expected to use a cooling pad while gaming (in other words is it asking too much of the system to run intensive games with no cooling pad?)
I guess if a cooling pad is pretty much required then the one I have just doesn't cut it. I'd like to have a nicer one like the Zefyr designed for macbook, but it's 75 bucks
Well on the plus side I've found the option in the nvidia control panel "maximum prerendered frames" set to "0" helps a lot, but then again do other users have to invoke this option to keep their heat under control, I'm thinking my guess is no.
Kat King do you run a cooling pad when you're gaming? And maybe that .1 ghz less makes all the difference, maybe I need to underclock my processor if that's possible. Seems like an ugly solution though.....
edit: Was running X-Plane and watching my temperatures, the CPU hit a max of about 210 degrees, mostly the cpu hovered around 205 degrees, with heatsink A at 194 degrees, and heatsink B at 155 degrees. Pax what do you think about heatsink B, should it be closer to the cpu temperature like heatsink A is, or is it supposed to be a lot less? Thanks
edit 2: I did another test with yes > /dev/null I tried it without my battery in the computer and once the fans maxed out the temperature didn't get above 176 degrees or so. So it runs a ton cooler without the battery. Is this normal, could I have a faulty battery that runs hot? Of course problem with running without a battery is if the cord gets unplugged and shuts me down.....
edit 3: I learned running without the battery throttles down the cpu....so that would explain why it runs cooler....
edit 4: Well after doing more cpu load tests and seeing my temperature at 97 - 99 degrees Celsius it's my conclution this machine runs much hotter then it should, and hotter then other people similar computers...gonna have to take it to Apple to look at, would hope they can do something about it being out of warrenty, not my dang fault I didn't notice it when I first got it as I wasn't running demanding programs....
6. Pax
macrumors 6502a
OK, useful info. I don't think you have any problem. (I work in C not F so apologies if I do some conversions)
(1) there is nothing wrong with your thermal paste.
your heatsink temps are reasonably close to your CPU temps.
I don't know the distinction between Heatsink A and Heatsink B. But
CPU 205 F = 96 C
Heatsink B 155 F = 68 C
Difference = 28 C
Those temperatures look high-to-normal normal. My MBP has about 25 C difference between the heatsink and the CPU core. Even if you replaced the paste I expect you would not make much difference to the number - it's simply very hard to suck heat out of the small area of the die through the silicon wafer and the paste.
(2) the temperatures look perfectly normal for a 2.4 GHz device
You have a P8600 which looks like it is specced to 105 C.....
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_...bile P8600 AW80577SH0563M (BX80577P8600).html
(you could probably find the same info on the Intel website but it can take some searching)
Most of the Core2Duos are specced to 105 C, the 2.0 GHz looked like an exception.
Above 105 C the processor will start slowing down to save itself. Above about 125 C it will shut down
(3) Apple seems to design its cooling system to run the CPU up to the spec limit, then cool it down to about 90 - 95C
If you use the default fan control algorithm (NOT SMCfancontrol etc) I've seen the following on a couple of Macs.
Run the CPUs up to 200%
Temperatures climb to near or just over 105C, this takes a few minutes
Fan speed doesn't start to rise until temperature is into the 90s
Temperature continues to rise even though fans are increasing
Fan then increases and after a few minutes pulls the temperature down to the low to mid 90s
CPU temp sits at the low/mid 90s and the fans speed up and slow down to hold it there.
This all makes sense - the computer knows most high CPU loads only last a short time so it doesn't ramp the fans up too quickly or it would be annoying. THe computer is happy to let the CPU reach 105 C, but not for it to stay there indefinitely. So it uses the fans to bring it down to the mid-90s.
you are quite safe. The temperature seems quite high but the CPU is specced to cope with it. The fan behaviour seems funny at first but it makes sense to me. Your CPU will happily sit at 95 C for many, many years.
On my 13 MBP (basically the same computer as yours) under 2x /dev/null if I leave it for 10 minutes the CPU settles in the low/mid 90s C with heatsink B at just under 70 C and the fan at about 3000 rpm. The fan speed changes up and down to keep the CPU at that temperature.
So our computers are both doing the same thing - it's nominal.
Your computer should NOT be slowing down at these temperatures. You used to be able to use CoreDuoTemp to look for the CPU throttling its clock speed, but I'm not sure this is compatible with Core2Duo.....
7. macrumors regular
Well I just got out of Quake Live game (in Windows XP), I would check the temperature every minute or 2, after about 5 mins or so I got the slowdown, I checked real quick and was at about 94 degrees Celsius, so it looks like to me the CPU throttled down at about 95 degrees Celsius. This is without the cooling pad, vents are not blocked
I will try this test now in X-Plane in OSX
Edit: Well I tried in X-Plane plane, the slowdown seemed to come when the temp hit about 102 degrees
Pax do you know of a definitive way to test all of this, like if I took it to Apple how would they test it? Is there a stress test program that works the cpu and gpu and notes the clock speed and at what temperatures the clock speed changes (throttles) etc. Thanks
Edit 2: Ok here's what I'm seeing. When I'm running in WindowsXP the cpu will throttle down at about exactly 95 degrees celcius. In OSX it throttles down around 102 (maybe 105, and the 102 is what I'm seeing after it's cooled down for a second)
Running the 2 "yes > /dev/null" processes my temperatures hover around 98 - 100 degrees celcius, with the fans already going at MAX (won't get any cooler)
I'm getting the impression that most people's computers running at full load are seeing temps more around 80 - 85, seems like my computer gets way too hot
8. Pax
macrumors 6502a
How do you know you are getting slowdown? How do you know it is the CPU throttling down? Do you have something that measures the CPU clock speed?
When you play X-plane for an extended period, what temperature does the CPU settle down at? What temperature is the heatsink at?
What happens if you use the standard fan cooling, OSX and no SMCFanControl. ie if you use the MB as Apple intended it?
98-100 C is warm but is within specification. As I said mine runs at about 92 C, I have seen others running at similar values.
Putting it bluntly, how do you know that you have a problem? 98-100C is not the symptom of a problem, it shows the CPU and Macbook cooling system working nominally.
9. macrumors regular
The temperature never really settles down, it steadily climbs to about 102 degrees celcius, then the system heat safety thing kicks in, the game turns to a slide show (really strange slowdown, the framerate fluctuates from very low to normal every 2 - 4 seconds) After the slow down starts eventually the temp will lower to like 76 degrees and I'm still stuck with a slideshow game...
I've tried that and believe I noticed no benefit. Not long after I first noticed the problem I even formatted my system (computer was cluttered anyway) to see if it would help but it didn't. I'll uninstall smcfancontrol and try the yes command again to be sure
I'm getting the impression from what I can scour on the web that running at 100 degrees celcius for any real period of time is insane. Even if I can cool the thing just enough to not trigger the safety slowdown mechanism, how long before I have a nice unibody aluminum doorstop.....it's crazy right on the edge of its capacity
I can tell the slowdowns are a result of the heat because I can see in just about any intensive game, a distinct drop in frame rate (at the temperatures I mentioned above) it's really obvious and makes the game unplayable, only way to fix it is to quit the program and let the computer cool.
By the way this is after only maybe 5 or 10 mins with the fans already going at MAX.
It's silly because I've had to come up with a tweak every time the problem creeps up, in X-plane I got the cheap cooling pad and smcfancontrol, ok that helped some, installed bootcamp, had to mess around with nvidia options, games where you can set a maximum fps (I put 40) seems to help, I guess less strain on the grahpics card, which leads be to believe the gpu is getting too hot as well...
I'm just trying to find other people that might have noticed this situation, should I be expected to need a high end cooling pad? A bunch of other questions. Anyway I'm taking it into an Apple store on Friday 11:00am, I'd like to run some of the cpu tests on any 2.4ghz machines they have there and see how hot they run.......I'll just have to see what they say I guess....
10. Pax
macrumors 6502a
Maybe you do have a problem, it sounds odd
your CPU should not be throttling below 105 C. No way should it be throttling at 76 C. The fact that you still see slowdown at 76 C would seem to me to indicate another, non-CPU-related problem.
Have you tried resetting the SMC? You can find instructions on the Apple website. The SMC controls low level hardware functions like fans and sensors.
check out the Intel specification document, PROCHOT is not invoked below 105C for the Core2Duos.
If your CPU was throttling it should throttle its clockspeed down until the temperature drops below 105C, then go back to full speed. You would see the CPU temperature hold at around 105 C.
Maybe you have another problem... something to do with the graphics getting too hot... I don't know.
The heat pipeline goes
CPU > thermal paste > heatsink > heat pipe > fan blown air > outside air
Your heatsink temps seem to indicate that the thermal paste is OK. Your fan presumably works OK. I guess it's possible you have a bad heat pipe or air duct, something like that.
It doesn't sound like anything obvious, hopefully Apple can sort it out.
11. macrumors 68000
The heat will cause slowdowns after a certain temp on ram modules. I have the 2ghz model and have to run my fans to keep my temps down or i get stuttering even surfing the net. I use smcfancontrol and set it at 3000 rpm's to keep it cool. What brand of ram modules are you using?
12. Pax
macrumors 6502a
Interesting idea. It looks like good DDR2 RAM should be specified to operate at 85 C or similar. If the OP's CPU is at 76 C then the RAM should be much cooler... it's placed quite a long distance from the CPU and heat pipes.
Even if the CPU die was at 100 C I can't imagine the RAM being particularly hot.
Here's just a random DDR2 sample (I'm aware it's not the right stuff for Macs, it's just an example)
So I can believe that the RAM could cause stuttering, but not at the OP's CPU temp of 76 C????
I wonder if it could be the graphics - the graphics chip has a TDP of 12 W or similar, quite a big dissipation, it could get pretty hot in there...
13. macrumors regular
I have 2gb of the default apple ram. The 76 degrees celsius is sort of a ballpark figure. It seems the more tests I do the more varied results I get. I only mentioned it because at one time it was the temp i saw after I noticed the system slowing itself down, which if I'm correct confirms that it is indeed heat and a safety feature kicking in. I loaded up X-Plane the other night and got the same issue, after the system slowed down though I saw temps of 90 degrees celsius, so I don't know whats going on, it was a slideshow though.
Still havn't gone to Apple yet, gonna try to make it on Tuesday, basically what I want to know is should my cpu be at 100 degrees celsius with 100% cpu load and fans going at max. This just seems a tad (understament) hot. What's worse is I don't think the "yes > /dev/null" test even stresses the graphic card, so that heat is not even being factored in.
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New iPod now or Paris?
Discussion in 'iPod' started by aricher, Aug 24, 2005.
1. macrumors 68020
I just got a settlement from an auto accident (not my fault). My wife's 40 GB 3G iPod flew into the dashboard and the hard drive was fried. The insurance company just cut me a check for the original full purchase price (with shipping) of $513.00! I know the product line was updated in June but does anyone foresee Apple releasing a new high-end iPod in Paris? Maybe an 80 GB ? Thoughts?
2. macrumors 604
I'd wait. What are we talking about, two weeks?
3. macrumors 68000
I would wait to, all though i don't expect much. Maybe changing the model configurations and a new price point maybe.
4. macrumors 68000
Edit, sorry :eek:
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Newbie, purchasing Air, ques, i5 vs. i7
Discussion in 'MacBook Air' started by vazelos, Aug 7, 2011.
1. macrumors member
Is it worth the $100 to upgrade to an i7?
2. macrumors 601
If you have to ask, probably not. However if you list your intended uses, that would be helpful in giving a better answer.
3. macrumors 6502a
Epic Xbox Revie
If you have to ask, the answer is probably no. Enjoy your MBA!
Beat me to the punch!
4. macrumors 6502
We can't give you an informed opinion of you don't give us anything to be informed about...
5. macrumors 65816
If you are going for the 11", i7 upgrade is a lot more noticeable as per Anandtech review.
The 13" i5 vs i7 is only about 10-15% increase in performance which is negligible.
6. macrumors 68000
plus to get the i7 in the 13" you have to get the expensive model...you have to get teh expensive 11" to get the i7 also but its not as big a deal since most people likely would opt for the expensive 11 anyway just due to the ram differance and storage differance (going from 64 to 128 is to me important, going from 128-256 is not)
7. macrumors regular
Only negligible to people with the i5 ;)
Anyways it's worth it to me cause having an i7 Air is epic sauce.
8. macrumors 65816
Tell me that again if you actually have the Quad Core i7 =]
Macbook Air 2011 with dual core i5 and dual core i7 is 10-15% difference. I will not notice it from what I plan to use my MBA for.
9. macrumors G4
I have the 11" i7. That said, if I were going with the 13" model, I might have went with the i5.
To the OP, the thing to remember is that the 1.7GHz i5 actually operates at 2.4GHz most of the time, while the 1.8GHz i7 actually operates at 2.6GHz most of the time. By contrast, the 1.6GHz i5 operates at 2.0GHz most of the time. Newer Intel chips have what is known as "Turbo Boost," which lets the processor run at higher than its rated speed when it isn't being pushed to the limit. Because of the higher Turbo Boost speeds, the 1.7GHz i5 on the 13" is much closer to the i7 than the chip in the 11".
10. macrumors 6502
personally? no. spend that $100 and upgrade ram to 4gb (if you're on the basic 2gb model)
11. MRU
He must be going for the 13" as it's $100 upgrade. The 11" is $150. ;-)
So by process of deduction = answer is No (probably :D)
12. macrumors 6502a
I was curious about this too, I have a 13 i7 pro right now. I use it with vmware, uploading pics from my nikon d90 to my website, ichat, Facebook, Skype, web surfing, iTunes, mail, and so on...so would an i5 13 pro with 256 be sufficient of i7?
13. macrumors member
Totally forgot about this thread ! :D My whole selection is now up in the air again, I was banking on a friend of a friend giving me her employee discount but it seems for some reason that can't be done... So now im back to square one. I was planning on going for the MBA 13" i7 256GB but now I might be looking at the MBA 13" or MBP 13" both base models.... I have to redo all the calcuations to see if it fits my budget, which is about $1600.
14. macrumors 6502a
the base 13 MBA is an excellent machine well within your budget. as has been noted, the CPU upgrade in this case is not dramatic. the 1.7GHz i5 is a great CPU.
15. macrumors 68040
Concensus in all the threads I have reviewed is i5.
-Battery Life
-Fan Noise
Few here would really know/experience the difference between i5 and i7.
16. macrumors member
Are these issues only with the i5?
The i7 won't have these problems?
17. macrumors member
Battery Life is the same, its around 10-25% faster than the stock i5 (in the 11") it also gets warmer, i for one wouldn't play a graphics intensive game on my bare skin with it, but i doubt the i5 will be any better there ^^
18. macrumors regular
I got it in my 11" because it makes me feel better! Lol
Couldn't justify ~300 more for the 256 upgrade thou so I had to BTO
19. macrumors 604
Yes. :cool:
20. macrumors G4
I wouldn't characterize them as "problems" on either the i5 or i7. The i7 runs a few degrees hotter at idle, but in CPU-intensive tasks might actually run a little bit cooler since it won't be taxed as much. That said, the difference is negligible. The website AnandTech had a review with some data about a week ago.
21. macrumors member
I`m not interested in the 11inch :(
22. macrumors 6502
If heating was an issue, rest assured the MBA would be freezing or turning off on its own. Hardware won't die because of heating that easily, there will be a lot of signs before anything serious happens.
This is probably how the MBA was designed to work, so don't worry about anything heat related. All laptops get hot at a certain section, totally normal.
23. macrumors regular
For those of us who will never fill a 100 GB hard drive the upgrade is more like $400.00. I have no use for the 256GB hard drive, so if I wanted to get the i7 it would cost me almost 30% of the total price of the computer. Personally paying a 30% premium for a processor that is benchmarking at 8-9% faster is not a worthwhile investment. The better value is the i5 if you do not need the extra storage. You will lose less money on your purchase for a computer which performs almost every task, short of heavy coding or photo editing, on par with the i7 version.
Ultimately in a few years both the 2011 versions will look slow and knowing you paid closer to $1000 rather than $2000 will give you the feeling of having gotten the most bang for your dollar.
24. macrumors member
I really like this post :)...
I have a question,
let's say I record some videos on a standard digital camera and want to make a little film to put on youtube.. does the mba i5 128gb have what it takes to get this done just as good as any other macbook?
25. macrumors regular
Yes the mba i5 should have no issues. Don't know exactly what application you would be using, but you should not see any issues. These laptops really go beyond just email and web surfing. Which is why I particularly love this generation. They are well balanced in power and portability.
Now sure, I buy a MB Pro with a Radeon discrete graphics card, quad core processor, and play graphics heavy video games and applications the Airs would be playing catch up. But think about it is 20 seconds vs 30 seconds that bad? Or however the number play out. If the Pro is running an intensive application and it is beautifully accomplishing its task, then isn't it impressive the little Air with its built in graphics card and SSD drive is keeping up? For me....yes. For others...no.
I like my light as "Air" laptop. :)
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Read this thread on Apple Discussion Boards!
Discussion in 'Macintosh Computers' started by ecino1, Jun 13, 2003.
1. macrumors member
2. macrumors G3
just a try out of the blue... but see if signing in under a different user is any different...
3. macrumors 6502a
re-install osx, if you have anyprograms or documents you want to keep, you just have to archive install
4. macrumors 68020
i dont know about your other problems, but the shortcut to force quit it cmd+opt+esc not cmd+opt+delete
5. macrumors member
ya i know i posted in the thread that i mistyped the force quit thing. Thats only part of the deal anyway. I did a reinstall of os x (archive and install) and my system is still fu*k'd. What is going on here? I am so dam mad right now.
6. macrumors member
New problem in addition to the others I talked to in the last thread: now I get no dam about this mac screen when i choose 'about this mac' from the stupid apple menu! Great!
7. macrumors Penryn
Go to the iBook forum and ask one of the Dougs (Doug or Doug McLaughlin). Doug M. is always helpful. If he doesn't know the answer, he always goes the extra mile and tries to find out for you. Just because you own a 12" PB, doesn't mean that some over there may not be able to help you anyways. ;)
8. macrumors 68040
It sounds like corrupt RAM. Try resetting the Power Management Unit. This is sort of a last resort and will kill any clock settings, ran storage, motherboard settings, etc.
The steps are as follows:
1. If the computer is on, turn it off.
2. Reset the power manager by simultaneously pressing and then releasing Shift-Control-Option-power on the keyboard. Do not press the fn (Function) key while using this combination of keystrokes.
3. Wait 5 seconds.
4. Press the power button to restart the computer.
If there is corrupt data in the RAM this should flush it.
The other possibility is a corrupt preference file. Boot from another disk and go in andtry deleting some of the UI related preference files.
Also, have you ran the hardware test CD?
9. macrumors 6502
he has function keys turned on would be my guess,,,,,,,,but hey what do i know
10. macrumors regular
similar problem
i had a similar problem on an original imac 350. i couldn't shut down, restart, or log out!!! (i don't remember if i tried force quitting.) when i booted in 9 it was ok, but not in x. believe it or not, i started classic mode and i no longer had the problem!!! unbelievable!
i'm not saying this will fix it since a powerbook is quite a bit different than an old imac, but it's worth a shot, eh?
11. macrumors newbie
maybe try resetting the logic board through Open Firmware....
command+option+O+F on restart
upon getting white screen type: reset-all and hit enter
your machine will restart automatically
12. macrumors member
Hellp. Thanks for all your suggestions, but my problem still exists! Now when I restart my computer I get that grey apple logo on the screen for about 1 minute, then my system reboots itself! It does this several times before it actuall progresses to the login screen. Also, my friend has a copy of diskwarior and made a boot cd for his computer (same powerbook as mine) and I tried it on my system. It booted fine (but too about 10 minutes to fully startup from the cd) I rebuilt the directory on my mac os x volume. Upon restart I found my system to work properly! BUT, since i did a new install of os x like someone suggested to me, software update had a million updates to download. So i installed all that junk (quicktime, security update, bluetooth, etc) and restarted the system. After the reboot my system is messed gain (same as before). This sucks. I am too angry for words. I actually want to beat the sh*t out of this garbage. Sorry about my language here, but I am just so mad.
13. macrumors newbie
have you tried repairing permissions? i'm no OS X super-fixer but it seems like a logical thing to try.
14. macrumors 68040
If you're that mad and frustrated, call Apple. They'll guide you through how to fix it or they will have you ship it in.
At this point it seems like it may be hardware related, so you're going to want to talk with them.
15. macrumors 603
If you have a 12' PowerBook, I'm assuming you still have a warranty. Even if you don't have AppleCare (which I suggest getting), you have 90 days of tech support and 1 year hardware. You may have bad hardware.
16. macrumors regular
Do you have any additional RAM installed in the machine? If so, remove it and see if the problem persists.
Also, to check if it is the Mac OS X installation, find a friend with a Mac and get them to boot off of your hard drive using firewire disk target mode. Obviously, if your hard drive can boot another machine and it works fine, you know it is a hardware problem.
17. macrumors regular
Unless I loved tinkering, which I don't, there is no way I would go to any trouble at all with a problem like this, you may just mess things up more, and you will certainly cause yourself a lot of stress and heart ache.
There is only one simple, stress free solution - return it dude!
What the hell are you waiting for?:confused:
18. macrumors regular
Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Take it back to where you bought it from and get them to fix it for you. Tell them what you have done so far and that you think it is a hardware problem. Make sure you tell them to call you if they think it is software because if it is you will be charged for it.
But take 10 deep breaths before you do.
I'm a Mac techie myself and it really sucks dealing with angry customers. All it does is make other people feel more s**ty.
Anyway, Goodluck!
19. macrumors 68040
Apple does all laptop warranty work in California.
You can't take it back to where you bought it, you have to call Apple and if they can't fix it over the phone, they'll give you a case number and send you a shipping box. Turnaround is about three days.
20. Moderator emeritus
I read your original thread researching a problem with my 17 PB. I had similar problems and a bunch of others. We both have rev A machines, and they screw up occasionally, many 12 and 17 users dont have the problems we have.
Do what pseudobrit says, get Apple to sort it out. Mine is currently in Ireland I believe, new logic board,
new screen and video hardware, replacement RAM. They say it should be back Tuesday. :D
Get Apple to sort it, relax:)
21. macrumors member
Thanks a lot for the replies. I called apple and basically the chick on the phone just told me to do everything suggested here. So we went through all that stuff on the phone (which took over an hour) after all that she had no solutions so she told me to backup all my stuff and format & reinstall. So now im running a new system. I hope everyhting runs normal.
22. macrumors regular
Thanks for the correction. I live in NZ and I guess it works a little different down here.
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Soundstix or JBL Creature
Discussion in 'Macintosh Computers' started by MacMaelstrom, Sep 26, 2003.
1. macrumors member
I like Sound Sticks.. which ones a better value
2. macrumors 65816
I bought the JBL Creature for my PowerBook. I like them since they are so small but I think they have just as good sound as the Sound Sticks.
3. macrumors 68020
Rod Rod
Soundsticks, Value
If you like the smaller size, go for the Creature speakers. They run about $130 new but maybe you can find a better deal.
Smalldog.com has refurbished Soundsticks for around $95. I got mine recently and they're great. I can now hear the video I edit, a big improvement over the iBook's little speakers and also over the eMac... the eMac has nice speakers but the sound gets drowned out by its noisy fan. The computer's back is an inch from a wall and it reflects back the fan noise.
4. macrumors G3
both are really great speakers; everyone seems to like whichever one they get. So just go for price/ looks.
5. macrumors 65816
Neither... Get the $99 Bose MediaMates. I had the JBL Sonnets (basically the creatures) and in less than a year one speaker became distorted.
DON'T BUY Harmon-Kardon.
6. macrumors 65816
Re: Soundsticks, Value
You can get the Creature new at Amazon for $94.08 (and it qualifies for free shipping)
7. macrumors 6502
What about the Monsoon PM-14's?
I have the soundsticks right now with my dual 867 and I despise them! I am sick and tired of the usb audio issues and apple not dealing with them. When network packets go out through airport the soundsticks pop and sometimes the sound disappears completely and won't come back for a while. So obviously I'm looking to replace them.
8. macrumors 68000
Re: Re: Soundsticks, Value
I bought my Creature from Amazon with the free shipping and I received it within a week. It sounds great hooked up to my iMac. I have listened to the Bose media mates and they also sound good, but don't look as cool as my Creature.
9. macrumors 65816
omg, 1 unfortunate incident doesn't mean all harmon-kardon are crap, good god:rolleyes:
they are great speakers, i'd go with the creatures, alot cheaper then soundsticks, but i doubt the quality is noticibly worse
10. macrumors 6502a
I looked at Sound Sticks, Creatures and the Bose Media Mate. I went with the Creatures beacause of the form factor. I think any of the three will be a good choise for the price range. I also opted for the siver/gray color. I think it will compliment my G5 when it arrives - on Monday :D
Don't let the small size of the Creatures fool you. They have a really nice sound. The sub woofer of the Sound Sticks did not impress me, at least not for the price. If I remember correctly the Media Mate does not have bass or treble controls. One sound is all you get, although it is a nice sound.
Hope this helps.
11. macrumors G3
Re: Soundstix or JBL Creature
Go with the one that sounds better to you. That will be your better value.
Having said that, the Creature's sounded too tinny to me on the music I listen to. The Soundsticks work better on highs then the Creatures do.
12. macrumors 68010
eyelikeart will back me up on this one. get the altec lansing atp3 speakers. they're cheaper and sound a lot better, and they ain't bad looking either.
13. Wes
macrumors 68020
14. macrumors 6502a
I liked these also but the four speaker set up didn't fit my needs. If you want the 4.1 or 5.1 sound take a look at the Klipsch ProMedia . The styling is a bit different but I think they have a nice sound.
15. macrumors 6502
i think im going to be buying the altec 621's tomorrow.
i listened to them today next to the creature speakers and they sounded damn good. same price, with a wired remote, and a 2nd input.
16. macrumors G3
I've been extremely happy with my soundsticks. This thread is the first time I've ever heard complaints about them.
17. macrumors 65816
One man's opinion...
I'm listening to my soundsticks as I type. I've always been happy with them, especially for computer speakers. I used the Creatures with my PBook, basically for the size matter. No complaints with either. It just seems to me that there are four little speakers in the Soundsticks and one in the Creatures.
18. macrumors regular
audio over usb is for monkeys.
really, it is.
it sucks.
19. macrumors 6502a
Sounds sticks are the way to go. I can bumb my whole room office with them.
20. macrumors 68000
I got the Creatures in White, really happy with them. They look great with my iBook and iPod. Sound great too, especially for Jazz and Instrumental stuff. Vocals don't seem to sound as good, but maybe I just have to play with the graphic equalizer settings.
21. macrumors 6502
Totally agree with you man. As I said before I despise my soundsticks because of the usb audio bugs. I can't even play online games or listen to music while browsing the web with them.
I'm looking to replace them. Any opinions on the Monsoon PM-14's? I've heard some good things about them and they're under $100 too.
22. macrumors 65816
Ok, one bad experience. But seriously, the Bose Mediamates sound better than my JBL sonnets did even when the JBLs worked. Better all around sound especially bass with less bulk.
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Transferring large library off internal drive
Discussion in 'iPod' started by Rich1963, Jul 25, 2008.
1. macrumors 6502
I'm looking for a vote of confidence. I'm about to transfer my entire library (300 GB of mostly movies) off of my internal iMac drive onto an external drive. I will be using iTunes to migrate the entire library over. 3 things-
-To anyone who has done this before, how long will it take? I am tranferring it from my internal hard drive to a firewire 800 Drobo.
-Anything to know other than not to turn off the computer, and just for safeties sake, shutdown all processes and pretty much walk away from the computer?
-To anyone who has used the Drobo, if I initially select 2TB as my drive size, and later have 4 1TB drives in there, does the drobo automatically change that initial size selection to compensate for the additional space? And, if so, what's the point of initially selecting a hypothetical drive size at all?
Thanks in advance.
2. macrumors regular
300GB will prbably take about 6-8hrs
3. TEG
macrumors 604
It should take between 60 and 120 minutes. If you are not moving your entire library, use Finder to move the files, delete them from iTunes, turn off the Keep Library Organized, and re import them into iTunes, if you wish to still use them in iTunes.
And as Ron Popeil says... Set it and forget it.
4. macrumors regular
My 80GB iTunes folder took just under 2hrs via FW800. But I guess I'm wrong.
5. TEG
macrumors 604
I'm just going by the speed of the transfer, and it takes me about 30 minutes to transfer 20GB over Wi-Fi(G), so I'm just extrapolating.
6. macrumors 6502
TEG -
If I'm understanding you right, you don't use iTunes to keep your stuff organized. Any reason why not? I just assumed that was the easiest way to do it, provided you had one storage volume large enough to handle it all (thus, the Drobo). What I was more curious about with this post was, without sounding like a pansy, has anyone encountered problems moving that much information and using iTunes to transfer it all? I'm looking for a vote of confidence. I've done this before using the FAT32 file system under Windows XP, and lets just say that the phrase 'try, and try again' was more apt than the Ron Popiel slogan.
7. macrumors demi-god
Make sure iTunes is closed; then move your entire library. When you start iTunes it will says no library found which you browse to the new location.
8. macrumors G5
You don't select the 2TB size, that's just what it is. If you add 4 1TB hard drives, you will have 2 2TB volumes show up on your desktop rather than 1 4TB. From what I understand, this is because USB doesn't allow hard drives over 2TB, so that's the route they take.
Keep in mind that 4 1TB drives will get you 3TB of actual usable storage on the Drobo.
9. macrumors 65816
This is out of date. The Drobo now supports filesystems up to 16TB in size.
(re: the original question, I just let iTunes manage my files. I tell it a new location and go to bed. It's done in the morning)
10. macrumors G5
Mine shows as a 2TB volume though? What happens if I put in 4 1TB drives?
11. macrumors 65816
On a Drobo formatted with a 2TB volume, you will get multiple 2TB volumes.
On the new Drobo, you select the volume size at install time. This feature was made available to the previous Drobo via a firmware upgrade. It is necessary to erase and reformat in order to change the volume size.
12. macrumors 6502
So to clarify, even if you initially only have 2 1TB drives installed, you would still select your anticipated maximum size when initially installing and formatting?
Thanks ahead of time.
13. macrumors 65816
Yes. You could install a 1TB drive and select a 16TB volume size. A strange 'feature' of the Drobo is that it will appear to your OS as a 16TB volume, even though there is really less than 1TB available (I don't know how Time Machine could deal well with this).
There is some trade-off in selecting a large volume size, as the Drobo's startup time apparently increases as the volume size increases. As long as you don't power it off a lot I would imagine it's not a big deal.
disclosure: I don't have my Drobo yet, but I've read everything I can find about them.
14. macrumors 6502
Don't suppose you've found a way onto their protected forum without the serial number off of a brodo? Pretty lousy that they only let you read on the forum once you've purchased a Drobo.
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XCode code sign fails
Discussion in 'iPhone/iPad Programming' started by Tex-Twil, May 7, 2011.
1. macrumors 68020
I know this is a common question but I have troubels building my app in XCode. It works fine on my MBP but when I switch to my iMac, I get the error
I did import my dev key/cert pair into key chain
I do have a provisioning profile installed
and I did select my key in the code signing options in xCode
What did I forget ?
Attached Files:
2. macrumors 65816
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority
Do u have that certificate too? and did u tried following the steps again from the site..
3. Tex-Twil, May 7, 2011
Last edited: May 7, 2011
macrumors 68020
I haven't explicitly imported the Apple's CA certificate but Key Chain shows my developer cert as valid the certification chain is verified.
Edit: I imported it from here but I'm still getting the error
Edit2: if I open the project.pbxproj file, I see that there are still some references to my old signing profile ?! If I replace the
then it works. I don't understand why xcode was not showing this old signing identity ...
4. macrumors 65816
Well, the whole certificate I think is absolute (insert random foul word.).
Normally apple is like, do this,and bam works. Now it's, do 100 steps, it won't work from first time, because that's just too much fun. so u will have to do it 3x, so after 300 steps, congratz it works.
That's my opinion though.
And to get the license for company wise or entreprise, don't even get me started on that.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48441 | Liveblogging Obama's Fake Muslim "State of the Union"
Barack Obama is running 7 minutes late and he's not withdrawing from Iraq. God! Bring back that Bush guy! Hey, let's watch and learn.
8:58 Well, it's nice to see Nancy Pelosi and smilin' Joe Biden up there instead of Dick Cheney and creepy Denny Hastert.
9:00 God DAMMIT MSNBC not this terrible CNN "what do ppl think about the words he's saying before they have time to process them" polling thing. Off we go to... CBS?
9:02 Scalia and Stevens are not here! Ruth Bader Ginsburg made it and she has cancer you assholes.
9:05 Brian Williams said something about "the first lady's box." Oh, even more awkward: the President's cabinet is supposed to be there but he is missing a couple of those guys, because no one pays any taxes anymore.
9:08 Sully! Sully's there! Standing O! Hey, the Twitter nerds are "Tweeting" this.
9:10 Here he is! The President of the United States, Barack Obama!
9:11 Hey, we were just sent an advance copy of the entire speech. It's really great. Here's how it opens:
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
Address to Joint Session of Congress
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
hey, check out this video
9:15 Long handshake round. Those tend to get shorter as the presidency goes on. Here we go!!!!!
9:16 Ha ha ha protocol mixup. Nancy totally interrupted his awesome intro. John Roberts: not to blame for once. MORE APPLAUSE. Almost as much as Sully got!
918 This speech: DOWNER. And Joe Biden JUMPS up for the first applause line of the night, about how we will rebuild everyone that got fired and stuff, into Bionic Americans.
9:20 Here's a picture of what's wrong with all the banks btw:
Liveblogging Obama's Fake Muslim "State of the Union"
9:22 Hmm Nancy clapped at an odd non-applause line and Joe didn't. He's got a cheat sheet.
9:24 And your first "mixed applause and boos" line of the night: "And tonight, I am grateful that this Congress delivered, and pleased to say that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is now law." Hey, Minneapolis shout-out! There are 57 racist cops who weren't laid off, THANKS OBAMA. (Seriously, Minneapolis cops are really racist.)
9:26 Vice President Joe Biden: you are a treat! "No one messes with Joe," Obama says, and how can you not applaud at that, and then he sort of mugs for a bit, like late-period DeNiro sort of but more charming and less sad. Oh, and we should all go to—someone in research track down the first use of a URL in an SOTU (or JOINT ADDRESS OF CONGRESS whatever).
9:27 Here is "why we need to bail out the banks for dummies," by Barack Obama. He should put up that graphic we stole from Krugman. Though it is not very reassuring.
9:30 Sure, stocks would go up if we just gave banks all the money in the world with no strings attached, but dammit, we are going to attach some really really easily snipped strings to all the money in the world! APPLAUSE! (Please don't rise up against us, embittered underclass!)
9:33 He seems to be getting the "tone" exactly right, here, and even though we think his bank "plan" is disastrously vague and possibly stupid, we are still all RIGHT ON YES YOU ARE RIGHT. The "the last administration gave the banks money the wrong way, but don't worry, when we give the banks money we will force them to tar and feather all the executives. And then you can stop only ordering from the dollar menu, I promise" kinda thing is Very Shrewd and clearly the most obvious way to sell this but you tell that to Bush and Paulson.
