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Bringing Windows Vista to non-English markets is a lot harder than just changing a text file. Here Michael Kaplan, technical lead on the US-Windows Globalization team, on the discusses some of the things (and tools) that the team does to bring Windows Vista to non-English speaking markets. Real interesting and some tips for developers who are localizing their own applications.
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Hi ploe!
Having to learn to speak fluent question mark and fluent null glyph is one of those exciting occupational hazards that I must admit is nice to see so much less often in Vista.
Minh wrote:I thought Unicode was implemented with 2 bytes -- so that it can only represent about 65,000 unique characters. Sounds like you can stuff more than that into Unicode.
Minh wrote:
If it's using more than 2 bytes, how does that work with current programs if they're using 2-bytes representation?
amotif wrote:
I'm wondering how any Unicode character can be expressed in 16 bits, myself.
moofish wrote:I just read those pages, pretty much, its a bit boring (sorry).
moofish wrote:I'm more interested in just the nice factor of it, you know a k/b with images and they can change etc...
moofish wrote:So what's the conclusion are you pro or anti, I couldn't tell. You must have suggested it to the hardware dpt, what did they think, I did post when there was a video for them but I don't think there was a reply.
Thanks! And yes, I agree completely....MarkPerris wrote:Great video, anything that opens Windows Vista up to new users can only be a good thing.
I do not work on IMEs myself. But I can say a lot of work has happened there to move them out of the legacy IMM model and into the more flexible and easier to create TSF model. I'll probably blog on this more in the future, especially after Beta 2 is out.MarkPerris wrote:Do you do any work on the IME side of things? I do a lot of Japanese work on mine, and any updated would be a great.
They don't do anything mysteriously new or anything like that....MarkPerris wrote:Also, what about the mysterious ScrLk, SysRq, Break and Pause keys? what do they do under Vista, now that we no longer live in the world of ANSI TTYs?.
I think you mean en-GB (en-UK would mean English (Ukraine), after all!).MarkPerris wrote:Finally, i have often wondered what the difference in localisations wwre between en-US and en-UK, aside from dates and times?
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amotif wrote:
I'm wondering how any Unicode character can be expressed in 16 bits, myself.
Hmmmm.... all of the Unicode code points from U+0000 to U+FFFF fit into sixteen bits, and many of them are indeed characters (though not all of them are).....
faq wrote:A: No! No conformant Unicode implementation can use the un-encoded values outside of the private use area.Only the values in the private use areas (E000..F8FF, F0000..FFFFD, and 100000..10FFFD) are legal for private assignment. However, this is over 137,000 code points, which should be more than ample for the vast majority of implementations. [F0000..FFFFD and 100000..10FFFD are represented by surrogate pairs with private-use high surrogates (DB80..DBFF).]
Ah, you aren't missing anything.
If you are using UTF-16 (which for the most part Microsoft does) then for beyond U+FFFF, you use the surrogate pair mechanism.
I have a big blog entry on this here that tries to explain a whole bunch about it....
Very interesting. I have a doubt about globalization: How does Microsoft choose the languages a beta product as Windows Vista will be shipped? I heard Vista Beta 2 will be in German and Japanese. How have these languages been chosen?
The initial languages are pilot languages, ones that are done early to find localizability issues. This is actually an excellent topic, one that I will put on my list for a future blog post to try to give more detail....Gianakopoulos wrote:
Very interesting. I have a doubt about globalization: How does Microsoft choose the languages a beta product as Windows Vista will be shipped? I heard Vista Beta 2 will be in German and Japanese. How have these languages been chosen?
Ah, the Culture Explorer that Francois Liger wrote is indeed an excellent sample for viewing locale data!bonk wrote:Is there any way we can get hold of the the .NET 2.0 sample application sourcecode shown first in that video (the one that listed all the cultures). It seems a good app to get to know .NET globalisation.
michkap wrote:
Ah, you aren't missing anything.
If you are using UTF-16 (which for the most part Microsoft does) then for beyond U+FFFF, you use the surrogate pair mechanism.
I have a big blog entry on this here that tries to explain a whole bunch about it....
Ok, it is now covered (as much as I really can!) right here.michkap wrote:As for the name, that is a different story and has nothing to do with the U.N. or the US or the 100 countries. Like I said, maybe I will cover it in the blog some day.
Hi Jillian,JillianLang wrote:Who is that on your shirt, Michael?
Yes, keyboard layouts that can be produced are limited to four UTF-16 codepointsMaurits wrote:Yes, there is a Fijian language
Chording system... I want this! But I thought the keyboard interface was limited to a certain number of simultaneously pressed keys?
Hi Bonk,bonk wrote:So did I understand it right, that when I buy my german Windows Vista at my local store I will get all the other different localizations right with it on the DVD ? So I can switch the whole UI and everything that is related to that culture to Latvian, Mongolian or whatever? If so, does that mean that the only real difference between an USA Windows Vista and a German Windows Vista is the carton around it ?
I am asking because, we could then test our localized applications, without having tons of different windows installations on our testmachines.
ghsthetttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttschrepfler wrote:If don't remember wrongly whenever I used the macedonian (virtual as there are no hardware ones on sale, thank god : ) keyboard (I hope you won't write FYROM anyomore) there was an issue with a letter (I think it was accented è and/or accented и but I'm not shure).
I can't be sure as I'm writing this on a Italian keyboard but I wasn't able to find accented и or e. I wrote è using the italian e grave.
One nice feature when using a US keyboard is that if I press the tick or backtick I can have è or é in italian, could we have the same thing on a macedonian keyboard?
Hey drloc!drloc wrote:Dear Michael, Can ya plz tell ma about Urdu Language Support in Vista and Vista Urdu Localizationz.......... THankz
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PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure
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|PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure
|Game Information
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|Action, Adventure
|Many players
|E for Everyone
|Release Dates
|December 5, 2009
|November 1, 2010
|July 9, 2010
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PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure is an action or adventure game available for the Wii console. The game was released on December 5, 2009, in Japan, November 1, 2010, in North America, and July 9, 2010, in Europe. The game features the player controlling a Pikachu while challenging Pokémon to a Skill Game and partaking the attractions.
