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1. #41
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-Warcraft 3
-Dragon Age Origins
-Final Fantasy 8 and 9
-CoD MW2 single player
-Mass Effect trilogy
-Assassin's Creed trilogy
-MVP baseball 2005
-NBA 2k all of them are good
-Resident Evil 1-3 on ps1
-Saints Row the third
-Far Cry 3
Those are the best games ive played...
2. #42
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1. Chrono Trigger
2. Seiken Densetsu 3
3. Tales of Phantasia
4. Tales of Symphonia
5. Portal 2
6. Half-life 2
7. Super Smash Brothers Melee
8. Lufia: The Legend Returns
9. Team Fortress 2
10. Golden Sun
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3. #43
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20. Rayman (PSX)
19. Mega Man 2 (NES)
18. Wario Land 2 (GB)
17. Metroid Fusion (GBA)
16. Digimon World (PSX)
15. League of Legends (PC)
14. Super Mario World (SNES)
13. Pokémon Heart Gold (DS)
12. Warcraft III (PC)
11. Battletoads (NES)
10. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
9. Kirby Super Star Ultra (DS)
8. Pokémon: Explorers of Sky (DS)
7. World of Warcraft (PC)
6. Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
5. Kirby's Adventure Wii (Wii)
4. Pokémon Red (GB)
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
2. Metroid Prime (GC)
1. Super Metroid (SNES)
I always have a top 20 video games list ready, in case of top 20 video games threads.
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4. #44
off the top of my head
Dragon Age: Origins
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Jade Empire
Longest Journey
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
World Of Warcraft
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
Secret Of Monkey Island
Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Father
WoW comics & jokes, Dragon Age parody and other weirdness
5. #45
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My list:
Mass Effect Trilogy
Deus Ex HR
BioShock 1&2
Portal 1&2
Half Life Series (where is HL3? Where, Gabe? Where?)
Dragon Age: Origins
Arkham Asylum
World of Warcraft
It's more or less in order. WoW's hard to place because my feelings for the game changes with every expansion. During BC/Wrath, it'd be near the top. During Cata, at the bottom. Now? Eh, I just left it at the bottom.
6. #46
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In random order:
Eternal Darkness - Sanity's requiem
Shadow of the Colossus
The Walking Dead
Final Fantasy X
Dwarf Fortress
Day of the Tentacle/Full Throttle
WoW (at least when I first played it when it came out I was really really really overwhelmed, don't think much of it nowadays anymore though, but for nostalgia's sake, I'll add it)
Smash Brothers (cube version)
Maybe Spec Ops: The Line or the new batman games or something like that ^^
7. #47
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I think it would be downright impossible for me to narrow it down to ten games, but here are some of the ones have had an impact on me throughout the years:
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Final Fantasy 4 (SNES)
Pit Fighter (Arcade) - I kid. The game was beyond terrible.
Castlevania 2 (NES)
Baldur's Gate Series - The first game series where I got to import my character from game to game and watch my character grow and morph from a youth in candlekeep to a hero and then to a god.
Super Mario 3 (NES)
Mega Man X (SNES)
Dragon Warrior (NES)
Mass Effect Trilogy (PC)
Unreal Tournament 2004 (PC)
TES V: Skyrim (PC)
8. #48
Ocarina of Time
Halo CE
Halo 2
Unreal Tournament
I could go on but each of those games had an undeniable impact when they were fresh
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9. #49
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GTA, any of the series.
10. #50
1) Final Fantasy IX (PS) - Most underrated and most awesome game in the world
2) Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast) - Not really well-known, but an epic RPG
3) Metal Gear Solid (PS) - I think everyone agrees with this
4) Vandal Hearts (PS) - Introduced me to T-RPGs, and also, blood fountains ftw.
5) Age of Empires II (PC) - Still the best RTS to this day
6) Mafia (PC) - Everyone was crazy about GTA while this game blew everything GTA had
7) Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Largely above the other FFs, but still miles before FFIX (and yes, I didn't like FFVII that much)
8) Final Fantasy Tactics (PS) - Classic T-RPG, had to put it in this list with my love for the genre
9) Dragon Age: Origins (PC) - I hadn't felt so much epicness while playing a game since my childhood
10) Mass Effect (PC) - Same reasons as DA:O
It's hard to put an order after the first three games, but that should be it
11. #51
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I can't really rank the top games I have played, so I'm just going to throw in my most enjoyable games in no particular order.
Final Fantasy VI - started playing it for the first time just a couple of days ago, but it is definitely one of the best games I've played.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - I still haven't finished it though.
Legend of Zelda: Twilight princess
Pokemon FireRed
Ratchet & Clank 2
Ys Origin
World of Warcraft
I feel like I'm starting to forget what games I have played...
12. #52
1. Golden Sun
2. Golden Sun 2
3. Legend of Zelda: TWW
4. Legend of Zelda: OoT
5. Halo series (gameplay wise the first stood out, but overall with lore all are pretty good)
6. Battlefield Series (Battlefield 2 and BC2 for me)
7. Metroid Prime 1-2 (3 dropped the ball on gameplay)
8. Mario Sunshine
9. Pokemon Red-Gold-Ruby (and some others from that time) mostly because of nostalgia
10. Tetris (this actually deserved to Nr.3 but people won't take it serious so meh)
Unreal Tournament 2004 and Americas Army (the old one, I think it was 2) deserve a spot in there aswell as I those prob have most playtime in my life...but I tried to keep top 10 with stories.
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13. #53
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Colombia Spire
Elder scrolls IV/V
Diablo 2
MGS series (or 3)
Legend of Zelda OOT/Link to the past
Donkey kong Country 1/2
Warcraft 3
Dota 2
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14. #54
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Standing in the Fire, as always.
Oh this is a tough one isn't it : / Well lets see...
10)Golden Axe 2
9)Pikamans Silver
8)Pikamans Stadium
7)Super Mario Sunshine
5)Legend of Zelda OOT/MM
4)Halo 3
3)Starcraft 2
1) Age of Empire II - The Conquerors
Then again a lot of these titles could be placed equally ranked in my mind but this is as close as I'm going to get
Pop goes the Leman Russ and other fun Lascannon games.
15. #55
1. ocarina of time
2. kingdom hearts 1
3. metal gear solid
4. super mario world
5. gta 3
6. skyrim
7. left for dead
8. banjo kazooie
9. donkey kong 64
10. mario 64
16. #56
1. WoW (nowadays its not that great, but when I first started in 2005, blew me away for 4 years straight.)
2. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3 snake eater (for ps2, by far 2 of the best storyline and exciting dramatic gameplay ever)
3. Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 - PC (soo much fun when creating your own map with friends)
4. Counter Strike (surf maps ftw)
5. Halo 2 (best halo and best multi player ranking system to this day)
6. Medal of Honor Frontline and Rising Sun. (classic ww2 games, childhood memories playing those)
7. Pokemon Green and Red for gameboy SP (countless times getting introuble for playing in class haha)
8. Conkers Bad Fur Day (both n64 and xbox versions = amazing)
9. Super Mario 64
10. Half Life 2
17. #57
Quote Originally Posted by mandus View Post
Where is metal gear ?
that reminds me, i saw they are making a metal gear movie, and guess who would play as the main guy? Tom Hardy, same guy that played Bane in the latest batman movie.
18. #58
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1.the elder scrolls oblivion
2. rome total war
3. perfect dark
4. legend of zelda ocarina of time
5. vigilante 8 second offense.
6. civlization series
7. icewind dale 2.
8. might and magic series.
9.medieval total war 2.
10. forza motorsport 3.
runner up:mass effect 1
19. #59
In no order.
Half Life
Mechwarrior 2
SimCity 2000
Star Control 2
MS Flight Simulator 2004
Asheron's Call
Wing Commander 3
Star Wars Galaxies
World of Warcraft.
yep that's it. As subjective as possible.
Get a grip man! It's CHEESE!
20. #60
Someone mentioned saints row the third. Great game. Much better than i expected.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6364 | Checkmate (Amiga)
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Traditional full-featured chess game with all of the standard chess features. Difficulty is chosen by selecting one of four levels and then assigning a time limit for the computer to choose a move. The idea is to allow infinite degrees of difficulty.
The only differentiating feature for this time period is the fact that the board is rendered in 3D, so instead of just appearing 3D, you can actually rotate the board through any angle.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6365 | Hellcat Ace (PC Booter)
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A classic 1st person flight simulation similar to Ace of Aces. In several missions you have to shoot down Japanese fighters and bombers. Through the front cockpit window you can see the sky and the ocean. Below the cockpit view is the instrument panel with engine power, altitude, fuel and your ammunition-counter. Through the a rear window you can see the enemies on your tail.
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In the summer of 1982, Bill Stealey was a strategic planner for electronics company General Instrument. During a break at a company meeting in Las Vegas, Stealey challenged all comers to beat his high score on a coin-op arcade game called 'Red Baron'. No one could - except a programmer at General Instrument called Sid Meier, who promptly kicked his tail. The programmer explained to Stealey that it was not flying skill but down to observing the rudimentary AI of the enemy pilots and anticipating their next move. Meier boasted to Stealey that he could design a better game in a week on his home computer. Stealey said that if Meier could do it, he would sell it. The resulting game was Hellcat Ace - though it was only two months later that Meier finished it. The two men that year left General Instrument to form MicroProse - a company that would produce some of the best flight simulation games during the coming decade. (Source - 'Computer Gaming World', November 1992)
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Ah the things I may or may not miss in a month or so when I'm toting a wee babe instead of a big belly...
Perk: I should have no trouble getting a seat on the subway.
RANT: I'm almost never offered a seat... except when I really don't need it... usually when I'm going 1 stop, by someone who DOES need it while healthy young males just look on, or look away, or stare blankly at my belly. I'm not sure when common courtesy went out the window... and I have no problem asking for a seat if I NEED one (I'm a pretty spry pregnant lady - more in shape at a pregnant 30 than many people are at a non-pregnant 25 - lol), but the "avert the eyes and pretend there's NOT a giant elephant of a person standing in front of me" thing... yeah, it's lame. I've even heard people further down the car having a hushed conversation about giving seats to pregnant ladies while I'm standing. Seriously?
RAVE: I know I can ask for a seat ANYtime I want one, and probably get it (but I have yet to feel the need to ask).
Peeve: Random comments/touches of the belly
RANT: ask before touching!!! also, telling someone they "got fat" isn't polite in any OTHER situation, why is it okay in this one?
RAVE: I have a strange appreciation for the people who are so happy for me... even though it IS odd that they seem more excited than I am... also people who tell me I look healthy and I'm glowing? yeah, they can hang with me. :-D
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6384 | Carbon Offsets... Buyer Beware
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Carbon offsets are in. Everybody's doing it. And Wall Street knows it, which is why here and abroad companies from London's Marks & Spencer to Dell Computers are clamoring to make you, too, "carbon neutral." A crowded field of for-profit offset providers have sprung up, promising to do everything from reforesting the California redwoods to building solar powered greenhouses in India.
But if Expedia can make that flight from LaGuardia to Heathrow guilt free for only ten extra bucks, how is one to know whether the offsets one has bought are really making that cross-Atlantic trip carbon even-steven? At the moment, it's pretty much a crapshoot (with carbon offset prices ranging from $3.56 to $30 a metric ton). But the UK hopes to change that before the Greenland ice sheet melts into their precious gulfstream. The country's Ministry of Environment announced yesterday that it would set standards for rating the new club of carbon merchants. That way would-be-offsetters can distinguish between quality outfits and those just full of hot air.
The standards will be based on the same "system used to certify credits from the established Kyoto market." Ideally, this will mean the credits have a "clear audit trail" and be linked to real emission reductions, but don't go back to building your carbon-neutral beachfront villas just yet.
Even long-established projects, endorsed by the World Bank and certified for cap-and-trade under Kyoto's rules, don't always deliver their promised bang for the buck. Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran a great piece on the chemical industry in China. A particularly dire snippet:
"Regulators worry that the carbon market is encouraging companies in the developing world to make more of the underlying refrigerant than they otherwise would—so they can produce more of the global warming gas, destroy it, and sell the credits."
Kudos to the UK for holding the carbon traders to a higher standard, as the EU has in regulating the toxics industry. Still, for now, and for us unregulated Americans, riding a bike may be your best bet.
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Heartwarming tale of love and friendship.
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Parents need to know that the theme of the film is the cycle of life and death, which may frighten younger children. Families may want to discuss these themes. How does the movie make the youngest ones feel? How does Wilbur show his love for Charlotte even after she dies?
• Families can talk about which people are the most important in each of their lives. What can each person do to show their friends and family that they love them? Families may want to do an art project constructing "webs" of encouraging phrases made of yarn and construction paper fore each member of the family, similar to the ones Charlotte creates for Wilbur.
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Lib Dems won’t pull out if referendum is lost ++ Clegg claims party’s “identity crisis” would be wor
There's been much discussion of the impact that the electoral reform referendum will have on the future of the coalition, but Nick Clegg has just put a stop to speculation that the Lib Dems could walk away.
In a Radio 4 interview due to be broadcast this weekend, he suggests that his party would not quit the government even if the referendum is lost.
It's not altogether surprising that Clegg isn't willing to stake everything on the Alternative Vote, a system he once denounced as a "miserable little compromise". But his provocative comments -- he declares that the Lib Dems aren't "a sort of glorified form of the Electoral Reform Society" -- are likely to unsettle the party's grass roots further.
Then there's his dubious claim that the Lib Dems would be in an even worse position (YouGov's daily tracker has them on 14 per cent) if they hadn't formed a coalition with the Tories.
He adds that nobody would be taking "any notice" of the Lib Dems if they weren't in government, a rather harsh verdict on his party's pre-coalition existence. And he argues that his party's "identity crisis" would be far worse if it was in government with Labour.
That's a none-too-subtle rebuke to Simon Hughes, who claimed this week that a progressive alliance with Labour was still "on the agenda". It also sounds like a slightly hurt response to Ed Miliband's declaration, in his NS interview this week, that he would demand Clegg's resignation before doing any deal with the Liberal Democrats.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6531 | Zac Efron's '17 Again' is a familar but fun ride
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Zac Efron realizes something isn't quite right in the 'switch' comedy '17 Again.'
OK, who made a wish on a magical ornamental skull? Or dropped a quarter into a magical carnival fortune-telling machine? Or ate a magical fortune cookie? Because I know we've been here before.
And so the temptation is great to write off "17 Again" as just the latest tired spin on the well-trodden "switch" movie concept, whereby a young person becomes suddenly old, an old person becomes suddenly young again - or both. Think "Big" or "Freaky Friday" or "Vice Versa" or "18 Again!" or "Like Father, Like Son" or "Dream a Little Dream." (Feel free to play along at home.
Scene-stealing funnyman Thomas Lennon ("Reno 911") acknowledges as much in "17 Again," after Matthew Perry ("Friends") wakes up as his formerly virile self, played by teen heartthrob Zac Efron ("High School Musical").
"Classic transformation story," Lennon's ubernerd character remarks. "It appears in the literature time and time again. Were you exposed to any gamma rays? ... Are you now or have you ever been a Norse god, a vampire or a time-traveling cyborg?"
Zac Efron and Thomas Lennon have a little trouble with modern teen fasions in '17 Again.'
2.5 stars
Snapshot: A comedy in a which an underachieving 30-something man gets a chance to be 17 again and rewrite his life.
What works: Star Zac Efron's charm, and Thomas Lennon's wackiness, help elevate this old trope into a cute and enjoyable bit of entertainment.
What doesn't: There's not a whole lot that's original (or uncontrived) about it, and the film editing is sloppy at times.
Starring: Zac Efron, Thomas Lennon, Leslie Mann, Matthew Perry, Michelle Trachtenberg. Director: Burr Steers. Rating: PG-13 for language, some sexual material and teen partying. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes. Where: Elmwood Palace, Clearview Palace, West Bank Palace, Hammond Palace, Hollywood 9 (Kenner), Hollywood 14 (Covington), Grand (Slidell).
The truth is, however, that - pleasant surprise of all pleasant surprises - "17 Again" manages to squeeze more than a little life from the old trope, along the way transforming itself into a sweet and amusing comedy.
A big reason for that: Efron, who gets a chance to prove he is more than the sum of his singing, dancing "High School Musical" parts. Turns out, the kid has a charming screen presence and more than enough talent to carry this lightweight comedy.
Given his "HSM" pedigree, "17 Again" is clearly aimed at a young, female audience. The first scene does little to suggest anything else. Not only is Efron's character, Mike O'Donnell, shirtless, but he's chivalrous, a perfect guy willing to give up his basketball future to stand by his girl.
Flash-forward 16 years, and suddenly the movie's appeal widens. It seems things aren't going so well for Mike. Not only is his character's professional life in a rut, but that marriage he gave up everything for? Falling apart.
If only he could do it all over again ...
That's where Brian Doyle Murray comes in, as a mysterious school janitor who introduces Mike to a magical vortex that gives him another shot at teendom. (OK, points for originality there. As far as I know, this is the first time an otherwordly custodial vortex has been the catalyst for one of these films.)
The catch: Nothing around Mike, including the people in his life, has undergone the same change, so he has to live it all out in modern times. Along the way, he has to figure out if the real purpose of the big switch is for him to reclaim some of that old basketball glory, or if something more meaningful is at stake. (Three guesses as to which it is.)
If Efron is the "17 Again" cast member most likely to succeed, the clearly wacked-out-of-his-skull Lennon is the class clown, providing the bulk of the film's laughs. Applause is also owed to funny lady Leslie Mann (who shot "I Love You Phillip Morris" in town last year) as Perry's wife and Efron's reluctant cougar.
"17 Again" is produced by Adam Shankman, whose directing credits include "Bedtime Stories," "Hairspray" and "The Pacifier," and who has cemented his name as a family-friendly filmmaker.
Sure, Burr Steers' direction is vanilla, and the film editing has its miscues, but if you're have to relive this particular movie concept all over again, you could do a lot worse than "17 Again."
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Photo 1: The Kennedy family home at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Telling you that you should consider incorporating a little more gold into your beauty routine is like reminding you to moisturize in winter; it's kind of a no-brainer. But while you've likely got a gold shadow, maybe a liner or a mascara, plus some body powder (or hey, even a bit of glitter for your hair), we'd bet you don't have a gold lipstick or lip gloss in your collection. And it's time to change that.
Why? For one thing, it's so much more than that very '90s version we've been conditioned to think of when we hear "gold" and "lips" in the same sentence (ie Jessica Alba in Honey). There's also the surprise factor--yes, red is great but it's also a bit expected these days. And maybe most importantly, it does what makeup should do--that is, make you feel shiny, sparkly, and special--as good, if not better, as anything out there. (Related: There are lots of reasons you should feel shiny, sparkly, and special that go well beyond makeup. But then, you already knew that.)
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General Development How do you recognize good programmers if you're a business guy? It's not as easy as it sounds. CV experience is only of limited use here, because great programmers don't always have the "official" experience to demonstrate that they're great. In fact, a lot of that CV experience can be misleading. Yet there are a number of subtle cues that you can get, even from the CV, to figure out whether someone's a great programmer. More here.
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Does it matter? always?
by gonzalo on Tue 5th Feb 2008 11:25 UTC
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Really, does it matter?
You'll probably end up boring a good programmer to desperation and s/he'll probably leave the company because in the interview you asked all sorts of interesting questions and promised all sorts of nice projects but then put him/her in a maintenance project where changes rarely, if at all, happen.
Or you'll get a good programmer but not want him/her to work the way s/he does, but instead you'll value much more the fact that s/he follows your internal processes and style. All the fresh ideas and energy s/he brings will be dissipated, because you'll want to constrain it into your organization's model and behavior.
Or even... you actually won't hire him/her. You'll hire an unexperienced... oh, sorry, you call that "unspoiled" young fellow, so that you can mold him/her into what you want from the beginning. Or you'll hire someone cheape... ahem, less qualified, because, you know, it's just some web project or something.
Really, most of the time companies do not want a good programmer; they just want an average one (or a bunch of average ones). And it's not only what they want, it's what they actually need.
So, before asking yourself how to find good programmers, ask your self what for and try to have something that requires one.
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by shotsman on Tue 6th Nov 2012 06:56 UTC in reply to "Comment by dvhh"
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Apple have probably been 'playing' with this for several years. By playing, a small team somewhere has been given a brief to investigate using ARM cpu's in the OSX Product line.
They will have gone away and have been trying all sorts of permutations. They may have even got their colleagues in PA-Semi to create some custom silicon for them.
When the time comes for the project to become mainstream the results of this 'playing' will be fed into their product direction. The 'playing' will have covered all sorts of different ways/permutations etc on how to do this.
They might even say, 'sorry not possible yet because...'
This is what any company that is serious about making this sort of transition would do. Apple have done it before. They might even have several teams looking into it. you can be sure that if/when Apple makes this move they will have a really good idea about what will be produced and sold to the consumers.
This is how new Cars are produced. You see lots of concepts at the motor shows. Very few of them see the light of day but often bits of these concepts appear in new cars a few years later.
Naturally this is all speculation but if I were an apple shareholder(I'm not) I would be expecting them to be doing this sort of thing.
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by panzi on Sun 9th Jun 2013 20:49 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by vtolkov"
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I don't know if such an app exists under Linux, because I never needed one. KDE apps usually have A LOT of actions that can be assigned to hotkeys (even global hotkeys). Using DBus and a tiny scripted KDE app (for global hotkey support - hotkeys are an integral part of KDE/Qt and thus very easy to implement) I guess one could write such an app for all KDE and probably many Gtk apps. Heck, that what I did for the special case of media players: (a plasma widget that lets you assign global hotkeys for play/pause/next song/previous song which will be sent to whatever media player is currently active - 614 LOC including license header, GUI code and special case code for several buggy players and two different MPRIS API versions)
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Regarding the article
by chris_dk on Fri 23rd Feb 2007 19:55 UTC
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The article tries to make it look like Debian has a problem. Of course it has, but so does Ubuntu, Fedora etc.
Other distros just release at a certain date, no matter the quality of the packages. Debian does not.
It matters to have both Debian and distros like Ubuntu for people who care less about the individual package quality and more about usability / ease of use.
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by superman on Sat 24th Feb 2007 09:28 in reply to "Regarding the article"
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Fedora, RHEL, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Mandrake, all have delayed a release. One week, two weeks, sometimes 2 months.
Debian simply does not know how to manage a release.
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by da_Chicken on Sat 24th Feb 2007 11:22 in reply to "RE: Regarding the article"
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Debian simply does not know how to manage a release.
I think you're overlooking a couple of rather obvious problems in releasing Debian.
One problem Debian must face is that it's one of the biggest distros out there, maybe bigger than any of the other distros you mention. Debian supports 11 architectures and possibly more packages than any other distro.
Another big problem is that Debian developers are volunteers who don't get paid for their Debian work. This means that they cannot concentrate full-time, seven days a week to get the release out on time.
Now, put these two problems together -- you've got this very big distro that needs a lot of complicated and synchronized work to get the release out, but the developers can only work for Debian when they've got some extra time in the evenings.
Sounds like a Mission Impossible? Actually, they've done rather well so far but there are still a couple of issues to be sorted out before they can release Etch. If people could just accept the idea that a good product is more important for Debian developers than releasing at a specific point in time, they might have a little bit more patience.
People like Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols can make fun of Debian, comparing it to Duke Nukem Forever and suggesting that it will never be released, but these snide comments will lose their entertainment value as soon as Etch is out. And if it's a good release (I have no doubt that it is), then that's what people will remember.
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by flynn on Mon 25th Oct 2010 23:34 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Metacity"
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I am really getting confused. I knew we had these layers:
Window Manager
Desktop Environment
Now it apears that we have:
Window Manager
Desktop Environment
[or is the Shell above the environment, I get confused]
"I'm talkiing Levels, Jerry - Levels!"
First of all, take everything I say with a grain of salt as I'm mostly making educated guesses.
Currently, I think Nautilus is pulling double duty being both a file manager and a 'shell'. I base this on the fact that the settings for drawing desktop icons and such are under Nautilus in gconf.
I think Gnome 3 was supposed to provide a proper separation of concerns and have a dedicated shell project.
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by allanregistos on Mon 21st Mar 2011 07:50 UTC in reply to "X11 Forwarding over SSH?"
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It's a pretty cool idea, but I fail to see how this is better than forwarding native X11 programs over SSH.
You can't easily forward your X11 programs over to Windows or non *nix OSes. So this feature is very helpful when you have a mixed environment. You do not need a windows vnc viewer anymore but a browser.
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by zlynx on Mon 21st Mar 2011 16:53 in reply to "RE: X11 Forwarding over SSH?"
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There are several X servers that run on Windows.
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By Susan Gilbert
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When it's possible to put your child's feelings first -- even if that means getting flack at work -- it can be worth it. Just ask Ralph Carlton, of Cape Elizabeth, ME. He promised to be home from a business trip to London for his daughter Annie's ninth birthday party. But on the day he was to return, a meeting was scheduled. He called Annie to say that he couldn't be at the party, explaining that something important had come up.
Annie didn't cry or whine. She said calmly, "You know how much it means to me for you to be at my party. What could be more important than that?" Carlton got on the next plane home, arriving just as the party was starting.
Of course, it isn't always possible to move heaven and earth to keep a promise. How well your child weathers disappointment depends to a large extent on how you break it. Don't try to justify your actions, since this may leave your child feeling that she's less important than whatever it was that interfered with the promise. And don't make light of your child's disappointment, even if it's over something that you consider trivial, like forgetting to buy her a candy bar after saying you would. Simply apologize, suggests Elias. "Explain that you didn't plan well or that unforeseen things came up."
