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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33673 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
My bank has a stupidly disabled right-click on its website which I don't like. So I tweak the JavaScript on the page to disable this misbehavior.
The obvious disadvantage to this is that I have to do this every time I visit the site, which is a nuisance.
Is there a way by which one can load custom JavaScript on a third-party website automatically? I Need something which is reliable and trustworthy as I plan to run the addon on my bank's website.
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You are looking for Tampermonkey: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo
The Firefox equivalent (and the original addon, from which the Chrome one takes its name) is Greasemonkey.
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don't need some script to steal my bank passwords, so Is Tampermonkey reliable? – Gaurish Sharma Dec 28 '11 at 11:15
The biggest reason you know you can trust it (besides the huge number of users) is that it's open source: code.google.com/p/tampermonkey/source/browse/trunk – Interrobang Dec 28 '11 at 11:16
Thanks, I am sold then. gonna try it! – Gaurish Sharma Dec 28 '11 at 11:23
@Interrobang This has been closed source since 2010 – Tyilo Feb 10 '12 at 23:45
@Tyilo last change in the Google Code trunk was Nov 21 2012, doesn't look closed to me. Its website confirms it's open-source. – Interrobang Dec 9 '12 at 22:59
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I just use a bookmarkelt.
I created a shortcut with this code in the chrome bookmark bar:
And then it's one click to run it.
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This is nifty trick! Thanks :D – Gaurish Sharma Dec 28 '11 at 11:24
@Gaurish - my pleasure - I picked it up from someone else on Stack Overflow just a couple of months ago. – ripper234 Dec 28 '11 at 14:27
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Using a bookmarklet is neat, but you have to click on it. Instead, in Google Chrome you can create a search engine shortcut and do the same using just your keyboard.
All you have to do is :
1. Right Clk. on the Address Bar
2. Edit Search Engines
3. Create a new Entry with : Name : {Anything}, Keyword : {Any shortcut of your choosing, say q}, URL: javascript:({Your Javascript code})
4. Then when you want to run the script on any page, simply press " Ctrl + L " to bring focus to address bar. Then Press "q", or whatever shortcut you chose above.
This will execute your javascript code on that page.
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Personalized Web - Chrome Extension
• automatically inject custom code (HTML, JavaScript & CSS) to any webpage
• save rules that inject code automatically to URL(s)
• import/export/backup your rules
• now open source
I use this extension all the time because it is so easy to use!
Get it from the Chrome Web Store here
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33674 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
When creating a GLX context, you have to specify whether you want direct rendering or not. Direct rendering provides a performance advantage sometimes, so it's preferable to use that, but it can't be used with a remote X-server.
Is there a simple and reliable way to determine if my application is connected to a local server?
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s/advantage sometimes/advantage always/ It's just a question of "hardly noticeable" or "order of magnitude" advantage. – Nathan Kidd Sep 18 '12 at 18:02
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I think you can just request a direct rendering context, and GLX will fallback to an indirect one if appropiate. Source: http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glXCreateContext.xml
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In addition to the answer of @gpeche, you can test if a context is direct with glXIsDirect. Note, that by using Vertex Buffer Objects the performance differences between indirect and direct rendering are neglectible: All data is kept server side and only (short and small) drawing commands are used, that cause the rendering of large batches.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33675 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I am trying to develop an iPhone app using PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile. This app has a Fixed Footer.
The main problem I'm facing right now is that the built-in page transition changes THE WHOLE PAGE, requiring me to copy/paste the footer code in every page.
Obviously, this is not the way to do it. Any small change in the footer has to be duplicated 10+ times (for 10+ pages).
My question is as follows: how can I load just the "content" part of the page (with a slide transition) so I wont have to have to footer code in all of my pages?
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That functionality is not yet available in jQuery Mobile. You can turn on the touchOverflowEnabled option for "real" fixed-footers and fixed-headers on iOS 5 devices but not for any other devices.
In order to achieve true fixed toolbars, a browser needs to either support position:fixed or overflow:auto. Fortunately, this support is coming to mobile platforms so we can achieve this with web standards. In jQuery Mobile, we have added a global feature called touchOverflowEnabled that leverages the overflow:auto CSS property on supported platforms like iOS5. When enabled, the framework wraps each page in a container with it's own internal scrolling. This allows us to position the toolbars outside the scrolling body so they truly stay fixed in place at all times.
Source: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/toolbars/bars-fixed.html
You can however setup your footers in a programmatic manor rather than hard-coding each page:
//bind an event handler to the `pagecreate` event for all `data-role="page"` elements
$(document).delegate('[data-role="page"]', 'pagecreate', function () {
//append a footer to this page (`pagecreate` is only called once per page added to the DOM so you don't have to worry about appending multiple footers to a single page
$(this).append('<div data-id="my-fixed-footer" data-position="fixed" data-role="footer">{THE HTML FOR YOUR FOOTER GOES HERE}</div>');
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/vNqaG/ (Notice there are no hard-coded footers in the HTML pane)
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If you're using a database in the web application, you can simply add the footer html into the database and load it with PHP every page. You'd have to hard-code the PHP into every page at first, but after that all it takes to change the footer is just a quick editing of the database. Look up MySQL/PHP.
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Storing HTML in the database is not a good idea. A database is for data, not an HTML view. Over time, this can create a mess that is difficult to maintain because your different concerns are not separated and compartmentalized. – ROFLwTIME Feb 15 '13 at 16:04
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33676 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
We're just started using Pivotal Tracker to manage our todo list for our main application. We recently began a huge new feature, and so the last 50 or so tasks are all to do with that feature.
However, I now have to make a hotfix for our current release, and it just feels wrong to stick it in with all of the tasks for the big new feature. I'd like to find a standard way to organize similar tasks.
So, how are some ways that you organize tasks in Pivotal Tracker (or another system if it's relevant)?
Do you create tags for each feature and each release? If a bug is related to a feature, do you tag it as such? Where do you draw the line between a taggable feature verses a simple client request?
Thanks! I'm very eager to hear your thoughts!
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Tracker is a very opinionated piece of software, and it works best with its own particular workflow. There's a pretty in-depth explanation video at http://bit.ly/conceptsofpivotaltracker
The short answer to your specific "how do you organize tasks?":
• label Feature Stories to group them into tracks (eg if you were building Amazon, tracks might be things like 'Shopping Cart', 'Payment', 'Manage Inventory' and 'Recommendations'.).
• use Release Markers (its another story type, like Feature or Bug) to denote releases. Release markers are usually things like 'Show to investors', 'Shopping Cart Complete', 'Start Beta test' or 'v2'.
In your case, I'd give those 50 tasks a "huge new feature" label, and make the hotfix a bug.
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Thanks for the answer. I guess I'm hoping for something more from Pivotal, like being able to actually assign a story to a particular category, but I guess tags will do for now. Thanks again, and welcome to SO :-) – Topher Fangio Jan 17 '12 at 14:36
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33677 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Is there a way to configure CakePHP for it to work well with Twitter Bootstrap? I realize this question has already been asked here, but the answer wasn't really complete.
There are also quite a few tutorials out there, but they are all either outdated or just not working, example: Build a PHP application using CakePHP and (twitter) Bootstrap, Part 1.
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Assuming that the css file is included in your layout in your view for forms you can use the follwoing:
'inputDefaults' => array(
'div' => 'control-group',
'label' => array('class' => 'control-label'),
'between' => '<div class="controls">',
'after' => '</div>',
'class' => 'span3',
'error' => array('attributes' => array('wrap' => 'div', 'class' => 'alert alert-error'))
) ));
'after' => '<span class = \'help-inline\'>Minimum of 5 characters.</span></div>'));
I found this method to work perfectly with cake2.0 and bootstrap 2.0
This will produce the following
<div class="control-group required error">
<label for="UserPassword">Password</label>
<div class="controls">
<input name="data[User][password]" class="span3 form-error" type="password" value="" id="UserPassword">
<span class="help-inline">Minimum of 5 characters.</span></div>
<div class="alert alert-error">You must provide a password.</div>
The html above is after the form has been submitted and an error has been returned.
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Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! – skimberk1 Feb 29 '12 at 23:55
You're welcome. I saw your post last week when I was looking for the solution myself. – Jamie Mar 1 '12 at 0:17
@Jamie thanks for answer! Much appreciated :-) I was wandering if its possible to integrate the <span class="help-inline"> in the control div when a validation error is triggered? It looks better than the alert IMO. – Sid Aug 15 '12 at 10:56
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Bootstrap doesn't use any server-side code.
Except for LESS CSS, which you can either compile down to regular CSS on the server, or as the LESS CSS site shows you can have the browser compile it using less.js like this:
<link rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" href="LESS_FILE_HERE.less">
Just link all the .less files using stylesheet/less and the less.js file and it should work.
Other than that Bootstrap is just HTML and Javascript. just put all the javascript in the webroot/js folder and make a layout for the main HTML and get going.
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I wanted to know how to make the forms and buttons work with Bootstrap, but this is the best current answer. – skimberk1 Feb 17 '12 at 23:00
Doesn't help, the question was how to make CakePHP print bootstrap compatible html markup. – Vince Feb 20 '13 at 21:27
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I have done this. What you will need to do is the following:
• create the layout App/Views/Layouts/default.ctp
• copy the bootstrap html into that
• update the layout with the cake specific code
It works like a charm
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Have a look at the CakePHP plugin AssetCompress which handles LESS compiling for you if you have NodeJS and LESS installed on your server.
Then you just need to include the CSS files in your layout and style the forms using the Bootstrap classes.
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I wrote up a short post on how to get Bootstrap working with CakePHP here: http://wp.me/p2bC00-2s
This should help you in getting everything setup. If you have any further questions, feel free to comment on the post and I'll see if I can help.
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Checkout our Twitter Bootstrap Helper
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For the curious, this plugin does work, but it forces you to use (and remember) new methods to create form output. The slywalker plugin uses standard Cake method names. – Costa Mar 11 '13 at 3:46
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IMHO, the best Twitter Bootstrap plugin (+ recommended by one of the Cake devs in the bug tracker) is:
What's handy about this one is that it uses Cake 2's aliasing for the helpers so you don't need to change any of your view code.
So the regular $this->Html-> and $this->Form-> in all your old code will output Bootstrap markup. Awesome.
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Note that this plugin is not compatible with Bootstrap 3. The author started a new plugin with Bootstrap 3 support, but it's very bare bones and barely does anything at this point: github.com/slywalker/cakephp-plugin-boost_cake (personally I just modified the previous plugin to output the new BS3 class names) – Costa Nov 9 '13 at 2:13
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Here's a newer one:
Github page:
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+1, easy to use and works well. – boj May 7 '13 at 18:42
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Maybe you like this plugin: https://github.com/BradCrumb/lesscompiler.
It's a CakePHP Component that automatically compiles less files to css files. I just tested it with Bootstrap and it works find
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Lets make it simple and update this. The fastest and easiest way to do this is as follows and is current as of v:2.9
Download the 3 folders for the bootstrap here: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/getting-started.html
Then unpack them and move: css/bootstrap.css css/bootstrap.min.css css/bootstrap-responsive.css css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css
-THEN MOVE-
-THEN MOVE-
Then, in the code editor of your choice(I prefer Netbeans) open the file:
It should look like:
* PHP 5
* Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
* Licensed under The MIT License
* For full copyright and license information, please see the LICENSE.txt
* Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
* @copyright Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
* @package app.View.Layouts
* @since CakePHP(tm) v
$cakeDescription = __d('cake_dev', 'CakePHP: the rapid development php framework');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<?php echo $cakeDescription ?>:
<?php echo $title_for_layout; ?>
echo $this->fetch('meta');
echo $this->fetch('css');
echo $this->fetch('script');
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1><?php echo $this->Html->link($cakeDescription, 'http://cakephp.org'); ?></h1>
<div id="content">
<div id="footer">
$this->Html->image('cake.power.gif', array('alt' => $cakeDescription, 'border' => '0')),
array('target' => '_blank', 'escape' => false)
Find this:
Below it add this:
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap');
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap.min');
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap-responsive');
echo $this->Html->css('bootstrap-responsive.min');
Find this:
echo $this->fetch('script');
Below it add this:
echo $this->Html->script('bootstrap');
echo $this->Html->script('bootstrap.min');
***Remember earlier when I said I was going to explain why the files MUST be in the webroot directory(For anyone new to MVC)? The above code is how Cake includes its scripts and css. The Method it uses for this looks in app/webroot/js for javascript files; and respectively in app/webroot/css for css files. This makes iNcluding js and css files a synch. If you want the js/css files included GLOBALLY include them default.ctp.
*If you only need a script for use with one view/page then use this same code on the view file you need it on.
It might sound a little complicated but it should only take 3 min to include the twitter bootstrap globally in this way.
Hope this helps!
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Why are you including both the minified and the normal versions of the files? bootstrap.min.css contains exactly the same css as bootstrap.css and likewise for the other files Including both just introduces needless http overhead. Your answer also doesn't solve the issues involving things like the formHelper as bootstrap expects a certain html format which the Cake helpers don't produce out-the-box. – harryg Sep 17 '13 at 9:24
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I agree with @Costa, Slywalker's plugin is the best solution. Here's the new version of his plugin, working with both Twitter Bootstrap 2.x and 3.x branches.
This plugin is far better as it extends nicely Html Helper, Form Helper and alerts.
Fork BoostCake Plugin for CakePHP 2.x at Github
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I had the same problem using slywalker / cakephp-plugin-boost_cake. I opened a ticket and he had it fixed in a few hours. He updated to 1,03 and told me to use it like this:
<?php echo $this->Form->input('email', array( 'label' => array( 'text' => __('Email:'), ), 'beforeInput' => '<div class="input-append">', 'afterInput' => '<span class="add-on"><i class="icon-envelope"></i></span></div>' )); ?>
I hope it helps some one else, too.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33678 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Here is my problem today. I have a revenue (4M) and a rebate for each of the twelve months (a chart with 12 lines). My total rebate is the sum of the 12 rebates. Until there, no problem.
However, I would like to do a simulation and thus do a chart with 11 different values (revenue ranging from 3M to 5M) in order to see how the rebate would change. Here comes the problem, I would like to avoid having a 12 lines chart for each of my lines in my simulation chart.
Is there any way to do this on Excel (without using VBA).
Thank you very much for your help
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I am confused. Are you using a ratio to determine what the simulated rebate would be? – Pynner Feb 6 '12 at 21:10
exactly. I would like to do a chart with different values of revenues, and for each revenue i'd get a different rebate. I would like to automatize it in other words – SammyDow Feb 7 '12 at 8:44
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A relatively easy way to get where you want to go is to create your simulations in seperate rows on one tab/area ("data"), then place your chart with the particular set of data to be visualized in a second tab/area ("chart data"). Using a key (ie "X") and vlookup you can flip between data sets. See the picture below... I've put them onto a single tab to show everything in a single screen.
Hopefully this makes sense.
chart sample
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Thank you very much for the time you took to answer me. However it is not exactly what I wanted to do. My chart (chart_1) will not look like the one you have. It will rather be 5 columns (per example 5M CA, 4M CA, ..., 1M CA) and 3 rows (3 different methods to calculate the rebate). However the problem is that the result of each cell is the result of a long calculation based on another chart (chart_2) with 12 months. The problem is that to find all the values of chart_1, each time I need to change the CA in chart_2, and then I copy paste the result in chart_1 and I would like to automatize it – SammyDow Feb 8 '12 at 8:34
mostly you need to re-organize your data to automate your solution. I'd need a fair bit more detail to give you specific help. In general you will layout the data such that a simulation fits onto a single row (Regardless of complexity). Once you have that done you can copy down rows and change input parameters fairly quickly. – Pynner Feb 8 '12 at 17:01
Hey Pynner. Thank you again for your answer. The problem is not so much about having one line but it is about having the initial chart you have (the data chart). Would there be any way for me to send you the file so you it could be clearer about what I am talking about ? – SammyDow Feb 9 '12 at 8:00
if you can post it somewhere for me to download, i'll take a look at it. doesn't seem to be any way to Private message my email on this site. – Pynner Feb 11 '12 at 2:17
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33679 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Im struggling to get a web method to work in VB. The javascript gets called but never seems to call the web method. I am running in debug mode and get no errors.
Here is the code:
Public Shared Sub PasteEvent(EventID As Integer,
startDate As DateTime,
endDate as DateTime,
newStart As DateTime)
' work out the diff between start and end
Dim difference As long = DateDiff(DateInterval.Minute,startDate,endDate)
' pasteStart + minutes from the event start
' this is because we can only paste on the hour, but events may have started after the hour
' ie 10:15
' new end = pastestart + diff
Dim newEnd As DateTime = newStart.AddMinutes(convert.ToDouble(difference))
' call database
Dim conn As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Blueprint").ToString())
Dim cmd As New SqlCommand
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
cmd.CommandText = "spOPSCopyEvent"
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@EventID", EventID)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@StartDate", newStart)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@EndDate", newEnd)
cmd.Connection = conn
End sub
The javascript that calls it:
function eventCopy(eventID, start, end)
// grab the event id and store it in a hidden text box
function eventPaste(eventStart)
// Call a web method, passing the eventID and the new start time
var eventID = $("#ctl00_MainContent_hidCopyEventID").val;
var startDate = $("#ctl00_MainContent_hidCopyStart").val;
var endDate = $("#ctl00_MainContent_hidCopyEnd").val;
PageMethods.PasteEvent(eventID, startDate, endDate, eventstart)
So far I have :
Updated my script manager in the master page to have enablePageMethods="true"
Tried adding Imports System.Web.Services
Moved the javascript into the body rather than the head
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Can it be the missing "static" modifier? – Kemal Taşkın Feb 12 '12 at 12:50
VB wont allow me to declare the method as static, I've used code similar to this before and it works as a web method – Purplegoldfish Feb 12 '12 at 13:28
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The problem is that you are missing exception handling mechanism to see what error did you get .
1. Put try and catch in javascript and vb code and print the error.
2. Use the sniffer like Fidler to see what you are sending .
3. Try to print trace messages in web services using Trace.Log and you can see them after running DebugView and see where you are falling
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I added try / catch and am catching no errors, i also alerted out the params im passing and they appear to be correct. – Purplegoldfish Feb 12 '12 at 13:29
Added item 3. What did you saw in Fiddler ? Put the alert after PageMethods.PasteEvent(eventID, startDate, endDate, eventstart) and see if it happens. – Gregory Nozik Feb 12 '12 at 16:10
Good advice. Fiddler led to me solving my (presumably unrelated) problem. – user12861 Jul 22 '13 at 18:44
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When using this line:
I should have put:
var eventID = $("#ctl00_MainContent_hidCopyEventID").val();
Accepting Gregorys answer as fiddler was the most helpfull in diagnosing the issue.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33680 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I am aware that there are probably other questions regarding this topic. I guess that every web developer goes through this with IE.
My problem:
I am developing a web-based application fully based on Javascript. I am a Mac user. I was really happy that everything worked great in Safari, Firefox and Opera. I then asked a friend with Windows to check it with Internet Explorer, and things don't work as well. My application is very sensitive to the HTML standards.
The main problem is the CSS layout. The JavaScript itself seems to be working properly thanks to jQuery for portability.
My question:
How do you deal with Internet Explorer? Should I create a new CSS that is only loaded on Internet Explorer? Should I create a new version of the application only for Internet Explorer? How do you normally handle this? The application is pretty big both in feature design and in layout design.
Using the CSS reset as suggested by Nosredna, already removed almost half of the problems. I guess it really is a good practice. I noticed that SO also uses it.
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My general technique involves a lot of swearing. – CookieOfFortune May 29 '09 at 19:10
No offence, but shouldn't you have thought about IE when you started developing the app? It is after all still the browser with the largest marketshare. – Tom van Enckevort May 29 '09 at 19:10
I deal with IE by using Firefox. =) – gnovice May 29 '09 at 19:14
If your site is "heavy on the HTML" and "everything is ruined" in IE, then you wrote your website wrong. Simple really is better. – Randolpho May 29 '09 at 19:20
@randolpho, It really is easy to make a mess if you ignore any of the major browsers (especially IE) along the way. RIAs heavy on AJAX need continual testing on all the browsers as they are developed. And leaving IE in quirks mode means you're working with two different box models. – Nosredna May 29 '09 at 19:37
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Do you specify a valid doctype? You can get Internet Explorer to be a bit more compliant by switching it into standards mode. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250395.aspx#cssenhancements_topic2
Do you use a browser reset CSS file? That can help bring the versions together. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Be aware of IE's CSS bugs: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html
For the skeleton of your layout, consider using markup that is known to work, such as http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-multi-column-liquid-layouts or http://960.gs/ for liquid or fixed layouts, respectively.
Keep up with JavaScript differences between browsers. jQuery handles some of them, but not all of them. http://www.impressivewebs.com/7-javascript-differences-between-firefox-ie/
Yeah, IE is a pain. If you want it to work in IE, you really want to test in IE every couple days. You don't want to save the pain for the end--you want to handle the nightmares one at a time.
By the way, if you think IE is a pain, try looking at your page with a mobile phone. The other day I went to REI.com with an iPhone and the middle fifth or more of the screen was taken up by a bunch of garbled markup that rendered as text.
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Sry but, what is a browser reset CSS file? and which doctype do you sugest for IE to be more into the standards? – fmsf May 29 '09 at 19:30
doctype info: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/… one css reset (there are many): meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset – Nosredna May 29 '09 at 19:33
+1 for the browser reset file. – John Gietzen May 29 '09 at 19:54
you're near getting the correct answer soon :) ty, just checking if more answers pop up – fmsf May 29 '09 at 19:57
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Conditional comments.
<!--[if IE 6]>
<!--[if IE 7]>
<!--[if IE 8]>
<!--[if !IE]-->
In the IE files, you can use @import to import normal.css, and then override the styles as necessary.
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It would probably be faster for load times to simply link the normal.css first and for everywhere, and then below it the conditional comments for other browsers, overriding as necessary. – Kzqai Oct 17 '09 at 4:51
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First and foremost, I don't wait until the project is done to consider browser compatibility.
Most of the time for CSS issues there are ways to do things that don't require browser-specific stylesheets to be loaded, so I try to use those solutions wherever possible. For example - if most of your issues are related to box model problems, things like using nested divs in place of padding can help to make sure everything looks correct without the need for separate stylesheets and templates for different browsers.
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Browser reset to start. Level the playing field as much as possible and do away with browser defaults. Build your CSS from the ground up. (See: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/12/reset-styles/)
Test early and often across all major browsers during development.
Try to accomplish as much as possible without browser specific hacks. Sometimes you'll need to work in some browser-specific CSS but it should validate (use the W3C Validation tool). Sometimes though there's just nothing for it but a conditional (and maybe even some JavaScript), e.g. fix for transparent PNGs in IE6 (See: http://nettuts.com/videos/screencasts/5-easy-ways-to-tackle-ie6s-transparency-issues/).
If you cannot run IE on one of your development machines, try http://browsershots.org. At least you can get some feedback this way.
Use a debug.css that highlights or outlines divs and other elements. Toss this into your HTML head if needed during development. This can be a huge help.
Use "developer toolbars" where available (IE, Firefox).
Have fun!
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great webpage that browsershots.org – fmsf May 29 '09 at 19:35
Interesting remark... domain for link in answer was absorbed? Try clicking on it now XD Though, what can one expect in 4 years? However, I would still update/remove just in case, because I was just one other person who stumbled across this question and decided to start clicking around. – Chris Cirefice Oct 8 '13 at 0:05
Removed link now defunct. Thanks Chris Cirefice. – Thelonious Oct 10 '13 at 11:53
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Here is how I try to reduce the pain of dealing with IE:
1. Use a reset.css - Yahoo! YUI Reset or Eric Meyer's Reset CSS
2. Be careful with floats, clears - they typically cause a lot of cursing.
3. Be aware of hasLayout bugs in IE, typically adding a zoom: 1 or height attributes helps fix this. Read On Having Layout.
