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I don't like to use the pre-made folders. I want to organize the things the way I want and with the names I want. Moreover I don't want to have to move a picture every time I want to try and see how it looks as a background wallpaper. So, how can I quickly select an image in any folder as a desktop background.
There are many ways to do so:
a) In Appearence Settings choose an image via the "+" button:
b) Open an image you like by doubleclick, rightclick and choose "Set as Desktop Background":
c) Shotwell (photo manager) features this, too: Select an image and choose
d) With the extension nautilus-wallpaper you was able to set an image as background out of the file manager. But this doesn't work since Ubuntu 11.10.
As a workaround you can install nautilus-actions. Start it and add a new entry via
In the "Command" tab do following settings:
Label: Set as Wallpaper
In the
In the
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Close Nautilus Actions and restart Nautilus (file manager) by pressing Alt+F2 and running
From now on you can set your preferred images as desktop background directly out of the file manager via rightclick:
Excellent answers given, and also another simpler way that doesn't need the installation of any extra program or opening heavy programs, is the use of nautilus-scripts. Specifically, open Gedit, and paste these:
Next, save the file as 'Set as Background' under ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts. To access the directory ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts you will need to go to your home directory through the save dialog of Gedit and press Ctrl+H so as to show the 'hidden' directories (the ones starting with a dot ".") and select the .gnome2 folder and next the nautilus-scripts folder.
Next, you have to make the saved file executable. You will need to open your home folder, press Ctrl+H so as to show the 'hidden' folders, navigate to .gnome2 and next to nautilus-scripts, right click on the saved file 'Set as Background', click on Properties, click on 'Allow executing file as program' and close the dialog.
Now, right-clicking on every file will result on this:
Click the + sign at the bottom left of the 4x4 wallpaper icon grid.
You can also place links in the main pictures folder, that take you elsewhere (drag a folder with middle button, instead of left, to create a link)
You can also open picture in Image Viewer and then on the top of the screen select Image>Set As Desktop Background.


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I have this question:
Let $f(x)→A$ and $g(x)→B$ as $x→x_0$. Prove that if $f(x) < g(x)$ for all $x∈(x_0−η, x_0+η)$ (for some $η > 0$) then $A\leq B$. In this case is it always true that $A < B$?
I've tried playing around with the definition for limits but I'm not getting anywhere. Can someone give me a hint on where to start?


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I understand how an ISO number affects the film sensitivity or a digital image, but I'm curious where did the numbers come from? How come we talk about ISO 100, 200, 400, and so on instead of ISO 1, 2, 4 or some other arbitrary sequence of numbers that indicates the relative differences?
Let's start with a magical history tour: when the the system we've inherited as linear ISO speed designations (the former ASA speeds) was developed, 25-speed film was pretty cutting-edge, high-speed stuff. Kodak's Panatomic X (the "X" was for "extra high speed" -- and it was ASA 160) was still the stuff of science fiction. There were at least two 25-speed films (and one that was slower than 25 when exposed and developed for continuous tone) on the market at the tail end of the Age of Silver, all from Kodak: Ektar 25 (later sold under the name Kodacolor Royal Gold 25), Kodachrome 25 and Kodak Technical Pan, which was generally shot at 16 or 20 for continuous tone black and white. A scale based on multiples of 100 might seem arbitrary, but what you're seeing is the tail end of a lot of technological advancement. It would not have been unheard of to use a film with a speed of 6 in the early days.
The speed of a film was determined by a standard process. The film was exposed to a scene with a known luminance range, then developed (in a standard developing chemical at a standard dilution for a standard amount of time at a standard temperature) to attain a standard contrast (density) range on the negative or transparency. That, of course, meant exposing the film for different lengths of times and at different apertures so that the developed image would eventually fall into the standard contrast range.
The contrast curve of the film was then examined to determine the amount of light required to make the minimum visible contrast difference between unexposed film (the fog density) and the darkest dark that was actually recorded. It is that amount of light (or, rather, the inverse of that amount -- 1/amount) measured in now-obsolete non-metric units, that determined the film's speed.
The process hasn't changed a lot. The calculations (for film) now involve a lot of conversion constants so that measurements made using current standard units closely match the speeds that would have been calculated using the older methodologies. You can't just obsolete all of the existing cameras and light meters on a whim, you know. And the results are rounded to the nearest standard film speed (based on the familiar 1/3 stop scale -- 100, 125, 160, 200, 250, 320,...).
Digital "film speeds" are calculated to adjust which data are used from the recorded data set, and match the exposure values (aperture and shutter speed) that you would have used had you been using film of that speed. The camera may do all kinds of mathematical trickery to increase or reduce the apparent contrast range when producing a JPEG to give a particular character to their "film", and may (depending on the camera) do a bit of analogue amplifying and bit-shifting in producing "raw" output as well.
I hope this comes close enough for government work -- I'd really prefer to avoid posting a bunch of graphs and equations if I can.
I think it's a case of inflation. Apparently original Kodachrome has an ISO (or, ASA, the older standard from which the current one is derived) value of 6. Yeah, 6. So it started out with a very small rational series of integers, and now we just happen to be at an era in technology where the baseline is in the triple digits.
There's another standard, the ISO log scale, which was taken from the German "DIN" scale, and that one counts by third-stops, so ISO 100 is 21°, ISO 200 is 24°, ISO 400 is 27°, and so on. Also somewhat arbitrary, but inflation is less of a problem — ISO 102,400 is just 51°.
On a tangentially-related note, it's really time to drop the false precision, as we already do with shutter speeds and with f-stops. We don't say
Technically, calling these numbers 'ISO numbers' in the context of digital cameras is wrong. The ISO (and DIN and ASA) standards for film sensitivity can't be applied to digital sensors as they're bound to the physical medium of photosensitive film. Correctly, these numbers should be called EI (for Exposure Index). They're also not applied quite consistently between camera manufacturers (or even camera models for a manufacturer) and don't quite match up with the actual ISO sensitivity for photographic film (iow, they're just an indication).
If it weren't for over 100 years of history of photographers haven gotten utterly familiar with the ISO, ASA, and DIN standards, a new system of numbers for EI might well have been adopted as you suggest as logical. But we're a conservative bunch (why do you think we still want cameras to look like they did in 1950? It's not just because the ergonomics work so well) and asking us all to leave our old familiar systems behind isn't going to make you many friends.


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Today i present you some programs, not installed by default, that i use in my day by day work and in my free time on my Linux computers.
Granola is an application that is used to save energy on your desktop or server. Granola saves energy by applying dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) to the CPU, so when you browse the net or you use a word processor the CPU frequency is scaled down and you save a bit of energy.
