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I'm on Lion 10.7.3 and every now and then, com.apple.qtkitserver hogs my CPU @ 100% for a little less than a minute, especially when there's something happening on Finder. I know that QTKitServer is the Quick Look server, but it seems its generating files unexpectedly or something of the sort.
Does anyone have a fix?
Note: This started happening when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion.


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The mishna in Shabbos 4(1) tells us which materials may not be used to insulate foods for Shabbos because they "add heat". One of these materials is salt. Can anyone explain how salt can add heat other than by saying that the salt in the time of the Mishna was not the same as our salt?
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I vaguely recall seeing some discussion about the whole "heat adding" thing years ago (maybe an old AOJS article?), but unfortunately don't have the details. Honestly, I'm still not certain how to understand the mishna. But off the top of my head ...
Leo Levi's The Science in Torah suggests that something like manure worked by fermenting, and fermentation is exothermic. He suggests that sand contained some organic matter that fermented, causing the same effect.
So perhaps the salt contained fermenting organic matter?
Perhaps the salts contained other minerals, causing a reaction similar to that found in self-heating meals?
A third option may involve the salt dissolving in (or coming out of?) water, involving heat of enthalpy? Maybe?
Can't say for sure, but salt lowers the temperature at which water freezes (which is why in cold areas, people clear the snow and ice from their walks using salt). This can be casually observed as a type of heat even if it does not have a burning sensation.
New answer: Insulation materials that "add heat" are heated up and then either put around a pot, or a pot is put on top of them, resulting in the pot getting hotter than it was. This is in contrast to a towel that only keeps the heat of the pot in. (Shabbos, 34a)
They are prohibited to use even if the pot is set in them before Shabbat, because you can put coals into these materials and then on Shabbat you may stoke them. (Shabbos, 34b)
These materials either allow coal to be added, [or they're a certain level of 'hot' to begin with, (hot as olive-peat is after making oil) and then used to heat an approved insulation].
Two situations Rabbi Dovid Grossman gives in his Daf yomi shiur where these materials "add heat":
So any type of material which "adds heat" was banned because you may put hot coals in it and then stoke it on Shabbat.
As YDK said, salt lowers the freezing point of Water. It also raises the boiling point. This means that you need 'less heat' to boil water with salt than you do without salt. In the times of the Mishna, this can be understood to be that the salt itself 'adds it's own heat'
That is, if you look at this from a simple observation point of view, instead of a modern science language...
If I have a pot of water it takes 10 burning coals to boil the water. If I add salt to the pot, then I only need 9 burning coals to boil the water. Therefore, halachicly, the salt, "adds heat"
Another way to say this.. if my fire is no hot enough, I can add salt to make the food cook better / faster.
This means that in general, salt 'insulates' a mixture that is wet. From the perspective of the halacha, salt reduces the amount of heat needed to cook things, and people might therefore use the salt to help a wet mixture heated by coals or other fires to cook better. This will then lead people to adjust the coals themselves, as all forms of insulation are likely to do.


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i've writed some Php code that lookup for domain (whois) but it fails !!
this is some of my code :
function checkdomain($server,$domain){ global $response; $connection = fsockopen($server,43); fputs($connection, "domain " . $domain . "\r\n"); while(!feof($connection)){ $response .= fgets($connection, 4096); } fclose($connection); } checkdomain("whois.crsnic.net","www.example.com");
the code work on my localhost ( apache,php,mysql, OS -> Win XP ) but when i uploaded it to my host (Linux) it failed. and i always see the Below Error/message :
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to whois.crsnic.net:43 (Network is unreachable) in /home/hamid0011/public_html/whois/whois.php on line 37
what should i do ? is this my host's problem or whois server ( but it work in localhost ) or my code ?


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Make no mistake, I will never buy those low price low quality stuff for my dog, which is my family member. Cheap price doesn't equal to bad product , if you spend money, even a little , on shady products you're just wasting your hard earned cash . What the affordable says here is that you don't have to spend an arm and leg to get the high quality leashes and collars, better yet, you probably can pay much less get much more, let's look at this 5/8"x60" nylon reflective dog leash, which is sturdy and designed to take on medium to big dogs,a set of 6 with different colors only sells for $9.99, you get black, blue, orange, pink and blue, with less than $1.50 a piece I would say it's well worth the money and you get much more with a few dollars!
Here is another example of nice product, it's a 1"x60" reflective dog leash, which has a nice handle with trash bag and travel bowl stored in it, the color is red, blue, black,dark green and orange, with features like big handle, trash bag and travel bowl storage and reflective leash, you only have to pay $7.00 with free shipping! The look and feel of this product is great, and the little known secret is that you will get an extra travel bowl when you order online. And there are 5 different colors available for you to choose, including black, blue, dark green, red and orange. With the easy to carry trash bag and travel bowl, this leash is ideal for you to walk your dog in the park or play in the wild.
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So, I've done some searching.. and still haven't found a solution for this. I'm not even sure what has caused it. There are no DYLD_ or LD_ flags being set at all, but I always see this when I open the terminal up.
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/login) is setuid or setgid
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Kentucky's Speaker of the House says he and his Democratic colleagues will head to Frankfort on Tuesday with "a good spirit" and intent on reaching a budget compromise.
Speaker Jody Richards (D-Bowling Green) and select House Committee chairmen will meet with Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher on Tuesday morning to discuss Kentucky's lack of a state budget plan.
With the end of the fiscal year now less than two months away (June 30), both sides of the aisle say they are feeling pressure from their constituents to put aside differences and hammer out a budget deal that would begin on July 1. Both sides say they realize the serious negative consequences that a budget-less fiscal year could have on school systems, universities, and bond-funded projects like the proposed widening of I-65 in Warren and Simpson counties.
A key stumbling block has been the Governor's tax reform plan which Gov. Fletcher says is essential for fueling the state's economy and future budgets, but Speaker Richards says only the corporate tax portions of the plan should be passed now, while proposals like a 26cent increase in the cigarette tax should wait for next session.
Governor Fletcher says he will call a special session of the General Assembly to pass a budget compromise only if the details have been hammered out ahead of time.
Tuesday's meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:30 CST, to be followed by a press conference.


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How can I setup a portable QGis to run from a flash drive / USB-Stick? In the userguide for QGis 1.7 Wroclaw there is only mentioned the option of "--configpath". But to me it is not clear how to deal with this information.
I would be very thankful if someone could post a step-by-step explanation!
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I am writing a casebook with a law professor using TexShop, and a large portion of project are legal cases, all of which have "quotes" and not ``quotes''
I know the programming difficulties of auto-replacement, but anything is better than doing this manually for four hundred pages of material.
I am not looking for a magic button, but what would be great is a workflow for converting quote marks before putting the cases into the latex document.
I know this is an old problem, and I know a perfect solution is not feasible, but something quick and dirty that works with copy and pasting large blocks of text would make me a very happy person.


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Columbia, Mo. - On Nov. 5, Dr. Chris Mazurek, a psychology professor at Columbia College, will make an encore appearance on the game show, Jeopardy!, for the first episode of the show's Tournament of Champions. The show airs at 5 p.m. on KMIZ-TV. Mazurek last appeared on Jeopardy! in October 2006. After four days as champion, Mazurek finally was defeated on the fifth day of play. Because of his performance, Mazurek was asked in September to return for an October taping of the Tournament of Champions.
