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There are two options for Windows 7 in GRUB. I tried one of them out and it worked great! I'm in Windows right now.
I assume that Wubi problem was what was causing that black screen, so I'm trying to run a chkdsk on the drive that Ubuntu is installed on. Unfortunately, the drives aren't mapped or something because they don't have a path.
Here's a picture of what I'm seeing (they just don't show up despite being recognized as partitions in Disk Management):
So I'm not really sure how to run a chkdsk on a drive that I can't reference...
I'm trying to google it now.
Edit 1: I tried to run chkdsk on the drive letters despite them not appearing and it didn't work.
Edit 2: Ugh. This is terrible... I downloaded Ext2Read because I saw a person was able to get windows to recognize ext drives and assign them letters. I ran the program and used it to permanently set drive letters to them, however, Windows still doesn't know how to read Ext4 format and so it detects the drives as RAW format. When I try to chkdsk it I get this message:
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
I have the sector range from the partition, why can't I just run a chkdsk on those sectors? :'(
Edit 3: So I read that fsck.ext4 is the linux version of chkdsk for ext4 partitions. I ran it and now when I select Ubuntu from GRUB I get to the purple and white Ubuntu loading screen but it just stays there loading. I've waited about four minutes now, I'll wait a few more minutes before I do a manual reboot... Any ideas on what to do after that?
Edit 4: Got back into the splash screen and tried to get into a tty via cntrl+alt+f1 so I could run sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm. Upon pressing cntrl+alt+f1 I went to a black screen with a tiny white underscore that blinked rapidly. Pressing keys did nothing.
Edit 5: I ran the Recovery Mode after reading this (I have a 7000 series). Upon selecting any option a fsck.ext4 run appears beneath the menu with a blinking white underscore which I can type into. Typing commands does nothing, but upon pressing cntrl+c I'm brought to the following screen:
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done.
Warning: Fake initct1 called, doing nothing.
The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present.
keys: Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery
No key press does anything except for esc, which switches to a white and purple loading screen that says the same warning message. Pressing esc again switches back to the white and black command prompt-looking screen.
Edit 6: I just ran the system information option in the recovery mode and under the property "=== Software RAID state ===" it says:
No software RAID detected (mdstat)
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Who doesn't enjoy a Weird Al reference? There are a few things you can do to substitute the ground beef. Tonight we ground the leftover seitan in the blender. You can also use veggie crumbles, or fry up crumbled tofu that has been frozen and thawed. In a rush, you could use that Old El Paso taco seasoning (I think it is vegan), but I like to use a mix of chili powder, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne, and oregano.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Taco Grande
2 comments:
- Trish said...
It's also great when you use refried black beans and spread them on a tortilla shell, then wrap that around the taco :)
- October 22, 2007 at 12:19 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Isn't there an SNL skit about a taco, wrapped in tortilla, wrapped in a pizza, wrapped in a . . . you get the idea.
- October 22, 2007 at 10:43 PM
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February 04, 2013
Public transport plan for Red Hot Chili Peppers concert
After months of eager anticipation, there are just a few more days left to go before 45 000 ticket-clutching fans see the Red Hot Chili Peppers storm onto the Cape Town Stadium stage.
To ensure a safe and hassle-free journey to and from the event, the City of Cape Town has put a comprehensive public transport plan in place. A number of roads leading to the stadium will be closed on Tuesday, February 5.
The gates to the stadium will open at 17h00 on Tuesday and supporting act Die Antwoord will perform from 19h45. The main event, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, will kick off at 21h00 and end at 23h00.
The City's Mayoral Committee Member for Tourism, Events and Marketing, Councillor Grant Pascoe, advises concert-goers to arrive early, make use of public transport, if possible, and avoid peak-hour traffic.
As is the norm, there are no parking bays at or near the stadium.
Use public transport to the MyCiTi Civic Centre bus station and catch the free event shuttle to the stadium, or find parking in the City Bowl or the V&A Waterfront and stroll down the fan walk.
No additional bus or train services have been scheduled before the event, but there will be a limited free Metrorail and MyCiTi service after the concert.
There will be free passage on the trains, on presentation of your concert ticket stub.
Trains will depart from the Cape Town Station to Fish Hoek at 23h45 and midnight; to Bellville, via Monte Vista, at 23h45 and midnight; and to Strand, via Goodwood, at midnight.
The MyCiTi service will operate as normal before the event for the Civic Centre/Table View, Waterfront and Gardens routes.
After the concert the first bus will depart from York Road to Hout Bay at 23h15, and the last bus will leave at 00h15.
The first UCT bus service will leave to the Civic Centre at 17h00 and the last one will be at 19h30. After the concert, the first bus to UCT will be at 23h30 and the last one at 00h30.
The Table View service will run as normal and after the event, the first outward-bound bus will be at 23h30 and the last one at 00h30.
The first bus to Gardens will leave the the Civic Centre at 23h30, and the last one at 00h30.
Park-and-ride facilities will be at the Kronendal Primary School in Hout Bay, street parking at Maiden's Cove or in the municipal parking area off Victoria Road, and at the UCT Upper Campus off the M3.


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I bought a T-II in hopes that it would provide a more consistent alignment of my Panasonic LX3. It doesn't. Here's why.
The length of the camera plus an extension tube and wide angle lens adapter is such that I can't move the camera back far enough on my NN3 so as to put the lens at it's proper no parallax point. I must reverse the T-II so that the attachment point is underneath the extension tube. I have to also do that with the T-30.
The problem is that the bumpers on the T-II then push against the front of the camera which is ok but the distance between the bumpers is not wide enough to allow the extension tube to fit in between.
So I can't use the T-II in it's normal orientation because it doesn't allow the camera to be put at the no parallax point and I cannot reverse the T-II because the distance between the bumpers is not wide enough for the extension tube.
Using the previous T-30 is also a poor choice because the distance from the tripod mounting hole to the optical center line is about 22mm. That makes a fairly long lever arm about which the camera twists because of the weight of the wide angle lens.
Given that large sensor cameras are getting smaller and compact cameras are getting better, I think there should be more thought put toward developing gear that supports effective use of those cameras. The NN3 is a good size -- actually a little big for EVIL's and compacts but it can work if you think through the simple adapters that gives a solid and well aligned support.


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TO PARTICIPATE: Corina Diehl, president and owner of Diehl Automotive Group, has accepted a nomination to participate in the FBI Pittsburgh Citizens Academy, 2013-2014.
The citizens' academy is a program that gives business, religious, civic, news media and community leaders an inside look at the FBI and an opportunity to meet the men and women of the bureau.
Diehl will be participating in eight classes, gaining intimate knowledge of the FBI's processes as well as participating in firearm training and mock investigations.
Diehl Automotive Group consists of three stores, a Toyota and Chrysler store in Butler, Pa., and a Chrysler store in Robinson Township.
Diehl Automotive is a premier dealership, devoted to excellent customer service, great prices and a knowledgeable and friendly staff, officials said.