4. Get the layout working in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc while keeping IE about 80% of the way there.
5. Implement a IE6.css style and an IE7.css style if needed using conditional comments.
6. Beer, Liquor or other adult beverages.
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Is "On Having Layout" still valid in IE8? – John Saunders May 29 '09 at 21:43
not sure how many bugs still exist in IE8 with hasLayout, but it certainly still sets the property on 40-60% of the page content in IE8 in standards mode. – scunliffe May 30 '09 at 0:17
+1 for drinks!! – Andrei Rînea Jan 16 '11 at 13:45
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First, read On Having Layout, which explains how the IE rendering engine works internally. IE's rendering engine is from before CSS. It doesn't properly distinguish between inline and block elements like you'd expect. Instead, in IE an element hasLayout. Or not. This is the source of 99% of IE CSS bugs. So, read that article a couple of times.
As for fixes, I usually use conditional comments. Several reasons:
• They are future proof, as opposed to CSS hacks. What if IE9 fixes the hack but not the bug you're using it to solve?
• It's valid (X)HTML (conditional comments are just plain comments to everyone else)
• It doesn't require javascript. You'd be amazed how many people have javascript turned off.
One remark about conditional comments: Never use an open ended match. That is, never do something like:
<!--[if IE]> <load css> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 7]> <load css> <![endif]-->
The reason is the same as hacks: make it future proof. What if the next version of IE fixes the bug and you don't need the fixes anymore? Or worse, the "fix" now actually messes up your layout in the new IE version? It's usually best to assume that the next version of IE has fixed the bug that you are working around. I have written a little bit about that back when IE 8 was on the horizon.
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I think it would be okay to write a specific css file for IE. I know it is a pain, but because of some possitioning issues, IE6 looks different than all other browswers.
Use this line for your newly created css file:
<!--[if ie6]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="ie6_style.css" /><![endif]-->
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With IE getting around 65% of the traffic, I don't think you can think of it as an after-thought.
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The problem is that so many web developers use Macs or Linux. If Microsoft had IE for Mac & Linux, I think sites would look better on IE. – Nosredna May 29 '09 at 19:41
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Overall, I try to do as much as I can without making a separate CSS file for IE. I'll use come conditional formatting to target it specifically if needed. Overall though, at most you might need to do an IE only stylesheet to get it to work.
Just be sure that you are testing with the proper versions of IE for your audience, as IE 6, 7, and 8 are quite sommon.
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As a last resort, when tweaking the CSS just won't fix things, I like to use Rafael Lima's CSS selector script. While it depends on JavaScript (most sites I build do anyway), it provides a convenient way to tweak CSS for different browsers and versions without separate stylesheets.
You can have :
.someClass {
.ie6.someclass {
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if (internetExplorer) {
window.location = "http://getfirefox.com";
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That's great! I should put that on all my websites that I develop! Though I think I would suggest Chrome now :-( – JoshFinnie May 29 '09 at 19:33
Before suggesting Chrome you would need to check machine type as well. It's not available for the Mac and Linux users among us. Yet... – John Munsch May 29 '09 at 19:50
@John Munsch... wouldn't the test for IE fail if the user was running on Mac/Linux? ;-) – scunliffe May 30 '09 at 0:18
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Keep the markup as simple as possible. Make small changes. Test every change.
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I delete it
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Shame on two people for upvoting this answer. – belgariontheking May 29 '09 at 19:57
LOL, you'd better believe I thought it even though I didn't write it. – John Munsch May 30 '09 at 3:27
Now 5 of you fools have upvoted this. Shame on you. – belgariontheking Jun 1 '09 at 12:14
Agreed that it shouldn't be upvoted, but it shouldn't be downvoted as well! It's humor people... yes... that thing that makes you laugh ;-) – fretje Jun 19 '09 at 13:20
I just want to point out that I'm the answerer and I'm mocking people for upvoting this. It has been a social experiment and the results exceeded my wildest expectations. – belgariontheking Jun 19 '09 at 15:31
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I would think that developing a new CSS File for use in IE would be considerably easier then re-writing your application, but I don't know what scale and scope your application has that would even render doing that a considerable option. I guess it can depend on what versions of IE you're looking to support.
We're at a point now that most users should have completely migrated away from IE6. IE7 is still a hassle, but nowhere near as bad as 6 was. With my projects, the default setup I sell is IE7 compatibility with code to direct users of IE6 and below to upgrade. If a client wants me to incorporate IE6 compatibility into a site, I typically increase the quoted price by 50% because of how awful of a headache is is to support the browser and how much extra visual code has to be written to make it work.
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"Should have"... yes. In practice, I find that at least a quarter of IE traffic still comes from crusty old IE6. At least we seem to have finally gotten rid of IE5.5... – phenry May 29 '09 at 19:57
That's what support is for ;). I've lost a few contracts with this stipulation, but not enough for me to consider changing my stance. I'd prefer to encourage users to get with the times then to allow them to continue to harbor old habits; but I find I'm in a bit of a minority with this mindset. – KRC May 29 '09 at 20:07
We all want to leave IE6 behind (if not all IE versions). I like your solution of a 50% tax on developing for IE6. – Nosredna May 29 '09 at 20:52
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I know that this may fall into the 'too little, too late' category. That said, I would investing in VMWare or Parallels and create a Windows VM w/ IE6.
As you are developing, you should incrementally check your progress in the browsers that you care about.
That said, with an existing application, I would first make sure that my HTML was valid (there are a variety of validation services at your disposal) then, depending on the layout, I was section-by-section try to get the layout right, using comments to 'hide' the sections that you are not actively working on.
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Plus, microsoft provides free images for multiple web browsers, XP with IE 6, XP with IE 8, XP with IE 7, Vista with IE 8, etc. Images here: microsoft.com/Downloads/… Or just search for IE App Compatibility Images runs on Ubuntu in VirtualBox after some driver finangling. – Kzqai Oct 17 '09 at 5:14
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I usually do everything I can to avoid having to create a separate CSS file. There are a lot of CSS & HTML tricks & tips out there that should allow you to make it work in IE6 & up, as well as every other common browser. It just takes time to figure it all out. Unfortunately, sometimes with complicated layouts it can take a lot of time especially when you don't test it as you go.
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I let others solve the problems for me. I use Yahoo's excellent CSS files included in their YUI library. They have one file to remove existing formatting for existing labels (e.g. H1 in IE does not look like H1 in Firefox), they have another to give me a default set of formatting that does look the same across browsers, they have yet another to standardize font sizes, and most important of all of them is their grid file. It gives me the ability to build hierarchical formatting of regions and sub-regions on the page very quickly and easily and I know it will work on any major modern browser (Yahoo tests the heck out of it to make sure it does).
It may not be the perfect solution, but it has been more than sufficient for my needs.
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I had the same issue in my dev: IE6, FFetc + LAMP + custom MVC, based on Rasmus Lerdorf's article way back when he suggested noMVC-kind of like handle it using includes for headers, footers and the sort. I coded CSS, got stuck with FF not rendering it nicely. I had to go revise my CSS knowledge - I found that a single CSS implementation can render correctly in std. compliant mode(FF) and IE6. I liked that. I was happy with handling any changes using a single CSS file. My advice:
1. I know you have a Mac, go garage sale-ing (newspapers will tell you where they are), get an old PC for $10 (so far I've found plenty). This'll give you an opportunity to test out IE6 early, while you're at it get a KVM switch as well to access the machine when you need to.
2. One of the things I've gotten addicted to is IE6's setting - Disable all ActiveX scripts - makes browsing the web without ads a blast, anyways - test out your app with & without activeX settings, and see how well your site does. This has literally saved me hours of 'painful' moments folks above me have mentioned prior.
3. You prolly know how to test out FF/Opera/Safari with&without scripting
4. Finally - regardless of how heavy Javascripting your site uses, make sure without scripting the core features (which I'm sure you have lot's of) load properly.
I'm no expert, but sure hope my comments help you out a bit.
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I make sure my websites work natively and perfectly in ie9 , and work in ie8(possibly with features missing). I prompt everyone that uses an older version to get chrome frame. I never waste my time for ie7 and older, because using a 6 year old browser is pathetic, and should not be encouraged.
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As nosredna said, use a valid doctype (see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/) Then check your web site in the w3c validator (http://validator.w3.org/). If it shows no errors (or just a few), then IE should render it correctly.
I wouldn't put much effort in making it compatible with IE6, and just accept the fact that a website can look different in various browsers.
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You still have to put the effort in to make sure it's usable in different browsers though and properly validating markup is no guarantee in IE... – Ben Thurley Jan 8 '13 at 16:22
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I have this parser for string parsing using Haskell Parsec library.
myStringLiteral = lexeme (
do str <- between (char '\'')
(char '\'' <?> "end of string")
(many stringChar)
; return (U.replace "''" "'" (foldr (maybe id (:)) "" str))
<?> "literal string"
Strings in my language are defined as alpha-num characters inside of '' (example: 'this is my string'), but these string can also contain ' inside of it (in this case ' must be escaped by another ', ex 'this is my string with '' inside of it').
What I need to do, is to look forward when ' appears during parsing of string and decide, if there is another ' after or not (if no, return end of string). But I dont know how to do it. Any ideas? Thanks!
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If the syntax is as simple as it seems, you can make a special case for the escaped single quote,
escapeOrStringChar :: Parser Char
escapeOrStringChar = try (string "''" >> return '\'') <|> stringChar
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myStringLiteral = lexeme $ do
char '\''
str <- many escapeOrStringChar
return str
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Excellent! Thanks man! – Jay Gridley Mar 2 '12 at 23:06
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You can use stringLiteral for that.
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Parsec deals only with LL(1) languages (details). It means the parser can look only one symbol a time. Your language is LL(2). You can write your own FSM for parsing your language. Or you can transform the text before parsing to make it LL(1).
In fact, Parsec is designed for syntactic analysis not lexical. The good idea is to make lexical analysis with other tool and than use Parsec for parsing the sequence of lexemes instead of sequence of chars.
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Parsec can deal with non LL(1) grammars by using the try combinator. – bzn Mar 2 '12 at 18:04
Character level parsers are easy with Parsec - so it can be considered a scannerless parser. Using a separate lexer is certainly possible (covered in the Daan Leijen's original manual) but it needs significant bolier plate. – stephen tetley Mar 2 '12 at 18:17
Also Parsec can handle context sensitive parsing (it's a Monad not just Applicative) so again it can deal with a larger class of grammars than LL(1). – stephen tetley Mar 2 '12 at 18:24
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You may encounter the following error messages in the Windows Application Event or the SQL Server Error log when SQL Server cannot start a database because it cannot open the database and/or transaction log files:
2010-03-27 14:21:34.58 spid52 Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2010-03-27 14:21:34.58 spid52 FCB::Open failed: Could not open file c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQL2008\MSSQL\data\MyDB_Prm.mdf for file number 1. OS error: 5(Access is denied.).
2010-03-27 14:21:34.65 spid52 Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2010-03-27 14:21:34.65 spid52 FileMgr::StartSecondaryDataFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file 'F:\MSSQL\DATA\MyDB_FG1_1.ndf'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.
You may encounter these errors during the SQL Server instance startup process or any Database operation that attempts to start the database [e.g. ALTER DATABASE]. In some scenarios, you could encounter both 17204 and 17207 errors and in other occasions you might just encounter one of them.
If a user database encounters these errors, that database will be left in the RECOVERY_PENDING state and applications cannot access this database. If a system database encounters these errors, the SQL Server instance will not start and you cannot connect to this instance of SQL Server. This could also result in SQL Server failover cluster resource to become offline.
Before any SQL Server database can be used, the database needs to be started. The database startup process involves initializing various data structures that represent the database and the database files, opening all the files that belong to the database, and finally performing recovery on the database. SQL Server uses Windows API CreateFile to open the files that belong to a database.
The error messages 17204 and 17207 indicate that an error was encountered while SQL Server attempted to open the database files during the startup process.
These error messages contain the following information:
1. Name of the SQL Server function that is attempting to open the file
• The state information distinguishes multiple locations within a function that can generate this error message
2. The full physical path for the file
3. The File ID corresponding to the file
4. The Operating System error code and error description. In some instances only the error code will be provided.
The operating system error information printed in these error messages is the normal cause that results in these error messages. Common causes for these these error messages are a permission problem or a incorrect location or path problem.
1. resolving these errors 17204 and 17207 involve understanding the associated operating system error code and diagnosing that error. Once the operating system error condition is resolved, then you can attempt to restart the database (using for example ALTER DATABASE SET ONLINE) or the SQL Server instance to bring the affected database online. There could be scenarios where you cannot resolve the operating system error. In those cases, you have to take specific corrective actions. We will discuss more about these actions in this section.
2. If the 17204 or 17207 error message contains only an error code and not an error description, then you can try resolving the error code using the command from an operating system shell: net helpmsg <error code> . If you are getting a 8 digit status code as the error code, then you can refer to the information sources like and to decode what these status codes imply.
3. If you are getting the "Access is Denied" operating system error consider these methods:
• Check the permissions that are set of the file by looking at the properties of the file in Windows Explorer. SQL Server uses Windows groups to provision Access Control on the various file resources. Make sure the appropriate group [with names like SQLServerMSSQLUser$ComputerName$MSSQLSERVER or SQLServerMSSQLUser$ComputerName$InstanceName] has the required permissions on the database file that is mentioned in the error message. Review the Books Online topic "Setting Up Windows Service Accounts" for more details. Ensure that the Windows group actually includes the SQL Server service startup account or the service SID.
• Review the user account under which the SQL Server service is currently running. You can use the Windows Task Manager to get this information. Look for the "User Name" value for the executable "sqlservr.exe". Also if you recently changed the SQL Server service account, please note that the only supported way to do this operation is to use the SQL Server Configuration Manager utility. More information on this is available at "SQL Server Configuration Manager".
• Depending on the type of operation [opening databases during server startup, database attach, restore, etc] the user account that is used for impersonation and accessing the database file will vary. Review the topic "Securing Data and Log Files" to understand which operation sets what permission and to which accounts. Use a tool like Windows SysInternals "Process Monitor" to understand if the file access is happening under the security context of the SQL Server instance service startup account [or Service SID] or an impersonated account.
4. If you are getting the "The system cannot find the file specified" error message
• Review the complete path from the error message
• Ensure the disk drive and the folder path is visible and accessible from Windows Explorer
• Review the Windows Event log to find out if any problems exist with this disk drive
• If the path is incorrect and if this database already exists in the system, you can change the database file paths using the methods explained in the topic "Moving Database Files". You might have to use this procedure especially for system database files which encounter 17204 or 17207 and you are working through a disaster recovery scenario where the specified disk drives are unavailable. This topic also explains how you can identify the current location of the various system databases [master, model, tempdb, msdb and mssqlsystemresource].
• If you are encountering this error because the database files are missing, you have to restore the database from a valid backup.
• If the database file that encounters the error belongs to a secondary filegroup, then you can optionally mark that filegroup offline, bring the database online and then perform a restore of that filegroup alone. For more information, refer to the OFFLINE section of the topic "ALTER DATABASE File and Filegroup Options (Transact-SQL)".
• If the file that is encountering a problem is a transaction log file, review the information under the sections "FOR ATTACH" and "FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG" of the topic "CREATE DATABASE (Transact-SQL)" to understand how you can recreate the missing transaction log files.
• Ensure that any disk or network location [like iSCSI drive] is available before SQL Server attempts to access the database files on these locations. If needed create the required dependencies in Cluster Administrator or Service Control Manager.
5. If you are getting the "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" error
• Use a tool like "Process Explorer" from Windows SysInternals to find out if another process or service has acquired exclusive lock on this database file
• Stop that process from accessing SQL Server Database files
• In a cluster environment, make sure that the sqlservr.exe process from the previous owning node has actually released the handles to the database files.
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The function names you will normally observe in these error messages will be one of the following:
• FCB::Open
• FileMgr::StartPrimaryDataFiles
• FileMgr::StartSecondaryDataFiles
• FileMgr::StartLogFiles
• STREAMFCB::Startup
• FCB::RemoveAlternateStreams
These names can help you identify if the file hat encounters an error while SQL Server attempts to open, is a database file [primary data file, files belonging to the primary file group, files belonging to the secondary file group, transaction log file] or a SQL FileStream container.
If the problem is related to your SQL Server FileStream filegroup, then you will notice that only the full directory path is listed instead of a file name. An example is shown below:
2010-03-27 15:25:14.32 spid52 Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2010-03-27 15:25:14.32 spid52 STREAMFCB::Startup: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQL2008\MSSQL\DATA\bpa_files_test_fs_1\bpa_files_test_fs_1'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.
If your error message refers to FCB::RemoveAlternateStreams, please refer to a known issue that can generate this message:
You may receive a "FCB::RemoveAlternateStreams: Operating system error <error number>" when starting up databases on an instance of SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008
If you are experiencing these issues due to AntiVirus software scanning the database files, please review the recommendations from
If SQL Server is impersonating the user credentials of the login which is performing the ALTER DATABASE or CREATE DATABASE operation, you will notice the following information in the Process Monitor tool from Windows SysInternals:
Date & Time: 3/27/2010 8:26:08 PM
Event Class: File System
Operation: CreateFile
Result: ACCESS DENIED
Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQL2008\MSSQL\DATA\attach_test.mdf
TID: 4288
Duration: 0.0000366
Desired Access:Generic Read/Write
Disposition: Open
Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Open No Recall
Attributes: N
ShareMode: Read
AllocationSize: n/a
Impersonating: DomainName\UserName
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SQL Server Certificates and Asymmetric Keys
Certificates and asymmetric keys are both ways to use asymmetric encryption. Certificates are often used as containers for asymmetric keys because they can contain more information such as expiry dates and issuers. There is no difference between the two mechanisms for the cryptographic algorithm, and no difference in strength given the same key length. Generally, you use a certificate to encrypt other types of encryption keys in a database, or to sign code modules.
Certificates and asymmetric keys can decrypt data that the other encrypts. Generally, you use asymmetric encryption to encrypt a symmetric key for storage in a database.
A public key does not have a particular format like a certificate would have, and you cannot export it to a file.
Note Note
SQL Server contains features that enable you to create and manage certificates and keys for use with the server and database. SQL Server cannot be used to create and manage certificates and keys with other applications or in the operating system.
A certificate is a digitally signed security object that contains a public (and optionally a private) key for SQL Server. You can use externally generated certificates or SQL Server can generate certificates.
Note Note
SQL Server certificates comply with the IETF X.509v3 certificate standard.
Certificates are useful because of the option of both exporting and importing keys to X.509 certificate files. The syntax for creating certificates allows for creation options for certificates such as an expiry date.
Using a Certificate in SQL Server
Certificates can be used to help secure connections, in database mirroring, to sign packages and other objects, or to encrypt data or connections. The following table lists additional resources for certificates in SQL Server.
Explains the command for creating certificates.
Identify the Source of Packages with Digital Signatures
Shows information about how to use certificates to sign software packages.
Use Certificates for a Database Mirroring Endpoint (Transact-SQL)
Covers information about how to use certificates with Database Mirroring.
Asymmetric keys are used for securing symmetric keys. They can also be used for limited data encryption and to digitally sign database objects. An asymmetric key consists of a private key and a corresponding public key. For more information about asymmetric keys, see CREATE ASYMMETRIC KEY (Transact-SQL).
Asymmetric keys can be imported from strong name key files, but they cannot be exported. They also do not have expiry options. Asymmetric keys cannot encrypt connections.
Using an Asymmetric Key in SQL Server
Asymmetric keys can be used to help secure data or sign plaintext. The following table lists additional resources for asymmetric keys in SQL Server.
Explains the command for creating asymmetric keys.
Displays the options for signing objects.
Microsoft provides tools and utilities that will generate certificates and strong name key files. These tools offer a richer amount of flexibility in the key generation process than the SQL Server syntax. You can use these tools to create RSA keys with more complex key lengths and then import them into SQL Server. The following table explains shows where to find these tools.
Creates certificates.
Creates strong names for symmetric keys.
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Overview of Inventory
Updated: December 1, 2008
You can use Configuration Manager 2007 to collect hardware and software inventory from Configuration Manager 2007 clients by enabling the client agents on a site-by-site basis.
When the hardware inventory client agent is enabled for Configuration Manager 2007 sites, hardware inventory data gives you system information (such as available disk space, processor type, and operating system) about each computer. When the software inventory client agent is enabled, you can inventory information such as inventoried file types and versions present on client computers. The software inventory client agent can also collect information about files inventoried on client systems. Configuration Manager 2007 software inventory can also collect files, not just details about the files, from client computers. With file collection, you specify a set of files to be copied from clients to the Configuration Manager 2007 site server that the clients are assigned to.
When enabled, the inventory client inventory agents create an inventory report based on the client inventory information collected and send it to the client's management point. The management point then forwards the inventory information to the Configuration Manager site server, which stores the inventory information in the site database.
You can employ several Configuration Manager 2007 features to use the data collected by using hardware inventory and software inventory. For example:
• You can use Resource Explorer to view the complete inventory data for individual computers. This view of individual computers is especially useful when remotely troubleshooting computer problems.
When either the hardware inventory client agent or software inventory client agent inventories a client system, the first inventory report returned will always be a full inventory. Subsequent inventory reports, created according to the inventory schedule set for the inventory agent in the client agent properties, will contain only delta, or changed, inventory information. Delta inventory reports, for both hardware and software inventory, are processed in the order in which they are received by the site server. If a delta inventory report for a client is missing or out of order, it will be rejected by the site server and a full inventory report will be requested the next time the client performs an inventory action.
Configuration Manager 2007 provides limited support for clients that switch between multiple operating systems. Configuration Manager 2007 can discover a client in multiple boot states (for example, when it boots as Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and when it boots as Windows XP Professional) and install the Configuration Manager 2007 client software on all discovered states. However, inventory that is collected from multiple-boot clients will only reflect the information from the operating system that was running at the time that inventory was taken.
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Federation Service
Updated: August 22, 2005
Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2
The Federation Service is a component of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) that can be installed independently from other ADFS components. The Federation Service functions as a security token service. The act of installing the Federation Service component on a computer makes that computer a federation server. It also makes the Active Directory Federation Services snap-in available in the Administrative Tools menu on that computer.
The Federation Service is designed to use Active Directory to provide tokens in response to requests for security tokens. This enables Active Directory domains and forests to function as:
• Identity providers that can federate with compliant account partners and resource partners. As an identity provider, the Federation Service can project Active Directory identities across the Internet to interact with applications at compliant service providers.
• Service providers that can federate with compliant account partners and resource partners. As a service provider, the Federation Service can allow identities from other organizations to access a partner's Windows-based and ASP.NET-based applications.
• Security token providers for applications that are compliant with the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (WS-F PRP) specification.
As an account partner, the Federation Service allows Active Directory users to access resources at partner organizations. In response to a request from a resource partner, the Federation Service collects and verifies user credentials against Active Directory or Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). The Federation Service can then populate a set of organization claims based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) attributes of the user account. The organization claims are then mapped to appropriate claims for the resource partner and packaged into a security token that is signed by the Federation Service’s token-signing certificate. The resultant security token is posted as the response to the resource partner’s original request. The resource partner then uses the token to allow access for the user.
