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Template:Ninja-leafTemplate:Ninja-soundTemplate:Ninja-akatsuki Orochimaru is one of the Leaf Village's three legendary ninja or Sannin. He was the student that everyone believed would become the Fourth Hokage, but his hunger for power led him to commit dark experiments and practice forbidden jutsu. After the Third uncovered the truth, Orochimaru left Konoha and formed the Hidden Sound Village in the Land of Rice. He was responsible for countless immoral experiments and collected many ninja with unique abilities in his numerous hidden bases. He wished more than anything to find the ultimate body and improve himself to the state of a god. He attempted to possess Uchiha Itachi, Kaguya Kimimaro, and Uchiha Sasuke's body, but all of the attempts failed for various reasons, with Uchiha Sasuke actually reversing the jutsu and possessing Orochimaru's soul.
Subsequent anime episode appearances: 28-30, 36-39, 40, 50-51, 67-75, 79-81, 88-90, 92-96
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Orochimaru when first met
Orochimaru was originally a student of Sarutobi (the Third Hokage) as a part of a three-man team consisting of himself, Jiraiya, and Tsunade. Team Sarutobi mirrored Team Kakashi in nearly every way. Orochimaru, like Sasuke, was aloof, arrogant, and considered the most talented out of the three. Sarutobi in particular had very high hopes for him, often berating the clumsy Jiraiya and telling him he should be more like Orochimaru. After becoming Hokage, Sarutobi hoped that one day Orochimaru would succeed him.
Realizing that he had hit a dead end in his quest to become the ultimate being and had nothing to gain from staying in Konoha, Orochimaru defected from the village and joined the elite criminal organization Akatsuki. His old teammate, Jiraiya, tried to convince him to reconsider, but to no avail - he betrayed the village and the title of the 'Three Legendary Leaves' was no more, though he is still known as one of the Legendary Three. The role Orochimaru played in Akatsuki is unclear, as are his reasons for leaving sometime later, although it is known that he was partnered with Sasori prior to his defection. He admits that Itachi Uchiha's growing power had made it impossible for him to acquire his body and thus he chose to go after the much weaker Sasuke Uchiha instead. He eventually founded his own village, Otogakure.
It is unknown what Orochimaru had been up to during the two-and-a-half-year timeskip, though logic suggests he had been training Sasuke (and himself) and biding his time until he can transfer his soul into Sasuke. He makes his debut reappearance by spying on the meeting between Kabuto Yakushi and Yamato, who was disguised as the now deceased Sasori. Orochimaru explains that he had long ago undone Sasori's "binding jutsu" on Kabuto, and had intended assassinating his former Akatsuki partner before calling out Naruto, Sakura, and Sai to do battle. He explains that Yamato was the only one out of sixty test subjects that survived one of his genetic experiments to duplicate the First Hokage's Mokuton techniques and his previously unknown ability to "control tailed beasts", though he himself did not recognize this until Yamato revealed the abilities himself.
After antagonizing Naruto to the point where he transforms into a four-tailed state and attacks him, Orochimaru demonstrates a number of new and outright inhuman abilities. As well as modified forms of snake summonings, he can shed his skin like a snake and, by doing so, repair any damage to his body (including lost limbs), summon an enormous number of snakes from his mouth, and can stretch his body to lengths far beyond what he exhibited in Part I. He also demonstrates his immense reserves of chakra when he summons three Rashomon gates to block the black chakra ball that the four-tailed demon fox Naruto spat at him. Though they fail to completely stop the chakra ball, this is nonetheless an impressive feat. Additionally, Orochimaru can create a clone out of snakes that can morph various parts of its body into snake parts. If injured, it can simply regenerate, even if it is sliced in half.
The battle with Naruto comes to an end after Orochimaru attempts to stab Naruto with his Kusanagi sword. Even the sword is unable to pierce the intense chakra shield protecting Naruto. He comments that his body had reached its limit, as his current body does not allow for extended fighting. It is later shown at his lair, however, that the time he must rest for is quite short.
Orochimaru returns again in Chapter 309, just in time to stop Sasuke from performing an unnamed jutsu on his former friends. Kabuto also informs Sasuke to let the Konoha shinobi manage the other Akatsuki to make his revenge a little easier. Although Sasuke is hesitant, the trio disappears in a puff of smoke.
Orochimaru is male, but speaks in a very formal female tone. This is done to make him more sinister, similar to Freeza of Dragon Ball Z. In fact, at the start of the series, he is actually possessing a female body. This cannot be copied in the English dubbed version so he speaks in a masculine but silent and slightly high-pitched tone. Despite the fact that he is able to alter both his body shape and voice, he still speaks with a female tone.
Orochimaru's human appearance borders on inhuman with very pale white skin, slitted eyes, and an extending, snake-like tongue (this tongue is actually a permanent jutsu, which enables the user to extend parts of their body to infinite lengths). Orochimaru also has the unique ability to molt, repairing any damage to his body as easily as someone else repairs their clothes. Even Ibiki Morino, Konoha's veteran torture and interrogation specialist, admits that when he saw Orochimaru for the first time, he was terrified and was convinced that what stood before him was not a man but rather something else which had merely donned human skin.
Orochimaru's true form
Orochimarus true appearance is a giant white snake made up of many smaller snakes with long oily black hair with the normal slitted of of a snake.
Fighting Style
Orochimaru's specialty is forbidden techniques related to souls, departed or otherwise, which he has researched to the point where he can defy death itself and his mind transcends the body it happens to currently inhabit. He is also very talented with techniques related to snakes (hence the name Orochi, a legendary eight-headed snake from Japanese folklore) and can summon snakes of various powers, such as the 'Boss Snake', Manda; the equal to Jiraiya's Gamabunta and Tsunade's Katsuyu. He even keeps the summoning contract on his left arm as a tattoo. In fact, in his introduction he is riding a gigantic snake.
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I have triplets and my bigger one has slowly been taking less and less and now the other two have surpassed him. His weight curve has also slowed down but nothing to be concerned about according to our pediatrician. I am bottle feeding. To put it in perspective - my other two have been eating on average 1100ml/day and this one is eating 980ml/day. This may seem like a lot but over time this is a considerably lower amount of calories.
I am just wondering if anyone else had a superstar eater turn into a ho-hum eater? Any suggestions? Thanks
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I haven't had this particular situation, but I do think it's important to remember that kids go through cycles in their eating habits. Is he LOSING weight or failing to GAIN weight? Does he have any other signs or symptoms to make you think he's sick or not feeling well? If not, then he's probably ok. Keep on eye on him, monitor his eating, make sure he's not exhibiting other signs of illness, but if he's happy and healthy otherwise then at his next growth spurt it will probably pick back up again. – Meg Coates Apr 25 '13 at 16:07
Maybe he's just done spurting for right now and the others are playing catch-up? – Charles Apr 26 '13 at 15:44
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Here's some helpful information from the Livestrong Foundation:
Causes of Slowed Appetite
If your baby's suddenly eating less but seems to still be healthy and interested in eating, he’s likely just going through a healthy slow phase. In a baby 4 to 7 months old, eating less can also indicate he’s beginning teething. If you think his teeth are coming in, give him a cold washcloth to chew on and ask his doctor if you can give him a pain reliever. In some cases, his eating less could indicate a larger medical problem. Consult a pediatrician if you suspect something's wrong.
Signs Your Baby is Healthy
Your baby's change in hunger could be a normal and healthy thing. Pay attention to how many diapers you’re changing. A baby who’s getting enough nourishment should wet five to six diapers and have at least one bowel movement a day. She should seem relaxed and content after each feeding. Your baby's skin should be smooth and unwrinkled and her face should be rounded by her third week of life. If you’re breastfeeding, your breasts should feel softer after a feeding.
Signs of a Problem
A baby who is not getting enough daily nourishment will not urinate as frequently, and his urine may be dark yellow or orange. He may only pass bowel movements once every few days and they may be hard and dry. If he seems fussy after eating or expresses no interest in eating, this may also indicate a problem. Your baby’s weight is one of the surest ways to track whether he’s eating enough. A healthy baby should steadily gain weight after his first day of life. If he’s not gaining -- or is losing -- weight, visit his pediatrician immediately.
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Episode №: #734 Main: Ash, Iris, Cilan
UnitedStatesFlag Aug-25-2012
Opening Theme: Rival Destinies Minor: Ferris, Sierra
Multiple Pokémon:
Whirlipede, Carracosta, Archeops, Archen
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James' Yamask is revealed to know Will-O-Wisp, Ash and co. stop Team Rockets plan forcing them to retreat once again.
Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies
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Ash and co. may have seen one Whirlipede with Burgh in BW025: Battling For The Love of Bug-Types! but this is worst when all three of them are wild and aggressive.
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Welcome to the world of Pokémon, Kefkagarland!
-- Bermuda (Talk) 02:21, June 27, 2012
Can you tell me what "exp" is on this wiki?I'm new to the concept of exp on wikis
My guess is that you are referring to the EXP in chat, am I correct? This is simply our way of saying contributions/edits. Basically, it's the same as the number of edits you make on this wiki. The only difference is that we named it EXP, to fit with the Pokémon theme.
Also, please leave a header and signature (by typing ~~~~) when leaving new messages. That way I can read things easily; otherwise, I may miss or ignore your message. Bermuda • Triangle • 22:51,7/4/2012
Hello there
I am surprised that you also help this wiki. Well, when did you start joining this wiki?
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Could someone explain to me how to play the TCG in general?
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I've always been curious about how to play...because I have a crapload of cards that I don't want to go to waste.
And I don't want massive huge monster-big answers to read like this if at all possible, I hate to read. (Though I will give you points for your effort if you do ;D)
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Its a lot to explain in one answer. But the official Pokemon website provides tutorials to the TCG that can be found Here. The even provide video to help with the instructions, this is the site that help me understand it.
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What We Leave Behind
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The only thing we do on this planet that connects us past the time we are alive here is to leave children behind. Yes, we can leave works of art and fiction; we can construct buildings, pass laws, create organizations but eventually our imprint will disappear. With children (and as long as humans exist on the planet, which lord knows might not be too long at this point), we can leave part of our genes, part of our behaviors, part of our effort here. If you are a very lucky human without children and great accomplishment, you might be revered the world wide for your sonnets or philosophies or plays or notions. We all know the names of those people right now. But most of us, truly, have nothing but family.
People who don't have children shouldn't despair about this fact because often what we leave behind isn't that wonderful. We have bad habits and large foreheads that likely should be wiped out of the human population. But the truth is, the chain of humans is what there is for us. From our cave beginnings, we've wanted to exist, to remain, to be, and we can do that through progeny. Our mammalian brains keep us going, even when covered with the patina of higher brain function.
That biological connection doesn't necessarily explain why we love our children so much, though. After a while, children become people we have to learn how to like (love is always there) because they will become the people they want to be, not the people we want them to be. They will have their own desires and feelings and goals, and these will go counter perhaps to our wishes for them. They will have habits we don't like and believe in ideas we pushed away long ago. They will ask us to meet them as equals, and that is a new skill as we've always just thought of them as our children.
And then, well, we have to change. We have to become people we haven't been before, people with adult children. I realize that my mothering time is so fragile and tenuous now. My role has stretched to the thinnest measure, a transparent thing, barely able to hold together. I can support them emotionally, send them money, talk to them, encourage them, but that role that started when I found out I was pregnant and their very lives depended on what I ate and what I did or did not drink is over.
I know why people suddenly have midlife babies. It's scary to go into this part because we can see that we are now preparing to leave, eventually. This big people are the ones who matter now, not us. They are the ones to have the future children, to keep the chain alive. Not us. frankly, we aren't needed any more--except if we can eek our one more baby! Heaven forefend.
We live a lot longer now that our cave foreparents. The women were lucky to live through the first baby--we give birth to creatures way too early. So we have this life to live after the babies are men and women.
Anyway, I'm blathering about all this because my oldest is home. As we walked around the Lafayette Reservoir, I was looking at him, seeing the man he was, feeling the woman I had become, someone who was connected to the world through this man before me. Not his mother, really, in the active role of the word, but the person who left him here, the person who left part of herself here through him. Here he was my connection, from which I must truly disconnect in so many ways.
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Beautiful Sons
I enjoyed your student's comments about your gift to the class at UCL.A.
I don't have kids but since visiting to the schools, I look at the tiny little heads and appendages of children, my heart aches. I wonder about the problems we are leaving them.
Beautiful essay, Jessica.
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We leave behind more, and I
We leave behind more, and I realized that after writing this. But it's all so ephemeral. We leave patterns and wiggles and waves of ideas, but then they all just seem to float away. As Anne Lamott wrote in her novel, "All New People," in "one hundred years, all new people." No one who is here will be here.
Wow--am I being morbid?
Thank you for your compliment to my sons.
Jessica Barksdale Inclan www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com
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through my friends. Their children are college age and it's amazing to see these fully grown humans interact with their parents and with me. I had held them as week olds.
Life is pretty amazing.
Death is like a lawnmower.
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What a wonderful job it appears you have done!
Your last comment really hits the mark; I read somewhere that "a parent's job is to work themselves out of a job". And what work it is. The most joyful, humorous, funny, frustrating, difficult, rage producing job a human can have. Never boring (unless you count the times you have had to play Candyland 50 times in the same hour). Then the sorrowful moments come, slow and gradual; each milestone (beginning school, becoming a teenager, graduating from high school and then college) brings the sobering knowledge that your job will soon be downsized.
Then when you walk with them as adults, you look at their bad habits, their inherited crocked nose, or their views we don't necessarily agree with, we see what we brought home hours after their birth- the most beautiful creature that walked the planet. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/36802 | Force empty that stubborn trash bin in OS X
There are several reasons why the trash bin in OS X will not empty, or will not otherwise work as expected. Often this occurs because of access permission faults with the hidden trash folder that OS X uses as an intermediary for storing trashed files before they are finally deletes, but at other times it occurs from built-in restrictions like having locked files in the trash.
If you decide to empty the trash in OS X, and end up getting an error or otherwise not seeing the contents delete, first try holding the Option key when emptying, which will invoke the OS X Force Empty feature, bypassing things like file locks and removing any file you have in the Trash.
This should in most cases empty the trash completely, but if you are experiencing more severe problems, the trash may still remain full, or won't allow you to add items to it (they may be deleted immediately). Note that there is no trash support for networked volumes, so deleting items from them will result in their immediate removal.
However, if such behavior happens for files on a locally attached drive, you can go about fixing the issue by locating and removing the hidden trash folders (one in your account, and the other at the root of each locally mounted volume on the system), so the system will rebuild it with proper access permissions the next time you place an item in the trash.
There are two ways to remove this folder. The first is to use the Terminal (in the Applications > Utilities folder), which can be done by running the following two commands. These can be copied and pasted, one line at a time, to the Terminal, but since they recursively target specific folders, be sure to use this exact syntax to avoid any problems:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/*/.Trashes
These two commands will be the quickest way to clear and rebuild the trash folders on your Mac, provided you do not have any third-party tools; however, some may be intimidated by the Terminal and wish to use the a graphical interface. Unfortunately, attempting to remove the Trash folders via the Finder cannot be done. Even though you can reveal them in the Finder, attempting to delete the ".Trashes" folders at the root of your hard drives will result in an error, and deleting the one in your home folder will attempt to recursively move it into itself, and ultimately get you nowhere.
If you wish to avoid using the Terminal, your best bet is to use a third-party utility, such as TrashIt!, which will invoke similar functions to clear and rebuild the Trash folders, without you needing to type or copy any commands.
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Once again I seem to have underestimated how Wall Street's love of a good story can overpower and outweigh the likely long-term economic returns from that story. In the case of Edwards Lifesciences (EW), I have never doubted that transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) (also called "... valve implantation" or TAVI) was going to be successful, nor that Edwards' Sapien would be a major player.
What I doubted was whether Wall Street would keep pumping up the valuation it was willing to pay. With Edwards being one of the relatively few double-digit organic growth stories in med-tech, the stock is up about 30% since my last skeptical piece - not all that much better than other med-tech...
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What is the best way you jump-started your Powershell adoption?
What resources, tips, scenarios got you up to speed quickly?
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Massively useful for all forms of scripting. In the past I learned VBScript and WMI through the Script Center, and it now has a lot of useful stuff on Powershell scripting.
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Good link... but a bit Nebulus as well. Anything that took you from ZERO to 60mph? – Brett Veenstra Jun 22 '09 at 13:22
As Doug says below, I found the best approach was to choose a problem. Then search the Script Center for example code and do it. The Powershell language is very simple, it's learning all the useful scriplets and objects supplied by Powershell that takes the time. If you sit down and start coding, with the Script center to hand, you'll be surprised how quickly you pick it up. – John Rennie Jun 22 '09 at 13:30
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I would start with this one.
Effective Windows PowerShell: The Free eBook
These two books are more advanced.
Windows PowerShell in Action
A great source of information, the definite reference for PowerShell.
Windows PowerShell Cookbook
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Picking specific tasks at work and forcing myself to do them in PowerShell instead of in VBS or manually. No pain, no gain.
Also, the PowerScripting Podcast is a pretty good resource to help you learn even when you aren't actively coding.
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Agree on the specific task part. But surely you had some tidbit, tool, URL, etc that got it clicking for you. That's what I'm after... – Brett Veenstra Jun 22 '09 at 13:31
Not really - the closest I can come to a "specific tool" is PowerShell In Action. – Doug Chase Jun 22 '09 at 13:36
+1 This is basically what I'm doing. – squillman Jun 22 '09 at 13:37
And some videos of Snover that are positively inspiring. The one with Erik Meijer is great. – Doug Chase Jun 22 '09 at 13:38
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Watch the powershell webcasts from the technet events site.
1- Introducing Windows PowerShell
2- One Cmdlet, Two Cmdlet, Three Cmdlet, Four:
3- Objects, Objects Everywhere: Working With Objects in Windows PowerShell
4- New Kid on the Scriptblock: Writing Scripts in Windows PowerShell
5- Amazing But True: Things You Never Dreamt You Could Do in Windows PowerShell
After watching those for some hands on training you can take the interactive labcast If you don't have an environment to play in you can use the virtual lab
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Windows Powershell in Action gets my vote for most useful reference book and its very readable. The forums in powershellcommmunity are useful. Most of the information I've found is from blogs. Here's a partial list of Powershell blogs. I'm also a fan of user groups, but do not have one in my area, so I try to attend online. The Powerscripting Podcast and Virtual Powershell User Group are couple examples of user groups/shows.
As noted you should commit to doing your next project in Powershell to really learn it.
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I worked through PowerShell.com's Master PowerShell eBook. I have a solid background in VBScript and a pretty good understanding of OO concepts, which probably helps as well.
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Some good pieces of advice can also be found on John D Cook website.
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Review (and use) other people's code.
Three excellent sites for this being:
• The above mentioned, Script Center's Repository
• PoshCode.org - a repository of PowerShell scripts that are free for public use
• The Hey Scripting Guy blog - at least a script a day answering a specific need
And as a bonus, the most complete cheat-sheet I have found. (Unfortunately, I am not sure if that posting is the original source.)
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I am looking after a server that has 6GB of RAM. There is a JAVA binary running that is using 1.8GB RAM, but nothing else is using anything near that, but I am seeing a constant 85%+ usage of physical memory.
The other processes don't add up to the difference so where else can I see what is using the memory?
I've never seen this before...
UPDATE 1: During my research I have discovered that SQL server can use more memory than it shows it is using in Task Manager. My box is running MySQL so I am wondering if a similar thing happens here?
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Have you tried the sysinternals process explorer? – kafka Jan 11 '13 at 16:29
Can you be more specific? Is the 85% consumed memory active memory or is the majority of it buffers? – MDMarra Jan 11 '13 at 16:33
and to add to @MDMarra - what tool(s) are you using to come to this conclusion? – TheCleaner Jan 11 '13 at 17:10
I'm using Process Explorer and that shows Physical Usage as 85%. Where do I see it as active or buffered? – neildeadman Jan 14 '13 at 8:05
Generally. using as much memory as possible to buffer and speed stuff up is A Good Thing (TM), which Windows likes to do when there is free memory wasting money just sitting there... – Oskar Duveborn Jan 31 '13 at 16:16
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Windows has a built-in tool for analysing memory usage called Resource Monitor, you can start it by executing resmon.exe. By navigating to the Memory tab you'll get a graphical representation of your memory usage as well as process-specific data.
If you require even more information there is a Microsoft Sysinternals utility called RAMMap - it will give you a lot more information on both total and process usages. You can download it from here.
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I've read how it is possible to disable password authentication on an Ubuntu server. However, is it possible to disable this for remote users only?
I'm afraid that, if I enable this both locally and remotely (as designed), I will ultimately lose the key and lock myself out (over time). If I were able to disable password authentication for remote users only, losing the key wouldn't be so tragic; I could simply go to the LAN and login with a password and create a new key.
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From the sshd_config(5) manpage:
Match line or the end of the file.
The arguments to Match are one or more criteria-pattern pairs. The available criteria are User, Group, Host, LocalAddress, LocalPort, and Address. The match patterns may consist of single entries or comma-
separated lists and may use the wildcard and negation operators described in the PATTERNS section of ssh_config(5).
The patterns in an Address criteria may additionally contain addresses to match in CIDR address/masklen format, e.g. “” or “3ffe:ffff::/32”. Note that the mask length provided must be consistent
with the address - it is an error to specify a mask length that is too long for the address or one with bits set in this host portion of the address. For example, “” and “” respectively.
This means that, assuming to be your LAN, you can have PasswordAuthentication disabled in the main configuration and a Match block like this:
PasswordAuthentication No
Match Address
PasswordAuthentication Yes
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You can put all remote users into a local (additional) group ex. 'remoteusr' and disallow login with password in 'sshd_config'
Match Group remoteusr
PasswordAuthentication no
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I agree that this is an additional layer of security, but it doesn't seem like this would prevent a malicious remote user from getting a password authentication prompt (while attempting usernames and passwords not belonging to the Match Group you've suggested). – LonnieBest Sep 28 '13 at 6:36
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An option I've seen used before is to run two instances of sshd reading from separate config files. Your default one listens for normal SSH traffic, configured as securely as you want.
The second instance is your "back door", which listens only on a separate port or separate IP, perhaps with appropriate firewall rules to prevent access from outside the network. It's configured differently; perhaps allowing password auth, perhaps allowing access to accounts that are disallowed in the primary, etc.
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I didn't think that. Thanks for sharing this idea. – LonnieBest Sep 28 '13 at 18:46
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/36821 | Finally, a Birth Control Pill for Men?
New research is showing that a birth control for men may be just around the corner
by Lexi Petronis, Glamour
New research published in the journal Cell is suggesting that a new compound may result in a birth control pill for men.
Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Martin Matzuk Baylor College of Medicine developed a drug meant to be part of a cancer research project. But in experiments, male mice that were given the drug produced fewer and less mobile sperm--meaning they ended up completely infertile during treatment.
And the process was reversible. Once the mice stopped taking the drug, they were again fertile little rodents. What scientists are especially excited about is the possible implications for humans: the drug is non-hormonal, reversible, orally administered, and safe for future offspring (baby mice born after the experiment were healthy).
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Still, there's a lot of research to be done--scientists must find out how effective the pill would be in human men, for one thing.
"It's exciting basic science that provides a new approach to think about how a contraceptive for men might be designed. At the same time, it's a long ways from being in clinical trials in men, let alone being on pharmacy shelves," says William Bremner from the University of Washington in Seattle.
What do you think--is a birth control for men a good idea? Would the guy in your life take it? Would you want him to?
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Comment: You seem to be lost. (Score 1) 241
by Homestar Breadmaker (#15355296) Attached to: Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough
"Novell isn't /. - this is the real world."
But this is slashdot. To claim this is a breakthrough on slashdot is moronic. Because its not a breakthrough, its setting us back further.
"This argument is repeated time and again here on Slashdot and the fact is it is rediculous. Want to know why? Because Novell's customers want it."
No, its not "rediculous", its perfectly accurate and valid. Because Novell's customers don't matter to linux developers. We want a free operating system we can support and debug. Novell's customers can blow a goat.
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Comment: Well, there was this thing called Beta... (Score 1) 3
by unitron (#46496911) Attached to: OMG
...which, if you're still in classic mode, you can lay eyeballs on by clicking the link at the bottom of the page.
And there was considerable reaction to it, much if not most of which was negative, and there was a very corporate-speak laden reaction to that by the editors here or the people who sign their checks and tell them what to write, and that led to the Slashcott and the creation of some new "Slashdot-ish" sites by some of the refugees from here.
And that was just in February.
Comment: Re:The USA isn't synonymous with efficiency (Score 1) 261
by gmhowell (#46496099) Attached to: U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration
I don't think that's the point. I believe the point is that a dictatorship or single party rule is more efficient than a democracy or group run system.
Or it could be that the US is more in bed with the interests of businesses and is more likely to agree with them.
In any event, your reading of that isn't necessarily the correct one.
Comment: Re:one breaker (Score 1) 393
by gmhowell (#46495869) Attached to: Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate'
Agreed. I'm an aviation enthusiast. I've never been in the cockpit of an airliner. I'm fairly confident I could reprogram the FMS of one in-flight to fly any route I wished. I've done it on flight sims that are fairly accurate, and they all tend to work about the same way.
Did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night as well?
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Comment: Re:People associate it wrongly (Score 1) 209
by shawb (#35456030) Attached to: Microsoft Patent Deems Comic Books Shameful
Unfortunately, prospective employers tend to judge you before they meet you. It's kind of their job.
Even though Microsoft used comic books as an example, finding another comic book geek isn't going to be the use of this method... it's going to be used to find someone with a compatible sexual fetish. That information definitely does not need to be available to employers, coworkers, family, etc unless you choose to make it so.
Comment: Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 249
by shawb (#35442232) Attached to: Text Messages To Replace Stamps In Sweden
You really think someone is going to spend the effort and legal liability of cracking a government code just to save $4 on 10 letters? Especially once people start getting denied because the same person sent out 10 letters over and over. Besides... easy fix. Put the address you are sending to in the message, keep that in a database and compare once the letter actually comes in.
Comment: Re:Does not Affect Prior Art Doctrine (Score 1) 362
by shawb (#35434996) Attached to: Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill
Which, in theory, should be somewhat alleviated by the patent office now holding on to the license fees rather than passing them on to patch the general budget. Well, unless corruption is actually one of the largest driving factors. Which, having worked in a beaurocracy, I highly doubt.
Comment: Re:Get a USB hub (Score 1) 297
by shawb (#35354742) Attached to: Can the Atrix 4G Really Become Your Next PC?
Real work will still probably be done on a traditional desktop or laptop for some time now, but that's a different story. Anyways, the future probably isn't so much with a dock that allows for bigger and better I/O as it is a way to connect the smartphone to the PC so the actual run state of a program can be shifted from one device to another similar to dragging a window between screens of a multi monitor setup. This would take a revolution in the way DRM is handled, probably something along the lines of cloud computing with the PC and phone acting as thin clients. Unless the economy crashes and noone can afford it.
Comment: Re:Can it run my Steam games? (Score 1) 297
by shawb (#35354580) Attached to: Can the Atrix 4G Really Become Your Next PC?
The last games I have heard people in the real world talking about are Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies and the Android port of Vendetta. While PC gaming isn't going to absolutely go away anytime soon, I don't foresee it being a growth market. We are probably at the point where new PC gaming studios will open only as fast as old ones close or are absorbed into behemoths like EA. New creative indie gamers are mostly going to be doing their first games for cell phones as a pervasive distribution system with modest pricing schemes is now integral to the experience.
To anyone who disagrees: what is the last new genre of video game that is largely installed (by installed I mean not played in the browser) on PCs? PC gaming is pretty much dominated by FPS, roleplaying, life sim and RTS/TBS. All genres that were pretty well codified in the '90s, with changes since then largely being evolutionary rather than revolutionary, or of the "but on the INTERNET!" variety.
To put it in numbers, Angry Birds has 50 million shipped, which is more than three times as many as the biggest selling PC game The Sims at 16 Million. Wii has 7 games that sold better than The Sims. The DS has 5 games that sold better than The Sims.
So no, PC gaming probably isn't going to go away for a bit. On the other hand, it really isn't going anywhere at all.
Comment: Re:Panspermia (Score 2) 199
by shawb (#35344246) Attached to: Meteorites Brought Ingredients of Life To Earth
This is far from panspermia. That is the theory that life itself came from space. This is just saying that Nitrogen is brought to the earth by meteorites.
Really, this should just be one big "duh" to anyone who has read up on theory of planetary formation. Basically, the whole planet is made up of meteorites that crashed together. And maybe a couple times it was large aggregations of meteorites that collided into the growing mass, and even small planetoid bodies such as the event that is theorized to have created the moon. But those planetoid bodies were made by the collisions of numerous meteors, dust particles, etc.
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I've got 2 projects using Maven. The first one is a library containing utility classes and methods. The second project is an actual application that has the library as a dependency. My library uses internally a third-party library.
So these are the dependencies: - My library: depends on the third-party library - My application: depends on my library.
However, I don't want the third-party library classes to be available at compile time in my application. This is because the application is supported by a large team and I want to prevent people from accidentally using methods from the third-party library in the application given that some class names and some method names are similar between the two. Of course the third-par ty library will have to be available in my application at runtime.