Diehl took ownership of the dealership after the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, Matthew, and has brought the dealership to new heights by use of modern technologies and innovative marketing strategies, officials said.
CAREER FAIR: Franciscan University of Steubenville hopes local employers will take advantage of the chance to to discuss full- and part-time jobs and internships with their students at a career fair set from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 20 in the school's J.C. Williams Center. The cost is $25, which includes a 4-foot table, coffee in the morning and lunch. To register, call (740) 284-5251.
CERTIFICATION: Patrick McLaughlin, production manager at Vapor Jet Professional Cleaning and Restoration in Steubenville, has been certified as a water damage restoration technician.
Awarded through the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning & Restoration Certification, McLaughlin qualified for the designation by education and examination.
The IICRC is a nonprofit certifying and standard-setting organization dedicated to raising industry standards through technical proficiency. By administering a strict process of certification, the IICRC provides a means by which consumers can receive the highest quality of service from trained, knowledgeable, professional technicians.
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5 Tiny Technologies That Will Doom Us (From The Inside Out)
#2. The Psychic Internet
Bioengineers in Utah have come up with something they call the "Utah Electrode Array," and it is nothing less than a very rough, very rudimentary version of a cyberspace brainjack.
Like in Neuromancer. Like in the Matrix. Like in the nerdly wet dreams of everybody reading this article right now.
For the moment, the chip only downloads information from the brain onto a hard drive. But the very fact that it's capable of that feat means that the potential to do the opposite--upload data into your brain--is very real. And that's not just us making shit up we want to hear: According to Bradley Greger, the supervisor of the Neural Engineering Lab at the University of Utah, the end goal of this entire project is to eventually link up the brain-chip to the Internet.
And as awesome as that's going to be, that's pretty much the end of human interaction as we know it.
The Downside:
There's maybe four hours in the modern man's waking life that is not spent on some form of media--Internet, email, music, television, the PC at work--it's been steadily encroaching further into our daily routine for years now. Once that access is inside your brain, you can multitask while doing literally anything: checking email while having sex, watching YouTube clips during meetings, playing a quick round of Tetris through your grandpa's boring anecdotes. And who's to say it even stops when you go to bed?
If it's truly a part of your brain, you'll likely be sleep-Googling in your dreams as well.
Right now only quadriplegics are getting the implant, and they're mostly just using it to slowly "thought-type," but when the floodgates inevitably open on biotechnology, this will probably be the first thing everybody gets. And forever afterward, every single personal interaction you have will be tainted by the knowledge that your conversational partner is probably watching cat-fisting fetish porn while simultaneously Photoshopping your head onto a hot, slutty little tabby for later posting in their Human Pussies Usergroup.
Of course, that's all assuming we can even still open our mouths to talk at that point, and haven't just quickly devolved into immobile walrus-like orbs of flesh after the mind-web is released.
#1. Real Life HUD
In Seattle, Washington there are--right this very second--living bunny rabbits with cybernetic super-eyes.
Much like the Terminator, these bunnies see the world through real life Heads Up Displays. It's all thanks to their special bionic contact lenses which have near-microscopic CPUs embedded in them to send and receive visual information.
Now, admittedly their current HUD is pretty basic: An 8 x 8 pixel LED field. But that's really only because the money isn't there to build a better prototype. The technology for a more complicated, human-usable display is completely viable, right now and at this very second. It's not "far-removed into the future," or "waiting for a breakthrough" in new technology; you could have it tomorrow if somebody invested enough.
The creator and Grand Master of the Terminator Bunnies, Babak Parviz, says it is totally feasible to build an augmented reality interface to slip right atop your eyeball. Since the lens reads visual data (the direction and focus of your eye) as well as displays it, he doesn't think a command interface will be a problem. And since the amount of power needed is so small that it could be entirely provided by a microscopic solar array embedded right there in the lens, power supply is not an obstacle either.
The Downside:
Combine the aforementioned implantable Google with the eyeball overlay display, and you've got a woman who can quickly scan your ex-girlfriend's Twitter feed while you're trying to hit on her at the bar (first thing she reads: "OMG steve totally got drunk and pooped in my mailbox again").
But if these things hit the market in a few years, we're not going to deter you from getting them. Quite the opposite, in fact: We need to adopt it as soon as fucking possible, because as of this very moment, Pacific Northwest bunny rabbits are the most scientifically advanced species on Earth.
Yes, let's keep modifying the little furry bastards. Augment their brains. Give them the Internet so they can Google "the weakest spot on a human body accessible by bunny teeth" without pausing to break pursuit of their prey. While we run from the murderous bastards, having delirious Monty Python flashbacks, the bunnies can pull up our Facebook page, browsing that wacky test we took where we listed off all our irrational phobias. Oh, was leporiphobia not on that list? Maybe it's time to update that.
No, our society is not doomed by adopting this tech, it's doomed by every second we don't.
Of all the 90s cartoons to turn out to be prophetic, who thought it would be Bucky O'Hare? We had our money on Street Sharks.
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To see the technology that's going to have to get out of the way for this stuff, check out Tech Zombies: 6 Technologies That Don't Know They're Dead. Or check out how you can construct your fancy name-brand products, in 7 High Tech Products And Their Cheap Ass Ingredients.
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In Yona 3:7-8 we find that the people of Ninveh included the animals in their teshuva process. Why make the animals fast and don sackcloth? How was this part of the teshuva process?
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It may refer to the people who are like animals because they don't recognize Who created them (see Rashi to 4:11).
The animals may have been involved in sin such as gilui arayot and avodah zara so although they must have been induced in doing sin, and were probabaly surrounded by sin, they too were made to repent. Their owners who helped commit the sins repented and made their animals fast too. BTW: It is interesting that Hashem argues with Yona about having pity on the people and the animals.


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Uncharted 3 is on levels most can never dream of reaching, and it a perfect showoff of the power of the PS3. I don't think it is possible to not be impressed and to say it is perfect would almost be an understatement.
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PlayStation 3
It is hard to believe that we are already at the third Uncharted game. The first one was a passable action game had its moments, but Uncharted 2 was an incredible game that had what still seems like an impossible combination of a beautiful game with great characters, well-written dialogue, and excellent gameplay. The only weak point of the game was its multiplayer, which seemed like an absolute afterthought. No game has managed to surpass Uncharted 2 since it came out, and now we finally get to find out if the game's own sequel can finally become Uncharted 2's superior.
For starters, Uncharted 3 still looks absolutely incredible. Every texture has been painstakingly built piece by tiny piece to look as realistic as possible, and the light shining on them makes them look even better, with some of the best shadows that exist in video games today. There is certainly a reason that Sony always uses Uncharted when they want to show off what the PS3 is capable of. All of that said though, the game doesn't really look all that much better than Uncharted 2, though that's not really a knock on the game.
