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Thanks to Mark Segal and Nick Devlin for an interesting and well thought out test of the cameras in question (and the Leica and Canon as well). Interesting findings and proves to me that the differences in digital and film are significant and must be taken into account. We don't have the luxury of stopping a lens way down the way one does with film and depth of field issues can manifest themselves if one is not careful. As for me, I'm going to see how much a Leica M-9 costs.
Phase One lenses; 75mm~150mm zoom Price: $3,890Phase One lenses; 45 wide-angle Price: $3,500120mm Mamiya macro lens Price: $2,290Pentax lenses: 45-85mm zoomPentax lenses: 45Pentax lenses: 120mm macroLeica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M Aspherical Manual # Price: $3,695Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM # Price: $1,059Can't find the Pentax prices but the story is pretty clear that the quality of the glass is a clear factor as well as comparing primes and zooms. Cheers,
Can't find the Pentax prices but the story is pretty clear that the quality of the glass is a clear factor as well as comparing primes and zooms.
I'm going to add my oar into this one, having owned and shot extensively with a 1Ds mkIII and 24-105L, you kinda crippled the 1DsIII from the beginning and unfairly. It's a good 'all rounder' travel lens, it's certainly not a prime beater, even the lowly canon 50mm 1.4 which I also own, nevermind the Leica.
...And lastly, you're right, it wasn't a fair test. I should have averted to the fine-print in Canon's EF lens brochure, where they clearly state: "The EF 24-105 is not suitable for photography of highly textured subjects. Under near-ideal conditions this lens is limited to producing a fraction of the resolution of which the Canon 1-series cameras are capable. By purchasing this lens at a list price of over $1,000, users agree to and accept the terms of Canon's "Inferior But Nonetheless "L" designated Lenses Policy" found at Appendix "B" to this brochure". Our bad. Serious users are advised to ignore the "L" designation (which the marketing department made us put on it).
Yes, an interesting report. I've never owned a Canon DSLR, but I'm aware that the Galbraith web site has demonstrated serious auto-focus problems with the 1DsIII. I don't know if the testers focused with the auto-focus or manually, but if it was with auto-focus, that might explain a bit of the problem. I've also read that most DSLR zooms (and in particular, those from Canon) demonstrate some serious sample variation, and wonder if that might be part of the problem.Alan...I think I remember your contentious tenure on the L-Camera forum...are you sure you want to think about Leica again? ;-)JC


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Micheal's sometimes has great art supplies
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What sort of drawing pens? I can think of a few off the top of my head, from quills to technical pens to Pigma style disposables to flexible fountain pens. At any rate, Dick Blick is a good source for art supplies at decent prices, and the customer service is good.
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Does any one know why $d_3: H^* (X, K^0(point))\rightarrow H^{*+3}(X,K^0(point))$ is actually extended $Sq^3$ to $\mathbb{Z} $ coefficient.
This follows from the following considerations:
A pretty direct argument was given by Frank Adams in the proof of 16.6 (page 336) in part III of his 1974 Chicago lectures (MR0402720). Thinking of the Atiyah--Hirzebruch spectral sequence for $K^*(X)$ as arising from the Postnikov tower $\{P^n ku\}$ of ku (Adams calls this spectrum $bu$), row 0 and row 2 come from the layers $HZ$ and $\Sigma^2 HZ$, sitting in a cofiber sequence $\Sigma^2 HZ \to P^2 ku \to HZ \to \Sigma^3 HZ$. The $d_3$-differential is induced by the third map, i.e., the first $k$-invariant of $ku$. To see that the $k$-invariant is the integral lift $\beta Sq^2$ of $Sq^3$, i.e., not zero, Adams looks at the third space in the $ku$-spectrum, namely $SU$, and notices that $\beta Sq^2 \ne 0$ in $H^6(K(Z, 3); Z)$ but $H^6(SU; Z) = 0$. This implies that the $k$-invariant is nonzero.
Okay, I can't pass up the chance to try and be more industrious than Tyler (this is really a comment on Tyler's answer).
I'll try to explain why there's a non-zero $d_3$ differential in the AHSS for $\mathbb{R}P^2 \times \mathbb{R}P^4$.
The K-theory of $\mathbb{R}P^{2k}$ is $\mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z}/2^k$ in dimension 0 and is trivial in dimension 1. Applying the Kunneth Theorem tells you that $K^0 (\mathbb{R}P^2 \times \mathbb{R}P^4) = \mathbb{Z}\oplus \mathbb{Z}/2\oplus \mathbb{Z}/4\oplus \mathbb{Z}/2$. Comparing with the cohomology of $\mathbb{R}P^2 \times \mathbb{R}P^4$, one sees that one factor of $\mathbb{Z}/2$ appearing on the line $y-x = 0$ in the E_2 page of the AHSS has to be killed by a differential.
After the 3rd page, all differentials coming in (or out) of the line $y-x = 0$ in the AHSS start (or end) at trivial groups. So there must be a non-zero differential on the 3rd page. It's not clear to me which one it is, but I haven't thought about the multiplicative structure.


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A note that is ninety-two octaves below B-flat. Hearing the brown noise makes people have an uncontrolable urge to shit their pants. The brown noise was once used in a episode of South Park.
''Hey man, did you hear about the musician who accidentally played the brown noise? Yeah, the entire audience shit their pants.''
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Noise showing a random walk behavior, as in Brownian motion. It has a 1/f^2 frequency spectrum. It has nothing to do with crapping your pants. Try learning some physics....
You guys are retarded for thinking a brown noise can make you crap your pants.
by Ryan October 19, 2004
An oscillation of sound that causes the bowels to loosen. The Brown Noise is believed to be 92 cents below the lowest octave of E flat.
"We're trying to find the Brown Noise. It's this one pitch, this certain frequency, that makes people lose bowel control!"
by Malorie August 15, 2005
Communication that's usually complete bullshit or just painfully annoying.
He open's his mouth and all that comes out of it is brown noise.
by Riot Instigator October 25, 2010
The noise required to mask the sound of anal secretion and subsequent bowl splash in a public or private restroom when one or more persons are in attendance with the person discharging, to thereby avoid the awkward silence that is present and periodically disturbed by the excretions of the person in question.
Dude, that was really awkward. The guy in there was playing his ipod, utilizing its brown noise capabilities.
The whole time I was in there this dude kept coughing to cover up his dump. He was clearly brown noise(ing).
The whole time I was in there this dude kept coughing to cover up his dump. He was clearly brown noise(ing).
by @dEpP September 14, 2010
A certian musical note that when heard makes you shit yourself. Also when in large groups the result can be severely devastating.
*Brown noise*, Oh SHIT!, I crapped my pants!
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A note 92 cents belob the lowest Eb octave that makes people lose bowel controls. From south park and awesome ass show.
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Is it possible to change the order of icons shown in the indicator applet? With Tomboy indicator, Weather indicator, Clipboard-manager indicator, Ubuntu One and Dropbox indicators and a Battery Status indicator in addition to the classic Messages indicator and Sound Menu indicator my Indicator Applet becomes a little bit messed up, sorting the icons would help a lot...
The system indicators are in a fixed order by design. While you might not like the order, it makes support easier by having a fixed order (we can argue about the order endlessly). The application indicators work a little bit differently, they're designed so that there is a default order but applications can adjust that for continuity. For instance, if an application had two indicators that it wanted next to each other.