9:37 Holy shit, there's an American on the moon? Can our bullshit space program get him down without blowing up all the rest of the shuttles? Poor guy :(
9:39 Whops we totally put up the wrong picture back there, sorry. This is the bank thing:
Liveblogging Obama's Fake Muslim "State of the Union"
Also there's some applause about fuck Korea and China, we will invent the new oil, whatever it is (it is corn) (which involves a lot of oil, to grow).
9:41 Hey, the auto industry bit. "I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it." Hah, because none of the fatties in America can walk anywhere, that's why we invented the fucking Escalade.
9:43 Oh shit, the stimulus bill cures cancer? Why does Bobby Jindal want Louisiana to get cancer!
9:45 Oh, we have the text of Bobby Jindal's response. Starts off with the life story "hello I'm running for president" bit (children of immigrants, parents' values v v important), then it just descends into pure assholery:
Yes because THE PRIVATE SECTOR really stepped up to the fucking plate on that one, huh! GAH. Well you'll hear it yourselves, or you won't, if you're smart, because it just gets worse from there. So hey, back to Obama. He just said we all have to go back to college??!? No, seriously, Obama is forcing us to go back to college, what the fuck.
9:54 Lusty cheers and boos during the tax bit. Sigh. God Nancy Pelosi settle down you don't need to stand for every line. Though that is a very lovely tunic and we understand why you'd want to show it off.
9:57 Here is the single awkward refence to Iraq:
Well, by "I will soon announce" he means "it was announced today that we're staying longer than I promised and leaving 50,000 troops there, whoops." Sigh. Here comes the requisite childish "I hate terrorists" bit. WE KNOW. Also we honor all the troops. WE KNOW THAT TOO. Now it's "shake hands with a soldier" time in the audience!
9:59 Hey, here is one bit that Bush couldn't have gotten away with saying in his otherwise-identical "we'll hunt you down terrorists fuck you guys go America" portion of the speech: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DOES NOT TORTURE because of this crazy notion of actually embodying the values we claim to fight for. Ok, we're back on the bandwagon!
10:01 John Kerry: Serious Senator, Serious Face, Serious Address to Congress. And Sully!
10:02 Any minute now we're coming up on the "I know a heroic regular American who happens to be here" bit guys! Get psyched!
10:03 God, remember when Bush's special SOTU guest was the person who invented BABY EINSTEIN? What the hell was that about?
10:04 Obama has a bank president who gave his bonus to his employees, a little girl from a shitty school in South Carolina, and, uh, the entire town of Greensburg, Kansas. Sorry, little girl from the shitty school in South Carolina, your asshole governor doesn't want any of the dirty stimulus money to fix your school. GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE ANSWER.
10:07 "But I also know that every American who is sitting here tonight loves this country and wants it to succeed." Except his wife, obv, that Stokely Carmichael in a dress.
10:08 OK AMERICA WE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO. This was a SOBERING speech about HARD TIMES but we will PERSEVERE. Glod bless etc.
10:11 IMPORTANT FACT-CHECKING NOTE: America did not invent the automobile. Obama meant to say we invented the remix.
10:12 Ok that was actually a Very Good Speech, especially for one of these "states of the union" speeches with are always stupid. This one was educational and smart and, as we said, struck the correct tone of not promising anything except that Things Will Eventually Be Better but without being too dour, because Americans like Happy Thoughts. So cheers to our elegant president! Now Jesse Jackson Jr is getting two autographs. Michelle Bachmann will probably not lean in for a kiss.
10:26 HA HA HA listen to Bobby Jindal!! He sounds like he's reading a clue on Jeopardy! This guy is not ready for prime time. He's ready for late-night infomercial. This is maybe worse than Tim Kaine's famous "blinky-blinky weird eyebrow" response. Bobby Jindal knows government isn't the answer. TAKE A LOOK, IT'S IN A BOOK, IT'S READING RAINBOW. Who told him to talk like this? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48443 | Archie Comics Welcomes a Gay to Riverdale
Holy Hotdog. Archie Comics — one of culture's most enduring portraits of wholesome Americana — is introducing a gay. A gay male Archie character. His name is Kevin Keller and he is blonde.
Now I know some of you fellow Archie aficionados might be saying, "But Richard, isn't Jughead kind of gay too?" And yes, you'd be right. Though the comics do sort of vacillate between a Forsyth P. Jones who is a rabid misogynist and a Jughead who is just sort of shy around girls, the Jughead Is Gay read is a respected one in certain Archie circles. But this Kevin character is the real deal. Like an actual homosexual who says it out loud. Here is the summary from the press release:
Good for them. Mr. Weatherbee, don't you think it's time?
[Comics Beat]
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48445 | Carl Paladino Has Lost His Feeble Mind
Carl Paladino, the thick-browed dangerous thug who is an alarmingly serious candidate for New York's governorship, now says he might file trespassing charges against the New York Post. The same paper whose editor he threatened, yesterday! Carl Paladino is insane.
Yes, just last night we all saw the video of Carl Paladino telling Fred Dicker, the Post's man in Albany, that he would take him out, if he kept covering Paladino's daughter. In classic fashion, rather than apologize, Paladino's sickening campaign has decided to press this horse to the finish line:
Carl Paladino may file trespassing charges against a team of New York Post photographers who took "close-range" photographs of the Buffalo businessman's 10-year-old daughter inside her home.
NYP editor Col Allan denies that their photographer did such a thing. Now, let's be clear: the New York Post is a thuggish newspaper, whether they did what he says or not. Far be it from us to stand up for their political coverage. But Carl Paladino! Hello! You are running for governor of New York! Get used to it! I mean, god forbid you actually win, but in the awful event that you do, get used to it. If you cared that much about your daughter you wouldn't have run for governor in the first place. And that would have been great for everyone, because every single thing about your campaign—from your sickening opposition to the "Ground Zero Mosque" to your sickening hypocrisy to your sickening failure to even try to do anything except viciously attack your opponent in this race—is sickening. And don't threaten reporters! You fucking idiot! Act like an adult! You're a run of the mill racist mongoloid with a pile of money and no ideas in your head, except for powerlust, and a dash of xenophobia. We already had Giuliani. Give New York a break.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48452 | Embed Follow
Makaveli in this, Killuminati all through your body
Blows like a 12-gauge shotty, feel me
And God said he should send his one begotten son
To lead the wild into the ways of the man
Follow me! Eat my flesh, flesh of my flesh
Come with me
Hail Mary nigga, run quick see
What do we have here now
Do you wanna ride or die
[Verse 1]
I ain't a killer, but don't push me
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy
Picture paragraphs unloaded, wise words being quoted
Peeped the weakness in the rap game and sewed it
Bow down, pray to God, hoping that he's listening
Seeing niggas coming for me, through my diamonds, when they glistening
Now pay attention: bless me please Father, I'm a ghost
In these killing fields, Hail Mary, catch me if I go
Let's go deep inside the solitary mind of a madman
Screams, in the dark, evil lurks
Enemies, see me flee
Activate my hate, let it break to the flame
Set trip, empty out my clip; never stop to aim
Some say the game is all corrupt and fucked in this shit
Mama told me never stop until I bust a nut
Fuck the world if they can't adjust, it's just as well, Hail Mary
[Verse 2]
Penitentiaries is packed with promise-makers
Never realize the precious time that bitch niggas is wasting
, I live my life a product made to crumble
But too hardened for a smile, we're too crazy to be humble: we ballin'
Catch me father please, cause I'm fallin' in the liquor store
Pass the Hennessy I hear ya callin', can I get some more?
Hell, 'til I reach Hell, I ain't scared
Mama checking in my bedroom, I ain't there
I got a head with no screws in it, what can I do?
One life to live but I got nothing to lose
Just me and you on a one way trip to prison
Selling drugs, we all wrapped up in this living life as thugs
To my homeboys in Clinton Max doing their bid
Raise hell to this real shit and feel this
Thugging eternal through my heart: now Hail Mary nigga
[Verse 3: Kastro]
They got a APB out on my thug family
Outlawz run these streets like these scandalous freaks
Our enemies die now, walk around half dead
Head down, K-blasted off of Hennessy and Thai chronic
Mixed in, now I'm twisted, blistered and high
Visions of me: thug-living, getting me by
Forever live, and I multiply, survived by thugs
When I die they won't cry unless they coming with slugs
[Young Noble]
Peep the whole scene and whatever's going on around me
Brain kind of cloudy, smoked out, feeling rowdy
Ready to wet the party up, and whoever and that mothafucka
Nasty new street slugger,
my heat seeks suckers
On the regular,
mashing in a stolen Black Ac' Integra
Cocked back, 60 seconds til the draw that's when I'm deadin' ya feet first
You've got a nice Gat but my heat's worse
From a thug to preaching church, I gave you love, now you eating dirt
Needing work and I ain't the nigga to put you on
Cause word is bond: when I was broke I had to hustle 'til dawn
That's when sun came up, there's only one way up
Hold your head and stay up to all my niggas:
get your pay and weight up
[Bridge: Kadafi]
If it's on then it's on, we break beat-breaks
Outlawz on a paper chase, can you relate?
To this shit I don't got be the shit I gotta take
Dealing with fate, hoping God don't close the gate
[Prince Ital Joe]
We've been traveling on this weary road
Sometimes life can take a heavy load
But we ride, ride it like a bullet, Hail Mary
We won't worry, everything well curry
Free like the bird in the tree
We won't worry, everything well curry
Yes we free like the bird in the tree
We running from the penitentiary
This is the time for we liberty, Hail Mary
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48453 | Alright come on, let's cut the bullshit, enough
Let's get it started,
from Eminem – Yellow Brick Road Lyrics on Genius
Once The Source magazine leaked a tape of song by a 16 year old Marshall, entitled “Foolish Pride”; a song with racial themes, it lead to a lot of controversy and discussion, as you would expect considering it came from the first true white rap superstar. But Em is sick of everyone else’s opinion, and tells them to shut up and listen to how it really is.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48455 | High-Mag Microscope Lets Cellphones Go In Close
If you can't bring the microbial parasite to the lab, bring the lab to the microbial parasite, goes the thinking of the Berkeley researchers who invented a microscope to attach to cellphones and smartphones, using the phones' own cameras. The higher powered of their two microscopes delivers 60X magnification, capable of capturing the detail of cancerous cells, malaria parasites and other buggers. There are clear healthcare benefits here—doctors making housecalls in remote areas can transmit images to their laptops via Bluetooth or, presumably, a lab for analysis. Surprisingly, the LED-self-illuminating module cost just $75 to build with off-the-shelf parts, and will likely go to manufacturing after tests in Uganda this summer. [Technology Review] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48457 | Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
Have the urge to really ruin the resale value of a diamond? Here's one way—permanently embed a hi-res grayscale photograph of yourself in it.
A company called DiamondPure takes any photograph you want and then, using a "revolutionary" nano-photograph process, etches the visage into any size diamond you want. Though they're normally invisible, you can view them using GemmaView, a proprietary portable viewing device.
Cute, right? Yeah, not so cute when the recession forces you to take that gem to the pawn shop and the guy gives your rock a one over only to chortle and maybe make some joke about you being better looking in real life before throwing it back in your face. [Born Rich] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48459 | Why Microsoft Is Trying to Sell a (Smart) Dumbphone
Dumbphones are dead, right? So why—at the time of the great Windows Phone 7 resurrection—is Microsoft pushing a totally separate phone platform that doesn't even run apps? The answer is borderline insane, but just might work.
When I first saw the two-pronged strategy, with Windows Phone 7 on one side, and the Kin phones (formerly known as Project Pink) on the other, I was like, "Oh great, another strategic bumble by Microsoft." I thought that at best Kin represented a lack of confidence in the new Windows Phone, a hedge of the bet. At worst, I thought, Kin and WP7 were both projects developed by teams with enough clout to get products released, even if they were, in effect, competing with each other in the face of massive competition from Apple and Google.
What the Hell, Microsoft?
My particular concerns should be obvious to anyone following along:
• If Kin is aimed at people ages 16 to 30, and WP7 is for people 25 and up, isn't there a segment of 25-to-30-year-olds who are just totally confused?
• If WP7 isn't really for people under 25, why does it have Xbox mobile gaming capability? And why aren't there any Xbox features in the Kin phones?
• If these two phone systems are "complementary," as Microsoft's marketing material suggests, how come there's no migration path from one platform to the other?
• And finally, why isn't Microsoft trying to copy Apple's monolithic iPhone strategy, where juniors get an iPod Touch, that alluring gateway to the Land of 180,000 Apps?
I brought these concerns to Microsoft—specifically to Aaron Woodman, director of the product management team for Windows Phone 7—and to my surprise, he was able to answer them reasonably well, with a minimum of spinny spin spin.
Why Microsoft Is Trying to Sell a (Smart) Dumbphone
You Are All Snowflakes
Essentially, Microsoft is consciously aiming two totally separate products at two totally separate buyers, ones who aren't supposed to cross paths. And if they do meet up, it will be a few years down the road, when the two phones might have more in common than they do now.
The reason there isn't really a lot of confusion in that 5-year span of late-twenties phone shoppers is that this is less demographic, more "psychographic." It's a gross marketing term, so let's just go with examples: Think of that one person you know who makes more money than your parents, but is only 27. That person is distinct from that other guy you know who is the same age, but has been unemployed more than he's been employed, and knows more bartenders than business contacts. Woodman stretches the boundary further with the example of a guy in his 40s who is "fresh out of a divorce, in that reevaluating phase," who may well feel that a cheaper, simpler always-connected social phone like Kin will provide the best way to reboot his life. (Maybe Tiger should get one.)
Why Microsoft Is Trying to Sell a (Smart) Dumbphone
What About Xbox?
Yes, Woodman acknowledges that Xbox is something that interests people under 25, but they intend to launch a serious mobile gaming platform this year with Windows Phone 7. This means that they need to keep hardware specs uniform and high-performing, so as not to piss off game developers. Kin's Tegra chipset may provide an extraordinarily fluid interface, but it's not 3D-gamer ready, at least not at the level of the handsets destined for WP7.
He did acknowledge that Xbox definitely appeals to many who should be shopping for Kin, saying vaguely, "We see that value as an opportunity." Does it mean that there might be casual games or other Xbox Live tie-ins, even if full 3D gaming isn't doable? Woodman said he couldn't comment on any future products. I am still holding out for a Zune HD2 model, which would be phone-less, but have the graphics muscle to run WP7 games.
As for the people who want to switch from one to the other, Woodman argued that there are experiences that are shared between the two phones, most notably Zune Pass, the beloved music subscription service. All the phones are logged as part of Microsoft's Live ID, which securely stores billing and other personal data online so that your phone is a part of the internet, and not an isolated island.
I told Woodman I wanted to see Xbox on the Kin, and that I wanted the Kin's Studio—a website that can show you everything from incoming text messages to photos you took a year ago, syncing in realtime with your phone—appearing as an option for Windows Phone 7 users. He wouldn't confirm anything, but did say that a few years from now, we shouldn't be surprised to see a point where the two platforms are more interrelated. That may sound like a typical Microsoft "mañana, mañana" promise, but given the rate at which Microsoft cooked up both Windows Phone 7 and Kin, adjustments to either roadmap probably wouldn't be that difficult.
Why Microsoft Is Trying to Sell a (Smart) Dumbphone
That Damn iPhone
So what about the Apple strategy? Isn't the correct approach getting the kids excited by the apps on the iPod Touch, so that, as soon as they can, they connive their parents into buying an iPhone? I checked in on my 16-year-old cousin Katie—on Facebook, duh!—and she demonstrated how this theory can backfire. The following is an uncorrected transcript of her comment to me, no doubt typed in less time than it takes for the late bell to ring:
i have an itouch and as soon as i got it my first thought was i would reallyyy want an iphone because it has all the apps and everything but then when i used it more and more i thought that well if i already have a itouch then whats the point of having both the iphone and the itouch? typing on the iphone can also get really annoying because i can text really fast on a keyboard without even looking and with the iphone/itouch i have to look and really concentrate on what i'm typing because it messes up so easily and the touch screen is really sensitive.
She's interested in the Kin, at least for the moment, because it has touchscreen and a hardware keyboard. And that iPod Touch actually gives her a way out of the iPhone trap.
Microsoft really believes in this audience, and there's reason to think that—despite the company embarking on a two-front war at a time when they're having trouble winning any mobile battles—the decision to energetically pursue the dumbphone business might not be stupid. Risky but not stupid.
Why Microsoft Is Trying to Sell a (Smart) Dumbphone
The Car Analogy, or It's a Big Big World
One analogy I read in the Kin marketing material initially made me want to hurl:
Honda manufactures and markets the Honda CRV and Honda Element, both Midsize SUVs, but with distinct styles, features and value propositions geared to the urban driver versus the outdoor enthusiast driver. This gives Honda the ability to address multiple segments simultaneously and a marketable advantage.
But I have come to realize that, in a world of marketing people comparing their products to cars, here was the one time when the analogy was apt.
Both industries are so huge that targeted niche models can be considered successes. Here's what I mean: Last year, something like 200 million smartphones were sold. Lots. But that's only one sixth of the total phone market of 1.2 billion phones, as reported by Gartner.
No matter how fast the iPhone market is growing, and how badly Microsoft wants to get back into that business, there's other action to be had. And if Kin's cost is kept low—both the handset price and the monthly data fees—then going after Samsung and LG and Nokia, hoping to draw people away from their cheap generic phones, could be easier than fighting Apple and Google (and BlackBerry and Palm). If so, then there's success to be had, too.
If a billion dumbphones are going to be sold this year, Microsoft figured they'd make the smartest ones and see who buys them. [Full Coverage of Microsoft Kin] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48460 | We Missed This: iPhone 4 Requires OS 10.5.8
For Mac users, the iPhone 3G and 3GS required OS 10.4 to sync. And while we're a little late on reporting it, we know it will affect some users all the same. iPhone 4 requires OS 10.5.
For many of us, it doesn't matter. We're on OS 10.6 by now. But there's no real logic as to why, if older OSs can run iTunes, they can't sync with new iPhones...especially when you look at how well Apple supports iPhones on the PC. You can sync an iPhone 4 to any PC running Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP (SP3).
In other words, Apple will reach back in time 9 years to make the iPhone compatible on PCs but only 3 to make it compatible with their own computers. So much for the advantages of a closed infrastructure!
Of course, whereas you can't justify the logic at a technical level, the decision makes great business sense. This way, Apple sells the iPhones to Windows users and the new Mac OSs to Mac-based iPhone users. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48482 | Thread: Line Combos: 2013 Line Combos Thread II
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You're quick, beat me to it.
Hopefully Granlund can impress.
Doubt it with Bouchard and Heater.
He obviously needs some Seto/Parise/Zucker/Coyle -like guys around him. Speed/grit/body.
Bouchard - Granlund. Good individuals but.. the same kind. And add current Heater (very much stationary) to the mix.
Hope it works, but I don't know how.. though.
E: I mean Wild are playing dump and chase. This line (Bouchard - Granlund - Heatley), where are the chasers?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48506 | Okay, technically the 189,819-letter IUPAC name of titin, the largest known protein which is responsible for passive elasticity of muscle, is a verbal formula rather than an actual word, but it's dizzying to imagine all those syllables tumbling out of a human mouth. Well, now you don't have to imagine it—provided you can sit through more than three hours of this fellow mumbling his seryls and glutamins.
You can view the entire, hefty verbal formula right here. Although this isn't a single-take video (take a look at what happens to the flowers at 2:09:21), it's an impressive feat of patience. Just think of all the other formulae he could have read out loud in that time.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48509 | Windows Enterprise Desktop
Sep 14 2012 3:54PM GMT
Interesting Wrinkles with Intel SSDs Weasel Out of the Woodwork
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Last week I wrote a blog post entitled “One small change to my PC, one giant PITA to implement,” wherein I recounted the issues and frustrations involved in what I thought would be a quick and simple SSD swap-out on my production desktop. Thanks to a recent memory upgrade from 4 to 24 GB that followed as a consequence of finally upgrading from 32-bit Windows 7 Professional to the 64-bit version instead, I had to kiss off 24 GB for my paging file and another 18 GB for the hibernation file. Alas, that left the original 128 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD a little short of workspace. With actual disk space available of 119 GB as reported in Windows Explorer, the remaining 77 GB didn’t leave me enough room to accommodate the OS, plus files and applications, with 30 GB of free space left over to keep 25% of the disk free for the OS to “do its stuff” at runtime.
So, I switched over to a brand-new 180 GB Intel 520 Series SSD, in part to switch from the older 3 Gbps SATA II interface on the OCZ Vertex 2 to the new 6 Gbps SATA III interface on this drive. And thereby hangs today’s tale, because the only SATA III ports on my Asus P6X58D-E motherboard come from a two-port Marvell 9128 SATA controller. The other ports on this motherboard emanate from an Intel South Bridge 82801JR chipset, aka ICH10R, but they support SATA II, not SATA III. Here’s some of what the Intel SSD Toolbox has to say about my current set-up right now:
It took some serious spelunking and a drive update to get this much out of the Intel SSD toolbox.
To get this far with the Intel SSD Toolbox, I had to do some serious digging around on the Internet, which took me to an excellent (and free) French device driver Website called, where their Marvell page turned up a 9128 driver dated July 9, 2012. Before I downloaded and installed this driver package — which also installed an Apache server on my PC that I later removed — the SSD toolbox couldn’t recognize the make or model of my Intel SSD at all. But as the preceding screen capture clearly shows, it can now recognize the drive and its firmware version. But alas, here’s what happens when I try to use the Intel SSD optimizer, which normally runs weekly to clean up and optimize its SSDs:
The SSD toolbox can't work closely enough with the Marvell 9128 to support advanced optimization and management features.
The SSD toolbox can’t work closely enough with the Marvell 9128 to support advanced optimization and management features.
Further research on the Web shows that the issues with the 9128 and the Intel SSD toolbox are well-known and -documented. Newer drivers might someday offer more relief, but for now it looks like I’ll have to switch back to the ICH10R SATA ports to get the SSD Toolbox to work to fullest effect. And from what I read on the various Intel and Marvell (and PC enthusiast) forums, it may ironically turn out to be the case that I’ll get better performance from the ICH10R SATA II ports on that motherboard than I’m currently getting from its Marvell 9128 SATA III ports. One thing’s for sure, the CrystalDiskMark numbers from the current set up come nowhere close to Intel’s claimed 550 MB/sec for read, and 500 MB/sec for write for this particular SSD. I’m getting just a little more than half that, as these CrystalDiskMark benchmark results illustrate.
The read/write numbers barely edge above 50% of Intel's claimed performance for this SSD.
The read/write numbers barely edge above 50% of Intel’s claimed performance for this SSD.
This weekend, I’ll unplug the box, pop open the case, and switch the motherboard end of the SSD’s SATA cable from a Marvell port to an open ICH10R port (I still have 3 left). If I observe anything startling or especially interesting, I’ll post again next week to report on what I learned. But man, was I disappointed to realize that just because my motherboard has SATA III ports doesn’t mean that they’re actually GOOD for the uses to which I’d like to put them. Who knew that not all SATA III ports are created alike, or that not all of them work equally well with various SSDs? I kind of thought that the whole point of a standard bus was not to have to worry about who’s building the parts on either end of a connection. Oh, well: Live and learn!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48510 | Cue "Can't Turn You Loose" and Floor It: The Bluesmobile
With all of the attention given to '69 Chargers these days due to the Dukes of Hazzard hoopla, we felt it was time to focus on another historic Hollywood Mopar: It's got a cop motor a four-hundred- and-forty cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks; it was a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. So what is it? A 1974 Dodge Monaco, of course. With the Bullitt Mustang and the Bandit's Trans Am, the Bluesmobile stands as a member of the Triumvirate of Filmic Car Chase Icons. And yes, we just made that up. Has a nice ring, tho, eh? Ah, if the policemen of Mt. Prospect, IL only knew what they'd given up. After all, all it needed was a new cigarette lighter.
It's Got a 4.6 Liter Plant: Cop Shocks, Cop Brakes, Cop Fire-Supression System [Internal] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48511 | The Best Racing Specials
This is the only Jaguar E-Type Low Drag Coupé from 1962. It was built because, while the original car was fast, engineers knew they could make it faster.
The E-Type's monocoque design could only be made rigid enough for racing by using the "stressed skin" principle. The original tub got lighter outer panels riveted and glued to it. The windshield was given a more pronounced slope, and the rear hatch was welded shut. Rear brake cooling ducts appeared next to the rear windows, and the interior trim was discarded, with only insulation around the transmission tunnel. With the exception of the windscreen, all cockpit glass was perspex.
The Best Racing Specials
A tuned version of Jaguar's 3.8-litre engine was used with a wide-angle cylinder head design tested on the D-Type racers, but since air management became a problem, the car was never competitive. Jaguar built 12 Lightweight E-Types based on this development.
Ok, so the Low Drag Coupé wasn't exactly a success story. I guess it's time to show us than which racing specials were. It's your duty, because racecar!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48513 | BMW M3 GTS: Everything You Need To Know
The BMW M3 GTS is the fastest M3 ever with a spicier 450 hp V8, factory roll cage, functional aerodynamic upgrades, and retina-searing paint job. At $170,000 it's the ultimate ultimate driving machine. Here's everything you need to know.
One hundred seventy grand is a lot of scratch for any car, let alone a tarted up version of regular car that can be had for a third the price. So what's the secret sauce that makes the M3 GTS worth it? Part of it's rarity, but the major enticement is all the special parts that go into building an M3 GTS.
Start with a basic M3 and remove the rear seats and trim, replace them with carpet and a bolt-in roll cage, six point racing harnesses, and racing bucket seats. In the engine bay you'll find the standard 4.0 liter V8 has been massaged to 450 HP and 324 lb-ft of torque, up 36 HP and 29 lb-ft. It's attached to a race-bred seven-speed dual clutch automatic controlled by wheel-mounted paddle shifters.
The unique wheels hide six-piston calipers up front squeezing 14.9 inch rotors and four-piston clamps at the rear. Carbon-fiber is the material of choice for the front and rear spoiler which aren't just for show, these are for actual down force. The overall curb weight is reduced from 3,726 lbs to 3,373 lbs which contributes to a scorching 0-62 MPH time of 4.4 seconds, roughly a half second quicker than the standard car.
Whether it's worth $170K depends on how much change you've got lying around, but it does serve to remind us Munich can turn out something other than tubby crossovers and bizarre psuedo-station wagons.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48514 | I'm not sure where exactly this Dodge Ram SRT10's depleting its rubber, but the lazy style of the rolling burnout reminds me of what people often refer to as a Central Texas Turn (or a Luckenbach Left).
For those unfamiliar with term, it refers to the habit of pickup drivers in Central Texas to start braking 200 feet before any turn and then, upon reaching the apex, slow to a near stop. Central Texas Turn meet the slow Central Texas Burnout, even if it's not happening in Central Texas. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48520 | Men's Health Writes Down "40 Unwritten Rules To Live By"This morning, as I sat in a hotel room far from home, I came across this gem: "40 Unwritten Rules To Live By," provided by the fine folks at Men's Health. I'm not quite sure how these rules can remain unwritten, now that someone has taken the time to, um, write them down and such, but there are some pretty strict rules for livin' involved that the Men's Health crew thinks every male should follow. Some of them make sense, and some of them are completely insane, but most of them, if nothing else, are unintentionally hilarious. Let's take a look at a few, shall we?
• Rule Number 10: Do not get a visible tattoo larger than your penis. As I do not have a penis, I'm not sure I understand the logic behind this one. If you're going to get a tattoo, and you want it to be visible, you might as well go all out, yeah?
• Rule Number 13: Telling a woman, "You're a great person," is taken as the lead-in to a confession that you don't love her. I honestly don't even have anything sassy to say about this, as my immediate reaction was, "Oooh, ouch. Yeah." Well played, Men's Health. Well played.
• Rule Number 17: Never buy anyone a gift at a kiosk. Hold up, son. You can buy candy at kiosks! Maybe you shouldn't buy your significant other a gift at a kiosk, but if you're going to Suzy Whosit from Accounting's office birthday party, a little knick knack or a bag of Peanut M&M's never hurt anybody.
• Rule Number 19: Do not bring lunch to work. In this economy? Are you out of your mind, Men's Health? Sexy is as sexy does, and if Pete wants to bring a peanut butter sandwich to work in order to, you know, pay off his student loans and afford to stay in his own apartment so he doesn't have to move back in with mom and dad, well, that's the hotness right there.
• Rule Number 20: Rainbows are God's way of reminding us that beauty is an optical illusion, except in sports cars. This, I believe, is the Men's Health equivalent of the "Girls, don't you love shoes! You're so girly, girls! Rainbows are totally like the shoes of the skies, girls!" crap you'd see in certain women's magazines.
• Rule Number 31: Do not come on to the new female pastor, unless she winks at you during the sermon. Ugh. Really, Men's Health? Really???
• Rule Number 33: The way a woman looks, acts, and talks says nothing about how good she is in bed. That may be true, but if she sees you walking up with this list in your hands, the way she runs as fast as she can in the opposite direction should be enough to let you know that you're never, ever going to find out.
• Rule Number 14: Trying to "teach someone a lesson" never works. Oh, sweet, sweet irony. You never let us down.
40 Unwritten Rules To Live By [Men's Health] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48521 | Wars Of Words: Week, Penney's Fracas, Blessedly Over
In the days since we gave our take on Cintra Wilson's J.C. Penney review, the thing's taken on a life of its own: Wilson's three apologies, a barrage of abuse on her site and a lot of media coverage.
Today, WWD ran a piece on the response to the Penney's review titled "DON'T DISS PENNEY'S" - (perpetuating the bizarre fiction that it was only rabid fans of the store who objected to the piece) - and New York Magazine declared that "yesterday was a good time for her to stop talking, but today is even better." Hopefully this marks the end of it. The initial piece was one thing, and I think our response here echoed that felt by a lot of Times readers — that it reflected larger themes in society that are troubling and ubiquitous. But the thing only lasted beyond that first ill-advised "Critical Shopper" because of the author's response, which came off to many as insincere, defiant, reluctant, and haughty — "sorry you were offended" — an attitude echoed by the Times' official response that Wilson's column "has always had an edge and a point of view — it is supposed to review, after all" and that, while she regrets offending some, she "stands by" it.
After-school special style, I hope we can all learn something from it. That people mock weight? We knew that. That the NYT can be arrogant and tone-deaf? Check. That certain women's reactions will always be dismissed with the "humorless feminist" card? Yeah, we've heard that a time for two. That having to state that you have a sense of humor makes you sound really humorless? (Okay, that was an interesting new More You Know.) No, all this is sad and old and ad nauseam. I think the more interesting point is that Wilson learned, not merely that "this hot button is so freakin' hot, it is thermonuclear," but that the Internet's a tough mistress: responses are swift, visceral, personal, and unignorable. Ironically, you're held to account in a unique way. It's also dangerous: you don't have the luxury of an emotional response, like a defiant tweet or an off-the-cuff posting, without backlash. (I was going to say, "as a Times writer," but I realized this was probably equally true for middle-schoolers.) You've got neither the ephemeral quality of spoken speech nor the distance and insulation of the printed word. That's good: In a sense, it's a bullshit detector. But it's also very ugly: A lot of the things written on Wilson's web site — personal attacks, comments about her appearance — made us increasingly uncomfortable and undermined the very valid points that a lot of people were trying to elucidate. (She told WWD that it was the explanations from "very nice people" that prompted her to issue her final, most earnest, apology, but that much of what she heard was "hair-raising." ) I didn't take Wilson's apologies as the high-handed dismissal a lot of people did, but bravado in the face of panic: the first time you really come up against the force of humanity that is the net — not the easily-dismissed XXX Wild West but the real people with real feelings and real opinions, it's terrifying. That's not who I am! You want to shout. But, of course, in a sense, it is. I'm not saying Wilson didn't get herself into the jam, and dig herself a hell of a lot deeper — she did, and fundamentally, I don't know that she or her bosses really get what it is most of us objected to — but that I think part of what we're seeing, weirdly enough, is the fallout of a tiny culture clash.
Look, she may hate us, but a lot of us have been fans of Wilson's since her advice column days in San Francisco - and many of us have passionate memories of the brilliant Winter Steele. Wilson is an unusually gifted writer, and can be wickedly funny. Those of us who objected to the piece did so not because we're humorless fatties who don't get edge, or bizarrely passionate J.C. Penney devotees, (or, as Mediaite would have it, "the thundering herd of Penney's-lovers and defensive chunkers" - edge, you know) but because cheap shots aren't funny, because it's incredibly depressing to see certain forms of discrimination continue to go unchallenged — and because we expect more from smart writers. Frankly, at this point I'm more depressed by the Times' disingenuous, defiant treatment of the issue than anything the author did in the heat of the moment. But for anyone who worries you're shouting into the wilderness, you're not; every single voice has tremendous power. Use it wisely.
Middle America Wants To Force-feed Cintra Wilson A Cream Puff [New York]
NYT "Critical Shopper" Criticized over J.C. Penney Column; Issues Zen Apology [Wall Street Journal]
‘Out of My City, Fatties!' NYT's Cintra Wilson Goes Schizo On Fat People
Winter Steele 1: Eat Crow [YouTube]
Times Writer Finds J.C. Penney's Focus On Fat People Clever, Amusing
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48542 | A pointed rebuke of North Douglas elitism
Posted: Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Bob Hunsick's letter to the editor on Aug. 1 reminded me of the privileged class of people who live on North Douglas and their out-of-touch view of the rest of the community.
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I grew up with their kids. They're often racist, classist and elitist. They often drink and drive and have parties at North Douglas homes, yet don't get caught because the Juneau Police Department spends more of its time going after the easier-to-catch - the poor kids who don't have a safe home to hide in while breaking the law. JPD patrols the roads of poor kids, while the North Douglas Highway remains one of the most unsafe in Juneau.
After all, poor kids break laws. Minorities break laws. So do rich, white kids. We let them get away with it. I've grown up with a community that shields its privileged kids from responsibility in schools, in the justice system and in their homes.
And now we have some people who want to ride their ATVs. After all, they get drunk, break laws and ruin property. They just don't happen to be North Douglas kids; so it must kill people like Hunsick.
I can imagine letters in response to my broad stroke in painting the North Douglas community. There are many good people who live in North Douglas, however, sometimes a sharp point is needed in these instances. It's up to people to recognize the shades of gray.
Ishmael Hope
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48543 | Murkowski should try a head transplant
Letter to the editor
Posted: Tuesday, August 08, 2006
From the very start of his administration, Gov. Murkowski has restricted the press. At first, all press inquiries, no matter how small or obscure, were directed to John Manly. After Manly burned out trying to deal with all the calls, things loosened up somewhat. But last year's ban of certain reporters from a press conference was a reminder that this is a governor who doesn't know how to govern, only rule.
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His recent decision to shun reporter Bob Tkacz from future press conferences is an arrogant assault on a diligent journalist who asks the hard questions Frank doesn't want to answer.
It is the duty of elected officials to answer questions, no matter how pointed or discomforting. This governor doesn't seem to understand that.
Although Murkowski has said he needs a personality transplant because his popularity ranks so low, I would suggest a head transplant coupled with a heart transplant.
Dimitra Lavrakas
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48553 | XCOM Has HD Cutscenes, But They're Hiding
If you're playing XCOM on PC, you might have noticed a little discrepancy between the standard in-game visuals and those of the game's cutscenes, which can look a little blurry.
You can actually change that. Reddit user loinbread did some looking through the game's folders and found that, in addition to the video files that play by default, the PC version includes the same clips in 1080p, resulting in much nicer videos.
All you need to do to enable these is to...batch rename all the files. That or wait for Firaxis to release an update that lets you select it as an option.