So a requisite for granola it's hardware support for Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS). DVFS is available on most modern Intel and AMD processors, but may require being enabled in your computer's BIOS (read this page for information on known models). If DVFS is not available, or turned off, Granola will let you know when it attempts to start up for the first time.
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I have a good routine and a long list of tasks to complete. But sometimes for a few days or weeks I go completely off the routine and don't even check the task list. Then its all games, reddit & twitter, followed by lots of guilt and even longer list of personal & professional tasks. I need suggestions to avoid falling off the routine as well as tips to get back onto the routine asap. Thanks in advance.
It's difficult to tell what causes your lapses in routine. A few different causes come to mind:
1) It may be just that you don't get enough free time in your regular schedule, so once in a while your mind rebels and refuses to do work at all. As the other answer says: make sure you get enough sleep, food, and breaks. Don't work long hours or weekends. Make sure you get some physical activity once in a while - it can do wonders for improving your concentration. Make sure you use your free time well and don't worry about work while you're not working, so that you actually feel rested and relaxed when you're back at work - otherwise you'll always end up just having a "short-term burnout" and ignoring work altogether for a while because there's no other way for you to to stop thinking about it.
2) It may be that your work isn't well-defined: you don't have a good priority list, or schedule, and you feel like you're working forever and not accomplishing anything or just not accomplishing enough. Try to improve your scheduling, keep track of your accomplishments for each week to make sure you remember you did do something useful (it's amazing how often I feel like I didn't until I check my list!). Perhaps adopt a specific productivity system such as GTD or Pomodoro - there's a lot more on those on this site, and I'm not an expert.
3) It's also possible that you just don't find your work interesting or challenging enough, and you should try to change it or move on to something else. Or, if you can't move on, find a personal project that will satisfy you, and try to find at least small things you can do differently at work that will make you feel like you're doing something interesting.
How to get back to the routine - I see a few different good approaches here:
1) Start by redoing your priorities list and deciding on a few things you should get done in the next few days, without worrying about whether you should have done those things already - concentrate on the future rather than the past, and set yourself specific and achievable short-term goals. This is the best option, but may or may not be possible, depending on just how low your motivation is.
2) Just pick something you know you'll enjoy working on, even if it's not on the top of the priority list, just to get you started. This is not the optimal solution, but if the alternative is guilt and lack of motivation keeping you on reddit and twitter for another day, it's better to at least start working on something.
3) Another solution that's not perfect but it's much better than nothing, and I've employed it successfully in the past when struggling with severe motivation issues - go on a mixed work/fun schedule. Set your computer to chime every fifteen minutes, and do just fifteen minutes of work, then fifteen minutes of games or whatever you feel like. Adjust the timing and ratio however works for you. The main point is to start doing just a little bit of work, rather than feeling crushed by the idea of having to do everything and thus not starting at all. Remember, on the first day even doing ten minutes of work in an hour is better than nothing! ;)
In any case, remember that while getting back to work after you fell off the routine is important, it's more important to figure out a routine you're not going to fall off of (if only because the routine includes "scheduled fall-off periods" for relaxation).
Your body works on energy (food, sleep) which powers your willpower. The more willpower you have the better you can control what you do.
If you work long hours and don't replenish your energy, your willpower will weaken. Thus you will be more vulnerable to impulsive 'enjoyments' instead of holding them off and working for a 'post-poned' reward.
My advice: Eat healthy, get enough sleep. Get enough breaks during the day. With plenty of willpower, you will be able to defend yourself better against impulsive behavior.
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You've been pregnant for almost six months and are, hopefully, feeling great in yourself. Don't, however, let this make you complacent. Even though your baby is well developed by this stage, it's important to maximize her health, and your own, by continuing to eat well and taking care of yourself. Changes, such as not smoking or drinking alcohol, will probably be part of your normal lifestyle now as opposed to something that you have to think about and work hard at. If you have not managed to change your lifestyle to become more healthy, then it is never too late to start. Any changes you make now will benefit both you and your baby.
While you'll need to adapt your exercise routine, if you have one, in these later stages, ensure you continue to be active and, ideally, do something physical every day, even if it's just a 20-minute stroll. Also keep up your daily Kegel exercises (see Try these simple steps to tone your pelvic floor:)-once the baby is born, you'll be thankful you did.
It may feel cumbersome to wear a seat belt while you're pregnant, but it is essential, and a legal requirement. The good news is it's possible to buckle up comfortably.
Don't be afraid to talk to your baby. To begin with, she will recognize lower-pitched sounds, such as deep male voices, more than higher-pitched sounds, like your partner's voice. This is good for you since it means that there is plenty of time for your baby to get to know your voice before she is born. After birth, your baby will recognize your voice and this will have a calming effect when she is distressed. So tell her about your day and even read to her-it helps create a bond.
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Does anyone know of a comprehensive security guide about important basics / fundamentals which should be done to secure a web-server / website? A web link would do.
closed as not a real question by nealmcb, D.W., AviD♦ Jul 4 '11 at 21:33
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To get started, you're probably going to want to focus on two things:
That's really two different specialties, and I don't think I'm going to be able to dig up a single document describing both... the ardent security nerd would also point out that this assumes you're working in a secure network with decent physical security, security policies and protections in other arenas.
Securing the Web Server
Hands down, you're best information is going to be web server specific - each one has it's own foibles. Sight unseen, I'd recommend this:
Yes, it's US DoD specific, but it's got some generally not so bad guidance.
I also really like NIST stuff:
Securing your website:
Hands down, my favorite site for secure web development is OWASP.
The information in this area is dense and there's a lot to take in no matter how you slice it. There's no one good checklist for web app security - you have to design security in from the start and be prepared to involve security considerations in all parts of development.
What I love about OWASP is their breakdown of specific issues, for example:
Gives you the problem, the threats, the vulnerabilities, examples, and some idea for what to do about it - pretty much everything I need, whether I'm the security analyst or the poor guy trying to fix the problem.
This is really a pretty stinking huge question. Based on your chosen tags it looks like you're asking for guidance on a LAMP stack, so we'll focus on that. There are already a number of related hardening questions posted, so for some additional insights check out these questions:
The specific techniques you take could depend highly on your environment and how your server will be used. Warning, this can take a lot of work in a test environment to build out and get done right. Followed by a lot of work to integrate into your production environment, and more importantly, business process.
First, however, check to see if your organization has any hardening policies, as those might be the most directly relevant. If not, depending on your role, this might be a great time to build them out. I would also recommend tackling each component separately from the bottom up.