Because this system leads to a possible abuse by application developers there is a set of overrides in the system. The first is at the system level so that it can be managed by packages once the distro figures out there is an abusing application it can be fixed for all users. It's located at:
You can put any status notifier ID in there and give it a new ordering index that will because the new index for that application. There is also a per-user override file that can exist in your home directory at:
Hopefully that will give you some help in adjusting your panel the way that you prefer!
The official ubuntu ones (weather, ubu-one, battery, messages, me, sound, shutdown) are hardcoded in place. Sucks. The other ones should take their order using the law of first come first serve, right-left precedence. Judging from this brainstorm/feature request, the answer is: No, you cannot manually change the order of icons via the gui. But see @Ted Gould's answer.
To change Application Indicators position on the Unity panel, you must edit a file called
Now open the file by running the following command in a terminal:
In this file you should see the existing rules for Application Indicators order on the panel. The first one is
Using this as an example, you can add your own Application Indicators and specify their position by entering their name and a number like
Source: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/how-to-change-application-indicators.html
Now, in your case,
Instructions to Enable sorting the Dropbox Indicator
Follow Ted Gould's instructions then if you would like to sort the Dropbox indicator, here are a few more steps:
Note: If you edited the file in
Because Dropbox appends the PID to the indicator name, and this changes every time Dropbox starts, you need to update the
To do this, you can open a text editor, copy and paste the following script, and name it something like
Now you can open "Startup Applications, and make a new entry, using the full path to your script as the "command" (using ~/start-dropbox.sh won't work, you have to do /home/yourname/start-dropbox.sh).
**Note: This is where you'd add the full script path to the end of
One optional step is to open the Dropbox settings and uncheck "Start dropbox on system startup". You can't just change the command for Dropbox that is already in the Startup Applications list, because Dropbox overwrites this every time it starts.
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The 6 Most Badass Robots (Invented Before Electricity)
You might think that robots are strictly a 20th century invention, but you'd be sorely mistaken: At the same time that the human race thought stomach aches were just tiny, enchanted dwarfs casting hunger spells, a few brilliant souls (possibly aliens) were actually building full functional robots. So maybe they're not R2D2 caliber, but who are we to judge? They built friggin' robots before there was toilet paper!
#6. The Steam Man
Zaddock Dederick, a name that sounds more appropriate for a Level II Thetan Power-Zorg, was actually a young inventor in 19th century New Jersey. His first goal was to come up with a perpetual motion machine, but when that didn't pan out he delivered something much more ominous.
What we have here is the patent of an android that could pull a cart and run up to a mile a minute. In a top hat. Smoking a pipe. Probably thinking that there was no way anybody could actually build this monstrous ironclad robotic Flash, the clerk at the patent office approved the steampunk monster. And guess what? It worked.
"Eat my dust, Jeddediah!"
The robot, which was named Daniel Lambert (that's...that's actually the weirdest part) was dressed like a human so as to "not scare the horses." Because horses will be totally OK with a nearly 8 foot tall iron giant running 5200-feet a minute while pulling a carriage, just as long as it's dressed like a proper gentleman. The people, on the other hand, probably never stopped screaming.
How Did He Do That?
With a steam broiler in the robot's chest. The steam drove the gears which powered the legs to lift up and push off the ground with a kind of "springing" motion that propelled the whole outfit forward. The speed was determined by the engine, so once it started, you were off to the races--and at 60 MPH and without a seat belt, your best bet was to lash yourself to the roof and pray that death would be as quick and painless as it was crazy as shit to watch .
Man, you know bitches be creamin' their petticoats over a man with his own Robo-Rickshaw.
So why don't we have Daniel Lamberts all over the damn place pulling us to work while we jauntily rejoice and laugh at the poor chaps stuck on their penny farthings? Well, because it turns out when they got ready to mass produce it, they couldn't get it to cost less than $2000, which was the 1860s equivalent of all the money that has ever existed.
#5. Medieval Robot Musicians
Al-Jazari was a 12th century inventor who is known to historians as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Middle East, which is slightly unfair considering he died 250 years before Leonardo da Vinci was even born. That's like saying George Washington was the Reagan of the Revolution. Perhaps he was aware of the injustices to come, when the darkness took him and he came up with a set of horrifying Dark Age automatons who could actually play music, make facial expressions and move their witch bodies. At a time when extensive bloodletting was commonly accepted as the best cure for a headache, this genius produced enchanted miniature androids just for the hell of it. And they were even programmable.
Unfortunately, they could only play "Mr. Roboto."
How Did He Do That?
Like most of Al-Jazari's creations, this one ran on water; specifically, water that would run from one tank to another, thus creating momentum which would drive gears. The programmable aspect of this robot came in the form of a concept known as "hydraulic switching," in which tiny pegs could be moved around to generate different drum rhythms and musical tunes. Since one of the robots was a flautist, this undoubtedly came in handy for those Jethro Tull requests.
What? You know those arabs love them some JT.
And it turns out the entire ensemble could be programmed to generate "more than 50 facial and body actions during each musical selection," which we would be an absolutely necessity when covering John Mayer numbers.
Except that John Mayer would have been burned at the stake in short order. We know the face of a witch when we see one.
#4. Mechanical Devil Dolls From Japan
Perhaps also eager to invent the Japanese stereotype, this robot was built by 19th century Japanese engineer Hisashige Tanaka who started tinkering with robots at the age of eight. Historical record does not indicate if he liked watching squids rape pseudo-white schoolgirls, nor made any mention of the size of his penis. He left those developments to later generations.
Tanaka had a thing for Karakuri dolls, which were like mechanical puppets, only more sinister (if that's possible). They were intended to "tease, trick or take a person by surprise" which is just a brilliant thing to design your creepy doll to do, Japan.
Tanaka was best known for the Yumi-iri Doji, a lifelike (if life was horrible) doll that picked up four arrows and shot them in succession. So they loved to take taunt you and "take you by surprise" and were programmed to be expert archers? It's like you're trying to write a Stephen King novel here.
Although there is some hope of escaping the deadly robot projectiles: One of the four consecutive shots was programmed to miss the target to better simulate an actual archer (because in 19th century Japan archers were apparently creepily smiling half-men attached to boxes). This just proves what we've been saying all along: Japan is now, and has always been in the mouth of madness.
How Did He Do That?
Tanaka's masterpiece was truly elegance in simplicity. It was a combination of western clockwork techniques with cams, levers, threads and had only 12 other moving parts:
So Tanaka pretty much perfected the technology that Walt Disney would later exploit to build his eerie, music-infused robot doll armies.
If you're mourning the injustice of this world that such a great inventor went unheralded, don't worry: He wasn't toiling in obscurity; the workshop he founded would later become Toshiba. That's right: Your television's great-great-grandfather was a murderous Japanese doll built solely to harass humanity.


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Eyes like chips of shattered glass reflecting the sea of Manaan so calm, so calm.
Huh, he was one to talk.
Flip. Flip. Flip
the constant shuffle of cards in his head, the pure emotion that absorbed and blocked reality better than a Mandalorian shield. Crouched beside her in the Ebon Hawks engine room, he grinned and allowed a wave of pure lust to wash over him as he watched her lips delicate pink pursed over a buggy motivator in T3s chassis.