When she forgot to pick up her daughter from school, Burke had Cara put herself in her mother's position by asking, "Did you ever forget anything?" Cara thought for a while and realized that she had forgotten things too; then she felt less angry.
Toddlers and preschoolers aren't capable of this sort of reasoning, but you can still help them to overcome disappointment by showing empathy and getting them to talk about their feelings. "With children who are 4 and older, you can ask them how they feel," says Shure. "With a younger child, you might say something like, 'Do you feel like I do?' and then make a sad face."
When you break a promise, you owe your child some compensation, Balter says. Make amends by replacing what was lost. If you miss your child's soccer game and don't know if you'll be able to attend the next one, say so, then have her suggest something else you can do together.
Tell a 3-year-old who's disappointed over a canceled visit to Grandma's that you'll do it another time soon, emphasizing the phrase "I promise," says Shure. Then follow through as quickly as possible. Even though kids this age don't have a firm enough concept of time to know the difference between "tomorrow" and "next Saturday," if you wait longer than a few weeks to reschedule, your child may think that you've reneged yet again.
The best way to avoid breaking promises: Make fewer of them, even when you're certain you can deliver, says Elias. Since promises usually involve giving something, making a lot of them can amount to overindulging your child with unrealistic expectations. She's apt to hear promises in ordinary statements, interpreting "See you tonight," for instance, as "I'll be home in time to play a game."
If you aren't certain how to respond to a specific request, be straightforward -- and specific. "If your child asks to go to the zoo on Saturday, say, 'I'm not sure Saturday is a good day. If it's not, we'll go on X day,'" suggests Shure.
You won't always be able to avoid breaking promises. But strong family ties -- the kind that enable kids to withstand occasional letdowns -- aren't built on perfection, but on the confidence children feel when they know that they matter. By making only promises we intend to keep, and breaking them only when necessary, and with care, we'll send our kids the message that they're important.
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This is the monument that the Satanists are trying to erect next to that of the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma state capitol.
It’s an idol of Baphomet. Note the effort to be child friendly. It really does allude to the Old Testament conflicts with Canaanite idolatry. Details after the jump. [Read more...]
Just post the Second Table of the Law?
A judge in a Virginia lawsuit over posting the Ten Commandments in a public school has proposed cutting out the first few that are about God and allowing the rest of them to be displayed. (The so-called “First Table” is about love of God; the “Second Table” is about love of neighbor.)
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(The discussion uses Protestant numbering, rather than the Catholic and Lutheran numbering, which considers “no other gods” and “no graven images” to be part of the same commandment, counting two commandments against coveting, one about property and the other about relationships. By that reckoning, the First Table contains three commandments and the Second Table seven.)
If we are to post the Commandments in the public square, would this be a solution? Would it be better than nothing? Or would nothing be better?
The new Ten Commandments
British evangelist J. John has re-formulated the Ten Commandments in an effort to make them more relevant for today. His effort is getting some good press, and some 600 churches in England have bought into the program. This article tells all about it. You do have to, literally, buy into the program, because the commandments are presented, discussed, and taught in a DVD program called Just 10 for Churches (not available, at least yet, in the USA, as far as I can tell).
The article linked above tells about the new commandments but doesn’t give a list of the entire 10. So thanks to the SOWER blog for digging them out, giving the traditional version (with Protestant numbering) followed by the new formulation:
1. You shall have no other gods before Me…“know God”
2 You shall not make for yourself a graven image…… “catch your breath”
3. You shall not use the Lord’s name in vain……..“take God seriously”
4. Remember the Sabbath…………..…“live by priorities”
5. Honor your father and mother……………..…..“keep the peace with your parents”
6. You shall not murder………………… .……..….“manage your anger”
7. You shall not commit adultery………….“affair-proof your relationships”
8. You shall not steal……………………………..“prosper with a clear conscience”
9. You shall not bear false witness……………….….“hold to the truth”
10. You shall not covet…………..“find contentment”
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What do you think about this? A dynamic equivalent translation with the virtue of putting the law in positive terms rather than all of those negative “thou shalt not’s,” thereby removing obstacles to evangelism and church growth? Or an attempt to defang God’s Law by turning it into easy to follow self-help principles that turn Christianity into a different religion? Or what? |
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#!/usr/bin/perl ## ## This is just a small and clumsy hommage to all the womans. ## Please remember a woman close to you today. ## They deserve our appreciation and love this day. ## Thanks to my mother, for everything she have done for me, ## and mainly to my wife, that allways supportted me and never gave up +. ## package Woman; use warnings; use strict; use Love; use Kindness; use Patience; use Dedication; use Charm; use Beauty; use Tenderness; use Strength qw( emotional physical ); use Professionalism; use Persistence; map __PACKAGE__->have( $_ ), qw( Success Love Happiness Self-Realizati +on Equal-Rights );
Update: Thanks to liverpole for spell-check this and point me my bad english related faults. :-)
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First, let me say that I was not arguing with the basic premise that in general, Perl does not give memory back to the OS. Only that the definitive statement (in common with most definitive statements), that perl *never* gives memory back to the OS, is not strictly true.
I think that it is fair to say that "mileage varies" even in this simple test....
Hm. If by that you mean that the exact numbers of the recorded memory allocation can vary a little. Yes, of course.
You're running the tests on a system (OS; file-cache; virtual memory; background processes and device drivers et al.) -- that is ever in flux, but that does not detract from the fact that (on AS Perl on windows), if you make single allocations of greater than 1 MB, when those allocations are freed, they will be returned to the OS. They will never be fragmented, because they will never be reallocated for anything else.
This doesn't just apply to large scalars either. For example, if you create an array where the base AV requires more than 1 MB of contiguous memory, when that array is freed, that contiguous chunk for the AV gets returned to the OS.
Here I preallocate the AV for an array to hold upto 1 million values which on my 64-bit perl requires an 8*1e6 = 8000000 byte chunk of contiguous memory:
C:\test>perl -E"say `tasklist|find \"$$\"`; $#a = 1e6; say `tasklist|f +ind \"$$\"`; undef @a; say `tasklist|find \"$$\"`" perl.exe 247600 Console 1 4 +,676 K perl.exe 247600 Console 1 12 +,552 K perl.exe 247600 Console 1 4 +,720 K
And when the array is freed, that ~8MB is given back.
And if I populate that array:
C:\test>perl -E"say `tasklist|find \"$$\"`; $#a = 1e6; $a[$_]=$_ for 0 +..1e6-1; say `tasklist|find \"$$\"`; undef @a; say `tasklist|find \"$ +$\"`" perl.exe 293992 Console 1 4 +,688 K perl.exe 293992 Console 1 36 +,872 K perl.exe 293992 Console 1 29 +,044 K
Although the additional 24MB of ram (1e6 * 24B) required to hold the array's scalars is not returned to the OS, the 8MB allocated to the AV, *still is*.
The difference is that the 1e6 x 24 byte NVs are allocated from the process memory pool on the fly, and that pool is expanded -- in smallish chunks -- on the fly to accommodate them. Thus those piecemeal allocations are not contiguous chunks greater than 1MB, so do not get returned to the OS.
This knowledge is arcane and system dependent, but with care (and the need) it can be exploited to good effect if you use a system where it is so.
Just beware of overly simplistic, 'definitive truths'.
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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I guess we have different working definitions of what "deterministic" means.
Wikipedia says:
A deterministic algorithm is an algorithm which, in informal terms, behaves predictably. Given a particular input, it will always produce the same output, and the underlying machine will always pass through the same sequence of states.
Perl's parser, due to it's pluggable nature, does not adhere to that definition. The output can vary for a given input, and it varies because the underlying states visited vary.
I've looked at more format definitions elsewhere and reached the same conclusion.
In this case, one could even argue that it's [...] a matter of determining whether Perl will get around to assigning meaning to some code.
When one discuses whether Perl can be parsed or not, one is not referring to the time it takes or even if it's finite. One is discussing whether the output is stable enough to study or store for future use.
Let's take C++ for example. One would consider C++ to be parseable. One can perform static analysis on C++ code. C++ code can be compiled. Yet, it's possible to introduce an infinite loop in the parser because C++'s template system is turing complete.
The difference between C++ and Perl is that C++'s parser is confined to making decision based on its input, whereas Perl's parser can make decision based on external data.
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Read the documentation (perl).
Read Tutorials.
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Ask longer questions in Seekers of Perl Wisdom.
Read questions others have asked in Seekers of Perl Wisdom and see what you can answer, what you understand, what you don't understand but would like to and what stimulates creative juices.
Write lots of Perl code!
It will help a lot to know about Data::Dumper for understanding how complicated data structures hang together. Always use strictures (use strict; use warnings;).
And probably most importantly: think about the questions you ask, take time to format your nodes nicely (people often ignore messy questions) and take the time to understand the answers you get and read any follow up material that is suggested.
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For me, the answer has to be "Correct". In the real world, we're creating software to serve a purpose. The user needs to get a job done and is relying on the software to do it. If they can't get their job done, nothing else matters. That's incorrect software. If the software is too slow for the user's needs or the interface is so cumbersome that they can't figure out how to use it...BZZZT. Wrong answer.
Barely correct software allows the user to get the job done -- barely. Truly correct software allows the user to get the job done with ease, and maybe even pleasure!
Correct software isn't perfect or bug free, but it's close enough. Unreleased software is useless and couldn't possibly be less correct. The trick is judging what's "close enough".
"Correctness" is the most important attribute for software, but for me, "simplicity" is a very strong second. Lots of good things fall out of simplifying software -- it's easier to read, test, understand, and maintain. And that, IMHO, is beautiful.
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REAP called for external programs called with backtricks, however it seems it does not affect anything in your case.
my $queue = []; sub REAP { my $kidpid; print STDERR "HANDLER\n"; while(($kidpid = waitpid(-1,WNOHANG)) > 0) { print STDERR "reaped $kidpid\n"; push @$queue, [ $kidpid, $? ]; } print STDERR "/HANDLER\n"; } $SIG{'CHLD'} = \&REAP; `echo 1`; my $pid = fork(); print STDERR "FORK CHILD $pid\n" if $pid; exit unless ($pid); print STDERR "before sleep\n"; sleep 2; print STDERR "after sleep\n"; print STDERR "DONE\n"; __END__ HANDLER /HANDLER FORK CHILD 29104 before sleep HANDLER reaped 29104 /HANDLER after sleep DONE
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by mkaiser67 (Initiate) on Oct 17, 2013 at 19:02 UTC
I think my problem has to do with I'm running 5.14 - my system hasn't been upgraded yet
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XML::Generator::PerlData and attributes
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dda has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hello all.
I'm trying to use XML::Generator::PerlData module, and I can't generate attribute=value pair:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use XML::Generator::PerlData; use XML::Handler::YAWriter; use IO::File; my $handler = XML::Handler::YAWriter->new( Output => new IO::File (">-"), Pretty => { PrettyWhiteIndent => 1, PrettyWhiteNewline => 1, CompactAttrIndent => 1 }); my $pd = XML::Generator::PerlData->new(Handler => $handler); $pd->attrmap(entry => ['attr2']); $pd->parse_start(); $pd->start_tag('entry', attr1 => 'value1'); my $href; $href->{path} = 'path'; $href->{attr2} = 'value2'; $pd->parse_chunk($href); $pd->end_tag('entry'); $pd->parse_end(); _OUTPUT_ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <document> <entry {}attr1="HASH(0x1f0bb00)"> <path>path </path> </entry> </document>
As you see, attribute and value passed to start_tag generate {}attr1="HASH(0x1f0bb00)", and the call to $pd->attrmap(entry => ['attr2']), supposed to add attr2="value2"pair inside entryelement just hides attr2 at all.
What's wrong with it? Please help me.
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Re: XML::Generator::PerlData and attributes
by jeffa (Chancellor) on Oct 14, 2003 at 13:07 UTC
Well, i have been trying to get this to work for 30 minutes now with no luck. I even pulled in one the test files from the distro and it didn't "work": There could be a bug in this version (0.89) or we could both be missing how to properly use this module. My suggestion is to (well, always explain what you are trying to accomplish first!) pick another module. From the docs, it appears that this one may have been designed to be used with a database. If that is the case, then try XML::Generator::DBI instead. I wrote a tutorial on it over at XML::Generator::DBI Tutorial. Best of luck. :)
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Thanks jeffa. I'm not using DBI -- what I'm trying to do is to make XML document from LDAP tree. I'm getting an ugle XML code without attibutes. :)
Does it worth to email to the author of this module?
I would wait at least a day before emailing the author - maybe someone here at the Monastery will figure it out. If and when you do email the author, be very consise and polite (you know this ;)). Matts has written many XML modules and perhaps he has used this one before, you might want to /msg him and invite him to look at your question. mirod is another XML Wizard, he may have an alternative for you.
Another outlet is - if this is a bug, you can report it to the author at
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Re: XML::Generator::PerlData and attributes
by mirod (Canon) on Oct 15, 2003 at 10:44 UTC
It looks like there is a problem with the module, either with the code or with the docs. For such problems with uncommon XML modules you should try asking on the perl-xml mailing list (Kip usually reads it). If you don't get an answer you can then try contacting the author and/or reporting the bug through
In this case I would probably use a different module though. See below for a bunch of possibilities (there are many more, from XML::LibXML to XML::SAX::Writer):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Test::More qw(no_plan); use XML::SemanticDiff; use File::Slurp; use Getopt::Std; my %opt; # -v is verbose, it displays the generated string for each test getopts( 'v', \%opt); # XML::SemanticDiff seems to only compare files, not strings my $tmp_expected= "tmp.expected"; # temp file with expected result my $tmp_result = "tmp.result"; # temp file with result my %tests=( 'XML::Simple' => { sub => \&test_xml_simple, }, 'XML::Writer' => { extra_modules => [ 'IO::Scalar' ], sub => \&test_xml_writer, }, 'XML::Handler::YAWriter' => { sub => \&test_xml_handler_yawriter, + }, 'XML::Twig' => { sub => \&test_xml_twig, }, ); write_file( $tmp_expected, <DATA>); my $sem_diff= XML::SemanticDiff->new; foreach my $module ( keys %tests) { my $test= $tests{$module}; my @modules= ($module); push @modules, @{$test->{extra_modules}} if( $test->{extra_modules +}); if( load_modules( @modules)) { my $result= $test->{sub}->(); write_file( $tmp_result, $result); my $diff= $sem_diff->compare( $tmp_expected, $tmp_result); ok( ! $diff, $module) or diag( "got $result") ; diag( "\n", $result, "\n\n") if( $opt{v}); } else { SKIP: { skip( "$module not available", 1); } } } unlink $tmp_expected, $tmp_result; sub test_xml_simple { my $xml= { entry => { att1 => 'value1', att2 => 'value2', path => +{ content => 'path & text'} } }; return XMLout( $xml, keeproot => 1); } sub test_xml_writer { my $result; my $output = IO::Scalar->new( \$result); my $writer = XML::Writer->new(OUTPUT => $output); $writer->startTag( entry => att1 => 'value1', att2 => 'value2'); $writer->dataElement( path => 'path & text'); $writer->endTag( 'entry'); $writer->end(); $output->close(); return $result; } sub test_xml_handler_yawriter { my $writer= XML::Handler::YAWriter->new( AsString => 1); $writer->start_document; $writer->start_element( { Name => 'entry', Attributes => { att1 => + 'value1', att2 => 'value2'} } ); $writer->start_element( { Name => 'path' } ); $writer->characters( { Data => 'path & text' } ); $writer->end_element( { Name => 'path'} ); $writer->end_element( { Name => 'entry'} ); return $writer->end_document; } sub test_xml_twig { my $root= XML::Twig::Elt->new( entry => { att1 => 'value1', att2 = +> 'value2' }); $root->insert_new_elt( path => "path & text"); return $root->sprint; } # a simple way of importing modules at run time #sub load_modules # { foreach (@_) # { if(eval "require $_") { import $_; } # else { return 0; } # } # return 1; # } # fun way sub load_modules { ((eval "require $_" and import $_ or 1) or return 0) foreach (@_) +; 1} __DATA__ <entry att1="value1" att2="value2"> <!-- the & is here to test escaping --> <path>path & text</path> </entry>
Re: XML::Generator::PerlData and attributes
by Matts (Deacon) on Oct 19, 2003 at 12:53 UTC
The output from XML::Generator::PerlData is SAX2, not SAX1, so you have to either run it through XML::Filter::SAX2toSAX1 before output to XML::Handler::YAWriter, or use XML::SAX::Writer to output it.
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My new user doesn't show up in NN or RAT (bogus email), neither can Anonymous Monk post to snippets (I knew I couldn't post reviews)
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New users only show up when they've confirmed their email address, this is identical to the production site, but understandably you didn't test that here.
I'm not sure if Anonymous Monk can post to snippets here - I'll test that resp. check the code, thanks. I've just looked - Anonymous Monk isn't allowed to post snippets anymore, sorry.
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Re: Can I expect to have ithreads available?
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I would suspect so. I haven't done this on EVERY available Unix variant or BSD/Linux release, but I've not encountered a problem yet. Also, keep in mind that OS X's Darwin is based on FreeBSD, so there are two birds with one stone.
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just to add some code example to the excellent explanation by AnomalousMonk
DB<116> use warnings; $a=undef; print "< @{$a} >" Use of uninitialized value in array dereference at (eval 49)[multi_per] line 2. < > DB<117> use warnings; $a=[]; print "< @{$a} >" < > DB<118> use warnings; $a=undef//[]; print "< @{$a} >" < > DB<120> use warnings; $a=[1..3]//[]; print "< @{$a} >" < 1 2 3 >
As you can see generating a list from an nonexistent or undef value causes a warning!
Defaulting to an empty array solves this issue.
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if $str =~ m!\.! {$str =~ s/(\.?[0-9a-eA-E]*)/(substr("0$1", -2))/ge;} else {$str =~ s/(:?[0-9a-eA-E]*)/(substr("0$1", -4))/ge;}
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6741 | New Urban en New Understanding of Traffic Congestion <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> Congratulations to this year's high school, college and university graduates! The current crop includes our son, who was recruited by a major corporation. The location of his new job will affect his travel patterns and therefore the transportation costs he bears and imposes for the next few years: until now he could get around fine by walking, cycling and public transport, but his new worksite is outside the city center, difficult to access except by automobile. As a result he will spend a significant portion of his new income to purchase and operate a car, and contribute to traffic congestion, parking costs and pollution. This is an example of how land use decisions, such as where corporations locate their offices, affects regional transport patterns and costs.</p></div></div></div><br /><br /><div><a href=""><img src="" title="Are You Working on Climate Adaptation? 600 People Want to Hear From You at the 1st California Adaptation Forum."/></a></div> Mon, 04 Jun 2012 03:03:49 +0000 Todd Litman 57017 at |
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Anatomy of a Fever
• Liza Gross
• Published: August 22, 2006
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040305
Many parents experience fear and anxiety when their child comes down with a fever, unaware that fever is an ancient, often beneficial, response to infection. The fever response is conserved across all mammals and many vertebrate classes. (Even reptiles and other cold-blooded animals fare better against infection when they develop fever by soaking up the sun's heat.) Among other potential adaptive benefits, a higher temperature can inhibit the growth of bacterial strains that lack sophisticated mechanisms for coping with heat shock.
Fever, which is mediated by a lipid called prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), can pass through multiple temperature phases. While it's well established that PGE2 originating in brain cells causes the second and later phases, the initial phase of fever has proven difficult to characterize. Of particular interest is whether fever onset is triggered by PGE2 that originates inside or outside the brain a question that has dogged researchers for nearly three decades. Now, Alexandre Steiner, Andrej Romanovsky, and colleagues provide evidence that PGE2 synthesis doesn't begin in the brain as previously thought, but in the lungs and liver. They also describe the molecular mechanisms that produce PGE2 in these organs.
Many of the mechanisms of fever have been established by exposing rodents to bacterial endotoxins called lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The first phase of LPS-induced fever starts within 30 minutes after exposure to the pyrogen. During the second and subsequent phases between 90 minutes and 12 hours after LPS administration brain cells increase production (called upregulation) of enzymes involved in PGE2 synthesis. Thus, fever starts about an hour before the PGE2-synthesizing enzymes cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and microsomal PGE synthase-1 (mPGES-1) are upregulated in the brain, suggesting that fever must be triggered by PGE2 produced peripherally, outside the brain.
To test this hypothesis, Steiner et al. gave rats an intravenous (IV) solution of PGE2 bound to albumin, the primary transporter of PGE2 in the blood. Controls received an IV albumin solution. After confirming that the PGE2 infusion induced fever, the researchers collected venous and arterial blood from LPS-treated rats. (PGE2 synthesized in tissues amasses in venous blood; arterial blood delivers PGE2 to the brain.) At the onset of fever, PGE2 was significantly elevated both in the venous and arterial blood.
To investigate the origin of fever-inducing PGE2, Steiner et al. used an antibody-based technique. (Antibodies are too large to cross the blood–brain barrier.) Rats were pretreated with IV anti-PGE2 antibody serum (controls received normal serum) and then injected with IV LPS. The first phase of LPS fever was significantly attenuated by the antibody (but not the serum), which was found in the blood but not in the brain. These results show that LPS-induced fever is triggered by circulating PGE2.
Cyclooxygenase-2 (green immunofluorescence) and the macrophage marker ED2 (red immunofluorescence) in rat lung at the onset of bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced fever (photo: Jordi Serrats).
A previous study from the Romanovsky laboratory reported that onset of fever is accompanied by significantly increased transcription of COX-2 and mPGES-1 in the lung and liver, and a moderate increase of the COX-2 transcript in the hypothalamus (the body's “fever center”). In this study, they examined the protein distribution of these enzymes in all three tissues. After LPS exposure, the content of neither protein was increased in the hypothalamus. But the lung and liver did show increased COX-2 expression primarily in macrophages, which play a role in the inflammatory response along with activation of an enzyme (cytosolic phospholipase A2) involved in the early steps of PGE2 synthesis. These organs, but not the hypothalamus, also showed signs of inflammatory signaling. Interestingly, the researchers did not find increased levels of mPGES-1, which facilitates the final step of PGE2 synthesis, suggesting that the cell's normal supply of this enzyme manages the task.
Altogether, these results provide a cellular and molecular portrait of the first phase of fever and show that it depends, at least in part, on PGE2 that originates in peripheral tissues. |
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The rainbow creatures shown here are a species called calcareous nannoplankton.
In the past as ocean acidity increased, the skeletons of some species became malformed, other species shrank in size, and others died out altogether. The intelligent design behind the species portrayed here is that it modifies and protects itself with a calcium shell during periods of high CO2 atmospheric content that lead to ocean acidification. Each creature is approximately 2 microns.
This image was taken with an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope, which allows us to see nanostructures in their native state with extraordinary three-dimensional clarity. ESEM images are originally black and white. But colors can be added subsequently (in order to give better clarity to the image) by assigning a given color to a specific gray scale. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6795 | Anthony Phillips - Private Parts & Pieces CD (album) cover
Anthony Phillips
Symphonic Prog
3.40 | 75 ratings
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4 stars And with this album an artist finds his niche. Earlier works by Anthony were excellent explorations of acoustic soundscaping, clever and intricate songwriting, and more simplistic and to the point pop songwriting. Phillips did excell in all three albums before this, but he just couldn't seem to find a mass audience. I believe that after the commercial failure of Sides, he simply gave up trying to be a big pop star. Except for a transparent 80's pop album with Invisible Men, Anthony stuck to his own insular, individualistic instrumental work. And that started with this album, a collection of demos, leftovers, experiments, and work recorded simply for his own entertainment. It was a bold album to release: an artist who had cult success, at best, releasing a collection of stuff he had only intended for his own listening experience. It's kind of like the Scoop series by Pete Townshend, but by a much less established artist. However, the Private Parts and Pieces is a lot like Scoop in that it doesn't represent bad work at all: in fact, both series often represent the best work of both artists. By releasing work that Anthony had done for himself, he inadavertanly releases an album that shows off the true ranges of his talent.
On most of this album, Anthony plays the instruments. He varies between guitar and piano, mostly. He plays a wide variety of styles: there are short Chopin sound-alikes and wild flaminco guitar epics. Throughout the album, one really starts to understand where Phillip's muse really lies. It's hard to describe the music on an album like this. It's pretty, memorable, and occasionally even beautiful.
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4 stars I'm slowly starting to understand how it works. For me as beginner in this Prog Jazz Rock Fusion something journey, it's important to start with more easy to listen albums and slowly work through to more difficult pieces, some of them even masterpieces.
This is xylophone journey that we are conducting because we want to find Miraculous. Where is this blasted guy ? What should we do when we find him ? Well, for me, Marty, this mysterious M. is peace. Yes, John Zorn is trying to tell us that we should find our inner calmness and enjoy it, whatever it means.
Songs are quite similar in tone, in how they sound, also repetitive a lot (this way of doing music with small step changes is used here). I hope I will meet J. Zorn's Avant Garde work in future, but for now, this is enjoyable little album in about same style as what I reviewed a hour ago, Pat Metheny's Orchestrion
4(-), too "same", not many variations here, but as I said, enjoyable.
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4 stars There's some real beauty here. Some times there's 10 minutes of clock-watching, too. To me, that's FZ all over. He can bore me, or impress the hell out of me. That's why this is such a great album. One shot deal is supreme. Waka Jawaka is like a high school band on steroids, acid and cough syrup. Aint no Hollaback Girls there. Great and wierd and shuffling along. Awesome. The other two don't move me as much, but so what ... the two songs I like, will be with me forever, their sound is so tireless.