One day, Pikachu, Chikorita, Charmander, and Piplup were happily playing around until the mysterious Mew appears and sends the Pokémon to PokéPark. Mew tells Pikachu that PokéPark is in great danger as the Sky Prism has shattered into fourteen pieces and Sky Pavilion will soon eventually fall into PokéPark. Now, Pikachu ventures out to collect the pieces from the fourteen attractions, while facing powerful Pokémon through Skill Games and also trying befriending them. During Pikachu's adventure, he'll have to settle a dispute over Venusaur, Empoleon, and Blaziken. However, even after settling the dispute, new problems arise when natural disasters begin to occur.
After collecting all the prism pieces and beating all the attractions, upon returning to the Flower Zone, Pikachu is assisted by Shaymin who will gladly transform herself into her Sky-Forme and guide Pikachu and his friends in a hot air balloon to Sky Pavilion. On Sky Pavilion, the Pokémon, excluding Piplup, search for Mew but was unsuccessful. Piplup informs that his search was unsuccessful either. The Pokémon soon return to the hot air balloon and notices that Piplup never left his post.
Now, the Pokémon head to the other Piplup and discover that it was Mew in disguise. Mew then tests Pikachu's abilities in three Skill Games: Obstacle Hop, Battling, and Chase. During Obstacle Hop, Pikachu must jump from platform to platform without falling off. During the Battle event, Mew transforms into a Magmortar, then into a Garchomp, and finally into a Tyranitar. Upon defeating all forms, Mew challenges for a Chase. Once caught, Mew now fixes the shattered Sky Prism, and PokéPark is saved.
Skill Games
The Skill Games consists of five activities that test Pikachu's abilities against Pokémon.
Battling is the main activity in which some Pokémon will challenge you to a duel. During the battle, the player will need to lower the Pokémon's hit points by using a variety of moves at Pikachu's disposal. The battle feature is identical to the battling in the main series game, whereas different types of Pokémon are granted a weakness or immunity against Pikachu's Thunderbolt or Iron Tail.
Hide & Seek
Hide & Seek is another activity where a Pokémon will challenge you to find it. While playing, the Pokémon hides and you'll have to search around the area. However, if the Pokémon is close to Pikachu, its cry can be heard.
Chase is a common activity where the Pokémon will maneuver around the area. During the tag race, Pikachu will need to catch up and "tag" the Pokémon using Pikachu's Quick Attack. Some Pokémon will leave traps that will slow down Pikachu.
Pokémon will sometimes offer quizzes where the player must answer correctly. The Pokémon will ask the same questions. After three consecutive correct answers, the Pokémon will allow you to advance through another part of the zone or befriend them.
Obstacle Hop
The least common challenge is the Obstacle Hop. The Obstacle Hop is a series of platforms that Pikachu must jump on and reach the goal. The challenge must be completed within the 99 seconds time limit. If Pikachu falls off the platform, it will need to restart from the beginning with the timer still counting down.
Photography returns with Misdreavus running the system. The player can take screenshots, using the minus (-) button on the Wii remote, of the gameplay using the camera given by Misdreavus. If the player speaks to Misdreavus, the player can view the gallery, delete, or save the images to an SD card.
Powering-Up Pikachu
Pikachu's attacks can be powered-up in the Meeting Place by talking to Electabuzz, Ponyta, Bibarel, or Primeape to strengthen up Thunderbolt, Quick Attack, Pikachu's hit points, and Iron Tail, respectively. In order to power-up, the player must pay them a certain amount of berries.
There are several zones in PokéPark with different attractions and Pokémon inhabiting it.
Meeting Place
The Meeting Place is the central hub where the player can do various tasks, such as powering-up Pikachu or entering other zones. The player can access this location by beating Venusaur's Vine Swing.
Meadow Zone
Meadow Zone is the first area accessible in the game. This grassland features several types of Pokémon, most notably the Grass and Bug types.
Beach Zone
Beach Zone is accessed upon defeating Venusaur's Vine Swing and finally entering the Meeting Place. The ocean side features several water-based attractions and Water Pokémon. One can access the Iceberg Zone by befriending Lapras.
Iceberg Zone
Iceberg Zone is an area accessible upon befriending Lapras. Afterwards, Lapras will transport you to Iceberg Zone. This zone is inhabited by Ice and Water Pokémon.
Cavern Zone
The Cavern Zone is an area accessible upon beating Empoleon's Snow Slide. This area is inhabited by Rock and Ground-type Pokémon. The player can access Lava Zone through here.
Lava Zone
Lava Zone is an area accessible after fixing the rail system in Cavern Zone. Lava Zone is primarily inhabited by Fire Pokémon.
Haunted Zone
Haunted Zone is an area accessible upon defeating Blaziken's Boulder Bash. This spooky zone is inhabited by Ghost and Dark-type Pokémon.
Granite Zone
The Granite Zone is an area accessible upon beating Rotom's Spooky Shoot-'em Up attraction. This zone is inhabited by several rare Pokémon. The player can access Flower Zone here.
Flower Zone
The Flower Zone is an area accessible upon beating Salamence's Air Ace. This zone is inhabited by few Pokémon, such as Rayquaza and Shaymin.
Sky Pavilion
Sky Pavilion is the final zone that can be accessed after beating all attractions. This area is inhabited by the mysterious Mew and the Sky Prism.
Attractions are the main feature in PokéPark. There are fourteen attractions in total.
The game features a password system in which the player can unlock various items and make Pokémon appear in PokéPark. The passwords can be entered through the Password Selection in the main menu.
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Some version numbers increase very quickly (like firefox and google chrome) and others don't (like cloudapp and the ubuntu kernel). I'm kinda thinking that the developer chooses how fast the number increments; it'd be silly to add a full +1 to the number if you fixed only minor stuff though....
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Wikipedia has a discussion of various version number schemes. It really doesn't matter what scheme you use, and your customers probably don't care. The key is that you can identify the version that is being tested or has been released and have quick access to all associated artifacts for that version.
One standard I find amazingly useful is the Semantic Versioning Standard at http://semver.org . It's really short, but straightforward and I haven't found an issue yet that it doesn't cover.
After reading a lot of articles/QAs/FAQs/books I become to think that [MAJOR].[MINOR].[REV] is most useful versioning schema to describe compatibility between project version (versioning schema for developer, does not for marketing).
MAJOR changes is backward incompatible and require changing project name, path to files, GUIDs, etc.
MINOR changes is backward compatible. Mark introduction of new features.
REV for security/bug fixes. Backward and forward compatible.
This versioning schema inspired by libtool versioning semantics and by articles:
NOTE: I also recommend provide build/date/custom/quality as additional info (build number, build date, customer name, release quality):
Hello app v2.6.34 for National bank, 2011-05-03, beta, build 23545
But this info is not versioning info!!
