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Kick off the summer season at the Cape Town Festival of Beer
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A Capetonian's calendar is marked with all sorts of events – from Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts and Cape Town Fashion Week to the J&B Met. The city's residents are certainly spoilt for choice.
This November, be sure to add the Cape Town Festival of Beer to your growing list of events and activities.
While a delicious red or white wine is usually the darling of alcohol consumption in the city – the Cape is renowned for its fantastic vineyards in Constantia, Stellenbosch and Franschhoek – beer lovers know that their best beverage is a strong contender for the top title, and has as long a history in the Mother City.
The Cape's brewing culture dates back to the 1600s, and while Dutch and European settlers laid the foundations for vast alcohol production facilities, indigenous groups are also known for brewing maize beer.
Years and years of dedicated craftsmanship will be on show at the festival, which takes place from November 25 to 27 on the fields of Hamilton Football Rugby Club in Green Point, and a collection of micro, home and big-name brewers will be gathered. The festival will also feature food, entertainment and live coverage of the final Springbok clash of the year.
Entrance is R50, but six lucky 567 CapeTalk listeners can each win a free ticket to the city's first Festival of Beer. Simply answer the following question: What has been your best beer experience?
Tune into CapeTalk today, November 16, when festival organiser Martin Tucker will be on hand to tell us more about what to expect.
For a season of summer fun and the best tasting ales available well beyond the festival, head to the Mother City's pubs and restaurants.
Mitchell's Waterfront Brewery, an English-style pub located in the oldest building in the V&A Waterfront, and The Dubliner at Kennedy's, an authentic Irish pub which features live music, are popular spots to sink a cold one.
Why not also try Springbok Pub, located near Newlands Rugby Stadium, Cape to Cuba in Kalk Bay, and Noordhoek's own Toad in the Village.
If you're drinking, however, do so responsibly. By all means, enjoy yourself this summer, but remember that driving under the influence is strictly prohibited, as is drinking and walking, and drinking on Cape Town's beaches.
There are excellent transport services available to take you home after a night on the town: Rikki's (who can be contacted at +27 (0)861 745 547) are a safe, popular and affordable option, as are Sea Point Original Radio Taxis (contactable at +27 (0)21 447 4444). Excite Taxis (contactable at +27 (0)21 418 4444) run a 24-hour metred service.
For more details about the Cape Town Festival of Beer, visit www.capetown.travel or www.capetownfestivalofbeer.co.za.


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I turned
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2 and get a very fast write speed. But is it safe be used in production web site?
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You can lose up to one second's worth of transactions. The default value is 1, which helps keep InnoDB ACID Compliant.
According to the MySQL Documentation on innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit
Based on this, values other than 1 put InnoDB at risk of losing 1 second's worth of transactions, or a transaction commit's worth of data.
The documentation also says use
According to the MySQL Documentation on sync_binlog
Your safest choice is
If you do not mind possible data loss (up to 1 second's worth) then you can use either 0 or 2 at your own risk if the rewards (faster write speed) are worth it.
If the value of
When the value is 1 (the default), the log buffer is written out to the log file at each transaction commit and the flush to disk operation is performed on the log file.
When the value is 2, the log buffer is written out to the file at each commit, but the flush to disk operation is not performed on it. However, the flushing on the log file takes place once per second also when the value is 2. Note that the once-per-second flushing is not 100% guaranteed to happen every second, due to process scheduling issues.
The default value of 1 is required for full ACID compliance. You can achieve better performance by setting the value different from 1, but then you can lose up to one second worth of transactions in a crash. With a value of 0, any mysqld process crash can erase the last second of transactions. With a value of 2, only an operating system crash or a power outage can erase the last second of transactions. InnoDB's crash recovery works regardless of the value.
In My opinion using
My opinion differs from other. innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0 if: it is my development computer or home mini database where is no sensitive data.
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2 if: it is blog/stats/e-commerce (with ~100x shop in day), etc.
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1 if: you have a lot of customers or you need to work with money transaction like bank. so this time you should split your dataflow between several servers to have speed & safety.
I prefer 2, because it has ~75x faster write speed and it fails ONLY if hardware fails.
Anyway you should know what you need more much more writing speed or up to 1 second information?
If your hardware fails, you can loose all your data, so I use param = 2 without any worries. Anyway you can split you sensitive (order, virtual money,...) and regular (statistics, cart,...) data between 2 db servers and keep them safe and fast. For transactions between databases you can use http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/xa.html


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What is the word for the phenomenon where your brain blocks out background sounds, because they are constant?
For example when you don't hear the air conditioning whirring away until it stops.
What is the word for the phenomenon where your brain blocks out background sounds, because they are constant?
For example when you don't hear the air conditioning whirring away until it stops.
The word used in psychology for becoming used to a stimulus is habituation
It is not limited to sounds (it covers all the senses) but it is involuntary.
Another possibility is desensitise
Although it does often come with negative connotations, you could use it in a neutral context and be understood.
It's an idiom, "tuning out". He is "tuning out" the noise so he can concentrate on his studies.
For example, when I talk he "tunes me out." Though I am talking to him, he never hears a word I say.
Maybe selective hearing?
When someone is engrossed in their smartphone and not noticing anything, then they may have inattentional blindness. Is this getting closer?
Similarly, the phrase used to describe these sounds which most people don't hear is white noise.
Ex. The white noise from the television helped her fall asleep.
White noise is sometimes used for subliminal messaging in commercials, movies, etc... but this is illegal in most countries including Canada and the USA.
Not an answer but reminds me of the Bowery El phenomenon. http://www.radford.edu/~jsking/Orienting%20Response.doc
Focus. When you are concentrating intently on something, the parts of your brain that are also used for auditory signal processing sound will get used for pattern recognition in what you're looking at. It varies between people and the sexes, but easily testable.
Filtering-sensory or auditory.
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Recently on a trip to South Carolina I got to meet in person Barry "CB" Martin. We have talked back and forth on twitter & facebook many times and on the phone but never in person. He is the contributing editor for this cookbook.
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LOS ANGELES - It was "music" to Steubenville native Matthew Paprocki's ears to be announced as the winner two years running of a Best of Show Award presented at the International Consumer Electronics Show held earlier this month in Las Vegas.
The 1993 graduate of Catholic Central High School who calls Los Angeles home is the co-founder and creative director of Soundfreaq, the maker of a critically acclaimed line of wireless speakers "to deliver premium sound for a wireless world."
He also helped launch Boombang, a design consultancy business.
"The awards are given out by iLounge, a leading review site for iPhone, iPad and iPod accessories," Patrocki explained.
"They review submissions from hundreds of exhibitors at the CES show and honor the top products based on design, features, innovation and value for customer," Paprocki said.
"We've been fortunate enough to receive this honor from iLounge two years in a row for Soundfreaq - last year for Sound Kick and this year for our newest wireless speaker, Sound Platform 2."
The honorees were announced Jan. 9 with 24 winners selected from hundreds of developers and thousands of products, "representing the best and most innovative products we've seen at CES," notes iLounge's website.