To all the non-believers, I say ... peace
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6798 | Methexis - The Fall of Bliss CD (album) cover
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4 stars Greek musician Nikitas Kassinas is one crafty fellow, there should be no doubt whatsoever , one of those talented multi-instrumentalists who lovingly prepare a private album and then does his best to distribute it to the prog community, in this case straight to PA reviewers, in order to generate a buzz. Good on you, my Hellenic friend! That kind of chutzpah is rare in the Internet age.
From the outset, it is clear as a pane of glass that this is a personal testament, as befits the opener, 'Eradicated Will', a get-go that surprises, intrigues and at times, bewitches. After an initial squirrely intro, the bass driven central core is garnished by a petulant guitar solo, expertly guided by solid drumming. This is stunning and grandiose, the choir keys adding immense depth to the arrangement, giving it a heavy feel, ominous and menacing. It pools in utter serenity, the air exhaled. An excellent beginning, I find myself very surprised indeed!
Slight change of pace on the melancholic 'Poetic Mirrors Wound Heroes' has a distinct series of flavorings, some Yes interspersed with Canterbury (vocal work), sprinklings of some Gentle Giant, all tagged with a big zombie woof bass. The mood is highly original and ultimately exalting, especially instrumentally, where Nikitas shines on keys, axes, and that darn bass guitar. Pantagruel would be flush with envy!
'Those Howling Wolves' has whispered and accented vocals, a hint of faux-jazz barroom microphone molestation. But the musical intersections are preposterous, short blasts of space synths blaring in the cosmic air. Then back to the spooky vocals like a prog Bauhaus, with some pastoral obsessions for effect, kind of cool and bizarre in some indescribable way! When things get louder, the mood shifts into an anthem 'like subdivision, where some jazzy guitar noodlings confirm the smoky saloon scenario. A frightening electric lead then spurts out of nowhere, cruising madly like some tortured missile from hell. Exalted words put this one to bed. How romantic! Waiter, another bottle of ouzo, para kalo!
'Lines On a Dust' soothingly mesmerizes on voice and piano, very graceful and heartrending, again showing traits that go way beyond the usual norm. Kudos for the effort, a short sweet gem.
'Track the Saviors' rifles off a vulgar bass salvo that devastates everything in its passage, the drums clobber wildly, guitar thrashing and the Gentle Giant vocalizations are back. This almost Queen-like heavy, melodramatic even operatic at times, the analogy quite appropriate. Have to mention drummer Nikos Miras who is deadly efficient. Wow!
'The Aftermath' is my only foible on the set list, a slight too murky for my tastes, slightly askance from all the other material and it does little for me. The occasionally croaked vocals kind of bug me but his softer register is fine. A crackling effect-laden mid-section fails to enlighten the proceedings.
To close off the premiere, a 4 part epic 'The Fall of Bliss' is created to underline the progginess of the work, and as such, does not fail to impress. Birds chirping and acoustic guitars in perfect harmony is how the intro inspires. Part 1 becomes vaporous and foreboding, and it does take long for the rifferama to appear out of the thundering mist, Miras keeping things very tight (a revelation, actually), directing huge choir sways and intense strangeness. 'Twilight Zone' style vibraphone motifs unsettle and confuse. Odd time meters abound, yet the beat is uncomplicated and straightforward.
Nikitas is on the right path with some genuinely original instrumental ideas but his croaky vocals contrast too sharply with his exalted ones. He needs to work more diligently on the microphone or he may turn off a few fans, vocals often being the 'Achilles heel" (yeah, Greek mythology is everywhere!) of progressive rock. . I hence agree with my esteemed colleague lazland , once again he is spot on.
4 Doric columns
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Why Do We Sleep?
What does sleep do that being awake doesn't?
It’s a simple question that you’d think would have a simple answer. We know that sleep has restorative effects on our bodies down to the cellular level, but how it all works from a biological perspective has been somewhat of a mystery.
Now we’ve got more details to help tell the story of just what exactly goes on. New research suggests that during the initial stages of sleep, energy levels increase dramatically in brain regions that are active when we’re awake. The scientists behind this latest study believe that this surge of cellular energy may replenish the brain’s processes that we need to function normally during the day.
“Energy,” by the way, refers to ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is our body’s chief energy molecule. It’s also the same energy currency in other animals like rats, which were used in the study. The researchers found the following:
• ATP levels increased in four key brain regions that are normally active during wakefulness, when the rats were in non-REM sleep.
• During this time, however, an overall decrease in brain activity occurred.
• When the animals were awake, ATP levels remained steady.
• When the rats were gently nudged to stay awake three or six hours past their normal sleep times, there was no increase in ATP levels.
What does all this mean?
The authors concluded that sleep is necessary for this ATP energy surge, as keeping the rats awake (depriving them of sleep to mimic a sleep deprived human) prevented the surge. The energy increase may power restorative processes absent during wakefulness, because brain cells consume large amounts of energy just to perform daily waking functions.
Indeed, there’s a lot to do when we’re awake. In addition to all the tasks we complete consciously, think about all the things we do practically subconsciously like breathing, think about things we do almost on autopilot: surfing the net, walking the dog, sometimes even driving a familiar route. All this activity requires—you got it— the ATP energy that appears to be produced by a good night’s sleep. And a good night’s sleep is exactly what the doctor ordered to prepare us for the rigors of our day. No sleep, no energy expended in the brain to help us recover from the day and, in essence, recharge our minds for the next adventures of the next day.
It’s also worth noting that the precise mechanics of the brain also remain a mystery to some degree. There’s no doubt that the brain requires a lot of energy to function as the body’s master of ceremonies. We already know that sleep loss can actually result in brain loss. In fact, the obligations of the brain may be the only reason we need sleep: because without a brain the body isn’t worth much. And it certainly can’t do much.
In addition to food, water, and oxygen, the brain clearly needs sleep. If only sleep-deprivation were as compelling of a sensation as feeling famished or thirsty. We always seem to be able to put off sleep. But eating or drinking, well…
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Michael J. Breus, PhD
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[–]denidzo 1 point2 points ago
Wow, this is poorly written and poorly researched. I didn't make it past the third page.
[–]Times_New_Viking 1 point2 points ago
I'm going to call shenanigans on this fucking weird paper; its pretty poorly written and I don't regard it to be anthropological at all. But it is an interesting example of bad social science and here are my reasons why:
The 'Gypsy' in this case is a convenient straw man 'Other' by which the author can project various neoliberal economic models onto. This isn't research done firsthand via participant observation or interviews, the sources it uses for its descriptions of 'Gypsies' are suspiciously old (the most recent being from 1993). It doesn't use any anthropological methodology or theory even though it discusses things traditionally in the anthropological domain like social order and pollution. The theory is weak because the assumptions it makes regarding its subject are quite frankly laughable. For instance:
"Menstruation makes the polluted state of women’s lower bodies more potent than men’s. Even women’s skirts are marime: they contact their lower bodies directly. Thus women mustn’t allow their skirts to have contact with men. Brushing a man when passing him may be enough to make him marime. If a Gypsy woman wants to assault a Gypsy man, she does so not with a weapon or her fists. She “tosses” her skirt at him. Walking in front of a seated man, such that a woman’s genital area passes in front of his head, will pollute him too. Walking over a man on the floor above the room in which he’s present has the same effect. Women mustn’t do it. When preparing food, women must wear aprons. This blocks their skirts from polluting the food. When menstruating, women must refrain from meal preparation altogether: an apron can’t block such a strong polluting power. Food that comes into contact with a menstruating woman becomes marime. Gypsies must destroy it. Women must also eat alone when menstruating. The risk of polluting others in such a defiled state is too high..[....] Naturally, sex is a delicate affair. It involves physical contact between bodies’ lower halves. Oral and anal sex are marime. So is sex when a woman is menstruating. Nudity itself is problematic. Since women’s genitals are exposed, they’re liable to pollute the men they’re facing unless they take appropriate precautions. Thus women mustn’t undress in front of men without their backs to them. They must also awake in the morning before their husbands do to avoid exposing the men to frontal nudity." p8
These blanket assertions not only seem crass and out of place but they are not accurately or credibly referenced, meaning I would have to read through all 11 sources to find out how this information was gathered. And the sources are all so OLD! I mean quoting a bit of rhetoric about being outcast from 1963(pg 21 Clebert) is very colourful but I don't think its a valid argument about the realities of why 'Gypsies' would adhere so strongly to their 'laws'. He wants the reader to happily accept that culture for Gypsies is bounded, stuck in time, unchanging, but really all he is offering is just taken-for-granted, cross-my-palm with silver bullshit. I was pleased that I only had to get a quarter way through it before the first mention of 'fortune-tellers', [p10,11]. He also confuses institution with custom several times [p12]. His main argument about the creation of social order via strict adherence to social rules and codes is unconvincing (I know it should be a easy link to make even with only third hand sources right?) partly because his referencing is so poor but mainly because it presumes 'Gypsies' have no agency in the face of their own moral taboo system.
Comparative modeling can be an illuminating exercise when done with respect consideration, style and and panache. But this paper does none of that, its disrespectful, unscientific and so very, very badly written.
If it was a MA student or an Undergrad I wouldn't give two shits but as its an economics Professor writing as though he were an armchair anthropologist at the turn of the 20th century, then its worth pointing out the flaws. T
I have no idea why this is so popular (55 upvotes WTF are you so starved for papers you'll happily accept any old dreck?) but if this is an indication of what people consider anthropology to be than I have a bridge you might like to buy.
[–]eliiisaaaa 0 points1 point ago
Am I missing some context here? Why have you posted this?
[–]Sashalexandra 4 points5 points ago
Gypsies where? The abstract needs some work I think.
[–]LtFlimFlam 2 points3 points ago
What is this Gypsy? Why no Romany?
[–]SirDucky 5 points6 points ago
holy typography batman! |
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[–]Kill_Welly 51 points52 points ago
she looks good
really all there is at that point.
[–]DJ-Salinger 26 points27 points ago
You objectifying bastard!
[–]Kill_Welly 14 points15 points ago
Yup. You got me.
[–]DJ-Salinger 14 points15 points ago
Don't you tell me what I did and didn't do.
[–]brycedriesenga 5 points6 points ago
Interest in girls because they're attractive being construed as objectification is so weird to me.
[–]moondoo 0 points1 point ago
This and her smile.
[–]ImDoig 19 points20 points ago
This is going to sound shallow but a fat ass... that and if she is friendly and bubbly
[–]therebewhaleshere 6 points7 points ago
Came here to post basically this. Friendly and bubbly + fat ass in yoga pants? mmmmmmmmmm
[–]brycedriesenga 5 points6 points ago
[–]I_KILLED_FIDDY_MEN 15 points16 points ago
That ass was fat
[–]rsddasfd 37 points38 points ago
She's smart but doesn't raise her hand to answer every single question the teacher asks the class.
She dresses elegantly. Nothing too revealing, nothing too conservative. Stylish. Regal.
Her eyes have this focus. She isn't like the other girls busily texting on their phones, logging onto Facebook on their laptops, giggling when the teacher's back is turned, or trying to quietly open a plastic wrapped chocolate bar.
She looks at you once and your eyes connect and suddenly you get an overwhelming urge to wage a war in her name.
She gives you this completely non-sexual feeling deep within that makes you want to meet her father.
You feel miserable for whatever reason but knowing you're going to see her in a few days next class fills you with hope and happiness.
When she smiles, you can imagine her in various scenarios such as kneeling before a group of children and offering them candy on Halloween or working in a nursing home.
[–]CinnamonRolll 0 points1 point ago
Wow, that last 2-line paragraph is perfect.
[–]Sma11P1ays 0 points1 point ago
This pretty much sums up my feelings for a girl in class
[–]getrunningnowgirl 0 points1 point ago
awesome detail :)
[–]dangertime 7 points8 points ago
If she has red hair and is holding a book that I enjoy. Or if during classroom discussion another student says something flat out wrong and she's like, "Yeah that's completely wrong. Here's why."
Like a dozen classroom crushes started that way. I was in college for a long time.
[–]macgyver9 7 points8 points ago
I live in Germany, and it is quite rare to meet a German who is fluent in English. I don't mean someone just able to communicate about simple things in English, or someone who is merely able to grasp the language used in American sitcoms. I mean really fluent, someone who's English is good enough to have really deep and meaningful conversations with.
There aren't too many Germans like this. While I've met several Scandinavians and a couple of Dutch people who fit this bill, Germans who are quite fluent in English are rare.
Whenever I meet a German woman who is really fluent in English, who gets the humour and has read English books in English, who has that slight German accent without sounding too stock villain-ish, I am instantly intrigued.
[–]supermermaidthing 2 points3 points ago
I met a dutch guy on a greyhound bus once here in Canada, his English was stupendous. We discussed philosophy for the whole trip and I understood everything. Impressed. I felt stupid for not knowing Dutch.
[–]I_KILLED_FIDDY_MEN 1 point2 points ago
Am I to take it you are not a native German?
[–]bboyplaya 16 points17 points ago
Assuming that she's already attractive, if she really likes "Archer."
[–]itakecrappyphotos 2 points3 points ago
Sploosh... But with semen.
[–]RedTalon19 6 points7 points ago
If I had to describe one single trait I'd say being down to earth.
This would include (but not limited to):
• not obsessing over the small things (to include her own looks)
• being open to new ideas or things in general
• friendly and generally approachable
• not immediately judgmental of things or people
• able to laugh at jokes on topics which some may view as controversial
My last point indicates a general "I don't give a fuck" about a lot of shit that many people flip out over. As I am sitting here trying to type this out... I've discovered its very difficult to put into words. I don't mean jokes that disrespect a person/people but more of an indication that those topics don't hold power over you? I think that's what I'm trying to say.
[–]supermermaidthing 1 point2 points ago
open mindedness? Is that what you mean? Like not the kind of person who will waste their time debating a point...?
[–]RedTalon19 0 points1 point ago
I'm always open to a good debate with somebody's opposing view point. I disgust people who attempt to discredit my viewpoint simply because they disagree with it. If somebody can respect my viewpoint, yet argue against it with logical point... I will respect them a billion times more against any bigot.
[–]soylentblueissmurfs 4 points5 points ago
If she is both intelligent, knowledgable and not full of herself. Or curly hair and a fantastic ass.
[–]Handwired 4 points5 points ago
Personally, a Led Zep shirt does it for me.
[–]one_Dwigt♂ 29 4 points5 points ago
I would have to go with her personality. Some women just light up a room with their smile and their laugh. It makes me want to be around them.
[–]CinnamonRolll 3 points4 points ago
It's hard to describe really. It's not just looks. It's the way she carries herself, emotes, speaks, all in one. You just get a general sense of a person based on a million tiny things that your subconscious analyzes and creates attraction from.
[–]myfriendscantknow 2 points3 points ago
Smirks. They get me so hard. Smirks are playful, sarcastic, smart, confident, and cool.
[–]Dsf192 0 points1 point ago
Mmm....dat smirk.
[–]marstectonics 2 points3 points ago
Unique beauty
[–]holyerthanthou 1 point2 points ago
She's a 10... To me.
[–]Satherton 2 points3 points ago
if they are a red head. even if its fake.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago
I notice something on her that we have in common. Be it an article of clothing or an accessory that features a band, a movie, a character or anything similar that I enjoy.
[–]holyerthanthou 2 points3 points ago
If she laughs at my jokes and is short and skinny with little boobs.
[–]MyPusyTasteLikePepsi 1 point2 points ago
Independence and maturity
[–]-SmileyDude- 1 point2 points ago
If they're already quite attracitve, and I realise they share a common interest.
I.e., play Violin, practice parkour, etc. It's pretty much a free-pass to my heart.
[–]egofrost 1 point2 points ago
The way she carries herself. You can tell a lot by the way she acts and stands.
And the way she does her hair, if it goes with her looks it can be extremely attractive.
[–]The-Pwnage-Man 1 point2 points ago
Do she got a booty? She doooooo!!!... That's about it.
[–]philiph 1 point2 points ago
Cute face, big tits, and a great smell. Game on.
[–]Neoxide 1 point2 points ago
Pretty face and a nice body. Specifically wide hips, thick thighs and a fat ass. It's shallow but usually I rule out which ones I would have sex with almost instantly based on their physical appearance.
That said,I've found myself attracted to girls who sit in the front of the class simply because I see them in front of me all the time. Of course they have to be decent but the extra exposure adds 1 or 2 points onto their rating (out of 10).
[–]Yorigin 1 point2 points ago
Good looking, dark hair (the darker the better) and some meat on her bones, I'm not attracted to skeletor.
[–]monster6607 0 points1 point ago
Similar hobbies and interests.
[–]MrSky 0 points1 point ago
I like shiny things, like a monkey. If she's got a unique look, if she's in shape, and has a really good laugh, that gets me. Bonus if she's reading a book I haven't heard of.
[–]fanofrex 0 points1 point ago
Her attitude and intelligence. Physical features would be her hair and eyes.
[–]hip_hopopotamus 0 points1 point ago
I guess looks because I don't know anything else about her...
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago
Honestly, i dont know. Sometimes ill just see someone and get instant intent.
[–]ChineseAstronaut 0 points1 point ago
Personality, really. If you're boring and uncharming I would definitely not consider you.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago
A good fighter. Nothing gets me going quicker than a good argument.
[–]KyleGG 0 points1 point ago
In engineering.
[–]philoman777 0 points1 point ago
Show that you are intelligent, abstract about the world, and are a compassionate human being. That would get me very attracted fast.
Add being into activities that means you take care of your body, and I am all yours
[–]woxzard 0 points1 point ago
[–]Reddymatt 0 points1 point ago
If she's reading a book, and not 24 shades of yellow bullshit like authors that no one knows, I can always start a conversation at that point
[–]HappyVillain 0 points1 point ago
Looks good -- and follows it up with saying good.
[–]pete40oz 0 points1 point ago
Her scent. I have literally walked past a woman, catch a whiff of perfume, body wash or lotion and have about faced, walked up and talked to them. Something about the scent of a woman.
[–]p8ntslinger 0 points1 point ago
If the only thing i have to go on is what I see with my eyeballs, then obviously I am going off of looks. So, if she is attractive, I would want to see whats up.
Isn't that a no-brainer?
[–]Welcome_To_Bangkok 0 points1 point ago
her ass
[–]Smashasaurus 0 points1 point ago
Well, I'm a face guy and when a girl knows how to make herself look good and takes care of herself i'm more inclined to talk with her. A girls laugh draws me in as well, if she can laugh easily it sucks me in.
[–]ITRAINEDYOURMONKEY 0 points1 point ago
A nice, really well-worn pair of hiking boots. Or if she's on a touring bike. Either of things imply quite a bit about a person.
[–]project23 0 points1 point ago
Footwear can say a TON about a person. The ones they are wearing says a LOT, but also what others do the have (this applies more to ladies since they typically have tons more than guys).
It may be strange, but footwear is really the major factor I use in long term evaluation of a person (not in the shallow sense, I really need to know their full range of footwear they own/actually use). MAJOR! Not ONLY, still MAJOR. (maybe it is because I am country upbringing/city adulthood. I need people who can go 'off the path'.) Even then, they can be shown those 'non paths' off the trail. It is all about blazing a trail.
[–]CaneUKRM 0 points1 point ago
Her smile.
[–]esfani 0 points1 point ago
Her attraction towards me and if she looks good
[–]SpoonOnGuitar 0 points1 point ago
Short hair.
[–]eugenecho 0 points1 point ago
her face her body her clothes her personality
[–]Rrrrrrr777 0 points1 point ago
Being hot. What else is there?
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago
Big boobs/butt and a nice personality
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago
There are tons of hot girls on campus, that doesn't get you very far. You need to show me you're especially smart or interesting. As I'm getting older I'm becoming more attracted to girls who have a plan or at least drive to do something after school.
[–]porkbyproduct -2 points-1 points ago
Being smarter than me. Which, at the risk of being egotistical, is rare. My wife is smarter than me, and I love that (though I make a lot more than she does).
[–]LittleJackalope 9 points10 points ago
why do you need to clarify that you make more money?
[–]therebewhaleshere 10 points11 points ago
Obvious insecurity.
[–]DASHLICKER1991 3 points4 points ago
he loves making more money despite being dumber than his wife
[–]porkbyproduct 0 points1 point ago
So what's your guess?
[–]MonsieurGrimm -1 points0 points ago
no one thing will do that.
being attractive + seeming interesting will, but that's a) two things and b) rare as shit.
[–]1rankman -1 points0 points ago
Non smoker, not over weight, has some of the same hobbys as I
[–]underwhelming_answer -2 points-1 points ago
girl > 6.5 with a good smile and interested in what I have to day.
[–]WhoRipped -2 points-1 points ago
If she looks fit. It is shame that so many people don't know or care to maintain healthy habits. |
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[–]kungfueh[S] 0 points1 point ago
The Breaking of the Fellowship is epic. I listened to a lot of the LOTR soundtrack while travelling in Norway, so now it makes me think of fjords and mountains. Very fitting I'd say! |
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[–]Petro17 1 point2 points ago
Veterinary student here and ER Vet Tech. Here are two thing I wish EVERYONE knew!
1. Tylenol and Advil are NOT pain relievers and do not act on your dogs/cats the same way it does for us; they can cause toxicity and gastric ulcers!
2. Vaccines from Walgreens/Feed Stores and given at home are not as effective. Countless dogs still get infectious and often fatal disease if "vaccinated" with these. Have your local vet or ABC clinic correctly vaccinate them. |
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[–]lopez27611 0 points1 point ago
A friend was telling us how his great grandmother had passed away in a foreign country and said that nobody knew how old she really was, which was well over 100. It was still very recent and he was still pretty sad about it so me being the one to always try and lighten the mood, I said, "they should have cut her in half and counted the rings." That did not go too well. |
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[–]CatfishRadiator 0 points1 point ago
I was just in Japan and I think I ate ramen every day. My god it was incredible. In NYC there are some pretty good ramen places but it's vastly overpriced.
That being said, Japan can't make a pizza for shit. |
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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago
The no. 1 past-time in England is demonizing groups of people to absolve yourself of personal responsibility. People are obsessed with class and status. There's a horrible 'little-Englander' mentality which is puritanical and obsessed with other people's behavior and private lives, not to mention being reactionary and often racist, sexist, classist and homophobic.
And then on top of all of that we have a monarchy which thousands of people seem to adore, despite the fact that they're born into positions of power and wealth and have done nothing to earn it.
Patriotism in England tends to come in the "My country, right or wrong" variety. I find any display of patriotism highly obnoxious but at least in America there's a sense that people are patriotic about the ideals which shape the country, rather than just blind devotion to a landmass.
Fuck England. |
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[–]totaldrk62 2 points3 points ago
32, my Jeep's transmission is shot, and my power steering pump is leaking, the water bill is past due, I just dropped $400 on the electric bill, I owe uncle sam $1500, my credit card company $1300, my father (who lives with me) has an irregular heart beat and I'm desperately trying to fix up my house so the woman I love will move in with me and we can move our relationship forward.
Still got a few beers left though so I'm good. |
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[–]Mctock31 3 points4 points ago
I actually have their discography on my ipod and just shuffle all their songs when Im in the mood. They don't have an album I dislike. |
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[–]Madock345 53 points54 points ago
Usually my right, but I switch pretty frequently.
[–]Bryz_ 101 points102 points ago
Take pride in the fact that you're a switch-hitter.
[–]Hammer989 38 points39 points ago
It's a whole different world.
[–]fostok 13 points14 points ago
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago
Is it safe?
[–]Kolurinn -1 points0 points ago
I haven't clicked the link yet, but I'm 90% sure this is the song from aladdin. Ninja edit: it's aladdin.
[–]AmeyDespey 0 points1 point ago
I thought I was the only one...
[–]DatNewRandy 0 points1 point ago
I wish I was, simply for the sake of having equally sized forearms.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago
Shouldn't switch frequently... Then you have no alternative when you're craving a little strange.
[–]allpunsintended 0 points1 point ago
You know, if your hand has enough nerve damage, it'll be like getting a stranger every time. |
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[–]Aadarm 10 points11 points ago
My girl says I am like a dog, I roll around with my dogs, will sleep in a pile with them, eat fast as possible and too much, will play with the dogs with the rope in my mouth as well as eat and drink after them and have maybe growled while annoyed. No bones though! Scalp is just kinda sensitive and having it rubbed and scratches feels really good. |
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[–]iceph03nixCleric 2 points3 points ago
Well in a way you could look at the mafia (or any gang) as a thieves guild, and they were fairly common for a while (gangs are still widespread). Criminal organizations have been around throughout the ages.
My point was more that its fantasy and you're making up a fairly unrealistic world, so having a guild of like minded people forming together for safety in numbers is a fairly small leap of faith. |
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[–]manyamile 0 points1 point ago
Thanks for posting this. I was happy to read that Judge Richard Voorhees brushed aside the Justice Department's objection of GATA filing their amicus brief in this case.
GATA's Amicus Brief (PDF) |
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[–]p7r 6 points7 points ago
Every entrepreneur should play poker and get good at it. So many lessons about emotional control, money and managing not just bankroll but expectations.
I honestly think bad poker players make bad entrepreneurs.
[–]zjbarden 2 points3 points ago
Not necessarily bad entrepreneurs but I completely agree with this. If you can't take and manage risk, you really can't be an entrepreneur.
[–]jmdxsvhs15 1 point2 points ago
I have always said there is something about poker that is powerful. I have played my whole life and it has taught me a lot about people and how to deal with them. I think its important for everyone to learn...
[–]p7r -5 points-4 points ago
You are accusing me of denying the antecedent which I am not doing. You are implying it because you fail to see the point I was actually making.
Go away.
