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Assume we have a Riemann surface, the underlying topological surface of which is a sphere with (possibly uncountably many) points removed. Can we always conformally embed this Riemann surface in the Riemann sphere? If not, can someone suggest a counter example?
See e.g. here:
Theorem 3.2.7. Any planar connected Riemann surface is biholomorphic to an open subset of $S^2$.
The proof is very straightforward: Exhaust a genus $0$ surface $S$ by relatively compact domains $D_n$ each of which necessarily has genus $0$. For each $D_n$ find a conformal embedding $f_n$ to $S^2$. Now, normalize the family of mappings $f_n$ to to send a point $x\in D_1$ to a fixed point $z\in {\mathbb C}$ and to have unit derivative (in a chart) at $x$. Then use normality of the family of maps $f_n$ to get the limit (for a subsequence). Lastly, check that the limit is injective. This is the same argument Caratheodory used in his proof of uniformization theorem.
Unless I am confused, why not add the points back, map the resulting surface to the Riemann sphere conformally by unifomization, then remove the images of the offending points?


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The Top 8 Unintentionally Hilarious Vehicles Ridden Into War
As we've discussed before, military weapons seem to be the product of designers who are equal parts brilliant and insane. When their brilliance shines through, entire wars can be swung in one nation's favor. When the insanity wins, their designs wind up in a Cracked article.
#8. The Neger, aka The Human Torpedo
If that picture looks like a torpedo glued to another torpedo, with a human riding in one of them, then you are actually giving too much credit to the Nazi-designed Neger. It would be one thing if it were just a tiny one-man submarine meant to stealthily deliver a torpedo -- that seems like it could almost work. But the Neger couldn't submerge, so the little thing was forced to float along like a dead manatee while the pilot stuck inside struggled to breathe.
"I've seen some drowned Germans in my time, but this is the drownedest German I've ever seen."
Lacking any form of navigational equipment whatsoever, the Neger's pilots were instructed to wear watches with compasses in them and peer through the vehicle's bubble dome to gradually steer toward enemy ships. Because of the Neger's unfortunate position slightly below the surface of the water, waves constantly washed over the dome, making it basically impossible to see through.
U-Boat Aces
"You mean they have to be able to see, too? Fritz, you impossible bastard, I'm only one man!"
Upon reaching a target, the pilots had to pull a lever to launch the Neger's lone torpedo, except the release mechanism had a habit of jamming pretty much all the time, thus dragging its surprised pilot into the inevitable explosion with it. Over the course of its short career, the Neger sunk a total of four ships but killed an estimated 80 percent of its pilots.
Though that was still less suicidal than ...
#7. The Japanese Yokosuka MXY7 Okha Was a Suicide Bomber
The Ohka was the kind of plane a teenage boy would design if he wanted to make the most badass plane imaginable, but also didn't know anything about planes. And had no regard for human life.
"If we cut out the seat belts we can fit in another 2 lbs. of explosives."
It was powered entirely by not one, not two, but three rockets, and was capable of diving at speeds of over 650 mph, all while equipped with a 2,646-lb. explosive warhead. So it was a huge, piloted cruise missile, in other words. Which sounds awesome, unless you're the guy flying it.
Its wings were made of plywood covered with fabric, it had no ejector seat or landing gear and there was no way to fire the aforementioned giant warhead. The plane's entire method of attack was to dive toward enemies and blow itself to pieces, hopefully destroying its target in the process.
"Wait, what? Where's the landing gear again?"
After having its pilot literally welded inside its cockpit, the Ohka would be carried into battle by another plane and then released in its triple-rocket-powered insanity to rain down guesstimative destruction. It was estimated that the total 852 Ohkas that were built caused serious damage to only three enemy ships, which surely had a chilling effect on pilot recruitment for the program.
"They're bound to run out of boats before we run out of people."
#6. The XP-79B Flying Ram Did in Fact Ram Into Things
The XP-79B was an (almost) revolutionary American aircraft built at the end of World War II. It was the first American rocket-powered aircraft to ever achieve flight and was capable of climbing over 4,000 feet per minute. American engineers saw the potential in this aerial marvel and decided to reinforce it with magnesium plates ...
... in order to intentionally collide it in mid-air with other planes.
Yes, somebody decided that the only thing cooler than planes shooting is planes wrestling.
"Jets could do this!"
Since making a 9,000-lb. jet specifically designed to ram the shit out of other planes didn't quite reach the level of jackshit insane America was looking for, they chose to power the XP-79B with rockets containing nitric acid, which, in case you skipped that day in chemistry class, is ludicrously toxic and corrosive. Plans were even put in motion to outfit the XP-79B with actual guns before the project was scrapped entirely.
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
Apparently a poisonous, armed berserker plane was just too crazy to greenlight.
#5. The Blackburn TB Threw Darts
The Blackburn TB was designed as an anti-zeppelin fighter and touted as "one of the most specialized aircraft ever built," presumably because it was the first one developed to combat a vehicle that would totally explode on its own if you just sat around and waited.
The Blackburn TB was considered a fighter in the same way that Taco Bell can be considered Mexican food -- it only looked like it from a distance. Then you realize it had huge, fuel-filled pontoons on it for no apparent reason, which by the way had a habit of leaking fuel and liked to catch on fire during startup. Then, if the overweight, gasoline-dripping Blackburn TB actually managed to make it into the sky, it would rain terror on its unsuspecting targets with ... a basket of darts.
Two cockpits mean twice as many lives at risk.
See, the plan was to fly above enemy zeppelins and drop the darts on them, thereby puncturing the zeppelin's gas envelopes and causing a fatal explosion, which as we pointed out above could be accomplished with nothing more than patience. But the Blackburn TB's tiny engines meant its maximum altitude was 8,000 feet, whereas zeppelins at the time could go as high as 21,000 feet. So we're picturing sad pilots buzzing around 10,000 feet below the target, ineffectually flipping darts up at it until it was time to go home.
Blackburn Historic Aviation Photos
In other words, the Blackburn TB is the Charlie Brown of aircraft.

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Here is one task below. How to solve equation $$ m\ddot {x} + ax = F(t), x(0) = \dot x (0) = 0 $$ in quadratures by using two methods?
I tried to create a system of equations
$$ \begin{matrix} \dot v = F(t) - w_{0}^{2}x \\ \dot x = v \\ \end{matrix}, $$
but I don't know, what to do next without using some vector $\varepsilon = v + \alpha x$. So, i know only one way. Can you help me with the second way?


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Half-Life 2 and Portal now available on Nvidia ShieldWritten by: / / 3 Comments
If you're the proud owner of a Nvidia Shield then you'll be pleased to know that two of PC gaming's all-time classics are available for the platform as of today. Half-Life 2 and Portal can now be purchased from Google Play for R103.99 each and are currently exclusive to the handheld.
"NVIDIA has done a remarkable job bringing both Half-Life 2 and Portal to SHIELD," said Doug Lombardi Vice President of Marketing at Valve. "We're playing both games here on our SHIELDs and fans of both franchises can expect the same gameplay they've come to love on the PC."
Here's a video showing both games in action on the portable:
Would you like to see these two PC classics from yesteryear made available on other Android devices? Let us know in the comments.
Source: Nvidia Blog
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I have start browsing on internet explorer.
But when I start on firefox I love it very much.
I have opera also it is also good.
But when I start on firefox I love it very much.
I have opera also it is also good.
Originally Posted by vishal sharmaCourtesy: Mr. Granneman.
A man goes in to see a doctor. "Doc, whenever I lift my left arm, I get a shooting pain in my shoulder. What should I do?" The doctor replied, "Stop lifting your left arm."
I think many of us are in the position of that man, and today I'd like to act as your physician. Except that I'm not going to talk about left arms and pains in the shoulder; I'm going to talk about a piece of software that causes us pain in a different part of the body - Internet Explorer.
