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I'm the least surprised that it was Terry Pratchett that made himself a sword.
GAH. Stupid apostrophe...authors*
The article on which this news story seems to be based, complete with picture of Sir pTerry and his sword is at
http://www.paulkidby.com/news/apr2010.html [paulkidby.com]
It appears to be in the Gladius Style (Roman Legion) and is a Short Sword. Keep in mind, this isn't the size of Excalibur or what Conan would use. Instead it's based on a practical design developed by the roman legions for use by Centurions in their shield wall formation. Practical and short enough not to interfere with your neigbors sword.
You might want to try that before spouting it as fact.
First, if you don't have room to draw a sword, how are you throwing the pilum that proceeds drawing it?
Second, you can draw a sword from the left hip, point down, raise your hand overhead, then either stab straight from there or rotate it point up without changing your grip. You can do this in the tightest close order shieldwall, with a sword in excess of the length of a gladius. Been there, reenacted that, many times.
Third, try drawing from your right hip. Go on, stand up and try it. If you draw in the natural orientation (thumb down), where does your elbow go? <Morbo>JOINTS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY</Morbo>. Alternatively, you can draw with your thumb up and then have to juggle the sword to flip it over. It's always a more awkward draw, under any circumstances, and never takes less room than drawing across your body.
Where this myth came from, I have no idea, but I've yet to see any real world evidence that it's anything other than a myth, and that includes demonstrations from Roman reenactors trying desperately (and often hilariously) to justify it.
Where this myth came from, I have no idea, but I've yet to see any real world evidence that it's anything other than a myth, and that includes demonstrations from Roman reenactors trying desperately (and often hilariously) to justify it.
Ignoring the argument of why the Romans wore their scabbards on the right, there's plenty of conclusive evidence that they in fact did so.
Roman art is, as usual, our best source of information on Roman culture.
Look at this, for instance: http://www.romanarmy.net/images/Pages/articles/artweapons/artwep2.jpg [romanarmy.net].
Not that I'm any expert, but it was alway my understanding that the Roman Legion favored short swords because they spent so much time fighting the Gauls and other barbarian tribes around Europe who favored long and heavy weapons that needed to be swung for momentum or brought down from overhead, which left them extremely vulnerable to someone who closed in fast with a short blade. I thought the Gauls also favored chain mail armor, which is easier to punch through with a small blade than to chop through wit
It's as much metallurgy as anything else. Until pattern-welding became widespread around 800AD, blades much longer than 24" just didn't have the strength needed in combat, particularly for swords intended for slashing motions.
There are some excellent websites for smiths doing reproduction historical swords with well-researched historical techniques which make for a fascinating read (to nerds like myself anyway). Start with Patrick Barta at www.templ.net and Jim Hrisoulas at www.atar.com, then move on to www.myarmoury.com for hands-on reviews and photos.
Partly correct. The Gladius was favoured by the Legions because it was short enough for the scabbard to be hung on the same side as the wielding hand. This prevents the act of drawing the sword from taking any more room than one man standing upright, maintaining their tight shield wall formation.
Clever buggers, they were.
It's not that they were clever, so much, as the fact that they'd learned from their mistakes.
Prior to adopting the shorter swords, there was a fair chance that each man drawing his sword in the shield wall formation would kill the man to his left... And so the entire formation could be reduced to one man in the space of seconds. This only happened eight or nine times before they decided to rethink their approach.
See also the "Katzbalger" sword carried by the Landsknecht mercenaries in the German provinces of the Holy Roman Empire (16th century). It also served the same purpose - a short blade for close combat when there no longer was room to swing pikes or the big two-handed jobbers. The hilt reminds me of some Frankish swords, though, so to me it looks like a modern version of an 11th century blade.
But yeah, it's an infantry blade, not a cavalry one. Also looks like it has just the right centre of gravity for actu
You mean that article dated "April 1st"?
Somehow, I don't think he wrote an article largely about the death of his mother and his thoughts on assisted suicide as a prank.
Haven't time to read the article since I'm at work, but you have to admit he does have a warped sense of humour at times
Well he was talking about this at the last DWcon so I'd say it's true.
Have you seen his monitor setup? I'm jealous, and I'm supposed to call myself a geek.
For the benefit of the rest of the world, Wiltshire is East of Redmond and West of Moscow...rant over.
"The South of England" is a pretty broad brush to use, I think "West of London" is useful.
I live in Aberdeen (North of London).
In my experience, most people in London would say they live in South East England -- at least if they're aware of anything outside the M25.
Officially [wikipedia.org], there's only a South West and South East, no South. Unofficially, when someone says "South" to me I tend to think of not-especially-west and not-especially-east, e.g. Southampton, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Reading.
Including oddly Watford which is 60 miles south of Watford gap
Watford Gap is a service station near the Village of Watford in Northamptonshire
I think it almost certainly got garbled by the media.
If I remember correctly one procedure is that manure is used to add carbon to the blade to form steel rather than to actually heat the sword up: you put the blade in a air-tight box with a handful of manure and then heat the whole lot up to high temperature, and when you open the box after some time, the manure is apparently gone, but the carbon from it has soaked into the blade.
Small-enough wood chippings and a decent pair of bellows can make a brilliant Iron-Age blast furnace. Indeed, this is how early metalwork and baked ceramic work was done. It is highly plausible that Sir Pratchett has refined the basic approach or obtained information from the excellent living history and archaeological communities that showed how to make such refinements. I am much impressed. Now, whether the iron was truly meteoric - that's a tougher question. Mind you, one could argue that it hardly matte
Sounds like he just made a real life Thunderfury [thottbot.com].
I can't wait for RMS [xkcd.com] to get knighted.
Of course I believe he'd have to become a subject of the Queen to do so, and given his predisposition, I doubt he'd be particularly inclined to do so.
Americans can be knighted, Ronald Reagan was knighted.
Besides RMS might not want one after Bill Gates got his
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/29/uk_knighthoods_for_foreigners_what/ [theregister.co.uk]
Though it was in recognition of Gates charity work, not computers.
I can't wait for RMS [xkcd.com] to get knighted.
Of course I believe he'd have to become a subject of the Queen to do so, and given his predisposition, I doubt he'd be particularly inclined to do so.
He just needs citizenship of one of the Commonwealth realms [wikipedia.org] - these include Canada & Australia; I don't think he'd mind being subject to the Queen's jurisdiction in that sense, but I doubt he'd accept a knighthood even then. He wouldn't be the first [wikipedia.org]
And he'd have to move. Americans can't have dual citizenship.
LOL. In theory, yes. In practice -- have you ever asked some naturalized U.S. citizens if they renounced their other citizenship(s)? I don't know of any who did the latter, even though I do know many of the former.
This past weekend I put a huge steel ninja sword I got for 12 bucks into a campfire we were having, and it glowed red after a short few minutes. I easily bent it into a full U shape.
This simple, moronic drunken act made me feel connected to countless other drunken, moronic ancestors before me, all equally intruigued by how fire is able to temporarily confuse physics. I suppose this is why alchemy makes sense, since some form of math has to work inside of a fire. Still, I felt very enlightened to hold one of the four elements so close to my will and desires.
Far future. Civilization has collapsed. A small band of likable people are fending off bad people.
One of the good people stumbles upon Sir Terry's home and discovers a magic sword allowing him to fend off the bad people, get the girl, live happily ever after.
What are the to hit and damage modifiers? Since its magical I assume it would be more than +1 in both categories.
+1 to Krisma
I should hope it's a really nice sword. I recall watching a national geographic or discovery channel thing that described how iron was extracted from pete moss. Fascinating stuff... okay almost completely unrelated, but using ancient techniques to make ancient weapons interests me.
I don't know who this Pete Moss guy is. He seems to be either a DJ [discogs.com] or a rock musician [myspace.com] depending on which guy you're referring to. He doesn't seem to be into heavy metals. I'd say it would be far easier to use peat moss
One of the articles on this said that it mostly was just ordinary ore, but he tossed in some bonafide meteorite iron as well.
His website says
"made from iron ore he collected on Salisbury Plain (with the addition of a little bit of 'thunderbolt iron' from the Sikhote Alin meteorite to give it that special extra-terrestrial 'something'),"
Three cheers for Anglachel!!!
Sorry about your sister though, was she good?
I always liked him as a comically kitschy author--I like really bad fantasy and skiffie.
