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Not very sure as to what happened, but I just uploaded a higher quality image for Chūkichi. For some reason, the image doesn't match the file that I uploaded. The image that I uploaded did not have the hand seal present but the wiki seems to think it was. Glitch much ? --Speysider (Talk Page) 13:39, May 10, 2012 (UTC)
Don't worry about it, the image was reverted back since there wasn't a difference. --Speysider (Talk Page) 13:52, May 10, 2012 (UTC)
The bug seems to be completely related to Wikia as many other sites are also having this problem. So annoying when your trying to update images -.- --Speysider (Talk Page) 18:19, May 10, 2012 (UTC)
• LATE* Yes I noticed that a few days ago when I was trying to update the wiki logo -_- —IndxcvNovelist (Talk to Me|My Wiki) 03:14, May 19, 2012 (UTC)
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Three-Tails Mini Clone
Anime Naruto Shippūden Episode #107
Appears in Anime only
Classification Tailed Beast Skill, Clone Techniques
When the Three-Tails devours anything, its body produces thousands of smaller clones of itself with its gut. These antibody-like clones attack and devour the invading organism, presumably to aid in digestion and destroy any potential hazards.
The Three-Tails has the ability to create different sizes of its mini clones: From the size of a hand to the size of a human being; and they are resilient enough to resist Guren's crystal techniques and kunai.[1]
1. Naruto: Shippūden episode 108
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Scareware tends to show extreme warnings about infection to coerce users into buying its "full" version.
Scareware tends to show extreme warnings about infection to coerces users into buying its "full" version.
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In a recent article on the company's Web site, Nick Johnston, senior software engineer of Symantec Hosted Services, wrote that at one Internet terminal at a large airport in England, he saw an unusual "Defense Center Installer" dialog box that turned out to be a fake antivirus software, also known as "scareware."
Scareware is a type of malware that claims a computer is infected with viruses and tries to coerce the user into buying the full version of the software to clean the fictitious infection. It's common for this type of malware to try to disable or uninstall legitimate antivirus software, causing Windows Security Center to warn that no antivirus software installed. As this type of software is not really a virus, it's hard for legitimate antivirus software to detect and remove it.
The fact that the Internet terminal has this type of malware indicates that it is not protected and might be infected with other hidden, more dangerous malware such as a keylogger. Unlike "scareware," which makes its presence known, there is no obvious indicator that a keylogger is active while it silently captures users' input. This means that usernames and passwords for airline accounts, bank accounts, Web mail, social media accounts, or any other private accounts accessed on the terminal can be stolen.
For this reason, you should exercise extreme caution whenever you are using publicly available Internet access terminals and avoid doing anything that requires you to sign on to personal or corporate accounts. The best practice is to only enter your private and important information, such as bank account, Social Security number, and so on, on computers and networks that you know. If you share computers with other people, remember to change your passwords regularly.
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Diane Passage on Moving On: ‘Billionaire Is the New Millionaire’
Remember when, on Will & Grace, the buxom Karen stayed loyal to her imprisoned megarich fraudster husband Stan? (No? If it happened on Friends, you'd remember.) Well, anyway, Diane Passage, the pole-dancing wife of imprisoned Ponzi schemer Kenneth Starr, is not doing that. "He plays 20 questions with me from, 'What's your favorite color?' to, 'How many men have you hooked up with?'" Passage told "Page Six" over dinner this week. "I always tell him, none of your business ... But if I did hook up with another guy I think it would be OK — he owes me, he's in jail." How serious is she about letting everyone know she's on the lookout for a new man? Serious enough to specify her requirements: "Billionaire is the new millionaire!" Also, serious enough to have dinner with "Page Six."
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39663 | Ariel Lee for The Wall Street Journal
MY MOTHER FLEW home to China in checked baggage.
Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the "city of eternal spring" where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings and the weather is always perfect. I promised that I would go with her when my life was less hectic, but the years inexorably slipped past and suddenly, it was too late.
As she lay dying, I made the promise one last time. Yes, Mom. We'll go to China.
Nine months after her death, I fulfilled my vow. Worried that the TSA would confiscate her cremated remains from my carry-on, I packed the urn containing my mother's ashes into a suitcase filled with gifts for my Chinese relatives and entrusted the lot to United Airlines.
At baggage claim, my family and I were met by dozens of excited relations I'd never met before. Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying—growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations. But my half-Caucasian son, Adam, has embraced his Chinese roots. He translated for everyone, flipping between English and Mandarin while I stood there nodding and smiling—and berating myself for having become just another clueless foreigner.
Outside the airport, Kunming looked nothing like the quaint town my mother had described. Instead I found an eight-lane freeway jammed with cars and a skyline studded with blocky high-rises. I'd long suspected that my mother had wildly embellished her stories of China, and I wondered what else had been an exaggeration.
But in the days that followed, we ventured beyond the modern city, into Yunnan Province. The Stone Forest, a set of towering rock formations, truly looked like a work of art. The ancient towns of Dali and Lijiang, the glacier surrounded by green hills on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the markets with their sweet, sweet peaches—all were as wondrous as she had promised. This was the China she had wanted me to see, a land that was not merely the fantasy of an aging woman. My mother's China was real.
On the day of the funeral, my relatives drove us out of the city in a caravan of cars, to a neighborhood of dirt roads and crumbling buildings. I was bewildered when someone handed me a black umbrella. Adam explained that we were taking my mother's ashes to visit her parents, but that she had to make the journey in shadow. Adam carried the urn; I held up the umbrella. We climbed a half mile up a dirt track, past stray dogs and chickens, and waded into a cornfield. Unprepared for this hike, I slipped and slid in my sandals; my feet were coated in mud by the time we arrived at my grandparents' tomb.
I imagined my mother's spirit, merrily puffing away in the afterlife.
My Chinese relatives reached into the many bags they had carried up the hill, pulled out gardening gloves and hedge clippers with which to clear away the weeds, and set my mother beside the tomb so she could visit. They burned incense, planted colorful paper flags to ward away evil spirits and laid out fruits, cakes and cookies for the dead to enjoy. I was startled to see them place two cigarettes beside my mother's urn. Her smoking was a habit I long deplored, and I almost blurted out: "Take those away, they're bad for her!" Then I imagined my mother's spirit, merrily puffing away in the afterlife.
After the visit, we carried the urn back down the hill. Another hour's drive took us into cool and forested mountains, to the serene Buddhist mausoleum where the ashes would be entombed. In China, the dead are not forgotten—my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.
Buddhist monks led the ceremony, and although I claim no religion, I found myself dutifully bowing and chanting words that I did not understand. It was my brother's duty to clean our mother's eternal home, so he wiped down the niche and placed the urn inside.
It was my duty, as firstborn, to close the door and lock it.
I hesitated. My hand caressed my mother's urn. I thought of the turbulent journey that had been her life. How she had escaped war-torn China, leaving behind everyone she knew and loved, and never again saw her parents. How she had struggled as an immigrant in America, endured an unhappy marriage to my father and nursed a lifetime of regrets. She was back where she was born. Home at last.
I was sobbing as I locked the door.
There was one final ritual to perform. Before you leave a cemetery, someone must call out your name and say: "We are going home." You must answer: "Yes, I am going home now," so the spirits know you are departing. The relatives queued up, waiting for their names to be called, and one by one they left.
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At last it was my turn. My son called my name and said, "We're going home."
But it was to my mother that I spoke when I answered: "I am going home now." To my own home, in America.
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I'm studying the Method of Images and I seemed to have come to a conundrum. Method of Images takes advantage of grounded objects, (I am currently studying spheres), to set boundary conditions. However, how would one use the idea of MoI to set the potential of a conducting sphere as constant?
Since $E = \nabla V$, a constant potential would be the electric field inside would be constant? Therefore, a density of charge inside the sphere?
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I edited your question, to fix $\nabla E = V$, which should be $E=\nabla V$. but perhaps that typo is the source of your equation. – askewchan Feb 26 '13 at 2:04
Also note that conundrum is a noun and not a verb. – Emilio Pisanty Feb 26 '13 at 16:20
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Regardless of whether it is grounded, if there were a nonzero electric field inside a conductor, it would push the charge carriers around until there were no longer forces on them.
Thus: A perfect conductor, grounded or isolated, will have a surface (and volume) of equal potential, and the electric field inside will be zero.
If the conductor is not grounded, then there will be some net charge (possibly zero) on the conductor. If it's a symmetric shape (a sphere) then it will have a uniform surface density, namely the total charge over the total surface area ($Q / 4\pi r^2$).
You cannot assume to know $Q$ on the sphere. Whether or not $Q=0$, there will be $E=0$ inside the sphere (Gauss Law), and outside the sphere there will be $E\neq 0$ if $Q\neq0$.
Adding an image charge at the origin would actually create a nonzero $E$ inside the sphere, which you cannot have inside a conductor (I'm assuming the sphere is solid). The charge on the surface of the sphere already cancels its own $E$ field inside the sphere. If you want to cancel the $E$ field outside the sphere, then an image at the origin would do that.
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So if I were to find the potential outside of a conducting sphere that is not grounded, the potential inside would have to be constant. Therefore that second image charge would have to be placed at the origin to mimic if it were grounded. – julesverne Feb 26 '13 at 17:53
@julesverne you really don't need an image charge to solve this, assuming you're trying to find the potential everywhere, just use Gauss' law. – askewchan Feb 26 '13 at 17:56
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Charging of laptops, cell phones take so much time. Why can't we make such batteries easily/commercially which are charged more quickly? What's the thing behind this limiting?
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The chemical reaction that occurs inside can only happen so quickly. – Pranav Hosangadi Oct 18 '13 at 6:11
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Mostly the problem is that in batteries, current flow is not by electrons as in something like a copper wire, but by physical movement of ions. Only so many ions can migrate to the right place and perform the right chemical reaction over some fixed time.
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Heat. Batteries have internal resistance and so produced heat when current flows through them (Joule heating). Also, the heat generated increases by the square of that current. E.g, doubling the charging current causes the heat produced to be increased 4 times.
Ultracapacitors are a different technology that can be used like batteries--they have very very low internal resistance and so can be charged or recharged at currents hundreds of times what you see in regular batteries like laptop ones. The tradeoff is that capacitors have really low capacity in comparison (they run out too quickly and must be recharged again).
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Typically batteries involve using the energy stored in some chemical compound (for example, we have batteries of type Lithium-ion). So what happens is we use the potential energy stored in the chemical as an electromotive force to power our device.
Now what happens when allt he potential energy stored inside that compound runs out? We have to recharge it. In order to recharge it, we have to have a source that inputs energy into our system. This energy goes into the compound and reorients the atoms to their original positions, allowing it to store energy once again. Unfortunately, this process can take quite a bit of time, and it's very difficult to speed up.
There you have it in layman terms.
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I have got an idea that can make a good app for web and mobile. I tell myself to design the prototype so as to see how people take it. The problem is when I sit to code, I can't get things done. I kind of know what has to get done, but unable to do so.
I sometimes get intimidated by the code, though I have been coding for quite sometime. I'm not sure why, as I love technology and have the ideas of how to build great programs. For example I found Backbone.js to be very useful for modularizing in my website, but somehow not able code in it too well, put off by tiny little things.
How to motivate myself to code a project, learn new stuff and discipline myself to finish what I do? Here's a perspective of what I have done so far - I have been part of Google Summer of Code, contributed test cases for Mozilla, 2 years of professional experience in a tech company mainly dealing with IBM Mainframes, COBOL.
I kind of think it's a stupid question to ask, but what I'm looking for is people who have faced a similar situation and have reformed themselves to be successful. If this is not the place to ask, suggestion to where to look for will be appreciated.
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I get this a lot when approaching a new module. I am in the same boat as you in searching for similar success-minded people. That's why I enjoy PPSE. People come here to improve themselves :D – Gaʀʀʏ Jul 5 '12 at 23:48
Find a coding buddy. I don't know where or how so I'll just leave this as a comment. It's great to get all worked up about cool new tech and then work together on coding it up, dragging each other through motivational dips. – w00t Jul 10 '12 at 19:36
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if your routine going on for sometimes then it is really the time to break out of your routine now. yes breaking your project into small pieces as pointed out by @gekkostate will definitely help.
1) i think that taking some sort of a break is also important to bring the motivation back for example if you can take 1 month all fun trip to somewhere leaving your laptop back will do a lot of good.
2) work on project details on big whiteboard on the wall in your home can be a lot of fun rather then working on microsoft project or some papers. visualize your every part of the project on your white board and then go to work.
3) also research all the things you need to do before hand and when working just do the work. have done wonders for me.
4) do something more challenging in your work because lack of challenge is also major cause of losing motivation.
5) try to set some deadlines and see how it goes.
6) you can also make it a habit that program alternately in the week . leave it one day read a fiction novel or something and take it on the next day.
7) try to change the place of work.
8) or force yourself to work for 5 to 10 minutes (by work i mean working not researching) and i assure you things will fall in the place.
9) lack of goals attached with whatever you do is also one of the factor for loss of motivation.
best of luck!
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Well, I got motivated after posting this question and seeing that there are people to help! Great! Thanks guys! What @gekkostate said was correct, but mazhar's was more broad and some of his points were the reason why I was able to complete my small project in no time! Anyways I would love to hear more great suggestions. Thanks again guys! – adifire Jul 6 '12 at 12:01
glad to see that it helped you. you are welcome! – maz3tt Jul 6 '12 at 12:10
Good ideas mazhar! – gekkostate Jul 6 '12 at 12:17
thanks @gekkostate – maz3tt Jul 7 '12 at 6:19
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Motivation is something that someone else can't give you. I've had a similar problem with getting work done. Here are a few things I would suggest to get some work done.
1. List the benefits of completing the code
2. Break the code/work into small parts so it doesn't feel long and tedious
I am a programmer myself and this is recurring problem that I face. Those are the two things I do to help me get the work done. Another thing you could try is to remember the time you actually had fun coding. Code what you like to code. In my case, it's math problems or interesting science stuff. Try the above and see how it goes.
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I think motivation can be given to you by someone else; but it is a different kind of motivation and it is much less powerful. My example: - Seeing a cool piano cover on youtube might give you temporary motivation to learn the piano, learn that cover, or do your own. - Deciding that you want to become a better piano player and acting on that personal decision will give you the power to endure through the learning process and continue. – Gaʀʀʏ Jul 5 '12 at 23:52
Intrinsic motivation > extrinsic motivation – asfallows Jul 6 '12 at 13:06
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One of the biggest challenges I face when I'm looking at a project and have work I want to do is getting started. Once I get started, I usually pick up momentum and within minutes I'm getting ideas faster than I can make them happen, but to get to that place, I need to just start.
There's no magic trick for that, but the biggest thing you can do to help yourself is to break your goals down into manageable steps. At least for the very first few things you want to do, break it down until you've got to-do items that are so specific and easy that you can do them in 5-10 minutes.
Suppose you have:
1. Make a prototype
2. Get feedback on prototype
3. Add features and functionality based on feedback
4. Sell mobile app
That's a perfectly fine order, but underneath #1 you need a list of concrete, quickly reachable goals:
1. Create a project on computer/in IDE
2. Make a 'Hello World!" app
3. Add a few buttons to make a simple version of the layout
4. Make a button do something.
5. etc.
Those might look like tiny, dumb examples, and maybe you don't need to go to that level of detail before you have a list where you say, "Oh, hey, I can just do that right now," and get the ball rolling, but I hope this illustrates the principle I'm trying to get at. I've always found that (for me) the biggest source of coder paralysis is having lots I want to do and no idea where to start. Put time into answering that question, and before you know it you'll be too busy working on your prototype to consult your to-do list.
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I recommend you start with one specific use-case, implement it, then add functionality piece by piece.
For instance, if it's a Twitter client, the most important use-case is tweeting, after that you can other use cases like search or reading the news feed.
Don't plan too much, use mind-mappers to stay focused.
Build some prototype with user interaction so you can test your software as it grows. For instance, if I had to design a game, I would:
• make the screen display a black square in a white rectangle
• make the square reply to user interaction
• add other elements that interact with the square by killing it when touched
• add some form of AI to these elements
• add a timer so that a specific survival time triggers a message
• add logging to facilitate debugging
• add sound effects
• add sprites
• add animations
• add a menu
• etc
until I have a full-blown vertical shoot'em up game.
Of course, you may as well find at the middle of the road that you need to rewrite everything in another language or using another framework, well these things happen and at least you'll have gained valuable experience.
Do one thing at a time and do it well.
Also, don't be fooled by stories of programmers working 16 hours a day. If you have other interests and hobbys, don't stop them, work at your rhythm and focus on work done, not on time spent.
And maybe you should try to figure out what these "tiny little things" that put you off are.
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Almost every public CMS out there uses a .php configuration file for the database settings and so on. For example WordPress automatically creates a .php config file when you install it.
Why don't they just use a .ini file? PHP already has parse_ini_file() and I'm sure other languages have similar functions.
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With PHP in particular; the difference between an .ini file and a .conf.php file is negligible.
Using PHP directly for configuration has the distinct advantage of only needing to relate to one well-defined, portable syntax for configuration, and the fact that the configuration file is properly code is occasionally useful.
Compared to that; an ini file has little to nothing to offer; and include, require and require_once are all well-known and (mostly) well understood.
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relate to one well-defined, portable syntax for configuration I don't get that. ini files have a well-defined and portable syntax as well. Every .conf.php file has its own structure, most are array based, but that's not so different than an ini file. – Yannis Rizos Feb 9 '12 at 1:57
Also note that a PHP file can give some basic security. If Joomla used XML or .ini files for storing configuration, there would no doubt be lots of misconfigured instances running where the configuration was publicly accessible, which is usually not a good thing. With PHP files, it's going to be very, very rare for a server to be misconfigured to serve the contents of it to a visitor. – Tom Marthenal Feb 9 '12 at 4:57
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Generally speaking I prefer .ini or XML configuration files. In larger systems, often someone other than the developer will need to change a configuration value, possibly a DBA or a sysadmin. Most DBAs and sysadmins I know wouldn't have any problem navigating through a simple PHP script, but I would prefer if they didn't. One small mistake in there can harm the whole application in quite a few ways.
But in smaller systems, it's extremely convenient to use PHP scripts for configuration. I was playing around with the AWS SDK today, which also uses a PHP script for configuration:
'development' => array(
'key' => 'xxx',
'secret' => 'xxxx',
'default_cache_config' => sys_get_temp_dir(),
'certificate_authority' => true
'@default' => 'development'
Instead of hardcoding a default_cache_config, I'm passing the system temp, and that would work in every system I deploy the script. This script is a small proof of concept that will be passed around 10 developers, and I want them to run it as is, withouth having much to think about. If the prototype evolves, I'll hardwire it with my XML configuration class (and obviously won't rely on filesystem cache).
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"One small mistake in there can harm the whole application in quite a few ways." As though invalid values for ini wouldn't? Or that XML is any friendlier? – whatsisname Feb 9 '12 at 4:51
@whatsisname Typically if an incorrectly set configuration value brakes your system, then your problems are elsewhere. I was thinking more of an unintentional piece of code in the script config doing something extreme, something that I experienced more than once. That's impossible with an ini/xml file, the main point being that a script config is not something you'd want to share with non developers. – Yannis Rizos Feb 9 '12 at 4:55
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The answer is simple: a conf.php has basically zero work required for it to operate. It's just another source file.
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Speed without caching can also be the reason. PHP config can be opcode-cached transparently if needed. Whereas INI file needs to be text-parsed every time it's read and you need to create the cache yourself. For small files it's ok, but with hundreds of lines parsed on every request it can raise to tens of miliseconds, which is quite a lot for 200ms optimized web.
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I am currently doing my first real project with TDD.
I have written tests, and implemented most of the logic for the application.
However, there are properties I know I need to have on the UI, however, there is really no way to write a useful test which will cause their creation.
For example, a description field. It's the ID that is really cared about in the logic of the application, but the actual description is just carried along from when it's populated and sent to the UI.
How would you go about writing a test that is worthwhile, since a new property is literally nothing more than.
public string foo { get;set; }
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This seems to be a way to go about testing these, stackoverflow.com/a/910463/54746 – CaffGeek May 16 '12 at 15:46
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I wouldn't bother writing tests for something that doesn't have any logic in it. If your properties are really that simple, writing unit-tests for them is a bad idea. Those tests will be brittle, and will almost never catch any bugs. You're not really testing anything at all. I'm not sure how this advice works with pure TDD, but from a practical point of view, you should only write tests for things that involve logic.
However, it's possible to have more complicated properties that contain some logic. In this case, it might be good to write unit tests for them. For example, if a setter enforces some data valid data range (0 <= property value <= 100), then you can write tests that ensure that this works.
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I understand when there is data validation, that it makes sense. I just don't get how I can write the code to create a property when I can't think of a valid test for it. – CaffGeek May 16 '12 at 15:28
If you insist on writing a test for this, how about something like: obj.setValue(5); assert(5, obj.getValue()) – Oleksi May 16 '12 at 15:36
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In TDD unit test are not your only source of tests, you have to include Acceptances tests as well with a framework like Selenium in the case of Web development. To bullet proof your application even more, using a build automation upon each commit like Jenkins which you can combine with Apache Ant to run all your tests and different code analysis.
For more information you can look at this presentation. Even without the presenter talking, you can understand where he is going.
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+1 for not your only source of tests - although I was really tempted to downvote for referring to old-fashioned Ant :) – gnat May 16 '12 at 15:18
@gnat: The PHP template for jenkins still relies on Apache Ant jenkins-php.org for build automation – JF Dion May 16 '12 at 15:27
But that still doesn't explain, with TDD, how I create the test that requires writing the code for the property. – CaffGeek May 16 '12 at 15:31
@gnat, that makes no sense. That's not TDD at all. – CaffGeek May 17 '12 at 16:07
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If you need a property, you have a feature that requires that property to be there. In the course of writing unit tests for that feature, you will reference that property and thus its existence will be validated by a unit test.
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So maybe the quick answer is 'Yes' absolutely (or no I suppose), but let me explain my question angle to get a better derived answer.
We all commonly use SOLID design principals when making up the pieces and parts of our applications. Don't make a class do too many things, don't make an Interface too large, use abstraction not concretions, etc.
Is it OK to apply this mentality at an abstract level when thinking about solutions, services, etc.? The main problem: I'm struggling with the request to have a single service do all things related to a specific business domain. Add to this multiple teams would all have their hands in the pot of the same application to add whatever functionality needed.
I have a service being built out with many good architecture and design principals in mind and believe totally that lots of 'additional' functionality could be bolted on vertically within the same framework and solution. After all this one of the reasons why we spend time architecting solutions to be loosely coupled and allow scalability with rather ease. So you might say, "go for it, if the framework can handle it then add away!"
Something is not sitting right with me and I would be concerned with a behemoth of an application/service that tries to do everything. I tried doing searches about "applications that do too much" or "services that have too many responsibilities" but not much came up. When I start thinking about the SOLID principals, I think having a service that does everything related to a specific business domain might not be a good idea and may cause issues on down the road with maintainability and stepping on each other's toes.
Is it correct to use SOLID principals when looking at entire solution functionality? Is creating a service like http://www.mycompany.com/api/[everyMethodPossible] correct, or could I be doing something that is incorrect?
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That's actually a big part of the Unix philosophy: "Write programs that do one thing and do it well." – Joachim Sauer Jan 21 '13 at 15:53
Also note that the "one thing" for a solution might be "Allow the user to frobnication effectively by integrating all those good, related, but separate things into a single coherent interface". – Joachim Sauer Jan 21 '13 at 15:54
I'm not sure if i get the question completely right. You have already designed a service with 'good architecture' and now someone want to have everything from one interface? So you just take all of your simple, well designed parts of your program and let users call them via one, big, interface? If that's the case, go for it. All of the parts are well designed, have a single responsibility, are interchangeable and so on - you only have one facade for the user that violates this principle. You should be fine. – mri Jan 21 '13 at 20:11
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The reason design principles are so helpful and why it's unfortunate people conflate them with patterns is because a design priciple is simply that; a principle for design; all design.
You can and should apply design principles to all things that require design, they're truly cross-cutting (buzzwords yay!).
For example, Principle of Least Astonishment was created and described always for UI designers to ensure they present a UI that doesn't cause users to make mistakes. It can however be applied to all contract definitions by developers, it can really be applied to anything, that's why the classic example is the elevator button; one with an up arrow that calls the elevator to go down is poor design.
If design principles can be applied to a UI, and an elevator, then honestly anything that is to be designed can have them applied. Imagine if a car's roll-down-window button also turned on the vent because it thinks you want fresh air, sounds like bad design right? Single responsibility principle; any buttons in a car that do multiple things would just seem weird to a user.
Even LSP can be defined beyond code, think about a common type of thing? Say a taxi cab. Now for a taxi cab you call them and they show up when you request, a taxi cab that is always 15 minutes late violates LSP because you always expect all taxi cabs to be on-time, if you expected them all to be 15 minutes late it wouldn't violate LSP because it would follow the rules of the common-type taxi cab.
Open-Closed principle is observable in the design of cars, they have a base model closed for modification but open for extension with a roof rack, keyless entry, clear-coat, side runners etc. The vehicle was designed to allow for those extensions, but it was designed to be closed for modification which is why it takes a mechanic to change the drive-train to AWD and isn't easy even for him. It wasn't designed to be modified in this way, but it was designed with relevant extension points.
Full-scale systems themselves at a macro level should definitely take these into account, a single process service that is side-effect free with a single responsibility is great to have for certain things and follows many of these, have as many of those as you want. A service that does a ton of things all on it's own is however a violation of SRP.
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Is it correct? No.
Correctness has nothing to do with it. The SOLID principles are good, and can be applied outside of OO, like in software architecture or writing functions. Personally, I find them to be useful in doing architecture scoped design, but remember that the goal is to make good software, not to provide the right answers to a test.
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Thank you - does your experience show that creating a service like mycompany.com/api/[everyMethodPossible] is an output of good software design or not? To me using SOLID principals applied to this use case indicates the answer is 'no'. Doing everything in a single container is a recipe for bad software. However I'm not 100% clear and thus my question here. Thank you for your help. – atconway Jan 21 '13 at 19:33
@atconway - not really, but it's not like a god object or even namespace pollution. You're not really doing everything in a single container, you're simply exposing cohesive parts of the api in a common location. Or at least that's the best case. – Telastyn Jan 21 '13 at 20:48
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This quote by Joel Spolsky resonated with me:
I'm enough of a perfectionist that I hate the thought of picking a framework for a new project without complete knowledge of what the best choice is, but the fact is that, as Joel says, there's no (practical) way to have complete knowledge of what the best choice is.
Right now I'm trying to pick a web framework. Right now, based on our target platforms and my judgment of various languages, I'd pick Python over Ruby, C# / ASP.NET, or Java / J2EE. Of the available Python frameworks, based on this SO question, I'd pick Pylons over Django. (Our intended projects are somewhat specialized, not content-related, so Pylons' flexibility sounds better than Django's CMS support and built-in admin. Our team has relatively little experience in any of the alternatives, so that's not a significant factor.)
But Django is substantially more popular than Pylons, and Ruby on Rails or ASP.NET are substantially more popular than Django. So what am I to conclude?
1. The very popular choices are more popular because they're much better, so I should pick one of the more popular choices instead of what I'm currently planning.
2. The very popular choices are not necessarily much better, but more popularity means better documentation, better community support, better add-ons, and an easier time finding developers with prior experience, so I should pick one of the more popular choices instead of what I'm currently planning.
3. Any of the options would be good, so I should pick what sounds best for my target project without stressing about popularity.
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Don't choose based on the community
Well, unless you're looking for good documentation and support.
Find something that you are comfortable with and use that. Then pray it has a decent user base so when you get stuck you aren't up a creek. If it doesn't have that, create the user base. Rip the source apart and figure out how it works so when other people have questions you can answer them.
That said, you're comparing ROR (Ruby) to Django (Python) and ASP.NET (.NET). There are different uses for each. Ruby people like ROR. Pyton people like Django. .NET developers will probably use ASP.NET. I don't see a lot of competition between languages, more like internal struggles. Compare CakePHP and CodeIgniter, or better yet, search SO for php framework and see what you come up with.
I recently started work on a project, and the goal at the time was to use Java. Turns out I haven't done as much Java web development as I thought, heck there's a Struts 2 now. After playing with about eight different frameworks I settled on Play! Then ended up scrapping that a month later in favor of ditching Java and moving to Node.js.
My point is sometimes you aren't going to know until you start coding, and even then you might be up to your knees before you realize that your choice was really bad.
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Dive into the problem domain:
1. Write down the options known to you
You will miss a lot, but don't worry: you'll stumble upon more information in the process.
2. Write down how those options relate to each other
E.g. what are the programming language used, the supported operating system, system requirements? Is the project active? Is it written in OOP or FP?
3. Write down how those properties relate to you
E.g. do you hate Perl or have no clue about Forth? What would be hard or impossible in practise? Are you comfortable about a database-dependency?
4. Filter the options and try those options left
E.g. exclude all projects written in C# because you're a Mac guy. Exclude projects with a small user base.
Implement a dummy with the left options to gain more insights.
Start over with Step 1 if necessary.
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Pick a new and popular language. Python and Ruby are both new and popular. They both run on too many web servers to count. When it comes to a web framework pick the popular one for the language you chose (since the language is new, you can bet the framework is too).
Examples are few and far between:
1) Ruby on Rails 2) Python/Django
OK, so WHY popular? "What kind of a fool is this guy? Picking something just because the masses like it? If the other kids in kindergarten jumped off a cliff would you?"
Popular because you know that all kinds of folks with all kinds of problems to solve have used the language/framework combo to solve their problems. The language/framework has benefited from their bug reports and they've documented their experience in countless blogs. All because the language and framework were popular.
I'm not going to answer that last question ;)
Why new? Cause'. Cause the old languages didn't know that coding was to create. They thought coding was to structure code and data. Ruby and Python try to get out of the way.
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Greg Sargent argues that with the controversy over the Cordoba House, "the Cheney-ites are winning the battle over the future direction of GOP foreign policy." If it's true, it shouldn't be too surprising. Within a complex party, particular issues are often ceded to the group that cares about them the most. And apart from a Likudnik approach to the Middle East, which is now practically universal on the right, lots of Republicans don't have much to say about foreign policy. If you had to describe the prevailing GOP approach to foreign affairs, what would you say? It's hard to know, even with regard to some places where we're rather heavily engaged. What's the Republican position on Afghanistan? On the future of our relationship with China?
The easiest thing to fall back on is the division of the world into good guys and bad guys, which may get you to a Palinesque level of understanding, but it doesn't give much guidance as to what the country should do. For instance, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is bad, bad, bad. But that means we should...what? Invade? It's a complicated question with no good answer. And is China good or bad? Tough one there.
But the neo-conservatives not only care a lot about foreign policy, they specialize in simple answers. And handily enough, their answers will usually be A-OK with a rank-and-file whose current interest in foreign policy extends little further than fear of the foreign horde. You didn't think the Iraq War would discredit them, did you?
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Apocalypse Now, motion picture about the Vietnam War (1959-1975) patterned after Joseph Conrads novella Heart of Darkness (1902). Released in 1979, the film won the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival and Academy Awards for cinematography and sound. A crew of five men led by Captain Willard (played by Martin Sheen) travel up the Mekong River on a mission to find and kill a renegade United States officer, Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Kurtz has set up a tightly controlled, violent kingdom for himself in a riverside village. Willard meets with Kurtz and kills him, but not before his men are affected by the horrors of war and Kurtzs psychotic character. An extraordinary film without parallel in it's genre
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The Chain Spell feat can be applied to any spell that normally has a single target. However, it is unclear what happens in cases where spells (such as stoneskin) have expensive material components, or in cases where spells (such as wish) have experience point costs. Do these material/experience costs need to be paid per target of the chained spell, or are they paid just once (for the initial target) and the secondary targets of spells chained this way are "free"?
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You use your materials once: mainly simply because it doesn't specify otherwise.
Chain Spell involves casting your spell once on one target, and then the effect arcs from target to target. There's no reason it should require casting your spell multiple times, or sacrificing the resources equivalent to doing so.
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You're only casting the spell once, so the cost is not affected.
Now, neither stoneskin nor wish actually meet the criteria for Chain Spell. To apply the feat, the spell must:
• "specify a single target"
• have "a range greater than touch"
Stoneskin has a range of touch, and spells like wish or miracle don't specify a single target. (You can use them on a single target, but that's true of all multi-target spells!)
There are some tricks that could extend the range of stoneskin, but at that point you're investing substantial resources into a trick that's not that OP to begin with. There is probably some combination of spells and other abilities involving the feat that is somehow broken, but that's true of a lot of things in 3.5.
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"Reach Spell" is a single feat that fixes the touch-range problem. The Archmage's "Arcane Reach" is even better. – KRyan May 26 '13 at 15:02
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RAW, they are free. Chain Spell is specific about what happens, and expensive/XP components are required to cast a spell, not to affect a target. Absent any special rule in Chain Spell (of which there is none), they do not get duplicated.
Whether or not this is a problem is hard to say. You don't obviate the cost entirely; hitting more targets usually won’t be too big a problem, not at three spell levels. Bring metamagic reducers into it, and use spells already very powerful despite the cost, though, and you have problems...