The latest version of IE is 6, and it has certainly accumulated an impressive record of holes: 153 since 18 April 2001, according to the SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities Archive. There have been some real doozies in there. For instance, last August, Microsoft issued a patch that fixed a hole that the company described this way: "It could be possible for an attacker who exploited this vulnerability to run arbitrary code on a user's system. If a user visited an attacker's Web site, it would be possible for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability without any other user action." Oh, is that all? Well, that's super - simply visit a Web page, and you're 0\/\/N3d, d00d!
A little over a week ago, the SecurityFocus Vulnerability Database reported the "Microsoft Internet Explorer Modal Dialog Zone Bypass Vulnerability," which "may permit cross-zone access, allowing an attacker to execute malicious script code in the context of the Local Zone." That was just one of the six reported so far this month - and we're only halfway through!
In fact, it's gotten so bad that now spyware creators (AKA, scumbags) are using flaws in IE to surreptitiously install the I-Lookup search bar (or one of several others) into the browser. Again, the user doesn't need to do anything - just visit a Web site or click on a URL in an email. The results? Your home page is changed, a bunch of new bookmarks show up in your Favorites, and popup windows for porn sites open constantly.
I could go on and on. Look, let's be honest with each other. We all know this is true: IE is a buggy, insecure, dangerous piece of software, and the source of many of the headaches that security pros have to endure (I'm not even going to go into its poor support for Web standards; let that be a rant for another day). Yes, I know Microsoft patches holes as they are found. Great. But far too many are found. And yes, I know that Microsoft has promised that it has changed its ways, and that it will now focus on "Trustworthy Computing." But I've heard too many of Microsoft's promises and seen the results too many times. You know, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Who's shamed when it's "fool me the 432nd time"? Who's the fool?
We're security pros, and we know the score. It's time. It's time to tell our users, our clients, our associates, our families, and our friends to abandon Internet Explorer.
A better browser: Firefox
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation released its latest preview release of Mozilla Firefox, available for download and ready to run. As most of you probably already know, the Mozilla browser is great, but it's also a huge software project, encompassing a Web browser, an email program, an address book, a Web page editor, and much, much more. Mozilla Firefox is an effort to pull out the browsing component, resulting in a faster, more focused, and more innovative Web browser. And you know what? It's working.
I've been using Firefox for more than a year, and it's performed admirably. I've experienced a little bit of bugginess here and there - after all, it's just now getting to 0.9, with the full 1.0 release expected at the end of the summer - but on the whole it's been just fine, certainly good enough for full-time use. Its feature set is enviable: pop-up blocking, tabs, integrated search, an awesome level of customizability, and excellent support for Web standards. But it has really shone (as has the Mozilla Project as a whole, actually) in the area of privacy and security.
All software has bugs, and none is totally "secure". As has been said so many times, security is a process, not a product. So I'm quite aware that Firefox has had security issues, and will have more in the future as sure as the sun rises. But the record so far with Firefox has been positive. Security issues are not common, but when they are found, they are openly discussed and fixed quickly. This is very good, and security pros should appreciate such responsiveness.
In addition to a good track record in the past, Firefox and the Mozilla Foundation are taking a proactive approach to securing the Web browser in the future. The privacy and security settings available in Preferences are intelligent and effective, and the browser itself does not accept ActiveX controls, a key vulnerability in IE. Firefox uses XPI files to install themes, extensions, and other add-ons. Recently, new changes to the browser's handling of XPIs were introduced, including a three second countdown when installing XPIs, in order to give the user time to read the dialog box, and an optional XPI whitelist, which will allow XPI installations only from approved sites. Both are good ideas; in particular, the latter should be enabled by security pros on the machines they oversee, as it will greatly reduce the likelihood of miscreant installs (the link above implies Firefox is not implementing the XPI whitelist; Mozilla bug 240552 contravenes this).
As people who care about security - and who so often work with people who care nothing about security - it's our responsibility to spread the word about a better Web browser that does not constantly compromise the basic security of our computers and networks. Why is IE the most widely-used Web browser on the Net? It's not because of quality, and certainly not because it's better than the alternatives. In fact, IE hasn't really been improved in years, and other browsers now offer far more innovative features and capabilities. It's because Microsoft leveraged its monopoly to force IE down the throats of users. And in a case of kicking users while they're down, Microsoft has pledged to tie IE even closer to the Windows operating system, guaranteeing plenty of security problems in the future.
It's all about the marketing. Microsoft owns the desktop, so they can bundle IE with every copy of Windows. To combat that, security pros are going to have to engage in counter-marketing. Sit down with the computer users you oversee, and explain to them the security issues associated with IE, and the benefits of moving to Firefox. If you need help, a short piece entitled "Why You Should Switch to Firefox" may help. If you're feeling nervous about the not-yet-finished status of Firefox, just wait a bit longer, and then start evangelizing it, but be aware that lots of folks have been using it for quite some time, happily and successfully.
Finally, if you have to use IE, you have to use IE. But use it only with the site(s) that require it. The people reading this are smart enough to use Firefox 98% of the time, and then switch to IE when necessary.
I'm tired of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Web browser that take over computers, install spyware and God knows what else, and ultimately cause us to spend hours cleaning up messes on the computers of clients, friends, and family. How much money, time, and energy have we all spent fixing the problems caused by IE? It's time for security pros - the folks that should know better - to start dumping IE and start promoting Firefox, a better Web browser. Enough is enough. How many times are we going to put out the fires that IE starts, only to get stomped on, again and again?
Originally Posted by shrikrishnatech3. IE can display all web pages - not all of them work in Firefox.
Originally Posted by shrikrishnatech5. IE does not ship with tabs, but they can be added if you wish.
Originally Posted by shrikrishnatech6. IE does not have an RSS reader, which is a fad. You can just visit the site every day if you need to.
Originally Posted by shrikrishnatech11. IE doesn't crash when visiting online banking sites, Firefox does.
Originally Posted by shrikrishnatech12. IE7 will adopt the standards of 2006 and include innovations of Microsoft and others, such as RSS, SSL3 and better security.


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According to news surfacing in Canadian newspapers RIM (Research in Motion) is set to cut atleast 2,000 jobs across the department in lieu of its global restructuring efforts.
The sources state that cutting down number of jobs in Blackberry Smartphone maker may increase from 2,000. Employees stretching from legal, human resources, finance, sales and marketing units will be detached.
The people attached closely with the company reported that the layoffs may take place in around June 1, before the first quarter of the financial year ends. However, some sources cited that the announcement may come even before that.
Research in Motion (RIM) is yet to issue an official statement regarding the matter but the rumors could be correct, especially after seeing what CEO of the company said after his appointment. CEO Thorsten Heins said that the company will streamline its operation and is strived to save about $1 billion in this year.
Reasons for cutting jobs
According to the statistics published by International Data Corporation (IDC) Blackberry's share has declined drastically in the Smartphone market. IDC data stated that Blackberry market share has fallen from 13.6 per cent to 6.4 per cent; a big fall indeed.
RIM has lost its market share to Smartphone makers such as Apple and it has failed to compete against the likes of phone running on Google android systems. In the initial three months of the year RIM has lost £78 million.
The reasons for the decline in market share are the failure of its much anticipated PlayBook device, which the company launched to make an impact in the market. Blackberry delayed the launch of its much anticipated Blackberry 10 operating system another big setback which affected the market share.
RIM has a staff of around 16,500 worldwide and cutting down 2,000 jobs from its staff means shrinking its workforce considerably. Sony and HP are also cutting down jobs and HP is cutting down a whopping 27,000 jobs.


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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - The Honors College at WKU and WBKO-TV hosted a reception on April 16 to honor the spring 2013 semester's Scholar of the Week recipients. The Scholar of the Week program recognizes young scholars in southcentral Kentucky and the WBKO viewing area for their academic and extracurricular activities. The Honors College at WKU has been partnering with WBKO since 2010 on the Scholar of the Week Program.