As a resource partner, the Federation Service plays the opposite role. When a user attempts to access an ADFS-protected application, the Federation Service determines which account partner should authenticate the user. It then sends an authentication request to that partner. When the user returns with a security token, the Federation Service verifies that the token has been correctly signed by the partner. It then extracts the claims from the token. The claims are mapped to organization claims, and the filtering policy for the specific application is applied. The filtered organization claims are packaged into a security token that is either signed by the Federation Service’s token-signing certificate or protected by a Kerberos session key for the Web application. The resultant security token is posted back to the original application Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The application then uses the token to allow access for the user.
ADFS uses the WS-F PRP protocol to carry Claims in security tokens that are issued by the Federation Service to the Web application. For more information about the WS-F PRP specification, see ADFS resources.
These claims are populated initially from Account stores, either Active Directory or ADAM account stores. The Federation Service issues tokens based on the credentials that are presented. After the credentials are verified using the account store, the claims for the user are generated according to the rules of the trust policy. The obtained inbound claims are mapped into outbound claims that are appropriate for a resource partner. The resulting claim mappings are added to a security token that is issued to the resource partner. For more information, see Claim mapping.
After the token is verified, an authentication cookie is issued and written to the client browser. Each time that the client needs to be authenticated, this cookie is used by the Federation Service so that the client does not have to enter credentials again, thereby enabling single sign-on (SSO). For more information, see Cookies used by ADFS.
Federation Service Web pages
The Federation Service provides a Web page that prompts the user to select an appropriate account partner to which the user can authenticate. The Federation Service also provides a Web page that prompts for the user’s credentials, such as a user name and password for forms-based authentication. A Web page is also provided that supports Windows Integrated Authentication.
Behind the Web pages, the Federation Service provides a Microsoft ASP.NET Web service that processes requests from the client or the federation server proxy. The federation server proxy is located in the perimeter network. It acts as an intermediary between an Internet client and a Federation Service in the intranet. For more information about the role of the federation server proxy, see ADFS server roles.
There are two basic types of requests to which the Federation Service responds:
• Requests to issue security tokens
• Requests to retrieve trust policy data
Account partner discovery
Account partner discovery is the process by which a client can identify what account partner it prefers for authentication in the event that more than a single account partner is configured. The Federation Server presents this choice to the client browser as a drop box containing the account partner names as they are configured in the trust policy.
One mechanism that you can use to avoid account partner discovery is to include the whr parameter in the query string for the resource being accessed, for example,
https://webserver/testapp/testpage.aspx?whr=urn:federation:< accountpartner>, where <accountpartner> indicates the account partner realm of the client.
When the whr parameter is used, the Web server removes the parameter and writes a cookie to the client browser to remember this setting for future requests. Then, the request proceeds in the same way as if it had not been provided.
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In math mode, I'm trying to make a square with a diamond in it. My failed attempt has been to put the following in the preamble:
However, the diamond symbol is not scaled properly relative to the square. I'd like the corners of the diamond to touch the midpoints of the sides of the square, and I can't figure out how to "scale" the diamond appropriately. Is there another way to do this?
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Related question: Overlay symbol with another – Martin Scharrer Apr 1 '11 at 20:46
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It is quit difficult to get the two symbols scaled and align correctly in all four math modes. Better draw it using TikZ. One difficulty is to properly scale the size and line width. This can be best done using amsmath \text macro. I made two versions which are slightly different.
\newcommand{\sqdiamond}{\mathbin{\text{\tikz [x=1ex,y=1ex,line width=.1ex,line join=round] \draw (0,0) rectangle (1,1) (0,.5) -- (.5,1) -- (1,.5) -- (.5,0) -- (0,.5) -- cycle;}}}
\newcommand{\varsqdiamond}{\mathbin{\text{\tikz [x=1ex,y=1ex,line width=.1ex,line join=round] \draw (0,0) rectangle (1,1) (.5\pgflinewidth,.5) -- (.5,1ex-.5\pgflinewidth) -- (1ex-.5\pgflinewidth,.5) -- (.5,.5\pgflinewidth) -- (.5\pgflinewidth,.5) -- cycle;}}}
% Test code:
.. $a \sqdiamond b$ ..
\[a \sqdiamond b \]
.. $X_{a \sqdiamond b}$ ..
.. $X_{X_{a \sqdiamond b}}$ ..
.. $a \varsqdiamond b$ ..
\[a \varsqdiamond b \]
.. $X_{a \varsqdiamond b}$ ..
.. $X_{X_{a \varsqdiamond b}}$ ..
Result 1
Variant 1: sqdiamond
Variant 2: varsqdiamond
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This seems to work with the Computer Modern fonts, but it's font dependent:
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Here's one possibility, using TikZ:
\tikz{\draw (0,0) rectangle (6pt,6pt);
\draw (3pt,0) -- (6pt,3pt) -- (3pt,6pt) -- (0,3pt) -- (3pt,0);}
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The problem here is that it doesn't scale correctly in subscripts etc. Also the spacing around is wrong if \mathbin isn't used. – Martin Scharrer Apr 1 '11 at 20:32
@Martin Scharrer: yes, I know that, but it wasn't completely clear (at least for me) if the symbol should be used as a binary symbol, or as a relation symbol, or if it was just meant to be used as, for example, an endmark. – Gonzalo Medina Apr 1 '11 at 20:44
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I am using the astronomy and astrophysics class aa.cls. I use it with either of the two options: structabstract or referee.
The first produces 2-column text, the second one-column text.
I have some figures that change appearance when I switch options.
I would like to know if it is possible to do something like this:
IF (optional argument equals structabstract) THEN
{...commands to have the figure of a certain size}
ELSE (if optional argument equals)
{...commands to have the figure of another size}
Could you help me please?
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Related question (no exact duplicate, though): How do I conditionally execute something based on a documentclass option? – diabonas Mar 7 '12 at 11:16
The easiest way might be to define the figure width in terms of \columnwidth: \includegraphics[width=.8\columnwidth]{filename}, for instance. – egreg Mar 10 '12 at 10:56
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The referee option in your class is set up as
So you can test is with
\if@referee TRUE CODE \else FALSE CODE \fi
structabstract is set up as
So you could use \if@oldversion ...\else ...\fi. The options oldversion and traditabstract change this switch too. I didn't check the default of the switches.
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I prefer an alternate method that I have been using and is adapted from this answer to setting class options after documentclass, which has a few advantages:
• does not rely on the internals of the class, so will work with any document class
• allows you to change the options on the command line via latex '\def\MyClassOptions{referee}\input{doc}'
\expandafter\ifx\csname MyClassOptions\endcsname\relax
DRAFT option was used.%
DRAFT option was not used.%
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This is suited to personal use only. Please don't create a package for users in this way. – Ahmed Musa Mar 11 '12 at 2:42
@AhmedMusa: I don't see anything in the question indicating that the question is for creating a package. – Peter Grill Mar 11 '12 at 5:24
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Based on this question, why do passports expire? What possible function does it serve to limit their validity in time?
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from philosophy perspective : nothing is eternal in this life, my friend. – Rudy Gunawan Oct 8 '13 at 2:55
To see the other side of the coin, consider what happens with drivers' licenses. In the EU, countries have to recognize each other licenses and some had no expiration until recently. You have hundreds of different documents with different formats, some from states that do not exist anymore (e.g. the GDR), with a photo dating back decades or that could easily be forged. It's very difficult to control or enforce in any meaningful way, which is why new regulation makes expiration mandatory EU-wide (there is a grace period for older ones). – Annoyed Oct 8 '13 at 10:08
Also, beside the good reasons provided in the answer, some countries do seem to use it as a source of income (I know one that charges several hundreds euros for a passport valid for only two years; and don't forget that passports are not only required by occasional travelers leaving the country once in a while, it's also basically a tax on emigrants who need the damn thing to put their visa/get their residence permit somewhere else). – Annoyed Oct 8 '13 at 10:12
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The simple answer is that it's because the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) - the global organisation that is responsible for settings standards for passports - recommends that they should be valid for no more than 10 years.
For example, the ICAO "Guide for Assessing Security of Handling and Issuance of Travel Documents" states that :
Passport Validity Period
Recommended Practice 3.16 - Contracting States should normally provide that such passports be valid for a period of at least five years…Note 1 — In consideration of the limited durability of documents and the changing appearance of the passport holder over time, a validity period of not more than ten years is recommended
Of course the question then becomes why does ICAO have such a requirement!
In addition to the obvious reason that the biometric data on the passport (at a minimum, the photo) will be out of date after a period of time, the primary reason for expiring passports is likely to be that it allows the underlying technology to change without there being too many legacy passports in circulation.
For example, most countries started implementing "Machine Readable Passports" in the 1980's. Given a maximum expiry of 10 years, that meant that by the year 2000 it could be guaranteed that people from most countries had an MRP, and thus countries could start to enforce their use - such as how the US did in the mid-2000's. If passports had a 20+ year expiry, then even today there wouldn't be a guarantee that people would have MRPs.
The same is true for "electronic" passports. For example, Australia started issuing these in 2005, which means by the end of 2015 countries will be able to enforce that Australian passports must be electronic.
Expiring passports also reduces the number of stolen/forged/etc passports in circulation - both due to the expiry of those that are in circulation, but also by enforcing newer anti-forgery standards for new passports.
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I'd say the last paragraph (expiring forged passports) is the most likely explanation, unless passports had an indefinite lifetime before technological changes started happening with passports. – Andrew Grimm Oct 10 '13 at 22:29
-1 I do not know why this answer was upvoted,it is totally wrong. I deal with ICAO annexes a lot and I am familiar with it. The first statement of your answer is wrong, ICAO (annex 9 - Facilitation) section 3.5.4 says: "Contracting States should issue passports with an initial period of validity of at least five years." There is no mention of 10 years as you stated. Also, this rule is mentioned under the "Recommended Practices" which is not compulsory for countries to follow,therefore there are countries that issue passports for 3 years and some more than 10 years in some cases like UK. – user1712 Oct 12 '13 at 1:22
Thank you HaLaBi for your feedback. I have modified the word "must" to "should" to cover you point that the ICAO "recommends" validity of no more than 10 years as opposed to strictly enforcing it. – Doc Oct 12 '13 at 5:37
Just as notice: my father got passport in 2004 and it is valid until 2057 (year when will 100 year from his birth) – valodzka Oct 14 '13 at 17:37
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The biggest reason. Your appearance changes with age, so the fresh picture is needed.
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Also, it is a way to make more jobs and give people salaries... governments need that. – user1712 Oct 8 '13 at 0:06
$150 a pop even for 300000000 people every 10 years isn't much. :) – Karlson Oct 8 '13 at 1:31
Wow I dream of such cheap passports! – hippietrail Oct 8 '13 at 3:03
@Karlson not only passports, a bit from passports and a bit from many other things will eventually make some good $. – user1712 Oct 8 '13 at 3:19
@Karlson 10 years? Most countries I know require renewal every 4 years, and there are countries where you need to get a new one for every trip abroad (effectively they're exit visa). And $450 million a year is nothing to sneeze, for the city councils that get it (especially small towns) it can be a nice addition to their budget. And as HaLaBi says, when you add driver's licenses and other expiring permits and licenses it all adds up. – jwenting Oct 8 '13 at 5:58
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First, the answer that states that passports expire because of ICAO rules is wrong, ICAO annex 9 (Facilitation) section 3.5.4 regarding passports is:
3.5.4 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should issue passports with an initial period of validity of at least five years, valid for an unlimited number of journeys and for all countries, except in special circumstances.
and section 3.5.5:
3.5.5 Recommended Practice.— Contracting States should institute simple procedures for the renewal or replacement of passports and grant the same period of validity for the new or renewed passport as for the initial issue.
So, there is no global limitation of the passport validity, there is a recommendation of 5 years initial validity. There are some countries issue passports for 3 years, some other issue passports with a validity that exceeds 10 years. It totally depends on the country, still most of them are following ICAO recommendations and issue passports of 5 years.
The reasons are:
• As in driving licenses, national IDs and other photo IDs, people's looks change over time. So a fresh photo is required every few years to keep things up to date.
• For some countries there are the security measures, the longer the passport design stays the same, the bigger the chance of fraud is.
• Economic reasons, making more jobs. Renewing passports is not free, the money for the passports are usually much more than the actual cost of passport while there is another recommendation by ICAO regarding this but few countries follow that:
3.5.6 Recommended Practice.— If any fee is charged for the issue or renewal of a passport, the amount of such fee should not exceed the cost of the operation.
• finally, ICAO recommends the renewal of passports every few years, which is recommended to be five years as mentioned above.
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You have quoted a single document. Numerous other ICAO documents recommend a maximum 10 year validity, such as "Machine Readable Travel Documents" (Part 1, Volume 2, Section 2.2), and "Guide for Assessing Security of Handling and Issuance of Travel Documents" (section 6.4.2). Whilst it is true that these are "Recommendations", I'm sure someone like yourself who "deal[s] with ICAO annexes a lot" will know that a recommendation such as this would normally only be ignored if there was an extremely good reason to do so. – Doc Oct 12 '13 at 5:44
+1 for citing relevant documentation and providing some nuances but I would think the distinction between “recommending” and actually mandating is not as absolute as you make it to be (it's international law anyway, most countries violate it everyday without serious consequences, same things for technical norms…). Yet, those type of rules do matter and it's still one of the reasons passports have limitations (whereas drivers' license often do/did not, incidentally) even if the obligation is not as strong as Doc initial answer would have suggested. – Annoyed Oct 12 '13 at 6:17
Can sombody please tell the Australian government about 3.5.6? Or if it really does cost $350 bucks to produce a passport (with more pages) then how can I get a job there? The passports don't seem to be made of precious materials so I can only assume they pay very high wages to their employees. – hippietrail Oct 12 '13 at 9:23
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In addition to the other answers, there may be laws local to the issuing countries.
For example, Germany prohibits creating unique identification numbers for people. If the passport or ID card number would remain unchanged for a greater amount of time, this number could be used as an identification number (as citizens get at most one ID card and two passports), so documents with new, unrelated numbers have to be issued every ten years, and any documentation about the old number deleted from government databases as soon as the document is marked invalid (non-government databases are forbidden from storing the number at all).
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This is incorrect. All residents of Germany have a tax identification number (Steueridentifikationsnummer) which remains throughout the entire life. It has been disputed if the introduction of such a numbering system violates the German constitution, but all court rulings have been in favour of the system. – Tor-Einar Jarnbjo Oct 8 '13 at 11:19
@Tor-EinarJarnbjo Good luck trying to shut Pandora's Box after the fact. ~80 years ago when the US assigned everyone a number for Social Security (govt retirement program) they forbade its use as an identifier for anything else. Now it's defacto required when signing up for almost anything financial since it's needed to report tax information. – Dan Neely Oct 8 '13 at 13:17
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There are many, many reasons to limit the validity for passports. Just for completion as already called out:
• Money: As a monopoly you are guaranteed to charge insidious prices and get the revenue.
• Biometric features: Getting older, growing beards, glasses etc. could change you so much that you may be nearly unrecognizable.
• Counterfeiting: Passport security could be enhanced repeatedly.
Now a passport itself is mostly unnecessary for a citizen inside a country, it is a travel and immigration document. Therefore it has useful purposes to watch, identify and control people who are moving outside their country.
Further reasons why a passport with unlimited time would be a disadvantage for countries:
• Rare, but possible: New countries appearing and old countries disappearing. The authorities need to update the information.
• Your government want you to get back to your home country: Sometimes a citizen does things which a government does not like very much so they have the urgent need to speak to you. Bobby Fischer spat on the US embargo in Yugoslavia and even worse, he did not pay his taxes. So the USA revoked his passport and Fischer would have been extradited sooner or later from Japan if Iceland did not jump in and gave Fischer an Icelandic passport.
• Your government is convinced that you if you leave your country you are up to no good. Germany revoked the passport of Horst Mahler, a right-wing ex-lawyer, to prevent him to travel to a holocaust conference in Iran. It is also used for known hooligans to prevent traveling.
An unlimited passport makes it much easier in both cases to hide your papers or slip through controls.
• Your government wants to know if you are alive. And where you are (for taxes, retirement provisions). If someone who left the country does not renew their passport, they know something is wrong.
• The foreign country thinks that a person causes trouble, but they have no legal means against him. Limited passports make it much easier to extradite an undesired individual.
• The foreign country has less problems to detect people who try to stay in the country for a long time.
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The last three points seem somewhat speculative. In fact, most countries don't impose taxes on nationals who reside abroad and won't chase you to pay a retirement pension even if you are entitled to it. Furthermore, having an invalid passport makes extradition more (and not less) difficult. I don't think passport expiration has much of a role in controlling foreigners; visa, residence permits, mandatory registration, police controls are much more important for that. Countries have many legal means to deal with foreigners causing trouble and create new ones as they see fit. – Annoyed Oct 9 '13 at 19:37
If you don't have a visa/right to stay in a country, having an expired passport is really a detail. If on the other hand you are entitled to stay (say because you have several nationalities), you most likely have no obligation to renew your other passport. Beside, to even know about it, the host country must have found you through a random check or some other means to track you as renewing passports is something that's done without their knowledge in consulates. – Annoyed Oct 9 '13 at 19:39
Expiry and revocation are completely separate. Revocation, by definition, occurs to a valid, unexpired passport -- if Fischer or Mahler's passport had expired, their governments wouldn't have needed to revoke them to prevent travel! A passport that didn't expire could be revoked just as easily as an expiring one. – David Richerby Feb 12 at 18:26
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1) you cite two human studies and a rodent study. Neither human study has a placebo group. This is generally considered unacceptable in studies of pain control because both "active " medications may have placebo effects that can be considerable in subjective scale studies like these. We can't tell from these studies whether a placebo would have caused the same degree of symptom relief.
2) both studies are sponsored by drug companies; in fact, in one of them the authors thank the drug company rep for design and data analysis of the study!! What you need to know about drug companies is that they reserve the right to publish or not publish a study they pay for. So they may have commissioned 20 identical studies done by different groups, with 19 of them being unpublished and showing no benefit and this published one showing possible benefit.
3) in the rutin study the authors point out that the enzyme is quickly metabolized to homovanillic acid (a dopamine metabolite) and other products. They profess they have no idea why an enzyme would work. Why are such studies done, you asked? Because the companies that make the product pay people to do them.
4) the rodent study is irrelevant as rodents have very different GI tracts than we, and may for example absorb some peptides directly from the roof of the mouth, for example.
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Let Us Now Listen To The Discographies Of Various Musicians
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Estradasphere: Quadropus and Passion For Life
Quadropus (2003)
There's notably a bit less goofiness than on the first couple albums here, and while they're still using a lot of different influences, songs are just slightly less likely to completely switch directions 20 times. However, while the humor is missed a little, it's made up for with some of their coolest music. As eclectic as Buck Fever and It's Understood were, about the last thing you'd expect from either of them would be a straightforward, moody ballad like "Speck". The song doesn't sound out of place at all though, partially because it still has the middle-eastern influences present in other tracks. The humor isn't entirely gone, mind you - "A Car Ride In Idealistic Ethiopia" is presented as though you were listening to it on a car radio, complete with interference from other stations, "Dubway" is a mostly acapella techno song (which should be ridiculous, but it's actually pretty awesome), and "Crystal Blue" is another fun 50's rock pastiche (which, in typical Estradasphere style, is then followed by a 6 minute death metal song). Oh yeah, and there's also a Rap Metal song about Professional Wrestling.
Key Tracks: King Krab Battle, Dubway, Speck
Passion For Life (2004)
This live album is actually a bonus disc to a DVD of the same name. However, because this is a music blog, we shall shun all visual media, even if it is directly related to the delicious aural auditory musical sounds of music. Also, I do not have the DVD.
The problem I have most often with live albums is when they don't really differ enough from the studio material. This album does a good job of avoiding that: More than half the tracks aren't on any of their studio albums - there's four non-live chiptune compositions, one goofy improvised R & B number, and three previously unheard songs. The tracks that are on the albums either get some kind of notable rearrangement ("Planet Sparkle", originally one of their chiptune style songs, is performed by a full band this time, for instance), or else just benefit from the live energy. The best example of the latter would be "Dr. Hell" (here re-titled "D-Flat Hell") - the studio version was a little stilted, but that is a great live song. The only complaints I have are that the chiptune tracks, while pretty cool, kind of disrupt the flow of the album, and that you can find Estradasphere sets on archive.org where the sound quality is just as good.
Key Tracks: Whoolilicious!, D-Flat Hell, Hora Bucharestu vs. Narodno Kolo (Gypsy Medley)
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I'd say I was more "inspired", really :p. But yeah, in all seriousness I'm glad someone's reading and enjoying this, and I like your livebloggin' too, so I definitely appreciate the comment.
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It's something that tends to happen with particularly advanced mentor-like alien species, Sufficiently Advanced Ancient Astronauts and the like. You don't want to be something as uninspiring as a Rubber Forehead Alien nor something as unphysical as an Energy Being while also maintaining some sense of secrecy and wonderment, so you take the "astronaut" idea and run with it. The aliens end up wearing large all-enclosing hazmat-like encounter suits that shield their frail physical butts from the elements.
The great thing is that because you don't know what their encounter-suited butts look like, they could be anything! The variety of abnormal suit shapes that can be worn by a performer is also greater than the variety possible with rubber faces. People in Rubber Suits still need the full detail and design of a whole new species, while this trope leaves things to the imagination. A permanent life in an encounter suit can also be justified a lot more than Humanoid Aliens: they have Bizarre Alien Biology that can't stand our atmosphere, they're physically very frail by comparison, so it works like Powered Armour and similar things.
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• The Emperor of the Arquillian Galaxy from Men In Black, of course. He's the classic Little Green Man in a can... disguised as an elderly Eastern European jeweler.
• The Mondoshawan from The Fifth Element have really big waddling rears with tiny dog-like heads that give them a very odd Humpty Dumpty appearance.
• The aliens from Independence Day. The suit itself is explained as being some kind of organic technology and indeed the helmet portion looks like it's a solid external skull. This makes it retrospectively more badass that Will Smith's character knocked one out with one punch.
• The Skakoans from Star Wars are required to wear a full body environmental suit as they live on a planet with a high pressure atmosphere. Going to a 'normal' planet unaided would cause explosive decompression, like bringing a deep sea fish up to the surface.
• The One from Last Legionary is a mutated human with stunted limbs, wearing a massive golden exoskeleton that turns him into The Juggernaut.
• The Creapii from Terry Pratchett's The Dark Side of the Sun are always encountered in tentacled, ovoid environmental suits. Not because they're too frail to survive the kinds of atmospheres the other sentient species use, but because their natural habitat is the photospheres and upper corona of stars (with a class system based on how hot their home star is)
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• The Daleks (pictured above) from Doctor Who, though their suits aren't so much suits as little tanks in which utterly feeble bodies reside. In the Seventh Doctor's words, they're not so much little green men as "little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armor."
• The Ice Warriors, too: their big, hulking bodies are stated to be biomechanical spacesuits in their debut story. Though in a later episode it turns out that Ice Warriors are anything but frail outside of their suits; they stay in the suits primarily for cultural reasons related to honor.
• The Vorlons from Babylon 5, who not only need a completely alien atmosphere but also have their own reasons for wanting to hide their true appearance. Comes complete with Neglectful Precursor behaviour.
• They don't actually need that atmosphere, they just use it to discourage visitors.
• In the series finale humans become like this too, though they don't need to; they probably took a lesson from the Vorlons about the advantages of standing around being cryptic when dealing with younger races.
