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Unanswered: Touch Charts will consistently crash iPad's Safari when Created and Destroyed
I need to initially show a set of up to 4 charts and then be able to switch the view to show another set of up to 4 charts and do this repeatably. When I do this with a fixed set of data, I can consistenly crash the iPad Safari browser at the same point. However this does not happen when running on Chrome or Safari Desktop (Windows or Mac) nor will it happen when using the iOS Simulator.
I have narrowed it down to the chart component by replacing it with a Panel and then re-running the test scripts. It has not yet crashed Safari. Further more, if I alter the number of points to chart, the iterations of showing a new set of charts before it crashes changes as well and is repeatable. The more items in the chart's store, the fewer iterations it takes before Safari crashes. The stores for the charts are loaded using the loadData() method with the append flag set to false.
Example test case-
- Show a Panel containing 3 charts with 80 points on Chart 1 and 500 points on Charts 2 and 3
- Show a Panel containing 2 charts with 80 points on Chart 1 and 500 points on Chart 2. (The Panel containing the 3 charts was removed from the viewport by doing a removeAll(true) on the containing Panel and then destroy() the Containing Panel before I add the new panel.)
- Show a Panel containing 4 charts with 80 points on Chart 1, 500 points on Charts 2 and 3 and 25 on Chart 4.
I suspect its a memory related issue and from what I have been reading, there is no garbage collection on iOS so these DOM elements that have been removed from the DOM tree are still hanging around and never be released. Is that true? If so then what does the destroy() actually do?
24 Aug 2011 2:02 PM #2
What series are you using?
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They are all JSONStore
The project I sent you regarding the Time Axis scaling is the same one I am using to test this with so you can see what I am seeing as well.
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Are you re-using the same store(s) for these charts or are the new stores each time? It sounds like an issue with the stores.
26 Aug 2011 8:02 AM #5
Jamie, I thought so too but I think I made this so it would not be the case.
For this testcase I created 4 initially empty JsonStores: store_Chart1, store_Chart2, store_Chart3 and store_Chart4. Every time I created a new chart, it would use that same store. I then do a loadData(false) on the store to simulate new data.
Using Chrome's Developer Tools Profile, I took 2 heap snapshots, 1 when I initially show the page and 1 after I switch to a new set of charts. In the DOMWindow my Namespace where I have the stores does not increase in size (I am looking at the Retained Size) and the Store variables are the same.
However the Ext object gets larger (again looking at the retained Size) while my namespace object stays the same and even drops in subsequent snapShots.
Doing a Comparison of 2 snapshots, the (array) constructor seems to be growing by about 1-2 MB on each snapshot. A random look through the objects allocated all seem to be Ext.Element.extend.constructor (in the el property). There is also a quite a few of these in the "freed" area.
1 Comparison has 29,187 allocated and 7876 freed if that means anything.
26 Aug 2011 11:49 AM #6
I did some more analysis on this using a single chart.
I added a single chart then removed it and viewed another single chart. I then took a heap snapshot. I then removed that chart and viewed another single snapshot with a single chart and took a heap snapshot of that as well. Doing a comparison of the 2 snapshots, I was able to see that the panel that contained the chart was added for 3.03K and 1 was freed at 3.03K. I had 10,182 objects allocated and 3970 freed between these 2 snapshots. I saw that I had 269 796Byte objects allocated but 38 796Byte objects freed. Doing a random sample of these allocated objects most were Ext.row.engine.canvas.Ext.extend and Ext.draw.Matrix.Ext.extend. Of the 796B objects that were freed (38), I just saw 2 of them. The rest were mostly my components that were destroyed when I removed the old chart before I drew the new one.
There were 226 412 Byte objects created but only 32 freed. They looked like part of the axis and tickmarks since I was seeing "color: #fff" properties and x properties. My axis is white. I did not see them in the freed list.
I hope that helps.


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Consider the following quote from the Wikipedia entry Coalgebra:
The kernel of every coalgebra morphism $f : C_1 \to C_2$ is a coideal in $C_1$, and the image is a subcoalgebra of $C_2$.
I can't see any qualifiers preceding or succeeding the statement. Am I missing something obvious here, or is this just plain wrong?
Do there not exists kernels of coalgebra maps that are not coideals?

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Gardner syndrome
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familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) that is characterized by multiple colorectal polyps and various types of tumors, both benign (noncancerous) and malignant (cancerous). People affected by Gardner syndrome have a high risk of developing colorectal cancer at an early age. They are also at an increased risk of developing other FAP-related cancers, such as those of the small bowel, stomach, pancreas, thyroid, central nervous system, liver, bile ducts, and/or adrenal gland. Other signs and symptoms of Gardner syndrome include dental abnormalities; osteomas (benign bone growths); various skin abnormalities such as epidermoid cysts, fibromas (a benign tumor of the connective tissue), and lipomas; and desmoid tumors. It is caused by changes (mutations) in the APC gene and inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. Although there is no cure for Gardner syndrome, management options are available to reduce the risk of cancer. These may include high risk screening, prophylactic surgeries and/or certain types of medications.[1][2][3]Gardner syndrome is a form of
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- Hemant Singhal, MD, MBBS, FRCSEd, FRCS(C). Gardner syndrome. Medscape Reference. June 2014; http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/190486-overview.
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- Kory W Jasperson, MS and Randall W Burt, MD. APC-Associated Polyposis Conditions. GeneReviews. March 27, 2014; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1345/. Accessed 4/6/2015.
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The 200-th anniversary of the birth of Galois will be on October 25th, 2011. For Abel's bicentennial birth year in 2002, Norway had a big conference and initiated the Abel prize. A cursory web search doesn't reveal any major (or minor) conference to mark the bicentennial for Galois. Is there something being planned that hasn't been broadly announced yet?
[Edit: Before posting this question, I looked at the number theory conference page http://www.numbertheory.org/ntw/N3.html and found nothing there related to my question.]
I realize that is not a math research question, but I don't think it should be closed since it should interest many users of this site, it should have a definite answer, and it is not "argumentative", "too localized" (at what prime?) or "not a real question".
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Any hair care experts on here?
I have a Groupon to a beauty school, where I plan to get some hair health stuff done like scalp conditioning, deep conditioning, hot oil, etc. I also have a Groupon to a hair salon where I plan to get my hair cut and colored (from natural red with some grey to a somewhat brighter red with no grey). I'm doing both in the next couple of weeks before leaving on vacation. My question is, which should I do first? Get the conditioning done to protect my hair from the chemicals of coloring? Or have it conditioned afterwards to make it silky after being colored? Will either option affect my color? Thanks! I don't do a lot of salon-type stuff so I am not sure which is the best way to proceed.
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I am no expert and don't know the condition of your current hair, but if I were you I would get the cut and color first. If you are truly uncertain you can always call and ask them for their professional advice on what to do first.
