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I'm an iPhone app developer. I want to get into iOS gaming. The question is-should I start with learning 2D like Cocos 2D or Corona SDK before learning 3D gaming like Unity? I'm more interested in 3D gaming, but do you think that knowing 2D gaming is a prerequisite to learning 3D development?
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It depends on how strong you are with mathematics, and 3D game programming concepts.
2D you can get by using only concepts of x,y positions and velocities (and adding and subtracting them - basically vectors) and 2D box collision.
In 3D, you have to worry about a lot more math: projection matrices, viewing matrices, frusta..
In addition, you have to interact with a much richer set of functions from the drawing API you're using, (just by virtue of the fact that you're doing 3D, so you have to learn a lot more functions that deal with 3D).
Microsoft XNA has excellent support for starting out in 2D, and makes rendering easy using SpriteBatch. As soon as you venture into 3D, you automatically have to learn VertexBuffer, or Model, and then comes ModelBones and everything else that goes with it.
You're best off starting 2D just because the concepts you need to grasp is less (2D sprites? A cakewalk!). After you have some experience under your belt, then you should be fine doing 3D.
The only fundamental difference between 2D and 3D game development is whether or not you use the 3rd axis. If you're using an engine like Unity you can just as easily make 2D games as 3D games by simply using an orthographic camera projection and sprites instead of models.
That being said, if you're not using an engine that does a lot of the 3D heavy lifting for you, it is a lot harder. See the answer to this question: What to consider when deciding on 2D vs 3D for a game?
What you should do is decide what game you want to make and the art and design will tell you if it needs to be 2D or 3D.
I agree with Tetrad that you should think about the art and design and that will lead you if it needs to be 2D or 3D. I also will say that it may be a good idea to create a 2D game first so that you won't have to think about the harder things that come along with 3D games. Also, one thing to realize is that the brain will process less information with 2D games which is what you want for a more casual experience.
If you look at most of the successful indie games over the passed 3 years, many of them were 2D.
So a company can be successful making just 2D games. The success of games comes from game mechanics, story, aesthetics, and technology. Otherwise known as the tetrad. I'm getting off topic so I digress.
Keep in mind, it will be simpler for you to get 2D art assets to practice with. So while I don't think learning 2D game development is a prerequisite to learning 3D game development (either way the game code on top of the graphics code is pretty much the same) I would still recommend most beginners start with 2D games unless you already have a solid resource for 3D graphics (eg. you'll be learning alongside a buddy who is a 3D artist).
Code-wise, the difficulty depends on what you are trying to learn and what engine you will be using (and in particular if you will be writing your own engine). Low-level 3D graphics code is much more complicated than low-level 2D graphics code, but if you will be using an engine like Unity then you won't be writing low-level graphics code. The code for a 3D game built in that engine is no more complicated than the code for a 2D game. Indeed, it may be considerably less complicated, depending again on the specific engine you are talking about.

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Board Meets For Canvass
A vote canvass held Friday – after several delays – confirmed voters in Marshall County approved renewal of a school operating levy in a Dec. 15 special election.
Marshall County Board of Education members Beth Phillips, Thomas Gilbert and John Miller met in the county commission room of the Marshall County Courthouse to determine how many provisional ballots would be added to the Election Day totals. Unofficial results Dec. 15 indicated the levy had passed 2,973-1,969. The addition of 65 provisional ballots did not change the outcome, but they did change the totals to 3,018 in favor to 1,989 against.
The canvass had been rescheduled three times before it convened Friday at 12:30 p.m. It originally was set for Dec. 21, but was postponed due to the board's inability to form a quorum. The meeting was rescheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday; however, county clerk employees that day said the canvass had been postponed again until 10 a.m. Friday.
On Friday morning, county officials again reported that the canvass had been postponed until 12:30 p.m.
"They say the third time's the charm," said Miller as he arrived Friday.
Miller was the only board member to attend the Dec. 21 convening of the canvass, opening it in compliance with the law that states a canvass be held five business days after any county election. The law also requires that three of the five board members attend, and until Friday that number could not be reached.
Marshall County Clerk Jan Pest said the point of the canvass is to decide which provisional ballots should be counted in the final totals. She said the county commission usually serves as the board of canvassers in primary and general elections, but since the board of education opted for a special election, they had to sit as their own canvassers.
The operating levy will give the school district $82.16 million over a five-year period in increments of $16.43 million each year.
Pest and Deputy Clerk Winnie Reilly helped the board members conduct the canvass. In order to complete the canvassing process, board members first had to check election materials for the 45 voting precincts in Marshall County for provisional ballots. Once they had located all the provisional ballots, the canvassers then checked the reasons for each provisional ballot to determine which qualified to be counted.
Pest said provisional votes can be disqualified when cast by a nonregistered voter or cast by a registered voter in the wrong voting precinct.
Gilbert was impressed by the elaborate process of canvassing an election.
"So much work goes into even a small, special election," said Gilbert.
Board members counted 65 provisional ballots Friday, 45 for the levy and 20 against.
Pest said the declared totals for the special election are now 3,018 in favor and 1,989 against. She emphasized that these are still not the official numbers for the election.
Anyone who wishes to challenge the results may file a formal objection with Pest's office by writing a letter. They may do so for 48 business hours after completion of the canvass, which means it must be filed by the end of business Thursday. A specific error in the election process must be cited in the letter.
If no objections are received, the results will be made official at a board of education meeting on Jan. 7 or 8.


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I am using "clean" URLs like this:
I access the parameters with a custom function like this my_get(1), my_get(2), etc...
However there are times where I think I need to combine them with query strings. For example: If I need parameter values containing paths with several slashes like:
I do that because it would be a little harder to implement if done with clean URL.
Now my question is, in combining clean URL and with query string, I only intend to allow this character class:
I was wondering would there be any security issue with it? Should I disallow certain characters?


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For all that own or know this in the new version.
Is the Thunderbolt output compatible with the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter?
- If not, how do we connect our external monitor?
- If yes, with the 27" version there are two ports, can we connect 2 external monitors?
BTW: I'm asking about standard monitors, not the Apple Cinema Display.