• The Gaim from the same series wear encounter suits that resemble humanoids in gas masks. Underneath, the are insectoid and apparently far from humanoid. The suit serves both as environmental protection and a translator/speaker unit, as the Gaim are incapable of vocalizing most species' languages.
• In Stargate Atlantis, the team encounters a group of aliens who kidnap Daniel (who's in the galaxy visiting) and Rodney. It's eventually revealed that they're a group of rogue Asgard who have taken the degenerative cloning problem into their own hands and are using man-sized suits to exist on a poisonous planet with no stargate as a means of staying hidden.
• The Breen of Star Trek, who first appeared on-screen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, come from a much more frigid environment than most humanoids and need environmental suits to interact with other races face-to-face.
• Though according to Weyoun, their planet is actually quite mild. It's also said that if you saw a Breen in the flesh, it'd turn you to stone. However, this is also clearly a lie, as Kira manages to steal one of their uniforms without any ill effects. In the Star Trek Novel Verse, there's more than one kind of Breen, they just all wear environment suits that make them look identical. Some of them need the refrigeration, some of them don't. Possibly, some of them turn you to stone and some of them don't as well.
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• The Quarians from Mass Effect wear them to protect their absent immune systems from having to deal with normal environment. From a more Doylist viewpoint, it helps make the Space Gypsies seem more hidden and closed off from the other races.
• Quarian spacesuits don't really leave much to the imagination, but the volus from the same series could look like anything under their bulky (or not?) suits. They even seem to have completely robotic "hands".
• You can just barely see hints of Tali's face through her helmet.. but they're so vague that they do little more than establish that it has a human-like configuration.
• The Unggoy (aka Grunts) from Halo. They are most often seen with masks on, large tanks on their backs. (They breathe methane on their home planet, and carry it with them much like divers and astronauts.) Some higher-ranking Grunts may also have other armor on in addition to the methane tank, or the tank and mask may look different (as with the Heretic Grunts.)
• The Meklar from Master of Orion were originally this. As the series progressed, they gradually became Cyborgs, then full-on Mechanical Lifeforms.
• The Tholians in Star Trek Online can only survive in environments like the surface of Venus, so humans have to wear encounter suits when fighting them on extremely hot worlds. The Tholians likewise, will use their own encounter suits when fighting humans in temperate environments.
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edit The Letter of Intent
To the citizens of the United States of America,
Would you really want to fuck with that?
Except Utah, which she does not fancy, and Texas, because it will be sold to Mexico anyways.
The House of Representatives and the Senate will be disbanded.
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. Currently in the english language our scientists have agreed to say aluminium the American way, however in return you had to start spelling "sulfur" the correct way which is sulphur. This isn't a sign that "U.S English" is better, just that we made you change the spelling of a word and we will still pronounce aluminium as we do.
1. You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to re-spell Pittsburgh as "Pittsberg" if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.
1. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up “vocabulary". Using the same thirty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "uhh", "like", and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
1. Look up "interspersed".
Seriously, our country is ran by scary looking people!
1. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to Cockney, upper-class twit, Scouse, Geordie or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier).
1. You should stop playing American football There are other types of football such as Rugby, Aussie Rules & Gaelic Football. However proper football - which will no longer be known as soccer, is the best known, most loved and most popular. What you refer to as American football is not a very good game.
1. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a league which is not played outside of North America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girl's game called "rounders", which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
1. As a side note, the English invented the game of baseball and we decided that it was too boring. When it comes to sport you should trust our judgement on if it is good or not. Granted we may not be that good at them now, but we invented most sports known to man.
1. The 4th of July is no longer a public holiday. The 2nd of November will be a new national holiday, but only in Britain. It will be called "Indecisive Day."
1. Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
1. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled (10 grams if you don't know your times tables) for tea made within the city of Boston itself.
1. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling "beer" is actually not beer at all, it is lager. From the 1st of November only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine." This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in the Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.
1. You will tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
Thank you for your co-operation.
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For the out-of-luck country, see iRaq. For the COMPAQ gizmo, see iRAQ Pocket GPS.'
“'WMDs not found'... great!”
~ Oscar Wilde on iRaq Pocket PC
The retail version of iRaq Pocket PC
Custom-built by George W. Bush to assist in his oil-unrelated quest for world peace, the iRaq Pocket PC is a small device in the shape of the country Iraq, otherwise known as "America II", "America: NOW!", or the most famous current name, "Who gives a shit what it's called, let's get the fuck out of here!", that delivers all the power of a personal computer, including internet access, music, movies, games, and tyrannical dictatorships.
edit Look and Feel
The iRaq, snowflake white, and is in the shape of the country Iraq. This is a , hand-friendly design, and is much better than the standard rounded rectangle. It comes with a 2" x 1" screen, a keyboard on the front, with a stylus for typing, and a Track point on the rear side.
The most anticipated feature, however, is the iRaq Shuffle linkup, which can allow you to make a crude gun shape out of your iRaq Pocket PC. With a small battery pack, and a little imagination, you will be killing aliens, people, cows, communists, and friends at home or on the go! The iRaq Laser Gun battery pack will be launched on December 22, 2012.
It can be viewed here: The iRaq Pocket PC
edit Capabilities and features
The iRAQ Pocket PC
The iRaq Pocket PC engineering beta: Um, where's the Control-Dubya key???
The iRaq Pocket PC engineering beta 2. Note the wonderful, automated bush broadcasts.
edit Hardware Specifications
edit Processor
The iRaq Pocket PC has a Intel "Insurgent" Processor, capable of running at the speed of a rocket-propelled grenade. The downside of this innovation is its random, violent, unpredictable, and often spontaneous explodes. Still, it can go at speeds twice the speed of a rocket-propelled grenade.
edit Display
Every unit comes with a 2" x 1" screen. It is so small that you cannot even see what is going on in the device, and thus saves the military time from imposing heavy censorship.
edit Keypad
The keypad has every key you can find on a standard 101-key AT PC keyboard. This gives you control of almost everything except Dubya and casualties.
edit Track point
The mouse system is a Think-pad-like Track Point device, and that means whenever you try to put something in place, it will all of the sudden go back to where it was and you will have to start all over again. This problem is particularly notorious when you want to drag icons such as "" to the recycle bin.
edit Operating System
The iRaq Pocket PC runs off of a Windows operating system (known as "Windows Mobil"), because they felt it was a bit more evil and tyrannical that way. Windows Mobil is a collaborated effort between Microsoft and Mobil, two multi-national corporations. Although serious instability was found in the beta versions "Operating Iraqi System" and "Operating Enduring System", Bush insisted in continuing the development project and as a consequence, the retail iRaq Pocket PC was shipped with an OS full of glitches and bugs. (It must be noted that this is the exact opposite of operating systems delivered by Microsoft alone, which are instead full of bugs and glitches, or a fraternity party, which is full of glugs and bitches.) Bush did not give a damn about that, and despite promises of patches and upgrades, nothing was actually done to fix the problems. That is why even now this sorry little gadget still runs like a wreck.
Luckily, the average Iraqi has no idea that the unit is bad, as Iraq as a country just discovered the abacus while watching a decades-old episode of Barney & Friends on a borrowed DVD player.
edit iRaq Pocket PC Applications
The following application software is bundled with the iRaq Pocket PC:
edit Parts and Accessories
The iRaq Pocket PC comes complete with a set of IrDA-compliant infrared goggles, so hopefully you can dodge bullets in the dark instead of go home in a box with a flag on top.
edit Quips and Quoteables
A member of the team of developers on the iRaq Pocket PC, and the originator of the design you see above, was spotted at the Blasty's, the award ceremonies for people who make things that parody Iraq. He spoke on behalf of the team, saying this:
"I'm so flattered that my design has taken off so marvelously. It started as an idea, and now through additions from silent partners, the iRaq Pocket PC has become a full fledged member of our technological future."
When asked why no one on the planet actually owns the iRaq Pocket PC, Najeh G. Davenport simply stated "You're a big fat liar pants, that's why."
The iRaq Pocket PC is also the subject of much protest from the watchdog group Parents Against Iraqi Neutrality (P. A. I. N.), who say that with ongoing justification and normalization of the country, we will soon become blind to their rage, and succumb to their whim. P. A. I. N.'s spokesperson, Najeh J. Davenport, had this to say.
"I look at this device, and I see dictatorship. Within it's core processor lies an evil that just waits to fully load and program it's hethenism into our democracy.usa. I'm not going to stand by and let the Iraqi state of mind become our state of mind!"
edit Trivia
Dirk McKensie, professional joke writer, set the record for number of jokes about a single technological object, with 200,394 jokes written in three months about the iRaq Pocket PC.
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Rick Bond
Like Will Smith, Rick moved seemlessly from music to action hero just as Medieval troubadors used their earnings to join the Crusades.
Much modern popular music has its roots in black American forms such as Jazz and Delta blues, and in the African rhythms from which these derive. But no music develops in isolation, and modern forms also owe a debt to the traditional songs of Europe.
With so many new songs released over the last 40 years, it is perhaps inevitable that some "new" music bears a more than passing resemblance to songs first heard hundreds of years previously. Here we investigate what links Beyonce to Brahms, how we exchanged Mussorgsky for Milli Vanilli and whether Rick Astley could have have come about without the inspiration of the great composers of previous centuries who laid out the route-map to "Together Forever."
edit Disco
Disco. Has there ever been a more glorious expression of the human spirit?
But in the late 1970s disco ruled the world, its driving rhythms making men all over the world take to the floor and dance, some of whom were not even gay. Since its heyday tastes have changed but periodically disco, like shingles, still makes unexpected returns in the hands of acts like the Scissor Sisters and Metallica.
What is less well known is that disco has ruled the world before. Derived from the Welsh word "Ddysgo" (meaning "tacky") it first surfaced in the bardic traditions of eighth century Gwynedd, where wandering minstrels would pluck dance-inducing lute-chords while their noble hosts struck poses on the straw-covered dance-floor. Unlike its Dark Ages ancestor, which focussed thematically on defending the holy land from the infidel, modern disco is rooted in the love song. By 1982 that particular theme had largely been exhausted. Desperate for inpiration, Gloria Gaynor appears to have based her career-defining song on a Medieval epic. "I won't survive" voiced the fears of a God-fearing people about the seeming randomness of infectious disease. It was first released by "Lipless Lenny and the Pariahs" in 1462 and remained popular across Britain until music was banned under Cromwell's Republic, along with the theatre, Christmas and fun.
At first I was afraid, I’d been leprified.
Kept watching fingers dropping off, and fall down by my side.
But then I woke up in the night, and felt something wrong.
My cock had gone!
The Leprosy had got my schlong!
Morris dancing twats
Medieval Disco dancing has survived across rural England, but is still frowened upon due to its close ties to the gay community.
And so you're back, from overseas.
Survived the plague, the bloody flux, wanna try my new disease?
They make me wear a sacking hood, I have to ring a warning bell,
I’d have bought some more deodorant, if I’d known how much I’d smell.
Go on now go. Paint on my door.
Just draw a cross, now. It’s not safe in here no more.
Weren't you the one who tried to cure me with a prayer?
Do you think I'm better? Go on, touch me if you dare.
Oh no, not I.
I won’t survive.
Oh, as long as I got Leprosy, I know I cannot thrive.
I've got no more life to live,
My circulation’s inactive.
I won’t survive. I won’t survive (hey-hey)
An early, hand-tinted publicity shot of Lipless Lenny, circa 1460.
It took all the strength I had not to fall apart.
Lost my ears and then my jaw - guess I’m no work of art.
And I spent oh so many nights, just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry,
Until infection took my eyes
And you see me. This leg is new.
Made it to replace the one I lost, carved it from a piece of yew.
And so you felt like dropping by - please excuse me while I cough.
If I try to hold it back, I fear my head may just fall off
Go on now, banish me.
To an island in the ocean, bounded by eight miles of sea.
Weren't you the one who made me say goodbye?
Sad leprous guy,
I won’t survive.
Oh, as long it don’t infect my heart, guess I’ll stay half alive.
But I've got no more life to live,
You could push me through a sieve.
I won’t survive, I won’t survive.
edit Novelty Songs
Novelty songs periodically take the charts by storm, much to everyone's delight. But just as a children's song like "London Bridge" recounts a Viking attack on the capital, sometimes novelty songs recall a part of history better forgotten. "Purple People-eater" documented an epidemic of Scrofula in 1760s Cornwall, while "My ding-a-ling" troubled the late-Medieval hit parade as the first wave of Syphillis swept Europe following Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Some novelty songs have an even longer history, however.
Joe Dolce's re-release of the Roman classic was less violent but still disturbingly anti-semitic.
70 AD marked the end of the Great Jewish Revolt as up to a million Judeans died of illness, starvation and the violent assaults of Emperor Vespasian's Roman legions. The revolt had been sparked by the erection of statues of Augustus inside Herod's Great Temple at Jerusalem. The priests' refusal to place offerings to the statue as a deity and Vespasian's heavy-handed response led directly to the temple's destruction and the final destruction of all hopes of autonomy for Judea.
These events have long been the theme of Yiddish laments, but have rarely transferred to the big time. However, Joe Dolce's "Shaddap you face" appears to bear close comparisson to a song popular in the taverns of Rome in the immediate aftermath of the rebellion. Its cheery refrain purports to be Vespasian's response to Chief Priest Eliezar ben Hanania's mournful lament following the destruction of the Holy of Holys.
What’s the matter Jew?
Hey! Gotta no respect.
Hey! Worship an emperor or two,
Hey! Why you look-a so sad?
It's a not so bad,
You’re not the chosen race.
I smash-a your face.
edit Rock
Rocks have been popular since man first understood that hurling them forcefully at grazing mammals could provide a tasty treat. Songs about rock are therefore amongst the first recorded. But, as man progressed, he realised that copper and iron tools could maim and dismember animals much more efficiently. As a consequence, Rock music fell out of favour around 5000 years ago as people began to celebrate their technological achievments through the medium of Death Metal.
By the nineteenth century, the British upper middle classes liked to consider that progress had raised them far above their primitive ancestors, and they had realised that the exploitation of people was far more profittable than the exploitation of mere livestock. The Victorian era saw a great expansion in British trade and population, and the development of Progressive Rock charted this. Various references to sausage gravy are a well-regarded hallmark of progressive rock music. Towns and cities boomed, but much of this expansion was at the expense of poor children forced to work long hours, often in dangerous environments, before returning to inadequate, damp housing. The taverns of this period rang with protest songs, some of which appears to have been familar to leading 70's bleeding heart, Roger Waters, as he penned Pink Floyd's hit album of 1979.
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Victorian mill owners often reprocessed injured child-workers into dog-meat.
We don’t get no education,
We don’t get much sleep at all.
In dark satanic mills in Bolton,
And stinking slums in Rawtenstall.
Hey, Gladstone, leave those whores alone.
All in all, I’d rather bang my head on a wall.
Other parts of The Wall album bear a striking resemblence to songs sung by supporters of Lord Shaftesbury as he campaigned against child labour in 19th century England. The practise of sending small boys up chimneys armed only with a brush was a particularly popular subject of such ditties, especially as it was not uncommon for them to become permanently trapped and even to die.
For Pink Floyd fans "The Ballad of Rickety Ralph" may have eerie overtones of what was to come as it charts the last conversation between a sweep and his son, wedged in the flue of a wealthy businessman's mansion. It begins with the sweeps plaintiff call to his dying child.
Is there anybody up there?
Just cough if you can hear me.
Is there any air at all?
Child chimney sweeps
Child chimney sweeps were a common sight in Victorian England until the 1865 Race Relations Act outlawed blacking-up in public.
Later the son replies, clearly begining to fear the worst.
There's so much pain,
My nose is bleeding.
My head is buzzing like its got flies on.
I've lost control of my own brain,
My lips move but I don’t know what I’m saying.
I'm just a child with scarlet fever.
I should be playing with balloons.
Now I’m up a chimney once again.
I can't explain,
The flue's much too tight
I've lost the will to fight.
I-I-I'm just scum,
My leg's going numb.
edit Pastoral Music
For much of history, agriculture has occupied the thoughts and deeds of the majority of humanity. It is little wonder then that the tending of crops has featured widely in traditional songs such as "John Barleycorn". At around the same time that Traffic reinterpreted that old favourite, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were stealing freely from previous generations of blues musicians. It is hardly a shock to learn then, that led Zeppellin's most famous track was lifted almost wholesale from Percy Loam's 1546 "Pamphlette of Merrie Ditties", where it appeared as "Whole lotta mud".
However, only one group survived the changing face of fashion for over 350 years - Jethro Tull. With constant line-up changes, as well as widely varying musical-styles encompasing everything from Severn Estuary Blues to Hard Rock madrigals, it is hardly surprsing that the hardest working agronomists in show business have forgotten some of their past hits. One such neglected classic, originally released in 1754, gave tragic Canadian acne-victim, Bryan Adams, his first international smash in the mid 1980s.
A woodcut advertising Jethro Tull's 1574 LP release.
Got my first real seed-drill,
To reduce tillage time.
Planted till my plough horse died.
It was summer 1709.
Me and some hicks from the village,
Got a farm and we tried real hard.
Jimmy quit, Jody got dropsy,
Never work with in-bred retards.
Oh, when I look back now,
Work-days seemed to last forever.
And if I had the chance,
I wouldn't fuck that heifer.
That cow was the worst shag of my life.
edit The devil has the best tunes
Their satanic majesties
Spurred on by The Beatles success, The Rolling Stones based the album "Their Satanic Majesties Request" directly on the colected works of Aleister Crowley.
Pre-industrial Europe was not a place of bounteous harvests; bad weather, pests and disease meant that most peasants teetered on the brink of starvation throughout their lives. As a consequence, it was important for communities to have a mechanism to remove the least productive members of society - old ladies. Between 1500 and 1715, up to 4 million may have been exceuted as witches by hanging or incineration at the stake, a very necessary and entertaining way to ensure ample food-supplies for future generations. As a consequence, for three hundred years, old ladies across the continent feared the failure of a harvest, the unexplained souring of milk or the appearance of flocks of sinister beared-tits.
Fear of witches and fear of being labelled a witch occupied the minds of millions. Songs of their dark deeds were sung in inns across the continent and even the productive musical minds of the twentieth century (Lennon and McCartney) couldn't avoid borrowing a little from the past masters. 1967's Beatles album would have sounded very familiar to Essex villagers who had witnessed Matthew Hopkins' travelling show, which thrived during and after the civil strife and violence of late seventeenth century England.
Roll up, roll up for The Witch-Finder General's tour, step right this way.
Roll up, roll up for the witch-burning tour
Roll up, roll up for the witch-burning tour
Roll up, watch the incineration
Roll up for the witch-burning tour
Roll up, an old crone conflagration.
Roll up for the witch-burning tour
The Witch-Finder General's here,
He's coming to take you away,
Coming to take you away,
To roast you today.
Clash Witch burning
The original 1685 Clash EP commemorating Matthew "Lightning" Hopkins.
But it wasn't just hippies who idolised this most malign of English anti-heroes. Arch-punks, The Clash, had a worldwide hit with "London Calling" but few realised it was merely a re-working of the original Clash hit of 1685.
Witches burning in the faraway towns,
Civil War declared, King Charles going down.
Satan calling from the underworld.
To gather old ladies and promiscuous girls
Witches burning, now don't lecture me.
Black masses and moonlight, and nudity.
Witches burning, I don't them 'em swing,
'Cause hanging's too good for 'em, that's the thing
Monarchy's over, Republic begins.
Crops stopped growing, the peasants are thin.
Agricultural error? Old crones should fear.
'Cause I'll try 'em as witches and they ----
Float on the river.
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I chose the name Merbabu because I like mokeys. The name Merbabu sounds like a monkey name to me, its not my real name. So for this project I wish to sound like a monkey man.. I am from Indian decent, so I guess you could say that I am half gorilla anyway, so Merbabu is the most appropriate name for me.
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The GOP primary limps on despite Mitt Romney’s edge in delegates. In today’s Congressional Corner, Union College political science professor Brad Hays tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that Newt Gingrich is hoping for a scenario right out of 1920.
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Quick Start
The goal of this document is to help you get started with Acceleo as fast as possible. No details, no explanations, just the facts!
We will assume you already have Acceleo installed in Eclipse, which you can download from the Eclipse download site.
First of all, switch to the Acceleo perspective, which will make everything easier. Open the "Window" menu, then Open Perspective > Other... and choose Acceleo.
Create an Acceleo project, which will contain your first "Hello world" generator. Right-click in the package explorer, then select New > Acceleo Project.
Call it org.eclipse.acceleo.helloworld or whatever name you like better, and click Next >. Click Finish on the next screen. By default, an Acceleo template called generate.mtl is created and opened.
Edit it so that it looks like the following (Just insert some text for the purpose of the demonstration):
Now you want to run this template. In order to run a template, you need to provide Acceleo with two pieces of information:
• The input model;
• The output folder.
Here we want to use a UML model, so we'll create one very quickly. Of course, models are usually produced by software designers, architects, or developers, and generally not by the same people that write Acceleo modules.
So, let's create a new project since there's no reason for our models to be in the same project as our generator (Actually, models and templates should be separated). Right-click in the package explorer, and select New > Project..., then Java Project.
Click on Next and enter the name of the project that will contain the model and the java code generated from this model. Something like org.eclipse.acceleo.test will be perfect! Do not switch to the java perspective when asked to.
Now let's create our UML model. Right-click on the new project, and select New > Other....
In the wizard's page, type "uml" in the top field to filter the choices, and select "UML Model". Click Next >.
Give a name to the UML model to create, for instance Sample.uml. Click Next >.
Select the root type to use for your model, here we will use "Package". This should create and open a new UML model.
Now add one or more classes to the model. To do this, either you have a graphical UML editor such as topcased installed, in which case you can use it, or follow these instructions:
• Right-click on the root package and select New Child > Package Element > Class;
• Right-click on the class and select "Show Properties View";
• In the properties view, enter a name for the new class.
Repeat these steps to create several classes.
OK, this model is just a dummy to get you started. In real life, models will contain lots of information, but it's not our purpose here and now.
So you should now have a model that looks like this:
So let's run the generator on this model!
The Acceleo launch configuration page opens, and you need to provide the information mentionned earlier.
Use the Browse... buttons to simply select the model and the destination folder (you will need to use *.uml filter instead of the default *.xmi in order to locate your model file).
The launch configuration page should now look like this:
Click on the Run button. A file named "Acceleo" (or whatever name you used for your UML class) appears in the target folder.
You can either open it from the package explorer or from the Result view (on the bottom right of the screen). Here is its content:
It contains the text Hello, Acceleo world!, in which Acceleo has been dynamically extracted from the UML model (it's just the class name), while the rest of the text is statically written in the template itself.
Now it's time to experiment by yourself! At some point, you'll probably need to read the rest of the Acceleo documentation to further your comprehension but for now you know enough to get to know Acceleo by playing around with it a bit.
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In my index.php file, I'm trying to create a thumbnail for each post with the size width: 200px and height 142px.
And on the single.php, I would ike for the featured image to be width: 598px and height: 300px;
for the index.php i tried <?php the_post_thumbnail( array (200,150) );?> but I cant get it to work.
Is this something timthumb would be used for? or would it not be needed?
