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Bluegiga ha presentado hoy su nuevo módulo de sistema inalámbrico - Bluegiga APx4. APx4 es un módulo de sistema inalámbrico de baja energía que a su vez integra Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, ARM y Linux, ofreciendo una plataforma de desarrollo ideal para los puertos inalámbricos.
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Bluegiga APx4 es un módulo de sistema con factor de forma pequeño y baja energía que incluye los últimos estándares en conectividad inalámbrica: 802.11 b/g/n y Bluetooth 4.0. APx4 se basa en la gama de procesador de Freescale i.MX28, y funciona dentro de un sistema operativo integrado Linux basado en el Yocto Project[TM]. Además de estar integrado en el procesador 454MHz ARM9, la tecnología de conectividad inalámbrica y el sistema Linux, APx4 incluye además varias aplicaciones integradas, como agrupaciones 802.11 y Bluetooth 4.0, Continua v.1.5 compatible con el gestor IEEE y mucho más. Esta combinación proporciona una plataforma ideal para el diseño de puertos inalámbricos de múltiples radios que permite un tiempo rápido en el mercado y riesgos de I+D mínimos.
"La integración de las tecnologías Wi-Fi, Bluetooth y Bluetooth Smart Ready dentro de una sola plataforma está lejos de ser un reto trivial - sobre todo cuando estas tecnologías necesitan coexistir de forma integral. Esto es exactamente lo que APx4 consigue, además de proporcionar una plataforma ARM9 basada en Linux que permite a nuestros clientes añadir con rapidez y sencillez sus propias aplicaciones dentro de ella", comentó Mikko Savolainen, vicepresidente de gestión de productos de Bluegiga.
El software Bluegiga APx4 se puede ampliar o dirigir con facilidad para personalizar el sistema operativo Linux con las aplicaciones. Las placas base para APx4 se pueden ampliar con facilidad a fin de incluir casi todo, desde módems 3G a Ethernet e interfaces de audio y pantallas táctiles. Bluegiga APx4 es un producto ideal para aplicaciones que necesitan de tecnologías con conectividad inalámbrica o con cable y una potencia de procesamiento para el procesador ARM9, como los puertos de salud y bienestar, puertos de automatización de hogar y construcción, M2M, puntos de ventas y conectividad industrial.
"Hemos sido testigos de una demanda de soluciones de conectividad inalámbrica cada vez mayor. El módulo de sistema inalámbrico APx4 se ha diseñado directamente para hacer frente a estas necesidades de conectividad, y proporciona una plataforma para el desarrollo rápido de los puertos inalámbricos novedosos innovadores, comentó Tom Nordman, vicepresidente de ventas y marketing de Bluegiga, y añadió: "Bluegiga está muy ilusionada de ser capaz de mejorar su larga experiencia dentro de la conectividad inalámbrica, ampliando nuestra cartera de productos para incluir este tipo de soluciones nuevas".
Información adicional disponible en: http://www.bluegiga.com/apx4
Kit de desarrollo APx4:
El kit de desarrollo APx4 contiene una plataforma de desarrollo del hardware completa para APx4 y software SDK, que permite a las aplicaciones recopilarse para el sistema operativo APx4 Linux.
Bluegiga ofrece soluciones de conectividad inalámbrica de corto alcance que incluyen módulos Bluetooth, módulos Wi-Fi y dispositivos de acceso a redes Bluetooth para fabricantes de equipamiento original e integradores de sistemas. Fundada en 2000 y con una oficina principal en Espoo, Finlandia, Bluegiga vende a todos los clientes en áreas de aplicaciones médica, de deporte y bienestar, automoción, audio e industrial. Con oficinas de ventas en Estados Unidos y Hong Kong y por medio de una amplia red de distribución, Bluegiga da servicio a clientes en más de 70 países de todo el mundo. Si desea información adicional visite la página web http://www.bluegiga.com
Si desea más información contacte con: [email protected]
Tom Nordman
Vicepresidente de ventas y marketing
Teléfono: +358-9-435-5060 (Finlandia)
Video: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/58640-bluegiga-new-APx4-wireless-system-on-module
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Obama won the US election with 332 electoral votes, far exceeding the 270 required to win. Republican challenger Mitt Romney finished with 206. "Right off the bat, the president can approve the Keystone Pipeline and put thousands of Americans to work immediately," said the API's chief executive.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) on Wednesday
congratulated President Obama on his re-election, adding that
it looks forward to expanding domestic oil and natural gas as
a major pathway for job creation and economic growth.
"Americans have made their decision," said CEO Jack Gerard.
"We look forward to continuing our work with the president and
helping him fulfill his campaign promise to increase domestic
oil and natural gas production that will create American jobs
and strengthen our economy.
"With both candidates supporting more development of
Americas vast oil and natural gas resources, energy is a
big winner in this election."
Obama won the US election with 332 electoral votes, far
exceeding the 270 required to win. Republican challenger Mitt
Romney finished with 206.
Right off the bat, the president can approve the
Keystone Pipeline and put thousands of Americans to work
immediately," said Gerard. "He can acknowledge the effective
role states are already playing in regulating oil and natural
gas production and avoid the temptation to impose duplicative
and unnecessary regulations on hydraulic fracturing.
"By following through on his own executive order to eliminate
overly burdensome regulations, he can rein in EPAs plans
to impose regulatory burdens that could cost businesses
hundreds of billions of dollars and chill economic
The API concluded its remarks by focusing on domestic energy
from the shale boom, which the API says is just beginning.
We have an unprecedented opportunity to work together
to create millions of new jobs, generate hundreds of billions
of dollars for our government, and strengthen our energy and
national security," Gerard said.
"With the right public policies, this could be a game changer
for America.
Meanwhile, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)
trade group issued the following statement.
"We hope that in his second term, the President will truly work
to advance an all-of-the-above energy strategy that recognizes
the importance of domestic energy resources and fuel and petrochemical manufacturers in
rebuilding our nations economy," said AFPM president
Charles T. Drevna.
"Although the popular vote was close in this election, it is
clear that the vast majority of Americans want to develop our
own natural resources and promote manufacturing jobs," Drevna
continued. "Our nation is blessed with an abundance of energy
resources that could revitalize job growth and our economy,
enhance our national security and ensure a strong fuel and petrochemical manufacturing
President Obama should take actions in his second term to
ensure our nation becomes a major force in the global energy
"Such actions should include regulatory reforms necessary to
maintain a strong American energy sector and immediately
approving the Keystone XL Pipeline, which will create thousands
of domestic jobs.
