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5 Bizarre Ways Online Gaming Is Affecting the Real World
#2. Scammers Pull Off Massive Ponzi Scheme Inside Sci-Fi Game
Some scammers con people out of $32,000 and get two years in prison. "Eddie Lampert" and "Mordor Exuel" stole over $50,000 from their investors and got nothing ... well, except $50,000. The only reason they got away with it was because they did it within the game EVE Online -- in other words, they found a loophole that allowed them to rip people off in a completely legal, totally shameless, and extremely nerdy way.
For a game that is ostensibly about flying spaceships around an untamed virtual universe, an inexplicable amount of EVE Online's playtime has you living the exciting life of a space accountant. Unlike other MMOs, your power is determined not just by how many hours you've spent killing things, but also by how much money you've saved up. Players have different ways of accumulating funds: some mine, some invest in the game's economy ... and some pull off massive, thousand-dollar Ponzi schemes.
"No, just hear me out -- it's totally legit. First, we get a spaceship ..."
In 2011, Lampert and Exuel hatched a plan that would have gained them the admiration of both Bernie Madoff and Emperor Palpatine. They chartered a company in the game called Phaser Inc. and started to attract investors with a simple promise: 5 percent returns on any investment in only a week's time. If that sounds too good to be true, that's because it was: Like all Ponzi schemes, they just used their clients' money to pay other clients, building positive word of mouth despite being completely full of crap.
Before too long, they were a major force in the EVE economy and were handling hundreds of transactions a day. And then, after eight months of that, they said, "OK, that's enough," and posted this image to their website:
Via Joystiq.com
At this point, two giant hands came from each side and formed a cosmic Goatse.
Phaser Inc. told its 4,000 investors that their money was gone: "You've invested it, got a chance on some profit, but it turned out not to be the best choice you've ever made." Lampert and Exuel had pocketed a trillion ISK (the game's currency), or approximately $52,000. And, worst of all, there was nothing anyone could do about it, because shady dealings like these aren't forbidden by the game's rules. Not even on this scale.
While the scammers said that they planned to use the money to "play EVE for a very, very, very long time," all they'd have to do is get in touch with some of the schmucks who pay gold farmers and they could transform those virtual bucks into actual money. In fact, the only reason they haven't done it is probably because someone could find out who they are and then they'd have 4,000 people lining up to kick them in the dick.
"They passed out again. Someone make a run for more smelling salts."
#1. South Korea Has Cybercops Who Police Online Games
If you've read this far and thought, "Damn, someday we might have a crazy future where there are cops who specifically patrol virtual worlds to stop shit like this," well, guess what: The future arrives a little early in Korea.
As we mentioned before, South Korea is really, really into online gaming. Authorities say that 70 percent of all crime committed by young people in the country is related to virtual worlds. That's why they had no choice but to institute cybercops whose job description includes monitoring and investigating game-related crimes.
Via Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters
Think CSI meets Tron. It's nothing like that, but let's think about it anyway.
South Korea's Cyber Terror Response Center has been active since 2000 and works on a yearly budget of 10 billion won (almost $10 million). By 2011, they had a network of a thousand agents working all over the country. Pretty impressive, although their recruitment-video-making skills seem stuck in the early '90s:
Their re-enactment of a young player being scammed inside an MMO at 2:40 in that video may not be very convincing, but in South Korea this is a serious problem -- of the 40,000 complaints the CTRC received over six months in 2003, 22,000 were related to online gaming. Sometimes virtual crimes spill over into the real world, with people stabbing each other over game items. As the past decade advanced, they also had to start dealing with bigger threats, like the persistent digital attacks from those dicks in North Korea and scams by international gold farmers.
To deal with that, the South Korean authorities once again have had to step up their game: Last year, Seoul enlisted the first 30 students to be trained at the new school for cyberwarfare. Through the school, those in the South Korean army "seek to nurture warriors to fight in cyberwarfare amid growing cyberterror threats from North Korea and to secure a stable supply of specialists."
"Don't fuck with me. I'll eat you whole and shit out your head."
What's more, the U.S. has started following South Korea's example. In 2008, U.S. intelligence unveiled project Reynard, an initiative specifically dedicated to figuring out how to spy on MMO players. The idea is to prevent terrorists from abusing this technology by recruiting members and sending orders through World of Warcraft characters and the like. The system would work by "detecting suspicious behavior" (through data mining) in games where 90 percent of all interactions consist of murdering things. Good luck with that.
We know mobsters and drug dealers do it, but are terrorists really contacting each other this way? As far as we can tell, there isn't a single instance of this happening, but maybe that's just evidence that the program is already in action and working like a charm. That, or no one had actually thought to do this until U.S. intelligence announced the idea to the world. Whoops.
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The president of the United States, George Bush.
Whoah! That "ass blaster" sure can dump a load on Iraqi soil!
by Barbara Bush's Vagina September 26, 2006
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To nut in a girls ass
I ass blasted the whore!
by sihatchturbo January 17, 2005
A HUGE fart that is so powerful, it hurts as soon as it leaves the cheeks. It also smells worse then regular farts because these ones usually leave squirts in the back of undies or boxers
John just let an ass blaster that cleared the whole room
by red April 16, 2005
good Mexican food
"How was your food, Dean? Didn't you have the double-bean burritos with the extra guacamole sauce and peppers?"
"Yes, and it was a real ass blaster. I'm gonna feel this meal for a few days."
"Yes, and it was a real ass blaster. I'm gonna feel this meal for a few days."
by MC Lucidious Mo'nashiss April 18, 2003
1. An animal from Tremmors that flys by igniting a bodily fluid that shoots from their ass.
2. A Queer, Homo, Faggot.
2. A Queer, Homo, Faggot.
Hey Burt, theres an Assblaster right behind you!
Those guys are such ass blasters its not even funny.
Those guys are such ass blasters its not even funny.
by BillyGoat November 14, 2002
a diarreah expulsion of such great force that it literally blasts out the ass also known as a rectum ripper
last night I was drinking Teuqila and beer and this morning I had an assblaster
by scott davis August 10, 2004
An assblaster is someone who pumps his load in another persons anus.