He went out and did it.
Doesn't matter what "it" is (OK, maybe not infantaphagia or similar...)--kudos to anyone these days who gets off their butt and goes out and does it.
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All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss and Last Resorts will air nationally on Independent Lens March 24th at 8 pm. KLRU is the presenting PBS station for this documentary, which explores the relationships between a group of women from Austin who have been friends — and morbidly obese — for years. But now, having weight-loss surgery is about to upset everything they thought they knew about health, happiness, friendship and love.
KLRU produced, and is distributing to PBS stations nation-wide, a townhall-style show called Civic Summit: Obesity, Weight Loss and Body Acceptance. The Civic Summit explores the complex issues and experiences surrounding obesity and weight loss. This panel discussion will raise questions and provide information and insights related to the physical and emotional challenges confronting those in our society who are obese. Experts in the field of weight loss surgery, mental health, wellness and body acceptance discuss the struggles, stigma and prejudices faced by members of the obese community and the many options available to them.
All Of Me focuses on the journeys of three of these Austin women: Judy, who is determined to succeed while her husband is conflicted; Dawn, who had an early career as a fat model and calendar girl, and struggles with both her weight and identity; and the heaviest of the Girls, Zsalynn, who, at over 500 pounds, desperately tries to save enough money for surgery, for her young daughter's sake.
Through their stories, All of Me shines light on our attitudes and prejudices about obesity — its causes, challenges, and the intense psychological struggle so many have with food that no surgery or diet can cure. The Girls take us through their food addiction and emotional eating with a searing honesty. For a group so often vilified, joked about, or ignored, All of Me provides a platform for their stories and encourages viewers to take a fresh look at our own prejudices and complicated relationships with food, fat, and our bodies.
KLRU worked with filmmaker Alexandra Lescaze on both the documentary and the Civic Summit. Lescaze is a NY-based documentary filmmaker and the Executive Director of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, home of the annual Hillman Prizes in Journalism and monthly Sidney Awards, honoring excellence in journalism in service of the common good. Her first film, Where Do You Stand? stories from an American mill, documented the 25-year effort of North Carolina textile workers to organize a union in the face of modernization and globalization.

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Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel periods in the entire year and the increase in travelers usually translates to an increase in accidents. The Pennsylvania State Police are offering the following tips to those who are heading out onto the roads this holiday season:
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� Don�t drink and drive; always designate a driver if you are drinking. And don�t let others drink and drive.
� Obey the posted speed limits and check your mirrors every 5 to 7 seconds.
� Check your tires and fluid levels and make sure there are no mechanical issues with your car before heading out.
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
*** The great '08 paradox: Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the latest NBC/WSJ poll is the poor shape the GOP finds itself in today: The party's fav/unfav has increased (34%-49%); Bush's approval rating remains in the 30s; a whopping 76% say they want a president who takes a different approach from Bush; and Democrats lead by double digits in generic presidential and congressional contests. On top of it all, for the first time since 1992, a plurality of registered voters (43%) believe they're worse off than they were four years ago -- hardly a good sign for a party trying to hold onto the presidency. And yet … McCain seems like he'll be more than competitive come November. He trails Obama by just three points (44%-47%) and Clinton two points (45%-47%). Also, while a surprising 52% of Republicans say they would have preferred a different GOP nominee, the crosstabs show Republican voters siding with him in general election match ups. And get this: Just 44% of Democrats have a negative view of him.
*** Style vs. substance: Clinton leads Obama on almost every individual issue the poll measured, but she trails him on electability (48% think Obama would have the better chance of beating McCain, versus 38% who think this of Clinton), favorability, and who is seen as the more "acceptable" candidate. Why the disconnect? Because style is often more important than substance in presidential politics. Kerry and Gore both led Bush on the issues, but how far did that get them? Indeed, this latest NBC/WSJ poll shows that more voters think a candidate's leadership style and trustworthiness (48%) is more important than ideas and policies (32%) when asked to pick between the two. But that is hardly the only thing going on here. Obama has improved on eight of 10 attributes, including the commander-in-chief question (he trails Clinton here by just five points among Democrats). Clinton, on the other hand, has stagnated on nine out of 10 attributes and has dropped in the other: being likeable. Overall, Clinton leads Obama in the Dem horserace, 47%-43%, the closest it has ever been in the poll.
*** Compare and contrast: It's also noteworthy that, according to the poll, Clinton's and McCain's top attributes among all voters are similar: being knowledgeable of the presidency, having strong leadership qualities, and being a good commander-in-chief. Yet McCain has higher scores on these attributes than Clinton does. On the flip side, McCain's strengths are Obama's weaknesses and vice versa. McCain's worst attributes -- being likeable, being inspirational and exciting, and bringing real change -- are among Obama's top categories. His worst categories: commander-in-chief, positions on the issues, and knowledge of the presidency. Do Democrats go for a nominee that covers a flank against McCain? Or capitalizes on one?
*** Legacy watch: Bill Clinton's legacy has taken a real hit in the last year. In March 2007, his fav/unfav was 49%-35%. Now it's a net negative: 42%-45%. His numbers have gradually gotten worse as the campaign has gone on. In November, it was 47%-40%; in January, it was 44%-41%, and now it's 42%-45%. The reason? His support among African Americans and Obama voters has greatly eroded. Similarly, the poll shows that Obama voters have a more negative impression of Clinton than Clinton voters do of Obama.
*** Uniting the Dems: Nearly four in 10 Democrats believe the protracted primary is bad for the party, and just one in four think the long process is good. So this begs the question: Which of the two Democrats will have an easier time uniting the party? Well, according to the NBC/WSJ survey, Obama voters have a lower opinion of Clinton than Clinton voters have of Obama. Clinton's fav/unfav among Obama voters was 69%-17%; now it has decreased to 45%-33%. Meanwhile, Obama's fav/unfav among Clinton voters was 55%-20%; now it's pretty much the same at 53%-24%. Does this mean Obama voters have taken this campaign a lot more personally than Clinton's supporters? Or does this mean Obama's voters are more intensely loyal to their candidate than Clinton's? These are questions the superdelegates may end up debating amongst themselves at some point.
*** Other interesting numbers in the poll: The percentage of respondents who correctly identified Obama as a Christian increased from 18% to 37%. But those identifying him as a Muslim also increased five points (from 8% to 13%). Fifty-eight percent said globalization has been bad for the country; just 25% said it has been good. Congress' approval rating is at 19%. And just 14% view Nader in a positive light; 37% have a negative impression of him. The poll was conducted March 7-10 among 1,012 registered voters, and it has a 3.1% margin of error.
*** Getting closer to a re-vote? According to the Washington Post, the Florida Democratic Party has set June 3 as the date for a possible mail-in do-over election. The party confirms the date to First Read, but cautions that nothing is set in stone, due to the fact that Florida Democrats are disagreeing about the particulars. But there are a lot of unanswered questions about how the election will be conducted, including if it passes muster with the Justice Department since Florida is a state that has to get pre-clearance for their elections, even party-run ones. South Carolina Democrats and Republicans have faced this issue in the past. By the way, Michigan also appears closer to coming up with some sort of re-vote compromise.
*** The Limbaugh effect: Want more proof that the liberal blogosphere has turned into a big-time ally for the Obama campaign? It has really begun to push the "Limbaugh Effect" story to explain why Republicans, per exit polls, have begun to break for Clinton in Ohio, Texas, and Mississippi. But let's not get carried away on this issue since all three states have Southern tendencies (yes, you Southern Ohio), meaning identity politics is more likely to trump everything else. Until there's an actual swing of Republicans voting for Clinton in a state without culturally Southern tendencies, then assume this so-called "Limbaugh effect" is nothing more than an urban myth.
*** The delegate count: Obama leads, 1,614-1,497. The NBC pledged number has Obama leading, 1,398-1,244. Clinton leads in superdelegates, 253-216.
*** On the trail: Clinton, McCain, and Obama are all in DC for Senate business today, although McCain later travels to Philly for a fundraiser there. Also, Bill Clinton holds fundraisers in New York and Michelle Obama campaigns in Pennsylvania.
