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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39447 | A Beginner’s Guide to Pineapple Studios
Jazz teacher Maria Yacoob
Jazz teacher Maria Yacoob gives you a helpful breakdown of what to expect on your first few visits to Pineapple Dance Studios.
So, you’re reading this article. Which means you’re thinking about coming to dance at Pineapple Studios. First of all, can we say a big hello and welcome! Pineapple isn’t simply an unrivalled studio centre, with a bigger timetable and wider range of classes than any other studios in Europe. It’s also a real community, filled with friendliness, dedication, and mega-watts of positive energy.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39448 | Friday, July 26, 2019
Celebrity Wrap Up - Sunday Edition
Hello and welcome to Sunday's edition of Celebrity Wrap Up.
She looks adorable. Also, her haircut makes me want to cut my hair like that.
I've never understood her draw, but what is going on with her sleeve? Is it trying to escape?
That dress color is incredible! Also, how is their son so old already?
Wearing orange to a premiree for Orange is the New Black? Yawn.
She plays one of my favorite characters on Euphoria, so I'm not going to say anything bad about her interesting outfit.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39495 | Feb 6, 2013
Why the Drone Strike Legal Memo Is Secret
The big news in civil liberties circles today is the leak of a white paperlaying out some of the legal reasoning behind the administration’s drone strike program. It’s not the actual memo itself, but it does appear to track the reasoning as it was described to Charlie Savage. Glenn Greenwald lays out all the legal implications in detail here, something I won’t bother to reproduce. I’d just like to focus on this already-infamous section on an “imminent threat:”
Here we have it, ladies and gentlemen, the reason why the actual drone memo is secret. Not (entirely) because of knee jerk secrecy instinct, and definitely not because it would harm national security, which is and always was preposterous. No, the reason is the only justification they can cook up is so flagrantly ridiculous, so abusive of the plain meaning of words, so stuffed with Orwellian up-is-downism that a bright 5th grader could tell this is bullshit sophistry. If legal words can be bent this far then they mean nothing. When it comes to President Obama and assassination, there is no such thing as law, there is only power.
This memo is telling us one thing: the executive has arrogated unto itself the power to assassinate anyone, anywhere, at any time, without any justification, oversight, or due process whatsoever.
Be warned.
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Songs of Education
Another G. K. Chesterton poem:
Form 8277059, Sub-Section K
I remember my mother, the day that we met,
A thing I shall never entirely forget;
I should know her again if we met in a tram.
__But mother is happy in turning a crank
__That increases the balance at somebody's bank;
__And I feel satisfaction that mother is free
__From the sinister task of attending to me.
They have brightened our room, that is spacious and cool,
With diagrams used in the Idiot School,
And books for the blind that will teach us to see;
But mother is happy, for mother is free.
__For mother is dancing up forty-eight floors.
__For love of the Leeds International Stores,
__And the flame of that faith might perhaps have grown cold,
__With the care of a baby of seven weeks old.
For mother is happy in greasing a wheel
For somebody else, who is cornering Steel;
And though our one meeting was not very long,
She took the occasion to sing me this song:
__'O, hush thee, my baby, the time will soon come
__When thy sleep will be broken with hooting and hum;
__There are handles want turning and turning all day,
__And knobs to be pressed in the usual way;
For Progress comes early, and Freedom too soon.'
G. K. Chesterton
New Witness, 25 July, 1919
Books I Want To Read
I don't have these but so want them to use in my Bible/English classes every week:
I hope the rest of these books come to a library near me. Or if your library is throwing out books let me know.
Writing 作 文
I especially like books on writing by my favorite famous authors not just because I know they really can write mesmerizing bestsellers, but because they're the most fun to read and inspirational.
I so enjoyed Stephen King's On Writing (warning! a ton of swear words to cross out) so I'm guessing I'll love Orson Scott Card's book How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy just as much:
Books About Books 書
Money 錢
Hiking 踏 青
(Scotland 蘇 格 蘭 and Great Britain 英 國)
Genealogy 家 譜
Although, a good website with all this info would probably be more efficient:
Biographies 傳 記
Favorite Movies (or How I Teach Bible)
I went crazy over all the films on this page from the very first viewing, and I use them every week teaching Bible/English. Lucky me.
1. Gospel of John (word-for-word, simple translation)
Minor quibbles: Mary Magdalene showing up so much, I don't think the music was right for the ending, the tone of voice in which he often insists "I'm telling you the truth", but so far this is my favorite "word for word" (albeit a very simple) version.
It all depends on the individual's English level and motive as to how I teach these DVDs. To give you four random examples:
One 12-year-old boy I study with reads the story directly out of the Bible in Chinese, then he reads it in English, then we put the movie on and he reads the English subtitles sentence by sentence, then I replay the section in normal speed.
I am teaching a girl who is in university who is happy to watch straight through the movie with Chinese subtitles. If she later wants to re-watch the movie with English subtitles I'll be happy to do that too but it will be a little bit each time in addition to all the other interesting Bible stuff we want to read or see together.
A 9-year-old brother and sister who already know all the stories do 20 min of reading and writing each English subtitle.
Two ladies are writing down the English subtitles sentence by sentence (comparing it with what is written in the Bible) which gives us lots of opportunities to discuss the implications of everything Jesus said and how he is the only way, but they've already seen the whole movie in Chinese, and I already took them through the rest of the Bible. We are also doing Jule Miller's pictorial overview of the Bible, which I like more for the wealth of comments and Bible knowledge my dad brings to the study, than for the material itself.
In every class, regardless of age or Bible knowledge, we ALWAYS do:
* scripture memorization (slowly getting these all memorized)
* and a page out of homemade transcripts of Wesley Simon's Denominational Doctrines series (watch it online!), first reading the Chinese and then the English.
Once they know who Jesus is, then we start back at the beginning of the Bible to see where it all came from. When showing these, I mostly fast-forward any scenes that aren't in the Bible and we always read the story directly out of the Bible as well:
I adore the Testament Bible In Animation series. Each of the 9 animations appears to have been done by a different artist, with different music. The slightly English accent, clear diction and expressive inflection are a delight to teach English with. Each animation is 30 min long. My set of DVDS has Chinese/English options in both subtitles AND audio.
I love some of the Bible Collection movies, especially Abraham (Richard Harris!) and Moses (Ben Kingsley!) . Jeremiah is good. Jacob and Esther are good/ok. My set has non-removable Chinese-only subtitles. When showing these, I mostly fast-forward any scenes that aren't in the Bible.
The rest of the Bible Collection movies are a waste of time (Paul, Samson and Delilah, etc) but I have a special beef with their version of David (not shown).
As much as I hyperventilate over Nathaniel Parker playing David, the movie unnecessarily goes out of its way to mess up a good story. In places where the factual Bible account is naturally exciting, the movie gratuitously changes scenes to something boring that didn't even happen. For example, David is suddenly confronted with Goliath alone in the wilderness with only two other people peeking out from behind a bush; the onlooking Philistine and Israeli armies are completely missing. It does this kind of thing throughout the movie. I was going to cut and splice the more accurate sections but it wouldn't have left enough to make a coherent film. Testament:Bible in Animation: David & Saul (shown) on the other hand, rocks!
Here are the individual films I show, with tons of actual Bible reading after each:
2. Testament: The Bible in Animation - Creation and the Flood
See Shazbazzar's review of this video at
Sometimes I do skip this one, because of the way they take liberties with what God said to Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit, and other places in the cartoon. Otherwise very neat film.
3. The World That Perished
It's basic and it must have been filmed 20 years ago, but it works. Not a movie or a lecture but every point translated visually and concisely, it touches on the logistics and science behind Noah's Flood.
4. The Bible Collection: Abraham
(Richard Harris!)
5. The Bible Collection: Jacob
I like the first half of this movie with its great Laban but for the second half of this Bible story, I prefer the accuracy (and beautiful Rachel) of Genesis Project's word-for-word The Bible on Video: Genesis: Isaac, Esau and Jacob (not shown) using actors on location speaking Hebrew with an English Bible narration overlay, but unfortunately I don't have it on DVD and our video is no longer viewable.
6. Testament: The Bible in Animation - Joseph
7. The Bible Collection: Moses (Ben Kingsley!)
8. The Exodus Revealed: Search For the Red Sea Crossing
9. Testament: The Bible In Animation - Ruth
The cover doesn't begin to show the alluring femininity of Ruth in this claymation. (By comparison, the Esther movie mentioned below falls flat for me. Somehow Louise Lombard's version of Esther's submisiveness is only convincing if you think Mary Tyler Moore was showing true respect in The Dick Van Dyke Show - which, however, was able to be brilliantly funny without resorting to sex, violence, or profanity.)
10. Testament: The Bible In Animation - David (See comments above.)
11. Testament: The Bible in Animation - Elijah
12. Testament: The Bible in Animation - Jonah
13. Bible Collection: Jeremiah
14. Bible Collection: Esther
I do break down and show the Esther movie. Despite my tepid reaction to Louise Lombard's portrayal of Esther (see comments on Ruth), and a wimpy movie version of Xerxes compared to the brutally ruthless Xerxes of history, it's got a great Mordecai.
Other films I show where appropriate:
Martin Luther
I shiver. What a guy! At least, ahem, what a guy Joseph Fiennes is when playing someone with backbone.
It is also a great step-off to discussing where denominations came from, and the difference between denominations and the church of the first century.
The Milky Way and Beyond (one of the Journeys to the Edge of Creation duo).
I like to be blown away and this showcases the power of the Creator in the immense size of the universe. Toward the end they take you on an imaginary journey to bring this point home and polish it off with Bible verses about the awesomeness of God side-by-side with his personal loving care.
Pam Stenzel's Sex, Love, and Relationships. A sheer joy of watching her speak film. A nurse and long-time counseler/lecturer, Pam Stenzel has the cutest in-your-face, telling-it-like-it-is style of speaking.
If you know of any movies that are better than the ones listed above, let me know.
Note: With all these films, we always end up reading the story directly from the Bible, and if someone is denominational and already knows the Bible very well I do not show them these videos. We watch (or read transcripts of) Wesley Simons' Denominational Doctrines series instead. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39505 | Friday, April 9, 2010
Why I left a site
I left a forum recently. I had been an active member on there for quite some time. I have just found out that there are questions as to why I left, so I thought I would address it here, so the moderators of that particular site don’t go into a spin and removed all threads.
Basically it got to the point where everything I said was being construed as advertising. For example on one thread someone was talking about self-publishing and I offered some advice and gave my email if they had any questions. That is apparently “trying to advertise my book in and underhand manner offsite”. Um, if you went further up the thread you will see she had already purchased my books, so how could me trying to help be advertising? I was asked to remove my post.
I had a thread of mine pulled with no email or explanation as to why. I ask staff specifically what I can and can’t talk about but got no reply.
Also, it turns out they only act when something is pointed out to them, and I have a fair idea of who was “pointing” everything out to them.
I was feeling quite harassed by this person, so I chose to ask for a refund and left the site relatively quietly. I posted one comment on my fav thread and left it at that. I didn’t explain why coz I was pretty sure it would get the thread pulled.
I realised too that the site was no longer useful to me. I loved the thread I mentioned above and “talking” to the ppl on there, but unfortunately the feeling of being harassed was getting to be too much, so I got a refund on my membership.
There is a heck of a lot of advertising on that site and I felt like I was being unfairly targeted when I was not trying to advertise. I felt I could not make any comments without it being misconstrued.
1. I thought that may be why you decided to leave. Such a shame, because I loved to read your posts on the million dollar thread - that thread is the only one I'd been reading, lately!!
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3. miss you Silky, x Lil |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39522 | >>check out our soundcloud for 'No Robot'<<
the gear
For those of you interested in what is a skaguitar and what is not, what kind of effects to use, which amplifier to plug in to and what microphone to put in front of it.
Bobbie has an impressive collection of guitar and from it he probably used his beloved Hofner Congres the most for the recordinss. Originally it has no pickup, but Bobbie fitted an extremely cheapo no-name-pickup on it, bought for almost no money: tremendous sound.
For recording Gerben Rienk's amp was used, details later, but every now and then also a Roland Jazzchorus JC-120. In beide gevallen met meestal een SM57 ervoor.
Furthermore you can hear, for instance on Becalmed/Triar his new Gitana (Macaferrie). This guitar as a piezo-pickup, but for recording a Rode NT-1 microphone was used, near the place where the neck meets the body.
Some parts were played on his posh black Gibson ES-175, dating from the nineties for example on Late.
Quite similar to the Gibson is the De Armond, that you can hear on a.o. High hopes.
For the rhythm-part of "Hurry hurry" we used an Avantage, in combination with the NT-1 and a tube preamp. And even his Martin travel-guitar plays a tiny role in "I'm with you".
For most bass parts an acoustic SX with active pickup was used: straight into the tube preamp. Except in "Late" where some sort of double bass/ Stick was used, made in Cuba. And Machiel plays in "Becalmed/Triar" on a real double-bass. What you hear is a mix of the bass'pickup and the NT-1, placed a bit away from the bass, so no additional amplifying
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39524 | Never imagined you wouldn’t be here
It’s not like we took it for granted.
There was ample awareness of the sacred bond we shared.
And now, in disbelief, my ears reach for your voice.
It echoes in my mind, almost real.
But it feels so distant.
How I want to tell you about the Butterfly effect
About how you did this, didn’t you?
How this is for you.
From you.
Because of you.
Joy, celebration, overcoming obstacles
All so wonderful, but always more wonderful when it was shared between us.
Confused and shocked. That it’s become just an echo.
And yet, you’re everywhere since the first day you left.
Just like you were everywhere from the first day you came.
If I asked you to come, now. To show yourself. Would you?
Have you, in ways that I am blind to perceive.
I ache for the sound of your voice.
For long hugs, and sacred kitchen moments.
For notes on your calendar above the sink.
To have you tell me. Everything.
I ache to change the things I did.
The things I didn’t do.To go back to when you were in front of me.
Eyes closed.
I ache to share with you.
I ache to make it not true.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39540 | bilguuns life dangerous life
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YES. its finally over. the last episode of bilguuns life. but im gonna make bilguuns life x. its about me when i was in 7th grade. there will be a lot of more characters. more adventures. more jokes. its gonna be great. please comment on this game about your opinion.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39545 | The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is an index that runs from -100 to 100 and shows how willing customers are to recommend the company to others. Currently this indicator is used the most to give insights in customer loyalty. Without a doubt you have already seen the Net Promoter Score question once. The NPS question is a quantitativequestion, formulated as followed:
“How likely is it that you will recommend us to a friend or colleague?”
You can answer this question by filling in a score of 0 – 10, where 0 means very unlikely and 10 means very likely.
Divided in 3 categories
The given scores by customers/recipients result in 3 categories.
‘Detractors’ are recipients that have given a score of a 6 or lower. They are not very satisfied with your company’s products or services. There is a reasonable chance they won’t purchase new products/services and they can bring damage to the company’s image by spreading negative words. Detractors have a negative impact on your average customer value. Read my blog “What impact do Promotors and Detractors have to your average client value?” to see what kind of impact.
‘Passives’ are recipients that have given the score 7 or 8. They are pretty satisfied but still very open to competitive offers. They are not loyal to your brand. Passives won’t easily spread negative words, but they are not enthusiastic enough to recommend you to others either. Important to know from this group is how to enthuse them enough to become Promotors. So which aspects don’t make them completely happy yet?
‘Promoters’ have given a score of 9 or 10. They really like the products and/or services of your company. These are the customers that will repurchase your company’s products and services. This makes them very good customers to contact for example for testimonials on your website. These customers are true promotors for your brand and will create new clients.
How do you calculate the Net Promoter Score?
You take the percentage of Promoters and deduct the percentage of Detractors. The remaining number is your Net Promoter Score. This can result in a score of -100 to 100. The Passives are not added into this calculation. This is because they are the average type; they won’t make a change.
So you know your current NPS. Now what?
The Net Promotor Score is an easy indicator and that is probably the reason it’s so popular. But what can you do with this score? Because honestly: it only shows you what your situation is. To improve your NPS, you will have to find out which aspects make your customers less happy.
You have to use these aspects to get to work. Don’t forget to give feedback back to your customers, so they will know that you are improving their points of criticism. This way, you can show them you really want to use their feedback to get better. This will be appreciated and will lead to a higher NPS.
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He knew that in his name his followers would trade in human flesh; that cradles would be robbed and women’s breasts unbabed for gold.
And yet he died with voiceless lips.
Why did he fail to speak? Why did he not tell his disciples, and through them the world: “You shall not burn, imprison and torture in my name. You shall not persecute your fellow-men.”
Why did he not plainly say: “I am the Son of God,” or, “I am God”? Why did he not explain the Trinity? Why did he not tell the mode of baptism that was pleasing to him? Why did he not write a creed? Why did he not break the chains of slaves? Why did he not say that the Old Testament was or was not the inspired word of God? Why did he not write the New Testament himself?
Why did he leave his words to ignorance, hypocrisy and chance? Why did he not say something positive, definite and satisfactory about another world? Why did he not turn the tear-stained hope of heaven into the glad knowledge of another life? Why did he not tell us something of the rights of man, of the liberty of hand and brain?
[Editor’s Note: Here is what the Chicago Times, Oct 14, 1894, said about this: When Ingersoll reached the words “He did not know”a great sigh of relief went up from the mighty audience [of 4000].There was an instant of silence, and then a storm of applause that rose and surged and echoed from stage to top gallery. The hand-clapping died away and then rose again this time a great burst of cheering accompanied it. Ingersoll stood there silent, flushed, trembling with emotion. He perhaps, like his hearers, knew that he had achieved one of the great triumphs of a life that has been crowded with triumphs. Men who have heard him time and again in the years past shook there heads gravely and said he had never done anything so wonderful, so superb and full of deathless eloquence.”] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39594 | Nigerian Women Living Abroad are More Promiscuous than Women Living in Nigeria
First of all, thank you to everyone who checked up on me while I was away. I appreciate it o :D
I am back from my "sabbatical" and have so much to say. But, I'll ease in gently.
Now for today's post.
I have heard people say this explicitly and at other times, it seems to be an idea that is generally held, but not expressed verbally. What on earth am I referring to? This idea that Nigerian women who live abroad (America, UK, etc) are more promiscuous than Nigerian women living in Nigeria. It seems to be an extension of the whole "village girls are more virtuous than city girls," except that it is 10 times worse.
This was not something I heard for the first time here in America. Nope. I had heard it over and over again when I lived in Nigeria. Watch Nollywood movies, and you'll see the same idea reflected in the characters.
Having lived here for more than 10 years, it still cracks me up when I hear it. Really? You're going to make that a blanket rule? You must be kidding me.
My opinion is this: Pesin wey go spoil go spoil regardless of where you live. In plain English, a woman (or man for that matter) will be promiscuous regardless of where they live: Nigeria, America, UK, Russia, etc.
I also think this stereotype is linked to the way Western cultures in particular are percieved, i.e. they are seen as more liberal and open-minded (maybe too open-minded) compared to our more conservative Nigerian (and generally, African) culture.
For men who go and import village girls from Nigeria on the assumption that they are more virtuous, I say "Good luck!" Many village girls don open eye well well. Don't be fooled.
I say treat people on an individual basis and don't make judgments without first getting to know a person.
What do you think? Do you agree that Nigerian women who live abroad are more promiscuous than women living in Nigeria? Kindly share your thoughts.
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P. S. The Fulani girl is gone for good. Yes, that's me replacing her in the profile picture. ;-)
I don't know where you get this impression from but it is the biggest lie or misconception. Even if it seems so that may be because Nigerians and for that matter African women abroad are more open about it whilst their counterparts in Nigeria will go and do it, sneak back and pretend that they are virgins. The pretence is just too much. As a man I get irritated when a lady who clearly is not a virgin is trying to pretend that she is a virgin. Who are you deceiving other than yourself? Don't take this assertion seriously.
RB!!!! Welcome back!! Please you have to tell us why and what happened during the Sabbatical! You owe us :-D
With regards to your question, hmmm, I think it has do with the different societies in question (hope that makes sense).. The Nigerian society is a lot more reserved than Western culture, so here people things more 'codedly' while abroad it is more overt..
1 + The One
Welcome back RB! You were missed
As for that matter, all I want to say is that the people that are facing the consequences of going home to find the "clean wife materials" are already telling their tales. Very soon the stories will go round just like the false myths and stereotypes. Goodluck to everyone in their quest LOL
Janyl Benyl
hey hey hey!!!!!!! You are back....and not as a Fulani! The heavens be praised! Amazing stuff! As with every other stereotype, while I still stand by the fact that these stereotypes have bases, they werent just pulled out of the air, I am also a proponent of relating with people on a case-by-case basis.
I know. It is a commonly held misconception. Pity the men that go home to 'import' virtuous wives. Doing themselves a disservice. The angel you know...
Fresh Angle
Rather, the devil you know...
Fresh Angle
Seth: You just debunked the myth, and I think this is the key: women in Nigeria (and in Africa generally) are more "undercover" with this, but women living abroad are more open/overt.
1 + The One: Thank you, thank you, thank you! *curtsies*
As for what happened during the sabbatical, I worked, played and ate. That's all. For now :D
What you've said is in line with what Seth said too: two different cultures. In Nigeria, it's more "under G" and abroad, it's more overt. Makes sense!
Janyl: Awwww! Thanks a lot o :D
Lol @ your comment. I just love the way you said it: "goodluck to everyone in their quest." Afi quest sha! As for the tales, it's true sha. I've heard more horror stories than success stories with all this "I must marry from the village." We all need wisdom.
HoneyDame: Hey Hey Hey! Thank you ... and yes, I'm not a Fulani. 7 Hallelujahs!!! Lol!
There's no smoke without fire. That's true, but I think it's fairer to deal with this issue in particular on a case-by-case basis, like you said.
Fresh Angle: Whether na devil o, or na angel, all of dem join ... Lol! I get you.
I'm glad you confirmed this o. It's a real misconception. Like we say in Yoruba, "efin n'iwa." (A person's character is like smoke). You can't hide it. It will eventually show.
I would love to hear your thoughts. Please Share.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39601 | Noises: October (aka Halloween supreme)
HELLO MY FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR!!! October is like my christmas. It's literally my favorite month. Everything is cold, everything is fall and everything is spooky!
So obviously I've tossed together the perfect Halloween themed playlist to get everyone in the Halloween mood. We've got classics, we've got rocky horror and we've got all the halloween fun. I'm still debating over what i'm going to be for halloween this year, but i'm down to two options. Either Carrie from Carrie, but like the Sissy Spacek Carrie. Or Elle Driver from Kill Bill Vol.1/2. We'll have to see what I choose closer to the date, but lets hope I can beat my Anna Wintour from last Halloween.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39660 | Monday, December 14, 2009
Organic Wine Reviews?
Green-washing wine?
Thanks to Val in Vermont for sending us this question: "...I oversee a blog called which talks of all things enviro health. We are accumulating a shopping guide for the holidays and want to include organic wines. Do you have any posts we can link to directly? Do you have an organic wine review resource?"
Organic products are very popular these days. Very popular. And businesses from food producers to clothiers to shoe cream manufacturers are cashing in on the craze. And why the heck not? The demand continues to rise and organic products are (usually) better for our bodies and our planet.
So, what about organic wines? And, to Val's question, what about organic wine reviews?
First, a little background. What is organic wine? Where can I find some? Is it any good? And is it eco-friendly?
What is organic wine? Simple. It's wine made from organically grown grapes to which no foreign chemicals are added. That means no chemical pesticides, yield-boosting sludge fertilizers, etc. (pretty much the same as other organic produce). It also means no preservatives (sulfites) - which are very commonly added to wines. At the end of the day, making organic wine is more about not doing certain things than it is doing anything special. It's the less is more philosophy.
Where can I find some? Everywhere. Wineries like Frey and Bonterra capitalize heavily on the current market value of being organic. But they are far from unique. There are hundreds of wineries quietly making wine from organic and biodynamically grown grapes - many of which have been doing so for decades and centuries. Odds are pretty good that you've enjoyed organic wines and not even known it.
In many cases, these wineries have established reputations and have no need/desire to shift their brand identity to trumpet their organic methods - particularly outside the US. Organic is just how they've always done it. And consider this: there are still many grape growing regions of the world where chemical technologies haven't reached yet. These are the same cultures that are also more than satisfied to keep doing what their ancestors did.
Is it any good? Sure. Well, at least it can be. But organic is no more a quality indicator than the varietal is. There are very high caliber organic wines being made by dozens of wineries around the world, and there are others which, well, are on the weak side.
But do organic grapes make for eco-friendly wine? Not necessarily. There is a definite benefit to keeping pesticides and other chemicals out of the vineyard, the water table, and the animals that depend on both. But the process of conventional winemaking itself is not environmentally friendly. Carbon dioxide gas is a natural byproduct of the fermentation process, waste water management is a significant concern for wineries, and there are various chemicals used for cleaning tanks/equipment, and so on.
There's also the seldom discussed aspect of what preceded the vineyard. Forests are often cleared to make way for vine plantings. And highly sought after hillside sites often become erosion problems once developed into vineyards. Ick.
So, what about organic wine reviews? Prior to Val's question we were unaware of any review sources that are specific to organics. Since organic wines are far more prevalent in the market than is obviously evident, the mainstream wine press does not single them out into their own category - if they even mention it at all. However, we did find the Organic Wine Journal online and this blog (not sure how much research went into vetting the wines as organic, but it's a nice list.)
And here are some other names to look out for:
• Benzinger
• Newton
• Lolonis
• Coturri
• Badia a Coltibuono
• Quivira
• Frog's Leap
Maybe Val's touching on something here. While the vast majority of wine drinkers don't care if something's organic or not, there are two segments of consumers that do care - the conscientious and the affected (sulfites are known to trigger migraines in asthmatics). Perhaps there is a need in cyberspace for that specific coverage...
By the way, great blog, Val! |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39672 | Shaftless screw conveyor
Shaftless screw conveyors consists of a screw, without internal shaft, driven by a power transmission, rotating inside a trough carrying material loaded through one or more hoppers, to one or more exhaust ports, possibly equipped with shutoff sliding valve. The machine can be in a “pull” configuration, i.e. it pulls the material from the towards the outlet, being the drive after the outlet spout, or in a “push” configuration when the material is pu-shed by the spiral towards the drain. The power transmission can be direct, with the gearbox’s output shaft directly connected with the screw flange, or it can be a system consisting of motor drive system – chain – flanged shaft connected with the screw.
Shaftless screw conveyors are suitable to tran-sport clogging materials, such as sludges or screenings, which otherwise would tend to stick to the shaft of the screw. The working range of the conveyor is typically between 0° and 30°, with decreasing efficiency proportional to the increasing inclination.
• A trough with bolted covers made of stainless steel AISI 304 or AISI 316
• A shaftless screw, in Carbon Steel, AISI 304 or AISI 316
• One or more hoppers inlet, depending on the application
• One or more discharge outlets (only one in the case of axial discharge / even more in case of a vertical discharge)
• A motor that can be push or pull type
The material to be conveyed is transported by the screw which rotates on antiwear bars or on high density molecular polyethylene, depending on the type of material to be transported. The screws can be supplied with single or double spiral. The screw conveyor model X-CONV are formed from sections bolted as regards of parts subject to maintenance, and welded parts in the load-bearing structures, so as to ensure a high structural strength and a perfect hydraulic seal. The screw conveyor model X-CONV are ideal for the transport of solids usually difficult to manage, irregular and different from one another, including:
– Sand and granular substances in general
– Screenings
– Thickened and dewatered sludge
– Canned Foods
– Materials pasty or creamy
– Meat, fish, vegetable, fruit, vegetables |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39715 | Shim is in Los Angeles while we record this episode. Here is what we're talking about.
• We discuss why Shim is in Los Angeles.
• Shim clues us into some of the recording process. Have you ever listened to a song and part of the drums sounds exactly the same every time? Well, that's because it probably is.
• With October just around the corner, I ask Shim if Halloween is big down in Australia.
• We also talk about what Halloween really means here in the United States. To Shim, it means chicks dressing up slutty. Yes, that's part of it, but there's so much more.
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If you ever have a question or a topic for Rockstar 101, you can hit up Shim on Twitter @shimmoore, or find me over on Instagram @brandon_goat_coates. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39722 | Of plagiarism, little new can be written
(Schwartz, The culture of the copy (1998), p. 311)
I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers,
and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own
(attributed to Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592)
“Plagiarism” is defined in various ways. The core meaning seems to be inappropriate copying of another’s ideas or expressions. An important analytical distinction is between:
• cases where it is appropriate to copy but only if proper attribution is given – the objection is not to the lack of originality but to the failure to acknowledge the source; and
• cases where copying is wrong even with full acknowledgement of the source – the original author is entitled to be protected from such behaviour, whether acknowledged or not.
There is no legal definition of plagiarism, though it forms part of many academic codes of conduct. The term is often used loosely. Producing one’s own old work as if it were fresh and new is often described as “self-plagiarism”; and two students who hand in identical essays may both find themselves accused of plagiarism, even though the essays may undoubtedly represent the original work of at least one of them. Many examples of plagiarism will also be examples of breach of intellectual property rights, such as copyright or droit moral / droit à la paternité.
Objections to plagiarism are numerous, so much so that it may be doubted whether it should be regarded as a coherent phenomenon. Much that used to be called “cheating” is now labelled “plagiarism”, often confusingly. The attitude of the person whose work is copied is sometimes crucial, sometimes irrelevant. (Submitting another’s essay as your own is objectionable whether or not the true author objects.) There is a modern tendency to define “plagiarism” quite broadly, in some cases extending to any failure to follow the rules of the relevant discipline in relation to proper citation; when coupled with extreme hostility to plagiarism (such as stating, inaccurately, that it is a form of theft) it can sound as if large portions of the student community are being accused of crime.
Many argue that there is now a crisis of plagiarism, even a war against plagiarism. Of course, it has always been the case that some students look for illegitimate short cuts to achieving their qualifications. Various factors are blamed for the modern “crisis”: the growth of IT and publicly-accessible text databases; greater access to university education, with the result that most of those at university are motivated by career goals rather than any particular love of learning (romanticising the past, perhaps?); and the exploitation of commercial opportunities by those prepared to collude in cheating. Others note these same trends but draw a different conclusion. The greater level of access to scholarly material over the Internet ought to be a bonanza for intellectual development, not an occasion for open warfare between students and their teachers; the crisis, if there is one, is not so much a “crisis of plagiarism” as a crisis of how to test core competencies in a 21st century context. If the tests the universities set can be so easily subverted, then perhaps they are the wrong tests. The very difficulties experienced in trying to define plagiarism are evidence of a lack of consensus on what competence consists of and how it is to be established; further, those who condemn “plagiarism” the loudest often seem to have a quite unrealistic idea of the level of originality that can be expected at student level.
Plagiarism by academics is not so much discussed, though there is a general awareness of the issue, and it occasionally comes into the public consciousness if the guilty party is famous enough (see e.g. “Persaud’s plagiarism was dishonesty, rules medical council”). It may, as in Raj Persaud’s case, come to the attention of a relevant professional body; or it might be a matter of university internal discipline (particularly if plagiarist and original author are at the same institution); or there may be a legal action for infringement of copyright. A copyright action is straightforward if text is simply copied without much alteration, but taking another’s ideas and expressing them in a different way can fall outside the scope of the law (copyright is usually understood to protect the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves). Actions in that area are of fabled complexity, and have a low success rate (see for example the Da Vinci Code case, Baigent v Random House Group [2006] EWHC 719 (Ch)).
It is in this academic context that there are complaints of self-plagiarism, that academics are accused of reproducing their own work while giving the false impression that it is new. Whether “self-plagiarism” is really the right term may be doubted. Artificially padding one’s c.v. by submitting the same article to more than one journal is certainly reprehensible, and may in some circumstances even amount to criminal fraud, but is surely a very different thing from copying another’s work. Many academics will have experienced this sort of behaviour, though nothing is likely to happen about it unless it turns up in a job appointment or promotion context. Given the current fashion for weighing up the amount of published research from each practising academic, universities have little to gain and much to lose by asking whether one set of ideas has been stretched over too many publications.
Plagiarism by students, by contrast, has become a major preoccupation of universities. The rise of IT and access to online information, which has coincided with a greater emphasis on marked coursework rather than unseen exams, has certainly created the opportunity to incorporate significant quantities of copied material, where the teachers who set the exercise are expecting original work. The precise objection will vary. Sometimes there is outright cheating involved, as where a group of students collaborate on work meant to be done alone, or where a pre-prepared essay is bought online and submitted as the buyer’s work. Sometimes it is less serious, as where copied material is not indicated as such, or not indicated in the correct manner; it is often the case that the material could quite properly be included in a legitimate piece of writing, if referenced in the appropriate way. Any detailed university policy on plagiarism must necessarily distinguish between disciplines, as each discipline has its own nuanced attitude to materials that may be cited and how they may be used in argument. But equally, a failure to abide by a discipline’s rules is only culpable if those rules are understood – which leads many to suspect that rampant plagiarism really represents a teaching failure, such that the rules have not been understood or have not been seen as reasonable.
Many say, then, that plagiarism is to a certain extent a cultural problem. Does this mean that it is particularly a difficulty with students whose native language is not English? Some argue precisely this: that on top of the linguistic difficulties that foreign students have (which may easily incline them to simply copy material, their English being inadequate to “put it in their own words”), there may in some cultures be a tendency to regard education as merely learning to repeat the words of respected thinkers, originality being frowned upon. Whether or not there is any truth in this, however, it does not seem to be a useful contribution to the problem. There are obvious difficulties (legal, ethical, practical) in subjecting foreign students to a degree of suspicion that is not applied to home students. There is little incentive for non-English speakers to improve their grasp of the language if they are met with “S/He must have plagiarised, s/he doesn’t speak English that well!”. If the local attitude to plagiarism is not well understood by foreign students, then presumably at least some of the blame lies with their teachers, and so a harsh response is not called for. And we do not confront a situation where foreign students have a radically different attitude from domestic students. It is a more general problem.
If there is a cultural problem, then, it is equally to do with domestic students. Academic horror at plagiarism reflects a set of value-judgments that students do not necessarily share, and the academics’ version of what their students are supposed to be doing assumes a skill set that not all students have. Faced with an intellectual problem to which there is an absolutely standard answer in the literature, how can students possibly make their responses “original”? As Perry Share puts it,
Ultimately what is being asked for in academic work is almost invariably a response to a preexisting body of knowledge, embodied in texts, images or codes of some sort, whether practical, textual or visual. The disciplinary power of preexisting and established bodies of knowledge can make it very difficult for students to achieve any level of expressive freedom. Constrained by an overwhelming consensus over the ‘facts’ and established modes of knowing, students may almost be forced to plagiarise. To devise a way to operate within a disciplinary context, without plagiarising, may be an almost impossible task. (Managing intertextuality – meaning, plagiarism and power, 2006)
(See also Bill Marsh, Plagiarism: Alchemy and Remedy in Higher Education, 2007.)
There may, therefore, be a problem of communication between teachers and learners. But if so, it is not one that can be solved simply by the teachers’ carefully explaining what it is that they expect. The problem is in communicating why it matters, if it does. Most students would find it counter-intuitive to believe that the knowledge they are acquiring is somehow “stolen” from those who developed it, and while it is easy to grasp that there are conventions about how knowledge is reproduced and referenced, it is not so obvious that a failure to follow those conventions amounts to dishonesty. Again, the ability to paraphrase another’s ideas so that the original text is unrecognisable may be a useful skill, but is not obviously an honest one, and it may make no sense to be told that a failure to paraphrase counts as dishonesty.
Academic conventions in these matters are framed on an assumption that is quite alien to most of their students, namely that we are at the forefront of the business of advancing human knowledge. On that assumption, while academic practice varies from discipline to discipline, the need for “academic integrity” is obvious. We need to know where ideas come from if we are to assess their worth; and a sense of collegiality and respect for others engaged in the same exercise makes it natural to give credit where it is due. From this perspective it is obvious that all material that does not come from the native wit of the author should be precisely referenced. But this is not a perspective that many students will share, and it is quite wrong to treat the vast body of students as if they were all academics-in-embryo. One of the most useful, practical skills in dealing with intellectual problems is to find someone who has solved the problem before and to copy their work. (Without this skill, indeed, most university plagiarism policies would never have seen the light of day.) There are indeed other skills which university degrees must teach, and there are also behaviours which must be identified as dishonest and responded to accordingly. But a degree of realism is required.
As it is, plagiarism is increasingly being seen as a disciplinary matter, with an increasing amount of academics’ time being devoted to detecting and punishing it. Matters are evolving. There is an unfortunate tendency both to define plagiarism broadly (as including any failure to follow established citation conventions, even if there is no attempt to claim originality for the cited material), coupled with a “zero tolerance” attitude that insists on a harsh punishment in all cases. There is also a noticeable reluctance to talk of “cheating”, which has the consequence that it is hard to discuss whether the conduct under review is actually dishonest, and whether the blame for it lies more with the student or more with those who should have explained the conventions in language their students understand. There is increasing resort to lawyers on both sides, to no-one’s benefit (except the lawyers themselves, obviously). See “Litigation fear lets cheats off hook”; “‘Plagiarist’ to sue university”.
Much attention has been focussed on plagiarism detection software (notably TURNITIN (website¦wikipedia)), which can take some of the drudgery out of identifying copied passages, and can be a useful diagnostic tool. Such software cannot take the decision whether X is or is not a plagiarist, but it can make the process quicker and fairer. There are some problems which have emerged in its use, though they are relatively minor ones. (Is the database against which checks are made broad enough and appropriate to the discipline? Can former student essays themselves be added to the database, with or without student consent? Will use of the software be consistent and perceived as fair by the student community subject to it?) Ultimately however such tools simply embed academics in the role as policing a body of students who are now treated as potential wrongdoers, rather than as those seeking an education. (For discussion see “A cheat, moi? That’s unfair”.) |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39755 | Convert long/lat to pixel x/y on a given picture
There was a question posted on StackOverflow that captures my attention, regarding mapping x/y pixel from long/lat data. But first, given a *.jpg or a *.png photo, some preliminary processing needs to be done before reasonable pixel-coordinates can be obtained.
The key to all of this is understanding map projections. As others have pointed out, the cause of the distortion is the fact that the spherical (or more accurately ellipsoidal) earth is projected onto a plane.