"We have a lot of respect for iLounge," said Paprocki, the son of former Steubenville residents Mark and Marianna Vallera Paprocki of Canton. "They have been reviewing speakers for iPods pretty much from the start and are thorough and insightful. They set the standard, in our opinion, which makes it a real honor and meaningful to be recognized by them as having the best speaker at CES again this year," he said.
"There were dozens of new wireless speakers being introduced, and to be singled out as the standout is humbling," Paprocki said. "We're very proud and excited to get our newest speaker out to our customers for them to enjoy listening to their music."
Soundfreaq products allow users to stream music wirelessly from any Bluetooth compatible device, including iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android and Blackberry devices
Designing products, packaging and brands is something Paprocki always wanted to do.
After high school, Paprocki attended Ohio State University, graduating in 1997.
"I worked at Fitch, a design consultancy in Columbus, and later in San Francisco. In 2000, I went to work at Frog Design, also in San Francisco, where I was until 2004 when I started Boombang, a design consultancy, with a colleague," he said.
"I wanted to design products, packaging and brands, which is what I do today," he said. "After consulting with both startup and large companies such as Disney, Microsoft, Rubbermaid and Bath & Body Works and Major League Baseball, I gained the experience to be able to start building new brands and product lines, which is what I do today."
Paprocki resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Amanda Coplan, and their four dogs "and a cat that thinks he's a dog, too." They have been in Los Angeles for 12 years and before that, San Francisco.
The two work together as well.
"We first met working together at Fitch in San Francisco," he said. "She has experience as a brand strategist working with clients like Pepsi and Cirque du Soleil, as well as a development executive for feature films including working at Warner Brothers. Amanda is the vice president of marketing at Soundfreaq, so together we work on all the product designs and marketing. Our team is very small, half a dozen people here in Los Angeles and the other half in Hong Kong, so we work very closely as we collaborate on everything together. We're able to make decisions fast and really stay focused on the customer's experience with our products and brand which, I've seen from my consulting experience, can sometimes get lost in the development process with larger teams," he said.
While Paprocki continues to have a consulting business, his focus now is directed to building the product lines and brands that he manages, including Soundfreaq in addition to G-Project and Capello brands that he created.
"I work on designing the products - how they look, what features they have and how they work," Paprocki said. "I also work on designing the packaging, web and marketing material. I pitch retailers, like Target, on our products and work with factories on production of the products," he added.
Asked what he would like to get across to readers, Paprocki noted technology and how people use it is constantly changing.
"I'm passionate about music and helping people to bring more music into their lives and to have a great experience with our products," he said. "We're proud of their quality and value and proud to stand behind them with great customer service. New technology like Bluetooth wireless, smart phones and high-speed Internet access continue to afford us new opportunities to discover music, and we want our products to make it convenient and fun to share and listen to that music... It's what we call 'Happy Listening.'
"We're always looking to design products that balance function, form, quality and value without compromise. Since I'm not working in large corporations, I can really stay focused on crafting people's experience with our products, and we're able to bring them to market quickly and at a great price," Paprocki continued.
"It's a real thrill to be part of such a small team that can create products that people use every day all around the world. Growing up in Steubenville, it wasn't always clear what the path could be to sharing ideas and designing products for people, but with great colleagues, some late nights and a little luck, I've been fortunate," he said.
Paprocki credits his hometown roots for some of his work ethic.
"Growing up in Steubenville, I learned the value of hard work and focusing on developing real relationships with your customers," Paprocki said.
"While in my businesses I don't have quite the same face-to-face interaction with our customers as my grandfather did at his neighborhood grocery store, I still picture what it's like for our customers buying and using our products," he said, referring to his paternal grandfather, the late Stan Paprocki Jr., who operated Paprocki's Market in Steubenville on Carnegie Avenue. His other grandfather is Orlando "Frank" Vallera, a local resident.
"Always putting the customer first, putting people first, is what is at the core of the products and brands that we develop and sell," he said.


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I am shocked by Susan Lynn Stewart's Aug. 26 letter, which accused the Republican-American of "political bias." But I should not have been surprised. Ms. Stewart, like so many other Americans, has been brainwashed for a long time by the national news media to actually believe she is getting "all points of view."
The liberal-dominated news media never print stories unflattering to the Obama administration or its policies; undertake investigative reporting of any presidential appointees; suggest administration policies are destroying the country we know and love; or remind us of the economic realities the Obama and Malloy administrations ignore. Hopefully, Ms. Stewart will soon wake up to the fact we in Greater Waterbury are lucky to have a newspaper that tells it like it is.
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It isn't often that you'll see lightning in Cape Town, but when the Cape of Storms unleashes flickering bolts across the sky, the result is truly remarkable. Taken from the Bloemendal Restaurant & Conference Centre, situated on the highest hilltop in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, the photograph captures this spectacular and rare sight.
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Millwood (Booth 3657) is highlighting its Unit Load Test & Design Lab. Headed by Ralph Rupert, the former director of the Center for Unit Load Design at Virginia Tech, the lab is equipped to conduct ISTA, ASTM and ISO compression, vibration and shock tests. This allows Millwood to simulate the handling of a load through the supply chain, analyze where and why a load fails and design a superior solution, he explained.
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A few aisles over in Booth 4256, Millwood is showcasing the patent-pending SafeFlo technology for the storage and controlled gravity flow of slip-sheet and other pallet-less load applications. Like the SafeFlo pallet handling solution, the slipsheet system uses air and gravity to control the movement of unit loads through a high density storage system. All SafeFlo products are OSHA compliant for confined space "Lock-Out, Tag-Out," noted John Wylie, director of sales and applications for SafeFlo.
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The Knights of Columbus will be hosting their sixth annual Oktoberfest on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Knights of Columbus complex at 800 W. Frontview St. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to midnight. The public is invited to attend the event, which will feature German food, a beer garden and kids play area with entertainment from Water's True Value. Big screen TVs from Aaron's Sale & Lease will be placed in the beer garden so patrons can watch football games. At 1 p.m., patrons can enjoy a horse shoe pitching tournament for $5. Two polka bands will play throughout the day, with The Blue Notes starting at noon and The Hot Shots starting at 4 p.m. From 8 p.m. until midnight, the David Holland Band from Wichita will play. Those who come to the event in an Oktoberfest style costume will receive one dollar off the $6 price of admission. Children under 12 are admitted for free. Prizes for the best dressed will be awarded. The Knights of Columbus are hosting the event to raise money in support of the different charities to which they donate throughout the year, including Catholic Social Services, Manna House and Boy Scouts of America. According to Head of Organization for this year's Oktoberfest Bob Cox, the event usually sees about 1,000 people. "Every year everybody gets excited about it," Cox said. Carry out food orders for the event can be placed by Thursday, Sept. 26, by calling 620-255-4000. For more information on this year's Oktoberfest, call 620-225-1421 or 620-255-5834.
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In Luke 8, the man freed from the Legion demons is told by Jesus not to follow him, but to tell everyone round about. But later, Jesus heals Jairus's daughter and tells the family not to tell anyone. Why would Jesus want the man who had demons driven out of him to tell everyone, but not want Jairus's family to tell everyone about the miracle?
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Luke 8: Telling others - What's the difference between Jesus driving out demons & healing Jairus's daughter
The difference is that, in the pigs story, Jesus was asked to leave the region:
So the formerly demon possessed man was possibly the only witness / preacher / disciple Jesus had in the region.