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Jed A. Peeler
Pres. Obama will continue to hamper oil and gas production, aswell as the Keystone pipeline, because that is the socialist that he is. He will force $27/gallon biofuels on the military, as he isdoing now, while cutting their budget. He is working to kill the U.S. economy, and high priced fuel is the fastest way.
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congrants to president OBAMA, you are an icon to the entire World and to energy sector to make human beings live peacefully and enjoy life in it's abundance! You are a great leader to inspire all races to embrace themselves in dignity for more blessings..........Really you are so pleasing to make the entire world smile with dignity
Neil Switzer
Think API regrets the Romney support ads?
v k kapoor
I congratulate Obama for his grand success. I wish greater Development of the energy resources particularly gas and oil need utmost attention for the benefit of all the people nationally and globally. New technological methods for greater recovery are going to benefit man kind
Betty Pittman
PLEASE ! Approve the Keystone pipeline,asap.Our country will thank you.
hesham hossny
i am sure of his success
Ashok De, P.Eng
Congratulations to President Obama for the re-election. Now it is the decision making time. We, in Calgary, are looking for President Obama's approval of the Keystone Pipe Line as soon as possible to put people on both the sides back to work
wilbert boucher
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Michael Bell
Mr. President,Although I may not agree with you on some issues, I think we can all agree that by working with API and developing the Keystone pipeline, we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and we can add many new people to the employment roles. Please work to make this happen. Thank you!
Ing. Paul Sullivan
I am of course delighted at President Obama's re-election and believe that on a bi-partisan basis he will support the rapid development of the hydrocarbon driven economy. I think that he did the correct thing by taking LNG exports and other potential footballs off the table until after the election when good counsel and sensible consideration will drive the right outcome for the new energy golden age in the USA.
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
Is 2016 the peak for US gasoline demand?
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Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet"
The International Conference on Science and the Internet took place from 1 August 2012 till 3 August 2012 at Mickeln Castle in Düsseldorf.
Most of the papers presented are available in full text subject to Open Access licenses, in addition the keynote speeches are archived as streaming video.
Using the Internet is a fundamental requirement for a modern understanding of science as well as an indispensable part of life at any university.
The interdisciplinary research group on "Science and the Internet" will approximate the complex issues of that field in six separate sub-projects. This approach is meant to open a broad view on the topic from different perspectives. a common focus as well as empirical triangulation will ensure coherence. Wherever possible collection and analysis of data will be done by multiple members of the group. The project will run for 24 months.
The Resarcher Group is promoted by the Strategic Research Fund at Heinrich-Heine University .


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Grilled Curry Chicken with Watercress, Grapes, Peaches, and Orange-Red Wine Vinaigrette
Categories: Entertaining, On the Grill, Spicy
Type: Salads
Type: Salads
The curry-coated chicken in this dish has a marvelous aroma that is balanced with sweet grapes and peaches and pleasantly bitter watercress.
Serves: Serves 4 as a salad course or appetizer
- 2 boneless, skinless split chicken breasts (cutlets), about 8oz (225g) each
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon good-quality curry powder
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper
- 2 bunches watercress, trimmed, washed, and dried well
- 20 green grapes, stemmed, halved, and deseeded
- 2 ripe but firm peaches, pitted and sliced into 8 sections
The dressing
- 1 cup fresh orange juice
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh parsley
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
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- Make the dressing: On the stove top, bring the orange juice to a boil in a small pan over high heat, then lower the heat slightly and simmer until reduced in volume to 1/4 cup (about 20 minutes). Remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature. Add the oil, wine vinegar, parsley, salt, and pepper, whisk together, and set aside.
- Build a fire in your grill. When the coals are all ignited, the flames have died down, and the temperature is medium (see Gauging the temperature), you're ready to cook.
- Coat the chicken breasts with oil, rub them all over with the curry powder, and sprinkle them generously with salt and pepper. Place them on the grill directly over the coals and cook until they are browned on the outside and just cooked through (6-8 minutes per side). To check for doneness, poke the chicken with your finger to test its firmness (see The "hand method"); if you're unsure, make a cut in the thickest part of one of the breasts and check to be sure that it is opaque all the way through. When the breasts are done, transfer them to a plate and cover them loosely with foil to keep warm.
- While the chicken is cooking, combine the watercress, grapes, and peaches in a large bowl. Stir the dressing again, add to the watercress-fruit mixture, and toss well to coat. Divide the salad among four plates.
- Slice the chicken on the bias into strips, arrange the strips on top of each salad, and serve.
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What would you do differently if trying to brew a low-carb beer? Could it be done with an extract brew?
Without an additive to dry the beer, it will be about 45-55 percent carbs. It's obviously possible to brew a light beer by starting with an OG in the 1.030's, but to get it low carb, I would suggest adding a pound of honey or another 100% fermentable sugar. That will give the yeast a second wind, and it will pull the FG down to around half what it was before the addition.
With this method, all-grain and extract will yield the same results.
It would be more difficult with extract than with AG, but it could be done. In a nutshell, you brew a low OG beer (maybe in the 30s) then use amylase enzyme or something like Beano to get it to ferment out as much as possible to a very low FG, which will reduce residual sugars.


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Are there benefits with stretching right after exercising? Does stretching afterwards affect the risk of injury?
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Stretching is clearly a very controversial subject
Before I continue I should note that I have found no study that focused on stretching after working out. But based on the results from other literature reviews, I don't think the effect after a workout is much different. Also the lack of scientific interest in the topic should make one highly skeptical as well.
Shrier points out several important points to consider:
After discussing many articles he concludes:
Based on his results, on can conclude that there are some conflicting results. Witvrouw et al point out that this:
Now I can see you wonder: what if my workout require a large ROM?
To help you decide, here's a small anecdote from a professional dance trainer:
So what should you do?
Well the studies I reviewed concluded injuries occured in subjects with too much flexibility (lack of balance/strength) or a lack of flexibility (limited ROM). The latter group might consider increasing their ROM by stretching regularly (but not prior to exercising), however I would rather recommend you to perform workouts that let you make the desired motion naturally. You see, your body adapts itself to its needs, so instead of stretching to become more flexible stop working out so rigidly! Even worse, if you would stop stretching, you would loose all the gained flexibility because the body adapts itself to the lack of stretch.
To understand this, one must understand the way your muscles are built up. Your muscle consist of actin and myosin, which glide into one another during a contraction. These two parts optimize their length and overlap to get the highest force output. So if you start stretching your muscle, you require your muscle to adapt to retain an optimal overlap.
I expect you want to stretch after a workout because your muscles are still feeling contracted and by 'stretching' them, they'll be more relaxed. You know, yoga-style!