In order to achieve your goal, you first must know two things about your data:
The projection your maps are in. If they are purely derived from Google Maps, then chances are they are using a spherical Mercator projection.
The geographic coordinate system your latitude/longitude coordinates are using. This can vary, because there are different ways of locating lat/longs on the globe. The most common GCS, used in most web-mapping applications and for GPS’s, is WGS84.
I’m assuming your data is in these coordinate systems.
The spherical Mercator projection defines a coordinate pair in meters, for the surface of the earth. This means, for every lat/long coordinate there is a matching meter/meter coordinate. This enables you to do the conversion using the following procedure:
1. Find the WGS84 lat/long of the corners of the image.
2. Convert the WGS lat/longs to the spherical Mercator projection. There conversion tools out there, my favorite is to use the cs2cs tool that is part of the PROJ4 project.
3. You can safely do a simple linear transform to convert between points on the image, and points on the earth in the spherical Mercator projection, and back again.
In order to go from a WGS84 point to a pixel on the image, the procedure is now:
1. Project lat/lon to spherical Mercator. This can be done using the proj4js library.
2. Transform spherical Mercator coordinate into image pixel coordinate using the linear relationship discovered above. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39759 | web ephemera and web privacy
Yesterday I was twittering about a web page I’d visited on the BBC1 and the tweet also became my Facebook status2. Yanni commented on it, not because of the content of the link, but because he noticed the ‘is.gd’ url was very compact. Thinking about this has some interesting implications for privacy/security and the kind of things you might to use different url shortening schemes for, but also led me to develop an interesting time-wasting application ‘LuckyDip‘ (well if ‘develop’ is the right word as it was just 20-30 mins hacking!).
I used the ‘is.gd’ shortening because it was one of three schemes offered by twirl, the twitter client I use. I hadn’t actually noticed that it was significantly shorter than the others or indeed tinyurl, which is what I might have thought of using without twirl’s interface.
Here is the url of this blog <http://www.alandix.com/blog/> shortened by is.gd and three other services:
snurl: http://snurl.com/5ot5k
twurl: http://twurl.nl/ftgrwl
tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/5j98ao
is.gd: http://is.gd/7OtF
The is.gd link is small for two reasons:
1. ‘is.gd’ is about as short as you can get with a domain name!
2. the ‘key’ bit after the domain is only four characters as opposed to 5 (snurl) or 6 (twurl, tinyurl)
The former is just clever domain choice, hard to get something short at all, let alone short and meaningful3.
The latter however is as a result of a design choice at is.gd. The is.gd urls are allocated sequentially, the ‘key’ bit (7OtF) is simply an encoding of the sequence number that was allocated. In contrast tinyurl seems to do some sort of hash either of the address or maybe of a sequence number.
The side effect of this is that if you simply type in a random key (below the last allocated sequence number) for an is.gd url it will be a valid url. In contrast, the space of tinyurl is bigger, so ‘in principle’ only about one in a hundred keys will represent real pages … now I say ‘in principle’ because experimenting with tinyurl I find every six character seqeunce I type as a key gets me to a valid page … so maybe they do some sort of ‘closest’ match.
Whatever url shortening scheme you use by their nature the shorter url will be less redundant than a full url – more ‘random’ permutations will represent meaningful items. This is a natural result of any ‘language’, the more concise you are the less redundant the language.
At a practical level this means that if you use a shortened url, it is more likely that someone typing in a random is.gd (or tinyurl) key will come across your page than if they just type a random url. Occasionally I upload large files I want to share to semi-private urls, ones that are publicly available, but not linked from anywhere. Because they are not linked they cannot be found through search engines and because urls are long it would be highly unlikely that someone typing randomly (or mistyping) would find them.
If however, I use url shortening to tell someone about it, suddenly my semi-private url becomes a little less private!
Now of course this only matters if people are randomly typing in urls … and why would they do such a thing?
Well a random url on the web is not very interesting in general, there are 100s of millions and most turn out to be poor product or hotel listing sites. However, people are only likely to share interesting urls … so random choices of shortened urls are actually a lot more interesting than random web pages.
So, just for Yanni, I spent a quick 1/2 hour4 and made a web page/app ‘LuckyDip‘. This randomly chooses a new page from is.gd every 20 seconds – try it!
successive pages from LuckyDip
Some of the pages are in languages I can’t read, occasionally you get a broken link, and the ones that are readable, are … well … random … but oddly compelling. They are not the permanently interesting pages you choose to bookmark for later, but the odd page you want to send to someone … often trivia, news items, even (given is.gd is in a twitter client) the odd tweet page on the twitter site. These are not like the top 20 sites ever, but the ephemera of the web – things that someone at some point thought worth sharing, like overhearing the odd raised voice during a conversation in a train carriage.
Some of the pages shown are map pages, including ones with addresses on … it feels odd, voyeuristic, web curtain twitching – except you don’t know the person, the reason for the address; so maybe more like sitting watching people go by in a crowded town centre, a child cries, lovers kiss, someone’s newspaper blows away in the wind … random moments from unknown lives.
In fact most things we regard as private are not private from everyone. It is easy to see privacy like an onion skin with the inner sanctum, then those further away, and then complete strangers – the further away someone is from ‘the secret’ the more private something is. This is certainly the classic model in military security. However, think further and there are many things you would be perfectly happy for a complete stranger to know, but maybe not those a little closer, your work colleagues, your commercial competitors. The onion sort of reverses, apart from those that you explicitly want to know, in fact the further out of the onion, the safer it is. Of course this can go wrong sometimes, as Peter Mandleson found out chatting to a stranger in a taverna (see BBC blog).
So I think LuckyDip is not too great a threat to the web’s privacy … but do watch out what you share with short urls … maybe the world needs a url lengthening service too …
And as a postscript … last night I was trying out the different shortening schemes available from twirl, and accidentally hit return, which created a tweet with the ‘test’ short url in it. Happily you can delete tweets, and so I thought I had eradicated the blunder unless any twitter followers happened to be watching at that exact moment … but I forgot that my twitter feed also goes to my Facebook status and that deleting the tweet on twitter did not remove the status, so overnight the slip was my Facebook status and at least one person noticed.
On the web nothing stays secret long, and if anything is out there, it is there for ever … and will come back to hant you someday.
1. This is the tweet “Just saw http://is.gd/7Irv Sad state of the world is that it took me several paragraphs before I realised it was a joke.”[back]
2. I managed to link them up some time ago, but cannot find again the link on twitter that enabled this, so would be stuck if I wanted to stop it![back]
3. anyone out there registering Bangaldeshi domains … if ‘is’ is available!![back]
4. yea it should ave been less, but I had to look up how to access frames in javascript, etc.[back] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39760 | Tag Archives: mind cloning
The info processing (IP) metaphor of the brain is wrong
Psychologist Robert Epstein, the former editor of Psychology Today, challenges anyone to show the brain processing information or data. The IP metaphor, he says, is so deeply embedded in thinking about thinking it prevents us from learning how the brain really works. Epstein also takes on popular luminaries including Ray Kurzweil and Henry Markram, seeing both exemplifying the extremes of wrongness we get into with the IP metaphor and the notion mental experience could persist outside the organic body.
The Empty Brain (Aeon article with audio)
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Kurzweil builds and supports a persuasive vision of the emergence of a human-level engineered intelligence in the early-to-mid twenty-first century. In his own words,
With the reverse engineering of the human brain we will be able to apply the parallel, self-organizing, chaotic algorithms of human intelligence to enormously powerful computational substrates. This intelligence will then be in a position to improve its own design, both hardware and software, in a rapidly accelerating iterative process.
In Kurzweil's view, we must and will ensure we evade obsolescence by integrating emerging metabolic and cognitive technologies into our bodies and brains. Through self-augmentation with neurotechnological prostheses, the locus of human cognition and identity will gradually (but faster than we'll expect, due to exponential technological advancements) shift from the evolved substrate (the organic body) to the engineered substrate, ultimately freeing the human mind to develop along technology's exponential curve rather than evolution's much flatter trajectory.
The book is extensively noted and indexed, making the deep-diving reader's work a bit easier.
If you have read it, feel free to post your observations in the comments below. (We've had a problem with the comments section not appearing. It may require more troubleshooting.) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39775 | Austin, TX August 26, 2017
Struggles of an Accidental Junior Developer
From tech support to technical sales to developer advocate: How I learned to grow my skills on a team of one in a company of 400. Learning to find resources and mentors in and outside of a company in order to accomplish your job and improve future career prospects. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39776 | San Francisco, CA December 10, 2017
Unicorns Are Actually Terrifying: Diversity for Diversity's Sake
"Unicorn" is a trite umbrella term often used to label people who aren't traditionally seen in tech. This alienates and isolates both people who are currently in tech or wish to enter it. In this talk I'll be delving into some issues with companies who adopt diversity on a surface level and how they can better tweak their initiatives, as well as talk about my experiences navigating the industry as a so called "unicorn". I will also touch upon the fear of being wanted solely for being a unicorn or how diversity for diversity's sake is actually causing a bottleneck effect in the pipeline. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39790 | The days of kings, monarchs and emperors
are said to be a matter of the past
and so are the days of feudal lords and serfdom!
Now close the book and take a look at the real world,
contemplate and say if those days are truly gone,
beyond perhaps changing their old names and looks!
Even the spouses of Duke Philip or Lady Michelle
are serfs too, of giants like the Lynch or Sachs
or other financing black holes that have the right
to cheat the masses with devious derivatives,
doctored as triple ‘A’ by pet rating agencies,
while betting against those same predatory loans,
to make the wolves grow richer and the toothless sheep,
poorer with taxes rising like the magic beans!
By the time their feasting ends, the bubble has burst already,
rendering the taxpaying masses bankrupt, in woe,
while the world succumbs to a recession in aftershock
but the fattened wolves are always bailed out by tax funds!
Deregulated economy has now become
the new imperial fleet of today’s emperors,
the board members and their chief executive officers,
each like a Caligula, in pinstripe instead of the purple robe!
When shall we see the truth behind these hideous games
of economic oppression for sustaining
age old slavery under a different name
and when shall we realize that in the end
we are puppets in the empire of one percent?
Even governments are too, the difference being,
they are paid to be that, while we are deceived to be so
but our passive ways, no doubt, are as much to blame!
I wonder when shall the time come to strike back at such oppressions,
to cry aloud, “We have had enough!” and rise up in unison?
In Present Tense
In Present Tense
Watch and Listen to a Reading of the Poem by me.
Justice is a holy grail seldom found,
where the accused one is guilty as charged
until proven otherwise beyond all shreds of doubt!
Power, though, is secured from such vile threats,
as it can seldom be held accountable
for any of its’ words, actions or policies!
Affluence is the sole means to positions
where talent is as deep as pockets go,
unaffected by the mass or volume of the mind!
Rooking, though, is held to be as brilliant,
almost as one’s inherited properties,
starting lower but rising faster than the rich!
This is not history through a magnifying lens
but the very state of my world in present tense!
Your Call
Your Call
Watch and Listen to a reading of the poem by me.
Is there a purpose to our life and if there is,
how is it different from that of a cockroach,
a salamander or the plague dispersing mice?
I think the time has come for you to determine!
Am I sleeping or must you wake up from your dreams?
It is your call but do let me know what you think!
You have the key, whichever way your call might come,
to change it all, only if you do not succumb
to the vested whims of the alleged majority!
If it is I who has his eyes closed, wake me up,
if they be yours, wake up and let them see the light!
Either way, please no more be silent or inert,
for that is the gravest sin against humankind –
to shrug it off, unless yourself is on the firing line!
Is the moon there, even when I am not looking?
Nay, not for me, I will never be on the moon
until someone looks up and finds me standing there!
The only other way is for you to accept
my words with your eyes shut and I shall do the same
to yours on the moon being there without observing!
So, can you tell if God throws dice or does He not
and can you decide what He can or cannot do?
Do I exist, when I am not contemplating?
I know the world does, even though I have resigned
from all my weary thoughts of it, I know it from
the sulfide stench of self gratifying politics,
corruption and human greed, short sighted at its best
but mostly blind, that lets the air drop all around!
If you can breathe that putrid air without a flinch
then both you and I cannot live in the same world or time!
So either you must die or come and shoot me dead!
Come on, do not hesitate, you are only going to kill a man!
Comprehending God
Comprehending God
The clearest image of God that we have been able to comprehend so far is the energy (E) present at the Big Bang, before the conversion to matter (MC2) took place, an event that gave birth to the very concept of Space-Time as we know it. Now, almost fourteen billion years later we have been able to discover a fraction of that universe in the forms of galaxies and countless stars and other galactic objects that comprise such galaxies and the size is beyond anything we will ever be able to comprehend. Let alone the size of the universe, the very size of our solar system is beyond what we can readily grasp with our mind, despite our mental excellence and superiority among all the species here on earth.
To start with, the distance between our planet and the sun is a staggering ninety three million miles but that puny distance pales in comparison when the distance between the sun and the last of its orbiting planets, Neptune is considered. The distance between the sun and the earth is 1 AU and Neptune lies about thirty AU from the sun. However, to make matters even worse for our comprehension, Neptune is not even close to the edge our solar system. The farthest object from the sun discovered so far in our solar system is a comet known as West, which lies about seventy thousand AU away from the sun, more than two thousand times the distance between sun and Neptune. If that is the size of our humble solar system, we cannot help but grow numb when we consider the fact that the galaxy we call home, the Milky Way is made up of hundreds of billions of solar systems like ours and the universe is made up of hundreds of billions of such galaxies, each separated by even more incomprehensible amounts of space in between. To grasp the amount of space in between two neighboring galaxies, such as the Milky Way and Andromeda, consider this – the Milky Way is about one hundred thousand light years across in diameter and we need to place twenty five Milky Ways side by side to traverse the space between our galaxy and Andromeda.
But here is the ultimate catch, despite the enormity of the observable universe; scientists now know that all these galaxies make up only fifteen percent of the universe. The remaining eighty five percent is what they call Dark matters. All these only confirm what Evelyn Underhill so eloquently phrased more than a century ago, God truly is too large to be comprehended for otherwise God would have been too small to be worshipped!
Let us shift our focus from the macrocosm to the microscopic universe, for the tale there is no less intriguing either. Courtesy of the valiant efforts by the devotees of the quantum theory around the world we have been given a glimpse inside the subatomic universe. Now we know that each and every atom is made up of hundreds of billions of tiny threads of energy known as Strings. They too are beyond sizes that human mind can readily comprehend. It is said that if an atom is sized up to be as big as the universe then each of the Strings that comprised it would have been only as large as an eight meter tall electric pole. This energy like any other is the remnant of that E at the Big Bang. So everything that we can see from microbes to Jupiter is made up of these threads of energy.
So, whether human beings are worshipping the sun or rain or fire or are practicing pantheism by worshipping various powers of Nature or the Nature in its entirety or are devotees of the monotheistic Semitism in the form of Judaism, Christianity or Islam or are followers of the ancient customs of worshipping earlier kings, they are paying homage to that omnipresent E. All these compel me to conclude that God and the universe is like a painting and all we have been doing is to aggrandize our subjective views of that painting, while fighting with our nails, teeth and bones to find flaws in others’ interpretations. I think, to justify our claim as the supreme creation, the time is nigh to stop scratching the surface that causes all kinds of mayhems and start looking deeper at the real truth.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39821 | Large war strategy game “Z Max”! The last war! A zombie apocalypse! Strive to create a more perfect game experience.
Game background
The story takes place in the not-too-distant future, when water shortages start a war. People are killing each other, competing for limited resources, and the earth becomes a bloody killing field.
At the same time, the nuclear power plant leaks, causing most people to be exposed to radiation, becoming a walking dead, feeding on blood.
There is no order in this world. Whoever holds the weapons and controls the resources can dominate the world…
The game features
In the traditional SLG mode, the game is integrated into more strategic campaigns and the formation of play. Not only can you build your own territory, but you can also build helicopters and end chariots. In addition to the traditional siege battle, the game has also been added to the war games, fury road, fortress battle and the throne war. You will meet players from all over the world to join the alliance gathering, breeding base and other social entertainment.
We strive to create a more fair game environment. New kingdom level restrictions have been added, and the free output of gold bars and resources in the game has been greatly improved.
Gameplay & function introduction.
** real-time translation system **.
Break the barrier of language communication, chat support full language instant translation.
** world map **.
Zombie town, four major resources fortress, global player battle for “doomsday fortress”.
** kingdom level **.
The castle level is gradually open to a more fair game environment.
** alliance interaction **.
Expand alliance territory, kill alliance Boss.
Collect resources with partners to achieve higher yield.
** war reinforcements **.
Raise the castle level and get the soldiers directly.
When the war loses too much, can trigger the war reinforcement, free access to a large amount of resources subsidies.
** non-destructive competition **.
Play with global players anytime, anywhere, and compete for honor rankings.
Arena fights will not cause any loss of troops.
** pilot helicopter **.
Experience driving a helicopter and sweep away the euphoria of the zombie town.
** recruit heroes.
Enhance the popularity of legendary heroes, greatly enhance the combat capability of the troops.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39827 | Sample data and how to produce them
Sometimes a programmer needs to test/debug one application by feeding it with data, random or not. In a situation like this, there are some utilities one can use to produce as many data as she needs.
Let’s start with a simple example of feeding our test application (we will call it “test_data”) with zeroes, say 100 bytes with a value of zero.
head –bytes=100 /dev/zero | ./test_data
The above command has two parts; the first one (before the ‘|’ delimiter), ‘head‘, reads /dev/zero device, which provides us with zero-valued bytes as a stream, up to a count of 100 bytes and sends them to the second one, ‘test_data‘, as input. If we wanted more, say 100 KBytes, we would replace the parameter of ‘bytes’ argument with “100k”, as follows:
head –bytes=100k /dev/zero | ./test_data
Now, let’s say we want random data. It’s as simple as replacing ‘/dev/zero’ device with ‘/dev/random‘:
head –bytes=100k /dev/random | ./test_data
With the above command combination, we produce 100 KBytes of random data as input to our test_data application.
And what if we wanted some specific data, like “testing with sample data”, repeated 40 times?
yes “testing with sample data” | head -40 | ./test_data
The ‘yes‘ command just outputs its input continuously; ‘head’ keeps only the first 40 lines; ‘test_data’ works with these 40 lines of the sample string.
Programming life can be very simple (and entertaining) some times!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39835 | Proposal: Salesforce
Hey guys,
Saw this blog post on developer force and it looks like Salesforce.com is now officially endorsing the Q & A site proposal. Hopefully the proposal will now gain some traction!
• of course they endorse it, having a SE domain name is cool marketing toy, especially if it only costs a few lines of text on the blog. – mmix Jul 16 '12 at 9:25
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There is no reason to be negative about this. I think this is a great step forward towards improving the quality of the Salesforce community forum. A few lines of text on the blog will hopefully translate to more commitment for this proposal. – Anup Jul 19 '12 at 15:55
You're correct; Salesforce is endorsing this proposal. I've been working closely with their developer relations team and legal team, and we are excited to have their support for this site. It's awesome and rare to see a company support and empower their community in this way, and I'm happy to have their help moving this forward.
• Nice one! It'll be great to get this up and running. In the meantime there's always Stackoverflow. – Anup Jul 22 '12 at 9:01
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39844 | Moonrise CH21 – Crimson Reverie
[1012 words – Inspiration Monday, #3WW, The Writing Reader]Detective Massey hit the brakes on his patrol car two blocks before his house.
“Why we stoppin’ here?” Joaquin asked frowning in clear confusion. We need to be doin’ things, he thought.
Massey squinted his eyes when he checked the rear-view mirror. He seemed to take in the street behind them, then he sighed. “I need you to kindly do me a favor.” His eyes met Joaquin’s via the reflective glass.
Joaquin raised his eyebrows.
“An officer from the precinct, Betty Patterson will come by the house soon.”
Joaquin allowed a lighthearted grin. “You playa! I knew you wasn’t all just rules and shit.”
Massey rolled his eyes. “It’s not like that.” He sighed, the tiring events of the last few days evident on his face. “I need you to stay put there and take the file she gives you. Then I need you to take it straight to Andy.”
Joaquin let his eyes lose focus for a moment while Massey’s words sunk in.
Massey turned in his seat, his seatbelt digging into his tense shoulder. “Can you do that for me?” He allowed his worry into his words trapping Joaquin in a place where he couldn’t do wrong. Joaquin flinched at the nearness and intensity filling the eyes of the old detective.
“What file?” Joaquin asked in a melodramatic raspy voice.
“The Miles Jensen case.”
Joaquin mouthed, “Oh shit,” turned, and stared out the window.
Joaquin could hear Massey lick his dry lips. “I need you on this Joaquin. I have somewhere else to be,” Massey replied.
Joaquin twisted in the seat. “Lookin’ for Anne, right?” He shrugged and pursed his lips. “I can help.”
Massey turned to him. “You’ll help by doing this. It’s extremely important that Andy gets the file today. This is our only leverage against Globe.”
Joaquin thought on it, puckering his lips. He could see sweat beads forming on Massey’s forehead. He felt the way Massey’s eyes didn’t blink as they bore into him. The last part of Massey’s argument was like a punch to the gut. Joaquin relaxed into the seat and he nodded. “A’ight, I’ll go.”
Massey seemed to deflate; his back no longer rigid and his shoulders slumped ever so slightly. “Do you remember where Andy lives?” he asked Joaquin, his eyes returning to the rear-view mirror again.
Joaquin looked at him and cocked an eyebrow. “I used to rob houses you know. Remembering addresses and shit is kinda my thing.”
Massey sighed. He stuck his finger between his collar and neck. It was getting uncomfortably warm inside the cruiser. Massey squinted at the bright sun as a reflection shone through the windshield and highlighted his craggy facial features. Joaquin noted the stubble in the new light.
“You make sure no one follows you when you leave the house. I don’t believe they’re watching it, not yet, but they may have tapped my phone.” Massey returned his stare to Joaquin. “No calls until I get a burner. You wait for me to call you.”
“Why would someone be following you?”
Massey bit into his lower lip. “Things are complicated. Some people don’t want me nosing around the case, but I can take the heat. I’m still the Lead Detective.” He paused. “You on the other hand … I can’t have you jeopardized as well. I need you to be smart about this Joaquin.”
Joaquin allowed his face to cloud over. “You know I can deal with them if I need to. I can protect you, man.”
“No!” Massey shouted, then he cleared his throat, lowering his voice back down. “You make sure Andy gets the file. Keep your head cool, keep your voice down and don’t go all gangsta on anyone suspicious looking. Mind your own business – just this once. I’ll find Anne.”
Protesting against Massey’s commands was a mind bomb. It was like hitting his head against a concrete wall. Joaquin was headstrong and impervious of skin, but even his patience was fragile and against Massey it was a lost cause from the start. He climbed out of the cruiser and made his way to the detective’s house from the back alley. Joaquin’s eyes shifted back and forth watching the street, Massey’s house, and neighboring buildings. Just like back in the day, he thought.
Joaquin was mad at Massey for going after Anne alone. Massey assured him that Anne wasn’t going to hurt him given their truce and common enemy, but Joaquin didn’t trust the woman, not after he had seen her at handy work in the warehouse. He shuddered when he closed his eyes and saw her covered in blood and waving around her red hand cannon. He remembered her lips pulled back and her teeth bared as she grinned at the chaos.
She was dangerous and of the oldest bloodline on Earth. Massey was just a man. A crotchety old curmudgeon, but still just a mortal man. Joaquin knew that Massey wouldn’t fire his gun at her even if she were coming at him with vengeful fury in her eyes. He didn’t think Massey had ever seen Anne’s fury. Joaquin had, and he never wanted to see it again.
Anne had a certain appeal. It wasn’t just her unbridled sexual energy. It wasn’t her shapely curves. It wasn’t the perfect symmetry of her face. It was her eyes. Her eyes could bore into a man. It was as if she could look into your soul and see the real you. She could see the ugliness inside. He didn’t know if that ugliness was what made her so beautiful. She had it too, and it was that ugliness that had gotten all his friends killed. He remembered the Sixth Street Kings scattered around the warehouse like discarded toys lying in pools of blood as red as her dress. It was as red as her beautiful lips.
Joaquin blinked once, twice, thrice, and shook himself from his crimson reverie. He sighed and sank into Massey’s old leather recliner. His eyes focused on the front door, awaiting a knock from Massey’s female cop friend.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39859 | Leisure Suit Larry Part 4: Long-Butt Cut Scene
Did you really think that I was done with Larry? Naaaah. I just had school. Also, taking a step back to try to think about how I want to improve these things. For further reference…
The Etna Sprite will refer to my commentary, outside of captions on screenshots. It’s a parallel. Etna enjoys torturing Prinnies for her amusement, and I enjoy torturing Larry in a similar matter. Now let’s begin.
Larry doesn't run on food and water like the rest of us. He runs on hot babes.
Just because he took Spanish in High School doesn't mean he passed...
Or maybe that's how they like it in Spain?
I think in truth, Larry's shocked a women is talking back to him.
Blah blah blah, besides being the whole point of the plot, who cares?
How can he tell she wants him to take it, and you know, not show it to him? Logic error!
And then Larry just leaves. Without even trying for a quickie. Come on Larry, for a sex obsessed man…though to be fair, maybe he just doesn’t know how to say “Quickie” in Spanish.
Larry is easy distracted
So easily, it's amazing he hasn't died more yet.
We'll have to change that.
I dunno. Maybe the competent guy who was suppose to get the package?
So yes. Our fellow loser has ended up with a package that he wasn’t suppose to have, and has no idea what it contains. After this point, the game changes. Larry will now die A LOT. And I will try to make sure that we get to witness as many of those deaths as possible. Some of them will happen by accident, some by purpose, and I’m sure I will miss some. It’s kinda ridiculous. The game goes from it being impossible to kill Larry to it being impossible not to kill him.
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This sounds absolutely brilliant (read: hilarious). What is this and where can I find it?
• Oh, this is Leisure Suit Larry 2. The first Leisure Suit Larry game, Leisure Suit Larry and the Lounge Lizards, it where you should start, and it was worth the play through. So fun.
All 5 of the Leisure Suit Larry Games are available in a Complete Edition for around $12, so I’d recommend that. I’m wary after the way EA revamped Space Quest, so I’m trying to pirate the games in original game play condition right now.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39875 | From my brief Wikipedying, if counter-rotating props' tops go towards each other, each has a reduced P-factor so the loss of either engine won't yaw the aircraft as hard as if the bottoms come together.
As I don't really care about safety of my aircraft's occupants (usually a couple ants after it sits on the grass) or reliability, I'd prefer to increase the P-factor for fun and flat spin potential. Out of curiosity, does the direction of counter-rotating props (rather, counter- or similar- in a twin) affect the efficiency?
• $\begingroup$ If your aim is to increase the P-factor, why not try a twin whose props both spin the same way, such as a Dragon Rapide. But please don't try to spin a historic aircraft if you don't know what you're doing. $\endgroup$ – Dan Hulme Sep 6 '15 at 22:08
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$\begingroup$ This is a model aircraft (I suppose my "ants" comment was a bit thick) $\endgroup$ – Nick T Sep 6 '15 at 23:29
• $\begingroup$ You might find reading about the P-38 Lightning or F-82 Twin Mustang interesting. If I'm not mistaken both of these airplanes had counter-rotating propellors such that the p-factor was least favorable on both sides. I believe this was done to make the unfavorable characteristics from slipstream less and to reduce stall speed with both engines operative. In any case, this setup is definitely less stable and would probably give you some great spins in a model. Then again, with a model the p-factor difference is probably immeasurable. $\endgroup$ – ryan1618 Sep 7 '15 at 1:00
It might. Depending on how close to the wingtips your props are.
If you put the props right at the wingtips, then the conventional rotation to minimize precession and torque actually decreases efficiency by promoting tip vortex (the direction of the prop is the same as tip vortex thereby adding to tip vortex). This reduces lift for the same amount of airspeed.
On the other hand, rotating it the other way round - away from each other - reduces tip vortex by twisting the slipstream the opposite direction as the tip vortex. This increases lift (technically, it reduces the reduction of lift due to tip vortex) for the same amount of airspeed.
One plane that exploited this was the Vought XF5U - the Flying Pancake. The direction of prop rotation is fairly obvious in this picture:
Vought XF5U
The interesting result of this was that even though the XF5U had very short wingspan it could do short take-offs.
• $\begingroup$ Since you're flying model aircraft I thought you'd get a kick of this video of prototypes of the XF5U including an RC version doing a hover long before 3D bacame a thing: youtube.com/watch?v=LfpTDOAfj7Y $\endgroup$ – slebetman Sep 7 '15 at 15:29
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39876 | I saw in book that the cone of confusion of VOR is 40 degrees, and NDB is 50 degrees of each side! Isn't it too much?
Maybe it's a mistake, or old information(book printed in 2004)
Clarify please:
What is the real amount of cone of confusion of VOR and NDB?
What should I do when flew above VOR/NDB (in cones) in terms of navigation?
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$\begingroup$ I think the term "cone of confusion" is much more apt. When very near to a VOR/NDB, you may get confusing, incorrect answers, not "silence" $\endgroup$ – abelenky Feb 4 '17 at 19:37
• $\begingroup$ Cone of Silence was from the Get Smart TV series! $\endgroup$ – Ralph J Feb 5 '17 at 16:12
• $\begingroup$ We do use 'cone of silence' within aviation - it typically refers to radar, though, not navaids. $\endgroup$ – J. Hougaard Feb 5 '17 at 16:18
• $\begingroup$ Oxford book Radio Navigation 2 called either "cone of confusion" as well as "cone of silence". $\endgroup$ – Andrea Ghilardi Dec 29 '17 at 10:29
The value +/-40° is correct, but need to be interpreted. The primary reason of the existence of a "silence" cone is a design choice to increase navaid range. Range and "isotropy" are antagonistic. For the D-VOR there is a second reason: The lack of Doppler effect around the VOR zenith.
Detailed case: D-VOR
A VOR radiates a signal that can be interpreted in the horizontal plane, so the system is designed with antennas radiating horizontally. There are two types of VOR, the most modern is the D-VOR (Doppler VOR). A common antenna for D-VOR is the Alford loop antenna which is horizontally polarized:
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The D-VOR antenna system consists of a circular array of antennas:
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This array has a radiation pattern similar to this in the vertical plane:
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How to interpret:
• The straight lines are elevation angles, 90° being the zenith. The brown circles are a scale for power radiated, the large circle is the power measured in the direction where it is maximum. The next circle is where power is only -3dB of the maximum. Using decibels to measure ratios is frequent when working with radio signals because this is a logarithmic scale. -3dB is half the power, -6dB is 1/4 of the power, etc.
• The red curve is the radiation power curve of the VOR for any vertical angle. It is maximum around 30° and minimum at 90°. For 60° its about -20dB which is a ratio of 1/100th only.
• VOR cone of silence/confusion is where the signal is too small to be correctly interpreted by the VOR receiver, and you can see there is a strong signal fall around 50°-60° (that is 30°-40° from the VOR zenith)
• As visible, power is mostly radiated to one side, the other side of the antenna array radiates only a parasitic power. This is due to the way the D-VOR works: Interfering pattern between all the antennas of the array. Power is destructed on the right side of the diagram, while it is cumulated on the left side.
• The interfering pattern is rotated electronically around the vertical axis at 30 rounds per second (1,800 RPM, 30 Hz), so the antenna actually radiates power in an annular volume (donut).
Doppler cone of confusion
Specific to the D-VOR, due to the way this VOR works:
• In the conventional VOR relative bearing is obtained by sensing the phase difference between a reference modulation (FM) and a varying modulation (AM) which depends on the direction the VOR antenna is currently pointing to.
• In the Doppler VOR, the varying signal is actually obtained by electronically moving the center of the antenna array. This creates a frequency shift that is equivalent to the AM modulation of the C-VOR, but in frequency (and the D-VOR electronically "rotates" in the other direction so that the inversion between AM and FM modulation is not visible, ensuring compliance between C-VOR and D-VOR with the receiver).
However the Doppler effect can be sensed only when the receiver is on the same plane than the electronic "displacement", i.e. the horizontal plane. When the receiver is located too close to the VOR zenith, the frequency shift becomes small, and cannot be sensed correctly. This is why, even with an isotropic antenna, the system cannot work at high relative elevations. So there is actually no point to have an isotropic antenna for the D-VOR.
A conventional VOR (C-VOR) works with a vertical antenna which radiation pattern is naturally similar to the one above without the need for interferences. The antenna actually rotates physically.
NDB use long wire antennas of many kinds. The power is radiated with nearly no particular preference (omnidirectional antenna), but the radiation pattern is still similar to the C-VOR one, except that there is no need to rotate it. The donut volume is obtained with the antenna stationary.
As the NDB is omnidirectional, the energy in the horizontal plane is not focused as strongly as for the C-VOR and D-VOR. However NDB range is still reasonable because:
• NDB uses the LF/MF portions of the radio spectrum which are less subject to propagation losses.
• NDB receiver doesn't require a strong signal to locate the beacon, as simply detecting the carrier is in theory sufficient.
Why is that done this way?
You may ask why not using an antenna (or an antenna array) with a circular radiating pattern radiating the same power in any vertical direction. Such "isotropic" antennas exist in practical.
The reason is the same than for rotating the antenna: It's to concentrate power in one direction, to increase the range. In technical terms this is to increase the effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP).
A good similarity is the one of a light bulb and a torchlight:
• A light bulb has an omnidirectional radiating pattern, it lights up in all directions, but the power received at a distant point is limited (unless the light bulb is a very powerful one).
• A torchlight focuses light in a small solid angle, multiplying by a large factor the intensity in the privileged direction. A high intensity can be perceived in this direction without using a huge power, and the range is increased at equal power. However to scan all points in space, the torchlight must be rotated.
Isn't it too much?
No, it isn't. VOR's and NDB's are pretty old technology. VOR's were introduced in the 1930's and 40's, but are still commonly used today.
If you have a cone of confusion of 45 degrees to all sides, this means that, at 40.000 feet, the signals will be unreliable within about 6 miles from the beacon - which isn't really that much. At lower altitudes, say 3.000 feet, the cone of confusion will only be half a mile on all sides of the beacon. These inaccuracies are considered when designing procedures that depend on VOR's or other radio beacons.
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Mar 28, 2018
Public safety used to be a laughing matter, it seems... but no longer! Thank god! Or the Borg, at least.
Vicki blows off Allie with a "see ya, sport" as Lando reveals a letter and rather special gift from the Bat himself...
Joining our crew as Special Guest Investigator is the Sultan of Sweet (Talking) himself - it's Ralph Attanasia of TLC's hit TV show Cake Boss! Ralph kneads the truth, so what better way than by helping us crack the egg that is this case wide open? He's here to get a rise out of you, dear listeners and to make sure that you can have your cake AND eat it with his top notch (red) velvet-y chat.
The next episode follows on Friday.
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Preceding articles
Religious Theology – The wide gate!
Additional reading
1. People Seeking for God 2 Human interpretations
Further reading
2. Jews, God and History by Max I Dimont
4. The changing global religious landscape
5. Cult Mentality
8. Trump Signs Executive Order Easening Tax Burden On Religious Groups
9. Bold Justice promotes civil citations
10. Sacred Arts Tour in Coral Springs
11. God vs Science
12. Quick Ordination to Perform a Wedding or Two
13. Will you see the glory of God?
14. Strange Teachings
15. Jesus’ Teachings were for Now
16. My Own “Perfect” Path
17. Dear God
Praying and acts of meditation without ceasing
Looking for solutions
In Natural inclinations and Praying and asking we saw that we are recommended to Pray without ceasing.
(1 Thessalonians 5:17)
With what may we not stop and what is that action of prayer all about?
We can see that in many religions the believers do take time to meditate and to go deep into themselves. It is like they are doing a sort of exercise to come into contact with themselves or with elements outside them. In many religions we can see that time spend in ‘prayer’ may bring pleasant thoughts into their mind.
Many do hope to find solutions for their many questions and for things that happened around them. They expect their prayer to be a way of miraculously solving impossible situations. For many prayer and meditation time is a religious ritual to become holy and to higher themselves above a previous situation.
What is general, is that their prayer is also a confession of their faith, and an indication of what they believe and whom they want to honour.
Not an innocent playful act
It is not such an innocent act as it may look at first sight. For the Divine Creator it is even a very important part of life of His creatures to show their awe and respect for the Most High Elohim. Truly followers of the Lord Jesus Christ must, like him, be guided in all matters of faith and practice by what the Bible teaches about this act of adoration, glorification and communication with the God of gods.
The Bible leaves us in no doubt that believers ought to pray:
“Men ought always to pray and not to faint” (Luke 18:1).
“In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto God” (Philippians 4:6, R.S.V.).
To fail to pray is regarded as a sin; Samuel the prophet declared:
“God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you” (1 Samuel 12:23).
Being conscious of inner needs
Today there are many who are afraid to show others their needs and even more afraid to let others know they would ask solace or guidance by someone Who can not be seen, touched or heard.
Nothing has changed with the past. All days there have been people with many questions, people having great difficulty in coping with life, facing seemingly insuperable problems. We may be conscious of our failings and desire some kind of spiritual cleansing; we may be trying to search out the meaning of life. In fact the very problems which confront us have a significance in emphasizing to us that for all man’s great achievements, we are frequently helpless in the midst of human failure. Failure is more often at the start of the road to God than success.
In the Gospels we read of men who commanded great armies, of people in high office in government, of mothers and fathers seeking the best for their children, of farmers and fishermen, tradesmen and craftsmen — people of all types and backgrounds who sought out the Lord Jesus Christ because some need or other could not be fulfilled elsewhere. And as we see Jesus always finding time to listen, to advise, to help, we see how he reveals to us the character of his Father:
“Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him” (Hebrews 11:6, R.S.V.).
The Bible makes it clear that God wants to help us. We should never feel that it is only good people that He will hear. In fact if we think we are rather good and managing quite well on our own, the chances are we shall be less inclined to rely upon God.
With meditating we are not thinking of philosophical or Zen-meditation. We mean by meditating taking time to set yourself apart to think about matters of life and to think about what you have done, want to do, have read and how you are going to apply it with the knowledge you can get from the Holy Scriptures.
