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Kurotetsu wrote:to include media.
Flying Fox wrote:Kurotetsu wrote:to include media.
Storage (just need disks and decent networking), playback (may need better CPU and/or GPU), stream (networking, better CPU required for transcoding), or all of them?
Kurotetsu wrote:Intel Celeron G1610 Ivy Bridge 2.6GHz - $49.99 /w Free Shipping
Chrispy_ wrote:For linux I would imagine the Intel chipset drivers (the ICH8/9/10 drives) are more robust than the AMD ones, but I don't have any recent experience to back that up.
Maybe someone else can confirm?
NovusBogus wrote:This might be a good application for a booksize unit. Crazy low power draw due to using mobile components, at the expense of performance and upgrade potential. The Intel NUC is a standout for using a more capable CPU than most of the others. I've thought about getting one to have a pocket Linux box too but can't decide if putting mobile stuff in a desktop is worth it.
Kurotetsu wrote:I'm going with micro-ATX because the premium for mini-ITX didn't seem worth paying for something like this. I tried to keep the prices and power consumptions (where applicable) for both builds. I imagine the CPU for the AMD build would be slightly better, but the mobo for the Intel build gives me PCI-E 3.0 (which...uhhh, doesn't matter at all).
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BELL COUNTY (November 4, 2012)--Dispatchers at the Bell County Communications Center, who answer emergency calls for the entire county, say they are working overtime to make sure all calls are answered while officials try to fill more than a dozen open positions.
"One of our challenges is keeping this place staffed because we do work 24/7, which puts a lot of stress on our employees," said Dalton Cross, director of the Bell County Communications Center.
Melissa Williams, a 911 dispatcher for six years, said she has seen it all, but she has never seen so many vacancies.
"Sometimes, since we are short-staffed, we only have two or three call takers," said Williams.
"We want to stay on the phone longer to make sure people are OK, but when the phones are ringing, we have to disconnect."
Center officials say that while performance and service are not affected by the current staffing level it is demanding more of the workers.
"We are extremely proud of the workforce we have, and many of the telecommunicators are working several hours of overtime to meet scheduling needs and work equally hard to get the new ones trained," said Aubrey Hussey.
The turnover rate for 911 dispatchers is generally high.
The center's officials said this is primarily because of the demands of manning an emergency dispatch center around the clock 365 days a year.
Additional factors in Bell County include the proximity to Austin centers with higher pay and military families that transfer out of the area.
"We are having a difficult time finding qualified candidates that can make the schedule work with their personal life, work in a high-pace and stressful work environment and adapt to the complex skills needed to perform the job successfully," Hussey said.
Dispatchers such as Williams said although this is a demanding and challenging position, few jobs or careers are as fulfilling.
"It's a very rewarding career when you can help someone who's in an emergency situation, and at the end of the phone call they genuinely say thank you," Williams said.
In 2011, the Bell County Communications Center answered 192,000 emergency calls, averaging 22 calls an hour.
The current statistics show there we will be as many as 200,000 calls at the end of 2012.

