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An erection in public. Something you do NOT want others to notice, thus you should quickly conceal before it's noticed. He should then proceed to get rid of it by thinking about non-sexual images.
He noticed his shame stick when she talked to him, but quickly covered it before she noticed.
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a peice of butter on a stick rolled in sugar. usally eaten by fat over sized depressed losers.
that bitch left to go eat another shame stick.
by Eddy mac October 11, 2006
Eaten in shame, a shame stick is a stick of butter covered in sugar.
Ew, you had sex with Billy? GO EAT A SHAME STICK.
by Moonunit May 25, 2007
A stick of butter rolled in sugar and then eaten
You're fat because you love those god damn shamesticks!!
by FS SMITH October 14, 2008
a rather obvious euphemism for penis
>> BJ 07/12/07(Fri)02:00 No. 10890
when my DVD comes out then yew can look at my boygirl shamestick as long as yew want..but until then..use your imagination ^_^
when my DVD comes out then yew can look at my boygirl shamestick as long as yew want..but until then..use your imagination ^_^
by misguided faggot December 08, 2007
A stick of butter rolled in sugar. Sororities such as Phi Sigma Sigma often make their new initiates eat this as a right of passage, a type of hazing. Also are often eaten by the heavier sisters of the sorority.
That Phi Sig probably just ate a shame stick.
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In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he?
Vincent's friends, baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, have their doubts. Now they re determined to answer the questions surrounding van Gogh's untimely death like who was the crooked little color man Vincent claimed was stalking him across France . . . and why had the painter recently become deathly afraid of a certain shade of blue? Ooh la la, quelle surprise, and zut alors, what follows is a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris, as the one, the only, Christopher Moore cooks up a delectable confection of intrigue, passion, and art history . . . with cancan girls, baguettes, and fine French cognac thrown in for good measure.
"[H]ilarious, educational, and original. . . . [I]t is difficult to put the book down, for there are astonishing new developments on every page."
"A page-turner…. Your 'Lear' can be rusty or completely unread to appreciate this new perspective on the Shakespearean tragedy. That is if you enjoy a whole lot of silly behind the scenes of your tragedies."
-Valdosta Times (Georgia) on FOOL
"If there's a funnier writer out there, step forward."
"[W]all-to-wall, farcical fornicating and fighting…a jolly good time can be had."
-Booklist on FOOL
"A laugh-a-page novel that's raunchy and irreverent."
-USA Today
"A raunchy slapstick comedy of young vampires in love . . . Moore is in top form, and this reviewer laughed all the way through this page-turner. Enthusiastically recommended."
-Library Journal
"A vampire comedy that's witty, bright and funny."
"An instant classic . . . terrific, funny and poignant.
-Rocky Mountain News
"Funny, literate, smart and sexy, all at once!"
-Jeff Lindsay, author of the Dexter series, on FOOL
"In transforming "King Lear" into a potty-mouthed jape, Moore is up to more than thumbing his nose at a masterpiece. His version of Shakespeare's Fool, who accompanies Lear on his slide from paternal arrogance to spiritual desolation in the original text, simultaneously honors and imaginatively enriches the character."
-San Francisco Chronicle on FOOL
"It's hard to resist so gleeful a tale of murder, witchcraft, treason, maiming, and spanking. . . . Moore's deft ear for dialogue keeps the pages turning . . . Fool is a wickedly good time."
-Christian Science Monitor on FOOL
"Less may be more, but it isn't Moore. Wretched excess doth have power to charm, and there are great reeking oodles of it strewn throughout these irreverent pages."
-Kirkus Reviews on FOOL
"Moore has produced eight books that deftly blend surreal, occult and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture. Powered by engines of the abnormal and unlikely, his tales feature eccentric lowlifes who find their desperate existences hilariously remade by intrusions from other spheres."
-Washington Post Book World
"Moore is a very clever boy when it comes to words. There are good chuckles to be had in this tale. …Whether you need to read the original King Lear before you read Moore's Fool is debatable. Seems a fool's errand to us. Just enjoy."
-USA Today on FOOL
"Moore turns things on their head with an edgy 21st-century perspective that makes the story line as sharp, surly and slick as a game of Grand Theft Auto… It's a manic, masterly mix-winning, wild and something today's groundlings will applaud."
-Publishers Weekly on FOOL
"Often funny, sometimes hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters and ministerial students of the kind who come to our doorstep on Saturday mornings."
-Dallas Morning News on FOOL
"Mingling comedy and mystery, Moore crafts an intricate story that teases the reader with numerous twists and bawdy humor.…[T]his is an imaginative and amusing look at the Impressionist era, and Moore's prose is fresh and engaging."
-Booklist on SACRE BLEU
"Art history is playfully--and perilously--rewrtitten in this ambitious novel....fans of Moore's mix of wit and slapstick will be pleased."
-Publishers Weekly on SACRE BLEU
"Moore's humor is, as ever, sweetly juvenile, but his arty comedy also captures the courage and rebellion of the Impressionists with an exultant joie de vivre."
-Kirkus Reviews on SACRE BLEU
"[A]surprisingly complex novel full of love, death, art, and mystery....Don't let Moore's quirky characters and bawdy language fool you. His writing has depth, and his peculiar take on the impressionists will reel you in....this is a worthy read. "
-Library Journal (starred review) on SACRE BLEU
"[A] marvelous, tongue-in-cheek, mythical explanation of the artistic urge... brought vividly to life."
-The Oregonian (Portland) on SACRE BLEU
"Can Moore find the funny in gloomy Van Gogh? If anybody can-can, count on Moore."
-USA Today on SACRE BLEU
"Sacré Bleu is a consistently compelling blend of love story, mystery, and 'what if?' art history lesson."
-Entertainment Weekly on SACRE BLEU
"Captivating . . . Those familiar with Moore's work will love this rich story, which is full of gleefully anachronistic behavior and language--often pun-based--coming from artists we ordinarily revere."
-Houston Chronicle on SACRE BLEU
"[A] delightfully ribald romp."
-Washington Post Book World on Sacre Bleu
"The true joy in Sacré Bleu stems from Moore's writing....His writing contains the rare combination of poetry and humor; where one moment you find yourself rereading a passage for its sublime imagery, and the next, you are grinning over a well-placed wisecrack....an excellent novel."
-Dallas News on Sacre Bleu
"[A]nother exceedingly bizarre, often raucous, and consistently delightful journey into the sweetly demented mind of novelist Christopher Moore."
-Philadelphia Inquirer on SACRE BLEU
"Sacre Bleu is big fun."
-St. Paul Pioneer Press on SACRE BLEU
"Christopher Moore's new novel blends diligently researched art history smoothly with his fevered, fiendish imagination."
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on SACRE BLEU


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I am looking forward to migrate fully to Asana from Things because of pricing/costs reasons. What I have right now in Things (for Mac) is :
- Today
- Next
- Scheduled
- Someday
- Projects
I have never used "Areas of responsibility" as I find them completely useless.
My walkthrough when having a new project in Things is :
- I create a new project for [P] Personal or [W] Work to make them clear out from in first sight. That means that I can have a project [P] Clean my room or [P] Update my Linkedin profile and [W] Send report to Manager.
I am confused with Asana's workspaces. All I want is to have several projects with multiple tasks and subtasks. What am I thinking is :
create a Workspace called "[P] Projects" and another one "[W] Projects". Then each project will contain its tasks having them all in one "workspace" place. The cons are that I won't be able to break down projects to smaller ones, as the video about project management in asana help videos shows. The only way is to have labels by pressing ":" at the end of each task group.
create a separate workspace for each big project. That will be hell. Asana's left column seems the only negative aspect to me, where you can't view the tasks of all workspaces in one place. Also, If I have 30 workspaces/projects, it seems VERY hard to follow with every one of them and hunt deadlines.
Also, there are no menus for GTD in Asana like "today", "next", "someday", etc.
If you use Asana, how do you do it ?