Quick note about XCOM: Enemy Unknown's video assets in the PC port [Reddit] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48563 | Child's paper chair
Charlotte Friis Design Studio brings us a very cool idea in children's furniture.
The Chair is made with drawing paper, as the paper is being drawn upon , the size of the front cylinder increases and thus follows the child s growth!- age 2-7 Years. Clean paper is transferred from the back cylinder to the front simply by rolling the front cylinder backwards. The amount of paper is approx. 500 meters, which means that the paper can be changed twice a week for 5 years.
Fun, creative and useful. What more could you ask for? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48565 | Make a Hanging Chair Out of a Wooden Shipping Pallet
The best DIY hacks are made with stuff that's just lying around—and wooden shipping pallets certainly make the cut. Here's how to turn one into a hanging outdoor chair with just some cord and a bit of elbow grease.
Even if you're not a DIY ninja, you should still be able to handle this project—all it requires is some basic woodworking like sawing and drilling. And, best of all, all you need is one or two wooden shipping pallets and some rope—these particular instructions recommend paracord—and you've got a nice place to sit and read as this warm weather begins to become a more regular occurrence.
The best part about the chair is that it contours nicely to your body, and you can adjust it any way you want—you can make it lean back farther or make the seat dip lower so it's comfortable for you (and most conducive to what you use the chair for—sleeping, reading a book, or kicking back with your laptop and your favorite software blog). Hit the link for the full instructions, and don't forget the sunscreen if you plan on falling asleep midday. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48571 |
WCAG 2.0 Comment Submission
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:50:28 +0000 (GMT)
To: [email protected]
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Name: David Keech
Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: British Standards Instution, London, UK
Document: W2
Item Number: (none selected)
Part of Item:
Comment Type: general comment
Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
British Standards Institution (BSI) submission to the W3C on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0).
BSI as the National Standards Body of the United Kingdom proposes to raise the following issues in comments:
General Substantive Issues
1. Addressing Cognitive and Learning Disability
WCAG 2.0 claims to define and address the requirements for making Web content accessible to those with learning difficulties, cognitive limitations and others. We do not accept that claim.
Specifically, the success criteria requirements for making content understandable largely ignore the needs of people with learning difficulties and cognitive limitations. Please note that there are guidelines published by other groups that will make content much more accessible to these users. However, with the WCAG claim to address learning difficulties and cognitive limitations, people will not know that they need to look further.
We would like to see continued work in this field and a statement in the WCAG 2.0 abstract and introduction modifying the claim that they currently address accessibility for learning disabilities. Specifically, we recommend removing learning difficulties and cognitive limitations from the list of supported disabilities. A sentence may be added later in the abstract that \"these guidelines may also provide some benefits for people with learning difficulties and cognitive limitations\". We would then like to see a statement of intent such as: \"the working group intends to build additional success criteria to address accessibility for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations.\"
2. Metadata
We recommend that WCAG 2.0 address the issue of locating good or useable resources by requiring that every resource carry or refer to a description of its accessibility characteristics. Without this the best resources may not be found and a resource that is not universally accessible may not be made available to
a user that could use it even if it is not useable to others.
This comment has also been made in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public comments wcag20/2006Jun/0091.html with which we agree.
Technical Comments
3. WCAG defines a \"web unit\" as \"one or more resources, intended to be rendered together, and identified by a single Uniform Resource Identifier \". Resources can in addition consist of moving images, or pages where part of the material is rendered through links into Web Services (such as with AJAX technology). The example given in the definition is static in nature - however in many situations in today\'s web the end result is not static, or defined solely by a single URI.
This appears to be clarified for a web unit in the section \"Conformance claims\" - where it states that it \"can also take the form of a fully interactive and immersive environment\"
However the situation becomes confused by later referring to \"Aggregated content\" and giving, as an example of this, \"a web unit which is assembled from multiple sources that may or may not have their own levels of conformance\". In a traditional web page, containing graphics, (as is given as an example in the definition of a \"web unit\"), this is conventionally exactly how images etc are rendered using the <IMG> tag.
Statements such as \"The conformance level for a Web unit that contains authored units is equal to the lowest conformance level claimed for the Web unit content and any of the authored units it contains – including any claims pertaining to aggregated authored units\" are extremely unclear, and indeed may be recursive following the unclear distinction apparently made between \"web units\" and \"aggregated content\". A \"web page\" on the other hand is fairly well understood. BSI recommend(s) a closer look at an accurately defined and understood syntax which is not open to misinterpretation and clearly conveys the ideas being communicated.
4. Typo, section \"Choosing baseline technologies\": \"Both conditions are necessary since some users many have browsers that support them while others may not. \" - should be ..may have browsers
5. Typo, section \"Use of technologies outside of the baseline\" - \"All content and functionality are available ..\" should be \".. is available\"
6. In the section \"Optional components of a conformance claim consideration should be given to replacing the word “CANNOT” is not an appropriate use of language. The language here needs clarifying (“shall not” ?).
7. In the section \"Examples of conformance claims\", \"jpeg\" is specified as a requirement of one example (examples use \"Real Video\" and \"png\" in a similar manner). These are not testable specifications in the same sense as XHTML 1.0 (Strict) - for example progressive jpeg support was only added to many browsers long after the basic sub-baseline jpeg (actually correctly JPEG) decoding was implemented. IS 10918-1 | T.81 (which presumably is what is intended by JPEG) defines a \'shopping list\' of image compression techniques, including a baseline. Actual JPEG implementations excludes many items in the list, and add other items (typically JFIF/EXIF file support), and are, almost without exception, sub-baseline. A claim that an item \"relies upon\" jpeg (sic) is fairly meaningless, and is dependent on many things other than a correct interpretation of parts of IS 10918-1 (for example bit resolution and colour rendering of the display)
8 A number of the test criteria and suggested \'solutions\' are far from clear. For example, Guideline 1.2 at level 3 success criteria suggests the use of sign language interpretation for multimedia. Following the references in the specification lead to the \"Understanding WCAG 2.0\" document suggests including a sign language interpreter in the corner of the video stream. There are many sign languages - for example English and US sign languages are different and believed to be mutually unintelligible. No suggestion is made as to how to resolve this for (for example) an english language documentary. Clearly in this instance one possible solutions would be to use overlay replaceable video technology (as offered for example in MPEG-4 technology) rather than conventional digitised video as offered by MPEG1 or MPEG2 technology.
9 Comments on Appendix A - Glossary (Normative). This section should be re-written (preferably by a standards editor). Almost every definition is inaccurate, inappropriate or unnecessary. Several are simply incorrect. Starting just with those beginning with
Definition of acronym is incorrect (relates to definition of abbreviation and initialism). An acronym is \"A word formed from the initial letters or parts of other words\" (SOED). An initialism is a subset of this, being formed from initials. Missing out the words \'parts of other words\' is both incorrect and makes initialism and acronym identical.
Definition of \"activity where timing is essential\". \'Timing\' should be defined for clarification (or better described in the definition).
Definition of \"analog, time-dependent input\" - This is \'analog, time-dependent movement\', presumably as opposed to \"digital, time dependent movement\". Whilst not being very clear, adding a definition which constrains this to a very specific meaning in the context of a pointing device may not be useful. The wording should stand on its own as English text, and is not proper to a definition section.
Definition of ASCII art. It is assumed that an image rendered from many small images would classify as ASCII art (examples exist). The spatial arrangement is therefore of glyphs (or similar small sized graphical objects), not characters - their rendition is what provides the pseudo-photographic output.
Definition of \"authored unit\" (and implicitly \"authored component\"). See comments above about confusion between authored unit, component and web unit)
Other errors include: Re-definition of text (SOED: the wording of something written or printed). Unicode is defined by the Unicode Consortium (www.unicode.org) and no longer aligns with ISOIEC 10646-1 (or 106464, whatever that is supposed to be!)
Some definitions (eg Luminosity contrast ratio) are in the vein of defining pi as 22/7 - input from the relevant standards body (eg CIE) could have avoided these basic errors. In several places, values are referred to as RGB without any reference to colour spaces. Many definition would be much improved by using the same word definitions as are used in other Standards, where similar terms are correctly defined, and then simply referred to the appropriate Standard in the definition (or worst case by repeating verbatim the wording used in the Standard)
10. For any reader who needs to get to grips with WCAG 2.0, the volume of associated written material is daunting to say the least, with the three core WCAG 2 documents coming in at 160,000 words. The fact that the ‘understanding WCAG 2’ document is more than double the length of the document it explains is worrying. Ultimately, (and ironically) the new web standard for accessibility is initially made inaccessible by the density and volume of associated material.
11. It is not desirable to still be able to use tables for layout, as in http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/#N11001
12. The role of blinking and flashing content is confused -
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/complete.html#time-limits-blink and
Proposed Change:
Received on Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:50:34 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48573 |
cue.PauseOnExit needs improvement
From: GIDEON ISAAC <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:51:23 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: w3 html5 forum <[email protected]>
Suppose I have a video with several subtitles at various points. I want to give the user the option of pausing at every subtitle. I thought I could use cue.pauseOnExit, but that doesn't accomplish this. I can make a short cue, of maybe half a second, and the subtitle will show at the duration of the cue, but then the video stops, and the subtitle disappears. It would be nice if the subtitle could be made to stay at the exit and only vanish when the user starts playing the video again. That way, the user can step through the video, from subtitle to subtitle.-- Gideon
Received on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:51:50 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48575 |
Re: Geolocation API proposal
From: Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:02:19 -0800
Cc: Aaron Boodman <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: Doug Schepers <[email protected]>
On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, Aaron-
> Aaron Boodman wrote (on 3/6/08 8:55 PM):
>> I work on Google Gears team. If you're not familiar with what Gears
>> We've been working on an API that will allow an application to obtain
>> (with permission) the user's current location. I posted this to the
>> WhatWG mailing list, but it was suggested that this might be a more
>> appropriate place.
>> Anyway, here's our current design:
>> We think there's a lot of potential for interesting applications with
>> a API like this. Some examples would be recommendations for nearby
>> restaurants, turn by turn directions, or city walking tours.
>> Are there any other vendors interested in implementing something like
>> Otherwise, I'll just put this out there for comment for the time
>> being. We'd appreciate any feedback on the design, one way or the
>> other.
> This is interesting stuff, and I agree it is very useful to have.
> There is already some activity happening in this area, in the
> Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group (UWA or UbiWeb). [1] It's
> obviously a hot topic, and one I personally hope can be specified
> and deployed quickly (since we're already about 15 years behind
> Japan in this stuff ^_^ ).
> I think you hit the nail regarding vendors... that's a crucial next
> step.
> I'm happy to facilitate bringing your insight in this area to W3C,
> and I'm sure we can find the best way to move this forward, and get
> involvement from other vendors. Feel free to drop me a line
> offlist, and I can do a bit more research and point you in the right
> direction.
I am much more interested in Aaron's proposal than in DCCI (comments
Received on Friday, 7 March 2008 23:02:33 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48578 |
Re: WAI Website
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:58:24 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Laurie Searle <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Laurie Searle wrote:
> Dear Editor,
> The purpose of my email is to thank you for all of your great
> information on the WAI website and to make a recommendation for
> the presentation of text for your sighted readers.
> My recommendation is that you shorten the line length.
> Appropriate line length for online reading is between 58-70
> characters (including spaces). Your line length is at about 92
> characters, which makes it a bit fatiguing to read online.
> I also recommend you add spaces between bullet
> points that have large blocks of text.
Hi Laurie,
We don't specify any line lengths (to my knowledge). Line
length is a function of the user's environment and depends
on the width of fonts, the width of the browser, etc.
I'm not sure that this is something we can control
in markup (in HTML) except maybe in the <pre> element,
which I don't believe we use.
Can you explain how we might ensure control over line
length in the user's environment? In the article you
cite, indeed it says:
"Unfortunately, basic HTML text tags don't allow you
to control the width of your lines."
This is not a limitation of HTML but intentional: the
user is supposed to be able to control line width.
- Ian
> There are many great resources that speak to this subject.
> One excellent website may be found at:
> http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol2/design_no4.htm
> Regards,
> Laurie Searle
> [email protected]
Tel: +1 718 260-9447
Received on Wednesday, 12 September 2001 18:00:59 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48579 |
What is the DBC setting needed for specifying the encoding of the target database column ?
From: souravm <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:16:04 +0900
Message-Id: <>
To: [email protected]
Hi All,
I'm using JDBC in a Java program to get data from SQL Server 7.0. I'm
using Sun's jdbc-odbc driver.
In this context can anyone please let me know whether is it possible to
specify the encoding of the data stored in SQL server at the JDBC level
(i.e. through JDBC API or at the DSN definition) ?
The purpose for which I'm looking for this information is that I want
the jdbc driver to properly convert the data from Java's internal
Unicode representation to the target database column's encoding and
vice-versa while inserting and fetching the data respectively.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Received on Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:16:31 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48582 |
Re: The meaning of "representation"
From: Xiaoshu Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:37:52 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: Chimezie Ogbuji <[email protected]>, Mikael Nilsson <[email protected]>, Tim Berners-Lee <[email protected]>, [email protected]
[email protected] wrote:
>> Second, information is embedded in a message, i..e, it is the
>> content of the message, yes?
Here, I am trying to refer back to what Tim said in an earlier email.
> No. Assuming binary coding is used, the message is a sequence of bits. It
> is presumed that the sender and receiver agree in advance on the range of
> possible information values (my term, not Shannon's), that a given message
> might convey; each distinct message essentially selects one of those
> values. From Shannon's 1948 paper [1]:
I take the 'no' means that the message is not embedded?
I snip the rest (to shorten the message) because I agree your
interpretation of Shannon's theory. However, I disagree that the
assumption that the number of messages, with regard to a URI's
representations, is finite. In principle, I can use ONE bit message in
conjunction with various content types to answer all your questions
about the resource. From a communication point of view, a user do not
have a pre-established context with the resource.
Second, even if the context is set, it still does not mean that the
resource is 'information'. IMHO, Shannon's theory is to study the
capacity, but not the meaning, of information. But in semantic web, we
only care the latter. Meaning is to be understood - to be processed, by
our brain or by computers. Without this process, nothing can become
Received on Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:39:50 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48584 |
XML Schemas and Database schemas
From: Dmitry Nechayev <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:58:49 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
That's clear that XML Schema is supposed to be a perfect way to describe a
data model
of any level of complexity.But that's completely unclear how this perfect
generally, could produce the appropriate storage schema for all existing
industrial databases,
most of which are relative,i.e 2-D -type and ,hence,hardly programmable as
multi-dimensional and
flexible-extensible. Does this mean that XML wave should sweep such class of
databases out
in the future and replace them onto hierarchical and extensible ones at
least in those fields
where XML is supposed to take prevailed place ?
Received on Monday, 27 March 2000 18:01:45 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48585 |
RE: Baffling error with http-request
From: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:41:02 -0500
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I think you are p:http-request'ing an XHTML file with a DOCTYPE that points to the W3C XHTML DTDs. Somewhere during or after p:http-request, Calabash parses the response and that is where the request to w3.org occurs. This is normal (and expected) XML parser behavior. In order to avoid the request to fetch the DTD, you should use an XML catalog.
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 4:33 PM
To: Andrew Welch
Cc: XProc Dev
Subject: Re: Baffling error with http-request
On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:25 AM, Andrew Welch wrote:
There's nothing at the end of the url..... Try getting that file yourself.
No, that's just it...I requested no files from w3.org<http://w3.org> anywhere in my pipeline.
I have no idea why that URL is popping up in the error.
Received on Monday, 29 November 2010 15:46:27 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48587 | Perl is dead
Jonathan Stowe jns at
Fri Dec 5 07:28:14 GMT 2008
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:06 +0100, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:41 PM, breno <breno at> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Michele Beltrame <mb at> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think this simplicity of those installations derives from the fact that
> >> providers are easily able to build a php/mod_php which includes the most used
> >> things (mail functions, database access, image processing) directly into the
> >> php binary. PHP programmers only need to upload their .php files via FTP and
> >> they just work. No modules to install, it's all already there.
> >>
> >
> > I like where this might go. Although everyone in the Perl community
> > knows TIMTOWTDI, we also know that some ways are better than others.
> > Nonetheless, I believe this is not the case for people outside or just
> > entering the Perl world, specially regarding modules and a certain
> > public repository we all know and love. There's been a lot of effort
> > in providing some support for recommendation such as annocpan,
> > cpanratings, cpanrt, cpants, cpantesters, and the 'related modules'
> > box, but they are mostly see-for-yourself-and-make-your-choice. Don't
> > get me wrong, all those services are marvelous, but to Perl
> > programmers. Beginners and enthusiasts probably won't figure them out
> > ("so many options, so little time"), and web providers certainty won't
> > care much. As a suggestion that might not go anywhere (or even
> > introduce flame), maybe the community could discuss a set of
> > recommended general purpose modules for our beloved general purpose
> > language, ones we believe would cover most of the "popular Perl
> > programming". Should we turn it into a Bundle or two (CPAN-Standard,
> > CPAN-Enterprise, whatever), it'd be a lot easier for newcomers to know
> > where to look at, easier for enterprises to evaluate Perl's power, and
> > easier for everyone to deploy. As it would be sort of a "standard
> > modules installation", Michele's comment ("no modules to install, it's
> > all already there") would also apply to Perl (well, not Perl itself as
> > I'm not talking about core modules, but I hope you know what I mean).
> >
> To support this - a blog post from Alistair Cocburn:
> It is about the need for exact instructions for the beginners. The
> problem is of course in the module choice - I don't know if there ever
> can be build a consensus about that.
There are plenty of people here who will remember "Perl 5 Enterprise
Edition" and what a great success it was at achieving almost the same
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48590 | Love Letters: An Update and a Question About Sparks
As I mentioned on Friday, Love Letters readers are invited to this screening. I haven't seen the movie but it was filmed here, so we can check it out together. Just print the ticket and we'll meet at the theater. If you have questions, I'm at meregoldstein at gmail dot com.
Also, another reminder: When you send your letter, make sure you tell me where you're from.
I hope you enjoyed Wednesday's updates. Today's letter is an update from someone who second-guessed her breakup. She also has a followup question.
Hi Meredith,
I wrote you a while back about my breakup and how every time we ended things he'd come back and be awesome, etc. The readers were a little harsh and I found out that he even stumbled across my letter and it was eye-opening for him, to read their comments, etc. He did reach out to tell me that he was wrong to try and convince me that he could change. Shortly after I moved out and we broke up, he was in a new relationship and they've since gotten engaged (within the same year!!) and bought a house. Better for them, and better for me in the long run.
My new issue -- or should I say lingering -- is that I just don't feel it anymore. Anything. I feel like the last relationship, paired with my only other long-term relationship before that, has depleted all my feelings. I'm exhausted from giving, and the idea of even being in a relationship again is so unappealing. That's not to say I don't want to get married and have kids and be happy, I just don't know how to get there again. Keep in mind that I am seeing a therapist and we talk occasionally about this issue, but like other therapists I've seen before, it's an issue that's kind of brushed aside because they think I'll be OK. I'm a super outgoing person and I have no problem being single -- I have a life filled with family, friends and activities -- but I hardly ever meet anyone who incites that spark of interest and I wonder if it's me or if it's the people I'm meeting.
It's been two years already, and while I've had some fun little flings, I just get more nervous as I get older that I'm never going to find that feeling again -- where I give it my all and am head over heels. I don't know if it's because I've made bad choices in the past and I'm just subconsciously hesitant to try, or if I'm just one of those people meant to be alone but surrounded by people who aren't significant others. Or do you think this will change when I finally meet the "right" person?
– Where's the Spark?, Cape Cod
I'm with your therapist. This will sort itself out.
You're allowed take time off from dating if you've hit a wall. And really, it's not as though you're home alone in bed refusing to go out and have fun. You're just enjoying single life and taking your time. That sounds pretty healthy to me.
Just know that sparks come in all shapes and sizes. It might take a few dates before you see one. Sometimes the delayed spark is the one that sticks.
As long as you continue to be social and meet new people (and have an interest in flings, etc.), you're OK. Sometimes it takes a few years to find what you want.
Readers? Is this taking too long? Is she really open to the spark? What about her definition of spark? Any thoughts about the ex?
– Meredith |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48614 | The ECL202 eddy-current displacement/ position sensor features improved thermal stability, immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI), linearity, and resolution. FPGA technology lets the sensor complete complex, proprietary mathematical algorithms.
Additional features of the sensor include pushbutton offset adjustment, pushbutton setpoint adjustment, external offset and setpoint adjustments, and user-selectable bandwidths. The sensor has two outputs: 0 to 10-V analog and digital setpoint switch closure; 0.5 to 15-mm range; 0.008% @ 10-kHz resolution; and userselectable bandwidths of 100 Hz and 1, 10, and 15 kHz.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48616 | There was a day when the design decision of whether to specify a step motor system over a servo system was simple. If you needed repeated motions with good accuracy at low speed, stepper systems were the right choice. All that was necessary was some form of sensor to mark the boundaries of where movement took place.
However, if you needed reliable precise positioning, then you needed the feedback from a servo motor's position sensors. Servos were also the choice for any application requiring high speed. And if you needed a higher level of resolution, then you needed to go to a servo system.
Step motors were inexpensive and servos weren't. Steppers were simple to apply. Servo systems usually needed a systems integrator to get them up and running.
The lines separating these technologies are less distinct now. The costs of servo technology have dropped dramatically, making the price differential less of an issue. Plus, both technologies have made advances. The result: More flexibility to tailor your motion control solution.
Less is more
Step motor construction follows the same basic design today as it did a dozen years ago, but there have been many refinements. Continual advances in magnetic circuit design have reduced flux losses that rob a motor of useful torque. New magnetic materials with a stronger field help boost torque output, enabling higher torque densities. This not only lets engineers squeeze more power into a smaller space, it improves positioning precision as well.
Accurate positioning, or control of the step angle, is important for some stepper applications. Accuracy is influenced to a lesser degree by the motor because of inexact motor and stator tooth profiles plus mechanical tolerance buildup of parts. It's influenced to a greater degree by the displacement angle created by load torque. In other words, the initial step angle of a motor and the ability of motor torque to consistently overcome load torque dynamics dictate stepper accuracy. When there's little variation in friction and load torque, a stepper can precisely recreate a motion repeatedly.
In general, the higher the torque generated by the motor, the lower the displacement angle produced by the load torque and the higher the position accuracy of a step motor. Steppers, with their high pole count, have greater torque for a given volume than servos. Ultimately, they are more precise. Because of their open-loop operation, though, they don't have the repeatability of constantly monitored servos.
The lower pole count of the servo motor allows it to operate at higher speeds than step motors. Although the stepper has a greater inherent angular accuracy, the servo uses a high-resolution position feedback device for repeatable accuracy with high precision, even under changing loads.
Step drive design has also influenced stepper system capability. Microstepping, for example, lets motors run more smoothly and with less audible noise than full-step drives. These "subdivided" steps boost accuracy and repeatability, assuming a consistent load. Idle current reduction circuits reduce the heating that occurs in steppers at rest. And drives with digital control offer such features as indexed moves and electronic gearing.
Although low-cost step modules will continue to drive step motors in an open-loop control scheme for the near term, closed-loop step drives and indexers are gaining acceptance. In these systems, position feedback information, typically from an absolute encoder, feeds back to the step drive. The result of closing the position loop is low-cost repeatable position accuracy.
There are slight but important differences in position feedback between servos and closed-loop steppers. Position feedback enables a servo loop to react quickly and constantly in near-real time to operate the motor. Steppers, on the other hand, use feedback in a delayed mode to confirm that the move arrives at the expected end location. It's important to note that the feedback here is not real time. Adding a feedback loop will slightly increase stepper system cost.
Servos gain ground
Ten years ago, installing servo motors required motion control "wizards," system integrators who had the experience necessary to set up and tune them for reliable operation. These engineers' servo tuning "black magic" relied heavily on oscilloscopes and calculus to tweak high-strung feedback loops into useful submission.
Today's advanced digital electronics have changed all that. Servo tuning can now be done by system software, making it possible for anyone to optimize a servo system.
Digital electronics and recent servo motor construction developments have all but eliminated low-speed jerkiness, or cogging, that often plagues servo systems. A digital approach also eliminates the drift that was a hallmark of analog circuits.
Developments in servo motor design incorporate new magnetic materials and new manufacturing methods to reduce cost. In addition, servo motor design has migrated from super high performance down to a level appropriate for most machine designs, and thus benefitting from the resulting economies of scale. Today it is possible to find a servo system priced in the range where simple stepper systems were just a few years ago.
Software programming of digital servo drives has also evolved. The new drives are easier to use. In the same way that servo motors have changed to suit a larger cross section of motion control needs, servo drives have found a middle ground between "dumb" drives that function as torque or speed controls and fully programmable drives. The new drives can execute simple preset move profiles or move at the command of a controller or outside input.
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Step motor and drive design have pushed the frontier of system speed over the past few years, but stepper system speed is still lower than the speeds possible from servo systems. Plus, steppers can still skip steps because the majority of systems have no position feedback. The motor may stall for several counts, and the machine won't recognize it.
Another problem is resonance. All mechanical systems inherently have regions of resonance at certain speeds, which must be addressed. Both stepper and servo systems battle resonance. Stepper systems try to muscle their way through the resonance region. Servo systems sense the resonant vibration and try to counteract it – sometimes too aggressively, adding to the problem.
Step motor resonance occurs in almost all open-loop stepper systems. It happens when the motor loses synchronization, causing noise and vibration. Usable torque often falls to zero, and the step motor stalls. Solutions to this problem include mechanical dampers, viscous couplings, and most recently, active electronic damping.
One active damping system uses a comparator circuit to continually monitor for fluctuating winding currents at all motor speeds. At the earliest sign of changing currents, an indicator of resonance, the drive alters the timing of stepping pulse rates almost instantly. This maintains a motor's average speed and corrects the instability before torque falls off.
In servo systems, machine components reflect mechanical system resonance to the servo loop. But as speeds increase or decrease through naturally resonant regions of the mechanical system, any vibration may interact with the servo loop to magnify resonance. This is where the experts made their living, with oscilloscope and little screwdriver in hand, sequentially tweaking potentiometers and manipulating the PID process to minimize the impact of mechanical vibration on servo operation.
Now, software-based adjustable notch filters resident in some new servo drives improve servo compensation, enabling a machine to operate at almost any speed regardless of the mechanical resonance that occurs.
Name that tune
Tuning improvements have helped increase machine throughput by allowing the servo to compensate for resonances typically introduced at higher speed operation. Better tuning allows higher speeds without compromising settling time.
The latest generation of servo drives make good use of software to aid and automate the servo system tuning process. So much so that in many cases, all you need to know is the motor part number and a few facts about the intended operation of the machine – the utility software takes it from there. Software development also has made significant strides in system troubleshooting. From walking users through system difficulties, to providing software-based oscilloscopes to monitor and document system performance, software makes it easy for anyone to apply the technology.
The important differences
The differences between stepper and servo systems are less distinct now. The price of servo systems has dropped due to increasing use of microelectronics and the economies realized through expanding market acceptance. Servos are easier to use because of gains in software development that automate setup, tuning, programming and troubleshooting. Steppers have become quieter and more compact. Steppers also have closed the position feedback loop, giving them the repeatability of servos, albeit at the cost of reduced machine throughput because of the feedback delay.
But, technology hasn't advanced to the point where steppers and servos are completely interchangeable. There are still some black-and-white guidelines.
Steppers continue to be more economical in situations requiring high torque in a small package at speeds typically less than 1,500 rpm. The paper feed in a line printer is a good example. A small motor allows an enclosure compact enough for placement on a desktop. Robust torque accommodates different paper types. The machine doesn't catastrophically fail if the motor stalls - you simply clear the paper jam, and start the page over. The paper indexes a line at a time, and motor speeds stay low.
Servo systems are suited for applications that use a wide range of speeds and any machine that needs high speeds. And servos are the only choice where torque control is important.
Consider the control of a high speed web of material – an application commonly found in printing, converting, packaging, and paper, plastic, and metal-making and handling operations. Maintained proper torque provides the appropriate tension necessary to avoid damaging the web material. At the same time, the web is moving through its process at high speed. Throughout the travel of the web material, adjustments must be made to control registration of the material, to coordinate machine processes.
Servo technology is gaining favor with designers looking to improve flexibility and throughput. Multiple servos ganged together through a common control can replace a complicated mechanical system, like a mechanical line shaft arrangement. Substituting a series of programmable servo systems allows changing the function of the machine simply by changing a software program, rather than swapping out hardware components.
Dan D'Aquila is product manager at Pacific Scientific Co., Rockford, Ill. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48628 | From Wed Jul 25 15:57:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: Received: (qmail 32788 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2007 15:57:27 -0000 Received: from (HELO ( by with SMTP; 25 Jul 2007 15:57:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 19841 invoked by uid 500); 25 Jul 2007 15:57:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: Delivered-To: mailing list Received: (qmail 19830 invoked by uid 99); 25 Jul 2007 15:57:28 -0000 Received: from (HELO ( by (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:57:28 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: Received-SPF: neutral ( local policy) Received: from [] (HELO ( by (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:57:26 -0700 Received: from [] (helo=[]) by with esmtp (Exim) id 1IDjEV-0000Gg-DZ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:03 +0100 From: Andy Jefferson To: Subject: Re: News about JDO Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: paul mendoza del carpio References: <> In-Reply-To: <> Organization: JPOX MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on Hola Paul, > I has followed the information about JDO for nearly two years and I wou= ld > like to know what about JDO? there is very few information and news in JDO > (in 2006, 2007), what about the Apache JDO project? why some JDO sites are > out of the Web now? is JDO dying? (it would be a pain, I think JDO is an > excellent effort). I really appreciate you answer my questions. JDO 2.1 is in progress, adding on annotations, enums, JDOQL subqueries,=20 support for some JPA concepts, and other things. JDO 2.1 is even more of a= =20 superset of JPA now than JDO 2.0 was before. There are implementations, jus= t=20 that only one (as far as I know) is JDO 2 compliant ... JPOX. JPOX=20 ( already has support for the majority of these JDO2.1= =20 enhancements, together with the start of support for DB4O. JPOX is publicis= ed=20 on (probably) the main spanish-speaking Java website ( whenever we make releases, so you may have heard of it. The Apache JDO website doesn't seem to have been updated with anything abou= t=20 JDO 2.1. Perhaps someone from Apache JDO can get that done ? Some websites (e.g don't seem to be active now. You would h= ave=20 to ask the people behind it why and what their motivations are. While large organisations may want JDO to disappear (just like RDBMS vendor= s=20 wanted it to go away during JDO 1), it is still alive (which is proven by t= he=20 fact that there is a JDO2.1 making significant improvements) and there are= =20 implementations around. How committed some of the other implementations are= =20 to JDO 2.1 remains to be seen ... Un saludo de Reino Unido =2D-=20 Andy =A0(Java Persistent Objects - |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48629 | Marc, I don't think the functionality you are looking for is in Torque but you could add it. You could try the following: 1. Extend to add the appropriate functionality. 2. Then in your schema file in the tag. 3. Generate Your Classes using Torque. r, Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Marc Dugger [] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 1:50 PM To: Subject: persistence aware Are there any call-back methods that can be implemented so that the application will be aware of an OM object being inserted/updated? If not, can anyone suggest any extension points where it would be appropriate to implement such functionality? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48632 | [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2815?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12574385#action_12574385 ] Hemanth Yamijala commented on HADOOP-2815: ------------------------------------------ bq. Another proposal would be to expose a "temporary" flag to the FileSystem.create() call. This allows applications to create temporary HDFS files. This will be equivalent to the File.createTmpFile() API in Java. When an application dies or that file is closed, HDFS client will make every attempt to delete that file. This proposal is better than registering shutdown hooks with HDFS. This will work for the jobtracker if the flag can be set on directories as well. Because what the jobtracker creates is the directory pointed to by mapred.system.dir. So, I guess we need some flag similar to this for FileSystem.mkdirs as well. Devaraj pointed out that this might be ambigous if the path being created is "/a/b/c" where all components are created. Which will be marked temporary - all of a,b,c or only c ? Since closest definitions (For e.g. File.deleteOnExit) seem to handle absolute paths, we could say it will delete only 'c'. Something like this should work. Devaraj ? > Allowing processes to cleanup dfs on shutdown > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-2815 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2815 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: dfs > Reporter: Olga Natkovich > Assignee: dhruba borthakur > > Pig creates temp files that it wants to be removed at the end of the processing. The code that removes the temp file is in the shutdown hook so that they get removed both under normal shutdown as well as when process gets killed. > The problem that we are seeing is that by the time the code is called the DFS might already be closed and the delete fails leaving temp files behind. Since we have no control over the shutdown order, we have no way to make sure that the files get removed. > One way to solve this issue is to be able to mark the files as temp files so that hadoop can remove them during its shutdown. > The stack trace I am seeing is > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient.checkOpen(DFSClient.java:158) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient.delete(DFSClient.java:417) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedFileSystem.delete(DistributedFileSystem.java:144) > at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.datastorage.HPath.delete(HPath.java:96) > at org.apache.pig.impl.io.FileLocalizer$1.run(FileLocalizer.java:275) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48651 | I found this exercise in a book but I would like to know how to do this kind of questions.
Let P= P(x_1,x_2,...,x_n) be apolynomial in n variables over an arbitrary field F.Suppose that the degree of P as apolynomial in x_i is at most t_i for i bigger than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to n , and let S_i is contained in F be a set of at least t_i +1 distinct members of F. If P(x_1,x_2,...,x_n) = 0 for all n-tuples (x_1,x_2,...,x_n) belong to S_1 x S_2 x ...x S_n , then P=0. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48656 | Rahner, Karl ( born , March 5, 1904, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden, Ger.—died March 30, 1984 , Innsbruck, Austria ) German Jesuit priest who is widely considered to have been one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. He is best known for his work in Christology and for his integration of an existential philosophy of personalism with Thomistic realism, by which human self-consciousness and self-transcendence are placed within a sphere in which the ultimate determinant is God.
Rahner was ordained in 1932. He studied at the University of Freiburg under Martin Heidegger before earning a doctorate at the University of Innsbruck. He taught at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, and Münster. He was also an editor of Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 10 vol. (1957–68; “Lexicon for Theology and the Church”), and of Sacramentum Mundi, 6 vol. (1968–70; “Sacrament of the World”). He was known as well for his defense of Edward Schillebeeckx in 1968, when the Flemish theologian was under attack for heresy as a result of his calls for more freedom of theological research within the church and for theological pluralism.
Rahner’s many books emphasize the continuity of modern and ancient interpretations of Roman Catholic doctrine. His works include Geist in Welt (1939; Spirit in the World), Hörer des Wortes (1941; Hearers of the Word), Sendung und Gnade, 3 vol. (1966; Mission and Grace), Grundkurs des Glaubens (1976; Foundations of Christian Faith), and Die siebenfältige Gabe: über die Sakramente der Kirche (1974; Meditations on the Sacraments). All 23 volumes of his Theological Investigations have been published in English translation (1961–92). |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48660 | What is meta? ×
I tried to suggest the existing tag unity-game-engine (6 questions) as a tag synonym for unity3d (> 1000 questions). Although I have create tag synonyms privilege I run into the following error:
Failed to propose synonym:
Version specific synonyms can only be created by moderators
It sounds to me like the 3d in unity3d is considered as version number. Actually it stands for 3-dimensional. Am I missing something? Maybe version specific tags should rather have a flag set, indicating their special status instead of being recognised by a regular expression only. Or at least the check should be restricted to the end of the tag's name e.g. "[0-9]$".