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This question is not focussed on video games but games in general. I went to a boardgame trade fair yesterday and asked myself if there is a way to calculate the fairness of a game. Sure, some of them require a good portion of luck, but it might be possible to calculate if some character is overpowered. Especially in role-playing games and trading card games. How, for example, can the creators of "Magic: The Gathering" make sure that there isn't the "one card that beats them all", given the impressive number of available cards?
Yes, it's theoretically possible - that's a good part of the game theory which deals with this subject.
However, it's only rarely practical, and even then mostly just for games which don't involve a randomiser (Chess, Reversi, Go and so on). Combinatorial explosion ensures that the theoretical time needed for such proofs for more complex games like Magic the Gathering can easily be several orders of magnitude longer than the current age of the universe.
In the end, for any non-trivial game you'll likely have to abandon the notion of proving balance or fairness of a game and instead go with a combination of common sense, designer instincts, game system reuse and throughout testing.
Short answer: Any game with a finite, even if undefined, number of available moves thus has a finite number of possible games. Any game with a finite "game tree complexity" can theoretically have all possible games analyzed to determine if the number of games in which each player would win is equal.
Simply put: if Player 1 wins exactly half of all possible plays of a game, the game is balanced. If this is not true, the game is biased towards one player or the other.
However, this simple rule can be quite infeasible to put in practice. Go, for instance, has a game-tree-complexity on the order of 10^170 possible games, more than the number of atoms thought to exist in the known universe. It is thought to be impossible to compile an exhaustive game tree. However, the library of games played and recorded is in the millions, and suggest that the game has a "first-move advantage" (which is typically mitigated with 1.5 points of "komi" given to White).
Contrasting that, even given large overall game-tree-complexities, all M,N,K games (a grid board of M width, N height, in which the object is for a player to create a row of K pieces by placing and never moving/removing them) are solved, because there is a shortcut; entire "branches" of the game tree can be identified as always causing one player or the other to lose. The remaining branches follow a pattern that can be identified. Tic-Tac-Toe is the obvious example; in addition to having only 300,000-ish possible games, there are only 16 in which one player or the other doesn't make a move that will obviously let the other player win on the next move. So, the game-tree starts small and gets smaller when you consider the games the players are actually likely to make.
In games with an element of luck, the game-tree complexity is inflated beyond the number of decisions available to each player. Because the game is no longer played with "perfect information", as it is in chess, checkers, Go, Othello, etc, it is possible for a player who has played perfectly given the known information at the time to still lose to the game's random element. These games have no "solution"; however, there is usually still a finite game tree and so theoretically games could still be analyzed exhaustively. This is still usually not feasible; instead games involving probability are analyzed probabilistically to identify the "best-bet" strategies, and if these strategies are shown to favor the player that uses them, regardless of the strategy used by any other player (including the same strategy), the game can be shown to have bias.
In general, the following rule applies: if the design of the game inherently leads to inequality in one or more of the following, the game has a bias:
Now, the game's design may introduce one inequality but attempt to compensate with another. Or, the game's design may allow for randomness in areas that may produce bias, meaning one game might be biased while another is fairer (games with random starting boards can exhibit this). In these cases only empirical analysis of games between players of roughly equal strength over the long-term can demonstrate any bias.
For more discussion of bias in board games, try the forums of http://www.geekdo.com; there have been several discussions of demonstrated bias in games, and how to avoid said bias in game development in general.
I guess there is no pre-made mathematical formula to evaluate how fair a game is because of how every game is so different and complex.
You can't really compare different game parameters and make up some sort of power score of how good a character is (unless your game is very simple) because they all affect your gameplay differently and depend on how they are implemented (e.g. how can you evaluate how strength relates to vitality? How do you give a numerical value to a character's special attack?).
You have to test your game. A lot. Play your game by yourself and make others play it and store the battle/game results in a file in order to make statistics and evaluate how often certain characters win, under what circumstances, etc. Then, make sure you implement some way to check replays or analyse gameplay in order to see why such a character is overpowered and apply the changes accordingly.
Really, you have no other option than testing. That's one of the reasons why betas exist (e.g. Starcraft2 as a beta gave Blizzard the opportunity to balance the 3 races based on the game results).
To sum up, play your game, and make others play it (starting a beta is an option). See why the game is unbalanced through replays or automated analysis and change what needs to be changed accordingly. That's the only way you'll approach fairness.
To be able to prove a game was balanced or fair, you'd have to define what balanced or fair means first. These are rather vague terms that can encompass a range of things, for example game 'balance' is often taken to mean:
And so on.
In general I am a fan of mathematically proving things like this, but to prove anything through logic or testing you first need to define it clearly. Some aspects of balance are easy to test through mathematics if you're able to understand your game rules properly. Others are much harder to judge without simply conducting empirical tests. The main problem is that most game designers don't truly understand the mechanics of their game, since they usually end up merging game rules into a surrounding simulation, and the latter is very hard to model accurately.
Theoreticaly it is possible, but for most games it is extremely difficult so it can be considered impossible.
One approach: Convert game into normal form. Game in normal form is Set of strategies for each player and function that says how good result is when for given combination of choices. Random factor can be modeled as another player.
Then we can look for dominant/dominated strategies (things to ALWAYS do and things to NEVER do). Game is at lest somehow interesting, if it does not contain dominant strategies.
Then we can look at what each player can guarantee for himself. for each of "MY" choice, look at worst possible outcome and take choice that have this best.
If it differs a lot between players, there is somthing rotten in game.
There are other things to look at (dominant mixed strategy (choosing each choice with some probublity), nash equilibriums (combinations that once all players know others will do, are localy best for everyone)).
But the first step is so extremely complicated for most games, so it's usualy not so usefull. But it can be used if you can absract complicated details away/ replace strategies with recognizable sets of strategies (eg. initial build orders) and result with some statistical aproximation from actualy played games and it can tell you something about problems in game. I guess that something like this blizard does with SC.
Another form of game is game where players takes turns and know everything others do (chess). There you can try to search for dominat strategy by searching state tree of game (and it usualy is HUGE, so again, too complicated to use). And lot of games are without total knowladge and it complicates things a lot.
Another approach, look at things in game and try to compare them.
Another approach: For team combat (esp. with large ammounts participants) you can try to use force on force simulation (I never used it, and it requires high math (diferential equations) and hard work to convert game into aproprite model).
So my conclusion, lot of things can be done to balance subsystems of game, and when game is out (and during betatest), lot can be done by analyzing results, but unless you make everything same, its almost imposible to prove game is balanced.
PS: You can mask sameness by replacing one attribute by multiple that together can be used to compute initial attribute, and by making everything much more random, so players don't see that sameness (
Beware its easy to make mistake in doing so (eg fast small attacks vs big slow attacks), beacuse 18 throws by d6 -18 gives results 0-90, 10 throws by d10-10 gives results 0-90 1 throw by d91-1 gives results 0-90 but all of them have different distributions.
PS2: One wise man said, that actual balance is not important, Percieved balance is.
A lot of good answers about getting a mathematically correct answer, but I'll try a different angle: if your code allows for it, you could simulate a very large number of games and then check if there is a strategy (or strategies) that win too often.
You might be familiar with Monte-Carlo simulations or genetic algorithms. The idea here related. You need an AI to play the game and some key measurement. You let the AI go at each other in a large tournament, often enough, with different starting variables and you measure the results.
I've always wanted to try an approach like that to balances classes/weapons, it would be a ton of fun.
From a theory of computation perspective, it sounds like answering this is not possible in general. It's asking a question about a property of a program and Rice's Theorem may apply. My assumption is that game refers to a program written in a Turing Complete language like c++. I'm also assuming that to calculate or prove whether a game is fair means there exists a c++ program that reads a c++ program (the game program) and terminates in a finite amount of time for all possible inputs, with only two outputs, fair or unfair.
A quick search shows it is possible to have a deterministic yet undecidable game, see slide 7 here and from the International Journal of Game Theory: Some undecidable determined games:
"Computing machines using algorithms play games and even learn to play games. However, the inherent finiteness properties of algorithms impose limitations on the game playing abilities of machines. M. Rabin illustrated this limitation in 1957 by constructing a two-person win-lose game with decidable rules but no computable winning strategies."
The human brain is apparently more "powerful" than computers because we can gain and apply past knowledge and sometimes appear to contradict results like the Halting problem by finding infinite loops in programs. But how we do this is not well known and can't be written precisely and unambiguously in an algorithm.
I really wanted to comment on Martin Sojka's answer, but I don't have the reputation. He is correct that Game Theory includes calculating the fairness of a game (for example, it's an open question if in a chess game where both white and black played perfectly whether it would be a tie).
For MtG it could very well be that it's completely infeasible to calculate whether it's fair, but no one has proven mathematically that the computation would be infeasible.
It might be trivially possible to prove it's fair - if it's random who goes first and everyone plays by the same rules then it's fair. It might be that whoever goes first always wins, but if who goes first is decided fairly then the game is fair.
What is meant by "fair" is vague, let me explain :
Consider the game Rock-paper-cissors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors) : according to you it is fair, I suppose (according to me as well).
Now, let's consider the game : Rock-paper-cissors-well where the well beats the rock and the paper and the well loses against the paper. Unbalanced, right ? The well seems pretty overpowered : it beats two weapons and loses against one.
But one could say that it is not overpowered at all : because if you know that your opponent is more likely to use the well because it beats two weapons, you can just act by picking the paper more often.
So there is an answer to the potential overpowered well : just choose more often the paper. But then you know that your opponent may know that and may use the paper quite often, so you think you should use the cissors more often. Etc. Not really overpowered, just a different game with different rules.
I would recommend reading about game theory and especially games with imperfect information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory).