Anal creampie anyone?
Anal creampie anyone?
Man you wanna see that bitch after I was the assblaster last night, she be walkin like John Wayne!
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An animal that can fly by ripping a huge fart and lighting it.
Holy Crap! An assblaster
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Eastwood Fender Lip Roller - Roll Your Lips!Written by on August 1, 2012 Making room for big tires is easy work thanks to Eastwood's fender roller and fender finisher.
Measuring carefully to package the widest wheels and tires within the stock sheetmetal and wheeltubs can only take you so far. That's because every car has one little bit of sheetmetal that's going to work against taking advantage of all the available real estate and bringing the wheels right out to the edge of the sheetmetal: the fender lip.
It may not look like much, but that last inch or so of steel can represent some significant limitations on tire width—and maybe your driving style. Remember, tires aren't static within the wheelwell as you drive; they're moving up and down with the suspension and deflecting side to side in response to lateral loads. Your wide tires may fit in place as the car sits still, and maybe even under sedate street cruising, but you may quickly be gouging them against the wheel lip the first time you take a freeway entrance ramp at a little faster than recommended speed. You know that sound.
Historically the answer to rolling the fender lip up for more clearance and less tire gouging edges has basically been "get creative." The baseball bat between the tire and the fender is one of several infamous methods, all of which have a modest success rate and high incidence of body and paint damage. You could just cut it off, but don't do that. Not only will it create a sharp edge that you'll need to deburr and sand to avoid nasty cuts down the road, but you're also removing the strength of the wheelwell. We tend to not lean against our cars, but we like to know that if we did, the fender wouldn't flex. The good news is there's really no need to be a Neanderthal nowadays with Eastwood's fender roller.
It's a straightforward concept: create a brutally simple device that will work on nearly any car to gently roll the fender lip. But it took the bunch of car guys that make up the Eastwood crew to step up and design a product that can address all of the inherent issues with fender lip rolling and render other methods pretty pointless. Even better, it's barely an afternoon project to handle a whole car. Count on maybe 20-30 minutes per fender, so perhaps two hours if you need to handle all four wheelwells. That's not too bad considering the benefits.
We love this thing and will probably use it on every project car we build. Our only warning? Once you get your hands on an Eastwood Fender Roller and finish your project you may never see it again since every one of your buddies is going to be begging to borrow it for their own cars!
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The mounting flange will work on most passenger car four- or five-lug bolt circles up to 4.75 inches. The Fender Roller comes with beveled washers that are designed to work with acorn-style lug nuts or standard lug nuts if you flip 'em over.The forming arm is adjustable from a minimum of 14 inches to a maximum of 22 1/2 inches from the hub center to the edge of the roller. For most cars it'll be necessary to have the suspension at some level of droop to gain enough clearance.At the business end of the Fender Roller is a urethane wheel mounted on a Delrin ball bearing that rolls extremely easily even under load. You'll be glad Eastwood stepped up with a high-quality bearing; it makes the job massively less strenuous. The angle of the wheel is adjustable to dial in the angle you want to bend the lip; a 45-degree angle is a good starting place though.All set and ready to roll, the Roller should look like this. For the EcoNova, we used the standard forming arm position with the suspension at full droop.The Fender Roller may be set up, but before a single pass can be made we need to warm up the paint significantly. Choose your heat gun wisely though; we need more than a hair dryer power here, but not some industrial strength death ray that will burn the paint either. Eastwood recommends their Heat Pro Deluxe Variable Temperature Heat Gun Kit (PN: 43522, $49.99) that can generate between 140 and 1,100 degrees F.It's a good heat gun overall, but here's the reason we opted for it: The rotary knob on the back of the gun makes it easy to dial in the heat range, and the LED scale on top lets you see exactly where it's set.Warm up the paint slowly. We went with a 400 degrees F setting and held the gun about 1.5 inches from the paint, focusing on the areas that will be seeing stress from the rolling. Also make sure to keep it moving so the paint warms evenly and doesn't scorch. The actual temp needed is a bit of a guessing game, but go for something in the 120 to 140 degrees F range. Using a laser thermometer like the ones available from Harbor Freight is a great way to get it exact.Now comes the fun and slightly nerve-racking part: actually working the Roller back and forth. We say nerve-racking because the pressure from the Roller will naturally flex out the sheetmetal a bit as you work—so make sure you keep the paint warm. It's even better if you can recruit a buddy to keep the paint warm while you form. Most cars don't have perfectly round wheelwells, so expect to work a section at a time (4-6 inches at most) and readjust the Roller as needed. The pressure adjustment bolt can be turned to apply gentle pressure to form the lip a little at a time. Patience pays here to save paint and sheetmetal damage; don't get greedy.It's a good idea, in general, to bend as little of the lip as you can get away with. The EcoNova's wheelwells are quite long and much of the arch doesn't even interfere with the tire, so we really only have to pay attention to the top portion. Along the same lines, only roll the lip as much as you need to clear the tire during travel and deflection. If you don't have to roll the lip flush to the body, don't. That just increases the odds that you'll crack the paint or deform the quarter.
Luckily, thanks to careful measuring (the backspacing for our wheels was worked out by Boze's Zak Kingsland—see "Fit More Tire!" Apr. '12) we only need to roll the lip upward about 50 degrees from level. Some cars with more rigid or thicker lips may need to make small notches in the lip to help with the rolling.If you do need to go flush to the sheetmetal, or do final work on the consistency of your roll, Eastwood also has this really useful Fender Finisher (PN 11537, $49.99). Warm paint is also important with this tool, but be cautious not to get it so warm that an impression can be left from the tool. If you're really lucky and don't need much room, the finisher may be able to handle the whole job for you with the wheel and tire in place.


