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It's only natural for the Velodyne team to celebrate National Robotics Week. Our founder and CEO, David Hall, has been involved in the design and development of robot technology for over a decade.
If you're a fan of Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors, you've probably seen his work. The Robot Wars television series was a competition involving radio-controlled vehicles built by mechanics, engineers and inventors. Mr. Hall built Drillzilla, a competitor robot on the first season of Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors. Drillzilla, named after the famous Japanese monster Godzilla, was a shufflebot. That's a special type of walkerbot using sections of feet in line with each other, rather than the legs used by traditional walkers. This gave Drillzilla extra speed and weight, as well as pushing power.
Watch Drillzilla wipe the smile right off Conquering Clown's face…
But robot technology isn't just for games. In fact, Mr. Hall's other robot, Da Claw, is a retired robot fighter spending his golden years as part of a permanent collection housed at The Smithsonian National Museum of American History. In 2011, Velodyne was honored to donate Da Claw, as well as two LiDAR sensors and other LiDAR technology. (Click to learn more about Velodyne LiDAR technology.)
"Technological advancement has always been a strong theme running through American history," said Brent D. Glass, director of the museum. "The donations…not only reflect the historical record of robotic development, but offer a glimpse of-and inspiration for-the future."
Glass is not the only one to value the development of robot technology. In 2009, Congress established the second week of April as National Robotics Week in recognition of this growing sector of the U.S. economy. The yearly event is designed to celebrate the U.S. as a leader in robotics technology development and to educate the public about how robotics technology impacts society, now and in the future. It's also designed to inspire students to pursue careers in robotics, technology, engineering, and math-related fields.
This weeklong celebration of robotics isn't taking place in just one location. There are events going on all over the country. The National Robotics Week Advisory Council invites people everywhere to use their creativity in organizing local activities. The council recommends hosting an open house to demonstrate robots, organizing a Robot Block Party, or holding a robot competition. Anyone participating can submit their event to the Advisory Council for inclusion on their website.
If you're fresh out of ideas this year, maybe you can find inspiration at the RoboGames in San Mateo, California at the end of this month. This event is referred to as the "Olympics of Robots". There are 50 different events with participants from around the world. These "participants" include combat robots, firefighters, LEGO bots, walking humanoids, sumo bots, and androids that do kung fu. Some robots are even autonomous. And anyone can compete.
If you're more of a pacifist, your inspiration may come from this year's second annual Robot Film Festival, which takes place in New York City July 14-15, 2012. This event is a two-day celebration of robots on film. The official awards ceremony of the Robot Film Festival is called the "Botskers" and takes place at the end of the second day. It is a black tie red carpet ceremony with films duking it out for a coveted botsker award. The award is a 3D printed robot statuette.
It's clear that robots are no longer just for techies and engineers. They've clearly moved into mainstream society.


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In Otzrot Hayyim, Sha'ar Tant"a (Ta'amim Nekudot Tagin Otiyot), in a description of Adam Kadmon, the first form taken by the line of light of the Infinite that enters the vacated space, it says that there are four aspects to the internal being of Adam Kadmon, refered to as 72/Av, 63/Sag, 45/Mah, and 52/Ban, or as Ta'amim, Nekudot, Tagin, Otiyot. It seems that each of the four is again divided into four sub-divisions to make 16 aspects. These are not fleshed out. But in the case of the one level (Sag/Nekudot) that is described in further detail, it is a sub-division into three that is described, with the three aspects referred to as ta'amim elyonim, emtsa'iyim, and tahtonim, i.e, the cantillation marks in a text of the Bible that have their place above the line, those that have their place in the middle of a line, and those that have their place below the line. Why the sub-division into three rather than four, when it seemed like the principle was that the structure would sub-divide into components that mirrored the whole? If there's no room for a fourth level in the representation based on the types of ta'amei ha-mikra then why is that representation used?
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Question on Terminology used in the Teaching of the Ari regarding Levels within the Highest Emanation
I do not have expertise in this area, but the following is my understanding of the topic as discussed in אוצרות חיים:
First of all, the n'kudos we use naturally fit into three categories based on their placement. Likewise for the ta'amim, the middle ones are identified as follows:
This seems to refer to the munach l'garmeih (as well as the shalsheles) and the sof pasuk (where the word carries a makaf), respectively. In both cases the words are followed by symbols that are neither above nor below the letters, unlike all other ta'amim.
After reading the section more carefully, it seems that the three divisions (upper, middle, and lower) of ע"ב and ס"ג are unrelated to what you call "the four sub-divisions" of each of the four expansions of HaShem's name. The three divisions of both ע"ב and ס"ג are mechanisms for filtering the Divine light, corresponding to figurative body parts of Adam Kadmon. The three divisions of ע"ב correspond to the ta'amim. At this level, the Divine light is so sublime that it is impossible to discuss it or even conceive of it.
Therefore, R' Chaim Vital begins with a discussion of the three elements of the filtering process of the Divine light at the level of ס"ג, corresponding to the three categories of ta'amim (even though overall it corresponds to the n'kudos) as well as the figurative ears, nose, and mouth of Adam Kadmon. R' Chaim Vital describes how the light is filtered through these elements and becomes progressively less intangible.
The comparison of the ס"ג expansion to the categorization of the ta'amim into upper, middle, and lower, is a means of characterizing the filtration of the light at that level. The fact that there are three categories seems to be incidental. By contrast, R' Chaim Vital mentions that each of the four expansions of HaShem's name contain elements of all four. The four aspects contained in each of the four expansions are ways of referring to different incarnations of the light at different levels, as opposed to the means by which the light is filtered.