Beauty school? I'd call the actual salon where you purchased the groupon, and ask which they recommended doing, without telling them you weren't going to do both at the salon.
I agree with @shrdlu, but personally (having attended beauty school for esthiology) I know going to a student can be hit or miss but usually more of a miss. Sorry, it may not be nice to say but I would probably go to the school first and then the salon.
Also, you say you are going on vacation? I assume that may entail salt water or chlorine which = bad idea for just-colored-hair. But getting just a deep conditioning will help protect it while you are there.
Refer to this article: http://www.dailymakeover.com/trends/summer-hair-care-dos-and-donts/
"DON'T color your hair before a beach vacation."
Thanks! There will be beaches involved as we are going to Costa Rica. Most of the activities we have planned are on land, just because that's what we are finding online. But there will certainly be some ocean swimming involved. I see from the article that the issue is more about sun than the water. We have more sun here in the high elevation desert where I live than Costa Rica. But I might go ahead and get the color done now as it is still a couple of weeks out. I appreciate you all taking the time to respond. Learn something every day-- I had never heard of dry shampoo before.
I would do the salon first. At my salon they offer a service where they do a deep conditioning treatment immediately following a color process - I'd assume it is that way for a reason. I always like to condition my hair after a coloring.
I went on a Carribean vacation shortly after coloring my hair this year (also red). My stylist recommended a UV protection spray which I used then and still do if I will be outside a lot. It helped prevent fading and red is notorious for fading badly. Mine usually does.
@mkdr: Cool. It never occurred to me to get sunscreen for my hair. But it's a good idea. I'll have to ask as the salon. Thanks!
I'm seriously jealous about Costa Rica..... good luck with your hair adventures anyway. :) I just wanted to chime in about dry shampoo. I remember when my brother was in a coma in 1980 the nurses would use dry shampoo on him, obviously because he couldn't shower. I'm sure it has evolved a lot since then, but the concept isn't really new. Have a safe and enjoyable trip!
@moondrake: Paul Mitchell Color Protect is what I use. Not sure if this is the best price, I usually buy mine at Ulta or my salon in person.
If the salon operator uses high quality products, there should be no need to condition your hair after having it cut and colored there. Have you thought of waiting until after your trip to see if it needs conditioning. I have straight, straight hair, and conditioner relaxes any curl or body. I rarely use it. If your hair actually requires a treatment, then by all means get it. I would most likely wait on all of it until the return from Costa Rica. Have a wonderful time!


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Kid Rock
During his long tenure in the entertainment world, Kid Rock has demonstrated the kind of pimpin' credibility that can only come with the willingness to wear an emerald rockabilly pant suit.
In "Cowboy," Kid Rock alternates between running off with someone's newly betrothed and being wildly gyrated against by go-go dancers.
The dancers are particularly impressive, since Kid's animal magnetism must have been so great they were compelled to spontaneously cast off their clothes and gyrate in the middle of the road. Or, perhaps the matter in Kid's pimp hand was so dense that it collapsed all non-pimping matter, tearing the fabric off the ho/time continuum, opening a wormhole from which they appeared. Thanks to NASA's hard-on for Mars, we may never have the scientific resources to know definitively.
The greatest feather of validation in his cap would have to be his once romantic link with Pamela Anderson. That kind of high profile dating is certainly notable, although in Hollywood circles it is about as rarefied as the rest of the world riding public transit.
Why he's mistaken:
If you could simultaneously hybridize both the prominent features and fashion sense of The Simpsons' Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel and either of the Nelson brothers you have essentially brewed Kid Rock.
Kid Rock understands that the more interesting the clothing he selects, the less interesting he actually has to be. No matter how much gusto he puts into his straight, pimpin' redneck retardery, there is nothing that can outshine the fact that he sports a moustache that barely pubescent Filipino boys can trounce.
With all of his homies, his entourage and throngs of followers, any number of people could have staged an intervention on his "moustache" by now, and yet it persists.
Notorious B.I.G.
Though his flow usually focused on dark storytelling, some of his more mainstream songs like "Big Poppa" and "Hypnotize" allowed Biggie an outlet for his sensitive side. He wanted the world to know he was a Renaissance man who didn't just slap bitches, but just frequently had sex with them. In the video for "Hypnotize," he managed to convey that message while on an epic run from the law with Diddy (or as he was known then, the dude who whispers "that's right" in the background of Biggie's songs). The chase finds them in a boat trying to outrun three helicopters, as well as attempting to escape from six motorcycles in a car driving exclusively in reverse. For two enterprising pimps, they had a tendency to choose unballin' modes of evasion.
His lyrics spoke clearly for him, even if he seldom did.
"Girlfriend here's a pen, call me round 10
Come through, have sex on rugs that's Persian (that's right)"
Biggie is suggesting that he was such a mack that he had to pencil appointments into his bustling sex schedule. Not only would he rock their world, he also would introduce them to luxuries like sex on a throw rug.
"At last, a nigga rappin' bout blunts and broads
Tits and bras, menage-a-tois, sex in expensive cars ..."
We're not sure what B.I.G. had against conventional beds, but it didn't keep him from sexing up a few lucky ladies in his hoopdie. Likely while driving in reverse.
Why he's mistaken:
He might be one of the greatest rappers, ever, but to say Biggie wasn't a handsome man is a bit of an understatement. To this day, our nation's top scientists have been unable to conclude if Notorious B.I.G. looked more like an obese Boston Terrier ...
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Prince, or the Artist Seldom Known As Subtle, has insisted since day one he is sex incarnate. While some singers occasionally bolster the notion with suggestive dancing or lyrical turns, Prince has opted it as his entire shtick.
The best part is it takes zero familiarity with his catalog to notice this. Just browse a selection of his song titles to make that case.
"Dirty Mind"
"Do Me Baby"
"Gett Off"
"I Wanna Be Your Lover"
"I'm Yours"
"In Love"
"My Love Is Forever"
"Nasty Girl"
"Nothing Compares 2 U"
"Sexy M.F."
"Soft and Wet"
"The Greatest Romance Ever Sold"
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"
On a side note: He's so overtaxed with his sexing that he doesn't even have time to spell out "to" or "you" in any of his song titles or lyrics, but rather juxtaposes with "2" and "U". Impressive!
Why he's mistaken:
Prince has postured himself as some kind of other-worldly, almost ethereal, sex-monger. Unfortunately for Prince, there is a sizable rift where fantasy and reality depart for mainstream sexiness. Ladies, identify which of the below characteristics your Ultimate Male Sex Symbol would embody.
[] Bouffant hairdo
[] Pencil-thin pedophile moustache
[] 5-foot-2, except when wearing heels
[] Wears eyeliner
[] Wrote a song called "If I Was Your Girlfriend," probably while wearing heels
Furthermore, while we understand musicians often leverage the power of wardrobe to give them an exotic style and indelible mental image, it also serves the distinct advantage of drawing attention away from their face. Whether it's ass-less pants or testosterone-less man blouses, Prince is always primped to make an impression. Even if you previously thought Prince was an institution to sexy, watch what happens to his mystique when he is removed from his normal couture and slides into a McDonald's uniform.
