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Circa 1910
A pair of double-arm sconces in their original burnished brass finish, by the maker E. F. Caldwell.
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1(Of a collar) having points that are buttoned to the garment.
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- It sports a slightly curious design, in that there's a button-down collar which buttons down invisibly, on the inside of the collar, by means of a tiny little loop of fabric.
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A shirt with a button-down collar.
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In Hinduism, there is a concept of past life karma.
Meaning if someone is born into an unfortunate situation (in a slum, for example) it is because they are paying for sin from a past life.
Does Christianity or the Bible give any insight into why it seems like some people are here on vacation and others full of strife and sorrow (and everything in between)?
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I wonder why people like to be touched so much, why would it make sense from a evolutionary perspective. I know people enjoy hugs and company of opposite sex but even people from the same sex hug and touch each other (especially girls)
I wonder how this behavior could have evolved. Was it the struggle to keep warm that drawn people physically together. Does it all have to do with mating. I was looking online but i couldnt find a good in-depth answer.
Maybe there just insnt enough data to specify how this behavior started out in which case that would be the answer.
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Sometimes even if I am interested in a topic and in need of sorting through it, I am still unable to get myself "into it" and engaged (especially for technical articles) unless it is printed out and I am writing notes, or questions or highlighting.
My question is, I don't want to have to print everything out and waste paper, when I'm not feeling 100%. Is there an alternative for online content to take notes? Or is there any technique that you use to keep focused?


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We found this book (FYI – the content is geared toward gay/lesbian women) at a bookstore in New York. The title immediately caught our attention, so we decided to make it have a bit of STREET ART attitude. I think women both straight and gay, can relate to the expressed sentiments. "Love Stories Suck! – but you could still eat my fierce pussy."


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A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . .
A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . .
An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth.
Jay Erlichs nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. Its all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this?
When Jay heads out west to help his grieving brother, he is pulled back into his pastand begins to suspect that his nephews suicide may not have been a suicide at all. With eyes wide open, Jay puts his own life at risk to uncover the truth, a quest that goes beyond the edge of madness and a family haunted by a secret past . . . and into the depths of evil.
"An emotional, frightening study of evil with believable characters and a relentless pace. Readers who wear pacemakers will want to check their batteries before they open the book."
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New Year's eve was safer this year thanks in part to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
On the lookout for drunk or impaired drivers, BSO deputies and officers from other agencies saturated Broward County from 9:30 pm New Year's eve to 7:00 am New Year's day.
The cooperative effort netted two-dozen drunk or impaired motorists who were taken off the roads before they could injure or kill someone. Most of those arrests were made in Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach.
Additionally, deputies issued nearly 40 moving violation traffic citations and more than 75 tickets for criminal traffic offenses.
In the year of 2001 alone, the Broward Sheriff's Office DUI Task Force arrested more than 15-hundred people for driving in the county while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 216 people were killed on Florida's roads in drunk driving crashes during the 2000 New Year's holiday. And National Highway Traffic Safety Administration numbers suggest strict enforcement of Florida's DUI laws will reduce alcohol-related fatalities by 15-percent and save taxpayers millions of dollars.
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This council is designed for the most senior executives responsible for human resource issues in India. Members come from a variety of companies, both multinational and Indian, spanning a broad array of industries. The Council provides an exclusive network for the candid exchange of key Human Resources issues and best practices for business development and expansion in the Indian marketplace. Council members also receive research and survey information throughout the year.
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I don't know if you guys know the old PV game known as Yobi's Basic Spelling tricks. I think some people just refer to it as Spelling Jungle as well, its from the late 90s. Anyways, does anyone know of a way I could potentially play this again with a Windows 7 64 bit computer? I can only think of downloading an old virtual machine to play it.
I run 32-bit Windows XP in a VMware virtual machine; there's unfortunately no way to run it directly in 64-bit Windows since it's a 16-bit app.
I use VMware because XP Mode (Microsoft Virtual PC) doesn't support the correct video mode and the game shows up as all black. I'm not sure if VirtualBox or another solution would work.
You could dual boot with XP or something, of course.


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A stoic Jose Fernandes stood in the courtroom Thursday as the late Troy Pina's relatives described the trauma their family has gone through since Pina was gunned down almost four years on Route 24 in Freetown.
"Troy did not deserve to die at someone else's hand. He had a heart of gold. Anyone who came into contact with him loved him," Pina's mother, Lisa Martinez, said in between sobs at Fall River Superior Court.
"I just don't understand how someone can take it upon themselves to be so heartless and to leave such a void in a family's life," Martinez said.
Fernandes, 27, of Taunton, who was convicted of first-degree murder on March 20, was sentenced Thursday to life in state prison without parole for his role in the drive-by shooting that killed Pina, 29, of Taunton.
Fernandes also received several 19- to 20-year and 4- to 5-year sentences, which will run concurrently with his life sentence, for his convictions on three counts each of armed assault to murder, assault with a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Two co-defendants — Marcus Mitchell, 25, and Thomas Jeffreys, 34, both of Taunton — are awaiting trial on murder and firearm-related charges.
Prosecutors said the defendants called themselves the Supreme Team and targeted Pina and his friend, Francisco Monteiro, 32, of Bourne, in the early-morning hours of May 17, 2009.
The trio drove in two separate cars on Route 24 southbound and shot at a vehicle driven by Monteiro, prosecutors said, adding that Pina, who was sitting in the passenger's seat, was the only person struck by gunfire. Pina was pronounced dead after being driven to Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River.
Four bullets struck the passenger's side door next to where Pina was sitting. Fernandes, who was armed with a 45-caliber handgun, bragged to friends and associates that he had fired the fatal shots, though ballistic evidence showed Pina was actually killed by a single .40-caliber bullet, prosecutors said.
The shooting stemmed from a festering feud between the two groups that began in May 2008. The breaking point, prosecutors said, was when Monteiro beat up Jeffreys during a fight.
Pina's first cousin, Kris Frates, said Thursday in court, before Fernandes was sentenced, that Fernandes and his co-defendants, for two years before they were arrested in 2011, bragged about what they had done and that they never showed any remorse.
"When a man tries to imitate God by taking a life, that man must take responsibility for his actions," said Frates, who remembered her cousin as a "class clown" who loved his four young children and family.
"Life after Troy just isn't the same," Frates said. "Nobody will ever replicate his disposition. He was one-of-a-kind. We miss his hugs and kisses. We miss his unexpected visits. We miss his phone calls. We miss his constant, 'I love yous.' We miss him."
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"Troy was a loving son, a grandson, a father, a brother, a cousin, nephew and a great friend," Martinez said. "He would always light up a room with his wonderful smile and personality."
Though almost four years have passed, the void remains.
"I try to stay positive, but a part of me is gone forever," Martinez said.