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Creates a new Net::Radius::Server::Match object. $hashref referenes a hash with the attributes that will apply to this object, so that multiple match methods (that will share the same underlying object) can be created and given to different rules.
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use Data::UUID::LibUUID;
my $uuid = new_uuid_string();
This module provides bindings for libuuid shipped with e2fsprogs or uuid-dev on debian, and also works with the system uuid.h on darwin.
new_uuid_string $version
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Returns a new UUID in string (dash separated hex) or binary (16 octets) format.
$version can be either 2, or 4 and defaults to whatever the underlying implementation prefers.
Version 1 is timestamp/MAC based UUIDs, like Data::UUID provides. They reveal time and host information, so they may be considered a security risk.
Version 2 is described here http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9696989899/chap5.htm#tagcjh_08_02_01_01. It is similar to version 1 but considered more secure.
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Returns undef on a non UUID argument.
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Returns undef on non UUID arguments.
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Returns undef on non UUID arguments.
These two subroutines are a little hackish in that they take no arguments but also do not validate the arguments, so they can be abused as methods:
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my $id = $self->generate_uuid;
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Creates a lexically ascending identifier containing a UUID, high resolution timestamp, and a counter.
This is not a UUID (it's longer), but if you can store variable length identifier (and exposing the system clock is not an issue) they can be used to create an identifier that is both universally unique, and lexically increasing.
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Think the market's going down? There are plenty of ETFs out there that let you take a bearish position on a wide variety of indexes.
For example, you could buy shares of the S&P 500 Short ETF (SH). This ETF tracks the inverse performance of the S&P 500 on a daily basis. If the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) goes down on a specific day, SH goes up by a similar percentage -- and vice versa.
Yet for more than two years now, an alternative has been available -- the Ranger Equity Bear ETF (HDGE). This is an actively managed ETF, so instead of synthetically tracking the inverse performance of SPY, the HDGE ETF is run by real human beings who manage a portfolio of actual short stock positions.
A recent post on HDGE by Lawrence Fuller did a pretty good job explaining how the fund works, its philosophy, and the approach taken by co-portfolio managers John Del Vecchio and Brad Lamensdorf.
John and Brad are experienced short sellers who look for opportunities to short stocks that may have low earnings quality, deteriorating fundamentals, or upcoming earnings-driven events that could be catalysts for price declines.
In the end, however, performance counts, so let's take a look to see if HDGE can deliver an edge.
The ups and downs of HDGE
During a bull market, a fund like HDGE is likely going to deliver losses, so I don't think this is one of those "set it and forget it" ETFs. Here's a look at three hypothetical $10,000 portfolios since HDGE began trading in early 2011.
The blue line shows HDGE. The red line shows the performance of the S&P 500 Short fund. Obviously both haven't performed very well at all considering that the SPY ETF (indicated by the grey line) has generated about a 29% gain.
But does an investment in HDGE do any better than simply buying the Short S&P 500 ETF? The answer is: it depends. Over certain time periods, such as the late spring and early summer of 2012, HDGE outperformed. Late in 2012 and into 2013, HDGE underperformed. Overall, the SH and HDGE portfolios ended up with about the same levels of losses.
More beta anyone?
It seems to me that there's a fairly significant variance in the performance chart. So here's a scatterplot chart that compares the weekly performance of HDGE vs. the SPY ETF.
As you can see, there's a highly negative correlation. That's obviously something you'd expect from a short-only fund. And while the negative correlation to SPY is strong, it isn't perfect. But again, I think you have to expect that from a fund that's managed by real live human beings, not synthetically generated through merely tracking an index.
But what you might not expect is that the fund's beta (at least the way I'm measuring it using weekly price change data) appears to come in at about -1.2 because that's the slope of the regression line. Therefore it would appear to me that over the time period since inception, the Ranger Equity Bear ETF tended to carry more high beta stocks (held short, of course) than the overall market.
That's neither good nor bad, but it's something to keep in mind if you use a fund like this as a hedging tool. Or to put it another way, if you want a beta that's closer to -1.0 and with a much tighter negative correlation, then SH is likely going to be your better choice as this chart shows.
A more volatile ride
You should also consider that HDGE is probably going to be more volatile than SPY -- at least based on past performance. Here's a look at one-month realized historical volatility for both SPY and HDGE.
In fact, since inception, HDGE has an overall realized historical volatility of 22.7% compared to about 18% for the SPY ETF over the same time frame (which is about the same as the S&P 500 Short SH ETF).
Once again, higher volatility is neither good nor bad in and of itself, but you should keep that in mind when deciding how much, if any, of your portfolio you'd put in a fund like HDGE at any given time.
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With these words, Google went public in 2004 - and they have, since then, been true to their word. They have not been maximizing short-term profits; neither have they been stinting on long-term investments, especially in projects like the self-driving car which might not pay dividends for a decade or more. Today, Google (GOOG) spent $3.2 billion to acquire Nest. Once again, they're investing for the long term.
On the same day, Suntory (OTCPK:STBFY) spent even more money - a whopping $13.6 billion in cash, plus another $2.4 billion in assumed debt - to buy Beam (BEAM), a coveted whiskey company. Suntory doesn't need to worry about what its public shareholders think, because it doesn't have any. It's privately held, and can spend its money on anything it likes, while keeping an eye on long-term value rather than short-term profits.
Neither of these acquisitions makes sense if you approach them wielding earnings multiples or net present value calculations. I very much doubt that Nest has made a penny of profit in its entire existence, and the acquisition price works out at roughly $2,900 per Nest-boasting home, based on estimates that there are 1.1 million such homes. Meanwhile, Beam sold for 20.5 times EBITDA, and 6.4 times revenue. And it's not like some huge revenue boost is around the corner: the sale price even works out at 5.3 times estimated 2016 revenue. Neither of these deals are going to pay for themselves any time soon.
But that doesn't mean that they're bad deals. Both of them are attempts to, quite literally, buy the future. The case of Nest is pretty obvious: it's the foremost company in the hot Internet of Things space, and in its short life has already built up a valuable and much-loved brand. Its products are expensive, but they're very good-looking, and the user experience is fantastic. Nest is basically the OXO of internet-connected household gewgaws, and if it were to release a lightbulb, I'd buy dozens of the things in a heartbeat. Similarly if it offered to replace my alarm system.
Google is drowning in cash: it has more than $58 billion to spend, so this acquisition barely makes a dent in the company's war chest. And if the price is high, it is also ratified by the market: Nest would have had no difficulty raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new equity at a $3.2 billion valuation or even higher. Most excitingly for Google, it has now poached dozens of former Apple (AAPL) employees, all of whom understand how to design great consumer hardware in a way that Google clearly doesn't. If just a little of that magic rubs off onto, say, Motorola (MSI), that could justify the acquisition price right there.
Meanwhile, from Nest's point of view, this deal gives the company room to concentrate on developing great products, without being distracted by corporate affairs, patent wars, and the like. Google's lawyers can now deal with all of Nest's legal and licensing headaches, and Google's lawyers are not only very good but also have very deep pockets.
The Beam acquisition is also at heart about brand value: Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, Laphroaig, Courvoisier, Sauza - these are resonant, deeply valuable brands, and they're brands which are only going to rise in value over the long term. Bourbon, in particular, is an incredibly hard market to break into, thanks to the many years it needs to spend in barrel before it's bottled. Beam's revenues are being artificially constrained, right now, by the fact that it can't sell more bourbon than it made seven years ago. But it has been ramping up production of late, and will surely continue to do so now it's owned by Suntory: the Asian market in general, and China in particular, is potentially almost unlimited.
In other words, Suntory isn't spending some multiple of 2013 earnings, or even 2016 earnings: it's looking to the 2020s and beyond, and it's betting that no matter how much it pays now, it's more than worth it for the advantage of being the first Asian company to own a major bourbon brand, in a world where demand for bourbon is sure to continue to rise inexorably.
The Suntory deal is similar to the Google deal in another way, too: neither company values balance-sheet cash particularly highly. In Google's case that's just because the company has so much of it; in Suntory's case that's because Japan is - still - stuck in a liquidity trap. A Japanese company with cash is a bit like an American traveler with frequent-flier miles: it's always a good idea to spend today, because the currency will be of less use to you tomorrow.
There aren't all that many companies out there which are dominant in spaces which are clearly going to be huge tomorrow, be they the Internet of Things or bourbon. So we're not going to see a lot more takeovers at these eye-popping valuations. But if there's one big lesson to be drawn from today's M&A activity, it's that there's still serious amounts of strategic cash on the sidelines if the right target comes along. As Charter's (CHTR) $37.3 billion bid for Time Warner Cable (TWC) proves.
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I've found a faulty connection to my database caused my development WAMP server to crash, even though the software is in working order, but PHP crashed and took the server down. Is there any way to make WAMP server or Apache itself automatically restart on crash?
Is there any reason I wouldn't want to do this? It's an issue I've had a couple times and I figure even if it crashes and restarts it's better than not being up at all, but I may not be seeing the big picture.
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You can write a watchdog that tries to access a page on your web server and if it fails restarts the server. Run it as a scheduled task every {minute, 5 minutes, half hour, whatever...}. Implementation of this script is left as an exercise for the reader (especially on Windows, but PowerShell is probably going to be your friend).
You are however missing the Big Picture as you suspect - A failed database connection should cause your site to throw errors, but it SHOULD NOT be knocking the web server down. If this were production I would say roll out the watchdog until you can debug the problem, but since this is your development environment I would spend a day or two figuring out why a faulty DB connection is knocking the whole show down.
Bear in mind that if it's happening in development it may happen in production one day, and your employer will likely be less tolerant of the entire production environment shutting down than the developers are of the dev environment occasionally blowing up...
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Unfortunately it looks like my PHP cacher crashed it, but the production database is much more reliable than the dev one; it's an IT server everyone and their brother uses for whatever. Thanks for the Powershell Watchdog tip, I think I'll have to look into why my cache is crashing it first though – Ben Brocka Sep 13 '11 at 14:58
Solving the crashing problem is the Right Fix - the watchdog is a Quick Fix. If you're using the same cache engine on the production site it's definitely important: One day you will do database maintenance, and the DB will be unavailable for a few seconds. When the DB comes back the web site will be down because it crashed and your pager will be going off :) – voretaq7 Sep 13 '11 at 15:03
The DB has been unavailable before though (it's fairly common on dev), so the problem is less clear unfortunately. I got about 15 page loads in with no DB connection before it actually crashed; thought it was a network error at first. – Ben Brocka Sep 13 '11 at 15:17
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Consider the output of a typical ip addr show on Linux:
# ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
inet scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/n brd nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn scope global eth1
inet6 nnnn::nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn/nn scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Look at the first field of the second line of each interface output: it says "link/loopback" for the loopback interface and "link/ether" for the physical NIC.
My question is: What OTHER values can I expect in this field? "link/bluetooth"? "link/ppp"? Is there an authoritative list for these link type strings?
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I think you want to simply grab the source for iproute an look at the file ll_types.c.
Here is an incomplete list.
ether eether ax25 pronet chaos ieee802 tr arcnet
atalk dlci atm metricom ieee1394 infiniband
slip cslip slip6 cslip6 rsrvd adapt rose x25
ppp hdlc ipip tunnel6 loopback ltalk fddi
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Take a look at the ARPHRD_* entries in /usr/include/net/if_arp.h. I can't find any documentation that explicitly says this is the canonical hardware list, but it's what libpcap uses to determine the data link type for an interface.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39752 | We've Cracked the Weight Loss Formula: Track It, Pay Attention, and Shave a Few
Source: We've Cracked the Weight Loss Formula: Track It, Pay Attention, and Shave a Few
Whether we're burning calories by sweating it out at the gym or resisting the call of the cupcakes, calories definitely affect our waistlines. Understanding the fundamentals of calories is about more than just reaching for the low-cal option. If you're watching your weight or looking to lose some, here's what you need to know about calories to keep you going
What's a Calorie?
A calorie is just a form of energy. We burn calories all the time, whether merely breathing and sleeping or running a seven-minute mile. Metabolism is the rate at which our bodies use up this energy; the amount of calories we burn by simply existing is called our BMR, or basal metabolic rate (calculate your BMR here). Your BMR, age, and activity level are used to determine how many calories you should be eating in order to maintain your weight. If you want to lose weight, however, the formula is simple: burn more calories than you eat. But that doesn't mean it's easy. It can be hard, and all-consuming, to keep track of every single calorie you eat or burn.
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Calories In, Calories Out
Having a calorie deficit means that you're burning more calories than you are eating or drinking, and it takes into account all the calories you've burned, whether you're sitting at your desk or pedaling away in a 45-minute Spin class. Once you've calculated your BMR, you'll know how many calories you should be burning or cutting from your diet. Many people find the most success in combining a diet with an exercise plan, but be sure to eat at least 1,200 calories a day; anything less can be unhealthy and can actually slow your metabolism. And remember that it takes about a 3,500-calorie deficit to lose a pound, so you'll start to see that result on the scale once your calorie deficit adds up if you exercise regularly and cut calories out of your normal diet. Here are some healthy ways to cut calories from your day:
• Track it: You can't know how many calories you're eating unless you know what's in your food. Fat is the most energy-dense macronutrient, clocking in at nine calories per gram, while each gram of protein and carbohydrates contain four calories each. If you want to lose weight, chances are you'll have the most success if you keep track of the calories you consume. It's all too easy to convince yourself that a little bite of something won't hurt too much, or that your two glasses of wine at dinner aren't really contributing to your bottom line. But once you start tracking the calories you eat (with an online tracking system or a food journal), you'll be more conscious of what you're actually eating.
• Pay attention: Be sure to check serving sizes; a recent study found that most people don't even glance at a nutrition label, even when they thought they did. And often times the only thing they look at is calorie counts, which are often misleading since a serving size may be smaller than you think. So before you happily consume a bag of chips thinking that you're keeping your snack calories under a certain amount, make sure that you're keeping in mind the actual portion sizes according to the label. When cooking, become familiar with how servings sizes should look; here's a guide on recommended serving sizes.
• Shave a few: Calorie-counting isn't for everyone. If you're trying to create a calorie deficit, try shaving a few calories from each meal by just making a few healthier choices. You'll barely notice that you made the lower-calorie choice, and you'll be saving hundreds of calories from your meals. Here are some tips on how to save 100 calories at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39753 | My Workout Session with the Woman Who Gave Rihanna That Bod!
A couple of weeks back, StyleCaster associate editor Alyssa Vingan and I had the pleasure of working out with a true industry fitness legend, celebrity trainer Ary Nuñez. Most girls would give anything for even a few personal tips and tricks from the woman responsible for Rihanna's ripped body, but we actually got the privilege of a full 45 minute, one-on-one training session with Ary in her at-home studio.
Three days later, my body was still in massive amounts of pain - and that was just from a "mini sess." Needless to say, there's a reason why Ri, as Ary refers to her, is in such great shape. "I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly," Rihanna explained in the April issue of Vogue. Well, Ary's workouts are anything but straightforward and boring.
She uses innovative and unconventional equipment to give you a unique experience every time - think inversion tables, ankle resistance bands, and RealRyder bikes. If you haven't heard of these stationary bikes, then imagine a spinning bike on steroids. Ary told us that Rihanna actually keeps two of them in her home so that Ary can "suffer" with her.
As you can tell from the slideshow above, I took a lot of amazing fitness knowledge away from my time spent with Ary, but the most important thing I learned was about form. She explained, "Never forget this acronym: HHAA. If you forget, just laugh HHAA. Your head should always be over your heart, your abs over your ass. If you can't remember that, then remember this: If you think with your head and not with your heart, then you'll make a smarter decision, and whatever you put into your abs will show up in your ass." Pure genius! Click through for even more insightful tips from Ary Nuñez.
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Comment: Re:This doesn't prove anything (Score 1) 437
by IronClad (#34701578) Attached to: Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies
Likeliness calculated off of some random model -- now that there's "science". Yee-haw!
It's idiocy to compare test anomalies as a deviance from a *random* model. Intelligence itself is a deviance from a random model.
Understanding, and even mis-understanding of subject matter or test wording in a classroom by students can be highly correlated or somewhat clustered or not. Even those poor student that choose some answers randomly may subconsciously use the same patterns to do so. Small clusters outside a large "baseline" correlation are conclusive proof of cheating only to an ignoramus, or to someone who's selling you something.
So all it takes is two like-minded thinkers to coincide in their understanding and mis-understanding on some number of answers and they're branded cheaters?
Comment: Solution perhaps to SPAM, but not piracy. (Score 1) 421
by IronClad (#34646738) Attached to: RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police
Applying this to pirate content is kind of lame, since payments aren't what drives that. BUT I've always thought the Visa+Mastercard collectively have always had the power to end 90% of all spam, and could do it in a matter of weeks.
All it would take is:
1) terms of service forbidding UCE for products.
2) a few effectively placed honeypot/canary accounts
3) a couple tiger teams to place orders for the products that get spammed, and
4) kick the plug on the commercial accounts that deposit the money.
I would venture to guess that the financial services sector spends more overall on anti-spam/excess bandwidth/malware removal for their own infrastructure than they make from those few stinking transactions.
Comment: N.H.S. Pinafore (Score 3, Interesting) 572
by IronClad (#32441126) Attached to: Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy
I've seen that N.H.S. Pinafore show before. I can even still hum some of the snappy lyrics.
I hold when diagnosing a disease,
The expression, "if you please",
A particularly gentlemanly tone implants.
And so do my sisters, and my cousins, and my aunts!
Stick close to your desk
And never check a pulse
and you may all be rulers
of our hospitals.
or something like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-ZZRXBEcM with "please" goodness at 4:00 and 5:40
Just who does this Doctor Dick Deadeye think he is? Doesn't he know that a British lab technician is any man's equal, (excepting, of course, mine).
Comment: My Trifecta. (Score 1) 716
by IronClad (#28262371) Attached to: Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades
Sorry to hear that. I'd like to chime in on this one.
I have 3 lovely, well adjusted, funny, principled, intelligent daughters. I do not deserve them.
All 3 were valedictorians of their HS, without pushing by us.
Anecdotal? Perhaps, but harder to argue with results * 3.
I've never before shared this much info about what we did. FWIW, YMMV, etc.
1) Give them the gift of self esteem. Demonstrate your believe in their intrinsic worth, and act out of love only. This does not mean giving them every toy they want, but it does mean make sacrifices when you can for the best aspirations of your kids, and constantly showing them how much you appreciate them. Be sentimental and approachable. I think my kids knew I would have been no less their fan if they were D students.
2) They need you, give them all of you. Don't hold back and don't ever fake it with them. They know you; no double standards! If that movie is bad for your kids, parents can do without watching it. Schedule regular whole-family time and 1:1 time. Family dinners together are important.
3) Humor and curiosity are some of the best tools. Demonstrate them. Memorize funny poems, make music together, show how to take things apart, and keep it all upbeat, even crazy.
4) Don't let anyone else raise your kids. That includes daycare and school systems. I lean toward public school system over homeschooling, and it worked out for us, but that depended on what the system had to work with. Social development and problem solving is important. So are friends. Be involved parents, room mothers, etc. Know the kids in their K-6 classes; they end up on your doorstep asking for dates. Here's the tough part, but it proved extremely important: I barely made a living wage and my wife made more than me when we decided one would stay home. It was her call who would. I don't know if I would be able to look my kids in the eyes if we hadn't sacrificed.
5) Money incentives? Oh ya. Make cash match effort was my philosophy. They got a pittance for base allowances but kept job-journals as they learned to write and were richly rewarded for finding new ways to help. In school, the first A is the easiest, even hard not to get. That last A is a bear, it's the subject they don't like. My kids got $1 for the first A, and the pay doubled for each additional A. They nearly bankrupted me. Long term, the investment works out. The youngest just took her MCAT.
Comment: My Summary of the Article (Score 1) 626
by IronClad (#27294025) Attached to: Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips
Since I see little evidence that timothy or Mr. Chapman read the article, I'll do them a favor so they don't have to click:
< article paycheck="undeserved" >
Hi I'm Agam Shah and I'm writing an article about multicore processors, but these concepts are so new to me that I'm putting quotees around "race conditions" like it's frickin' sharks with lasers.
So then I did a Google search on "parallel programming tools" and it help me get another paragraph out of the way.
Oh, and I quote some lamer analyst who has never heard of NUMA or libhoard, so I'll try to fabricate some crisis that the problems they address might never be solved.
Parallel programming is hard, WAH! WAH!
Oh, except when it's not, as in that trivial application named Photoshop. I'll write one of those next weekend.
Comment: Better Criteria (Score 1) 347
by IronClad (#26500549) Attached to: GAO Reports Bailout and Tech Firms Love Tax Havens
It seems the article and the report casts the net too wide.
Some mega-corps (like Coca-Cola and Cisco) actually do business everywhere, and even though they show considerable numbers of businesses in tax havens, those are a small fraction (10%) of the total number of countries in which they have offices. For companies like that, I'd be surprised to find a country where they are *not* operating.
Others, like Chevron and Goldman Sachs, show over half of their foreign operations in tax-haven locales. To me, that sounds very slimy.
Others are somewhere in between, probably representing a somewhat disproportionate presence in tax havens.
What else would you expect? Corporations do behave like psychopaths.
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311
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from the snakes-and-horsies dept.
Blogger.com Banned In Turkey 262
Posted by timothy
from the no-longer-young-turks dept.
Comment: Re:Record label dude is kinda asking for it (Score 3, Informative) 282
by IronClad (#25437421) Attached to: Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled
>Fair enough
>why record label dude doesn't simply register
MLB Fans Who Bought DRM Videos Get Hosed 299
Posted by ScuttleMonkey
from the digital-restrictions-management dept.
Billosaur writes "Major League Baseball has just strengthened the case against DRM. If you downloaded videos of baseball games from MLB.com before 2006, apparently they no longer work and you are out of luck. MLB.com, sometime during 2006, changed their DRM system. Result: game videos purchased before that time will now no longer work, as the previous DRM system is no longer supported. When the video is played, apparently the MLB.com servers are contacted and a license obtained to verify the authenticity of the video; this is done by a web link. That link no longer exists, and so now the videos will no longer play, even though the MLB FAQ says that a license is only obtained once and will not need to be re-obtained. The blogger who is reporting this contacted MLB technical support, only to be told there are no refunds due to this problem."
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Video Game Use Linked To Breast Feeding 94
Posted by Soulskill
from the intentionally-retarded-titles dept.
An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves 196
Posted by timothy
from the doing-my-best-nelson-laugh dept.
snydeq writes "InfoWorld offers the inside story of how FBI Supervisory Special Agent J. Keith Mularski, aka Master Splynter, penetrated and took over DarkMarket.ws, the infamous underground carding board hacked by Max Butler and later transformed by Mularski into an FBI sting operation. The three-year tour sent Mularski deeper into the world of online computer fraud than any FBI agent before, resulting in 59 arrests and preventing an estimated $70 million in bank fraud before the FBI pulled the plug on the operation in October."
Streaming Video Service Coming To the Wii 103
Posted by Soulskill
from the no-wii-stream-jokes dept.
Gamasutra reports that Nintendo is partnering with a company called Dentsu to "distribute original streaming video programming via the Wii, with a 2009 launch confirmed in Japan, and an eye towards a later Western launch." According to a press statement, some of the videos will be free, and some will cost money. This will help to answer concerns that the Wii was lagging behind the other major consoles in video content.
Comment: Re:Learning from prior mistakes (Score 1) 725
by The_Angry_Canadian (#26158287) Attached to: British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows
The relevant part of the article is quite funny.
Portables (Apple)
+ - Iphone is now unlocked for free, as in free beer->
Submitted by
The_Angry_Canadian writes "Folks, it's official, for free, you can now unlock you Iphone. No need to pay a third party, now, an open source option for unlocking the iphone is availalble ! Has reported on the Dev Wiki of the iphone "You wanted it, we have it. Enjoy your free iPhone.", an open source option to unlock the iphone is available ! Go go GO ! I'm now officially buying an iphone @ job and puting my rogers sim in it !"
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Comment: Would incur billions in lawsuits in US (Score 1) 561
by burtosis (#33850052) Attached to: Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic
Lets say thier algorithms are 1000 times better than a human driver at avoiding accidents, at least statistically. Given that in 2009 over 40,000 auto deaths occured and over 250k childred were injured (http://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-accident/statistics.html) that would translate into hundereds or thousands of multi-million dollar lawsuits against the navigation company per year. Not to mention the countless fender benders that the system would be responsible for. Even dumbasses running into the car at no fault to the navigation company will probably be dragged into court. You think you can code dumbassery avoidance into the car? They will build a better dumbass. You will see this technology in Japan and Germany well before the US simply due to the popular acceptance of these technologies as well as the legal ramifications. State of the art algorithms such as these are not nearly as good as a moderately competent driver under generalized circumstances - as a single example just put a google car on icy snowy roads and see how well its vision algorithm tracks the road or how well it's laser or sonic sensors work when fouled with snow.
Comment: Not suprising (Score 2, Informative) 205
by burtosis (#30448294) Attached to: Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus
On a trip to Florida, I found a neat clump of shells in shallow water. I picked it up and put it in a bucket along with some other shells thinking it was interesting. A few moments later I had a pile of shells and an octopus looking up at me angrily. So if it's smart enough to roll itself in shells, using it's suckers to keep them on, it’s not too surprising to me that these ones decided to use coconuts.
Funny thing is that split coconuts probably aren't too common unless people or animals split them.
Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205
Posted by timothy
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88
Posted by kdawson
from the toil-and-trouble dept.
Comment: WMD not yet, but perhaps someday? (Score 1) 314
by burtosis (#30085902) Attached to: Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers
I don't doubt the science behind the LHC or the scenarios presented. But I wonder if it is possible to make a device (probaby insanely expensive and massive like the LHC) whereby the MHB could be accurately force fed like a veal calf untill it hit a critical point (tons - ktons - Mtons) of mass and would be a worthy earth destroyer. Nuclear weapons just destroy a little area and make the world far less habitable. A good size black hole could
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Comment: Re:Tried playing this game (Score 2) 218
by cerberusss (#46043641) Attached to: Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary
D&D was awesome as a 20-year-old
Comment: Don't start bashing the curious (Score 5, Insightful) 383
by cerberusss (#45835985) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There?
Obviously the submitter didn't grow up with a unix background, as lots of people here have. And now I see lots of people asking what the hell submitter is thinking, "is this a joke", "not worthy of a story" et cetera.
But think about it. Submitter came from a GUI background and now discovers the commandline. I'm thinking back when I started with Linux, feeling totally amazed about so much utilities, so much power and I kinda envy the submitter :)
So give it a rest and just chip in.
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Comment: does drag-and-drop confuse you, too? (Score 2, Insightful) 1125
by hak1du (#9320287) Attached to: Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm?
Windows applications support drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste simultaneously. Does that confuse you, too? Does it bother you that you can't drag-and-drop something while also deleting the destination?
Well, X11's selection mechanisms doesn't, as you put it, perform an "automatic copy", it is actually separate from the copy-and-paste system, just like drag-and-drop is separate from copy-and-paste on Windows. X11's selection mechanism is a drag-and-drop operation, only that you can let go of the mouse button between selecting what you are going to drag and dropping it in the destination. It's actually significantly more convenient than drag-and-drop and significantly easier to handle. To make drag-and-drop work as well as X11's selection mechanism, you need to add weird hacks like "spring loaded containers".
Well-behaved X11 applications should implement both X11's selection mechanism and copy-and-paste. To convert between selections and clipboards, you can use any working X11 applications that can hold the datatype you are interested in converting, like an X11 text editor or the xclipboard application.
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Comment: Re:Proof that capitalism doesn't work (Score 1) 163
Ruining it? You must be joking.... Or, merely naive? Forcing AT&T to increase performance while decreasing price might, must might, reduce their profit margin from nearly infinite to something you can compute with long double precision. Remember AT&T used to make over 1200% profit on caller-id. And that was computed using the special accounting rules that only AT&T and the baby bells get to use.
Comment: Re:no, telcos 20+ years old don't get same conditi (Score 2) 163
I live just out side of Austin (groan... there goes my property value...) and I've been watching this mess for a long time. Austin started to build a network like this one back in the '90s. Then the telcos used their pet politicos to get a law pass in Texas that makes it illegal for a City to build its own network. That was the end of high speed Internet hopes for cities in Texas. Then, AT&T. Verizon, Time Warner, and Comcast got pissed off because the cities were requiring them to build out what passed for high speed Internet through out entire cities if they wanted to build it at all. So..... they went to their pet politicos (the folks we refer as the people in the owners box at the legislature) and got the law changed so that only the state gets to tell them where they can or can't build their networks, so AT&T is putting in fiber to the curb in new developments with million dollar homes and in working class neighborhoods you are lucky to get minimal DSL.
Now Google is rolling out gigabit Internet to with in half a mile of my home, but not to my home. I could just cry. This is going to kill Round Rock. And, believe me, ever since Dell moved here Austin has been gunning for Round Rock.
Comment: Just of couple of comments... (Score 1) 709
by stonewolf (#34714122) Attached to: Why Teach Programming With BASIC?
Just tried your system out. Found a few bugs.
I coded an infinite loop. Then I typed "run" and then I realized that there doesn't seem to be anyway to halt a program once it is running. There must be a big red octagonal button on the screen with the letters "STOP" in it that actually stops the program.
I tried to code an IF statement. I had to look up the syntax because "if i 0 then goto 2" got a syntax error. I can almost forgive using the C like "if()" for the if statement but using FORTRAN like "LT" for "" is pretty nasty if you ask me.... But, you didn't :-)
You have a "declare record" statement when just "record" would do. Using "declare" make sense if you are planning to add more things to declare, otherwise it is just a waste. And, seriously, no "for .. next" statement, no "if ... then ... else..." statement, no while statement, no multi-line statements at all. I see that you have reserved some keywords for those so it looks like you are planning to add them in the future. Please, these are critical parts of any language. I know for a fact, having done it, that it is f(&#$@#*$&^King easy to implement those compared to some of the things you have already added.
I tested what would happen if I typed "run" for a program that has a syntax error. It went away forever. No error messages, no output at all. It just stopped reacting to the keyboard. This is a serious bug.
The documentation is really really really poor. Very few examples. No real introduction. You use things like "boolean-expr" but do not define that anywhere it the document.
"turn" is great, but you need left and right also. Kids understand left and right. Positive and negative angles are a bit harder for them.
Palettes? Really? It is very hard to find a computing device that can run a modern browser that is not using RGB pixels. Why put this ancient cruft in the way of kids? Color values are RGB in the range 0 to 1. There are no palettes anymore.
Sprite maps? Nostalgia is an addictive drug, but like all drugs it is damaging when used to excess. Why not just have a place on the screen to browse and drop graphics that can then be used in your program?
I've written an ANSI standard BASIC compiler, I've written a Logo interpreter (or 2 or 3 :-), and I've taught courses in which the final project was a Lisp interpreter. In fact, I've written many compilers, interpreters, and even a linker once. I've also used both basic and logo to teach kids aged 5 to 12 to program. And, I have to say that while you have a good idea your implementation is far from ready for use by kids if I can break it in 5 minutes doing exactly the kind of things kids do.
It looks to me like you have focused on the "cool" parts, the graphics and the math library, but have skipped, or at least skimped on the critical part. The critical part is creating a system that works, followed by the documentation needed to use it.
BTW, WTF is "proof" for? It is left over from back in the day (your nostalgia is showing...) when you actually had to type in code that was published in magazines. OMFG!!!!! We live in a world where magazines have websites (in reality a few websites still have magazines) and flash drives are nearly cheap enough to show up in cracker jack boxes (yeah... I'm old, I learned Basic and Logo on an Univac 1108a :-). We do not do that anymore!
You have a good idea. But, shake off the nostalgia and make something that acknowledges the 21st century.
Yes, I know I have been harsh on you. If I didn't really like the idea of what you are doing I wouldn't bother to find the flaws, let alone spend the time to point them out.
I've recently managed to eliminated the use of paper in all the classes I teach. Doing that has really pissed off the English teachers who still insist on paper and give tests using blue books.
Comment: Re:Knee-jerking != making an informed argument (Score 1) 494
by stonewolf (#34592364) Attached to: Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer?
As you said the DMCA is about copyright and not about ideas. He did copy the idea, but that is not the question. Anyway, ideas are protected by patents, not copyrights. If there were any patents on Pac-Man they should have expired by now.
You say that the question is whether or not he copied the artwork or code. Sorry, no. It does not matter if he copied the code at all. If you go to his website you'll see that he clearly copied the artwork. Copying does not mean getting a copy of the orignal art work. It does not mean running something through a copy machine or type "cp" in to a command line. A copy is a copy if the copier had access to the original and the copy looks "substantially" like the original. That is why you are violating copyright if you draw a picture of Mickey Mouse. Humanity made copies long before there were computers. Copyright law goes back centuries.
For further reading I suggest you all go look at:
which is the federal district court ruling on a similar case from 1982. It just happens to cover exactly the same circumstances but 28 years earlier. It goes into depth on the method used by the court to determine that an illegal copy had been made and covers the law and precedents that applied up through 1982. This isn't a case of the DMCA making something illegal that used to be legal. This is a case of the owners of Pac-Man using recent law to rather politely and cheaply stop a blatant case of copyright infringement.