In other cases, Jesus' popularity has prevented Him preaching (Mark1:44-45) and even eating (Mark 6:31)! So He often told people not to tell others about the miracles.
From a strictly textual perspective, Mark is big on the Messanic Secret, whereas Luke is not.
This could simply be the emphasis of the writers - Mark (and Matthew who uses much of the same material) is writing to a Jewish audience, one that understands the power struggle and inevitable sacrifice around the "Kingship" of Jesus. In contrast, Luke's emphasis (and thereby Paul's) is on the poor and oppressed, to whom the Good News was supposed to be preached first.


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WELLSBURG - Getting around is a lot easier these days for the Burner family from Weirton, thanks to the generosity of Allietta Ford in Wellsburg.
Alietta Ford owner Matt Allietta donated a van equipped with a chair lift that another family had traded to the Burners, whose daughter, Kaitlyn, suffers from mitochondrial disorder, a genetic condition that causes low muscle tone, uncontrollable epilepsy "and a slew of other health issues," her father, Jerry, said.
"It's been tough," he said. "She's been in and out of hospital since she was about a month old with seizures. She was finally diagnosed when she was 4-and-a-half."
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HELP FOR KAITLYN — Matt Allietta, right, of Allietta Ford in Wellsburg recently presented Jerry Burner, left, and his wife Kris, with a chair lift-equipped van to accomodate their daughter, Kaitlyn's, special needs. Kaitlyn, 13, suffers from mitochondrial disorder, a genetic condition which robbed her of muscle tone, causes uncontrolled epilepsy and a slew of other health issues. -- Contributed
Kaitlyn, now 13, attends Weir Middle School.
"It's been difficult through the years, especially for my wife to get around without both of us being present, due to having to lift her chair into the back of our vehicle," he said. "As Kaitlyn's gotten bigger and her chairs have gotten bigger, it really was at the point where my wife couldn't travel with Kaitlyn without both of us being present."
He said his wife had to juggle everything from doctor visits to shopping trips so she could fit them around his work schedule.
That's where Matt Allietta and Allietta Ford came into the picture.
"We took the van in as a trade-in and I thought there could be someone who might need it," Allietta said. "I made a few calls and Make-A-Wish put me in touch with Jerry."
Allietta said he "wanted to do something nice for someone in need, to give back."
"Everyone always seems to want to take and take, I think it's nice to give back once in a while," said Allietta, who donated a car to the Salvation Army a few years back. "We don't always realize how lucky we are. So when the family traded the van in, I decided to donate it to a family in need.
"This little girl is stuck in a wheelchair, it's her chance to get out. Her parents won't have to pick her up and put her in the car every time they go out. Now, they can use the lift to get her in the car and take her to the doctor's office or anywhere else. It will help her get out and see things, they can take her more places now."
Allietta admits he likes the idea that the van has gone to someone "who needs it, who deserves it and can use it for good."
"It makes me think if we've got our health, we've got it all," he said. "It's just my turn to give back to the community, to someone who deserves it."
The Burners say they weren't expecting the gift.
"We were very surprised," Jerry Burner said. "It's just not something a lot of businesses would do, we weren't expecting the kindness and generosity for them to do something like that. But Matt and his team, they did it. Truly, our prayers were answered."


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I'm a bit stuck, and I'm hoping someone can help me out. I have a vector bundle $E$ on an algebraic curve (the ones I am interested in are holomorphic, but I'm sure that doesn't matter so much for the purposes of this question...), and I also have an endomorphism $\Psi\in\Gamma(\mbox{End}(E)).$
How in general does one compute the determinant of $\Psi$? If $E$ splits as a sum of rank-1 bundles then so too does the endomorphism bundle associated with $E$, and then it's obvious to me how to compute the determinant in that case. But, when $E$ is more general, what is an invariant way to go about computing the determinant? (I'm looking for something similar to the invariant way of computing the trace, for which I can rewrite $\Psi$ as a map $E\otimes E^*\rightarrow\mathcal{O}$ and then take the image of the identity morphism of $E$.)
I'm sure there is a quick answer to this, that I am just not seeing. Any help is greatly appreciated.


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When it comes to bullying, the Redwood Area School District is not immune to its realities. It also has an established policy, but that policy is going to be altered because of what happened in St. Paul this year.
According to Rick Ellingworth, Redwood Area School District (RASD) superintendent, the school's policy committee is looking at the required changes, adding a policy developed by the Minnesota School Board Associa-tion is being utilized as the school district puts its plan together. "There are not a lot of changes that are needed," said Wade Mathers, who serves on the policy committee. "I think the new legislation successfully defines what bullying is. The new policy also requires training for all staff in the district." While the policy is required the manner through which bullying is handled is not really going to change much for the district, as it already has a policy in place it believes has been effective. "When there is a verified case of bullying we investigate it," said Rick Jorgenson, RVHS principal. "For us it's about using some common sense." Jorgenson said the concept of bullying is addressed in the character education program being offered to high school students, and he said that is going to continue. Stephanie Flickinger, Reede Gray principal, said the issue of bullying has been address-ed at the elementary level through the Cardinal Code. Mathers said at the middle school bullying is addressed in a variety of ways, adding an official form was developed called a "Cease and Desist" document, and he said when the students who are accused of bullying see that form come out things change quickly. All of the administration stressed the fact that parents are in-volved when it be-comes necessary adding parents are kept in the loop to ensure they know what is going on regarding their kids. In recent years, bullying issues have been on the rise in one particular area – through social media. Called cyberbullying, the issue has become a problem is schools, and Jorgenson said even if the incident does not happen on school grounds but it impacts the student as they are in school it can be and is going to be addressed. Bert Doll and Jen Otto, who serve as social workers for the local school district, said the incidents of bullying often happen outside of the classroom – in the hallways, cafeteria and even on the school bus. Those places where supervision is limited lead to greater bullying issues. Doll and Otto both said they are confident in what the school district offers, but they also say they know more can be done. Schools are now stressing the importance of not being a bystander with students, adding those who watch as bullying occurs are by their silence becoming as much of the problem as those acting as bullies. Tamarah Frank, a 2014 RVHS graduate worked on a bullying program as part of her Girl Scout gold award. Frank said she sees the importance of getting the anti-bullying issue in the minds of kids at an early age. She provides information online for people to learn from at fightagainstbullyingnow.blogspot.com. "Bullying is a serious issue and we all need to learn more about it," said Otto, adding that doesn't end when students leave school.
