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I'm trying to install Eclipse IDE Classic.
I've unzipped the folder and it's on my Desktop. I double click on the eclipse.exe file and I had a Java error so within the eclipse.ini file I changed my JDK location as follows:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe
Now, I get the following error:
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
My JDK is up to datem I've updated it and even tried a fresh install. I've also tried other Eclipse IDE versions and searched the net for this problem yet I can't find a solution which works.


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Is "Class Warfare" the New "N" Word of the '60s?
(This is in response to a blog post, made by my high school friend, Donna Scuderi, at: http://donnascuderi77.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/irony-and-the-r-word/)
This is a touching piece and I sincerely appreciate and understand the sentiments expressed. You should, rightfully, be proud of your Dad, for he was teaching you something that many in his generation failed to do or were ambiguous about with their children. Luckily, I had parents in the same league, and growing up, in and out of hospitals, I got to meet, firsthand, lots of AAs who worked there, mostly in janitorial positions. There all impressed me with their understanding and caring for me and the other kids, who were usually in beds, wheelchairs or casts of one kind or another.
Fast-forward (if I can steal a phrase) 50 years and what do we find? Because of the failure or ambiguity passed on by some parents, there is still racism, bigotry and hatred in our society. There is little difference in the vitriol, but there does seem to be a difference between the outright racism of our growing up years and the racism of today. Today, there is very little direct reference to the "N" word. Those political strategists looking to harness the "energy and passion" of those who hate, have reframed the issue to attack by making references to "class warfare" being perpetrated by AAs and their ideological companions. The sad fact is that those who might otherwise disagree and who would abhor the outright racism of the '50s, are accepting of the "class warfare" moniker. The strategists are being rewarded by those who have been duped into believing that "class warfare" was initiated by the left.
The truth is that "class warfare" has ALWAYS been initiated by those in positions of power and wealth, as a defense against those in servitude who demand equality, opportunity and respect. After all, who would come out and say they are against equality, opportunity and respect? Especially if they profess to be of a superior moral fiber?
In its most current incarnation, "class warfare" erupted on the scene, concurrent with the election of President Reagan, a man who was convinced that if the wealthy and powerful were given more wealth and more power, it would eventually "trickle down" to the masses. Unfortunately, it took too many, too long, to admit that when the wealthy and powerful were given more wealth and power, they simply became even wealthier and more powerful.
Economic growth isn't one-sided and it is certainly not top-down. Growth comes from a combination of the "top" meeting the "demand" of the "masses", meaning that without the people with the means to purchase, there can be no growth. The people with the means (the Middle Class) have been losing ground over the past 30 years, both in power and in wealth, with real income and savings going down, not up, as it has been heading for those who are already wealthy and powerful.
Step in, the strategists, who see the poor and former Middle Class (after the economic meltdown) as the supporters of "class warfare". Because of social and economic realities, the percentage of poor in this country are black and Hispanic. Hence, racism rears its ugly head and is now cast in economic terms; much more palatable and easy to publish, than straight out screaming of the "N" word. Sadly, even those who were properly taught and who sincerely believed they were saved from being the racists of our generation, have succumbed to the "class warfare" tag, allowing themselves to be cast as the modern-day bigot, even though they may not be.
I don't believe that either of our Dads would be happy with the current state of affairs. Even the true Conservatives of the '50s and '60s (the Goldwater's and Nixon's) would not want to be seen with the likes of most Tea Party members today. I dare say, even the Great Communicator, President Reagan, must be restless in his grave, "seeing" what has happened as a result of his failed "trickle-down" theory and the economic imbalance it has caused.


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One of the objectives of the Pomodoro techinque is to make the Pomodoros more effective. This is done by either repeat and review on a Pomodoro level or on a Pomodoro set level. On a Pomodoro level it is suggested to take 3-5 minutes for repetition and 3-5 minutes for reviewing. This would mean that in the worst case it would take 10 minutes (40%) (best case 6 minutes 24%) of a Pomodoro.
My question is: is this really improving the quality of a Pomodoro? Or at least the total value of using the Pomodoro technique?


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After nearly four years away, the WISSOTA Modifieds returned to the quarter-mile St. Croix Valley Raceway last Thursday for the Dawg Days Dash, and at night's end the familiar face of Buzzy Adams was smiling in Victory Lane. All of the regular weekly classes were also in action Thursday, and Kris Kaphing, Dustin Doughty, Collin Olson, Johnny Parsons and Jason VandeKamp enjoyed victory celebrations as well.
The Pure Stocks kicked off feature racing on Thursday with rookie racer Kaylee Remington and Krysta Swearingen leading the field to green. From the start, it was Swearingen leading the way with heat race winner Dustin Doughty quickly advancing from fifth up to second. The racers occupied mostly a middle groove on the track following Swearingen until just past halfway when Swearingen's power plant sputtered, allowing Doughty to slip by. A few feet later, the motor let go altogether and Swearingen coasted of the track in turn one. Once he inherited the lead, Doughty drove flawlessly to the double checkers for the clean-sweep win on his first visit of the season to The Valley. The top five behind Doughty were Ben Kaphing, Tim Baxter, "Jet Lag" Wigchers and Remington.
The clean-sweep theme continued for another driver making his season debut in the Future Four division. Chris Rick and Damon Roberts paced the field with Roberts gaining the early lead. Just prior to halfway, heat race winner Kris Kaphing made the jump from fourth place up to second. A late caution changed the race dramatically as the fourth running Rick and the race leader Damon Roberts were unable to continue, turning over the top spot to Kaphing. Kaphing managed the last two-lap dash to win his second race of the night in front of Dylan Roberts, Bob Carver Jr. and Samantha Yarusso.
Attrition was the unfortunate theme in the UMSS Micro Sprints in an already light field of five cars for the week-night race. Multiple feature winner Ty Sampair was the early leader from the outside pole, feeling pressure from Tony Duran. But within a span of two laps, Duran, Brian Patrick, Sampair and last week's winner Allison Berger all dropped out of the event for various reasons, leaving just Collin Olson running after six laps and claiming the win.
The WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds continue to be one of the most competitive classes in the area with another hotly contested main event. Jim Giossi and first heat-race winner Kevin Marlett brought the field to green with Marlett showing the way early. Behind Marlett, second heat-race winner Jason VandeKamp was battling for position with John Remington, Ryan Bowers, Nick Koehler and Ryan Olson. By lap seven, VandeKamp grabbed the point away from Marlett but things were far from settled throughout the rest of the pack. With VandeKamp
smooth and steady out front, Olson patiently inched through the fray, and Bowers was up to second just after the race's midpoint. When the double checkers waved, VandeKamp was the third clean-sweep winner of the night in front of Bowers, Olson, Koehler and Marlett.
While the Midwest Modifieds mostly worked the cushion, the UMSS Traditional Sprints gravitated towards a low groove with only a few adventurers willing to risk their light-weight rides against the heavy clay berm. Scooting down low early, third-starting Johnny Parsons was the early leader off turn two, with fifth-starting rookie "The Dragon" Brian VanMeveren running second. As the leaders hugged the low groove, reigning champion Rob Caho was among the few brave souls tempting fate along the heavy cushion. Unable to finish his heat race, Caho made repairs and started in the last row for the feature, working the high side and past half the field in the early laps. Out front, it was still the Johnny Parsons show as he expertly piloted his #12 around the low groove. With just a handful of laps remaining, Kevin Bradwell also left the cat-fish groove to join Caho up high with some success, moving from fifth to third before sliding back to fourth after being bit by the clay – while Caho couldn't advance higher than sixth. At the end, it was Parsons leading the entire way, besting VanMeveren, Denny Stordahl, Bradwell and Mike Mueller.
In the headlining WISSOTA Modified feature, the intrigue started even before the race, as heat race winner Jeremy Houle was unable to fire his #54 ride while a bevy of hotshoes from the track's history were eager to attack the bull ring for top Dawg Days honors. Former WISSOTA Modified National champion Buzzy Adams had the pole position inside Jake Miller, with a miniature hall-of-fame lurking behind, including Doug Gustafson – winner of dozens of races at the Raceway, former national champion Curt Myers and former track champion Jason Gross. Adams got the jump on Miller at the drop of the green with Gustafson taking just a few circuits to work from fourth to second, with Open Wheel Nationals winner Jeremy Nelson in tow. Adams quickly moved to his comfort zone at his old familiar haunts, the top groove with his right foot testing the mettle of the floorboards. But this race would be no walk in the park for Adams with fellow throttle stomper Gustafson chasing him. Gustafson has a long history at the facility and has won more than his share of races there against the best in the area. With a handful of laps remaining, Gustafson caught up to and seriously threatened the race-long leader, just about the time Adams' car developed a vibration in the right rear. Despite the challenge, Adams held fast and fended off the best Gustafson could offer, even with his right rear losing air pressure. Coming out of the final turn, Adams' right rear tire finally exploded, but he had enough throttle and momentum to beat Gustafson across the stripe, picking the $1,000 Dawg Days Dash top prize. After Gustafson, the top five finishers were Myers, Nelson and Miller. After the race, when asked about the tire, Adams' conceded, "one more lap, heck, one more turn and we couldn't have won it!"
Up next for St. Croix Valley Raceway, its back to the customary Friday night date with the first annual Dan Grams memorial on July 26 featuring the UMSS winged sprint cars. Grams was just 29 years old when he lost his life in a car accident last winter, and Grams and his #13 car will be
honored with a $1,300 payday going to the winner of his memorial race. All regular SCVR classes will race as well, WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds, UMSS Micro Sprints and Traditional Sprints, Pure Stocks and Future Fours. Friday is also the Military Appreciation night and The Valley's second birthday party. Fans and Drivers with a valid military ID will be admitted free and birthday cake will be provided while supplies last, first race is set to begin at 7:05. Details for other future events can be found on the track's website, www.SCVRaceway.com.
Race summary:
Pure Stocks: Heat - Dustin Doughty, Tim Baxter, Jon Wigchers, Krysta Swearingen, Kaylee Remington, Mason McEvers, Ben Kaphing Feature - Dustin Doughty, Ben Kaphing, Tim Baxter, Jon Wigchers, Kaylee Remington, Krysta Swearingen, Mason McEvers.
Future Fours: Heat - Kris Kaphing, Dylan Roberts, Damon Roberts, Chris Rick, Derek Reding, Bob Carver Jr., Chris Arnett, Samantha Yarusso, Brock Anderson Feature - Kris Kaphing, Dylan Roberts, Bob Carver Jr., Samantha Yarusso, Damon Roberts, Chris Rick, Derek Reding, Brock Anderson, Chris
UMSS Micro Sprints: Heat - Tony Duran, Ty Sampair, Bryan Patrick, Allison Berger, Collin Olson Feature - Collin Olson, Allison Berger, Ty Sampair, Bryan Patrick, Tony Duran
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds: Heat 1 - Kevin Marlett, Mitch Weiss, John Remington, Jim Giossi, David Mastell, Kyle Hallin, Josh Bazey. Heat 2 - Jason VandeKamp, Justin Oestreich, Nick Koehler, Ryan Bowers, Ryan Olson, Jared Gorka, Patrick Kelley Feature - Jason VandeKamp, Ryan Bowers, Ryan Olson, Nick Koehler, Kevin Marlett, David Mastell, John Remington, Mitch Weiss, Justin Oestreich, Jim Giossi, Jared Gorka, Patrick Kelley, Josh Bazey, Kyle Hallin
UMSS Traditional Sprints: Heat 1 - Jack Clark, Brian VanMeveren, Cam Shafer, Denny Stordahl, Mike Huesmann, Jake Hendrickson, Rob Caho Jr. Heat 2 - Kevin Bradwell, Johnny Parsons, Ryan Olson, Mike Mueller, Jake Kouba, Tom Porter Feature - Johnny Parsons, Brian VanMeveren, Denny Stordahl, Kevin Bradwell, Mike Mueller, Rob Caho Jr., Jake Kouba, Cam Shafer, Jack Clark, Ryan Olson, Jake Hendrickson, Tom Porter, Mike Huesmann
WISSOTA Modifieds: Heat - Jeremy Houle, Kevin Adams, Doug Gustafson, Curt Myers, Jake Miller, Jeremy Nelson, TJ Adams, Kent Baxter, Jason Gross Feature - Kevin Adams, Doug Gustafson, Curt Myers, Jeremy Nelson, Jake Miller, Jason Gross, TJ Adams, Kent Baxter, Jeremy Houle
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May 04, 2011
Cape Town is the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice No.1 destination
A screen shot from the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice 2011 page
TripAdvisor has announced the top 25 Travelers' Choice 2011 best destinations and Cape Town, after 45-million travellers have had their say, has been declared the world's No.1 destination.