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For this situation, you should use add_image_size. You can find more info about it in the codex. What add_image_size does is register new sizes for your thumbnails, so you can use them with the_post_thumbnail (and other functions). Here´s the example from the codex:
if ( function_exists( 'add_image_size' ) ) {
You must enter this code in your functions.php file. What this does is register a new size called "category-thumb" with 300pixels in width and unlimited height. You can then call the new registered image size using something like:
the_post_thumbnail( 'category-thumb' );
If after doing this you notice that your thumbnails are still the same size, that's probably because Wordpress already created the thumbnails for that picture, so you need to create new ones. I recommend using the Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin for this purpose. However, I read that this plugin has some security issues (can't confirm if it's true), so what I usually do is activate the plugin to regenerate my thumbnails, and unistall it after I used it. Hope this helps.
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thanks! it seems ot be working the way i want it to – Joe Bobby Oct 22 '12 at 19:57
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My mistake - I thought it was the GS plate, not the G/S plate. But if you run across a smooth-bottom sump (and matching pickup assembly) it might give you a bit more clearance. I'll measure the critical dimensions at some point.
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Luggage rack?
Could someone tell me if the luggage rack, tail section, is the same on the R1150GS and Adventure models? I would like to know if this will work with either model. Thanks
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One morning in June, 1830, Edgar Allan Poe rode the steamer from New York up the Hudson River to West Point. His spirits, like his expectations, were uncharacteristically high. He was about to become a cadet at the United States Military Academy, but he anticipated only a brief cadet career; with his prior military experience he expected to be an officer soon.
The academy Poe was entering was only twenty-eight years old, but under the guidance of its superintendent, Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, it was already beginning to establish a wide reputation as the nation’s first engineering college. It was still a small institution, though, and an isolated one; its twenty-five or thirty buildings, laid out haphazardly in the idyllically beautiful Hudson scene, presented what was later described as “the effect of a somewhat irregular village.”
New Cadet Poe was quartered with his future classmates in the South Barracks and began preparation for his entrance examinations. South Barracks was the academy’s principal cadet quarters, a three-story building of stone masonry whose eleven-footsquare rooms the cadets shared in twos and threes. The only furniture permitted in the rooms—and supplied by the cadets themselves—was a washbasin, two buckets, one small table, three chairs, bookshelves, and a musket rack above the open fireplace. The cadets slept on narrow mattresses spread on the floor and in winter were forced to study wrapped in bedding, as the barracks were severely cold.
The members of the future class of 1834 spent a good part of June preparing themselves for the oral entrance examinations, principally in “English grammar, geography, and the principles of arithmetic.” The cadets drilled two and a half hours each day and received instruction for two hours in the morning; the remaining time was spent studying. Clearly it was an unadorned, Spartan existence they were entering into, harder duty than the former Sergeant Major Poe was accustomed to. On June 28 he wrote his guardian, John Allan of Richmond, that “the Regulations are rigid in the extreme.”
Neither Poe’s motives for coming to West Point nor his behavior as a cadet can be understood apart from his explosive relationship with this man John Allan. Many of the minor facts of Poe’s curious military career are unknown today, providing latitude for prolonged scholarly debate over his reasons and his personal integrity. His actions at West Point have always seemed particularly confusing and contradictory, but his correspondence with Allan makes it clear that their relationship had reached a critical point and that the young poet was deeply disturbed. Comparisons of the military records of the academy with his letters make it possible for us to speculate with some assurance about his stormy state of mind and the motives that caused him both to enter West Point and to leave it, changing the course of his life.
Poe’s parents, both relatively obscure actors, died before he was three, and he was taken home, though never officially adopted, by Mrs. Frances Allan, a friend of his mother’s. She spoiled the child, and he adored her; John Allan, a junior partner in a prosperous general merchandising firm, became a stern but just father and made no secret of his pride in the boy’s “precocious and pretty ways.” Edgar Poe became the darling of the family and merged its name into his.
In the fall of 1824 the young Poe, quite by accident, discovered evidence of his foster father’s marital infidelity with a lady in Richmond. It was the beginning of the bitterness between them, and Poe appointed himself his foster mother’s champion in the family quarrels. Allan sent the lad off to the University of Virginia in February of 1826 but allowed him only a pittance to live on. The school at the time was attended largely by the sons of rich, aristocratic families, and Poe fell in with them wholeheartedly. In less than a year he had run up over twenty-five hundred dollars in debts, and Allan, bombarded with letters from creditors, decided not to let him return.
Further arguments between guardian and ward began at once. Allan wanted him to read law, but Poe already had notions of a literary career. The first real break occurred in March of 1827; following a violent argument Poe left home.
On May 26, 1827, he enlisted in the Army under the assumed name of Edgar A. Perry; he lied about his age to make himself seem older. In a day when the lower ranks of the Army were made up principally of foreign mercenaries and native Americans were greatly favored, he rose rapidly through the ranks. On the first of January, 1829, as a member of the First Artillery, stationed at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, he was promoted to sergeant major, the highest noncommissioned rank.
Duty at Fortress Monroe, especially for a noncommissioned officer, was the softest in the United States Army. Poe had very few military duties and was permitted to fraternize with the officers. It was pleasant but a bit discouraging; twenty-year-old Poe had risen as far as he could without a commission. Now, however, he saw a way to advance himself beyond the ranks and to regain the favor (and, perhaps, the inheritance) of his guardian. He wrote to Allan, apologizing for their disagreements and asking for his help in obtaining an appointment to West Point: ”… having already passed thro the practical part even the higher portion of the Artillery arm, my cadetship would only be considered as a necessary form which I am positive I could run thro in 6 months.” |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33905 | Fall Preview: Seiken no Blacksmith
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I know we've talked about this show before, but now it's coming up soon, so perhaps some of the info bears repeating.
Title: Seiken no Blacksmith
JP Title: 聖剣の刀鍛冶
Title Translation: The Sacred Blacksmith
Studio: Manglobe
Genre: Fantasy
Airs: AT-X, Saturdays at 11:30pm, starting October 3rd.
Cecily Cambell is a would-be knight with a remarkable old sword from her father which she hopes to get repaired-- but first she has to find the right blacksmith. One day she bumps into a man with a strange taboo power and an oddly-shaped sword. His name is Luke Aunsworth, and the two unite for a what will probably be a rollicking adventure. Eventually the two are joined by Luke's live-in helpmate, the loli Lisa, and the mysterious bodyguard Aria.
It's been a while since we've had a sort of traditional fantasy adventure other than Slayers-- perhaps because it's been so long since Zero no Tsukaima aired anything on TV? --but it looks like a solidly-animated show and I'm hoping it's a lot of fun. Be sure to watch the trailers!
Post by Schwindelmagier (314 posts) See mini bio Level 6
Hmm...I'll definitely check out the first episode at least.
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Doesn't seem particularly original, but it looks nice. I'll probably give the first episode a shot.
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@Sigue: I dunno, most of these fantasy adventures don't feature female protagonists. Slayers is an exception, but it's farce at least as much as "traditional" fantasy adventure.
But gia forgot to mention Druaga, which is totally standard fantasy adventure stuff. AND recent.
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I'll be checking this out! :)
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Yes, that horizontal line is likely the seal where the back opens, up toward the ISO dial/latch.
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Dilute 1:10 for use. Bleach negative thoroughly in the above solution. Wash 5 minutes, then redevelop in room light in a non-staining developer without excess sulfite. Degree of intensification may be controlled by degree of redevelopment. After redevelopment, rinse negative, fix, and wash. Repeat process for greater effect. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33946 | What Is the Region of Earth's Magnetic Field Shaped by the Solar Wind Called?
The region of the Earth's magnetic field that is shaped by the solar wind is called the magnetosphere. This region causes the particles in the solar wind to travel around the planet. The shape of the magnetosphere is a hemisphere on one side and a long tail-like shape on the other.
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I can say from personal experience that this does work. Didn't work on my HX850 (because of the Gorilla Glass, maybe?), which is how I ended up with the W9, but it did work on my XBR9.
^^^ I haven't. But if you're talking about ANY broadcast medium, they will employ compression to save bandwidth. So you're def on the right track by checking with a BR disk.
I think the answer is in the wording they used:•Provides HDMI® 2.0 compatibility (Applies to 4K models only)Supports 4K 60p (3840X2160p (59.94/60Hz) YCbCr 4:2:0 8bit, 4096X2160p (59.94/60Hz) YCbCr 4:2:0 8bit)And the second sentence is not its own bullet point, but an explanation of the bullet point above it.They're not going to provide 4K support to 1080p sets (even if they could) because they wouldn't be able to extract $3000 out of your wallet then!.
I can confirm that they do not work with the W9. Just like you, I had purchased my second 2 PS3 glasses to work with my HX850, and was bummed that they didn't work with the new set. No, the new glasses aren't nearly as comfortable and don't block out light from the side like the PS3 ones, but at least 4 were included free with the set!
You sure about that?http://www.avsforum.com/t/1333462/the-new-master-list-of-bass-in-movies-with-frequency-charts/12240#post_24012951
To be fair, there are definitely people who have had IR issues for more than those small windows of time, so I think it's completely fair to say that claims that it isn't an issue anymore are wrong. Some people have it, some don't. I, for one, could never get a plasma, as most of my viewing is through HTPC.
Honestly, they're close enough that I use them both. Cinema 1 for accurate, lights-off viewing (save for my bias lighting) and 2 for accurate, lights-on or some-sunlight viewing. The only things I change are Resolution and Backlight.
I think it was discussed earlier in the thread, but it depends on the Picture mode you’re using. Cinema 1 and 2 have some slightly different processing, with 2 having a little more sharpening. So I have Resolution set to 10 for Cinema 1 and 5 for Cinema 2. If you have a PC hooked up to the set, the difference with viewing text makes the difference easily apparent.
That option should be at the very beginning during the initial setup. It'll ask if it's for store or home use.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/33979 | A Twilight Concerto for Rats and Cello
But where does he go after dark?
For answers, I've come to skid row in downtown Los Angeles to spend the evening with Nathaniel Anthony Ayers. The sun has dropped behind glittering skyscrapers, and hardened creatures roam the streets.
Strung-out prostitutes strut their way down trashed streets. Fallen drunks are sprawled like bodies in the desert. Dozens of human forms disappear under piles of rags and casket-shaped cardboard boxes. Predators and hustlers lurk at the edges, tossing glances sharp as knives. Sewer smells mix in with the stench of urine, rotting food and unending stress.
No sign of Nathaniel yet on Los Angeles Street. This is his spot, he has told me. We were to meet at dusk.
But dusk comes and goes. More than a dozen people have staked out their spots and turned in for the night. I wonder if he's decided to spend the night elsewhere.
Nathaniel told me earlier about a savage beating that happened around here the other night. He didn't see the assault, but he saw the results.
"The guy's bones were rearranged in his face. I don't know why you'd beat a person like that. It makes no sense."
As I wait, a San Fernando Valley ministry serves chicken dinners to a long line of takers. Then the volunteers form a circle, call me to join hands with them and bow their heads in prayer. When the missionaries leave, a dazed blond woman caked in filth dials 911 on a pay phone. Sirens echo off concrete as two fire rescue crews approach.
"It's my heart," she tells the rescue crew, and the chief tells me they respond to calls like this repeatedly, night after night. The woman is loaded into a van and taken to the hospital.
I'm beginning to give up hope on Nathaniel when, around 9 o'clock, I see the familiar orange shopping cart approach from a block away. Everything he owns after half a century on this Earth is in that basket. The violin he bought in Cleveland is in there, along with the violin and cello donated to him by a reader from the Inland Empire.
Nathaniel has stopped under an apartment building, where live rock music is pouring out a second-floor window.
"You like the music?" I ask.
"You call that music?" Nathaniel responds.
He's classically trained. Boy wonder in Cleveland. Scholarship to Juilliard. And then 30 years of voices, demons, unexplainable outbursts, mental hospitals, antipsychotic drugs, missed opportunities and tormented, heartbroken, worn-out relatives.
Two dead palm fronds rise from the front of his basket, Jesus entering Jerusalem. At the rear, two sticks form an X. They are slid into the slots of a Ford hubcap, and Nathaniel has painted "Beethoven" on one and "Brahms" on the other.
Nathaniel rolls the cart down to his spot in front of a locked-down storefront.
"I know these guys," he says, pointing to half a dozen sprawled men who don't acknowledge his arrival.
Nathaniel tells me that if a fight breaks out, he knows whom to count on, whom to run from, where to hide.
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I was experiencing some arrogance this morning as I noticed students (I’m a substitute teacher right now) acting haughty and annoyed with me as I began class. I quickly saw how I joined in by isolating myself from them, so as not to have to “put up with” such behavior. At first, I didn’t see it as arrogant, but later, as I was reflecting on my own lesson in the overall behavior, I could see it clearly. Arrogance is not always so overt. Sometimes we carry it subtly. Be ware!
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1 You then, my son,1 be strong2 in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things you have heard me say3 in the presence of many witnesses4 entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. 3 Endure hardship with us5 like a good soldier6 of Christ Jesus. 4 No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs--he wants to please his commanding officer. 5 Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor's crown7 unless he competes according to the rules. 6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.8 7 Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.
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18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. 4 Then said Saul to his armourbearer , Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid . So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. 5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead , he fell likewise on the sword, and died . 9 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people. 12 They arose , all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. 18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD, 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 24 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war. 2 And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel. 2 Then David said , None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. 15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD. 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers , and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers : David also had upon him an ephod of linen. 29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. 2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. 6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus ; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went . 11 Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. 22 And Eleazar died , and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them. 26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
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Strong's Number: 5268
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uJpozuvgionneuter of a compound of (5259) and (2218)
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hoop-od-zoog'-ee-on Adjective
1. under the yoke
2. a beast of burden, an ass
1. the ass was the common animal used by the Orientals on journey and for carrying burdens
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Understanding Marked Sub-Expressions and Captures
Captures are the iterator ranges that are "captured" by marked sub-expressions as a regular expression gets matched. Each marked sub-expression can result in more than one capture, if it is matched more than once. This document explains how captures and marked sub-expressions in Boost.Regex are represented and accessed.
Marked sub-expressions
Every time a Perl regular expression contains a parenthesis group (), it spits out an extra field, known as a marked sub-expression, for example the expression:
Has two marked sub-expressions (known as $1 and $2 respectively), in addition the complete match is known as $&, everything before the first match as $`, and everything after the match as $'. So if the above expression is searched for within "@abc def--", then we obtain:
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In Boost.Regex all these are accessible via the match_results class that gets filled in when calling one of the regular expression matching algorithms ( regex_search, regex_match, or regex_iterator). So given:
boost::match_results<IteratorType> m;
The Perl and Boost.Regex equivalents are as follows:
In Boost.Regex each sub-expression match is represented by a sub_match object, this is basically just a pair of iterators denoting the start and end position of the sub-expression match, but there are some additional operators provided so that objects of type sub_match behave a lot like a std::basic_string: for example they are implicitly convertible to a basic_string, they can be compared to a string, added to a string, or streamed out to an output stream.
Unmatched Sub-Expressions
When a regular expression match is found there is no need for all of the marked sub-expressions to have participated in the match, for example the expression:
can match either $1 or $2, but never both at the same time. In Boost.Regex you can determine which sub-expressions matched by accessing the sub_match::matched data member.
Repeated Captures
When a marked sub-expression is repeated, then the sub-expression gets "captured" multiple times, however normally only the final capture is available, for example if
is matched against
one fine day
Then $1 will contain the string "day", and all the previous captures will have been forgotten.
However, Boost.Regex has an experimental feature that allows all the capture information to be retained - this is accessed either via the match_results::captures member function or the sub_match::captures member function. These functions return a container that contains a sequence of all the captures obtained during the regular expression matching. The following example program shows how this information may be used:
#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <iostream>
void print_captures(const std::string& regx, const std::string& text)
boost::regex e(regx);
boost::smatch what;
std::cout << "Expression: \"" << regx << "\"\n";
std::cout << "Text: \"" << text << "\"\n";
if(boost::regex_match(text, what, e, boost::match_extra))
unsigned i, j;
std::cout << "** Match found **\n Sub-Expressions:\n";
for(i = 0; i < what.size(); ++i)
std::cout << " $" << i << " = \"" << what[i] << "\"\n";
std::cout << " Captures:\n";
std::cout << " $" << i << " = {";
for(j = 0; j < what.captures(i).size(); ++j)
std::cout << ", ";
std::cout << " ";
std::cout << "\"" << what.captures(i)[j] << "\"";
std::cout << " }\n";
std::cout << "** No Match found **\n";
int main(int , char* [])
print_captures("(([[:lower:]]+)|([[:upper:]]+))+", "aBBcccDDDDDeeeeeeee");
print_captures("(.*)bar|(.*)bah", "abcbar");
print_captures("(.*)bar|(.*)bah", "abcbah");
"now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party");
return 0;
Which produces the following output:
Text: "aBBcccDDDDDeeeeeeee"
** Match found **
$0 = "aBBcccDDDDDeeeeeeee"
$1 = "eeeeeeee"
$2 = "eeeeeeee"
$3 = "DDDDD"
$0 = { "aBBcccDDDDDeeeeeeee" }
$1 = { "a", "BB", "ccc", "DDDDD", "eeeeeeee" }
$2 = { "a", "ccc", "eeeeeeee" }
$3 = { "BB", "DDDDD" }
Expression: "(.*)bar|(.*)bah"
Text: "abcbar"
** Match found **
$0 = "abcbar"
$1 = "abc"
$2 = ""
$0 = { "abcbar" }
$1 = { "abc" }
$2 = { }
Text: "abcbah"
** Match found **
$0 = "abcbah"
$1 = ""
$2 = "abc"
$0 = { "abcbah" }
$1 = { }
$2 = { "abc" }
Expression: "^(?:(\w+)|(?>\W+))*$"
Text: "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party"
** Match found **
$0 = "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party"
$1 = "party"
$0 = { "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" }
"come", "to", "the", "aid", "of", "the", "party" }
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Chess in NYCNo, we're not talking about the G-Star thing on the 10th. This is about Channel Thirteen in New York who interviewed the founder and owner of NYC Chess, Russ Makofsky, for its weekly series, “New York on the Clock.” The channel thought we might be interested in sharing the short video with our audience, and... why not.
The video shows Russ Makofsky, a life-long chess player who teaches children and adults the basics and finer points of the Royal Game for Chess NYC in the heart of New York's chess community, Greenwich Village. Although the name Makofsky won't share the renown of Kasparov, Fischer, or Spassky, Russ says you don't have to be a Grandmaster to make your mark as a great teacher.
At some point Russ gets a bit over-excited, expressing exaggerations like "New York is the most famous chess city" and "all the US Grandmasters live in New York," but we'll forgive him. :-)
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Teaching chess to 3-year-old kids? Sounds like a real challenge for me!
I know that I was a lousy teacher but apart from telling them fairy tales, singing songs,... what can you do?
The general notion of "rule" should first be acquired. Most of the young people starting at chess are, as far as i WAS concerned, 6 or 7 years old.
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Well done, Russ. But 2000 is actually only an expert. 2200 is what it takes to be a USCF master.
john's picture
1600-1700 FIDE and teaching chess? I like his enthusiasm but he needs to be careful he isnt doing some kids long term chess damage lol
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Amerigance: (def) a hubristic attitude demonstrated by many USAmericans that combines ignorance and arrogance. Typical examples include: We live in the greatest democracy that has ever existed; Our education and health care systems are second to none; and, New York is the greatest chess city in the world.
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Funny, I've played on them a few days ago! Guy put his king next to my king in the ending (I had g and h pawns on the 5th and 30s, he nothing and 50s), I played a pawn move and he said 'check'
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yeah you looked like you were going to cry when I checked you with my King. Better luck next time buddy ;-)
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Nice report thanks. We need more chess players with his enthusiasm and communication skills.
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If theres one thing Americans are good at, its selfpromotion :) But you gotta love the chess atmosphere over there, wish we had that over here ...
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Rocketboom had a report about chess in NYC some time ago as well:
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Way to go Russ. Ik makes me want to be a New Yorker!
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Thanks for all the feedback! We at New York City Chess are excited about the many great things that are currently happening in the chess world.
Here is a bit about us:
New York City Chess Inc. started as a vision to promote chess in NYC. Several players met consistently on 112th and Broadway to enjoy chess, conversation, and community.
We have recently expanded, and introduced the Chess Academy at the Village Chess Shop.
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Extension methods were invented since .NET 3.5. However, they are not available when your compiler is targeting .NET 2.0. It appears that .NET .35 is the prerequisite of extension methods and you have to install that 100MB+ runtime on Windows XP or 2003 in order to make the compiled assembly work. Actually, it is not true. This tip is about how to use extension methods in your project and have it run on .NET 2.0 machines.
Extension methods are actually static methods introduced in static classes, having a this keyword before the first method parameter, like in the following code:
public static string Quote (this string text) {
return String.Concat ("\"", text, "\"");
You can use the above extension method as if it is a built-in method of the string class.
string t = "test";
string q = t.Quote (); // Quote appeared to be a method of System.String
string n = null;
n = n.Quote (); // This won't throw the NullReferenceException
However, when you compile the C# code files with extension methods targeting .NET 2.0, you will get an error, saying that "CS1110: Cannot define a new extension method because the compiler required type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute'." The error won't disappear until you target your project back to .NET 3.5.
Using the Code
Actually, extension methods can be compiled by the C# .NET 2.0 SP2 compiler. What you need to do is simply adding the following class to your project:
using System;
#pragma warning disable 1685
namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices
[AttributeUsage (AttributeTargets.Method |
AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Assembly)]
public sealed class ExtensionAttribute : Attribute
With this mimic System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute class in your project, its compilation will succeed even when targeting .NET 2.0.
Note: Since our mimic ExtensionAttribute collides with the one in the global assembly cache, the compiler will generate a warning CS1685. We are of course deliberately doing this. Thus, we add the line of #pragma to suppress that warning.
How Did I Find This?
When I tried to compile my projects with extension methods in Visual Studio 2008, the compiler threw an error and mentioned the System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute type. Since .NET 3.5 and .NET 2.0 use the same common language runtime, some people suggested extracting and copying the System.Core.dll file, which contains the ExtensionAttribute class, to the project folder and reference it. It worked. The project could target .NET 2.0 only but our extension methods could run with nothing wrong. Therefore, I wondered, instead of referencing the official System.Core.dll, whether it is possible to mimic my own ExtensionAttribute class and deceive the compiler.
I then opened Reflector and loaded the System.Core.dll. After dissembling the ExtensionAttribute class, I copied the code into my project, and the project was successfully compiled and ran perfectly.
By this means, we can enjoy the convenience of extension methods, easily fool the compiler with our own ExtensionAttribute class. Although we still have to install the big .NET 3.5 on our machine in order to make VS 2008 run, it saves us the trouble of installing .NET 3.5 on Windows XP or 2003 client machines.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34283 | Five Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week
Have you heard the joke about the tech company that faked a demo of a key product feature to make it seem more impressive? Oh wait, that actually happened this week when Nokia tried to hype up its new Lumia 920 smartphone.
Nokia acknowledged that the video footage showed during the Lumia 920 launch event came not from the phone's camera, but from a full-fledged video camera. Oops! Nokia apologized for the subterfuge, but this is exactly the sort of stunt the struggling mobile device maker should not be trying to pull. |
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Google blames Microsoft for allegations
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RE: So...
By Aloonatic on 2/24/2010 3:21:35 PM , Rating: 0
American DTer: "Why don't the EU leave MS and Intel alone? Why not have a go at Google or Apple, they do lots of bad things too?"
EU investigate Google or Apple...
American DTer: "OMG, how can they possibly have a go at Google or Apple? It can only be because they are American companies, stupid Europeans"
EU investigate non American company, or American authority investigate US company...
American DTer: *sound of crickets*
If the EU only investigated/fined American companies, and that it's only the EU who investigates/fines them, then you might have a point, but that's not the case.
