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Do we have knowledge of any scientists of Ancient Egypt? If yes, were they originally from Egypt, or were they from other regions such as Europe, North Africa or Asia? Any examples?
Imhotep was, as far as we know, native Egyptian.
Science is a modern concept, "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions".
Although the ideas of science came gradually, and it is not possible to point out a single moment when science was born, the first real science and the first real scientists are usually attributed to the 15th to 17th century, and the scientific revolution.
In ancient Egypt there was for example no difference between medicine and magic. The famous architect, engineer and physician Imenhotep (probably) wrote a medical text that is well known for being very practical and having very little magic in it. But it too contains magical spells, showing that Imenhotep also did not adopt a wholly scientific attitude. Instead the text is probably low on magic because most of the ailments it is concerned with are external. Much of it deals with trauma, and it is probable that it was a text book rising out of, and used in, battle-field medicine.
So there were no scientists in ancient Egypt.
Consider the flourishing of the New Kingdom:
The rise of the New Kingdom was immediately preceded by the rule of The Hyksos:
i.e. The Hyksos were not Egyptians. See: Modern scholarship usually assumes that the Hyksos were likely Semites who came from the Levant.
Concerning the period of Hyksos rule, Egypt made many technological advances:
Further, here is a writer who directly connects the rise of the New Kingdom to Hysos innovations:
Arguably, the zenith of Egyptian power and success, the New Kingdom period, was to a large extent the result of those innovations introduced by the Hyksos. If so, although we may not be able single out particular individuals who were or were not Egyptian, we can make a reasonable assertion that the flourishing of ancient Egyptian culture, exemplified by the New Kingdom period, was the result of the non-Egyptian science and technology introduced by the Hyksos.
Disclaimer: I am by no means an Egyptologist, and I'm quite certain I've merely scratched the surface of a subject that has been discussed in far more depth in scholarly literature.
(An interesting aside concerning the Hyksos: For those seeking extra-biblical support for the presence of the ancient Hebrews in Egypt, see: The Hyksos continued to play a role in Egyptian literature:
However, I believe that modern scholars have found little support for this claim.)


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Syria, chemical weapons and a lecture from Putin
September 13, 2013 - Jordan Travis
Whew! It's Friday, people, and I had quite the blog entry about Syria all written out. It was a fine piece of work, albeit a solid example of armchair geopolitical analysis.
But a lot has happened since then. Secretary of State John Kerry's remark about Syria giving up its chemical weapons (which may or may not have been a reference to ongoing talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov) gets pounced upon by Syria, all the way up to Bashar al-Assad. There seems to be some hemming and hawing about the exact terms of the deal, but this was probably to be expected. Now there's even talk about a full-on peace deal coming from all of this.
My argument, in a nutshell, was that Syria headed off an American military strike while in no way degrading its abilities to crush its civil war. The country has had no trouble crushing domestic rebels, and yes, al-Qaeda-linked foreign militants, by indiscriminately slaughtering fighter and bystander alike using conventional weapons. You can't ignore Syria's own radial militant reinforcements, in the form of Hezbollah fighters streaming in from Lebanon.
Chemical weapons proved to be a major tactical blunder on the Assad loyalists' part, since it finally got America on their goat. I have no doubt it was Syrian forces and not the rebels that used them. A former U.N. weapons inspector pointed out: most chemical munitions aren't so easy to use, and if Syria really stores its sarin in binary form (think two-part epoxy), it would take nothing short of an expert to arm, aim, time and fire a poison gas rocket in an effective manner. If such a man can be found in the ranks of Syria's rebels and radicals, we all have something very major to worry about, on top of all the killing and suffering already going on. Never mind these purported intercepted calls from the Syrian military to its own chemical weapons unit.
But I'm not the first person to point this out. These are all well-worn and easily found arguments. My favorite development in the past week has to be Russian President Vladimir Putin's letter to America, appearing in New York Times then the Guardian.
It was a reeking load of sanctimonious tripe, a smarmy, condescending and hypocritical diatribe that simultaneously made some fairly good points while reminding Americans of how puny, simple and not special they truly are. He obliquely references the fact that some of the militants in Syria are Chechen, while failing to mention the violent campaign by the Russian army to put down a long rebellion by Islamic separatists. He slams America for getting involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, neglecting to mention Russia's participation in Afghanistan as an ISAF member and Russia's own meddling in the Middle East, both during and since the Cold War. Putin gets bonus demerits for referring to a RussiaToday.com article that uses unnamed sources to point the finger at rebels for Syrian chemical weapons attacks. In my admittedly limited experience, I believe Russia Today mostly exists to spew pro-Russian propaganda and make snide remarks about the West, occasionally dabbling with nonsense conspiracy theories.
Are we surprised that a man who routinely has himself photographed shirtless while riding horseback, doing judo or manhandling dangerous animals is, maybe, a bit insecure? I think not. One comment on a response by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank pointed out America is exceptional (that's different, not better) because even a self-appointed dictator like Putin has a voice in our national media.
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Sep-17-13 12:09 PM
Jordan, Putin is a GOP hero now even though Romney ran on Russia being our worst enemy, that's what has ticked RS off.
Sep-17-13 10:36 AM
Rshrill, the new McCarthy, with a red menace behind every tree. Misinformed putz.
Sep-16-13 3:51 PM
"I believe Russia Today mostly exists to spew pro-Russian propaganda and make snide remarks about the West, occasionally dabbling with nonsense conspiracy theories."
Well, that's completely different from the NYT isn't it? They spew little more than anti-American socialist tripe and propaganda, then folks line their birdcages with it.
It's fun to watch socialists become outraged by communists. Even though communism is the goal of socialism.
So we have little commie juniors railing against big commie seniors. Brilliant no?
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I want to create a custom taxonomy which behaves similar to the post type as a category behaves to a the default posts (on the grounds of /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure) so that the posts in the custom post types are displayed as www.example.com/custom-post-type/custom-taxonomy-name/post-name Also I want the category meta box to appear only when we add new default post and not when we add a new post in the custom post type and the custom taxonomy box to appear only when we add a new post in the custom post type and not when we add new a default post.
First of all if you want to show taxonomy metabox only to custom post type then register the taxonomy to only that custom post type by passing the custom post type name as argument in register_taxonomy. By doing this the taxonomy metabox appears only to custom post type. If your don't want to show category metabox to custom post type then remove the term category as argument while registering custom post type and instead include the taxonomy slug name like this 'taxonomies' => array( 'post_tag','your_taxonomy_name'). here is the code how i achieved that. I have registered a custom taxonomy with slug themes_categories under under custom post type themes
Then to change the permalink i have created following function
Then i registered a custom post type with slug themes as below
There are few things you have to remember while registering custom post. change the has_archive parameter to custom post type slug name and another is change the rewrite slug name as 'slug' => 'custom_post_type_slug/%taxonomy_slug%
Now when you add a new post type in the write post type page... you will see the permalink as http://www.example.com/wordpress/themes/%themes_categories%/post-name/. If the custom taxonomy for this post is not selected then the permalink will remain http://www.example.com/wordpress/themes/%themes_categories%/post-name/ which will then show a bad request. To correct this we create a default term in the custom taxonomy. (same as uncategorized in categories) Add this to functions.php
Now when the custom taxonomy is left blank the permlaink becomes http://www.example.com/wordpress/themes/other/post-name/ automatically.
At last don't forget to flush the rewrite by clicking on save changes in permalink setting in admin section otherwise you will be redirected to 404 error. Hope this helps you.
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Medgadget has recently featured a great application, Gyromaniac, that helps students and gastroenterologists about performing colonoscopies and what they exactly see on the monitor.
An excerpt from iMedicalApps:
A gastroenterologist fellow once jokingly told me how thankful he was for playing too many video games as a child, because it helped him learn how to perform procedures faster. I wouldn't be surprised if there is actual truth to the statement. An app called Gyromaniac is an example of how the iPhone 4′s new gyroscope feature could actually help physicians practice spatial orientation.
Here is how Steve Jobs described this technique:
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I was told that there is a midrash that learns Genesis 3:22 as a reference to the navi (prophet) Yona ben Amitai, but cannot find the source. Do you know where it is?
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I think that you are referring to Bereishit Rabbah 21:5.
There, Rav Papus understands the verse to be suggesting that people sought to become like one of the ministering angels. Rabbi Akiva disagrees, and interprets the verse as indicating that they chose the path of death instead of the path of life. Rabbi Yehuda bar Simon understands it to mean that they sought to become like God himself, while the other rabbis understand it to imply that they sought to become like Gabriel. Finally, Reish Laqish suggests that before this point they had been like Jonah, while Rabbi Berekhiah believes that they had been like Elijah.
A number of things about the passage are difficult to interpret, not least among which is how Reish Laqish connects the text to Jonah in the first place. The Maharzav (Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Einhorn) and the Rashash (Rabbi Shmuel Strashun) connect the word אחד in the verse (כאחד ממנו) with the same word in 2 Kings 9:1, which both Rashi and Radaq connect with Jonah (based on Seder Olam Rabbah §18).
In any case, the language used by Reish Laqish is as follows:
(The notion that Jonah lost all honour is explained by the Maharzav in situ, in reference to a passage at the beginning of the Mekhilta.)