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Kim Kardashian is no stranger to the bling business. First she co-designed an Armenian-inspired collection for L.A. label Virgins, Saints and Angels with sisters Khloe and Kourtney, then she partnered with celebrity jeweler Pascal Mouawad for two new lines—one of which will hit bebe stores this fall—and now, Kim is joining forces with Loren Jewels creator Loren Ridinger for a luxe line of earrings! Aptly called the "Kim Kollection," the 20-piece range was inspired by Kim's glamorous Hollywood lifestyle and will incorporate diamonds, emeralds, rubies and other precious stones. "Kim's a fashion icon and millions of people are inspired by her style making. Our collaboration on the 'Kim Kollection' is a natural fit," said Ridinger in a statement. And while it won't officially launch until September 1, you can get a sneak peek at the collection starting tomorrow, on lorenjewels.com. And if that's still too long to wait, check out the rose-cut and pave diamond shape 24kt gold earrings Kim is modeling in this personal picture, as well as the 38.62 carat blue-and-white diamond pair below. But with price points ranging from $10,000 to $40,000, this uber-posh line won't be as budget-friendly as Kim's previous design ventures. Tell us: Would you splurge on Kim's new collection of movie star-worthy earrings?—Andrea DeSimone
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In many Yeshivish communities in the US, the male segment of the population vocalizes the cholam as "oi," while their female counterparts vocalize it as a long "o". How did this come about? Does the same phenomenon exist in countries other than the US? And is there any historical precedent for this kind of disparity?
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A few points:
1) The 'oy' is linked to Yiddish. Like English, Yiddish underwent a major vowel shift, the full result of which is seen in Chassidishe Hebrew. I don't have the books available, but I believe the books written by any of the Weinreichs regarding Yiddish discuss this in detail. I'm pretty sure the /oy/ is linked to that vowel shift in some form.
If you keep in mind the fact that Chassidim had a massive affect on the Yeshiva world post-WWII, it shouldn't come as a surprise if they influenced the entire Ashkenazi world's pronunciation, with the exception of the MO and German traditions, who have roughly similar pronunciations. As for the source, it wouldn't surprise me if the /oy/ came from there or from communities where knowledge of Hebrew grammar and correct pronunciation wasn't emphasized.
2) Based on a Yekkishe siddur that I downloaded recently, the /oy/ seems to be a Polish pronunciation, while the Litvish communities said something akin to /ay/ and everyone else saying something between /o/, /au/ and /ou/. Another plausible explanation.
3) Bais Yaakov schools were essentially a girl's version of the Hildesheimer Yeshiva. Because of that, the fact that Sarah Schenirer the founder spent a lengthy period of time in a German community, and the fact that their Posek was of German extraction - as stated above - it makes sense that Bais Yaakov schools would use the older Mesorah from Germany.
I don't recall witnessing this phenomenon myself, but my guess is that in the Yeshivish community men are much more likely than women to override the pronunciation they learned at home with what they are exposed to in Yeshiva. Many yeshivot nowadays tend to promote uniformity of dress, and I suspect, halachic practice and pronunciation.


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The 5 Most Hilariously Misguided Comic Book Adaptations
#2. The Street Fighter Comic That Was Too Stupid Even for Capcom
If you think the Jean-Claude Van Damme film is the most wretched thing to come out of the Street Fighter franchise, think again == we found something that makes Street Fighter: The Movie look like Street Fighter: The Animated Movie (you know, the Japanese one with boobies in it). In 1993, when Street Fighter II was the biggest arcade game in the world, Malibu Comics published an ongoing series based on it that was so bad, Capcom had to ask them to stop. Why? Well, see for yourself.
The Street Fighter franchise's main strength was never character development: All of the fighters are defined by either their nationality or the type of clothes they wear (or don't). And yet, Malibu still managed to completely botch these characters beyond all recognition. For starters, our hero Ryu is introduced to us as a guy who likes jumping women from behind:
"Lay off my head bra!"
Chun-Li herself isn't much better: Within the space of a few panels, she goes from thwarting a Ryu assault to throwing herself at him.
Above: empowerment.
Chun-Li starts eating Ryu's face, but now it's his turn for a complete personality shift == he brushes her off, comparing her to a tree, "strong, flexible ... but yet rooted in your obsession."
Ryu might be schizophrenic.
The plot follows M. Bison's cronies, Balrog and Sagat, as they attempt to get to Ryu through his best friend, Ken, now retired from fighting. Ken, whose new profession is dressing like Don Johnson, is ambushed by Balrog and punched in the dick.
"Chode strike!"
Ken is weakened by Balrog and then brutally beaten by Sagat == cut to Ryu, meditating in Japan, when a car comes crashing in with a box inside. Ryu opens the box and finds a human scalp inside, which he instantly recognizes as Ken's.
"I'd know that shampoo anywhere!"
The third issue of the series shows the various street fighters mourning Ken's death, each in their own way: Zangief murders two bears, and Blanka, the savage Brazilian beast-man, is so devastated by the news that he nearly drops his spectacles.
At what point in the production process did they learn that "Blanca" wasn't an elderly woman?
Meanwhile, E. Honda fights a shitty Malibu Comics character called the Ferret, for some reason.
Apparently Capcom felt the same way as Honda about this comic, because the third issue ends with a note from Malibu announcing that the series has been cancelled and apologizing for how terrible it was.
Apology not accepted.
#1. 2001: A Space Odyssey Comic Featuring Vira the She-Demon and Mister Machine
When legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby saw the end of Kubrick's 2001 adaptation, he, like all of us, said, "What the hell was that all about?" Unlike all of us, though, he had to make an official comic book adaptation for Marvel. Like a true trooper, Kirby made a very faithful adaptation that took its cues from both the movie and the novel. The problem was that it was an ongoing comic, so once he reached the end of the movie, he had to continue the story, and Arthur C. Clarke had yet to write the sequel 2010: Odyssey Two. How did he continue the story on his own? AWESOMELY.
Her weapon is the flaming skull of a fallen foe. For Kirby, that's a feminine weapon.
We are sure you remember Vira from the movie and the impressive performance by Delta Burke that gained her an Oscar ... in some parallel universe only Kirby's mind can access.
Since the movie didn't have many characters whose name you can even remember except for HAL and astronaut Dave, and one of them dies and the other takes a trip into a tie-dyed T-shirt and comes out transformed into a cosmic fetus, that makes continuing their stories kind of difficult. Kirby of course decided to continue the story of the third most memorable character from the movie, the black monoliths. All the issues after the movie story is finished are about the black monoliths visiting Earth in different time periods and helping people defeat bullies like very rectangular Mr. Miyagis.
So like in the novel, this is about the monoliths helping out mankind's development, but since having the monoliths help Aristotle invent physics would be boring to draw, Kirby has the monoliths help some random ancient tribe invent wheels and beat the crap out of their neighbors.
"If do right, no can defense."
Every issue then transports us back to the far-off future of the year 2001 where the reincarnations (maybe?) of the characters from the past get contacted once more by the monoliths and get transformed into space babies. So we guess in Kirby's version astronaut Dave is the reincarnation of the monkey from the beginning of the movie?
This should be a "before and after" ad for antipsychotic medication.
By issue No. 8, Kirby was tired of this shit, so he introduced a new character called Machine Man, the Living Robot! He is an android that receives sentience from the monoliths because ... who knows? They were in the neighborhood looking for more space babies for their collection, they had a few drinks, and giving sentience to random machines is something to do, you know? Fuck you! Don't judge the monoliths, you have been drunk, too!
Hotline to Hades. Horny demons are waiting for your call. Must be 18 or older.
And this is the last time you will ever see the monoliths in the 2001 comic, because after this it's all about Machine Man escaping the lab where he was created and being hunted by the military. What, you want more space babies? Well, then get yourself a giant slingshot and go raid a maternity ward, 'cause Kirby is busy now drawing robots fighting the military-industrial complex. Oh, and then Machine Man got into a fight with the Hulk.