The Tournament of Champions is an event that brings together 15 Jeopardy! champions from more than a year of episodes. The contestants are then selected based upon both the number of days won, as well as their dollar-prize earnings. The tournament will continue through 10 episodes of play until the contestants are narrowed down to three. The final three contestants then will play two episodes until a champion is chosen. He is bound by a contract with "Jeopardy's" production company not to provide information about the show's outcome, including the number of days he may appear.
Mazurek said he was thrilled to participate a second time. "I feel so privileged to have gotten to play again," he said. After his last Jeopardy! appearance, Mazurek took home nearly $77,000 in prize money, which he used to contribute toward the purchase of a new home for his family. "With a new baby on the way, having a new house is very nice," he said.
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After postponing an Oct. 23 hearing for the Albert and Linda Zook house condemnation for lack of a "super majority," city officials scheduled an amendment to change the make-up of the board of appeals.
City commissioners are scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. on Nov. 5 to consider an ordinance that would add two alternate members to the board for five year terms.
The five-member board is called the "board of building appeals" in the ordinance. The amendment would authorize the mayor to appoint two alternative members who can attend meetings and exercise all authority of regular members, if less than a full number of the board members are attending.
The ordinance suggests that the board would comprise of a representative of the real estate or mortgage lending, a representative of physician or nurse, two representatives of architect, engineer, contractor or building materials dealer and one at large.
The city will also consider an agreement with United Private Works to use city road right-of-way for a fiber optic line and Great Plains Communications to bury fiber optics to the cell tower in Steinhart Park near the ballfield.
The city will seek proposals for a combined health insurance management for utilities and city employees.
A jump start agreement with Charge Point of Campbell, Calif., will be considered. The city would agree to install equipment to charge electric-powered cars by Jan. 31, 2013.
Fees for rescue and fire are also on the agenda. A proposal would raise advanced life support rescue service from $760 to $870. Fire engine charges would be pumper truck, $500 an hour; tanker, $350 an hour; grass rig, $150 hour; and aerial, $900 and hour.
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This seems to be the rules on mailing a codebase for a software application on CD, it seems it needs to be on ASCII format. The reason to mail a cd of codebase is to show that you know how to build your invention concept.
I am unclear if it needs to be in .txt format, or if you can send in the original codebase file format. For example, for python scripted software, the extension is in .py format. To open it, the office would probably need to use special reader software, or perhaps can open in notepad but lose some of the formating. Should it be in .txt format, or is specialized file format of the original codebase okay? When they say you can provide specialized instructions for interpreting cd material, does that mean you can say you need to use xx program to open it, which you can download at xx.
How does providing software code work that is over a certain amount of lines where they ask you to send on cd? Thank you!
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Unanswered: Accessing/Toggling series in a chart
Hi all,
I'm trying to access the series on my chart so I can show and hide my lines with button actions. I cant find any sort of getSeries() method for charts, or documentation of how to hide/show series once I access them.
I'd like to do something like this:
daily:function(button){ var panel = button.up('panel'), chart = panel.down('chart'), series = chart.getSeries(); console.log(series); series[1].hide(); },
If anyone has some pointers on how to go about this it would be much appreciated
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I'm looking for accommodation around downtown Manhattan in the first week of September. It should be around 50-60 USD per night. Any local recommendations would really help me. I need nothing fancy, but a clean and quiet bed (for two) ;)
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Trying to understand reasons to vote 'no'
January 27, 2013
To the editor: The Edison Local School District is attempting to pass a levy: Here is some of the information you will get should you ask about the use of funds. Edison spends $9,43....
What will Edison get with the new School Funding proposal from Gov. Kasich?
The plan ensures that the first 20 mills of local property tax generate the same as a district with a $250,00 per student property tax base.
Edison District Valuation = $312,125,400 Edison Number of students = 1,985 Valuation per student = $157,242 Edison tax revenue on 20 mills at valuation of $312,125,400 is $6,242,508. Proposed tax revenue on 20 mills at $250,000 per student is $9,825,000. (250000 * 1985 students = valuation of $491,250,000) $491,250,000/1000) * 20 = $9,825,000 Under the Kasich plan Edison would receive additional state funding of $3,582,492.
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I can understand why the Rev wants this to pass. His congregation is made up of many people that are employed by the Edison Local district.
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I believe Edison is spending $1.6 million on transportation... With the state transportation reimbursement at $950,000.. So actual cost is $1,600,000 - $950,000 = approximately $650,000. I hope the BOE has calculated how much the state transportation reimbursement will decrease when busing for 9-12 high school students is stopped...
Could be an additional hit to the schools revenue in the 2014-15 school year that the BOE will want the taxpayers to also provide new tax money for....
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Rev do you pay the property tax on the home you live in. it is easy for you to spend my money. Just got my tax bill in the mail and with out the school levy it went up.
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Edison classified and certified contracts are up for renewal this year (2013)... When this levy passes you will see where money goes...
When this levy passes, it will only last the district 5 years and that is with the "emergency levy" being renewed. The BOE will be right back at the ballot trying to get back into your checkbook.... Tis district has $18 MILLION in revenue... Still giving Wal Mart a Tax abatement but asking the home owners to pay more.. If you don't need a building... close it... Personally, I would close the current high school building.. It is the oldest building and costs the most to operate.....
Be sure to get out and vote, you had better believe there are enough "YES" votes to get this levy passed.....
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Those are valid reasons for not supporting a levy. Times are tough buddy. Not all of us were beneficiaries of Edison local teacher salaries. Years ago when the Toronto power plant was operational, the steel mills were doing fine, contractors were busy fixing and building homes, you may have had a point. Right now, survival of one's house and family far outweighs where your neighbor's kid goes to school and what he or she learns when they are there. When jobs come back, things will get better. Unfortunately, with a socialist president and progressives in office, that aint gonna happen any time soon.
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Journalists are taught to ask who, what, where, when, why, and how. If you answer all of these chances are you have the bones of a story. Why do all these words, with the exception of "how" start with "wh"? Is it coincidence or did they all originate from the same word? Perhaps it was a grunt type word like "huh?"
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These are all interrogative words so there is nothing weird that they all share the same prefix "wh".
And actually there are more than 600 English words that start with "wh", even there is a history for "wh", there won't exist a strong connection between that history and the set of interrogative words.
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As an appropriate greeting to another new user, Whæt ho! The wh-/qwa- consonant is Germanic in origin; it's a standard sound in OE and ME. Full OED details below. Someone else can do a proper commentary I'm sure.
Adding on to what Nicholas, Kosmonaut, and Jamie have said, here are some examples. Hindi is a language that is mainly derived from Sanskrit. English and German are Germanic languages.
Perhaps someone can add a column for other languages from the same family tree.
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Police continue to investigate a shooting that happened in the parking lot of the Greenwood mall.
Bowling Green Police say around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday night, Jan. 9, 2007, a 14-year-old was shot while sitting in a parked car.
Police say 18-year-old Tyson Barnett and a 17-year-old were in the car during the shooting and are in custody. Police say the 17-year-old suspect used a black Smith and Wesson 22 caliber pistol.
The 14-year-old received one gun shot wound to the shoulder. He was transported to the Medical Center for treatment and has been released.
Barnett is charged with tampering with evidence. The 17-year-old is charged with assault and tampering with evidence.
Officer Jerry Corbitt said police are unsure why the 17-year-old shot the 14-year-old and are investigating the matter.
"They were actually engaged in conduct which was creating a risk of danger to themselves and possibly others," Corbitt said.
Police say after the shooting, the 14-year-old was taken out of the car to the outside patio area of the main entrance until help could arrive. That's when 18-year-old Tyson Barnett tried to hide the gun.