Countdown to Pennsylvania: 40 days
Countdown to North Carolina, Indiana: 54 days
Countdown to Election Day 2008: 236 days
Countdown to Inauguration Day 2009: 313 days
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Looks aren't only important for newbies. I've using computers for many years, but I prefer a user interface which feels modern and fresh, as well as one which takes advantage of the computer's graphic capabilities. Just as I feel happier working in an bright office environment in an interesting building. Aesthetics aren't important for everyone - as many sysadmins working on command lines in dingy basements will attest to - but to many others, visual aesthetics are vital for a good user experience.If you're a computer newbee, the only thing you can judge a computer on is how it looks. So just like with the iMac craze a number of years back, updating the look and feel of an OS every now and then, is a good idea from a commercial point of view.
This could be the least content of any story I have read.
You must be new here.
Nah, it'd look like this [blogspot.com]! : )
(Of course, a wallpaper showing the circuitry on the inside of my iMac would be really cool... I wish I could find one.)
NO MORE PINSTRIPES!!! For the love of Steve, PLEASE kill them. And brushed metal. Dead, dead, dead.
The new look will be translucent fur.
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You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus.
--Mark Twain
Is Jobs scared of Aero?, does it make sense to go for a new UI now?, has Aqua run out of steam?
How old is Aqua? Perhaps they're just wanting to update it to add new features, take advantage of dual/quad/bajillion core CPUs, etc., etc. A lot has happened since Aqua debuted, and Apple has rarely been one to simply sit on a good product and not try to continue to make it better/newer.
I don't know about that, but I do know that Aqua has been undergoing a lot of "enhancements" that, over time, have detracted quite a bit from the look.
Jaguar had the first "Brushed metal" windows. This looked "ok", but still a little strange. Panther then downplayed a lot of the pin-striped look, which helped make the UI a little less distracting, but at the same time also made the look rather less attractive. Tiger has gone further, with squared off windows and the (non-brushed) metal look.
Each iteration has undermined the over-all elegance of the visuals (though in Jaguar's defense, they did make the buttons look more elegant.) That's not to say they weren't necessary, early Mac OS X was so full of stripes and other distractions that it was even more horrible to use than the poor graphics accelleration resulted in. But there's little doubt that a simple comparison of Jaguar, sans-metal, and Tiger, shows the former with a much more attractive looking (whether usable or not) UI than the latter.
This rumour doesn't surprise me really. What'll be interesting is to see whether it's a complete break with Aqua, or just an upgrade. I seriously doubt this has anything to do with Aero though: Steve Jobs is going to be concerned with the look of Mac OS X regardless of whether they have ten competitors or none.
You weren't around in the 89-95 period then. Apple rested on it's System7 laurels as it was so far ahead for years. By about 98 even Widows had caught up. Just sayin'.
Those of us who are not complete macintosh fanboys will have noticed that this is the time at which Apple dropped from having something like 11% market share to having about 3% market share. There were two reasons. One is that Apple computers were still running on 68k processors well into the age when the intel chips were whipping Motorola's ass. The other is that System 7 was a festering piece of shit. No Apple operating system has ever been as unreliable as System 7. While Windows was going towards protected mode all the time (NT did it already; ME doesn't use real mode, which is why compatibility was hurt; Windows 98 is MOSTLY 32 bit) Apple was still using their MMU (when present, which was not always) for virtual memory, and virtual memory alone. A lack of memory protection made MacOS as unreliable as AmigaDOS, with applications stepping on each other constantly. The difference is that AmigaDOS can be rebooted in just a few seconds, even from floppies.
If you remember Mac OS 7 with nostalgia then you clearly have some sort of memory disability.
if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Let's do away with the files/folders/desktop/dialogs metaphor and system. It's served us well, but I'd really like to see a groundbreaking way to work with my data.
if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Well, throwing it away completely would be a bad idea. There are many ideas there that work well and discarding them would be stupid. At the same time, I think it is long past time to do away with a hierarchical file system.
It's not that it shouldn't allow you to define hierarchies, but that shouldn't be
I've used Spotlight once or twice, but only when I would normally have used Sherlock - when something accidentally got saved to some unknown place. I *like* my neatly-organized heirarchical folders, thank you very much. The reason the metaphor has lived for so long is that it's one that makes sense to many people. If they do try something "revolutionary", I hope
The single main menu at the top is a thing that you love or hate, but it can feel very strange to change the focus of the application to just access a menu. Yes, I'm aware of t
The single main menu at the top is a thing that you love or hate, but it can feel very strange to change the focus of the application to just access a menu.
You have to do this on Windows too, you know. Even though you can see the menu of another application, when you try to click on it the first time it focuses the app rather than accessing the menu. Now, some Unix window managers (with focus-follows-mouse), on the other hand...
Did you actually try this before you posted that "fact?" Unless the app was specifically designed to capture the focus click (e.g., MS Office and Visual Studio, for reasons unknown), it will focus the window AND drop the menu with one click. That's the standard default behavior.
The thing I really like about the single menu bar is not so much that it's always in the same place (which is handy) but that you conserve a lot of screen estate when every window an app has open does not have to make room for a whole menubar.
Well, that's really the debate, isn't it? Do you want to save a few pixels, or save a few mouse movements? Neither one is all that arduous really. My only problem is that I find it confusing to have to pick an application to get the menu right. If I have two versio
Hell even the single fact that when you are presented the logon screen, the pointer is on 10,10 and not at screencenter as on Windows, KDE or Gnome is an inconvenient. A little one but just a little thing here and a little thing there does a lot.
I've never ever used my "pointer" at the logon screen. Simply type the first letter of the user name and hit return. If a password is required the text entry box appears, empty and focused. Enter password, hit return again, and you're logged in.
Hell even the single fact that when you are presented the logon screen, the pointer is on 10,10 and not at screencenter as on Windows, KDE or Gnome is an inconvenient. A little one but just a little thing here and a little thing there does a lot.
Why does this matter, when at the text login page, you can type your username, hit tab, enter your password, hit enter, and be looking at a desktop seconds later? And actually launch programs, not have those programs cancel mouse actions (I love how Windows repeatedly cancels menus you're trying to navigate. When the entire OS revolves around a giant heirarchial menu. For fuck's sake, a program loading itself into the toolbar causes this!)
In fact, I can then hit apple-space and type "Mail", use the down arrow and enter key to select it and launch Mail.app, and read+respond to email in my inbox. Still haven't touched my (multibutton) mouse. How about that...
Faced with the prospect of being "boring and unoriginal" compared to OLPC vaporware, Steve has decided to one-up the "View Source" button and make XCode the new interface.
Too bad it would only work for Chess and WebKit!
compile it, save it in one of your Scripts folders, and make the AppleScript menulet visible. You could probably also use Butler or QuickKeys or Quicksilver to assign a keyboard shortcut to it.try
tell application "Finder" to update items of front window
end try
The Finder is the one thing I would like to see improvements in. For example rewriting it to be a Cocoa app and actually being smarter at noticing file changes, especially with SMB volumes. There is no f5 (refresh key on Windows), so I don't want to have to wait a minute until it notices.
Maybe this is better on 10.4 but I have 10.3 and it never updates the desktop unless it thinks I am watching. When I create a PDF with acrobat, which causes it to be saved on my desktop by default, it will not appear un
Eye candy alone, a good interface does not make. It has to work well too. Position of elements, system-wide consistency, clarity of function: are you taking these in account?
sure, is apple?
In case you need the answer spelled out for you, the answer is no. Let me give you some examples.
One quicky example of how Apple's logic is poor slapped me in the face when I turned on my system. Apple is constantly giving me offers to install an iSight update. I don't have an iSight. I tried to install it once
OMFG!!! The interface changed!! You've got to feel a little for Microsoft sometimes. One of the few times they try to truly innovate and they get slammed because the interface actually changed. How can you innovate without changing interface at least some? If it's worse than the old interface, ok. But that's not even the complaint from a lot of people. They just don't like the f
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Off the fridge and into a book, two preserve children's art
Published 10:16 pm, Thursday, March 6, 2014
Throughout the school year, students bring their artwork home and proudly show it to their parents, who give them accolades for a job well done.
The art may hang on the refrigerator door, trapped underneath a magnet, until the next piece of work comes home, then it's out with the old and in with the new.
But what happens with that old artwork? Does it get tucked away in a box up in the attic or shoved in a drawer?
Two Darien women have found a way to preserve children's artwork in a way that's appealing enough to put it on a coffee table.
Jumbo Dogs Art Books -- so named after van Hulst's bulldog, Jumbo, became a reality in September when neighbors Yaël van Hulst and Jessica Anderson were talking about the life of a stay-at-home mom.