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It's a German drama about a young couple that is moving into a new house. The man is kinda short and has a mustache, the girl is pretty. The man's brother and another female friend is joining for a few days, which causes some serious problems.
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The Indiana Senate on Thursday passed Senate Bill 193, a measure providing for public hearings around the state to reconsider adoption of Common Core education standards. The vote was 38-11, with all Republicans and three Democrats voting for the bill. It now moves to the Indiana House.
House Education Chairman Robert Behning (R-Indianapolis) told School Reform News he has not heard from members or constituents that they want this bill heard, so is not inclined to do so. He's the one who decides whether the committee will take it up if House Speaker Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis) assigns it there. Bosma may also assign the bill to the rules committee. A SRN request for comment from Bosma is pending.
The Common Core details what K-12 kids should know in math and English. Forty-six states have adopted it, while eleven are reconsidering that choice. In Indiana, major concerns are the cost to switch textbooks, train teachers, and implement new tests, and the loss of local control over tests and curriculum.
In Florida, where former Indiana state Superintendent Tony Bennet is now the state education commissioner, the board of education this week requested an extra $400 million for technology for Common Core tests. Bennett recently said he is composing a "Plan B" in case the national tests don't come through.
Indianapolis mom Erin Tuttle, who co-founded Hoosiers Against Common Core, said she was pleased by the vote's large margin, and that it was bipartisan.
"If Representative Behning would allow the bill to be heard and evidence presented, I think the House of Representatives would consider passing the bill a no-brainer," she said. "All we want is for the information to get out."
Senate Bill 193 [2] puts the Common Core on hold while the state department of education conducts information meetings in each of Indiana's nine congressional districts. It requires a state board of education member to attend every public meeting. Then, the state board of education would have to publicly re-vote on the measure.
It also requires the state to conduct an in-depth cost analysis of moving to the national standards, and to put parents on the state's academic standards committee.
State Superintendent Glenda Ritz, a Democrat, supports the measure.
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When ever i try to open FL Studio 10 or install it the error keeps popping up which can be seen in the attached file. I thought there was some problem my OS & reinstalled it again. But again the error pops up when installing FL studio 10. can some one help me in getting this fixed ASAP?
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I have been studying group actions for about a month, so I am at a basic stage and forgive me if this turns out to be a stupid question. It is about the two equivalent definitions of group action and permutation representation. In the 'action' definition of a left group action, we use a map $ \alpha: G \times X \rightarrow X $, which I understand can be curried to give a chain of two functions $ \phi : G \rightarrow (X \rightarrow X) $, which leads to the alternative definition of the group action as a permutation representation $ \phi : G \rightarrow Sym(X)$.
But how does this work for the right group action $ \alpha: X \times G \rightarrow X $, as following the same currying technique would give a chain of functions $ \phi: X \rightarrow (G \rightarrow X)$ and not a permutation representation?
In addition, what are the main reasons for wanting two equivalent definitions as an action and permutation representation? It seems to me that the definition as a group representation is quite natural, whereas the action definition is axiomatic and seems to come from nowhere. Many thanks.


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Friday, September 19, 2008
(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- Columbia College announced a new structure for several departments, including Public Relations and Marketing (PRM) and Development and Alumni Services (DAS). Public relations and marketing functions have been separated to better serve the college.
Marketing will become a division more strategically and target-oriented. The college is forming a search advisory committee to aid in identifying an executive director of marketing who will report to the president and represent the marketing division on the president's Administrative Council. The division will work closely with the assistant vice president for enrollment management in advancing student services.
A search currently is underway for a senior director to manage the public relations team, which includes editorial, Web and creative services staff. Also, Alumni Services will become Alumni Relations to better reflect its mission and to align more with sector standards. As a whole, the division will be named Development, Alumni and Public Relations. Michael Kateman, as executive director, will represent all three areas on Administrative Council.
Though reporting lines have changed, the two divisions will continue to work together to support college initiatives.
This announcement follows recent changes at the college, including the development of an enrollment management division and the appointment of a new director of admissions.
One thing Columbia College is not is static," said Dr. Gerald Brouder, president. "The college continues to thrive in tough economic times because we regularly assess our programs and processes and, where necessary, implement changes to further the mission of the college."
Kateman said he is excited about the opportunities the new structure provides for the college. "I'm confident this new, expanded structure will allow us to more effectively serve the college community and other constituents," he said. "I look forward to working with the public relations staff to promote this great institution."
Kateman joined Columbia College in 2006 as the executive director of Development and Alumni Services. Before that, he worked for 19 years at the University of Missouri-Columbia in all areas of institutional advancement. His diverse marketing, public relations and fundraising background includes healthcare, the arts, human services and higher education. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, with a master's degree from the School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in marketing.


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Let $G$ be a group scheme (for instance, over $k$ a field of characteristic 0). Let $e$ be its unit. I denote by $O_G$ the structural sheaf of $G$.
Let $D_e : O_{G,e} \to k$ a derivation.
I would like to get directly (ie, without any consideration about the cotangent bundle, or some canonical isomorphisms...) a derivation $D : O_G\to O_G$ that extends $D_e$, and which is compatible with the action of $G$. That is, I would like to get this derivation by the mean of the multiplication map : $m : G \times G \to G$, etc., etc.
I have guessed this question would not be difficult, and would only be a matter of technics, but I can't manage to do it.


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Is there any difference (e.g. regionality) between the two forms of the past participle of melt (melted and molten)?
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They're not really alternatives. Molten specifically refers to liquids which are extremely hot, and whose usual form is as a solid. It is used as an adjective.
By contrast, something may be melted (whether used as a transitive verb, or an adjective), but need not be hot, and it need not be liquid (something that has begun to lose solidity can be considered melted), nor does it even need to still be subject to the melting process (i.e. it may have fully resolidified).
Marcin's answer is, I believe, very good, from the perspective of every day usage. However both terms relate to concepts in physics, so let me give some more perspective.
If you look in wikipedia entry for molten/melting you'll find this distincion:
This is further enforced by dictionary definitions, but also expanded with what used to be colloquial use,
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From these definition you can conclude that
So, you should make a distinction between a strict physical meaning and colloquial use. I believe that discrepancies due to loose vs strict meaning are much more pronounced than any distinction due to regional meanings.


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DUSTOLFO, Catherine L. "Ninnie," 82, of Steubenville, died Monday December 24, 2012 at Trinity West.
She was born February 26, 1930 in Steubenville. She is the daughter of the late Peter and Mary Panzarella Catozza, Catherine is also preceded in death by her husband, Robert "Bob" Dustolfo and her brother, Frank Catozza.
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I want to provide my app under GNU GPL v3, but I would be glad if people couldn't change its name or its logo. Can I provide my app under the GNU GPL v3 licence, while the app's name and logo are under another type of licence like CC BY-NC-ND 3.0? (The logo and name is used in the app source and design.)