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Hi all,
i have just upgraded my camera to a D700 and still have my NN3; is anyone using this combination? if not what are you using and is there a planned replacement for the NN5?
chees folks :)
Hi all,
i have just upgraded my camera to a D700 and still have my NN3; is anyone using this combination? if not what are you using and is there a planned replacement for the NN5?
chees folks :)
There will be a replacement but you have to wait a little bit.
What lens do you want to use with the D700? Normally I would use it with NN5, but you can give it a try with your NN3. Ask your local dealer if he has a NN5 in stock. Where do you live?
You should use a NN5 in that case. I use it with D700, D3 and Nikkor 14-24, quite heavy. The NN5 serves me very well, so if you do not want to shoot with long lenses which need 1,25°, a new option with the new ultimate serie, the NN5 will serve you.
Enjoy the photokina, and greetings from me to the guys at NN. May be you see Badders, reseller in UK. Or Vincen from France. Have a look to the new pole system!
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Hi Mark,
Did you contact me on eBay about the NN5 irregulars? If you are coming to Photokina I am here with the others from NN. See you here! We at in hall 4.1 stand F030
I use D700 with NN3 and 16 mm Nikon, it works fine, litle bit less obvious than 10.5mmm and D300. But in fact I'm not sure to found the perfect setup ....A= 62 et B= 82 ?
Of course D700 pictures are beautiful, but sometimes I have stitching problems, more than with the 10.5 mm.
Musée des Arts Forains. This only takes a couple of minutes at most during stitching, and the finished equirectangular panorama can also be levelled very easily. See http://www.johnhpanos.com/levtut.htm for PTGui help; Hugin and Autopano Pro have similar facilities.
D700 LRS NN5 61, NN3 62 URS 10.5 @ 85, 16mm @ 82, Sigma 8/f3.5 @ 94, Samyang 8mm/f3.5 @ 97. Stitch one to perfect and make a template of it.
I can see that you have errors at around 45 degrees where the zenith meets the 6 around.
Even if you have several mm errors on both LRS and URS they should stitch perfect in a room like the theatre.
Mine does even in a room of 1x1.5m with such errors.
This is typical for shift problems and you have the camera which seems to have the largest sensor shift of all I have seen reported.


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This week, I was privileged to have an old friend and former co-worker on a tour of the South Wing. This was the second time that we've had a special guest on one of our tours, and it was so very nice to be able to do this for these long-term retired employees.
The first special guest we had was our former Medical Director, Dr. Betty Lowe. She toured with us on August 12, and we were able to show her the entire building. Dr. Lowe worked here at ACH for many years, starting in the 1975 and retiring in 2001. She was instrumental in improving children's healthcare throughout the state of Arkansas, working with state and national political and governmental figures to improve access to healthcare. Dr. Lowe toured with our President/CEO, Dr. Jon Bates, our VP of Facilities, Larry Beckius, and yours truly, and it was by far one of my favorite tours in all the ones I have done over the past year. Dr. Lowe was all smiles and had such great stories of the past that she shared with us while we walked around. She was impressed with how far ACH has come over the years, and she especially loved the view of our hospital history that one can see when standing on our atrium bridge on the 4th floor of the South Wing.
The atrium bridge is the elevated walkway that takes a person from the current Main Hospital building all the way to the West Wing without having to go through a patient unit or other area. It overlooks the inside atrium garden area as well as the exterior roof garden. From the walkway, one can see all of the hospital history in the various buildings on the northern part of our campus. We have the original building, where the Arkansas Children's Home Society and Hospital was originally located when we were formed in 1912. Directly in front of that building, to the south, is a structure completed in the 1970s that houses our current Infant-Toddler Unit (ITU) and some offices. To the right and east of those buildings is our Main Hospital, completed in a series of construction times in the 1980s, with the PICU, new main lobby, and operating rooms that were completed in 2003. Finally, to the right and west of those buildings is our West Wing, completed in 1997. It houses our Cardiovascular Intensive Care and Neonatal Intensive Care Units as well as some clinics. Showing tourists this is a highlight of every tour, and it's quite fascinating to see how we have evolved from a small, one-building hospital to a large campus with more than 30 buildings!
The second special guest we had on the tour was our former Senior VP & Chief Nursing Officer, Christie Berner. Christie served in that role from 1996 through 2008, when she retired. She toured with us on January 3, and she was also very delighted to see the progress we've made. Since she was also here during a lot of the previous building projects, she had a lot of questions about how we were coming along on the South Wing and how this would provide even better services for our patients and families. She was such fun, and I truly enjoyed her being on the tour!
Several days a week I have the pleasure of taking tourists through our South Wing building for their first visit. I always enjoy showing off the facility and the progress we are making. It is even more enjoyable when it's a long-term, retired staffer returning to see how far we've come!
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I'm a nightowl by nature, always have been. I've read Steve Pavlina's strategies on changing this, I follow Lifehacker, and all sorts of things.
However, here's how my day goes (from midnight)
- Finally realise I'm feeling tired, or force myself to bed even if not tired, around 12:30-1.30 depending how distracted I am
- 1-2am fall asleep, if I'm lucky
- 7.15-7.30 depending on day, wake to alarm. Feel like death.
- struggle around house, getting ready and eating some food (a recent development)
- 8-8.15, head to work
- 9am-1pm - can barely keep eyes open
- afternoon - meh
- 5ish, start to notice I'm pretty wide awake. Feeling good. Coincidentally, it's hometime.
- 5-6pm, head off at some point
- 6-7pm arrive home, depending on evening.
- by 10pm, as wide awake as I've ever been today.
- repeat cycle.
Now, how on earth do I reverse that? Work is rough, I can barely focus with the lack of sleep. I've tried going to sleep earlier, but I usually end up stressing about not sleeping and over-wake, or occasionally I get what I call 'a broken off switch' and can't stop my mind going a mile a minute about a range of topics.


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What is the difference between impulse and momentum?
The question says it all...I know the second of of them is mass * velocity, but what is the first one for, and when is it used? Also, what are its units, and is there a symbol for it?
Given a system of particles, the impulse exerted on the system during a time interval $[t_a, t_b]$ is defined as $$ \mathbf J(t_1, t_2) = \int_{t_1}^{t_2} dt\,\mathbf F(t) $$ where $\mathbf F$ is the net external force on the system. Since one can show that the net external force on a system is given by Newton's second law by $$ \mathbf F(t) = \dot{\mathbf P}(t) $$ where $\mathbf P$ is the total momentum of the system, one has $$ \mathbf J(t_1, t_2) = \mathbf P(t_2) - \mathbf P(t_1) $$ In other words, the impulse is equal to the change in momentum of the system. The dimensions of these quantities are the same, namely mass times velocity.