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Air Rifle Hunting 11/11/2012
Posted 12 November 2012 - 12:57 PM
I arrived at my spot at 5:31am to find that two of the spots I like to park at in the nearby area I hunt were filled with trucks. These were most likely deer hunters. Anyway, since I hate it when I park somewhere and find that someone else parks right next to me and heads right into the same spot I am, I decided to respect that they were there first and I moved on down the road to another spot I've hunted before and had a little success. When I got out of the truck around 5:50am it was a cool and brisk 21 degrees with a light 4 MPH wind. I had planned for the cold weather so I was plenty warm enough.
I must have walk around for close to 6 1/2 hours seeing only a few cottontail rabbits and a jack or two. I was dead tired, but I was also determined not to go home empty handed so I trudged on. It was a good thing I did because I ran across a covey of quail and scored a hit on one (no photo). I tried to get another, but I couldn't reload the Marauder .25 cal fast enough and they took off out of sight. I even tried using my quail call that I had been practicing and I didn't get any return calls. I looked around for a bit longer, but gave up on getting another quail for the time being.
With a quail in my bag my spirits arose a little. About 20 minutes later I spy a jack rabbit moving about. I stalked my way into a decent shooting lane and decided to take an offhand shot because the jacks always seem to bolt if you take to long to prep the shot. I ranged it at around 65 yards, lined up and fired. It sounded like a hit, but the jack moved about 3 feet and sat again. I was perplexed, so I lined up again and fired. I heard another hit, but the jack didn't move. So I aimed for the heart and lungs and fired. This time it went down and started spiraling around. So I ran up and put the jack down with a final shot. That was one tough jack. The most I've ever had to shoot one with is two shots. This big jack was a tough one!
Once I gutted it and put him in my pack with my quail I head off again with renewed energy. Another 10 minutes later I got an opportunity at a cottontail. It was about 35 yards away. So I lined up offhand and fired. It went down spinning so I ran over and put another shot in it to finish it off. Unfortunately the cottontail had spun itself into a Choalla cactus and I had to use my shooting sticks to pull the rabbit out and then I had to remove all the cactus thorns. Very time consuming!
Now I was tired, but feeling pretty good with a quail, a jack rabbit and a cottontail in my pack. At this point I decided to work my way back to the truck, which was a long, long way off at this point in time and it was around 2pm now. On the way back to the truck I spotted another opportunity at a cottontail. It stopped at around 25 yards out and I took a head shot offhand. Thwap! Down it went with one shot, just the way I like it. I prepped it and put it in the pack with the others.
At this point my back pack is starting to feel some weight, I'm dead beat tired and I've still got a long, long walk ahead of me... most of it being uphill. It must have taken me around 45 minutes to walk back to my truck with my lower legs and feet begging me to stop. It reminded me of the guys you see in movies walking through the desert as they start dropping items due to exhaustion. A few times I honestly contemplated setting my gun and pack in a bush where I could stop and pick it up when I drove back out. After a few seconds of contemplation I decided against that and I just kept on going until I could finally see my truck on the other side of a hill. Once I saw the truck I started to feel a little better knowing I would soon be able to get off of my feet. While I was putting my equipment in the truck a DF&G warden walked up on me. It really startled me because I could see movement out of the corner of my eye and I jumped a little in surprise. He apologized saying that he thought I had heard him drive up. I honestly didn't hear anything and he took me by complete surprise! I talked with him for a while, showed him my license and he went on his way. Seemed like a nice enough guy.
So to end this miniature novel... I was out there for around 9 hours plus and ran myself into the ground hiking around, but I didn't come home empty handed and I've got some meat in the refrigerator in brine to cook up this week (maybe some Jack Rabbit Birria . Good times .
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 03:29 PM
Nice Ray, looks like you turned around a bad start.
Thanks SJ. It did turn out pretty good after all.
Good story and nice perseverance! Those jacks can be tough critters.
Thanks T2TS. This one had to be the toughest Jack Rabbit I'd ever encountered. It honestly took 3 shots to put him on the ground and the fourth one to finish. Upon inspection while cleaning and prepping the jack last nigh it looked like the first shot went through the rib area and out the other side in front of the back leg because I found bone fragments at the exit wound. The second shot went through almost the same location but nicked the intermediate joint of the back leg, which explains why it didn't try to run off. The third shot went through the front of the chest, taking out the lungs and exiting out the back. That is when the rabbit dropped, but it was still kicking.
If it had been earlier in the day I'm sure the first shot would have taken the jack out, but because I was so exhausted already the crosshairs weren't as steady as usual. Oh well, after deer season is over I'll hopefully be able to park in my usual spot again.
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Posted 22 November 2012 - 04:36 PM
Nine hours is a looooong hunt to be sure, but you did very well.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 06:51 AM
Congrats. Air rifles are fun and challenging to hunt with.
Thanks Bennie. Yes, I would agree that Air Rifles are extremely fun, but can be very challenging to hunt with. I love hunting with my Marauders though because for the most part they are super quiet compared to my .22 Marlin.
Great story,
Nine hours is a looooong hunt to be sure, but you did very well.
Thanks Longboard. It was a long hunt and I was dog tired! The rabbits turned out good when I cooked them. I did the Jack Rabbit in a Creamy Basil Tomato Sauce and it was good. The Cottontails I seasoned and fried in the pan. Wow! With the seasonings I used I think it was the best Cottontail I've eaten yet!
Posted 03 December 2012 - 11:30 AM
Now, after also reading your latest post, you are becoming my role model on all things wabbit whacking.
Congrats --- again!
Posted 03 December 2012 - 12:47 PM
Posted 03 December 2012 - 01:08 PM
You are lucky for having these mentors.
Yes, I bet the trial and errors and those aching leg muscles and worn out boots (had an evidence of this too myself) makes for good hunting lessons.
Looking forward to reading more of your hunting adventures.
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les taylor wrote:Great poll Leo. But you should also ask as this came up elsewhwere if you should finish a bottle say in 4 weeks from opening it. That is if you don't mind me adding this bit to the discussion.
Muskrat Portage wrote:I'm pretty upset with myself, I had to tick off the last one. I'd been trying to cut down to around 30 open bottles and was slowly finishing the ones that were nearly empty. Now, somehow I'm up over 60 open!
Maybe I should stay out of the Lair for a while.
K-Mile wrote:Muskrat Portage wrote:I'm pretty upset ...trying to cut down to around 30 open bottles ..., somehow I'm up over 60 open!
I suggest speed it up to three Live Tastings a week to help you get through these. Even if you finish a bottle a week they last for over a year..
K-Mile wrote:Muskrat Portage wrote:C'mon over some night and we'll see how many we can get through!
I'll remember that!


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I was wondering if it is allowed on Stack Overflow to answer a question that was asked by someone who is actually sitting with you in the same room.
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There's nothing wrong with answering the question for someone sitting next to you, provided that:
Now... That said... Don't even think about voting and picking each others posts as best just because of proximity. You're not going to be friends that long anyhow, and these questions are here forever.
That and TylerShads gets angry.
Technically It is perfectly fine.
However, if a trend develops that you and another user are asking and answering each others questions and voting for each other, mod intervention may occur as that would be construed as gaming the system.
This would be followed by at least moderator contact and at worst a suspension from the site.
There is nothing wrong with it. It would be no different than answering your own question. The only problem would be if you up vote the question, as that may cause a moderator to suspect you of Vote Fraud, so be careful about that.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Emotional Trauma, Risk, and the Dark Side of Trading
An important framework for thinking about this issue is that psychological trauma is not an all or none thing. Emotionally painful events can impact us with varying degrees of trauma, with resulting disruption of thought and mood and periodic flashbacks.
For example, I have worked with people who have experienced infidelity in a relationship as traumatic. The threat to emotional safety and security left the individual with painful memories, intrusive thoughts and feelings of anger and betrayal, and subsequent difficulties in trusting others.
In order for an event to have a traumatic impact, it has to threaten a person's basic sense of safety and security. Getting stopped out from a trade that was planned well, with favorable reward relative to risk, will not traumatize anyone. Losing more than half your capital on an "all-in" set of market bets may or may not have a traumatizing impact. If the capital is what you're counting on for your vocational and financial future, it's hard to believe that the loss of half your future could be taken in stride.
Poor risk management is a major reasons traders experience traumatic impacts. Placing large bets relative to one's account size exposes us to risk of psychological as well as financial ruin. We also court trauma when we trade with capital that we cannot afford to lose. It's not just the absolute magnitude of real or threatened losses that impact us emotionally; it's the psychological significance of those losses. Many traders react strongly to losses, not because of the dollar amounts, but because the losses signify the potential death of a dream.
It's easy and romantic to glorify traders who take huge risks in search of grand payoffs. We all like to see the player who has the balls to go "all in". To those who are tempted to play out this fantasy, allow me to share my perspective:
I'm the psychologist. When those bets go sour--as bets inevitably do at times--I'm the one who sees what happens to those ballsy traders. I see their affliction with anxiety and depression; I help them pick up the pieces of lost careers and try to find jobs with resumes that suddenly appear razor thin in a desperate economy. I also see the family members who have to pay the price for Ballsy Trader's testosterone-fueled dreams when bills can't be paid and basic needs can't be met.
No one puts those traders in how-to trading books, breathless magazine articles, or "find your next big opportunity" websites and newsletters. We read a lot about "trading for a living"; not much about how living can be impaired by trading. So I'm the one who occasionally writes these posts and afflicts traders' comfort, even as I try to comfort traumatic afflictions.
The next and last post in this series will focus on techniques for overcoming traumatic emotional reactions. The posts below and their links address this issue from a variety of angles.
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- RoachApproach said...
Great post!
Appreciate it.
- william said...
im one of "those" traders you speak of. I took irrational risk in late 2008 early 2009 and sustained heavy losses from being long into the final leg down into march. the fall out was enormous - bills, school tuition, relationships. im trading again - that's all in know. im using the information you post during this time of reconstruction. my question - are there success stories that you know of that have come back from this form of self implosion? many thanks.
- Sean McLaughlin said...
"It's easy and romantic to glorify traders who take huge risks in search of grand payoffs. We all like to see the player who has the balls to go "all in"."
For every one of these trades, or Traders, there are hundreds on the other side of this who completely blew out.
Sadly, it seems that most Traders (myself included) need to have had this experience (or been close) before they "see the light" and take corrective action.
- Mr. Mom said...
This week's series of posts have really struck close to home. Sure the last year has been my toughest in a very good 10 year career. The last 4 months have all but completely drained me. I totally agree with the idea that some of us have some degree of PTSD. You should see how I flinch and even tear up at loud noises. What to do though?
- Tahoe said...
Thanks Brett. your work is always so meaningful and insightful. It isn't what happens to you, but how you react. The recent deaths in UK fashion world are stark realizations that these situations can be untenable for those experiencing them. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250249/Alexander-McQueen-commits-suicide.html
- Radek Dobias, H.B.Sc., M.W.S., B.Ed. said...
Initial trading trauma that nearly everyone experiences can act either as a devastating defeat..... or a springboard to improvement, growth, and right livelihood.
It's not things themselves that dictate our experience; it's how we hold them and what we do with them.
- nqtraderjay said...
Dr. Brett has some of the most no-nonsense posts I ever read.
"...psychological significance of those losses...losses signify the potential death of a dream."
Exactly!!! This stuff is gold.
And then the paragraph, "I'm the psychologist...who sees what happens to those ballsy traders...."
What bunch of macho guys in a room will dare to venture into the touchy feely psychological areas?
And be sensitive to their inner stuff? As far as I've seen, most guys try to stay as far away from that as possible, going as far as to medicate in order to distract themselves from any of the painful or less than invincible facade they so love to erect. Reminds me of the movie Unforgiven. Trading is often sport by sport fan types. But not in the books I read and not the long-term successful traders I know.
Lucky for me, I've always been out of that group and been working on my psychological stuff for as long as I can remember. Not being the "hero child" does that. It gets you to look in and question. Great stuff, keep it coming.