Just like Uncharted 2, the story sort of boils down to a relatively simple Indiana Jones type story. You are hunting for a treasure that it just happens some bad guys are searching for, and the treasure is hardly ever what you were expecting it to be. Even though the story might be mediocre, the characters are as well written and well acted as they ever were. Every character you come across, from the primary protagonists to villains, to faceless thugs, all feel alive thanks to their acting and motion captured animations.
As long as we're talking about things that are just like Uncharted 2, lets talk about the gameplay. Here, absolutely nothing has changed. There are no new combat features, and you'll be doing just as much climbing, running towards the camera, and puzzle solving as you did in the last game. The multiplayer also hasn't really changed, and still contains a bunch of modes that are certainly fun, but the game's multiplayer doesn't come anywhere near other third-person shooters that are already on the market. That said, its a fun diversion, and since you already own the game you might as well try it out, at least for a little while or until you get tired of it, as its not bad by any means.
If you haven't picked up on the common thread that has run throughout this entire review, Uncharted 3 is extremely similar to Uncharted 2, almost to a fault. That's not to say that this game is bad in any way, but it certainly doesn't manage to do anything new or all that interesting compared to the last game. That said, since no other game has even come close to the level of quality that Uncharted 2 demonstrated, this game is still definitely worth both your time and money.


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The classic film "Steel Magnolias" starring Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Sally Field, and Daryl Hannah is undergoing a major makeover for the Lifetime Network remake of the movie, it will showcase an all- black cast.
The production includes a star studded cast who each have made their marks across different media platforms including music, TV, film, and theater. The decorated cast includes Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott, Adepero Aduye, Condola Rashad, and Lance Gross.
Although the basic idea is very similar to the original, which also dealt with the issues of life, love, and family using a salon as the focal point of their bond. This version will center around the lives of six African American Louisiana women, aiming to provide a new outlook and fresh perspective on the classic film that reflects today's culture.
In a recent interview, President of Lifetime Network, Nancy Dubuc, explains "we could not be more thrilled and honored for them to bring Robert Harling's poignant story about the strength of women to a whole new generation."
The air date has not been released but is expected to premiere in October.
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[ 21 May 2009 at 7:30 pm; 21 May 2009 at 7:30 pm; ] Come and be delighted by an evening of dynamic music for flute and guitar.
The energetic Grettovska Duo will present a program of works for this classic combination.
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RiotACT was pleasantly surprised to be invited to the launch of the Soft Sculpture exhibition at the National Gallery on Wednesday night.
The free booze just about took the edge off the speeches and then the small percentage of launch attendees actually interested in the exhibition went for a [...]
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Sam Floyd is best known to many of us for his penchant for juggling in public places wearing fishnets, a tutu, and a smile.
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Automation: Don't forget the basics
March 06, 2012 - MMH Editorial
Fundamentals count. It's one of the truisms of sports. Pro football players still hit the blocking sled even though they have been at the game since grade school. Golf pros and baseball players work on their swings every day.
It's also true in materials handling where poorly executed fundamentals can bring an operation to a screeching halt.
That's a sermon John Hill has been preaching for years. He likes to say that technology and automation are no silver bullets. If your operations are already headed for a cliff, automation will just push them over the edge quicker if you don't take care of the fundamentals.
Hill's point was driven home to me during a trip last week. I spent Thursday in Grand Rapids visiting the US headquarters of Dematic, TGW Systems and viastore. I'll write about each of those visits over the next two weeks.
Earlier, I was in Chicago with about two dozen materials handling and supply chain professionals. Most were employees of Dematic. They were gathered to plan the company's annual logistics conference, held each September in Park City, Utah. If you have never attended this event, I recommend you put it on your calendar.
The others included a consultant and senior executives from 6 very large companies from a variety of industries. Between them, they oversaw operations at dozens of DCs handling a couple billion dollars worth of inventory. Since this wasn't an official press event, I won't drop names. But during a discussion about some high level concepts, like network design, supply chain visibility and the state of automation, one of the executives asked if anyone besides him had problems with stretch wrap.
It turns out his DC receives containers of floor loaded product from China. Those receipts have to be palletized before the inventory can be put into storage. Since the shipping cartons are of varying sizes, he can't build nice, neat pallets. So they are stretch wrapped before leaving the receiving area. Apply too much stretch wrap and he wastes film and ends up with a mess when he picks orders. Apply too little and the pallet is likely to fail, spilling boxes all over the floor. Then someone has to rebuild and rewrap a pallet. "I'd like to see a session on stretch wrapping," he suggested.
Now, materials handling processes don't get much more basic than stretch wrapping a pallet. But as he was describing the problem, the other executives in the room were nodding in agreement. It turns out it was a headache for them too. Despite running some of the most automated facilities in the country, they all thought a session on stretch wrapping was a good idea.
As Patriots fans know, a safety, a dropped pass or a missed tackle can cost a team the Super Bowl. A similar lack of attention to basics like cycle counting, inventory control and, yes, stretch wrap, can mean the difference between ordinary and best-in-class distribution processes.


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The story of a young woman born into an aristocratic Korean family on the eve of the Japanese occupation, King's narrative is "keenly and often lyrically observed," wrote one critic in The Washington Post ... "a satisfying excursion into empathetically rendered lives."
A reviewer in The Christian Science Monitor wrote that "Fans of Lisa See's or Amy Tan's novels should eagerly embrace Najin (King's protagonist), and The Calligrapher's Daughter bids fair to become a staple of book clubs."
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I want to know the details of websites developed using the different languages like .Net, Java, PHP, Python. Which programming language is mostly used?
TIOBE publish a monthly league table of the most popular programming languages. The four you mention are currently ranked in the following order:
Note that the TIOBE tables are based on an algorithm that tries to determine the number of lines of code written in each language every month using results from the major search engines, so they're not necessarily an indication of the number of websites using those programming languages, but it probably gives a fair indication.
What it doesn't take into account is the number of websites deployed using off-the-shelf blogging packages and CMS such as WordPress etc. If it were possible to count the number of active websites using each programming language, I suspect PHP would come slightly higher than the popularity table suggests.
Netcraft also surveys millions of sites every month to determine what server platform they use. The latest results available to date (July 2011) won't give you a precise indication of the underlying programming language (only the web server), but it serves as a useful reference point:
Data on programming language use among active websites is very hard to come by, largely because it's not always obvious from generated code and server responses which language is being used. As such, it's hard to tell what language a site's written in without asking.
PHP is the most used by far. The fact the entire stack is free helps but it gained its popularity because of the ease of integration. It is extremely easy combine static HTML with PHP or even add features to a static side.
There is also a huge volume of general-purpose platforms written in PHP. Think that every Wordpress-Powered blog or site is a PHP site. There are tons more and plenty of others are hugely popular.
It turns out that the most popular is different from the most used depending how you count. For very large and complex sites, people tend to prefer something more structured such as Python, Java and C++. Often, the largest sites will use a combination of languages.