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Does a scratched DVD result in lost data?
How do I fix a scratched DVD?
1.yes but not completely
It will depend on how much it is scratched . If it is negligible just ignore it . If it is in the moderate level some utility programs may help you . If it is in very high level no hope , (still you may can recover some data if you have luck :) )
2.Try your luck using following apps
Or Try to fix the DVD
Not necessarily. The data is not actually stored on the surface of the disk - it's actually stored more towards the center. There is a protective layer of plastic-coating (polycarbonate) surrounding the data.
If only the protective layer is scratched, it can be filled in using the CD/DVD repair kits available at electronics stores (or even Wal-mart). If the scratch is deep enough to damage the data, however, you're out of luck.
(Others have mentioned that DVDs use error-correction codes. This is true, but if the drive is saying the data is corrupt/can't be read, that already means the ECC wasn't able to recover the data, so that knowledge does not really help you)
1- Yes, all DVD/CD are burned using a digital redundancy technique. On DVDs I know that Reed-Solomon code is used:
This code allow you to have some scratches on your DVD/CD because data redundancy, however it goes only to a limit(not deterministic), after that, every new scratch will result on more data loss.
2- Fortunatelly there are some methods that allow you to try to recover your scratched media and the data on it. On Wikihow you can found a good way:
Scratches on the bottom (clear) portion of the disk cause data read errors by interrupting the laser beam's path to the data. The actual data may still be intact, just unreachable (think overwriting words on a page with a black marker, the words are still there but not visible.) Such scratches may be filled in or polished out using various products/techniques. Try googling for "CD repair".
Scratches on the top (metallic) portion of the disk actually remove the data bearing layer and are not physically recoverable. If you can see light through the disk, the data is no longer there.
In either case the error correction protocols noted in other answers are used to rebuild lost data, up to a point.
To prevent all this:
You can use WinRAR's "Recovery record". If the DVD gets damaged, and if the corrupted part falls under the recovery record, WinRAR will be able to repair the archive itself.


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I updated to 10.10 from 10.04 -however not with a clean install but with online update. Since then at shutdown some console texts appear (next to the red spot representing the shutdown steps). Im using the nvidia driver from nvidia.com. Can you suggest something?
This is not normal and looks like to be related to an issue with the proprietary Nvidia/ATI drivers.
See the bug reports on Launchpad #563878 and #653274.
Normally, during boot and shutdown Ubuntu is supposed to display a high-res Ubuntu logo and not show any text at all.
However, with Lucid Lynx and the recent Maverick Meerkat something changed that this does not work anymore for certain configurations.
For me, using the free open source driver this works as expected. However, using the proprietary AMD fglrx driver, both, the boot screen and the shutdown screen are replaced by ugly, low-res text.
This does not impact any functionality, but is just a cosmetic thing, which is hopefully attended to and fixed soon.
It seems like I have found a solution for this problem when using the ATI driver fglrx.
Install the package
Run it with
On the
Then hit
This solved the problem for me.
NOTE: This might not solve the problem for people using the Nvidia graphics driver.
i've also noticed that when using the proprietary graphics drivers on my system, it seems to interfere with the boot/shutdown splash page. it's not really a functionality problem, but if it bothers you you could file a bug or remove the nvidia driver (my system works quite well without it, as good support is provided by the kernel).
Not sure what your referring to but log information displayed on shut down is perfectly normal. Usually when I shut down my laptop, I have a flash of console info like:
Checking Battery State..
Checking Unattended-upgrades
Before the Plymouth screen.
Normal behavior, so I wouldn't worry.
I am pretty sure thats normal...
Does it say anything particularly interesting? Or is it just standard Debian halting garbage?


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In The News Today
- Hillary Clinton's campaign manager accused Russia of backing a leak of Democratic party emails to secretly help Trump's presidential chances.
- Russia won't be banned from the Rio Olympics but its athletes need to pass new anti-doping tests to compete, the IOC ruled.
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The Speed Freak Killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog were both convicted in the murder of four people but are believed to be responsible for the deaths of as many as 25 people. Here are their known victims and several missing people who have been mentioned as possible victims.
KNOWN VICTIM: Chevy Wheeler Chevy Wheeler disappeared from Stockton on Oct. 16, 1985.
KNOWN VICTIM: Cyndi Vanderheiden Cyndi Vanderheiden disappeared from Clements on Nov. 14, 1998.
KNOWN VICTIM: Paul Cavanaugh Paul Cavanagh found shot to death on Roberts Island on Nov. 27, 1984.
KNOWN VICTIM: Howard King Howard King found shot to death on Roberts Island on Nov. 27, 1984.
MISSING: Hannah Zaccaglini, 15 Hannah Zaccaglini went missing on June 4, 1997 from McCloud, CA.
MISSING: Karen Knechtel Mero, 27 Karen Knechtel Mero went missing on Feb. 15, 1997 from McCloud, CA.
MISSING: Michaela Garecht, 9 Michaela Garecht was kidnapped on Nov. 19, 1988 from Hayward, CA.
MURDERED: Robin Armtrout, 24 Robin Armtrout's body was found near Linden in September of 1985.
MURDERED: Henry Howell, 41 Henry Howell was shot dead on Highway 88 near Hope Valley in September 1984.
MISSING: Theresa Ann Bier, 16 Theresa went missing on June 1, 1987 in Fresno.
MISSING: Sylvia Lourdes Standley, 31 Sylvia went missing June 3, 1086 in Modesto.
MISSING: Susan Robin Bender, 14 Susan went missing on April 25, 1985 in Modesto.
MISSING: Sherie Ann Graves, 32 Sherie went missing on May 1, 1988 in Modesto.
MISSING: Ruth Ann Leamon, 16 Ruth went missing on Aug. 19, 1982 in Modesto.
MISSING: Phillip Lloyd Cabot Martin, 47 Phillip went missing on Sept. 30, 1993 in Stockton.
MISSING: Kimberly Ann Billy,19 The remains of Kimberly Billy have been positively identified. They were found in a Linden well believed to be where the Speed Freak Killers, Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog, dumped some of the victims.
MISSING: JoAnn Hobson, 16 MURDERED: JoAnn went missing in 1988 in Manteca. Her remains found in a Linden well.
MURDERED: Hunter Shermantine and Herzog boasted of killing a hunter in Utah In 1994.
MISSING: Gale Marie Marks, 18 Gale went missing Oct. 18, 1988 in Stockton.
MISSING: Christine Marie Sexton, 36 Christine went missing on April 17, 1989 in Turlock.
DEAD: Tracy Melton, 32 Tracy went missing in 1998 in Stockton. Her remains were found in 2002 but her family was just notified in 2012.
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Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway says the Election Fraud Hotline received 183 calls from nearly 60 counties on Election Day, with the bulk of the questions concerning procedural issues and voting machines.
Conway says before Tuesday's vote, the office received 11 calls alleging vote buying or selling and four more on Election Day. Clay, Knott, Knox and Wolfe counties each produced two of those calls, and the rest were from Adair, Boyd, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson, Madison and Meade counties.
Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes' office said the State Board of Elections received 135 questions from 47 counties regarding the election, including procedural issues, electioneering complaints and possible vote fraud and vote buying. The vote fraud question came from Jefferson County, and the vote buying questions were from Adair/Casey, Knox and Meade counties.
As required by law, Conway's office will randomly select six counties for a post-election audit.