Meditating girl on beach
Meditating girl on beach
Meditation is a means of transforming your mind, letting that what you have learned from the Holy Scriptures to work in you and to transform your character. It is making your mind free of the pollution this world brings every day to you. Meditating is the willingness to make time free for your own mind, letting God’s Spirit enter into your life. Therefore you can use different techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, emotional positivity, and a calm seeing of the true nature of things. By engaging with a particular meditation practice you learn the patterns and habits of your mind, and the practice offers a means to cultivate new, more positive ways of being. With regular work and patience these nourishing, focused states of mind can deepen into profoundly peaceful and energised states of mind. Such experiences can have a transformative effect and can lead to a new understanding of life.
Meditation is making yourself prepared to go deeper in yourself and to examine your life-path. It is an exercise not to miss our experiences because we are somewhere else in our mind. It is a willingness to for a moment forget the daily worries, work or school, and to look at what really should be our main focus in our daily life. In ordinary life, we tend to equate focus with concentration. That’s like using the mind like a concentrated beam of light. But in meditation, that kind of mind isn’t helpful. It’s too sharp and edgy. To focus in meditation means to pay soft attention to whatever you place in the centre of awareness.
Conscious of a need
In the hectic life we get in this world it is our aim to take distance of the worldly matters and to get to know the more important spiritual matters.
As such we do need to take time of our daily duties to come closer to the Most Important person in our life. It is taking time for the Most High Elohim because we are conscious of a higher need and we recognize that God alone can meet that need. To accept that God can do what we cannot do is to bow to His greatness, to acknowledge His infinite wisdom. When we do set us apart from the worldly business, come close in our own cocoon, we open ourselves to the Only One God, who is our Maker but also our Protector. It is to Him we do want to give our soul, our spirit, our thinking and our handling. In the time we set ourselves apart, we want to come as close as possible to Him, or as close as possible we can get at the moment. To Him we want to give that special time and give our most valuable moment of the day.
In that time of silence and personal withdrawal of the world, we want to give our voice to God to let Him know how we want to be with Him and how we do know we need Him. Coming in seclusion we can find ways to have a conversation with that Most High Spirit. Then we can come to talk to Him and pray. Not only asking Him things for our welfare, but also thanking Him for what we had already and for what we still are going to receive. This is praise. Praise, when it finds expression in words, is an attempt to describe the ways in which God is superior to man; it is to give God glory. Through praise we reflect on what God is, and what resources He has to meet our need.
Listening to God
Praying is not only speaking to God, but it is also opening up your mind to Him to listen to Him. Since God knows best, we must listen to what He says to us. In prayer we have a communication tool we can use every moment of the day. In it we do have an other means, next to the Bible, for God speaking to us.
We do have god’s Word given to us in the Holy Scriptures. The Bible should be our lead and most important guide through life. Through it we can hear God speaking to us in a Book of books given by inspiration of God, profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that we as children of God may be perfect. (2 Timothy 3:16).
How people like to turn it, prayer is inseparable connected with the Words of God, given in the Bible. Our prayer should be build on the knowledge we get from those Holy Scriptures. The Words of the Bible with our prayer, should be fused with our knowledge and understanding of the Word of God. For prayer is communication with God. The communication is two-way. It is not enough that we should speak to God. He expects us to listen to Him. In fact, we shall often be better occupied meditating on His Word than trying to talk to Him at great length. It is no use to over and over repeat the same words. The Bible itself warns:
The Lord Jesus himself emphasizes this point:
We should remember that silence is healing. Nothing beats simple silence. We do not need music background to drown out the chatter in our mind. When we sit in silence we actually get to experience what our mind is doing. There is steadiness and calmness that comes from sitting in silence. In time outer and inner silence meet and you come to rest in the moment. It is in such moments that we also can give way for God’s Spirit to enter our universe.
Coming to God
Jesus clearly knew Who was the Most High to give all honour of what he could do. Jesus was thankful and hopeful to His heavenly Father, which he recognised as the Only True God.
Praying should be a coming to God, not to put us in the forefront row, being full of ourselves, ready to tell Him what we think. That would be like the person who asks a question, not because he wants to know the answer’, but because he wants the opportunity to air his own knowledge. Our vanity and pride, we must put aside and we should be humble enough not to propose our thoughts as the best ones, but to allow God to see that we are really willing to hear what He thinks best for us. Like Jesus did not want to do his own will, which he would have done when he would have been God, we also like Jesus should know that we can not do anything without Jesus his heavenly Father. Jesus was well aware that he could not do anything without the Hand of God. He too prayed to his heavenly Father, and not to himself. He too had questions about his relationship with his Father up high, and even at one moment dared to ask why He (God) had abandoned him (Jesus). Like Jesus not being afraid to ask such matters to the Most High, we too should dare to go to Him (Jehovah God). Jesus prepared the way to the Divine Creator and we should be thankful for that and use it.If we come to God as those who do not know the answers and believe that He does, then what folly if we ignore what He has already told us through the Scriptures! Rather we must read them regularly and reflect on them in order that we may attune our minds to the mind of God, as the words of a hymn direct us:
“Inspirer of the ancient seers,
Who wrote from Thee the sacred page,
A light for all succeeding years,
A lamp in this degenerate age:
Wisdom to us Thy words impart,
And with Thy comfort fill our heart.”
The many examples of prayer in the Bible make it clear that God responds only when man prays in accordance with His will. After all, God knows best what is in man’s interests and can control events accordingly.
Right Relationship with God
Jesus showed us how we should behave, live and pray. He gave the example how our relationship should be with other humans but also with God. We can only come to a good prayer and a fulfilling meditation when we open our hearts to God and our willingness to have a good relationship with Him.
First of all naturally we do need to know God, have to understand His position and should be willing to accept His position. In the bible we are told that there can be life eternal for us as human beings, but then we shall have to accept the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the son God so loved He has taken him with Him to sit next to Him to be the mediator between God and man. (John 17:3, 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 12:24; John 3:16; Matthew 3:17). Many in Christendom do say to know God, but take also Jesus to be God and do not mind bowing down in front of pictures of their god, though God made it very clear that there is only One True God of Whom no pictures may be made and certainly may not be bowed down for. Such knowledge is to be found, in the first instance, in the inspired writings of the Bible-and nowhere else. But to know God is not simply to know about Him. When a husband and wife know each other, they do not just have in their minds a pen-portrait of their partner. Their knowledge is intimate and deep, because of the nature of their relationship. It depends upon continued, regular contact, the acceptance of responsibilities and the desire to grow in knowledge and understanding of each other.
To acknowledge one’s need as a sinner, whose imperfection is in marked contrast to the glorious perfection of God’s character; to develop that “poor and contrite” spirit, which desires to be moved by the power of God through His Word, as the leaves on a tree tremble at the passing of a breath of wind; to realize from the knowledge of God’s gracious dealings with men and women of past ages that the same grace can be extended to us today-this is to begin the process of praise and thanksgiving which marks the beginning of uttered prayer.
Commands to obey
It is all to easy just to want all our wishes to be fulfilled. Would that not be selfish? Would that be taking notice of the Will of God?
For many people prayer consists of asking God for favours. For some the proof of whether God is actually there or not consists of testing out whether God will grant a particular request. Did not Jesus say:
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find” (Matthew 7:7)
There is no room here for the casual or the careless. God is in heaven, man upon earth. We cannot assume familiarity or presume upon His loving kindness. It is God’s to command, ours to obey. We cannot call God “Our Father“, without at the same time hallowing His name. And we cannot do that unless we seek to do His will upon earth as it is done in heaven. If we are to benefit from the privilege of being called His sons and daughters, we must, after serious consideration, come within His family:
We are told how Jesus welcomed little children and took them up in his arms. In this he reflected the character of his Father, who welcomes all who seek Him in sincerity and simplicity. But whereas the particular purpose of God at the time of the Lord’s ministry and during the subsequent establishment of the ecclesiae involved frequent miraculous signs that this was indeed the Lord at work, we shall be sadly misled if we expect God to work a miracle in response to every request we make.
This is not to say that God’s power is not demonstrated today, or to imply that God is not interested in us. There is a children’s prayer which simply states a truth:
“God always listens whenever we pray,
He’s never too busy to hear what we say.
No time to stop
The world goes on and the end-times come closer. This will not make it easier for believing and God fearing people. They shall be tested more.
It might be easy to say
“let go of your anxiety.” (Matthew 6:34)
Now the time is near it is even more important not to stop to study the Bible regularly and to spend time in conversation with God. “In everything” – without exception and at every opportunity – we should pray. Pray in supplication – humble in treaty – with thanksgiving! Knowing that the prayer will be answered according to His will and in His time.
Praying in the family
Praying in the family
Most of us spend lots of time after daily work, in front of the television or enjoying themselves with lots of pastures time, giving enough time to the entertainment industry. Churchgoing has lessened a lot. Not many are spending time with the family together studying the Word of God and contemplating what the Most High wants from us.
Most of us do not take enough time to be on their own and to be with their Creator. When we do love Him, we should, like we do with our most beloved, spend enough time with Him.
We may not cease to pray earnestly and give our worries to Jehovah, our God. Our willing to be with Him should give or be the pulse of your life in Christ. If that pulse is weak or erratic then that life is ebbing away. We need to pray. Alone and in community, we need to pray. And so much the more as we see the day of Christ drawing near.
Cast aside anxiety about the things of this life and pray. Do this and rejoicing in the Lord will be as natural to you as breathing. You will be happy. Profoundly happy so that even in the most terrible affliction and sorrow there will remain within a vibrant core of joy and hope and faith that no circumstance can affect.
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Preceding articles:
1. Our openness to being approachable
2. Natural inclinations and Praying and asking
3. Always rejoicing Praying constantly Giving thanks for everything
4. Psalm 66 HRV
5. Psalm 66 OJB
Additional reading:
1. Walking alone?
2. People Seeking for God 1 Looking for answers
3. Looking for True Spirituality 6 Spirituality and Prayer
4. Being Religious and Spiritual 8 Spiritual, Mystic and not or well religious
5. 7000 to 20000 words spoken each day
6. Do You Expect God’s Answer
7. Biblical Prayer at Tabernacle Site Shilo
8. Praying and thinking positively
9. Being sure of their deliverance
10. Genuine prayer
12. Does God hear prayer?
13. Does God answer prayer?
14. God doesn’t call the qualified
15. Work with joy and pray with love
16. Give your worries to God
17. Praise Jehovah
18. “Prayer 2″ – Child Abuse
19. If you think you’re too small to be effective
20. Quit griping about your church
21. What moves mountains? Trust!
22. A Living Faith #7 Prayer
23. God, my father, my closest friend
24. Prayer, important aspect in our life
25. Prayer has comforted us in sorrow
26. Prayer for the day
28. Change
29. Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways
30. Try driving forward instead of backwards
31. Preventing us from going window-shopping in prayer
32. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone!
33. Aim High: Examples of Godly Characters to follow
34. Sometimes we pray and pray and it seems like nothing happens.
35. If you do pray you shall not be disappointed
36. Self-development, self-control, meditation, beliefs and spirituality
37. Worship and worshipping
38. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #1 Kings Faith
39. rusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God
42. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #4 Transitoriness #1 Prosperity
43. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #4 Transitoriness #2 Purity
45. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #5 Prayer #2 Witnessing
47. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #6 Prayer #4 Attitude
51. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #10 Prayer #8 Condition
56. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #15 Exposition before the Creator
57. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #16 Benefits of praying
59. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #18 Fulfilment
60. Praying For What We Want or Don’t Want
61. Continuing Paul’s Prayer Requests
62. Listening and Praying to the Father
63. Communion and day of worship
64. Funeral service only belongs in church building according to Catholic Church
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• Five Believer’s Crowns: Heavenly Rewards (
The Bible declares that believers canobtain these heavenly rewards including five different crowns.What are these crowns and how can the believer qualify for them?The five crowns are:
1. The incorruptible crown – Being disciplined [temperate] in all things.
2. The crown of rejoicing – Winning souls for the kingdom of God.
3. The crown of righteousness – All who love the appearing of the Lord.
4. The crown of life – All who endure trials for Jesus.
5. The crown of glory – Those who are godly examples to the flock.
• Put First Things First (
Apart from Christ, we cannot expect God to bless us. Jesus promised, “But seek first His kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (Matt. 6:33).
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• Listen: God’s Second Man, Part 3 (Onward Christian Soldiers #67 with Daniel Whyte III) (
In part one and part two of this lesson, we contrasted the “first man”, Adam, with the “second man”, Jesus Christ. Adam disobeyed God and caused the entire human race which descended from him to be a race of sinners. However, when Jesus Christ came, the Bible tells us that He “became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Jesus Christ did what Adam (and none of us) have done — be perfectly obedient to God throughout our entire lives. Because Jesus Christ is sinless, He is the perfect sacrifice for our sins. On the cross, Jesus paid the price for our sins so that we would not have to. Today, there are two races of people in the world — Adam’s sinful race, and Jesus’ righteous race. As Romans 5:19 says, “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” Of course, we who are in Jesus’ race are only righteous because of what Jesus Christ did for us.
• Excuse My Scepticism (
In our Christian Faith, we are taught to believe rather than to be a doubting Thomas. We are taught to trust rather than mistrust. We are taught to give a person the benefit of the doubt before we dismiss them. But my journey of faith has had some encounters with reality leading me to embrace some sceptical attitude towards some things I have observed in the land of the living.
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About 45 years ago, I learned the Jesus Prayer, which has its roots in the Philokalia which was popular then. This prayer is a blessing to me now more than ever. The point of the prayer is twofold. The first to create a pattern of silence no matter where one is, walking down the street, or cleaning the house, or driving.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39936 | I have noticed many bikes for sale that are made of mostly one material, such as aluminum, except for the fork which is carbon. I know carbon is very expensive so the manufacturer must be trying to use a little bit in the best possible place. So, if for a certain price point they can choose only one part to be carbon, why the fork? What are the advantages of carbon forks?
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Carbon has more flex, so improves comfort over sifter aluminum forks. You sometimes see rear triangles built from carbon for the same reason, – mattnz Aug 4 '17 at 4:30
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Similarly a few years ago steel forks were sometimes used on alloy frames for a bit more spring without adding cost. Joining carbon to other materials imposes design constraints, so the benefit of say a carbon top tube would be eaten up in the joints to metal, while adding costs (if you're starting with a not-expensive bike). Discrete parts made from carbon make more sense. The fork isn't exactly that but a concentric join is simple. – Chris H Aug 4 '17 at 7:14
• Aluminium forks are very hard and uncomfortable. Carbon forks are springy and the cost factor is about identical, especially if the steerer is made from aluminium. – Carel Aug 4 '17 at 7:21
• @Carel Entry level carbon is about twice as much. $100 compared to $50. Higher end carbon are $300. – paparazzo Aug 4 '17 at 18:28
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@Criggie early aluminum bike frames and forks were generally built too stiff and were all buzzy. More recent aluminum frames and forks are much better, but are saddled with the old reputation. – Rider_X Aug 4 '17 at 23:06
There are an intersection of a number of reasons:
1. Public Perception - Carbon as that "wow" factor. Colloquial it is associated with "space age" technologies. Therefore it must be better! The truth is that the performance of carbon depends heavily on manufacturing techniques used (e.g., materials and layup). See point 3 for an example.
2. Weight - Carbon has a high strength to weight ratio. Carbon forks really started to take a hold when steel was still a dominant frame material and during a period in the cycling industry when there was a serious obsession with weight savings. As such, carbon quickly became got the reputation of being material of choice for building light stiff components. Compared to building forks from some other materials (e.g., an all steel fork) significant weight savings can be had. The weight difference to other materials such as aluminum however is not as significant, but once the public perception is set is hard to go against the grain..
3. Compliance - Because carbon has good fatigue resistance - it can be flexed nearly an infinite number of times without failure, if the force is less that the critical limit where structural failure occurs - this means it has the potential to be very compliant, if manufactured appropriately. However it is expensive to customize carbon, because of all the molds required. As such, many carbon components are intended for a wide use case (e.g., rider weight) and therefore are typically overbuilt for most people needs due to the failure mode of carbon being catastrophic. As such, carbon forks (which are often lauded for compliance) can also be harsh. It really depends on how the part was manufactured and what your weight and use cases are. Just buying a carbon fork does not guarantee a compliant ride. For example, the most compliant fork I have ever ridden to date was a thin walled steel fork, it soaked up high frequency road vibrations like you wouldn't believe. My modern 2017 all carbon "endurance" bike with a "compliant" fork comes pretty close, but the difference is still noticeable (which I attribute to accommodating for disc brakes and thru-axle).
4. Ease of manufacturing - As others have pointed out in this thread, forks are separate components so it is easy to use another material here, especially if you can order forks at a good price. This makes it a relatively cheap upgrade on the production line especially considering point (1).
5. Economies of Scale - Because carbon forks have been popular for so long now, manufactures know how to produce them relatively cheaply now. As such, this again makes it an easy upgrade (see previous point).
6. Quality cannot be visually determined - It is difficult (impossible really) to determine the manufacturing quality of a carbon fork by looking at it. You need to scan or cut it apart. This means that manufactures can opt for the cheapest fork possible but still maintain a look of high quality (assuming point 1).
From a functional/practical stand point I think there are many instances where carbon forks do not make sense (e.g., commuter bikes), but manufactures include them because of the public perception out there (which ironically manufacturers helped create). For most regular bikes, I think a steel fork is a more sensible choice: It typically offers a compliant ride and is more robust to physical damage than carbon; but many would view a steel fork as a step backwards simply because steel is colloquially viewed as an "old" material.
Don't get me wrong, I think you can build a very nice bike out of carbon (my daily ride is one), but I think carbon is at its best when it is tailored for its use case, which typically means more higher end bikes. I would personally skip carbon on lower end bikes as I don't think it provides any advantages as manufacturing and use case coverage dictates that it is often over-built with cheaper layups. The problem with carbon fiber is that as a consumer you have no visual way of telling whether the carbon fiber fork (or frame or whatever) you are looking at is of a high or low quality, both will typically look identical.
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Another reason against carbon as (as of now) it cannot be recycled economically. At the end of its useful life the bike becomes land fill fodder, as opposed to Beer cans. – mattnz Aug 4 '17 at 21:38
I have a 2005 Trek Pilot 2.1 which has both carbon forks as well as carbon seat stays on a mostly aluminum body. The reason that carbon is used in those two places is because aluminum is incredible stiff and in those early alu bikes, they didn't know how to soften the ride.
Trek Pilot 2.1
You can control the flexibility of carbon by the weave pattern you use. So on the forks and seat stays, you can lay the carbon fibers down so that they have good flexibility to absorb bumps but still remain very strong against side-to-side forces. Making the whole bike carbon would have increased costs incredibly.
In terms of marketing, "hybrid carbon fiber and aluminum frame" sounds so much more exotic and expensive than a plain aluminum frame.
Fork is where you get the most bang for the buck with carbon as it absorbs some of the road bumps from the handle bars. I also holds the road a little better.
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Fork is also one of the easier parts to manufacture from carbon fiber: the shape is simple compared to a frame and one mold fits all sizes. – ojs Aug 4 '17 at 19:28
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39939 | xxxxxxxiv) Multi-Tasking/Task Switching
Need to understand multi-tasking or task switching. What is often called multi-tasking is more rapid task switching. Technology and social change are fuelling the rise of multi-tasking, eg handling a work query while in the supermarket queue. All this means that less time is wasted. On the other hand, we can feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of things we can do at any one time
- US Bureau of Labour Statistics (Tim Harford, 2015) states that 50% of high school students when doing their home work are also listening to music, watching TV or otherwise multi-tasking
- research have shown that we should focus on one thing at a time. For example, consider the performance of drivers who chat on the mobile phone compared with drivers who are drunk. Chatting drivers are not as aggressive as risk-taking as drunk drivers but they are unsafe in other ways, ie they took much longer to respond to events outside the car and failed to notice a lot of visual cues around them. In other words, using a mobile phone is as dangerous as driving while drunk. The problem with talking while driving is our limited mental bandwidth
- multi-tasking does not improve with usage, ie people who systematically overrate their ability to multi-task, display poor impulse control and multitasking ability.
- there is a cognitive cost to multi-tasking, ie
"...Students struggled to answer questions about the predictions they made in the multitasking environment. They have successfully juggled both cars in the moment - but they haven't learnt anything that they could apply in a different context...... suggest that the feeling of understanding may be an allusion and that, later, we find ourselves unable to remember much, or to apply our knowledge flexibly. so, multitasking can make us forgetful - one way in which multi-taskers are a little like drunks..."
Tim Hartford, 2015
- multi-tasking can improve the performance of scientists. Research has shown that top scientists were constantly changing the focus of their research, eg in reviewing the first 100 papers of some famous scientists it was found
"...the most productive cover 5 different research areas and move from one of their topics to another an average of 43 times. They would publish, and change the subject, publish again, and change the subject again...... subjects must have overlapped. The secret to a long and highly productive scientific career? Its multitasking..."
Tim Hartford, 2015
- during multi-tasking at least 1 task needs to be familiar that it is done without thinking
- some research (Tim Hartford, 2015) has shown that people have the bedroom recollection of uncompleted tasks, ie when leaving things unfinished, you can't quite let go of them mentally (call the Zeigarnik effect). This may explain the connection between facing multiple responsibilities and indulging in rapid task switching, ie
"...We flit from task to task because we cannot forget about all of the things that we haven't yet finished.......because we're trying to get the nagging voice is in our head to shut up..."
Tim Hartford, 2015
- focus and multi-tasking appear to be in conflict. They overlap if you regard multi-tasking as switching tasks rapidly, ie changing focus. Tasks now blend into each other instantaneously
- linked with multitasking is task switching, getting distracted and managing multiple projects. These are connected, eg the practice of having multiple projects invites habits of rapid task switching. Task switching slows the subjects down and scrambles your thinking. Your performance falls in areas of reading comprehension, problem solving, etc. On the other hand, task switching helps with creativity, ie divergent thinking improves,
"...Involuntary multitasking produces a greater volume and variety of answers, and their answers are more original too..."
Tim Hartford, 2015
This is contrary to the thought that great work can only be achieved through superhuman focus, thinking long and hard.
It is our ability to change focus that gets creative juices flowing
- "low latent inhibition" (this involves filtering out irrelevant stimuli). This is a subconscious filter that allows us to
"...walk through the world without being overwhelmed by all the different stimuli it hurls at us..."
Tim Hartford, 2015
Yet people whose filters are a little more porous or prone to being distracted have a big creative edge
"...the act of switching back and forth can grease the wheels of thought..."
John Kounios as quoted by Tim Hartford, 2015
Some extra creative mechanisms linked with multitasking are
- new tasks can help us to forget bad ideas, ie doing something new induces "fixation forgetting" (leaving us free to find another answer)
- "opportunistic simulation", ie a new task prompts us to think of a solution to an old one
- one way to ensure that things are getting done is by writing down every single commitment with the next thing that needs to be done. Regularly review your list of next actions.
Six ways to master multi-tasking (be mindful, write it down, tame your smart phone, focus on short sprints, procrastinate to win & cross-fertilise)
i) be mindful
- need to be able to identify when multitasking or focusing is most appropriate
- make two separate lists, eg one for activities is best done with Internet and another for activities is best done off-line. Connecting and disconnecting from the Internet should be deliberate acts
ii) write it down
- document your thoughts into specific actions and review them regularly
- need to feel relaxed about what you are doing and what you have decided not to do right now
iii) tame your smart phone
- the smart phone is a great servant and a harsh master
- disable needless notifications
- arrange a filing system so that your e-mails are classified and filed away where appropriate
iv) focus on short sprints
- focus for 25 minutes and rest for 5 minutes
- work in 2 hour sessions
- prioritise, eg deal with urgent matters first
v) procrastinate to win
- if you have several interesting projects on the go simultaneously, regularly switch from one to the other; such task switching can unlock new ideas
vi) cross-fertilise
"...creative ideas come to people who are interdisciplinary, working across different organisational units or across many projects...... good ideas often come when your mind makes the unexpected connections between different fields..."
Keith Sawyer as quoted by Tim Hartford, 2015
Multitasking can result in doing a lot and achieving little.
"...juggling projects of varying importance while attending to e-mails and phone notifications (often while at meetings with colleagues) is a reality for many. Busyness without a sense of significant progress and achievement is a theme that crops up regularly..."
Tom Loncar 2019
Regularly the deluge of small, relentless and apparently urgent tasks can swamp the more important activities like strategic development, creativity, etc.
The brain is only able to focus on one task at a time. Thus multitasking involves the brain actually switching back and forth between tasks..
"...these shifts in attention are not seamless - there can be a lag of several tenths of a second as our brain senses that a goal has shifted and new rules are being activated..."
Tom Loncar 2019
There is a cumulative time impact on such task switching that can be particularly costly when some of the activities are complex.
Multitasking can often push long-term projects to the backburner, ie
"...Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important..."
Stephen Coady as quoted by Tom Loncar 2019
There is evidence to suggest that the brain's dopamine reward circuit is activated as we notice and respond to items that emerge while we are multitasking. For example, the addictive quality of apps and their irresistible notifications and beeps, namely the creation of a "scrolling dopamine loop" that makes us want to continue.
Some suggestions to handle multitasking include
turn-off your digital accessories like smart phone, etc for a specific period
delay responses
- focus on important-to-us in the mid-morning. It is accepted wisdom that the mid-morning is the peak period for ther brain's working memory, alertness and concentration, so we should concentrate on the more celebral tasks during this period; leave the more manual, mundane tasks to other times
develop a to do list especially for your daily calendar. This should help fight the tide of interruptions, reactive mode and encourage the an approach that is more focused and organised.
use an out-of-office auto response during periods when you don't want to be interrupted. This lets people know not to expect an immediate response
- reduce time in meetings and attendance at meetings, ie can somebody else attend in your place?
inform colleagues of your plans on how to handle multitasking so that they can provide regular reality checks to ensure that you are handling of the task
NB Disrupting ingrained habits will take some effort as it means pushing the brain into the thinking part of the brain which it prefers not to go to
Multitasking involves the brain being busy which works against relaxing the brain for
- developing insights
- becoming first-class noticers
(the power of noticing, ie seeing space where there was previously noise)
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Technique 2.15 Internally Driven, Externally Aware
"...great companies are internally driven, externally aware..."
Jim Collins, 2005
To understand this, answer these simple but profound questions
1 What is really driving the organisation internally?
2 a) What is the truth about the outside world?
b) What is the truth about how it operates and how it is changing?
3 When you intersect our internal drive with external reality, what's the truth about what we can distinctly contribute potentially better than anyone else in the world?
A case study of this was Boeing's decision to build the 707 aircraft
What are the factors?
Firstly, an organisational ethos that is stressing doing big and adventurous things; secondly, the inspiration to make Boeing even greater than it was. These are internal drivers and they have nothing to do with adapting to the outside world!
What is the truth about the outside world and how is it changing?
World War II was over with a resultant reduced demand for military aircraft relative to the demand for commercial aircraft. Furthermore, there was a major change in technology, ie from propellers to jet.
What could Boeing do better than anyone else in the world?
They had jet technology; they had been building big military airplanes; they had experience to build large scale jets
"...Boeing confronted the truth, internally and externally and grasped that it could make a distinctive impact by bringing the world into the jet age..."
Jim Collins, 2005
(source: Jim Collins, 2005)
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Modern Web Development With React (Part 3)
In my first post, I described the benefits of client side Javascript programming. In my second post, I highlighted some of the differences between React and other frameworks. Now It's time to get our hands dirty with React.
Setting Up
To follow along the example I'm going to provide, we'll use the React Starter Kit. Just click the link and download the kit.
We'll be making an example folder to hold our javascript and web page. Go ahead and make a directory, for example example and move the Javascript files from the build directory into that folder.
Next, make a simple HTML page with the following content:
<!doctype html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Hello React</title>
<script src="./react.js"></script>
<script src="./JSXTransformer.js"></script>
<div id="app"></div>
<script src="./example.jsx"></script>
We'll be using example.jsx for our code. I strongly suggest you use a JSX aware editor such as Emacs or Vim.
The core building block of React is that web applications should be built up of small, composible parts that React calls "components". For those of you familiar with GUIs, you can think of a component a bit like a widget, a single contained piece of GUI functionality. Let's dive in with a simple component that will take no arguments.
Let's say that we want to display the weather. Let's create a small component which we can use to display the current temperature. We'll call our component "Temperature", and we'll construct it using the React createClass method, which takes in an object and returns a React component.
var Temperature = React.createClass({
render: function(){
return (
<h1>The temperature is: 72F</h1>
We've hard coded the temperature into the component, but we'll fix that later. For now let's focus on the construction. We have created this component using the createClass method and we've given it a dictionary containing a single key, "render". The render method is what React will use when displaying our component.
When our component will render, it will display:
The temperature is: 72F
The component won't yet render on the page- for that we need to tell our component to mount to the DOM.
You may have noticed that we created a div with the id app in our HTML. We will mount our component at the app div. We didn't have to call it app, that's just convention. We could have called it temperature or demo or anything else, but app is a good convention to use for the top level of a React application.
To tell our React application to mount on the app DOM element, we'll add this to the end of our Javascript file:
<Temperature />,
Now that we've done that, we can surf back to our web page in a web browser and we should see a plain page with our temperature prominently displayed.
Working With Props
Now let's replace that hard coded temperature with one we can set.
React components can have information sent to them in creation time through the use of what are called properties. Properties are constants which we can set at the creation time of the component and they're stored in the component's .props property.
Let's make that component again, but this time we'll get the temperature as a property:
var Temperature = react.createComponent({
render: function(){
<p>The temperature is {this.props.fahrenheitF<p>
Now, where we mount our component, let's set the Fahrenheit property. At the bottom where we mount the component, change <Temperature /> to <Temperature Fahrenheit=80 />.
Now save and reload the page.
You should see that the temperature is now 80.
Things are really heating up!
Working With Curly Brackets
Now let's imagine that instead of just Fahrenheit, we wanted to take our temperature and display it for people who live outside the US, in Celsius.
We can do the temperature conversion right inside our render method!
So let's go to our render method inside our Temperature component and change it to:
var celsius = (this.props.fahrenheit - 32) * 5 / 9;
return (
<h1>The temperature is {this.props.fahrenheit}F/{celsius}C</h1>
If we save and go back to our page, we should see:
The temperature is 26.666666666666668C
Since that's not very pretty, we can use the built in Javascript rounding functions to make that a bit more pleasant to look at:
celsius = celsius.toPrecision(1);
And now we should see:
The temperature is 26.6C
Much better.
This is not templating
At first glance, with these HTML tags and curly brackets it might look like we're using a templating system and then creating a string to pass into the DOM, but that's not what's happening here.
The HTML tags are not raw strings- they are getting pre-processed by the system and turned into function calls. These function calls are creating components, just like our components, which in turn get turned into raw DOM objects.
In addition, what's inside the curly brackets is not simply string expansion; it's fully evaluated Javascript that gets run during the render method's call.
The HTML-like syntax is called JSX, and it's use use optional but highly recommended. You can read more about JSX at the official documentation but the raw javascript code is run through a pre-processor and the XML syntax is turned into raw Javascript function calls, so a component that looks like <foo arg={val} /> turns into something like foo({arg=val}). For more information on how JSX works, you can refer to the official documentation.
Even though there is additional processing done during the pre-process phase, there's a huge runtime speed advantage of creating raw DOM objects rather than placing a string into the DOM. This translates into a faster application overall.
In addition, by using JSX, we are more able to model the output that we want, rather than worrying about the implementation of how the DOM objects are rendered to the browser, and if we use a JSX aware editor, our XML stands out from the rest of our code, making it easy to identify which parts of our code are related to rendering things on the screen.
What is this?
You may have noticed that in our render method, I referred to the Fahrenheit property as this.props.fahrenheit while I referred to our celsius variable simply as celsius.
That's because the Celsius variable was set inside the render method. The props, on the other hand, are a property of the Temperature class itself, and React uses the this property to refer to the object.
If you're familiar with Python or Ruby, this is somewhat equivalent to self. In Javascript, this will always refer to the function that's being executed, but this can be passed around from function to function through binding. By default, all the methods create by createClass have this bound, which gives us access to the properties of the object.
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Children are born powerless
In the journey from infant to adult the brain of a child is transformed by experiences. Some are accidental, some intentional. Parents are the original teachers; siblings and environment too. But schools play a critical role.
The interplay of formal curriculum and the development of a child’s sense of self is the subject of research at Harvard’s Agency by Design Project. Agency is a measure of how ‘in control’ of their lives youth feel. I believe it is related to hope (what will happen in the future) and power (what can I do about it now.)
I’ve thought a lot about what motivates human behavior and concluded that one of the principal motivators is power. The accumulation and exercise of power, whether by children, adults, leaders or countries, is unarguably a factor in personal and social evolution.
Children are born powerless. From birth they set upon a course to accumulate it. How do they do that? I believe evolution has bestowed on some the advantages of strength, intelligence, beauty and health. Their families confer others like sustenance, safety, love and legacy. And the aim of society is to distribute power through education. The degree to which society succeeds or fails at this aim is the subject of great debate.
One measure of power is agency, otherwise known as self-efficacy. Unfortunately, I see lots of kids that lack this fundamental capacity. It exhibits as low self-esteem, incuriousness, low persistence and hopelessness.
Think about the consequences of powerlessness: kids who don’t think they are good enough, that tomorrow won't be better than today, that the world is a scary place and they are vulnerable. Or worse: acting out, dropping out, drugging out.
I think schools that focus on the attainment of a standard (and more easily measurable) set of skills (too often clinging to those that were relevant a hundred years ago) fail to develop the uniquely human skills of curiosity, creativity and a love of learning. We need our education metrics to prioritize ‘robot proof’ talents like these.
The ‘Carnegie units’ employed in the dispensation of learning is a perpetuation of an industrial model of school responding to the needs of an industrial revolution. It is no longer effective – or equitable – for a future where 65% of today’s students will be employed in jobs that don’t exist yet.
Today, we sort kids by their capacity to acquire knowledge based more on the rate of absorption than the rate of digestion. We measure their attainment by their memory skills more than what they understand. The system rewards ‘quickness’ and moves classes along like herds of cattle driven on a trail headed to market. Learners who can’t keep up or who would rather indulge their curiosity are branded as slow. (The analogy is apt.)
The pace of coverage and selection of subjects are rarely the choice of students. Current brain science shows that it is literally neurologically impossible to learn deeply about something you don’t care about. Ask kids if they care about what they are learning – not just what they learned about it. (Ask teachers if they are exhibiting enthusiasm for the curriculum in today’s test-focused classroom. Enthusiasm may be more important than competence in a subject to get kids to learn deeply.)
Which leads me to kids and power. Schools insist that learning will be rewarded in life after school. Will it? Calvin Coolidge famously said:
Kids know this. They are stuck in school, being taught crap they don’t care about, at great effort and expense, for little or no perceived benefit. They are powerless. They see the smart kids earn extrinsic rewards for memorizing while their curiosity is being ignored. They conclude they are not-smart, disengage from the process and simply wait for it to end.
What if the goal of school was to indulge a student’s curiosity? What if the pace of learning was tuned to their interest? What if the rewards were intrinsic? That is what making things does effectively.
Making = Persistence + Problem Solving + Pride = Power
Making = Power
Power, and its proxy: Agency, are not given like school grades are given. They are the result of investment of effort over time, struggle, coping with frustration and failure, concluded finally with the experience of success. It is an intrinsic reward for proving something to oneself. Failure is simply feedback in this process. The desire for power overcomes the fear of failure and other hurdles which need to be overcome.
I believe that making something is almost always engaging and meaningful. It rarely happens on the timeline or under the conditions set by someone else. Along the way a teacher can facilitate learning, but the learning is a byproduct of making something not the objective. Adults may learn for some abstract benefit, but kids just focus on the thing they are making and learn despite the fun they are having. All learning should be fun.
We need to reintroduce making into the curriculum for all children. (Children were almost always exposed to making outside school when the economy was more closely tied to manufacturing and farming.) Making can mean a physical product or creating a system as it oftentimes does in project based learning. Students should be able to connect what they are learning in the classroom to relevance outside the classroom.
Making something yields authentic/intrinsic/personal rewards that give kids power over their lives. Kids need more of that, and for the sake of our society, we need more powerful kids. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39974 | How to retrieve the contents of a file in SharePoint no matter its location?
Imagine you want to retrieve the contents of a non-binary (text, CSS, XSL, etc.) file stored in SharePoint 2007 and all you know about that file is its location (URL). How would you do it?
The answer is way simpler than you might think: SPWeb.GetFileAsString(string) allows you to obtain the contents of the file at the given URL. But that’s not all. Using SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb.GetFileAsString you can obtain even files which are stored in subwebs! Now isn’t that just cool?!
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The push for atleast 25% outside shareholding
The Indian authorities are in the process of pushing listed companies to have atleast 25% shareholding with outside shareholders. I wrote a column in the Financial Express, titled Outside shareholding and market liquidity: Indian empirical regularities where I look at how size and outside shareholding come together to matter for stock market liquidity.
1. What is surprising is that we don't actually see any block/bulk trades by large outsiders. Empirical evidence on India has suggested a sharp decline in outside ownership and also no supporting evidence on firm value.
The policy makers would have to analyze following issues before making 25% a mandatory requirement:
1. Are there any outside buyers of 25%?
2. What about their "relationship" with promoters. e.g. there are private corporate bodies who may be suppliers or customers of the company.
3. How active is the block trading in India?
2. Interesting observation. Can one infer here that, with small size, public holding should be more - in essence to attain better liquidity higher public holding and this should be a dynamic function and not a static one.
Can't we have a system where any corporate using public funds by way of funds from banks, public institutions should be listed with a turnover of Rs.100 Crore and above. This will bring many of good quality management on to the bourses and also wealth creation also get shared in somewhat equitable(?) manner.
3. Ajay - interesting analysis. However, just based on this data, how do we know that correlation is causation in this case and thus if the policy solution being proposed is really attacking at the heart of the matter.
Liquidity and bid/ask spread here ultimately depend on how many buyers are there in the market. Thus size should definitely be a factor. In the case of small firms, for same % of outside holding thus you would have a lot less buyers in the market. The fact that spreads are low for larger companies indicates that OS % may not be the factor that is important and that it all boils down to just size. I am not sure if this is really the case, but some more statistical analysis might be required to filter this out. And if size is the only first order factor, then the policy solution may not really be that effective.
