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The 6 Most Hilariously Creative Acts of Revenge
#3. Inmate Hides a Pig in Police Cruiser Logo
You run a correctional facility, and you plan to give your inmates a bunch of menial jobs to pass the time and raise some money. Quick: Security jobs and weapon manufacturing notwithstanding, what's the absolute last task that should be trusted to them?
If you answered "decorating police cars," you've got more sense than the people running Vermont's Northwest State Correctional Facility.
"After that, you'll be cleaning their guns."
To be fair, they did take precautions: The tasks, ranging from stamping license plates to making stationery, were only offered to inmates with a history of good behavior. Unfortunately, even the most mild-mannered con tends to harbor animosity toward the police, what with the whole "getting arrested" thing. So when the prison print shop got the task of producing a bunch of 16-inch logo decals for the doors of 30 Vermont State police cruisers, one inmate just couldn't resist. He sneaked to the computer housing the logo file and made certain alterations to the original design. He didn't bother being too subtle, because surely the decal wouldn't be in place for long -- the cops would probably spot the difference right away.
Fast forward a year. You're a Vermont State police officer, scrubbing a stubborn stain on the side of your patrol car, when suddenly, you notice this:
We're sure spotting it comforted many a ne'er-do-well.
The police had been driving around for an entire year with a very distinct image of a pig plastered on the sides of their patrol cars. (If you're unfamiliar with criminal slang, "pig" is a common derogatory term for "police.")
And that was just the beginning of their troubles. All of the cars were in active use, so they couldn't just pull them off the street for redecoration. The removal and replacement process took four months. Four months during which both the cops and the public knew the pig was there.
#2. Group Delivers Ironic Justice to Threatening Callers
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Todd Stave was an ordinary landlord from Massachusetts, save for one thing: His tenant happened to be an abortion clinic. This meant that his building's facade usually featured a piquant picket fence of pro-life protesters. While his own stance in the abortion debate was pretty self-evident, he made a point in being fair toward the opposition: Not only did he acknowledge their right to protest, but he openly admitted that right outside the clinic is probably the most appropriate place to express their views.
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Mr. Stave is pictured here, with his butt chin.
While the majority of protesters responded in kind, one small splinter group called Defend Life proved ironically unwilling to accept Stave's "live and let live" attitude. Instead, they turned their attention from the clinic to him ... and his family.
That's why one day, five members of Defend Life staged a protest near Stave's 11-year-old daughter's school, carrying signs featuring his picture and personal information. They were also carrying a graphic pictorial of aborted fetuses, because when you're traumatizing children, you might as well go the whole nine yards.
If you're gonna douche, douche hard.
Both sides of the debate, along with Stave, were appalled and furious at Defend Life's antics. The group, however, was just getting started. Their next move was a phone terror campaign, calling the Stave household at all hours and hurling colorful threats at Stave and his family.
Were this a Hollywood movie, at this point Stave would've grabbed a 2-by-4 and beaten the ever-loving crap out of his terrorists while being played by the Rock. But this was real life, and Stave had no inclination for such crude tactics. He had something better up his sleeve: a little organization of his own. He formed Voice of Choice, a volunteer group that would simply call back the people who were threatening the family.
"Hi! Someone halfway around the country thinks you're a dick. Just a heads up!"
Voice of Choice callers would never threaten, or even be impolite -- they just calmly thanked the harasser for their (often nonexistent) prayers and well wishes and reminded them that pro-choice people have a right to their stance, too. That's it. No follow-ups, no counterattacks. Just a phone call. But here's the kicker: The culprit wouldn't receive just one call. Each and every available member of Voice of Choice would call them, with the exact same polite litany.
The movement grew and grew until it got to the point that the poor soul who chose to harass the Staves would be on the receiving end of around 5,000 calls in return from Voice of Choice volunteers. Per call.
#1. George Lucas Unleashes the Real World on Whiny Rich Neighbors
For people and comedy websites that are fueled by pop culture, the mere mention of George Lucas offers endless amounts of ammunition, most of which is targeted toward George Lucas. But regardless of what anyone thinks of the man and his place in the pantheon of awesome, in his civilian life, Lucas is perfectly capable of producing moments of greatness.
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This is what it looks like when a man trades his neck to the devil for fame.
Until recently, Lucas spent a lot of time, money and effort trying to build a huge digital media production studio on his property in Marin County, California. The project was going to create around 600 high-paying jobs and bring loads of revenue to local businesses. Too bad a good chunk of his neighbors reveled in riches themselves, and as such didn't give a crap about business or, for that matter, jobs. They vehemently opposed the project, claiming that it would bring too much traffic and noise, not to mention so much light pollution that their "dark starry skies would be destroyed."
That's an actual quote, by the way.
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Clearly a neighborhood on the verge of overpopulation.
For a whopping 25 years, Lucas tried to build the property. Although he did secure small victories here and there, he was constantly swimming against a current of "not in our backyard" arguments.
Then, in the spring of 2012, Lucas officially stated that he would give up, sell his property and take his business elsewhere. However, his opponents' cheers died in their throats when he announced the second half of his plan: He had sold his land to a nonprofit organization called Marin Community Foundation. According to their deal, the foundation would build the area full of something the county was in dire need of, but had for some reason been struggling to find space for: low-income residential housing. As in, the projects.
If you're imagining Pruitt-Igoe on Tatooine ... well, so are we.
The foundation praised Lucas, but the rich residents were less thrilled. Their initial reactions were absurd shrieks of nonsense that showed the entire world how far removed from reality they were: Lucas' action was "class warfare." The housing project would throw the whole area into a state of "sheer terror." They even, we kid you not, compared the situation to the conflict in Syria. You know, because everyone worse off than you is just waiting to storm your home with a rocket launcher.
Alas, after the initial shit-flinging had died down, there seemed to be precisely jack shit the jackass neighbors could do about the project besides choking quietly on their bile.
New York Times
Today, this entire valley is crack dealers.
And that, friends, is how a famous pop culture icon defeated a wealthy, villainous clique while helping a bunch of poor people. Wait, holy shit. That's the plot of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, isn't it?
For more vengeful acts we don't condone (but still love), check out 7 Legendary Acts of Petty Revenge and 8 Awesome Cases of Internet Vigilantism.