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Some guy on warcraft 3 hacked one of my members accounts and messed with a lot of stuff im a newb when it comes to hacking but I need some way to get pay back on this loser. Any ideas?
there is nothing we can do. U post some questions regarding something and we will let u know the thing. U should take ur own revenge.
Just for a little info if someone hacked the guys account then maybe that guy shoud be more protective think about installing some nice security i highly reccomend a program that tells u all ips listening on ur network. scan for keyloggers and such also report this guy to the game creators once u found his ip


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This seems like a simple thing to do, but for some reason no one's been able to give me a clear answer at all. If I'm working with one stereo full mix track and one vocal track, how can I get the full mix to duck down when the voice over comes in? I haven't got any external hardware to work with -- just the base ProTools 8 plugins.
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Set up a compressor on the stereo track (PT's own will do). Send the vocal track through a bus(mono) into the sidechain input of the compressor. Make sure to activate the sidechain, it's the knob with the key on it in the Sidechain section of the plugin.
Experiment with the knobs in order to get it to sound smooth.
Depends on what you are working on though. For bigger projects like commentary on a feature film it's a time saver bu not always the best choice.
I wouldn't recommend it for smaller things like ads or infomercials, then it's best to do a volume automation manually.
It can be hard to make it sound natural and smooth, bear in mind that in order to duck a signal it needs to reach the threshold first. So it'll never be as good as manual volume control.
Hope this helps.
Finally experiment with the compressor parameters to find out your ducking amount. For example try this: Ratio=2:1, Attack=10.0 ms, Release=1.5 s, Thresh=-39.5 dB
Work especially on Thresh to find the right amount of ducking.


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With all the rainfall over the weekend, there's flooding in many parts of south central Kentucky.
Not so in Warren County though, which did not report any major flooding or road closures.
The county Department of Public Works says this is due to the natural infrastructure created by the cave system.
The county actually has very few man-made sewer systems.
"We have retention basins that hold water, and most of them have a dry well, or a sinkhole box in the bottom that funnels that water into the underground system," said Warren County Public Works Director Mac Yowell.
Yowell says the lack of rain recently helped ensure more room for the large amount of rainfall this weekend.
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Or maybe it is a "Directors Cut" type thing, where you get a bonus 10 mins of stuff editid out because no one wanted to watch it...or maybe alternative endings.... :-)
Or maybe it is a "Directors Cut" type thing, where you get a bonus 10 mins of stuff editid out because no one wanted to watch it...or maybe alternative endings.... :-)
Will the improved graphics ask more of my laptop? It handles the FM11 graphics ok, I hope it will do the same with FM12. I fear a slight increase in required graphic specs will ruin it for me..
I love prospect of Manage Anywhere Anyime - it means you can keep the game trim when managing at lower league levels and only bring in the top leagues of other countries once you get some promotions. So once you need a Belgium feder team, you can turn Belgium on.
@Miles Jacobson Is there a new feature where you can eye gouge the opposition staff!
Good afternoon, I am a forum moderator general Portuguese, and all our members enjoyed the FM 2012 had personal life, because we can not earn wages and enjoy the same and I think that would give more life to the game. Also squeamish players that we could buy for half of their season ticket or even going to buy players to "bits" ... ex: 50,65,70%, etc ... Pass that player ... Would make the game even more real
PS: Sorry about my bad English but I'm not there very good at expressing myself in English
For next FM it is about time to make a HUGE overhaul of the sound engine. When was it last updated? Ten years ago?? Specifically, we need lots of proper crowd noises for the lower leagues!
People actually play with the sound on?
I just listen to music or watch tv at the same time.
I have a request for FM 12.
I want you to put in an option to say to your players that if they shoot instead of passing to an open player who will 100% score that you will take their wages for punishment. I'm sick of players shooting it in the stands instead of passing for a certain goal.
Aye but real life doesnt have a match engine, in reality players have countless things they can do, theres a limit to how many outcomes the ME can simulate.
Yesssss! I finally get my Peter Reid button!Tone a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 6 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.
Drooling over the screenies....and once again Im getting wrapped up in the hype and getting excited!! Every year I say I can wait til xmas and every year I run to get it on release day! lol
I had about 19hours of playtime on FM08, my lowest on any FM by at least 500 hours, i just never liked it. Yet come release day i bought FM09 without a second thought.
Curse you SI!
I'll play the demo and see how it goes, FM11 runs too slow even on my Sony Vaio even though I have 5 stars for speed for FM11. I still can't see why SI can't get the game running quicker. Seems to actually go slower each year.
They're unwilling to fully embrace multi core technology, despite 99% of their userbase having dual core at an absolute minimum
When will SI release more pics and videos?
Curious, with your announcement of higher resolutions, can we now play this on eyefinity/nvidia surround on 3 screens without making the graphics go wonky? I always wanted to play on one screen and have the screens either side have reams of stats
But the real question still is.
Will there be a manager dot?
Honestly, they could just throw out single core all together. dual core is A SIX YEAR OLD TECHNOLOGY, it's absolutely bloody insane anyone would still have single core processors(three years is a massive time in computer terms). Same goes for 64 bit. It's time old things start getting phased out by games, at this rate, windows will get rid of 32 bit and non multi core support before SI does(And i'm willing to bet it's going to do it with windows 9). No excuse whatsoever not to include even basic support for it, running two matches at the same time? A small thing that would give a huge increase in performance. Imagine what an increase an 8 core processor would do if the game were optimized for that.
So does this means we can set any future start date for our new games ? That would make for some very interesting scenarios !
I would enjoy a sort of difficulty level as mentioned plenty times. Moderate - How it is now. I find it fairly difficult at times, then I find it easy so I wouldn't change to say an 'expert level' for every game but having that option would be excellent. What I mean by say an expert level is that every part of FM gets taken into account. In my current save, I'm 30 seasons in with Sutton United. I've won everything and still have and pretty much all I do is click through the season, buy the best young players at the start of the season and etc...AI never seems to improve. I even sell my best players in peak years and weaken my squad each year!
Expert mode would cover things like, training schedules and what are done in them affects players and teams more, scouting, instead of scouting for 1 match and having a report that is 99% right telling you a perfect recommendation of how good a certain player will be, far more scattered results, which means developing a player, well firstly scout may have got it completely wrong and there is just little potential in the lad. Or sending certain players out on loan is good for them/bad for others, not sure about individual tutoring and how realistic that is? some lads benefit from being exposed early, some don't. Depending on hidden characteristics. At the moment, it feels like I can buy the best youngsters and make them all into the player I want them to be, where really, it's so much different and less predictable.