But if I show you this image and tell you that the mysion 'arms' require ATP (energy!) to release the actin, else they'd be holding on like rigor mortis. Furthermore, we just saw that your muscles probably have a lot of overlap and crossbridges, but you just depleted your energy resources, because you had an intensive workout. Do you think you're muscle will respond well to stretching?
Instead, I'd recommend you do a proper cooling-down, give your muscles time to get rid of lactate (which is a great resource of energy, when you burn it aerobically) and more importantly give it time to relax.
After doing some research, Ivo's response is correct in that stretching before and exercise may not prevent injuries:
Karl Fields et. all in Current Sports Medicine Reports had this to say:
However Fields did find findings that may conclude stretching after an excercise, may prevent injuries:
Also stretching does seem to be of use in relief of an injury (again Fields):
Finally, streching does seem to be helpful in the removal of 'tightness' and enabling freer motion of the muscles. Two studies I found appear to back this up:
In Essence:
Basically injury prevention is something that studies seem to debate over, and have no conclusive findings as to whether or not stretching decreases injury prevention. However, there does seems to be conclusive evidence from multiple studies to suggest that relief of muscle soreness, and gain in freedom of motion can be improved through use of stretching.
Some people may say the best time to stretch is right after exercising. Your muscles are warmed up allow you to get a nice deep stretch. Stretching afterwards will begin the process of relaxing your muscles, something I find really helpful after lifting heavy weights. During my years of martial arts I have found that stretching after a workout will allow me more flexibility during the next class than I would have had just stretching before.


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I've seen several people insist that steel-cut oats are better than regular oats. What makes them different?
Specifically, steel cut oats look like little pellets, whereas rolled oats have the familiar flat shape from going through a steel roller. The rolled ones expose more surface area and therefore cook faster, but produce a different final texture. I do like the steel-cut ones better, but they take upwards of half an hour to cook. You can make a large batch and reheat it for 2-3 days if you like. I think some folks also use a pressure cooker to speed them up.
They're coarser, so they have a better texture when cooked. Rolled oats are mushy and bland, even if you get the non-instant variety. Groats are a pain in the butt to cook: like millet, they take forever.
Steel cut oats are a nice compromise (technically steel cut groats). Get some yummy groaty flavor, but the prep time is much lower (a mere half hour, instead of a week or two for whole groats).
Steel cut oats and rolled oats are the same initial product, and after processing they basically have the same nutritional profile. Only a low heat is used, and nutrients don't magically fly away
Both are steamed. This is done for shelf life. It quite hard to buy fresh, non steamed oats (steel cut or rolled)
Everything else is personal preference, taste, texture etc
Rolled oats cook quicker (and therefore use less energy :-) ), and can be used in many baking recipes


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The Czech Republic's lagers are celebrated around the world and its citizens consume more beer per head than any other country. But thanks to a limited selection at most Prague pubs, visitors hoping to sample a range of Bohemian brews might have felt like they were missing something. The Prague Beer Museum changes that.
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What is the moment of inertia of a pizza slice that has a radius r, an angle (radians) of theta, and a height of h about the center point perpendicular to the cheese plane?
I assume you're talking about spinning the pizza around the axis a pizza-dough spinner would spin it.
The moment of inertia of a solid disk is $\frac{mr^2}{2}$. If it spins, each slice contributes angular momentum proportional to $\theta$. The slice's mass is also proportional to $\theta$ so the moment of inertia of a slice of pizza about its tip is also $\frac{mr^2}{2}$ where $m$ is now the mass of the slice.
We can use the parallel axis theorem to find the moment of inertia through the slice's center of mass. The center of mass is displaced a distance $\frac{2}{3}r\mathrm{sinc}\frac{\theta}{2}$ from the tip, so the moment of inertia through this axis is
$$I = \left(\frac{1}{2} + (\frac{2}{3}\mathrm{sinc}\frac{\theta}{2})^2\right)mr^2$$
The height is unimportant about this axis.
The location of the center of mass of the slice of pizza comes from a blog post I wrote a while ago that uses it to prove the identity


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Kentucky's Lieutenant Governor, Jerry Abramson, talked tax reform to the Bowling Green's Rotary chapter today.
Abramson concentrated on the proposals he and the tax reform commission had created.
This included adding some tax credits, sales taxes for luxury services, and possibly raising the cigarette tax.
The Lt. Governor also shared his thoughts on a run for the state's top elected office.
"Always thinking about it. This will be the year I make a decision," said Abramson.
Abramson also said he doesn't expect the legislature to do anything this session involving tax reform.


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I have a new Asus N76VZ laptop and I have several issues but the major for the moment is with the functional keys. I am linux beginner but here is what I've tried already, after reading other forums/thread.
1) Run xev - the fn + fX combinations are not detected
2) Run acpi_listen - when I type i see the output, for most of the combinations I get the same output "PNP0C14:01 000000ff 00000000" some of them(sleep/turn off monitor) are working so I can not see the result.
Any ideas how I can proceed from here?
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I am currently doing some mathematics as an amateur, and recently I got to publish an article at the Journal of Mathematics Research (JMR). The doi for the article is 10.5539/jmr.v4n6p12 . And now, I have been trying to get readers.
My real question, nevertheless, is whether it would be possible that my paper be reviewed by Mathematical Reviews, or Zentralblatt Math? I am asking this question because according to some sites on the Internet, journals which publish papers with payment have an accordingly poor peer-reviewing process, and I tend to think that my article may not be reviewed because of that.
If the answer is no, then I might want to hear whether my result is new.
If the answer is yes, then I might leave the task of final validation of my work for the reviewer of either one of those organizations, and will be quiet.
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If I want to study N different subjects what would be the best strategy to do this?
One extreme would be to take only one subject first and devote all of my free time to study it, then after I'm done with the first subject I could switch to the second and so on.
Another possibility is to study a bit of the first subject, say for 2 hours, and then switch to another subject. The second strategy keeps me interested longer, so I can study for longer hours. However, I'm not sure whether it's more productive. Switching from one subject to another takes some time.
Another question is about taking breaks. For the second strategy, I can do that even without any breaks, because switching to subject 2 is kind of a break for subject 1. I don't think that I can productively study one subject without breaks.
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Why the default desktop environment of most popular linux distros is gnome? KDE seems to me an equally good desktop environment. Is it for licence reason? historic? or else?