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How was Psalm 22 understood by Jewish tradition before the birth of Jesus? Was it interpreted messianically? What pre-Christian sources discuss Psalm 22?
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This question was just asked over at the Judaism site, so I'll repost my answer from there here.
In general it is difficult to find pre-Christian rabbinic commentary, since the earliest rabbinic commentaries began coalescing around the end of the Second Temple period, in the first century CE. So while early midrashic collections like the Sifra and Mekhilta do contain early (Tannaitic) material it is difficult to know what material, if any, predates their final redaction in the first centuries CE.
This article, by Prof. Rivka Ulmer, will likely be helpful in what you're looking for... She writes (pg. 108): "Prior to the attestation in the New Testament, there is no evidence of Psalm 22 being used in a Jewish messianic context... Jewish interpretations of the Psalm identify the individual in the Psalm with a royal figure, alternatively interpreted as King David, King Hezekiah, or Queen Esther." She discusses many early Jewish and Christian sources, including the following citation from the Babylonian Talmud (circa 500 CE), which relates this psalm to Esther:
Megillah 15b (her translation):
She discusses many others, including Midrash Tehillim (an early medieval compilation of allegorical commentary on Psalms) and its interpretation of this psalm as referring to David's life as a shepherd (which is too lengthy to type out here but you can read it in Esther Menn's article here), as well as how this psalm is (mis)translated and utilized in the Christian tradition. Her article is worth a read because it goes into many more sources and critically analyses each one. I hope this helps.
The first and most important clue is found in the annotation of the Psalm:
"Of David" can mean that it was written by, about, or in the style of David. Since the Psalm is written in the first person, any way you look at it, the subject must have originally been David. Nothing in the Psalm particularly points us to anything but this being a poetic description of David's struggle with his enemies and thanksgiving for being rescued.
This the only pre-Christian commentary that I've been able to find.
We might be able to find references to traditional interpretations in post-Christian sources. Now it gets tricky because whenever David is mentioned, there's a chance that the Messiah might be involved. Modern Jewish interpretations downplay the connection:
I've seen a number of references to Esther in relation to this Psalm such as the Being Jewish website:
I've also seen references to Rabbinic sources that take the Psalm as messianic. [This link is to a Christian website, however.]
Unfortunately, I've found it nearly impossible to find commentary on Psalm 22 that doesn't very quickly turn into a debate over this line (JPS):
I asked about this question at the Judaism.SE site and was told that it is difficult to find pre-Christian Rabbinic sources. It seems that the current understanding of Psalm 22 within Judaism deals with the plight of the Jewish Nation in Exile.1 However, Rashi's 11th-century commentary states that
Another response over at Judaism.SE mentioned an article by Rivka Ulmer that states that "Psalm 22 is rarely cited in rabbinic literature," but acknowledges that
Pesiqta Rabbati was written approximately in the mid-9th century A.D., so long after Christianity had been established. Ulmer goes on to say,
Ulmer translates from the Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 15b (part of the Mishnah which dates to approximately 200 A.D.) concerning the application of this Psalm to Esther:
An alternate understanding found in the Midrash Tehillim (approximately 11th century) is that of David's life as shepherd.5 Another response over at Judaism.SE mentions the Targum, which appears to be the oldest available source, dating to at least the 1st century A.D. (the Jews claim it is much older but that it was not allowed to be written, passed on only by oral tradition since 450 B.C.). This interpretation is similar to Rashi's.6Sources
1 Avroham Yoseif Rosenberg, ed. "The Complete Jewish Bible With Rashi Commentary," http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16243/showrashi/true (accessed January 11, 2013).
2 Rivka Ulmer. "Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati: The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah and Jesus," http://www.bibleinterp.com/PDFs/Psalm_22.pdf (accessed January 11, 2013), 106.
3 Ibid., 108.
4 Ibid., 109-10.
5 Esther M. Menn. "Prayerful Origins: David as Temple Founder in Rabbinic Psalms Commentary," in Of Scribes and Sages, Vol 2: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture, ed. Craig A. Evans (New York: T&T Clark International, 2004), 77-89.
(I managed to access Menn's article through Google Books. If the link doesn't work just search for "midrash tehillim psalm 22" on Google Books and select the search hit in the above book and it should work).
6 Targum Yonatan, http://targum.info/pss/ps1.htm#_ftnref115 (accessed January 11, 2013).

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I have edited the pages and categories to all look the same and have a right sidebar, so when I click to a page or category they are same layout and also search results and archives and tag archives.
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Ellis Lucius Newbill
Ellis Lucius Newbill passed on July 23, 2011 at his home in Hunters. Ellis was born February 22, 1921 in Fruitland Valley near Newbill Lake to Clementine (Sullivan) Newbill and Edward Newbill. He was the 9th of 13 children. The Newbill family owned and operated Newbill's cash store where Ellis worked with his father for several years. He was a industrious young man and also worked many jobs in the community and surrounding area including orchard work, mining, logging, farming, and even as a barber. Mining took him all across the Western U.S. and Hawaii. When he returned home to help his father with the farm in 1943 he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He served as a communication specialist in the South Pacific. While serving he became known for his boxing abilities and honed his card playing skills. He enjoyed playing cards, particularly poker for many years. After he returned from WWII he farmed and married Lois Emma Eaton. Together they ran the old Dew Drop Inn in Hunters and later had two daughters. In 1956 Ellis went to work managing the Hunters Sawmill for Ed Chopot until his retirement in 1977. Ellis spent his retirement helping and nurturing his family, daughters, son-in-laws and grandchildren. He also spent much of his time hunting, trapping and fishing, all of which he was well known for. Ellis spent his later years gardening, which locally he was famous for. He was also an avid storyteller and could entertain you for hours with tales of local history and peoples. Among other close friends, Ellis loved dogs and always had a close dog companion. He was proceeded in death by Lois, his wife of 47 years; his brothers Benny, Robert, Everett, and Ned; his sisters Marge, Kay, Elaine, Carol and Connie. Ellis is survived by sister Pearlie Llewelyn, brothers Wes Newbill and Bud Newbill; brother-in-laws Thomas Lynch and Jack Walker; daughters Kathy "Katy" Benson and husband Brian; Patty "Trish" Devoe and husband David; grandchildren Kristopher Benson, Leah Schuldheisz, Loren Devoe, and Shelly Devoe and numerous nieces and nephews. Ellis will be greatly missed and remembered by everyone whose lives he touched. Memorial Services are planned for Memorial Day weekend 2012. Details will be announced at that time.


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The Mustang Giugiaro Concept was first introduced at the 2006 Los Angeles International Auto Show and was based on the original Mustang model. The design for this extremely stylish concept model was developed by Fabrizio Giugiaro, the style director of Italdesign Giugiaro. Very few people have knowledge of the fact that the 1965 Bertone Mustang and Chevrolet Corvette Moray were primarily designed by Fabrizio's father Giorgetto Giugiaro.