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Is is possible to use rpm without root access?
Depending on the contents of the package you could simply extract the contents of the rpm and use it from somewhere withing your home directory. Even if it isn't flagged as relocatable. If binaries in the package have hard-coded paths, or if the application requires root access then it may not be possible.
There are lots of answers suggesting relocatable packages. The relocation option is for administrators to choose the destination (making destination be /opt instead of /usr/local for example) and is not really for user permissions.
While it may be possible to get around some permissions issues using this method, the MAJOR problem is that when you perform rpm operations, it is modifying the /var/lib/rpm/__db.* databases that are owned root:root. So as JPerkSter said "short answer = no". Setting up sudo to allow the specific needs would probably be the best bet.
Considering all of the above, regarding relocatable builds, you could try following the instructions listed here.
The RPM spec contains an option called 'relocatable'. If the rpm is built with relocatability turned on then it can be installed in a user specified directory using the '--prefix' option. So presumably an rpm could be installed locally without superuser access as long as two conditions are met:
But, in general, no, you need superuser access to install an RPM. While the relocatable option exists, I have nearly never seen a package that has been built to support it.
Some packages are relocatable so they may work fine without root, just specify prefix when installing it: rpm -i my.rpm --prefix=/my/home/folder
If package is not relocatable you may still extract the files from RPM and try to run it. You can extract RPM files using for example:
Copy the files into your ~/ folder, add any additional dependency libraries and hope for the best. Not guaranteed but you may get some non-relocatable packages working this way.
You can force it to install under a different directory using a different dbpath. Also you should probably not run any scripts directly without checking them out.
This will put an rpm under the current directory and extract the scripts so you can edit and run them if necessary.
You can build RPM's without root access, just do so inside your homedirectory. As far as installing RPM's, I would say the short answer = no.
Yes, but you may not want to. I have used custom puppet manifests and rpm packages to maintain software on compute clusters on which I did not have root access. In theory it is as simple as
However, there are quirks in how this behaves across EL4, EL5, and EL6, so you'll need a different set of steps and options for each one. I don't have that information handy anymore. Those quirks, as well as frequent RPM database issues (perhaps due to NFS), made me regret using rpm.
no its not possible rpm with out root,su or sudo access


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I selected one of the alternative NVIDIA drivers on my Sony Vaio from the Additional Drivers application. That ruined my installation and all I get is the login prompt at bootup.
However I can go in at bootup by selecting "Older Ubuntu Versions" and selecting whatever was there before. This older version has the correct drivers (NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver 173) which I'm using right now.
Is there file in the "new" (broken) system where I can replace the NVIDIA driver entry from the "old" system I'm using (which works fine) without having to reinstall UBUNTU from scratch? Or can I reinstall UBUNTU without losing all my files and settings? or what are my alternatives?


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Welcome to the Business Intelligence from the Swamp blog. This blog provides views on the value of business intelligence, trends and directions of BI, and controversial topics around the BI industry. One thing it won't be is some boring CEO blog who just promotes their own products and company, and on average gets zero comments. To make this simple and easy, here's a few questions and answers so you get to know more about this blog and why you should care:
Who am I?
I'm Richard Daley, the co-founder and CEO of Pentaho, the leading open source Business Intelligence provider. I've been working in the Business Intelligence industry since the mid 80's when I worked on BI systems (formerly known as Executive Information Systems) on mainframes. The reason I mention this is that my colleagues never fail to remind me of how long I've been around this market. Two companies that I co-founded prior to Pentaho are AppSource Corporation (acquired by Arbor Software which later merged into Hyperion Solutions) and Keyola (acquired by Lawson Software).
I am from and live in Orlando, Florida and have started all my companies here. It allows me to enjoy a few of my favorite things being: Florida Gators, family and water skiing.
Summary: a swamp-based, successful BI veteran (hence the title of the blog).
Why am I blogging?
I want to get a real conversation started about the business intelligence market and how it rapidly is changing for the better. How forces like open source and cloud deployments are commoditizing the market. As mentioned above, I've been in the BI space for years. There has been a sea of change and not all of it is good. This blog is to express my opinions and provide insight into the BI industry and the world of commercial open source
Will I be the only one blogging?
To provide a true outlook on the industry, this blog will have guest bloggers from throughout the industry. Expect to hear from people that are breaking down barriers and making an impact in the BI and open source industries. And some true entertainers who make BI and BI controversies enjoyable.
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Some words that come to mind are open source and BI trends, cloud-based BI, customer and partner activities, product and technology advancements, competitors, authenticity and other interesting topics. This blog is not just about Pentaho but an overall outlook on the business intelligence industry.
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My front tire has the skinny valve (I believe it is a Presta) and so does my rear tire. But my rear tire also has a screw-on piece that goes over the valve which I believe to be an adapter. Do they simply provide one adapter because it is cheaper and you can move it from one tire to the other?
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Because you only fill one tire at a time. The adapter screws off and can be used on either tire if needed. It can also be easily stored with your patch kit, so it doesn't need to be on the bike. I only keep one around in case I get stuck with only a schraeder pump at my disposal.
Yes, you can remove the adapter and put it on the rear tire.
The reason for putting on an adapter is so that you can use air-compression equipment which is available at gas stations etc. You don't actually need it if you have a good pump at home which is two fit (presta and schrader).
The adapter is only meant to be used while pumping up the tire. You shouldn't keep it installed while riding.
Many bicycle pumps can be used with both presta and shrader valves, but I'd reccomend that you keep a pump around that can pump presta natively so that you never need to mess with the valve adapter.
I used to always keep my adapter taped to my bike, in case I needed to use a car pump. Most bike pumps will deal with Presta valve, so you should not have to use the adapter often.


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Hey guys, I've talked to Pana and a few other seattle people about this. I'd love to do a big family thanksgiving dinner around thanksgiving time. It doesnt need to be on the day, because I know some people have families, but Id like to have it around that time. I'd also like to invite you portland and vancouver guys once we figure everything out. (not to say you're not invited now. you are I just want to double check on the location and such.) anyway, I know dyganth, icarus, bloodspray and I at the least don't have family out here and Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. spending it with my Dtoid family would be awesome!
Lemme know who's in so I can start a head count.