That said, investors usually require a higher premium for small cap firms vis-a-vis larger firms for this precise reason of liquidity and so I don't see why a policy solution is even required if its only to improve liquidity.
4. Even though SEBI policies have been better in recent times but they are still slow on execution front. Indian markets have been the FII's playground of cash-derivatives game. Cash market is used systematically by their sophsticated algorithms to earn fat profits from derivatives markets. There is an urgent need for not only raising free float but also compulsary delivery based settlement.
With so much ease, FII computers manipulate markets that even charts shows exact parallel lines. These guys know that out of 50 companies in nifty, 15 companies have almost 65% weightage in the index and its very easy to target nifty via market orders.
Forget Nifty PE of 23, technicals and anemic results of current quarter, these guys computers won't sell until central banks stop liquidity flows and ask their money back. Policy makers won't learn and these guys are again repeating mistakes of recent history. Even morally corrupt media is inviting general reqailers via enticing offers by mentioning that "Long positions are seen in xyz stocks". How can these ppls say that When for every long position, there is an equivalent short position. Thats why Raghuram Rajan says that India is steady but still very slow.
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My paychecks are every 2 weeks, both with previous employer and current one. And the match is paid on each paycheck. With both employers there was a true-up match due the next year if the match was not maximized, ie. by maxing out the contributions before the last pay period over the year.
The balance would most likely be less than $216,796.70 today if I had not added any new money in 2008, 2009 or 2010. There are multiple ways of accounting for the new money being added - either assuming zero new contributions in those years, or assuming that the new money would have been sitting in a money market and earning the prevailing rate of return for those years. Since I'm 34 and not retired, I think the later method makes a little more sense for me than assuming zero new money. Also, a lot of money would have been taxed upfront if I didn't contribute since I'm ineligible for deductible IRA contributions, and the earnings on the money market interest would also have been taxable.
Re: post 67968,
The reasons for me not investing all of the additional money in aggressive stocks immediately are not just taxes - my asset allocation was skewed nearly 100% equities already which really killed me in 2008, and the market had gone up quite a bit in 2009 and 2010. At some point there will be another market decline. Having a little cash sitting on the side isn't a bad thing, at least for now. I might use some of the cash to invest additional money on the way down, or in bonds after rates go back up a little. This my way of limiting risk a little, and my way of timing the market.
As for why not to invest all the money aggressively in stocks immediately, it comes down to timing of the taxes :
1) if the value declined significantly before the rollover to Roth, I might have a large capital loss. Possibly larger than the $3000 that I can deduct annually. I have zero capital gains to offset since all my investments are in retirement accounts, so having capital losses doesn't do me much good and might spill over to another year. Maybe to a tax year during which my income and tax bracket would be lower and the capital loss wouldn't be worth as much.
2) if the value increased significantly before the rollover to Roth, I might have a paper gain, and I would have to pay the taxes on that gain at a high rate of 38% combined federal/state immediately at rollover time. This would be a short-term gain (less than 1 year) since I plan to do a rollover to Roth of my after-tax contributions every year.
Then the money would go to Roth in similar investments (aggressive stocks). If the value then declines afterwards, there is no possibility of ever taking a loss on those. Or is there ? I can't imagine the government letting you have it both ways, not ever taxing you on any Roth gain, but letting you take a capital loss if there is one. Am I wrong ? I plan to only withdraw the money at retirement time anyway, during which I presumably will be in a lower tax bracket so the capital loss by then wouldn't be worth as much as the taxes that were paid upfront. However in the long run, hopefully there wouldn't be any loss at all.
I haven't done all the math and feel free to poke at my arguments, I enjoy your comments. Basically I'm willing to forego the earnings for one year of after-tax contributions to have the benefit of never paying any taxes on them at all and not having any short-term downside risk. I might change my mind once my overall asset allocation changes.
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A) Design a voltage-divider circuit for a 15-V regulated power supply. The circuit must feed a 3-mA load at 9-V. Draw a circuit diagram showing the values of all components and the significant voltages and currents throughout the circuit. Your circuit should include an SPST switch for turning power to the circuit on and off. Present your design in a neat organized report, listing all component required, show all calculations leading to your design components.
? Calculate the values of the resistors that are to be used in the circuit.
? Consider the 9-V voltage drop in the circuit and the circuit must feed a 3-mA load.
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When it comes to conducting experimental research, interpretation of the results can be influenced greatly by the extent to which an experiment has internal and external validity. Discuss the importance of external and internal validity and some of the threats to each of these. What is the impact of having one type of validity but not the other? If you could only have one type of validity in your experiment which would it be and why?
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Internal validity is very important to any form of experimental research, due to the fact that internal validity has a great deal to do with how accurate the results are within a given experiment. Due to the fact that it is the purpose of any experimental research to be highly accurate and effective in ascertaining the answers to the questions that it is seeking answers to, a high degree of accuracy is absolutely essential to the overall validity of the experiment. An important threat to the internal ... |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40032 | The Principle of Generative Pluralism
Prometheans understand technological evolution in terms of increasing diversity of lived values, in the form of more varied actual lifestyles. From any given pastoral perspective, such increasing pluralism is a sign of moral decline, but from a Promethean perspective, it is a sign of moral progress catalyzed by new technological capabilities.
Emerging lifestyles introduce new lived values into societies. Hamilton did not just suggest a way out of the rural squalor1 that was the reality of the Jeffersonian pastoral. His way also led to the dismantlement of slavery, the rise of modern feminism and the gradual retreat of colonial oppression and racism. Today, we are not just leaving the World Fairs pastoral behind for a richer technological future. We are also leaving behind its paternalistic institutions, narrow “resource” view of nature, narrow national identities and intolerance of non-normative sexual identities.
Promethean attitudes begin with an acknowledgment of the primacy of lived values over abstract doctrines. This does not mean that lived values must be uncritically accepted or left unexamined. It just means that lived values must be judged on their own merit, rather than through the lens of a prejudiced pastoral vision.
The shift from car-centric to smartphone-centric priorities in urban transportation is just one aspect of a broader shift from hardware-centric to software-centric lifestyles. Rideshare driver, carless urban professional and low-income-high-mobility are just the tip of an iceberg that includes many other emerging lifestyles, such as eBay or Etsy merchant, blogger, indie musician and search-engine marketer. Each new software-enabled lifestyle adds a new set of lived values and more apparent profanity to society. Some, like rent-over-own values, are shared across many emerging lifestyles and threaten pastorals like the “American Dream,” built around home ownership. Others, such as dietary preferences, are becoming increasingly individualized and weaken the very idea of a single “official food pyramid” pastoral script for all.
Such broad shifts have historically triggered change all the way up to the global political order. Whether or not emerging marginal ideologies2 achieve mainstream prominence, their sense of proportions and priorities, driven by emerging lifestyles and lived values, inevitably does.
These observations are not new among historians of technology, and have led to endless debates about whether societal values drive technological change (social determinism) or whether technological change drives societal values (technological determinism). In practice, the fact that people change and disrupt the dominant prevailing ideal of “human values” renders the question moot. New lived values and new technologies simultaneously irrupt into society in the form of new lifestyles. Old lifestyles do not necessarily vanish: there are still Jeffersonian small farmers and traditional blacksmiths around the world for instance. Rather, they occupy a gradually diminishing role in the social order. As a result, new and old technologies and an increasing number of value systems coexist.
In other words, human pluralism eventually expands to accommodate the full potential of technological capabilities.3
We call this the principle of generative pluralism. Generative pluralism is what allows the virtuous cycle of surplus and spillover to operate. Ephemeralization — the ability to gradually do more with less — creates room for the pluralistic expansion of lifestyle possibilities and individual values, without constraining the future to a specific path.
The inherent unpredictability in the principle implies that both technological and social determinism are incomplete models driven by zero-sum thinking. The past cannot “determine” the future at all, because the future is more complex and diverse. It embodies new knowledge about the world and new moral wisdom, in the form of a more pluralistic and technologically sophisticated society.
Thanks to a particularly fertile kind of generative pluralism that we know as network effects, soft technologies like language and money have historically caused the greatest broad increases in complexity and pluralism. When more people speak a language or accept a currency, the potential of that language or currency increases in a non-zero-sum way. Shared languages and currencies allow more people to harmoniously co-exist, despite conflicting values, by allowing disputes to be settled through words or trade4 rather than violence. We should therefore expect software eating the world to cause an explosion in the variety of possible lifestyles, and society as a whole becoming vastly more pluralistic.
And this is in fact what we are experiencing today.
The principle also resolves the apparent conflict between human agency and “what technology wants”: Far from limiting human agency, technological evolution in fact serves as the most complete expression of it. Technology evolution takes on its unstoppable and inevitable character only after it breaks smart from authoritarian control and becomes part of unpredictable and unscripted collective invention culture. The existence of thousands of individuals and firms working relatively independently on the same frontier means that every possibility will not only be uncovered, it will be uncovered by multiple individuals, operating with different value systems, at different times and places. Even if one inventor chooses not to pursue a possibility, chances are, others will. As a result, all pastoralist forms of resistance are eventually overwhelmed. But the process retains rational resistance to paths that carry risk of ending the infinite game for all, in proportion to their severity. As global success in limiting the spread of nuclear and biological weapons shows, generative pluralism is not the same as mad scientists and James Bond villains running amok.
Prometheans who discover high-leverage unexpected possibilities enter a zone of serendipity. The universe seems to conspire to magnify their agency to superhuman levels. Pastoralists who reject change altogether as profanity turn lack of agency into a self-fulfilling prophecy, and enter a zone of zemblanity. The universe seems to conspire to diminish whatever agency they do have, resulting in the perception that technology diminishes agency.
Power, unlike capability, is zero-sum, since it is defined in terms of control over other human beings. Generative pluralism implies that on average, pastoralists are constantly ceding power to Prometheans. In the long term, however, the loss of power is primarily a psychological rather than material loss. To the extent that ephemeralization frees us of the need for power, we have less use for a disproportionate share.
As a simple example, consider a common twentieth-century battleground: public signage. Today, different languages contend for signaling power in public spaces. In highly multilingual countries, this contention can turn violent. But automated translation and augmented reality technologies5 can make it unnecessary to decide, for instance, whether public signage in the United States ought to be in English, Spanish or both. An arbitrary number of languages can share the same public spaces, and there is much less need for linguistic authoritarianism. Like physical sports in an earlier era, soft technologies such as online communities, video games and augmented reality are all slowly sublimating our most violent tendencies. The 2014 protests in Ferguson, MO, are a powerful example. Compared to the very similar civil rights riots in the 1960s, information in the form of social media coverage, rather than violence, was the primary medium of influence.
The broader lesson of the principle of generative pluralism is this: through technology, societies become intellectually capable of handling progressively more complex value-based conflicts. As societies gradually awaken to resolution mechanisms that do not require authoritarian control over the lives of others, they gradually substitute intelligence and information for power and coercion.
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[1] See Deirdre McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues, 2007 for one treatment of the modern urban tendency to romanticize the realities of pre-modern agrarian life.
[2] Many are thriving today, such as Liberal-tarianism, and Crypto-anarchism, that reflect a better sense of proportions relative to emerging technologies.
[3] The similarity to Parkinson’s Law, “work expands to occupy the resources available,” is not an accident.
[4] McCloskey views this idea as the mark of bourgeois virtues (see footnote 1), which are similar to Jane Jacobs’ commerce syndrome of values. Both, however, are not value systems or ideologies per se, but expressions of pluralistic tolerance and non-conflict among ideologies.
[5] Apps like Google Translate can already do this, though the technology has not yet become pervasive in public infrastructure. With the rise of Augmented Reality technologies, such approaches will likely become more prominent. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40041 | 2020-01-23 Belley
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Upper Rhône Nature Reserve
Upper Rhône Nature Reserve
The Upper Rhône stretches from Lake Geneva down to its confluence with the River Saône, running through Bugey and forming a natural border with Savoie.
When the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) established hydroelectric plants at Belley and Brégnier-Cordon, the locks built at Chautagne and Belley made the river navigable again as pleasure boats and passenger craft could travel beyond the factories of Lavours and Brens-Virignin.
Over 60 km of the Upper Rhône became accessible to visitors, who can now admire many different natural habitats that harbour a wealth of plant and animal life.
Extending 25 km from the south of Bugey to the Dauphiné, the 1,707-hectare Upper Rhône Nature Reserve is France’s largest alluvial forest reserve.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40047 | Litigation or Estimation? When Should Nonbankruptcy Actions Continue in Their Original Forums, and When Should They Be Resolved Through Estimation in Bankruptcy Court?
Contributed by Doron P. Kenter.
“I can [resolve] that” – Sam the Onion Man, Holes (as modified)
The relationship between bankruptcy courts and non-bankruptcy courts has been of particular importance over the past several years, particularly in the wake of Stern v. Marshall. But well before Anna Nicole Smith, bankruptcy courts were sensitive to the proper disposition of prepetition nonbankruptcy actions against the debtor – and whether they should be litigated in the court in which the action was filed or in the bankruptcy court, as part of the claims process.
In June 2013, Choice ATM Enterprises filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma requesting a declaratory judgment to determine the parties’ rights pursuant to a Commission Agreement between Choice and John Petrig. In April 2014, Petrig filed counterclaims against Choice, including for breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment. Trial was set for December 15, 2014. Twelve days before trial, Choice filed a motion to stay the trial, on the basis that it would be commencing a case under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. On December 5, 2014, the trial was stayed, and on December 12, Choice commenced a chapter 11 case. Choice subsequently moved to withdraw the district court proceeding without prejudice, and Petrig moved for relief from the automatic stay to permit the district court litigation to proceed.
The bankruptcy court, then, was faced with a choice (no pun intended): Should Petrig’s claims be litigated in the district court, where Choice had initially commenced the action and Petrig field his counterclaims? Or should Petrig’s claims be resolved in the bankruptcy case (for example, via an estimation proceeding pursuant to section 502(c) of the Bankruptcy Code)? To answer that question, the bankruptcy court offered a tutorial on when the automatic stay should be modified to allow nonbankruptcy litigation to proceed, and what is meant by section 362(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code where it provides that bankruptcy courts “shall” grant relief from the automatic stay “for cause.” The bankruptcy court discussed the many tests that have been applied by the courts that have weighed in on the issue, including the twelve (or more) factors that are taken into account in assessing whether to modify the automatic stay. (Although we won’t repeat that discussion in in its entirety, it is available in full here.) The bankruptcy court then recognized that at its core, the decision as to whether to modify the automatic stay is left to the court’s discretion and is “decided on a case by case basis.” Because no binding precedent required the bankruptcy court to apply one particular standard, the court observed that it would consider, under the circumstances, whether:
1. Judicial economy would be better achieved by proceeding in the district court or in bankruptcy court;
2. Either forum would avoid unnecessary expense and delay;
3. The claim is critical to the debtor’s reorganization; and
4. The nature of the claim requires expertise beyond the abilities of the bankruptcy court.
Based on these considerations, the bankruptcy court denied the motion for relief from the stay, and decided that Petrig’s claims should be resolved in Choice’s bankruptcy case.
Judicial Economy
First, the trial on Petrig’s claims had not yet begun in the district court, and the discovery that had been taken thus far could be used just as easily in any estimation proceeding in the bankruptcy court. Accordingly, because the estimation process would not delay or duplicate the proceedings, and could, instead, be conducted via an “accelerated process” that could be used “without redundancy, “judicial economy favored the resolution of Petrig’s claims in the bankruptcy court.
Efficiency and Expense
Second, the bankruptcy court noted that estimation in bankruptcy would cost less than would litigation of Petrig’s claims in the district court. Even though discovery and pre-trial motions were complete, the trial had not yet begun in the district court. In fact, the debtor noted that it had not even begun preparing for trial. Even though trial was just days away, the debtor knew as much as a month before that time that it would commence a bankruptcy case before the trial date and automatically stay the proceeding, thus obviating the need to prepare for trial. The bankruptcy court therefore concluded that estimation in the bankruptcy court could similarly minimize or eliminate unnecessary expense or delay for all parties.
Effects on Reorganization
Third, the bankruptcy court looked to the effect of Petrig’s claims on the debtor’s bankruptcy case and its ability to successfully reorganize. Petrig’s claims, if allowed in full, would be the largest claims against the estate. Estimating those claims in bankruptcy, then, would be consistent with the twin goals of chapter 11: (i) preserving the debtor’s business as a going concern and (ii) maximizing property available to satisfy creditors. By resolving Petrig’s claims through an efficient and expedited claims estimation process, a lesser burden would be imposed on the debtor’s management, with less cost to the debtor’s estate. Consequently, because Petrig’s claims were “critical to Debtor’s reorganization,” the bankruptcy court concluded that it would be that much more important to retain those claims in the bankruptcy case.
Fourth, Petrig’s claims did not require any specific expertise outside the bankruptcy court’s abilities. Accordingly, the bankruptcy court saw no bar to fulfilling its general responsibility, as contemplated by Congress, to resolve all claims against the debtor, even those that are contingent and/or disputed and therefore required estimation.
The bankruptcy court concluded its analysis by noting that, in enacting section 502(c) and allowing for estimation of claims in bankruptcy court, Congress intended bankruptcy courts to handle disputes (such as those raised by Petrig) “in an expedited manner to accomplish the goals of preserving going-concern value for the benefit of not just debtors, but their creditors as well.” Although Choice ATM may not be quite as polarizing as the ATM machines [sic?] in Maximum Overdrive, it provides useful benchmarks for understanding the types of disputes that should be resolved in bankruptcy court, rather than the nonbankruptcy courts in which they are otherwise pending. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40064 | Chapter 04: The Mortal Coil
Eric’s POV
A vampire’s mind could click through a hundred thoughts at once—if the vampire practiced, that is. Godric had made me practice a lot during my early years with him.
Moves and countermoves. Strategies and counterstrategies. Schemes and counter-schemes.
Thinking in this way had kept me alive for a thousand years. But times were changing, and staying alive was becoming more and more difficult.
I sighed and then berated myself for the action. Sighing was such a human thing to do, and I felt decidedly inhuman in that moment. Plus, it was unnecessary for vampires. In fact, the only reason we needed to take air into our bodies at all was to produce speech. And a sigh was certainly not a word of any use.
Even as I had been washing the blood from my body, I had been contemplating ways to infiltrate the so-called “Vamp-Camp.” Sadly, Governor Burrell was no more; however, there were many humans there who would meet the sharp end of my fangs or sword.
And—this time—my vengeance over the death of a family member wouldn’t take a thousand years to come to fruition. My judgment would be swift, and my enemies would fall just as swiftly. Anyone who had helped to conceive or develop Hepatitis V would die. All those who had devised what was essentially a vampire Concentration Camp would also perish.
Before I was done, I intended to blow the new TruBlood factory to hell—along with Vamp-Camp. And I had just the explosives in mind for the job. Dynamite really was the best choice—a classic, really. And I happened to keep a stockpile handy. I liked dynamite because it wouldn’t completely obliterate a target—like the newer, “more-efficient” kinds of explosives. Instead, it would leave a twisted and gnarled mess—a clear warning to anyone who might try to fuck with vampires in the same way again. Moreover, the authorities would find pieces—though mangled—of both bodies and evidence. Therefore, the truth about what had been going on in there would come out.
I quickly dried myself off and dressed in the clothing Bill had managed to find for me.
“Once a procurer, always a procurer,” I chuckled to myself.
The pants were a little too short and a bit tight in the crotch area, but they’d do. I tucked them into my boots—just in case I saw Pam before all hell broke loose. Of course, if she were still in the Vamp-Camp standard jumpsuit, she’d be in no position to criticize me for my “high waters”—but such things had never stopped her before.
I buttoned the last button of my shirt and waited for the sun to go down. I’d been forced to stay animated during most of my days at Vamp Camp; moreover, I’d stayed awake to sit vigil over Nora. Luckily, Bill had been able to supply me with some fresh blood, however, and I felt my strength building up again, even as the sun was waning. Finally, it went down, and—no longer having to fight the sun’s pull—my body relaxed a little,
Although my rancor was intense and I wanted to rush into the Vamp-Camp like a Viking berserker of old, I restrained myself. I compartmentalized my anger as Godric had taught me to do centuries before. After all, I had one last tribute to pay to my sister before I annihilated the bastards responsible for her death. And I had a promise to keep to Bill, for—even though his blood had failed to save Nora—he had tried, just as I’d asked. I was still agitated that Warlow hadn’t been there in time to make an attempt to save her with his blood, but I was beginning to accept the fact that he would have been unable to help Nora.
Despite this “cooling” of my furiousness regarding Bill and Sookie’s new boy-toy in regards to Nora’s death, however, my blood boiled as I remembered picking up Warlow’s scent on and in Sookie. I allowed one part of my head to contemplate why the fledgling bond Sookie and I had begun was still present in her—despite the fact that she’d drunk an older vampire’s blood.
However, most of my supple mind was still bent upon figuring out the best way to quickly and summarily destroy my human enemies, though the occasional fantasy of torturing each and every one of them for years fluttered into my mind. Perhaps the Newlins—both the vampire traitor and his human ex-wife—would serve as adequate vessels for the perpetual pain I craved to inflict.
I closed my eyes for a moment, cautioning the monster within to be patient. Revenge would be sweeter if it were well-planned and eliminated all enemies and potential threats. It would also be sweeter if my progenies were alive at the end of it and if I were still undead to enjoy the victory.
And that meant that I needed to keep a level head and not get caught up in fantasies of torturing my foes—at least not yet.
Life or death. Escape or imprisonment. Victory or defeat.
I walked slowly back into the bedroom Nora and I had been using. I’d wrapped up my sister’s remains in the blanket she’d died upon, her once beautiful body torn apart by the disease that had finally claimed her. It was ironic that the Black Plague had not been able to do the job, but another disease—hundreds of years later—gave her a similar fate to what her human self would have suffered if I had not found her.
I gathered the blanket into my arms, trying to ignore the fact that what was left of my sister did not feel like a body at all.
As I walked down the stairs, Bill stepped into his foyer.
“You will be needed to fulfill my plan,” he said—his tone conveying that “superior” manner he’d always had around me. At least now that he was “goddish,” he was justified in taking the tone; before, it had just been annoying.
I nodded. “I will return here after she has been interred. And then I will listen to your plan, and I will decide whether to follow it or my own. In either case, I will be going back to that camp very soon,” I vowed, my tone sounding ominous even to my own ears.
“We had an agreement, Eric. I will not allow you to break it,” Bill said evenly.
“Your blood did not save her,” I reminded.
“But I tried.”
“Trying is not doing,” I answered coldly. “But—as I said—I will return and listen to what you propose. If it is worthy, I will help you. If it is not worthy, then you are not worth my help.”
Bill looked at the bundle in my arms and then back into my eyes. God or no god, he wasn’t going to stop me from seeing my sister off to her god.
Luckily for both of us, he didn’t try.
I left his mansion at a slow pace—a human pace—not quite ready to say goodbye to the being who had been such a large part of my existence for so many years. My grief seemed to be lodged in my throat, choking and hot.
Within the brief span of two years’ time, I’d lost Godric and now Nora. And the pain seemed too much to bear or even to comprehend—even for a brain that had been trained to process many things all at once.
I inhaled deeply, my active thoughts moving to Sookie as I smelled her. She was next to her Gran’s grave—waiting for me, I suppose. In truth, I didn’t know whether I was happy or angry that she was there.
Where she was concerned, my feelings were often unsettled and unsettling, and I wasn’t about to let them interfere with what needed to be done.
Therefore, my anger won out as I approached. “What the fuck are you doing here?” I asked accusingly—harshly.
She turned around, and though it was cloudy and dark, she emitted a light from her very pores. She was beautiful.
But—then again—she had always been a beacon to me. A literal light—not a figurative one. To my eyes, she was illuminated by a soft glow at all times. Her “light” was something I’d always seen—though Godric and later Nora had told me that they did not see it. They could discern that Sookie was something “other” by looking at her, but neither of them saw what I did. However, neither of them thought I was crazy either; we’d all witnessed the unexplained and the unexplainable in life. And the luminosity that I saw when I looked at Sookie was just added to the list of those things.
I’d never asked Bill if he saw it too—never trusted him enough to ask him. If he did, then the light would no longer be just “mine.” And—if he didn’t see it—then his already-mounting insecurity regarding my interest in Sookie would have grown even more quickly, making him a bigger obstacle and potentially more harmful to Sookie.
I’d also refrained from checking with Pam, knowing that she would have volunteered the information if she’d seen Sookie’s “light” as I had; plus, I was not anxious for Pam to have yet another reason to be jealous of Sookie. And Pam had been resentful of her—especially since the Dallas trip. My child was intensely annoyed by my fascination with Sookie, and—through our vampire-child bond—I could tell that jealousy was at the root of Pam’s disdain. I didn’t blame my child. I had been jealous of Nora and Godric’s closeness once upon a time. It was the way of all vampires when it came to their makers. A vampire child always wanted to be “first”—to feel as if he or she ranked number one in his or her maker’s affections. Thus, when a new child was made or when a tie with a human was created, any previous vampire child would feel a sting. However, that jealousy would pass—hopefully before anyone met the true death.
From the first moment I saw Sookie—saw her “light”—I had studied every vampire’s initial reaction to her. And—though they all were clearly attracted by her sweet scent—no other vampires seemed to notice her “light.” So I had begun to think of it as only for me. And that “light” was just one of the reasons why I had wanted Sookie Stackhouse to be mine in every way imaginable.
I’d never told Sookie about her “light.” I almost had—the night she’d come to Fangtasia to ask about Werewolves—but I’d managed to stop myself.
I refrained from sighing as I took in her appearance. Sookie was wearing black, the traditional mourning color for humans in America. I recognized the dress. I’d picked it to accentuate her curves and to cater to her modesty. She looked as lovely in it as I’d known she would, though I wished that she was not wearing the blazer over it. I missed seeing her smooth shoulders. However, there was a cool wind, so I couldn’t really begrudge her for her need to stay warm. Sookie’s hair was pulled into a simple bun—a conservative style that suited the outfit and the somber occasion.
“What are you doing here?” I asked again, though my tone had lost some of its rancor.
She stepped forward a little, but there was still about ten feet separating us. “I’ll leave if you want,” she said softly. “But I have something for you,” she added, gesturing toward a bundle that was resting on her grandmother’s gravestone. “And I wanted to tell Gran a little about Nora—just in case you decided to take me up on the offer to let her rest here.”
My curiosity was piqued—because of both her words and the certainty in her eyes. Her brown eyes shone with a richness and a clarity I’d never seen in them before. I’d always found them captivating, though they’d infuriated me so many times as they’d displayed her ambivalent feelings for me. Tonight, however, the feelings emanating from them were not mixed. I looked closely for pity, knowing that I’d be furious if I saw that emotion from her. However, there was none; something else was shining from her orbs—something that looked like acceptance.
I “listened” to my blood inside of her. It confirmed the emotions gleaming from her eyes. There was acceptance there. But I felt something more too—something I needed to ignore for the time being.
Instead of commenting on what I saw and felt from her, I decided to speak of what she’d said. “What did you tell your grandmother about Nora?” I asked curiously.
Sookie’s lips turned up into a sheepish smile. “That she didn’t like me much. And,” she paused, “that I didn’t like her much either.”
I couldn’t help but to chuckle a little at her honesty. “What else?”
“That she always seemed to want to eat me.”
“That she did,” I admitted with another chuckle. “You do smell delicious.”
I knew that only Sookie—only she—had the ability to make me feel “lighter” in a moment like the one I was living through. And that—more than anything—was why I loved her. Perhaps there were other people that I “should” have fallen in love with—Nora or Pam or even Willa, who’d already proven herself worthy of being a vampire. But love—at least of the romantic variety—was something that I’d only recently admitted that I could feel. And I hadn’t even begun to try to explain it. I had simply been adapting to it—as I had adapted to all new things over the years.
Of course, there were some growing pains involved in that adaptation; specifically, part of me wanted to kill Sookie, but from what I’d learned so far about the topic of romantic love, that reaction was quite normal—human even. It seemed that the old cliché about there being a thin line between love and hate was quite true.
Sookie chuckled. “Yeah—I kind of figured that Nora wasn’t my biggest fan. And she did look at me like I was a giant T-bone. Um—do I smell different than before? Stronger?”
I nodded in confirmation. “Yes. A little. You should be careful—especially around younger vampires—at least until the blood shortage has passed.”
“Okay,” she said. “And thank you.”
I nodded.
She looked at me just as she had the night she’d comforted me after my “night-vision” of Godric. There had been no pity in her expression that night either—just a kind of understanding.
She took a deep breath. “I also told Gran that Nora was fiercely loyal and devoted to you—that she seemed like a good friend and sister to you.”
“She was,” I said in a whisper. “She was more than that to me.”
“You loved her,” she observed.
I nodded. “As much as I was capable,” I confirmed, not feeling the need to deny what I felt to Sookie anymore. “I was the one who took her to Godric. She was dying of the plague, and I asked him to turn her.”
“Why didn’t you just turn her?” Sookie questioned.
“I’ve asked myself that same question many times over the years,” I shared. “I was captivated by Nora’s courage, and I could tell that she was beautiful, even though she was being ravaged by her disease. And I was certainly old enough to be a maker when I found her, but I just didn’t feel compelled to be her creator.” I laughed a little. “Actually, I’ve never felt compelled to make a vampire child.”
“Pam?” she asked.
“Pam was a madam at a brothel. She learned what I was, but showed no fear of me. One night after we’d had sex, she slit her wrists and forced my hand.”
“So you turned her in order to save her life?”
I chuckled. “Ironic—isn’t it.”
“Yeah—but Pam is stubborn,” Sookie said with a smirk. “I can see her doing almost anything to get what she wants.”
I nodded. “And—without doubt—she has been an excellent and loyal progeny—despite the beginning.” I moved forward and gently laid Nora down upon the grass next to the grave that already held the decaying body of Sookie’s grandmother. There was a shovel nearby; I recognized it as being from Sookie’s home.
“She wouldn’t mind?” I found myself asking inexplicably as I gestured toward the grave.
“No,” Sookie said. “In a strange way, Nora’s family.”
I felt my eyebrow shooting up in question.
Sookie shrugged. “That day in the cubby—you said that we’d be one. And if we are, then Nora is my family, just as much as Gran is yours.”
I shook my head. “But you,” I stopped mid-sentence, not able to finish my thought.
“I know I did,” she said, seeming to know what I had been intending to say.
We stared at each other for a while, her standing on the opposite side of her grandmother’s grave and me still crouching down next to Nora’s remains.
I wasn’t sure what to say to her. I didn’t want to admit aloud just how much her multiple rejections had wounded me. I didn’t want to tell her that we’d begun a blood bond in the cubby—the most sacred kind of link that vampires could make. I didn’t want to tell her how much her emotions—and my own—had rattled uncomfortably through me since we’d begun that bond. And I certainly didn’t want her to know that every cell in my being thirsted to complete our bond. I pushed back all those thoughts—thoughts that betrayed my vulnerability to her. Instead, I let my anger at her mixed messages flow.
“You fucked and took blood from another! And he has had your blood,” I said bitterly. “I can smell his blood in you—along with Bill’s and mine.”
Sookie sighed loudly, though her own anger didn’t flare up as I’d thought—or maybe hoped—it would. My own anger was immediately deflated a little because of her calm reaction.
“Eric,” she began evenly, “when did you last make a mistake?”
I could think of a few moves I should have made differently—a few steps I should have taken to better ensure Nora’s, Pam’s, Willa’s, and Tara’s safety.
“Yesterday,” I admitted. “I thought Bill could save Nora. I was even willing to entertain the notion that he was a god.” I shook my head in disgust. “I told him that I believed in him.”
“But his blood didn’t heal her,” Sookie said sadly. She reached for the shovel, but stopped just short of grabbing it. “Listen—it might not mean anything to you, but Bill didn’t tell me Nora was dying. He just said that he needed Warlow to try to help you, Pam, Tara, and Jessica avoid the fate in his vision. If I would have known that Nora was near death, I would have hurried—instead of,” she stopped.
“Instead of?” I asked, feeling my rancor building again. “Did you feel the need to fuck him before you brought him back to this realm? Is that why he was there too late to try to save my sister?”
This time, her anger did swell, and she glared at me through narrowed eyes. That was more fucking like it!
“If you must know—I fucked him yesterday, Eric! I fucked him because my life felt like it was no longer mine, and as fucked up as it seems, I was trying to take control for once!”
“Well—how the fuck did that work out?” I yelled.
“About as well as it always does!” she yelled back. I watched as her shoulders slumped in defeat and her anger deflated.
“Sorry, Gran,” she muttered under her breath as she glanced at the headstone. Before I could ask what she was sorry for, she continued speaking, though her voice was once more calm. “This morning, I left Warlow and returned here alone. I came back to comfort a friend whose husband died just yesterday. Bill found me at their home and told me about his vision of the future. He asked me to bring him Warlow, and as soon as I’d told my friend goodbye, I came back here.”
“Here?” I asked, my tone also evening out.
“This cemetery is some kind of conduit to a fairy place, though it can’t be the fairy world itself because there are no big time jumps. It’s where I took Warlow after he saved my life yesterday.”
My fury and fear spewed forth, and I found myself standing directly in front of Sookie in the blink of an eye.
To her credit, she didn’t recoil at all. No wonder I was enthralled by her!
“Who tried to kill you?” I asked as icy terror shot through my veins. I had lost Godric. I had lost Nora. But I could NOT lose her. I was done losing people I loved.
“It’s a long story,” she sighed.
“Then give me the short version,” I demanded.
Clearly, Eric has some “mixed feelings” when it comes to Sookie (and a lot of other things). But I love it when Eric is rational and not rash—when he uses that beautiful brain of his to figure out the best solution to a problem. He—like Sookie—also tries to fight his “scary” feelings. But I certainly don’t want to portray the Viking as too “soft” and “sensitive.” I hope I’m doing him justice.
FYI: The title of this chapter is from Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” speech. 😉
13 thoughts on “Chapter 04: The Mortal Coil
1. Wonderful update –of course, we won’t get this kind of interaction between E/S on TB; that’s why we hang on to wonderful writers like you.
Although, I have to say that in this last episode while Bill was pontificating an planning and waiting for Warlow and Sookie –Eric just did what he had to do –took the blood from a half fae (Andy’s daughter) to use as the “key” to get into the Fae pond area, and then nearly drain Warlow so he could daywalk an bring havoc on VampCamp. Bill talks; Eric does –and that’s why he’s the friggin’ Viking!
Love it!
2. Loving it! Can’t wait for more. If only this could be the actual events we watched. This is so much better and more satisfying.
3. Awesome chapter – loved how Eric was raging, but calmly planning and plotting. He and Sookie needed to have that talk, and even though there are volumes of things left for them to hash out and resolve, they both can at least talk to each other now. I can’t wait for Sookie to give Eric the bundle.
See also: Eric still loves her! Nanner nanner nanner (to True Blood)!!!
4. loved the update… and damn if you didn’t stop in a perfect spot, damnit all to hell i will have to wait until tomorrow to find out what she is going to tell him….but seriously the angst he is showing is awesome and his feelings are coming out in droves and she is finally reciprocating…. damn i don’t know if i will be able to wait…. ah hell. until the next post… on pins and needles Kristie
5. Such a fantastic chapter! I’d love to see something like this on TB, although I have a feeling we may seem something similar…Thanks for another compelling one, kat! Til the next one!
6. I know I’ve already commented. However, I had to say that this is the best Eric POV I’ve ever read. Fu-cking awesome.
7. I think you always do Eric justice 🙂
I doubt envy the position Eric is in. Sookie really has put him through the ringer, but even still, he loves her.
Oh the angst! But you are dealing with it beautifully.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40070 | Recreational Marijuana
Illinois is poised to begin licensing scores of new dispensaries now that the General Assembly has voted to legalize the possession of recreational cannabis effective January 1, 2020.
On May 31, after rounds of spirited debate in both houses, the House of Representatives passed House Bill 1438 by a 66-47 margin. Championed by Sen. Heather
Get ready, Las Vegas… Within a matter of months, residents and visitors to Las Vegas, Nevada will be able to consume marijuana in City approved “social use venues” (the “SUVs”).
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, the Las Vegas City Council approved Bill Number 2018-61 (the “Ordinance”), which allows the consumption of |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40076 | 2018 Honda Africa Twin
2018 Honda Africa Twin launched in India For Rs. 13.23 lakh
2018 Honda Africa Twin: The Adventure begins...!
Due to growing demand for the premium-adventure bikes, the auto companies are now focusing on this segment. The companies are looking to get a bigger pie in the sub-1000cc segment. Honda recently launched the 2018 Honda Africa Twin at Rs 13.23 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi).
2018 Honda Africa Twin
2018 Honda Africa Twin
However, Honda will produce the Africa Twin in limited numbers, of which India will get only 50 units. Honda claims that a few lucky winners will also get a chance to watch a MotoGP race in person.
2018 Honda Africa Twin Price:
However, the 2018 Honda Africa Twin costs Rs. 33,000 more than the 2017 version which comes to Rs. 13.23 lakh. The bike offers the Throttle-By-Wire (TBW) system. It also gets the extended Honda Selectable Torque Control (HSTC) system with 7 levels. Furthermore, the earlier TSTC version offered only three levels with an option to turn off the system. However, the new system has seven levels of control.
2018 Honda Africa Twin
2018 Honda Africa Twin
Level 1 is for aggressive off-road riding and Level 7 is for more control on the slippery & wet surface. There is also an option to completely turn off the HSTC. There are also three levels available to control the engine power and engine braking under different riding conditions. The engine gets an update with a new air-box and exhaust internals to improve mid-range response and sound quality.
2018 Honda Africa Twin Engine & Power:
The 2018 Africa Twin uses the same 999.11cc parallel-twin engine that produces 87bhp and 9.49kgm. The bike features Honda’s Dual Clutch Technology (DCT) which comes with three modes i.e. D, S, and MT. Apart from these riding modes, there is also a ‘USER’ mode. It allows the riders to completely take control and stop the electronic intervention. Also, they can set it as per their preferences in the ‘USER’ mode.