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The following question came up in my arithmetic geometry course yesterday. Suppose $\alpha$ is an irrational real algebraic integer, and suppose $\epsilon >0$ is given. Then by Roth's theorem there are at most finitely many rational numbers $\frac{h}{q}$ with $\gcd(h,q)=1$, $q>1$, such that $$ \left| \alpha - \frac{h}{q}\right| < \frac{1}{q^{2+\epsilon}}. $$ Are there any results on how large such $q$ can be? Thanks.
My other answer was for the first version of this question. The question has now been changed completely. As Antoine mentioned in his comment, an effective Roth's theorem is not known in general. Finding such a result is the probably the main open problem in Diophantine approximation. There some instances in which a non-trivial effective result can be proved. Most notable is the Baker-Feldman theorem which provides such a result with an exponent of the form $\deg \alpha - \epsilon$ (instead of $2+\epsilon$) for a suitable small positive $\epsilon$.
Of course, there may be none or there may be a very small one (if $|\alpha|<1$ then $q=1,h=0$ works). If there is a small very good approximation, the others must be very large. There are lots of papers on effective diophantine approximation dealing with this. I recall there was a paper of Davenport and Roth which first established such a bound.


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What's the meaning of つまづい in this context?
What's the meaning of つまづい in this context?
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Let me add a little about the spelling つまづく. It is an alternate (secondary) spelling of つまずく, and not necessarily an old spelling as stated in other answers.
This verb was etymologically a compound word made of つめ and つく with a vowel mutation (つめ→つま) and rendaku (つく→づく). In the historical kana orthography, it was written as つまづく, reflecting the fact that the latter part came from つく.
In the modern kana orthography, most uses of letter づ were replaced with ず to match the orthography with pronunciation. One of the exceptions is that づ arising from rendaku has been retained. If you think of the origin, づ in つまづく indeed arises from rendaku and therefore the word would have been written as つまづく even in the modern orthography. However, because it is not obvious from its meaning that this verb is a compound word, it was decided in the official recommendation that the primary spelling of this verb should be つまずく, with a remark that it can be alternately written as つまづく. The recommendation also lists other examples of words of this kind.
So, つまづく is not only the spelling in the historical orthography but also a permitted spelling in the modern orthography, although the primary spelling in the modern orthography is つまずく.
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Ray Kennedy, 66, of Leon, passed away suddenly of heart failure on Oct. 4, 2012 while on family vacation in Estes Park, Colo.
Ray was born on April 27, 1946 in Oklahoma City, Okla., to V.C. and Kathleen Kennedy. Ray married his wife of 38 years, Marium Ann Beasley on October 14, 1973.
Ray is preceded in death by his parents. Ray is survived by his wife of the home, Marium; a brother, Larry (Loretta) Kennedy of Bayard, Neb.; children, Belinda (Jason) Fortin, Charity Kennedy and Rye Kennedy, all of Wichita; grandchildren, Cade, Autumn, Conner and Cameron; and seven nieces and nephews.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday in Lakin, Kan., at the Memorial Building. The service will be followed by a dinner, open to all, and a celebration of Ray's life. In lieu of flowers send memorials to the Shriner's Hospitals for Children to Midian Shrine Center, %Ray Kennedy Memorial, 130 N. Topeka St, Wichita, KS 67202-2406.
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Lewis Hamilton said he wanted the US GP win and thanks to the timely intervention of Narain Karthikeyan, that's what he got…
Starting from pole position Sebastian Vettel led into Turn 1, as none of the front seven rows of drivers starting on the dirty side of the grid made up a place. Hamilton lost out to Webber but was soon past him and hounding Vettel.
Ultimately he couldn't find a way through and looked to finish in a frustrated second place until Vettel came across an HRT just where he didn't want to.
Fernando Alonso fiished a distant third, followed home by a euphoric Felipe Massa, who'd been demoted five places down the grid to allow Alonso a start from the clean side,
Race Report
As we suggested immediately after qualifying yesterday, Ferrari took the option of changing the gearbox on Felipe Massa's F2012, thus demoting him five places down the grid and promoting Alonso to 7th and the cleaner side of the grid. The Ferrari team confirmed this on Sunday to minimise the political fall-out and stop Red Bull from doing the same with Mark Webber. Romain Grosjean was already carrying a penalty from FP3, so both demotions created a new grid:
Seven rows of grid: 1. Vettel, 2.Hamilton, 3.Webber, 4.Raikkonen, 5.Schumacher, 6.Hulkenberg, 7.Alonso, 8.Grosjean, 9.Maldonado, 10.Senna, 11.Massa, 12.Button, 13.Paul di Resta, 14.Jean-Eric vergne
As the cars lined up for the start under the bright Texan sun and in front of an almost sell-out 125,000 audience we had an ambient temperature of 24C and the track at 31C. Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg had chosen hard tyres, the rest of the field were on mediums.
There had been carnage predicted for the first 50mph turn, but as the cars roared up the hill into Turn 1 there was nothing serious to report. Vettel got away smoothly, Hamilton less so and Mark Webber overtook him round the outside. Lewis Hamilton wasn't going to rest easy in P3 and harried Webber where he could for the rest of the lap. Away from the line, a massive gap appeared in front of Championship contender Fernando Alonso which he gratefully drove into, straight up into P4.
Raikkonen and Hulkenberg tussled on the opening lap, Kimi being pushed wide by the Force India driver, while there was an intra-team battle between the two Williams drivers. Sergio Perez got a great start and was up to P11, while Jenson Button (starting from the dirty side) lost places.
Positions on Lap 1: 1.Vettel, 2.Webber, 3.Hamilton, 4.Alonso, 5.Schumacher, 6.Hulkenberg, 7.Raikkonen, 8.Grosjean, 9.DiResta, 10.Massa, 11.Perez, 12.Senna, 13.Maldonado, 14.Rosberg, 15.Button
No driver on the dirty side of the grid in the front seven rows made up a place, two (Hulkenberg and Grosjean) hung onto theirs. Everyone else went backwards.
On Lap 2 Michael Schumacher started his steady move back through the field getting overtaken by Nico Hulkenberg at the start of the lap, then Kimi Raikkonen later on. Schumi fought back and as he and Raikkonen battled it out, they were both passed by Grosjean.