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I'd like to use my Facebook account for my OpenID accounts. How can I do this?
Facebook uses OAuth, while Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MySpace use OpenID.
For sites that only accept OpenID, you won't be able to use Facebook. Many sites accept both OpenID as well as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Windows LiveID, etc., that are other non-OpenID solutions.
If you're looking to add support for all these ID systems on your website, you might want to check out Janrain's Engage.
As far as I know, Facebook allows you to log in to it using another provider's OpenID account, but doesn't actually create an OpenID account for you to log in to other sites. Does that make sense?
See this Facebook Developer Blog Post for some more information.
Facebook is an OpenID Consumer.
Facebook is not an OpenID Provider.
Basically Facebook exposes OAuth, not OpenID.


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5 Recurring Movie Extras You Won't Believe You Never Noticed
The best Easter eggs are the ones that were staring you in the face all along, but you never saw them. Then there are those that were not just staring, but breathing heavily and sweating profusely. There are recurring characters who show up in movies or shows that you've seen a hundred times but never noticed -- either because they were hidden, or simply because they have the kind of face you forget two seconds after you see it. Let us blow your mind by re-introducing you to ...
(Also, let us blow your mind with our Star Wars: Adventures in Jedi School trailer.)
#5. Jesse Heiman, the Background Nerd in Every Movie
Something really weird happened during the Super Bowl this year. There was an advertisement where it was basically just this ...
Rosatia is the new abs.
... for 30 long, uncomfortable seconds. Well, one of those people has been in over 60 films and TV shows and worked with the likes of Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, and Michael Bay; the other one is supermodel Bar Refaeli (whose IMDb profile looks sad in comparison). This veteran actor's name is Jesse Heiman, and he was in 10 movies and TV shows in 2011 alone. In 2012, he was in seven more.
How is that even possible? Because he has made a career out of looking like a teenage dork despite being now in his mid-30s, and so every director just sticks him in the background. Don't say you've never seen him before, because yes, you have. Here he is in the first Spider-Man, sharing a scene with Kirsten Dunst:
In a universe where science geeks look like Tobey Maguire, this was the coolest guy in school.
And here he is in The Social Network:
They're all paying attention in class because this was before the guy in the back invented Facebook.
Remember Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can? He was there, too:
They ended up cropping him out because test audiences never noticed that Leonardo DiCaprio was there, too.
And that's just a small sample of his impressive career. Of course, he doesn't say anything in any of these movies and only appears onscreen for a few seconds, but how many hit movies have you not talked in? Jesse's first role was in American Pie 2, in which he played a non-speaking member of the infamous band camp:
You don't wanna know what he did with that trombone.
He moved on from high school to college in Will Ferrell's Old School, where he was one of the pledges ...
He's sad because he didn't get to tie a cinder block to his dick like the others.
... and from college to the workplace in Transformers 3. Michael Bay personally picked him for the role of "guy walking in the office."
And if there's one thing Michael Bay is known for, it's picking actors.
But Jesse isn't a snob: Unlike some of his fellow film stars, he has nothing against doing TV. In fact, he's been in pretty much every show ever, including The Big Bang Theory, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Entourage, My Name Is Earl, Bones, Curb Your Enthusiasm, NCIS, Chuck, Monk, The O.C., and Reno 911!
Here he is in two shows where every single cast member is a terrible person.
Despite all this, Jesse isn't satisfied: He dreams of a speaking movie role and hopes to be the next Jonah Hill. Jesse's days of receiving extra's pay to stand awkwardly in the background may be over, though, because just recently he's been approached by the porn industry, since apparently even the most rudimentary fame means that there's a subset of humanity that want to see what you look like naked.
While we wait for that, here's a clip of some of his best appearances:
#4. R2-D2 Has Had a Better Acting Career Than Most of the Star Wars Cast
With the obvious exception of Harrison Ford, the actors in Star Wars haven't had very impressive film careers: Mark Hamill is best known for his voice-over work, Carrie Fisher for talking about her personal problems, and David Prowse for having been screwed over by George Lucas. Pretty much all of them have had terrible luck.
Oh, except R2-D2. The guy is everywhere.
That's R2-D2 flying through a battlefield in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, perhaps as a subtle hint of Abrams' plan to eventually take over every beloved sci-fi franchise (look out for his The Last Starfighter preboot in 2017). Sure, R2 is playing a piece of debris here, but that's still more dignified than starring in a Ricky Gervais series like his Star Wars co-star and fellow dwarfism sufferer Warwick Davis did.
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On the other hand, Davis never shared a screen credit with Shia LaBeouf.
R2 has kept busy lately -- as seen above, he also shows up in Transformers 2, taunting us with horrible visions of an alternate reality where Michael Bay directs the Disney Star Wars sequels and gives C-3PO golden genitalia. This time R2 plays part of a robot that flies through the air to assemble itself into Optimus Prime's body, which incidentally was the exact plot of our erotic fan fiction novel.
The "let's hide R2 everywhere" tradition dates back to the '70s and started with Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in the very same year that Star Wars came out -- the droid can be seen standing on the underside of the alien ship, like Robert DeNiro's character in Cape Fear. Apparently, the SFX people needed more details for the ship's model, so they just threw in whatever they could find.
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The aliens have very clumsy fingers, so they had to hire some guy named Luke to pilot the ship.
Spielberg must have enjoyed working with R2, because he included him again in Raiders of the Lost Ark, this time as a hieroglyphic. R2 somehow talked the director into including his buddy C-3PO there, too, along with a bunch of other Star Wars references -- Harrison "Just Fucking Kill Han Solo Already" Ford was probably thrilled.
For the record, Indiana Jones could beat up Han Solo.
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Is 3PO playing the bongos on R2? What a shithead.
And then, not content with showing up in two of the greatest movie series of every '80s kid's childhood, R2 appears in The Goonies (produced by Spielberg) as part of the pirate ship. R2's so determined to make an impact among children that the only point of comparison by today's standards is childhood diabetes.
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Either it's him or the ship is getting a boner.
#3. There Are Over a Hundred Hidden Aliens in South Park
When South Park first debuted in 1999, the very first episode was called "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and, predictably, involved Cartman getting anally probed by aliens. Did the aliens ever remove the probe from Cartman's poop-hole, though? Apparently not, because these beings from another galaxy have stuck around and continue appearing on the show to this day. They're just hiding.
"Hiding" is a loaded word.
There are over a hundred instances of aliens hidden in the show, a record for guest appearances that's only topped by Steve Martin on Saturday Night Live. Some hidden aliens are pretty easy to spot and barely qualify as "hidden":
"There. I'm hiding. Fuck you."
Others, not so much:
In fact, some appear only as random patterns in the background or easy-to-miss details:
Don't you hate it when someone goes through the article before you and circles all the answers?
Others appear for just a few frames -- in the episode "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson!" the smiley face on Manson's forehead temporarily changes to an alien.
We're not sure if this makes Manson look more or less sane.
The director of animation, Eric Stough, is in charge of putting the aliens in, but even he doesn't know how many there are, because he sometimes forgets to do it. Although they are becoming more infrequent in later seasons, the aliens still show up somewhere in the crowd in the show's opening credits ... so, technically, you could say there's an alien in every single episode.
It's right in front of Satan.
Remember the classic two-parter, "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut"? Yeah, there was an alien standing among Cartman's possible fathers:
So that's what she was doing in those German movies.
And, amazingly, they still show up in more recent episodes, like the one where the Internet runs out ("Over Logging"), and the one where Stan loses the ability to enjoy anything in life ("You're Getting Old"):
But there's more to this than just some pointless Easter egg. The continuation of the alien theme points to a much bigger plotline in the South Park universe, which is alluded to in the episode "Cancelled." Here it's revealed that the entire Earth is a reality show for aliens. So when we see aliens in the background, what we're really seeing are crew members, runners, grips, executives, etc.
All in the employ of a giant ice-cream-shitting taco.
Also, taking the time to find these things can pay off. For Season 13, they ran a contest where they offered prizes to whoever found all the aliens.