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Although organizer Bill Rohrey said he could have done without the snow, the temperatures were perfect for local and regional disc golfers to play a round as a fundraiser for the Jefferson County Fourth Street Health Center and the Urban Mission Ministries.
"This is our sixth annual event," said Rohrey. "We started out with maybe 30 (participants) six years ago. Two years ago we had 44 players that played in 15 inches of snow."
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OPENING SHOT — Steubenville First Ward Councilman Gerald "Yonk" DiLoreto makes a hole in one to open the sixth annual Beatty Park Ice Bowl Saturday, sponsored by the Beatty Park Disc Golf Association. More than 60 souls braved the snow and cold temperatures to play 18 holes in a fundraiser for the Jefferson County Fourth Street Health Center and the Urban Mission Ministries. -- Mark Miller
Rohrey said the main objectives were to have fun and raise funds for the mission through donations of $10 to play the course and the collection of canned goods.
"So far we've given the Fourth Street Health Center $3,000 in cash and more than 2,800 pounds of food to the Urban Mission," Rohrey said. "That's what this is all about - raising funds for charities."
The disc golf course at Beatty Park includes 18 holes in a circular course around the park. Each "hole" is actually a wire basket, and "balls" are Frisbee-type discs thrown by players attempting to throw the disc into the basket. The rules are similar to golf, and the sport has caught on and gone national, with associations throughout the country.
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Hutchison also said he would be attending another disc gold event in Moundsville in February, and "that one is a beastly course to play."
Allen Goodfriend of Middlebourne, W.Va., designed a disc golf course in Middlebourne called the Timberdoodle Thicket, complete with clubhouse, showers and other facilities? He said he was there to support a fellow disc golf association and have some fun.
"This is my second year here," he said. "I was here last year. It's just a beautiful thing to help people out and play at the same time. I'm here for a good time, basically. (Disc golf) has gone nationwide."
The Rev. Ashley Steele, director of the Urban Mission, said she was delighted to see so many ready to participate and donate. Steele also said she was there to play as well as accept donations.
"Last year we gave away more than 1 million pounds of food," said Steele. "It's nice to have this event at the beginning of the year. This kicks off our fundraising. We are very grateful to those who sponsor this event every year."
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This question is inspired by this Tim Gowers blogpost.
I have some familiarity with the work of Jacob Lurie, which contains ideas which are simply astounding; but what I don't understand is which key insight allowed him to begin his programme and achieve things which nobody had been able to achieve before. People had looked at $\infty$-categories for years, and the idea of $(\infty,n)$-categories is not in itself new. What was the key new idea which started "Higher Topos Theory", the proof of the Baez-Dolan cobordism hypothesis, "Derived Algebraic Geometry", etc.?
This question is inspired by this Tim Gowers blogpost.
My answer would be that his insight was firstly that it pays to take what Grothendieck said in his various long manuscripts, extremely seriously and then to devote a very large amount of thought, time and effort. Many of the methods in HTT have been available from the 1980s and the importance of quasi-categories as a way to boost higher dimensional category theory was obvious to Boardman and Vogt even earlier. Lurie then put in an immense amount of work writing down in detail what the insights from that period looked like from a modern viewpoint.It worked as the progress since that time had provided tools ripe for making rapid progress on several linked problems. His work since HTT continues the momentum that he has built up.
As far as `abstracter than thou' goes, I believe that Grothendieck's ideas in Pursuing Stacks were not particularly abstract and Lurie's continuation of that trend is not either. Once you see that there are some good CONCRETE models for $\infty$-categories the geometry involved gets quite concrete as well. Simplicial sets are not particularly abstract things, although they can be a bit scary when you meet them first. Quasi-categories are then a simple-ish generalisation of categories, but where you can use both categorical insights and homotopy insights. That builds a good intuition about infinity categories... now bring in modern algebraic topology with spectra, etc becoming available.
I think, one of the key insights underlying derived algebraic geometry and Lurie's treatment of elliptic cohomology is taking some ideas of Grothendieck really serious. Two manifestations:
1) One of the points of the scheme theory initiated by Grothendieck is the following: if one takes intersection of two varieties just on the point-set level, one loses information. One has to add the possibility of nilpotents (somewhat higher information) to preserve the information of intersection multiplicities and get the "right" notion of a fiber product. Now one of the points of derived algebraic geometry (as explained very lucidly in the introduction to DAG V) is that for homological purposes this is not really the right fiber product - you need to take some kind of homotopy fiber product. This is, because one still loses information because one is taking quotients - one should add isomorphism instead and view it on a categorical level. Thus, you can take a meaningful intersection of a point with itself, for example. This is perhaps an instance where the homological revolution, which went to pure mathematics last century, benefits from a second wave, a homotopical revolution - if I am allowed to overstate this a bit.
2) Another insight of Grothendieck and his school was, how important it is to represent functors in algebraic geometry - regardless of what you want at the end. [as Mazur reports, Hendrik Lenstra was once sure that he did want to solve Diophantine equations and did not want to represent functors - and later he was amused that he represented functors to solve Diophantine equations.] And this is Lurie's approach to elliptic cohomology and tmf: Hopkins and Miller showed the existence of a certain sheaf of $E_\infty$-ring spectra on the moduli stack of elliptic curves. Lurie showed that this represents a derived moduli problem (of oriented derived elliptic curves).
Also his solution of the cobordism hypothesis has a certain flavor of Grothendieck: you have to put things in a quite general framework to see the essence. This philosophy also shines quite clearly through his DAG, I think.
Besides, I do not think, there is a single key insight in Higher Topos Theory besides the feeling that infinity-categories are important and that you can find analogues to most of classical category theory in quasi-categories. Then there are lots of little (but every single one amazing) insights, how this transformation from classical to infinity-category theory works.
One of the things that Jacob Lurie finds important is to "think invariantly": Do not use model dependent definitions. Do not prove model-dependent results.
Here's an example to illustrate what I mean:
My understanding (which isn't very deep and so someone should please correct me if I'm wrong) is that one key idea in the Hopkins-Lurie proof of the cobordism hypothesis was to generalize the cobordism hypothesis to allow more general types of cobordism categories. This stronger result the becomes easier to prove because they could do a double-induction argument that moves between the (stably n-)framed case (which is the usual cobordism hypothesis) and the oriented case. Furthermore, it means that the final results they get are stronger, because you get a classification not just of framed TFTs, but of TFTs with more general kinds of structures on the bordism categories.
I think one of the insights leading to his successes, which is of course not unique to him, is that when doing higher category theory it is useful to add invertible higher cells going all the way up to the top before you try to add noninvertible ones anywhere. This is along the same lines as Noah's answer: the cobordism hypothesis, which was originally stated in terms of n-categories, becomes easier once you generalize it to a stronger statement about (∞,n)-categories, since then induction becomes easier/possible.
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IDW and Hasbro's panel at CCI 2012 covered everything from "Transformers" to "G.I. Joe" with a very special announcement of an upcoming "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" series.
Activision provided a sneak peek of two great new modes in "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron," along with a robust customization system where you can build your own Transformer.
New toys took the stage during the Transformers Brand panel at CCI 2012 as Hasbro revealed upcoming releases, exclusives and video game details for the Robots in Disguise.
"Transformer: Fall of Cybertron" director Matt Tieger and several voice talents, including Peter Cullen, Nolan North and Gregg Berger spoke with fans about the upcoming game during Activision's CCI panel.
IDW Publishing has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at "Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye" #6. The Autobot/Decepticon struggle continues on June 27.
IDW has released images and solicitation information for new comics on sale in September 2012 including the latest from "Danger Girl/G.I. Joe," "Doctor Who," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and more.
Activision provided CBR News with the opportunity to test out its upcoming sequel, "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron," including a test drive with powerful dinobot Grimlock and the new E3 cinematic trailer.
IDW Publishing Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall spoke with CBR about the state of the publisher, long-running and new licenses, creator-owned comics and creator rights, and much more.
IDW has released images and solicitation information for new comics on sale in August 2012 including the latest from "Danger Girl/.I. Joe," "Locke & Key," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and more.
CBR spoke to "Transformers" ongoing series writers John Barber & James Roberts about their titles,"Robots in Disguise" & "More Than Meets the Eye," and building a complex world beyond giant fighting robots.
Fans of the raging Dinobot finally get a chance to see Grimlock in action in the latest gameplay trailer for Activision's "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron."
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Featuring an array of upgrades from the previous game, in "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron," players will take control of fan-favorite characters like Jazz and Grimlock over the course of a single long-form campaign.
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James Hunt gives IDW's latest "Transformers" title, "Robots in Disguise" #1, 4 stars, saying that between "RiD" and its sister title, "TF: More than Meets the Eye," "Transformers fans are spoiled for choice."
On FCBD, writer Simon Furman returns to the original "Transformers" comic universe at IDW, 20 years after the Marvel series' finale. CBR spoke with the fan-favorite writer about the book. Plus, exclusive art!
IDW Publishing has provided CBR with an exclusive teaser image hinting at the hopes and dreams of Bumblebee's Cybertron in the pages of "Transformers: Robots in Disguise" by John Barber and Andrew Griffith
Blizzard's Chris Metzen and "Transformers" G1 cartoon alum Flint Dille team with artist Livio Ramnodelli for IDW's 12-part digital series, "Transformers: Autocracy" and gave CBR all the info.
Grimlock, Shockwave, Optimus Prime and more robots in disguise take center stage in Activision's newly-released screenshots from the Fall 2012-releasing "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron."
IDW Publishing has released promo images for "Transformers: Autocracy," a born-digital series by Flint Dille, Chris Metzen & Livio Ramondelli, and "Transformers: More than Meets The Eye."
From web-slinging with Spider-Man and returning to the Darkness to all-out war on Cybertron and running wild in the streets of Gotham City, CBR presents our guide to 2012's slate of comic book video games.
Cthulhu rises in turn-of-the-20th-century America, and only the Robots in Disguise can stand against the Old Ones. CBR News spoke with writer Chuck Dixon about IDW's "Infestation 2: Transformers."
Optimus Prime, Grimlock and various other Autobots and Decepticons battle it out in the just-released teaser trailer for the upcoming "Transformers" video game sequel.
Director Michael Bay has commented on rumors that he will return for a fourth Transformers movie at Paramount Pictures. SPINOFF has the details
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"Last Stand of the Wreckers" scribe James Roberts and new IDW editor John Barber spoke with CBR about launching two new ongoing "Transformer" series in January, "More than Meets the Eye" and "Robots in Disguise."
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Activision confirms the latest video game featuring the "Transformers" license, continuing the ongoing struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons, will arrive in 2012.
During a press conference call Wednesday, IDW's John Barber and Hasbro's Michael Kelly discussed plans for "Transformers" post-"Chaos," including December's "The Death of Optimus Prime" and two new ongoing series.
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With a severe flu season underway people want to make sure they aren't the next one to catch the virus.
Sheldon's Pharmacy describes the high demand for the flu shot.
You may be surprised how many people are rolling up their sleeves, a day, to avoid the flu.
"In the past week I would say anywhere from 25 to 30 a day,"says Jarrod Ramsey, Pharmacist at Sheldon's Pharmacy.
The recent outbreak gave some a dose of reality.
"Noticing on facebook how people have said there is no flu shots, and the outbreak. I should have got it before now but I've procrastinated so I'm rushing in here the last minute to get one,"says Margie Burns, as she waits for her flu shot.
"It's just the reality of your age and your body does deteriorate over time,"says Margaret Tallant.
This would be Tallant's first flu shot.
"My husbands advice to me was with the flu being so widespread as it is and stronger, and my age factor, I took his advice and got the shot,"says Tallant.
Even the younger ones put on a brave face.
"Two of my friends have went home sick with the flu, from my school,"says 10 year old, Ethan Goad, as he waits for his flu shot.
"We've heard there's an outbreak and a couple of schools shutting down so were trying to prevent him from getting sick,"says one parent.
"We have seen more children as well. Actually we have seen more of both. A lot of pediatric offices have run out of the vaccine,"says Ramsey.
Sheldon's has Tamiflu and the flu shot in stock but the demand is high.
"If the numbers are consistent with the way we've been doing recently than we have enough for 2 more weeks,"says Ramsey.
Sheldon's has given out 30 flu shots today.
Ramsey says it's not too late in the season to get the flu shot, even if you get the flu the symptoms will not be as severe with the vaccine.