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"We were just talking about work and that struggle of being a stay-at-home mom and wanting a job and wanting a career," Anderson said. "So we spoke about the possibilities that fit within the lifestyle of being a mom."
It was then that van Hulst told Anderson about a recurring idea she had -- preserving her children's art.
"My kid was coming home with so much artwork and as a parent, every piece is amazing," van Hulst said. "But I wanted to do something. You can't put every piece around your house. So, our idea was to take all of this art off parents' hands and create a beautiful book that they would want to display, look at and have forever."
Anderson, who lives around the corner from van Hulst's Noroton Bay home, said the two work in tandem and feed off each other's strengths to have a cohesive partnership.
"We're not `in-the-box' kind of women," van Hulst said.
The women say the heavier-stock pages in bright colors separate them from commercial photo-book makers. Pages are flush mounted and lie flat with silver halide photo paper, much like a high-end wedding album.
The hardcover books, which have a matte finish, start at $205 for the smallest one with 26 pages, and up to $500 for more than 70 pages. The glass-covered books start at $225 for 16 pages and up to $740 for 50 pages.
"We want to say even if your kid is 3 years old, that art is spectacular," van Hulst said. "That art is important, that art should be showcased."
For information, visit jumbodogartbooks.com.
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Acyclovir: The Next New HIV Drug?
February 10, 2009
In two poster presentations at CROI 2009 in Montreal, Canada, acyclovir, a drug used to treat herpes, shows that it also inhibits HIV during the reverse transcription (RT) step in the virus's life cycle. Two studies looked at how acyclovir affected the RT enzyme, which may pave the way to using the drug to treat HIV infection either on its own or together with herpes therapy.
In the first study, in an attempt to find compounds with novel anti-HIV activity, a team from John Hopkins School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute searched through nearly 3000 FDA-approved drugs or other drugs in phase II studies. Twenty were found to have moderate activity against HIV and 18 were selected for this study.
In the lab, CD4 cells were infected with HIV and then exposed to 10 mM of acyclovir. Cultures were also individually exposed to the other 17 compounds. Viral load tests were done to assess the reduction of HIV levels. Other tests were used to confirm whether the RT enzyme was the drug's target. Herpes infection and activity were also examined. Acyclovir, along with the other compounds, was shown to suppress HIV replication.
The second study looked at the activity of acyclovir on HIV in various tissues from the tonsils, lymph nodes, rectum and genital tract, all co-infected with various human herpes viruses. After treating HIV-infected cells with acyclovir, viral loads and RT activity were assessed.
If the cells had both HIV and herpes viruses in them, then acyclovir suppressed HIV reproduction in those cells. Conversely, if the cells didn't have herpes virus in them, then acyclovir didn't suppress HIV. However, when cells infected with herpes virus only were added to treated co-infected cell cultures, then acyclovir suppressed HIV again. This suppression of HIV appears to affect HIV that uses both R5 and X4 co-receptors.
More study is needed to discover how acyclovir interacts with HIV, both with and without the presence of a herpes infection. One main concern here is how acyclovir may affect HIV mutations. For example, when people with HIV are simply treating their herpes and not their HIV, they may actually be on "HIV monotherapy" which may then lead to poorer HIV therapy outcomes. This data comes in light of reported studies from CROI 2008 that showed using acyclovir in herpes-infected individuals increased the risk of HIV infection.
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Massachusetts will receive up to $44 million in federal money over three and a half years to continue ongoing efforts to change the state's health care system.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it would distribute $250 million to six states that are trying new methods of delivering care to people enrolled in government health care programs serving children, the poor, and the elderly.
"Our hope is that the best ideas will spread throughout the country," US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on a conference call.
In Massachusetts, the money will be used for various projects, including standardizing the way in which doctors and hospitals report on the quality of care they provide, using electronic health records, to make it easier to compare them. The state also will invest in education across hospitals and physician groups, setting up systems to share ideas for what works in cutting costs and improving care, said state Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz.
The federal money "helps reinforce the work that we've already done here in the state," he said.
The money also is earmarked for expanding medical homes, which assign a team of providers to oversee a patient's overall treatment.Chelsea Conaboy can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @cconaboy.


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Three easy steps for getting over a poor performance.
If you've run a bad race recently, rest assured–you're not alone.
Greg Wieczorek, a 2:25 marathoner, said it brilliantly: "Probability theory dictates that I am not going to hit one out of the park every race." It's important for every runner to consider the way in which he or she judges their own successes or failures. Cam Levins, a budding Canadian superstar who recently ran 7:45 for 3,000 meters and 3:57 for the mile, said, "you have to have a short memory and despite the world knowing about your poor performance, it is not the end of the world."
RELATED: Bouncing Back From A Bad Workout
If your body has fully recovered from a race, but your ego is still sore, it might be time to let yourself off the hook. John C. Maxwell wrote a book called Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success. Although the title of Maxwell's book sounds akin to something my mother would tell me growing up to soften the blow whenever failure hit, I do believe that Maxwell is right and that turning mistakes into stepping stones for success is the ultimate path to improvement. Tim Tollefson, U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier, said, "Wasting too much psychological energy dwelling on what could've been is a futile habit. So my remedy: Reflect, grow and move on."
While goal setting is a must, the possibility of not obtaining goals comes with the territory. With success and hard work came the expectation of success, but failure always seems to hit the hardest.
You can either fail backward or fail forward. Let failures be your teachers and help you move forward, especially in regard to racing. On the following pages are three top tips for helping you move on when a race doesn't go as well as you had hoped.


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Microsoft would LOVE to just break everything and start fresh, but there's no way anybody would upgrade if none of their programs ran on the new OS.
Unless Microsoft's new OS came with a copy of Microsoft's previous OS and a virtualizer. I seem to remember that Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.4 for PowerPC did something similar during the 9 to X transition.
For example ?
Microsoft has never shown themselves to be worried about breaking backward compatibility.
Considering the ridiculous lengths Microsoft commonly go to so that backwards compatibility is preserved, that's pretty funny.
You were shooting for "+1, Funny" right ?
And I've seen programs designed for DOS 3.3 run under Windows XP.
Only because you've installed the AppleWin emulator
And XP running DOS programs dating from the mid 80s is not at all uncommon.
DOS games - as anyone dating from the era should know - *frequently* relied on direct access to hardware and undocumented bugs/quirks/features in both hardware and the different versions (and brands) of DOS. That they often don't work in a compatibility layer that doesn't allow direct hardware access and typically only r
Linux is probably the most backwards-compatible
Not for proprietary software, which most PC peripheral manufacturers seem to prefer. A proprietary device driver that uses the right subset of WDM can run on Windows 98se, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Linux, on the other hand, changes the kernel ABI on every kernel version, and different distributions use different kernel versions.
Blaming this on StarForce specifically hardly seems fair unless there's a specific reason Microsoft are blocking it from loading
That in itself is another excellent reason not to upgrade to Vista, because with its infestation of DRM and Treacherous Computing that won't be guaranteed in the future.
...but I guess it's good to know that the games that run under the gaming OS I use now will continue to run.
The reasoning behind this is that adjusting the clock in windows modifies the system time instead of some user-specific timekeeper. Without that restriction some chronologically pedantic dingus could knock himself out of sync with the domain servers and will fail any kind of authentication attempts automatically. Granted this means absol
If you cannot understand why adjusting the system time needs elevated privileges, you're probably not qualified to be making any comments about security. At all.
Quite arguable.
[...] allow users to change the time without root priviledges.
Linux certainly doesn't:
[CHI csmith@unix-prod01 ~]$ date
Wed May 31 21:35:42 CDT 2006
[CHI csmith@unix-prod01 ~]$ date 05312145
date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted
Wed May 31 21:45:00 CDT 2006
[CHI csmith@unix-prod01 ~]$ date
Wed May 31 21:36:02 CDT 2006
[CHI csmith@unix-prod01 ~]$
Unless, of course, you're root:
[CHI csmith@unix-prod01 ~]$ sudo date 05312145
Windows doesn't allow LUA users to change the system time. That is not a LUA bug, because changing the system time has security implications with respect to auditing and to the Kerberos protocol.
Also, Windows won't let your computer authenticate to a domain if your system time differs from the DCs time significantly.
or are you trying to say that you need to grant the admin account even more rights under Vista?