You can think of impulse as kind of the "net effect" that a force has in changing the state of motion of a system. Here is an example to illustrate what I mean.
Imagine you're pushing a shopping cart. Let's say you push the cart with a constant force for a short period of time versus a long period of time. When you push it for a short period of time, then the integral of the force with respect to time will be smaller than when you push it for a long period of time, and the result will be that the cart's momentum will not change as much. However, if you were to push the cart for a short period of time, but if you were to push it very hard, then you could make up for the short period of time for which the force acts and still get the cart going fast.
The Upshot: The impulse takes into consideration both the effect of the force on the system, and the duration of time for which the force acts.
Impulse is defined as the change in momentum and shown as "J", or delta p. It has the same units as momentum (mass times velocity). It is calculated by multiplying F times T (force into time), which is useful for situations where there is a quick change in motion.
Impulse is a change in momentum. Naturally it has the same units. It's useful for whacks and thuds and bounces and other more or less sudden changes in motion.
Think of a golf ball struck by a club. Zero momentum initially. Whatever momentum it has after, as it begins to fly through the air. We might not know, or want to bother with, the exact instantaneous changing amount of force of the club on the ball. It happens quickly, and it's just the integral $\int^{after}_{before}F(t){dt}$ that matters to knowing how fast the ball is launched. We call this impulse, and it is equal to $p_{after}-p_{before}$.


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Nowadays Internet browsers is used not only to visit websites, but as a medium of using tools - from calendar, e-mail and documents (e.g. GoogleDocs) to a programming terminal (e.g. IPython Notebook).
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Multipart FormPanel unusable with files without accept-charset?
We are having a showstopper encoding issue with FormPanel when used to upload files. The HTML form is set to "multipart/form-data" but the API does not allow to change that to "multipart/form-data; charset=utf-8" or set the HTML form's accept-charset attribute to the desired charset.
A subclass cannot help since the FormPanel's form member is private and no getters are provided. I tried JSNI but it did not seem to work.
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Almost - check out http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/do...methods-fields for more information on how to do this.
Untested, but probably should look like
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Simply as the title says. I've done some research, but still haven't arrived at an answer I am satisfied with. I know the answer varies in different fields, but in general, why would someone study linear algebra?
Linear algebra is vital in multiple areas of science in general. Because linear equations are so easy to solve, practically every area of modern science contains models where equations are approximated by linear equations (using Taylor expansion arguments) and solving for the system helps the theory develop. Beginning to make a list wouldn't even be relevant ; you and I have no idea how people abuse of the power of linear algebra to approximate solutions to equations. Since in most cases, solving equations is a synonym of solving a practical problem, this can be VERY useful. Just for this reason, linear algebra has a reason to exist, and it is enough reason for any scientific to know linear algebra.
More specifically, in mathematics, linear algebra has, of course, its use in abstract algebra ; vector spaces arise in many different areas of algebra such as group theory, ring theory, module theory, representation theory, Galois theory, and much more. Understanding the tools of linear algebra gives one the ability to understand those theories better, and some theorems of linear algebra require also an understanding of those theories ; they are linked in many different intrinsic ways.
Outside of algebra, a big part of analysis, called functional analysis, is actually the infinite-dimensional version of linear algebra. In infinite dimension, most of the finite-dimension theorems break down in a very interesting way ; some of our intuition is preserved, but most of it breaks down. Of course, none of the algebraic intuition goes away, but most of the analytic part does ; closed balls are never compact, norms are not always equivalent, and the structure of the space changes a lot depending on the norm you use. Hence even for someone studying analysis, understanding linear algebra is vital.
In other words, if you wanna start thinking, learn how to think straight (linear) first. =)
Hope that helps,
Having studied Engineering, I can tell you that Linear Algebra is fundamental and an extremely powerful tool in every single discipline of Engineering.
If you are reading this and considering learning linear algebra then I will first issue you with a warning: Linear algebra is mighty stuff. You should be both manically excited and scared by the awesome power it will give you!!!!!!
In the abstract, it allows you to manipulate and understand whole systems of equations with huge numbers of dimensions/variables on paper without any fuss, and solve them computationally. Here are some of the real-world relationships that are governed by linear equations and some of its applications:
Arbitrarily large problems of the types listed above can be converted into simple matrix equations, and most of those equations are of the form
Linear algebra is so powerful that it also deals with small deviations in lots of non-linear systems! A typical engineering way to deal with a non-linear system might be to linearize it, then use Linear Algebra to understand it!
TL;DR version
Linear algebra is your ticket to multidimensional space. Study it if you are into economics, computer graphics, physics, chemistry, statistics or anything quantitative (in today's world, that's everything).
Meaning of "Linear" and why it is "Easy"
Since you are asking the question, perhaps you would benefit from a discussion of what "linear" means, and why it is "easy", as mentioned in some answers above.
The word "linear" is to be understood as in a linear function (a line) in calculus, such as
You will know that in calculus, the Taylor expansion of a function
If you use only the first two terms of the Taylor expansion of
If you set
you can see that this is a linear function just like
If you want to do slightly better, use the first two terms of the Taylor expansion of
How Linear Algebra Comes In
Now what do we do if we have a function that depends on several variables (or, which is the same, a variable x that is a vector containing these variables as components)? This is called multivariate calculus (because, multiple variables).
In that case,
As you have seen, the linear and quadratic approximations are the easiest ways to think about complicated functions
Linear algebra deals with vectors, matrices, and tensors, and how to operate them with each other so that everything makes sense and is useful.
In other words, linear algebra is your ticket to multidimensional space, such as the three-dimensional space we inhabit (e.g. computer graphics, physics) or the space of many variables a function depends on (economics, more physics).
Economics example: Price (our function
For the mathematician
Linear algebra is of course a rich field in its own right but I wanted to write a motivating explanation to aspiring students who do not yet know what it is and how it is relevant to their lives.
Patrick Da Silva gives a good answer, however I will expand. Well worth looking at his post when (or if) you do get into Linear Algebra and come back to this post a year later or so with some knowledge under your belt, as you can easily extend your studies for a couple of years by what he stated.
Your beginning motivation to study linear algebra is to put together what you initially learn in (mathematically) geometry and calculus and in (education) high school, college, or even first year or second year of university.
Imagine there's some "room" where everything you played around with in A-Levels or high-school was contained; $\sin(x), \cos(x), ln(x)$ were there, a definition of a field and some set theory.
Now suppose we want to understand this room. Suppose instead of looking at each little "person" in the room, we know that if they are in that room, they behave under a specific way.