On Lap 3 Lewis Hamilton got a pass made on Mark Webber into Turn 12, but overran the exit and went onto the dusty tarmac and handed the place back to the Red Bull. He got it right a lap later.
Button, after a dreadful start, where he chose to follow a Williams through Turn 1 and then got passed by cars either side as the Williams crawled through, was making inroads and passed Maldonado on Lap 6. Nico Hulkenberg was resisting a charge from Romain Grosjean who spun his car off the track at Turn 19 and flat-spotted his tyres - he dropped places and would have to come in for tyres early.
Massa was past Schumacher on Lap 7 as his tyres began to fade quite badly. The positons on Lap 8 were: 1.Vettel, 2.Hamilton, 3.Webber, 4.Alonso, 5.Hulkenberg, 6.Raikkonen, 7.DiResta, 8.Massa, 9.Perez, 10.Senna, 11.Schumacher, 12.Button
Although Vettel was setting a lot of fastest laps he wasn't able to shake off Hamilton who set his own on Lap 9 to reduce the gap to 1.6 seconds.
On Lap 10 Michael Schumacher indulged in a typical piece of beligerence when he pushed Jenson button all the way over to the left, past the pitlane exit line in a vain bid to stop him going up the inside into Turn 1. Button got the pass made with a slight nudge of contact between the two drivers at the apex.
On Lap 13, Kimi Raikkonen came up behind 5th place Hulkenberg and tried to attack round the outside of Turn 1. The Lotus ran wide before cutting back on the inside to run side by side with Hulkenberg through Turn 2, before the Force India driver had to cede the place in Turn 3. Classic stuff.
Hamilton closed right up on Vettel and on Lap 15 was inside the DRS zone for the first time, but couldn't get close enough to pass. Meanwhile Jean-Eric Vergne was having fun with Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher (who'd dropped back to P14) and his suspension failed just after he'd supposedly hit a kerb too hard. He was the first retirement of the race.
Felipe Massa was having a stellar race and looked faster than Alonso. On Lap 15 he was past Hulkenberg and up into P6. Vettel's lead over Hamilton was just 0.9. But just as it had closed up, so it began to go out again - 0.9 became 1.0, became 1.4, became 2.5 on lap 18 and then 3.2 on Lap 19.
That was the good news for Red Bull. The bad news was that Mark Webber suddenly put in a 1:46 lap on Lap 16 (compared to the following Fernando Alonso's 1:44) and after that reported that his KERS had failed. He then toured to a stop and exited the race, as the second retirement, with alternator failure.
Hamilton was under no threat from anyone behind so came in for his one and only pit-stop at the end of Lap 20 and was stationary just 2.4 seconds, Alonso come in at the same time and had a right rear wheel which was slow to come off. That might have left the door open to the pursuing Raikkonen who was lapping faster on old tyres than Alonso could manage on his new hard tyres which were slow to warm up.
That wasn't the case for the yet-to-stop Jenson Button who had his tyres right up to temperature and who almost dived through past Alonso on Lap 23, and swept past him using the DRS on Lap 24.
Hamilton came up behind the yet-to-stop Kimi Raikkonen and when the Brit passed him on Lap 24, Raikkonen dived into the pitlane for more tyres. He would have exited the pitlane in front of Alonso, but a delay in the pitbox (for no immediately apparent reason) sent him out side by side with Alonso into Turn 1 and the Ferrari easily got through. Raikkonen was then taken by the yet-to-stop Daniel Ricciardo.
At the front, Hamilton was closing on Vettel who had pitted on Lap 22. On Lap 25 the gap was 2.0; on Lap 26, 1.8; on Lap 27, 1.5 seconds.
Positions on Lap 28:1.Vettel, 2.Hamilton, 3.Button (not stopped) , 4.Alonso, 5.Ricciardo (not stopped) 6.Raikkonen, 7.Massa, 8.Rosberg (not stopped), 9.Grosjean, 10.Hulkenberg, 11.Senna, 12.DiResta
From Lap 28 Vettel put the hammer down and the gap to Hamilton went out to 2.5 again. But on Lap 31 the tide turned yet again as Hamilton put in more fastest laps with the gap coming down to 2.1, then 1.6, then 1.2, then 0.6 on Lap 34.
Button pitted for his one stop on Lap 35 and exited just behind Romain Grosjean in P7. Within four laps he had made the most artful of passing moves inside the Frenchman at Turn 16, something few other drivers could manage.
All eyes were on the battle at the front as Vettel worked out how best to use his KERS and fuel mixes to keep ahead of Hamilton. The gap was 1.1 on Lap 36, 1.0 on Lap 37, 0.9 on Lap 38. Vettel looked to have the measure of the McLaren driver until on Lap 42 when he encountered Narain Karthikeyan's HRT in the fast complex of corners from Turn 3.
Because of Vettel's delay, Hamilton was much closer through that section than he had been before and Lewis was able to use the DRS to maximum effect on the next straight into Turn 12. Vettel would go on to keep the McLaren inside 1.5 seconds all the way to the flag and set the Fastest Lap on the final lap. As ever.
Massa had got past Raikkonen for P4 on Lap 40 with a move similar to Raikkonen's on Hulkenberg coming through Turn 2, but Massa's pass this time was assisted by Raikkonen running wide at the exit. Jenson Button struggled to get the same speed under DRS as Hamilton did on the back straight, but made a great pass on Raikkonen round the outside of Turn 12 on Lap 45. It was the perfect demonstration of fair overtaking between two great drivers.
Positions on Lap 48:1.Hamilton 2.Vettel, 3.Alonso, 4.Massa, 5.Button, 6.Raikkonen, 7.Grosjean, 8.Hulkenberg, 9.Senna, 10. Maldonado, 11.Perez, 12.Ricciardo.
In the closing laps Vettel could do nothing about the McLaren's pace in front. Alonso was well over half a minute back in P3 and Massa wasn't going to challenge him in P4. Button looked as though he might have the legs of Massa in P5 but he wasn't able to deploy full KERS and his charge halted.