We admire the ambition, but maybe you should start with Hawkeye and then work your way up?
What? You didn't know that 2001 takes place in the Marvel universe? Well, now it does! Somebody really needs to write a comedy about Wolverine, Spider-Man and Thor raising a space baby.
Maxwell Yezpitelok also makes terrible comics, so really he's in no position to judge. Special thanks to Uschi von Buccher for being rad.
For more God awful comics, check out The 7 Crappiest "Superheroes" in Comic Book History and The 8 Most Awkward Sexual Moments in Comic Book History.
If you're pressed for time and just looking for a quick fix, then check out 3 Telltale Signs Your Online Girlfriend Is a Scam.-->


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I understand that if a pair quark/antiquark, out of the vacuum, tries to separate then the energy increases, another pair is produced, and we finish with two mesons or generically two hadron jets. But in numerical simulations we can just put a single quark and calculate the field, can we? What does it happen, does the total energy diverge? Or does it increases up to, say, some "constituient" mass?
As usual with these things, the presence of QFT and a non-Abelian gauge theory makes life hard, so let's take the prototypical theory that we can actually calculate with easily: Maxwell's equations.
The question is then something like "what happens if I put a single electron in a (classical) lattice simulation?". Immediately, one realises that this question is nonsense because Maxwell's equations only define the time evolution of physical states, which in this case implies things that satisfy Gauss' law (which is a constaint!): $$\nabla \cdot E = \rho.$$ In other words, in a simulation one must start with a physical state before one can run it. The Gauss constraint can be solved in this case, and gives the obvious $1/r^2$ decaying $E$ field.
At this point, we can zoom back out to QCD, and think about what changes. Solving for the Gauss constraint (i.e. finding an element of the physical Hilbert space) is now highly non-trivial, but heuristically we can have a guess at what might go wrong. The basic problem (as Scott Carnahan points out in the comments) is anti-screening. The colour field self-interacts and gets stronger at larger $r$ --- so the total energy diverges, which does not correspond to any element of the physical Hilbert space.
Incidentally, this general problem of needing to solve a constraint equation before being able to start a simulation is quite hard, and numerically one has to be quite clever to avoid instabilities --- many time evolution codes are only stable if you start them with things that satisfy the gauge constraints. Apart from gauge field simulations, simulations of GR also have this problem.
The total energy diverges, but you can't simulate a single static colored source because this conflicts with periodic boundary conditions. You need to have the box color neutral. The easiest way to do this is to put a color source and antisource far apart, and this was the situation in the earliest lattice QCD simulations.
The color fields in these simulations run in a narrow tube from the source to the antisource. The energy diverges as a linear function of the separation, and the coefficient of the divergence is the QCD string tension. In a simulation with dynamical quarks, quarks will pop out of the vacuum to screen the two sources, so that they will be noninteracting at long distances.


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With a 21-point effort on Senior Night last week, Central High School senior Dominique Chandler eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his Yellowjacket career, helped his team end the regular season with a 20-5 record and continued to prove his status as an elite high school shooter in Kentucky.
But ask Central Head Coach Doug Bibby and he'll quickly tell you about Chandler's transcendent journey to the defensive side of the ball – a side the 6-foot sharpshooter wasn't previously familiar with.
"(Chandler) was all about scoring up until this year," said Bibby. "He was a 3-point specialist and his game was predicated on him knocking down threes. And if he wasn't knocking down threes, you may not find him anywhere else in the stat sheet. He was at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of his defense."
During last year's Seventh Region Tournament semifinals against St. Xavier – a game that Central ultimately lost by 11 points – that mindset abruptly changed for Chandler during a key moment in the contest.
"I could have taken a charge and it could have been a big momentum change when (St. X) had a run going, but I didn't take it," said Chandler. "I thought about it during the whole offseason."
Behind some furious jump-roping sessions, film watching and challenging himself to guard the top player from opposing teams during summer play with his Louisville Storm AAU team, Chandler flipped a switch.
"He's made a 180 and is probably our main defensive stopper this year, so I've definitely been proud of him," said Bibby of Chandler. "Everybody talks about his shooting – and he is one of the best shooters in the state – but he has taken pride defensively and in picking up the toughest guy on the other team."
"This year, he's taken it upon himself to play better defense, to help crash the boards – little things like getting through screens. That's a right step toward doing the intangibles," Bibby continued. "He's really matured. And I'm challenging him to get (the rest of his teammates) to that level."
Chandler, who is still Central's leading scorer this season averaging 18 points per game, has finally responded to his coach's relentless request to "do the intangibles" – an area of the game Bibby refers to as "Scalabrine" for former Boston Celtic Brian Scalabrine, who was also coached in college at USC by Henry Bibby, Doug's uncle.
"Containment, leveling guys off, running through screens, 50-50 balls, blocking out – that's 'Scalabrine,' " says Bibby, who is in his eighth year at Central.
"When Scalabrine made it to the (NBA), a lot of people were like, 'How did Brian Scalabrine make it to the league?' It was the intangibles," he continued.
With this unique approach, the Yellowjackets finished the regular season, winning seven of their final eight games. The lone loss in that stretch was to defending state champion Trinity.
Central is favored to win the 25th District this week, but has not advanced past the regional semifinals since earning a trip to the state Sweet 16 in 2009.
St. X Takes State Title
Behind Orville Williams Outstanding Wrestler Award-winner Hunter French and a total of six grapplers competing in individual championship matches, St. Xavier scored 203.5 points to capture the KHSAA state wrestling title in Lexington.
It was the third team wrestling championship for the Tiger program and first since 2001. St. X beat defending champion Campbell County and another title favorite, Union County, to bring the trophy back to Louisville.
Besides French, who won in the 160-pound weight class, there were four other Louisville area wrestlers who won individual championships: Fern Creek's Jorge Vega (106 lbs.), St. Xavier's Justin Lampe (145 lbs.), Southern's Thomas Noe (195 lbs.) and Trinity's Bobby Bryant (285 lbs.).
Trinity (120 points) finished sixth in the final team standings, while Oldham County (99.5 points) finished tenth. St. Xavier head coach Jim Kraeszig was named Kentucky Coach of the Year by the Kentucky Wrestling Coaches Association. It is the second time he has earned the honor.