Linear Algebra (and Algebra in general) allows us to classify and understand many objects, situations, spaces, to some basic context. At the a high undergraduate level, a remarkable theorem in Hilbert Spaces allows you to identify any separable Hilbert space to some specific, well-known Hilbert Space. This is just the work of the last paragraph in application.
Therefore, if you want structure, you need algebra. Linear algebra specifically so you can understand the basic structure.
One application of Linear Algebra is in the use of eigenvalues.
We can understand some specific systems; weather predictions, behaviour of people, game situations, etc, and the long run behaviour (as it approaches $\infty$ so as to speak) by instead of looking at some function $f(x)$, we look at some real value $\lambda$ such that $f(x)=\lambda x$ at some meaningful $\lambda$.
Linear Algebra allows us to start understanding basic linear systems with use of matrices and vectors.
Lastly, for a purely computational reason, Linear Algebra gives you many tools for proving many key theorems. The infinite dimensional Pythagorean theorem, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, Bessel Inequality, etc, are frequently used in many areas of mathematics to prove key theorems. This is good motivation for any subject.
I am pretty sure a solution to a system of linear equations and their representations as matrices is part of linear algebra. These kind of systems are used in just about every discipline. Also, things like vectors are...just too ubiquitous for me to articulate. The field of linear algebra is just the ground work of almost everything in science and higher math.
Linear Programming is also a term that i want to throw in. Many problems (no list here) can be expressed as a linear optimization problem. Being able to solve those efficiently means being able to solve an incredible amount of real-world problems . Although in some cases, there exist more efficient ways to solve a specific problem, the linear program and the theory behind it often gives rise to new ways to approach a problem.
Does linear optimizaion still count as Linear Algebra?
Personally I found that Linear Algebra is very sound - in particular compared to Calculus - and fun to study. Its soundness gives it a certain beauty :-)
In addition to the good points already made, one function of the linear course at many schools is that this is often the first place where serious attention is paid to reading and constructing rigorous proofs at a level beyond the all-too-common "handwaving" pseudo-proofs that appear in some calculus courses. As a result, at such places a linear algebra course can also provide a way for students to assess whether or not mathematics is going to be a good fit for them. Whether it is or isn't, most students come out of the course with a solid start towards mathematical maturity.
Because it's fun!
Linear algebra is stuff you see around every day: electricity, economics, they way your car handles.
Since most people never get to see this, it also gives you a view of the world that most people don't see. That adds an interesting human dimension to the knowledge.
Taking my examples, you understand why the un-sprung weight of your car is important? What would Marx think about adding friction to high-frequency trading? Why is your electricity supply AC instead of DC?
Right now, I am sitting at my desk at a aerospace company and due to the fact that no one solve the Navier-Stokes equations so far, our cluster is doing its best to solve all the liner systems which are results from our computation. Linear algebra is in my opinion the most important part of math in applied industry. Everything comes down to $Ax=b$, so you better pay attention when you're taught how to solve them ;)
When you learn ODE, solve some surface integral,do the circuit analysis or numerical analysis,systems control or so you will find it is useful. You will only find the true value of it when it's the time you relly need it.If you do not tend to a field links to engineering or math,it may not have vaule.It may like the ancient style prose, when you come to a situation like the ancient says you will find what they have said is ture and moral-philosophical.
Good question. I didn't understand Linear Algebra for a while.
In other areas of math - Calculus, Trigonometry, etc. - you learn complicated functions of one variable. $f(x) = x^4 + 5x^2 + 15$ Yes, you occasionally get equations with multiple variables, but that is never the goal. In Linear Algebra, you get simple functions with many variables. That's the key: simple functions of many variables.
Now, simple functions are boring. A huge piece of the study of Linear Algebra is figuring out how to use the complex functions with many variables. (I wish there was a good engineering textbook that presented this clearly!) One way is to apply the complex functions to the data before putting it into linear algebra. (This is done when curve-fitting data.) Another is to use partial derivatives to do a linear approximation of a complex function near a particular point in space. (Useful in physics.) Lastly, if you understand properties the matrices and the complex function, you can sometimes combine them directly. (E.g., applying the Taylor series expansion to the eigendecomposition.)
So, Linear Algebra is useful any time you have multiple variables. It's useful when you have many moving parts in an engine, concentrations of multiple chemicals in a test tube, many regions of atmosphere in a climate simulation, prices of stocks in a market, etc.. Even though some of those are non-linear systems, there are techniques that may make Linear Algebra useful.
POST SCRIPT: Linear Algebra textbooks are, in general, awful. They apply transpose to vectors. They focus on calculation rather than use. (E.g., how to compute a determinant.) They focus on irrelevant topics. (E.g., determinants.) Some adequate ones are by Axler and by Hoffman & Kunze, but both of those are for mathematician, not engineers.


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I know that Hashem is not physical but is He spiritual? Also does He exist in time?
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my (simplistic) understanding is that G-d created time and space, and he also created the human mind with an inability to understand anything that exists without those limits. It is therefore impossible to define Him within our limitations.
He isn't spiritual or physical. i dont think its possible to know what he is.
Wayon is quoting what is called Negative theology but to be more exact he is and is not The reason HE IS NOT IS BECAUSE BY ASCRIBING A character TO HASHEM IS IN TERMS Limiting HIM hence he IS NOT BUT HE IS ALSO.
HaShem is not physical, as He is Incorporeal. G-d exists for all eternity; and time does not exist in eternity. We cannot think of HaShem in terms of time because time is an accident of motion. Since G-d is incorporeal, and motion is an accident of matter, we cannot think of His moving from place to place, therefore.


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If the PHP script is accepting parameters in the URL such as
Or use an iptables rule such as
Having the php script modified would only be a few bucks on most freelance sites since it's pretty basic to add an if conditional statement that says if the URL entered is
I know this is somewhat hackish but it is dead simple to implement. If the script is attempting to connect to a dns based url (not an ip address based url), you could simply set your host file to point to 127.0.0.1 for that dns name only. This assumes you have no intention on browsing that particular site.
As a bonus, you can setup a virtual host locally to catch these requests and handle them however you want.
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Every time I upload a photo to facebook I'm disappointed; the photos just look really bad. What size do you recommend, dpi, etc? If it helps, I'm using lightroom.
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I use 72 dpi - Resize to fit checked - 720 pixels - Long Edge - Don't Enlarge checked. Sharpen for Screen - High. Quality 100 - sRGB - JPEG.
Facebook apparently applies a low pass filter (slight blur) to your images to make sure they compress better (or at least they used to), and then recompresses them at a higher ratio. The reason for blurring is that for a given jpeg quality (quantization) setting the more fine details you have the higher the filesize ends up being as these high frequency components can't be removed by the jpeg compression algorithm.