Bruno Senna tried very hard to find a way past Nico Hulkenberg's Force India for P8 and Pastor Maldonado - who was sat behind Senna - got impatient with his team-mate's lack of progress and came past with a wheel-barging move into Turn 1 to demote his team-mate to P10. He couldn't get past Hulkenberg either.
Lewis Hamilton crossed the line for his second successive USGP win, his first being at Indy in 2007, the last time the race was run. Vettel was close over the line and applauded his rival's drive. The Ferraris finished in third and fourth with Button in fifth wishing his throttle hadn't gone missing in Q2 on Saturday. Raikkonen headed home Grosjean who'd made his tyres last from Lap 9 to lap 56.
It had been an epic inaugural race from the Circuit of the Americas and one that reversed any good fortune Vettel might have had in Abu Dhabi. Alonso was a long way off his rival at the finish line in a race where Massa was clearly the fastest Ferrari driver. With Alonso still 13 points adrift, the Ferrari team will now be hoping for rain at Interlagos and the long-range weather forecast for Sao Paulo next weekend has thunderstorms on both Saturday and Sunday…
Frank Hopkinson
01. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1h35:55.269
02. Vettel Red Bull-Renault + 0.600
03. Alonso Ferrari + 39.200
04. Massa Ferrari + 46.000
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06. Raikkonen Lotus-Renault + 1:04.400
07. Grosjean Lotus-Renault + 1:10.300
08. Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes + 1:13.700
09. Maldonado Williams-Renault + 1:14.500
10. Senna Williams-Renault + 1:15.100
11. Perez Sauber-Ferrari + 1:24.300
12. Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 1:24.800
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What are the differences in pronunciation of "borrow", "burrow" and "burro" in American English? To me they all sound quite the same, especially when spoken quickly.
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I believe that in most North American speakers:
In other words, the words borrow, burrow, burro, and borrow are commonly pronounced as any of
I don't know that any speaker ever makes all four of those homophones with just one single pronunciation covering all of them, but certainly several possible pairs from that list can be exact homophones in certain speakers and yet in other speakers not homophones at all.
This may be what you are hearing, or think you're hearing. I say "think" because some of those can be close enough in rapid speech as to be hard to tell apart without contextual clues.
The somewhat similarly written barrow is never homophonous with any of the set listed above, but just which vowel it has again depends on the speaker. Any of
Here is an extensive list of words following a similar pattern to those you first asked about:
That is, they follow the pattern CVRO, which C is one or consonants, V is one more vowels, R is one or more r's, O is one or more o's or u's, and silent bits don't count.
If prefixes and combining forms count, you can add these to your list:
I don't know the international phonetic symbols, but I'll try to help anyway.
The first word, "Borrow" is pronounced more like "BAR O" where "Burrow" and "Burro" are pronounced the same, "BUR O". If the speaker has any Spanish influence, you might hear a slight difference as they might pronounce "Burro" a little differently, perhaps trilling the "rr" and/or changing the vowel like "BORE O".
These are the pronunciations of borrow, burrow and burro in American English. Click on the speaker icon next to the word to listen.
The pronunciations of burrow and burro are identical.
Be careful with these- they have very different meanings! They also have other words that sound similar but are not one your list, so let's reveiew the meanings first
Borrow- to use something for a time with the intent of returning to the owner.
burrow-when an animal or person digs under the ground until it is no longer visible, or the underground home of such an animal (e.g. a gopher's burrow.)
borough- a district of a city.
burro-a donkey.
The first of these is easiest to hear if you listen close enough: it sounds closest to baaah-row, with a short ahh sound, the kind you hear in the word "all." The last three are homophones in American English, so you really have to pay very close attention to context, because you will not hear much of a difference in speech.


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Someone asked me for something and I said, "Do you need it right now, or do I have a couple hours to monkey around with it?" They got really quiet. While certainly unprofessional, is this also somehow offensive?
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I don't think the term is necessarily offensive, but maybe your cavalier attitude toward the "something" was what gave the person pause. Maybe he or she thought you should handle whatever the something was with more care than implied by monkeying around with it.
The term is not offensive, however, it is usually used to describe an effort (to improve something) that does not succeed, so maybe that's why the person got quiet.
To "monkey around" is to NOT do something (or take something) seriously. If it was a work situation, that might be "professionally" (as opposed to "socially") offensive.
The context you used your phrase is not offensive. However, the phrase itself, is.
As some comments had pointed out, there is some hypersensitivity surrounding that phrase. Most of the hypersensitivity is due to racial implications.
While I'm sure you meant no offense (your context even proves it), chances are that you probably were talking to someone either of ethnicity or someone who is just sensitive to ethnic slurs.
Limiting the use of the word monkey around a black person in a perfectly legitimate phrasing is what I find offensive because it seems to suggest that we are in fact monkeys and one should be careful not to draw attention to it by even using the word.


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The topside console is beat to heck and I don't want to plug it in. How can I test the balboa board to make sure it will work? I'd prefer to just spend $90 on a topside, but what if the board is toast. Seems like it might be worth moving to a heater system. I have made some spade connectors jumped to the pump and it works and is running fine for the past two hours.
Should I look at buying a better system or just piece this one into working order. I'd prefer 110 v for how mobile and simple this small tub is. I also do not want to run a new breaker, conduit, wire and junction/ cutoff box vs plugging it in. Since we are in Florida it will also only be used a couple months a year
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I built houses and I'm fine with electrical, and work on cars a lot so a volt/ohm meter is no problem.
I have rebuilt a spa before. 5 years ago a cousin gave me his dead hot tub. I just installed a new universal heater/board/topside kit/ refit the larger piping needed and remade the wood side panels. The system ran off mechanical relays which I could not find anywhere, added some newer jets and lighting. I'm hoping to avoid a $600 bill vs just buying a $90 topside (Balboa 53280)
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Taxing times for the 'unfree'
TODAY is Tax Freedom Day, according to the Adam Smith Institute. In round terms, you work five months for the Government and seven months for yourself.