Expert mode has AI teams constantly improving, changing tactics, building teams. Instead of me having a tactic for 15 years that never fails, I have to tweak it regularly to keep performing, tweak it even for matches because I know if I just go into a game with the same tactic, the AI will smash me because they have improved so much and built a great team. Rather than me feeling like I have an ultimate undefeatable tactic even with players who maybe are the best in the world but aren't stupidly above the rest. Finding the right players to settle in has far more effect, personality clashes, team building etc....i.e. expert mode covers every aspect and if you want to be successful at the VERY TOP, you have to everything right, in terms of regular/expert mode at lower divisions, there should be difference but not huge but at the very top, it should be about then being a top manager. I don't think winning the league with just about anyone after so many years because you have bought the best players is that difficult.
To be fair, I understand that's extremely difficult to do I imagine, having such a change in difficulty but it would be good in the future. I'm sure people who spend loads of time on FM to do everything right, as much as they strive for success on the game, they do it so well on the game they have stupid success. For example my mate who does everything, reads everything tactical etc...he wins everything with teams like Spurs within 3 years. He's done lower league games and won the Prem in 4 years with Ipswich. He says it gets to the point he don't want to be that successful, he'd rather struggle a lot more than he's doing.
Thankfully for me, I don't spend as much time doing every part of FM so my results are mixed bag so when success comes, I am far more happy with it but you can see why people would want it harder and at times I do. In reality, I have a few tactics that I could pull out and win things but I don't have full success because I regularly try different things, different tactics never done before etc...but could you imagine someone in the Prem just changing their tactic because they know it's too easy with a certain tactic? apart Guardiola who's probably getting fed up
so yes, I'd like the difficulty raised to stupid levels at the very top end of the game, meaning only the most thinking FM managers about can achieve success on the 'expert level' and I think that would provide a great challenge for many on the FM boards and they can't complain because they have the 'moderate' level to fall back on.
Apart from that, I'm interested and look forward to the new aditions, especially adding playable leagues.
Expert level would be absolutely amazing, but sadly it will never ever happen. Its just sad that SI seem to think a one size fits all policy works.
Well yeah superior AI is obvious but if you take a look at the tactics forum its full of total noobs, how would they ever manage a game if their opponents could actually build up a decent squad. I have a sneaking suspicion that SI will never make AI squad building as good as it should be just so they keep the casual audience happy.
In any case, unfair to judge until we get our hands on the demo, i live in eternal hope
What a great feature to manage everywhere you want. But I hope the match engine in the video is still not finished yet because I don't see any crossing-heading goal except 1 from indirect free kick.
I hope this year's ME got the full back crossing, striker heading at goal back from 2010. I miss it, as it is completely gone in FM11.
When talking about improved AI, I don't think it is too difficult to make the good AI managers do things right. After all, if any good human manager gets rid of useless staff, useless players and set up an efficient tactic from day one - why shouldn't Mourinho, Guardiola and company do the same? The TC tactics that is loaded into the database as standard tactics are so poor and inefficient that it doesn't really matter how good the players are; any veteran FMer would easily surpass them after a few attempts. And there are many veterans!
If AI managers stopped taking reputation into account and started looking at star ratings of both CA and PA (both players and staff) like we do, started taking ALL attributes into account not only the key ones from TC just like we do, stopped having their players waste time and possession by passing irrelevantly between themselves in the midfield before shooting from distance and instead making sure that they score - just like we do (SI why don't you just remove the long shots slider - let it be covered by the attacking mentality and PPMs instead, that is more realistic since the first thing I've done since it was implemented a long time ago is to set it to rarely; shots from distance are poor decisions in all cases even though they score on them). Let them know what players constitute good tutors and use them on everyone who needs it just like we do.
And for God's sake make sure that they manage their team in a way that prevents them from having a whole team of ineligible players this time around!
I only hope for FM12 they can include a "cancel change tactic" button. How many times have you prepared your final substitution and while it is waiting to change, you get a red card or an injury. Or a goal for that matter. It shouldn't really be that hard...
I have great respect for SI, I like that they are a company that genuinely interacts with it's fanbase, it is for this reason that I am going to voice my concern.
I have been an FM-head for many years and I have loved the game over those years but I feel myself becoming increasingly disillusioned with the game. The reason being the aforementioned AI team building skills or the lack there of. I enjoy long term games but this enjoyment is seriously marred by the inability of the AI to compete with me, it is depressing to watch the once great teams of world football fade into mere spectres of their former selves. This seriously impacts on ones ability to immerse yourself into the game world, once the illusion of immersion disappears you're simply left looking at numbers on a screen (not that fun).
Creating that suspension of disbelief is absolutely crucial for me, FM needs to make me forget about the fact that I am playing a game, they have to make me forget about all the mechanics underpinning the game, they have to make me feel that I am truly competing in the cut throat world of football (whilst not making it too real, I don't want to get fired every few weeks). For me personally the one main thing that prevents me from losing myself in this game is the sheer ineptitude of every other football club out there, BAM I remember it's a game when Man Utd buy Messi from Barca in the second season. This is for the vast majority of your user base a solo adventure thus they have to rely on the AI to immerse them in the game.
I am sure it is very difficult to code the AI properly without creating too hard a challenge but if you managed to tackle the issue of the AI I think you will have an absolutely amazing game on your hands and you'd have at least one more paying customer back(I didn't bother with FM 11)!
Anyway who knows, maybe you will stun me and announce something in the future.
I think this year i am not buying it.. Well at least not on the day it comes out..I prefer to see comments and see..I bought this game since it came out in 90's and got every single copy since then.. However, the game doesnt give me the same satisfaction as before.. in fact i stopped playing FM 11 since 4-5 months and stopped reading forums too..
Reasons why i am cold to towards the game this year :
a) I am sure it will be full of bugs.. For ex : President of A team is going to be the president of Rival B team..
b) Media System - I am fed up answering to the same questions .. Repetitive.. After 10 years he left my team, what do i think about his return ??? All the time same questions..same answers..
c) Transfer System is never enough.
d) Game gets very boring after couple of years.
It's good to have new features coming obviously every year.. for example, dynamic reputation last year and ability to add/remove leagues this year are fantastic additions.. But those i mentioned above are all always there and it makes it boring for me..
I've spent hours reading threads in there! Some fantastic advice and insight into the game.
Excited about the manage anywhere feature. I just hope concacaf gets some love. Specifically the caribbean nations.
will there be player photos available to download for the premier league players? I do LOVE this game, but it takes up a lot of my time! but i do get a lot of enjoyment out of it, but i must say - the training wasnt very user friendly. it didnt seem to flow, and wasnt very easy to use, it was quite awkward.
and for the private chats - when you comment on a players training - you cant tell them that they are doing well and to keep it up? perhaps there could be the option of sayin "keep it up and i'll give you a run in the first team" ???
and i hope that it wont be so impossible to make the big signings! i found on FM11 that i would have great difficulty buying a player who is valued at £12M for anything close to that, but an AI team could buy easily!
and when it comes to the contracts, when a player refuses to talk to you, it would be good if they could say why, such as: a)you havent won any trophies for a while b)your team is poor quality c)too many players in the same position, i dont feel i would fit it etc etc so that there is more interaction with the players!
i have already pre ordered my copy of FM12 though!