@Ed. I specially state: versioning schema for developer, does not for marketing. I use this rules for developer versioning so restrict unnecessery MAJOR + 1. Usually managers or sellers can decide increment MAJOR and this can break code:
if (vmajor != 3) error("Incompatable version detected!");
Best is separate versioning for marketing and for developers (and maintain both of them).


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Carrie's job grows complicated when her boss, Director of the Counterterrorism Center David Estes, calls Carrie and her colleagues in for an emergency briefing. Carrie learns that Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine Sergeant who had been reported as missing in action since 2003, has been rescued during a Delta Force raid on a compound belonging to terrorist Abu Nazir. Carrie comes to believe that Brody is the American prisoner of war that her asset in Iraq was talking about However, the federal government and her superiors at the CIA consider Nicholas Brody a war hero.
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Softball Plays Host to Brevard in Rescheduled SAC ContestApril 15, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – As the Anderson University softball team battles for the top spot in the South Atlantic Conference regular-season race, the Trojans will play host to Brevard for a league doubleheader on Wednesday at Smethers Field. First-pitch for the contest, which was originally slated to be played at Brevard, is set for 3 p.m.
The Trojans
The Trojans, who have already clinched at least the sixth seed in next week's Food SAC Tournament, have climbed into a tie for first place in the conference standings on the strength of their 11-game win streak. Anderson (35-9, 13-5 SAC) has pulled even with 19th-ranked and preseason league favorite Lenoir-Rhyne, while winning 14 of its last 16 contests. Lenoir-Rhyne and Anderson are each one game ahead of Wingate and Tusculum, which share the second spot in the standings. Entering the week, the Pioneers are the second-hottest squad in the SAC after claiming their eighth consecutive victory with a road sweep past Coker last Saturday.
Anderson enters its final twin bill at Smethers Field with an opportunity to build on its school-record 19 home wins on the season and sits two victories away from last season's school-record for wins (37) in a regular season. AU leads the South Atlantic Conference in runs scored, doubles, home runs, RBI, total bases, batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage, while ranking second in total hits and walks.
Senior first baseman Danielle Swygert's seventh home run of the season in last Saturday's second game gave the Trojans' their 64th round-tripper of the campaign, which ranks second all-time in the South Atlantic Conference record books.
Four of the Trojan hitters continue to rank among the league's top 11 hitters, with sophomore Molly Child reaching safely in 34 of the last 36 games and is tops in the SAC with 12 home runs, while ranking second in the conference in runs scored (50), hits (62) and slugging percentage (.740). The hard-hitting left-hander is third in both total bases (108) and batting average (.425), while ranking fourth in the SAC with 44 RBI.
Junior Jessica Neidigh ranks eighth in the league and is second on the team with a .389 batting average. She has hit safely in 22 of AU's last 27 contests and leads the conference with 52 runs scored and 20 stolen bases.
Abby Child is hitting .388 on the season, which ranks ninth in the conference and trails sister, Molly, for the league lead in home runs by one. Abby leads the league with 28 walks and ranks third in RBI (49), runs scored (47) and slugging percentage (.724) and fifth in total bases (97) and on-base percentage (.491).
Swygert, who has reached base safely in 15 of the last 19 contests, is 11th in the league with her .385 batting average and .654 slugging percentage, while standing eighth with a .456 on-base percentage. She is seventh with 12 doubles and fourth with 44 RBI.
Outfielder Rebecca Martin, who has hit safely in nine of the last 10 contests, has boosted her career-high batting average by 46 percentage points over the last two weeks. The junior has belted a career-high seven home runs on the season, which ties her for ninth in the SAC. The Anderson, S.C. native also ranks 12th in the SAC with her .629 slugging percentage. Freshman Courtney Czentnar is the sixth player on AU's roster hitting above .300, as she boasts a .331 batting average on the season. The right fielder is fifth in the league with 10 homers and ranks eighth with 37 RBI after driving in seven runs in AU's last four games.
In the circle, junior hurler Katelynn Howser went 3-0 with two complete-game wins and a six-inning win in relief last week to improve to 14-4 on the season. Howser tossed 17 innings and scattered six hits without allowing a run in the three-game stint. The right-hander won her sixth consecutive decision with an 8-0 win past Queens in Saturday's opener and recorded 10 strikeouts while issuing just two walks on the week. Howser leads the team and ranks sixth in the conference with her 1.70 ERA on the season, while her 14 victories also rank sixth in the SAC. She has recorded 93 strikeouts, which is sixth in the SAC.
Freshman Lauren Rudesheim (14-4) leads the pitching staff with 18 starts on the season and nine complete games to her credit. Both Howser and Rudesheim each have posted three shutouts. Freshman right-hander Augie Pena (7-1) has recorded 69 strikeouts in 56 1/3 innings and has issued just 16 free passes on the season.
The Tornados
Brevard (19-22, 8-8 SAC) was a preseason pick to finish 12th in the SAC coaches' preseason poll, after finishing last season with an overall 15-31 record and a 3-15 mark in conference play.
Sophomore Jamie Hrobak was named SAC Pitcher of the Week in mid-February after helping lead the Tornados to a 4-0 start on the season. The right-hander did not allow an earned run in 14 innings, finishing 2-0 with 21 strikeouts while issuing only three walks. The Mill Spring, N.C. native tossed a pair of complete games, going five innings in game one of Brevard's sweep of Johnson C. Smith, and then seven innings in a 3-2 Tornado win over Lees-McRae. In total, the sophomore allowed only six hits in her three appearances that week.
The Tornados, who are currently seventh in the league standings, are riding a six-game win streak and have won seven of their last eight after snapping a five-game skid earlier this month. Brevard is coming off a pair of one-run wins, 1-0 and 6-5, past then league-leading Wingate last Saturday.
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PHOTOS: Marriage Equality, One Year Later, Marked at NYC Pride
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo (center, left) and NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn (center, right) march in the New York City Gay Pride March.
Participants in the annual Pride March in New York City celebrated their catalyzing role in marriage equality progress across the country over the past year while recognizing the challenges that remain on the way to securing rights for all LGBT Americans.
An estimated 2 million spectators flooded the streets of Manhattan to watch the march, which has taken place every year since 1970. The event on Sunday was held exactly one year to the day the Marriage Equality Act passed the state legislature, making New York the largest state with a law allowing same-sex couples to marry. Since then, two others states have passed legislation, and President Barack Obama has announced his personal support for marriage equality.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg (center), NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn (center, left), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (center, right), and the Empire State Building (background.)