Out of more than 250 applicants, 70 students were chosen as Scholars of the Week for the 2012-2013 academic school year and have their name, high school and accomplishments aired on segments on WBKO's "10 PM News" on Tuesdays and "AM Kentucky" on Wednesdays. Each student is invited to a reception to celebrate their achievements, recognize them individually, and reward one Scholar of the Week with a $1,000 scholarship for WKU.
This semester's scholarship winner is Jennifer King, a junior at Greenwood High School in Bowling Green. King has a 4.0 GPA and is involved in a variety of extracurricular activities, including the art club, volunteering at the Salvation Army and local animal shelters, and playing the violin. While she is still exploring her collegiate options, a recently discovered passion for photography has her considering WKU: "I really like photography. I got a camera over Christmas break, I've really been snapping away. And WKU has a very good photojournalism program that I will definitely be looking into."
Upon learning she had won the scholarship drawing, King's initial reaction was "Surprise, definitely; and then I was excited." While her academic pedigree will have her competing for very prestigious scholarships, King was very grateful for the award. "It helps. Every little bit helps. I'm happy about it," she said.
Dr. Craig T. Cobane, Executive Director of the Honors College at WKU, believes the Scholar of the Week program provides a wonderful showcase of the quality of our local school systems and it reaffirms the mission of WKU and the Honors College to propel our scholars to even greater academic and professional heights.
"These scholars represent a fantastic group of young adults who are seeking out opportunities to succeed in the classroom, on the field, in the workplace, and in many other settings," Dr. Cobane said. "They deserve to be recognized for their achievements."
The following students were recognized as Scholars of the Week for the 2013 Spring Semester:
Allen-County Scottsville High: Joshua Blankenship, Hannah Erwin and Joshua Steele
Barren County High School: Rilee Mathews
Bowling Green High School: Sarah Parks, Erin Bardin, Abigail Potter, Victoria Dillard, Suzanne Moore and Rachel Wulff
Butler County High School: Sierra Fields
Clinton County High School: Ryan Beard, Lamon Hubbs and Jacob Williams
Edmonson County High School: Carly Raymer and Andrea Carnes
Glasgow Christian Academy: Madison Short
Glasgow High School: Sydney Norman
Greenwood High School: Shelley Owens, Jessica Agro, Megan Lee, Nathaniel Powers, Catherine Rice, Megan Locke, Kristina Shaffer, Hira Arshad, Jennifer King, Ross Basham, Holly Boddeker, Jessica Moore, Kari Bertram, Uyen Thoai Do, Jenika Soni and Rachel Sunderlin
Metcalfe County High School: Tayler McMurtrey and Philip "Bryson" Keltner
Ohio County High School: Katie Cantu
South Warren High School: Alexandria Colovos, Jordan Upton, Mallory Vaughn, Abigail Watkins and Carter Jackson
Warren Central High School: Chasity Beckner
Warren East High School: Allie Young
About the Honors College at WKU: WKU is home to the only Honors College in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Created in 2007, the Honors College at WKU provides an intimate, highly selective learning environment where college-age gifted and high-achieving students can develop the skills to prepare them for success in the nation's top academic and career opportunities.


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7 Insanely Dangerous Reboots of Popular Sports
You know how sometimes you watch figure skating and you think, "This would be so much more entertaining if everyone involved was naked"? There are so many sports that just seem long overdue for some kind of modern modification or gritty reboot.
Fortunately, there are a few visionaries out there taking the same, boring old sports and changing them in ridiculous, insane and often life-threatening ways.
#7. Fireball
Hey, you know what would also improve virtually every sport? Setting the ball on fire.
You don't have to take our word for it. A little bit of lighter fluid and a complete lack of personal safety will give you a rousing game of Fireball.
While a tennis ball is pretty flammable right out of the box, other things like a soccer ball or a bowling ball need a bit of elbow grease to get going.
We should point out that most bowling lanes are made of wood.
But the payoff--and the payoff here being disfiguring burns and possible jail time--is surely worth it. Once you light those babies up, it's tough to appreciate any sport that doesn't involve flaming balls (we're talking about you, gymnastics).
Even if you get sent to the hospital after a game of Tennis Fireball or burn all your fingerprints off dribbling a firebasketball, you can take comfort in the fact that somewhere, Michael Bay is nodding in approval.
That is, if he wasn't too busy with an afternoon of...
#6. Blast Fishing
Fishing is a sport that captures all the excitement of floating around on a stagnant body of water and holding a stick, which may explain why no one buys tickets to watch it. For the more criminally reckless outdoorsman, however, fishing can become a heroic display of technology and ingenuity triumphing over nature--a phrase which here means "blowing fish up with dynamite".
Utilizing traditional explosives and/or homemade bombs made from artificial fertilizer, blast fishermen locate schools of fish congregating at coral reefs and start lobbing down hellfire like Dresden. The resulting shockwaves either kill the fish outright or temporarily stun them, allowing the fishermen to literally scoop them out of the water by the bucketload.
"Boy, they're really biting today."
Although the practice is illegal the world over (but why?!), it's quite common in certain areas such as Southeast Asia and Africa, and on virtually every backwoods fishing trip where alcohol is involved.
#5. Mindball
Table tennis is one of the fastest and most intense sports in the world, provided it is being played by professionals instead of drunks or toddlers. The pros can send the ball back and forth at 100-miles an hour, knocking it back and forth 175 times in one minute. So how could this fast paced Olympic sport possibly get more extreme?
The answer, of course, is mind control.
Of course.
Mindball is a Swedish invention that takes the idea of table tennis and updates it for the 21st century by adding the novel innovation of brain wave manipulation. Players don special headbands that monitor their brains' activity while sitting opposite each other at a table that resembles a classic table tennis slab but with totally futuristic art deco curves and stainless steel.
The object of the game is to use your brain waves to send the ball to your opponent's goal while preventing it from reaching yours by relaxing as hard as you can. Seriously.
See, like in Buddhism, whoever can maintain the highest level of focus and relaxation will push the ball into the goal of their less stoic opponent and score a point--thus, doing away with the net, paddle and anything resembling exercise.
Finally making lazy men the ultimate winners.
Mindball adds a whole lot of fixated staring, which is way more exciting. And honestly, what's more extreme than transcending your physical body to manipulate tiny white balls with your mind?
#4. The Extreme 19th Hole
We're not saying golf is usually a lame sport. All we're saying is that it's the only sport where a miniature version exists solely to make it more exciting by adding multi-colored balls, frustrating windmills and giant plastic dinosaurs to the mix. Most miniature golf courses also have the 19th hole, where if you manage to score a hole in one, you win a free game. This system of ridiculous obstacles and rewards has been conspicuously absent from regular golf. Until now.
"Yes! A free game and a pizza party!"
At the Legend Golf and Safari Resort in South Africa, golfers finally get to play their own version of the 19th hole, except the prize for a hole in one here is a million freaking dollars, which according to our best estimates is equivalent to a shitload of free games. However, as you might have guessed, the hazards have been upgraded from run of the mill ponds and sand traps. Specifically, the tee is set on top of a mountain at the edge of a sheer cliff face, 1,400-feet above the ground.
The only way to access it is with a helicopter, and because the tee is only about 12-inches from the edge of the cliff, nerves of steel and/or adult-sized diapers are more or less mandatory (the diapers can be used as makeshift parachutes in case of emergency).
Shank a drive on this hole and you might as well be firing a handgun into the valley below, because we're thinking a golf ball rocketing towards the Earth at terminal velocity is going to blast the tits off of anything it touches.


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Commonweal's Shiny New Spinoff
Commonweal this week is launching its rather handsome new iPad edition. You can buy single issues or an annual subscription for about the same price as the traditional print flavor. (If you already subscribe to Commonweal in print or on the Web, youll have to pay separately for the iPad edition at least for now.) There is only one current issue available for purchase at the moment, but all future issues (and a variety of past ones) will be there eventually.
Some troublemakers in the office are whispering that Commonweal looks much better on the iPad than it ever did in print.Now that Commonweal is (digitally speaking) available all over the place, I wanted to hear from dotCommonweal readers about where and how you are reading magazines in general these days, and Commonweal in particular. Suggestions for our website, e-mail newsletters, or any of our various editions of the magazine? Heres your chance.And to those dotCommonweal readers who are not subscribing to Commonweal at all what do we still have to do to convince you?
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Well, I would suggest coming up with a digital edition that is not tied directly to one proprietary format. For the rapidly growing number of Android tablets, Commonweal is no more available than it was before. Otherwise, congratulations!
Almost exclusively on internet and i pad (through Safari but will look at the ap). I view Commonweal on the internet and can read all the articles posted with my subscription which is annualized each year.You should ad a twitter and facebook feature at the end of each blog post and article.Also, Fr. Imbelli and Fr. K often post some interesting pictures and you might want to consider somehow embedding Pinterest on it so that it can be posted more widely. Not sure how that might work. For the moment I can copy the image and paste on my board but would like to credit them for the original idea and posting.
Congratulations to Thomas and to everyone at Commonweal on the new iPad edition!And to those dotCommonweal readers who are not subscribing to Commonweal at all what do we still have to do to convince you?I'll subscribe to Commonweal when it stops being a men's magazine. The contents of the current issue are typical:http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/current-issue A column about a man by a man;a column about a man by a woman (Margaret);an editorial about a man by the editors (two men and one woman);a Short Take about a man by a man;a Verdict article about art by men by a woman;a Verdict article about movies about men (and one woman who is "based on several CIA agents (sic) male and female") by a man;a review of a book by a man by a man;a review of a book by a man by a woman;a feature article about men by a man;a feature article about a man by a man;a poem about a man by a man;a poem about a painting of a dead woman by a man by a man;a Last Word about boys/men by a woman.Actually, this issue is not so typical. There are more women than usual: of the 16 writers, 5 are women, and of the 14 subjects, 2 are more-or-less women -- a dead one, and one based partly on men.(The contributors to dotCommonweal: 23 men and 6 women.)
I'm a digital subscriber and read the content from my notebook computer. I also have an Android smartphone and would absolutely read it from my smartphone if there were an app (hint hint).
Gerelyn ===I agree that Commonweal has a long way to go on the sexism matter. True, in our culture men still hold most of the power, etc., so it makes sense that there will be more articles about them, at least for a while, but the figures at Commonweal are still bad.
Tom, I subscribe thru Kindle. Kindle is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I read more of the NY Times than I used to and I can get thru Commonweal much easier. No turning to pg this or that. It is all sequential. I just am annoyed when you do not recognize your kindle subscribers on Dot Com. As far as I can determine the cost of Commonweal as it is for America is $2.99 per month. But you have to pay an additional fee for each device whether it is the Ipad or Nexus etc. It took me awhile to get used to the kindle as my father put books into my head so much that I hardly remember a day without a book. But electronic reader is the best ever and the size of the Kindle or nook is just right. I don't think the Ipad or Tablet is as smooth. IOW the small screen wins.
This has nothing to do with me. I read much of Commonweal (and some other mags) on line, but for major articles I wait until my old-fashioned print edition arrives (late) in the mail. I prefer to spend the time on longer pieces reading them rather than manipulating them. As for the platforms and digitals and Kindles and Swindles and tablets and caplets, I'll pass. The pre-purchase comparisons take too long, and life's too short. And, yes, I have tried some things and found the experience ... interesting.
I have subscribed to Commonweal for decades. A few years back, management decided to use a weaker type face, glossy paper and fainter ink, that is, ink that was not really India ink black. Despite the difficulty of reading the magazine when the lamp is positioned at certain frontal angles (causing paper glare), I still read get more from articles in print rather than on the net. I do not subscribe to the print editions of America or NCReporter or Sunday NY Times Book Review, but I attempt to read each on the computer, then visit libraries that carry them. In each case, articles come across better when in print, in magazine format, or (in the case of NCR) in newspaper format. To sum it up: I actually see more of the article, grasp it more, when it is on paper in my hand.
What about Kindle subscribers? Should we cancel? Advice?
Since my post office in Brooklyn is terrible and I usually get the print edition two weeks late, I may switch to the Ipad version. Congrats! And I will do this even though Commonweal isn't "perfect" in having an absolute equal balance between men and women on all things. We live in an imperfect world but live in hope!
Just downloaded to my I-phone with year's subscription...I can see where this is going; I'll have to buy an I-Pad....Does CWL get a cut from that? Hope so.Male/Female ratio. Not an ideological issue...a practical problem. Finding women who can write, who want to write for Commonweal on topics within its purview and her interest, who can write for what CWL pays, and who are willing to be edited (I'm sure you'd all be amazed at how resistance men and women are to being edited, especially academics). None of this is as easy as you think; I know because I tried when I was editor.
I'm old fashioned. I BUY/subscribe to magazines, newspapers and books.But this venue gives me the chance to shoot from the hip on a regular basis. Love it!
Lame excuses. Embarrassing to read. Maybe you need some binders of women?Why would there be fewer women than men who can write, etc.? As to academics being edited? They're all accustomed to editors of scholarly journals and tempests in teapots.As to money? A young scholar trying to get some publications on her resume would be willing to write for little or nothing.
I commweal in the AP part of my Ipad and nothing came up for commonweal magazine. What am I doing wrong. HELP
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Gerelyn...you live in another world.. St. Louis???
Andrew, go to your Newsstand, tap Store, when you get to the Store page tap any of the icons at the bottom (Featured, Top Charts, etc.) then search for Commonweal in the top right corner. You could also tap this link from your iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/commonweal-magazine/id594151822?ls=1&mt=8To all of our Android users: our app will be available in the Google Play store tomorrow afternoon! You will be able to subscribe to and download the same version as iPad users on your Android devices.
Margaret, I'd rather not post personal information here, but I hope you'll visit my web site:http://www.gerelynhollingsworth.com
"To all of our Android users: our app will be available in the Google Play store tomorrow afternoon! You will be able to subscribe to and download the same version as iPad users on your Android devices."This is great news. Now, what I need is a single subscription that I can read, platform-independent. I guess we're still a ways away from that vision, though?
Andrew, Try the link that Tom gave above.https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/commonweal-magazine/id594151822?ls=1&mt=8
Hi Gerelyn,What are some magazines that do better with gender balance?
Hi, Rita, The great NCR is not a magazine, but among the many things it's notable for is gender balance. America is a men's magazine like Commonweal.What about the liturgy journals? Are they balanced?
If you want an example of a great digital magazine check out Relevant Magazine on the iPad. They have leveraged the new medium in engaging and innovative style. I imagine the culture section of Commonweal stands to benefit the most from a digital version since you can now offer audio and video media that is a large part of our culture today. Also maybe you can now offer video/audio interviews or embedded video excerpts of presentations given by Commonweal authors in other venues. The previous comments highlight the significant demographic of Commonweal readers that appreciate the current flat version of the printed page. These readers are the foundation of Commonweal's subscribers and it's seems you'll be challenged to walk the line between innovation and compatibility. This is not a request to turn Commonweal into a complete video presentation. While I appreciate the inclusion of new media for supplemental purposes I can't stand the sites that have gone from print to complete video presentations.
The problem with videos and pod-casts is that they seem to take three times longer than simply reading something. If a transcript comes with a video, I always choose the transcript...eyes can skip ahead in a text, ears not so much with audio... Any video-audio neurologist out there to discuss this?
"If a transcript comes with a video, I always choose the transcript"Margaret - same here.
Hi Gerelyn,The liturgy journals, good heavens, no! Liturgy is dominated by men, and by male celibate clergy, and although the study of liturgy today includes quite a few women scholars, that's a relatively new development. They weren't even giving higher degrees to women a generation ago, so there's a very big imbalance.I am also concerned about the blogs. Here is the data which I published on the Pray Tell blog, which shows that the comments are 9-1 male-female. http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2012/08/04/top-commenters-at-pray-...
Rita - for forums like dotCom and PrayTell, where moderators typically use a pretty light touch regarding which comments are accepted and published, comments seem to be a different beast than posts (or, in the case of a print publication, articles). The latter presumably would be subject to whatever editorial bias is being alleged here, but the comments just come in from whoever. That men's comments outnumber women's by a large multiple over at PrayTell probably indicates something, but I don't think it's editorial bias. The balance of commenters at dotCom seems a good deal more even.
RIta, thanks for the link. Very interesting statistics you provided there. And amusing comments by the men. My fave: "Women tend to think with their emotions, and emotional thought is difficult to express in words such as on a blog. Men tend to think with their reason which is more easily expressed through words." ------Jim, not sure how you know "which comments are accepted and published," since those that are "awaiting moderation" (aka deleted) are not visible. Imho, the "light touch" is less light on women than on men. E.g., how many men get banned and how many women? "Nancy" disappeared. Why? (Too many capital letters?) And "Felapton" disappeared. (After admitting she was a woman.)
I'd just like to point out something fairly rare: Gerelyn has crossed over from ordinary trolling to meta-trolling on the topic of trolling. It must be some sort of feminist benchmark, this proof that women are now just as good at internet combox trollling as men. Seriously though, knock it off.


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Birmingham is said to have more canals than Venice.
Certainly, in the middle of the 18th Century, there were 174 miles of canal in the area. Now only 114 miles of them remain as navigable water, most of the rest has completely disappeared.
Walking the towpath gives you a chance to see the city and its surrounding towns in a new light. In the centre of the city, over 15 miles of canal have been improved to make safe and enjoyable walking - you don't need a boat!
Birmingham and the Black Country developed, at least in part, because of the canals. When walking or boating you can see some of the reasons why the history of the canals is part of the development of the city and its industries.
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When I got the Quinjet set, I dug through every bag but the manufacturers forgot a few pieces and my set didn't have any minifigures. How can I get the missing minifigures and the parts I'm missing?
It is unlikely that Lego mispacked all of the minifigures. In the Quinjet set, the figures are spread among several bags, meaning Lego would have had a packing error in multiple bags, and then coincidentally placed all of the mispacked bags into the same box.
More likely is that someone removed them from the box and returned the package to the store. If I were you, I would take the box back to the point of purchase and ask for a replacement. The set is still in production, so they should be able to get you another or refund your money.
Unlike the Collectable Minifigures question (where LEGO don't offer replacement parts), if this is proper set bought new, then you should definitely try LEGO Customer Services as your first point of contact.
At the original time of writing, the minifigures were still available, but most of the elements are now listed as "out of stock" because that set is a retired product - so I'm not sure what their policy would be now
Never thought it would happen but out of the 90+ sets I've gotten the past 4 years I've come across my first set ever with missing components. Ordered through TRU.ca so distribution shouldn't have been the problem since it's probably ware house direct. Set was Baxter Robot Rampage (79105) Came sealed/new yet bag 1 was missing all but one mini figure/skate board/mouser pieces, and bag 2 was missing mini figure, and string piece, and finally I also didn't get stickers with the set. How does one even begin to explain that to customer service. Exchange through TRU would probably have been the simplest but unless this was a return I really don't see them at fault.
Like the Twinjet mentioned guess it does happen.
Agree with customer service being the best answer. Especially if bought new. Didn't call in but did call up the set on the site, selected everything missing (which was abnormally a lot) Waited for an Email from a representative, responded with details/instruction number now waiting to see what happens.
I had a similar situation, though not as drastic, where a helmet did not come with the set.
Customer service said that each set is weighed out and therefore always complete but sent the missing helmet anyway FOC.
I questioned why there were always misc extra pieces if everything was weighed... no response.
It doesn't hurt to be nice and explain how many LEGO sets you own, I suppose.
You should contact LEGO Customer Service. They have web forms or a toll-free phone number you can call. They are willing and trained to speak to children, and can even send out replacement pieces without talking to an adult, as long as the child can recite their full address.
The LEGO Group stands behind their products 100%, even if the problem with the product wasn't their fault. If the pieces are all in stock, they will send them out to you at no charge.
These parts come from their warehouse in Denmark, so they may take a longer time to receive than a regular order. Shipping times are affected by customs and other international shipping issues.
If the total cost to replace the parts is higher than a certain %age of the value of the entire set, then they'll likely just send you an entire new set from their local warehouse. For more expensive sets, they may also have you send back the incomplete set (they'll provide the free shipping). Whether they need the damaged set back first depends on the situation.
Some parts individual parts may be on back order. More complicated pieces (such as Iron Man's helmet) tend to stock-out or end up on back order more quickly than standard pieces. If this happens, Customer Service will work with you to achieve the most satisfying solution. Sometimes this means trying to return the product back to the store you purchased it from, but it's not ideal. Those sets might end up back on the shelf (sometimes clearanced, sometimes not), and then another customer ends up with the same problem. Sometimes it means sending a low-priced "gift" to help alleviate the pain of waiting for you product to arrive.
The LEGO Group understands that you're likely a victim in this situation. You bought a product that someone else essentially stole from. They'll make it right, even though it's not their fault. For manufacturing or other issues that are their fault, they may even go above and beyond in making it right.
The LEGO Group takes several measures to ensure that their boxes are fully-packed. They weigh and scan the elements. However, there can still be issues on this front.
When the issues are on the production end, they're usually related to:
However, when pieces are missing from a variety of bags, it's often a sign that the set has been tampered with after production. So, to help narrow down production issues versus tampering issues, The LEGO Group has in recent years starting spreading out "high value" elements between the many bags in the set, or putting them in prepacks that are harder to get into. Then, when an entire Minifigure that's spread out over 4 bags is missing, it's easier to tell that it was a tampering issue rather than a production issue.
Customer Service will ask you some questions to further help narrow down the source of the problem. Every box or package has a manufacturer's code on it somewhere (such as on the tape on the boxes). This code lets them know which facility produced your set, and when the set was made. If enough reports of the same missing pieces from the same lot occur, then TLG can narrow down the problem to a certain time or place.
They may also ask for which store you bought it from. This helps them track local trends. Some stores have a greater problem with returned/exchanged sets that have been tampered with.
Source: Myself. I worked for LEGO Customer Service and I've handled this exact issue many a time.
You can go to this website of LEGO where they give you the parts you're missing.


text: Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, MN. Beginning his reign as singer extraordinaire in the 70's, Princes music is still as popular today as it once was. It's hard to name just one genre of music he made- it varies from arena rock all the way to psychedelic, making him a unique singer. His first ever album, titled "For You" released in March of 1978 and was the spark which ignited his career. Still making music today, Prince is known for many of his songs- the most popular being "Little Red Corvette", "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "When Doves Cry." Grab a pencil and some paper and let's draw his personal logo. :D


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I'm a true beginner with using the android platform and I'm having difficulties on implementing a 2D grid system for a tower defense type game. Where I can place towers on a specific tile and enemies will be able to traverse through tiles etc.
What I would like is a practical explanation of how I could tackle this. A step by step guide for dummies.
This is what I believe are the necessary steps to take, I think I might be wrong but I hope someone could help me out.
- Calculate the Width and Height of the view I'm working with.
- Based on that, determine the number of tiles required and their dimensions, (Still not sure how I would do this)
- Create each tile as a Rectangle object and draw these rectangle on a canvas
I would really be grateful if someone could steer me in the right direction on how to implement a 2D Grid Map using android. I hope the answer to this questions helps the TRUE beginners out there like me.
I have looked at the following links below yet I still feel that I don't trully understand what's going on.
For XNA: 2D Grid based game - how should I draw grid lines?
How to Create a Grid for a 2D Game?
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^ yeah, I've actually sent our city a few thank-yous this winter because they've been doing a really good job. We've gotten a few big dumps, and by the next day my route is completely clear. Expecting it to be instantaneous is silly, though.
Basically, the guy sounded like a whiny driver (and a whiny Calgary driver at that :D). I expect people in cars to have ridiculous and unrealistic expectations of snow removal, but when you're riding a bike in the winter you kindof need to recognize that every so often it's really gonna suck.


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Laser beam welding has evolved into a proven process, and like any proven manufacturing process, it should be matched with the application with the best-suited material and geometry.
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Get down and dirty in the garden
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Lemon Verbena Lady, Nancy Heraud, Spring, Cleaning, Spring Cleaning, Salad Burnet, Minette Basil Sticks, Henbit
You can check out the Lemon Verbena Lady at her blog http://lemonverbenalady.blogspot.com.
We had a beautiful weekend for late March and so I ventured into the herb garden to see what was sprouting and what the damage might be. I tend to do too much during the first days of spring in the herb garden so I'm trying to pace myself this year. (Learn how to pace yourself.)
The Lemon Verbena Lady's herb garden in early spring.
I am always pleased to see a perennial favorite of mine, salad burnet (Poterium sanguisorba). It doesn't get too large in one season and sometimes reproduces itself, but it is not an herbal thug. It has very pretty red seed heads toward fall. It also has a delightful cucumber flavor and is a great substitute if you can't tolerate eating cucumbers. I think I will keep the leaves around it so that if we get a frost it will withstand it.
Salad burnet peaks out from under the leaves.
The next plant is in the Lamium family. It is more of a weed and is called purple henbit dead-nettle. It looks like it belongs in the rock wall, but no! It will just keep reproducing and will take over if you let it.
Purple dead-nettle gets cozy in the rock wall.
I'm always excited when I can identify a plant, whether it is a weed or an herbal treasure. My favorite weed book is called Weeds of the Northeast by Richard H. Uva, Joseph C. Neal and Joseph M. DiTomaso (Cornell University Press, 1997). If you live in the Northeast, it is a classic for identifying those pesky weeds.
I wanted to take out some of the annual herbs before the start of the growing season. Although The Herbal Husband keeps them to the last minute hoping for a re-sprout. So when I took out the 'Minette' basil sticks (Ocimum basilicum 'Minette'), the overwhelming smell was of basil!
Intoxicating Minette basil sticks.
It is one of my favorite basils because it has great leaf production and is a smaller size than the regular basil. I had never smelled it so intensely in winter. It took me right back to summer and a tomato, basil and feta cheese salad with balsamic vinegar and olive oil!
There were broken stems of lavender, but most of the herb garden survived without problems. I will be editing the garlic chives (Allium tuberosum) that will take over the herb garden if I let them. Overall it was a good start to cleaning up the herb garden. I will work on pruning the thymes, lavenders and other herbs mid-April or so. I don't want to start pruning too soon because we still could have frost.
If you have questions about clean up or pruning your herbs, please let me know.
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On 2010-12-15, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a recall regarding Desk and Table Lamps due to a potential electric shock and fire hazard. This product sold new beginning in April 2010 for about $5 to $10.
About 2,000 units are involved in this CDX Trading desk lamp recall. Learn more and find out what to do if you own this product below.
This was the 2nd recall of products in the Lamps category in 2010.
Since 2005, there have been approximately 40 similar recalls,
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Substandard electrical wiring, connections and plugs in these lamps pose a fire and shock risk to consumers.
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These items were sold new+ at CDX Group's showroom, New Chens Discount, Concordia Trading Inc. and Grace Mini Market in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Dollar King in Lexington, Ky. from April 2010 through July 2010 for between $5 and $10.
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It's code for "We change our minds a lot about what we want from the software, and if we hire you we don't want you to complain about it. In fact, we expect you to put in a lot of overtime to implement our latest whim decision because we're fast paced. You've been warned."
In programmer-speak, it means "we have no specs, unit tests, or for that matter, anyone still around who remembers why our software is the way it is."
Because most job ads aren't written by software engineers.
It's the exact same reason so many require the "ability to multi-task". Every respectable software developer knows that the human brain cannot multi-task. Or have 10 years experience in Windows Server 2008.
Maybe it's the old fart in me, but when I see that I think they're looking for the youngsters who will work with great passion and excitement and dedication... and for less money.
But that's me.
Many people (think HR since they are the ones who write these things up) equate a "fast paced" with excitement, and if it is not exciting, then it is boring.
Who wants a boring job? If it is boring, certainly "top talent" does not want to do it and it is not really worth doing.
That line of thinking, though prevalent, is wrong.
Don't let them know not to put that in, we need to be able to easily weed out the companies we don't want to work for! To me "fast-paced environment" = lots of unpaid overtime.
I disagree with the negative takes on this. When I hear, "Fast-paced environment", I think "lots of interesting responsibilities, because work gets done effectively so you can move on to something else". I would describe my current work environment as "fast-paced", but I would also rave about the work-life balance I get.
I think the issue is that recruiters confuse "fast-paced" with "we have lots of emergencies and make people put in lots of hours" - which is almost the opposite of fast-paced. Emergencies derail and randomize people, slowing down the pace of business. Working long hours is a symptom of not being fast-paced during normal business hours, and trying to make up for it by working more. "Working hard, long hours while being randomized when things go wrong" and "producing great business value rapidly" are two different, often contradictory things.
"Fast-paced", in the sense of "our team delivers lots of business value in a short period of time," is desirable because it leads to an improved work-life balance. You get great resume content and develop your talent without investing lots of time into independent study in your own time, since you are learning so much on the job - meaning your free time can be spent on non-programming hobbies without your skills becoming obsolete. "Fast-paced" is also not boring, since you complete one project quickly and then can move on to something fresh. IMO, constantly dealing with emergencies and "fires", covering for other people's mistakes, coping with crummy tools and poor documentation, and so on, is very frustrating and boring.
Edit: I thought of a few other things "fast-paced" implies that are positive and can be attractive: First, it suggests that the team uses Agile practices; waterfall isn't fast-paced. Second, it implies that the company or team is small and light-weight, and not bound up in miscellaneous process; people who sit in lots of meetings and need to fill out three forms for each bug fix aren't going to be moving quickly. Third, it hints at a growing company (maybe a start-up?) or team that is making strides and delivering lots of value to their customers, vs. a company or team that has already done its interesting work and is now just sitting there doing maintenance and getting money for the work they already did.
One comment below also points out that "fast-paced" is a contrast to "in-depth". A fast-paced environment is one where you pick up a lot of skills in a very short time, but may not become an expert in any of them. A slower environment where lots of experts are needed and things need to be done well the first time is more likely to grow in-depth skills. Having lots of breadth in one's skills and having a few skills in depth are very different career tracks, so "fast-paced" is also a signal that people who want to become experts at a relatively narrow set of skills probably shouldn't apply.
You probably only read ads for software developers, but the truth is that all job postings say they "offer a fast-paced environment."
I'm a recruiter in the tech space. Most job "descriptions" get washed by HR before they get out in front of the public. So an engineering manager might be sitting there, and write up a reasonable req, talking about how "TBD" is never allowed when setting requirements, describe their team, the types of projects they focus on that set them apart, etc etc, yadda yadda. Then, HR gets it, and says "but, everyone likes to 'work hard, play hard, right'?? I mean, that's what every other job description out there says. We'd better tell people we're 'fast paced', or we'll look too old school and boring. Google's fast-paced, right? Right?? We have to be like Google!! Oh, and get rid of anything we could vaguely, potentially, 1-in-a-million chance get sued over."
Uggh. I hate most job descriptions. Full of junk like what Chuck described. Plus, they're just a bullet point list of requirements, with no meat to them. Most HR departments go to their competitors web site, find a similar job to the one they need to fill, copy and paste it, change the name of the company, maybe tweak the requirements a bit, and then post it.
They're ads: they should do a good job of communicating what the company's really like (ie, so when you take the job you aren't sitting there in 3 months feeling like you got suckered, and then they have to replace you when you quit); be funny (because, c'mon, who doesn't like funny - again, it's an ad); and not freak people out with "fast-paced" and "hard-charging" types of phrases if they aren't true.
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The cliche term here is "young and dynamic team". In other words, a group of people who're too inexperienced to know that putting in 20 hours overtime a week without pay is not normal and a not a sign of a healthy project, that requirements that change several times a day up until 5 minutes before delivery is abnormal and unhealthy, etc.
It's also a way to tell you that you're too old without actually stating so openly (which would be illegal under age discrimination laws).
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti (race car driver)
I take "fast-paced" as code for "somewhat out of control". Some people like that. Others don't.
So far my favourite statement along with the "fast paced environment" was the HR manager trying to make it sound like some sort of fun slumber party type thing to stay at the office til midnight pushing out code.
Personally I want a job that's relaxed and has cookies...
mmmmm..... cookies..... (>^.^)>(#) mmmmmm..... coookies....
But it does seem that most HR folk are wanton to believe that us programming folk want fast, high speed, stress filled jobs, not sure who gave them that idea but it needs to be squashed.
Many people have focused on what fast-paced can mean but I think there's one other reason: many shops are slow-paced to the point of stagnation - picture the kind of place where finding a problem results in either requesting off-site training or filing a ticket and going home for the day. If you're hiring, there's a desire to avoid submissions from the kinds of developers who got into the industry thinking "indoor job, no heavy lifting" but this particular wording is too cliched to actually do that.
Maybe its an attempt to scare away the lazy programmers...
Do you mean this?
I think it means exciting. Then again, It could also mean extreme overtime and lost wages.
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A 'fast paced environment' can either be an environment from hell, or one where technological challenges abound. I stay away from the former, but I purposely seek the later. Obviouly one should seek a balance (specially if you are like me, with family and kids). However, if your job doesn't challenge your skills and passion, you are not learning. And that is the worst you can do to your professional career development.
To assume a fast-paced environment is always bad reveals a particular outlook to life and the type of technology-oriented career we have chosen for ourselves. Every job has its warts. What you make of out them, even the worst environments, it is solely and squarely up to you.
There are some 'fast-paced' jobs (on the bad sense of the word) that were just horrid, and I would never set foot on those companies again. But the experiences themselves taught me how to handle pressure in a professional manner, and how to get things done as much as humanly possible. Those jobs were horrid not because of the technical and requirement challenges, but because of horrid personal dynamics and management style.
On the other side of the coin, the best jobs I've ever had were also 'fast-paced', in terms of changing requirements and technological challenges. That's where you really learn how to rise to the ocassion and deliver, which is ultimately what every programmer (or any professional) ought to seek.
Difficulty of something is not an excuse for avoiding its accomplishment.
Just people change their minds when it comes to software is not a bad thing. It is a reflection of world dynamics, and we in software, we are the business of creating realistic executable models of the world. I'm amazed at how many programmers actually fail to understand this.
The challenge is in knowing how to manage the continous (and usually chaotic) rate of change. And there are two sides of the coin in this: there is non-technical management and there is technical management (your part as a programmer and software engineer). And the later is as important, and perhaps more so, than the former.
Ultimately, you want to stay away from bad working environments, but for the purpose of cultivating your professional career, you should always look for legitimately fast-paced enviroments. Otherwise, we might just look for a 9-to-5 job maintaining COBOL/RPG reports.
Wow, your all looking deep in to the exact meaning of that phrase :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor says "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Because the job ad was written by a someone who can't actually write, has no imagination and so has to fall back to tired old phrases like this?
I mean come on, we all know how good programmers are at writing documentation :-P
It could just be that HR wanted something that sounds like "cool", but since the company does salary calculations rather than robots on Mars they go for that vague "it means whatever you want it to mean" style. Proof of that is in several of the answers here.
The answer is because good developers get bored easily and when they get bored they leave. Saying that you offer a fast paced environment is an attempt to find good developers. Actually offering a fast paced environment is a good way to reduce turn over.
Also, I saw someone mentioned 'lazy programmers' I agree with that too. Fast Paced means that you'll have no time to learn how to be a dev so you should already be one.
Also, most of the time the ads that people write are from HR or someone who doesn't know anything about the position. "We require expert levels in [insert alphabet soup here] and BA and 10yr Experience and [insert other insane requirements here]". I hate those ads.
Is just syntactic sugar for stress and chaos.
This is what it means. It will mean you have to adapt fast, that will invent deadlines for yesterday and you'll have to deal with it because is a fast paced environment. Just an nice syntax and an excuse for an environment that will be stressful.
We might be overthinking this.
I think often it's used because "gee I've only got three sentences and a ridiculously large set of bullet points ... I'd better think of something else to say".
Keeping up with technology or at least the illusion of it would be another reason I'd note. Wouldn't you want to work where new things are always coming at you when people, "Hey, could we do this? How about we get started on it now?"
When I hear it, I think of this blogpost from Coding Horror. Fast-paced can certainly be a huge advantage when it comes to iterations and development. Unfortunately I doubt the "fast-paced" in job ads refers to the speed of iterations.
for me fast-paced-environment means that the applicant have to be willing to learn new things.
As someone who recently wrote a job description, I was tempted to use that phrase but not really for most of the reasons that everyone has mentioned above. It's not because things are out of control and it's not because everything is a mess or because we need you to put in a boat load of unpaid overtime. That's not fast-paced. That's just mismanagement.
Fast-paced to me is: We have a lot to do and you'll need to keep up. If you want work at a relaxed, government-job pace, it's not the right place for you.
This is a positive because it means there is a lot of opportunity to create value for the company, which will translate to more growth for the company and higher compensation for you.
Isn't the English language brilliant. A simple two word statement can stir up a great debate based on interpretation, ambiguity and personal experience.
I don't think there's anything wrong with "face-paced" provided it's qualified. Having said that given a lack of a qualified statement, I'd favour an alternative synonym or more detail. If your trying to say "frequent, fortnightly iterations" or "lots of work enthusiastic programmers who want to spend 80% of their programming" say it, don't say "fast paced" as it's ambiguous and open to interpretation.
Far too often jobs add are kept concise with buzz words that recruiter think you want to hear.
In my experience, fast paced has often meant fire fighting, or working on projects against deadlines with not enough time to deliver everything to the best of your teams ability. This has at times been to poor management, and unforeseen circumstances, but I'd choose a more relaxed balanced (yet efficient and streamlined delivery) approach over "fast-paced" one.
I once read a job ad where the recruiter put something like "the best job you'll see this year". Immediate reaction, nonsense, it's a sales pitch, why? because I put recruiters in the same group as estate agents (there in it for the commission and they can't afford to be honest).
I have a friend, which is a self-taught developer. You know, the only language he is somewhat proficient in is C#, which is not a bad thing, it's OK to know just one language, but to know it good. He had no professional schooling, aside from Microsoft certificates (MCSE or something), no college degree or anything, he barely made it out of high school.
Now, he keeps posting on Facebook about his latest idea for an Android app, for a new twitter client, URL shortening service, image hoster...
He wanted to develop a new browser in C#, but stopped mid way.
He keeps making videos on youtube about TFS, and how cool project management is with all those nice Microsoft products.
Now, he has another startup, a social networking integration client for use with MS Office products.
*sigh *
The kind of "Start-Ups" and Software he develops, is exactly the kind I picture behind those ads. Brain farts that sound exciting, but lose are pretty quick. They plan to make the software freeware and charge for support. It all seems kinda vapor ware. It seems like working for them is putting in some work, of which most stuff won't be used eventually, and then the whole thing shuts down and everyone is looking for the culprit, the lazy ass, that didn't get the work done.
It's their way of saying "the sh*t will flow downstream faster than you can paddle against it.". Requirements will change faster than you can finish coding the previous version, and features will be added whenever the RedBull-fueled project manager thinks them up.
I'm so glad I no longer have to deal with implementing other folks' "shower visions".
It probably means in part that the company values business-based decisions driven by customer requirements, over the needs of their engineering staff.
Not trollin', just trying to be realistic...
Usually because they think that using Boost and C++ make them cutting edge.


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In Savage Worlds a Double Barrelled Shotgun has a Rate of Fire of 1 or 2. Under the descriptive text is says that you can fire both Barrels together and roll to hit twice. One of my player wanted to know if he can fire at two different targets instead of both at the same targets. Weapons that have Auto Fire can at increasing penalty up to there RoF. But a Double Barrelled Shotgun does not have the Auto Fire feature. I have no experience of a real Double Barrelled Shotgun so I have no idea if it should be able too. My players think so. I think the rules as written say you can't but I am not sure that this is what they intended or it is correct IRL.
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Yes, you can fire at two different targets with each barrel.
Any ranged weapon with a RoF of greater than 1 can be fired at two separate targets. ("Ranged Attacks, Rate of Fire", p. 67, Savage Worlds Deluxe edition)
The double-barrel shotgun is special in that it has this additional rule (page 50):
This means that unlike other RoF 2 weapons, it can use the Automatic Fire rules (p. 70), which are normally only available (and are mandatory for) weapons of RoF 3 or more. The "Double Barrel" rule doesn't restrict a double-barreled shotgun to only using the Automatic Fire rules, it just gives you an extra option to access the AF rules by "fir[ing] both barrels at once".
So there you go: the rules easily allow for using the barrels separately, one at a time, on two targets. Like many Savage Worlds rules, this follows from default rules, but it's not explicitly said about the shotgun. It's easy to read the special notes under Shotgun on page 54 and assume that this overrides the normal multi-attack rules, but it's in addition, not in replacement of, those rules. Go forth and double-barrel those multiple targets!
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A shotgun-user shouldn't overlook the Innocent Bystanders rule (p. 73). This is really very tangential to your question, but it relates to how we intuitively expect shotguns to work with multiple targets and is easily overlooked.
This rule means that when you miss with a ranged or thrown weapon (and it's dramatically-appropriate in the GM's judgement), you automatically hit a target adjacent to the original. With a shotgun, this happens instead on a 1 or 2, because they're just so wide-effect. It means firing a shotgun into a cluster (of, say, zombies) makes it very likely you'll hit something – just make sure that other something isn't a friendly who's engaged in melee with your original target! This is especially effective when using the Double Barrel rule, since you might miss with one and hit with the other, allowing two targets to be "hit" at once.
As a side note to this side note, by the rules any shotgun, even one firing non-spreading slugs, will hit a bystander on a 1 or 2 when using this rule. I would personally rule as the GM that the extra chance on the 2 only applies to regular shot, because I think it's an oversight in the rules and not intentional to have it apply to slugs. As the GM it's up to you in your own game, but I wanted to highlight that as something to consider.
I don't have access to the rules, but in general, especially with respect to the real life application, a double barrelled shotgun can only be fired at to specific targets simultaneously, if they are really close together. Even then, I would rule it more as a colateral damage and not as a result of specific targeting.


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How do you take your French Fries?
Sauce? No sauce? Ketchup, A1, Heinz 57, Mayo?
I like mustard or vinegar.
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I say: "Look! Look!"
I point with my left hand.
I snag their fries with my right.
Free and/or plentiful.
salt or Heinz ~
I love vinegar & ketchup,especially when I get them at the beach or at a carnival. But when I get them from the local sub shop, I get their bacon/cheddar/ranch fries, they are AWESOME!!!
Mayo. Definitely mayo. Some sort of mustard if that's not available.
Any way I can get them. Usually with ketchup, but sometimes vinegar (I love they put cider vinegar out at 5 Guys). If I have it around, I put in Siracha, somtimes mixed with ketchup, sometimes mayo.
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Salty. Occasionally with vinegar, mustard, gravy, or horseradish sauce.
If they're good fries, then only salt. They taste perfect that way. If they are not the best fries, then ketchup.
@cf: Ohhhh. I forgot gravy. That was my favorite topping in the High School cafeteria.
I recently learned I really like my fries with Malt Vinegar. But in the past I have been known to say Fries are just a vehicle for ketchup. Man I love the red stuff.
Vinegar if it's available. Salt only if it's not.
Salt, lots of ketchup, on the side, never on the fries. My friend and I were eating at a restaurant and they wanted to combine our fry orders into one basket and seemed a bit peevish when I asked them to make them separate. When the owner walked by I pointed out my friend's basket of fries lukewarm and soggy with ketchup all over them, and my little cup of ketchup on the side of my basket of hot and crispy fries. Then he understood.
I can't believe how many people eat sweet potato fries with ketchup though. Yech. They are okay with ranch dressing, but better with peanut sauce.
Light salt, preferably seasoned instead of salted. With lots of ketchup. Any restaurants offering seasoned fries is definitely doing it right.
usually salt with a side of ketchup. i do like them with old bay, cajun seasoning or the occasional sprinkling of bacon salt.
ok now i'm hungry
Most of the time just salted.
But I do like french fries with chili and cheese or bacon bits and cheese!
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#2. Ward Churchill
So let's say it's 1990 and you're a white Vietnam War veteran with several communications degrees and some seriously aggressive social skills. You also, somehow, need to land a job.
Instead of buying a fake wheelchair, tucking his arms into his coat, and begging for money on the street, Ward Churchill did the only-slightly-less-questionable move of pretending he was American Indian to get a job as a professor.
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In terms of flipping race for profit, every single celebrity we've listed makes Ward Churchill look lazy. Churchill's solution to changing his honky heritage was to put on a pair of sunglasses.
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When questioned about his heritage, Churchill mentions he was a member of a tribe called the United Keetoowah Band. It turns out this a tribe who gives out cards to many non-native celebs, including Bill Clinton.
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And even that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it hadn't come out that most of it wasn't true. By the time anyone figured it out, Ward had published 14 books on the subject.
Notice his glasses are on. He's in full Indian mode.
In the end, Churchill was canned. He sued the school for wrongful termination. The court agreed with Churchill, but also agreed that he was a complete douchesack, awarding him the jerk-anointing sum of $1.
#1. Iron Eyes Cody
Everyone who grew up in the 80s remembers the series of PSAs starring "Chief" Iron Eyes Cody. Your trashing of the environment brought a sad tear to the old chief's eyes, as you white kids were destroying the very land his noble people had held stewardship over for eons.
Now let's talk about a man by the name of Espera de Corti, the son of Sicilian immigrants. Trying his hand at acting, Corti got a few bit parts, but couldn't break onto the big screen. Showing the blind faith seen in most A-List Hollywood talent, Corty moved to Hollywood anyway.
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Eschewing plastic surgery in favor of balls-out bullshitting, Espera changed his name to Tony Cody, and claimed he was an American Indian (or Injun, as they would have said back then). After this began landing him a few paying roles, Tony said "fuck it," changed his name to Iron Eyes Cody, and completely denied his Sicilian heritage.
Iron Eyes married an American Indian woman and adopted two American Indian sons. Cody stuck by his lie, even when a New Orleans newspaper ran a full story exposing his non-native background.
He actually just stole those feathers from a pillow.
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Cody played an "Indian" in over 200 films.
But his most notable spot was in the aforementioned "Crying Indian" anti-litter commercials. Nothing says, "Hey, please pick up that Funyuns wrapper" like "Hey, you raped our ancestors."
Cody passed away in 1999, but not before a life-capping performance in Ernest Goes to Camp. His people would be proud.
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As far as programming languages go, I love C#, and for that matter all the good that comes from the .net framework (LINQ, etc).
My main concern is I seem to be churning out too much code, and using OOP, I have a concern my code isn't always that easy to manage.
I want to continue using C# and .Net, but are there any other approaches to applying the language to get overall less code, and easier to manage compared to text book OOP?
Thanks in advance!