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So, a complete answer to your question involves a bit of history. This is covered well in the book
Back in the mid 1990s Matthias Ettrich became interested in Linux. (Matthias is also well known for starting the LyX project). He was concerned about usability issues, as in ordinary people being able to use Linux, which back then was mostly for highly technical types, hackers and so forth. He happened to come across the Qt toolkit, created by Trolltech. This toolkit was proprietary, but apparently Matthias did not consider that to be a sufficiently important drawback. He was what one might term as belonging to the 'pragmatic' wing of the free software community. At around that time he started the KDE project based on the Qt toolkit. If you look at the original announcement (courtesy of Wikipedia's KDE page), you will see that Matthias referred to the Kool Desktop Environment. You don't hear about Kool any more. :-) I guess everyone is too embarrassed by it.
Anyway, what one might term the 'purist' wing of the free software community, notably including one Richard Stallman and his Free Software Foundation, were alarmed by this turn of events. So the competing GNOME project was started, whose original leader was Miguel De Icaza, who happens to be on this site. Miguel was right in the middle of all this, so he'd be the ideal person for a history lesson. The new GNOME project used a toolkit called GTK (Gimp Tool Kit) which had been created for the GIMP by Kimball and Mattis around the same time (the GIMP project was started around 1995).
Then Trolltech started feeling the pressure, and switched to the Q Public License (QPL) in 1998, and finally added the GPL as an alternative in 2000. By then GNOME had a lot of momentum, and the world had two free desktop projects instead of one.
Now, Red Hat, who then as now was one of the market leaders, was and is as concerned about software freedom as the FSF, though I gather for different reasons. So, they stuck to shipping GNOME. Debian, of course, also went with GNOME. (This was in the days before Ubuntu, which was first released in 2004). So even today, Debian and Ubuntu default to GNOME. Some other distributions chose to go with KDE, notably SUSE. I remember switching from Red Hat 5.2 (I think) to SUSE 6.4 in August 1999, and being blown away by the beauty of KDE 1. And SUSE is more closely identified with KDE, and Red Hat is more closely identified with GNOME, even today.
There was a lot of uncertainty regarding licensing of the Qt library (on which KDE is built) back when most distros were choosing between KDE and GNOME. That isn't a problem any more, but by the time it was cleared up most distros had already chosen, and this is the sort of thing that they aren't comfortable switching up without a really good reason.
Most distros tend to like to focus on the most basic of end-users that can't do anything for themselves. The gnome philosophy tends to be "it works this way and only this way" and leaves the users in a common configuration you can help them through and offers a clean and consistent interface.
KDE, on the other hand, is extremely powerful and extremely flexible. You can configure the heck out of it and tailor to your specific needs. My KDE setup is extremely customized and probably doesn't match anyone else's. Because of this, though, a user could very easily get into trouble if they don't know what they're doing. So it's likely considered "less safe".
Some of it also comes from very old decisions. Back in the KDE days when it was unclear what was going to happen with the Qt licensing options, some distros went with Gnome. Now that Qt was safe to use and redistribute under a *GPL distro, if the decision was restarted it might change the outcome. But most distros wouldn't want to "make a switch" once a critical decision was made, as it would confuse people (even if it only affected new users on a machine).
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May be because most Linux distros are GNU/Linux distros and GNOME historically stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment?
I think everyone here misses the point. When linux was finally starting to come into wider acceptance, and distros like Ubuntu came around, machines weren't all that powerful. The consensus back then (2003?) was that KDE was bloatware because apparently the community felt it was larger, slower, and took up more resources than they felt the DE should.
However, I think most of the critics of KDE were the type of users that would use something like fluxbox, or
Those criticisms may have been just back then (I have no authority to say. I'm a relatively linux DE newbie. My first full time-linux desktop was in 2004 and I got berated by my teacher (In a joking manner of course) that friends don't let friends use gnome, so I switched to KDE.)
Even before gnome turned evil (left handed window buttons? Come on, seriously? Unity? Ugh), KDE is a MUCH more pleasant working environment.


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I've read that even light cannot escape from black holes.
The speed of light is theoretically predicted to be the escape velocity of a black hole.
I've also read that the general notion that nothing can escape from a black hole is wrong. Even black holes emit particles and radiation known as the Hawking radiation.
My question is: How can black holes emit any kind of radiation? If they even do emit, wouldn't the speed of the radiation be less than or equal to velocity of light?
If the escape velocity of a black hole is c, then how can the Hawking radiation even escape the black hole? Wouldn't it be pulled back into the black hole? Then, how is it even emitting anything?
I've read that even light cannot escape from black holes.
The escape velocity is c at the event horizon of a black hole. Above the event horizon the escape velocity is below c. Escaping particles of the Hawking radiation form above the event horizon; that's why they can escape, if they are pointing towards a sufficiently narrow angle to vertical upward, and if they are sufficiently energetic.
Escaping particles form as virtual particle-antiparticle pairs in the "infalling" coordinate system: One of the two particles forms outside the event horizon; the counterpart forms below the event horizon. Thus the originally virtual particles cannot annihilate, and therefore become real particles; one particle can escape; the counterpart falls toward the singularity.
The energy needed to form the escaping particle, and its remaining kinetic energy after escape, is subtracted from the mass of the black hole.
The described mechanism probably works also for both particles forming very close above the event horizon if the tidal forces are high enough to separate the virtual particle pair, before it can annihilate.
Formation of virtual particles is due to the Heisenberg uncertainty applied to time and energy: Very short time intervals require energy uncertainty, leading to short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs.


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I'm so excited about this project! I've been working on it for the last three days during nap time and in the evenings. At times I was so impatient to finish it! I needed something to go in this blank space above the entertainment center in the family room. Here's what I came up with for about $8.00 and change.
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DIY Wall Art - My Masterpiece
I'm so excited about this project! I've been working on it for the last three days during nap time and in the evenings. At times I was so impatient to finish it! I needed something to go in this blank space above the entertainment center in the family room. Here's what I came up with for about $8.00 and change.
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Awesome! I am very impressed, and will need to inspect on Friday. When I finally buy a house, I may have to commission an original Thriftress for myself! ;-)ReplyDelete
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Very pretty and just my kind of budget!ReplyDelete
that looks awesome! i think you ARE an artist- give yourself some credit!ReplyDelete
Holy cow! What a great job you did! Love, love, LOVE the color with your walls!ReplyDelete
Lovely!!! I'm searching for ideas to re-do my LR wall art...this is definitely a contender!!! Thanks for the great idea! (and it looks great in my opinion!)ReplyDelete
As they say in Oklie-homa--OH My lands. That sure is purty! I love it! I hope to convince hubby of doing this for our house-I might go black and white..what do you think?ReplyDelete
Beautiful!! I adore it. Such a beautiful idea and execution.ReplyDelete
Excellent idea, gorgeous outcome! Very graphic and colorful and so thrifty! Bravo!ReplyDelete
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That is AMAZING! It looks great in a place with high ceilings!ReplyDelete
What a great idea! And is seems pretty easy for such a big impact. I'm doing a living room redo this summer so I'm definitely putting this project in my "to make" list! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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This is awesome! I love the colors you used!!ReplyDelete
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Wow, that turned out really neat! Good job!ReplyDelete
I love this project! Especially the cost. Very and cool and thrifty...two of my favorites. Kudos to you for getting on that ladder...NOT one of my favorites.ReplyDelete
I really love your wall art. It kind of reminds me of something in my home. Take a look here:ReplyDelete
I love the look of tree limbs so much that I painted my entire wall with them! See? I really do LOVE your art!