She felt it. He knew she did, just as he knew that she would shy away from it instead of digging deeper.
Too deep.
He waited for the calm lift of her pale eyebrow and the subtle shift of her body away from him.
Instead, he found those shattered eyes turned on him, a vertical furrow between her brows.
Do not. Please.
I um what? His very best lopsided,
grin masked his astonishment. It wasnt like her to confront his baser urges. She usually gave them and him wide berth, no doubt chanting that damned Jedi mantra
There is no passion, there is serenity
throughout the whole ordeal.
But now, now those eyes were boring into him. Those lips were pressed tightly together. She closed up T3s front panel and sent the little droid on its way.
I dont know what youre talking about, he leered at her, filling his own mind with lurid images hed collected in their time together her backside in form-fitting Echani fibre armour, the peek hed had of her thigh on Telos, the solid lines of muscle in her belly that did nothing to diminish the soft curves of her appeal in that ridiculous Twilek dancers outfit
Stop it
! Her voice cracked out like a whip, ripping through his mind, snapping his head back. Just stop it.
She closed her eyes through two deep breaths. When she opened them again, her face was calm.
Look Atton, I trust you. I do. Can you trust me?
What? I do. Of course dont know why though, dragging me through all corners of the galaxy...
She blinked.
Uh I mean, yeah. I trust you.
You have to trust me, Atton. You have to trust that I would never enter your mind without your permission. Her eyes met his, and he found himself gasping for air. Im very grateful that youve chosen to share some of your secrets with me that youve trusted me what that pain. I would never ask for more than you would give me willingly.
I umm okay?
Brilliant, Atton. No wonder your charm is legendary. What the frack is going on???
He turned away from her eyes, feeling defenceless naked.
I know what youre doing. You
me, remember? Now, she looked away, staring sightlessly at the cold, curved ceiling of the Hawk. Its really quite clever. Emotional overload to keep people to keep Jedi away from your truths. But, please, please stop what youre doing to me.
He turned back to her and wished he hadnt. There were tears in her eyes.
?! Cora Saris didnt cry. Cora Saris didnt raise her voice. Cora Saris didnt sweat, tremble before battle or breathe hard afterwards. As far as Atton could tell, 'the General' never displayed anything but cool, calm decision and precise, lethal efficiency.
Lies! He knew what swirled around her pain, fear, trust, guilt, desperation. He could feel it always.
Hey. Dont. Look. Im sorry, okay? I think its just reflex, some times when Im thinking something I know I shouldnt be. He hunched his shoulders deeper into his jacket. I didnt know it was that bad.
To be honest, hed kind of thought of it as a private joke between the two of them this push and pull of emotion her steady in the face of his uncontrolled passion, him always trying to chip away at her control.
I guess I finally chipped too hard, and I didnt like what came out.
That bad, huh?
He sat back on his heels, wrestled with guilt and embarrassment and a bit of anger.
I didnt know my attention was so disgusting. Ah, well, theres always pazaak flip the two for 12, flip the seven for 19. Stand.
Oh, dont. Just dont. She dug her palms into her eyes. Do what you must, but just stop using me to hide behind. Stop taunting me with those false emotions. You think I cant tell theyre lies? I wont dig. I promise you. I just cant take any more of your mockery!
He'd had just about enough of this.
"Mockery??" He reached out for her hand as she turned to flee the engine room. She who was running headlong into a vast maw of evil, intent on devouring her ... she was fleeing ... from
Atton was never quite sure what happened when his fingers touched hers. All he knew was that it threw him back against the wall of the Ebon Hawk harder than a bantha kick. When he could breathe again, his vision still blurry, he realized she was still holding his hand.
She was holding his other hand, as well.
In fact, the entire length of her body was pressed up against him in a way that made him completely forget about the metal prod of the starboard engine in his lower back. Her blonde hair had come undone from its military braid, and floated in loose curls around her shoulders. Her lips those lips if hed run his tongue across his mouth, hed have touched her.
Gasping, his vision still muzzy, he stared at her eyes, so close to his own. Her own gaze was relentless, searing his mind, digging through his soul.
Is this what you want, Atton? she hissed between her teeth. Is
what you use to keep me away? I guess the jokes on you.
And her mouth bridged the gap to his.
Atton could hear his heart pounding from a long way away as his brain tried to fend off the blistering desire that wrapped around his body, and burrowed into the very make-up of his flesh. But her tongue touched his lips and he surrendered utterly, sinking the long fingers of his right hand into the mass of silvery curls that framed her face.
Time stopped and the universe opened up around them. It smelled of lightening and machine oil, the Dantooine grasslands and the jungles of Dxun. One of her hands still held his between them, the other slid along his jaw to the back of his head, pressing him to her. Her nails grazed his scalp and he gasped, and bit down gently on her lower lip.
The Ebon Hawk had disappeared and they floated between the stars, their bodies wrapped around each other. He cradled her to him, his hand sliding from her head, to her shoulder, to her hips his mouth never leaving hers. Energy flowed between their interlocked fingers, tingling up his arm and into his brain. He could taste sea salt on the skin of her neck.
Her free hand slid up, under the microthin shirt, over his belly. His body tightened and his back arched, pressing them even closer together. They spiralled together, breathing each other, tasting the worlds in each other. Her legs were wrapped around his waist as they drifted, weightless. The galaxy seemed to join in the dance of their flesh together, urging them on like the tide.
He bore into her, and she fell into him. Her eyes widened as she plummeted down, past everything, to the truth.
Oh, Atton. She wept as everything came bubbling out the hours of watching her, the helpless desire to keep her safe, the ache of need. The love.
Oh, the love
. The vulnerability and longing that hed kept wrapped up so tightly under the force of lust.
He felt her open to it, absorb it, felt her heartbeat stumble over it. Then, then he felt it come back to him. Through the bulwark defences, through the iron restraints, it all came back to him, and her love washed over him warm, cold and hot. Precise and out of control. He drowned in it and the maelstrom that devoured the Force. The wound in the Force that was Cora Saris.
Do you understand now? Do you see why I could never tell you?
Yes. He understood. He forgave. And her love, propelled by the gathering momentum of the galaxys life force, buoyed him up from where he thrashed, floundering and lost.
But it wasnt enough.
He was sinking.
He couldnt breathe.
He reached for her, for that hand still locked around his own. But he couldnt feel it. Couldnt feel anything.
Her face swam above him, looking down through the murk at him. So beautiful. So calm.
But there was honesty in the tears that poured down her cheeks and onto his.
? Cora Saris didnt cry!
He laughed.
Yeah, the jokes on me.
Those shattered eyes.
Shhhh. It only hurts when I laugh.
And he fell.
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Thank you!
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5 Idiotic Space Travel Ideas (That Might Actually Work)
#2. Farming Man-Made Space Meat
Ever wanted to know what panda tastes like? How about orangutang? What if we told you that you could have meat from any animal on the planet you like. You could even find out what person tastes like (and don't pretend you haven't wondered)! All you would need is a small tissue sample.
A few years back, the fellows at NASA were working on improving their astronauts' dinners, since one of the major complaints they got from the crews was the food. Eating freeze-dried mystery meals apparently gets old after a few weeks, and they wanted steak dammit.