[–]musclerunner 2 points3 points ago
I think maybe this response was intended for another comment. I don't see any accusations of you in the comment above, unless I'm missing something.
[–]jmdxsvhs15 1 point2 points ago
I was pretty sure we were making the same point. Im not sure what went wrong when you read it but I agree with you. Poker is a valuable game to learn...
[–]p7r 0 points1 point ago
Possibly a misread on my part then! Apols
[–]Jammylegs 1 point2 points ago
So, if you've never played poker, you shouldn't be an entrepreneur? You're argument is silly.
Ps. I play poker. I'm average, I'd say.
[–]p7r 0 points1 point ago
Did I say that?
[–]TriangleDimes 0 points1 point ago
I honestly think bad poker players make bad entrepreneurs.
So if you think bad poker players make bad entrepreneurs and good poker players make good entrepreneurs...
[–]Crazappy 0 points1 point ago
Assuming someone who has "never played poker" = "bad poker player[s]", then you sort of did. You didn't say that they shouldn't be an entrepreneur, just that they would be a bad one.
[–]p7r -4 points-3 points ago
How about you just take it as read I think that good poker players will tend to make good entrepreneurs and that all entrepreneurs can learn a lot of useful lessons from poker?
[–]Crazappy 0 points1 point ago
I'm not the guy who challenged your original statement. I was just playing devil's advocate. Sorry.
[–]p7r -2 points-1 points ago
Yeah, got caught in the cross-fire there, huh? :-) Sorry for being snarky.
[–]Crazappy -2 points-1 points ago
More like... jumped into crossfire. I should mind my own business.
[–]Jammylegs -1 points0 points ago
I'm extrapolating.
[–]p7r -5 points-4 points ago
Incorrectly, and then using it as the basis to insult me. Nice move.
[–]zensunset 2 points3 points ago
How do you take insult from those words?
[–]Jammylegs 3 points4 points ago
I still say it's silly. I stand by what I said.
I don't think it's necessary to learn, then play poker to be a good entrepreneur. All you need is evidence of people who run successful companies who DONT play poker to disprove your argument.
If anything, risk aversion in business (and in poker) is a good indicator of an entrepreneur. Knowing when to hold and when to fold.
But to say that playing poker is a requirement, in my opinion is silly. You're allowed to have your opinion, just as I'm allowed to not have to agree with you.
It's ok, no insult intended, if I offended you I'm sorry, but I still stand by what I said.
[–]smnanthny 0 points1 point ago
I believe his argument was that if an entrepreneur were to sit down and learn the game of poker, the successful entrepreneurs should be able to remove themselves from the emotion of the game and play purely on the decision making and statistics. If an entrepreneur was unable to do this and went 'on tilt' when they lost as described in the article, then they are probably not the best entrepreneur.
Then again, there is no measure to how good an entrepreneur is, it's all theoretical.
[–]andalite_bandit -1 points0 points ago
dude...he's just saying it's a good idea to pick up poker if you're an aspiring entrepreneur. |
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[–]wjrichardsonCasualty Claim Adjuster - WI 2 points3 points ago
Claims take as long as they take. If your vehicle is totaled and you are selling it to your insurance company, if you have accepted their offer it should just be a matter of the check making its way through the mail. Have you been presented a value on the vehicle?
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[–]UrsaDropsus 76 points77 points ago
KSP taught me that most space games I've played previously do a laughably poor job of representing how physics in space really works.
Related lesson: Space games are more fun for me when they're closer to the reality.
[–]centurijon 32 points33 points ago
Funny when you think about it: Asteroids was one of the most technically accurate space sims of all time.
[–]trevize1138[S] 7 points8 points ago
Great point!
[–]Tromboneofsteel 10 points11 points ago
Another lesson: Watching any movie with spaceships in it is now ruined because of KSP.
Edit: case in point, I'm so dissapointed that this could never happen.
[–]johnnytightlips2 4 points5 points ago
That's one of the things I've realised; an actual space battle would be so difficult to manouver as to essentially be impossible. All one ship would need to do is burn for a few seconds in any direction and BAM you're kilometres away
[–]aldenhg 5 points6 points ago
Inertial dampeners! Repulsorlifts! Elctro-stabilizers!
Yeah beats me.
[–]Alphaetus_Prime 5 points6 points ago
Actual space battles would take place over massive distances. People on one ship probably wouldn't be able to see the other ship at all.
[–]pigsnoutman 3 points4 points ago
It's possible but stupid. They're not in orbit, and just hovering.
[–]Lying_Dutchman 1 point2 points ago
Yeah, spaceships always seem to move just like planes in movies.... maybe they're just in pretty thin atmosphere?
Or, you know, just insert some random technobabble that explains it.
[–]reindeermeat 6 points7 points ago
Remember I-War taking a more realistic approach to physics. Don't know if the game was that popular though, remember my brother raving about it when it was released. I was 9 at the time and mostly sucked at it.
[–]Danny_the_Intern 5 points6 points ago
I freaking loved Independence War. Newtonian physics in a space combat video game? Hells to the yes.
It's on GOG now, by the way. Definitely worth the purchase.
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[–]deckard58Master Kerbalnaut 4 points5 points ago
I don't even need to hover on that link to know what you're talking about :D
[–]Swordfish08 4 points5 points ago
"Serviceman Chung" is likely a reference to the man who wrote this site. If you read through it and compare it to the game's codec, it becomes quite obvious that the writers of Mass Effect referenced it heavily.
Oh, and, uh, clear your schedule before you try reading it.
[–]nyrath 2 points3 points ago
Yes, "Serviceman Chung" was a reference to me, and "Serviceman Burnside" was Ken Burnside of Ad Astra games. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside every time I watch that.
and yes, my website can be engrossing, even to me.
[–]kklusmeier 2 points3 points ago
...It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! That is why, serviceman Chung, we do not just 'Eyeball it'! This is a weapon of mass destruction! You are not a GD cowboy shooting from the hip!
[–]LeiningensAnts 1 point2 points ago
And if you're a first-person-shooter fan, Shattered Horizon.
Crap, I've had that thing in my Steam Games list for more than a year, and it still intimidates me into not clicking.
(edit: Horizon, not plural)
[–]Danny_the_Intern 1 point2 points ago
Never heard of it. A quick Google search later, and that looks pretty nifty! I might have to give it a look.
[–]pokemech 1 point2 points ago
Damn that looks cool!
Guns like that wouldn't work like that in space, there'd be no muzzle flash, and my computer would probably die before it could render a single frame, but that is one damn cool looking game :)
[–]Bzerker01 1 point2 points ago
There has been a lot of talk of a similar model being put into Chris Roberts next game Star Citizen. I'd check it out if you are looking for a classic Space Combat video game.
[–]Danny_the_Intern 1 point2 points ago
I keep hearing about that game, and I'll admit that it does look pretty awesome. Still, I've been burned in the past and I don't want to get my hopes up. If the dogfighting module is as awesome as I want it to be, then I'll officially be excited.
[–]UrsaDropsus 1 point2 points ago
Another one more recently released is Evochron Mercenary. Has proper Newtonian physics which makes combat interesting. I think the most ridiculous thing about that game though is that a single dude made it all. WTF honestly.
[–]OrangeJuggler 2 points3 points ago
Most space games are fancy submarine games.
[–]laggerd 72 points73 points ago
I used to think that if a space ship was in orbit, because gravity appears to have no effect, then it can point and go somewhere if you get the timing right.
[–]trevize1138[S] 62 points63 points ago
I was entranced by the concept this game taught me that all of space is just a series of orbits. Nearly every maneuver you do is an orbital transfer of one type or another.
[–]graymatteron 13 points14 points ago
Yup, moving from one sphere of gravitational influence to another. Makes me wonder if there is a place where there is no gravitational influence?
[–][deleted] 55 points56 points ago
Technically, the effect of gravity has no limiting distance. It drops off according to the inverse square law until the effect is so small that it has no practical value, but to some tiny degree, you are currently being affected by the gravitational pull of every bit of mass in the universe.
Of course, dominating this to an absolutely enormous degree is the mass of the earth, moon and sun. It's almost impossible to notice the pull of other masses due to the size and proximity of these three bodies. A classic rebuttal of the astrology claim that the gravity of mars could somehow influence your birth goes that, with the distances involved, the doctor delivering the baby exerts more gravitational pull on you than mars does.
But if you were, say, out in the blackest intergalactic space, you would have to account for the pull of several galaxies to keep on the proper course. Even out there you would be in some incredibly, unbelievably slow orbit. Probably around the Great Attractor, whatever that is.
[–]nou_spiro 2 points3 points ago
well mars-3kg baby which are 0.5AU apart = 2.297e-8N
100kg person and 3kg 0.5m apart = 8e-8N
source: wolframaplha
[–]chocki305 22 points23 points ago
No place has "no gravitational influence". But places do exist where opposing gravitational forces cancel each other out. KSP taught, or rather lead me to read about Lagrange points, and how a ship can orbit that point, virtually keeping it in the same spot in comparison to its parent body.
[–]graymatteron 15 points16 points ago
I was reading about this the other day, wasn't it true though that the way KSP's physics are coded you can only be under one sphere of influence at a time meaning that lagrange points could not be utilized in KSP?
[–]chocki305 13 points14 points ago
Correct, Lagrange points only work with n-body physics, as they are points where earths (or other planet / mass) gravity is "canceled" out by another objects gravity. KSP only models single body physics. Meaning, when you are orbiting Kerbin, the gravity of Kerbol (the sun) has no effect on the craft.
[–]tgdrake10 3 points4 points ago
How much harder would the game be with n-body physics?
[–]AN_HONEST_ASSHOLE 5 points6 points ago
Keeping satellites in orbit for long periods of time would be a chore. Like if you put something in keosynchronous orbit, you'd have to deal with the other bodies' gravitational influence perturbing its orbit. Wikipedia has a page on how real-world satellites deal with this.
[–]daniel14vt 1 point2 points ago
Not too much until you got outside of the SOI. However the program would have to work a ton harder
[–]trevize1138[S] 9 points10 points ago
Correct. The physics are simplified for the purposes of simplifying the game to make it more fun plus I'm sure the computing power needed to truly factor in all the gravitational influences in the KSP "universe" at any given time would make it nearly un-playable.
Interestingly, from what I understand of Patched Conics they did calculations for the Moon flights in the '60s with a very similar approximation of the Earth having an SOI and the Moon having an SOI mostly because they didn't have the computing power at that time to do otherwise.
[–]LeiningensAnts 11 points12 points ago
I think even NASA supercomputers have problems with n-body physics, so, don't knock whatever PC you play this thing on, folks.
[–]exDM69 10 points11 points ago
Doing n-body simulations is not difficult or computationally expensive. You can do a very impressive simulation of thousands to millions of bodies on your home PC. You can try e.g. Universe Sandbox.
[–]angatar_ 1 point2 points ago
How complex would KSP's n-body simulations be compared to NASA's?
[–]exDM69 6 points7 points ago
KSP does not do any n-body simulation (KSP is strictly 2 body dynamics) but you certainly can do quite impressive n-body computations with your off the shelf PC. If you have a good GPU, you can get really impressive simulations running.
Universe Sandbox is an example of n-body dynamics simulation which runs on your PC.
Finally, for NASA simulations (when it comes to mission planning), the n body simulations do not do n-body for a particularly large N. They just simulate a handful of the most important gravity sources (the sun, the earth, the moon, jupiter, and the destination planet will get you quite far). But they do take things like non-spherical earth into account.
On the other hand NASA and other astronomy researchers do simulate things like the asteroid belt or motions of stars in a galaxy. There you have quite many bodies that interact.
Your home PC can easily simulate thousands to millions of bodies interacting with each other. The Millenium Run was a big ass n-body simulation with roughly ten billion bodies simulated.
[–]Tefal 1 point2 points ago
N-Body computations are not really hard. The Orbiter space flight sim has been doing it for over ten years without trouble, and it ran fine on the PCs of back then already.
The #1 reason for using patched conics and SoIs instead of N-Body computations in KSP is simplicity. Orbital mechanics become much easier like this; with "true" N-Body mechanics weird effects start to pop up. Lagrange points are one of those, and they're pretty nice, but you also get unstable regions where your orbits are essentially unpredictable without simulation, possibly even chaotic.
KSP is hard enough as it is and AFAIK Squad does not want us to have to cope with that on top of the rest. Not that some of us including the Great Scott would mind, I guess...
[–]exDM69 1 point2 points ago
To plan the moon missions, the engineers in the 1960's did compute the full trajectory using numerical integration, but because computer time was so expensive back then, they had to make a good initial guess using patched conics.
Patched conics is not useful for proper mission planning in the real world, but it can give useful back of the envelope guesstimates to get started. To get your trajectories right, you have to do a full numerical simulation which is a trial and error process.
Perturbations due to gravity of the sun, the moon and other bodies and the non-spherical gravity field of the earth are not negligible and have to be properly taken into account.
[–]OptimalCynic 4 points5 points ago
Yes, the barycenter of the universe. Good luck finding it though.
[–]The_Dirty_Carl 4 points5 points ago
Technically, no. Practically, yes.
All masses exert an influence in an infinite sphere, but the strength of that influence varies inversely with the square of the distance.
So, if you get far enough away from any significant mass, you no longer need to account for their effect. For example, if you're orbiting Earth, you need to account for the moon, but you don't care what Mars is doing.
[–]monkeedude1212 1 point2 points ago
If I understand it correctly, the Voyager probe has left the solar system with enough force that it probably won't reach an apoapsis before it encounters some other gravitational force that severely impacts it's trajectory.
It will end up so far from the sun's normal sphere of influence, further than Haley's comet, that even 70 years won't cause it to complete an orbit.
[–]wartornhero 2 points3 points ago
Kind of. Voyager is traveling either at or really close to the sun's escape velocity. Voyager will never orbit back around the sun and will end up orbiting the milky way with the sun Eventually Both of them pass other stars in about 40,000 years
[–]Crazyh 1 point2 points ago
Lets hope we as a species are still around at that point. I wonder if we will stop fighting over silly crap by then.
[–]sknnywhiteman 1 point2 points ago
well, based on how long civilization has been around, and how likely it looks like it will be stopping in the near future, it's safe to say we're doomed.
[–]f87 2 points3 points ago
I realized this through KSP as well and it has really made it hard to watch any sci-fi involving space travel.
[–]Danny_the_Intern 9 points10 points ago
I vaguely remember learning that orbit, at the most basic level, can be thought of a constant freefall around a gravitational body. You've essentially reached the point where your velocity is high enough that the ground will always curve away from you faster than gravity will bring you down.
It's been like 14 years since high school physics, though, so I could be full of shit.
edit: Aha! I was describing Newton's cannonball!
[–]LeiningensAnts 5 points6 points ago
Good ol' Newton, the bastard who invented Calculus on a dare.
And if it wasn't for atmospheric drag~~~!!! [SHAKEFIST]
[–]Alphaetus_Prime 2 points3 points ago
As someone taking AP Physics right now, atmospheric drag is my worst nightmare.
[–]Blly509 4 points5 points ago
After my first few docking attempts I realized it was less like walking over to your buddy and shaking his hand and more like the two of you driving down the freeway at several thousand km/s and trying to high five each other
[–]nquinn91 61 points62 points ago
How you have to make a gravity turn to make orbit. Makes so much sense and I can't believe I never realized it before KSP.
[–]trevize1138[S] 35 points36 points ago
I can't believe how dumb I was first playing this game. I pointed my rocket straight up and let 'er go until the fuel ran out. WTH? I'm falling right back down to where I launched? MIND BLOWN
[–]nquinn91 23 points24 points ago
I probably did this 3 times before I sought out youtube videos and facepalmed so hard.
[–]trevize1138[S] 42 points43 points ago
I also didn't use the map view or maneuver nodes at first at all. I just launched, pointed myself straight at the moon, warped time and ... WTH? I'm in orbit around the SUN??
[–]elad661 9 points10 points ago
I actually managed to land on the Mun in one of my first gameplays without much planning, gravity turning, maneuver nodes or anything like that. "Oh, I ran out of fuel? I'll add more fuel", then I just pointed at the mun and after a while... I intercepted it. Few flights later I managed to land the thing, but never had enough fuel to come back when I flew like that.
[–]kufan64 3 points4 points ago
That's actually pretty impressive. The ship must have been moving at ludicrous speed to be able to fly it directly to the Mun like you describe.
[–]sn33zie 10 points11 points ago
He's gone plaid
[–]elad661 3 points4 points ago
hm... come to think of it it does seem kinda too good to be true. Maybe I don't remember it right. I remember taking off pointing directly upwards, then I don't remember what I did, and then I just pointed to the Mun with full speed ahead. Maybe I got to orbit first, but if it was it was probably not very circular.
I still have the craft file tho, I might attempt to recreate that mission...
[–]Arknine 1 point2 points ago
Maybe he even went plaid.
[–]SgtExoMaster Kerbalnaut 12 points13 points ago
That is pretty funny.
[–]littlefrankMaster Kerbalnaut 10 points11 points ago
Basically, what Kerbal Space Program taught me is that what goes up doesn't necessarily come down... you just need a decent delta V and a certain trajectory, and Jeb.
[–]laggerd 2 points3 points ago
no, it is always coming down while orbiting
[–]Frizbiskit 1 point2 points ago
I new I had to speed up sideways at some point but I never knew how much speed it takes to get into orbit. And when I found out how fast real life things orbit I was absolutely astonished.
[–]LeiningensAnts 42 points43 points ago
I knew space was big,
I knew about the Apollo Program, and what a slide-ruler is,
I knew docking is more like a seven-kilometer-per-second kiss between two 50 ton fatties,
I knew why you can't just fly a Boeing 747 to the moon wasn't just running out of gas,
But if KSP has taught me anything, it's taught me that I greatly underestimate young people. I mean, I'm 31, 32 in January, and I've got fucking 13 year olds asking 17 year olds how Calculus works and the finer points of ... well, you get the idea.
[–]ericksj1 11 points12 points ago
I agree one hundred percent. Those who say kids are getting stupider have never met the KSP community! A bunch of magnificent people you all are!
[–]TheFlyingBastard 37 points38 points ago
I learned that an orbit is literally falling towards the ground but going so fast that you keep missing it.
[–]_ralph_ 20 points21 points ago
i never really understood the joke behind learning to fly in the HHGTTG.
[–]Alphaetus_Prime 2 points3 points ago
Holy shit I never thought about it that way.
[–]ICameISawILeft 2 points3 points ago
This is a fact that I "knew" before hand, but I didn't actually understand it. But apparently I only really remembered the words and didn't grok the concept. I had this moment when doing one of my first gravity turns where I was thinking "Why do I need SOO much horizontal momentum" and then it all clicked. It was a good moment.
[–]aaqucnaona 34 points35 points ago
How difficult it is to get enough deltaV to go to the outer planets. Without gravity assists, the Voyagers wouldn't have even crossed the asteroid belt.
[–][deleted] 27 points28 points ago
Not to mention how hard it would be, in real universe scales and orbital velocities, to come back from a Mars mission. Could you imagine the absolute leviathan that you would need to push a return vehicle out to Mars and achieve capture that would be able to land and then get back up to Mars orbit? It would probably be easier to just mine the resources and build it on Mars, which is probably what we'll end up doing.
[–]neph001 15 points16 points ago
You're on the right track, but with proven technology that exists right now it's doable without building the whole return vehicle, instead only producing liquid methane fuel in situ.
I highly, highly recommend reading The Case For Mars by Robert Zubrin if you're interested in this stuff.
[–]bbqroast 2 points3 points ago
On the flip side in real life no one will blink an eye if you use ions and plan to burn for a few hundred hours to get your transfer.
[–]RS14-2 2 points3 points ago
Even so, Deimos is closer than Luna, in terms of energy! (5.6km/s, vs. 5.7km/s for Luna, from LEO).
[–]Danny_the_Intern 9 points10 points ago
Seriously. Even a trip to somewhere as "close" as Mars requires something around 20,000 m/s of Δv, from takeoff to low Mars orbit. Let alone the costs to land there, return to orbit, and make it back to Earth.
[–]LeiningensAnts 12 points13 points ago
And yet, if you convinced the world that there was oil on that thar Mars...
[–]clinically_cynicalMaster Kerbalnaut 26 points27 points ago
Well I should hope so, oil on Mars would mean life on Mars.
[–]pigsnoutman 1 point2 points ago
The oil in Canada is only just worth getting.
[–]KooooojMaster Kerbalnaut 9 points10 points ago
Uh.... the Voyagers got their first gravity assist from Jupiter, outside of the asteroid belt. Your point is still quite valid, just a little off in the details.
[–]AbisCann 36 points37 points ago
More than anything, KSP taught me just how dangerous spaceflight is. One little miscalculation, one little mistake, and BOOM. You're dead, and millions of dollars plus countless man-hours have been wasted.
Granted, people do not generally spend months or years planning missions in KSP, and we (or at least most of us) aren't rocket scientists, but it definitely gave me a whole new appreciation for how big astronauts' balls are.
[–]redthursdays 26 points27 points ago
Rocket scientist (student) here. I play KSP. I absolutely agree with you.
THAT SAID: my recent .22 Minmus mission launched and partially exploded on Kerbin ascent. Still managed to land on Minmus and make it back. A minor problem doesn't necessarily completely damn the mission, if you can correct for it. Sort of like when Apollo 13 launched, one of the engines malfunctioned but they still pushed it to orbit (the other problems that came later were unrelated).
[–]LeiningensAnts 28 points29 points ago
Apollo 13:
Malfunctioning launch? Check
Exploding oxygen tank? Check
Need to fit square peg into round hole? Check
Typically 4 or so minutes of radio not-contact, extended to 6+? Check.
[–]redthursdays 13 points14 points ago
Have you read the book that the movie is based on (Lost Moon, by Jim Lovell)? It goes a lot more in detail into the technical aspects of what went wrong and what caused the explosion, as well as what they all went through surviving by the seat of their pants. It really is incredible that they were able to overcome the incident and make it home unscathed.
[–]Professor_Lavahot 9 points10 points ago
I believe I read somewhere, possibly even in that book (it's due for a reread, it's awesome) that the next time Swigert was supposed to have stirred the oxygen tanks was while he was in orbit, by himself, around the Moon. While Lovell and Haise were in the LM on the surface.
So in the time it would have took for them to abort the moonwalk, wait for the launch window, and get it back up to lunar orbit, would Swigert have exhausted the purge tank in the CM? Would they be able to dock? Would they still be there?
It's absolutely insane how close this would have come to space's yet-untold greatest tragedy: losing people that we can't get back.
[–]Silpion 8 points9 points ago
Not to damp your enthusiasm, but the spirit of this comment needs a little bit of a reality check.
Malfunctioning launch? Check
One engine did shut down late in the 2nd stage, but this was not a huge threat to crew safety. If it had left them unable to complete the mission, they had perfectly acceptable abort scenarios where the CM would just land immediately or use third stage and service module to boost into a safe orbit.
This also isn't a real unique situation. Apollo 6 (unmanned Saturn V test) had worse problems but still made a safe orbit. Challenger lost an engine on STS-51-F leading to a successful Abort to Orbit, and Columbia had decreased engine performance on STS-93 leading to a low but safe orbit.
Exploding oxygen tank? Check
The big one, yeah, that they were lucky to survive. The main consequence was a loss of electrical power generation in the CSM, so survival was a matter of making the LM keep them all alive until they could get back, without letting the CSM systems freeze solid.
Need to fit square peg into round hole? Check
Just one aspect of the above. It was a cool deal, but honestly one of the best things about having humans on your spacecraft is that they can improvise and effect creative fixes. This happens on lots of flights and EVAs, this one was just more critical than usual.
It was just because their navigation wasn't perfect and they hit the atmosphere more shallowly than usual, leading to a longer time spent in the plasma sheath. They were still within the nominal reentry window, it was just a cause for some suspense.
Not sure what that means, but Challenger and Columbia had catastrophic unrecoverable problems. Apollo 13 had a problem that could have been catastrophic, but because it was mainly a power issue on just one of their two spacecraft, there was room for error that those other missions didn't have.
Some other potentially disastrous incidents that have happened, with disaster being averted:
• Gemini 8 had a RCS system malfunction after docking with a test vehicle, which caused the spacecraft to spin out of control so violently they crew almost passed out, while out of communication with Houston. They did an emergency undock, disabled the primary RCS system completely, and used 75% of the reentry RCS system fuel to null out their spin, and did an immediate emergency reentry.
• Apollo 12 was hit by lightning on ascent, causing a failure of the readout electronics. Fixed by switching to the obscure backup system. Not fixing could have left them flying blind and forced an uncomfortable and dangerous early launch abort.
• Apollo 14 had a glitch with the LM landing abort switch, which could have led to an uncommanded abort during lunar descent, which would have ruined the mission and led to an awkward lunar orbit rendezvous situation. Fixed by a software patch written during the flight and coded in by hand by the astronauts.
• Five space shuttle missions executed RSLS aborts on the launch pad after main engine ignition but before liftoff. Failure to abort then could have led to a Return to Launch Site abort after liftoff or an engine explosion.
[–]dparish21 5 points6 points ago
You know your shit.
[–]LeiningensAnts 2 points3 points ago
I don't think I've ever been this happy to be schooled like a damn kid.
Not sure what that means
Imagine Challenger going up while Colombia was coming down and them hitting each other.
[–]Aqueries44 6 points7 points ago
Hell, Apollo 12 was struck by lightning during launch.
[–]redthursdays 11 points12 points ago
Now THAT'S what I want in the next update.
[–]jardeon 7 points8 points ago
"Flight, have him try SCE to Aux."