I don't know if it applies in this particular case, but one difference between XP and Vista is that XP will complain if you try to install a non-certified driver. Vista won't let you install a non-certified driver at all. In case you're wondering, this is so that nothing that hasn't been vetted by Microsoft (i.e. is "Trusted") can run in kernel mode (and thereby circumvent Treacherous Computing).
In other words,
That assumes that people will mostly get Vista by upgrading from XP. More typically, they'll get it pre-installed on new machines. If Vista breaks a lot of games, that's a problem for gamers who want to buy new hardware.The question isn't "Can it run my games", but "Is there a value to installing Vista that will make my games run better"?
The question isn't "Can it run my games", but "Is there a value to installing Vista that will make my games run better"?
But you're forgetting the very valid question of "Will my games still work when Vista is finally foisted upon me?"
I have a Situation in my recent memory. We used to have this silly, awful, yet popular platform for games called MS-DOS. Then Microsoft absolutely brutally killed its support, when they grew tired of people asking "how the hell do I run Ultima VII?". Then there was a looo
You don't think the completely new display subsystem and video driver model in Vista might have just a little bit to do with it ? Just maybe ?
Good advice. I'd never support a company whose business plan was so narrow as to only target ~95% - 99% of their potential market, either.
Vista doesn't have particularly high hardware requirements (I was surprised they weren't higher). Even a mid-range PC from ~3 years ago is only likely to require a memory upgrade - (and even that's unlikely, in the case of an enthusiast) - and a "high end" PC ~5 years ago should be capable with a cheap video card upgrade.
That's assuming you want the fancy Aero interface, of course - if the "Classic" interface is good enough for you then anything back to about 7 y
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Submission + - New Research Sheds Light on the Evolution of Dogs
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The first dogs descended from wolves about 14,000 years ago but according to Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods humans didn't domesticate dogs — dogs sought out humans and domesticated us. Humans have a long history of eradicating wolves, rather than trying to adopt them which raises the question: How was the wolf tolerated by humans long enough to evolve into the domestic dog? "The short version is that we often think of evolution as being the survival of the fittest, where the strong and the dominant survive and the soft and weak perish. But essentially, far from the survival of the leanest and meanest, the success of dogs comes down to survival of the friendliest." Most likely, it was wolves that approached us, not the other way around, probably while they were scavenging around garbage dumps on the edge of human settlements. The wolves that were bold but aggressive would have been killed by humans, and so only the ones that were bold and friendly would have been tolerated. In a few generations, these friendly wolves became distinctive from their more aggressive relatives with splotchy coats, floppy ears, wagging tails. But the changes did not just affect their looks but their psychology. Protodogs evolved the ability to read human gestures. "As dog owners, we take for granted that we can point to a ball or toy and our dog will bound off to get it," write Hare and Woods. "But the ability of dogs to read human gestures is remarkable. Even our closest relatives — chimpanzees and bonobos — can't read our gestures as readily as dogs can." With this new ability, these protodogs were worth knowing. People who had dogs during a hunt would likely have had an advantage over those who didn't. Finally when times were tough, dogs could have served as an emergency food supply and once humans realized the usefulness of keeping dogs as emergency food, it was not a huge jump to realize plants could be used in a similar way. " This is the secret to the genius of dogs: It's when dogs join forces with us that they become special.," conclude Hare and Woods. "Dogs may even have been the catalyst for our civilization.""


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The last few weeks have seen several elegiac poems appear on Aoidoi.org.
Mimnermus 2, "Like the Leaves of Spring" is Mimnermus being crabby about old age, as usual.
In fragment 12 Mimnermus sympathizes with the work the Sun for the work he has to do.
Finally, I worked up two shorter fragments of Solon in a single document, Solon 9 & 11, in which he addresses his fellow citizens.


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Using eye Tracking to Further user Interface DesignPram Nielsen, Louise (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The primary focus of this PhD dissertation is an eye-tracking experiment examining target-user performance on so-called dual-entry modes representing Danish taxation terminology, to determine whether terminological ontologies should be included in the user interface. The conventional concept-oriented articles of term banks, which describe the meaning of a term by means of text, are combined with concept-oriented diagrams, which represent the meaning of a term by means of a terminological ontology displaying the underlying concepts, relations and characteristics. The latter provides the target users with overview and allows for the inference of consistent definitions, which in principle should benefit the target user. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9168
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Komparative analysen und überlegungen zum übersetzen in die germanischen sprachen deutsch, englisch und dänischHansen, Gyde (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Based on empirical studies of texts, the three Germanic languages German, English and Danish are compared regarding similarities and differences. The analysis focuses on special aspects depending on how meaning is structured in the three languages. Some typical difficulties and pitfalls human translators experience are described. In the last part of the article, errors of machine translations are shown. Interestingly also many of the problems of machine translation systems are caused by linguistic differences and interferences. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9090
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A Cross-sector Study of Financial Service Companies and Manufacturing CompaniesSanden, Guro Refsum (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Situated at the intersection of sociolinguistics and international business and management studies, this PhD project focuses on language management in two different industry sectors, namely the financial service sector and the manufacturing sector. Employing a multiple case study design consisting of two matched pair cases, the study examines the means by which language is managed, i.e. language management tools, in the two financial service companies Nordea and Saxo Bank and the two manufacturing companies Grundfos and ECCO. The contribution of the thesis lies in capturing the effect of industry sectors on corporate language management – a level of analysis which has largely been overlooked in previous research. The findings indicate that industry sectors embody great explanatory power with regard to the selection of language management tools at company level. The financial service companies and the manufacturing companies were found to have three sector-level factors in common, though with somewhat different outcomes. Economic geography increases the use of English for corporate level functions in the two financial service companies owing to the companies' presence in international financial centres. On the other hand, in the two manufacturing companies, this factor increases the need for multiple corporate languages and translation into the mother tongue spoken by the production workers in the industrial locations where English language skills tend to be scarce. In manufacturing, economic geography was also found to lead to the use of language intermediates as mediums of communication. In all case companies, global integration increases cross-border communication and the use of English for corporate level functions, which also increases selective recruitment of English-skilled employees in both sectors. Industry speak is found to be closely related to company-specific language in all case companies regardless of sector, and technological solutions are implemented in order to manage large term databases in both sectors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9174
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Korzen, Iørn (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9354
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qu'en savons-nous?Herslund, Michael (Paris, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: La question de l'origine du langage humain n'est peut-être pas des plus en vogue, ni des plus urgentes parmi les multiples problèmes que soulève l'étude du langage. En effet, cette question est, depuis longtemps, considérée comme un problème que des linguistes sérieux ne perdent pas leur temps à vouloir résoudre, c'est le domaine des fous et des amateurs illuminés. Par conséquent, la question a été bannie des discussions des sociétés scientifiques comme la Société linguistique de Paris, dont les statuts de 1866 dans l'article II explicitement interdisent les discussions sur l'origine du langage ou la création d'un langage universel. Il n'en est pas moins possible d'examiner la question de façon équilibrée et, au moins, d'indiquer la sorte d'évidence qu'on pourra alléguer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8708
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Carl, Michael; Lacruz, Isabel; Yamada, Masaru; Aizawa, Akiko (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: By the mid-1980s it was clear that unrestricted high quality machine translation would not be achievable in the foreseeable future and alternative directions to the then dominant rule-based paradigm were proposed. The appropriate level of linguistic representation was difficult to determine, hard to compute; and translation relations were incomplete, error prone and time consuming to formalize within the current-state rule-based translation formalisms. At the same time, with the upcoming availability of Personal Computers (PCs), more translations were produced in electronic form. As translators produce translations daily, implicitly solving those translation problems that are so hard to formalize, Isabelle (1992) said that "Existing translations contain more solutions to more translation problems than any other existing resource." New horizons for using MT were thus sought, which led to a number of different paradigms, some of which are briefly described. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9280
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Data-driven prosodic feature assignment for diphone synthesisJuel Henrichsen, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Today's synthetic voices are largely based on diphone synthesis (DiSyn) and unit selection synthesis (UnitSyn). In most DiSyn systems, prosodic envelopes are generated with formal models while UnitSyn systems refer to extensive, highly indexed sound databases. Each approach has its drawbacks; such as low naturalness (DiSyn) and dependence on huge amounts of background data (UnitSyn). We present a hybrid model based on high-level speech data. As preliminary tests show, prosodic models combining DiSyn style at the phone level with UnitSyn style at the supra-segmental levels may approach UnitSyn quality on a DiSyn footprint. Our test data are Danish, but our algorithm is language neutral. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8595