I wish you guys would realise how silly, small minded, pathetic and xenophobic (yes, fearful) some of your comments or "jokes" make you guys sound some times.
RE: So...
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Because there's only 1 "American DTer", right?
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Larry Page tries to set the record straight with regards to Android
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RE: How does it feel, Apple?
By Tony Swash on 7/11/2010 1:02:39 AM , Rating: 0
I think the point here is that until Google decided to directly compete against Apple's flagship product, and chose to alter its previous Android development trajectory to make Android more closely resemble the Apple iPhone, Apple had made great efforts to work closely with Google. Apple tried to integrate Google products with its own products and it went so far as to invite the Google CEO onto its board.
Google chose to orientate its Android product to directly compete with Apple. This made Eric Schmidt's (Google's CEO) position on the Apple board untenable and he stood down. Apple made no hostile or critical public comments about this and did not publicly criticise Google.
Apple's public response to all this has been very muted. Steve Jobs has made some public remarks elliptically critical of Google and has allegedly made some stronger critical remarks in a private internal Apple staff conference.
Apparently Larry Page feels it is OK to criticise and parody Apple explicitly and in public but takes umbrage at the suggestion that Google was influenced in its design of Android by Apple's iPhone.
It all seems a bit rich to me particularly, as I have shown in my previous posts in this thread, that there is evidence to strongly suggest that Google did indeed copy Apple's iPhone.
To put it more pithily: Google started throwing shit at Apple long before Apple made some fairly restrained criticisms of Google. It was Google that decided to break the partnership with Apple.
Why Google decided to do that, to break with Apple, is not clear. Its not clear what the commercial justification for this was. Google will be damaged by this as will Apple. Personally I am not convinced that it was a clear strategic decision by Google to break with Apple, I suspect that it was a decision that Google stumbled into as a result of its loose (and fairly chaotic) internal decision making process. Now Google is stuck with this position and it would be difficult to backtrack.
I also suspect that in the long term it will be Google and not Apple that will suffer the most from a break between the two companies.
I also suspect that Google will eventually cease to be the darling of forums, but that's for another discussion.
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Yep, most fluoride in toothpaste and water is supplied by Alcoa, it's a by product of producing aluminum. It's super toxic and if there's another way of getting rid of it by making batteries, they'll be all over it.
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You got that right! They will probably help fund the research to perfect the tech just so that their costs for floride disposal go down, which makes them more money in the long run
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By Ringold on 1/3/2013 2:45:29 AM , Rating: 3
GM's 'bailout' will still lead to it's inevitable decline. It's like an ex-Hollywood hottie on her last facelift. Look at the billions of pounds the Brits invested in their auto industry. How many of them today are independent and owned by Brits instead of foreigners?
Exactly. Rewarding failure virtually always leads to more failure. Clinging to the mid-1900s obsession with manufacturing just shows liberals aren't as forward-thinking and adaptive as they'd like you to believe. (Marx lived before any such boom in services and intellectual capital could be imagined, so that they can't advance beyond manufacturing only betrays their ideological moorings)
Relevant fact: This isn't the first time Chrysler was bailed out, either.
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Microsoft rolls out SP1 for Windows Vista and SP3 for Windows XP
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RE: Sometimes I wonder about M$.
By larson0699 on 8/8/2007 4:21:24 AM , Rating: 2
If nLite isn't your friend, then Linux is.
No bloat here. And as for corruptible.. Put a router in between PC/modem, quit downloading *.vbs on LimeWire, hide hidden/system files, ban idiots from the machine, and then scan and remove malware. If problems persist, log in as a User rather than Administrator.'s Security Analyzer ( ) is great for discovering how exposed your machine is and the likely culprits.
Try a dual-core processor, too. And yes, XP was good when released, and only greater after Vista.
By majorpain on 8/8/2007 8:44:11 AM , Rating: 2
Have to agree... :D
By omnicronx on 8/8/2007 9:50:45 AM , Rating: 2
not a problem now, but back in the day when i first started to use nix, I must have reinstalled 10 times before getting things right haha. Viruses aside, nix is just as easy to corrupt as Windows.. that is if you don't know what you are doing ;)
setting up x windows was especially fun ;)
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Republic of Benin (Republique du Benin)
Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean; between Nigeria and
Area: 112,620 sq. km (slightly smaller than Pennsylvania)
Natural Resources: small offshore oil deposits, limestone, marble, timber
Geographical Notes: Sandbanks create difficult access to a coast with no natural
harbors, river mouths or islands.
Nationality (noun/adj.): Beninese/Beninese
Population: 6,590,782
Note: Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess
and death rates, lower population and growth rates and changes in the distribution of
population by age and gender than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.).
Growth Rate: 2.97% (2001 est.)
Birth Rate: 44.23 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Infant Mortality Rate: 89.68 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life Expectancy: 49.94 years
Ethnic Breakdown: African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja,
Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500
Religious Breakdown: indigenous beliefs 50%, Christian 30%, Muslim 20%
Languages: French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in the south),
tribal languages (at least six major ones in the north)
Type: Republic under multiparty democratic rule. Dropped Marxism-Leninism
December 1989. Democratic reforms adopted February 1990. Transition to multiparty
system completed April 4, 1991.
Capital: Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the seat of government.
Independence: Aug. 1, 1960 (from France)
Legal System: Based on French civil law and customary law.
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
International Disputes: none
GDP: $6.6 billion (2000 est.)
Per capita GDP: $1,030 (2000 est.)
Division of Labor: NA
Industries: textiles; cigarettes; beverages and food; construction materials; petroleum.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34369 | Baileys in Review
Baileys: how to make irish cream (136 words)
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i dont know if any of you baileys drinkers out there have tried to make your own irish cream,i do have a recipe that you can do,but i havent tried it out yet.if theres anybody brave enough to try it,have ago,and when you've recovered,tell me how it went please.right here goes,and make sure you have some hangover cures in the ... Read the complete review
Lift That Barge, Tote That BAILEYS (844 words)
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BAILEYS IRISH CREAM is not normally a drink I would drink, but you know how it is at Crimbo, you rummage around in your stockings and have a feel at the goodies (or is that just me?). And lo and behold, there's always a bottle of something-or-other from someone-or-other cunningly wrapped in a long, slim gift-bag that possibly cost more ... Read the complete review
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I love Christmas time, decorating the house and the tree, buying presents, happy children, and a bottle of my favorite, Baileys Irish Cream. The advert for this liquer is kind of funny and a little flirty all at once, a man walks into a party as the lights get switched off and someone kisses him. They taste of Baileys and when ... Read the complete review
Slip Inside (303 words)
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Now, I’ve heard of lots of shooter with Baileys in them, but this one was new to me. A few days ago my best mate and me went out on the town for the night. We were sitting in a nice little bar in Colchester called Bar33. On the wall was huge array of cocktails, shooter etc. we decided to be adventurous and try a couple of ... Read the complete review
Baileys: Lust the cream of the crop. (216 words)
by - written on 19/01/01, updated on 24/01/01 (Useful, 105 readings)
This advert actually has more to it than meets the eye. The rough outline if the advert (there are similar variations of it) is a man in a noisey nightclub ask the women if she wants a drink. Convieniently, the women is unable to hear, and lacks the common sense to walk towards him! she then proceeds to caress her neck, ... Read the complete review
A nice long, creamy snog (185 words)
by - written on 16/01/01, updated on 16/01/01 (Useful, 98 readings)
This advert is one of my husband's favourites. You know, the one where the blonde girl (who looks a bit like Zoe Ball) finds that someone has been drinking her Bailey's. So she goes up to each of the three lads and plants a kiss on each of them - finding that it's the last guy who has been at her drink (and probably ... Read the complete review
Baileys: Full of Body (199 words)
by - written on 19/12/00, updated on 15/02/05 (Useful, 146 readings)
Some adverts offer amusement, this is one such advert. It is set in a noisy nightclub the hero of the advert tries to buy the heroine a drink, the club is that loud that he cannot hear her. She therefore embarks on a funny charades type exercise in an effort to tell him what she is drinking. This failks leaving her with the only ... Read the complete review
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..this westell drops connection i don't like it at all if all you do is internet its ok but not a gaming router.
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This to me, sounds like it has a small/tiny NAT table.
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Thanks yeah that's what i ended up doing and i called verizon they are supposedly sending me another actiontec..
Another fix (what you could of done), is..
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34385 | Xip3 is a jacket, backpack, and pillow in one
Traveling light is the name of the game when you're going for a hike, as the more stuff you have to haul around with you up that mountain the faster you'll get tired and run whining back to your heated SUV. The Xip3 is designed to lighten your load, combining a jacket, backpack, and pillow into one easy to tote item.
So first, it's a jacket. You need one of those to go hiking when it's cold out, and if you didn't know that, stay indoors. You can then unzip a pouch inside, pull out some straps, stuff the sleeves inside, and it turns into a backpack for toting stuff like food and your Nintendo DS around. Lastly, you can stuff everything into said pouch to make a comfy pillow. Sounds all well and good, but what do you do with the stuff in the backpack when you turn it into a pillow? And what if you want to carry stuff around in a backpack while wearing a jacket? Seems like you'd need all three of these items at the same time at some point, at which case you'll be really missing your condo and gas fireplace.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34404 | A SCIENTIST has proven what veteran business travellers long suspected: boarding planes by row is a terrible idea (PDF). Jason Steffen, who works at the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, conducted an experiment in which he asked 72 "passengers"—luggage and all—to board a Boeing 757 using several different methods.
(The Economist covered Dr Steffen's experiment in the print paper this week, and my colleague linked to that article on Thursday, but I would like to express some scepticism about the usefulness of Dr Steffen's findings. Anyway, please read on.)
I like to imagine that Dr Steffen, fed up with interminable boarding times for his flights to—let's say Geneva, where CERN is—finally decided to take matters into his own hands. In any case, when Dr Steffen timed several different methods of boarding his plane, boarding by rows did the worst. Want to hazard a guess which method did best? Discover's Joseph Castro has the answer:
Among the boarding techniques tested was the zone/block style, where passengers fill the plane back to front, one large group at a time; WilMA, or Window, Middle, then Aisle (how the “l” got where it did is a mystery); and Steffen's own procedure (imaginatively called “the Steffen method”), which incorporates both the other two techniques.... The Steffen method was the quickest because it maximized the number of people who could use the aisle concurrently without crashing into each other.
It turns out that even just letting everyone on at once would be quicker than boarding by rows, according to Dr Steffen's calculations. But like Discover's Mr Castro, I suspect that efficiency isn't necessarily the airlines' top priority during the boarding process. The row-by-row process may be slow, but it's easy to understand and minimizes pushing and shoving relative to the "everybody crowd around the door" method. Dr Steffen's method, unfortunately, seems a bit too complicated to implement properly. (You can click through to Mr Castro's post for a chart explaining the Steffen method.)
Is Dr Steffen's work going to make the boarding process any faster or less frustrating? I doubt it. If you don't want to wait in line, your best option is earning elite frequent flyer status, or, if you have the money, paying for a premium ticket or expedited boarding. Science may one day help you get on the plane quicker. But in the meantime, money in the airlines' pockets is almost always a safe bet. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34424 | MooresCloud Light runs Linux, puts LAMP on your lamp video
Yes, we'll admit that we borrowed that pun in the title. MooresCloud founder Mark Pesce's Xzibit reference is still a very apt description of the Light, his company's Linux-based LED lamp. The Australian team's box-shaped illumination runs the open OS (including a LAMP web server stack) on an integrated mini PC with an accelerometer and WiFi. The relative power and networking provide obvious advantages for home automation that we've seen elsewhere, but it's the sheer flexibility of a generalized, web-oriented platform that makes the difference: the Light can change colors based on photos or movement, sync light pulses to music and exploit a myriad of other tricks that should result from a future, web-based app store. When and how the Light launches will depend on a Kickstarter campaign to raise $700,000 AUD ($717,621 US) starting on October 16th, although the $99 AUD ($101 US) cost is just low enough that we could see ourselves open-sourcing a little more of the living room. At least, as long as we don't have to recompile our lamp kernel before some evening reading.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34454 | Trichinosis, a disease caused by the parasitic intestinal roundworm Trichinella spiralis (trichinae), is contracted by warm-blooded mammals throughingestion of raw or undercooked meat infected by trichinae. Pork and bear meat are primary sources of human infection; beaver, opossums, rats, walruses and whales can also carry the parasite. Infected animals remain asymptomatic;however, symptoms in humans--which can begin as soon as five or a late as 45days after exposure--can range from asymptomatic to death. Symptoms include fluid retention in the upper eyelids, diarrhea, physical weakness, excessive thirst and sweating, chills, fever, muscle pain, anorexia, breathing difficulties, and perhaps even kidney and heart damage. Severity depends upon the number of parasites ingested. Although trichinosis is found in some grain-fed pigs, swine fed on garbage containing infected meat scraps is the primary sourceof human trichinosis. In 1954, a campaign to cook garbage before feeding itto swine was implemented in the United States. Inspection of meat in packingplants also helps prevent human infection.
Trichinosis was discovered in 1835 by James Paget, a 21-year-old, first-yearmedical student in London who, during an autopsy, noticed tiny specks in themuscle tissue of an Italian man. Under a microscope, they turned out to be tiny cysts housing worm larvae which were given their name by his professor. The first record of trichinae in meat for human consumption was in 1846 when Philadelphian physician, Joseph Leidy, noticed tiny specks in a slice of pork he was eating and recalled seeing similar specks in human muscle tissue just days earlier. Under the microscope, they were indeed trichinae. In the 1850s,German scientists Rudolf Leuckart and Rudolph Virchow found the parasite wastransmitted animal-to-animal through ingestion of infected meat or feces. Notuntil 1860, however, was trichinosis found to cause severe illness and deathin humans when German physician, Friedrich A. von Zenker, discovered the parasite during an autopsy of a young servant woman. Tracing her illness, he found she had tasted raw pork sausage before cooking it for Christmas dinner. Although her employers also became sick, the effect was less severe because cooking reduced the number of parasites. von Zenker sent samples of the girl's tissue to Leuckart and Virchow, who traced the complete life cycle of the parasites.
Trichinae larvae migrate to muscle tissue and form a housing, or cyst. The larvae in these cysts hatch into adult worms only after coming into contact with digestive juices in the stomach. The hatched larvae pass into the intestines, mate, and reproduce. One female adult worm can produce up to 1,500 larvae,which then penetrate the intestines, enter the blood stream, pass through the heart, and travel throughout the entire body. They invade the voluntary muscle tissue, feed for about three weeks, coil up tightly, develop their protective housing, and lie dormant--often for many years--until their host dies. If the host tissue is ingested by another animal or a human, contact with thedigestive juices causes the larvae to hatch and the life cycle begins again.Although antiparasitic medications will kill adult worms and intestinal larvae, once larvae enter the muscle tissue, they are there for the life of the host and treatment can only relieve symptoms. Experimental studies of Thiabendazole in animals do show reduction in both muscle and intestinal infections, however, and the drug has been used in a few human cases. The only sureway to prevent infection is to cook meat--particularly pork--until the internal temperature is at least 171°F (76.4°C), or freeze it at -13 °F (-24.8°C) for 10 to 20 days.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34494 | wonder bread
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"High quality white bread" was suggested. I took that to mean "Wonder Bread". Judge away; it is squishilicious.
There's a sidebar here on Where Has All The White Bread Gone (i.e. I seriously cannot find a bakery Pullman loaf anywhere) but I'll spare you.
Strawberry Brown Butter Bettys on smittenkitchen.com
1. sparkgrrl658 46 months ago | reply
oh man, my mom still makes some crab thing from like the 70s every now and again where the muffin tins are lined with white bread like this. it's awesome and totally does the trick :D
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Doesn't Jack White use that guitar?
He uses a red version without the bigsby tremalo. And his only has two pickups. And i believe he pulled off one pickup for a while. He also uses the real deal vintage guitar from the 60s made by airline, it's made out of ********** /plastic. Not to mention they are rediculously hard to come by and the price if you find one. This guitar one is a remake that was made by eastwood and it's made out of wood.....I'm like the biggest Jack White nut.
I thought so. I love him as well. I thought they still make ********** models?
I don't think Eastwood does anymore. not completely sure
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34544 | Which button do you use for attacking and which one for artes?
#1Rizaadon007Posted 9/28/2013 1:51:57 PM
topic title - Results (45 votes)
X for attacking, O for artes
75.56% (34 votes)
O for attacking, X for artes
20% (9 votes)
Other - I like to be different.
4.44% (2 votes)
This poll is now closed.
I prefer using O for attacking and X for artes, because that's the way I'm used to them being from playing Phantasia, Eternia, Abyss, and Vesperia. I got used to it being the other way around in Graces f, but that's only one where that style works for me.
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#2EtherealistPosted 9/28/2013 7:40:42 PM
My first PlayStation-based Tales game was a Japanese import, so I've always opted to use the circle button for normal attacks.
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#3beautheschmoPosted 9/28/2013 8:02:23 PM
Both, I guess, I just go with whatever is default, for the most part.
It does present a bit of a problem when I'm trying to juggle multiple games at once, though. Like right now, I'm trying to juggle NDX, Rebirth (when I'm traveling for work) and Xillia 2 (when I have time at home). I switched Xillia 2 to English standards since I just played through X1, but haven't fiddled with Rebirth or NDX, so most of my gaming sessions start with me emptying half my TP pool/emptying all my FGs before I remember that they are set differently.
#4Milla_MaxwellPosted 9/28/2013 8:08:43 PM
I usually leave it as default, except in the case of when I buy a game twice.
Symphonia: A = Attack, B = Techs
Abyss: X = Attack, O = Artes
Graces... you can't change it
Vesperia 360 I changed because having B as normal attacks is just wrong... B should never be normal attacks.
Vesperia PS3 I changed to match Abyss
Xillia (jpn) I left as default (and changed it to match the Japanese Default when the English version came out.)
The more time I spend on GameFAQs, the more I realize that people are ass hats and the world is going to ****.
#5peter_888Posted 9/28/2013 8:33:59 PM
x for attack and o for artes
#6Red HazePosted 10/1/2013 8:44:28 AM
fresh button
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#7Arc166Posted 10/1/2013 9:09:27 AM
The default.
#8VeghEstherPosted 10/1/2013 11:18:56 AM(edited)
I prefer the American button set up that's why when I played FF7 in English that uses the Japanese setup of O = accept command and X = Cancel I had to change it to X = Accept and O = Cancel.
So once I do play on buying Xillia if X isn't already used for normal attacks and O isn't used for Artes by default I'll reverse the 2 buttons since I find it easier to use Ares = O and X = normal hits.
However if a tales of game doesn't use the L1 or R1 + O button for artes shortcut keys I will change it to use them that way.
NDX is too easy 100% job class mastery = Mel and Dio at levels over 150 (and the max level is 200) yet I still used X = fight command and O = spells/artes for its controls.
Once all jobs in NDX are mastered I let Dio use the jobs that are basically the Guy/Reid/LLoyd/Cless Artes setup let Mel be in a magic attack class job and use Cless and Mint my final 2 NDX party members.
#9Havic101Posted 10/1/2013 11:18:14 AM
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34547 | Game gear Mega Man coming...
#1JonbazookabozPosted 6/24/2013 10:04:50 AM
...has any one played this game? Any good? Never had a game gear.
#2Koi_TenchiPosted 6/24/2013 10:22:29 AM
When I was really little, I loved Mega Man but GG Mega Man and Mega Man 6 were all I actually owned for the longest time until SNES came out...
That being said, GG Mega Man is... Weird.
I liked it back then but am in no rush to get it again now. It's an odd mix of MM4 and MM5 and IIRC, some of the level designs are literally ripped straight from the respective NES game.
In short, there's nothing actually WRONG with GG mega man, IMO... There's just really not much reason to get it if you already have to NES games... (which I didn't have then but do have now on VC.)
It's a secret to everybody.
#3kuragari1anonlyPosted 6/24/2013 10:24:13 AM
It's similar to the GB Mega Man games kind of.
Destroy them all! Shoot the core!
#4crimsonclaw111Posted 6/24/2013 11:29:27 AM
I was unaware that the GameGear even saw MM titles.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34554 | Switch Lights
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Sony's Discount Program For Cross-Generation Games
During its Gamescom press conference, Sony announced that for cross-generational games like Call of Duty: Ghosts, Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and Battlefield 4, if you buy the PS3 version, for a limited time Sony will let you buy the digital PS4 version for a "significantly discounted price."
The company didn't say how much or for how long, and other details will be revealed in the future.
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Rollout iPhone review
Posted by: James Pikover
Gamezone Review Rating 2.0 Terrible
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The only thing worse than a bad game is a broken game. Games that play well but have some fatal flaw, such as horrendous controls or constant bugs, feel worse than games that are just bad. It's like getting the chance to actually have fun, and losing it because the developer was too cheap or lazy to make sure the damn thing ran properly.
How much worse is it when it's both a bad and broken game?
That's what Rollout is. A rodent rolls around a level for no apparent reason, and players must get to the door in one of the 50 levels by controlling a set of floating orbs which shoot the hairy creature up. Simple idea, though dreadfully boring. Instead of many cheap games of this caliber, Rollout gives players a passive role in the gameplay, making it impossible for any real excitement. Just tap on the screen at the right time, and the action on-screen will do its work.
Above and beyond that, if you turn the game off with an iOS4 device, you'll lose the data. It doesn't even save which levels you beat. Imagine that, a game coming out this year which lacks a proper save-game functionality, on the newest of all gaming devices.
OK, so maybe you're saying to yourself "who turns off their cellphones?" Fair enough, I haven't turned mine off in at least a month. But what if you need to update and reboot? Or what if your battery dies? Hell, what if your iPhone 3GS now has piss-poor battery life and you shut off all apps to make it run longer? Yes, that'll lose the data too! I couldn't make this up, it's just too stupid.
Fine, so you've resigned yourself to buying the game for a family vacation and a long car ride, for one of those boring family trips where you just need to stay as far away from the family as you can. You don't plan on turning the game off, and have the necessary power. Even then, it's not worth having because after just three levels you'll get bored and wish you had a real game.
I can't recommend Rollout, just like I can't recommend you punch yourself in the face. No, it's actually worse than punching yourself in the face. At least with a punch, you won't be bored while writhing in pain. But, if you're adamant about playing and don't really care about spending your money so gingerly, why waste that dollar on this instead of, say, a nice ice cream cone or something at the 99 cents store, or perhaps even another $1 game we've reviewed? That way you won't be a complete boff.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34577 | The 1000 Heroz wiki last edited by VierasTalo on 08/01/13 06:29PM View full history
1000 Heroz is an action game developed and published by RedLynx for the iPhone and iPad platforms. Starting on September 9th, 2011, the game has introduced a new level and playable character every day. Each level is a two-dimensional platforming level, in which the player must run from the starting position to the right edge of the level as fast as possible, while avoiding various obstacles and gaps along the way. This is made trickier by the Trials-esque physics of the game, tilting and skewing the player character, causing them to slow down upon impact to objects or ground after a poor jump.
Core concept
The levels change once a day, and always come with a new character. By completing a level in under 60 seconds, the player gets one star. Two stars and three stars are also achievable, but require level-specific time requirements to be met. If the player achieves the wanted time, they will also receive that character's special item, derived from the description of that day's character. For example, the first character of the game, Noobius, had a description saying "The journey of a thousand days begins with a single step." His reward for completing the level in under the two-star time was a pair of Newbie Shoes, the description of which explains "Start off every day on the right foot." The rewards have since ranged from practical (such as hunting tools for hunters) to downright nasty (sexually implicit tools for nymphomaniac characters). The game features replay functions for the best run of any given level as well as the ability to replay old maps, suffice the player purchase the Pro-edition of the game in the App Store. The non-free version also gives the player the possibility to play the day's level over 10 times - the maximum amount of retries for free players.