Because they couldn't bring a whole cow up with them without accidentally creating the plot for the next animated movie from Dreamworks, NASA thought of a different solution: Why don't they make their own steak?
It was as close as we got to the Star Trek style replicators. Basically they took a vat of nutrient-rich water, threw in some chemicals to induce cell division, and dropped a few small samples of fish muscle in. A few days later they had several small lumps of fish-meat. They then cooked it up in a pan of oil with a little bit of garlic, some lemon, and a just a touch of cracked pepper.
So Why Don't We Have It?
The result looked and even smelled like fish, but when they asked for a volunteer to taste it, they quickly realized no one wanted to eat a $200 lab-grown muscle tumor.
That's a problem, because NASA wants to go to Mars in the next few decades and the crew could spend up to two years in space. So either astronauts develop a taste for tumor or NASA's is going to have to find a Black Agnus with outstanding hand eye coordination.
#1. Project Daedalus: The 50,000 Ton Interstellar Suicide Machine
While at one of their zany science parties, the British Interplanetary Society (yes, it's an actual organization, and yes, they actually hold zany parties) decided to seek the answer to a problem: How can you achieve interstellar travel with technology available now, or in the near future?
The model they came up with was a 570-foot behemoth called the Daedalus. Powered by nuclear fusion from 50,000 metric tons of helium-3 and deuterium fuel, it could get up to the speed of 21,277,777.8 meters per second, fast enough get from LA to Paris in a brisk 0.426 seconds.
Of course, at that speed if you hit a tiny dust particle, the damage would be catastrophic. To get around this, they gave the design a big beryllium shield to get rid of all the small specs, and (seriously) a big cloud of dust enveloping the craft that would obliterate virtually anything that got in its way. That's right, a goddam particle shield.
So Why Don't We Have One?
Even though all the technology called for in the design has been around since the 90s, the cost would be (forgive the expression) astronomical. Do you have any idea how much it costs to get your hands on 50,000 tons of deuterium/helium-3 pellets? A fucking lot.
Also, because of its enormous size, it would need to be constructed in orbit one bit at a time, and when it costs 10 million bucks to put one metric ton of crap into space, it would cost in the vicinity of $540 billion just to ship the raw materials up to the construction site. If only there were some way to get these things into space quickly and cheaply... like a cannon of some sort....
Hey, remember me? From before?
The other problem was that, in space, stopping is even harder than moving. This thing didn't really have brakes built into the design, so the plan was to instead have it take a bunch of pictures real fast while it zipped by the destination, beaming the images back to Earth as it went.
It then would zip through the system at Mach 64,000, presumably going on to crash into a planet, star, or unsuspecting alien.
In other words, we had something that would cost hundreds of trillions of dollars, require cooperation on a global scale, take forever to get there and at the end, we'd just have a few photographs to remember it. Basically it would be like an interplanetary version of a family trip to Disney World.
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6 Baffling Early Prototypes of Your Favorite Video Games
#3. Super Mario Bros. 2 Wasn't a Mario Game
The Game We Know:
Remember when we said that Mario should stick to stomping on things? Well, Super Mario Bros. 2 is the best evidence of that. Much like Zelda II, Highlander 2 or Daniel Baldwin, Super Mario Bros. 2 was the baffling embarrassment of its series. It featured some pretty weird changes for a game that was already weird to begin with: Instead of stomping on Goombas, Mario was going around throwing vegetables at masked midgets. Instead of rescuing the princess, she was a playable character and could inexplicably float. They even skipped the iconic question blocks and replaced Bowser himself with a forgettable final boss that was never seen again.
We meet again, green ... frog ... thing!
Nintendo went back to the original formula in Super Mario Bros. 3, but the question is, why would they even change it in the first place?
But It Was Almost:
There's a reason for all the incongruities in Mario 2 -- it wasn't a Mario game at all.
Ha! Luigi's a woman!
The original Super Mario Bros. 2 released in Japan was essentially the same as the first game, only with much harder levels. When Nintendo of America realized that the game was way too difficult for Western audiences, they decided to do their own thing instead. And by "their own thing" we mean "rip off another Japanese game."
"America's feeble brains are not ready for a game of this mind-bending sophistication."
Doki Doki Panic was actually a promotional game starring some of Fuji TV's mascots helping two kids who get trapped in an old Arabic book. Nintendo simply swapped out those characters with characters from the Mario franchise and sold it as a Mario game. Invincibility stars, POW blocks and gold coins were already present in the game because Nintendo had just recycled those things in Doki Doki Panic in the first place. Other than the music, some changed icons and minor improvements in animation, the games were largely the same.
For example, the classic Mario turtle shell that you could dig out of the ground and throw at enemies was actually a replacement for the decapitated head of a, um ...
Japan, we need to talk.
That's also why the characters had special abilities they never had before. The princess could suddenly float because the character she was based on could float. The same goes for Luigi's tallness and Toad's speed -- those abilities are now part of the Mario canon, and they were all originally taken from a completely unrelated game. Also, several enemies from Doki Doki Panic stuck around in Mario games and continue showing up to this day, like the Shy Guys, Birdo and the Bob-Ombs.
The Japanese hate silent Bs.
While Doki Doki Panic had sold modestly in Japan, Super Mario Bros. 2 became a hit in the U.S. It was presumably at this point that Nintendo realized they could sell literally anything as long as the word "Mario" appeared on the cover. Oddly enough, the game was eventually translated back to Japanese and released as Super Mario USA.
This led to a lot of misconceptions about what America looks like to Japanese children.
#2. Halo Was Almost a Real-Time Strategy Game
The Game We Know:
Statistically speaking, Halo is the reason you owned an Xbox. With over 40 million copies sold worldwide, the Halo series is largely responsible for the huge rise in popularity of the shooter genre and competitive multiplayers in general, as well as launching Microsoft's Xbox as a serious contender in the console market. Whether you enjoy watching space marines shooting things or not, you have to admit that the gaming world would be completely different today if it weren't for that first Halo game.
It wouldn't look all the same, for one.
But It Was Almost:
Halo is synonymous with the shoot-'em-up genre, but the original game, Halo: Combat Evolved, was intended to be a real-time strategy game, like StarCraft or Age of Empires. Also, it was being developed for Apple, not Microsoft -- as presented by Steve Jobs himself back in 1999:
Apple, the company that has only very recently introduced old school Grand Theft Auto games from the early 2000s into its gaming library, held the rights to one of the most profitable and well-known franchises ever known. Well, sort of. At that point, Halo was described as "a third-person action game," and before that, it was set in a "real time tactical 3D environment." For those unfamiliar with RTS games, they usually involve looking at the action from the perspective of some kind of God-like figure, controlling masses of your troops from above. So, the exact opposite of a shooting game.
Playing a sociopathic god general really appealed to those of us without the reflexes for Halo or dodge ball.
As the game evolved, they decided to include some of the elements that are associated with the series today ... and some that aren't, like the ability to ride dinosaurs. Seriously, Halo was going to have roaming dinosaurs that you could tame and mount. We're guessing they ditched this part when someone in the development team finally got around to playing Super Mario World.
"I'm serious, it's even called Yoshi, just like ours! It's fucked, it's all fucked!"