[–]drivec 6 points7 points ago
"Try FCE to Auxiliary. What the hell is that?"
[–]SgtBaxter 4 points5 points ago
Haha... I think most of us probably toss some parts together, think "hey that's cool" and click the launch button just to see what happens. I know I do!
[–]2close2see 25 points26 points ago
That I'm never going to get my fucking thesis finished.
[–]Silpion 2 points3 points ago
I'm so happy I didn't find this until after I graduated.
Just uninstall it man. You can come back to us later.
[–]yurkia 27 points28 points ago
KSP has taught me that I am no where near as intelligent as I once thought I was.....
[–]Mr_Magpie 24 points25 points ago
It taught me what I wish I had realised years ago. That my love of space could be a career if I had gone that route. Unfortunately saying I wanted to be involved with space was misunderstood by my teachers as "be an astronaut" and so they always talked me into a less grandiose role without realising I meant building satellites, or rockets, or propulsion systems. So I aimed much lower, not wanting to fail my teachers and family. I wasn't good enough, or smart enough to be an astronaut the teachers said. I picked up the drums, and art, something I was always good at regardless, as I found other subjects completely empty. I did a music degree, came out of University, and one day I was browsing reddit when I saw the CGI of curiosity landing, where somebody had photoshopped the three kerbals onto the bottom right screen.
So, I did research, found this game, cackled with glee at the expressions and explosions, and told myself I would not buy it until I had landed on the Mun.
After landing on the Mun, and discovering how orbits work it finally dawned on me after a long gaming session.
I've wanted to do this for real, and have done since I was small.
Sat in a dark room to accentuate the blackness of space in the game, I watched the little ship I had designed whizz around a replica planet and allowed my childhood to return to me.
I remembered being obsessed with spaceships and various sci fi, I remembered having a match box moon base toy set, with shuttles you could place together just like KSP. I remembered going with my step dad to a giant field where he'd set up a whole load of model rockets to launch without telling me what we were doing, and we spent hours in the cold launching them. I remembered wondering how and why rockets flew like they did, why they needed fins, how far up they could go, and what it would be like to be in the rocket when it launched. I remembered going to the Kennedy Space Centre on a trip to the US and looking at the Saturn V engines with my mouth wide open. I remembered seeing my biological dad, and helping him create a water pressure rocket, which after launch was never found again. To this day we still joke that it's in orbit somewhere, contributing to the space junk issue.
That night, as I sat motionless, memories flooding back and sweeping over me I'd realised how much time I had wasted avoiding confronting the people who told me I couldn't do it, spiralling into myself as I matured and as a result, hiding away what I truly wanted for fear of disappointing others. I realised I had been in a depression, I had anxiety issues, and this little game put it into perspective.
I always considered myself crap at math, never being able to do algebra or advanced calculations, mainly due to a lack of enthusiasm. But there I was, sat in that room, filled with emotion, regret, but also awe at myself. I had just done basic rocket science, very basic, but rocket science nonetheless.
So here I am, mid 20s, hating the choice I have made so far, and wishing I had given myself a better opportunity to do what I always wanted to do.
Life has not been very kind since leaving uni, I've been out of work since January, struggled with rents, keeping on top of depression and anxiety, dealing with deaths. And yet I feel calmer than I have since I was watching those little rockets whizz into the sky, because I know what I want to do with my life.
So, as soon as I can nail a job down, I'm saving up and going straight back to college, straight through uni, and into a career in aerospace engineering.
It's what I have always wanted to do, and it's what this game has taught me, I only hope I haven't left it too late.
Edit: Wow! Thank you for the reddit gold. It means a lot. Thank you for the encouragement also.
[–]trevize1138[S] 2 points3 points ago
Moving story, bro. Amazing this game brings out such emotion for you.
Good call going back to school for aerospace. Consider this: you're only in your 20s. You are not too late at all.
[–]Mr_Magpie 5 points6 points ago
Thanks for the encouragement. It means a lot.
The big hurdle is understand those garbled math formulas. Once I've got that solved the sky's no longer the limit.
[–]Danny_the_Intern 22 points23 points ago
Science fiction shows and movies are awful at portraying spaceflight. Let's take Return of the Jedi as an (admittedly bad) example.
Okay, so they've just managed to rescue Han from Jabba's clutches and made a bunch of things blow up with super-cool explosions, right? They leave Tatooine separately - Luke's got to head back to Dagobah by himself, while everybody else is heading over to hook up with the rest of the Alliance to prepare the assault on the second Death Star. We see Luke's X-wing and the Millenium Falcon taking off and heading in separate directions once they're in space.
I mean, seriously - how the hell does Tatooine's gravity not affect him? How does Luke magically make his ship go into the direction that he's pointing it? Do an X-wing's engines have infinite power and infinite fuel? Is it space magic and/or the Force? Did he use a cheat code?
[–]Monsterposter 20 points21 points ago
Don't most science fiction spaceships produce ludicrous amounts of energy? Couldn't an incredible amount of thrust produce those results?
[–]Danny_the_Intern 9 points10 points ago
They'd have to. I mean, to make that much of a change in your orbit, that close to the planet, and to have it be almost instantaneous? We're talking about obscene amounts of power here.
Same thing with the Death Star in A New Hope. What, this gigantic orbital body doesn't produce any gravitational forces, and they can just fly straight away from it with no problems? Oh please.
obviously, there's never been any attempt to portray the mechanics of spaceflight in Star Wars as realistic, but still
[–]Monsterposter 5 points6 points ago
Aren't they also capable of traveling at the speed of light?
[–]Danny_the_Intern 8 points9 points ago
I guess so. Which brings up another point - how the hell can they move between star systems so (relatively (pun not intended)) quickly? It takes light something like 8 minutes just to reach Earth from the Sun. It takes years from light from the nearest stars to reach Earth. And yet they can travel halfway across the galaxy in a few hours?
And what about relativity and time dialation? How can a probe droid on the surface of Hoth transmit images instantaneously to the Imperial fleet? Realistically speaking, the Rebels would've been long gone by the time the Empire even saw the transmission.
Damn you, Star Wars, and your love of the Rule of Cool.
[–]Monsterposter 11 points12 points ago
I just found this, it would seem that Star Wars has a simular transportation syestem to Star Trek.
I also this, apparently the ships are shielded from relativistic effects.
[–]Danny_the_Intern 17 points18 points ago
Magic. Got it.
[–]SimmeP 7 points8 points ago
This is a thing I've been thinking about since I watched any FTL drive in any media.
It seems like people/aliens/whatever either don't have the ability to travel superluminously (sp?), OR they have the ability to travel 100000000000000x c. We never see anyone able to go 1 or 2 times the speed of light. Either it's never mentioned/impossible or it's absolutely insane speeds.
[–]Danny_the_Intern 4 points5 points ago
The only thing I've ever seen that has treated FTL/relativity with at least some degree of realism was Ender's Game (the book, I haven't seen the movie). It actually brings up the concept of time dialation near the end (2 years pass for Ender and his sister on their ship, while 50+ pass for their brother back on Earth).
[–]PuddingInferno 4 points5 points ago
The Forever War is about interstellar war with relativistic effects. It's a good read.
[–]bsdude010 2 points3 points ago
No, no, no, no, no. Lightspeed is to slow. We're going to have to go right to.... Ludicrous speed!
[–]Tromboneofsteel 1 point2 points ago
Warning, that's a tvtropes link.
Also, i think I read somewhere that warp speed in star wars is some alteration of the ship's material, and that causes it to go to a kind of space between spaces, where time doesn't exist. As a result, no time dialation.
[–]trevize1138[S] 4 points5 points ago
See, I didn't study physics or math or any of that stuff that would have helped me with this game in college. I studied English. But, that means I know exactly why sci fi ships can defy the laws of physics: the power of Deus Ex Machina.
[–]kashmill 5 points6 points ago
He used the force
[–]LeiningensAnts 3 points4 points ago
I am so angry that this is the correct answer. >:I
[–]sn33zie 2 points3 points ago
If you play KSP, be prepared to never enjoy star wars again.
[–]dropname 2 points3 points ago
I just always imagined these ships have such hilariously ludicrous delta-V that they don't have to worry about transfers; spaceflight as a sheer point-to-point endeavor is easy, and for relativistic distances, warp drives work easily enough.
[–]BreakfastDeluxe 31 points32 points ago
KSP taught me that many space movies are full of shit. Was raging in my seat while watching gravity.
[–]erawrs 21 points22 points ago
Same here, Sandra must've been a god to use the fire extinguisher to reach the landing pod. It made me so mad.
[–]BreakfastDeluxe 22 points23 points ago
Not to mention all those plane changes. All that unaccounted delta v. Even the end reentry was a tad bit rushed. If you really want to feel the rage, try out the first space part of COD Ghosts. De-orbit via RCS and immediate atmospheric effects...
[–]fozzzyyy 17 points18 points ago
I watched that on YouTube, I was like WTF? If they were in a low enough orbit to immediately get reentry effects, there was something SERIOUSLY wrong with that space station. (Or blowing up that RCS had enough force in the exact right direction to kill almost all of their velocity)
[–]littlefrankMaster Kerbalnaut 10 points11 points ago
Brb, I'm gonna go watch the video and rage.
Here's the link and yes, millions of dollars of budget and they didn't even ask a rocket scientist if the sequence made any sense.
[–]Tromboneofsteel 11 points12 points ago
That guy's right, how do you get a shuttle up there without being detected?
Ugh, they don't even shoot the rod retrograde.
Oh WOW. slightly turning the satellite is enough to deorbit it.
Yep. Thanks KSP.
[–]darkenseyreth 10 points11 points ago
You assume they cared? Their production meeting probably went something like this:
"You know what would be bad ass? A space mission!"
"Space is cool and all, but it's been done. How do we make it more bad ass?"
"You know what would make it really bad ass? An orbital strike satellite that goes rogue!"
"That's bad ass! Only your guy has to push it out of orbit to save all of America!"
"Even more bad ass! But, you know, how do we make it plausible?"
"I dunno, what are those things that push the shuttle around called? Steve, you're into that sciencey stuff."
"Oh? You mean RCS thrusters? That could work, but i don't -"
"Yeah! Those thingys! But we have to make it bad ass. I know, they have to blow them up! And that will push it out of orbit!"
"Bad ass!"
"Uh guys that's not how it works."
"Shut up Steve."
[–]littlefrankMaster Kerbalnaut 5 points6 points ago
Ahahah, thanks for the good laugh, that made my day!
And I feel sorry for Steve, there's still space for him here, he just shouldn't expect to be payed as much.
[–]AluminiumSandworm 3 points4 points ago
Those missiles sure hit the surface fast.
[–]littlefrankMaster Kerbalnaut 6 points7 points ago
The reentry effects started in a matter of seconds, so I suppose they are in a very low Earth orbit, so let's say no less than 160km.
Missiles went from the spaceship to Earth in about 8 seconds... that's 72000 m/s on average.
I am not sure that is possible.
[–]AluminiumSandworm 2 points3 points ago
Especially considering the acceleration they must've been under, since they weren't going anywhere near that fast when they left ODIN.
[–]Ben347 2 points3 points ago
And the astronauts apparently had the exact same amount of drag as the huge space station.
[–]BreakfastDeluxe 2 points3 points ago
Not to mention blowing up the RCS actually thrusted it directly at the surface. Incredibly inefficient way of de-orbit
[–]centurijon 15 points16 points ago
Gravity was still a hell of a lot more accurate then most other space movies.
Spoiler tag not working: SPOILER:
The only part that I had difficulty overlooking was the third time the debris cloud intercepted them, when she's on the chinese station that's falling from orbit. The debris field wasn't at that altitude, or if it was it would have deorbited/burned up by then.
[–]gpouliot 1 point2 points ago
I still loved that movie though. Good movie even though it takes a lot of liberties with physics and reality.
[–]graymatteron 31 points32 points ago
I think what really blows my mind is how we have all these awesome tools, such as the maneuver nodes, to plan our burns and fine tune our orbits and encounters but real astronauts / engineers achieve this stuff without the help. Even more so, back in the 60's they could figure out TLI's and orbital capture burns... even more so, re-entry angles and get them right.
[–]trevize1138[S] 37 points38 points ago
Plus: they had to invent some of the formulas first before using them to calculate all this. Gods among men.
[–]RedDorf 11 points12 points ago
I was playing a few nights ago, watching a long burn on the map screen. My predicted burn wasn't enough, so I eyeballed an extra burn until my projected path was atop the maneuver node's path.
Doing so, I realized that it would've been impossible for those 60s engineers. They'd have to examine the original burn for hours to realize they'd screwed it up, and then come up with a delicate recovery plan.
[–]dropname 8 points9 points ago
Right? The instant trajectory plotting / maneuver nodes is an insanely efficient way to handle the problem of interplanetary travel.
[–]deckard58Master Kerbalnaut 5 points6 points ago
Well, no, by the time of Apollo they had some S/360s and similar big iron working for them in real time ;) The calculations would be a matter of tens of seconds, maybe a couple of minutes at worst. Implementing them, that's another matter... (And back at the time of Mercury they obviously had a lot less, sure, but the problems were also simpler)
[–]Cpt_squishy 5 points6 points ago
Not only the engineers, but the pilots. I can't remember which one if the mercury pilots it was, but he basically did his entire descent manually with a slide rule and his brain, while looking out through a tiny window.
[–]trevize1138[S] 2 points3 points ago
IMDB doesn't have the rest of this exchange in quotes, which is one of the other Mercury 7 saying "They wanna see Buck Rogers and that's us!"
[–]Katoru 33 points34 points ago
How hard docking is. Freaking hard!
[–]LeiningensAnts 20 points21 points ago
"I'm just trying to get my 50 ton $20B spacecraft to kiss that 50 ton $20B lander at 17 kilometers per second, how hard can it be?!"
[–]Jessica_T 10 points11 points ago
Docking gets a lot easier when you figure out the docking controls. And being able to use Mechjeb's Smart ASS to keep the ports pointed at eachother helps too
[–]TheBQE 26 points27 points ago
Docking is very easy without mods. And I'm not saying that to brag. I took one week and dedicated my missions to learning and perfecting docking. By the end, I felt totally confident in being able to dock two ships no matter how far apart and how askew their orbital trajectories were.
[–]gibson_ 2 points3 points ago
Make a tutorial, brah.
[–]SarcasticGuyMaster Kerbalnaut 13 points14 points ago
Scott Manley already has that covered.
Set your target. Kill orbit inclination. Set maneuver nodes so you get a close encounter. At closest point, kill relative velocity.
Repeat until you get ~1 km. Use RCS for remainder. Docking mode and chase view recommended. Make sure prograde target and prograde direction are on top of each other for best results.
The two hardest parts to docking are understanding what the little symbols mean, and making sure you built a balanced ship.
[–]trevize1138[S] 2 points3 points ago
and making sure you built a balanced ship.
That still gets me every time. I've gotten damn good at manual docking largely because I keep positioning my RCS thrusters so poorly. I've successfully docked an orange tank with two 1/2 sized grey tanks stacked on top of it with RCS thrusters only on the top 1/2 of the whole vehicle flexes muscles.
[–]hab136 4 points5 points ago
I keep positioning my RCS thrusters so poorly
You need RCS Build Aid.
[–]trevize1138[S] 2 points3 points ago
Don't be silly, I need MOAR THURSTERS! :D
[–]OptimalCynic 1 point2 points ago
It's a lot faster if you do it the other way...
[–]Jessica_T 2 points3 points ago
Also, Lazor's docking camera mod. IRL they have it, so why not use it in KSP? Basically gives you a larger version of the standard docking crosshairs, and a view that shows things.
[–]Jonny0Than 2 points3 points ago
• Use Chase cam. This keeps the camera at a fixed orientation relative to your vehicle, so you can tell when you're drifting out of alignment.
• Point your target vehicle towards north.
• Point your docking vehicle south, and roll so that the horizon is horizontal. This makes the RCS translation controls actually make sense.
• Switch your navball's velocity to "target" mode
[–]JMile69 12 points13 points ago
People learning physics? And they are actually enjoying it...
This pleases me greatly, I may cry.
[–]Grim187 10 points11 points ago
Orbital Mechanics.
the whole faster = lower so i should slow down thing is a bit strange.
how much delta-v aerobraking saves.
the effects of a change in all 6 directions (grade, radial and normal)...its more interesting to do things without maneuver nodes.
i'm currently learning sling shots; how to most efficiently make an interplanetary transfer...i think it would be best to get out to the mun then slingshot minimus to use kerbin, but i'm not sure that is possible without capture.
[–]Xeno87 9 points10 points ago
I'm currently studying physics, and even though we already had Kepler orbits discussed in Theoretical Physics I, i was kinda surprised to actually see the effects of velocity changing the orbit. This game absolutely amazed me by this simple thing - something i thought i already understood, since i passed my exam. But i only was capable of calculating it, but not to imagine it.
[–]JTPri123 10 points11 points ago
It taught me that I should never EVER step anywhere near NASA.
[–]elad661 10 points11 points ago
I don't have anything smart or interesting to say, so let me just remark that this is probably the best thread I ever saw in this subreddit.
[–]gogogadget_whiteguyMaster Kerbalnaut 9 points10 points ago
If you burn straight up, you fall straight down..
[–]Templar_zaelot 5 points6 points ago
I learned how facinating orbital mechanics are and I fell in love with math. It also reignited my love for physics and engeneering mechanics, my thirst for adventure and my recklesness. Jeb, SQUAD and the Manliest of Astronomers Scott Manley, the wizard himself - the greatest thanks to you all, honorable fellows, for all your service to me and to all of us! *bows
[–]runetrantor 4 points5 points ago
How oribits work, Hohmann Transfers, Oberth Effect...
Still trying phase angles and all that for interplanetary tranfer, but so far, I know way more than when I started.
[–]MrPieUK 2 points3 points ago
KSP didn't teach me how truly big the universe is because i watched this way back. I recommend EVERYONE watch it, it's really jaw dropping at how much we don't matter when looking at the grand scale of the workings of the universe.
KSP told me that less means more. Thank you Asparagus Staging!
KSP told me about making orbits around planets
KSP told me staging in atmo
KSP told me to use moar struts!
KSP told me that i would burn NASA and their funding to the ground if i was ever in charge.
[–]trail_carrot 6 points7 points ago
Docking is fucking nuts and orbiting is just falling gracefully.
it gave me a nicer vocabulary
when space stuff comes up in physics I dominate that discussion
[–]HausbootJoho 3 points4 points ago
I have played around 250h Of KSP, and I learned a whole lot while doing so: How orbital operations work, how to plan a rendezvous, what transfer windows and phase angles are. I put crafts on a lot of different planetary bodies, built a space station on the Mun (which my cat destroyed) and had a lot of fun while doing so.
And yet, I still learned a lot when reading this thread. E.g. I never thought about how a stable orbit works, it just does.....
[–]trevize1138[S] 2 points3 points ago
Everybody run! The monstrous Space Cat is coming to destroy us all!
[–]ioncloud9 9 points10 points ago
It taught me basic orbital mechanics, how to raise and lower orbits, how to transfer to moons or planets, how gravity assists work, how delta v budgets work, how to land without crashing, how to best position a polar orbit to map the ground.
[–]LeiningensAnts 5 points6 points ago
Figuring out why polar orbits are awesome for mapping for the first time: Keanu Matrix Whoa.
[–]ToddlersForSale 2 points3 points ago
How damn small we are in space. Flying through space, it is highly unlikely that you will encounter anything without a planned maneuver.
How difficult the concept of orbital rendezvous is. Returning to the small thing, it takes an incredible amount of precision to get anywhere near something your size when orbiting a body.
How transfers work. I used to think that once you "escaped" Earth's gravity, you could just "point and shoot" at a planet and you would eventually get there. Now I know you are pretty much always in orbit no matter where you are.
[–]LeiningensAnts 2 points3 points ago
Escape Earth orbit? Sun orbit! Escape sun orbit? Galactic orbit! XD SUCKA!!
[–]SilkyZ 4 points5 points ago
When in orbit, "That wasn't flying, it was falling with style". You are falling but you are also traveling so fast that you miss the source of the gravity.
There is gravity in space, that is why you are falling. You are falling along with the craft you are in. Relative to the craft, you are "Weightless"
[–]mszegedyMaster Kerbalnaut 4 points5 points ago
It taught me exactly how much percent HW is worth of my grade. :\ (I already learned orbital mechanics from Osmos. :P )
[–]SenorMunkE 3 points4 points ago
I'm taking high school physics right now. Both this class and KSP have taught me that I have to ignore pretty much everything I thought I knew about physics and orbital mechanics and start from scratch to learn a bunch of very new concepts.
[–]payphone101 3 points4 points ago
Similar to how a small amount of ∆V can greatly change the direction of an object over a long period of time, I have learned that it is better to increase the speed of my car by about a few MPH (or KPH) when approaching a green light to avoid a red light, rather than drive normal speed and slam on the gas pedal when it turns yellow.
[–]trevize1138[S] 4 points5 points ago
Oh man, KSP thoughts invade my real life all the time. I have a gas stove and when I'm adjusting the burner to get just the right sear on a steak I now get the same rush as if I'm adjusting my throttle to touchdown on the Mun at just the right speed. :D
[–]Wulfrank 2 points3 points ago
That I'm in the wrong university program.
[–]betelgeux 6 points7 points ago
Most things can be solved with more engines and/or more struts.
[–]trevize1138[S] 13 points14 points ago
This applies to real life as well.
Unemployed? MOAR STRUTS!
Can't meet the right girl/guy? MOAR BOOSTERS!
Poverty and hunger? MOAR STRUTS!
[–]purplesmurf_1510_ 2 points3 points ago
It took me way more kerbanauts to get into space then it took astronauts
[–]MagnusTheGreat 2 points3 points ago
Turns out gravity is much, much more complex than I thought as a kid...However, I also learned that it can be used to slingshot things out of orbit.
[–]_ralph_ 2 points3 points ago
i heard it, i did somehow accept it, but i never understood it till i was falling sideways at 150km height.
[–]froop 2 points3 points ago
I wrote a 20-page essay about orbital mechanics based almost entirely off of stuff I learned in KSP. The essay was for an english class, so the bits I got wrong didn't matter.
[–]DisturbinglyFilthy 2 points3 points ago
KSP blew my idea of scales out the window.
Also a question. Why do planets orbit the sun around more or less a single plane, instead of a cloud like electrons over the nucleus of an atom? That's what I don't understand.
[–]exDM69 2 points3 points ago
Orbiting is hard and I've got a fancy, 3D computer simulation to help me fine-tune my trajectory. Engineers in the '60s had slide rules and graph paper and did it better than me.
The engineers in the 1960's also had pretty impressive computers available to them, built especially for the space program. Indeed, the space program was a significant factor in accelerating the development of computers in the 60's.
But because computer time was so expensive, slide rules and graph paper still played a major role.
[–]UtterlyDisposable 2 points3 points ago
That space travel is REALLY FUCKING DIFFICULT. I am thoroughly amazed that we've been able to accomplish with so few fatalities.
[–]WhatGravitas 2 points3 points ago
That everything goes in circles.
[–]shawnkenney 2 points3 points ago
the meaning of the words "apoapsis" and "periapsis"
[–]rokyfox 2 points3 points ago
A few really technical sounding words (apoapsis, delta-v, semi-synchronous etc.) that I can impress people with. EDIT: Also the incredible ratio between fuel used to reach orbit compared to that used to actually get somewhere.
[–]duckylam 2 points3 points ago
Lives do not matter, there is only the pursuit of science!
[–]TheNinjaTurkey 2 points3 points ago
I've learned how much better the metric system is, and how space travel actually works (like orbits and stuff)
[–]CcrLyaSrtIatLy 2 points3 points ago
KSP taught me that, even when you're comfortable with the science, flying a spaceship is a lot harder than it looks on paper. I came to understand that the Apollo landing wasn't really significant because we put men on the moon, it was such an incredible achievement because they made it back home. :)
[–]kogbob 2 points3 points ago
besides a bunch of cool space physics stuff, KSP taught me that the best games are about good and original ideas, not big budgets or big studios
[–]lolredditftw 2 points3 points ago
I thought that on the way to the moon you left the influence of earth's gravity. My mind was a bit blown that it was just a high elliptical orbit.
I also didn't realize how they determined which direction to orbit until I had to think about that in Ksp.
And I had no idea how fucking obnoxious docking was. I honestly had no clue how it was done until I tried to do it in Ksp.
[–]GoldSabre 1 point2 points ago
Landing multiple objects at a single landing zone without wasting copious amounts of fuel is difficult when eyeballing it.
[–]TheMrSolaris 1 point2 points ago
That I am not a rocket scientist!
[–]Malcolm_Sex 1 point2 points ago
I got an even better understanding of the true scope of space. It's fucking huge. It still takes my breath away.
I can better grasp the concept of velocity in relation to four dimensions.
[–]JohnnyBrav00 1 point2 points ago
Space travel is nothing like the movies portray it....
[–]Kingofawesome13 1 point2 points ago
I've learned that I would make a terrible astronaut/rocket scientist.
[–]exDM69 1 point2 points ago
Kerbal Space Program inspired me to read "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" and finally enroll to astronomy courses at the university.
[–]TychoSean 1 point2 points ago
Before KSP I had just some vague notion of orbital dynamics and gravity wells, etc. Now I watch sci fi or movies like "Gravity" and dissect the science without even realizing it. I understand to a much better degree the technical challenges of rocket design and space flight, and multi stage/launch missions. I better understand the concepts of eccentric orbits and launch windows, gravity and air braking, and so much more. Most educational video game I may have played in my life...