There is a similar question Version Specific Tag Validation on Tag Synonym Page, I set up a new one as a moderator explicitly asked for it.
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I added the synonym for you. – Robert Harvey Dec 6 '12 at 22:50
@RobertHarvey Thank you – Kay Dec 7 '12 at 8:00
Same issue, stackoverflow.com/tags/agiletoolkit/synonyms needs synonym "atk4", could someone please add? – romaninsh Dec 21 '12 at 4:03
same issue, I would like to propose lmer as a synonym for lme4: stackoverflow.com/tags/lme4/synonyms – Ben Bolker Sep 11 '14 at 0:36
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I'm writing an edit to an answer. I get the little blue bar that says "This post has been edited 1 time since you began. Your edit can only be saved if it is more thorough than the currently saved edit."
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Now, I clicked the link in the bar which took me to the revision history on the question (I was editing an answer, remember). Now, first of all, the question hasn't been edited in two hours (and I have not been editing even a quarter of an hour). But, neither has the answer been edited in the last two hours!
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Then, of course I hit the "An edit has been made .. Looping" bug when I hit the X button (which drives me crazy).
I am using chrome 25.0.1364.97 on Windows 7.
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Reproduced. I saw it today while working on this revision (of an answer), but only for that one. It appeared after some time (1-2 minutes?) after starting the editing. It said: "... edited 4 times ..." (!). – Peter Mortensen Mar 3 '13 at 22:13
yes, I had this today also. Was editing an answer to a recently edited question (a common enough thing) and got the notification. Ignored it, since this is my answer dammit, and it saved fine. I believe I was being notified about the question - no-one else was trying to edit my answer. On Workplace IIRC. – Kate Gregory Mar 3 '13 at 22:25
Had this happen today several times on meta. – Wesley Murch Mar 3 '13 at 23:13
Reproduced - it appears to happen when editing any answer that's been posted (or more likely most recently edited) before the most recent edit to the question. After typing something, it takes about 45 seconds to appear. – Dukeling Mar 4 '13 at 7:57
Happens to me but with the old-style top-bar – CharlesB Mar 4 '13 at 10:18
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Yes, it is using the wrong id (the question's id) in the heart-beat. This has been rectified in the next build. Sorry 'bout that.
So: even though you were editing an answer, that message related to tweaks to the question.
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Simple Iterative Fractals
The geometry of Fractals lies somewhere between dimensions. To be totally accurate "fractal" is even not a 'thing' at all but more like a unit of measure or mathematical characteristic. For example each fractal has a 'fractal dimension' which is it's degree of regularity and repetition.
One very simple way to understand fractals and the meaning of "iteration" is to examine a simple recursive operation that produces a fractal pattern known as Cantor Set. you take a line of arbitrary length and remove the middle third. this is the first step or "Iteration", then take the remaining two lines and repeat the clipping procedure. Eventually after 5 or 10 iterations you have dozens of tiny lines which take up only as much room as the two original ones from the first step.
From Wikipedia "The Cantor set, introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor, is a remarkable construction involving only the real numbers between zero and one.
The Cantor set is defined by repeatedly removing the middle thirds of line segments. The Cantor set is the prototype of a fractal. It is self-similar, because it is equal to two copies of itself, if each copy is shrunk by a factor of 1/3 and translated. Its Hausdorff dimension is equal to ln(2)/ln(3). It can be formed by intersecting a Sierpinski carpet (see below) with any of its lines of reflectional symmetry (such as reading the center scanline)."
THE KOCH SNOWFLAKE: example at right is similar, except rather than subtracting the middle of the line in each step or iteration - we add a triangular bulge to each line, and then to each resulting line ... and so forth until the border goes from a triangle to a star, to a wrinkled snowflake.
This also illustrates a fundamental property of fractals .. infinite boundaries.
Examine the illustration again. In step one (the triangle) the top line is length x. lets say it's 100 centimeters in length. In step 2 (the star) this same line is roughly twice as long because of the extra length of the added sub-triangles.
By the sixth iteration the top line has become 1000 times as long as the starting line, but without stretching past the original starting points (a & b).
Fractals can enclose a finite area with an infinitely long & intricate line or boundary.
From Wikipedia "The Koch Curve is a mathematical curve, and one of the earliest fractal curves to have been described. It appeared in a 1904 paper entitled "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire" by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch. The better known Koch Snowflake (or Koch Star) is the same as the curve, except it starts with an equilateral triangle"
Animation of Koch Curve Iteration
The Opposite of the KOCH CURVE is....
(produced by subtracting triangles from the interior,
instead of adding them to the surface as in the Koch curve)
Perfect Fern
Produced by Chaotic Iterative Process
Pythagorean Trees
In addition to Ferns, Fractal iterative shapes also reveal tree-like structures,
which can take on an infinite variety of formations
Fractal Tree branching
Fractal Plants
A couple of pentagonal fractal possibilities
The Apollony fractal
(images by Paul Bourke, Swinburne University AU)
packing Circles or Spheres Together - Another Way of Creating Fractals
(image by Paul Bourke, Swinburne University AU)
Side-View of same fractal as above
(image by Paul Bourke, Swinburne University AU)
pentagon fractal
Pentagonal Plunge by Fractal Ken
Queen Anne's Lace is another beautiful fractal in Nature
Queen anne's Lace fractal
Almost like a fractal braid or chain-link.
By Roger Bagula, image by Paul Bourke, Swinburne University AU
Appolian Gasket
Realistic Sponge-Like Fractal
made only from Circles:
Dodecahedral Fractal/Harmonic Subdivision of Spherical Surface
the major shape-varieties of Julia Sets
which correspond to regions in the Mandelbrot Set
Crop-Circle Designs
are often simple Fractal Iterations such as the
5-way repeating vortex (left), or the fractal pentagonal / golden ratio sub-division (right)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48691 | Submitted by GodisaGeek 677d ago | video
Let's Play: Guacamelee El Diablo's Domain
GodisaGeek: "A couple of weeks back, we had a look at the somewhat underwhelming Costume Pack. Even though the new skins enabled players to employ a new play style, to a certain degree, it was lacking any new areas or things to do.
With El Diablo’s Domain, fans of Drinkbox Studios’ brawler-platformer will relish the numerous challenges on offer including waves of enemies, time trials and more. Also, there are three new costumes on offer, too – with one dedicated to Jorge Campos!" (Guacamelee, PS Vita, PS3)
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Godlovesgamers + 677d ago
Challenge DLC is a complete waste for me. Give me some story DLC and I'm good.
Megatron316 + 677d ago
my thoughts exactly loved this game and want more but not this, i need a new area of great platforming and boss fight
sdozzo + 677d ago
Mexican theme sucked. I'm in the minority but it killed it for me.
Godlovesgamers + 676d ago
Yeah it's probably going to be hit or miss. I'm married to a Mexican girl, I can speak fluent Spanish and I've studied the culture extensively so for me this game was great. I could see if you're not part of the culture or know nothing about it, it might be a turn off. You probably wouldn't like the movies "Casa de mi Padre" or "Nacho Libre" either then.
sdozzo + 672d ago
Haha you're right. Nacho Libre es no bueno. But happy gaming!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48727 | Kathy Griffin on 'Glee' Mocks Palin and O'Donnell, Depicts Tea Party as Homophobic Birthers
KATHY GRIFFIN AS TAMMY JEAN ALBERTSON, TWITTERER AND FORMER TEA PARTY CANDIDATE: Before we start, I would like to say I am not a witch. But, um, I think it's fair to ask: Do we have written proof that these kids were born in the United States of America?
LORETTA DEVINE AS SISTER MARY CONSTANCE, NUN AND FORMER EXOTIC DANCER: For a nun, I'm pretty liberal. But I'm barely a nun. In fact, I just joined because I needed a place to live.
GRIFFIN: Bless you!
DEVINE: The convent is the one place I knew I could stay off the pole. But my question is this: That Dalton Academy, is it a gay school, or is it just a school that appears gay?
DEVINE: I liked the duet the two boys from Dalton sang.
JONES: What about that song about Jesus?
GRIFFIN: Well, that should win.
DEVINE: Uh, uh, uh. No, no, no, no. Now, that is just cheap pandering. I didn't even like to be pandered to when I was a stripper!
JONES: Those New Directions had it going on. Those songs were fresh.
GRIFFIN: Those songs were terrible. I am sorry, but I'm a politician, and when I lost my last election -- and there will be a recount -- I didn't go around singing about being a loser. I twittered that Obama is a terrorist.
DEVINE: Oh, no, you didn't!
GRIFFIN: I had to. It's a fact.
DEVINE: Oh, oh, gee.
JONES: Okay, ladies, I've heard enough. Let's vote.
Once again as full disclosure, I'm a big fan of this show. However, the writers and producers took a lot of shots at conservatives and religion in this episode that are likely to further alienate right-leaning viewers.
In just this one and a half minute segment alone, numerous disgraceful stereotypes of the Tea Party were shamefully displayed for millions of folks tuning in for some light-hearted entertainment with hopefully some redeeming social commentary.
The producers even went out of their way to make sure that everyone knew Griffin's character was a Tea Partier by doing a still-frame shot announcing as much:
Was that necessary?
Next came the Catholic bashing by introducing a nun that was a former exotic dancer:
Was making a mockery of nuns specifically designed to further alienate religious conservatives?
And how about the entire homophobic discussion between these three judges? Certainly, it was no coincidence that a Tea Partier and a nun exhibiting such fears took place in the same show that gay characters Kurt and Blaine (Chris Colfer and Darren Criss) had their first kiss.
Less obvious might have been more subtle jabs at prominent conservatives. Griffin's "Obama is a terrorist" comment might have been a swipe at Ann Coulter who in June 2007 was accused by numerous left-wing websites of saying this during an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity.
The homosexuality is "not in the Constitution" remark might have been aimed at Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for his September 2010 comments about the 14th amendment not protecting women and gays from discrimination.
Add it all up, and the folks involved in this episode seemed to be going out of their way to offend the Right Tuesday evening.
As a fan of this program since the pilot was first aired almost two years ago, I am very disappointed.
This show has been groundbreaking in a lot of ways, and indeed has offered some social commentary that's stretched the boundaries of decency and good-taste at times, but also does what I think is an admirable job of portraying some of the realities facing American teenagers in the year 2011.
Without question, it is at times done with an in your face style that as NewsBusters has reported is often way too overtly sexual for a show about high school students airing at 8 PM on a broadcast network.
But this was the first episode where I felt the folks involved were going all out to ridicule a good percentage of America - including me.
Even sadder, this segment happened moments after the female lead sang a heartfelt song about her feelings for the male lead, which was followed by her fellow singers performing a marvelous number about the villain in the show.
In the end, the glee club protagonists may have come in first in the fictitious competition they performed at Tuesday evening, but this episode - which at times seemed a cross between MSNBC and NPR - is sure to be considered a loser by right-thinking people across the fruited plain.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48734 | General Passive Network
Model two-port passive network described by rfdata object
Black Box Elements sublibrary of the Physical library
The General Passive Network block models the two-port passive network described by an RF Toolbox™ data ( object.
If network parameter data and their corresponding frequencies exist as S-parameters in the object, the General Passive Network block interpolates the S-parameters to determine their values at the modeling frequencies. If the block contains network Y- or Z-parameters, the block first converts them to S-parameters. See Map Network Parameters to Modeling Frequencies for more details.
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Main Tab
Data source
Determines the source of the data that describes the passive device behavior. The data source must contain network parameters and may also include noise data, nonlinearity data, or both. The value can be Data file or RFDATA object.
RFDATA object
If Data source is set to RFDATA object, use this field to specify an RF Toolbox data ( object. You can specify the object as (1) the handle of a data object previously created using RF Toolbox software, (2) an RF Toolbox command such as'Freq',1e9,'S_Parameters',[0 0; 0.5 0]), which creates a data object, or (3) a MATLAB® expression that generates such an object.
Data file
If Data source is set to Data file, use this field to specify the name of the file that contains the amplifier data. The file name must include the extension. If the file is not in your MATLAB path, specify the full path to the file or click the Browse button to find the file.
Interpolation method
The method used to interpolate the network parameters. The following table lists the available methods describes each one.
Linear (default)Linear interpolation
SplineCubic spline interpolation
CubicPiecewise cubic Hermite interpolation
Visualization Tab
For information about plotting, see Create Plots.
Creating a General Passive Network Block from File Data
This example creates a two-port passive network from the data in the file passive.s2ppassive.s2p. The file contains S-parameters for frequencies from about 0.315 MHz to 6.0 GHz. The General Passive Network block uses linear interpolation to model the network described in the object.
1. On the Main tab, accept the default settings.
2. On the Visualization tab, set the parameters as follows:
• In the Plot type list, select Z Smith chart.
Click Plot. This action creates a Z Smith chart of the S11 parameters, using the frequencies taken from the RFDATA object parameter on the Main tab.
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Pliny the Elder: the Natural History
When I got on the Net in 1995, I heard all kinds of rumors of various projects out there supposedly putting Pliny on the Web. I waited a couple of years, then decided that a bird in the hand is worth an annotated inflection-searchable sacred chicken in a bush, and did it myself.
I hand-keyed the Latin text of Pliny from Teubner editions of the text as established by Karl Mayhoff. It was, by the way, an instructive exercise much like that of the musician who copies Bach: my Latin comprehension improved immensely in the eight months it took me.
The transcription is being minutely proofread. I ran a first proofreading pass immediately after entering each Book, so that the text of all the Books is quite good already. I then run a second proofreading, detailed and meant to be final: in the table of contents below, Books the text of which I believe to be completely errorfree are shown on blue backgrounds; any red backgrounds indicate that the Book has not received that second final proofreading, and illustrations and notes may also be missing. The header bar at the top of each webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.
There are two English translations of Pliny online: one complete, by John Bostock and H. T. Riley (1855) at Perseus; the other, of a sizable portion, by Philemon Holland (1601), slowly progressing on James Eason's site, including the following Books last time I checked: the Preface, Books 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, and the corresponding portions of Book 1. (Please note that if you have problems with those English-language pages, they are not part of my site and you will have to take them up with Mr. Eason!)
[And to forestall any more mail on yet another subject, no, the sections do not often match between Mayhoff's Latin text and Holland's translation: this is to be expected since the latter translated, and — adding a further difficulty — sometimes paraphrased, a Latin text as established in the Renaissance, whereas Mayhoff's 19c text benefited a great deal from scholarship in the intervening centuries. Mr Eason and I have therefore made no attempt to correlate the text and its translation on a section-by‑section basis: it isn't possible. At any rate, the Latin text and the Holland translation have each been faithfully transcribed, including where each editor chooses to break. Welcome to the real world of Plinian scholarship. . . .]
A printed modern English translation, tolerable if not really very good, is readily available: The Loeb Classics edition, in 10 volumes (Harvard University Press). It is commonly found in libraries; it is very much in print, and thus can be bought or ordered at almost any bookstore.
A Japanese translation of Book 9 was well underway and online, but with the shrinking Web, it too has now vanished.
Some other few short passages also appear on scattered pages thruout the Web: I've linked them to the original passage on my site.
For a good detailed biography of Pliny, in 3 webpages, see Livius.org; for a much briefer but good biographical sketch in German, this offsite page. For some assessments of Pliny over the centuries, see this page. For an alternate table of contents, this page of the Livius.Org site.
For technical details about how this site is laid out, etc., see below after the table of contents.
Book Subject
Pliny's table of contents, index, and bibliography as he wrote them.
Astronomy and meteorology.
Geography of the Western Mediterranean.
Geography of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea, continental and northern Europe.
Geography of Africa, the Middle East and Turkey.
Geography of Asia; summary overview and wrap-up of world geography.
Anthropology and human physiology.
Land animals: elephants, lions, tigers, panthers; cows, horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats; mice, dormice and a few others.
Marine animals: whales, dolphins, fish, shellfish, etc.
Birds; animal reproduction; the five senses.
Insects, then comparative zoology, fumblings toward a taxonomy.
Exotic plants, spices and perfumes: from India, Egypt, Mesopotamia etc.
More plants, including aquatic plants.
Plants: the vine and wine.
Plants: the olive tree; oil and its uses; fruit and nut trees.
More trees, mostly evergreens.
Fruit trees and vines and the art of planting them.
How to run a farm.
Garden plants, including a long section on flax.
More garden plants: mostly vegetables.
Miscellaneous plants, including dye plants.
Medicinal properties of wine, vinegar, oil, nuts, fruit.
Medicinal properties of trees and herbs.
Medicinal properties of herbs.
Major medicinal herbs. The book opens with a section on new diseases.
Minor medicinal herbs, in roughly alphabetical order.
Medicinal uses of the human body's own products (and discussion of charms); of animal products.
Medicinal uses of animal products, continued; but the book starts with a long stiff diatribe against doctors.
Medicinal uses of animal products, continued; this time the book starts with a preamble about magic arts.
Medicinal uses of marine products: salt, plants, sponges, etc.
Medicinal uses of marine animals.
Metals: mostly gold, silver and mercury.
Metals: bronze and lead; but mostly a discussion of statues, in fact.
Uses of earth; but starting with pigments, is mostly a discussion of painters, although the end of the Book goes back to sulphur.
Stone. One of the better books. The first half is about sculpture; then a bit of fascinating architecture (obelisks, the Pyramids, the Cretan labyrinth), finally various building materials (plaster, sand, stone), then glass. Ends with a paean to fire and an utterly peculiar story in the very last paragraph.
Stones: rock crystal, amber, gemstones; semi-precious stones. At the very end of the Book, Pliny gives his list of "best of categories"; the best of countries is Italy, in case you were wondering . . .
Chapter and Paragraph Numbering
Both sets of numbering are used; the numbering of the chapters (in Roman numerals) follows the Loeb edition.
Search Constraints
Because of the way I've set up the text here, it is best to avoid searching across sentences or even sometimes across clauses separated by punctuation: successive sentences and occasionally clauses may be in different table segments and your search might yield a false negative.
Numbers with bars over them, e.g.MDCLXVI, the denarius sign (X), etc. should be searched for as MDCLXVI, X, etc.
Apparatus, Glosses
I'm not planning to put any apparatus online, but here and there the Teubner edition itself is not perfect, and a marginal correction may be made; or, in the best medieval style, a comment will have proved irresistible.
Various links are being inserted in the text, to appropriate pages of both my site (especially the Roman Gazetteer section), and of the better and more stable external websites, etc.
Between paragraphs, where searches would fail anyway, I'm very occasionally inserting images or other material.
Editions Used
Books 1‑6: Teubner, 1933 reprint of the 1905 edition
Books 7‑15: Teubner, 1909
Books 16‑22: Teubner, 1892
Books 23‑37: Teubner, 1897
I also consulted Teubner's 1898 index volume and the indexes to the current Loeb editions.
Other Partial Texts of the Natural History Online
A copy of my own Web edition started going up at Latin Library in Jun 01: the Preface and Books 1‑5 — at which point the copying stopped, probably because they were alerted to what follows.
That copy is less good than my original transcription here, partly because some of it was taken before I completed my proofreading, but partly also because it was intentionally degraded in several ways by someone who failed to understand what they were reading: for example, numbers with bars over them have seen them removed, thus dividing them by 1000 . . . so that Pliny is made to give distances in paces when they are in miles, etc. The Latin Library copy is therefore not recommended.
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He had spent his youth in smoky clubs discovering Billie Holiday, edited the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, was a habitué of cafes in the Village and the Century Association, and taught at Columbia University and up the Hudson at Bard College. He was a bundle of highly focused nervous energy, hardly reduced by having reached his 70s. Just the other week, he recalled that his mother perpetually told him he was possessed by St. Vitus. His enthusiasm was infectious, his conversation sparkling and far-ranging, his interest in people genuine and endless, and his generosity boundless. His gift was himself. As an editor of various magazines and at <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>, he had a sixth sense of who was best to write about any subject, what underlying ideas should be brought to the surface, how to structure a piece, and where to cut to make the prose gem-like. His protégés, buoyed by his encouragement, were legion, and they aspired to write as clearly and think as well as he did.</p> <p> But James was not a native New Yorker, a fact of origin easily detected by his inimitable accent. He was from Fall River, Massachusetts, the youngest son of a declassed Yankee family that had lost it all in the Depression. His grandfather, whose portrait he kept behind his desk at home, had been the president of the Massachusetts Senate. His memoir about growing up, <i>What We Had</i>, captured the loss of family position and glory. The title came from a line of poetry by his first wife, Jean Valentine: “What we had, we have.” Like James, the book was lucid, emotionally literate as well as historically resonant, and deeply affecting without being sentimental.</p> <p> James wrote for the literary journal at Harvard, <i>The Advocate</i>, was drafted into the Army, where he served as a French interpreter in Paris and Verdun, and observed France endure the agony of its Algerian war. In Paris afterward, living the dream of the expatriate artist, and while writing a novel, he also did a bit of intelligence work for the CIA, essentially rewriting <i>Le Monde</i> every morning as he drank his coffee.</p> <p> The Algerian conflict made a lasting impression on him. It was the prism through which he saw the strategic catastrophes of Vietnam and Iraq. From the beginning, he foresaw with exacting accuracy how the Iraq adventure has turned out, and he lamented the repetition of our own version of the French war in Algeria. He believed that a country that could not realize its ends would waste its means. In one sense, his insight seemed drawn from his family story. But he was also a rare American without illusions, the opposite of Graham Greene's “Quiet American,” one who understood others' history and could see that ideology and even idealism removed from realities could be ruinous. His post-Vietnam book <i>Solvency</i>, published in 1981, measured that contradiction.</p> <p> James was immersed in the circles of foreign policy without ever becoming a policy-maker or ever desiring to be one. Perhaps it was his literary sensibility that kept him on the outskirts of bureaucracy. Above all of his various professional accomplishments, he was extraordinarily proud of having been made a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, an award bestowed by the French government.</p> <p> With the end of the Cold War, the old foreign-policy system was in radical disarray, and James wrote in 1992 <i>The Consequences of the Peace</i>, after John Maynard Keynes' post-World War I <i>Consequences of the War</i>. In it, he began to spell out a new liberal internationalism that was not constricted by the bipolar conflict with the Soviet Union. James was always a liberal and an internationalist, just as those who framed U.S. policy in the Cold War were. James' hero became the subject of his brilliant biography, <i>Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World</i>, published in 1998. I brought James to discuss the book with two of its most avid readers, President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. During the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush, seeking to demonstrate his hitherto invisible interest in foreign policy, claimed he had read it, too.</p> <p> James and I had spoken of post-Cold War policy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. His thinking was vital in my writing of my book, <i>Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War</i>, describing the paralysis of American politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the face of fundamental change. I called the last chapter, “Absent at the Creation,” after Acheson's famous memoir, <i>Present at the Creation</i>. James, of course, was already thinking about writing his Acheson biography. </p> <p> During the 1992 campaign, James and I co-authored an article for <i>The New York Times Magazine</i> on the need to crystallize an idea of post-Cold War liberal internationalism in the tradition that fused national interest and values. In 1996, our conversations were especially productive. We were able to describe the concept of the United States as the guarantor of stability as the sole superpower within the framework of multinational institutions, but I was intent on boiling it down to a phrase. Finally, together, we hit on it: “indispensable nation.” Eureka! I passed it on first to Madeleine Albright, at the time the United Nations ambassador, and then to the president.</p> <p> That same year, James became the indispensable man in helping me introduce Hillary Clinton to aspects of New York she had not known before. Hillary was besieged with the pseudo-scandal of Whitewater, dragged in a perp walk before the klieg lights by Ken Starr, and pounded by a press corps driven by Starr's office's leaks. I suggested that she get some perspective outside the hothouse of Washington. James acted as the host of a luncheon at the Century attended by several dozen of the city's most influential editors and publishers, who had never met her. Afterward, Hillary Clinton delivered a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations that James and I had helped her craft. Astonishingly, this slice of New York had never been exposed to her before. Both events went spectacularly well -- “They love you in New York, Mrs. Clinton,” James told her -- and Hillary began to get the idea that New York might be the place for her sometime in the future.</p> <p> James, denizen of New York and Paris, was most himself at his summer home on Narragansett Bay at Westpost Harbor, Rhode Island, just across the water from his native Massachusetts. Some of his boyhood friends lived nearby, and he watched Red Sox games with them. It was here that he wrote much of his critically acclaimed book <i>1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs -- The Election That Changed the Country</i>, published this year. James had turned to early 20th century American history for lessons at the beginning of the 21st for a new progressivism to expand democracy, a reinvented modern presidency and reshaped liberal internationalism.</p> <p> In the summer and fall of this year, James was busily writing articles, including one for <i>The New York Review of Books</i> that dealt with U.S. policy toward Iraq. James applied his understanding of the American tradition in foreign policy to the current fiasco. It is worth quoting him: </p> <blockquote><p>But Iraq in 2003 was not liberated France in 1944; nor can the emergence of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 serve as a model for imposing liberal democracy in Iraq. This has not prevented the U.S. from trying to impose its own protégés on Iraq, as if it were postwar Germany.</p> <p> Nonetheless, strategic failure and violent day-to-day bundling have their consequences, and American history suggests that such ill-conceived adventures as the Iraq war and occupation could lead the U.S. to turn away from imperial aspirations … .</p></blockquote> <p>Once again, James cited “the prudential realism that characterized most of the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy. Such an approach, reflecting a desire to, in Dean Acheson's words, 'limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the search for the absolute,' also implies that in pursuing national interests, American leaders must seek allies among other governments and peoples who see those interests as coinciding with their own and who are willing to collaborate with the United States in the growing numbers of international institutions, governmental and nongovernmental.” </p> <p> By now, James had begun work on his new book, a biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French founding father of our own country. What could be a more apt topic at a time when Bush has fostered such antipathy with our oldest ally? James traveled to Paris, with his wonderful companion, Joan Bingham, herself a book publisher, and was thrilled to gain admittance to unplumbed archives and to decipher the scrawl of Lafayette and his contemporaries.</p> <p> As full of energy, curiosity and possibility as ever, his powers at their peak, suddenly his light went out. Those who knew him are deprived of his writing, knowledge and wisdom. Those who loved him have lost the truest friend.</p> <p> <i>--Sidney Blumenthal</i><br /></p><hr /><p>I first encountered James Chace in one of life's inevitably humiliating moments: my first serious job interview after college. He was editing <i>Foreign Affairs</i>, and I wanted to be a journalist -- but, unfortunately, despite a bachelor's in American History from Yale, I knew nothing about contemporary foreign affairs. This soon became apparent as James gently quizzed me on this or that global crisis, in the stately Park Avenue offices of the Council on Foreign Relations. I can still recall the perspiration dripping literally down my sides, as my face grew redder and redder and my future shrank before me. Needless to say, I didn't get hired. </p> <p> But remarkably for anyone else, and typically for James, this wasn't the end of the story. More than any other mandarin of his generation that I have known, James was a born mentor who seemed to delight in encouraging and advising younger people. And while his advice to me was that I steer clear of <i>Foreign Affairs</i>, he had many other thoughts about where I might go, and whom I might see. When I did in fact manage to snag a job, at <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, he was amazingly generous in continuing to keep up. It helped, too, that I sat just a few desks away from his wife at that time, Susan Chace, a magical poet with a knack for understanding the internal machinations of IBM. But on his own, James took an interest in a tremendous number of fresh graduates as they tried to find their way into the professional world. He practically ran an underground railroad.</p> <p> James was not just a bridge between generations and between different social circles but also between different professional disciplines. He was a brilliant conversationalist who could talk as easily about French literature as he could about the war in Iraq. He had reasoned and richly informed political views, which were always worth listening to, but he wasn't doctrinaire. Because of this, he seemed a throwback to a better era in world affairs, when people of differing views could still talk, and possibly even learn something by listening. Although he had strong opinions, his respect for others showed in the reviews he wrote, which were usually gentle, even when in disagreement. He was, simply, a great appreciator. He brought a novelist's eye to character, and to life's ironies, which was yet another reason he was such fun to talk with.</p> <p> In recent years, James had the luck to meet Joan Bingham, who shared his intense appreciation of books, politics, and people. Together, when they were in town, they could seem like a Washington version of the <i>Thin Man</i> movies' Nick and Nora. Witty, smart, amused, and amusing, they seemed to bring everyone else to life. In the midst of whatever social or professional whirl they were in, though, James still seemed to find time to listen, to size up whatever one's problem of the moment was, and to be a very wise and generous friend.</p> <p> <i>--Jane Mayer</i><br /></p><hr /><p></p><p>There are many ways to express how valuable James Chace's voice was, and how irreplaceable, but a simple way to begin is to explain the impact he had on others. Obviously his books were important to all of us, those who knew him and those who did not. But the gift of his counsel was no less precious. Through his editorial suggestions, his phone calls, and his endlessly entertaining conversation, he made countless younger writers feel connected to the great adventure of his life.</p> <p> I would not dare to call myself a Jamesian disciple in the traditional sense; I never studied with him, or had any professional association with him. But when I arrived in Washington as a tenderfoot White House speechwriter in 1997, I had the good fortune to encounter him one evening. It would be difficult to underestimate how little social capital I had to offer him; he had far higher-ranking acquaintances in the Clinton administration than I ever did. But it never seemed to matter with James. He stuck with me for reasons that I will never understand, but for which I will always be grateful.</p> <p> Perhaps there was a twinge of regional loyalty. He came from Fall River, Massachusetts, and I from Providence, Rhode Island, two old factory towns staring grimly at each other across 15 miles of Route 195 in southeastern New England. When we encountered each other in the unforgiving terrain of the Beltway, it was like two Manx fishermen hailing each other on the Irish Sea, relieved to hear their dying language one more time. Three decades separated us, but in our different times we both made the short trip to Harvard University (short in the simplest sense, incomparably distant in others). There we fell briefly in love with French literature before returning to earth and the more sensible realm of American history.</p> <p> No matter how serious the subject matter we discussed, there was a mischievous glint in James' eye that no schoolmaster or administration official had ever been able to eradicate. It was symbolic of his irreverence that he was undertaking a biography of the Marquis de Lafayette at the nadir of the 227-year U.S.-France alliance (our oldest; though perhaps it is premature to use the word “nadir,” as George W. Bush may well be re-elected). </p> <p> This may have proceeded from a shrewd scholar's sense that an important historical actor was underappreciated, but at some subterranean level, it must also have reflected his iconoclastic conviction that France still matters to America. Not only in the strictly geopolitical sense, as a nation that may irritate us at times, but still wields considerable economic and political clout in Europe and around the world (and, paradoxically, far more clout now than it did before the Republican attacks began -- another example of our broken diplomacy). But also in the larger sense that ideas matter, and particularly ideas about the individual worth of human beings, the constellation of values that exploded onto the scene with the French Enlightenment, helping to make our first halting steps as a nation conceivable, and then actual. If only Voltaire were alive to satirize the modern Versailles nestled along the Potomac, a world of courtiers and hypocrites prattling of “freedom” and “liberty” while suppressing civil liberties, stifling dissent, and elevating religion over science.</p> <p> James died in Paris while researching his new book, and by coincidence I was flying to Paris a few days later to attend a history conference and give a talk to a group of Democrats Abroad. I was lucky to attend a lunch in his honor with a small group of his closest friends. One of them, the journalist Alan Riding, published a hard-hitting article a couple days later in the <i>International Herald Tribune</i> that explored the tremendous decline of the public intellectual in Europe. James was not mentioned in the piece, but his spirit pervaded it, for who else in the United States did more to combine a historian's sense of the past with a foreign-policy realist's sense of the present? It is a cliché to say, “We will not see his like again,” but all too plainly true. Thucydides still advises readers that when a society cultivates too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors, it allows its thinking to be done by cowards and its fighting by fools. While James was alive, he kept us alert to both dangers.</p> <p> <i>--Ted Widmer</i><br /></p><hr /><p>I didn't know James Chace for very long. We met, I think, in 2002, at a dinner party at the home of a mutual friend in New York. After I later moved to Washington, he and Joan Bingham, his longtime companion, graciously invited my wife and me to dinner. I next saw him (and for the last time, alas) at the Washington party for his latest book, <i>1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs -- The Election That Changed the Country</i>. In between we had a series of conversations, which I'll compress into one meeting, as I edited a piece he wrote for me here at the <i>Prospect</i> (more on that later). And that's it: Our paths crossed four times.</p> <p> But one didn't <i>need</i> to know James for very long to feel oddly and intensely close to him. His intellectual range certainly impressed me when we met, but it was not surprising; as one who had read him over the years, I'd expected that. But what did surprise me was his immediate and unforced warmth. He treated me as an equal from the moment we met -- a status of which I was hardly deserving, but one with which James casually ensured I felt comfortable.</p> <p> It took me a little while to see this, I confess, because James had a rather donnish manner about him -- his remote and not-quite-identifiable accent and his casual erudition, ranging over this subject and that, impressed me as being the manner and equipment of a man who belonged at least at Harvard and more likely at Oxford. But he was the furthest thing from a lordly doyen. There are people who show off their erudition, intent on owning a conversation, and there are people who share it, eager to engage in colloquy. James was very much the latter type. That he knew more about the subject at hand than most everyone else at the table was a fact he tried, if anything, to conceal, or at least to be extremely polite about. He was, to put it simply, an extremely kind man.</p> <p> As to the James Chace readers had a chance to know: It is particularly cruel that we lost him right now. Among American intellectuals who focused on foreign affairs, he was perhaps the greatest expositor of the view that the United States has a responsibility both to assert its power when needed and to live up to it moral responsibilities to the rest of the world. Conservatives have typically affirmed the former without showing much interest in the latter. Post-Vietnam liberals have insisted on the latter without granting the necessity of the former. This has been, in a nutshell, contemporary liberalism's foreign-policy problem, and it is a problem for which James Chace offered a solution.</p> <p> By taking us back to Dean Acheson, the subject of his acclaimed biography and the work for which he is best known, James reminded us of a liberalism that preceded the post-Vietnam resistance to the idea that America could be a force for good in the world. At the same time, he was a blistering critic of the notion that American assertion of power was a good in and of itself. Indeed, among the things he most admired about Acheson, he once told me, were Acheson's restraint late in his career in both Iran and Guatemala, when hard-liners were pressing for CIA-sponsored coups in both countries and Acheson resisted, predicting accurately that such interventions would set America on a disastrous course. (Acheson demurred in 1952; the next year, with Dwight Eisenhower in office, Acheson's successor, John Foster Dulles, green-lighted both coups, and we were off to the geopolitical races with no turning back.)