If the scope for all my dependencies was compile, it wouldn't achieve my goal. Is there a way to achieve this in Maven 3?
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Very good question and unfortunately you can't do this using Maven 3, or 2, or any other version, because of its fundamental design. What you're asking about is actually a desired and ideal behaviour since in fact any artifact's compile dependencies should be transitive with runtime scope. However, design like this leads to some problems. As you can read at Maven's Introduction to the Dependency Mechanism about compile scope:
So, as you see, what you require is actually the proper design of this behaviour which is unfortunately impossible to implement.
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I was hoping there was a way to do it. Thanks for your answer, Michal. – Juanal Flores Jun 27 '12 at 8:00
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/36858 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have been reading various articles about random numbers and their generators. There are usually 3 important conclusions that I draw from them:
• Random numbers are not truly random
• Much of the time they have a bias (modulo bias)
• Humans are incapable of being random number generators, when they are trying to "act randomly"
So, with the latter-most of these observations in mind, how would we be able to
1. Tell if a sequence of numbers that we see is truly random, and more importantly
2. Is there some way we can prove that said sequence is really random?
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I'm tempted to say that so long as you generate a sufficiently large enough sample set 1,000,000+, you should see more or less a uniform dispersion of (pseudo)random numbers occur. However, I'm sure some Maths genius has a way of discrediting this, because surely the by laws of probability you could get a run of one number just as likely as any other sequence.
From what I have read, if you really need random numbers its best to try and reuse what cryptographic libraries use. The field of Cryptography is obviously complex and relies on random numbers for key generation. From the section in OWASP's guide titled "Reversible Authentication Tokens" it says this...
My take is that unless you're coding Cryptographic libraries yourself, put trust in those that are (e.g. use Java Cryptography Extension) so you don't have to proove it yourself.
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Pretty Simple Test:
If you really want to get into testing random numbers, you could simulate a program that outputs random numbers from 1-100 100 times as an example. Then look at those numbers and see if there's any patterns. Then follow that test by restarting the program several times and repeating the process. Examine all data to figure out if random numbers are always random, just random during individual tests, or never. :P
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Testing a random number generator is probably mostly up to what you want to look for. Even pure non-repeatability is no guarantee of randomness.
There are some companies that will test a random number generator for the purposes of certification (e.g. online casinos). One that I found quickly is called iTech Labs, though their testing methodology page leaves a lot to be desired in terms of technical detail.
Other testers and certification bodies publish the required data for a certification; there's more specific detail here but not as much as you want.
You could potentially do a statistical analysis and compare the results of your random number generator to a "true" random source but the argument could be made for bias from trying to translate the true random source into your possibility space anyway.
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Randomness tests verify the mathematical properties of the sequence. For example entry frequencies (all symbols are expected to have the same frequency), local variance, sequence analysis (the probability of a symbol must not depend on the previous ones). A definite proof does not exist, but there is a quality factor - the probability of a sequence to really be random. Another criterion could be based on compressibility: true randomness has maximum entropy and can not therefore be compressed. This test is not reliable for randomness, of course, but allows quick and dirty testing with ready tools such as zlib.
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I'm new to android and trying to create a simple program that adds three inputs together and then prints the output to an EditText. Whenever I hit the button I'm getting a crash in line 63 (the last line I posted below) of my code... I think it could be due to a null object or something like that. I'm 99% sure all of my variables and everything else are declared correctly. Anyways, here's my code for onClick method and if anyone can figure out what's causing the crash I'd be much obliged.
Button solve = (Button) findViewById(R.id.solve);
solve.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View arg0) {
if ((a.getText().length() == 0)
|| (" ".equals(a.getText().toString()))
|| (" ".equals(b.getText().toString()))
|| (" ".equals(c.getText().toString()))
|| (b.getText().length() == 0)
|| (c.getText().length() == 0)) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Some of your inputs are empty.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else {
double sol = new Double(a.getText().toString())
+ new Double(b.getText().toString())
+ new Double(c.getText().toString());
res1.setText(Double.toString(sol)); //line that is causing the crash
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Before you setText(). Try to print out your a, b, c and see if you are getting what you are suppose to be getting. – wtsang02 Oct 24 '12 at 1:23
Just a tip, make sure that a, b, and c do not have any other charter's in them. – The Floating Brain Oct 24 '12 at 2:54
Please paste the log cat here – Nguyen Minh Binh Oct 24 '12 at 3:10
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You are converting String values to Double in wrong way, see you can do it in following two ways,
1. use Double.parseDouble()
double sol = new Double.parseDouble((a.getText().toString().trim()); // also don't forget to use trim() method to remove white spaces
2. use new Double( value ).doubleValue()
double sol = new Double(a.getText().toString().trim()).doubleValue();
Now coming to set this sol variable's value to EditText try following way,
1. res1.setText((String)sol));
2. res1.setText(String.valueOf(sol));
3. res1.setText( sol + "" );
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ok, I tried using the second method, but it still crashes at res1.setText(Double.toString(sol)); Should I change the way I go about this line as well? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding – user1769938 Oct 24 '12 at 2:04
why you are not using trim() method ?, and what value you are passing in the text box ? – Lucifer Oct 24 '12 at 2:05
ah, sorry, meant to include that: res1.setText(Double.toString(sol).trim()); Passing 1, 2, and 3 respectively. – user1769938 Oct 24 '12 at 2:11
@user1769938, i have updated my answer, try it now – Lucifer Oct 24 '12 at 2:12
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You can try to use Double.Parse...
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I am facing difficulty in coming up with a solution for the problem given below:
We are given n boxes each having a weight ( it means each ball in box B_i have weight C_i),
Each box contain some balls specifically {b1,b2,b3...,b_n} (b_i is the count of balls in Box B_i).
we have to choose m balls out of it such that sum of the weights of m chosen balls be less than a given number T.
How many ways to do it?
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Hint: Suppose you build a solution by choosing k balls in order, with k at least 1. Suppose the first box you chose was i. Then the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ..., kth balls must be a solution to a slight variation of the same problem, where the weight constraint is now T - C_i (instead of T), and b_i is one less than the original b_i. – j_random_hacker Dec 26 '12 at 11:17
@j_random_hacker i got the recursive approach but facing difficulty in implementing it with using Dp, can you explain the Dp approach of yours. – Akashdeep Saluja Dec 26 '12 at 12:33
Whenever you find a recursion that (a) solves the problem using only optimal solutions to the subproblems and (b) involves solving some subproblems more than once, you can use top-down DP (also called memoisation): whenever the function is called, check whether that subproblem has been solved before, and if so, simply return the answer right away. If not (i.e. if this is the first time this subproblem has been seen), solve the subproblem and store its result in the DP matrix (or other data structure). – j_random_hacker Dec 29 '12 at 9:55
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First, let's have a look on a similar problem:
The similar problem is: you are looking to maximize the sum (such that it is still smaller then T), you are facing a variation of subset-sum problem, which is NP-Hard. The variation with a constant number of items is discussed in this thread: Sum-subset with a fixed subset size.
An alternative way to look at the problem is with a 2-dimensional knapsack problem, where weight = cost, and an extra dimension for number of elements. This concept is discussed in this thread: What's the fastest way to solve knapsack prob with two properties
Now, look at your problem: Finding the number of possible ways to achieve a sum which is smaller/equal T is still NP-Hard.
Assume you had a polynomial algorithm to do it, let it be A.
Running A(T) and A(T-1) will give you two numbers, if A(T) > A(T-1), the answer to the subset sum problem would have been true - otherwise it is false, so given a polynomial solution to this problem, we could prove P=NP.
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its not an optimization prolem, i need to compute the number of possible ways to do so. – Akashdeep Saluja Dec 26 '12 at 11:48
@AkashdeepSaluja: Oh, misunderstood you at first. I need to think for a minute, but I think it is still NP-Hard, since to find if there is any way to do it and get exactly to T is NP-Hard.. – amit Dec 26 '12 at 11:52
not exactly to T, i just need the cases where sum of b_i is less than T – Akashdeep Saluja Dec 26 '12 at 11:55
@AkashdeepSaluja: See edit, it is still NP-Hard. – amit Dec 26 '12 at 11:55
@amit NP-hard means nothing. It's just the worst-case. For small inputs, an algorithm based on dynamic programming is still feasible. – Xiao Jia Dec 26 '12 at 12:19
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You can solve it by using dynamic programming techniques.
Let f[i][j][k] denote the number of ways to choose j balls from B_1 to B_i with sum of weights to be exactly k. The answer you want to get is f[n][m][T].
Initially, let f[i][j][k] = 1 for all i,j,k
for i = 1 to n
for j = 0 to m
for k = 0 to T
for x = 0 to min(b_i,j) # choose x balls from B_i
y = x * C_i
if y <= k
f[i][j][k] = f[i][j][k] * f[i-1][j-x][k-y] * Comb(b_i,x)
Comb(n,k) is the number of ways to choose k elements from n elements.
The time complexity is O(n m T b) where b is the maximum number of balls in a box.
Note that, because of the T in the big-O notation, theoretically it is NP-hard. However, in practice, when T is relatively small, this algorithm is still feasible.
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i don't want sum to be exactly T, sum may be less than T. – Akashdeep Saluja Dec 26 '12 at 12:21
@AkashdeepSaluja Then sum up the values of f[n][m][z] where z = 0 to T – Xiao Jia Dec 26 '12 at 12:22
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/36861 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have set up HTTP Basic authentication for my app using Ring Basic Authentication. It works just fine and looks like this:
(:require [noir.server :as server]
(server/add-middleware wrap-basic-authentication authenticated?)
authenticated? is my own function implementation. Now I'd like to configure only a part of the application to be under basic authentication and other part to be public. I know this can be done with Ring (and Compojure) so it must be possible to do with Noir which is built on Ring. I'm just not quite sure how to apply the example is adapted to Noir because it uses routes and I don't see how I can get to those in Noir. Any ideas?
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Hmm, apparently questions like these were the reason Noir is now deprecated: blog.raynes.me/blog/2012/12/13/moving-away-from-noir – auramo Jan 6 '13 at 21:08
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The problem with Noir is that the routes are managed under the hood and there isn't much of anything at all that you can do to change how they get tied together with middleware and such. Noir was never a good match for complex middleware scenarios, and that's even more true now that it is deprecated. It may not be the answer you want to hear, but I highly recommend you use Compojure instead. If you're looking for a batteries included sort of thing, check out the luminus leiningen template for generating a batteries included web app with Compojure, lib-noir, and all sorts of other goodies.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/36862 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Please give an advise on how to do "plugin" architecture for Java web application.
Currently we are using quite simple and standard Spring+Hibernate+Struts 2 in Tomcat servlet container. (Built with maven)
I need something like Redmine. Where any module can be enabled/disabled, updated Redmine UI
Please exclude heavy options like OSGi, Portlet.
• OSGi is too heavy, there is no good adoption of the technology for web. I already looked at Eclipse Germini;
• Portlet it just old, and never was popular.
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I have awarded bounty, but question is still note closed. – Paul Verest Feb 26 '13 at 2:54
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I will try to provide several possible solution. I did spent some time preparing small PoCs for the project I'm working on, so let's hope the options below are relevant.
Important note: it is really easy to define some extension point, do resolve and find available implementations. There are a lot of solutions available, for example good and simple one -- JSPF
Resources are the main problem for WEB applications
OSGi, is not that bad and can be useful. It seems to be heavy (and some implementations are heavy) but this is price of standardized platform. I would suggest to check Apache Felix. It can be used in a "lightweight" mode. By the way, it includes Web Console which is build as loosely coupled plugin-based application, could be helpful:
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Some examples Extending the Apache Felix Web Console
The Web Console can be extended by registering an OSGi service for the interface javax.servlet.Servlet with the service property felix.webconsole.label set to the label (last segment in the URL) of the page. The respective service is called a Web Console Plugin or a plugin for short.
You can also check eie-manager which is clean and simple and uses OSGi to manage plugins. Could be a good example for you.
Custom plugin framework
I would suggest to review solution behind Jenkins/Hudson. I would say Jenkins plug-in system is quite mature and reliable. Can be used as a good example.
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Please also check Hudson Plugin Architecture
Simple solution
For my project I've build plugin abstraction layer based on JSPF with custom dependency resolver.
• simple and small
• clean concept
• works good
• without proper plugin management can be slow (full classpath search)
• provides very basic functionality
• may require additional attention
I would suggest to use JSPF only if you really need some simplicity and want to control everything. JPF provides a lot of interesting features out of the box, for example:
Plug-ins can be "hot-registered" and even de-registered during application execution. What's more, registered plug-ins can be activated and deactivated "on the fly", minimizing runtime resource usage.
The problem is JPF is dead.
Do spend some time with Apache Felix. It is mature enough, so your time investments may pay back a lot.
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Check out the answers to this question: Best way to build a Plugin system with Java
If you don't trust the plugin code, you can implement sandboxing, as described here: Sandbox against malicious code in a Java application
The open-source Java Plug-in Framework project supports plugin deactivation, you can get inspired from it even if it is too heavy for your purposes.
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How to apply this to web parts? Would you make all plugins as .war? – Paul Verest Jan 18 '13 at 3:34
Well, if these plugins can be independent webapps, then you don't have to do anything, for example the Tomcat manager webapp allows you to start/stop/reload the webapps without having to shut down and restart the server: tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/manager-howto.html – lbalazscs Jan 18 '13 at 10:23
plugins should not be independent webapps. In this way there will be a lot work of how to integrate them (cross links, security, simgle sign-on etc) – Paul Verest Jan 22 '13 at 8:44
Then I guess it makes no sense to make the plugins as .war files. – lbalazscs Jan 22 '13 at 10:18
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Atlassian open sourced their plugin system here. I see it is being worked heavily by Atlassian team. Worth to explore its documentation
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"Behavior of “round” function in Python" observes that Python rounds floats like this:
>>> round(0.45, 1)
>>> round(1.45, 1)
>>> round(2.45, 1)
>>> round(3.45, 1)
>>> round(4.45, 1)
>>> round(5.45, 1)
>>> round(6.45, 1)
>>> round(7.45, 1)
>>> round(8.45, 1)
>>> round(9.45, 1)
The accepted answer confirms this is caused by the binary representation of floats being inaccurate, which is all logical.
Assuming that Ruby floats are just as inaccurate as Python's, how come Ruby floats round like a human would? Does Ruby cheat?
1.9.3p194 :009 > 0.upto(9) do |n|
1.9.3p194 :010 > puts (n+0.45).round(1)
1.9.3p194 :011?> end
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that's strange indeed. printf "%.20f", 1.45 # => 1.44999999999999995559 1.45.round 1 # => 1.5 – Karoly Horvath Mar 31 '13 at 22:59
You mean, why does round(1.45,1) return 1.4 in Python, but 1.45.round(1) return 1.5 in Ruby? – Colonel Panic Apr 3 '13 at 23:53
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Both implementations are confront the same issues surrounding binary floating point numbers.
Ruby operates directly on the floating point number with simple operations (multiply by a power of ten, adjust, and truncate).
Python converts the binary floating point number to a string using David Gay's sophisticated algorithm that yields the shortest decimal representation that is exactly equal to the binary floating point number. This does not do any additional rounding, it is an exact conversion to a string.
With the shortest string representation in-hand, Python rounds to the appropriate number of decimal places using exact string operations. The goal of the float-to-string conversion is to attempt to "undo" some of the binary floating point representation error (i.e. if you enter 6.6, Python rounds on the 6.6 rather that 6.5999999999999996.
In addition, Ruby differs from some versions of Python in rounding modes: round-away-from-zero versus round-half-even.
Ruby doesn't cheat. It starts with plain old binary float point numbers the same a Python does. Accordingly, it is subject to some of the same challenges (such 3.35 being represented at slightly more than 3.35 and 4.35 being represented as slightly less than 4.35):
>>> Decimal.from_float(3.35)
>>> Decimal.from_float(4.35)
The best way to see the implementation differences is to look at the underlying source code:
Here's a link to the Ruby source code: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/numeric.c#L1587
The Python source is starts here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/37352a3ccd54/Python/bltinmodule.c and finishes here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/37352a3ccd54/Objects/floatobject.c#l1080
The latter has an extensive comment that reveals the differences between the two implementations:
The basic idea is very simple: convert and round the double to a decimal string using _Py_dg_dtoa, then convert that decimal string back to a double with _Py_dg_strtod. There's one minor difficulty: Python 2.x expects round to do round-half-away-from-zero, while _Py_dg_dtoa does round-half-to-even. So we need some way to detect and correct the halfway cases.
Detection: a halfway value has the form k * 0.5 * 10*-ndigits for some odd integer k. Or in other words, a rational number x is exactly halfway between two multiples of 10*-ndigits if its 2-valuation is exactly -ndigits-1 and its 5-valuation is at least -ndigits. For ndigits >= 0 the latter condition is automatically satisfied for a binary float x, since any such float has nonnegative 5-valuation. For 0 > ndigits >= -22, x needs to be an integral multiple of 5*-ndigits; we can check this using fmod. For -22 > ndigits, there are no halfway cases: 5*23 takes 54 bits to represent exactly, so any odd multiple of 0.5 * 10**n for n >= 23 takes at least 54 bits of precision to represent exactly.
Correction: a simple strategy for dealing with halfway cases is to (for the halfway cases only) call _Py_dg_dtoa with an argument of ndigits+1 instead of ndigits (thus doing an exact conversion to decimal), round the resulting string manually, and then convert back using _Py_dg_strtod.
In short, Python 2.7 goes to great lengths to accurately follow a round-away-from-zero rule.
In Python 3.3, it goes to equally great length to accurately follow a round-to-even rule.
Here's a little additional detail on the _Py_dg_dtoa function. Python calls the float to string function because it implements an algorithm that gives the shortest possible string representation among equal alternatives. In Python 2.6, for example, the number 1.1 shows up as 1.1000000000000001, but in Python 2.7 and later, it is simply 1.1. David Gay's sophisticated dtoa.c algorithm gives "the-result-that-people-expect" without forgoing accuracy.
That string conversion algorithm tends to make-up for some of the issues that plague any implementation of round() on binary floating point numbers (i.e. it less rounding of 4.35 start with 4.35 instead of 4.3499999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375).
That and the rounding mode (round-half-even vs round-away-from-zero) are the essential differences between the Python and Ruby round() functions.
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beats me how this answers the question – Karoly Horvath Mar 31 '13 at 22:58
-1. While you have cited relevant source material, I have to say you should have extracted the conceptual difference and actually explained it. I doubt if this helps the OP at all and it's not even clear whether you do or do not understand it yourself. I believe you do understand, but then, why not just explain it? – DigitalRoss Apr 1 '13 at 0:02
@DigitalRoss -1's are for downright wrong answers. Downvotes should not be used for the answers that you just don't like for some reason. Just don't upvote such answers. – ovgolovin Apr 1 '13 at 0:37
The tooltip for the downvote arrow says "this answer is not useful". It doesn't say anything about right or wrong. If you ask me "Can you tell me what time it is" and I say "Yes", that answer is completely useless but still 100% correct. – Jörg W Mittag Apr 1 '13 at 2:24
+1. I've reversed the dv because Raymond added a nice explanation. It does appear, however, that my temporary dv was precisely congruent with the site design. – DigitalRoss Apr 1 '13 at 2:29
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The fundamental difference is:
Python: Convert to decimal and then round
Ruby: Round and then convert to decimal
Ruby is rounding it from the original floating point bit string, but after operating on it with 10n. You can't see the original binary value without looking very closely. The values are inexact because they are binary, and we are used to writing in decimal, and as it happens almost all of the decimal fraction strings we are likely to write do not have an exact equivalence as a base 2 fraction string.
In particular, 0.45 looks like this:
01111111101 1100110011001100110011001100110011001100110011001101
In hex, that is 3fdccccccccccccd.
It repeats in binary, the first unrepresented digit is 0xc, and the clever decimal input conversion has accurately rounded this very last fractional digit to 0xd.
This means that inside the machine, the value is greater than 0.45 by roughly 1/250. This is obviously a very, very small number but it's enough to cause the default round-nearest algorithm to round up instead of to the tie-breaker of even.
Both Python and Ruby are potentially rounding more than once as every operation effectively rounds into the least significant bit.
I'm not sure I agree that Ruby does what a human would do. I think Python is approximating what decimal arithmetic would do. Python (depending on version) is applying round-nearest to the decimal string and Ruby is applying the round nearest algorithm to a computed binary value.
Note that we can see here quite clearly the reason people say that FP is inexact. It's a reasonably true statement, but it's more true to say that we simply can't convert accurately between binary and most decimal fractions. (Some do: 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, ...) Most simple decimal numbers are repeating numbers in binary, so we can never store the exact equivalent value. But, every value we can store is known exactly and all arithmetic performed on it is performed exactly. If we wrote our fractions in binary in the first place our FP arithmetic would be considered exact.
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In other words, Python implements round(f, n) pretty much as s = '%.*f' % (n, f); return float(s[:s.index('.') + n + 1], with special handling of halfway cases. That ought to be described as "what a human would do" — fascinating. – user4815162342 Apr 1 '13 at 0:50
But if that is the implementation, why doesn't round(1.45, 1) come out as 1.5? Looking at the code, it should convert 1.45 to "1.45" (two decimals: one for rounding and one more to handle the halfway case), manually handle the halfway case by changing "1.45" to "1.5", and convert "1.5" to - 1.5. But string input as "1.5" and converted to float prints as 1.5, not 1.4! – user4815162342 Apr 1 '13 at 0:55
There is more complexity. Early versions of Python use a round-away-from-zero mode that is not even one of the five IEEE-754 modes. Later version use a variant on round-nearest, which in IEEE-754 breaks ties to even numbers. This would round 1.45 to 1.4 if there were no low-order residual from the decimal conversion. – DigitalRoss Apr 1 '13 at 2:35
I can repeat round(1.45) -> 1.4 with Python 2.7 which implements round-away-from-zero. Looking at the code, I suspect that the halfway_case detection evaluates to false for this number, so halfway detection which would have worked is never triggered. I.e. everything is handled correctly by _Py_dg_dtoa except for halfway detection. – user4815162342 Apr 1 '13 at 8:31
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Ruby doesn't cheat. It just chose another way to implement round.
In Ruby, 9.45.round(1) is almost equivalent to (9.45*10.0).round / 10.0.
irb(main):001:0> printf "%.20f", 9.45
9.44999999999999928946=> nil
irb(main):002:0> printf "%.20f", 9.45*10.0
94.50000000000000000000=> nil
irb(main):003:0> puts 9.45.round(1)
If we use such way in Python, we will get 9.5 as well.
>>> round(9.45, 1)
>>> round(9.45*10)/10
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I am trying to grab some data via JSONP. Using Firebug, I am able to see the data properly being returned, but I am having a hard time thinking how I have to parse it. The data return is really a nested array correct? someFunction is the name of the callback function. This is how the data looks:
"title":"Sample Title,
"description":"Sample Description",
"publisher":"Sample Publisher",
"creator":"Sample Author",
"date":"Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:41:29 GMT",
Just a little confused about how to properly parse and output.
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You don't have to parse the data. It is already a valid JavaScript object. For instance, to print the description property for the first object inside someFunction
function someFunction(result) {
alert(result[0].description); // alerts "Sample Description"
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Write a function with the correct name and the correct arguments. The JS engine will do the parsing for you.
function someFunction(data) {
// Now data is an Array, containing a single
// Object with 8 properties (title, link, etc)
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I'm trying to decide whether to use a Rails or a Django guru to create a web app for me. I've been recommended to use Django because it uses less "magic". From my perspective however, the "magic" of Rails seems like a good thing since it could make development more concise for my contractor resulting in fewer billable hours at my expense. I understand the advantage of Django might be greater fine-grained control but how will I know if I need this control? Is there an inherent problem with "magic"?
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Well, consider a couple bits of Rails "magic": when you write a controller class, its methods have access to certain variables and certain other classes. But these variables and classes were neither defined nor imported by anything in the file of Ruby code you're looking at; Rails has done a lot of work behind the scenes to ensure they'll just be there automatically. And when you return something from a controller method, Rails makes sure the result is passed along to the appropriate template; you don't have to write any code to tell it which template to use, where to find it, etc., etc.
In other words, it's as if these things happen by "magic"; you don't have to lift a finger, they just happen for you.
By contrast, when you write a Django view, you have to import or define anything you plan to use, and you have to tell it, explicitly, which template to use and what values the template should be able to access.
Rails' developers are of the opinion that this sort of "magic" is a good thing because it makes it easier to quickly get something working, and doesn't bore you with lots of details unless you want to reach in and start overriding things.
Django's developers are of the opinion that this sort of "magic" is a bad thing because doesn't really save all that much time (a few import statements isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things), and has the effect of hiding what's really going on, making it harder to work out how to override stuff, or harder to debug if something goes wrong.
Both of these are, of course, valid stances to take, and generally it seems that people just naturally gravitate to one or the other; those who like the "magic" congregate around Rails or frameworks which try to emulate it, those who don't congregate around Django or frameworks which try to emulate it (and, in a broader sense, these stances are somewhat stereotypical of Ruby and Python developers; Ruby developers tend to like doing things one way, Python developers tend to like doing things another way).
In the long run, it probably doesn't make a huge difference for the factor you say you're concerned with -- billable hours -- so let your developer choose whatever he or she is most comfortable with, since that's more likely to get useful results for you.
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Great explanation. Thanks. – Gosuda Jan 14 '09 at 16:46
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The primary problem occurs when you don't understand the magic. This can lead to anything from applications that are badly neutered all the way to sporadic, fatal crashes.
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Could you explain "neutered"? – Gosuda Jan 14 '09 at 2:35
Applications that never reach their full potential because the developer doesn't know about a particular piece of functionality that the framework provides. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jan 14 '09 at 2:38
Ah! Excellent explanation. Thank you. – Gosuda Jan 14 '09 at 2:40
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Magic is great until something breaks. Then, you've got to figure out how all those tricks work.
For more, do read Joel Spolsky's Law of Leaky Abtractions
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Amen to this. Exactly why I'm skeptical of using RoR despite finding it an amazing framework. Once I can't use the magic, then I run into a huge snag. – Wayne M. Jan 14 '09 at 15:07
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Magic obfuscates functionality. It creates behaviors implicitly instead of explicitly, such that the programmer has no need to understand how the behavior works, and more importantly, how they might go about changing it.
When a coder has a complete grasp of the code base they are working with, "magic" can be a big productivity gain. But when working with a third-party system like a web framework, which has a high degree of complexity, it may take much longer to gain that level of expertise.
Now, to the matter of who you should hire to do the job: if you are concerned about the long term ability of other programmers to understand your contractors' code, it may make sense to go with Django (it is certainly my preference). However, there are many, many Rails experts out there who can maintain your website well into the future.
The choice should come down to who among the contractors you are evaluating, a) have a proven track record, and b) you trust. A good developer will do well on either Rails or Django.
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Going forward you believe I will have an easier time finding Rails experts than Django experts - there are more Rails guys out there to choose from? – Gosuda Jan 14 '09 at 3:30
No, you won't have a problem finding a Django developer. I'm saying that if you think the Rails developer is more qualified, then don't let these issues change your mind. I think that Django's design philosophy is superior, so if that is your only qualification I would go with Django. – Daniel Naab Jan 14 '09 at 3:44
I see. Thanks for the clarification. – Gosuda Jan 14 '09 at 3:49
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The problem with the "magic" is that it hides a lot of things from you, and IMO makes it harder to track down problems or know what to do/optimize once you start thinking "outside the box" and end up in a "dead magic zone" (i.e. part where the magic doesn't help you).
IMO this is the major problem with Ruby on Rails (and don't get me wrong, I really like Ruby on Rails); it's far too easy to get started with it, and then once you run into a snag where Rails doesn't do the work for you, or where Rails' conventions don't fit... you're pretty much screwed unless you're a Ruby guru because you can't rely on the magic anymore and because it abstracted everything from you, you have no clue how to do it the "hard way"
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When using magic... to ensure understanding of one piece of the system you must understand the whole thing. Since it's difficult to determine if no magic is affecting the piece you're examining.
It's like reading a story and having the author leave out relevant plot twists, because they're repetitive.
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I see. So in the long run it may make my maintenance of the app more troublesome/costly because more of a "big picture" understanding is needed. Thank you. – Gosuda Jan 14 '09 at 2:43
Its like the universe, to understand one thing completely, you need to understand everything completely. – Lakshman Prasad Jan 14 '10 at 17:53
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Magic often really means "using embedded assumptions to optimize performance or syntax". Of course, in well-documented code those assumptions are mentioned as explicit constraints.
Sometimes magic is wonderful, since it really cuts down on what you have to write or dramatically improves speed. But you can violate those assumptions in countless ways, and either run into unexpected errors, or worse, have unnoticeable bugs.
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Talking about magic, I believe Rails, Django and most, if not all frameworks are doing some kind of magic. The way they abstract things, wrap up low level services in APIs, integrate routes and controllers etc, are kind of magic for people who know little behind. I admit Rails has more magic and people can get lost sometimes. However, we should not dismiss Rails just because of that. Like I said, it is not that magic is very bad and only Rails does magic, most do. We should see that Rails is evolving very fast and its code quality gets better and it has become more and more modular. Resources around Rails are huge. Those should be taken into consideration too.