LOL - My husband has been wanting to paint that JCP print since it came out last year. {he is going to die when he see's yours!} YOURS Looks AMAZING!! I think it looks just like the orginal. We liked them beacause they filled such a large space but we didn't like the over $100 price tag. You did an incredible job! Love them!ReplyDelete
Fabulous piece of art.!!!!ReplyDelete
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Visiting from New Friend Friday - I really like the canvas. I bookmarked it for the futureReplyDelete
Awesome! Great job! yeah....whats up super tall ladder...that looked way to tricky for me to go up on :)ReplyDelete
WOW, you did such a great job!!!ReplyDelete
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Visiting from NFF... LOVE this! You are so talented, no way could I just "sketch" something like that.ReplyDelete
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Here from new friend friday..you did an amazing job on your artwork!ReplyDelete
This is GORGEOUS! great work! we're looking for a home right now and when we do, I think I will copy this! I love the blue that you chose too, it makes the tree stand out more than the beige color. :)ReplyDelete
Wow you are really creative.ReplyDelete
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Stopping by from New Friend Friday. I'm following you now! Hope you can stop by and follow me, too. :)ReplyDelete
By the way, I'm starting a NEW BLOG HOP!!! It's called Tuesday Tag-Along, and it premieres this coming Tuesday! I hope you'll be there to join in the fun!
That really did turn out FABULOUS! :)ReplyDelete
Now that is going on my DIY list of to dos!ReplyDelete
Elegant! Love it. Happy New Friend Fri!ReplyDelete
It's beautiful! I love the color too. I'm visiting from New Friend Friday at The Girl Creative.ReplyDelete
That's awesome!! I need to start being more creative. I see so many great ideas out there.ReplyDelete
Just popping in on my Friend Making Friday rounds. Love your blog and wanted to say hello.
This is amazing!!ReplyDelete
I am hosting "Saturday is Crafty Day" tomorrow and I'd love it you stopped by!
I am so doing this. I hate to copy but I hope you are flattered. I have been looking at all of the projects on Fingerprints on the Fridge and this is definitely my fave.ReplyDelete
Wow! I can't believe you painted that. It looks beautiful.ReplyDelete
(I'll be featuring this on my blog tomorrow hope you don't mind-crystalscraftspot.blogspot.com)
WOW!!! IT looks just like the JCPenny one. I love it!ReplyDelete
Wow! You go girl! & yours looks better! :)ReplyDelete
Lovin' this idea!!! I Have a HUGE space to fill--I can't believe those are only 16 x 20...seem larger, they fill up the space so great!ReplyDelete
This is fab! I love it..ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining Get Your craft on Thursday. Please join me next week for another great party.
GORGEOUS! I like yours better than your inspiration.ReplyDelete
That turned out so beautiful!!ReplyDelete
This looks perfect...I love it! And you saved a ton of money too!ReplyDelete
I like your's more than JC Penney's! Very unique shade of blue there. Great job!ReplyDelete
That turned out awesome!ReplyDelete
This is truly inspirational. I found a cute card I'd like to use for my own tree inspiration. Thanks for showing me how!!!ReplyDelete
I love this! I've been looking on etsy at artwork similar to this, but it's all been more than my frugal self wants to spend. You've inspired me to just do it on my own. Many thanks!!ReplyDelete
so awesome looking! I remember seeing that in the jcpenney catalog and loving it! your blue is beautifulReplyDelete
Wow, you did an amazing job. It looks great!ReplyDelete
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uh-mazing. I'm all about cheap decorating projects right now since I'm on a newlywed budget and this would be awesome in our bedroom!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for stopping by and linking up to the Sunday Showcase! Love this! ~ Stephanie LynnReplyDelete
Hello! I'll be featuring your wall art today! Stop by and grab a featured button if you like! Thanks for joining the Sunday Showcase Party! ~Stephanie LynnReplyDelete
Wow! What a great idea!! It turned out sooo well!!ReplyDelete
I followed you over from the Life As Lori link party. I am now a follower of yours. I would really love it if you stopped by and visited me too. Be sure to enter the drawing if you do. Keep up the good work. Rory http://toolsareforwomentoo.blogspot.com/
I would be excited too--what fabulous impact--I am going to highlight this this week :)!ReplyDelete
FAB!!!! FAB!!!! FAB!!!ReplyDelete
Wow! I am so impressed! That turned out gorgeous, and I can't believe you drew that tree yourself. Looks fabulous above your entertainment center. What a great way to fill up that space.ReplyDelete
Thank you for linking up to my party!
showing this off wednesday on my blog! Feel free to grab my I've been featured button!ReplyDelete
Thanks for linking up!
Super Amazing! Love the canvas art - I am obssessed with canvases and all you can do with them!!ReplyDelete
Love the trees and color!
That's fantastic!ReplyDelete
I like yours better than JC Penney's!ReplyDelete
Great job!
Very cute. I love trees, and yours is no exception.ReplyDelete
Love how organic and chic it looks! great job! stopping by from the CSI project! :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I may have to try something like this...ReplyDelete
That is GORGEOUS!! Wow, what a statement for so little!ReplyDelete
It turned out so great! What a great project to do at nap time:)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for linking up to the CSI Project! We really appreciate it. I hope you will come back next week for our Hardware Store challenge!
What a fabulous idea + a total bargain = girl, you are good!!ReplyDelete
I absolutely love this!!ReplyDelete
Love it, looks great!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousTuesday, January 03, 2012
Thanks for the idea! I made a similar piece and love it :)ReplyDelete
- RachelSaturday, March 03, 2012
I did the exact same thing about a year ago when I saw those prints at Penny's for like $80.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousWednesday, July 18, 2012
I just found your blog and I've gone all the way back to the beginning! Just wanted to take a moment and tell you how much I LOVE this artwork! It's totally inspired me to do something similar. Though I doubt mine will come out nearly as good as yours!ReplyDelete
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My mouse died today.
When I wanted to add a comment with just the keyboard, I found that it was just not possible.