Like I said earlier, they could have sued him and left him penniless for the rest of his life. All they did was stop him from being able to continue to distribute their property. The new version of the game he has posted is most likely still in violation. All he did was change a little art to make it look a little different. Considering the existing precedent it would be a cheap suit to prosecute. It is the same circumstance as the one I pointed out from 28 years ago. I bet the court would just give them a summary judgment based on screen shots. The scum bag who asked the question would be sitting with a bill for legal costs and damages that he would probably never be able to pay off.
Comment: Re:Try having an original idea (Score 1) 494
by stonewolf (#34591454) Attached to: Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer?
You should take your own advice. If you follow the link and look at his artwork he clearly stole the design of the characters and the overall look of the game. He is lucky he just got a take down notice and not a suit for damages. He would likely be having his income garnished for the rest of his life to pay that debt.
Comment: Re:Try having an original idea (Score 1) 494
by stonewolf (#34591400) Attached to: Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer?
Copyright and trademark are two ways the law (also known as the basis of civil society) establishes the existence and rules for intellectual property. Once you accept the concept of intellectual property then you must accept the concept that taking someones intellectual property is theft just as taking someones physical property is theft.
So, yes, this scum bag created a game that is essentially a clone of Pac-Man and even use the same images for his muncher and the ghosts. You don't have to actually use the original art work. If you make a copy of a piece of art, even by your own hand, then you are breaking the rules of copyright. After all, what does the word mean? Copyright literally means "the right to make a copy". Making a copy without permission is theft.
Using the a trademark with out permission is not only theft from the owner, but theft from the buyer. The idea of a trademark is to insure that when it says "Gucci" on the bag you are getting something actually designed and made by "Gucci". When you make some that looks like Pac-Man, but isn't you are stealing from the owner of the trade mark and from customers who are not getting the real Pac-Man.
So, yes, this is about copyright, trademark, and theft from both the owners of the trademark and copyrights and from the people who purchased it.
The person who posted the original question is a thief who is looking for information that he hopes will allow him to continue as a game developer without continuing as a thief. This is a good goal.
The easiest thing to do in his case is to be a little bit creative. If you want to do a game based on the Japanese folk hero Paku he should research the legend and design a new game. If he wants to just be inspired by Pak-Man then he should be inspired by it enough to create a new game that includes the basic ideas but is not the same game, with the same style of art, with characters that look just like the original characters, and without the same scoring and strategy.
As an example, take a look at the relationship between "Dungeons & Dragons" and "The Lord of the Rings" or even "Bunnies and Burrows" and "Watership Down". Not to mention the relationship between "B&B" and "D&D". (And think of how lucky were are that AFAIK there is no A&A, C&C... Z&Z"!)
The key is that "inspired by" does not mean that it is a near perfect copy down to the art work. A near perfect copy is theft. Inspired by can be great art.
I would suggest that the person who asked the question should get an education. I would suggest starting with a book on the intellectual history of the world. Failing that, at least find, and read, three or four books on the basic concepts of law and especially intellectual property law.
If anyone doubts the importance of intellectual property law let me point out that the basic rights most Americans take for granted were added to the Constitution in the form of the Bill of Rights, aka the first ten amendments to the Constitution. OTOH, The legal basis for US intellectual property law is in the core of the original text of the constitution. The founding fathers all came to agree on the need to guarantee intellectual property rights. But, some of them thought it was a bad idea to limit the states right to control religion, speech, the press, weapons, searches, and the states power to use torture to extract a confession.
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Comment: Re:Game programming is for fun, not for money. (Score 1) 240
by stonewolf (#33856308) Attached to: Best Education Path To Learn Video Game Programming?
The simple fact is that a lot of programmers, like the rest of humanity are idiots.
People want to be associated with the rich and famous, They think that some how that makes them better in someway. The same thing makes people walk around wearing a football jersey with someone else's name and number on it.
As a result people line up to be abused by the rich and famous and that goes double for rich and famous companies.
For every job open at a major game company there are hundreds, if not thousands, or people applying for that job. That fact encourages companies to treat employees as toilet paper. OTOH, the few people who are truly exceptional can rise high and rise quickly. They are well paid and well treated. But, that isn't what happens to most people.
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Game development is a highly entrepreneurial business. Which means you have to watch out for your self and it means you are only as good as your last project. Many companies hire you for the duration of a project. When the project is done you are laid off. The project might be done when it ships, and it might be done after lunch today because the producer decided to use the money for a game that appears to have a better ROI.
Once you have been laid off you get to look around for another project. You will be unemployed during that hunting time. Even if you were making over $20,000/month (never happens for programmers) in your last project you might not get that in your next project. And, you might have to live on savings for anywhere from a month to a year between projects. Not to mention that you may find your self work 80 hours/week while you are working. So, yeah the salary might look nice, but when you look at actual yearly earnings it doesn't look that good. When you break it down to $/hour you might find you could do better working behind the bar at Starbucks or delivering pizzas.
The funniest thing is how many people think that if they will get a cut of the revenue from the game. You don't. The stock holders get the revenue. If you want to make money from games develop them and market them your self.
Comment: I have ex-students working in game development... (Score 1) 240
by stonewolf (#33838760) Attached to: Best Education Path To Learn Video Game Programming?
I'm currently teaching game development. I have taught it in the classroom and on line since 2004. I run a mailing list for wanna be game developers, I have run it for more than 10 years. I helped a college develop their game programming curriculum, for some reason they won't let me teach game dev there any more :-) I used to be game developer. I only did that for 2 full time years, but I was in the computer graphics industry for 10 years after I got my MSCS and before I went into game development. After being part owner of a game company, programmer, and technical director, I moved on. I went to work for a fortune 50 company doing technical and business analysis for games. Now I'm a teacher. And, I am damn near 60 years old. Oh, yeah, I also did 5 major start ups not counting my times as an independent software developer. I had founders shares in 2 of the start ups.
I designed my first game (not a video game :-) when I was 12 and my first paid programming job was porting games from a minicomputer to a mainframe back in the early '70s.
I have a large number of students from my classroom classes who are working in the computer game business. Most of them are developers. I have an even larger number of people who started on my mailing list who are now working in the game development business. I think I have something to say about this subject.
First off, the best way to get a job at one of the Majors is to create a successful independent studio and then sell you studio to one of the majors. Sure, you can get hired at one of the Majors, but then you will be just like the rest of the toilet paper. Cheap, disposable, and only really good for one use because after you use it it is covered in ... well you get the picture.
OTOH, if they have to *buy* your company they will respect you at least a little bit and you will at least have a nice office and a real salary. But, get the money in cash, not in stock. Stock is like toilet paper... Cash is something you can spend.
Secondly, the best way to get any job in game development is to develop games and sell them or find some other way to make money off of them. Yes, by fart the best, easiest, and most lucrative way to get a game development job is to start your own company. If you do not know how you can learn how quickly. Most states, the federal government, many cities, and every community college I know of in the US has courses on small business management and entrepreneurship. Take them, and make sure you get at least on class on contract law while you are at it. Those classes along with a couple of semesters of probabilaity and statistics will be worth more to you over the next 40 years than anything you learn about programming or graphics. All the tech stuff will be obsolete in 5 years, the business, statistics, and law stuff will still be accurate.
As for education. A degree in CS used to be a good place to start. I'm not so sure about that anymore. If you go to a school that only uses one language all the way through (especially if that language is Java or C#) you should find a real school. But, it is still probably better to get a CS degree than a physics degree. Math is kind of a wash. A math degree with a CSMS is not a bad combo. If you can find a school that offers CS degree with a strong emphasis on software engineering you are in pretty good shape. You need to take trigonometry, college algebra with computational geometry, linear algebra with lots of matrices, calculus, numerical analysis, and probably differential equations. I didn't get linear algebra and DiffEQ as an under grad so I had to teach my self linear algebra and I'm married to an ME so I go to her when I need help with DiffEQ. But, you really need at least DiffEQ to understand physics. Yes, you also need to take physics at least a good introduction. A couple of years of physics in high school is good enough. You need need to take a few art classes. I would suggest an art history course, and courses in something like introductory painting, drawing, or sculpture. You also need to take a survey of history. Learning to play a musical instrument, or doing a lot of singing helps. Take at least one class in creative writing, and one in technical writing.
In your computer science studies take a 3d graphics or multimedia programming class. But, seriously, if you have the background in math, art, music, and programming then learning computer graphic and sound programming is not a challenge. But, you must take everything you can about programming, software engineering, data structures, simulation (you may have to go over to the industrial engineering department to get that one), databases, formal language theory, machine architectures, theory of computation (yes, you need to understand the differenced between a finite state machine and an infinite state machine), network architecture, and anything else that looks interesting to you. Yes, you might have to get an MS to get all those classes or take night classes after you graduate to get all this stuff. BTW, you can take the classes without getting a degree. I have an MS but I have more than 45 "extra" hours that have not been applied to any degree. Education does not stop when you get your degrees. In many ways that is when it starts. I have a stock certificate in a non-existent company that I keep the same folder that has by BS and MS degrees. I learned more in 1 year than I ever learned in school.
Oh my, what a list. Do you have to have all that before you start writing games? *NO* you do not. If you want to be a game developer you are developing games right now no matter what level of education you currently have.
Here is the real punch line:
If you want to be a game developer you are already a game developer because you are already writing games. You have at least one game that you are developing right now.
You do not have to work for someone to be a game developer.
You can tell what someone really wants to do by watching what they are doing in their spare time. If you spend all you spare time at the pub drinking with your mates, that is what you really want to. If you spend your spare time reading books about game development and design and coding your own games then you really want to be a game developer. If you can not figure out how to start learning to be a game developer you do not have the problem solving skills needed to be a game developer.
The advice I give to my students is based on the history of Id software. That crew worked for a magazine that was published on a floppy disk (the 5.25 inch ones) and they had to write a game every month. The magazine paid them to write a playable fun little game every month that went out on the floppy. The skills needed to do that are the same as the skills needed to write WOW. Basically the ability to create a doable design. The ability to stick to a schedule. The ability to write code that works. The self discipline to stick to a plan. The ability to realize when you need to cut your losses. The ability to put down the joy stick and write your own games instead of playing other peoples games. The basic interest in doing something real instead of spending your life being entertained.
My best advice is to pick the design of a game you like that can be coded in a month. A week is better, but a month will do. Pick something that you can do using freely available art or something that does not require any art. If you can do your own art that's great, but remember that artists are cheap so don't waste time of being an artist if you can be a developer. Then code up your game and play it. Let your friends play it. Then put it in your portfolio file along with a document (yes you need to write) that details what you did right, what went wrong, what you leaned, and what you wish you knew more about. You need to write that document so that you will actually do the analysis of the game. BTW, if you get stuck or you hit the end of the month without being done. STOP. Write the document, go learn what you were missing. Write some test cases to make sure you know what you just learned. Then start a new design. Don't back and try to fix your old code. Even if you go back to your old design start over. DO NOT USE YOUR OLD CODE. People get emotionally attached to there old code. As a wise wise man by the name of Dr. Art Evens once said to me, "You fall in love with what you make love too". Too many programmers refuse to dump their old code because of the investment they have in it. They will spend years working on broken code because they can't bear to just flush something they have spent so much time on.
Everyone I know who has followed this advice, is now working for a game company as a developer or is making at least some money as an independent game developer or working for an independent studio. Most students refuse to believe this advice. Many students are incapable of following this advice. But, all who have are working game developers.
I explained all this to a student in a C++ for game programmers class. He started following it that night. He dropped out of the class because he got a job as a full time programmer at a fairly large studio. He recreated a number of the old block graphics game programs from the '70s and '80s in C++ using DirectX. He spent nearly a month on the first one. Less than two weeks on each of the others. He picked the best two and sent them around to local game studios. He got replies from most of the studios that he sent his portfolio too and he was hired during his second interview. Yes, he already had a CS degree which helped.
OTOH, I have had a couple of Ph.D physicists take my classes and immediately get good jobs at major studios. A Ph.D in particle or theoretical physics plus a portfolio containing a couple of simple games is likely to get you a good job in many parts of the entertainment industry.
Most of my students are not working in anything resembling game development. They expected to take a series of classes and then be hired by the majors because of their straight A average. That does not happen. You need the education, but you must love game development enough to do it on your own. You must have the problem solving skills needed to find solutions to problems like "how do I learn to program games". You must be willing to take reasonable will thought out risks like the risks involved in starting a business. And, you have to be able to figure out how you are going to make money.
Oh yeah, before the artists out there try to flame me down let me pass on a bit of conversation I had with our creative director one day. He asked me why we got so many applications from programmers who were also artists and musicians, even composers, not we never got applications from artists or composers who were also programmers? I have what I think are answers to that question, but I don't trust them enough to pass them on. But, it is a fact that a lot of programmers are writers, musicians, and artists, but the reverse is not true. As a result, there more people become artists than become programmers. In the market the scarcer good costs more. So, as a rule of thumb if you are a programmer you should spend you time on programming because it is worth more.
Last comment: Most state colleges offer the kinds of classes you need to become a game developer. Getting degrees in general areas like CS or Math is always better than getting a degree in a specialized area like game development. A person with a CS degree can get jobs in many places. A person with a degree in game development will not even be looked at for the same jobs. OTOH, a person with a CS degree and a portfolio can apply for any job someone with a degree in game development can apply for.
I have met a few outstanding people who graduated from Full Sail, I have met some outstanding people who have BS degrees in CS who took a few game development classes at the local community college who are every bit as good as the folks from Full Sail. I have met people with CS degrees from MIT who could not pass a game development course at the local CC and others from the same school who were exceptional. So, be careful about your choice of schools. Also, be very wary of on line schools. The economics of teaching on line says an on line class should cost no more, and maybe less, than the same class taught by a tax supported CC. But, that is not the case. If you are being asked to pay $2000+ for a half semester on line course then you are getting ripped off big time. Most of the on line "colleges" and "universities" are designed to get you to max out your student loans and give the money to them. They are not in the business of educating people, they are in the business of making as much money as possible while leaving you 10s of thousands of dollars of debt that you will be paying off for the next 40 years.
Comment: Never...under human control (Score 1) 606
by stonewolf (#33836284) Attached to: How Long Until We Commonly Use Flying Cars?
You are right about people not being able to handle 2D driving, and having grown up in the mountains I know that people have even more trouble driving in 3D on roads :-)
I expect that within 20 years cars driven under human controls will not be allowed in cities or on major highways. I *DO* believe that we will have flying cars, but we will *NEVER* be allowed to operate them under human control. The will not be capable of violating any laws and you will not have to worry about a drunk pilot flying in to the 37th floor of you apartment building.
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Comment: Fill 'em up. (Score 1) 366
by stonewolf (#33248146) Attached to: Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays?
the task of cleaning out the closet where I've been dumping my old computers and parts came to the top of the infamous honey-do list. I found 8 40gig drives a couple of 30gig drives and a 20gig drive. After testing I had 6 working 30gig drives. I tore down the others just for grins and giggles and to pass around in some of my classes. Not to mention the magnets in the head positioning system are fun to play with.
I also found an old mother board, 3 or 4 CDROM drives, RAM, a couple of power supplies and a very very old PC case. So, I built a PC. We call it Frankenputer. I got a working Athlon 1.5Ghz processor from the computer goodwill store and I lucked out and found some PCI IDE interface cards at the same place. (I had to update all the ROMs in the whole system to get it to work. Finding the BIOSes for a bunch of discontinued cards made by out of business companies was not as hard it sounds.) I had one set of rails for installing a 3.5 inch hard drive in a 5.25 bay. I found several more at computer Goodwill Computer store! I picked up a 30 dollar case at Fry's.
Thanks to google, Goodwill, and freedos I got it all working. I used FreeDos and GParted to get all the disks configured and tested as a raid. Then, I installed Ubuntu using the "alternative" installation disk.
Even though the drives were all "40GB" drives each manufacturers drives were of a different size. So, I created a partition the size of the smallest drive on each drive. Then in the extra space I created a partition of the size of the empty space on the next largest drive. The odd bits of space left at the end of two drives I just partitioned as their actual size. I used the 6 large partitions as a RAID 0, the second set became another RAID 0. The rest of the partitions just became normal drives.
I stuck an old NVidia video card and a old but good network card in there and the thing actually works. It is an absurdly fast disk server.
Every 3.5 inch bay has a drive in it. Every 5.25 inch drive bay has a drive in it.
All the rest of the stuff in the closet went to Goodwill or the dump. Recently a new item went on my list... Move Frankenputer out of the living room. Oh well. And it looks so good on the book shelf :-) For some reason she wants me to move the table saw out of the living room too. Can't imagine why? Can you?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39804 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I've been working in SQA field for a year now, and basically I used only black box methods. What advice can you give me to enhance my skills?
Recently I have started learning Jmeter Apache for load testing.
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Based on my opinion, always depends on your skills. I mean, if you are testing Windows desktop application, it's highly recommended some .net knowledge, but if you are running Android tests, Java is the base of the knowledge.
Black-box testing is quite a general way to describe a testing method, it can include a lot of technics, like a boundary test for example.
If you don't want to focus on the development part - on the "pure" code, focus on the other aspects of the application, not strongly related to its functionality - on the non-functional parts: usability, security, scalability, stress testing. The static testing - rereading and testing the documentation is quite useful, and can prevent many possible bugs and failures from the application.
I would highly recommend to have a look on the V-model, I think, it is useful and a tester can learn many aspects even if the project development doesn't follow its path.
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thank you, i think i will start to focus on my code skills, i like coding so i will give white box a shot, but dont know where to start ! – user6336 Nov 13 '13 at 7:52
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There's a lot of ways you can go here - if you want to stay with manual testing you can look to improve your ability to find and report problems, or you can add load testing or functional regression testing to your skill set.
Depending on where you're based, the most effective method for you could vary - you'll want to balance between something you enjoy doing and something that is in demand in your part of the world.
I'd suggest you read widely. Joe Strazzere's excellent blog, All Things Quality, is a great starting point. Another good place to look is the Ministry of Testing for an excellent list of tools of all sorts as well as a consolidated blog feed.
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thank you i will consider wat did u mentioned – user6336 Nov 13 '13 at 7:51
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Since you have used basically black box methods, you may want to widen your QA knowledge by introducing yourself in topics like code inspection, code analysis, technical debt, code metrics... This will allow you to predict which parts of the software are most likely to fail and which parts will require more effort to be maintained or evolved.
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I got an APK from the Internet.
Can I install and run the APK on the emulator?
If yes, how to do it?
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Possible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/4512458/… – shkschneider Aug 7 '12 at 10:16
possible duplicate of How do you install an APK file in the Android emulator? – Craigy Aug 7 '12 at 13:37
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Yes it is possible
first copy that .apk file into "platform-tools" folder of your android-SDK then open the command prompt and go to "platform-tools" folder now type "adb install _" here underline means your .apk file name. then press enter. it's DONE
Be sure that your emulator is running.
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Use adb to install apk on emulator (or any connected device as well):
adb install file.apk
Re-install, keeping application data:
adb install -r file.apk
adb documentation is available here: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html
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Yes you can.
Easiest way is to download the apk file from within the browser on the emulator, then install it from the notifications menu.
Alternatively, you can install the Android SDK (which you might already have done if you have the emulator) and use adb install my.apk which should install to any available device (so long as only one is available). Use adb devices to check what devices are available - when you run the emulator, it should show up there.
N.B. you will need to enable unknown sources in the applications menu of settings for this to work.
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Place it in your host and download the .apk file from your emulator browser.
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Place your .apk file in the platform-tools folder of SDK, go to command prompt (path to ADB) and run the following command:
adb install your_apk_file.apk
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I'm not sure if it will work, but try to open the File Explorer of the emulator through DDMS perspective in Eclipse, and copy/paste your apk in a folder. Then navigate to that folder from your emulator and launch the apk.
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I'm using AddThis on my application, which displays a count of how many times the particular web page has been shared through one of the social networks available.
However, it seems this count increases even without actually sharing. For example, I can click on the Twitter icon, and the count will increase before I've actually submitted a tweet.
I thought this might just be a UI feature, but it seems the count is actually recorded as a refresh doesn't reset the count.
Here is a jsFiddle demo which shows how the count increases per click of an icon:
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Are there any AddThis configuration settings for preventing this count from increasing, except when the page is actually shared?
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According to research I have done previously the developers of AddThis are trying to implement a better approach, but as of last month still nothing. Here is the response from their support website Addthis support site
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This is the unsaturated way to get a good performance . Addthis waits for close event and not ajax response. Is show the real number of shares to the rest of users. You can use another plugin as mocanvas to get the instant real shares, not in generator but when it is installed http://share.mocanvas.com
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Suppose there is CGo package with a struct defined like this:
package test
type Test struct {
Field *C.C_Test
Now suppose that from somewhere else I get unsafe.Pointer which I know points to C_Test C structure.
Do I understand correctly that there is completely no way to create new test.Test instance from the unsafe.Pointer value while being in a package other than test?
Attempting to use something like &test.Test{ptr}, where ptr is unsafe.Pointer value, fails for obvious reasons with message cannot use ptr (type unsafe.Pointer) as type *test._Ctype_C_Test in field value, and type conversion to *test._Ctype_C_Test does not work as well because this type is not exported.
And I think that making my other module to use CGo and redefining the same C structure in it will not work either since that package will have something like client._Ctype_C_Test but test.Test requires test._Ctype_C_Test, and they are different from the point of view of the typechecker.
Some background: I need a way to create such structure when I use GtkBuilder with go-gtk library.
Its GtkBuilder.GetObject(name) method returns *GObject pointer which in turn contains unsafe.Pointer field which I need to turn somehow into, say, gtk.GtkEntry struct. gtk.GtkEntry itself contains implicit field of type gtk.GtkWidget which has explicit field of type *C.GtkWidget, so I need to convert unsafe.Pointer to *C.GtkWidget, but I cannot, as I have described in the simple example above.
Update: here is the code I'm trying to force to work: https://gist.github.com/4141343
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Was something like
foo := test.Test{}
*(unsafe.Pointer)(&foo.Field) = ptr
also tested? I would expect that to work. (Hope so. Kinda.)
EDIT 2012-11-24 13:42 UTC: 2nd attempt
package main
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct {
int foo;
char *bar;
} Test_t;
void test_dump(Test_t *test) {
printf(".foo %d, .bar %s\n", test->foo, test->bar);
void *test_new(int foo, char *bar) {
Test_t *p = malloc(sizeof(Test_t));
p->foo = foo;
p->bar = bar;
return p;
import "C"
import "unsafe"
type Test struct {
Field *C.Test_t
func main() {
hello := C.CString("Hello")
defer C.free(unsafe.Pointer(hello))
test := &Test{(*C.Test_t)(C.test_new(42, hello))}
$ go clean && go build && ls
main.go 13535422
$ ./13535422
.foo 42, .bar Hello
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No, unfortunately, this does not work. I'm getting invalid indirect of unsafe.Pointer(&foo.Field) (type unsafe.Pointer) in terms of example. – Vladimir Matveev Nov 24 '12 at 9:09
Would like to see the code. Anyway, editing the answer now... – zzzz Nov 24 '12 at 13:41
Yes, your code will work, because C structure definition is in the same package as the unsafe pointer conversion attempt. I wrote about this in my answer. Try moving main function in separate package and you will see what I mean. I will add example code shortly. – Vladimir Matveev Nov 24 '12 at 20:39
Sorry, I meant 'question' instead of 'answer' :) – Vladimir Matveev Nov 24 '12 at 20:55
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I asked a question on golang-nuts and was given an example on how to do what I want. It seems to work now. Here is the code from Ian's answer:
var t test.Test
p := (*unsafe.Pointer)(unsafe.Pointer(&t.Field))
*p = unsafe.Pointer(u)
So, all what was needed is double cast to unsafe.Pointer and then to *unsafe.Pointer. I came up with the following code to simplify the assign process:
func Assign(to unsafe.Pointer, from unsafe.Pointer) {
fptr := (*unsafe.Pointer)(from)
tptr := (*unsafe.Pointer)(to)
*tptr = *fptr
func Init(builder *gtk.GtkBuilder) {
messageNameEntryWidget := gtk.GtkWidget{}
Then, however, I decided to abstain from using GTK, since it is painful to do tricks like this) but this is not related to the question.
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Trying to call signalR from another domain, and keep on getting this error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load localhost:62150/signalr/negotiate?_=1362242757692. Origin localhost:4982 is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
This is the code I'm trying to run:
$(function () {
jQuery.support.cors = true;
$.connection.hub.url = 'http://localhost:62150/signalr';
.done(function () { alert("Now connected!"); })
jquery and jquery.signalr.js are loaded, localhost:62150/signalr/hubs responds with JS, localhost:62150/signalr/hubs/negotiate?_=1362243021215 returns JSON if I run this in browser - so its not a missing script or invalid path issue.
What I've tried:
And combinations of all of the above.
Anyone has any idea what else I can try ?
The serving app is a combination of MVC and WebAPI (don't think it makes any difference). If I'm trying that code from same domain - it works.
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What browser are you using to test this? Does it support CORS? – Darin Dimitrov Mar 2 '13 at 17:05
Chrome. I can do a cross-domain calls to Web Api via ajax, so yeah. – Eugene Mar 2 '13 at 18:17
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If you are using 1.0 or higher have you enabled cross domain on the server? (it's disabled by default now)
RouteTable.Routes.MapHubs(new HubConfiguration { EnableCrossDomain = true });
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For christ sake... I hate when ppl introduce breaking changes, and don't mention them.. Thats like 2 hours I wasted. Thanks! – Eugene Mar 2 '13 at 19:04
previous versions were pre-release, and SignalR 1.0 is the first RTM one, so that's not a breaking change ;-) – Filip W Mar 2 '13 at 19:43
FWIW this change is prominently mentioned in the release notes under "1.0 Breaking Changes". github.com/SignalR/SignalR/blob/master/ReleaseNotes.md is the best place to look for changes in each release. – halter73 Mar 3 '13 at 8:17
I got the error above even I have this line of code. If I use RouteTable.Routes.MapHubs() instead, I will get 304. My code is working with IE10 and FF 20, but not with Chrome 25.0.1364.172. Any idea? – Adamy Mar 15 '13 at 5:02
I get this output: ...\Global.asax.cs(17,64,17,81): error CS0117: 'Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.HubConfiguration' does not contain a definition for 'EnableCrossDomain' ...\Global.asax.cs(17,13,17,91): error CS0619: 'System.Web.Routing.SignalRRouteExtensions.MapHubs(System.Web.Routing.RouteCollection, Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.HubConfiguration)' is obsolete: 'Use IAppBuilder.MapSignalR in an Owin Startup class. See go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=320578 for more details.' – Akira Yamamoto Feb 3 at 14:21
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After wasting a couple of hours I think it's good to share my experience:
1. DO NOT add Access-Control-Allow-Origin to your web.config (yes it never sais to add it, but when trying things this is literally the first I did and left it there after a simple jquery cross-domain access test)
2. RouteTable.Routes.MapHubs( new HubConfiguration() { EnableCrossDomain = true } ); works just fine for classes inheriting Hub
3. RouteTable.Routes.MapConnection<MyConnection>( "foo", "/foo", new ConnectionConfiguration { EnableCrossDomain = true } ); this works just fine too for classes inheriting PersistentConnection
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is it possible i fill model's fields by content of table's tds. of course without using javascript . i wanna pass a model to view and get content of tds . some thing like text box : @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.username)
is it possible i have some thing like this for tds? what can i put in place of tds?
<tr class="darckTr">
<td>code :</td>
<td id="tdPobox" colspan="3">12345</td>
<td>Email :</td>
<td id="tdEmail">[email protected]</td>
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It sounds like what you want is a display template. Create a .cshtml view, for example "ContactDetails.cshtml":
@model ContactDetails
<tr class="darckTr">
<td>code :</td>
<td id="tdPobox" colspan="3">@Model.PoBox</td>
<td>Email :</td>
<td id="tdEmail">@Model.Email</td>
If the filename of your partial view matches the type in your model, it will be used automatically. Otherwise, you have a couple of options. Either specify the partial on your model, e.g.:
public class MyWrappingClass
public ContactDetails Details { get; set; }
And then do this in your view:
@model MyWrappingClass
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.Details)
Or, just specify the template directly in your view:
@model MyWrappingClass
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.Details, "_ContactDetails")
Brad Wilson wrote a good blog post on templates, including how they are resolved, here:
If you want to persist these values back on POST, you need to have an input element containing the values. In your case, the best way to do this would be to use a hidden field, for example:
@Html.HiddenFor(m => m.Username)
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no no , i do'nt want to dispaly . i wanna put td's value in my ViewModel . for example one of my ViewModel property is : public string email { get; set; } . i wanna put "[email protected]" into it. of cource without java script – niki Sep 16 '13 at 19:22
@niki See my edit. – Ant P Sep 16 '13 at 20:18
i filled td's by java script . i mean i send "12345" and "[email protected]" by javascript cod to tds . and now how can i get td's values and send to HiddenFor? just with javascript? is there any way? – niki Sep 17 '13 at 5:06
i have 3 partial view .there is textbox_phone in partial one . and there is textbox_email in partila two . and there are my tds in partial three. i'll send phone from One to tdPobox in Three By JavaScript .And Send Email from Two To tdEmail in Three .is my work correct?is there security ? and now , in Partial three i wanna fill my models .how can i bind my tds to model's fileds – niki Sep 17 '13 at 5:16
In that case you will have to use JavaScript, yes. As long as the name attribute of the hidden field matches your property, it will be bound. You can find plenty of info on this on google. – Ant P Sep 17 '13 at 6:04
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39811 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Well, I'm completely new to JavaScript. Can you please tell me what type of data is this JavaScript code:
var options =
sourceLanguage: 'en',
destinationLanguage: ['hi', 'bn', 'fa', 'gu', 'kn', 'ml', 'mr', 'ne', 'pa', 'ta','te','ur'],
shortcutKey: 'ctrl+g',
transliterationEnabled: true
I've reviewed JavaScript arrays, but it doesn't seem to be a traditional array. Still don't know if it's some kind of arrays or another data type!!
Additionally, is there any way to set individual elements to that data type such as setting array elements individually.
Thanks in advance
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It's an object, which is pretty much the most common data type in javascript. – hobbs Apr 2 '10 at 8:31
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This is a way of creating and initialising an object in javascript called an object literal. Since javascript is dynamically typed, you can add key/values at any time, even to the built in objects.
The equivalent code for this would be:
var options = {};
options.sourceLanguage = 'en';
options.destinationLanguage = ['hi', 'bn', 'etc'];
The square brackets [] denote an array. The equivalent for this would be
var destinationLanguage = [];
destinationLanguage.push('bn'); //etc
You access array elements by index eg destinationLanguage[0].
As you can see it is much more readable and convenient to to initialise everything using the notation in your request.
This notation forms the basis of something called JSON (Javascript Object Notation) which is wire format for passing information eg between client and server. The string in your example could be retrieved via an AJAX request and parsed in a number of ways into a complex object.
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It's a Javascript object. In a JS console you can check its type:
>>> typeof(options)
JS objects are sometimes used as simple associative arrays (like hash tables or dictionaries in other languages). The code snippet you present here is probably for such a use. Read more on the technique in this tutorial.
Also, this tutorial is very good.
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it is an object literal in other word,its a shorcut to:
var options = new Object();
options.sourceLanguage = 'en';
options.shortcutKey = 'ctrl+g';
options.transliterationEnabled = true
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+1 For using the correct terminology – Steve Apr 2 '10 at 18:47
/agree ........ – James Westgate Apr 3 '10 at 11:21
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In JavaScript you can create singleton objects using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON):
var o = {
prop1 : 'value',
func1 : function() {
this.prop1 = 'some other value';
Then you could do the following:
alert(o.prop1); // displays 'value' in an alert box in a browser environment
alert(o.prop1); // displays 'some other value' in an alert box
So yes, it's an object. Of course so is everything else in JavaScript. And yes, it can be used as a hash or dictionary.
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That's not JSON, that's Object Literal Notation. – insin Apr 2 '10 at 9:00
Quite right. Of course JSON is based on JavaScript Object Literal Notation. Hence the name JSON. – Benry May 1 '10 at 0:06
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Also called a dictionary in many languages. You have a key-value pair so you would be able to access your keys like:
value = dictionary[key]
or in your case:
lang = options['sourceLanguage'];
Writing is just the same but backwards:
options['sourceLanguage'] = lang;
The only difference with your example is that it's doing it all in batch. All at once.
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I am having some trouble with my segmentcontrol bar. I am trying to make it a gray/black color with this:
segmentControl3.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.60 green:0.60 blue:0.60 alpha:1.0];
Under my getSegment action, and that works just fine when I click it. But my problem is that the load color is the standart blue one, and I can't seem to change that anywhere... I have tried to place it under viewDidLoad, but that diden't seen to work. I have read trough the UICatalog example, but in there all is declared in code. Is that the only way to get it right?
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You should be able to use tintColor to change the color of your control; try placing it in viewWillAppear:. Also make sure that your outlet is properly set. I use this in several applications.