Level Design
The levels in 1000 Heroz are obstacle courses. They can contain a variety of obstacles from loose rocks and large chunks of ice to massive boulders or giant windmills spinning in place in your path. They also include swings and bridges to help you cross large crevices. The first hundred levels feature more obstacles, but since the designers at RedLynx have opted to go for a more geographically-fueled obstacle course, making the levels hard by creating rocky hills or tight tunnels for the player to navigate.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34579 | Starting builds
#1 Posted by atejas (3057 posts) -
What did you guys make?
Me, I rolled a terrible character, ended up rerolling a few missions in as I always do, and just set all genes to metastreumonic and kept rolling until I got everything 35-50.
#2 Posted by SuperfluousMoniker (2901 posts) -
Just started playing this. I read through the stuff and took one that was accuracy, one that was endurance and one that was the mind. I'm not sure what my stats were and I didn't even see the rerolling stuff. I played the first mission and had very little trouble so I suppose I did all right.
#3 Posted by supermike6 (3519 posts) -
I really just do everything at random. Most of my points have been going into accuracy and agility since they let me buy assault rifles, but other than that I make most of my decisions on a whim. Going okay for me so far, but I'm only like three missions in.
#4 Posted by Rolyatkcinmai (2659 posts) -
I honestly had no idea what I was doing and just selected a bunch of stuff, clicked roll three times, and accepted.
A few guides for this game would be exceptional.
#5 Posted by Ghost_Cat (1285 posts) -
The quick-look made this game look intimidating. How is it so far?
#6 Posted by atejas (3057 posts) -
@Rolyatkcinmai said:
A few guides for this game would be exceptional.
Agreed. The tutorial videos are half-baked at best.
Intimidating is the right word, but it's also rewarding. Mostly. Bugs, stupid features like random hacking deaths, and some other stuff they're going to address in the next patch(hopefully) means that you're probably better holding off for a week or two.
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@atejas: As much as I hate to say it you made the right move. It is the only trait that gives a bonus to everything and most of them give huge penalties to something.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34581 | The Resident Evil: Code: Veronica wiki last edited by Jagged85 on 02/16/13 07:55AM View full history
Resident Evil: Code Veronica debuted on March 29th 2000 on the Sega Dreamcast. The game was later remade on the PS2 and Gamecube as Resident Evil: Code Veronica X. Code Veronica was the first game of the main series not to use pre-rendered backgrounds and instead used real-time 3D backgrounds. Code Veronica still uses the familiar "tank" controls from the first three Resident Evil games, however, and the camera angles are pre-determined. The game takes place three months after the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3. and follows the story of Claire Redfield and her brother Chris. The game takes place on Rockfort Island where Claire is imprisoned after her infiltration of an Umbrella Facility in Paris while looking for Chris in Europe.
Code Veronica marks the first time the game features fully 3D environments.
Much like previous main Resident Evil entries, Code: Veronica X mixes in third-person combat, exploration and puzzle solving. The combat still confines the player to stay stuck to the ground when firing their weapon and the notorious tank controls are still evident. The puzzles were made to be somewhat harder, though were still relatively easy by general standards. What is new is that both Claire and Chris can collect duel wielding weapons, such as duel Uzi's, which they can use to aim at two enemies simultaneously. Code: Veronica also marks the first time that the series brings forth full 3D environments for the main entries of the series over the pre-rendered backgrounds during the Playstation 1 era. Veronica X is also much lengthier than previous games, which commonly took up an average of 3-5 hours to complete, and could usually take around 8-12 hours. This is at the expense of having only a single story, however, like Resident Evil 3 instead of the intertwining stories akin to Resident Evil 2, or the mildly differing takes of the same story ala Resident Evil. Saving is still done by finding any of the many typewriters littered throughout the game, and still require the player has at least one ink ribbon item to save. What is new, however, is should you die the game will allow you to reload your latest save from the ''Death'' screen, rather than having to head back to the main menu.
Veronica did still make a few steps back, however. A lot of the gameplay updates from Resident Evil 3 were scrapped, such as creating your own ammo and the dodge maneuver, but more noticeable is the fact that walking up/down stair cases is once more automated and can't be performed manually. This could result in some minor annoyance since if a zombie was to be walking up the stairs, you'd have to wait for him to reach the top for you to be allowed to walk down.
While significantly more minor, zombies also couldn't have their heads explode like in previous Resident Evils. When shot with a magnum, or close range shotgun blast to the head, the zombies head would gush out blood, but would still stay intact.
Herbs and First-Aid Sprays
Carrying the tradition set by the original Resident Evil, characters use a small variety of herbs to heal themselves and cure poisons. First-Aid Sprays are also available, though they only have the singular purpose of healing the character fully. There exist three herb types, all can be combined in some way for different degrees of healing:
• Red Herb - On its can do nothing.
• Red + Blue Herb - Mixed will do nothing.
Combat Knife
A standard survival knife that Claire finds in prison office where the game begins. Unlike previous Resident Evil entries, the knife can prove to be surprisingly effective and is much more powerful. It's still not a suitable replacement for any of the firearms, though it doesn't constitute a death-wish should the the player decide to test it out.
Beretta M93 Handgun
A 9mm handgun that Claire finds near the beginning, after she first meets Steve Burnside. It fires rather rapidly for a pistol and is reliable against most lesser enemies - zombies and Cerberus dogs in particular. It can potentially be upgraded to allow a triple burst shot, should the player find the components required. Chris can also use this handgun should the player leave it in an inventory box as Claire for Chris to collect.
• Maximum Ammo Count - 15 rounds.
• Ammunition - 9mm Parabellum Rounds.
Glock Model 17 Handgun
A 9mm handgun that Chris Redfield brings with him when he embarks on the rescue for his sister Claire Redfield. It primarily features all of the same attributes as Claire's Beretta and can also be modified also, though instead of giving a three shot burst it increases the overall power.
• Maximum Ammo Count - 15 rounds.
• Ammunition - 9mm Parabellum Rounds.
Colt Python
A recurring weapon within the series, the Colt Python Magnum Pistol can be attained once more in Code: Veronica. Found during Chris Redfield's segment of the story, it is immensely powerful and kill all enemies with one shot, and it a solid contender against boss B.O.W's. Ammo is fairly scarce though, to make up for its well retained status as one of the powerful firearms in the game.
• Maximum Ammo Count - 6 rounds.
• Ammunition - .357 Caliber Rounds.
Bow Gun
Much like her time during Resident Evil 2, Claire will have access to a bow gun. It's made to be significantly weaker than its RE2 counterpart, however, and relies solely via bug-bite attacks with its usually large containment of ammo. It can hold as many arrows at once as Claire can find, and can also stock explosive bolts if the player combines a pack with explosive gun-powder.
• Maximum Ammo Count - Infinite.
• Ammunition - Bolts & Explosive Bolts.
Calico Model 100 Dual Pistols
Dual weapons were a first for the series, introduced early on via the Calico Model 100 Dual Pistols. They were reliable against most enemies because of their power and imbued ability to aim at two simultaneous enemies. Their ammo count was ranked as a percentage and no other ammo could be found, giving them a very limited use. Because they're still technically two firearms, they take up two slots in the inventory.
• Maximum Ammo Count - 100 bullets, marked by % with each shot taking off 1%.
• Ammunition - N/A.
Dual Ingram Machine Pistols
Initially introduced during short segment where the player controls Steve Burnside, they are primarily used throughout Chris Redfield's side of the story. They are only made available, however, should Claire give Rodrigo Juan Raval her lighter before hand. Much like the Calico Pistols, they label their ammunition via percentage and no ammo can be found once they've run out. The Ingram Pistols fire-rate is significantly faster than the Calico Pistols, and can also be dual wielded allowing the player to aim at two different enemies simultaneously. Because they're still technically two firearms, they up two slots in the inventory.
• Ammunition - N/A.
Dual Golden Lugers
Though they are seen frequently during the main story--as a puzzle item and Steve's weapons of choice before receiving the dual machine pistols--they are only used as a weapon in the Battle Game minigame when playing as Steve Burnside. They are similar to the Calico Pistols, though are much slower to fire. Like close to all firearms in the Battle Game they have infinite ammo.
• Maximum Ammo Count - N/A.
• Ammunition - N/A.
M79 Grenade Launcher
Also returning from Claire's repertoire in Resident Evil 2 is the Grenade Launcher; an all-round reliable weapon, suitable for virtually any encounters - including boss battles. It features multiple types of grenade types, including the default grenades as well as flame, acid and gas. It can store as many ammo as possible so long as it's all the same type of grenades. Should you switch them out for a different type of grenade, the grenades initially in the weapon will stack nicely in the characters inventory only taking up a single slot no matter how much ammo it stacks.
• Maximum Ammo Count - Infinite.
• Ammunition - Multiple variety of grenades.
Spas 12 Gauge Shotgun
First found by Chris, the 12 Gauge fills in the mandatory Shotgun slot for Code: Veronica. It carries a lot of the expected attributes, though is surprisingly weaker than most shotguns of the series and isn't as easy to fall back on for boss battles. It is non-the-less suitable against zombies at close-range and some of the larger B.O.W's such as Hunters.
• Maximum Ammo Count - 7 shots.
• Ammunition - 12 Gauge Rounds.
AK-47 Assault Rifle
A rather unorthodox weapon for a Resident Evil game, the AK-47 is only found during Chris' segment of the story. Much like the dual wielding weapons, it's ammo count is labelled via percentage, though extra AK ammo can be procured. It is fully automatic and packs a great deal of ammo, proving vital against any and all enemies encountered.
• Maximum Ammo Count - 100 bullets, marked by %, with each shot taking roughly 1%.
• Ammunition - 7.62x39mm Soviet Rounds.
M37 Sniper Rifle
The first ever sniper rifle introduced into the series, the M37 is used only once during a mid-game boss battle against the once-human Alexander Ashford, later dubbed Nosferatu. It is most often seen in the hands of Alfred Ashford as he pesters her throughout the first half of the game. During the one occasion it's available, it allows the player to go into a first-person view mode for better accuracy (another first for the main series, discounting Resident Evil Survivor). It only has 7 rounds, though that may more than the player requires, should they be able to shoot Nosferatu directly in its exposed heart. This is easier said than done, however, with the icy fog surrounding the area and Nosferatu's constant expulsion of a poisonous gas.
• Maximum Ammo Count - 7 sniper rounds.
• Ammunition - N/A.
Linear Launcher
The end game one-off weapon and Rocket Launcher equivalent for Code: Veronica, the Linear Launcher is a strange weapon that fires electrical homing rockets. It is only used canonically during the finale battle against the mutated blob-form of Alexia Ashford. It can be unlocked for the main game with infinite ammo should the player gain an S rank - as well as the Battle Game minigame, with the same properties, should the player gain an S rank with every character.
• Maximum Ammo Count - N/A.
• Ammunition - N/A.
Claire Redfield
The initial leading protagonist, Claire is roped into another zombie infested crisis after she attempts to learn more about her brother Chris Redfield's whereabouts. She is playable throughout the first half of the game where she is relegated to the role of an NPC for the second half - minus one section where you gain control of her for a short while as she attempts to save Steve Burnside. Voiced by Alyson Court.
Chris Redfield
The main protagonist during the second half of the game and Claire Redfield's brother. Chris was forwarded a message by Leon S. Kennedy about Claire's predicament on Rockfort Island and travels over to try and save her. By this time, only months since the destruction of Raccoon City, the S.T.A.R.S team has been disbanded, yet despite this Chris still chose to wear a S.T.A.R.S uniform during this excursion.
Voiced by Michael Filipowich.
Steve Burnside
Steve with his original less-recognisable Veronica haircut
A supporting protagonist and love-interest towards Claire Redfield. Steve is a brash and insecure teenager and fellow prisoner on Rockfort Island. A complete show off, Steve is always attempting to win Claire Redfield with bouts of bravery, putting himself at huge risk of danger at every turn.
Voiced by Bill Houston.
Alfred Ashford
The first antagonist the player encounters, Alfred Ashford is in charge of the Rockfort Island base. He is an eccentric yuppie, with an ''above-average'' IQ and a fondness for using sniper-rifles. Alfred's also has a rather peculiar laugh that almost resembles a little girls.
Voiced by Peter Oldring.
Alexia Ashford
The primary antagonist and twin sister to Alfred. A certified genius, Alexia was given the duties of leading an entire team of scientists within Umbrella by the age of ten. This infamous capacity of skill garnished her a rivalry with fellow Umbrella Scientist William Birkin.
Voiced by Leila Johnson.
Albert Wesker
Despite apparently 'dying' at the hands of his own creation, The T-002 Tyrant, during Resident Evil Wesker returns into the fold, empowered with enhanced agility and strength.
Voiced by Richard Waugh (This marks the first time Richard voices Wesker)
Rodrigo Juan Raval
The prison commander who captures Claire Redfield during the opening CGI cutscene - and releases her as an act of good-will when the base is assaulted.
Voiced by Martin Roach.
Claire has some help this time around.
The game takes place three months after the destruction of Raccoon City. It begins with Claire Redfield raiding an Umbrella Corporation base in Paris, after leaving Leon S. Kennedy and Sherry Birkin to search for her brother, Chris. Claire gets caught during her raid, and she is captured and taken to Rockfort Island where she meets with an inmate named Steve Burnside and they fight for their survival against the island's T-virus infected zombies. In the meantime, Albert Wesker is on a mission from Umbrella to recover the mysterious T-Veronica Virus and it's his unit's fault that Rockport is now infected. Claire and Steve manage to escape in a plane but it was set on autopilot to go to an Umbrella facility in the Antarctic, by the island's commander, Alfred Ashford. Alfred did that so he could awaken his sister from a cryogenic sleep that she was in for 15 years after she had an injection of T-Veronica Virus. Claire and Steve defeat Alfred and escape in a digger, while Alfred limps over to his sister and experiences her awakening before dying. Alexia summons giant tentacles and grabs Steve and Claire's digger recapturing them both.
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The game then flips over to Chris Redfield's perspective. After learning from Leon that his sister has been taken to Rockfort he travels there but learns she has been long gone. He has an encounter with Albert Wesker and almost dies, but is saved as Alexia appears on the screen and stuns Wesker because he thought she had been dead for years. Wesker takes off to Antarctica and Chris follows. He is reunited with Claire and the two of them set out to find Steve. When they find Steve she realizes that Alexia has been experimenting on him with the T-Veronica Virus and he has mutated into a giant reptilian monster and tries to kill Claire. Claire runs into a prison cell but is grabbed by Alexia's tentacles, before Steve, who has temporarily regained his sanity, breaks through the bars and saves Claire, being fatally wounded by Alexia in the process. He reverts to human form and tells Claire that he loves her (even though they barely know each other) before dying.
Meanwhile Wesker and Chris fight Alexia, but Wesker is overwhelmed by her strength and he flees. Chris manages to defeat her, but she comes back to life after Chris activates the self destruct system, releasing all the locks in the facility to free Claire. Chris then destroys Alexia once and for all before he and Claire run to the emergency elevator where they see Wesker and his men taking Steve's body for further experiments. Claire runs to the plane, and Chris and Wesker have another showdown until they are separated by an explosion. Wesker vows to get his revenge next time they meet and then they both run to avoid dying in more explosions. The game ends with Claire and Chris escaping and Chris vowing to take down Umbrella once and for all.
The walking dead are once again prevalent in Code: Veronica and share a lot of the usual properties of their other Resident Evil kin; slow, shambling movement, dangerous up close but susceptible to all weapons within the game. On occasion, zombies will vomit out acid if they can't quite reach the player.
Cerberus Hound
Another trademark enemy of the series, the Cerberus Hounds are always encountered in packs and contain the same agility and brutality as a standard dog. They're rather weak fortunately, and can be taken down swiftly with a few handgun or shotgun shots. Regardless, even with their rampant speed and tenacity, player-characters are still just ever-so-slightly faster and can outrun them.
Large, yellow one-armed monsters, Bandersnatchers have only appeared in the Veronica games. They rely on their single long arm to stretch and attack the player, and will do so very frequently given the opportunity. They can also use their arm to latch onto walls and maneuver through the environment following the player. They're pretty sturdy as well and stand as one of the antagonising enemies within the game.
Bandersnatchers are also only encountered on Rockfort Island during Claire's portion of the story, though Chris does face one as he searches for Claire on the island.
Hunter II
While being very similar in appearance to the Hunter Alpha's from the original Resident Evil, these Hunter models are much more advanced and sophisticated; they can be partnered with a small surveillance robot called Seekers that'll search for its targeted prey, alerting any nearby Hunters should it locate it. They attack very much like all Hunters of the series and can still commit an instant-kill attack should the player's health be in the Caution state or lower. Hunters have formidable resistance to most weapons and are best contended with the Colt Python Magnum or AK-47 Assault Rifle - running away would be the best alternative.
They are only encountered during Chris Redfield's portion of the story as they were brought in by Albert Wesker himself, who programmed them to specifically hunt down Chris.
Sweepers are a variant of the Hunter II model, distinguished by their reddish colour. They attack in the same patterns and can still be called upon via one of the Seeker robots. What most separates them from the standard Hunters is that their attacks can poison the player.
These, too, are only encountered during Chris Redfield's portion of the story.
Black Widow
These are the giant spiders of Veronica, instead opting for Black Widows over the usual tarantula arachnids. While they look significantly different from their peers, they act very similar and have the same array of attacks, with their poison-spit once again acting as their greatest weapon.
As always, crows prove to be more of a nuisance than a genuine threat. They do minimal damage and can often be killed with a single bullet; their numbers are always many, however. Sometimes a shotgun blast might be worth it to take a pack down, but otherwise they're best just ignored.
Bats function nearly the exact same as crows. The one particular difference is that they can be warded away should the player equip the lighter.
Only encountered in the Antarctica base, Moths primarily function similar to crows. They constantly emit a poisonous gas, however, and can also latch onto the player leaving a maggot sack on the characters back; the player is forced to wait for the character to throw the sack off before they can leave the area. They're easy to kill, but because they often respawn once the player has leaved, it's most profitable to dash past them.
Albinoid Infant
These are only encountered briefly when Claire Redfield enters a lab to collect a specific painting; they can't be killed and only act as a minor obstacle for walking through the lab. One of them will escape and will eventually become a boss battle later on.
Alexia Tentacle
Sprouting through the environment, these are tentacles spawned by the now monstrous Alexia Ashford. They will block the players path, forcing the player to shoot any that they will encounter. Fortunately they are relatively weak and don't require much ammo.
Boss Battles
Gulp Worm Part I
While it isn't given much of an introduction, a giant worm titled the Gulp Worm will eventually be found as Claire Redfield burrowing across the outside the Military Training Facility. During this occasion it is completely option to fight and can be largely ignored if the player is fast enough. The option to fight is still there, though, but would primarily be a waste of ammo since it doesn't reward anything minus it's evacuation of the area, and will still be encountered later on as Chris Redfield.
Gulp Worm Part II
Once Chris Redfield arrives at Rockfort Island to save his sister Claire, unbeknownst that she's already left for Antarctica, he is ambushed by the Gulp Worm from before. After swallowing Rodrigo Juan Raval whole, Chris is forced to fight it. It's design includes a lot of surprise attacks, burrowing underground then quickly resurfacing for an attack. Sometimes it'll pop out and do a kind of roar, allowing the opportunity to attack it.
While this battle is going on, the elevator that'll take Chris up to the surface is making its slow descent; it essentially acts as the timer for the boss battle, but if the elevator arrives before the player kills the Gulp Worm they can opt to avoid this battle and just use the elevator. Choosing this outcome will deprive the player of the lighter Rodrigo may give, however - if Claire gave it to him before hand that is.
Tyrant T-103 Part I
An alternate version of the Mr. X Tyrant model encountered during Resident Evil 2, this model is encountered twice by Claire Redfield. It differs in appearance from its coated brethren, equipped with a large, round mallet-like right fist with a large claw--as is custom with most Tyrant models-- for its left. The first time it is encountered, the player is cornered in a narrow passage with the Tyrant impeding the players progress forward, with a raging fire blocking the rear. Should the player walk into the fire, they will die instantly, forcing the player to unload everything they have into the Tyrant as it slowly walks them.
Tyrant T-103 Part II
The Tyrant is once again fought just as Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside are attempting to escape Rockfort Island. Somehow managing to latch onto the cargo hold, the player has to weaken the Tyrant with gunfire and then attempt to knock the Tyrant out the back with a large crate released from its safety harness. The Tyrant is otherwise invincible and cannot be killed without attempting to knock it out through the back with the crate.
Once Alexander Ashford--the man twins Alfred and Alexia were cloned from--he was experimented on with the Veronica Virus to such an extent that he became yet another addition to the B.O.W library. Initially seen through a grated floor, tightly strapped to a chair with a huge halberd resting on him, he eventually manages to escape and is fought on a rooftop by Claire Redfield. His main source of attack is through a constant expulsion of poisonous gas that covers a huge area of effect; up close, he has a series of appendages that have sprouted out of multiple areas of his body that he can attack with. Nosferatu moves slowly, though the large cast of fog that covers the battleground can make attacking him difficult.
At this point the player has access to a Sniper Rifle with 7 shots available; using the first-person view, the player can potentially kill Nosferatu with a single hit should they shoot his exposed heart well enough. Whether Claire is poisoned during this fight also factors later on in the story when Chris Redfield finds her. If she was poisoned, Chris must search for a specific antidote (blue herbs won't work) before the story can carry on.
Albinoid Adult
The full grown Albinoid creature Claire encountered only hours before has now fully grown into a huge amphibious lizard-like monster. Completely surfaced under a shallow pool--literally, within a swimming pool--it is the de-facto guardian of an emblem the player needs to collect. The Albinoid will periodically discharge an aura of electricity, however, making it very dangerous to enter. The Albinoid is completely harmless otherwise, as it doesn't leave the pool. The player can opt to kill it, but if timed right can also enter the pool and collect the emblem with minimal damage.
Giant Black Widow
First seen under a sea of ice covering the main hall of the Umbrella Antarctica Base, Chris Redfield is forced to use a crane to crack the ice open to pull out the corpse of Nosferatu to claim his signet ring. This of course unleashes the Giant Black Widow. Simply massive, the Black Widow attacks much like its smaller kin but with a much larger poison spit arc.
Steve Burnside
Like her father Alexander, Alexia infected Steve Burnside with the Veronica virus after she captured him and Claire. With a brief stint back as Claire during Chris' portion of the story, she finds him strapped to a chair with a large halberd resting on him exactly like Alexander. Just as Claire attempts to release him from the chair, Steve begins to mutate turning into a kind of green ogre. He equips the halberd with ease and begins to chase Claire. Steve isn't intended to be fought and the player can only run. Steve can kill the player with just two hits and a series of gates are being locked down through the hallway, forcing the player to stop for nothing.
Alexia Ashford Humanoid Form
Coming off of Claire's encounter with the mutated Steve, Wesker and Alexia--now nude and mutated into a grey-ish colour--engage in a fight with Wesker only just scraping by; noticing Chris Redfield hiding nearby, he calls it onto his ''best man'' to take care of her. Alexia herself is a relatively easy battle as they go, but her attacks can do severe damage. She will walk slowly towards the player, leeching a small line of blood which quickly bursts into flames. If the player is caught in it they have to wait through the animation of Chris attempting to wave the flames off.