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We have about 4 computers. What is a good strategy for making sure our data is always backed up ?
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I recommend a NAS drive for your home network, setup network shares for each user to backup (manually or scheduled).
free backup software at various levels of sophistication is available in abundance (if you buy a NAS drive, such software is usually included).
if you buy a pair of NAS drives, you can easily keep them synced as an additional safety layer. in addition you may archive really important data (e.g. photos, videos) on DVDs. or on Cranberry DiamonDisc (the 1000 tear DVD :)
And don't forget, whatever you use, MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN RECOVER THE DATA.
This does not mean check that a back up file is created - it means actually restoring the data to another machine and then using it.
Don't keep the backup on the same machine you are backing up?
ehh, for home use, if there isn't that much, I would recommend using a service such as Dropbox or Mesh.
If however you have a lot of stuff, get an external hard drive.
Windows backup is very good and you can take an entire image of your machine and store it on the drive.
If however, you just want to do file level backups, take a look at Fbackup... a client of mine uses this and loves it - personally, I just like doing it manually.
Just remember to do it regularly.
If however you have a hell of a lot of stuff, you may want to take a look at getting a NAS and bunging in a few hard drives and then centrally backing up all computers to that.
For my Macs' and PC's I use Time Machine/Time Capsule, NTBackup on a schedule . . . In general I'd recommend that which involves as little thought and hassle as possible. I have an old cheap USB2.0 hard drive that I use to copy the contents of my TimeCapsule to (the amount of data is small enough for now) and bring it to the office every monday or so . . . I have offsite backups that cost (almost) nothing . . . I believe that for non-commerical use something like this is quite adequate. TheEruditeTroglodyte
I use SpiderOak and I recommend it. It's a bit like DropBox, but it's cheaper and has better security features. It has a nice client for Windows, Mac & Linux.
I have a software raid setup on my home file server, which
For the photos, I also upload them all to flickr, and important documents are encrypted, and uploaded to Amazon S3 nightly. This way, if something catastrophic happens to my apartment (fire, breakin, etc), the irreplaceable things will be safe. The music will be lost, but I can live with that (I hardly ever listen to it anymore anyways, since Pandora is so great).
The S3 backup is performed using Duplicity, which runs from a cron job.
I would strongly recommend encrypting any important documents before sending to an offsite facility that you don't control (including S3, Dropbox, etc). You don't want your bank statements or scanned identity documents to be accessible to even the administrators of the service.
I assume you are thinking principally of backing up your personal files, not you operating system etc.
A solution that has worked very well for me is to install a simple Network attached RAID. I have a NetGear NAS DUO and make sure that MyDocs for all machines points to folders there. Files that really want to keep on local machines can be backed up by this box automatically - I do this for my Outlook mail folders.
This particular box has a lot of features, but the ones that I like best for file security are:
Once you are up and running, you can pretty much forget about it,
This NAS has a lot of other features, but these are main ones for me for file security
I can't believe no-one has suggested "Windows Home Server" yet, I've used it in my home and been very impressed by it:
If you have enough space and all the machines are yours (used by family members rather than just flat mates, for example), one approach could be to back up important data from one machine to one or two of the others:
This means you have three copies of the important data, and you're not at the mercy of your internet connection for getting the back up (and possible restore) done.
It's not ideal, for if one of the machines is moved out of the network it breaks the cycle, but it does mean you don't have to buy any additional hardware (such as NAS drives).
I use JungleDisk and pay $.15 / GB for whatever I backup. As I have it set up now, it only backs up my My Pictures and My Videos folder because those tend to get large and are the only things I would be upset if I lost. With JungleDisk, you control the schedule/interval for when files are backed up.
For files and everything else, I have a free Dropbox account that gives me 2 GB of storage.
Depending on how your home network is set up, you could set up a server with the storage space for the files you want backed up on then run the JungleDisk software on the server.
I would personally love to have a full Dropbox account but don't want to fork over the money for it. I'm paying only a few dollars a month for JungleDisk.
The key with backups is to make sure they're done regularly and that you don't have to think about what's being backed up.
So we backup everything on a regular basis. (As we add more computers we'll probably start just backing up the My Documents on each computer.
This option will cost you about $250 (less if you need less than 300 GB of backup). It puts your data right at your fingertips (so you're more likely to make use of it and thus be testing your backups regularly) and gets you 2 copies of your files and protects you from casual theft and fire. It's what we use in our office.
You will need:
Step-by-Step instructions
Strategies presented by other answerers are decent.
I think it's not completely insane to consider getting a monthly or quarterly offsite. This would mean taking your backup medium and cloning it to an external HD (3.5" USB are already quite cheap for 1TB or more) and leaving it at a friend or relative's house.
I know no one's house ever burns down, but if mine did, I'd STILL want my data.
If you think this is completely obsessive, you can do this once a year.


text: Easily mark tasks as due 'yesterday' mwyadartm says:Sometimes you have tasks that are just "due yesterday." It would be cool if I could easily choose "yesterday" as the due date in the same place where I choose "today" or "tomorrow."Posted at 4:36am on December 19, 2011 silvermarc says:Adding to this, it would be helpful (human/analog issues) if any task due one day ago would show "Yesterday" instead of the calendar date. "Yesterday" gives a touch of separation for those one-day-passed tasks. Thanks for considering this.Posted 3 years ago Log in to post a reply.