I wrote a custom action to prep images for facebook which identifies the out of focus areas, and blurs these whilst increases sharpening of other areas. This works for any system which compresses images to a fixed final filesize, as bits saved from the blurred areas are put to use providing more detail to the important areas!
For photos with a shallow depth of field this dramatically improves the overall quality without increasing the filesize.
Facebook's current maximum image viewing size is 720 pixels on the long edge (or both edges for square images.
I export at 100% JPEG quality, 72 DPI (though this is mostly irrelevant), and use Sharpen for Screen - Standard to sharpen them subtly after Lightroom resizes them.
Here is an example of the result that Facebook ends up with a sharp, high dynamic range photograph. Saved from Facebook and re-uploaded to here.
In this case, DPI is very likely irrelevant. DPI (dots per inch) is about how many pixels in each direction fit in a given physical distance, and that is mostly a function of the user's monitor.
If the picture is, say, 700 px wide, then it will always be 700 px wide regardless of whether the image claims 72 dpi or 300 dpi. A commonly cited number is that monitors have 72 dpi, but I'm not sure how accurate that is these days. Assuming for a second that it is accurate, the 700 px wide image would be 700 px / 72 dpi = about 9.72 inches wide, physically.
The DPI setting of the image might very well matter in desktop publishing software, word processors, and so on, that actually target their output primarily towards print, but I think it's pretty safe to say that web browsers ignore it.
Facebook has now increased the "long-edge" to 960 and all photos uploaded at 720 are "stuck" at the smaller rez.
Upload at the highest res you can because its most likely Facebook will increase the preview size in the future.
You should find out how large the image ends up being, and make it that size. That way it won't be resized, which reduces the sharpness.
Try to find out the maximum file size allowed, and adjust the quality setting to get below that size. Otherwise just save at best quality and let them reduce it when uploaded.
The PPI setting (often called DPI) is irrelevant for images that is shown on the screen. They are always sized according to pixels, not inches.
I usually export at 1440px (longest side), with strong sharpening. This is a 2x oversampling of the 720px that will be visible on the Facebook page. I got the best results this way (better than uploading a sharpened 720px image).
Note that it is a recommended sharpening method, to sharpen an image at exactly twice the final size and then downsize it accordingly. That way you get a very detailed result. The downsampling in this case is done by Facebook itself.
Note that people will be able to download that higher-res 1440px image as it is made available by Facebook (don't know if this can be avoided), and perhaps you don't want to publish that higher resolution image...
Today -- 2-29-12 -- I was messing around with Facebook's new Timeline conversion, since they're making us go there anyway, and could not get decent image quality AT ALL. What I finally did that seems to have worked really well is created an image that was exactly THREE TIMES the 72 ppi resolution -- 216 ppi -- and I left it at exactly five inches wide. (I wasn't going to screw around with also trying to figure out the physical size aspect.) Anyway, that worked really well and my final main Timeline image looked FAR sharper than it had before. FB definitely does some tweaking to the images we upload; this approach seems to have worked very well. Good luck....
I am not a photographer but I have experience with images for the web, including uploading images to facebook. It is my experience that what facebook does is resize an image based on the ratio between its KB size and its dimension (similar to what @Guffa said). For example, if an image is 815x315 and under 60kb Facebook wont touch it (at least not that I could notice). But if you upload a 100 kb image with the same dimensions Facebook will run it thru its JPEG compression).
What I do is save it as 72dpi JPEG at 100% quality (optimize checked) then run it thru www.jpegmini.com. So I don't know if @Matt Grum will share his action, but what he is essentially doing is actually the heart of the JPEGmini "trick".


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text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Beyond the Baseline Daily Bagel: Federer takes on role as back-room power broker by Courtney Nguyen Twitter Email Posted: Thu Nov. 8, 2012 The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.• Video: Peter Gabriel (legend!) was at the O2 Arena to take in Novak Djokovic's win over Andy Murray and the ATP caught up with him. Fun to hear celebrities talk tennis.• Doug Robson reports for USA Today on Roger Federer's very hands-on role on the player council, particularly his involvement in prize money issues. While Federer's been flying around the world taking hours and hours of meetings, he says Rafael Nadal's been silent on player issues while he's been off the tour rehabilitating his knee.Federer has been called out by his peers, including his arch-rival Rafael Nadal, for perhaps hewing too closely to his cautious Swiss roots and not pushing hard enough for change. But Federer was not shy in pointing out that in his extended absence due to knee problems, 26-year-old Nadal has been largely MIA from the players' push for a larger share of revenues from the majors."Players do look up to Rafa, so it would be nice to see him maybe a bit more engaged," Federer said.• If you missed Jon Wertheim's smackdown on the ATP's decision to decline Larry Ellison's offer of an $800,000 prize money increase at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, you missed a good one. Jon pulls no punches. Yet another example of tennis' internal conflicts of interest undermining the growth and health of the sport. Turning down prize money when you've spent the year screaming about prize money? You have got to be kidding me.If Ellison boosted the Indian Wells prize money, how would that make other events -- most obviously the IMG-owned Miami event the following week -- look? And ... well, actually, there are no other logical reasons why an organization tasked with growing and improving the sport would turn down a volunteer increase in money. Yet, that's what happened. With IMG's representative allegedly leading the charge, the three tournament representatives on the board rejected the prize money increase. The ATP's CEO, Brad Drewett, invertebrately declined to take action. And the measure died.• Speaking of the IMG-owned Sony Ericsson Open, Miami-Dade voters approved $50 million in renovations for Crandon Park, the facility that hosts the tournament every year. That's great news for the tournament and for Crandon Park, an awkward concrete jungle that needs the facelift.• Andy Roddick says he rarely roots for someone new to win a Slam, but he made an exception for Andy Murray."He gets it. He gets what it takes. It just seems that over the years he became more and more motivated, perhaps because of the pressures that were put on him, he almost took it the other way and ratcheted it up and worked harder, that is something you respect," Roddick said."I don't think you could have known that about him when he was 19 years old. He has taken his lumps, every defeat for him got magnified and to see him break through... I was really truly happy to see him have his success.• The USTA donated $400,000 in supplies and cash to Superstorm Sandy relief efforts.• With Tomas Berdych's three-set win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Wednesday night, all Group A matches on Friday will be live rubbers, with upwards of 10 mathematical possibilities for each player to qualify. Here's a look at some of the scenarios. Can we get Nate Silver in here?• Non-tennis: The Big Picture has a gallery of election day photos. See or read something that you enjoyed and want to share? Feel free to email or tweet us links to pieces from around the Internet that may have slipped past our radar. More Beyond the Baseline


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Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy
Summary: Information foraging shows how to calculate your content strategy's costs and benefits. A mixed diet that combines brief overviews and comprehensive coverage is often best.