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WACO (December 3, 2012)--Waco police arrested a local man early Monday morning on a warrant stemming from an incident in August in which shots were fired in the direction of Department of Public Safety troopers during a traffic stop.
Juan Dedios Martinez, 27, was ordered held in the McLennan County Jail Monday morning in lieu of $5,000 bond, charged with deadly conduct discharging a firearm.
He later bonded out Monday afternoon.
Waco police arrested Martinez just before 5 a.m. at a residence in the 2600 block of Ethel Avenue on the warrant, which was signed by McLennan County Justice of the Peace Kristi DeCluitt on Nov. 30.
Just after 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 26, DPS troopers made a traffic stop involving a possible drunken driver near South 9th Street and La Salle Avenue.
During the stop the troopers heard gunshots in the distance and then a loud thump as a bullet struck the patrol car.
At the time shots were fired there was one trooper standing outside the patrol car and one trooper and the driver were in the car, Trooper D.L. Wilson said.
Nobody was hurt.
Troopers later confirmed that the gunfire originated from near the intersection of South 14th and La Salle.
Investigators recovered what appeared to be a .45 caliber round from the patrol car and five spent .45 caliber casings from 1428 La Salle, where a Taqueria Mobile Taco Truck was parked.
During a subsequent search of Martinez's home, investigators recovered a .45 caliber pistol, an arrest warrant affidavit says.
Martinez later confessed to shooting the pistol and, with another person, firing at the taco stand, and that person corroborated his account, the affidavit said.