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Location: Soybean/maize Germplasm, Pathology, and Genetics Research
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Start Date: Jan 03, 2013
End Date: Jan 02, 2018
Our mission is to make natural and induced allelic and chromosomal variations available to the scientific community and to make information about the mutant collection available to researchers. The National Plant Germplasm System provides support to selected genetic stock centers having genetic resources of value to U.S. agricultural interests. The Maize Genetics Cooperation - Stock Center maintains important accessions of morphological and physiological markers, aneuploid material, translocations and inversions that are important tools in biological research. This project will increase the value of the stock collection as genetic tools and confirm the status of novel mutants discovered. Maize mutants have historically been used in gene discovery and will continue to be used in this way. New mapping tools in our collection will allow easier identification of genomic sequence underlying a phenotype. More recently, novel genes are being identified purely by sequence analyses. This will excel in the next few years with the recent release of the maize genome sequence and addition of reverse genetics resources to our collection. Identification of the functions for these newly identified genes can be determined by researchers with these new tools.


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Another great update nep! You should manage Chimney Corner just for the name
What would you do if your new team faced Knockbreda though?
Another great update nep! You should manage Chimney Corner just for the name
What would you do if your new team faced Knockbreda though?
Knocbreda would rape them i'd imagine
The dream is over, for now. My laptop isn't working, can't figure out why, and might never get the save game back
God I hope I can fix it..!!
You don't even have a backup?
Oh god that is terrible news.
Shame about not having a backup as well
Is the dream dead.
It must be gutting all that time and effort and achieving the unachievable.
To be fair, it is unlikely there is n chance of recovery. You could take out your harddrive, put it in another computer and get the save from there. Might need to get a PC expert to do it though.
I have a mac. [Am using my GFs laptop to post right now] - and the issue could be an error with the mother board, or a problem with the hard drive. if the hard drive is faulty, then I wont get the game back, if its not, then I'll be ok, even if I have to get a new computer. I have back ups [four of them] - but they're all on the computer, and I never got around to putting them on my external. I save at the end of ecery season to a different section on my laptop, so if there are any fatal game errors, I can just go back a season and carry on. It'll teach me not to be bothered to move them over to the external, despite the fact it sits no more than 3 feet away from me
Well there it is. No need to panic. After spending the last 6 hours trawling through forums trying to find out what could be wrong with the Mac I'm now typing from, I finally found the solution. 1 site suggested the ram was not correctly placed, and maybe got knocked out in moving the laptop. I opened the casing, resat the ram, and restarted the computer. Nothing.
1 site suggested, that I could need a master reset, and to hold the power button down, along with some other buttons. That didn't work.
In the end, a friend contacted me just as I was typing the message above, to tell me that I need to let the computer know, that I've re-sat the Ram, by holding the power button down until the LED light flashes 1 per second. I did that, re-sat the Ram again, and hey presto, we're back on board. I'm so happy. I'm going to bed now though.
great news a good end to 6 hrs
Phew Panic over!
Good news Nep! It must have been really heartbreaking to think that you were going to lose your best ever save and... gulp... Smylie... gone for ever... *holds back the tears*
That's good to hear.
That does prove my teachers point of having backup's in different places. Get a pen drive (or 2) to hold the save, updating it every so often as well, and the external hard drive as well, then next time there is less panic.
Tbf 1 FM save isn't too big, for a fiver you could buy a memory stick to put a save from every season on...
Yeah, When I get home tonight, I will be putting a lot of files on to m Exernal HD
Ok chaps. Eager to take on a second club, I'll offer up the choices here for this season :
Ards Rangers
2011/12 - Second Division
2045/46 - Second Division
N. Irish Intermediate Cup Winners - 2009, 2027
That is the only history they have.
Barn United
2041-2046 - Second Division
That is the only history they have.
All other clubs in the division, have been there for 15 or more seasons. I don't expect the chances of an new club getting promoted are very high, and like the look of Ards Rangers.
I would change the name of the club to something exclusive too, perhaps you guys can give me some ideas? - and try my best to get them into the same light as Knockbreda.
I also ask....
Should I keep the 2 clubs separate completely, or allow myself to loan players to Ards from my Reserve team?
Take the loans. Why not? Presumably that's what you'd do anyway? If the players won't join, too bad.
I'm with SCIAG - take the loans and help yourself out.
I'm voting for Ards Rangers and I don't think you need to change their name because it is already good!
Ards Rangers - and yes their name is already good
Don't really mind, but if i had to chose i'd say Barn Utd, purely for the name
Turns out, my computer does have an issue. Its hardware related, and I'll have to send it off to get it repaired. Might not get it back for a few weeks
In the mean time.... I'm buggered
Maybe I can fill in for you?
Bugger Have you backed up the files Nep?
Loan a laptop that can run FM08 cheaply and continue with the same in the meantime
I'd take the loans as they will be neccesary due to how much more competetive the league will be than when you started the challenge.
Team name idea - Nepbreda!
I didn't back up the files, because I'm at work. I'm hoping desperately that I can start it up just once, so I can e-mail the files to myself. Unless some computer whizz knows how I can get files from the HD of a computer that doesn't work. [I have other Macs I can use]
Have you tried the method that worked last night? Ring your computer whiz of a mate again, he might be able to help you fix the damn thing!
Could you try booting from a disk? Google should tell you what you need.
^^^^ WHS fwiw Nep
I don't have the OS disks anymore. I lost them a while back. Friend is out of ideas.
All I need is to get the files off of it, and I'm good to go
PM [DTK]_FiiRE, it says in his Location that he's a computer engineer
Try booting from a Linux Live CD such as Ubuntu. That way you can mount the hard drive and move the files onto a USB
Barn Utd.
Less history, better name
All you need is some download time, a blank CD and a CD burner.
Cheers dude. I'll be sure to get on that once I get home
God i hope it works Smylie provides me motivation to play FM. I couldn't stand a few weeks without your reports Nep I want Bernard Brennan (See my Dafuge's Challenge Reviews/Posts) to bag as many goals as possible. He'll get well over 500/600 at this rate in a far superior league
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Its not looking good, if I'm honest. I mean sure, I could get the save game. But then I have a few other problems.
1. The FM08 disk is inside the Mac, and doesn't eject.
2. Where the hell would I play it?
The other computers I have access too, won't play the game, because they're either crap, or not mine
If you need a new copy of FM 08, I am sure you could get one on the cheap.
Or you could ask someone around here if they have a copy they don't use, and if they are willing to post it to you.