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Are there rules or is it just a relict of history and convention if substantives are merged? "Philosophie des Geistes" is a distinct discipline and so a proper name. But then there is also "Sprachphilosophie". Would it be correct/o.k. to say "Geistphilosophie"?
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Is it possible (for either a satellite or a planet) to orbit around a black hole? Do they attract everything around themselves into the center? Or they just affect gravitational force just like stars?
Absolutely possible. There's nothing magical about a black hole. The gravitational pull of a black hole reaches as far as gravity would for another object of the same mass.
If you replace the Sun with a black hole of the same mass, everything would continue to orbit it just as it currently does.
Anything with mass has a gravitational force itself, and a black hole will attract anything with mass. Again, it's the same as our star having an effect on the Earth, and the Earth having an effect on the Moon.
They don't attract gravitational force; they have mass, so they exert a gravitational influence upon other objects.
So yes, it is possible for an object to indefinitely orbit around a black hole. Just because the mass it is orbiting is called a black hole does not mean the object is doomed to spiral in on the black hole.
For the purposes of comparison, here's flat, Minkowski spacetime in spherical coordinates: $$\mathrm{d}s^2 = -\mathrm{d}t^2 + \underbrace{\mathrm{d}r^2 + r^2(\mathrm{d}\theta^2+\sin^2\theta\,\mathrm{d}\phi^2)}_\text{Euclidean 3-space}\text{.}$$
That is not entirely incorrect. The Schwarzschild spacetime of an uncharged, nonrotating black hole in the Gullstrand-Painlevé coordinates is $$\mathrm{d}s^2 = -\mathrm{d}t^2 + \underbrace{\left(\mathrm{d}r + \sqrt{\frac{2M}{r}}\,\mathrm{d}t\right)^2}_\text{suckhole} + r^2(\mathrm{d}\theta^2+\sin^2\theta\,\mathrm{d}\phi^2)\text{.}$$ Where it deviates from ordinary, flat Minkowski spacetime is entirely in the middle square term. Here, the time coordinate $t$ is not the Schwarzschild time, but rather the time measured by an observer free-falling from rest at infinity. The last bit, if adjoined with the $\mathrm{d}r^2$ term one would get by multiplying out the middle part, is ordinary Euclidean $3$-space written in spherical coordinates.
If you recognize from Newtonian gravity the quantity $\sqrt{2M/r}$, or $\sqrt{2GM/r}$ in ordinary units, as the escape velocity, then the picture is very peculiar indeed: according to an observer free-falling from rest at infinity, Euclidean space is sucked into the singularity at the local escape velocity. The event horizon is the surface at which the speed at which space is "falling" at the speed of light.
This is an additional reason why sonic black holes are good analogues to their gravitational counterparts. In a sonic black hole, there can be an actual "suckhole" that drains a low-viscosity fluid at an increasing velocity, up to and faster than the speed of sound in that fluid. This forms an acoustic event horizon that is one-way to sound and is expected to have an analogue of Hawking radiation.
The corresponding structure for charged black holes is similar, and for a rotating one more complicated, although can still be described as "sucking" with a certain additional twist that rotates the free-falling observers.
proof exists that something can orbit around a black hole. The star S2 orbits around the central 4 million solar mass black hole of our galaxy.
Note that if you find an object orbiting around your target object, then you can calculate the mass of your target object.
In fact, for something orbiting around a black hole, it is very difficult to fall in. This is for the same reason why it is easier to send a probe from Earth to Mars (outward from Sun), than from Earth to Mercury (inward toward Sun), and also the same reason why it is impractical to get rid of toxic waste by throwing it into the Sun. It would require an enormous amount of energy to reach the Sun.
I think blackholes are dead star? Is not it? And i believe our nearest star is sun , and there is difference between star and blackholes(dead star) . And i strongly believe that blackholes ( dead star ) they attract everything around themselves into the center. And after that they must change the property of that object(which is at center), and then spread it's anu parts into the universe. :)


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The 2013 CWC Lady Bulldog softball team ended its season with two big wins this week, an 11-1 win on Tuesday at Johnston City to wrap the BDC undefeated, and a 17-7 win over Mount Vernon to finish 2-0 over Posey County, Ind.
On Tuesday, the girls traveled to Johnston City for a game that was originally scheduled to be played in Carmi. The girls were not going to let the change set them back, with a four home run, 11 RBI performance.
Kelsey Rogers blasted two homers, and drove in five runs in the game to lead the Lady Bulldogs. Alexa Combs and Kaylea Chappelle also hit home runs in the win, with Chappelle recording a pair of RBIs as well. Rogers and Combs both led the team in runs scored with three each.
Chappelle was in the circle as pitcher for the game. She delivered with a one hit, one run performance with two walks and four strikeouts.
The game against Mount Vernon started off slow for the Lady Bulldogs, but once they got it going, they did not let up.
Bailey Winters had a rough go early on at pitcher, but held on and was solid in the end. Winters allowed seven runs on 11 hits, with two walks and four strikeouts.
Rogers again was big in the win, driving in six RBIs and hitting a home run. Jerrica Money added a pair of RBIs as well. Rogers and Emma Bachman scored three runs each for the Lady Bulldogs in the win.
The team is the top seed in the Johnston City sectional, and will face the winner of the Harrisburg versus Hamilton County opening round game on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at Johnston City.
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Thanks to its 10-2 record, the second/third grade Easton Rams baseball team recently finished in second place within its summer division.
"We had an excellent season," head coach Bruce Simpson said. "The boys formed a family and all played very well together. Seven of the 11 boys have played ball together before and were aware of the hard competition and late night games in Jefferson County.
"The continuity of keeping the team together over the past couple of years helped us grow into a competitive team."
The Rams play in the Jefferson County Baseball Association, though they hail from Leavenworth County.
League Opponents included Royal Valley, Valley Falls, Jefferson County North, Jefferson County West, Oskaloosa, Perry/Lecompton, Effingham and McLouth.
All of the boys attend Pleasant Ridge Elementary except for Evan Marshall and Tristan Simpson, who go to St. Paul Lutheran School
This week the team will compete in the Jefferson County Tournament at Royal Valley.
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Unable to play MY Football Manageer 12, keep getting "this game is not available please try again another time". Another time, patronising @@@@@! This is my game, who are they to say when I can play it. F11 works fine.........
Unable to play MY Football Manageer 12, keep getting "this game is not available please try again another time". Another time, patronising @@@@@! This is my game, who are they to say when I can play it. F11 works fine.........
Is your version currently updating? A new patch was just released. I suggest making sure that's not still downloading and if it has stopped, shut Steam down and relaunch it. Let me know how you get on, thanks.
I'm up fresh and ready for a busy day with FM only to be greeted with the game is currently unavailable please try later at another time! What what what what! So I've tried restarting steam, restarting my laptop and seam offline and online...what next??
The laptop has worked fine with the game since last Friday.
Same here, tried restarting steam but no luck
Is the game currently updating per chance? We've just released a small patch which could be in the process of downloading. Let me know.
If you're certain the game has finished downloading and you've tried restarting Steam I suggest reading the following - http://community.sigames.com/showthr...=1#post7184717
It is not updating, at least Steam is not telling me it is updating (which it usually does). Restarted Steam, restarted PC, but still no luck.
No sign of a download. Also asked steam if there was any downloads available and it said I was up to date.
I have the same problem.
Okay can you try closing down Steam and relaunching? If that doesn't work I'd suggest reading this - http://community.sigames.com/showthr...=1#post7184717
Again let me know how you get on, thanks.
I have the same problem.
Completely exit from the Steam client.
Go to C:\Program Files\Steam (or the Steam directory that was specified during installation).
Locate ClientRegistry.blob and rename this file to ClientRegistryOld.blob.
Restart Steam to allow the file to be recreated.
This this did not work for me, currently reinstalling
Thanks Neil, I have to go out so will try later. Seems everybody is in the same boat on this.....
I had this.
Kept trying to start game and getting the not available message.
Messing around with client registery did nothing.
I did this
Verify Game Cache:
1.Load Steam
2.From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
3.Select the Local files tab and click the 'VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE…' button.
4.Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.
5.Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.
and it seemed to kick start the update to download but now getting a serious error message when i launch??
Think i may have deleted something important when I was messing around with client registry so having to do a full re-install.
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Just tried to it again and it now says updating steam platform......This a good thing?
Please check fm.exe is still in C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Football Manager 2012\
Some anti-virus applications delete fm.exe so you have to add this path to white list.
Yeah, that's as it should be. Let it finish updating and then you should be okay to launch.
Having the same bloody problem too.
Will try the above post and see what happens.
Bloomin Steam is subbish!!
I have a nice crash dump file now!
Grrrreat start to the day
It now brings a crash dump!
If you've updated and now you're getting a crash dump or the game won't run please follow the instructions here to verify your cache - http://community.sigames.com/showthr...=1#post7184719
Reinstalling worked for me
Followed the steps and it did the update platform thing, but still coming up with "Currently unavailable. Try again later." Absolutely ridiculous. So now I have to uninstall and reinstall? And I'm going to have to do this everytime there's an update?
My word.
Edit: Managed to get the update downloading, shall see if it launches afterwards
Verifying game cache seems to have worked, but just got a serious error. Going to close and restart steam.
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I re-verified my cache just now, it re-downloaded files and it now works fine. At least you know with FM that the support is excellent.
Thanks Neil.
Just to clarify, when you first launched Steam today it was downloading a patch. This patch would have been roughly 40mb. This patch will have needed to download before you'd be able to run the game. I'd very much make certain that this patch has downloaded before launching the game else you're likely to get error messages. Once finished, if you can't load it should simply be a case of restarting the Steam platform after a couple of minutes.
If you're still having issues get back to us, but please do try this first of all. Thanks.
So the only solution thats worked so far is to re-install the whole game?
Slick work.
I tried the verify thing and it came up with 3 files failed to validate and need reacquired
Tried to load the game and it is working. Wondering though if the above message is anything to worry about?
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Verify Game Cache:
1.Load Steam
2.From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
3.Select the Local files tab and click the 'VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE…' button.
4.Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.
5.Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.
This worked for me!!
Got this problem too. Followed the instructions to verify game cache and now I get a error with a crash dump.
Run the verify cache again and the downloads should start once more. Bare in mind, it downloading 2 updates on mine, one 60mb and one 40mb, so after the first has updated, I'd wait 10/15 mins and see if another one starts.
Got the same issue,
Went down the "varify cache" route. Ended with a "crash dump" But the game loaded threw the crash dump, so still playable but gonna annoy the hell out of me everytime i load the game up, with crash dump, untill i do a Complete re-instal /o\
Has it definitely applied the latest patch? Give it a bit of time.
re-installed it. seems to work.
Latest patch has been applied via "verify integrity of game cache", steam would not update the game by itself. Once "verify integrity of game cache" had been completed, and steam had applied the 44.2mb update, the game will no longer start, as a serious error crash dump is created.
UPDATE EDIT: I verified the game cache again, and a new 60mb download started, all seems fine now. If you are having probs, verify the game cache twice.
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I've got to the same point as hater - the update finished - after verifying cache it found 2 issues and downloaded again but now crash dumps - is complete re-install the only option?
You put your game access in the hands of a third party, and now you can't control your access to the game.
I'm sorry, but what about this is unexpected?
The game will become unavailable for a short time when the patch is being applied, this is to be expected.
Update - after another verify, reupdate and another restart everything seems to working fine - appreciate you're about on the forums to offer suggestions Brock
No Neil Brock, there is a problem somewhere with steam not applying the patch, and the patch being unable to be downloaded automatically. One verify integrity of game cache dl's a 40mb which makes the game crash, a 2nd verify dl's a 60mb update which makes the game playable.
Something is happening, that is making steam spasm. Like I said, I use steam for pretty much all my games, no problems, this is not "to be expected" and you lot at SI have done something...
No worries, thanks for letting me know you resolved the issue.
"The game will become unavailable for a short time when the patch is being applied, this is to be expected."
"Verify integrity of game cache twice. It's that simple."
I could have done with this information a bit earlier before I read your threads advising me to mess around with registry and then delete and re-install the game if that did not work.
How about a bit of 'heads up' next time?
[sarcasm] Damn it Si, I should be able to apply a patch, play the game and enact world peace all at the same time. Steam has stopped me doing all three! [/sarcasm]
Neil with all due respect, I don't know what is hard to understand about steam not applying the patch automatically?
For some weird reason, you have to start the DL manually by verifying the game cache (twice to get it to work).
Un install and Re install the game on steam. It should then work. Not ideal but the game is now up and running for me.
Calm down people. A massive part of what makes FM so brilliant is the customer support, listening to us, the gamers and implementing our ideas to future patches and versions. With the number of people purchasing the games, SI are forced to evaluate how one simple change will work out over an infinite number of setups.
Add in to the mix that an estimated 5 people downloaded cracked versions of FM11 for every one that purchased the game and you can see the need for 3rd party anti pirating company to be used, We all know someone who can get you a cheap dvd, or downloads a few songs from youtube etc.
The game will work, verify the cache, it re-downloads a few files and you can play the game. I'd rather have half an hour of issues running the game on the 2 or 3 times a patch is released instead of 9 months of a game where the keepers don't receive positioning training, or the game crashes in the MLS.
CWR15 - Spot on!