Wow. so happy to see this especially the tone to your team talk what a great idea. rather than giving us 25 optional team talks for 1 situation you menu it out. can't wait to see that letting us more and more manage and play the way we actually want really want to just sleep till early november and get the game!
Will there be a records system I.E:
British, European and World record transfer fee?
World longest and fast goal?
Player records like....Most consecutive games scored in, played in and worst disipline for a player in a season?
And all the other records you could try to beat also make the media pick up on these also and get questions on breaking certain records.
Would make the long term game more bearable.
Any chance of getting some of that in for 2012 or is it way to late Miles????????
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One piece of evidence proving that the AI managers fail to handle the morale/motivation "engine". I am sure there should be no problems finding many others.
My personal take on the advertised changes and how they fit in with what I want from an FM game.
Lets face it, this isn't an improvement, this is just an increase in complexity. It also seems too far from what a real life football manager's responsibilities are.Transfers & Contracts significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.
This sounds good, people have been wanting more detailed and useful scouting reports for a long time now.Scouting improvements using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report has been devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.
Doesn't affect me as I don't use 3D.3D Match Improvements new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible - meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.
Doesn't affect me as I've always run enough leagues to have options available at a decent speed.Manage Anywhere, Anytime the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you dont have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.
I hate that player interaction, press conferences and team talks have become somewhat a primary focus for this series now.Tone a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 6 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.
This isn't a feature, it's catching up with the 21st century where people have bigger monitors. It's like advertising that the game now makes use of multiple cores, it shouldn't be a selling point, it should be the minimum standard from moving with the times.Intelligent Interface a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.
Doesn't affect me.Brand New Tutorial standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game how to system.
As above, I don't like these sort of features being in the game at all, let alone focused on and improvedthe media system, press conferences
Fantastic, any improvements on the newgens especially is a massive welcomethe youth system, newgens
Doesn't interest methe social networking options
Left to assistantfriendlies
Never do itInternational management
I'm disappointed there's not much shown to do with improvements to career saves or long term games.
Still undecided on the new version, the only thing that mainly interests me is the tone for player interactions. The spec of my computer lets me run majority of the leagues as it is on a career game so the manage anywhere doesnt really affect me apart from it may speed the game up a bit after 10 or so seasons.
I wonder if when the demo is released and you load your league and carry your save onto the main game you can then add other leagues as this has been annoying that if you wanted to play a career game from the demo taking other countires into account and carry it into the main game you couldnt as ony the pre-set league was available
The updated scouting reports do look good but if you want to you can scout yourself and find some of the information that is shown and isnt this just the backroom advice but extended more.
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What about Turkish teams? Will Turkish leagues be avaible?
FM2012 looking good already, but I do hope they drop this silly 25 men squad rule for teams outside the premier league.
It doesnt happen in the real football leagues, so it shouldnt be happening in football manager.
it only happens were leagues have those rules , champions league is an example of such rule exists
Is there a 25 men rule in the football league championship, league one & league two then? :o:
or am I missing something
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I'm with the group of people calling for multi-core support and 64 bit support. I'm not saying that they should make it so that if you have a single-core 32-bit machine that you shouldn't be able to play as well as you could with FM2011, but it should be an option if we have the equipment.
I've always wanted the ability to add and subtract playable nations! Thanks SI!
Am I the only one who physically can't use the original out of the box skin?
I see with the FM12 screenshot's, that it's the same bright white skin design again. (since FM08)
I tried switching to the FM11 default Skin last night, and after a couple of hours playing with it, I could feel my eyes aching and straining.
Carried on with it today but after an hour I couldn't bare it anymore, so I switched to the default dark skin, and once it changed, I could instantly feel the straining on my eyes go away.
I really could feel my eyes relax after switching away from the default skin, and found it much more easier to take in all the information than I could with the default skin. (player attributes/ reading news messages etc)
Was it with FM11, where they did not even include a dark skin? It was added in the first patch SI released I think.
Are my eyes just sensitive, or do other people find SI's official skin unpleasant on the eyes?
One small thing I would like to see implemented is the way you are informed of forthcoming international matches. I am Welsh, both in real life and in the game(!), yet tend to manage in the English leagues so I always get told what England are doing rather than Wales. It is pretty annoying after a while and I would guess it would be fairly easy to change which country you are informed about.
Download f.lux if the skin bothers you, it darkens the screen to varying degrees based on the time of day. Sounds pointless but i cant use my computer without it now!
I love the default skins. I can't see how people can play with the dark skins!
I was just wondering if it was just my eyes being too sensitive, because it's the official default skin for the game which SI release, and advertise the game with on their screen shots etc.
So I'm thinking it must be liked by the majority of people who play FM, because it's been the same since Football Manager 2008.
I would like to follow trend, and use the official Sports Interactive default skin, but it's always hurt my eyes.
Aye i know what you mean, my eyes are fairly sensitive as well, hence the f.lux!
Manage anywhere, anytime? Ok seriously, i think i just wet myself. Ive wanted that for about 4 or 5 years now.. Thank you!!
The light skin is actually better for your eyes, so I suspect that is one part of the equation. I used the dark before, but have gone over to the light now and it's much less straining on the eyes. Much better to see dark text on light background than vice versa. Though this will depend on what you are used to I suppose. I'm sure they'll send with a dark one too, they usually (always?) do.
The dark skin is just so... depressing, makes me want to turn the game off when i loose or am on a bad run, the light skin just looks so much more... positive and optimistic, i like it a LOT more. Don't really understand what the obsession with dark skins is for everyone anyway but hey.
I just bought a a transfer listed right back from bolton for my Ajax team in the summer transfer window for £10M.
He got injured and lost his place but still played a few games for me, did quite well.
Anyway, in January Man City swoop in and but for £50M (His release clause) they put him on £275K a week but of course he can't play for another year because that would be 3 clubs in 1 year!
Like the Tone feature where I can really shout at my players . They need the hair dryer at times and I cant give it to them properly .
The Add and remove leagues on the go feature is also feels good . Lets see how it goes .
Any Improvement in the Re Gen making is also good. There are some weird things that come out with Regens sometimes . Right now I dont have any central defenders in the world with Pace >16 while strikers keep appearing with 20's and 19's .
The AI management needs to be improved , I played about some 20 seasons now and all the big teams are no where near me , The bookmakers predict a team winning and they finish like 10th and I keep winning the leagues by huge margins which kinda makes it boring in the Long Term .