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As Guoliang Cao pointed out, there's always some sort of "magic" that you're relying on, starting with the operating system "magically" taking your keyboard input and rendering it on the screen in the proper location. Every web framework parses the parameters posted to the web page and puts them in a data structure for easy access. Rails is just much more aggressive about what can be done magically, since its creator (who I tend to agree with) has very strong opinions about how web applications should be developed. So the question should really be "how much magic" is appropriate, not if there's an inherent problem with it.
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I'm trying to upload file, using XMLHTTPRequest, and sending this headers:
Content-Type:multipart/form-data, boundary=xxxxxxxxx
Content-Disposition: form-data; name='uploadfile'; filename='123_logo.jpg'
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: image/jpeg
But on server side PHP ignore header "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" and write base64 undecoded data directly into the file!
Is there any way to fix it?
p.s. it is very important to send data using base64
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Why do you construct the headers manually? Why is it significant to send it base64-encoded rather than binary? – mario Mar 2 '11 at 15:18
Because there is no implemented method xhr.sendAsBinary() in Google Chrome. – Scalar Mar 2 '11 at 15:26
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In fact there is no Content-transfer-encoding in HTTP see
19.4.5 No Content-Transfer-Encoding
but you can use base64_decode as in http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php
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Thnx! Using base64_decode is very ugly method, but i think i have no other choice. – Scalar Mar 2 '11 at 15:26
The older RFC1867 for multipart/form-data is probably also relevant. It mentions Content-Transfer-Encoding for mail transports, but there's no need in HTTP. This is why PHPs rfc1867.c does not honor it. – mario Mar 2 '11 at 15:35
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Xavier's answer doesn't sound right. RFC2616 also has this to say (section 3.7):
It seems to me that section 19.4 of RFC2616 is talking about HTTP as a whole, in the sense that it uses a syntax similar to MIME (like headers format), but is not MIME-compliant.
Also, there is RFC2388. In section 3, last paragraph, it says:
Section 4.3 elaborates on this:
4.3 Encoding
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Agreed. This is definitely a bug in PHP. Both the W3C HTML docs and the RFCs you highlight make quite clear that in a POST response to a form, Content-Transfer-Encoding may be used. This makes sense because otherwise text fields might inadvertently include a MIME boundary sequence, and would all have to be sent in binary with a Content-Length. – alastair Mar 27 '12 at 14:05
This isn't a "bug" in PHP, nor is it particular to PHP. From my research into this, it appears multipart POST is a complete mess, IETF RFC are mostly useless and needs to be updated. RFC 2388 needs to be completely overhauled, so does HTML 4.01's w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html reference. Basically. No modern UA use content-transfer-encoding, you must use content-type to determine the encoding. Not only that, charsets is assumed to be the same as the initial requested form's charset, and "multipart/mixed" for multiple files is not used. Just as well; KISS. – Ronald Chan May 8 '13 at 10:37
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var DEST_VALUE = 1
How can i check whether the variable holds some value or not. When i do this, it does not work...
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This will work as expected - neither if condition will evaluate to true so the inner code will never be hit. What are you trying to achieve? – Chris Francis Jun 28 '11 at 10:37
if(!DEST_VALUE) is same as if(DEST_VALUE == null), and from the code this will always be false. So it will not produce any result. – Talha Ahmed Khan Jun 28 '11 at 10:40
possible duplicate of How can I test whether a variable has a value in JavaScript? – Felix Kling Jun 28 '11 at 10:42
@Talha Not strictly true - if DEST_VALUE was 0 it would also evaluate to true. – Chris Francis Jun 28 '11 at 10:43
@Talha: "if(!DEST_VALUE) is same as if(DEST_VALUE == null)" No, it doesn't. For instance, !0 is true but 0 == null is false. More to the point, though, if (!DEST_VALUE) has nothing to do with null unless DEST_VALUE happens to be null (in which case, the expression is true). It's about coercing the given value to a boolean, not comparing it to null. – T.J. Crowder Jun 28 '11 at 10:45
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Of course it doesn't do anything, because in your example DEST_VALUE resolves to true like APPDAYS_AFTER. Value that resolve to false when converted to a boolean in javascript are:
The empty string ''
The number 0
The number NaN (yep, 'Not a Number' is a number, it is a special number)
if you write
txtSiteId.value = fileContents.Settings.SiteID;
you write "if DEST_VALUE is not true do something" (in your case it does nothing). If you want to check if a variables hold a value:
if(DEST_VALUE !== undefined){
//do something
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This will throw an ReferenceError as you may not reference variables that are not declared in JS. See my answer for a solution. – Steffen Müller Jun 28 '11 at 10:43
@Steffen: The question clearly shows the variables being declared. – T.J. Crowder Jun 28 '11 at 10:47
But what about FileNotFound??? thedailywtf.com/Articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_.aspx – cwallenpoole Jun 28 '11 at 10:52
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I use such function to check if variable is empty or not:
function empty( mixed_var ) {
return ( typeof(mixed_var) === 'undefined' || mixed_var === "" || mixed_var === 0 || mixed_var === "0" || mixed_var === null || mixed_var === false );
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Why would you do all this? !myVar checks for 'falsy' values, not just explicit false (such as myVar === false), so you don't need a bloated function to do the same as the native language capabilities. – Chris Francis Jun 28 '11 at 10:39
By the way, a string representation of "0" shouldn't evaluate to false, only an empty string... – Chris Francis Jun 28 '11 at 10:40
@Chris: Well, it's his function, he can do that if it matches his definition of "empty". It doesn't match mine, but... :-) – T.J. Crowder Jun 28 '11 at 10:48
Yes - that function was changed several times and you can see the final result. Why !myVar is not used - because all is not so simple. I had some issues when it worked not as I expected too. – Andron Jun 29 '11 at 21:33
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I assume you mean "holds some value" like in "the variable has been created so it exists", right? Otherwise, your approach works perfectly fine.
If you want to check whether a variable exists in javascript, you have to check its parent object for the property - otherwise the script will fail. Each object in javascript belongs to a parent object, even if it seems to be global (then, it belongs to the window object). So, try something like:
if (window.DEST_VALUE)
// do something
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I have a form with ComponentFeedbackPanels. I have implemented a Filter, that removes the FeedbackMessage shown in the ComponentFeedbackPanels (I have adapted this solution) from the top-of-the-page FeedbackPanel. Now I would like to add a Feedback Message to the top level to remind the users to read CompnoentFeedback Messages that are displayed next to the form fields. I don't know how to add such a message. Calling error() from within that filter or FeedbackPanel or the parent page when already filtering does not add anything to the current FeedbackPanel...
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Just an idea: how about adding it every time then make the filter remove it if not needed? – biziclop Aug 24 '11 at 17:22
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To add a top-level message, use Session.get().error(message).
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i have a problem with rspec and Netbeans 7.0.1. I try to run a rspec test but so far i can't convince Netbeans to do so. I just don't get any output at all although i installed all the necessary rspec gems. Unit tests run perfectly though.
Do I have to install Netbeans 6.8 or am I doing something wrong here?
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The Solution is to maunally install Rspec, since Netbeans doesn't have RSpec Version 2 support:
gem install rspec -v 1.3.2
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I have already created a webpart to show the data from list, but I really want is to only show top 5 records from that list (by using CAML query).
Does anyone know how to do this? Many thanks.
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You could set the RowLimit property of your SPQuery object.
The <RowLimit> tag is in the schema definition of a view (direct child of <View>) and therefore cannot be nested inside a <Query> tag.
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Thank you very much. It works. – Daoming Yang May 5 '09 at 13:44
If I use this query - <Query><Where></Where></Query><View><RowLimit Paged='False'>10</RowLimit></View> - I'm getting an error 'There are multiple root elements'. Any ideas? – NLV Aug 2 '11 at 9:09
Do not put <View> in the Query; the SPQuery object has a separate property called View which you need to use, and also a RowLimit if I remember correctly – Tudor Olariu Aug 3 '11 at 13:56
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The below code shows top 5 records from the list (by using CAML query).
SPQuery spQuery = new SPQuery(); spQuery.Query = ""; spQuery.RowLimit = 5;
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I want to make a textView (maybe another control?) that makes a marquee horizontal effect when replacing current text for another, I mean, when I set 'tv.setText("my text to replace");' I want that the new text has a marquee effect replacing the old text, maybe cleaning previous.
any clue?
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I need to burn a cd which I will boot from to reset a password on Windows Server.
I am using Active Password Changer, but I get an error like so:
enter image description here
How can I create a "DOS bootable disk"? I have an ISO on the cd I thought that will work. The manual says I need DOS system files, where do I get these from?
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I am guessing that you are simply running the application from the download.
As for creating Dos boot disks, if you have a floppy drive still, simply format and choose the Copy system files option, then open up the disk and copy the password change application.
I would also highly recommend bootdisk.com, they have a load of Dos and Windows bootdisks in a variety of formats that are ready to use.
If you go back to the Download Page you can download Bootable CD-ROM ISO Image (Password Reset Disk) which should just require burning and nothing else. To do this, use a tool such as CDBurnerXP (also available on Ninite for easy installation.)
May I also recommend Offline NT Password and Registry Editor, I have had a lot of success with it and it also comes in an easy to use ISO that you can burn straight to a disk.
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ok, mistake... il give you that one (added s to text, but the link was there). – William Hilsum Jan 24 '10 at 19:48
right then ... but now we have the old problem of two answers to the same content :) – Molly7244 Jan 24 '10 at 19:57
I have no floppy drive. I have to do this with CD. – dotnetdev Jan 24 '10 at 20:10
If you have no floppy drive, you can create floppy image (ex. IMA file, with VirtualBox, VirtualPC ,etc). 1)Create a batch in Disk ISO, which mounts FDD image (from dos), using RawWrite utility. 2)Set that batch as boot file of ISO. – SEARAS Oct 22 '12 at 6:15
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If you have the boot floppy, see this article on converting it to a boot CD:
How to Convert a Floppy Boot Disk to a CD Boot Disk
The idea is simply to copy all the floppy files to the CD.
If that proves too simple to work, see this article for a more complicated method:
Converting Bootable Floppy Disks into Bootable CD.
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When I do a yum install or a yum update, sometimes I get this
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
telling me that the packages are being updated.
What is presto?
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Only in a geek community could you ask a question like this without people questioning your sanity. ;-) I have no idea what you are asking, but my first instinct was to open up the question so I could find out what yum and presto are. Sure enough there are several excellent answers with links to explain both. – Wayne Johnston Aug 2 '10 at 0:25
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Presto makes yum download only the delta. The changes. It downloads them and apply them on the existing data, thus it saves a lot of bandwidth. (You pay with Disk IO and CPU load instead.)
It is a really good thing for developing countries, people with mobile internet and so on.
ps.: OpenSUSE been using this for a long time. If I remember clearly they were the first RPM based delta users, but fixme, I'm not sure about this. (openSUSE downloads delta, apply, install package. On Fedora: Download all delta, apply them, install them all.)
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beaten by 20 seconds >.< – Sathya Aug 1 '10 at 19:33
Sorry man... :D – Shiki Aug 1 '10 at 19:33
The extra disk IO and CPU load is negligible compared to the bandwidth saving. – Josh Aug 2 '10 at 9:19
Indeed. I just wanted to say you pay with those. Like some admin said: "Currently, bandwidth is cheaper". That's why some smaller distro won't ship this since they dont have enough resource on the servers. – Shiki Aug 2 '10 at 10:27
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It adds support for delta-RPMs which use a delta-transfer algorithm to save time downloading. Basically, presto won't download the entire package, only the changes since the last version.
Fedora Wiki:
The presto plugin for yum adds support for downloading deltarpms and using them to generate new packages. If user enables this plugin, it will make a substantial dent in the amount of data having to be downloaded for updates.
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Delta-RPM, not deb. Fedora uses RPM. – Sathya Aug 1 '10 at 19:44
@Sathya: Whoops, fixed now. – Josh Aug 1 '10 at 22:49
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Presto is a plugin which enables Delta RPM support in yum. Basically, deltaRPM creates a new RPM based on the diffs of the new and previous version - saving on bandwidth and time required to download, since only the "changed" bits will be downloaded, instead of the full monolithic package.
More details:
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What kind of power supply do I need for a Lenovo H320 to run a low profile graphics card like this one that requires 300 watts, given how small the case is?
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You will need a PSU of 500 Watts, but Lenovo does not have this type of PSU for your computer case. FSP Inc. did special PSU for Lenovo.
This PC has an Expansion PCI Expressx16 slot for video card and you cannot install any video card you like because the power supply is only 180 Watts and it's not compatible with any other PSU from the manufacturer.
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I am looking for an app that can monitor my C: (system) drive and find which program is creating a folder, with the rather generic name TEMP1\, on that drive.
I wouldn't mind if it could hook the creation of files too – as there a couple of files created as well (quite probably from another process). Google does not help me, as the names of those files are a bit generic too (not as TEMP1 though – dvmaccounts.ini and dvmexp.idx).
The problem is that every time I delete those, they are recreated on startup, so the utility I'm searching must start up on boot and also start fast. It should also be really clever, as my C: drive is huge.
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Why are you even worried about it? You do know that some programs actually need to create some files to work properly (even if they're improperly designed)? – slhck Oct 20 '11 at 21:56
@slhck : The edits you made are actually cutting out info - please revert. Not : for example TEMP1 - TEMP1, which means google is no help. And I am not (very - I have a couple of reasons to be) worried - rather curious. The folder is always empty btw. And admittedly I hate people dumping stuff fin my c: drive – Mr_and_Mrs_D Oct 20 '11 at 22:05
I didn't quite understand, but does it make more sense now? I reverted the sentence to what you originally wrote. Please change as necessary. Sorry if it lost some info. – slhck Oct 20 '11 at 22:07
Related for Mac visitors: superuser.com/questions/69682/find-out-which-app-created-a-file – Tom Wijsman Oct 20 '11 at 22:12
Related for Linux Visitors: superuser.com/questions/155299/… :) – techie007 Oct 20 '11 at 23:47
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You can use Process Monitor, free from Microsoft, to do that. Set filter inside the Process Monitor to this folder, and it will show you when/if it is accessed:
If you think this folder is being accessed only during the boot process, you can enable boot logging by selecting the corresponding menu point under Options. When you boot Windows the next time, Process Monitor will log all system activity into a log file, which can be reviewed at a later time. You'll really need to enter a restrictive filter, otherwise your boot time will be really long.
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Hmm - I know about process monitor - I will try that - still I would like to have an app that boots with windows - cause I have the impression the folder is not being actually used. – Mr_and_Mrs_D Oct 20 '11 at 23:06
Added info about boot logging. – haimg Oct 20 '11 at 23:25
Ahh - this - will be trying this on next reboot and let you know - I left PM open all night - my paging file exploded - I woke up with 4 kb in my c:\ lol - TEMP1 was not accessed though – Mr_and_Mrs_D Oct 21 '11 at 8:33
Ok - the temp1 folder disappeared but thanks to PM I found where those files were coming from - DVMExportService.exe fromour beloved ASUS - marked – Mr_and_Mrs_D Oct 22 '11 at 21:31
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Don't delete the folder. Change permissions so that only a specific account (different than the one you normally use) has access to the folder. That ought to throw a wrench in whatever processes is doing this, hopefully allowing you to catch it.
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I might try this on next startup - still the folder is always empty - might be kind of a placeholder ? moreover I do need an app that can monitor and log dir/file creation - and I have already searched and tried and I have not one really up to the task – Mr_and_Mrs_D Oct 20 '11 at 22:07
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I have a Dell M6700 running windows 7 ultimate 64-bit. I have gotten my smart card to work with chrome, firefox, thunderbird, ie 32-bit, collabnet svn client 32-bit.
When I use ie 64-bit, it never asks me for my smart card's pin, and then just errors out. When I use svn 64-bit (collabnet or tortoisesvn), same thing happens.
I could use some pointers.
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So obviously you need 64-bit drivers for the card ... – Randolph West Oct 26 '12 at 2:39
@RandolphWest - The reader already works so this isn't a driver problem. It just doesn't work when ued against a 64-bit browser. This is likely a problem with the fact you need a 64-bit plugin of collabnet that supports IEx64 – Ramhound Oct 26 '12 at 9:38
I meant 64-bit plugin, not driver. You are correct. – Randolph West Oct 26 '12 at 19:25
would you mind clarifying on what you mean by plugin? I'm woefully unfamiliar with drivers. If it helps, I don't believe that I'm using collabnet via ie64 as a plugin, (or maybe it is doing that and no one's told me). If I misunderstood your suggestion.... – Joshua Oct 28 '12 at 7:22
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The vendor of the middleware hadn't released 64bit drivers, which was not documented anywhere, hence the mystery.
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On Gnome changing the background image changes it for all workspaces. I want to have different images for each workspace.
Is there a way to achieve this?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity.
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By Gnome, you don't mean GNOME Shell, do you? You're talking about Unity? – slhck Jan 27 '13 at 13:30
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Install Gnome Tweak Tool and Disable show desktop. After this, desktop menu and icons will disappear. Using Software Center or this command in terminal(Ctrl+Alt+T) to install gnome-tweak-tool
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
Launch it(Advance Settings), turn off “Have file manager handle the desktop”
Install CompizConfig-Settings-Manager using software center or commands below
Launch CCSM, enable Wallpaper plugin and click to go into its configuration window. Click New to add 4 wallpapers one by one.
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I just completed a clean install of 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
After adding the old style quick launch toolbar and dragging it to the left, the right-click menu on the main area of the taskbar no longer works. I don't get any popup menu at all. How can I restore this popup menu?
For the avoidance of doubt - I know how to access these options through alternate means, I want to restore the right-click popup menu.
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Go to the control panel - type Taskbar in the search. There you will have access to the taskbar options.
From there, disable the band. Then unlock it. Reenable the band. Move it around.
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Thanks, I didn't try this. Strangely, the popup has returned after a reboot (I can't believe I didn't try a reboot). Appreciate your help though :-) – Barry-Jon Oct 31 '09 at 23:15
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Open explorer and go to %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
Delete 1b4dd67f29cb1962.automaticDestinations-ms
You should now be able to pin stuff again.
Source: http://angrytechnician.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/how-to-fix-a-brokenempty-jump-list-in-windows-7/
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Length needs backslash but counter does not, why?
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Counter names are used for many purposes and it's safer to just append the name to the or c@ or p@ and to use it as the argument of \arabic, \Roman and so on. When you say \newcounter{Count}, LaTeX does, among other things
\expandafter\newcount\csname c@Count\endcsname
Moreover this makes more complicated to do local assignments to counters, that should never be done, because LaTeX counters should always be modified globally; for local counters there are the "TeX" counters that can be defined by \newcount; in general, however, \count@, \@tempcnta and \@tempcntb provided to this purpose by the LaTeX kernel suffice. See this discussion on TeX.sx to know more about doing local and global assignments to the same variable, which shows that my statement before is quite drastic, but one should know what they are doing when "violating" rules.
For lengths this is not needed and one can even use TeX syntax
(assuming all the connected risks). Moreover, and probably more important, \setlength and \addtolength are easier to define and use.
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while all that martin says is true, there's a bit of "because it is" in the answer to this question, imo. if lamport had chosen to treat skips the same as counts, no-one (surely) would have minded -- excepting, of course, those who despise latex's principles, root and branch. – wasteofspace Jul 17 '11 at 14:23
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Conjecturing in Japanese
Postby HungryScholar » Thu 09.23.2010 1:13 am
Hey guys,
So I'm reviewing grammar I've already learned, and I've come back to a point that I trip over again and again.
The trouble is distinguishing the nuances between そう／そうだ／らしい／ようだ／みたい and even かもしれない.
Can someone explain to me in terms that they find helpful how I can distinguish when to use the different ways to make suppositional statements?
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Postby chikara » Thu 09.23.2010 1:45 am
Tae Kim's Grammar Guide explains it in the topic Similarity or hearsay. I have found that explanation helpful.
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Sebelius reminds me of an arrogant elitist, drunk on new found power. She and OcrapCare need to go away…
Excuse me Holder. That trial proves we need accountability in your department. Criminal activity, such as yours, needs to be exposed and dealt with. Oh yes...I'll keep my guns as a defense against the likes of you.
Add average income and education to the mix for big cities. It's your only chance to make a point.
Men? These are not men. They are irresponsible boys with consideration for themselves alone. And females with "alley cat morals", who plays along with them, deserves the mess they create. Put the child up for adoption and DO NOT stick taxpayers for the bill regardless of your choice.
More MSNBC hosts and contributors must die before we understand stupidity.
Al Sharpton, if verbal sewage were gold he'd be a very rich man.
No...But it will not change until their likes are history...
The Congressional Black Caucus, Sharpton and Jackson hate you.
The KKK is alive and well. You might think I'm harsh but we will never learn to treat each other equally, if we learn NOT to in school.
Folsom Prison is in Folsom, Ca. A bit west of Placerville or Lake Tahoe on highway 50.
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I have stayed at a number of business hotels, and in so many of them, every time I turn on the TV, it's Jodi Arias trial on HLN. Go get breakfast, Jodi Arias and HLN again.
Why do so many business hotels, including Marriott, Hyatt and Hilton brands, have HLN as their default channel? I've never even heard of this channel before staying at Hyatt and Marriott. Who cares about the Jodi Arias trial, and how can people watch this every day for free and without extra pay? What happened to CNN?
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HLN is CNN Head Line News. – Karlson May 16 '13 at 16:18
They even provide channels for adults in many hotels for a fee and they will not show it in the bill, they usually show it as "Room Service 2" or something similar. Feel free to order a movie or two.. – user1712 May 16 '13 at 17:42
Down in the Dixie land its mostly Gospel TV. Not only in hotels but in them express oil change stores too. Damned if you change them channels when there is more than you in there. – happybuddha May 17 '13 at 3:17
Ask the hotel manager some time. – Flimzy May 19 '13 at 9:40
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I think it's a combination of things:
• many business travelers want the news, weather, and such both for their current location and for other places
• unlike a local news channel that might rely on previous knowledge of the "troubled mayor" or "controversial highway project" CNN and especially HLN explains everything from the beginning every time (which is why it makes you mental to watch it for any length of time)
• the channel will never play a horror movie or CSI Extra Gross Unit, nor a movie of the week about a dying baby which might upset someone
• because it's so repetitive, you will be driven to change the channel eventually and that might lead you to choose a pay pre view or the like
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You don't sound like you've been violated with the HLN content and commentary yet. They do show all those pictures of the murders pretty often, and they constantly discuss various murders and findings of various extra gross units. It's not a food network by any means. – cnst May 16 '13 at 20:39
I long ago realized that America has only two channels: sports and politics. Occasionally it has a third: violent crime. I solve this by leaving the TV off. There have been times I have been in a room for 5 full days and have no proof the TV actually worked. Once on Day 4 I discovered it didn't. – Kate Gregory May 16 '13 at 20:40
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Because it's relatively unoffensive newsertainment; I think they would be better off with The Puppy Channel (http://www.thepuppychannel.com/).
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Unoffensive? I think an insistence that people can't stop watching the stupid Arias trial, when the said trial in the form of HLN is literally put down their throats, is quite offensive to one's intelligence, and certainly to that of the business-people. I want to know how my stocks are doing, not what irrelevant people have to say about an irrelevant trial. – cnst May 16 '13 at 18:10
Agreed. I think the hotel (or doctor's office, etc) knows that since nothing of any substance happens on that channel, the visitor (and his or her family) won't be "surprised" by any content that might be airing when they turn on the tv. Puppy Channel still seems safer. – Lisa May 16 '13 at 18:28
@cnst Why do you need to keep watching? I don't watch news at all. And if you need to find out how your stocks are doing from the News you shouldn't have to worry about them... – Karlson May 16 '13 at 18:32
@Lisa, I'm not sure I get your point. The sex photos and descriptions thereof wouldn't really be in the "not surprised" category as far American audience is likely be concerned. This trial has been going on for over several months now, and they still keep covering it over and over again, every single day. I don't know who could possibly be interested in watching it every morning for months at a time. – cnst May 16 '13 at 18:39
@Karlson, it's on during the complementary breakfast, so, if you want to enjoy the free breakfast, you're pretty much forced into watching it, unless you're willing to be making a fuss or changing the channel every morning. – cnst May 16 '13 at 18:40
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/36923 | View Full Version : 5% lower?
09-16-2006, 07:16 PM
is this really that important. cause some of the luxilon strings recommend this?
should i follow it?
09-16-2006, 08:57 PM
For me, it wasn't important.
I started using it with lower tension but ended up back to my usual tension.
I would start with the usual tension, and if it doesn't seem to work for whatever reason (for exampe, feeling really stiff, uncomfortable, lack of power, etc.), then lower the tension.
In short, no, you don't need to follow it.
09-16-2006, 09:07 PM
should lower the tension if you are playing with poly for the first time, or if you have arm problems.
09-17-2006, 04:12 PM
luxilon recommends stringing at 10% lower, not 5%
09-17-2006, 04:33 PM
i've tried it at regular tension, didn't have any problems. now I will follow the recommendation and see how that goes. hopefully, it'll improve, but you never know
09-17-2006, 04:42 PM
Some people on this board seem equate NOT stringing 10% lower than reg. tension with Lux to not wearing your seatbelt in the car.
09-17-2006, 07:07 PM
what the hell does that mean...
09-17-2006, 08:12 PM
what the hell does that mean...
If you don't wear a seatbelt in an automobile it's considered reckless right? Well some people on this board think if you DO NOT string 10% less than usual with Luxilon polyester string that it is AS reckless and dangerous as not wearing a seatbelt. Capiche?
09-17-2006, 08:35 PM
10% will be too much to drop ur tension by...i did that, and it was a completely different feel (64lbs ....tried 58lbs...way different). I went back to my old string becauase of this, but now if i was to retry the Big banger i would just string at 2lbs below what i'm using now (64lbs), or just keep the same, and adjust from there IMHO.
09-18-2006, 08:00 AM
i'm merely trying the 10% drop because i want to see if it's better. I already know I can play fine if I string it at my normal tension. No arm problems, great control, maybe lacking in the power department a bit (at reg. tension).
09-18-2006, 09:16 AM
i got ya...so if i string at 63 with a multi then 57 would be too low with luxilon...would 60 be better...
09-18-2006, 11:37 AM
The 10% recommendation comes from Luxilon. You should consider that Luxilon wants players to get the most out of their strings (control, power, feel, etc.) and also avoid arm problems that would stop players from using their strings.
I think 10% is a good starting point. That's not to say that some players can get away without dropping 10% (or something less) and find that they don't get arm problems and for their stroke find the strings' playability better at higher tensions. On the other hand some players develop arm problems even at 10% less tension. The 10% is just a starting point. |
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And for what?
It's been many years,
Yet the screams of the vanquished still ring in my ears.
And for what?
I've blood on my hands.
I wait for my place in the halls of the damned.
And if I could go back and make my amends,
I'd make all those mistakes again.
I'd kill every last one of those bastards, my friend!
Alestorm, "Pirate Song"
There's a common stock character, the grizzled old guy with a wealth of experience who'll share his views with a travelling band or bold young rookie. There's no more adventuring for this old timer. He's seen it all, done some good, maybe done some bad; but overall he has earned the right to put his troubles behind him in his twilight years. He may be the Cool Old Guy or Old Master. Perhaps if life really got him down, he'll be a Grumpy Old Man, and if someone manages to rub him up the old way you'll see he's a Badass Grandpa, but it's unlikely since some haunting experience makes him disinclined to take up arms again.
This is not that guy.
The Retired Monster may look like that archetype but his past is full of evil and atrocity and he's okay with it. In fact, he caused most of it. When you first see him, he'll come across as Affably Evil; he'll also have experience and advice that he might give out to a young hero, although possibly the best he can do is "You should stay away from people like me". However, he'll be creepier than the other guy, and he'll tempt the young ones, giving them advice more on the cynical side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism. You see, he's not doing any gross evil acts now — he may not have done so much as run a red light in the past ten years — but that's only because he's tired. As the backstory of this character becomes known, we learn that they kicked the dog a number of times, perhaps took a hopscotch over the Moral Event Horizon, only stopping because for some reason they got sick of it.
Perhaps he finally came out worse for wear after a run-in with the guy who's now The Obi-Wan. Maybe he was caught and sent into exile and now has at least enough fear of the authorities to not put a toe out of line. Then again, often, they have just literally retired, saying "I'm too old for this" and using their pension fund of Nazi gold to support a life of margaritas on the beach.
They've never said sorry, or at least never meant it, there was no Heel-Face Turn and they are not The Atoner who'll help to make up for some wrong. No, they'll just sit back, but if a character underestimates their evil, if they think that because they aren't as bad as the more active monsters, that they're OK, they may get a horrid reminder of what the Retired Monster is capable of.
Monsters who don't retire, or come out of retirement and continue to be evil in old age, can become Evil Old Folks. Sub-Trope of Karma Houdini, due to the fact that very few of this type of character are found in jail. Compare the Retired Badass, one of several good counterparts, and the Retired Outlaw, which may occasionally overlap. Contrast The Atoner.