For historical reasons, certain languages get adopted at different rates depending on the domain. For example, after PHP, content sites often use Python. Banking and service sites are more likely to use Java. C++ and assembly is often used to boost performance in key areas but I have not seen any (there probably are some though) written entirely using these.
PHP is mostly used in web development and Java & asp.net are also popular.
For larger websites combination of languages like Java, Python, PHP are used (like for Facebook).


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I have been torn over one of the epoch questions: buy your server equipment, or enter a 3 year lease?
It appears that the 3 year leases end up costing close to the same amount as a straight up purchase, but of course with a lease you're not paying all at once. There are other factors too, but what I'm wondering is if I purchase server equipment now, how much depreciation can I expect in 3 years? Do different components or brands depreciate more rapidly than others? Also, where would I resell my 3 year old equipment?


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Mabel Victoria Sampson Zaffke, 89, passed away on March 6, 2011 at the age of 89 in Chewelah. Mabel was born Dec 17, 1922 in Kent to Charles Linn and Carolina Sampson. The parents had five children all now de¬ceased. She grew up in Richmond, California and graduated from Richmond Union High School in 1940. During WWII, she worked as a stockroom supervisor. After the war, Mabel moved to San Francisco where she met Daniel Zaffke. She and Daniel were married on June 3, 1948. They moved to Daniel's farm in Colorado, and Kathrin was born to them in 1949. Daniel sold the farm, and they returned to San Francisco, where Mabel lived for 30 years. She moved to Priest River in 1979. It became home to her. She joined the Congregational Community Church; helped out at the Baptist Church, when needed, and enjoyed the friendship and fellowship of many Christians and others who lived in Priest River.


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Suppose we have $D$ prime and $d$ square free. Is there a way to express the smallest integer $n$ that makes $d \vert (Dn-2)$? If such an $n$ exists for a given $D$, $d$ it must exist less than $d$, but is there some function of $D$ and $d$ that gives it explicitly?
Hi guys, sorry I caused a fuss. The fact of the matter is (from what my limited understanding tells me) is that is if you solved this question, you could then tackle the weirdly huge error term in Brun's sieve. You're all probably familiar with this sieve, but it frustrates me that we must assume all error terms (typically written) $R_d$ (of fluctuating sign) positive in order to bound its sum as an alternating series. I understand that we expect there to be about $$\frac{N/2}{d}2^{\omega(d)}$$ integers n between $N/2$ and $N$ that will allow $d\vert n(Dn-2)$, and I understand that this may sometimes be an overestimate (resulting in a negative $R_d$) or an underestimate (resulting in a positive $R_d$). Furthermore, because Brun's error is written as an alternating series over these $R_d$, the rectification of signs becomes tragic. I was thinking that if my above question was answerable, we would be able to rectify when Brun's main term is an underestimate, and when it is an underestimate, and thus we would not have to simply take the error as the strictly positive sum over $\vert R_d \vert$ which blows up way quicker than it has to. I have been using fairly standard sieve theory notation without explaining it, and for that I apologize. Furthermore I just graduated high school as Gerhard Paseman correctly pointed out, so I apologize further for the elementary nature of my comment. Thank you sirs for your patience, I will keep looking.


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There are various notions of exact categories (nlab). In a lecture I've seen the following definition of an exact category, which is basically (exact) = (abelian) - (additive):
A category $C$ is called exact if a) it contains a zero object, b) every morphism has a kernel and a cokernel, c) the canonical morphism $\text{coim}(f) \to \text{im}(f)$ is an isomorphism for every morphism $f$.
So for example, the category of pointed sets is an exact category in this sense. I think also the category of pointed compactly generated hausdorff spaces is an example.
Questions: 1) Which theorems and constructions of homological algebra carry over from abelian categories to exact categories in the above sense? 2) Where can I find literature about these categories? I can only find some about the other definitions.


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Can you suggest a good rough graph colouring algorithm? What are the best such algorithms nowadays?
An interesting approximation algorithm is the one by Wigderson. It shows how to color a 3-colorable graph with $O(\sqrt{n})$ colors. It's very simple:
If the maximum degree is less than $\sqrt{n}$, you're done (just color greedily). If there is a node of degree larger than $\sqrt{n}$, you know that it's neighborhood is two-colorable so two-color it and never use those colors again. Remove the vertex and its neighbors from the graph and continue.
There have been several follow-up works by Blum and the latest improvements use semidefinite programming.
See, for instance, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anupamg/adv-approx/lecture15.pdf
for the semidefinite programming approach.
There are a number of heuristics that work fairly well. They all work by prescribing some kind of ordering on the vertices, and then coloring the vertices one by one, using the least unused color to color the next one.
The latter two heuristics require the order to be rebuilt after each step, and so are more expensive, but there's empirical evidence suggesting that they do reasonably well, especially in parallel.
None of these algorithms come with any kind of formal guarantees, so be warned.
For practical non-optimal purposes you might want to look at DSATUR, and this paper, which briefly describes some simple methods: http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/Arbeitsgruppen/Diskrete-Optimierung/publications/2002/gca.pdf
You might find this survey article of use:
If "heuristic graph coloring algorithms" means approximation algorithms for the chromatic number, it is very useful to read "A compendium of NP optimization problems" edited by Pierluigi Crescenzi and Viggo Kann (http://www.csc.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/node15.html), which provides references for the best-known approximability and inapproximability results as of 2000.
Oleg, there are also stochastic parallel approaches where you color all vertices simultaneously and randomly and apply the heuristic in parallel to all of the vertices. This mimics parallel distributed information processing in networks.
Can you give some details about the heuristic which you are working on?
How to write an algorithm for coloring vertices of a graph in C#?


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I recently updated some of our machines to Fedora 17. I have noticed that there are some services that I can configure their runlevels using
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Why are some services configurable via one tool and not the other?
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The slowdown in India's IT sector will continue to impact campus hiring of fresh engineering graduates in 2013, according to a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The $100 billion IT industry is expected to meet the lower end of 11-14 per cent growth projection in 2012-13, according to software companies association Nasscom.
Campus hiring in 2013 is likely to be lower than in 2012 just as 2012 trailed 2011 recruitments. The news should not come as a surprise because big companies such as Infosys have been deferring joining dates of new hires in the past confirming that all is not well in India's much admired IT sector. (Read: Infosys defers joining dates for new hires)
TCS, India's biggest IT software services exporter, plans to hire 25,000 freshers in 2013-14 against 60,000 freshers in 2012-13. That's a drop of nearly 60 per cent in a year's time. (Read: TCS hiring plan for next year).
Unfortunately, the trend is likely to be similar across big IT firms.
Cognizant's headcount planning for 2012 was too high, according to Sriram Rajagopal, head of HR for Asia Pacific. This year, Cognizant doesn't want all offers to hit at the same time. It is shifting towards more off-campus and lateral hiring.