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Section 7 of GPLv3 states:
I've heard this means you can add restrictions requiring someone to change the name (and logo) of your software if they make it different enough from the original (the "requiring that modified versions of such material be marked ... as different from the original version" part), and it seems that you could also require someone to preseve the name or logo when they modify our software (the "Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material" part).
As an example of the former case,
If you're too inflexible about balancing these two goals, some copyright consumers might steer clear of your software to avoid getting into legal limbo. Consider that Debian's "desert island test" would mean they'd consider your software non-free if you imposed a requirement that someone who modified the software always had to contact the original author to determine whether they were still allowed to use the original name and logo.
Additionally: The Debian project that feels there are problems with distributing non-free logos in their archives, and they will not accept the software if their users do not have a license to modify the logo as they see fit. You can write a restrictive trademark license on the unmodified logo, but you must grant the user the freedom to modify the bits so that when he modifies them to the point that they no longer infringe the trademark, his modified version of your logo (which is a derived work for copyright purposes) can be used freely. (This may be required by the GPL v3, or it may just be Debian's approach to free software, but Debian's views on copyright are definitely worth considering if you're licensing Linux software under the GPL and tackling the issues that you've asked about.)
You can certainly keep ownership of the logo and name yourself while releasing the code under the GPL. This is essentially what the Firefox/Mozzila logo licence did. Truecrypt also have a similar requirement, you can alter the code but not call the modified version Truecrypt.
However since you have released the code under the GPL there is nothing to stop the users simply rebuilding their code under a new name and logo.
You can put the logo (and other non-code content) under another license, but the name is considered indivisible from the code and falls under its license.
Is all the GPL code you use in that application yours? Then you can license it any way you want, you yourself aren't required to follow the terms of your own licenses, you always have all rights. (Given you don't sell your rights, like it is possible in the US, of course.)
If it is not then you can only dual license it because the GPL applies to the whole distribution, no matter what. Dual licensing is giving the choice between multiple different licenses, for example the picture could be licensed under the GPL and a custom license. This obviously doesn't work for taking rights away but only for giving additional ones.
I am not sure but the logo might be seen as trade mark, in that case additional laws might apply but I have absolutely no knowledge about that.


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As far as I'm aware, both words translate into English as "woman". What's the difference in meaning between 女性 and 女の人?
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There is no difference in meaning when the two words mean "woman/women".
To discuss the exception first, [女性]{じょせい}, has an extra meaning "feminine" or "female gender" when used in grammar terms for certain languages such as Romance languages. For instance, "la maison = 'house'" is a [女性名詞]{じょせいめいし} = "feminine noun" in French. We never call it an 女の人名詞 or 女名詞.
As with nearly all other pairs of Japanese-origin words and Chinese-origin words with the same or similar meanings, the main difference between the two groups is the formality of the words. On-reading, Chinese-origin words like 女性 are almost always used in more formal or technical situations than their kun-reading, Japanese-origin counterparts like 女の人.
Japanese children learn to use the word 女の人 years before they learn to actively use 女性. You would rarely meet a kid under 12 or so who uses 女性 on a regular basis. Even teenagers would rarely use 女性 in their daily conversations, but they would in compositions and presentations in schools.
Some adults use 女性 even in the most informal conversations, but using 女の人 would be far more common on those occasions. Only 女性 is used in newspapers, magazines, academic papers, etc., and using 女の人 in those is utterly out of the question.
女性 means female (*for humans). (lit. the female kind; Cf. 男性 male / 中性 neuter)
女の人 means woman.
女性 is a 漢語 (Chinese-origin word) which is often more formal. 女の人 is 和語(Japanese original word).


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They were impressed with camera, but not with the image quality it provided.
It is a capable camera but lacking for video and noisy as hell at high ISO, no viewfinder and difficult to see the screen in daylight - the 01 standard prime lens is worthless (there is nothing prime about it other than the name) - you want the zoom lens and you'll use it 95% of the time or more.
Newegg has the same camera in black with the zoom lens (minus the 01 standard prime lens) for $299.99, free ship. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830184177
For $35 you can buy an adapter and use Olympus lenses and save huge $$ if you are smart enough to pull focus for yourself.
This is light years from being a woot! worthy buy - let alone a good deal. That kit lens isn't worth a $200 surcharge. Buy this later after the first of January and you'll save even more.
Interesting rerto look. I smell a hipster trap.
Can get a brand new Canon T3i for the same price. DealFail...
So, you want the 8.5mm prime. It's the better lens, sharp and fast. You cannot fit a T3i in your jeans pocket. You can fit this little thing almost anywhere. Go look on google for a picture of it in somebody's hands. It's TINY. Furthermore, with a Pentax K-mount adapter you have access to inexpensive, fast manual-focus glass. With the 5x crop factor, a cheap 50mm f1.7 prime is now a 250mm f1.7 telephoto. A 100mm f3.5 macro is now a 500mm f3.5 telephoto and macro. Focus peaking makes manual focus a breeze too, and the image quality may not be up there with an SLR... but it's the best in the sensor class. Cheaper deals can be had, but it's an amazing camera nonetheless.
Newegg's sale is over - keep in mind they've put out the new Q10, which is why prices on these are falling like a brick. If you really want this camera, wait until after Christmas and it will be ~$200 I guarantee you.
As for the 01 standard prime lens being better - it may be small and it might be a good choice for portability, but NO ONE I know that has this camera uses it all the time if they have access to the 02 zoom - the 01 never gets mounted again, regardless of size.
I had a video project where I compared this camera to the Sony, Olympus and the Nikon and the Panny GH series, the Sony was by far the best camera for stills and the GH2 rocked for video - if you have the scratch, look at the new GH3 from Panasonic and never look back. Best micro four thirds camera ever made.
@theghastlyghost: Because a super small Micro 3/4 and a full size DSLR are the same thing?
@gregbowman It's cheaper and B&H Photo anyway. $497
@gregbowman: I own this camera and think the video mode is actually quite nice. It has manual video controls, unlike the k-5 that I also own.
The screen is polarized to protect it from the sunlight. So if you are wearing sunglasses it will block out the display, which is how variable ND filters work.
It isn't the best camera I've ever owned, image quality isn't amazing, low-light is pretty bad; but I still love it and the size makes it a pretty great street photography camera.
If you want a retro-esque look for a camera, but also want a LOT of manual features with great video and image quality and a very robust build quality, I'd suggest the Fujifilm x10. I photograph professionally (though I'm an animator by trade) and I fell in love with the X10 the first time I saw one. There's a better version - the X100 - but that one costs $2,000.
The X10 is on Amazon for $50 more than this Pentax, right now. http://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-X10-Digital-Camera-f2-0-f2-8/dp/B005KBB79C
(I should note that I do NOT own either of these cameras - though I wish I did - but I have used them, intend to purchase the X10 or its offspring at some point, and have read several exhaustive reviews about it.)