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New Zealanders Feel Sting of Defeat After America's Cup Upset
Nation Is Dealing With Being on Wrong End of One of Sport's Greatest Comebacks
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand's stunning defeat in the America's Cup has triggered a mix of defiance, tears and national soul-searching. Even the country's prime minister was largely lost for words.
"Bugger," tweeted John Key after clearing his agenda in New York, which has included meeting African and Middle Eastern leaders, to watch the outcome of yachting's premier event.
New Zealand's sailors had built up an 8-1 lead over defending champion Oracle Team USA, owned by billionaire Larry Ellison, to move within one race of overall victory on San Francisco Bay. More than a week later and New Zealand is dealing with being on the wrong end of one of sport's greatest comebacks.
Oracle Team USA rattled off eight straight victories, including a winner-take-all shootout Wednesday, to claim the Auld Mug, as the 162-year-old trophy is affectionately known.
"It's just been devastating," said Robyn Mulgrew, a spokeswoman for St. Cuthbert's College, a private school with 1,400 pupils in the city of Auckland.
The school had been screening the races for the younger pupils, and what had begun as an opportunity to see New Zealand succeed turned into a valuable lesson for the girls. "It's been about team spirit and resilience instead," Ms. Mulgrew said.
The emotional highs and lows of the America's Cup were distilled in the final race. Emirates Team New Zealand made the better start and held a slim lead at the second gate. That had the couple hundred spectators gathered at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club in Wellington, which had been screening races daily, whooping and cheering in delight.
Then came the disappointment: Oracle Team USA clawed back New Zealand's advantage and raced clear by about 500 meters to take the flag.
Christine Blacker, a retiree, made a special detour to the yacht club from Wellington airport to watch the outcome, even though she admits to barely knowing the rules of sailing. Despite the loss, she said New Zealand—a country of 4.5 million people—should take heart from running so close a better-funded team from a vast nation like the U.S.
"They make us proud of being New Zealanders," Ms. Blacker said.
New Zealand's hopes were hit by a wave of bad luck and superior sailing from the U.S. boat, which in a late move drafted the U.K.'s four-time Olympic gold medalist Ben Ainslie as a tactician. On one occasion, Emirates Team New Zealand was half a mile ahead in light winds and on course for glory when race organizers called a halt because the race had reached its time limit.
For many New Zealanders, the Cup defeat has revived memories of other national sporting disappointments. One joke making the rounds is that the country's biggest retailer has withdrawn plastic America's Cup boats from sale for fear of choking.
New Zealand has long been the butt of jokes about its sports teams' tendency to crack under pressure. The country's rugby squad, the All Blacks, looked set to claim world titles in 1995, 1999 and 2007 only to slip to shock defeats. In 1999, the national women's netball team blew a six-goal lead in a world final.
Still, the crowd gathered at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club drew some comfort in defeat. Oracle's AC72 catamaran was built in New Zealand, and it was a team of boat-builders from the country that rushed to make alterations to the vessel when Emirates Team New Zealand dominated the first half of the series. Also, there were more New Zealand sailors aboard the winning boat than Americans.
"I'm just proud that we built their boat," said Helene Lewer, a retiree from Auckland, the country's biggest city. "I feel that they should cut the Cup in half and we should have half of it."
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Installation problems
From: jody (jody.xha_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-27 11:49:17
Hi Jacob
Did you set the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH according to
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM, jacob Balthazor<jcb344_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hey,
> Please help me out as I cannot figure out from all the online
> documentation why my cluster wont work.
> 1) I started with two computers with a fresh install of Fedora 10.
> 2) Created two user accounts on the two computers with the same user name.
> 3) Created an rsa keyed ssh between the two computers going both directions,
> so that each computer can log into one another without being prompted for a
> password.
> 4) Installed openmpi on both via yum with the command "yum install openmpi
> openmpi-devel openmpi-libs".
> 5) Compiled and ran hello.c with a host file containing the IP addresses of
> both computers with slot numbers. But openmpi only hangs for minutes, until
> I kill it.
> I am able to run hello.c locally and even with a hostfile containing
> only the local machines address, but am not able to started a multi node
> program from either computer. Have I done all the correct steps, am I
> missing something?
> - Jacob B.
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Is there a canonical definition of the concept of inner products for vector spaces over arbitrary fields, i.e. other fields than ℝ or ℂ?
As Qiaochu wrote, the answer to the question is "not really, but..." Let me amplify on the "but" part.
Positive-definiteness inherently requires an ordering on your field. Conversely, if you have an ordered field, then the theory of inner products goes through verbatim. (The ordering does not have to be Archimedean, so this indeed gives lots more examples.)
Let's assume that you have a field K of characteristic different from 2 which cannot be ordered: by a theorem of Artin-Schreier, this is equivalent to -1 being a sum of squares in the field. Then you don't have "positive definiteness". What is more, the "standard inner product"
q(x_1,...,x_n) = x_1^2 + ... + x_n^2
will be isotropic for sufficiently large n, i.e., there will exist nonzero vectors v = (x_1,...,x_n) such that q(v) = 0. For instance, if K is finite, this occurs as soon as n >= 3.
Let me remark that "isotropic inner products" are not inherently worthless. I have a preliminary version of a wonderful book, "Linear Algebra Methods in Combinatorics" by Laszlo Babai, which indeed makes nice use of the above inner product over finite fields, even in characteristic 2.
(See http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/research/publications/combinatorics. Unfortunately it seems that the book never came to fruition. I got my copy more than 10 years ago when I took an undergraduate course in combinatorics from Babai.)
On the other hand, to any quadratic form over a field K of characteristic not 2, you can associate a symmetric bilinear form. See (among infinitely other references) p. 2 of
As above, it is plausible that an algebraic substitute for "inner product space" is "vector space endowed with an anisotropic quadratic form", i.e., a regular quadratic form without nonzero vectors v for which q(v) = 0. Witt discovered that you can do a lot of "geometry" in this case: especially, he defined reflection through the hyperplane determined by any anisotropic vector: see (e.g....) pp. 17-18 of the above reference. More is true here than is included in my introductory notes: for instance the orthogonal group of an anistropic quadratic form has the "compactness properties" of the standard real orthogonal group O(n) (that is, it contains no nontrivial split subtorus).
No. The axiom that fails is positive-definiteness, which doesn't mean anything for an arbitrary field. But one can still define symmetric bilinear forms.
To get an analogue of hermitian inner products, generalizing the inner product of complex vector spaces, one usually considers fields endowed with an involution (just as complex conjugation) and uses that in the more or less obvious way. This is how one can define the unitary groups, for example; see Dieudonné's Sur les groupes classiques.