I hope SI will add in the statistic of players, how many times a player has been "offside/match".
Also how many "balls has a goal keeper intercepted".
It will be also interesting to have a statistic of the "posession of the ball/team"
The most important area to improve for FM is the AI for managing teams and especially the AI for transfer policy! And of course the training mode!
Hope that FM2012 will be very good. (I'm still playing FM2010 with patch 10.3 --> Best FM ever IMO)
Last edited by HaydarAli; 21-08-2011 at 10:23.
This happens almost every season. Not normally this extreme, but at least one team go on an unprecedented losing streak which they cannot get out of because the Morale Engine is so overpowered that the AI can't handle it. There is also at least one unprecedented winning streak in the league, but there are no AI managers that manage to deal with the inevitable complacency that sets in, and when the ensuing losing streak sets in once the winning streak ends, they can't handle that either.
FM11 is an unending fluctuation between losing streaks and winning streaks caused by team morale always either be on the rise or on the drop.
I hope that in FM12, the players's mental health is more stable.
Last edited by themadsheep2001; 21-08-2011 at 12:04.
As I said in that screenshot post - one example of a problem that pervades the whole game.
I didn't present an argument. I presented fact. On one side, we all know that it is possible to take any Championship-quality (in terms of CA/PA and attribute distribution, resources and reputation) team to complete world domination in a couple of seasons, and people have done this with completely different tactics so it is not that which makes the difference. On the other side we know that that same exact team and that exact same tactic could go through a season without winning a single match... if their morale and motivation is awful enough.
The difference between world domination and complete disaster is not tactics or player quality, it is morale and motivation.
Hi all
Does anyone know if the new NEXTGEN youth competition will be included in FM2012
but whatever i await the new changes in FM12, anyone know when the blogs start popping up? and will they still be at the Mirror?
Last edited by themadsheep2001; 21-08-2011 at 15:03.
Go into your own savegames and check out the amount of losing streaks, teams with no or ridiculously few victories through a season, the morale-meter of matches against such teams and you'll come to the same conclusion as me.
Motivation and morale both play a huge part of football, yes - but not as huge as in FM11. Adam does not outrun Agbonlahor no matter how motivated he is. In FM 10-pace players outrunning 20-pace players all the time, if the former is motivated enough. This is just one example of the overpoweredness of Motivation. Have you ever seen Terry nervous? Playing badly surely, but -nervous-? As in, wobbly knees and loss of mental faculties? I haven't. The guy is cool as a frozen corpse even though he sometimes make mistakes. Seeing him and other calm and focused defenders like him playing like scared-witless girls just because his manager said "you go out and do this for the fans" rather than "we can win this, John!" is utterly and completely ridiculous.
I guess there is little chance of agreement, though.
I really hope there will be more good brittish talents end newgens.. i have always struggled finding good brittish talents after playing som seasons... Look at Chamberlain , gret talent but terrible on fm...


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I am a mac user as well. Normally i use PTGui and sometimes Autopanogiga. Autopanogiga is more automatically and does a lot on it's own.
To learn about stitching and to set control points etc, i would start with PTGui. A lot of information and tutorials to find on the net.
You can download trial versions and test them yourself.
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I would like to know if the new open-source video driver included in kernel 3.0.x for the Intel GMA 500 will be included by default in the kernel that will be shipped in Oneiric Ocelot.
The driver support of this GFX chipset has always been poor and mainly community-driven, now finally we have a KMS open-source driver, written by kernel hackers, and actually included in staging kernel repo.
If there is any kind of testing needed there is a mega-thread on Ubuntu Forums with hundreds of users ready to test everything.


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If all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, there isn't a dull boy – or girl – in the bunch populating the Oregon Legislature this term. They have packed their agenda with silliness.
Take the bill that would create an Oregon state crustacean. Introduced on behalf of a group of school kids, the measure would make the Dungeness crab our official shellfish. It would join the beaver (state animal), the sunstone (state gemstone), the Oregon swallowtail (state butterfly), the Metasequoia (state fossil) and the Pacific golden chanterelle (state mushroom), for special recognition in the Oregon Blue Book. Beyond that, the designation is little more than an honorific for a creature that never sought one.
Then there are a pair of bills that would do nothing but make the Legislature's congratulations to a handful of Oregon officials. University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer and the Heart of Valley Children's Choir would get official pats on the back. No doubt both the president and the kids have done remarkable things, but wouldn't a simple letter – forget the folderol and public hearings – be enough?
Lawmakers also are considering a 10 percent tax on bird seed – can't have Tweety not paying his fair share – a bill that would allow polite animals in the Capitol building, and one that would require schools to come up with "green" cleaning policies or explain why not.
Senate President Peter Courtney defends the quirky bills as simply lawmakers doing their jobs, which includes representing their constituents. And constituents sometimes request quirky things.
Surely with the dramatic financial problems this year, though, constituents will understand that the budget needs to be lean and the Legislature's time spent on the quirky and the symbolic also needs to be lean.
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Here is an example:
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I can open up firebug (firefox addon), and change the value to somethings else, for simpleness:
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Codeigniter provides form validation, but does not check for the value of the selection box, which is what is being inputed to the database.
How could I prevent a non-allowed parameter from being inputed in the selection box?


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The December 2013 issue of STREET RODDER features coverage of the 16th Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Expo Center has plenty of room for the 6,500 cars in attendance, but the pages of SRM only has room for a couple dozen. Here are a few of the thousands of rods, customs, muscle cars, street machines,and classic trucks we saw there, including some '60s cars that reflect the taste and style of rods and customs.
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Phil Goller got it just right. This Deuce roadster, running a Flathead and a 5-speed, was built at his shop, Goller Hot Rods in Defiance, Ohio.This 350-powered resto-rod '32 Tudor, owned by Ron Murphy and built by Phil Goller, features a tan leather interior to contrast the screaming-red outside. Those wide whites roll on wires from Smith Wheels.Harold and Tracy Chapman's '33 Ford Roadster earned a Painless Performance Products/Street Rodder Top 100 winner at the Detroit Autorama earlier in 2013. The Roush 427 adds to the appeal.A Ford 302 powers this '34 coupe. Mike Pretorius bought the car in 2005; the previous owner had it for more than 40 years. A beautiful interior and Porsche light tan paint on the wheels are two of Mike's changes.Builder Dave Lane put two years of full-time one-man work into George Poteet's Hugger orange '34 coupe. Hilborn injection feeds a new old stock '65 Buick Nailhead, backed by a Richmond trans and Winters quickchange.A Ford 302 powers this '34 coupe. Mike Pretorius bought the car in 2005; the previous owner had it for more than 40 years. A beautiful interior and Porsche light tan paint on the wheels are two of Mike's changes.Andy Volpini's '40 Ford looks like it has been a hot rod for many years. A 327 is under the flamed hood, and the black and white pleated interior looks period perfect to the '60s.