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2013 MakerFaire Afterparty
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Mitch and James want to throw a party for the Makers, and everyone else, that will be in town for the weekend
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Experts offer advice to get you started.
You don't have to be an athlete -- or even aspire to be one -- to start running.
Just look at Jim Scott. In January 2003, a month after he turned 60, Scott began running. That November, he finished the New York City Marathon (it took him six hours).
Scott, a radio-talk show host in Cincinnati, Ohio, didn't do much in the way of exercise before then. He played golf as often as he could but never found the time for regular workouts.
"When I turned 60, I thought it was a good time to reassess things," says Scott. "I started thinking, 'These 36-inch (waist) pants I've worn all my life are getting a bit tighter.'"
Scott decided he wanted to get in better shape, feel comfortable in his pants again, and improve his golf game. Oh, and there was one more impetus to try running: "I'm married to a marathon runner," he says.
Scott himself never intended to run a marathon. He simply wanted to go on Sunday morning runs with his wife, Donna Hartman, and keep up, he says. But sometimes running can surprise you.
Maybe you just want to run around your neighborhood, or explore a new one. Maybe you want to challenge your body in a different way, to tone up, or lose weight. Whatever your goals, says Scott's coach, Julie Isphording, running is an excellent exercise for a beginner to try.
"It's cheap, easy, and the perfect thing to do with a friend," says Isphording, a former marathoner and host of two health and fitness radio shows in Cincinnati.
Running's benefits include improved cardiovascular hearth, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, a revved-up metabolism, and a sense of self-esteem, says Isphording.
"You can go for a run in the morning and finish at your driveway with your hands in the air and you've had success before 7 a.m.," she says. "This is a gift from you to you."
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Before you take your first step, get yourself a good pair of running shoes.
"It's the most important investment you'll make," says Isphording. She suggests going to a store specializing in running gear, where the staff tends to be knowledgeable about the products, and trying on as many pairs as necessary to find the right ones for you. A good fit is essential; blisters and shin splints are not going to inspire you to run.