You can use [UIColor colorWithWhite: 0.6 alpha: 1.0] to save a little code
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I have tried both the viewDidLoad method and viewWillAppear but it doesn't change colour until i click one of the segments for some reason :S Any other ideas? – CC. Mar 8 '09 at 16:52
Is it possible to run a IBAction on load? – CC. Mar 8 '09 at 16:58
I would try pulling this code out and sticking it in its own test project; given that this should work as you've described, it's likely that there's something else at play here, and isolating this shoudl help track it down. – Ben Gottlieb Mar 9 '09 at 0:06
Thanks.. I'll try that later today to see if I can get it up and running... But if you have some code examples from your viewWillApper method, where you use the function I would be happy to see it.. thanks again :) – CC. Mar 9 '09 at 10:01
Hmm.. still not working for me.. My code looks like this in the IBAction method: – CC. Mar 9 '09 at 22:26
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I made the mistake that I referred to the Segmented Control by pointer type and not by an outlet.. Everything is working fine now :) Thanks for all your help, just didn't understand it until now :D
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I make a lot of "design your own ____" applications.
What I do is I make a singleton class to hold all the customizations the user has chosen. For example: When you select you want something green, it updates a getter/setter in the singleton to be green. Then when the application needs to know what color was selected it gets the info from the same getter/setter.
The way I used to do this was by storing the information in the UI (just checking what color was selected from the drop-down).
After reading about MVC (I still dont "fully" understand MVC) I know now that is completely wrong and thats why I abstracted it to the singleton class that holds all that.
Now I am wondering if that is a bad idea too? if so how should I be doing it?
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Tried to split your problem description up a bit so I could try to wrap my head around it. – Boris Callens Apr 27 '09 at 14:30
More singleton stuff - stackoverflow.com/questions/726685/… – madcolor Apr 27 '09 at 15:17
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I'd say that is not really what the Singleton pattern was intended for. It is a very misunderstood pattern and the most common reason people use it seems to be that it is easy to access since they are often static. What really is happening is that you have a configuration problem that you are trying to get around through a static singleton that can easily be access throughout the application. A 'proper' use would be when trying to control access to a resource that is truly limited.
If you think of it probably really doesnt make sense to have only one universal 'configuration' for an application. It makes a lot more sense to have several but perhaps only one is ever in use at one time.
-Edit- Instead of using a Singleton that can be accessed statically consider using Dependency Injection or Inversion of Control.
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Singletons limit the number of instances to one by design. In your case, why have you decided that you MUST only have one instance? What if you want multiple configurations? Multiple instances, each representing a different configuration, is not possible with your design.
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Remember that a Singleton is basically a global variable, and has all the same problems. For example:
• Every class potentially has a dependency on the singleton (and anything that the singleton itself depends on). But that dependency isn't made explicit through the values you pass around, so it's impossible to detect.
• Since you can write to it from anywhere in your program, you risk changing it any time you call a function. So you can never completely rely on its value.
I know it's a pain to pass an object around to every part of the program that needs it. But this will eventually result in a better design.
• It will force you to reduce the number of classes that depend on your data object.
• It will make refactoring easier and more predictable, because you'll be confident that your object isn't being changed behind your back.
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I assume you are talking about something like a car configurator - select paint, engine, rims, and all the other stuff.
In this case I would not use a singleton. Not because it does not work, but because it seems semanticaly wrong. A singleton implies there is only a single state. But your application could have two windows - something like two documents. With a singleton you cannot modify both documents independently because they share their state. So you see, it really should not be a singleton.
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I, being a Service Layer guy (though I have my own vision of a service layer), would recommend doing some IoC and moving all customization logic to a separate service (AmbienceService or something). Thus, in your presenter you'll do (C#-style pseudocode):
viewModel.HeaderColor = ServiceLocator.Resolve<AmbienceService>().HeaderColor;
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If the question is about the singleton pattern for configuration, I don't think slamming TLA's like IoC will help the poster anything. Maybe you could try either fleshing out the answer a lot, or bring it down a few ticks. – Boris Callens Apr 27 '09 at 14:36
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I'm not completely sure what your question is but here is what I'm making of it.
Your application has a UI that lets the user select a bunch of parameters (e.g. a drop down with a set of colors. One of which is the color green.)
Later on (for example after closing down the application and restarting it) the chosen value needs to be loaded again.
If this is what your specific question is about, I don't really think this has anything to do with the singleton pattern per se. I think what you want is a config file (app.config for applications and web.config for web applications). With the ConfiguratoinManager class you can easely acces these.
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The answer to your question may have a lot to do with your current environment. For instance, in Java runtime properties are provided via System.getProperties, etc. Windows has its registry.
Have you thought of solutions like using Contexts to transfer state? Do you really need global properties? Can your properties be changed at runtime? Will you have multiple threads potentially modifying the same properties? These are all things to consider in a design.
Personally, I normally just opt for whatever seems to be the convention for the environment under which I'm working. From your last question, it sounds like you are working with ActionScript, is there a convention already existing for it?
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That's not the pattern you should be using. I think you should try a state pattern instead. Singleton is for when you need access to a limited resource from many different places.
Like opening and reading a configuration file. Instead of different classes reading the same file they go through a class that does only that. What you need is when the user changes a setting the system needs to be notified that something has been changed.
But this really depends on the language you are using. As far as I know only java has a onNotify() method. But I could be wrong.
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After I was learning about ASP .NET Membership built-in framework I have decided that this stuff is almost suitable for me. But there are couple features and edits I would like to have:
1. Two step registration: after user have typed all account information, verification letter should be send to typed email. Before email address is verified it impossible to log in (some message should appear, telling user that email verification is needed before it's allowed to use account).
2. Membership DB Scheme:
• There is no need to store user question for restoring password.
• Illegal attempts to login is uneccessary.
• Default aspnet_ prefix is likely to be changed.
• ... and so on
For the first item I know that I could use own class derived from SqlMembershipProvider. Am I right about this? Could you point me at some good post where I could get learned.
For the second improvement it's seems like a trouble. In this book I have read that isn't so easy:
• The built-in SQL storage providers need direct access to your database, which feels a bit dirty if you have a strong concept of a domain model or use a particular ORM technology elsewhere.
• The built-in SQL storage providers demand a specific data schema that isn’t easy to share with the rest of your application’s data schema.
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The biggest problem I've encountered with subclassing SqlMembershipProvider is it doesn't give you the connection string to work with. You have to hack the class to pieces to get anything useful for the way most modern login systems work.
I'm not sure about the database tables names - I don't think that's controlled by the SqlMembershipProvider but is actually inside an ASP.NET installer class.
My advice would be to create your own from scratch, and use the built in FormsAuthentication helpers. It's really not a big task compared to hours of annoyance having to conform to the providers. I did this with Roadkill after going down the Membership Provider route, and discovering it a cul-de-sac particularly for Active Directory support.
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It seems like you break all my doubts about building own mechanism for membership-wide tasks. – kseen Nov 29 '11 at 13:05
@kseen the biggest p.i.t.a. is you can't change your username stackoverflow.com/questions/1001491/… – Chris S Nov 29 '11 at 13:46
So do you advice me to make my own provider that will be derived from MembershipProvider Class. Is everything right? – kseen Nov 29 '11 at 13:53
@kseen yes, if you want to stick to the provider pattern. – Chris S Nov 29 '11 at 16:12
Do you recommend it? – kseen Nov 29 '11 at 16:52
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1. You can completely control your membership DB schema by Implementing Custom Membership User (of course you also need to implement Membership Provider for the User).
2. Customize user creation steps by configuring CreateUserWizard control. You will change its' template and handle events, I don't think you need to override it.
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I don't use ASP .NET Web Forms. I develop a ASP .NET MVC3 Application, so second your list item is inappropriate. – kseen Nov 29 '11 at 13:03
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39839 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Currently, the space between the bottom of my header and the top of the chapter number is quite large and I would like to be able to reduce the space between the header and the chapter number. How would I go about doing this?
I am using the report documentclass.
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I found the answer over at stackoverflow.com.
To recap, I had to use:
\titleformat{ command }[ shape ]{ format }{ label }{ sep }{ before }[ after ]
\titlespacing{ command }{ left }{ beforesep }{ aftersep }[ right ]
\titleformat must be specified in order for the spacing to take effect.
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You could also use the \vspace command. For example, \vspace{-2ex} means "move the stuff immediately following up 2 lines worth of vertical space". (1ex is is the height of a line in the current font).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39840 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Possible Duplicate:
How can I force a \hspace at the beginning of a line?
I am trying to put a postal address in the footer. I want the first line to be "Address: Address line1", then the next line should start with an indentation or horizontal space so that "Address line2" is aligned just under "Address line1", and so on. I tried:
\lfoot{\scriptsize{\textsf{Address:Address line1\newline\hspace{1in}{Address line2}}}}
But the hspace{} command is not working. What am I doing wrong?
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marked as duplicate by lockstep, Werner, egreg, Martin Scharrer Dec 13 '11 at 20:31
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\lfoot{\scriptsize{\textsf{Address: Address line1\newline\phantom{Address: }{Address line2}}}}
\phantom{<stuff>} leaves the space required for <stuff> without actually typesetting it. That way you're assured things will line up properly.
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Perfect! Thanks, Werner. – user3671 Dec 13 '11 at 8:05
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Does anyone have an example for a search & replace lua script that I can use with TeXworks. I have a rather large document here (about 3'000 pages DIN A5) which I need to update continously. To change $to \$ and various other replacements I would like to run a 'replace-all' script which makes all the replacements in a single run.
This could be quite useful when one has to take text from e.g. MS Word or the WWW.
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Would you be interested in a sed or perl solution? – cmhughes Nov 28 '12 at 16:45
Nope, I would like to have one in Texworks' lua scripting. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Nov 28 '12 at 17:13
There is a menu item to do this with TeXworks from Search/Replace. However, I would advise you to quit TeXworks, restart, and open a new blank document to test this with first. Trying it with v4.4 on Mac hangs Texworks, and had to Force Quit to get out of this loop. – Peter Grill Nov 28 '12 at 18:21
@PeterGrill I know the menu command but there are various replacements I need to make, so a 'prepare for TeXing' script would be nice. It could aid a lot in the "get-text-from-somewhere-and-just-TeX" it process, replacing # => \#, & => \& and many more. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Nov 28 '12 at 19:34
@UweZiegenhagen Scripts and utilities are nice, danger when you start replacing automatically especially symbols like \& is you can end destroying some of your tables, although I guess in your case you want to clean the original MS Word document. However, in this case would be simpler to clean it in word before exporting. – Yiannis Lazarides Nov 28 '12 at 22:14
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Your question is very interesting, I promise to upvote it as soon as possible. As usual, I'm out of votes.
I'll try to write a humble answer. I'm really sorry if the solution might cause any trouble due to any bug or annoyance, I'm a Lua newbie. :)
First things first: we need to enable the scripting language plugin in TeXworks. We can do it by simply going to the Preferences, in the Scripts tab:
We just need to mark the checkbox. :)
Now, let's see where to put our script. Go to Scripts, Scripting TeXworks, Show Scripts Folder:
Scripts menu
The operating system file manager will appear with the folder we want. :)
Scripts folder
In my Mac, it's under ~/Library/TeXworks/scripts. Now, create a new file named replaceList.lua and add the following content, as it is:
Title: Replace list
Description: A replacement script
Author: Paulo Cereda
Version: 1.0
Date: 2012-11-28
Script-Type: standalone
Context: TeXDocument
-- implements the 'strip' function in order to extract
-- elements from a string according to a specific
-- separator. The output is a table containing each
-- element from the input string.
-- Thanks to the http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin wiki.
string.split = function(str, pattern)
pattern = pattern or "[^%s]+"
if pattern:len() == 0 then
pattern = "[^%s]+"
local parts = {__index = table.insert}
setmetatable(parts, parts)
str:gsub(pattern, parts)
setmetatable(parts, nil)
parts.__index = nil
return parts
-- gets a string containing a list of patterns. This is
-- the first dialog window that appears in the script
-- execution.
local listOfPatterns = TW.getText(nil, "List of patterns to replace - 1/2", "Please, add a list of patterns to replace, separated by comma.")
-- gets a string containing a list of words to replace the
-- patterns obtainted in the previous step. This is the
-- second dialog window that appears in the script
-- execution
local listOfReplacements = TW.getText(nil, "List of patterns to replace - 2/2", "Please, add a list of replacements, separated by comma.")
-- checks if both inputs are valid
if (listOfPatterns ~= nil) and (listOfReplacements) then
-- split the patterns into elements of a table. In our
-- case, the separator is a comma.
local patternsToLook = string.split(listOfPatterns, "[^,%s]+")
-- split the values into elements of a table. In our case,
-- the separator is a comma.
local valuesToReplace = string.split(listOfReplacements, "[^,%s]+")
-- the number of elements of both tables must be equal
if (#patternsToLook == #valuesToReplace) then
-- iterate through the patterns table
for index, currentValue in ipairs(patternsToLook) do
-- select all the text from the current
-- document
-- get all the selected text
local text = TW.target.selection
-- checks if there's actually a text
if (text ~= nil) then
-- replace all occurrences of the current
-- pattern by its corresponding value
local toReplace, _ = string.gsub(text, currentValue, valuesToReplace[index])
-- insert modified text into the
-- document
My sincere apologies to Patrick, Taco and other Lua masters. :)
Now, we have a new file in our folder, replaceList.lua:
New file
Now, back to TeXworks, we need to reload our list of scripts. It's easy, we need to go to Scripts, Scripting TeXworks, Reload Scripts List:
Reload scripts
Done. :) Let's create a test file:
My document
Time to run our script. Simply go to Scripts and select Replace list:
Running the script
Now, the magic of TeXworks scripting API will appear. First, we will define a list of patterns to look for:
List of patterns
Regex supported, I guess.
I'm telling our script to look for three words, separated by commas. After clicking OK, a new window will appear, with a list of replacement words:
Of course, both lists have to have the very same size. :) After we click OK, our new text is presented:
New document
There we go! :) I hope my humble answer helps. :)
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That looks really good and is accepted! I will try and adapt it so, that the replacement list is stored in the script itself. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Nov 28 '12 at 21:09
@Uwe: I added some comments to the Lua code. :) If you plan to hardcode the replacement list, I think the script will become more bulletproof - parsing the comma-separated list might be tricky, specially if special characters (used by Lua's regex) are used. – Paulo Cereda Nov 28 '12 at 22:12
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I'm new to this site and new to Nihongo, reletively, i've only been at it a few months. I joined this site because i wanted to get to know other people who were learning or maybe who speak natively, and get advice on how to study, and in what order i should study. I can speak some and i can write in the most basic hiragana, i haven't really touched kanji yet, my biggest hurdle with Nihongo so far is that i'm embarassed to try and talk with fluent or native speakers :blush: i look forword to getting to know you guys and hope for advice Dozo yoroshiku onegai shimasu :wink:
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Nice to meet you :D. There's no need to be embarrassed. Japanese people as a whole are well known for believing their own language to be extremely difficult for others to learn, and will likely compliment you on even the most basic of Japanese, if you encounter someone in real life.
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My first piece of advice is to switch to typing in hiragana characters if you know how. It's very useful for when you need to look for help on the internet for your Japanese. Also:
"dozo" = douzo
"minna san" = mina san. [When you attach "san" to "minna", it becomes "mina"]
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Kyermë means "prayer" in Quenya.
The etymology is not known. The form of the word would suggest a PQ root *KJER and the noun ending -më.
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Those stupid windmills do not work. If you drive by the "wind farms" of California most of them are down most of the time. Come see us at The Two Minute Conservative, and when you speak ladies will swoon and liberal gentlemen will weep.
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adrianvance-the "wind farms" in WV work that same way. (Didn't take long for Mr Pickens to deep-six the wind business, did it?)
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... and why would we bother? Let me know when you're in danger of doing something other than being REALLY ANGRY (like maybe voting), then I'll think about it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39868 | Thread: Stanford Men
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How does #31 Santa Clara a week later lose to #7 Pepperdine by the same score of 6-1 that Stanford losses by, but wins more total games than #8Stanford. This is an interesting stat to look at:
SCU- Doubles won 18 games and won 7-5 at #1 doubles
Singles won 36 games and won 7-5, 6-3 at #5 singles
Stanford- Doubles won 16 games and won 8-7 at #1 doubles
Singles won 32 games and won 6-3, 6-4 at #4 singles
Santa Clara is #31 and should probably be in the 40's and Stanford is top 10. I agree Stanford is no longer one of the top programs in the country but this is a pathetic effort. Not to mention they barely beat Utah this past weekend 4-3. Not a happy Stanford Cardinal right now.
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I made the picture myself. Do you like it? --C i wood 13:12, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Not bad. It's good to see a different take on Christ (or in this case, his brother). It needs another pic, maybe of his patty-wagon (hey, pun!) parked beside the Wailing Wall (try Uncyclopedia:RadicalX's Corner if you can't make it yourself...I'd do it, but it's too friggin' cold in my computer room to 'chop a pic right now). --Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 07:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
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Whoops! Maybe you were looking for Lego Bricks?
Whoops! Maybe you were looking for BIONICLE?
Just let me masturbate!!
~ Sexually frustrated teenage Lego person
For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article very remotely related to LEGO.
LEGO is a play set, originally made in Denmark, that depicts the almost-perfect Communist society. Everything and everyone in this society looks and behaves almost exactly the same. The people are all very short, lack any type of genitalia and also lack any capability of free thought. As such, they are frequently mistaken for North Koreans. This confusion is not helped by the fact that they do not talk to foreigners. They also hate America (a fact which led them to assassinate JFK.) Furthermore, since their original creators were danes, all Lego people are programmed to hating Sweds.
edit A typical day in the life of a Lego
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A typical Lego day involves Lego people driving around in various Lego vehicles made entirely out of Lego bricks, talking to each other in the street and then returning to their Lego home. They may also visit other Lego people in their Lego homes to sit down and chat. They do not have the ability to do anything that would actually be fun to a real person, like going to strip clubs, giving birth, and having sex.
edit Jobs
Lego people do have jobs, but they have to work all day and night at their job because they are permanently dressed in relation to the job (example: if a Lego person is a doctor then he/she wears a doctor's uniform but they cannot take it off, see below.)Furthermore, due to a severe condition only found among Lego people, they are unable to sleep(see below).
edit Fashion
They have a wide variety of fashions, however, they cannot take their clothes off because their clothes are fused to their bodies. If they were to change clothes, they would have to tear their bodies apart, effectively killing them. However, if they somehow do put their bodies back together, they will be reincarnated as a completely different person.
edit LSD
Lego Sleeping Disorder is a virus which tends to attack Lego people, Refugees and Marine soldiers on duty. It is quite simply the lack of chromosones and semen that prevents the brain from sleeping. Due to it's nature, their are two knows cures, of which the first the infected would have to be Chuck Norris, and the second would require you'd kill a virgin. The first of the cures is quite simply to steal chromosones using the electronegativity of the body to rip them off a person, with a weaker electronegativity, taking them to yourself. The second is the injection of sperm cells into the infected's Testicles, and as any European knows, virgins have the largest sperm count of all people, as they will generate 12 years of sperm cells before they begin releasing their seed. People infected with LSD who choose to live with the condition, either due to weakness (Pity Yo' Fool) or human morals (pffh), will often find themselves excluded from the world, as people believe them to be Twilight vampires (see Edward Cullen).
edit Lego Puberty
Puberty for Lego people is generally an extremely frustrating experience. Without even the free will to reach their crotch, male teenage Lego men suffer from extreme sexual frustration and boredom as they do not know how to fill 90% of their time. As a result, extensive sex education programmes have been campaigned for by the Rights Association for Things That Aren't Alive.
edit In women
Basically the same thing, except they cannot reach their vagina and cannot have sex.
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A College preparatory course is a means by which college bound high school students may better meet the more stringent scholastic requirements for entry into colleges and universities.[1] Students taking college-preparatory courses may have an increased quantity of classwork, and expectations to achieve are at a higher level.[2] The GPA (grade point average) weight for college-preparatory courses may have more value for college entry programs than regular courses.[3] College prep courses are particularly appropriate for providing the academic background needed to succeed in a degree program at a college or university.[3] Above college-preparatory in difficulty is honors, where the advanced structure while similar in many ways to college prep, requires even more effort from the student.[4] In many schools, a student can move from college-preparatory courses to Advanced Placement courses, if they attain a certain average.[5]
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1. ^, "Why St. Gregory?", accessed 02-06-2009
2. ^, "College planning made easy], accessed 02-06-2009
3. ^ a b, "College Preparation Resources for Students ", accessed 02-06-2009
4. ^ [1] University of California, "Welcome to UC College Prep, a statewide program of the University of California", accessed 02-06-2009
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39907 | Malicious intruders use literally hundreds of methods and tools when they attempt to compromise PCs. The following are some the most common attacks:
Port scan. To attack a PC, an intruder must determine which TCP or UDP ports (and thus services and programs) are open on that computer. Each program that connects to or accepts connections from the Internet is assigned an IP port number (0 to 65536). Port numbers often indicate a particular type of service. For example, Internet email often uses port 25 for SMTP or port 110 for POP. If you go to an FTP site to download files, your computer uses port 20 or 21. Intruders often scan (connect to multiple ports) victim computers to see which ports are active. After they identify the open ports, intruders (or their malicious programs) narrow down future attacks to a particular port type. Firewalls should notice this activity because it’s unusual for a remote computer to connect to more than a few ports at one time.
Network traffic flood. The principle behind network traffic flood attacks is that too much of a good thing can be bad. Instead of trying to determine which weaknesses exist on a given computer, special programs called flooders send hundreds to tens of thousands of legitimate network packets to one PC hoping to overwhelm the PC’s capacity to respond. This process often causes a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, but flooders have successfully bypassed firewalls and taken control of victim PCs.
Malformed network packets. Most computers are too polite. If someone sends them a badly formed network packet, they either try to reassemble it (often allowing something to sneak around a firewall or virus scanner) or reject the network packet and wait for a retransmission. Anyone who owns a Windows PC knows software programs can wait a long time. Intruders who use this type of attack are either trying to sneak past a particular security tool or cause a DoS attack by making the PC wait a long, long time and ignore legitimate packets.
Fragmentation attacks. Intruders can break up IP packets into smaller packets and reassemble them at the destination computer. Intruders have learned they can manipulate the reassembly so that they can sneak rogue traffic and programs past computer security defenses.
IP spoofing. All firewalls work by filtering network traffic based on IP addresses (e.g., The computers behind the firewall are usually allowed to perform more functions than the untrusted computers on the outside. Rogue intruders can send their traffic with IP addresses that make the packet appear as if it originated from inside the firewall, which allows more access than would usually be allowed.
Some of these attacks are technically sophisticated and require the skills of a learned intruder. But more and more these days, worms and Trojan horses automate external attacks that scour the Internet looking for vulnerable machines. Compromised machines often are used as a staging area for more attacks against new machines. Security experts expect both manual and automated cracking to rise for the next few years until the Internet becomes more secure. |
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I want to make a simple website where users can register to my site. they can have their profile page. when they login they should be redirected to their profile page. Subscribers should not be allowed to view their profile in admin side.
suggest me plugins or way to do it.
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you don't need any plugin.just add this code to your function.php file which you will find in your theme folder.
add_action( 'init', 'blockusers_init' );
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/39992 | Shader Basics
As mentioned before, both programmable pixel shaders and programmable vertex shaders are items called for by DirectX 8. You may recall from our GeForce3 Technology article that both items work to change the graphics processor from a fixed function processor to a programmable processor.
This is done by producing pixel shaders and vertex shaders that are able to compile and run low level code, much like a CPU does. Previous generation video processors performed fixed function transform and lighting calculations on vertex information and fixed texturing, filtering, and blending operations on pixel information. Since the operations were fixed, not only did new features have to be implemented in an API in order to be used, video processors had to be hard programed to perform these operations. Programmable pixel and vertex shaders give a new way of modifying vertex and pixel information by allowing a graphics processor to manipulate this data without any loss of speed.
Vertex shaders are essentially tiny programs that modify vertex data as it is received. The key benefits to programmable vertex shaders is that they allow many image enhancing effects, such as procedural deformation, shadow volumes, and many other types of effects including particle systems, lens effects, matrix palette skinning, and keyframe interpolation. Information reguarding common vertex shader effects is given in the table below.
Vertex Shader Effects
Procedural Deformation Allows for a change in object shape as by performing mathematical calculations. A lifelike animated bubble
Shadow Volumes The vertex shader create transparent volumes that extend behind objects away from light sources, creating realistic shadows A scene with multiple light sources and realistic shadows
Fur Rendering Creates realistic fur by giving vertices thin elongation to simulate fur A fuzzy rabbit
Particle Systems Animates large number of particles by assigning and modifying physical properties such as mass, velocity, acceleration, ect. Creation of fire, sparks, explosions
Lens Effects Distorts an object's shape to give the appearance of being viewed through a lens Viewing an object through a gun scope
Matrix Palette Skinning Allows skeletally animated characters with many bones to move and bend naturally Lifelike animation of characters
Advanced Keyframe Interpolation Animation and morphing effects are created by blending two or more keyframes Animation of complex facial expressions and speech
Like vertex shaders, pixel shaders are also small programs, except in this case the programs modify the attributes of individual pixels as they travel through the rendering pipeline. By altering the appearance of individual pixels, lighting effects are now made much more realistic. The programmability of the pixel shaders gives developers the ability to create customized effects and shading algorithms. As a result of the large number of pixels present in a rendered scene, pixel shader operations have to be more simple than vertex shader operations, since the calculations must be computed many more times in a scene.
Both vertex shaders and pixel shaders are specifications created by and called for by Microsoft's DirectX 8.0 API and it is this specification that NVIDIA's GeForce3 graphics chip is designed around. ATI's new SMARTSHADER technology goes one step further than the competition by including support for Microsoft's newly announced DirectX 8.1 API which ATI promises will provide even more realistic effects.
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The recent debates and attacks on evolution are worrying. Not so much for scientists as I'm sure they can handle themselves just fine. What worries me is that much of the unneccessary debate is fuelled by the public's ignorance of science.
Face facts the average Joe in the street couldn't care less about Physics, Chemistry, or the Scientific Method for that matter.
Science is boring , and often taught in a boring and disinterested manner by grey faceless high school science teachers.
So what happens when passionate scammers with the gift of the gab come along and try to peddle their moral friendly science . Well Joe Bloggs falls for it hook line and sinker.
It amazes me the number of times otherwise intellegent and reasonable people repeat some of the pointless creationist drivel, such as "If we came from apes why are apes still here?" and "Evolution is just a theory".
Fact is You lot are doing a shite job. Sorry to say it but its the truth. If you lot can't get some of these basic ideas across to the public well we are never gonna get rid of the likes of Dembski et al.
So rant over, what can we do about it. Well I have several thoughts.
1) Don't treat people who don't understand science like idiots. (I do this alot and its a very bad habit of mine)
2) Be passionate about what you do.
3) Any other ideas??
I thought about putting a small simple web page up explaining the history of science for the lay person/ young adult. But i'm not a great writer maybe some of you guys could help me write it a bit better.
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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 14 2005,17:25
Heres the text of the page I was considering putting up with a few cartoons/images. If you could help me write it a bit better that would be cool!
A Brief 'istory of science
The thing called "science" is not some monolithic organisation which holds individual scientists in its thrall. Scientists don't live their lives in abject fear of telling TheTruth™. However that said there is agreement (for very good reason) of how proper science works.
In the olden days many learned men plied their trade as astrologers, herbalists, alchemists, astromoners, naturalists, engineers, and artists. It was a true hodge podge of brainiacs. Some could tell you the exact phases of the moon for the next 10 years, some would rather feel bumps on your head to tell the future, and there were some who would do both.
Well, you can imagine as the various nobility, kings, queens, dukes and sheikhs got a bit fed up poneying up for the useless scam artists and nutjobs they needed a way to distinguish between the credible and the well not credible.
So what happened to those learned men faced with a life of poverty with no wealthy patron? They did the sensible thing. They began to write to each other share ideas and propose theories. Correspondants would reply with critcisms ( after all I want to show Im just as employable as that whacko who thinks the earth is actually round) eventually tests and experiments are suggested and the scientists who 'got it right' is lauded and patronage would be gained via recommendation. Everyone was happy. Except that is the con artists who, well , had to go back to pig farming.
There are some very important concepts to take out of the above paragraph. For today allthough science and technology has advanced so much, it works in much the same way.
First is the concept of peer review, this is where a scientist work is challenged, criticised, and given a thorough going over by other members of the scientific community. Some will be convinced by arguments presented and some will reject them.
But surely that means science is just opinion? Well no, this brings us to the next important concept in science, and that is the concept of falsifiability.
Remember those tests and experiments I talked about earlier. Well the idea of predicting and testing is very important in rejecting or accepting a theory or aspect of a theory. A theory can have no merit if it rejects the idea that it can be wrong. Moreover if it doesnt provide any method or mechanism by which it can be proved wrong its becomes unfalsifiable or otherwise useless.
One way scientists show a theory is falsifiable is by making risky predictions. A prediction that couldn't be made without the tenets of the theory being true.
One of the most famous predictions was when einstien predicted that the apparent position of the stars in the sky near the sun would be displaced. This was a risky prediction as the only way this could be tested was at a solar eclpise. In 1919 ten years after his initial predictions were made Einstein was proved right.
So yeah its very important to be able to test theories.blahblah.... not sure what else to write... is what ive done already okay? too much? too little?
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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 16 2006,07:46
well I do'nt think you should be worried that much.
I myself live in the Netherlands and over here religion is losing its power over society.
I'ts actually popular to punch such anti-evolution theories in the stumach.
In my school for example, a respected (read: christian school) for HAVO and VWO wich wil give you the possibility to go studie in Universities like the Erasmus University after completion (HAVO: higher general preparing education / VWO preparatory scientific education pre-university education), you get a negative reaction (if you take anything even related to creationism serious, people make you look stupid.
Aside from not being taken serious in the socieity if you you base your theories abouth earth on relligion, teachers teach you to make a clear difference between fiction (creationism) and science. 'After all it is us who created relligion and God not God'. You can see how whe changed and shaped God over the time. Everything whe can't explain in our own immagination is the work of God. Some teachers will even say these other theories are dangerous for your development in general
Over here you can't imagine how it would be to be raised with a sharp christion edge on educatione, and I think its a good thing.
Also churches are getting more and more empty every year, even witch christmas they are far from full.
I myself think religion should not be totally erased from society, its importend for people to hold on to something. You can see the bible as a guide to take right from wrong. And i'm sure that some people have a good live following the guidance of this book.' But you take it to far if you base such theories as creationism on it.
I Also think it's very good that there are forum's like this, where you can talk about the effects of religion on science and the other way around. (remember when all of us christians tought that earth was flat?)
(i'm sorry for my English, but i'm getting better in it)
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Anyone have any experience with these units? How reliable are they? What should I look for when buying one? Thanks.
i have one. so far it seems reliable, although it's very lightweight and completely made of plastic. (the polaroid polaprinter is much more heavier and robust) some units run on 4 "C" batteries and some use an AC adapter. the battery operated units are obviously very portable because they are so light & dont need a power supply. i would check that the rollers are clean, although if they arent they can easily be cleaned later. i would make sure the unit powers up and the flash fires. these units, i believe, have some sort of auto exposure mechanism, and a slide MUST be inserted for the unit to fire (thats been my experience.) make sure it comes with the filter holder also. |
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1 After a few days, Jesus returned to Capernaum, and word got around that he was back home. 2 A crowd gathered, jamming the entrance so no one could get in or out. He was teaching the Word. 3 They brought a paraplegic to him, carried by four men. 4 When they weren't able to get in because of the crowd, they removed part of the roof and lowered the paraplegic on his stretcher. 5 Impressed by their bold belief, Jesus said to the paraplegic, "Son, I forgive your sins." 6 Some religion scholars sitting there started whispering among themselves, 7 "He can't talk that way! That's blasphemy! God and only God can forgive sins." 8 Jesus knew right away what they were thinking, and said, "Why are you so skeptical? 9 Which is simpler: to say to the paraplegic, 'I forgive your sins,' or say, 'Get up, take your stretcher, and start walking'? 10 Well, just so it's clear that I'm the Son of Man and authorized to do either, or both . . ." (he looked now at the paraplegic), 11 "Get up. Pick up your stretcher and go home." 12 And the man did it - got up, grabbed his stretcher, and walked out, with everyone there watching him. They rubbed their eyes, incredulous - and then praised God, saying, "We've never seen anything like this!" 13 Then Jesus went again to walk alongside the lake. Again a crowd came to him, and he taught them. 14 Strolling along, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, at his work collecting taxes. Jesus said, "Come along with me." He came. 15 Later Jesus and his disciples were at home having supper with a collection of disreputable guests. Unlikely as it seems, more than a few of them had become followers. 16 The religion scholars and Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company and lit into his disciples: "What kind of example is this, acting cozy with the riff-raff?" 17 Jesus, overhearing, shot back, "Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I'm here inviting the sin-sick, not the spiritually-fit." 18 The disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees made a practice of fasting. Some people confronted Jesus: "Why do the followers of John and the Pharisees take on the discipline of fasting, but your followers don't?" 19 Jesus said, "When you're celebrating a wedding, you don't skimp on the cake and wine. You feast. Later you may need to pull in your belt, but not now. As long as the bride and groom are with you, you have a good time. No one throws cold water on a friendly bonfire. This is Kingdom Come!" 20 21 He went on, "No one cuts up a fine silk scarf to patch old work clothes; you want fabrics that match. 22 And you don't put your wine in cracked bottles." 23 One Sabbath day he was walking through a field of ripe grain. 24 As his disciples made a path, they pulled off heads of grain. The Pharisees told on them to Jesus: "Look, your disciples are breaking Sabbath rules!" 25 Jesus said, "Really? Haven't you ever read what David did when he was hungry, along with those who were with him? 26 How he entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, with the Chief Priest Abiathar right there watching - holy bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat - and handed it out to his companions?" 27 Then Jesus said, "The Sabbath was made to serve us; we weren't made to serve the Sabbath. 28 The Son of Man is no lackey to the Sabbath. He's in charge!"