If you lived in the US, that would be four months for the government and eight months for yourself, while if you lived in much of the European Union it would be six months and six months.
How much does this matter? A lot, according to The Heritage Foundation, the Washington DC-based think-tank. It has studied 161 countries and has scored each one of them on a list of 50 economic variables to compile the voluminous Index of Economic Freedom.
The results are clear:
lightly-taxed, lowly-regulated economies with clear property rights, freedom to trade and sound money under the rule of law prosper mightily. The rest are mired in poverty.
It is indeed stark: the 'free' economies deliver average incomes across the whole population of about £18,000 per annum, while in the 'mostly unfree' category, the comparable figure is a mere £2,000.
The list is headed by Hong Kong, while Ireland is a remarkable fifth and the UK hovers on the very fringe of the top 10 at ninth with Australia.
Estonia is astonishingly sixth with Denmark and the US.
In fact, northern Europe does well overall with Iceland, Ireland, the UK, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia and Finland all ranked as 'free' and Norway finishing only just outside this elite group.
In contrast, the rest of the EU is uniformly badly ranked, with the exception of Luxembourg. If we started a Global Free Trade Area, then France, Germany and Italy would not be in it.
Asked about the astonishing rise of Estonia, former Prime Minister Mart Laar told me: 'We realised early on the importance of the rule of law and clear enforceable property rights.'
He also described how he had abolished subsidies, opened up his economy, gone for trade not aid and embarked on radical tax reform. 'Trade not aid' was his conclusion.
On the other hand, major economies such as Argentina, Turkey, Japan, Malaysia and Venezuela show great declines when judged by these criteria.
While the Index of Economic Freedom is a dry, encyclopaedic and data-driven reference tool with a very useful two-page profile of every single country, Jim Rogers' newly published Adventure Capitalist The Ultimate Investor's Road Trip is a terrific read, a real page-turner. More a novel than an investment guide.
Once dubbed 'The Indiana Jones of Finance', Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with legendary investor George Soros.
He sold up aged 39, since when he seems to have spent a quarter century driving around the world looking for good investments. His 1994 book Investment Biker was a huge best seller and now he is back.
This time he is in a custom-built one-off 4x4 Mercedes convertible covering 152,000 miles and visiting 116 countries in three years.
It's an adventure story, a travel book and a fascinating economic atlas. He is big on China - the 21st century will belong to it, he says - but he is depressingly hard on Russia.
Pakistan, Mexico and South Africa are in serious trouble. On the other hand, Spain, Namibia, Bolivia and Angola are hits. Paraguay 'should not exist', an ' anti-capitalist spirit prevails' in India, and Egypt 'has one foot stuck in the past'.
Oh, and the euro is doomed to fail. Now you know.
It's rollickingly iconoclastic, individualistic stuff, but he made many correct predictions a decade ago in Investment Biker and he puts his money where his mouth is.
Thus his Rogers International Commodity Index, founded August 1, 1998, has soared while the market has plunged. The new commodity bull market is here.
So as you celebrate Tax Freedom Day and later toast the birth of Adam Smith - 280 years ago tomorrow - remember that we all flourish when taxes are low.
The Heritage Foundation has given us the data while Rogers has gone and seen for himself.
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A while ago I posted about the lead dancer at Ballet Florida, a charming young woman, who virtually ignored her partner in Tchaikosvsky Pas de Deux and in an over-the-top duet by Vicente Nebrada, while making flirtatious eye contact with the audience. She seemed to be communicating to the crowd: I'm ecstatic to be dancing this for you. Can you tell?
Stop flirting, Joan Acocella tells dancers in The New Yorkers Critics Notebook.
The situation is worse, of course, in lighter-hearted pieces. When American Ballet Theatre performed Twyla Tharps Bakers Dozen last year, the cast couldnt stop telling us what a fun bunch of people they were. (Craig Salstein, in his solo, practically gave us his phone number.) But this is going on in darker pieces, too. Strangely, the problem has no relation to talent.
My other local company, Miami City Ballet, doesn't seem to tolerate it. Or, possibly, the dancers are just focusing on dancing well so they don't have time for this kind of distraction.
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Lets say that on a normal day: I work 8 hours and finish 10 units of work.
If I work less in a day, there are 3 possibilities:
I finish the same or more. // Ex: In 4 hours a day, I will finish 12 units of work.
I work at the same speed, finishing half the amount of when I would work an 8 hour day. // Ex: In 4 hours a day, I will finish 5 units of work.
I work more productive than when I work longer, but I can't do more work than in a full day // Ex: In 4 hours a day, I will finish 7 units of work.
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I've been top-roping for several months. About a month ago I found out how much fun bouldering is. I've been getting quite a few scrapes on the knees working certain routes, or from falling. I'm climbing at an indoor gym wearing shorts. Some people climb in long pants, but many don't. It's not a big deal, but I wonder if this is mainly a technique issue which will go away over time, or if there's some knee protection available that wouldn't reduce flexibility.
It doesn't really go away with time. At least not for me - when I'm on a hard gym route I tend to ignore any holds that are "off" for that route, and every now and then I'll hit one with an elbow or knee. Also outside, while you want to emphasize using your feet, ever now and then you'll find yourself needing to place a knee on a hold. Working on technique and flexibility will make these issues better, but there's no reason to build up a bunch of scar tissue on your legs while that's happening.
There are pants made specifically for bordering and climbing. They look like heavy denim capri pants. You may want to look into some. Anything made of a heavy denim with gusseted crotch and articulate knees should protect the skin on your knees while still giving you range of movement. Prana, Patagonia, and Arc'teryx all make pants like this.
Generally, a more controlled and precise technique should reduce undesired knee scraping and banging... But I find that the ability to achieve this precision is, at least to some degree, dependent on your strength reserves, and decreases during a session. Often, several hours into a climbing session I find myself making bigger and less precise moves, and often these end up with scraping or banging of a limb on the wall or some hold. That's usually my cue to pack it up and call it a day.