This is sometimes Truth in Television, due to Real Life people retiring from their crimes, but No Real Life Examples, Please! As per the Complete Monster trope, that would be asking for a Flame War.
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• Franz Bonaparta from Monster.
• Hard to say, since, by the end of it, he was depicted as something of an atoner.
• Hartmann probably fits this description well...
• Madara from Naruto went into hiding after defeat by Hashirama. When he took in Obito, he was a one-eyed, decrepit man kept alive only due to a life support system he had jury-rigged from an experiment. He seemed largely uninterested in the outside world and was even helpful. In fact he had spent the last few decades preparing his big comeback and Obito was just the final piece in his plan.
• Danzo is suitably monstrous and pretends to be retired from his duties outside of acting as an advisor. Most of the cast knows he's still running Root and tasking them with black-on-black ops. He comes fully out of retirement when he temporarily becomes Hokage, only to have all of the enemies he's made come out of the woodwork when he steps out of Konoha.
• Despite settling down on Earth and attempting to save it on several occasions, Vegeta of Dragon Ball Z has never explicitly been shown to express any guilt, angst or shame for his decades long life of murder, tyranny and genocide.
• During the Buu saga, he makes this speech about how he wanted to go back to the days when he was a cold-hearted, ruthless brute who thought of nothing but causing pain and suffering to others. An episode earlier, when he becomes Majin, he proclaims to the Supreme Kai, "No! I am not innocent!" He knows he was an evil monster once and wishes to let that monster inside him lose again.
• This is, of course, because he feels he's gone "soft" and that he could—and should—be stronger than he is. By returning to the old state of mind, he believes he'd be able to use his full power. There is a bit of a subversion however, ironically enough, when Porunga was asked to revive all those on earth who aren't pure evil, Vegeta is resurrected. He then appears genuinely stunned at just what that means.
• Aya's mother in Master of Martial Hearts. A former Dark Action Girl, she used to partake in a girls-only Street Fighter Expy, under the direction of her husband-to-be. Doesn't help the fact that the girls she beat up and defeated ended up tortured, maimed and sold into sex slavery (Like it happened to Natsume's Cute Mute mother). However, with the Platonic Heart closed for the time being, she settled as your average, if slightly overprotective mom, raising her daughter. Under the mask, she's still as plucky and dangerous as she used to be.
• Lucy from Elfen Lied. In the years'-long era between her killings of the Tomoo and his subordinates and her capture by the Diclonius Research Institute, she killed Kouta's sister and father out of a hissy fit of jealousy when Kouta lied to her about his cousin's gender (even if he explicitly told her about his cousin's real gender, someone was bound to be dead, anyway) and caused a series of heart attacks across Kamakura while infecting males with the Diclonius virus. While she does feel guilty (deep down inside) about the murders of Kouta's father and sister and tries to atone for it, when she comes out of retirement (by slaughtering several Diclonius Research Institute personnel), she proves herself just as sadistic and brutal as she ever was, in fact, one could argue she's even more sadistic afterwards! Then again, being locked up in a Tailor-Made Prison that frankly has "Nazi Concentration Camp expy" written all over it is bound to mess one up (more than what she already was).
• Claimed by Evangeline in Mahou Sensei Negima!. Noble Demon attitude aside, it's actually not entirely incorrect: She has killed people and shows no remorse for anything she's done in the past.
• Tomoe from Kamisama Kiss used to be a ruthless demonic murderer, bandit/warlord before the Land God Mikage recruited him to be his familiar. He still isn't exactly a nice guy (just ask Kurama, Mizuki or anybody else who has ever pissed him off) and sometimes dreams of going back to the 'good old days.'
• Fullmetal Alchemist's Giolio Comanche, a Colonel Kilgore and Sociopathic Soldier who thoroughly enjoyed the Ishbalan Civil War and the ensuing genocide. When we encounter him he's an old, retired man with a pegleg—who nevertheless cracks an enormous Slasher Smile when he gets the chance to fight Scar, an Ishbalan survivor.
• Flit Asuno becomes one of these by Season 3 of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. A former Fallen Hero and Dark Messiah who took control of his country in a military coup at the end of Season 2, Flit's not sorry about having anybody who disagreed with him executed, continues to hope for a Final Solution to the Vagan problem, and after being dragged out of retirement, proves he's just as ruthless and brutal as he ever was.
• In Black Lagoon, Dutch discovers that their employer on the submarine job is actually a retired SS officer who set them up on a collision course with the Neo Nazis in order to test the Neo-Nazis. Since they all died, he considers them to have failed the test.
• In the Prototype comics, the anchor Alex's seemingly kindly father figure is eventually revealed to be this. Alex.....doesn't take it very well
• Paul Moses from Red by Warren Ellis. At least at the start of the story. His last line is: "I'm the monster. Do your best."
• The original premise of Nexus was that the title character was compelled by alien forces to seek out and execute mass murderers. Some actually were repentant or just old and tired, and the alien forcing Nexus to kill them didn't care. Nexus was not at all happy about this.
• In Preacher, Gunther Hahn, the Angel of Death and, at the end of the story, the Saint of Killers all qualify.
• A future, senile version of Doctor Doom appearing in X-Factor has faded away into a quiet life in his empty, decaying castle attended to by robot servants. But he still builds the occasional Death Ray in his more lucid moments.
• In Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog, the immortal and ancient villain Mammoth Mogul eventually decides that trying to conquer the world while Sonic is still around to fight him is way too much trouble. The villain is content with running a casino while waiting for Sonic to eventually die.
• In Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter plays this role, but the cannibalistic serial killer isn't very committed to leaving his days as a villain behind.
• Con Air features a rather shockingly congenial former serial killer. Played by Steve Buscemi who pulls off a very creepy performance.
• Kill Bill has a trove of these.
• Esteban Vihaio, Bill's surrogate father. He was a pimp who lead a vicious gang consisting of his whores' children, but he's retired as of the movie. In reference to Bill shooting the Bride years before, he says "I would have just cut your face." Doesn't sound so bad compared to what Bill did, but just then he calls one of his girls over to the table sporting a hideous and disfiguring scar running across her mouth. He hands her a hanky to wipe off some drool, then she fetches him a drink. The man is only semi-retired.
• Pai Mei, an ancient Kung Fu master with a history of atrocities and bloodshed, who sports an unpleasantly racist and sexist worldview, along with the knowledge that he can do just about anything to anyone without fear, since he is just too tough and skilled to die. Until Elle Driver poisons his fish heads in retaliation for snatching out her eye, that is. Ironically, Bill thinks that he's getting lonely because everybody is too frightened to approach him, and that's why he accepts apprentices he despises, even though it doesn't stop him from abusing them as much as he likes. Even more ironically, despite being a chauvinist who hates Americans, the Bride (an American woman) becomes his best student, and the only one he is willing to teach his most powerful technique to. She even starts to love him like a father, and eventually avenges his death by tearing out Ellie's other eye and leaving her to die in the desert.
• Most of the Deadly Vipers themselves qualify. Bill had long retired from assassination work by the time Beatrix caught up to him, electing to raise their daughter instead, Vernita quit outright and preferred to try and build a family, and Budd was just living out his days in a trailer and working as a bouncer. Beatrix herself also qualifies, having a change of heart after getting pregnant and wanting to leave the profession and live in El Paso, though Bill would have nothing of it. The other two members, Elle Driver and O'ren Ishi'i, however, were still active; Driver was still doing professional assassinations and Ishi'i had taken over the Yakuza gangs of Japan.
• The porter from The Seventh Seal establishes himself as this with one scene. He rescues a woman from an attacker, then off-handedly mentions that he could rape her, but he isn't going to, because participating in the Crusades has made him bored with rape.
• Charlie Barrett in Suicide Kings is a former mob boss who used to have his enemies fed to their own dogs. Now, he's retired. Until he gets kidnapped by a group of rich kids looking to raise ransom money for one of their siblings.
• Captain Teague in the third Pirates of the Caribbean film is heavily implied to be one of these. The Brethren Court, who are all pretty badass Pirate Lords in their own right are scared by his mere appearance at the meeting, even though he immediately slumps down in the corner and absent-mindedly begins playing with a guitar. When one of them suggests not following the Code for the second time, one of his strings snaps and he looks up, terrifying them all into silence.
• Not to mention the fact that he makes his appearence by shooting another pirate in cold blood.
• Anyone capable of hitting someone in the chest from that far with a single-shot musket pistol would humble all around him.
• "The Weird" of The Good, the Bad, the Weird turns out to be one of these. basically, part of the reason The Good is hunting The Bad is because he believes The Bad is this notorious bandit known as the "Finger Chopper". While The Bad is a total psycho, it's ultimately revealed that The Weird was the Finger Chopper and The Bad lost a finger to him. This reveal probably has a lot to do with The Weird being an expy of Tuco of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and in both cases, the seemingly comic relief character has a rap sheet of some seriously awful crimes.
• William Munny of Unforgiven is one of these, in a deconstruction treatment of Clint Eastwood's Western anti-hero roles. While it doesn't seem like he necessary enjoyed killing, in his youth as a bandit, Munny was a cold blooded mass murderer - killer of women, children and even animals. The events of the movie bring him out of retirement. English Bob could also be considered one of these. While at present, he plays the role of Remittance Man and is a sort of celebrity, it's indicated that he was previously employed killing Chinese laborers for the railroads, and the truth behind his gunfighter exploits is that he was a dishonorable Combat Pragmatist.
• Vincenzo Coccotti of True Romance, who hasn't killed anybody...since 1984. Until now.
• Helge Klingenfeldt-Hansen from Festen (The Celebration), a retired businessman celebrating his 60th birthday, respected for his wealth and conviviality, and who sexually abused two of his children for years, eventually driving the elder to suicide.
• Zachariah Rigsby and his wife from Seven Psychopaths would used to go on cross-country murder sprees, hunting some of the worst of the worst. They even got the Zodiac Killer!
• In Apt Pupil, young Todd Bowden discovers his quiet German neighbor is actually Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander and decides to blackmail him.
• The film The Act of Killing follows two gangsters in Indonesia who extorted and killed at least a thousand people - they've now become leaders of a paramilitary organization, but aren't the muscle.
• Albert, Death's servant in the Discworld books, seems like little more than a crusty old Jerkass. The wizard Alberto Malich, however, was a tyrannous bastard who ran the Unseen University like a boot camp and happily cursed any Muggles who stood up to him into oblivion, before disappearing while trying to attain immortality by performing the rite to summon Death backwards. Having achieved his goal of immortality in a roundabout way, Albert is actually content just to serve Death and do nobody any harm, especially considering there's a very nasty fate waiting for him if he ever does die.
• Alex becomes this in the last chapter of A Clockwork Orange.
• Lampshaded by a nurse speculating about her patient's past history in Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, though Odin later comes off as more of a trickster than anything else.
• According to The Onion's Our Dumb World, Argentina is full of retired Nazis that fit this description, who will not shut up about that one time they killed a Jewish girl by hitting her over the head with their rifle.
• Graulas was this in Fablehaven until he instructed and deceived Seth into restoring him, didn't end well for Coulter after that
• One character from The Culture Zakalawe, of Use of Weapons turns out to be one of these. Once essentially an Evil Overlord, who commmited acts of mass murder and was crazy enough to create a chair from his half-sister/lover's corpse and then darn the cushions with her skin. However, he ends up hating what he did, and going through a bunch of mental breakdowns before ultimately becoming Bored With Insanity enough to present himself as relatively decent (if amusingly sociopathic) person. He does lean in the direction of The Atoner, but is sort of in too much denial to make it.
• The german children's book "Mecki und die Sieben Zwerge" ("Mecki and the Seven Dwarves") has a literal one. Mecki, a hedgehog, is send by the seven dwarves to slay an evil dragon who, in a quite civilized conversation, turns out to be pretty evil but too old to go out and raid villages anymore. Well, he is still fit enough to easily kill Mecki if the latter would actually attack, so the hedgehog sets up a fight against a dragon puppet for the dwarves to witness. The dwarves fall for it. In a strange turn of events the dragon happens to witness the fight too - and dies from a shock-induced heart attack.
• Soon I Will Be Invincible's Baron Ether. He was the world's first supervillain, and he's committed every crime you can think of, now he's a wheel chair ridden mildly senile old man.
• An odd example both for being a main character and for being relatively young is Chane the vampire from the The Saga of the Noble Dead; in the series' first arc he was a sadistic Psycho for Hire, but ultimately had a Heel Realization and cut back on the sadism (because it meant he'd lost control; don't think for a moment he seriously regrets the deaths themselves). Currently the Token Evil Teammate trying to help stop the much, much worse things in his universe, and is working somewhat to improve his behavior, if only for the sake of his Morality Pet's sensibilities rather than guilt. Whether he'll ultimately backslide or get a Heel-Face Turn fully is as of yet unknown.
• In Lonely Werewolf Girl Fire-Queen Malveria is presented as a fashion-obsessed, matchmaking, ditz, but this because she's already killed all her serious enemies long ago and (currently) finds her title of "Persecutor of Mankind" to be boring. In Book two someone from her evil days turns up as the Big Bad of the story to tell her Nice Job Breaking It, Herod.
• In the Corvis Rebaine series, Corvis, Terror of the East in The Conqueror's Shadow until the Current Monster threatens his wife and kids. The remainder of the book is an illustration in why provoking one of these into coming out of retirement is a really bad idea! In the end, he is content with "merely" being a Man Behind the Man via Mind Control magic.
• The Necroscope Saga has Faethor Ferenczy, retired due to death. In this series that is no bar to being an active participant and spends his time being Harry's Spirit Advisor. His one attempt to come out of retirement, does not go well for him.
• The Phantom of the Opera: In the original novel by Gaston Leroux, After his From Nobody to Nightmare phase, Erik, the titular phantom:
Of course, he had to leave the Sultan's service for the same reasons that made him fly from Persia: He knew too much. Then, tired of his adventurous, formidable and monstrous life, he longed to be some one "like everybody else." And he became a contractor, like any ordinary contractor, building ordinary houses with ordinary bricks. He tendered for part of the foundations in the Opera. His estimate was accepted.
• In Stephen King's novella, Apt Pupil, the teenage protagonist is fascinated by his old neighbor, who took part in Nazi atrocities. His increasing fascination with the old man slowly brings back the monster in him.
• Sergeant Bothari in The Vorkosigan Saga is a fairly sympathetic example of this, having a tramatic and abusive childhood which left him with no sense of self, instead mirroring however others wanted him to be. Bothari is undisputably a sociopath, and when under the command of a sadistic officer, regularly followed orders to rape and torture prisoners. However, following a Sudden Principled Stand, he ends up as a trusted bodyguard/ Psycho Sidekick of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, as Cordelia is able to convince him to believe in an image of himself as an honorable soldier- and he doesn't really feel guilt for his past actions, as he sort of convinces himself that they didn't happen. His lack of true remorse is showcased The Warrior's Apprentice, in an incident where Miles had no choice but to let Bothari perform the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on an enemy soldier. Miles notes Bothari's unhealthy eagerness to obey this order, and Bothari proceeds to torture the man to death with sadistic glee.
• The titular character in H.P. Lovecraft's The Terrible Old Man is implied to be one. Pieced together from the meager hints of the story, he appears to be a former pirate captain who through black magic keeps the souls of his former crew captive in jars on his desk. Unlucky burglars discover the hard way how a feeble, old man with no bank account, who pays for his meager purchases with old gold coins can live quietly without fear of being robbed.
• At the end of Timeline-191, Brigadier-General Clarence Potter becomes one of these. He's not sorry about any of the things he was a part of—the genocide of the black population, the nuclear destruction of Philadelphia, the torture of suspected spies, or the commission of war crimes. He is, however, old, tired, and fully aware that the Confederate States of America are no longer a going proposition, and settles down to write his memoirs.
Live-Action TV
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
• Spike, after he got the Chip in Series 4.
• And then when he got his Soul back in Series 7.
• Dracula in Season 8. Yes, Dracula. Because he's most likely madly in love... with Xander. Dracula.
• Star Trek: The Original Series: "The Conscience of the King". There was Kodos the Executioner, a notorious tyrant who had murdered thousands in a massacre decades before the date of the episode. (The true villain of the episode, however, is his daughter, who tries to kill every remaining witness of the crime - this includes Kirk - to prevent her father from being arrested for it; Kodos dies when she tries to kill Kirk, taking a laser blast meant for him, making him a somewhat tragic figure as his past crimes not only catch up to haunt him but to destroy the one thing in his life he had hoped to keep pure and untainted.)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• In one episode the protagonists meet a Cardassian with a similar background, being the brutal camp commandant of a forced labour camp... or was he? Turns out he was merely a filing clerk who had assumed his identity, having been driven mad with guilt for all the atrocities committed there. His goal was to be executed as penance for never speaking out against the brutality.
• Garak is a complicated subversion. He was caught and exiled for an unspecified crime (hinted to be some kind of treason or betrayal of the Obsidian Order) and he has a reputation for being a very dangerous man who shouldn't be trusted. However, as the show progresses, it's becomes less clear that this reputation is as cut-and-dried as it first seemed. Eventually, it becomes clear that he's not so much heartless about the past, and he may not easily admit it or apologise for it, but he's carrying at least some guilt about it. His motivation for everything he did in the Order was a bitter and cynical I Did What I Had to Do, and he wasn't above sacrificing his own sense of morality for his job or Shooting The Dog if he had to.
• He become a part of the Obsidian Order in the first place because his father, Enabran Tain, was trying to mold him into the perfect operative... and he succeeded, however although Garak has done many morally ambiguous things in his life and was even brought up to enjoy performing Cold-Blooded Torture, he doesn't feel that good about it in retrospect, and it's clear that the main reason why he did what he did was because of his acute loyalty to Cardassia and belief that he was doing what he had to do for his people. His observation of some of the worst that sentient creatures - Cardassian and otherwise - are capable of in the murky underworld of covert operations has made him incredibly cynical but also fascinated with the Federation, particularly Julian Bashir, whose compassion and desire to help people is completely alien to him. Although he is incredibly dangerous if you get on his wrong side, his enforced "retirement" and consequent exposure to the Federation has allowed him to learn compassion and to lose his taste for the more unsavory aspects of his job description. His moral compass has definitely be pulled a certain way since he was exiled, leading him to act more like a Sociopathic Hero than a Retired Monster.
• The show hints that he's been hiding dissident sympathies. When trapped between obeying the state (killing them) or letting them go free he acknowledges it's against his better judgement to oppose them and eventually lets them go free. It's not the last time he helps dissidents either much to the consternation of an old Obsidian Order colleague of his.
• To Enabran Tain (who exiled him) he is clearly very upset over how things turned out between then (but then, we don't know the circumstances to know why).
• When he was ordered to torture Odo, he's uncomfortable with the idea but carries it through and succeeds in torturing himself almost as much as he tortures Odo: afterwards, he apologises to Odo and from it an Odd Friendship is born.
• When he's commissioned by the Federation as a code-breaker in the fight against the Dominion (and therefore Cardassia), he suffers a claustrophobic breakdown which turns out to be as a result of him bottling an immense guilt over the role he's playing in the fight against Cardassians.
• At the end of the show, he gives a speech observing how the decimation of Cardassia could be considered payback for the awful actions they've committed against other species during their military expansionist phase.
• Also the man who did the exiling, Enabran Tain, Garak's superior and father and the man who ran the Obsidian Order for twenty years. Unlike Garak, Tain is a straight example of this trope, and completely unrepentant of his crimes and killing whoever might be a threat (while Garak seemed to be always looking for excuses to not kill someone, Tain seemed to be looking for excuses to kill). It's his missing the old days which prompts him to actually come out of retirement and forge an alliance with the Tal Shiar to strike at the Dominion preemptively. This doesn't end well.
• Star Trek: Voyager: The Maquis crewmembers could also be considered a variant of this, as they were all former resistance fighters and terrorists who had done some unsavoury things to the Cardassians in the past. The most egregious example would be Lon Suder, who only joined up with the Maquis to satiate his need to kill.
• Babylon 5: Deathwalker. She just wanted to get everyone else to do her dirty work.
• Samson Gray, Sylar's father, on Heroes. A sadistic murderer who retired to live a quiet life as a taxidermist because he just got bored of killing. Until Sylar showed up with the power of healing, and thus immortality.
• Sylar himself retook the identity of Gabriel Gray in the alternate future of "I Am Become Death", having gotten bored with acquiring power and all the pointless killing. Due to a Noodle Incident, he now lives in the former Bennet house dotingly raising his young son "Noah" and once again working as a watchmaker.
• Gunther Lutze from The Twilight Zone: He shows sick enjoyment of his crimes even years later, and feels no guilt. Watching his victims inflict their just deserts was easily a Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
• Bill Jarvis (formerly "The Hollow Creek Killer") from the Criminal Minds episode "Haunted".
• In a recent episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a black janitor who befriended the murdered white supremacist student (who was trying to learn how to respect other races) turns out to be a leader in the Rwandan genocide. The student had found a picture of him in a book and was going to turn him in when the janitor murdered him
• In Kings, Vesper Abbadon seems like a doddering old man, but there is a very good reason why he was called "the bloody King of Carmel." It's the same good reason why he's spent the last 30 years locked in a stone box with minimal human contact.
• In the live-action version of The Tick, "The Terror" is an elderly old supervillain who was former buddies with Stalin. These days he's just a crazy old guy in a hospital whose antics amount to little more than throwing blood bags at Arthur. Considering Arthur's crappy level of fighting competence, that is actually a genuine challenge for him.
• In The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Charles Fischer came back from a future in which he helped the machines to understand humans by torturing them to get inside their heads. He claims that he was sent back to the past as a reward for his services, and doesn't do anything particularly malicious. Subverted at the end when it's revealed that he accessed a computer system at his younger self's place of work in order to aid SkyNet.
• Duncan from Highlander: The Series is surprised that his friend and Cynical / Big Brother Mentor Methos is one of these. Back in The Bronze Age Methos joined with 3 other immortals to form a marauding pack that killed and burned their way through the world. (Inspiring the idea of The Four Horsemen along the way; Methos himself was Death). Although Methos never says that he's sorry, he is more guilty about his actions than most, calling those years his "angry adolescence", and when Kronos, another member of the Horsemen tries to get group together again, Methos plays them and helps Duncan bring them down from the inside.
• On Rookie Blue Jamie Brennan was a feared ganglang enforcer who was infamous for using power tools to torture his victims. After a small stint in jail on relatively petty charges, he got married and went straight. When his family is killed in a suspicious car accident he kidnaps and tortures an undercover police officer to find out if the police were covering up what really happened.
• Grimm gives us several literal examples of this trope, monsters who have retired into quiet, suburban lives. The most prominent being Savage Wolf Monroe, who starts out as this but is eventually driven to a Heel-Face Turn.
• Granny in Once Upon a Time, who used to be The Big Bad Wolf.
• Ex-cartel capo Hector "Tio" Salamanca on Breaking Bad, who despite being crippled and mute after a stroke has not to lost a bit of the sharpness - or ruthlessness - that characterized his younger days. (Said younger days are occasionally shown in flashback.)
• How some of the older members of the mob end their careers in The Sopranos - the lucky ones. Then again, Uncle Junior's gradual descent into dementia, eventually rendering him a frail, senile husk of his former self condemned to spend the remainder of his life in a dank state-run facility unable to even recognize his family or recall his own accomplishments is one of the most depressing and haunting plotlines in the show.
• Dennis and Dee's grandfather in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, who is a former Nazi and proud of it.
• Played for Black Comedy in an episode of Community where Troy and Abed befriend a fellow college student named Lukka, who teaches them how to succeed at a spectacularly violent war videogame. After a date with him, Britta finds out this is because he's an unrepentant Sociopathic Soldier and Balkan war criminal who quite giddily participated in genocide. Needless to say, Troy and Abed are pretty horrified when they find out about their new friend's past.
• In Doctor Who, the Eleventh Doctor's friend, Madame Vastra, a female Silurian who escaped suspension into Victorian Britain. When we see her, she's living happily with her human lover/maid and eventual wife. Before that, though, she was apparently stalking the London Underground and eating the workmen. Even now, she hasn't entirely shaken off her fondness for human flesh, idly commenting on having eaten Jack the Ripper in "A Good Man Goes To War"
• Alestorm's song ''Pirate Song'' seems to be about an old pirate regretting his evil days, which continues until the first chorus...
And for what?
I've killed and I've shot
And reddened the cold tears of children with blood
And if I could go back and make my amends
I'd make all those mistakes again
I'd kill every last one of those bastards, my friend!
Tabletop Games
• In Dungeons & Dragons, the demon lord Pale Night is an ancient being that many other demon lords claim is their mother (and some claim the entire current race of demons can trace their bloodline back to). Nowadays, she tends to stay in her palace, distancing herself from the mortals, the Blood War, and other demons... But, may the gods help anyone she catches trespassing on her property. Some she turns into souless husks whom she keeps as trophies (and guardians) while others she lets go, only to live with the horrors they've seen forever.
• Another ancient demon who is now retired, but not by her choice, is the Queen of Chaos. In the mythic Age Before Ages eons ago, she ruled the obyrith, the race of demons that first populated the Abyss, and led them on a war of genocide against the Wind Dukes of Aaqa. She was such a monster, she murdered any obyrith who refused to join her forces. Eventually, however, her army was defeated by the Wind Dukes due to the creation of the Rod of Law (later the Rod of Seven Parts) her second in command and consort Miska the Wolf Spider was banished to Pandemonium, and the obyrith nearly driven to extinction as a result. Neither the Queen nor the obyrith ever recovered; since then, she has laired in the 14th layer of the Abyss, known as the Steaming Fen, licking her wounds, dreaming of freeing Miska and returning to glory.
• Also, there are the Rabble of Devilkin, powerful unique devils who reside on the first layer of Hell. Technically, they are exiled, not retired, formerly being Dukes of Hell (or in the case of Moloch and Geryon, rulers of whole layers) who were stripped of their position for some reason, but spared death for other reasons. Most are content to simply stay in their lairs and keep to themselves, but a few have made vain attempts to regain their former positions, so much that in such cases, their names have been stripped of them to prevent mortals from summoning them. One notable Rabble is Armaros, a being who is believed to be the most powerful devil in existence and a wizard with godlike magical power. Only Asmodeus himself is allowed to visit him (which he does quite often, possibly for advice) and no-one else dares disturb his magical research.
Video Games
• Planescape: Torment
• Fhjull Forked-Tongue, an unrepentant devil who was tricked into signing a deal with an angel that obligated him to do good. This got him thrown out of the hellish hierarchy, mutilated, and led to him hiding out in a place where NO ONE could find him just so that he doesn't have to actually abide by the contract (which roughly says "Give charity to anyone who asks.")
• And of course, Ravel herself.
No... this world is full of thorns and Ravel has spent more than enough time a-picking them from her skin.
• MadWorld states that Jack was a lesser form of this, being the former Grand Champion of the Deathwatch games, only quitting due to being tired of the games' reign of death. He does come out of retirement since he's sent to save the Mayor's daughter (until he learns she was never in any actual danger, and that in fact the Mayor and several of his friends set up the whole Distressed Damsel ploy for their own entertainment) and later to take down the games with the help of XIII.
• Gig from Soul Nomad & the World Eaters. He once nearly destroyed the world. He wants a do-over, and this time, he'll spare nothing (except some hotpods, they're delicious). And he does not hide from the protagonists that this is his plan, or that taking advantage of his powers too much will release him, even though a little bit of deception would have him freed much quicker. And he's quite gung-ho about going off to kill Feinne, his former ally (though Feinne is far too powerful at this stage for them to succeed). And he'll chew you out for even suggesting he's not a bad guy. This gets played with a bit later when we find he was actually Brainwashed and Crazy and while he never reverts back to his original personality (in the Normal route at any rate) he does get enough Character Development to pull off a Heroic Sacrifice against the Big Bad. And then Redemption Equals Life.
• Dragon Age: Origins has Flemeth, the Witch of the Wilds; infamous in legend for the countless atrocities she has committed throughout history. And the truth is even worse. She has allowed a demon to possess her, killed her second husband and everyone in his castle, and gleefully slaughters anyone who tries to hunt her down. And she makes a game of it, using her five-year-old daughter as bait. Not to mention she kidnaps, rapes, and murders men she finds in order to even have daughters, whom she raises just to use a ritual spell to take over their body so she can live forever. Don't be fooled when she offers help, she is NOT a nice old lady.
• In Knights of the Old Republic II, Kreia. Once a Sith Master, she taught the two Sith Lords currently hunting the player. Throughout the game she insists she is Above Goodand Evil but her teachings of individualism and control inevitably lead toward the Dark Side. Eventually she comes out of retirement and becomes the final boss.
• Mandalore counts, though he doesn't "mentor" you as much as the other one. He does share his cynical world view with you though and has no regrets about the violence he has partaken in.
• A minor character from Mass Effect 2, a krogan referred to as "the Patriarch", fits. After being soundly defeated and crippled by current boss of Omega Aria T'loak, he can be found serving as her advisor in Afterlife, clearly broken and longing to return to his bloody glory days, when he was respected and feared. In a sidequest, Shepard has the option of coaxing him out of retirement in a couple of different ways.