"Today, I hope people are feeling so gratified that the work that we saw get voted on last year has now been implemented and has even further ripples with the statement of President Obama," said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who spoke before the march and drew a direct connection between developments in New York and the president's evolution. A leading mayoral prospect for 2013, she married her partner in a high-profile ceremony last month.
"We still have work to do," said Quinn, who marched with elected officials including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. "We have to get GENDA (the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act) passed and we have to get rights for transgender people in New York. But we should be very grateful that our years of effort have led the president of the United States, for the first time ever, a sitting president, to say he supports marriage equality, and he will not defend the Defense of Marriage Act. That's a remarkable thing."
The theme of the march was "Share The Love," a nod to the momentum generated in New York and an acknowledgement of the bracing agenda that remains. Four states will vote on marriage equality in referendums this November, and by this time next year, the Supreme Court could rule on the issue, with cases on DOMA and California's Proposition 8 on track for consideration.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, who signed the Marriage Equality Act into law, marched with his girlfriend Sandra Lee and three teenage daughters, surrounded by same-sex couples that have married in the state. Gannett estimates that at least 8,100 licenses have been issued since the law took effect in July.
"Marriage equality meant so much to so many people, and you can still feel it resonating," said Cuomo after the march. "It was a great accomplishment for the state of New York, and it was an accomplishment that resonated all across the nation."
The Democratic governor, who received national attention for his effort to pass the bill in a Republican-controlled senate, indicated that he would continue to play an active role. Ballot initiatives are pending this November in Maryland, Washington, Maine, and Minnesota.
"I support marriage equality obviously all across the country and anything I can do to help, I will," he said when asked his position on the state referendums. "Wherever there's marriage equality, I will support it."
The route took marchers down the wide expanse of Fifth Avenue in Midtown before turning into the narrower streets of the West Village. Layers of spectators roared outside the Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 riots credited with sparking the modern LGBT civil rights movement.
Grand marshals included Cyndi Lauper (pictured above), who was accompanied by marchers from her True Colors Fund for homeless LGBT youths; Connie Kopelov and Phyllis Siegel, the first same-sex couple to be married in New York City; and Kiehl's president Chris Salgrado. Hundreds of organizations represented issues including HIV/AIDS, LGBT seniors and, for the first time, members of the military serving openly since the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in September.
Teams of volunteers heavily promoted the president's record in New York City and other locations, with The New York Times reporting that Pride events this season "could have been confused for Obama campaign rallies." The campaign is seeking to capitalize on the contrast with the LGBT stances of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who supports a federal constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality. One Democratic consultant said, "It's like shooting fish in a barrel this year."
Revelers squirt Senator Charles Schumer with a water gun during the march. The annual civil rights demonstration commemorates the Stonewall riots of 1969, which erupted after a police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street.
The Log Cabin Republicans of New York, which has not endorsed a candidate for president, marched to provide a counterbalance with famed Nixon operative Roger Stone, who is supporting Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee. Johnson announced his support for marriage equality last year. GOProud, a group for gay conservatives, endorsed Romney in a decision that split the board.
"Anyone who knows Roger Stone knows that he is a man who says what he means and means what he says, and on Sunday he had a lot to say about the 'Obama Zombies' who were marching in support of a president who said marriage for gay Americans should be decided by the states," said Gregory T. Angelo, chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans of New York, in an e-mailed statement. "More and more gay people are waking up to the reality that if we truly want equal rights for all, we need to support fair-minded Republicans."
Opposition appeared scarce during the march, with a small protest at 21st Street. Two men from the Jewish Political Action Committee, which protested the implementation of the law last year, displayed signs that warned same-sex marriages and civil unions would lead to humans marrying animals. White wedding veils adorned a large stuffed giraffe and dog (pictured above).
Polling indicates that a majority of New Yorkers approve of the marriage equality law, where a Quinnipiac University survey last month found that voters supported the issue by 54% to 37%, slightly ahead of national trends. Opponents continue to challenge the measure with calls for a referendum, which appears highly unlikely, and a lawsuit in state court over procedures used to expedite the passage of the bill in the legislature.
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the lebesgue integral $ \int_{[0,1]} 1_{\mathbb{Q}} dm = 0 $ . and if we integrate the complement $ \int_{[0,1]} 1_{\mathbb{Q}^C} dm =1 $ which is the same as $\int_{[0,1]} dm $ to me this is still a bit of a mystery to there are $\infty $ rationals in the interval $[0,1] $ yet if we exclude all these rational the measure is still the same as if we included the set $\mathbb{Q} \cap [0,1] $ . why is that, i know the measure of a countable set is zero, but why i cant find an explanation for this, but how can a set with cardinality of $\infty$ still be zero
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It is perhaps instructive to note that there is an open subset of $\mathbb{R}$ which has finite measure and contains all rational numbers. Just number the rational numbers as $\mathbb{Q}=\{q_1,q_2,\ldots,\}$ and let $$U=\bigcup_{i=1}^\infty (q_i-2^{-i-1},q_i+2^{-i-1}).$$ The measure of $V$ is less than 1 (you can make it less than some prescribed $\epsilon$ easily enough). And the measure of open sets seems easier to understand, since any open set is the disjoint union of open intervals and the measure is the sum of the length of these intervals. (But note that the intervals defining $U$ above are not disjoint; there will be a great deal of overlap, so overlapping intervals join together to make bigger intervals …)
This is a bit counterintuitive of course, since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of room outside of $U$, yet the complement of $U$ has infinite measure. If you think about it, it must mean that even though $U$ is the countable union of open intervals, the complement of $U$ has an uncountable number of components, each consisting of just one point. (Any connected subset of $\mathbb{R}$ is an interval, but an interval containing no rational point must be a singleton.)
A single point has measure zero. A countable set is the countable union of points, and since the measure is countably additive, you have that the measure is the sum of the measure of the single points.


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Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet session held at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today. Crown Prince Sultan began the meeting by praising the outcome of the visit to Bahrain by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and his meeting with King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa. Crown Prince Sultan also applauded King Abdullah's SR 1 billion ($267 million) donation on behalf of the Saudi people to establish a medical city affiliated with the Arab Gulf University in Bahrain.
The Cabinet condemned Israeli actions to expel thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and praised last week's Nuclear Security Summit as a step in the right direction to prevent nuclear materials from falling in the hands of terrorist organizations. The Cabinet reiterated the Kingdom's call for a Middle East and the Arab Gulf regions free of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons.