As far as knee protection goes, any soft, full-sleeve, fabric style knee padding should work well for most impacts you would normally experience while climbing. But only you know how hard you're hitting the wall and the holds, so really, the best advice I can give you is to go and try out a bunch in the store, and see how much protection they provide. I think the soft (and therefore flexible) pads would be the best place to start. Perhaps volleyball style knee pads would work well?


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1932 Ford Brookville Roadster Pickup - Coyote Ugly? - Hot RodsWritten by on February 1, 2011 Contributors: Wes Allison Raybestos Brakes And Hollywood Hot Rods Conspired To Build This Roadster Pickup With A Very Retro Looking Version Of The '11 Ford 5.0 Engine, And Some Lucky Person Will Win It.
Troy said, "I can't do anything with that. It's too ugly for the style of the car, but more important, nobody makes anything for it since it's so new." That was the start of the first big project car that HOT ROD has seen powered by the new-for-2010 Coyote 5.0L Mustang engine from Ford. In our eyes it's actually pretty cool looking for a late-model engine. But for a retro-styled, big-time sweepstakes car? Maybe not.
The Troy was Troy Ladd of Hollywood Hot Rods (HHR), the schemer was Josh Russell of Raybestos Brakes, and the car ended up way, way too nice to give away as a sweepstakes prize. But that was the deal from the outset. Josh is a member of the Chrome Czars of Chicago, the same club that puts on the retro-only Hunnert Car Pileup, and he lives the traditional hot rodding life. When Raybestos needed to promote its new line of brake parts and website, he came up with a sweepstakes program where participation could win you a car, and that car would be a traditionally styled hot rod. When he met Troy, it was obvious they were cut from the same cloth, and the concept of this roadster pickup gained ramming speed.
The project started in early 2010, the guys settled on a '32 Ford roadster pickup, and the initial plan was to just go with a small-block Ford, but then a brand-new 5.0 Coyote motor from Ford Racing showed up at HHR. Troy may have been stumped at first, but after staring at the engine on a stand, he had an idea. The wide valve covers kind of reminded him of a 427 SOHC engine, and once he got his hands on a SOHC valve cover, the similarities were even more obvious. And removing the stock, big, plastic intake manifold revealed a very simple port arrangement that just begged for an individual-runner Hilborn injection setup. Some cardboard patterns and a CNC machine later and HHR had an intake manifold to mount eight Hilborn throttle-bodies. HHR was one of the very first shops to get the new Mustang engine, and while the other applications of the crate motor have used a factory computer, Troy wanted to set this one up stand-alone with a FAST system. Problem is, even FAST hadn't yet worked with a Coyote engine, so it was uncharted territory. After studying the schematics and talking to a few people about it, he figured it out and the car fired up on the first turn of the key. There's a video of that at HOTROD.com.
The engine is just one of the technical focal points of the truck, however. A big part of Raybestos' media campaign centers around the company's history in racing, particularly IndyCars, which ran its brake parts throughout the '50s and '60s. Because of that, this couldn't be an ill-handling dump truck, so HHR created a custom chassis using '32 rails and lots of round tubing, and fully adjustable torsion bar front and rear suspension. If you can't guess whose brakes were used, just put down the magazine and back slowly away.
The design of the truck began with Josh and Troy, but it was fine-tuned by the creative collaboration of Jeff Norwell, Chad Hill, and Murray Pfaff. The body is a steel RPU piece from Brookville Roadster that has received the HHR touch. The bed was modified everywhere to match the back of the cab and the custom chassis, and the tailgate has the Raybestos logo stamped in it. Tracy Tichenor of T&R Auto Body and Anthony Rico of Pacific Coast Powder Coating handled the body and paint, and the interior by Elegance Auto Interiors (Upland, California) is trad-style tuck 'n' roll. The finishing touch, which Troy was mounting as we shot this feature, is the wheels. Troy and Intro Wheels worked together to design them based on a late-'50s Halibrand magnesium racing wheel, like those used on Indy 500 cars, and they mount bias-ply Firestone Indy Roadster tires from Coker.
The entire buildup was seen live through photos and video on RaybestosGarage.com, the company's first social media outreach, and they received more than 45,000 entries to win the car. One of those people will drive away in this thing next year, and that person should know that by then it will be fully sorted out. Troy and Josh both plan to beat on it, including racing it in the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge immediately after the car's debut at the SEMA show (which will have already happened as you read this) and at a Pinks All Out event after that.
And with their heavy involvement at Indy, it's no surprise that the Raybestos Roadster Pickup will be featured at this May's 500, and the winner will receive the keys in Gasoline Alley during the weekend. What a way to win a car!
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This is the sort of problems in combinatorics with a rather innocent look that turn out to be quite challenging - at least for a bunch of physicists! :)
Suppose we have a multiset $\mathbf{M}$ on a finite alphabet $\alpha$. Given a length $L$, what is the maximum number of different words of size $L$ we can produce (assuming, obviously, no replacement -- (EDIT: i.e. no re-use of elements of $M$ (?)))?
Let me further specify the problem with a simple example. Now we take $\alpha=\{a,b,c \}$ and $\mathbf{M}=\{a,a,a,a,b,c\}$. Taking $L=2$, we could have, for instance, $W_{1}=\{ aa,bc\}$ or $W_{2}=\{ab,ac,aa\}$. In this case it is easy to see that we cannot form more than 3 different words.
Perhaps someone more familiar with combinatorics than me could give the correct phrasing to the problem!


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Evelyn Waugh's satiric novel ''Vile Bodies'' was published in 1930, but it's set in a sort of non-futuristic future. There has been ''no mechanical or scientific advance,'' Waugh wrote in an author's note describing the book, but ''existing social tendencies have become more marked.''August 22, 2004 moviesNews
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There's a fine line between kooky and spectral.
It says nothing about our belief in an afterlife or lack thereof. There is simply no evidence that dead people wander aimlessly around old houses, and no known scientific principle that would make it possible. But a lot of people have seen ghosts. A lot. There are certain spots and buildings where separate, unrelated witnesses have reported ghosts independently, without having talked to each other or being aware of the area being "haunted."