[–]Dinker31 1 point2 points ago
Practical-wise, Patience and perseverance. Space-wise, freaking everything I know. And what I didn't learn from KSP directly I learned on a search based on something I saw in KSP
[–]CountRumford 1 point2 points ago
Sometimes the best way to speed up is to slow down.
[–]Narwhal_Jesus 1 point2 points ago
Weirdly enough, I finally got how gyroscopes work. That whole "push one end of the gyroscope up and the bit 90° ahead of it goes up" completely mystified me. That is, until I made the connection with plane-change manoeuvres. When you burn in the normal/anti-normal directions you don't bring your craft to a screeching halt and turn immediately 90°. Rather, the bit further along your orbit either dips or goes up. Cool! |
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[–]LegaleseFalconPermission to worship me: now 2 points3 points ago
Well he's been recuperating from nearly losing his finger to infection. I don't know whether the rumours were true all told but he supposedly cancelled a lot of dates over the New Year which could be for either reason. |
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[–]Bitter_one13Towards the sound and storm where you might find me 3 points4 points ago
I guess I'll be the one dissenting voice and say keep at it. If you can't be exposed to a differing ideology and not keep your cool, you should have no business in adult academia.
The only people who are brainwashed by feminism are the people who would have been brainwashed by anything. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and think you can learn but not accept as axiom. |
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[–]nonagona 1 point2 points ago
I exercise for calorie burning and strength. I like food, so eating is is great and exercise keeps me from gaining weight. The strength part is more for function - if my body can do awesome things I don't care as much about how it looks. If I end up looking toned and fit because I exercise, it's a bonus as far as I'm concerned. |
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[–]hertmyhead 0 points1 point ago
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes, they have those hoppy legs and twitchy little noses, but what’s with all the carrots what do they need such good eye site for anyway. Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies... Or maybe midgets. |
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[–]ButterThatBacon 2 points3 points ago
I wish Pete Steele was here. He'd beat these dudes up for me.
[–]dieselnutMom Threw Out Bizkit Poster :( 1 point2 points ago
Well, the younger Peter, the older Peter was starting to connect with god and whatnot. But I miss him dearly. Type O is on my playlist most days.
[–]ButterThatBacon 0 points1 point ago
I'm referring, of course, to Carnivore and nothing else.
Ah, yes, the much younger Peter. I think I myself am getting old as once I passed 30 I started listening to a lot of Type O.
[–]dieselnutMom Threw Out Bizkit Poster :( 2 points3 points ago
..... so, usually I have some snide and bR00tal comment to make... but... I just witnessed the full implosion of my testicles and a partial rupture of both of my eardrums. I'm going to go see a doctor and hope this shit dies as quickly as it started.
[–]Spaghetti-hoes 1 point2 points ago
There's some post-hardcore that's actually not that bad. If you don't mind the screaming lyrics. Look up Down and Dirty. They only have one officially released song so far. This is especially fucking bad though. And the bear mask makes me think furry...
[–]Naberus921 1 point2 points ago
Damn that bear has some vocal range.
[–]combatdave 1 point2 points ago
You know, with a bit better production and some actual thought put into the synth lines, they might be a not-entirely-terrible pop-post-hardcore band.
[–]Swaqqalicious 1 point2 points ago
I kinda liked it, except for the cheesy "synth" part in the beginning and throughout the song. Sounded like terraria music.
[–]Smackdownfletch 0 points1 point ago
As terrible as everything else is, the one who sings is really impressive. The day that kid's balls drop over. |
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[–]zants 5 points6 points ago
Library tab > + ADD A GAME... (bottom left) > Add a Non-Steam Game... > Hopefully the game is listed, otherwise browse to its folder and add its .exe
I use Steam to organize all of my games (I think I only actually own two Steam games). |
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[–]holliepocketreddit 30 points31 points ago
Ear zits hurt like fuck too. Can I lay my head this way on the pillow? NO. Can I use ear buds? NO. DAMMIT THIS FUCKER HAS GOTTA GO! |
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[–]Hideout_TheWicked 1647 points1648 points ago
"You can usually gauge how funny a person is, based on how hot their partner is." This sums it up quite nicely.
[–]Kyle6969 0 points1 point ago
Oh yes he's hilaaaaaaaaarious!
Now I am too! |
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[–]darkvstar 1 point2 points ago
knowing my grandfather, I am inclined to believe it is true. I think my grandmother knew about sex but could not say anything because women were supposed to be dumb and virginal on their wedding night in those days. |
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[–]chilliconcarnage625Dragon 31 points32 points ago
oh god your mum's face
she's like "i'm too old for this shit..."
[–]Cosmic_Bard 15 points16 points ago
I'm pretty sure she thinks they're both too old for this shit.
[–]Name62 7 points8 points ago
Oh man those faces
[–]Cosmic_Bard 0 points1 point ago
The guy in the back is just done, the lady in the front is currently contemplating homicide.
[–]Jerberjer 16 points17 points ago
from what I understand, this is from a retirement home and the dude in the suit is as old as them......not sure if that makes it any better.
[–]Cosmic_Bard 1 point2 points ago
Well, neither of the other people in the picture look as though they're old enough to be in a retirement home, though that is a weird looking kitchen.
[–]Waldo_Jeffers 13 points14 points ago
Rule #2: ...unless they're hippies, and then it's probably fine.
Source: personal experience, survivor's guilt ;)
Shit, I've put my mom through stories of green hair, bisexuality, communal living, polyamory, BDSM, genderbending, pot, acid... at this point I'm running out of ideas. We finally just gave up trying to shock each other and became good friends. I've never costumed in front of her, but at this point I think she'd just shrug and nitpick my sewing skill. :)
[–]LittleLotusVixenDemon | Silver Fox 2 points3 points ago
I can suggest a few more but then I'll probably be banned from this sub.
[–]StormyOuterland 10 points11 points ago
Guys, how do I tell my parents I'm a furry?
[–]frostysnowcatSnow Cheetah! 24 points25 points ago
If you're serious, the best answer is "Don't."
[–]AlphaMegaManBurnt out former artist 20 points21 points ago
Blurt it out at the dinner table, and when they look at you funny, you flip your plate and scream "IT'S NOT A LIFESTYLE CHOICE, IT'S WHO I AM!!" and then dash to your room and slam the door.
[–]Cosmic_Bard 18 points19 points ago
and then howl like a wolf and then dash to your room and slam the door.
[–]AlphaMegaManBurnt out former artist 1 point2 points ago
[–]SimonLaFox 6 points7 points ago
Make sure you follow it up by writing a drama-filled post and post it on FA.
[–]BalkorWolfMoonMoon 3 points4 points ago
Depending on the parents and based on stories ive mostly heard on reddit I suggest over a phone that cant be traced just to be sure =P
[–]Cosmic_Bard 0 points1 point ago
Why would you want to do that?
[–]CyberusTransfurmation 3 points4 points ago
For some reason the blank expression on the fursuit's face is what makes this hilarious.
[–]Cosmic_Bard 26 points27 points ago
This is the part of the thread were I mention what a terrible goddamn fursuit that is.
[–]Chewy_Lemon 24 points25 points ago
This is the part of the thread were, due to all the "omg fursection #parentsdontunderstand" going on in the thread, I mention that this picture is years old.
[–]Cosmic_Bard 7 points8 points ago
Yeah, it's pretty damn old, at least six or seven years old.
[–]hoxie3000 2 points3 points ago
just old enough...
[–]Terrowin 2 points3 points ago
I must spend too much time online because this is OK compared to a lot of them I have seen lately on places like furbuy.
[–]Cosmic_Bard 1 point2 points ago
Oh, I've seen worse. But this is pretty damn bad.
[–]AlphaMegaManBurnt out former artist 0 points1 point ago
Since I don't have Fursuit-O-Vision™ it looks about as bad as any of them, except those really rare ones that look like hollywood costumes.
[–]ZenDragon 6 points7 points ago
I prefer this version. Might as well horrify your parents in style.
[–]Hucota7Schipperke/Border Collie 1 point2 points ago
[–]firetyger 3 points4 points ago
This is photoshopped. There was another version of this picture involving a fur from Kansas by the name of Fuzzy Roo.
[–]Mokunoringtail cat 7 points8 points ago
i think the fuzzy roo one was photoshoped
[–]firetyger 1 point2 points ago
That could very well be. I just remember seeing the same pic with him in it.
[–]Cosmic_Bard 0 points1 point ago
I am fairly certain this is the original, I recall the image from years back and the shadows and lighting look correct.
[–]cyphercode 0 points1 point ago
Isn't the old dude the one that makes those weird dolls?
[–]TheDuckofD00MPart time furry 0 points1 point ago
They look so happy for you.
[–]MonoFox 0 points1 point ago
Kind of lucky my parents don't give a fuck. They want me to suit on Halloween next year for the kids.
[–]loki_the_sergal 0 points1 point ago
This is actually not the original pic. The real pic is of a guy half naked in a fairy costume
[–]wrincewindMad Scientist Labrat for hire! 0 points1 point ago
Actually, thus is the original. The half naked guy was photoshopped.
[–]Abby-Fennec 0 points1 point ago
My parents are okay with me being a furry and also my co workers :3
[–]Octofurwolf status, bruh 0 points1 point ago
you can tell them, just don't like, suit at home unless they like it
[–]nidoranrabbit -4 points-3 points ago
This picture makes me want to hug that poor dog.
[–]Sonic_OfflineHorned Owl at your service :3 -1 points0 points ago
The other thing that's not being taken into account in this instance is the older man and woman could be upset over anything and he just happens to be in a fursuit in the picture.
The more I look at the woman, she doesn't look upset to me. Just irritated, at worst.
[–]Waldo_Jeffers 0 points1 point ago
I, um, really don't think that the caption was ever seriously intended to represent what was going on here.
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[–]Cosmic_Bard 1 point2 points ago
They do.
EDIT: Comment was "Who gives a shit?"
[–]OrionWolf 2 points3 points ago
Them, sometimes. It sucks. |
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[–]NHLVancouverCanucksStickInRinkcoffee_and_beer 0 points1 point ago
the team is assuming he's going to break out of his offensive shell.
I don't know if that's necessarily true. They could be expecting him to be a reliable shutdown guy. I don't really know much about him as a player though.
EDIT: Judging from his point totals in junior I don't think anyone in management is expecting him to be an offensive force. They must want him to be a 2-way guy like Dan Hamhuis or more of a defensive guy |
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[–]BZ-B -1 points0 points ago
I feel like teams should take these things more seriously (i.e. double check and keep updated on specific dates). Imagine if this was an actual sports team who forgot they have a game today, the other team would automatically win due to forfeit. It seems that because everyone communicates online, the rules and enforcement is too lax. |
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[–]staylaughing -3 points-2 points ago
It would be nice to have a chart like this with distros that are actually relevant.
[–]religionisanger 2 points3 points ago
That greatly depends what you want your distro for, for example I find damn vulnerable linux useless, but some people will find that a God sent. We used to have a linux distro which worked exclusively for voip - again, to someone who uses analogue phones or has a paid voip service - crap. |
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[–]thatgirl2 1 point2 points ago
I was so sad when jillatha left and the contests stopped, I would love to participate and help facilitate if need be! |
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[–]shamefulctrlALTdel 2 points3 points ago
There is a "cake" you can make and be ready to eat in 5 mins. 1 banana 1 egg 1 tablespoon almond butter 10 chocolate chips (semi sweet) 1 tablespoon of dark coco
smash the banana into a cereal bowl (really smash the hell out of it) add the almond butter mix it a little then add the egg and coco and keep mixing once its all mixed up pretty well add 10 chocolate chips and microwave the bowl for 2 minutes and 45 seconds (cook the egg you dont want this runny)
there are very little "sweets" in this but there will be times that a sugar craving will simply win. |
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[–]Darkunit 1 point2 points ago
Came here to say use the matte sealer...only use that gloss on things that are supposed to be shiny. Other than that, you are doing a pretty good job man, keep improving! |
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[–]soloreddit 0 points1 point ago
This is exactly right; it was something I always faced (and still do) on my road bike (bicycle) as well as the motorcycle. You have to position yourself just right to make it happen. After some time & practice, you get pretty decent at it.
(It's far harder on an almost full-carbon road bike.) |
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[–]kittinmittens2012 Triumph Scrambler 1 point2 points ago
My triumph is named Eva even though it's a scrambler. In later years she will be renamed as Big Momma. |
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Your best bet would to go on a contraceptive pill without the one week of no pills or placebo. I believe it's called Seasonique.
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Dem paws
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Not happy with Agile, but why? by jbandiin programming
[–]jodonoghue 0 points1 point ago
I should make it quite clear that I wish that I could promote a much more Agile approach in the projects I manage within my company. However, I understand the business factors which make this very difficult.
Regarding the multiple teams aspect, does that top-down plan delivery always work out ok?
It works better than you might expect, but at heavy cost to the engineers close to the milestones and integration points. I would love to be able to meaningfully mitigate this.
We do, of course, use many mechanisms in addition to formal project meetings with all present. However, off-line communication can often be a challenge, especially when cultural expectations/norms are different between the teams.
I have to agree with dodyg as well:
Agile doesn't fix this situation because "delivering a fixed solution on a set date" is very common on Tendered projects and Software Solution companies.
Not to mention Consumer Electronics...
This is why I said in the first point that for me the major problem is that business professionals (salespeople, customers) don't really buy into Agile as an approach. Further success will require changing the business mindset, and that has nothing to do with Software Engineering.
Not happy with Agile, but why? by jbandiin programming
[–]jodonoghue 3 points4 points ago
I'm one of those evil managers who allegedly gets in the way of productivity and good technical solutions.
There are many things which get in the way of Agile in a lot of environments, and mean that adoption is half-hearted at best.
• Agile represents a process focussed way of interacting with a world which is business focussed. In many industries, what is actually sold to a customer is a 'solution', which will be made available to the customer with some feature set on a given date. Customers don't care how you achieve it, and senior management worry about the cost to the company of failing to deliver. Agile doesn't really address this.
• In large companies, resource allocation is the major part of what senior people (think VPs) actually do. Their task is to allot the optimal number of people to each of several tens of projects which are overlapping in different ways. They rely on resource planning done by people like me to help them do this. I am usually planning about 18 months out, often on requirements and features which have no real scope attached to them.
• Teams have different internal priorities, and working a project to completion often requires negotiating these. In many cases (like mine) other teams are probably nowhere near the same timezone - in my current project we have significant engineering teams in the UK, US West Coast (-8 hours), Finland (+ 2 Hours), India (+5.5 Hours) and China (+9 Hours). You can't have a 'whole project' meeting at all.
• A large project (I work on Smartphone SoC) can have deliverables coming from many teams. Think of, say, delivering Android onto a new SoC. You need (if I simplify massively) a kernel, cellular modem, wifi, display, bluetooth, USB, touchpad, GPS, audio, motion sensors, NFC, ... Most of the preceding are produced by multiple teams involving hundreds of software engineers in total. You cannot afford for each team to decide to deliver 'what is ready, when it is ready'. our customers have a very narrow launch window if they are to profitable, and everything needs to come together according to a master plan (which really has to be developed 'top down'). Agile doesn't really have an answer to this.
The above is just a start. I think the truth is that Software Engineering is hard. Agile is highly applicable to some projects, but it just doesn't map very well to the real business problems of some companies.
Firefox applications are easy by selfdestructive_AIin programming
[–]jodonoghue 1 point2 points ago
From the article conclusion:
Firefox's app architecture let's anyone create their own app store. In general, it's a lot more open. Of course, this shifts the burden of checking the app for maliciousness to the user.
I can't begin to say just how terrible an idea this is. Only a tiny percentage of users has the technical ability to make such checks, and of those who do understand the issues, most will simply avoid the platform as a consequence
Admirable Qualities of a Tech Company by nucleocidein programming
[–]jodonoghue 2 points3 points ago
And a puppy?
The developer in me recognises quite a number of these, but some do seem in conflict with some pretty basic business needs.
"Use own developer machine" - which means the company needs to trust that you keep your Anti-Virus up to date, your machine patched and that you don't keep company confidential material on your machine when you leave.
"Should allow developers too take unpaid vacation" - provided that it's not in the middle of a major code release. Less of an issue with us in Europe, TBH.
"Should assign tasks to developers based on what the developers would like to do" - well, as a manager I try to do this, but sometimes there's work that no-one would like to do. Is this supposed to go undone? My policy is to share out the tedious tasks as evenly as possible.
"Documentation require Microsoft Office" - well, sometimes external documentation needs to be released in a standard format. Can you really get a complex document template just right in <favourite text processing environment>. How long will you take to do this? Why should I pay you while you're doing it.
UML Not Used in Practice? by davidshepherdin programming
[–]jodonoghue 2 points3 points ago
I work in an embedded/protocol environment. We make a lot of use of UML as a design notation. My pet hate is tools which require you to create a semantically correct model of the system - just a waste of time.
However, could I give a huge upvote to PlantUML, which lets us generate good diagrams for design and documentation from text (which means it can be put into our source repo and diffed between versions). This is an awesome tool, and doesn't cost a $SmallCoinOfChoice
My reaction to: How To Exclude Women From Your Technical Community: A Tutorial by doaitsein haskell
[–]jodonoghue 24 points25 points ago
I would +10 this if Reddit allowed.
It is only when you learn to speak another language to a near fluent level that you come to understand the there are nuances to any language which are astonishingly difficult for a non-native speaker to grasp (I'm a near fluent French speaker - and I freely admit to having managed the occasional howler - fortunately my colleagues were quite tolerant, once they had picked themselves off of the floor laughing)
Ironically, this risk is actually at its greatest for anyone fluent, or near-fluent in a language other then their mother tongue. The native speaking listener/reader observes the level of fluency, and tends to assume that all nuance is fully mastered, whereas if the speaking or writing is clearly not fluent, it is easy to make allowances.
Even between different native speakers of English there are small nuances. A British speaker unaware of US idiom asking an American speaker unaware of British idiom for a rubber is likely to get an unexpected, possibly hostile reaction.
In a global network, we all need to be mindful and tolerant of these things - I always prefer to take the starting point that people are not trying to cause offence - if they are, it usually becomes clear later anyhow.
Imprisoned by the Haskell Toolchain (complaints about C FFI) by gtaniin haskell
[–]jodonoghue 0 points1 point ago
Very strong +1 for this.
As someone whose primary development platform is Windows, I am filled with dread whenever I see a library which is compiled with Autotools or anything which depends on Cygwin.
While I agree that Autotools is 'out there' and can, with a (very) following wind eventually be made to work on almost any platform, it is far from doing a decent job of abstracting the platform - at best it just about tolerably abstracts the differences between Posix-like systems, and that is really no longer good enough.
A good start would be a build system which 'just works' for Windows, Linux and OSX. With respect, other forms of Unix are now very much minority platforms whereas the three above must represent around 99% of the installed non-mobile base. In addition, I suspect that a system which worked for the 'big three' would be readily extensible to other Unices.
Scons is actually about the closest thing I have seen, but it brings quite a bit of its own weirdness, especially for cross-compilation.
Oh the fun of trying to install wxhaskell by asdfasdfasdfasdgin haskell
[–]jodonoghue 0 points1 point ago
Errm, it's not that hard: basically download wxWidgets source then ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-unicode --enable-stc --enable-aui --enable-propgrid --enable-xrc --enable-ribbon --enable-richtext --with-opengl make sudo make install
Most of the --enable stanzas are recommended but optional - they get you some of the new libraries and functionality.
It's equally simple for Mac and is rather fiddly for Windows TBH.
Oh the fun of trying to install wxhaskell by asdfasdfasdfasdgin haskell
[–]jodonoghue 2 points3 points ago
wxHaskell maintainer here.
Nearly everything critical which has been said on this page is true.
However... Maintaining wxHaskell is basically a one man operation. I'm not a student with plenty of spare time. I have a very heavy day job and a young family, so wxHaskell gets love when I have the time to give it, whcih is a lot less than I would like.
I do most development on a Mac, but I also maintain 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 Virtual Machines, 32 bit FreeBSD and 64 bit Ubuntu, updated as often as is compatible with maintaining the will to live. They are all UK English machines, so I don't really push Unicode and locale issues.
I try to also keep the most widely available Haskell Platform or its equivalent on each. I also verify against wxWidgets 2.9 (which has significant features and bugfixes over 2.8) and 2.8. I always apply patches received (not always promptly, it must be said - see day job), and I try to keep the wiki up to date with the best digest of what people needed to do to install.
I'd love to build wx from within Cabal, but we already build wxc (the wx binding - nearly all C++) in Cabal, and it was honestly a nightmare to make it work - and wxWidgets is an order of magnitude larger. Cabal really isn't set up to build C and C++ libraries of any complexity - which is fair enough, as it was never designed to.
Just dealing with GHC updates is extensive work in itself. Never actually difficult (update a few library version upper bounds, possible add/change some pragmas), but it all has to be tested against all of the above OS variants, and even then I know I'm only covering the machines used by, perhaps 30% of the user base.
I know that passing unquoted strings to the CLI in the Setup is not very good practice, but no-one has ever told me it failed before, and remember that what I do needs to work for Windows and Unix targets, and up to now it has.
Actually, it does mostly work, but you need to follow the instructions very carefully, and expect (unfortunately) a few wrinkles. I wish it was better, but time just doesn't allow.
If you are using anything bleeding edge (and I regard GHC 7.6.1 as such - it hasn't made Haskell Platform as yet, and I really don't have time to roll my own usable Haskell Platform for Windows or Mac from source), you will see more pain. I'm sure other package maintainers also wish that GHC updates had a lesser record of breaking existing working code.
I'll continue to do what little I can, and gratefully accept help from the wonderful individuals who contribute what they can. This is a labour of love for me (and most Open Source maintainers),and I have never made a cent from it - while it has been suggested that I should allow people to show appreciation using flattr, users, contributions and appreciative e-mail on occasion is plenty enough to keep me going. However, the flip side of being a labour of love is that I get to decide what time I can afford to give, and sometimes other things have to come first.
No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed by tpk1024in programming
[–]jodonoghue 2 points3 points ago
I'm also a hiring manager, and I agree completely. When I interview younger programmers, I find some who are excellent, motivated and will make outstanding team members - it is a privilege to work with them. I also find those who are almost clueless about anything beyond the narrow confines of their degrees.
I usually find that the people who are passionate come in brimming with enthusiasm for their side projects, and enjoy talking about them with me.
Many CompSci and Software Engineering courses are, inevitably, a little narrowly based. That's right in many respects: I want them to help people to think, rather than just churn out "programmers", but this does mean that if you want an edge getting your career started, you'll need to work on some side projects.
Doesn't matter what the side project is (well - it should probably be something suitable for Googling at work ;-) but it gives the chance to work with others, and to learn on projects of a larger scale than Uni coursework typically allows, and Open Source in particular can be an outstanding learning vehicle.
As an example, I currently have an intern who has completed his 2nd year at Uni, and after three months with us is already comfortable making changes to the internals of a microkernel - and doing a pretty good job of it.
tl;dr Some graduates in the field are outstanding. Help yourself to stand out by doing side projects.
There are more than 4000 people in the Haskell Reddit. Tell us what you're using Haskell for! Work and/or play? What would most help you get the job done? by donsin haskell
[–]jodonoghue 1 point2 points ago
In my experience, nothing beats a tutorial approach with a knowledgeable lecturer/teacher and a well thought out set of 'homework' exercises. Not for nothing has this been the approach of institutions of higher learning for hundreds (if not thousands) of years.
In my situation, however, I'm very unlikely to have such an opportunity, and I find that working carefully through a good book can be a reasonable substitute. The difficulty comes where, for whatever reason, a roadblock is reached (e.g. my example of fixpoints in SoE - the explanation given just didn't click with me).
Perhaps there is an opportunity for an online 'Haskell university' to cover this sort of material. The only downside I can see is that, at least for me, Haskell is a hobby, and the cost and regular time commitment required by such an approach might be difficult to justify.
In the end, however, I'd still note that most advanced courses require textbooks, and something which brings together some of the more advanced ideas discussed in this thread would be a very useful introduction - at least to me.
My ideal 'outcome' from such a book would be that I would feel equipped to start to explore these higher level subjects for myself in more detail.
tl;dr; A book is not the perfect medium, but it is one which is highly accessible to many people, especially those for whom a postgraduate level course is not really an option (for reasons of location, time, age, other commitments or whatever)
[–]jodonoghue 1 point2 points ago
That was the one - I think that part of the problem (and occasionally an issue with SoE) is that it's obviously meant to accompany an undergraduate level lecture course, and in this case fixpoints are thrown in as an aside - the kind of thing I'd have gone to ask the lecturer about in my undergrad days.
Haskell Employment by valhalla_coderin haskell
[–]jodonoghue 1 point2 points ago*
[Disclaimer: I do not work predominantly in Haskell] In my day job I'm a software manager in a role which requires primarily high-performance embedded software development in C and/or C++, depending on project.
I have been developing software for nearly 30 years, and, like any professional, I have worked hard to keep myself ahead of the curve, learning new languages, programming paradigms and development environments as simply 'part of the job'.
Haskell is, far and away, the most difficult thing I've done. It has made me reconsider everything about the way I construct software, and has expanded my mind.
While I write a little Haskell in my work, these are mainly 'scripting' tasks which could be done in Perl or Python (although I do them faster and better in Haskell...). The three years I've spent working with Haskell (in very limited amounts of spare time) could never be justified on a purely financial basis...
And yet I look at the gains: my mind is expanded, I'm a better and more productive software engineer, I've received support and encouragement from what I firmly believe to be the most diverse and welcoming programming community in the World.
IOW, my life is intellectually and socially enriched and I'm a better engineer because of it - and being a better engineer definitely pays off financially!