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NEW CUMBERLAND - When experiencing an emergency, you want to know there's a person available to lend a hand.
That's part of the message the staff of the Hancock County 911 Center have been conveying over the last few days as part of National Telecommunicators Week.
"No matter what time, no matter the situation, someone is going to be here," 911 Director Tracy Lemley said, noting people don't care who is answering the phone during an emergency, only that there is someone available to answer their call. "It's their voices that are important."
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The staff of the Hancock County 911 Center want to assure residents there will be someone available to answer their call in the event of an emergency. Today marks the conclusion of this year's National Telecommunicators Week. -- Contributed
According to Lemley, the Hancock County 911 Center has 12 full-time employees, and five part-time staffers, working 12-hour shifts and taking calls for fire and police departments and ambulance squads in the city of Weirton and Hancock County.
"We answer over 100,000 calls a year," Lemley said.
The center usually has three dispatchers working each shift, she said, noting some of the dispatchers also are volunteer firefighters, providing additional insight into the needs of those they are sending out on a call.
Lemley also noted each dispatcher is required to go through several layers of training and certification each year.
"It's a very specialized job," Lemley said.
National Telecommunicators Week is designated as a time for citizens to thank those who respond to emergency calls and dispatch emergency responders during times of crisis.


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I'm interested in the solution to the following problem:
I have initial capital $C$ which I can invest into $M$ classes of resources, each unit of a class $m_i$ matures at time $t_i$, has a return of $r_i$ and a cost $c_i$. After the asset matures it the proceeds can be re-invested. What is the optimal strategy to invest $C$ in terms of profit at time $t$ and for $t\rightarrow\infty$?
I am interested in both cases where $m_i$ is in the non-negative reals and the case when $m_i$ is a member of the non-negative integers.
What is the field that studies this type of continual optimization problem?


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The Charlotte 49ers men's tennis team (10-5) puts their five-match winning streak on the line when they play Atlantic 10 foe 25th-ranked VCU on the road, Friday, March 22.
Jordi Massalle Ferrer, who has won ten straight matches, leads the 49ers with 22 singles wins. Massalle Ferrer was named A-10 Rookie of the Week this week. Jack Williams has 16 singles win. Alex Calott, who was named A-10 Player of the Week this week, has won five straight matches giving him 16 singles wins this season. Paul Cisti has 15 singles wins.
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I am totally new to linux.
I have gzipped a war file like this
gzip mytest.war. I try to ungzip it like it
--ungzip mytest.war.gz, it said command can't be found. How can I ungzip it?
Moreover, how can gzip and ungzip a particular folder?
I am totally new to linux.
I have gzipped a war file like this
Moreover, how can gzip and ungzip a particular folder?
Mat covered the answer in its entirety, but here are some more verbose self-help explanations.
Generally speaking, the way to get help on Unix (and, of course, Linux) is the
In terms of compression tools, Unix separates the notion of an archiver and a compressor. Tools like ZIP came from the MS-DOS ecosystem where applications had to be all-inclusive (do everything, do it as well as you can) because it was difficult to combine the results of programs. On Unix, where it's very easy (nay, required) to pipe data from one command to another, the mentality is 'do one thing, do it well'. You archive files together in an archive file using tools like
To archive and compress a folder all at once, this is standard practice:
The man page for
The last two forms give you more flexibility in case you want to use something else to compress. (or to adjust the compression level of
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I am using Fedora 15, and want to upgrade to version 16. I followed the official link Upgrading Fedora using yum - FedoraProject to upgrade my OS by the following command:
yum update kernel* --releasever=16
yum groupupdate Base --releasever=16
After reboot, the OS does not start. It just prints the following message on screen:
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and nothing else.
I have installed a lot of software on my previous OS, and I don't want to format my system partition. How to bring Fedora back to life without reinstalling the OS? Reinstall the OS would mean that I have to install a lot of software and do much configuration. It's a waste of time.


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Does this only apply to the family software? I purchased a single user copy of OSX Snow Leopard so that I could upgrade to lion. Once I have upgraded my memory, I will download lion. could I then sell my copy of Snow Leopard? can someone else use it once it is off of my home Mac? what if I sell the disc now? can someone else use it?
I am not a lawyer, so take this all with appropriate caution.
The Snow Leopard License states
While you cannot "sell" the software (because you don't own it; Apple does, and licenses it to you), you can make a one-time transfer of your license to someone else (and could charge them for it), so effectively, yes, you sell your copy, as long as you don't keep Snow Leopard around after that.
So what happens if you upgrade to Lion?
The Lion license states
So the computer has to have Snow Leopard installed at the time you install Lion, but the Lion license never states you have to continue to own Snow Leopard. So perhaps if you install Lion and Snow Leopard is obliterated from your computer, you can sell Snow Leopard -- but wait, there's more.
Under Transfer, the license states:
So you can't sell 10.7 because you're now using 10.7.1. But 10.7.1 isn't a separately licensed, separately purchased piece of software. They don't explicitly say anything about a separately licensed version. So no road blocks yet... BUT
If you sell your computer, and it didn't ship with Lion, but rather you upgraded it via the Mac App Store, you are not allowed to transfer your copy of Lion to the new owner. You are told to re-install the operating system that shipped with your computer, which, in this case, should be Leopard or earlier. So you can't downgrade to Snow Leopard, because you've transferred your rights to that operating system to someone else.
All in all, if you want to be sure, seek legal advice from a competent lawyer, but from a layman's reading of this, it sounds legitimate to me to sell SL once you've upgraded to Lion.
Technically, there is nothing preventing you from using a single-user copy on more than one computer at the same time. The system is the same as if you had purchased a family pack. What you are actually paying for is the license. The single-user license states that it can be used on one computer at any given time, while the family license can be used on more than one computer. This means that, once you upgrade to Lion, you can install Snow Leopard on a different computer without breaking the license agreement. The license also allows you to transfer ownership to a different person, which means you can sell the disk and they can install it on their computer. However, if your hard drive fails and you don't have a backup or recovery drive, you will need to purchase either another copy of Snow Leopard or a Lion installer, since you won't be able to download it again.


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7 Horrible Ways The Universe Can Destroy Us Without Warning
The universe hates you. Let's get that out of the way right now. The universe loathes your guts and is infuriated by the way you dress, and the stupid way you talk sends it into a murderous rage. It's just one bad morning and an empty coffee canister away from driving to your house and shanking you in the neck. With a supernova. It may happen tomorrow, or it may take billions of years. The universe is patient. It can wait. But rest assured: Some day, when you least expect it, it will reap a terrible vengeance from you. And it will go a little something like this:
#7. Hypervelocity Stars
What we tend to call shooting stars are really just meteoroids burning in the Earth's atmosphere. But actual shooting stars do exist. Yes, there are very real stars -- as in "great balls of nuclear fire a million miles across" -- with a velocity so great that they can actually escape the gravitational pull of their galaxies and roam free throughout the universe. These freewheeling stars are the Hells Angels of the cosmos: They're big, scary and notoriously difficult to stop, and if they move into your neighborhood, your property values are going straight to hell. Yep, there are sun-size balls of nuclear energy zooming wherever they want at speeds of up to 4,000 kilometers per second, burning everything they come across and fucking up every orbit they pass by. We just thought you should know that, in case you were running low on nebulous dread or something.
The stars want you dead. Just FYI.
How They Will Get Us:
But it's probably OK: We've only found like 16 of these things zipping about. When you take into account the fact that our solar system is but a speck of fecal matter in the giant toilet that is the universe, the chances of one of those ever managing to impact us are roughly the same as the chances of you ever managing to gather up enough courage to talk to that cute girl next door from atop your solid-gold BattleMech.
If you ever meet a woman who's impressed with your bat'leth skills, it's probably time to start worrying.
But the thing with the universe is that it's kind of a largish place. However sophisticated our current equipment may seem, it's still the equivalent of shining a cereal-box flashlight into the ocean to try to spot the bottom. So whenever new technology enters the game, new data enters the equation, and we have to revise our appropriate terror levels for it. For instance, the new Pan-STARRS telescope system has, within the past five months alone, found no less than 19 completely unknown asteroids that pose a potential danger to Earth. And these have been buzzing around a mere 7.5 million kilometers away. Universally speaking, that's not on our doorstep -- that's right in our goddamn living room, ransacking our drinks cabinet and making offhand remarks about our place looking really flammable and how "It would be a shame if anything bad happened to it."
"How about Earth? They're loaded. Send over a couple of asteroids to rough up the joint."
And we're not exaggerating that "hypervelocity" part, either -- an average HV star moves at a staggering 1.6 million kilometers an hour. So while there might not be any hypervelocity stars with trajectories directly threatening Earth that we know of, one could come hauling ass up into our business in a cosmic heartbeat. Plus, the aforementioned 16 are just those that humanity has found and is able to monitor. You know how many are estimated to be bouncing playfully around our galaxy alone? At least a thousand.
The whole universe is basically a grab bag filled with medical waste.
There's still precious little chance of hypervelocity stars ever being an immediate threat, though: "Cosmic heartbeat" is still kind of a long-ass time for humanity. If we geared up a new telescope tomorrow only to find one coming in from a previous blind spot as close as, say, one light-year away, we'd still have a few centuries before it would fry us, cause a cataclysmic collision within the solar system, and inflict some pretty intense gravitational disruptions. You're not going to be alive in a few centuries, though; that's the future's problem. And really, fuck those guys. All flying around in their precious jetpacks like they're better than you. They deserve what they get.
#6. Rogue Black Holes
It's not just stars that take apocalyptic joyrides randomly throughout the universe. Science has found out that black holes can move about at terrible velocities, too!
Via NASA
Oh yeah, great. We don't have enough shit to deal with.
Wait, what? Black holes? The great big space-whirlpool crushy things? The ones that you can't escape from, and you can't even see?
Yeppers! Those are the ones. If you thought that black holes were abstractly frightening but that you were safe as long as you didn't go gallivanting about space like some kind of space-asshole, think again. They can -- and do -- move, which of course means they're coming directly for you.
The stars are right ... on our ass!
How They Will Get Us:
When it comes to sneaking up on us unnoticed, hypervelocity stars up there have the minor drawback of, well, being giant balls of nuclear fire. They're pretty noticeable. Rogue black holes, however, get a +4 stealth bonus for being notoriously difficult to spot in the vast darkness of space. There could be one coming at us right now -- screaming your name followed immediately by "I COME FOR YOUUUU!" -- and we might never notice it. Well, until it rips the Earth apart, sucks us down and purees us before finally, mercifully adding us to the mass of its singularity. We'd probably notice that part.
Fortified bunkers can't save you from space.
And of course there are hundreds of rogue black holes roaming our galaxy alone. We don't know why you even bothered asking.
#5. Galactic Cannibalism
Ever put two hamsters in a cage together and then, come next morning, wake up to find only one fat, innocent-looking hamster? This is the same thing. Only the hamsters are galaxies.
No, they're not ... they're not shaped like hamsters. It's an analogy. Jesus.
Hey. HEY. Look back at the stars. Goddammit.
This phenomenon is called galactic cannibalism, and that's one of those rare scientific names that is as plainly accurate as it is bowel-seizingly terrifying. Basically, smaller galaxies succumb to the gravity of a bigger one and are slowly absorbed into it, thus adding to its mass and making it even larger, so it can eat more galaxies. It's a dog-eat-dog universe out there. Hell, even our own Milky Way is known to indulge in this behavior every once in a while.
Our galaxy, plotting douchebaggery.
How It Will Get Us:
Via NASA
It's not a matter of how; it's a matter of when. See, one of the bigger galaxies that's heavily into eating its kin is Andromeda. You know, our closest neighbor Andromeda -- the "way the hell bigger than our galaxy" Andromeda. See that picture up there? It's not just there to fill space. No, that's a computer simulation of what Andromeda is going to do to us someday. We, as a galaxy, are going to be eaten.
Via W Schoening/V Harvey/REU/NOAO/AURA/NSF
This will cause the two galaxies to slowly compress into a single mess of stars within the next 3 billion years or so, throwing us to the very outskirts of the new Galactic Scramble, or maybe even transforming our very own sun into one of those hypervelocity stars.
And somehow, those are the "nicer" options. Otherwise, our whole solar system could just be devoured by exploding galactic gas or crushed by a colliding Andromedan equivalent.
Via NASA
We spend all that money fixing the Hubble telescope and it repays us with promises of doom.
#4. Vacuum Metastability Event
Quantum physics, the study of "dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interaction of matter and energy," is science-talk for "a bunch of far-out shit, man." The field has sprouted some of the more mind-blowing theories of life, the universe and everything. One of the more disconcerting ones is the suggestion that we (as in "we, everyone and everything in the universe") may exist in a false vacuum state. A lot of abstract terms such as "bubbles" and "vacuum levels" are involved, but in layman's terms, this means the universe was built from dodgy parts and ended up with an energy level too low for more than temporary sustenance. Therefore, at any given moment, it could call it quits and succumb to the pressure, only to be replaced by higher energy levels.
Via Wiki Commons
The End of All Things, in convenient chart form.
How It Will Get Us:
It's called a vacuum metastability event, which is what happens when the energy levels of our particular universe's vacuum go sour. Should this happen, the ensuing collapse would level Earth with a light-speed blast before any of us even had time to blink. It's probably a good thing that we don't survive long, because after that, things get really bad. All the laws of physics will go psychedelic on your poor, obliterated ass, until they eventually mutate into a completely new, improved set. There will still be a universe, just not the universe. In time, there may even be life -- just not the sort we'd be able to comprehend, even if our brains hadn't been smashed into inverted color parties riding the crest of an infinite mathwave.
It's kind of like surfing, only your entire body is slowly dissolving into ether, and everything tastes mauve.
In other words, quantum physics is basically telling us that Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones could come knocking at any minute now. That's right: Lovecraft was a scientist all along, just coldly documenting the facts as he saw them.
Via Howard Phillips Lovecraft
He's clearly terrified of whatever is immediately behind the photographer.


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Is there a way to create an index in Google Docs like you would in a wiki?
I have huge documents with many sections. I currently use block quotes to separate those sections and keep things in perspective.
However, it would be nice to have some tag that I can give to titles and then those tags appear as an index at the top. That way I can easily browse though different things.
Any thoughts, plugins or CSS to do this?


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I would like to ask if there exist pedagogical expositions of the Mordell-Weil theorem (wikipedia). What parts of number theory (algebraic geometry) one should better learn first before starting to read a proof of Mordell-Weil?
J. Silverman and J. Tate "The rational points on elliptic curves" is a wonderful introduction to elliptic curves over rational numbers. It covers topics such as Mordell-Weil, Nagell-Lutz Theorem, elliptic curves over finite fields, etc.
For more advanced treatment of Mordell-Weil, I suggest the following textbook:
J. Silverman "The arithmetic of elliptic curves" (Chapter 8 is about Mordell-Weil).
For the case of elliptic curves, there is Mordell's proof, discussed in his book Diophantine Equations (pp. 138-148). I could hardly imagine less prerequisites than this.
There is a very elementary and self-contained (modulo a few things proved earlier in the book) proof in Chapter 19 of the book of Ireland and Rosen, "A classical introduction to modern number theory". One might object that it can be misleading to use explicit but obscure polynomial identities instead of more intrinsic facts from algebraic geometry, but the text has lots of good remarks and references to go beyond this elementary approach.
Manin's proof of Mordell-Weil theorem (for abelian varieties over number fields) has appeared as an appendix to Russian translation of First edition of Mumford's ``Abelian varieties". Eventually it was translated into English and published as an appendix to Second and Third editions of Mumford's book.
There must be a proof in Cassels' Lectures on elliptic curves (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991).
Se also his masterly survey Diophantine equations with special reference to elliptic curves (J. London Math. Soc. 41 (1966) 193–291) and the historical essay Mordell's finite basis theorem revisited (Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 100 (1986), no. 1, 31–41).
Here is a quote from this last paper :
Weil's generalization of Mordell's theorem (and subsequent generalizations) was usually referred to as the Mordell-Weil Theorem. Mordell himself strongly disapproved of this usage and frequently insisted (in public and in private) that what he had proved should be called Mordell's Theorem and that everything else could, for his part, be called simply Weil's Theorem.
Addendum. Another excellent source is Knapp's Elliptic curves (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992) which contains a proof of Mordell's theorem (over $\mathbf Q$).
There is a very affordable book by Milne (Elliptic curves, BookSurge Publishers, Charleston, 2006) and a very motivating one by Koblitz (Introduction to elliptic curves and modular forms, Springer, New York, 1993). Tate's Haverford Lectures also served as the basis for Husemoller (Elliptic curves, Springer, New York, 2004).
Actually, the wikipedia article you cite cites Joe Silverman's book, which contains such a "pedagogical" exposition. The book is not entirely self-contained, but I am sure the preface explains the prerequisites.
I think one should also mention
Jean Pierre Serre
Lectures on the Mordell-Weil Theorem
Aspects of Mathematics
Already mentioned: Silverman and Tate's "Rational Points on Elliptic Curves" (undergraduate level) and Silverman's "The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" (graduate level).
Another text at the undergraduate level that covers Mordell's theorem (i.e., the Mordell-Weil theorem for elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$) is Washington's "Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography" (see Chapter 8).
If you are looking for a proof of the Mordell-Weil theorem in its utmost generality (i.e., for abelian varieties over number fields), I would suggest Hindry and Silverman's "Diophantine Geometry: An Introduction" (see Part C).


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RSC to stage Hilary Mantel adaptations
Posted at: 01/23/2013 7:07 AM
(AP) LONDON - "Doctor Who" star David Tennant is returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company this year to play a troubled king in "Richard II."
Tennant, who played the time-traveling hero in four seasons of the beloved, long-running BBC sci-fi series, starred in an acclaimed RSC production of "Hamlet" in 2008.
Artistic director Gregory Doran _ who will direct "Richard II" _ announced details Wednesday of the company's productions for late 2013. They include adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning historical novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," which focus on King Henry VIII's enigmatic powerbroker, Thomas Cromwell.
"Richard II" opens in October at the company's base in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, before a London run. The Mantel plays open in Stratford in December.
The season also includes "Wendy and Peter Pan," a new adaptation of J.M. Barrie's children's classic by playwright Ella Hickson.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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I have been looking all over the internet and i found some good guides for programing in android but i still dont fully understand what exactly is going on with this thing
i thought this would be like programing a java program but its very different.. there are lots of xml files and there is this thing called "activity" and an "intent" of which i dont understand how they work.. same with the way of displaying things..there is this xml file that designs the way the app looks but when you i used this code:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// Get the message from the intent
Intent intent = getIntent();
String message = intent.getStringExtra(FirsttimeActivity.EXTRA_MESSAGE);
// Create the text view
TextView textView = new TextView(this);
the text box that was there before disappeared and a normal text appeared instead.. what just happand here? how do i replace the text with something else after that? how do i go back to the normal view?
so my qoustions are as follows:
what does an "activity" mean? whats the parallel in a normal java project? whats an intent and how does it work? how do i control the display? how come it changed when i entered that code?


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Emporia State Sweeps Missouri Southern In Basketball Action
Posted: 11:27 PM Jan 23, 2013
Reporter: ESU, posted by Kinch O'Kelley
Emporia State 68, Missouri Southern 52
January 23, 2013-Laura Patrick had a game high 22 points on six of eight shooting as the Lady Hornets defeated Missouri Southern 68-52 in White Auditorium on Wednesday night.
Missouri Southern jumped out to a 6-0 lead and led 16-15 with 6:37 left in the half. Emporia State end the half on a 13-3 run to take a 28-19 lead into the locker rooms.
The lead remained between five and 12 points for much of the second half until the Lady Hornets went on a 13-1 run to go up 64-47 with 3:05 left in the game.
Patrick was joined in double figures by Merissa Quick with 15 points and Rachel Hanf with 13 points.
The Lady Hornets are back in action on Sunday when they play host to Central Oklahoma. Tip-off is set for 1:30 p.m. in White Auditorium.
Rachel Hanf hit three three-pointers to move into sole possession of fourth on the Lady Hornet career list with 169 made threes.
Emporia State 76, Missouri Southern 62
January 23, 2013-Emporia State shot .526 from behind the three point line in a 76-62 win over Missouri Southern on Wednesday night in White Auditorium. The win improved the Hornets to 8-7 overall and 3-4 in the MIAA.
The score was tied at 2-2 before the Hornets went on a 6-0 run to take the lead for good. A Kaleb Wright three-pointer gave Emporia State a 31-22 lead with 6:51 left in the half. Mo. Southern ended the half on a 12-5 run to pull within 36-34 at the intermission.
The Hornets opened the second half with a 10-0 run to take a 46-34 lead with 16:11 left in the game. The lead would not drop below nine points the rest of the way. Emporia State took their biggest lead of the night at 75-55 with 1:58 left in the game.
Wright led Emporia State with 19 points while Paul Bunch added 18 points and nine rebounds and Chris Sights joined them in double figures with 12 points. Taylor Euler had nine points and a career high seven assists.
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I have a Windows 7 machine on which I need to do testing on Internet Explorer 7 for a website I am working on.
I cannot use VirtualPC or any virtualized Windows XP. What are my alternatives?
I have a Windows 7 machine on which I need to do testing on Internet Explorer 7 for a website I am working on.
I cannot use VirtualPC or any virtualized Windows XP. What are my alternatives?
DebugBar IE Tester lets you run multiple IE renderers for testing. It comes with IE 8, 7, 6 & 5.5, and works with Windows 7.
Another option is Multiple IE, but this doesn't work with Vista or Windows 7.
If you can't virtualize you're out of luck.
You can go to the tools menu - select Compatibility View Settings and add the site you're testing, that should knock IE8 back to IE7 mode.
I don't think there are any. I tried to do this using a packaged install of IE7 (it comes with a couple of browsers) and runs well on XP. This actually corrupted my Windows 7 installation and I had to restore the system to it's previous image using System Restore.
It seems that the core file iexplore.exe was replaced when I tried this and it just crashed all my folder shortcuts once I had installed IE7. Not recommended.
I'll be happy to hear if there's still another solution out there to achieve this. Regards!
I'd just upvote pelms, but I don't think Multiple IE will work in 7.
Aside from virtualization, I think IE Tester is your only option. There are some websites that say they will do some screenshots, but I've never used them. Have you looked over at stackoverflow.com? I suspect this question would be better answered over there.
IE8 compatibility view
There is no supported method (that I can find) for natively IE7 on Windows 7
Here's what the "Get Internet Explorer 7" page looks like:
And the System Requirements says:
I think this is worth mentioning because some companies have a policy of wanting to support a browser+platform parings.
Practially speaking, developers and technical staff will need to shoehorn this combination for testing. IE7 is part of Vista, so people will need to use IE7 if for no other reason than to support the legacy Vista customer base they might have.
IE10 has "Browser mode" that you can select to simulate IE7, IE8 and IE9 in Developer tools. Hit F12 for the shortcut. It is next to the Validate tab.


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8 Sep 2011 3:59 PM #1
New Editor Tree Grid Extension based on Ext.ux.tree.TreeGrid
I know this is a bit late since not many people still use ExtJS 3.4, but I thought that someone out there might be able to benefit from this. The company I work for finally decided to upgrade to ExtJS3.4 from ExtJS2.2.1. In the earlier version we used the MaximGB tree grid extension for our order system, however, the version that was compatible with 3.4 had problems. It was slow, complicated, and had a bug in the GridView that caused the formatting to screw up every time and edit was made. This meant that the GridView had to be redrawn after each edit, really slowing down grid. I needed a tree grid and the only thing out there other than MaximGB was also an extension of the GridPanel, did not work with 3.4, and was no longer going to be receiving updates. So, creating this extension was my only option.
Now the cool thing about this extension is that it extends the Ext.ux.tree.TreeGrid class, so I didn't have to write the tree handling functions, which seemed more complicated than the grid editing function I needed.
Like I said, this extends the tree grid ux that comes with Ext, but it also has a couple of overrides to add record like get and set functions to the Ext.tree.TreeNode class and adds some methods to the TreeGrid class that were oddly missing, such as functions that get information from the columns, like getDataIndex.
Added Properties/Config Options:
- cellSelector, used to find cells internally (defaults to 'td.x-treegrid-col')
- cellSelectorDepth, the number of levels to search for cells in event delegation (defaults to 4)
- rowSelector, used to find rows internally (defaults to 'div.x-grid3-row')
- rowSelectorDepth, the number of levels to search for rows in event delegation (defaults to 10)
- autoEncode, true to automatically HTML encode and decode values pre and post edit (defaults to false)
- forceValidation, true to force validation even if the value is unmodified (defaults to false)
- loadMask, an Ext.LoadMask config or true to mask the grid while loading. Defaults to false
- expandOnDdlClick, when set to false, disabled the tree's double click event to stop the branch from expanding on double click. an event listener attached to the config object will still fire, however. defaults to false.
- completeOnEnter: True to complete edit when the enter key is pressed, defaults to true
- cancelOnEsc: True to cancel the edit when the escape key is pressed, defaults to true
- ignoreNoChange: True to skip the edit completion process (no save, no events fired) if the user completes an edit and the value has not changed (defaults to false). Applies only to string values - edits for other data types will never be ignored.
- startEditing, starts editing the specified for the specified row/column
- getColumnModel, returns the tree's column config object
- getCellEditor, returns the editor defined for the cell/column
- setEditable, sets if a column is editable
- stopEditing, stops any active editing
- isCellEditable, returns true if the cell is editable
- getDataIndex, returns the dataIndex for the specified column
- getIndexById, returns the index for a specified column id
- getColumnId, returns the id of the column at the specified index
- getColumnAt, returns the column at the specified index
- findRow, return the HtmlElement representing the tree node which contains the passed element
- findRowIndex, return the index of the tree node which contains the passed HTMLElement
- findRowId, return the index of the tree node which contains the passed HTMLElement
- toString, returns an XML or JSON serialized string of the tree panel or false if Ext.tree.TreeSerializer does not exist (see explanation below), returns json by default
- getSerializer, returns the internal serializer or false if Ext.tree.TreeSerializer does not exist (see explanation below), returns json serializer by default
- cellclick, fires when a cell is clicked
- celldblclick, fires when a cell is double clicked
- beforeedit, fires before cell editing is triggered
- afteredit, fires after a cell is edited
- validateedit, fires after a cell is edited, but before the value is set in the node
- beforedatadrop, firex before non-node data is dropped on a tree node
- datadrop, fires after non-node data is droped onto a tree node
- set, sets values for fields in a node on the tree grid
- get, gets values for fields in a node on the tree grid
- setLeaf, replaces a tree branch with a leaf containing the same attributes, destroying all child nodes, pass in false to turn a leaf into a branch (usefully when creating a branch out of a leaf to add childNodes to it), returns newly created node
- toggleLeaf, toggles leaf/branch state, when changing into a leaf destroys all child nodes, returns newly created node
Extended the Ext.tree.TreeDropZone to add a new event called "datadrop" that is fired when any non-node data is dropped onto a tree node. Normally the tree's native drag and drop events do not fire when any data that does not contain a tree node is dropped, which means you have to specify a dropConfig overwriting the notifyDrop function or similar functions, potentially loosing the tree's native drag and drop functionality. This new event will only fire when the data being dropped is not a tree node.
Ext.ux.tree.EditorGrid creates it's own internal tree serializer and defines the function 'toString()' and 'getSerializer()' if Ext.tree.TreeSerializer exists. Simply pass 'xml' or 'json' into the toString() function to get your desired output or getSerializer() to get a reference to the internal serializer. if Ext.tree.TreeSerializer does not exists, these functions will return false.
PHP Code:
var serialized = editorTreeGrid.toString('json');
if (serialized) console.log(Ext.decode(serialized));
else console.log('serializer does not exist');
PHP Code:
datadrop: function(e) {
console.info('datadrop listener');
console.info('e: ',e);
PHP Code:
listeners: {
'click':function(node,e) {
e.node.set('itemnum','demo value');
PHP Code:
listeners: {
'cellclick':function(node,e) {
console.log('cellclick listener');
console.log('node: ',node);
console.log('tree: ',e.tree);
console.log('field: ',e.field);
console.log('value: ',e.value);
console.log('row: ',e.row);
console.log('column: ',e.column);
PHP Code:
var treeGrid = new Ext.ux.tree.EditorGrid({
border: false,
bodyBorder: false,
animate: true,
enableDD: true,
enableSort: false,
loadMask: {msg: 'Loading Demo Tree Grid Data...' },
columns: [{
header:'Item Name/Number',
editor: new Ext.form.TextField({ selectOnFocus: true })
editor: new Ext.form.TextField({ selectOnFocus: true })
editor: new Ext.form.NumberField({
allowBlank: false,
allowNegative: false,
selectOnFocus: true,
style: 'text-align:left'
renderer: 'usMoney',
editor: new Ext.form.NumberField({
//allowBlank: false,
allowNegative: false,
selectOnFocus: true,
style: 'text-align:left'
loader: new Ext.tree.TreeLoader({
url: datafile.json,
preloadChildren: true,
listeners: {
loadexception: function(loader, node, response) {
var msg = 'unable to fetch data. response.status:' + response.status + (e ? (', error: ' + e.message) : '');
Ext.Msg.alert('Demo', msg, 10);
load: function(loader, node, response) {
Ext.Msg.alert('Demo', 'Loading complete...',3);
listeners: {
'beforeedit': function(e) { if (e.node.isLeaf() && e.field == 'itemnum') return false; },
'validateedit': function(e) {
var myTargetCol = 1;
if (e.column == myTargetCol && (e.value != 'option1' && e.value != 'option2')) {
e.cancel = true;
var colName = e.tree.getColumnAt(e.column);
alert(colName.header+' has been set with an invalid value, please enter \'option1\' or \'option2\'');
Last edited by darkwolfe; 8 Nov 2011 at 1:37 PM. Reason: Fixed a bug with editing and scrolling
11 Sep 2011 6:33 PM #2
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I am still using Ext 3.4 since I am developing for AIR. I use the Ext.ux.tree.TreeGrid (with modified Template so AIR will work). At present I have no need for the editor functionality you have added (but I imagine I soon will!). Thanks for your work.
My question is, do you know if it is possible to do multi select the grid rows? eg Shift+Click, CTRL+Click etc? I cant find a way to do this.
12 Sep 2011 11:48 AM #3
PHP Code:
selMode: new Ext.tree.MultiSelectionModel(),
12 Sep 2011 2:48 PM #4
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Yes, you are correct. Adding selModel to the config adds the multi selection mode. The fact that I specified selMode instead of selModel wasnt helping! Thanks!
25 Sep 2011 8:31 PM #5
This is really great. I wonder if this works on extjs 4?
26 Sep 2011 11:00 AM #6
I don't know if it works in Ext4 yet. I plan on finding out as soon as i finish up this part of the project that i'm using it for. If it doesn't i'll be converting to work in it since they still didn't put editor functionality into it.
26 Sep 2011 11:37 AM #7
Would you upload the json file to see something ?... Coz I am not able to get it working... I am on v3.4 !. Thankx from Cordoba !.
27 Sep 2011 8:17 AM #8
5 Oct 2011 4:37 PM #9
Very nice component, thank you very much.
I have some remarks :
1) When I double click on a cell to edit the content and that cell is part of line that is not a leaf, it toogles automaticaly.
Is there a way yo prevent this to toggle ?
2) When I add a boolean column, and I try to edit the cell, the checkbox is not centering vertically, how do I correct that ?
3) I noticed that if some columns are not displayed because of the width of the container, and if I scroll to the right, then the header of these columns are not well displayed.
4) How could I add the checkcolumn model to this component ?
By advance, thanks for your help
6 Oct 2011 8:14 AM #10
PHP Code:
listeners: {
beforedblclick: function(node,e) { return false; }


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The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing
In 2001, Krista Van Laan and Catherine Julian wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing. Last year, the rights reverted to the authors, and Krista Van Laan has written a completely updated, revised, and expanded sequel, The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing.
In the 11 years since the previous book, the technical writing field has undergone a revolution in techniques and tools. Van Laan's new book is up-to-the-minute, with new material covering social media, XML, eBooks, and writing for the web, along with the always important topics of planning, writing, using style guides, working with subject matter experts, getting started as a writer, and managing a technical writing career.
Whether you're thinking of becoming a technical writer, just starting out, or you've been working for a while and feel the need to take your skills to the next level, The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing can help you be a successful technical writer and build a satisfying career.
Inside the Book
- Is This Job for Me? What does it take to be a technical writer?
- Building the Foundation: What skills and tools do you need to get started?
- The Best Laid Plans: How do you create a schedule that won't make you go crazy? How do you manage different development processes, including Agile methodologies?
- On the Job: What does it take to walk into a job and be productive right away?
- The Tech Writer's Toolkit: How do you create style guides, indexes, templates and layouts? How do you manage localization and translation and all the other non-writing parts of the job?
- I Love My Job: How do you handle the ups and downs of being a technical writer?
- Appendixes: References to websites, books, and other resources to keep you learning.
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Krista Van Laan has worked in, managed, and built from the ground up multi-level Technical Publications and User Experience departments in telecommunications, consumer software and hardware, enterprise software and services, and Internet companies, both in the United States and internationally. She is co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing. Krista is currently the Director of User Experience at a Silicon Valley enterprise.
- Author: Krista VanLaan
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Call of Duty: Ghosts online services at 'Defcon 4' – can you connect?Written by: / / 1 Comment
It's the beginning of a new year and, as expected, videogame news is a touch low on the ground. Don't you judge me.
In the midst of reports of hacking groups claiming responsibility for taking down online services including PlayStation Network, Steam, Origin, Battle.net and even League of Legends, it appears as though Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Ghosts may be experiencing some technical troubles of its own.
At the moment, and according to the game's online status tracker, Ghosts is currently sitting at 'Defcon 4,' one step down from Defcon 5 which denotes that "All online services are fully operational." Level 4 of the tracker, however, means the following:
"All online services are fully operational, but brief interruptions may occur due to service maintenance or issues at external service providers."
Multiplayer focussed games such as Call of Duty undergo regular maintenance and receive patches from time to time, so it may just be a case of Infinity Ward doing a bit of housekeeping today – we've sent out a request for more information.
Friend of El33tonline, АИТО№V, let us know something was up, tweeting:
So Defcon 4 means what? Struggling to connect since past 15 mins Call of Duty®: Ghosts || Game Status: http://t.co/nwvzMAxE5q
— АИТО№V (@Antonov_26) January 3, 2014
Are you able to connect to Call of Duty: Ghosts online on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 or Xbox One without hassles? Or is the service currently unavailable to you?
Tags: activision, callofdutyghosts, infinityward


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Lions Reflect Welsh Success
When British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland named the 37-man squad for the summer tour to Australia Tuesday morning, the full impact of the Six Nations rugby finale in Cardiff in March was finally clear. Gatland named Wales flanker Sam Warburton as his captain while leaving out Chris Robshaw, who captained England throughout the tournament, including that 30-3 collapse against Wales on the final day.
Robshaw, like Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll, had been considered among the early favorites for the captaincy before the Six Nations. O'Driscoll, however, was selected for the Lions tour, despite Ireland's dismal, one-victory campaign.
"The benchmark for a lot of the squad was the Six Nations and then looking at some club form and assessing whether there was the same physical intensity to draw comparison and then finally make the selection of those players," Gatland told reporters after the announcement Tuesday.
As expected, Gatland ignored almost all of the eligible players currently plying their trade in France, because of their longer schedule, including 33-year-old Jonny Wilkinson. The England World Cup-winner has been in fine form for his club side, Toulon, and last weekend kicked it into the Heineken Cup final, but instead it was the younger Englishman Owen Farrell, 21, who was selected. It means that a decade after his dramatic World Cup-winning drop goal in Sydney, Wilkinson won't have the opportunity to terrorize Australia on its own patch again.
Gatland later told English radio station TalkSport that it was actually Wilkinson's decision not to join the Lions squad, because of the timing of the French season and his borderline fitness. Gatland added that Wilkinson would be considered as a stand-by.
Warburton, 24, emerged as the first choice for the captaincy during Wales's excellent closing run in the tournament, even though he was injured after the opening game and didn't captain the side England. Gethin Jenkins took on the role that day as Wales denied England the Grand Slam and retained the trophy it had won in 2012.
Still, Gatland's decision is consistent with his long admiration for Warburton. He appointed him Wales captain before the 2011 World Cup when Warburton was just 22. He then stuck with him during the 2012 Grand Slam. That said, Wales has lost its last seven games with Warburton as captain, according to Opta Sports, including four against Australia.
"The last two or three years he's been most successful captain in the northern hemisphere," Gatland told reporters. "I have huge respect for him, he leads from the front."
Gatland's squad for the tour includes 15 Welshmen, 10 Englishmen, nine Irishmen and three Scotsmen.
The fullbacks are Leigh Halfpenny, Stuart Hogg, Rob Kearney, Tommy Bowe, Alex Cuthbert, Sean Maitland and George North.
The centers are O'Driscoll, Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, and Manusamoa Tuilagi.
At outside half, Gatland will have Owen Farrell and Jonathan Sexton, while his scrum half options will be Conor Murray, Mike Phillips, and Ben Youngs.
The props are Dan Cole, Cian Healy, Gethin Jenkins, Adam Jones, Matt Stevens, and Mako Vunipola.
At hooker, Gatland has Dylan Hartley, Richard Hibbard, and Tom Youngs.
And at lock, the squad includes Ian Evans, Richie Gray, Alun Wyn Jones, Paul O'Connell, and Geoff Parling.
Finally, the Lions back rows are Tom Croft, Toby Faletau, Jamie Heaslip, Dan Lydiate, Sean O'Brien, Justin Tipuric, and Warburton.


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How do I prove that:
$\lim \limits_{n\to \infty}2^{1/n}=1$
Thank you very much.
How do I prove that:
$\lim \limits_{n\to \infty}2^{1/n}=1$
Thank you very much.
Using the binomial theorem for integer exponents:
Can you see that $(1+\frac 1 n)^n > 2>1$
Take the nth root, to give:
$(1+\frac 1 n) > 2^{\frac 1 n} >1$
Note that for $a\gt 0$, $$a^b = e^{b\ln a}.$$ So $$\lim_{n\to\infty}2^{1/n} = \lim_{n\to\infty}e^{\frac{1}{n}\ln 2}.$$ Since the exponential is continuous, we have $$\lim_{n\to\infty}e^{\frac{1}{n}\ln 2} = e^{\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n}\ln 2}.$$
Can you compute $\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\ln 2}{n}$ ?
HINT: Use squeeze theorem.
Since $1 < 2$, we have $1 = 1^{1/n} < 2^{1/n}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$.
To bound the limit from above, note that $1 + n \epsilon < \left( 1 + \epsilon \right)^n$.
Hence, given any $\epsilon >0$, $\forall n > \displaystyle 1/{\epsilon}$, we have $2 < 1 + n \epsilon < \left(1 + \epsilon \right)^n$ and hence $2^{1/n} < 1 + \epsilon$.
Here are a few different proofs which don't use $e$ or $\log$ and can be regarded completely elementary.
Proof 1)
We use the following theorem:
If $a_n \gt 0$ and $\lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n} = L$, then $\lim_{n\to\infty} a_n^{1/n} = L$
This is a standard theorem, and a proof can be found in almost any textbook. You can also find a proof in my answer here: Show that this limit is equal to $\liminf a_{n}^{1/n}$ for positive terms.
Apply the theorem to the sequence $a_n = 2$.
Proof 2)
We use the $\text{AM} \ge \text{GM}$ inequality on $n-1$ ones and one $2$.
$$\frac{1 + 1 + \dots + 1 + 2}{n} \ge 2^{1/n}$$
$$ \frac{n+1}{n} \ge 2^{1/n}$$
Thus we have
$$ 1 + \frac{1}{n} \ge 2^{1/n} \ge 1$$
so by Squeeze theorem, $\lim_{n \to \infty} 2^{1/n} = 1$.
Proof 3)
We can use Bernouli's inequality (essentially similar to Sivaram's answer) to show that
$$\left(1 + \frac{1}{n}\right)^n \ge 1 + \frac{1}{n} \times n = 2$$
and we get inequalities similar to the proof in 2).
Proof 4)
The sequence $a_n = 2^{1/n}$ is bounded below (by $1$) and montonically decreasing.
Thus it is convergent, to say $L$. Since $a_{2n}$ also converges to $L$, we have that $L = \sqrt{L}$, as $2^{1/2n} = \sqrt{2^{1/n}}$. So $L = 0$ or $L = 1$. Since the limit is not less than $1$ ($2^{1/n} \ge 1$), the limit is $1$.
Proof 5)
For $n \gt 2$, we have that $1 \le 2^{1/n} \le n^{1/n}$.
Now use the fact that $\lim_{n \to \infty} n^{1/n} = 1$.
An elementary proof of that can be found here: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/115825/1102. Any proof for $n^{1/n}$ now becomes a proof for $2^{1/n}$. Proof 1) above can also be used for $n^{1/n}$.
Proof 6)
Using combinatorics.
The number of $n$ digit numbers in base-$n+1$ is $(n+1)^n$ (allowing for leading zeroes). The number of $n$ digits numbers in base-$n$ is $n^n$. We can show that $(n+1)^n \ge 2 \times n^n$: consider the base-$n$ numbers. Replace the last digit with $n$. You get a base-$n+1$ $n$ digit number. Counting the base-$n$ numbers (which are also base-$n+1$ numbers) and the "last digit modified" numbers, gives us the inequality.
This inequality implies that $1 + \frac{1}{n} \ge 2^{1/n}$ and can be used to give a proof using the squeeze theorem, similar to proofs 2 and 3.


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(CNN) - President Barack Obama used a pair of fund-raisers in New York Thursday to further the message he laid out in a speech earlier in the day in Ohio, painting the November election as a choice between two starkly different visions for the United States.
"What we're going to have to do is present the choice," Obama told a group of supporters at the home of actress Sarah Jessica Parker, according to a pool report. "You're the tie-breaker, you're the ultimate arbiter."
Obama warned, as he did in Ohio, that Mitt Romney and Republicans will largely blame him for the current economy and say it's "the other guy's fault."
"It's an elegant message. It happens to be wrong, but it's crisp. You can fit it on a bumper sticker," Obama said, noting the GOP will spend "$500 million" on ads.
The president delivered a similar message of caution during the speech in Ohio, the battleground state he and Romney visited on the same day.
"The other side will spend over a billion dollars on ads that tell you the economy is bad, that it is my fault," Obama said. "That's what the scary voice in the ads will say. That's what Mr. Romney will say … That may be their plan to win the election, but it is not a plan to create jobs."
The first of two campaign events Thursday night took place at Parker's townhouse with actor Matthew Broderick, where the president addressed a star-filled room of enthusiasts who each paid $40,000 to attend, according to an Obama campaign official.
Actresses Meryl Streep and Olivia Wilde, television host Andy Cohen, designer Michael Kors and musician Aretha Franklin were among those present at the Parker soiree.
Parker, of "Sex and the City" fame, is a high-profile supporter of Obama and narrated his first national campaign ad that aired earlier in the month. She co-hosted Thursday's reception with the notorious and famous Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour. Wintour, who recently appeared in an Obama video, is a campaign bundler, a financer who donates the maximum legal limit to a campaign and enlists others to do the same.
Obama and Michelle Obama also attended a dinner at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel later Thursday night, at which singers Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys performed. The some 250 guests paid $10,000 each to bear witness to what the first lady said "qualifies as date night in the Obama household."
Thursday's events came amid a month of escalating presidential fund-raising. Obama has attended 19 fund-raisers in June, more than April and May combined. Romney and the Republican National Committee out-raised his rival and the Democratic National Committee in May, $76.8 million to $60 million, a fact Democrats have used to help bolster their coffers.
But it was the first couple who made the most recent pitch.
"You have to multiply yourselves," Michelle Obama told the Plaza crowd, as reported by the pool. "I'm going to be out there. I'm going to be out there as much as possible with as much passion and as much conviction as this little body can muster up."