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I don't know if you have ever heard about planned obsolescence? That's when companies purposely make their products to break after a certain period of time, so that you have to buy more from them. Don't tell me you think razor blades that never wear are impossible to make? It would simply not be "profitable" to make them. Very few things made in our society are designed to last: it is simply not worth the investment.
One of these problems, a major one, is cyclical consumption. The basis is such that cyclical consumption is going to always be a necessity. In other words, all systems in the profit structure have to continue self-preservation. In order to do so, they have to continue differential advantage. So, in the medical establishment for example, it is profitable for the public to be sick (more on this later). In the bottled water establishment, it is profitable for non-bottled water to be polluted. The more problems there are in society, the more some sect of the profit system can gain. That poses a very sick reinforcement to our structure. We cannot justify a system which allows for people to gain off of the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. That alone should be absolutely self-evident.
The reward, the incentive you are talking about, is the ONLY pro of the profit system. Even then, I don't even think it's a pro since it does not lead to social progress. And do you believe that without it, people would do nothing? They would just sit there and wait to die? Most of the greatest technological discoveries that have helped humanity have not been for profit.
There is no such thing as human nature. Human behaviour is a condition of its environment.
The incentive of income, like everything else, can be replaced by something better. In the future, we will have a different incentive system. It will be an incentive system based not on the narrow self-interest of monetary gain for an individual, but it will be an enlightened system, where the individual realises that their integrity is only as good as the integrity of society as a whole. Because society will produce everything that the individual requires. Therefore, the true incentive is the benefit of society as a whole, because there is a direct relationship of the person to society at that point.
Peaceful coexistence is only going to happen on this planet when the world will learn to work together. You can call it collectivist, call it whatever you want, it doesn't matter. Of course you're going to have wars, when certain countries have resources, and certain do not. A resource based economy is the natural progression of society, and is the most efficient on every single level, from production, to resource management, to environmental protection, and everything else. It is a simple logical progression.
People will contribute to society, because they know their contributions have meaning. The link with game design lies here: meaning. If you want to make games that are just fun and nothing else, that don't have any meaning, I won't stop you; I'm sure I'll have a great time playing them! At this point in time, you have people in advertising, and all of these agencies, insurance, stock brokers, etc. What are they really doing to contribute to society? These are intangible, repetitive jobs, invented to perpetuate the system. Just like a cashier. They don't actually do anything, they just help the system go on, like supports.
When we finally reorganise the system, when people contribute to society, they actually do something real. They actually create a product that's beneficial, that's designed to be optimized, that helps people, improves peoples' lives. They'll do it because it benefits them, and society as a whole.
Before World War Two, consumption was half what it is now. After WW2, coming out of the great depression, the psychologists got together with the advertising corporations in order to create a new value system, to get people to buy anything and everything, constantly. Nothing to do with necessity, just keep buying crap so we can keep the economy going, because that's what the economy is. It doesn't matter what you create, it doesn't matter its relevance; if you can condition the public to think it has relevance, then they're going to sell it and continually waste the resources, not to mention polluting the human mind with sick distortions of materialism and values that have no basis or relationship to society whatsoever.
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Sorry for the double post, my text was too long.
More on competition: The idea that competition enables efficiency and production is one of the most incredible textbook capitalist myth that has ever been perpetrated by the profit system. Think about the obvious logical fallacy of this: you cannot have better quality products at a lower price. That is impossible, a contradiction in terms, because the entire system is based on supply and demand. Quality products are always going to come at the highest quality price, therefore, any manufacturer is going to cut corners as much as possible to maintain its competitive edge. You cannot possibly produce optimisation in this system; there is no chance for it: it's too expensive. And that produces terrible amounts of waste.
Optimisation and sustainability are not only not wanted; they are the enemies of the profit system. If you can create something that lasts, and does really really well, for long periods of time, that's the most efficient, that's the most healthy to the environment, you're going to see a collapse of the system. If this was not the case, you'd have cars that are running on battery technology, that would run for decades without service, they would be optimized with the highest forms of technology. We could do this today. You don't see that though. Why? Because of the profit system. Because of the cartels that run things. It is impossible to have the highest quality anything: they don't want the highest quality treatments to cure cancer. Frankly, if you look into B-17, look into Grossman Therapy, you'll find that there are plenty of means of preventing cancer along with treatments that can actually cure it, that are basically nutritionally oriented and have absolutely nothing to do with chemotherapy or any of that. Why would they perpetuate this, why would they shut the treatments down? Corruption is rampant is the medical establishment, and that should be the most important establishment we have! That's our health right there, that's the social organisation to keep us healthy, to keep us focussed, to keep us going, to keep us feeling good, and that system is collapsing faster than probably any other system. It is the most aberrant system that we have. They don't care. They can't care. They don't want to care, because they lose if they care. If they cured cancer right now, you would see a ridiculous drop-off in GDP of the United-States and across the world. It is a negative retroaction in economics to have efficiency, abundance, sustainability, and optimization.
So this statement that just because people compete, we're just going to use our creativity, we're going to have the best stuff, quality products, at the lowest possible price, is absolutely asinine. And I hope you can understand that myth thoroughly, because you are going to hear it over and over from people who claim they know about the capitalist system.
My Final answer on this one would be: You think the current system cannot be improved, and YOU want to be a game designer? Design is about solving problems, so good luck with that.
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Last edited by Marco Roy : 05-11-2009 at 08:53 PM.
I read most of the above, but was lost amongst the dribble which I easily parallel to sermon's of religious enthusiasts, which is what this Zeitgeist Movement is, but without the God.
So I finally clicked one of those links out of interest, and found this:
Change values + education = changed society = Brave New World. It's not a leap that requires Quantum Physics. There is nothing Big Brother about BNW, though there is with 1984.
Anyway, all in all your argument has paid no head on my mind other than to assure me of two things:
1) You're a conspiracist, meaning I highly doubt any American will be arrested for anything about a social change unless it requires a plane and a bomb. Though I'm sure I'll get some evidence from you about how the FBI are watching you as we speak and would deny you entry to their country for being unpatriotic in Canada. I can't be bothered reading the laws of the USofA, but what you described should mean that someone saying "Fuck America, I'm going to Cuba" should be jailed on sight.
2) This has turned from a discussion, to a topic of preaching. If I had made a topic called "Do you believe in God?" and then shot down anyone who was Christian because they're ignorant whilst preaching Judaism, I'm pretty sure my thread would get closed or ignored, just as we do for most door-to-door salesman.
So, I've lost interest as this is not a discussion, but marketing of a social, bordering on religious, variety.
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Just to let everyone know, I am keeping am eye on this thread.
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Ok I want to say a couple things,
One of the underlying principles of economics is scarcity. The fact that it exists is perhaps the only not-as-debatable principle of economics, which is considered a rather sketchy science considering a lot of predictions made by "expert" economics end up entirely off the mark. So yes, you will always have your rich and your poor.
However, just because you will always have your "poor" doesn't mean the standard of living cannot be raised. Most poor people in America can still afford to buy a dollar menu meal at McDonald's. A lot of poor people in other parts of the world cannot.
Yet there are ways to improve the standard of living in such places as well. For example, it only costs around $1000 to open a school in Africa. This was accomplished by a girl in my high school class and her mother. $1000 is not that much money for an American compared to the impact it has on education. Other good programs out there to look into are the One Laptop Per Child and Kiva.org, which I won't really explain b/c this post is already going to be pretty long.
The problem isn't money, it's people who care. True, opening a school may only cost $1000, but it costs much more than that it time and patience because it also involves talking to the people and future students there and gaining their trust as well as the dedication to keep following up to make sure the school as a steady income of supplies, etc. "Don't give me money, give me passion"--in the words of a man who is trying to bring wind energy to Rwanda with whom I'm facebook friends with.
As game designers, we may not be able to put money into peoples' pockets, (esp since we're mostly taking it out ) but we can design games that motivate people, or at least make them more aware of the major issues in the world (check out http://www.addictinggames.com/oiligarchy.html for a simple game that deals with the oil crisis).
All in all: We can't make a perfect world, but we can definitely make a better one.
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And onto the monetary system.
I def want to check out those videos, although I'm an American...*college, please protect me*. Yeah, not a fan of the Patriot Act.
Anyways, as stated in my previous post, scarcity exists. So we need a system to distribute goods and services, and deciding who gets to be a have and who is a have-not. Currently America has the monetary capitalist system, which you're all familiar with.
The upside: competition that leads to innovation, illustrated by the game industry itself. You have the infamous Wii, that could not compete with the PS3 graphics wise but still made its bang by introducing a different style of gameplay. You can get better products for a lower price, you only have to look at the electronics industry. Any common $100 cell phone has way more computing power than a mega million dollar Eniac. And Moore's Law is still going, an example being that increased storage capacity of flash drives.
The downside: You have competition that leads to scandal and fraud, (ex: Enron), greedy corporate execs (AIG), and other moral issues (check out the Yes Men, they're awesome and explain this stuff way better than I can http://theyesmen.org/theyesmenfixtheworld)
What I'd like to see is a better alternative for the monetary system. The alternatives I can think of are:
a) bartering:
"I want 10 chickens for this peanut butter"
"I don't got no chickens, but I has goats"
"Then give me 3 goats"
"Peanut butter is not even worth one goat, b***!"
*insert hours of squabbling and possible physical injury*
b) inheritance to the eldest child, which result in all the younger siblings going flat broke
c) strict communism where everyone is poor (most modern communist countries are pretty moderate)
d) raiding (ok, can we agree goats aren't worth killing people over?)
None of which seem more appealing.
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Location: Montreal, Canada
Bittman, your arguments are what I call "angry arguments". I don't see where you get the religious stuff and everything. And that's the same stuff most people against the movement come up with... which is kind of weird. Did you do a Google search for those?
EvilLlama, I think there are an infinite number of solutions to this problem. Maybe it's just too soon (as for technology, the maturity of society, etc.) to try and correct it. But I am pretty sure a resource based economy is what we are going to end up with, whether it be in 100 years, or 1000.
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I'm a newspaper photographer and saw a nice project some did with Panoramas and I got inspired. He told me about Nodal Ninja, and I saw the giveaway offer so here I am
But I was thinking that once I figured out creating the panoramas, how easy or hard would it be to have an audio file linked to the image. Any ideas on where to start?
Say I record crowd sounds, or interviews and I build a 30 second audio track, is it possible, and easy, to have the image move in synch with th sound?
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The 9 Most Unnecessary Gadgets Money Can Buy
In a world where blankets with sleeves can create millionaires, it's no wonder inventors and businessmen are locked in a race to develop the next big thing in the lucrative "They really pay money for this?" industry. We don't hold that against them -- the entire world economy runs on that crap.
What's harder to comprehend, though, is how they poker-facedly try to sell us gadgets that actually manage to complicate the task they're intended to help with. Like ...
#9. The Wine Glass Holder Necklace
Apparently, there is a type of person whose weak arm strength constantly stands in the way of their social alcoholism. Manufacturers have rushed in to cater to the needs of this small, sad segment with a variety of holders that suspend your drink from your neck.
Or it might be tiny underwear for your glass. We're not sure.
Apart from the obvious fact that using this product makes you look like a particularly boozy latchkey kid, there are just so many things that can go wrong here. You're placing a glass of notoriously staining substance in the immediate vicinity of your best wine-sippin' shirt, swinging in a pendulous, spill-seeking motion at the slightest movement of your body. Literally anyone at the party -- and we generously assume you're at a party instead of using this thing at home alone -- can trip and fall on you, shattering the glass and perforating your sternum with a hundred shards of chardonnay-flavored pain. Though the one thing you don't have to worry about is anyone trying to hug you. Ever again.
Ever wanted to know what it's like to be pitied by career alcoholics? Now you can!
Even if you manage to dodge all the other pitfalls provided by the product, there's this: How the hell do you drink from this thing? Do you wrestle the glass from the contraption every time you want a sip? Do you use a long bendy straw? Or bring the thing to your lips with strings attached, making you look like the world's only drinker with training wheels?
#8. The Snowball Maker
Everyone loves a good snowball fight. It's just that the actual making of snowballs can be a bit of a bastard. You know: Taking the snow in your hands, squeezing it just so until it reaches the perfect shape and hardness for some kickass winter warfare ... no, sorry, that's actually the best part.
Regardless, there are people who view it as a terrible nuisance, or maybe find themselves constantly frustrated with the poor quality of their snowballs. These people are the masterminds behind the Sno-Baller snowball maker, an unholy, plier-like contraption that seems way more likely to take a person's eye out than the snowballs it produces.
The balls are pleasantly round, though.
Even the manufacturer seems to realize that this is something no kid in history has ever needed. Therefore, Sno-Baller's selling point is not that the balls are easier to make with it, but that the balls it makes are soft and "disintegrate on contact."
So, not only will your kid be the joke of the neighborhood, but he won't even be able to shut his mockers up with a neat, properly squeezed hardball.
To complete his humiliation, insist that he use the Snofling Throwing Stick.
#7. Ham Dogger Hot-Dog-Shaped Hamburger Maker
You know that awkward situation where you want to make both hot dogs and burgers but just can't stand the idea of fashioning hamburger into patties? Of course you don't. Nobody does. But don't let that sobering fact on to the people behind the Kitchen Art Ham Dogger -- the revolutionary product that molds hamburger into a hot dog shape.
We guess someone in the annals of history might've faced a situation where they only had hot dog buns, yet absolutely needed to have hamburgers right the hell now. But even then, that shape happens to be the easiest shape to mold anything into. We're not kidding -- give a 4-year-old some Play-Doh and watch him immediately roll it on the table into a sausage shape.
Thanks to the Ham Dogger, Steve is no longer ashamed of his ham dogs!
#6. The Dipr Cookie-Dunking Utensil
One evening, as inventor Bobby Haleluk was dipping a cookie in milk, he mistimed the dunk and the cookie fell into the milk. He fell to his knees and howled a big "NOOOOOO" at the uncaring sky, enraged that the universe could be so cruel.
The next day, he created the Dipr.
And on the seventh day, He made them in wacky animal shapes.
From the unnecessarily hip name to the design that makes it look worryingly like a dentist's instrument, it's clear that the Dipr has some way to go if it wants to become the Next Big Thing. The fact that it manages to overcomplicate the only task it's suitable for -- dunking Oreos -- doesn't help matters.
Here's how dunking works normally: You take the cookie. You dip it in milk. You eat it. With the Dipr, you take the cookie. Then, you go find your Dipr in your kitchen's bullshit drawer. Then, you painstakingly attach said cookie to the hook of the Dipr. Then, you awkwardly use the Dipr for the dunking. And then ... well, we're not actually sure about the next step. Are you supposed to remove the Oreo from the Dipr before eating, creating an additional step where you will almost certainly drop the cookie? Or do you stick it in your mouth still attached, thus stabbing the inside of your cheek with that hook thing?
"Do you want to know how I got these scars?"
#5. The Lime Bomber Lime Wedge Bottle Insertion Tool
To all the people out there fighting a daily, hopeless fight to get that wedge of lime into your Mexican beer, let us be the bringer of salvation: The Lime Bomber is here.
What do you mean, you've been doing it with your finger all these years, without the aid of a special tool that presumably must be kept in some kind of holster? Well, you must be some manner of professional.
For the rest of you mortals, here's a dumb thing.
The Lime Bomber consists of a plastic poking thing and a bottle-shaped cap to keep the beer from spilling over. You put the cap on first, then use the poking thing to shove the lime down into the beer -- thus adding a nice extra step to what could be achieved with a simple motion of a finger.
What's more, since the cap is designed like a bottle that goes over the actual bottle, their shapes and sizes had better be compatible or you're screwed. In the worst case scenario, the Lime Bomber might even get stuck over the too-large bottle, actually preventing you from drinking the beer.
"I want a product that makes drinking more complicated AND adds to the things I can lose." - Fucking Nobody
Also, we don't care if you are drinking at a gathering of sworn pacifists, pulling this thing out every time you open a new beer will result in a beating.