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Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Variants is an integrated solution that enables you to easily set up and maintain multi-attribute items in the inventory tracking software, streamlining product management throughout the ordering and supply chain fulfillment process.
"With Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP applications, we can do more with less. It supports our new group business model, enabling us to align processes across the group and share services to minimize administrative costs and better compete with other volume bed manufacturers."


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Everything on the 49ers' side of the field -- including the press box -- went dark, as did all of the stadium's scoreboards.Check out the video of [si_launchNFLPopup video='3f1be0a3fdb64911aba318df50f2e2c9']the power going out[/si_launchNFLPopup]. A GIF of it, via Deadspin:Phil Simms, in mid-sentence on the CBS broadcast at the time, had his mic cut out, and for a long time during the delay the network had to use Steve Tasker and Jim Brown -- who somehow had power on the field -- to relay information to viewers. According to various reports, the flashy halftime show, performed by Beyonce, had an impact in the outage.The NFL issued a statement saying, "Stadium authorities are investigating the cause of the power outage. We will have more information as it becomes available." But Entergy, which supplies power to the Superdome, tweeted to say, "Power issue at the Super Dome appears to be in the customer's side. Entergy is providing power to the Dome. At all times, our distribution & transmission feeders were serving Superdome. We continue working w/ Superdome to address any issues."Long after the game had ended, Entergy and SMG (the Superdome's management company) issued a joint statement explaining that "a piece of equipment that is designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system. Once the issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as designed and opened a breaker, causing power to be partially cut to the Superdome in order to isolate the issue."Backup generators kicked in immediately as designed. Entergy and SMG subsequently coordinated start-up procedures, ensuring that full power was safely restored to the Superdome."New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu calledit "an unfortunate moment in what has been an otherwise shining Super Bowl week for the city of New Orleans. In the coming days, I expect a full-action report from all parties involved. To the sellout crowd's credit, the atmosphere remained subdued despite the somewhat unsettling situation. The two fanbases traded "Let's Go Ravens" and "Let's Go Niners" cheers, with a wave mixed in as well.PHOTOS: Best of the game | Beyonce's halftime showAn announcement was made over the stadium's public address system after several minutes, but the lack of power on the 49ers' side of the field also knocked out the speakers pointing that direction, meaning that a large chunk of the crowd was not privy to the message relayed.VIDEO: Best & worst of Super Bowl XLVII commercialsThe crowd began cheering wildly as the lights and scoreboards finally came back to life, coupled with multiple announcements that the game would resume shortly.Twitter, naturally, had a field day with the fiasco, with a slew of jokes being hurled around during the delay. Below is a sampling of the best ones.don't act like you've never blacked out in New Orleans.— Abby (@abbytrott) February 4, 2013Sean Payton is somehow going to get suspended again for this.— Tom Mantzouranis (@themantz) February 4, 2013Guaranteed that the NFL will give Ray Lewis a tackle credit for knocking the lights out.— Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) February 4, 2013Oh, NOW someone gives a damn about the people without power in the Superdome!— Michael Chaney (@mjchaney) February 4, 2013This has been the worst second halftime in Super Bowl history.— Rob Peterson (@ShotDrJr) February 4, 2013IF YOU LIKED IT YOU SHOULD'VE PUT A BACKUP GENERATOR ON IT— Joe Schmidt (@joeschmidt) February 4, 2013WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW RAY LEWIS??? — Ashley Burns (@MayorBurnsy) February 4, 2013 More Audibles


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I need a light weight web based note keeping application. The app should be runnable on Android/ iphone.
I need such an app because I find that I do grocery shopping once in a week, and by the time I get to do shopping, I forget what I want to buy already.
So I need such an app so that I can jot down my necessities in my daily life, and view the list when I'm doing the shopping.
Does such an app already available?
Gmail task is a good choice. But it is a bit too general.
Edit: Thanks for all the recommendation! But I would prefer the one with OpenID support even though it has less features, rather than the one without with more features.


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This is the cheapest I've seen an HD 7970 go for. No mail in rebates to deal with either. If on the fence about a high-end GPU upgrade, now's your chance.
Apologies, but Tigerdirect.com doesn't seem to be offering a similar instant rebate coupon.
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Research from Todd-Cuevas-Sheller collaborations presented at two national meetings
Drs. Cuevas, Sheller and Todd work together studying the properties that adhere cancer cells together. They recently had the opportunity to present their results at two national meetings.
Research collaborations between three faculty in the Department of Biology recently yielded two presentations at national and international meetings. The Todd/Cuevas/Sheller Research Collaboration Group continues to conduct cancer research with undergraduates - three of which co-authored (Noah Bierwith, Rachel DeLong and Heather Petty) this recent work.
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Sheller R.A., Bierwirth, N.A.*, DeLong, R.L.*, Cuevas, M.E. and Todd, M.C. 2013. Subcellular distribution of claudin-3 in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. American Society for Cell Biology, ASCB 53rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Petty H.M*., King, J.M., Cuevas, M.E., Sheller, R.A. and Todd, M.C. Effect of claudin−3 protein expression on its sub−cellular localization and cellular motility in breast cancer cell lines. Breast Cancer Symposium American Association for Cancer Research, San Antonio, TX Dec 10-14, 2013.


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Whew - that blog sale has been keeping me busy. All paid orders that have come in so far have been shipped, btw!
So I wanted to feature for you today my MAC Mineralize Skinfinish (MSF) collection. I said "so far" in the title because I'm in the process of trying to acquire a few more of these through swaps (By Candlelight and Shimpagne should be in my hot little hands soon... and if anyone has a Refined they want to send my way, let me know and we can work something out for it!). I'll post more swatches sometime later on when my collection has expanded further.
These are pretty much my favorite highlighters out there. I also have a variety of other powder, liquid, and cream highlighters from other brands, but the ones I still tend to reach for most often are my MSFs. Among my current collection, the one I use by far the most often is Perfect Topping (on which the dome is almost flat now!), and runners-up are Blonde, Lightscapade, and Soft and Gentle.
Here are the ones I use as cheekbone highlighters:
Soft and Gentle:
Light Flush:
Porcelain Pink:
And here are the ones that are a bit darker/brighter, which I tend to only use layered over other blushes for added glow (rather than on my cheekbones):
Light Year:
Star Wonder:
Stereo Rose:
Now, I'm not 100% satisfied with ALL of these. Porcelain Pink tends to leave me feeling a bit underwhelmed - I may be purging that one from my stash soon. Light Year and Stereo Rose, while objectively gorgeous, may simply be too burnt orange to look good on my skin tone. I've found other orangey blushes I love on me (the Sephora + Pantone duo, Tarte Tipsy, Chanel Espiegle, etc.) but these ones I haven't been able to make work as of yet. They were relatively recent acquisitions, though, so I intend to give each one at least a couple more test runs before I purge those two as well.
What are your favorite MSFs? Are there any you think are sorely missing from my collection, that would look great with my N/NW10 coloring? What are your other favorite highlighters?
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POSTED: 7:36 PM Dec 16 2012 UPDATED: 2:00 AM Dec 18 2012
On December 21, 2012, they Mayan calendar comes to an end. Some have tied this date to the end of the world and Doomsday prophesies. Click here to learn more about the Mayan calendar, end of the world predictions and more.