The high-dollar guys don't like it when Jim Evan's owner-built '48 Chevy parks nearby and steals all the attention. Maybe it's the polka dot fabric upholstery or what Jim calls the "beautiful concours paint."This clean '51 Mercury belongs to Armand Wehrmeister of Northville, MI. Along with a lift-off top, the custom is equipped with a 400-inch engine.This sweet '53 Chevy is made is becoming a regular at the PPG nats. Jim Buttelwerth drove the mild hot rod, pulled by an LT1 under the hood, to the Nationals from Cincinnati.Harry Dlesk drove an hour from Bellville, Ohio, to show off his custom '54 Chevy. Dual Rochester carburetors feed the 235 straight-6 engine.Eldred Hot Rods in Edinboro, PA, built this fairgrounds cruiser up from a 1954 Lusse Auto Scooter. The bumper car brought a lot of smiles to a lot of folk, both young and old.Patina! Gary Case got the look right with his '62 Chevy convertible, which is equipped with a 350 engine, four-speed trans, Corvette brakes, and RideTech gear.Toy Snyder is the shop manager at Ultragloss paint services shop in Munroe Falls, Ohio, so the amazizing paint on his '64 Chevy II custom is really no surprise, not to mention the rims, roll bar, and 383 engine.Eighteen-year-old Trey Cooper from South Charleston, OH, turned his '67 Chevy II into a mild custom, with shaved sheetmetal, air bag suspension, Coys wheels and low-profile tires, and black upholstery with tan ostrich inserts.


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'Duck Dynasty' Dust Up: Cultural Divide on Display
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
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Every once in a while, a media kerfuffle arrives that succeeds in elevating some banal stupidity to unimaginable heights of urgency and importance. At the center of the frenzy is usually some cable TV program of questionable artistic merit but produced by people with a skill at self-promotion and touching the cultural zeitgeist.
Not too long ago, it was either singer Miley Cyrus or tabloid queen Kim Kardashian having their 15 minutes of fame saying or doing something outrageous. This time it is Phil Robertson, patriarch of the Robertson clan, stars of the mystifyingly popular A&E redneck "reality" show "Duck Dynasty," who gave an interview to GQ magazine in which he equated homosexuality with bestiality and, in general, suggested it was the cause of humanity's ruin.
Robertson, 67, a Christian evangelical who runs a company that makes duck calls and related products, also had quite a few other unpleasant things to say in the piece, including his observation that African-Americans in his native Louisiana were more content in a bygone (presumably pre-civil rights) era "singing and happy" in the field. Yet it was clearly his views on homosexuality that caused A&E Networks to issue a news release announcing that he was suspended from the show for his remarks to GQ that "in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community."
[ Friday, A&E announced that it had reversed its decision. Robertson and his family cast are scheduled to resume filming in the spring. ]
Meanwhile, the backlash has picked up its own momentum. A number of prominent Republican conservatives, including two possible presidential candidates in 2016, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, rose to Robertson's defense. His supporters see the decision as an attack on the reality star's First Amendment right to free speech and/or an attack on a religion that condemns homosexuality as a sin. Petitions seeking his reinstatement have gathered thousands of signatures and are all the rage on various forms of social media.
Most recently, the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain announced it would put Duck Dynasty merchandise back on its shelves after initially taking the inventory down, only to be flooded with complaints from the show's fans. "We apologize for offending you," the company stated on its Facebook page — a remarkable about-face in a corporation's moral outlook even by contemporary standards. (Apparently, somebody eventually counted the number of Duck Dynasty fans that patronize the restaurant chain versus the number from the LGBT community and decided to be outraged on behalf of the larger number.)
There are all levels of hypocrisy on display here. Clearly, Robertson's rights are not being denied. He's still free to voice his opinion — and continues to do so — and his network can exercise its right to televise whomever it pleases. Early in the dust-up, network officials likely made their own financial calculations and decided that the highly-profitable "Duck Dynasty" had to stay but such attacks on gays couldn't go unanswered either.
Thus, what appears to be happening here is the same sort of polarization and cultural upheaval that accompanies any civil rights movement. The legalization of same-sex marriage — which recently spread to its 18th state in Utah with a court ruling overturning a statewide ban — is fueling a corresponding desire among opponents to reinforce old beliefs that homosexuality is evil. Segregationists saw biblical justification for their racist beliefs, too, and it fueled the church burnings, lynchings and other protests that sought to preserve Jim Crow-era separate-but-equal treatment. ...
Too bad the current formula for success is to be as offensive as possible, apologize and then be offensive some more. Polls show the majority of the nation accepts same-sex marriage and homosexuality. (We would also suggest the "Duck Dynasty" cast talk to some African-American people once in a while.) In the context of his life, Robertson's views are unsurprising, but they merit condemnation nevertheless. Anything beyond that is just the usual sort of babble that only profits cable TV networks and cut-rate politicians.
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Designer Giambattista Valli doesn't believe in trends ("Ugh, please, no. No, no, no."), but these ten luxurious essentials are a whole other story. His favorite things? Luigi Scialanga jewelry, a pair of boyish sandals, the perfect tailor, and more.
"Ugh, please, no. No, no, no." This is what Giambattista Valli thinks of trends. "When I hear that something is trendy, I want to do the opposite," he says. Valli, a native Roman who now works in Paris, specializes in richly detailed party dresses with ruffles and beading. This season, he has imported elements of menswear—"a mix of two wardrobes," as he describes the fusion—to create loose-fitting parkas with conspicuous zippers and draped chiffon skirts worn with Vans-style sneakers. "My muses, my Valli girls, have grown up, gotten married, had children, and my collection has grown up, too," says the designer. Valli counsels women to choose just a few pieces each season and to keep them for years. "We make so many clothes, all of us in the fashion world," he says. But that doesn't mean you need them all. "What matters is how you mix them up and wear them in different ways. The beauty of fashion is that it is about style, not clothing."
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The Goldenrod Radio Tower is a large tower situated in Goldenrod City in Johto. Here, you can enter the Pokémon Lottery, get your Radio Card, and fight off Team Rocket after getting your 7th badge. You will receive the Rainbow Wing or Silver Wing here once you defeat Team Rocket.
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I have a computer with 3 hard drives on it. I have Ubuntu 12.04 on my newest and biggest hard drive and Windows XP on my 2nd hard drive and a old version of Ubuntu 7.04 on the third hard drive.
Everything was working perfectly and I was using Grub to choose between the different systems. I was using Windows XP and it automatically did some upgrades and the next time I tried to use Windows XP, it would not not boot up. So I tried using the Windows XP CD to repair it and I used a dos command like a
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All that remains of Lula Mae Wiggins-who drowned in a bathtub of cheap champagne on New Year's Eve-now sits in an alleged Etruscan urn in Savannah, Georgia. Further north, at the Den of Antiquity antique shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, plucky proprietor Abigail Timberlake is astonished to learn that she is the sole inheitor of the Wiggins estate. Late Aunt Lula Mae was, after all, as distant a relative as kin can get.