How much information is enough? How much is too much? And, most importantly, how much information is optimal?
Information foraging gives us a way to formally model user trade-offs in deciding how much to read on your website. More precisely, diet selection is a modeling tool that tells us what food animals will eat and what articles users will read. In both scenarios, animals and people decide what to consume in a way that optimizes their benefits relative to the costs.
For example, say a forest is inhabited by large and small rabbits. Which will the wolf eat? The obvious answer might seem to be "large rabbits" because they provide the biggest benefit in terms of filling the stomach. But if the big bunnies run faster and are harder to catch, the benefit decreases. Much better to eat lots of small tasty bites if tiny bunnies are easier to nab.
So, basically, the wolf must eat more calories than it expends pursuing prey. The real question is not which prey provides the most food, but how you get the most food relative to the cost of chasing it down.
The cost/benefit ratio is what matters, not the benefit alone.
Exactly the same is true for informavores. A long article might contain more information, but if it takes too long to read, users will abandon the website and read shorter, easier pieces elsewhere.
Cost/Benefit Metrics for Reading
To formalize the model, we must quantify the costs and benefits of reading different articles.
Cost is easy to model: we calculate it as the amount of time it takes to read an article. For an intranet, this would be a direct cost in dollars, because we're paying employees for every minute they spend reading stuff during working hours. For a website, time is a more indirect cost, because users don't get paid to surf the Web. But still, life is short, and you only have so many hours in the day. Even if users don't get paid, they're still conscious of their time and don't like wasting it.
Benefit can be modeled by hypothetical benefit units that represent whatever value users get from online information. For a B2B user researching a company purchase, the benefit units translate directly into dollars, because they represent the extent to which the company gets a better deal or decides to buy a better product as a result of that user's time on the Web.
For home users, benefits might also have a dollar value. For example, if you're looking into buying airline tickets, the benefit of checking one more site or one more alternate departure time would be the average savings on the airfare that resulted from using a richer data set to decide which ticket to buy.
If people are browsing the news or reading an entertainment site, the benefit units would represent the amount of enjoyment they got from each page.
Example: Long vs. Short Articles
Let's work through an example, using the following values for our cost-benefit metrics:
Short articles:
- 600 words, meaning a cost of 3 minutes to read (assuming a reading speed of 200 wpm)
- 7 benefit units gained from reading each article
Long articles:
- 1,000 words, meaning a cost of 5 minutes to read
- 10 benefit units gained from reading each article
- Finding a new article to read: 1 minute
The following chart shows how the accumulated benefit units increase as a user keeps reading short articles ( blue curve) or long articles ( red curve):
The dots on the curves represent points of change — that is, when the user stops reading one article, starts searching for something else to read, and starts reading the next article. No benefit is gained during the user's search time.
(Here, I use the term "search" to indicate any user activity aimed at finding the next interesting article, whether it's using a search engine, a site's navigation system, or any other method of finding the next thing to read.)
The chart clearly shows that users gain more benefit from sticking to a diet of short articles. The cumulative benefit is as follows:
- Short articles: 105 benefit units per hour
- Long articles: 100 benefit units per hour
The conclusion is clear: people prefer to read short articles. This is also what we've found in empirical studies of users' behavior while reading websites. People tend to be ruthless in abandoning long-winded sites; they mainly want to skim highlights.
Benefit of Cutting Word Count
If you read my assumptions carefully, you'll notice why the math favors short articles: I assumed that short articles were 60% of the length of the long articles but still provided 70% of the benefit.
Is this realistic? In most cases, I'd say yes. A good editor should be able to cut 40% of the word count while removing only 30% of an article's value. After all, the cuts should target the least valuable information.
When Long Has Value
Now, let's change the assumptions and assume that every third long article is 3 times more valuable than the previous two. In other words, 2/3 of the long articles continue to provide the user with 10 benefit units' worth of information, but 1/3 of the long articles now have a benefit value of 30 .
This scenario corresponds to the occasional situation in which you really, really need to know everything about a problem.
For example, consider a rare disease in which sufferers risk death if they eat 6 particular foods: 4 common foods, and 2 foods that almost nobody eats anyway. If you're reading about the disease out of idle curiosity, you'll probably be satisfied with a short article covering the four common foods. If you just got diagnosed with this disease, however, you won't be content reading an article that says: "there are 6 things that'll kill you, but we won't talk about 2 of them because they're rare." You'll obviously want the long article that will warn you about all the things you need to avoid.
The following chart shows the cost-benefit curves under this new assumption:
The blue line shows the progression of gains from reading only short articles (the same curve as in the previous chart). The red line shows the gains from reading long articles under the new assumptions: for every third article, the benefit jumps up and thus considerably outpaces the blue line.
The obvious conclusion is that long articles are better now that they're sometimes more valuable.
But there's a third behavior users can choose: a mixed diet, where they sometimes read short articles and sometimes read long ones. The green line shows this reading behavior.
For the mixed diet, we have to change the assumptions about the time needed to identify the next article to read. I'll assume that this now takes 1.2 minutes, versus 1 minute for the simpler scenario in which people always read a single type of article. This increase accounts for the extra overhead of having to consider both types of articles and decide when to read what.
Decisions take time, which is why it's often best to offer a simple user interface rather than one with many options. Every extra thing users can do requires consideration, which takes time away from actually using the features.
In this case, the green line is even better than the red line, because users don't waste time on the 2/3 of the long articles that aren't sufficiently valuable.
In the new scenario, users' cumulative gains from the different reading strategies are:
- Short articles: 105 benefit units per hour
- Long articles: 167 benefit units per hour
- 2/3 short articles + 1/3 long articles: 181 benefit units per hour
Mathematical Models vs. Real Life
Of course, in real life, you don't need in-depth information exactly every third time you read an article.
But the general idea in my model is extremely realistic:
- Reading benefits vary, depending on user circumstances.
- Most of the time, short articles contain more value per word.
- People sometimes gain higher value from complete or very detailed information about a problem.
The exact numbers in my calculations are merely assumptions for the sake of the exercise. You can run similar calculations for your type of material and your type of users.
What Should You Do?
So: should your website have concise or in-depth content?
- If you want many readers, focus on short and scannable content. This is a good strategy for advertising-driven sites or sites that sell impulse buys.
- If you want people who really need a solution, focus on comprehensive coverage. This is a good strategy if you sell highly targeted solutions to complicated problems.
Typically, people who really need something are the highest-value users because they're more likely to turn into paying customers. That's why I recommended writing articles instead of blog postings.