@jeremytheindian: Didn't say they were the same thing.
Funny, I use my 50mm prime on my dSLR more than I use any zoom lens. I know a lot of people who are much the same. A zoom is no substitute for fast, sharp glass, especially in low light situations.
Remember, this $499 kit comes with two lenses, you can't get a t4i or a fuji with two lenses for anything near this price.
At B&H Photo, it's $346 with one lens (you can get it with either the prime or the zoom). You can't touch a comparable MILC camera (with a lens) for that price.
I have one, and I use the 01 prime. Its two to three fstops faster than the zoom. Using it indoors is a no brainer compared to the zoom. It also has the same field of view as my favorite lens, the Pentax FA 31 Limited.
It seems to be a great little camera for what it is. But as some may claim that this is better than an SLR, or DSLR, it is far short. Ladies and Gents, there is no viewfinder on this camera. None! Nada!
So, you are at the beach and it is a bright full sun shine day. Do you really think you are going to be able to acquire and shoot your image by looking at a LED screen? No Way!
Why anyone would spend $100 more for a P&S than you would on an SLR with a "real viewfinder" and in addition to the LED, just is something I can not understand. This camera offers a lot but the price tag goes way past what it offers.
There are places I simply don't take my SLR -- because it's too big, too inconvenient, and frankly too expensive. There are hardcore viewfinder fanboys out there, and this camera is obviously not for them. But the screen is not bad at all, and I've never had a problem framing a picture using solely a screen -- even screens with much less contrast than this. Sure, in bright sunlight it's washed out, but that doesn't mean you can't see well enough to frame a shot.
Again, this camera is obviously not for everyone, but if you notice the most vocal people are already predisposed against it for one shortcoming, and have never held one in their hands, played with it, or taken a single photo.
If you're moving up from a point and shoot, this is a great bridge camera. If you need a small, tiny camera with great stills and pretty damn good video, this is a great camera. If you want to do extreme telephoto with fast glass, this is a great camera. Or if you just want to piss of naysayers. :)


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Some quick links for the end of the week:As everyone now knows, the papal conclave will begin on Tuesday, likely to be preceded by a formal Mass in the morning. At the close of the week, governance was said to remain a topic of discussion among cardinals, but other reports say meetings have been all over the map, hinting at a lengthy balloting process. The consensus is that there is no consensus on a leading candidate, but Vatican Insider says Milan archbishop Angelo Scola seems to be winning new support, and from the American contingent too.Still more on job qualifications (and another sign of creeping managerial-ese): Which candidates possess the sufficient global fluency?If you cant tell the papabile without a scorecard, heres a helpful interactive guide for putting faces to the names and studying up on vital statistics. Meanwhile, the Rome correspondent for Frances La Croix calls for the canonization of Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi.After cataloging the (familiar) fault lines among the gathered electors, The Guardianthen delves into qualities and accomplishmentsof certain cardinals that tend to get lost in the coverage:
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Jesuit intellectual and archbishop of Buenos Aires who travels around town by bus and told his compatriots not to waste their money on plane tickets to Rome to see him become a cardinal but to give it instead to the poor; Cardinal Dominik Duka of the Czech Republic, who practised and deepened his faith despite enduring years of state repression; Cardinal Fernando Filoni, who refused to leave his diplomatic post in Iraq in the violence that followed the US invasion, saying "If the pastor flees in moments of difficulty, the sheep are also lost"; Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the charismatic, 55-year-old archbishop of Manila, whose scholarship on the second Vatican council and passionate defence of the sanctity of life have won him popularity on both sides of the political divide; and Cardinal scar Rodrguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who has proved an ardent defender of human rights and a fierce critic of capitalism and the drug trade.
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I see Cardinal scar Rodrguez Maradiaga of Honduras is on the list. He would be a most intriguing choice.
The joy of voting in The Sweet Sistene is that you can vote early and often. But most of all, YOU can vote!
Some folks in Latin America, especially Honduras, would dispute the claim that Cardinal Rodriguez is an ardent defender of human rights. SNAP also has serious reservations about his response to sexual abuse issues. He is also reported to have made remarks that the publicity about sexual abuse was related to Jewish publishers.
O'Malley of Boston is also on SNAP's 'disaproved' list. I don't understand why. In the end he has seemed to address the abuse problem strongly.
you can't get these facts from George Weigel. That's for sure.
Besides Dolan, O'Malley and Wuerl are on the Snap list of Cardinals who should not vote. The other nine are:Leonardo Sandri of Argentina, George Pell of Australia, Marc Ouellet of Canada, Dominik Duka or the Czech Republic, Peter Turkson of Ghana, Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, Tarcisio Bertone and Angelo Scola of Italy, and Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico
Not all of them are linked to alleged coverups of sexual abuse, SNAP said. Some were placed on the list because of their public remarks related to the abuse scandal, SNAP said.
Not to be a noodge (OK, so it is to be a noodge), I really would be more interested in what the LCWR thinks of the candidates -- if the could talk -- than in how SNAP uses the conclave to get its message out, worthy as its message is.
-- if the sisters could talk --(Odd, I was sure they were there when I hit submit)
Nice front-page article about Dolan in the NYT this morning with a picture of him shaking hands with Pope Paul VI.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/nyregion/cardinal-dolan-pope-material-... that:. . . he has repeatedly won votes of confidence from his peers. The American bishops elected him their president in a surprise vote in 2010; in Rome, global bishops elected him to continue their work on new evangelization after their synod last fall. Most significantly, early last year he was tapped by Benedict to deliver a keynote address to the full College of Cardinals.But:. . . his fondness for beer and barbecue, his physicality and exuberance define him as American in a way that is a liability in a church headquarters that at times views the New World with a combination of condescension and disdain.
A pope must speak Italian well. He doesn't.
John, do you know which cardinals, among the ones whose names are being mentioned, speak Italian well?
Gerelyn - link: http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2013/03/08/liturgical-views-of-the... piece but well written. This comes closer to someone who has been tested by various fires and issues and has left his mark.He has been raised in polyglot fashion; comfortable partnering with different cultures, religions, positions, politics, national feelings.Compare this to Dolan and his accomplishments (??).
Hi, John, (I'm disappointed that you were unable to correct the Latin you criticized in yesterday's thread.) Do you think Sancta Spirita bases Her choice for pope on fluency in Italian?
Gerelyn - personally, I like Dolan. Don't think that he has much depth but he fits the US scene well. That being said, he reminds me of the typical American image overseas in the 1950s and 1960s best characterized via a literary work, The Ugly American.