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Phoebe meets cold coming and going
|An eastern phoebe. Credit: Mark Szantyr
The same hardiness that allows it to show up in March, when snow remains a real possibility, also allows a few of these unimposing little brown birds to linger late into fall and early winter.
Occasionally, if a protected spot near some open water can be found, one might even push its way into the new year.
I shouldn't have been surprised then when a bird that darted across a country road in Woodbury this week perched in the open and bobbed its tail, a distinctive phoebe trait.
This one was hanging out near a small pond, a pond likely to be frozen over by now. It probably moved along during our most recent cold front, making its way south to the Middle Atlantic or Southeastern States.
Phoebes migrate, but they don't go very far, at least not in comparison to songbirds that head to South America or the Caribbean. Most of them winter within the United States, so they're poised for an early return.
The earliest ones take a gamble. They'll get first choice of the best nest sites but also run the highest risk of succumbing to a late snow or ice storm. Some years the early bird wins. Some years it loses. Nature manages to maintain a balance on life and death with equations of that sort.
I've encountered phoebes in dire straits a few times, always in early spring. I've seen them flitting around small pools of open water in a snow-covered landscape, picking numbed insects off the ground as a brutal north wind pushed temperatures far below freezing and even flapping feebley into heavy cover, seeking shelter from which they probably never emerged.
With all that in mind, I looked at the chipper little bird in Woodbury with a measure of admiration.
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Someone asked this question about how many ways there are to prove $0.999\dots = 1$ and I posted this:
$$ 0.99999 \dots = \sum_{k = 1}^\infty \frac{9}{10^k} = 9 \sum_{k = 1}^\infty \frac{1}{10^k} = 9 \Big ( \frac{1}{1 - \frac{1}{10}} - 1\Big ) = \frac{9}{9} = 1$$
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While there's nothing quite like peanut butter, some tasty substitutes on the market come very close. Try soy nut butter or sunflower seed butter on a sandwich or bagel. Soy nut butter looks and smells a lot like peanut butter, but is not quite as rich and sweet. Sweeten it with a bit of honey, or pair it with thin slices of apple or some jelly or jam.
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City of Lakewood, CO Delivering Better User Experience with WPF and Silverlight
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There are a few "hidden Vault Symbols" in each area. Where exactly are all of them, and are there any telling signs when you're close by?
There are a few "hidden Vault Symbols" in each area. Where exactly are all of them, and are there any telling signs when you're close by?
There are no indicators when you're near. Remember to action ("Discover") the wall inscriptions—don't just look at them. Each new character can revisit the symbols and get credit for the challenge.
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Windshear Waste (1)
Southern Shelf (2)
Southern Shelf - Bay (2)
Three Horns - Divide (3)
Sanctuary (5)
Three Horns - Valley (3)
Southpaw Steam & Power (3)
Frostburn Canyon (2)
The Dust (3)
Bloodshot Stronghold (2)
Bloodshot Ramparts (1)
Friendship Gulag (1)
Tundra Express (2)
End of the Line (1)
Sanctuary Hole (1)
Caustic Caverns (2)
Fink's Slaughterhouse (1)
The Fridge (2)
The Highlands (1)
Wildlife Exploitation Preserve (2)
Natural Selection Annex (1)
Holy Spirits Bar (1)
Thousand Cuts (2)
Opportunity (2)
Lynchwood (2)
The Bunker (1)
1.The cult of the vault is along the ring under the left side of the waterfall. Face the waterfall and jump off the right side of the ring that has no security rail, there are rocks underneath and you can jump back to the ring after.
Eridium Blight (3)
Ore Chasm (1)
Sawtooth Cauldron (2)
Arid Nexus-Boneyard (2)
Hero's Pass (2)
Vault of the Warrior (1)
Terramorphous Peak (2)
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The following symbols are found in areas in the second campaign DLC: Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage
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There is one in Windshear Waste:
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Theft: Gun reported taken from house in the 300 block of Belleview Boulevard between July 11 and Wednesday.
Arrested: Charles P. Jones, 26, 397 Ridge Ave., Weirton, obstruction of justice warrant, Wednesday.
Arrested: Ashley Reid, 28, 1306 Belleview Blvd., two counts possession of drugs and possesion of drug paraphernalia, possession of drug abuse instrument, possession of marijuana and driving with suspended license, Wednesday.
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Theft: Car window broken at Friendship Park on Wednesday and purse taken.
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BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, France � Thomas Voeckler won the 16th stage of the Tour de France over four huge climbs in the Pyrenees, while defending champion Cadel Evans dropped out of title contention Wednesday.
Evans started the day fourth overall, but the Australian struggled on the last two climbs. Bradley Wiggins wore the yellow jersey a little more comfortably � gaining ground on some key pursuers.
Voeckler dominated the 123-mile course from Pau to Bagneres-de-Luchon, the Frenchman leading a breakaway for his second stage victory of the Tour. He also won Stage 10 and has four in total.
�Every one of the mountain passes was a race for me,� said Voeckler, who captured the polka dot jersey for the best climber from Fredrik Kessiakoff of Sweden. �I did what many young riders dream of doing � leading everyone over all four summits.�
Chris Anker Sorensen of Denmark was second, 1 minute, 40 seconds back. The top title contenders � Wiggins, Sky teammate and compatriot Christopher Froome of Britain and Vincenzo Nibali of Italy � finished more than 7 minutes back.
The Tour was riding under a new doping cloud. RadioShack team leader Frank Schleck was expelled from the race Tuesday after testing positive for a banned diuretic.
Overall, Wiggins leads second-place Froome by 2:05 and third-place Nibali by 2:23. Jurgen van den Broeck of Belgium moved up to fourth, 5:46 back.
Evans crossed nearly 5 minutes behind Wiggins to drop to seventh, 8:06 off the pace. Teammate Tejay van Garderen said the defending champion appeared to suffer from heat and stomach problems and had �just a bad day.�
Evans was about 40 seconds back of his teammates but recovered and joined the pack by the foot of the day�s last climb after receiving an escort. But he struggled on the last climb, continuing to lose time.
�When you have it two hours before the race, there�s not a lot you can do,� the 35-year-old Australian said about the stomach issues. �I did not think it would affect me in the race, but obviously that�s not my normal level.
�It�s pretty much the Tour de France over for me.�
With Evans fading in the Pyrenees, his young teammate Van Garderen is ready to take over.
The 23-year-old American rider, tipped by many as a future Grand Tour winner, is the best-placed BMC rider in the Tour. He holds a grip on the white jersey for the best young rider and stands sixth overall, 7 minutes, 55 seconds behind leader Wiggins.
�We are still going to race aggressively,� Van Garderen said.
Two American veterans ran into mishaps. Chris Horner, riding in his sixth Tour, had just fixed a flat tire when he veered into some bushes, requiring a new bike to return to the race.
On the downhill from the Tourmalet pass, 17-Tour veteran George Hincapie crashed and required treatment for his injured left shoulder and knee from team staff and the race doctor.
A bunch of 38 riders broke away early, but the big climbs took their toll, and the group divided. Cyclists first scaled the Aubisque and Tourmalet passes � two of the toughest climbs in cycling � followed by the category-1 Aspin and Peyresourde passes. The last peak was nine miles from the finish, before a long descent.
Voeckler grimaced, his jersey unzipped and his body rocking from side to side in rhythm with his pedal strokes as he climbed the ascents.
�I�m the first person to admit that I�m not beautiful on the bike,� the Europcar rider said. �I�m a frowner ... That�s my way of doing it; when I�m in pain, that�s the way look.�
After the three biggest climbs, the stage looked like a two-man race between Voeckler and Brice Feillu of France. With 13 miles left, Voeckler stepped it up, pulling away. Sorensen then caught up with Feillu and overtook him.
On the ascent to the Aspin pass, the day�s third big climb, Evans started to lag. The Australian couldn�t keep pace with BMC teammate Amael Moinard of Belgium.
The 17th stage today offers the last big day of mountain climbing, with an 88-mile slog up three hard ascents that includes an uphill finish from Bagneres-de-Luchon to Peyragudes.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday tossed out the conviction of a driver for Osama bin Laden, dealing a blow to the U.S. military commissions system.
Salim Hamdan was convicted in 2008 of providing material support for terrorism. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the conviction.
The court noted that Hamdan was found guilty based on conduct that took place from 1996 to 2001, but the charge of material support for terrorism only came into effect with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
"Because we read the Military Commissions Act not to retroactively punish new crimes, and because material support for terrorism was not a pre-existing war crime," the court wrote, "Hamdan's conviction for material support for terrorism cannot stand."
Hamdan received a sentence of five and a half years in prison and got credit for having served almost all of that while detained before his military commission trial. He was transferred to his native Yemen in 2008, released from jail there in January 2009, and continued to appeal his conviction.
"It was important to him to have his name cleared of the conviction and he thought the principle was important," Harry Schneider Jr., one of Hamdan's lawyers, told CNN. Schneider said Hamdan realized many other detainees at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be affected by the decision.
J. Wells Dixon, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights who co-authored an amicus brief supporting Hamdan's appeal, said the court's decision is an important one and will lead to more appeals.
"I think today's decision is reflective of a larger problem," Wells told CNN. "The military commission system involves uncharted territory. It's a second-rate system that we make up as we go along."
Zachary Katznelson, a senior attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the decision "strikes the biggest blow yet against the legitimacy of the Guantanamo military commissions, which have for years now been trying people for a supposed war crime that in fact is not a war crime at all."
He added, "The government should prosecute any Guantanamo prisoners against whom it has sufficient legally obtained evidence in federal court, where the law is clear and prisoners have the legal rights necessary to ensure trials are fair, transparent, and viewed as legitimate. Anything less fails to live up to the standard of American justice."
Seven detainees have been convicted by military commissions, including Hamdan. Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale said all seven men were convicted of material support for terrorism. While most of the cases involved more than one charge, Hamdan and Australian David Hicks were found guilty only of material support for terrorism.
Bryan Broyles, the deputy chief defense counsel for the military commissions, said three other pending cases involve charges of material support for terrorism. The highest-profile case does not involve that charge. That is the case involving self-proclaimed 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others charged in the 2001 terror attacks.
"The bottom line for us is, this is what we've been saying since 2006, that material support is not a proper charge," Broyles told CNN. "When we can get our grievances aired before an actual judicial body we win."
But Broyles hastened to add he thinks military prosecutors will look for other charges they can bring against Guantanamo detainees in place of material support for terrorism or conspiracy to commit material support for terrorism.
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said only that department officials are "reviewing the ruling."
The ruling affects only military commission cases and does not apply to suspects convicted in the federal court system, in which material support charges have been allowed since the 1990s.
Human rights groups have called for terror suspects to be tried in the federal court system rather than before military commissions. That call was repeated in the wake of the court ruling.
"The Obama administration must work with Congress to overturn restrictions on transferring detainees to the United States for prosecution in civilian courts," said Raha Wala of Human Rights First.