2018 Honda Africa Twin side view
2018 Honda Africa Twin side view
2018 Honda Africa Twin Features:
Other add-ons include a redesigned LED instrument console. It displays the riding modes, tachometer, speedometer, fuel level, and gear position indicator etc. The bike gets Twin Lamp LED Headlight with AHO (Always Headlight On) function. The suspension comprises 45mm Showa cartridge-type inverted telescopic fork at the front while a Pro-Link mono-shock with gas-charged damper at the rear. The braking duties are carried out by 310mm ‘wave’ style, twin floating front discs with Nissin 4-pot radial calipers with ABS. The rear disc is a 256mm ‘wave’ style with a 1-pot caliper. The rider can turn off the ABS while off-roading.
The Africa Twin is the largest capacity motorcycle which Honda brought and assembled in India. It takes on the likes of BMW F850 GS and Triumph Tiger 800. The bike offers only the GP Red color theme and is on sale across 22 Wing World dealerships. However, with only 50 units allotted to India, you have to be really lucky to get one.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40079 | De la Guardia
Song Visualization: Working at Perfekt
Can you study a song’s structure without ever hearing it? Indeed you can. By using different methods to visualize the audio in a song, one can see not only which sections are quiet or loud, but also differentiate between the sonic textures in different sections.
The video above shows the song structure of Working at Perfekt, my favorite song from Geddy Lee’s solo album My Favorite Headache. Interestingly, it was created entirely without listening to the song! In this post, I’ll explore different ways to visualize music, one of which (shown in the video above) allows you to see a song’s structure at a glance without even hearing it.
For the first song visualization, here’s the song’s waveform.
It’s clear there are two quiet sections at around 1:00 and 2:10, but it’s difficult to see much else. Sound amplitude might be more informative. Raw and smoothed amplitude are shown below.
This view shows some variation that was hidden in the waveform, but it’s not enough to get a clear picture of where one section ends and another begins. I’ll try the spectrogram next, which plots the strength of various frequencies over time.
Now we can finally see some of the song’s finer structure. The lower frequencies from the drums and bass are clumped together at the bottom, while the higher frequencies of the voice are around the middle. The sharp vertical lines are drum hits that span the frequency spectrum from low to high. Now, in addition to the quiet points we could see earlier, there are regions which seem more or less dense, like from 0:35 to 0:50, for instance. This section looks similar to the one centered on 2:00.
In any case, I expect there are still better visualizations of song structure, like the chromagram below, which plots the strength of the 12 chromatic notes instead of raw frequencies.
This provides a much clearer view of the song, as it’s basically a simplified form of standard musical notation. Though this is probably sufficient for segmenting a song, there are still a few other options to explore. The next image compares each beat in the song to every other.
Bright spots indicate beats that are similar. Each beat is compared to itself along the diagonal from the top left to the bottom right. These points are the brightest as a result. To compare two points, at 2:00 and 3:00, say, you’d travel along the x-axis to 2:00 and then down the y-axis to 3:00. The plot is symmetric (since order doesn’t matter in this comparison), so you could also find the same thing by going down the y-axis to 2:00 and then right along the x-axis to 3:00. Since this plot repeats every comparison twice, it can be split in half without losing any information - as shown below.
There’s plenty of information here, but the bottom of the figure seems most informative. This is where moments are compared to their immediate neighbors. For the first thirty seconds of the song (bottom left), there’s a triangular patch with a repeating pattern. Then, the pattern changes - though there’s still structure there. Let me zoom in on that.
After seeing these patterns in detail, I feel pretty confident in separating one section from another. Below, I’ve drawn borders around the sections I think are distinct.
I can also do the same for the entire song.
I think the bottom triangles are most interesting, so I’ll ignore everything else.
Now that I’ve turned the song into a few patterned triangles, it’s fairly easy to see which sections are which. I’ll label them below.
For anyone trying to cover this song, it looks like there are around 5 or 6 distinct parts to this song, though some of these are fairly short. There are really only 4 distinct parts of reasonable length - the ones shown in black, red, purple, and turquoise. The black section occurs 3 times, the red section 4 times, the purple 3 times, and the turquoise section only once.
This sort of analysis is a nice first step in looking at song structure, though there are plenty of improvements to make, and many more musical questions to answer!
Problems with this analysis
It’s useful to point out areas for expansion or improvement for the future, so here are a few problems and opportunities.
1. This post only looks at global structure, but doesn’t explain what’s good about the song or why anyone should like it.
2. Only large patterns were considered. There are many small patterns too - within a chorus or solo, say.
3. It’s hard to comment on a piece of music without listening to it. It would be great to have a closer connection with text and audio. Perhaps a video is better for this purpose, because commentary can be alternated with the song itself.
4. Transitions between sections were found manually. This might be automated. Audio segmentation is a well-researched problem.
5. Transitions are interesting in their own right. How are different sections connected?
6. I should post a short explanation of the code involved.
7. The different views of the song should be put near each other so you can see how sections are represented in each image.
8. I looked only at the connections between beats that were near each other. I could also do this for beats that are farther apart. This helps to show repetitions of a particular section throughout the song.
9. The beat-finding algorithm was used to segment the data into small chunks, but, since no beats were found at the end of the song (because there literally weren’t any drum beats), that data is missing entirely. I could fix this so data is available for the whole song.
10. The line separating one section and another is slightly arbitrary. There are often transition periods that sound different from the sections they connect, but they’re lumped into one or the other to avoid having many short sections.
11. I manually matched sections that were similar. This could be automated. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40089 | Tag Archives: reading
Releasing your inner nanna
I have an admission of sorts to make and it has nothing to do with Geek Pride Day today. No. This confession relates to my interests and joys and perhaps my fears as well.
I’m becoming an old woman.
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Focus Pocus
At first I blamed the end of the year and its traditional tiredness, but no, my words just aren’t binding lately. Sure, I sense guilt and a desire to write, but nothing translates. So instead of pushing it, here are some random bits and pieces that have been billowing…
* I love lists and there are so many things I like about this interview on them, featuring the rather brilliant Umberto Eco. The mental image of his 70 meter hallway dedicated to literature, which only houses around 50,000 books, blows my mind. Just slightly.
* I’ve been writing a lot lately, you know, the old school way. There’s something about that soft scratch of a pencil on paper that romances me. Wolf starts kindergarten soon (no, let’s not talk about it) and I wonder whether an early introduction to technology will rob him of this. And whether it will really matter.
* Everyone seems to be getting tattoos these days, with the exception of those pesky-to-remove inky eyelid kinds. And although they’re probably considered mainstream, I’m still struck when I see one that is aesthetically quite becoming or just plain cool… yes, I thought of you my friend.
* I love the movies. Love. I adore sitting in the theater after the film has finished and reading the credits, the playlist, etc, but am rebelling against the hype of Avatar. Won’t/can’t do it. No.
* I have a hole in one of my back teeth. It’s not a small one either and seems to be getting bigger. My tongue is a bit obsessed with exploring it. I have health insurance and no real excuse… just keep forgetting. I know, it’s bad.
I do love him
“I don’t wish to touch hearts. I don’t even want to affect minds very much. What I really want to produce is that little sob in the spine of the artist-reader.”
Vladimir Nabokov |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40107 | DP7164 A Theory of Systemic Risk and Design of Prudential Bank Regulation
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya
Publication Date: February 2009
Keyword(s): Bank regulation, Capital adequacy, Crisis, Risk-shifting, Systemic risk
JEL(s): D62, E58, G21, G28, G38
Programme Areas: Financial Economics
Systemic risk is modeled as the endogenously chosen correlation of returns on assets held by banks. The limited liability of banks and the presence of a negative externality of one bank?s failure on the health of other banks give rise to a systemic risk-shifting incentive where all banks undertake correlated investments, thereby increasing economy-wide aggregate risk. Regulatory mechanisms such as bank closure policy and capital adequacy requirements that are commonly based only on a bank?s own risk fail to mitigate aggregate risk-shifting incentives, and can, in fact, accentuate systemic risk. Prudential regulation is shown to operate at a collective level, regulating each bank as a function of both its joint (correlated) risk with other banks as well as its individual (bank-specific) risk. |
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5:17 AM
Hi, everybody.
@students what's up?
chillin', you?
Doing my daily Duolingo exercises (Russian and Spanish).
Thinking about coupled oscillators in the back of my mind :-)
Wow! learning two languages at once? while thinking about physics?
5:26 AM
Nah I learned Spanish a long time ago. I just use Duolingo to not forget it.
(multitasking obviously works for you :-)
Learned Russian in college. Also trying to not forget that one. Fortunately we just hired a guy who speaks both Spanish and Russian better than I do :-)
Heh, actually I'm not so good at multitasking. Take for example this chat conversation... I'm definitely not learning Russian right now :-)
5:29 AM
Not sure I've seen you around here before. New?
just asked my first question
wanna see?
Sure. Looks like your user profile doesn't appear yet and I don't feel like trying the SQL interface.
Q: Did Cambridge change their BSc policy for Ramanujan?
asked it after watching the movie "the man who knew infinity"
5:33 AM
Are you a student?
@students Good movie?
Math student?
excellent movie, imho
6:00 AM
It appears that ramanujan was at cambridge when russell and whitehead were working on Principia mathematica.
@students skullpatrol? Nah, you're not really new. ;)
6:19 AM
@students FWIW, having socks is fine. But being misleading about it is not. Please avoid this in the future.
6:33 AM
@DanielSank Is Duolingo good?
7:03 AM
@Blue Yes.
1 hour later…
8:12 AM
@DanielSank I see. Should probably use it to learn German (gotta decipher a few German lectures). :)
Deciphering spoken German would be slightly harder I guess.
8:35 AM
Evening boys
2 hours later…
10:39 AM
I don't understand in a quantum computer you have qubits where a qubit can be any probability between 0 and 1, but when exactly in the process does it's actual value gets determined. If the polarization is random, then the quantum computer is nothing but a machine spitting random probabilities between 0 and 1???
10:52 AM
The value gets determined at measurement
Same as all quantum processes
11:09 AM
A network of black hole pair highways. must update that into my scifi
1 hour later…
12:27 PM
@Blue I tried using it for spanish a while back and it was pretty terrible.
It seems like the kind of thing for making yourself not forget the language, but it doesn't quite help you understand how to structure sentences, in my opinion.
I think I used it for french too, to get a hang of some fancy grammar concepts, and it didn't work for that either.
However, if you just want to build a vocabulary (e.g. for understanding lectures), I think it may be OK.
@NovaliumCompany Not quite. You'll not understand it (for certain sense of "understand"), no matter how hard you try, until you pick up some linear algebra. :)
It has decent provisions for learning how to understand what people are speaking.
12:33 PM
@Chair Oh, that's not what I need then. :/ I want to learn a couple of languages from scratch.
From what you're saying, it appears to be more of a brush-up tool. :)
Yeah, it's pretty much just a brush-up tool, IMO.
Or maybe that method of teaching is just different from the way I learned french and spanish. But I don't like that way as much
However, my skill with those two languages doesn't say much for that pedagogy :P
12:51 PM
@NovaliumCompany You'll find some answers here:
Q: What is a qubit?
MithrandirWhat is a "qubit"? Google tells me that it's another term for a "quantum bit". What is a "quantum bit" physically? How is it "quantum"? What purpose does it serve in quantum computing? Note: I'd prefer an explanation that is easily understood by laypeople; terms specific to quantum computing sho...
...but I doubt any of them will be satisfactory for you.
Note that some of the answers are pretty misleading too.
1:08 PM
@Mithrandir: the shortest convincing description of 'a qubit' that I could give to a somewhat mathematically engaged but otherwise typical 15 year old would involve at least a one hour tutorial in physics about the double-slit experiment, the Stern-Gerlach experiment, and/or the Mach-Zehnder experiment. I'd be tempted to introduce vectors at the very least to talk about coordinates on the Bloch sphere. Precisely how I'd go about it would require careful thought and planning, and laying down some physics education to explain what 'quantumness' even consists of. It's no small task IMO. — Niel de Beaudrap Jun 19 '18 at 21:02
Niel's comment is on point. I'd too start with something like "Qubits are elements of two dimensional complex Hilbert spaces (define HS and "complex"). Then cite experiments to answer questions on why physicists really chose that mathematical structure. Then we'd discuss what measurement "does" rather than what measurement "is" (the latter is open to interpretation).
But yeah, there exists no no-math explanation for this. If you want real clarity, you need to resort to math.
2 hours later…
2:43 PM
can mathjax be really installed easily?
3:06 PM
@CaptainBohemian Where do you want to install it?
@Blue here.
I mean google chrome. I think Microsoft Edge doesn't work with Mathjax bookmark.
clicking start ChatJax and render MathJax in math.ucla.edu/~robjohn/math/mathjax.html leads to blank webpages.
3:22 PM
@CaptainBohemian Well, you need to drag it to the bookmark bar.
it's like it works now. not sure if it will work forever or just temporarily.
@Blue that can't be dragged.
@CaptainBohemian Do you see "render MathJax" or "start ChatJax" on your Chrome bookmark bar?
I find it needs to click that bookmark every time I go to the chatroom to render all LaTeX commands.
@CaptainBohemian Yes, that's true.
it's not as easy as I origially imagined. I wonder why people often type so many LaTeX commands here.
3:34 PM
An easier option would be to install the Chrome extension or Tampermonkey script.
For those, you'll not need to click on a bookmark everytime.
> I wonder why people often type so many LaTeX commands here.
I use it because MathJax is easier to read than mathematical expressions written using ASCII.
well, I often see physics chat and math chat are full of LaTeX commands. So I considered they are easy to type and read.
Well, they are easy to type and read.
You get used to typing MathJax quickly, over time.
but there is no shortcut keyword. so how do I know how to type $\gamma^\alpha$ if I am not sure how to spell them?
also, I don't know the LaTeX commands of a lot of math symbols.
3:40 PM
It's generally assumed that you do know the names and commands corresponding to those symbols. If you don't, you can ask here; someone will probably help you out. There are also some good references like:
Q: MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference
MJD(Deutsch: MathJax: LaTeX Basic Tutorial und Referenz) To see how any formula was written in any question or answer, including this one, right-click on the expression it and choose "Show Math As > TeX Commands". (When you do this, the '$' will not display. Make sure you add these. See the next p...
Almost every MathJax command you'll ever need is summarized on that page. ^
There's also Detexify.
In the past, physics forum chat room can render LaTeX commands automatically without needing to install anything.
@CaptainBohemian Well, Stack Exchange refused to add it from their end.
(For reasons...which never made much sense to me.)
A: Any chance of MathJax in chat?
Shog9This request was discussed by the team on April 9th, 2014. The potential rendering cost would be such that it would need to be a per-room and per-user option; this would then create a situation where users would potentially never be sure how their messages would look to other readers - in other w...
4:09 PM
do I also need to install mathjax and click that bookmark every time when typing LaTeX commands in main sites?
In the chatrooms, yes
Mathjax is enabled on most of the sites that require it.
I mean not chat rooms, but the places to ask questions.
@CaptainBohemian No
4:28 PM
@Blue does your ASCII mean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII?
@CaptainBohemian Yes
@Blue I have never learnt this until you tell me just now,
5:28 PM
A: How to preserve electronics (computers, iPads and phones) for hundreds of years
LSerniTL;DR You cannot. You need purpose-built items, with specially designed components and maybe even ad hoc designs (PSUs without electrolytic capacitors, etc.), capable of withstanding extreme cold. Otherwise, there are several chemo-physical processes that would require to be halted. Batteries...
This was enlightening for me. :)
@Blue where do you have chance to use ASCII now? Aren't these ancient codings?
5:53 PM
@CaptainBohemian ASCII is a subset of UNICODE so it's used in every Windows computer.
6:07 PM
@ZeroTheHero so am I correct in that "an infinite-dimensional representation of a Lie group" means the bundle realizing the representation is infinite-dimensional? Because your example infinite-dimensional Hilbert space is just a bundle over a spacetime manifold.
@CaptainBohemian I was actually referring to the ASCII character set (IIRC it has ~180 characters). In fact, MathJax is far easier to read even if you compare it with mathematical expressions written using Unicode (which has ~137k characters).
@JohnRennie so who use UNICODE now? Windows computer programmers?
@CaptainBohemian all text in Windows is UNICODE. This text I'm writing right now is encoded in UNICODE.
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium, and as of March 2019 the most recent version, Unicode 12.0, contains a repertoire of 137,993 characters covering 150 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets and emoji. The character repertoire of the Unicode Standard is synchronized with ISO/IEC 10646, and both are code-for-code identical. The Unicode Standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an...
@CaptainBohemian For instance, $\gamma^\alpha$ looks much better than 𝛾^α. :)
6:24 PM
@Blue can one write the latter in formal articles like published papers or textbooks? I have never seen published papers or textbooks writing math symbols in that way. That must be very awkward to read when a ton of math formulas and equations are put together. I do have seen someone using Word to type thesis, in which math symbols look very ugly compared to those typed by LaTeX.
> can one write the latter in formal articles like published papers or textbooks?
No, that's pretty much frowned upon these days (even in the 80s or 90s I don't think that would have been acceptable).
I doubt you'd be able to get any physics paper with mathematical expressions written using Unicode characters published in any legitimate journal.
so I asked who use UNICODE nowadays. Are only Window computer programmers using them?
what do you think the text you're typing into this chat is encoded in?
Unicode is not specific to Windows, it's the standard for encoding text nowadays
@CaptainBohemian You probably have a misconception about what "encoding" means...
Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system. Depending on the abstraction level and context, corresponding code points and the resulting code space may be regarded as bit patterns, octets, natural numbers, electrical pulses, etc. A character encoding is used in computation, data storage, and transmission of textual data. "Character set", "character map", "codeset" and "code page" are related, but not identical, terms. Early character codes associated with the optical or electrical telegraph could only represent a subset of the characters used...
It's hard to answer your question "...who use(s) UNICODE nowadays?" unless you define what you mean by "use(s)".
3 hours later…
9:45 PM
> In the 16 months since the result was published in Nature, several groups of physicists have tried to understand the nature of these quantum scars. Some believe that the discovery might herald a new category for how quantum particles interact and behave — one that defies physicists’ assumptions that such a system follows an inexorable march toward thermalization.
> Despite some initial skepticism of Papić’s analysis, Lukin, along with Wen Wei Ho, a physicist at Harvard, and others, then made the link to quantum scarring more explicit in a paper published in January. They identified a classical way to describe the state of the 51-atom system as a point in abstract space. As the system’s state changes, the point moves around.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40131 | The Power of Jesus Name!
I freely and openly confess unto the Lord with Thanksgivings the abundance of knowledge and understanding given to me. As I enter into His Gates, I bring to my lips eternal praises which leads me into his court. For God’s Word is a guide to entering in His presence and I shall follow it not only in this age, but the age to come. We are being prepared for not only the work in this age, but being refined for greater work. Always remember that we have been given the Word and the Word was with God in the Beginning and the Word was God and through the Word all things were Created and that Word is Jesus. For the Mysteries of God are being revealed in this season. We it is written we may not know the time, but the season shall be shown to those who are discerning. I, being one who has committed my life to Christ will share all I know, for we are at war with the unseen and it is now time for the Children of God to be equipped. For the time I have been given may be short on this earth, but I am not ignorant of the things to come after, so I am pressed to give what I know for human sake as my time with you in this life is coming to a close. We are given a command, “Do not Fear!” this is not advice, but a Command! For fear comes to kill, steal and destroy and do you not know the Father of fear is Satan? I know you have heard of Godly Fear, but this is not the same. To Fear the Lord is to be obedient and follow His ways, not for wrath, but For Love. Fear that is from Satan is disobedience, for you have be given this, “Wages of Sin is Death!” For God is not a lie, for you store up in yourselves death when you are disobedience. For Truth and light are not centered around Death as Jesus being the highest Authority has conquered death.
Today, I will give you this lesson, I pray you take it to heart and may knowledge and understanding come from it. You have read and heard that to take someone’s house, you must first bind the strong man. Now we know that our bodies are temples and within our temple lives the Holy Spirit. But it is written that no ones can serve two Masters, either he loves one or hates the other. I tell you, test the Word and see this is true. Come before The Lord and with the power of life and Death speak these things, I break the power of the Strong me over my Life in Jesus Name who is in the sit of The Holy Spirit, Only Authority I gave over my Life is Jesus and the deposit that comes from Heaven, The Holy Spirit which is From God The Father of All! I command these things be Done in Jesus Name! Break and then take Authority! With your tongue, you have the power of Life and Death. We speak Life and Rebuke death at every turn. It is Written, “Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.” Matthew 10:1 Today I leave you with this, every disease and sickness we have the power and the Authority in Jesus Name to Rebuke and be healed from. In Jesus Name, believe and take what has been freely given in Jesus Name!
“True Love is Free”
Thanksgiving: Three times I thank The Lord, For The Fullness is Found within: I Thank My God for The Morning, for it powers me with renewal! I Thank The Lord for repentance, For He Shows me the error of my ways! I Thank The Lord for Fulfillment, For He is All I Need!
Praise: Lord you are Worthy of my Praise and more, For you have saved a sinner like me. Lord, you are Conquer of Death, Whom Shall I Fear! Lord, You have Delivered me from the Evil One, Who shall I serve for the rest of my Life!
Psalm: You are Light, You are Good. When others have taken flight, In my Plight you stood. Whom shall I cling to, in my Time of Need. Valiant is My Savior, and numerous are His deeds!
“True Love is Free”
Stop Trying to Repay God with your deeds. For the Price that was paid on Calvary is a Debt paid by one Man, God in Flesh, Jesus. Nowhere does the scripture tells us we must repay the Salvation that was given to us, but Jesus does reference those who have been freed from their sins and healed who did not come back and honor him. I know The Lord has saved us from many situations and through our unfaithfulness, God has been faithful. I find that many feel like they must make deals with the Father, I be one of them, but The Spirit of God does not seek to make deals with Men, only Satan and His demons. I tell you these things so you will stop living in torment. Break anything that you have swore in oath, because it is written that man have nothing to offer to the Lord that is worth swearing on. When all said in Done, so your thanks through being more like Christ. If our only motivation to be Christian is to live a life of rules and regulations, then you are dead in religion. I found that a people will stay married, not because it is unlawful to marry another, but because they Love that person. If we are driven by Law and not the Spirit of Love, then we shall never know peace. Perfect love cast out all Fear. I still find many Believers who fear death, for death is flesh that is why we are called to Live in the Spirit. Break away from the Flesh and seek The Spirit of the Lord, for it is written, “God seeks those who will Worship him in Spirit and Truth…” I pray and Rebuke, Break and Bind that Spirit of The Law and Pray for an increase of God’s Love. You are called to be Free in Jesus Name and with Freedom comes True Love.
Prayer: Father, I thank you for your Spirit moving in this time. For many are surrounded by evil on all sides and Pray that you cover them and their family through these times. I Pray for all my brothers and sisters in Jesus Name who are trapped by religion and as they are called to worship you in Spirit and Truth, that you Lead them to true salvation. Let not one word Fall that is Called to uplift in Jesus Name, Amen!
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 The Seduction of Idleness
I have seen Spiritual Attacks take on many different forms, but none so destructive as Idleness. Idleness at it Root has kept many Believers from stepping fully into their Calling and Destiny. We must start to understand that one part of idleness is from someone who is not willing, but another part is a deceptive Spirit that keeps you this way. There will always be a Slave and Master relationship in your life. It is Written, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” This reference goes far beyond just money, the Root of Idleness shows us that either you are working hard to serve the Lord or in your Idleness working hard waiting for God’s Plan to happen for your life. Both on the Outside may look the same, but at their Root are two radically different elements. I know of a young man in the Lord, love the Father with all his heart, but is always looking for a Job. 3 years running and for some reason or another cannot find employment. I spoke to him and asked about what kind of work he was seeking and his answer was anywhere that is hiring, but really wants a Job with someone doing something for the Church. He had received a Word from someone that if he Worked for God or got a job working with someone in the Church, all his finances will be taking care of. Sounds like a great Word, but in the end, it is destructive. Ambition to Work for God is great, but Satan can use that to make you forgo hard work to try and see that Plan come to pass. If you read what Paul wrote, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” and He was talking about general labor, had no refers to preaching. We are all called to work in God’s Kingdom, but did not be misled in the notion that hard work in this world should be overlooked. There is a blessing that is missed when you do not pursue Hard work. I find the lying Spirits keep people this place and you miss Rebuke that Spirit in Jesus Name and Go Forth and find a Job. I have seen many for are ashamed at where they are at and find many excuses, but in the end, you should not let that lying Spirit be master over you, For God’s Word is the only thing that Shall rule over us in Jesus Name!
Prayer: Father, today I pray that you open our eyes to your truths. I know you have given your children special favor for those who seek to serve you, but let us not wait in idleness, but seek what you have appointed for us in Jesus Name, Amen!
Day 549 Romans 5:1-10
Thanksgiving: I Thank The Lord for Fasting, For we are called to starve the Flesh to Feed the Spirit! I Thank The Lord for Prayer, For we who live by Faith know what ever is asked for in Jesus Name Shall Manifest! I Thank The Lord for Trust, For our God did not give us a spirit of shame!
Prayer: Father, I Feel Lead by The Spirit to Pray for all those who are dealing with the spirit of shame. I Rebuke that spirit in the Name of Jesus! I pray for all my Brothers and Sister in Christ who feel they are not forgiven in Jesus Name! It is written, ‘Perfect Love Shall Cast out all fear!” as Christ is Our Hope and hope does not put us to shame! In Jesus Name, We shall live no longer with Shame!
Day 519 Matthew 7:1-5
Thanksgiving: I Thank the Lord for Restoration, For Only He has the power to bring back what has been stolen! I Thank the Lord for Persistence, For even an unjust Man will hear your petition, How much more will God! I Thank the Lord for Mercy, For we miss always remember that under God’s court we have been forgiven and called to forgive those of lesser offenses!
Prayer: Father, As it is the flesh that makes a man Judge, I pray that the Spirit moves us to Repent. For we have all been forgiven a debt by your Grace through Jesus Christ and called to Forgive and we all have been Forgiven in Jesus Name, Amen!
Day 497 Acts 7:1-60
Thanksgiving: I Thank you Lord for Faith, for knowledge can not understand the depth of your power! By faith we are given Authority over beings who were made before us! By Faith we are acquitted of all sin’s and brought into redemption! By Faith, we were destine for Hell fire, but now welcome into the Body of Christ! I give thanks daily for the Blessings you have bestowed upon your Children!
It is Written, “Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?” To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran. ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’ “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living. He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child. God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’ Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. “Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace. “Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food. When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit. On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family. After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all. Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died. Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money. “As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased. Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’ He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die. “At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family. When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’ “But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons. “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look. “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’ “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness. “This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’ He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us. “But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt–we don’t know what has happened to him!’ That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made. But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: ” ‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel? You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile’ beyond Babylon. “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, who enjoyed God’s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who built a house for him. 48 “However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: ” ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things?’ “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him– you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.” When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he fell asleep.” Acts 7:1-60
Prayer: Father, I Pray that you give us strength like Stephen, To be lead by the Spirit and through the Spirit speak the Word of Truth, even when death is upon us, I pray these things in Jesus Name, Amen!
Day 493 John 13:1-17
Thanksgiving: I Thank the Lord for Servitude, For as the time of His Crucifixion approached, Jesus lower himself even more to clean those who He Loved so Much! I thank the Lord that we are called to serve others in His Name and continue to lower ourselves before him!
Prayer: Father, I Pray Daily that we are your Children remember always that we are called to serve and always lower ourselves before others in Jesus Name, Amen!
Day 486 Mark 2:1-12
Thanksgiving: I Thank the Lord for Determination, For there is no obstacle that can keep us from the healing power of the Lord. I Thank the Lord for faith that is able to overcome the Impossible! By His Love, we are able to do all things!
Prayer: Father, I Pray that we as your Children continue to seek forgiveness that brings healing, even in the face of ridicule in Jesus Name, Amen!
Day 485 Matthew 18:21-35
Thanksgiving: I Thank The Lord for Forgiveness, For we all have been given a chance to seek repentance for debts that we can not repay. I Thank the Lord for making a way for us to be redeemed from our wick ways. For no man is perfect and we all fall short of the Glory of the Lord!
Prayer: Father, I Pray that all soul ties of unforgiveness be Broken over your People in this Hour in Jesus Name! For we can not hold unto debts that are less than what you have repaid for us in Jesus Name, Amen!
Day 481 Mark 5:24-34
Thanksgiving: I Thank the Lord for Frailty, For God has called to unite himself to we who are but flesh and bone! I Thank the Father that His Spirit has the Power to Heal our weakness flesh! For it is by Faith that all things are possible!
Prayer: I Pray Father that you continue to show your Children that even though we were made lower than Angels, we have direct access to your healing power in Jesus Name, Amen! |
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Happy Halloween with Exoskeletons
Happy Halloween! CIMI staff love to wear costumes, but not just on Halloween! We wear them every time we teach squid dissection. You can often see us dressing up like fairies, senior citizens, mad scientists, pirates, and even ghostly skeletons, which brings me to my next point. Did you know crustaceans, like crabs and lobsters, participate in Halloween every day? They wear skeletons on their outsides all the time! Unlike a costume or an internal human skeleton, called an endoskeleton, crustaceans have external skeletons, called exoskeletons. Exoskeletons are made up of chitin, a compound rich with calcium. This is similar to keratin, which comprises your nails and hair. Exoskeletons are tough, like armor, and relatively inelastic, so much like buying a new costume when you outgrow your old one, crustaceans must shed, or molt, their exoskeletons as they grow in a process scientists call ecdysis.
Ecdysis can be a pretty scary process to undergo. It is comparable to taking off your wetsuit without being able to use your hands! When an organism begins ecdysis, it enlarges the skin cells beneath its old exoskeleton and begins secreting calcium to form its new one. It then pumps in seawater to force the old exoskeleton away from its tissues, splitting it in half at the base of the carapace, or the upper body, and the tail, so it can escape. Now here comes the really scary part… In addition to shedding their outer covering, crustaceans must also shed their eye surfaces, throat and gut linings! Crustaceans have grinding teeth in their stomachs, called their gastric mill, that they use to break down their food. Since these grinding teeth are composed of chitin, the crustacean must shed them to grow a larger gastric mill for a larger stomach. It is possible during this tricky molting process to accidentally tear of an eye or a limb, or get stuck all together! How terrifying! Fortunately, crustaceans have the ability to regenerate, or regrow, their lost appendages just for this occasion. If a crustacean loses an eye, however, they must regenerate it quickly because the hormone that prevents them from molting continuously is distributed from a gland in their eye stalk. Without an eye, and without this hormone, crustaceans are unable to cease ecdysis and perform other normal body functions. Hurry, grow it back!
Escape from an old exoskeleton can take anywhere from several minutes to a half an hour, depending on the species, size, and environmental conditions. While escaping, clawed crustaceans must dehydrate and shrink their tissues enough to pull their whole claw through a hole the size of their wrist! Once all the way out, the crustacean swells with seawater, becoming up to 15% larger in size and 40-50% heavier in weight, only to release that seawater once it is done calcifying, or hardening, its new exoskeleton. This ensures that the newly molted crustacean has formed a larger exoskeleton and provided ample growing room for the future. Often, in order to speed up calcification, the crustacean eats its old exoskeleton to reabsorb some of the calcium it put into making its old armor. This may seem ghastly, but this way, the crustacean guarantees that it has enough calcium to generate its new exoskeleton.
While the crustacean hardens its armor in the next few hours after molting, it is too soft to defend itself against predators or other larger crustaceans. Newly molted lobsters are so rubbery and squishy that they are fondly referred to by fishermen as ‘jellies.’ To prevent a fight they cannot win, crustaceans tend to molt and calcify in the safety of their burrows, whether that be a hole in the sand or a deep crevice in the rocks.
With how spooky a process ecdysis can be, it is a good thing that crustaceans molt less with age as their growth slows. This is especially true for adult females, who naturally molt less because they cannot undergo ecdysis while they are laden with eggs. While an adult male lobster will molt once a year, an adult female lobster carrying eggs will molt once every two years. Regardless of sex, crustaceans grow slower, and therefore molt less, in colder waters. It is then safe to assume that crustaceans are always hoping for a colder Halloween!
Written By: Kathy Miller
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Matplotlib - Transformations Tutorial
Like any graphics packages, Matplotlib is built on top of a transformation framework to easily move between coordinate systems, the userland data coordinate system, the axes coordinate system, the figure coordinate system, and the display coordinate system.
In 95% of your plotting, you won't need to think about this, as it happens under the hood, but as you push the limits of custom figure generation, it helps to have an understanding of these objects so you can reuse the existing transformations Matplotlib makes available to you, or create your own.
The table below summarizes some useful coordinate systems, the transformation object you should use to work in that coordinate system, and the description of that system. In the Transformation Object column, ax is an Axes instance, and fig is a Figure instance.
Data Co-ordinates
In [1]:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.patches as mpatches
x = np.arange(0, 10, 0.005)
y = np.exp(-x/2.) * np.sin(2*np.pi*x)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(x, y)
ax.set_xlim(0, 10)
ax.set_ylim(-1, 1)
• "data" ax.transData The coordinate system for the data, controlled by xlim and ylim.
• "axes" ax.transAxes The coordinate system of the Axes; (0, 0) is bottom left of the axes, and (1, 1) is top right of the axes.
• "figure" fig.transFigure The coordinate system of the Figure; (0, 0) is bottom left of the figure, and (1, 1) is top right of the figure.
• "figure-inches" fig.dpi_scale_trans The coordinate system of the Figure in inches; (0, 0) is bottom left of the figure, and (width, height) is the top right of the figure in inches.
• "display" None, or IdentityTransform() The pixel coordinate system of the display window; (0, 0) is bottom left of the window, and (width, height) is top right of the display window in pixels.
• "xaxis", "yaxis" ax.get_xaxis_transform(), ax.get_yaxis_transform() Blended coordinate systems; use data coordinates on one of the axis and axes coordinates on the other.
In [3]:
x = np.arange(0, 10, 0.005)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(x, y)
ax.set_xlim(0, 10)
ax.set_ylim(-1, 1)
xdata, ydata = 5, 0
xdisplay, ydisplay = ax.transData.transform_point((xdata, ydata))
bbox = dict(boxstyle="round", fc="0.8")
arrowprops = dict(
offset = 72
ax.annotate('data = (%.1f, %.1f)' % (xdata, ydata),
(xdata, ydata), xytext=(-2*offset, offset), textcoords='offset points',
bbox=bbox, arrowprops=arrowprops)
disp = ax.annotate('display = (%.1f, %.1f)' % (xdisplay, ydisplay),
(xdisplay, ydisplay), xytext=(0.5*offset, -offset),
xycoords='figure pixels',
textcoords='offset points',
bbox=bbox, arrowprops=arrowprops)
Axes Co-ordinates
After the data coordinate system, axes are probably the second most useful coordinate system.
Here the point (0, 0) is the bottom left of your axes or subplot, (0.5, 0.5) is the center, and (1.0, 1.0) is the top right. You can also refer to points outside the range, so (-0.1, 1.1) is to the left and above your axes. This coordinate system is extremely useful when placing text in your axes, because you often want a text bubble in a fixed, location, e.g., the upper left of the axes pane, and have that location remain fixed when you pan or zoom. Here is a simple example that creates four panels and labels them 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' as you often see in journals.
In [15]:
fig = plt.figure()
for i, label in enumerate(('A', 'B', 'C', 'D')):
ax = fig.add_subplot(2, 2, i+1)
ax.text(0.05, 0.95, label, transform=ax.transAxes,
fontsize=16, fontweight='bold', va='top')
In [5]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
x, y = 10*np.random.rand(2, 1000)
ax.plot(x, y, 'go', alpha=0.2) # plot some data in data coordinates
circ = mpatches.Circle((0.5, 0.5), 0.25, transform=ax.transAxes,
facecolor='blue', alpha=0.75)
Blended Transformations
Drawing in blended coordinate spaces that mix axes with data coordinates are extremely useful, for example, to create a horizontal span which highlights some region of the y-data but spans across the x-axis regardless of the data limits, pan or zoom level, etc. In fact, these blended lines and spans are so useful, we have built-in functions to make them easy to plot (see axhline(), axvline(), axhspan(), axvspan()) but for didactic purposes, we will implement the horizontal span here using a blended transformation. This trick only works for separable transformations, like you see in normal Cartesian coordinate systems, but not on inseparable transformations like the PolarTransform.
In [8]:
import matplotlib.transforms as transforms
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
x = np.random.randn(1000)
ax.hist(x, 30)
ax.set_title(r'$\sigma=1 \/ \dots \/ \sigma=2$', fontsize=16)
# the x coords of this transformation are data, and the
# y coord are axes
trans = transforms.blended_transform_factory(
ax.transData, ax.transAxes)
# highlight the 1..2 stddev region with a span.
# We want x to be in data coordinates and y to
# span from 0..1 in axes coords
rect = mpatches.Rectangle((1, 0), width=1, height=1,
transform=trans, color='yellow',
The blended transformations where x is in data coords and y in axes coordinates is so useful that we have helper methods to return the versions mpl uses internally for drawing ticks, tick labels, etc.
The methods are matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_xaxis_transform() and matplotlib.axes.Axes.get_yaxis_transform(). So in the example above, the call to blended_transform_factory() can be replaced by get_xaxis_transform:
**trans = ax.get_xaxis_transform()**
Plotting In Physical Units
Sometimes we want an object to be a certain physical size on the plot. Here we draw the same circle as above but in physical units. If done interactively, you can see that changing the size of the figure does not change the offset of the circle from the lower-left corner, does not change its size, and the circle remains a circle regardless of the aspect ratio of the axes.
In [10]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(5, 4))
x, y = 10*np.random.rand(2, 1000)
ax.plot(x, y*10., 'go', alpha=0.2) # plot some data in data coordinates
# add a circle in fixed-units
circ = mpatches.Circle((2.5, 2), 1.0, transform=fig.dpi_scale_trans,
facecolor='yellow', alpha=0.75)
If we change the figure size, the circle does not change its absolute position and is cropped.
In [12]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7, 2))
x, y = 10*np.random.rand(2, 1000)
# add a circle in fixed-units
facecolor='yellow', alpha=0.75)
In [14]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
xdata, ydata = (0.2, 0.7), (0.5, 0.5)
ax.plot(xdata, ydata, "o")
ax.set_xlim((0, 1))
trans = (fig.dpi_scale_trans +
transforms.ScaledTranslation(xdata[0], ydata[0], ax.transData))
# plot an ellipse around the point that is 150 x 130 points in diameter...
circle = mpatches.Ellipse((0, 0), 150/72, 130/72, angle=40,
fill=None, transform=trans)
Note: The order of transformation matters.