• Jericho from Fallout 3, to a T. He used to be a raider, and expresses some interest in taking up the life again, but spends the entire game just bumming around Megaton like every other NPC... at least until an evil Player Character convinces him to give it another shot. There's also the weapons dealers Flak and Shrapnel in Rivet City, a retired slaver and raider, respectively.
• Fallout: New Vegas:
• Level 50 characters with Evil or Very Evil Karma can take the "Ain't Like That Now" perk to restore it to Neutral levels and gain a bunch of bonuses. The name of the perk comes from a quote from the aforementioned William Munny.
• Orion Moreno, one of the refugees from the Enclave's fall in Fallout 2, is this. The other members of the Remnants were either Punch Clock Villains who were only in it for the action or Minions with Fs in Evil who regularly subverted their orders, but Orion was and is a true believer in the Enclave's fascist outlook, he loved the violence of his job, and he's damn proud to have served.
• John Marston, the main character of Red Dead Redemption, is considered by Edgar Ross to be this. Ross fails to see the irony or hypocrisy of the fact that Marston is trying to stop killing people and Ross is forcing him to keep killing people. And that he becomes this trope as well (From a Certain Point of View).
• The vampire Vorador spends most of the Legacy of Kain series as a Retired Monster, having given up on the mortal world after the murder of Janos Audron- though not before killing off most of the Circle of Nine in revenge. He's clearly still as hedonistic and depraved as ever, living in a luxurious mansion (complete with a torture chamber), surrounding himself with brides, drinking the blood of human captives from golden goblets; nonetheless, he advises Kain to avoid meddling in the affairs of mortals. If only he'd listened...
• In Jade Empire, Sagacious Zu used to be a Lotus Assassin. Even though he quit over a case of Pragmatic Villainy (he was ordered to kill the family of the emperor's brother as a punitive action, which he argued was pointlessly cruel), he seems to have no regrets about any of the other things he did up until that point.
• Certainly Travis in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. He doesn't even remember the first assassin he killed when his brother comes for revenge. Well, he is this to a point...he most likely still hasn't gotten past how he dishonored Holly Summers by not killing her in battle when she wanted such a fate. Otherwise, he doesn't care to get back into the games until Bishop is killed and Sylvia "convinces" him, perfectly fine with his pathetic lifestyle. It's mainly because killing has become boring to him after killing the best of the best. He does regret killing Charlie's cheerleaders but that and Holly seem to be is only two regrets.
• Paarthurnax in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, leader of the Greybeards and former right-hand man of Alduin, who turned against the rest of Dragonkind and sided with Humanity during the Dragon Wars, teaching the Ancient Nords the art of the Thu'um. When questioned about his former crimes and his reformation by the Dragonborn, Paarthurnax admits that he can never truly reform and even after several millennia, he still has the innate urge to conquer and destroy as all Dragons do, but has merely learned to suppress it with daily meditation and intense self-control.
Visual Novel
• Dan of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures , has a mother who might be this. Dan has never known her except as his and his half-sister's loving mother, so he was pretty shocked to find out what she used to be like.
• Dan's mother was a monster, but why she apparently stopped and how she feels about that time has not been explored. And it seems she might not be so "retired" considering she sent a hit team after Abel, considered her stepdaughter acceptable collateral damage, and is plotting the genocide of the dragon species.
• Mr Garrott (the eldest), from Wiglaf and Mordred. The patriarch of a family that employs people who could be supervillains in their own right as household staff. Just how terrifying he can be is demonstrated when, while he expresses his displeasure with several members of the household staff, it cuts to two characters who were watching him discipline members of the staff, One asking, "Is it over yet!? I'm not supposed to be seeing this stuff live! I read about it later! He's supposed to be retired!" Meanwhile, the other person watching comments on how, asides from the gray hair, Mr Garrot has not changed at all since retiring thirty years ago.
Web Originals
• Succubus matriarch Blacksky from The Return who believes world domination is just too boring these days.
• In the Eridanus Galaxy online web game Imperium Nova, the Vampire Count Sergio Von Carstein announced his retirement at the age of 74 after a number of evil acts, including brutally suppressing several human and vampire rebellions, engineering a plague so he could reanimated the corpses to work his farms, attempting to brutally murder several fellow nobles, hooking up hundreds of thousands of humans to blood extraction machines, creating a gigantic zombie horde out of a military cemetery, and a career in organized crime.
• Rich from the MSF High Forum, pretty much qualifies. There's a reason Mel'lon does not like him.
• Not all the teachers and staff at Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe are retired superheroes. The story "Test Tubes Babies" ultimately reveals that one of the teachers we know is a retired supervillain and mass murderer. In "Mimeographic" we find out that the first house father of the school was a retired evil wizard.
Western Animation
• Avatar: The Last Airbender : Yon Rha, retired Fire Nation soldier who killed Katara's and Sokka's mother.
• In The Legend of Korra, Yakone gets de-bended by Aang, and he disappears into the Northern Water Tribe after escaping and having face alteration done. Eventually he meets and marries a woman, and sires two sons: Noatok (later known as Amon) and Tarrlok. After finding out his sons are Waterbenders like he was before being de-bended, he trains them in Bloodbending without the empowerment of a full moon in order to turn them into instruments of his revenge under a harsh, abusive training regime.
• Stewie Griffin from Family Guy is one, best seen in the episode "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" (from "The Movie Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story"). As an evident example of the early seasons, he was a psychopathic little brat who enjoyed using violence at any moment, at point that even the two-part episode "Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie" showed how monstrous he was able to be, not to mention that in the real canon has killed several people, even kids. However, the episode "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" showed us that his self-future is one of these. He is not violent and all his plans for world domination were scrapped by himself.
• Also there's the fact that in every new season, it seems to become increasingly sympathetic. It may seem strange that even now can be considered an Anti-Hero, and less evil than Carter.
• Eric Cartman from South Park is a variation and subversion of this trope, since he is not old. While several episodes showed his monstrous behavior, extremely sadistic and generally no regrets for his actions, the episode "The Death of Eric Cartman" seems to establish him as a self-redemption. Also, recent episodes of season 16 seems to show that he has been softening in his villainy. The episode "Jewpacabra" is another candidate. But do not question that Cartman did many atrocities in the past, including the infamous act of "Scott Tenorman Most Die", murder and attempted genocide in "Coon & Friends"
• Also, he's shown to grow up to be more or less a stable adult, as seen on "My Future Self and Me" (at least until Cartman binges on doughnuts and turns his slim future self into a fat wreck).
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Many sites and applications using WrapPanel to display your items. Items are queued from left to right and when there is no more space tend to skip to the next line.
For Example:
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What is the best way to make this organization? Or it depends on what I'm showing? When you leave all items of the same size and when can they have variable size? (Figure 1, search on google images is similar)
One similarity is that there is always a margin between the elements (however small). But why most applications share content like this: enter image description here
And not so?
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The second option is clearly more symmetric (margin left and margin right).
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I'm not really clear on what your question specifically is? Are you asking if version 'B' with symmetric margins is better than A? What is the relationship to the overlapping-type images in your first image? I can't see the specific question that you want answered here. – JonW Sep 21 '12 at 23:27
Actually is no specific question. It is open to some more general concept. When to use X, or when to use Y, or when to use Z? Why? Is there any rule of User Experience for stacking items like this? – J. Lennon Sep 22 '12 at 0:28
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Sometimes it is hard to read intention into a UI without insider-context to know if something is a conscious or unconscious decision. We could very well ascribe valid UX principles to explain why something is a certain way, but it's also quite possible it is more accidental.
Consequently there are two possible answers to your question:
As a conscious design decision, having different margins between elements is an example of using grouping principles to create a relationship between the elements using negative space (as other answers have pointed out).
As an unconscious design decision, it can also be as simple as that's how it looks when you're using CSS margins for flowing lists where you don't know which items are at the first or last position in the row.
The CSS applied to each item would therefore be the same, i.e. margin: 10px; When you have two items next to each other the gap between them becomes the sum of the right and left margin:
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The result is more white space between neighboring elements than you have for the first or last item in the row.
With the examples you provided, I would say that the first one looks like a conscious design decision whereas the second example (Netflix) is probably more representative of the cumulative effect of uniform margins in a list.
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Different margin within and outside of the wrap re-enforce the content grouping. By having a different (smaller or wider) margin on the side it becomes clear that the images do not continue beyond the visible area, but the visible group that gets formed by the internal same-width gaps is entirely visible.
Furthermore there often is not space on the sides of the wrap, but only within the columns (gaps). Your example actually shows that: the margin on the side is applied to the whole page, not just the wrap as you show in the wireframe.
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Actually, I think your second example is less symetric than your first. Think of the space around items in your view as belonging to the item, a constant margin around each item. It then suddenly makes sense that there is less (half) as much margin between the edge of the view and the first item than there is between items themselves. In the latter case, you will have two times the margin, as each item gets its own margin.
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I understand your point. Well placed. Although there are still many unanswered questions. – J. Lennon Sep 20 '12 at 0:20
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I record screencasts in 720p resolution, but would like to put up 1080p as well. This brings a problem: how can I record videos in 1080p such that they still look OK when scaled down to 720p? I've been thinking about DPI scaling (on Windows), but maybe it's possible to go the other way, i.e. record at 720p and then use some sort of smart scaling to produce a (relatively speaking) high-quality 1080p render?
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Generally speaking shooting in 1080p and scaling it down to 720p is not a problem with cameras as I do this all the time and it looks just fine. When I do this I may also be mixing 1080p and 720p raw images, and I always scale to the lowest resolution. When I render a 1080p I will generally render a 720p version as an answer print to view before committing the final cut to a 1080p render. I say this with caution because I have not worked with screencasts or using screen motion capture software.
However, shooting in 720p and trying to make it into 1080p is a losing battle because then you are asking software to make up for pixels that do not exist. You can try it, but I don't think you will like it unless someone makes a software product something like Twixtor that adds frames needed for extra slow motion shots.
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Screencasting has its own set of weird issues for downsampling, though, especially when you're going between resolutions which don't have a reasonably clean ratio between them and when there's a lot of precisely-placed one-pixel-thick horizontal or vertical lines. – fluffy Sep 1 '12 at 21:52
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I was going through a friend's tagged pictures and accidentally tagged another of our mutual friends in it. How do I remove the tag? (The picture was uploaded by someone who isn't a friend.)
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On the side of the photo it will have the people who are tagged, hover over it and it'll give you a small picture of the friend you accidentally tagged, in that little picture it'll have the option "remove request" click in that and you're done.
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Not true. This is only if you own the photo, not if it is a friends photo. – Fogest Dec 7 '13 at 5:18
Worse yet: even if you own the photo, sometimes it won't let you remove the tag. – Ross Presser Jan 10 at 19:14
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There's no option to remove a tag of your friend you requested on others photo but however you can remove your own tag.
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When It's Not God's Plan: 8 Things to Say to Grieving Nonbelievers
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If you know someone who's grieving a death, and they don't believe in a God or in any sort of afterlife, what do you say?
A lot of religious and spiritual believers find themselves stymied, at a loss for words, when the atheists and other non-believers in their lives are grieving. The comforts and consolations they're used to offering, and that they rely on themselves, don't do much good with atheists and other non-believers. "It's all part of a plan." "I'm sure they're smiling down on you now." "You'll see them in the afterlife." Etc. At best, these notions are useless for atheists: at worst, they're actually upsetting.
Some believers behave very badly at these times. It's all too common for religious believers to use death and grief, and the heightened vulnerability that comes with it, as an opportunity for proselytizing. And when confronted with the reality that non-believers usually aren't comforted by religious sentiments, believers often get churlish and defensive: insisting that grieving non-believers should be comforted when believers offer religious platitudes, and getting irritated or even outright hostile when we don't.
Which is understandable. Even some non-believers have a hard time knowing what to say to the grieving non-believers in their life. Many atheists were brought up in religion: they've been brought up framing death and grief in religious terms, and dealing with it with religious customs. And in American culture particularly, our social customs around death are very much rooted in religion. So when atheists reject those customs, they often don't know what to replace them with.
So what, specifically, can people say -- or do -- to comfort and console the non-believers in their lives who are grieving?
There is no one right answer to this question, no answer that's going to be good for all people and in all situations. What you say or do with people who are grieving can, and should, vary tremendously depending on the situation: how close you are to the person who's grieving, how soon it is after the death that they're grieving, their unique personality, your unique personality, the nature of your relationship with them. And, of course, the unique nature of the person who has died, and the nature of their death, and the bereaved person's relationship to them, is going to affect what you say and do with someone who's grieving.
But I recently took a survey of readers of my blog, and of members of the Grief Beyond Belief online support group on Facebook, asking this question, and asking people what they'd found helpful in their grief. And a number of common themes cropped up quickly. If there's a non-believer in your life who's grieving a death, and you're at a loss about what to say or do, here are some good places to start.
1. "I'm so sorry."
You don't have to be creative about the wording. When people are stymied in the face of grief, often they say that they don't just want to spout stock phrases. But some experiences are so common as to be near-universal, and it's okay if the words you choose are common as well. At times in my life when I've been grieving, I heard versions of "I'm so sorry for your loss" probably hundreds of times... and every single one of them meant something to me.
2. "I remember when... /My life is so much better because of..."
In the face of death and grief, we often have a reflex to shy away from discussing the person who died. We think it'll be too painful, that it will make the loss too fresh or immediate.
But many grieving people say exactly the opposite. They want to hear stories about the person who died. They want to know that the person they love will be remembered, and missed. This is true for anyone -- but it may be even more true for atheists. Atheists don't generally believe in an afterlife: for us, the only thing we have that approaches immortality is the work we've done, the memories people have of us, the ways the world is different because we were here.
So tell stories. Talk about how the person who has died touched you. Talk about something sweet they did, something brave, something generous, something funny. Talk about how your life is better because they were here. Say how much you admired them. Say that you'll miss them. (Assuming it's true, of course.)
In the conversation on my blog, a commenter with the handle Grim described the humanist funeral of her grandmother in a very positive way: "We were there to remember her as she was. We shared stories and anecdotes, acknowledged the role she'd played in our lives and we remembered her and that's the best thing, I think. To be positive, to remember the good (and bad) and to know that the person had an influence on our lives." Others shared their experiences. Tamsin had a very specifically atheist and humanist take on this as well: "I was also very moved when one of Mum's friends from her childhood told me that he didn't feel that Mum was entirely gone -- not in the sense of her spirit watching over us or whatever -- but because he kept noticing bits of her -- a turn of phrase, a facial expression, an aptitude, a firmly-held belief -- in me and my sister."
When RedSonja spoke at her father's funeral, "I shared something a friend had told me when I mentioned that I felt I could talk for hours, but we didn't have that kind of time; she said 'You were lucky to have had a father that you can speak of for hours with love. Not everyone does.' And I talked about how Dad was still with us; in his books, his jokes, his family members." Dea commented, "When I lost my grandma last year, the most healing experience was talking with other people about their memories of her and especially their feelings about how she impacted the lives of those she loves. Because that is where the dead live on -- in our hearts, our memories, and if it was family -- our genes. Whenever I see a trait of my grandmother in one of my aunts, or even in myself, I wonder if that was part of the (obviously unconscious, but no less valued) inheritance she left to us. I find comfort in these thoughts."
Steve Bowen said that, when his father died, "the best and [most] memorable comments were from people who had known my father in situations we did not share in common; little anecdotes and insights into his character that made me smile and remember the living, loving, gregarious man he had been and left me feeling that I knew him even better than before." Kemist said, "I lost my best friend to cancer this summer... For us, the thing that helped most was our being together, and our sharing our memories of my friend. Can you actually believe that we all laughed when her father told us of some silly stunt his daughter did?"
And Julia Burke told a story of keeping memories alive in a very down-to-earth way: "My mom's beloved brother ("Ben") died at 21 after a car accident; she was 17 and devastated. Among all the kind words, memorials, and events, one gift stood out. Ben's girlfriend compiled a journal of his favorite book quotes, poems, passages, and stories, as well as material of his own; Ben was a gifted writer with a passionate love of language and literature, and the journal was packed with words that had touched him and words of his that had touched her over the years. Today, over forty years later, my mom can pick up the journal and enjoy her brother's wit, intelligence, and sensitivity. And though her children never knew their would-be Uncle Ben, we can pick up the book and spend a little time with his memory -- we even share many of the same favorite writers. I can't imagine a better gift for a grieving person, atheist or otherwise. In the throes of a gut-wrenching loss, knowing that a loved one will always be remembered and that his or her passions, talents, and quirks touched many lives can be a powerful comfort -- one rooted in this world and this life."
3. "What can I do to help?"
Grief can be exhausting. It can make it difficult to manage everyday tasks, such as cooking and cleaning. So make an offer of practical help: one that's appropriate for your relationship. Nothing says "I care about you and am sincerely sorry for your loss" like vacuuming, babysitting, or making a pot of homemade soup and freezing it into a dozen Tupperwares.
When he spoke about his father's death, BT Murtagh had nothing but praise for his father's friends who would "cut my Mum's grass, clean the rain gutters, all manner of small practicalities." Sambarge said, "For a closer/good friend, I'd add meals delivered to the house, visits where I vacuum the floor and wash dishes and time spent just talking about the person or the weather or whatever the grieving person wants, basically." Denise agreed: "If I know the person/family more closely, I'm inclined to lean more toward action anyway. What do they need? Are small children involved who could be babysat while attending to post-funeral stuff? Would a house cleaning service be helpful for a couple of months? How is the person/family faring with food, since cooking is not often on people's minds at time of loss...?"
And Don F said, "There were three things people said that I found the most useful when I was grieving my fiance's death: 'I'm so sorry for your loss.' 'I know there's nothing I can say that will make you feel better.' 'Let me help by [doing something useful].' Those useful things included taking care of my house and my children while I couldn't, making sure I was eating well, and listening to me talk about what happened and what Bonnie had meant to me."
Now, it's important to be aware that not everyone will want this help. Some people find routine chores to be comforting during grief, giving both distraction and a sense of normality and continuity. But many others will want, and need it. It's a good idea to make the offer of help as concrete and specific as possible.
As Grief Beyond Belief founder Rebecca Hensler pointed out, "Sometimes, particularly in the first days of grief, answering the question, 'What can I do to help?' can itself be a burden. Offering to do a particular task, for example, 'Can I come by and pick up your laundry?' avoids the moment of panic when the grieving person realizes that she can't even remember what needs to be done, much less do it. Keep in mind as well that a person grieving a spouse is often forced to take on that spouse's responsibilities in the midst of grief. For example, if your grieving friend's wife was the one who always dealt with automobile maintenance, temporarily taking over car-related tasks may be most helpful."
4. "This sucks."
All too often, people who are trying to console the bereaved go overboard trying to offer consolation, perspective, philosophies and insights that might somehow magically make the grief disappear. It's an understandable impulse: someone you care about is in pain, you want to take that pain away.
But when someone is grieving, and the people they care about keep framing the death as not such a terrible thing after all? That really doesn't help. It can make it seem as if you're trivializing the death, and the depths of their grief. It can wind up making you the center of attention instead of them, prioritizing your desire to be the bringer of solace over their need to just go through their grief. And it can make it seem as if you don't want to deal with it: like you're trying to make their pain go away, so you don't have to look at it. As katiehartman said, "Don't recite platitudes that are meant to minimize or 'give meaning' to the death. Just don't. Philosophizing can feel shallow, distant, or like an attempt to move on to another topic."
So let them grieve already. Let them know that you know how bad they feel. Let them know that feeling bad is entirely normal and reasonable, and that you have compassion and understanding for just how lousy they feel. As Saro Jane said, "For me, the most comforting was simple and along the lines of 'I'm so sorry, that really sucks. I'm thinking about you.' Acknowledge that the loss is sad and shitty, let me know you care and are thinking of me. Done." And w_nightshade concurred: "My best friend (also a non-believer) lost his father last year. He said afterwards that what he wanted to hear more than anything was 'That fucking sucks.' An acknowledgement that he was hurting, and that was his right.
5. Just listen.
Jonathan said this perfectly on my blog, so I'm just going to quote him: "I think people obsess about the proper thing to say, when the real issue is figuring out the proper way to listen. The reality is that if someone is grieving, you don't have to say anything. In fact, there's nothing you can say that will make things better. If some one is grieving, all they need to know is that you understand their grief, that you empathize with what their going through, and that you're willing to shut the hell up long enough to let them express their grief."
Again: If you go too far trying to offer comforts and consolations, it can start to seem like you're making it all about you. This can especially be true when religious believers offer religious comforts to atheists. It becomes less about the atheist's grief and the ways they're struggling to manage it within their own world view, and more about the believer being wrapped up in their own beliefs... or worse, using the vulnerability of grief as an opportunity to proselytize. What's more, too much consolation can start to seem like you're trying to shut the grieving person up.
So listen. Let them talk. Ask questions about how they're doing... and listen to the answers, really listen, for as long as they want to talk. As anteprepro said, "There may not be a need to shove platitudes down their throats at all, you may just need to let them get things off their chest without reflexively trying to get them to minimize their sadness in the name of comforting them." And as Axxyaan said, "They have a right to feel as awful as they do and if that makes you feel uncomfortable, bear it or leave. Don't give in to the urge to fill up the silence. Just being there for the other in silence is often more comforting than whatever you say."
6. Offer company.
Grief can be very isolating. Especially when the person who died was a spouse, child, or someone else very close to the bereaved person, who they saw every day or were in regular contact with. So offers of company -- a sympathetic ear, a shoulder to cry on, meaningful activities, silly distractions, depending on the person and your relationship with them -- can make a huge difference. Helen said it very well on my blog: "After 1-2 weeks, start actively inviting the mourning person over for a glass of wine and a chat, or for going together for a swim, or whatever quiet activity you used to do once in a while together (especially if they lost their spouse or someone they were sharing their life with on a daily basis). Don't be offended if they say no because it's too early, and don't insist by saying 'But you have to get back to normal', but keep calling once in a while."
There's an all-too-common pattern that many bereaved people report. There's a huge outpouring of help and support in the first days and weeks after a loved one dies, sometimes even more than they can manage... and then, as the weeks wear on, the help dwindles. But people's grief, and their difficulty managing their lives as a result of it, can last long after the initial loss and shock. Sierra said this very well: "Everyone asked how I was holding up the first week, the first month. A couple of years later, only a few, select people ask me that, and it means a hell of a lot more now than it did then, because it's an acknowledgment that losing my family still sucks." And Alice agreed: "Call or check in on people after the memorial service, and keep doing it over the course of the first year, when all of the 'first snowfall without ___' moments will hit."
So remember to stay in touch, and to keep offering help, even after the first few weeks. A dozen Tupperwares of frozen homemade soup the week after someone dies: that's very good indeed. A dozen Tupperwares of frozen homemade soup three months after someone dies -- that's beyond awesome.
And very importantly:
8. Let the grieving person grieve in their own way.
There isn't one right way to grieve. Different people do it differently. Some people take some time to intensely experience and process their grief; others quickly plunge into work and other distractions. Some people are somber; others handle their emotions with morbid humor. Some people get overwhelmed by their emotions; others distance themselves from them. Some people feel especially sad at anniversaries or birthdays; others barely notice these landmarks, but get upset when some small thing happens to remind them of the person who died, or when some momentous new occasion happens that they wish they could share. (I'm not sure I even remember my mom's birthday anymore... but when Ingrid and I got married, it made me intensely sad that Mom couldn't be there, and that the two of them would never get to meet.) If a relationship with the dead person was complicated, some people will focus on remembering the good things, while others will get angry over past hurts, or be filled with disappointment over lost opportunities. Etc.
None of these is wrong. So take your cues from the grieving person themselves. If they're crying, hold their hand and let them cry. If they seem exhausted and overwhelmed, offer practical help. If they're railing against the injustice of the universe, rail with them. If they're making sick jokes, laugh. And if you're having a hard time reading their cues, just ask them flat-out, "What do you need?" Offer multiple options: "Do you need a shoulder to cry on? Do you need help around the house? Do you need someone to take you out to a dumb movie to get your mind off things? Let me know." As Sylvia Sybil said, "I've found 'How have you been doing?' to be a good question... It allows the mourner to either segue into discussion of the death and their feelings, or to talk about the less personal activities of their daily lives, as they please."
What's more, some people will go through some or all of these experiences at different times in their grieving process. And different people go through grief at different paces. Most grieving people say that grief never goes away entirely -- my own mother died over 30 years ago, and I still have moments when her absence from my life hurts like major surgery. But some people manage the worst of it quickly, and are functioning in their everyday lives fairly soon after the death. Other people need more time to return to their routine. And again, none of these is wrong.
If you're concerned that someone's grief is triggering serious clinical depression -- if exhaustion is shading into paralysis and torpor, if someone's life is seriously disintegrating and they aren't managing it at all -- that's different. That may well call for some sort of intervention, depending on your relationship. But don't go the "Sheesh, it's been three months/ six months/ a year, and you still haven't gotten over it, what's wrong with you?" route. There's no reason that your timetable should be their timetable. And again, it can read as if you're uncomfortable with their grief, and are trying to make it go away so you don't have to deal with it.
If so -- yes. You're absolutely right. Human beings are human, and while atheists and believers do commonly have very different approaches and philosophies about life and death, we're still the same species, with the same basic set of emotions. And in fact, many grief counselors advise that, even if a bereaved person has religious beliefs, it's not always a good idea to bring them up when they're in the depths of their grief. Even for someone who does believe in Heaven or a divine plan, it can seem trivializing and dismissive to hear "You'll see them again soon enough" or "Everything happens for a reason."
So if you're wondering what to say to grieving non-believers? Say exactly what you'd say to grieving believers. Just leave out anything you might say about God, or souls, or an afterlife... and let us know that you want to help us, and that you're sorry for our loss, and that we're not alone.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37083 | The next time you're cruising one of the various Android app piracy forums looking for the free crack for ROM Manager or Root Explorer, be warned that you may get more than you're looking for. A new bit of malware named DKFBootkit has been found attached to pirated apps that require root. It hooks itself into the boot sequence by altering files in the system, and can cause all sorts of problems without the user being aware. Since you think it's a legit application, you say OK when it asks for root privileges, and you are owned. It's bad news all around.
The good news is that it's easy as hell to avoid. That's the part of these types of stories that never seems to get mentioned. Use a bit of common sense -- you download a file from someone who is able to crack a legit app and defeat any license checks, and you don't think they can drop a bot or keylogger in there as well? Idiocy like this is what keeps malware alive on Windows desktops, and Android devices. Stop stealing apps, and don't be stupid enough to trust someone who steals and redistributes them. Period. Full stop.
If you didn't pay for it, chances are you'll wish you did. And you deserve it.
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icebike says:
Playah0101 says:
Jerry, I agree with you 95% of the time, but I think you are going a little too far.
I agree that developers should be paid for their apps, and piracy is an extremely large problem, especially on android. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that everyone who pirates an app should have a bot virus dropped on them, have their identity, credit card information taken from them.
This use to be the response from movie studios, and the music industry, the old trojan inside of Napster/Kazaa downloads, because well, you pirated their movie/song. I don't think that argument holds water.
I speed on the highway, I can admit that, but does that mean because I am breaking the law by speeding someone can drive me off the road? Take advantage of me in another way? I also don't think a pirater who only uses and doesn't distribute pirated apps shouldn't be prosecuted as severely as they have been, to try to set some kind of example. Prosecuting a few piraters doesn't combat piracy at all, nor set any kind of example.
There is no easy solution, but legitimizing the victimizing of piraters doesn't appear to be anything close to an answer.
Insp_Gadget says:
Ever watch the show "1,000 Ways to Die"? The people that die on that show typically die because they were doing something wrong. Did they deserve to die? That's a question best left to philosophers. The point is they died because they did something they had no business doing.
Same can be said for those that get infected by most malware when they obtain apps illegally. Jerry's post is spot on.
Regarding bots, keyloggers etc, the same is true for ROMS too, one assumes.
(edit, added clarification re: bots and keyloggers)
ishore99 says:
Short but VERY WELL PUT.
mattyb1085 says:
That's what she said!
sag7392 says:
This is why you should pay for apps, that often cost less than a cup of coffee.
DDReaper says:
Free Share is not steal ! It's juste perfect counterfeiting and there are lots of debats about that, so do not sum up that in few words.
And i will not pay 5$ for a file explorer that should be INCLUDED in android.
Instead i use rom toolbox wich is free :)
jeffrok says:
Spelchek d0de..
Anyway, if a person who works hard to create a program decides he wants to charge $2-$5, just because you don't feel like paying for it does not give you the right to pirate it.
Just because Android did not include a file explorer, does not give you the right to pirate someone else's.
I don't buy you "perfect counterfeiting" thing either.. There's one thing if someone decides to re-write a similar app, but I seriously doubt anyone would "perfectly counterfeit" a program just so it can be free. Makes no sense to put all that work into something, and then offer it for free.
ilaifire says:
But that is what intellectual "theft" is though, a perfect copy, not theft. In theft there is an object, say a chair, that one person owns, if someone steals the chair then they have it and the original owner is no longer in possession of it. But that same analogy for intellectual "theft" would be that person A has a chair, person B looks at it and then makes an identical chair, now both person A and B have a chair, so the chair was not stolen from A, just copied.