But the very best content strategy is one that mirrors the users' mixed diet. There's no reason to limit yourself to only one content type. It's possible to have short overviews for the majority of users and to supplement them with in-depth coverage and white papers for those few users who need to know more.
Of course, the two user types are often the same person — the one who's usually in a hurry, but is sometimes in thorough-research mode. In fact, our studies of B2B users show that business users often aren't very familiar with the complex products or services they're buying and need simple overviews to orient themselves before they begin more in-depth research.
Hypertext to the Rescue
On the Web, you can offer both short and long treatments within a single hyperspace. Start with overviews and short, simplified pages. Then link to long, in-depth coverage on other pages.
With this approach, you can serve both types of users (or the same user in different stages of the buying process).
The more value you offer users each minute they're on your site, the more likely they are to use your site and the longer they're likely to stay. This is why it's so important to optimize your content strategy for your users' needs.
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Thousands of moviegoers across South Central Kentucky are getting a sneak preview of the controversial "The Passion of the Christ" film before it's released.
A coalition of churches from the Glasgow area sponsored two free screenings on Monday night that drew a combined crowd of over 1,000. Church leaders say the majority of the audience turning out for the screenings is regular churchgoers, but they hope to attract curious non-church attendees as well.
Parents concerned about the movie's R rating and graphic violence are previewing the movie before they bring their kids, but several eight to 12-year-old children came to Monday night's screening, with parents in tow. Most who spoke to WBKO say the movie's violence wasn't too much for the kids.
Church leaders handed out companion books and collected feedback forms to try and follow-up with audience members who wanted more information.
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Going independent?
First off, I should note that I'm not a game developer/designer/artist. My talent for art and mental capacity for math didn't quite support that route. I went for law, which is something I notice doesn't really pop up on the "game career" meter. I'm actually a little amazed at how little advice/discussion there is on business matters generally when it comes to jobs, etc.
I'd like to get an idea on how people feel about working independently? Getting a job with an established development firm or company is difficult in EVERY industry, and I doubt the gaming industry is any different. With internet distribution and the possibilities presented by mobile technology I would think that at least a few people right out of school would consider doing independent work, if only to get some experience so they can move on to the big leagues.
Who here has experience with independent work, and what would your advice be to those looking to start their own or work for an existing indie? What are some of the CYA suggestions you'd give a student interested in going out on their own? What are some of the risks involved?
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I read Indie Game Development Survival Guide and honestly I would say that it is 'easier' to get a job with an established company then it is to go the Indie route given some of the horror stories I have heard.
The platform everyone seems to recommend to really go Indie on is the PC because the entry to development is very low, plenty of license free engines are available and there are many routes to distribution (self publish, Steam, PopCap etc). The problem is standing out enough to break even or a profit.
However this seems to be changing now with more digital distribution choices for Console and Handhelds. The ones that come to mind are WiiWare, Apple iPhone SDK and to an extent XNA on PC/360.
Going with independent work is not something people recommend doing without prior experience in the industry, although it is entirely possible, how long would it be until you see your first profit after you finish development?
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I 100% agree with yaustar on this one. Yes digital distribution is making it easier for indies to sell their games, but selling the games is not the largest hurdle you're going to face. Gone are the days where one guy could make a game in his basement. You need a team - a good team that's going to work for free or even negative income for an indeterminable amount of time. You need people knowledgeable about the industry and the market, not just their respective disciplines.
Honestly I would recommend building a team around a mod first. Visit the forums for some of the games that come packaged with engines. Check out teams that are recruiting, or if you insist, recruit your own. If you all can work together and release a fully-functional module, then you might be able to release a fully-functional game.
The most important thing about indie work though, above everything else, is scope. So many people want to make the next Bioshock or Mass Effect not realizing that those games are created by a studio with hundreds of employees in very specialized disciplines and funded by big-name publishers who can offer them enough resources to make such a game. Shoot for a great game in a small package. Target a niche. Make board game prototypes first. Test the integrity of your team before you invest in indie development.
But don't let what I've said discourage you too much. Research and educate yourself to the bursting point, and if you still feel very passionate about the pros and even the cons of indie development, then go for it. Just be prepared for all the work (and then some) without any of the glory.
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In collaboration with the Animation World Network, the largest animation-related publishing group on the Internet, Shapeways is proud to announce a new design contest. All character modelers and animators from around the world are invited to participate in the contest entitled "Does Your Character Have Character."
The contest should prove to be challenge due to the fact that it is a 3D printing contest. Because of the maximum polycount of 100,000 and a definition of 0.2mm in the produced model, all the high end methods associated with shading, lighting etc have to be thrown out the window. It's strictly back to basics. The aim of the contest: what does your character represent and how do you show that with your model. The focus: design and the limitless creativity one has for it.
To enter the contest simply upload your model to Shapeways and add the tag AWN to it. You can submit designs to the contest until October 20th. The winner will will be announced on the 30th of October. The winner will receive a $250 Shapeways certificate for 3D Printing. The top three designs will also be featured on Shapeways and AWN.
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GATESVILLE (October 31, 2012)-A former Gatesville preacher who is charged with capital murder in his wife's fiery death was seeking Wednesday to have his trial delayed.
David Allen is charged in the March 22, 2011 death of his wife Paula in a house fire.
Prosecutors already said they will not seek the death penalty.
Allen was set for trial on Dec. 3 in Judge Trent Farrell's 52nd District Court,. but his attorneys on Wednesday presented a motion for continuance to delay that start.
Farrell, after a hearing that lasted about an hour, said he would take the matter under advisement.
Attorneys from the West Texas Regional Public Defenders For Capital Cases, based in Lubbock, are defending Allen.
District Attorney David Castillo was not immediately available for comment.
Allen remains in the Coryell County Jail in lieu of $700,000 bond.
He was indicted in February, accused of setting the fire deliberately, using a flammable accelerant.
Paula Allen, 54, was found dead just inside the front door of a mobile home behind the New Life Church of Restoration just east of Gatesville.
The church has since changed its name.
An initial autopsy report showed Paula Allen died of smoke inhalation and thermal burns.
David Allen was able to escape the flames that morning, but said he was overcome by smoke as he tried to rescue his wife.
He reported he was asleep in the living room and his wife was asleep in a bedroom when the fire broke out just after 1 a.m. on March 22, 2011.
Coryell County Justice of the Peace Coy Latham said earlier Allen reported that he awoke to the flames, jumped out of a living room window and ran around the mobile home to try to save his wife, who he said was in a back bedroom.
Gatesville Fire Chief Billy Vaden said firefighters tried to get into the back of the mobile home to find the woman, but the roof caved in before they could make entry.
David Allen did not require medical attention.