Allow for me a way to be able to add comments without having to make use of the mouse.
Windows has MouseKeys and I'm assuming OSX and Linux have something similar, so it is possible given the right configuration of your system.
I would imagine that the kind of user who never used a mouse - rather than just on the odd days it was broken - would be familiar with such tools.
I hadn't noticed the missing tab behaviour; but this works with gleeBox on chrome (yes I know the question was opera):
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BIZIC, Milan G. (Jidge), 86, died Sunday, June 23rd, peacefully at his home of 33 years, while sitting on the porch swing overlooking the farm that he cherished.
Jidge was born October 17, 1926 in Powhatan Point, Ohio to his parents, the late Helen Bezak Bizic and the late Milan Bizic.
He leaves behind his wife of 57 years, Patricia (Patty) Scovronski Bizic of Cadiz; son, Joseph Bizic and Kimberly Fannin; daughter, Christine and Butch Beihl; daughter, Tricia and Jason Meddles, daughter, Milinda Bizic and John Woods all of Adena, and granddaughter, Nichole Bizic of Clarksville TN.; grandchildren, Jessica Bizic, Joe Bizic, Josey Meddles, Jesse Meddles; great-grandchildren, Nathan, Noah, Natalie and newborn, Milan Bizic; sister, Mildred (Mickey) Jurich of Beaver, PA,; brother, Don and Anita Bizic of Wilmington, NC, Stephen Bizic of Wilmington, NC, Chuck and Judy Bizic of Cadiz, OH.; in-laws, Susan (Rudolph) Bizic of St. Clairsville OH, Joseph and Nancy Scovronski, Joyce and Jack Peltz, Rich Scovronski all of Adena, Rose and Dan Betts of Columbus, OH. And beloved nieces, nephews and cousins of whom he loved very much.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Helen and Virgil Clark of Tippecanoe, OH, brother, John and Ann Miller of Aliquippa, PA, brother, Rudolph Bizic of St. Clairsville, OH, brother-in-law, Steve (Mildred) Jurich of Beaver, PA and sister-in-law, Vickie (Stephen) Bizic of Wilmington, NC.
Milan was in the Army and the Navy and served on board the USS Runner. He worked as a coalminer for Consolidation Coal Co. and retired at the age of 55 from Peabody Coal. He was the owner operator of the Dew Drop Inn and the Happy-Go-Lucky aka Jidge's Bar in Adena.
Jidge's favorite pastimes were telling jokes and stories creating laughter everywhere he went. He loved fishing, hunting and crossword puzzles.
Most of all Jidge was loved by all who knew him and will be greatly missed by his family and cherished friends.
Jidge donated his body to Ohio State University, and there will be no services, those were his wishes that the family will abide by.
A celebration of his life will be scheduled in the near future.
The family is being assisted by Borkoski Funeral Home, 555 East Market Street, Cadiz, Ohio.
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As the subject says, Can I change the file-system of a usb (or say any drive) from it's current partition like :- ext4 to a different partition like:- ext2/fat/ext3/ntfs file-system without loosing the data in the drive and without taking backup.
From File system Wiki
So it seems it is not Back-Convert-Compatible and Converting from ext4 to NTFS will require Formatting , since they are totally different File-systems , also holds true for ext4 to Fatxx format .That means without data loss
ext2 >> ext3 possible
ext3 >>ext4 possible
ext3 & ext4 >> btrfs possible
ext4 >> ntfs not possible w/o Format
ntfs >> extX not possible w/o format
Please refer this question on superuser also.
The simple answer is that it depends on which filesystem you are "converting" from & to. There needs to be a specific program to convert it for you.
For example, a FAT16 or FAT32 filesystem on Windows can be converted to NTFS via the Windows "convert" command. However, generally you cannot convert filesystems.
1 other option that may work though: Ext4 filesystems can often (but not always) be mounted as ext3 or ext2. Similarly, Ext3 filesystems can often be mounted as ext2. e.g., on windows, I mount Ext3 & Ext4 filesystems using the ext2 driver ext2fsd:


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What are the advantages and disadvantages of installing high performance air filters (K&N,Green cotton,etc.) over original filter?
What are the changes/working occur internally?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of installing high performance air filters (K&N,Green cotton,etc.) over original filter?
What are the changes/working occur internally?
Normally the idea is to get more air into the engine using a less restrictive air filter. As an engine is basically an air pump, getting more oxygen and more fuel into the engine usually equals a bigger bang and thus hopefully more power.
That said, in order to get a meaningful improvement using a performance air filter, the main restriction needs to be the air filter in the inlet tract and the head and exhaust need to be able to cope with the increased airflow. If that's not the case you won't see any performance improvement. You should also tweak the mixture to deal with the additional airflow unless your bike has fuel injection with a lambda sensor and basically can enrich the mixture automatically. If you don't adjust the mixture and you get a meaningful increase in airflow, chances are that your engine will run lean at the top end and the bigger bang might be a piston's bid for freedom.
An advantage that doesn't have much to do with performance is that these filters are often washable so instead of throwing the paper filter away and buying a new one, you can clean (and usually re-oil) the filter. So in the long run it might work out cheaper.
depends on if you have carburetors or fuel injection
If you have a carburetor
if you have fuel injection
Typically the main difference between a 'normal' stock filter over a high performance one is airflow.
They are designed to retain the filtering capability, but have superior airflow (design, materials, shape of filter internals etc) to allow more oxygen to the engine, which means you can get superior burn and greater output power.
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8 Hilarious Brain Farts (That Endangered National Security)
In a world filthy with people who want to kill us, security has never been more important. Terrorists and other bad guys are endlessly creative and highly motivated, so even one little mistake on the part of the good guys can lead to world-ending disaster.
Unfortunately, those little mistakes get made all the time. Also, some huge, laugh-out-loud ridiculous ones.
#8. Al-Qaeda on the Train
Anyone who's ever rode the subway before will know that there's little to pass the time with while that homeless guy glares at you and whacks off under his trench coat. An unnamed English cabinet official decided that he was going to use this time effectively by catching up on government work. Good for him! It's nice to see tax dollars at work, right? Oh, did we mention that he was reading the government's Top Secret Al-Qaeda profile? And that said profile was left resting on a train seat?
Thank goodness for the lost and found.
Needless to say, while the official was presumably off leaving trade secrets and government intel in taxis and buses, a passenger on the train noticed the file with "Top Secret" printed on its cover and decided, as any good law-abiding citizen would, to hand it in to the local authorities. Wait, did we say local authorities? We meant the BBC, one of Britain's largest media outlets.
The Sun is a smaller outlet, but undeniably the better news source.