Every language (C#, C++, assembler, Python, Lisp, Haskell) has its wrinkles, but in the end, if you love solving problems, you live with the language - it's simply that some are better tools than others - and Haskell is an awesome tool.
When I hire someone, what I'm looking for most is an open and quick mind, the flexibility to see the interest in many different tasks and a love of solving problems for their own sake.
While my team members spend 90% or more of their time working in C or C++, I would absolutely choose a candidate with Haskell (or Ocaml, or Lisp) or some serious open source involvement over one who has none of these things [obviously they may not choose me if their main motivation is to work in their language of choice most of the time - I can only let them do so maybe 10% of the time].
The problem is that you are looking for a direct payback, and that's rarely the case in life (certainly in my experience).
As an aside, your proposal that you will spend about 6 months learning whatever you choose is far from the mark. You could not become a competent C developer in 6 months (assuming no prior relevant knowledge), and C is about the simplest language there is.
As far as I can see, if your main objective is seeing a direct financial payback for the time you put into learning a language, the three best options are Java, C# and PHP. If you want to make your self more employable by being a better software engineer, you should definitely learn Haskell, even if most of your time ends up being spent doing something else.
[–]jodonoghue 5 points6 points ago*
[Edit: why epiphanies are important]
If I'm honest, there's not so much of a clear road-map after a basic understanding of monads (which I understood just fine once I started to think of a monad as an API with a set of rules, rather than as a bomb factory, spaceship, sack of potatoes or whatever strange analogy Yet Another Monad Tutorial suggested I try to use).
I feel like understanding the relationship between functors, monads, monad transformers and arrows would probably help me to create better architectures in Haskell (I can use monad transformers, but don't really understand why they work, and this bothers me).
Probably more advanced, but more useful, would be to see practical worked examples of using the type system to ensure program correctness - I realise that this falls somewhat into the 'proofs and mathematics' area.
There are small areas which I haven't really seen covered well e.g. use of 'forall' in type signatures (and why I would want to do such a thing), fixpoints (which I didn't understand from the explanation in The Haskell School of Expression), use of type witnesses to model hierarchies etc.
A criticism of RWH for me is that some of the worked examples were fairly lengthy, and sent me into some unnecessary diversions (e.g. the 'Hpodder' example required Curl which doesn't build easily on Windows - I think there were a couple of similar problems elsewhere). Simpler but fully cross-platform examples (or equivalent code where cross-platform is not realistic) would have helped. RHW was a bit Linux-centric in places.
In fact, I feel (and this is somewhere where LYAH is well judged) that very complex (admittedly 'real-world') examples sometimes detract from the basic principle which is being demonstrated.
I think a good approach would be an explanatory chapter followed by a chapter working through the use of the ideas developed in a practical (but not too large) application.
I should add, where the maths is concerned: the main barrier I have found to understanding mathematical explanations is the lack of clear explanation of the terms and symbols used. While I understand that they are an essential shorthand for mathematicians, they also serve to make papers very inaccessible for those who do not 'live' in mathematics (I was an engineering undergrad more than 20 years ago, which is the last time I formally studied Mathematics, so I have forgotten much of the little I ever knew).
Spending a couple of paragraphs introducing mathematical notation before it is used would make all the difference to me (and then by all means use the formalisms once properly introduced - this is absolutely the right thing to do).
Going back to my comments on how I got to understand monads, I think this is where the formalisms are essential. So-called simplifying analogies can really impede understanding if they do not hold water for all cases (as happens in most monad tutorials), so please don't shy away from the necessary explanations
I'd also add that I will be very happy to serve as a guinea-pig for anything you write. I think one of the keys to this type of work is getting feedback from members of the target audience (i.e. those who don't know this stuff, but are motivated to learn). Experts sometimes forget that it often takes an epiphany to understand a complex topic...
[–]jodonoghue 7 points8 points ago
(Disclaimer: I'm wxHaskell maintainer)
I use Haskell as my 'go-to' language for most scripting and tools tasks - and have some success persuading others in my group to do the same. It's peripheral to our main business, which is mobile phone chipset OS software - and at least for the moment I don't think Haskell has a 'story' for this type of work, although I'm hopeful for the future as we have more cores to work with.
Interesting how many people are keen to see a solid set of GUI bindings. I originally took on wxHaskell maintainership because I had just that need in some of the tools I have worked on, and gtk2hs didn't meet my needs (windows-centric, no LGPL allowed).
Problem is that wxHaskell (and I get the impression that this is pretty much true of gtk2hs and qthaskell) are 1-2 person efforts, and at that, mainly people who have day jobs and try to squeeze development into limited spare time.
It would be great if the community could agree on a single GUI binding for Haskell, but I suspect that pride, installed base and licensing wars (I would be unable to use any library that introduces a GPL or LGPL dependency, for example) may make this impossible.
I'd love to fix the many (some serious and long-outstanding) bugs I know about in wxHaskell, do more advocacy, improve the documentation etc, but all I can find is about 4 hours a week :-(
Doesn't help that the day job is hard-core embedded C and C++, so I have a big mental shift when I go into 'Haskell mode'.
So my other 'wish' would be a good set of higher-level tutorial material to introduce me (a.k.a. experienced softeware engineer, clueless mathematician) to some of the more complex topics. There's a definite need for something which goes to the next level after RWH (which I bought twice - once as ebook and once as dead tree ;-)
More tutorials on major subsystems: XML, databases, networking, wx/gtk programming, happstack apps by donsin haskell_proposals
[–]jodonoghue 0 points1 point ago
I have been working on some tutorial documentation for wxHaskell on my blog at wewantarock
Embedded Linux: With friends like these, who needs enemies? by gstin programming
[–]jodonoghue 0 points1 point ago
It seems to me that few of those replying have much experience of designing embedded systems.
MV and Wind River customers have many different CPUs, many different hardware requirements and quite different target applications. Most modern SOC devices have at least some non-standard hardware which will require custom drivers as well. Neither company is likely to ever sell a 'stock' distro, more like a distro kit.
Customers will also require tools support. That means cross compilers, debuggers etc., Emulator support and so on. If you haven't tried building a usable ARM cross compiler from source, then you have no idea what this really means (yes, I do know about Crosstool)...
In addition, bear in mind that at least some customers will use MV as a way of indemnifying themselves against potential licensing issues, and that's a costly additional burden.
Put that way, $60 million is not such a lot, to be honest. Probably less than 100 headcount years.
PyXPlot Users’ Guide A Command-line Plotting Package, with Interface similar to that of Gnuplot, which produces Publication-Quality Output. by gstin programming
[–]jodonoghue 0 points1 point ago
An alternative well worth looking at is Matplotlib ( More functionality, but a more Matlab style interface.
Ask Reddit: Where should I start when teaching a 14yo programming? by militantin programming
[–]jodonoghue 2 points3 points ago
I'd second Python. Easiest language to learn I've encountered, and plenty of power as his skills/confidence grow...
But why not ask him what he'd like to do. Python is good for web type stuff and general programing, but there are a few basic-like languages aimed at games development which may interest him more.
C or C++ is really pretty painful for a beginner (although I started out with raw assembler, so it can be done... showing my age, I guess).
Dear Reddit Programmers: I am about to graduate college and I need your help. by chipwhispererin programming
[–]jodonoghue 9 points10 points ago
I'd second pretty much all of the advice here as well.
And even though I'm the nightmare hiring manger from hell who does know (some) Haskell (so I could test you), berlinbrown is right, I don't have a job in it for you.
[–]jodonoghue 10 points11 points ago*
Well... I'm a hiring manager at a Fortune 500 company which deals in cutting edge embedded technology - slightly off the web design area, but my opinion must be worth $0.01 ;-)
While I usually look for CS or Electronics majors in new graduates, I'd never turn down the chance of interviewing an Ivy league school physicist, especially one who has shown an interest in software engineering (actually, this matters more to me than the major).
However, be aware that you will find the hiring managers at different companies you contact will have completely different policies.
Some just want to see experience (ridiculous requirement for a graduate, IMHO), some want certification. However, the companies with the most challenging work usually want people who can solve problems. In my case that means that I value intelligence, ability to self-learn and solve problems more highly than anything else. Provided that you're not applying to a position which obviously requires experience, your major will not put you at a disadvantage.
I would say that you're only likely to see Functional Programming (at least in its purest sense) in a tiny minority of companies. I can assure you that the FP course you've done will definitely make you a better software engineer.
If you're proud of the websites you've worked on, make sure that you link to them in your resume, and be scrupulously honest about what part you played in the design (i.e. don't claim you designed the site if all you did was change a few of the graphics).
The very best of luck. I think you'll make it.
Ask Reddit: Why is Tk still the standard gui tookit in so many languages? by darrintin programming
[–]jodonoghue 25 points26 points ago
A key issue when it comes to wrapping toolkits for new languages is that most of the 'better' (read more functionality, more standardized look and feel etc) toolkits are written in C++ (the notable exception is Gtk+).
If you're writing a GUI toolkit there are a lot of reasons to use C++ - you've pointed out the 'oddity' of the Gtk+ OO framework in C).
However, most languages provide FFIs for C due to the difficulty (non-standardized name mangling) of supporting C++ compilers, so if you want to write a wrapper for the toolkit, you eventually come around to the fact that you need to first wrap the C++ in C. I work quite a bit on wxHaskell, and about 80% of the code is trivial wrappers for C++ functions to export a C API. You can automate this, and most bindings do, but it's rather painful.
Tk has a very easy C interface - basically send command strings to a small set of easily wrapped C functions. It's readily adaptable to most languages and not too much work to do, As some have commented, the interface is also at a fairly high level, which makes it quite nice to work with (but ugly).
Gtk+ has a C interface - granted a very large one - which again reduces the boilerplate needed. It is also, like Tk, focussed - it's basically a GUI framework with good widgets.
I'm actually opposed to monolithic frameworks which try to do everything. If you're writing a C++ application it's very handy that wxWidgets includes database access, containers and whatever, and renders the cross-platform issues irrelevant.
However, if you're writing a Haskell (or Python, or Ruby, or whatever) application which happens to need a GUI, you likely don't want the database access, containers and so on, as your language of choice likely has perfectly good (and more idiomatic) libraries to do the same thing.
Basically, if you're writing a C++ framework, you want it to cover as many things as possible. If you're writing a reusable GUI framework targetting many different languages, keep it focussed and with a simple C interface which adapts readily to the needs of different FFIs.
I think that the cross-platform GUI asects of wxWidgets are great (I'm a fan of native look and feel on each platform), but it's a pain to work with from other languages in many respects. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6888 |
Re: Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
David Woodhouse wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:55 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
That block could be
- residing at an address in ROM
- residing at an address in RAM used by the BIOS
- residing at an address attached to the kernel image
- residing at an address attached to the initrd image
Thats the sole difference - the address it appears at.
You're equivocating.
The _important_ difference, in this context, is how it's distributed.
The GPL clearly states that there can exist sections of which which
_are_ independent and separate works in themselves -- but when you
distribute those _same_ sections as part of a whole which is a work
based on the GPL'd Program...
The _distribution_ of stuff together is what makes the difference, even
when some of that 'stuff' would be considered to be a completely
independent and separate work, when distributed separately.
You obviously disagree, but you haven't really explained why.
Maybe Les' mail is relevant here -- he seems to think that we should
argue based on what we _want_ to be true, rather than what the evidence
actually indicates?
Do you believe that copyright law _prevents_ the GPL from making
requirements about those separate works, in such a way that still lets
you distribute the GPL'd work without complying with the licence?
Or do you believe that the GPL does not actually impose the requirements
it seems to impose in §2? Perhaps you believe that _all_ forms of
aggregation can be labelled "mere aggregation on a volume of a storage
or distribution medium" and thus that the whole of those three
paragraphs in the licence are just a big no-op? Can we submit a
non-GPL'd driver as a .o file, call it 'mere aggregation' and argue that
it's not a GPL violation?
Or is it another example of Les' "we argue what we want to believe,
regardless of the facts"?
This is the sort of comment, whether intentional or no that leads to flame wars. I enjoy reading a civil discussion but let's not bait people. Things can be phrased better, certainly I know that from experience as I have the same tendency to walk the razor's edge with regards to my language choice from time to time. Let's keep it civil shall we? I'd like to learn something but it's going to be difficult if we make it personal. Argue your point on its merits not on the short comings of the other person's argument.
Thank You
If opinions were really like assholes the we'd each have just one
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/6996 | The cold truth about climate change
Deniers continue to insist there's no consensus on global warming. Well, there's not. There's well-tested science and real-world observations.
Topics: Environment, Global Warming, Science,
The cold truth about climate change
The more I write about global warming, the more I realize I share some things in common with the doubters and deniers who populate the blogosphere and the conservative movement. Like them, I am dubious about the process used by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to write its reports. Like them, I am skeptical of the so-called consensus on climate science as reflected in the IPCC reports. Like them, I disagree with people who say “the science is settled.” But that’s where the agreement ends.
The science isn’t settled — it’s unsettling, and getting more so every year as the scientific community learns more about the catastrophic consequences of uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions.
The big difference I have with the doubters is they believe the IPCC reports seriously overstate the impact of human emissions on the climate, whereas the actual observed climate data clearly show the reports dramatically understate the impact.
But I do think the scientific community, the progressive community, environmentalists and media are making a serious mistake by using the word “consensus” to describe the shared understanding scientists have about the ever-worsening impacts that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are having on this planet. When scientists and others say there is a consensus, many if not most people probably hear “consensus of opinion,” which can — and often is — dismissed out of hand. I’ve met lots of people like CNBC anchor Joe Kernen, who simply can’t believe that “as old as the planet is” that “puny, gnawing little humans” could possibly change the climate in “70 years.”
Well, Joe, it is more like 250 years, but yes, most of the damage to date was done in the last 70 years, and yes, as counterintuitive as it may seem, puny little humans are doing it, and it’s going to get much, much worse unless we act soon. Consensus of opinion is irrelevant to science because reality is often counterintuitive — just try studying quantum mechanics.
Fortunately Kernen wasn’t around when scientists were warning that puny little humans were destroying the Earth’s protective ozone layer. Otherwise we might never have banned chlorofluorocarbons in time.
Consensus of opinion is also dismissed as groupthink. In a December article ignorantly titled “The Science of Gore’s Nobel: What If Everyone Believes in Global Warmism Only Because Everyone Believes in Global Warmism?” Holman W. Jenkins Jr. of the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote:
It may seem strange that scientists would participate in such a phenomenon. It shouldn’t. Scientists are human; they do not wait for proof. Many devote their professional lives to seeking evidence for hypotheses, especially well-funded hypotheses, they’ve chosen to believe.
Less surprising is the readiness of many prominent journalists to embrace the role of enforcer of an orthodoxy simply because it is the orthodoxy. For them, a consensus apparently suffices as proof of itself.
How sad that the WSJ and CNBC have so little conception of what science really is, especially since scientific advances drive so much of the economy. If that’s what Jenkins thinks science is, one would assume he is equally skeptical of flossing, antibiotics and even boarding an airplane.
(Note to WSJ: One reason science works is that a lot of scientists devote their whole lives to overturning whatever is the current hypothesis — if it can be overturned. That’s how you become famous and remembered by history, like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin and Einstein.)
One of the most serious results of the overuse of the term “consensus” in the public discussion of global warming is that it creates a simple strategy for doubters to confuse the public, the press and politicians: Simply come up with as long a list as you can of scientists who dispute the theory. After all, such disagreement is prima facie proof that no consensus of opinion exists.
So we end up with the absurd but pointless spectacle of the leading denier in the U.S. Senate, James Inhofe, R-Okla., who recently put out a list of more than 400 names of supposedly “prominent scientists” who supposedly “recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming.”
As it turned out, the list is both padded and laughable, containing the opinions of TV weathermen, economists, a bunch of non-prominent scientists who aren’t climate experts, and, perhaps surprisingly, even a number of people who actually believe in the consensus.
But in any case, nothing could be more irrelevant to climate science than the opinion of people on the list such as Weather Channel founder John Coleman or famed inventor Ray Kurzweil (who actually does “think global warming is real”). Or, for that matter, my opinion — even though I researched a Ph.D. thesis at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on physical oceanography in the Greenland Sea.
A good example of how scientific evidence drives our understanding concerns how we know that humans are the dominant cause of global warming. This is, of course, the deniers’ favorite topic. Since it is increasingly obvious that the climate is changing and the planet is warming, the remaining deniers have coalesced to defend their Alamo — that human emissions aren’t the cause of recent climate change and therefore that reducing those emissions is pointless.
Last year, longtime Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn wrote, “There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely entirely on unverified, crudely oversimplified computer models to finger mankind’s sinful contribution.”
In fact, the evidence is amazingly strong. Moreover, if the relatively complex climate models are oversimplified in any respect, it is by omitting amplifying feedbacks and other factors that suggest human-caused climate change will be worse than is widely realized.
The IPCC concluded last year: “Greenhouse gas forcing has very likely (>90 percent) caused most of the observed global warming over the last 50 years. This conclusion takes into account … the possibility that the response to solar forcing could be underestimated by climate models.”
Scientists have come to understand that “forcings” (natural and human-made) explain most of the changes in our climate and temperature both in recent decades and over the past millions of years. The primary human-made forcings are the heat-trapping greenhouse gases we generate, particularly carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and natural gas. The natural forcings include fluctuations in the intensity of sunlight (which can increase or decrease warming), and major volcanoes that inject huge volumes of gases and aerosol particles into the stratosphere (which tend to block sunlight and cause cooling).
A 2002 study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences warned, “Abrupt climate changes were especially common when the climate system was being forced to change most rapidly.” The rapidly growing greenhouse warming we ourselves are causing today thus increases the chances for “large, abrupt and unwelcome regional or global climatic events.”
Over and over again, scientists have demonstrated that observed changes in the climate in recent decades can only be explained by taking into account the observed combination of human and natural forcings. Natural forcings alone just don’t explain what is happening to this planet.
For instance, in April 2005, one of the nation’s top climate scientists, NASA’s James Hansen, led a team of scientists that made “precise measurements of increasing ocean heat content over the past 10 years,” which revealed that the Earth is absorbing far more heat than it is emitting to space, confirming what earlier computer models had shown about warming. Hansen called this energy imbalance the “smoking gun” of climate change, and said, “There can no longer be genuine doubt that human-made gases are the dominant cause of observed warming.”
Another 2005 study, led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, compared actual ocean temperature data from the surface down to hundreds of meters (in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans) with climate models and concluded:
A warming signal has penetrated into the world’s oceans over the past 40 years. The signal is complex, with a vertical structure that varies widely by ocean; it cannot be explained by natural internal climate variability or solar and volcanic forcing, but is well simulated by two anthropogenically [human-caused] forced climate models. We conclude that it is of human origin, a conclusion robust to observational sampling and model differences.
Such studies are also done for many other observations: land-based temperature rise, atmospheric temperature rise, sea level rise, arctic ice melt, inland glacier melt, Greeland and Antarctic ice sheet melt, expansion of the tropics (desertification) and changes in precipitation. Studies compare every testable prediction from climate change theory and models (and suggested by paleoclimate research) to actual observations.
How many studies? Well, the IPCC’s definitive treatment of the subject, “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change,” has 11 full pages of references, some 500 peer-reviewed studies. This is not a consensus of opinion. It is what scientific research and actual observations reveal.
Ignoring all the evidence, doubters and deniers keep asserting that the cause of global warming isn’t human emissions, but is instead natural forcings, primarily the sun. Last year, brief presidential candidate Fred Thompson commented on claims that planets like Mars were supposedly also warming — an idea debunked by RealClimate. Thompson said sarcastically:
I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus. Ask Galileo.
The view that the sun is the source of observed global warming seems credible mainly to people who are open to believing that the entire scientific community has somehow, over a period of several decades, failed to adequately study, analyze and understand the most visible influence on the Earth’s temperature. Such people typically cannot be influenced by the results of actual research and observations. Those who can should visit Skeptical Science, which discusses deniers’ favorite arguments. In one discussion, the site explains that the “study most quoted by skeptics actually concluded the sun can’t be causing global warming.” Doh!
And that brings us to a recent study by the Proceedings of the Royal Society, which examined “all the trends in the Sun that could have had an influence on the Earth’s climate,” such as sunlight intensity and cosmic rays. The study found that in the past 20 years, all of those trends “have been in the opposite direction to that required to explain the observed rise in global mean temperatures.”
Those trying to prove the sun is the sole cause of warming have a double challenge. First they would have to show us a mechanism that demonstrates how the sun explains recent warming, even though the data shows solar activity has been declining recently. (In the past, increased warming was associated with an increase in solar activity). They would also have to find an additional mechanism that is counteracting the well-understood warming caused by rising emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The doubters have done neither.
But then the doubters aren’t interested in things like data and observations and peer-reviewed research. If they were, why would they keep pointing out that, historically, global temperature rise precedes a rise in carbon dioxide emissions by a few hundred years — as if that were a reason to cast doubt on the impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases? Rep. Joe Barton said to Al Gore:
I have an article from Science magazine that explains a rise in CO2 concentrations actually lagged temperature by 200 to 1000 years. CO2 levels went up after the temperature rose. Temperature appears to drive CO2, not vice versa. You’re not just off a little. You’re totally wrong.
Yes, historically, glacial periods appear to end with an initial warming started by changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun. This in turn leads to increases in carbon dioxide (and methane), which then accelerate the warming, which increases the emissions, which increases the warming. That amplifying feedback in the global carbon cycle is what drives the global temperature to change so fast.
But while this fact seems to make doubters less worried about the impact of human emissions, it makes most scientists more worried. As famed climatologist Wallace Broecker wrote in Nature in 1995:
That is, you need a trigger to start the process of rapid climate change. Historically, that has been orbital changes, or sometimes, massive natural releases of greenhouse gases.
Now humans have interrupted and overwhelmed the natural process of climate change. Thanks to humans, carbon dioxide levels are higher than they have been for millions of years. Even more worrisome, carbon dioxide emissions are rising 200 times faster than at any time in the last 650,000 years.
If the “Earth’s climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts to even small nudges,” what will happen to people foolish enough to keep punching it in the face?
That brings us to another problem with the word “consensus.” It can mean “unanimity” or “the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned.” Many, if not most, people hear the second meaning: “consensus” as majority opinion.
The scientific consensus most people are familiar with is the IPCC’s “Summary for Policymakers” reports. But those aren’t a majority opinion. Government representatives participate in a line-by-line review and revision of these summaries. So China, Saudi Arabia and that hotbed of denialism — the Bush administration — get to veto anything they don’t like. The deniers call this “politicized science,” suggesting the process turns the IPCC summaries into some sort of unscientific exaggeration. In fact, the reverse is true. The net result is unanimous agreement on a conservative or watered-down document. You could argue that rather than majority rules, this is “minority rules.”
Last April, in an article titled “Conservative Climate,” Scientific American noted that objections by Saudi Arabia and China led the IPCC to remove a sentence stating that the impact of human greenhouse gas emissions on the Earth’s recent warming is five times greater than that of the sun. In fact, lead author Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in England said, “The difference is really a factor of 10.”
How decent of the IPCC not to smash the last hope of deniers like Fred Thompson, whose irrational sun worshiping allows them to ignore the overwhelming evidence that human emissions are the dominant cause of climate change.
How else does the IPCC lowball future impacts? The 2007 report projects sea level rise this century of 7 to 23 inches. Yet the IPCC itself stated that “models [of sea level rise] used to date do not include uncertainties in climate-carbon cycle feedbacks nor do they include the full effect of changes in ice sheet flow.”
That is, since no existing climate models fully account for the kinds of feedbacks we are now witnessing in Greenland and Antarctica, such as dynamic acceleration of ice sheet disintegration or greenhouse gases released by melting tundra, the IPCC is forced to ignore those realities. The result is that compared to the “consensus” of the IPCC, the ice sheets appear to be shrinking “100 years ahead of schedule,” as Penn State climatologist Richard Alley put it in March 2006
According to both the 2001 and 2007 IPCC reports, neither Greenland nor Antarctica should lose significant mass by 2100. They both already are. Here again, the conservative nature of the IPCC process puts it at odds with observed empirical realities that are the basis of all science.
It’s no surprise then that three scientific studies released in the past year — too late for inclusion by the IPCC — argue that based on historical data and recent observations, sea level rise this century will be much higher than the IPCC reports, up to 5 feet or more. Even scarier, the rate of sea level rise in 2100 might be greater than 6 inches a decade!
And it’s no surprise at all that sea-level rise from 1993 and 2006 — 1.3 inches per decade as measured by satellites — has been higher than the IPCC climate models predicted.
The deniers are simply wrong when they claim that the IPCC has overestimated either current or future warming impacts. As many other recent observations reveal, the IPCC has been underestimating those impacts.
• Since 2000, carbon dioxide emissions have grown faster than any IPCC model had projected.
• The temperature rise from 1990 to 2005 — 0.33°C — was “near the top end of the range” of IPCC climate model predictions.
• “The recent [Arctic] sea-ice retreat is larger than in any of the (19) IPCC [climate] models” — and that was a Norwegian expert in 2005. Since then, the Arctic retreat has stunned scientists by accelerating, losing an area equal to Texas and California just last summer.
• “The unexpectedly rapid expansion of the tropical belt constitutes yet another signal that climate change is occurring sooner than expected,” noted one climate researcher in December.
• This last point, though little remarked on in the media, should be as worrisome as the unexpectedly rapid melting of the ice sheets. As a recent study led by NOAA noted, “A poleward expansion of the tropics is likely to bring even drier conditions to” the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, Australia and parts of Africa and South America. Also: “An increase in the width of the tropics could bring an increase in the area affected by tropical storms.” And finally: “An expansion of tropical pathogens and their insect vectors is almost certainly sure to follow the expansion of tropical zones.”