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Local school districts are making adjustments to staff contracts and salaries now that the Washington State legislature finally passed the state budget for the next two years. The eleventh-hour move on the last day of the legislature's special session on May 25 set out $4 million in cuts, including reductions to public education funding that local districts are now trying to sort out. The approved state budget mandates a 3 percent cut in pay for school administrators; a 1.9 percent reduction in pay for teachers and classified staff, and cuts to various programs like alternative education and learning assistance. For the Colville School District these reductions were less severe than anticipated, allowing the district to rescind the 23 Reduction in Force (RIF), or pink-slip notices, sent out to staff in May. "At the time we didn't know what was going to happen and we had to meet the May 15 deadline for sending out the RIF notices," said Superintendent Ken Emmil. "We had to plan for both the best and worst case scenario and for us that was a $6 million swing." In total, the Colville School District will see a $939,778 reduction in funding that includes staff salary reductions, reduced funding for K to 4 classroom ratios, and less money for learning assistance programs. The state budget also called for a 10 to 20 percent reduction in Alternative Education funding, said Emmil. "We were relieved to see that the legislature did not change the structure of Alternative Education programs to mandate a certain number of 'in-person' hours, as many of our virtual learning students do not live in the district, so requiring 'in-person' time would be difficult," he said. Emmil noted that about a third of Colville School District students, or roughly 860 students, are students who live out of the district boundaries but are enrolled in virtual learning programs. In order to apply the mandated administrative staff pay cuts, Emmil said his office will be taking a 3 percent cut. However, the classified staff and principals will be able avoid the 1.9 percent pay cut by attending two days of non-paid training the district will provide. Certified teachers who will see a reduction in paychecks due to the state salary schedule can make up that reduction by a attending a 3-day training in which the district will pay them per-diem for attending. These adjustments are only part of the district's efforts to gear up for next year when traditional student enrollment is anticipated to drop by 100 students and 9 teachers retired from the district this year. "In some ways we are going to be better off next year because with challenges come opportunities," said Emmil. Kettle Falls renegotiates contracts The Kettle Falls School district saw their state funding trimmed back by $483,000, a cut that will result in the loss of 3 certified teachers and a renegotiation of some administrative contracts. They also anticipate having 35 fewer students next year, which will mean another funding reduction from the state since the district is paid on a per-student basis. Superintendent Greg Goodnight said the district had to give RIF notices to himself and the two district principals in order to renegotiate their contracts to reflect the 3 percent reduction in pay. The 1.9 percent salary reduction for teachers will be automatically applied to their paychecks, as their union adheres to the salary schedule set by the state. Goodnight said while the district will absorb the funding reductions as best they can, he is not impressed with the way the reductions were made. "The way the reductions were lined out to us makes implementing them and making it fair hard," he said. "I am really questioning the decisions forced upon us because these pay cuts did not come with less work and the state collective bargaining laws make it complicated to put this into action."


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If only people did a search before posting... it's a known issue, I believe. Been reported many, many times. Just do a quick search for "penalty shootout" and you'll see why.
Have you patched to 9.2?
Well soooorrrry!
no i havnt as i have used someone elses disk and they installed steam before me and for some reason wont let me download the new patch. :S
So you didnt pay for the game yourself?
no i didn't.
You're not legally allowed to use someone else's disk.
Walk the plank
so 4457 you've never borrowed something from a friend dvd or cd to use for yourself etc..
or watched tv or things on the internet
It really takes something special to go onto a software developer's forum and openly admit that you pirate their software.
then either your loaded or a bit sad.
what the hell. maybe it didn't sound right before, firstly, it's my brother who bought the game, not me and we both have seperate computers meaning we'd need to install it twice.
Are you saying if you were in my situation you would literally go to the store and buy it again?
if you say yes, i believe either you're definately lying or just an idiot.
k thanks
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It's in the EULA. When you install the game and agree to the EULA, strictly speaking you agree to only use the game for your personal use and not to share it with anyone else.
In accordnace the EULA that your brother accepted with the game yes you both need to buy your own copiesAre you saying if you were in my situation you would literally go to the sore and buy it again?
i know i bet he is lying as well.
good point well made homHAVFC, 4457 is just a bit of a geek, who has no friends to borrow things to and from
Yeah I paid that for a pre release version and if its now 16 quid in various retailers then with if we all chip in a quid we can buy the chap his on copy and let him get on with it
yeah i paid £30 for it as well, so under 4457 rules, buying it for £16 must be illegal as well
I pointed out a fact for which you've been abusing me to no end. Enjoying yourself?
yeah light humour as you were being a bit picky when hotshot was just showing us all a screenshot of a penalty shoot out.
Whatt? i think someones already said this but why pay for it twice when it has 5 installations?!
Also, £16 to me isn't loose change, you obviously don't know the value of money if you think that. i think you need to learn some people arn't as well off as you.
thank you.
So ... anyway ... what was this thread about again?
haha sorry to anyone who was offended by my original thread that was about the longest penalty shootout ive seen.
i shall reserch into the biggest records of these things before posting my own.
Hotshot, why can't you download updates?
Ok I wasnt quite sure what trolling was so of I went to goolge and I found this
I Dont see what that has to do with this post at all?To send a text message to every sexually available female on your cell phone contact list in hopes that you will get "a bite" (response) back from one of them.
4457 eat **** and die u idiot, my arse u have never lent a dvd to watch and ffs its his brother no one would go buy to copis for the same household what a ****ing waste of money and if u say you would then your a total lieing ***** these forums are getting worse and worse coz of *****s like you why cnt anyone ever have a ****ing constructive post ffs its ****ing sad u dnt need to slag everyone off you know
It's a point that didn't need swear words tbf.
Now really is there ANY need for that DarkVenom.
mission accomplished here onto the next post....
i have not seen one post on this forum where someone hasnt given someone crap for nothing its compleatly shocking oh and before some give me crap coz i spelt compleatly wrong i know alrdy i cnt spell for ****
apart from the language darkvenon has made the best point there.
4457 isnt popular eh??
lmaoff tom u only say pillock coz your one of the idiots tht does it to ppl make u feel big does it
and im sorry for the launguage just was pretty angry over it
ok shall we stop this? it's getting pointless now..
lmao i said someone would post abt my spelling and my god dean27pompey didnt let me down
sorry tom didnt relise i needed a degree in spelling to post on these forum my bad
some one close this thread
lol hard why would i think im hard lol its a forum u geek have i asked u to come round my house for a fight no i didnt think so u idiot shouldnt u be playing world of warcraft of summit
lol wow this thread is starting to attract the roots of this poorly run forum and why so many ppl think they cant post coz idiots like tom dean dick just try to ruin it for the rest of us
Can we just leave this thread to die.....
The idiot has left.
Sorry but I think you have been as big an idiot as some of the others and this one of those theards where everyone has an opinion and would have been closed long ago if it wasnt NYE and the mods probably have better things 2 do!


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6 Life Saving Techniques From the Movies (That Can Kill You)
#3. "He's having a seizure! Wedge something in his mouth so he doesn't swallow his tongue!"
As Seen On:
ER, M.A.S.H., Alien
According to Hollywood:
Take Joe Fictional, your average everyday ferret juggler.
One day he is minding his own fictitious business, presumably while juggling ferrets, when he catches a glimpse of a Pokemon episode out of the corner of his eye and goes into a brain-detonating seizure. The people around him have only seconds to force some object, like a wooden spoon or one of his smaller ferrets, into his mouth to keep him from swallowing his own tongue and choking to death.
Joe spasms and struggles, but thanks to the gallant efforts of those around him his airway is kept free from any tongue-shaped obstructions and his life is saved. Except for the whole seizure thing, he might still die from that.
The Wrongness:
While we would all appreciate a good excuse to ram random objects into strangers' mouths, it turns out that it's medically impossible to swallow your own tongue. So all that stuff you did to help that seizing man in Wal-Mart was technically sexual assault.