Here the ellipse is given the right dimensions in display space first and then moved in data space to the correct spot. If we had done the **ScaledTranslation** first, then **xdata[0]** and **ydata[0]** would first be transformed to display coordinates **([ 358.4 475.2]** on a 200-dpi monitor) and then those coordinates would be scaled by fig.dpi_scale_trans pushing the center of the ellipse well off the screen (i.e. [ 71680. 95040.]).
Using Offset Transforms To Create A Shadow Effect
Another use of ScaledTranslation is to create a new transformation that is offset from another transformation, e.g., to place one object shifted a bit relative to another object.
Typically you want the shift to be in some physical dimension, like points or inches rather than in data coordinates, so that the shift effect is constant at different zoom levels and dpi settings.
In [17]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# make a simple sine wave
x = np.arange(0., 2., 0.01)
y = np.sin(2*np.pi*x)
line, = ax.plot(x, y, lw=3, color='blue')
# shift the object over 2 points, and down 2 points
dx, dy = 2/72., -2/72.
offset = transforms.ScaledTranslation(dx, dy, fig.dpi_scale_trans)
shadow_transform = ax.transData + offset
# now plot the same data with our offset transform;
# use the zorder to make sure we are below the line
ax.plot(x, y, lw=3, color='gray',
ax.set_title('Creating a Shadow Effect with an Offset Transform')
**Note** The dpi and inches offset is a common-enough use case that we have a special helper function to create it in matplotlib.transforms.offset_copy(), which returns a new transform with an added offset. So above we could have done:
shadow_transform = transforms.offset_copy(ax.transData, fig=fig, dx, dy, units='inches')
The Transformation Pipeline
• The ax.transData transform we have been working within this tutorial is a composite of three different transformations that comprise the transformation pipeline from data -> display coordinates.
• Michael Droettboom implemented the transformations framework, taking care to provide a clean API that segregated the nonlinear projections and scales that happen in polar and logarithmic plots, from the linear affine transformations that happen when you pan and zoom.
• There is an efficiency here because you can pan and zoom in your axes which affects the affine transformation, but you may not need to compute the potentially expensive nonlinear scales or projections on simple navigation events.
• It is also possible to multiply affine transformation matrices together, and then apply them to coordinates in one step. This is not true of all possible transformations.
self.transData = self.transScale + (self.transLimits + self.transAxes)
transProjection handles the projection from the space, e.g., latitude and longitude for map data, or radius and theta for polar data, to a separable Cartesian coordinate system. There are several projection examples in the matplotlib. projections package and the best way to learn more is to open the source for those packages and see how to make your own since Matplotlib supports extensible axes and projections.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40182 | See scams in 🇪🇸 Spain
Snatch thefts
carlos 2019-04-02
This can happen in restaurants, bars, in the park while you relax. These thieves use sometimes different approaches but most of the time someone will talk with you or show you something and the other person will take your phone, bag, purse, etc. Sometimes they work as a team of 3 or 4 and they make sure your item disappear really fast. So there is no evidence if you notice a couple of seconds after. There is not much to say, I believe that in most cases you can be saved by using common sense. Carry just a few items when you go to the street. The less stuff you have with you the fewer things you need to control. Keep your stuff near you all the time. If you do this you should be ok. If you, for example, want to take a nap in the park use your backpack as a pillow. That way you can enjoy and stay safe.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40262 | Births to women receiving late or no prenatal care in the United States
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Definitions: Births that occurred to mothers who reported receiving prenatal care only in the third trimester of their pregnancy, or reported receiving no prenatal care.
Data Source: 2007-2010 Population Reference Bureau analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). 2003-2006 Child Trends analysis of NCHS Final Birth microdata files.
1) United States' total reflects the total from states using the 1989 standard birth certificate only. Starting in 2011, data for this indicator is no longer available for states that have not yet adapted the 2003 birth certificate
2) To view data for states that have adopted the 2003 revised birth certificate see the indicator named: Births to women receiving late or no prenatal care (2003 revised birth certificate).
3) Results are only reported on the KIDS COUNT Data Center when states have an entire calendar year of the 2003 Revised Birth Certificate or an entire calendar year of the 1989 Unrevised Birth Certificate. States that implement after January 1st are noted as N.A. (not available) for that year in both the revised and unrevised tables. This occurs in the following instances: 2004 Florida and New Hampshire, 2005 Vermont, and 2007 Georgia and Michigan, 2009 District of Columbia, Nevada, and Oklahoma 2010 North Carolina and Louisiana, 2011 Massachusetts and Michigan.
4) While New York State implemented the revised birth certificate in 2004, New York City did not do so until 2008. Therefore, U.S. totals for 2004 through 2007 include New York City and exclude the remainder of New York State.
Updated January 2013.
N.A. - Not available.
N.C. - Not comparable with data for states or cities using the 2003 revised birth certificate or for their own state for previous years but comparable with those using the 1989 standard birth certificate. Some states may be excluded from both tables because non-comparable questions on maternal education have been used in two different parts of the year. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40264 | Art Direction and Creativity on the Web in 2015
Listen to Andrew Clarke, Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Mall talk about art direction and creativity on the Web in this episode of the Unfinished Business podcast. I loved this episode because of the great topics and how they intersect with the flexibility and unknown future of the Web.
Published by David A. Kennedy
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40272 | An All Saints Reflection
On this All Saints day I realize that we're all going to face the time of our death. We'll leave behind the things that we can't take with us, hopefully our legacy we'll be one that perpetuates kingdom life in others.
I've thought about this many times while walking around cemeteries. Names, dates, and favorite quotes are all that we have left to tell us something about those who live there, who wait there, who rest there. But if we were to find a loved one, or a friend they'll be able to tell us more. They would give us a fuller picture of the one who now rests. Life has been lived, little can be changed once we are gone, but the stories told, the lessons taught, the priorities modeled can indeed make a lasting impact on generations.
None of those who now rest were perfect. They all had their trials and their moments of uncertainty, fear and doubt. Some of them were not great fathers or mothers, were not good at organization, others were people that we could easily forget. Yet all were called to be human, and I would ventured to say that most tried their best to make a difference large or small for the world as they knew it.
On this day we remember all who live with God, especially those who now await the resurrection. It would be easy to dismiss their humanness, forget their brokenness, and just celebrate their saintliness! In doing that we would miss out on the real challenges of living out God's reign in the world. On the real challenges of making a difference in spite of our being human.
In celebrating let us not forget our own call to "set apartness" in our world. This is not a call to perfection but a call to proclamation, a call to be agents of justice, a call to be agents of healing and wholeness for the world, a call to lean on God's Spirit in the living of our lives.
Maybe today we might reflect on what it means to be human. God's own breath in all of humanity, God's own mark. I've been thinking that saintliness today means acknowledging the humanity of others by careful listening, walking alongside, and rejecting the powers that lie, divide, and label.
The Gospel reading for today is the beatitudes from Luke 6:20-31. "Blessed are," the poor, the hungry, the hated, all of those, have a place in God's eternal kingdom. There are also warnings for those who are rich, for those who are "full," for those who have a good reputation. I guess in God's kingdom not everything is what it seems at first!
I am glad that once a year I'm reminded of my call to "saintliness." I'm also glad that we have the stories of the many before us who day by day attempted to live the life of the kingdom here on earth.
In a polarized political environment, filled with suspicion, fear, and sound bites I am reminded of the words of Jesus about the meaning of kingdom life:
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A River of Flowing Living Water
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Small rivers
Small isolated rivers
Numerous small isolated rivers
Numerous small rivers are attached to the Main River
Longing for a river
A river full of flowing living water
A river full of delights
A river filling hearts with great joy
Where can we find such river?
Through Jesus Christ
God is with us
From Him the Living water flows out
And we will never thirst.
Inspiration On: Sunday, 7 October 2012 at 11:58am
Inspiration Ends On: Wednesday, 17 October 2012 at 2:35pm
People dig the river to create attachment to the main river was the picture came to my mind initially. Then it commenced with the sentence “river attached to the river”. On Monday midnight, the other words flowed out. But the upper three lines flows out today.
The Scriptures in Psalm 36:8, Psalm 4:7 and John 4:10-11;7:38 inspires me so the above poetry is birthed out.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40278 | MATLAB® is a programming platform designed specifically for engineers and scientists. The heart of MATLAB is the MATLAB language, a matrix-based language allowing the most natural expression of computational mathematics.
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Avengers Review
Avengers is the big ticket block buster which heralds summer just like the groundhog denotes spring. An ensemble cast (of superheroes and okay actors) , it stars Hulk (angry green man aka Dr Bruce Banner /Mark Ruffalo) ,Iron Man (genius billionaire philanthropist playboy aka Tony Stark / Robert Downey Jr), Thor (an Australian looking Chris H), Loki (God of Mischief played by German looking Tom Hiddleston ), Captain America and Scarlet Johnassen and Jeremy “Hurt Locker” Renner and Samuel L Jackson. You know somethings is gotta give if the A List stars(?) in the cast is going to be longer than a plot summary.
Well Loki the bad guys strikes a deal with some other bad Guys of funnily named world called Assguard (parallel universe!) and tries to find a cube (which is all energy powerful like the Transformers 1 Cube) and in return gets an Army from the dark side (who look just like Cybertrons and Lords of the Rings orcs combined).
The Avengers after much dilly dallying, trying to emote, create bromances, tension buildup, in the end decide to give you what you came looking for- a visual feast of credible looking CGI to counter the bad guys. The scene stealer is the Hulk. He is kind of cute for a big green guy, if you dont know what I mean, see the movie!
This is American cinema at its most profoundly intellectual since the Die Hard series. and its quite entertaining, especially if you are a geeky comic book fan-boy (like me).
Summer is here and so are the super-heroes!! Unleash the popcorn.
Software Review- Google Drive versus Dropbox
Here are some notes from reviewing Google Drive vs Dropbox
1) Google Drive gives more free space upfront than Dropbox.5GB versus 2GB
2) Dropbox has a referral system 500 mb per referral while there is no referral system for Google Drive
3) The sync facility with Google Docs makes Google Drive especially useful for prior users of Google Docs.
4) API access to Google Drive is only for Chrome apps which is intriguing!
Apps will not have any API access to files unless users have first installed the app in Chrome Web Store.
You can use the Dropbox API much more easily –
See the platforms at
Choose your platform:
iOS Android Python Ruby
(though I wonder if you set the R working directory to the local shared drive for Google Drive it should sync up as well but of course be slower –
5) Google Drive icon is ugly (seriously, dude!) , but the features in the Windows app is just the same as the Dropbox App. Too similar 😉
6) Upgrade space is much more cheaper to Google Drive than Dropbox ( by Google Drive prices being exactly a quarter of prices on Dropbox and max storage being 16 times as much). This will affect power storage users. I expect to see some slowdown in Dropbox new business unless G Drive has outage (like Gmail) . Existing users at Dropbox probably wont shift for the small dollar amount- though it is quite easy to do so.
Install Google Drive on your local workstation and cut and paste your Dropbox local folder to the Google Drive local folder!!
7) Dropbox deserves credit for being first (like Hotmail and AOL) but Google Drive is almost better in all respects!
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Software Review- – Machine Learning meets the Cloud
Clojure is a dialect of Lisp
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• Fully white-box access to your datasets and models.
• Asynchronous creation of datasets and models.
• Near real-time predictions.
Please keep them secret.
All access to must be performed over HTTPS
Check out for yourself to see.
Oracle R Updated!
Interesting message from the latest R blog
• Performance Improvements: Improved performance for embedded R script execution calculations
Oracle R Distribution 2-13.2 Update Available
• The Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) on Intel chips
• The AMD Core Math Library (ACML) on AMD chips
New Economics Theories for the new Tech World
There are ways of raising money that are not evil.
But they are not perfectly fair as well.
Easter Eggs in #Rstats
A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden messagein-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer programweb pagevideo gamemoviebook, or crossword. The term was coined — according to Warren Robinett — by Atari after they were pointed to the secret message left by Robinett in the game Adventure.[1] It draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations as well as the last Russian imperial family’s tradition of giving elaborately jeweled egg-shaped creations by Carl Fabergé which contained hidden surprises
In R.
I like this
just type
and these two
on 32 bit R type
and on any version try four question marks
Perhaps the prettiest eggs are the demos in animation package.
But there is magic in asking for help on internal functions in R
Just type-
and you get the sobering thought that you probably are a R Muggle
Call an Internal Function
.Internal performs a call to an internal code which is built in to the R interpreter.
Only true R wizards should even consider using this function, and only R developers can add to the list of internal functions.
call a call expression
See Also
.Primitive, .External (the nearest equivalent available to users).
I liked that I could see the actual internal functions in svn at
The opening of the internals document floored me.
It must have been a curious year in 2003-4 when the copyright of R was held (briefly it seems) by the R Foundation and also by the R Development Core Team. (which sounds better?)
* R : A Computer Language for Statistical Data Analysis
* Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka
* Copyright (C) 1997--2012 The R Development Core Team
* Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 The R Foundation
My contribution
R help discourages for loop
Try ??for or ?for
you go into a loop till you hit escape
If you want more-just write
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Does anybody know anything at all about this?
If so, please add to the article, it's ripe for deletion being only one line, and about a year old.
--Put 10:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
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An important factor that contributes to the improvement of the business letter is the respect of styles and genres. These provide an overall structure and style which is expected to business correspondence and documentation. In addition to a general framework, vocabulary and thematic specialist idiomatic phrases used in the common vernacular of the economy for players in the trading community. These requirements are daunting and, in fact, many professionals are finding writers, especially in the early days of the written form. WhiteSmoke response to these models are their business. http://www.outsourcingresearchwriting.com
Chess Openings Guru
Excellent advice. Thanks! I'm glad you put the part about the subject-verb relationship. I need a friendly reminder now and then.
Re: Eugene's comment
I don't think anyone knows for sure how our brains are wired by default, but SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) is not specific to Western languages. Chinese (by which I include all Chinese dialects) can hardly be more different from Germanic/Romance languages, and yet it uses SVO. If Chomsky is correct about universal grammar, it is not impossible that our brains have a slight preference for SVO, since Creole languages often uses SVO. (These are grammatic languages made up by children whose parents speak almost grammarless pidgins.)
Thanks. This helped somewhat. i have to write a paper for my Honors English class using no adverbs and no adjectives.
Correction: Not 'all' brains think this way, as is your presumption. Sure, brains tutored under a language where subject comes before verb in the SVO (subject, verb, in/direct object) makes more sense to you, and many other's (including myself) have been raised under Germanic and Romantic derived languages.
This is merely an illusion. Native speakers of Japanese function primarily in a SOV format (subject object verb). To new speakers of English (from Japanese at least), "The boy the ball hits" would be an easier and more comfortable translation (needing only the words for verification, and no need to reverse the word order for comprehension).
Consider Latin (although a dead (nearly, except for college geeks) language) where the placement of the words is generally (and arguably genuinely) arbitrary, wherein the endings of such words designate their position in a grammatical structure. In Latin, you could easily find a sentence, that without rearranging the order of words, states: "the fire in Rome Nero fiddled the burning while was occuring", when the actual sentence should translate as "Nero fiddled while the fire burned Rome." Put into context the designations for sentence structure as well as the prepositions we needlessly add, ("the, in, while, was, etc.") are needless , the 1 or 2 letter endings which put such nouns, verbs, and objects (direct, or indirect) in their particular designations, make way for both their function in the statement, as well as how the subject is affecting them (to, from, with, against, around, near, using, etc. etc.). Consider this food for thought.
Further, there are African languages which function the same way (as well as Swahili, if I'm remembering my linguistics properly (which is a language very much alive)) where they add grammatical designations (Subject, Object, or Verb) into the middle of the word.
Case in point, Human brains are NOT wired this way, its just a generalized stereotype of how western language (and arguably western upbringing) exemplifies itself.
"I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in 'business writing.'"
The author says he rewrote that opening sentence a dozen times. Maybe 13 is the charm. The main idea is that he "went from being a bad writer to a good writer." That idea should be at the end of the sentence rather than the beginning.
Why? Because most readers of English most of the time expect to find the most important information at the end of the sentence, in the "stress position."
Rewrite: "After taking a one-day course in 'business writing,' I went from being a bad writer to a good writer."
Mick Gregory
There is a "Bull Fighter software put out by Deloite consultants, that is free and is used to simplify writing. Once you download it, a button appears on your Word and e-mail banner.
Just Google Bull Fighter index.
"My Chemistry professors insisted on passive voice in all lab reports."
They do this because they want you to not have a subject. That's the one time you should use passive voice. "The world was destroyed" for example.
brian rittenhouse
"...Both sentences mean the same, but it’s easier to imagine the object (the boy) before the action (the hitting)."
WOAH! Isn't the ball the object? And the boy the subject? It has been a while since I had English in school but I am pretty sure that is the way it used to shake out....maybe it has changed since I was a boy. Or maybe the 20% not included in this "good writing lesson" is how to use proper English??? Or maybe good writing goes beyond "rules"???
That aside...I do appreciate your insights here...and I think you are amazing at delivery here on your blog! Thanks
Umm, yeah, and if its going out in an email, you will lose 90% of your readers if it extends beyond a single paragraph. The will all say "my brain hurts" and "reading makes me sleepy" like Homer Simpson ODing on valium. Lets face it, when writing, youre better of treating your audience like a bunch of morons. They will appreciate your thoughfulness. Better yet, dont write. Make short video and upload it to youtube with a catchy upbeat tune running in the background.
Writing for ex-Business Majors.
Yeah, those drunken, vomit-spattered bodies we used to step over in the college dormitory every Sunday morning.
The ones who grew up to be Pointy-Haired Bosses.
I fully understand. After all, you don't prescribe antipsychotic drugs for people who don't have major thought disorders.
You don't write short except for stupid people.
isabelle dolce
I do not want to live in a world where all writing is reduced to conveying information. While simple is better for business it would be a great loss to the world of belles lettres if all writers adopted the KISS rule. Of course, not all writers are talented enough and the primary use of language is to convery ideas, but an excellent description, a rich vocabulary, a mastery of syntax and an understanding of rhetoric is a superb gift.
"Here as a boy I walked down every morning, barefoot and bearing a dented billycan. on my way to buy the day's milk from Duignan the dairyman or his stoically cheerful, big-hipped wife. Even though the sun would be long up the night's moist coolness would cling on in the cobbled yard, where hens picked their way with finical steps among hteir onw chalk-and-olive-green droppings. There was always a dog lying tethered under a leaning cart that would eye me measuringly as I went past, teetering on tuptoe so as to keep my heels out of the chicken-merd, and a grimy white cart-horse tht would come and put its head over the half-door of the barn and regard me sidelong with an amused and sceptical eye from under a forelock that was exactly the same murky shade of creamy-white as honeysuckle blossom. I did not like to knock at the farmhouse door, fearing Duignan'smother, a low-sized squarish old party who seemed fitted with a stumpy leg at each corner and who gasped when she breathed and lolled teh pale we polyp of her tongue on her lower lip, and instead I would hang back in the violet shadow of the barn to wait for Duignan or his missus to appear and save me from an encounter with the crone.
John Banville, "The Sea, pp. 38
good better best, never let 'em rest,
til your good is better, and your better best.
Now THAT piece of writing advice is free!
Indonesian (not my first language) uses the passive voice much more than active voice. In Indonesian, the form "I did this" is much less common than "This was done by me".
"Brevity is the soul of wit." - William Shakespeare
So u r kewl w/simple sh!t !!
Scott, WOW, thanks. I was wondering how to make my Blog entries shorter :-)
The object in his sentence is NOT the boy...it's the ball. The boy is the subject. So what you meant to say was that readers comprehend the active voice easier than the passive voice. http://grammar.qdnow.com/2007/03/25/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx
some confortably numb dude
"Write short sentences. Avoid putting multiple thoughts in one sentence. Readers aren’t as smart as you’d think." ... have i just been insulted?
ymal brucker
I dunno.
"All through the whole of a dull, dark, listless day in the autumn of the year, I had been travelling alone on horseback through a singularily dreary tract of country and, at length, found myself, as the shades of evening wore on, within view of the melancholy House of User."
seems more, um, interesting than:
"I arrived."
are you SURE readers aren't as smart as you think ?
Aaron Bickerton
80% is all I need right?
Ian Nastajus
AWESOME! Thankyou for putting to words the idea that objects should go before actions. My god, this simplifies my life!
Chris Benson (Asparagus Pee Guy)
I like short sentences. I also like long ones. Sometimes, it's nice to take the time to turn a phrase along the lines of "be there or risk being less than well rounded" to spouting a cliche like "be there or be square." That's the key to the famous British understatements like "I found her rather not unattractive."
Florent V.
The advice is not that bad, but I have doubts about the “The boy hit the ball” rather than “The ball was hit by the boy” thing.
You said it’s about brains. It’s not. It’s about how brains are trained, which includes language and culture.
In French, you use much more nouns and much less verbs than in English. And passive sentences (“The ball was hit by the boy”) are far more common. One of the first things you learn when you study French↔English translation is that most “This doesn’t sound quite right” situations can be solved by switching perspective… active↔passive and noun↔verb. It just works. Believe me.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40328 | This is the sink/dishwasher bay for my basement apartment. There will be a bottom and a top cabinet, corresponding approximately to below and above the green line. I want to put tile on the wall around, approximately where you can see the cement/backer board between the two green lines.
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I understand that, in situations where drywall meets cement board, you typically want to overflow drywall onto where the tiles will be as the tiles can go on drywall but it's hard to emulate a smooth surface of a drywall wall on cement board.
However, this is a little different because there will be no visible delineation, i.e. everywhere where there are no cabinets, there will be tile. So my reasoning was that by reversing the rule from the previous paragraph, I can avoid having to tape join the two substrates. However that introduces the problem of uneven transition between the two (I think the backer board is 3/8" and drywall is 1/2").
In this particular case, is it okay if the cement board overflows the drywall (green line) or should the drywall overflow on the tile substrate (as though the cabinets went below and above the red line), as is normally done?
• The cement board should also be 1/2". I've seen 1/4" also, but never 3/8. Are you sure? – isherwood Dec 5 '18 at 17:19
• I think it says 1/2 but it's really 3/8 – amphibient Dec 5 '18 at 18:04
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This is why i use Denshield for tile on walls and not cement board. It is the same thickness as the dry wall and you score and cut it the same way. – Alaska Man Dec 5 '18 at 19:46
I see no problem at all with your plan, even if there's a 1/8" thickness variation. That's not enough to tilt your cabinets substantially out of plumb. If it's a concern you can always shim behind the cabinets, since any resulting gap will be covered by the tile.
• So you're saying it's okay the way it is? – amphibient Dec 5 '18 at 18:04
• Also, do you think it will be okay to not tape the joint between the drywall and cementboard ? – amphibient Dec 5 '18 at 19:25
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The only reason I can think of to tape it would be to add stiffness. If it feels plenty stiff as it is, don't bother. – isherwood Dec 5 '18 at 19:33
• so just to confirm, you're saying it's okay if I leave it the way it is under the green scenario above, cementboard tucking under the cabinets and then no tape between it and the drywall? correct ? – amphibient Dec 5 '18 at 19:36
• You may want to tape it if you think insects can get through which depends on what's on the other side of the drywall. Make sure the tile is caulked where it meets the counter top. – Platinum Goose Dec 7 '18 at 17:29
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TCP Port Number Change to 7019
When Doceri establishes a network connection between your iPad and computer, it does so on one specific port on your network. If this port is closed on your network router, then Doceri won't be able to connect via the Wi-Fi network.
In Doceri 1.x, the default port number used is port 8086. This port was not officially registered. As a result, other apps could occasionally conflict with ours over the use of this port, blocking Doceri's communication.
In Doceri 2.0, the port number has been officially registered with ICANN and changed to 7019. This change should eliminate all port conflict issues with the Doceri Desktop application.
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Channels are used for grouping joints. They allow animations to play only on a subset of the model joints, so that multiple animations can play on different parts of the model at the same time.
For example, you can play a walking animation on the legs, an animation for swinging the arms on the upper body, and an animation for moving the eyes on the head.
Animation channels are defined and inspected in the Model Editor as described below. The use of channels is up to the game's script or C++ code.
The channels list
The Channels pane lists all animation channels in the model.
For each channel,
• its name and
• the channel number
is shown.
A single click on a channel selects it, a double click opens the Channel Inspector pane as well.
Pressing the F2 key or a single-click on an already selected channel allows you to rename the channel in place.
The “+” button creates a new channel and adds it to the list. The “-” button deletes the currently selected channels.
Context menu
An RMB click in the Channels pane opens the context menu:
• Inspect/Edit opens the Channel Inspector pane.
• Rename allows to rename the animation channel.
• Add/create new, like the “+” button, creates a new channel and adds it to the list.
The channel inspector
The Channel Inspector pane shows the details of the currently selected channel.
Shows the name of the currently selected animation channel. The name can be edited in order to rename the channel.
Select for each individual joint whether it will be a member of the channel.
When the game code plays an animation on this channel, the animation will only affect joints that are a member of the channel.
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If it's at all possible, is there a way to import/convert Pure3D models for use in programs besides Blender? (i.e. Milkshape, Maya) Because Blender is the most annoying, non-functional, user-unfriendly software in existence that refuses to install or enable any add-ons.
If you want to use maya, Just import the XML into blender and export it as an OBJ, Then just import that OBJ into maya or whatever tool you want to use
and to export it just export it as an OBJ and import that OBJ into blender and export it from blender as an XML.
Although i recommend you use blender since XML carries data from the p3d that OBJ doesnt like the baked textures/vertext colours
also I dont have those problems with blender, Make sure you using it right
The format is XML and the add-on is open source. I'm sure you could make an extension for any program you'd like to use it in another program.
Blender is fairly easy to use once you get the hang of it, it just takes time and patience to figure out all the keyboard commands.
If your having problems with Blender add-ons and Blender in general, you might be using the wrong version. The official version for XML that DT has supports up to 2.79 and some people don't see that and use 2.80. Using this (Credit to Some Bot) you can install the XML Add-on for use in Blender 2.80 (Personally, I find 2.80 to be a lot more user friendly than the previous versions for beginners.) Any other solution is just try to install the add-on again or switch to 2.80
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I tried exporting as XML to see if that would work, then my computer froze up and now it gets stuck on the boot up screen when I turn it on.
I don't know if it's Blender or the add-on but either way it broke my f***ing computer.
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Leaving No Tone Unturned
Prof. Bruce Jacob with one of the Coil LLC guitars.
Prof. Bruce Jacob with one of the Coil LLC guitars.
Clark School Professor Bruce Jacob (electrical and computer engineering) pried open his new electric guitar and wondered why he couldn't get more sounds out of it.
The first guitar he purchased since he was a teenager, the instrument's available tones were more limited than the guitars Jacob grew up playing. The engineer in him sought an answer.
"I decided to catalog every cool sound a guitar could naturally make," says Jacob, a Keystone Professor and director of the Clark School's computer engineering program. "But the problem was, as every engineer knows, when you investigate how things work, you begin to realize what is possible."
In 2006 Jacob launched Coil LLC to make his perfect guitar. He taught a guitar electronics course. Five students joined Coil: Justin Ahmanson and Tim Babich, now both alumni, now graduate student Joseph Gross and undergraduates Franklin DeHart and Christopher Monaghan, all from the department of electrical and computer engineering. Together they developed patent-pending electronics to give them all of the sounds they wanted from a guitar. Jacob then designed gorgeous guitars to put them into.
This week, the Coil team is officially launching sales of their dream guitars at The inventions are the electronics.
An electric guitar's distinct sounds come from its pickups, magnets wrapped in copper wire that "pick up" the vibrations of a guitar's strings, convert them into electrical currents and send them to an amplifier, speaker or recording device. Guitarists can select different pickups through a switch on the instrument to produce different sounds. How those pickups are wired into the guitar--for instance, if they are wired to one another or not--also determines the sounds any one guitar can make.
Jacob wanted every available option from his guitar's pickups. Rather than rewiring them, as many guitarists do, he connected each pickup to a circuit board in the back of the guitar. That circuit board is equipped with small jumpers or pegs that can be set into different slots to configure the pickups to almost any combination to produce various sounds.
"Paul Reed Smith was one of the first guys to come up with a custom switch to give you all the permutations available," says Paul Schein, guitar guru for Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center. "What he [Jacob] has done is take it to the next level. Here is how you get these two coils in parallel, these in series. These are the five or so I want. That's a cool thing because it allows people to go in and configure the guitar."
Each of Coil's pickup switches offers a different circuit board and switch configuration. The ToneflyTM E/P switch offers seven different sounds, with five available through a five-way switch when playing the guitar. The CustomWireTM model also uses a five-way switch, but can be customized to more than 50, wildly different tones. The Jacob's LadderTM model gives musicians 22 unique sounds, but combines a three-way switch with a five-way switch to make 15 of the 22 tones available at play time.
For guitarists, this means they don't have to rewire a guitar to get the sounds they want. It also means they may need to carry fewer guitars with them to performances, since they can get more sounds out of one guitar.
"Last night I dragged four guitars, including a Telecaster, a Gibson, and an old sixties model that does something a little different, to a recording session," says Ron Haney, a music producer and a guitarist for Alicia Keys who has also played with Bono, Gwen Stefani and Sheryl Crow. "Reducing that number by having a guitar that is more versatile would make life easier when going to gigs or to record."
Jacob's next invention, called LevelHeadedTM, makes it easier to combine different pickup combinations. For instance, when guitarists switch from a crunchy humbucker sound to a clean, crisp, single coil, the volume drops, making it difficult to play live. LevelHeadedTM gives each switch setting its own volume, so single coils come out as loud as humbuckers.
"We put the volume adjustment after the switch," says Jacob. "No one has done that before."
If guitarists combine LevelHeadedTM with Coil's preamp (designed by Ahmanson and Babich), which amplifies sound before it leaves the guitar, the volume leveling is done by increasing the volume of the softer tones, rather than reducing the volume of louder ones.
The Coil team next turned to the tone knob. "Most people don't use it," Jacob says. "It is a low-pass filter, cutting off high frequencies and sapping some of your signal. We were wondering how to make a tone knob that really changes the guitar's resonant frequency."
Enter QtoneTM (one knob) and QfreqTM (two knob), tone controls that revive and enhance one of the most effective technologies that has ever appeared in electric guitars, according to Jacob: the passive parametric EQ filter, which allows you to change central frequency and filter bandwidth ("the Q"). Coil's tone knobs, developed by DeHart and Monaghan, can make a guitar sound rich and full, bright and chimey, nasal and funky, and everything in between.
"There is this elusive term 'tone'," says Haney, who owns more than 30 guitars. "You are always exploring it and how far you can take it. You take one guitar, one amp, and one pedal and there is only so much you can do. With every new piece of equipment you get, the possibilities expand exponentially."
Coil is sponsoring further audio electronics development at the University of Maryland through a $135,000 Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) project.
The company is located in the new TERP Startup Lab, a technology incubation program for university faculty, students, and regional entrepreneurs.
Jacob created and now regularly teaches ENEE 159b: Electric Guitar Design, a course that covers the physics and circuit details behind electric guitars.
Coil has donated electronics, circuit components, guitars and recording equipment to the university for use in its instructional facilities.
Visit to see the company's guitars, videos of musicians playing them, and interactive demonstrations of how its electronics work.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40414 | Systematic (IUPAC) name
Clinical data
Trade names Azilect
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Pregnancy cat. C
Legal status Prescription only
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Pharmacokinetic data
Bioavailability 36%
Protein binding 88 – 94%
Metabolism Hepatic (CYP1A2-mediated)
Half-life 3 hours
Excretion Renal and fecal
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ATC code N04BD02
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DrugBank DB01367
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It was developed by Teva Neuroscience[4], initially investigated by Prof. Moussa Youdim and Prof. John Finberg of the Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.[5]
Mechanism of Action
Monotherapy in Early PD
Adjunct Therapy in Advanced PD
Rasagiline is being investigated for the treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome[11].
See also
1. ^ Oldfield V, Keating GM, Perry CM (2007). "Rasagiline: a review of its use in the management of Parkinson's disease". Drugs 67 (12): 1725–47. PMID 17683172.
2. ^ Gallagher DA, Schrag A (2008). "Impact of newer pharmacological treatments on quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease". CNS Drugs 22 (7): 563–86. doi:10.2165/00023210-200822070-00003. PMID 18547126.
3. ^ a b Binda C, Hubálek F, Li M et al. (2005). "Binding of Rasagiline-related Inhibitors to Human Monoamine Oxidases: A Kinetic and Crystallographic Analysis". Journal of medicinal chemistry 48 (26): 8148–54. doi:10.1021/jm0506266. PMC 2519603. PMID 16366596. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2519603.
4. ^ a b "Prescribing Information". Teva Neurosciences. 2005-06. Archived from the original on 2007-01-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20070119131737/http://www.tevaneuro.com/upload/Prescribing_Information.pdf. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
5. ^ Lakhan SE. From a Parkinson's disease expert: Rasagiline and the Future of Therapy. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2007;2(13).
6. ^ Chen JJ, Swope DM (August 2005). "Clinical pharmacology of rasagiline: a novel, second-generation propargylamine for the treatment of Parkinson disease". J Clin Pharmacol 45 (8): 878–94. doi:10.1177/0091270005277935. PMID 16027398. http://jcp.sagepub.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16027398.
7. ^ C. Warren Olanow, Olivier Rascol et al. (2009). "A Double-Blind, Delayed-Start Trial of Rasagiline in Parkinson's Disease". New England Journal of Medicine 361 (13): 1268–78. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa0809335. PMID 19776408.
8. ^ Lecht S, Haroutiunian S, Hoffman A, Lazarovici P (June 2007). "Rasagiline – a novel MAO B inhibitor in Parkinson's disease therapy". Ther Clin Risk Manag 3 (3): 467–74. PMC 2386362. PMID 18488080. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2386362.
9. ^ Rascol O, Brooks DJ, Melamed E et al. (2005). "Rasagiline as an adjunct to levodopa in patients with Parkinson's disease and motor fluctuations (LARGO, Lasting effect in Adjunct therapy with Rasagiline Given Once daily, study): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group trial". Lancet 365 (9463): 947–54. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71083-7. PMID 15766996. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140-6736(05)71083-7.
10. ^ Parkinson Study, Group (February 2005). "A randomized placebo-controlled trial of rasagiline in levodopa-treated patients with Parkinson disease and motor fluctuations: the PRESTO study". Arch. Neurol. 62 (2): 241–8. doi:10.1001/archneur.62.2.241. PMID 15710852. http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15710852.
11. ^ http://www.healthcareilluminated.com/articles/20203-parkinson-s-drug-may-also-treat-restless-leg-syndrome
12. ^ White WB, Salzman P, Schwid SR (August 2008). "Transtelephonic Home Blood Pressure to Assess the Monoamine Oxidase-B Inhibitor Rasagiline in Parkinson Disease". Hypertension 52 (3): 587–93. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.115873. PMID 18678789. http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=reprint&pmid=18678789.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40423 | China Seas
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The China Seas consist of a series of marginal seas in the Western Pacific Ocean, around China. They are the major components signifying the transition from the continent of Asia to the Pacific Ocean.[1] They have been described in terms of their collective vastness and complexity:
Seas included in the China Seas are:
1. ^ Pinxian Wang, Qianyu Li, Chun-Feng Li, Geology of the China Seas (2014), p. 667.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40424 | Juan Berenguer
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Juan Berenguer
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Berenguer in 1987
Born: (1954-11-30) November 30, 1954 (age 65)
Aguadulce, Coclé, Panama
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 17, 1978, for the New York Mets
Last MLB appearance
October 4, 1992, for the Kansas City Royals
MLB statistics
Win–loss record67–62
Earned run average3.90
Career highlights and awards
Juan Bautista Berenguer [beh-ren-gher'] (born November 30, 1954) is a former Panamanian long relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for eight teams from 1978 to 1992. Listed at 5'11 (1.80 m), 200 lb. (91 k), Berenguer batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Aguadulce, Coclé, Panama.[1][2]
A mean-looking, husky pitcher with long hair and a mustache, Berenguer was nicknamed 'Pancho Villa' by his teammates, and Twins fans admiringly referred to him as 'Señor Smoke' or 'El Gasolino' due to his mid-90s mph fastball.[1]
Extremely wild as a youngster, Berenguer learned to harness his sneaky fastball which he liked to throw inside, and added a deceptive forkball. His effectiveness was aided by his intimidating appearance and disposition.
Berenguer was signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in 1975. He made his MLB debut with the team in 1978. By April 1981, Berenguer had a 1-4 win-loss record and a 4.75 earned run average (ERA) in 16 career appearances with the team, and he was still having problems controlling his fastball, so the Mets traded him to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for outfielder Marvell Wynne and pitcher John Skinner.[3]
Berenguer later pitched for seven organizations before joining the Minnesota Twins.[2] His breakout season came in 1987, when he posted an 8-1 record with a 3.94 ERA and four saves for the American League champion Twins, en route to the 1987 World Championship over the St. Louis Cardinals.[2] Berenguer previously won a World Series ring with the 1984 Champion Detroit Tigers, though he did not play in the Series.[2]
Following his MLB career, Berenguer continued to play in the minors. After spending 1993 and part of 1994 in the Mexican League, he returned to Minnesota and pitched for the independent Minneapolis Loons and Southern Minny Stars in the Prairie League.[2] He then signed to pitch for the Duluth–Superior Dukes of the Northern League prior to the 1998 season, but never played for them. In between, he played winter ball in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.[1]
After baseball, Berenguer returned to Minnesota, where he worked in marketing for a local television station. He also became a salesman for an automobile dealership in Bloomington, Minnesota.[1]
His son Chris was a hockey player with the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League.[4]
1. ^ a b c d SABR BioProject. Article written by Jason Lenard. Retrieved on February 10, 2016.
2. ^ a b c d e Baseball Reference Statistics and History. Retrieved on February 10, 2016.
3. ^ "Detroit's Fidrych becoming nothing but a 'do-do bird'". Sarasota Journal. April 1, 1981. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
4. ^ This Week in the CHA: USCHO[permanent dead link]. Article written by Matt Mackinder. Retrieved on June 16, 2014.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40425 | Busy Being Fabulous
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"Busy Being Fabulous"
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Single by Eagles
from the album Long Road Out of Eden
ReleasedJanuary 2008 (U.S.)