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The Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance in Thursday's regular meeting to make application to the Louisiana State Bond Commission to issue the Utility Revenue Refunding bonds at a 3.75 percent annual interest rate, to repay sewer revenue bond issues in 1994, 2002 and 2003.
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Over the years cybercriminals have honed the techniques they use to attack businesses. They have moved on from largely random attacks that rely on sheer volume to take in a few gullible individuals, to targeting specific organisations and the individuals within.
The techniques developed have proved attractive to a newer type of attacker, the hacktivist, who bears a grudge against a particular organisation. Added into this poisonous mix is some very sophisticated malware that nation states have developed to attack each other, which has been repurposed by the broader community of hackers.
Whilst this is a problem for businesses, it is an opportunity for resellers. A recent Quocirca research report explains why traditional IT security measures, such as anti-virus, firewalls and intrusion prevention systems, are not enough to defend against such targeted attacks; more advanced defences are needed. Whilst few plan to abandon the old defences, the need for new ones is recognised and the budget is being made available.
For resellers this means that many of the maintenance contracts for existing IT security products will remain in place, however they will also find a willingness to invest in new products and the services to deploy these effectively. Quocirca's report looks at the details behind all this; how common certain types of attack are, which industry sectors are being hit the hardest and what defences are available; all information that should prove useful to resellers that need to overhaul their security offerings.
75% of organisations say they are concerned about targeted attacks, the majority of the rest lack awareness; few dismiss the problem as exaggerated (Figure 1). This awareness will be partly down to the reporting of such attacks in both the IT, business and popular press, but it is also because all too many organisations have actually been victims, often with a significant impact.
The likelihood of having been hit is highest in sectors with valuable intellectual property and/or lots of regulated/personal data; pharmaceutical firms, public sector bodies, manufacturers and financial services organisations top the list. The most likely impact is the loss of regulated financial data (mostly this will be payment card details) followed by lost business (Figure 2). The latter may be a direct goal of a hacktivist or just due to the disruption caused by having to clean up after an attack. Given the wide coverage in the press to some high profile attacks, the fact that negative media coverage is at the bottom of the list, just shows how many attacks are going unreported by the media.
There are many vectors that can be used to perpetrate targeted attacks. These include those that aim to directly dupe individuals such as spear-phishing (targeted emails) and social engineering (spurious contacts via Facebook etc.) However, ultimately, most involve some sort of tailored (zero day) malware, often exploiting unpatched or unknown application and system vulnerabilities.
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One man's pain is another man's gain. No one should condone online criminal activity, but it is a reality. Resellers will benefit from new revenue streams gained through adding the defences against targeted attacks to their portfolios; so will their customers.
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In the future, biomass may be a significant feedstock source and Haldor Topsøe expects that the combination of technologies used will be part of the solution to future fuel supply. The integrated pilot plant consists of Andritz Carbona gasification and Andritz Carbona/Haldor Topsøe catalytic reforming.
Haldor Topsøe A/S project partners Andritz Carbona, Gas Technology Institute,
Phillips 66 and UPM-Kymmene have successfully completed the
first production of gasoline from woody biomass in an
integrated 20 bpd demonstration plant located near
Chicago, the companies announced on Monday.
This represents a key milestone because all the individual
technology steps that have been
demonstrated individually in the past for other purposes have
now been integrated into one plant with the intention to
produce transportation fuel.
In the future, biomass may be a significant feedstock source, and Haldor
Topsøe said it expects that the combination of
technologies demonstrated in this project will be part of the solution
to the future fuel supply.
The integrated pilot plant consists of Andritz Carbona gasification and Andritz Carbona/Haldor Topsøe
catalytic reforming that produces clean syngas, GTI/Uhdes
Morphysorb process to capture acid gases and Haldor
Topsøes TIGAS process to convert syngas
to gasoline.
Woody biomass is supplied by UPM-Kymmene. Phillips 66 will
conduct single engine emission tests and moderate fleet testing
of the renewable drop-in gasoline.
The project has been supported by the US Department of
Energy (DOE), Golden Field Office, under its Integrated Biorefinery Platform program to
demonstrate a new technology for thermochemical
conversion of woody biomass into gasoline. The project team has worked under a cost
sharing contract with DOE since 2010.
The demonstration plant started operations in early 2013 and
will continue with additional demonstration runs during the
fall of 2013 and the spring of 2014. The primary objective of
the additional demonstration runs is to validate performance
and economics for commercialization of the technology.
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It is wrong to develop projects to transform the animal or vegetal (woody) biomass in fuels or fuel components. The research and development direction to transform this biomass should be oriented to:- The getting of eco-fertilizers or fertilizers components for agriculture;- Components or food for animals;- Components to industrial using.This development direction is not the mistake of the company that effect the research but of politicians who waste financial resources for wrong purposes.
Jack Rubin
It looks expensive requiring a significant plant size to produce reasonable economics. Where is there sufficient feedstock supply to support the plant size for positive economics. I would like to see the economics
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Woods, Hale Named to the AFCU Gold StandardFebruary 4, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Women's basketball junior sharpshooter Lesley Woods and wrestling's sophomore Zak Hale have been selected to the Anderson Federal Credit Union Gold Standard for the their performances for the month of January.
Woods capped off the month of January averaging 12.3 points per game, which led the team for the month. Woods knocked down 27 3-pointers in eight contests, as the Raleigh, N.C. native averaged 40.9 percent from the behind the arc. The junior highlighted her month with six 3-pointers in a 74-61 victory over Queens on Jan. 25 at the Abney Athletic Center.
Currently, Woods ranks first in the conference and 17th nationally in 3-pointers made per contest (2.85) and fourth in the league in 3-point shooting percentage (39.3).
Hale, a sophomore from Shaftsbury, Vt., went 9-1 in his 10 bouts for the month of January. In his nine victories, Hale posted four pins, three decisions and a major decision and was responsible for 43 points in 10 duals. For his efforts, Hale was ranked as high as fourth in the region at 133 in the Basford Rankings.
The sophomore looks to return to the NCAA Division II Championships for the second straight season as he currently leads the team in victories.
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As you can already tell, I am a Ubuntu newbie...trying to make the big switch from Windows to Linux. I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a partition aside from Windows. I was waiting for a prompt to ask me which OS to choose from but when I started my computer, Ubuntu loaded up automatically. I would like to have the option of choosing the loaders on Windows (white font, black background) and not the Ubuntu one (white font, purple background).