It's true that a seizure victim's jaw clenches during a seizure, and that could potentially result in some damage to the tongue, but all of that is small potatoes compared to the injury inflicted by pinning the person down and prying their mouths open to shove something between their teeth.
The human jaw is He-Man strong, and when it involuntarily shuts, it can and fucking should remain that way. Trying to force it open can easily cause mechanical damage to the teeth, the gums, the tongue or your own fingers. Worse yet, having a person bite down on something during a seizure can potentially block their airway and suffocate them, which you may remember as the thing you were trying to prevent in the first place.
Really, unless you are a trained EMT the only thing you should do is protect the victim's head and wait for the ambulance to arrive.
"...why are there chunks of ferret in this man's mouth?"
#2. Stopping Bleeding with a Tourniquet
As Seen On:
M.A.S.H., Die Hard, Jurassic Park, Many Cop Shows
According to Hollywood:
Following TV logic, when someone gets stabbed or shot and starts spraying blood like a soda fountain, the first course of action is to tear off strips of your own shirt and expose a glistening set of abdominal muscles. Next, you take the strips of your shirt and tie them tightly above the leaking wound, producing a make-shift tourniquet that stops the rampant blood flow and keeps the victim alive. If the victim is a blonde, your reward shall be boobies.
The Wrongness:
The problem with using a tourniquet to keep a wound from bleeding out is that cutting off the blood from other parts of the body to the injured area is sort of like blowing up the city's Water Works because you can't get the faucet in your kitchen to stop leaking: It's a bit drastic and someone will probably die because of it.
Applying a tourniquet to a bleeding limb should be the last, most desperate measure you could possibly take. Cutting off circulation to an area of the body can lead to necrotic tissue, a phrase which sounds like "zombie" because it means "your skin dies, rots and has to be amputated." And trust us, no matter how perfectly sculpted your abs might be, causing a girl to lose a body part is pretty much the ultimate turn-off.
The best course of action is to apply pressure directly to the wound with a piece of cloth or gauze while speeding the victim to a goddamn hospital. Tourniquets really only work when you've already lost a body part, because they cut off circulation and therefore keep blood from flowing through your ragged stump and out of your body.
#1. "He's been shot! We have to get the bullet out!"
As Seen On:
ER, M.A.S.H., Every Action Movie Ever
According to Hollywood:
Watching movies you would think most bullets were full of radioactive poison, seeing as how fast the fictional doctors try to pluck them out. Someone gets shot and before their body even hits the ground, five different medics appear and start digging around the wound before the hero's life can slip away.
The wrongness:
As it turns out, you should leave the bullets where they are. When fired, bullets become very hot, so hot in fact that by the time they lodge themselves deep inside 50 Cent, they are completely sterile and pose no infection risk whatsoever. However they might be pressing on some vital blood vessels which could easily be severed by a removal attempt, and as we pointed out earlier, you kind of need blood to live.
If you don't want bullets floating around inside your body for the rest of your life, you can opt for a procedure to remove them somewhere down the line, but it's rarely an on the spot priority.
Interestingly enough, some scholars believe that both Presidents Garfield and McKinley could have survived their assassinations if the damn doctors hadn't gone poking around in their executive abdomens with dirty instruments and unwashed hands looking for bullets to remove. And when Teddy Roosevelt got shot in the chest he refused to have the piece of metal extracted, a decision which probably saved his life.
The bullet later descended into a third testicle.
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My name is Andrew and I've been writing as a games journalist for a number of years now (first voluntarily at http://www.play.tm and later in paid roles at GamerSquad and http://www.nintendic.com, the latter at which I am now Editor. I can earn enough to get by at present (the work is freelance in that the more I write, the more I get paid), but what I'd really like is a secure position with a proper salary.
I know that there are very few staff writing positions at big videogames firms, but seeing as I'm eager to get going with some sort of career, can anyone suggest where best to go from here? I'm university educated and have lots of experience, so would PR or Marketing roles also be an option for me?
I enjoy what I do now, but I'd really like to get out and about to meet people in a job, rather than sit by myself all day. =P
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When it comes to programming languages, the old adage, "it's not who you are, it's who you know" definitely holds true. C and C++ were sponsored by AT&T, Java was brought to us by Sun, the .NET family came out of Microsoft, and all of them got very popular very quickly. Then we have Objective-C and Python, which were around for quite a while and stayed really obscure until they were discovered and hyped up by Apple and Google, respectively, and then suddenly they really took off. But languages without a major sponsor tend to languish in obscurity, no matter how good they are.
Go is sponsored by Google. It's not difficult to arrive at the right conclusion here. Give it five years and it's gonna be huge.
I actually don't think that Go will be that successful. A reason to why it will not reach the big masses is that it is intended to be a language for system programming.
There is a real need for a systems language with more modern features. C and C++ are too bound by legacy code and backwards compatibility here to improve much. That said, I don't think Go fulfills that role in its current form. Its design is too minimalist. While its concurrency model is exciting, it brings few other features from higher level languages to the systems world. (Last time I checked, which was admittedly a while ago, it didn't even have exceptions.) Furthermore, at least to the extent that the Computer Language Benchmark Game is a good measure (it's admittedly a very rough indicator), it's not nearly as fast as a "real" systems language needs to be.
I think the language with the best chance to fill the void of a more modern systems language is D. D is technically much stronger than Go but politically weaker. It's not backed by a major corporation. What it really needs is some libraries (this is rapidly being addressed now that the language spec is stable) and a killer app.
I am learning Go and yes, it is used productively besides Google and Heroku.
Go is definitely a nice language for System Programming. Simple code as in C, powerful structures as in C++ and safety features as in Java. Since it is a very young language a lot of nice things from other languages have been inherited:
Considering all these nice things and the safety and performance only known from statically typed languages a lot of people from the dynamic languages community have started to like Go. In most cases Go-code is not much longer than Ruby-code, but in every case safer and better structured.
But in the end I guess the killer argument for Go is concurrency. It is a C-like language that has a powerful concurrency support that is only known from functional languages.
I would say that this mainly depends on the libraries/services/software that will be created in/for/using Go. People use something in three situations (order matters): when they have practically no other option (Objective-C), when their surroundings use it (FORTRAN), when it makes their live easier (Ruby).
It might be a little late for this, but Go is becoming a popular language now and will likely enter the mainstream with Google pushing it forward. It's being pushed as being a language used for systems and products within Google and is being pushed as a language to use with Google App Engine. There are some very sharp folks on the backend of Go building and enhancing it. There are some very clever and imaginative people working on third-party libraries for Go.
Go fills a void that other languages have not quite filled. For me, I used to try to fill that void with Perl and a bunch of workarounds and tricks. I don't believe it's the perfect language for all situations and all people, but it certainly is a candidate for quite a large number of situations. For example, it works great for web apps while also working great for desktop apps or server-based apps. It does such a fantastic job with HTTP and WebSocket (which means you can skip Apache or nginx altogether) while also running very well on Windows, Linux, and OS X for both daemons and for regular ol' desktop apps. Right now the only situation that it fails for me is for Android apps, which I hope is remedied soon. I use it for Windows desktop apps, Linux desktop apps, and Linux-based web apps. It feels good to get real work done and not have to tinker with workarounds.