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I'm just not happy with the D7000. Carrying it is huge, and to be honest, it's not very fun to shoot.
How hard is it to manually focus? I have legacy Nikkor and Minolta MD glass I would like to use.
There's an interesting piece on the diglloyd blog about the Fuji X system discounts and possible reasons for them.I wonder if Fuji are about to release a full frame system? Doubt it, but can live in hope.
Do you care to summarize briefly?
I have to fear that discounts that big on almost every lens for the system is an adjustment to poor sales: the X system's engineers seem far better than their marketing people so far.


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When I was in my teens, my church's youth adviser sold me his rifle; it was a semi-automatic, chambered for .22 caliber long-rifle ammunition. I could carry it (breech open) through my hometown to the dunes beyond for target shooting. Its stock and steel butt plate made it resemble an M1.
It lay in storage in my parents' house during my college, graduate school and military years, when I "qualified" using the military caliber "weapon" version M1. Many guys my age have fond memories of that soldier's utensil. Semi-automatic guns are very handy and I support their availability. I do feel, however, that automatic versions are inappropriate for civilian use.
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In the Resident Evil Deck Building Game (base set), Ada Wong's level 1 ability allows her to look at the first card in the Mansion and choose to leave it on top or move it to the bottom. It is unclear whether the effect of the Infected would be applied or not, given that there is no actual combat.
Most of the effect text is obviously inconsequential; the Infected is neither defeated nor revealed so none of the effect text that triggers on defeat or reveal would apply anyway. However, the Hunter and the Uroboros Aheri cards in the base set both trigger when the Infected in question is not defeated.
In particular, the text on the Uroboros Aheri card reads:
If this Infected was not defeated, shuffle it into the Mansion
Although Ada's ability doesn't actually "defeat" anything, it's unclear whether the effect text applies at all. If the card is placed on the bottom of the Mansion and the effect text is skipped entirely, that makes this the only way to guarantee the position of the Uroboros Aheri card without triggering a reshuffle, which just feels wrong to me.
So the question lies: Does Ada's ability bypass the Infected card entirely, effects and all, or would the effects still trigger (when applicable)?


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by Melissa Brunner
My mom worked at a retail store for more than 35 years. She retired a few years back when her store location closed. Given the current holiday season shopping trends, she couldn't be happier.
Mom saw Black Friday at her store move from the 8 or 9 am start, to the 6 am start, to the 5 am start and I think it had made it to 4 am by the time she was done. Her reaction these past couple years when about everyone was jumping on the bandwagon with midnight openings? "How stupid!"
I can only imagine what she'll say when I ask her thoughts on the growing number of stores who, this year, will start Black Friday on Thursday evening! Best Buy is the latest to announce its opening time: 6 PM THANKSGIVING DAY!
Best Buy isn't alone in rushing your Thanksgiving plans. Sears, Macy's, JCPenney and Kohl's all are opening at 8pm Thursday. Toys R Us and Target will open at 9 pm. WalMart, with so many 24 hour locations, has been starting 8pm Thursday specials for years, much like KMart has had 6am Thanksgiving Day specials.
Companies worry if they don't join the trend, shoppers will spend all their dollars at the stores opening earlier, so they need to have their doors open, too, in order to cash in. Shoppers feel like they'll miss out on the deals if they don't join the early sales.
"What do the workers have to complain about?" I've heard people say, "They're getting paid!" Perhaps, but most workers are part-timers who aren't getting extra holiday pay. And some things are about more than money.
My mom loved her job, but she didn't love how this early rush encroached on the workers' time with their families. Sure, you had time to eat your holiday dinner, but, when you have to be up so early or working through the night, dealing with a huge rush of customers, you don't exactly spend much time enjoying yourself because you're worried about getting to bed early or at least catching a nap so you're up to the task at hand.
What do you think? Are the early openings going too far or are you okay with it?
No matter which side you're on, remember when you're out shopping this holiday season that the workers are real people and their patience is being tested, too, and they're doing the best they can. A smile and a thank you would be a gift they'd appreciate!