Alexia Ashford Blob Form
She is initially seen once again in her humanoid form as she halts Claire as she attempts to run away. If the player doesn't react, shooting Alexia with literally anything, then Alexia will kill Claire causing a game over. If the player does shoot her, she will then transform into a huge blob creature with what look like dragonfly wings, but still retaining a majority of her previous mutations face. Because of Alexia's size, the player has very little room to maneuver through and can mostly run in a 75 degree angle. Alexia herself mostly relies on her large tentacles that'll slam down on the player. She also summons a group of small pod like creatures that plant themselves and spout out a strange-tail that'll whip the player. The player can kill them (though they prove difficult because of their size) Alexia will eventually replace them with more. In True Resident Evil fashion, five minute timer is ticking down during this battle.
Alexia Ashford Dragonfly Form
After Alexia Blob Form has taken enough damage, she will exit what was essentially a sack and hover above the player. At the same time the Linear Launcher, which Chris and Claire prepared to power-up, is now available. Using the Linear Launcher, the player is to try and shoot down Alexia; her constant movement can make this tricky, however. Her only attack during this form is that same line of fluid she shoots out that bursts into flames. This form of Alexia isn't particularly difficult as a boss and the difficulty is built around the 5 minute timer that'll still be ticking down during this battle.
Disc 1
Resident Evil: Code Veronica Original Soundtrack (Japanese cover art.)
1. The Movie
2. Title Calling
3. Prologue
4. Opening - Claire Version
5. Thrown Into Despair
6. Once Again
7. First Contact
8. Death Siege
9. Steve's Chafe
10. Incoming
11. Putrid Smell
12. The Palace of Insane
13. A Moment of Relief
14. Infants
15. Hot Rescue
16. Through the Scope
17. Piano Roll
18. Greetings
19. Induction
20. Other side of Glass
21. Getting Out
22. Target Locked
23. Pulsating Right Arm
24. Here Comes the Knight
25. Entrapment
26. Curiosity
27. Father
28. Lachrymal
29. The Suspended Doll
30. One-man Show
31. Ashford's Music Box
32. Pandora's Box
33. The Secret Door
34. Not Alexia
35. A State of Emergency
36. It's Back!
37. The Theme of Tyrant 3- Version A
38. As You Wish
39. Revenge!
40. The Theme of Tyrant 3- Version B
41. Midnight Sun
42. Crash!
43. Blanc
44. The Confined IT
45. You Think You're Safe Now
46. Resonance of Blood
47. Go With the Digger
48. The Theme of Nosferatu
49. The Ending of the Beginning
Disc 2
1. The Opening- Chris Version
2. I Need To Know
3. R.I.P. Rodrigo Rest In Peace
4. Intrigue
5. Berceuse
6. Claws of Doom
7. Here they come
8. Still Alive
9. To Antarctica
10. Subzero
11. Fortress of Ants
12. Bad Way or BAD Way
13. Deja Vu
14. At Last
15. Sardonic Smile
16. Divided
17. Rasen
18. Not Steve
19. Love
20. You Want It
21. T-Veronica
22. Murderous Eyes
23. The Theme of Alexia Type 1
24. The Resurrection of Alexia
25. Silence of the Air
26. The Code Is Veronica
27. Transformation
28. Resurrection
29. Final Weapon
30. The Theme of Alexia Type 2
31. For S.T.A.R.S.
32. Confrontation
33. Awesome Powers
34. Invincible!
35. Velocity
36. End Credits
37. Set Free
38. Doze
39. New Battle
40. Albinoids' Battle BGM
41. Sandworm!
42. Jingles Collection
43. Music Box- Clock Version
44. End Credits Dreamcast Original Version
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the mysterious stranger in RE 4 was pretty cool but this guy 'christopher' takes the cake as the coolest looking merchant. even better than the merchant in bayonette, and that dude was cool. or coolest looking badguy ive seen at that in awhile... looks so freaking narly, always around those cool glowy blue flowers 2... untill he opens his fucking mouth... ugh what a let down...hes just a little too back water hick. just a tad... lol
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Shuriken are generally regarded as "japanese throwing stars", although they may consist of any sharpened metal object that is to be thrown. They are often used as tactical weaponry, distracting the target while not necessarily causing fatal damage. The thrower is able to move in and attempt to land a killing blow while the target is preoccupied. Shuriken most often appear in games with Japanese origins, or games that feature Japanese themes, especially games featuring Ninja.
A Shuriken, or litterally known as "sword hidden in the hand" are used for throwing, stabbing or slashing opponents.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34593 | From Sensor Technology Handbook
Craig Aszkler, Vibration Products Division Manager, PCB Piezotronics, Inc.
5.1 Introduction
Accelerometers are sensing transducers that provide an output proportional to acceleration, vibration [1] and shock. These sensors have found a wide variety of applications in both research and development arenas along with everyday use. In addition to the very technical test and measurement applications, such as modal analysis, NVH (noise vibration and harshness), and package testing, accelerometers are also used in everyday devices such as airbag sensors and automotive security alarms. Whenever a structure moves, it experiences acceleration. Measurement of this acceleration helps us gain a better understanding of the dynamic characteristics that govern the behavior of the object. Modeling the behavior of a structure provides a valuable technical tool that can then be used to modify response, to enhance ruggedness, improve durability or reduce the associated noise and vibration.
The most popular class of accelerometers is the piezoelectric accelerometer. This type of sensor is capable of measuring a wide range of dynamic events. However, many other classes of accelerometers exist that are used to measure constant or very low frequency acceleration such as automobile braking, elevator ride quality and even the gravitational pull of the earth. Such accelerometers rely on piezoresistive, capacitive and servo technologies.
[1] For information on machinery vibration monitoring, refer to Chapter 13.
5.2 Technology Fundamentals
Piezoelectric Accelerometer
Piezoelectric accelerometers are self-generating devices characterized by an extended region of flat frequency response range, a large linear amplitude range and excellent durability. These inherent...
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Young H.Lee and Raj Mutharasan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Drexel University 6.1 Overview: What Is a Biosensor? Biosensor=bioreceptor+transducer. A biosensor consists of two components: a...
Almost all piezoelectric accelerometers in the current market place have a fundamental sensor resonance below 100 KHz. In 1983 Endevco Corporation designed a series of MEMS (Micro Electro- Mechanical...
4.6 Acceleration Transducers Acceleration transducers or accelerometers use piezoelectric, strain gauge, variable reluctance, or integrated circuit technology as basic principles of operation. 4.6.1...
The classic Piezoelectric Accelerometer is the most commonly used transducer in the vibration world today. These accelerometers are inexpensive, come in a variety of packages, and easy/forgiving to... |
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Generic number type
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1 Problem
Can I have a generic numeric data type in Haskell which covers
Answer: In principle you can define a type like
data GenericNumber =
Integer Integer
| Rational Rational
| Double Double
and define appropriate instances for
class et. al.
That is, when using
s you will encounter exactly the problems
type would also negate the type safety that strongly typed numbers provide, putting the burden back on the programmer to make sure they are using numbers in a type-safe way. This can lead to subtle and hard-to-find bugs, for example, if some code ends up comparing two floating-point values for equality (usually a bad idea) without the programmer realizing it.
2 Solutions
2.1 average
average xs = sum xs / fromIntegral (length xs)
and you may prefer
average :: [GenericNumber] -> GenericNumber
average xs = sum xs / genericNumberLength xs
with an appropriate implementation of
. However, there is already
and you can write
average xs = sum xs / genericLength xs
2.2 ratios
You find it easy to write
1 / 3 :: Rational
but uncomfortable that
1 / floor pi :: Rational
does not work.
The first example works, because the numeric literals
are interpreted as rationals itself. The second example fails, because
always returns an
number type, where
is not an instance. You should use
instead. This constructs a fraction out of two integers:
1 % 3 :: Rational
1 % floor pi :: Rational
2.3 isSquare
It may seem irksome that
is required in the function
With a
type, one could instead write
isSquare :: GenericNumber -> Bool
isSquare n = (floor . sqrt $ n) ^ 2 == n
but there is a subtle problem here: if the input happens to be represented internally by a non-integral type, this function will probably not work properly. This could be fixed by wrapping all occurrences of
by calls to
, but that's no easier (and less type-safe) than just including the call to
in the first place. The point is that by using
here, all opportunities for the type checker to warn you of problems is lost; now you, the programmer, must ensure that the underlying numeric types are always used correctly, which is made even harder by the fact that you can't inspect them.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34640 | [Haskell] main::[String]->IO() ?
Hal Daume III hdaume at ISI.EDU
Mon Mar 22 13:21:15 EST 2004
I typically do:
main = getArgs >>= go
go [whatever] = ...
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Steffen Mazanek wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> each time I write an application that makes use of command line arguments
> I have to copy&paste the code for dealing with these args to my program
> from a reference implementation, because it is so hard to remember.
> What do you think about changing the default type of main or providing
> an alternative, e.g., main_args, just like in C or Java?
> I think this would simplify everyday-programming a lot. Or are there
> any severe theoretical (semantical) problems (main is running in the IO
> monad either way)?
> Ciao,
> Steffen
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Cut the Crap: 2012 Christmas Movies Are Full of Poop
Dec 24, 2012 | 11:09am EST
I'm not quite sure how to break this to you, but your Christmas might be really crappy.
I don't mean you're going to get bad presents (though no one really wants socks and underwear) or that your aunt is going to get drunk again and pass out under the table until the 27th just in time to get up and return the giant candle you bought her. No, if you go to the movies this year at Christmas you might be looking at a lot of s**t. The movies show a disturbing trend of having a fiend on for feces and, personally, I think it's time to stop.
The biggest culprit is Les Miserables, the movie based on a musical based on a book based on the suffering of real life people. There is a scene, taken directly from the musical, where our hero Jean Valjean has to escape both his nemesis Javert and save his daughter's lover, Marius. How does he get away? He does what any good hero would do and drops down into the sewer for a clean getaway. In the musical, that's just what it is, clean. On stage, Valjean walks along the revolving stage and there is some splashing noises and blue light that is supposed to invoke the shallow puddle of water that would be in the sewer. Everyone accepts this as true.
Director Tom Hooper, however, will have none of that in his movie. He wants everything to be real, so when Valjean goes into the sewer, both he and Marius practically drown in a river of shit. Yes, some people will like to think it's mud, but it is not. It is pureed turds. And it covers their body. When they emerge from their brown descent Valjean has a big confrontation with Javert and they sing...something. I don't know what they sing. I could not pay attention for the next 10 minutes. The only thing I notice was the human waste that was coating their bodies. All you could see of Hugh Jackman was the whites of his eyes and his gleaming Hollywood teeth (far too white and straight to be "real" in that Hooperian way).
And this isn't the only one.
ALTThis gentleman to the left is Radagast the Brown, one of the new wizards that is introduced in The Hobbit: A Title As Long And Unnecessary As the Movie. Do you know why he is called Radagast the Brown? Because he is covered in dung! Yes, that white strip on the side of his face is bird droppings. Every time I look at this creature with a ton of animal friends and magical powers I can't think about how cute the animals are or how awesome sorcery is because all I can think about is his shitty appearance.
Apparently Radagast loves animals so much that he has a family of birds living under his hat. Realistically, a family of birds under your hat would defecate all over your face. Right? Right. Well, want to know the difference? You do not live in a fantasy realm with giant spiders and elves and little men who are gallivanting around caves having riddle fights so they can win a ring that makes them invisible. That is what I do not get. There is nothing at all real in The Hobbit. Everything is about as fake and constructed as the combined faces of the Real Housewives of Everytown USA. Couldn't the birds under his hate be special birds that don't poop? Couldn't he have a spell that makes the guano go away? This is a reality where trolls turn to stone and dwarves have magic writing that only appears in the moonlight. Can't we get the crapola off one of our characters so we can focus on something other than the impolite sensation of being smeared with colonic discharge?
The same thing goes for Les Miz (with a Z, just like Liza). This is a musical where a revolutionary falls in love with a girl who he saw one time for 30 seconds in the marketplace. Then, after extolling the virtues of brotherhood and equality and forsaking his large fortune, has a gigantic wedding in a palace that his aristocratic grandfather pays for. None of this seems to make any sense. (The one thing that does make sense is that Valjean mysteriously dies shortly after wading though all of that poop. He probably caught something from the sewer!) If that is the case, why do we need the reality of all that dung in the sewer? The musical (which, granted, is a genre that prizes artifice over substance) knows that if you introduce the reality of how all the stinky stuff is excavated from our cities, that is all the audience will be able to focus on. All that we can see is the poop. Yes, you may be serving reality, but you're destroying your story for one fleeting instance of verisimilitude.
There's only one movie this year that used someone covered in poop to good effect (yes, I have seen three this year, which makes it a trend for 2012). That movie was the little-seen but excellent Norwegian flick Headhunter. In it, our main character, who is on the run from someone trying to kill him, hides in an outhouse. When the killer is about to find him he takes a toilet paper tube, puts it up to his mouth and conceals his whole body in the swampy disgusting discharge under the toilet seat. He avoids detection.
This instance was just as gross as the others (none of these were played for comedic effect like the poop scene in Slumdog Millionaire) but it wasn't distracting because the poop was the story. Here is a man so desperate that he would plunge himself in dung rather than get killed. He then subsequent runs around still covered in it for a good chunk of the movie which just shows how literally and figuratively soiled his life is because of the man trying to kill him. The poop transcends being actual excrement and becomes something else, a visceral symbol of his suffering. Neither of these other movies invested as much in their crap to earn it. Yes, it may be real, but it is also really gross and making the viewer uncomfortable at the risk of ruining otherwise very good scenes. Letting something like this have that unintended effect and ruining a movie goers experience is just...well, shitty.
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Jun 20, 2012 | 10:25am EDT
ALTOnce upon a time in a kingdom far far away (well, not that far if you live in California), there lived the queen of all the Dwarves and she lived in a granite quarry. Her name was Heather, and she had long black hair and was cursed at birth with a ladybeard that she shaved every morning. In the quarry she had all the little workers carve out a huge palace of burnished stone. One day an Evil Queen (who will once and forever be played by Andy Cohen) declared that Heather must throw a party for all the princesses in the realm so that they could come and do battle and only the victorious should leave. Heather's palace was the perfect place, because while it is hard to get blood out of a stone, it is very easy to wash blood off of one.
The occasion for the party was that Heather was changing her last name to Dwarf, which was the last name of her husband Terry, the king of the Dwarfs. They lived happily in their rock quarry with their little rock-eating children for many years, but finally she decided to change her name because the Evil Queen told her it would break the curse and make her beard disappear forever. The key ingredient for this bit of hocus pocus was a very grand cake with her new initials "H.D." inscribed on it which all the guests would eat in unison and then her curse would be broken. However, if even one person eat even a tiny bit of the cake before midnight all would be spoiled.
OK, enough of this fairy tale, at least for now. Let's start talking about Heather's party and all the crazy nonsense that was swirling about. The first guests to arrive are Tamra and her new fiance Eddie the Honeybear (doesn't he look like the clear plastic bear that honey comes in?). Heather is very happy that she is there with her gigantic diamond ring that covers up a literal scar from her last relationship. Everyone was happy for Tamra about her engagement except for Vicki who thinks they are moving too fast. When did Vicki turn into a troll turd of the highest order? Well, I guess she always has been, but she's been especially stinky this past year. She's talking about how Tamra got engaged only "six months after her divorce got finalized." Um, yeah Vicki, but she's been seeing the guy for two damn years. Isn't that long enough? You started dating Brooks while your ex was still living in the same house as you (and may have even been emailing with him while you were still married). Who do you think is moving fast. Argh.
Next to arrive is Alexis "Fun Bags" Bellino, the world's only tit boxer. She actually knocks people out with her titties while she's in the ring. That is why they call them "knockers." Alexis brought Sara the Striver with her. We've seen Sara twice before this season, and she is one of those women (like a Kim G. or a Dana Wilkie) that wants on the show real bad but is sort of too bland and awful to get a full-time gig so they just trot her out when they need some exposition or conflict and let her dig her own grave without getting paid for it. Sara the Striver is officially the worst. Possibly even worse than Jim Bellino who is the Guinness Book of World Record holder and Olympic Gold Medalist in The Worst. Since Jim won't come to the fancy party, Alexis brings Sara who I thought was Gretchen's friend. When did she go from Gretchen's friend to Alexis' friend?
Anyway, we learn at a dinner that Alexis is still pissed off about what happened to her in Costa Rico and that she feels ganged up by the women. When she got back, she called up all her friends and asked if she was phony. "No!" her equally phony friends said to her. Duh, of course they did. As Dionne Warwick said, that's what friends are for. "For good times, for bad times, for times when you are on a reality show and they accuse you of being a materialistic liar to your face and you need people to continually rationalize your self-delusions, I'll be on your side forever more. That's what friends are for." Alexis actually says this thing: "They're mistaking kindness for phony." Excuse me, my ears just fell of and melted into a pool of warm gazpacho. What? I cunt hear you. How does that even make sense? Alexis seems to think that because all the women are awful screech monkeys (which they are, except for Heather) that when someone isn't a screech monkey they think she's not being "real." Oh, Alexis. That has nothing to do with it. It's the fact that you lie about how many Bentleys you have and how much money your The Worst husband makes on his trampoline park that makes them think you're phony. It's your big tits and your fake wedding ring that make them think you're phony. It's your convenient Christianity that makes them think you're phony. It's your fake Louis Vuitton blinged out phone that make them think you're phone-y (get it?)! It's basically everything about you.
Then Sara Striver (no relation to Maria) says, "I have one word for you: jealousy." OK, I am going to set the record straight once and for all, Housewives. No one treats you like shit because they are jealous. Period. This is not a motivation for meanness because all of these women are so self-involved that they all think that who they are and what they have is the best. They are incapable of jealousy (unless they get kicked off the show and you don't). Saying people are mean to you because they are jealous is just another sick symptom of your own narcissism. So, Alexis says she wants some backup at the party and Jim won't going so Sara says, "I'll go if you go." Um, yeah, Sara, that's how it works because you aren't invited! You can't show up at the door and say, "Oh, I'm Alexis' plus one, but she's not coming." You're only along for the ride.
Alright, next up is Gretchen and Slade who pulled up in a Stage Coach from Petticoat Junction. Gretchen had a pink dress with ruffles with black piping and a flower in her hair and her tits spilling out, and she looked like she just got off her shift serving sassparilly at the saloon in Deadwood. But then Slade pulled up in the Delorean from Back to the Future and the door opened skyward and a little puff of smoke emerged and he came right from the '70s where he was wearing a black blazer and turtle neck like he was trying to be the white Shaft. They walked into the Granite Palace together and Gretchen said, "Ooooh. Pretty flowers" (they were quite nice) and then a waiter offered her a "Vanilla Pomegranate Martini" and she spontaneously vomited all over him and her dress, but luckily her bright pink emission was the same color as her dress, so it just blended and she walked into the party.
Gretchen and Slade really didn't do anything last night. That's when I like them the best. When they're doing absolutely nothing. Gretchen and Slade could sit on a couch for the rest of their lives watching reruns of SVU and I'd be totally fine with that. Once a year we could check in and say, "How you guys doing?" and they'd say, "Oh, just fine. Can you get us some pretzels?" and that would be absolutely perfect.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34711 | Sopa Al Cuarto De Hora Recipe
Preparation Time10 MinCooking Time30 Min
Ready In40 MinDifficulty LevelMedium
Health IndexHealthyServings4
Main Ingredient
Cured ham2 Ounce
Onion1 Small
Clams in shell1⁄2 Pound
Hard boiled eggs1
Olive oil2 Tablespoon
Cured ham2 Ounce, diced
Shelled peas1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs) (Fresh Or Frozen)
Tomatoes2 Small
Onion1 Small, finely chopped
Clams in the shell1⁄2 Pound
Hard boiled egg1 , boiled
Raw rice2 Tablespoon
Paprika1⁄2 Teaspoon
Salt1⁄2 Teaspoon
Black pepper1 Pinch
Boiling water4 1⁄2 Cup (72 tbs)
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 301 Calories from Fat 115
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13 g19.8%
Saturated Fat 2.5 g12.5%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 163.6 mg
Sodium 591.2 mg24.6%
Total Carbohydrates 19 g6.2%
Dietary Fiber 2.3 g9.3%
Sugars 4.7 g
Protein 27 g53.2%
Vitamin A 25.8% Vitamin C 48.7%
Calcium 10% Iron 94.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
Rinse clams in cold water and let sit in bowl of water for at least an hour to remove sand.
Cook clams until they open in water to cover.
Remove one shell from each, set aside, and pass the liquid through a kitchen towel or cloth in order to strain out any remaining sand.
Shell the peas and the uncooked shrimp.
Scald the rice by throwing it in boiling water for 3 minutes, then straining and rinsing it under cold water.
Heat olive oil in a skillet and brown the ham.
Put ham aside and slowly fry the finely chopped onion in the same oil.
When the onion is golden, add the tomatoes forced through a sieve.
Let the tomatoes and onions fry' together for 5 minutes before adding the paprika with the pan off the fire.
Immediately pour in 4 1/2 cups of boiling water.
Add the peeled shrimp and peas and the scalded rice, 1/2 tsp salt, and a pinch of black pepper.
Let the soup boil for-exactly 15 minutes.
(This is the quarter of an hour to which the soup owes its name.) Just before serving, add the clams, the liquid in which they cooked, the ham, and the hard-boiled egg, chopped fine.
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Austrian Succession, War of the
First Silesian War
Frederick II began the war by invading and rapidly occupying Silesia. His cynical offer of support to Maria Theresa if she would cede the province was rejected. Victorious at Mollwitz (1741), Frederick obtained the alliance of France, Spain, Bavaria, and Saxony. Charles Albert of Bavaria, who was promised the imperial election, advanced on Vienna. In Oct., 1741, however, Prussia agreed to a truce in exchange for most of Silesia. This armistice was soon broken but gave the Austrians an opportunity to regroup their forces. The French were unwilling to permit the Bavarians too much power and ordered them to attack Bohemia, which was relatively unimportant, instead of Vienna. Joined by France and Saxony, Bavaria took Prague (Nov., 1741), and Charles Albert was elected emperor as Charles VII.
Meanwhile, Maria Theresa had obtained full support from the Hungarian diet and the promise of aid from Great Britain, which had been at war with Spain since 1739 (see Jenkins's Ear, War of). Early in 1742 Austrian troops overran Bavaria and laid siege to Prague, and in July, Maria Theresa made peace with Prussia by ceding most of Silesia (Treaty of Berlin). Thus ended this conflict, often called the First Silesian War. Saxony also made peace and joined Austria as an ally in 1743. The epic retreat from Prague of the French under Marshal Belle-Isle (winter, 1742–43) was followed by the victory of George II of Britain over the French at Dettingen (1743).
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Mans, Le (lə mäN) [key], city (1990 pop. 148,465), capital of Sarthe dept., NW France, on the Sarthe River. The historical capital of Maine, it is also an important manufacturing, commercial, educational, and communications center. Its service industries, especially insurance, are important. Le Mans, which dates from pre-Roman times and before Charlemagne was a Merovingian capital, has witnessed frequent sieges and battles throughout its history. The Cathedral of St. Julien du Mans (11th–13th cent.), which contains the tomb of Berengaria, queen of Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard I of England), is partly Romanesque; its Gothic part has perhaps the most daring system of flying buttresses of any Gothic cathedral. Le Mans was the birthplace of Henry II of England and John II of France. Today, Le Mans is famous for its annual international auto race, which is run on local roads.
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