As to your "seriously doubt anyone would "perfectly counterfeit" a program just so it can be free", it is quite simple. The big difference between you and the poster you are responding to is your fundamental belief of what "ownership" covers. You believe everything can be owned, many liberators and linux hackers believe that information is the communal property of the entire human race. I'm certain that you can agree that a person who's beliefs are strong enough they might willingly strap explosives to themselves and go kill a bunch of people because there are documented cases of this (in fact, I'd be willing to bet every single person who has voluntarily taken a suicide mission or committed a suicide attack did so because they believed that it was the right thing to do). So if people are willing to go to such extremes for things they strongly believe in, isn't it reasonable that those who strongly believe information is communal property would release perfect counterfeits for free?
icebike says:
In one stunning paragraph you managed to glorify suicide bombing and equate it with copyright violation.
You sir, are a dangerous individual.
He isn't glorifying it, he is using valid reasoning to say people will do something, sometimes even extreme, because they believe in it. I agree with his statement more than I do the blog authors simplistic article that basically says that "they get what they deserve". One requires thought, the other doesn't.
Insp_Gadget says:
Intellectual property is still property. Your idea of counterfeiting it and not calling that theft is just plain wrong and misguided. When you buy an app, you're buying a license to gain utility from the app. You're buying the right to use the app's capabilities.
When you obtain an app illegally, you are gaining use of another person's hard work without compensating that person for their work. It's just like having someone perform any service for you (like cleaning or delivering) and then not paying them once they performed the work. You stole their hard work. And that makes you a thief.
ilaifire says:
There is one problem in your cleaning analogy. Mind, most app developers don't fall into this (hel most software developers don't fall into this either). There is a difference between getting paid after you do a job and extorting extra money for a job you did years ago. This is specifically a problem with the major companies or more niche applications. A Windows license costs ~$150, Adobe Photoshop $200, Vector NTI (DNA mapping software) is $1000 *ANNUALLY*, and bloody Disney has had the copyright length extended to the life of the creator plus 70 years. In all of these cases the people who actually did the work are receiving none of the gargantuan profits the companies are making (the only thing that changed in Vector NTI since it was bought by Invitrogen and the price got jacked up was they added the ability to order DNA primers from inside the program (all orders are fulfilled by Invitrogen) and Walt has been dead for 46 years now). The way intellectual property laws are now are just licenses to print money, or more accurately for highway robbery since unlike "pirating" where no one losses anything with intellectual property laws the end user losses a bunch of money they shouldn't be.
Younjulius says:
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
hmmm says:
I suppose the same could be true of any ROM developer as well right? I always install ROMS from developers that seem to be well known in the Android forums but it still makes me nervous knowing anything could be in there.
drhere says:
Bravo Mr. Hildenbrand.
Weirdo0815 says:
Every time a friend or family member tells me they have a virus, I always ask three questions:
1. What did you search for on the web?
2. Were you familiar with the website URL/Name of the search result you clicked on?
3. Did you download a file from said search result?
The answers to these questions usually result in the person having an "ah crap" moment where they realize they shouldn't have done what they did.
As you say, Jerry, people need to use common sense when doing things on the web, either on a computer or smartphone. I tell people that you need to treat every web page you go to like you do every other driver on the road, they are out to hurt you until they prove otherwise!
And as a decent/honest human being, I hate to see people pirate apps, especially the ones that cost less than a gallon of gasoline or a gallon of milk...
Synycalwon says:
Working in the IT field for the last 15+ years has taught me that common sense isn't all that common anymore. Or what I refer to as critical thinking skills. Many people either don't have those skills or fail to use them at all. I see it every single day. It really is as Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid!" :(
UncleMike says:
I've said this before - caution and common sense are all you need to have a malware-free Android experience. People who knowingly download pirated apps deserve what they get.
I made the mistake of introducing my 13-year-old to GetJar. While the GetJar site itself is not associated with pirated apps, they do offer some apps for free that are still paid apps in the Play Store. This gave my son the false impression that other sites offering paid apps for free are also okay. When he asked me about a site whos name is a combination of "apps" and "a word for large bodies orbiting the sun", and told me he had already downloaded two apps, I had him immediately remove them, followed by me installing Avast on his phone and performing a scan. Needless to say, his "download first and ask questions later" approach has been corrected.
pmjohnson99 says:
Downloaded and PAID for Root Browser last night. 99 cents isn't too much to not have to burn my device.
Bbeelzebub says:
I use tons of bootlegged apps (Proud to be an app thief!). Never had a problem yet. It's all about knowing what is on your phone, looking for suspicious activity and using your head as to the source of the pirated app. If I wanted to pay for apps, I'd be using an iPhone and be getting better quality apps in the first place.
TurbineTech says:
You sir, deserve to have the dog shit slapped out of you.
chubb says:
Exactly. I remember people that would pay 10 bucks a year for all the paid apps you want. Then laugh at the problems they had. Just pay the buck and support the people that make the enjoy.
chisox05matt says:
wow could you be anymore of a douchebag? So do you steal music as well?
dyinman says:
Goes to show the world is full of dicks.
Gearu says:
"We must measure what we might gain by what we might lose."
-Colonel Hessler in The Battle Of The Bulge.
cashxx says:
Apps that you shouldn't be downloading anyway? They shouldn't be available to download if they are dangerious.
icebike says:
Tell that to the hackers that run these dodgy download sites.
Hint these apps are not in the Android Market or the Amazon market.
Welcome to the internet. Hope you enjoy the visit before returning to your own planet.
Jezz_X says:
LOL yeah he kind of missed the point of this post. Its for people who get paid apps from "other sources" without actually paying for them not getting them from proper markets
I understand pirating PC games cause they're too damn expensive...but are people really that cheap to pay $5 for a useful app?!
chubb says:
In America, yes. Its the entitlement mentality that runs rampant here. Everyone wants everything for free, but wants everyone to pay for their hard work.
I agree with his comment on video games, most "intellectual" content is working harder and harder to drain the pockets of would be customers. Look at the way they distribute content now, a "brand new" game will include a code for downloadable content, once that code has been used.. the next person has to buy that "downloadable content" for additional money. This reduces the number of people who can sell LEGIT used video games.
Or how about all those GLU mobile games that are free to play, but you would have to spend more than a CONSOLE video game if you wanted to get the whole experience?
Or you buy a game on Android that costs more than a few dollars, download the additional content(that takes over 15 minutes to download, there goes your refund), and find out it freezes constantly? Or it just plain blows..
Or college textbook digital copies that cost more than a third of the new price, expires after a certain time.. or college textbooks being rented over and over? Both purposes to keep customers paying for the same content over and over and avoid having used copies floating around.
Sure, you can just call people "entitled", but the way that companies are marketing doesn't match the demand and resources of their customers. I will gladly buy a "donation" version of someones app for android when they offer a fully or mostly functional free version of the app, rather than pay for most apps which truly aren't worth the money anyways.
3rdpig says:
So you're cool with stealing once something is outside a certain price range? Damn dude, why stop at PC games, why not go right on to jewelry and gold bullion?
chisox05matt says:
so in your world, stealing cars would be ok as well.?
Pirating doesn't equal to stealing. When you steal, you remove an original. When you download a copy, you get just that, a copy. And my main point still stands, games are too expensive! Only a few games worth a standard $60. Most are around a $30-$40 range.
chubb says:
Now I get what your saying. Something is only worth what you think it is. Then if said owner do sent agree, then you can just steal it. So when I go to the Ferrari dealer and don't like the price, I can just go out and steal one then. Or a house. Id rather pay nothing for a house than the 175k plus price, so I'll steal it from the owner. Then I'll cry to the judge when he wants to send me up state for 15 years that I just didn't think the house was worth what they wanted. Your probably the guy that spends 10 bucks a day on coffee and food that you could.make at.home for 3 and spend that other 7 on apps and games.
I think you missed that second and third sentence in my last response...
chubb says:
You dont have a leg to stand in. Its people like you that want everything for free. But what you don't realize is that if no one pays for stuff people stop making stuff. If everyone stops buying music, or music then there will be no new music. Only big big names will get pushed. Same goes for software and video games. If you think 50-60 bucks is a lot for a game your a cheap ass motherfucka.
Go ahead and create a NFS or GTA 4 type game yourself and sell it for free. You wouldn't get a block finished before you ran outta support and cash. And if you had the cash you wouldn't spend 100 mill on this game like EA and the many others do.
chubb says:
Any way Russian guy. Who are you to.say what content is worth? Seems like you want all for damn near free.
chubb says:
Like I said you only want to pay what you feel is fair. Ha. Youll steal content no matter what huh. I want to know where you work so I can steal your services
chubb says:
My grandpa always told me. Don't trust a foreigner, especially a Russian.
Aww, it seems I've struck a nerve!
chubb says:
Yea you did. If you actually created content PR
Woe wanted you wod have a different tone. But since you don't create anything people want you want to cry. I like paying for apps I use daily. Unlike some cheap asses.
Insp_Gadget says:
Pirating = stealing. You can dress it up with any kind of justification you like, but it's still theft.
The time and energy that the developers took to write the code, draw the graphics, create the sound effects, develop the algorithms, etc. that make up the app is all worth money.
You may not see the value, but that doesn't make it any less valuable to the people that did the work. Your opinion of what their work is or isn't worth does not give you the right to 1. make a copy to give to someone else, or 2. obtain a copy for free, getting use of the product without paying for it.
Intellectual property is still property, and if you steal it (get a copy without paying for it), you're a thief. Period. Contrary to what the pirates say, when you obtain software you are buying the personal USE of the software, not the right to redistribute it.
If you fundamentally don't believe that people should be able to charge for software, then don't use the software in question. Your belief doesn't give you the right to obtain use of their hard work without paying for it. Doing so is theft. And you should be procescuted accordingly.
Lothinator says:
Meanwhile, Google has made it EVEN HARDER for (former) pirates to reform their ways.
Pirated a paid app and want to go legit? Head off to the Play Store and try to buy it. I dare you. You can't.
The paid app will show as "Purchased", but you won't be able to download it since you obviously didn't buy it. It won't give you a Buy prompt either - you're stuck.
Formerly, that was no big deal. You Uninstalled, cleared cache, rebooted, waited a day or so at most, and it would show as available for purchase.
Since the Play Store upgrade, however, that erroneous "Purchased" status is PERMANENT. It never goes away.
Which, of course, means that you will NEVER be able to buy a legit copy of "Super Snake Doodle 2012 Premium" on the Play Store and are encouraged to keep on pirating.
Way to go, google.
chubb says:
That's a good thing. I applaud google for that. I love how people will steal a $1 app. But won't steal a 50¢ coffee or 1.30 chocolate milk.
Have stolen both actually (grade school), but I'm just trying to make a point that people will steal anything. I for one have never stolen an app, but I haven't bought many either.
chubb says:
Okay. Maybe to make this make sense. If you designed an app and charge $1 for it. Would you rather have 10 million. buy the app or 1 million buy it and 9 million pirate it.
icebike says:
Too bad it doesn't say Stolen, instead of purchased.
cyanogen-man says:
YES COMOM FUCKING SINCE! !!!! I do pay for apps but somethings I would love to pirate as I have that I really really want but no money =poop on a stick while I drupe you super nerds gonna flip out but I'm still stuck with vista of all things I have 4 data ports open and an extra power adapter in my case I want an sad drive so I can dual boot invade I have install issues with 7 well sad drive es cost about 95 bucks windows 7 home cost 135 for the disk I'm broke I work a post job Im seriously debating stealing an upgrade key but that's highly illegal no telling how many systems are running that key no telling how many boys they can attach to. My system to hi Jack my files so no I'm just going to suck it up save up had buy it legit and my poor52 year old mother clueless about mal ware clicks every link in her soaked out yahoo mail box I've had to do atleast 6 system restores gotten everything from boot viruses to hack kits because she clicked a link full of spam promising a new car orsomething outlandish she's a se purity night mare I'm going to have to stop letting her use my computer and yes I've had poisoned DNS and everything from a link when opened the email auto downloaded in stalled and my AC punt with administrative a essential basically hijacked it in less than 2 minute my system was locked I am a. Seriously saying USE COMON SINCE DAMNIT IF YOU DONT KNOW THEM DONT TRUST BETTER SAFE THEN SORRY FOR THESE REASONS I REFUSE TO DO ONLINE ANYTHING EITH MY COMPUTER HACK MY CRAP YOUR JUST GOING TO GET AN ASS LOAD OF DEATH METAL AND HARD ROCK NO TLREAL PERSONAL INFO IF YOU HACK MY ISP THATS A DIFF STORY BUT I HOPE THEY HAVE BETTER SE URITY IN PLACE NO CREDIT CARDS SCREW THAT
chubb says:
Its common sense(not since). Since you did twice wrong in CAPS I had to do it.
chubb says:
sfreemanoh says:
Your entire argument is rendered invalid due to the lack of punctuation. And not being able to make sense of what you typed. L2 spell check.
There are some semi-legit reasons to pirate. Say a publisher doesn't release the app for your device, which often happens, but if you were able to get the APK, it installs and runs just fine? I have had this happen with a game, which had in-app purchases, which I made, and when it was finally made available for my nook color I bought the app. Sadly I made a $15 in app purchase, never got the item, and spent far more time trying to get a refund than it was worth(over a period of months), never got it.. and that is a great example of why I hate paid apps.
If at all possible I ONLY buy the donation version of apps that developers make freely available. If an author puts an app out for FREE, and I use that app over and over again, and they have a donation version, that is where I prefer to spend my money.
Most of the apps that I paid for(that were never free) were not indispensable, that useful, or that well made.. I have a list of apps I paid for I have replaced with free apps that work better. Hell, most of the paid apps for android OR iDevices aren't really worth any money at all. What can I bet you that you can scroll through page after page of paid apps on iTunes or in the android play store without seeing any app that is actually worth money.
Actually, the only apps I have on my phone that are "paid only" apps, that I still use are.. widget locker, poweramp, and camera360(and I believe they still had some sort of trial version). Every other app I have has a fully or almost fully functional free version which I replaced with a paid version, because THAT is a marketing method I want to support.
Some apps I wasted money on, that I do not use, that were paid only apps..setcpu, delayed lock, beautiful widgets, dropsync, juicedefender, several gameloft games(they are the company I mentioned above who screws over many customers).. and that is all I could find on my previously installed list or remember. It only lists 20 pages of apps I have installed, and that only takes me to the letter L.
To the author, I support what Playah0101 said, you take it too far.. and you forget, when corporate america decides to screw you over(every chance they get) or exploit you, it is legal. Need a heart transplant but don't have the money? Guess you gotta die.
If they could charge for the air you breathe, I am sure they would.. but that is pretty much the only thing that they can't do-- yet.
And to each person who says that pirating is stealing- what did it take out of the pocket of the author? If they didn't pirate it because they can't afford it, they still won't buy it.. but perhaps if they do pirate it they will tell their friends how awesome it is which will result in several other people buying it? The makers of "world of goo" put their own game on torrents, gave it a reasonable price, and then watched as it became a huge hit via word of mouth, netting them more money than many console games make. . there is a different, smarter way to do business, one in which everyone wins- that is the future I hope to see one day.
If there weren't so many crappy movies I have spent too much money to see, maybe I would go to the movies more.. or I would rent dvds rather than pay a monthly fee to netflix because most movies aren't worth renting. Just like most apps aren't worth buying.. we have to be more cautious/wise about where/how we spend our money(unless you have an unlimited supply or just don't care), while companies are trying to figure out how to take more of our dollars rather than EARN more of our dollars. I will pay for innovation and true creativity, not this half assed crap I see more and more of everywhere, in every industry.
ridie1389 says:
What you're speaking of my friend, is a marketing technique called "fremium", and it's going to be used alot when Playstation Mobile comes out.
dyinman says:
Just pay the $.99 for cryin' out loud...
I wish people would STOP paying $.99.. almost every app that costs that little is crap, which leads them to making more crappy apps, causing people with stupid ideas for apps to make their OWN crappy app.. and now the google play store is full of mostly junk. Same with apples store.
Buy good apps. Support good developers.. more good apps would get made if they didn't have to compete with the million crappy $.99 apps.
RoboWarrior says:
Wait is it okay to pirate a paid app to test it if they don't have a demo version? I mean if you don't like the app you can always delete and if you do like the app you delete the pirated one and buy the legit version on the play and support the devs.
ridie1389 says:
I've been reading through these comments and I really have to say this. There are other reasons people pirate things. Not Android apps specifically, but things like music and the like. I go to a high school that specifically serves special needs children, and many of them pirate music. Some of them are orphans who live on the school campus, others dont have any extra money, and some are just cheap bastards. But every single one of them uses the music as a coping mechanism im order to keep themselves from becoming overwhelmed and either harming themselves or others. Kids with disabilities like Autism, Asperger's Syndrome (High-functioning Autism)(Which I myself am afflicted with) Bipolar disorder, ADD, etc. Am I saying its right to pirate anything? ABSOLUTELY NOT! What I am saying is that there are times when piracy is not just a matter of selfishness (Even though there are ALOT of times that it is, I will absolutely agree with that.) When these types of people need some way to cope with a world that is far to stressful for them to handle on their own, and do not have even a dollar to spare, they often resort to circumventing payment for a copyrighted work. Again, I don't agree with it. I'm just relaying facts. |
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This may be an elementary question but if I'm getting about 10 foot lamberts of light from my projector and I'm using a 1.8 gain screen should I get approximately 18 foot lamberts of reflected light from the screen?
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Yes, your math is correct. That is exactly how a screen's "gain" works. A Unity gain screen is 1.0, i.e. it returns exactly the same FtL back that strikes it.
How does a higher gain screen "do it"? By redirectly most of the light energy back within a smaller angle of reflectance, effectively concentrating the light output for that given viewing angle range.
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The correct formula for calculating screen luminance (in foot-lamberts) is: (projectors light output (in ansi lumens) x screen gain) / screen sq ft. . You can work this formula back and forward to derive you desired screen luminance. Once you know the projectors light output, you can play with screen size and gain to reach the desired number. Somewhere between 10-16 foot-lamberts would match the light output at the theater (they measure 16 with the gate open and no film, it ends up being about 12foot lamberts during the film presentation). You may want a higher number if you have poor control of ambient light. To get higher screen luminance:
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He had disengaged himself from her hands, and was holding one of them in his own. But, as she made this last confession, she threw her arms about his neck and drooped her head against his bosom.
“Oh, if you only felt to me like I do to you!” she sobbed.
No man can hear without some return of emotion a confession from a woman’s lips that she loves him. Harriet was the only girl whom Julian had ever approached in familiar intercourse; she had no rival to fear amongst living women; the one rival to be dreaded was altogether out of the sphere of her conceptions,—the ideal love of a poet’s heart and brain. But the ideal is often least present to us when most needed. Here was love; offer but love to a poet, and does he pause to gauge its quality? The sudden whirl of conflicting emotions left Julian at the mercy of the instant’s impulse. She was weak; she was suffering through him; she loved him.
“Be my wife, then,” he whispered, returning her embrace, “and let me guard you from all who would do you harm.”
She uttered a cry of delight, and the cry was a true one.
Osmond Waymark was light-hearted; and with him such a state meant something not at all to be understood by those with whom lightness of heart is a chronic affection. The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. Illusion it of course remains; is ever recognised as that; but illusion so sweet and powerful that he thanks the god that blinds him, and counts off with sighs of joy the hours thus brightly winged.
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Function template skip
boost::xpressive::skip — Specify which characters to skip when matching a regex.
// In header: <boost/xpressive/regex_primitives.hpp>
template<typename Skip> unspecified skip(Skip const & skip);
skip() instructs the regex engine to skip certain characters when matching a regex. It is most useful for writing regexes that ignore whitespace. For instance, the following specifies a regex that skips whitespace and punctuation:
// A sentence is one or more words separated by whitespace
// and punctuation.
sregex word = +alpha;
sregex sentence = skip(set[_s | punct])( +word );
The way it works in the above example is to insert keep(*set[_s | punct]) before each primitive within the regex. A "primitive" includes terminals like strings, character sets and nested regexes. A final *set[_s | punct] is added to the end of the regex. The regex sentence specified above is equivalent to the following:
sregex sentence = +( keep(*set[_s | punct]) >> word )
>> *set[_s | punct];
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Skipping does not affect how nested regexes are handled because they are treated atomically. String literals are also treated atomically; that is, no skipping is done within a string literal. So skip(_s)("this that") is not the same as skip(_s)("this" >> as_xpr("that")). The first will only match when there is only one space between "this" and "that". The second will skip any and all whitespace between "this" and "that".
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37268 | comparative method
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The comparative method, using comparisons across species that have evolved independently, is an effective means for studying historical and physical constraints. This approach involves using statistical methods to account for differences in size (allometry) and evolutionary trees (phylogenies) for tracing trait evolution among lineages.
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A second way of studying the adaptive design of a behaviour is what Darwin called the comparative method, which takes advantage of the thousands of “natural experiments” that have occurred over evolutionary time (that is, throughout the formation of new species and the evolution of their special characteristics). Here again, specific hypotheses regarding how natural selection has...
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Various methods have been employed to improve the soundness of tests used to evaluate adaptive hypotheses. The “comparative method,” which involves considering evidence drawn from a wide range of similar organisms, was used in a study of the relatively large size of the testicles of chimpanzees as compared to those of gorillas. The adaptive hypothesis was that, given that the... |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37278 | Brain CancerThe World Health Organization announced today that cell phones pose a significant risk of causing cancer.
Cell phones are now labeled under "carcinogenic hazard," just like lead and chloroform.
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Since cell phones are a relatively new technology, the study warns it could take years before the long-term effects are truly known.
Those results, among others analyzed by WHO, were enough to earn cell phones a "2b classification," meaning there is some risk for cancer.
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My husband and I are brand-new kitty parents and my girl, Stoli, has been sneezing a lot with a running nose. She isn't sluggish at all and is constantly running around, playing, eating, using her box, and loving us both. Maybe she's allergic to something? Is that possible?
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Catsters always recommend a vet visit within a few days of adopting a kitty. Not because there's for sure something wrong, but having a vet on board is like having your own physician. They keep us well and it's someone to call when there are any concerns, like now. It's not possible for us to tell by computer if your baby has an upper respiratory infection (kitty cold) or is allergic to anything from litter dust to plug-in deodorizers. But I do know that these things start out slow and before you know it, they can get very serious. If Stoli were my kitty, I'd at least phone the vet and ask for their advice.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37365 | It starts like a normal trip to the drug store. You're in a bit of a hurry but nothing too pressing, just class in ten minutes. Plenty of time. You scan the checkout line when you enter. It looks good, only one cashier but nobody in line. This should be an in-and-out trip. "Nice," you mumble and congratulate yourself on a well-executed trip to the drug store. You whirl through the aisles, grabbing a bottle of Axe shower gel here, some notebooks there, maybe even a Nutrageous to celebrate your impeccable timing and store selection. You've got an armful of goods and you're making a beeline for the register when you see her, and your heart falls.
You knew it was too good to be true. You knew you couldn't make it in and out of the drug store in under ten minutes. CVS, Duane Reade, Walgreens, it doesn't matter; she'll be there. You sigh in defeat because you know it's going to be at least ten minutes before you see the light of day again. You sigh in defeat because you're stuck in line behind Old Woman At The Drug Store.
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Old women go to the drug store for one reason and one reason only: to complain. Their first target is usually the 16 year-old cashier; a kid who, let's face it, probably doesn't enjoy his job already. She dumps out the contents of a bag on the counter and demands refunds for at least twenty items. These items, of course, were bought when she visited the drug store yesterday to return her purchases from two days ago. She's got 50 cent nail clippers in there she swears don't work, a half eaten can of tuna fish she claims was bad when she opened it and, sadly, a birthday card for her cat who died last night. When the clerk explains that she'll need a receipt, the old woman will fly into a rage about how "you kids don't have any respect" and how in her day they "knew a thing or two about customer service." She'll unload all her troubles, all her fears about a world changing too fast for her to keep up with, on this half-asleep 16 year-old who's only working this job because his Dad found weed in his dresser.
But it doesn't end there. After she's re-packed all her previous purchases, the old woman will place three small items on the counter for the now-irritated clerk to ring up. He'll scan the three items in and tell the old woman a total. "That'll be $3.67, please." This, of course, is unacceptable. In her head, the old woman has convinced herself that one of her items is on sale. Of course, it would save her no more than 20 cents, if it were even on sale. If it were ever on sale, actually, since although she can't remember where she parked the car, the old woman can remember which kind of toilet paper was 10% off three weeks ago. Her tirade will culminate in a blinding hail of angry threats directed at cashier who will promptly call his manager over to help him. The manager, mind you, has been nowhere to be found all this time you've been waiting in line behind the old woman, but he's here now, ready to help.
But we're not done yet.
After the manager has corrected the price of her purchase and calmed her down sufficiently he'll be on his way. You, still standing there with an armful of purchases and now five minutes late to class, will have to weather one more terrible, terrible storm before it's your turn to cash out. "OK, your total is now $3.47, ma'am," the cashier will mutter. The old woman will smile because, to her, this is a major victory, and then pull out her brand new debit card. She's never used it before but hey, there's a first time for everything. Unfortunately, you'll be standing behind her for this first time. Watch in stunned, aggravated silence while she swipes and re-swipes the card, asks what a PIN is, mistakenly punches in her social security number, asks for help and then claims she "knows how to do it," calls her daughter to get her PIN number, and, finally, lets the cashier do it for her. Then, after some mumbling about how things used to be easier "back when", she leaves. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37372 | Whole Foods aims to adapt to changing organic scene
Whole Foods Market, historically, has not competed on price. That's been a successful strategy because its educated, affluent shoppers assume that quality must just come at a premium. They're willing to shell out significantly more for pesticide-free pears and artisanal cheese than they might for groceries at the Safeway down the road.
The price isn't simply a function of the cost of goods, though. Whole Foods' profit margins have been significantly fatter than the supermarket industry's notoriously slim margins for years now, at around 3.8 percent compared to the average of 0.7 percent. Investors have rewarded this: Whole Foods' stock trades at about twice the price of its rivals'.
Some of that comes from a product mix that skews more toward prepared foods, which command higher prices, but the chain also benefits from a squishy perception cushion that prevents customers from comparison-shopping quite as ruthlessly.
That perception game has stopped working, though. And Whole Foods is trying to figure out if it can adapt.
Other grocers, especially in the urban markets that Whole Foods has started to saturate, are getting on the local and natural bandwagon. Economies of scale are bringing down the cost of organics, which might lead consumers to adjust their expectations about how much they should pay.
And yet, Whole Foods continues to go head to head with other grocers.
For a while now, Whole Foods has been trying to strategically lower prices to match those at surrounding competitors — "price investments," in industry jargon — which reduces profits in certain stores. It's also opening new stores in low-income parts of Detroit and New Orleans with fewer employees, more frozen and packaged foods and a new message: This stuff doesn't have to cost quite as much. |
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Atsuko was a Japanese girl from Nagasaki, who lived in the city's countryside. While she was in the woods, she met two American soldiers who just escaped from a prison camp. The two saw her and started arguing on whether they had to kill her or not: Lt. Ethan Warren insisted on disposing of her, but Logan convinced him to spare her, menacing his partner to kill him if he shot her. The two departed, and Logan stayed with the girl.
Atsuko and Logan passed some time together, and fell in love. They started a life together, but soon after Warren came back to seek revenge on his fellow soldier. After shooting Logan, Warren assaulted Atsuka and tried to rape her, but the girl defended herself with her father's sword. In rage, Warren used his bayonet to stab and kill Atsuka.
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Shuto Con :D
Oks, so ill be going to shutcon!! it will be my first con! LIKE EVER! im so excited!! I'll be going with my dad, because im only 13 :"( oh well. I am VERY shy and dont like being around large crowds as i feel they will smush me, although i dought that since im 5 ft 2 1/2 inches
I hope to meet some new people, and im worried since i will be the only one cosplaying, and only me and my dad are going.Here is a list of *What i think* i'll be going as:
Saturday:Ciel Phantomhive
Sunday: *Maybe** Alois
So Saturday and sunday are probably going to be kuroshitsuji. if your going to 2013's PM me, or post on this, Maybe we can talk.
P.S Im not talkative at first..
When you get to know me, most people wish I was non talkative!
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~!~Ciel Phantomhive~!~ 95%
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RE: $449 wtf are they thinking?
By NellyFromMA on 7/31/2012 12:41:16 PM , Rating: 3
... not every single company can afford to subsidize their hardware (often the only thing they are profitting from) just to please the consumers.
Also, keep in mind there are real supply shortages of the components necessary particularly due to Apple's dominance of the supply chains, nevermind international issues etc.
Why do consumers feel entitled to everything they want regardless of reasonablity or practicality.
It's just weird some of the things I hear / read...
RE: $449 wtf are they thinking?
By stm1185 on 7/31/2012 4:12:34 PM , Rating: 1
Well either they compete by subsidizing their hardware or they fail then, because at $449 it can only fail. This is the real world not carebear island where people pay Sony an extra $250 because they understand that competing is tough.