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Wikipedia says:
this circle of ideas is distinct from the Bloch–Kato conjecture of K-theory, extending the Milnor conjecture, a proof of which was announced in 2009
What exactly is the K-theory conjecture of Bloch-Kato and has it been proven?
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What exactly is the K-theory conjecture of Bloch-Kato and has it been proven?
Here are some lectures by Charles Weibel. Early on, they discuss Milnor Conjecture and Bloch-Kato, and they should go through the proof. My understanding is that there were a bunch of people involved in the proof, though a few were a bit reticent to actually write up their parts of it, and so Weibel drew the short straw and is the one writing it up.
EDIT: Adding a bit, here's Weibel's 2006 page where he notes the status as of then, and to make sure that this is roughly self-contained, here's the statement:
Voevodsky gave a talk at a memorial conference for Grothendieck in January 2009 where he announced a full proof of the Bloch Kato Conjecture. The talk is available on google video.
On 22 June 2013, Joël Riou is going to give a Bourbaki talk on
La conjecture de Bloch-Kato [d'après M. Rost et V. Voevodsky].
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I really like Team Fortress 2, and would like to play the game that started it all. After some intense searching, I couldn't find it. Have any ideas where I can grab it from?
It is available for purchase from Steam, under the name Team Fortress Classic. At the time of writing, it costs $4.99/€4.99/£2.99 in the primary regions.
You also get it as part of the Half-Life 1 Anthology, the Half-Life Complete pack, and of course the Valve Complete Pack.
The original Team Fortress is a Quake mod, of which version 2.8 is still available online here. There are also modded versions of the original, such as MegaTF and CustomTF.
Team Fortress Classic is a remake of the original Team Fortress for the Half-Life engine and as mentioned by Michael Madsen, is still sold on Steam. It uses different players models and some of the game mechanics have changed a bit.
Honestly, though, you're better off sticking with TF2.


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Prof. Ihsanoglu stressed that Israel's continued illegal practices, whose aim is to isolate Jerusalem from its surroundings, and to create new facts on the ground is a blatant challenge to international law and international legitimacy resolutions and Geneva Conventions. The Secretary General also urged the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union) and the international community to intervene to stop all forms of settlement as affecting the rights of the Palestinian people.


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This is a reformulation of my question Characterizing triangles unembeddedly.
Motivation 1: There is such a thing as a generic group. In category theory this is done by constructing "theory" of the group, which is a category in a certain doctrine. Functors (in that doctrine) to Set, or more generally to any topos, are groups. The barest such theory (as usually seen) is the Lawverean algebraic theory of groups. This theory is a category containing an object and operations making it a group object in that category, and the theory is the smallest such category that contains all finite limits. There are fancier ones; the fanciest is the classifying topos for groups, which is in some sense the initial topos-with-group object. Since in a topos, you have full-scale first order intuitionistic logic, the classifying topos for groups allows you to reason about the generic group inside the classifying topos and the theorems you prove will be true for all groups. (This is only an approximation of the actual situation.) In particular you can't prove it is abelian and you can't prove it isn't; the logic clearly does not have excluded middle.
Motivation 2: You can prove that a triangle that has two angles that are equal must be isosceles (has two sides that are equal). You can do this with Pappus' proof: Look at the triangle, flip it over the perpendicular from the odd angle to the other side, look at it again, and the side-angle-side theorem shows you that the "two" triangles are congruent, so two sides much be equal. This appears to me to be true without requiring the parallel postulate. So the theorem and the proof must be true not only in Euclidean 2-space but in any surface of constant curvature. (Here I am getting into territory I know very little about, so this particular motivation may be totally misguided.)
So what I want is a classifying space of some sort that contains the generic triangle in such a way that maps of the correct sort to any surface of constant curvature are triangles, and so that Pappus' proof can be carried out in the classifying space. The space doesn't have to be a topos or a category at all. I have no clue as to what sort of structure it would be.
Note 1: Even the Lawvere theory of groups has its own internal logic -- in this case equational logic. You certainly cannot prove the generic group is or is not abelian with equational logic.
Note 2: It does not seem reasonable to me that Pappus' proof would work in a surface with variable curvature. But maybe there is some trick to define "angle mod curvature" that would make it true.
Note 3 added 3 Dec 2009: One way of reformulating my question is: How do you give a suitably general definition of "triangle that allows Pappus' proof". Commenters who asked "which definition of triangle are you using" missed the point: I am asking for a definition. Mathematical research commonly consists of trying to find the right definition to make your intuitive proof work. Questions like that belong in MathOverflow and should not be criticized for not being "well formulated". (Of course many questions of this sort could have been solved by looking in Wikipedia or thinking for five minutes, and they deserve to be criticized.)


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I have installed numpy for python 2.6.5. I want to use it for python 3.1.2 and I don't know how to install it. I'm new to ubuntu and I don't know how to install it from tar file. I am using Geany for programing in python3. If I managed to installed it from there would it work in Geany?
I have tried it on Ubuntu 11.10, but this should work. Download the numpy-1.6.2.tar.gz from sourceforge than open a terminal:
Than you need to wait for converting from python2 to python3 and to compile.