</p> <p> It struck me that the post-September 11 moment -- with neoconservative hegemonic objectives on a rampage, and Democrats wholly lacking the imagination to respond -- was just the right time to remind liberal readers of a tradition that Vietnam-era liberals had rejected but that deserved reexamination now. When I called James to discuss it, he instantly agreed, and he filed <a href=";name=ViewPrint&articleId=7700">this piece</a>. Its polemical thrust was aimed, properly, at the neoconservatives for trying to make policy on the basis of moral absolutes that prevented them from seeing necessary shades of gray; James was a firm opponent of the war in Iraq and the broader imperatives in whose name the war was fought. But it was our hope that liberals would read the piece and remember a tradition of which they should be (for the most part) proud, and from which they might well borrow today as they formulate a response to neoconservatism. If you asked me to name the three pieces I've published that I'm proudest of in the year I've been here, this would certainly be one.</p> <p> We last spoke around Labor Day, when we agreed that we'd wait to see who won the election and think about a second piece. I was looking forward to a long working relationship. Life doesn't always cooperate in such thoughts, but I'm immeasurably grateful for the brief one we had.<br /></p><p><i>--Michael Tomasky</i><br /></p><hr /><i>Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior adviser to President Clinton, author most recently of The Clinton Wars, is Washington bureau chief of Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Ted Widmer directs the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College. Michael Tomasky is executive editor of The American Prospect.</i> </div></div></div> Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:01:35 +0000 144007 at Sidney Blumenthal Return of the Native <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p><font class="nonprinting"></font></p> <p> <font></font> SIZE="-1">Illustration by Taylor Jones </p> <p><img /> ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="/tap_images/print/V7/images/27dole.gif" WIDTH="216" HEIGHT="341"><font size="+2">T</font>he<br /> defining episode in Bob Dole's biography is the grievous wound that he suffered<br /> on a hillside in Italy in World War II. The Dole campaign has sought to make his<br /> battlefield valor and heroic recuperation into both a compelling personal<br /> narrative and a statement of foreign policy. Presumably, Dole's war service is a<br /> self-explanatory badge of internationalism. Yet there is evidence that his long<br /> months in a rehabilitation hospital and half a century of dark rumination have<br /> left Dole wary about foreign entanglements. Dole is not exactly an isolationist,<br /> but he's not exactly an internationalist either. In the sheer muddle of his<br /> foreign policy, isolationism discovers ground to flourish. </p> <p>In 1976, Dole was the Republican candidate for vice president. In his debate<br /> with Walter Mondale he assailed the wartime leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt.<br /> "I think about that every day, because of a personal experience in World<br /> War II," said Dole. Mondale parried by bringing up President Ford's pardon<br /> of Richard Nixon on Watergate-related charges. Dole replied that the issue was<br /> unfair. When a reporter asked why, Dole delivered his memorable response: "Well,<br /> it, uh, is an appropriate topic, I guess, but it's not a very good issue, any<br /> more than the war in Vietnam would be, or World War II, or World War I, or the<br /> war in Korea. All Democrat wars. All in this century. I figured up the other<br /> day, if we added up all the killed and wounded in Democrat wars in this century,<br /> it would be about 1.6 million Americans, enough to fill the city of Detroit."<br /> His figure was eerily exactnot 1.5 million or 1.7 million, but 1.6<br /> million. The number had been calculated, a fruit of archival enterprise. </p> <p>Dole's belief that the wars of the twentieth century were "Democrat<br /> wars" was widely considered one of the key factors that cost Ford the<br /> election. At the time, Dole seemed to treat his comment as nothing more than a<br /> legitimate debating point. But he never elaborated. Long after the 1976<br /> election, that jagged point remains a tantalizing, enigmatic clue to his deeper<br /> politics. </p> <p>Twenty years later, the Republican presidential candidate and his handlers<br /> have placed his war wound at the heart of his campaign. It is clearly in tend<br /> ed to be the organizing principle around which voters are to grasp Dole's<br /> leadership qualities. Its graveness presumably communicates gravity. It is<br /> supposed to signal Dole's authority as a statesman compared to President<br /> Clinton, who, like the vast majority of his generation, did not serve in the<br /> Vietnam War. </p> <p>One problem for Dole in waging generational politics by contrasting wars is<br /> that the gambit raises a political liability: that he is not simply old but the<br /> oldest candidate ever to run for the presidency. The distance in time between<br /> his wounding and his presidential campaign is 51 years. The span is about the<br /> same as if Dole had been wounded in the Spanish-American War and been nominated<br /> by the GOP instead of Eisenhower. Or if he had been wounded at the Battle of<br /> Wounded Knee and been nominated in 1940 instead of Willkie. Or if he had been<br /> wounded in the Civil War and been nominated to run against Woodrow Wilson. Or if<br /> he had been wounded in the War of 1812 and run against Lincolnthe second<br /> time. What would those wounds have meant transposed into those campaigns? Those<br /> connections are no less obscure than the one Dole is trying to make now. </p> <p>Another problem is that Bob Dole is a man of little mystery who fails to<br /> explain himself. He imposes his biography onto his campaign as though it carries<br /> not only conviction but encodes a whole foreign policy. We are to infer what his<br /> "Democrat war" wound means, beyond its personal effect on him. What<br /> befell him in World War II correlates after the Cold War to policies he has only<br /> sporadically and spottily spelled out. </p> <p>But Dole's inarticulateness has its own clarity. In his foundering and<br /> confusion, he reflects the current incoherence of the Republican Party quite<br /> accuratelya party as fundamentally split by foreign policy as it is by<br /> social issues. Dole's political character is well suited to serve as a medium<br /> for the turmoil. Dole has always been a reactive fixer who operates by feeling<br /> where the pressures are coming from, with special sensitivity to the Republican<br /> right, and then by making deals that allow him to pass on to the next square,<br /> where he will make another set of deals. Through the years, Democratic senators<br /> have handled Dole by trying to get him to commit to a position before his<br /> antennae have become fixed on the right's shrill frequency. He seldom adds<br /> anything new to the equation. </p> <p>Dole is conservative, not because he embraces ideological abstractions but<br /> because of his ingrained suspicion of ideas themselves. Dole is not an activist,<br /> but an institutionalist; not an advocate of causes, but a sponsor of amendments.<br /> He is visionless in the sense that only a traditional conservative can be. The<br /> Senate was his true home in all senses. It was where he lived and where he found<br /> his identity. </p> <p>Coping with larger concepts of past, present, and future leaves Dole<br /> befuddled. Occasionally he expresses nostalgia for his small-town past, but his<br /> is a curiously narrow nostalgia, unlike the glowing, panoramic nostalgia of<br /> Reagan, who imagined a harmonious nation from sea to shining sea that never<br /> really existed. Nor in Dole's small town is hard work and clean living rewarded;<br /> on the contrary, its personificationthe young lad "Bob Dole"meets<br /> a terrible fate for no decent reason he can discern. Ultimately, Dole's<br /> nostalgia is bitter. But when he looks backward he can at least see himself.<br /> Gazing into the fog ahead, he doesn't even perceive the dimmest outlines of<br /> forms; his main lodestars are the interest groups buffeting him in a murky<br /> present. </p> <p>As the right wing has gained influence within the party, Dole has followed.<br /> But it is not because he's a true believer in its seamless ideology. He treats<br /> the conservative movement as a large interest group, like Archer Daniels<br /> Midland. If any label fits Dole, it is interest-group conservative. </p> <p>Dole's patina of realism, as a practical politician, might be taken as an<br /> homage to his political beau ideal, Richard Nixon. Unfortunately, he lacks more<br /> than Nixon's sense of timing and maneuver. Nixon, after all, was vice president<br /> at 40, and nominated for president every time he ranthree times. Dole has<br /> reached the nomination only on his third try, after all his generational peers<br /> have retired, having already beaten him previously. Nixon's intraparty method<br /> was to play one wing off against the other in order to sustain himself in a<br /> movable middle. Dole, by contrast, offers an inarticulate summary of various<br /> conflicting Republican positions; he flourishes shards of them without ever<br /> making the effort to define or fit them together. Elevated from his natural<br /> habitat in the Senate to the station of Republican nominee, the unintended<br /> consequences of Bob Dole are to expose and intensify political contradictions<br /> within the GOP. </p> <p><font size="+2">I</font>t<br /> is not coincidental that isolationism within the Republican Party rises at the<br /> same time as an antigovernment fervor. The antipathy to a strong government both<br /> at home and abroad is consistent, not simply as a matter of logic but of<br /> history. The internal struggle wracking the Republican Party is the latest<br /> unfolding of a decades-long battle between its internationalist tradition and a<br /> resurgent isolationism. This time the conclusion is likely to be a rejection of<br /> the GOP's internationalism. The glimmer of a returned Republican isolationism<br /> surfaced at first as a reaction to the Clinton administration's early foreign<br /> policy, which was seen in 1993 to be stuck in the quagmires of Somalia and<br /> Haiti. A nascent neo-isolationism emerged as a knee-jerk anti-internationalism.<br /> No doctrine, no fully shaped ideas were attached to it. Only a few on the old<br /> right, like Patrick Buchanan, knew its roots. Swiftly, however, this element<br /> coalesced with nativism and xenophobia into a combustible conservatism. </p> <hr size="1" /><center><br /><a href="/subscribe/"><img src="/tapads/mini_subscribe.gif" border="0" alt="Subscribe to The American Prospect" /></a> <p></p></center><br /><hr size="1" /><p>The undercurrent of the new isolationism is fear of the foreign as not only<br /> alien, but potentially contaminating and insidiously subversive. Multilateralism<br /> is inherently a compromise of our sovereignty, our very identity. A New World<br /> Order must be resisted. (For those on the far right, black helicopters carrying<br /> United Nation troops in their nighttime invasion of our country can be heard in<br /> the distance.) Unless foreign countries are willing to follow our strictures<br /> completely, we have no use for them. Even the Western Alliance is dispensable.<br /> Foreign aid, moreover, is nothing but welfare. If we cut it off, we will force<br /> beggarly foreigners to become self-sufficient and self-respecting. Diplomacy is<br /> for "the striped-pants" crowd, as Senator Gramm called State<br /> Department Foreign Service officers. It is somehow effeminate, another<br /> undermining forceindeed, a kind of enemy within, a conspiracy of weak<br /> sisters sapping our moral fiber. American soldiers must not even wear the patch<br /> of the sinister U.N. on their uniforms, much less fall under a U.N. command. To<br /> the extent that we can cut ourselves off and go it alone as a self-reliant<br /> nation, we purify ourselves. </p> <p>Few of those who advocate the new isolationism actually dub themselves<br /> isolationists, which had been a proud term in the 1920s and 1930s. They merely<br /> consider that they are true believers in an unchanging conservatism of absolute<br /> values, and that those who don't share their views, especially other<br /> Republicans, are not conservatives, and thus less than fully moral Americans. </p> <p>Isolationism through the years has maintained its underlying nature, but it<br /> is hardly a static political phenomenon. Varying with circumstances and<br /> politics, it is constantly altering its shape. Under the pressure of the Cold<br /> War, isolationism per se went underground and surfaced as a moralistic<br /> unilateralism. And when the Cold War ended, the GOP was unprepared for<br /> isolationism's roaring return. </p> <p>The first real opportunity for the Republicans to attack the Clinton<br /> administration on foreign policy came with the nomination of Strobe Talbott, a<br /> former columnist at <i>Time</i> magazine who was serving as the special U.S.<br /> representative to the former Soviet Union, to be deputy secretary of state. </p> <p>The end of the Cold War had brought the Republicans to the vanishing point<br /> of their foreign policy perspectives. Neither the crusading Reaganites nor the<br /> realist Bushites had a context any longer; virtually overnight they had become<br /> anachronisms. Talbott loomed as a fine target to revive the old atmospherics.<br /> Over the years, he had translated Khrushchev's memoirs and written a series of<br /> books on the politics of arms control. Talbott's views on the Soviet Union were<br /> in the line of George F. Kennan, the State Department official who had<br /> originally created the containment policy. Kennan had prophetically argued that<br /> if contained, the Soviet Union would decay and eventually collapse. But<br /> containment was assailed by the right as appeasement of the Communists. On the<br /> ruins of the old isolationist right, a unilateralist right wing that demanded "rollback"<br /> emerged. Talbott, in his journalistic forensics, had been a critic of Reaganism,<br /> and therefore was seen by the right as somehow "soft" on Communism.<br /> The irony that he was regarded by Soviet hard-liners as a CIA spy and for years<br /> forbidden from entering the country was lost on the Senate Republicans desperate<br /> for a new mark. </p> <p>Shortly before the vote on Talbott's nomination, in February 1994,<br /> right-wing Russian nationalists scored upsets in local elections. Then on the<br /> morning of the vote, Aldrich Ames, longtime mole for the Soviets within the CIA,<br /> was exposed. An aura of Cold War crisis was temporarily pumped up. Senator Jesse<br /> Helms accused Talbott of being a dupe of the KGB. "Mr. Talbott,"<br /> declared Helms, "was enjoying pleasantries with the KGB agent, Mr. Louis,<br /> at his swanky dacha outside of Moscow. Mr. Louis did not waste his time with<br /> people who were unwilling to be spoon-fed the Soviet line." Senator Al<br /> D'Amato of New York was next. "First of all," he said, "let me<br /> say I am deeply concerned about Mr. Talbott's writings. And if any of them are<br /> true, I think it is an outrage." Senator Hank Brown declared: "Under<br /> Ambassador Talbott's tenure there has, indeed, been a resurgence of hard-line<br /> Marxists in the former Soviet Union and particularly Russia." </p> <p>Bob Dole announced: "I have decided a strong signal needs to be sentenough<br /> promotions for Strobe Talbott." The vote against Talbott, which was<br /> expected to be negligible, rose to 31. That number was a measure of the longing<br /> to restore the political polarities of the Cold War. But these senators,<br /> including Dole, did not anticipate that the election of the first Republican<br /> Congress in 40 years would lead the party even farther back in time than the<br /> long twilight struggle. </p> <p><font size="+2">A</font>t<br /> the dynamic center of the new Congress were the 73 House Republican freshmen.<br /> The public, they were absolutely certain, had elected them because of the<br /> intensity with which they had presented their ideology. The freshmen projected<br /> their crusading faith onto their new leader, Newt Gingrich. But the speaker, who<br /> fashioned himself an internationalist, could not reliably control his followers.<br /> In February 1995, Gingrich supported the President in an effort to prevent the<br /> Mexican peso from collapsing, but his militant coteries would not go along. His<br /> failure forced the Treasury Department to devise a package of loans on its own,<br /> stretching the President's discretionary power to use a fund intended for<br /> stabilization of the dollar. "I am outraged that the President abused his<br /> power to bail out a foreign government," said Representative Steve<br /> Stockman, a Republican freshman from Texas (whose affinity for militias was<br /> exposed after the Oklahoma City bombing). </p> <p>The isolationism that came in with the Republican Congress was<br /> intellectually inchoate. Its proponents were proud of their disdain for<br /> internationalism, as though they were striking a brave new pose. The Contract<br /> with America contained a series of anti-internationalist positions, including<br /> prohibiting U.S. troops from serving under foreign command, draconian limits on<br /> funding peacekeeping missionsand the catch-22 provision stipulating that<br /> U.S. involvement in such U.N. efforts needed congressional approval 15 days<br /> before they were ever voted on in the U.N. The contract was merely the 1990s<br /> update of isolationist causes of the pastthe Bricker Amendment of the<br /> early 1950s, which would have had Congress vote on every single international<br /> agreement as though it were a treaty, and the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s,<br /> which forbade material aid to any European belligerent (meaning, of course,<br /> Britain). By standing against internationalism, the new Republicans were<br /> thumbing their noses not only at the Democrats, but at the remnants of the<br /> Republican establishment. They seemed unaware of their political ancestors<br /> within the GOP and how they were recreating the old pre-Cold War pattern.<br /> Gingrich, too, didn't grasp that the isolationism in his ranks was more<br /> consistent with the limited-government dogma than his own presumed foreign<br /> policy inclinations. He acted as if he might fan the flames of one without ever<br /> stirring an ember of the other. He also did not understand that his alleged<br /> internationalism was at odds with the Contract with America, which he treated<br /> with biblical reverence. Meanwhile, inside the House Republican Conference, the<br /> speaker's bipartisanship on certain foreign policy issues made the members<br /> wonder whether he might be a crypto-moderate after all. </p> <p>Some Republicans began openly to question the purpose of the Western<br /> Alliance. They likened it to a government program, the enemy they were sworn to<br /> cut down. "NATO was set up to protect Europe against the Soviet menace,"<br /> said Representative Jack Metcalf, a Republican freshman from Washington. "But<br /> it's like a government agency: It just keeps going and going." </p> <p>Representative Joe Scarborough, a Republican freshman from Florida, proposed<br /> that the U.S. withdraw completely from the U.N. Other Republicans pushed<br /> legislation to "privatize" foreign aid. "If we're going to cut<br /> entitlements at home, we have to be willing to cut them abroad," said<br /> Representative George Radanovich, president of the Republican freshman class.<br /> His argument had a simple consistency that Gingrich lacked. </p> <p>On October 6, 1995, President Clinton delivered a speech denouncing the "isolationist<br /> backlash." A test came quickly, in December 1995, when Congress debated the<br /> sending of U.S. troops to Bosnia to keep the peace wrought by the Dayton<br /> Accords. "I'm not the least bit interested in the prestige of NATO,"<br /> said Representative John Linder, a Republican freshman from Georgia, during<br /> floor debate. "President Clinton says we will hurt our standing with our<br /> NATO allies. Well, if that were true, I would say, 'So what?'" said<br /> Representative Gerald Solomon, a Republican from New York. "If there is a<br /> peace, there is no need for peacekeepers," said Representative Bob Inglis,<br /> a Republican from South Carolina. "I really believe that this has much more<br /> to do with political correctness than it does with anything else. It is simply<br /> not politically fashionable today to be labeled as an isolationist," said<br /> Representative John J. Duncan, Jr., a Republican from Tennessee. "The Cold<br /> War is over. The American people deserve better treatment than this," said<br /> Representative Dan Rohrabacher, a Repub lican from California. </p> <p>The tenor of Bosnia was far advanced from that of the Talbott debate. In<br /> early 1994 the worn labels and phrases from the Cold War were dusted off for<br /> display. But by late 1995 the Cold War was sloughed off; contempt was shown for<br /> our allies, who were considered useless, not just in Bosnia, but in general; and<br /> international peacekeeping was dismissed as beyond our interest. In the end, the<br /> House voted not to cut off U.S. funding for the mission by the narrow margin of<br /> 218 to 210. Gingrich voted with the majority. In the Senate, only 22 members<br /> voted to cut off funding. Dole, too, voted with the majority. </p> <p>With that, the Republican presidential primary campaign began in earnest. In<br /> May 1995, Patrick Buch anan scanned the globe for countries torn apart along<br /> ethnic lines and saw the future. "Ethnic politics, national politics,<br /> national ident itythese are the things that are breaking up the Soviet<br /> empire and Czech oslovakia, Yugoslavia, Canada, and India, and it's coming right<br /> here to River City," he said. From the polls showing that Americans were<br /> distrustful of government, he drew a sweeping conclusion: "They think the<br /> whole country is being sold out to some kind of global New World Order." </p> <p>Buchanan's dreams were not the blue-sky dreams of Reagan, but visions of a<br /> darkening horizon. He saw an America swarmed by illegal immigrants: He would<br /> build a fence along the border. He saw an Amer ica destroying its economy<br /> through world trade: He would build a wall of tariffs. He saw an America<br /> surrendering its sovereignty, its very nationhood, to a series of international<br /> bureaucracies: He would, as he promised in the peroration of every speech, bring<br /> the "New World Order crashing down." Buchanan's slogan was the name of<br /> the right-wing movement that opposed U.S. aid to Britain during the Battle of<br /> Britain: America First. </p> <p>In his quest for partisan advantage, Dole had drifted toward the<br /> isolationists' positionsridiculing the name of United Nations Secretary<br /> General Boutros-Boutros Ghali and even sponsoring legislation not to pay the<br /> U.S. costs for U.N. peacekeeping. "American foreign policies will be<br /> determined by us, not by the United Nations," he declared in the speech<br /> announcing his presidential candidacy. Far from confronting the isolationists,<br /> in the manner of Republican internationalists in the Senate of the past, such as<br /> Arthur Vandenberg, Dole toyed with the isolationists' symbols. </p> <p>Buchanan's early victory in New Hampshire provoked Dole to announce that he<br /> had no idea that jobs and trade would be campaign issues. Stunned, he was forced<br /> to engage his opponent. During the decisive South Carolina primary, Dole<br /> appeared at the huge BMW manufacturing complex in Spartanburg to dramatize his<br /> view that protectionism would undermine prosperity. After mumbling a few words<br /> he let his surrogates, former governor Carroll Campbell and Senator Phil Gramm,<br /> do the talking for him. Dole's rhetoric was bare, his attitude passive. </p> <p>Once Dole won the primaries, he established no dominance over the issues<br /> within the party. He had managed his victory not in spite of his visionlessness,<br /> but because of it. Rather than being bound to grand ideas that constricted his<br /> base, he campaigned as the regular supported by GOP officialdom. He gained the<br /> nomination precisely by failing to resolve the party's contradictions. He<br /> thought he could escape by relinquishing his duties as majority leader. He<br /> didn't understand that he was the vacuum. </p> <p><font size="+2">J</font>ust<br /> before Dole left the Senate, Gingrich offered a defense. "Dole in the<br /> campaign, in the primaries, said he was for a balanced budget, welfare reform,<br /> tax cuts, litigation reform," said Gingrich. "These are all Contract<br /> items. He's not Tom Dewey, he's Bob Taft." </p> <p>Gingrich's reference evoked the lost world of the right, an Atlantis<br /> bubbling to the surface. Senator Robert Taftthe midwestern regular, Senate<br /> majority leader, and quadrennial candidate for the GOP presidential nominationwas<br /> an apposite forebear. In Gingrich's checklist of issues, however, he failed to<br /> mention foreign policy. Yet what would truly make Bob Dole into Bob Taft would<br /> be isolationism. Then Dole would be a complete conservative of the old school. </p> <p>Isolationism is remarkably static in its tenets of non-entanglement with<br /> other nations, but as a political phenomenon its shape has often changed. The<br /> policy of avoiding foreign conflicts and involvements has not had the same<br /> meaning from the Federalists to the Whigs, from the Jacksonian Democrats to the<br /> Taftite Republicans. One strain, that of midwestern progressive-isolationists,<br /> with intellectual roots going back to Jefferson, even argued that foreign wars<br /> and alliances were destructive of liberal domestic reform. And, on that basis, a<br /> group of senators played a key role after World War I in opposing American<br /> participation in the League of Nations. </p> <p>The isolationism that arose after World War I was a movement of<br /> disillusionment that contended America would prosper only if it were removed<br /> from the evil balance-of-power games of the European nations. With the coming of<br /> World War II, isolationism was framed by a new coalition whose principal<br /> organization was the America First Committee. "An analysis of the<br /> isolationist arguments reveals that they were closely attuned to an<br /> international situation made fluid by the shifting fortunes of war," writes<br /> the historian Selig Adler in <i>The Isolationist Impulse</i>. "To allay<br /> popular fears of the consequences of an Axis victory, the isolationists stressed<br /> the 'Fortress America' concept, namely that an adequately defended New World<br /> would be impregnable to any possible combination of foes." </p> <p>In June 1940, France fell to the Nazis and Britain was under aerial siege.<br /> Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an effort to create a national unity government,<br /> nominated one of the most respected figures in the Republican Party, Henry<br /> Stimson, as Secretary of War. (Stimson had held the same position in the<br /> administration of William Howard Taft, Senator Bob Taft's father.) Stimson was<br /> an interventionist, and in his confirmation hearings he was confronted with<br /> harsh questioning from the leader of the congressional isolationists, Senator<br /> Bob Taft. </p> <p>Taft had good reason to be perturbed at the sight of his father's old<br /> cabinet member. The recurrence of the Stimson tradition was the main factor in<br /> upsetting Senator Taft's presidential ambitions. Without World War II and the<br /> Cold War, Taft was the logical nominee of the Republican Party from 1940 to<br /> 1952. Each time he was denied by the eastern Republican internationalist wing<br /> and its candidatesWillkie, Dewey, and Eisenhower. </p> <p>Taft was the foremost spokesman for conservatism from before World War II<br /> through the early days of the Cold War. His conservatism combined opposition to<br /> almost all social legislation at home with opposition to almost all commitments<br /> abroad. His conviction that he was right and others were wrong marked his<br /> politics. Taft's intelligence and his unyielding rationality appeared as "dogmatism"Stimson's<br /> word for Taft. He had an air of cold arrogance. "That's stupid, just<br /> stupid," was his frequent response to those who disagreed with him,<br /> including his fellow Republicans. He positioned himself as the man of high<br /> principle and integrity against the venal. His disdain ranged from labor unions<br /> to Dewey, from FDR to Winston Churchill. His contempt was almost equal for the<br /> devious, unprincipled Democrats and the devious, unprincipled British. "War<br /> is worse even than a German victory," he said in 1940. A year later, with<br /> the Nazis astride Europe, he remarked: "I feel very strongly that Hitler's<br /> defeat is not vital to us. Even the collapse of England is to be preferred to<br /> participation for the rest of our lives in European wars." And he<br /> concluded, "If isolationism means isolation from European war, I am an<br /> isolationist." </p> <p>In 1945, Walter Lippmann wrote that Taft "has never acquired sufficient<br /> wisdom and understanding. . . . He is probably more responsible than any other<br /> single man for leading the Republican Party into blind alleys of dumb<br /> obstruction on the vital issues of our time." </p> <p>After the war, Taft sought a political lift in his hopes for a nationalist<br /> disillusionment similar to the one after World War I. He opposed Bretton Woods<br /> and U.S. participation in NATO. "Show that the Democrats have fostered<br /> Communism and Communists right through the war," he wrote in a memo to an<br /> aide during the 1948 campaign. He referred to Dewey Republicanism as "socialism." </p> <p>Taft's politics had a fundamental consistency. His nationalism and his<br /> libertarianism meshed. In all spheres he favored self-sufficiency. He mistrusted<br /> government and foreign allies. He wanted to spend less on both. This was what he<br /> meant in concrete policy terms by his highflown insistence on "liberty."<br /> But his iron ideological consistency masked a deeper inconsistency that is the<br /> fundamental contradiction of isolationism: the unbridgeable chasm between the<br /> complacent belief that the U.S. can thrive protected by isolationist immunities<br /> and the faith that it will still maintain global preponderance. The conservative<br /> wish for an unfettered America wasand remainsuntethered to<br /> geopolitical and economic reality. After Senator Taft's death in 1953 the memory<br /> of the standard-bearer of the Republican right seemed to disappear. Yet it had<br /> not faded away completely; Taft was the palimpsest beneath the Cold War. The<br /> memory still existed enough so that, in reaching for an image to apply to Bob<br /> Dole, Gingrich recalled Taft. </p> <p>The revival of Taft accompanies the reopening of old wounds within the GOP.<br /> The old eastern wing that had defeated Taft is diminished and a number of its<br /> formidable institutions, such as the <i>New York Herald Tribune</i>, are<br /> defunct. With George Bush (who was inspired to join the Navy after hearing a<br /> graduation address at Phillips Academy delivered by Henry Stimson), the<br /> internationalist tradition appears to have nearly run its course. The crisis in<br /> foreign policy for the Republican Party today is that the Stimson legacy is on<br /> the defensive and the Taft tradition, taking virulent new forms, but still<br /> lacking his philosophical coherence, is on the rise. Bob Dole, caught in the<br /> maelstrom, tacks moderately here and hard right there. </p> <p><font size="+2">I</font>n<br /> the campaign of 1996 the Republicans have constructed a veritable museum of<br /> their past, from the America First Committee down to Star Wars. In Dole's<br /> campaign, the old Republican rivals on foreign policy of 20 years agothe<br /> Kissingerians and the Reaganiteseach have the candidate's attention. The<br /> Kissingerian realists, particularly those housed at Washington's Nixon Center<br /> for Peace and Freedom, have played a prominent role in ghostwriting Dole's<br /> articles and speeches. The influence of the Reaganites, including the<br /> neoconservative residue, is evidenced in the Republican hope that Dole can<br /> somehow revive the political atmosphere of the late 1970s: Clinton will become<br /> Jimmy Carter, Dole will play Ronald Reagan. All that's lacking is the backdrop<br /> of the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Dole's<br /> token of faith in this scenario is his proposal to loft Reagan's unbuilt Star<br /> Wars defense against incoming missiles in outer space: the ultimate Fortress<br /> America. That the U.S. and Russia no longer target each other, and have signed a<br /> treaty on it, must be ignored. The new enemy against whom we must spend tens of<br /> billions to create Star Wars is, well, North Korea. Dole must hope that by<br /> repeating Reaganite incantations the aura of Republican victories past will<br /> surround him: America is held hostage with Bill Clinton; it's morning again in<br /> America with Bob Dole. </p> <p>But Dole is neither a realist in foreign policy nor an idealist. He lacks<br /> both the strategic sensibility of Kissinger and Nixon and the utopianism of<br /> Reagan. He shows occasional evidence of Taftism, but he is utterly devoid of<br /> Taft's intellectual coherence. On presidential authority in foreign policy,<br /> Dole's record is a blur. He voted for the War Powers Act and now calls for its<br /> repeal as "a real threat to presidential prerogatives." He was for<br /> sending U.S. troops into Somalia under President Bush, but proposed an amendment<br /> requiring congressional approval of a military mission in Haiti under President<br /> Clinton. "The American people are very excited about us getting into all<br /> these squabbles that are costing American lives," he said. His amendment<br /> was defeated. Then, on Bosnia, he demanded no such thing, supporting the<br /> multilateral mission. His flip-flops on significant issues, including defense<br /> spending, aid to Israel, and free trade, have been unending. On only one issue<br /> has he been consistent: wheat sales. No matter what the U.S. policy toward the<br /> Soviet Union, Dole always, in every instance, favored wheat deals. He's for free<br /> trade, but raises objections to the World Trade Organization and kindred<br /> institutions that are necessary to make global trade work. At the beginning of<br /> this year, he even attacked the "haphazard rush to sign more trade deals." </p> <p>Sometimes he has openly used the language of isolationism. In August 1990,<br /> after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Dole said: "We're a foreign power. We<br /> don't belong in that part of the world. . . . It ought to be settled by the<br /> Arabs. I mean, you see it on every TV program. You see people reacting, men and<br /> women on the street in Egypt or Jordan or wherever it may be: 'We don't want<br /> America in here.'" Then, when President Bush mobilized for the Gulf War,<br /> Dole shifted and criticized Democrats. </p> <p>In March 1995 he declared: "I do think foreign policy may not mean<br /> anything to a lot of people in an election." On May 9, 1996, Dole delivered<br /> his first major foreign policy address as a presidential candidate, lambasting<br /> Clinton for "weakness." Once again, Dole wheeled out what seemed to be<br /> an artifact from the Republican museum. This one was constructed of parts from<br /> the GOP's two China lobbies: one from the late 1940s and early 1950s that was<br /> hostile to the People's Republic of China and pledged military aid to Taiwan,<br /> and the other from the 1970s and 1980s that was friendly to the People's<br /> Republic and pledged economic aid to it. Accordingly, in his speech, Dole<br /> supported extending Most Favored Nation trading status to China while urging<br /> missiles for Taiwan. As a political event, the speech made no impact. In the<br /> Senate, Dole made no effort to stop Senator Jesse Helms's plan, as chairman of<br /> the Foreign Relations Committee, to slash the international affairs budget by<br /> more than one-third. "This bill represents backdoor isolationism pure and<br /> simple," declared Senator Joseph Biden, the ranking Democrat on the<br /> committee. But Majority Leader Dole never stood up to Helms in any way. In an<br /> op-ed article entitled "Who's an Isolationist?" published on June 6,<br /> 1995, in the <i>New York Times</i>, Dole wrote: "Democrats are complaining<br /> about Republican 'isolationism' and Congressional involvement in foreign policy.<br /> How strange." He went on to defend Helms's proposals, concluding on a<br /> stentorian but vague note: "We will not passively accept policies that harm<br /> the national interest and violate American principles." </p> <p>While clinging to the internationalist label, Dole lends credence to the new<br /> forms of isolationism. Influenced by both internationalism and isolationism,<br /> Dole is not consistent enough to profess either as an ideology or even a<br /> disposition. His speechwriters provide him with boilerplate about "leadership"<br /> and "American interests," as though he were Nixon redivivus, while the<br /> Republican Party drifts toward Taft redivivus: the classical conservative<br /> position fusing antigovernment and anti-internationalist sentiments. </p> <p><font size="+2">B</font>ut<br /> what of Dole's weirdly precise tally of Americans killed in "Democrat wars"?<br /> Had the small-town boy found a partisanship, or an ideology, to express his<br /> bitterness? Perhaps. It is interesting to note that of the six delegations from<br /> Kansas districts sent to the Republican convention in 1952, five backed the<br /> internationalist Eisenhower. The only one that supported Taft came from the<br /> district that included Dole's hometown of Russell. </p> <p>After World War II, a small school of historical revisionists published<br /> books to prove that Franklin D. Roosevelt had conspired to drag the country into<br /> the war in order to maintain his power. Harry Elmer Barnes had been an ardent<br /> isolationist for decades, and in 1953 he edited an anthology of writings about<br /> Roosevelt's plots and betrayals in a volume called <i>Perpetual War for<br /> Perpetual Peace</i>. In his introduction, Barnes wrote: "It may be said<br /> with great restraint that, never since the Middle Ages have there been so many<br /> powerful forces organized and alerted against the assertion and acceptance of<br /> historical truth as are active today to prevent the facts about the<br /> responsibility for the second World War and its results from being made<br /> generally accessible to the American public." </p> <p>In the book, on page 35, was the following table: </p> <blockquote><p>28 years of Democratic rule (Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, and<br /> Truman) yielded 1,628,480 war casualties. </p> <p>24 years of Republican rule (Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge,<br /> and Hoover) yielded 0 war casualties. </p> <p></p></blockquote> <p>Evidently, this obscure book was the original source from which Bob Dole<br /> fished his magic number. His famous debating performance is the only recorded<br /> case of repressed-memory syndrome of Republican isolationism. </p> <p></p><center><i><font size="-1">Illustration by Taylor Jones</font></i></center> <p><br /><br /><!-- dhandler for print articles --></p></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:15:55 +0000 141238 at Sidney Blumenthal |
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1. Tris(4-formylphenyl)phosphane oxide tetrahydrofuran hemisolvate
The title compound, C21H15O4P·0.5C4H8O, contains an ordered phosphane oxide in a general position and a tetrahydrofuran solvent molecule disordered about a twofold axis. All three aldehyde substituents are nearly coplanar with their attached benzene rings, with C—C—C—O torsion angles in the range 1.64 (17)–4.24 (19)°. All three have different conformations with respect to the P=O group, one syn, one anti, and one gauche. Two of the aldehyde substituents form intermolecular C—H⋯O contacts.
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2. μ2-m-Xylylenebis(salicylaldiminato)-bis(η4-1,5-cyclooctadiene)dirhodium(I) dichloromethane solvate
In the title solvate, [Rh2(C22H18N2O2)(C8H12)2]·CH2Cl2, each organometallic molecule is composed of two RhI cations, the tetradentate dianion α,α′-bis(salicylaldiminato)-m-xylene and two 1,5-cyclooctadiene (COD) ligands. Each RhI atom is coordinated by one O atom [Rh—O = 2.044 (2) and 2.026 (2) Å], one N atom [Rh—N = 2.083 (2) and 2.090 (2) Å], and one COD ligand via two η2-bonds, each directed toward the mid-point of a C=C bond (Cg): Rh—Cg = 2.007 (2), 2.013 (2), 2.000 (2) and 2.021 (2) Å. Each RhI atom has a quasi-square-planar coordination geometry, with average r.m.s. deviations of 0.159 (1) and 0.204 (1) Å from the mean planes defined by Rh and the termini of its four coordinating bonds. The two COD ligands have quasi-C 2 symmetry, twisted from ideal C 2v symmetry by 30.0 (3) and −33.1 (3)°, and are quasi-enantiomers of one another. The intramolecular Rh⋯Rh distance of 5.9432 (3) Å suggests that there is no direct metal–metal interaction.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48807 | Tag Archives: arduino
Andy Leigh: Around the World on an Arduino
Andy Leigh wanted to row around the world from his bedroom. Why? To lose weight and to do some kind of project with the open source hardware Arduino. He chose rowing because it’s a low-impact activity that he can do with his injury. But manual tracking in a spreadsheet was too cumbersome. In the video below, Andy walks through his hardware hacking in fascinating detail, and reveals his route around the world, which he is plotting on a Google map as he goes. (Filmed by the London QS Show&Tell meetup group.)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48816 | There’s No Conflict Between A Meritocracy And Christianity
While I was on vacation, my buddy Matt Lewis wrote a piece called Is meritocracy undermining Christianity that really bugged me because the premise was not only harmful, but extraordinarily wide of the mark. Matt’s comments were a take off on some things Walter Russell Mead, who’s also an excellent conservative writer, had to say about the subject.
