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Ok this is a really silly question, but I was really curious as to why this wouldnt work. I'm just starting my electricity and magnetism course, so I really dont know much about electricity. I know this is not possible, but why?
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Sorry, but your self charging laptop can not work since it will violate the second law of thermodynamics. A computer processes information and during computation it generates heat. This heat is dissipated through the cooling system. You need continuous supply of usable energy from an external source to run the laptop.
In general, the second law of thermodynamics asserts that it is impossible to create a perpetual motion machine of the second kind. All real machines have efficiency less than 100% which means output power is less than input power. The difference is lost/ wasted as heat or other useless forms of energy. You must have noticed your laptop's temperature is high and making noisy sound during a heavy computation.
I hope you got the point.


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1 Sep 2009 1:05 AM #1
Ext.Direct for CodeIgniter
Just copy archive contents to your application folder.
It will create cache folder in your application folder (make this folder writable!).
It will place extdapi.php, extdcacheprovider.php, extdrouter.php to the libraries folder.
It will place example classes Echo.php, Exception.php, File.php, Time.php to the same folder.
And it will place direct.php to the controllers folder.
Now you can test it:
1. Add a script tag in your main application page for the API:
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?=base_path()?>direct/api"></script>
Ext.mits.Time.get(function(provider, response) { Ext.Msg.alert('response', response.result); });
Place them to the libraries folder. Don't forget to make comments before each method of your class. First of all it should have @remotable attribute:
class Time { /** * @remotable */ public function get(){ return date('m-d-Y H:i:s'); } }
/** * @remotable * @formHandler */
To include your own classes replace $api definition in file direct.php with your own:
$api->add( array( 'MyClass1', 'MyClass2', ... ) );
If you want to use CodeIgniter object in your classes, just get instance:
PHP Code:
$CI =& get_instance();
6 Nov 2009 3:17 AM #2
hi goachka, thanks for this dude, but, just would like to ask if, does this contribute to any performance using Ext.Direct Techniques? and when do we need to use Ext.Direct approach? hope you could make some time buddy... reply much appreciated.
6 Nov 2009 3:23 AM #3
6 Nov 2009 5:04 AM #4
No no.. hmm, im using CodeIgniter too, but i'm using the standard approach, by using Ext.Direct in your point of views, does it contribute to any performance? and when will it be; for a developer to choose Ext.Direct for his/her backend?
6 Nov 2009 5:12 AM #5
6 Nov 2009 5:18 AM #6
ahahaha! ok.. anyway, nice library buddy.. thanks.. saves me some time..
24 Feb 2010 8:18 AM #7
I am a bit confused as I have never used Libraries before. I generally use the Model, View, Controller featrues.
Can you provide me a quick real world example of how for instance you would use CI's normal Database function to create a select query and then send the json result? Would I need to ditch using Models for this and start creating separate classes in the Library folder?
Just a nudge would help to so I can get my head round how things should be structured.
24 Feb 2010 10:18 AM #8
Well I can't get this working at all. In Ext I'm getting 'provider is undefined'.
To troubleshoot I pointed my browser at the direct controller mysite/direct/api and I am getting the following PHP Notice.
Undefined variable: api
I have everything installed as per the instructions. libs all in the libraries folder and direct.php in the controller folder. I have created the cache folder and it is writable.
25 Feb 2010 12:52 AM #9
25 Feb 2010 12:58 AM #10
in your direct controller, it should be:
$this->extdapi->add( array( 'Echo' => array('prefix' => 'Class_'), 'Exception' => array('prefix' => 'Class_') ) );
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Please tell whether Nokia Ovi suite works on Ubuntu. I searched a lot not but have not been able to find the answer.
If not please provide me with some other alternative.
Please tell whether Nokia Ovi suite works on Ubuntu. I searched a lot not but have not been able to find the answer.
If not please provide me with some other alternative.
There is no official support by Nokia.
I'd recommend to use the Ovi Suite via dual boot into Windows/Mac.
But there is also a project currently in development:
I'm using OVI Suite from my Ubuntu 12.04 (and 10.04 before that) in a WindowsXP Virtualbox. It works fine after giving Virtualbox access to bluetooth.
S60 Remote as well as Nokunto, Gammu/Wammu and Xgnokii are all a waste of time as it doesn't really work. I am using a seto of sulutions that will most definately help you. Read here http://askubuntu.com/captcha?s=c4d2a716-1e69-4e5b-b62a-fadf4809020c
I summarize the system integration, which is easy enough to set up:
On the Computer
On the Phone - Android or Symbian
You can always still sync your Gmail contacts via your phone's own sync app, which is what I am doing. I am using Nokia's own email and synced contacts with Google but I sync my calendar via Emoze. It works better on my Nokia E63 and it also uses less battery this way.
I have been using Nokia ever since 1995 but will now switch to Samsung as their Android phones co-habitate more seamlessly with Linux and offer more solutions. Nokia did not see the need to develop for us Linux users and painted themselves into a corner, sadly. Their phone hardware remains the best, I suppose.
I have used other contacts sync plugins for Thunderbird but found them to be lacking when compared with the Zindus app. gContactsync, if I recall the name correctly, is inconsistent and complicated.
Follow the links on my posts as well. Always add or suggest alernatives if you have found a better solution, please.
No it doesn't according to the documentation in wine (which is not an emulator but runs windows program on linux) OviSuiteWine