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Fiberglass Bodies and Reproduction Frame - Repro Rod ReturnsWritten by Gerry Burger on March 1, 2011 Fiberglass Bodies And Reproduction Frames Add Up To Affordable Fun
It is interesting how things change. In the '70s the rebirth of street rodding was in full swing and much of it was based on the reproduction fiberglass T-bucket body and associated box tubing chassis. It was the 1-800 rod that was invented about the same time as the 1-800 number (which, should you be wondering, was first established in 1967). Go to a rod run in the '70s and you were sure to see a swarm of T-buckets of every description, some of them were original bodies, most were not. Ai Fiberglass, Speedway Motors, Total Performance, and others were leading the charge on the T-bucket brigade and while most hot rodders tend to think the T-bucket was the first fiberglass body, there were actually a number of companies and individuals making competition fiberglass bodies before the street-going T-bucket.
When Dave Anderson started Ai Fiberglass in 1962, they built lightweight bodies, doors, hoods, fenders, and decklids for drag racers. Lightweight was the name of the game so panel fit and finish was not a big priority. Willy, Anglia, and Austin owners were all looking for lightweight components for their gassers so this was the focus, along with a lightweight T-roadster and Bantam body for the altered classes. When street rodders began clamoring for reproduction bodies, companies like Ai Fiberglass answered the call with "street weight" fiberglass bodies and fenders. The oldest known '32 fiberglass roadster body that we can document was built by drag racer and street rodder Jerry Cogswell who made his own molds and built the body in 1959 for his Deuce race car. (Editor's Note: Jerry is a longtime, we mean longtime, L.A. Roadster member and retired airline pilot who now spends his time enjoying his hot rods. -B.B.)
Around the same time, the late-Dee Wescott was making top-quality reproduction fenders from his Wescott's Auto Restyling shop. While the Cogswell roadster was completed in 1959, the first commercially available Deuce roadster that we can document went on sale around 1971, built by John Brown in Illinois. Marten's Fabrication was also building a reproduction chassis for that body, but it lacked the iconic Deuce reveal in the side of the framerail. Dwight Bond was building fenders in Gibbon, Nebraska, in 1971, and in 1972 he introduced a complete Model A roadster and pickup body; by 1976 he was advertising '34 Ford roadster bodies. These were just some of the pioneers of the reproduction body, and since glass bodies have been around since the late-'50s it seems apparent that you can build a true nostalgia rod based on a fiberglass body-now that should stir up some conversation!
As street rodding progressed, the hobby embraced each new reproduction part, after all, these very parts enabled street rodding to grow and people to own cars they could not otherwise afford or find in their original state. Not long after the T-bucket, the Model A and Deuce roadster bodies were being manufactured in fiberglass by companies like Wescott's and Gibbon Fiberglass. While there were flat side reproduction framerails on the market, when the Deuce Factory introduced accurate, stamped '32 framerails everything changed. Suddenly a great street rod could be built using entirely new parts. The cost was more, but the end product was predictable, good looking, and the process generally saved a lot of time and labor. Pete & Jakes, Super Bell, and the Deuce Factory supplied everything from complete chassis to shock brackets, and suddenly building a street rod was a lot easier.
By the '80s fiberglass bodies were being produced to cover the Ford, Chevy, Willys, and Mopar lines of cars and even "phantom" bodies were being produced, cars that never existed but resembled cars of the '30s. We'll be kind here and say there was a vast range of design talent in the phantom body world and one need only attend a rod run to realize many of them were not particularly successful. But the fiberglass bodies of established cars like the '32-34 Ford three-window, roadster, and Victoria were a huge hit and most of them remain on the road today. Outlaw Performance had the Chevy market covered with their '34 three-window coupe and sedan. They also produce a very nice '40-41 Willys. The fiberglass bodies proved to be so popular that many owners of original bodies would affix decals or badges to their cars with the slogan, "Steel is Real," which at the time seemed reasonable enough since they wanted the world to know they had started their project with an original, 50-something-year-old body.
Around this same time, rumors spread of reproduction steel bodies and frankly it seemed unbelievable at the time. It began slowly with the Model A roadster body in 1982, followed by the Model A roadster pickup, both from Brookville Roadsters. Then a company called Experi-Metal produced a reproduction '32 Chevrolet roadster complete with fenders, running boards, and a hood and grille shell. These cars were not cheap, but they were brand-new metal and the argument was a simple one. By the time you find an original '32 Chevy and pay to have it repaired, it will cost you the same or more as simply buying a new steel body. Of course this same argument applied to the reproduction fiberglass body as well, only the savings were more dramatic due to the lower cost of the fiberglass body.
The steel reproduction floodgates really opened when the steel Deuce roadster body was introduced. Some of the most popular steel reproduction cars, like the Dearborn Deuce, are not faithful to the original car (which technically would put them in the "phantom" category) but the liberties taken on the body were so discreet it is difficult to tell the differences between this car and the original Deuce. Then Brookville introduced their steel Deuce roadster and three-window coupe bodies that have some structural differences and improvements, but the body panels are all faithful reproductions of the original Ford cars. Steve's Auto Restorations offers '33-34 coupes and roadsters and Kelvin Waddington's Australian Ute company builds beautiful '33-34 Ford phaetons and '28-29 Ford closed cab pickups, all in steel. And finally this year Bob Drake introduced the all-new, all-steel '40 coupe; a mammoth undertaking that has produced yet another great steel body. (At the time of this writing United Pacific Industries is preparing for the introduction of a '32 five-window.)
Remember that little badge on the dashboard of that steel Deuce roadster in 1982, "Steel is Real"? Well, that same moniker is now attached to hundreds of steel cars that, well, are not actually "real." While we applaud the advent of the steel body and feel that it has contributed to the street rodding and restoration hobby in much the same way as the fiberglass body, the fact remains that both the new steel and the fiberglass cars are reproduction bodies, the only thing that differs is the material. The "Steel is Real" battle cry is a bit of a stretch for repro-bodies but there is no denying that reproduction steel has become the body of choice for those who can afford the initial buy-in price.
Now, we are not saying one type of reproduction body is better than the other, rather we want to point out that both bodies are viable approaches to building a very cool hot rod. While the new line of steel bodies is incredible, the fiberglass alternative still provides an approach to street rodding on a slightly lower economic level. Nor are we suggesting a fiberglass body, reproduction frame crate motor is the low-buck way to build a street rod, but we will suggest that it is the midrange approach to street rodding and it will produce a car with predictable performance, great looks, along with many years of enjoyment. Add in timesavings and it is easy to see why the 1-800 rod is still a great way to go. The very term 1-800 rod has taken on a bit of a negative connotation lately but frankly if you want to build a really neat hot rod in about of year of weekend work let your fingers do the walking. To prove the point we decided it would be interesting to assemble just such a car today and see exactly what an all-new, mid-price range street rod costs and how it performs.
To accomplish this we enlisted the considerable talents of Bobby Alloway. We'll admit that many of us, OK make that most of us, are unable to build a hot rod in our home garage to the same level as the Alloway team, but many of us can come close enough. Beginning with a Stage III chassis from Pete & Jakes is a good first step, then topping it off with a quality fiberglass body goes a long way to speeding the process. This particular '32 Ford five-window coupe body is from Rats Glass and comes complete with dashboard, garnish moldings and wood and steel reinforcing for a price of $6,500, add stock-style exposed hinges and the price goes to $7,000, while the Rats Glass chopped top three-window coupe is $200 less.
Comparing the steel body to the fiberglass body is truly comparing apples to oranges, but that's precisely the point, there are two different ways to build a fun hot rod here. The Brookville all-steel reproduction Deuce three-window sells for a $24,000, stock top, open roof insert. It is a beautiful piece and their steel bodies have proven to maintain higher selling prices years later than comparable fiberglass bodies. But, like many things, some of that is a function of "money in money out." If you can afford the steel body by all means use one, they are great, but for many people the budget is just not up to the price of steel, and for those people fiberglass is the natural choice.
In this case, finding an original Deuce coupe body for $7,000 is out of the question, and steel reproduction bodies are well above our budget, so the fiberglass body and reproduction frame become the perfect solution for fulfilling that dream of owning a Deuce. Since the Pete & Jakes Stage III chassis will cost approximately $8,000 and a crate motor and new transmission will cost approximately $6,000. So, with a new body, chassis, engine, and transmission rolling around the floor the cost is around $22,000, once again, hardly low-buck, but not big buck either. Plus every piece from the Currie rearend to the Ford motor is new, ensuring maximum pleasure on trips long and short. There is still money to be spent finishing the body and interior and selecting things like radiators, steering column and wheel, wiring, A/C, gauges, seats, and upholstery, and costs can and will vary dramatically based on where you live, the quality of workmanship desired, and how much of the job you can perform yourself. If you do the body prep and painting yourself you are a long way toward saving money. As a homebuilt car with some of the work contracted out and much of it done at home, the car should be able to be completed for under $50,000, and you should have one very nice hot rod when it is over. Needless to say if you are having all work performed by skilled professionals the figure can go much higher. On the other hand, rather than buy a crate motor find a good used engine or build your own, ditto the tranny and if primer and an Indian blanket define your tastes you could build a Deuce for around $35,000 or less. Not bad, it pays to scrounge around a bit.
So back to Alloway's Hot Rod Shop where the Rat's Glass five-window coupe body has been delivered and a very nice Stage III Pete & Jakes chassis has been rolled into the shop. Bobby Alloway has long been a fan of Ford Racing motors and so a Blue Oval crate motor is sitting on a motor stand with a Tremec five-speed manual gearbox still in the crate. For the most part this car becomes a study in detailing and assembly and anyone who has ever tried to assemble a flawless car will tell you, this is much more difficult than it looks. The assembly is fairly straightforward, doing it with perfect panel fit, a flawless finish, and no chips, runs, or errors is the real challenge.
Of course for team Alloway this is just another day at the office, this is what they do on a daily basis, and actually this is the most uncomplicated project in the entire shop. Because fabrication is kept to a minimum, time is channeled into detailing every piece prior to assembly. Then to personalize the car, brackets and subtle modifications are added along the way and special attention is spent on color selection and interior design.
We made several stops at Alloway's as he assembled this brilliant blue (PPG basecoat/clearcoat in a Toyota Tundra blue) hot rod (and you thought it would be black right?). While Bobby Alloway has built his reputation by creating many one-off creations, they build basic hot rods like this too. Other than the one-off wheels Alloway commissioned Team III/ET Wheels to create, all of these pieces are available to you right now. Let's take a look at how a professional team tackles the job; hopefully it will help you to assemble your own great street rod at home.
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OK, the only thing missing from this photo is a large Christmas tree behind the boxes. This is every street rodder's dream: new motor, transmission, clutch, and bellhousing for the car.Here the Brookville grille shell is being fitted to the frame and Steve Long radiator; note the protection on the radiator fins.Fitting items during the construction process included things like getting the holes in the floor perfectly aligned with the pedal arms.Attention to detail is the hallmark of Alloway's Hot Rod Shop and small things like moving the inner wheelwell in until it aligns perfectly with the frame add up to a big difference on the finished car.Careful centerlines are maintained and simple tools like a tape measure, square, plumb bob, and angle finder are all you need. Note the Vintage Air condensor.Fitting the Rootlieb hood to perfection takes hours of painstaking adjustment, but one thing is certain, if it doesn't fit perfectly now, correcting it later will take even more time.Bobby Alloway likes to run new motors in on the Keasler Racing dyno, a practice most homebuilders will not be able to duplicate.Using a double 45-degree bend to offset the tubing for stoplight switch clearance is a nice touch. A double 45 also allows you to rotate the tubing a bit prior to tightening for perfect alignment.
The rear suspension on the Pete & Jakes chassis it time-tested four-bar arrangement locating a new Currie third member. Coilover shocks and a Panhard bar complete the package. BFGoodrich rubber wraps around ET wheels.More attention to detail, the stainless steel brake line is mounted to the front side of the Currie rear axle housing so it will not be seen from behind. Stainless steel and chrome components from Pete & Jake brighten things up.Drum brakes are more than sufficient on this lightweight hot rod; of course if the budget permits rear disc brake kits are available.Safety and reliability are greatly increased when you're using all new parts. The new Vega style steering box from Pete & Jakes is mounted to the inside framerail, and once again note the neat brake line work.Up front the Super Bell disc brake packet does a great job of combining vintage flavor with modern braking power.Remember the pains taken to fit those pedals through the floorboard? Well, after the arms have been plated and everything is detailed you can understand why fitting must be done early.The motor mounts are simple tubular affairs with a urethane bushing acting as a vibration damper; clean and simple.A dropped and drilled Super Bell axle is in keeping with the traditional theme and that sea of polished stainless steel, aluminum, and chrome plating sure looks good next to the bright blue chassis.
Having a good motor stand is the only way to ensure none of your detail work is damaged during the clutch assembly and hoisting of the motor.With the chassis plumbed and assembled it is time to install the Ford motor and Tremec transmission.The Tremec transmission is looking good covered in PPG blue, and mixing gears behind a 400hp motor in a Deuce coupe is always fun.The Ford Racing clutch disc is sandwiched between the pressure plate and flywheel, and while using the proper clutch alignment tool the pressure plate was torqued down to the flywheel.Here's another tip for flawless assembly. Have enough help on hand, one man on either side of the motor and a third working the engine hoist. This ensures the motor doesn't spin and chip the frame or crossmembers.With the Ford engine resting on the motor mounts it is time to align the bolts from the mounts to the block. Note that Alloway chooses to mount the motor to the mounts rather than risk chipping the frame by locating the motor mounts to the framerail.This is one of those pivotal moments in street rod building. The Ford motor is in, the chassis is detailed, and you're looking at a genuine hot rod chassis.Simple by design, perfect assembly and the mixing of all the right stuff make this repro-rod frame an excellent platform for years of fun driving. That Tremec tranny leaves plenty of room for exhaust pipes thanks to the toploader design.
This style wheel has long been associated with front wheels only, so when Bobby Alloway presented the idea of making matching design wheels for the back of the car the good folks at Team III wheels wrapped in BFGoodrich rubber made it happen.Few people understand the concept of a rubber rake better than Bobby Alloway. Mixing BFGoodrich big 'n' littles has been a trademark of all Alloway built cars and this one is no exception.It doesn't take a lot of imagination to know what comes next. The Rat's Glass body is prepped, painted, and buffed, now it is time for the final assembly to be completed. That color may look like a custom PPG color, but actually it is a factory color from a Toyota Tundra.