It appears that science has stumbled across the reason for it. It has nothing to do with the supernatural, but the answer is almost as weird.
Mole people?
In order to understand the science we need to head back to the late 1950's. While working in his robotics laboratory Vladimir Gavreau noticed that one of his assistants was bleeding from the ears, despite the absence of rebelling robots choking him.
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Above: the cause of all human suffering.
What he had discovered, aside from an awesome new way to torture interns, was infrasound. It's noise at a low enough frequency that you don't consciously hear it, but your ears still sense it. The process of receiving sensory input without your conscious mind understanding where it's coming from wreaks havoc with your emotions. Specifically, researchers found that sounds between 7 and 19 Hz it could induce fear, dread or panic.
Knowing this is an article about ghosts, you can already see where this is going.
They did an experiment where acoustic scientists sneaked in low frequency sounds at a live concert. Since scientists love nothing more than inducing feelings of fear and terror in unsuspecting citizens, most of the concert goers had no idea what was going on. As a result one minute they were enjoying some sweet tunes while the next a feeling of dread invaded their hearts, crushing all hope and happiness. At the end of the experiment approximately 22 percent of the people involved in the experiment reported feelings of unexplainable dread, chills and depression when infrasound was blasted into the crowd.
Why would it have this effect? It may be evolution. It doesn't take a mad scientist mind control device to create infrasound -- mother nature is creating this type of low frequency vibration all the time. Volcanos, earthquakes, strong ocean waves and even winds hitting the hillside in just the right spot can create infrasound. Even animals can create it, and tigers are particularly well known as a source. The frequency of a tiger's roar is around 18Hz -- right in that range we mentioned earlier.
All of the things that create the sound are huge, powerful and dangerous. Evolution might have taught us that this sound means Bad News.
Nature's way of saying "Shit your pants!"
So now we have a phenomenon that occurs in nature, is invisible, is imperceptible on a conscious level, but can spontaneously make you feel irrational fear, even if you're sitting in an empty room. Notice how we've just described one of the first and primary signs of a "haunting" -- unexplained feelings of fear or dread.
OK, but what about actual sightings of ghosts?
Well, for that we need to go to a researcher named Vic Tandy.


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Can anyone explain what is definition of maslov index in Heegaard Floer homology? I am puzzled> Thank you.,
Working in the Fukaya category (objects are Lagrangian submanifolds $L_i$ of the symplectic 2n-manifold $M$ with some extra hypotheses), assume $2\cdot c_1(M)=0$. Then we can trivialize $(\bigwedge^n_\mathbb{C}TM)^2$ and choose a nowhere-vanishing section $\Omega\in\Gamma((\bigwedge^n_\mathbb{C}TM)^2)$. This induces a "phase-squared map" $\phi:LGr\rightarrow S^1$, where $LGr$ is the Lagrangian Grassmannian bundle over $M$, which on Lagrangians is $\phi(L):(d\;vol_L)^2/\Omega\rightarrow S^1$. Now $H^1(LGr)\cong\mathbb{Z}[\phi]$ so there exists a bundle $\tilde{LGr}\rightarrow LGr$ (fiber-wise universal cover). The Maslov class $\mu\in H^1(L)$ is the map induced by $\phi$, and $\mu=0$ iff $L$ lifts to $\tilde{LGr}$ (lift $l:L\rightarrow \tilde{LGr}$). Such a pair $(L,l)$ is a "graded Lagrangian".
For $x\in L_0\pitchfork L_1$ there exists a unique path $\gamma:[0,1]\rightarrow \tilde{LGr}$ (up to homotopy) connecting the lift of $x$ in $\tilde{L}_0$ to the lift of $x$ in $\tilde{L}_1$. Now let us work locally with $L_i=\prod_j\mathbb{R}$, and $\phi$ has components $\phi_j$, and $\tilde{\phi}_j$ is the lift of $\phi_j$ to $\tilde{LGr}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$. Then we have an index $i(x)=\sum_j\ulcorner \tilde{\phi}_j(x\in \tilde{L}_1)-\tilde{\phi}_j(x\in\tilde{L}_0)\urcorner$ (ceiling notation).
The Maslov index of the operator $\bar{\partial}$ (defining a moduli space of J-holomorphic strips), is then $ind(\bar{\partial})=i(x)-\sum_j i(x_j)$, where $x$ is your ''incoming point'' on the $J$-holomorphic strip and the $x_j$ are your ''outgoing points''.
We may then give the dimension of the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_{d+1}$ of (d+1)-pointed disks as $ind(\bar{\partial})+d-2$.
The symmetric product doesn't satisfy $2 c_1 =0$, therefore the machinery about graded lagrangians explained in Seidels's book cannot be applied. In Heegaard Floer homology the Maslov index can, and in fact does, depend on the homotopy class of the disc. As Marco said, you should explain us what puzzels you, so that we can give you a better answer.
You might also want to look at Lipshitz's paper "A cylindrical reformulation of Heegaard Floer homology", where he works out an explicit formula for the index.


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As we come to the close of Shabbas Mishpatim, I will ask a question that I am sure has troubled many.
The verse (23:31) tells us:
ושתי את גבולך מים סוף ועד ים פלשתים וממדבר עד הנהר
Vashti: Your boundaries [extend] from Yam Suf until Yam Pelishtim, and from the desert until the river.
How is it possible that Vashti, the wife of Achashverosh, had these boundaries, while elsewhere (Ester 1:1) we are told that Achashverosh ruled from Hodu until Kush? (Rashi there says that Achashverosh was not from royal descent; he had gotten the kingdom from marrying Vashti, so Vashti should have the amount ruled by Achashverosh.)


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Looks like rockstar might be bringing back seasons like the way they did with bully, if you noticed the small clip featuring snow in the third trailer.
The rage engine looks better then ever. Everything from gameplay, cinematography to character arcs looks awesome in my opinion. GTA4 had great dialogue so I can't see why we shouldn't expect that out of this game as well
Edited by kaptein_knivkamp, 16 December 2009 - 01:50 PM.