By NellyFromMA on 8/2/2012 11:31:21 AM , Rating: 2
clearly you don't understand that businesses are about generating profits. If you comprehended any of what I actually said, you'd realize subsidizing hardware means either breaking even, or more often than not, taking a LOSS on the sale in order to essentially gain marketshare in hopes that consumers will purchase something ELSE for the device at a profit and those profits will outweigh the initial loss.
Like I said, many of these companies solely profit on HW sales for these devices. Can you explain to ME why YOU are so entitled that Vendors should not profit so that YOU can feel pleased?
That's just not the way a business works. They want, well you know... to actually MAKE money, not PAY YOU to use there stuff at no profit. That makes NO sense.
Economics fail.
RE: $449 wtf are they thinking?
By augiem on 7/31/2012 4:56:55 PM , Rating: 2
I hear you. I was reading an article on the game industry's sales decline on Yahoo the other day and there were literally thousands of comments by readers every single one of which were entitled brats who think they have the right to AAA quality games and demand it all for next to nothing. They don't even begin to think about the realities of what's involved. Idiocracy is so true.
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Good for legal departments.
By jammo on 5/27/2013 12:16:06 PM , Rating: 4
Yay! Let's spend more money on our legal depts by suing one another, than what we spend on R&D! Heaven forbid developing products, and IP, to generate a profit.
RE: Good for legal departments.
By Solandri on 5/27/2013 3:46:15 PM , Rating: 1
Ultimately, it's the legal system which is to blame. If suing for patent infringement is more lucrative than spending money on R&D, then that's where companies will spend money.
That's what everyone's been saying about patents (and copyrights) in a roundabout fashion. But the judges, lawyers, and lawmakers have a stick up their collective *sses thinking that adherence to the letter of the law is more important than making sure those laws are written and interpreted in a manner which a net positive for the economy.
The fundamental premise behind IP is that the benefit to the IP holder is greater than the harm to everyone else. That way if (theoretically) everyone were an IP holder, it would be a net gain for society. But the instant the harm to others becomes greater than the benefit to the IP holder, the rationale for IP ceases to exist. If suing over IP is more lucrative than investing in R&D, that's a pretty good sign we've crossed that threshold.
RE: Good for legal departments.
By ven1ger on 5/31/2013 5:03:04 PM , Rating: 2
The USPTO needs to share blame in this. For some reason, it started granting what is basically software patents. Software patents should never have been allowed, but its now snowballing where even the legal system can't deal with it nor can it do it consistently as every judge has a different opinion on it.
The USPTO left it up to the courts to determine the validity of the patents it granted.
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3D printers are now more affordable and easy to use
Source: Science Daily
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RE: The real trick is going to be the materials...
By 91TTZ on 7/30/2013 4:48:41 PM , Rating: 2
I agree. Right now all the hype is being created by people who aren't really mechanically inclined and can't foresee these things.
The people who are mechanically inclined would probably know that you could have bought a CNC lathe or milling machine 20 years ago that's more capable than a 3D printer. You can machine wood, metal, or plastic with one and create parts of much higher quality. Those who have used CNC machines know that a 3D printer isn't revolutionary at all.. it's just another tool you can use for the job.
By blue_urban_sky on 7/30/2013 6:13:28 PM , Rating: 2
And how much is a CNC lathe or a milling machine today? Although I think the list of stuff is a lot of rubbish for people that don't have access to CNC machines and alike it would be great little hobby tool.
I wanted to make a surround to dock my N7 in the car and this would give me a cheap method of making it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37491 | AFM 2011
AFM 2011: American Girls to Begin Filming in January 2012
We just got a look at a crazy new AFM marketed teaser trailer for the Wetwork Media/Pinnovating Productions/Zeroinside Films production of the upcoming film American Girls, directed by Eric Anthony Pereira. And let's put it this way: I've never been more disturbed by a video of two chicks crawling all over each other!
AFM 2011: There's a Steel Moon Rising
Just when you thought we were done with horror movies that take place in outer space, yet another interstellar opus has landed on our desks, and we've got the artwork and details you need to save your soul.
AFM 2011: Something Horrible Has Happened on Skylab
More outer space hijinx are ready to ensue with the latest period piece that rides the stars to infinite terror. Get ready, kids. It's time to check into the Skylab.
AFM 2011: Spanish Werewolves Ready to Bark at the Moon (Luna, el misterio de Calenda)
There's more news coming out of AFM as it enters its home stretch (thank the news gods)! Variety reports that Spain's Globomedia, one of Europe's leading scripted TV producers, is readying Luna, el misterio de Calenda (Moon) for mass consumption.
AFM 2011: MPI Gets Stitches
And MPI Media Group continues forth on its journey to be one of the horror genre's best friends by adding a little zombie mayhem to its growing terror-filled canon. Read on for all of the details right here!
AFM 2011: Lightning Strikes The Melancholy Fantastic
Some early evening distribution news has come out of the bustling American Film Market, and we've got the latest for you on tap and ready to go. Into tales of creepy dolls and Christmastime? Then, brother and sisters, do we have a fix for you!
AFM 2011: The Deadheads Find U.S. Distro
One flick we've been talking about a lot around here is the new zombie buddy comedy flick DeadHeads and with good reason, too. It looks like tons of fun. Apparently someone else thought so as the movie has finally found some Stateside distro.
AFM 2011: Horror Waits Under Ground
There's even more creature-laden goodness coming out of AFM, and as always we're here to make sure you don't miss a single monstrous moment of it. We're good like that. Get ready for a look at what horrors wait Under Ground.
AFM 2011: Sales Art and Details for As Night Falls
You know how they say that money is the root of all evil? Well, let us tell you that family is not far behind. Blood is only thicker than water because of the density of the troubles caused by these bastards. Case in point: the new terror tale As Night Falls.
AFM 2011: Patrick Remake Scares Up a Cast
We're reasonably sure that not many of you reading this story even remember the psycho little flick that was Richard Franklin's 1978 thriller Patrick. In any event a remake is on its way, and we've got some casting news for you right here.
AFM 2011: Ex Inferis Art Puts a Spell on You
Here's the thing. Don't go into the country or the woods with your friends. It's just not worth it, man. Bad stuff happens there. Just deal with the hustle and bustle of the big city. At least there you can only get killed in semi-normal ways like muggings or getting hit by a vehicle.
AFM 2011: How Far Will Greed Push You?
Greed. It's one of the seven deadly sins for a very good reason. It can consume you. Dictate your actions. Make you act out in very violent ways. In short ... we love sin! Especially sin that ends in bloodshed and carnage.
AFM 2011: A Third Look at The Wicked
What's this? Another look at the upcoming witchery of The Wicked? Why not!?! We love witches. Especially the evil hot ones who enjoy maiming nubile young teens. They perform one hell of a service! Dig it!
AFM 2011: New Ninja Zombies Art Slices its Way to You
Ninja Zombies. The premise alone is too much for us to ignore. How could we not sit up at attention to the thought of the undead wielding the art of Ninjitsu? It's just so tasty.
AFM 2011: New Hidden 3D Artwork and Stills Deliver the Spooky
We're suckers for supernatural flicks around these parts, especially good ones. That's why everything we've seen regarding Hidden 3D has gotten our attention. The flick looks creepy as hell and so do these latest teases! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37526 | What happens when you combine a video camera, a case of Jolt, and an over-zealous love for Microsoft's Zune? Well, if you're the auteurs / podcasters / rappers called Team Fremont, you make a Halo Zune rap video that has permanently damaged the collective eyes of Engadget. Due to the million watt terror you've unleashed, our intern will probably never be able to have children -- thanks a lot, guys. See the terrifying work for yourself after the break.
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I am currently a sophomore at Kenyon College, and in my freshman year, my friends and I have encountered some problems that we think need to be dealt with, but we're not sure exactly how to go about it. Kenyon College was originally an all-male college, until they became coeducational in the seventies. Because they have been all-male for so long, the social scene is dominated by a preponderance of fraternities, but there are really no active sororities. When I first decided on Kenyon, I liked the fact that there were no sororities, but I have since found out that the lack of sororities or any prominent women headed or even coeducational social organizations makes for a social scene that is not at all equal. Fraternity members slip invites to frat parties under the dorm doors of attractive freshman women, whom they have picked out of the "Baby Book," a book containing the photos of all incoming freshman, given to all freshman and available to upperclassmen at the campus bookstore. The freshman women know that these invitations are made only on the basis of their appearance, this is often their first glimpse of Kenyon social life, and sadly, not an uncommon one.
Because there are no active women's organizations, the freshman women have no upper-class women mentors to tell them what to expect, and they have no other social options open to them than frat parties. This is not the only example of a gendered social atmosphere on campus, the main dining hall is also considered to be male dominated, the tables in that students must walk through to reach the cafeteria are arranged so there is a so-called "catwalk" that students must walk down, one that many women feel uncomfortable walking down because of certain male groups, mostly frat, that claim tables with a good view of the catwalk so that they can comment on girl's appearances.
Though I personally do not feel uncomfortable with the catwalk, and there are many other women who are fine with it also, there are a few women who are uncomfortable with it, and I think that the tables need to be changed in order to make them feel more comfortable, and to make the dining hall into a totally ungendered space.
These are the main problems we are facing, and we have started to make changes, though I'm not sure they're enough. For one thing, this year some Kenyon women have started the Kenyon Women's Collective, a nonpolitical women's group that intends to help balance the male social scene by throwing parties, and also to provide a space where women can discuss gender issues comfortably, without fear of social ostracization from frat members (for an all-student e-mail my friends and I sent out addressing the gender problem on campus, and calling for more discussion of the issue, we received several rude e-mails from frat members, one of which said that we were to be blacklisted from all further frat functions.) We also hope to see the organization become an umbrella group, encompassing many smaller women's organizations.
Another action some women on campus have taken is to establish a Big Sister program, in which all freshman girls will receive an upper-class woman mentor, to help guide her through her freshman year, and hopefully to make her more informed about the social scene and its dangers.
There's so much more I could write, but I'm tired of writing! I hope that this long e-mail doesn't bother you, I know you're busy. I would appreciate any ideas that you have on these issues. Thanks, Rebecca
Thanks so much for your note to FEMINIST.COM. I think that all of the work that you proposed sounds great. Given the environment on your campus, I think it's important that women find their own sense of community--otherwise, they must contiually measure their value system against what the men on your campus have deemed important.
As for specifically how to do that, I think that growing out from the Women's Collective is the best way to start. While I think it's important that there are many different outlets for all different women, it's also important that none of these are seen in "competition" to the others. So with the Collective as the Umbrella, you can build from there.
Is the Collective actually physically housed anywhere? Just as the Frats have their houses, the Collective should have its own space. I know that it is just symbolic, but "having a room of one's own," is important. So if that isn't already available perhaps you can lobby for that. Purely on an economic stand you should be able to get at least one space--I mean men don't pay more tuition for their Frats--and even if some of the Frats' expenses are underwriten by their chapters, the college kicks in some money--and since this is for men only--an equal amount should be allocated to women's programs.
Have you thought of Sororities? In general, I know that they have a bad rap, but you could change that--and the whole notion behind a sorority is sisterhood, so make it live up to that name. It could be called a "Salon" rather than a sorority--since that's where traditionally women got radicalized - both in intellectual ones and in beauty ones.
One of the other things to do under the Umbrella could be an "issues" club, where every month (the first Wed. of every month) you had a standing meeting, where you addressed a given issue.
These are good formats for letting people 1.) be heard and 2.) be valued and 3.) empathize. Because these can also leave you sullen--another thing to do is to pick two events a year--and have planning committees. For instance, sometime during the third week of Oct. is young Women's Day of Action--you could plan a women's film festival on your campus. And March is women's history month--so you could plan something else.
I had one thought about the "Baby Book"--is there anyway that you could get women to boycott putting their picture in it or all putting the same picture in. For instance, rather than submitting their own picture, you could all ask them to submit the same picture--i.e. a head shot of the same person. I hate those books--we had them in my high school and it was so awful.
I realize that I have rambled on. I hope there is some thread here to grab onto. Also, please feel free to write back again. Good luck--and I join the women on your campus who are certainly thanking you for changing the situation for women at Kenyon - Amy
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37599 | The smallest complete radar system in the world -- measuring less than half an inch on each side -- was squeezed into a low-cost computer chip recently, a European Union team of scientists said.
The Success project, nine academic and industrial partners across Europe, spent three years working on the chip package, with $3.9 million in funding from the European Commission.
And in this case, smaller is better.
'In this area, size matters a lot.'
- Christoph Scheytt from IHP Microelectronics
"In this area, size matters a lot," said Christoph Scheytt from IHP Microelectronics, one of several companies collaborating on the shrinkage. They achieved the feat by tuning the radar to operate at frequencies beyond 100 GHz.
"The main motivation for using high frequencies rather than lower ones is that the antennas can be smaller."
Operating at 120 GHz, a wavelength of about 2.5 mm, the chip can accurately calculate the distance to an object. By using the Doppler effect, it can also detect moving objects and calculate velocity.
At about €1 for each mini radar, or about $1.30, the technology is also very cheap. But miniaturizing a radar dish wasn’t easy.
An FM radio has an antenna that's about three feet long; a Wi-Fi router's antennas are about 4 inches, the Success project system’s antennas are a fraction of that size.
The chip itself was developed by IHP, while Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology handled the antennae design and integration.
Success claims a wide range of uses for a tiny radar, from ultrasonic sensors in cars that detect objects and pedestrians to automatic door controls, even automobile industry and cell phones applications.
In terms of military and security applications, the potential for robotics as well as distance and motion sensing applications is broad.
To maneuver in foreign environments, robots need exact control -- relying on precise all-around radar distance measurement -- making a tiny lightweight radar solution very handy.
The different partners in the Success consortium are now looking to use the technology commercially. Bosch has been investigating opportunities for deployment while German Silicon Radar, Finnish Selmic and Swiss Hightec expect to incorporate the technology in their industrial processes. |
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In Topic: random generators
Yesterday, 02:13 PM
You need an engine for every independent and deterministic stream of random numbers.
Say, for example, that you want enemies to appear randomly during the game but in a predictable way so that you can save the game and replay or continue to play with the same stream or enemies (not only for replay, but also to stop the player from reloading because the stream of enemies was not in favor of the player; reloading with a predictable state ensures the same stream of enemies in the future as well, so no use reloading to get an easier game).
You also want your power-ups to appear randomly, but for the same replay and reload purposes as with enemies, you want to ensure a predictable stream of random numbers. Let's say a new power-up is generated every time a power-up is picked up (the game contains, say, three of them at any time).
With a common engine in this case, enemies are generated based on if and when a power-up is picked up, and that breaks replayability and predictability. You need to decide if things such as replayability and predictability are important.
In Topic: Need help: a vector of different extended classes
Yesterday, 10:08 AM
Look up slicing; your vector stores Entity objects by value, so only the Entity part of your EntityArrow ends up in the vector. Your vectors has to store pointers and you need to allocate your Entity objects dynamically instead.
In Topic: glOrtho - a beginner question
Yesterday, 06:22 AM
gluLookAt does nothing more than apply an equivalent rotation and translation. If you can describe the orientation and location of the plane by some parameters to gluLookAt, then you're set.
For example, if the center of the plane is located at (px, py, pz) with a normal pointing towards the direction (nx, ny, nz), then you should be able to locate the view point with something like gluLookAt(px, py, pz, px+nx, py+ny, pz+nz, ux, uy, uz) where the vector (ux,uy,uz) orients the plane (you may want to orient the up vector along, for example, the point X3-X1).
The orthographic projection is then set up with width and height corresponding to the distance between X1 and X2, and X1 and X3, respectively. Make the projection symmetric if the point (px, py, pz) is at the center of the plane.
You can also replace the call to gluLookAt with the equivalent rotation and translation yourself if you know your linear algebra. The vector X=(X2-X1), Y=(X3-X1) and Z=X cross Y, or some variant thereof, defines the coordinate system as seen from the projection plane. A translation to shift by (px, py, pz) the coordinate system is also necessary.
In Topic: Function Pointers in Structs
11 March 2014 - 10:49 AM
Some obvious drawback are:
1. The object has to physically contain a pointer for every "member function" you want to use.
2. The syntax is worse in the sense that you have to provide the object twice: once to obtain the function pointer and once to pass it to the function. In C++, for example, the hidden this-parameter is implied from the syntax you use to call the member function on and you only mention the object once.
3. No way to force the two objects to be the same. Nothing stops you from doing test1.get_a(&test2).
Don't fool yourself that it's more OO because you have an object on the left hand side of a period and a function on the right hand side; OO is just as fine with the object as a parameter instead. It's about how you design your objects and functions to operate on them, not about what syntax you use to call a function.
One benefit of storing a function pointer is to get runtime-dynamic behavior. For example, as Olof said, it is a similar approach to how virtual functions are typically implemented. For compile-time behavior, there's no reason to store the function pointers.
In Topic: Matrix Stack & New OpenGL Standards
06 March 2014 - 02:58 AM
If you are worried about losing the matrix functions in the new versions, then you are also losing display lists and immediate mode rendering at the same time. Vertex arrays and shaders are the only way forward in the new versions. Also, this is not really new. The new API which dropped all the old stuff was released nearly six years ago.
Moving the thread from coding horrors as well, this is clearly and OpenGL topic. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37612 |
So whats YOUR theme.
#81SnowFox7Posted 7/20/2011 11:06:12 PM
The old Sonic the Hedgehog theme from back when they had the old blades dash. :D
#82johnnystickmanPosted 7/20/2011 11:12:54 PM
Prince of Persia movie theme
"Being a Virgin is a Virtue. Not an insult...." - mphull08
GT: rogue agent310
#83pakathecatPosted 7/21/2011 6:06:26 AM
Fable III; the castle matches up well with my avatar since I have her wearing the crown from that game.
#84alexander9Posted 7/21/2011 6:11:11 AM
Premium Fallout 3 theme. My cousin actually got it while over at my house because I don't pay for themes or avatar items, and I have to say it is actually pretty awesome.
#85TenthPosted 7/21/2011 6:14:16 AM
the old (is it old enough to be old yet?) Castle Crashers premium theme. Only one I ever bought, because it was the first XBL Arcade game I REALLY liked. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37618 | Review by sbn4
"Once you go Black..."
First person shooters have become a pretty trite affair these days. It seems very few first person shooters (FPS) can set themselves apart from the rest. Most of them either end up being generic or have the “been there done that” feel. Games like Goldeneye and Halo have successfully left their mark in FPS history for being both innovative and having interesting concepts. Criterion Games, the developers of the high octane Burnout franchise decided to take their first stab at the genre with Black. Using the same Burnout engine, Criterion attempted to set themselves apart from other FPS by using bigger explosions, more destruction, and actually putting a lot of emphasis on the actual guns. They hoped to set themselves apart by ushering in a sense of realism with the guns, as well as firing them. While Black delivers on what it promises, it falls just a bit short of being a great game.
Black takes you into the world of a unsanctioned military. You know, the kind with huge risks and little reward; the kind that's above the law that no one knows about, and requires you to do whatever it takes to complete the mission. The game puts you into the shoes of a black operative named Sergeant Jack Keller. It seems that Keller has been detained for some of his prior actions in the game. Keller is in chains and is being interrogated, and relays what exactly what he has done to get him to this point. The game's story is told through live action cutscenes similar to Need for Speed Most Wanted's cutscenes. These scenes give you a oppressive black ops interrogation type feeling. The story itself might be a little hard to follow if you're not familiar with at least a little bit of military lingo. However, you'll quickly forget names and faces once the action starts. Just as a warning, the ending leaves you with a cliffhanger. If you didn't realize that Black was planned as a trilogy, you might be a bit disappointed.
Gameplay 8/10
What makes Black different from other FPS out there? Criterion apparently wanted to set themselves apart by being the biggest, loudest, and most destructible FPS on the block. Black has been inspired from several movies like the Rock and Black Hawk Down, which have Hollywood style gun fights. First things first, Black's motto is “Guns are the stars.” And boy are they ever! Every gun looks and sounds like their real life counter part. You've got the Glock 17, MP5, AK47 G36C, Uzis, and rocket launchers to name a few. Each gun has been recreated to resemble to genuine article. Everything from the recoil to the muzzle flash has been realistically created. Another thing the developers did was give a lot of attention to the actual reloading. As a person who has operated some of the fire arms found in Black, I was impressed by how well the developers translated the reloading animations. Most other FPS have never had this much detail in the actual reloading. Hell, even all the menus in Black has little snippets of a reloading animations from different firearms in the game. Guns like the Mac 10, Uzi, and Glock can be reloaded rather quickly, but rifles and the M60 have longer reload times. Another interesting concept about reloading in Black is the blur effect. When Keller begins reloading, your focal point will become blurry to the point that you won't be able to see anything but your weapon. This was done deliberately by the developers. Anyone who has reloaded a gun knows you need to concentrate on the gun itself when you're reloading. Having two different reload animations for each weapon is another interesting concept in Black. They really aren't that different. When you're taking fire, Keller will reload quicker, and when you're out of harm's way, he'll take his time. For example, Keller will tap the side of his MP-5 before inserting a fresh magazine into the gun when there is no imminent danger.
So we know the guns in Black look and sound amazing. But how does Black stand from a gameplay point of view? Honestly, I'd have to say Black is a little shallow. The game starts out strong with great presentation and visuals, but it ends up getting extremely repetitive. Hardcore FPS fans might get tired of Black extremely quickly. You start out each level with at least one gun. As you progress through the levels, you'll come across a bunch of different weapons. However, you can only carry two weapons at any given time. This is good because most operatives can't carry fifteen different high powered weapons. This also adds a little bit of strategy into the mix too. You'll have to make a decision as to whether you'd opt to keep the more accurate single shot Glock 17 for a close quarters Spas 12, or a rapid fire Uzi instead. You'll also be able to hold a maximum of nine grenades too. Grenades can be tossed simply by pressing L2. It's an effective way to lure commandos out of cover or eliminate several of them at once. Every defeated enemy will drop ammo and a select few guards will drop a first aid kits which will bring up you life by a little bit. Health kits, which restore a lot of vitality, can be found scattered around the levels too. However, these kits can only be found on the easier difficulties.
The game's eight levels all play like a battlefield. You'll constantly find yourself under fire and returning fire. The game certainly encourages you to go in with all guns blazing because ammo is never scarce. The fire fights themselves can be pretty intense. Unloading an automatic weapon will cause dirt, dust and grit to fly everywhere. The muzzle flash of your enemy's weapons will be your only way of keeping track of them. You'll also be able to blow apart a large part of your environment. For example, if the guard in the bell tower is giving you a hard time, then flank him by shooting the large bell directly above him. Then watch as the bell falls right on him. There are a couple instances in Black where you can use the environment to effectively eliminate guards. The levels are actually rather linear, but each one of them are large and laid out well. You'll mostly find yourself fighting through urban areas like cities, buildings, and dockyard areas. Each mission should take you a good 30-45 minutes to get through on your first time.
While this may sound well and good to some; Black will end up getting repetitive. You're pretty much left with shooting mercenaries and blowing things up. The game is certainly catered to people who love to destroy or blow stuff up. A large part of the world can be ripped apart. For instance you can shoot out walls, doors, blow up cars, buildings, etc. What is amazing is how a current generation system can handle everything that's happening at once. Black is any extremely impressive game in this respect. However, there are certain problems that are keeping Black from perfection. One of them is variety in gameplay. You can't commandeer vehicles, operate machine gun turrets, etc. Many of these things almost seem standard in other FPS.
Another issue with Black is it's AI. While they are competent, they do behave a little oddly. One of the first things I noticed is that many guards will sometimes run dangerously close to an explosive object. For example, guards will run close to a fuel barrel, cars, or a large gas tank. Naturally, you'll aim for the explosive object to eliminate them. While this produces a satisfying effect, it does take some of the fun out of the game. Something else I noticed about the AI is that they completely ignore dead bodies. There are some stages that allow you to use a stealthy approach by equipping silencers to your weapon. You can quietly eliminate a guard and leave his body. Patrolling enemies won't even have the smallest sense of curiosity as to why his buddy is slumped on the floor. Another odd thing about AI behavior is their reactions. For instance, in the beginning of the dockyard level, you can throw a grenade at the two patrolling guards right below you. This will quickly eliminate the two guards, but there is another guard on high ground not more than 100 feet away who will simply stand there like nothing happened. There are actually several instances where something like this occurs.
It's sort of a shame because the AI is not bad beyond these points. Most enemies are good shots, and they will effectively destroy your cover if you hide for too long. Some will even try to hang on for dear life after shot off a high ledge. It's things like this that make Black entertaining to play through. However, there isn't a whole lot of enemy types. You've got you're standard trooper who will die in a few shots, you've got one that wears a little bit more body armor, shield wielding guards, extremely accurate snipers, RPG (rocket propelled grenade) guards, and shock troopers. Shock troopers are perhaps the most dangerous of the bunch if not handled correctly. They have tons of body armor, a metal face mask, are extremely fast, will charge at you fearlessly, and are always equipped with a shotgun. On harder levels they will make quick work of you with one or two direct shells. Needless to say these shock troopers will have a hard time hitting you from a distance. Other than the shock troopers, there isn't a whole lot of variety in enemy behavior too. Most mercenaries will fire at you from a distance and are quite accurate. They'll take cover from time to time, but they'll reveal themselves a little too often. Like I mentioned before, some guards have the tendency to take cover behind an explosive object like a car. What's a little strange is that none of you're enemies are equipped to throw grenades at you. While you can argue the RPG guards are enough, it certainly would have been more challenging if guards did throw grenades once in a while. Most of these issues can be ironed out by turning up the difficulty setting. It's a little disappointing the AI wasn't handled as well as it could have been.
In some missions, you'll be backed up by a few of your comrades. While it's nice to have supporting fire, the friendly AI is a little dumb. For one, your friends will never die. Even if they take a direct hit from an RPG, they'll be walking around like they never felt it. Secondly, the friendly AI are horrible shots. Sometimes they'll engage an enemy standing no more than five feet away and they'll miss each other several times. You'll end up doing most of the dirty work during these missions. It's not to say they never kill anyone. But in missions with at least a 100 enemies; the number of kills your comrades get can probably be counted on a single hand. Something that Black seems to be lacking is the ability to sprint. The movement in Black is fine, but the lack of sprint is a little odd. For example, if an RPG comes careening at you, you're forced to sluggishly back away from it. This will cause you to take more damage than necessary because you can't sprint quickly away. Even despite these issues Black can still be an entertaining game for the time it lasts. The game provides non stop white knuckle action. The game throws tons of enemies at you and it never ceases to feel chaotic.
One thing that might absolutely shock you about Black is that there is no online or offline multiplayer in at all. This is strictly a single player ordeal. Apparently Criterion wanted to put all their effort in designing a memorable single player experience. The only problem is the single player is nothing extraordinary. It's fun and fast paced, but there are other FPS that have better single player campaigns. It almost seems odd that a FPS in today's market wouldn't have some sort of multiplayer. This is quite a shame because once you get through Black's 6-7 hours of gameplay, you'll have almost nothing left to keep you coming back.
<.b>Graphics and Sound 9/10
It's pretty clear that Criterion has spent a great deal of time on the audio and visual presentation of this game. It's not surprising because Criterion's latest iteration of the Burnout series, Burnout Revenge, looks and sounds amazing. Black is one of the best looking FPS for the PS2. The levels are large and nicely detailed and the particle and special effects look simply stunning for a current generation game. As I mentioned before, the guns look great and resemble their real life counterparts down to the muzzle flash, recoil, and even scratch marks. The explosions are particularly nice. There's something pleasant about destroying a large gas tanker next to a building and watching rubble and shards of glass fly everywhere. Even with all the action and explosions going on at once, the game's framerate rarely stutters. There are some instances where the game does take a dip, but it's never too often and it's hardly distracting. This is extremely impressive for the aging PS2. The only thing I noticed about the visuals were some of the breakable objects could have looked better. If you go up close to some of them you'll notice lines or seams that reveal how the object is going to break apart after you shoot it. This is sort of a bummer, but it's pretty trivial to gripe about something so insignificant. Other than that, there really isn't much to complain about visually.
The audio in Black is just as strong as the visuals. What makes Black's audio so strong is the sound of the guns. Each gun sounds powerful and crisp. The RPG is particularly awesome. When an RPG is fired at you, you'll immediately know to get the hell out of there from the shrieking noise as it jets through the air. Another great thing about Black's audio is the music. The music is superb in this game. They seem to perfectly match with the gameplay. High energy music will play during intense scenes, while more “sneaky” music will play during stealth situations. I honestly loved the music in the game. Unfortunately, there simply isn't enough of it. There are many times where the game is like Killzone, were there is no music whatsoever. Hey, at least the music that is in Black is great. On another note, the voice acting in Black is well done too. Each of the characters put forth a extremely believable performance. The military lingo and radio chatter during missions are well done and make you feel like you are a part of the action. However, you might find it a little difficult to understand some of the jargon. Black is an extremely thorough package when it comes to audio and visuals.