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Wikipedia states that "The alleged oldest commercial corporation in the world, the Stora Kopparberg mining community in Falun, Sweden, obtained a charter from King Magnus Eriksson in 1347". Is this actually the earliest instance of incorporation, though? How did the practice come to exist?
Depending on your definition of corporation, you could claim that Venice and other merchant cities of Italy were akin to corporations. Guilds could well be said to have been pseudo corporations and the Templar orders a pseudo-bank.
Corporations allow for a united front against competition, taxes, and a sharing of profits. The Merchant Adventurers of York (founded in 1357) are another example of a union of merchants.
The earliest instance of a "corporation" as we recognize them today has to be the Dutch East India Company which was established in 1602. The Dutch East India Company was the first to issue shares that were tradeable on a stock exchange in its company in part to raise capital for its operations. At the time of its founding similar trading companies focused on the trade with India started to be founded. E.g. the East India Company in England.
So, western Europe was the first place that the "modern corporation" concept arose.
The word "corporation" originates from Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome had special laws concerning the creation of corporations. Under the republic the creation of corporations was free, but starting from the reign of Augustus, only the Senate could approve the creation of new corporations.
A Roman corporation was unlike the modern ones. It was more like a club, trade union, or society. All members of a corporation were liable for the corporation's debts. Many corporations were created with non-commercial purposes. For example, the Church was considered a corporation legally.
There was also a body called the Council of Corporations in ancient Rome, which was re-created by Mussolini in the 20th century.
The Church adapted it from Roman law: "Christianity at its very beginning, found the concept of the corporation well developed under Roman law and widely and variously organized in Roman society. It was a concept that the early Christians soon adapted to their organization and, as a means of protection in the periods of persecution. Whether we attach to the burial corporations (collegia tenuiorum or funeraticia) of the early Christians the importance that De Rossi and other archæologists do, there can be no doubt that in the second and third centuries of the Christian era the corporation was generally resorted to as a means of holding, and transmitting church property. In later times this concept fitted in naturally with the genius of the religious orders, and the great monastic establishments of the Middle Ages were organized on that plan. "In the Middle Ages, all life", says Dr. Shahan (Middle Ages, p. 346), "was corporate. As religion was largely carried on by the corporations of monks and friars, so the civic life and its duties were everywhere in the hands of corporations." The mortmain legislation of the Middle Ages indicates that the corporation, as adapted for the holding of ecclesiastical property, was not only a secure, but a prosperous method of tenure in times of feudal warfare. In one instance, the Middle Ages improved upon the Roman concept of the corporation. The corporation sole was a refinement of the canon lawyers. Its most familiar instance in English law is the bishop, the vicar, or the pastor, who succeeds to the rights of an office and by consequence to the sole custody of its temporalities. Blackstone's division of corporation into lay and ecclesiastical (Commentaries, Book II, ch. 18) has no application in the United States where all incorporated religious societies are treated as private civic corporations." (Catholic Encyclopedia)
From Timur Kuran: "Following the split of Christianity in 1054, and during the struggle to emancipate religion from the control of emperors, kings, and feudal lords (1075-1122), the Roman Catholic Church began calling itself a corporation. This struggle, considered to have culminated in the Papal Revolution,19 gave rise to the new canon law (jus novum) of the Catholic Church. Canon law, which dealt with a wide range ofissues, including jurisdiction, property, and contracts, built on innumerable concepts, enactments, and rules belonging to the inherited secular and ecclesiastical legal systems. Unlike its forerunners, however, it emerged as a systematized body of law. Articulated in texts, it was supported by theories pertaining to the sources of law.
During the incorporation wave of the sixth through eleventh centuries, all across western Europe the clergy had developed a collective self-consciousness and formed effectively autonomous religious organizations. Now, by claiming a corporate identity of its own, the entire Church sought to differentiate itself from the secular world, separate its assets from those of its members, and weave detached clerical collectives into what has been called a "translocal, transtribal, transfeudal, and transnational" corporation with an autonomously shaped chain of authority. The move would also enhance the power of the Church over clergy by weakening clerical bonds to competing sources of authority, such as the family. Where states regained power, the assertion of legal personhood, too, began to matter. Meanwhile, other attempts were made to form corporations with large memberships and elaborate legal systems. Thousands of towns in northern Italy, France, England, and Germany acquired a corporate identity, in some cases through a royal charter, in others simply through the will of residents and the recognition of outsiders."


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The 6 Creepiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games (Part 2)
#3. Super Mario Sunshine -- The Hidden Mystery Book and the Monster That Poops Other Monsters
There are two types of Mario games (OK, there are like 15 types, but bear with us): the simple 2D ones where you just move from left to right indiscriminately stomping on shit, and the more complex 3D ones where you have to explore areas and collect objects ... while indiscriminately stomping on shit also. Super Mario Sunshine belongs to the latter category, but there's one extremely well hidden item in this game that has baffled fans for years, because no one knows what the hell it's for.
Apparently it's called a "bork" and people took it to the toilet before we had smartphones.
You see, there's a level in Sunshine where you're supposed to collect eight red coins inside a giant bottle full of water. At the bottom of the level, you'll find this structure:
Koopa Industries never finished this dolphin refuge because someone murdered all the workers.
Notice those square holes on the side? If you look inside the one on the right, you can see a brown door at the end, but it can't be opened. No one in the game even mentions this door, so it's impossible to know what's behind ...
50,000 unsold copies of Mario Is Missing?
... unless you pan the game's camera so that it goes through the wall. If you're standing in the right position, you'll see this:
Not a book icon on your HUD. A book floating in midair.
There's a book hidden behind the secret door. This game has been out for 11 years now, and we still have no idea who put it there or what forbidden knowledge lies inside. The Internet has some ideas, of course: There's a persistent rumor that in the Japanese version of Sunshine you have to find the book for a scavenger hunt, and if you open it, it says "You have no life. Signed, Shigeru Miyamoto" -- but that's simply not true (not the "we have no life" part; that's been proven by now). Here's the level in the Japanese game: It's the exact same thing. So what the hell? To make matters more confusing, the song playing in the background is called "The Book in the Bottle" in the original soundtrack.
The more likely explanation is that this is a leftover item from a mission the developers ended up cutting ... because this game does have a lot of weird abandoned stuff. Like this dude:
So that's how Goombas are born. No need to feel guilty about killing them after all.
That is a deleted enemy that poops smaller enemies. You can only see him by going into an unfinished-looking test level that was left hidden in the game. And if you throw water at him, the skin on its head falls off ... revealing a single giant, unblinking eye on top.
Nintendo's attempt to scare us all off circumcision.
On second thought, we'd rather not know what the people who came up with that put in the book.
#2. Bit.Trip Runner 2 -- Slender Man Is Watching You
Sometimes the most sinister Easter eggs are where you least expect them to be. For instance, Runner 2 is a colorful game where all you do is jump platforms and dodge enemies as your character automatically runs through a stage to upbeat music -- it's basically what Pitfall for Atari would look like if it was made on present-day software (and possibly on drugs).
Gaijin Games
Just watch this for 10 hours. That is the game.
So this is a perfectly innocent all-ages video game (it's even narrated by Mario's voice actor), but since all that quick jumping and dodging requires so much attention, it's pretty easy not to notice the creepy shit they slip into the background. Like on this level:
Gaijin Games
Innocent enough, unless you're a grassophobe.
It looks pretty inoffensive, right? Like something you can safely play with your kids without fear that they'll go out and murder a prostitute with a rocket launcher and take off in a stolen car (we're looking at you, FIFA 14). But wait, who's that guy back there ...?
Gaijin Games
Oh, that's just the Internet's bogeyman, the Slender Man, a supernatural being who specializes in stalking and kidnapping young children. And he doesn't just show up one time; he actually follows you all through this level. Seriously, it's the exact same character from the urban legend, and he's even seen hanging out in his preferred kid-watching location.
Gaijin Games
The scariest thing to appear in the woods since the teddy bears' picnic.
The worst part is that the game's hyperactive nature makes his presence almost subliminal. You're replaying this stage over and over for half an hour (the game doesn't have lives, it just throws you back to the beginning if you make a single mistake), until you pause at the right moment and realize the Slender Man has been watching you all along. And Slendy isn't the only potential sex offender lurking in the background -- there are others out there, like this jogging giant in cutoff shorts holding a mysterious cylinder:
Gaijin Games
The cylinder is currently empty. Soon it will contain a child.
Or this ... whatever the hell this is:
Gaijin Games
The FBI has a special database for monocled disembodied octopus heads.
#1. Psychonauts -- The Burning Orphanage
Psychonauts is the critically acclaimed cult classic from Double Fine Productions, who you might know better as "Those dudes who made a shitload of money on Kickstarter a few months back." Statistically speaking, you may not have played it, but you probably know someone who has.
Double Fine Productions
Who probably won't shut up about it.
It's a fun, lighthearted game about kids using psychic powers and delving into other people's minds, such as in the Milla's Dance Party level, where you're inside the head of one of your instructors, Milla, an upbeat Brazilian woman who loves the '70s aesthetic. Nothing terribly weird there, for a video game.
And yet, if you find a secret room in the level, Milla will specifically warn you away from it, saying that it's "no fun" and "a party killer." If you press on, you can find a scrapbook showing Milla as an orphanage matron taking care of a group of children. Things take a bit of a turn when, in one of the pictures, Milla is shown outside the orphanage and it's on fire. And then you see screaming, burning children surrounding her.
Double Fine Productions
Or trying to untangle themselves from her massively unkempt hair. One or the other.
After you flip through the scrapbook, you can enter a large chest in the same room with a red glow coming from inside (again disobeying Milla's lax warnings not to go there) -- at which point you'll find yourself in a straight-up hellish landscape, surrounded by wraiths hissing things like "MILLA, WHY DON'T YOU HELP US?" and "MILLA, WHY DID YOU LET US DIE?"
Double Fine Productions
So that's pretty intense, even for a T-rated game. What's even creepier, though, is if you dig through the game's files, where you can find voice-acted lines from Milla herself. It seems there may have been a cutscene intended to show Milla's gritty backstory instead of just a scrapbook, because there are recordings of her saying things like "Ahh! The orphanage! It's on fire!" "The children! Someone save the children!" "Oh, God, no!" and "They're screaming!" Plus assorted wracking sobs and cries of anguish. Man, no wonder this game is such a classic.
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Jacobs was awarded the engineering and procurement assistance services contract for the construction of a mono ethylene glycol (MEG) plant in Gujarat on India's west coast. The new MEG plant is part of Reliance's massive expansion project for its refining and petrochemical facilities.
Reliance Industries on Tuesday awarded Jacobs Engineering
Group with an engineering and procurement assistance
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Tony Hartl, Former Founder and CEO of Planet Tan and CEO of PAH Capital
Tony Hartl graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1991. Beginning in 1988 through 1994 he focused his business career goals in the fitness industry. Growing quickly, he attained the position of Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for a Health Club Chain with multi-unit responsibilities in three states managing 350 employees.
In 1995 he founded Planet Tan in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex with three locations and a vision "to provide an affordable luxury where everybody can feel better about themselves". The company grew into one of the most recognizable brands in the area and represented the premier collection of indoor mega-salons in the country.
By 2008, Planet Tan boasted 17 locations and 160 employees, and generated average per unit sales of $1 million, the highest in the country. That November, Mr. Hartl sold the company and soon made plans to travel the world.
Ariell Buckingham, NFTE Alumnus
As the oldest of five children, Ariell spent a lot of time helping to care for her siblings, and planning their birthday parties. "I got so tired of going to Chuck E. Cheese," Ariell remembers.
So when Ariell's high school NFTE teacher Scott Steward got her thinking about a business of her own, Ariell built a plan and launched Smile Entertainment providing safe, friendly, intimate, personalized children's birthday parties and helping busy moms, just like her own.
Ariell's first customer was one of her teachers. The teenager recorded the event and took photos. "It was difficult for a 16-year-old to ask people to pay me to do birthday parties in their homes," she says. "On the first couple of parties, I lost a lot of money because I spent too much."
But Ariell persevered and with good word of mouth her business took off and in just a couple of years Smile Entertainment has produced over 50 parties. Now a full-time college sophomore studying business, she has hired several "Smile Certified" employees who work with her to provide her full service – "from set-up to clean-up" – parties.