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The 10 Most Bizarre Military Experiments
We suspect that every military has a secret room full of stoned dudes who stare at the ceiling and just dream up shit to build. The difference is they have billions of dollars to make their dreams reality.
In support of our "secret room full of stoned dudes" theory, we offer the following actual military projects that stretch the limits of the non-stoned imagination:
#10. The Bat Bomb
Working on the premise any weapon is cooler if it flies in the night on leathery wings, Bat Bombs were proposed by a dental surgeon in the '40s. Naturally the President thought it was awesome so a plan was rolled out to make the night unsafe for anyone that didn't want to have small explosives get stuck in their hair.
The Plan:
Because bats can carry a good amount of weight and tend to sneak into buildings and such, the plan was to make an army of flying rodent suicide bombers and release them over Japan. The little fellas had small napalm explosive kits made for them, which were probably the cutest incendiary devices ever, and then cases were constructed that would be dropped from B-29s, releasing the bats.
At dawn, they'd flee to buildings until the timers on their little bombs went off. So far, so fucking crazy.
What went wrong:
Things got sketchy when some armed bats were accidentally released and set up shop under a fuel tank on an Air Force base. So, yeah, that burnt to the ground. But, hey, it proved the damn things worked, so the people involved looked at that as a silver lining.
Given that the bomb casings they'd made for the bats could hold over 1,000 bats, they assumed just one bomber could hold up to 200,000 little flaming night terrors and some initial test data concluded these bat bombs were actually superior to regular fire bombs.
But after a couple million bucks in funding, the plan was scrapped. The plan was moving forward too slowly, the bats were unpredictable and the guys at the Manhattan Project were talking about having some kind of miracle bomb that could do the work of like, a million bats.
#9. The Great Panjandrum
Getting through enemy fortifications is always tough, what with their insistence on constructing defenses out of stone and other non-meringue based substances. Sometimes conventional weapons just can't break through, and such was the case with the concrete defenses that were part of the Third Reich's Atlantic Wall that ran up and down the west coast of the European continent. So the Brits came up with the Panjandrum, insanity's answer to "what could we do to make explosives more dangerous?"
The Plan:
So how do you get a tank-sized hole in a concrete wall? Well, they created two giant, wooden wheels joined by a central drum stuffed with explosives. On each wheel they strapped rockets as a means to propel it forward at speeds of about 60 miles an hour. Life imitates art, and sometimes military life imitates Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
What went wrong:
You can probably guess. The rockets that moved the thing had a habit of flying off during tests, sending the entire structure off course, which we're thinking created a number of safety issues. After adding more rockets and another wheel, it was tested again and this time it turned right back to sea.
Finally, after many tweaks, it was ready to be tested in front of Navy officials, scientists and journalists. How could this go wrong?
The ridiculous thing started rolling off as planned, but then like a drunken hussy with vertigo on a dance floor, it started careening all over the place before making a beeline for the assembled Navy brass, discarding rockets and wobbling around before thankfully collapsing and exploding. Moments later, the Roadrunner went zipping by.
#8. Project Orcon
A real pain in the ass during WWII was the enemy constantly trying to not get bombed. Ways of jamming guidance systems for homing missiles meant a lot of targets went unblown up, so effort was put into finding a way to guide a missile that couldn't be jammed.
The Plan:
Every psych 101 students' favorite sleep aid, BF Skinner, proposed the idea of using pigeons. Put a pigeon in a bomb and have the target displayed on screen for it. The pigeon would constantly correct the course by pecking on the image of the target in the center of the screen. Jam that, Nazi assholes.
What went wrong:
Even though a chunk of change had been dropped on the project, the military abandoned it. Some say it was just too weird for them, while the time involved in training the pigeons had also been cited. One of the problems was the range of the weapons, as they relied on an optical system, since the pigeons had to see what they were pecking at. If the bomb went too far off course, the pigeons would have to correct for themselves and the bomb. Another problem was that it was a bomb guided by a fucking bird.
#7. The Sun Gun
Destroying your enemies from space is the goal of every angry 4th grader and Scientologist. Unbeknownst to many, it was also the goal of the Nazis, who figured a space station/death ray combo would have been gangbusters.
The Plan:
Appropriating the work of less genocidal minds, Nazi physicists began work on an idea that would put a giant mirror in orbit. The mirror, which they planned to design from about one million tons of metallic sodium, would burn cities to the ground, boil reservoirs, crisp people like bacon and probably make all kinds of kids with magnifying glasses huddled over ant hills feel grossly inadequate.
The mirror would be on a space station manned by Nazi spacemen with magnetic boots to help overcome weightlessness, with oxygen provided by on-board pumpkin patches and electricity provided by solar powered steam dynamos. The cafeteria would presumably have food deep fried in love and the rec room would be structured out of the dreams of children and unicorn gonads.
What went wrong:
We did. "We" being all the non-Nazi assholes, the more colloquial name for the Allied forces. When it became clear that we were going to win the war, the US began taking German scientists out of the country and this plan, along with many others, was abandoned. Also, the epic, grand scale, and mind-bogglingly retarded nature of the entire idea was apparently a roadblock that needed to be overcome too, since we couldn't even build the damned thing now, in 2008, if we wanted to.
And trust us, we want to.
#6. Project Habbakuk
When Winston Churchill got a hankering to smite his enemies, he aimed for the sky. Actually, he aimed for the ocean, where he wanted to build Holy Fuck That's Insane island. That was renamed Project Habbakuk. It was an aircraft carrier. It was an iceberg.
The Plan:
Wanting to make an unsinkable aircraft carrier that would be so intense as to make enemies shit themselves uncontrollably, and with good reason, the Brits came up with the Habbakuk. Constructed from ice (ever try to sink an ice cube?) the plan was to make it 2,000 feet long with a deck to keel depth of 200 feet and walls 40 feet thick. It would displace 2,000,000 tons (compared to the Navy's current Nimitz class carriers that displace 100,000 tons). So, it was like, really big.
When ice proved to be not entirely feasible a material to build an aircraft carrier out of, they switched to something called Pykrete, which was just ice and wood pulp. It was intense stuff that deflected bullets and since this idea was already probably the craziest thing anyone had ever heard of, why the fuck not?
What went wrong:
Practicality. A small version had been constructed in Canada that weighed 1,000 tons and was only 60 feet long to show that the idea could work. It took three summers to melt the damn thing. The full-scale model would take $70 million, 8,000 people and eight months to finish, the finished product could only travel at six knots and once it arrived where it was going, it would still be made of fucking ice.


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Most of the credit cards require PIN to authorize transaction. Recently upon a transaction the merchant required my signature and not my PIN. I understand this is another sort of authorizing the transaction. But this is more to held me accountable , if i denied the payment. It doesnt offer the security of a PIN since anyone obtaining my card can ran away with the money. The transaction was less than 100$. Moreover , i remember my father 10-15 years ago paying for bigger sums with just his signature, before the PIN arrived i guess. Does this means whoever has either my card / or photograph of my card (both sides with CCV code) can withdraw as much as he wants?
Payment protocols have many variants. However, they mostly boil down to the three following:
In any case, the point is not exactly to prevent fraud, but to reduce it to tolerable levels. The merchant does not really mind a fraudster running with the money, as long as he will be refunded by the bank. The bank sees the big picture and does not feel invested with the sacred mission of catching all thieves; the bank wants the total fraud cost to be as low as possible, and that's not the same thing.
Banks usually prefer it when the PIN code is used, because it lowers fraud level (by as much as a factor of ten, as I heard). However, this requires a PIN-aware terminal; with solution 2, a network connection must also be maintained with the bank; with solution 3, the card must have a chip (smart card deployment was long delayed in the Americas because banks waited for the 1986 French patent on smart cards to expire). Merchants are not usually cooperative for changes (they must pay for the new terminals) and card deployment is not fast (since each card is valid for several years), so the "first type" payment method (with a pen-based signature) is still possible in many shops. It should gradually disappear, though, because it allows for easier frauds, which makes banks uncomfortable.
Ultimately, this is a question of relative strength between banks (who want to enforce the systems which will ensure the least possible amount of total fraud) and merchants (who want to have the automatic refunding at the least cost for them). The card owner himself does not have much to say... however, legally speaking, the card owner is "protected" as long as he follows the official rules from his bank. As long as the bank does not forbid him to pay with a signature, the bank must refund the user if a fraud on his account occurred.
(Whether bank clerks will make the operation easy is another question.)
What I think you'll find is that if you're in a country with Chip+PIN deployed, if a merchant takes a signature instead (usually because their Chip+PIN system is down) then the fraud liability moves from the customer to the merchant.
So if you have fraudulent transactions on your card where the merchant doesn't have the PIN you can just dispute them and the onus will be on the merchant to prove that they are legitimate, rather than on you to prove that they're not.
It likely depends on what network is being used to process the card. If the network is EFTPOS-like, a PIN is typical. However, if the network is credit-like, a signature is typical (at least, before EMV existed).
A lot of cards are dual-branded, and how they are processed can depend on the configuration of the merchant's terminal. It's not likely to be a question of backup, though it's conceivably possible that a PIN might be required only if online authorization is being done.
A photograph of a card isn't often all that helpful, because usually a CVV code (different from the CVV2 code on the back) is stored on the magstripe and is not easily derived without a 128-bit DES key and knowledge of the card service code. Just having a picture of the card, even of both sides, will usually only enable you to use the card for card-not-present transactions.
Really, the specifics of the security features on some particular card are best asked of the card issuer.
Signing for a credit card transaction is still quite common in countries where they use the magnetic strip on the side rather than the embedded smart card chip (which uses a PIN code). Note that this is a choice of the credit card company. A pin is indeed more secure, but for usability reasons not enforced everywhere (in Europe it is quite common these days).
The maximum sum is the same for your pin card as for the magnetic swipe. If they indeed have your CCV code then they can just use your card (although I know a lot of payment gateways check if the chip&pin is present for that card and they will require you to sign the transaction digitally).
If they find a gateway that does not do this check, then yes, they can withdraw money with your card (until its limit is reached). However most credit card companies will reimburse you for the damages suffered if fraud (malicious transactions) are discovered with your card.