Wipro's, India's third largest IT services exporter, witnessed a sharp 6.5 per cent fall in attrition in the September quarter. Lower attrition and uncertainty in the market environment have further depressed the job market for new hires, BofA-ML's report says. (Read: Wipro headcount up; attrition, utilisation fall)
"Unlike lateral hiring which can be done on an as-needed basis, campus hiring is typically carried out 12 to 18 months before the hire becomes billable. Hence, vendors are looking to increase off campus (i.e. recruitment of freshers outside of the placement process, closer to demand) and lateral hiring," BofA-ML said in its report on the outlook for India computer services in 2013.
The investment bank says IT companies had over hired in the last few years since they had not anticipated the slowdown in discretionary spend in early 2012.
According to Surabhi Gandhi, the Senior Vice President (IT Sourcing) at TeamLease, one of India's largest recruitment firms, companies are being cautious in lateral hiring too, perhaps because they are trying to optimize their labour forces.
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#3. Deodorant
Think about this for a second: If you stopped using deodorant/antiperspirant for even one week, you'd become a social pariah. Yet nobody had even heard of it 100 years ago -- the need was created entirely by an advertiser. Specifically, after the inventor of antiperspirant failed to sell any of the stuff, the company ran a series of ads in women's magazines in 1919 convincing women that they should be deeply ashamed of how much they sweat. Boom -- body odor prevention is now an $18 billion a year business.
From that point on, they have all worked the same way -- by using an aluminum-based chemical that temporarily plugs the sweat glands. At this point, virtually all deodorants use the same active ingredients, so they've really had to push the phony innovations.
It makes your uppercuts smell like a spring breeze!
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Modern deodorant is even more ridiculous, as now it comes with "motion-sensing technology." It's like a Kinect in your armpits.
There's a separate motion-sensing deodorant for men, because we all know that women wear deodorant designed to protect them while shoe shopping, while men wear deodorant to protect them while trekking through the wilderness. That's why deodorants are specially designed for men and women -- with different packaging and scents, anyway. The active ingredient is present in equal quantities in both, but by marketing them as different, manufacturers can bump up the price. So we guess a more accurate slogan would be "Strong enough for a man, made to rip off a woman."
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#2. Diapers
According to advertisers, your choice of diaper determines whether your child sleeps peacefully or spends the night rolling in his or her own excrement. Since its invention, the task for manufacturers has been to improve on what is essentially a bag that catches poop.
"Good thing your ass was wrapped in literally anything."
This 1995 Huggies ad introduces the stretchable diaper. With strategically placed elastic strips, your baby will no longer unleash a fountain of unmentionable horror when his or her diaper falls down. It's such a useful innovation that we're surprised nobody came up with it sooner. Oh wait, they did, in 1994. And a decade before that.
So if we've had perfect-fitting diapers for decades, where can you go from there? To material that stretches in eight directions, asshole! These bad boys are designed for babies who move, not those weak, lazy babies who just lie there like slugs. Then, in 2011, Huggies introduced the diaper that changes everything. How did it revolutionize the design of crap receptacles? They're easier to put on moving babies!
Of course, the other important factor here is absorption. So, as you can imagine, diaper manufacturers are eager to convince us that their brand can withstand a veritable tsunami of urine.
Wait, did their older diapers not protect from leaks? Isn't that the entire point of a diaper? No matter, now there's a "Leak Lock System" with "super-absorbent material" for parents who like to give their kids a nightcap.
Is there some easier way to get them to sleep?
Some diapers are better at absorbing than others, but it has nothing to do with how many extreme adjectives their ads use. Not that those can help you decide anyway, since there are more "ultras" and "supers" in the diaper aisle than there are in a comic book store.
#1. Toilet Paper
Unless it's Halloween, toilet paper is good for only one thing. And unless your toilet paper is Siberian gulag quality, you probably don't care what brand it is. Choosing between kittens and cartoon bears isn't exactly up there with picking out a new car. Don't tell that to Charmin, though, because their commercials make it sound like your ass is literally on the line.
That ad says that Charmin is more absorbent than "the regular stuff," which is a typical claim. But then in 2008, they introduced TP with "diamond-weave texture," which is better because diamonds.
Strongest material on Earth? Use it to wipe your ass.
Just look at all that technology! They zoomed in on it and everything! They don't actually explain what makes it better, but apparently the public can only be enthralled by flashy, blinged-out toilet paper for so long before their assholes become complacent. So in 2010, Charmin brought out the big guns and introduced an enhanced diamond weave.
How did they enhance their weave? They didn't say. Sure, that regular weave got you through a couple of years, but that was the past. If you're not using the latest and greatest in the rough and tumble world of 2010, you might as well be wiping with a belt sander.
Early iterations of toilet paper were no game.
Charmin isn't the only company guilty of spicing up their toilet paper with meaningless innovations, but thanks to their coprophiliac bears, they're certainly the creepiest. Don't get suckered in by the siren call of a silky smooth bathroom experience -- Consumer Reports concluded that Walmart's brand is just as good as any of Big Toilet Paper's offerings, and at half the price. Shockingly, it turns out that your ass isn't that picky.
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It's an even numbers Windows release. Avoid it.
@wickedd365: that's a little too general, but I've worked with Windows 8 on my laptop, and I do agree that it should be avoided. Especially if you like your Start menu.
Windows 8 is great. Dont pay attention to the naysayers.
I dont know this deal is good though as I thought Win 8 upgrades through Microsoft would be ~40 through January.
Ignore the Windows 8 "start menu" comments. You can choose to change the GUI to your liking which apparantly in the preview version they seemed to miss that feature or didn't know how to do it. This is the most customisable GUI by microsoft and the fastest and best OS to date. I'm running Windows 7 and Windows 8 for me as a multi core processor user (8 cores) the boost in performance was very much evident and noticed. Rock solid great upgrade for multi-threaded applications and for those ready to move on to cloud storage. A+
@chcbearsfan: Windows 8 upgrade willl be 39.,99 using the MS download and compatiblity tool. You'll be able to add Media Center for free as well. So for those wanting a disc copy with media center already on it this is the way to go. For me spending the extra 20 to have it on disc with media center is a must. It will make it easier to upgrade my second PC and laptop when I get keys for them. So if you wait it out until October 26th you'll be able to a digital download upgrade for just 39.99. What I don't know about that is if the download will be able to burned to a disc as an ISO image. I doubt it since it is 20 less so if you want a disc with emergency boot features and repair I'd go with the physical media. But if your in it to save 20 bucks and don't upgade your pc alot then go with DLC. MY two cents. But yes the 39.99 option will be coming but again, don't count on that being the same as the physical copy like this one.
you'd have to pay me to use your crap again, Microsoft
@traviserck: You have the best comment out of everyone for this thread. The only thing missing was that the $40 price is only valid for a few months. I'm not sure how people would go about on reinstalls either. I figure if you wipe and reload your machine "frequently", then the newegg deal is the way to go.
@traviserck: If the mainstream download is anything like DreamSpark (which I'm assuming it will be), you can get it as a fully functional 3GB iso. There was plenty of repair functionality on the DVD I created too.