The BBC, possibly deciding that "for UK/US/Canadian and Australian eyes only" included them, read through enough of the reports to say that they would have been incredibly damaging had they fallen into the wrong hands. At that point, they most likely used the information to produce a sitcom that, in a few years, will be remade in the US to much greater (or lesser) success. That's just how foreign relations work.
#7. Japanese Military Porn
In what was either plain embarrassing, or just plain sexy, a Japanese officer in the defense force accidentally exposed Top Secret files about Japan's Aegis Destroyers in a porn swap. If you're unsure of how this debacle played out, basically, in return for pictures of chicks in Catholic school uniforms getting railed by gingers, someone unwittingly provided top secret information detrimental to the safety of Japan (and more porn).
"Top Secret? This is gonna be hot."
Japan has since launched a probe into the incident and America is offering to maybe join in on the probe also, you know, if Japan is in to that sort of thing. Oddly enough, after copying the information once, the porn and the Top Secret files were once again copied to another officer's computer, which leads us to wonder if maybe they were actually jacking it to the ship diagrams and blueprints also.
Admittedly, after a quick image search, we too found the turrets and the torpedoes oddly stimulating, but not in a weird way. More in an "if we were chicks we'd totally make it with a cannon" kind of way.
Besides an embarrassing and/or super sexy probe, the security breach could have led to a whole series of problems. The Aegis system, an advanced computer-based weapon's system that replaced the primitive shoot-and-hope-shit-blows-up system, could have been out for everyone else to copy. That would be no good.
Also, because "Aegis Destroyer" would make for an excellent dildo name, the chances of embarrassing porn parodies spawned from what should be thought of strictly as a killing machine soared through the roof.
#6. MI6 Sells Spy Camera on eBay
After buying a camera on eBay, a 28-year-old English postal worker found pictures of national interest mixed in with his own holiday pictures. The pics had been placed on the camera by the seller, presumably an intelligence agent who had accidentally sold his camera with pictures of terrorist leaders, missiles, rockets, fingerprints and to top it off, a detailed document relating to a Top Secret encrypted computer network used by field agents.
Our attempts to find the same were less successful.
Granted, pictures of terrorists and fingerprints and stuff isn't going to bring the world to its knees, but damn, that encrypted computer network info could have been bad times. If that info went public, for every British agent using the system to report real intelligence there would have been at least another 10 people on the system ready to call him a "newfag" within seconds of logging in.
Anyway, several interrogations later, MI6 and MI5 (kind of like the US version of CIA and CIB) were able to establish that the postal worker who bought the camera had not been snapping pictures of terrorist leaders while holidaying in the USA and, presumably, that MI6 agents hadn't been snapping pictures of tourist attractions in America. We're almost certain there is comfort to be found in both of those facts.
MI5 is like this. But with British accents.
According to the last report we read prior to deadline, MI6 were still trying to track down the agent responsible for putting the camera on the market. In other words, they're still trying to track down the owner of a fucking eBay account. We're fairly certain a handful of 4Chan users could accomplish this in about six minutes. You stay safe, Brits!
#5. Nuclear Fuse Mistake
Buying anything through the mail can be risky. The package you receive at the end is not always the one you asked for. That Star Trek DVD you ordered on the cheap? A photo of some guy's nuts. That cook book? An eighth of coke that got you arrested by a nerdy postal inspector. The photo of some guy's nuts you ordered? Well, that one came through fine, you perv.
But regardless of how surprised you are when your package arrives, nothing can compare to the surprise Taiwan felt when they received nuclear missile fuses from America after they ordered helicopter batteries.
The fuses, which looked nothing like the batteries, are "used to trigger nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles," which is vastly different from the batteries and, as all the physics major readers would know, are not used to make helicopters fly good and stuff. While the fuses did not come with actual missiles, it must be noted that they that they had the potential to do so much more than a working helicopter could ever do.
Except fly. The fuses can't fly.
Given that it's really just a nuclear weapon spare part, the worst that could happen is that Taiwan may build its own nuclear warheads as a polite way of telling China to "Fuck off." But that, at worst, could only end in World War III. Highly unlikely though.
The other issue: What would have happened if the Taiwanese had used the nuclear fuses on their helicopters? After asking our top notch science department about this, and after reading several comics and watching many re-runs of AirWolf, we came to the conclusion that the worst that could happen would be something incredibly blow-uppy and awesome.
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So, what do you use?
int anInt = (int)aFloat;
int anInt = static_cast<int>(aFloat);
// and its brethren
And, more importantly, why?
So, what do you use?
And, more importantly, why?
First, understand that those lines are not equivalent.
What is happening here is that the programmer is asking the compiler to do whatever it can to make the cast.
The difference is important because using static_cast will only ask for a base type that is "safe" to convert to, where reinterpret_cast will convert to anything, possibly by just mapping the wanted memory layout over the memory of the given object.
So, as the "filter" is not the same, using specific cast is more clear and safe than using the C cast, if you rely on the compiler (or runtime impl. if you use dynamic_cast) to tell you where you did something wrong, by avoidng C cast and reinterepret_cast.
Now that this is more clear, there is another thing : static_cast, reinterpret_cast, const_cast and dynamic_cast are easier to search for.
And the ultimate point : they are ugly. That's wanted. Potentially buggy code, code smells, obvious "tricks" that might generate bugs, are easier to track when it's associated with ugly look. Bad code should be ugly.
That's "by design". And that allow the developer to know where he could have done things better (by totally avoiding casts, if not really needed) and where it's fine but it's "documented" in the code by "marking" it as ugly.
C++ casts are more restrictive (so express your intent better and make code review easier, etc.). They're also much easier to search for, if you ever need to.
Option C: a "C++-style" cast, because it is indistinguishable from a construction:
or even:
That aside, other than these trivial cases with primitives, which are well understood, I prefer to use x_cast<>s over C-style casts. There are three reasons why:
If writing code in C use a C cast. If writing in C++ use a C++ cast.
Whilst most casting breaks proper type-safety, the C++ ones are more restrictive, and therefore you are slightly less type-unsafe than you would be with a C cast.
I can tolerate someone using (T*)NULL though to force an overload...
I have a few rules about C/C++-style casts:
The reasoning behind #4 is simply that it doesn't matter. The circumstances that don't fit into the other rules are either obvious or really low-level. A well-understood conversion of simple types like int-to-float should not need special syntax. And if you're down in the deep, ugly guts of something, well, you're down in the deep, ugly guts of something. There's no need to draw attention to the fact that "here there be dragons," since the teeth, claws, and fire pretty much gave it away already.