I have a copy of FM08 I don't use fwiw
Same here really.
Cheers guys. I can afford a new laptop, but I'll be getting my own one back, so it would be pointless. I might by FM08 again, if the wait is going to be upwards of 10 days. [I'll find out Monday how long, could have it back as early as Wednesday] - and if so, I'll have to HiJack the GF's laptop for a week
Does this mean Smylie's back! (soon )
Nep - Isn't there a button on the underside of the laptop that ejects the disk? I had the same problem a few years ago when my laptop died and i needed the disk from the drive.
I don't think there is on a Mac. Too late now, for any of it. I've sent it off.
So I can't get the save game file back, until I get my computer back. Gutted
Damn A week without Smylie is unthinkable Hopefully you can recover the files and get playing again soon
Quite a good file here, I believe. I have a similar save with Albert Foundry (in the premier league, got a prolific goalscorer called Adam Rowley) but haven't won the league yet. Been finding it hard to capitalise. Might boot it up again now. You've given me the motivation
Seems I was a bit late, only just found this forum. Hopefully you get your save back though.
I had a problem with my mac where the graphics died but would still boot but couldnt see anything. I used target disk mode to back everything up and had to send it away.
I'm 5 games from the end of the season and top with Albert foundry, 3 points clear of Linfield. I am starting to believe I can win it for the first time ever.
I actually had a dream about supporting Knockbreda the other night.
I was in a crowd and we (Knockbreda) were playing away from home. Everyone was chanting something and I remember being aware that Knockbreda were playing well and probably winning. There were a lot of banners in the away end but this one guy was holding up a banner with 'Knockabreda' written on it. I was absolutely outraged with his misspelling the name of the club.
Can't remember if Smylie was playing or not!
That'll teach me for surfing the careers forum before I go to bed.
that sounds like a wierd dream. I actually couldn't sleep for a while last night due to becoming champions of Northern Ireland. Some achievment, I guess, but it was the first time I had taken a team from Bottom to top.
Also, does anyone know how to trigger professionalism in Northern Ireland? It would take quite a while to gain 5M in the bank, and Linfield have it even though they only have 3.7M in the bank. Anyone know (in particular NepentheZ)?
in my game Newry(they were in first division) got took over and the club was worth 9m, then they turned pro
..Which would trigger the 5M for pro clause...
I've just thought of another achievment when (or if) you get your game back- win more premier league titles than Linfield. They've got something ridiculous, into the 50's. Would be some achievment to top them as the most succesful northern Irish club ever based on number of titles. Obviously, you have more quality with two champions leagues, but quantity....their history page is the most loaded of any club I have seen (including Celtic and Rangers and Ferencvaros)
Was slightly surprised to find a regen called Paul Wallace in my reserves. Unfortunately, he's crap
yeah linfield have the most league titles then any club in the world i think, (or maybe its rangers)
No idea when I'll get my computer back. They said it could be up to 4 weeks, but its usually 7-10 days
Hopefully you'll get it back soon Nep
Hopefully I can sort of replicate (not a chance ) your Success in my Albert save. I've just notched up my second ever league title, and been inducted into the Northern Irish hall of fame. Hopefully this will give me the chance to turn pro, eh?
You should now mate. If you continue to win the league, like I have, it all just rolls on from there. I'll see you in 30 seasons, and we can compare. [Hopefully I'll have my computer back by then ]
Any news on the laptop Nep?
When I sent off my laptop, they wiped my hard drive completely..
Might be different with a mac, but I'd prepare for the worst..
I just hope you have anything personal password-protected. It has come out that computer repair shops have been opening private folders and taking information and pictures which they shouldn't, but I'm sure there's nothing to worry about as most computer repair shops across the UK are likely to be under review after the incident.
I just don't know how you do it Nep! I've been running a FM08 game as Lisburn Rangers for ages now, and I'm up to about 2027 now and I still can't see how you have achieved so much! It seems like every 2 years every key player (except the home-grown ones) get stroppy and so I have to rejig my squad again. I'm in the top 50 club ratings now and reaching knockout stages of CL and EC but no reputation boost and I still can't get anyone to sign outside of eastern europe mainly.
You have a super stadium too, yet I'm only at around 18000 and it only gets increased by about 3000 every two years following planning permission hiccups.
So just how did you manage to get so far? Can you impart some wisdom to me to get me up to that next level?
P.S My homegrown 21 year old striker just scored 88 last season in all comps, bringing him close to 300 already, NI definitely is the league to be in, though my guy is no Smylie!
Laptop : Not back yet. No news. Should get it back soon though.
jacky : Great work getting that far. I got a new stadium built for me, because they wouldn't increase the old one. So that was fortunate. I also lose key players every season almost, but I have about 50 players in my reseves, all highly recommended by my scouts, so usually there is someone to fit right in. I'm trying hard to get rid the foreign players, because I want to win everything with a fully homegown squad in the next 5-10 years
Nep, i presume your facilities are at the max? And what's the rep of the club like?
yeah, facilities are maxed out. No idea what the club rep is.
Is it national, continental, worldwide...?
what does smylie have a star like this *
and how is he not valued over 1m ?
Have been keeping an eye on this and will continue to
Cant believe his goalscoring record though!
wow thats impressive. Well done. Why are they called youth player 1 etc and why does andrew smylie have a star next to his name?
Well done.
Good news lads. Should get my laptop back next week Tuesday or Wednesday [Maybe Monday, but more likely Wednesday]
Excelent news Nep 'Mon Smylie, to 3,000 and beyond
I've just noticed Smylie's most recent value in the OP
£575K? Ok,its in Northern Ireland and the quality of the league is not the best, but if you were an english club, someone with that many goals to his name in any league is worth a £1M punt surely?
Not saying you would sell, because of the 3000 goal thing, but in theory.
I still don't have my Mac back. It initially went in diagnosed with an issue, which they fixed. However, this didn't fix my computer, so now, they need to test all different parts. The only problem is, Apple only send 1 part at a time out to be tested, so until they find the correct part that is broken, I wont get it back. It could be Monday, it could be Friday, it could be weeks away. I really don't know
That's horrible, not knowing when we'll have Smylie back
Hopefully you'll get it back soon Nep
Ladies and gentlemen, Smylie has returned.