"After the shooting occurred he tried to hide the weapon near some bushes at the mall building," Corbitt said.
Officer Corbitt also said this sort of thing could happen anywhere and isn't a typical occurrence at the Greenwood Mall.
"This is an isolated incident. This isn't a recurring incident so things do happen on occasion and we will address these issues when they come up," Corbitt added.
Although this incident is isolated, malls are typically known as social gathering places for many teens. Mall officials tell us they are aware that the main entrance is a high trafficked area and are reviewing their public safety program.
"Typically they do have some issues with juveniles loitering at the entrances at the mall. A lot of times they do provide a lot of extra patrol. Their internal mall security officers do that but when we have instances that occur in the mall that requires police assistance we do respond," Corbitt said.
Although safety measures are in place, one woman said all shoppers should take personal precautions.
"Any parking lot, Wal-Mart parking lot or any parking lot, you always have to be cautious of your surroundings," shopper, Debbie York said.
The Greenwood Mall management wouldn't comment about the shooting on camera but they did release a written statement that read as follows:
"Last night's incident is a rare and isolated occurrence at Greenwood Mall. This is a testament to our public safety effort which we are quite proud of. The safety and well-being of our shoppers and employees is always our top concern. We do have a well trained public safety department and a close relationship with the Bowling Green Police Department. Due to the ongoing investigation we can not release any further details at this time."
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Two recent rulings denying motions to remand in chemical exposure cases by demonstrate that a complaint must contain sufficient facts to show legitimate claims against all parties. A failure to properly plead causes of action allows a federal court to conclude a claim does not exist and therefore maintain jurisdiction over the case under the doctrine of fraudulent joinder.
Bayer CropScience LP was sued by two individuals who live near the Institute, West Virginia, plant and who claim illness as a result of exposures during a ten day period in 2009. Sue Ferguson Davis v. Bayer AG, et al., Civil Action No. 2:11-cv-00879 and Donna Willis v. Bayer AG, et al., Civil Action No. 2:22-cv-00880. Both filed virtually identical complaints in state court naming Bayer CropScience and others, including West Virginia Paving, Inc., a West Virginia corporation, as defendants. The plaintiffs claimed exposure to toxic fumes "negligently released into the atmosphere..." caused a variety of personal injuries. Bayer CropScience removed the cases to federal court arguing that both Complaints did not contain particular factual allegations justifying claims against the non-diverse party, West Virginia Paving. Inclusion of that company as a defendant destroyed diversity, precluding removal to federal court. Both plaintiffs filed motions to remand.
On the issue of diversity jurisdiction the Court found all of the defendants except West Virginia Paving were from different states or countries than the two West Virginia plaintiffs. Only if West Virginia Paving was fraudulently joined to prevent federal jurisdiction, could the case remain in federal court.
Recognizing well-settled law, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin explained that the doctrine of fraudulent joinder allows federal courts to disregard the citizenship of non-diverse defendants for jurisdictional purposes. A heavy burden is placed on parties who seek federal jurisdiction, as they must demonstrate there is "no possibility" that plaintiff can establish a case against the in-state defendant or there is outright fraud in the facts pled in the complaint.
The judge concluded the complaints lacked even a "glimmer of hope" of establishing claims against West Virginia Paving and denied remand in both cases. He found the complaints simply did not link West Virginia Paving to the specific chemical leak described in both complaints, and concluded (as admitted by plaintiffs) that "West Virginia Paving's conduct could not have caused the plaintiff's injuries, ….because [it] was not operating a chemical facility at any point around that date." Without West Virginia Paving as a defendant, there was complete diversity between the parties, and the court therefore denied plaintiffs' motion to remand.
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Can the statement be regarded as true? That every particle, or element in the universe can be regarded as a combination of black hole and white hole in variable proportion.
You first have to understand what a "white hole" is. It's the time reverse of a black hole. It was rightly pointed out in previous answers that white holes violate the second law of thermodynamics. Now, like anything in thermodynamics, this makes them unlikely but not impossible (unlikely here usually means unlikely even in an astronomical number of universes ...). But if you keep that aside, there is a more beautiful picture of what a white hole is: it is a quantum superposition of all possible black holes of about the same size. There are so many ways to make a black hole, and they come in so many microstates, that the quantum superposition corresponding to a white hole is astronomically unlikely, ... but not impossible.
Such considerations could be important if you ask what the relation is between elementary particles and black holes. This has been answered already: if you try to make such a comparison you would have to realise first that all known particles are so light that those black holes would be tiny, in fact billions of times smaller than the smallest distance conceivable in physics: the Planck length. Because of this, comparing known particles with black holes, or imagining them as being built from black holes, black, white or otherwise, is not considered to be a fruitful exercise in theoretical physics.
Over the years there have been suggestions that elementary particles may be black holes. However no-one has ever been able to make this quantitative and I doubt anyone believes it these days. There was some discussion of this in what is the difference between a blackhole and a point particle, and Googling will find you lots of hits on this subject.
I've never heard of the idea that particles may be a combination of a black hole and a white hole. It's hard to see how such an arrangement could be possible.
The term "white hole" is widely used in science fiction, but SF has the wrong idea about them. The equations of general relativity are time symmetric, and if you reverse the direction of time the black hole solution turns into a white hole. However there is no evidence that the time reversed solution has any physical significance, and as the comments above suggest, no-one (in the mainstream physics community) believes that white holes exist.
The nearest we come go to a white hole existing are suggestions that the Big Bang was a white hole. Have a look at John Baez's article on this for more info.
A "white hole" is the exact same thing as a black hole, as discovered by Hawking and explained by 't Hooft. The reason is that black holes can be in thermal equilibrium with radiation, and the time reverse of a thermal equilibrium state is still thermal equilibrium. This intuition is confirmed in AdS/CFT, where a thermal black hole in AdS can be described by a time-reversal invariant thermal boundary state, and so one is safe to conclude Hawking's argument is valid in quantum generality.
The question of whether particles are black holes is to my mind entirely answered by string theory. The first point is that black holes are classical, and you are talking about quantum particles. So the question is only whether the particles can be interpreted as black holes in an appropriate limit.
The F-strings from which the particles in the Standard Model are made are dual to branes, either by going to strong coupling if you are in a heterotic string theory, where the strings are revealed to be 2-branes wrapping a dimension, or else by going to strong coupling in Type IIB string theory, where you find that the F-string swaps with a D-brane.
In either case, M2-branes or D1-branes are both classically interpretable as black holes, because when you stack them up, their supergravity solution is exactly a black hole. So within string theory, it is not wrong to say that every particle is a particularly highly quantum black hole, in the smallest quantum in which it comes.
This doesn't mean the classical GR picture works for these objects; it doesn't. The other answers explain that it fails completely. But the quantum picture that all matter is extremal black holes (excluding orbifolds and other exotica) is the basic picture of modern string theory. It unifies particle physics and black hole physics in a fundamental way.


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5 Insane Theories About Why We Haven't Discovered Alien Life
#2. We'd All Be Dead by the Time It Happens
When we talk about the likelihood of aliens existing, we tend to think about how many millions and millions of planets there are and figure, well, shit, the odds are at least one of them nearby has green people on it we can talk to. But what we tend to totally discount is time.
And Sam Rockwell. He's so underrated.
Think about it; Earth was round for four billion years before humans appeared. Maybe there was a thriving alien civilization nearby, and maybe they mastered space travel and gave us a visit. And maybe all they found here were a bunch of big, dumb lizards. So it's not just that two intelligent, space-faring civilizations would have to arise physically close to one another, but they would have to overlap chronologically, too.