FormatCD single
LabelLost Highway
Songwriter(s)Don Henley, Glenn Frey
Producer(s)Eagles, Steuart Smith, Richard F. W. Davis, Scott Crago, Bill Szymczyk
Eagles singles chronology
"How Long"
"Busy Being Fabulous"
"What Do I Do with My Heart"
"Busy Being Fabulous" is the second single by the American rock band Eagles from their 2007 album Long Road out of Eden. Released in January 2008, it is their third Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
The song features Don Henley on lead vocals, and lyrically describes a strained love life between a frustrated male and a female who spends far too much time trying to climb the social ladder, hence the lyric "You were just too busy being fabulous/Too busy to think about us".
The video for the song was released to YouTube in early February, and features the band performing the song at a party in suits. Interspersed with the performance is the story of the song as it happens, featuring the band playing several different roles at once:
The video also marks the first time Steuart Smith has appeared in any Eagles video. The band's backup drummer, Scott F. Crago, also appears in the band's party performance.
Chart performance[edit]
"Busy Being Fabulous" entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts at number 48 on the chart week of February 9, 2008. It reached a peak of number 28 on the week of March 22 before falling the next week.
1. ^ "Eagles Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
2. ^ "Eagles Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
3. ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/40426 | From Wikiquote
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The harp is a stringed musical instrument. Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3500 BCE.
• I lay my harp on the curved table,
Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions.
Why should I trouble to play?
A breeze will come and sweep the strings.
• Bai Juyi, "The Harp", in The White Pony: An Anthology Of Chinese Poetry (1949), ed. Robert Payne, p. 220
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about 1862, when the church was much altered, it had stood close to the South door, so that everyone entering the church passed by it. And one day when I was showing an old man, whose people had lived in the Parish for some 250 years, the dowel holes which used to fasten the figures, (which I had cleared of the cement that had long hidden them), he astounded me by saying, — 'Ah, yes, when I was a boy and used to come up to church with granfer, he would always stop before that there, every Sunday, and say, — "Look e here my lad, them's the marks of Cromwell's spear. Cuss uti." And I cussed u?!.' "
On enquiry of two other aged inhabitants, Mr. Heanley found that both had also been brought up to curse Cromwell every Sunday.
Now to this day a New Forest curse is " God damn the Devil."
Puck lingers in the Forest as a place-name only, — Puck pitts, — but the wood-imp or colt-pixy may yet lead horses astray in lonely corners, and the Devil's connection with the elfin world is borne out by the common belief in a multiplicity of devils. Another of Mr. Heanley 's stories corroborates this : —
"When I was Vicar of Upton Grey, I noted to my great astonishment that, when the time came for the tolling (of) the Passing Bell, instead of the sexton tolling only the big Tenor Bell, as is the custom in most parts of the country, he tolled lla the bells one after another, with, say, two dozen tolls for each. And, when I enquired the reason, I got this delightful reply, — " You know, Sir, devils can't abide o' bells. And there's some devils as are feared of some bells, and there's other devils as are feared of other bells, and so we tolls them all to fear them all." Just as in Lucerne, for instance, I have heard all the bells of the Cathedral there clanged together when a thunderstorm was raging, to banish the evil spirits that were supposed to be causing it."
To quote from another of Mr. Heanley's letters : —
" I know for a fact that most rustics hereabouts (Weyhill) firmly believe in witchcraft, as firmly as they did in the days of the famous |
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As the launch of Windows 7 approaches, Microsoft is distributing literature to American retailers claiming that Linux works with few peripherals or online services, offers limited software capability, affords no authorized support, does not work with games "your customers want," and cannot use video chat on any of the major IM …
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1. Goat Jam
Gates Horns
Hey Microsoft
If Linux is so crap, then why are you so scared to allow OEMs to dual install it on their PC's?
Are you afraid that if you were to give users a choice that many of them would choose to say "fuck off Microsoft" perhaps?
Oh, and while I'm at it el reg, WHERE IS THE EVIL BALLMER ICON!
Or the one with Fat Steve with a Festeresque light bulb in his mouth at least!
Bill because, see above.
2. zonky
I notice there is no section:
Keeping your OS and installed apps up to date
WIndows: Extremely difficult / Very Expensive
Linux: Easy.
But like, consumers don't want to be secure, do they.
3. Jeremy 2
Windows Live Messenger...
A casual Google suggests that contrary to the claims, there are several MSN/Live Messenger clients for Linux. Of course they're not MS software but they (presumably) work none the less so to say they're "not supported" is bogus too. Although I don't know why I'm surprised about any of this. Their marketing people aren't stupid and presumably recognise the threat from Ubuntu (compared to other Linux flavours)...
4. Anonymous Coward
Microsoft Partner Program = FAIL
After seeing this post and another upon another site (, I sent an e-mail to Microsoft's Partner Program and asked for my account to be removed. When they asked 'why', I told them I no longer wanted to be affiliated with a company that uses unethical tactics for competitors (i.e. Linux).
As I am a long-time reseller/partner for Red Hat & MySQL, when it takes this type of FUD marketing to deal with competing products and/or services, then I really start to loose faith in a company's abilities -- especially from a partnership stance.
5. Anonymous Coward
Support includes
iPods.... which interestingly MS would like to kill off.
Perhaps it is time for Apple to downgrade the quality of iPod/iTunes for MS machines? (Note the joke alert!)
6. Morris Maynard
All of the claims
are true.
7. Alan Esworthy
Foetid Dingo's Kidneys
What a load of <title>. I'm posting this using an HP notebook I picked up for a song because it had suffered a disk failure and the replacement was virgin - no Windows license included. So, I burned an Ubuntu disc, put it in the drive, and in very little time and with no real effort, here I am wirelessly connected (with encryption), networked to my HP LaserJet, running iTunes for my iPhone (via Wine), and using the same browser and email client I've been using for years (Firefox and Thunderbird).
I'm not bragging, just stating that this was an extremely straightforward setup - simpler by far than XP.
I've been using computers of one form or another since before many of you were born, since 1972 actually. I've had to learn quite a lot about most platforms I worked on, and I've worked on almost all of them at one time or another. I mention this because I had to check to see what version of Ubuntu I'm running (9.02 it says) because - sorry for the shouting - I HAVE NOT HAD TO LEARN SQUAT ABOUT LINUX BECAUSE IT JUST WORKS. And it works more reliably and with far fewer complications than any Windows I've used (and I actually still have the floppies somewhere for the text-based Windows Version 1).
8. Llama-made
O noes!!!11
Microsoft bashes Linux with highly debatable 'facts'? News at 11.
The relentless and unstoppable slow waddle of the penguin carries on regardless. Ballmer might as well change his name by deed poll to Canute.
9. Charles Manning
Mixed bag
Some of this is just plain rubbish, but there are shreds of truth too.
Linux pros:
* USB and BT devices tend to "just work" without having to load up drivers etc.
* No virus problems.
Linux cons:
* Some stuff really depends on software supplied by device manufacturers, and that's all Windows specific. Apps for driving web cams, for example.
* Ubuntu etc still tend to need hoop-jumping to get basic stuff like youtube working. Yup, in theory Ubuntu will automatically install the plugins but is doesn't always do so.
* Get something problematic like a mild disk corruption that needs an fsck and most people are stumped. You need a tame *nixer to fix that sort of problem.
10. Anonymous Coward
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@Alan Esworthy
What happens if you put a FAT32 usb drive into your ubuntu machine and try to write to it?
11. bbneo
Microsoft doesn't work with peripherals...
My April 2007 Dell Vista Notebook wasn't compatible with its own "certified" Intel 945 gm graphics chipset, *nor* was it compatible with the DVD burner that Dell shipped in the machine. Took about a year and a half and *two* OS reinstalls (hours!) to fix those problems.
Recently reinstalled Windows XP on my mother's Compaq Presario desktop... took *5 hours*!!! And when it was through, it didn't recognize the Netgear USB wireless adapter... had to truck the wireless modem/router from its basement hole and move the computer to connect directly so that I could download the damn driver.
I installed fedora 10 Linux on the same machine. It took less than an hour and didn't have any problems with drivers for: the display, the usb mouse, the HP printer *or* the Netgear wireless router. Screw Microsoft. They only want your money.
Dress with Tux.
12. bbneo
iTunes works with Wine!!!?
Thanks. I might not have dared to try to install iTunes with Wine and sync my iPhone, but maybe I will now. That's about my last Windows specific app... my last reason to boot into Windows again, ever. ;-)
13. danny_0x98
Going Green
Compatible with most software? Arguable but who wants to argue?
What most people want (as long as we keep mum about those server room purchasers)? Well indeed, Yet a retailer with an eye on the Wall Street Journal will see that Apple makes a ton of money despite not being what most people want.
Still, it is most and not all isn't it? Perhaps the retailer should be advised "and those folks who want a Linux system are quite used to buying Windows and blowing it away. We make a sell, you make a sell, and the buyer ends up happy and how else could we achieve 100% satisfaction?"
14. Anonymous Coward
Alan E
I have had the opposite experince with Linux, crap wirelss roaming, if the wirless decides to work at all.
One laptop does not make a comprehensive test you know.
That said MS are being very unreasonable telling lies like this.
15. Anonymous Coward
Titles are so last century
I remember (with distaste) my last XP installation. Load the operating system (about an hour). Load driver disks for motherboard, video card, sound card, scanner, three printers, webcam, TV card (about another hour). Load various applications from CDs/DVDs - half a day. Upgrade to latest service pack and updates around two hours
Then load Mandriva in the spare partition - about an hour. Load the NVIDIA video driver - five minutes. Load latest patches - an hour. Nothing else needed, as all the other peripherals 'just worked' and the appropriate application software came on the installation DVD.
So, what's easy?
16. Anonymous Coward
Unflattering penguin.
See how Microsoft chose a penguin who is sort of downward and unhappy looking for linux. maybe Linux needs an upward facing and happy looking penguin. things like that matter to the unwashed masses.
17. Anonymous Coward
Stop with the wine references. Saying that something runs on Linux via wine is misleading and dishonest(IMHO).
18. Jan Hargreaves
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Morris: cant do anything but agree. i'm afraid they are all true.
Alan: perhaps that is because you have learnt everything along the way. try giving ubuntu to john smith and asking him to set up a wireless network or sync his itunes downloads to his iPod. with windows its easier. surely you cannot disagree? don't get me wrong, linux is great - i use it on my server - but these booklets are not intended for us tech geeks.
19. jake Silver badge
This would be laughable, but try to remember ...
The idiots on the ground at most "home electronics" stores are brain-dead, minimum-wage slaves to whatever Corporate says they must do. Well over half of them probably believe the MS propaganda, because they quite simply don't know any better!
This in turn will be passed on to the consumer, who in general is even more clueless.
The truly sad thing is that there is no way to prosecute Microsoft for what is (in essence) "false advertising by proxy" ... I get thrown out of "office supply" stores on a regular basis for loudly allowing as to how the sales-droid is clueless, simply parroting the company sales pitch, and can I please talk to someone with a little bit of technical knowledge?
It's hard to fight a huge corporate marketing machine with a gigantic war-chest ... but I have found that when addressing individuals & small groups it helps to point out that Microsoft does not exist to help individuals get on with their computer needs, but rather Microsoft exists to pay it's corporate shareholders. Linux & the BSDs (including GNU, GCC, Sendmail, Apache, Mozilla, KDE, Gnome, et ali), on the other hand, exist because someone had a need for a computer tool, wrote it, AND DECIDED TO SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD.
There is a big difference, at least in my mind.
Another thing to think about is that huge corporate entities will eventually go away. Where are Burroughs, Sperry, Allied Signal, Philco, Amdahl, Remington Rand, DEC and ROLM? What about fscking Enron? All gone.
On the other hand, FOSS, by its very nature, is here to stay ... and I think Microsoft is not only scared spitless, but too much of a dinosaur to be able to change its business model fast enough to remain viable for another ten years (or so).
Time will tell. Onwards & upwards.
20. John Savard Silver badge
Just Because It's FUD
doesn't mean it isn't the truth. Because of Microsoft's dominant position, to most ordinary people, a computer with Linux on it instead of Windows would be a lot less useful.
Of course, Microsoft has done a lot to keep it that way, but disingenuousness is not the same as inaccuracy.
21. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Well, well, well, well...
We know the perception that Microsoft wants to create regarding Linux.
What we also want to know is the perception regarding Mac. A depliant about this meant for professional salespeople MUST exist. Oh wait, you mean they have lawyers on call?
Windows has its advantages. Where do you get treated to an arcade game of "you may be in trouble/upgrade now/download XYZ/consider upgrading for a fee/agree to this-and-that EULA" popups and sundry retarded and mutually inconsistent dialog boxes for hours on end _for free_ the first time you switch on a newly bought machine?
...And then you still get to install Vista SP2 manually. The win cannot be topped.
22. Big-nosed Pengie
Gates Horns
What a pity
that false advertising isn't illegal.
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24. Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik
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By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 9th September 2009 02:24 GMT
It just works. Even an NTFS one would just work. Though why would anyone in their sane mind want to use FAT/NTFS on flash storage I don't know...
25. Daniel 1
Why so surprised?
Be honest, if most companies could simply print outright lies about their competitors' products, they would do.This is no different to the fact that, if they believed they could get away with it, Ford would tell you that you would die screaming, in the flames of your wrecked SUV, if you bought a Mitsubishi. In fact, since the target, here, is 'Linux' (as a way of using computers) as opposed to buying everything from Microsoft, this is more like Ford attempting to prove that cycling gives you cancer. 'Linux' isn't a competitor, in the sense that Apple or IBM are, so Microsoft can - and will - print and publish whatever it likes. Who's going to sue?
The one thing you can be sure about, is that this is nothing to do with ensuring customers can make informed decisions about their purchases.
26. Ian Ferguson
Missing the point
Rather than claiming that Linux is incompatible with most devices (technically incorrectly), Microsoft should just point out how easy it is to set them up in Windows, and how bloody complicated it is in Linux.
I'm sure the Linux fanboys are whining about how every item in the list can be achieved just fine in Linux, but the fact is 99.9% of consumers don't have the patience or motivation to try.
27. MarkOne
Microsoft went off the boil ALONG time ago.
almost all their products are inferior to the competition
Xbox (poor mans PS3)
IE (not as good as Opera, Chrome, Firefox or Safari)
IIS (not as good and much more expensive and less flexible than Apache)
Silverlight (poor mans Flash)
Windows (poor mans MacOS)
Zune (poor mans Walkman/iPod/iRiver)
The only 2 products that are still better than other peoples, are their developer tools (Dev Studio) and Office.. When all your products suck so badly compared to everyone else's, the easiest thing you can do, rather than making them better, is to brainwash clueless consumers with propaganda.
28. ChrisInBelgium
Gates Horns
Most people believe these lies anyway
Real world experience:
Installing Vista on a desktop with Nvidia graphics card, run of the mill motherboard with Nvidia 2 chipset, a Topcom wireless adapter, an HP printer and a cheap webcam. Result: no drivers for the motherboard chipset, no drivers for the wireless adapter. Vista not working.
Installed since then Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04, openSuse 11.1, and Mandriva 2008, ALL worked without asking for any driver, wireless card just works, even the webcam.
In case you wonder why all the different distributions? It's a system with removable harddisks, so I can switch the OS in a matter of seconds, and I like to experiment.
Who are they kidding though?
29. sandman
Does anyone really expect any company not to do all it can to defend and expand its market position? At least Microsoft haven't got round to sponsoring coups, hiring private armies and destabilising foreign powers. On an unethical scale of 1 to 10 this campaign rates about a 0.5. Wow, a handful of people might not buy a Linux net box or whatever because of it - big deal.
Despite some of the major Linux distros now being owned by large companies I haven't noticed them marketing to the consumer in an effective and ruthless manner like Apple and MS. If Linux really is ready for the mass market this is what is required, technical superiority isn't enough, as those of you who might remember Betamax video will know.
30. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
"...will see that Apple makes a ton of money despite not being what most people want......"
Umm. You do realise the absurdity of this statement now you get the chance to re-read it, I hope?
I agree that generally speaking no-one wants MacOS but Apple make their money from iPods, iPhones and assorted consumer equipment, not computers.
You may see a lot of people here slagging off iPods and iPhones but they just have some irrational beef that makes them try to project their own desires on an otherwise contrary world.
People want iPhones and iPods.So they buy them. And Apple makes bucketloads of dosh selling them.
Your statement is equivalent to claiming that the Zune is the world's number one music player because Microsoft make a lot of money.
31. Phil 68
@AC 9/9/9 2:24
<quote> What happens if you put a FAT32 usb drive into your ubuntu machine and try to write to it?</quote>
It works instantly with no problem at all reading and writing, as it does if said USB drive contains FAT16, NTFS, ext3, ext3, ext4, HFS, HFS+, xfs and probably a load of other file systems I've forgotten to mention.
Same question for Windows (any version).
What happens if I plug USB drives with all of the above file systems on it into a Windows machine. Works for FAT, FAT32 and NTFS but none of the others. Oh dear :(
32. Gary Turner
Bringing truth and light to MSS Fanboyz
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 9th September 2009 02:24 GMT
Um, it writes a fat32 file? Actually for as long as I've used Debian (since 1999), portable storage has been mounted as an MS file system to make cross platform transfer of files easier. You can, of course, change file systems easily enough for some particular reason.
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 9th September 2009 04:20 GMT
Why is that? Is saying that you can recharge you batteries from the wall socket misleading or dishonest? You do use a wall brick to transform the 120/240V 60/50Hz to a small DC voltage, don't you? How ever can you say you're charging from the house current?
WINE is simply a wall brick that provides Windows applications with the "right voltage" from the Linux house current.
33. alistair millington
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I like this
Especially the bit that says Linux doesn't support messenger. Surely that is a good thing, one huge reason to go to the penguin.
Having spent four hours last night trying to install office 2003 in vista and getting setup.exe is not a win32 application, I am so glad I made the switch to linux.
34. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
@Jan Hargreaves
If you know Windows then it's easier on Windows. No shit, Sherlock. If you find a computer agnostic geek and present him with the latest copy of the major operating systems, I'd guess something like OS X, Linux, Windows.
Personally, on Windows, I can never keep track of which window I'm supposed to be paying attention to. And why do windows with config stuff in them look the same as windows with files in them?
35. Kevin Rudd
@Anonymous Coward 02:24
I can't comment for what happens on Alan Esworthy's machine, because I are not him, but on my Ubuntu machine, a laptop with stickers on it saying its made for Fista, when I plug in USB-fat32 it magically opens a file manager "work-space" (not a window) and I can copy, delete, whatever, files to it, with no problems I might add.
What were YOU expecting to happen AC? as you did not state it.
36. Mark 110
On WoW
I tried to move to Linux but playing WoW just became a real pain the backside. Not because I couldn't run WoW through Wine - I could - but because my guilds voice com app (Teamspeak) was just a real technical nightmare to get working. I might try again when Teamspeak 3 comes out but I've already preordered Windows 7 which is a dream to use.
The slides Windows have been distributing are extremely misleading however. I had absolutely no compatibility issues or problems getting the software I wanted when I moved to Linux, it was just one app (that hasn't had a major revisons in over 5 years) that caused me problems.
37. Mike Cardwell
Microsoft isn't lying
I've been using various distributions of Linux for over 10 years and will continue to do so, but as for the claims made by Microsoft ... What are you complaining about? They're all true ... Consumers need that kind of information...
38. Test Man
I find it funny that some of you compare the latest version of Linux to XP. You know, XP, the 8 year old operating system against Linux distributions barely a few months old. And you wonder why it takes so long for XP to recognise your cards and peripherals. Maybe if you repeated your test with Windows Vista or even Windows 7, then you'll find that it recognises your stuff in seconds, unlike Linux.
But you geeks continue trying to justify Linux and let the real world just get on with just using computers, whatever OS is on it.
39. dave hands
Gates Horns
Getting what you deserve.
Anyone who takes the word of a Corporation with a record like Microsoft's deserves all the lies they hear.
40. adnim Silver badge
Call a spade a spade
"But many of the claims are misleading at best."
But many of the claims are just down right lies.
There ya go Reg corrected for truth.
I have a couple of friends that use windows live, so I created a live account in order to chat to them via messenger. I don't know which part of windows live doesn't work under Linux, for I have not had any problems using Ubuntu and Firefox with the service.
Perhaps there are some features within windows live that use proprietary technology in which case any failure of any browser under a Linux distro would be the fault of MS for shunning open standards.
Linux is still not ready for the desktop as far as your average, never used a computer before types go. Nor is it ready for those who are used to MS software making all the decisions for them. It does however get closer with every release and this frightens Microsoft.
Finally. when has dis-information and FUD not been a part of MS marketing strategy?
41. Anonymous Coward
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It never fails to impress me
When I download a linux CD image (I've tried a lot of distributions), burn a CD, boot it, and the free software comes up having configured all my hardware and I open the browser and I'm on the net - no drivers to install, no configuration to do. If I go wi fi I put in a short set of magic numbers and there we are.
Windows can't run from a cd and needs me to find a bunch of driver disks to make anything work, and this I have to pay for.
Most applications I need are in the live cd I make and the rest can be downloaded easily.
The only reason I still use windows is one particular application that doesn't have a linux version - Fugawi maps.
In my experience WINE is not an answer for a busy person who hasn't got time to mess about all day.
I reckon many people have difficulty with linux because they assume it works just like windows - they do need to read some couple of paragraphs about the essential differences, particularly with permissions.
But I would tell anyone - get a live cd and boot it - what can you lose apart from your chains to microsoft
42. david bates
Ububtu V Vista
Shockinly Ubuntu will work with my scanner and onboard sound out of the box (so to speak). No such joy from Vista, which despite various attempts to fix itself still fails on both count.
My Xubuntu-based samba server is visible to my Ubuntu machine and netbook, and my two XP Home machines, but strangely not to my XP Pro machine for reasons I cannot fathem.....
Easy, eh?
43. Anonymous Coward
Does this mean
Microsoft are developing a Linux version of windows live 'essentials'?
44. The Infamous Grouse
Missed the point
All these commments listing technical reasons why Microsoft's 'analysis' is wrong (or right, depending on your affiliation) are fine but what I'd like to know is what Microsoft's marketing people were thinking? Since the release of the first public beta they have had a public relations dream with Windows 7. The majority of people who've tried it love it, even many who were stung by Vista, and have spread the word. Previews, reviews and blog postings have been extremely postitive. Magazine articles have repeatedly sung the praises of "Microsoft's best operating system yet."
Is there really any need for sniping at the competition in any form at this stage? Windows 7 is going to be a massive, massive success with those planning to upgrade or buy it preinstalled, and a great chunk of those have made that decision already. Microsoft aren't going to push the numbers much higher playing games like this; on the other hand people who are teetering on the edge of decision may just decide that seeing money wasted on competition-slating half truths is enough to convince them NOT to wing their money to Redmond.
As for the "sales partners", dear God. Are they really so technologically challenged as to require great big simplistic, primary coloured, easy worded flash cards to be able to flog their wares effectively? It's like looking at something from a nursery school.
Very sad.
45. magnetik
Re: WINE
Why? A program running in WINE is very different to the same thing running in a VM. Some Windows apps actually run faster via WINE than native Windows. You also don't need a Windows license. So, it can be argued that in many cases it's actually advantageous to run a Windows app via WINE than in Windows.
46. asdf Silver badge
Re: AC@02:24 GMT
What happens is exactly the same as windows, almost any version of linux since 1998 happily writes correctly to the memstick (almost all decent distros automount it for you as well). You may be thinking of ntfs instead of fat32. Even then many modern distros include ntfs-3g write support by default (although I recommend against this in general for noobs because if ntfs is marked dirty linux won't write to it not to mention if doing a lot of IO in linux I have seen ntfs get corrupted under linux but this is more M$ fault for going out of there way to fight interoperability). As for linux over windows for noobs I could care less as long as I never have to work for another crappy windows only shop again (ever notice windows only shops have the most parochial developers and as well as the biggest dickhead M$ ROI coolaid drinking managers?).
47. Peter D'Hoye
Time for Linux to wake up
As much as I hate the tactics used by MS, their facts are not far from the truth. I moved to 100% linux (ubuntu 9.04) some time ago, and there is *a lot* of work on usability in Linux. A LOT.
Also, my printer is 'supported' but the quality is crap, so I have XP in a VM whenever I need to print pictures.
Video chat indeed doesn't work well, or try to find *any* open client that combines IM and VOIP well. Only one is available (empathy) and they are STILL busy fixing their bugs to get VOIP to work well.
NONE of the email clients comes close to what outlook offers. Can you imagine that the thunderbird addressbook doesn't have a field for birthdays? This is 2009, you stone-aged idiots. It will be supported in a few months. Wow.
Sometimes I think of handing MS the money and install windows. Just to get my work done instead of fiddling with linux for hours to get it working the way it should.
48. zenkaon
What a load of bing
Almost everything they list is a load of bing. They do have a point about video over IM. I note that they do not mention security, running on low-spec hardware or running on very high-spec hardware. I guess most customers don't want a supercomputer or a cloud, but if you do.....
I've never had to install a camera driver in Linux, all cameras use ptp and gThumb imports from everything I've ever plugged in. Installing my wireless printer took 5 minutes for each of my Linux boxes, on a vista laptop it took almost an hour (Even with all the HP crapware turned off). iPods are eaten for breakfast by most linux media players (amarok, rhythembox), not sure about zune but no one owns any so not really an issue. As for old hardware, my 1998 TV card never even ran in winXP, but works a treat in every Linux distro I've used since 1999.
The only part of the web that doesn't work under Linux is Macromedia shockwave and silverlight, but that's fine by me. (I know about Mono - I've chosen to skip).
Games?? Buy a console. Anyway, what's wrong with KTron??
So are Micros~1 saying this because:
(a) They genuinely believe it or
(b) They are scared shitless
My guess is that Balmer is an (a).
49. MarkOne
re: What a pity
Indeed, as every part of their business would be sued, Like the Xbox Movie service adverts recenty that told you Xbox from £159 (the £159 model needed another £90 spending on it to get a hard drive, and then another £40 a year to get the privilege of paying even more to download movies)...
Still in this world of morons, Microsoft are keen to take advantage of their stupidity.
50. The Original Ash
Nothing to see here
Move along.
All of those claims are true. Very, very true. I've tried using CentOS, Ubuntu from 6.10 up to 9.04, Fedora Core, and Mandriva, and *none* of them have supported wireless connectivity out of the box. I use a very mainstream Belkin 54g network card, and have done for around 4 years; Plenty of time to get a driver which works into any build.
I'll not get into 3D graphics, gaming, and emulation requirements. Someone has already stated that claiming a product "runs on Linux" through WINE is being no less deceptive than any of this Microsoft FUD.
FUD doesn't have to be un-true, by the way.
51. The Dark Lord
I for one welcome...
... your job creationist activities, El Reg. Is the moderatrix so in danger of redundancy that you have to post such a non-story just to get all the commentards fizzing? (Yes, I understand the irony of posting in such a thread).
Seriously, if the makers of Nurofen said "You taken Anadin? Still got that headache? Well, no surprise since Anadin's crap", nobody would bat an eyelid because everyone would see it for the marketing guff it is. But if someone, especially Microsoft, bash every commentard's favourite OS (well, the ones who aren't practising in the Church of Steve), there's a flood of ludicrous comments.
Seriously folks, you don't HAVE to write a comment...
52. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
To be fair to Microsoft
they're deploying exactly the same tactics against the Mac:
Someone at Redmond is absolutely hell-bent on destroying all the goodwill W7 has acquired entirely on its own merits.
53. Pete 2
These days the O/S is irrelevant
Most people[1] don't care what logo pops up on their screen when they switch it on. They don't care whether the software they got with the PC is open source. They DO care that it just works - with no configuration necessary (no "just open up this file and edit these lines ..."). They do care that that they can plug in their camera / printer / music / phone / you-name-it and it will just work - without having to search around on the web for an application and then install it (see: no configuration, above).
Most people don't even care about the price, since the O/S comes bundled with the box that they wheel out of the store on a trolley - straight to their car, so talk of a Microsoft or Apple "tax" is irrelevant. As is the fact that they can download a Linux instance for free, provided they have a pre-installed O/S to do the downloading, in which case why bother?
For most people (and we're still talking about the "real" people here), tinkering with software is not their hobby - just as tinkering with old cars isn't, either. They just want to GET STUFF DONE, so the flexibility, choice of different applications and options can be a positive disadvantage if they have to stop, pick up some documentation (provided there is any), read it and work out for themselves how to perform a task.
The problem with the Linux crowd (full disclosure: kernel hacker since 1983, Linux since 1991, this host AMD64/Ubuntu) is that they're fighting the battles of 10 or 15 years ago. The O/S is not unreliable any more, nor is it insecure. The choice of applications: all fully integrated, with wizards an' such, is vast - including freeware if youi like. For Linux to succeed, it needs a "killer app". Something that it, alone, can do - that everybdy discovers they absolutely need. This will never happen, as almost all freeware that is written for Linux is portable to Windows, and as soon as it becomes a sucess that's exactly where it goes, to meet the bigger user base. Which just goes to underscore the original position, that the O/S is irrelevant.
[1] that's _real_ people, not us techies, but your mum, your boss, your neighbour
54. Anonymous Coward
Can these fucking retards piss off...
I put in XP and it didn't recongnise my netgear wireless router / HP UBS printer etc etc...
Ok stick in a 8 year old copy of Linux and see how you go.....FFS.
Fancy MS not releasing drivers for someting a decade in the future....
55. Anonymous Coward
Unfortunate Truth
'Most Customers Want Windows' - It's a fact. There's no getting away from it.
Linux is great, it's free, it's speedy (most of the time) and Linux is capable of doing anything Windows can. HOWEVER, 99% of the time you have to faff with it and fiddle under the hood.
Consumer PCs for non-techie people need to work out of the box and continue that way. Windows still leads in that field (most of the time).
56. Rod MacLean
RE: WINE
AC wrote: "Saying that something runs on Linux via wine is misleading and dishonest(IMHO)."
It's only misleading and dishonest if you say it works on Wine and it doesn't!
57. Geoff Mackenzie
FAT32 pen drive on Ubuntu
Re: @Alan Esworthy #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 9th September 2009 02:24 GMT
Er, it writes to it. I've not had any trouble.
58. Rod MacLean
Recently it has seemed like someone has opened a door in the floor right under Microsoft and they are scrambling to grasp on to something before they fall down it.
In a morass of Microsoft FUD, this rates quite highly. If WIndows was actually any good, they wouldn't need to smear their opponents. Notice the way that they said nothing bad about Apple - is it because Apple have big lawyers?
59. Loki 1
@Anonymous Coward 02:24
Question: "What happens if you put a FAT32 usb drive into your ubuntu machine and try to write to it?"
Answer: It works. If you have a distro like Mint they also come with built in NTFS support as well so "they just work". IIRC all distros for the last million years have had built in FAT32 support.
60. Number6
To the AC asking about USB FAT drives, it works just fine on my Linux system.
As for wireless, I've happily used more than one laptop with Linux. Early experiences were mixed, but the last few Fedora/Ubuntu installations, the wirless and the suspend/hibernate has just worked.
The only reason for Windows at the moment is to run a program where there isn't a Linux version. Given the number of apps where there is now a Mac version, it can't be that hard to provide Linux versions as well, assuming there's no adverse pressure on suppliers. Of course, we know from past history that Microsoft never put unfair pressure on suppliers to drop the competition.
61. Alfonso Garcia-Patiño Barbolani
Level playing field
If Microsoft starts to talk about HW and SW compatibility, they risk entering a minefield. Because depending on the machine and the software you're using, the user experience can be from fantastic to an absolute nightmare, And that's true both in Windows and Linux.
In Linux, older hardware runs better than in Winodws, that is if Windows runs it at all. As an example, I'm writing this on an Acer A150 netbook running Ubuntu 9.04. When I got it, last xMas, it took me more than a week to make 8.10 work. When 9.04 came out, it was a painless experience. My old TV card keeps working in Linux since five years ago, but stopped working in XP. Newer HW can, in contrast, lack the necessary drivers. My TDT USB stick TV tuner still does not work under Linux but works in XP (the drivers are being written as we speak by the wonderful kernellabs team)
Windows iTunes is a dog compared to Linux Amarok, for example, provided that you don't want to purchase music. P2P? A piece of cake under Linux, a spyware/malware feast under Windows. Let's not talk about the plethora of server software that runs and keeps running under Linux after simple installs and the ordeal that is to create the same setup in Windows. But Windows still runs Office much better than Linux plus Wine and OpenOffice still lacks some functionality for enterprise level Office things.
Microsoft are not being objective, they know that. What the sales rep know is another story.
62. Anonymous Coward
Let them continue to use Windows.
We don't want this peaceful, rarified atmosphere messed up by the ignorant hordes.
63. bexley
FAT32 just works of course
[quote]@Alan Esworthy #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 9th September 2009 02:24 GMT
What happens if you put a FAT32 usb drive into your ubuntu machine and try to write to it?[/quote]
It "just works". I'm not sure if your just asking our of interest or if you trying to make a point?
I've got a 1TB USB drive plugged into my Ubuntu box and it just works, permissions are a little strange, it sets 770 on all of the directories but other than that there are no problems.
64. James Billingham
@Anonymous Coward and WINE
Duh why is saying it runs on wine not saying it runs on Linux? If they were saying it runs on their VM image of windows through Linux then you may have a point. Wine is an implementation of the Windows APIs on Linux not an emulator so its perfectly valid to say Linux supports those Windows APIs exactly as Windows XP supports the Older Win95, Win3.1 APIs natively...
65. Andy 97
Nice work M$
Telling people what they know already.
Linux is a hobbyists OS unless you have ninja-like skills, but it's free and fun to mess about with.
Why wouldn't someone download an iso and install as a dual boot?
I wonder what sort of people these leaflets are aimed at? The over 60's?
66. Ken Hagan Gold badge
What most customers want... XP. Actually, even better would be an edition of Windows 2000 with all the bugs fixed. If MS had spent the last ten years working on *that*, their OS dominance would be unassailable. Fortunately for the Penguinistas, MS are stupid and have spent the decade pissing about with the once familiar UI and adding bloat faster than Intel can increase CPU speeds.
67. Anonymous Coward
oh god why don't you linux tossers give it a break - I have said it before and I'll say it again, you can't even give linux away! no-one wants it! it has no fricking software! and don't go on about how many free apps there are - most of them are useless. windows has the software people actually use, such as photoshop, dreamweaver, visual studio, whatever - linux has no software people actually want to use. No, GIMP is not an alternative to photoshop, and no, Nvu is not a replacement for dreamweaver.
Honestly if linux was a viable alternative to windows as a desktop OS it would, with all its fecking "flavours" and "distros", manage more that 1% share of the desktop market. honestly. shut up all of you please shut up.
68. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
why bother with iTunes
Sure, you can use iTunes under wine. But why bother?
amarok is much much better than iTunes, and has full iPod support (including backing up your music off your iPod onto your PC - try doing that with iTunes...).
69. Jason Bloomberg Silver badge
"World of Warcraft ... can run on Linux via WINE"
And Linux can run under MS Virtual PC. So a Windows PC can run all Linux programs and I know as a fact, from bitter experience, that WINE cannot run all Windows programs.
Bottom line is that MS are correct; what most users want is the familiarity of Windows and the familiarity of applications they use day to day. Most users are just that, "users", not developers with a schooling in Computer Science or Software Engineering. If nothing else there is a much larger user base amongst friends and work colleagues familiar with what they are using themselves to help when they get into difficulties.
On device connectivity, most users insert the CD and plug in the device. If it works great, if it doesn't that's the end of it, "fail". Most users don't know about searching for the right device drivers ( if they exist ) nor know which to get. Most users expect "plug-in and go", and that's more likely to be the user experience with Windows than Linux.
Some ask why MS go to such efforts if they are not "scared of Linux". Well that seems obvious to me with Net Books and similar being offered with Linux installed and potential purchasers being told, "It's just like Windows, you can do everything Windows does" ( isn't that the Linux mantra ? ). MS have the perfect right to point out that what's promised may not be reality. So-called "false claims" are made by Linux fanbois as well as MS.
Of course MS are going to use every trick in the book to keep the potential market on-side and away from competitors. Maybe Linux fanbois should stop bleating about what MS does and actually counter the arguments; demonstrate how Linux is just as good. Unfortunately, "Download this, re-compile the kernel, and off you go" just doesn't cut it compared to "insert disk, come back in a couple of minutes and it will just work".
The real irony is, as a Windows user, I have some very skilled Linux friends ( working on Linux and *nix professionally ), but whenever I need them to fix something on my Linux box it's almost always a case of, "Hmm, it should be that command. Maybe you need SUDO. No. That's odd". If real pros flounder at the myriad of distros and kernel versions how the heck are normal, Linux illiterate users expected to fare any better ?
Linux is great for servers and the net book / laptop / desktop where users are happy with what's installed; email and browsing is generally as good on Linux and Windows ( as it would be on any OS with just limited applications ). And, sure, MS need / want to sway users from choosing that path or lose revenue.
Linux can counter Windows by doing the same comparisons. Would the Linux comparison be any better, more truthful, less free of "false claims", FUD and disingenuity ? I suspect not.
Just saying Windows is not better than Linux is not the same as proving Linux is better. The latter is hard to do, which is perhaps why all we usually have is the former. Linux needs to make a convincing case for itself for mid-range end-users. I believe it cannot at the present time.
70. Patrick O'Reilly
Gates Horns
A boy named SUE
Shouldn't the Linux Foundation be able to sue Microsoft for defamation? As you can see here they have debunked most of the issues expressed by M$.
I do find it interesting that Apple is missing from this list, shouldn't it be:
Windows: Great (because we own it)
Apple: OK too (because we own lots of their stock)
Linux: Bad (because we can never own them)
Another vote of support here for the Steve 'Fester' Balmer icon.
71. LaeMi Qian Silver badge
Windows Support?
Like anywhere you get what you pay for. Linux is only "unsupported" (by which I mean, self supported via the whims of the forums) if you download it free. There are plenty of vendors out there who you can pay for top-line support - they can even open up the code and fix bugs for you if it is suitable to the contract you have with them (try getting an independent MS-Windows support service to do that!!!. Heck, try getting Microsoft themselves to do that, even organisations large enough to have their own standing army have failed on that one).