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9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for 1they shall be called sons of God. 10 "Blessed are those who have been 2persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for 3theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 "Blessed are you when people 4insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12 "Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great ; for 5in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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13 "You are the salt of the earth ; but 6if the salt has become tasteless, how acan it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. 14 "You are 7the light of the world. A city set on a bhill cannot be hidden ; 15 8nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a cbasket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may 9see your good works, and 10glorify your Father who is in heaven. 17 "Do not think that I came to abolish the 11Law or the Prophets ; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18 "For truly I say to you, 12until heaven and earth pass away, not dthe smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 "Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches eothers to do the same, shall be called least 13in the kingdom of heaven ; but whoever fkeeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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1 And Israel journeyeth, and all that he hath, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, and sacrificeth sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac; 1 So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 and God speaketh to Israel in visions of the night, and saith, `Jacob, Jacob;' and he saith, `Here [am] I.' 2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he replied.
3 And He saith, `I [am] God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there; 3 "I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
4 I -- I go down with thee to Egypt, and I -- I also certainly bring thee up, and Joseph doth put his hand on thine eyes.' 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes."
5 And Jacob riseth from Beer-Sheba, and the sons of Israel bear away Jacob their father, And their infants, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh hath sent to bear him, 5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
6 and they take their cattle, and their goods which they have acquired in the land of Canaan, and come into Egypt -- Jacob, and all his seed with him, 6 They also took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.
7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, yea, all his seed he brought with him into Egypt. 7 He took with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters--all his offspring.
8 And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob's first-born, Reuben. 8 These are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob.
9 And sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.
10 And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul son of the Canaanitess. 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
11 And sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
13 And sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron.
14 And sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jahleel.
15 These [are] sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters [are] thirty and three. 15 These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, besides his daughter Dinah. These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all.
16 And sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 16 The sons of Gad: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.
17 And sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah. Their sister was Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.
18 These [are] sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she beareth these to Jacob -- sixteen persons. 18 These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah--sixteen in all.
19 Sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) [are] Manasseh and Ephraim. 20 In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
21 And sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.
22 These [are] sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the persons [are] fourteen. 22 These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob--fourteen in all.
23 And sons of Dan: Hushim. 23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
24 And sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem.
25 These [are] sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she beareth these to Jacob -- all the persons [are] seven. 25 These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel--seven in all.
26 All the persons who are coming to Jacob to Egypt, coming out of his thigh, apart from the wives of Jacob's sons, all the persons [are] sixty and six. 26 All those who went to Egypt with Jacob--those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons' wives--numbered sixty-six persons.
27 And the sons of Joseph who have been born to him in Egypt [are] two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who are coming into Egypt [are] seventy. 27 With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.
28 And Judah he hath sent before him unto Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen, and they come into the land of Goshen; 28 Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the region of Goshen,
29 and Joseph harnesseth his chariot, and goeth up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and appeareth unto him, and falleth on his neck, and weepeth on his neck again; 29 Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time.
30 and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Let me die this time, after my seeing thy face, for thou [art] yet alive.' 30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive."
31 And Joseph saith unto his brethren, and unto the house of his father, `I go up, and declare to Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and the house of my father who [are] in the land of Canaan have come in unto me; 31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
32 and the men [are] feeders of a flock, for they have been men of cattle; and their flock, and their herd, and all that they have, they have brought.' 32 The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.'
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To those who are not familiar with the intricacies of the Carson City Mint Morgan dollar series, the 1892-CC might at first seem like a common issue in Mint State. After all, the issue does have a generous mintage of 1.3 million pieces, and the lower mintage 1880-CC, 1881-CC and 1885-CC are readily obtainable in all grades from MS60 to MS65 (if not even MS66). Those 1880s issues, however, were widely represented in the GSA sales of CC-mint silver dollars conducted from 1972 through 1980, thus explaining the relative commonness of Mint State coins in today's market. For the 1892-CC, on the other hand, a single coin is all that the GSA counted among its holdings. Without the benefit of a large influx of coins from that source, the 1892-CC actually numbers among the scarcer Carson City Mint Morgans even in lower Mint State grades, and despite the aforementioned generous mintage.
In Gem Mint State this issue is an important condition rarity. An impressive piece in all regards, both sides are possessed of a brilliant, otherwise frosty textured sheen that yields to decided semi-prooflike reflectivity in the fields. Fully struck throughout, and uncommonly free of even trivial distractions. (PCGS 7214) Choice Uncirculated to Gem Uncirculated, semi-prooflike
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social problem novel, also called problem novel or social novel, work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized through its effect on the characters of a novel.
The type emerged in Great Britain and the United States in the mid-19th century. An early example is Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth (1853), which portrays a humane alternative to the “fallen woman’s” usual progress to social ostracism and prostitution during the period. If the work is strongly weighted to convert the reader to the author’s stand on a social question, as is the case with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), it is sometimes called a propaganda novel. Usually a social problem novel limits itself to exposure of a problem. A personal solution may be arrived at by the novel’s characters, but the author does not insist that it can be applied universally or that it is the only one. Most social problem novels derive their chief interest from their novelty or timeliness. For example, in 1947 Laura Z. Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement, revealing the unwritten code of anti-Semitism upheld in American middle-class circles, created a stir among a public freshly shocked by the Holocaust. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/40195 | Yes, Your New iPad Actually Runs 10 Degrees Hotter Than Your Old One en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:42:35 -0400 Dylan Love Magnolia Trainor Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:15:24 -0400 Sire, true Google gets millions of those widget requests, so does FB and Twitter. Fortunately, they modified their slow loading scripts recently to come up with this async version. SAL-e Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:25:57 -0400 "Calcium"?! LOL. Auto-(in)correct! It should be Celsius of course. Sorry. :) SAL-e Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:17:05 -0400 "If you really want to do a percentage based comparison, you need to convert to an absolute temperature scale like Kelvin, which shows you that it’s actually a 1.8 percent increase in temperature (306.75 / 301.45). This is middle school science." LOL Gruber and science?! LOL. This is prime example of fudging the numbers to prove a point. There are reason why different temperature scales are used. And even the Kelvin scale is relative. Here we are talking about human perception. So the best scale to use is indeed Calcium's scale. And the key reference point is 40'C. At that temperature some people will call it hot other will call it warm. Why? Because normal human temperature is about 36'C and based on your base-line acclimatization 5'C difference could be very noticeable or not. Jay Sandals Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:26:12 -0400 Check out this from Gruber: <a href="" target="_blank"></a> Matt Cutts Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:11:03 -0400 I am offering $1000 to the first person that show burn marks from their iPad usage. It's really hot I heard, unlike Android tablets. P.S. The "hack Kinect" competition I posted a year ago on Hacker News is dead. SAL-e Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:07:12 -0400 And how about you do the proper test your self and publish your results? Or your comment is one more empty accusation based on personal biasses. And for the record, this temperature increase will not have any adverse effect on any human holding the iPad and the whole thing is over-blown. There is only one component that will suffer. This is the battery. At that temperature the life of the battery will be shorten significantly, but again with rapid upgrade cycle this is not a problem for Apple users. Apple will have to buy back the device as part of upgrade, replace the battery and sell them back as refurbish model or as replacement unit. rvt Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:18:14 -0400 Tweakers pointed a camera to it, but what does it say? We don't know anything about it's pre-conditions before temp was measured and we have not a single clue about there test environments at tweakers. The left one could be just as well warmer because of a reflection of a other heat source running test test faulty. Aswell, tweakers didn't specify anything about how to repeat this test to confirm there findings. You know. all these so-called websites where there 'tests' is all nice and well, but for got sake, please test properly and don't 'just' point your fancy new toy aka infrared camera to something without knowing what you are doing. Sammy The Walrus V Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:32:00 -0400 I've heard that Macs explode. I hope iPads don't... Jim in Alabama Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:48:54 -0400 All 4 G capable devices run hotter so this was to be expected. Must be a slow news day at BI. Mojoron Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:44:41 -0400 Look at it this way: It is Obama's solution to the environment. You'll use less natural gas next winter. Isn't' he great! NOT! kenseth Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:28:11 -0400 I used to love this side but really this is the #1 story you got to be kidding me Dylan Love Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:37:52 -0400 We can hope, right? cabaretvoltaire Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:26:14 -0400 Hot enough to make Hello Kitty pancakes? |
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Lesson Plan: For Teachers: The Environment: Issues and Politics
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To conduct internet research on current environmental issues and their impact on political decision-making and activism.
Using a variety of web-based resources, students will examine current environmental issues confronting governments, political leaders, and activist groups.
Lesson Plan
During the 1970s and 1980s acid rain became one of the most critical and controversial environmental questions of the day. Scientists were able to identify acid rain as a serious environmental hazard with obvious causes, but the United States government, despite pressure from Canada, did not want to assume its share of responsibility for curbing the emission of industrial pollutants into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, environmental activist groups on both sides of the border campaigned vigorously to raise public attention and to lobby politicians. The two countries eventually agreed on a treaty, but it may have come too late to restore the health of many lakes and rivers. Today, environmental issues continue to be at the forefront of Canada-U.S. relations.
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Students will prepare and present a report on one current environmental issue and its impact on political decision-making and activism. They should choose an issue of interest to them, that has received media attention, and that has involved political leaders, governments, and environmental activist groups, for example:
Clearcut logging in British Columbia
Coalbed methane development in Alberta
The Sydney Tar Ponds in Nova Scotia
Tainted water in Walkerton, Ontario
The power blackout of August 2003 in Ontario
Oil and natural gas pipeline development in the Northwest Territories
The depletion of the cod fishery in Newfoundland
Students will explain how their selected issue became political through the actions or inaction of governments and activist groups. Students will compare their issue to acid rain, indicating any similarities and differences in the political process leading to a resolution.
The Process
Students will work in pairs or small groups, beginning their research on the topic Acid Rain: Pollution and Politics on the CBC Digital Archives website. Students will then expand their research to include resources relevant to their chosen topic, including but not limited to internet resources and newspaper and magazine archives. Students should distribute the research and writing evenly in their pair or group. Students must cite all resources consulted and quoted. Pairs or groups should prepare a summary of their research and conclusions.
Have pairs or groups present their summaries to the class. Conduct a class discussion on the effectiveness of environmental activist groups in achieving environmental and political change.
Resources for this Topic
Carroll, John E. Acid Rain: An Issue in Canadian-American Relations. C.D. Howe Institute, 1982.
Mason, B.J. Acid Rain: Its Causes and Its Effects on Inland Waters. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1992. Pawlick, Thomas.A Killing Rain: The Global Threat of Acid Precipitation. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1984.
Ross, Howard, and Michael Perley. Poisoned Skies: Who'll Stop Acid Rain? Toronto: Stoddart, 1991.
Trouble in the Forest. (National Film Board of Canada, 1988: Gary Toole, dir.)
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On July 8, 2010, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) notified CDC of a case of laboratory-confirmed measles in an unvaccinated airline passenger aged 23 months (1). The child had arrived hours earlier on a flight from Switzerland and was contagious during the flight. After obtaining the flight manifest, CDC shared locating information with relevant state health departments; of 31 passengers considered exposed (i.e., seated within two rows and any infant seated anywhere on the airplane), 29 (94%) were notified.
On July 28, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) notified CDC and MDPH that one of the airline contacts had developed laboratory-confirmed measles. The ill traveler came to the United States as a chaperone for students from Europe and Asia attending an educational program. During July 20--23 (while contagious and before being isolated), he exposed 270 students and counselors in Massachusetts and New York. Member of this group were scheduled to return to their home countries from July 30 through August 6. Because exposed, susceptible persons who are incubating measles might be infectious 5--21 days after initial exposure, the surveillance period was determined to be until August 14 (2,3). CDC Quarantine Stations in Boston and New York worked with NYSDOH and MDPH to assess the immune status of contacts before permitting them to fly. Presumptive evidence of immunity to measles was defined as 1) documentation of at least 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine or 2) serologic evidence of immunity.
Of the 270 persons considered exposed, 268 (99%) were cleared to fly as scheduled: 242 provided documentation of vaccination and 26 had serologic evidence of immunity. Two persons lacked evidence of immunity and voluntarily postponed their departures until the end of the surveillance period. CDC requested that the airlines waive any fees for changing flights. No febrile rash illnesses have been reported among exposed persons.
To prevent the spread of measles, international travelers are encouraged to have evidence of measles immunity. Persons with measles or those who might be incubating measles should avoid travel aboard commercial airlines until they are no longer infectious. Organizations hosting international students should consider asking participants to provide documentation of adequate vaccination.
Reported by
N Cocoros, MPH, R Hernandez, MPH, N Harrington, Massachusetts Dept of Public Health; E Rausch-Phung, MD, CR Schulte, D Blog, MD, New York State Dept of Health. K Gallagher, DSc, Div of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; A Klevos, MPH, C Kim, MD, N Marano, DVM, F Alvarado-Ramy, MD, Div of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC.
The findings in this report are based, in part, on contributions by the Westchester County Dept of Health, New York.
1. CDC. Case definitions for infectious conditions under public health surveillance. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/ncphi/disss/nndss/casedef/index.htm. Accessed August 23, 2010.
2. CDC. Manual for the surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases, 4th ed. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2009. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/default.htm. Accessed August 5, 2010.
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BMW's earth, wind and fire
BMW unveiled two completely new motorcycles and two revised models at the 2007 EICMA Motorcycle Show in Milan on Wednesday.
The much-anticipated BMW F 800 GS is a middle-weight motorcycle capable of being taken for the occasional off-road shortcut, while the new G 450 X is an off-road racer.
Meanwhile, the R 1200 GS and its heftier counterpart, the R 1200 GS Adventure, have been updated for better endurance. The Adventure also includes a gas tank that doing an average of 56 mph should take you 466 miles before you need to refuel.
Click here for full gallery on the bikes.… Read more
PlayStation 2 ditches power brick in Japan
The Sony PlayStation 2 has morphed tremendously over the years, from a fat black box to a streamlined sexy thing in contrasting hues. The only problem with the last installment is a cumbersome external power brick. But that's going out the window, at least in Japan, with a new 9000-series that includes an integrated AC power supply. Three colors (Charcoal Black, White Ceramic and Silver Satin) are available and each will be retailing for about $142 on the Japanese market, according to Gizmodo. There were no launch details for the rest of Asia at press time.
(Source: Crave Asia) … Read more
Do you like computer guts?
How can you look inside your iPhone without voiding your warranty? Want to peer into the innards of your iPod? And how exactly did they make computer memory in 1974?
Over at Crave sister site they've been posting photos of electronics vivisection. I know, the operating room isn't our usual arena. But this time the patient's one of the popular electronic devices listed below. Occasionally they even put them back together in working order!
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Maybe what the Wii needs is a little fishing
We were saddened to hear that fellow Craver Will Greenwald has fallen into a Wii funk of late. But perhaps he just needs a break from his buddy Mario, and we think we've found the relaxing pastime he needs--a little fishing.
Dragon's new fishing rod controller would seem to be the perfect accompaniment to the "Bass Fishing Wii" that came out in Japan over the summer. Best of all, it even includes a faux fish at the end of its faux line--because the last thing we'd want is to sour him even more on the … Read more
Uber game chair has endless features
If you're one of those gamers for whom a beat-up old BarcaLounger doesn't cut it, I might have just the fancy alternative for you.
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I present the Renegade, the latest in the Ultimate Game Chair series.
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I got a hilarious e-mail this morning from video game giant Activision touting the tremendous sales of the latest iteration of its hit franchise, Guitar Hero.
The subject line of the e-mail began, "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock earns $115 in first week."
After I got through blinking a few times to make sure I was reading it right--I was--I looked into the body of the e-mail and saw that, yes, the company had left out a rather meaningful word: "million."
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40 Lombard St., Toronto, Ontario
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The Empire
sold by: Wittemann Brothers, New York, agents for Louis Glaser's Souvenir Albums
1 reproduction : wove paper
Support: 30.900 x 24.100 cm
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This item is the front cover to a memoria album of Sir John A. Macdonald. See accession file for list of images contained within this album.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/40318 | Costume :Meenah Peixes
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Meenah Peixes
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s)(ell yeah.
The outfit was pretty simple. There are quite a few small details missing due to lack of time and resources, but shuuuuush. I made up for it by actually having pointy teeth.
The huge plaits aren't actually hair or wig hair at all - I cheated by using rope. And tripped over them a lot. How is Meenah not CONSTANTLY tripping over her hair?
I commissioned the trident from PurplePenguin.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/40321 | Kevin Hunt: DIY 'Cloud' Storage (Cheap) With Pogoplug
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The Electronic Jungle
March 10, 2013
A little space in the cloud doesn't cost a lot. The first five gigabytes, in fact, are usually free from services like Amazon's Cloud Drive, Google Drive and Apple's iCloud.
For those who haven't stuck their heads in the cloud, these services store personal documents, music, movies and photos on a remote server so you can access them anywhere from a computer, smartphone, tablet or other device.
I found a much better freebie, 50 gigabytes, recently at, enough to store everything (if I desired) currently on my iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, MacBook and Dell laptop. Yes, I live a fairly spare digital life, except when it comes to music. My music library, approaching 700 gigabytes, keeps growing.
That's what led me to Pogoplug's "personal" cloud storage concept, which debuted in 2009 with a device that looked like an external hard drive but acted more like a mini-computer.
Now in its fourth generation, the Series 4 ($99 retail; $40 at resembles an AppleTV or Roku set-top box, but its mission remains the same: When connected to a router and an external hard drive (or with the current version, an eSata drive, USB 2.0/3.0 drive or SD card), it creates your own private cloud with no monthly fees.
It's like a simplified, easy-to-set-up, network-attached storage system. Everything on the connected drives become available on Pogoplug's iPhone, iPad and Android apps and Windows and Mac computers. Setup takes only a few minutes.
Once the Pogoplug is connected to a router, the user registers at the Pogoplug website ( Download the app and you're ready to go.
Unlike a cloud service, which actually stores your data, Pogoplug streams a hard drive's contents back to your smartphone. For documents or photos, the Pogoplug worked smoothly during my evaluation. Luckily, my interest in Pogoplug was not as a mobile music streamer for my iPhone.
Using my iPhone's Verizon Wireless 3G connection, I could not play a song without it sputtering or stalling altogether. Before playing a movie, the Pogoplug transcodes the file into an "optimized" format for streaming, a process that can run longer than the movie. ("Quantum of Solace," I believe, is in the third week of transcoding.)
Over a Wi-Fi connection, however, the Pogoplug did exactly what I had hoped: It accessed my music library, without iTunes or a computer, while reducing power consumption to five watts. Here's how it worked: I copied all the music onto an external hard drive and connected it to the Pogoplug. I then downloaded the Pogoplug app to both my iPhone and iPad.
The mobile devices were not the last stop on this wireless train. They merely acted as a remote control by sending the audio to an Airport Express — an AppleTV would work too — also linked to the home network and finally to a connected audio system. All this to bypass booting up a computer? To this lazy-bones listener, there's nothing like instant-on, no-fuss music.
The music portion of the Pogoplug app resembles Apple's Remote app but lacks access to playlists or queuing up multiple tracks. It also displays few album covers from my library, which the company's chief product officer, Jed Putterman, says is unavoidable with iTunes.
"Unfortunately," he says, "iTunes stores some cover art in their own proprietary database rather than in the file itself."
The Pogoplug's maker, Cloud Engines, itself appears to be moving toward the cloud, with a service that charges $4.95 a month for unlimited storage. The Pogoplug is stuck on Series 4, which first appeared in late 2011. How about a Series 5 with wireless connection instead of a direct-to-router lifeline?
The older, USB-only Pogoplugs are essentially the same as the newest version. I paid $20, shipped, for a second-generation version coveted by hobbyists because it can be turned into an on-the-cheap version of Logitech's now-discontinued Squeezebox music server. (See the VortexBox forum at
A newer, smaller Pogoplug Mobile is available at for $2 more. Just add an external hard drive, even a USB jump drive, and your head's in your personal cloud.
What: Pogoplug media sharing
Price: $20 to $40,
Hot: Inexpensive "personal" cloud storage with no monthly fees.
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God's presence in school
A Christian Science perspective: People can take their awareness of God's presence anywhere they go. Prayers don't need to be voiced out loud in order to be legitimate.
By Mark Swinney / June 17, 2013
A favorite Bible promise, found right toward the beginning of the book, is: "My presence shall go with thee" (Exodus 33:14). No matter where a person goes, right there is God, fully and entirely. The presence of God – whom the Bible also calls Love and Spirit – is truly an ever-presence. This divine presence never could be bounded or excluded by any thing, opinion, or decree.
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While it's appropriate that theology is not to be legislated by any government, that doesn't mean that this presence of God can somehow be excluded from a school building. One's knowledge and awareness of God resides within – a person takes it wherever he or she goes.
Prayers in school certainly don't need to be voiced out loud in order to be legitimate. The inspired ideas in a prayer, silently and secretly embraced in one's heart, are quite sufficient. Jesus stated, "[T]hy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly" (Matthew 6:6).
There are many classrooms in which the teachers do more praying than the students – and rightly so. Teaching is a demanding job, and to be able to turn wholeheartedly to the Spirit that is Love is a great advantage, both to the teachers and students. There's a richness in a classroom where praying is quietly happening, and it's seen in growth, care for others, and a hunger to learn.
When a child leaves home for school, there may be times, because of the separation, when both the parent and student feel a bit unsure – even downright worried. Again, "My presence shall go with thee." The presence of God is there solidly wherever a child goes. While a parent may be separated from a student, divine Love can never be detached from anyone. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of The Christian Science Monitor, said it so clearly: "Where God is we can meet, and where God is we can never part" ("The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," p. 131).
Recently, a friend was unjustly accused of plagiarism. She tried to explain to her teacher that, as a result of a glitch in the college's computer system, the reference to one quote did not get cited correctly. She was asked to appear before a board to be sentenced and, despite her parents' protests, was expelled just a few days before she was to graduate.
When I learned about this sentence, I couldn't help praying. Even though I was separated from the school by more than a thousand miles, I realized strongly and clearly that not a single person on that campus was separated from God. When your thought is permeated by the truth and intelligence of God like that, the power of God embraces everything you see and experience. Clearly, God's power can't be expelled from any school. A day later, the ruling was summarily overturned and wiped clean from this student's record. She happily accepted her well-earned diploma.
Anytime a heartfelt appreciation of God's presence, whether in a classroom or anywhere else, is abiding solidly within a parent, child, or teacher, that is effective, healing prayer in action.
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Watch this please :)
Awesome.. BUMP
Thank you
I got it from the Paul Festival facebook page. Tampa is going to be insane.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/40364 | Comment: Agree 100%
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Agree 100%
And yet, at some point, everyone has to be accountable for the moral decisions they make.
And I would also agree that the trend toward robotic warfare and force management in general is way too dangerous.
A simple helmet to hide the face on riot police seems to invigorate some of them.
I was a military brat (dependent), so my programming runs deep. I re-read my own comment as a defense of that ideal, to be sure.
As you say, defense of the military status quo and the concept of accountability are difficult to reconcile.
Based on history, it certainly seems there is a problem somewhere.
insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results Einstein
Some rethinking is certainly in order. ;)
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RE: Electric?
By Avatar28 on 11/30/2009 3:32:32 PM , Rating: 4
It sort of is electric, actually. Let me explain.
A normal hybrid uses an electric motor to supplement a gasoline or diesel engine that also provides power directly to the drive train. Some can run entirely on electric power up to a certain speed (eg the Ford Fusion can go up to 45mph on the electric motors alone). Others always require the internal combustion engine to be running to move the vehicle. The batteries are charged entirely through regenerative braking (and possibly through the alternator as well? not sure on that). In other words, to this point hybrids are basically normal internal combustion powered vehicles with an electric boost.
The volt is a different animal entirely. It is one of if not the first (mass production) plug-in hybrid. The car runs ENTIRELY on electrical power. There is an electric motor that provides ALL of the power to the drive train. The car has a much larger battery pack than traditional hybrids and it is charged by connecting it to a special charger in your home or business. There is a smallish onboard internal combustion engine that drives an electric generator. This is used to recharge the batteries as you near the end of their range (around 40 miles I believe) and doesn't even kick on until they are depleted to a certain point. It does not move the car directly in any way. In short, the Volt and other plug-in hybrids are electric vehicles with an onboard electrical generator to provide additional range.
On a related note, it should be interesting to see how the Volt competes with the new plug-in hybrid that Nissan is building. They are working to deploy a network of fast charge stations at gas stations and businesses (such as Wal-Mart) in Tennessee and a couple of other states (to start) where you could plug in your car to top it off in a short amount of time. It seems to me this is exactly where some sort of standard needs to be reached. If all of the auto companies would work together on this then they could greatly accelerate the deployment of these stations (and thus the adoption of the technology).
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You can check out the offical chargers already
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Ummm... nothing wrong with that at all.
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And if you don't make it aerosolized.
Then again anything can burn if its dispersed enough...
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RE: Disagree
By Ard on 4/26/2010 10:50:17 AM , Rating: 2
I would say the numbers are against you. Even if we surmise that the chances of life forming are one in a billion, that still leaves a billion times life will form/evolve (and that's taking the low estimate, as the high end estimates that there are a trillion, billion planets in the universe based on what we've observed so far).
As to the ability of sentient life to reach us, I would simply look to the anthropic principle (taken out of context for this example but useful nonetheless). If aliens were able to reach us, it is undoubtedly the case that they would have the technological means to do so. It also goes without saying that they would be far more intelligent than our species. And, when you get right down to it, if an alien species developed closer in time to the formation of the universe (there's about a 9 billion year gap between the age of earth and the age of the universe), it makes sense that they would be more intelligent because they would potentially have millions to billions of years of a head start on us.
While it's certainly delving into the realm of science fiction at the moment, who says that there isn't an ability to bend (or warp to use Star Trek parlance) space to effectively travel faster than light without breaking that "law". Just because we can't fathom, now, how to traverse ridiculous expanses of space in a reasonable time period, doesn't mean that we won't be able to someday.
All that to say, I think it's definitely more likely than not that there is other life in the universe of some of that life will undoubtedly be sentient. Is there any proof yet? Of course not. That's why I don't say it in absolute terms (nor do you in taking the opposite position). It's simply more likely that there is than there isn't based on the numbers. For me to think otherwise is to take a very egocentric and irrational approach to the sheer vastness of the universe.
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RE: It's about time
By Warwulf on 1/28/2012 9:55:44 AM , Rating: 2
That's the same line the co-CEOs were toting as their stocks continued sliding.
The evidence is clear by any metric you want to use. Stock price. Market Share. Gross earnings. They're following in the exact footsteps of Palm. Before you know it, RIM too will be a failed division of HP. I personally knew RIM was sunk when their new "flagship" Blackberry Torch shipped with the same 624 MHz processor as my two year old Blackberry Bold 9000.
They need a radical overhaul. The need cutting edge phones that they can come to market with TODAY, instead of waiting for some future chipset development. They need a shorter product rollout cycle and more differentiation in their product line. They also need more developer support... either by running emulation and virtualization to allow native Android apps to run or by dumping their OS altogether and shipping a custom fork of Android ICS.
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RE: Hmm
By Belard on 8/29/2012 1:43:20 PM , Rating: 1
Go to the Google Play store. Do a search on "Launcher 7" - its free. Install it... enjoy.
Does things that WP7/8 doesn't do. Rotate the title orientation, custom colored tiles to specific ones - if you want. So for example, all my tiles are rich blue, but my Phone tile is green.
Been using this for 1.5 years on my Galaxy1.
With ICS on the Atrix HD, I think I'll be using the default UI as its better than 2.x and seems to do what I want.
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Mayank Srivastava
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History of Computer Programming
Visual Basic Concepts
Application of Visual Basic
What is a Program?
• Program is a specific set of ordered operations for a computer to perform.
What is a Complier ?
• A special program that processes statements written in a particular programming
processor uses.
Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine
The earliest form of a computer language was physical
The tasks were executed by changing the gears which
performed the calculations.
Electronic Numerical Integrator (ENIAC)
Calculations were performed using electrical signals in
stead of physical motion.
"Programmed" by presetting switches and rewiring the
entire system for each new "program" or calculation.
John Von Neumann
Shared-program technique
Conditional control transfer
Conditional control transfer the brought about the idea computer code
should be able to branch based on logical statements such as IF
(expression) THEN, and looped such as with a FOR statement.
Conditional control transfer also gave rise to the idea of libraries.
Short Code
Short Code was the first computer language for
electronic devices.
Required the programmer to change its statements into
0's and 1's by hand.
Grace Hooper and the Complier
A compiler is a program that turns the language's
statements into 0's and 1's for the computer to understand.
Lead to faster programming
Auto Code
The AutoCode-compiler, which compiles symbolic assembler
language on a Manchester Mark I computer.
The first of the major languages.
Developed by IBM for scientific computing.
Language included IF, DO, and GOTO statements.
The basic types of data in use today got their start in
FORTRAN, these included logical variables (TRUE or
FALSE), and integer, real, and double-precision numbers.
Designed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.
The difference between this language and other languages
is that the basic and only type of data is the list, denoted by
a sequence of items enclosed by parentheses.
LISP programs themselves are written as a set of lists, so
that LISP has the unique ability to modify itself, and hence
grow on its own.
Algorithmic Language
Independent of specific type of hardware.
Language was carefully and formally designed.
Algol’s major contribution is being the basis for Pascal, C,
C++, and Java.
It was also the first language with a formal grammar, known
as Backus-Naar Form or BNF.
COmmon Business Oriented Language
Designed from the ground up as the language for
Data types were numbers and strings of text.
It allowed for the data to be grouped into arrays and
records, so that data could be tracked and organized better.
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code)
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz invents BASIC
and its compiler. It was developed at Dartmouth
College as a teaching tool
Pascal was developed mainly out of necessity for a good teaching tool.
Designed in a very orderly approach, it combined many of the best
The combination of features, input/output and solid mathematical features,
made it a highly successful language.
Pascal also improved the "pointer" data type, a very powerful feature of
any language that implements it.
It also added a CASE statement that allowed instructions.
C was developed the Unix system. Unix gives C such
advanced features as dynamic variables (e.g. variant),
multitasking, interrupt handling, forking, and strong, low-
level, input-output.
Because of this, C is very commonly used to program
operating systems such as Unix, Windows, the MacOS,
and Linux.
OOP and C++
In the late 1970's and early 1980's, Object Oriented Programming, or
OOP was developed.
Objects are pieces of data that can be packaged and manipulated by the
In 1983 developed into the language C++
C++ was designed to organize the raw power of C using OOP, maintain
Visual Basic (VB)
Evolved from BASIC
With the development of Microsoft windows graphical user
interface (GUI) in the late 1980s and the early 1990s,
BASIC evolved into VB.
VB is developed on using forms and windows using in
which a programs drags and drops into the program.
Netscape licensed Java for use in their internet browser.
Has optimization problems
Java may wind up as the instructional language of
tomorrow as it is truly object-oriented and implements
advanced techniques such as true portability of code and
garbage collection.
Visual Basic Concepts
VB is windows based programming language that
allows a programmer to build applications running
under Windows.
VB constructs the necessary building blocks that a Windows
application needs
Hence, very little coding needs to be performed
Integrated development environment (IDE) allows the
programmer to create, run and debug Windows
programs in one application
VB is a EVENT driven language
Code is written to respond to specific events
Allows code to be short and is compartmentalized by events.
Visual Basic Environment
How to start Visual Basic?
Visual Basic Environment
Integrated Environment Screen
Menu Bar: lists of commands
Tool Bar: quick access to mostly common used
Form:window where the application is designed
Project Explorer: a list of forms,modules, classes
or ActiveX components
Properties Window: a list of the property settings
for a control
Tool Box: a set of tools designing applications
Form Layout: set the forms screen position
Menu Bar
Tool Bar
Toolbox Form
Selection Tool Picture Box
Label Text Box
Frame Command Button
Check Box
Option Button
Combo Box
List Box
Horizontal Scroll Bar
Vertical Scroll Bar
Drive Box
Directory List
File list
Image Box
Data Control
OLE Control
Operations on a Project
How to Open?
Choose the file open icon on the toolbar or
the file open menu
Type in or choose the name of the file to
Same as other MS software
Operations on a Project
How to Save?