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Lindholst, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: While scholars agree that planning and preparation is key to a negotiation's effectiveness, negotiation research has largely focused solely on what happens at the negotiation table and little is known about what occurs in preparation for a negotiation meeting. This paper aims to redress the balance by clarifying which preparation and planning activities are undertaken to conduct a complex business negotiation compared to the recommendations found in the literature. In contrast to the majority of negotiation research this study follows a qualitative research design multiple methods of inquiry and draws upon data grounded in a large global industrial company. The results suggest that a significant number of activities recommended in the literature concerning negotiation preparation and planning do not take place in the real-world. In addition, the study demonstrated the inherent weakness of relying on an open-ended survey as the sole data source through which to understand an internal-organizational phenomenon. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9074
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A Case Study in Knowledge ManagementRazmerita, Liana (, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This article focuses on the role of user modeling and semantic-enhanced representations for personalization. The paper presents a generic Ontology-based User Modeling framework (OntobUMf), its components and its associated user modeling processes. This framework models the behavior of the users and classifies its users according to their behavior. The user ontology is the backbone of OntobUMf and has been designed according to the Information Management System Learning Information Package (IMS LIP). The user ontology includes a behavior concept that extends IMS LIP specification and defines characteristics of the users interacting with the system. Concrete examples of how OntobUMf is used in the context of a Knowledge Management System (KMS) are provided. The paper discusses some of the implications of ontology-based user modeling for semantic-enhanced Knowledge Management (KM), and in particular for personal KM. The results of this research may contribute to the development of other frameworks for modeling user behavior, other semantic-enhanced user modeling frameworks or other semantic-enhanced information systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8932
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In-between organizing at Spira MirabilisPaunova, Minna; Svejenova, Silviya (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Symphonic orchestras—"a mélange of musicians, volunteers, and paid staff whose contributions must be closely coordinated" (Allmendinger, Hackman, & Lehman, 1996: 194)—have been of growing interest for scholars of organization for their creative and collaborative performance through projects and their work under pressure. While their resemblance with bureaucratic and professional service organizations has been acknowledged, they have been found also akin to coordinated internal networks of multiple identities (Glynn, 2000; Karmowska & Child, 2014). However, scholars have depicted orchestras as rather established and hierarchical creative organizations that are bound by conventions and are dedicated to the pursuit of 'superior performance', as the opening quote suggests. As a consequence, they have paid less attention to their learning potential. Studies of other kinds of collaborative collectives, such as teams in management and education, have demonstrated interesting tensions between learning and performing (Bunderson & Suttcliffe, 2003; Paunova & Lee, 2016). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9384
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L' «orientation mondiale» dans les programmes de français au DanemarkVerstraete-Hansen, Lisbeth (Paris, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Cet article propose une réflexion sur ce qu'on pourrait appeler « l'orientation mondiale » des programmes de français au Danemark. Plusieurs rapport officiels et études académiques ont souligné la nécessité de mieux assurer la progression entre les différents niveaux de l'enseignement des langues étrangères, mais les recommandations concernent plus souvent l'acquisition de la langue et les compétences communicatives que le contenu des cours. A travers l'examen de la présence de la « francophonie » dans les documents officiels concernant l'école fondamentale, le lycée et la formation universitaire destinée à former les futurs enseignants pour le lycée, l'article montre que la vision et la place de ce qu'est une « orientation mondiale » varient considérablement d'un niveau à l'autre du système éducatif. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9013
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Lacruz, Isabel; Carl, Michael; Yamada, Masaru; Aizawa, Akiko (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Traditionally, attempts to measure Machine Translation (MT) quality have focused on how close output is to a "gold standard" translation. TER (Translation Error Rate) is one standard measure that can be generated automatically. It is the normalized length of the shortest path (smallest number of edits per word) needed to convert MT output to an average of "ideal" translations (Snover et al., 2006). MT quality has now improved so much that post-edited (or in some cases, raw) MT output is routinely used in many applications in place of from-scratch translations. Despite the translators' continued resistance to post-editing, there is increasing evidence that productivity is greater when translators post-edit rather than translate from scratch (e.g., Green et al., 2013). Machine-assisted alternatives to post-editing, such as Interactive Translation Prediction (see for example Sanchis- Trilles et al., 2014) are also making rapid advances. Because of these changing paradigms, alternative ways of measuring MT quality are being developed. Under many circumstances, perfect accuracy is not necessary: it is enough for MT output to be "good enough." The end-user of the raw product should be able to use it with little effort, and the posteditor should easily be able to produce a satisfactory product. MT utility is determined by the effect the MT output has on the actual effort expended by the user, while MT adequacy is determined by the anticipated demand the MT output places on the user. Adequacy has been measured by human judgments along Likert scales, as well as by automatic metrics such as TER. In the context of post-editing, TER is modified to HTER, to measure the discrepancy between MT output and the final post-edited product. Thus, HTER measures the smallest number of necessary edits per word during post-editing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9279
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Razmerita, Liana; Kirchner, Kathrin; Nielsen, Pia (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Social Media is a new phenomenon that impacts businesses, society and individuals. Social media has swept into the business world, disrupting businesses, bringing new opportunities and challenges. The use of social media in organizations has the potential to shape the "future of the work". Both consultancy reports and scholarly articles highlight and discuss the new opportunities and organizational benefits provided by social media to change the current top-down (i.e. initiated by management) business model to a more collaborative and bottom-up (i.e. initiated by employees) approach. Such a model is customizable to specific user needs, empowering employees to design specific workflows thus helping them to work more effectively. Using social media, personal knowledge can be synergized into collective knowledge through social collaborative processes that may facilitate externalization of knowledge, fostering creativity and innovation. All these processes have the potential to lead to knowledge creation through interaction and collaborative processes and thereby increase companies' competitiveness. However the successful deployment of social media for internal communication and facilitation of knowledge sharing and collaboration in organizations is difficult. Based on quantitative as well as qualitative data from 13 Danish organizations, we investigate the following research question: What is the business value of social media in organizations as perceived by the employees? Based on the data analysis, the paper derives a model of factors associated with the perceived business value of social media. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9439
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The Role of Web 2.0 Tools for Managing Knowledge at Individual and Organisational LevelsRazmerita, Liana; Kirchner, Karhrin; Sudzina, Frantisek (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Purpose – This paper discusses new approaches for managing personal knowledge in the Web 2.0 era. We question whether Web 2.0 technologies (social software) are a real panacea for the challenges associated with the management of knowledge. Can Web2.0 reconcile the conflicting interests of managing organisational knowledge with personal objectives? Does Web 2.0 enable a more effective way of sharing and managing knowledge at the personal level? Design /methodology/approach – Theoretically deductive with illustrative examples. Findings – Web 2.0 plays a multifaceted role for communicating, collaborating, sharing and managing knowledge. Web 2.0 enables a new model of PKM that includes formal and informal communication, collaboration and social networking tools. This new PKM model facilitates interaction, collaboration and knowledge exchanges on the web and in organisations. Practical implications – Based on these findings professionals and scholars will gain a better understanding of the potential role of Web 2.0 technologies for harnessing and managing personal knowledge. The paper provides concrete examples of how Web 2.0 tools are currently used in organisations. Originality/value – As Web 2.0 has become integrated in our day-to-day activities, there is a need to further understand the relationship between Web 2.0 and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8933
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An Evaluation on Wu Kun's Philosophy of InformationLi-qian, Zhou; Brier, Søren (Xi'an, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: WU Kun's philosophy of information is the product of Dialectics of Nature coming from Stalin Textbook System and thought liberty movement in 1980s. It is a distinguish philosophy in Chinese style. This philosophical system begins with new founding of the area of objective unreality through re-dividing the field of existence which he called the world of information in itself. Actually, the concept of information in his system is different from information in common sense. So his philosophy of information is not the philosophy about information. A proper theoretical framework of information should be a framework covering objective laws, subjective meaning and intersubjective normativity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8996