At least in LinuxLand, if you don't like the support you are getting from one place, there are plenty of others to try, or at least to play your support provider off against the competition for better service and/or a better deal (can anyone say "free market"? - no it isn't pronounced "mon-op-ol-ee"!). Particularly for the people who buy retail, the commercial software sector's idea of support is "we have your money, now be a good little consumer and piss off to the user forums we are kind enough to host on an old server in the corner." (Not to say there aren't some great company techs on these forums, but it is generally pretty obvious they are great (and on the forums) in spite of their company, not because of them).
On the upside, now all the Vista refugees are finally drifting back to Windows, the white noise of "Just reinstall your OS" advice on the Linux forums is well on the decline allowing the quality-of-unsupport to rise again.
72. Falanx
Re: Llama-made
It was actually spelt 'Cnut'. Not joking :-) Ironic, that...
73. Anonymous Coward
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windows apps on linux
if you don't mind paying a small license fee (like about $15 I think) you can use CodeWeavers instead of wine. They have a Mac version too.
CodeWeavers is based on wine, but they've made the effort to ensure that it works fully with various popular Windows apps (e.g. Photoshop, Office etc) and with various games. You don't need a Windows license, but you do need a license for the software you are installing - though I've no doubt cracked copies would work too.
It works very well. And no I don't work for them, but I did get a free license last year when they spent 24 hours giving them away...
74. Joe Cooper
Video chat on IM networks
I actually quit using Linux after about 8 years - now I use Windows 7 and Mac.
But I gotta mention, I did use video chat on one network in particular.
75. Gav
WINE is not the solution
Saying that Linux does it all, when it's running an emulator to pretend it's Windows, is really not a recommendation for Linux.
All your end user is going to ask is why am I running one system to pretend to be the other? It sounds like it would be a lot simpler if I just run the latter to begin with.
76. Andus McCoatover
@Alan Esworthy - USB FAT-32
Works a treat. Use 'luckybackup' for, er, backup, and transferring files. Cost me a fuc*king fortune, however. €15. For the 8G stick.
Now, go 'stick' your head up a dead bear's bottom, there's a good boy. Remember to breathe deeply.
77. Anonymous Coward
getting Updates to work.....
open IE, Tools, settings, connections, lan settings, enter proxy IP or address.
run windows updates.
first we need to create a new file in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ path like this
su sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy (to create the file)
then type in the following
Acquire::http::proxy “http://domain\usersname:password@proxyIP:8080”;
or edit the apt.conf file
then type in the following
define in apt.conf
Acquire {
Retries "0";
HTTP {
Proxy "http://domain\usersname:password@proxyIP:8080";
( how secure is this having to hard code login details in ! tsk!)
Then run your updates, if you have the right repositories specified..
so which was easier??
Linux should be reserved for the very nerdy with no social life..
And windows for the rest of us.
How you'd explain this task to a non techy end user on the phone is something that i'd not wish to attempt.
78. Anonymous Coward
Oh come on
everybody knows what OS to put on your desktop....
Linux for "dodgy websites"
Windows for actually doing something productive
But beware - too much dual booting can lead to blindness.
79. WonkoTheSane Silver badge
Updating your PC
Run Windows Update
Reboot (possibly multiple times)
Run Office Update
Reboot (possibly multiple times)
=Run separate updates for each of your software packages
=Reboot (possibly multiple times)
Until done
Linux (Ubuntu 9.04 for example)
Run Update Manager
Give Admin Password
Reboot (ONLY if kernel or video card driver updated)
80. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
"PCs run more of the software your customers use most"
Are they suggesting that a computer with Linux on it isn't a PC?
81. magnetik
@Jason Bloomberg
Linux can run any Windows program through the likes of VMware. Do you understand the difference between WINE and a virtual machine?
82. Anonymous Coward
nom nom nom
I ♥ cheese
83. Fuzz
@ BKB - On camera software
"there isn't any equivalent on Windows at all as far as I know, except expensive software tied to particular camera makers."
XP includes the "Scanner and Camera Wizard" not sure what the Vista equivalent is, this allows taking pictures using a USB connected camera. I think it works with any PTP enabled camera and also with webcams.
84. Cameron Colley
Who cares?
Personally, I leave people who buy MS products to it -- I've given up telling "Microsoft people" about Linux as most people are too lazy, stupid, or dependant on crap like iTunes to use it. I've given up trying to support them though as I've no wish to learn _another_ Microsoft OS -- if Windows is so easy to use nobody should need tech support anyhow.
85. Graham Marsden
Come on, El Reg...
... We need the Ursine Mammal Defecating in an Arboreal Environment icon NOW!!
86. Boris the Cockroach Silver badge
RE:Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 9th September 2009 10:29 GMT
getting Updates to work.....
In my case (Fedora 6) click on Applications-system tools-software updater
type in root password
click ok
Some of us linux freaks are fed up typing into the console too
87. Nigel 11
They would say that wouldn't they. It's like considering anything the Pope has to say about protestantism as reliable and unbiassed.
As for "few" printers, HP ought to consider legal action. (but of course they won't, because they also sell PCs and need Microsoft). hplip (open-source supported by HP) supports virtually their entire product range.
88. Robert Ramsay
Gah! I'm so angry!
I fought for people like you in the war - but I didn't get one!
89. Victor Szulc
The statement that "Linux can run X and Y" always comes with a caveat... "If you use WINE/ Virtual PC/Have advanced computer skills" and so on. No wonder Linux is an utter failure on the desktop as well as in the business world.
Being dependant on certain software in order for you to run the programs you're used to using on your PC, taking a gamble any time you buy a new piece of hardware, and being dependant on the good graces and technical support of geeks, who'll love to mock you for your lack of computer expertise, or for using "commercial non-free software" is NOT what your regular consumer wants. Why is it even newsworthy that Microsoft points this out?
It's amusing to read how "simple and easy" Linux supposedly is compared to Windows XP (Another proof of what a failure Linux is... In order for the comparison to be even remotely fair, they compare the newest version of ubuntu/whatever with Microsofts 8 year old OS!) Too bad that regular computer-users somehow manage to use their Windows for years, without ever realizing, that what they really, really want is Linux, lol!
90. Neil 6
Microsoft are right. That's why they have such a market share.
It doesn't make Windows better than Linux technically, but it is definately more user friendly.
If the masses switched to multiple Linux Distros we'd be stepping back 20 years in term of usability.
91. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
By Boris the Cockroach Posted By Boris the Cockroach, Wednesday 9th September 2009 11:18 GMT
And fedora through a proxy???
As yet, I've not found a distro that will work with a proxy server via few simple clicks..
Answers on a post card please...
Linux is good for certain applications.. nagios, mrtg, smokeping, apache etc,, but an end users desktop isn't one of them..
92. James Hughes 1
Linux vs Vista
Ok, I'll join the fray.
Other half uses Vista on a new Acer thing. Nice and fast and pretty, but she keep looking enviously at my Ubuntu system because her wireless networking is so erratic - constantly dropping in and out, despite my best efforts to fix it (why should I need to upgrade the router software?).
Ubuntu on both my ancient desktop and a newer Acer laptop has worked very well - wireless was a doddle, USB sticks/drives no problem. Only issue has been a recent kernel upgrade that broke the video driver. Now this would really have stumped a novice (or even more experienced) user - took me a few days on and off to figure it out. That was defo. a low point, but since I found no reference on the net about it it would appear to be a relatively rare issue.
As to the apps available, I guess a lot of people commenting above haven't really looked very hard. I have been stunned by the quantity and quality of many of the available apps - from graphics to music to photo management etc. All free. Many similar apps of equivalent quality are of course available on windows, but at a price.
For me, Skype works with webcam, Spotify works, OpenOffice works, Eclipse works, BBC iPlayer works (ITV using silverlight doesn't - the OS version sucks at the moment), Firefox works, email/calender works, DVD ripping/shrinking and playback works. Even Tomb Raider works (under Wine - does it still work under Vista?). I'm happy.
As for a performance comparison with Vista - her machine is a 3ghz thing, and appears slower in general usage than my AMD Athlon 2Ghz, which has less memory. That's a real plus as I don't need to upgrade just yet, although it's on the horizon.
So, in precis, if it wasn't for the bad (and so far unfixed) wireless networking on Vista, it would be absolutely fine. If it wasn't for the bad experience with the (third party) NVidia graphics driver on Ubuntu (but now fixed), it would be absolutely fine. So equal in problems, but the Ubuntu machine and associated software cost very little in comparison with the Vista one.
93. Alastair McFarlane
...MS are correct. To a retailer, the majority of their customers want Windows. However to put plain wrong values on the cards is, well, plain wrong.
Currently MP3/camera/printer support is fantastic for Linux, with many devices working straight out of the box with the drivers in the kernel. Does that count as "few"? I think not.
Disclaimer: My main OS in Windows XP, though I dual boot Ubuntu 9.04. I run a webserver on Ubuntu 8.04, and am upgrading my windows install to Windows 7 soon (I would have waited 6 months but it was less than half of the retail price!).
I also work in a retailer part time and am rather used to these misleading material from suppliers. I am lucky enough to know when what I'm reading is wrong - many of my colleagues are not.
Getting my coat because I never thought I'd comment on a Linux vs. Windows comment article, it's just two damn infuriating reading all the closed-minded arguments (on *both* sides)
94. Chika
Here we go again!
Although, this time, it seems that M$ are behind it. As if we really needed yet another line of M$ vs. Linux arguments!
Yes, this is FUD. FUD doesn't have to be lies. FUD also doesn't have to be truthful. You will see, reading through this, every old argument for and against each side trotted out yet again.
Has every person that has contributed *really* tried both sides? Are they making reasonable claims about each OS? If either is "No", then they can be disregarded. Let's face it, anyone that just comes on and says "it's all true" or "it's all lies" without even a slight explanation of why they say it can be regarded as a troll and leave it at that.
And yes, I use both and more. I don't mind WXP, though there are problems. I don't mind Linux (I tend to use openSUSE), but it isn't perfect either. I've had reason to use Vista, Unix, Windows 7, RISC OS and each has its flaws. What really matters is whether you can do what you want to do with it and leave it at that. I stopped believing marketing folk long ago since they have almost the same lie rate as politicians!
What matters here isn't which is better. What matters here is that, like the people I said should be disregarded above, the claims of the Microsoft ad men aren't sufficiently substantiated and should be disregarded. After all, it's these people we have to blame for the rise of M$ and every shitty product that we have had to bear with ever since, to the extent that M$ has taken a lot of flak, even when they do, on occasion, produce something worth the effort.
Anyone that takes sales reps at their word deserve all they get.
95. Andrew 16
Re: WINE is not the solution
Read that comment back to yourself, except replace Wine with XP Mode and Linux with Windows 7.
Oh except that you need to have a chip that supports VT (or VT-X, forgot which) or the AMD equivalent to use this, which limits you to the latest processors / motherboards, with certain OEM computers having support for this disabled in the BIOS with no way of enabling it (other than hacked bios's).
Wine doesn't have any specific hardware requirements, other than the ability to run Linux.
Now I work as a support technician supporting both Windows and Linux in server and desktop roles. The problem we have is actually selling a support contract on Linux due to customers rarely experiencing problems, they much rather pay for ad hoc support on Linux as and when required (not very often), while trying to get us to include large numbers of support hours in their contracts for free for fixing Windows issues.
96. Andus McCoatover
Here's how.
Get up one morning - Icon saying "WGA has detected security ^W^W^W^W new updates available for Ubuntu. Would you like to update? PS, we won't tell Redmond."
Ubuntu Update manager, natch.
Click, go for shave, shi*t and shower (male thing, Moderatrix. Unless you shave, too - in which case, please post a link to the video..).
Anyway, by the time I've finished watching porn on the giant waterproof plasma screen in the shower, the update's done. (So's the download...) While the Windows Wa*nkers are still waiting for the thing to reboot, before Mummy comes home from getting her pension cheque cashed, in case she catches him watching xhamster. (So I've heard, anyway)
97. Anonymous Coward
But windows 7 is nice thou..
I just works..
98. magnetik
@Patrick O'Reilly
Microsoft do not own any Apple stock! They did buy some non-voting Apple stock many years ago but sold it.
99. Andrew Dyson
re: proxy!
Er, instructions for getting your updates through a proxy on debian-based systems:
Open up your Synaptic package manager, go to Settings-> Preference -> Network. Enter your proxy server details like :, and put the proxy server port (usually 8080).
Not really much harder than Windows was it?
yeah, a few things still need to be done on the command-line in Linux, but that number is ever-decreasing, at least in the major distros anyway. Sometimes of course it's easier/quicker to do it on the command-line, if you're lucky enough to know what you're doing. Handy to have that flexibility - there's a few things you can do like that in Windows, but nowhere near as many.
Also, consider whether this is something "Joe Average" would even attempt? Whatever the O/S, he'd probably get his nerdy mate to do it, since he'd either (a) not have the faintest idea why his updates weren't working, (b) have no idea what a proxy server even is. Or (c) he doesn't know he needs updates (or that updates even exist) and goes happily along not worrying and not asking anyone for help.
100. Anonymous Coward
To be blunt
This is downright illegal. Because its bullshit.
I have many devices and NOT ONE has failed to work FIRST TIME with Linux. Additionally, I do have an iPod (and several other MP3 players) and they all work and synch without a single hitch or exception with Linux.
My experience with people (some elderly) is that they find Linux MORE user friendly when it is set up properly for them than Windows, doesn't lock up or crash without warning, is robust and JUST WORKS. Anyone I've exposed to Linux has had no problem wholeheartedly embracing it and fall into using it with NO PROBLEMS. Its also endlessly customisable and can "lokk and feel" like anything.
Microsoft is seriously worried or they wouldn't be pulling this shit.
Oh, and incidentally. I know for a fact MS has many Linux/UNIX installations at Redmond for research and they accept applications in TeX, PostScript or DVI from 'nix machines by research fellows.
101. supervinx
Another Linux story
Hi !
I'm using Linux Ubuntu on a bunch of machines, and gradually removed all the dual boots with Windows.
For some engineering and architectural specific software of a friend of mine, I created a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) on a QuadCore system with WinXP (he paid for those sw and had a licensed copy of XP).
I was given a notebook (Compaq 6720s, dual core centrino 1.8 GHz 4GB Ram) with Vista Home 32bit (so only 3Gb of RAM were accessible, factory standard ...).
I never booted it up ... reformatted and installed Ubuntu 9.10 64bit ... I 've never had troubles ... even if with and old WinOnly external GPRS modem (a little wvdial script made ... wonder!)
CPU load, when system is almost idle, is around 3-4%, Ram fingerprint is about 400 Mb (with Apache server, ftp server, telnet server ... other services ...).
PS is fast, it seems not a notebook ...
Yes, Linux needs knowledge of the PC (many tasks are better done with console, Linux is not for the Point-'n'-click only dummy) ... has some drawbacks, like Windows ... but it's FREE, and,
in the average, works a lot better than Win$
102. Jason Bloomberg Silver badge
A couple of rejoinders ...
@ Patrick O'Reilly : "Shouldn't the Linux Foundation be able to sue Microsoft for defamation?"
I wish they would. Have the balls to stand up and be counted, and then the matter can be put to rest rather than fanbois on all sides crying, "mine's better than yours".
So why don't they ?
Is it because so-called "lies" are not lies ?
@ magnetik : "Linux can run any Windows program through the likes of VMware. Do you understand the difference between WINE and a virtual machine?"
I do. My Windows programs run on Windows and in a VM on anything I'd guess. They don't all run in WINE. As a "user" I shouldn't care about technicalities beyond do my applications run ? On Windows, Yes, on Linux, No.
Do you understand it's a simple as that ?
I was making the point that the VM argument is a red-herring; all OS's are equal if that's the way taken to run anything. WINE is equally a band-aid for Linux; when it runs a Windows App, great, when it doesn't it's useless, not fit for purpose.
There's lots to praise Linux for, I run it as a server ( and wouldn't touch Windows with a barge pole for that task ), I have embedded Linux systems I tinker with, but for the desktop - which is the "most people" this relates to - it's not up to par with Windows.
I installed Windows 7 RC and was amazed to find it was painless, fast, and found all drivers. That impressed me. It trashed the hard disk while reverting to XP-only which IMO is par for the course. But we're talking "user experience", and Linux is not top of the class there.
103. Number6
I just looked at my laptop (running Linux Mint) and the update tool has a settings option to set proxies, just like you find under Windows. So no problems there.
Linux has come a long way in the past few years. It still has some way to go, but for anyone who hasn't tried it for a while, you might be pleasantly surprised at the improved usability and device support.
104. Grease Monkey
Arse Covering
MS are covering their arses. They know that if they tried running this shite in an advertisment it would get pulled and they would get a very public dressing down. Bad publicity. They probably thought that by doing it this way they would be covering their arses by making resellers spout the shit instead. Then the resellers would be the ones to take the flack.
Somebody should make a song and dance about this in the mainstream media.
However it doesn't help that a lot of resellers think like this anyway. A non-IT friend of mine asked about Linux in PC World and was told by the acne-attack-in-a-shirt that "Linux doesn't work with intetnet explorer, so you need windows to go on the internet". Ho hum.
105. Anonymous Coward
Despical yes, but not all wrong.
I've tried Linux, however I found that it took MUCH LONGER to customise to my tastes, and keep updated, and even then, it couldn't do some stuff as well as windows. I'm sorry but WINE is not good enough, and you need plenty of spare RAM to run VirtualBox VMs of Windows.
The Linux distro builders, and especially the Linux application developers, need to understand that computers are primarily tool, and time really is worth money! Until this is understand and acted on, I'll probably stick with windows.
An example of the rampant OSS usability disconnect is NetBeans, I still have to dive into arcane project properties and XML files because not enough config is exposed in the project GUI.
106. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
Wisdom from convicted criminals?
Both of these companies have been convicted of consumer fraud and other crimes.
107. Anonymous Coward
corporate ****ers
This is not the first Ive heard about MS lying to the general public and corporates, its quite rife in fact from what I can gather. I have heard at work of a 'representive' from MS attempting to
talk an employee of a large client out of using linux based solutions because of lack of security.
Fortunately this employee wasnt an idiot.
They should be held to account and I hope this scuppers their 'partner program' which is obviously only meant to defeat any competition from the inside - the game they have always played - if you have an inferior product - either buy out the competition or if that doesnt work use alternative tactics.
Most of the microsoft code base and applications has either been copied (badly) from linux/unix or bought from another company and hacked - they dont make software - they market it. So looking forward to more court cases while they dig they own grave slowly.
108. Anonymous Coward
Welll let's look at it THIS way
M$ certainly weren't sensitive enough when they made that, in the name of competition. The games topic is certainly true, after all unless you want to play year old games while the WINE crew try their darnedest to catch up you want to play the latest stuff while the online servers for multiplayer are at their peak. For ease of use it's certainly Windows that takes the biscuit there too. The Windows live stuff? Well OF COURSE it's going to run on Windows......that's a bit silly. If they are going to tell retailers what to put they could do a bit better and have them say "Unless you want to have a fun time trying to wriggle through a trainwreck of bash shells trying to get stuff that you don't even know if it'll run on your linux distro because the lot that make is are fighting with their stuff that they think is coolest. Windows, it just works! Just make sure you RTFM..
109. Cameron Colley
Out come the power users I see.
I notice how many of the people sticking up for Windows are the ones who know how to install Windows and its device drivers as well as how to do complicated (by man in the street standards) things like using a proxy.
How many old dears know how to install Windows? How many know how to set a proxy server?
I wasn't going to get involved in this whole thing again but I can't resist replying to the comments from people who think "Linux is too hard" because they assume they "know about computers" because they know where the dialogue boxes in Windows are an are used to the typical MS hidden settings:
If you don't understand how to, for example, set a proxy server in Linux you do not know about computers -- you just know about some operating system versions by Microsoft.
If you can't install wireless drivers with ndiswrapper using instructions on the internet you don't understand computers -- it's very simple to do.
I'll admit Linux has its limitations -- but granny not being able to install and configure it it is a limitation to Windows too.
Both OSs have their places and their uses -- but morons who think they "know computers" and say "Linux is hard to use" piss me off -- if my computer semi-literate pensioner of a mother, amoungst others, can boot into Kubuntu and find her way around with no training you must be extremely stupid if you can't use Linux day-to-day.
110. Anonymous Coward
Thumb Down
Doesn't anyone think that ...
MS are not even comparing like with like? That makes their whole exercise invalid and meaningless.
Its like comparing a Trebant to a Chieftan tank.
With Windows as the Trebant.
111. magnetik
@Jason Bloomberg
Depends on how you look at it. I consider WINE to be a complimentary system, not a band aid. Sure, I can run any Windows apps I might need in a VM but using WINE gives me advantages such as better performance and security. True enough it's more technically difficult to set up than a VM but CodeWeavers do a good job of making it easy enough to use for most people.
112. Anonymous Coward
The DOJ needs to launch an investigation into this matter.
113. Anonymous Coward
atn: anonymous troll
re: proxy, by Anonymous Coward
"getting Updates to work..... Linux: first we need to create a new file in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ path"
Total nonsense. The GUI installer in Linux is known as Synaptic. (Why do they have to engage in obviously willful untruths to get their point across. Surely the two systems can be judged on their respective merits.)
114. Anonymous Coward
wndows vs linux
I reinstalled my OSs the other day - I have ubuntu for general use (and work) as is more stable, runs faster - and doesnt require a fresh reinstall every 6 months after the whole thing has slowed down to a crawl, and a fresh untouched xp install for games ONLY.
Here are the facts:
It took about 6 hours to install XP + all the service packs and updates and drivers and third party software that you need because theirs is crap. This includes about 15 reboots after every fecking update which happens more and more often and hunting and downloading all the software from different places.
It took 20 minutes to install ubuntu from scratch with 1 reboot after which most applications I require were installed already including drivers - and then another 5 minutes to install all the other software I required - wiht no reboots required.
No contest. Windows users are all morons sick of hearing them stick up for that crap - games is what its good for only - everything else I can do on linux. Most of them probably havent even tried it - or are microsoft employees.
Also my laptop came preinstalled with vista home which I tested briefly before wiping - took about 45 minutes to install with about 3 reboots - the whole screen then filled up with popups before hanging like a dog. Immediatley wiped and installed ubuntu with all graphics, sound and wireless working fine in 20 minutes.
Windows is for idiots, linux is for people who are sick of windows been rubbish.
Im technically minded and have used both for about 10 years so enough time to evaluate them both and make my own choice - I have also programmed in both for this time and windows api is hideous compared to Qt for example - windows obviously has the market share anyway but linux distros like ubuntu are catching up very quickly ...
115. Anonymous Coward
Who controls your grandchild's ability to get rid of a turd?
Normally the notion that you (the consumer) should be using Windows is implied. The idea is not to actually consider that it's there or realise you're paying for it. Likewise retailers just accept Windows as a fact of life. When the explicit statement, "Don't use Linux" is issued by Microsoft that says a lot. The "I'm a PC" campaigns from Apple and MS both let the assumption be implied that PC=PC and Windows. They both prefer it that way. If either of them mentions any other possibility it's because they think the cat is already out of the bag and have commenced damage limitation. You don't hear anything from them about FreeBSD, mostly because granny isn't *already* using it.
And once again, the main points are about third parties more than anything else. Each year this third party support argument is brought up by MS and their devotees, each year it is less compelling. The fact is some of those average customers have heard of Linux, some of them do understand vendor lock-in and an increasing number of manufacturers and developers are catering to these people.
The use of these tactics by Microsoft is a positive sign for the future of open standards. This is actually good news for everyone now, better news for our grandchildren. They are the ones who will have control and ownership of all their appliances in the future because lock in tactics were undermined now and in the past. Imagine if your toilet refused to flush because you wouldn't pay for a software update? That's what we're looking at if we're not careful.
116. supervinx
Windows Apps
When I switched to Linux I tried to use only Linux native apps ...
A lot of Windows users only write some stuff and surf the web ... so they use easily a modern Linux distro ...
You can't claim "Windows works" or "Windows is better" only because is more user friendly, and his kernel is a pain ...
And there's no reason to put Linux in the shame because it needs more knowledge of the PC.
IMHO I think that the PC shouldn't be used at all from people who doesn't know anything about ... I don't like the plug-n-play for dummies ...
So, If you prefer Windows, I respect your choice ...
I need an OS, with solid services and full control on the machine.
If you need a multimedial toy (expensive and clumsy), your choice will be Windows.
If you need something else, your choice is Unix or Mac.
Windows is more supported, yes, there's a lot of money around it.
Once I went to a conference (I'll not reveal the brand) and they told that there's not support for Linux. When the conference ended, they told me: "We can't distribute Linux drivers ... we have an agreement with Microsoft ... but if you send us an email, we'll give them to you"
This speak for itself.
I understand that M$ sees a threat from a totally *FREE* OS ...
117. Mike Gravgaard
For Cameron Colley
I agree with everything you wrote... I used Windows 7 today (the release not RC) and must admit I don't really see the point why people think its so good - I don't really see the point in Windows any more...
Alot of the problems/issues with Windows still mean to be there:
- Indexing on drives by default.
- GUI seems to have stupid changes (why did they medal with the GUI???).
Good point, seems quite quick on low system resources (3.0GHz P4, 512MB RAM) thugh I bet if McAfee was installed on it, it would run like a dog - I know if I insalled linux (Ubuntu) on this, it would run like shit off a shovel..
I personally don't run Windows at hom anymore, I used to use Windows 2000 and Windows XP but got tired of reapriing or reinstalling it - I think every device in my house now runs Linux of some description.
Router - Netgear DG834 v1 running OpenWRT though doesn't autodial ADSL connection.
PVRs - Both Humax boxes run a linux flavor though cannot find the source code for it...
My three PCs run either Debian or Ubuntu - I prefer Debian for my server but Ubuntu is good for normal desktop PCs.
My mum uses Ubuntu - seems to run quickly and I don't really need to look at it to often.
My Amiga 4000T will run Debian 4 Etch or Lenny if I can find a case for it..
I do have Windows XP on a VM and caddie but this only gets used if I have a Fallout 3 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R craving...
I think Microsoft are scared that businesses will adopt to linux.
118. Dusty Wilson
Why I use Linux (and other complaints)
1) WINE stands for WINE IS NOT AN EMULATOR. It is not an emulator. It's basically a chunk of DLL files that provide the same DLL dependencies in Linux as Windows.
2) World of Warcraft works perfectly well in Linux via WINE. And it's not difficult. Install WINE (no, you don't have to configure it), pop in your World of Warcraft disc (or go to wherever you downloaded it if you don't use a game disc), and double-click the WoW installer. That requires ZERO usage of the command line or anything strange. Easy. If you can't figure that out, you shouldn't be installing things on any OS.
3) My step-mother, father, and fiancée all use Ubuntu. I didn't provide any training. They are very happy. My step-mother is especially happy since her Ubuntu install runs much faster than the XP install that was formerly on the box.
4) I have a ton of customers (I do tech support for a living) that need hand-holding for Windows. A few that I've converted to Ubuntu haven't called in ages for help. It just works. And they aren't techies. The few that I've moved to Mac OS X also haven't called in ages. It just works. But *all* of those people were previously on Windows and did need help all the time. Windows is *not* more reliable or easy. But I lose money (hourly pay!) every time a customer moves away from Windows.
5) I stopped using Windows myself ages ago. I think the last time I used it as the primary OS was in 2005 or so. Every game I want to play works without tweaking and messing about. Every application I need is either already in the package manager (simple click of "Applications > Add/Remove..." and navigating to the app I want) or works perfectly well via WINE. WINE lets me use all of the annoying Adobe products (Flash, Dreamweaver, etc) that I want without fail.
6) I get to use applications that follow proper standards without the headache. No need for the "Adobe Quick-Start Tooltray" (whatever it's called) nonsense. No "quick-start" anything. Everything runs perfectly fine and fast without this pre-loading/memory-wasting junk.
7) Everything that is required to properly use the computer is available and is easy in Linux. If you are trying to do something that requires a techie to figure out, you'll need a techie to do the same thing in Windows. And in Mac OS X. Just because *you* know how to set some special thing in Windows doesn't mean that everyone else does. And just because you don't know how to set it in Linux doesn't mean it's actually a difficult thing to do. It's almost definitely just as easy to set that special thing in Linux. And sometimes you won't even need to do that tweak.
8) When was the last time you had to defrag a drive in Linux? I'll let you spend time thinking about that. Never? Yeah, me either. How about anti-virus?
9) When was the last time you screwed up your Windows install because of some bad/buggy program you installed? With a proper package management system (no, you don't know it exists.. just go to the "Applications > Add/Remove..." thing), you can very cleanly purge anything you don't want on your system. It's just like you never had it installed in the first place.
10) When was the last time your mother screwed up her Windows install (... she doesn't know *how* it happened, of course)? I'll tell you when my step-mother last screwed up her Ubuntu install: it hasn't happened. And she doesn't know anything about computers that your mother doesn't know.
11) Hardware? I haven't had a problem. My desktop computer runs perfectly well with two monitors, NVIDIA video card, surround sound, wireless keyboard, USB mouse, bluetooth-sync'd phone, SD cards, bluetooth headset, gigabit ethernet, wireless card, Sprint wireless card (stopped using it a couple years ago because I didn't need it anymore), bluetooth dialup networking via phone, and everything else I've thrown at it. I have never, ever had a hardware problem in the last three years. On the other hand, when I installed Windows on a spare laptop so my girlfriend (now fiancée) could watch some Silverlight-required thing, I had to use a separate computer to download the wireless drivers, the video drivers, the sound drivers, Silverlight itself, a ton of Windows updates, and had to prove to Microsoft that I didn't steal the whole mess.
And here's some techie extras: (which are completely optional and not at all required for happy computing)
1) On my network, it takes about 5 minutes to install the newest Ubuntu release... with no preinstalled OS nor an install disc. Tell the computer to do a netboot (PXE, for those in the know. Just press F12 or whatever your motherboard likes you to do) and pick "Install: Ubuntu 64-bit Stable" or whatever architecture/version/distro you want. It installs from a local proxy (but fetches new files if there are newer versions). It installs all of the fancy little codecs and plugins and junk that you want. It makes sure you can play encrypted DVDs on your fresh install. No need to install extra stuff later. This single, initial install does it all at once. And as a bonus, a complete computer-phobe could use the installer. And no need to pay for some per-seat or per-computer license for this nice installer system.
2) Want to make your own packages? Go ahead. You don't need to ask the Linux gods or vendors for permission. You don't need a local install server. You even get the bonus of signed, secure packages from your custom trusted source. For my Debian-based and Ubuntu-based servers, I have fancy, custom packages that do everything I want to do. My Debian server usage is very advanced; my packages make it so easy to go from new server to working server doing real work in less than 20 minutes. And that even includes scheduled encrypted, off-site backups.
119. Bernie 2
Windows vs Linux
I grew up on Windows but now my affiliation lies with Linux, with which I have relatively little experience.
I use Ubuntu, and have used XP and Vista (but not Win7 - I just don't care any more) and they each have their pros and cons. I'm not going to BS anyone that either OS is better. If I had the money I'd happily give OSX a fair trial too.
These marketing materials are only putting into print what the majority of Windows users (and by extension the majority of PC users) have thought for years. The majority of users think Linux is shit. And it's an opinion they will hold vehemently without having a shred of actual knowledge on the subject. Do I want those people on board with Linux? No not really.
All MS is doing is putting their target markets opinion into words and printing it up for the sales reps (as if they don't already know?) And that's just good marketing tbh.
I do find it amusing that Windows Live doesn't work on Linux. Can anyone guess what made me switch to Ubuntu? That Live stuff thoroughly bolloxed up my Vista install. Nice.
/Beer because that's what I was drinking when I wrote this
120. Anonymous Coward
Incidentally ...
Linux installations don't start slowing to a crawl within weeks and astoundingly (to those first intoduced to Linux) it doesn't need defragging, third-party anti-virus or anti-malware software, it never thrashes the disk like hell, I find it runs Windows games just fine, its a joy to program with and there is no tie-in to anything.
I've never had hardware or compatibility problems and yeah even my printer works. Just fine. Even though its an HP. Never even had to search for a driver for it. Common Unix Printer interface worked well.
Every utility I spent years ammasing for Windows was already there installed by default with Linux. Oh and I can make it look/feel like any other OS I like if I have a mind to.
121. The First Dave
Well, there is plenty of FUD on both sides, and this is no worse than either side has pulled out in the past. I notice that none of the commenters above dared to say that you could get good support for Linux. I wonder why?
What would have been really interesting would have been if Apple were included in the comparison too - but since they would have rated as 'Best' in each category, that might have spoiled the effect, no?
122. Michael Schmidt
This is the latest example of unfair business practices by Microsoft. How many lawsuits have they lost? Linux has a history of being cutting edge - multiprocessor support, advanced disk systems, and now USB 3.0. Ubuntu's goal is a 10-second boot time in the near future (how long does Windows take?). Official support is available with several distros, such as Ubuntu, SUSE, and Red Hat. Hardware support is, in my opinion, no worse than Vista. The Gutenprint project has made printer incompatibility rare, indeed. Community support is excellent. And all the free software you need for basic work. WINE takes care of compatibility with a lot of Windows apps.
I've used Ubuntu for several years and own no Microsoft products. My biggest complaint is that it is boring! No firewall intrusions, no viruses, no registry repair, no blue screen of death, no disk defrag. It just works, day in and day out. Oh, and how about compatibility with open-source standards. Then the big one --- it's free.
123. Captain Thyratron
Both arguments are correct.
Sod 'em both. I'm sticking to Solaris.
124. Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
Fingers plugging the holes....
Really, funny I went to LINUX in the mid-90's because I needed a good technical computing environment, back then you did have to tweak C-code and device drivers to get things going. I converted over to LINUX a little over a decade later for a 180-deg opposite reason I wanted something that "It Just Works", I was sick of:
- Defragging
- Hunting for drivers for every piece of hardware
- Firewall
- Anti-Virus
- Registry corruption
- recovering from Mal-Ware
- BSOD's
- Forced upgrades that Break everything
- Forced upgrades that cuase network problems, machines that couldn't even talk to each other
- Forced upgrades that make you relearn the wheel
- Product activation/WGA/nagware
- Having to support family/friends/neighbors with problems with "that other OS"
- Wireless never working
This comparison is a load of Crap, and support from any of the commercial distro's (Red Hat, Canonical, Xandros is probably MUCH better than the usual alternatives (Apple, MS)
125. jg007
stop being stupid!
Microsoft = A Company = Requires Money to pay it's staff and shareholders !
Hopefully most of the people on here actually work for a living and don't just claim benefits, would you all sugest that people stop using whichever product of software your company makes and look for a cheaper or free alternative??. Also do any of you complain when you go into your local supermarket and you are bombarded by adverts that their products are cheaper and better than the competition?
Linux and open source has a place and is fine used by a percentage of people but if it were used by everybody there would be several issues not least of all that it would not exactly help the economy and many of the readers of the register were nobody to pay for any software ever and that hackers / malware writers would then be forced into finding ways to attack it more than at present
and as far as the comments for ubuntu = works , my PC works day in day out without any problems despite me regularly installing and removing software
126. Werner McGoole
I am now MS free... yay!
After progressively switching to Linux apps all I had left was the archive of my old Windows disk... After grabbing the personal data I still needed, I invoked the command:
rm -r /windows
Boy, did that feel good!
127. Anonymous Coward
@The Original Ash - Belkin drivers
Due to patent crap and trolls making reverse engineering illegal, writing drivers is not as simple as just coding.
All the device writers are allowed to do is write wrappers than allow you to extract the Belkin driver firmware from the Windows drivers, than interface that with the Linux driver code. Distros do not have right to pass the firmware code out, so you have to do it yourself, so the distro makers don't get taken to court!
The thing that always amuses me is that you install the distro, then says it cannot install the wireless card without downloading the drivers first. Yes, but the wireless doesn't work yet, so how to I get the drivers down to make it work!?! You have dig out your trusty old ethernet cable and wire up to the router, under the stairs in my case, get the drivers, then pack the cable away, go wireless!
Thank Microshaft! Thanks for making the industry such a pleasant place to try to simply use a piece of hardware I paid for, its mine but I want use differently without your malware ridden piece of crud O/S!
128. The Spook
MS software can seriously waste your weekend!
I totally trashed GDM (Gnome Display Manager - one of the many choices for a graphical desktop environment for *nix) the other day on my Ubuntu system (completely my own fault, being a little too zealous when removing 'orphaned' packages).
This in itself is not a unique Linux phenomena, I have terminally broken *plenty* of Win installations, they are just not as easy to fix.
So, I was faced with two simple choices (only no.2 would have been available with Windoze);
1) find, fix and reinstall the broken packages using the command line.
2) reinstall the OS.
I estimated that I might spend and hour or more on option 1, so I got out my CD and reinstalled (20mins).
Now, *here's the real killer*. After reinstalling the OS from scratch and rebooting, everything was still as I left it. Junk on my desktop, emails in my inbox, all passwords remembered, browser favourites, even my WPA keys! Do that on a windows box. I bet you can't.
Personally, I have pi$$ed away entire weekends reinstalling Windoze and the apps I had, then copying back all my data (if I had a recent backup).
The secret sauce? my home directory (it's like 'My Documents' but better because it actually contains *all* your stuff!) lives on a separate partition to the OS.
People that whine about Linux being hard to use make me want to puke. Have these people used Windows? I can only imaging that they haven't. My 2 year old daughter can use a Ubuntu machine with ease and, best of all, she can't break it. She can break a windows box in a few minutes!
129. The Spook
Linux - it just works!
I became battle-hardened on XP, but have had the misfortune to use both Shista and Win7.
To be fair, Win7 is a helluva improvement on Shista, but it still blows bigtime in comparison to any modern Linux distro. I have to work with crappy MS products, but I wouldn't switch my own machines back if you paid me. Probably not even then!
130. Stan 2
Who want's 'em?
In all honesty, what kind of a fskced group of people is going to want to have anything to do with the kind of gobshites who are going to believe this?
We know the kind of idiots PCworld .etc employ, we know the kind of idiots that are also users and we don't want them clogging up the forums asking where the "any" key is.
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