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I am working on a banking site, is it a good practice to have session expiry popup alert for users assistance.
I feel it helps from the pain of re-login the site every now and then.
Please correct me if I am missing on any important aspect.
I am working on a banking site, is it a good practice to have session expiry popup alert for users assistance.
I feel it helps from the pain of re-login the site every now and then.
Please correct me if I am missing on any important aspect.
There are a few banks' that uses this technique, and I think it's perfectly OK. It alerts the user to do something if she shouldn't be automatically logged out. It's quite common in Sweden and I would imagine it to be quite common in the rest of the world.
However (when we're talking bank automatic sign out) don't implement a feature that one of my banks uses. It automatically signs me out if I (a) hit the back button on the browser and (b) if I do something when the page isn't fully loaded. Guess what my experience as a user was when I realized that it kept happening over and over again because of their heavy script pages didn't load fast enough. It's one of those times where you in frenzy trash your screen even if you do know it doesn't help at all.
So yes, pop-up is good but disregard
According to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the user should be warned and provided the opportunity to extend the time and/or have the opportunity to remove the timer. Thus, if you want to be accessible, yes, you would keep the timer.
If you are concerned that it is distracting, you can try to find creative ways to integrate it into the design of the page better. For instance, have it appear in what was previously whitespace, so that it is visible but not covering up the area of the page that the user is interacting with.
If you use a pop-up when it is really necessary (i.e. user hasn't been using the website for sometime and you want to let them know you're logging them off to protect their identity), then it's OK. Examples: banking web site, credit history info, etc. On other websites where user information is not that sensitive I wouldn't recommend doing the timed log off at all.
When the session expiration timer ticking every second, it puts a lot of pressure on the user. He would probably click 'stay logged in' and then close the page if he doesn't need it over pressing 'log off', because he needs to do something quick. In terms of the timer, I would suggest ticking it every minute until one minute left, then every ten seconds until 10-15 seconds, and then every second until automatic log off. The less pressure, the more effective and happy users you get.
Also, if your user was entering some information to the website and then went away for whatever reason, in some cases it makes sense to save the information and ask to restore it next time he comes back to the same page. This way if your user was doing something and then went away and missed the notification, he will not be forced to start all over again.
The popup is a good option, not that common as far as I can tell from my ban experience, but useful.
One thing that makes the popup useful, is also to have it with time enough to react, for instance, one bank that has this feature, had the popup alert for 10 seconds, which was a very short time, even if you are in front of the computer, but doing something else. They change it to 1 minute which is better; I think I prefer something between 2 and 3 minutes.
Other thing, is make the message clear and don't put any non required things on the popup, by that I mean, that you can use the logo of the bank if you want, but don't put promotions, banners, extra colours or anything else that may distract the user from the relevance of the message. Yes, that happens, It happened for some time in the same bank I mentioned before when they changed to 1 minute. They put a rotating banner.
As always, one has to think what's the use case, what's in the user's mind.
Must ... close ... session
On the other hand, automatically closing the session saves the user from somebody else transferring all the money stashed in the bank along years of savings.
The long form case
Back to the user who laboriously filled the long form and went to the bathroom, most systems use a sliding window session timeout, that is, the timeout period renews after each interaction of the user (browser) with the server.
What's the user doing?
Our other issue is to save the user from having to login again.
Save partial data
Another nice touch would be to save the data of partially filled forms, as @Noemi suggested. This feature might make the user love that particular bank, and not to worry a bit about having to login again.


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I need to make the phone available for all people in a building, for example. If someone were to try to walk outside of the building with the phone, the phone would shut down or a loud alarm would sound. Any thoughts?
As Lie says, you can achieve most of this with Tasker (Market link or Dev's Site) . Tasker can detect your phone's location using GPS or based on the cell towers or wifi access points it can see.
I don't think you can set the phone to shut itself down based on this, but you could definitely make it play a loud sound, or even send an SMS message or a voice call to a particular number.
Matt H's answer in conjunction with Prey might be useful for you.
Have Tasker send an E-mail when the phone leaves the building. You read the E-mail and mark the phone as "stolen" in Prey. Prey gives you a lot of options about how you want your phone to react to being marked as stolen. You can lock it down and force the GPS to stay active as long as the battery isn't dead, letting you know where the device is.
Yay for daisychaining answers, btw.
You can probably do this with Tasker or Locale.