In short, Mead argues that our meritocratic society makes it harder for us to remember that everything comes from God – makes it harder for us to remain humble. This, perhaps answers some important questions: Why are many who live in nations with less economic (and religious) freedom more devout and dedicated? Why does Christianity seem to be more energetic in developing parts of the world? Why are so many successful Americans so unhappy and unfulfilled?
People who work hard to get ahead tend to think they deserve all the credit (The opposite phenomenon exists among the “gauche caviar” trust fund kids who didn’t earn their wealth, and turn to socialism.) This, I think, also helps explain the noblesse oblige phenomenon, whereby aristocrats are sometimes kinder and more understanding of the poor than are middle-class folks who were once poor (but worked their way up.)
Meritocracy, I believe, is incredibly important – and a vital reason for our nation’s success. Rewarding effort and success tends to breed more effort and success. And, though not perfect, meritocracy is a hell of a lot fairer – and more productive – than rewarding birthright. But in this flawed world, nothing is perfect. And it is interesting to note that there are valid criticisms to be made of it from both the left and the right.
First of all, although this is not in any way, shape, or form a slap at Matt Lewis or Walter Russell Mead, this whole argument is a non sequitur. In fact, it reminds me a lot of liberal claims that science is incompatible with Christianity. They say if you believe in the Big Bang Theory, you can’t believe in God. Of course, that’s incorrect. If you’re a Christian, you believe God created the Big Bang. In fact, the Big Bang theory dovetails perfectly with the idea that God created the universe. The same goes for evolution. The argument is supposed to be, “If you don’t believe in evolution, you must be a Christian who believes that evolution contradicts Christianity!” — except that there are plenty of Christians who believe in evolution. They just believe that’s how God created us — via evolution. For the overwhelming majority of Christians, there’s just no conflict whatsoever between science and religion. The same goes for a meritocracy and Christianity. In fact, the very roots of culture come from people who embraced both Christianity and the meritocracy. This country was founded by Christians who wanted religious freedom and a better life for their families. Ever heard of a Puritan work ethic?
Now that being said, great wealth and prosperity can indeed distract people from the Lord. That’s why Jesus said,
Incidentally, most scholars don’t believe the “eye of a needle” is a reference to a gate or a pass that made it difficult for a camel to get through as opposed to literally being “the eye of a needle,” which would essentially mean rich people couldn’t go to heaven.
That’s the explanation for two of the questions above, “Why are many who live in nations with less economic (and religious) freedom more devout and dedicated? Why does Christianity seem to be more energetic in developing parts of the world?” Because people tend to reach for God when things are tough and going badly, not when they’re at ease and surrounded by shiny new toys.
As to the question, “Why are so many successful Americans so unhappy and unfulfilled?”…Well, keep in mind that studies show that money does buy happiness — up to a point. If you have enough money in the bank where you don’t have to worry about money day-to-day, you tend to be happier than the people who don’t. Once you get past that point, whether you have a million, 10 million, or a hundred million in the bank probably doesn’t make much difference. So for that reason, wealthy people are on balance happier than the general population.
But there are always going to be unhappy people at every level of society. You can be jumping in rain puddles, singing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”-ecstatic about life if you’re flat broke or as wealthy as Soros. You can be “so sad you’d be grateful if a meteor hit you”-depressed” whether you’re impoverished or a trillionaire, too. If you’re successful, particularly financially successful, you’re more likely to be happy than other people, but it’s certainly no guarantee of happiness.
As to pride, well, that’s just a human failing we all have to watch out for, no matter what type of society we live in or what our station is in it. That’s why you’ll find so many verses like this one in the Bible,
No matter how high you may rise in the world, a wise man stays humble.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48825 | Food News: Neil Robertson is Leaving Mistral Kitchen Tomorrow!
With stints at Canlis, Restaurant Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon at the MGM (both in Las Vegas) on his resume, pastry chef Neil Robertson is arguably Seattle's brightest pastry star. He's spent the last two years at Mistral Kitchen, dazzling diners with understated, thoughtful desserts and unusual, intriguing flavor pairings.
But now he's moving on. Thursday's service (yes, that'd be tomorrow) will be his last at Mistral.
Robertson isn't ready to tell us in detail what's next for him, but he promises he's staying in Seattle. He told me he's moving on "to do my own thing. It will involve pastry and be very small and very personal." Hearing this, my mind raced, remembering intimate restaurants I'd visited in New York, where dinner was dessert, where tasting menus of sweet and savory pastries and confections were created in pocket-sized eateries in off-the-beaten path locales. But that's me fantasizing; if that's what Robertson has planned, he isn't telling just yet.
In any event, I'll be following up with Robertson as his project comes nearer fruition. For now, if you're one of Robertson's many fans, head down to Mistral tonight or tomorrow to say goodbye and wish him well. |
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I have a centos 5 box running exim. The box hosts many domain names which send outgoing email. The problem is that the emails show that the email is coming the box's hostname (say x.com), rather than from each domain name (y.com and z.com). How can I set this up so that an email sent from y.com actually says that it's coming from y.com?
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If you are asking about the host name in the Received: header this is correct behavior. Just add an MX record for all your domains referencing the box's hostname. Also consider adding SPF records to the domains. If your server is Internet facing, it needs a static address, and it IP address should have a PTR record returning its FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name).
If you are asking about what recipients see in their mail clients this is determined by the mail user-agent sending the message: If it puts the appropriate From: or Reply-to: headers in the outgoing e-mail, these should show up appropriately when the email is read.
For exim you can put entries in /etc/email-addresses to change the default domain and/or name for particular users.
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There's a lot of information here - many thanks but I'm still flailing. So let's say the server name is a.com and it has a static IP address. On the same box, I host b.com at a different IP address. I send out emails from, say, [email protected], but in my email client, it says Received: from a.com, presumably because that's the main IP address of the box. So should I somehow be telling exim to send the email from the IP address of b.com? – farhadf Nov 11 '11 at 19:56
No, but you should add an MX record for b.com pointing to a.com. Also make sure that the PTR record for a.com's IP address resolves to a.com. – BillThor Nov 11 '11 at 21:36
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I'm using virtualbox on Windows Server 2008 R2.
How do you handle virtual machines when you have to restart the server?
How do you make the virtual machines save and close properly before the host restarts?
How do you start the virtual machines back up again without having to do that manually?
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Do you have any specific reason to use VirtualBox instead of the built-in Hyper-V? Because that setup looks like a complete waste to me... – Massimo May 14 '12 at 17:31
I was already using it to create workstation images, and seemed more versitile than Hyper-V. But if Hyper-V is more suited for this, I'm perfectly willing to use the best tool for the job. – Force Flow May 14 '12 at 18:11
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You are running a type-2 hypervisor (VirtualBox) on a system that natively provides a type-1 one (Hyper-V); this is not only a very good way to waste hardware resources, but also leaves you with the problem of finding a way to handle proper automatic startup and shutdown of your VMs.
You can probably find a way to handle this on VirtualBox running on Windows; but I strongly suggest you to revise your virtualization strategy.
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I know there's no formal definition of type 1 and type 2 hypervisors (that I'm aware of), but do you really consider Hyper-V a type 1 hypervisor? Is that the conventional wisdom on Hyper-V? Are there any links you can point me to? Thanks much. – joeqwerty May 14 '12 at 17:54
@joeqwerty, the wikipedia reference perhaps? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor#Classification. There is a note even. {Note: Microsoft Hyper-V (released in June 2008)[8] exemplifies a type 1 product that can be mistaken for a type 2... Hyper-V hypervisor loads prior to the management operating system, and any virtual environments created} – Zoredache May 14 '12 at 18:01
Thanks for that. Interesting that the concept of virtualization goes back as far as it does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… – joeqwerty May 14 '12 at 18:09
You run the VM's as services. You'll need a third party application (such as VBoxVmService) since it doesn't work natively at present.
Once configured as a service, Windows will stop and start the VM's automatically at boot and shutdown.
However, you may be better off using a more server-aware virtualisation environment such as Hyper-V. VirtualBox isn't really geared up for this kind of thing (although it's excellent at what it does).
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This is a generic question, and I know it will upset some people, for which I apologise.
I have recently taken a new role, and part of that role involves some sysadmin for Windows 2008 Servers (R2). One of these servers that I have to look at is failing regularly on a weekly basis (within the small time-frame on the same day).
I started by looking for events, and the only ones that appears are relating to Group Policy (that occur regularly around this time). I have also looked for scheduled tasks and tasks relating to the main application (I can't see any issues in the logs/config for this application either), however, there is nothing that is within/near this period.
I was just wondering if there was anything obvious I am missing. I have a very little in the way of sysadmin experience (it has always been a by-product of my roles), but am moving more into this area, so any t'shooting tips would be welcome!
Any thoughts and advice will extremely helpful.
Thanks in advance.
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closed as not a real question by Khaled, Scott Pack, Alex, mdpc, voretaq7 Jan 8 '13 at 17:49
Start by giving us more detail. Stating that "One of these servers that I have to look at is failing regularly" doesn't tell us anything about the nature of the problem. How is it failing? Is it crashing, rebooting, shutting down, etc? What is the "main" application on this server that you made reference to? – joeqwerty Jan 8 '13 at 14:50
Please see the tips here and see if you can flesh out this question into something answerable. Log files and detailed troubleshooting on your part will help you get an answer... – voretaq7 Jan 8 '13 at 17:49
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Yes there is something obvious you are missing. Since it appears to be failing at a regular time you should set up a fine detailed Performance Monitor capture to figure out exactly what is happening to your system (and from which process).
How to configure Perfmon
That being said, you really should better define what "failing" means.
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from the wow-in-the-strangest-places dept.
Via Game Politics, a story in the Philedelphia Inquirer about Massively Multiplayer Game addiction. The lengthy article looks at the usual complaints from gamers too wrapped up in WoW or Everquest to deal with their real lives. It's surprisingly even-handed, though, showing both sides of the issue. From the article: "Not everyone into Warcraft, EverQuest and other MMORPGs neglects his or her life. Those most susceptible have preexisting problems, such as depression or anxiety disorders, therapists say. Temple University psychology professor Donald A. Hantula said he believed the medium was not to blame for dysfunctional behavior by its users. 'I know people who spend 40 or 50 hours a week playing golf,' said Hantula, who is executive editor of the Journal of Social Psychology."
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• It's not just that they spend so much time on this, it's also that they get absolutely nothing out of it (unless they are a gold farmer). I used to play 2-3 hours a day on WoW and that was just too much for me. I can't even imagine playing 16 hours a day like many people were reported to on our server. It's more than a full time job for many people.
• by kalirion (728907)
Funny, I thought that the main point of gaming is to get enjoyment out of it. If you don't enjoy it you have two options - learn to enjoy it, or just stop playing. It's as simple as that. Hmm, I think that applies to most things in the real world as well....
• by drewtown (1021549)
That's the thing when does it turn from enjoyment to an addiction? 30+ hours a week does not seem like entertainment for me and what are they getting out of it? they can push buttons in a better sequence then somebody else? The thing with games are that they are supposed to be fun but how often are they more of a job? especially online game.
• by RingDev (879105) on Friday November 03, 2006 @01:35PM (#16705281) Homepage Journal
I play about 2-3 hours a night most nights. We put the kid down at 8, tidy up a bit, and jump online around 8:30-9:00, then play until 10 or 11 most nights, maybe a bit later on saturdays and sundays. So maybe 20-25 hours a week.
Before WoW my wife and I would most likely spend that time playing single player games (we had just gone through dungeon seige for the umpteenth time when we picked up wow), or watching Law and Order/CSI reruns on TV.
We definately socialize more with eachother while playing WoW then we do when we were watching TV. Infact, our marrage has greatly improved since we started playing (much to my suprise as much as anyone else's!). Although we go out to bars less often. Of course, the two of us at a bar, drinking, shooting pool, etc... will run up a $50+ tab in a night. Not to mention having to get a baby sitter, and dealing with a toddler and a hang over.
I don't know, maybe we're a fluke. But if you can keep your personal life first, it seems like a good inexpensive way to relax and enjoy socializing while gaming.
• by daeg (828071)
Not a fluke at all. I play WoW with my SO and it is the greatest thing ever. We raid three times a week (two nights of MC, one night of Ony, although we've been doing BWL the last few weeks). $30 a month of hours of safe entertainment.
We socialize more with each other with WoW, and we socialize with more people because of WoW. We've met several other local, down-to-earth couples in the same area, too.
"No ending" is a great thing, in my opinion. When we played single player games (or multiplayer), unless we
• Wife and I do the same... unfortunately we play seperate games now (I play EQ, she plays WoW ... ) but we still have fun sitting next to each other, watching over each others shoulders.
Another aspect which is most excellent and hasn't been brought up - my wife and I are transplants, we currently live 1000 miles from where we grew up. But we have a few friends that play the same games we do. It is nice to see them online and be able to chat/interact with them in real time.
• Very good point. I do not play WOW anymore since I do not have the time to invest in farming at lvl 60 or multi-hour instance runs.
However, I do play DDO a few hours on the weekend primarily to socialize with friends that have moved far away and otherwise would not be able to interact with in a group setting.
• by Malakusen (961638)
Problem I've been having is that I was a lvl 60 before my wife really started playing, and she hates pvp, instance runs, and groups of more then her and me. Also, with all the experience and playtime I have, I tend to be real fast-moving, and there's a lot of stuff I have ingrained into me that I take for granted, but she's still learning. The difference discourages her, even though I try to reassure her that I had a terrible time when I was getting started (I picked the wrong class, for one), and that even
• by kage.j (721084)
I had the same experience with my girlfriend, I made a character (that is now my main, I rolled the wrong class for me first as well) and played only when she did and did stuff with her and we leveled up together until about 55 (Then I blasted to 60 and she took her sweet time but still xD) Now she has more experience and is in a different guild and has fun playing just as I do. We do go out less, only a few times a week now, but we basically see eachother more
• 1. You are 100% right, it is a waste of time.
2. You should not have been modded troll. (Initiating a discussion with a bias is not always a troll.)
3. Movies, reading fictional books, and watching non instructive television are also complete wastes of time. So is going to the theatre.
I stopped apologizing for enjoying World of Warcraft when I gave up my Sunday of play to go visit my extended family. We didn't visit, everyone - but me - sat around watching and discussing football, and sleepin
• Online gaming addiction is much more enjoyable when its free. [] That way, when you lose your job you can keep on playing and sink further down the spiral! Huzzah.
• by oneiros27 (46144)
It was self regulating when access to the internet was more restricted.
If your grades went down too much, you lost your internet access, and your ability to mud -- so you had a vested interested in not failing all of your classes.
Then came the September that never ended ...
• by Malakusen (961638) is more fun. I need to get back into that actually.
• by everphilski (877346) on Friday November 03, 2006 @01:13PM (#16704795) Journal
Kate Bennett plays "World of Wasrcraft" in the bedroom of her apartment near Pottstown. Bennett, a counselor who has dealt with online game addictions, is herself an avid player.
That's, of course "World of Warcraft," unless Wasrcraft is some kinky sex game I haven't been made aware of (playing in the bedroom, after all...)
• Has the world come to an end?
the quote says it all. Yes, you can spend an unhealthy amount of time doing anything, just because it is electronic/a "game"/SF/F does not make that thing BAD, it just makes you a lazy bum with not self
• by Fozzyuw (950608)
Yes, you can spend an unhealthy amount of time doing anything.
*sigh* I guess I better call Sex Addicts consoler... again.
• I can't believe... (Score:3, Informative)
by Luthair (847766) on Friday November 03, 2006 @01:16PM (#16704867)
I can't believe that the press still uses Shawn Woolley as an example of MMO addiction. The Inquirer glosses over the fact he had a fairly serious mental illness, as I recall he had episodes where he believed game characters were chasing down the street. This was not a normal guy.
• by ShadowsHawk (916454) on Friday November 03, 2006 @01:16PM (#16704869)
It's sad commentary when you have to note that a media piece is presented without bias.
• by gstoddart (321705)
More of a reflection that the mainstream media tends to be rather clueless when reporting on some of the darker aspects of technology. Many mainstream pieces are much more of the "video games are addictive and damaging to society" instead of more balanced pieces.
Anyone else around here old enough to remember murders being blamed on D&D because a few people with a very loose grasp of reality did some really bad things
• I was semi-hardcore about EQ and later WoW at my worst, but even that took up more time than was reasonable. One of the things I hear MMOG addicts say (and I've said myself at times) is that at least it's better than watching TV. I am not so sure about that anymore. I finally pulled my head out of my ass and walked away from WoW around the time my kids went back to school this year and oddly enough, I find myself spending less time watching television than I did even when I was playing.
MMOGs are fun but
• by boatofcar (884925)
Is there really a point to any MMORPG other than maxing out your stats and/or level?
• Exploring. I play EQ still, the new expansion has been out for what, a month? and I've only gained 20% of a level (they raised the cap 5 levels). I've been way too busy exploring new content to care. Seriously, EQ expansions are huge. I play WoW from time to time (on my wife's account) with my RL friends, and Azeroth is so freaking tiny...
• by rob1980 (941751)
Is there really any point to playing golf other than lowering your score?
• Of course.
Driving around in a golf cart and drinking beer.
Sheesh. (dumb ass n00b questions, I tell ya... :o)
• by PriceIke (751512)
I know plenty of MMO players who have lousy character stats but have been playing longer than I have. (I've been playing since May 06 and have reached the max level with my character.) They play to socialize and roleplay. Others play to PVP. Others play to explore the environment and earn money so they can collect and craft clothes and items. That's the cool thing about many MMOs .. there's no one way the game is designed for you to enjoy it. You can do whatever you want.
• by Malakusen (961638)
I play WoW because, as someone in the military, I make friends and then have to move hundreds or thousands of miles away. With WoW, we not only keep in touch, but we can kill stuff and run around together while keeping in touch. Also, we get to rehash the old IRL in-jokes and confuse the rest of the guild.
"Hey look, it's the five minute druid! Too late."
• I wouldn't say TV is better than MMOs inherently, but it is less likely to be as much of a timesink. Most shows only have up to 2.5 hours of new material every week (if they're a daily, half-hour show). There's no group of friends (virtual or not) waiting on you so that they can watch their TV show. If you decide to quit the Daily Show early and watch the rebroadcast later, you're not going to piss off your group/raid. You can half pay attention to the TV while you're doing your homework, talking to friends
• by Avatar8 (748465)
Everybody knows that success in EQ/WoW/Whatever means maxing out every stat you can - it it weren't people wouldn't spend so much time playing.
For the Achiever type of player, you are correct: it's all about reaching goals and being the best.
For the other archetype players, it is very different.
Player killers play to ruin someone else's day. Player vs. player (quite different, but still grouped as one type) seek the competition that another human offers. This could be competition in anything: chess, ten
• Since TFA says, (paraphrased) "the medium is not at fault for the users' own issues"...does this mean that people with other addictions (eg, alcoholics) are more prone to becoming addicted to say, WoW? Does anyone know if there are lots of incidences of 'cross addiction' (going from one addiction to another)? MMOs are quite different to other sorts of well-known addictions - they typically take place in homes (and not back alleys/casinos/bars/etc).. So if people went from MMO addiction to the other addictio
• by UltimApe (991552)
People who are resistant to alcohol (a genetic disposition) are more likely to get addicted.
• by Avatar8 (748465)
The only reference I have for cross addiction is to suggest that you visit a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and notice how many people are smoking, chugging down quarts of coffee or chewing gum like crazy.
My hat is off to them for breaking a destructive addiction, but it is obvious the addictive personality is still there and being dealt with (or not) constantly.
• Why isn't there a 'minder' program or algorithm that would prevent people from logging on constantly? Let's be honest here, no one should be on for 24 hours straight or 80 hours a week. The system could either boot you off or reduce the amount of rewards you get if you spend too much time in the system. This would reduce gold farmers as well. Now you can argue what the lower limit is going to be before you get kicked off or lower rewards, but some reporting would be nice especially for parents of kids who p
• There are controls that you can set that limit the times during the day that you can play. They even have a seperate password so that you can have someone set your limits and not be able to change them. But for the serious addicts there are always other ways around -- whether it be getting a second and third account or playing on some of the homebrew servers around. I noticed with my son that whenever he couldn't get on WOW he just hung out in the forums. I finally ended up keeping the power cord to hi
• by PriceIke (751512)
> no one should be on for 24 hours straight or 80 hours a week
After my summer law class ended--a four-week gruelling ordeal--I took a week off work to stay home and "recover". I spent much of that time playing MxO. It felt great to be able to indulge in 12, 14 hours straight gaming with no other demands on my time.
Do I do this often? Of course not, almost never. The demands of real life don't allow it, and I do have other hobbies and interests besides. But if the system had logged me off because someo
• by Aladrin (926209)
Games like this USED to charge by the hour. And a few have tried recently and died a miserably, lonely death. The truth is that charging by the hour doesn't work.
If you charge $.10/hr, your casual gamer eats you alive with admin fees, and the hardcore gamer gives you barely enough to get by. If you charge $1/hr, you get the casual users, but the hardcore gamers can't afford your game. Is there a happy medium in there somewhere? I say there's not. You would have to pick hardcore or casual gamer, and pr
• Oh course, the hourly rate could be variable. For example, $1/hr for the first 10 hours per month, and $.10/hr for any hours after that. Then you would be able to address both the casual and hardcore gamers.
• by Aladrin (926209)
Oh man, I could hear the complaining that would cause. You MIGHT get away with some kind of gradual reduction... But I doubt it.
On the other hand, PSU is charging $10 a month and has virtually no content the first month, and they got away with it... So maybe you could charge anything you want and they'd pay anyhow.
• Everquest has a handy little in-game egg timer. Set how long you want to play and it will pop up when the time expires, reminding you to log off and tend to real life.
That being said, self-control is what it all comes down to. You can have all the controls in the world but if you choose to ignore them or never use them, what's the point? Like everything in life, self-control.
• Yeah...
Not that I'd ever play for 24 hours straight, but I PAY for 24/7 access to their servers. Putting a limit on time you could be online reduces the value of the service I'm paying for. Even if I don't use the service I've paid for to its fullest, I did pay for it.
• by rob1980 (941751)
One second we're all complaining about computers fucking up the democratic process in this country, the next we're asking for our computers to tell us when we can or cannot play video games. I got two words in response: fuck that.
• I thought this subject hit "mainstream media" attention when one of my favorite shows (South Park) did a show about it...
• by corky842 (728932)
Me too. I thought this was just really old news. I thought South Park had a larger audience than the Philedelphia Enquirer.
• MMORPGs are only addictive to people who already have mental and/or emotional problems. The thing is, though, that MMORPGs are designed in such a way as to entice only those types of people to play them (as opposed to use them as chatrooms) for any appreciable length of time. That's why their communities suck so bad.
• Watch this nine minutes YouTube video []. It is a short story on MMORPGs from a New Zealand television show, Campbell Live.
• I know people who have dropped out of their PhD programs to play MMOs.
This is not good.
• Well, seeing what his title is, I'd be surprised if he's not one of them.
At least people who play that much golf die of causes that we were ment to die of, like skin cancer. People addicted to things like WoW suffer the rest of their short lives with Carpal-tunnel syndrome, poor souls
• "I know people who spend 40 or 50 hours a week playing golf,"
The difference here is that state and federal legislators also play golf, which makes it harder for them to treat golfers (compulsive or otherwise) as "the other."
Maybe if we all got together and started mailing law-makers a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Age...
• Im a 15 year old sophmore in high school who recently, by myself, got rid of my pretty intense "addition" to WoW. The summer of 2006 and my freshman year were full of glory days of not getting A's in my classes or recieving recognition for achievment, but killing infamous dragons and completing the most grueling 40 man dungeons in WoW. Oh man was it fun sitting down all day playing World of Warcraft. I even got a full set of the second best armor in the game! So what is my first intention after my armor set
• Congratulations.
Welcome back to reality.
I 'retired' from mudding 5 years ago once I realised how much of a time drain it was. Even playing sinple player PC games has a purpose - you can finish them and feel a sense of satisfaction afterwards. When games go on forever.. you literally have to slog through them to 'keep up' and continue playing.
I logged my main char in after 1 year's idle time.. and died within 15 minutes. I then realised it would take me over an hour to 'restore' my character (you lose spells
• Let me start off by saying that I play WoW maybe 1-2 hours a day, maybe. I've been playing since the game started, and only have one lvl60 character that doesn't even have tier0 set. I work 50-60 hours a week, married, and have a pregnant wife (who is 39 weeks and 2 days, and also plays WoW) and have never lost what come first in my life. I would love to see someone tell me I'm addicted for just playing the game. From what I have read on /. and other news sited about this MMORPG addiction is that they a
• It saddens me whenever games pop up in the press regarding social issues. Usually, in a negative light.
To put things in perspective, I played EverQuest from Jan. 2002 to Mar. 2005 and World of Warcraft from Dec. 2004 to Sept. 2006. I also "suffer" from depression. By all accounts, I should be an addict. In reality, having stepped away from WoW after 10 months of raiding 3 nights a week (about 4-5 hours a night), I'm not feeling withdrawals or a burning desire to play. I do miss the socializing though.
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Comment: Re:Reasons why people become hostages (Score 1) 334
by Dr. Evil (#49539635) Attached to: Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology
Some Westerners have extended family or cultural ties to dangerous places.
Also some of these kidnappings occurred when things were safer than now... When there's an outbreak of new crime, there's always people who are caught unaware before it becomes common knowledge to stay away. Some of these people have been captive for over a year.
I personally travelled to Iran and Eastern Turkey (when it was safer...) because I wanted to better understand the local culture. I learned a lot and I'm glad I did it. At the time it was when the U.S. had Iraq reasonably under control, Eastern Turkey was stable and Ahmadinijad was on his first term. It wasn't so bad, but... a few months later, things got crazy.
Today I would not go. But I wouldn't fault anyone who had family for going.
Comment: Re:Agreed but there is a point (Score 1) 341
by Dr. Evil (#49535949) Attached to: Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism
Shingles is not adult-chicken pox. Shingles is a remergence of the virus. Adults can get chickenpox. It's just that most have had chicken pox as children, or they're immunized.
You can only get shingles if you had chicken pox. It's far less likely to get shingles if you've been immunized to chicken pox.
This means that if you have a 'pox party' rather than immunizing, you're not only giving your child chicken pox, but they have a far greater likelihood of developing shingles later in life.
My girlfriend endured shingles, she was in agony for over a week and the symptoms are extremely different than chicken pox. She had chicken pox as a child.
Comment: Re:Agreed but there is a point (Score 5, Informative) 341
by Dr. Evil (#49524377) Attached to: Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism
"Chicken Pox for adults is known as Shingles which is far nastier than Chicken Pox"
Wrong to an extreme.
Shingles is a resurgence of the virus which causes chicken pox. Once you get chicken pox, the virus is dormant in your body, your immune system continues to fight it. When your immune system is weakened, you get shingles.
Vaccination against chicken pox not only reduces chicken pox, but never being infected with the wild strain of chicken pox reduces the probability of contracting shingles when older:
Comment: Re:Hmm (Score 1) 336
by Dr. Evil (#49519457) Attached to: Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet
"we aren't talking about something that is passed down from mother to offspring, it's something taught in a lab."
umm. They do teach eachother.
It wasn't his mother who taught him, she was used for medical testing. And he learned from other chips in a sanctuary, not the wild.
Comment: Re: They're called trees. (Score 4, Interesting) 128
by Dr. Evil (#49493921) Attached to: Breakthrough In Artificial Photosynthesis Captures CO2 In Acetate
"...mature growth fixes more CO2 than new growth."
Only if your definition of "mature" is the peak-growth period of the trees and not a forest which has stopped growing.
Mature forests are as carbon neutral as an untapped oil deposit. Carbon release through decay balances with carbon capture from growth.
Using forests as a tool for carbon capture means either growing forests to maturity as carbon storage fields, or clearcutting new-growth forests and building permanent structures with a lot of wood, of course considerin the carbon-cost of processing the lumber and restoring soil nutrients.
Hardwood floors in shopping malls might be a good start.
Comment: Re:Sign off. (Score 1) 325
by Dr. Evil (#49492869) Attached to: LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan
I agree that mistakes happen, but failing because there wasn't enough content, or the content wasn't suitable to educate children with? That shows profound and fundamental incompetence.
Even if they ran a pilot and the teachers and students lied to the exec, or Pearson lied and failed to meet their contractual obligations, the exec is still on the hook. Investigations are important, but the outcome doesn't matter, if the exec delegates to incompetent underlings, they're ultimately responsible.
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Comment: Re:Maybe not the power supply? (Score 1) 192
by marcansoft (#49018007) Attached to: Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot
Usually, "epoxy" around the edges of a BGA chip is neither an anti-hacking attempt nor a light-proofing attempt. It's called underfill, and its chief purpose is to increase mechanical strength and make the bond more durable than tiny bare solder balls would be on their own.
Comment: Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU (Score 1) 355
by marcansoft (#48958493) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
Yes they are. Most multimedia processing is parallelizable, and thus benefits greatly from SIMD instructions - for example, just about every CPU-based video codec ever. If you want an actual example, I wrote a high-performance edge detection algorithm for laser tracing, with its convolution cores written in optimized in SSE2 assembly, and am hoping to write a NEON version. It'll never run reasonably on the original Raspberry Pi because it's too underpowered to do it without SIMD (I didn't even bother writing a plain C version of the cores, because honestly any platforms without SSE2 or NEON are going to be too slow to use anyway).
Obviously you can use SIMD instructions for a lot more, but multimedia is the obvious example. And as I mentioned, the Pi makes up for it for standard codecs only with its GPU blob decoder, but that doesn't help you with anything that isn't video decoding (e.g. filtering).
Comment: Re: a billion operat per second enough for cat wat (Score 1) 355
by marcansoft (#48956463) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
ESP8266 only became a "thing" last year, so the community is still growing. But the manufacturer is cooperating and is releasing open SDKs, and the hobbyist community is enthusiastic about it. I personally intend to use a bunch of them to automate things around my apartment, so I guess I'll find out just how good/bad it is.
That's for developing on the ESP8266 core itself - if you just want to use the default firmware, plug it into your existing microcontroller platform (e.g. Arduino) and you get wireless connectivity and a TCP/IP stack (running on the module) with some trivial AT commands. Not as cheap since you're still using a separate core as the main app host, but still a really cheap way to add WiFi to something.
Comment: Re:Then buy a used PC (Score 1) 355
by marcansoft (#48956439) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
There's a difference between established industrial designs where there is an argument for maintaining compatibility and an existing codebase, and hobbyists which can quite happily move up the chain and are always looking for cool new stuff in other respects. Even in product development, some companies go out of their way to use ridiculously outdated, expensive chips. That usually only flies when it's for non-consumer applications where they can afford to throw more money at a chip vendor to keep making outdated chips at outdated prices (which sometimes even rise); for consumer products the competition will undercut you by using newer, cheaper chips if you don't. For hobbyists, it actually pays off to upgrade - you get better toolchains (no need to deal with all the ROM/RAM/pointer type shenanigans of AVRs on ARM), better debuggability, etc. Of course, it doesn't mean you should jump onto any random chip - the toolchains and ecosystems vary wildly in quality - but it's a shame that so many people just stick with the old instead of trying something new.
There's nothing wrong with the Tiny series - little 6- and 8-pin chips are still the market where AVR/PIC make perfect sense, and I'll be the first to admit that I've used a PIC12F629 as a dual frequency generator in a project. But as a flexible platform for hobbyists, I'd much rather have a Cortex-M3 over an ATmega. Back when I was using PICs more often, my approach was to, every few years, re-evaluate my personal selection of PICs. I'd go through Microchip's (extensive) part database, look at the prices, and see if anything caught my eye, then order some samples. My 8-pin of choice used to be 12F508, then 12F629. For 18-pin I went from 16F84 to 16F88. 28-pin, 16F876 to 18F2520 and 18F2550 for USB. 40-pin, 16F877 to 18F4520 to 18F4550 for USB. I tried dsPIC at one point but didn't like it; by then ARM was picking up steam and it didn't make any sense. I haven't really looked at their line-up in a while, since I've mostly moved on to other chips for interesting stuff and stick to my old PICs for small quick/dirty hacks since I have a bunch in my drawers to get rid of, but you get the idea. It never made any sense to me to get stuck with one particular obsolete part or range.
by marcansoft (#48956365) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
Yup, all the other aliexpress pages I was looking at for the same phone said MTK6517, and I didn't notice that the one that I chose was different (I was just going for the lowest price, though the difference was a few bucks). Turned out to be the more accurate one it seems, since it matches the actual device that I have.
A7 is actually decent. It's low-end (as far as ARMv7 application processors go) but reasonably modern (late 2011, which isn't too bad). Nobody's asking for a bleeding-edge CPU in something like the Pi, but a 2002 vintage core wouldn't have made any sense.
by marcansoft (#48956287) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
TFA used to claim that it was still ARM11. They just edited it a few minutes ago. I stand transitively corrected.
I actually tried to look up any official announcements to corroborate the fact that it was still ARM11 before posting my first comment (because it just felt so dumb), but found none, no mentions of the new chip on Broadcom's site, nothing. I guess they trusted El Reg with the scoop and they screwed it up.
Comment: Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU (Score 3, Informative) 355
by marcansoft (#48956247) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
Whoops, you're right. Other pages claimed it was an MT6517, but I just checked /proc/cpuinfo. Still, A7 is still a modern core, 9 years newer than ARM11.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 2589.52
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 2589.52
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc07
CPU revision : 3
Hardware : MT6572
(0xc07 means Cortex-A7)
Comment: Re:a billion operat per second enough for cat wate (Score 1) 355
by marcansoft (#48956209) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
If you want to control a few motors and lights with network connectivity, get some ESP8266 modules - those are WiFi modules with a user-programmable 80MHz 32-bit CPU that you can buy for $5. Throw in a Cortex-M0 as a slave device to control your I/O (which can be as cheap as $1 in single quantities - yes, you can get a 32-bit CPU for $1 these days). That is what 2015 state-of-the-art silicon gets you to fit the task. A Raspberry Pi with a WiFi dongle is an order of magnitude more expensive and overpowered (and yet underpowered relative to what it claims to be, which is a Linux platform).
Comment: Re:Then buy a used PC (Score 3, Insightful) 355
by marcansoft (#48956141) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
You're confusing low-end with outdated. An ARM Cortex-M3 or M4 board would be a low-end board suitable for tasks such as motor control, while being reasonably modern, and cheaper than the Raspberry Pi. An ARM Cortex-A5 or higher would be modern and suitable for running Linux. ARM11 isn't low-end, it's high-end and outdated.