And without making this too depressing, the odds are overwhelming one or the other is going to go extinct before that happens. In keeping with their long-standing tradition of ruining everything for everyone, scientists came up with something called "The Doomsday argument," which is a statistical equation to determine the number of future members of the human race given a rough estimate of the total number of people born so far. Essentially, it is a formula that predicts the maximum number of human beings that can ever possibly be born. And according to the formula, humans will probably be dust long before we master interstellar travel, or by the time any aliens bother to roll up in their flying saucers and show their green faces.
Or before Steven Tyler has to sing a song about asteroids.
The equation basically says that human beings have a 95 percent chance of becoming extinct within the next 9,000 years, which in the grand cosmic scheme of things isn't a whole lot of time. If we want to meet some aliens, we need to hurry up and develop interstellar technology, because they sure aren't in any kind of hurry to contact us.
The Earth is relatively young compared to the rest of the universe, which has theoretically been spinning around in operatic blackness for billions of years. Statistically speaking, any number of the trillions of celestial bodies out there would have produced intelligent life millennia ago -- if they haven't mastered the science of awesome spaceships by now, they probably never will. And if our remaining 9,000-year estimate turns out to be correct, our window to do the same is equivalent to a tiny coiled butt hair on the epic universal timeline of existence.
You are exactly this insignificant.
Even if we do manage to achieve interstellar travel, the Doomsday argument has a "many worlds" application to account for the possibility of multiple advanced civilizations, meaning that any alien life with the presence of mind to build interplanetary flying machines is just as likely to have an equally finite lifespan. So there is a very real possibility that our historic first visit to another galaxy might yield nothing but a bunch of big-headed skeletons and about a zillion gallons of wasted rocket fuel.
#1. Aliens May Not Exist at All
The Rare Earth hypothesis, put forth by two scientists named Peter Ward and Donald E. Brownlee, suggests that since the development of life as it is on Earth was the result of a laundry list of geological and astrophysical events so cosmically random yet so crucially specific down to the smallest detail, it is ball-smashingly unlikely for a comparable civilization to have come into being anywhere else in the universe. That is, while some kind of bacteria or algae or cosmic mushroom may exist underneath some rocks on some far distant planet, the chances of there being another race of intelligent and industrious living things are about the same as you winning the lottery every single day for the rest of your life and then dying on the morning of your 200th birthday after getting struck directly in the face by Doc Brown's time train.
While breeding a Shiny Ponyta.
First of all, the position of a solar system is vital -- if it's too close to the center of the galaxy, everything will get melted by supernova radiation, but if it's too far along the edge of the galaxy it won't be able to support life. Then, the star at the center of the solar system can't be too old, too bright, or too big, otherwise complex life won't develop (complex life is very fussy). Finally, the planet on which said life develops has to be in a perfect orbit. In Earth's case, if the orbit was 5 percent smaller or 15 percent larger we would all freeze or burn to death, respectively. The size and location of our moon keeps the planet on a stable axis, preventing rapid and cataclysmic climate changes -- if we didn't have exactly one moon of the exact shape and size orbiting at its exact distance, we would all be superdead (and likely would never have existed to begin with).
The sequence of geologic eras even plays a crucial part -- if the Mesozoic had occurred after the Cenozoic, for example, the exact conditions needed for human life to develop might never have been met, upsetting the evolutionary order and resulting in a race of dinosaur humans.
Broadcasting "2 Girls,1 Cup" into space also hasn't helped.
Even the other planets in the solar system can have an effect. For example, Jupiter plays a huge role in keeping us all alive because it acts like a giant defensive lineman, blocking us from cosmic debris and world-ending asteroids like a celestial Olin Kreutz. There are innumerable other variables, all of which played a part in intelligent life appearing on just one planet out of an entire galaxy. The odds of every one of those things falling into place in the exact configuration necessary to duplicate both the existence and success of human beings are virtually nonexistent. Therefore, the fact that we haven't made contact with any alien civilizations is probably because there isn't anything out there to contact.
Allow us to crap all over more of your dreams in 6 Reasons Space Travel Will Always Suck and 7 Awesome Super Powers (Ruined by Science).


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5 Jan 2013 4:48 PM #1
Sencha Touch, ExtJS, Cmd where is it all going?
I'm a developer who has been using Sencha (ExtJs) for about 5 years now, and it was always a very good software until you made it a complete "Sencha" package. I'm wondering where are you going with all that and what are your guide lines? I'm also very frustrated cause my company bought sencha complete on my persuasion and now I see that it is still an uncompleted product.
Some of my problems/observations during last couple of months:
Sencha Touch
1. You release software with outdated documentation:
- sencha create jsb - does not exist any more and there is no guide on how to do it with Cmd 3.0
There is no documentation on how to compile Sencha Touch app or at least I didn't find it, somehow browsing around forums I found it
- sencha package <configFile.json> -this command does not work, someone commented on it long ago you still haven't fixed it
3. I tried to persuade a client to build his mobile app on sencha touch platform and to native compile it for all of the platforms by telling him that this will greatly lower his cost.
Then I tried to create test app to show it to my client, I needed to use drag'n'drop then I realized that:
4. you have Ext.util.Droppable but it's not working, it's simply not implemented, then I created needed components on my own and lost 2 days to do it, after that I compiled my app to find that:
5. one simple app has 6MB, and after some tries and fails I succeeded in native compiling of production build, and this is not documented anywhere and I don't even know if this is the proper way, but I think that app with size of 6MB is not the way.
6. After native compile and pushing installing my app to android device I found that loading screen is not shown (did not even try to find out why), this does not happen on debug app only on production build, but this is something that is your out of the box code, I didn't mess with this.
7. Some minor problems of different render on device than on desktop browser
ExtJS 4.0
I've worked with 3.x versions of ExtJS and I was very satisfied. Then I persuaded my company to upgrade to 4.0 when it was available. That was a mistake cause we had to:
1. make all our company users use FF until 4.1 comes that fixes speed issues. And after 4.1 came it still is not fast in IE but it is usable, I don't need to tell you how problematic is to change company policy of browser usage
2. We had some problems with some bugs, using our premium support we submitted those bugs only to come with a "This bug has already been submitted and will be fixed in next release" but some of those bugs are still there after 6 months and also once we had a reply: "This bug comes up only 2 out of 10 tries so it's not a issue", or something like that. Try to explain to my superior why every day 25 out of 120 of our company employees step on this bug.
3. You published Sencha Cmd 3 which does not have a sencha create jsb command and thus broke our deployment procedure. I tried to upgrade from 4.0.7 to 4.1.2 and everything works fine except deployment, we simply did not make our components the compass and sass way cause that was not available in 4.0. So my question is how can you make such a big step from 4.0 to 4.1, why is there no documentation on these new steps, why do we need to use one more tool and learn one more thing (compass and sass)? Why is compass so much better, until now I had a simple css file I loaded in my index.html file, that css file had my custom css rules and custom components css rules.
4. In new cmd and production app build you take index.php or index.html or whatever and use that as a starting point and even change that file so that includes production files. Well some people don't use index.php or index.html and are using dynamical templating engine and front controller, so trying to compile through a file is a fail cause it cannot be done. sencha create jsb was a much cleaner way cause you could create it through a domain URL or a file.
Sencha Eclipse plugin
I don't event want to start on how this is a half finished product.
My general questions is how come you make such big steps in minor releases, how come you publish unfinished products when you know that you product is being used in an enterprise environment?