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Some of the landscape photographs that I've seen are technically excellent - good use of colour, shapes, contours, leading lines, detail, etc. But, and this is a big but, quite often I'm satisfied in having seen it once and do not feel the need to see it again. From time to time, this goes to an extreme - a photo might be technically excellent but I most definitely do not want to see it again. In short, some photographs I would be happy to see in an art gallery but equally as happy for them to stay in the art gallery and not have them in my home. I accept that the actual subject material which falls into each basket is going to be different for different people.I'm curious, do others feel the same way about photographs?I suppose from a commercial perspective, is there a meaningful intersection of what is artistic and what is desirable/endurable?What brought this to mind was that during the last week or so, I was thinking about the Palouse PODAS photographs that were posted on this website and thinking "yes, that's really nice and well captured, but I don't want to see a tractor and dust every day when I get home from work."Thoughts?
The original question is clearly about displaying any landscape photos at home, and not about ones own work. But nearly everyone here has inferred the question has been asked about displaying ones own photos at home. This common misinterpretation is kind of funny in a way.To the OP: in the original statement, is there an implied assertion that there is something inherently unworthy about photographs? To my reading, the key reply is: Why do you feel this way about photos?
If I look at my own work day in and day out the familiarity breeds contempt.
Don't be silly, Rob. These large prints will be Premium Glossy paper for maximum gamut, or at least Premium Lustre. They will be immaculate. Wallpaper indeed! Nothing could be further from the truth.There are no cracks on my walls, Rob. They're all lovely, flat, smooth, painted surfaces. I've never hung wallpaper in my life, and don't intend to start now.
Well, then let's look at the problem (challenge, as some prefer to call these things) again: after many moons have waxed and waned (Wayned in the U.S.?) my walls are far from pristine - more Capella Sistina, to be honest, so I thought that perhaps now, since the accompanying illustration of the (recorded) restructuring, a true work-in-progress, a pretty print à la mosaic might be a better option. For myself, if not for your present domestic arrangement. But I don't know, walking all over art has its spiritual downside, I guess...You really should discover the art of hanging wallpaper. It has many fringe benefits: you learn how to walk the plank; you discover long-lost oaths from your own distant and even ancestral past that might otherwise have become extinct at huge cultural loss and you do save a heap of money best spent on photography. Well, sometimes. But for walls, I guess any competent printer used to 42" rolls of Kodak or Ilford products would have no problem at all doing his thing with anaglypta and paste instead. Again, you see the advantages of the wet processes of yesteryear...
One alternative is to make a tryptch in 3 parts. the width of each trytch part would be 24" wide (600mm width of your printer) by 48" high. So the 3 bases would add up to 6' wide. If you wanted a more pano look to it, you could make it a 4 tch or 5 tch ecetera. Canvas would be nice, but one could also take the prints and bond them to some secure but light weight base, that could be removable. That way, you could still paint the walls if you ever needed to get behind the print for maintenance reasons. Just brainstorming - good luck.
Unfortunately, Nikon have put a spanner in the works, by coming out with the D800E. I'm just so disappointed . I feel that I now have to revisit the scene to reshoot, to maintain my high standards. It's a long walk.


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Do you mean the plastic stop on the lower rail to remember lower rail setting position? You can remove the plastic stop on the rail, you only need it if you change LRS positions several times or take off the vertical rail. You can fix the Nadir adapter without this stop in front to rotator side.
Did I understand you right?
Using RD3-L you have to strip the lower rail: take off upper and lower part of standard rotator and tke off detend ring and the yellow center screw. Then fix the black plate of the mounting set with the outstanding pins to the anti twist holes on top of the new rotator. Use the screw coming with the set 3/8"-6mm to fix the lower rail from top, then add the logo screw to top of screw. This indeed has a smaller diameter than the original standard rotator.


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Her mean mug is still better than Usedtabe's
I don't have a mean mug.
Hey Rev pm me dat code. I voted for Obama.
Only if you film yourself eating a bowl of Mountain Dew and shit.
So intense right now
Rev should PM the codes to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League.
Fuck the ADL. Burn it with fire.
Don't blow up ZP like that
You really let yourself go phil IF THAT IS IN FACT YOUR REAL NAME
"Oh you a high-powered goat huh? Imma sneak up on him"
Just finished up the campaign. Awesome game, did not care for the ending. Reminded me of
Spoiler!Mass Effect 3's ending.
Dunno if that's a spoiler or not.
All for a video game we won't be playing in a year or two.
They've turned you people into addicts.
Still not as bad as Black Friday.


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We have a line (in parameter):
$ x = 2\lambda $
$ y = 1-\lambda$
Find out for which values of $\lambda$ the points of the line are inside the circle of $x^2+4x+y^2-6y+5=0$
What I did:
I rewrote the circle to the form $(x+2)^2 + (y-3)^2 = 8$.
Where my problems/questions are:
First of all, I have trouble with the parameter representation of a line, how can I rewrite this to for example $y=ax+b$ or $ax+by=c$?
And there also is a problem with how to continue. I thought if replacing the $x$ and $y$ in the circle equation by $2\lambda $ and $ y = 1-\lambda$ respectively, but I get a nonsensical answer:
$(2\lambda + 2)^2 + (1-\lambda -3)^2 = 8$
$4\lambda ^2 + 4\lambda + 4 + \lambda ^2 +4\lambda + 4 = 8$
$ 5\lambda ^2 + 8\lambda =0$
$ \lambda ^2 + 1.6\lambda = 0$
And at this juncture I just quit because of the nonsensical answer I would get if continued. What am I doing wrong? What am I doing right? How does the parameter representation of a line work and how can I rewrite it into a different form?


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Joseph J. Gryniuk Sr.
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Joseph J. Gryniuk Sr.
Mr. Gryniuk was born in Harwinton on Aug. 1, 1923, son of the late Anna Miniuk, and was a lifelong Torrington resident. He was a proud World War II U.S. Army veteran and was a member of the First Special Service Force, which was the first unit to march into Rome during its liberation. Joe's unit is now in the process of being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their service during that campaign.
During the years following World War II, Joe and his wife, Frances, attended many annual reunions, including his 66th. They visited Italy and France with the FSSF Association, on both its 40th and 50th anniversaries, visiting battlefields and cemeteries of fallen soldiers. He was a past state commander of the Polish Legion of American Veterans, a member of the State VFW and more recently served as honorary parade marshal of the Torrington Memorial Day Parade.
Very devout to his Catholic faith, Joe was a lifelong active communicant of St. Mary Church and was a former member of the parish council, a lector and was honored to have been blessed by three popes. He was a member of the Eastwood's Country Club Retiree Golf League, an avid Boston Red Sox fan, and enjoyed traveling, woodworking and gardening. Proud of his Polish ancestry, he upheld many Polish customs and traditions. He was a former member of the Torrington Lodge of Elks.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, include two sons, Joseph J. Gryniuk Jr. and his wife, Debbie, of Tacoma, Wash., and Jonathan Gryniuk and his wife, Tina, of Castle Rock, Colo.; two daughters, Francine Gryniuk of Torrington, and Kathleen Weinstein of Great Barrington, Mass.; eight grandchildren, Matthew Hughes, Daniel Hughes, Joseph Gryniuk III, Tony Casper, Evan Casper, Joshua Weinstein, Bessie Gryniuk and Mary Gryniuk; and many nieces and nephews. Mr. Gryniuk was predeceased by two brothers, John Gryniuk and Stanley Gryniuk, and two sisters, Josephine and Helen.
Funeral services will be held 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 8, 2014, from Gleeson-Ryan Funeral Home, 258 Prospect St., Torrington, to St. Mary Church, 85 Pulaski St., Torrington, for a Mass of Christian Burial at 12:30 p.m. Burial with full military honors will follow in St. Peter Cemetery, Torrington. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 7, 2014, at Gleeson-Ryan Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary Church, c/o the Pope John Paul II Pastoral Center, 160 Main St., Torrington 06790; or to Sacred Heart High School, 142 S. Elm St., Waterbury 06706.
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For a first-order theory $T$ and cardinals $\kappa < \lambda$, we say that $M$ is a $(\kappa,\lambda)$-model if it is of size $\lambda$ and has a definable (with parameters) subset of size $\kappa$.
1) Let $T$ be the theory of the countable random graph. Which $(\kappa,\lambda)$-models does it admit?
2) For an arbitrary $T$, what are the sufficient conditions for the existence of $(\kappa,\lambda)$ models for some $\kappa < \lambda$? This is not a question about transfer from some $(\kappa,\lambda)$ to a different $(\kappa',\lambda')$, there are quite a few theorems there. What I am asking for is some kind of a non-structure theorem, (apart from having a Vaughtian pair).