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I've been trying so hard to find cracks for 2 animation programs called Retas! Pro and Cartoon Television Program pro 1.8. or ctp pro 1.8. I've never been able to get their cracks.
I managed somehow to download craagle but I needed to add a proxy to it. I have a proxy but in no way was I able to figure out how to enter the data in the first place. all I see is an empty notepad named proxy.txt.
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Side by Side Comparison 7320 vs ZS3-2
By mtriska on Sep 22, 2013
So now that you have either attended the launch or watched the replay, you probably have some questions about how the new box fits into the portfolio and how it compares to its predecessor the 7320. In the chart below, I will compare them on a contents per controller basis side by side for you.
|ZFS Appliance Model Name
|Cluster capable (recommended)
|Rack Units
|2x4 core per controller
|2x8 core per controller
|IO slots
|3 but really 1 is available for IO options
|6 and 4 are available for IO options
|Onboard Ports
|4x10/100/1000 (RJ45)
|4x1G/10GbE (RJ45)
Read Cache
|2TB (4x512G SSD)
|6.4TB (4x1.6T SSD)
|Write Cache
|24x73G SSD
|32x73G SSD
|Expansion Tray Count
|Drive Types
|300G/600G 15k, 3TB 7.2k
|300G/900G 10k, 3TB or 4TB 7.2k *
* The drive industry is moving to the 4TB drive so the 3TB will EOL this fall as supplies will diminish quickly.
So from what you see above, the hardware has changed a lot and what you can now do with the box has dramatically changed ... but the biggest improvement is all the software enhancements in OS8. The public benchmarks speak for themselves, industry leading results, almost double the IOPS and almost half of the latency (compared to the previous generations used for the benchmark tests). Oracle has gone above and beyond with this new code base (OS8) and the future is bright for all storage consumers when it comes to cost effective high performance storage. We all get asked to do more with less and this is the solution to that problem.
Stay tuned for more comments as Oracle OpenWorld starts on Sunday September 22nd and the ground breaking combination of Oracle Software and Oracle Hardware will be on full display.


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BELTON (November 19, 2012)--Rock fans have an alternative to shopping on Black Friday.
A 3 Doors Down and Daughtry band concert is scheduled at the Bell County Expo Center.
Special guest metal band P.O.D. will also perform.
All three performers have numerous hits including 3 Doors Down's "Kryptonite" and "It's Not My Time," Daughtry's "It's Not Over" and "Home" and P.O.D.'s "Going In Blind" and "Youth of the Nation."
The concert begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are still available.
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Is it possible to use pages created on the main site in other sites' menus?
For example it would be excellent if all pages from the main page not only appear in the Custom menu section of the main page but also on all other sites' menu pages.
You can use a static link in the WP Nav menu. Is this not enough, then it is possible to create the post inside the multisite install with the function


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October 7, 2012
"What is THAT?" my husband, Justin, asked me one evening as I sat down on the couch. I had a large plastic cup filled with a thick, green liquid and I proceeded to slurp on it....
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Technically, you don't have just one "tax bracket" - you pay all of the Virginia marginal tax rates from the lowest tax bracket to the tax bracket in which you earned your last dollar. For comparison purposes, however, your Virginia tax bracket is the tax bracket in which your last earned dollar in any given tax period falls.
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Here's the problem which confused me:
Claim sizes for an insurance coverage follow a lognormal distribution with mean 1000 and medium 800. Determine the probability that a claim will be greater than 1200.
I have given that for a lognormal distribution, E(X) = $e^{\mu + \sigma^2/2}$
Which means that E(x) is not simply $\mu$. Isn't that the definition of E(X)?
(The solution continues - since the medium is 800, $e^\mu$ = 800 ...)


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WINTERSVILLE - No Republican presidential candidate since 1856 has won the White House without carrying Ohio, and that's a trend former President Bill Clinton said he is trying to make sure continues.
Surrounded by about 1,000 people, Clinton delivered a 40-minute speech Thursday at Indian Creek High School that compared President Barack Obama's four years in office to what Republican candidate Mitt Romney wants to do if elected.
"Why support the president? His arguments are clear. The economy is going in the right direction," Clinton said, adding the unemployment rate has dropped more under Obama than since Clinton himself was in office.
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at Indian?Creek?High?School in Wintersville Thursday.
"Romney all of a sudden cares about you. 'I'm a jobs guy,'" Clinton said quoting and sometimes mocking Romney.
Clinton said Romney will increase the national debt with his ideas on tax cuts.
"If someone hired you to fill a hole, would you make it deeper before you start to fill it in?" Clinton asked, noting he believes Romney's proposed tax cuts would increase the national debt. Clinton said that will result in taxes being raised, especially on middle-income Americans.
Clinton termed Romney's budget proposals "hide and seek" because he claimed details are not being revealed. But he said Romney's plan would result in cuts to Medicare and that working parents of children born with medical conditions would have to quit work to get benefits for their children.
"It will hurt the country and make us weaker," Clinton said.
Addressing Romney's statement that 47 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes, Clinton said 60 percent of those people are working people with children. He said the tax code allows those working parents not to pay taxes, adding it helps those people avoid poverty.
Clinton said in the 32 months since the end of the recession, 5.3 million private sector jobs have been created under the Obama administration, compared to 2.6 million jobs created in seven years under former President George W. Bush. He said no president can fix the economy in four years, considering the condition of the economy. He said unemployment is now under 8 percent.
"It took 12 years after the Great Depression to get out of the Depression. Why would we want to sail back into the storm?" Clinton asked.
He said manufacturing jobs have grown for the first time since the 1990s.
"We can bring manufacturing back to America," he added.
Clinton cited 250,000 more jobs in Ohio in the auto industry. He said the auto industry was facing bankruptcy, which also would have had an impact on auto parts and suppliers to the industry.
Obama "saved 1 million jobs, with 250,000 more in Ohio, and Romney opposed it. It was the best decision of Obama in his first term," he said. "When the state was facing economic ruin, Barack Obama had your back. You need to have his back today."
Clinton spoke about student loans and Obama's plans to have students pay back the loans based on a percentage of their income over 20 years. He also said health care costs increased only 4 percent last year, the lowest in several years.
"We, as Americans, need to bring health care costs in line with inflation," Clinton said, noting companies can't give workers pay raises because of the increases in health care costs. "We can't allow this to happen. This is another reason to elect Obama."
Clinton believes Obama did a much better job in his first term than he has been given credit for, especially concerning the economy.
"We are coming out of this. I'm telling you that you are going to feel it. The last thing we need to do is to go back to a policy we know will fail, knowing that the debt is going to be a problem. Are we going to adopt another hide-and-seek budget? I don't think so. Let's vote for four more years of a strategy that is building a strategy for 21st century prosperity," he said. "Tell the people that aren't here that they don't have to give up hope. All your tomorrows don't have to be like yesterday. We can make a new tomorrow.
"For 200 years people have been saying America's been washed up," he continued. "People have been counting this country out for 200 years. Every single soul that has done it has lost money. I'm betting on you and America's future and Barack Obama."