Cardinal Dolan has made waves several times in the US, showing bias towards the Republicans during the presidential election campaign, and making misleading or false statements about the HHS mandate, statements that were debunked in these pages. He has also shown lack of sensitivity towards women (in remarks about religious sisters, and, I vaguely remember, some remark about how a young good-looking woman would help evangelization!), In handling sexual abuse in Milwaukee, he secretly paid priest abusers to leave, and tried to pretend that the money was used for something other than hush money - he's been castigated by SNAP. I also tried to comment on his blog once, correcting a statement that was factually incorrect by providing a link to the correct information, and my perfectly neutral comment was deleted. I do not trust him. Exuberance is not enough for me.Cardinal O'Malley, on the other hand, is another matter. His blog is boring, but he doesn't make waves. He doesn't have an inflated ego and looks like a man dedicated to service. I do not know why SNAP is against him. I don't dislike him.
Oh, and, I almost forgot: Cardinal Dolan has been divisive for US Catholicism. For a pope, who is the sign of unity of the Church, that's the last thing that one would want!
Hi, Bill: I remember The Ugly American very well. On my first trips to Europe, I chose my clothes and shoes carefully, hoping not to be considered too ugly. Interesting article about Christoph Schnborn. Sounds like a nice man, but I don't think he has a chance. I hope Sancta Spirita is ready for an American (from Ballwin).-----Hi, Claire:I think they've all said/thought/done many many things that would make ordinary people cringe. They wouldn't be where they are if they hadn't played the game. Sancta Spirita doesn't have much to choose from. (Which American would not have "been divisive for US Catholicism?")-----I don't see why the cardinals' swearing an oath before casting a ballot has any meaning. Jesus and his brothers and sisters and Peter and his brothers and sisters wouldn't have a CLUE about what was going on if they walked into that room and saw all those old men dressed alike in satin and lace with two little stoves.
I imagine Cdl O'Malley as an honest, if a tad uninspiring, manager, who is good at easing tensions and implementing difficult measures such as parish merges while convincing most people to go along without protests. After 8 years of loftiness, a little bit of down-to-earth realism with a pastoral touch and managerial skills might not be bad. Such a papacy would not be about uplifting renewal but about recovery from disastrous management. Maybe after the year of Faith, we'd have a "Year of Sound Financial Practices"!
Can anybody here who is talking about The Ugly American tell me how Cardinal Dolan resembles Homer Akins, who didn't wear stripey pants but did get his hands dirty and did speak the language while trying to help Southeast Asians?
He is a practiced frequent flier; last fall, he flew a round trip in a day, borrowing a billionaires jet so he could preside at a dinner in Manhattan without missing a meeting in Rome."That billionaire was doubtless Republican. And really was it necessary. This is another man of Empire. No resemblance to the Crucified who had no home.
Gerelyn:I wasn't "unable." Just slow. By now you will have received my four corrections.
I wonder if any Cardinal has given a speech about possible "Year of"'s? - Year of Religious Sisters- Year of Elementary Catholic Schools- Year of Pastoral Councils- Year of the Laity- Year of the Holy Land- Year of Collegiality- Year of the Poor...
Vox populi ...Corriere della Sera gives its readers the chance to vote on twelve candidates. So far, 11, 455 have voted.1. Cardinal O'Malley -- 36.72. Cardinal Scola -- 18.03. Cardinal Tagle -- 14.3And no. 9, Cardinal Dolan -- 1.9
Bill, small point of information (provided by the NYTimes article itself): the billionaire was Mort Zuckerman, who is Jewish and a Democrat. And I think the dinner they are referring to was the Al Smith dinner, where Cardinal Dolan hosted the President and the Republican nominee for President. This doesn't answer your question about whether or not it was necessary. I hope it provides a bit of context.
Ah, Cardinal Tagle you can find his talks online. When you hear him give a homily (online), it's impossible not to like him and admire him a little, and even feel drawn to Christ. Although he's too conservative for me, I would still love to have him as my parish priest! I think it would make me a better Christian. Then, if everyone has the same reaction, indeed, why not pope?
Mr. Blackburn - merely highlighting this theme (last line especially) in the Ugly American:In the novel, a Burmese journalist says "For some reason, the [American] people I meet in my country are not the same as the ones I knew in the United States. A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land. They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They're loud and ostentatious."
Bill, But the ugly American was the one who was none of those things the Burmese mentioned. He was a contrast to the noisy but well barbered, pretentious but sweet smelling, isolated but well-served Americans in the foreign land. I just can't see Cardinal Dolan in either group. His folksy beer-and-sausage persona is noisy, I guess, but it is inviting rather than pushy. On the other hand, I don't seem him submerging his bulky self into local conditions the way Akins did in the novel.
If papabili like Bergoglia of Buenos Aires, Duka of Prague, or Tagle of Manila, or Vatican diplomats like Filoni (J23 was a diplomat) are to even have a chance to emerge, then we must assume that "the fix" is not in and that the next pope has not already been selected with only the confirmation of the conclave to be secured.That's what happened last time with Ratzinger!We'll see ... PLEASE, please stop all this bloviating about the insufferable "Padre Sean" O'Malley who presents himself as the modern reincarnation of Francis of Assisi, all the while lusting after all the trappings of power. He forgets apparently that Francis eschewed power of all kinds, probably would have denounced any friar who took on a princely office, and who died on the floor marked by the stigmata. He has spent his entire career as a bishop tidying-up after the mess left by priests and bishops who can't stop exploiting children - in other words, the clerical equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig. O'Malley is just better at putting a better public face on the corruption of the hierarchy.
Jim, yes, what I see of Cdl O'Malley is how he presents himself, and the reality could be very different. Do you have specifics?
(Literary note) The "ugly American" of the Burdick and Lederer novel, was as Tom Blackburn points out, actually a good guy compared with so many of the foreign aid and foreign policy apparatchiks in South East Asia at the time. He was indeed not afraid of getting his hands dirty, working with the people he was trying to help, and was modeled on a particular individual who, with his wife, did exactly that. He was called ugly, I think, because he did not have the kind of celebrity (or Ivy League) beauty of some of his colleagues.But of course the term quickly became a pejorative one, and remains so in American speech today. Perhaps the opposite term might be "Quiet American," though almost everyone who has read Greene's book (perhaps my favorite of all his novels) can understand how much death and destruction such an unimposing man could bring on in the name of ideological purity.I say "almost everyone" because the great film director, Stanley Kubrick, didn't get it. Or if he did, his 1958 movie deliberate skewed Greene's meaning to turn Alden Pyle (the Q. A.) into a noble and admirable figure.
Bill de Haas: thanks for posting this piece. As you say, it's advocacy, but I've long thought that Schnborn was one the more hopeful members of the cardinalate.You can be sure that the long knives in the Curia will to their best to block him, however. Unlike so many others of his rank he did not wait until the present interregnum to call for a Vatican housecleaning.I may also be influenced by my streaming Radio Stephansdom from Vienna on my computer; really good music, and three operas a week (this afternoon it's Verdi's "Araldo," which I don't know at all (it's set in xii century England).