The iconic look of the Halo games was still there -- just in its very early stages. It wasn't until Microsoft bought the developer Bungie (which understandably made Steve Jobs lose his shit) and gained Halo as their flagship Xbox title that the game finally became a first-person shooter. The widespread popularity of FPS games soon followed.
Then in 2009 Halo Wars came along: an actual Halo RTS game. A new revolution had hit town, and once again the face of gaming was changed.
Just kidding, we barely remember it.
#1. Batman: Arkham Asylum Was Almost a Rhythm Game
The Game We Know:
Watching Batman movies and reading Batman comics is great and all, but if you really want to feel like you are the Dark Knight, playing Arkham Asylum is probably as close as you can get without becoming a billionaire and having your parents murdered. What makes the game so great is that it features all the elements of being Batman: detective work, awesome gadgets, martial artistry, chasing crazy people, wearing your underpants on the outside, and so on.
Don't pretend you don't do "the voice" while you're playing it.
But It Was Almost:
On the other hand, here are some things that are not very Batman-like at all: Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, getting jiggy with it. That's why it's so baffling to think that Arkham Asylum started off as a "rhythm action game."
"I'm going to express my sadness and anger at your deeds in a medium fit for all ages."
Early versions of the game were apparently a lot more colorful and upbeat from what we know. According to the developers, whenever you got into a fight the screen would switch to 2D, and from there the rhythm game would take over, involving "colored circles bashing into each other," like the notes in Rock Band or something. The idea was that the fight would unfold depending on how well you hit those notes.
"Is that 'Nevermind' again? Seriously, asshole, learn another song."
This wasn't a crazy idea that they joked about and tossed right away -- at a different stage in development, they even considered making Arkham Asylum a "full on rhythm action game." The game's director Sefton Hill puts it like this: "We went off in some slightly crazy directions to begin with. In fact, one of the earliest versions was like a rhythm action game and saw you judging when to hit the 'notes' (i.e. punches), which was an interesting idea but never really worked."
Maybe because you'd be dressed as the goddamn Batman, which is way too restrictive in the groin area.
As bizarre as that seems, he also points out that the final game isn't that different from this version: "When you're fighting enemies there's a kind of rhythm to it. I'm a big kung-fu fan and when you watch the fights in those films there's a lovely natural rhythm to it. That's something we wanted you to feel when you were playing Batman; that you're in control at all times. We wanted it to look choreographed, but with you being directly responsible for every move and attack."
Pirouette, punch, angst, neck break, press X to pretend you're a seed.
If you've played Arkham Asylum, you know this is true. It's all about timing your movements correctly -- pressing the punch button at precisely the end of the previous hit on an enemy, or the counter button whenever an enemy shoots electrical wires out of his head. The special combos in Arkham Asylum are basically like note combinations in Guitar Hero; the main difference is that you don't look like that much of a dork while playing it.
We do wonder what the soundtrack would have been like in this version. Here's a strong possibility:
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inside is completely defrosted. Combine butter, O.J., Cajun seasoning and mix well, using a flavor injector, inject mixture into the meaty parts of turkey. Let marinade at least over night. Set up turkey frying station a safe distance from standing buildings and vehicles. Make sure you are on a flat and fire proof surface.
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Discard water and thoroughly dry pot and turkey; fill pot with oil to
previous marked line. Light burner and place pot on burner at about medium heat. Heat oil to 325-350 degrees, making sure not to exceed 350. Stand turkey up on stand provided with frying kit; using wand also provided slowly lower turkey into hot oil. If popping or boiling get out of control slowly lower and remove turkey till popping subsides.
Once completely submerged turn burner back to medium to medium high; cook turkey at 3 ½ min per pound. Usually between 30 to 45 min. Using a meat thermometer take the temperature of the thickest part of the breast. Remove the turkey when internal temperature reaches 155.
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is the space $C_0(\mathbb{R}^m)$, $m \in \mathbb{N}$ of continuous functions with compact support separable? If yes: where can I find a proof for that?
Please note: this is not a duplicate of this question (click), since I asked for compact support.
The reason I'm asking is: here (click) the author (L.C. Evans) seems to use the fact on page 18 (page 20 of the pdf) first line without mentioning the difficulty, that $\mathbb{R}$ isn't compact. The entire proof is senseless without this fact.
Your help is very much appreciated! Thanks!


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I'm in an argument. To me "are" makes more sense. I understand the rationale for is because it's only one chicken, but chickens itself is plural. Help?
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If you're in an argument about this, well really you could invent an argument either way. Either way, the argument you invent would probably sound convincing on the surface. Your argument that you "should" use a singular verb will probably hinge around the fact that "one" is singular. Your argument that you "should" use a plural verb might hinge around, say, the fact that it is ungrammatical to say 'A lot of people has...'.
But linguistically, these arguments are generally spurious. Like the argumentation behind many prescriptive rules, they appear at first glance to work logically because they assume a model of language which is overly simplistic. So if you say, e.g. that it "must" be a singular verb because 'one' is singular, really what you're saying is 'my model/understanding of how language works is too simplistic to take account of the fact that sometimes a superficially singular noun is actually part of the subject of a plural verb'.
If you look at actual usage, you will see that it varies. As a native speaker, my gut instinct would be that the plural is more common in spontaneous/informal speech, and that the singular is essentially a prescriptive invention. But I don't actually have any data to support that. (I'm guessing even some of the small available corpora such as Collins Cobuild might provide some data if anyone has time to look at this.)
Peter Shor shows a case where preference for the singular verb apparently overtakes the plural. However, note that the phrase he has chosen uses ellipsis (it "misses out the noun"). If you do some other Ngram searches including the noun, you can find answers where the plural overtakes the singular (e.g. "one in five people have/has"). I'm not sure that Ngram in this case gives a very reliable overall picture of general usage, though it does clearly indicate that both forms are used.
The other answers contain quite good rationales for the two possible answers. I decided to look at usage. Here is a Google Ngram for the phrases "one in a hundred is" and "one in a hundred are".
You can see that "is" is the overwhelming favorite. Google Ngrams can sometimes be misleading, so I looked at a sample of the sources. There are a few interlopers ("One in a hundred is too high a risk"), but in well over half of the occurrences of "one in a hundred is", the subject is "one" and the verb "is". So usage predominantly favors "is", although "are" is also occasionally seen.
So "one in a hundred is" is the preferred construction. However, since there is a reasonably good argument for "one in a hundred are" being grammatical, and since maybe one in five people currently uses it, if you really want to use it, I'd say go ahead. But don't say, * "out of every hundred, one are ...". That sounds really wrong.
The phrase "one out of a hundred" is an adjective, here, qualifying a noun as a particular type of plural: a statistical likelihood. The subject is not "one", but "chickens". That makes the entire phrase a plural construct.
You can also think of it this way: "one-out-of-a-hundred" doesn't have any meaning unless there are 200 or more instances in question. That implies, here, 2 or more chickens.
Would you write "1% is"? Of course not; "1%" doesn't mean "one", it means "Divide a sample by 100, and that will indicate the number of hypothesized instances likely to occur." "1% of all fatalities are...." is the obvious choice. This is the same exact meaning as "One out of a hundred chickens".
It is for this reason that hyphens were invented. The sentence could be written like this:
"One-out-of-a-hundred chickens are...."
So here, "one out of a hundred" is a dependent adjectival phrase modifying "chickens". In instances where the "chickens" is dropped, that does not mean that "one" becomes the subject, but rather that the subject "chickens" is implied.
Finally, to elaborate my point, you may think of it this way:
"Some chickens are overweight."
"How many chickens are overweight?"
"One out of a hundred chickens are overweight."
"One out of a hundred?"
"Yes -- only one out of a hundred are overweight."
Though here the view is brought forward that "are" is correct or that "is" is correct but "are may be used I dare to say that only "is" is correct grammar and "are" is wrong, even when people sometimes use "are".
The sentence is:
One chicken out of a hundred (chickens) is overweight.
It is clear that one chicken is overweight and not a hundred. And even if some people use "are" because they wrongly make the verb agreement with "chickens" I would not say you can also say "are", simply because it is wrong grammar used by people who have little schooling in grammar.
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20 Jan 2011 5:45 AM #1
Problem with passing multiple parameters in url with Sencha-touch MVC routing
I stuck in a place where I need to pass several parameters in url while using Ext.Router & built-in MVC in Sencha-touch. Having initialized routing as below:
Ext.Router.draw(function (map) { map.connect(':controller/:action/:parameter'); }
works just fine, until several parameters need to be passed to an action for example "localhost/#users/search/type=3"e=john", I would expect that 'search' action in 'users' controller would be executed with string parameter as "type=3"e=john", but routing does not call any action if any spacial char is passed as parameter (':', '=',' &').
I assume this is a restricted by routing, but I dont get it why.
Other option is to register routes as following:
Could anyone explain this to me how multiple parameters should be passed to action using routing, assuming that each parameter should be recognizable by its name.
21 Jan 2011 1:20 AM #2
Sorry my friend. I don't have an answer. I really want to know the solution for this problem. Very good question!
25 Jan 2011 3:00 PM #3
Does anyone know why I can't find Router in either the EXT JS or Sencha Touch API docs? Very strange.
26 Jan 2011 7:04 AM #4
The docs have a few small holes in them. 'Viewport' is another missing class.
1 Feb 2011 8:36 PM #5
I can't say what the purpose is, but probably mostly to be simpler and more integrated with the basic 'app' model they have.
You can get the '&foo=bar' part to come through the Router into the controller by changing 'Ext.util.Route::createMatcherRegex' to allow the characters in a trailing (potentially ':rest' ) attribute and use that with a route like:
createMatcherRegex: function(url) { var paramsInMatchString = this.paramsInMatchString, length = paramsInMatchString.length, i, cond, matcher; for (i = 0; i < length; i++) { cond = this.conditions[paramsInMatchString[i]]; if (i == length - 1) { matcher = Ext.util.Format.format("({0})", cond || "[%a-zA-Z0-9\\_\\s,\\&\\=]+"); } else { matcher = Ext.util.Format.format("({0})", cond || "[%a-zA-Z0-9\\_\\s,]+"); } url = url.replace(new RegExp(paramsInMatchString[i]), matcher); } return new RegExp("^" + url + "$"); }
3 Feb 2011 8:16 AM #6
3 Feb 2011 8:15 PM #7
I've typically seen frameworks with "clean" urls like django and apache mod rewrite have a route for every parameter, ie
Server side languages typically give you access to the get or post arguments in a global. for javascript you could use a technique like...
I try and avoid directly hacking on the source code when I can
3 Feb 2011 9:38 PM #8
The format '?foo=value1&bar=value2' is a standard clean url and is far more reliable, tolerant to changes, and more flexible than a full path like /value1/value2. Especially when you get to 'value5'! The link you reference even has exactly that format '?bob=123&frank=321...' in its example. Usually routing is done off everything up to the '?' where the rest are just passed in parameters. Effectively my change to the source adds that feature (using the first '&' to identify the rest) as a recommended improvement to Sencha routing.
3 Feb 2011 11:36 PM #9
Hey no worries parseroo, just suggesting another way and providing another point of view.
The problem with GET arguments is that they are essentially arbitrary. Routes and explicit parameter matching increase the security/stability of the code.
reliable, tolerant to changes, and more flexible than a full path like /value1/value2.
I don't see how routes are unreliable. They seem to be common practice nowadays.
While these methods don't disable get arguments, they do discourage their use.
But you are right, having the router break on a query string seems like a bug. If nothing else, it could ignore the query string and log a message.
Until it gets fixed you could use the Ext.override method to temporarily patch in the required functionality without hacking the source which may hinder any upgrade process.
1 May 2011 8:52 AM #10
@parseroo, I am having some issues trying to get what you are saying to work for me. Can you elaborate on how you are declaring the route to accept parameters, and then how are you referencing the params from inside the controller action?
Your route declaration is sort of a catchall it looks like whereas I have seen most of the ones in the examples provide a controller mapping config object like so:
map.connect("products/list", { controller: 'ProductController', action: 'list'});
Also, adding ANYthing extra to the routes in the routes.js file seems to break the history connection for me, as it doesn't allow me to return to the list page and fire the "list" action in the controller if I had gone one level deeper (say a details page), and then tried to return with the browser back button. I assuming this is because the params tacked onto the end of the route break the connection...almost as if the ":param" is not distinguished from the route at all in the routing process.
Passing params in the Touch MVC pattern needs a LOT of work imo, and no one (including Sencha) seems to know much about how to achieve this.
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If I have a group $\mathcal{G}$ of order $N=npq$ and subgroups $\mathcal{G_n,G_p,G_q}$ of order $n$, $p$, $g$ respectively and if $g$ is a generator of $\mathcal{G}$ why then $g^{nq}$ is a generator of $\mathcal{G_p}$, $g^{np}$ is a generator of $\mathcal{G_q}$ and $g^{pq}$ is a generator of $\mathcal{G_n}$ ? I am trying to understand a research paper
Every element $g$ in a group $G$ generates a subgroup of $G$ of order $r$, where $r$ is the smallest (non-zero) integer such that $g^r = 1$. Moreover, if $g^s = 1$ for some positive value $s$, then $s$ is a multiple of $r$. Finally, $r$ necessarily divides the order of $G$ (i.e. the number of elements in $G$).
Therefore, if your group order is $N = ab$ for two integers $a$ and $b$, then $(g^a)^b = g^N = 1$, therefore the order of $g^a$ is a divisor of $b$. If $b$ is prime, then the order of $g^a$ can only be $1$ or $b$. However, only $1$ can have order $1$, therefore $g^a$ can have order $1$ only if $g^a = 1$.
In your case, I suppose that you envision $N= npq$ where $n$, $p$ and $q$ are three distinct primes. Thus, $g^{np}$ can have order only $1$ or $q$. But this cannot be $1$ because $g$ generates the whole of $G$, not a strict subgroup. The conclusion follows.
If $\mathcal{G}$ is of order $N$ (who doesn't look like a prime number btw) and $g$ is a generator of $\mathcal{G}$ then $g$ has order N. Since $(g^{nq})^p=1$ and $\forall 1\le k <p, (g^{nq})^k\neq 1$ (g has order $N$ and $knq<N$) then $g^{nq}$ generates a subgroup of $\mathcal{G}$ of order $p$ and there's only one such subgroup : $\mathcal{G_p}$. The reasoning is the same for the rest. Hope it's clear and correct


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WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Commission on Tuesday tabled a proposed lease for the county prosecutor's office and the return of property to the Brooke school board that the commission had considered for a new ambulance station.
The commission in October was approached about leasing space in the Cross Law Office for County Prosecutor Joseph Barki III, who plans to work full-time when he steps into the position in January.
Current County Prosecutor David B. Cross, who has chosen to step down from the position, suggested the lease because Barki isn't employed by his law office.
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GRANT AWARDED — State Sen. Jack Yost, D-Wellsburg, presented confirmation of the award of a $400,000 federal grant for the second phase of the Mahan Lane-Eldersville Road-Bruin Drive sewer project at Tuesday's Brooke County Commission meeting. On hand were, from left, County Commissioners Tim Ennis and Marty Bartz; Yost; and Archie Doll and Terry Bonaventura, board members for the Brooke County Public Service District, which initiated the project. - Warren Scott
He proposed a monthly rent of about $2,076, including a share of utilities - gas, electricity, water, telephone and garbage collection services.
For many years Cross and the county's assistant prosecutors - who included his son, who is his law partner- have worked out of Cross' office and the county didn't pay for its use.
Commission President Marty Bartz said Tuesday attorney Michael Gaudio, whom the commission hired to negotiate on its behalf, has recommended tabling the proposed lease until after Jan. 1, when Cross isn't county prosecutor.
The state ethics commission had recommended the commissioners hire Gaudio because Cross, by state statue, is its usual legal counsel.
In other business, the commission tabled returning to the Brooke County school board land along Cross Creek Road it had donated for the development of a new ambulance station.
The school board and West Virginia Department of Transportation had donated land across from Brooke High School, and the commission had considered leasing additional property from the Norfolk-Southern Railroad.
But the commission and ambulance service weren't able to generate sufficient funds for the station, which had an estimated cost of $400,000, and two new stations were added north of Follansbee and at Marshall Terrace off state Route 67 in the interim.
The ambulance service was moved from the first floor of the county courthouse during the 2004 flood.
Bartz, who also is assistant superintendent of Brooke County Schools, said the school board's donation was on the stipulation that the land be used for the ambulance station and suggested its ownership could revert back to the school district.
County Clerk Sylvia Benzo said Cross has taken the necessary steps to do that. But Bartz said he should recuse himself from the vote because he's employed by the school district.
Because County Commissioner Norma Tarr was unable to attend the meeting, a vote couldn't be taken by the three commissioners.
In other business:
State Sen. Jack Yost, D-Wellsburg, presented to the commission and members of the Brooke County Public Service District Board confirmation of a $400,000 federal Small Cities Block Grant awarded for the extension of sewer lines in the second phase of the Mahan Lane-Eldersville Road-Bruin Drive sewer project.
Plans call for sewer lines to be extended from Black's Hollow in the Cross Creek area and to St. John's and Eldersville roads for as far as funding will support. The Brooke County PSD is seeking an additional $700,000 for the remainder of the proposed project, which would serve about 550 homes and small businesses.
The commission received a letter from Sylvia Taylor of Wellsburg seeking reappointment to the county board of health. It was agreed the commission would accept letters of interest for the seat for two weeks, after which it may consider Taylor and other applicants.


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I've gone through many examples here, but all seem complicated and most of them are for large data. I'm new to both Android and also SQL. What I want to do is just pre-populate my SQL database with some data.
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE restaurants (_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, name TEXT, address TEXT, type TEXT, notes TEXT, feed TEXT, lat REAL, lon REAL);");
ContentValues cv=new ContentValues();
cv.put("name", "Hi");
cv.put("address", "There");
cv.put("type", "delivery");
cv.put("notes", "");
cv.put("feed", "");
cv.put("lat", "");
cv.put("lon", "");
getWritableDatabase().insert("restaurants", "name", cv);
There is no error but unfortunately no data is inserted as well. This should be very simple, please help me?


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FORT HOOD (January 2, 2013)—Spc. Marcus Orin Williams, 27, of Winslow, Ariz., died in a single-vehicle crash at around 2 a.m. on Dec. 19 in Albuquerque, N.M., Fort Hood said Wednesday.
No other details about the accident were released.
Williams, who deployed to Iraq from November 2007 to January 2009 and from August 2010 to August 2011, joined the Army in April 2006 and arrived at Fort Hood in October 2006.
He had been assigned to the Regimental Support Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, since June 2012.


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I am something new to election protocols and I am trying to construct an election protocol for the following problem:
Let $A= \lbrace a_{1} , . . . , a_{n} \rbrace $ and $B = \lbrace b_{1} , . . . , b_{m} \rbrace$ be two groups of voters, and $K_{1}$and $K_{2}$ be two candidates. One of the candidates is to be elected. A candidate wins the election if he gets at least 50% of the votes (absolute majority) and if he gets at least 10% of each group (veto of group A or B).
You are not allowed to use or assume the existence of a trusted center.


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Hello !
I've been doing cubic VR panoramas for let's say a year and a half now. I am using a Canon Rebel XT (without the grip) and different lenses (18-55 kit lens, 17-50 Tamron lens and the 10-20 Sigma one), i.e. nothing very heavy.
My NN3 (first version) is not bad but I never found that middle screw tightening method simple nor perfect. (This probably explains why the new rotator has been created.) If I want the rotator to click in well when I turn it, I cannot put the screw too far in, and this brings some little wobbling or instability in the head (the weight of the camera slightly deviates the system towards it). Probably this is not a big problem, but little imperfections adding one to another can create serious difficulties in assembling a spherical panorama.
So, here are my first questions : is there something I can do for my "old" NN3 to be perfectly stable ? Perhaps the detent springs or the detent rings are a bit worn out ? I didn't take any risk changing the detent plunger adjustments, maybe should I ? Otherwise, do I have to upgrade my NN3 ? I would then consider getting the RD8 rotator.
Another thing I don't find practical is that I cannot fit my camera + 10-20 Sigma on the rail as is, the lens diameter is to big (by the way, I think the user settings indicated on this site are incorrect, I can give you the ones that I think are good if someone confirms this). So, what I do is that I add the T-adapter for the camera to be a bit higher. However, I therefore need to make sure the T-adapter is perfectly aligned with the rail + with the camera.
My second question is : I suppose the camera plate came out at the same time the NN3 MkII did. Will it perfectly fit the rail of my NN3 ? I'm quite sure it would, but I prefer asking before ordering stuff over here in France. This would be simpler to use than my present solution.
Thank you for reading my long message and for your help !


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Getting a flying mount at 60 is like getting a cheat code.
Stretch your mind back before patch 3.2, back to your incursions in Outland.
Hellfire Frogger
If you were lucky if you arrived in Outland with an Epic land mount. If you weren't so lucky, one of the most efficient ways of crossing a zone was ghost running.
Even with the epic land mount it was preparation for Naxx's Frogger.
Dodge left, dodge right, outrun the aggro.
Exploring a zone completely at the appropriate level either required anal explorer skill at Artisan rank, or maybe a quest-completionist-dysfunction.
On the Wings of XP
The 1st thing I noticed when I got my flying mount was all the zone discovery XP.
Now I think about it, I really should stop questing and just explore Outland for a level or two.
I hit more discovered zones than mobs for a while there.
Why kill-kill-kill-mana, when you can just fly by, or drop in?
Just passing by, saw your light on, thought I'd drop in
That's where the real cheat code comes in. I reach Zangarmarsh and 1st quest I receive is to kill 30 mobs and their boss.
The boss is at the top of a tower.
A tower surrounded by mobs and water.
Death and a slow movement rate (pre "swimming" mounts at least.) await me.
Gnomeaggedon hated the quest. Kill 2 mobs, sit for mana, get interrupted my a pat. Once I got to the tower I had to kill the mobs at each level, mana up and move before the pat descended the ramp.
50% mana, 50% health and here comes the boss! The boss goes goes down against the odds, but now I have to grind back out through the mobs.
Enter the cheat code…
Fly over the heads of the patrolling mobs.
Laugh manically at their ignorance of the incoming assassin.
Alight on the top floor. 100% mana, 100 % health. Boss dies and I have the choice…
Fly out the window again, or casually stroll down the ramp picking the mobs off?
Stealing through the Circle of Steel
I have now done the same thing with a few of these quest mini bosses. Group 2 or 3 quest.
Pffft! Only if I grind their honor guard 1st.
No, I will hover overhead until their circle of steel is looking the wrong way. Dismount, drop in, kill, mount and fly away.
Who needs stealth when you have wings?
Martin's Fury was innocence in comparison
I know…
I know…
If I think it's cheating, it is cheating. Why don't I play the game the way the developers intended?
Well, I guess you could say I am an opportunist. I didn't set out to cheat or subvert game mechanics.
But just like Martin's Fury the Devs put the tools in my hands, or mailbox.
If the vendors sell them, they must be legitimate… Right?
They haven't just given me the wings cheat code, but also the shoulder, chest, weapon and two trinket cheat codes. There are more of course, but I like the "pure game" experience… cough… cough…
Wallowing in the Muck of my own guilt
I do feel kind of dirty, but I have a water aversion allergy… I don't want to come clean once I am wallowing in the muck!
You should try it…
Go on, get your hands dirty…
We all love a dirty filthy cheater…
Well, I do when it's me!
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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Intrepid heir to the New York Times throne A.G. Sulzberger The Younger hath ventured forth in search of the city's oldest tree! Not to speak out of place, Sulzjunior, but are you sure the editors aren't screwing you?
A few of AG's notable stories:
- The city's biggest tree.
- Bus cords.
- Municipal lightbulb-changing.
- Moving a beach house.
- A colorful game of base-ball.


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(ST. LOUIS)-Debra Shrout has been selected as the director of Columbia College-St. Louis. In her new position, Shrout will be responsible for all day-to-day operations of the St. Louis campus, including student and faculty recruitment and retention, and class scheduling. She began her duties June 5.
Prior to joining Columbia College, Shrout served as chair of the English Department at Kirkwood High School and was responsible for a staff of 22 teachers. Her duties involved administering the hiring, curriculum, budget, scheduling and staff development for the department.
Shrout's extensive education experience includes teaching English, journalism and speech at the high school and college levels since 1975 and leading several local education groups aimed at education reform, school improvement and accreditation. She also was named Kirkwood High School 2002-2003 Teacher of the Year.
Shrout earned a specialist, master's and bachelor's degree in education from Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.
"Debra's wealth of talent and experience, particularly in the areas of instruction and administration, will be an immense benefit to Columbia College-St. Louis," said Mike Randerson, vice president for Adult Higher Education. "We are very pleased to welcome her as part of our team."
Established in 1973 at the Army Reserve Personnel Center, Columbia College-St. Louis shortly thereafter moved to its present location on Woodson Road. The campus has served civilian and military adult learners in the St. Louis area for more than 30 years.
Columbia College serves nearly 25,000 students each year at its Day Campus, Online Campus, Graduate Studies Program and its 32 Nationwide Campuses.


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The question came up when I saw a post on dailymile about a 50k HAT beer. Personally, I find the lower alcohol, lower carbonation (smoother) beers to be very refreshing after a run. Even cheap commercial beers can be very refreshing after a run (e.g. Coors, PBR) Has anyone dedicated a homebrew recipe specifically towards sports?
There's a place in Portland (surprise) called Hopworks: http://www.hopworksbeer.com/
When I was there a few years ago they had a beer for road bikers that was part wheat, part lemonade and I believe a few pinches of salt. I know some people use Wheat beers with Gatorade - but that sounds kind of disgusting to be honest :).
If I had to fashion a recipe off the top of my head...
4lbs 2-row (or 4lbs of extract) 1lb honey malt
1oz Northern Brewer 1oz Tettnanger (40 mins in) 1oz Goldings (last 5)
I'd use an easy on the palette yeast - maybe an ESB.
When you cut to the second stage, slice up some fruit sangria-style: lemons, limes, pineapple (whatever you like) and pop them into mesh bag. Not sure how many - maybe one lemon, one lime, 3 cuts of fresh pineapple.
When the fermentation completes you could add water if the fruit's too strong. I would then add some minerals for hydration and some salt. I think the salt will be the thing that makes it - your body craves it when working out.
If you can do lagers I'd say to replace the above recipe with a nice Czech pilsner. MM
Maybe a Berliner Weisse? Light, refreshingly tart, and not enough alcohol to contribute to dehydration in a significant way.


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AUSTIN (November 23, 2012)--A union for correctional officers in Texas says understaffing is putting guards at risk during the deadliest year inside state prisons in more than two decades.
The union wants better pay for the nearly 5,000 correctional officers working for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
It says low wages are driving guards away despite the agency offering bonuses to new recruits.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Correctional Employees renewed calls for a pay hike during the Thanksgiving holiday is
According to the union, a dozen prisoners have died in inmate-on-inmate killings this year.


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As we conclude the fall semester, I'd like to express our gratitude for the generous support we received from so many graduates and friends last year. I am pleased to report that we set a new fundraising record: $51.3 million in new cash and new pledges in 2011–12. This is 35 percent more than our prior fundraising record set in 2007–08, and triple the level of support we received prior to when I began my service as dean in 2004. In five of the eight years I have served as dean, we have more than doubled the Law School's traditional fundraising level. We owe this success to the many graduates and friends who have supported us so generously.
Much of this support comes from new donors. In fact, we have received gifts of $500,000 or more from 97 donors since 2004. Of these donors, 70 had given much more modestly (and, in many cases, not at all) before then.
This support of our graduates and friends has allowed us to increase the size of the voting faculty substantially, and to launch new curricular initiatives in national security law; transactional studies; climate change law; sexuality and gender law; law, business, and public policy; comparative law; institutional and social change; and a broad range of other fields.
Campaign gifts have also allowed us to increase the level of financial aid for our students, establish 60 new endowed scholarships, and guarantee summer funding to all first- and second-year students since 2008. We have also substantially enhanced our loan repayment assistance program for the J.D. Class of 2008 and subsequent classes, and launched a number of new postgraduate fellowships as well. We have established 22 new endowed professorships and 11 new faculty research funds. Additionally, we have added a new floor to Jerome Greene Hall and made a number of other physical improvements to our vibrant campus. And, of course, we have much more still to do!
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