A VB project consists of many forms, modules,
and graphics, and all of them are saved within
separate files within the project
Project File Extensions
Design-time Files
Miscellaneous Development Files
Run-time Files
Saving a project
Saving a form or module
Automatic saving of project files and forms
Using help
Using Controls on a Form
Adding a control to a form
Selecting a control
Resizing a control
Deleting a control
Moving a control
Setting control properties
Object Box – displays the name of the selected
Properties List – displays a scrollable list of all
properties for the selected control
Adding code to controls
Option Explicit – error preventing statement
Adding Comments to Code
Comments are useful to remind the
programmer about the purpose of the code or
any problems with it
Text within the code window are color coded
Green – comments
Blue – valid VB commands
Black – programmer’s code
Building A Visual Basic Application
Step 1: Draw the interface
Step 2: Set properties
Step 3: Write codes
Step 4: Execute the program
Controlling the Program Flow
Conditional Operator
Operator Meaning
= Equal to
> More than
< Less Than
>= More than and equal
<= Less than and equal
<> Not Equal to
Controlling the Program Flow
Logical Operators
Operator Meaning
And Both sides must be true
Or One side or other must be
Xor One side or other must be
true but not both
Not Negates truth
Controlling the Program Flow
If – Then - Else statement
If conditions Then VB expressions
VB expressions
End If
Case Select Statement
Select Case expression
Case value1
Block of one or more VB statements
Case value2
Block of one or more VB Statements
Declaring a Variable
Dim Variable as Variable Type
Dim r as Integer
Dim pi as Double
If variable is not declared the program will
consider it as an variant
VB Codes
Program for finding the volume of a cone and a
Dim r as double
Dim h as double
Dim pi as double
Dim v as double
r = Val(radius.Text)
h = Val(hght.Text)
Pi = 22 / 7
v = Pi * (r ^ 2) * h
volume.Text = Str$(v)
The general format of a function is:
where arguments are values that are passed on
to the functions
Visual Basic
Problem Statement
Calculate the commission
Sales Volume($) Commissions
<500 3%
<1000 6%
<2000 9%
<5000 12%
>5000 15%
Macro in Excel
Function Comm(Sales_V As Variant) as Variant
If Sales_V <500 Then
Elseif Sales_V>=500 and Sales_V<1000 Then
Elseif Sales_V>=1000 and Sales_V<2000 Then
Elseif Sales_V>=200 and Sales_V<5000 Then
Elseif Sales_V>=5000 Then
End If
End Function
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ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
argue reguires that
you take one side,
analyze reguires to
close examination of
something, compare professional people,
and contrast is the total number of scientists, business
similarity and pages, double space people, lawyers,
argue, analyze, difference between or single, font, supervisisors and
0 compare or describe two things No sources have use collegues
Describe how the
history, culture and
survey of information geography may have
on topic influenced
(contemporary music contemporary music
from a specific in the geographical
geographical area) area you have At least ten sources,
and American chosen. How has the with a minimum of
contemporary music outside world five journal articles
(in order to compare influenced this and three books. MLA
2 describe, compare the two) music? Style Manual.
research recipes pick
a recipe buy food
prepare food pack
food to transport to
class bring food to Dish must be
class present food at homemade -nothing
3 make bring cooking at home potluck "store bought"
4 compare and contrast no classmates
Look at different
solutions and put Introduction, Review,
14 Review, Synthesize them together Thesis, Conclusion 3-5 pages
there is an abstract,
taking my views apart discussion and I can present this as a
analyze, summarize, and looking at them summary required of powerpoint my teacher and
40 and react closely me presentation students
Page 1
43 fast food
preface, introduction,
inter-relationship of chapter 1 and chapter
46 analysis aspects 3 complete it by July 1 IB researchers
ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
60 the instructor
Tells of the history of
ADHD, what ADHD
is, who does it affect, History, Diagnosing,
what medications are Description of ADHD,
63 describing there for ADHD. medications Nope
Page 2
pro-active - take
compare and several sources and formatting - 1 inch
contrast; analyze and distill main points and margins, times-
report; extract and connect them no - just an analysis roman, verdana or just my instructor and
132 digitize together part easy font to read class
this is an informative
explain, inform, essay, not an
136 interest argument. one part Use MLA method classmates
Page 3
ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
use a variety of Submit all the
relevant sources to evaluated sources in
write an informative your research paper
or argumentative (Citation), avoid
essay, assignment plagiarism ->
Informative or should be 1,000 to paraphrase
Argumentative,Explai 1,250 words or 4 to 5 accurately, Portfolio Other Members of the
n & Demonstrate Inform, Argue, pages, MLA style due Wednesday, Class, Group B
139 Research Explain, Demonstrate documentation 11/16 (50254)
create, website,
health needs and use Netobjects
147 solutions, local build website technical, content software classmates
identify ethical
dilemma, present
facts, possible
optiona and
consequences, use of APA
argue, analyze, respect for individual, guidelines,grammar/s
156 compare ethical dilemmas beneficience, justice pelling classmates
what is the dilemma?
sides of the dilemma--
options and
consequences? my
opposing sides-- pros opinion and why.
and cons, my position impact on nursing-- APA guidelines, peer
and why-- respect, beneficience, reviewed journal possibly other
159 highlight, rationalize, explaination, rationale justice. articles, 4-6 pages, classmates
Yes. Advantages of
pros and cons of normal vaginal
166 argue elective C section delivery Use APA format None
to pick one side of the
167 argue dilema yes, research APA guidelines none
Page 4
assemble, expand,
generate, identify,
promote, Interview Contact &
compile,utilize, Identify...Analyze...Pr Online Resources & Mothers and Fathers
182 translate, improve active/persuasive esent...Persuade Dental Professionals of Bottlefed Babies
Page 5
ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
Yes; Follow the PLEASED Yes; Members of our
Research, Organize, Research/Organize, criteria and utilize the class, Public Service
191 Discuss Wholistic Discuss, Present WWW Contact
Group completion of
Create a website, project, multiple
create, develop, develop a graphics, create website, pages, attendance
organize, publish, publish issues, publish a website, and participation, parents, children and
195 present, reasearch design present in class presentation public
multiple pages ,
developing and graphics, transfered
196 prevention educational approach publishing to www., presentation
describe, compare, contribute and description,
198 argue, analyze prevent stroke prevention, treatment build a website yes, all
Internet, WWW
concept, HTML
Developing the essentials,
Research, discuss, concept, hand drawn, graphics/multimedia Nursing students,
analyze, describe, present, producing a issues and formats, people who spend a
decide, publish, Get organized and website,making a file structure, and lot of time outdoors,
199 present, and explain gather information. draft hyperlinks and beach lovers
Page 6
Topic; Brief outline;
Detailed outline;
Critically analyze Annotated
historical and current bibliography; First Kate Zhou, Mike
rural industrialization Proposal; Second Douglass, other
argue, analyze, and economic reform Proposal; Third professors, DURP
evaluate, assess, policies; Look closely Proposal; Final students; Chinese
202 explain, describe at the Proposal students and faculty
204 organic cotton research interview analysis market
Page 7
ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
yes. The main parts
are to determine the
ethical problem, both Position must be
research and own sides of the story, and made clear.
analyze, rationalize, analysis of the determing what Rationales on my
206 determine information position I believe. position are required. Clinical group
highlight both sides of
gathering information the dilemma, highlight
compare, argue, research, obtaining on both sides of this my stance with the nope, just my
216 describe facts and opinions ethical dilemma rationals to back it up. instructor
5-7 page historical professionals,
historical research, topical literature individuals with
provide current status review, minimum of 5 disabilities, family
of research, write references, 3 are members,
compare, provide, look at similarities historical topical peer reviewed journal administrators, policy
225 assess and differences literature review articles makers
4-6 pages, 5-10
develop, investigate, close examination of Identify, Present, resources, APA
231 highlight, analyze alternatives Consider, Decide format classmates
Decription of
dilemma, How it For my specific topic,
effects nursing analyisis of reasearch
practice, how I feel and implementation
233 explore analysis about this dilemma. to my nursing partice medical community
double space in red
264 describe use details no and white ink
Page 8
Look for information,
search for sources,
research, search, choose what sources use at least 3 Other member of our
evaluate, understand, to use, develop sources, 400 - 500 class will also view
277 develop informative essay no words the paper.
ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
informative, Informative, Portfolio, Research Write in third person, Class Members,
281 argumentative argumentative Paper MLA Style, Family, Father
Choose to write
informative or
These verbs help to Yes. Creating a argumentative, write
guide us ,the portfolio, writing the in third person,
choose, challenging, students, through the paper, and citing submit first draft to members of class,
282 find, read, and use assignment. sources turnitin peer group, tutors
determine your defining point of view
stance, analyze clearly, looking at establish issue,
question, develop both sides of provide support for no more than six well just next years
investigative dilemma, pursuit of both sides and then pages APA students ot have
284 perspective facts state your own stance guidelines examples of format
Page 9
my English 100 class,
287 university students
Page 10
ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
issue affecting us as make it interesting for classmates and
296 compare, relate medical nurses nurses to read nurses
yes, picking the topic,
313 research, informative active research thesis and draft thesis classmates
Highlight both sides Probably just the
Really take a close of dilemma and make APA guidelines 4-6 instructor and
319 analyze look at the topic your stance clear pages long classmates
identify ethical
dilemma; present
underlying facts;
consider possible
options & Highlight both sides
consequences; of the dilemma but my
decide on course(s) position should be
of action utilizing: made clear with
respect for individual, rationalization. Follow
beneficience & APA guidelines using peers - Nursing
identify, present, justice; use of APA a minimum of 4 students or other
consider, decide, Guidelines; & pages & maximum of health care
321 analyze, highlight informative grammar & spelling 6 pages. professionals
Argue, requires that
you take a side,
analysis requires a
close examination of
something, compare
and contrast, requires Write a short essay
you to look for about syphillis and
similarities and Gohonereah and how
differences between it impacted the
argue, analyze, two or more things, hawaiians when cook Use time lines and
323 compare, describe and draw conclusion. arrived. geographical areas No.
Page 11
Identify Ethical
dilemma, Present
underlying facts,
consider possible
actions and
Decide on courses of
action utilizing:
respect for he APA format, 4-6
individual, pages double
325 Analyze ethical Beneficience, Justice spaced, 5 sources
ID 2_1_1 2_1_2 2_1_3 2_1_4 2_1_5
Examine the measles
and how various parts
of the events related
affect one another or
relate to the whole,
evaluate the
resources from which Analyze the role that
you obtain population collapse
information, and and foreign
reconstruct the past influences played in
to paint a clearer the destruction of
evaluate, analyze, picture of what might Hawaiian cultural Perhaps some
326 reconstruct have happened practices. members of the class
analyze will help me
to examine the topic yes there is more
and compare would than one part to this
be environmental assignment,research,
327 analyze, compare impacting on topic draft then final draft. do MLA format students in class
identification of issue,
compare & contrast, arguments of both
highlight both sides, defining issue, pros & sides, position, minimum of 4 pages,
328 choose position cons about issue conclusion APA guidelines classmates
Page 12
No. Describe, explain Not to pass 1947
Analyze, compare & Lots of reading and diseases in the 19th when writing about Yes, members of my
329 Contrast critical thinking & 20th century Hawaii diseases in Hawaii family
Research the year of Be sure to show
your birth and choose opposing views as classmates and
338 research , argument Research one topic to argue well in your paper general public
Do plenty of research Assignment,
and use the material Research Topic Must be based on an
you find in your Conferences, event or somesuch
Research, search, essay. Be sure to cite Research Draft, that happened in my People with opinions
361 identify, properly! Research Final Birth year. about the NAFTA.
Research. Works
relating the life Cited (6 - 2 net max).
examination, experience to his 1000 Words. LILO.
connecting the writing, evaluating his Web/CT. 5 sht, 3 No audience
373 analyze and evaluate relationships. effects on me. long. Group credit. specified
History, works of the
author, and whats
376 Describe happening now Other Students
Page 13
Yes. The main parts
of my assignment are
to use MLA format,
stay within my
debatable topic
thesis, organization,
usage of quotes, Yes, fellow
effective conclusion, classmates, anyone
and works cited within interested in
my paper and at the education, parents &
Argumentive and Write on a debatable end of my Do not write about a student in year-round
410 research topic assignment. personal experience. schedules
There are more than
one part to my
assignment. The
main parts are
describing ADHD and
its symptoms,
medications available This essay must be
and its side effects, 1000-1100 words and
and the effects and it must be a formal,
benefits of taking academic essay I will just be writing to
411 medication for ADHD. using argument. my professor.
SEARCH requires
that I look up data;
EXAMINE requires
that I critically look at
data; NOTE-TAKE
requires that I write
data down. JUDGE
requires that I decide
the relevance of the
obtained data. General public; health
DOCUMENT requires conscious individuals;
Search. Examine. that I write down Maybe. I will tell you people who are
Note-Take. Judge. obtained data. when I finish reading interested in eastern
412 Document. Organize. ORGANIZE r the instructions. medicine.
Page 14
It identifies the To have the first draft
trained, identify, training and learning Yes. To identify, done by the 19th My Professor and
413 learning, needed. learn, and train. October 2005. classmates.
It approaches the
struggles and
difficulties of what an Yes. The main parts To have the first draft
Educational Assistant are the struggles and done by the 19th of My classmates and
414 difficulties, struggles, is going through. difficulties. October. Professor
This assignment has yes, giving visualize and create
argue, analyze, to contain one or information in an outline to work and
compare, and several of these argueing , analyze, manage, using professors,
415 describe verbs compare and contrast special instructions classmates
summarize an article select article from
what my thoughts are of my choice and web sites listed by
420 analyze regarding article analysis/response instructor no
Yes, Our assignment
consists of us doing
There will be two These verbs indicate research, writing a We need to follw the
important verbs used how cancer affects rough draft, peer due dates outlined by
in my assignment lives of many and review, and final Lilo to complete our
422 analyze and describe. what it really is. written paper. assignment on time.
Page 15
encorporate the
research skills gained My target audience is
closely examining all from the LILO my instructor, but may
analyze, highlight, aspects of the issue, research program into also include my
consider, present and from both or the writing of the classmates, or other
423 both sides multiple perspectives not really, see above paper nursing students
Informative essay,
Cite at least 3
sources from LILO in
Works Cited, MLA
format, Select out of
the three topics, Draft
due Oct. 21: 400-500
words through
A detailed , final due Classmates, the
explanation in all LILO assignment Nov. 4: 600-700 general public who
aspects of the topic, (preparing for the words through webct would like to know
426 Analyze inform the audience. paper), Draft, Final mail. about Diabetes.
The dangers of members of my class
431 dangerous, exciting boxing. Boxing and instructor
This the last
Yes, finding the Use three sources for assignment. There
resources to support this assignment and will no no audience
We are to research the document, make sure that the unless someone in
Research, Write and and write an Outline, and Draft, final is 1000-1100 the general public
433 Argue argumentative essay. and Final. words. reads it.
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Gives closer
examination of
something and takes
one side of the idea Choose a sport and
Compare, describe, to go into further Yes. Skills, General give a detailed draft
435 analyze detail. Outlook by observers about it.
yes...understanding I think our instructor is
reading and my assingment and send our journals to the only person
436 understand researching the research process our instructor seeing our journals.
We must base our
This is not supposed topic on one of three
to be an argument, things. Our choices
but a informative are Mediceine,
437 argument essay. No Education, or Sports Members of my class
Topic must be based
yes. LILO online. on one of the
research-based Reading assignment. following: Education,
438 informative essay describe Writing assignment. Medicine, Sports. Members of the class.
take a side on an idea
or issue & suppoer it
with facts/statistics,
close examination of
argue, analyze, similiarities and Yes, introduction, email this to
440 compare, or describe differences. body, conclusion members of class
Members of my class,
Evaluate and read e-structor and
Educational Portfolio and variety of relevant Turnitinand the
442 Informative Approach Research Paper sources Educational Field
Page 17
this essay will be very
hands-on and
requires researching researching, create The use of three
and careful an outline, creating sources and MLA
research, write, structuring in order to drafts, editing, writing citations whenever
443 Develop write a good essay the final needed
Write this essay with The main portion is Write about a subject
detailed descriptions writing in depth about in the education,
founded on credible the subject directed at medical or sports The audience is
445 research sources. the class. fields. anyone in the class.
give information
about the career, like topic must be based
compare, descrbe cost , pay , career yes, different types of on either education,
446 and analyze outlook schools, cost, pay medicine or sports members of my class
do peer review on anyone interested in
research, draft, other papers, topics: teaching , and
research info on a revised draft, final education,medicine,s parents of school -
447 informative particular topic version ports, 600-700 words aged children
informative, analyze,
compare, describe,
clarify, argue, How effective it is and classmates, parents
persuade, convince, what needs to be descibe topic and of children affected by
448 brief informative approach improved. produce information my topic
Page 18
People who are
interested in the
mandatory drivers
Thesis, outline, write The topic must be education law. Mostly
to write an arguement a draft and then a debatable, interesting teens and their
449 arguement about a subject. final revision. and important. parents.
we are warned to be
very careful when
lots of outlines, drafts, there is backround citing sources and to
and many stages to reading, research, really revise before
research, write, create the final draft, revised draft, turning in the final
451 develop, locate, cite. product. and the final draft. paper. members of my class
Develop ideas for
No, the main parts given topic, cite at
are researching and lest three sources in
Research to write an citing information for text and a works cited
452 Research, write informative essay essay page.
support of a thesis Yes, research work 8-9 page paper, members of my class,
evaluate, argue, with valid facts and portfolio and research double-spaced, use e-structors, LCC
454 inform resources paper. APA or CSE style. faculty
yes, write an
informative essay,
use 3 sources, site
the source in essay,
and in the end in a
research-based works cited page.
455 informative essay informative essay. Use MLA format. Use MLA format. the class
Page 19
Highlight both sides yes. Describe issue, members of the
of dilemma, but address both sides, health profession (i.e.-
position should be take a stand to one APA format, double fellow students,
456 made clear analyze side spaced teacher, nurses)
all verbs mentioned
above is important.
Because each verb Topic must be based
argue, analyse, helps your research on Education,
460 compare, descibe paper be complete. Medicine, or Sports.
other people in my
class, my teacher,
demonstrate, find, an informative yes, draft one, two, also turn in a and other people that
474 evaluate, work, avoid approach three and final essay research partfolio read my paper
Page 20
"Describe" is pretty
self-explanatory. As No, the main parts
for "analyze" it are basically what are
requires one to look eating disorders;
at all possible aspects different types of
of the topic. And how eating disorders; what My audience will be
it affects someone or causes them and who my instructor and the
485 describe and analyze something. they target. women in my class.
write in third person.
490 none n/a no 1000 to1250 words. some classmates.
between 1000, and
1250 words,
choose, find, read, Informative report to Research, paper, consistently in third
492 use, pass on give information bibliography person my class
Page 21
These verbs indicate
a shift in person and
by using them you There really isnt any
arent connecting with special instructions
your audience and The main parts are other then turning in a Our audence will be
youre shifting from the research portfolio research journal the members of our
third person to first and the research along with our paper class, and maybe our
493 I, me, you, and us and second person. paper. and portfolio. friends and family.
Informative or Inform or argue about members of class and
495 Agumentative a topic of my choice Only one part instructor
Write a biliograpy and
chose, find, read, research, writing submit a research
496 use, decide research process portfolio. Members of my group
information about
topic and a side of 1000-1250 words,
someone or some use a variety of class members, and
497 Inform, Argument thing sources, site sources tutors that read paper
Page 22
Must work daily (or try
An overview with Yes, Documentations, to) on gathering loads
Analyze, compare some in depth notes, and final of information, write a
498 and describe features product 4-5 page paper. Members of the class
classmates, the
describe, compare, background, community, the
501 think action conclusion, middle none general public
Page 23
We must consistently
work through the Complete and use
research work LILO, post to Ask the
portfolio which Librarian, finish
consists of 6 readings, no minimum
sections. They are number of sources,
the research process, final draft must be 4-5
understanding your pages, all notes must
assignment, search be turned in and each
I understand it as I strategies, searching, note must be labeled
must pick a side and evaluating sources, summary,
then make my and resources. We paraphrase, or quote. I am targeting anyone
makes and argument with must also address the Entire assignment is responsible for the
504 substantiates supporting evidence. librarian f worth 400 points. care of kids.
to show our expertise
in an area in which something we know a
we would excel and lot about, or a little
express yourself have a genuine about, or wanting to must have a
507 clearly, details interest know about bibliography Peers
reasearch a topic that
interest you and write anyone interested in
explain, write, a paper explaining the traditions of the
508 research, your topic in details. No cite your sources Portuguese culture
Mrs. Mcgrath wants
us to write about
something that really
interests us.
Something we know a My family, friends,
show, write, share, The and the lot about and have a teacher and
509 showoff direct bibliography lot to say about. classmates.
Page 24
finding information site sources
and put it in (bibliography)-- MLA peers/classmates,
research, analyze, understandable and format; essay should people who frequent
510 explain, organize sensible format one part be 1000 words Na Pali Coast area
explain, express,
511 describe Help form the body No 1,000 words, Ages 18 - 35
Write, explain,
research, Ressearch the topic
bibliography, three Research a topic that you can mostly talk
512 different resources best interest you No about The Reader
Gives my topic a Peers, family
express, explain, great thesis, body, members, nurses,
513 describe and conclusion no Bibliography doctors.
Research , must have include bibliography,
write, research, bibliography, MLA all cited work must
514 express, explain, explaining in detail format show public
("Formal" how to write
a bibliography and
the proper format for
a research paper.)
your completed paper
should be
requires a close approximately 1,000
examination of words in length, and
something, often with should adequetly
an explanation of how explain your topic in
various parts affect some detail. Your
one another, or how paper must be
one or more parts accompanied by a The instructor will be
516 analyze relate to a whole. one part bibliography my only audience.
Page 25
reseach write
517 describe public
write, research, and members of your
518 explain expository paper class
520 members of the class
argue: take a sid on
an idea or issue and Yes. Main Parts: the
support it with information, where I
argue, analyze, credible facts and get the information i need a sources
521 compare, or describe statistics. from. page. My Dad and Uncle
The approach is to Have a bibliography,
Research, Explain, learn something for To research and write due date, length of Friends, Family,
522 List, Write the first time. about it. paper. Public.
the main part of my
Write, research, and assignment is to
explanin. Argue, explain to my
analyze, compare or audience about my Members of my class,
523 describe. An expository essay. essay. I must explain teachers
formal paper,
research, explain, bibliography, 5 or so friends, class mates,
524 describe, finding information pages teacher
Writing, Research, 5 pages min. typed
526 Printing Working no and double-spaced
Page 26
For this unit, there are We have to use MLA
collections of the style formats, avoid
portfolio. This unit is plaiarism, spend time
the actual research researching before
process. The next writing the paper, Our classmates and
Evaluate, unit will be on the source our findings, also our peer group
demonstrate, find, I would have to actual writing and to use citation members will be our
528 research, source exemplify my topic. process. builder. audience.
to become very active to research and write
informative, in researching the yes, research a topic a argumentative or
argumentative, topic you have of career field and informative essay
530 support, evaluated chosen research it from your research members of my class
Yes, the parts are
creating a thesis, The paper can be Students who later
analyzing and explaining concepts finding sources, and either argumentative have the same
532 describing in detail writing three drafts or informative teacher
Use about 3 sources,
located in the LILO
assignment. Cite the
sources in the text of
the essay and at the
end n a works cited
page. Use MLA
format as described
Yes-First I shall try to in your text and at
define the disease, LILO. Research and
then indications of the write a research-
analyze, compare, or research-based disease and lastly, based informative
533 describe information possible remedies. essay. classmates
Page 27
the main parts are the
serial killer's motives,
past experiences that
why or how people could define why they classmates, peer
535 motives, kill, abuse become serial killers kill look for sources group, smart thinking
close examination of
something, often with
an explanation of how
various parts affect
one another, or how
one or more parts
536 analyze relate to a whole Types fo pollution 1,000 to 1,250 words peer group
Write in the third
person, follow the
Research,create a MLA format for
finding, evaluating, a slow methodical portfolio, cite sources, writing, create a the students in my
538 working, read approach and write portfolio peer review group.
informative or
research paper, using
resources to support
thesis, 1000-1250
words in lenghth,
following MLA
evaluating research focus topic, make documentation, and
and using it to thesis, research and follow instructions in
support the evaluate, outline, making a research class members and
539 evaluate paper/thesis write drafts, and final portfolio and turn it in. peer group members
Page 28
For this specific
assignment we are
the approach that Yes there is more required to choose a
these verbs indicate than one part to my challenging question
is a direct approach assignment. These and be able to My classmates and
to which the topic at main parts consist of answer this question the person who
argue, analyze, hand is being a journal, a paper, using relative inspired me to do this
541 compare, or describe investigated. and the portfolio. sources. paper.
Yes. Along with the subject must be
research project, I related my academic
have to make a field or career choice.
Project Portfolio. The I must do research
Portfolio will include and support a claim. I
I must have a great LILO journals, must inform, argue, My english group
Argue, inform, and amount of credible working citations, and support a thesis members will also be
542 support. sources. sources and notes. statement. part of my audience.
Find, read, and
evaluate a variety of
take a side and Research portfolio relevant sources to
informative or support with and the research support thesis
543 argumentative creditable facts paper. statement members of my class
545 Descibe Analytical
Page 29
The main part of this To write in a journal
assignment is that it to help with the
has to b related to research process of
your field. You must the paper and also it
That you have to pick make a claim of some shows if we really
a topic that you can sort and have the understand what the
back up with information to back it assignment is really Yes, my classmates,
546 Substantiates a claim information up. asking of us. peer group, librarians.
I think that there is
more than one part. I
will have one part that
That if you compare talks about children
and analyze children who have divorce
who come from parents and another
divorce and compare section that will
I believe the verbs them to those who compare children who
that will be included in are not from divorce come from families
my assginment will be families their is a that do not come from
analyze and difference in their parents that are not members of my class
547 compare. education. divorced. and co-workers
makes & Refer to text on
substantiates a Conducting members of my class,
claim;research, Yes, The Research Research, complete professional
evaluate, argue or Work Portfolio & The all assigned reading, educators reviewing
549 inform Research Paper Grading Criteria the assignment.
decide on topic and
working thesis,
teach readers about a research, take notes,
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550 inform unfamiliar with and paper or 4 to 5 pages classmates
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It affects how your
research, what My classmates, and
Write an informative position you take No, the main parts Create an outline and the college english
or argumentative reflects your are your thesis and use apa style for your board to review this
551 essay supporting details. the supporting details. references. classes importance.
The portfolio will
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makes and it requires an assignment. It essay's thesis
substantiates, gather, argumentative includes the research statement, being Beside my instructor,
evaluate, draft,r approach, a topic that work portfolio and the either informative or my peer group will be
552 evise, edit takes a stand research paper itself. argumentative. my audience
just that it be
That we will be interesting and be
researching things original and
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Research, Discover, the reader that we are page research paper; generally would like think as well as
554 Share generally interested in biboliography to know about ourselves
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ARGUE- requires that
you to take a side on
an idea or issue,
ANALYZE- requires a
argue, analyze, close examination of
555 compare, or describe something Workscited page colleagues
how to get licenced
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557 Describe topic is and explains it yes. how to bartend, know
the first part for this
close examination of assignment is
the subject and the gathering resources chose a challenging
description of the and the second part research question my audience will be
career in is combind the and write them infor my member of the
management information and informative or class, family, tutor,
559 analyze and describe information system wrting a essay argumentive essay. and instructor.
research,exlain, bibliography, formal friends, boyfriend,
560 describe, finding informations paper, 5 or so pages teacher
Stay focused one one
topic and write a five
Summarize, compare how, what, when, Yes, internet, library page essay on that members of the
561 and contrast where and wy or current book. one subject.Yes, general public
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Choose a subject
related to your
academic field or
Yes;The first part is to career choice, and
prepare a Research use that subject as
I am going to find writing portfolio and the basis for a Besides my instructor,
information on my the second part is to research project that my peers will bw my
Conduct research topic analyze and write my Research makes and audience reviewing
563 and write paper write a paper. Paper. substantiates a claim. my research paper.
567 explain, analyze
pass on OR state & an informative or an MLA, intext citations,
569 support argumentative paper State and support and edit work Class members
The research paper
must be 8-9 pages.
The assignment
fropbox should
include several parts,
which are the citation
builder, all notes that
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Assignment portfolio, sources that were Parents and those
to plan ahead and not 8-9 page reseach used, and a who are looking for a
570 research procrastinate paper bibliography teaching career
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research and writing
Choose and research process. Journal and
a topic. Write an Assignment calculator
choose, find, read, structured and paced. essay based on that to create a schedule
571 use, support Logical information. and Classmates.
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Putting a paper
compare, contrast, chain gangs, prison together, read logic and Members in my
572 analyze life Researching arguments at website English 100 class.
yes, there needs to
have a research chose a challenging members of my class,
portfolio, citations, research question, personal editors, and
support, perform, an analytical sources, and the keep well professionals within
573 argumentative approach research paper documented notes the field
Choose a subject
Argue shows you related to your
need to take a side Yes, there are more academic field or
on an issue and than one part to this career choice, and
support your side. assignment. The use that subject as Members of this
Analyze means to main parts are the the basis for a English 215 class as
show how various Research Work research project that well as education
parts affect one Portfolio and the makes and majors will be part of
574 argue, analyze another. Research Paper. substantiates a claim. the audience.
research, find print
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575 inform or argue argumentative avoid plagiarism none teacher
Choose, Variety, Research work
576 Evaluate Research portfolio, written piece class members
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There is more than
They indicate that you one part on this Special instructions
must be very active assignment and the given for this
during the research main parts are the assignment is to Working people who
process and gather researching process, utilize resources such may encounter sexual
inform/research/analy infomation vital to the and the writing as Lilo, and the UH harrassment in the
577 ze report process researching systems. workplace.
Be descriptive. Good
overview of culture.
What I believe is most
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Thesis Statement, about the culture. The
Draft, Final Essay, essay must be 15
582 Describe, learn... Bibliography pages long.
As you organize,
create thesis that
Main parts of gives a good
assignment: thesis overview of culture
statement, and what you think is teacher, my fellow
Describe and analyze introduction, the most important for classmates, and
says that I should be conclusion, draft, an outsider to know maybe other students
583 describe, analyze detailed and specific bibliography about that culture in a future class
Research,write a Research Journal will
choose a subject that make a claim and portfolio,write a draft1 be submitted three Members of my
586 substantiates a claim back it up and draft2 seperate times. English class
Sending toddlers to
preschool at age 3 or
587 sending, wait movement age 4 none members of my class
Instructor has his or
her own instructions
for students to follow.
e.g, total number
how you will research pages, what font to
argue, analyze, and write about your argue, analyze, use, is needed to use members of the
590 compare, or describe topic compare, or describe schorlarly sources? general public
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Find a problem with
topic, research it and
find relevant
Problem/Soultion/Acti information and make
598 alcohol alcoholism on Research Essay an action members of the class
A history of the topic,
general information
Finding a possible (?), and possible
602 Describe, propose solution to a problem solutions My peers
research,evaluating MLA format, citations,
sources, taking notes, find reliable
write paper, make resources, academic
604 Research researching citations worthiness members of my class
pamphlet to educate the public in general,
606 group disscution more people government
learn about climate
change and find
relation between
hawaii and climate
607 climate change change classmates
That we must get our
information across
clearly by explaining
discuss collaborate through words and We must use this
design inform visuals. Working with yes. Verbal, Visual, LILO Journal during fellow students of
608 connecting one another. and Written. the process. KCC
has to be about 5
pages. Can be any
Verbal, Visual, and genre. a connection
learn, describe, Written. Written is the to the service- my classmates in
610 connect research main part. learning project. college
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discuss your topic,
display a flyer,
learn, make connect local and members of the
611 connections, navigate research Verbal, visual, written global aspects class/school
Tell what the problem
is and suggest a Analyze problem and Find some sort of a Members of class and
614 Analysis solution find a solution solution general public
Yes. Essay and
615 presentation Class members
It must be in a
Research and problem/Solution
623 Interview format Teacher and class
to research a topic
and choose either an no, just to do the
argumentative or research assignment The paper should be
argue, research, informative approach using an argument or between 1000 and
628 inform to the essay informative essay 1250 words members in my class
People who use
research the topic- animal testing and
yes, why and where history and people who want to
cruelty, testing, animal testing takes background, past save innocent
630 analyze, alternatives animal testing is cruel place accurences, etc. animals
We all chose a
Final draft, Rough problem that has
Draft, Resources, and solutions, and now
illustration of your what we have to do is
633 describe, discuss To be very detailed action create an action for it members of my class
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tell the teacher why
knowing what the something is the
cause of the issue is problem and what is
and why it is thaat being done or or can
disscuss an issue/ way, what can be done to address
635 cause/ concern change it or help it. this problem creat an action none
To concentrate on Choose subcategory,
Analyze, focus, different aspects of identify problem, tutorial, six sources or
642 create,contribute topic. solution more, interview classmates
conduct research on 4-5 pages well
analyze,, compare, gathering information, a spefic topic, find informed, no
643 describe narrowing topic, scholarly sources plagarizing, class members
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inquiry; Research;
compare, analyze, What makes it a Bibliography; Draft;
644 argue, describe culture? Defining a culture Final General public
the main part is MLA format must be first and second
i must research my researching and used, citations, and a drafts will be peer
topic to get this getting information on portfolio must also be reviewed by my group
645 reseach, assignment done your topic done members
research, Find
Sources. Evaluate Yes. Gather
Sources. Work with information, Origanize
sources. Avoid information. Write the
646 plagiarism. Gather information. paper. Use Ebscohost. Group A
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Choose a challenging
research question,
and then find, read,
and use a variety of MLA Format, 4-5
relevant sources to Pages, written in third My audience, besides
write an informative person, & use LILO my instructor, is
or argumentative as a guide through members of the
648 analyze and describe Informative report essay. the process general public.