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Does the Hilbert space of the universe have to be infinite dimensional to make sense of quantum mechanics? Otherwise, decoherence can never become exact. Does interpreting quantum mechanics require exact decoherence and perfect observers of the sort which can only arise from exact superposition sectors in the asymptotic future limit?
Does the Hilbert space of the universe have to be infinite dimensional to make sense of quantum mechanics?
With a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, the whole apparatus of practical QM is lost. Very little is left - no continuous spectra, no scattering theory, no S-matrix, no cross sections. No Dirac equation, no relativity theory, no relation between symmetry and conservation laws, no quantum fields. Almost the whole of the achievements of modern physics would be ruined.
Already the Hilbert space of a single oscillating mode is infinite-dimensional, and the universe contains zillions of them. Fortunately, zillions times infinite is still infinite, but...
Due to superselection sectors, the Hilbert space of QED is already nonseparaple (i.e., has an uncountable basis). The physical Hilbert space of a quantum field theory is the direct integral of the Hilbert spaces corresponding to the different superselection sectors. The direct integral is mathematically well defined, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_integral and gives a nonseparable space once the integral is over a continuum.
In QED it is (at least) the continuum of directions in 3-space. One needs this nonseparable space to define Lorentz transformations of charges states, as charged states moving in different directions are in different superselection sectors. Thus the dimension of the Hilbert space of the universe should be at least the cardinality of the continuum.
Now QED describes the universe with gravitation, weak and strong forces ignored. Unfortunately, very little is known about the Hilbert space of nonabelian gauge theories and quantum gravity, so it is not that clear which cardinality the Hilbert space of the universe will have once we know whether the universe is described by one.
On the other hand, the interpretation of quantum mechanics cannot depend on exact models, as our models of the real world are never exact replicas of the latter.
The universe probably has an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. However, finite dimensions suffice to "make sense of" quantum mechanics. Or at least finite dimensions are sufficient to gain intuition and to expose the philosophical difficulties of the various interpretations of quantum mechanics. A cat lives in a very high dimensional (or infinite) Hilbert space, but the essence of the Schrodinger's cat paradox can be grasped by just considering it to be a two-state system.
And finite dimensions are sufficient for perfect decoherence. An example is the $|+> \otimes |0>$ state fed into a controlled-not gate in the context of quantum computing. In fact, that simple circuit is actually a pretty good model for understanding the role of observers (the second qubit "observes" or copies the state of the first qubit, thereby causing decoherence). Finite dimensions are a lot easier to think about. You may of course not want to think of you as an observer as being a qubit entangled with the object you were measuring, but that is a can of worms that philosophers will probably still be working out for a very long time.


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What is the Ubuntu equivalent to the Windows
C:\Program Files folder? This is where Windows stores the system wide data for applications.
What is the equivalent to the Windows "Program Files" folder? (Where do things go when I install them?)
What is the Ubuntu equivalent to the Windows
There probably isn't a direct equivalent however, since, for example, library files are shared across the system (in
So installing a program via a deb file, repository or build will likely place files in all of these locations.
[EDIT] And as others note, there is also
There is no easy answer.
Pretty cool answer. One question, what is Symbolic Link? Is it Windows shortcut equivalent? – iamcreasy Jun 2 '15 at 23:35
@iamcreasy thanks! Yes, they are a sort of shortcut, but with the main intention of avoiding file copies. The windows shortcuts are more comparable to. desktop files, which can be used to create, for example, startmenu items. – Gerhard Burger Jun 3 '15 at 5:37
Why would someone use .desktop file over symbolic links and vice versa? – iamcreasy Jun 3 '15 at 10:48
@iamcreasy In .desktop files you can add extra information, such as a description and an icon (see an example here: standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/apa.html), it's a 'regular' file. A symbolic link is a 'special' file that only links to another file. I find this hard to explain properly but maybe you can find a better answer here: superuser.com/questions/253935/… – Gerhard Burger Jun 3 '15 at 11:54
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There is no single directory that is the exact equivalent of Program Files folder. The way Linux arranges things is a lot different than Windows.
In windows, every program that we install gets its own directory inside the Program Files directory. In that directory, further sub-directories are created for different kind of files. There is no fixed structure for sub-directories. Programs decide for themselves what they want to call each directory and where they want to put what.
But in Linux when a program is installed, different kind of files are copied to different locations. Executables are copied to /usr/bin, library files to /usr/lib, documentation to one or more of /usr/man, /usr/info and /usr/doc. If there are configuration files, they are usually in the user's home directory or in /etc.
From the manual page of the filesystem hierarchy:
Ubuntu has a different structure than windows. Ubuntu places almost all applications in one directory, say
Linux 'Program Files' are in the whole hierarchy. It could be on
I think you are going to find some file related to your application. Then, I have an idea on how to looks files which are installed on program installation.
It is because linux move the installed file to directories separately based on their type.
And many other directories. (CMIIW, accepting correction)
In this answer when I say Unix I mean Unix as well as Unix-like operating systems.
Ubuntu doesn't really have a programs folder containing all of the data for each program. In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, EVERYTHING is a file, even the terminal commands. They're files as well. The way Unix handles programs can be pretty chaotic, and organized at the same time.
Icons for programs are stored in /usr/share/icons/*, program executables are usually stored in /usr/bin, /bin, and other places with bin directories (bin is obv short for binary). Libraries that programs depend on are in /lib.
So you end up with not a directory containing all of the data for one program, but the data for the program spread out. While at first this seems very disorganized, it allows for sharing of standard things like libraries and icons.
Thanks to permissions for each file, the idea of everything being a file is very brilliant to be honest. It makes Unix MUCH more secure than other operating systems.
The way that Linux and Windows programs are installed is quite different.
The common pattern in Windows is for a program; or a bunch of programs, from one vendor go into its own sub directory in C:\programs\vendor or something similar.
In Linux, your files are split up between specific sub directories depending on their function. There are directories for libraries, icons, man pages, Log files, configuration and so on. You may use some of them, but the system will manage all of them. They are not coupled together, but exist together with similar files from other programs.
So there is no real equivalent to that Windows directory structure in a regular Linux implementation.
If you install own programmes, I recommend 1 folder:
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I bought new computer. The Graphics card is AMD Radeon HD 6450, on Windows 7 it works fine but I try to install driver on Ubuntu, and it says that "No supported adapters detected". I downloaded the driver from here. After installing "Aditional drivers" says that driver is installed. Also my screen resolution in Ubuntu is not maximum. Can you help me install proper driver, please? Thanks in advance!
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I had a similar problem, but it worked fine for the previous version of this driver: "AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver". Here are the steps to download and install it:
Hope this helps!
What is the output from fglrxinfo, lshw -C video, and glxinfo?
Verifying a proper install: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Verifying
To install: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Category:Installation_Documentation
Then go to another console (CTRL+ALT+F2), log in as root, shut down X (
You should say which version of Ubuntu you're using. In 11.04, the open radeon driver should work well, though not perfectly. In 11.10, it's been improved further, and I much prefer it to the proprietary driver for my HD 5850. It's faster and it's easier to deal with.
I had the same problem, and also another one that you seem to also have at the same time: a big annoying AMD Unsupported Harware icon. As a consequence, when I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10, it froze just after the login screen and when I tried to install Ubuntu 11.10, it did not even arrive to the login screen.
Here is what I did, which solved the problem:
Then your two problems should both be solved!
Just managed to get the above card to work on my device, running
The device already had a video card (Matrox VGA) which was working fine. Wanted to add this to support dual monitors. When I added the AMD Radeon HD 6450 then I would get a blank screen. (Output from the Radeon was colored pixels with no sign of response from keyboard). I would bypass the blank screen with Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a terminal up, which displayed as expected.
Output from
The link referred to by vikram appears no longer to be working and has moved to that referred to by Agmenor. I followed those instructions and it told me install had completed, so rebooted and same situation as above.
Ultimately I followed the instructions here on the Official Documentation which I will repeat briefly. These were run line-by-line as
This is good enough for me. The boot output still goes to the Matrox and the Radeon output is blank until