I believe it will be several years before it really hits the mainstream, but it will get there. I think it needs to get more third-party libraries built, much like the sort of number and selection that Perl has with CPAN. It'll get there.
What does "mainstream" mean anyway? Without knowing that, it's ever so hard to answer this question. Let's look a bit at that.
There are many possible definitions. Here are a few:
Management view:
Developers' view:
Careerist view:
Given all of the above, I'd argue that the only honest answer is probably "too soon to tell" but I believe the best indicator of any real longevity is the number of small businesses that use the language. Big organizations are all very well – they might even be essential to growth of a language or system of tools because of the scale of investment they can apply – but they're rather prone to passing fashions (with a few exceptions). By contrast, if a small business has built itself up around using the language to deliver products and services, they're very likely to want to contribute towards ensuring that they will still be able to do so in the future. They also form the bedrock of a strong job market in the area, and demand for tools too. Funnily, those are several indicators of mainstream-ness on my list (possibly more, depending on the whims of management).
So, how many people outside Google are using Go for their work? I have no idea. (I'm not. My needs are currently well served by a mixture of Java, C and Tcl. YMMV.)
It is already more popular than some languages.
There is a possibly, that Go is the most important language in 20+ years. It really does present some great benefits in terms of massive datasets, which social media sites, cloud computing, Search and Mobile present.
Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and Ad-Serving networks have much more use for Google Go than Ruby On Rails, at least in some contexts.
I looked into Go when I heard of it. As a complete beginner I'm still learning the beginner languages (in my case Java, C#, Python and Scheme) which is a lot to take in, but if I wasn't engrossed in so many different languages I would have seriously considered it
I figure at my level, there's no harm in getting the basics down before jumping on bandwagons. Though, if I remember right, when I was looking up Go, I became very attracted to Erlang for some reason.
I've only just looked at Go because of this question so I can't really comment on whether it will take off as a mainstream language, but one thing has just got me really excited:
I first came across the concept of Channels in Occam-pi and I must say it is one of the best programming concepts ever. It makes concurrency seem so easy where doing the same thing in a C-type language can sometimes be a pain.
From what I've seen (in the 10 minutes I've looked), Go looks to be trying to combine many different programming concepts, but that does have the risk of it being a Jack of all trades, a master of none.
I suspect that whether it becomes mainstream will depend upon whether Google adopt it as a supported language for appengine and / or GWT.
I wish Go will become popular.
It's powerful in syntax. (Learn the advantages from python, C, Java). It's good for multi-core CPU. (The channel function much better then thread programming). The design prevent many programmer's pitfall. (wrong pointer, same coding style by tool gofmt, prevent variable uninitialized bug, At first time, I try it at first time as it is python + C but with the speed near 1/2 speed of C.
But, after deeply learn I found it may suitable to develop fault tolerance and scalable architecture


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The Shady Agendas Behind 5 Popular Conspiracy Theories
#2. Water Fluoridation is a Communist Conspiracy
The Theory:
Fluoridated water is the first step of a Soviet plan to conquer America by either poisoning people or controlling their minds, depending on which crazy guy you ask.
Who's to Blame:
The John Birch Society.
This theory first emerged after World War II and really took off during the 1950s. There were many variations: Fluoridation had first been developed by Nazis to control their prisoners, the United Nations was in on the plot, etc. They all agreed on one thing though:
You were better off shitting in your water before every drink than you were adding fluoride.
Of course, according to the Center for Disease Control, "Better use of fluoride can lead to considerable savings in public and private resources. But fuck all that noise, the John Birch Society, a conservative group with a far more colloquial sounding name, opposed fluoridation because they saw it as an involuntary medical treatment that violated individual rights. They also really, really hated communism. Guess which one of those stances got more press?
Water: The silent killer. Except when it's on. Then it makes that whoosh sound.
So, Why do People "Believe" It?
Most anti-fluoridation campaigners based their beliefs on less wacky grounds, either on the rights issue or because they saw it as part of a larger social welfare program that was expensive and unnecessary. But wow, that's boring. Rights? Saving money? Man, who cares? This was the era of McCarthyism; the best way to stop something was to tie it to communism and yell a lot. And that's precisely what happened.
But, for real, Monkey Polio is a serious problem.
The fluoridation debate was huge, and it was mostly fuelled by Red Scare politics rather than scientific evidence (media reports focused on controversy rather than science, and many people didn't even know what fluoridation was supposed to achieve). It may all sound silly now, but consider this: In the 50s and 60s hundreds of communities held referendums that decided not to introduce fluoridation.
It fact, it wasn't until the mid 90s that the majority of Americans were drinking fluoridated water, and there are still some people against it today. The communists are never going to take over at this rate.
#1. Global Warming is a Socialist Hoax
The Theory:
Global warming is a hoax being perpetrated by scientists to attract funding, and by undercover Socialists/Communists to tax and destroy world industry. Meanwhile, scientists critical of global warming are being repressed.
Who's to Blame:
The Heartland Institute, and others.
The earliest version of this theory emerged in 1990 in a documentary called The Greenhouse Conspiracy, back when nobody outside of the scientific community had any idea what global warming even was. The idea drifted around for a while until climate change started making major headlines at the turn of the millennium, at which point the conspiracy theories really started to take off.
Which brings us to the Heartland Institute.
Occasionally you'll see a headline on right-leaning blogs or news portals like Drudge boasting that "500 Scientists File Protest Questioning Global Warming Theory!!!" That's the Heartland Institute. It's a conservative "think tank", funded by a number of conservative foundations and corporations (donors include the American Scaife Foundations--recognize that name from the Clinton entry?) and their board of directors had included executives from ExxonMobil and Philip Morris (coincidentally, their other big cause is convincing everyone cigarette smoke isn't dangerous).
But still, what does it matter how the organization itself leans, as long as it has 500 scientists saying global warming is a sham? That's got to count for something, right?
Well, as soon as the list was published, many of the scientists were shocked to find their names on it. Forty-five members immediately asked to have their names removed, saying they had no idea what they fuck the Institute was talking about and that they fully believed in global warming. A handful of the other names are either deceased or made-up, and thus haven't been doing a great deal of research lately. Finally, one is an astrologist, whose expertise in the field is probably questionable.
So, Why Do People "Believe" It?
Regardless of the realities of global warming, it's true that any action taken against it would harm industry in some way. And while it's not going to be in a "turn it over to the commies" conspiracy way, it's still looking like solving it would take the one thing conservatives hate: government regulation.
"Sir, your Communism levels are dangerously low."
Their whole deal is that the private sector just does things better (that is, FedEx works way better than the post office) and their problem with believing in global warming is that no private company is going to voluntarily cut back and go green while their competitors continue to cash in on highly profitable yet dirty fossil fuels. Thus, cleaning up the air will take lots of that government interference that conservatives hate.
Still, it seems like they'd have had a better chance at going along with the global warming theory and then debating the least painful way to fix it, rather than just inventing a fake club full of a bunch of scientists who have never heard of them. It's like the pathetic kid in school who was always lying about how many friends he had. No matter what you think about global warming, you have to admit that's probably not a great way to arrive at the truth. Also, it's kind of sad.
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