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Whatever Happened to Joe College?
More students are also opting to go to college part-time. In 1995, 35 percent of all undergraduate students were enrolled part-time compared with 29 percent in 1976 (Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac, 1998). Furthermore, today the largest single category of college student attends a 2-year institution, while only a short time ago the largest category attended 4-year institutions (Carnegie Foundation, 1994). In addition, more college students are choosing to live off campus; today only about 13 percent of students live on campus (Upcraft, 1994). Students are also taking longer to graduate. According to a survey by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, only 56 percent of full-time, first-year students graduate within 6 years.
Overall, the contemporary picture of those attending college features a student body that includes all races and ethnicities, mixed nationalities, more women than men, the able and disabled, and students of differing sexual orientations and ages. Most students live off campus, with more than one-third attending school on a part-time basis.
Trajectories of binge drinking. Distinct trajectories of binge drinking during the transition to young adulthood (ages 18 to 24) have been documented by Schulenberg and colleagues (1996) in a four-wave study. These researchers identified six trajectories of binge drinking that applied to all but 10 percent of the sample:
Trajectories vary according to gender, ethnicity, and college student status in ways consistent with findings already described in this report. For example, compared to men, women are underrepresented in the chronic and increased groups and overrepresented in the never group. Compared to most ethnic minorities, Whites are overrepresented in all groups except the never group.
When considering the problem of heavy drinking during adolescence, and especially during the transition to young adulthood, it is essential to examine different trajectories over time. A key reason to be concerned with differential change in alcohol use over time is that a given level of use at any given time could result from a number of different trajectories, with some being far more troublesome than others.
The challenges faced by colleges and universities encompass more than the behavioral issues linked to transition. In many cases, they must also respond to a subset of alcohol problems that began during high school or earlier. Although the college experience does not "cause" these drinking problems per se, they are frequently identified in college and thereby become a "college problem."
No one individual profile describes college students who drink. Many factors specific to the individual influence how a particular college student views and uses alcohol. Differences in personality, social relationships, beliefs, attitudes, psychological needs, and responses to alcohol have all been studied to explain why some people use alcohol more than others. The challenge for researchers is to integrate these variables and develop multivariate models that can explain the relationship between patterns of drinking and combinations of risk factors and outcomes (Baer, 2002).
Genetic vulnerability and family factors. Alcohol problems run in families, with the best available research indicating that both genetic and environmental components contribute to risk (McGue, 1999). Although extensive genetic research is under way, the mechanisms of genetic and family risk remain unclear. Approximately 10 percent of college students report growing up in a home where a parent abused alcohol. These children of problem drinking parents exhibit a bimodal pattern of drinking behavior, with higher than normal odds of past-year abstinence or binge drinking (Weitzman and Wechsler, 2000). Although there is little evidence that children of alcoholics metabolize alcohol differently than others, they may be more sensitive to the early, stimulating, and stress-dampening effects of alcohol and less sensitive to the delayed, subjectively assessed depressant and motor effects of alcohol (Newlin and Thomson, 1990; Schuckit, 1998; Sher, 1991; Wood MD et al., 2001).
Personality. Decades of research have failed to identify an "addictive personality." However, certain personality traits have been related to drinking habits. For example, sensation-seeking has been related to higher rates of consumption, while religiosity has been related to lower rates. Personality traits are typically seen as mediating or moderating the relationship between biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors and subsequent alcohol use and misuse.
There is strong and consistent research evidence linking problem drinking with impulsivity and disinhibition, moderate evidence of links with neuroticism and emotionality, and mixed evidence for a link with sociability and being extraverted (Sher et al., 1999). Consistent with this research is the finding that two problem drinking patterns appear to be dominant among college students. These are (1) a pattern of heavier drinking related to impulsivity and sensation-seeking and (2) a pattern of heavier drinking associated with negative emotional states.
Beliefs about alcohol. Learning about alcohol can occur at very young ages, before alcohol is consumed, as children observe others drinking (often their parents). There is good evidence that beliefs about alcohol are related to the initiation of drinking behavior. It is common for a college student to begin drinking based on what he or she has observed adults doing to cope with stress, enliven a party, or relieve boredom. Although most of this belief structure is in place before college, the college environment presents a stimulus structure that can reinforce prior beliefs—for example, that drinking is fun and makes people sexier.
Students vary considerably in their perceptions and expectations of whether alcohol is a positive or negative influence on behavior. Their reasons for drinking also vary and have been linked to the management of specific emotional states, such as feeling unhappy, with drinking seen as a form of self-medication for these feelings. For some, a belief becomes a linkage to alcohol use. For example, if a student believes that alcohol will make him or her more sociable, he or she may drink for that reason. A person who drinks to manage negative emotional states might use alcohol to cope with stress, relieve depression or social anxiety, or boost low self-esteem. It should be noted, however, that in the absence of beliefs that alcohol produces certain psychological states—stress reduction and/or mood elevation—the relationship between stress and depression and alcohol use is not found (Cooper et al., 1995; Kushner et al., 1994).
Religiosity. Several large, multicampus studies show that students who are more religious and more committed to traditional values drink less than their peers who are less religious (Engs et al., 1996; Wechsler et al., 1995a).
The influence of prior drinking, peers, and family. For some students, alcohol use in high school has already set the stage for college drinking, with an enabling environment on campus supporting precollege drinking behavior. A study of 140 college campuses found that the frequency of binge drinking in high school predicted the frequency of binge drinking in college (Wechsler et al., 1995a).
Peer use is one of the strongest correlates of adolescent alcohol use (Bucholz, 1990; Jacob and Leonard, 1994). Young people tend to select peers who drink like they do and to influence each other to drink (Curran et al., 1997; Kandel, 1986).
A number of parenting practices including parental conflict, insufficient monitoring of adolescent behavior (e.g., not knowing where children are at night), and poor communication have also been associated with adolescent drinking problems (Barnes, 1990; Jacob and Leonard, 1994).
Although the existing literature on the influence of collegiate environmental factors on student drinking is limited, a number of environmental influences working in concert with other factors may affect students' alcohol consumption (Presley et al., 2002). Students are not passive members of the college community; campus culture interacts with personality and experiential variables to influence the use and misuse of alcohol. Some potentially influential environmental factors are listed below.
The social scene.The college years are marked by social activity with much student drinking occurring at small and large parties. Indeed, the social environment on campus and social processes appear to play a critical role in influencing drinking in college (Baer, 1993; Maggs, 1997).
College organizational aspects.Several aspects of a college's organization are associated with student drinking. Among them are the following:
Physical properties of college campuses. Several physical properties of college campuses are associated with college student drinking, including the following:
Alcohol pricing. Researchers agree that higher alcoholic beverage prices and higher taxes result in less drinking; however, the magnitude of consumer response is more difficult to specify. Using econometric estimates in a policy simulation analysis, one study found that increases in alcoholic beverage prices would lead to substantial reductions both in the frequency of alcohol consumption by youth and in heavy drinking among youth (Chaloupka, 1993). The study also concluded that the effects of excise tax hikes on alcohol exceeded the effects of establishing the uniform legal drinking age of 21 in all States studied. When the research was expanded to include not only the monetary price of alcoholic beverages, but also the other "costs" of heavy drinking, including time spent obtaining alcohol and legal costs associated with drinking-related behavior, it found that drinking by youth is price-sensitive (Chaloupka et al., 1998). Increases in total cost can significantly reduce consumption (Chaloupka et al., 1998). Data from the CAS indicate that price significantly affected underage drinking and binge drinking by female students but not by male students (Chaloupka and Wechsler, 1996). Another analysis of CAS data found that underage, as compared to legal age, college students were more likely to obtain alcohol very cheaply and that paying a low price per drink or a set fee for "all you can drink" is associated with heavy episodic drinking (Wechsler et al., 2000a).
Outlet density and drinking venues. Research has shown that (Gruenewald, 1999):
One study found that when alcohol outlet concentrations increase and multiple drinking venues exist, both long-term and short-term drinking problems increase (Gruenewald, 1999). Another study indicated that level of drinking, drinking participation, and binge drinking are all significantly higher among college students when there are a greater number of outlets licensed to sell alcohol near campus (Chaloupka and Wechsler, 1996). A third study found that parties, dates, and socializing, along with being with friends, are the most common situations where heavy student drinking occurs, suggesting that a reduction in alcohol outlets might affect student drinking levels in social situations (Clapp et al., 2000). Although this was a single-institution study, it was well designed and explored some of the environmental variables that may put college students at risk for alcohol misuse.
There is no doubt that social availability affects drinking on campus. Social availability is defined in this context as actual, easy access to alcohol, such as at beer-keg parties where heavy drinking is the norm; participating in drinking games (see Drinking Games); and attendance at gatherings where older students obtain alcohol for younger students.
A study that followed 319 young adults throughout 4 years of college and for 1 to 3 years afterward found that during the college years members of Greek societies consistently drank more heavily than their non-Greek peers (Sher et al., 2001). Statistically controlling for previous alcohol use did not eliminate the higher consumption level among Greeks. However, Greek status did not predict heavy drinking levels postcollege. Study results suggest that perceived social norms associated with drinking in the Greek system are largely responsible for the prevalence of heavy drinking among fraternity and sorority members. In short, heavy drinking among Greeks is the norm and Greeks perceive their peers as supportive of a heavy-drinking lifestyle. However, once out of a Greek environment in which heavy drinking is normative and encouraged, these young adults' drinking patterns are similar to those of their non-Greek peers (Sher et al., 2001).
Research on drinking among college students must take into account the multiple developmental, individual, and environmental factors (and their interactions) that appear to affect whether and how much college students drink.
The research literature in this field is large but of uneven quality. To improve this situation and build on some of the excellent work in this area, future research efforts should test interactive and mediating models of multiple risk factors based on theory, address developmental processes, and use additive models of multiple risks to identify those students at highest risk for alcohol-related problems.
Developmental processes. Developmental transitions represent windows of opportunity for effecting change and the college student is dealing with a number of such transitions. More studies are needed on the value of intervening at critical transitional periods with developmentally appropriate prevention strategies to reduce excessive drinking. Intervention strategies should be implemented not only on an individual level, but also on a contextual level aimed at changing group social norms. Students themselves should be partners in this process.
There is also a need for more research on the unique characteristics of the adolescent brain and on ways in which these neurological features may predispose adolescents to behave in particular ways, including the initiation of drinking behavior. Studies are also needed to explore whether adolescents may show reduced sensitivity to alcohol intoxication, leading in some cases to higher alcohol intake to attain reinforcing effects. Finally, the possibility that adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the long-term effects of alcohol on cognitive development needs to be investigated more thoroughly.
The college context. Since contextual factors are correlated with drinking by young people, studies are needed to:
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What are some good forums for talking about editing photos in Photoshop or GIMP? Where do you talk about such things?
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What are some good forums for talking about editing photos in Photoshop or GIMP? Where do you talk about such things?
EDIT: Other than here, of course.
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Completely agree with jrista, but assuming you meant "other than this cool place", I like dgrin's "Finishing School" subforum.
Well, I would recommend this site first. ;) Discussing the editing and post-processing of photos is one of the primary purposes of this site, and as a strong support here, I can't help but promote it. It may be rather slim right now, but given the overall success of StackExchange sites, I do not doubt that this site can become one of, if not the, top resource on the Internet for photography and photographic editing questions.
For starters I would visit:
But, +1 for @jrista's suggestion... this is the spot :)
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If you don't like Obamacare, remember it was the hospitals, doctors and insurance industry that brought it about. For decades, they were too quick to recommend expensive medical procedures with no regard for who's paying or the outcome.
Even without Obamacare, we would get those "death panels," but they'll be run by hospitals and insurers. Hospitals can't continue to let patients run up seven-figure bills. What we need is basic national health care for all.
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Suppose I know the following information about a function :
1) Its a polynomial (not an explicit equation, neither the roots nor the degree is known)
2) I have managed to find an algebraic relation between some of the roots (mind you I do not know the roots explicitly, just the form of the algebraic relation is known to me).
Now given this information can one say something about the polynomial itself ?
Now what do I seek for? Well, information on something like the divisors of the degree of the polynomial, or say something about the Galois group of the polynomial may be .... so you can say am asking an inverse question.
I understand that under these very general condition the problem may not even be well posed. I actually have more information about the polynomial in the particular case I encountered it ... the polynomial is a 0-1 polynomial ...some of the roots lie in the unit circle... etc. etc.
But certainly there would be instances of similar problems (with more information available about the polynomial/ the nature and number of algebraic relations that are available etc.) which has been dealt with ?
So, I wanted to ask the question in a more general setting. Any variant of this I would say is quite interesting. So you can assume different kind of condition on the roots, coefficient algebraic relation,
I will greatly appreciate if some one can point out where I should be looking. Reference to literature where such a problem has been dealt with would be great.


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Unanswered: Ext.Model can't get data from remote server
this is my code:
Ext.regModel('UserTask', { fields: ['ret_code', 'ret_desc'], proxy:{ type:'ajax', url: 'http://localhost/api.php', reader: 'json' }, }); var user3=Ext.ModelMgr.getModel('UserTask'); user3.load(null, { success: function(record, operation) { console.log(record); console.log(operation); } });
the result return is :
record is undefined
20 Aug 2011 8:59 AM #2
I dont see any store in your code, you need a model and store, you are mixing model and store param in your model definition...
20 Aug 2011 7:18 PM #3
thanks your reply
store is multiple Model.
i just want to load one record to Model, not a store
i read the docs api (http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/touch/docs/), the example code in "Using Proxy" can resolve my question, but do not work.
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The issue is with your server's response. When you load data into a store the data needs to be an Array of whatever you are loading. So if you are loading in Json, you need an array of json objects. So just wrap your response in square brackets and then your code will work.Jack Ratcliff
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I'm struggling to understand the difference between the verb suffix ~方【かた】 and the noun 方法【ほうほう】. As an example, the difference between 遊び方 (which seems to mean something like "manner in which someone is playing") and 遊ぶ方法 (which seems to mean something like "means by which someone is playing"). I'm also not sure whether the former is the same as 遊びの仕方 (and if so, this page answers my question). Can anyone help me to clear these up? Thanks!
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From the excellent A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
The important part below:
From your comment:
Maybe someone has a habit of letting his soup cool before drinking, and he always has his soup in this manner because he doesn't like it piping hot. This is his way of drinking soup. Or he always stirs the soup exactly 3 times before drinking. This is his way of drinking soup. I believe this corresponds to 飲み方, a rather generic "way of doing".
Now for 方法, I believe that this refers to a more methodical, didactic type of "way of doing". For example, the 方法 of drinking soup could be something like:
Isn't the difference between 〜方 & 方法 much the same as the difference between "way" and "method" in English (basically a way is method but method is usually used when describing a more complicated, systematic process).
If you take a look at the definitions in English you will find the same difference between the two Japanese expressions in the others' explanations:
By contrast:
You can experiment with different expressions in Japanese (eg やり方 vs やり方法)but it might be more productive to get on top these and then comeback when you have more practical experience using the two expressions.


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Prove that if $\lim_{n \to \infty}z_{n}=A$ then: $$\lim_{n \to \infty}\frac{z_{1}+z_{2}+\cdots + z_{n}}{n}=A$$ I was thinking spliting it in: $$(z_{1}+z_{2}+\cdots+z_{N-1})+(z_{N}+z_{N+1}+\cdots+z_{n})$$ where $N$ is value of $n$ for which $|A-z_{n}|<\epsilon$ then taking the limit of this sum devided by $n$ , and noting that the second sum is as close as you wish to $nA$ while the first is as close as you wish to $0$. Not sure if this helps....
It seems like Homework problem,hence I'll just give hint: $$\frac{z_1+z_2+\cdots +z_n}{n}-A=\frac {(z_1-A)+(z_2-A)+\cdots +(z_n-A)}{n}$$ Now use the defn of limit that for every $\epsilon > 0$ there exists $N_0 \in \mathbb N$ such that $|z_m-A| < \epsilon \ \forall m \geq N_0$
Also remember triangle inequality : $|a_1+a_2+\cdots +a_n| \leq |a_1| + |a_2| +\cdots +|a_n|$
Can You find proper $a_i$ in terms of say $z_i$'s??
This can be an easy consequence of a more general statement which is from Polya's Problems and Theorems in Analysis:
The question in OP is a special case of the statement by letting $$ b_{nm}=\frac{1}{n},\quad m=1,2,\cdots. $$


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In Memoir '44, if an infantry unit is surrounded by sandbags, the rules state that the unit "may ignore the first flag rolled against it." I can come up with two interpretations that seem to have very different implications of the power of a sandbagged unit:
In order to force a retreat you must roll two flags during one attack (e.g., roll two dice, get two flags, the unit retreats). Sandbagged units are nearly impossible to force a retreat without resorting to using certain tactic cards.
You can roll one flag on one turn, then on a subsequent turn you may roll another (single) flag, and this forces the sandbagged unit to retreat. Sandbagged units are still difficult to force away, but not nearly as bad as (1).
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All the O'reilly titles, and numerous other programming books usually have a typified icon for their covert art. Sometimes it's minstrels, or medieval figures, and sometimes its camels and strange animals.
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I could be missing something key in how to view a history of posts to my facebook wall and search tips for Facebook. But how would I go about searching my old Facebook link updates?
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Have you tried http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=[your facebook id] ?
Go to facebook.com -> your profile page and try any of the following
The best way is to use Search For Posts Facebook app. It can search for photos, albums, videos, notes, statuses, events and places using keywords or range of dates! http://raphaelpungin.com/search-for-posts-facebook-app
Another approach: you can download a copy of all your facebook data by going to your general account settings and at the bottom click "download a copy of your facebook data" (as of Jan 2014)... they will build a zip file archive of everything and email a link when they are done. The package contains a set of HTML pages... one of which is a page of everything you've ever posted to your own wall... then you can just open in a browser and do a "find" on the page.
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My floor is covered in bricks. My bare feet can't take much more abuse. Is there a way of collecting up the bricks easily, or should I just get on my knees and start scooping them up with my hands?
A dustpan & brush will do a good job:
Just make sure you don't pick up too much dust with the bricks!
I actually have somewhere a special Lego picking up device. It has two wheels on the sides and when you slide it across the floor, these turn an attachment at the front. The attachement is basically like the thing on the side of a paddle boat, but taking up the whole width of the front, and it throws the lego pieces into the back of the device as it turns. It works marvelously on carpets!
Edit: It's a Brick Vac.
I know the sheet-on-the-carpet idea has been mentionned already, but why not go for a full LEGO solution?
And if you want another pure LEGO solution, I give you… the Brick-O-Dile!
The best idea is just using prevention: Put a big white cloth on the floor, and when you want to clean up, put the corners together and collect the parts from the middle.
I like to get out my Loader-Dozer (from LEGO Rock Raiders) to clean up my bricks:
Obviously this is inspired from the video game, in which the same vehicle serves to remove rubble:
I'm so meta like that.
Hoover. Or bare feet. They both work well ;)
Seriously though, I'm a bare hands kind of guy if I've not followed the instructions, and split them all over the floor as opposed to doing it on the table or a large butlers tray.
One easy way to prevent them from getting into the carpet, is to first spread the Lego over a sheet that's on the ground. Then you can just pick up the corners and dump the pieces back where they are stored.
We have a rule that you only play with LEGO at the dining room table. The pieces are too little to be played with efficiently on the floor. It's much easier to tidy away as you have a smaller space that you can sweep into a box. Any small piece that gets dropped is picked up by the Roomba iRobot!


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People in America ask "how are you" a lot. Many people would reply with "I'm good." If I am feeling OK, I would say "I'm well." Which version is right?
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"I'm fine" is the standard happy medium. "I'm well" marks you as British English, while "I'm good" marks you as casual American. "I'm good" is incorrect in the traditional sense, but is broadly used to affect careless informality.
"Good" is traditionally a moral qualifier, or an indicator of ripeness, not human wellness as such.
Both are grammatical in that they are on the pattern Subject – Verb – Complement, one of the seven patterns found in English sentences. Well and good are both adjectives (although well can also function as an adverb). I'm well suggests the speaker is in a good state of health, while I'm good, which seems to be becoming more popular, suggests that the speaker enjoys a less specific sense of well-being. Any criticism of I'm good as suggesting some kind of moral superiority is misplaced. That is only one of the meanings of good and one that is clearly not intended in answer to the question How are you?
Both can be right - it isn't a specific question expecting much meaning back, but more of a general greeting.
You could also answer with "Good, thanks" or "Fine" or any number of general responses.
"I am good" has come under a lot of jovial criticism, being quasi-slang. This is more common among school-goers and pre-teens, I hear.
In proper English, it implies "I am behaving well", "I am a well-behaved person", or even "I am suitable for (whatever)".
In a while, though, the expression may gain currency and acceptance, to eventually become mainstream.
I think the question is grammatically ill-posed: "how" seems to imply that the response should be an adverb, but the full question is "how are you?", and since "you" is a noun, "well" doesn't properly modify it unless it is taken to mean "in good health."
For this reason, I generally respond with "I'm doing well," which answers the question fairly succinctly, doesn't sound terribly awkward, and is grammatically correct (since "well" modifies "doing").


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I have some time-series data I want to visualize as 2d plot.
The input is ISO-date-format and value separated by space, one record per line:
2010-10-21 23
2010-10-22 32
The output should be a nice looking 2d plot. Basic requirements:
- output to a X11 window (as preview) and to a png file
- x-axis has to understand the dates and naturally scale the data, e.g. a gap between 3 days should be three times as long as a gap between 1 day
- should be callable from a script
- nice output and convenient to use
- svg output
I tried
gnuplot and it works - it has some date support:
gnuplot> set xdata time
gnuplot> set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d"
gnuplot> plot "test.dat" using 1:2
But I have some problems with gnuplot:
- with default settings plots look very ugly
- it is difficult to find stuff in the manual - e.g. when plotting points how do I use small filled circles instead of the default '+' sign?
- the gnuplot shell is a pain in the neck - it does not use readline, it is broken, command completion is a joke, I don't know how to enable vi shortcuts - or if they are supported, what about reverse search etc.
Thus my question: What are the alternatives for visualizing time-series data?
Or am I overstating the gnuplot issues?