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Using genetic tests to provide a prognosis and tailor treatment is becoming the standard of care for patients with a few forms of cancer.
Using genetic tests to provide a prognosis and tailor treatment is becoming the standard of care for patients with a few forms of cancer. But for most cancer types, personalized medicine is not yet a reality because there is not enough known about the genetic aspects of the disease.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Geoffrey Beene Translational Oncology Core Facility was established in 2007 to increase understanding of the genes involved in cancer by taking advantage of the Center's wealth of tumor samples collected from patients. The samples are anonymously linked to patients' clinical records, which contain data about whether a tumor responded to certain treatments, whether the cancer recurred or spread, and, ultimately, how long a patient survived. The lab makes it possible to characterize the genomic features of tumors — looking for variations that might be linked to certain clinical responses.
"The Beene core came about because it was becoming abundantly clear that genomic information obtained from tumors held the key for tumor prognosis and predicting the response to treatment," said Charles L. Sawyers, Chair of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP). Dr. Sawyers was involved in the creation of the facility, along with Adriana Heguy, who runs its operations.
Dr. Heguy collaborates with clinical investigators on their research projects, from the planning stages to the interpretation of data. The facility's primary function is to extract DNA from tumor samples and amplify it so that it can be sequenced. Robotics and automated equipment make it possible to study hundreds of tumor samples at the same time and look for both common and rare genetic changes. Biostatisticians and bioinformatics experts are also important collaborators.
One challenge the lab has addressed is obtaining good-quality DNA from tumor samples, which are usually fixed with formalin and sealed in paraffin. "Fixing agents degrade the DNA and cut it into small pieces, making it much harder to sequence," Dr. Heguy explained. Some newer tumor samples are also frozen, which better preserves the DNA, but storage exclusively in paraffin blocks is still considered standard practice at most institutions.
For these fixed DNA samples, a specialized type of mutation detection is needed, using an instrument called a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer, located in the laboratory of HOPP member Marc Ladanyi. The instrument is operated by Genomics Project Manager Laetitia Borsu. The technique compares the masses of DNA molecules and is used to detect known mutations. For frozen samples with higher-quality DNA, however, genetic sequencing is outsourced to a company using a different technology, which can detect both known and previously undiscovered mutations.
David B. Solit, a medical oncologist and member of HOPP, has collaborated with the Beene core facility on studies of colon cancer, bladder cancer, and melanoma. His research is focused on how mutations in several genes, including Ras and B-Raf, are related to cancer. "We're finding that the role of Ras mutations in these cancers has been underappreciated," Dr. Solit explained, "because it had been very difficult to sequence for mutations. The core has allowed us to do a much broader survey than we were able to do in the past. It's also much less expensive and faster."
Mary Ellen Moynahan, a researcher and medical oncologist, is studying 590 tumor samples to determine the role that mutations in the PIK3CA gene play in breast cancer. Several studies have indicated that the gene is mutated in 25 to 35 percent of breast tumors, but it is not known whether the mutations are associated with a better or worse outcome for patients.
"Because patients with hormone-receptor-positive breast cancers can experience a recurrence ten or more years after diagnosis, it was important to use tumor specimens linked to longer patient histories. Our paraffin-embedded samples were collected in the 1990s," Dr. Moynahan explained. "These new methods allow us to ask clinically important questions with small quantities of tumor from older samples."
"There's no question that the core has been an unbelievable success," Dr. Solit said. "In the age of genomic oncology, you have to be able to determine the mutational status of tumors."
"For people who don't have their own labs, the core allows them to ask translational questions," Dr. Moynahan added. "Clinicians understand the potential impact that these studies will have on patient care, and now they have the help and the resources to be able to do this kind of research."
The Beene core facility is part of the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering, which was established with a gift from the estate of Geoffrey Beene, the fashion designer and philanthropist. In addition to the core facility, the center provides funding support for several other facilities and programs at Memorial Sloan Kettering.


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Monday, August 23, 2010
The Limits of Online Research – A Case File
However, very quickly into my journey I realized that I wasn't so much discovering the ancestors of my friend, I was seeing in practice the limits that exist when one does their genealogy research online. Come join me on my journey and I'll show you what walls I bumped into!
The Beginning
My research started with the bare minimum of facts. I had the name of my starting person, let's call him 'Jan' and when he'd died. I also knew his wife 'Nelie' had died after him, date unknown. I planned to see how far back I could fill in the family tree with the basic facts: birth, marriage and death.
My research started off pretty well. On the site of the Regional Archive Leiden I found the birth certificate, marriage certificate and death certificate of Jan. There were no scanned images for me to look at, but the index of the marriage certificate mentioned their ages and birth place, as well as the names of their parents.
Wall Number One
Hoping to find something on Jan's parents, I searched for them in the database. I found their marriage certificate, but the index didn't mention anything besides the place and date of the marriage, and of course their names. No image was available. I'd hit a dead end on Jan's father. With no further data, as I couldn't find his birth or his death certificate, I couldn't go any further back. I had no way to find his parents.
This was the first wall I encountered. Had I ordered the copy of the marriage certificate, I would have found more data. His age and birthplace would've been listed, and most likely his parent's names. But since it wasn't in the index on the site and I couldn't access the images online, I was stuck.
For Jan's mother I was a little more lucky. I did find her birth and death certificate, but once again the index didn't say anything about her parents and the images weren't available online. I couldn't go any further back unless I ordered a copy of the certificates I had found.
More Luck With Nelie?
From the marriage certificate of Jan and Nelie, I had found out Nelie's age and birthplace, so I decided to see if I would have more luck tracing her ancestors. For this I had to go to a different online archive, the Green Hart Archives. This archive does not have any digital images, but it has a different index, so I was hopeful.
I quickly located Nelie's birth certificate, which mentioned her parent's names and the age of her father. With this information I found the marriage certificate of her parent's Klaas and Antje, and the birth certificate of Klaas. No death certificates were located for either of them. I couldn't find Antje's birth certificate, but from the information on her marriage certificate I do know her approximate birth year, her birthplace and her parent's name.
Wall Number Two
I decided to research the parents of Klaas first. I found their marriage certificate, which gave me their birthplaces, approximate birth years, names of their parents and birthplaces of their parents. This is where the trail ends for this line. No more certificates were to be found.
For Antje's parents, it was almost the same. I did find their birth certificates, along with their marriage certificate. But the information on their parents was the same.
The problem? The certificates I needed had not yet been indexed on the site! All of the missing certificates were ones that hadn't been indexed yet. So while the index was superb, it couldn't tell me about certificates that hadn't been indexed yet!
To find this information, I would have to take a physical trip to the archive that holds these certificates. There I would have to locate the microfiches and search them for the certificates I want.
The Lesson I Learned
All in all, this was a very practical lesson in the limitations of online genealogy. The two walls I encountered are the ones that are exactly why a lot of genealogists don't put much stock in online research except as a nice starting point.
One: no online images means you get are totally reliant on what the index on the site says, which is woefully little most times!
Two: you cannot find online what hasn't been indexed yet!
A lot of pro-internet genealogists admit that secondary sources are often not found online. But this enlightening trip through the online indexes has left me with one thing in mind. There are a lot, and I do mean a lot, of primary sources not yet online as well. Not to mention that from the sources that are online, a lot of information is missed out on if you just take what the index on the site says instead of looking at the actual certificate.
As for me? I love spending the whole day in an archive. Internet is wonderful for contacts and sharing with the world, but for my research the old way is truly best.
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Very true...not everything about your family tree is going to be found online! Great post!ReplyDelete
Even when I've found information online, I tell my friends to visit wherever the vital records are kept to get more information.ReplyDelete
Very informative post!
You're absolutely right. I feel sort of lucky to have started my research in the pre-internet days, when I developed a better sense of what's out there. I'm not sure those who start out with all of these tools at their fingertips know how many records (and how much fun) they're missing.ReplyDelete
Online resources are fantastic, and they're a great starting point...but it's important to use them as a launching pad, not a stop sign.
It was interesting to hear how you do your research in the Netherlands. It's also interesting to hear that your experience in the Netherlands was similar to our experience in the States. Like you, I too could spend an entire day at the library!ReplyDelete


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Well, it doesn't suck like a Dyson, but it shows up on woot almost as often.
Is the only difference between this one and the last one 3x4GB instead of just 2x4GB+2GB RAM?
Other than the video card & power supply lacking, anyone have issues good or bad with this machine?
I've bought a similar one about 6 months ago from Moofi. I've done the research to see if I needed to update anything to preserve the machine when it arrives as is. In other words, I have this Machine and if I'm happy with it, should I still update the hardware in anyway to make sure it keeps working as is. In short response is 'no'. The components work fine w/o any upgrades. The power supply looks wanting at a glance, and if you need to update something, you may need a bigger one... however it's fine as is. The video card is on the shallow end of the mid range cards out there but still plays League of Legends on full graphics and Left for Dead 2 w/ problems. All in all, I'm happy with my purchase. I use it regularly and do a poor job of turning it off after every use. With it left on it still runs like a champ.
Good. Use your aggressive feelings boy. Let the HP H8 flow through you.
I bought this exact machine about 2 months ago on woot. I love it. It's so fast. It has two 4gb and two 2gb ram sticks. For xmas I'm upgrading the gpu to the gtx 670 and the power supply to a 620 watt. I was a little worried about how close the ram was to the pci slot. But to make sure, I put my roommate's gtx 660 in to make sure there was room for it, which there is but it barely fit. It's so snug that if you put a bigger video card in, you won't be able to release the ram to take it out without first taking out the gpu.
You really only need to upgrade this machine if you plan on gaming and want to be able to play at a super high resolution with high graphics detail. Otherwise it is perfect.
This exact machine (same part number even) is on the shelves at my local Sam's Club for $899.99. (Not a refurb at Sam's.)
@no1bitwdlr: So $899 @ Sams new, $659 here, refurb.
Or $240 savings over new. Maybe Sams is overpriced?
Or this is a deal with +25% savings.
My luck with HP refurbs from Woot has been good and good values.
Won't touch an HP laptop if you paid me, but the desktop systems are solid values.
is the limiting factor on the memory Windows 7 Home?
just wondering if I installed a copy of Win7 Pro if I could use 32gb
Want one so bad. But cant talk the into in.
Maybe next year woot
@csublime: The max memory Windows 7 Home Premium can handle is 16GB. The motherboard seems to be limited to 16GB as well.
@csublime: As a side note, Windows 7 Home Basic is 8GB.
@nb109: thanks that was what I was looking for, wasn't sure if there was a motherboard limit or they just spec'd it that way because of the win7home


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Could someone please explain Visa regulations for Jordan, they seem to differ in terms of cost & requirements depending on how and where you enter the country and how long you are staying.
Here are my notes from July 2002:
Americans and Canadians can get visas without any trouble, but our Serbian friend was denied a visa on the spot with no explanation.
We took the Egg'd bus to Jerusalem, walked across to East Jerusalem and caught an Arab shared taxi from Damascus Gate which took us across the Palestinian Territory and through Jericho to the Allenby / King Hussein bridge. Here there is a bus which takes you through the short no-man's-land to the Jordanian border crossing. (All of this was accurately detailed in the Lonely Planet guidebook.)
It look a little while at the border (2 hours) but we had no real trouble.
At that time there were very few foreigners crossing the border there.


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In received pronunciation, the word "father" ends in /ə/. I haven't found an IPA transcription of the plural form, and am wondering:
- RP being non-rhotic, is the "r" here excluded?
- Is the S voiced (/z/) or unvoiced (/s/)?
In received pronunciation, the word "father" ends in /ə/. I haven't found an IPA transcription of the plural form, and am wondering:
RP is indeed non-rhotic, and hence syllable-finall 'r's are not generally pronounced.
In your section question, English has a phenomenon whereby phrase-final voiced fricatives are commonly devoiced. So when pronounced before a pause, a final -s will generally be devoiced. However, it still carries some features of its underlying "voiced" nature, for example lengthening the preceding vowel.
The latter phenomenon isn't restricted to RP: it's common in many accents of English, both British and American.
Yes, the r is silent; by compensation, the /ə/ is lengthened a bit.
The s is voiced, /z/. You can hear it pronounced on Howjsay. This /z/ does not depend on whether the r is rhotic or not: the s is also voiced in balls etc.
The -s inflectional endings are voiced /z/ if the ending of the word is a voiced non-sibilant but if it is an unvoiced consonant the inflectional ending is unvoiced /s/.
If the word ends in a sibilant, an epenthetic vowel is appended before a voiced sibilant /z/