Choose a subject
related top your
academic field career
choice, use that
subject foe a
argue, Yes, The research research project that
analyze,compare and to take a stance or portfolio and the makes a Members of my peer
649 describe claim research paper substantiates a claim. group, e-structors
Analyze the
discontentment the
Koreans felt in
laboring in the
653 plantations.
For Research Work
"Inform" requires Portfolio, I need to
collecting data on a submit a collection of
subject and providing documents with LILO
the readers credible Research Journal.
information. "Argue" For Research Paper,
requires claiming a I need to write an
writer's opinion on a This assignment eight-to-nine page
subject and consists of two parts: informative or Members of my class
Inform, Argue "write supporting the Research Work argumentative essay and drama students
an informative or statement with Portfolio and with the information I at LCC who are
656 argumentative essay" evidence. Research Paper. have gathered. interested in directing.
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Describe, Analyze, People who don't
659 and Compare Informative Research Use scholarly sources know about DRM
yes. The research
informative or researching a topic or journal and the
660 argumentative supporting a claim research paper class members
there' s suppose to
mine are more like a it tells the reader what be a statistical part take notes carefully,
comparison and my topic is about and and factual no plagirism, use mostly the members
661 description how serious it can be information about it credible sources of my class
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Find at least 7
different sorces on
subject at least one
book and three
articales//works cited
in MLA formatWrite
informitave abstracts
on each of your
sorces write an
Small, learn, hard, abstract of your
662 hurt A difficult overall findings College level piers
Requires a close
examination of The purpose is to
something and effectively spend
explaining how Research Work quality time on the Para-professionals
To analyze, compare, various parts affect or Portfolio and the research process and whose interest are in
663 and contrast. relate to one another. Research Paper. avoid plagiarism. the field of edudation.
Work on porfolio
daily, not on the day
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evaluate, argue, Systematic, orderly, Portfolio and the to a separate e-mail Members of the
665 compare. organized approach. Research Paper. address. general public.
a close examination
of something, often
with an explanation of
how various parts
affect one another, or
how one or more Analyze a cultural
parts relate to a practice, write 3 typed
667 Analyze, whole pages essay. members of my class
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use lilo/ use
choose a educational 7resources, one book Hawaiian students in
topic/research roots/ and three periodical school and out of
668 Analyze effects of education articles school
3 typed pages (follow
MLA Document
design guidelines in
BH p.113) plus
CITED PAGE ( follow
yes!/ choosing a MLA documentation
it indicates what type cultural practice then in BH, p.569-645; use
of paper you are analyze it and also "citation Builder" in
669 describe/analyze writting give examples LILO) members of my class
yes, choose a cultural
practice, research the
history and location of
origination, the
examination with evolution of this we will be using the
explanation of how practice, and what is LILO program to
variose parts effect the significance of assist us with the
each other or how this practice in todays research process, in
thes parts relate to society. why do we conjunction with the
670 analyze the whole still do this? library. my class mates
671 / / / / /
ask a question,
research for answers,
use a source, write an
673 value importance write an abstract abstract classmates
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cul tural and
674 views descriptive educatoinal MLA format, cited classmates
Evaluate, investigate, Not to settle with just
purpose, methods, one answer, keep
scope, looking and Yes, Writing an The members of my
675 refine,qualify,argue. researching. abstract. class.
write INFORMATIVE
abstracts of 7 Cite in MLA format, at
Investigate, sources, Cite Works, least 1 book and 3
Summarize, Paraphrase, Write write OVERALL periodicals, 1-2 pages
676 Informative, Evaluate concise abstracts abstract double space typed members of my class
Yes, My abstract, the No, just my instructor,
investigate, answer, a summarization of subject abstracts, and Doing this journal, myself, and the
678 condense, criti accurate material a work cited using library etc. universe
start with a question,
research, make a use LILO to research,
I'll be researching a works cited paper, you must use at least
research, study, topic and writing write an informative one book and three
679 summarize about it. abstract. periodical articles. class members
yes, creating an
abstract, produce a
works cited page, Use Lilo to find 7
produce a question, different sources, use
Studying, rereading, Active and/or social write an abstract on 1 book and 3
680 summerizing, argue. learning all of our findings. periodical articles members of my class
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Need seven sources. Write an informative
At least one book and abstract on each of
An explanation for the three periodical the sources and an College students, my
682 Describe topic articals overall abstract classmates
investigate, question, Topic, Research,
683 search Research Abstracts Classmates
It indicates that I shall Yes, the main parts
focus in on certain are where various
areas to determine a students start out in
students likelyhood to life like in society,
succeed in life. In the family, and economic
case of the compare- and then what
contrast, I shall focus obstacles and/or aids
on at least 2 or 3 the students have to
different backgrounds see what the likely My audience shall be
that students can hood of the students My sources of for the most part
analyze, and come from and show begin successful in information must be intended for my class
684 compare-contrast evidence as to on a life. cited in MLA format. members.
getting information,
finding differences
analyze, compare, and similarities
686 contrast, describe between information families, students 12 point font members of class
687 class
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class memebers,
the topic should be 8 especially those in my
be careful and pages long, talking specific acedemic
research, gather, presice when writing research portfoilo and about a topic related feild, anyone whom is
688 analyze your report the actual paper to your future career interested in busines
who or what
nationality brought
tattoos to prison; how
give detailed info, did tattoos evolve
compare, contrast, explain veiws and throught the years in audience: instructor,
689 describe, narrarate explain history. a prison culture. peers, public
Premise. Use Lilo to
describe was there. find sources. Prodece
Not sure whether Works Cited Page.
analyze was or not. Write imformative I'm going to direct it
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arguments. We are to summerize Write abstract of the public, particularly
690 Condense. W our findings. overall findings. the youth.
keep track of
gather, evaluate, collected documents
draft, revise, edit, yes, research work for submittal as part
find, formulate, read, portfolio and research of a research work class members,
691 and organize. methodical, timely paper. porfolio. possibly faculty
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692 informative Adequate Information No N/A College Level
pick a topic for your members of my eng
tactics, methods of research project 102 classroom.
693 methodology training relating to school. college level students
Yes, there are two.
The "Research Work Class members,
Research, evaluate Supportive of an Portfolio" and the members of my "peer
695 and substantiate. argument. "Research Paper". N/A group".
Evaluate 7 different
sources. Must use at
descriptive and purpose, methods, least one book and 3
696 informative and scope cause and effect periodical articles. college level peers
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Learning how to cite Yes, there is finding
work, use MLA paper the right sources,
format, use in-text proper ways of taking
citations, and write a An acedemic notes and the Learn and know how
697 research paper. approach. research paper itself. to avoid plagarism. Members of my class.
698 compare,describe argue yes, reserch, paper 4, to 5 pages the general public
Yes. Brainstorm on
topic, gather sources, Member of my class,
choose right sources, and if it gets
Describing and they come from an write it out, cite DO NOT published, then the
700 analyzing informative approach. sources PLAGIARIZE!!! public
1.get a premise 2.
use lilo program 3.
produe a work cited
page 4. write
imformative abstracts
on each of your
sources 5. write an
compare and contrast abstract of your keep a journal and
701 compare, analyze with imformation overall findngs manage yourtime college level students
Choose,practice,rese 1)choose cultural
arch,analyze,investig practice,2)Analyze pick a topic of that
706 ate,participated investigative today/original practice cultural practice members of the class
find similarities and
differences and draw do not use any
708 compare and contrast a conclusion abstracts apostrophes students (class)
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yes, there's
composing a
research paper,
getting information to
do a research paper,
actually outlining and
writing a paper, doing
similiar, extreme, a bibliography, doing
demand, expect, little drafts in between
plan, dedication, seriousness, of different sections research, write, read,
711 dificult, easy, interest informational of the paper. interview people students in my class
Follow the calculator,
Yes, there is writing write in third person,
the paper, compiling make it 4-5 pages,
demonstrate, find, A very dedicated a portfolio, and doing and use academic
712 evaluate, work, avoid. approach. this lilo stuff. sources. My classmates
look for similarities
and differences
Compare and between two or more
713 contrast things absract none class mates
that I am finding out
things needed to Yes. Main parts are: Use different Members of my class,
investigate, learn, answer my question the absract, works resources, ask other college students
714 find, evaluate or issue. cited questions outside of my class
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8-10 pages, APA
paper, presentation style, minimum of 8
analyze, apply, using visual professional
719 evaluate analytical presentational aids reference articles members of the class
seven sources at
descriptive research writing an least one from a book
720 informative writing an abstract abstract three periodicals college students
Writing will be
involved, Visual Writing the essay,
elements, I will need Making a Visual, Three Parts, Visual,
721 Create, Design, Write to be creative Giving an oral Oral, Written Members of Class
After you have
chosen a challenging
Argue indicates that a Yes, research work research question
side needs to be portfolio and the and have found,
taken. Once one side research paper. The evaluated, and read a
is taken, I need to research work variety of relevant
argue a point. Inform portfolio includes all sources, write an
means to provide the the steps and informative or
audience with sources needed to argumentative essay, Yes, other members
information on the write the actual referred to as the of my class will be my
728 argue, inform subject or topic. research paper. "research paper." audience.
a lot of work and bored intelligent
730 analyze research im not sure people
738 class, other students
examinating the
analyze, topic/similarities or outline,abstact,works
740 compare,describe differences/details cited page use lilo class members
742 just one none students
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yes two parts. aids
and unfairness with have something
that. also unfairnes to intelligent to say, work
animals. statistics for with your group
747 hawaii member class members
Use the library, cite 7
Research, Abstracts, sources, & do
753 Compare/Contrast Sources abstracts Classmates
examination of
758 analyze something Extinction of species None members of my class
Learning, connect, verbal, visual and
761 Discuss research, understand writing specific deadlines members of the class
research and
810 research, argue argument argument do not plagiarize the class
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Yes is a useful
audience might not Yes, because it list resources but they
know or might know the sources of the are not the best No because they are Not really because
the topic and their aurthors and it has sources for general not based on anything is not
opinion are not clear reliable sources interest topics. extensive research. guarantee
Yes - certain ones
have searchable
recipes indexes - and
Maybe - books recipes are rated on
Yes - cookbooks No - no recipes here! probably better level of difficulty.
not much
Probably, if one is One has to be careful
Books are a good looking for with Web sites - but if
beginning point to find psychological you look at the site
not much about my out how cats feel reasons why cats do These may prove carefully, you might
topic about things. what they do. useful! be able to use it.
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useful, report very
useful, by other useful, contain recent current research, pre-
researchers, part of and historical not useful, not prints, speeches,
cognitive bias literature review research on the topic research power points
2_1_6 2_2_1 2_2_2 2_2_3 2_2_4
she already knows a
great deal. Originally, They may be, if there
the audience may have been any
have included the archaeological
class (who would not findings of canoe
know that much), too. prows and carvings,
Being a former or any studies of
curator, the teacher Maori art motifs; also They could be, if they
has a very great Yes, I need historical to find out if any were a museum site
respect for material accounts of Maori war recent canoe carving Yes, they may with photos of Maori
culture and its canoes and their has been going on document current war canoes, or
meaning in a cultural carvings and an and how that is trends in Maori art credible sites from
context. overview of Maori art. interpreted and culture New Zealand
No, website
Yes, the resources resources are not
found in books are always useful
reliable because they because they are not
are all credible. Also, always accurate
the resources found information. However,
in books leads to websites are
other important sometimes updated
sources to help write with information and
None a research paper. yes yes news.
Some are because
they take very
technical and
Yes because it is sophisticated
related to very research and make it They are good if the
To get an overview of sophisticated understandable to the sites are produced by
the topic research in physics general public. reputable physicists.
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this topic has been
addrsses by several these types of
books - they'll provide periodicals *might* be
the overview I will Yes - several of these useful - it might be
need to do an kinds of articles show helpful to find out Web sites *might* be
my classmates aren't effective job of this promise in that they what popular good if the
all that familiar with research problem and report very specific magazines say about information contained
the Middle East the region data my topic on the site is credible
they know very little No. They are out of
about the topic date. Somewhat useful. Somewhat useful.
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Yes, Medical and
Psychiatry/Neurology Yes, Media, Articles,
books, Specific books Maybe, Medical Fashion and Trends Credible Websites
Yes, Their own for anorexia and Journals, articles that in Culture, Fitness are Useful, Be sure
opinions?... Bulimia relate to topic Magazines? resources are legit
may be at correct
maybe but not current level may be current
yes, I would like to
it may help, but know the very recent
probably more so on yes, information are yes, it might contain events or
articles for current reliable and peer- helpful information controversial topics
no, (probably not) topics reviewed about my topic about my paper.
Yes, however, it is
important to be sure
Yes. The information No. The information the web site is
No. I have been is current and in these magazines is credible because
taught that you not really, PGD is a credible. In addition not reliable. For this there is a lot of junk
should never assume very new and high the assignment is to paper, more scientific out there. Web sites
your audience knows tech; journals would use peer reviewed resources are like .gov and .edu are
about the topic. be a better option articles needed. credible.
Yes. It was an easy
Yes, because they Yes, because they No, because of time way to get information
No present facts. are easy to access. constaints. from.
yes, sign and
symptoms of my
disease does not yes, lots of
change sso book will researched are yes, but i have to be
no be useful published very selective
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No, because our
No. Their response is, No. Journal articles target demographic is
"I dont have time..." are more current not "scholarly".
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2_1_6 2_2_1 2_2_2 2_2_3 2_2_4
Yes; Because books
may show us the pros Maybe; Because it all
and cons/causes and Yes; Because they depends on the type
No; Smokers may effects of second- are current, reliable, No; Because most of website, due to
disagree, Non- hand smoking in and educated magazines advertise advertisement and
Smokers may agree general opinions smoking information
yes, lot s of
information about
Is it a successful drug abuse and yes, highly talked yes, provides detailed
prevention program? prevention about issue no information
yes, because
questions can be
answered, true life no, because its not yes,because they
stories, facts on the yes, because use for extensive have controversial
subject reprable. research. topics.
yes, they are yes, vice versa, .com
yes, they provide very reviewed by experts, not really, some info is not as reliable as
somewhat, none good information they are reliable may be unreliable edu, org, gov
Yes, because its Yes for their views Yes if it is by credited
Yes, but not the Yes, because it recent information but No because its organization and No
proper procedure to provides more useful and provides different just their opinion and because everyone
prevent sun exposure information views on the subject it may not be true can publish a website
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Yes, this is very
Yes, they can provide useful to find out
up to date information about current
on current activities of NGOs
government policies and programs doing
and initiatives, as well work in enterprise
as programs in the development in
field of rural China. I can research
Yes, to provide the development. I can published
The audience (except historical account of use them to analyze government
for committee) knows rural industrialization what the current document of China,
very little about my and economic situation of rural though it may be
topic. They have US reforms. It will also development is and inaccurate if
based biases and provide theoretical approach. I can also published in China. I
viewpoints. context. use t can research stat
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No. I want the most
recent information on
this subject. Books Maybe. It does
are usually take provide updated
longer to write and No. Most of the information. Some
therefore, the information is not information maybe
information is not reliable for use in an reliable if it comes
yes current. ethics paper. from a credible site.
not really, this is a
current event paper Yes, because i am no, I cannot trust that
and medical jouornals writing this paper as if the information has
Oh yes...I am not sure are providing more I am writing to my been researched and no- same as the
of their opinions specific information peers is accurate magazines
Yes. My topic has
new research
No. Interventions are Yes. Previous books Yes. The topic information that is
not effective, or have been written in requires expertise in No. Too many opinion published on line as
specific enough the topic the field. articles well as by journals
Yes, current
New information will Yes, reliable information, company
be added, opinions No, the information is information is needed Yes, I also need true websites and chats
will vary too new for this paper stories are needed
that what they know
is more accurate than the best kind of
the information I information, because
present. they may it is written by
already know more members of my
about my topic than I audience and is
do.. but at the same science based
time I should not information which is not so good, is not
assume that they not particularly, all of non basas and shows scientific in nature. I only if it is a is a safe
know anyting about the information is not both sides of this need really good website, like that of
my topic. specific enough dicussion. sources for science. the CDC.
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No, theres probably
not enough broad Yes, I can find many
no, maybe that all Yes, This gives an information in different views and
dentists do is brush Yes, there are many experts view on magazines on information on the
and drill your teeth. books on dentistry dentistry dentistry internet.
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I believe I will be able
to find some valuable
information from
Probably not because reputable sites I will
No. They might think Yes they will give my topic is a general No because I will not just have to make
a will is better than a good facts on my interest topic not be able to validate the sure they are valid
trust. topic scholarly information sites.
No. Most people are Websites are not
not familiar with the reliable but a lot of
topics that someone Yes because these people use them to
chose to write on, so materials have find out information
painting a clear information that have about a certain thing
picture will definitely been peer-reviewed It can be useful but or subject. Most
help readers Yes because there by experts, thus, using these types of times, information
understand what the are a lot of making them reliable sources are not available on websites
topic is about. information in books. and credible. always reliable. are plagarized.
They might be, there
are probably a few for Yes, there are many
running, but there national running
Yes, many books are would be more Yes, I already know of organizations with
written on running. magazines. several. .org websites.
yes, if they are not
.coms. i personally
am skeptical about
my audience is the yes these will be no, my topic is not the validity of
nursing community. useful because they ususally discussed in information found on
they have alot more maybe, but journal pertain to the field of popular magazines .gov sites so that
hands on experience articles are more nursing and are and they are not leave us with .edu
than I do in regards to current and contain written by qualified proven to be reliable and .org as more
dealing with ethical latest scientific authors that can and sources of scientific reliable resources for
dilemmas supported data do quantify their data data valid information
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Yes, because new
information comes up Yes, because I need
all the time--even to know how to use
about old writers like them and evaluate
Yes! These are Mark Twain. And new their credibility. The
They may not know Yes, because the articles written by writers and writers web sites may have
my author. They may author has been other writers who oriented to the very current
not like to read; may around long enough really know about popular market are information and more
consider my choice of to be written about. writing and the more likely to be gossip, which
author "old fashioned" The book information influences on an mentioned in sometimes has a
or unimportant. is more considered. author. magazines. grain of truth.
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yes, for medical
description of the yes because this is yes, gives public
religious process our audience opinion yes but are technical
yes, the web has a lot
yes, previous life yes, they can give of up to date
experience helpful information Not sure yet information
Yes, biases may Yes, perhaps if a Yes, they are topic
include more natural specific section is focused and reliable Yes to get more Current info, multiple
or western med. type dedicated for and reviewed by general point of views views, and a plethora
stance instance from a text. experts. outside the experts. of information.
Yes, but one must be
Perhaps. Whether or cautious in selecting
not they do, this the appropriate sites.
paper is to inform Web sites provide
them of the current news and
arguments arising Yes, because they Yes, because they information but my
from the issue. are usually very are peer-reviewed. No, because they are selection should be
Biases may be of credible and reliable Information is reliable not based on based on peer-
religious, ethical, or sources of and credible and extensive research reviewed articles and
humane origins. information. cover currents issues. and may contain bias. accurate facts.
Yes. She believes
that cook is
responsible of yes, just becareful
bringing all the who is the source of
diseases to hawaii. the e-mail.
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No, take too long to Yes. shorter and Yes. short and have Yes. easily attained
read provide credible info some kind of info info
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Yes. Books are
credible resources
Yes, but we are to written by people who
write to an unknowing have dedicated time Yes. It is much more
audience. Biased to analyzing my topic Perhaps, though I am convenient and
toward Hawaiian and provide a list of not sure how to utilize readily available as a
culture their sources them at this point. Perhaps. source of information.
I do not think I will be
yes my research using a magazine
could benifit from article due to the fact
no, they will have yes, they will give me these articles it has in that maybe there was Yes I have used the
their own self a better range of my other class not enough research EBSCO site before
experiences knowledge assignments done on teh paper. and liked it.
No, journals & articles Depends. Just like
based on this Depending on the magazine articles, the
research is more type of magazine writer may put
appropriate to Yes, these journals articles. It may view opinions that may
distinguish sides of provides studies opinions regarding useful for choosing
No the issue based on the issue issue. sides of an issue.
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Yes, that the
onslaught of the
American political and Yes, the books may yes, they contain the
general greed served or may not have scientific and medical
as a catalyst for these documented cases of information needed Yes, depending on
diseases diseases for my topic disease No the website
somewhat, they can yes, to get a starting
Yes, They have give information on point for some
historical information Yes, they have news worthy events information on issues
no, They may already regarding the past research information that have changed of the year in review.
be bias against the accoplishments and on experiments and public opinion of the To get general
space program due to failures ot the space future possibilities of need for space information and ideas
rising costs to fund it program. space expansion expansion for a starting point
Yes, because the I would like my
They may think that information I seek will If I choose a specific information to be
NAFTA helps all be from before topic, then accurate so popular
businesses and internet became information I can trust magazines might not
people. popular will be very useful. be too helpful.
Not many books Fan clubs (often with
Randal has read the available. One hit Award winning. Older personal interaction
book, has a personal wonder? Jacket book with significant with James). More
story. cover. reputation. personal effects.
Yes because they
might have interesting
Probably not information on him, if
They might, they may because, again, he is not the only
not like the author, In a limited way too contemporary, yes, his books are a information, because
they may have heard because he is such a and also a fantasy new very popular he is so
things about them contemporary author writer series contemporary
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No, I may not assume
that my audience
knows about my Yes. It would provide
topic. They will have factual information
different views rather from credible experts.
than factual Yes, because my Scholarly journals are No, because it would Yes but it must be
informative assignment is published faster than not be factual credible and non-
information. research-based. books. information. biased web sites.
Scholarly journal Popular magazine
I assume my It is useful, because articles would also be articles might be a
professor has first- of alot of information a useful resource useful resource, but it The web sites will be
hand knowledge can be attained from because it to contains would lack the my main source of
about my topic, it, but I have chosen credible information credibility that I would gathering information,
ADHD and to get more up to date based on solid need for my research because it is easily
medication. information. research. essay. accessible.
No. Chi Kung is only
for old people; chi Yes. My job is to
kung does not offer Yes. My job for this search for an
the benefits derived assignment is to look evaluate data from
from weight training through various many different
and aerobic exercise. sources of material. sources.
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Yes. Because Yes, because
Some may know researchers have Yes, because this No. because I would websites can provide
about this topic. been exploring this subject deals with the rather use scholarly up-to-date
Unknown. subject. human mind. jounal articles. information.
Yes. Because their
Some of them do. are lots of information Yes. Because the
Have not gotten any No. There are no Yes. Because given on this writing web site is a good
opinions from them. information. information is given. topic. resource for my topic.
yes, because there is
yes, this is where we a lot of reliable yes, if we want to use
probably not, paper is find a lot more information from and collect more
too long information approve expertise information for us.
Sometimes, because
Yes, because they some sites give great
can tell me about the Yes, because they info, but others are
author and his works can show me how the fake and I moght not
from a professional public/community be able to tell them
point of view. reacts to his works. apart
yes because they
yes, there has been provide information
many other wars and about current events
children were yes,becausethe no, because the and controversial
none innocent, yet victims information is reliable writer might be bias topics
Yes, they are current
and some sites on the
Yes, they are useful web do have
Yes, books are useful because they are No, because the accurate information
resources because it reliable and credible articles written are not about a topic, but not
will go into detail and are based on based on research all sites are reliable
about my topic. solid research. and may contain bias. and accurate.
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yes. assuming one is
less useful than careful about filtering
journal articles. with out reliable
the short time that yes and no. as information from
stem cell research mentioned above, the everything else. the
has been under information is often internet holds near
I can assume they scrutiny, few people absolutely. SCR wrought with popular endless amounts of
understand the have gathered all the occurs in high-tech opinion of someone information and one
premis of why Stem available information labs by expert who is not an expert can research
Cell research is and presented in a scientist. The on the subject. everything from the
controversial, they book form. I would complexity of the however, popular cutting edge
may be biased more likely find recent process demands the opinion can be an discoveries of SCR to
because they work in journal articles on caliber of scholarly important part of the the emotional
a medical field specific aspec journal articles. total perspective. responses of suppo
Yes, if they are
Yes because its credible. There is a
Briefly. They may considered credible Yes because they are tremendous amount
know that it is a sources, and it up-to-date and are No, they may not of sites with valuable
problem among provides a broad written y scholars and relate accurately to information and they
Americans and that it overview of the corrected or revised what my paper will be are available at your
can be fatal. subject. by credible people. about. fingertips.
Books can be a
useful tool, but I I would definately use
would thing a It may be a useful a sports illustrated Web sites are also a
magazine in sports resource for me, but magazine for my useful tool, but not so
No? I would not know will do. not quite. topic. credible for my topic.
No, books are not a
useful resource for Yes, magazine
my topic. My topic is No, journal articles articles could be
something that is are not useful to my useful for my topic if it Yes the web has
No the audience does happening today. topic. There are no had current useful resources for
not already know the There really isn't an peer-reviewed information on my my topic. I am able to
topic. The second expert in the field that information for my topic. But I didn't find go directly to the
question is n/a. is writing on this topic. article. any for my sources. source of my topic.
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They are useful but
They are somewhat have not gone Anyone can put
Books are useful useful but the content through a demanding information on the
because experts have is more for experts in peer-review process. web so it may not be
looked over them. that particular field. It may be unreliable. accurate or reliable.
No. Everyone has
their own points of Yes because they are
view. Yes reliable information.
Yes I think if you go to
We all have to the right sites this
choose from three Some books might be No I do not think this would be a very good
topics, so, we all have useful for this Some on medicine would be a good ersource for my topic.
a clue as to what assignment. Books might be useful since resource for my topis. They have a lot of
each other is writing on nursing would be the material is reliable I would need more of information and are
about. good. and credible. a reliable source. very current.
No. Rugby is not a yes. To get an yes. Rugby team info
popular sport in the overview of the sport No. Rugby is not an yes. Current info from cities around the
USA. of rugby. academic subject. related to the sport. world.
No because they
Yes because it gives have journalists that
overviews of topics No because they might not be
that are both, broad contain technical interested in the topic
and narrow, with language that are and might not know
credible and reliable understood by other as much as an expert
no sources of info. experts in the field. will.
Web site are useful
resources because
the information that I
will be seeking will be
at my fingertips. Just
IQ testing is used in THe scholary journal as long as I careful
schools to measure Some book are useful articles are useful Popular magazines evaluate the source. I
knowldge. Some may because it will provide because it will allow will be useful will check the wesit
think IQ testing is research information me to obtain the most because it will share for reliability,
good while other may and the definition of updated information stories are actual accuracy, and
think it is bad. the topic. available. cases or studies. relevance.
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yes, i think scholarly
journals would be
very helpful. i am i personally think
going to need current yes, they will be websites would be
information about the helpful. like i said the best source of
disease, for example earlier, i need current information. there are
if there are any new information and a lot of good medical
develpments or magazines would be websites out there
medication perfect for that. that i can use.
The most current
information would be
I am not familiar with the most helpful, so
my classmates books that are not
opinions but some recently published
are parents so I will may give false Popular magazines
assume that they information Scholarly journals may not be specific Web sources can be
know a little about the countering the latest that are recnt should enough for helpful helpful if the sources
subject. discoveries. be very valuable. information. are reliable.
yes because
information is always
being updated with
sometimes if you just yes if the information new information and
want the facts, but no, not the best is current and up to you can get it from
yes, it is only for books are not always sources for general date, but it can also many different
women kept current interest topics be bias sources
no, it is not research
No. They might think Yes, because the based and jornalists
that all people learn yes, the infor is information is based may not be experts in The sources may not
the same way. credible and reliable on solid research the subject be reliable
Yes, they might feel Popular magazines
differently from how I could be very helpful Web sites are useful
feel about Special I feel that scholarly with my paper resources because
Education. Some may Yes, most of the journals could be because sometimes they may have
even know more information I will need helpful to me because these magazines personal experiences
about this topic then I to obtain, are mostly I will need a lot of have articles about that I can use to
do. found in books. personal experiences. Special Education. relate to my topic.
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Yes, those who watch
the daily news or no, because i'm Yes, because the
reads the daily looking for No, because I am Yes, because they web will have more
newspaper, also, information from looking for more will usually have current up to date
teens & parents that newspapers and current/up to date current information on information for me to
the law affected. articles about the law. information. my topic. use.
most people will know i would find them very
something general useful because they
about my topic. they not really because i have a large amount
might think that have need more current of statistics, research,
already heard there is and up to date and specialization in
to know. sources. my topic.
Yes and no, yes in a
sense where the
information is reliable I would say no. For
Most definitely, it and credible. and No, my chosen topic I
could show statistics because it may be a would have to
on improvement, ltitle too technical for research more factual No, again I need
failures, etc. for given others to comprehend opinions, information, accuracy and factual
topic. the language. and statistics. information.
yes, they provide a
history and a basis for
the topic
Yes, because it may
Yes, I think that they Yes, because they Yes, because the contain useful
will agree with my contain reliable information is peer- information regarding Yes, because
thesis. information. reviewed. my topic. information is current.
No, they may feel that
they know what its
about, but not fully It depends on where
understand the No, not if there not No, because it is a the source of
techniques that are Yes, if I decide to go understandable to the specific field that I am information is
taught. into a specific area. general public. writing about. gathered from.
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NO. I have to watch
Yes. it must be based for what is written.
on the nursing field, opinions about
mother-infants and breastfeeding found
yes. breastfeeding is children in particular. on the web may be
a widely researched This is specific to the yes. It may help subject to persuasion
topic, may have health field so those attract the general to use formulas over
no. if they are already books on particular reading must already reader as well as one breast milk and
for or against aspects of have some prior already in the health therefore may go
breastfeeding. breastfeeding knowledge on topic. field. aginst it.
yes and no. It does
have credible
yes, because you can information about
gather much your topic, but as
information within mentioned, it does
books. It helps you contain technical
understand your topic language geared to
even more. experts.
yes they are because
you don't only need If you can In a way yes they are
recent information, understantd the Depending on the becasue the provide
and because books content then yes content of the article, a wide variety of
you cannot assume are a good source of because they provide and how reputable information and
that your audience infornamtion (like good, up to date the author and sources but they
knows your topic reference books) information. magazine are. aren't always reliable.
Yes, because they
may be able to Depending on the
provide a more credibility of the site, it
argumentative could prove useful for
(biased), yet thought- providing recent
out and researched information about the
Yes, for the history of opinion, which may Yes, because topic, or may help to
the chosen topic and be useful to help depending on the lead me to find other
to present a more spark further ideas articles chosen, the sources that could
subjective point of and revelations about content could be prove more
view. the topic. primary. substantial.
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Web sites could be
useful in a sense that
I assume my it'll probably be easy
audience has heard for me to research my
of or knows someone Scholarly journals Popular magazine topic online. But it
who dealt with an might not be as useful articles are definitely might not be valid
eating disorder. For Yes, books are because it might be useful. But wouldn't information,
example, an opinion extremely useful hard to find one be as valid as finding considering that
might be that because their discussing my topic. information from a anyone can create a
magazines and tv resources are Also it could be a little book. Because the webpage or site.
cause someone to definitely valid bit more harder to author of the article Also, it may take
have an eating compared to some understand or might not be an longer for me to figure
disorder. website or webpage. interpret. expert on the topic. out what informatio
yes thats what we
have yes
they might know a
little about it. not sure yes, any way we can
about biases they find information is yes, as long as it is yes, as long as it is
may have. good. yes reliable reliable
yes, because
scholarly journals
created by
educational yes, but it depends
yes because books individuals would be which ones. usually
would be able to give beneficial in organizations that
an perspective on the emphasizing the have a credibility -
effects of technology benefits of tech in the links to education
in the classroom. classroom. institution/group.
maybe a little bit,
because our school is yes, because it could Yes, because there
in Hawaii where wave have information that Yes, because there are many different
forecasting is used by I can use without are a few magazines websites, put together
Surfers, Boaters, reading the entire about surfing on the by different scientists
Island Residents book, just focusing on No because my topic newstands today with and watermen, that
when stroms are the information that is not an educational lots of information describe the science
approaching our would directly help subject, it is a history that could help me of wave forecasting
home me of a sport. with my research. and how to use it.
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No, you cannot
assume that our
audience knows
about our topic. They yes, but you need to
may already have a make sure the
pre-conceived idea yes, but sometimes websites are credible
about the topic. If the yes, having a
yes, books are very magazines are too and have sited
topic is very scholarly journal
useful because they general and do not sources. By doing this
controversial then means your
are another form of give specific and youre making sure
they will obviously information is credible
information and the sited information that the information is
have their own and will make your
more information you which is important correct and not
personal stance paper much more
have the better your when writing a plaigarized from
towards your topic. paper will be. informational. research paper. another website.
Journal articles are Web sites might be
important too Magazines mightbe useful because web
Books are very useful because I saw a popular so I can sites are usually
Everyone should they provide all the couple of articles on relate my topic with opiniated and less
know about anorexia information I need eatting disorders articles in my paper. information
Yes. Journals are up
Books are good to date information.