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This book, which needs to be returned quite soon, has a problem I don't know where to start. How do I find a 4 parameter solution to the equation
The title of the section this problem comes from is entitled (as this question is titled) "Numbers of the Form $x^2+axy+by^2$", yet it deals almost exclusively with numbers of the form $x^2+y^2$. It looks like almost an afterthought or a preview of what's to come where it gives the formula
Then 6 of the 7 problems use this form. The first few involve solving the form $z^k=x^2+axy+by^2$, which I quickly figured out are solved by letting $z=u^2+auv+bv^2$, then using the above formula to get higher powers. So for $z^2$ for example, I set $m=p=u$ and $n=q=v$ to get $x$ and $y$ in terms of $u$ and $v$. But for this problem, I'm drawing a blank.


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Game of Thrones w/ Art Book (Xbox 360 or PS3) for $14.99
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Beat me by 15 minutes :)
Awesome deal even if just for the art book!
I have this. I enjoyed the story line of the video game (there's as much dialogue in the game as there is in the first book), though the graphics left some to be desired. The art book has high quality paper and printing.
Price is now $19.99. I waited and based on opinion of some friends I won't bother to spend the extra $5
@pilotwillie: Looks like PS3 is up to $19.99. XBox still shows up as $14.99 for me.


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Highlights of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Please use for reference only.
Julia Draznin Maltzman, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: February 8, 2004
This article discusses the highlights of an NOCR (Network for Oncology Communication and Research) sponsored meeting where highlights from the San Antonio Breast Cancer symposium 2003 were presented. Leaders in the field of breast cancer from numerous academic institutions convened to discuss some of the most important abstracts presented at the annual San Antonio conference. Topics discussed included issues surrounding the diagnosis, prognosis and prevention of breast cancer, adjuvant and neo-adjuvant treatment as well as therapies for metastatic disease.
Since it is not possible to cover every abstract discussed, OncoLink has emphasized a few that have provoked much discussion and controversy in the breast cancer community. For more information about topics and articles discussed, please email Julia Draznin at email@example.com or log onto the official San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium web site at www.sabcs.org.
Docetaxel primary chemotherapy in breast cancer: a five-year update of the Aberdeen trial
Presenter: Hutcheon AW
Chemotherapy before surgery, neo-adjuvant therapy, is a standard treatment option for locally advanced breast cancer. Studies show that response rates approximate 80% and can convert a planned mastectomy to a simple lumpectomy. The surgical specimen is removed and sent to the pathologist. If the pathologist does not see any cancer cells in the specimen, the patient is said to be in pathologic complete remission (pCR). Complete pathological responses are used to predict survival – those who achieve pCR have a better outcome. Along with the NSABP B27 trial, this trial, known as the Aberdeen trial, has shown that the addition of docetaxel to primary chemotherapy results in more pCR. Data presented at the 2003 San Antonio conference added to the known benefit of docetaxel by reporting of an improved five-year survival.
Patients with large or locally advanced breast cancers who entered the trial all received four cycles of the same chemotherapy called CVAP (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, and prednisone). At the completion of this phase of therapy, all patients were evaluated. Those who did not respond to initial therapy received four cycles of docetaxel; those who did get a response were randomized to either four cycles of docetaxel or four additional cycles of CVAP. Final assessment was done at the time of surgery at the completion of both phases of chemotherapy. The five-year overall survival was 97% for the docetaxel arm and 78% for the CVAP arm. Put another way, there was a 19% absolute difference in survival between the two regimens favoring treatment with docetaxel.
This study underlined that docetaxel not only improves pCR, but also significantly improves five-year survival.
TAC improves disease free survival and overall survival over FAC in node positive early breast cancer patients, BCIRG 001: 55 month follow up
Presenter: Pienkowski MM
The benefit of a taxane in the treatment of breast cancer has been investigated previously. The CALGB 9344 and the NSABP B-28 trials are the most well known. In these trials, all patients received chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide, (AC) but some were randomized to receive four additional cycles of taxol. Although, both studies showed a taxane benefit, there were a number of confounding issues. One often-sited criticism is that some of those who were randomized to receive AC alone only got four cycles of chemotherapy. By contrast, patients randomized to the Taxol arm, actually got a total of eight cycles of chemotherapy. To answer such challenges, this study was designed to assess the value of a taxane by offering patients equal number of chemotherapy cycles.
This trial accrued over one thousand patients over the course of two years. The first planned interim analysis with a median follow up of 33 months was presented at ASCO 2002 and showed a significant improvement in disease free survival (DFS) favoring the docetaxel, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide regiment. These data show results from a 55-month follow up at the second planned interim analysis.
Patients with node positive breast cancer were enrolled and randomized into two groups: TAC (docetaxel, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide) or FAC (5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide). Both of these regiments were given at an every three-week schedule for six cycles. By an intention to treat analysis, there was a clear benefit to the TAC arm for disease free survival. At 55 month follow-up, the disease free survival for TAC was 75% versus 68% for FAC. Overall survival (OS) also favored TAC by a 6% difference (87% for TAC and 81% for FAC). The benefit of the TAC regimen seemed to hold true regardless of the number of lymph nodes involved.
Of importance, all three multi-institutional trials demonstrated an improved DFS with the addition of a taxane for this population of patients. TAC in particular seems to have achieved the highest benefit in DFS and OS, and should be strongly considered in the treatment of node positive breast cancer.
Analysis of time to recurrence in the ATAC trial according to estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor status
Presenter: Dowsett M et al
The famed ATAC – anastrozole, tamoxifen, alone or in combination – trial looked at adjuvant hormone therapy. Over 9,000 postmenopausal women with early breast cancer were given five years of treatment with anastrozole, tamoxifen or both. This enormous effort included 381 medical centers and 21 countries. The study aimed to evaluate risk of recurrence and the risk of a new contralateral breast cancer. Initial results showed that anastrozole alone worked better than either tamoxifen alone or in combination with anastrozole. The status of ER and PR were known in 7993 patients. The study presented at the San Antonio 2003 meeting was a retrospective analyses done to determined the time to tumor recurrence by the estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) positivity. Patients were divided into four distinct groups: ER+/PR+, ER-/PR-, ER+/PR-, ER-/PR+ and analyzed. Not surprisingly, the results showed that there was little benefit to hormone therapy if the tumor were ER-/PR-. However, unexpectedly, the group that benefited most from treatment was the ER+/PR- population. In fact, there seemed to be a greater efficacy in ER+/PR- tumors than in those expressing ER+/PR+. This fascinating finding should be interpreted with caution, as prospective confirmation is necessary. The significance of this finding is not yet clear but we will see much more on this topic at ACSO 2004.
Randomized placebo-controlled trial of letrozole in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer completing five years of tamoxifen
Presenter: Gross PE
This abstract was presented in San Antonio following a full paper publication in the New England Journal of Medicine one month previously. In addition, OncoLink chose this study as one of the most seminal trials of the year 2003. This multi-institution, double blind, placebo controlled trial of five years of adjuvant letrozole to early stage breast cancer in postmenopausal women after the completion of five years of tamoxifen. The primary end point of the study was DFS with OS and quality of life being secondary end points. The absolute improvement in DFS was 6% favoring the letrozole arm. Survival impact was seen in both node negative and node positive disease.
The study included only those women who completed tamoxifen only a few months earlier. The more difficult question is should we advise women who have been off tamoxifen for over six months to commit to five additional years of hormone therapy with letrozole. There has not been a consensus statement issued from either San Antonio or ASCO on the matter and most experts present at the symposium seemed to agree that they would consider this option only if the woman were a very high risk for recurrence. However, this decision must be made with careful consideration of all aspects, including medical, psychological, and practical issues.
Randomized trial comparing docetaxel and paclitaxel in patients with metastatic breast cancer
Presenter: Jones S
Both docetaxel and paclitaxel are widely used in the treatment of patients with breast cancer. In previous randomized trials, the response rate for docetaxel has ranged from 30-50% and those for paclitaxel from 15-30%. However, there has never been a direct comparison of these two taxanes. This study directly compared docetaxel to paclitaxel in patients with metastatic breast cancer after failing anthracyclines.
Patients with metastatic breast cancer were randomized to receive one of the two taxanes every three weeks until disease progression. Of note, there was no prophylactic growth factor support or antibiotics given. The primary end-points were response rate and an evaluation of toxicity. Secondary end-points included duration of response, time to progression, overall survival, and quality of life. All patients must be anthracycline resistant. This was defined as having either received an anthracycline containing regimen for first line metastatic treatment or as adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy and then relapsing within 12 months. Of the 499 randomized patients, only 394 were evaluable at the study completion. There were many reasons why the number of patients randomized did not equal the number of patients evaluated, but this is one of the more powerful criticisms of the trial. An intent-to-treat analysis showed that both time to tumor progression and overall survival favored the docetaxel arm. These data were found to be statistically significant. Time to tumor progression was 5.7 months for docetaxel and 3.6 months for paclitaxel. However, this came at a price. The docetaxel arm saw 93% hematologic toxicities including grade 3/4 neutropenia. There were four treatment related deaths; three of which are due to febrile neutropenia. The paclitaxel arm had a 55% grade 3/4 neutropenia. Anemia and thrombocytopenia were also more common in the docetaxel arm. Other non-hematologic grade 3/4 toxicities that were also more common for docetaxel included asthenia (lack of strength or energy), stomatitis (inflammation of the oral mucosa), infection, and peripheral edema.
The conclusions that could be drawn from this study include: the response rate was higher for docetaxel than paclitaxel in this population (37% vs. 25.9%, p <0.05), duration of response was longer for docetaxel than paclitaxel (7.5 months vs. 4.6 months, p<0.05), time to tumor progression was better for docetaxel than paclitaxel (5.7 months vs. 3.6 months, p 0.0001), and overall survival was better for docetaxel than paclitaxel (15.4 months vs. 12.7 months, p=0.03). However, treatment with docetaxel was associated with an increased incidence of grade 3/4 toxicities. One wonders whether growth factor support or dose reduction would have decreased this incidence with similar clinical outcomes.