Replayability 6/10
Here's where the game takes a turn for the worst. Black can be beaten in with 6-7 hours even if you aren't rushing. When I checked my game clock, it said I had beaten the normal setting of Black in 4 hours and 56 minutes. That is pretty horrible for any kind of game. To add more salt to the wound, there really isn't anything that will keep you coming back to Black. You can try harder difficulty levels, which will unlock silver weapons for you. Silver weapons are a cheat that allow you to have infinite ammo for any gun you pick up. This cheat is satisfying for the few levels that allow you access to RPGs. Other than that, there really isn't much point to this cheat because ammo is plentiful in this game. It might have helped matter for Black if there were at least some sort of multiplayer even if it was offline. Unfortunately, we are stuck with a game that feels more like a tech demo rather than a complete game.
In the end, Black is a competent shooter that falters in some areas, but still ends up being an enjoyable shooter. Black provides some extremely intense firefights with nonstop action along with great audio and visual presentation. On the other end of the spectrum, Black is extremely short, lacks multiplayer, has low replayability, and has some subtle gameplay issues. Black might disappoint those who are in love with FPS like Halo or Timesplitters. Those who like relentless white knuckle action will eat this up. But, due to Black's extremely short length and lack of multiplayer, it's hard to recommend this as a $40 purchase. This game would make a solid rental that can be beaten in a weekend. However, for a gun enthusiast like myself, I found it extremely hard to stay away from Black. Hopefully Black's sequel will remedy some of the issues with this title and make it a FPS that ranks among the Goldeneyes and the Halos.
Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 04/10/06
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37619 | Review by TyphoonGT
"There's gold in them there hills!"
The Battlefield series has been around forever now. It all started with Battlefield 1942, a WWII FPS. What was amazing about this game (and what would become the hallmark of Battlefield games) was that not only could you be an infantryman, but you could also be a tank operator (driver AND gunner), a pilot, a submarine gunner, or an artillery crewman. Battlefield: Vietnam pushed it to the next level with heat-seeking missiles (albeit somewhat unbalanced), and helicopters. Battlefield 2 (arguably the best one) stepped into modern combat, and despite its flaws won over hundreds of hours of my time. Battlefield 2142 was set in the future, and was received favorably. Now enter BF Bad Company, the latest game from DICE.
Story: 8/10
Yes, the single player actually has a story! Previous BF games either had an obvious story (WWII and Vietnam) or they had no real story (BF2... 2142 essentially said that the Earth froze over and war was waged). The single player puts you in the boots of a Preston Marlowe, a soldier in the US Army recently transferred to B-Company. B-Company is composed of the worst the Army has to offer, filled with soldiers who have screwed up and are punished by being meat shields. As Sergeant Redford puts it (I'm slightly editing the quotes), "They send us in before the Special Forces because they're too expensive to waste." Haggard, a squadmate, has a bit of a problem involving explosives, but lucky for you he tends to let out his stress in the form of rockets aimed at enemies. Sweetwater is a bit awkward but rather intelligent and wields an M249 SAW. Redford, the squad leader, is the only one asides from Marlowe and Sweetwater who takes his job seriously.
The story itself isn't amazing. It's entertaining, and the humor is good, but it's no MGS4. You essentially go on a hunt for gold and glory, and get into various fights along the way. Pretty short, but it's a decent play.
Gameplay - Singleplayer: 8/10
Let me just say: why did DICE make the enemy AI have laser accuracy?! Seriously, the worst part about the single player is that the enemy AI is usually heavily armed, appears in large numbers, and is deadly accurate. Meanwhile, your squadmates stand there being cannon fodder. You will die quite a few times in this game, but there isn't any real punishment for it. That said, after the first few missions the game gets a lot more fun (it gets more balanced). Overall it's worth the gameplay, but Battlefield has always focused on multiplayer.
Gameplay - Multiplayer: 9/10
Great. Probably the most significant part of this is the new destructible environment. The Frostbite engine technology allows for most anything to be destroyed - trees, walls, whatever. While entire frames of buildings won't fall down, you can essentially leave a skeleton.
BFBC handles very smoothly; I never find any awkwardness in the controls. The guns are fairly strong and accurate. You are indeed able to use tanks, IFVs, light transports, artillery, and helicopters. Jets were left out of the game, but it is still quite fun.
Battlefield veterans are familiar with the ranking systems used in BF2 and 2142. In BFBC the ranking system returns. You accrue points by killing enemies, capturing control points, and helping teammates. Every many points, you will be promoted to a new rank. Most new ranks give you an unlock credit, which lets you unlock a new weapon or item to use. Awards also make a return, with Trophies, Patches, and Wildcards.
There are five classes in BFBC. Assault is the everyman - he has an assault rifle, grenades and a grenade launcher, and you can unlock an auto-injector that restores health to your character. Demolition carries a shotgun, unlockable mines, and a rocket launcher for taking care of vehicles. Recon wields a sniper rifle, motion sensing grenades (giving you a sort of UAV), and my favorite: a laser designator that lets you call in bombs on vehicles (you have to guide the bombs yourself; a fairly easy task). Specialists get submachine guns or silenced carbines an can unlock C4; they're the Special Ops class of BF2. Support carries a mighty LMG (light machine gun), can call in mortar strikes with an unlock, and can heal teammates and repair vehicles (or damage enemy vehicles) with his power tool.
Gold Rush is the only current game mode, although a Conquest mode is promised to be released soon. In Gold Rush, one team defends and one team attacks. The defenders have two gold crates which the attackers have to destroy, either by brute force or by planting explosive charges. If the attackers destroy both crates, then the defenders are pushed back to their next outpost where two more crates await. If attackers can get all the crates, they win. If defenders can hold off the attackers until their reinforcements are depleted, they win. It's fun.
Graphics and Sound: 10/10
It's no Crysis, but the game looks pretty damn amazing regardless. The characters are very detailed, as are the weapons. A few textures are bland but overall the game will stun you (especially on an HD set). Not much antialiasing, but you get used to it. The sound is just amazing. I have never heard a game that sounds as good as this. Each gun sounds different, and each gun sounds different indoors and outdoors. Tanks and artillery are loud and powerful. Especially good when paired with a DualShock 3 controller, as the rumble makes for a more immersive experience.
Replayability: 10/10
The multiplayer will keep you coming back for more, especially once Conquest is released. I won't spoil anything, but let's just say the ending of the game screams "sequel".. probably in the way of some sort of downloadable expansion pack. If you want a solid multiplayer game, you wouldn't go wrong with BF Bad Company.
Now move out soldier! There's gold in them there hills!
Reviewer's Score: 9/10 | Originally Posted: 07/01/08
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Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands. In the Reformation period Drenthe was passed by. Only at the border, as at Koevorden, were there some Anabaptists about 1540. After the Reformed faith had become the established faith in the 17th century, we find some Mennonites in the border towns of Havelte and Roderwolde. At the former place there is record of them until 1659, though there was no organized congregation. At Roderwolde there was a small congregation, which had a preacher and its own church in 1639. In 1657 the Synod of Drenthe complained that there were several unbaptized children there. The congregation probably died out soon afterward. It was located in the territory of the castle of Nienoord belonging to the Ewsum family, several of whom were Mennonites. In the 19th century two churches were established in Drenthe, Assen and Meppel. In Emmen, Hoogeveen, and Roden there are Mennonite groups, and other Mennonites live scattered through the province. The number of Mennonites (souls) in Drenthe was 286 in 1859, 641 in 1899, and 933 in 1947.
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Joosting, Jan Gualtherus Christiaan. Schetsen uit de kerkelijke geschiedenis van Drente. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1916.
Reitsma. Acta der provinciale en particuliere synoden. Groningen: 1899: VIII, 94, 97-98, 111.
Author(s) Karel Vos
Date Published 1956
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Vos, Karel. "Drenthe (Netherlands)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 16 Mar 2014.
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Vos, Karel. (1956). Drenthe (Netherlands). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 March 2014, from
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 99. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37645 | Anyone play this?
#1 Posted by Bluethunder35 (337 posts) -
I remember playing this long ago. It was O.K. but it was one of those games that made you feel weak vs. the onslaught of enemies unless you had power ups. Losing them when you crashed was a real pain.
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Aye, it's a fairly decent shooter. I wouldn't say it's anywhere close to being as good as a lot of the shooters the NES have to offer, but it's worth a playthrough - fairly challenging.
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A bikini is a women's swimsuit consisting of two pieces that cover the breasts and groin area, and the buttocks to varying degrees depending on the style. In the classic bikini the two pieces resemble women's undergarments, though g-strings, thongs, square shorts, tankinis, and camikinis could be included in the extended family of bikinis. The original bikini dates back to Greco-Roman bathing wear, and the modern bikini first appeared on the beaches of France in 1947. It was invented by French engineer Louis Reard in 1946. It was given the name "bikini" to suggest that the reaction it elicited was comparable in power to that of nuclear weapons tests in the Bikini Atoll.
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Bikinis appearing in games often add a flair of sexuality to the action without being overly explicit. True to the intended excitement for the original bikini, putting a videogame character in a bikini is meant to make the game more thrilling for the player, as it does in Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball or the zombie-slaying Onechanbara series (see also: sexualized women.) The image of a female character in a bikini has also been used as an Easter egg or special reward: one famous example is Samus Aran's appearance in a bikini at the end of Metroid on the NES.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37687 | Potter fans, read no further
Viewpoints: Rob Jenkins
The final installment of the popular Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will soon be landing on shelves at a Wal-Mart, Target or Kroger near you. Rumor has it the volume may also be available in bookstores.
I don't know about your kids, but mine are practically beside themselves with anticipation. It's been almost two years since they've been tempted to hex anyone or join a witches' coven.
Somehow an advance copy of the manuscript has found its way into my wretched, ink-stained hands, and I'm sorry but I can't wait to tell everyone how it turns out. (SPOILER ALERT: If you don't want me to ruin the story, stop reading now.)
Chapter one finds our hero once again at No. 4 Privet Drive, the home of his much-despised Muggle relatives, the Dursleys. Their treatment of Harry in this book makes us hate them even more than we have come to hate them in the previous six books, if possible. Unlike actual people, the Dursleys have absolutely no redeeming qualities.
Late in the summer, mysterious magical beings visit Harry with vague and enigmatic warnings concerning what awaits him back at Hogwarts School of Witchraft and Wizardry. Bravely, Harry resolves nevertheless to return to Hogwarts, lead Gryffindor to another House Cup, and give his rival, Draco Malfoy, a wedgie.
Ultimately, the Dursleys - who have forgotten his birthday yet again - so enrage Harry that he performs a bit of forbidden magic, causing those rotten Muggles no small discomfort, let me tell you.
Then, fearing retribution, Harry flees the Dursleys' house with nothing but the clothes on his back, his broomstick, his wand, three sacks of schoolbooks, a 200-pound trunk and an owl in a cage.
The young wizard makes his way to a secret magical location, where he is reunited with fellow adventurer Ron Weasley, erstwhile romantic interest Hermione Granger and Hagrid, Hogwarts' gamekeeper, who once played left tackle for the Los Angeles Rams.
The real trouble begins on the train to Hogwarts - a mysterious occurrence that frightens everyone aboard. But only Harry makes the connection to the strange warning he received at the Dursleys. He of course shares this information with Ron and Hermione, who in turn assure him that everything will be just fine. And that they're just friends.
Back at Hogwarts, the new school year gets off without a hitch. In Quidditch, Harry leads the Gryffindor side to a miraculous come-from-behind victory. He, Ron and Hermione break numerous Hogwarts rules but are seldom caught. When they are caught, they're rarely punished, nor are the incidents reported to the Georgia Department of Education.
Then, one dark and stormy night, something really terrible happens ... But I probably shouldn't say anymore. In fact, I've already said way too much.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
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The bombing of Egged Bus No. 2 in Jerusalem in August made for a gentler media treatment of the ultra-Orthodox community. Reams of articles were written on their self-restraint, on how they preferred to scrutinize their own behavior rather than seek out whoever was guilty for the awful catastrophe that befell them. This glimpse of the ultra-Orthodox world and its practice of taking personal and collective responsibility was evidently very moving for the rest of Israeli society. True, the notion of responsibility involved here is very different than that of secular people, but it's still about taking responsibility, a rare act in these precincts.
A public figure who stands up and says, "I'm responsible," or a sector of Israeli society that does likewise, is hard to recall. Taking responsibility for actions and decisions seems to have all but disappeared from the nation's public and political life. And, in tandem, the people's demand for accountability on the part of its elected representatives seems to have vanished as well. Responsibility is not merely something accepted; mainly, it's something demanded. In neither sense is it present any longer in our public life.
Anything goes: No personal ramifications seem to accompany political failures, like those of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak as prime minister. Nor do we demand accountability from those who fought for leadership roles. People who trashed their own political parties or promulgated failed policies subsequently reappear as legitimate candidates for prime minister. Take Shimon Peres. Only a few years ago, after another serial failure, he asked an ostensibly rhetorical question at a Labor party meeting. "I'm a loser?" shouted Peres. "Yes," came the shouted reply from the hall. Not long afterward, Peres is again at the helm, charged with reviving the party.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon also embodies this phenomenon. Whoever coined the phrase - following the Kahan commission findings on the massacre at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps - "Whoever doesn't want him as defense minister will get him as prime minister," was right. Sharon is now a prime minister under investigation for suspected bribery and corruption. This, however, barely makes a dent in his popularity. The notion of retribution or punishment has disappeared from the political and public realm.
It used to be different, so they say. In the collective memory are engraved at least three prior occasions symbolizing accountability by leaders, or at least a demand for it: The resignation of the government of Golda Meir following the Yom Kippur War and the convening of the Agranat commission; the resignation of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin following the exposure of the U.S. bank account held by his wife; and Menachem Begin's resignation during the Lebanon War.
Meir's case was relatively complicated. She did, indeed, resign (and, with her, as the law dictates, her entire cabinet), but not before she was elected prime minister again in the elections of December 1973. In her new government, there were ministers from the failed administration, and Haim Bar-Lev, as in "Bar-Lev Line," was named industry and trade minister. Golda's resignation, more than an act of taking responsibility, was a belated response to the unprecedented public demand for such a step.
Since Begin left the prime minister's office, Israel has had no leaders who take responsibility for their actions, and the demand that they do so has likewise disappeared. Consider the fact of years in the quagmire of Lebanon and the final hasty retreat; the Bar-On Hebron agreement; the failure of Camp David; personal corruption; fictitious organizations that finance election junkets; electoral bribery; and even an attempt to buy a Greek island with the aid of politicians. All this flourishes in a political climate that has spread to every sphere in Israel, in a fatalism that seems to have taken hold of the entire populace in recent years. Politicization has desiccated every objective norm by which the behavior of elected officials and public figures is measured. Within the political camp, as in a tribe, transgressions are tolerated, but woe betide anyone aligned with a rival camp.
Fatalistic atmosphere
The fatalistic atmosphere insures that every event or process is perceived as some kind of divine writ over which even our leaders have no control. It's happening with national security and the ailing economy, and while we're all busy there, individual incidents of corruption flourish unhindered in their shadow. The public's attention is directed elsewhere.
The demise of the demand for accountability is mainly grounded in the absence of a consensus about national goals. Even basic questions, like what the boundaries of the state should be and what constitutes its "Jewish and democratic" nature, aren't really defined objectives. Accountability is possible when there is a defined goal that a leader fails to achieve. When democratic objectives are ambiguous, how can we demand accountability? With respect to what? From whom?
The truth is, in Israeli political discourse, there isn't even a suitable word with which to make such a demand. "Accountability" - the precise political term in English for what is demanded of public figures and national leaders - has no Hebrew equivalent. On the theory that language is a determinant of consciousness, the Israel Democracy Institute tried to coin a suitable Hebrew word and came up with "divuchiyut" (from the Hebrew verb for "report"). This term, which doesn't fully convey the meaning of the English word, hasn't taken hold.
In this state of affairs, the notion that "things used to be different" is arguable. Prof. Yaron Ezrahi of Hebrew University's department of political science thinks that, given the "feeling for history" and the "discipline derived from ideology" that characterized the early days of the state, things really were different. Still, he doesn't see Golda's resignation as an acceptance of responsibility so much as a manifestation of self-righteousness. In this view, by resigning, Golda suddenly became "the little woman who doesn't understand these things and who passes along the responsibility to the military echelon."
`Ethos of a mission'
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Dr. Yuval Steinitz is sure the situation is improving, however. Looking back, he thinks Rabin shouldn't have resigned over the matter of his wife's foreign bank account. Begin, he says, didn't so much take responsibility as collapse, at his advanced age, under all the pressure.
Dr. Menachem Lorberbaum, a Tel Aviv University philosopher, believes Israeli political life always had a norm of not taking responsibility. This took root as far back as David Ben- Gurion's day, when he didn't resign after the Lavon affair. Lorberbaum, therefore, believes the norms haven't essentially changed.
Prof. Boris Kuritz, an internationally known expert in systems analysis who immigrated to Israel from Moscow 11 years ago and who recently published a book in English on Israeli governments, argues that Israel lacks a real civil society, the backbone of every democracy, and that this is reflected in an absence of appropriate decision-making and accountability.
Ezrahi sees the roots of this phenomenon in the early days of the state. "There was no culture of democratic responsibility; there was a mission to build the nation. Nation-building means you don't steal money; Rabin's resignation came out of that ethos of a mission," he says. "The democratization process in our society was not interpreted as one of strengthening the public service to the people, but as the democratization of the distribution of booty and assets. A culture of distributing the booty was created. Public assets are not seen as a deposit meant to serve public needs, but as loot, and it's `catch as catch can' for yourself and your group. There's this phenomenon in Israel of political looting. Like soldiers occupying a village and carrying off television sets, everyone who gets into power loots the assets he finds there."
`One big hunting ground'
Ezrahi notes that large chunks of the society underwent the transition from refugees and immigrants to citizens, but instead of internalizing values of civic responsibility and leadership, they still have the mentality of people receiving services. "The idea that the citizens are the masters of the country did not take root and the system went on fostering the idea that the state is one big hunting ground. Whoever can shoot himself a deer, shoots one; whoever can't, can at least bring home a rabbit," says Ezrahi. "The public did not evolve into a power that forces transparency and accountability in government. A major cause was exploitation of the security situation to aggrandize the power of the state.
Prof. Baruch Kimmerling has already pointed out that the ruling elites discovered that the public's fears permit them to shape patterns of governance without responsibility. Corruption has become a major spectacle, a drama that sells newspapers and fills life with content. The front-page headlines are like a gossip column.
MK Steinitz also talks about the role of the media in this context, but draws very different conclusions. He sees the public's tolerance for corruption as entirely natural. "The public is skeptical, with good reason," says Steinitz. "For almost 15 years they've seen investigations of senior figures, mostly from the Likud, and usually culminating without charges being brought. The public is smart, they sense the odds and get the drift. Shimon Peres could be connected to 30 billion [shekels], and they'd consider it his right, but in the Likud everything is improper `special favors.' Media hyperbole causes real damage to democracy, because it erodes public faith."
Steinitz thinks the standards in Israel are actually too harsh in terms of personal norms and the attitude to failure. "People shouldn't be resigning immediately after every error," he says. "This doesn't happen in the big democracies. When did a U.S. president resign because of a failure? Only Israel has this insanity that people have to resign after a failure. Even the best people fail, and we mustn't lose them. And we exaggerate about personal norms, too. The allegations against Bill and Hillary Clinton were much more serious than those against Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] in his day or against Sharon. But they defended themselves, they didn't resign."
No hue and cry
Steinitz, in this context, shows ample understanding of the Sharon family's silence in public concerning the Cyril Kern and Greek island affairs. "The Cyril Kern affair is nonsense," he declares. "The Greek island affair, on the face of it, does look more serious, but the public isn't really sure that it leads to the prime minister. Aside from which, what exemplifies McCarthyism? The fact that everyone was always committing small infractions, but it was the communists who were always found out. With us, it's always the people on the right. The extent of public emotion depends on how unique the event is. We have too many incidents, too many news bulletins, names being cleared too often - people stop reacting. It's not that public norms have changed, but that the norms relating to the police and the media have changed, and they are creating complete chaos. While they don't behave responsibly, the public is reacting responsibly by being skeptical."
Lorberbaum agrees that public norms haven't changed. "In every society, people use existing models," he says. "The Likud just copied Mapai [precursor of Labor], and Sharon the Mapainik is a student of Ben-Gurion in this regard." Lorberbaum views Rabin's resignation and Begin's withdrawal from public life as merely individual instances of two people who took responsibility for their actions.
In the current atmosphere, no one is raising a hue and cry anymore. The public surmises that everyone is corrupt, and people prefer to see "their" crooks in office. As the discussion concluded, Ezrahi wondered aloud "when a leader would be chosen here for some dizzying success." This calls to mind the joke about people being satisfied with whoever is least awful. That kind of choice gives the candidate, in real James Bond style, a license to kill freely. Sometimes verbally; sometimes as a kind of fable in which he can do whatever he likes in a society bewildered, worn down, preoccupied with survival, when many people are dreaming of a strong leader who will come along and put everything in order. The very soil, caution some, that's conducive to fascism. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37689 | "The sea is the same sea, and the Arabs are the same Arabs," Shamir famously said.
"The sea is the same sea, and the Arabs are the same Arabs," Shamir famously said. Photo by Nimrod Glickman
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Yitzhak Shamir, the seventh prime minister of Israel, passed away this week, at 96. The current premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, eulogized him at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, saying, among other things, that although it is possible that Shamir's "statements about [Israel's] neighbors, about the distinction between the sea and the land ... unleashed a torrent of criticism at the time, even contempt, today there are of course many more people who understand that this man saw and understood basic and genuine things."
The statements Netanyahu was referring to - "the sea is the same sea, and the Arabs are the same Arabs" - are etched in the collective memory. Shamir used this phrase in 1996, following the Oslo accords, quoting himself (according to a book, in Hebrew, called "It's Inconceivable," which contains quotes and expressions coined over the years by Israeli politicians, compiled and put in context by Rafi Mann in 1998 ).
What Shamir originally said, on January 24, 1989, was actually more explicit and nuanced. He was addressing a convention of Israeli hoteliers, and remarked (this is the closest we can come to an accurate English translation ): "Once they were speaking about throwing us into the sea. Nowadays they do not say that. They've become more sophisticated - self-determination for Palestinians - and they get the sympathy. But if we look at reality, it has not changed. The Arabs are Arabs, ruling over 22 states. Israel is a small state with many problems, the sea is the same sea, and the aim is the same aim: extermination of the State of Israel - even if you call it 'self-determination.'"
Shamir was referring here to yet another expression that also dwells in our consciousness in the Middle East - about how one of the sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict hopes to throw the other into the sea. The "death by drowning" imagery is not surprising when we remember that both adversaries have historically vied over a narrow strip of land between the river (Jordan ) and the sea.
Anyone who grew up in Israel in the early 1950s did not have any doubt that the Arabs - including the seven states that fought with Israel in 1948, and the local population which either fled or was expelled during that war - wanted to throw "us," the Israelis, into the sea.
Indeed, that is how David Ben-Gurion phrased it when presenting his new government to the Knesset on November 2, 1955: " ... and they plan, as many of them say openly, to throw us all into the sea; in simpler words, to exterminate the Jews of the Land of Israel."
Nowadays there are quite a few critics of Israeli policies past and present - both Palestinians (naturally) but also some Israelis - who claim that attribution of insidious plans or intentions to the Arabs was (and is ) no more than a figment of a frightened Jewish imagination, if not actually part of a strategy intended to throw the Palestinians into the sea.
I doubt whether a statement by a leader that carries a threat of collective drowning constitutes proof of the existence of such an intent on any side of the conflict. However, in view of the fact that Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was sworn in this week as the new Egyptian president, it is interesting to recall the words of the founder of that Islamic movement, regarding Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and the sea, in an interview printed in The New York Times on August 2, 1948.
Interviewed the previous day by the Times' correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt in Cairo, Sheikh Hassan al-Banna declared: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea."
Schmidt hastens to write that the sheikh, who was referring to the quarter-million Jews living in Arab countries at the time, said that he was merely using a "figure of speech," even though he added, "facetiously, that 'of course, if the United States send ships to pick them up, that would be all right.'"
By the end of the interview al-Banna, then in the penultimate year of his life, offered a solution to the Arab-Israeli dispute over the Land of Palestine. He suggested that the Jews should settle in the empty areas of Australia: "We sympathize with the homeless Jews, but it is not humane that they should be settled in an area where they render homeless other people who have been settled thousands of years."
The Times did not print a response from the Australians.
Anyone who has had a serious relationship with another person knows how presumptuous it is to profess knowledge about what the other side wants, and what disastrous results may arise when acting upon a premise based upon baseless (if not base ) information. This is doubly true when a national leader, or politician, makes an assumption as to what people on either side of a conflict want. Ben-Gurion is usually credited (although an exact quote is nowhere to be found ) with saying, about the people of Israel: "I don't know what the people want. I know what they need (or what they are in need of )."
It seems, according to Yitzhak Shamir's assessment of the situation in the Middle East, and based on what he would have done were he in the Palestinians' shoes, that he believed that what they need, from their point of view, is to throw the Jews into the sea. Hardly a basis for peace (or indeed any other kind of ) negotiations, especially when the other side's reasoning is, sadly, strangely similar.
But the key point in Shamir's remarks - and what Netanyahu thinks constitutes "basic and genuine things" - has less to do with Palestinians and Israelis per se, and more to do with a general situation in which things remain the same (or not ). To grasp that one has only to consider the Mediterranean, which has throughout time been referred to variously as Mare Nostrum ("our sea," in Latin ), yam hatichon (literally, "the middle sea," in Hebrew ) and as adkeniz ("the white sea," in modern Arabic ). All those refer to the same body of water, which actually does change: With its ebbs and flows, the sea can rise between 3 and 100 centimeters, plus in the last 64 years it has become much more polluted and has significantly fewer fish.
Along these same lines, one recalls that, "All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full," according to Ecclesiastes (1:7 ). Heraclitus (535-475 B.C.E. ) supposedly said "everything flows," and Plato referenced him in "Cratylus": "Everything changes and nothing remains still... and... you cannot step twice into the same stream." Thus, supposedly, you cannot be thrown twice into the same sea.
If you insist on holding the view - with which Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to agree, judging by his eulogy of Shamir - that some things do not change, you may yet have to pay a heavy price for your beliefs. And be left with small change, if any.
Or, to phrase it differently, Netanyahu and Shamir notwithstanding, nothing changes but change itself. And the only way to deal with that is to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37704 | [Haskell-cafe] A few questions on primes generating.
Pekka Karjalainen p3k at iki.fi
Mon Aug 13 11:19:10 EDT 2007
On 8/13/07, L.Guo <leaveye.guo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All:
> I am reading http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Prime_numbers
> The code in sector "1 Bitwise prime sieve".
> I have 3 questions about it.
> 1) In function go, what does the number 46340 mean ? Is it sqrt(MAX_LONG) ?
Yes, it appears so. In a 32 bit implementation I get:
Prelude> sqrt $ fromIntegral (maxBound :: Int)
> 2) We have this type definition :
> pureSieve :: Int -> Int
> Why there is no error (type mismatch) of this call in func main :
> pureSieve 10000000
If you have integer literals in your program, the compiler sees a
fromInteger in front of them. So the value is just converted to type
Int automatically, because that is expected here.
You can give different numeric default declarations in your own
modules. Please see sections 10.3 (for overloaded literals) and 10.4
(for defaults) here:
Sometimes you can get an overflow like this:
Prelude> 100000000000000000000000 :: Int
> 3) In main again, what does expression [| x |] mean ? Why this cannot be execute in
> GHCi ?
It's Template Haskell, and is used there for some kind of optimisation
(I think). Template Haskell needs to be enabled with a command line
switch for it to work. Please see the documentation for more
information. It's section 7.6 in your User's Guide.
Though in this case you can probably just remove it to try out the
program. Perhaps someone else can explain what actual effect it has
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37705 | [Haskell-cafe] Implementing Mathematica
Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Fri Jun 1 14:41:57 EDT 2007
Jacques Carette wrote:
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>>> Why do you seem so in awe of Mathematica?
>> Oh, well, I guess it is only the most powerful maths software ever
>> written... no biggie.
> No, it is one of several. In very little time I can find 20 things
> that Maple does better than Mathematica. In the same amount of time,
> I can find 20 things that Mathematica does better than Maple.
> [Actually, the most obvious is that its marketing is miles better; so
> good that it makes blind evangelists out of people who have not even
> tried the competitors].
If Wolfram want to claim that Mathematica has "redefined the face of
computer science"... well I don't believe that for one second.
If they want to claim it's a product that can do some amazing stuff...
well I don't see much evidence to the contrary.
> You got suckered by their marketing. Get your head out of the sand,
> and take a good look around what is available.
I looked, I didn't find anything interesting.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37706 |
Robin Green greenrd at greenrd.org
Tue Aug 11 16:51:30 EDT 2009
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:37:02 +0200
Peter Verswyvelen <bugfact at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, sorry.
> But I think I already found the answer to my own question.
> DDC functions that are lazy don't allow side effects:
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/DDC/EvaluationOrder
> Anyway it would be cool if the DDC EffectSystem would also work on
> lazy functions :)
As was just pointed out in the unsafeDestructiveAssign thread from which
this thread was forked, effects are incompatible with non-strict
evaluation. The compiler is supposed to be able to reorder non-strict
evaluation to do optimisations, but that can't be done if effects
could happen. Also, effects would destroy modular reasoning.
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