Why do you fail to update documentation when you push your big changes?
Are you aware that when you used ExtJS 3.x you just wrote .js files and included them in your index.html file and everything was working fast, now we have to install sencha cmd, rubby, compass, <br>use command prompt to create files (controllers, models, views), edit app.json, build.xml, package.json files. While I'm a fan of ExtJS MVC structure this forcing of yours to use many tools made development actually slower.
ExtJS 3.x:
1. Create .js
2. include in index.html
3. put some custom css wherever you want
4. use debug or production extjs fil
and that is it
ExtJS 4.x
1. Install sencha cmd
2. Install rubby
3. Install compass
4. Create project using cmd
5. Create files using cmd
6. Create custom css files for every custom component
7. Edit app.json to inlcude custom css and images
8. Use cmd to create production app (if you have front controller in your site forget about this)
9. Pray to the God that it doesn't fail and publish this
How is this faster than ExtJS 3.x?
And after all that pray to the God that 4.1 doesn't get upgraded to 4.2 cause you will need to install python, perl, smalltalk and maybe pascal.
Only good thing is that I succeeded using sencha cmd 2.0 in 4.1.2 environment and I am still able to compile the app old way. And I think I will stick with this.
18 Jan 2013 8:12 AM #2
Hi there --
I'll try to answer your questions the best I can, and I'm sorry to hear you've been having so many troubles using the frameworks.
Sencha Touch: there were a lot of documentation bugs that had crept up over the last few months. We've taken a concerted effort to clean those up and pushed a big set of docs fixes earlier this week. Check them out again, hopefully you'll see a lot cleaner and more accurate documentation there. Regarding the size of the application and the mobile packaging issues you found, the size is mitigated by using Sencha Cmd to build your application. Clearly, if you had trouble getting the old SDK Tools up and running this would have been hard :-), but with Cmd 3.0 you can build and minify your application, as well as do all the native deployment thing.
Ext JS: there were performance issues in Ext JS 4.0, no argument there. We've addressed a large number of them in 4.1 as you point out and there's additional work to make Grids and other components faster in 4.2. As you note the build/deploy process has become more complex as we moved from 3.x to 4.x and a large part of that is to accomodate larger and more complex applications that are being built with Ext JS. It's definitely more steps to get up and running, but the long term management and maintenance we believe is easier with Cmd and Sass/Compass, et al. Again, in a lot of cases this will lead to more up front configuration steps as you mention, but we hope developers see the value in the process as their projects get more complex. Now, regarding templating systems and front end controllers, I'm sorry to hear that it's gotten more complex for you in your environment You're always welcome to use ext-all.js and not use the loaders and the parts of the app.json you don't want.
Sencha Eclipse Plugin: I'm sorry that you've had trouble with the Eclipse plugin. The feedback I've received from a lot of our customers is that it's helped them quite a bit in their development process.
Documentation: just to let you know, we know that the documentation and the maintenance of it causes a lot of issues for our customers, community and developers. We're working hard on making the right changes in house to get our process better so that those kinds of problems go away. It's not ideal, but it's a known problem here and we're working to address it.
21 Jan 2013 12:24 AM #3
Thanks for taking the time to let us know about your experience. I am sorry to hear that you have had challenges getting up and going with newer releases and newer tooling (Sencha Cmd). If you want to go deeper in to any of those specifics, I encourage you to post the details in smaller/focused threads to help us help you.
I will try to cover some of yours points on Ext JS / Cmd in a general way here:
3. You published Sencha Cmd 3 which does not have a sencha create jsb command and thus broke our deployment procedure. I tried to upgrade from 4.0.7 to 4.1.2 and everything works fine except deployment,
we simply did not make our components the compass and sass way cause that was not available in 4.0. So my question is how can you make such a big step from 4.0 to 4.1, why is there no documentation on these new steps, why do we need to use one more tool and learn one more thing (compass and sass)? Why is compass so much better, until now I had a simple css file I loaded in my index.html file, that css file had my custom css rules and custom components css rules.
The Cmd theme guide (http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!.../command_theme) was updated for Cmd 3.0.2 so should be a good reference for using Cmd to produce themes. This is the only aspect where Cmd uses Compass, so I am assuming this is probably relevant to your comments.
4. In new cmd and production app build you take index.php or index.html or whatever and use that as a starting point and even change that file so that includes production files. Well some people don't use index.php or index.html and are using dynamical templating engine and front controller, so trying to compile through a file is a fail cause it cannot be done. sencha create jsb was a much cleaner way cause you could create it through a domain URL or a file.
sencha create jsb was a much cleaner way cause you could create it through a domain URL or a file.
The current version of Cmd provides many ways to start from source JavaScript (or markup) and produce a build suited to your needs. If you have some specific Cmd questions and the guides are not clearing things up, I hope you can drop by http://www.sencha.com/forum/forumdis...p?8-Sencha-Cmd and provide some details on what you are needing to do.
As mentioned in the previous post, we are working to address the shortcomings in the documentation and guides - we appreciate any feedback on where this material is failing people so that we know what needs fixing. While we work on that, I hope the forums are a place where your questions can be answered.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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9 Feb 2013 5:03 AM #4
I am worried about ExtJS too
I am a professonial ExtJS developer and make my money with developing with this framework. I have the Sencha Complete package and pay good money for this. But I have already 2 occasions where I had to downgrade my software to the GPL version 4.0.7 (from 4.1.2), because of bugs in the commercial higher releases. It is for me not understandable that the commercial later releases of ExtJS are having flaws that 4.0.7 doesn't have. And regarding support I agree that Sencha is taking things not very serious. I have also reported a bug that was not in 4.0.7, but is in 4.1.2. As a remark I got that it was not clear if the bug would be solved in 4.1.3.
Come on, how can you release a newer version, only available to commercial developers and have bugs in it, that the GPL version doesn't have? Why am I paying suppport, to only hear that bugs might not be solved. I am a great admirer of ExtJS, but please take it serious. I have projects, with budgets over 15.000 Euro and therefor I am really relying on good ExtJS releases. That is what I pay for, I hope.
I have a few big projects still running build with ExtJS 3. And I must say they are running flawless and fast.
ExtJS 4 is slower than version 3, but nevertheless I would never build another project again in version 3, simply because I don't want to keep the knowledge updated for 2 versions of the framework.
Please Sencha, keep ExtJS the best framework for frontend Ajax development up to date and don't put all your cards on the mobile Touch. There are still enough customers out there that don't have their employees fiddling around with tablets. Some developers are earning their bread with it. Don't underestimate that.
9 Feb 2013 2:16 PM #5
I am sorry to hear of those problems. We do take Ext JS stability and improvement very seriously and have a dedicated team working on it. If you want to share the tickets you have open that would be helpful to be more specific, but in general.
http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!/guide/upgrade_41) because there are some important changes to be aware of. Perhaps you are encountering bugs but if you are unaware of these issues, you could be encountering them.
Minor note - you should be able to download any release of the commercial licensed products via support so you should not have to switch to a GPL licensed version ... if that matters to you. Given a particular version number, the only difference between GPL and commercial releases is the license.
Despite the efforts made, however, bugs do escape. Bugs reported by support customers are given priority attention in the maintenance release process. Also, support can in some cases provide "overrides" or workarounds until the bug is resolved. I don't know your specific situation, but you can request an override. Whether or not a particular issue can be "hot fixed" in this way is case-by-case.
On the performance of Ext JS 4, have you been able to try out Ext JS 4.1.x to see how that changes things for you?Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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"Use the source, Luke!"
10 Feb 2013 9:45 AM #6
Don't underestimate how many developers are already professionally building on a "4" release. Going from 3 to 4 was a big step forward (and somewhat painful). Within a "4" release it should not lead to unwanted behavior when upgrading the framework release in my software. Because small teams don't have tons of time to test the software (already in production) all over again, just because they don't trust the upwards compatibility. And that is just what seems to happen now. My applications have tons of panels and windows with as many other classes. I can't spend hours of time testing everything again, simply because my customers won't pay it. And if the reason for a release upgrade would be a great performance improvement, it would be good reason to consider it, won't it?.
Concluding: if version 4.1 is such an improvement over 4.0.x, than make some hurry to fix it. I would look so good with my customers, if I could present a great performance improvement just overnight.
13 Feb 2013 4:22 PM #7
Anyhow in your most recent post you seem to have retracted the allegation that the commercial variant is inferior to the GPL licenced library.
15 Feb 2013 11:25 AM #8
Seriously Irked and Worried
I'm moving this into her own thread.
18 Feb 2013 7:37 AM #9
I think what we need is reassurance from Sencha that they are still taking Ext-Js seriously.
The whole darn industry is awash with mobile-tablet hoopla. Personally, I don't care much for these platforms; my clients are all sitting at their boring old-fashioned desks with boring old-fashioned PCs with boring old-fashioned large screens.
You can see the mobile-app bubble-mania everywhere. Suddenly every one wants to implement totally ill-conceived projects on mobile just because it is the 'cool' thing. Granted, there are some good reasons to having a mobile-app. But not for everything. (I just had a client want an iPhone App to list their contacts with. I told them to just deliver a responsive web-page. They thought I was from the Ark. Apparently one of their competitors has a swanky new App which can be downloaded from the iStore. God help us.)
Can we get a reassurance from Sencha on whether or not they are still taking 'boring old-fashioned desktop rich applications' seriously and that there is still a sizeable focus - both on talent and budget - within Sencha for Ext-JS?
Or have Sencha's directors been told to focus on mobile because they think desktop is toast?
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McCarthy: Rodgers wants to go, but 'I would say he's slim to none'
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What about the Defense? If they don't practice, they won't play?Hide replies
They didn't play much yesterday so they should be rested.
They don't play either way.
They are already playing like they never practice. Will we see any difference?
I know he has to say it, but I can't believe that in his heart of hearts MM is truly comfortable with his defensive coaching staff. It's going on 3 years now of pretty much inept play on that side of the ball.Hide replies
Truer words can't be found.
Maybe McCarthy knows Ted has given him trash for players. The team is a train wreck from top-to-bottom. Might be time to start over before they waste more of 12's career.
I like all but a half a dozen or so players on this team.
If half a dozen coaches on this team didn't return, I'd be just fine with that decision.
Shocking Mr. Tough Guy in his commercials won't play this week. 12 is supposed to be the leader of this team. Wonder why they're so soft?Hide replies
I don't think Aaron has a choice. I think if it were up to him he would play, but from the medical report I read on the fracture if he took a similar hit before it fully healed the bone could break in two and maybe ruin his future. Better to play it safe since he is our franchise for years to come.
If he wants to play, he can play. This medical staff is probably using leeches and tonic for injuries anyway given how many guys get hurt and can't get back in a timely fashion.
Mr. Tough Guy in his commercials???
You think he's playing tough in those "discount double check" spots?
lol. you have got to be the most easily intimidated dude ever if you think that's playing tough guy.
He's in those Ford Tough commercials talking about how tough he is. Yeah, one injury and he's out for half a season
So you want him back out there, risking more serious injury? Your obsession with Favre has completely eroded your critical thinking.
It has nothing to do with Favre and everything to do with being a real leader and toughening a game out in a big spot. Remember Favre on a bum ankle against the Bears in '95? Shouldn't have played because of a serious injury risk but his presence helped lead to a huge divisional win.
you ever break your collar bone?
of course not.
you're just another internet tough guy judging other's toughness while typing with cheetoh fingers.
and you think Favre was a tough guy???
the guy had to go to rehab because he could not stop taking pain medication.
do you get that?
he was so afraid of pain, he became addicted to pain medication!
I really don't think it was his "fear" of pain but actually really being in "pain". That's a big difference. Many fans don't like the interceptions and a re critical of Favre for them, but his pain threshold was high; you don't play 300 consecutive games in the NFL, particularly when quarterbacks were not treated like china dolls by the rules, and not be tough and pain resisitant.
What a joke. You are an ignorant lunatic that has no comprehension of what the healing time for a fractured collarbone of an NFL premier QB should be unless you are his personal physician. Half a season? Last I counted he's missed 3½ games. You are a puss.
I am a physician but I don't play one on kool aid filled blogs.
I would be shocked if Flynn doesn't start. He is just *****g with Schwarz who is enough of a moron to buy it. As far as "slim to none" I have to believe for the same reason its a little better than that.Hide replies
I think you stick with Tolzien to see what you got there. Flynn is nothing. Still think Tolzien has a chance to be a star in this league.
We don't need a star in two years; we need a solid backup in 3 days, and it makes no sense for Rodgers to play this week. One more game missed is 10 more days of rest.
True, PW, but if you lose this game you will need Detroit to lose two out of its last four and the Pack needs to run the table. Even if Rodgers broke his collarbone its his left side and he'd be back for training camp in the summer. He seems willing to take the risk.
Tolzien is still better than Flynn, though, that's the thing. The Vikes went in prevent too early yesterday so Flynn put up garbage numbers. Let Tolzien throw it a little more and run some tempo
aholic, prevent or no prevent (I'm not sure that assessment it accurate but regardless, d-backs will psychologically play different with a big lead no matter the play calling), Tolzien was misfiring on every mid-range pass whereas Flynn was not. As Portland stated, this is almost too silly to debate.
Flynn should start. MM benched Tolzien due to ineffectiveness, and Flynn rallied the team from 16 down. Can't believe it's even up for debate.
McCarthy doesn't give Tolzien a chance to succeed and Flynn was able to put up huge numbers against a vanilla Viking defense.
Tolzien is big and athletic but he makes Joel Stave look accurate.
Stave is only a sophomore. You people are too hard on him.
He's so inaccurate that he won the Unitas Award at Stave's level and completed 70% of his passes. Sunday he had been drilled for the week of practice to not make a mistake and throw any interceptions so he played tentative. Not good coaching; you can't play at any level fearing to make a mistake.
Against defenses playing eight in the box. I'm not impressed.
More ignorace from Favreaholic.
I can only assume Favreaholic is writing with sarcasm. If not it's time for the rubber room.
The play calling stinks. All year, if it is 2nd and 9 or greater I guarantee a run for zero yards is coming next. Also in OT, 3rd and goal inside the 2 - run twice and don't even think about a field goal. Whimpy play calling
Sorry, but the Packers will not win this Thursday. That being said, I believe Rodgers will sit for the season to completly heal.Hide replies
Don't have to waste your time watching the game then.
If they lose on Thursday the rush to get him back slows down quite a bit.
"(Defensive calls) We need to play better. We looked over all the calls. Like the teaching. Very comfortable with coaching staff."
I understand he has to say this type of thing during the season, but I hope like hell this "we are family" gets tossed in the crapper in the off-season. If not by McCarthy then by Thompson, and if not by Thompson then by Murphy, etc. Of course, they didn't get rid of Crosby after his horrific season so will they clean house on defense ? Probably not.Hide replies
They're not making any changes in coaching staff or players. Both Ted and Mike ar stubborn as mules.
...as opposed to Lombardi, who was not at all stubborn.
Slocum should thank Dom Capers if he has a job next year because the only thing worse than the special teams coverage is the defense over the last 4 games. The Packers are horrible covering kicks and punts. Slocum can't kick field goals for Crosby, so if he isn't blamed for the bad coverage units, what exactly is he responsible for?
And how many more fumbles or muffed plays does Jonathan Franklin get before he doesn't see the field again this year?Hide replies
Franklin has concussion symptoms and probably won't suit up. He's been a major disappointment along wiht several others this season (Perry, both Jones, Burnett, etc., etc.)
yeah I have a hunch those consussion symptoms are similiar to the groin strain that Seneca Wallace had after his horrible play. Now we just need BJ Raji to pull a hamstring in Pillates class and we have a chance. Where would the Packers be if they had given up on Jolly?
Did anyone ask if He thout Shields or Barclay might give it a go ?
Sudden death was meant to eliminate ties and it worked for 50 years But the "Favre rule" increases the probability of a regular season game ending in a tie.Hide replies
Hate the rule almost as much as the Vikings.
Don't want to lose on a FG in OT? Play some d@mn defense.
Stupid, stupid rule.
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Your creature is still blocked. The blue frog will still deal damage.
If you cast Turn to Frog after attackers are declared, but before blockers are declared, your spirit can't be blocked by that creature.
The check for evasion ability blocking restrictions is made before blockers are declared, but is not made again. If the attacker gains or loses evasion abilities it doesn't matter. It's not explicitly mentioned in that rule, but it logically follows that if the defender gains or loses the ability to block flying creatures after the block is declared, it doesn't matter.


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On Friday, I came across this absolute gem of an article on The Age Online. Excuse me for not reposting the entire piece, but I have faith in your ability to click on a link.
In summary, the article (written by Paula Joye, who I honestly thought had a bit more sense) discussed the findings of a study that "showed 300 people pictures of women dressed in navy blue skirt suits and pant suits…Within three seconds, the majority perceived that the women wearing skirts were more confident, successful and powerful than their trouser clad sisters. The results concluded that the option women have to wear such attire creates a competitive advantage within the workplace…Professor Karen Pine, who co-led the research, said that the results contradicted previous studies that suggested women should dress more like men to succeed in business."
"Women still have to maintain an identity that balances professionalism with attractiveness. The skirt suit may achieve that balance without appearing provocative"… said Professor Pine.
My first job – as assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of a fashion magazine – came with a dress code. I was allowed to wear pants (never jeans) but only on days that my boss was not receiving clients. If we had external visitors then I had to wear a dress or a skirt. My boss was a woman – very intelligent and powerful. Her wardrobe requirements had nothing to do with sexism. At the time, I was hugely resentful but she taught me an important lesson about impressions and the art of smoke and mirrors. You aren't necessarily what you wear but what others imagine you to be while wearing it."
Okay. Hold up. Women have to balance professionalism with attractiveness? And this is done through wearing a skirt. But this somehow ISN'T sexist, and it IS a good thing.
Oh, and also, Paula? The notion that you can justify having to wear a skirt during your first job because your boss "was an intelligent and powerful woman" DOES have something to do with sexism. Unless the boys are also forced to wear skirts on the days that you're "receiving clients" then it's sexism, honey. Plain and simple.
"The real message in this study is that perhaps we've actually evolved. Wouldn't that be wonderful? It's no longer 1955 when women had no choice other than to wear a skirt to work in order to make a man coffee. Now we run companies, make our own cups of tea and have the choice to wear whatever we wish in the workplace. The women who blazed this trail had to fight hard and wear a lot of ugly trousers for us to be able to enjoy these progressions."
This isn't evolution, Paula dear. Evolution would be when women's attractiveness DOESN'T EVEN ENTER THE EQUATION FOR HOW SUCCESSFUL SHE IS. This very same study that you claim is "good news" is actually suggesting that we don't really have a choice in what we wear, and that in order to succeed, we should wear skirts in order to be considered more attractive. You've just contradicted yourself.
"It has nothing to do with the being viewed as a sexual object – far from it," says Penny, 38, a lawyer. "It's about putting a highlighter pen through your femininity. Many clients want to work with women as a preference because of our empathy, multi-tasking and ethics. A skirt suit is just an outward reminder that they've backed the right horse."
PAULA. STOP GENERALISING. Not ALL women are more empathetic, or better at multi tasking. Men can also multi task, and are good at "ethics" (as a side track, WHAT exactly is this vague term supposed to mean? That women are better at identifying what is right and wrong?). These forms of generalising are complete and utter rubbish, as multiple studies will tell you. Have you ever heard of biological determinism? Because you're doing it, sister.
"Let's not turn these findings into a loss for the feminist cause… At last, women who wear skirts aren't perceived as ditsy, sexually provocative or assistants. We no longer need to wear pants to be viewed as successful – we have a choice. Can't we celebrate the fact we no longer have to turn down the volume on our femininity to compete?
Suddenly we have an advantage that men can't cash in on (and don't think for a second that they wouldn't if they could). It's the day that blokes start getting promoted for wearing skirts that we should be worried about."
Oh, hardy har har. Boys wearing skirts. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
NO. It's not funny.
Your entire argument is convoluted, and contradicts itself many times. You claim that your (female) boss made you wear a skirt on days you wear expecting clients, and yet this wasn't sexist. You also claim that we are evolved enough to appreciate that a woman can wear a skirt OR pants, but then also claim that if a woman wants to be successful, she should wear a skirt. And that we should use our femininity to our advantage, because it's something men "can't do". You want to know why men can't do it? Because their brains are valued more than how shapely their legs are, Paula. That's what we SHOULD be aiming for here.
Now, excuse me whilst I go change into a skirt so my boss knows that he has "backed the right horse".


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Terrific composition.
Chatting each other look nice!
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happy friend..!!
Great capture of this neighborly interaction!
Happy talk, lovely colors and architecture. A great shot of what looks like an interesting conversation.
the photo is unique because you don't expect people talking instead of going up the steps.
nice and so warm :)
I like the story of this photo, how they look so friendly talking together.
Been there, Amazing place.
Nice job!!
Wonderful shot! There is also a small stone holding the door closed and a string is tied between the door and the bell which can sound when someone opens it! Definitely looks ancient! :)
Nice shot. The smiles make it feel like a happy, ancient place.
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Every thing in this shot, upto the bolt on the door, and the small bell are standouts,along with the two men in conversation. To say nothing of the walls,and steep steps. A good,and very interesting picture.
Are they both 'holy men'? I think so. j.e.s........
the person on the right, is the follower of Hazrat Waris Shah Warsi ?
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Interesting place, interesting peoples and good idea. Thanks!
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Amazing! They're like little boys during break at school:) Happy because nobody can find them....
very relaxing...
I wonder how many have fallen off these stairs which are so narrow to the walls and yet have no protective rails.
Nicely done. Symmetric without stress. Both men's attitude is pleasant and relaxed. Well seen :)
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Is there a natural measure on the set of statements which are true in the usual model (i.e. $\mathbb{N}$) of Peano arithmetic which enables one to enquire if 'most' true sentences are provable or not? By the word 'natural' I am trying to exclude measures defined in terms of the characteristic function of the set of true sentences.
It seems to me that the probability that a statement is provable and that it is undecidable should both be bounded away from 0, for any reasonable probability distribution.
Let $C_n$ be the number of grammatical statements of length $n$. For any statement $S$, the statement
is a theorem. So the number of provable statements of length $n$ is bounded below by $C_{n-k}$, where $k$ is the number of characters needed to tag on "or $1=1$".
On the other hand, let $G$ be an undecidable sentence, and $S$ any sentence. Then
is undecidable. So the number of undecidable sentences of length $n$ is bounded below by $C_{n-\ell}$, for some constant $\ell$. For any reasonable grammar, the ratios $C_{n-k}/C_n$ and $C_{n- \ell}/C_n$ should both be bounded away from 0.
I am currently trying to figure out why my computation is seemingly incompatible with the paper of Calude and Jurgensen cited by Konrad. I suspect that the answer is hidden in the definition of prefix free, on page 4, but I am trouble understanding it. Any help?
Update: in response to comment below, I'm not sure anymore the probability in question was 0.
Let's try the measure that gives an equal weight for any true statement of fixed length $N$ (written in mathematical English).
Then we have statements of the form "S or 1+2=3" which form more then $1/10^{20}$th of all true statements of a given length. On the other hand, the statements "S and Z" (where
So, yes, for the measure described above the measure of provable statements is within some positive bounds $[a, b]$ for any $N$ greater than some $N_0$.
But that measure is proportional, for a fixed $N$, to the characteristic function of the set of all true statements, so, no, my answer doesn't give a "natural" measure.
I think the probability of "a random true statement is provable" is 0 in any good formalization of your problem.
Here's the reasoning: consider a true undecidable statement
The proof can be done by considering the random strings of the form (chunk 1)(chunk 2)...(chunk
Ilya had the right idea in his answer.
Firstly, the natural measure that is usually used when you have a discrete set of objects, each of some finite "complexity" n, and with only finitely many of complexity n, is to consider the probability for fixed n, and then let n go to infinity (cf. the theory of Random Graphs).
Secondly, the probability of a true statement of length n being provable indeed tends to 0 as n goes to infinity. This has been shown by Cristian Calude and Helmut Jürgensen (Adv Appl Math 35 (2005), 1-15).
Thank goodness our job is not to prove random statements!
Caveat: this holds for sound and consistent theories in which Peano arithmetic can be formalized.
There are an infinite number of true provable theorems in PA and an infinite number of true unprovable theorems. So any measure must go to zero for all but a finite number of sentences I think there will be a problem with knowing p in that one can search all the lower weighted sentences and find the percentage of true sentences so that a point may be reached where some sentences may have to be undecidable to make the probability work. If this is the case then then knowledge of the probability would make some sentences decidable so the probability can't be known and the proof would have to be non-constructive that it exists which could cause problems with some philosophies of mathematics like intuitionism. I recall a similar question about quantum computers in which the answer was 1/2.
I have found a reference that says that no halting probability is computable. If proof could be made into a process that either succeeds or never halts then that would provide evidence that the probability of an undecidable theorem is uncomputable


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Other tidbits from the report, which was grabbed this morning by Macrumors, include Apple purportedly fitting in with ready another version of the iPad to bring to showcase "before Thanksgiving." That would give Apple a late-year product launch that–as a final two iPad launches have proven–would make for a tough-to-get gadget in the frenzied holiday shopping season.
The China Times report has some weight regarding timing. Apple has made a habit of possessing its annual iPod-focused music event in September, usually in that first or second week of the month. Apple has promised to release iOS 5 in "the slide," which officially begins a few weeks after.
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Apple has released a new iPhone yearly since unleashing the original model on June 30, 2007. The latest, the iPhone 4, is now greater year old. The company reported sales of 20.34 million iPhones in its most current fiscal quarter, which was up from 18.65 trillion units the quarter before. While Apple doesn't break out those sales regarding the differing models, it did say that it's now approximately 220 million iOS devices total.


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We're looking at a house in southern Alabama that has no central heating and air. I would like to put one in. The house was built in 1950.
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We're looking at a house in southern Alabama that has no central heating and air. I would like to put one in. The house was built in 1950.
What should I be considering about the installation?
The easy challenge is finding somewhere to install the internal half (blower and coils) of the unit. You need to have space, access to service it, a place to run the lines to the outside unit, and power. Power is typically 220, and will need a dedicated circuit, so you'll need to be able to run another line from the breaker panel and have enough additional capacity on the main breaker. Finally, the largest challenge is running the ducts to each of the rooms. In an older home, the joists will frequently be solid and cannot be cut to pass the ducts, so you are left with using the craw space beneath the home, attic space, or enclose them below the ceiling/along the walls.
One final consideration is that a home built this long ago without an hvac unit will likely have little insulation or weather stripping. This means a lot of the energy used to get your home to the right temperature will go right out the walls. To do this right, you could be looking at a situation with all of your exterior walls are opened up to insulate, windows are replaced to prevent drafts, and lots of interior walls and ceilings are opened up to run the lines.
Depending on the home, and especially the layout, it could be cheaper to buy a similar home that already has an hvac installed.
I'm in an older home, and the issues I've run into are all of what BMitch said -- difficulty to run ducts, and lack of existing insulation.
You might be recent enough to have insulation ... if not, they can cut into the top of the walls from the inside and blow in insulation, of take off siding and insert it from the outside. You should also consider your current windows ... if they're originals, they're likely single pane.
To deal with the ductwork issue, I've been considering using a 'ductless air conditioner' aka. a 'mini-split', where there's an outside unit, but you attach a unit into each room that's going to be cooled, and run a ~3" refrigerant line to the outside unit. You can get 'em with as many as four zones, but if you need more cooling (eg, more extreme temps, which is likely for Alabama), or large rooms, you might only get 2 zones per outside unit. All of the internal stuff then just mounts onto the wall, so you don't have to find basement, attic or living space to hide it all.
Retrofitting HVAC into a home requires all of the standard trades, and then some. If your carpentry, pipe-fitting, metal-working, electrical and brazing skills aren't up to snuff, consider contracting it out.
In short, depending on the level of accessibility, basically the entire house gets torn apart. That's what's known in the industry as, a can of worms.
Why bother, unless you have health issues. With the rising cost of oil it is better to look for alternative sources. If its heating you want then try solar warm air, if its cooling then try adding shades to windows, make sure they can open, losing weight so you dont feel the heat, fans, etc.


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Named a first team All-American during both upperclassmen years at San Diego State, Hyden also led the country in kills per set (7.3) as a junior while he collected the nation's most terminations in a single set (56) against Long Beach State that same season. Following his collegiate career on the hardwood, Hyden moved to the beach in 2001 where he ranked nationally in the top-20 over a six-year stretch. In 2009, Hyden might have had his best season yet, receiving AVP Defensive Player of the Year honors and culminating with a third-place tour finish at the end of season.
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Often on T"u BiSh'vat people like to eat members of the shiv'as haminim - the Seven Species by which the Land of Israel is praised. Some of them, such as grapes and dates, are easy enough to come across in their unadulterated forms. But when it comes to wheat and barley, people often resort to cooked or baked grain derivatives rather than consuming the fruit in its pure form. Where (preferably in the U.S.) can an average consumer easily get hold of grains of wheat and barley straight from the stalk?
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You can buy plain pearled barley in the grocery store, usually near the dry beans. Many people use it for cholent. You can certainly cook that up plain as a starchy side dish, and you might be able to roast it. Are you hoping to eat it raw?
For wheat, it looks like the product you're looking for is called "wheat berries." I've never shopped for them, but I imagine they can be found at health food stores, or online.