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DALLAS (November 24, 2012)--Larry Hagman, who played scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing on TV's long-running nighttime soap opera "Dallas," died Friday night in a Dallas hospital.
He was 81 and had been battling cancer.
Hagman gained TV fame with the fluffy 1960s sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie," in which he played Capt. Tony Nelson. but it was his portrayal of the ruthless J. R. Ewing that brought Hagman his greatest stardom.
"Who Shot J. R.," the 1980 cliffhanger episode in which Ewing was shot, was among the most-watched broadcasts of its day.
Hagman returned as J. R. in this year's new edition of "Dallas" on TNT.
Linda Gray, his on-screen wife and later ex-wife in the original series and the sequel, says Hagman "brought joy to everyone he knew."
Victoria Principal, who co-starred in the original series, recalled Hagman as "bigger than life." She calls Hagman "unforgettable, and irreplaceable."
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Getting Up To Speed With…Colin Baker
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
Fans of the Cottage Grove Speedway may have noticed last year a late arrival turn some heads at the historic ¼-mile clay oval. Colin Baker may have not raced in every 360 Sprint event, due to an injury suffered during the offseason, but he did put up some good results including making the show with American Sprint Car Series-National Tour at Cottage Grove Speedway.
Although he's been competing with in the Sprint Cars for several seasons what most fans may not know is he had a distinguished Motocross career and was even on the fast track to Supercross before some major injuries would force him to retire at an early age. Through his tenure on two wheels he would win over one-hundred-fifty features and became a three-time Oregon State Champion as well as a two-time Northwest Motocross Series champion.
In 2014 Baker will race in the Hedge Carter owned #71 mount the same car he piloted a runner-up finish in the Cottage Grove Speedway Non-Wing Nationals prelim night on August 31st, 2013 and to a fourth place finish in the finale the following night. The former Cottage Grove Speedway Limited Sprint and 360 Sprint Rookie of the Year award winner can't wait to get back on the track now that he's healthy again. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather Ted Baker Jr. and his father Ted Baker III young Colin looks to turn even more heads in this upcoming season. Now let's get up to speed with Colin Baker.
Driver: Colin Baker
Home Track: Cottage Grove Speedway
Hometown: Cottage Grove, Oregon
Occupation: Metal Roofing Manufacturer at Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply
Age: 21
Years Racing: 15
Classification: 360 Sprints/Non-Wing Sprint
Team: Hedge Carter Racing
Car: 71
Chassis: XXX Race Company
Sponsors: Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply, Hedge Carter Continuous Gutter Service, Huddle Automotive Repair, Oregon West RV
Special Thanks: Brian Crockett
BD: Well Colin what is 2014 looking like for you?
CB: It's looking like new horizons because I'm in a good car with a nice team surrounding me. I really feel like this is going to be my break out year. I know I haven't won a lot in a while so I'm hoping to add some victories in the win column.
I'll be driving for Hedge Carter and pretty much run anything we can. Right now we plan to race with ASCS-Northwest, Cottage Grove Speedway, and any other 360 races we can go to as well as a few Non-Wing shows maybe.
BD: This won't be the first time you'll be driving for Hedge Carter. You've ran for him before correct?
CB: Yes. We ran the Cottage Grove Speedway Non-Wing Nationals together last year. We had a good experience and had a good car. When we paired up for that race everything went well and I hope to build off of that experience for this year. People like Hedge and Kelly Carter and Tim Galloway are awesome with the way they give people great opportunities and are needed more in this sport.
BD: Last year you didn't race that much due to an injury in the offseason but when you did you put up some decent results. Your take on 2013?
CB: Well last winter I broke both feet and ankles in a motorcycle accident on the coast. But on the racing side of things I thought it was good for the situation I was in. I didn't have a big crew in fact sometimes I was the only crew. Brian Crocket gave me a good race car and I'm happy he gave me the opportunity to run for him. Making that ASCS-National show at CGS was big especially finishing in the top ten in the main event.
BD: Now during this current offseason you and Patrick Dills went and did some Kage Kart racing. How fun was that because it's been several years since you've ran those.
CB: Oh man it was great. Jerry Dills gave me the awesome chance to do that and I got to thank him for that experience. We ran Roseburg Indoor a couple of times and Salem once.
It was a lot of fun. I really forgot how fun those things are. They have a ton of horsepower but not much suspension. I learned a lot that I think will help me this year. I really try to learn something new every time I get in a car whether it's a 360 Sprint or Kage Kart.
BD: Now people have seen you race through the years whether it be Winged or Non-Winged Sprint Cars. But what some people may not know is you had a prestigious career in Motocross before even getting involved in Kage Karts. Could you explain that experience a little bit?
CB: I started riding when I was four or five. It was an everyday thing for me practicing all the time and every weekend we raced. It was a big passion of mine and I ended up having some sponsorship help from KTM that got me in the national spotlight. Unfortunately my career was cut short to some pretty major injuries. We travelled a lot on the West Coast and some of the Midwest and had a lot of fun doing that. When I couldn't do Motocross anymore my dad got me a Kage Kart and started me out in the 250cc class and from there the rest is history.
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Hello, everyone…
This comes from a currently highest level player in LM.
Well… Yeah, you read it right… despite it being enjoyable to some extent, I'm basically fed up with the view of developers towards our EN speaking community.
They DO NOT CARE about us.
RU version today received a 5th update, that we don't have yet. (In the span of … from last update). The updates involved new content, items, gifts, parties and etc, basically they we're fun…
http://www.lostmagic.ru/forum/2/15088/ <- this is a thread I started on their official site (don't worry, thread is in english), and the response I got basically was the developers admitting their incompetence in handling multilingual games.
They promised they would pay attention to EN servers soon (early January), and halve a month in … RU server – ANOTHER CONTENT UPDATE, EN server – middle finger.
I'm really fed up. I spent quite a sum on the game, encouraging what seemed to be a neatly designed game… However after seeing that it's actually only a way to extract extra cash from people (refering to insane prices in shop), and that they're not even supporting it anymore… I'm done.
So, I kind of urge everyone to NOT SPEND a dime on the game, not at least we start getting the same respect as RU servers. Heck, even then the developers have A LOT of apologies to do.
tldr – developers don't seem to care about the EN server, spend your money and time elsewhere


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Robocopy does not copy the root folder and its time stamp - it copies all subdirectories and files (when the appropriate options are set) and there seems to be no option/argument to tell Robocopy you want the root folder itself and its time stamp or attributes to be copied verbatim also.
So say I want I want to copy C:/Brushes
Robocopy will copy all its subdirectories and files into the destination, but not the Brushes folder itself, with all associated attributes and time stamp.
You understand what I am asking? This is pretty basic and Robocopy seems to lack a option for it. People have posed the question before in various forums but as far as I'm concerned, no one has answered the question.


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I first installed Debian with a netinst CD without networking, then edited
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dhclient eth0 to set up networking. Then I installed
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When I run
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coreutils, all installed. Are they all necessary? If I ran
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I even still use a H20 in studio on an old blad as for some things i do not need much megapxls, and it works fine, and beautifull quality, ( better than a 1dsmk3) ..
The megapixelcount is fine for me, and I actually quite like the square format.
Agreed. I've only used an H20 a handful of times, but have done a fair amount of shooting on H25s and the color and file quality (at low ISO) is even better than a 5D3 which I also have a good amount of shooting experience with. Not bad for backs released in 2001 and 2003 compared to a 2012 dSLR :-).
Agreed. I've spent a great deal of time recently viewing 5D3 and D800 files - hate the 5D3, like the D800 - but every time I switch back to viewing my 9 micron Hasselblad files I have to wonder why I'm even considering the Canon or Nikon.But, to be fair, I use it at 50 ISO, wouldn't even think about going above 200 and have to admit it can be a moiré machine.Personally I wouldn't go for the P20 as it is so restrictive regarding wide lenses.
I think it's just a different look and of course everybody has an opinion.Personally I love the medium format cameras along with the backs, really love my p21+ and though I never say never, doubt if I'd ever get rid of it.But as everyone says, try it and if you like it it's worth it to you.The good thing about Phase is they seem to support their backs forever which only improves them.p21+
Wow, thanks for all the quick replies. As for usage, I'm very much into portraits these days, so very wide lenses wouldn't be something I would need with a medium format system (not right away, anyways). Also, since I am shooting with flash, I wouldn't venture into the high ISOs.I don't have a camera for the back presently, I think the P20 in the store is fitted for Contax 645, and I have a good relationship with the store, so he would throw in a Contax 645 body more or less for free. They give a sixth month guarantee on used products as well. Oh, and they have a deal with some company in Germany that services the Contax. So I guess the kit I would get would be a Contax 645, 80mm lens, and P20 back, which would set me back around 3000$. I know the Contax is old, so autofocus is slow (not a big issue for me), but supposedly the lenses are gorgeous. I guess I should just try it out at the store, and check out the images at home. Any opinions on the Contax 645 by the way?The store also has a very nice Haselblad H2D 22mp camera, but that would set me back 6000$.
And so it goes... "A picture is worth a thousand words".
Reputable store with warranty/guarantee, Contax body and lens, P20 all for $3k? If you don't go for it please post the information for the store as I'm sure someone here will.Seriously. That all sounds very good to me.
Hi all, I have been dying to get into medium format digital, and in my local prostore I came upon a very good condition Phase One P20 that they will sell for what amounts to 2500$. Does this mf back still make sense to get? The megapixelcount is fine for me, and I actually quite like the square format. I know it is old, but will it get that medium format "look", or has it been surpassed by modern fullframe DSLRs?
Wow, seems I am looking at a pretty sweet deal! Do you know of it would be possible, at a later date, to use the back on a different camera? The 1/125 sync speed of the Contax is not too hot. Also, hos easy/difficult is it to correct for moire in Capture One? I shoot a lot of portraits, some of them with quite intricate garments.
As much as I love these 9 micron backs the one thing I wouldn't use them for would be fabrics.
And I would counter that by saying that I've shot a ridiculous amount of fashion and textiles with my P25 over the years and moire has never been an issue. By that I mean moire might be there but Capture One does a stellar job handling it, and a big chunk of that work was done when C1 was much less sophisticated than it is today. The whole issue is blown way out of proportion by some people if you ask me.
Pattern moire is very hard to remove period.


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Guys its been reported to me that people are not getting back the results they expect when doing a search using the all sites scope. Looking at the scopes in central admin i've noticed that the items count is only 1020. Is this the number of items available to search on. 1020 seems extremely low for the entire intranet. What does the count refer to?
There are many posibilities why you would not see them all, but here is what you could start checking:
Run a Full Crawl and watch Crawl log and ULS logs
I dont know if its any help to you but you could try this and see if your search scope is setup properly?
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Creating Search Scopes for Sites in the Site Directory http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/creating-search-scopes-for-sites-in-the-site-directory-HA001164852.aspx
SharePoint Server 2007 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/define-scopes-for-searches-HA010241119.aspx
Search scopes for end users in SharePoint 2010 sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=575
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I am getting error is this.$cache being undefined when code renders viewport.
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The 7 Most Insane Things Ever Done to Get Out of Something
So the story came out this week that a school teacher in Pennsylvania lied about having brain cancer so she could get some time off work. We're not saying we condone that behavior, but we certainly understand it.
Damn it, if you're going to ditch something, you need to think big. Like these people.
#7. Take This Job and Shove It... Into Your Ribcage. Repeatedly.
Ah, work. The crushing monotony. The obnoxious customers. Your incompetent coworkers. But the off-brand Ramen and Trial Memberships to Porn sites aren't going to pay for themselves. You have to do it. Even if everything inside is screaming for you to run, you have to go... right?
So What Do You Do?
Well, you could call in sick, but what if somebody drops by and sees you out in the yard playing on your trampoline? No, it's got to be convincing. You'd better just stab yourself.
A guy from Denver named Aaron Siebers called into work and claimed he was just attacked and repeatedly stabbed by three mysterious assailants who were either skinheads or Hispanics. That seems a little odd, but hey: Maybe they were tan skinheads, or bald Hispanics, or perhaps even the Klan has had to bend to Affirmative Action and diversify. But let's not lose track of the important thing here: He didn't just "claim it"--he actually stabbed himself.
And not with glancing blows, either. His wounds were serious enough to require stitches. And police, for some reason not catching onto the old "call into work stabbed by ethnic contradictions" excuse, believed him and began a manhunt for the suspects. They brought in K-9 units and five other agencies on the case. But then, after reviewing the security footage from the alleged crime scene (Siebers said the attack occurred in the parking lot of a local Target, because apparently Wal-Mart is just a little too low rent for His Freaking Majesty here), they found no evidence of the crime. After confronting him with this discovery in the hospital, the truth soon came out.
Aaron Siebers inflicted deep, potentially lethal stab wounds on himself, committed fraud and instigated a vast, cross-agency manhunt because he didn't want to go to his job... at the local Blockbuster.
#6. Here's a Heart Attack; Keep the Change.
You're eating out at your favorite restaurant, hedonistically devouring everything that passes in front of your table. But come on, you deserve it: It's been a hard week, and you have so very few indulgences. You have even fewer dollars in your wallet. Coming down off the glutton high, stark reality begins to set in. There's no way you can pay this bill.
So What Do You Do?
You can poke remorsefully through your empty wallet, trying to remember which credit card isn't over the limit. Or you can cop to it, apologize and offer to work off the debt in the kitchen.
But shit, you know what's way easier than all of that? Faking a heart attack.
A Wisconsin man did that, not once, but twice, in the same day. He first took a cab to a shopping mall, but when he arrived, somehow got out of paying the fare by clutching his chest and playing the heart attack card. The cab driver, apparently not wanting to get involved with a bunch of "taking a dying man to a hospital" nonsense, just drove away.
The man, apparently amazed that this worked, decided he had stumbled upon a lifelong "get everything for free" coupon. He went to a restaurant in the mall and had a nice steak dinner. When they brought the bill--oh, no! Heart attack!
Concerned for his safety, the staff promptly called an ambulance and had him taken to the hospital. There the doctors soon realized he was faking it and called the police, who charged him with fraud. If convicted, he could serve up to nine months in jail, and be forced to pay a $10,000 dollar fine.
The bill he was trying to get out of paying? It was $23.
#5. Absolutely Nothing is Worse Than Drunk Driving, Right?
Sirens blare in the distance. The telltale red and blue lights flash in your rear view mirror. You fumble for the gum, unfortunately knocking over the tallboy of Steel Reserve you belted into the passenger seat (in order to use the carpool lane). The officer motions for you to roll down your window. This is it.
So What Do You Do?
Face up to the law, learn from your mistakes and promise to never drive drunk again? That'll take like, literally hours of work. Fuck that! Just do like this lady.
In hopes of avoiding the dreaded ticket, she started out by reversing into a cop car at a gas station. Panicking, the woman fled the scene--which proved easier than expected since she'd just disabled the nearest police car. Quick, what's the next logical step?
A) Stop and take a moment to recall if the cop had enough time to spot your license plates;
B) Report your car stolen;
C) Flee the state;
D) Burn everything.
"Welp. This should take care of everything. Wait. What was I taking care of again?"
If you answered D, congratulations! You're mentally imbalanced! But you're also right: She drove her car into a ditch, removed the license plates and lit the whole thing on fire. At this point it becomes a little difficult to figure out exactly what her plan was, mainly because her next step was to remain on the scene, standing next to the burning car she just rammed a cop with, still with a BAC of .155.
#4. If Anything, it's Proof You Really Need More Church
Another Sunday, another boring, uncomfortable day at church. You put on your hideous secondhand church clothes, and mentally prepare yourself to spend the next two hours listening to the complicated genealogy of long-dead Arabic men.
So What Do You Do?
Try to sneak in an iPod? Play games on your phone while trying to look deep in solemn concentration about the moral relevance of prehistoric sex-charts? Just suck it up and try to improve yourself spiritually?
Nah. Sounds boring. Start a freaking car chase!
That was the plan for an unnamed seven year-old boy in Utah, who was so eager to avoid church services he hopped in his dad's car and took off.
Shortly thereafter police received reports of a vehicle driving recklessly, then reports of a child driving a vehicle, then reports of a child driving recklessly. Two deputies caught up with the boy just north of Salt Lake City, where he led them on a, well... moderate speed chase (topping out at 40mph but hey, he's just a kid; he'll get those numbers up with practice).
The kid, who had to have struggled just to see out of the windshield, managed to not kill even one pedestrian before pulling into a random driveway and running inside the house. Police filed charges against, well, nobody, since he's just a little kid. So if you're reading this and you're seven years old, you can totally steal your parents' car! Seriously, nobody cares.


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It seems common in Christian communities (and in questions on this site) for people to say they have been saved. What does someone mean by this when they say it? How would I know that I have been saved and is there a particular moment of saving I should be able to identify?
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In order for the language of being "saved" to make sense one has to understand what we are being saved FROM. There has to be a before and after scenario. We are saved from the wrath of God. Those without faith in Christ are described as children of wrath.
Consider this passage that uses the language of being "saved" including some details on our original position before God, the change that happens, and our final standing after salvation as well as the key operative bits on how that actually happens:
That wrath was meted out on Christ (Isaiah 53:5) and by bearing this punishment and separation from the Father, He claimed the right to make us Sons. He transferred us from the domain of darkness into the light.
Returning to the language of Ephesians above, "being saved" means being made alive, to be raised up with Christ. A few verses after the Colossians passage above it talks about how God reconciled us to Himself through Christ.
To "be saved" thus means to be rescued from the wrath of God, made alive in Christ and reconciled to the Father. The pre-salvation scenario thus has us as an object of God's wrath, the post-salvation scenario has us as objects of His affections and co-heirs with Christ.
Jesus died that we may be saved from sin. That salvation has several aspects.
Saved from the penalty of sin
Saved from the power of sin
Saved from the corruption of sin
Saved from the presence of sin
The Roman Road is a good "path" of sorts for receiving salvation, but it is Romans 10 that is especially appropriate for this question.
I can't say it any better than these verses.
As for the second part of your question,
There are some Christians, at least in my sphere of influence, who believe in a "point in time" salvation. Truth be told, many Christians can and do point to a specific day when they were saved. For them, the circumstances were such that the day of their salvation is indelibly etched in their minds.
This point-in-time salvation is legitimate, powerful, and quite persuasive, and the church and the world benefit from such testimonies. I call people in this category "trophies of [God's] grace," and for good reason. For them, their "before" (their BC, before Christ) and their "after" (their AD, after deliverance) are like night and day. God's unmerited favor shone into their lives in dramatic ways.
Some former drug addicts, for example, testify to being delivered from their addiction virtually instantly. Some atheists or agnostics testify to a day and time when the light finally dawned on them and they stepped from unbelief into belief. The Apostle Paul, of course, had a dramatic conversion, complete with a literal voice from God asking him why he was persecuting Jesus by persecuting Jesus' church, a literally blinding light, and a miraculous healing of that blindness just days after it occurred with the help of a man to whom God appeared in a vision (see Acts 9, 22, and 26:9-18).
On the other hand, some Christians in my tiny sphere of influence do not put much stock in point-in-time conversions, and for various reasons. That is not to say they do not believe in such conversions; it is to say they are more flexible in how they look at the whole conversion process. To them, conversion is just as likely to occur over time in stages, with one link in the chain being joined to the next link in the chain until the chain finally reaches from heaven to earth, as it were.
For such folks, if you were to ask them "When were you saved?" they would register a quizzical look on their faces and with a shrug of their shoulders say,
As to where I stand in this matter, I can pinpoint fairly accurately the when and where of my conversion. It was not a dramatic conversion, by any means, because I was only seven years old at the time! Years later, as a teen, I was struggling with what is commonly called "assurance of salvation," or more accurately "a lack of assurance of salvation," and I told God, again, I was really serious about being saved.
Looking back, however, who is to say which experience was the one that clinched things for me? All I know is at the age of 63, almost 56 years after my childhood conversion (if indeed it was that), I am saved and have full assurance of it.
In conclusion, while all Christians can have full assurance of salvation (see 1 John 5:13), can anyone truly KNOW she or he is saved? If so, then where does faith enter the picture? Without getting into the intricacies of epistemology (loosely, the study of the nature of knowledge and how we know what we know), I suggest we can never, this side of heaven, know we are saved. We can, however, through the eyes of faith say with the Apostle Paul,
Ultimately, I suggest, our assurance of salvation rests on the unchanging character of the One who saved us, and when you KNOW Him, you simply know you are saved. Will occasional doubts creep in from time to time? Of course. When they do, we must then fall back on the promises of God's word, such as
After we all die and we all stand before Christ to be judged for what we have done, some people will fail the test and be sent to Hell. Others will have succeeded in this life, be declared righteous and right with God and go on to live with Christ for the rest of eternity.
To be Saved by the blood of Christ means that you are free from the Wrath of God's Justice
In order to be saved you must: Does believing in Jesus Christ save me, or do I have to do something more?
To know that you are saved, look here: How can I be sure someone I know is going to Heaven?
I think it important to understand the status quo; wickedness.
Repentance. Isaiah 55:7 (KJV)
To be saved, is to be born of water and of the Spirit.
What does someone mean when they say they have been saved? Hopefully, they mean what they say.
How would I know that I have been saved?
You will be sorrowful and really understand just how insignificant and powerless you are in helping yourself. A humbling experience.
Is there a particular moment I should be able to identify? Yes
When you turn your life around 180 degrees, you no longer do what you did or think what you thought in the past. If you have truly surrendered to the Holy Spirit, you are no longer in charge. It is not you who directs your actions, it is the work of the Holy Spirit.


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I'm guessing a lot of people here have some sort of time management system. I'm curious what techniques people use to improve that system over time.
For me at work:
- Weekly look at where I spent time that week and how it related to what I planned each day. This lets me plan and estimate better in the future.
- When my organizational system feels stretched or I read a book with a tip, adapt my system.
So this is more of a question than a discussion, what is your number one tip for learning about your time management system to improve it. Please be specific like "see what projects I spent the least time on" rather than "look at where my time went"


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MCGREGOR (November 20, 2012)--A McGregor man was in the McLennan County Jail Tuesday after his arrest in connection with a weekend shooting that left another man injured.
Adalberto Aguirre, 22, was ordered held on bonds totaling $50,000, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was ordered held without bond on an immigration detainer.
The shooting was the result of an argument at around 3 p.m. Saturday at a residence in the 600 block of South McKinley in McGregor.
One of the men involved in the argument went into the house, came back with a high-powered air rifle and shot the other man in the hip.
McGregor police Detective Joe Coy said the projectile from the rifle is still imbedded in the victim's hip.
He said Aguirre was arrested on Sunday morning and booked into jail.


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Is there a strategy I can use to increase my chances of finding crystal hearts? Right I i am just exploring caves, but have only found one so far.
im still in early game, iron armor, tools and weapons.
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There seem to be many words (especially technical ones) in English that don't directly translate to a single word in Spanish. What about in the other direction: are there any words in Spanish that are notoriously difficult to translate into English (in other words, they can't be fully expressed in English in just a couple words)?
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Apparently duende. I always thought it just had the elf connotation.
In my opinion it's the word
Lots of possible translations, lots of connotations.
I think so. Cursi and quedar (like in "hemos quedado a las seis") come to mind.
Cursi is close in meaning to cheesy, corny and tacky, but also has a connotation of baroquely embellished, overdone and pretentious that these terms do not convey.
Quedar, at least in the sense that we use it in Spain, describes an intention. If I say that "hemos quedado a las seis", it means that my friends and I have agreed to meet at six. It could be roughly translated as "agree to meet".


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5 Unfought Wars That Would Have Changed Everything
Some day we're going to look back at the wars of the 20th century and laugh. Except not really, because they were awful and horrifying. But we can take comfort in knowing that as terrible as the wars of the last century were, some of these near misses might have really messed your shit up. Or saved the world. It could go either way, really.
WARNING: The following article contains historical speculation from a comedy website.
#5. MacArthur's Nuclear War
Depending on who you ask, General Douglas MacArthur was either one of the greatest heroes or greatest assholes in American history. After becoming generalissimo of the army during WWII, he was given the honor of heading up all UN forces when North Korea invaded South Korea in June of 1950. By mid-September MacArthur and his UN troops recaptured South Korea, but it was only a matter of weeks before MacArthur decided he might as well shimmy on over to North Korea while they were in the neighborhood.
"While we're here..."
Naturally, the Chinese got pissed over this charge into communist territory, and answered back with some troops of their own. At this point, the conflict was forced into a stalemate, not unlike the stalemate MacArthur and President Truman were enjoying over who exactly was in control of the United States Army. Especially after the Joint Chiefs of Staff convened to authorize MacArthur the ability to use nuclear weapons against Chinese targets without presidential approval.
He loved two things: smoking preposterously large pipes and committing nuclear genocide.
Mac was poised to drop 30 to 50 atomic bombs on the country, including "the mainland cities of China," whether Truman liked it or not.
What Stopped It:
Truman grew a pair and fired him.
Or his Masonic overlords told him to do it.
When Truman met MacArthur in 1950, the general refused to salute the Commander-in-Chief. That should have tipped him off as to who he was dealing with. When Truman told him to shut the hell up about nukes, MacArthur rallied the Joint Chiefs of Staff against him. Truman had a rogue general on his hands.
As if these private acts of insubordination weren't enough, pretty soon the story broke that MacArthur had sent a letter critical of the President's war policy to the Speaker of the House and the press the same day that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were meeting to give him nuke power. By April, 1951, Truman had had enough and he fired MacArthur's ass. No Chinese nuclear war for him.
If The War Had Happened...
Nuclear weapons would have become conventionalized weapons of war, and China would have been nuked several times over. As for the post-war, any country that had a nuke would have probably used one by now thanks to MacArthur's lead.
Basically, war would be Starcraft with worse voice acting.
Oh, yeah, there is also the question as to what would have become of the U.S. presidency after MacArthur had essentially staged a military coup against Truman.
#4. Fall Grun aka Stopping Hitler Before WWII
World War II, as you probably already know, started when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, and lasted until the Axis nations surrendered in 1945. Over those years, 60 million people were killed and most of the world's countries got involved with over 100 million people deployed in some form or another. Now, imagine if the entire thing could have been avoided by taking the Nazis out before they ever really got started. That's what some historians think might have happened if the Fuhrer would have gotten his way in the Fall of 1938.
If the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts had lowered its standards in 1907, we could have avoided all this unpleasantness.
In 1938, Hitler wanted the Sudetenland, the western part of Czechoslovakia that was largely occupied by ethnic Germans. And Hitler wanted it bad, so bad that he was ready to launch a war for it. The invasion he planned was called Fall Grun, or Case Green, and the Fuhrer was going to use all of the Nazi military might to get it.
What Stopped It:
This miracle of peace.
Way to go, Chamberlain.
Even though Hitler wanted war more than anything else that Christmas, England and France were still shaken over the previous world war. So the European powers managed to talk Hitler into a group therapy session at Munich, and Hitler got the Sudetenland (without Czechoslovakia's approval) in exchange for promising to be nice for the rest of the century.
He has his fingers crossed underneath that podium.
But what if Hitler had shown up drunk, pissed on the carpet, and left?
If The War Had Happened...
WWII would have been over before it began.
Hitler's generals whipped up their plan to invade Czechoslovakia, Fall Grun, but they may as well have called it Operation Many Dead Nazis. The German military was in no way prepared for what would have been war with France and England in 1938, especially while the bulk of their army would have been fighting their way through the Sudetenland. Their whole military was "under-trained, underprepared and unequipped" for any kind of a fight, which is why Hitler's chief of the general staff Ludwig Beck resigned in protest over the operation.
German Wehrmacht, circa 1938.
So, if the Munich Pact hadn't blundered its way into existence, Hitler would have invaded, England, France, Poland and Soviet Russia would have rallied against them, the Nazis would have exhausted their resources, and they would have been soundly defeated in months. Boom. Done. The conflict would likely have gone down as one more European war, getting a one-page summary in the history books. No blitzkrieg, no fall of France, no Holocaust and a new cast of characters in every WWII shooter ever made.
We're guessing they'd be Eskimos.
#3. War Plan Red, aka The U.S. Invasion of Canada
While Anglo-American relations may seem awesome now thanks to J. K. Rowling, Monty Python and Shaun of the Dead, the fact remains that the U.S. and UK spent a lot of time trying to kill each other before settling on their common interests. War Plan Red was America's playbook for a worst-case military scenario with the entire United Kingdom: Britain, India, Canada, anywhere that flew the Union Jack.
War Plan Red. The choice of "Emerald" for Ireland is evidence that war planners might be the least imaginative people on the planet.
By 1902, the U.S. had already fought two wars with England and nearly fought a third one in 1896. So when the UK established an alliance with our not-friends Japan, the U.S. government got a little jumpy. Things cooled off after WWI, but the U.S. Secretary of War and the Secretary of Navy nevertheless approved War Plan Red as late as 1930. Nobody thought we would ever use it until something kind of scary happened in 1937... there were rumors that King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom was pro-Nazi.
What Stopped It:
A little WTF moment in history called the abdication crisis. On December 11, 1936, Edward VIII shocked the planet when he resigned as King-Emperor of the British Empire to marry a twice-divorced desperate housewife named Wallis Simpson. Who was Wallis Simpson? A woman who Hitler himself thought "would have made a good Queen."
And she felt the Nazis were "rather dapper blokes."
While the king wasn't exactly in a position of great authority over his country to begin with, he was perfectly capable of leaking Allied secrets to his German buddies. Which, by the way, is something historians suspect he and Wallis did once the war started and the UK was firmly in the anti-Nazi camp. Edward was still a nightmare for the Brits, but fortunately he was no longer in power.
If The War Had Happened...
Say hi to the new United States of America.
Courtesy of John Candy and friends.
The War Department recognized that Canada was the British Empire's best route to strike deep into the American continent, so War Plan Red dictated that the U.S. would launch a full invasion against Canada via Vermont, North Dakota and the Midwest. The playbook even included such delectable pointers as how "the best practicable route to Vancouver is via Route 99."
"Soon, men, we will have enough Maple syrup to sate America's great hunger."
With the Great Lakes a war-zone and Canada's Pacific and Atlantic coasts blockaded by the U.S. Navy, War Plan Red would have ended in nothing short of Canada's utter surrender to the United States of America. Worst case scenario: the United States gets Quebec. Best case: the whole plate of pancakes plus whatever islands in the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean we considered a threat to America's newfound superpower status.


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its a bit late but someone had to do it
i would just like to thank nikola tesla for all his work for humanity he was a genius and in what i have heard about him even edison couldnt hold a candle to him
he invented ac electricty(widely used today despite EDISONS FALSE CLAIMS)
floresent bulbs
a more effective of way of maufactaring light bulbs(up yours edison)
the electric motor
romote control
tesla turbine
spark plugs
vtol aircraft
and many more patients and god knows how many great ideas in his head
but sadly he died penney less alone and mad in the new yorker hotel in manhatten
and the only reason why is best idea arnt in use today is because (im not conspiracy theorist) that the people who are in charge bankers oil companies extra are afraid if they cant control the electricty they will lose there power and be over througn by the masses
Electric Motor ? Mm No. He invented a type of AC electric motor, yes.
X-rays ??? Hardly. Roentgen was the first to discover them.
Robots - Karol Kapek is held to have introduced the idea of "mechanical men" in his play "RUR"
Tesla turbine ? Neat, but largely a novelty. The Parson turbine is more efficient, at the penaltyy of greater complexity.
Spark plugs ? A French guy invented the first electric ignition, Tesla held SOME patents, but the first successful large-scale electric ignition system was by a guy that worked for Bosch, and clearly couldn't have used Tesla's patents - Tesla would sue him.
Tesla was a brilliant engineer - for AC distribution and the induction motor alone he is one up-there in the Pantheon of greats, but he didn't invent the modern world as a lot of conspiracy nuts would have you believe.
electric motor yes and no first ac motor not first motor
xray tubes yes
robots first to relise there potential
tesla turbine he still invented it
spark plugs first to make a timing system to actully make the engine
and to top it all off wardenclyffe if jp morgon hadnt have been a dratsab all we would have to do to get electricty would stick a metal pole in ground and there we go free electricity for everyone forever
"Free electricity" eh ? So where did the energy come from ?
More Tesla fanboi woowoo.
J.P. Morgan
and others
were thieves
and thoroughly
and are to be reviled.
When they opened the switch a 200,000 volt spark occurred and burned out several of the shuttles computers.
The subsequent interview with the astronauts revealed a bug eyed crew that did not want to repeat the experiment.
Free Electricity.
Over Unity.
When they opened the switch a 200,000 volt spark occurred and burned out several of the shuttles computers.
The subsequent interview with the astronauts revealed a bug eyed crew that did not want to repeat the experiment.
Free Electricity.
Over Unity.
Over unity ? Cobblers.
-A doctor too?
The guy is over-hyped, you're contributing to (t)his celebrity-status here...
edison is a over hyped greedy self promoting capitlist who just wanted to make money
tesla wanted world peace by making the world resourse free for everyone to use and his death ray would have been so powerful that it would be to easy for counties to destory each other making war just a waste of resoures
Yup just like the invention of the Nuclear bomb has ended the need for war today and everyone in the world is living in peace..


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Do quantum states contain exponentially more information than classical states? It might seem so at first sight, but what about in light of this talk?
The answer depends on what you mean by the information contained in a quantum state.
If you think of the wavefunction itself as a real physical entity then the answer is yes.
The problem with the second view is that under some conditions it is possible to choose in advance which part of the information in the wavefunction we want (see this paper for example). For example, imagine storing a whole phone book in a single quantum state, for which the accessible information is only the size of a single phone number. After retrieving a phone number of our choice, the phone book is destroyed.
It is up to you to choose the view you prefer.
Joe's earlier answer is even-handed in a way which reflects the ambivalence of a number of computer scientists about the meaning of the mathematical operators involved in quantum information. So, as a computer scientist, I feel free to answer on a somewhat different basis.
What does it mean to store information in a quantum state?
Quantum states are not linear operators (neither vectors of numbers, nor trace-1 square matrices). We represent quantum states by such mathematical objects, but that isn't what quantum states are; and those notations are terribly inefficient space-wise in the sense that the state of an electron requires no more space than the electron itself. Though we have no better representations ourselves, we may as well recognize that the notation is not the state itself. If you want to ask how much information a quantum state contains, looking at the way we represent those states is the wrong answer; you have to consider what information can actually be extracted from the physical system.
The amount of information contained by a state is that which is available to be retrieved, and which you can reliably retrieve from it by physical procedures. The question you have to ask is: "What do you mean by reliably?" This is perhaps subject to interpretation, but if what you're interested in is extracting information in polynomial time (i.e. in an amount of time which scales like a polynomial in the size of your storage system) with at least some threshold probability of success (say p > 0.9, but any constant larger than 0.5 will be about the same), then the answer is NO: the amount of information you can reliably extract will not scale exponentially as the system size.
You might think that you can get around this by also asking "What do you mean by extract?" Perhaps by being very sneaky, you can find alternative ways of squeezing an exponential amount of information into a system in a way that you can use later. And the study of quantum communication complexity has some excellent examples! But none of them enable an exponential information to be reliably obtained from a state.
For example: quantum fingerprinting
For instance, suppose you want to store an m-bit string x, but all you really care about being able to do is to compare it against some other m-bit string y some time in the future, and see if x = y (possibly destroying the state by making the comparison). In that case, you can squeeze m ~ 2n bits into an n-qubit state, and successfully make the comparison with constant probability! (This is called quantum fingerprinting.) Is this not squeezing an exponential amount of information into a handful of qubits? The answer is no: because although this is a clever use of coding which allows you to compare an exponential number of possible entities, in the end
† Random access codes are sometimes, but now it seems quite rarely, referred to as a "dense code". However, superdense coding refers to something else: a communication protocol with two bits of communication between Alice and Bob (one qubit in each direction). This protocol is also interesting, but a different sort of thing to random access codes.
If you want to talk about the information stored in a quantum state, you have to talk about how you're going to get that information out of the state. In the end, Holevo puts a bound of one bit per qubit, of the amount of information you can extract with near certainty, out of a quantum state on a very large number of qubits; and any attempts to do better than this will come at a cost of diminishing success probability.
So in the end, no, you cannot squeeze an exponential amount of information into a quantum state.
Look, classical information and processing devices can be of two types: analog and digital.
Analog information has a disadvantage: every time analog information is copied it decreases in quality. Some of the information gets lost. Thus analog information is not suitable for any extensive information processing that involves repeated copying.
But digital information also has its own limitation: unlike an analog device, digital device can only manipulate with quantities of information that are no smaller than one bit. If you have a variable that carries less than a bit of information, you still have to use a whole bit to store it (you can manipulate with quantities of information that represent non-integer number of bits, say a trit which is about 1.6 bits but it is still greater than a bit with bit remaining the smallest unit).
The main feature of quantum information in this respect is that it allows to digitally (i.e., without loss) independently manipulate with quantities of information that are less than one bit.
Suppose you have a database with 1000 variables that take 1/1000 of a bit each. In a classical digital computer you would have to employ 1000 bit to store this database. In a quantum device, conversely, you would need only one bit register to store the same information.
The disadvantage with the quantum information devices is that while you can freely manipulate with quantities of information below one bit, if you want to copy the information from quantum device into a classical digital medium, only one variable gets copied from one bit register and other variables stored in that register get lost.
That means that if you want to avoid information loss in this process you have to lead the quantum information in your device to such a state, before the reading, in which one variable occupies one register (and as the number of quantum registers is usually less than the number of variables used in the process, this usually means that unnecessary variables will be lost).
The art of quantum programming is to invent a process in which the result of a quantum computation includes much less number of variables than is used in the process, so that the result to fit in a quantum register in such a way so that each variable to occupy one qubit, which allows to read the result by a classical device without loss.
Not necessary to say that simulating a quantum device on a classical digital computer also requires allocating at least one bit per variable which may require much excess memory.
So to answer your question directly, a quantum register of n qubits stores exactly the same amount of information as a classical register of n bits. But it can store more than n independently-controllable variables of less than one bit capacity each, which a classical register cannot do.
This is exactly the question to which I was seeking with a colleague of mine to give some sort of answer. We considered a game played by a team of two - say Alice and Bob - in which the value of a random variable $x$ is revealed to Alice only, who cannot freely communicate with Bob. Instead, she is given a quantum $n$-level system, respectively a classical $n$-state system, which she can put in possession of Bob in any state she wishes. We thought about evaluating how successfully they managed to store and recover the value of $x$ in the used system by requiring Bob to specify a value $z$ and giving a reward of value $f(x,z)$ to the team.
Now Holevo's bound in itself does not imply that the expected reward in the quantum case could not be larger than in the classical case. (One can easily give an example of 2 channel matrices such that the first one has a greater capacity, yet in a certain game - if it is played only a few times - it is better to use the second channel.)
Nevertheless, we've managed to show that whatever the probability distribution of $x$ and the reward function $f$ are, when using a quantum $n$-level system, the maximum expected reward obtainable with the best possible team strategy is equal to that obtainable with the use of a classical $n$-state system.
See the details in my article on the arXiv:
Experts agree that one qubit stores no more information than one bit.


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In making the announcement, Dan Roth, vice president for store operations, said, "The decision to close the store in Dodge City was a difficult one. We have valued the opportunity to be a part of this community, but unfortunately the store's performance does not meet our financial requirements. The economy has clearly had an impact on store sales, and we've made the very difficult decision to close."
Roth said employees of the Dodge City store will have the opportunity to be considered for positions at other ALCO stores.
Beginning today, the store will mark down prices on many items prior to its closing date, which is anticipated April 29.
Roth added, "This is never an easy decision to make, and we know it will have an impact on the Dodge City community. We wish to express our thanks to the many friends that we have served over the past several years and also thank the employees who have served our company faithfully during that time."
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Augusta's varsity and JV baseball teams will play at Winfield today to make up the games originally scheduled for Monday. Start time is 5 p.m. instead of the usual 4 p.m. time.
The games will be played at the Broadway Recreation Complex.
The softball team's games at Winfield that were postponed Monday will be played Thursday.
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