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Conjuncts or linking adverbialsHjulmand, Lise-Lotte (Hjørring, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Anglo Files har i dette nummer valgt at sætte fokus på grammatik, bl.a. fordi grammatik og sprogbrug nu indgår i den skriftlige eksamen i engelsk. Jeg håber imidlertid også, at dette initiativ er et tegn på, at grammatik, der i mange år var en forkætret disciplin, som man i hvert fald i dansk og engelsk brugte mindst mulig – om overhovedet nogen – tid på, er på vej ind i varmen igen. Jeg håber det for elevernes skyld, fordi de via grammatikken stifter bekendtskab med sprogets systematik. De får mulighed for at se, at der – undtagelserne til trods – er en vis grad af regelmæssighed i sproget, og det vil forhåbentlig somme tider resultere i 'aha'-oplevelser af den type, som jeg for nogle år siden hørte Michael Swan (forfatter til bl.a. Practical English Usage) tale om. Ved en TESOL-konference var han og to andre kendte grammatikere og lærebogsforfattere blevet bedt om at fortælle, hvad grammatik havde betydet for dem. Han besvarede spørgsmålet ved at fortælle om en personlig oplevelse: Han havde i mange år forsøgt at lære tysk, men aldrig kunnet gennemskue, hvordan verberne skulle placeres, indtil en behjertet sjæl forklarede ham den grammatiske regel for dette, og så faldt det hele på plads. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8723
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Insights from PRME dataBlasco, Maribel (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In recent student interviews I and my colleagues conducted in connection with the implementation of the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) programme at CBS, I was intrigued to hear students talk about 'responsible management education' not primarily as a question of what they were taught, but of how responsibly their learning experience was managed. Students expected their teachers to be role models for how 'good managers' should behave; and looked to their school to set an example of good management. In appraising their teachers as responsible managers (or otherwise), students spent a lot of effort trying to attribute responsibility, wrestling with questions about the demarcation between their own responsibilities and those of their teachers and other BS actors, including the administration and students from other specialization. Notably, they saw responsibility as a relational construct where their responsibilities and those of other BS actors demarcated one another on an ongoing basis, partly based on role attributions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9435
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Closure and Common GroundBülow, Anne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper suggests that for negotiation studies, the well-researched role of cognitive closure in decision-making should be supplemented with specific research on what sort of information is seized on as unambiguous, salient and easily processable by negotiators. A study of email negotiation is reported that suggests that negotiators seize on concrete examples as building blocks that produce immediate positive feedback and consequent utilization in establishing common ground. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8737
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Singla, Karan; Orrego-Carmona, David; Gonzales, Ashleigh Rhea; Carl, Michael; Bangalore, Srinivas (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The purpose of the current investigation is to predict post-editor profiles based on user be- haviour and demographics using machine learning techniques to gain a better understanding of post-editor styles. Our study extracts process unit features from the CasMaCat LS14 database from the CRITT Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB). The analysis has two main research goals: We create n-gram models based on user activity and part-of-speech sequences to automatically cluster post-editors, and we use discriminative classifier models to character- ize post-editors based on a diverse range of translation process features. The classification and clustering of participants resulting from our study suggest this type of exploration could be used as a tool to develop new translation tool features or customization possibilities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9071
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A Machine Learning ApproachSaikh, Tanik; Bangalore, Srinivas; Carl, Michael; Bandyopadhyay, Sivaji (, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper an attempt has been made to predict the gaze fixation duration at source text using supervised learning techniques. The machine learning models used in the present work make use of lexical, syntactic and semantic information for predicting the gaze fixation duration. Different features are extracted from the data and models are built by combining the features. Our best set up achieves close to 50% classification accuracy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9121
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Federal Judge Revokes Bail Of Bullying Eyeglass Vendor
Threatening to stalk, rape, mutilate, and kill your customers over a $150 chargeback is not a sustainable business model. We could have told you that, but it took a New York Times investigation, a Google algorithm change, and federal prosecution to stop the Brooklyn entrepreneur who built his eyewear business on the idea that online, there is no such thing as bad publicity. He allegedly sent out counterfeit designer eyewear, or no merchandise at all, then harassed and threatened customers who wanted their money back. When customers complained online, it boosted the profile of his brand. Now a federal judge has revoked the man's bail ahead of sentencing after listening to testimony from some of those customers.
We won't name the company here since the site is, remarkably, still operating. The business owner's lawyer argued there's no proof that he ever intended to actually harm any of the customers he harassed and threatened with bodily harm. But most people aren't used to receiving voice mails that say things like "I hope you die. I want to slice your legs off," as one customer recounted in federal court.
Last year, the entrepreneur pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and making interstate threats. The judge in this case told the press that he may impose a harsher sentence than the three years indicated in federal sentencing guidelines.
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NAPERVILLE – One stat sums up Friday night's Class 8A playoff football game between Downers Grove South and Naperville Central.
South's offense struggled all night and didn't make it into Central territory until late in the third quarter of a 36-0 loss. The Mustangs, making their first playoff appearance since 2011, finished the season with a 6-4 record.
The Mustangs went three-and-out on their first series; Central (7-3) scored a field goal on its ensuing drive. The Redhawks scored a touchdown late in the first quarter for a 10-0 lead that stood until halftime.
Central piled on in the second half, at one point scoring touchdowns on four of five possessions.
Javon Turner ran 29 yards on a fake punt late in the third quarter to extend a South drive. Max Soderlund caught a 12-yard pass from Jordan Skach on the next play, but the drive petered out on a failed fourth down conversion early in the fourth quarter.
The disappointing loss capped an otherwise successful season for the Mustangs. In addition to making the playoffs, they went 6-0 in the West Suburban Gold to win their first conference title since 2010.
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why is access slow?
I hear everywhere that MS Access is slow. Now I agree, I have a forum with 80k posts and I can tell you that the site tanks! But exactly why is it slow, and what makes SQL Server and mySQL so much faster? Also I heard somewhere that Access isn't a true database at all. Any ideas?Free Science Homework Help
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Re: why is access slow?Originally posted by dethfire
I hear everywhere that MS Access is slow. Now I agree, I have a forum with 80k posts and I can tell you that the site tanks! But exactly why is it slow, and what makes SQL Server and mySQL so much faster? Also I heard somewhere that Access isn't a true database at all. Any ideas?
To answer the second question first, Access absolutely is a true database. It does things like relational queries, insert/update/delete functionality on tables, which themselves can be indexed. It has a programming environment, including a forms and report generator. Compare this to, say Excel, which some folk I work with seem to want to force into a database role.
What it is not, however, is a server database, like SQL Server or MySQL. The difference has to do with the way the database itself is structured. In a true server database, there is a separate program that serves up the data and has various optimizations that can be made to improve performance. Interactions with the database are through the server. Access, on the other hand is a file server based database system. I liken it to being a "passive" database where a server database is an "active" database. This is part of the performance bottle neck, since it is tied to the i/o ability of wherever the MDB file is located.
The thing to remember is the focus and scope of Access as opposed to a true server-based RDBMS. I've found Access very useful for small scale applications and prototyping. It can get the design process off to a quick start.
As an aside, I've heard the critique that this accessability (pardon the expression) has proven detrimental to the design process, since it allows any idiot with a computer to do database design. Speaking as a former idiot I find this viewpoint to be a bit elitist, but that's just me. And yes, I've definitely had to clean up some ugly-mugly database work built by folk just getting into db design, as I'm sure I've left a few frustrated developers in my wake with my older apps built in Access. Such is the learning process.
Access doesn't scale particularly well, due to its file-server based nature and as such is not all that good for dynamic sites where several dozen (or more) users may be hitting it at the same time. I've heard of some folk who have been able to get Access to go under such conditions, but you have to be extremely judicious in your interactions with the database.
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Yes, that's about right, JEmLAC!
It's also worth mentioning that one of the most fundamental differences between SQL Server and Access is that SQL Server is designed from the ground up to be incredibly scalable - handling thousands of requests a second, and being able to cope with terabytes of data. In contrast, Access was (and still is) only intended to be used as a standalone single-user desktop database. Over the years, workgroup sharing features were added, but ultimately it's still a single-user DB at heart.
Depending on the load, Access databases can be good enough to act as the DB backend for a simple site, but as the database complexity, number of records, and hit rate increase, the Access database engine quickly becomes incapable of handling the load.
Basically, Access databases were never designed to handle multiple simultaneous requests, and so are completely unsuitable for any serious web site!!!MarcusJT
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Cordless Radar Detectors - what is the best one?