No. They are resources becasue Up to date
females, so they the latest published information is very No. Magazines are Yes. The websites
could be biased information on usefull, but books will not based on that EBSCO hosts
against males. tornados is current. be more usefull. extensive research. are reliable.
yes books are useful
for this assinment. pretty useful becuase
somewhat, might not Becuase my topic is Scholarly journals has current
like topic not a current event probaly would information To an extent
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Since my topic
includes a lot of
advertisements... it
probably would be
Might not be a good better to use a
idea, might tell me database provided by
I probably will have to HOW to become This is probably the school instead of
explain many things, affiliated with the where I can find up to the web, unless I
but most people tourist market but date information on needed to find going
understand small would be hard to find tourism, probably a rates of avg. trip
facts about the much on toursim good idea to take a costs, and what is
economy itself. look into. offered.
No, not really.
research done in
classrooms today and
resources and
material used to I always like to use
make better No, I will not use the world wide web to
classroom these types of articles find resources for my
enviornments. for my assignment. papers.
Yes, I think that
magazines will help
No, I dont think me with my topic It will help me
yes because there journals will help me because some because there are
are lots of books that with my topic magazines talk about tons of search
help you maintain because there arent health and provide engines that contain
your health and how that much journal ingredients to follow many information on
weight to stay healthy articals about health so stay in fit being healthy
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Most Definitely. I
In some ways I might located a few articles
think they do, but on the National
after I myself was put Library of Medicine I believe websites are
in the situation of website as well as the imperative in finding
having a child who Food and Drug current information on
might have ADHD, I Yes. Books on ADHD Administration Although I have not Attention Deficit
realized that I didn't have given me a lot of website. These will be found one yet, I Disorder and any new
know anything about background on the the basis of proving believe popular circumstances that
what these teachers disability itself, my point that the magazine articles may be occuring. This
and doctors were possible causes, diagnosis and could give me some supports my scholarly
telling me. I believe diagnosis, treatment, treatment of ADHD is personal viewpoints articles which many
most people believe affects on learning, very unproven and regarding this of them are older
that it can' etc. maybe dang disability. articles.
i never used a
No i cant assume the scholarly journal
audience knows before so i wouldnt
about my topic, they Yes books would be know but i think it
might have a vague useful because the would be useful it would be useful but
idea. There might be solar system has because its by It would be useful in it would not be
biases because of the been heard of and experts so the some aspects but it guarrnted that the
different information research on for a long information is would be difficult to information is
the resources give. time. accurate. write a bibliography . accurate.
Yes, because it will
have information on Yes, because it can
the history of my topic include a lot of the
from years ago until current happenings,
No recently. no etc., in Italy. Yes.
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yes- na pali coast
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audience already Nu`aololo Kai ; they
familiar with Na Pali go out there often
Yes. History Books on
the city of Troy, Battle Yes. National Yes. There are sites
Yes because basic of Troy, or specific No. Not the best Geographics has a lot that have interesting
facts are taught in details on the walls of source of information of information on the fact and information
history courses. Troy. for my topic. Walls of Troy. on the Walls of Troy
It could be. But the Yes. Because it will
articles normally tell a lead you to exactly
Yes. Because books story and i need facts what you need and
can also give you alot about everthing on have tonse of
no of useful information. Not really, my topic. information.
Absolutely! Web sites
No. Maybe a little to Yes. They may hold are great because the
those who have important information Yes. An article may information may be
someone close to books and the hold a controversial endless (depending if
them that has internet may leave part in the subject: your subject is
diabetes. out. Diabetes popular).
yes, maybe it will be no, because it is not yes, internet has lots
faster to find published in the early of information on the
yes where I am from yes information years topic I chose
Yes, books are a
useful resource for Yes, definately, the
this assignment. Probabaly, because web is the most
Because it has a lot they are updated Yes, most likely they useful source you
No. of information. often. would be current. could use.
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yes because they no, because they are yes you could find This one is where you
have good not really articles to some information in would find most of
no information find research on here your information
no, i dont think
magazines will have
anything about me
no topic yes
yes, they would have
different opinons on
what i have but as
long as I keep things
in the real and have yes, it would be good Yes, any web site that
good sources there Yes, because there to get another can hold any
should be no biases. I are a lot of interest inpersons view on maybe, if they hold information about my
could even use my my topic (King something that the information that i topic would be of
dad as a source. Kamehameha) interest me as well. need. great help.
Yes, there are many
Yes, i could find a lot yes, because my magazines that have
yes. they might not of information about topic is probably lots info about elactric
like it. electric cars in books. taught in schools. cars.
Yes, there are many
useful resources for Yes there are. They Web sites are very
this assignment. It are important Yes, they are useful useful because the
no I cant assume. can help me to find because they are up because it has a lot of internet has
They might just have ideas and other to date information general ideas in information on
a general idea. important facts. that i can use. certain articles. anything.
Very, only source of
seemingly untamperd
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No, we cannot Books can be useful
assume that our for this assignment. It
audience already just depends on the
knows about our topic. For example, if I
topics. The audience was doing "The
may not be familiar history on Asthma,"
with some topics so then I could use Yes, scholarly journal
the writer must books because it articles can be useful yes, because there
include information holds information on for my topic because could be some Yes, it is useful for my
that will let the asthma from a long our whole assignment articles on asthma in topic because I will
audience understand. time ago. must be scholarly. health magazines. have more resources.
yes, because my yes, because there yes, because updates
no, they would topic is constantly are magazines that are so made so often
probably like to see being updated and are specifically and up to date
proof to back up my results are quicker to focused on computer information is readily
statements appear then books technology. available.
No, they might have No, since popular
opinions on the Yes, because books Yes, my topic talks magazines may not Yes and no, since the
Japanese writing usually have true about many different have fully accurate information's current,
system information ideas information but may not be true
Yes, because most of They are not based
us work for the Dept. on extensive research
Of Education & nor written by the
subjected to students Definitely-Books are experts. Furthermore, No, the information
that have been usually very credible they do not include a could be inaccurate,
diagnosed as such. with reliable source Yes-Because it is a list of references at biased and/or
Specific opinions or information with medical condition, the the end of an article outdated. My topic is
biases maybe contents that are information is so there is no a medical condition
relevant to my verified by the researched based on evidence to trace the so factual information
findings. experts/professionals. case studies. facts. is needed.
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Not really because I
want newer No because there
information. So if the isn't any out
yes by the title but book is recent it could there..unless TIME or yes because there
they may or may not help. Even older ones Yes because I need PEOPLE MAGAZINE are alot of
agree on my view of can help too by to have an acedemic decides to write an government sites out
why serial killers providing some approach with this article about serial there concerning my
come to be... basic/old info.. topic killer.s topic
I need a more popular
yes. I can find some language for my yes. they present yes. because of the
yes scientific ex[lanations audience and myself recent events variety
no, My report will be Yes, because they
informative so have contain
opinions will only vary Yes, there are many accurate information no, simply because Yes, as long as
on whether the topic reputable books that pertains to magazines are very reputability can be
is good or bad written about cancer. Cancer opininated verified.
Yes, this is where I
There might not be will probally find the
much information in most important
books for my topic information. Through
because it is fairly the web I can go to all
Perhaps a very little new to most people types of website,
at the most. They and doesnt require Perhaps in some Yes, alot of some of them being
might not know how reference on it for ways, if I can find information about my newspaper and
indepth my topic can people to understand them, but I think they topic is found in magazine websites
be and they might the basics of it. Also, might be against my magazines. Although and other just
think that my topic games and game topic, and the they might be more informational.
(having to do with technology is always purpose of my paper biased I will still be Although finding
gaming) is mostly for evolving, there is a is to inform and able to find loads of credible information
kids. good chance anyt convince. credible information. will be hard,
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Yes they are useful
Books are useful but Scholarly journal resources mainly
to an extent. Even articles are very because they are
though they are useful resources constantly being
compiled with reliable because not only are well depending on the updated and they do
Honestly, my topic sources and their they written by highly topic at hand they can have current
isn't that commonly contents have been educated individuals be but they most information. But since
talked about in verified by experts but the information in likely are not. anybody can access
common within that subject the article is usually because they usually the internet they can
conversations. So i they do take time for revised by experts in are not reviewed by publish anything
can assume that everything to be that field. But since experts of that field everything that they
there is little compiled in an orderly they are written by and are generally please and anybody
knowledge of the fashion and all the highly educated based on only ones can access it. So then
topic. information may n inviduals i opinions. it is n
Scholarly journal For my topic, popular
articles will be the magezines would not
most important be a good resources
Yes, books will be resource for my topic. mainly because my
usefull for this This is because my topic needs to be
assignment. topic would be best supported by the
Because, most works supported by people information and
pertaining to the that are professionals findings of experts, Web sites will not me
medical field have in their field. Expert not ordinary writers. useful for my topic
No, I can't assume been printed. Also, findings and research The only good thing because there is too
the my audience there could be great are printed in popular magezines much questions on
knows anything about sources that are only scholarly journals. offers is citations to the informations level
my topic. available in print. Also, informatio possible works of ex of credibilty.
The Web may be a
very useful tool,
some audience because it will help
members already Scholary journal are me to gather many
know about my Books are useful very useful resources Magazines are not so different types of
subject. Some may resources, because my topic. There are useful for my topic, information, and it will
have worked with they have much many articles written because a lot of them lwt me investigate
these types of information onmy on the subject of may not be true or which sources are
students. topic. education. accurate. accurate.
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No. If the reader had Yes because I think Yes because they
some type of bad books explain what also help to presude Yes becuase I believe
experience or that Nurse Mid-wifes do Yes, because I'd like the audience. they are like books,
they are doctors that better than anything to know what other Especially if it comes tons of infromation.
are trained to deliver else or other than people think about from a well known They are also up-to-
babies. internet sources. this topic also. magazine. date wiht everything.
Yes I can assume I do not think that Yes, there are journal
that they already do there are books that articles that would be Yes, I believe that
have some will be useful for this a useful resource. their are popular
knowledge of my topic because this Scholary journals are magazine articles that I feel that web sites
topic. I believe that topic is being contantly being will be useful to my are a wonderful
they will agree that constantly being updated, they also research because source of resources
divorce can have a researched. I feel that have experts that many times for my topic as long
great impact on the book would be research their topics magazines show both as the web site is
childrens learning outdated. intensively. sides of a topic. cridible.
No, not all of them,
however, most of
them are familiar with
the profession. As
"students", my I am not sure how
classmates may have I would say yes, as I useful a popular It will depend upon
personal opinions am familiar with most magazine article the website.
and biases, based If I knew exactly what of the terminology would be for this However, it may not
upon their own book I was looking associated within the particular project, as prove resourceful for
experience(s). The for, I would say yes, field. I can also "form there may be a this particular project,
professional however, as time is an opinion" on the certain amount of as I will need credible
educators may view limited, I will resort to topic, as I am bias, as well as, the information, with
the project from a checking the website currently in the lack of credibility and reliable sources and
different approach, for resources. education field. references. references.
no, I would not
assume they know yes, there should be
but with the number a lot of scholarly
of people this affects information on thid possibly, may give yes, will provide links
it is possible yes topic some real life stories to valuable resources
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Yes, they are going to not really because Websites are not very
be looking for a they are not current or good sources to
research topic on the relevant for They are information No, they are not obtain information
lines of my career, information that is that is being reviewed because they are not because that are not
and they will expect it presently being by peers in the same always containing accurate or always
to be good. obtained. profession. accurate information. current.
Probably not because
No, I can't assume I will conduct
that my audience research on medical
already knows about technology and its
my topic. After impact on the unborn
reading my paper, fetus, medical No, they are not
they woulfd eiher be journals will be more useful resources
informed about my useful. Journals are because they are "not
topic or if they are more up to date, based on extensive Yes and no. If I use
familiar with what I especially when it research" and they the EBSCO service,
am writing about, they includes medical yes, they are because have not been written then it is reliable and
might have their own research because the they are based on by experts in the field credible sources, but
views due to their medical field is "solid research of medicine for not all web sites are
particular experience always cha findings". example. accurate
They do know about
the topic, not
nessisarilly the entire NO because... I saiid Yes, because there
topic. The biases that that it was a historical are a lot of
we all have, they do Yes, because a lot of event and recent opinionated articles
not know all the the information on magazines would not on the web that are
information but just this topic is found in cover something like credible from experts
the basics I need to books, participants that, they might, but it as well as many
inform them about and experts on this would take to long to credible articles about
specific details of the topic wrote many find one that would the hawaiian
overthrow books. have. overthrow
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Yes, great for
overviews of topics
broad and narrow.
Very credible and
reliable sources of Somewhat.
information, as their Yes, scholarly Magazines supply
No, support credible contents have been journals are often key helpful information
information- not verified by experts in resources for about issues of On a ceratin degree
opinon, educate them the field and by the academic general interest and web sites are a useful
by convincing them publisher assignments. current events. resource.
yes, i can find out info
yes because you can from a person that is No, not able to get
find out more detailed experienced and NO, its hard to find stories on it. at the
infomation hands on topic this resources time
yes, books can help
me gather information
on the requirement to
become a scholarly journals
management provides short essay yes, most web
informaiton stories. there are yes, magazine information have
system.the book information provided articles in computer updates and
yes, my topic is about contains informations on the job field and are usually updated information on the
management on the career i am experience and more technology careers that students
inforamtion system. researching on. information in them. information in them. major in.
Yes because of the
no can't assume Yes to learn more convient information
audience know my about my topic.Even available to me. I
topic.I don't know if I have to use a know to use well
what opinions or Yes to share research medical yes to keep up with documented article
biases they might information on my dic.tounderstand current events about with dates, reference
have. topic message panda development numbers etc.
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No, popular
magazines will not be
Yes, books will be useful to me in my I assume that some
No, I can not assume useful in this research paper web sites will be
my audience already assignment because I I am not yet sure if because I need useful for my
knows about my topic will need to gather a scholarly journals will factual information research paper, but I
because I have not lot of information both be useful in my and not information will need to analyze
wrote anything about from books and research paper, but I that may be the information
my topic thus far. internet resoures. am thinking it will be. questioned. closely.
Might be able to give
me a basic overview Yes, I have already
No. Most people do of what gene testing Yes, most likely. This found one website (a
not know much (if is but maybe not is a highly debated Some science .gov) and it looks to
anything) about this current BRCA 1 topic so there should magazines might but have good
topic testing techniques be articles about it. it is not a trendy topic. information
Yes, websites will be
No, I can't assume useful to me because
that. Since No, books are not I can find lots of
Kamehameha useful because there Scholarly journals will Popular magazines information on
Schools have a lot of are no books be useful to me that are published Kamehameha
controversy, there published about the because they are about Hawaii and our Schools on the web;
might be biases Kamehameha School written by teachers on school system might including their official
against me. education system their school be good website
Yes. They will most
likely have the most They may be. It They will probably
recent and thorough depends on the have passed around
They may or may not. information on the actual magazine. information. There
Because it's a fairly subject. It is also More often than not, may be a few sites
No. Majority of the new topic, the information that can the article will focus with decent and
audience will most information given in be validated by other on the basics of the usable information.
likely not have a very books may be limited scholars who are in subject, rather than in- Otherwise, the data
good understanding. to the same field. depth information. will probably be junk.
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yes and no. may be I believe that I will be
No. Some people able to get statistics A investagative able to find alot of
may have a bias on I will probably get but the verbal content magazine would be information and
the way prisoners are more information via may be hard to helpful, like Time, opinions on this
treated. web. understand. Newsweek subject.
yes, apa (american
psychology yes, depending on
association) is a great the site, you can find
source to see valuable information
if the book is a statistcal and not really, i dont think by creditable people.
testimony on sexual researched narrowed popular magazine especially if its a
they might have assualt experiences, topics. they provide articles have sexual medical site, that will
general or written by a you with detailed assualt articles in provide you with facts
understanding but not psychologist dealing information about the depth or creditable pertaining to your
in detail with the issue field of psychology information subject
Yes, scholarly journal
articles will be useful
Yes, book will be for my topic. The
useful since they will information is based
My audience may provide expert on solid research and
know something sources of is reliable and
about my topic. I think information on this credible since they Yes, popular
some will agree that topic. They can also are peer-reviewed. magazine articles Some web sites may
media violence does lead me to other These will also be may provide opinions be useful, but I need
have an effect on sources of more current than from the public to be careful about
children. information. books. regarding my topic. accuracy.
maybe. if i cant find
enough information in yes, there are so
i cannot assume that yes, they are full of books or journals i many...i havent
they will already know reliable information might look at some decided on a topic.
about my topic and are easy to cite. yes, for credibility. magazines. ..confusing
Yes, I know the
information can be
trusted and it makes Yes, magazines like
No assumptions, No, The assignment looking for my national geographic
everyone has their calls for online information that was have trusted Yes, I need online
own opinion. sources easier. information I can use. sources.
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Yes, because they If the websites come
will give exact from credible
definitions for sexual Yes because it may Magazine articles sources, such as the
No. You must fully harassment and also have guidelines that may be useful, but Labor Department,
explain your topic to provide great classify what sexual some might be biased then they can be
any audience. examples. harassment is. and not credible useful.
Yes, it may be useful
because of all the
different types of
information. No,
because some of the
information may be
Yes false.
they might know that
there are alot of yes, they provide
kangaroos, people current information
speak with acsents, Yes, books are a yes it tells me what going on in Australia
the toilet flushes the great resource they thought about yes they usually have such as current
opposite way, call epecially to learn the culture in their current and hot topics events, health status,
football soccer, and about the historical perspective. Maybe i that attracts and weather, up to date
they have different and traditional can even quote the appeals to the info that books dont
seasons in Australia aspects of Australia journal author everyday audience have
No, because they do Yes, I will be able to
They will probably Yes they are because Yes because they not have enough find a lot of
agree with my they have usefull have informationg researched information about my
conclusion information in them. about my topic. information in them. topic there.
yes, there are
parenting magazines
yes. what age Yes, because studies No, because that talk about Yes, there are many
children should attend have been done on scholarly articles don't children going to web sites that I can
school. this topic. apply to my topic. school. look at for answers.
a lot of people would yes! because book is
have known already schorlarly source and yes because the may be not because I
about my topic. Just it can provide me yes because I need magazine has lots of can get information
to provide more some back ground resent resources for information about through magazine
information about fishing my topic fishing and journal
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Yes, I can read
information from Yes, if it provides a
Alcohol can lead to experts in dealing life story of an Yes, easy to access
the disease of Yes, they have a lot with the disease of alcoholic or his/her and lots of
alcoholism of useful information alcoholism family memebers information
They may have some Yes, because the
first hand experince topic is very
or have been affected Yes, because they Yes, with the discussed on the
by it Probably not are current. currentness again internet
Yes. Basically, they
Yes. Because they are reviewed by yes. if you find
have useful books on professionals which reliable sites, you can
Child Development means reliable somewhat useful. find current and old
general knowledge of Psychology. I've information for my Books and journals information from
my topic researched it. topic. woud be better. different places.
yes its fantastic
because it can open
both sides and also
not really because give out information
yes but not enough they are too out dated from eveywhere
yes. they will have
basic knowledge yes but hard to trace some but hard to see
about the topics yes. most books are yes as long as they sources of if they are creditable
already. very creditable are up to date. information or not
Possible if it is a book Great for this topic,
no. They need to that was currently being current and all.
know more about published. Because Need to be careful to
what, how, and why the topic is quite no expertise for my make sure what site
it's happening. current. maybe, maybe not. topic is credible.
Yes. I think my
audience knows that
global warming and
pollution affects the yes, because the Yes, because I want
ecosystem decline infomation is more to use the sourses No, because i want to Yes, because I want
and extinction of reliable than other that are reliable and use the original to know the current
species. sourses credible sourse information.
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yes because they
also contain reliable
researched facts that
tend to be more not as useful because
to caught up to see beacuse they inclued yes because they current because there of bias and incorrect
relate to the issue view pionts and facts contain useful facts are written more often information
No because the
I can assume they NCLB is a very recent
know of it, but not topic and information
much more than that is changing rapidly
no because this is a
very recent topic and i Yes becuase it's very
They know almost don't think any books Maybe, It is hard to current. There is just
nothing about my have this kind of No because it's a very tell if any of them the problem of finding
topic information right now recent topic cover my topic a credible web site
yes, I believe that yes, even though they yes, there are
females will know my may be difficult to yes, there are websites devoted to
topic well (and some yes, because most of read I could use the magazines devoted to my topic and some
males), they may my information will be extra information. my topic, so are on first-hand
have their own attained by using Plus, the articles are magazine articles experiences, so it will
opinions books reliable. may prove useful be useful
Yesbecause it is
creditable information No because the Yes and No.
that is current, the information is not Depending on the
If it is my intented only problem for me creditable but if could person of
audience I would would be I might not five me good ideas on organization
assume they would understand all the what to look for in publishing the
know about my topic information academic journals website.
Yes, because they
Yes, because they have been edited by They can be,
have been reviewed magazine editor's and because some sites
Yes, because they and approved by they have been are credible, although
yes, none are reliable sources experts reviewed for accuracy some are not
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yes, what age of
consent is in different
parts of the world a
base knowledge of yah, because most of yah because thay can maybe if you make
things that go on with the books you know they are approved by give me up to date sure that the web site
age of consent will be accurate experts articles is accurate
It depends on how
current it is. Also, you
May give you some may have to use your
general ideas about own judgement when
topic it comes to accuracy.
might have some
knowledge of the
actual hurricane but yes, because I am yes because we have
why the develop and getting actual had a lot of web sites could be
happen in certain yes, books allow me research done from hurricanes this year very useful since
areas more than to in depth knowledge other researchers and but if they are not there is a lot of new
others they might not of hurricanes in the can lead me to other cited might just give information but might
know a lot about past resources me opinions not be scholarly
It really depends on This is the place to be
Do not assume they not too much the magazine. Mostly because most anime
know the topic. Might because this is more Maybe but I doubt it. anime based. Not fans love talking
know the word but not on the international Anime is not a topic times or internet or online to people
the subject. fan based many write about. life. across the world
some are good and
yes they are reliable yes they are very they are alright some are bad you
yes everyone thinks and they have been reliable and credible depending on the can never tell if the
differently verified by experts on certain things. aricle and the writers. sites are credible.
No. I think my topic is
Yes. It's what we use still a topic being Yes. My topic always Yes. The internet has
No. to get information. researched. has new stuff. it all.
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Yes, books can have
I think my audience more credible
has a general research information
overview about my on my topic, rather
topic, but they than on the internet Yes, because I can
probably do have where people can Yes, because the get up to date
their own opinion on post whatever they information Im getting No, because it doesnt information on my
it. want. is reliable & correct pertain to my topic. topic.
It depends what your
topic is about. If you
are doing a current
No, They m ight have event topic then no a
a different opinion on book is not a useful No, because they are Yes, because it
my topic from what I topic. Books are great No, because they are used more for general provides up-to-the-
have. It will be their for overviews of more for academic interest and current minute news and
claim. topics. assignments. events. information.
The drama students
at LCC, especially
who have
experiences in No, finding
theater productions, information on web
may know some sites may not be as
information or opinion Yes, since my topic is efficient in quantity as
about the relationship not about a current No, since stage finding information
between directors issue, books are directing is not an from books and
and actors. However, great source for my issue that attracts journals on my topic.
my class members essay. Books may Yes, sholarly journal attention from the However, there could
may not have provide the most will give authoritive general public, it is be some useful
knowledge on credible information information about hard to find good data academic researches
dramatic production on my topic than the different views from from popular on directing strategy
and some t other sources. experts for my topic. magazine articles. on web sites.
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Yes, very credible.
But since my topic is Yes, but I will have to
a very current one, I paraphrase a lot to No, we are not Yes, they are current
will be using more help to reader allowed to use and my topic is very
no internet sources. understand. popular magazines. cutting edge.
web sites will be
useful to me because
it could help me get a
I think that news better understanding
magazines should be of how people feel
They may be. I might very helpful to my about journalists and
be able to get useful VERY USEFUL. I topic because since I why they feel this
examples of field think that the bulk of am doing research on way. Websites will
work done by my information will be field journalism, most also be able to give
journalism, but it obtained from of the articles written me current
NO. they might think might not be useful shcolarly journals in news magazines information, and
that journalists don't depending on how because they have are written by websites could also
make a difference in current the the most current and journalists working direct me to other
today's society information is reliable information out in the field. valua
These journals are
mostly the key
they can assume that sources to a research
they know about it. assignment, however
They may wonder if not the best because
my sources are of the technical Not really because it No because some of
credible and if the language they use is difficult to trace the the information on
facts about my topic Yes they are because against other experts writer's ideas whether different websites are
are factual. it is usually credible. in the related field. it is factual or not. not credible.
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Yes because this may
I don't know if i will be be the only way i can
Maybe Because i able to find any on my yes because there find my information.
believe there are topic so I don't might be a sorce of Also there is much
NO but they may books on spelling believe they will be resembulance i can information to be
have biests bees too useful get. found on the internet.
Probably, but I'm not Yes, most magazine
quite sure what books Yes. Scholarly journal articles are credible
are available for my articles are resources. I would
No. An opinion specific topic. resourceful for like to view any Yes, web sites
shared was to do "Teachers Salary" research and it gives articles about the include a wide variety
minimum research for (Hawaii vs solid and credible and National Eduation of resources right at
certification. Conneticut). reliable information. Association (NEA). your fingertip.
Yes. Either they will
agree or disagree Yes, journals will be
with my statements Yes, they will give me able to give an up-to- Yes, there are many
on the Department of an overview of the date and detailed Yes, they could serve articles, notes, and
Human Services and system and the view point of issues as recent issues and information available
the Child Protective phylosophy of the as it relate to the events of the on the internet for my
Services profession. career field. profession. topic.
A magazine which
Because the includes an article
assignment is about a They can be useful about the topic I am
historical event and because the researching can be
needs specific assingnment needs useful because I may I should not use Web
information, books research on a topic in use it as an example sites because they
no are useful. a specific field. of the event today. can not accurate.
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ENG102: Yes
because information
from the past can
help. Even the books yes because we need no because we will be
no/ there might be from the present day to see how the dealing with Hawaiian
people from around can be helpful to. The Hawaiians kids view articles and yes because the web
the world that don't library at the U.H. education and how it publications and none can be used to
know about the have a lot of the changed over the of them are really research about my
Hawaiian Culture Hawaiian history. years popular. topic.
Yes and no not all
Yes! it holds current information might be
Yes we all have the Yes! it gives more usefull information true because anyone
same assigment accurate as well as that I have to is aloud use on the
however not the overviews of topics. compare in my essay computer the
same choices so I books are also No not for my topic. It (annalyze how todays information might not
have to make sure to credible and reliable hold to much expert version of the be true so having a
be accurate on my sources of terms rather than paractice relates to back up in a book or
researches information. lamens the original:) newspaper is usefull
possibly , the large
amount of info and
the immediacy is
desireable, however
the info must be
verified by another
no. im unsure means
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I dont know. I am
probably going to
write about the history
Maybe. It has to do of spelling. I dont
with the movie we Yes. We need to use know if magazines
watched so they will at least one book. We will have that
have many different need at least 7 Yes. Again we need information in them. No. Web pages are
opinions different sources. at least 7 sources But I will have to look not always acurate
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pro. explain cultural no does not explain
yes, explain cultural view on education in cultural view over easier to find
no. culture views on education an unbiased way. cultural education materials
Yes and no because Yes and no because
the magazines can be there are a lot of
reliable but at the information about a
Yes, Because they same time there are lot of topics but you
hold a lot of no references, so we will have to evaluate
information the yes, because the wouldn't be able to on whether the
pretains to our information is reliable trace the sources of imformation is
No, Not to sure. subjects. and credible. information. credible or not.
Definitley, I try too
stay on the forefront
Yes very useful. of new information.
Yes, depending on Magazines will be of Although alot of info For the most part no. I
their youth, they might good use to. The Yes. As long as I can in magazines is see the internet as
agree or disagree internet is hard to understand what I am biased, I am able to more for
with me. trust these days. reading. filter it. entertainment really.
no. they may think yes. i am positive facts, statistics, and possibly. i believe that
that hard study is the there is a book out the latest research research and proven yes. aslong as i can
only way to be a there, old or new, that will all be useful for facts will help my get reliable
straight A student. supports my topic. my topic topic the most information from it.
Depends on the
aspect of your topic,
like cultures reactions Definetly, like it states
not really, different Yes, books can be to studying it could be I don't think it would above, it provides up
ways of different documented useful from a 1st be so useful for my to date info about
cultures experinces person point of view. topic. current events
yes yes yes
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Yes, because it has Sometimes. It
already been edited Yes, because it is Maybe. It is moreso depends on the
and tested for reviewed by experts based on opinion and website the
No. I don't think there accuracy. It also and the information is writers trying to make information is
are any biases comes from experts reliable the piece interesting. obtained from.
Yes, because they
Yes, if I can Find any. Yes, because they are easly accesed
Because they are have extensive Yes, because they and up to date, but
published and more research put into have more resent sometimes un-
No, None likely reliable. them. information. reliable.
Yes and no, because
their is a lot of sites
with information but
Yes, because like it you won't be able to
Books will only be says they are reliable easily tell how
useful to me if I can and have easy to accurate the info is.
I do not know what find some that show a read footnotes and/or The fact though that it
biases my class person's family, bibliographies which I Not really, because I may contain biases
members will have, societal, and know will be of great cannot be sure how doesn't bother my
but I do know they will economic help to me in finding accurate the project, because if the
have some background and how books and/or other information really is or info is based on one
knowledge of my they ended up doing sources of info on my where the person got person then I know
topic. in their life. topic. his/her ideas from. who to
no, because most
popular magazines
yes, becasue it gives are popular because yes, because there
you a different view they have the latest are different view
point on the issue. dirt on a issue points...
yes, studies about
family involvement in yes, must have some yes, gotta be
no studies no, too technical info something
audience doesnt
know about subject
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The web can be
useful, but It maybe
No, they should not ahard to find credibile
No, I must be able to books may be be used in acedemic information. Although
convey all my ideas outdated, business papers. For my if after long evaluation
and information as if magazines may be business related topic and analyzation of a
they have no idea on my best bet because Yes, especially the "pro" magazines are credible website, web
my topic they are current pro journals more useful sites can be used
for my topic
books will be very magazines could be
my topic of Tattoos useful for this certain I am wary at the fact useful because
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/40418 | The card is finally played ... opposing Obama's gun control, is "racist"
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Luke Kaven
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Re: The card is finally played ... opposing Obama's gun control, is "racist"
In reply to PhD4, Jan 22, 2013
PhD4 wrote:
Luke Kaven wrote:
PhD4 wrote:
Luke Kaven wrote:
As I said, if anyone thinks that there is no more "real racism" that person does not live around and/or work with many black people. It's as plain as day.
So you see racism... when you're around black people.
Do you ask them to stop ?
I don't think anyone is denying that there is racism, and I'm sorry you're the victim of it....
but in today's world, after all the fake racism claimed day after day, used as excuse after excuse...
Can you really blame people for saying... "so the fk what?"
No, I mean that I see racism against black people (as well as the other way around). I think the only form of racism the OP is denying is racism against blacks, saying that it isn't "real," and I'm telling him that it is. While racism itself is equal opportunity, the effects of it are not. It disproportionately affects blacks.
Oh, you made it sound like you see racism whenever you are around black people.
So... are you the one being racist ? ; )
Or are you saying they just complain about it a lot ?
No idea what you're saying at this point.
It does seem like a temperamental thing for you. If you want something clarified, just point out the thing you want clarified. Otherwise, I'll leave it to you.
I see both sides of the "so the ... what" business. You don't actually give any idea of what you yourself are advocating. You want to take a stand on social policy? Or is this just a temperamental thing?
The only stand I take is on MY social "policy". It's no one's business, and yours is none of mine.
People are free to feel how they want. Racist, prejudiced, neutral or "color blind" (which doesn't even exist). Everyone has the freedom to be and feel what they want.
This is America.
Unfortunately, there are those that want to hold your personal freedoms and feelings against you (you see many of them in this forum).
I'm interested to know what you cannot believe or feel today. There are no laws that prevent you from having prejudiced, or racist beliefs. You know that already. So the question is, in what ways would you want to /act on those beliefs/ that you cannot legally now?
Do you want the power to deny black people jobs, or mortgages, or access to education and healthcare /solely/ because they are black? Or do you think that should be against the law?
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You may think you have a cool computer, but these Finns — they have a cool computer. Cool as in freakin' cold, thanks to the overclockers' secret ingredient: liquid nitrogen. The Finnish gurus used two XFX GeForce 6800 GT cards with 256MB of 256-bit GDDR3 memory utilizing nVidia's SLI technology to achieve their feat. The whole liquid nitrogen bit enabled them to increase power to the memory modules and achieve a clock speed of 575 MHz and memory speed of 1300 MHz which, translated into overclocking speak, gave them a 3DMark score of 12,483. We don't know what that means other than that it would be a really weak showing in a pinball game, but for overclockers it's apparently quite screaming. We don't know if liquid nitrogen is specifically listed, but we have a feeling they probably voided the warranties on those cards.
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