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Some LEGO pieces are probably more expensive than others, but what is the average price per piece of LEGO pieces, when sold as part of a kit? Is there any place containing statistics or graphs about the prices, showing the range of smaller and larger pieces?
A brief search led me to a very thorough blog post by Ruth Suehle on GeekMom, which includes the data and a Graph:
In her findings, she found that average cost per piece in 2011 is about US$0.12, down from a high in the '80s of about US$0.40 - these prices were adjusted for inflation, etc.
Prices tend to be most affected by the price of oil, as that's a key component in plastic manufacture, so we might expect to see prices starting to creep up again.
Interestingly the licensed sets (Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc.) don't seem to have much of an impact on the price of the sets, it's just that they are often bigger sets, so have higher price tags - For example the Super Star Destroyer with a retail price of $399 had 3152 pieces working at $0.13/piece - although yes, an extra $0.01 multiplied over 3000 bricks does seem to add an extra $30 to the set.
There doesn't appear to be much data on weight or type of brick.
Brickset has information on individual sets, and has some interesting data in its Data Mining section. Towards the bottom of that page they list
amongst other data.
The average price per brick value for all the sets ever sold is going to be unhelpful. The prices of sets are influenced by the exclusiveness of the set, product licence (I.E. Star Wars), year of production, etcetera...
I don't think a statistical representation exists for that reason.


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Basically, I'm looking for a merge of teambox, things and redmine. Does anyone knows anything like that? ;)
It should have really nice UI and be extremely simple to use. Cross platform or web/linux.
Currently I'm using teambox (ok, it's not a to-do, but works great), but they have a lot of unnecessary stuff (that's a pm thing after all) and no prioritization, etc.
Also, it would be nice to have sub-tasking of any level (it turned out that just 3 levels are needed at most: classification of activity -> groups of tasks -> tasks).


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Did you listen to our advice and attend the game?I would like to thank everyone who doubted the Seahawks. You just made some hardcore Seahawks fans and "risky" betters a lot of money. Because the Seahawks beating the favored division champs, and quite decisively I might say, I just wanted to hear what people thought about this game and if anyone has a change of opinion after it.
I will admit that the Seahawks still need to get their run game going pretty desperately, but then again they were playing against the 49ers. On a happier note the Seahawks D was able to make Alex Smith, who many thought would have a break out year this season, look like a fool as well as shut down Frank Gore, Michael Crabtree, and to some extent Vernon Davis. The defense also managed to accumulate 2 INTs (1 for a TD) as well as pressure Smith (although only posting 2 sacks). I wont even get into the run defense that limited the Niners to 2.6 ypc.
As for the offense Hasselbeck made an early mistake with an INT on the first play from scrimmage, but followed it up with 2 TDs through the air, 1 TD on the ground, a 78.3% comp, and a QB Rating of 108.3. Oh and only sacked 1 time with freaking Polumbus playing LT. Forsett managed 43 yds on 7 carries (6.1 ypc), although Orange Julius still had the most carries with 8 (seriously Carroll?). Mike Williams looked great, Deon butler caught a TD on a fantastic route, Carlson had some trouble but got it going late in the game, and even Dieon Branch had a pretty snazzy TD catch that left Carroll looking dumbfounded.
Is this enough of a statement for people to stop *****ing about how bad the Seahawks are? Maybe not quite yet, but it certainly has to change the mindset of most towards Pete Carroll, Matt Hasselbeck, and the Seattle Seahawks. We will have to wait and see how they do on the road because it is obvious Quest Field and the North West fans have quite an influence on the outcome of games, but this is a great sign and hopefully enough to turn some heads.
Now that I am done with my homeristic rant I would love to hear what everyone else's thoughts are on this game. One must also take into account that this could be a sign that the Niners aren't what they were built up to be. None the less this outcome should make any Seahawks fan proud.
EDIT: (BTW I have been out of town for the weekend and really didn't feel like sifting through the week 1 live in game thread for thoughts and opinions on the Seahawks game. Sorry for the inconvenience but I thought a showing of this caliber deserved some individual attention)