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Are there any freeware user interface tools for DB2 to be used in Linux (Ubuntu 11.04)? RazorSQL is pretty good, but it's not freeware.
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We would like to offer our congratulations to Welland Veterinarians Dr. Aron Bhan and Dr. Nicole Denouden of the Main West Animal Hospital for raising over $1000.00 for the Farley Foundation this fall. Through fundraising efforts at the animal hospital Dr. Bhan and Dr. Denouden raised money to help disadvantaged families with the cost of veterinary care for their pets. It was a long day with challenging weather but both veterinarians completed the 100km course in … Read More


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Hello, I'm writing my 3 years degree on Fourier Series. I give an historical introduction, then prove Dirichlet's convergence theorem, Fejer's and the Du-Bois Reymond counterexample of a continuos function with divergent Fourier series at one point. Then I'd like, for the last chapter, to give an application of Fourier Series. Do you have any suggestions for any such application?
The problem is all the (interesting) things I thought so far involve the Fourier Transform, which I know but since I don't have time/space to introduce it in my dissertation, I'd really like something using only the series.
Since in the first chapter I define the model of the string with fixed endpoints and give solutions for it (this was the subject of a controversy between Euler,d'Alambert and D.Bernoulli which somehow leads to F.series), it would be cool if the application could be something that's like an evolution or a more complex /real world version of this basic string model.
Any ideas/suggestions?
EDIT: asking here has proven to be very useful! Thanks to all your suggestions; even those that won't fit in my dissertation have been useful and I might come back to them in the future. Although I was asking for something real world/physical, I guess I've fallen in love with Weyl's equidistribution theorem, and I'll go for that. Again thanks.


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Every site has, at minimum, two moderators1 (and almost always three). You can confirm that a site has more than one moderator by clicking on the "about" link in the site's toolbar (i.e.,
When the moderation team for a site gets stretched thin, new elections are held (in the case of graduated sites) or new moderators appointed (in the case of beta sites) to fill the gaps.
If you think a site is stretched thin, raise a question about it on that site's meta-discussion site: SE does listen to this feedback and will act accordingly.
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I think you're talking about me, since, at the time of posting this, I was the moderator with the highest closed-questions count on Chinese Language & Usage.
I have some things to say, so I'll order them to prevent confusion:
I don't wanna come across as the dictator. But as a Mod, it is my duty to close questions I see as not fit/off topic/not constructive/etc.
If you disagree with my actions, it's your right, but then you're supposed to tell me. How can I know who disagrees with me and who not, if no-one tells me?
I hope I answered your question and addressed your concerns, and I repeat, I'm always1 available to help/answer questions. :)
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Smaller sites sometimes do not see the same level of community involvement in closing questions as bigger sites like Stack Overflow do. Whether moderators do a good job to compensate for that depends on the moderators and the site.
In my experience, it certainly can work.
If you want it changed, get involved in flagging and closing questions yourself and rally your fellow community members to do the same. And, of course, on the flip side - if you see questions closed that you think shouldn't be, leave comments and make meta posts to discuss the closures. Get involved and get your community involved so that moderators aren't left to shoulder the bulk of the work.
All sites have moderators who can close questions by themselves. Stack Overflow currently has 12 of them, but lower traffic sites won't have as many. What you normally see on Stack Overflow is normal users exercising their privilege to close questions, which they earned by gaining reputation. Lower traffic sites will haver fewer people with enough reputation for this privilege, so a larger percentage of closings will be performed by moderators.
There is a way to appeal closed questions. When a moderator closes a question, it is counted as an edit so that you can @-reply to them in a comment to protest. You can also flag for moderator attention using the other field, or post a question on the site's meta asking why it was closed.
Every site you are on has at least 2 moderators except cognitive sciences, and that is being moderated by at least 2 Stack Exchange employees who are community leaders. If you look at the closed question list, though, you'll find most questions are closed by the users, not by moderators. Keep in mind that it's only been in public beta for 17 days - it's new, and pro-tem moderators will likely be chosen from among the active users soon. However, the site only has 72 total users, and is not very active. That may be the reason why moderators haven't been chosen from the community yet. That also means you may have an opportunity to make a real impact in guiding the site, though.
However, if you have a complaint about a specific question closing, you should take it up in that site's meta, and discuss whether such questions should be closed or not with the other users of that site. In addition to voting, discussion on the meta is the best way to come to a community consensus on what direction the site should head in. You might be surprised at how many people agree with you - but of course you won't know until you start a question on the meta about it. Of course it's a double edged sword, you may instead find out that you are alone in your opinion as to what's allowed.
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I an not talking about upgrading. How do you know when to buy new wheels because the other ones have worn out? How do you tell a wheel is worn out? I can always true a wheel back to true. And nothing is dented, but the maintenance is getting a little more than it should be.
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At some point the spokes become too fatigued and start snapping.
At some point, with rim brakes, the rim wears through until it's no longer stable.
At some point the bearing races in the hub become too worn.
Of these, only the third reasonably demands that the wheel be replaced -- wheels with worn spokes can be relaced, and rims can be replaced without relacing. But in some cases, especially if more than one of the above problems is looming, it may be more cost-effective to replace the wheel rather than repair it.
And, of course, there's always the case of some sort of actual damage to the wheel -- ripped spoke holes in the flange, bent flange, "taco-ed" wheel where both spokes and rim will need replacing, etc.
There are several reasons why you might need to replace a rim or a wheel.
Of course, you can replace a hub, spokes, or the rim individually. If you replace the rim, you should replace the spokes. Why risk building fatigued parts into your new rim? And if you replace the hub, unless the wheel is very new, you should build with a new rim and spokes, for similar reasons. If you can do the work yourself, you will find it cost effective to build a wheel by hand, but if not, buying a replacement wheel (unless it is a high end hand built wheel) is usually more cost effective.
Given your description, I think number 4 is your issue. I'd say time to replace or rebuild the wheel.
I hope that helps.
Most reasonably new rims come with a wear line. There should be a groove machined into the breaking surface. Once you can no longer see this, the brakes have worn down the rim too much and the rim needs replacing.


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What does this enormous CoD: Ghosts patch on PS4 actually do? Not much?Written by: / / 5 Comments
As spotted by MP1st, a very large patch for the PlayStation 4 version of Call of Duty: Ghosts has recently been set live, but there's not a lot of information surrounding what it does save for a single note from Infinity Ward.