Posted 03 September 2006 - 01:29 PM
im willing to buy a Cordless Radar Detector, i heard that
Escort Solo 2 or Whistler 7800 are the best in Cordless today.
the escort cost as twice as the whistler.
does anyone have one of those or knows is it worth it?
thank you for your fast answer.
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Posted 03 September 2006 - 05:11 PM
Posted 03 September 2006 - 06:32 PM
IMHO, a cordless radar detector is worth about as much as the cord that powers it.
The cordless units keep a reasonable battery life by pulsing - scan for a bit, then sleep for a bit. However, the pulse times of some of the newer police radars in POP mode or such are short enough that a cordless detector can totally miss them.
If you don't want a cord dangling down, do a proper hardwiring job - run power up through the A pillar molding, under the headliner, and drop down by the mirror, so you only have a foot or so of cord.
Posted 03 September 2006 - 06:59 PM
Posted 03 September 2006 - 09:29 PM
i have one of those. all it did was tell me, "hey your fu$%ed, a cop just got you with his gun and so pull over b%@ch! yeah it sucked
Yeah me too. I got lasered. There isn't any warning to lasers....they don't bounce off cars like a sonic wave would (K/A, X band. The "Radar" guns). The cop aims...pulls the trigger and by the time your unit goes off he has your speed.
Posted 03 September 2006 - 09:38 PM
Posted 04 September 2006 - 01:09 AM
Posted 04 September 2006 - 02:08 AM
1) NEVER SPEED if your the sole car on the road. I used to get up at 0300 on Mon, Tu. & We. for that. (To burn the gunk out of my LOTUS)
2) Don't go significantly faster than existing traffic.
4) and there's always the dreaded "unmarked". By the time you see the little antenna's-----
Detectors are far from a free ticket to go speeding! But, I have been in a hurry but able to "duck" slightly behind the car in front of me, to slow down enough before "they" could see me or even get a lock on my car. Or if they did it was not worth turning around. I also think, that they may sometimes think, He's so alert! I'll get this D.A. on the cell instead. But probably not.
My Passport has given me warning a l-o-o-ng way in advance that one very clever radar operator was way down the road; There was only one alarm on the interstate, then all remained quiet. After about 5 Mi., I figured he must have been going the other way. I had just pushed on the gas to resume my cruising speed, and there he was! Had he been another 1/4 mi. I'd have been one poorer man. I think the St. Patrol is trained to wait untill one is observed really speeding visually before firing the gun.
********** I HAVE even BEATEN LASER WITH IT!!!!!!!************* NO B.S.!!
I will conceed it all to luck, but I was doing 90mph! Coming over a hill top, He lased my car, actually my windshield, before the whole car was visible to him.
The ESCORT SCREAMED AT ME (LIKE A WOMAN WHO JUST WOKE UP AND SEES NOTHING BUT THE BIG FAT REAR END OF A TRUCK RIGHT IN THE WINDSHIELD)!,, I NAILED THE BRAKES, and got some "dumb stares" as I went by two cruisers!!! It was freakin awesome!!( The truck thing is a bad trick to pull on someone- especially if you scream first and hit the brakes right behind a semi!)
Anyway, I really don't speed much anymore, but I still own a PASSPORT!!
Why? Too many municipalities use tickets to generate funds to support the department! That's B.S. I refuse to participate. So I own one to back me up in case I ever get careless.
Case in point? Maryland- 55MPH signs are 3ft tall x 2 ft wide. 35mph signs are like 12 x 12 - INCHES!!! AND GURANF-INTEE YOU, THE COPS ARE SITING200 YDS PAST THAT SIGN handing out U-OWE ME'S as fast as they can write them. Homie don't play that. "those kind can kiss my pink parts. I LOVE MY PASSPORT. The detectors never let you down, It's sort of like a sign a friend has in her shop, "I'm a beautician, not a magician!!"
Posted 04 September 2006 - 03:52 AM
Yea I suppose I could use a radar detector but I mostly do city driving and it would false alarm off so many security systems I would turn it off.and promtly get a ticket...although I will have to try hard with the 87' wagon I got to get a ticket.especially up hill.(the 49 in a 35 was going up a hill in the saab,in fact if I left it probally would have hit 70 before long)
damn it,Im rambling again...
Posted 04 September 2006 - 05:01 AM
seriously, i know the ticket goes from like 112 to 212 at like 14 over here.. so i keep to 12 or so at most... but im doing THAT alot...... and there are roads that get no cops, and little traffic, that are safe enough to go 60 on, despite the 40-45 limit...
sometimes, they just come in handy. if you dont understand it, that just means you dont need a radar detector, thats all. thats how you tell.
Posted 04 September 2006 - 05:33 AM
Posted 04 September 2006 - 08:23 AM
Just one mans opinion...:cool:
Posted 04 September 2006 - 11:23 AM
Any detector is pratically worthless in the city. If you race around city streets, you deserve the tickets anyway:rolleyes: The city cops use radar still, most cant afford the newer lazar units.
Now, the hiways are a different story(State funded).
When traffic permits and the flow is going better than the posted speed, you will be alright. Never exceed the limit alone, I always let someone else take point (for obvious reasons). Know the road. I know most of the hiding spots on our local hiways well and never speed when in these areas. They are really down on aggresive drivers in WA State now. If your cutting in and out of traffic, the fine is going to be much stiffer. And never exceed in a const zone. You better have a fat savings account if you get caught. Not to mention the safety of the people working on the road.
Being impulsive will also get you. That little ricer next to you, racing his engine? Yeah, let him win. He will end up the loser with the "Blue Light Special" as the prize.
Most of all, be safe and use discretion.
Posted 05 September 2006 - 06:07 AM
my dad had an OOOLD escort that he got in the mid eighties.. that was probably the best radar detector i had seen until it finally died, beyond resurrection, in like '96 or so.. so to hear that the Val1 is made by the people who USED to be the brains at escort.. says alot to me :- )
thanks for the wee tale. it was a well written post too, you didnt make it a blatant plug by ANY means.. i had to reread it to catch the name of the detector again :- )
Posted 07 September 2006 - 02:02 AM
Posted 07 September 2006 - 05:13 AM
for what its worth.. i own like, a $70 cobra el cheapo radar detector.. and i LOVE the thing. it has paid for itself SO many times over... and i was thinking about it the other day.. and i have NEVER gotten a speeding ticket with that thing. the only time i had ever been pulled for speeding i was speed-matched by a cop i didnt realize was a cop behind me but i DIDNT get a ticket. that thing gave me a 1 1/2 mile warning the other day, too.... when i WOULD have been more than enough for their speed trap. saved me almost 300 bucks that day:banana:
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New Zealand has formally intervened in Australia's legal case against Japan over whaling.
The NZ government told the International Court of Justice it was necessary to put its side of the dispute over scientific whaling, a statement released by the court said on Friday.
Australia began the case in 2010, arguing that Antarctic whaling by Japan was commercial, and not scientific as defined in the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW).
Japan rejected accusations it was breaching both the convention, and a ban on whaling in the Antarctic, claiming instead it was exercising its right to award scientific permits.
In the court's statement, the NZ government outlines strict rules for scientific permits, and said any whaling that did not meet these rules was prohibited.
NZ's decision to join the proceedings was probably co-ordinated with Australia in preparation for the oral phase of the case, according to Don Rothwell, professor of international law at the Australian National University.
"What may be interesting to see is whether other state parties to the ICRW take a similar course of action," Professor Rothwell said.
Other countries potentially interested in joining the case could include the Netherlands on the anti-whaling side, and Iceland or South Korea on Japan's side.
The case's written proceedings were abbreviated earlier this year when Australia decided it was not necessary to reply to the Japanese written case, or counter memorial.
Professor Rothwell said oral hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague could now be expected in the northern spring of 2013.
The ANU's Hilary Charlesworth, director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, has been appointed as an ICJ judge ad hoc in the case which will be heard by a panel of judges.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society said it was fantastic news that the NZ government had stepped up to put more pressure on the whalers ahead of the coming Antarctic season.
"The Japanese government's whaling program has much more to do with sushi than science," the society's director Darren Kindleysides said.
The Japanese whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru was earlier this week still in dry dock undergoing a refit, according to conservation group Sea Shepherd.
In previous years the whaling fleet has usually departed for the Antarctic by mid-November.
Sea Shepherd vessels are steaming north from Australia this year in an attempt to meet the whalers off Japan.
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