I was worried about Windows 8 at first and didn't like it (GRAA, CHANGE!), but you absolutely can make it look like the older style of Windows. That said, the new menu system is actually much more functional and I highly prefer it, but to be fair, I basically shun the Start menu and throw up icons all over my desktop for the things I need already. It runs incredibly smoothly and adds a lot of nice keyboard shortcuts, augmenting the ones I already had no idea about (Windows key + D = instant desktop!) I'm also excited about the integration with the new Surface tablet and the Win 8 phone if I can get them.
I don't like the new app store, since I use Steam and Google Play right now, but such is the nature of progress.
Really, don't be afraid, it's less scary than it seems.
@gunslingerfyre: Kronk? From Emperor's New Groove?? I LOVE THAT MOVIE!
@bane3d: Regarding the reinstalls, isn't there going to be a separate license version for "enthusiasts"? I.e., isn't this version tied to a particular hardware configuration?
I had heard that if you are going to be swapping out components often (as us gamers do), there will be a separate edition that either won't require you to phone home for permission, or at least, won't give you as much trouble.
Wasn't it Uncle Bill who said 640k should be adequate for anyone/anything?
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@traviserck: I bought the digital upgrade for Win7 from Microsoft. I can download either an installer executable or an .ISO file, and they even give you a tool to create a bootable flash drive from the ISOs if your machines don't have optical drives. They seem to allow unlimited re-downloads, and the ISOs have the current Windows Updates and Service Packs slipstreamed in.
@trevornt: How so?
Think about it, 7 odd number, great system. Vista was an even release, horrible. XP was an odd release, awesome. Windows 2000, horrible. 95, awesome.
I'll wait till 9.
Linux is free so how is this a deal? Go get Ubuntu and save $59.99.
@wickedd365: Windows 2000 was terrible? I think not. 95, 98, 98se were all great, ME was a fail but 2000, XP, Vista and 7 were great...Yes Vista was fine. Win 8 is a disaster.
Win 8 and ME are the only 2 ms fails.
What products can this upgrade? It says XP, Vista and 7, but it doesn't mention specifics. Can I go from Vista home basic to 8 pro with this upgrade? The win7 upgrades wouldn't let you go from home to pro.
@traviserck: Actually, as of my view of the preview (thank you MSDN), they removed the ability to switch UI's. Perhaps I had an earlier version of the preview or something?
@wickedd365: as a rough estimation that works, but that's not a hard definition as to how Windows releases work. That's just the way they've been lately. I was just saying that you can't use that methodology to define which Windows releases will work or not; having said that, Windows 8, as my IT peers and I have concluded, is not going to be marked down in Microsoft's "good" column.
8 would be okay if Microsoft weren't trying to force Metro and their silly app store on everyone by actively disabling legacy UI configuration options. That stuff has no business in the PC world.
I'll wait until disgruntled user sell their hard copies on eBay for $14.99.
I'm waiting for an update to Microsoft Bob - Comic Sans was created for it, but never used. Probably the worst widely used font in history
Win 95 was Ok...
Win 98 was everything windows 95 should have been.
Win ME was a disaster
Win XP was a huge success.
Win Vista was a buggy memory leaking disaster.
Win 7 was everything Vista should have been.
History doesn't favor Windows 8.
I downloaded this and all is right with the world
It's been stable and it's free. But maybe it's better to whine about stuff?
@kromo: Hey I remember Linux. Whatever happened to them?
Laughing at all these trolls who obviously weren't even born yet when Windows 95 was the mainstream OS.
As someone who has been using Windows since late versions of 3.1 (AKA when Apple Macintosh computers weren't the overpriced garbage they are now and were actually a viable competitor) I can tell you the whole "odd-even" cycle stuff is complete crap.
95 was just okay, very buggy
98 was absolutely awful and bug-ridden until they bugfixed the hell out of it, and only got REALLY good when SP2 was released.
2000 was also good
ME was an abomination
XP was alright at first, much better after the first two service packs. It was also the outlier in the OS development cycle for lasting as long as it did with no upgrades. Which leads us into one of the reasons everyone bashed Vista
Vista was great. It came out with very much higher system requirements than XP, which is understandable given how many years later it came out.
The problem here stems from the fact that so many people who were content to run XP on their aging machines because it ran so well and had very low system requirements (naturally, given how old the OS was and the state of computers at the time of its release) then tried to upgrade to Vista without upgrading any of their hardware. This resulted in many complaints about Vista being slow and resource hogging. Part of the problem was also due to manufacturers not including enough RAM in default configurations to run Vista well. If you had Vista on an adequate machine, as I did, it ran wonderfully and was a huge improvement over XP.
Then 7 came along and it was MS's best Windows version to date.
Now with 8, MS thought they'd try their hand at changing up the UI a bit. These changes make sense, if you think about it. When you hit that start button you are already directing all your attention to it, so why not a fullscreen one?
Not to mention the OS is vastly improved over 7.
Soooo now would be a good time to upgrade from Znix Windows 3.0?
@stryker4526: Accurate. I did have integration issues with Vista, but they were things with application developers and printers. To this day, I still have issues with printers no matter what. I'm truly hoping for a native 64bit OS like 2008 R2. As for the metro interface; I can't wait for kinect for windows to become mainstream. Combine metro with kinect and my media center is so very easy for the family to use. No more asking the kids where they left the mouse/keyboard. Just speak to it or use your hand to pick the "Huge" icon for whatever you want. I think windows 8 media center with windows kinect is going to take over the living room running hulu, netflix, gaming, web browsing, video chat, and more. Seriously, Microsoft is about to absolutely kill with this integration with surface and windows 8 phone. Woot will be selling media centers specialized for this in 2 years. I dropped satellite and/or cable tv and have been on a mediacenter for 2 years now.
@justabandnerd: Thank you for that link. I knew it wouldn't be long until third-party start button replacements would start showing up, if they hadn't already.
@trevornt: I don't know about that. Windows ME, Windows Vista and now Windows 8. I've dealt with them all, and they all need to be avoided.
When they added the stupid start button it drove me nuts, so glad it's gone. It never made sense. Gimme 3.11 back... loved Program Manager
Is the downloadable $40 version the PRO version? Does anyone know? or is the the equivalent to the Windows 7 "Home Premium" version? Thanks.
@wpshore: The downloadable upgrade will be to Windows 8 Pro.
"Starting at general availability, if your PC is running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 you will qualify to download an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for just $39.99 in 131 markets."
@scmtim: Yes, the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade will upgrade any version of XP, Vista or Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro. This price is an introductory offer - it will have a much higher MSRP come next February.
The Windows 8 Pro Pack is for upgrading Windows 8 "home" (It's just called Windows 8, Microsoft isn't using the "Home" tag) to Windows 8 Pro. That's also $69, but it looks like that will be the regular price, and from February, it'll cost $69.99 to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro, and $199 from Windows XP to Windows 8 Pro (and there won't be an option to upgrade to the non-Pro version at a cheaper price)
I gather the upgrade software includes a tool for checking your system's compatibility, but is there a way to get that tool without committing to the upgrade? I searched around for it and didn't find it.