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text: Unfortunately I don't remember too much about this guy that wears the MC Hammer style pants decorated to look like the United States flag. I do remember that he has a wife that is known for her fake breasts. So, who is this guy that you will be tacking next? Well, I will show you "how to draw Rex", step by step. Rex owns the local karate dojo and he is also what you call a patriotic martial arts master, he has no problem telling folks how it is. Well, that's all I can say about this guy for now. When I start watching the series I will fill you in on more 411 when his animated character side is developed more. I still have more coming your way folks so stay tuned in. Peace out and enjoy!


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I'm a Delphi and C# coder and have been given the assignment to introduce the most fundamental concepts of .Net/C# to my coworkers in some trainings. They are seasoned Delphi Win32 coders but still use an fairly old version, so they aren't familiar with some language features which are commonplace today like generics and they never used .Net before.
Now I'm thinking about the best way to tackle this. Which are the most predominant topics I should cover? I will have maybe 1-2 days for this so I can't delve into specifics too far but have to give them a good birds eye view especially of the features that will matter to them.
I plan to emphasize the differences to Delphi, I think this will help them. I'd like to build a small Zoo-application and add something to it for every step I explain. So they can have a look at the created examples later whenever they want.
My topics so far:
- Short introduction of .Net, CLI, CLR
- Short introduction of Visual Studio
- Showing class/object equivalents, inheritance, creating some objects Animal->Cat->Tiger, explaining Namespace on the way
- Garbage Collection and Interfaces (very different from Delphi), Bird gets ICanFly
- Events / Delegates (short multicast example), Ape calls all other apes because he found a bunch of bananas or something like that
- Generics, creating generic animal list
- LINQ, query animals by categories
- Parallel Task Libary, the same but this time multithreaded
Some topics I'm not sure I should include:
- Attributes
- Operator Overloading
- Anonymous Methods / Lambdas
- Nullable Types
- Reflection
- P/Invoke
Maybe this should be delayed to a second session, maybe its too much for the beginning, I'm not sure.
I'm also undecided if I should include the coming asynchrony functionality in .Net 4.5. Maybe this is premature.
Then I will have to introduce WPF but I think this should be a question for itself.


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I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me here. I have written a short ArcGIS Python script (mainly cobbled together from other examples) that sorts a feature class ascending based on two fields (route, and sequence). A third field is then populated with an ascending number. An If block restarts the numbering for each route. The problem is performance. The process is very slow when running on my test data (~8000 records). I plan on running this on 100000 records, so any help or suggestions to improve speed will be appreciated. Thanks. James
import arcpy,os
from arcpy import env
inTable = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) # Input feature class
# set variables for route and sequence starting values
route_previous = ""
route_current = ""
new_sequence = 1
# create an update cursor that will append ascending order sequence number to the Service_Type field
# sorts ascending by Route and Sequence
rows = arcpy.UpdateCursor(inTable,'','','','Route A;Sequence A')
for row in rows:
route_current = row.Route
# if the current service location is on the same route as the previous
if route_current == route_previous:
new_sequence += 1
# if the current service location is on a different route to the previous
new_sequence = 1
new_sequence += 1
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I have a pretty basic question:
given is a complex manifold of dimension n or a smooth projective variety over $k$ (char 0, algebraically closed). Then people are often speaking of "the cohomology class of the diagonal". Can you explain me how you realize this class, i.e. in which cohomology group does it land, how do you formally construct it, etc.
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Brownstones, squiggles and hearts are just a few of the designs popping up on Myrtle Avenue this month as part of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership's Street Furniture Initiative. MARP is adding a total of 50 tree guards and benches to Myrtle Avenue as part of Phase II of the project. Ali Muhsin, who owns Farmer in the Deli on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Adelphi Street, eagerly awaited a bench outside his business, and one showed up three days ago.
"I would see a lot of my customers actually buy a sandwich and then take it over to sit and eat in front of Cake Joy," Mr. Muhsin said of a bench installed across the street last September.
"It's a great opportunity to provide decoration and art on the street, as well as leveraging it to create seating on the avenue," said Debera Johnson, founder and executive director of the Pratt Design Incubator. She helped Pratt Institute students and alumni create a modular prototype of the steel tree guards that could easily incorporate designs from the community. There are already 40 of the guards and benches on the street from Phase I of the project last September.
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7 Great Places to Squeeze in Summer Learningby Lindsay Hutton
Summer learning doesn't have to take a lot of time or resources. Although structured activities are great, quick and easy lessons on the fly are an educational (and much simpler) way to squeeze in a quick math or science session. The next time you find yourself at one of these summertime places, turn it into a fast (and fun!) learning experience.
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Collect and count seashells, estimate how far you think the tide will come up, watch your shadows throughout the day — the beach has tons of learning opportunities!
As you build sandcastles, talk about what sand is and where it comes from. Explore the tide pools and examine all the different sea creatures you find in there. You don't have to go to the beach with specific learning activities in mind — just observing your surroundings and talking about the different landscape and the animals that live at the beach is a great way to learn about the environment!
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The curve for a chain hanging between two poles in a uniform gravitational field is known as the catenary.
Is there known an expression for the curve of a hanging chain on a planet of mass $M$ which has a gravitational field of $M/r^2$ ?
Let the rope have length $L$, uniform mass-density $\rho$ and negligible thickness. The poles are a distance $D$ apart, each a distance $R$ from the planets centre.
I am interested in solutions where the gravitational field may be taken to point straight down as well as when it point towards the center of the planet.