The 1.7GB patch for Ghosts on PS4 is said to address the following:
"Fixed a crash that could occur at the start screen, if you started downloading Onslaught before launching the game"
Is that all that the patch does? Surely not, but according to Activision support on Reddit, there are no more details to share on the purpose of the patch at this time. The support staff wrote:
"Unfortunately we don't have information on why the patches are the sizes that they are. Most of the details are included in the patch notes, I know the notes released today were a bit small, we're sorry to say we wouldn't have the full details as to why a patch focused on stability was so large.
"All patches, and patch notes are released by the studio, Infinity Ward. We apologize you've had to download so many files lately, multiplayer on Ghosts is one of the most popular features in the game, the development studio releases updates to help improve its performance.
"File size varies by platform, PS4 and Xbox One will typically be larger than its predecessors since their hardware differs from the previous generation platforms. Newer consoles are able to handle more, be it improved graphics, or even support for Ground war, so when patches/games are released for these newer platforms more data is required."
If I was to hazard a guess, a patch of that size means that the team has replaced assets for the game including textures, models or sound files – were a collection of Onslaught assets causing crashing issues in Ghosts on PS4?
Have you been having crashing troubles in Call of Duty: Ghosts?
Source: MP1st
Tags: activision, callofdutyghosts, infinityward, patch, titleupdate


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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report Wednesday urging Congress to make the immigration system more "entrepreneur friendly."
Because of U.S. policies that make it difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to make a home in the states, many are "voting with their feet" and returning to their home nations, according to a joint report from the chamber and the Immigration Policy Center of the American Immigration Council. The report suggests permitting foreign students to remain in the United States after graduation and creating a separate visa for potential entrepreneurs.
Immigrant entrepreneurs are responsible for establishing 18 percent of all Fortune 500 companies and 25.3 percent of all science and technology firms in the United States, including giants like Yahoo! and Google, according to the report.
"We should allow the world's most creative entrepreneurs to stay in our country," said Thomas J. Donehue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a speech earlier this month. "They are going to contribute and succeed somewhere — why shouldn't it be in the United States?"
Immigrants are more likely than native citizens to start their own businesses, according to the report. Five percent of naturalized citizens are self employed compared to just 3.7 percent of native-born Americans.
During his third State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama cited immigration reform as one of three important keys to boosting the nation's economy.
"Today, there are hundreds of thousands of students excelling in our schools who are not American citizens," he said. "Some are the children of undocumented workers, who had nothing to do with the actions of their parents. They grew up as Americans and pledge allegiance to our flag, and yet they live every day with the threat of deportation. Others come here from abroad to study in our colleges and universities. But as soon as they obtain advanced degrees, we send them back home to compete against us. It makes no sense."
He pledged to take on the issue of immigration reform "once and for all."
"Let's stop expelling talented, responsible young people who could be staffing our research labs or starting a new business, who could be further enriching this nation," he said.
While efforts to grant citizenship to illegal immigrants who graduate from college have met resistance in Congress, there is bipartisan support for reworking the system to make it easier for high-skill immigrants who come to the states on student visas to get green cards.
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This is probably too general a question to ask without some specific context, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway:
What are the practical differences between using a Lorentzian function and using a Gaussian function for the purposes of fitting?
They obviously both have different mathematical formulas, but to my (untrained) eye they both seem to model similar curves, perhaps even curves that could be reached exactly by either function given the right inputs.
If we're talking about fitting (which we are...), then presumably the person choosing between one or the other is interested in the values of the chosen function's variables (or some other feature of the curve like its height or FWHM), once the fitting has been done. Why? Presumably, the function is chosen since its mathematical formula instrinsicly relates to some part of the system that produced the data, but what has the Lorentzian got that the Gaussian doesn't, or vice-versa? (Or any other curve, for that matter?)
Ok, I really do apologise - I know this is a poor (and poorly worded) question. Hopefully somebody understands what I'm trying to get at and can point me in the right direction.


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Today, over 130 distinguished signatories are calling for "Stadiums for All" and an end to the Islamic Republic of Iran's 34-year ban on female fans in the run-up to the June 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Signatories to the open letter include Alda Facio, Founder and First Director of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court; Amel Grami, Professor at the Tunisian University of Manouba; Amina Sboui, Tunisian Activist; Åsa Dahlström Heuser, President of the Secular Humanist League of Brazil; Fatou Sow, International Director of Women Living Under Muslim Laws; Fereydoon Farahi, Singer and Musician; Harold Walter Kroto, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Hassan Zerehi, Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Shahrvand Newspaper; Jean-Claude Pecker, Astronomer and Former Director of the Nice Observatory; Lawrence Krauss, Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist; Marieme Helie Lucas, Founder of Secularism is a Women's Issue; Maryam Namazie, Spokesperson of One Law for All and Fitnah; Mina Ahadi, Spokesperson of the International Committee against Stoning and Execution; Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Human Rights Activist; Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan; Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science; Shadi Sadr, Human Rights Lawyer; Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian Lyricist, Songwriter and Singer of Persian Pop Music; Siba Shakib, Author and Steven Weinberg, Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physic.
The ban on women in stadiums is yet another example of gender segregation and discrimination against women. For many years now, women in Iran have opposed the ban, including by issuing petitions, organising meetings and protests at stadiums and even risking arrest by dressing as men in order to circumvent the prohibition. This open letter aims to gather further support for women and men in Iran opposing gender segregation and for stadiums for all.
The full list of signatories to the open letter can be found below.
To support Stadiums for All, please sign the petition here and Tweet: #IRWomenStadium.
The ban on female fans in Iran must end. And it must end now. [Read more…]


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Having gotten sick of Windows 7 Starter Edition for being so ridiculously slow on my Netbook, not long after I bought it I installed Lubuntu so that I could actually get things done without having to wait an age for stuff to load (and that was after an upgrade to 2GB of RAM).
So, since then I have kept Windows 7 on my netbook for the sake of being able to do stuff I only knew how to in Windows, and because I was not entirely used to/comfortable with linux yet. Now, however, I have decided to make Lubuntu my permanent OS on this machine, my only gripe being that the default Desktop Environment isn't exactly the most pleasant to look at...
I understand that this is partly because of the fact that it is so lightweight, and my Netbook might struggle with some of the effects in full desktop OSes... However, there must be some still relatively lightweight alternatives which look nicer.
I'm jealous of how beautiful an interface Ubuntu's Unity is, but I wouldn't dare try and run it on this little thing.