A tool like that would be really handy for someone like me who has no idea what kind of whatevers my computer is made up of.
@tmdowling: I don't think there'll be a separate Upgrade Advisor like there was for Windows 7, but I imagine there will have to be some way to run the "test for compatibility" bit before handing over your credit card details.
If you want to get a good inventory of your current system (including a list of you license keys for installed software) check out Belarc Advisor.
Can anyone confirm: If I were to purchase the $39.99 (or so) upgrade to Windows 8 Pro from Windows 7 Home Premium, using the MS download program...
Will the files will be available to me anytime, to download, in the future?
Will the files be in the form of an iso file for easy image burning purposes or using a flash drive? (Of course for a single authenticated key)
Thank you in advance.
@rushi11: The Upgrade Assistant for the Windows 8 Preview included a tool for creating a bootable flash drive or an ISO.
It's safe to assume that you'll have the same ability with the production release.


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My understanding of special relativity is that it is fundamentally based on the constancy of the speed of electromagnetic radiation - that this speed is a physical law (or derivable from physical laws and facts about the vacuum) and not a contingent fact. Does that mean that, if humanity did not know about light (or electromagnetic radiation, generally), would we then be unable to come up with special relativity? To put it another way, imagine a species of intelligent life insensitive to electromagnetic radiation - no eyes etc. Would they still have a reason to produce the theory of relativity, or would they likely have created a physics framework which doesn't involve the speed of light so centrally?
Actually, no, that's true. Special relativity is (one could say) based on the existence of some speed that is invariant in all inertial reference frames. The fact that light (or anything else) travels at that speed is pretty much irrelevant. So while the development of SR was originally prompted by the constancy of the speed of light, it's not a requirement to have developed the theory. The effects of relativity would become apparent just from the time dilation/length contraction experienced by any sufficiently fast-moving object.
It is, in fact, possible to derive the mathematics of the theory of relativity without reference to light. David Mermin did so in 1984 (Mermin N D 1984 Relativity without light Am. J. Phys. 52.2 119–24). According to the abstract, "The relativistic addition law for parallel velocities is derived directly from the principle of relativity and a few simple assumptions of smoothness and symmetry, without making use of the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light."
So, being insensitive to electromagnetic radiation does not preclude the derivation of relativity, although the lack of a speed-of-light-centered theory (depending on how you define this) is still an open question. c might just mean something conceptually different to them, but it'll still show up.
Relativity without light:
Abstract: The relativistic addition law for parallel velocities is derived directly from the principle of relativity and a few simple assumptions of smoothness and symmetry, without making use of the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light.
There is also a chapter devoted to this topic in this book: http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511608216&cid=CBO9780511608216A028
Note that I do not have access to either of those sources, although the OP may do, or he/she may wish to obtain such access.
Here is a free article on the related subject: http://image.sciencenet.cn/olddata/kexue.com.cn/upload/blog/file/2010/8/201085162128290613.pdf and its abstract:
The role of the light postulate in special relativity is reexamined. The existing theory of relativity without light shows that one can deduce Lorentz-like transformations with an undetermined invariant speed, based on homogeneity of space and time, isotropy of space and the principle of relativity...
Another free article, this one courtesy of CERN: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/940058/ and its abstract:
Using only the reciprocity postulate, it is demonstrated that the spatial separation of two objects, at rest in some inertial frame, is invariant. This result holds in both Galilean and special relativity. A corollary is that there are no `length contraction' or associated 'relativity of simultaneity' effects in the latter theory. A thought experiment employing four unsynchronised clocks and a single measuring rod provides a demonstration of the time dilatation effect. This effect, which is universal for all synchronised clocks at rest in any inertial frame, is the unique space-time phenomenon discriminating Galilean and special relativity.
Purely empirically, we have various atomic clock experiments that clearly demonstrate relativistic effects. There have been mountain-valley experiments demonstrating gravitational time dilation (Briatore 1979), experiments capable of separately detecting kinematic and gravitational time dilation (Chou 2010), as well as the famous Hafele-Keating experiment, which was sensitive to a mixture of gravitational time dilation, kinematic time dilation, and the Sagnac effect.
From the theoretical side, light plays no important role in the modern understanding of relativity, and the $c$ in all the relativistic equations is not really interpreted as the speed of light but as a conversion factor between time and space. It was realized very early on (Ignatowsky 1911) that special relativity could be developed axiomatically starting from assumptions about nothing more than symmetry principles such as homogeneity and isotropy of space. For modern, elementary presentations in this style, see Pal 2003 and this one that I wrote.
L. Briatore and S. Leschiutta, Evidence for the earth gravitational shift by direct atomic-time-scale comparison, Il Nuovo Cimento B, 37B (2): 219 (1979), http://www.scribd.com/doc/106593804/briatore-1977 . A very cool similar experiment by an amateur experimenter is described here: http://leapsecond.com/great2005/
Chou, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/329/5999/1630.abstract ; described at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=time-dilation
W.v.Ignatowsky, Phys. Zeits. 11 (1911) 972. A more recent exposition that's free online is Palash B. Pal, "Nothing but Relativity," (2003) arxiv.org/abs/physics/0302045v1
I have no idea whether scientists would have imagined relativity from theoretical considerations alone. But I do know that if they had not developed it a century ago, they would be doing so now, with the tax payer on their back. The tax payer would be eager to know why they are not capable to have decent clocks to keep accurate time on bord the GPS satellites, after spending billions to put them in place.
Now this does not exactly answer the question since there would be no GPS without radio communication, hence electromagnetic waves. But I guess it is still in the spirit of the question as light does not play an essential role in the problem they would encounter.
Since I am downvoted, I will try to explain further. I would appreciate the downvoter to explain why he does not agree with my initial answer. At least that might teach me something (and possibly others too).
In most cases, scientists work on a problem, on a new theory, because there is a phenomenon they cannot explain, which was apparently the case for special relativity. Possibly it can also be to unify existing knowledge, which seems to be the case for general relativity.
So I wondered what would motivate people who do not experiment with light, or who do not know enough about it to be able to measure its speed.
Another major phenomenon due to relativity is differences in local time.
My point is that the GPS depends on extremely accurate timing, so as to have accurate knowledge of the positioning of the satellites, in order to give precise positioning on earth. And both SR and GR affect the time on board satellites (see Time_dilation in wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation I once looked at the calculation, but all I remember is that without relativistic correction, the time variation will amount to errors of several meters per year (maybe per month). And it could be worse if SR and GR did not have opposite effects.