About Cardinal O'Malley -- I watched one of the recent interviews in Rome of two American cardinals, the one with O'Malley an DiNardo. The site didn't offer closed captioning, so I couldn't understand a word either one said. But I was fascinated by their body language, so I watched the whole thing. DiNardo came across as a young man, enthusiastic, sincere, eager to be understood. He used many hand gestures and his face was animated, especially with smiles. O'Malley was the opposite -- he mainly sat there like a statue, except for laughing once and sluggishly answering the questions put to him. His eyes didn't roam to follow either DiNardo or the questioners. He didn't look sleepy with droopy eyelid, he was just blank-eyed. He looked as if he were doing contemplation in some other room. Who knows what he was thinking except about the specific questions he was asked. Or maybe it was just extreme boredom. I can't believe it was just ordinary weariness. Weird.
About Cardinal Schoenborn -- his parents were divorced when he was a child. Maybe that gives him an understanding of some of the existential problems families sometimes face. I wonder if there are any other bishops at all who are the children of divorce. (And how many bishops have gay siblings, or sisters who would like to be priests?)
"Dont think that he has much depth but he fits the US scene well."I don't know who you are damning with faint praise more: Dolan or the US church!Gimme a cafeteria anytime over fast food.
Apropos nothing said here: I have just finished reading Kenan Heise's "The Sin of Obedience."It needs a good editor and waxes a bit too preciously Thomistic in a couple of spots, but all in all it is an enjoyable read.
1. It is interesting that on the "vote for your candidate" site provided by Corriere della Sera, Cardinal O'Malley, after 14, 500 votes, still holds a very solid lead. The twelve choices given (Schoenborn is not listed!) are the result of asking eight Italian journalists (Vaticanisti) to suggest three names. Five of the eight chose O'Malley. What is this O'Malley "boomlet" about? A good part of this phenomenon may have to do with the Franciscan habit and beard. (The scarlet zucchetto fits oddly in the picture.) The beloved saint and his simplicity. And so, Pope Francis I.Cardinal O'Malley is a very reserved man, as Ann Olivier noted. He came most alive twice during the interview at the North American College on Tuesday. That was in response to questions in Spanish, which he handled with ease. (His Ph.D from CUA is in Iberian languages.) I doubt that his chances, along with those of Cardinal Dolan, are very high. He has told reporters that he has a return ticket, but so did Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto in August 1903. in any case, it helps to create some added drama in this now month-long story.2. Given the wide-open reality, the Roman party vs. the anti-Roman party dichotomy is a ready way to give a framework to the complexity of the situation. But surely there are always at least two sides, with various subsets and over-lappings.Too neat, it seems to me. There is an Italian saying, "Il Papa si fanno nel conclave." Something like, the pope is chosen during the conclave. This time, I think that will be truer than eight years ago. The cardinals should not fear that a three, four-day conclave will give the appearance of a lack of unity. In 1922, Cardinal Achille Ratti, Pius XI, was elected on the fourteenth ballot; in 1958, Cardinal Roncalli was elected on the eleventh ballot; in October 1978, Cardinal Wojtyla, on the eighth. Are the cardinals having many conversations this weekend? For sure. Are they spending a lot of time in prayer? Also.---To me the most intriguing cardinal is Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon and primate of France. He arrives for the general congregations, even in yesterday's heavy rain, on a bicycle, in black pants, clerical shirt, jacket, black cap, with a shoulder bag with his cassock inside. Probably he is coming from the French College, near the Pantheon. So a bit over a two-mile trip in Rome's traffic. Now there's a brave man!
Jim - no suspense behind my sentence....*damning with faint praise*Dolan has his gifts but would suggest that they fit best in a US Midwest diocese (where he should have stayed). Any allusions to the *church* - no, rather to the current ranks of both cardinals and bishops - almost all who aren't retired appointed by JPII or B16 - as others have said well, the Peter Principle, alive and well or, in other words, a mediocre group of company men. But, within that group, there are a few who have achieved and live gospel lives - but, can group think find and elect them?One other thought - had commented about polyglot in terms of what in business we call a *global mentality* - the rare individual who understands, functions, and is liberated across multiple cultures. This goes beyond just facility in various languages - it has to do with integrating into a culture without passing judgment and being able to inspire using that culture's best.Dolan is polyglot if you mean - he understands US baseball and cheers for the STL Cardinals while enjoying the Met-Yankee competition; he enjoys US football and cheers for the Packers but enjoys the Giants-Jets competition. Those are the cultures he understands and functions best in. (compare to Ravasi, Schonboern, Sherer, etc.)
@Bill Mazzella 03/08/2013 - 5:42 pm"I see Cardinal scar Rodrguez Maradiaga of Honduras is on the list. He would be a most intriguing."I see him differently:He has blamed the Jews for the scandal surrounding the sexual misconduct of priests toward young parishioners! He has argued that the Jews got even with the Catholic Church for its anti-Israel positions by arranging for the media which they, of course, control, he said to give disproportionate attention to the Vatican sex scandal. He then compared the Jewish controlled media with Hitler, because they are protagonists of what I do not hesitate to define as a persecution against the church.Maradiaga, in a May 2002 interview with the Italian-Catholic publication 30 Giorni, claimed Jews influenced the media to exploit the current controversy regarding sexual abuse by Catholic priests in order to divert attention from the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.At the time, the Anti-Defamation League expressed public outrage at the cardinals comments. In a later conversation with Abraham Foxman, ADL national director, Maradiaga apologized and said he never meant for his remarks to be taken as perpetuating an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about Jewish control of the media, and promised never to say it again."How comforting: he has promised never to say it again.http://forward.com/articles/171392/is-pope-frontrunner-from-honduras-ant...
A source of concern about O'Malley:He secretly returned to ministry a priest accused of soliciting and offering to pay a 12-year old girl for oral sex, along with her mother no less, in a Chelsea bar. http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/03_04/2008_04_26_Paulson_P... There was no physical contact, says the archdiocese, and the priest was under the influence ---why is that not incriminating instead of exculpatory? Abusers do not abuse because they drink but drink in order to abuse.See case history at http://www.bishop-accountability.org/assign/Gillespie_Jerome_F.htm Summary of Case: Accused of asking oral sex on 1/25/05 from woman and daughter age 12. Resigned 1/28/05. Pleaded not guilty to enticing child, soliciting sex, annoying/accosting, and assault. Most charges dismissed 4/4/05. Pleaded sufficient facts to annoying/accosting charge. Case continued pending alcohol and sexual offender evaluations with treatment if indicated, and no contact with minors without disclosing case. Case dismissed 2007. Returned to work without announcement. Was Lynnfield supply priest 4/08.