Raspberry Pi suffers from exactly the same problem as the Arduino: both are based on an ancient, woefully outdated platform. Just because performance is "good enough" for whatever your idea of "good enough" is, doesn't mean it makes any sense whatsoever to stick to cores that are 10 years old or older. Moving up to moder modern designs give you more bang for the same buck, or less buck for the same bang. In the silicon industry it just makes no sense whatsoever to lag behind 3 generations for something like this. Newer designs are built in newer process nodes, scale to higher frequencies, and cost less to manufacture for the same performance. Being at the bleeding edge of silicon is expensive, but drop down a generation or so (relative to whatever field you're interested in) and that's the price/performance sweet spot. Using older stuff just doesn't make sense.
This keeps happening over and over and over again. When I started embedded programming, back when the PIC16C84 was released (the first microcontroller to feature EEPROM program memory, soon followed by the PIC16F84 Flash version), it stirred up a hobbyist revolution. No longer did you need expensive EPROM burners, UV erasers, and expensive UV-windowed chips with an erase cycle measured in minutes! And yet 5 years later people were still using the same damn PIC16F84, with its sole timer and just about no other features, when you could buy a PIC16F88 for 2/3 the price and get three timers, built-in analog-to-digital conversion, serial port/UART, SPI/SSP, PWM, analog comparator, built-in 8MHz oscillator, more RAM and Flash, ... Why? Because PIC16F84 was popular and people were scared to use anything else, even if it is almost a drop-in replacement.
Then the Arduino happened, and even more people people joined what became called the maker movement. And us longtime PIC users rolled our eyes because we'd been doing it for years and we didn't need no steenking breakout boards for a trivial 8-bit chip, but hey, C compilers for PICs sucked, and AVR was a better architecture anyway, and so Arduino deservedly became popular. But then the silliness started to set in again: ARM came up with Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M0, and you could buy a 32-bit chip running at 4x the clock rate for the same price as the AVR in the Arduino, and yet even today people keep using AVR-based Arduinos when the microcontroller world has moved on. People are even sticking FPGA shields on an Arduino, which is like sticking a GTX970 on a Pentium MMX. You could implement the entire AVR inside that FPGA and run it faster than the real one sitting underneath. Why this madness? Because Arduino is popular and people are scared to move on.
And now with Raspberry Pi it's the same thing all over again. When the Pi came out it almost had a good excuse, because, even though its CPU was obsolete, and Broadcom's idea of making a powerful GPU chip and sticking an old CPU "on the side" was dumb, let's face it, nobody was building Linux-capable SBCs at that price point. But that's no longer the case, you can buy much more capable boards for the same $35 today. Why on earth would they release an updated model with an updated chip in 2015 that still uses the same damn architecture that is 12 years out of date? It just makes no sense, the only reason I can come up with is internal politics at Broadcom (trying to sell off outdated chips/designs for cheap, resistance from their GPU division to having a more powerful CPU in there, or something like that).
by marcansoft (#48955917) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
Well, the Chinese have managed to design a phone with a screen, dual radios, WiFi, Bluetooth, FM radio, and a dual core Cortex-A9 CPU that can be effectively sold for $40 or so (if you buy it in China, not online). If the Chinese can build in a CPU core that's two generations newer into a product with support for 3 radio standards and a screen that sells for $5 or so more than the Pi, why is Broadcom struggling with an outdated 12-year-old core on a product with no wireless?
Comment: Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU (Score 0, Flamebait) 355
by marcansoft (#48955661) Attached to: New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches
Why are they still shipping the same CPU core that was in the iPhone 2G? ARM is at least 3 generations ahead already. ARM11 doesn't have NEON (proper SIMD) instructions, so it's crap for multimedia processing (sure, they make it up for the usual codecs with their GPU core, but that doesn't help if you want to write your own code).
Seriously, when the Pi first came out one of my first complaints was that the CPU core was woefully outdated and I already owned several boards with much more recent ARM cores, and several years later they still haven't upgraded it? WTF? What sense does this make? Does Broadcom not have a license for more modern ARM cores? Are the licensing fees too high to ship it in a low-cost product? (Answer: no, plenty of Chinese SoC vendors are doing it). What's the issue?
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Comment: Re:I hate xcode 4 (Score 1) 72
by Invid72 (#36563688) Attached to: Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 2 For Developers
When I have errors in my code, or places in the code that produces warnings, I like my IDE to move the cursor to the actual line of code where the issue is.
This used to work just fine in xcode 3, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to replicate that behaviour in xcode 4. What I've always had to do is switch window panes to look at the error log, find the line number where the issue is, and then manually go there in that file.
What's wrong with clicking the error / warning icon in the navigation pane? It shows me my warning, I click the warning and it shows the appropriate file with the offending line highlighted in yellow. Click the warning again, and it will pulse the warning highlight in your source again, no line hunting necessary.
Is your complaint that Xcode just doesn't reposition your cursor? The highlight and caret where the warning occurs isn't enough?
Comment: Re:"As the WebP image format exists currently, (Score 1) 262
by Invid72 (#36241752) Attached to: Mozilla Rejects WebP Image Format, Google Adds It
And when Google drops support for h.264 I'll drop Chrome if I can't find a plugin. That's the reason that I switched to Chrome from Firefox too, though I'm not the same poster as the AC above.
I got tired of having my Linux boxes struggle to playback flash videos, and went looking for a browser with HTML5 video support using a codec that anyone gives a damn about (read as h.264). Chrome saved me from Flash on Linux and OS X and ended Mozilla's reign as my browser provider of choice going back to Phoenix days.
All Mozilla's stance has amounted to today is to force me back to using Flash again for everything beside Youtube video. Quite frankly, I'm interested in a pragmatic solution, not burning my legs to make a point about software patents or whatever Mozilla's justification for their obstinance is now.
That said, I agree with their stance on this WebP issue. There's no good reason to continue to pitch battles when the war's already been won by JPEG. It's just a shame that they can't see that h.264 has already won the battle for video and just hook into the OS-provided media frameworks. I'd like to use Firefox again.
Comment: Re:"None" is better than inconsistent? (Score 4, Insightful) 657
by Invid72 (#33458360) Attached to: Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad'
Comment: Re:Bad Form Factor (Score 1) 167
by Invid72 (#32469990) Attached to: Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device
...If you need performance, but still want your app to work on a variety of phones, you need to do more legwork.
Apple doesn't actually have a solution to this problem, they're just protected because they only make a handful of devices.
Limiting themselves to just a handful of devices IS their solution, along with abstracting away the minor hardware differences behind robust API calls.
Comment: Re:You signed away this "right" by picking Apple. (Score 1) 850
by Invid72 (#32118216) Attached to: Flash Is Not a Right
I want what the iPhone should have been, and what Android still has a chance of becoming. That is not going to happen if all of us just sit down, shut up, and let Apple take all the marketshare. There absolutely is a PR battle to be fought over this, and I am going to continue to warn people away from walled gardens as long as they will listen, until the only people left in those gardens are their creators.
You need to get over yourself and realize that computing is bigger than just the desires of developers and geeks. What most of those who rail against walled gardens studiously avoid addressing is the simple fact that Apples succeeds by addressing the needs of people who are neglected by traditional computing. To wit:
My 60 yo mother doesn't want what "the iPhone should have been, and what Android still has a chance of being."
She wants to read a book and surf the web. She doesn't want to have to decide whether the Droid version of FBReader will run on her tablet, or wonder why the x86 version of her favourite PopCap game won't run on her ARM tablet either.
She's no fool, but good luck trying to convince her that she's better off in a situation where she needs to know what an ISA is or why it's important, or any of the other things happening in the largely uncontrolled Android market.
Most important, and more to the point: My mother will never research to find out that her program won't run in the background because Adobe hasn't gotten around to updating it's development tools to leverage the new iPhone APIs yet. All she knows is that the shit Apple sold her doesn't work.
Apple will continue to succeed as long as they prioritize the user experience, even if it's to the detriment of developers. There are a lot of non-technical users out there and they have money to spend.
Comment: Re:My Thoughts (Score 4, Insightful) 282
by Invid72 (#32058810) Attached to: Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2
You are confusing Flash lite, a limited subset of Flash with "Full Flash" in Adobe parlance, which is coming with 10.1. No shipping smartphone save the Nokia N900 ships with a full featured Flash runtime.
The Maemo plugin is a sluggish performer from what I've heard too. Adobe really needs to hit the Flash 10.1 for Android release out of the park, or risk validating all of Jobs' criticisms.
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LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School 599
Posted by Soulskill
from the who-needs-a-balanced-education dept.
theodp writes: Citing statistics that showed a whopping 46 more boys than girls passed the AP Computer Science Exam in 2011-12, the 640,000+ student Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) on Tuesday approved a waiver to enable the District to operate a single-gender, all-girls STEM School called the Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA). Students in GALA will follow a six year sequence of computer courses starting in middle school that will culminate in AP Computer Science Principles. "Fewer females take AP courses in math, science, or computer science, and they are not as successful as males in receiving passing scores of 3, 4 or 5," argued the General Waiver Request (PDF, 700+ pages). "An all girls environment is reasonably necessary for the school to improve the self-confidence of girls in their academic abilities, especially in STEM areas where an achievement gap currently exists. GALA's admissions shall also comply with AB 1266 to ensure male students who identify as female are admitted to the school." The school's CS-related Partners include the UCLA Exploring Computer Science Program, as well as Google-bankrolled Girls Who Code, Black Girls Code, and NCWIT. One of the reasons the all-girls STEM school reportedly got the green light is that its backers satisfied federal regulations requiring a "substantially equal school" for excluded male students by submitting a plan for a companion all-boys school that would emphasize English Language Arts, where they often fall short of girls' test scores, rather than GALA's focus on STEM. One suspects the no-fan-of-gender-restricted-public-schools ACLU may call BS on this maneuver.
Comment: Re:I'm interested in this sort of thing for my hou (Score 1) 107
by Xeth (#47679425) Attached to: Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM
Smashing with a rock looks suspicious, and almost anyone that sees you do it will call the police. If you've got a fully-wired home, and an attacker compromises it, they can find out exactly when you're not home (from automated lights and climate control settings), unlock the door, and walk out with whatever high-value items they think they can get away with.
Comment: Re:How do you make a lego character female? (Score 1) 208
by Xeth (#47181779) Attached to: Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists
I'm not sure I understand your first point. Lego sells interesting models, and the pieces necessary to build them. For castles, this means a lot of blocks that are rectangular, and some special ones for things like gargoyles and drawbridge winches. For spaceships, this means a lot of angles and greebly-bits that you can make look like engines and weapons and exhaust ports. There's not some sort of "trick" where Lego is forcing you to buy high-margin specialty pieces; people want those pieces because they let you make things that look better. And, sure, if you try to take the pieces from a castle and make a spaceship, you'll end up with a blocky-looking spaceship. But I fail to see how providing the option of sleek pieces (which you could also use to make a sleek, elven-looking castle?) somehow degrades the experience. There are very few pieces in modern Lego sets that are genuinely single-purpose; a spaceship control surface could easily be an angel wing, a ship's rudder, or the fairing of a racecar.
Minecraft supplements, not replaces, Lego in the minds of creative kids. Minecraft is neat, and it lets you do a lot, but there's something special about being physically engaged with what you're building. You can't take your Minecraft creation out back to play by the stream (unless you recreate it with Legos?).
by Xeth (#47181349) Attached to: Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists
There was a time when this was true, but not so much within the past ~5 years. Can you give me a definition of what you'd call an "ordinary" brick, and what percentage of a set needs to be ordinary bricks (it's easier by piece count, but I suppose a by-volume comparison could be made) before you can classify it as general purpose? Or is there some other definition you'd prefer? Whatever it is, please make it quantitative; there are plenty of meticulously-maintained online resources we can use to determine exactly how many bricks of what types are in pretty much every Lego set ever made.
Comment: Re:Better answer (Score 5, Insightful) 572
by Xeth (#43367871) Attached to: Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns
Five years from now, just two categories of game will be made: Multi-player for consoles, solo (with multi-player functionality) for mobile devices.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "gaming by the numbers" studios and publishers move that way. But I can guarantee that the people pouring millions of dollars into independent Kickstarter and greenlight games, and getting DRM-free software written by devs who care in return, will still be doing it in five years.
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Comment: Re:Sorry to be frank but what did he think (Score 1) 308
by Xeth (#42219605) Attached to: Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT
Sure, but I think that's a grave mistake. Certainly, no console game can match the depth of the very deepest PC games, but there are still plenty of games that require strategy, knowledge, and reflex to complete (or be competitively successful). People aren't popping out a few minutes of Halo IV on the train to work.
Comment: Re:Sorry to be frank but what did he think (Score 5, Insightful) 308
by Xeth (#42218229) Attached to: Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT
Casual games are the biggest market in the same sense that Lego is the biggest tire manufacturer. Based on some quick googling, it looks like the casual game industry has revenues of about $3 billion, versus $78 billion for the video game industry as a whole.
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desinc writes: "In Contra Costa County, California, some illegal activities are about to officially be swept under the rug. 'Misdemeanor crimes such as assaults, thefts and burglaries will no longer be prosecuted in Contra Costa County because of budget cuts, the county's top prosecutor said Tuesday.' What are the implications of local offices subjectively enforcing the law because they literally cannot afford not to?"
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Comment: Re:Best attribute (Score 1) 662
by desinc (#27260191) Attached to: Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now
Do you not remember the Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest?
One of the requirements was that users submit an actual working copy of the site. They wanted it to work on most browsers, I don't remember it saying anything about being code-compliant or whatever other BS.
I assume they wanted this so they did could just take the code and implement it without any additional work. Most geeks are lazy, no?
Comment: One of My Experiences with the Police (Score 5, Interesting) 653
by desinc (#27161815) Attached to: Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status
I was waiting patiently outside of a coffee shop with my puppy while my girlfriend was inside getting a couple White Mochas.
As I sat on the bench, two cops came and sat down right next to me. They were in the middle of a conversation, which I couldn't help but overhear.
Cop 1: "Why'd we arrest that guy again?"
Cop 2: "Man I don't even know!"
Cop 1: "Eh, whatever. He had it coming to him. They'll sort it out at the station."
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David Shiga writes "September 1, 2007 may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see a rare meteor shower called the alpha Aurigids, New Scientist reports. Unlike better-known displays like the Perseids that occur every year on the same date, the alpha Aurigids have only been spotted three times before, in 1935, 1986, and 1994. NASA's Peter Jenniskens predicts they will return again this year, only to disappear again for the next 50 years. Meteor showers are caused by debris shed from comets, and the rarity of the alpha Aurigids is due to the exceptionally infrequent passes of its parent comet through the inner solar system, just once every 2000 years. Studying the alpha Aurigids could help astronomers turn these rare showers into an advance warning system for long period comets with potentially dangerous orbits, which would be hard to spot ahead of a collision with Earth."
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Comment: Re:No satire. No subtlety. Lame. (Score 1) 85
Agree. This is April Fools day, and this isn't going to fool anyone. It's just stupid. I think the spirit of April Fools Day is to try to come up with something that is believable enough that you can get people to believe it, at least for a short time. It's not a lying contest.
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March-April 2002
Poor Enron
by David Batstone | March-April 2002
The once mighty energy trader has become everyone's favorite whipping boy.
Unjustly so, I say.
The once mighty energy trader has become everyone's favorite whipping boy. Unjustly so, I say. There's no shame in a little arrogance, greed, and financial chicanery in the business world.
Enron was born in 1985 when Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth, a natural gas company based in Omaha, Nebraska, forming a system with about 37,000 miles of pipeline. In 1989, Enron started trading natural-gas commodities and became the world's largest buyer and seller of natural gas. The company soon became the premier electricity marketer as well, then directed its seemingly Midas touch to such commodities as weather derivatives, bandwidth, pulp, paper, and plastics. Scaling to the seventh-largest corporation in the United States, with a market capitalization of nearly $60 billion, Enron was an investor's dream.
Okay, so the company fudged its numbers. But Wall Street played the happy fool as long as Enron continued to report billions of dollars in steadily upward earnings. Along the way, more than a few financial analysts raised doubts about the veracity of the numbers that Enron was posting. Finding the company's real revenue—as opposed to reported revenue—was akin to locating the hidden bean in a shell game. Nothing unusual here. The financial markets of late work on a simple system greased by consensual delusion: We can all make money on the emperor's stunning wardrobe until some damn fool yells out "naked" and ruins the fun.
It's reasonable to expect that an independent accounting firm would voice the bare truth. But Arthur Andersen was bringing in millions of dollars of private consulting revenue from Enron while also collecting millions for auditing the company's books. I'm sure it was just an oversight; it's easy to lose count with so many zeros floating around.
AS LOSSES STARTED piling up at Enron, company executives set up off-balance-sheet financing vehicles to hide the evidence. In essence, new companies were formed that took on Enron debt, leaving Enron's credit ratings healthy so that it could obtain the cash and credit crucial to running its commodities business. Enron executives were generously compensated for the additional load of running these spin-off business units, of course. Often we have heard it said that desperation fuels creativity. Desperately locked into a lowly seven-digit compensation package, Enron execs rewarded themselves a parallel seven-digit package for the same day's work. Bravo to Business 2.0 magazine for recognizing this entrepreneurial genius, heralding the company after all sins had come to light: "The company may be doomed, but the innovations Enron pioneered are likely to endure."
Thousands of Enron employees lament that they will not be so lucky to see their retirement savings endure. Enron made its 401(k) matching contribution in company stock. When the share price was rising like a rocket, the match was treated like manna from heaven. And like the children of Israel, the employees greedily grabbed up more manna than was wise. They had other investment choices, including a safe money market fund. But few could pass up the quick road to instant wealth.
If only they had the instincts of Enron chair Kenneth Lay, who unloaded $23 million worth of his company's stock shortly before Enron's troubles came to light. Then again, Enron employees were led to believe that the company was flying high. Heck, even the Astros' new baseball stadium—which critics say delivers its own less-than-legitimate home runs—adopted the company name. Ever the humble one, Lay claims he had no idea that Enron's finances were as unstable as a house of cards.
In any case, the Enron workers could have quit and gone to work for Texaco or Trans World Airlines. Oops! I guess those companies also failed when their executives mismanaged operations yet made fortunes for doing so. But you get the picture.
Put simply, Enron executives aren't getting their due. They pushed the dream of corporate America to the limit and deserve everything now coming their way.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48893 | Recent changes to nbrowse-feature-requests-bugs switch after session loading won't work2010-07-21T22:06:32Z2010-07-21T22:06:32ZMonty Schulman<div class="markdown_content"><p>After loading session file - if user wishes to select different species or database - meta data will not load properly.</p></div>problem showing initial go term slection2010-04-01T14:48:16Z2010-04-01T14:48:16ZMonty Schulman<div class="markdown_content"><p>There is a problem showing inital go term selection. The problem is caused by to go terms loading too late after the initial database query. Queries need to be combined into one thread.</p></div>pop up needed to indicate no gene interaction2010-04-01T14:43:59Z2010-04-01T14:43:59ZMonty Schulman<div class="markdown_content"><p>A popup is needed to indicate there is no gene interaction.</p></div>synonym db loader should add ids as common2010-03-26T14:47:35Z2010-03-26T14:47:35ZMark Gibson<div class="markdown_content"><p>\so the db is such that if a node/gene has an id/node_primary_name but no common name then <br /> one must put the id in the node synonyms data load file for the server/nbrowse-db/ perl script.<br /> If one neglects to do this - as tair has done as its easy to forget - it screws up nbrowse - in that the<br /> nodes actually wont come in with out the common synonym. tair has understandably asked to make this process easier/ more robust.<br /> One easy fix would be to add functionality to the end of dataloader_node_syn script that after all syns are loaded it does a check to see if<br /> there are any nodes that lack a common synonym - and if so then add the id as a common syn. this would be easy to add - and make that part <br /> of the loading easier on folks putting together loading files - one less thing to remember thats sort of tedious to remember</p></div>make gui of node attribute query2010-03-25T20:35:45Z2010-03-25T20:35:45ZMark Gibson<div class="markdown_content"><p>currently can query node attributes with post fix<br /> make user friendly gui</p></div>acyclic edges for same node drawn on each other2010-03-24T18:37:02Z2010-03-24T18:37:02ZMonty Schulman<div class="markdown_content"><p>Acyclic edges for same node are drawn on one another. AT5G35750 in TAIR is good example of this. They need to be separated out.</p></div>nb1 nb2 diff2010-03-23T21:59:33Z2010-03-23T21:59:33ZMark Gibson<div class="markdown_content"><p>modifying user docs from nb1 to nb2 points up differences - some interesting some less so:</p> <p>- Display this # of hops from node - this we want folks have asked for this!</p> <p>- Hide nodes with more than this many edges - i would think you would want the opposite - whats the use case here?</p> <p>- rotate on a scroll bar (with zoom) - in nb2 rotate is an obscure mouse option</p> <p>- anchor all nodes as handy button - todo</p> <p>- adjust layout - im guessing this is the same as our layout button?</p> <p>- save list of nodes (not edges)</p> <p>- find and display all miRNAs predicted - is this the same as miRNA filter in nb2 - does it get special status in nb1 - or is it different?</p> <p>its useful to go through nb1 user docs</p></div>node sizes not always uniform2010-03-12T20:09:29Z2010-03-12T20:09:29ZMonty Schulman<div class="markdown_content"><p>When using the edge filter, and generating new nodes in an existing graph, the new nodes will be the default size. If user changes the node size, the node sizes will not be uniform. </p></div>need to have formula setting for spring layout2010-03-01T14:47:50Z2010-03-01T14:47:50ZMonty Schulman<div class="markdown_content"><p>Need to provide formula setting for spring layout. Need to provide formula dialog so that user can use it for doing Spring Layout.<br /> It should be: value1 * edge_value ^ value2 + value3. It will be applied to C1 in formula for edge attraction.</p></div>need to able to to shrink nodes to dots2010-03-01T14:41:46Z2010-03-01T14:41:46ZMonty Schulman<div class="markdown_content"><p>Need to be able to shrink to dots when viewing graphs with many edges and using zoom to look at specific ones.</p></div> |
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The NCAA basketball tournament might expand to 96 teams? For the love of Ali Farokhmanesh, no!
Do you really want a bracket that doesn't fit on your computer screen? Do you really want to utter the sentence, "Austin Peay is definitely on the bubble at 9-19"? Do you want to hear, "We're in the Fabulous 48!"
Bigger is not better. For instance, here's 10 Things That Did NOT Get Better with Expansion:
• Germany
• Kirstie Alley
• Hydrogen
• The NHL
• Academy Award Best Picture nominees this year ("An Education"? Really?)
• Octomom
• Star Wars
• NBA All-Star Weekend
• The 1958 Ford T-Bird
• Christmas
It's going to kill the conference championships, it's going to kill the office pools and it's going to kill Dick Vitale.
Don't. Do. It.
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I believe I've looked everywhere possible and already feel to silly because I spent literally hours on this without any success.
I follow the instructions for creating the two initial projects (Facebook Android SDK and the Test project): http://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/android/build/#ref
But when it comes to selecting the project by clicking on the "Add..." button, it does not really show anything in the list and my test project is full of errors because the Facebook Android SDK library has not been referenced.
Could you help me out on this one, please?
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Are you sure that the FB Android SDK project is marked as "Is Library"? Right click that project, Properties -> Android -> Check "Is Library"
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Thanks very much! I hadn't marked the SDK project as a library, but now having done so, it does work properly. It was really silly of myself, but once again I'd like to say a big thanks to both yourself and Nick. – FacebookUser231 Jun 13 '12 at 14:37
In your Facebook Android SDK-Project, make sure you checked the "Is Library"-Checkbox in the "Properties" --> "Android" dialog
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Thanks very much! I hadn't checked the box before, because I did not see such indication anywhere before (but I guess I just missed it). – FacebookUser231 Jun 13 '12 at 14:38
Actually Just totally copy the facebook SDK into your project. It will work that way only.
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I have 4 SQL Server 2005 db's that I want to move to SQL CE. I know I cannot keep the SProcs,Views, and Functions(Differences Between SQL Server Compact and SQL Server) but I would like to keep everything else.
I have tried this app, SQL Server to SQL Server Compact Edition Database Copy but it errors out on me. I have the source and am looking into it but I thought I'd check and make sure I wasn't over complicating the solution to my ACTUAL goal.
Is there a simple, can be one shot, way of converting standard SQL .mdf to SQL CE .sdf?
Right now my best idea is to set up Replication to the SQL CE from the SQL 2005 Standard.
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This one works with large DBs too (unlike others I've tried). Make sure you create a new SDF that is big enough though (using parameters in connection string). – Danny Varod Apr 28 '11 at 16:12
The parameters Danny mention are: Max Database Size=4091 – ErikEJ Apr 29 '11 at 6:04
1.Use SQL Server to SQL Server Compact Edition Database Copy with sqlcompact 3.1 or 3.0 not sql compact 3.5 You can use a virtual machine like sun virtual box, install sql compact 3 or 3.1 on it, and convert your database inside it
2.You can convert to sql compact manually
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It is supposed to work with 3.5, but it doesn't support the SPs. – Danny Varod Apr 28 '11 at 13:01
Use the SDFViewer utility:
go Tools Menu > From SQL Server
Enough said....
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+1 Seems to work (still running), SDFViewer is a commercial 3rd party tool. – Danny Varod Apr 28 '11 at 13:00
thanks so much, it worked for me ^^ – Cong Tran Jan 19 '14 at 8:57
What if you scripted the objects from 2005 and ran the script in CE? That'd give you the structure of the DB, then you could select/insert?
I haven't tried this, but what about SQL's DB export/import tools in management studio?
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Most of the script objects from SSMS don't run in SQL CE due to their use of things like sys tables. You can't use the tools in SSMS either. – Jason Short May 27 '10 at 2:12
SQL Server Management Studio Import/Export Tool does not seem to support CE. (At least not in 2008 R2.) – Danny Varod Apr 28 '11 at 13:02
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48932 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Pointers in C++ may in general only be compared for equality. By contrast, less-than comparison is only allowed for two pointers that point to subobjects of the same complete object (e.g. array elements).
So given T * p, * q, it is illegal in general to evaluate p < q.
The standard library contains functor class templates std::less<T> etc. which wrap the built-in operator <. However, the standard has this to say about pointer types (20.8.5/8):
For templates greater, less, greater_equal, and less_equal, the specializations for any pointer type yield a total order, even if the built-in operators <, >, <=, >= do not.
How can this be realised? Is it even possible to implement this?
I took a look at GCC 4.7.2 and Clang 3.2, which don't contain any specialization for pointer types at all. They seem to depend on < being valid unconditionally on all their supported platforms.
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Isn't it that this simply works because of the linear space of addresses provided by virtual memory? – jogojapan Nov 14 '12 at 13:50
Huh, I had no idea that it was illegal to compare pointers in that way. – Rook Nov 14 '12 at 13:51
@R.MartinhoFernandes: Fair enough. If you want a more concrete question, consider this variation: "Is it possible to implement the standard library on targets where pointers do not form a global, total order?" – Kerrek SB Nov 14 '12 at 13:57
@harold, segmented architectures, 16-bit 80x86, for example. One can imagine that compiler uses only the offset part of a far pointer in <, >, etc. assuming no object crosses segment boundary, but less<T>, etc. could well use the full 20-bit seg:offset. – chill Nov 14 '12 at 14:12
@Rook: imho comparing pointers is not in general illegal, but in general undefined. – Zane Nov 16 '12 at 9:37
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Can pointers be totally ordered? Not in portable, standard C++. That's why the standard requires the implementation to solve the problem, not you. For any given representation of a pointer, it should be possible to define an arbitrary total ordering, but how you do it will depend on the the representation of a pointer.
For machines with a flat address space and byte addressing, just treating the pointer as if it were a similarly sized integer or unsigned integer is usually enough; this is how most compilers will handle comparison within an object as well, so on such machines, there's no need for the library to specialize std::less et al. The "unspecified" behavior just happens to do the right thing.
For word addressed machines (and there is at least one still in production), it may be necessary to convert the pointers to void* before the compiler native comparison will work.
For machines with segmented architectures, more work may be necessary. It's typical on such machines to require an array to be entirely in one segment, and just compare the offset in the segment; this means that if a and b are two arbitrary pointers, you may end up with !(a < b) && !(b < a) but not a == b. In this case, the compiler must provide specializations of std::less<> et al for pointers, which (probably) extract the segment and the offset from the pointer, and do some sort of manipulation of them.
On other thing worth mentionning, perhaps: the guarantees in the C++ standard only apply to standard C++, or in this case, pointers obtained from standard C++. On most modern systems, it's rather easy to mmap the same file to two different address ranges, and have two pointers p and q which compare unequal, but which point to the same object.
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I think we have a winner :-) – Kerrek SB Nov 14 '12 at 14:53
For the "do some sort of manipulation of them" I'd guess it's sufficient to have some ordering on the segments. If two pointers are in the same segment, compare addresses. If they are not, then p1 < p2 if segment(p1) < segment(p2). – Zane Nov 14 '12 at 14:54
I forgot about the power of converting to void * -- so here's a tangential question: When I convert a pointer to uintptr_t, is that in general not the same as if I first convert to void * and then to uintptr_t? – Kerrek SB Nov 14 '12 at 15:16
@Zane Maybe, if the compiler can guarantee that it always uses the same segment::offset for any specific object. At least on the old Intels, it was possible to access a given address with quite a number of different segment:offset combinations, and the most rigorous solution was to compare segment*16+offset (calculated using long). – James Kanze Nov 14 '12 at 15:43
@KerrekSB Good question. I don't know that it's guaranteed, but I can't conceive of a case where you would get something different. On machines where some pointers are smaller than void*, I suspect that the way the compiler would do the conversion would be to first convert to void*, then take the resulting bits. – James Kanze Nov 14 '12 at 15:45
Yes. Given any finite set you can always define an arbitrary total order over it.
Consider a simple example where you have only five possible distinct pointer values. Let's call these O (for nullptr), γ, ζ, χ, ψ1.
Let's say that no pair of two distinct pointers from the four non-null pointers can be compared with <. We can simply arbitrarily say that std::less gives us this order: O ζ γ ψ χ, even if < doesn't.
Of course, implementing this arbitrary ordering in an efficient manner is a matter of quality of implementation.
1 I am using Greek letters to remove subconscious notion of order that would arise due to familiarity with the latin alphabet; my apologies to readers that know the Greek alphabet order
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Haha, sneaky. But true :-) – Kerrek SB Nov 14 '12 at 14:01
OK, then the question is: can this arbitrary total order be made compatible with the subobject ordering of <? Would this actually be a requirement by the standard? – Kerrek SB Nov 14 '12 at 14:08
@Kerrek no, I have never seen such requirement (I joked on the chat before that the hypothetical Hell++ implementation could have std::less for pointers implemented with p > q and std::greater for pointers just delegate to std::less). – R. Martinho Fernandes Nov 14 '12 at 14:11
@KerrekSB less<>( p, q ) must be equal to p < q when p < q is defined. Otherwise, all bets are off. – James Kanze Nov 14 '12 at 14:50
@JamesKanze -- I'm just looking at the draft standard, and I'm not certain that is strictly required. It would be asinine to not do that, I admit. Does the full standard have more strict wording? The draft standard either has 8 overriding 4, or 8 and 4 are inconsistent, or 8 tells you what must happen when 4s behavior is undefined: it does not specify which of these 3 options is true. (presuming consistent interpretations when there is ambiguity seems reasonable... but presuming reasonableness seems a stretch!) – Yakk Nov 14 '12 at 16:44
On most platforms with a flat address space, they can simply do a numerical comparison between the pointers. On platforms where this isn't possible, the implementer has to come up with some other method of establishing a total order to use in std::less, but they can potentially use a more efficient method for <, since it has a weaker guarantee.
In the case of GCC and Clang, they can implement std::less as < as long as they provide the stronger guarantee for <. Since they are the ones implementing the behavior for <, they can rely on this behavior, but their users can't, since it might change in the future.
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The problem is segmented architectures, where a memory address has two parts: a segment and an offset. It's "easy enough" to turn those pieces into some sort of linear form, but that takes extra code, and the decision was to not impose that overhead for operator<. For segmented architectures, operator< can simply compare the offsets. This issue was present for earlier versions of Windows.
Note that "easy enough" is a systems programmer's perspective. Different segment selectors can refer to the same memory block, so producing a canonical ordering requires pawing through details of segment mapping, which is platform-dependent and may well be slow.
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I am trying to use the following example in wordpress - I need a div that holds an advert to start, say, 300px down the page, then scroll up witht he page until it reaches the top, then stay there if the user continues to scroll down. The example should explain this:
here it is in an html file that should work, everything seems there, but it will not work: http://www.altesc.net/exmp.html
In fact, if you look tot he right at the "Similar Questions" box and scroll down, it's exactly what i'm after.
I am pretty sure I've done everything correctly, but the javascript doesn't seem to work. If i copy everything from jquery and just add it directly to the header, and not in a separate js file, it works, it's only when i call jquery like this:
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.js" type="text/javascript">
it fails to kick in.
Any ideas as to what is wrong?
Added my header to help:
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.altesc.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).scroll(function() {
var useFixedSidebar = $(document).scrollTop() > 330;
$('.adscrollleft').toggleClass('fixedSidebar', useFixedSidebar);
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The example seems to work fine... What exactly is the problem? – David Dec 29 '12 at 3:38
At the very bottom of that file you're linking to is this: jQuery.noConflict(); If you open Firefox's Firebug JS console or Chrome JS console, you'll see an error that $ is not a function. To simplify for now, use jQuery() instead of $(), especially in the global scope. Other libraries use $ the same way, which is why jQuery.noConflict() exists. – Jared Farrish Dec 29 '12 at 4:13
so as an example, $(window).load(function() should be jQuery(window).load(function()? I've changed this, did not make it work. If someone could look at my html example on the first post and see if they can get it work, i can then look at the code for the fix. – Jim Dec 29 '12 at 4:20
It works on my computer. Here's the source for the one that works for me: pastebin.com/GCvaCF7c Note, too, that due to the size of the scroll, the browser cannot be maximized or the effect never occurs. – Jared Farrish Dec 29 '12 at 4:28
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As I said in my comment under the question, your jQuery include file has, at the very very bottom, a call to jQuery.noConflict();, which releases the $ shorthand function reference to jQuery().
So, the most straight-forward way to resolve this is to:
jQuery(document).scroll(function() {
var useFixedSidebar = jQuery(document).scrollTop() > 330;
jQuery('.adscrollleft').toggleClass('fixedSidebar', useFixedSidebar);
And now your code works. Here's a Pastebin of the file that works on my computer (note you should not keep your browser maximized if you have a very large screen):
Some people really like the $ shorthand, though, so you see this a lot:
// >>> The $ below <<<
$(document).scroll(function() {
jQuery allows you to use it in scope. Just get used to, now, using jQUery() anytime you're in the global scope at all.