Why are recent observations on the high side of model projections? First, as noted, most climate models used by the IPCC omit key amplifying feedbacks in the carbon cycle. Second, it was widely thought that increased human carbon dioxide emissions would be partly offset by more trees and other vegetation. But increases in droughts and wildfires — both predicted by global warming theory — seem to have negated that. Third, the ocean — one of the largest sinks for carbon dioxide — seems to be saturating decades earlier than the models had projected.
The result, as a number of studies have shown, is that the sensitivity of the world’s climate to human emissions of greenhouse gases is no doubt much higher than the sensitivity used in most IPCC models. NASA’s Hansen argued in a paper last year that the climate ultimately has twice the sensitivity used in IPCC models.
The bottom line is that recent observations and research make clear the planet almost certainly faces a greater and more imminent threat than is laid out in the IPCC reports. That’s why climate scientists are so desperate. That’s why they keep begging for immediate action. And that’s why the “consensus on global warming” is a phrase that should be forever retired from the climate debate.
Joseph Romm
Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he oversees He is the author of "Hell and High Water: Global Warming -- The Solution and the Politics." Romm served as acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy in 1997. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7003 | Why don't independent parties win elections in California, much less the rest of the country?
It wasn't that long ago third-party candidates in presidential elections made a difference, even if the electoral system is stacked against them.
In 2000, Ralph Nader, running on the Green Party ticket, may well have cost then Vice President Al Gore the presidency, by siphoning off enough liberal votes to send the election into the now famous hanging chad, Supreme Court aftermath that elected George W. Bush.
Nader, however, got far fewer votes than H. Ross Perot received in 1992, when Perot's chart-driven takes on issues of government spending and waste resulted in the independent candidate getting about 20 percent of the popular vote. Whether that led to incumbent President George H.W. Bush losing the election to Bill Clinton is still debated, but it appeared for a while Perot's "United We Stand" political movement had the financing and support to begin to chip away at the dominance of the Democratic and Republican machines.
Not so. Within a few years, the Perot organization morphed into the Reform Party, which ... well, you get the point.
Now, in 2012, despite widespread dissatisfaction with the direction the country is headed and with the two major party candidates for the presidency, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, no third-party or independent candidate has yet surfaced.
Third parties have a long history in this country, without ever gaining enough influence and stature to truly change government. Today, with the astronomic cost of running for office, third parties have even less chance of competing. The major parties are able to raise huge sums and get more media attention from their high profile primaries and then run showy national conventions paid for by taxpayers. Third-party candidates are usually shut out of national debates -- although Perot had enough support in '92 to gain entrance.
The most recent example of the fate of American third parties came when the well-financed Americans Elect was unable to persuade a candidate to take up the group's invitation to run for president.
Americans Elect actually had a plan to reform politics by first gaining access to state ballots then holding an online convention to nominate a candidate. Didn't work. In the end, no candidate was able to clear the relatively low 10,000-vote threshold to "win" the Americans Elect nomination.
Political analysts noted that to break the iron grip of the two major parties, a third party needs to be associated with either a compelling cause or a candidate who can stir the masses. Just using technology and gaining access isn't enough.
California voters sent a crushing message to minor parties in 2010 when they approved the open primary for Tuesday's election. Because the new system sends the top two finishers in state races, regardless of party affiliation, onto the November ballot, this effectively ends the chances of the Green, Libertarian, American Independent and Peace and Freedom parties in those elections.
With no statewide presence on the general election ballot, these parties will essentially be invisible to voters. And that means they'll be even more invisible to the real difference makers in American politics: Donors.
Voters who approved the open primary in 2010 probably weren't intending a message they support the ever more dysfunctional stranglehold the two major parties have on government. But that's what's happened.
Third parties nationally and minor parties in California have a purpose: To bring independent ideas and candidates to public attention. Their presence has been severely diminished, and it's a loss. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7020 | Best of the Bay 2011: BEST BACKYARD BLISS-OUT
We were sartorially spoiling ourselves among P-Kok's clothing racks of fripperies when we heard that the garden-sauna space behind the store had been converted into a self-care community. Tall Tree Tambo is a gym of sorts — members pay either a monthly or more affordable yearly fee depending on how much they want to utilize the space, and drop-in rates are available — but there are no StairMasters here. Instead, the tranquil backyard zone is used for meditation, reiki, yoga, sitting in the sauna, and reconnecting to self. Everyone's encouraged to bring their own expertise to amplify the space's curative effects, and intimate classes in healing are held regularly.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7045 | I have a set of code I have been working on for a bit now and I have drag and drop working in every browser except chrome and IE9.
In Chrome it appears when i set the e.dataTransfer.setData('text/html', url); to an image (for example http://example.com/image1.jpg would be the information within url) it adds <meta http> information which makes the drag and drop link incorrectly. Firefox, and safari seem to be doing fine in regards to drag and drop.
Is there something I may be not realizing about chrome in regards to drag and drop? I can post code if you would like as well. |
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England, most commonly used in racing
United States, popular western horse
France, heavy horse most commonly grey or black
Norway, always dun in color
Middle East, most common horse in the world
Netherlands, this breed only comes in black
Peru, a gaited horse with a lateral running walk
Germany, popular Olympic warmblood
Iceland, small, compact gaited breed
Spain, flashy breed originally bred as a warhorse for nobility
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7117 | Applied Physics Posts
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How complex are biological systems?
More specifically, let’s consider the case of a biological circuit. These circuits regulate the state of a cell in response to a given set of input signals. The parts of the circuit are a wide variety of specific proteins, whose synthesis and function are modified by many different mechanisms. One distinction of biological relative to engineered circuits is the fact that every protein is different so that there are no standardized parts. Proteins interact to modify one another’s function and eventually produce an output, i.e., change the state of the cell by changing its transcriptional program and thereby changing the concentrations of its constitutive proteins.
For a given circuit, it is still an open question as to how many genes could be legitimately considered to be involved. In yeast, genetic maps constructed with high-throughput robotics have identified literally millions of interactions; these are shown as the famous ‘hairball’ plots one frequently encounters. So, is that the answer? Do we need to know everything about everything to make sense of it all? Do we need a map whose legend states that 1 mile = 1 mile to understand the cell? If so, then what kind of understanding would that entail… a depressing prospect, being drowned in a sea of information.
So, we want and need reduced models to better understand the functions of a biological circuit. Intuitively, this is what the more classical cell biologists and biochemists have been constructing. Classical mutagenesis tends to focus on mutations to critical genes that severely hamper cell fitness. Thus, inadvertently, the community may have been studying the circuit elements containing the most information about the process. However, several questions arise. First, where do you draw the line and exclude more peripheral elements? And second, is this a legitimate endeavor?
Consider a simple example, where the dynamics of a circuit are dominated by a few interactions each of strength O(1). There is a second handful of interactions of strength O(epsilon), whose exclusion gives a negligible error of O(epsilon) << 1. However, if the number of weaker interactions is larger, as threatened by the hairball, we could get into serious trouble. If the number is N ~ 1/epsilon, we would still probably be ok in our approximation due to the unexpected property of asymptotic analysis to give fundamental insight even when it shouldn’t. However, if N >> 1/epsilon things would start looking quite terrible from the point of view of dimensional reduction. The genetic tractability of circuits and the progress made argues against the later case, but the intermediate case is not yet ruled out and relatively few cases have been studied in sufficient detail (i.e., the drunk looking for his lost keys at night under the street lamp because that is where the light is). So, we are left with the following tentative definition of information – a sum of the relevant biochemical interactions multiplied by their relative impact on the output. Obvious issues left to be resolved regard the definition of ‘relative impact’ and how to quantitatively define the information content of a circuit output.
Further understanding of information transmission in biology will require new quantitative imaging tools to better measure chemistry on the level of single cells, where it really takes place. Integration of these techniques with the rapidly increasing amounts of cell biological and genetic knowledge promises rapid advances in our understanding of information transmission and generation in cellular systems. The rapid technical advancement in biology of the past decades leads one to expect significant progress on these fundamental issues over the next decade. |
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Today’s news of the death of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet general who created the ubiquitous AK-47 assault rifle, reminded us of a 2005 piece in this publication (“Kalashnikov’s Gun”) in which Edward Tenner said the gun may be “the world’s deadliest work of art.” In explaining why the Kalashnikov was used by revolutionaires and insurgents everywhere, Tenner argued that it wasn’t only because the rifle was cheap. It was because of its qualities that were born from Russia’s isolation and adversity:
The AK-47 illustrates the power of incremental adaptation. As a tank sergeant in World War II, Mikhail Kalashnikov saw that most Soviet troops had only carbines against the superior range of the German Sturmgewehr. While recovering from battlefield wounds, he began to create a design for a new weapon, one that could be assembled with relatively loose tolerances by relatively inexperienced workers, avoiding the supply bottlenecks that often resulted from the German cult of fine craftsmanship. A tractor plant originally produced the gun. Not only was the AK-47 simple to manufacture, but it could withstand rough handling in harsh terrain and climates. … It is all too easy for non-Russians, including anti-Russian terrorists, to reuse, repair, and manufacture it.
Tenner argued that this quintessential Russian ingeniousness also had “more benign outcomes.” As an example, he cited the video game Tetris, whose addictive simplicity derived from the limited processing power and memory available to its Soviet creator.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7198 | TED Conversations
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To whom does an idea, a poem or design really belong to?
In the movie 'Il Postino' Pablo Neruda was scolding Mario Ruoppolo (his postman) for plagerizing his (Pablo's) poem so he (Mario) could woo the woman he was pursuing. Pablo said that Mario can't just use someone's work (in this case Pablo's poem) without owner's permission. Mario wanted to know why. Pablo said because it didn't belong to him. But Mario argued that poems don't belong to the writer, they belong to whomever needs it.
At first blush Pablo would seem to be right in his claim, but on deeper consideration, maybe Mario has an even more valid point. Writings, designs and ideas are never created in a vacuum. They always happen within a context of circumstance, of culture, of geography and of language. It could never be created without all these external input. Likewise any idea or creation would have no value except when released within that same context. So why then should the 'creator' claim exclusive ownership if his ability to create and the value or utility of his creation are contingent upon the context within which he creates?
Could anyone really be able to create anything without a language, without some form of education, without resources, all of which were made available to him (the creator) by entities other than himself. And even if he could, of what value would his creation be, if only he were to use it.
I am proposing therefore, that perhaps our concept of intellectual property rights are flawed. That since the creation and viability of the intellectual property require participation from a much larger base then ownership should likewise be shared with that base.
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Oct 16 2011: Once an idea is spread publicly there is no way to control its spreading. It is like trying to own a flu virus that was bread in your body. I do agree that creating "intellectual property" is hard work, but enforcing the bad practices will hurt the society and even the creator of the work in a long term. Also note that no "intellectual property" is created in vacuum - it is always a derived work of something else.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants for explanation.
Another point against the "intellectual property" is malfunctioning patent offices which do not have the resources nor expertise to check for validity of the patents.
One of many examples: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110929142255684
We should find a new and better way of rewarding creators of "intellectual property" instead of a system that creates more problems then value.
"Intellectual property" is also more valuable if it reaches many people so by limiting it's availability the authors are shooting themselves in the foot.
OPEN SOURCE and CREATIVE COMMONS is the way to go in my opinion.
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Nov 5 2011: I'd like to cite a quote that says it best. In a letter to Isaac McPherson, Tomas Jefferson writes:
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Nov 5 2011: I just saw another video on TED about open-source cancer research, which absolutely convinces me that all 'intellectual property' belongs to humanity, that no one entity should own it. That it is crazy to allow anyone to own this kind of information, for 2 reasons, 1st, the delay in progress that protective secrecy will inevitably cause. Without the open sharing of ideas and collaboration all over the planet, breakthroughs will be very slow. And 2nd, if a solution exists that could cure person or even save his life, this treatment should not be withheld from anyone and certainly not for considerations of monetary gain.
Here's the Ted video: http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_bradner_open_source_cancer_research.html
• Nov 4 2011: It belongs to those who use it or can relate to it the most.
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Oct 22 2011: Very little is original and then again almost everything is. The death of the author and Post Modernism made stealing legal and quite OK .Considering that's whats been happening all thwe time. we are copying machines sometimes however we dress it up a little different.
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Oct 19 2011: "...belong to"
I am not sure I speak your language...
The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery) would not understand it either...
I love. I create. I build. I inspire. I motivate. I imagine. I do. I laugh. I play. I seek.
Those are my verbs.
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Oct 18 2011: What if Pablo sold the rights of his poem to Mario, and then Mario could call it his poem? :P
There's a reason why Bill Gates is deathly afraid of open-source. It's because it makes more sense.
When I was a kid it was called sharing. As I got older I learned it was actually called stealing. I also learned that learning some things was a crime. This is the bizarre world we live in, but it's only bizarre because of the words we use to describe it. Everything would make a lot more sense if we referred to patents and copyrights as "intellectual monopoly".
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Oct 18 2011: Everyone, everywhere...thats all I got.
• Oct 16 2011: "Mario argued that poems don't belong to the writer, they belong to whomever needs it."
Mario does not respect intellectual property rights and is being intellectually dishonest towards the woman he is pursuing if claiming the work as his own. Thieves will often claim that something can't be owned or in not owned by the creator to clear themselves of any wrongdoing.
Need does not erase the fact that someone took time, effort and personal assets to craft something of value. For example, if a family is hungry and needs food, it is not right to steal food on the basis of that need. Our society cannot function in this manner.
Because the creator took available information and processed that information in such a way as to create something distinctive with value. Ex. A baker that takes raw ingredients to make bread.
Just because intellectual property is not a type of physical property, it is and should be valued as protected property to reward and/or acknowledge the creator.
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Oct 18 2011: Yes, no one else should be allowed to make that bread.
• Oct 19 2011: How can we keep pirates from claiming what belongs to the public domain? They wait for millions of people to ponder ideas and experiment in a million varied settings, using pubic funds and communal context, then suddenly they leap in front as if they had formed the crowd behind. On the other hand, how can we maintain motivation to do anything at all? Should we award patents on ways of breathing? Should ones walk down the sidewalk be copyrighted? A lawyer finds a way to make it valuable, because we will all pay to breath and walk, should the choice become not to.
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Oct 20 2011: Well nowadays you probably could copyright your walk, if you made it unique enough. You can patent a process of thought, a genetically modified organism (and own all the offspring), knowledge of how something works... it's kind of out of control. You've hit the nail on the head.
Money and motivation... in many cases, money just motivates us to create garbage. Look at cable television. Most tv shows exist solely to get ratings. They don't necessarily raise awareness of issues, teach us new skills or open our minds to new ways of thinking. The only reason they're given air time is to get us to watch commercials. Even the news and documentaries on the History channel aren't spared... it's all really just sensationalized crap.
Look at food. I don't know about you, but I usually enjoy a bowl of artificially colored corn starch with a glass of high fructose corn syrup in the morning. Delivering quality food to people doesn't seem to be on the minds of many producers. Government subsidies and cheap ingredients are.
So we've created this kind of superficial culture... we go to work a job that even money can't get us to enjoy, and we come home to eat and watch what basically amounts to crap. I'm not knocking capitalism. My point is that when money is the only motivating factor, the results just aren't that great.
Clearly money makes things happen. This computer I'm typing on didn't grow on a tree. But if it becomes hard to profit off books, music and movies because of piracy, maybe it'll help weed out some of the crap. People who are passionate about creating quality products will still be happily at work. Just look at Linux.
• Oct 20 2011: What's missing are the intellectual property rights of the public domain.
The Public should have the status of a corporation or individual. Like other institutions, we should be able to protect the Public from being usurped and pirated by naive, self-centered individuals or groups.
• Oct 22 2011: @Fred Lanisake
Try scooping off the sugary coating on your eyes and you will see a lot of nutritional things available for consumption.
The patent process is there to protect people and promote innovation. I doubt you can say the same for rampant theft. Ask yourself if it would make sense for a pharmaceutical company to spend billions of dollars on developing a new drug if a competitor could simply steal and sell the formula as their own.
And with Linux, permission has been granted to allow peer-to-peer development. This is much different than taking what you "need."
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Oct 22 2011: Well, more accurately the patent process exists to define using another party's idea as theft. It's been a controversial idea for the past few centuries that intellectual property laws have been around. The idea of theft traditionally has its roots in morality, not law. That is, it's universal, a more found in every culture. If I take something that belongs to you, so that you no longer have it, that's theft. Even if there were no laws, I would still be taking something from you.
The purpose of the patenting process is to allow parties to secure a monopoly on an innovation. Whether or not it promotes innovation is highly debatable... I'd argue that it really stifles innovation. If there were no monopolies on innovation, companies would have to deal with much greater competition, which would drive progress. If you came out with a product, and I was able to build off that same design and release an improved version the next day, you'd have no choice but to improve, or else lose to competition.
Instead what we have are companies purposely throttling their own innovation. New improvements are often designed years ahead of time, but slowly released little by little as to maximize profit. This is evident with industry leaders such as Adobe. If Adobe were ever to release their source code under the GNU GPL, we'd see the quality of their products take off.
Let's not get started on the practices of the pharmaceutical industry :P. There's nothing ethical about patenting cures. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7199 | Why massive open online courses (still) matter
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2013 was a year of hype for MOOCs (massive open online courses). Great big numbers and great big hopes were followed by some disappointing first results. But the head of edX, Anant Agarwal, makes the case that MOOCs still matter — as a way to share high-level learning widely and supplement (but perhaps not replace) traditional classrooms. Agarwal shares his vision of blended learning, where teachers create the ideal learning experience for 21st century students.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7243 | Herman Cain Skates, Rick Perry Flubs at CNBC Presidential Debate
Romney had a strong night at the CNBC face-off, while Cain escaped grilling on sexual harassment and Perry had a brain freeze. Howard Kurtz reports. Plus, more Daily Beast columnists weigh in.
Herman Cain, facing a rising tide of sexual-harassment allegations, caught two big breaks at Wednesday’s presidential debate.
First, CNBC moderator Maria Bartiromo failed to follow up when he charged that he is the victim of “character assassination”—neglecting even to point out that the trade group he headed paid $80,000 in settlements to two of his accusers.
Second, the crowd booed the Money Honey’s question—and cheered Cain’s defiant answer.
That hardly means the controversy is fading, but it allowed the former pizza executive to spend the rest of his time fielding economic questions without journalistic harassment.
The face-off in Michigan was almost exclusively devoted to the issues the public cares most about: the economy, housing, health care, and Social Security. But the fact-laden questions produced the kind of debate the press finds difficult to score: the candidates barely took a swipe at one another.
With one glaring exception: Rick Perry was the biggest loser. The man simply cannot memorize his talking points.
After a series of stumbling performances, the governor of Texas attempted to tick off the three federal agencies he would abolish, and was stumped at two. He paused, regrouped, and still couldn’t come up with the missing one (the Energy Department, which is hardly obscure). It was the only Perry moment anyone will remember, and a metaphor for his erratic campaign.
Cain reverted to his earlier habit of answering virtually every question with 9-9-9, almost to the point of absurdity, and was never pressed on the criticisms that prompted him to modify the tax plan. He gives good sound bite—“Focus on the domestic economy or we will fail”—but broke no new ground.
Mitt Romney appeared the most comfortable, which is no surprise given his business background. His nuanced answers don’t lend themselves to Cain-style one-liners, but he’s updated the GOP talking point of saying a debt-laden America could become Greece. He now says America could become Italy.
Moderator John Harwood pressed Romney for criticizing and then appearing to embrace President Obama’s auto bailout. Romney doubled down by saying the bailout was wrong and he wanted a “managed” bankruptcy—not a popular stance in Michigan, but better than acknowledging a flip-flop.
Newt Gingrich turned in a solid performance but kept returning to his media-bashing ways, telling Bartiromo it is “absurd” to expect a health-care answer in 30 seconds. Maybe so, but the candidates all agreed to the rules.
The other candidates were largely invisible, although Michele Bachmann took a bold stand by saying every taxpayer should pay at least a couple of Happy Meals. Call it the McDonald’s Plan.
After a brutal 10 days, Herman Cain is probably breathing easier. But if the debate was any indication, Romney’s stock is on the rise. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7245 | The Fresh Loaf
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I found a recipe book from 1955 that has some bread recipes in it. There are a few that I would like to try but they call for "cake yeast". I cannot find a cake of yeast would someone please tell me how much granulated yeast to use as a replacement for 1 cake yeast?
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If you're using the old-fashioned "active dry yeast" (which works just fine), use about 50% of the weight called for with cake yeast (otherwise known as compressed yeast, or just fresh yeast). Active dry yeast is the one that works best when you revive it first in warm water.
If you're using instant dry yeast (sometimes called bread machine yeast or rapid-rise yeast) you might try anywhere from 33% to 40% of the fresh or "cake" weight. Instant yeast is the kind of dry yeast that you add directly to the flour, with no prior resuscitation in warm water. You can often find it sold in jars, as well as the usual envelopes.
The reason I'm specifying a range for instant instead of just saying "33%" (as the manufacturer recommends) is because instant was originally designed for loaves in high-production scenarios where the dough is proofed at temperatures like 85 degrees F or higher. If your room temperature is significantly lower than that, and you want the same rate of fermentation as you get with cake yeast, you might find that 40% is a better conversion. Testing (by Didier Rosada) of artisanal-oriented loaves proofed at only 78-80 degrees or so resulted in the 40% conversion as a recommendation for those conditions.
Your bread will turn out fine in either case, but you might find that the 33% conversion to instant yeast leaves you with a slightly slower fermentation and final proof. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you know what to expect.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7257 | How to dress: A bit of all white
To avoid ending up looking a bit Liz Hurley/cruise ship, follow these three simple rules…
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Look, it was either all white, or I was going to wear red, white and blue, with a tiara, and a necklace made from miniature bunting. So count your lucky stars. On Friday, we all get the day off work in order to gawp at a dress, which is so completely my kind of bank holiday that the moment must be honoured.
What does white represent these days? I guess we can archive the virginity angle, now that not even the royals seem bothered about keeping up that pretence. White is symbolic of hope and optimism, which is appropriate for weddings, and is also the reason we want to wear it in spring. Wearing white trousers is a leap of faith. It says, there will be no puddles, no mud-splattering buses today.
But the pitfalls of wearing white are not limited to puddles. There is a whole other strata of peril to be grappled with, which is that wearing all-white is a bit cruise ship. A bit Liz Hurley. These are the same thing, in a way, because both represent an association with flash leisurewear. The reason all-white, Hurley/cruise ship leisurewear is naff in a way that expensive floppy Toast leisurewear in colours called things like Malt isn't is that there exists in the British psyche an innate distrust of the kind of weekend clothes you can't get dirty.
Jess Cartner-Morley, the Guardian's fashion editor, guides you through the latest trends. This week: white Link to video: How to dress: All in white
A white shirt or blouse with white trousers or skirt can work, but we need boundaries. First, no fascinators. Ever. Second, white jackets are seldom as good an idea in reality as they seem in the shop. And last, no white shoes with white outfits unless you are a bona fide bride. I'm all for progress, but rules are rules.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/7293 | US Navy invents 'Zero-Power Autonomous' ocean probe
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US Navy and Marine Corps boffins are chuffed with themselves today, after inventing a crafty underwater probe podule which can be dropped into the sea, sink to a pre-programmed depth, remain there for weeks or months and then at some point rise to the surface again - all without using any electrical power.
This last is a good feature as generating power underwater is no simple matter. The conventionally-fuelled generators used in surface ships and equipment aren't an option: batteries can't hold much juice for a given amount of weight and money. This is why big navies use nuclear-powered submarines, despite the expense and bureaucracy involved.
Nuclear power isn't a realistic option for a small instrument package, however, and one which is intended to go underwater can't use ordinary renewables such as wind and solar. At the moment, as a result, it's common to use a thing called an eXpendable Bathythermograph (XBT) to measure water temperatures down through the depths. The one-shot XBT plunges downwards, sending information back up to the deploying ship along very thin wires unreeling as it goes, and when the wires run out it is abandoned.
But now US naval boffins have come up with a crafty means of controlling buoyancy over long periods which doesn't involve expensive, unreliable long-duration batteries. Instead they have designed what they refer to as an "inoculated gas production vessel", a small cylinder with bacteria inside which produce hydrogen gas. This then escapes to fill a flotation chamber which will bring the instrument to the surface at a predetermined time.
The invention is known as Zero Power Ballast Control (ZPBC). According to a statement issued yesterday by the Naval Research Laboratory:
With an ultimate goal of producing simple, small, power-efficient data harvesting nodes with variable buoyancy the device will be able to monitor ocean temperatures with a stay time ranging from weeks to months and eventually years, providing a longer term than other mechanisms such as the Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT).
In the future, the ZPBC will provide input for robust modeling of ocean temperatures and other parameters. The ZPBC could also be used to provide in-water optical data to enhance models for underwater visibilities, laser penetration depths, diver and target vulnerability assessments, electro-optical system performance predictions, and refining numerical models.
"Preliminary trials were successful in many ways," says Dr Justin Biffinger, NRL boffin. "The device surfaced and submerged periodically as designed via hydrogen gas produced from the microbial inoculum and growth medium, proving the device generated gas in sufficient quantity to produce buoyancy."
The US navy lab boys describe the test devices as "Autonomous Zero-Power Bathythermograph sensors" and believe that they could replace XBTs and similar instruments used in support of naval antisubmarine operations, mine-clearance, frogman attacks and more. ®
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