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I'm making a new site, where there will be a lot of public comments hopefully, and this thought crossed my mind. Is it right to ban usernames with swears in them? Do people even create usernames like this? Trolls do presumably...
This is not as simple as it may seem, and although your instinct may be to ban someone, you should first consider the following:
This is not a simple or easy choice. You need to weigh up carefully the impact that this will have on your community and choose accordingly. However, you may find that the best option is simply to contact the person involved and ask them to change their username to something else.
As a side note here. You will never stop everyone from being offended, and I would argue that within reason you shouldn't have to try to prevent that.
I have a Mexican friend whose name is Jesus, and in Latin America that is perfectly normal. But many people in the USA for example would find someone calling themselves Jesus offensive.
Short answer: No
There are users who like obscenity and vulgarism, there are those who don't. Generally those kinds of people don't like to mix, and will always try to segregate into separate groups. If you ban offensive names (which is not that easy from technical standpoint), you remove one of the flags those people use to distinguish themselves. However you're not changing the people. You just artificially force them into the same group, which ultimately diminishes user experience for everybody.
For example, suppose you join a game server and see that the majority of users in the lobby have names like
If you are building a community of respectful people, your users will be such through self-selection. And they'll have normal, non-offensive names (except for an occasional dude with a name like user958624 :). Even if you do get occasional trolls, they can be weeded out manually, and there are much more effective ways to do that than banning / forcing to change one's name. Because you can't force them to change their nature...
It depends on the service and your expected user base. Deciding between blocking and allowing potentially offensive usernames is fairly easy. The more difficult decision is where exactly you draw the line.
You are making a tradeoff. You are disallowing some users from doing something they'd like to do (use a vulgar/offensive name) in order to create a more pleasant, less hostile/offensive environment for other users. Both of these groups obviously prefer one side of the decision over the other, so consider these two points:
Depending on your target audience, you may want to allow anything, and not worry about people getting offended. If you want a more general (and more polite) user community, you should disallow offensive names.
Two points in favor of blocking such names:
This leaves the issue of what exactly needs to be blocked. I suggest having a blacklist prepopulated with some known undesirable names (or regular expressions describing such names) that can be expanded as new trolls get creative with ways around it.
The best solution is for a site to have "safety" levels. By default, content created by users who are identified as offensive is completely hidden from view. You don't see their questions, answers, comments or accounts at all, unless you switch to unsafe mode.
When you switch to unsafe mode for the first time, you have to acknowledge a dialog that you're considered an adult wherever you live, and that you're about to see content that may be offensive.
If you simply block people, thereby denying them access to an audience, they will keep coming back under different names, and then you have to resort to IP level bans which have various downsides, like collateral damage.
Refinement: When a user is identified as offensive, they can silently be marked as such, and at the same time, their filter can be silently flipped to unsafe mode. (Posting that kind of stuff essentially constitutes consent to read it, and unsafe mode is necessary so that the users can see their own content and believe that everything is working fine, as before.)
The effect of this is that offensive users are not aware that they have been marked offensive. Not only do they continue to see their own content, but other people can see it and can respond. (But of course, all those other people are fellow offensives.)
Given that you stated that you're going to cater for mostly British folks, you should consider following their laws. I am not a lawyer, but reading Wikipedia's article on the topic you'll need to account for users who use hate speech in their nicknames.
This might be a hard requirement for you, something you don't really decide "if", but "how".
Short answer: Yes, ban it.
Always a good idea to prevent the user from creating such names. There will be some who bypass this and use numbers for letters and stuff, but you should not make it easy for them use it blatantly.
Also, depending on the context, it is highly desirable, for example, here on stackexchanges, it shouldn't be that big a deal, but in games/public forums it becomes a big deal. The foul names create a hostile environment, say my username was "I F'd your relative", right off the bat, I create a negative impression for myself. And whatever I comment, will be influenced by that first negative impression.
Edit 1: With the interesting discussion on the multi cultural implications of certain words in the same language, I suggest that rather than banning "all" vulgar words, you just select a top % of the list and ban those. It should give you quite a good control over the issue and still leave the more ambiguous terms available.
Edit 2: For all those riding the 'It is against the Freedom of Speech' wave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Now, there is a huge asterisk mark on this right.
Look at the limitation section for more information:
You CANNOT use your right to speech in a manner which is offensive, even though it is a minor crime (in most of the cases).
So yes, it is a good idea to ban generic offensive words. Example: if you have played any decent online game, you might have noticed that the character names are not vulgar for the most part (unless done so using 1337 5P34K or something), the reason is, the developers restrict the use of any such usernames and usually have a handy blacklist. Granted it is not a fool proof system, but it is a first step in the direction. http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=151067/banned-name here is an example scenario where it backfires.
Here is wikipedia's own list of rules for usernames http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Username_policy/Archive_12. If you scroll down to offensive, there is an argument that the "lesser" offensive words may be allowed but surely there is a need for the often offensive words to be banned.


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STEUBENVILLE - Eastern Gateway Community College's record fall enrollment leads all public university main and regional campuses, and community colleges, according to the Ohio Board of Regents fall 2013 preliminary headcount enrollment report.
Of the 61 institutions reporting figures, Eastern Gateway's 15 percent increase over 2012 figures stands out.
It is the only double-digit percentage increase among all institutions. The college's reported headcount is 2,885. Since the data was reported to the OBR on Sept. 20, Eastern Gateway's headcount reached 2,904, according to Patty Sturch, dean of enrollment management.
Only half of the 14 university main campuses reported any increase.
Five of 24 regional campuses showed student growth, but the overall report shows the count down by 4 percent. The 23 community colleges in the state had an enrollment dip of 4.74 percent with only seven reporting any increase.
Eastern Gateway attributes its growth to the recent expansion of its service district to include three new counties and the steady enrollment on the Jefferson County Campus. Enrollment in the Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull County service district is now 1,345, a 48 percent increase from fall 2012.
Another big factor in the strong enrollment report is the retention of students.
"This is a major goal at the college. Student success means passing courses, continuing from one semester to the next and ultimately reaching their higher education goals," said Dorothy Collins, dean of TRiO programs, academic advising and student support.
"Eastern Gateway's fall-to-fall retention rate stands at 49 percent for all students with the exception of high school students taking college courses. This compares to 43 percent in fall 2013. The retention rate for students returning to the college from spring 2013 to this fall rose to 56 percent for the same group of students. This also compares to 43 percent in spring to fall 2012," cited Collins.
"I am excited about the new student retention efforts we will implement for the coming spring semester for our students so we can improve retention further," said Collins. "We are an open admissions institution and it is very important for us to be able to serve all those students we accept, offering them resources and support so that they can reach their educational endeavors."
The college's student population is becoming more diverse, she said.
"We have a greater variety of needs to address. Our tutoring and disability services areas are seeing more students seeking help with the facets of learning how to study in college and managing their time, and also assistance with disability accommodations. Many students have been out of school for quite some time and need a refresher or reminder on how to balance college and all the other activities and events they have," noted Collins.
Collins said Eastern Gateway offers "a great opportunity for individuals who want to pursue higher education."
"Students have the opportunity to be successful at Eastern Gateway by earning an associate's degree or certificate, transferring to a four-year institution, or just taking a course or two to transfer to another institution, We offer one of the lowest tuition rates in Ohio which makes our college affordable and students do not have to leave with an enormous debt. Additionally, we have expanded into Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties at the right time, adding to the college's main campus in Steubenville," stated Collins.


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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.
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Tony Hillerman was the former president of the Mystery Writers of America and received its Edgar® and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indians Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribes Special Friend Award. He lived with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