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thank you. I had a slight code error in the offline version i was using to test, only noticed it when you posted this. It now works. Thanks again. – Jim Dec 29 '12 at 4:31
I put a different way of the $ in scope as well. – Jared Farrish Dec 29 '12 at 4:34
i suppose i have one final gripe. On being scrolled down the page, if i hit refresh, the js doesn't kick in until i scroll again - makes the box jump and look awkward. Does anyone know of anyway around this? you can see what i mean by scrolling half way down on this page and seeing the add misalign: altesc.net/send-us-a-tip – Jim Dec 29 '12 at 4:42
So you really want a scrollspy? We spent so long waiting for position: fixed to get broadly supported, and what happens? Someone dreams up something even goofier. And to be honest, I'd encourage you to look for or ask another question, since that's not really what this one was about. – Jared Farrish Dec 29 '12 at 4:48
No. I found a way for it to refresh correctly, just had to use different js: pastebin.com/vdQgBujC I guess the original way was basic and not ideal. – Jim Dec 29 '12 at 6:04
remove this: $(window).load(function(){
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Several issues here:
• First, use a local copy of jQuery.
Although the online copy would stay up all the time, it's best you have your own. To think of it in another way: What if the jQuery site went down? The script you are "leeching" would go down as well, and make your scripts that depend on the leeched jQuery to fail.
• Load libraries first
Scripts are loaded and parsed in sequence, one after the other (unless some async stuff was used like defer or async attribute, or a dependency loader). If your snippet depended on jQuery and was loaded before jQuery, then it would fail. Load library scripts first, then the scripts that depend on it after.
A quick Visual of what I mean:
<script src="jQuery.js"></script>
<script src="yourScriptThatDependsOnJQuery.js"></script>
//scripts that depend on jQuery
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that was just an example, jquery is served locally. The header is in sequence, maybe there are some errors? <script type="text/javascript" src="jqueryexample"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ $(window).load(function(){ $(document).scroll(function() { var useFixedSidebar = $(document).scrollTop() > 330; $('.adscrollleft').toggleClass('fixedSidebar', useFixedSidebar); }); });//]]> </script>` – Jim Dec 29 '12 at 3:49
There's nothing wrong with using CDN hosted includes. If you're itchy about it, use a loading fallback script or library, like Require.js. There's nothing wrong with hosting it yourself either, but the CDNs are pretty skilled at serving content. – Jared Farrish Dec 29 '12 at 4:02
2. Be sure that you've included the dependant script after you've included jQuery, as it is most certainly dependant upon that.
3. Check whether jQuery is included properly and once only.
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Thing is, I've taken the example on jsfiddle and put it all into an html file with no extra scripts, just the bare example, yet it doesn't work: – Jim Dec 29 '12 at 4:01
@Jim - You have to show us what doesn't actually work. What sense does it make to say, hey, look, this works, but fix something else I'm not going to show you. ? Details. – Jared Farrish Dec 29 '12 at 4:04
if so if you follow above 4 steps correctly you must be good to go. if there are any errors post them here. let's see how can i help you – Techie Dec 29 '12 at 4:04
Sorry, was working on uploading the example, here it is altesc.net/exmp.html – Jim Dec 29 '12 at 4:06
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For technical reasons, I can't use ClickOnce to auto-update my .NET application and its assemblies. What is the best way to handle auto-updating in .NET?
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What "technical reasons" are stopping you using ClickOnce that are going to be constraints on whatever answer you're after? – lotsoffreetime Sep 29 '08 at 22:34
The BEST technical reason imho is no installs allowed to the GAC. It is one of my major complaints about ClickOnce – MagicKat Sep 29 '08 at 22:38
Huh? What part of ClickOnce installs to the GAC? – Matt Hamilton Sep 29 '08 at 22:42
No part installs to the GAC ... – MagicKat Sep 29 '08 at 22:48
ClickOnce doesn't work on the Compact Framework. – MusiGenesis Sep 30 '08 at 1:48
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I think the Updater Application Block was something of a precursor to ClickOnce. Might be worth investigating. Looking at its source code might be enough to spark some ideas.
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Thanks! This was what I remembered reading a couple of years ago. – MusiGenesis Sep 29 '08 at 23:09
And now I'm remembering why I never ended up using it. Sheesh. – MusiGenesis Sep 29 '08 at 23:12
lol! Yeah the Application Blocks are a bit daunting. I've never used them either. – Matt Hamilton Sep 29 '08 at 23:17
"This setup requires the .NET Framework version 1.1.4322..." jeez this thing is old. – Cameron MacFarland Dec 21 '09 at 4:55
Updater Application Block is a retired project as seen at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978574.aspx – Junior M Mar 1 '10 at 14:34
We have a product that's commercial/open source: wyBuild & wyUpdate. It has patching ability and is dead simple to use.
Edit: I'm getting voted down into the negative numbers, but my post wasn't just blatant selling. Our updater, wyUpdate, is open source, written in C# and is licensed under the BSD license.
I thought it might help anyone trying to build an updater from scratch using the .NET framework.
But, vote me down if you must.
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How is this in any way helpful to a Compact Framework deployment? – ctacke Jul 4 '09 at 19:39
Our open source updater might be very helpful when developing your own updater. It's written in C# and licensed under the BSD license. But vote me down if you must. – Wyatt O'Day Jul 7 '09 at 12:29
About 3-4 years ago I published an example that sits outside the app, if an update is detected, the app calls the updater ans shuts down, then the updates are done, and the app restarts.
I published the example on the old GotDotNet site...I'll have to try and find it.
It worked perfect and took about 1-2 hours to write.
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How do you update the updater? – MusiGenesis Sep 30 '08 at 15:59
I have a method inside the app, that if an update is found for the updater it will apply that update. Basically each updates the other, it sounds complex and hard to manage but is actually very simple. I think at minimum I still have the code at home somewhere. – Mitchel Sellers Sep 30 '08 at 16:29
Could you publish it? – pn. Jul 1 '09 at 19:16
I'm still trying to find the sample code. It was published on an old Microsoft site....and they shut down the site and samples.... – Mitchel Sellers Jul 1 '09 at 19:57
Indigo Rose has a product called TrueUpdate that also does this for you. I have used them in the past from both managed and unmanaged apps. It is basically a file you put on your server (http, ftp, whatever you like). Then you call a client side EXE to check for updates. The updates file is pulled and has logic to detect what version is on the client (your choice, DLL detection, registry key reads, etc). Then it will find the appropriate updater for it and download the file for execution. It works well through proxies as well.
The only thing they don't do is actually build the patches for you. You have to do that manually, or with another product they have. It is a commcerial solution and works quite well though if you need it.
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Looks cool, thanks, but no Windows Mobile support. This app is a little unusual in that it runs in both Windows Mobile and regular PC Windows. – MusiGenesis Sep 30 '08 at 16:01
As a starting point for rolling your own, it's probably worth looking at Alex Feinman's article on MSDN entitled "Creating Self-Updating Applications with the .NET Compact Framework".
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Write your own.
I have heard that they are somewhat difficult to write the first time, but after that it gets simple.
Since I haven't written one yet (although its on my list), I can give you some of the things that I have thought of. Maintain accurate dll versions, as this is important for self updating. And make sure that the updater can update itself.
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Doing that is really fun! I did it by letting the application update the updater. – Vincent McNabb Sep 29 '08 at 22:39
Rolling my own updater took several months at my company but now we have one we know inside and out and can debug at will. It was truly worth it. – Dinah Nov 14 '08 at 15:23
In your Program.cs file do something like this:
static void Main()
Application.Run(new Form1());
private static void Update()
string mainFolder;
string updateFolder;
string backupFolder;
foreach (string file in
string newFile = file.Replace(
updateFolder, mainFolder);
if (System.IO.File.Exists(newFile))
System.IO.File.Replace(file, newFile, backupFolder);
System.IO.File.Move(file, newFile);
Additionally, it can be made recursive to pick up directory structure if necessary. This will allow you to update any .dll in your project; everything, in fact, outside of the main .exe. Then somewhere else within your application you can deal with getting the files from your server (or wherever) that need to be updated, put then in the updateFolder and restart the application.
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Thanks. Mainly I was directing the question at self-updating (i.e. updating the main EXE from within the main EXE). – MusiGenesis Sep 30 '08 at 0:44
You can't update the exe, from the exe itself though, so you still have to have an outside process. – Mitchel Sellers Sep 30 '08 at 13:54
Sure you can. You have your exe rename itself, queue a "delete after restart" command on the old version and copy in the new version. The old app can then run the new app and exit immediately afterwards, possibly passing some sort of /upgrade parameter, so the new app knows that potentially old stored data structures need to be updated. – Sander Jun 5 '09 at 5:01
On a project a long time ago, using .NET Compact Framework 1.0, I wrote an auto-updating application. We used SqlCE's CAB deployment feature to get the files onto the device (you would use Sync Framework now), and we had a separate exe that did the unpacking of the CAB, and updating the files.
An update would go like this: the user would be prompted to update, click a button and drop out of the UI application. The updater exe would take over, get the cab file from the server, backup the current dlls and unpack the cab file with wceload. The UI would then be restarted, and if it failed, the update would be rolled back. This is still an interesting scenario on compact devices, but there are better tools now than just sqlce.
I would certainly look at updater application block and sync framework to implement this if clickonce is not an option. But I'm guessing you'll still need a separate executable because the dlls you want to overwrite are probably file locked while in use by an exe, like one of the previous answers already said.
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How do you get the updater exe to take over after the UI closes? Is it always running and polling to see if an update is required? I've tried automatically starting the updater in another process, but I'm still unable to overwrite the original running EXE. – MusiGenesis Sep 30 '08 at 16:04
I don't remember exactly, but you could do this with a manualresetevent or a semaphor-like mechanism. As a last action, the exiting UI triggers a system-wide event. By the time the updater downloaded the CAB, unpacked it and tries to overwrite the UI exe, it has long since exited. – StephaneT Oct 3 '08 at 11:27
I wrote my own autoupdater, the autoupdater uses a common config file to the application which contains urls to download latest versions from / check if it needs to update.
This way you run the updater, which either updates the app or not, then runs the application, which as part of normal operation, checks for an updated updater and patches that.
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I'm trying to install RVM and I'm following the instructions from the RVM webpage. It says to use this command in the cmd:
But it says that 'curl' is not a reconized command:
'curl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Any thoughts on this?
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Are you running Windows? – PinnyM Mar 18 '13 at 19:36
That error message is from Windows. Unfortunately RVM doesn't work with Windows. – Nathan Hyde Mar 18 '13 at 19:37
Oh well then thats the problem I have windows. Oh well. Thanks! – Evan Mar 18 '13 at 19:39
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Windows doesn't come with the 'curl' command built-in. You can download it from here. But that isn't going to help you much, because RVM doesn't support Windows :)
You can use pik instead.
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Exactly what I was just about to add. According to stackoverflow.com/a/12910824/2141283 pik will do the trick. – Nathan Hyde Mar 18 '13 at 19:39
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I'm working on the modification of some code to use preparedStatement instead of normal Statement, for security and performance reason.
Our application is currently storing information into an embedded derby database, but we are going to move soon to Oracle.
I've found two things that I need your help guys about Oracle and Prepared Statement :
1- I've found this document saying that Oracle doesn't handle bind parameters into IN clauses, so we cannot supply a query like :
Select pokemon from pokemonTable where capacity in (?,?,?,?)
Is that true ? Is there any workaround ? ... Why ?
2- We have some fields which are of type TIMESTAMP. So with our actual Statement, the query looks like this :
Select raichu from pokemonTable where evolution = TO_TIMESTAMP('2500-12-31 00:00:00.000', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF')
What should be done for a prepared Statement ? Should I put into the array of parameters : 2500-12-31 or TO_TIMESTAMP('2500-12-31 00:00:00.000', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF') ?
Thanks for your help, I hope my questions are clear !
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I'm a bit surprised to see this document. It is true that you cannot set an array/collection like follows (and this is regardless of the database / JDBC driver used):
String sql = "SELECT col FROM tbl WHERE id IN (?)";
statement = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
statement.setArray(1, arrayOfValues); // Fail.
But the in the document mentioned query ought to work. I can tell this from experience with at least Oracle 10g XE in combination with ojdbc14.jar. I suspect that either the author of the document confused things, or it actually concerns a different (older?) version of the DB and/or JDBC driver.
The following ought to work regardless of the JDBC driver used (although you're dependent on the DB used how many items the IN clause can contain, Oracle (yes, again) has a limit of around 1000 items):
private static final String SQL_FIND = "SELECT id, name, value FROM data WHERE id IN (%s)";
public List<Data> find(Set<Long> ids) throws SQLException {
Connection connection = null;
PreparedStatement statement = null;
ResultSet resultSet = null;
List<Data> list = new ArrayList<Data>();
String sql = String.format(SQL_FIND, preparePlaceHolders(ids.size()));
connection = database.getConnection();
statement = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
setValues(statement, ids.toArray());
resultSet = statement.executeQuery();
while (resultSet.next()) {
Data data = new Data();
} finally {
close(connection, statement, resultSet);
return list;
public static String preparePlaceHolders(int length) {
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < length;) {
if (++i < length) {
return builder.toString();
public static void setValues(PreparedStatement preparedStatement, Object... values) throws SQLException {
preparedStatement.setObject(i + 1, values[i]);
With regard to the TIMESTAMP question, just use PreparedStatement#setTimestamp().
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My neighbor is taking "Intro to Java", and asked me to help explain a few of the first-day concepts. I realized that since I do this everyday, I don't have the beginner's mind, and it's hard to relate some of this stuff from scratch.
The one that's actually not trivial for me to explain is "what the heck is a class?"
Best I have so far:
• A variable holds some kind of data; one variable might be a first name, another variable might be your weight in pounds.
• A method is a function, it does stuff, and can do stuff with those variables. A method might display your name on screen, or tell you how much weight you should lose to have a good BMI ratio.
• An object holds both variables and methods; one object might represent you, a second object might represent me.
• A class is kind of the blueprint or template that describes the methods and variables that will be in each object. An object is an instantiated (instance of a) class; an object is something, while the class is simply the plans to make that something.
Continuing the example, we have a Person object, which is instantiated to hold Alice's data, and another Person object instantiated to hold Bob's data, and another for Carol, and so on.
How do I tune this example to make more sense, and/or what's a better approach? The word "instantiated" feels too heavy at this point.
(I think this is a useful question, but is obviously subjective; marked as community wiki.)
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Maybe it's best not to mention that Object is a Class... – Erick Robertson Sep 10 '10 at 17:12
Or that a class definition can be an object. – Mike Baranczak Sep 10 '10 at 17:30
Maybe if you say that "instance" means "example" things go easier. Either, the best way to learn is by putting it in pratice with exercises. I recommend get some from a good Java book. – Tom Brito Sep 10 '10 at 17:30
Actually, your's is a lot better description than most I've seen - you make the distinction between the software constructs instantiated to refer to things and the real-world things they refer too. If you try and go down the Man/Woman extends Person route, you end up with an ontology rather than a coherent set of objects sending messages to each other to perform a function by the concert of their activities. – Pete Kirkham Sep 10 '10 at 17:33
Similar to stackoverflow.com/questions/3323330/… and other postings. – joe snyder Sep 10 '10 at 18:06
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A class and some class instances:
Courtesy of wikipedia
(public domain image hosted by wikipedia)
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I like this! Fantastic explanation! – Alex Sep 11 '10 at 4:30
Okay, this is one that's going to the neighbor. – Dean J Sep 11 '10 at 12:57
Class : Object :: Blueprint : Building
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you mean Class : Object :: Blueprint : Building – Inverse Sep 10 '10 at 20:03
"Car" is a class. My car, sitting in my driveway, is an instance (object).
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An object is a thing. A class is a category of things.
"Person" is a class; you are an object, an instance of the Person class. Also, the word "you" can be thought of as a variable, since it refers to a Person, but not always the same Person.
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A class description is like a blueprint for a house. All the houses built from that blueprint are objects of that class. A given house is an instance. A tenant can be a changing variable in the house. An example of a method is the procedure by which the post office sends and receives messages (mail) to the house via its mailbox.
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class == cookie cutter, object == cookie.
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No, that would be a factory. – T.J. Crowder Sep 10 '10 at 17:07
Nope, I disagree. The class specifies methods and attributes for all its instances. – duffymo Sep 10 '10 at 17:32
class = cookie maker. But the class=blueprint is still better. A building blueprint stands for a class as the building stands for an object. – Tom Brito Sep 10 '10 at 17:34
@duffymo, you beat me to it. This explanation works well for CS/OO civilians. – Kelly S. French Sep 10 '10 at 17:46
I think a better analogy is class == recipe, object == cookie. – ataylor Sep 10 '10 at 17:49
class:: Man or Woman
object:: me, you ...
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One of the examples I use during my java courses is the Human class.
Everyone reading this is a Human (I least I hope so !), we all have our differences our resemblances but at the end we're all Human (After all).
Each Human (known as an instance or object) has specific characteristics such as the eyes color or the voice which are the fields (you called that variables, but the right name would be fields). But the values are different from an Human instance to another.
There is also a common knowledge, shared with the humanity, principles like the "Pythagorean theorem". This knowledge is common, it can be interpreted as a static field (I know it's an exaggeration) which means that this knowledge is not only contained in one human but in the humanity.
Every Human can do things such as walking, speaking etc. this is known as method, walking is the same for everyone, but when I walk, not everyone walk. The act of walking only affects the Human instance which does this, but still it's defined by the Human class
If you want to get deeper in OOP, Teaching OOP to non-programmers
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Object Oriented programming is about creating programs using as building blocks, "things" that exists in the real world, these real world things are called objects, hence object oriented
For instance, if you're creating a Address Book program, you may define the following objects:
person, address, phone
Among many, many others. Those would be real life objects, and you describe your program in terms of these abstractions.
With that in mind you can start describing some concepts.
Class is used to define the characteristics an objects will have. A class is used only as a template, or a blueprint. For instance, for all the persons in your address book, you may say they all will have:
- name
- last name
- phone number
- address
An address may have:
- street
- number
- city
- zip code
- country
And so on. As you can notice, a class me be defined in terms of other classes, for instance, in this context, a person has one address.
An Object is a particular instance of a given class. When you add an entry to your address book, you create an object and fill in the attributes.
onePerson ofType Person is (
- name = "Oscar"
- last name = "Reyes"
- phone number = "56 58 11 11"
- address = anAddress ofType Address (
- street = "Tecolotes"
- number = 32
- city = "D.F."
- zip code = 23423
- country = "Mexico"
So, this object a class instance with data. Other entry in the address book are other objects with different data.
That shows the difference between them.
There are other relevant concepts in OOP that are worth listing, and interrelate with the concept of object and class:
Abstraction You don't need to list all the attributes of a person, to use it. for instance, in this case, you don't care if that person is single or married, even when in real life, persons are either single or married.
Encapsulation Attributes from the person are hidden to other objects and are accessed through methods, this prevent from data corruption.
Polymorphism A different type may respond differently to the same message or method.
Inheritance classes may have subclasses and attributes and behavior which inherit the characteristics of the super classes.
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If and only if he is familiar with Plato's Theory of Forms, you can make an analogy where classes are like Plato's forms and objects are like Plato's real world objects.
See this post for a full description.
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Class: Girl
Object : that girl, this girl, my girl...umm maybe not.
Yea all girls should have the properties of a Girl (class in this case).
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girls are not objects.. you should treat them better.. – Tom Brito Sep 10 '10 at 17:38
I had actually started by writing BOY .... appeared a bit gay :p – loxxy Sep 10 '10 at 17:56
Not that there's anything wrong with that.... – duffymo Sep 10 '10 at 18:21
If your neighbor is into classical philosophy, classes are Plato's Forms and objects are the things we see everyday that are based on the Forms.
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Panda DNA is a class. A Panda running around, eating and performing Panda-like activities is an object.
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cool, but hope he's good at biology.. XD – Tom Brito Sep 10 '10 at 17:33
That analogy doesn't really make a lot of sense. A class is not just just the code of its constructor, which is the closest thing DNA maps to. – munificent Sep 10 '10 at 23:40
If they are learning to program OO have them use BlueJ. They should get the differences after walking through the first tutorial.
You define the classes and when you instantiate them they actually appear at the bottom of the GUI at which point you can call methods on them.
It really helps get the point through better than any analogy you want to try. Even if you nail the analogy, it doesn't translate into code for someone who hasn't learned OO yet (even though for all of us it seems really natural and all these descriptions make great sense.)
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OOP is just one more way of representing Abstract Data Structures in programs. In object-oriented terminology, the type is called a class, and the variable with that type is called an object. More on type <-> class, variable <-> object correspondence.
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True, but irrelevant. We're talking about explaining these concepts to an absolute beginner, not to someone who's moving from C to Java. – Mike Baranczak Sep 10 '10 at 17:54
Explaining OOP to an absolute beginner is nonsense anyway. Everything is good in its season. – Wildcat Sep 10 '10 at 18:00
And by the way do you really think that all this cookies/cars/blueprints/whatever examples really explains something? "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" =) – Wildcat Sep 10 '10 at 18:04
+1 for invoking Feynman's name. – duffymo Sep 10 '10 at 19:36
I always define them as blueprint and product.
A blueprint describes the complete product in every detail, the product is the result that comes out of the machine.
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Object is an instance of a class Variable is an instance of a type
That given,a class can be something like "type on steroids": it can have : variables which can be from any type or objects from another class methods,which can operate on class variables in the same way as different types have their methods(for example +(bool,bool)) can have access to the class variables and it's all defined by yourself!
You can use the classes to model a problem in the optimal way. But there are sometimes other ways to do it ;)(not only OOP)
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I would highly recommend telling him to buy a copy of a book called The Object-Oriented Thought Process by Matt Weisfeld. Its a really good conceptual introduction to OO. I've lent out my copy to a few people who were just getting into OO and they really liked it.
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class: custom variable type
object: a variable, whose type is custom defined (if you don't count the built-in ones)
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We can also understand the concept of class and object as: as a class is a template so lets have following two examples: Example 1: a recipe of a cake is a template so its a class and cakes that are made following recipe are the objects. Example 2: A brick maker is a class and bricks are objects
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I can say with an example: Animal, Human, car etc. Here Animal, Human, car considered as Class, Now consider Dog: Here Dog considered as Object, who is under Animal class. If we consider a dog, then its state are - name, breed, color, and the behavior are - barking,Eating, running, Sleeping. Now we can say, A class is a blue print of Animal class from which individual object is created. Here barking(), running(), eating(),Sleeping() etc. are method of the particular Dog object. I think it will be little easier to understand the difference between Class and object.
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It's wrong. Animal and Human are in your example indeed classes but abstract ones and the Dog would be a concrete class. Dog might be both a class and an object, it's not specific enough. The class for the dog could be for example the DNA that tells you how to create a dog. – t3chb0t Dec 28 '14 at 19:23
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I am trying to use custom fonts in a textview:
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(), "fonts/font.ttf");
But when I run I get the following error:
W/System.err( 542): java.lang.RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made
Whats the issue?
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possible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/3203694/custom-fonts-in-android/… – Praveen Sep 15 '10 at 11:19
@Paresh: Any resource (R.id.foo) – Kunal P.Bharati Sep 15 '10 at 11:56
@Praveen: I guess its the same code. But still i am getting this runtime exception – Kunal P.Bharati Sep 15 '10 at 11:59
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First of all check font's name and extension. it is case sensitive & probably all caps. eg.
Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/ABADDON.TTF")
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public class Harshida extends View {
Bitmap gBall;
float changingY;
Typeface font;
public Harshida(Context context) {
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
gBall=BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.greenball);
font=Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), "assets/G-Unit.TTF");
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Paint textPaint=new Paint();
if(changingY < canvas.getHeight()){
changingY +=10;
}else {
Rect middleRect= new Rect();
middleRect.set(0, 40, canvas.getWidth(),400);
Paint ourBlue = new Paint();
canvas.drawRect(middleRect, ourBlue);
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This might be the issue
Typeface.createFromAsset leaks asset stream : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9904
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I had encountered this problem i was setting the typeface inside a custom layout class with a constructor that pass a reference to parent activity's "context" and setting it up like this:
it gives me "native typeface cannot be made" error.
went on creating a new test project out from scratch to just display the "Hello World, " with the custom font i want to use so i did this on onCreate() on the default activity class:
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/font.ttf");
and this time it worked and i thought that maybe i should try putting a reference of the main Activity rather than the Context to my custom layout class:
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(activity.getAssets(), "fonts/font.ttf");
now this time it worked on the custom layout class. hope this would help you guys too.
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it gives me error :( – Dr. aNdRO Apr 16 '13 at 16:29
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(), "fonts/font.ttf"); work for me – Nitesh Khosla Oct 16 '13 at 15:03
For me, this definitely was the message I received when the font file couldn't be found. Something as simple as:
Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), "fonts/MYFONT.TTF");
When my font was actually in font/MYFONT.TTF
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I would guess that there is a problem with the font itself. That error will be triggered when native code in the OS attempts to load the typeface. I seem to recall that there's a different message if the file is missing, so I think it is finding the file but not liking it for some reason.
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I am attempting to use the following code to log into megaupload. My question is, how do i that it successfully logged in? I print out the current URL at the end of the code, but when i run the script it just returns www.megaupload.com.
import mechanize
import cookielib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import html2text
# Browser
br = mechanize.Browser()
# Cookie Jar
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
# Browser options
# Follows refresh 0 but not hangs on refresh > 0
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
# User-Agent (this is cheating, ok?)
# The site we will navigate into, handling it's session
# Select the first (index zero) form
#User credentials
br.form['username'] = 'USERNAMEGOESHERE'
br.form['password'] = 'PASSWORDGOESHERE'
#prints out the current log in
print br.geturl()
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Search the error message in the response body:
"Username and password do not match" in br.response().read()
Or check if you got the expected cookie (simple example, tweak as needed):
any(c.domain == ".megaupload.com" and c.name == "user" for c in cj)
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Thanks, I actually was able to check for "Welcome USERNAME". I attempted to upvote you but I am a new user and i require "15 reputation" before I can do so. – ChrisC Dec 12 '10 at 20:02
@user520574, you cannot select it as answer either? well, never mind. – tokland Dec 12 '10 at 20:04
I was able to select it as the answer, I didn't see that option before. Thanks again. – ChrisC Dec 12 '10 at 20:17
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48940 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I 'm getting 620 error response codes back from the google maps geocoding api if i send the request directly from my app engine servlet, so i have no choice but to use a proxy to receive a successful response. I set up a proxy server, and ive tested it from several computers. Now, all I want to do is make a url request from my GAE servlet through my proxy.
I've tried every possible solution out there and none of them work....
-java.net.Proxy isnt supported in the app engine runtime... -setting properties as follows:
Properties props = System.getProperties(); props.put("http.proxyHost", "proxyhostname"); props.put("http.proxyPort", "proxyhostport");
didnt do anything.
What is the easiest way to send an http GET via a proxy in app engine?
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It seems like this is not possible: Google's App Engine APIs don't support it. Using a third-party library (like Apache's HTTPCore/HTTPClient) or writing it yourself is not possible because essential network classes like java.net.Socket are not whitelisted.
Not sure why you can't access the Google Map API, but if that really does not work, your only choice is to write some application on your proxy server that responds to normal HTTP requests and then forwards them to Google Maps.
Update: Googled a bit, seems like a well-known problem: the Map API has a limit of 2500 requests per day and IP, and this is limit is reached quickly on GAE where you share your IP with many other applications. The only thing you can do is move the requests to the client, use some proxy with own IP, or use a different service.
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I've complaining all over the place on the App Engine groups about the GAE ips not being whitelisted on the maps server. No one seems to give a shit. Is it really true that its literally impossible to make a simple http request to the maps api from GAE without using some incredibly roundabout technique? – D-Nice Jan 21 '11 at 17:02
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48941 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I've started working on Windows Phone 7 and came across this problem.
I have a VS 08 console application that has a Web reference added to it and every thing works great, I have previously worked with Service Reference in WP7 and used the proxy classes.
I am not good in server side stuff and am not sure about the difference between Web and Service References i think Service refernce is for WCF only and Web supports SOAP as well, Any ways now i need to use that web Reference which is using SOAP Protocol in WP7 but when i add it as Service reference it doesn't show all proxy classes in object explorer.
Wasted 2 days in googling this and still I am not sure where to start. kindly Let me know if you have any questions.
Please HELP !
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You should be able to add the web reference and coding for it will be similar to coding in your console app.
The main differences will be that WP7 requires you to use Asynchronous coding - i.e. instead of calling the service like a normal method, instead you have to pass in an event handler for when the web service call returns.
A partial tutorial is available within this article - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff872395.aspx - start at "Figure 6 Adding a SOAP Service Reference"
There are also some additional limitations in the WP7 implementation - e.g. it's harder to send certain things like soap headers - but hopefully your SOAP service will work OK.
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Thanks for the Reply Stuart, I have used Async calls so i understand what you are trying to say, I have added the Service reference the way it is shown in figure 6 (without adding the code) the thing is Proxy classes generated are incomplete! Some are there others are not, however service reference is included. what do you say on this? Is it because other functions may have been using Syn calls thats why they are being excluded ? Thanks – Nayyar Siddiqi Mar 18 '11 at 11:02
I think you need to explain more... which methods exactly are there and which are missing? It might help if you can point us to the .asmx reference on the web - or if you can show specifics about what is there and what is missing. – Stuart Mar 18 '11 at 11:12
This is the reference: webservices.netsuite.com/wsdl/v2010_2_0/netsuite.wsdl – Nayyar Siddiqi Mar 18 '11 at 11:23
For instance: Class NetSuiteService is missing in Service Reference but is available in Web Refernce. – Nayyar Siddiqi Mar 18 '11 at 12:20
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48942 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I've been trying to understand actors in scala but I'm still not getting it...
The following code:
def main(args: Array[String]){
println("inside main")
MyActor ! "go"
object MyActor extends Actor{
def act(){
case _ => println("inside actor")
It is printing inside main, but not inside actor... Why? Moreover, what's the difference between receive and react??
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The (dated) Actor tutorial does a fair job of explaining receive vs. react and the Actor library that comes with Scala in general. – user166390 May 23 '11 at 20:18
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Actors need to be started. Just add MyActor.start at the top of your main method and it will work. It will be less messy if you add a delay inside your while loop.
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I can't that's a real-time thing... – Bruna May 24 '11 at 12:36
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48943 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
pls accept Wooble's answer, it is correct – Tim May 9 '13 at 19:01
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To import third-party modules in App Engine, they need to be included (or symlinked) in the project directory. Your regular PYTHONPATH isn't checked, as modules installed on your local machine most likely won't be available on the production servers.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48944 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
It's been working perfectly fine all day long, now suddenly I can't connect. I can connect through the browser (and so can you: http://secure.exoterragame.com/noxastra/login.php), but it won't work in my Java application. I get an UnknownHostException.
URL register = new URL("http://secure.exoterragame.com/noxastra/login.php" +
"?username=" + request.Username +
"&password=" + request.Password);
URLConnection conn = register.openConnection();
I am completely stumped. Does anyone know why this would happen?
(Yes, we'll be using https in the final version :P)
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could be a bad suggestion, but once this happened to me and a computer restart made it work again. – Adithya Surampudi Jun 20 '11 at 2:40
I should probably try that. It always seems to work. :P – Kyle Emmerich Jun 20 '11 at 2:43
Nope, no luck restarting. – Kyle Emmerich Jun 20 '11 at 2:57
hmm, could you do try with switching off antivirus/firewall, if no other method works? – Adithya Surampudi Jun 20 '11 at 3:10
try adding the hostname in your hostsfile to see if DNS is the problem. on most recent versions of Windows it's \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, and you add it like so on one line: secure.exoterragame.com – jcomeau_ictx Jun 20 '11 at 3:24
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Do a packet sniff to see what's going on behind the scenes. (I recommend Wireshark for all platforms.)
I had a similar problem in Flash once and was tearing my hair until I realized it was a bug in the VM and it was giving me timeouts without ever sending any packets!
I don't think Java will have such a bug, but the point is, sniffing is sometimes invaluable.
Maybe there's a DNS/hosts-file update which your browser has gotten, but the program not (or the other way around?) Maybe the program's getting stuck on a (local) firewall? Maybe it does login successfully but breaks on a redirect response? (I don't even know if URL is capable of doing that, but still...) Maybe you've enabled/disabled IPv6 somewhere?
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Also using old school tcpdump helps as well! Anything you can use to see packets going over the wire is invaluable for a network programmer – Suroot Jun 20 '11 at 2:49
Oh yes, forgot about that. For reference, it also has a Windows port, windump. – aib Jun 20 '11 at 2:53
jcomeau@intrepid:/tmp$ cat test.java; javac test.java; java test
import java.net.*;
public class test {
URL register = new URL(
"http://secure.exoterragame.com/noxastra/login.php" +
"?username=" + "guest" +
"&password=" + "guest");
URLConnection conn = register.openConnection();
Doesn't throw an exception for me. Perhaps http://stackoverflow.com/users/800237/adithya-surampudi 's suggestion will work.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48945 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I am using java.nio to copy a file, it copies fine except for the fact that there is a line of []s at the end of the file.
Here is my code:
source (the source channel)
mbb is MappedByteBuffer
Source Channel:
source = new FileInputStream(original(this is a File)).getChannel();
source.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_WRITE, 0, 1024);
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It looks like you've passed in a byte array (or something) which contained a number of 'null bytes' at the end. I think you need to provide more of your code: how are you constructing the source channel and MappedByteBuffer ? (also, I think you mean MappedByteBuffer not MappedByteArray) – laher Sep 30 '11 at 2:33
@amir75, yeah that was a typo, it's actually MappedByteBuffer. Added what you said above. – LanguagesNamedAfterCofee Sep 30 '11 at 2:40
That little square at the end of the file is probably a unicode character you were unable to identify. – pablosaraiva Sep 30 '11 at 2:57
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You are assuming the file is 1024 bytes long instead of using the actual file size. I suspect the junk is in the MappedByteBuffer rather than the file.
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Yes, I'm not using Buffer.allocateDirect() – LanguagesNamedAfterCofee Sep 30 '11 at 21:37
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/48946 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
In a nutshell, what are pros and cons of using triggers in MySQL? Yet I have not ever used neither triggers nor stored procedures in MySQL, so I'm used to solve any task I have using PHP for business logic and SQL for CRUD. Now I've got a task to save table's history and thinking of usage of triggers for this purpose. So, the sub-question is: are triggers good for this particular task?
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Have you thought about using the database logfiles to protocol changes inside your database? – dgw Jan 17 '12 at 4:03
nope. How this can be more simple to implement what I need comparing to triggers or php for business logic? – Nemoden Jan 17 '12 at 5:40
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In short: (pros/cons of triggers vs implementing functionality in code, e.g. php)
Pros: easier to implement audit/history
Cons: harder to debug issues
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this is the reason why I don't use stored procedures - I tried to get into this, but it's not a very pleasant process. If I need to modify the code, I have to delete the procedure and compile it again (I want to think there is a better way of doing this). and it's hard to debug (is there a better way than you just write a code, compile, if it does not work you fix it and compile again?). – Nemoden Jan 17 '12 at 3:39
P.S. no alter trigger, huh? lists.mysql.com/mysql/187387 Why MySQL sucks at business logic that much? (it's rhetorical question :) ) – Nemoden Jan 17 '12 at 6:28
@Nemoden - I usually don't put any business logic in stored procs, I only use them to access data or insert/update it. I keep all business logic in the code. – Andrey Jan 18 '12 at 15:19
And so do I, that's why I hesitate. Although, mysql triggers seems to be the most appropriate place for my task. To be clear: I wouldn't do that if we used a common interface for saving changes to the database (ORM/AR), so the code which can modify table records is spreaded among the codebase. That's actually the real issue, which is not solvable in the nearest future. – Nemoden Jan 19 '12 at 1:30
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