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Any sign of on-the-fly token adding yet?
I am working on using RSTA to replace a rather ropey text editor in an existing system, and that system has libraries you can add to it (basically C++ classes). Those libraries have a text file with keywords (aka tokens) in them, and it would be fantastic if I could parse those text files and add them to the relevant tokens sections for syntax highlighting.
I saw in pasisng in another post that this had been thought about, but has anything happened yet? It would really be a fantastic addition to what is already a fantastic component.


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6 Modern Technologies Animals Invented Millions of Years Ago
#3. Diving Bell Spiders Have... Diving Bells
So let's say you're a spider. And, following the advice of that song in The Little Mermaid, you decide you want to devote yourself to a life under the sea. How the hell are you going to do that? You're a fucking spider.
Get a job, you fucking spider.
Well, you could do what the Diving Bell Spider does and build your own freaking mini-submarine. It spins a balloon-like web in which it can trap oxygen and breathe like a raver huffing nitrous oxide out of a Hefty bag.
When We Invented It:
Although Aristotle described one in the fourth century, the first modern diving bell wasn't created and used until 1535. This may seem pretty early by human standards, but it's nothing compared to the 300 million year head start that spiders have on us.
And while diving bells and their derivative technologies allow us to blissfully explore the depths of the ocean and marvel at its beauty, we must keep in mind the ever-present threat of giant poison spiders preying on our sealabs and nuclear subs.
"Does that sound like a spider with a crowbar to you?"
#2. Homing Pigeons' Navigation Systems are Better Than Ours
Despite being famous for shitting all over everything and routinely getting hit by cars, pigeons--and specifically, homing pigeons--possess a navigation system that still makes a TomTom look like a big pile of shit.
You can take a homing pigeon, stick it in the trunk of your car, and drive it hundreds of miles away to a spot it has never been before. Release it, and it'll find its way back to its nest. There are recorded instances of these birds finding their way home from 1,100 miles away.
Many theories attempt to account for this mutant power, including suggestions that the pigeons rely on the magnetic fields of the Earth somehow.
"I'm carrying a map, you dumb asses."
During World War II America even sank money into a project that would use homing pigeons to steer missiles, though it was soon realized that putting massive destructive power into the beak of an animal that will happily eat a Filet-O-Fish out of a soggy public ashtray was probably unwise.
When We Invented It:
People have been using maps for quite a while now, but the only things that come close to replicating what the homing pigeon can do are modern Global Positioning System devices, which didn't go online until 1995. Not only does the pigeon's system fit neatly inside its tiny pigeon brain, but they've never needed to consult an iPhone to find the nearest restaurant awning to shit on.
#1. Malaysian Ants Have Suicide Bombs
Oh, did you think it was only the awesome inventions the animals came up with first?
Malaysian ants have glands full of poison, which isn't all that unusual. What is unusual is the way they will, under threat, inflate those glands and then make them fucking explode.
They detonate with such force that they completely obliterate their own head, spraying poison in all directions. So when predators intrude, these crazy bastards wait until they're within the blast radius and let loose.
"This plan is bulletproof."
Commonly referred to as the "Now Nobody Gets to Eat Me" defense, this culmination of evolutionary events seems at best misguided, but is effective nonetheless. Because honestly, you can't boil a hot dog if it fucking explodes the second you open the refrigerator, and if that explosion shot poison all over the kitchen you would stop buying hot dogs altogether.
When We Invented It:
One of the first explosives was black powder, originating in China around the ninth century. As the centuries progressed, that powder evolved into grenades, land mines, warheads, aerial bombs and artillery shells.
While these devices allow for the inclusion of explosions into any formal or informal affair, we as human beings have yet to master the art of detonating our own heads on cue, which, as the Malaysian ants have demonstrated, is the pinnacle of home defense.
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The 24-inch trunk line, which is part of a broader pipeline route that carries 150,000 bpd through the Niger Delta to the Bonny terminal, was shut in July 11. The company with the 28-inch TNP already shut in for removal of illegal theft connections, a total of about 150,000 bpd had been deferred.
By OBAFEMI OREDEIN
IBADAN -- Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian unit has reopened a
trunk line of its Trans Niger pipeline in Nigeria that was shut
in July following a leak, the company said.
Precious Okolobo, a Shell spokesman responding to a text
message, said the line was reopened on September 8, but gave no
further details.
The 24 inch trunk line, which is part of a broader pipeline
route that carries 150,000 bopd through the Niger Delta to the
Bonny terminal, was shut in July 11, according to Shell.
The company said in a statement that "with the 28 inch TNP
already shut in for removal of illegal theft connections, a
total of about 150,000 bpd had been deferred." Mr. Okolobo said
that the 28 inch section of the TNP is still shut.
The TNP was previously shut down in June following an
explosion and fire at a point that had been targeted by oil
thieves at Bodo West in the Niger delta. Subsequently, Shell
said it re-opened the TNP 24 inch pipeline in the first week of
July after it had repaired the point where crude oil theft led
to an explosion and removed six crude oil connections where
thieves had tapped in.
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Term from the British comedy series The Mighty Boosh, Season 2. Used in the episode "The Legend of Old Greg." Basically a kid-friendly version of motherfucker.
Howard: That's not my fishing line
Greg: It's attached to your rod, motherlicker.
Greg: It's attached to your rod, motherlicker.
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a politically correct, 'PG' version of the well known phrase; Mother Fucker.
Old Gregg: It's attached to your rod mother licker.
Have you ever drunk Baileys from a shoe?
Do you wanna go to a club where people wee on
each other?
Howard Moon: No. Sir.
Have you ever drunk Baileys from a shoe?
Do you wanna go to a club where people wee on
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by Eagle von Ceasel May 05, 2008
Going Down on someone's mom. Another term for Cock sucker, except its your mother....
"Thats a MILF" "I hear ya Mother LICKER"
by Stan-Dup Baby October 20, 2009
One who licks mothers. Specifically ones with nice cans.
Ashton Kutcher is a motherlicker.
by sjd March 17, 2005
To use the togue and its muscles to stroke "a mother" with your togue.(used in only a joking manor(not ment to affend.)
Tonight I am going to lick your mother!
by Jose Nickolas November 12, 2003
to stroke your a mother with your tongue; or an insult takin jokingly or instead of saying mother @#$^.
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January 27, 2013
Blouberg Beach in the morning – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph was taken in Blouberg by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member, Gerry Erasmus.
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