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Are you upgrading to Apple's Mountain Lion operating system?
I just upgraded my white Macbook with more memory and RAM and Lion. Do I need to get Mountain Lion and can I with this computer?
I just saw something that said it won't work on plastic Macbooks but I'm thinking it is for those that are not upgraded like mine.
I'm still getting used to Lion but I know if I don't do this upgrade at some point I'm going to be sorry.
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I would imagine whether it'll work depends more on hardware like your processor, but I'm no expert on this kind of thing. Here's Apple's official list of supported models though:
As for me, I'm undecided. I initially had no interest in it because it just seemed like an update to bring the OS more in line with their iOS stuff, and I've been pretty happy with Lion on my Air. But then I read about the AirPlay Mirroring feature and as I don't have cable, it kind of made me think twice...
Edited to Add: Why do you think you'll be sorry if you don't upgrade?
Do you need Mountain Lion? No. Whether to get it is really up to you. I upgraded to Lion about a month after it came out and while I wasn't disappointed, it wasn't really worth the upgrade to me (I upgraded from Snow Leopard).
That being said, I likely will upgrade to Mountain Lion at some point. It doesn't boast any features I find myself really needing. The upgrade of highest interest would be the capability to view a webpage from one device and move it to another. That's pretty cool, since I find links on my phone that would be more comfortable/ suited for use with my computer. However, what I've been doing is e-mailing myself the link and opening it on the computer. Basically the same solution, but it doesn't cost me $20. Also is Firefox compatible.
I'm really waiting to see what the consensus is. Overall on the App Store it seems positive. But a 5-star "I love everything Apple!" fanboy review doesn't really tell me anything about the OS. I plan on giving it about a month
and then reading a number of write ups. I'll scroll through the three and lower ratings on the App Store and filter through until I get a general idea of the common major criticisms. For example, one for Lion was the cessation of support for PowerPC apps. Which I knew about since I was keeping up to date on the news on the OS, but so it goes. I only lost one game when I upgraded.
But still, for some people, these criticisms can be dealbreakers. And after waiting a month and taking a few hours to filter through articles and user reviews, I'll have a good idea of what they are and if they'll bother me.
On the other side, I'll also know if the upgrade is worth it. I know as of now, most of the bragged features are not a really big deal to me. I don't use full screen apps, I don't really use messenger anymore, there's nothing offered that I find critical. So I can stand to wait.
The main reason I upgraded to Lion in the first place was for iCloud support. That was something I knew
@heyjoie, I was still using leopard so to upgrade to Lion and I had to do 2 upgrades. So I'm just assuming Apple will do the same thing.
I'm a casual user so don't need bells and whistles.
I'm still getting used to Mail in Lion. I switched to old mail but I still don't like it.
I would want to have/ need. Of course they added support for iCloud and Snow Leopard after I upgraded, but so it goes.
This has turned into a really long answer so I'm going to wrap it up. It comes down to personal choice. Do you want it? Do you "need" it? Are any of the major changes going to affect you and is it going to be positive or negative?
It's a cheap update, so if you're on the fence, wait a bit like I am, wait even for them to release 10.8.1 to get any bugs out. But if it's something you'd like to have and you have the hardware for it, then there's really no reason not to. I haven't checked in a few days, but I have yet to see any really big complaints about the OS.
It seems like you're in an unusual situation; your best bet might be to make an appointment at a Genius Bar if you're within driving distance of an Apple Store. As for whether Mountain Lion is worthwhile: I'd really been looking forward to Dictation and it's been great. I hadn't realized that it required an internet connection (although this information was readily available), but it's surprisingly accurate and considerably less expensive than stand-alone dictation software. I'm dealing with some medical issues that make this a very useful feature. Moreover, I recently discovered Reminders on my phone; I am wicked forgetful and was constantly stressed because I knew I was forgetting something - or I'd think of something and know that I would forget to follow through. Notifications as an app on my computer has also been great! I haven't used any of the other new features, but I think several are promising if I could change my habits of how I'm accustomed to doing things.
@minkeygirl7: Ah, I see. If you're worried about another potential double-upgrade situation... I would be VERY surprised to see a new OS come out before 2 years from now, so I don't think that's a problem you'd be likely to face anytime soon.
For me personally, unless there is a specific feature I really want, I tend to not upgrade. If nothing else than because sometimes older software I use may encounter problems (I had trouble with this with some music notation software when I upgraded my iMac to Snow Leopard). And like @thedogma, I prefer to wait and see what the general consensus is.
I too am more of a casual user, so I guess I tend to subscribe to the "If it ain't broke, don't upgrade it" line of thought on this one. But it is always nice to be able to have the newest OS. :)
It seems like a step backwards.
Sorry, but the RAM isn't the issue. If your Macbook was made prior to late 2008 then it can't run 10.8 because of the graphics card. Nothing to be done about that. If it's a late 2008 or newer, then you're golden. Go to About This Mac and click More Info. If your graphics card is an Intel GMA X3100, then you can't upgrade.
To answer your question, not yet. I'm waiting for the first update (10.8.1).
@minkeygirl7: Thought you might like an update on the situation. I just read some reviews (found about 2 out of 20 1-star reviews that actually had some information as to why the low rating was given) and I do not think I will make the upgrade. There are a few major bugs (such as system bricking and kernel issues) and some of the major draws like AirPlay mirroring are only supported by computers made in the last year or so.
Since I don't really use messages and don't care about notifications or GameCenter, I will personally pass on ML. Since your machine is older it might not even support the OS. If the draws outweigh the cons for your personal use, then go for it. But I'd talk to an Apple Specialist or someone at your local Genius Bar first, make sure your system can handle it.
If you do decide to upgrade, wait until 10.8.1 is released. Upgrading wont do you any good if you're hit with bugs.
No, no and NO! I have a system and apps that work.


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NEW CUMBERLAND — The social media activist group Anonymous is organizing a vigil Saturday to protest the fact that a man accused of sexually abusing a young girl was released on bond last week....
anonymous doesn't have a publicist.perhaps u meant to say an organizer?
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although prostitution is illegal all who work with the social and religious groups know that gambling, prostitution and drugs are an epidemic and that the long history of organized crime continues.Saint John Bosco defended the children. Blessed Fr Pino Puglisi was murdered September 15, 1993 in Palermo, Italy. He had founded children's protection centers and fought against human trafficing and other organized crime activities.We must protect our clergy and help lead the real fight. this sickening crime is not unique and the girls are being turned into prostitutes.Who paid the bail for this man and where does he work? Fr. Puglisi was a good priest and he gave his life for the people.
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I have a question about the recursion of the number of surjections from $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ to $\{1,\ldots,k\}$: $$\mathrm{Sur}(n,k) = k \cdot \mathrm{Sur}(n-1,k-1) + k \cdot \mathrm{Sur}(n-1,k).$$ My explanation of this is: We look at the element $k$ from $\{1,\ldots,k\}$. $k$ can be hit either by $1$ element from $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, or by $2$ or more.
In the first case, we remove that $k$ and that element from $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, and we're left with $n-1$ elements in the domain, and $k-1$ elements in the range. It also has to be a surjection, so we can pick them in $\mathrm{Sur}(n-1,k-1)$ ways.
In the second case, we remove that element from the domain, and we're left with $n-1$ elements in domain, and $k$ elements in the range. So we can pick the number of surjections in $\mathrm{Sur}(n-1,k)$ ways.
But, why is that factor $k$ there in both cases?


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I just created my account on ux.stackexchange.com. I'm a developer and don't have much experience in UX best practices. So I intend to start coming to this site regularly.
My question is really simple.
In a form with several input fields, is it better to define the same width for all fields (in order to maintain alignment), or to have different sizes for fields that are intended for less data?
For example:
Option 1:
Last Name: [______________]
First Name: [______________]
Age: [______________] <- this field is the same width as the rest even
though it only supports 3 characters max.
Option 2:
Last Name: [______________]
First Name: [______________]
Age: [__] <- this field is smaller and thus alignment with the rest is lost.
Which one is preferable? Keep in mind most of my forms will have at least 10 fields arranged in 2 columns, and maybe only 2 or 3 of them are going to be numeric or otherwise limited input fields.