Finally got the laptop back... Was it under guarantee?
yeah. they took 4 weeks in the apple store though. Insane. Anyway, I'm off to bombard this laptop with as much FM08 as it can handle
Did they tell you how much repairs cost?
Last time I had mine fixed repairs were about £1500, would have been cheaper to give me a new laptop
It would have been about £800. The laptop is only worth £1300 brand new. Anyway, lets keep this on topic please
In that case I await your next Smylie update eagerly
First game back, and incidentally, the first game of the 2046/47 season.
Knockbreda 16 - 0 Ards
Youth Player 1 [Scored 6]
Andrew Smylie [Scored 8]
41 Shots in total
the 2 Strikers had 27 shots between them and Cano had 8. So 35 of the 41 shots were from 3 players
Haha, what a way to welcome Knockbreda and Smylie back!
This is fantastic news
Nep, would you ever consider uploading that save?
Would you ever consider adding to PH7's CSE league thing for completed challenges?
I think Nep has already said he wants to take partWould you ever consider adding to PH71's CSE league thing for completed challenges?
Yes, and Yes
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I think that there is a market for packs of reasonably priced, well chosen, quality-controlled sound effects. You can pick up random sounds from across the web, but then you end up with a bunch of sounds with different sampling rates, bit depths, volume levels, and overall quality that you then have to fix up yourself.
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Yes in the sense that you need to make sure it's "good" in a common sense way. But once you've identified where it's not "good" you need to break down why into a functional requirement. Consider the categories:
Usability is not something that can be tested. How can you put into a specification "Must be easy to use" or something like that?
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This is a standard set of exercises in most algebra textbooks--ask if you'd like an explicit reference.
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Not all groups of order n are the same.
$\mathbb{Z}_6$ and $S_3$ are both of order 6. However $S_3$ has 3 subgroups of order 2, where $\mathbb{Z}_6$ has only one subgroup of order 2.
Therefore they cannot be isomorphic.
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We are given the equation
$$\frac{1}{f(x)} \cdot \frac{d\left(f(x)\right)}{dx} = x^3.$$
To solve it, "multiply by $dx$" and integrate:
$\frac{x^4}{4} + C = \ln \left( f(x) \right)$ But $dx$ is not a number, what does it mean when I multiply by $dx$, what am I doing, why does it work, and how can I solve it without multiplying by $dx$?
Second question:
Suppose we have the equation $$\frac{d^2f(x)}{dx^2}=(x^2-1)f(x)$$
Then for large $x$, we have $\frac{d^2f(x)}{dx^2}\approx x^2f(x)$, with the approximate solution $ke \cdot \exp \left (\frac{x^2}{2} \right)$
Why is it then reasonable to suspect, or assume, that the solution to the original equation, will be of the form $f(x)=e^{x^2/2} \cdot g(x)$, where $g(x)$ has a simpler form then $f(x)$? When does it not work?
Third question: The method of replacing all occurences of $f(x)$, and its derivatives by a power series, $\sum a_nx^n$, for which equations does this work or lead to a simpler equation? Do we lose any solutions this way?


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This season's savings could be used on other road projects.
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Although spring kicks in Wednesday, Jaggers says they are always ready for any lingering snow showers.


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What are some successful examples of UX and the Agile Development process playing nicely together? Traditional agile doesn't usually account for it.
UX, along with all of the other disciplines involved in your project, should be involved from day one. The team should strive to work in parallel with each other as much as possible. To achieve this, it is imperative that the UX resource(s) participate in all daily Agile rituals and meetings. This is especially true for backlog grooming and prioritization. In addition, the UX resource(s) on your team should open up the design process to the entire team allowing for input and concept ideas to come from developers, product managers, QA, marketing, wherever.
Through these group brainstorming sessions, the UX designer(s) become facilitators and stewards of the design. Their goal is to communicate a vision for the product by building a shared understanding across the team. This shared understanding comes about through regular conversations and discussions around early design ideas. These ideas should be validated with customers and stakeholders early and often to ensure that the team is spending time refining and building the right solution. To put it another way, the team should be minimizing the amount of time they're wasting pursuing the wrong solutions.
Lean UX is one approach to solve this Agile UX integration problem. The ideas espoused by Lean UX (at least as I've defined it) require the UX design teams to work in a much more transparent fashion then they've had to in the past. In addition, the process they employ must be far more inclusive than the more traditional ways of designing. These processes manifest in the forms of "light" deliverables (if any) like whiteboard sketches, rough wireframes and prototypes of the experience (that ultimately become "the spec" for the product).
There is a ton more detail in an article I wrote for Smashing Magazine, Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business.
My response may be biased because I run a pure UX research, strategy and design firm, but as UX practitioners, we're involved in agile projects at the very beginning. As zsiberian stated, getting ahead of development by 1-2 sprints is the only way to keep the process agile. UX involvement in the iteration planning session allows the user story definition to get ahead of the front end development. In our experience, we get 1-2 sprint jump on development by cranking on the conceptual / interaction model, branding/visual design concepts and the first 1-2 user stories (wires) when the development is identifying and standing up the various back end technologies / architecture. Hope this helps.
Agile seems to come in a variety of flavors, but the theory is all the same, and based on that theory, UX is part of the mix from day 1...as is business line owners, customers, IT, marketing, etc.
I usually find the problem is when UX is still doing waterfall but dev is trying to go AGILE. Lots of UX teams still want to pump out piles of wireframes, which is the antithesis of what Agile is supposed to be.
A great place to start is to google 'Lean UX' and read up on some of those concepts. In my opinion, 'Lean UX' is a clever way to brand 'Agile' so that UX teams will embrace it.
An approach which I find very fitting on where the UX role should intervene in Agile (Scrum in this case) development is:
You will find a lot of presentations about UX+Agile in SlideShare.
From my own experience I would say you work in a parallel stream ahead and after Development and if you take it literally not in Agile Development at all.
Why? Because in my understanding Scrum, which we do at my company, is about production and development in iterations. But tasks itself not. You take a single task and work on it until its finished. Then next one. Thats how coding works. As you said Traditional agile doesn't usually account for it.
But Design works different, because you have Iterations in tasks. So, I found myself working on task cards, putting it back to ToDo Column (Scrum), and for refinement taking it again, and so on, until its finally done. (Actually its the way I work because I can't finish Designs on a single day - I like to have a fresh view some days later.) So, in Design you have iterations in tasks, but thats not possible in Scrum. and if you take a close lok at Naoise's scheme you will see no UX Designer in Scrum Sprint only beginning and end.
I think thats the reason why most Designers work in parallel streams and Im not sure if they work with Scrumboards for Design as well. Design is still a little Waterfall - you need to think and know what you are doing, you need a glimpse of a big picture, you need to think and try, not just doing. Lets say its a small, quite vivid waterfall.
I had some trouble to get it running well (working in a small team) and at the moment I think best suited for Design in a Agile enviroment is Kanban, but haven't tried it yet. I like Kanban because you can merge working process of both, Design and Development, or open a Kanban board for Design only. Kanban and Scrum are quite close, but the main difference is, you can place as many columns as you like to, not just Todo and in Process.
You could put columns like Analysis, Raw Design, Fine Design, Testing, Production here to scope Designers workflow.
Kanban links: What is Kanban and Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both Picture source the latter pdf.
I know this answer is going slightly to be offtopic with this Kanban stuff. But its agile and development/design process as well.
Ideally it needs to start as early as the final stages of the opportunity pursuit when the UX lead is invited to the closing meetings with the potential client and has reviewed the SOW. That does two important things: gives you voice in conversations about scope, which in tern gives you heads up about project and what it's going to take.
Christie - I know you asked specifically about "the development process", but that sort of implies that you've been through the Discovery (6 - 10 weeks) and have already cranked out an approach and few high level wires to stay 1-2 sprints ahead.
If you are brought into a picture by the time development has started - it's no longer Agile, you'll need to run pretty fast to get ahead of the dev team.
this is not bad at all
Coming from agency-land, agile was a new concept for me. But the way it's shaken out after 6+ months in an agile shop, is that I try to get out in front with wireframes and requirements (I'm about a month to six weeks ahead of the dev team). There's a kickoff meeting in which I get a lot of feedback from Design and Dev, another iteration or two, then those docs form the basis for the sprints. After the release goes into alpha, there's a period for review, usually some remedial WFs, then more dev and progress to beta, QA and final release.
Lighter weight projects get correspondingly "leaner" documentation.
Initially I was finding it difficult to match my standard ux design process to Kanban, but after a little while it started to work. It took a lot of changing and rethinking stuff though.
This was a bit of inspiration for me: http://kanbantool.com/blog/kanban-for-ux-design
UX is something you have to test actively from day one, and keep on testing while the product develops.
Beware! It's super easy to forget about UX testing while you are pushing the developers hard and everybody is working like hell in your team.
UX testing has to be part of your Definition of Done! Meaning that no "story" should be considered as Done, if UX testing was not finished. (obviously note necessary for backend stories)
If you don't have a designer or UX expert in-house. You'll need to do it yourself. There are tons of great resources online about UX, so Google like hell.
These days a smooth UX is not a differentiator. It's a must have for new products. So it can make our break your business!


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5 Ridiculous (Safe for Work) Fetishes
#2. Statues
Statues are monuments to great historical figures. They adorn museums, courthouses and the lawns of the rich and famous. They're also, you know, kind of cute. Come here, statue of Abraham Lincoln. Take off your clothes... can you take off your clothes? Fuck. Statues can't take off their clothes. It's OK. We appreciate you, Lincoln. You're rock solid; sleek... dare we say: sexy? Yes, we dare say.
There are two subsets to the statue fetish: those with agalmatophilia (literally "statue lover") and the Medusa fetishists. They're different because they're attracted to different types of statues. We could imagine a heated stare-down at the next StatueCon if we wanted to, but, no, we don't want to imagine that.
The Medusa fetishists are attracted to people who get turned into stone. All of their masturbatory material is created with pirated versions of Photoshop, so it's as easy as plucking girls off MySpace and using some filters to add some hot, erotic stone.
Needs more lens flare.
The agalmatophilia guys are simply turned on by actual, real-life statues. The fetish first came to the attention of psychologists by Richard von Krafft-Ebbing in his book Psychopathia Sexualis. The publishers were probably too pissed off about fitting Ebbing's massive name onto the cover of his book that they let him choose a title that nobody would fucking buy. Ebbing recorded a case, in 1877, about a guy who attempted to have sex with the Venus de Milo. You can imagine how that went. We're certainly not going to.
It Gets Weirder...
Here we have the video of a seemingly mild-mannered lady getting very, very emotional over "Libby," her apartment-scale Statue of Liberty:
For some reason that was much weirder than if it'd just been some dude humping it.
YouTube Responds:
"a vibrator isn't human either, whats the difference."
"Although I felt somewhat voyeuristic...I was interested by this video. Even though I don't understand your attraction (in a physical/sexual sense) to these objects, I certainly don't think you're crazy. Since childhood, I have felt as though EVERYTHING is alive, and that everything has a spirit - even inanimate objects..."
We need to interject here to thank this YouTube commenter for that beautiful idea. Take Michelangelo's Statue of David. You have a young David defeating, against all odds, the mighty Goliath, you can't help but feel like his spirit is living inside of this grand marble statue. Trapped, if you will, unable to move or speak. Stuck forever in a statuesque Hell from which he can never escape.
What of our office vending machine? Does it eat our quarters and stick our candy bars in unreachable places because it's lonely and angry? We're hungry and we think reaching our hands into its gaping maw to retrieve some snacks is turning into a bad idea.
#1. Gas Pedals
These people get off on repeatedly pushing down on gas pedals. Why? Well, our research for this article has found that "why" pretty elusive when dealing with fetishes. This does seem loosely related to the more common foot fetish. But then you have to ask what makes people have a fetish for feet and well, it's probably best to just go with it. Or better yet, not.
You're welcome to do your own research at Pedal-Pumping.com, which advertises itself as the "Pedal Pumping Foto and Leg Fetish site with video clips of Brake Failure, gas pedal pumping, revving, stuck cars, stalled engines, stranded in a car, women, girls and ladies trying to start cars etc... "
Wait... "Brake Failure"?
It Gets Weirder...
Well, what do you know. Search YouTube for "gas pedal" and the very first result is as creepy as these get, complete with the off-camera voice instructing the performer: "Now both feet on the pedal...Yeah! Pump it! Pump it right!
YouTube Responds:
"WOWW! i love this boot!!
Please crush fruit under your boots, it sexy..
Byee "
"Dont be so rude to her, I make these pedal pumping videos with my wife and the only way to do it right is so that she is having fun too. First tell Barbara what you want her to do and let her improvise. Hope to see more of your pedal pumping films and I hope both of you have fun while shootin those clips. Peace!"
The author of this article suggests you go to TheFriendSociety.com.
For more from the world of the sexually depraved, check out The 10 Most Sexually Unappealing Craigslist Postings and The 5 Most Baffling Sex Scenes in the History of Fanfiction.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Coco is feeling a little down, 50 Cent and Chelsea Handler flaunt their love, and Joy Behar is now BFF with Bill O'Reilly.
Why people keep saying I got jungle fever. I ain't never even kissed a white women. Lol http://plixi.com/p/62782340
I don't know why anyone thinks I would ever date a rapper. http://plixi.com/p/62764412
At the White House Holiday Party with my new BFF, Bill O'Reilly. http://twitpic.com/3fni6a
I don't write songs I write life...and as long as life keeps going on there'll be more songs
True Story: Received a coupon for a 1/2 price Spa Day this morning. Then I tried on an old pair of pants and found a Benjamin in the pocket!
My babys sleep with my glasses on!!! Lol http://twitpic.com/3fpbhr
Feeling kind of horny as we clear out our closets! http://plixi.com/p/62799174
If Miley Cyrus had just hit that bong dressed as Hannah Montana, no one would've known it was her.
Just jumped out of a plane! So amazing! I love Sky Diving!!!
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Simple Definition of trivialize
: to make (something) seem less important or serious than it actually is
Full Definition of trivialize
: to make trivial : reduce to triviality
trivializationplay \ˌtri-vē-ə-lə-ˈzā-shən\ noun
Examples of trivialize in a sentence
The news story trivialized the problem.
He is trivializing the situation.
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I'm wondering how to query a database using an array, like so:
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM status_updates WHERE member_id = '$friends['member_id']'");
$friends is an array which contains the member's ID. I am trying to query the database and show all results where
member_id is equal to one of the member's ID in the
$friends array.
Is there a way to do something like
WHERE = $friends[member_id] or would I have to convert the array into a string and build the query like so:
$query = "";
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$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM status_updates WHERE member_id = '1' $query");
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My girl wears two pair of booty pops, her ass look good, but when we gets bizzy she aint got nothing for me to holds on to, aint that a bitch.
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I'd like to buy a plugin from Nik Software; which is the better plugin between Silver Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro?
I have the Nik Software Complete Collection for Lightroom, and I've found that I use Color Efex Pro a lot more than Silver Efex Pro. Silver Efex Pro provides some nice templates for B/W conversions, but I've found that the B/W conversion in Lightroom coupled with the channel mixer to provide me with enough control over the B/W conversion process. As such, Silver Efex Pro is rarely used.
Color Efex Pro on the other hand, has loads of useful filters that produce effects that cannot be done using Lightroom alone. I do lots of portraits, and I've found it an invaluable tool.
This is an example that was processed using Color Efex. The skin was softened, eyes were enhanced and some touch ups were done to the exposure. While eye enhancements and skin softening can be done in Lightroom/Photoshop, I've found that Color Efex produces the most pleasing effects (i.e. not too over done) with minimal effort.
It's not just useful for portraits. This is another photo that I edited in Color Efex to bring out the autumn colours while leaving the subject (the lady pushing the pram) untouched.
In summary, I cannot recommend Color Efex enough. It's a fantastic bit of software for your toolbox. I know that this is not part of the question, but if you're after another plug-in from Nik I would highly recommend Viveza.
SilverEFX has a lot of fine grained control over B&W conversions for images.
ColorEFX is like a super-general toolbox, good for all sorts of things. It does have B&W conversion modules as well, though they are more limited in adjustment than SilverEFX. It also has stuff like skin smoothers (that works really well), custom color changes (like washing out colors) and many other interesting things.
Both can be downloaded as a demo, so you can try them out and see what you think. As I said, note when you play with ColorEFX that each module is different with different adjustments, whereas in SilverEFX the presets are all just different settings of the same controls.
I agree with jon2512 though, that buying the whole set is a good idea... if you are willing to work with them as plugins in Aperture/Lightroom it's a lot cheaper than the Photoshop versions.
One tip around Nik software, is that if you want to buy one you should sign up for a webinar on the Nik website - when the webinar completes you'll be given a discount code at the end that gives you 10-15% off the software. It's good for the specific software discussed in the webinar, and I think possibly on the whole suite also (not sure about that).
SEP is for B&W while CEP is for colour photos. It's like comparing apples and oranges. That aside though, I would recommend getting the whole suite as it's cheaper that way, plus Define and Sharpener is actually pretty useful.
I do not own a copy of Colour Efex but I do own a copy of Silver Efex Pro 2 (together with Elements 9) and from the two pics below I am happy to say that i have no regrets buying it.
to be honest, these two programs are very different animals as Colour is primarily for colour and Silver Efex is primarily for B&W.
Pros of Silver Efex 2, the simplicity of usage, even for a newbie like me. you just need to watch the official youtube video and you are ready to go. A pic will take less than 5 mins for me to process.
I do agree with the previous post that alternatively you can buy the complete suit package but if costs are your concern, i would recommend you getting a "student package" / alternatively you can go to the Niksoft website and look for the authorized dealers, i got my for USD $120 for version 1 (with free upgrade to version 2), market price is selling at a much higher price.
they're very different products. Silver Efex pro is really for black and white conversions only. Whther you need it depends on how much black and white work you are doing (or will do). If you're doing a lot of it, you'll find it hard to do without.
But if you're doing occasional black and white, then color efex pro is the better value. But they are both great tools in what they are designed for. Color Efex can be used for occasional Black and white conversions and is amazing for color imagery, but if you're doing lots of (and/or serious) black and white, that's when silver efex really shines.