Thank you Carolyn.Indeed, returning someone to work after such a dubious incident, without getting the parishioners's approval and without even informing them is disrespectful of the people. Good luck trying to get them to participate in the life of the church after treating them with such disregard!
John Page: "A pope must speak Italian well. He doesnt."Bill DeHaas: "Dolan has his gifts but would suggest that they fit best in a US Midwest diocese"Two good reasons to relocate the Throne of Peter to Chicago.
Two possibly erroneous thoughts occur to me (actually many, but two I will mention):1. The Curia has a candidates Scherer of Sao Paulo. This means the Curia, Bertone and Sodano included, have a common candidate.2. We would be well served by a religious who lived through the renewal of his order.
I had sent this out at 11:41PM, forgetting that my threel links as back-up exceeded the dotC limit. The comment appears on my screen as "Your comment is awaiting moderation" but I suspect the best approach is to post without them. Anyone interested in the detail may email me. Terry McKiernan and Anne Barrett Doyle's contact info is already online, so I hope that does not cause difficulty.SNAP on OMalley:In 2008, a national church panel found that, for the second year in a row, OMalley was violating the US bishops child sex abuse prevention policy. According to other church officials, OMalley was refusing to train all kids in his archdiocese how to avoid or stop being victimized. OMalley also failed to discipline a single individual on his staff for this violation.In 2006, in a case with disturbing parallels to many earlier Boston pedophile priest cases, OMalley moved very slowly in the case of a prominent Catholic hospital official who faces multiple allegations of sexually harassing employees.Under OMalleys watch, the archdiocesan abuse policy was revised, eliminating a provision that required the immediate removal of accused priests, and severely limited survivors access to archdiocesan files about their cases. Also, under OMalleys leadership, the archdiocese cleared a very high percentage of accused priests (45%, whereas most diocese have a 10% clearance rate), and has also failed to rule on at least 15 cases.OMalley was one of the last US bishops to post the names of proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting clerics on his website, and when he did, he disingenuously left off roughly one third of the priests those who worked for religious orders.(For more info on OMalley, feel free to contact Anne Barrett Doyle 781 439 5208, [email protected]) and Terry Mckiernan (508 479 9304, [email protected]) of BishopAccountability.org)Contrary-wise, theres this hopeful thought: OMalley: Church must discipline bishopshttp://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/03/06/OMalley-Church-must-di...
Cardinal O'Malley seems to have realized that bishops should be disciplined only on finding out that that is what the other cardinals generally think. The major good news here is that the college of cardinals supports disciplining bishops. The bad news is that O'Malley didn't discover that on his own. No, he is not a leader. He's a nose counting politician from start to finish. Spare us, O Lord!
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"Two good reasons to relocate the Throne of Peter to Chicago."Or, better yet, to Madison. ANYONE would be better than Morlino .... ANYONE!!!!!
Other aspects of O'Malley are shown in 2+ years of fairly careful reporting on the Boston archdiocese by Boston Catholic Insider bloggers. Their emphasis tends to be in the governance area -- management, finance, communication. (See Categories list) http://bostoncatholicinsider.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/cardinal-sean-omal...
"SNAP on OMalley:"SNAP isn't an objective source of information, and I don't take their allegations as Gospel truth. None of these seem disqualifying to me.
Jack - that's a pretty archconservative Catholic source. It criticizes O'Malley for admitting the children of homosexual parents to Catholic schools, and for employing people who donate money to President Obama.
Jim: SNAP is there to represent and help victims of sexual abuse by clergy. Their lack of objectivity only comes from their empathy with the victims. Even if they are passionate about their mission and sometimes sound excessive, they must be taken seriously. They are an important voice in the church. Their negative assessment of Cdl O'Malley gives me pause.
Snap has been way ahead of all of us in discovering sexual abuse among priests and the bishops coverup. No one said they are infallible. But they have infinitely more credibility than the bishops and the Vatican.


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What is a good texture packing algorithm? Technically, bin packing is NP-hard, so a heuristic is what I'm really after.
I spent a few months at one job coming up with a better texture packing algorithm.
The algorithm we started with was simple. Collect all the input items. Sort them by total pixels consumed, large-to-small. Lay them out in your texture in scanline order, just testing stuff from the topleft pixel to the topright pixel, moving down a line, and repeating, resetting to the topleft pixel after every successful placement.
You either need to hardcode a width or come up with another heuristic for this. In an attempt to preserve squareness, our algorithm would start at 128, then increase by 128s until it came up with a result that wasn't any deeper than it was wide.
So, we had that algorithm, and I decided to improve it. I tried a bunch of wacky heuristics - trying to find objects that fit together, doing some weighting over a bunch of desired space packing properties, rotating and flipping. After all my work, quite literally three months of work, I ended up saving 3% space.
Yeah. 3%.
And after we ran our compression routine over it, it actually ended up larger (which I still can't explain) so we threw the entire thing out and went back to the old algorithm.
Sort items, jam into texture in scanline order. There's your algorithm. It's easy to code, fast to run, and you won't get much better without an amazing amount of work. That work just isn't worthwhile unless your company is at least 50 people large, and probably more.
And as a side note, I just implemented this algorithm (fixed width 512 pixels) for quite literally the exact same application that you're doing (no ftgles, but opengl-rendered freetype glyphs.) Here's the result. It looks blurry because mine is using Valve's distance-field based text rendering algorithm, which also accounts for the extra space between glyphs. Obviously, there's not a lot of empty space left over, and it does a good job of cramming things into open spots.
All the code for this is BSD-licensed and available at github.
The PhD Thesis of Andrea Lodi is entitled Algorithms for Two Dimensional Bin Packing and Assignment Problems.
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Also of interest, the paper describes an algorithm to determine the size of an optimally packed texture map. That would be useful to determine if it's even possible to fit all the textures in one 1024x1024 atlas.
Algorithm presented by xan should meet every gamedeving needs. It's very, very efficient, lightweight, and I've myself implemented and debugged it in two days, improving it with searching the best possible sorting function (whether it's by area, perimeter, width, height, max(width, height)) and the best possible bin size so you don't have to hardcode the width/height yourself anymore.
It's also easy to design it so it automatically portions out your rectangles into more bins if one with fixed maximum size is not sufficient, so you probably want to pass all your textures to it and pass a maximum texture size as the value for maximum bins' dimension, and BAM ! You have your texture atlases ready to be uploaded to GPU. Same goes for font packing.
Here's the source code (totally independent .h and .cpp file) with example.cpp if you're interested: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/97953376/vc%202010%20express%20sln.zip
400 random rectangles, automatically divided into 3 bins of maximum 400x400 size:
A good heuristic algorithm can be found here. When I was trying something similar recently, I found this referenced as the basic starting point for most implementations I saw.