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I seen many times how people describe how to's about LBP-2900, and 10-12 steps from start to end of how to download, unpack, build driver, fix driver, make it work... Could be there some .deb package with ready-to-go driver for Ubuntu? This printer is very popular...
For the printer, there is a script that should help you do this with little effort - my source is here.
You need to download the script from the Canon Website (you will need to extract this archive). Running the script from a terminal is easy:
What did you do so far?
Setting up a LBP-Printer recently, I had to replug the USB after installing, and to restart ccpd.
Configure your printer in the browser: http://localhost:631/admin
Then, in a Shell, do:
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I installed a Canon-LBP- printer on my sisters Ubuntu machine. It was a hard riddle, involving several downloads, unplugging and replugging the USB, and finally it printed, but refused to print after reboot.
There are two daemons to be started in /etc/init.d which were installed to automatically start, but sometimes, one of them, failed.
Do a
to check, whether ccpd was started and is running, and if not
If it is running,
which should show two port numbers. Afaik, I had to restart ccpd
to bring the printer back. In /var/log/cups/error_log you could find more informations about errors. The first character means:
with increasing severity to the bottom. Maybe you have to activate logging and increase the loglevel (direction up) to get more information.
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6 Movies You Won't Believe Are Based on Insane True Stories
When we see movies, we tend to take the phrase "based on a true story" with a healthy amount of skepticism, because a lot of them turn out to be complete bullshit. However, some movies are inspired by true events that are so unrealistic, the filmmakers don't even bother telling us they actually happened, because we'd never believe them if they did. Did you know ...
#6. 50 First Dates -- A Real Woman Has Drew Barrymore's Bizarre Form of Amnesia
50 First Dates has a setup that seems exactly as realistic as, say, Liar Liar. Drew Barrymore plays a woman who, due to an accident, is afflicted with a wacky form of amnesia, so whenever she goes to sleep, all her recent memories are erased. Each day she wakes up thinking it's the day of her accident, leading to a series of contrived comedy misunderstandings.
Yes, despite the fact that she has to spend every single day rediscovering the fact that she is married to Adam Sandler, this movie is supposedly a comedy.
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Drew's expression suggests otherwise.
The True Story
There actually is a real-life woman with an ultra-rare form of anterograde amnesia, and as a result, for nearly 20 years Michelle Philpots has been completely unable to form new memories. She has to use a deck of Post-it notes just to get through her day-to-day life.
She is presumably also tattooed with cryptic sentence fragments and out for revenge.
Philpots was in a bad motorcycle accident in 1985 and an equally severe car accident in 1990, and her resulting injuries did enough cumulative brain damage that she started suffering from seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy. By 1994, Philpots had completely lost the ability to retain any short-term memories, and she now has no recollection of anything that has happened for the past two decades. Which means that she starts off every single day believing it is still 1994.
Philpots is also married, so much like in 50 First Dates, her husband has to remind her of their union every time she wakes up by showing her their wedding album. Luckily, the two had already been dating for several years before Philpots' amnesia developed, so unlike Drew Barrymore, she isn't waking up every morning next to a total stranger (who is also Adam Sandler).
#5. Heat -- Neil McCauley Actually Had Coffee With the Cop Pursuing Him
The 1995 Tom Sizemore charity film Heat starred Robert De Niro as master thief Neil McCauley and Al Pacino as Vincent Hanna, a guy who yells a lot about his television set. Hanna also happens to be a police detective relentlessly pursuing McCauley, and right before shooting the shit out of LA with assault rifles, they get together in a diner to shoot the shit over a cup of coffee.
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Foreplay for a machine gun orgy.
It's a cool scene -- the good guy and the bad guy sizing each other up during a tense but cordial public meeting -- but there's no way anything like that would ever happen in real life, right? A bank robber wouldn't sit down in a Denny's to talk shop with the cop who is trying to throw him in jail for the rest of his life, when anything said can directly lead to an arrest (and testimony) down the line. That's something a stupid person would do.
The True Story
Believe it or not, the coffee shop scene in Heat is entirely based on reality.
You see, De Niro's character in the film is based on a real guy named Neil McCauley, a career criminal with an extensive history of robbery. The man did seven years in freaking Alcatraz with an Alfalfa cowlick, so you know he's hardcore.
Either that, or these are stills from the gritty reboot of Our Gang.
As McCauley continued to pull off big scores with his crew of fellow thieves, he was being pursued by a Chicago police officer named Chuck Adamson. And while pursuing McCauley, Adamson really did sit down to have a cup of coffee with him, over which they discussed their opposing lifestyles and made thinly veiled verbal threats. Even though the two men were brutal enemies who would not hesitate to shoot life-ending bullets into each other's faces, they also shared a mutual respect not unlike Magneto and Professor Charles Xavier.
Also, just like in the movie, the real-life McCauley did indeed abort a heist mid-operation after catching on that the cops were watching, and Adamson was forced to kill him after a robbery, a chase, and an epic shootout. However, it is unclear whether they held hands after their ultimate bro-down like their big screen counterparts.
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We think McCauley made out better than De Niro, because Little Fockers is a fate worse than death.
Adamson later went into television production and became friends with Michael Mann, the guy who directed Heat. Mann wound up borrowing a lot of details from Adamson's career of chasing McCauley for his crime epic, including modeling the character of Vincent Hanna after Adamson, presumably asking Al Pacino to embrace Adamson's nuances and subtleties with the howlingly bug-eyed restraint he is known for.
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Seen here.
#4. The Blob -- Based on an Actual Police Report
The 1958 sci-fi horror classic The Blob is about a rural Pennsylvania town being terrorized by the titular Blob, a giant gelatinous breast implant from outer space that keeps growing bigger and bigger the more people it consumes. It is also notable for starring Steve McQueen as a high school student, despite the fact that he is clearly almost 30 years old in the film.
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"Once the school gave me my own parking spot, I thought 'Why lose a good thing?'"
The True Story
Believe it or not, The Blob is based on an incident in the 1950s when Philadelphia policemen stumbled upon a quivering purple lump that had crash landed in a nearby field, as if Grimace had suddenly been stricken with bubblegut in the middle of a hang gliding trip. According to the responding officers, the mass was like a giant glowing jelly ball, and it left a sticky residue when touched, because of course the first thing you would do when encountering a mysterious Plutonian blob is shove your hands into it.
The two cops wanted witnesses to corroborate what they were seeing, so they radioed for two fellow officers to come take a look at it, if for no other reason than to prove they hadn't just been pranked by a couple of hopheads and alkies with 50 jars of Smuckers and absolutely nothing better to do. The blob quickly began to fall apart, and within half an hour had completely dissolved, leaving behind no trace that it had ever existed. Regardless of how ridiculous the story may seem, an official government report was made of the incident, although that likely had more to do with the Cold War than a fear of extraterrestrial preserves.
"Space jelly, eh? Those crafty Russkies."
Who knows what it actually was -- maybe some passing pedestrian dropped a Jell-O mold and, before the officers could come back to the scene, some passing animal came and ate it. Or maybe the guy just made the whole thing up.
Either way, years later a man named Irvine H. Millgate (who at one point in his life had the very unique job title of "Head of Visual Aids for the Boy Scouts of America") needed to come up with a premise for a low-budget monster movie, but instead of pulling something completely out of his ass, he remembered the 1950 Philadelphia incident and used it as inspiration to assist him in pulling something completely out of his ass. The Blob became an unlikely hit, so if that purple blob creature actually returns to Earth someday, we assume the first thing it's going to do is sue for unpaid royalties (and then get shot by Tom Cruise).
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Unlike Tom Cruise, the Blob has his own theme song.


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As a history buff myself, I must admit that when a movie gets historically inaccurate or pulls too far away for dramatic effect, I get irked a little or a lot depending on the movie. However, a movie doesn't have to be perfect. I can settle for good enough, I just rather not have my intelligence insulted.
I have a few examples:
The Untouchables (1987): Decent movie; Sean Connery got an Oscar for his role and a depiction of the battle between law and order and the gangsters in the 1930s Prohibition era. Unfortunately, a lot of this movie is fabricated or exaggerated from Elliot Ness's biography (particularly a sequence where Elliot Ness throwing a guy off the roof of a building). Also, I believe the US government put Capone in jail without ever firing a shot. It's unfortunate that the ending of this movie is so cartoony that it takes away from everything before it.
Apollo 13 (1995): I loved this movie at the time when it was first released but as I get older, I'm turning sour about it. Ron Howard has a habit of making docudramas where facts are unnecessarily glossed over for the sake of drama (Frost/Nixon is another example). I'm a space nut so I know what actually happened and I must say that only about, at most, 50% of the movie is true. Albeit, some things needed compromise to make this movie but others didn't. Sometimes, reality is more powerful than fiction.
The Four Feathers (2002): A major point for me about this movie is a sequence where the Mahdi soldiers battle with the British forces at Abu Klea. The Battle of Abu Klea was a complete and decisive British victory, with the British taking minimal casulaties and inflicting tremendous casualties on the Mahdists. The equivalent would be the Confederates winning the Battle of Gettysburg. It feels like a movie made by a bitter man who was allowed to make the film because it was politically correct.