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Q&A is a new series on the Business Intelligence from the Swamp Blog that interviews key members of the Pentaho team to learn more about their focus at Pentaho and outlook on the BI and DI industry. For our first post, we interviewed Mari Jansdotter, Director of Embedded Sales at Pentaho. Mari has been at Pentaho for almost two years and comes to us from SugarCRM. She is based in our San Francisco office and in her free time can can be found chasing around her two adorable kids.
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3. What are some of the reasons that you have seen companies choose Pentaho's OEM Program over the competition?
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As we posited in our coverage yesterday of D.C.'s Internet Voting scheme which was hacked with the University of Michigan fight song, J. Alex Halderman, asst. professor of electronic engineering and computer science at the university, was, indeed, at the heart of the hack.
He details tonight that he and a small team of students were happy to participate in the test that D.C. election officials had announced, with just three days notice, inviting hackers to try and penetrate the system they planned to use this November, as developed with the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation.
Halderman writes in his explanation of how they did it:
Within 36 hours of the system going live, our team had found and exploited a vulnerability that gave us almost total control of the server software, including the ability to change votes and reveal voters' secret ballots.
And if you think that's chilling, Halderman goes on to note that all cast ballots on the system were modified and overwritten with write-in votes, all passwords taken --- including the encryption key, which e-voting supporters constantly suggest will keep such systems safe --- before they went on to install a back door to let them view any votes cast later, after their attack, along with the names of voters and whom they voted for...
Halderman also notes what many of us have been trying to tell Internet Voting proponents for so many years: it's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to make the system secure...
The specific vulnerability that we exploited is simple to fix, but it will be vastly more difficult to make the system secure. We've found a number of other problems in the system, and everything we've seen suggests that the design is brittle: one small mistake can completely compromise its security. I described above how a small error in file-extension handling left the system open to exploitation. If this particular problem had not existed, I'm confident that we would have found another way to attack the system.
Sounds like this Internet Voting thing for overseas and military voters, which has now been called off in D.C. as of last week's hack, is as brilliantly thought out and executed as the electronic voting and concealed vote counting that nearly the entirety of the nation is currently saddled with at local polling places.
Halderman, as we also noted yesterday, was also behind hacking Pac-Man onto a Sequoia touch-screen voting machine last August, as well as on the Princeton team which initially hacked Diebold's touch screen system with a vote-flipping virus back in 2006
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Is it true that regardless of the time of the day, the first wish to a person must be Good morning? Even if I meet him in the afternoon?
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No it is not.
Good night never means "hello", always "goodbye".
There are times of day when there is no really appropriate "Good ..." -- for example, Good morning is not appropriate if you join your friends in a nightclub at 12:30 am, but neither is Good evening.
Slim is entirely correct.
One occasional exception to those rules is that "Good morning" is often used ironically.
For example, if it's 4pm and I meet a coworker who looks tired, I might say "Good morning" in a joking tone, implying that he seems to have just woken up.
Or if a friend accompanied me to a late-night movie and fell asleep halfway through it, when I woke her up after the movie I might say "Good morning" as a friendly way of ribbing her for falling asleep.


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Jamaica is known for its beautiful beaches, tropical weather, and friendly natives. This island nation is the third-most populous English-speaking country in the Americas, coming in after the United States and Canada. Jamaica was taken by the United Kingdom from the Spanish in 1655, and today remains a Commonwealth realm.
When visiting, make sure to sample local delicacies such as jerk chicken. Rice and peas cooked in coconut milk and filled pastry dishes known as patties are popular foods as well.
When to VisitThe general climate of Jamaica is tropical. Weather can be hot and humid, but the inland areas have a higher altitude than the coastal areas and, as such, have a more temperate feel. Temperatures generally run between the mid 70s and high 80s year round making for perfect swimming weather.
The best time to visit Jamaica is from October to mid-December. During this time, it's easy to find cheap hotel deals in Jamaica, allowing you to find and book top rooms at special discount rates and some of the best prices of the year for Jamaica hotels. The weather during this time is at its most gorgeous, and you can avoid much of the crowds present during the busier months.
The months of January to March are when most people visit Jamaica, particularly in March. This is another good time to visit as events such as the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, the Bob Marley Birthday Bash, and Bob Marley Week take place during this period of time. This is also the most popular time for tourists to visit, so the crowds can be quite large. If booking one of the hotels in Jamaica during this time, you will want to make reservations well ahead of time.
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I'm now doing a lot of SQL development at my new job where as before I was doing Object Oriented desktop app stuff. I keep running across very large scripts (thousands of lines) and wanting to refactor in some way. I am seeing that SQL is a different sort of beast and it's probably fine to have these big scripts for the most part but while explaining this to me people are also insisting that the whole idea of refactoring is bad. That stuff like the .NET compiler are actually burdened by refactored code and that a big wall of code is more efficient and better design than code designed for reuse, readability and scalability.
The other argument is that OO compilers are almost dangerously inefficient and don't have efficient memory management or runs too many CPU instructions compared to older "simpler" compilers and compared to SQL.
Are these valid complaints? Even if some compiler like a C compiler is modestly more "efficient" (whatever that means on this high of a level without seeing code) would you want to write applications in C over C# or Java? Is comparing an OO compiler to a SQL compiler/optimizer even valid?


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The reason being that if you ask some question which is not meant for that particular community then you see a blue banner below your post saying closed as not a real question by XXX ,YYY users.
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I had successfully integrate twitter API and I am able to post text from my device but I want to know two things
Is is possible to post Image on twitter using API in Android ?
In twitter we used
OAuth.OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRETtokens.I passing token values on second argument in below code is it ok ? or I have to leave it blank ?
String token = prefs.getString(OAuth.OAUTH_TOKEN, OAuth_token_key); String secret = prefs.getString(OAuth.OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET, OAuth_token_secret);
I searched to know whether is it possible to
post image on twitter using twitter API in Android but I have not found any link that I know whether it is possible or not.
I got one similar post image issue for iPhone and there is a answer also. I don't know about iPhone so I can't know weather it is right answer or not.Here is a link of similar question of post image for iPhone
Please help me out from this issue.


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Todd Nelson left the Tippie Full-time MBA program with a degree in hand, and headed to New York to build a vibrant career on Wall Street.
Todd worked as an associate at Goldman Sachs' Financial Institutions Group where he assisted Fortune 500 companies in evaluating strategic and capital alternatives. Some of his responsibilities were managing buyer and seller processes, optimizing their capital structure, raising capital in the public and private markets via equity and debt offerings, and benchmarking clients using financial metrics and operating performance.
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Today Todd says, "There is no limit to what you can learn in two short years at Tippie."
During his time at Tippie, Todd capitalized on the multitude of experiential learning opportunities the Full-time MBA program offered, adding depth to his degree. He served as the MBA Association president, was a student analyst of the Henry Fund, delivered investment presentations to panel experts at the RISE competition, and gained global exposure by taking advantage of the International Immersion Program where he studied and visited companies in China and Hong Kong. Outside of the Tippie MBA program, he also served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate finance classes and was a graduate assistant for the Hawkinson Institute.
"I'm a firm believer I would not be in the position I am today if not for the academic and experiential learning experiences I took from Tippie. I'm fond of saying if you can excel at Tippie, you can excel anywhere."


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A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to two years of probation for attempting to inflict cruel and inhuman corporal punishment on a child, court records show.
Lavell A. McCoy, 47, was sentenced last week to one count of attempted abuse of a child. The crime occurred in May in Leavenworth. The victim was a girl who was born in 2005 and is a relative of McCoy.
McCoy had been charged with abuse of a child. But he pleaded no contest in October to an amended charge of attempted abuse of a child by attempting to inflict cruel and inhuman corporal punishment, according to court records.
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