Works particularly well with either lots of regular shaped, similar sized items, or with a good mix of small and fewer larger images. The best advice to achieve good results is to remember to sort your input in terms of image size, then pack from largest to smallest as the smaller images will pack into the space around the larger images. How you do this sorting up to you and may depend on your goals. I used perimeter rather than area as a 1st order approximation since I took the view that tall+thin / short+wide images (which would have lowish area) are actually very hard to place later on in a pack, so by using perimeter you push these odd shapes towards the front of the order.
Here's a sample visulization of the output for my packer on a random set of images from my website image dump directory :).
The numbers in the squares are the id's of the containing blocks in the tree so give you an idea of the order of the insertions. The first is ID "3" because it is the first leaf node (only leaves contain images) and consequently has 2 parents).
Personally, I just use a greedy largest-block-that-fits first system. It's not optimal, but it does the trick OK.
Note that, if you have a reasonable amount of texture blocks, you can exhaustively search the best ordering even if the problem itself is NP.
Something I've used, which works well even for irregular UV maps, is to turn the UV patch into a bitmap mask, and maintain a mask for the texture itself, searching for the first position the UV patch will fit into. I order the blocks according to some simple heuristic (height, width, size, whatever), and I allow rotations of the blocks to minimise or maximise the chosen heuristic. That gives a manageable search-space for brute force.
If you can then iterate that trying several heuristics, and/or apply a random factor in choosing the ordering and iterate until some time limit runs out.
With this scheme you'll get small UV islands packed into the gaps made by large ones, and even in holes left within single UV patches themselves.
We recently released a python script which will pack textures into multiple image files of a given size.
Quoted from our blog:
"While there are numerous packers that can be found online, our difficulty was in finding any that could handle large numbers of images in multiple directories. Thus, our own atlas packer was born!
As is, our little script will start in the base directory and load all the .PNGs into an atlas. If that atlas is filled, it creates a new one. Then, it will try fitting the rest of the images in all previous atlases before finding a spot in the new one. That way, each atlas is packed as tight as possible. Atlases are named based on the folder that their images are from.
You can change the size of the atlas (line 65), format of the images you want to pack (line 67), the load directory (line 10) and the save directory (line 13) fairly easily with no experience in Python. As a small disclaimer, this was whipped together in a few days to work specifically with our engine. I encourage you to request features, comment with your own variations, and report any errors, but any changes to the script will happen in my free time."
Feel free to check out the full source code here: http://www.retroaffect.com/blog/159/Image_Atlas_Packer/#b
It's pretty easy to pack fonts because all (or the great majority) of the glyph textures are nearly the same size. Do the simplest thing that occurs to you and it will be very close to optimal.
Cleverness becomes more important when you're packing images of very different sizes. Then you want to be able to pack into gaps, etc. Even then, though, a simple algorithm like the scanline order search discussed earlier will produce very reasonable results.
None of the advanced algos are magic. They won't be 50% more effecient than a simpel algo, and you won't get consistent benefits from them unless you have a staggering number of texture sheets. that's because the small improvements that better algorithms make will only be seen in aggregate.
Go simple, and move on to something where your efforts will be better rewarded
If it's specifically for font textures, then you probably do something non-optimal but nice and simple:
Sort characters by height, tallest first
Start at 0,0 Place first character at current coords, advance X, place next one, repeat until we can't fit another
Reset X to 0, advance Y downwards by the height of the tallest character in the row, and fill another row
Repeat until we're out of characters, or can't fit another row.


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I just picked up a new laptop (Toshiba Satellite P55-A5200; on-board Intel graphics presumably HD graphics 4000 as this is a mobile i5 Ivy Bridge system) and have been getting all sorts of odd display issues. Windows 8, which was pre-installed, worked fine and without issue (aside from, y'know, being Windows 8).
Initially I found that I was unable to get the LiveCD to load when selecting "Try Ubuntu" only a black screen. The backlight was on and the laptop gave signs of life, but nothing. Eventually by adding "nomodeset" or "i915.enable=0" (presumably this was disabling the load of the i915 driver since there is no such flag) I was able to view the system as it attempted to load and would apparently lock up once x tried to start. Removing "quiet" and "splash" revealed a bit more data, but nothing conclusive. Most of the time ctrl-alt-del or pressing the power button would register so the system wasn't hard-locked. Unlike other issues I was never seeing "no monitor found" or getting a blinking cursor.
Eventually it was found that going into the "Install Ubuntu" option with "i915.enable=0" worked perfectly. All of the widgets appeared properly and I was able to install normally. Since this is essentially an X environment I thought the problem might be fixable and installed 13.04 reformatting the entire drive in the process.
Upon booting, however, the previous behavior resumed. The BIOS logo screen and grub would display properly and some text after grub would briefly flash past, but as soon as it attempted to go into graphical mode it just went to a black, backlit screen. After some work graphical Plymouth was removed and replaced with the text version and the system would boot fully. Setting CapsLock or such and then swapping between terminals showed that the switching was occurring properly. Most surprising though it was found that if an external monitor was connected to either the HDMI or VGA ports the both displays would come to life regardless of whether the external monitor was on or off. The HDMI connection initially could be removed and the laptop display would still function, but on the second time testing this it no longer worked. Connecting to VGA would still work and would leave the laptop screen on after it was disconnected. If the external monitor was connected during boot this would not work and if the system was suspended the process would need to be repeated, but would work. Either way aside from the display issue the system appears to be booting properly into X and nothing else has shown any problems.
I've been pulling my hair out over this issue for about a week with little idea what is causing it or how to fix it. I've been through just about everything else that AskUbuntu or anything else I've found online has suggested as an answer to little avail (or, at least it only got me this far). Any suggestions?


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It seems to me that the question voting is trending lower for a lot of questions (I have noticed this particularly in C/C++ tagged questions.) It seems as if a lot of decent to good questions are getting downvoted and I am trying to understand why.
I think this is a good example of such a question (as I prepare to submit this it is rated at -1).
This question is
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- Demonstrates a behavior in C that is not obvious.
- Was obviously thought well enough to generate substantial comments and answers.
- Has a clear, concise, and correct answer.
In short, I feel like this question is really at the core of what Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange is all about.
I guess my question is, if you are downvoting questions like this, why? And if you don't upvote them, why not?
EDIT -- I accepted Als' answers, but I appreciate everyone taking the time to comment on this post. There were some excellent points made. I don't think we have solved anything, but maybe there wasn't anything to solve. I hope that the Stack Overflow community tries to be diligent about duplicating questions rather than simply downvoting them, but I understand that is significantly more work.


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Suppose I have a morphism $f:X\to Y$ which is a GIT quotient of $X$ with respect to some reductive, linear group. Does the semistable $X^{ss}$ and stable locus $X^s\subset X$ determine completely the linearization (maybe up to taking a power of the linearization itself)?
Or, in better words, can two different linearizations $L$ and $L'$ of different GIT quotients of $X$ give the same semi-stable and stable locus?