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How should one think about simplicial objects in a category versus actual objects in that category? For example, both for intuition and for practical purposes, what's the difference between a [commutative] ring and a simplicial [commutative] ring?
One could say many things about this, and I hope you get many replies! Here are some remarks, although much of this might already be familiar or obvious to you.
In some vague sense, the study of simplicial objects is "homotopical mathematics", while the study of objects is "ordinary mathematics". Here by "homotopical mathematics", I mean the philosophy that among other things say that whenever you have a set in ordinary mathematics, you should instead consider a space, with the property that taking pi_0 of this space recovers the original set. In particular, this should be done for Hom sets, so we should have Hom spaces instead. This is formalized in various frameworks, such as infinity-categories, simplicial model categories, and A-infinity categories. Here "space" can mean many different things, in these examples: infinity-category, simplicial set, or chain complex respectively.
For intuition, it helps to think of a simplicial object as an object with a topology. For example, a simplicial set is like a topological space, a simplicial ring is like a topological ring etc. The precise statements usually takes the form of a Quillen equivalence of model categories between the simplicial objects and a suitable category of topological objects. Simplicial sets are Quillen equivalent to compactly generated topological spaces, and I think a similar statement holds if you replace sets by rings, although I am not sure if you need any hypotheses here.
If you like homological algebra, it helps to think of a simplicial object as analogous to a chain complex. The precise statements are given by various generalizations of the Dold-Kan correspondence. For simplicial rings, they should correspond to chain complexes with a product, more precisely DGAs. Again, one has to be a bit careful with the precise statements. I think the following is true: Simplicial commutative unital k-algebras are Quillen equivalent to connective commutative differential graded k-algebras, provided k is a Q-algebra.
A remark about the word "simplicial": A simplicial object in a category C is a functor from the Delta category into C, but for almost all purposes the Delta category could be replaced with any test category in the sense of Grothendieck, see this nLab post for some discussion which doesn't use the terminology of test categories.
Since you used the tag "derived stuff" I guess you are already aware of Toen's derived stacks. Some of his articles have introductions which explain why one would like to use simplicial rings instead of rings. See in particular his really nice lecture notes from a course in Barcelona last year.
I tried to write a blog post on some of this a while ago, there might be something useful there, especially relating to motivation from algebraic geometry.
This is an answer to `What can you do with simplicial objects' instead of how to think of them.
The main context in which I think about simplicial objects is Cohomological Descent. This is, as Martin Olsson put it, Cech cohomology on steroids. It is an extremely useful tool (for instance it makes it totally easy to prove things like GAGA for Deligne-Mumford stacks). Brian Conrad has an excellent set of notes here. SGA IV, expose 5 is another (much more abstract) reference. Deligne's Hodge III is another source. There he uses coh. descent to put Hodge structures on singular (complex analytic) varieties.
In case you are an algebraic geometer and are you used to thinking about a commutative ring in terms of its spectrum it might be helpful to imagine the spectrum of a simplicial commutative ring A as the spectrum of \pi_0(A) together with a fuzzy cloud of generalized nilpotents. This can actually be made precise: For a simplicial commutative ring A there is a closed immersion Spec(\pi_0 (A)) -> Spec (A), and their underlying point sets are the same. So the relationship between spectra of simplicial rings to spectra of commutative rings is really much the same as the relationship between general schemes and reduced schemes.
Just to amplify the very good points made by Andreas Holmstrom above:
a) it just so happens that simplices are one of the best, at least best understood, models for higher homotopical structure and most every simplicial object that you will run into is secretly a model for an oo-groupoid with extra structure.
b) In particular this is true for the case of simplicial abelian groups, and monoids of these: simplicial abelian rings. The underlying simplicial set of a simplicial group is a necessarily a Kan complex, hence an oo-groupoid. So simplicial groups are oo-groupoids with strict group structure on them. In particular simplicial abelian groups are therefore fully abelian oo-groupoids: special kinds of connective spectra.
c) See the introduction at nLab:Dold-Kan correspondence: this correspondence allows to not only understand all these simplicial objects as models for oo-groupoids with extra structure and property, but also lots of objects in homological algebra as being just yet another (computationally convenient) repackaging of that information.
And when you feel at home with a,b,c), open Lurie's "Stable (oo,1)-Cateories" and see his (oo,1)-version of the Dold-Kan correspondence there to see the full truth...
This is a good place to mention the notion of a "Grothendieck test category". This is a small A category which has the property that presheaves of sets on A, with an appropriate class of weak equivalences, models the homotopy theory of spaces. So the simplicial indexing category Δ is a test category, but there are others, such as the category which indexes cubical sets. I would guess that whenever one needs to use simplicial rings (say), you could replace simplicial with any test category (though I don't know that anyone has worked this sort of thing out).
These notions are developed in some papers of Cisinski, and a good introduction (which gives the definition of test category) is the paper of Jardine. Of course, this doesn't really answer your question on how to think about simplicial objects, but perhaps it puts it in a broader context.
It depends on the context. Simplicial objects are often used to "resolve" objects in nonabelian contexts to get a good notion of derived functors. For example, in Andre-Quillen cohomology you take a ring (viewed as a discrete simplicial set) and resolve it by finding a weakly equivalent simplicial ring that's levelwise free. Then you can apply various functors to this (such as abelianization) and get good notions of derived functors.
A simplicial object {Xn} in particular always includes two maps from X1 to X0 and you can think of the simplicial object as representing a lift of the coequalizer of these two maps to something living in a derived context.
Simplicial objects are often equivalent in some fashion to topological objects; e.g. simplicial commutative rings are equivalent (in a model-category sense) to topological commutative rings.
Sometimes there's a "realization" functor from simplicial objects to regular objects, but in general simplicial objects play their own role.
The definition of a simplicial object is a functor $X_\bullet\colon \Delta^{op}\to A$ where $\Delta$ is the simplicial category and $A$ is your favorite category. So the easiest answer is that a simplicial object in a category is a sequence of objects in that category together with morphisms $d_i$ and $s_j$ that satisfy a bunch of relations.
We can also think of a simplicial object $X_\bullet$ as an element of $Fun(\Delta^{op}, A)$, the category of functors from $\Delta^{op}$ to $A$. In this context, it is easy to define a morphism between simplicial objects. It maps $X_n\to Y_n$ and commutes with the $d_i$'s and $s_j$'s.
Shameless planar algebra plug: Simplicial objects are also really cool in tandem with an adjoint functor pair. You can use this machinery to get a pictorial representation of the simplicial category using Temperley-Lieb (string) diagrams. In fact, planar algebras are great examples of simplicial vector spaces, although there's a lot more structure too...


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I am in the process of remodeling a bathroom and I am putting in a new tub and plan to tile the walls. It seems most tubs are standard depths of 30 or 32 inches, ours is 32". Now the new tub is attached right to the 2x framing then the backer board comes over the lip of the tub. When you do this you make a 32" tub 31-1/2" to the front of the tub. Now my tile is gonna be 1/2" past the front of the tub. I am using 2"x2" tiles. Do I have to cut the back row down by 1/2" to make them match the front of the tub or am I missing something?
Yes the tile will need to be cut. You can either use a wet saw or a manual tile cutter.
Before you go cutting the tiles in half for the back wall you will need to make sure you are accounting for the width of the grout lines. Are your tiles really 2"x2"? Do you have bullnose pieces or trim pieces to transition the tile at the edge, or is it OK for your tile to show an exposed edge?


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Would you recommend Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator for a professional freelance web designer on a somewhat-low budget with a small but growing client base?
Would you recommend Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator for a professional freelance web designer on a somewhat-low budget with a small but growing client base?
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It's like asking "hammer or saw for homebuilding?"
You need both, and likely several more tools.
Photoshop is primarily for raster Images and illustrator, vector. Both are really handy to have. But you don't necessarily need to use Adobe to supply those tools. There are many more options (the GIMP, paint.net, pixelmator, inkscape, corel, etc)
Illustrator is for print media predominately. If your focus is digital than photoshop is the better choice.
I would recommend getting both with Adobe's Switch promotion: 50% off through October 31, 2011. You can get both Photoshop Extended and Illustrator for $850, along with a bunch of other apps, including Flash. Even if you don't have a use for any of the video apps, this is still a heck of a deal and poises you for better upgrade and side-grade pricing in the future.
The Switch promo is geared towards getting disgruntled Final Cut Pro users to switch to Premiere, but you're not required to have a Final Cut Pro license.
You could also look into Adobe's subscription plans. The monthly plan makes sense as a fairly cheap way to get the software for occasional use or in the short-term until you can purchase a non-subscription license. The yearly plan will start to actually cost more than the non-subscription license (plus subsequent upgrades) after the 2nd or 3rd upgrade.


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When one goes back to their Exs.
'I can't believe you're with her again.. Man, you're such a backslider, you always backslide!'
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verb: to have sex with someone you were previously dating or hooking up with. Specifically after a falling out or bad breakup and tends to make things more complicated.
"I knew I was going to backslide with Ben last night as soon as he walked into the bar. My friends are going to kill me"
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verb: to re-adopt sinful ways after having spent some time as a pious religious person.
For about a year, we thought we lost him, but then one day Skeevo backslides right back into our lives!
by F. Rodderick Hsu May 07, 2005
verb: To revert to sin or wrongdoing, especially in religious practice.
Even after tasting true freedom in Christ, Alex found it easy to backslide into habitual ways of the flesh.
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What the Moonwalk used to be called, the backslide has its' roots in mime.
Man, look at Cooley Jackson backslide! I hope Micheal Jackson don't steal his move.
by Levesque April 20, 2006
To spread crack for a tap from some johnson you've dumped, usually inducing a shame spiral. Note: only women and gay men can backslide, since straight men will screw anything, anytime, without remorse.
Johnny: You look like shit.
Eric: My ex came over last night.
Johnny: You backslide?
Eric: You know it.
Johnny: That must be some good rod.
Eric: Better than that take-out you scarf.
Eric: My ex came over last night.
Johnny: You backslide?
Eric: You know it.
Johnny: That must be some good rod.
Eric: Better than that take-out you scarf.
by JohnnyAZ May 02, 2006
To continously return to a prior state. Can be used to define a addiction or a relationship
I thought she was happy with a her new man, how she back slide to her no good babydaddy.Well at least she didn't start smokin weed again.
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