As the above posts note the C++ (static) cast is a bit safer in practice.
It might be smart to look up some more information about the different kinds of casting and their pro's and cons.
Just to have more of a background on why. .
It really depends on which language I'm working with, since you know what they say: In Rome speak Roman. So if I'm programming in C, I try to use the C features to the max, but if I'm programming at C++ I go ahead and use C++ features to the max, even if some people don't like that approach because they say it makes the code "less portable", I say that I don't care, I'm in C++ and programming in C++, and I need a fully C++ compatible compiler to compile code, otherwise I would be working with something different in the first place.
static_cast etc were invented because of problems with the C style casts when used in templates. If you're writing a template, or if you're code may later be converted to a template, it's a good idea to use C++-style casts. The reason is because the C++-style casts better express intent, so they will give the expected results in cases where C-style casts will do the wrong thing (given particular types as template parameters).
Other than that, I say use C++-style casts if you have a specific issue that needs them - dynamic_cast is the most common, but even that's probably not an every day thing.
Anything else, and a C style cast may be a bit less clutter and help readability, or maybe not depending on how familiar the reader is with that cast style these days. It's not really important in my view, mostly a personal preference thing, though don't be surprised if some people don't like the C style.
Final note - if you need so many casts that this is a big deal, you're probably doing something else wrong. There are exceptions to that in some cases, but most high level code shouldn't need many (if any) casts.


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5 Fish Clearly Designed by a Madman
You know the problem with Sharktopus, the SyFy original movie about a half shark, half octopus monster? It just wasn't necessary. Nature provides enough science-fiction-level aquatic horrors all on her own.
Hell, some of these are actually less believable than the Sharktopus. Like the ...
#5. Sawfish
Have you ever wondered what it would look like if you glued a machine gun to a puppy's nose? Or a machete to a turkey? Let's just go all out and imagine adhering all of the weapons from a zombie video game to the heads of zoo animals, mix and match style. Hey, we'll put a chainsaw on a fish!
Via Animal.Discovery.com
Just shove your hand up the cloaca for a great Bruce Campbell effect.
Actually, that looks more like the offspring of the fish and chainsaw's drunken hookup.
That fish is a sawfish (duh) and its shnozzle is actually called a rostrum, and it can grow as long as 5 feet and have as many as 37 blades running up both sides. And each of those teeth can be up to 2 inches long.
Via ymtblog.org.uk
"The only thing I could find to kill it was another sawfish."
And, as if the weapon itself wasn't horrifying enough, the barbed club is also covered in motion- and electro-sensitive pores that are designed to help the monster detect the heartbeats of other fish hiding on the ocean floor.
These are all things you should remember should you ever find your nearly dead body at the bottom of the ocean. That and the fact that cyanide pills slip nicely into any wetsuit.
Via Animal.Discovery.com
Careful back there, dude. Its ass is made of grenades.
#4. Viperfish
Much like the kids who had to sit alone in the cafeteria in junior high, the viperfish's teeth are so big they don't fit in the animal's face. They curve out and over, with the bottom fangs coming dangerously close to the fish's eyes. They'd actually be kind of pathetic if they weren't so petrifying.
Via Nicefishworld.com
At the very least, it's a good argument against sober intelligent design.
Science doesn't know too much about the viperfish, since it lives as far as 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface. What we do know is that it's relatively small, usually only growing up to about a foot long. So it's far away from the surface and kind of little, at least compared to a few other fish. Don't get too cozy, though, captain. The viperfish has got a few tricks to make up for its small size and misshapen underbite.
For one thing, those fangs are clear, so none of its prey can see them coming. And for another, this sneakster lures smaller fish with a fake light:
Via Bellsouthpwp.net
"Don't mind me. I am just some light, and light cannot eat you."
In the blackness of the deep ocean, little guys see the glowing floaters, think they're dinner, then BAM! FANG IMPALEMENT! The fangs don't even act as teeth -- they're spears. And this guy is fast about it, too, so fast that the first vertebra of its spine is specially designed to act at a shock absorber. It collides with so much force that evolution had to come up with a uniquely padded backbone to keep them from hurting themselves. That's how hard it stabs other fish. If you can imagine a serial killer who is so violent that his stabbing arm had to mutate a special protective cushion, he still won't be as frightening as the viperfish.
Via Roadlesstravelled.com
We're pretty sure that viperfish are the reason we developed legs and got the hell out of the ocean.
#3. Tigerfish
Picture an animal that is nothing but teeth, jaws and hunger pangs. And then, in the last few hundred thousand years of its evolutionary path, it said "Whatever" and decided to grow a body. Just as an afterthought. That's pretty much what you get when you look at the goliath tigerfish, the horror movie mouth that evolved a body ... a body that is 100 percent inconsequential because LOOK AT THAT MOUTH.
Via Sportressofblogitude.com
"I feed entirely on the ankles of swimmers."
It's a whole mouth made of Crocodile Dundee's shark necklace, but if the necklace had a cloning machine and a Dahmer-like temperament. You might even say it's a shark's mouth -- except it's not. Because sharks are slick and lean. They may be deadly, but at least you know where you stand with a shark.
The goliath tigerfish of Africa, on the other hand, is practically sporting googly eyes and a cocked mesh trucker hat. Look at it -- it's like Lennie Small but with a mouth full of daggers.
It's the only fish that hunts accompanied by banjo music.
Those interlocking fangs work like scissors to rip out chunks of flesh, and the fish themselves can grow up to 150 pounds. And have been known to attack crocodiles.
Let's give that image a minute to sink in -- this is a fish that can attack crocodiles. Honestly, after watching the video linked below, we're not so sure the whole thing isn't just a puppet from Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock days. Look at it pulse its mouth open and shut like Fozzie Bear telling a joke in slow motion.
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Is there a command-line utility for Linux that can pixelate an image by a specified percentage eg "-pixelate 30%"
I think the usual trick is to scale down so that you lose resolution and then scale up to magnify the low-res image. So with Imagemagick, something like this:
UPDATE: if you just want to be able to specify a single "pixelation amount" value, then the above command can be wrapped in a shell script as follows
If you then save the above script as
If you have ruby installed this might be a possible option for you.
See this gist https://gist.github.com/71598aeb1d823c9229ac
It uses chunky_png to pixellate the image, so you may need to adapt the code slightly if you want to produce other file formats.
For more information about it see this link http://codebrawl.com/contests/pixelizing-images-with-chunkypng
Not sure how comfortable you with adapting code, but I could try to convert it into a simple command line application if you think it would be worthwhile.
So, if you know how to do this with the Gimp via the point-and-click interface then you can probably write batch-mode script to do the same thing on the command line: