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I am finding these from about $50 to $80 on amazon dependent on color. Somewhat tempted as I need a new torch lighter.
Anyone have one or can vouch for them?
Also would like to know if these are legit.
FYI Plus $6.99 shipping.
from what i see the links on amazon are mostly sold by "BrandshopperStores" and at the bottom of Unholy Cocktail's webpage it states "© 2011-2012, Brandshopper Stores, All Rights Reserved." so take that as you will.
I got one of these from a different site and it lasted about a week. :(
I also got a Black Ops dual-flame lighter with a little metal flip top cap that was very cheap and works VERY well. No problems after a couple months using plain old zippo butane.
I got the black ops lighter from this site. Shipping was fast and they are legit.
just in time for my relocate to Colorado
@xochiluvr: I picked up one of these along with the black ops lighter. Thanks for the suggestion.
Now i'm going, going, back, back, to Colo rado......
Why not wait for one of the many cigar+free lighter deals that come along. The lighters that come with them are pretty decent. PD ones are OK.


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I am an MCA fresher and will be working on dot Net for next few months (almost 10-12 months). After that I want to switch over to Java.
How is the possibility that I can switch over to it? What type of preparation I am supposed to do? I am also planning to appear for SCJP but don't have any knowledge how to get registered an registration fees.
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I'm an avid contest entry maker and recently have come across a problem that is really irritating.
I just found out how to animate stuff on Photoshop which I was REALLY excited about because when you save something in GIF form on TDP makers it usually turns sour because I have more then 256 colors(I think that's the right number). Well anyway, the GIF form on Photoshop doesn't tell you that you can't have more than 256 colors. So I made an awesome-rad doll and tried to enter it into one of my contests... it won't animate! My first instinct was to re-save because I thought I had done it wrong, which I re-saved SEVERAL times and it still wouldn't animate on TDP. So I decided to check it on my computer and on PhotoBucket.com , both my computer AND PhotoBucket show it as animated.
My suggestion for the contest section is to add the option to upload a picture from the internet (like PhotoBucket).
And if the way I'm uploading it is not the problem, then they should make it to where they can support bigger files (which by the way it only says that you can't load anything bigger than 350X290 pixels or it will re-size it. It says nothing about how many KB it can have.)
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention: It was NOT bigger than 350X290 pixels. ( I know that when something is re-sized the animation can flaw) The image I was trying to upload was 297X282 and 77.1 KB (78,989 bytes)
Here's What TDP Contest Section Loaded:
And Here's What It Should Have Loaded:
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I had the same problem again except this time I decided to see if the size needed to be smaller.
My suggestion for TDP contest section is to include that there is a decreased size maximum for animated dolls.
Most (if not all) animated dolls will flaw if the pixels are higher than 250X250. I made a doll that was 250X254 and it wouldn't animate. I cut off 4 pixels and voila! It worked.
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Can I wrap E2 in a box of certain size and have LaTeX replace x with that box without asking LaTeX to look inside the box and try to rearrange its internal structure?
For example: How do you replace an element of a given 3*3 matrix with a particular 2*2 matrix?
The answers so far are very interesting in themselves but none worked for me. So let me re-state. Suppose in an environment I can put a literal $x$ without any problem but I cannot put a matrix or a multi-line equation in the same spot, as it conflicts with various commands etc. How can I make a matrix act like an $x$ to the rest of program? As if I have to build the matrix somewhere else, put it in a box, and sell it to LateX as a single item as if it has no line return.


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The 6 Most Insane Crash Diets of All Time
When we say, "all time," we mean it. The news talks about obesity like it's a recent epidemic, but the truth is that fat people have existed throughout recorded history. Without modern inventions, people in earlier times had to work 10 times harder to get fat, but the extraordinary men and women of those eras persevered and managed, in many cases, to achieve spectacular obesity.
For as long as that has happened, those people have searched for ways to shed the pounds while avoiding "exercise and a sensible diet" at all costs. As you'll see, often it would have been better to just stay fat.
#6. The Alcohol Diet
In 1087, England's William the Conqueror got really fat. Hurt by comments such as King Phillip of France's description of him as "looking pregnant," and despondent over his inability to ride a horse without breaking it in half, he took to his bed and drank nothing but alcohol in an attempt to lose weight.
The Theory:
One can only speculate the reasoning behind it (we know of several guys who tried this diet in college, but for different reasons), but the idea probably went something like this: Food makes you fat. To lose weight, you can stop eating food. But then you'll be hungry. You won't care if you're hungry if you're passed out from too much booze. The booze can't possibly make you fat, because it's a drink, not food. Right?
The Reality:
Wrong. Here is a rough breakdown of calories per gram for the various basic substances we eat:
- Carbohydrates: 4 cal/g
- Proteins: 4 cal/g
- Alcohol: 7 cal/g
- Fat: 9 cal/g
As you can see, William could not have been much worse off sipping lard.
The Results:
On one hand, William was able to get back on his horse again. We know this because he died of complications by falling off of it. You could say he was successful, because he was able to get back on the horse, or unsuccessful because he had trouble staying on it.
Either way, he was allegedly too large to fit into his coffin at burial time and his body was said to have bloated in the afternoon heat and exploded from all the prodding, leaving a reportedly unbearable stench in the church. Any time your body explodes, it's typically the sign of a failed diet.
Yet, in 1964, Robert Cameron put William's philosophy into print with The Drinking Man's Diet, which emphasized cutting carbohydrates, but whose main attention-getter was its recommendation of alcoholic drinks, which generally contain very few carbs. While he neglected to emphasize that alcohol has almost twice as many calories per gram, and that it may not be the healthiest of substances to incorporate into your regular diet, this was brought up rather vocally by doctors at the time. We have to question Cameron's actual motivation here, just as people questioned ours when we came up with the Porn Diet.
The fact that "beer belly" is a common term in modern lingo goes to show that we've pretty much got the idea.
#5. Vomiting (Ancient Rome)
The practice of throwing up after a meal is actually older than Hollywood and photographic airbrushing techniques, although Julius Caesar's attached psychological issues may have varied slightly from those of young women today. From accounts such as Cicero's, which explained how Caesar escaped an assassination attempt by vomiting after dinner in his bedroom instead of in the bathroom where his assassins expected him, it seems this sort of practice was common enough in Rome that no one batted an eye. Then again, so was watching a prisoner and a bear fight to the death for fun.
Now, people keep quoting "fun facts" about how ancient Romans threw up so much that they had special rooms to do it in, called "vomitoriums." Not so. While they did vomit a lot, and they did have rooms called vomitoriums, they were actually unrelated. Vomitoriums were just hallways in large stadiums where people exited all at once (so they "vomited" people out onto the streets when the event was over). Although, if they had just come out from watching a bear tear a man's arms off, they might have actually vomited in the vomitorium, but that would just be coincidence.
The Theory:
The idea is straightforward enough--to get rid of the food before you have time to digest it and turn it into fat. In the context of the Romans, they seemed to really enjoy eating and thought of it as a way to make room for more. They were type-A, impatient people who had a continent to conquer and couldn't bother with waiting for it to go out the other end.
The Reality:
By now most people are aware of the health consequences of repeated vomiting. But, just for the record, it causes tooth decay, osteoporosis, heart problems, kidney problems, damage to the esophagus, and fainting from low blood pressure. You know how when you throw up, it sort of feels like you're dying? That's your body trying to tell you something. Despite that, people still do it and we call it bulimia.
The Results:
Caesar was, as you probably know, murdered before any of these symptoms really had a chance to show themselves. As for others engaging in the practice at the time, we're not sure, since complaints about bulimia symptoms probably would have gotten lost in complaints about syphilis, gout, parasites and the other 5 million diseases people picked up by age 30 back then.
These days, we've figured out that the practice can make you die, so on the scale of sensible diet solutions it's about the same as sticking a bear in your kitchen to keep you from getting to the fridge.
#4. The Graham Diet
In the 1820s, a somewhat insane Presbyterian minister named Sylvester Graham came to the conclusion that lustful desires were caused by diet, and that basically, a strict bland diet would stop people from thinking about sex.
The Theory:
Graham's reasoning was basically that eating meat and fat causes a person to become lustful, and sexual desires cause, as we all know, epilepsy, spinal diseases, tuberculosis and other serious diseases. If people couldn't keep their desires under control, they might even end up masturbating, which of course, causes blindness. Also, ketchup and mustard cause insanity. No doubt he had sound scientific backing for all this.
The Reality:
You know who eats a bland, strict diet? Sailors. Guess who also has a reputation for rampant whoring the moment they come ashore. Also? Prisoners. From them, you could make the case that a bland, strict diet causes both shankings and violent man-rape.
The Results:
While a fair amount of people were pretty sure Graham was insane, others bought into his philosophy, which didn't cause much ruckus as long as they were only putting themselves on the diet. However, in 1840, the leadership of Oberlin College was convinced to adopt and enforce Graham's diet on its student body.
Dissatisfaction reached a turning point when one professor was fired for scandalously bringing a pepper shaker to lunch. Things went downhill after "Peppergate," as the press at the time would not have called it, and the grand experiment was canceled.
Graham's legacy was a bland, tasteless whole-grain cracker he invented as a staple of the diet, which became known as the "Graham cracker," a name so clearly evocative of delicious flavor that Nabisco later named its completely different, enriched-flour, honey-flavored cracker after it. Due to the extreme changes from the original recipe, modern-day Graham crackers no longer have the ability to cure lustful thoughts.


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I often see that programs specify pid and lock files. And I'm not quite sure what they do.
For example, when compiling nginx:
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--lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock \
Can somebody shed some light on this one?
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pid files are written by some programs to record their process ID while they are starting. This has multiple purposes:
Mere presence of a pid file doesn't guarantee that that particular process id is running, of course, so this method isn't 100% foolproof but "good enough" in a lot of instances. Checking if a particular PID exists in the process table isn't totally portable across UNIX-like operating systems unless you want to depend on the
Lock files are used by programs to ensure two (well-behaved) separate instances of a program, which may be running concurrently on one system, don't access something else at the same time. The idea is before the program accesses its resource, it checks for presence of a lock file, and if the lock file exists, either error out or wait for it to go away. When it doesn't exist, the program wanting to "acquire" the resource creates the file, and then other instances that might come across later will wait for this process to be done with it. Of course, this assumes the program "acquiring" the lock does in fact release it and doesn't forget to delete the lock file.
This works because the filesystem under all UNIX-like operating systems enforces serialization, which means only one change to the filesystem actually happens at any given time. Sort of like locks with databases and such.
These files are often used by daemons that should only be run once on a system. The PID file usually contains the process ID number of the already launched and running program if one exists. Also, when it starts up, it creates the lock file. As long as the lock file exists, it won't start another one without user intervention. If the lock file exists and the process id mentioned in the pid file isn't running, the daemon is considered to be in a "dead" state, meaning it's supposed to be running but isn't probably due to a crash or improper shutdown. This might initiate a special startup / restart scenario for some programs. Properly shutting it down will remove the lock file.
A PID file will contain the Process ID of a running process. This has various uses; you can read it and check that the process is still running and take appropriate action or read it and kill the process.
A lock file is most likely application specific. Lock files are used to indicate that some resource is in use and that the process wanting access should wait until the resource is freed before continuing.


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The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History
The story: Eager for a cool-sounding metal band name, Blackie Lawless, Rik Fox, Randy Piper and Tony Richards decided to take the word "wasp," then for no reason punctuate the shit out of it.
Why it's ridiculous: When not naming themselves after animals, insects, or something misspelled, metal bands love acronyms. However, unlike KISS (which at least purportedly means "Knights In Satan's Service") or H.I.M. ("His Infernal Majesty"), the best that Lawless has been able to come up over the years is "We Ain't Sure, Pal." (This is probably better than "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants," but only slightly.) Worse, looking at W.A.S.P. song titles like "L.O.V.E. Machine" and "9.5.- N.A.S.T.Y." you start to suspect they might not even know what an acronym is, and just think punctuating stuff looks badass.
17. Puddle of Mudd
The story: The 1993 Missouri River flood left the band's practice space a muddy mess, which led them to this name-instead of the far better one, Missouri River Flood.
Why it's ridiculous: Not only do we get an extra "d" for no reason (these guys are the anti-Staind), we also have the privilege of getting an altogether unnecessary word. No, it couldn't just be Mudd Puddle. We definitely need that extra "of." Just like when you're ordering lunch and will sometimes get a sandwich of tuna with chips of potato. Bonus ridiculousness: This band name would actually work perfectly as the name for a bohemian coffee shop where a girl in an orange tank top with a brown bandana on her head asks if you want an organic wheat muffin.
16. Of Montreal
The story: Frontman Kevin Barnes has told many conflicting stories about where this Athens, Ga. band got their name, but the one that seems to have gained acceptance is that he was dating a girl from Montreal and it didn't work out.
Why it's ridiculous: What's the word for those people who change their explanation for something 100 times before settling on an excuse that sounds vaguely implausible? Oh, that's right, liars! Barnes named his band Of Montreal because he wanted people to think his band was from Montreal. He knew just as well as everyone else that if your group is from Montreal, you can record yourself taking a poop on a xylophone and Pitchfork will give it a sparkling review. Meanwhile, the last time a great band came out of Athens, Michael Stipe still thought he was straight. But why not just name the band "We're from Montreal" then, and get it over with? Oh right, because Barnes wanted to make it extraordinarily difficult for fans to use his band's name in a sentence:
Of Montreal Fan: Ever heard of Of Montreal? I'm a fan of Of Montreal. In my book there's nobody above Of Montreal.
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, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
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Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your spec
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I am looking for a linux server distro with a low memory footprint. I usually use Ubuntu but I need something with a smaller footprint in order to run a large Java JVM service inside of it and also run X-windows. Any ideas? The Java service needs to handle a 3GB memory heap and so I require a 64-bit OS and JRE.
I am thinking that ArchLinux is the only one that I can find right now. It uses 250MB out of the box (without X-win). Any better suggestions?


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I came across the e-mail charter and really like the idea. Adopting it on an individual level is easier. What ideas are there for adopting it on a team/company level?
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Send an e-mail to everyone that's affected and ask them to consider implementing some of the suggestions.
Do your best to implement as many suggestion in the charter in your e-mail, of course.
I added it as the last line of my e-mail signature. I figure that way I provide a link to it as often as I need to.


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Where to start?
Hello everyone, I'd like some ideas on how to approach the concept of indie game development.
Currently we have a team consisting of 1 Artist, 2 Programmers, and 1 Designer. The question is, where do we start? I've taken it upon myself to research "the plan", but I've been overwhelmed with the amount of information and topics being thrown at me.
The current plan is to build a few games in Flash through our website, then distributing these games trough a variety of means. This is to simply generate a a following or interest within the gaming community, and not even for Ad Revenue.
Once this phase is complete we'll move on to perhaps going into the IGF or exploring ways to monetize our efforts.
Thanks in advance!
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Re: Where to start?
Q. The question is, where do we start?
A. A game design? A prototype? Lots of prototypes? Not really what you are asking here. Where to start 'what'?
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For the first, you can easily Google "how to write business plans" and you can read http://sloperama.com/advice/lesson29.htm
For the second, nobody can do that. You need to learn about funding options, development/production methodologies, business/employment laws, and business models (monetization models). That's a lot to wrap your head around, and it's a lot to ask somebody to teach you without overwhelming you.
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Re: Where to start?
Thanks for the response. I apologize if I was being too vague, let me elaborate.
I've always been an enthusiast for games, and I had a great idea for a game that I've been fleshing out for sometime. Over the course of that time I've spoken to some individuals (Who are all really awesome at what they do), and were interested in getting the game together. I've already written a Game Design Document, and the process itself is well underway.
I suppose, the main topic of "where to start" is how I should "mold" the direction of where this team is going. While I understand it really all depends on what happens after, I'd like to have a plan going forward, so that I'm prepared. I don't want to let my team down.
What I mean by "overwhelmed" isn't about the amount of stuff that I need to know, I understand that both the process and logistics of making a game is huge. What I'm overwhelmed about is the different topics and terminologies concerning the topic that I don't know where to begin learning or researching. So I suppose what I'm really asking for is "where to start, in terms of learning the ropes." So an outline, framework, or real life examples of how "small indie teams" shot up to become a "company" or small gaming start ups from an individual (Such as a fellow named Josh Buckley that I've been reading up on) would really help.
That link you gave me is exactly the kind of resource I was looking for. Thanks so much.
Once again, I'm definitely prepared to spend countless nights researching and learning to familiarize with this. Therefore, any additional resources you can share is greatly appreciated.
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And don't just read about production methodologies and project management. You need a collaboration agreement and a monetization plan (monetization means making money from the game after the game is done -- as opposed to funding, which is an entirely different thing).
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Re: Where to start?
Congratulations on putting together a team! That can be one of the hardest parts, so you've already cleared one major hurdle.
In my opinion, if you try and learn everything at once you and your crew may become overwhelmed. There is simply so much that information out there, and aspects to creating a business, that trying to tackle too much at once could put you in a state of analysis paralysis.
My advice? Start with one game. Get that game on screen and fun to play and then go from there. Maintaining the morale of your team will be one of the most important challenges you will face, and the best way to do that is to have compelling playable content to share with others.
I think that you should consider creating a milestone development plan for your project. You can read up on the various ways to do this, but from a high level what you want to achieve includes:
- Outline the features of the game (I suggest using a mind map tool to do so, see FreeMind as an example)
- Outline the phases of development (Ideation, Pre-Production, Alpha, Beta, Launch, Live Service)
- Create a draft of the milestone cadence. For AAA games some studios use 4, 6 or 8 week milestones. For your indie project I would suggest no more than 2 week milestones to keep things moving at a rapid pace.
- Then funnel each feature from your mind map through an iterative development process such as Design, Rough-In, Playable, Polished.
Some other tips:
- Build this plan with your team, not for your team
- Complete a post mortem at the end of each milestone and improve both the process and the plan as you gain experience
- Once you've completed your first game, then take the next step in terms of learning about monetization strategies and the like.
For more advice on how to build a career in game development see my site at www.ineedtomakegames.com
Good luck, this project sounds exciting!
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Jaguar released official pictures and details for the C-X16 Concept which will make its public debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show 2011. The two-seater concept has inspired new advances in design, in engineering and in vehicle technology to create the most compact and responsive Jaguar in a generation. A hybrid, the Jaguar C-X16 combines searing performance with beautifully realised styling. Powered by a supercharged 3.0L V6 engine with max power of 380 PS and max torque of 332 lb-ft, the car catapults from standstill to 62mph in just 4.4 seconds and has a top speed of 186mph.


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Troubleshoot Picasa & Picasa Web Albums
Here are issues you may encounter and how to fix them.500 internal server error
To resolve this error, wait a few minutes, then click Reload .
If this error continues, report the issue with details of what you were doing, when it happened, and if you were signed in to your Google Account.
If your photos in Picasa are corrupted:
- Uninstall Picasa.
- Download and reinstall Picasa.
- Select the folders for Picasa to scan to rebuild your database.
Create a backup for your photos and albums before you rebuild.
If photos or folders are missing in Picasa:
- Make sure you display the file type.
- Have the folder scanned:
- Click Tools > Folder Manager.
- Select "Scan Always."
- Show hidden files or folders:
- Right-click the folder in your computer and select Properties.
- Deselect "Hidden."
- Enable small pictures (250x250 or less)
- Click View.
- Select Small Pictures.
- Check your network drive connection.
- Check other collections.
- Avoid folders that have these words in its name:
- windows
- winnt
- temp
- Program Files
- Originals
If a photo is in one of these folders, move it to another folder.
- Restore deleted images from your trash folder.
- Rebuild your database.
After you try each of these fixes, try downloading again.
- Clear your browser's cache.
- Temporarily disable your Internet security software.
- Use a different browser.
Here are a few errors you may receive when installing Picasa:
'Kernell.dll' error
This error appears if Picasa doesn't work with your version of Windows. Make sure your computer meets the system requirements.
'Not a valid Win32 application' error
Delete the installer file and re-download. You can also download the file using a different browser.
Nothing happens when I double-click the Picasa installer file
- Delete the installer file.
- Restart your computer.
- Download and run the file.
A problem file may cause Picasa to freeze or crash while scanning. To fix this issue, isolate and remove the problem file.
Step 1: Locate the problem file.
When Picasa freezes or crashes, the notifier on the lower right will pause on the file/folder in question. If you can identify the problem file:
- Re-launch Picasa.
- Click Tools > Folder Manager and remove the folder from Picasa. Do this before Picasa scans the problem file.
If this doesn't work, move to Step 2.
Step 2: Remove files in PicasaBadFile.txt.
When Picasa crashes after scanning a problem photo or video, it may create a record of the problem file.
- On your desktop, double-click My Computer.
- Double-click Local Disk (C:) drive > Program Files > Google > Picasa3.
- Right-click "PicasaBadFile.txt."
- Select Open With and choose Notepad.
- If there are any bad files, go back to Step 1 to remove the file.
If you can't find "PicasaBadFile.txt", move to Step 3.
Step 3: Identify the file type that is causing the problem
- Open Picasa and remove all file types except JPEG.
- Add one file type back, for example, GIF. Allow Picasa to scan for GIF files.
- Repeat the process until you find the problem file type.
Move to the next step to narrow down the problem file.
Step 4: Isolate the folder that contains the problem file.
- Run Picasa and choose "Only scan My Documents, My Pictures, and the Desktop" and click Continue.
- Click Tools > Folder Manager.
- Launch Picasa without photos by clicking Remove from Picasa for all folders.
- Click Tools > Folder Manager and re-add a folder.
- Allow Picasa to completely scan a folder before adding the next.
Once you've identified the problem file, go back to Step 1 or delete the file from your computer before relaunching.
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PEOPLE Readers Sound Off on Pattinson's New Cut
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Call it the haircut of the year! When we asked PEOPLE.com readers what they thought of Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson's new crew-cut, we were inundated with responses — 2,271 responses to date. Our poll shows that a slight majority of you actually prefer the young actor without his signature free-flowing hair, with 56% saying they love the new cut. Click here to take our poll and sound off — you're in good company!


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Subaru Forester 2009 Wallpapers
In the official PR, Subaru doesn't reveal much technical details of the car. The Forester rides on a longer wheelbase and thus provides more interior room while the overall length has been increased by only 3 inches.


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I own AI War: Fleet Command, but I think I've only played through the tutorial twice. (It's a victim of my penchant for purchasing games that look interesting and are super cheap, but then end up on the eternal backlog pile) However, today one of the achievements is to lose 30,000 ships in the game.
This doesn't seem hard, considering that losing ships in a game about war should be pretty straightforward, but I have no idea how to do this quickly.
What's the minimal effort way to build and lose a whole bunch of ships? Are there any game modes or map types that make this go quicker?


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Who knows forty-five?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point in the next few days, I will:
Upvote all interesting answers.
Accept the best answer.
Go on to the next number.
Who knows forty-five?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point in the next few days, I will:
45 are the days from the Exodus until the arrival of the Jewish People at Mount Sinai. Correspondingly, Hashem describes Himself (through the metaphor of the prophet Hosea's actions) as having acquired His spouse, the Jewish People, with "a chomer of barley and a lesech of barley" - totaling 45 se'ah. (Hosea 3:2 and Radak there)
Forty-five are the Amida blessings that you'll say on a "Friday" (using the non-Jewish definition of Friday): 19 for Friday Shachris, 19 for Friday Mincha, 7 for Shabbos Maariv.
Speaking of davening, forty-five are the minutes after 8AM at which many newer Centrist Orthodox synagogues on the East Coast begin services on Shabbos morning. Many older synagogues figured 9AM was a good time, but it turns out for the US East Coast that starting 15 minutes earlier can mean making Sof Zman Krias Shema (latest time for saying the Shema, the first quarter of daylight hours) much more often.
(I looked at a sunrise/sunset chart for Brooklyn. If my math is right, assuming 34 minutes from start to Krias Shema, the number of additional days a year at which you'll make Shema in time by switching from 9 to 8:45 is ... 45.)
Also, isn't there someone with the opinion that Shabbos ends 45 minutes after sunset (in New York)?
The shem מ״ה (that is, יו״ד ה״א וא״ו ה״א)
45 times the Torah warns us regarding a convert (e.g. to love, not cheat, not cause suffering)
corresponding to the
45 times the Torah warns us against idol worship.
45 are the amount of righteous people necessary to save the 5 cities in the region of Sedom, with the combination of Hashem being added for each city (Bereishis Rabba 49:9)


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Cardboard officer cuts crime at Mass. subway stop
Published: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 7:28 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 7:28 a.m.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The burly officer watching over the bike racks at a Boston area transportation hub is a real stiff.
As part of an effort to cut crime at the Alewife MBTA subway/bus station in Cambridge, transit police placed a cardboard cutout of a police officer in the bicycle cage. Hundreds of people use the racks daily.
Deputy Chief Robert Lenehan says the fake cop, along with video cameras and a new lock, has cut bike thefts by 67 percent.
It's also a money saver. Lenehan estimates it would cost $200,000 a year to have an officer watch over the cage fulltime.
The cutout is actually a picture of real MBTA Officer David Silen.
Silen says the split second a thief takes to glance at the cutout is enough to discourage them.
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If your site has "this site may harm your computer" in the search results how long can you be in that situation before Google takes action. When they do take action does anyone know what that action is? I assume it results ultimately in delisting but I can't find anything specific.
If your site has been flagged, "this site may harm your computer" how long before Google takes action
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The site, with the warning, seems to stay in the google rankings. However, if someone clicks on that listing, they would be taken to a google warning page telling them to go no further. To get to the site you actually have to copy and past the address into your browser's location bar. This would seriously reduce the amount of traffic you get from google.
If you request a review through Google Webmaster Tools you should see a delisting in about 24 hours providing your site is verified to now be clean.
Repeat instances don't seem to affect this timescale.
We've had a situation in the past where a shared server host was hacked and the sites were continually reinfected. One one particular site I requested reviews several times, each time it was delisted within a few hours, but no more than a day.
This was 4 or 5 years ago though, so YMMV.
This happened to me once. I installed a plugin to a wordpress website that contained a link to a website. That website was flagged and so was mine. I corrected the problem and notified them through Google webmaster tools.
I suppose that if someone cannot correct the problem, then his website will be lost from SERPs eventually.
I had a website running WordPress which had a vulnerable plugin and was injected with some rogue javascript in the index.php file. Nothing malicious, but Google picked it up as a harmful site. I removed the js from the index, removed that plugin and updated everything on the site. Google naturally updated their index to remove the warning. If your site doesn't have much traffic you may submit it from webmaster tools for them to review.


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I bought a barcode printer as Godex. I have to install its drivers. I did it on Ubuntu. However, I have some problems about it.For example: In README file:
$ sudo aptitude install libcupsimage2-dev
But shell says me
sudo:aptitude: command not found
Moreover when i write
sudo apt-get install aptitude it says
sudo:apt-get: command not found
And then,
When I write
./configure shell says followings.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
How can i fix it ? How can i install this package? Thanks for your help already now.


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Below are moving companies that have been recommended by other faculty members and have insurance certificates on file with NYU:
If you do not use one of the above moving companies, then prior to moving in, a certificate of moving insurance must be supplied to Cushman & Wakefield by your moving company:
Elevators must also be reserved in advance of your move. To reserve an elevator, please contact the Client Services Center:
Elevator Reservations
Phone: 212.998.1001
Fax: 212.995.4671
Email: email@example.com
Web: Client Services Center
Con Edison (electricity and gas)
Cable, Internet and Phone
Questions or Concerns:
Gina Mayonove, Administrative Coordinator
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2 Washington Square Village, Suite 1-O
(W. 3rd St. btwn. LaGuardia Pl. & Mercer St.)
Phone: 646.997.9988
Fax: 646.997.9990
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Silver Tower Residents:
Garage remote/Bicycle keys (if applicable) should be returned to:
Louis Guillen, Building Super
Phone: 212.995.3414
Questions or Concerns:
Michael Broderick, Lease Administrator
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Arizona Goes Rogue
There is no place like Arizona. Spectacularly beautiful, it is home to Grand Canyon National Park, one reason the state places seventh on the top 10 list of LGBT destinations. Arizona's dramatic physical beauty has long drawn a diverse demographic from across the country that makes it an ideal place for libertarians—people who value their personal liberty, political freedom, and government at a distance.
But while Arizona's geography can be taken at face value, its political landscape cannot. Despite having had more female governors than any other state, a high median income, a significant proportion of the nation's Latino and Native American populations, and unparalleled growth, the state has taken a turn for the extreme, the oppressive, and even the unconstitutional, particularly during the administration of Republican Governor Jan Brewer. Having long presented itself as open to anything, Arizona is now more extremist flashpoint than libertarian mecca, its live-and-let-live ideals eroded by an invidious new politics that is deeply conservative. What's happening to Arizona?
Arizona was defined by President Teddy Roosevelt's conservation fervor. The original libertarian president designated the Grand Canyon and much of the rest of the state a protected area. Only 15% of the state is privately owned land; the rest belongs to the U.S. government and Native Americans. A full quarter of the state is reservations, home to nearly 20 Native American/First Peoples tribes, notably the Navajo, Hopi, and Apache. Native culture has influenced Arizona culture, as have the Mexican cultures of Sonora to the south and Baja California to the west. Phoenix has one of the largest collections of Native American art in the country.
Barely a century old, Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the union, on Valentine's Day, 1912, but in the past decade it has become the fastest growing state. In 1950, Arizona had fewer than 1 million residents. In 2012, it had 6.6 million and is now the 15th most populous state.
Much of that growth is centered in Phoenix and the surrounding smaller cities of Mesa and Glendale. Despite daunting temperatures, Phoenix has become a magnet city in the Southwest, with a growth rate for 2013 higher than any other city in the country. A hub for industry—particularly a booming tech world—and a locus for conventions, the city's population has grown by nearly 24.8% in the last 15 years, according to U.S. Census figures.
Arizona has long presented itself as a libertarian paradise, home of the solidly centrist, anti-Big Government independent voter. The state even has an LGBT libertarian group, the Arizona Stonewall Libertarians, as well as numerous campus libertarian groups. And it has had more female governors than any other—three in succession, four total: two Democrats and two Republicans. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, was governor until January 2009, when she was chosen by President Barack Obama to be the first female secretary of homeland security. Napolitano was succeeded by the current governor, Jan Brewer, a Republican, who was then Arizona secretary of state and became governor due to the state's constitutional succession law when Napolitano resigned. The state constitution has no provision for a lieutenant governor.
Arizona Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, had been the independent voter's dream candidate in 2000 when he lost the Republican nomination to George W. Bush. Many political pundits attributed his loss to that Arizonan libertarian attitude that did not fall in lock step with the Republican Party but was not quite moderate enough for much Democratic voter crossover.
McCain's wife, Cindy, and older daughter, Meghan—both pro-gay rights, both supporters of the NOH8 campaign—exemplify that renegade libertarian streak. Cindy McCain uses her NOH8 photo as her avatar on Twitter. Meghan talks regularly and openly about her coterie of gay friends and has said LGBT rights is the cause "closest to [her] heart." She was the keynote speaker at the 2009 Log Cabin Republicans' convention, where she said, "I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's lives and business as much as possible. I love punk rock. I believe in a strong national defense. I have a tattoo. I believe government should always be efficient and accountable. I have lots of gay friends. And yes, I am a Republican." But if a strong libertarian swath still slices through even the far-right Republican sections of Arizona, the state's political tenor has lately veered from libertarian independence to a kind of rogue extremism. Examples of this trend speak to a worrisome shift from tough individuality to an explosion of xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, and racism.
In the four years that Brewer has been at the helm, the door has been opened wide for the politically extreme and has nearly closed shut for those who embody the long line of Arizona libertarians that includes former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Congressman Morris Udall, labor organizer Cesar Chavez, and singer Stevie Nicks.
Brewer's governorship has been viewed nationally as racist, anti-woman, and homophobic. A photo of her yelling and pointing in Obama's face when he visited the state went viral in January 2012 and seemed to exemplify an ugly attitude toward the progressive policies he represents and a lack of respect for the elected leader of the country.
Brewer's leadership seems to harken back to that of one of the state's best-known politicians, U.S. senator and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Not the softened, gay-friendly Barry Goldwater of the 1990s, but the rabid, extremist, Strontium-90-in-the-tap-water, Commie-conspiracies-everywhere Goldwater of the 1960s; the Goldwater who said, when accepting the Republican presidential nomination on July 16, 1964, "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Brewer, a veteran of Arizona politics, was elected governor in November 2010 in a landslide, suggesting that voters had no problem making the shift from Napolitano (who won her own reelection with a two-to-one vote margin over her GOP opponent) to Brewer. The big win also meant Brewer's most controversial act as governor before her election-proper had seemingly little impact on her candidacy. Her Democratic opponent, Terry Goddard, had campaigned on Brewer as extremist, yet lost in landslide; Brewer won by over 12% of the vote.
On April 23, 2010, Brewer signed SB 1070, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act. Under the act, anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant could be asked by police for residency documents at any time and for any reason. The law made failure to carry immigration documents a crime—a felony. Police could detain anyone they suspected of being in the country illegally—essentially a stop-and-frisk law for ID.
In addition, the law cracked down on anyone sheltering, hiring, or transporting undocumented immigrants. But the law also meant local and state police could pull over anyone they suspected of being undocumented, giving local law enforcement broad powers that had previously been the sole purview of federal law enforcement.
On the day Brewer signed the legislation, she said the law "represents another tool for our state to use as we work to solve a crisis we did not create and the federal government has refused to fix." Obama spoke out against the law immediately—highly unusual for a president to do regarding state law — saying the Arizona law sought "to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe."
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 29% of the Arizona population is Hispanic or Latino; Spanish is the first language of 23%. In addition, Arizona has the third-largest population of Native Americans — sometimes confused racially for Hispanic/Latino. Ten percent of the country's Native Americans live in Arizona.
Critics argued that Arizona's "papers please" law — or "Brewer's Law," as it was dubbed — was blatant racial profiling, effectively making "driving while brown" illegal. Massive protests were held nationwide. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quickly announced that the law would be challenged by the Department of Justice, but challenges were unsuccessful. Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the law constitutional. The law went into effect September 18, 2012 — "an important day for Arizona and supporters of the rule of law," in the words of a triumphant Brewer. She has since added other anti-immigrant regulations to the state, fighting Obama's DREAM Act and taking funds slated for education and applying them to border security. Under Brewer, border fences have gone up in various parts of the state, notably in Yuma.
The disconnect between libertarian Arizona and extremist Arizona is also keenly felt by women and LGBT people.
In April 2012, Brewer signed the nation's most restrictive abortion law. The law disallowed any abortions over 18 weeks' gestation — six weeks earlier than the 24-week threshold of viability. The time limitation meant that women could not undergo genetic testing via amniocentesis — done at 16 weeks — and still have an abortion should the test, which takes two weeks for results, show something dire. Many other abnormalities also only appear on sonograms after 18 weeks.
At the time Brewer signed the law, Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, the national agency for advancement of information on sexuality and reproduction, argued the blatant rogue attitude of the state: "The point is to make it so difficult to provide abortions that no one will do it. Arizona likes to thumb their nose at women. They take that as a badge of honor."
The law was finally ruled unconstitutional by a federal appellate court in May of this year. However, the attorney for Maricopa County, home to the state capital, is appealing the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, noting "the compelling and important interest Arizona has in protecting the health and well-being of expectant mothers from the dangers of abortions after 20 weeks and to protect children in the womb from needless and horrific imposition of pain."
On July 23, lawyers representing Arizona asked a federal judge to dismiss a legal challenge to another restrictive Arizona abortion law. HB 2443 bans abortions based on the race or gender of the fetus. The law is being challenged by the NAACP and National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, who argue the law is unconstitutional and unfairly targets black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, and Pacific Islander women, preventing them from obtaining abortions.
HB 2443 is the only abortion law in the country restricting abortions based on gender or race. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne defended the law, saying it is actually civil rights legislation because it protects minorities and "disfavored genders."
The NAACP argues that the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and is attempting to have the law permanently blocked. Lawsuits are ongoing.
Arizona's previous anti-Big Government stance has increasingly become one of intrusion into citizens' private lives — LGBT citizens among them. According to a November 2011 Public Policy Polling survey, Arizona voters were evenly split on the issue of marriage equality, with 44% supporting, 45% opposing, and 12% undecided. In addition, 72% of Arizona voters supported legal recognition of same-sex couples.
Those numbers were not reflected in the voting booths. Prop 102, also known as the Marriage Protection Amendment, passed overwhelmingly on the same ballot that elected Obama president. The 56% to 43% vote officially amended the Arizona Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Brewer was a proponent of Prop 102.
Yet Arizona allowed benefits for same-sex partners of state employees when then-Gov. Napolitano signed an executive order granting the rights. Then, in September 2009, Brewer vitiated Napolitano's executive order and signed HB 2013, a new statute that made domestic partners of state employees ineligible for health benefits. The statute and an injunction filed against it in federal District Court were enmeshed in an ongoing lawsuit, Diaz v. Brewer, until June 27, when that case was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court—the day after their rulings on the Prop 8 and DOMA cases. The court rejected the appeal sought by Arizona, which means domestic partners of state employees are now eligible to receive benefits.
Brewer slammed the decision in a statement: "This case has never been about domestic partners, same-sex or otherwise. It has always been about the authority of elected state officials to make decisions with which we have been entrusted by the voters."
Brewer has argued that the state's fiscal crisis meant the state couldn't afford to extend benefits to unmarried couples. Lambda Legal attorneys for the plaintiffs argued that the policy was discriminatory because heterosexual couples could marry, while same-sex couples could not.
Arizona's burgeoning extremism is spilling across state borders into California — in legal matters at least. On the same day the Supreme Court ruled on the Arizona discrimination case, the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian group dedicated to countering the "homosexual agenda" co-founded by anti-gay zealots Donald Wildmon (founder of the American Family Association) and James Dobson (founder of Focus on the Family), filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction against allowing marriages to continue in California after the Supreme Court's ruling June 26 vitiating Prop 8.
The ADF, headquartered in Scottsdale, was one of the sponsors of the Prop 8 ballot initiative and provided attorneys in the Hollingsworth v. Perry case. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority decision in Perry, dismissed the ADF's request. But on July 12, attorneys for the ADF and Protect Marriage, another sponsor of Prop 8, filed for yet another injunction against the marriages, arguing that the Supreme Court ruling only applied to the couples who brought the case to the high court. Appealing to the California Supreme Court, ADF's attorneys asserted that Gov. Jerry Brown had no authority to allow 58 county clerks to issue marriage licenses. The lawsuit demands an immediate ban on all same-sex marriages throughout California. California court justices had ordered expedited briefing from both sides on the validity of Prop 8, and written arguments were filed in August.
The ADF, which has branches in California, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Kansas, and Washington, D.C., in addition to Arizona, has also defended the Boy Scouts in several cases, including Dale v. Boy Scouts of America, in which they sought to keep gay youth out of scouting.
While Arizona creates a safe harbor for bigotry with ADF, vestiges of that elusive libertarian model survive. Arizona included sexual orientation in its hate crimes statute in 2008, although it did not include gender identity. In 2007, the state began issuing new birth certificates for transgender persons who had completed sex reassignment surgery. But the 2009 anti-discrimination law that protected on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, and gender signed by Brewer does not include LGBT people.
In February 2013, the Phoenix city council voted 5-3 to broaden the city's anti-discrimination ordinance. The ordinance prohibits discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations, such as restaurants and hotels. Businesses and individuals that don't comply could be criminally prosecuted and face a misdemeanor charge, punishable by a $2,500 fine. Phoenix had previously banned discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, age, and marital status, but not sexual orientation or gender identity. As a result of protests by conservative groups, the city council did allow for exemptions for religious organizations, small private landlords, senior housing and private clubs, among others, so it was not a sweeping change. Those supporting the addition of LGBT people to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance argued that Phoenix would benefit from projecting an image that it welcomes diversity.
For months, one of the major issues in the ordinance battle was over the use of public restrooms by transgender people. Rep. John Kavanagh proffered a statewide bill in retaliation for the Phoenix ordinance; SB 1045 prohibited local governments from passing ordinances that could subject businesses to lawsuits or criminal penalties if they forbid a transgender person from using a restroom. Activists referred to the bill as "no loo for you." He dropped the bill in June, but said he would reintroduce it next year.
One nagging question about Arizona is how the state transitioned so smoothly from Napolitano to Brewer. Brewer's popularity signals the real truth about Arizona: The libertarian label may be more guise than reality, a cover for some of the state's most egregious scandals, from the Keating Savings and Loan debacle of 1989 (in which John McCain was implicated but ultimately cleared) to the refusal to adopt Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday (from 1986 until Arizona voters adopted in it 1992 after a tourism boycott) to the rogue and blatantly racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has been in office for 21 years and made prisoners in his prisons wear pink underwear and striped jumpsuits and eat moldy food. In 2011, Sarah Palin, in what many believed to be a precursor to her considering a run for national office, purchased a $1.7 million home in Scottsdale. Of all the lower 48 that she might have chosen, why Arizona, if not for the political climate?
Is it possible Brewer's popularity actually signals Arizona's fealty to independence? Brewer herself embodies those bizarre contradictions that define Arizona; in January she informed her legislature that she intended to expand Medicaid in keeping with Obamacare, infuriating the Republican establishment. But she insisted that lawmakers pass a plan to "maintain coverage for those in need, honor the will of Arizonans who have twice voted to expand Medicaid, save our General Fund, keep Arizona tax dollars in Arizona, and protect rural and safety net hospitals."
Is this the same governor who omitted lesbian and gay couples from the state's health benefits plan and then argued when the Supreme Court said she was being discriminatory?
Brewer's popularity — and her single-mindedness — haven't gone unnoticed. In their June 14 issue, Josh Barro of Business Insider called Brewer "the most interesting politician in America," suggesting that she "pokes conservatives in the eye" to get what she wants done.
Brewer intends to poke quite a few eyes — notably those of Democrats and third-party candidates like Libertarians. She took another giant step toward restrictive policies on June 19, when she signed an omnibus election law bill, HB 2305, which contains a provision that will dramatically increase the difficulty for members of minor parties to get on their own party's primary ballot. The bill contains an exceedingly stringent signature requirement for third-party candidates —aimed at, critics claim, restricting third parties completely.
The bill has other provisions that are strongly opposed by the Democratic Party and various voting rights organizations, as well as many Mexican-American leaders and libertarians. It would prevent groups that aid Hispanic voters from collecting an individual's ballot and dropping it off at a polling place, which is viewed as yet another racist attack from Brewer on Hispanics.
Who will win the war for the heart of Arizona — the rogue extremists like Brewer, or the libertarians like Gary Johnson, one-time Republican and now titular leader of the nation's Libertarian Party?
Johnson, the 2012 Libertarian candidate for president and former governor of neighboring New Mexico, has made Arizona his new battleground. A supporter of marriage equality, Johnson announced in late June that he would be gathering signatures via his organization, Our America Initiative, to file a state constitutional amendment to overturn Arizona's ban on same-sex marriage. "We want to seize the momentum [the SCOTUS] decision will create, and doing so in Arizona, a 'conservative' Western state, will send a message of individual freedom to every corner of the nation." he said in a statement.
Individual freedom is definitely where Arizona started, but what will it take to lead the state back there once more?
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I understand that everyone has their own style of programming and that you should be able to read other people's styles and accept it for what it is. However, would one be considered a sloppy programmer if one's style of coding was inconsistent across whatever standard they were working against?
Some example of inconsistencies might be:
- Sometimes naming private variables with _ and sometimes not
- Sometimes having varying indentations within code blocks
- Not aligning braces up i.e. same column if using start using new line style
- Spacing not always consistent around operators i.e. p=>p+1, p+=1 vs other times p =>p+1 or p => p + 1 etc
Is this even something that as a programmer I should be concerned with addressing? Or is it such a minor nit picking thing that at the end of the day I should just not worry about it and worry about what the end user sees and whether the code works rather than how it looks while working?
Is it sloppy programming or just over obsessive nit picking?
EDIT: After some excellent comments I realized I may have left out some information in my question. This question came about after reviewing another colleagues code check-in and noticing some of these things and then realizing that I've seen these kind of in-consistencies in previous check-ins. It then got me thinking about my code and whether I do the same things and noticed that I typically don't etc I'm not suggesting his technique is either bad or good in this question or whether his way of doing things is right or wrong.
EDIT: To answer some queries to some more good feed back. The specific instance this review occurred in was using Visual Studio 2010 and programming in c# so I don't think the editor would cause any issues. In fact it should only help I would hope. Sorry if I left that piece of info out and it effects any current answers. I was trying to be a bit more generic in understanding if this would be considered sloppy etc. And to add an even more specific example of a code piece I saw during reading of the check-in:
foreach(var block in Blocks)
// .. some other code in here
foreach(var movement in movements)
} // the un-formatted brace
Such a minor thing I know, but many small things add up(???), and I did have to double glance at the code at the time to see where everything lined up I guess. Please note this code was formatted appropriately before this check-in.
EDIT: After reading some great answers and varying thoughts, the summary I've taken from this was.
- It's not necessarily a sign of a sloppy programmer however as programmers we have a duty (to ourselves and other programmers) to make the code as readable as possible to assist in further ongoing development. However it can hint at inadequacies which is something that is only possible to review on a case by case (person by person) basis.
- There are many reasons why this might occur. They should be taken in context and worked through with the person/people involved if reasonable. We have a duty to try and help all programmers become better programmers!
- In the good old days when development was done using good old notepad (or other simple text editing tool) this occurred much more frequently. However we have the assistance of modern IDE's now so although we shouldn't necessarily become OTT about this, it should still probably be addressed to some degree.
- We as programmers vary in our standards, styles and approaches to solutions. However it seems that in general we all take PRIDE in our work and as a trait it is something that can stand programmers apart. Making something to the best of our abilities both internal (code) and external (end user result) goes along way to giving us that big fat pat on the back that we may not go looking for but swells our heart with pride.
- And finally to quote CrazyEddie from his post below. Don't sweat the small stuff


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The new lists for 4th and 7th armored divisions let you mix and match Sherman M4A3s, M4A3 76s, M4A3E8s, and Sherman Jumbos. The various versions vary greatly in terms of firepower, speed, and points cost, so I'm having trouble coming up with an effective selection. I would like to have a unit that is as homogeneous as possible, but I'd also like to use some Easy Eights. Unfortunately, they are limited to only two per platoon.
What are some good combinations of Sherman types for both an Armored Company and as support in an Armored Rifle Company?


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The Nebraska Department of Labor announced today that Nebraska's preliminary unemployment rate for February is 3.8%, seasonally adjusted. The jobless rate is the same as the January rate and down 0.2% from the February 2012 rate.
Non-farm employment climbed by 2,972 jobs since January 2013 and by 7,450 jobs compared to February 2012. The top three private sector industries showing the largest gains over the previous month are Professional and Business Services, Education and Health Services and Manufacturing."Manufacturing has been one of the bright spots in Nebraska's recovery from the recession," saidCommissioner of Labor Catherine D. Lang. "This sector has added 5,000 jobs since its low point of January and February of 2010, and Nebraska's percentage increase in manufacturing jobs has outpaced the nation for the last six months."The seasonally-adjusted national unemployment rate in February was 7.7%, a decrease of 0.2% from January. The February 2012 nation al unemployment rate was 8.3%.March 2013 data will be published Friday, April 19.
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State Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, has filed a bill that would allow students, faculty and staff members with concealed handgun licenses to carry firearms on campus for personal protection. The bill would bar colleges or universities from circumventing the act by imposing bans or penalties on students or employees who are carrying firearms legally, Birdwell said. The legislation ensures that private schools may establish rules regarding concealed handgun license holders on campus, Birdwell said. A section of the bill says private or independent institutions may establish rules prohibiting CHL holders from carrying handguns on campus premises owned or leased and operated by the institution.
"For me, this isn't just about the firearm," Birdwell said. "It's about trusting citizens with their God-given, constitutional rights." "I'm proud to be filing this bill with the support of so many of my colleagues, as well as the full backing of the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association."
"This is a piece of legislation I have consistently heard about from the citizens I was elected to serve, and I look forward to seeing it enacted."
A similar measure was defeated in 2011 in the Texas House.
HOUSTON (January 23, 2013)—Carlton Berry, 22, was booked Wednesday, charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in a shooting on the campus of a Houston-area community college in which he and two other men were wounded.
His bond was set at $60,000.
The campus of North Harris Campus of Lone Star Community College was locked down Tuesday after the shooting, which happened during an altercation on the campus early Tuesday afternoon between two people, at least one of whom was a student, Harris County Sheriff's Maj. Armando Tello said during a late afternoon news conference.
Both people involved in the altercation were wounded, Tello said.
A college maintenance worker who was caught in the crossfire was also wounded and a female student was taken to a hospital for medical reasons, Tello said.
Authorities Wednesday identified the second man involved in the altercation as Jody Neal, 25.
He did not have a weapon and no charges are expected, authorities said.
The wounded maintenance worker was identified Wednesday as Bobby Cliburn, 69.
The campus reopened late Tuesday afternoon, and classes resumed Wednesday.
Witnesses told a KHOU reporter two men were arguing when one of them pulled a gun and opened fire at around 12:30 p.m. on the campus in the 2700 block of West W. Thorne Drive, near Bush Intercontinental Airport about 20 miles north of downtown Houston.
One student said she and other people dove under their desks when they heard the gunshots.
Another told CNN she heard at least six shots.
Lone Star College student Brittany Mobley told KHOU-TV in Houston she witnessed the entire incident.
"I saw two dudes basically get into an altercation and the dude that shot, he basically got angry and started shooting the other guy," said Mobley. "A lot of people heard a lot of shots," she told the TV station.
Mobley said the gunman had the firearm concealed in his clothes.
"Basically, I saw the dude that shot him and as soon as I heard the bullets flying and the gun being fired off, then everyone started running and it was a hint for me to start running as well," Mobley said.
Students were evacuated form the campus after the shooting and an alert was issued on the college's website telling students and faculty on campus to take immediate shelter or avoid the campus.
Several nearby schools in the Aldine ISD district were placed on lock-down including Nimitz High School, Nimitz 9th Grade Campus, Parker Intermediate and Dunn Clifford Elementary.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued a statement after the shooting saying that it underscores the importance of having safety plans in place.
"All Texas schools must be places of safety and learning. Lawless shootings on campuses will not be tolerated and should meet swift justice. Texas will do all it can to make the school environment safe for students, teachers and administrators," he said.


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26 Nov 2012 11:45 AM #1
question about theme extjs !
hi all,
I want to make a combbox on which the user can choose the type of theme for the application, once chosen a theme, the theme is set up
how can I do this and where to place the folder which theme listhi all,
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19 Mar 2012 3:24 AM #1
Tutorial building your first app bug
Sencha Touch version tested:
- 2.0
- only css suggested by the tutorial
- Android 2.3.3 on HTC Desire and Samsung Gio
- I am running the full source code of the "building your first app" tutorial for sencha touch 2.0
The titles in the titlebar are too large to get displayed totally. That's why the app shortens them with "..." normally. This is great, unfortunately, sometimes this doesn't seem to work and the window seems to expand outside my screen (see attached screenshot)
use http://localhost/sencha/docs/#!/guide/first_app from the sencha SDK
- go to the blog window
- click on the second or fourth blog entry.
- Title made short in the titlebar e.g. "Sencha Touch 2.0 - ..." instead of "Sencha Touch 2.0 - a tutorial"
- Title is not shortened and screen becomes too wide (and thus unusable)
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19 Mar 2012 9:09 AM #2
Thank you for the report. There's been a few reported issues with the title not getting ellipses properly. Sounds like a CSS issue, we'll get to the bottom of it shortly.
19 Mar 2012 10:25 AM #3
Maybe something good to know as well: (that I forgot to mention earlier) There are 4 items in the list in the building your first app example and the problem occurs only with number 2 and 4 while all titles need to be shortened (so number 1 gets shortened correctly for example)
Thanks again!
26 Mar 2012 9:13 AM #4
The shortening is working correctly for the next release. There seems to be an issue with putting iframes inside of the detail card which is causing the sizing issues on Android. Most likely a bug we need to report to the Android team.
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Maybe it's a stupid question, I'm starting to study topological groups, I'm struggling to prove that the real line is a topological group with its additive group structure and Euclidean topology, precisely the part which we have to prove that if $g_1$ and $g_2$ $\in$ R, then the multiplication map $G\times G \to G$ defined by $m(g_1,g_2)=g_1 + g_2$ is continuous. Anyone can help me please.
Addition is continuous because of the familiar 'addition law for limits':
$$\lim x_n=x \text{ and }\lim y_n=y\ \Rightarrow \lim (x_n+y_n)=x+y.$$
Let $\mathbb R$ be the real line with its additive group structure and euclidean topology. We want to prove that the real line is indeed a topological group. Let $i:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R$, defined by $i(x)=-x$ and $m:\mathbb R \times \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ defined by $m(x,y)= x+y$. we have to prove the following: (a) $i$ is continuous (b) $m$ is continuous.
(a) By a real analysis argument we know that $i$ is continuous, because $i$ is a polynomial function with real coefficients.
(b) We know that the projection $\Pi_1:X\times Y \to X$, $\Pi_1(x,y)=x$, where $X$ and $Y$ are topological spaces, is always continuous because for any open subset $U$ of X, we have $\Pi^{-1}(U)=U\times Y$ a open subset of $X \times Y$.
With the same argument the projection $\Pi_2:X\times Y \to Y$, $\Pi_2(x,y)=y$, where $X$ and $Y$ are topological spaces, is also continuous.
So by a real analysis argument which claims that the sum of continuous functions is continuous and as we know $m =\Pi_1 +\Pi_2$, then m is continuous.
In order to show that addition is continuous you're going to have to use the definition of continuity. I'm not sure which definition of continuity your book/class/notes is using, but once you write down the details of the definition it should be relatively clear. If not, you can edit your question to explain where you got stuck.
Let $g_1,g_2 \in \mathbb{R}$ and $\epsilon>0$.
Then for each $(r_1,r_2)\in (g_1-\frac{\epsilon}{2},g_1+\frac{\epsilon}{2}) \times (g_2-\frac{\epsilon}{2},g_2+\frac{\epsilon}{2})$ we have that $$m(r_1,r_2)=r_1+r_2 \in (m(g_1,g_2)-\epsilon,m(g_1,g_2)+\epsilon) \ .$$
So if the definition for continuous functions you have is:
$f:A\longrightarrow B$ is continuous at $a \in A$ if for every open neighborhood $U$ of $f(a) \in B$ exist an open neighborhood $V$ of $a \in A$ such that $$\forall x \in V \; \Rightarrow\; f(x) \in U \ .$$
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Looking back at all the progress humanity has made through the last century, it's perfectly natural to feel a little bit moved by the power of human ingenuity and our thrive for constant improvement. It's natural, but also totally wrong. Because if you really look into the history of our technological development, you'll notice that the force driving us forward all this time wasn't our need to better ourselves or seek out truth in all its forms, but rather our desire to see naked people touch each other's junk.
"Oh yeah, now I can see them waaay better"
#5. Home Video Technologies
Nearly the entire technological world as you know it today owes its thanks to pornography: Take VHS for example. Before CDs or DVDs came along, the videotape cassette was the hottest shit since the Human Torch got drunk and binged on Taco Bell Fire Sauce. The idea that you could record and watch movies whenever you wanted was completely unheard of before VHS, and the concept singlehandedly revolutionized home entertainment. But it wasn't an instant success: Some of the early VCR models cost as much as $800 in today's money, and that's not even accounting for the blank tapes, which came at prices up to $50 a pop. And speaking of those blank tapes: The MPAA was so concerned about the ability to copy movies that they not only refused to support the system, but actually called it the Boston Strangler of the movie industry and tried to get it banned in a court of law.
You know who else used VCRs?
The format had no corporate backing, it was heavily criticized, a bitch to program, and didn't even come with the Apple logo to help justify spending your kids' college fund on it. Why the hell would anybody buy it then?
Up until the end of the 1970s, smut films accounted for well over half of all videotape sales in the United States. In Great Britain and Germany that number was as high as 80%. This is largely because, prior to VHS, the only way to see two naked people boning was either paying to sit in an X-rated movie theater with a room full of lonely men in trench coats or a pair of powerful binoculars. The former was only seriously considered if you didn't mind accidentally sitting in what-you-will-pray-to-God-turns-out-to-be gum, and the latter required way too much patience for your more casual, weekend pervert. Porn on videotape changed all that, and the public desire for cable repairman schlong pulled the entire format into the limelight.
It also saved billions in dry-cleaning bills.
When the first laser discs were introduced, they offered essentially the same exact thing as VHS tapes. But with prices reaching almost $150 per disc, no amount of improved picture quality could engorge the consumer's hot, throbbing interest. Then along came DVDs. By making heavy use of their additional content capabilities, like multiple camera angles and deleted scenes, the porn industry helped keep the DVD alive until the prices dropped and the general public could afford to adopt the format.
Masturbation is the mother of invention.
#4. Porn Made Your Digital Camera Possible
Other businesses soon took note of pornography's unstoppable selling power and decided to get in on all that sweaty, moustachioed action. First among them was Polaroid with their early digital cameras. The digital camera had a lot of advantages, but the improved picture quality, editorial control, easily adjustable settings and reduced film costs all paled in comparison to digital's best selling point: Now you could point a camera at your genitals and not have to run it through a gauntlet of snickering Walgreen's employees to enjoy the fruits of your sexy labors. And the camera companies adjusted their marketing accordingly.
Those are actual advertisements, and the message is very clear: With our digital cameras, you can now safely take tons of naked pics and not have the entire photo kiosk staff masturbating over them later, which YOU KNOW THEY TOTALLY WERE DOING UP UNTIL THIS VERY MOMENT.
#3. Guttenberg May Have Invented the Printing Press, Porn Made it Go
The only truly surprising thing about those ads is that these businesses took so long to notice porn's influence on consumers in the first place. It's been happening for centuries now: In 1524, there was a book published called "I Modi" (The Ways) by Pietro Aretino and Giulio Romano. If you were to ask an art/literature expert about it, you might hear that "I Modi" was a series of beautiful illustrations depicting contemporary Italian life, accompanied by Aretino's masterfully composed sonnets. If you asked anybody else, they'd just show you this:
Hey guys, what's happeniHEYYOOOOO!
Now, you won't really hear anyone arguing that "I Modi" was anything but an awesome, old-timey combination of professional wrestling and hardcore pornography; but you also won't hear anyone arguing about how it played a huge role in the popularization of print and literature... which it totally did. Guttenberg and his Bible might have gotten the ball rolling, but for centuries Aretino was one of the most read authors in Europe (today considered the father of erotic literature,) and his works were being printed and passed around more often than the pastor's daughter at a church summer camp. It was the first and only book many people came into contact with, and this pornography fostered widespread literacy all across ye olde Europe.
This is Pietro Aretino. Honestly, we would be surprised if he didn't write porn.