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I want to develop my pure mathematics knowledge and would like to know what is the best way to develop mathematical intuition? I am going through exercises that ask for proofs and I don't have the intuition to do so.
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I can say that a big part of mathematical intuition comes from experience. That being said there is no "best way". I like to think about experience like this:
You're stuck in thick, dense jungle like the amazon rain forest. You have a machete, and you're chopping down plants struggling to find a way out. You walk around headless, knowing not even of a path to the nearest village.
However now say you are flying in a helicopter with a reasonable view around. Now not only can you see where you would be in the jungle, but can also see where the nearest village is. You can see the terrain, map out a path, avoid crossing big streams, etc.
This is the analogy: In the first situation you are stuck with how to move, in the next one with a lot of experience you can see many connections and the way out.
Now we come to your next problem. You say that when going through exercises they ask for proofs. What I would recommend if you have never ever seen a mathematical proof is to go through an article like this one.
Of course it is not possible to grasp these techniques at once. You should try out a few suggested exercises, look at how things are done first, look at how other people do things. Why do they think like this? Slowly after a while, your mind will get used to it.
I am willing to edit my answer and improve on it if you provide more detail on the specifics of your difficulties.
Here is a true story. One year a student questionnaire on my first year analysis course wrote: "Professor Brown gives too many proofs." I thereupon decided that next year the course would have no theorems, and no proofs. It would however, have "Facts" and "Explanations". (I got this idea from an engineer!) Part of the deal of course would be that an Explanation should explain something. Another point is that unlike the good old days when Euclidean Geometry was studied at school students have no previous experience of the words "Theorem" and "Proof". Also the study of Grammar has gone as well, so they are unfamiliar with the structure of language.
What is called a "proof" is really an explanation but written very carefully.
In other second year lectures which needed an explanation of a particular case of $A \subseteq B$ I asked the class "What is the first line of the proof?" and then, to be written further down on the board, "What is the last line?". By the end of the course, they got the idea!
Also students need training in writing carefully. See a course called Ideas in Mathematics I gave.
I also found that the best way to develop intuition was to write things out very carefully, and explain them to others. When you have written something out 5 times, you may see how to improve it a bit. Then another bit. And so on.
The idea that a proof is found one step after another is just not so. For 9 years I had an idea of a proof in search of a theorem. It took that long, and lots talking and writing, to piece together the gadgets needed to make the idea of the proof actually work and prove a theorem.
The composer Ravel said that you should copy. If you have some originality, this may appear as you copy. If not never mind! Your new ideas also may only appear at the 5th copy, as the wheels of the brain start to unclog. In fact it has been said that Newton was an inveterate copier!
To learn how to prove something you want to do something like this:
First pick something at an adequate level matching your current level of skill.
Then gather a bunch of exercises that ask for proofs together with answers. But don't look at the answers. Sit down and try to solve them. If you get stuck, look at the first line of the answer and try from there. If that still doesn't get you anywhere, look at the next line, and so on.
Repeat until you have gained some confidence. This will teach you how to prove some of the things you come across.
I also recommend reading "Thinking Mathematically". This will help you change your thinking so that you will get stuck less often in general.
Hope this helps.
"I want to develop my pure mathematics knowledge and would like to know what is the best way to develop mathematical intuition? I am going through exercises that ask for proofs and I don't have the intuition to do so."
Honestly, I think you should not build a theory about this. You simply don't know how to solve certain problems. That's it. Don't interpret it that there is something fundamentally wrong with you. Don't conclude that you don't have intuition. Not all exercises are that simple.
Also, intuition comes from experience. The best way is experience. What kind of experience? Well, it depends on what you want. Do you want to be able to solve problems in your book? To become a mathematician? To become a math teacher?
Whatever you do, DON'T read http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~larryc/proofs/proofs.html suggested in another post. This will do more harm than good. I read this very article recently and I was speechless. In my humble opinion, this guy clearly contributed to ruining math education in this country, even though he probably meant no harm. You don't need to read anything special to understand proofs. Unfortunately, many people in this country want to sell you books about proofs and so they present it as a special skill. Mathematics is proofs. If you have a course without proofs and it is called mathematics (and it is beyond high school), you are paying your money for nothing, period. Read Paul Lockhart's article on education, A Mathematician's Lament: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
If you still don't understand why I don't like this article by Larry Cusick, let me quote from the introduction: (http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~larryc/proofs/proofs.introduction.html)
"The basic structure of a proof is easy: it is just a series of statements, each one being either An assumption or A conclusion, clearly following from an assumption or previously proved result."
---Who needs to be taught the basic structure of a proof? Most people who don't understand proofs will only get more confused. Unless you study math logic, you don't need to analyze the structure of a proof. Furthermore, in many cases it is easier to understand a proof than to dissect it into assumptions and conclusions. It's like a second grader who knows that 5*7=35, but doesn't know "what is the product if the multipliers are 5 and 7".
Continuing with the article. "And that is all. Occasionally there will be the clarifying remark, but this is just for the reader and has no logical bearing on the structure of the proof. " ---Well, this piece of information is not very useful. It is probably more confusing than the actual "clarifying remark" it is warning you about. Anyway, I am not really sure, what it means. It says "...just for the reader". Does it suggest that the proof itself is not for the reader?
"A well written proof will flow. That is, the reader should feel as though they are being taken on a ride that takes them directly and inevitably to the desired conclusion without any distractions about irrelevant details. Each step should be clear or at least clearly justified. A good proof is easy to follow." ---This is almost a joke. I particularly like "...without any distractions about irrelevant details". Forgive me my sarcasm.
"When you are finished with a proof, apply the above simple test to every sentence: is it clearly (a) an assumption or (b) a justified conclusion? If the sentence fails the test, maybe it doesn't belong in the proof." ---No, when you are finished with a proof, just see if it makes sense. There is no need to apply any tests. This is just another trick to make people afraid of proofs. Furthermore, this "test" is wrong. There may be justified conclusions that don't belong to the proof. On the other hand, a statement may belong to the proof, but it may be unjustified, then it doesn't pass this test.
Seems like you're at a basic level. I would recommend reading carefully the proofs from some book you like. You need to get used to the language, to the ordering of the arguments, to notation... You may need support from your teacher, and that's OK. Then moving to the exercises should be easier. But you should try really hard -- thats hard work, and takes some time. If you fail to do some exercise, do your best to learn from it, and ask yourself why weren't you able to do it, ask if the solution is "natural". I believe that, as you get used to the arguments, proving theorems by yourself will come naturally.
Good luck :)
I'd recommend reading "How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)" written by G. Polya and any other book related to problem solving. Then, you should do three things:
This method needs discipline and regularity.


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