For people who do not know about time dilatation, the effect of relativity on satellite clocks would be seen as malfunction. (I read that this is precisely what the CMB looked like at first: antenna malfunction)
Now, if the use of radio for communication must be excluded. There have been several experiments that measure time dilatation on earth, as noted by @Ben Crowell. Taking a clock in a satellite and bringing it back works too. That is probably what would be tried with a copy of the "malfunctioning" GPS clock. The interest of the GPS case is that it is now considered a common appliance by most people, who are still surprised to learn that its functionning involves relativity in a significant way.
But saying relativity can be derived from theoretical considerations alone is not an answer if you will not provide experiments that will show that it does make a difference. And if you do provide such experiments, then they might as well be the original discrepency between experience and theory that motivate developing a new theory. Alternatively the new theory should at least be a unification of existing theories. But which should they be in the case of SR (I may have missed the point of some technical explanations of previous posts).
Another point is that Einstein thinking about the subject was apparently also conditioned by his work on time at the Swiss patent office. I read that clock synchronization for railways stations was then an important topic, and the subject of many patent applications. Railways were still new. And Eistein was allegedly the expert on such paptents.
Finally, an interesting development on this is the scientific work of Leslie Lamport in distributed computer systems (see the web). Synchronizing clocks and dating events is important in a variety of applications of distributed computing. The specialists had developed various (equivalent) axiomatizations of the problem, but lacking fundamental understanding of their justification. Lamport justified these axioms by a physical analysis of the problem which amounts to a qualitative version of the theory of relativity, to which he explicitly referred.
So, it is possible that if the physicists had not developed the theory of relativity, the computer scientists might have done it to some extent, at least qualitatively.
Indeed, if people did not have electromagnetic waves, they would have no radio, and thus they would rely a lot on physical transportation which would increase the importance of clock synchronization issues. Which brings us back to Einstein's work at the Swiss patent office.
I'd like to add to the answers of @BenCrowell, @DavidZaslavsky and @Mitchell. It's easy to get stuck on $c$ being the speed of light, since that is how the popular press define this constant in the iconic $E=m\,c^2$, and this leads everyone to wonder "what has light in particular got to do with it?". It is more helpful to think of $c$ as the freespace speed of a massless particle (zero rest mass) - a universal property of the World independent of the particular phenomenon (light in this case). It might also be helpful to imagine the following alternative possible history of physics, wherein special relativity comes before the Michelson-Morley experiment.
In this imaginary history, an Einstein-like character might well have begun by deeply questioning Galileo's relativity, wherein we add velocity vectors in the "normal", vector algebra way to work out transformation the of observed velocities, times and distances that happen when we shift from one inertial frame of reference to another. As well as adding vectors according to the parallelogram law in Galilean relativity, times and distances are the same for all inertial observers. Let's imagine our OWE (other world Einstein) asking the probing question - "is this the only logical way it could be?".
So then our OWE might make some VERY basic and reasonable assumptions about symmetry: if I transform from frame (1) to a frame (2) moving at a constant speed $v_{1,2}$ in some direction then my distance and time co-ordinates are transformed by some matrix $T(v_{1,2})$ (OWE is trying to find the most general form of the matrix function of velocity $T(v)$). If I then transform to a third frame (3), one moving at velocity $v_{2,3}$ in the same (original) direction relative to the transformed frame (2) (using the matrix $T(v_{2,3})$, this has to be equivalent to a single transformation $T(v_{1,3})$ from the first to the third frame with some relative velocity $v_{1,3}$. In particular, if frame (3) is moving relative to frame (2) at velocity $-v$, then frames (1) and (3) have to be the same and $T(v) T(-v) = I$ (here $I$ = identity transformation - my running away from you at velocity $v$ should seem the same as your running away from me at the same speed in the opposite direction). This symmetry arises from a basic "homogeneity" (space and time are the "same" in some sense everywhere) and the Copernican notion that there is no special frame. Notice how one has NOT assumed that $v_{1,2}+v_{2,3} = v_{1,3}$, aside from in the special case of when $v_{1,2} = -v_{2,3}$.
Now, if our OWE makes these assumptions ALONE (see the Wikipedia entry (cf Ignatowsky 1911 cited by @BenCrowell) he or she would find that not only is Galilean relativity a possibility, but that there is a whole class of relativities possible, with one unspecified velocity parameter $c$: their transformation equations all have the same form but the $c$ parameter is different. Galilean relativity is the relativity that one gets as the $c$ parameter goes to infinity.
So our OWE says to themself: "we've been assuming Galilean relativity all along, but what if the $c$ parameter for our World is just very big, not infinite, so that we've hitherto not measured it as finite. What experiments could we do to find out what $c$ is?". After some work with a relativity with a finite $c$, OWE would deduce that:
So now along come Michelson and Morley with their famous experiment. As it happenned, their experiment implied that the speed of light is the same in all inertial frames. The addition rule for velocities is the same as OWE's weird equations if we take $c$ to be the speed of light.
So now, in this other World, the Michleson-Morley experiment has the following interpretation: Galilean relativity is almost certainly wrong, because we've found something that behaves just like OWE's predictions assuming a non-infinite $c$. Moreover, light MUST be a massless (zero rest mass) thing.
Notice how too if a positive result would have been gotten from the MM experiment, this would ALSO fit in with OWEs thinking. Suppose the MM experiment showed a delay difference of a few fringes depending on the interferometer's direction. Suppose there were only a very few fringes - definitely not a null result, but way too few fringes to be consistent with Galilean addition of aether and Earth velocities. Then this would also support OWE - the failure of Galilean addition would show that there is probably a finite value of $c$, but the fact that the result was not null would show that the speed of light were not quite as great as the universal speed limit $c$. Moreover, the MM experiment in this World would conclude light has a rest mass, which one could estimate from the experimental result and moreover one could deduce a good estimate for the value of $c$ as well.
Albert Einstein was largely motivated by Maxwell's equations and the electromotive force in particular. So it would be quite possible to develop special relativity without the special case of light. Amphere's law is a relativistic effect, so that would be enough.
What if Bats indeed would have been intelligent? :)
Think about it like that: Any changes requires signal trasmission of ANY kind (in bats case sound in the air). There are 2 cases:
1) Signal trasmission is infinitely fast - in this case we get Galileo-Newton mechanics.
2) Signal trasmission is finite - in this case we have SR.
What is signal? Signal is a general process(phenomenon) by which far world ALIENS determine such conceptions as SPEED, TIME and so on (we use light for everything). If they dont have these conceptions then we are in trouble and we can not asnwer your question casue WE DONT KNOW, but if there is some sort of speed and time variables in their physics picture then they will rediscover special relativity.
No, it wouldn't be possible to develop special relativity without light. Scientists developed a model of the propagation of light in a material substance called the ether based upon what they knew about the propagation of sound waves in a medium. Their expectation was they would be able to detect the speed at which the Earth travelled through it, but experiments gave a null result which scientists found initially confusing. Eventually this gave birth to the Special Theory of Relativity.
You therefore need to know about light behaving differently to what you know about sound, to see there is something interesting going on.


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